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BOOKS

FICTION
Elena Ferrante My brilliant friend
Elena Ferrante The story of a new name
Aline Ohanesian Orhan's inheritance
Jane Smiley Early warning

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Ted Lewis GBH
Martin Walker The children return

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NONFICTION
Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Joan Breton Connelly The Parthenon enigma 726.1 C752

Business & Economics
Brandon Christopher The job pirate: an entertaining tale of my job-hopping journey in America 331.7 C556
Carl Richards The one-page financial plan: a simple way to be smart about your money 332.024 R514o

Chess
Mikhail Botvinnik Candidates' matches, 1974 794.157 C217
Frank Brady Bobby Fischer: profile of a prodigy 794.1 F52bb
Edmar Mednis How to beat Bobby Fischer 794.159 F52m
Daniel King How good is your chess? 794.12 K52h
Y. Neishtadt Paul Keres chess master class 794.15 K39n
Paul Schmidt How chessmasters think 794.15 S349
Jeremy Silman Essential chess endings explained move by move. Volume one, Novice thru intermediate 794.124 S584e
Raymond D. Keene Leonid Stein: master of attack 794.1 S561k
L. Szabó My best games of chess 794.159 S99m

Computer Science
Ben Smith Beginning JSON 005.3 J899

Food & Drink
Dan Buettner The Blue Zones solution: eating & living like the world's healthiest people 613.2 B928

History
Robert G. Athearn The mythic West in twentieth-century America 978.03 A866
Josho Brouwers Henchmen of Ares: warriors & warfare in early Greece 355.0938 B876
Michael Lovano All things Julius Caesar: an encyclopedia of Caesar's world & legacy 937.05 C128
Howard Fineman The thirteen American arguments: enduring debates that define & inspire our country 973 F495
John D. Grainger The rise of the Seleukid empire (323-223 BC): Seleukos I to Seleukos III 939.4 G743
Perry D. Jamieson Spring 1865: the closing campaigns of the Civil War 973.731 J324
Philip Matyszak Cataclysm 90 BC: the forgotten war that almost destroyed Rome 937.05 M446
Malcolm Muir, Jr. Black shoes & blue water: surface warfare in the United States Navy, 1945-1975 359 M953
Emma Sky The unraveling: high hopes & missed opportunities in Iraq 956.7 S629
Victoria Smith See San Francisco: through the lens of SFGirlbyBay 917.9461 S662
Tyler Stovall Transnational France: the modern history of a universal nation 944 S889
Walter Kempowski Swansong 1945: a collective diary of the last days of the Third Reich 940.5481 S972

Home & Family Management
Shawna Coronado Grow a living wall: create vertical gardens with purpose 635 C822

Law
Jon L. Mills Privacy in the new media age 323.448 M657

Literature & Writing
Ciceronian controversies 875 C56d
Janet Malcolm Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists & Writers 808.02 M243
Tina Packer Women of will: following the feminine in Shakespeare's plays 822.3 P119

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Alfred North Whitehead & Bertrand Russell Principia mathematica 510.1 W592

Performing Arts & Music
Peter K. Elkus The telling of our truths: the magic in great musical performance 781.1 E439
Franz Liszt Selected letters 780.92 L774wi
Alfred Einstein Mozart, his character, his work 780.92 M939ei

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Marcus J. Borg Meeting Jesus again for the first time: the historical Jesus & the heart of contemporary faith 232.9 B732
Pema Chödrön How to meditate: a practical guide to making friends with your mind 294.34 C545
Dan Harris 10% happier: how I tamed the voice in my head, reduced stress without losing my edge & found self-help that actually works 158.12 H313
Alan Jacobs The Book of Common Prayer: a biography 264.03 J171
Greg McKeown Essentialism: the disciplined pursuit of less 153.83 M157
Carla Power If the oceans were ink: an unlikely friendship & a journey to the heart of the Quran 297.092 P887
Per Espen Stoknes What we think about when we try not to think about global warming: toward a new psychology of climate action 155.91 S874

Politics & Government
Larry Siedentop Inventing the individual: the origins of Western liberalism 320.51 S571

Social Sciences & Current Events
Mona Eltahawy Headscarves & hymens: why the Middle East needs a sexual revolution 323.34 E511
Joe Krakauer Missoula: rape & the justice system in a college town 362.88 K893
Joseph E. Stiglitz The great divide: unequal societies & what we can do about them 305.5 S85g
Fareed Zakaria In defense of a liberal education 370.11 Z216

Travel & Geography
Georgina Masson The companion guide to Rome 914.56 M41

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LARGE PRINT
Nonfiction
Marsha Collier Facebook & Twitter for seniors 006.7 C699

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION
DVDs
Paddington

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
Fury

Classics
Dallas
Dangerous

Comedy
Computer chess
The freshman

Drama
Hannah Arendt
Selma
Still Alice
Whiplash

Foreign Language
Winter light

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Cry of the city
Wild at heart
The wire. The complete fourth season
The wire. The complete fifth season

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
The Hunger Games. Mockingjay, Part I

Nonfiction
Mirabai Holland Moving free longevity solution. Strength level 1 DVD 613.7 M935

Travel & Geography
Globe trekker. Ultimate Central America DVD 917.28 G562
Mexico: the royal tour DVD 917.2 M611
Samantha Brown's Asia DVD 915 S187

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CDs
Popular
Beck Morning Phase CD Pop Beck
D'Angelo & The Vanguard Black messiah CD Pop D'Angelo
Old Crow Medicine Show Remedy CD Pop Old Crow Medicine Show

Posted on May. 15, 2015 by Sarah Cruz