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BOOKS

FICTION
Michael Banister Stolen Identity
Catherine Chanter The Well
Pam Chun The perfect tea thief
Deborah Kay Davies Reasons she goes to the woods
Lindsey Drager The sorrow proper
Anne Enright The green road
James Hannaham Delicious foods
Kent Haruf Our souls at night
Jessica Knoll Luckiest girl alive
Marina Minghelli Medusa: the fourth kingdom
Peter Nichols The rocks
Leslie Parry Church of Marvels
Christopher Robinson & Gavin Kovite War of the encyclopaedists
Gwendolyn Womack The memory painter

Historical Fiction
Dolen Perkins-Valdez Balm

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Gary Corby Death ex machina
Colin Cotterill Six & a half deadly sins
Nelson DeMille Radiant angel
S.J. Gazan The arc of the swallow
Barry Gifford Sailor & Lula: the complete novels
Phyllis Gobbell Pursuit in Provence
Alex Grecian The harvest man: a novel of Scotland Yard's murder squad
Stephen Hunter I, Ripper
Antonio Manzini Black run
Richard Montanari The doll maker
Charlie Newton Traitor's gate
Michael Palmer & Daniel Palmer Trauma
S. K. Tremayne The ice twins

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Paolo Bacigalupi The water knife
Naomi Novik Uprooted
Marc Turner When the heavens fall

Short Stories
Austin Bunn The brink
Nickolas Butler Beneath the bonfire

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Margo T. Oge Driving the future: combating climate change with cleaner, smarter cars 629.222 O346

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Art in America, 1945-1970: writings from the age of abstract expressionism, pop art & minimalism 709.73 A784
Jo Ippolito Christensen The needlepoint book 746.44 C554
Erin O'Toole & Julian Cox Janet Delany: South of Market 770.92 D337
Hayden Herrera Listening to stone: the art & life of Isamu Noguchi 730.92 N77h
Geoff Manaugh The BLDGBLOG book 720 M267
Sally Mann Hold still: a memoir with photographs 770.92 M282
Grayson Perry Playing to the gallery: helping contemporary art in its struggle to be understood 709.05 P462

Biography & Genealogy
Wendy W. Fairey Bookmarked: reading my way from Hollywood to Brooklyn 92 F165b
George J. Mitchell The negotiator: a memoir 328.73 M681
Cary Reich The life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: worlds to conquer, 1908-1958 92 R6826r
Laura Ingalls Wilder Pioneer girl: the annotated autobiography 92 W673h

Business & Economics
Roger Bootle The trouble with Europe: why the EU isn't working, how it can be reformed, what could take its place 337.142 B725
Philip Kotler Confronting capitalism: real solutions for a troubled economic system 330.12 K87c
Kathi Weeks The problem with work: feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics & postwork imaginaries 331.2 W395

Health & Medicine
Henry Marsh Do no harm: stories of life, death & brain surgery 617.48 M369

History
Alan Forrest Waterloo 940.27 F728
Kirk W. Johnson To be a friend is fatal: the fight to save the Iraqis America left behind 956.7 J678
Denis Judd Empire: the British imperial experience from 1765 to the present 941 J922
Daniel Tudor & James Pearson North Korea confidential: private markets, fashion trends, prison camps, dissenters & defectors 951.93 T912
Joseph Wheelan Their last full measure: the final days of the Civil War 973.738 W561

Literature & Writing
Danielle Chapman Delinquent palaces: poems 811 C466
Joanne Kyger On time: poems 2005-2014 811 K992o
Kenneth Lonergan Lobby hero 812 L847
David Meltzer Two-way mirror: a poetry notebook 808.1 M528
Charles Simic The life of images: selected prose 814 S589

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Cynthia Barnett Rain: a natural & cultural history 551.57 B261
Marcia Bartusiak Black hole: how an idea abandoned by Newtonians, hated by Einstein & gambled on by Hawking became loved 523.88 B294
Brooke Borel Infested: how the bed bug infiltrated our bedrooms & took over the world 585.7 B731
Brian Fagan The intimate bond: how animals shaped human history 591.5 F15
Steven Gimbel Einstein: his space & times 530.92 E35gi
Sy Montgomery The soul of an octopus: a surprising exploration into the wonder of consciousness 594.5 M788
Scott D. Sampson How to raise a wild child: the art & science of falling in love with nature 508 S192
Beth Shapiro How to clone a mammoth: the science of de-extinction 591.68 S529

Performing Arts & Music
David Browne So many roads: the life & times of the Grateful Dead 780.92 G771br
Kenneth Turan Not to be missed: fifty-four favorites from a lifetime of film 791.43 T92no

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
John Gray The soul of the marionette: a short inquiry into human freedom 123 G778
Ethan Nichtern The road home: a contemporary exploration of the Buddhist path 294.34 N629
Nick Sousanis Unflattening 153.7 S725 Comics

Social Sciences & Current Events
D. W. Gibson The edge becomes the center: an oral history of gentrification in the twenty-first century 307.3 G448
Stephen Kimber What lies across the water: the real story of the Cuban Five 365.45 K497
Jacob Silverman Terms of service: social media & the price of constant connection 303.4833 S587
Ben Stewart Don't trust, don't fear, don't beg: the extraordinary story of the Arctic 30 363.738 S849
Lior Zoref Mindsharing: the art of crowdsourcing everything 302.3 Z883

Sports & Games
David Hempleman-Adams No such thing as failure: my life in adventure, exploration & survival 796.52 H491
Douglas Keister Mobile mansions: taking "home sweet home" on the road 796.79 K279
Max Leonard Lanterne Rouge: the last man in the Tour de France 796.62 L581
Bill Simmons The book of basketball: the NBA according to the sports guy 796.3 S592

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Kwame Alexander The crossover

Nonfiction
Paul Fleischman Eyes wide open: going behind the environmental headlines 363.7 F596
Katherine Roy Neighborhood sharks : hunting with the great whites of California's Farallon Islands 597.3 R888

DVDs
The painting

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Alan Bradley As chimney sweepers come to dust: a Flavia de Luce novel CD Fic Bradley
John Lescroart The fall CD Fic Lescroart
Jo Nesbø Blood on snow CD Fic Nesbø

Nonfiction
Paul Fischer A Kim Jong-il production: the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress & a young dictator's rise to power CD 791.43 K48
Sy Montgomery The soul of an octopus: a surprising exploration into the wonder of consciousness CD 594.5 M788
Brian J. Robertson Holacracy: the new management system for a rapidly changing world CD 658.4 R649

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
Man of Steel

Drama
Love in a cold climate

Nonfiction
Trinity & beyond: the atomic bomb movie DVD 623.451 T833

Posted on Jun. 22, 2015 by Sarah Cruz