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New Titles for the Week of August 17

BOOKS

FICTION
Carolina De Robertis The gods of tango
Dorothea Benton Frank All the single ladies
Kathi Kamen Goldmark Her wild oats
Paula McLain Circling the sun
Jenny Milchman As night falls
William T. Vollmann The dying grass: a novel of the Nez Perce War
Jan Karon At home in Mitford

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
C.J. Box Badlands
Andrea Camilleri Judges
Judith Cutler Green & pleasant land: a Fran Harman mystery
Lindsey Davis Deadly election: a Flavia Albia mystery
Jeff Lindsay Dexter is dead
Gayle Lynds The assassins
Alexander McCall Smith The novel habits of happiness
Sara Paretsky Brush back
Spencer Quinn Scents & sensibility
Georges Simenon The carter of La Providence

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Tom Holt The good, the bad & the smug: a novel beyond good & evil

Short Stories
Juan Gabriel Vásque Lovers on All Saints' Day: stories

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Howard Chaykin Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser 741.5 C512 comics
Brennan Wagner Grendel vs. The Shadow 741.5 G826 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Pete Culler on wooden boats: the master craftsman's collected teachings on boat design, building, repair & use 623.81 C967
Rich Johnson Urban survival guide: top urban survival skills 613.69 J687

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Toni Carr Geek knits: over 30 projects for fantasy fanatics, science fiction fiends & knitting nerds 746.43 C312
John Esten John Singer Sargent: the male nudes 750.92 S24e
Maceo Montoya Letters to the poet from his brother 750.92 M798
Ian Warrell Turner on the Loire 750.92 T94war

Biography & Genealogy
Charles Bukowski On writing 92 B932d
Suzanne Marrs (editor) Meanwhile there are letters: the correspondence of Eudora Welty & Ross Macdonald 920 W464
Aleta George Ina Coolbrith: the bittersweet song of California's first poet laureate 92 C7744

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Cheryl Ann Peltier-Davis ; The cybrarian's web 2: an A-Z guide to free social media tools, apps & other resources 025.04 P393

Business & Economics
Benjamin H. Barton Glass half full: the decline & rebirth of the legal profession 331.7 B293
Jake Bright The next Africa: an emerging continent becomes a global powerhouse 330.96 B855
Sonia Faruqi Project animal farm: an accidental journey into the secret world of farming & the truth about our food 338.17 F247
Vicki Howard From Main Street to mall: the rise & fall of the American department store 381 H852
Josh Peters The ultimate dividend playbook: income, insight & independence for today's investor 332.6322 P482
Gary Vaynerchuk The thank you economy 658.812 V392

Computer Science
Guy Hart-Davis Teach yourself visually Android phones & tablets 004.1675 A574h
Bill Hughes Samsung Galaxy S6 For Dummies 004.1675 S193
Michael Linenberger Total workday control using Microsoft Outlook 005.3 M934L

Health & Medicine
Susan Kiser Scarff Dementia: the journey ahead: a practical guide for in-home caregivers 616.83 S285
Joel L. Young When your adult child breaks your heart: coping with mental illness, substance abuse & the problems that tear families apart 616.89 Y734

History
George Nafziger The end of empire: Napoleon's 1814 campaign 940.27 N146
Napoleon I Napoleon on war 355 N216
Susan Southard Nagasaki: life after nuclear war 940.542 S726
John Sweeney North Korea undercover: inside the world's most secret state 951.93 S974

Home & Family Management
Mark Le Messurier Parenting tough kids: simple proven strategies to help kids succeed 649.153 L552
Charles Rubin Don't let your kids kill you: a guide for parents of drug & alcohol addicted children 649.4 R896

Law
Laurence Leamer The price of justice: a true story of greed & corruption 346.7302 L436

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Michael Hiltzik Big science: Ernest Lawrence & the invention that launched the military-industrial complex 530.92 L41h
Nick Lane The vital question: energy, evolution & the origins of complex life 576.8 L26v
Sy Montgomery Walking with the great apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté Galdikas 599.88 M788
Carl Safina Beyond words: what animals think & feel 591.56 S128

Performing Arts & Music
David Burge Twentieth-century piano music 786.2 B954

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Michael Jackson Harmattan: a philosophical fiction 128 J135
Nicholas Rescher A journey through philosophy in 101 anecdotes 190 R431

Politics & Government
Rohan Gunaratna The global Jihad movement: a handbook 363.325 G975
Joe Mathews California crackup: how reform broke the Golden State & how we can fix it 320.9794 M429

Social Sciences & Current Events
Matthew Battles Palimpsest: a history of the written word 302.224 B336
Joan T. Erber Great myths of aging 305.26 E657
Kentaro Toyama Geek heresy: rescuing social change from the cult of technology 303.483 T756
Kristin M. White It's the student, not the college: the secrets of succeeding at any schoolwithout going broke or crazy 378.16 W585

Sports & Games
Chris Froome The climb 796.6 F936

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
Michael Hiltzik Big science: Ernest Lawrence, the cyclotron & the birth of the military-industrial complex CD 530.92 L41h
Susan Casey Voices in the ocean: a journey into the wild & haunting world of dolphins CD 599.53 C338

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CDs

Folk
Folkways Folkways, the original vision CD Folk Folkways

Popular
James Brown The payback CD Pop Brown
Prince 1999 CD Pop Prince
Tom Waits Closing time CD Pop Waits

Posted on Aug. 25, 2015 by Cherilyn Chang