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New Print Fiction for November 2022

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FICTION
Stephanie LaCava I fear my pain interests you
Elizabeth McCracken The hero of this book
Celeste Ng Our missing hearts
Fredrik Backman The winners
James Hannaham Didn't nobody give a shit what happened to Carlotta
Dur E Aziz Amna American fever
Agustina María Bazterrica Tender is the flesh
Hermann Broch The sleepwalkers : a trilogy
Nicholas Sparks Dreamland
Andrew Sean Greer Less is lost
Elizabeth Strout Lucy by the sea
Jodi Picoult Mad honey
Danielle Steel The high notes
Casey McQuiston Red, white & royal blue
Sarah Addison Allen Other birds
Megan Giddings The women could fly
Taylor Jenkins Reid Carrie Soto is back
Danielle Steel The challenge
Hye-jin Kim Concerning my daughter
Andreĭ Kurkov Grey bees
Vladimir Sorokin Telluria
Alec Scott Until it shimmers
Ian McEwan Lessons
Leila Mottley Nightcrawling
Rasheed Newson My government means to kill me
Geoffrey Jenkins A twist of sand
Ryan Lee Wong Which side are you on
A M Homes The unfolding
Peter Mann The torqued man

Historical Fiction
Jennifer Coburn Cradles of the Reich
Kate Atkinson Shrines of gaiety
Joanna Quinn The Whalebone Theatre
R F Kuang Babel : or the necessity of violence : an arcane history of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
Vasiliĭ Grossman The people immortal
Suzette Mayr The sleeping car porter

Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, Espionage & Intrigue
Scott Turow Suspect
C J Box Treasure state
Keith McCafferty Buffalo jump blues
M L Longworth Disaster at the Vendome Theater
David Baldacci Long shadows
Nelson DeMille The maze
Alaina Urquhart The butcher and the Wren
Alexander McCall Smith A song of comfortable chairs
John Sandford Righteous prey
Stuart Woods Distant thunder
Robert Bailey Rich blood
Keith McCafferty A death in Eden
Ashley Flowers All good people here
Alice Feeney Daisy Darker
William Kent Krueger Fox Creek
Ann Cleeves The rising tide
James Patterson Blowback
Mike Maden Hellburner : a novel of the Oregon files
J D Robb Desperation in death
Kyle Mills Oath of loyalty
Jussi Adler-Olsen The shadow murders
Keith. McCafferty Dead man's fancy : a Sean Stranahan mystery
Keith McCafferty Cold hearted river
Keith McCafferty Crazy mountain
Keith McCafferty The bangtail ghost
Richard Osman The bullet that missed
Craig Johnson Hell and back
Keith McCafferty The gray ghost murders
Keith McCafferty The Royal Wulff murders
Robert Galbraith The ink black heart

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Naomi Novik The golden enclaves
S T Gibson A dowry of blood
Patricia Briggs Soul taken
Kurt Vonnegut The sirens of Titan

Short Stories
Andrea L. Rogers Man made monsters
Alan Moore Illuminations : stories
Nebula awards showcase #55 : outstanding science fiction and fantasy SS N36
Brontez Purnell 100 boyfriends
Rebecca Miller Total : stories
Ramona Reeves It falls gently all around and other stories
Charles Yu Third class superhero
McSweeney's 67 SS M175
McSweeney's 68 SS M175

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Frederic Duval Black Water Lilies 741.5 B967 comics
Charlie Mackesy The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse 741.5 M199 comics
James Albon The delicacy 741.5 A149 comics
Trina Robbins The flapper queens : women cartoonists of the Jazz Age 741.5 R636 comics
Marguerite Abouet Aya : life in Yop City 741.5 A155 comics
James Tynion The Department of Truth. Volume 1, The end of the world 741.5 T989 comics
R. Kikuo Johnson No one else 741.5 J661 comics
Pornsak Pichetshote The good Asian. Volume one, An Edison Hark mystery 741.5 P592g comics
Antoine Maillard Slash them all 741.5 M282 comics
Yann Le Bec Picnic 741.5 L44 comics
Irma Kniivila Everyday hero machine boy 741.5 K717 comics

LARGE PRINT

Fiction
Ashley Flowers All good people here Large Print Flowers
Danielle Steel The challenge Large Print Steel
Maggie O'Farrell The marriage portrait Large Print O'Farrell
Jussi Adler-Olsen The shadow murders Large Print Adler-Olsen
Anthony Marra Mercury Pictures presents Large Print Marra
Alexander McCall Smith A song of comfortable chairs Large Print McCall Smith
Lisa Jewell The family remains Large Print Jewell
Jamie Ford The many daughters of Afong Moy Large Print Ford

Universal (Children's)

Fiction
Kwame Alexander The door of no return U Alexander
Jed Alexander Gold U Alexander
Carlie Sorosiak Always, Clementine U Sorosiak
Frances Hodgson Burnett Little Lord Fauntleroy U Burnett

Posted on Dec. 2, 2022 by Cherilyn Chang

New eBooks for October 2022

EBOOKS
Terry Pratchett The shepherd's crown
Terry Pratchett Carpe jugulum : a novel of Discworld
Terry Pratchett The color of magic : a Discworld novel
Terry Pratchett Equal rites : a Discworld novel
Terry Pratchett Eric : a novel of Discworld
Terry Pratchett Feet of clay : a novel of Discworld
Terry Pratchett The fifth elephant
Terry Pratchett Going Postal
Terry Pratchett Guards! guards! : a novel of Discworld
Terry Pratchett Hogfather
Terry Pratchett Interesting times
Terry Pratchett Jingo
Terry Pratchett The last continent : a discworld novel
Terry Pratchett The light fantastic : a discworld novel
Terry Pratchett Lords and ladies : a novel of Discworld
Terry Pratchett Making money : a novel of Discworld
Terry Pratchett Maskerade
Terry Pratchett Men at arms : a novel of discworld
Terry Pratchett Mort : a novel of Discworld
Terry Pratchett Moving pictures : a novel of Discworld
Terry Pratchett Night watch
Terry Pratchett Pyramids : a novel of Discworld
Terry Pratchett Reaper man : a novel of Discworld
Terry Pratchett Small gods : a novel of Discworld
Terry Pratchett Snuff : a novel of Discworld
Terry Pratchett Soul music
Terry Pratchett Sourcery
Terry Pratchett Thief of time
Terry Pratchett Thud!
Terry Pratchett The truth : a novel of Discworld
Terry Pratchett Unseen academicals : a novel of Discworld
Terry Pratchett Witches abroad : a novel of Discworld
Terry Pratchett Wyrd sisters : a novel of Discworld
William James The varieties of religious experience
Karl Marx Value, price and profit
Shankar Vedantam Useful delusions : the power and paradox of the self-deceiving brain
Catherine Ceniza Choy Asian American histories of the United States
Robert Aickman Compulsory games : and other stories
Elizabeth Hardwick The uncollected essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
Jeremy DeSilva First steps : How Upright Walking Made Us Human
William Bunch After the ivory tower falls : how college broke the American dream and blew up our politics-- and how to fix it
Karin Slaughter Girl, forgotten : a novel
Michael Mann Heat 2 : a novel
Catherine Coulter Reckoning : an FBI thriller
Gillian McAllister Wrong place wrong time : a novel
M Nolan Gray Arbitrary lines : how zoning broke the American city and how to fix it
Elif Batuman Either
Melody J Wilding Trust yourself stop overthinking and channel your emotions for success at work
Brian Tinsman The game inventor's guidebook : how to invent and sell board games, card games, role-playing games, and everything in between
George Dawes Green The kingdoms of Savannah : a novel
Dan Bouk Democracy's data : the hidden stories in the US census and how to read them
Kathleen Hale Slenderman : online obsession, mental illness, and the violent crime of two Midwestern girls
Leanne Hinton Flutes of fire : essays on California Indian languages
Bill Bryson The lost continent : travels in small town America
Bill Bryson Made in America : an informal history of the English language in the United States
Bill Bryson The mother tongue : English and how it got that way
Bill Bryson Neither here nor there : travels in Europe
Bill Bryson Notes from a small island
Evelyn Waugh The end of the battle
Roger Zelazny Forever after
Angela Saini Inferior : how science got women wrong and the new research that's rewriting the story
Elissa Sussman Funny you should ask
Patrick Radden Keefe Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
Joyce Carol Oates Babysitter : a novel
S Simard Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest
Maggie O'Farrell The marriage portrait
Ashley Jean Yeager Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Beyond : the Life of Astronomer Vera Rubin
Michael D Gordin On the fringe : where science meets pseudoscience
Megan Giddings The women could fly : a novel
R F Kuang Babel : or the necessity of violence : an arcane history of the Oxford translators' revolution
Arkadiĭ Strugat͡skiĭ Hard to be a god
Melissa Bruntlett Curbing traffic : the human case for fewer cars in our lives
Carl Zimmer Life's edge : the search for what it means to be alive
Abdulrazak Gurnah Afterlives
Anna Ploszajski Handmade : a scientist's search for meaning through making
Alice Gregory Nodding off : the science of sleep from cradle to grave
Vanessa Potter Patient H69 : the story of my second sight
Naseem Jamnia The bruising of Qilwa
Poe : 19 new tales of suspense, dark fantasy, and horror inspired by Edgar Allan Poe
How to innovate : an ancient guide to creating thinking
Emma Marris Wild Souls : Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
David Graeber The dawn of everything : a new history of humanity
Karen Olsson The Weil conjectures : On math and the pursuit of the unknown
Erika Engelhaupt Gory details : adventures from the dark side of science
Lauren Acampora The hundred waters : a novel
Guy Hart-Davis Teach yourself visually iPhone 12, 12Pro, and 12 Pro Max
Bill Perkins Die with zero : getting all you can from your money and your life
John Perry The art of procrastination : a guide to effective dawdling, lollygagging, and postponing
Michel Bussi Don't let go
Michel Bussi Never forget
Michel Bussi Time is a killer
Ashley Flowers All good people here : a novel
Danielle Steel The challenge : a novel
Joan Didion : the last interview and other conversations
Vladimir Sorokin Telluria
T Coraghessan Boyle I Walk Between the Raindrops : Stories
Peter Zeihan The end of the world is just the beginning : mapping the collapse of globalization
Craig Johnson Hell and back
Mary Rodgers Shy : the alarmingly outspoken memoirs of Mary Rodgers
Sarah Addison Allen Other birds
Andreĭ Kurkov Grey Bees
Ada Calhoun Also a poet : Frank O'Hara, my father, and me
Muriel Spark Memento mori

Posted on Nov. 7, 2022 by Cherilyn Chang

New eAudiobooks for October 2022

E-AUDIOBOOKS
Terry Pratchett Going postal
Terry Pratchett Making money
Terry Pratchett The shepherd's crown
Terry Pratchett Snuff
Terry Pratchett Thud!
Terry Pratchett Unseen academicals : a novel of Discworld
Terry Pratchett Wintersmith
Bill Marx Son of Harpo speaks! : a family portrait
Black Eye Entertainment You bet your life with Groucho Marx, volume 2 Black Eye Entertainment
Black Eye Entertainment You bet your life with Groucho Marx, volume 3
You bet your life with Groucho Marx, volume 1
You bet your life with Groucho Marx, vol 4
Dick Francis In the frame
Tim Weiner Legacy of ashes : the history of the CIA
Dick Francis Banker
Dick Francis Blood Sport
Dick Francis Come to grief
Dick Francis Decider
Dick Francis Driving force
Dick Francis Flying Finish
Dick Francis In the frame
Dick Francis Knockdown
Dick Francis Reflex
Dick Francis Risk
Dick Francis To the hilt
Dick Francis Wild horses
Nathan Menoian A simple matter of hope and joy
Vaclav Rajlich How to live a good life : Following new testament ethics
William Bunch After the ivory tower falls : how college broke the American dream and blew up our politics--and how to fix it
Jeremy DeSilva First steps : how upright walking made us human
Catherine Coulter Reckoning
Rachel Rodgers We should all be millionaires : a woman's guide to earning more, building wealth and gaining economic power
Karin Slaughter Girl, Forgotten : A Novel
Catherine Ceniza Choy Asian American Histories of the United States
Sarah Thankam Mathews All this could be different
Elif Batuman Either
Tessa V West Jerks at work : toxic coworkers and what to do about them
Emily Ladau Demystifying disability : what to know, what to say, and how to be an ally
Anthony Warner The angry chef's guide to spotting bullsh*t in the world of food : bad science and the truth about healthy eating
Ashley Jean Yeager Bright galaxies, dark matter, and beyond : the life of astronomer Vera Rubin
Dan Bouk Democracy's Data
Emma Marris Wild Souls
Hayley Campbell All the living and the dead : a personal investigation into the death trade
Katherine Center Bodyguard
George Dawes Green The kingdoms of Savannah
Steven W Thrasher The viral underclass : the human toll when inequality and disease collide
Stephen Trzeciak Wonder drug : 7 scientifically proven ways that serving others is the best medicine for yourself
Melody J Wilding Trust yourself : stop overthinking and channel your emotions for success at work
James Patterson Diana, William, and Harry
Erika Engelhaupt Gory details : adventures from the dark side of science
Bill Bryson The mother tongue : English and how it got that way
Kazuo Ishiguro When We Were Orphans
Richard Henry Dana Two years before the mast
Kazuo Ishiguro The unconsoled
Chaim Potok The chosen
Bill Bryson A walk in the woods : rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
R F Kuang Babel : or the necessity of violence : an arcane history of the Oxford translators' revolution
Angela Saini Inferior : how science got women wrong and the new research that's rewriting the story
Abdulrazak Gurnah Afterlives : A Novel
Ryan North How to invent everything : a survival guide for the stranded time traveler
Mohsin Hamid Last White Man, The : A Novel
Carl Zimmer Life's edge : searching for what it means to be alive
Joyce Carol Oates Babysitter : a novel
Dana Milbank The Destructionists
Patrick Radden Keefe Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
S Simard Finding the Mother Tree : Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Maggie O'Farrell The Marriage Portrait : a novel
Glennon Doyle Untamed
David Graeber The dawn of everything : a new history of humanity
Randy Rainbow Playing with myself
Paul Halpern Flashes of creation : George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the great Big Bang debate
Sam Kean Caesar's last breath : decoding the secrets of the air around us
Walter Isaacson The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race
Stephen King Fairy tale
Lisa Jewell The Family Remains
Jennette McCurdy I'm glad my mom died
Chelsea Wald Pipe dreams : the urgent global quest to transform the toilet
Bill Perkins Die with zero : getting all you can from your money and your life
Michel Bussi The double mother
John Perry The art of procrastination : a guide to effective dawdling, lollygagging and postponing, or, getting things done by putting them off
How to innovate : an ancient guide to creating thinking
Patricia Briggs Soul taken
Ashley Flowers All good people here : a novel
Taylor Jenkins Reid Carrie Soto is back : a novel
Frances Mayes A Place in the World : Finding the Meaning of Home
Michael Kenneth Williams Scenes from my life
Alice Feeney Daisy Darker
Ann Cleeves The rising tide
William MacAskill What We Owe the Future
Danielle Steel The Challenge
William Kent Krueger Fox Creek
Alaina Urquhart The butcher and the Wren
Robert Galbraith The ink black heart
Scott Mann Operation Pineapple Express
Huw Lemmey Bad gays : a homosexual history
Muriel Spark Memento mori

Posted on Nov. 7, 2022 by Cherilyn Chang

New Print Non-Fiction for October 2022

PRINT BOOKS

NON-FICTION

Applied Sciences
Bryan Appleyard The car : the rise and fall of the machine that made the modern world 629.222 Ap57

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Jo Bradford Smart phone smart photography : simple techniques for taking incredible pictures with iPhone and Android 770 B727
Hilma af Klint Hilma af Klint : paintings for the future 759.85 K688
Scott Kelby The iPhone photography book : how to get professional-looking images using the camera you always have with you 770 K271
Douglas Baylis California houses of Gordon Drake 720.92 D789
San Francisco Rave Flyers : 1991-1993 760 S194

Biography & Genealogy
Alice Wong Year of the tiger : an activist's life 362.4092 W846
Lis Smith Any given Tuesday : a political love story 973.931 Sm511
David Grohl The storyteller : tales of life and music 780.92 G894
Robert Crawford Eliot after The waste land 811 E43e
Philip Short Putin 947.086 P9885
Carmen Maria Machado In the dream house : a memoir 813 M180
Bobby Whitlock Bobby Whitlock : a rock 'n' roll autobiography 782.421 W613
Andrew Kirtzman Giuliani : the rise and tragic fall of America's mayor 974.71 G537
Leanda De Lisle Henrietta Maria : the warrior queen who divided a nation 941.062 H395
Damien Lewis Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy 792.8 B1654L
James Patterson Diana, William, and Harry 941.085 P317

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism
Geoff Tibballs Ripley's believe it or not! : escape the ordinary 031.02 R589t

Business & Economics
J L Collins How I lost money in real estate before it was fashionable : a cautionary tale 333.33 C692
Tessa V West Jerks at work : toxic coworkers and what to do about them 650.13 W516
Melody J Wilding Trust yourself : stop overthinking and channel your emotions for success at work 650.1 W67
Felicity Hassan How to get your act together : a judgement-free guide to diversity and inclusion for straight white men 658.3 H275
Nick Kostov Boundless : the rise, fall, and escape of Carlos Ghosn 338.4762 K848
J Bradford DeLong Slouching towards Utopia : an economic history of the twentieth century 330.9 D383
Jason Neufeld How to get Medicaid to pay for some or aLL of your long-term care expenses 332.024 N394
Mark Koyama How the world became rich : the historical origins of economic growth 338.9 K849
Alex Jones The great reset : and the war for the world 339.2 J710
Ben Bernanke 21st century monetary policy : the Federal Reserve from the great inflation to COVID-19 332.11 B517t

Chess
Sergey Kasparov Doubled pawns : a practical guide 794.14 K192
Gyula Breyer : the Chess Revolutionary 794.1092 B848a

Computer Science
Mark Riddle Solving the riddle of microsoft and your computer 004.1 R431

Health & Medicine
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen Sensing, feeling, and action : the experiential anatomy of body-mind centering 612 C660
Chantel Spring Prat The neuroscience of you : how every brain is different and how to understand yours 612.8 P887
Anthony Warner The angry chef's guide to spotting bullsh*t in the world of food : bad science and the truth about healthy eating 613.2 W242
Anthony Warner The angry chef : bad science and the truth about healthy eating 613.2 W242a
Anthony Warner The truth about fat 613.2 W242t
Saliha Mahmood Ahmed Foodology : a food-lover's guide to digestive health & happiness 616.3 Ah52
Jason Kander Invisible storm : a soldier's memoir of politics and PTSD 616.8521 K131

History
Catherine Ceniza Choy Asian American histories of the United States 973.0495 C459
Paul Stephenson New Rome : the empire in the east 938 St451
Linda Kinstler Come to this court & cry : how the Holocaust ends 940.5318 K626
Angus Robertson The crossroads of civilization : a history of Vienna 943.61 R545
Edmund S Wong Growing up in San Francisco's Chinatown : boomer memories from noodle rolls to apple pie 979.461 W846
Craig L Symonds Nimitz at war : command leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay 940.545 N617
Michael Frank One hundred Saturdays : Stella Levi and the search for a lost world 940.5318 F851
James Scott Black snow : Curtis LeMay, the firebombing of Tokyo, and the road to the atomic bomb 940.5449 S427
Nicholas Reynolds Need to know : World War II and the rise of American intelligence 940.5486 R333
Luke Mogelson The storm is here : an American crucible 973.933 M724
Ronald H Spector A continent erupts : decolonization, civil war, and massacre in postwar Asia, 1945-1955 950.4 S74c
Tova Friedman The daughter of Auschwitz : my story of resilience, survival and hope 940.5318 F914

Languages & Linguistics
Jason Li Hanmoji Handbook: your guide to the Chinese language through emoji 495.1 L612
Leanne Hinton Flutes of fire : an introduction to Native California languages 497 H66

Law
Ilona M Bray Effective fundraising for nonprofits : real-world strategies that work 658.152 B827

Literature & Writing
Isaac Fitzgerald Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional 813 F576
Ada Calhoun Also a poet : Frank O'Hara, my father, and me 818.6 C128
William Deresiewicz The end of solitude : selected essays on culture and society 814.6 D431
Martin Edwards The life of crime : detecting the history of mysteries and their creators 809.3872 E266
Elizabeth Hardwick The uncollected essays of Elizabeth Hardwick 814 H26u

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Ashley Jean Yeager Bright galaxies, dark matter, and beyond : the life of astronomer Vera Rubin 520.92 R824
Vlatko Vedral From micro to macro : adventures of a wandering physicist 530 V41f
How to innovate : an ancient guide to creative thinking 303.483 H866
Carl Zimmer Life's edge : the search for what it means to be alive 570 Z72
Michael D Gordin On the fringe : where science meets pseudoscience 500 G652
Jordan Ellenberg Shape : the hidden geometry of information, biology, strategy, democracy, and everything else 516 E452
Sean M Carroll Something deeply hidden : quantum worlds and the emergence of spacetime 530.12 C319s

Performing Arts & Music
Nathaniel Dorsky Devotional cinema 791.436 D738
Stan Brakhage Metaphors on vision 791.4 B81
Brendan Hennessey Luchino Visconti and the alchemy of adaptation 791.43 V822
Randy Rainbow Playing with myself 792.7 R134
Bob Stanley Let's do it : the birth of pop music : a history 781.64 St251
Peter Duchin Face the music : a memoir 780.92 D83b
Larry Rothe Music for a city, music for the world : 100 years with the San Francisco Symphony 784.2 R742
Paul McCartney The lyrics : 1956 to the present 782.421 M123
Susan Curtis Dancing to a black man's tune : a life of Scott Joplin 780.92 J744

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Jenna Kutcher How are you, really? : Living your truth one answer at a time 158.1 K969
Colin O'Brady The 12 hour walk : invest one day, conquer your mind, and unlock your best life 158.1 Ob61
Batja Mesquita Between us : how cultures create emotions 155.8 M562
Ed Mylett The power of one more : the ultimate guide to happiness and success 158.1 M994
Shankar Vedantam Useful delusions : the power and paradox of the self-deceiving brain 153.4 V414
Stephen Trzeciak Wonder drug : 7 scientifically proven ways that serving others is the best medicine for yourself 158 T781
John Perry The art of procrastination : a guide to effective dawdling, lollygagging, and postponing 155.232 P429
Carlo Ginzburg The cheese and the worms : the cosmos of a sixteenth-century miller 273.6 G435
Steve Magness Do hard things : why we get resilience wrong and the surprising science of real toughness 155.2 M274

Politics & Government
Jonathan Lemire The big lie : election chaos, political opportunism, and the state of American politics after 2020 324.973 L543
Kirk W Johnson The fishermen and the dragon : fear, greed, and a fight for justice on the Gulf Coast 322.42 J661
Mark Leibovich Thank you for your servitude : Donald Trump's Washington and the price of submission 324.273 L525
M Nolan Gray Arbitrary lines : how zoning broke the American city and how to fix it 307.12 G77
Paris Marx Road to nowhere : what Silicon Valley gets wrong about the future of transportation 388.4 M39
Jamin B Raskin Unthinkable : trauma, truth, and the trials of American democracy 328.73 R22
Dana Milbank The destructionists : the twenty-five year crack-up of the Republican Party 324.2734 M63
Andy Borowitz Profiles in ignorance : how America's politicians got dumb and dumber 320.973 B645

Reference
Gen Tanabe The ultimate scholarship book 2023 : billions of dollars in scholarships, grants and prizes 378.34 T153

Social Sciences & Current Events
Malcolm W Nance They want to kill Americans : the militias, terrorists, and deranged ideology of the Trump insurgency 303.484 N153
Olivette Otele African Europeans : an untold history 305.896 Ot2
Hayley Campbell All the living and the dead : from embalmers to executioners, an exploration of the people who have made death their life's work 363.75 C152
Kathleen Hale Slenderman : online obsession, mental illness, and the violent crime of two Midwestern girls 364.152 H13
William Bunch After the ivory tower falls : how college broke the American dream and blew up our politics-- and how to fix it 378.73 B94
Emily Weinstein Behind their screens : what teens are facing (and adults are missing) 302.23 W433
Dan Bouk Democracy's data : the hidden stories in the U.S. census and how to read them 317.3 B663
Emily Ladau Demystifying disability : what to know, what to say, and how to be an ally 305.908 L121
Rob Dunn A natural history of the future : what the laws of biology tell us about the destiny of the human species 304.2 D923
Gaia Vince Nomad century : how climate migration will reshape our world 362.87 V767n
Beth Macy Raising Lazarus : hope, justice, and the future of America's overdose crisis 362.29 M259r
Anya Kamenetz The stolen year : how COVID changed children's lives, and where we go now 306.4309 K153
Steven W. Thrasher The viral underclass : the human toll when inequality and disease collide 362.1962 T412
Katherine Blunt California burning : the fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and what it means for America's power grid 333.79 B65
Angela Saini Inferior : how science got women wrong and the new research that's rewriting the story 305.4 S218i
Heather C McGhee The sum of us : what racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together 305.8 M173
Emma Marris Wild souls : freedom and flourishing in the non-human world 333.95 M349w
Kit Heyam Before we were trans : a new history of gender 306.768 H511
Charles L Marohn Confessions of a recovering engineer : transportation for a strong town 388.4 M347
Disability visibility : first-person stories from the Twenty-first century 305.908 D630
Donna Jackson Nakazawa Girls on the brink : helping our daughters thrive in an era of increased anxiety, depression, and social media 305.23 N163
Mark Bergen Like, comment, subscribe : inside YouTube's chaotic rise to world dominance 338.761 B453
Christine Lynne Porath Mastering community : the surprising ways coming together moves us from surviving to thriving 302 P832
Eleanor Herman Off with her head : three thousand years of demonizing women in power 305.42 H55
Marisa G Franco Platonic : how the science of attachment can help you make and keep friends as an adult 302.34 F848
Amia Srinivasan The right to sex : feminism in the twenty-first century 305.42 Sr34
W David Marx Status and culture : how our desire for social rank creates taste, identity, art, fashion, and constant change 305 M369
Douglas Rushkoff Survival of the richest : escape fantasies of the tech billionaires 303.483 R953s
Marian L Tupy Superabundance : the story of population growth, innovation, and human flourishing on an infinitely bountiful planet 304.6 T839
David Brooks The second mountain : the quest for a moral life 302 B873

Sports & Games
David Christian Principles of power 796.8 C462p
David Christian Footwork wins fights 796.8 C462
David Christian Aggressive defense 796.8 C462a
Alexandre Paiva Brazilian jiu-jitsu : the ultimate guide to dominating Brazilian jiu-jitsu and mixed martial arts combat 796.815 P166
Renzo Gracie Mastering jujitsu 796.815 G753
Clint Sharp Sambo: an essential guide to a martial art similar to judo, jiu-jitsu, and wrestling along with its throws, grappling styles, holds, and submission techniques 796.8 Sh236

Travel & Geography
Frommer's Ireland 914.15 F93e
Elizabeth Wenk John Muir Trail : the essential guide to hiking America's most famous trail 917.948 W475
Arizona & the Grand Canyon 917.91 E975
Fodor's Scotland 914.11 F653
Rick Steves' Paris 914.436 S848
Maui revealed 919.692 M449
Rick Steves' London 914.21 S848
Rick Steves' Rome 914.56 S848
Walking Barcelona : the best of the city 914.672 N277
Fodor's Essential New Zealand 919.3 F653
Tom Greig The 500 hidden secrets of London 914.21 G824
Fodor's Montréal & Québec City 917.14 F653

Universal (Children's)

Non-Fiction
Laura Sherman Chess is child's play : teaching techniques that work U 794.1 S55
Robert Macfarlane The lost words : a spell book U 821.92 M143

Posted on Nov. 7, 2022 by Cherilyn Chang

New Print Fiction for October 2022

PRINT BOOKS

FICTION
Douglas Cole The White Field
Emi Yagi Diary of a void
Mohsin Hamid The last white man
Jamie Ford The many daughters of Afong Moy
Katherine Center The bodyguard
Colleen Hoover Verity
Elif Batuman Either
Sarah Thankam Mathews All this could be different
Belinda Huijuan Tang A map for the missing
Joyce Carol Oates Babysitter
Helen Weinzweig Basic black with pearls
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev Fathers and children
Lauren Acampora The hundred waters
Miguel Angel Asturias Mr. President
William Boyd Trio
Elissa Sussman Funny you should ask
N Berberova The last and the first
Vasiliĭ Grossman Stalingrad
Gwendoline Riley My phantoms
Antal Szerb Journey by moonlight
Diego Marani New Finnish grammar
Georges Bernanos The diary of a country priest
Christopher Isherwood Goodbye to Berlin

Historical Fiction
Anthony Marra Mercury Pictures presents
Abdulrazak Gurnah Afterlives
Jerome Charyn Big Red : a novel starring Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles
Maggie O'Farrell The marriage portrait

Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, Espionage & Intrigue
Maurizio De Giovanni Bread for the bastards of Pizzofalcone
Gillian McAllister Wrong place wrong time
Stuart Woods Black dog
George Dawes Green The kingdoms of Savannah
Ava Glass Alias Emma
Karin Slaughter Girl, forgotten
Chris Nickson A dark steel death
Michel Bussi The double mother
Lisa Jewell The family remains
Susan McCormick The Fog Ladies : family matters
Susan McCormick The Fog Ladies : in the soup
Susan McCormick The Fog Ladies : a San Francisco cozy murder mystery
Michael Mann Heat 2
Yŏ-sŏn Kwŏn Lemon
Jessica Fletcher Killer on the court
Denise Mina Confidence
Deanna Raybourn Killers of a certain age
Sandra Brown Overkill
Sandra Brown Thick as thieves

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Simon Jimenez The spear cuts through water
Chelsea Abdullah The stardust thief
Stephen King Fairy tale
Arkadiĭ Strugat͡skiĭ Hard to be a God
Naseem Jamnia The bruising of Qilwa

Short Stories
Robert Aickman Compulsory games : and other stories
Jane Campbell Cat brushing : and other stories
Sidik Fofana Stories from the tenants downstairs
T Coraghessan Boyle I walk between the raindrops : stories
Agatha Christie Marple : twelve new stories SS M347
Charles Yu Sorry, please, thank you

Westerns
Debra Magpie Earling Perma Red

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Pornsak Pichetshote The good Asian. Volume two, An Edison Hark mystery 741.5 P592g comics
Taki Soma Sleeping while standing 741.5973 So51 comics
Voices that count : a comics anthology by women 741.5 V870 comics
Dave Chisholm Chasin' the bird : Charlie Parker in California 741.5 P23 comics
Kate Beaton Ducks : two years in the oil sands 741.5 B369d comics
Barry Windsor-Smith Monsters 741.5 W724 comics

Large Print

Fiction
Michael Mann Heat 2 Large Print Mann
Catherine Coulter Reckoning Large Print Coulter
Stuart Woods Black dog Large Print Woods
Sarah Pearse The retreat Large Print Pearse

Posted on Nov. 7, 2022 by Cherilyn Chang

New eAudiobooks for September 2022

E-AUDIOBOOKS
Patrick Radden Keefe Rogues : true stories of grifters, killers, rebels, and crooks
Jody Rosen Two Wheels Good : The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
Miranda Seymour I Used to Live Here Once : The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
Martha Wells Fugitive telemetry
Martha Wells Network effect
Felix Salten The original Bambi : the story of a life in the forest
Baynard Woods Inheritance : An Autobiography of Whiteness
Albert Camus The plague
Albert Camus The stranger
N Scott Momaday House made of dawn
Elizabeth Acevedo Clap when you land
Jen Hatmaker Fierce, free, and full of fire : the guide to being glorious you
Saul Bellow The adventures of Augie March
Wallace Stegner Angle of repose
Elliott Chaze Black wings has my angel
Saul Bellow Dangling man
Walter Lord Day of infamy
Saul Bellow The dean's December
James Agee A death in the family
Isaac Bashevis Singer Gimpel the fool
Saul Bellow Herzog
Saul Bellow Humboldt's Gift
Shirley Ann Grau The keepers of the house
Cornelius Ryan The last battle : the classic history of the battle for Berlin
Walter Lord The miracle of Dunkirk
Saul Bellow More die of heartbreak
Walter Lord A night to remember : the classic account of the final hours of the Titanic
Michael Lennon On God : an uncommon conversation
Saul Bellow Seize the day
Saul Bellow There is simply too much to think about : collected nonfiction
Saul Bellow To Jerusalem and back : a personal account
Saul Bellow The victim
Saul Bellow The actual
Saul Bellow Collected stories
Saul Bellow Henderson, the rain king
Caroline Criado-Perez Invisible women : data bias in a world designed for men
Saul Bellow It all adds up : from the dim past to the uncertain future ; a nonfiction collection
Cornelius Ryan The longest day : June 6, 1944
Saul Bellow Mr. Sammler's planet
Herman Wouk The Caine mutiny court-martial
Stephen Adly Guirgis Our lady of 121st street
Akwaeke Emezi The death of Vivek Oji
Elaine Castillo How to read now : essays
Kiley Reid Such a fun age : a novel
Jane Jacobs The death and life of great American cities
Jon Meacham His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
Colin Jost A very punchable face : a memoir
Walter Lord The dawn's early light : the War of 1812 and the battle that inspired Francis Scott Key to write "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Conrad Richter The fields
Walter Lord Incredible victory : the Battle of Midway
Walter Lord Lonely vigil : coastwatchers of the Solomons
Walter Lord A time to stand : the epic of the Alamo
Conrad Richter The town
Conrad Richter The trees
Aristotle How to tell a story : an ancient guide to the art of storytelling for writers and readers
Barbara W Tuchman The guns of August
Conrad Richter The light in the forest
Alexander McCall Smith The peppermint tea chronicles
Conrad Richter The sea of grass
Alexander McCall Smith Love in the time of Bertie
Nguyen Phan Que Mai The mountains sing
Michael Connelly Fair Warning
N K Jemisin The city we became
Allen Drury Advise and consent : the landmark masterpiece of political fiction
Halldór Laxness Salka Valka
Thomas Mann Death in venice
Daniel Silva Portrait of an Unknown Woman
David Grohl The storyteller
Gillian McAllister Wrong place, wrong time
Stuart Woods Black Dog
Kirk W Johnson The fishermen and the dragon : Fear, greed, and a fight for justice on the gulf coast
Sarah Pearse The retreat
Mark Leibovich Thank you for your servitude : Donald trump's washington and the price of submission
Adam Grant Think Again
Robert Fulghum All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten
Michelle Zauner Crying in H Mart : a memoir
Silvia Moreno-Garcia The daughter of doctor moreau
Anthony Marra Mercury pictures presents
Emily St John Mandel Sea of tranquility
Isaac Fitzgerald Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional
Graham Robb France : an adventure history
Jonathan Lemire The big lie : election chaos, political opportunism, and the state of American politics after 2020
Paths of dissent : soldiers speak out against America's misguided wars
Stephanie Johnson Tanqueray
Malcolm W Nance They want to kill Americans : the militias, terrorists, and deranged ideology of the Trump insurgency
Robert Fulghum What on earth have i done? : Stories, observations, and affirmations
Chantal V Johnson Post-traumatic
James Patterson Shattered
Ruth Ware The it girl
Megan Miranda The last to vanish
Jamie Ford The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
Brad Thor Rising Tiger

Posted on Oct. 5, 2022 by Cherilyn Chang

New eBooks for September 2022

Posted on Oct. 5, 2022 by Cherilyn Chang

New Print Non-Fiction for September 2022

PRINT BOOKS

NON-FICTION

Applied Sciences
Alec Nevala-Lee Inventor of the future : the visionary life of Buckminster Fuller 620.92 F96n

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Photobooks : Spain 1905-1977 779.0946 P566
Erwin Blumenfeld Erwin Blumenfeld : paintings, drawings, collages & photographs 709.2 B626
John Crichton Henry Evans : bookseller, printer, publisher, printmaker 769.92 Ev151
William C Darrah Stereo views : a history of stereographs in America and their collection 778.4 D252
Mark Braude Kiki Man Ray : art, love, and rivalry in 1920s Paris 709.2 K55b

Biography & Genealogy
Stephanie Johnson Tanqueray 792.092 J630
Zachary D Carter The price of peace : money, democracy, and the life of John Maynard Keynes 330.92 K44c

Business & Economics
Alex J Taylor Forms of persuasion : art and corporate image in the 1960s 659.1 T212
George Monbiot Regenesis : feeding the world without devouring the planet 338.1 M736

Chess
Ivan Sokolov Magnus Carlsen's Middlegame Evolution 792.123 C284s
Michael Adams Think like a super-GM 794.1 Ad171t
Emanuel Lasker 794.1092 L352e

Food & Drink
Sally Schmitt Six California kitchens : a collection of recipes, stories, and cooking lessons from a pioneer of California cuisine 641.5979 Sch564

Health & Medicine
Camper English Doctors and distillers : the remarkable medicinal history of beer, wine, spirits, and cocktails 615.78 En361
Niall Ferguson Doom : the politics of catastrophe 362.1962 F35
Daniel Gibbs A tattoo on my brain : a neurologist's personal battle against Alzheimer's disease 616.83 G353

History
M R Green Shadowlands : a journey through Britain's lost cities and vanished villages 941 G820
Ulrich von Hassell The Ulrich von Hassell diaries, 1938-1944 : the story of the forces against Hitler inside Germany 943.086 H276
Michael S Neiberg Dance of the furies : Europe and the outbreak of World War I 940.311 N397
Rinker Buck Life on the Mississippi : an epic American adventure 977 B922L
Levi Roach Empires of the Normans : conquerors of Europe 940.1 R53
Graham Robb France : an adventure history 944 R631f
James Belich The world the plague made : the Black Death and the rise of Europe 940.192 B431
Damon B Akins We are the land : a history of Native California 979.4 Ak52

Home & Family Management
Christopher Howard The new golden door to retirement and living in Costa Rica : Costa Rica's official guide to relocation and inexpensive living in Latin America's number one relocation destination and peaceful tropical paradise 646.79 H831

Languages & Linguistics
Ellen Jovin Rebel with a clause : tales and tips from a roving grammarian 428.2 J829

Literature & Writing
George Saunders A swim in a pond in the rain : in which four Russians give a master class on writing, reading, and life 891.73 S257
Elaine Castillo How to read now : essays 814.6 C278
author. Aristotle How to tell a story : an ancient guide to the art of storytelling for writers and readers 808.54 A71
Hieu Minh Nguyen Not here 811.6 N499
John Walsh Circus of dreams : adventures in the 1980s literary world 828 W168
Elizabeth Salter Edith Sitwell 821 S623s
Ivor John Carnegie Brown Shakespeare 822 S529br

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Ed Yong An immense world : how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us 591.5 Y55
Seirian Sumner Endless forms : the secret world of wasps 595.79 Su66

Performing Arts & Music
John Corbett A listener's guide to free improvisation 781.36 C789
Nina Nesseth Nightmare fuel : the science of horror films 791.436 N374

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Jesmyn Ward Navigate your stars 158.1 W259
Jennifer Lynn Aaker Humor, seriously : why humor is a secret weapon in business and life : And how anyone can harness it. Even you. 152.43 Aa41
Simran Jeet Singh The light we give : how Sikh wisdom can transform your life 294.6 Si643
Brené Brown Daring greatly : how the courage to be vulnerable transforms the way we live, love, parent, and lead 158 B877da
John Koenig The dictionary of obscure sorrows 152.4 K819
Paths of dissent : soldiers speak out against America's misguided wars 172 P273

Social Sciences & Current Events
Ken Auletta Hollywood ending : Harvey Weinstein and the culture of silence 364.153 A924
Clare Sears Arresting dress : cross-dressing, law, and fascination in nineteenth-century San Francisco 306.77 Se175
Paul Pringle Bad city : peril and power in the City of Angels 362.29 P936
Pete Hegseth Battle for the American mind : uprooting a century of miseducation 370.11 H362
Henry Kissinger Leadership : six studies in world strategy 303.34 K618L
Michael Maccoby The leaders we need : and what makes us follow 303.34 M133
Daphne De Marneffe The rough patch : marriage and the art of living together 306.81 D391
Marian L Salzman The new megatrends : seeing clearly in the age of disruption 303.49 Sa397
John H McKane Inside Muni : the properties and operations of the Municipal Railway of San Francisco 388.46 M191

Travel & Geography
The rough guide to Iceland 914.91 R856
Daniel Bacon Walking San Francisco on the Barbary Coast trail 917.946 B12
Jane Huber 60 hikes within 60 miles, San Francisco : including North Bay, East Bay, Peninsula, and South Bay 917.946 H875
Rick Steves' Germany 914.3 S848
Rick Steves' Prague & the Czech Republic 914.37 S848
Eyewitness New York City 917.471 E975
Lonely Planet Berlin 914.315 L847
Lonely Planet Costa Rica 917.286 L847
Lonely Planet Japan 915.2 L847
Lonely Planet Barcelona 914.672 L847
Insight Colorado 917.88 I59
Insight Portugal 914.69 I592
James Kaiser Yosemite : the complete guide 917.9447 K135

Posted on Oct. 5, 2022 by Cherilyn Chang

New Print Fiction for September 2022

PRINT BOOKS

FICTION
Emme Lund The boy with a bird in his chest
O S Zabuz͡hko Fieldwork in Ukrainian sex
Vauhini Vara The immortal King Rao
Gabrielle Zevin Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Alexander McCall Smith Love in the time of Bertie
Alexander McCall Smith The peppermint tea chronicles
Alexander McCall Smith A promise of ankles
Roberto Calasso The tablet of destinies
Truman Capote Other voices, other rooms
Olivia Wenzel 1,000 coils of fear
Halldór Laxness Salka Valka
Silvia Moreno-Garcia The daughter of Doctor Moreau
Steve Hermanos Going, going, gone!
Chantal V Johnson Post-traumatic
Elizabeth Taylor Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Colette The pure and the impure
Heinrich Böll Billiards at half past nine

Historical Fiction
Alexandra Lapierre Belle Greene
Anthony Wood Gray & Blue : A Tale of Two Colors. Volume 2
Vanessa Hua Forbidden city

Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, Espionage & Intrigue
Conner Habib Hawk Mountain
David Ellis Look closer
Brad Thor Rising tiger
Elliott Chaze Black wings has my angel
Alexander McCall Smith The geometry of holding hands
Alexander McCall Smith The sweet remnants of summer
Clarissa Goenawan Watersong
Brad Meltzer The lightning rod
Douglas J Preston Bloodless
Ruth Ware The it girl
Megan Miranda The last to vanish
Daniel Silva Portrait of an unknown woman
Sarah Pearse The retreat
James Patterson Shattered
Lindsey Davis Desperate undertaking

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Blake Crouch Upgrade
Matthew Lyons A black and endless sky
Chuck Wendig The book of accidents

Short Stories
Morgan Talty Night of the living rez
Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ The collected tales of Nikolai Gogol
Haruki Murakami Men without women : stories
Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ The nose & other stories

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
N K Jemisin Far sector 741.5 J398 comics
Jordan Crane Keeping two 741.5 C850 comics
Didier Fassin Policing the city : an ethno-graphic 363.2 F264 comics
Peter Hoey The bend of luck 741.5 H672b comics
Thierry Lamy David Bowie in comics 780.92 B78La comics
Otava Heikkilä Letters for Lucardo. [Book 1] 741.5 H363 comics

Universal (Children's)

Fiction
Isabel Quintero My papi has a motorcycle U Quintero

Posted on Oct. 5, 2022 by Cherilyn Chang

New eBooks for August 2022

EBOOKS
Christopher Isherwood The Berlin stories
Christopher Isherwood Goodbye to Berlin
William Shakespeare Much ado about nothing
Rainer Maria Rilke The Inner Sky Poems, Notes, Dreams
A very German Christmas : the greatest Austrian, Swiss and German holiday stories of all time
George Gordon Byron Byron complete works : world's best collection
Marvin Kitman The making of the president, 1789 : the unauthorized campaign biography
Lawrence Durrell Balthazar
Lawrence Durrell Clea
Lawrence Durrell Justine
Lawrence Durrell Mountolive
Lawrence Durrell Diplomatic adventures
Gerald Durrell Birds, Beasts and Relatives
Gerald Durrell The garden of the gods
Ian S MacNiven Lawrence durrell a biography
Lawrence Durrell The Lawrence Durrell travel reader : a middle western legend
Gerald Durrell My family and other animals
Lawrence Durrell Prospero's cell : a guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corfu
Lawrence Durrell Sicilian carousel
Lawrence Durrell A smile in the mind's eye : an adventure into zen philosophy
Lawrence Durrell Spirit of place: letters and essays on travel
Lawrence Durrell Stiff upper lip
Lawrence Durrell White eagles over Serbia
Lawrence Durrell From the Elephant's Back : Collected Essays & Travel Writings
John Grisham Sparring partners
Julie Clark The lies I tell
Deadly anniversaries : celebrating 75 years of Mystery Writers of America
Deanna Alexander Brutal, beautiful neglected christian theology
Morgan Talty Night of the living rez
Heinrich Böll Billiards at half-past nine
Thomas F O'Boyle At any cost : Jack Welch, General Electric, and the pursuit of profit
Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ The collected tales of Nikolai Gogol
Truman Capote Other voices, other rooms
Jess Walter The angel of Rome : and other stories
Dean R Koontz Midnight
Sigrid Undset Kristin Lavransdatter
Ian Kershaw Hitler : 1889-1936, Hubris
Ian Kershaw Hitler, 1936-45 : nemesis
George Sand Indiana
Fay Weldon Letters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen
Fyodor Dostoevsky The possessed

Posted on Sep. 2, 2022 by Cherilyn Chang