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Applied Sciences
David Rooney About time : a history of civilization in twelve clocks 681.11 R674
Melissa Shapiro Piglet : the unexpected story of a deaf blind pink puppy and his family 636.7 S222

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Charlie English The gallery of miracles and madness : insanity, modernism, and Hitler's war on art 700.943 E361

Biography & Genealogy
Fiona Sampson Two-way mirror : the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning 821.8 B885

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism
Jesse Watters How I saved the world 070.92 W344
What to eat with what you read : a guide for book clubs and other literary gatherings. 028 W55
Library and book trade almanac 020.5 L697 2021

Business & Economics
Michael Moe The mission corporation : how contemporary capitalism can change the world one business at a time 658.4 M722
Adrian Daub What tech calls thinking : an inquiry into the intellectual bedrock of Silicon Valley 338.476 D263
William Quinn Boom and bust : a global history of financial bubbles 338.542 Q443
Oliver Burkeman Four thousand weeks : time management for mortals 650.11 B959
Karla McLaren The power of emotions at work : accessing the vital intelligence in your workplace 650.1 M222
Noelle Ihli The ultimate guide to selling on Etsy : How to Turn Your Etsy Shop Side Hustle into a Business 658.8 I252

Chess
T D Harding Better chess for average players 794.1 H263
A S SuėtinSoviet chess strategy 794.12 S94
Mihai Suba Positional chess sacrifices 794.1 S939p
The Nimzo-indian Move by Move. 794.1225 E20 E54
Alexander Delchev Attacking the English 794.122 D345a
I A Rabinovich The Russian endgame handbook 794.124 R116
Nikolaĭ Kalinichenko The club player's modern guide to gambits 794.12 K144
Lev Alburt Carlsen vs. Karjakin : World Chess Championship, New York 2016 794.15 C284a
Yochanan Afek Invisible moves : discover your blind spots and stop overlooking simple wins 794.1 A25
Georges Renaud The art of checkmate 794.1 R395

Computer Science
Jacob Gaboury Image objects : an archaeology of computer graphics 006.6 G113
Matt Neuburg iOS 14 programming fundamentals with Swift : Swift, Xcode, and Cocoa basics 005.268 N392
Julien Danjou Serious Python : black-belt advice on deployment, scalability, testing, and more 005.1 P99d
Michael Miller My Google Chromebook 004.165 C557
Adam D Scott JavaScript cookbook : programming the web 005.2762 J416s
Robin Nixon Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript : a step-by-step guide to creating dynamic websites 005.2762 P575n
Sean McManus Raspberry Pi for dummies 004.165 R226m
Michael Margolis Arduino cookbook : recipes to begin, expand, and enhance your projects 004.165 A677m
Joe Hutsko Macs all-in-one for dummies. 004.165 M248h
Edward C Baig IPad and iPad Pro 004.1675 I646ba

Food & Drink
Mariana Velasquez Colombiana : a rediscovery of recipes & rituals from the soul of Colombia 641.598 V541

Health & Medicine
Jim Downs Maladies of empire : how colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine 614.4 D759

History
William M Arkin On that day : the definitive timeline of 9 973.931 A721o
Eric Jager The last duel : a true story of crime, scandal, and trial by combat in medieval France 394.8 J182
Jeff Danziger Lieutenant Dangerous : a Vietnam War memoir 959.7 D238
Peter Bergen The rise and fall of Osama bin Laden 958.104 B495
Carol Leonnig I alone can fix it : Donald J. Trump's catastrophic final year 973.933 L554
Julie Kavanagh The Irish assassins : conspiracy, revenge, and the Phoenix Park murders that stunned Victorian England 941.7 K171
Nancy Marie Brown The real Valkyrie : the hidden history of Viking warrior women 948.7 B878
Malcolm Margolin Deep hanging out : wanderings and wonderment in native California 979.4 M329
Th Goodrich Hellstorm : the death of Nazi Germany 1944-1947 940.54 G65h
Dara Horn People love dead Jews : reports from a haunted present 909.04924 H783
Evan Osnos Wildland : the making of America's fury 973.93 O834
Josiah Thompson Last second in Dallas 973.922 T371
Dawn Turner Three girls from Bronzeville : a uniquely American story of race, fate, and sisterhood 977.311 T851
Helena Merriman Tunnel 29 : the true story of an extraordinary escape beneath the Berlin Wall 943.155 M552
Christopher Joseph Nicodemus Capozzola Bound by war : how the United States and the Philippines built America's first Pacific century 355.03 C246
Blaine Harden Murder at the mission : a frontier killing, its legacy of lies, and the taking of the American West 979.503 H259

Literature & Writing
Meghan O'Gieblyn God, human, animal, machine : technology, metaphor, and the search for meaning 814.6 O4g
Neal Cassady The Joan Anderson letter : the holy grail of the beat generation 810.9 C3432
City Lights pocket poets anthology 808.81 C58 2015
Maria Tatar The heroine with 1,001 faces 809.93 T187
Marion Roach Smith The memoir project : a thoroughly non-standardized text for writing & life 808.066 R53
Joy Harjo Poet warrior : a memoir 818.54 H285

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Margaret Lowman The arbornaut : a life discovering the eighth continent in the trees above us 581.7 L91
Paul Halpern Flashes of creation : George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the great Big Bang debate 520.92 H195
Bill François Eloquence of the sardine : extraordinary encounters beneath the sea 578.77 F856
Harry Cliff How to make an apple pie from scratch : in search of the recipe for our universe, from the origins of atoms to the big bang 523.01 C611
Rebecca Giggs Fathoms : the world in the whale 599.5 G367
Stephon Alexander Fear of a black universe : an outsider's guide to the future of physics 523.1 A374f
Phillip M Hoose The race to save the Lord God Bird 598.7 H789
Giulio Boccaletti Water : a biography 553.7 B630

Performing Arts & Music
Kathy Iandoli Baby girl : better known as Aaliyah 780.92 A44
Joel Selvin Hollywood Eden : electric guitars, fast cars, and the myth of the California paradise 782.421 S469h
Hayley Mills Forever young : a memoir 792.092 M629

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Scott A Small Forgetting : the benefits of not remembering 153.12 S181
Laurel Kendall Mediums and magical things : statues, paintings, and masks in Asian places 202.1 K331
Michael E McCullough The kindness of strangers : how a selfish ape invented a new moral code 177.7 M133

Politics & Government
William M Arkin The generals have no clothes : the untold story of our endless wars 327.73 A721
A Susan Williams White malice : the CIA and the covert recolonization of Africa 327.73 W670
Paul Sabin Public citizens : the attack on big government and the remaking of American liberalism 320.51 S135
Ruth Ben-Ghiat Strongmen : Mussolini to the present 321.9 B430
Vincent Bevins The Jakarta method : Washington's anticommunist crusade & the mass murder program that shaped our world 327.12 B468

Reference
Mosby's medical dictionary. 610.3 M894

Social Sciences & Current Events
Christine French Cully Dear Highlights : what adults can learn from 75 years of letters and conversations with kids 305.23 C898
Kate Aronoff A planet to win : why we need a green new deal 363.7 A769p
Sharon R Muse Kidnapped by a client : the incredible true story of an attorney's fight for justice 364.154 M986
Jennifer Vogel Flim-flam man a true family history 364.109 V862
Samantha Montano Disasterology : dispatches from the frontlines of the climate crisis 363.738 M762
Daniel Klaidman Kill or capture : the war on terror and the soul of the Obama presidency 363.325 K662
James Gustave Speth They knew : the federal government's fifty-year role in causing the climate crisis 363.738 S37
Dorceta E Taylor Toxic communities : environmental racism, industrial pollution, and residential mobility 363.72 T212
Rafia Zakaria Against white feminism : notes on disruption 305.42 Z138
Erwin Chemerinsky Presumed guilty : how the Supreme Court empowered the police and subverted civil rights 363.2 C517p
Marc Weingarten Thirsty : William Mulholland, California water, and the real Chinatown 333.91 W423
Christopher Bail Breaking the social media prism : how to make our platforms less polarizing 302.23 B15
Jaime Lowe Breathing fire : female inmate firefighters on the front lines of California's wildfires 363.37 L951
Tom Standage A brief history of motion : from the wheel, to the car, to what comes next 388 S785
Cathy Park Hong Minor feelings : an Asian American reckoning 305.48 H757
Robin DiAngelo Nice racism : how progressive White people perpetuate racial harm 305.8 D542n
Jennifer De Leon White space : essays on culture, race, & writing 304.8 D377
Marcia A Zug Buying a bride : an engaging history of mail-order matches 306.82 Z838
Karen Petrou Engine of inequality : the fed and the future of wealth in America 305.5 P448
Chris Enss Hearts West : true stories of mail order brides on the frontier 306.82 E79
Lizzie Johnson Paradise : one town's struggle to survive an American wildfire 363.37 J630
Tarana Burke Unbound : my story of liberation and the birth of the Me Too movement 364.153 B917
Reed Hastings No rules rules : Netflix and the culture of reinvention 384.55 H279
John Kelly The California Zephyr : an entertaining history of America's most celebrated train route 385.22 K295

Travel & Geography
Bob Welch Cascade summer : my adventure on Oregon's Pacific Crest Trail 917.95 W442
DK Eyewitness travel Paris 914.436 E975
Chaney Kwak The passenger : how a travel writer learned to love cruises & other lies from a sinking ship 910.916 K979
Greece. 914.95 L847
Scotland. 914.11 L847
Santa Fe, Taos & Albuquerque 917.895 M818

CHILDREN'S

Non-Fiction
Bonnie Gratch Lindauer Hannah G. Solomon dared to make a difference Child 303.484 S471
Jacqueline Houtman Troublemaker for justice : the story of Bayard Rustin, the man behind the March on Washington Child 323.092 R928
Elizabeth Rusch You call this democracy? : how to fix our government and deliver power to the people Child 320.973 R951

Posted on Oct. 1, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New Print Fiction for October 2021

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FICTION
Chandler Baker The husbands
Lyndsay Faye The king of infinite space
Gianfranco Calligarich Last summer in the city
Amy Koppelman A mouthful of air
Virginia Feito Mrs. March
Johanna Mo The night singer
Emily Henry People we meet on vacation
Nawaaz Ahmed Radiant fugitives
Ha Jin A song everlasting
Christy Lefteri Songbirds
Hermione Hoby Virtue
Omar El Akkad What strange paradise
Susie Yang White ivy
Stephen King Billy Summers
Nickolas Butler Godspeed
William Lindsay Gresham Nightmare alley
Tahmima Anam The startup wife
Jojo Moyes Night music
Megan E Abbott The turnout
Lisa Taddeo Animal
María Amparo Escandón L.A. weather
Freya Sampson The last chance library
Sabina Murray The human zoo
Daniel Handler Bottle grove
John Briscoe A child's Christmas in San Francisco
Zoraida Córdova The inheritance of Orquídea Divina
Sally Rooney Beautiful world, where are you
Liane Moriarty Apples never fall
Ash Davidson Damnation spring
Colson Whitehead Harlem shuffle
Jo Hamya Three rooms
Marlowe Granados Happy hour
Damon Galgut The promise

Historical Fiction
Honorée FanonneJeffers The love songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Jonathan Santlofer The last Mona Lisa
Pamela L Hamilton Lady be good : the life and times of Dorothy Hale
Jai Chakrabarti A play for the end of the world
Lauren Groff Matrix
Maureen Gibbon The lost notebook of Édouard Manet
Colm Tóibín The magician

Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, Espionage & Intrigue
Louise Penny The madness of crowds
Lindsay Cameron Just one look
Andrea Bartz We were never here
Silvia Moreno-Garcia Velvet was the night
Linwood Barclay Fear the worst
Chevy Stevens Dark roads
Sujata Massey The Satapur moonstone
Arnaldur IndriðasonThe darkness knows
Naomi Hirahara Clark and Division
Lemony Snicket Poison for breakfast
Paula Hawkins A slow fire burning
Richard Osman The man who died twice
William Kotzwinkle Felonious monk
Ray Bradbury Killer, come back to me
Alice Feeney Rock paper scissors
James Kennedy Dare to know
William McIlvanney The dark remains
Hank Phillippi Ryan Her perfect life
Amanda Jayatissa My sweet girl

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Cadwell Turnbull No gods, no monsters

Short Stories
Jo Lloyd Something wonderful : stories
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh American estrangement : stories
The best short stories 2021 : the O. Henry Prize winners SS O15

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Elisa Macellari Kusama : the graphic novel 709.2 K968 comics
Paul Madonna On to the next dream 741.5 M183o comics

CHILDREN'S

Fiction
Linda Bondestam Good night, Earth Child Bondestam
Amanda Gorman Change sings : a children's anthem Child Gorman

Posted on Oct. 1, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New eBooks for September 2021

Posted on Sep. 9, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New eAudiobooks for September 2021

E-AUDIOBOOKS

Marcel Proust In search of lost time
Julie K Brown Perversion of justice : the Jeffrey Epstein story
Graham Greene The power and the glory
Saul Bellow Ravelstein
Rachel Vogelstein Awakening : #MeToo and the global fight for women's rights
Sigrid Nunez The friend
Tara Westover Educated : a memoir
Anna Qu Made in China : a memoir of love and labor
Edmund Gosse Father & son
Wallace Stevens The poetry of Wallace Stevens
Arnold Bennett Arnold Bennett's The old wives' tale.
Patricia Cornwell Chaos
Jennifer Chiaverini The Women's March : a novel of the 1913 woman suffrage procession
Elena Ferrante The days of abandonment
Lauren Beukes The shining girls
Sanjena Sathian Gold diggers
Ocean Vuong On earth we're briefly gorgeous
Dan Brown The lost symbol
Stephen Mack Jones August Snow
Virginia Feito Mrs. march
Stephen King The running man
Richard Brautigan The abortion : an historical romance 1966
Richard Brautigan A Confederate General from Big Sur
Richard Brautigan Dreaming of Babylon : a private eye novel, 1942
Richard Brautigan The hawkline monster : a gothic western
Richard Brautigan In watermelon sugar
Richard Brautigan So the wind won't blow it all away
Richard Brautigan Trout fishing in America
Richard Brautigan An unfortunate woman : a journey
Karin SlaughterFalse Witness
David Baldacci Daylight
Nathan Harris The sweetness of water
Miranda Cowley Heller The paper palace
Marie Benedict The personal librarian
Naomi Hirahara Clark and Division
William M Arkin The generals have no clothes : the untold story of our endless wars

Posted on Sep. 9, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New Print Non-Fiction for September 2021

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NON-FICTION

Applied Sciences
Chad T Hanson Smokescreen : debunking wildfire myths to save our forests and our climate 634.96 H198
James Rebanks Pastoral song : a farmer's journey 636.3 R289p

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Jerry Saltz How to be an artist 701.15 S379
Christina Weyl The women of Atelier 17 : modernist printmaking in midcentury New York 769.974 W546
Joshua Sanabria Unexpected : Salton Sea 779.092 S197

Biography & Genealogy
Susan Ronald The ambassador : Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940 973.917 R768
Ilhan Omar This is what America looks like : my journey from refugee to Congresswoman 328.73 O17
Anna Qu Made in China : a memoir of love and labor 973.0495 Q2
Alexander Norman The Dalai Lama : an extraordinary life 294.3 B917n

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism
Kim Todd Sensational : the hidden history of America's "girl stunt reporters" 071.3 T634
The God beat : what journalism says about faith and why it matters 070.4 G54
American Library Directory : 2020-2021. 027 A51 2020

Business & Economics
Frances Frei Unleashed : the unapologetic leader's guide to empowering everyone around you 658.314 F881
Eliot Brown The cult of We : WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the great startup delusion 333.33 B812
Matt Hart Win at all costs : inside Nike running and its culture of deception 338.768 H251

Chess
Axel Smith Street Smart Chess 794.12 S642
Gata Kamsky Gata Kamsky : chess gamer. Volume 2: Return (2004-2013) 794.15 K159r
Alexey Kuzmin Together with the candidates : Budapest 1950 to Berlin 2018 794.12 K978

Food & Drink
Brandon Jew Mister Jiu's in Chinatown : recipes and stories from the birthplace of Chinese American food 641.5951 J54

Health & Medicine
Geoff Manaugh Until proven safe : the history and future of quarantine 614.4 M267
Bruce Duncan Perry What happened to you? : conversations on trauma, resilience, and healing 616.8521 P46
Parley Anderson All this sitting is killing you 613.7 A54
Benjamin H Bratton The revenge of the real : politics for a post-pandemic world 614.4 B737
Leana S Wen Lifelines : a doctor's journey in the fight for public health 362.1 W467

History
Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019 973.0496 F825
Ann Hagedorn Sleeper agent : the atomic spy in America who got away 940.5486 K849
Margalit Fox The confidence men : how two prisoners of war engineered the most remarkable escape in history 940.472 F791
David A Price Geniuses at war : Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the dawn of the digital age 940.5486 P946
Frederic C Howe Socialized Germany 943.08 H855
Benjamin H Milligan By water beneath the walls : the rise of the Navy SEALs 359.984 M621
Catherine Belton Putin's people : how the KGB took back Russia and then took on the West 947.086 B453
Jan Brokken The just : how six unlikely heroes saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust 940.5318 B787

Law
Richard Delgado Critical race theory : an introduction 342.7308 D378

Literature & Writing
Matthew Specktor Always crashing in the same car : on art, crisis, & Los Angeles, California 813 S318
Jeanne Powell Deeply Notched Leaves : poems 811 P882d
Slouching towards Los Angeles : living and writing by Joan Didion's light 813.54 D55s

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Edith Widder Below the edge of darkness : a memoir of exploring light and life in the deep sea 551.46 W633
Christina Conklin The atlas of disappearing places : our coasts and oceans in the climate crisis 551.457 C761

Performing Arts & Music
Georgina Pazcoguin Swan dive : the making of a rogue ballerina 792.8 P298
Danny Trejo Trejo : my life of crime, redemption, and Hollywood 792.092 T718
Eddie Muller Dark city : the lost world of film noir 791.4 M958da
Jessica Simpson Open book 782.421 S613
James Lapine Putting it together : how Stephen Sondheim and I created "Sunday in the park with George" 792.6 L314

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Sam Kean The icepick surgeon : murder, fraud, sabotage, piracy, and other dastardly deeds perpetrated in the name of science 174.95 K25
Gwen Adshead The devil you know : stories of human cruelty and compassion 155.232 A86

Politics & Government
Adrianne Aron Human rights and wrongs : reluctant heroes fight tyranny 323.631 A672
Greg Grandin Empire's workshop : Latin America, the United States, and the making of an imperial republic 327.7308 G753
Amy Sohn The man who hated women : sex, censorship, and civil liberties in the Gilded Age 323.44 S26
Kehinde Andrews The new age of empire : how racism and colonialism still rule the world 325.32 A261
Political Ideas in the Romantic Age Their Rise & Influence on Modern Thought. 320.01 B515
Thomas C Holt The movement : the African American struggle for civil rights 323.1196 H758

Social Sciences & Current Events
Dax-Devlon Ross Letters to my white male friends 305.8 R733
Adam Serwer The cruelty is the point : the past, present, and future of Trump's America 305.8 S699
Joanne Samuel Goldblum Broke in America : seeing, understanding, and ending US poverty 362.5 G564
Melissa Bruntlett Curbing traffic : the human case for fewer cars in our lives 388.31 B838
The essential Kerner Commission report 363.32 E742
Jim Tankersley The riches of this land : the untold, true story of America's middle class 305.55 T156
Andrew D Baker To poison a nation : the murder of Robert Charles and the rise of Jim Crow policing in America 305.8 B171
Katherine Dykstra What happened to Paula : on the death of an American girl 363.259 D991
Curtis Wilkie When evil lived in Laurel : the "White Knights" and the murder of Vernon Dahmer 305.8 W653
James Suzman Work : a deep history, from the stone age to the age of robots 331.09 S968
Whitney Phillips You are here : a field guide for navigating polarized speech, conspiracy theories, and our polluted media landscape 302.23 P541
Rachel Vogelstein Awakening : #MeToo and the global fight for women's rights 305.42 V865
Ewa Majewska Feminist antifascism : counterpublics of the common 305.42 M288
Sarah Schulman Let the record show : a political history of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 362.1969 S386L
Courtney E Martin Learning in public : lessons for a racially divided America from my daughter's school 379.26 M363

Sports & Games
Nicholas Greene How to watch basketball like a genius : what game designers, economists, ballet choreographers, and theoretical astrophysicists reveal about the greatest game on Earth 796.3 G830

Travel & Geography
Joseph R Yogerst 100 drives, 5,000 ideas : where to go, when to go, what to see, what to do 917.3 N277o
Tim Parks The hero's way : walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna 945.08 P252
Allison Williams Moon handbooks. Pacific Northwest road trip 917.95 M818r

DVDS

Non-fiction
La Cenerentola : melodramma giocoso in due atti DVD 782.5 R85c
Secrets of the Bay DVD 574.92 S446

Posted on Sep. 7, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New Print Fiction for September 2021

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FICTION
Sunjeev Sahota China room
Silvia Moreno-Garcia Mexican gothic
Charlotte McConaghy Once there were wolves
Colleen Oakley The invisible husband of Frick Island

Historical Fiction
Leah Weiss All the little hopes
Lynda Rutledge West with giraffes
Jennifer Chiaverini The women's march
Maggie Shipstead Great circle
Derek B Miller How to find your way in the dark
Anne B Gass We Demand : The Suffrage Road Trip

Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, Espionage & Intrigue
Grady Hendrix The final girl support group
B A Paris The therapist
Riley Sager Survive the night

Short Stories
Adam Thompson Born into this
McSweeney's. 63. SS M175
Blackout SS B566
Nebula awards showcase #54 : the year's best of science fiction and fantasy SS N36

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Adrian Tomine The loneliness of the long-distance cartoonist 741.5 T657L comics

Music CDs

Jazz
Blue Mitchell The thing to do CD Jazz Mitchell
Chick Corea Antidote CD Jazz Corea
Joey DeFrancesco In the key of the universe CD Jazz DeFrancesco

World
Rodrigo y GabrielaMettavolution CD World Rodrigo

Posted on Sep. 7, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New Print Non-Fiction for August 2021

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NONFICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Simon Morley Seven keys to modern art 709.04 M827
Diana Souhami No modernism without lesbians 709.04 S46
Mark Stevens Francis Bacon : revelations 750.92 B12s
Lee Lai Stone fruit 741.5 L185
Philip Hoare Albert and the whale : Albrecht Dürer and how art imagines our world 709.2 D96

Biography & Genealogy
Genesis P-Orridge Nonbinary : a memoir 709.2 P1
Anne Sebba Ethel Rosenberg : an American tragedy 351.74 R723
Dennis J Kucinich The division of light and power 352.16 K955

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism
Library and book trade almanac 020.5 L697 2020

Business & Economics
Joe Coulombe Becoming Trader Joe : how I did business my way and still beat the big guys 381.456 C85
Eric Cole Cyber crisis : protecting your business from real threats in the virtual world 364.16 C68
Virginia A McArthur Let's talk about estate planning 332.024 M118
Jamie Ducharme Big vape : the incendiary rise of Juul 338.7679 D856

Chess
Vladimir Barsky A modern guide to checkmating patterns : improve your ability to spot typical mates 794.12 B28
David Llada The thinkers 794.1092 L770
New in chess yearbook = New in chess Jahrbuch 794.1 N53y

Computer Science
Matthew MacDonald Wordpress : the missing manual : the book that should have been in the box 005.3 W924mw
Lisa Sabin-Wilson WordPress 005.3 W924s

Health & Medicine
A world out of reach : dispatches from life under lockdown : selections from The Yale Review's "Pandemic Files" 362.1962 W893
Justine Bateman Face : one square foot of skin 301 B317
David A Sinclair Lifespan : why we age--and why we don't have to 612.68 S616
Sarah Everts The joy of sweat : the strange science of perspiration 612.793 E276
Lawrence Wright The plague year : America in the time of COVID 614.5924 W951
Robert Kolker Hidden Valley Road : inside the mind of an American family 616.89 K813

History
Francis Fukuyama After the end of history : conversations with Francis Fukuyama 901 F961a
Daniel P Bolger The Panzer killers : the untold story of a fighting general and his Spearhead Tank Division's charge into the Third Reich 940.5412 R720
Russell Duncan Freedom's shore : Tunis Campbell and the Georgia freedmen 975.8 D912
James M Banner The ever-changing past : why all history is revisionist history 907.2 B226
Gregory P Downs After Appomattox : military occupation and the ends of war 973.7 D759
Alexander C T Geppert Fleeting cities : imperial expositions in fin-de-siècle Europe 907.44 G353
Michela Wrong Do not disturb : the story of a political murder and an African regime gone bad 967.5710 W95d
Gigi Georges Downeast : five Maine girls and the unseen story of rural America 974.1 G295
Aviva Chomsky Central America's forgotten history : revolution, violence, and the roots of migration 972.8 C548
Tom Dyja New York, New York, New York : four decades of success, excess, and transformation 974.7 D996
Scott Borchert Republic of detours : how the New Deal paid broke writers to rediscover America 973.917 B644
Edison Eskeets Send a runner : a Navajo honors the long walk 979.1004 E42
Christopher I Beckwith Empires of the Silk Road : a history of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the present 958 B389
Lynne Olson Madame Fourcade's secret war : the daring young woman who led France's largest spy network against Hitler 940.5486 O52

Home & Family Management
Gary Quesenberry Spotting danger before it spots your kids 613.6 Q37

Languages & Linguistics
Shannon R Becker French for reading and translation 440 B388

Law
Ian Rosenberg The fight for free speech : ten cases that define our First Amendment freedoms 342.7308 R723

Literature & Writing
Zadie Smith Intimations : six essays 824.9 S64
Katherine Langrish From spare room to wardrobe: travels in Narnia with my nine-year-old self 823.912 L285
André Aciman Homo irrealis : essays 814.6 A181
Dinty W Moore To hell with it : of sin and sex, chicken wings, and Dante's entirely ridiculous, needlessly guilt-inducing Inferno 818.54 M821
LMP 2021 : literary market place : the directory of the American book publishing industry with industry indexes 655.52 L77 2021

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Mark S Monmonier How to lie with maps 526 M74
Jorge Cham We have no idea : a guide to the unknown universe 523.1 C355
Jonathan Meiburg A most remarkable creature : the hidden life and epic journey of the world's smartest birds of prey 598.96 M475
Andrew H Knoll A brief history of Earth : four billion years in eight chapters 550 K72
Michael Pollan This is your mind on plants 581.6 P771
Jeremy DeSilva First steps : how upright walking made us human 599.93 D460

Performing Arts & Music
Kitt Shapiro Eartha & Kitt : a daughter's love story in black and white 792.092 K65
Alan K Rode Michael Curtiz : a life in film 791.4 C947
Michael Koresky Films of endearment : a mother, a son and the '80s films that defined us 791.43 K841
Dolly Parton Dolly Parton : songteller, my life in lyrics 780.92 P27d
Jessica Hopper The first collection of criticism by a living female rock critic 781.66 H798x
Chris Thomas King The blues : the authentic narrative of my music and culture 781.643 K580
Lisa Napoli Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie : the extraordinary story of the founding mothers of NPR 791.44 N162

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Jordan B Peterson Beyond order : 12 more rules for life 170.44 P485b
Elissa Washuta White magic : essays 133.4 W319
Irvin D Yalom A matter of death and life 155.93 Y19m
John Gray Feline philosophy : cats and the meaning of life 128 G778
Adam M Grant Think again : the power of knowing what you don't know 153.42 G761

Politics & Government
Jacqueline Keeler Standoff : Standing Rock, the Bundy movement, and the American story of sacred lands 323.1197 K245
Mazie Hirono Heart of fire : an immigrant daughter's story 328.73 H668
Josh Hawley The tyranny of big tech 322.3 H316
Andrew J Bacevich After the apocalypse : America's role in a world transformed 327.73 B118
David Freedlander The AOC generation : how millennials are seizing power and rewriting the rules of American politics 305.2 F734
Sebastian Junger Freedom 323.44 J95
Mia Bay Traveling Black : a story of race and resistance 305.896 B356
Mark R LevinAmerican Marxism 320.973 L665
Jonathan Stevenson A drop of treason : Philip Agee and his exposure of the CIA 327.127 S847
John Lewis Carry on : reflections for a new generation 328.73 L674c

Reference
VideoHound's golden movie retriever 2021 Ref 791.4 V65

Social Sciences & Current Events
J Nicole Jones Low Country : a southern memoir 305.562 J762
Laura Bates Men who hate women : from incels to pickup artists : the truth about extreme misogyny and how it affects us all 305.3 B318
John T Jost A theory of system justification 303.372 J795
Kate Aronoff Overheated : how capitalism broke the planet--and how we fight back 363.73 A769
Jason Vuic The swamp peddlers : how lot sellers, land scammers, and retirees built modern Florida and transformed the American dream 333.33 V987
James Baldwin Nothing personal 814 B178no
Paula Stone Williams As a woman : what I learned about power, sex, and the patriarchy after I transitioned 306.768 W670
Dean Jobb The case of the murderous Dr Cream : the hunt for a Victorian era serial killer 364.152 J576
Ruby McConnell Ground truth : a geological survey of a life 363.7 M134
Sara Gay FordenThe house of Gucci : a sensational story of murder, madness, glamour, and greed 364.152 F758
Clint Smith How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America 306.362 S511
Andy Horowitz Katrina : a history, 1915-2015 363.34 H785
Nathaniel Rich Second nature : scenes from a world remade 304.28 R499
Julie K Brown Perversion of justice : the Jeffrey Epstein story 364.153 B812
Sheera Frenkel An ugly truth : inside Facebook's battle for domination 302.3 F889
Dan Davies Lying for money : how legendary frauds reveal the workings of the world 364.16 D25

Travel & Geography
Moon handbooks Tahoe & Reno 917.935 M818
Zion & Bryce Canyon national parks 917.92 L847
Austria 914.36 L847
Frommer's easyguide to Montreal and Quebec City 2015 917.14 F93e
Frommer's Montréal day by day 917.14 F93m
Canada 917.1 L847
Fodor's Scotland 914.11 F653
Amsterdam 914.923 L847
Coastal Oregon 917.951 M818
Moon handbooks Austin, San Antonio & the hill country 917.643 M818
British Columbia & the Canadian Rockies 917.11 L847
Ireland 914.15 L847
Canadian Rockies 917.11 M818c
Incredible archaeology : inspiring places from our human past 930.1 I217
Moon Rhode Island 917.45 M818
Bhutan 915.498 L847
Yellowstone & Grand Teton 917.87 M818y
Moon handbooks New York State 917.47 M818
Moon handbooks Vancouver with Victoria, Vancouver Island & Whistler 917.112 M818
Arizona & the Grand Canyon 917.91 M818
Ireland's best trips : 34 amazing road trips 914.15 L847b
Fodor's essential Hawaii 919.69 F653
Moon Texas 917.64 M818
Fodor's Puerto Vallarta 917.23 F65

DVDS

Non-fiction
Collective DVD 362.1 C685
Hemingway : a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick DVD 813.52 H479
Planet of the humans DVD 363.738 P693

Posted on Aug. 3, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New Print Fiction for August 2021

PRINT BOOKS

FICTION
Valerie Perrin Fresh Water for Flowers
Diane Johnson Lorna Mott comes home
Katee Robert Neon gods
Kurt Tucholsky Castle Gripsholm
S A Cosby Razorblade tears
Miranda Cowley Heller The paper palace
Laurie Frankel One two three : a novel
Lucinda Riley The missing sister
Joshua Cohen The Netanyahus
William Kennedy Ironweed
Stefan Zweig Chess story
Margaux Deroux The Lost Diary of Venice
Kathy Reichs The bone code
Claire Heywood Daughters of Sparta
Diane Cook The new wilderness
Brandon Hobson The removed
Alexander McCall Smith The Bertie project
Lyn Liao Butler The tiger mom's tale
Katie M Kitamura Intimacies
Shelley Parker-Chan She who became the sun
Dana Spiotta Wayward
Pedro Mairal The woman from Uruguay

Historical Fiction
Marie Benedict The personal librarian
Alka Joshi The secret keeper of Jaipur
Kristin Harmel The forest of vanishing stars
Francine Prose The vixen
Lucinda Riley The seven sisters
Nathan Harris The sweetness of water
Jonathan Lee The great mistake
Orville SchellMy old home
Ron Nyren The book of lost light
Chris Bohjalian Hour of the witch
Anuk Arudpragasam A passage north

Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, Espionage & Intrigue
Caitlin Wahrer The damage
Simon R Green The house on Widows Hill
Sujata Massey The Bombay prince
Taylor Adams Hairpin Bridge
Martin Edwards Yesterday's papers Martin Edwards
Joe R Lansdale Moon lake : an East Texas gothic
Laura Lippman Dream girl
Robert J Harris A study in crimson : Sherlock Holmes 1942
Megan Miranda Such a quiet place
Alexander McCall Smith How to raise an elephant
Brad Thor Black ice
Dan Fesperman The cover wife
Charles Todd An Irish hostage
Michelle Richmond The wonder test
T J NewmanFalling
Stacey Abrams While justice sleeps

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Trevor Barton Brobots : the complete source code
K B Wagers Hold fast through the fire

Short Stories
Brandon TaylorFilthy animals
Xu Xu Bird talk and other stories by Xu Xu : modern tales of a Chinese romantic
Stuart Neville The traveller : and other stories
Berkeley noir SS B512
Jack Wang We two alone
Daniel MasonA registry of my passage upon the earth

Westerns
Tom Lin The thousand crimes of Ming Tsu

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Mike Hawthorne Happiness will follow 741.5 H39 comics

DVDS

Drama
55 steps

Posted on Aug. 3, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New eBooks for August 2021

EBOOKS
Sebastian Junger A death in Belmont
Sebastian Junger Fire
Sebastian Junger The perfect storm : a true story of men against the sea
James Howard Kunstler Too Much Magic : Wishful Thinking, Technology, And The Fate Of The Nation
James Howard Kunstler The long emergency : surviving the end of oil, climate change , and other converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century
Hugh Laurie The gun seller
Michael LewisThe Premonition : a pandemic story
Heather Cox Richardson How the South won the Civil War : oligarchy, democracy, and the continuing fight for the soul of America
Adam Hochschild King Leopold's ghost : a story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial Africa
Heather Cox Richardson West from Appomattox : the reconstruction of America after the Civil War
Richard Delgado Critical race theory : an introduction
Ada Calhoun Why we can't sleep : women's new midlife crisis
James Nestor Breath : The new science of a lost art
John T Jost A theory of system justification
Andrei Codrescu The poetry lesson
Andrei Codrescu The posthuman Dada guide : Tzara & Lenin play chess
Andrei Codrescu Whatever gets you through the night : a story of sheherezade and the Arabian entertainments
Andrei Codrescu New Orleans, mon amour : twenty years of writings from the city
Andrei Codrescu Ay, Cuba! : a socio-erotic journey
Andrei Codrescu The Blood Countess
Andrei Codrescu Casanova in Bohemia
Andrei Codrescu Messi@
Andrei Codrescu Wakefield
Richard Preston The wild trees : A story of passion and daring

Posted on Aug. 3, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang