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New eAudiobooks for August 2021

Posted on Aug. 3, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New eAudiobooks for July 2021

Posted on Jul. 7, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New eBooks for July 2021

Posted on Jul. 7, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New Print Non-Fiction for July 2021

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Applied Sciences
Chelsea Wald Pipe dreams : the urgent global quest to transform the toilet 696.182 W142

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Cynthia Saltzman Plunder : Napoleon's theft of Veronese's Feast 759.5 S179
James K McAuleyThe house of fragile things : Jewish art collectors and the fall of France 704.0392 M119

Biography & Genealogy
Jason Riley Maverick : a biography of Thomas Sowell 330.092 S731
Andrew Morton Elizabeth & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters 941.085 E4345m

Business & Economics

Patrick Radden Keefe Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty 338.4761 K242

Computer Science
Erik J Larson The myth of artificial intelligence : why computers can't think the way we do 006.3 L329
K Allado-McDowell Pharmako-AI 004.01 A41

Food & Drink
Adrian Miller Black smoke : African Americans and the United States of barbecue 641.76 M647
Dena Grunt Table with a view : the history & recipes of Nick's Cove 641.5979 G927

Health & Medicine
Paul Farmer Fevers, feuds, and diamonds : Ebola and the ravages of history 614.5 F229

History
David ArmineHowarth The Shetland bus : a WWII epic of courage, endurance, and survival 940.5459 H85
John D Weaver The Brownsville Raid 355.1 W379
Nicole Archambeau Souls under siege : stories of war, plague, and confession in fourteenth-century Provence 944.9 A226
Lesley M M Blume Fallout : the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world 940.54 B625
The end of the Golden Gate : writers on loving and (sometimes) leaving San Francisco 979.461 E211
Caroline Moorehead A house in the mountains : the women who liberated Italy from fascism 940.5345 M825h
Jeffrey S Gurock The Jews of Harlem : the rise, decline, and revival of a Jewish community 974.7 G966
Daniel James Brown Facing the mountain : a true story of Japanese American heroes in World War II 940.5412 B877
Larry Loftis The princess spy : the true story of World War II spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones 940.5486 L827

Law
Amy Klobuchar Antitrust : taking on monopoly power from the Gilded Age to the digital age 343.73 K691
Linda M Fasulo An insider's guide to the UN 341.23 F266
Dorothy A Brown The Whiteness of wealth : how the tax system impoverishes Black Americans--and how we can fix it 343.0408 B812

Literature & Writing
Rachel Kushner The hard crowd : essays 2000-2020 814.6 K968
Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn Between two millstones. Book 2, Exile in America, 1978-1994 891.78 S69
Corey Rosen Your story, well told : creative strategies to develop and perform stories that wow an audience 808.5 R722
Nisi Shawl Writing the other : a practical approach 808.02 S537

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Paul Sen Einstein's fridge : how the difference between hot and cold explains the universe 536.7 S551
David Sibley What it's like to be a bird : from flying to nesting, eating to singing -- what birds are doing, and why 598 S56wh

Performing Arts & Music
Charles Casillo Elizabeth and Monty : the untold story of their intimate friendship 792.092 C269
Uwe Schütte Kraftwerk : future music from Germany 780.92 K892s
Tony Oppedisano Sinatra and me : in the wee small hours 780.92 S61o

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
James R Detert Choosing courage : the everyday guide to being brave at work 179.6 D480
Katie Engelhart The inevitable : dispatches on the right to die 179.7 E326
Simon McCarthy-Jones Spite : the upside of your dark side 152.4 M127
Ethan Kross Chatter : the voice in our head, why it matters, and how to harness it 158.1 K928

Politics & Government
Jon Meacham His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope 328.73 L674m

Social Sciences & Current Events
S Simard Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest 333.75 S42
Alec MacGillis Fulfillment : winning and losing in one-click America 381.142 M175
Elizabeth Warren Persist 303.4 W286
Brad Stone Amazon unbound : Jeff Bezos and the invention of a global empire 381 S877a
Minouche Shafik What we owe each other : a new social contract for a better society 320.01 S134
Tony Hiss Rescuing the planet : protecting half the land to heal the earth 333.75 H673
John Green The Anthropocene reviewed : essays on a human-centered planet 306 G820
Michael Patrick F Smith The good hand : a memoir of work, brotherhood, and transformation in an American boomtown 331.7622 S511
Annette Gordon-Reed On Juneteenth 394.263 G664
Michael Mechanic Jackpot : how the super-rich really live--and how their wealth harms us all 305.52 M464
Robert W Livingston The conversation : how seeking and speaking the truth about racism can radically transform individuals and organizations : a science-based approach 305.8 L762
Isabel Wilkerson Caste : the origins of our discontents 305.5 W68c
Susan Neiman Learning from the Germans : race and the memory of evil 305.8 N41

Travel & Geography
The rough guide to Thailand. 915.986 R856
Anthony Bourdain World travel : an irreverent guide 910.4 B768
Nick Caistor Mexico 917.2 E97
Fodor's Oregon. 917.95 F65
Fodor's Toronto 917.1354 F65
ChrisBarryFodor's Montréal & Québec City 917.14 F653

DVDS

Non-fiction
Some kind of heaven DVD 306.38 S521
The Black Church : this is our story, this is our song DVD 277.3 B561
Acasă, my home DVD 949.8 A17

Posted on Jul. 7, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New Print Fiction for July 2021

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FICTION
Gina Wilkinson When the apricots bloom
Paul Theroux Under the wave at Waimea
Lina Meruane Nervous system
Casey McQuiston One last stop
Claire Fuller Unsettled ground
Cynthia Ozick Antiquities
Elin Hilderbrand Golden Girl
Zakiya Dalila Harris The other Black girl
Angela Mi Young Hur Folklorn
Akwaeke Emezi The death of Vivek Oji
Mieko Kawakami Heaven
Élisa Shua Dusapin Winter in Sokcho
Rivers Solomon Sorrowland
Yaa Gyasi Transcendent kingdom
Richard Wright The man who lived underground
Marianne Cronin The one hundred years of Lenni and Margot
John Grisham Sooley
Taylor Jenkins Reid Malibu rising

Historical Fiction
Beatriz Williams Our woman in Moscow
Anjali Enjeti The parted earth
Rivka Galchen Everyone knows your mother is a witch
Edward Rutherfurd China
J H Gelernter Hold fast

Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, Espionage & Intrigue
Alex Michaelides The maidens
Jon Talton City of dark corners
David Gordon Against the law
Laura Dave The last thing he told me
C J Box Dark sky
Kaoru Takamura Lady Joker
Jean Hanff Korelitz The plot
Maurizio De Giovanni Puppies for the bastards of Pizzofalcone
Mariah Fredericks Death of a showman
Craig Johnson Next to last stand

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
D Eric Maikranz The reincarnationist papers
Octavia E Butler Dawn

Short Stories
Ethel Rohan In the event of contact

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Kevin Panetta Bloom 741.5 P192 comics

DVDS

Action & Adventure
Wonder Woman 1984

Children's
Soul DVD Children's

Drama
Judas and the Black messiah
Minari

Foreign Language
Memories of murder = Sarin ŭi ch'uŏk DVD Asian

Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, Espionage & Intrigue
The little things

Posted on Jul. 7, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New eBooks for June

Posted on Jun. 16, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New eAudiobooks for June

Posted on Jun. 16, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New Print Non-Fiction for June

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Non-fiction
Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Liam Wong TO:KY:OO 779.092 W87
Alice Neel Alice Neel : people come first 750.92 N378pe
George W Bush Out of many, one : portraits of America's immigrants 759.13 B978

Biography & Genealogy
Julia Sweig Lady Bird Johnson : Hiding in plain sight 973.923 J661
Michelle Zauner Crying in H Mart : a memoir 780.92 Z193
Dan Morain Kamala's way : an American life 328.73 H240m

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism
John B Thompson Book wars : the digital revolution in publishing 070.5 T468b

Business & Economics
Michael Heller The gridlock economy : how too much ownership wrecks markets, stops innovation, and costs lives 330.1 H47
Dambisa Moyo How boards work : and how they can work better in a chaotic world 658.422 M938
Stephanie Kelton The deficit myth : modern monetary theory and the birth of the people's economy 339.5 K299

Chess
Sam Shankland Small steps 2 success 794.12 S528
Jan Timman Timman's triumphs : my 100 best games 794.15 T58t
John Donaldson Bobby Fischer and his world 794.15 F52d
Stuart Rachels The best I saw in chess : games, stories and instruction from an Alabama prodigy who became U.S. champion 794.15 R119
Barry Hymer Chess improvement : it's all in the mindset 794.1 H99
Boris Gelfand Decision Making In Major Piece Endings 794.124 G316
Tibor Karolyi Petrosian year by year. Volume 1 : (1942-1962) 794.15 P49y
Cyrus Lakdawala Rewire Your Chess Brain 794.1 L192
Boris Gelfand Technical Decision Making In Chess 794.124 G316t
Chess informant = Šahovski informator = Shakhmatnyĭ informator. 794.12 S13

Health & Medicine
Michele Harper The beauty in breaking : a memoir 616.025 H29
Robert H Lustig Metabolical : the lure and the lies of processed food, nutrition, and modern medicine 616.044 L972
James Hamblin Clean : the new science of skin 613 H174
Edward M Hallowell ADHD 2.0 : new science and essential strategies for thriving with distraction-from childhood through adulthood 618.92 H193
Charles Kenny The plague cycle : the unending war between humanity and infectious disease 614.4 K399
Elaine A Moore Alzheimer's disease and infectious causes : the theory and evidence 616.831 M781
Michael Lewis The premonition : a pandemic story 614.5924 L675p

History
Robert Whiting Tokyo Junkie : 60 years of bright lights and back alleys . . . and baseball 952.135 W61
Gwen Strauss The nine : the true story of a band of women who survived the worst of Nazi Germany 940.53 S827
Ronald Brownstein Rock me on the water : 1974 : the year Los Angeles transformed movies, music, television, and politics 979.494 B825
Wendy Lower The ravine : a family, a photograph, a Holocaust massacre revealed 940.5318 L917r
Sandell Morse The spiral shell : a French village reveals its secrets of Jewish resistance in World War II : a memoir 940.5318 M835

Home & Family Management
Danielle Dreilinger The secret history of home economics : how trailblazing women harnessed the power of home and changed the way we live 640.92 D813

Literature & Writing
How to write a mystery : a handbook from Mystery Writers of America 808.3 C536
Joy Harjo She had some horses 811 H28s
Meredith Heller Write a poem, save your life : a guide for teens, teachers, and writers of all ages 808.1 H367
John Mullan The artful Dickens : the tricks and ploys of the great novelist 823 D5482mu
Saul Friedländer Proustian uncertainties : on reading and rereading In search of lost time 843.9 P96f

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
D J Spiegelhalter The art of statistics : how to learn from data 519.5 S75
Erika Engelhaupt Gory details : adventures from the dark side of science 500 E326
Oliver B Linton Fractals : on the edge of chaos 514.7 L658
Chiara Marletto The science of can and can't : a physicist's journey through the land of counterfactuals 501 M343

Performing Arts & Music
Mick LaSalle Dream state : California in the movies 791.43 L33d
Julianna Margulies Sunshine girl : an unexpected life 792.092 M337
Steven C Smith Music by Max Steiner : the epic life of Hollywood's most influential composer 781.54 S351sm

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Susan Schneider Artificial you : AI and the future of your mind 006.3 S35
Kate Summerscale The haunting of Alma Fielding : a true ghost story 133.1 S95
Jess Zimmerman Women and other monsters : building a new mythology 155.3338 Z655
Daniel Kahneman Noise : a flaw in human judgment 153.42 K129n
Benjamin Storey Why we are restless : on the modern quest for contentment 170.44 S742

Politics & Government
Georgina Lawton Raceless : in search of family, identity, and the truth about where I belong 305.896 L425
Simon Kuper Spies, lies and exile : the extraordinary story of Russian double agent George Blake 327.12 B581k

Social Sciences & Current Events
Anne Case Deaths of despair and the future of capitalism 306.3 C337
Chip Jacobs The darkest glare : a true story of murder, blackmail, and real estate greed in 1979 Los Angeles 364.152 J171
Abigail Tucker Mom genes : inside the new science of our ancient maternal instinct 306.874 T891
Isabel Allende The soul of a woman : on impatient love, long life, and good witches 305.42 A43
Jeff Adachi The case of San Francisco public defender Frank Ebgan: murder and scandal in the 1930s 364.152 A191
Eric Berkowitz Dangerous ideas : a brief history of censorship in the West, from the ancients to fake news 363.31 B513
Louis Menand The free world : art and thought in the Cold War 306.0973 M53
Rachel Ricketts Do better : spiritual activism for fighting and healing from White supremacy 305.8 R424
Bob Calhoun The murders that made us : how vigilantes, hoodlums, mob bosses, serial killers, and cult leaders built the San Francisco Bay Area 364.152 C128
Don Lemon This is the fire : what I say to my friends about racism 305.896 L544
Ellen McGarrahan Two truths and a lie : a murder, a private investigator, and her search for justice 364.152 M171
Elizabeth Kolbert Under a white sky : the nature of the future 304.2 K81
Justin Fenton We own this city : a true story of crime, cops, and corruption 364.1 F367
Carol Leonnig Zero fail : the rise and fall of the Secret Service 363.283 L554

Sports & Games
Allen Steck A mountaineer's life 796.52 S81
Julie DiCaro Sidelined : sports, culture, and being a woman in America 796.082 D547
Patrick DeanA window to heaven : the daring first ascent of Denali, America's wildest peak 796.52 D344

Posted on Jun. 15, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New Print Fiction for June

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FICTION
Roy Jacobsen The unseen
Katherine Heiny Early morning riser
Angeline Boulley Firekeeper's daughter
Sally Hepworth The good sister
Rónán Hession Leonard and Hungry Paul
John Sandford Ocean Prey
Fiona Mozley Hot stew
Leone Ross Popisho
JoAnne Tompkins What comes after
Jhumpa Lahiri Whereabouts
Elliot Ackerman 2034
Syed Masood The bad Muslim discount
Frances Cha If I had your face
Chris Power A lonely man
Francisco Goldman Monkey boy
Eric Nguyen Things we lost to the water
Jennifer Saint Ariadne
Cherie Jones How the one-armed sister sweeps her house
Susanna Clarke Piranesi
Elliott Neff A pawn's journey : transforming lives one move at a time

Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, Espionage & Intrigue
Anne Perry Death with a double edge
Jack Carr The devil's hand
Will Dean The last thing to burn
Jonathan Ames A man named Doll
Carole Johnstone Mirrorland
Joshilyn Jackson Mother may I
S A Lelchuk One got away
Ragnar Jónasson The girl who died

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Andy Weir Project Hail Mary

Short Stories
Best Russian short stories SS R96
Carribean Fragoza Eat the mouth that feeds you
Elizabeth McCracken The souvenir museum

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Alison Bechdel The secret to superhuman strength 613.7 B391 comics
Menopause : a comic treatment 618.1 M527 comics

Posted on Jun. 15, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang

New eBooks for May

Posted on May. 10, 2021 by Cherilyn Chang