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New Titles List for the Week of February 1

BOOKS

FICTION
Szilárd Borbély The dispossessed
Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo
Graham Greene The third man
Han Kang Human acts
Thomas Hardy Jude the obscure
Antoine Laurain French rhapsody
David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary
N. Scott Momaday House made of dawn
Richard Stark Slayground
Amos Oz Judas
Angela Thirkell Before Lunch
Angela Thirkell Christmas at high rising
Angela Thirkell High rising

Historical Fiction
Georgina Harding The gun room

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Margery Allingham Dancers in mourning
Margery Allingham Death of a ghost
Andrew Grant False friend
Jane Harper The dry
Carl Hiaasen Tourist season
Sue Ann Jaffarian Rhythm & clues
Robert Littell The Mayakovsky tapes
D. A. Mishani The man who wanted to know everything
Jonathan Moore The dark room
James Patterson Never never
Peter Swanson Her every fear
Joakim Zander The believer

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Katherine Arden The bear & the nightingale
Arthur C. Clarke 2001: a space odyssey
Michael Ende The neverending story
T. H. White The once & future king

Short Stories
Lauren Buekes Slipping
Blume Lempel Oedipus in Brooklyn & other stories

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Albert Howard An agricultural testament 631.584 H848a
Albert Howard The soil & health: a study of organic agriculture 631.584 H848

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Tiqui Atencio Could have, would have, should have: inside the world of the art collector 707.5 A864
Quentin Bajac (editor) Photography at MoMA 779 M732
Robert Traynham Coles Architecture + advocacy 720.92 C693

Business & Economics
Jonathan Dahl 1,001 things they won't tell you: an insider's guide to spending, saving & living wisely 332.024 D131
Wesley R. Gray Quantitative value: a practitioner's guide to automating intelligent investment & eliminating behavioral errors + website 332.6 G778
Matt Haig Brand royalty: how the world's top 100 brands thrive & survive 658.827 H149
John Mihaljevic The manual of ideas: the proven framework for finding the best value investments 332.6 M636

Chess
Sarah Hurst Curse of Kirsan: adventures in the chess underworld 794.1092 H966

Food & Drink
Best food writing 641 B56
Lukas Volger Bowl: vegetarian recipes for ramen, pho, bibimbap, dumplings & other one-dish meals 641.5636 V915

Health & Medicine
Adam Tanner Our bodies, our data: how companies make billions selling our medical records 610.285 T166

History
Hugh Bicheno Battle royal: the Wars of the Roses, 1440-1462 942.04 B583
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz All the real Indians died off: & 20 other myths about Native Americans 970.004 D899a
Dan Kurzman Soldier of peace: the life of Yitzhak Rabin, 1922-1995 956.94 K969
Ward Winslow (editor) The Making of Silicon Valley: a one hundred year renaissance 979.473 S231
George F. Bass (editor) Beneath the seven seas: adventures with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology 930.1 B317
Andre Bonnard Greek civilization 938 B716
Averil Cameron The later Roman Empire, AD 284-430 937.06 C182
J. Anne Funderburg Rumrunners: liquor smugglers on America's coasts, 1920-1933 364.133 F981
Edward Gibbon The history of the decline & fall of the Roman Empire 937 G43de
John Marincola The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika: a new translation 938 X5
Raoul McLaughlin The Roman Empire & the silk routes: the ancient world economy & the empires of Parthia, Central Asia & Han China 950 M161
Oswyn Murray Early Greece 938 M981
Carol G. Thomas Citadel to city-state: the transformation of Greece, 1200-700 B.C.E. 938 T454

Home & Family Management
Marni Jameson Downsizing the family home: what to save, what to let go 648.5 J31

Languages & Linguistics
John McWhorter Talking back, talking black: truths about America's Lingua Franca 427.973 M177

Literature & Writing
Henning Mankell Quicksand: what it means to be a human being 839.73 M278
Susan Faludi In the darkroom 818.603 F197

Performing Arts & Music
Arman Schwartz (editor) Giacomo Puccini & his world 780.92 P97s

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Julian Baggini The edge of reason: a rational skeptic in an irrational world 128.3 B144
Dalai Lama The book of joy: lasting happiness in a changing world 294.3 D136
Kevin Griffin One breath at a time: Buddhism & the twelve steps 294.3 G851
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg Moses: a human life 220.92 M911

Politics & Government
Stephen G. Brooks America abroad: the United States' global role in the 21st century 327.73 B794
John Gillingham The EU: an obituary 337.142 G463
Karen M. Paget Patriotic betrayal: the inside story of the CIA's secret campaign to enroll American students in the crusade against communism 327.12 P135
Richard North Patterson Fever swamp: a journey through the strange neverland of the 2016 presidential race 324.973 P317
Ronald G. Shafer The carnival campaign: how the rollicking 1840 campaign of "Tippecanoe & Tyler too" changed presidential elections forever 324.973 S525
Guy Verhofstadt Europe's last chance: why the European states must form a more perfect union 337.142 V473

Social Sciences & Current Events
William W. Keller Democracy betrayed: the rise of the surveillance security state 363.232 K291
Farhad Khosrokhavar Radicalization: why some people choose the path of violence 363.325 K458
Patrick Kingsley The new odyssey: the story of the twenty-first-century refugee crisis 362.87 K511
James Kwak Economism: bad economics & the rise of inequality 330 K981
Jane F. McAlevey No shortcuts: organizing for power in the new gilded age 303.4 M478
E. M. Rose The murder of William of Norwich: the origins of the blood libel in medieval Europe 305.892 R795
Lisa Wade American hookup: the new culture of sex on campus 306.7 W119

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
James Patterson Never never

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS

Nonfiction
Barry Rothstein Eye-popping 3-D pets: phantogram animals you can practically pet! Child 636 R847

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EBOOKS
Madeleine Korbel Albright Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box
Dale Carnegie How to win friends & influence people
David Cesarani The Fate of the Jews 1933-1948
Tim Pat Coogan 1916: One Hundred Years of Irish Independence: From the Easter Rising to the Present
Blanche Wiesen Cook Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years & After, 1939-1963
Edward Jay Epstein How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man & the Theft
Jonathan Fenby France: A Modern History from the Revolution to the War With Terror
Frommer's 2017 Easyguide Paris
Frommer's 2017 Easyguide to Ireland
Frommer's 2017 Easyguide to Las Vegas
Frommer's 2017 Easyguide to New York City
Frommer's 2017 Easyguide to Rome, Florence & Venice
Frommer's Easyguide to Australia 2016
Frommer's Easyguide to Beijing, Xian & Shanghai
Frommer's Easyguide to Cuba
Frommer's Easyguide to London 2016
Frommer's Easyguide to London 2017
Frommer's Easyguide to New Orleans 2017
Frommer's Easyguide to Santa Fe, Taos & Albuquerque
Atul Gawande Being mortal: medicine & what matters in the end
Steven Hahn A nation without borders: the United States & its world in an age of civil wars, 1830-1910
Marc Levinson An Extraordinary Time
Giles Milton When Churchill slaughtered sheep & Stalin robbed a bank: history's unknown chapters
David Sax The revenge of analog: real things & why they matter
Simon Sebag Montefiore The Romanovs: 1613-1918
Robert Sellers Peter O'Toole: The Definitive Biography
Neil Simon Neil Simon's Memoirs
James Stourton Kenneth Clark: Life, Art & Civilisation

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DVDs

Classics
An affair to remember|Laura|A letter to three wives|The three faces of Eve DVD Set
Massacre River

Drama
Brighton rock
Carol
Dopamine
New York stories
Pariah
Slaughterhouse-five
The lady in the van
The man who knew infinity

Foreign Language
A simple life DVD Chinese
Hombre mirando al sudeste = Man facing Southeast DVD Spanish
Indochine DVD French
La rafle DVD French
Pokłosie DVD European
Tomboy DVD French
Wadjda DVD Middle East

Musicals
The band wagon
Topsy-turvy

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
D.O.A.
Blood simple

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
The last unicorn
Twixt

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CDs
Classical
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano concertos K.414, 413, 415 CD Classical Mozart
Jorge Federico Osorio Salón mexicano CD Classical Osorio

Popular
Beyoncé Lemonade CD Pop Beyoncé
Bruno Mars XXIVK magic CD Pop Mars
the Rolling Stones Blue & lonesome CD Pop Rolling Stones
A Tribe Called Quest We got it from here... thank you 4 your service CD Pop Tribe Called Quest

Posted on Jan. 26, 2017 by Cherilyn Chang