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New Titles List for the Week of January 20

BOOKS
FICTION
Donna Everhart The moonshiner's daughter
Garth Greenwell Cleanness

Historical Fiction
Aharon Appelfeld To the edge of sorrow

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Rennie Airth The decent inn of death
J.T. Ellison Good girls lie
Alex Marwood The poison garden
Tim Dorsey Naked came the Florida man
Cora Harrison Winter of despair
Lars Kepler The rabbit hunter
Nick Petrie The wild one
Paige Shelton Thin ice
Stuart Woods. Treason

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Joanna Kavenna Zed

Short Stories
Joyce Carol Oates (editor) Cutting edge: new stories of mystery & crime by women writers SS C982

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Jonathan Waldman SAM: one robot, a dozen engineers & the race to revolutionize the way we build 629.89 W146

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Walter Bernard Mag men: fifty years of making magazines 741.652 B456
Darby English Among others: Blackness at MoMA 704.0396 E361

Business & Economics
Adam Davidson The passion economy: the new rules for thriving in the twenty-first century 330.9 D281
Chris Hogan Everyday millionaires: how ordinary people built extraordinary wealth--and how you can too 332.024 H678
Marilyn Waring Counting for nothing: what men value & what women are worth 339.3 W233

Food & Drink
Lagusta Yearwood Sweet + salty: the art of vegan chocolates, truffles, caramels & more from Lagusta's Luscious 641.5636 Y33

Health & Medicine
Chip Walter Immortality, Inc.: renegade science, Silicon Valley billions & the quest to live forever 612.68 W231

History
Peter Jan Honigsberg A place outside the law: forgotten voices from Guantanamo 355.1296 H757
Joshua Yaffa Between two fires: truth, ambition & compromise in Putin's Russia 947.086 Y106
Luca Fezzi Crossing the Rubicon: Caesar's decision & the fate of Rome 937 F439
Stephen P. Kershaw The enemies of Rome: the barbarian rebellion against the Roman empire 937.06 K474
Paul Kitagaki Behind barbed wire: searching for Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II 940.5317 K646
Heather Dune Macadam 999: the extraordinary young women of the first official transport to Auschwitz 940.5318 M115

Languages & Linguistics
David Shariatmadari Don't believe a word: the surprising truth about language 401 S232

Literature & Writing
Javier Cercas Lord of all the dead: a nonfiction novel 863 C412
Sharin N. Elkholy (editor) The philosophy of the beats 810.9 P549
Chuck Palahniuk Consider this: moments in my writing life after which everything was different 818.54 P15

Performing Arts & Music
Mark Bego Rocket man: the life of Elton John 780.92 J653b
Bill Brewster Last night a DJ saved my life: the history of the disc jockey 791.44 B758
Oliver Wang Legions of boom: Filipino American mobile DJ crews in the San Francisco Bay Area 781.64 W184
Elton John Me 780.92 J653m

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Donna Van Natten The body language of politics: decide who is lying, who is sincere & how you'll vote 153.69 V335

Social Sciences & Current Events
John Barr Start by believing: Larry Nassar's crimes, the institutions that enabled him & the brave women who stopped a monster 364.153 B270
Jack Goldsmith In Hoffa's shadow: a stepfather, a disappearance in Detroit & my search for the truth 364.106 G62
Nicholas D. Kristof Tightrope: Americans reaching for hope 305.562 K92
Jane McAlevey A collective bargain: unions, organizing & the fight for democracy 331.89 M114c
Peggy Orenstein Boys & sex: young men on hookups, love, porn, consent & navigating the new masculinity 306.7 O669b
Henry Reichman The future of academic freedom 378.12 R272
Leonard Rogoff Gertrude Weil: Jewish progressive in the New South 303.484 W429
William Rosenau Tonight we bombed the U.S. Capitol: the explosive story of M19, America's first female terrorist group 363.325 R723
Adam Sisman The professor & the parson: a story of desire, deceit & defrocking 364.163 S83

Travel & Geography
Erika Fatland Sovietistan: travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan & Uzbekistan 915.8 F269
Carlo Stanga I am New York 917.471 S248
Rory MacLean Pravda ha ha: true travels to the end of Europe 914.04 M163

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Nonfiction
Laura Renauld Fred's big feelings: the life & legacy of Mister Rogers Child 792.092 R291

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Blake Crouch Recursion CD Fic Crouch

Posted on Jan. 23, 2020 by Cherilyn Chang