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New Titles List for the Week of May 1

BOOKS

FICTION
Elaine Castillo America is not the heart
Carys Davies West
Nicola Lagioia Ferocity
Patrick Modiano Sundays in August
Audrey Schulman Theory of bastards
Lionel Shriver Property
Yoko Tawada The emissary
September Williams Chasing mercury

Historical Fiction
Stephanie Dray My dear Hamilton
Margaret George The confessions of young Nero

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Donis Casey The return of the Raven Mocker
Mary Higgins Clark I've got my eyes on you
Ann Cleeves The glass room
Alfred Döblin Berlin Alexanderplatz
Mette Ivie Harrison For time & all eternities
G.M. Malliet Weycombe: a novel of suspense
Melina Marchetta Tell the truth, shame the devil
B.A. Paris Behind closed doors
Sherri Smith Follow me down

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Tomi Adeyemi Children of blood & bone
Danile José Older Star wars. Last shot
Ben Aaronovitch Rivers of London

Short Stories
Curtis Sittenfeld You think it, I'll say it

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Gavin Ambrose Layout for graphic designers 686.2 A496
Rob Dobi How to survive anything: a visual guide to laughing in the face of adversity 613.69 L847
Leonardo da Vinci, engineer & architect 620 L581

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Danielle Miller Tropical minimal 729 M647
Piero Ribelli 50 Main Street: the face of America 779.092 R484

Biography & Genealogy
Patricia O'Toole The moralist: Woodrow Wilson & the world he made 92 W754o
Nadja Spiegelman I'm supposed to protect you from all this 92 S756
Chris Skidmore Richard III: England's most controversial king 92 R5113sk

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Damon Young The art of reading 028.9 Y681

Business & Economics
Lawrence G. McMillan Options as a strategic investment 332.63 M167
Dambisa Moyo Edge of chaos: why democracy is failing to deliver economic growth--and how to fix it 338.9 M938
Matt Tenney Serve to be great: leadership lessons from a prison, a monastery & a boardroom 658.4 T298
Gabriel Weinberg Traction: how any startup can achieve explosive customer growth 658.11 W423

Chess
Isaak Linder Alexander Alekhine: fourth world chess champion 794.1092 A366
Dorian Rogozenco Bobby Fischer 794.159 F52b
Dorian Rogozenco Mihail Tal 794.15 T13

Food & Drink
Nuno Mendes My Lisbon: a cookbook from Portugal's city of light 641.5946 M538
Dan Toombs The curry guy: recreate 100 of the best Indian restaurant recipes at home 641.5954 T672

Health & Medicine
Katharina Brinkmann Sciatica & piriformis syndrome: simple & effective exercises for buttock, leg & back pain 617.56 B858
Jonathan Kozol The theft of memory: losing my father, one day at a time 616.831 K889
Daphne Merkin This close to happy: a reckoning with depression 616.8527 M563

History
Alan Abrams Special treatment: the untold story of Hitler's third race 943 A161
Elizabeth Catte What you are getting wrong about Appalachia 975 C368
Amy Chozick Chasing Hillary: ten years, two presidential campaigns & one intact glass ceiling 973.932 C552
Alex Kershaw The envoy: the epic rescue of the last Jews of Europe in the desperate closing months of World War II 940.53 K416
Paul Kix The saboteur: the aristocrat who became France's most daring anti-Nazi commando 940.53 K628
Erik Mathisen The loyal republic: traitors, slaves & the remaking of citizenship in Civil War America 973.71 M431
John S. Whitehead Completing the union: Alaska, Hawai'i & the battle for statehood 979.8 W592
E. Thomas Wood Karski: how one man tried to stop the Holocaust 940.53 W873
John Blair Building Anglo-Saxon England 942.01 B635
Michael Jones The Black Prince: England's greatest medieval warrior 92 E254

Law
Michael Boyer Every landlord's guide to managing property: best practices, from move-in to move-out 333.5 B791

Literature & Writing
Steven James Troubleshooting your novel: essential techniques for identifying & solving manuscript problems 808.02 J272
R.B. Kitaj Confessions of an old Jewish painter: autobiography 830 K621
Marina Tsvetaeva Earthly signs: Moscow diaries, 1917-1922 891.74 T882
Magdalena J. Zaborowska Me & my house: James Baldwin's last decade in France 818.54 Z12
Virgil The Aeneid 871 V81fe

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Stephen Brusatte The rise & fall of the dinosaurs: a new history of a lost world 567.9 B912
Mark C. Serreze Brave new Arctic: the untold story of the melting North 577.27 S488

Performing Arts & Music
Annette Insdorf Cinematic overtures: how to read opening scenes 791.43 I591
Ryan H. Walsh Astral weeks: a secret history of 1968 782.421 W223

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Hans Rosling Factfulness: ten reasons we're wrong about the world - & why things are better than you think 155.9 R821
Jorg Rupke Pantheon: a new history of Roman religion 292.07 R945

Social Sciences & Current Events
Ian Bremmer Us vs. them: the failure of globalism 303.482 B836
James Comey A higher loyalty: truth, lies & leadership 363.25 C732
Michael Eric Dyson Tears we cannot stop: a sermon to white America 305.8 D998
Bruce W. Jentleson The peacemakers: leadership lessons from twentieth-century statesmanship 327.17 J549
Jennifer Palmieri Dear Madam President: an open letter to the women who will run the world 305.42 P179
Corey Pein Live work work work die: a journey into the savage heart of Silicon Valley 338.47 P377
Helmut Walser Smith The butcher's tale: murder & anti-semitism in a German town 305.892 S642
Heather Ann Thompson Blood in the water: the Attica prison uprising of 1971 & its legacy 365 T468

Travel & Geography
Alastair Bonnett Beyond the map: unruly enclaves, ghostly places, emerging lands & our search for new utopias 910 B717b
Lynn A. Jacobson Kwajalein, an Island like no other 919.68 J176
Michelin Canada 917.1 M623
Steve Marshall Exploring Avebury 914.23 M367

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
Anne Perry Twenty-one days Large Print Perry

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DVDs

Nonfiction
Foodmatters DVD 613.2 F686

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CDs

Opera
Maria Callas Maria Callas in Mexico CD Opera Callas
Maria Callas Maria Callas, live in Hamburg, 1959 CD Opera Callas
Gioacchino Rossini Le Comte Ory CD Opera Rossini
Gioacchino Rossini Matilde di Shabran CD Opera Rossini

Posted on May. 3, 2018 by Cherilyn Chang