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New Titles List for the week of September 26

BOOKS

FICTION
Graham Moore The last days of night
Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad
Thornton Wilder The bridge of San Luis Rey & other novels, 1926-1948

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Caleb Carr Surrender, New York
Loren D. Estleman The perils of Sherlock Holmes
Philip Kerr The other side of silence
Gladys Mitchell Laurels are poison
Cynthia Robinson The Dog Park Club

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NONFICTION

Biography & Genealogy
Wendy Moore Wedlock: the true story of the disastrous marriage & remarkable divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore 92 S899
Richard Cohen She made me laugh: my friend Nora Ephron 92 E63

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Margaretta Barton Colt Martial bliss: the story of The Military Bookman 381.45 C724

Romain Edouard The chess manual of avoidable mistakes: volume 2: test yourself! 794.12 E243
Tibor Károlyi Nona Gaprindashvili 794.15 G211

Food & Drink
Katie Parla Tasting Rome: fresh flavors & forgotten recipes from an ancient city 641.5937 P252

Health & Medicine
Claudia Kalb Andy Warhol was a hoarder: inside the minds of history's great personalities 616.89 K142

History
Antiquity recovered: the legacy of Pompeii & Herculaneum 937.7 A633
Larry Ashmead Bertha Venation: & hundreds of other funny names of real people 929.4 A827
Thomas N. Bisson The crisis of the twelfth century: power, lordship & the origins of European government 940.18 B623
Olaf T. Engvig Shipping & culture: the Norwegian Fish Club of San Francisco, 1914-1996 979.461 E588
Walter Lüdde-Neurath Unconditional surrender: a memoir of the last days of the Third Reich & the Dönitz administration 940.542 L432
Peter Pagnamenta Prairie fever: British aristocrats in the American West, 1830-1890 978.02 P139
Simon Winchester The fracture zone: a return to the Balkans 949.6 W759
Alan Taylor American revolutions: a continental history, 1750-1804 973.3 T238

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Ben Goldacre I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that 500 G618i

Performing Arts & Music
Melanie Dawson Laboring to play: home entertainment & the spectacle of middle-class cultural life, 1850-1920 790.1 D272
Antoine de Baecque Éric Rohmer: a biography 791.4 R738

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Mary Aiken The cyber effect: a pioneering cyber-psychologist explains how human behavior changes online 155.9 A291
Daniel J. Levitin A field guide to lies: critical thinking in the information age 153.42 L666f

Politics & Government
Susan Pedersen The guardians: the League of Nations & the crisis of empire 341.22 P371

Social Sciences & Current Events
Nicholson Baker Substitute: going to school with a thousand kids 371.1 B168
Stephanie Sammartino McPherson Doping in sports: winning at any cost? 362.29 M172

Sports & Games
Keith Dunnavant Montana: the biography of football's Joe Cool 796.33 M76d

Travel & Geography
Tom Greig The 500 Hidden Secrets of London 914.21 G824
Lonely Planet Grand Canyon National Park 917.91 L847g
Moon Memphis 917.6819 M818
Moon Northern California hiking 917.94 M818nh

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AUDIOBOOKS

Nonfiction
Stephen E. Ambrose Undaunted courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson & the opening of the American West CD 917.8 A49
Ethan Michaeli The defender: how the legendary Black newspaper changed America: from the age of the Pullman porters to the age of Obama CD 071.73 M621

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EBOOKS
James Lee Burke The jealous kind
Orson Scott Card The swarm
Catherine Coulter Insidious
Janet Evanovich Curious minds
Nathan Hill The nix
China Mieville The last days of new Paris
Louise Penny A great reckoning
Susan Elizabeth Phillips First star I see tonight
Mark Pryor The Paris librarian
Scott Stambach The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko
Charles Todd The shattered tree
Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad

Posted on Sep. 22, 2016 by Cherilyn Chang