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New Titles: February 4 - February 10, 2012

BOOKS

FICTION
Niccolò Ammaniti Me & you
Shalom Auslander Hope: a tragedy
John Barth Every third thought: a novel in five seasons
Naomi Benaron Running the rift
Erin Duffy Bond girl
John Green The fault in our stars
Joshilyn Jackson A grown up kind of pretty
Daniel Kehlmann Fame: a novel in nine episodes
Krys Lee Drifting house
Alan Lightman Mr g: a novel about the Creation
Margot Livesey The flight of Gemma Hardy
Bret Lott Dead low tide
Jacqueline E. Luckett Passing love
Jane McCafferty First you try everything
Stewart O'Nan The odds: a love story
Keija Parssinen The ruins of us
Alan Shapiro Broadway baby
Edward St. Aubyn The Patrick Melrose novels: Never mind, Bad news, Some hope & Mother's milk
Edmund White Jack Holmes & his friend
Hilma Wolitzer An available man

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Thomas Caplan The spy who jumped off the screen
Stephen Gallagher The bedlam detective
Lisa Gardner Catch me
Alan Glynn Bloodland
Robert Harris The fear index
Mo Hayder Hanging Hill
Ryan David Jahn The dispatcher
J.A. Jance Left for dead
Erin Kelly The dark rose
William Landay Defending Jacob
Ward Larsen Fly by night
Elmore Leonard Raylan
Chris Morgan Jones The silent oligarch
Walter Mosley All I did was shoot my man
Claudio Piñeiro All yours

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Marie Iannotti The beginner's guide to growing heirloom vegetables: the 100 easiest, most flavorful vegetables for your garden 635 I118

Arts & Architecture
Maggi Gordon, Sally Harding, Ellie Vance The needlecraft book 746.4 G664
Toby Lester Da Vinci's ghost: genius, obsession & how Leonardo created the world in his own image 741.092 L58
Luke Syson Leonardo da Vinci: painter at the court of Milan 750.92 L58s

Business & Economics
Philip Coggan Paper promises: debt, money & the new world order 330.9 C676
This changes everything: Occupy Wall Street & the 99% movement 339.2 T448

Health & Medicine
Frederick Woolverton & Susan Shapiro Unhooked: how to quit anything 616.86 W916

History
Gregg Jones Honor in the dust: Theodore Roosevelt, war in the Philippines & the rise & fall of America's imperial dream 959.9 J772
M. Jasper Rubin A negotiated landscape: the transformation of San Francisco's waterfront since 1950 979.461 R896
David Spaven & Julian Holland The Times mapping the railways 385.094 S739
Grant Ute San Francisco's Municipal Railway: MUNI 388.46 U89

Languages & Linguistics
Mark Forsyth The etymologicon: a circular stroll through the hidden connections of the English language 422 F735

Law
William Patry How to fix copyright 346.048 P314

Literature & Writing
Christopher Bram Eminent outlaws: the gay writers who changed America 810.9 B815
Gary Warren Niebuhr Make mine a mystery II: a reader's guide to mystery & detective fiction REF 813.9 N66
Susan Snyder Beyond words: 200 years of illustrated diaries 809 S675

Music & Performing Arts
Hal Holbrook Harold: the boy who became Mark Twain 792.092 H724

Philosophy, Psychology& Religion
Susan Cain Quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking 155.2 C135
Marion Goldman The American soul rush: Esalen & the rise of spiritual privilege 204 G619
Rachel Herz That's disgusting: unraveling the mysteries of repulsion 152.4 H58

Politics & Government
Thomas Byrne Edsall The age of austerity: how scarcity will remake American politics 320.973 E243
Linda Killian The swing vote: the untapped power of independents 324.973 K485
Mark R. Levin Ameritopia: the unmaking of America 320.973 L66
Tom Zoellner A Safeway in Arizona: what the Gabrielle Giffords shooting tells us about the Grand Canyon State & life in America 328.73 Z85

Pure Sciences
Adrian Bejan & J. Peder Zane Design in nature: how the constructal law governs evolution in biology, physics, technology & social organization 500 B423
Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw The quantum universe: & why anything that can happen, does 530.12 C87
Richard Dawkins The magic of reality: how we know what's really true 501 D27m

Social Sciences & Current Events
All there is: love stories from Storycorps 302.3 A416
Rebecca MacKinnon Consent of the networked: the world-wide struggle for Internet freedom 302.23 M158
Charles Murray Coming apart: the state of white America, 1960-2010 305.8 M98

Travel & Geography
Frommer's Australia 919.4 F93
Frommer's Cape Cod, Nantucket & Martha's Vineyard 917.449 F93

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LARGE PRINT
Fiction
P.D. James Death comes to Pemberley

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Nonfiction
Barb Rosenstock ; illustrated by Mordicai Gerstein The camping trip that changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir & our National Parks 979.447 R815

DVDs
Rango

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
Contagion

Classics
Key Largo

Comedy
50/50
Hannah & her sisters
Midnight in Paris

Drama
Invictus
Moneyball
The inn of the sixth happiness

Foreign Language
Shoot the piano player (Tirez sur le pianiste)

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Rise of the planet of the apes

Posted on Feb. 10, 2012 by Matt Montgomery