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New Titles: October 27 - November 1, 2012

BOOKS

FICTION
Mitch Albom The time keeper
Francesca Lia Block The elementals
Ian Frazier The cursing mommy's book of days
A.M. Homes May we be forgiven
Henning Mankell The shadow girls
Orhan Pamuk Silent house
Will Wiles Care of wooden floors

Historical Fiction
Mary Sharratt Illuminations: a novel of Hildegard von Bingen

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Tasha Alexander Death in the floating city
Justin Cronin The twelve
Ruth Dudley Edwards Killing the emperors: a Jack Troutbeck/Robert Amiss mystery
Peter Høeg The elephant keepers' children
Iris Johansen Sleep no more
Susan Elia MacNeal Princess Elizabeth's spy: a Maggie Hope mystery
G.M. Malliet A fatal winter: a Max Tudor novel
David Mark The dark winter
James Patterson & Maxine Paetro 11th hour
Rosemary Stevens The bloodied cravat
Shirley Tallman Death on Telegraph Hill: a Sarah Woolson mystery

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Kevin J. Anderson Dogged persistence
Neal Barrett, Jr Perpetuity blues & other stories
Michael Bishop Blue Kansas sky: four short novels of memory, magic, surmise & estrangement
Peter F. Hamilton Fallen dragon
James Patrick Kelly Think like a dinosaur & other stories

Short Stories
McSweeney's 41 M175 no.41
Joyce Carol Oates Black Dahlia & white rose

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Nick Hayes The rime of the modern mariner 741.5 H417
Sean Howe Marvel Comics: the untold story 741.53 M391
Joe Matt Fair weather 741.5 M435
Mark Siegel Sailor Twain, or, the mermaid in the Hudson 741.5 S5716
Adrian Tomine Summer blonde: four stories 741.5 T221s
Noah Van Sciver The hypo: the melancholic young Lincoln 741.5 V278

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Kate Perry & Yvonne Conza Training for both ends of the leash: a guide to cooperation training for you & your dog 636.7 P463

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Pam Allen, Tracy Barr, Shannon Okey Knitting for dummies 746.43 A42k
Alex Danchev Cézanne: a life 750.92 C42
Kevin Hatch Looking for Bruce Conner 709.2 C752
Mira Locher Zen gardens: the complete works of Shunmyo Masuno, Japan's leading garden designer 712.6 M424
Camille Paglia Glittering images: a journey through art from Egypt to Star Wars 709 P13

Biography & Genealogy
Robyn Arianrhod Seduced by logic: Émilie du Châtelet, Mary Somerville & the Newtonian revolution 920 D827a
Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan The glitter & the gold: the American duchess--in her own words 92 B19 2012
H.W. Brands The man who saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in war & peace 92 G763bm
John Cooper The Queen's agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I 92 W229c
Samuel C. Florman Good guys, wiseguys & putting up buildings: a life in construction 620.92 F639
Rob Goodman & Jimmy Soni Rome's last citizen: the life & legacy of Cato, mortal enemy of Caesar 92 C366
Stuart A. Kallen Che Guevara: you win or you die 92 G939k
Kati Marton Paris: a love story: a memoir 070.92 M38
Napoleon's letters to Josephine: correspondence of war, politics, family & love 1796-1814 92 N216
Alexander V. Pantsov with Steven I. Levine Mao: the real story 92 M297
Salman Rushdie Joseph Anton: a memoir 92 R9527
Arnold Schwarzenegger Total recall: my unbelievably true life story 92 S412s

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
The art of making magazines: on being an editor & other views from the industry 070.4 A784
Dorothea Brande Becoming a writer 808.3 B817
Stephen B. Shepard Deadlines & disruption: my turbulent path from print to digital 070.5 S5475

Business & Economics
John A. Allison The financial crisis & the free market cure: why pure capitalism is the world economy's only hope 330.12 A438
Christopher Bonanos Instant: the story of Polaroid 338.768 B697
Tim Calkins Defending your brand: how smart companies use defensive strategy to deal with competitive attacks 658.4 C155
Gary Grabel Wealth opportunities in commercial real estate: management, financing & marketing of investment properties 332.6324 G727
William Hogeland Founding finance: how debt, speculation, foreclosures, protests & crackdowns made us a nation 336.73 H715
Frans Johansson The click moment: seizing opportunity in an unpredictable world 650.1 J652
Lloyd R. Manning Winning with commercial real estate: the ins & outs of making money in investment properties 332.6324 M283
Robert B. Reich Beyond outrage: what has gone wrong with our economy & our democracy & how to fix it 330.973 R347b
Stuart Leland Rider The entrepreneur's guide. Investing in commercial real estate 332.6324 R544
Anat Shenker-Osorio Don't buy it: the trouble with talking nonsense about the economy 330.973 S546
William L. Silber Volcker: the triumph of persistence 330.92 V91

Chess
Tim Crothers The queen of Katwe: a story of life, chess & one extraordinary girl's dream of becoming a grandmaster 794.1 M992

Computer Science
Guy Kawasaki What the plus!: Google+ for the rest of us 006.7 K22

Health & Medicine
Anne Katz Prostate cancer & the man you love: supporting & caring for your partner 616.994 K197p

History
Peter Ackroyd Foundation: the history of England from its earliest beginnings to the Tudors 942 A182f
Antony Beevor The Second World War 940.54 B415
Charles R. Morris The dawn of innovation: the first American industrial revolution 338.0973 M87
Rick Newman & Don Shepperd Bury us upside down: the Misty pilots & the secret battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail 959.7 N554
Douglas Smith Former people: the final days of the Russian aristocracy 947.084 S645
Christopher Tyerman God's war: a new history of the Crusades 909.07 T97

Languages & Linguistics
Pimsleur Conversational Latin American Spanish 468 P644
David Skinner The story of ain't: America, its language & the most controversial dictionary ever published 423 S628

Literature & Writing
Grit lit: a rough South reader 813 G871
Constance Hale Vex, hex, smash, smooch: let verbs power your writing 808 H161v
Tennessee Williams Suddenly last summer 812 W727s

Music & Performing Arts
The Richard Burton diaries 792.092 B974w
Paul de Barros Shall we play that one together?: the life & art of jazz piano legend Marian McPartland 780.92 M172
Yael Kohen We killed: the rise of women in American comedy 792.7 K791
The John Lennon letters 780.92 L56d
William J. Mann Hello, gorgeous: becoming Barbra Streisand 792.092 S91m
Donald Spoto The Redgraves: a family epic 792.092 R3161
David Thomson The big screen : the story of the movies 791.43 T482b
Brad Tolinski Light & shade: conversations with Jimmy Page 780.92 P132t

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Stephen J. Bodio An eternity of eagles: the human history of the most fascinating bird in the world 598.9 B667
Craig Childs Apocalyptic planet: field guide to the everending Earth 550 C53
Roger Musson The million death quake: the science of predicting Earth's deadliest natural disaster 551.22 M989

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Kevin Dutton The wisdom of psychopaths: what saints, spies & serial killers can teach us about success 155.232 D981
Sianne Ngai Our aesthetic categories: zany, cute, interesting 111.85 N576
Massimo Pigliucci Answers for Aristotle: how science & philosophy can lead us to a more meaningful life 100 P632
Peter Sloterdijk The art of philosophy: wisdom as a practice 100 S634
Chade-Meng Tan Search inside yourself: the unexpected path to achieving success, happiness (and world peace) 158.1 T161

Politics & Government
Ann Coulter Mugged: racial demagoguery from the seventies to Obama 305.8 C85
Frederick E. Hoxie This Indian country: American Indian political activists & the place they made 323.1197 H867
James Mann The Obamians: the struggle inside the White House to redefine American power 973.932 M281
Mark Owen No easy day: the firsthand account of the mission that killed Osama bin Laden: the autobiography of a Navy SEAL 958.1 O974
Alan Ryan On politics: a history of political thought from Herodotus to the present 320.01 R988
Patrick Tyler Fortress Israel: the inside story of the military elite who run the country--and why they can't make peace 956.94 T983

Social Sciences & Current Events
Audra Ang To the people, food is heaven: stories of food & life in a changing China 394.12 A581
Donald R. Cressey Theft of the nation: the structure & operations of organized crime in America 364.1 C922

Sports & Games
Adam Lazarus Best of rivals: Joe Montana, Steve Young & the inside story behind the NFL's greatest quarterback controversy 796.33 L431

Travel & Geography
Eyewitness Travel Mallorca, Menorca & Ibiza 914.675 E97
Footprint Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos 915.9 F689
Frommer's Bermuda 917.299 F93
Frommer's national parks of the American West 917.8 F93
Frommer's Peru day by day 918.5 F93d
Edward Hasbrouck The practical nomad: how to travel around the world 910.2 H344
Lonely Planet Belize 917.282 L847
Lonely Planet Taiwan 915.124 L847
Lonely Planet Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos & Northern Thailand 915.9 L847v
Pierre Rival Paris bon appetit: shops, bistros, restaurants 647.9544 R616
Suzanne Roberts Almost somewhere: twenty-eight days on the John Muir Trail 917.94 R647
The rough guide to Britain 914.1 R856
The rough guide to Scottish Highlands & Islands 914.11 R856
Katherine Widing Bicycle touring Holland: with excursions into Belgium & Germany 796.64 W639

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Sigmund Brouwer Devil's pass
Esther Friesner Spirit's princess
Norah McClintock Close to the heel
Shane Peacock Last message
Richard Scrimger Ink me
Ted Staunton Jump cut
Eric Walters Between heaven & earth
John Wilson Lost cause

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AUDIOBOOKS
Nonfiction
Bully: an action plan for teachers, parents & communities to combat the bullying crisis 371.58 B939c

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EBOOKS
Robert Levine Free ride: how digital parasites are destroying the culture business & how the culture business can fight back
Jan Reid Let the people in: the life & times of Ann Richards
Johan Rockström & Mattias Klum The human quest
Salman Rushdie Joseph Anton: a memoir
Will Schwalbe The end of your life book club
Ariel S. Winter The twenty-year death

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
Batman begins
The Incredible Hulk

Classics
Hunchback of Notre Dame [1939]

Drama
The year of living dangerously

Musicals
Rock of ages

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Hollywoodland
To catch a thief

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Prometheus

Nonfiction
My perestroika 947.085 M995
The man nobody knew: in search of my father, CIA spymaster William Colby 327.1 C68m

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CDs
Jazz
Harry Connick, Jr 20

Musicals & Soundtracks
Henry Mancini Music from Mr. Lucky & Mr. Lucky goes Latin

Vocals
The Beatles 1967-1970 [The blue album]

Posted on Nov. 2, 2012 by Matt Montgomery