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BOOKS

FICTION
Rabih Alameddine An unnecessary woman
Claire Cameron The bear
Jamie McGuire Beautiful disaster
Marcel Theroux Strange bodies
Anthony Trollope Mr. Scarborough's family
Anthony Trollope The American senator
Anthony Trollope The Belton estate

Historical Fiction
Tamim Ansary The widow's husband
Jerome Charyn I am Abraham
Timothy Schaffert The swan gondola

Multi-Gen Literature
Nicholas Christopher The true adventures of Nicolo Zen

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Jørgen Brekke Where monsters dwell
James M. Cain Career in C major & other fiction
James M. Cain Cloud nine
James M. Cain The baby in the icebox & other short fiction
James M. Cain The enchanted isle
J.A. Jance Moving target
Anna Jansson Killer's Island
Nele Neuhaus Bad wolf
Scott O'Connor Half world
Tom Rob Smith Child 44
Sally Spencer Death's dark shadow: a DCI Paniatowski mystery

Short Stories
Erotic stories E719

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Charles Darwin's On the origin of species: a graphic adaptation 576.8 D22k Comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Eric Twitty Riches to rust: a guide to mining in the old West 622.0978 T974

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Art in our time: a chronicle of the Museum of Modern Art 708.1471 A784
The books that shaped art history: from Gombrich & Greenberg to Alpers & Krauss 709 B724
Cocteau: Jean Cocteau, sur le fil du siècle 700.92 C668
Marina Crivellari Bizio Venezia e l'eros 306 C936
Piero's light: in search of Piero dell Francesca: a Renaissance painter & the revolution in art, science & religion 750.92 F82
L.P. Latimer: California watercolor painter 750.92 L357
Donald Moffett: the extravagant vein 709.2 M695
Louis Comfort Tiffany & Laurelton Hall: an artist's country estate 709.2 T56

Biography & Genealogy
The Florida life of Thomas Edison 620.92 E24a
Judith Mackrell Flappers: six women of a dangerous generation 920.72 M159
David McCullough Brave companions: portraits in history 920 M133b
George Orwell: English rebel 92 O79cg
The immigrant & the university: Peder Sather & Gold Rush California 92 S2533

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
James M. Cain 60 years of journalism 071.3 C135
James W.P. Campbell The library: a world history 027 C188
Alain de Botton The news: a user's manual 302.23 D286

Business & Economics
Zachary Karabell The leading indicators: a short history of the numbers that rule our world 330.9 K18
Christian Madsbjerg The moment of clarity: using the human sciences to solve your toughest business problems 658.834 M183
David McAdams Game-changer: game theory & the art of transforming strategic situations 658.4 M1128
Jane Pauley Your life calling: reimagining the rest of your life 650.1 P326
Eswar S. Prasad The dollar trap: how the U.S. dollar tightened its grip on global finance 332.4 P911
David Rock Your brain at work: strategies for overcoming distraction, regaining focus & working smarter all day long 658.4 R682
Itamar Simonson Absolute value: what really influences customers in the age of (nearly) perfect information 658.8 S611
William N. Thorndike, Jr. The outsiders: eight unconventional CEOs & their radically rational blueprint for success 658.4 T499

Food & Drink
Anya von Bremzen Mastering the art of Soviet cooking: a memoir of food & longing 641.5947 V945

Health & Medicine
David B. Agus A short guide to a long life 613.2 A284
Peter B. Anderson The familiar physician: saving your doctor in the era of Obamacare 362.172 A548
Richard Diana Healthy joints for life: an orthopedic surgeon's 8-week proven program to reduce pain & inflammation, avoid surgery & get moving again 616.72 D538
Jessica Lamb-Shapiro Promise land: my journey through America's self-help culture 616.89 L218
Guenter B. Risse Plague, fear & politics in San Francisco's Chinatown 614.57 R596
Jonathan Rottenberg The depths: the evolutionary origins of the depression epidemic 616.8527 R851

History
Charles Allen The search for Shangri-La: a journey into Tibetan history 951.5 A42
M.M. McAllen Maximilian & Carlota: Europe's last empire in Mexico 972.07 A491
Lorànt Deutsch Metronome: a history of Paris from the underground up 944.36 D486
The encyclopedia of Chicago REF 977.311 E56
Simon Forty Mapping the First World War: battlefields of the great conflict from above REF 940.4 F745
Patrick Griffin The people with no name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish & the creation of a British Atlantic world, 1689-1764 973.0491 G85
John B. Judis Genesis: Truman, American Jews & the origins of the Arab/Israeli conflict 327.73 J92g
Naphtali Lewis Life in Egypt under Roman rule 932 L675
Nick Lloyd Hundred days: the campaign that ended World War I 940.434 L793
George M. Marsden The twilight of the American enlightenment: the 1950s & the crisis of liberal belief 973.91 M364
Doug Most The race underground: Boston, New York & the incredible rivalry that built America's first subway 388.42 M915
David Satter It was a long time ago & it never happened anyway: Russia & the communist past 947.084 S25i
Harold Schechter The mad sculptor: the maniac, the model & the murder that shook the nation 364.152 S31m
Mark Lawrence Schrad Vodka politics: alcohol, autocracy & the secret history of the Russian state 362.292 S377
Ilya Vinkovetsky Russian America: an overseas colony of a continental empire, 1804-1867 305.8917 V786
Anna Whitelock The queen's bed: an intimate history of Elizabeth's court 942.05 W594

Home & Family Management
Lauren Friedman 50 ways to wear a scarf 391.41 F911

Languages & Linguistics
Ewan Clayton The golden thread: the story of writing 411 C622

Law
Kimberly D. Richman License to wed: what legal marriage means to same-sex couples 346.744 R532

Literature & Writing
Hilton Als White girls 814 A461
Lawrence Buell The dream of the great American novel 813 B928
Dante Reading Dante: from here to eternity 851 D19s
John Fricke The wonderful world of Oz: an illustrated history of the American classic 813 F897
Simon Goldhill Freud's couch, Scott's buttocks, Brontë's grave 820.9 G618
Christina Hardyment Writing Britain: wastelands to wonderlands 820.9 H273
Katherine Hastings Cloud fire 811 H3572
Rilke: new poems 831 R57c
Alfred Thomas Prague palimpsest: writing, memory & the city 809.93 T454

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Trevor Cox The sound book: the science of the sonic wonders of the world 550.1 C878
Pedro G. Ferreira The perfect theory: a century of geniuses & the battle over general relativity 530.11 F383
David J. Hand The improbability principle: why coincidences, miracles & rare events happen every day 519.2 H236
Elizabeth Kolbert The sixth extinction: an unnatural history 576.84 K81
Svante Pääbo Neanderthal man: in search of lost genomes 569.9 P111

Performing Arts & Music
The Wes Anderson collection 791.4 A552
Jason Bailey Pulp fiction: the complete story of Quentin Tarantino's masterpiece 791.43 B154
Laura A. Cooper Belly dancing basics 793.3 C777
Morrissey Autobiography 780.92 M883

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Oliver Burkeman The antidote: happiness for people who can't stand positive thinking 158 B959
Daniel Jones Love illuminated: exploring life's most mystifying subject (with the help of 50,000 strangers) 152.41 J766
Alan W. Watts The wisdom of insecurity 128 W34
Bernard Williams Essays & reviews, 1959-2002 192 W721

Politics & Government
Max Blumenthal Goliath: life & loathing in greater Israel 956.94 B6588
Stephen Sestanovich Maximalist: America in the world from Truman to Obama 327.73 S494

Social Sciences & Current Events
Chomsky & Dershowitz: on endless war & the end of civil liberties 355.033 C548
Amy Chua The triple package: how three unlikely traits explain the rise & fall of cultural groups in America 305.5 C559
Robert Hofler Sexplosion: from Andy Warhol to A clockwork orange--how a generation of pop rebels broke all the taboos 306.0973 H712
Cynthia W. Lett Modern civility: etiquette for dealing with annoying, angry & difficult people 395 L651
David Lochbaum Fukushima: the story of a nuclear disaster 363.179 L812
Tom Szaky Outsmart waste: the modern idea of garbage & how to think our way out of it 363.728 S996
What should we be worried about?: real scenarios that keep scientists up at night 303.49 W555
Colin Wilson The outsider 302.5 W74

Travel & Geography
Lonely Planet Africa 916 L847
Lonely Planet Australia 919.4 L847
Lonely Planet Dublin 914.183 L847
Lonely Planet Eastern Europe 914.7 L847e
Lonely Planet Rome 914.56 L847
Lonely Planet Sicily 914.58 L847
Lonely Planet Venice & the Veneto 914.53 L847
Lonely Planet Vienna 914.361 L847
Roger Moore Beneath words: images & poetry of Carmel, Big Sur & Monterey, California 917.9476 M823
The rough guide to Morocco 916.4 R856
Rick Steves' Great Britain 914.1 S848
Where the locals go: more than 300 places around the world to eat, play, shop, celebrate & relax 910.2 W567

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Mike Twohy Wake up, Rupert!

Nonfiction
Lin Oliver Little poems for tiny ears 811 O486
Tricia Ready M is for Mongolia 894.231 R287
Melissa Stewart Feathers: not just for flying 598.147 S851

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EBOOKS
John Chatham Wheat belly fat diet: Lose Weight, Lose Belly Fat, Improve Health, Including 50 Wheat Free Recipes

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DVDs
Action & Adventure
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Howard Hughes' Hell's angels

Comedy
Blandings. Series 1.

Drama
Before midnight
Dallas buyers club
Under the Tuscan sun

Foreign Language
Russian dolls (Les poupées russes)

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Dick Francis mysteries
Hannibal
No way to treat a lady
Public enemy

Nonfiction
Ballroom 793.33 B193
Marines at Tarawa 940.5459 M338

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CDs
Classical
Arvo Pärt Adam's lament
Tchaikovsky Eighteen piano pieces, op. 72
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis ; Fantasia on Greensleeves ; The lark ascending ; Five variants of Dives & Lazarus

Jazz
Karrin Allyson Daydream

Posted on Mar. 1, 2014 by Sarah Cruz