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New Titles for the Week of September 19

BOOKS

FICTION
Jonathan Coe Expo 58
Ann Hood An Italian wife
Jan Karon Somewhere safe with somebody good
Audrey Magee The undertaking
Randy Susan Meyers Accidents of marriage
Nayomi Munaweera Island of a thousand mirrors
Cecile Pineda Fishlight: a dream of childhood
Cecile Pineda Redoubt: a mononovel
Joanna Scott De Potter's grand tour

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Simon Brett The Cinderella killer
Tod Goldberg Gangsterland
Julia Keller Summer of the dead
Martin Limon The iron sickle
William J. Palmer. The detective & Mr. Dickens: being an account of the Macbeth murders & the strange events surrounding them

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Patricia Briggs Shifting shadows: stories from the world of Mercy Thompson

Short Stories
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya There once lived a girl who seduced her sister's husband & he hanged himself

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
The star wars 741.5 S795
Brian K. Vaughan Swamp Thing Volume 2 741.5 S971

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Scott Hunt The Practical Preppers complete guide to disaster preparedness 613.69 H939

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Calder & abstraction: from avant-garde to iconic 730.92 C14c
Michael Duncan Semina culture: Wallace Berman & his circle 709.794 D911
Eleanor Heartney The reckoning: women artists of the new millennium 704.042 H436
Jessye Norman Stand up straight & sing! 780.92 N842
A punch of color: fifty years of painting by Camille Patha 759.13 P297

Food & Drink
Claudia Lucero One-hour cheese 637.3 L935
Deborah Madison The new vegetarian cooking for everyone 641.563 M17n

Health & Medicine
Richard O'Connor Rewire: change your brain to break bad habits, overcome addictions, conquer self-destructive behavior 616.8582 O183

History
Edward Dolnick The rush: America's fevered quest for fortune, 1848-1853 979.404 D665
Dennis Evanosky San Francisco then & now 979.461 E92s
The Nixon tapes, 1971-1972 973.924 N736
Marcus Rediker Outlaws of the Atlantic: sailors, pirates & motley crews in the Age of Sail 387 R31o
Roger Stone The man who killed Kennedy: the case against LBJ 973.922 S877

Languages & Linguistics
John Whitlam Modern Brazilian Portuguese grammar: a practical guide 469.7 W613

Performing Arts & Music
Jan Swafford Beethoven: anguish & triumph 780.92 B415sw

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Jim Davies Riveted: the science of why jokes make us laugh, movies make us cry & religion makes us feel one with the universe 155.7 D255
Alan Ryan On Marx: revolutionary & utopian 335.4 R988
Joshua Wolf Shenk Powers of two: finding the essence of innovation in creative pairs 153.35 S546

Politics & Government
Ken Adelman Reagan at Reykjavik: forty-eight hours that ended the Cold War 327.73 A229
Alan Ryan On Tocqueville: democracy & America 320.973 R988

Reference
The Writer's market 2015 REF 655.52 W95 2015

Social Sciences & Current Events
David DeKok Murder in the stacks: Penn State, Betsy Aardsma & the killer who got away 364.152 D328
William Deresiewicz Excellent sheep: the miseducation of the American elite & the way to a meaningful life 378.73 D431
Amin Ghaziani There goes the gayborhood? 306.76 G411

Posted on Sep. 19, 2014 by Sarah Cruz