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New Titles for the Week of February 6

BOOKS

FICTION
Sarah Addison Allen First frost
Ned Beauman Glow
Scott Blackwood See how small
Michael Christie If I fall, if I die
Michael Crummey Sweetland
Rachel Cusk Outline
Emma Hooper Etta & Otto & Russell & James
S. M. Hulse Black River
Greer Macallister The magician's lie
Sandip Roy Don't let him know: a novel in stories
David Whitehouse Mobile library

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Jan Ellison A small indiscretion
James Grippando Cane & Abe
Parnell Hall Puzzled indemnity: a Puzzle Lady mystery
Michael Kardos Before he finds her
M.R.C. Kasasian The Curse of the House of Foskett
Becky Masterman Fear the darkness
Thomas O'Malley & Douglas Graham Purdy Serpents in the cold

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Tanya Huff The wild ways

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
The mammoth book of cult comics 741.5 M265c

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NONFICTION
Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Mary Street Alinder Ansel Adams: a biography 770.92 A21ab
Arts & crafts of the Islamic lands: principles, materials, practice 700.961 A792
Anneliese Crueger Modern Japanese ceramics: pathways of innovation & tradition 738.0952 C955
Hans Eijkelboom People of the twenty-first century 779 E348
Vincent van Gogh: ever yours: the essential letters 750.92 G61j
Philip Hook Breakfast at Sotheby's: an A-Z of the art world 707.5 H781
Jeff Koons: conversations with Norman Rosenthal 750.92 K828
A royal passion: Queen Victoria & photography 770.941 R888
Anna Deavere Smith Letters to a young artist 700 S642

Biography & Genealogy
Tara Ison Reeling through life: how I learned to live, love & die at the movies 92 I852

Business & Economics
Scott Adams How to fail at almost everything & still win big: kind of the story of my life 650.13 A21h
Chad Broughton Boom, bust, exodus: the Rust Belt, the maquilas & a tale of two cities 330.977 B875
Stephen Leahy Your water footprint: the shocking facts about how much water we use to make everyday products 333.91 L434
James MacDonald When globalization fails: the rise & fall of Pax Americana 337.73 M135

Computer Science
Pogue's basics: essential tips & shortcuts (that no one bothers to tell you) for simplifying the technology in your life 004 P746

Health & Medicine
Laura L. Carstensen A long bright future: happiness, health & financial security in an age of increased longevity 613.0438 C321
Hollis Lance Liebman Encyclopedia of exercise anatomy 613.71 L716
Nancy L. Mace The 36-hour day: a family guide to caring for people who have Alzheimer disease, related dementias & memory loss 616.831 M141

History
Don H. Doyle The cause of all nations: an international history of the American Civil War 973.7 D754
Anna Jackson Expo: international expositions 1851-2010 907.4 J124
Tony Le Tissier Soviet conquest: Berlin 1945 940.542 L648
Edward T. Linenthal Preserving memory: the struggle to create America's Holocaust Museum 940.5318 L754
Justin Marozzi Baghdad: city of peace, city of blood--a history in thirteen centuries 956.7 M356
Hamish McDonald Demokrasi: Indonesia in the 21st century 959.8 M135
Charles Spencer Killers of the king: the men who dared to execute Charles I 942.06 S745
Julian E. Zelizer The fierce urgency of now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress & the battle for the Great Society 973.923 Z49

Law
Cory Doctorow Information doesn't want to be free: laws for the Internet age 343.73 D637

Literature & Writing
Diane Middlebrook Young Ovid: an unfinished biography 871 O96m
Marina Warner Once upon a time: a short history of fairy tale 398.09 W279

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Heather Couper, et al. The planets 523 P712

Performing Arts & Music
Peter Ackroyd Charlie Chaplin: a brief life 792.092 C46ac
Sean Egan The Clash: the only band that mattered 780.92 C614
Richard Zoglin Hope: entertainer of the century 792.092 H791z
David Lynch: the unified field 750.92 L987
Scott Saul Becoming Richard Pryor 792.092 P97s

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Sian Beilock How the body knows its mind: the surprising power of the physical environment to influence how you think & feel 153.7 B422
Cicero On moral ends 171 C568
Bonny J. Forrest Will my kid grow out of it?: a child psychologist's guide to understanding worrisome behavior 155.413 F728
The Greek Sophists 183 G793
Edward M. Hallowell Driven to distraction at work: how to focus & be more productive 158.7 H193
Gerald J. Hughes Routledge philosophy guidebook to Aristotle on ethics 171 A71
Christian Rudder Dataclysm: who we are when we think no one's looking 155.2 R914
Slavoj Žižek The most sublime hysteric: Hegel with Lacan 193 Z824

Social Sciences & Current Events
Michael Fertik The reputation economy: how to optimize your digital footprint in a world where your reputation is your most valuable asset 659.2 F411r
Roger L. Geiger The history of American higher education: learning & culture from the founding to world war ii 373.73 G312

Sports & Games
Reinhard Kleist The boxer: the true story of Holocaust survivor Harry Haft 796.83 K647 Comics

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

DVDs
How to train your dragon 2

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Anthony Doerr All the light we cannot see CD Fic Doerr
Ken Follett Edge of eternity CD Fic Follett
James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge Burn CD Fic Patterson
Kathy Reichs Bones never lie CD Fic Reichs
Sarah Waters The paying guests CD Fic Waters

Nonfiction
Anjelica Huston Watch me CD 792.092 H972w

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DVDs
Classics
The honeymooners

Drama
Boyhood
Downton Abbey. Season 5
Fruitvale Station
Hemingway & Gellhorn

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
The Bletchley circle. Season 2
The Bletchley circle: cracking a killer's code
Blitz
Hangmen also die
The talented Mr. Ripley

Nonfiction
In the realms of the unreal: the mystery of Henry Darger DVD 750.92 D217
Herb & Dorothy DVD 709.04 H534

Posted on Feb. 6, 2015 by Sarah Cruz