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New Titles for the Week of March 20

BOOKS

FICTION
Paul Beatty The sellout
Nina Berberova Cape of storms
Kazuo Ishiguro The buried giant
Rachel Joyce The love song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
Bernard Malamud The natural
Michael D. O'Brien Eclipse of the sun
Michael D. O'Brien Father Elijah: an apocalypse

Historical Fiction
Anne Easter Smith A rose for the crown
Philippa Gregory The queen's fool

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Cara Black Murder on the Champ de Mars
Rhys Bowen The edge of dreams
Simon Brett The tomb in Turkey
Clare Curzon Burnt out
Clive Cussler & Justin Scott The assassin
Janet Evanovich & Lee Goldberg The job: a Fox & O'Hare novel
C.S. Harris Who buries the dead: a Sebastian St. Cyr mystery
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles Star fall: a Bill Slider mystery
Greg Herren Murder in the arts district
Joseph Kanon Leaving Berlin
Martin Limón Slicky boys
Jennie Melville Footsteps in the blood
Frank Smith Acts of vengeance

Short Stories
Neil Gaiman Trigger warning: short fictions & disturbances
Spring bamboo: a collection of contemporary Chinese short stories SS S769
Jean Thompson The witch: & other tales re-told

Mary Doria Russell Epitaph: a novel of the O.K. Corral

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Gilbert Hernandez Bumperhead 741.5 H557b
Scott McCloud The sculptor 741.5 M127s
Joe Ollmann Happy stories about well-adjusted people 741.5 O499
Noah Van Sciver Saint Cole 741.5 V278s
Noah Berlatsky Wonder Woman: Bondage & Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-1948 741.5973 W872b

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Kevin Ashton How to fly a horse: the secret history of creation, invention & discovery 609 A828

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Chad Poole Crafting with paracord: 50 fun & creative projects using the world's strongest cord 746.42 P822
Nicholas A. Veronico Depression-era murals of the Bay Area 751.73 V549

Biography & Genealogy
Masterful marks: cartoonists who changed the world 741.59 M423 Comics
Adam Phillips Becoming Freud: the making of a psychoanalyst 92 F895p
Robert Middlekauff Washington's revolution: the making of America's first leader 92 W318mi

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Creative management of small public libraries in the 21st century 025.197 C912
Nicole Hennig Apps for librarians: using the best mobile technology to educate, create & engage 025 H516

Business & Economics
Ed Conway The Summit Bretton Woods, 1944: J. M. Keynes & the reshaping of the global economy 339.53 C767
Susan Packard New rules of the game: 10 strategies for women in the workplace 650.1 P119

Chess
Lorin D'Costa The Panov-Botvinnik attack 794.122 D277p
John Emms The ultimate chess puzzle book 794.12 E54u
Steve Giddins 101 chess questions answered 794.1 G45o
John Nunn Grandmaster secrets: winning quickly at chess 794.12 N97gw
David Vigorito Understanding the Marshall attack 794.122 V691u
Artur Yusupov Boost your chess. 2., Beyond the basics 794.12 Y959b
Build up your chess with Artur Yusupov. 2, Beyond the basics. 794.12 Y959bu v.2
Artur Yusupov Build up your chess. 3, Mastery 794.12 Y959bu v.3

Food & Drink
Liz Carlisle Lentil underground: renegade farmers & the future of food in America 631.58 C283
Chef AJ Unprocessed: how to achieve vibrant health & your ideal weight 613.26 C515
Hillary Davis French comfort food 641.5944 D262
John McQuaid Tasty: the art & science of what we eat 664 M173
Mimi Sheraton 1,000 foods to eat before you die: a food lover's life list 641.5 S548o

Health & Medicine
Mark Moyad The supplement handbook: a trusted expert's guide to what works & what's worthless for more than 100 conditions 613.2 M938
Eric Topol The patient will see you now: the future of medicine is in your hands 610.285 T675p

History
Above the dreamless dead: World War I in poetry & comics 940.3 A157 Comics
William Albracht Abandoned in hell: the fight for Vietnam's Fire Base Kate 959.7 A341
Stanley Appelbaum Spectacle in the White City: the Chicago 1893 World's Fair 907.4773 A648
Susan Butler Roosevelt & Stalin: portrait of a partnership 940.532 B986
Steve Fischer When the mob ran Vegas: stories of money, mayhem & murder 979.31 F529
Richard Wightman Fox Lincoln's body: a cultural history 973.7 L73fol
The Haight: love, rock & revolution: the photography of Jim Marshall 979.461 M368
Steven Nightingale Granada: a pomegranate in the hand of God 946.8 N688

Home & Family Management
Ann Ralph Grow a little fruit tree: simple pruning techniques for small-space, easy-harvest fruit trees 634 R163

Law
Joseph Hickman Murder at Camp Delta: a staff sergeant's pursuit of the truth about Guantánamo Bay 341.67 H628

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Michael Brooks At the edge of uncertainty: 11 discoveries taking science by surprise 500 B873a
Jon Butterworth Most wanted particle: the inside story of the hunt for the Higgs, the heart of the future of physics 539.7 B988

Performing Arts & Music
Amy Nathan The music parents' survival guide: a parent-to-parent conversation 780.7 N274

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Stephen Law Believing bullshit: how not to get sucked into an intellectual black hole 165 L416
Edward J. Watts The final pagan generation 292 W349

Social Sciences & Current Events
Tim Dee Four fields 333.95 D311
Qasim Rashid The wrong kind of Muslim: an untold story of persecution & perseverance 303.625 R224
Who's afraid of academic freedom? 378.12 W628

Sports & Games
Reinhold Messner: my life at the limit 796.52 M585
Mary Pilon The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury & the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game 794 P643

Travel & Geography
Marcia DeSanctis 100 places in France every woman should go 914.4 D441
Footprint focus Rajasthan, Delhi & Agra 915.45 F689
Douglas Keister Stories in stone Paris: a field guide to Paris cemeteries & their residents 914.4 K279
John Marshall Wide-open world: how volunteering around the globe changed one family's lives forever 910.41 M368

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LARGE PRINT
Nonfiction
Truman Capote In cold blood Large Print 364.152 C24
Deborah Halber The Skeleton Crew: how amateur sleuths are solving America's coldest cases Large Print 363.25 H157
Richard Zoglin Hope: entertainer of the century Large Print 792.092 H791z
Betty Medsger The burglary: the discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's secret FBI Large Print 363.25 M492
Solomon Northup Twelve years a slave Large Print 92 N878

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

BOOKS
Fiction
Herminie Templeton Kavanagh Darby O'Gill & the good people

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AUDIOBOOKS
Fiction
Linda Fairstein Terminal city CD Fic Fairstein
Jodi Picoult Leaving time CD Fic Picoult
Tom Rachman The rise & fall of great powers CD Fic Rachman
Andy Weir The Martian CD Fic Weir

Posted on Mar. 22, 2015 by Sarah Cruz