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New Titles for the Week of August 11

BOOKS

FICTION
Roland Merullo Dinner with Buddha
Natasha Pulley The watchmaker of Filigree Street
Tatiana de Rosnay A Paris affair
Jan-Philipp Sendker The art of hearing heartbeats
Penny Vincenzi A perfect heritage
P.G. Wodehouse Joy in the morning
P.G. Wodehouse Jeeves & the feudal spirit
P.G. Wodehouse Meet Mr. Mulliner
P.G. Wodehouse Right ho, Jeeves
P.G. Wodehouse The clicking of Cuthbert
P.G. Wodehouse Stiff upper lip, Jeeves

Historical Fiction
Peter Watson Madeleine's war

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Ace Atkins The redeemers
Jean-Luc Bannalec Death in Brittany
Frances Brody A medal for murder
Frances Brody Dying in the wool
Jeanne M. Dams The gentle art of murder
Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet, the Sign of Four, the Hound of the Baskervilles
Simon R. Green The dark side of the road
Shane Kuhn Hostile takeover: a John Lago thriller
Andrew Vachss Sign Wave
S.J. Watson Second life
Ian Weir Will Starling
Glenis Wilson Dead certainty

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Ed Greenwood The iron assassin or a clockwork Prometheus
Erika Johansen The invasion of the Tearling
A.L. Kennedy The Drosten's curse
Jo Walton The just city
Jo Walton The philosopher kings

Short Stories
Year's best science fiction The year's best science fiction SS Y39s

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Jeff Smith Bone 741.5 B712 comics
a graphic biography by Jessie Hartland Steve Jobs: insanely great 92 J629h comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Jay van Arsdale Shoji: how to design, build & install Japanese screens 694.6 V217

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Anthony M. Amore The art of the con: the most notorious fakes, frauds & forgeries in the art world 702.874 A524
Women artists: the Linda Nochlin reader 704.042 N757

Biography & Genealogy
Andrew R.B. Simpson Another life: Lawrence after Arabia 92 L423si
Tim Weiner One man against the world: the tragedy of Richard Nixon 92 N718we

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Alice Crawford (editor) The meaning of the library: a cultural history 027 M483

Business & Economics
Edward T. O'Donnell Henry George & the crisis of inequality: progress & poverty in the Gilded Age 330.092 G348

Chess
Boris Avrukh The Catalan 794.122 A963c
Boris Avrukh The classical Slav 794.122 A963cl

Computer Science
Andres Calvo Beginning Android wearables 005.258 A574c

Food & Drink
Diana Henry A bird in the hand: chicken recipes for every day & every mood 641.665 H521

Health & Medicine
Joseph LeDoux Anxious: using the brain to understand & treat fear & anxiety 616.8522 L474
Bruce Roseman The addictocarb diet: avoid the 9 highly addictive carbs while eating anything else you want 613.2 R812

History
Jane C. Beck Daisy Turner's kin: an African American family saga 929.2 T945
Robert Goodwin Spain: the centre of the world, 1519-1682 946.04 G656
Gil Hahn Four score & four: America in 1860 973.6 H148
John Julius Norwich Sicily: an island at the crossroads of history 945.8 N89s
Christo Thanos (editor) Schliemann & the California gold rush: the 1850-1852 American travel journal of Heinrich Schliemann 930.1092 S34t

Literature & Writing
Andrea E. Mays The millionaire & the bard: Henry Folger's obsessive hunt for Shakespeare's first folio 822.3 M474

Performing Arts & Music
Curtis Harrington Nice guys don't work in Hollywood: the adventures of an aesthete in the movie business 791.4 H299
Lisa Rogak Angry optimist: the life & times of Jon Stewart 792.092 S849

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Daniel Goleman A force for good: the Dalai Lama's vision for our world 294.3 B917go

Social Sciences & Current Events
Sarah Hepola Blackout: remembering the things I drank to forget 362.292 H529

Travel & Geography
Bradt travel guide World War 1 Battlefields: a travel guide to the Western Front: sites, museums, memorials 914 B81w
Fodor's essential Europe 914 F65
Footprint Andalucía 914.68 F689
Lonely Planet Bali & Lombok 915.986 L847
Lonely Planet British Columbia & the Canadian Rockies 917.11 L847
Lonely Planet Kuala Lumpur, Melaka & Penang 915.951 L847
Lonely Planet Los Angeles, San Diego & southern California 917.949 L847
Lonely Planet Munich, Bavaria & the Black Forest 914.33 L847
Lonely Planet Myanmar (Burma) 915.91 L847
Lonely Planet New England 917.4 L847
Lonely Planet Norway 914.81 L847
Lonely Planet Scandinavia 914.8 L847
Lonely Planet Seattle 917.977 L847
Lonely Planet Texas 917.64 L847
Lonely Planet Tibet 915.15 L847
Lonely Planet Washington, Oregon & the Pacific Northwest 917.95 L847
Moon handbooks Atlantic Canada 917.15 M818
Moon handbooks California road trip: San Francisco, Yosemite, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, Los Angeles & the Pacific Coast 917.94 M818r
Moon handbooks Colombia 918.6 M818
Moon handbooks Cuba 917.291 M818
Moon handbooks Mexico City 917.25 M818
Moon handbooks Oaxaca 917.27 M818

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DVDs

Comedy
This is Spïnal Tap: a rockumentary

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Ronin

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Alien nation

Posted on Aug. 11, 2015 by Cherilyn Chang