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BOOKS

FICTION
Chris Abani The virgin of flames
Chris Adrian The new world
Jon Baird The explorers guild: a passage to Shambhala
Clare Clark We that are left
Bill Clegg Did you ever have a family
Donald Cozzens Master of ceremonies
Patrick deWitt Ablutions: notes for a novel
Parnaz Foroutan The girl from the garden
Marianne Fritz The weight of things
Elin Hilderbrand Winter stroll
George Keithley Ring of fire
Eka Kurniawan Beauty is a wound
Grace Mattioli Discovery of an eagle
David Mitchell Slade house
Chinelo Okparanta Under the udala trees
Rainbow Rowell Landline
Jane Smiley Golden age
Lily Tuck The double life of Liliane
Emma Jane Unsworth Animals
Jojo Moyes After you
Virginia Pye Dreams of the Red Phoenix
Kyung-sook Shin The girl who wrote loneliness

Historical Fiction
Lynn Cullen Twain's end
Adriana Trigiani All the stars in the heavens

Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Jean-Pierre Alaux Montmartre mysteries
Rhys Bowen Malice at the palace: a Royal Spyness mystery
John Burley The forgetting place
Patricia Cornwell Depraved heart: a Scarpetta novel
Clive Cussler The Solomon Curse
Jeremy Duns The Dark chronicles: a spy trilogy: Free agent, Song of treason, the Moscow option
Elizabeth George A banquet of consequences
Tess Gerritsen Playing with fire
Kerry Greenwood Murder & Mendelssohn
Kerry Greenwood Murder in the dark: a Phryne Fisher mystery
John Grisham Rogue lawyer
Michael Keenan Gutierrez The trench angel
Garth Risk Hallberg City on fire
Anthony Horowitz Trigger mortis: a James Bond novel
Faye Kellerman The theory of death
G. M. Malliet The haunted season: a Max Tudor novel
Alexander McCall Smith The woman who walked in sunshine
Lisa Sandlin The do-right
A.D. Scott A kind of grief
Brad Thor Code of conduct: a thriller
Charles Belfoure House of thieves

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Seth Dickinson The traitor Baru Cormorant

Short Stories
Percival Everett Half an inch of water: stories
James McManus The education of a poker player: linked stories
Leslie Pietrzyk This angel on my chest: stories
Sait Faik Abasiyanik A useless man: selected stories
Joy Williams The visiting privilege: new & collected stories
Jacob M. Appel Miracles & conundrums of the secondary planets: stories
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Diaboliques: six tales of decadence
Andrea Camilleri Judges SS J927

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
S.J. Harris Eustace 741.5 H313 comics
Mark Kneece The art of comic book writing 741.51 K684 comics
Ethan Young Nanjing: the burning city 951.042 Y681 comics

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NONFICTION
Applied Sciences
Kathryn Harkup A is for arsenic: the poisons of Agatha Christie 615.9 H282

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Warren Adelson Sargent's Venice 750.92 S24v
Affect/Marcel: the selected correspondence of Marcel Duchamp 750.92 D826a
Janice Gunner Shibori for textile artists 746.6 G976
Materiality 709.04 M425
Moving image 700 M935
Marie-France Pochna Christian Dior: the biography 746.9 D59pb
Susan Ronald Hitler's art thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis & the looting of Europe's treasures 709.2 R768
Julius Shulman: modernism rediscovered 724.6 S562
Michael Riedel Razzle dazzle: the battle for Broadway 792.0974 R551

Biography & Genealogy
Michael Casey Henry E. Bothin: philanthropist of steel 92 B7493
Gary Indiana I can give you anything but love 92 I395
Harlow Giles Unger Henry Clay, America's greatest statesman 92 C619u
David Cressy Charles I & the people of England 92 C476c
Steven Lee Myers The new tsar: the rise & reign of Vladimir Putin 92 P9885m
John Norris Mary McGrory: the first queen of journalism 070.92 M147n

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism, Library & Information Science
Lillian Ross Reporting always: writings from The New Yorker 070.4 R824r

Business & Economics
Norman Bodek Kaikaku: the power & magic of lean: a study in knowledge transfer 658.5 B666
Kay-Yut Chen Secrets of the moneylab: how behavioral economics can improve your business 658.4 C518
Steven Hill Raw deal: how the "Uber economy" & runaway capitalism are screwing American workers 331.1 H645
Eric Janszen The postcatastrophe economy: rebuilding America & avoiding the next bubble 330.973 J353
Jon Kolko Well-designed: how to use empathy to create products people love 658.5 K813
Tim Richards Investing psychology: the effects of behavioral finance on investment choice & bias 332.6 R514
George A. Akerlof Phishing for phools: the economics of manipulation & deception 330 A31
Willie Drye For sale--American paradise: how our nation was sold an impossible dream in Florida 333.33 D799
Tren Griffin Charlie Munger: the complete investor 332.6 G851
Owen Jones The establishment: & how they get away with it 302.35 J762
Moshe A. Milevsky Pensionize your nest egg: how to use product allocation to create a guaranteed income for life 332.024 M643p
Computer Science
Craig Gilchrist Learning iBeacon 005.26 I125
Brian Knittel Windows 8.1 in depth 005.432 W8k

Food & Drink
Jacques Pepin Jacques Pépin's New complete techniques 641.5 P42j
Forrest Pritchard Growing tomorrow: a farm-to-table journey in photos & recipes 338.1 P961
Claire Ptak The Violet Bakery cookbook 641.86 P975

Health & Medicine
Sonia Arrison 100 plus: how the coming age of longevity will change everything 612.68 A776
Madelyn Fernstrom Don't eat this if you're taking that: the hidden risks of mixing food & medicine 615.7 F366
Gary B. Huffnagle The probiotics revolution 615.329 H889
Theresa Brown The shift: one nurse, twelve hours, four patients' lives 616.02 B877

History
Miranda Aldhouse-Green Bog bodies uncovered: solving Europe's ancient mystery 930.1 A362
Michael Jones After Hitler: the last ten days of World War II in Europe 940.534 J78a
Ray Locker Nixon's gamble: how a president's own secret government destroyed his administration 973.924 L815
Carroll L. Riley Rio del Norte: people of the Upper Rio Grande from earliest times to the Pueblo revolt 976.4 R573
Ian W. Toll The conquering tide: war in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 940.54 T65c
Michael Bloch Closet queens: some 20th century British politicians 941.082 B651
Edward Caudill Inventing Custer: the making of an American legend 92 C987c
Tom Holland Dynasty: the rise & fall of the House of Caesar 937 H734
Dan Jones Magna Carta: the birth of liberty 942.033 J762
Neil MacGregor Germany: memories of a nation 943 M147
Ralph Nader Return to sender: unanswered letters to the President, 2001-2015 973.93 N135r
Matthew Parker Willoughbyland: England's lost colony 988.3 P242
Luc Sante The other Paris 944.36 S234
Ned Sublette The American slave coast: a history of the slave-breeding industry 331.11 S941
Gil Troy The age of Clinton: America in the 1990s 973.929 T864
Christina Vella George Washington Carver: a life 92 C331v
Alison Weir The ring & the crown: a history of royal weddings, 1066-2011 942 R581
The World of Athens 938 W927

Home & Family Management
Jennifer L. Scott At home with Madame Chic: becoming a connoisseur of daily life 646.7 S425

Languages & Linguistics
Wendy Ayres-Bennett A history of the French language through texts 440.9 A985
David Crystal Making a point: the Persnickety story of English punctuation 421 C95m

Literature & Writing
Juan Felipe Herrera Notes on the assemblage 811.54 H565no
Marilynne Robinson The givenness of things: essays 814 R66g
Poems of the decade: an anthology of the Forward books of poetry 821.9 P744

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Donald R. Prothero The story of life in 25 fossils: tales of intrepid fossil hunters & the wonders of evolution 560 P967

Performing Arts & Music
Jewel Never broken: songs are only half the story 780.92 J591
Steve Knopper MJ: the genius of Michael Jackson 780.92 J134k

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Jonathan Sacks Not in God's name: confronting religious violence 201.7 S121
Peter Adamson Philosophy in the Hellenistic & Roman worlds: a history of philosophy without any gaps. Volume 2 100 A221

Politics & Government
Ira Berlin The long emancipation: the demise of slavery in the United States 326 B51

Reference
The Newbery & Caldecott awards 011.62 N534

Social Sciences & Current Events
Abdel Bari Atwan Islamic State: the digital caliphate 363.325 A887
William McCants The ISIS apocalypse: the history, strategy & doomsday vision of the Islamic State 363.325 M1229
Pallavi Aiyar New Old World: an Indian journalist discovers the changing face of Europe 306.094 P165
Jason Mark Satellites in the high country: searching for the wild in the Age of Man 333.78 M345
Anne-Marie Slaughter Unfinished business: women men work family 305.42 S63
Sarah B. Pomeroy Goddesses, whores, wives & slaves: women in classical antiquity 305.42 P785

Travel & Geography
Better than fiction: true travel tales from great fiction writers 910.4 B565

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CHILDREN'S COLLECTION

DVDs
Inside out DVD Children's

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DVDs

Classics
Decoy Vol. 1 DVD
Decoy Vol. 2 DVD
Decoy Vol. 3 DVD
Decoy Vol. 4 DVD
Decoy Vol. 5 DVD

Comedy
What we do in the shadows DVD

Drama
Hyde Park on Hudson DVD
The imitation game DVD
The last September DVD
Mr. Turner DVD

Nonfiction
Midnight ramble: Oscar Micheaux & the story of race movies DVD 791.4 M629

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CDs

Jazz & Blues
T-Bone Walker T-Bone blues CD Jazz Walker

Popular
Beatles The Beatles anthology 1 CD Pop Beatles
Beatles The Beatles anthology 2 CD Pop Beatles
Beatles The Beatles anthology 3 CD Pop Beatles
Led Zeppelin Houses of the holy CD Pop Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd The dark side of the moon CD Pop Pink Floyd
Traveling Wilburys Traveling Wilburys CD Pop Traveling Wilburys
Steve Winwood Steve Winwood CD Pop Winwood

Posted on Nov. 17, 2015 by Cherilyn Chang