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Applied Sciences
Edward Humes Total garbage : how we can fix our waste and heal our world 628.44 H922
Nirmala Nataraj Spacecraft and rockets : photographs from the archives of NASA 629.47 N273
Nicole Johnsey Burke The 5-minute gardener : year-round garden habits for busy people 635 B959
Olivia Laing The garden against time : in search of a common paradise 635 L187
Lindsay Sisti The ultimate guide to houseplant propagation : step-by-step techniques for making more houseplants . . . for free! 635.965 S623
Tommy Tomlinson Dogland : passion, glory, and lots of slobber at the Westminster Dog Show 636.7 T659
David E. W. Fenner The art and philosophy of the garden 635 F336

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Brian Eno What art does : an unfinished theory 701 E592
Eugène Atget A vision of Paris : the photographs of Eugène Atget : the words of Marcel Proust 770.92 A86v

Biography & Genealogy
Mayukh Sen Love, Queenie : Merle Oberon, Hollywood's first South Asian star 792.092 O12s
Amanda Knox Free : my search for meaning 364.152 K741
David Sheff Yoko : a biography 700.92 O589
Lee Hawkins I am nobody's slave : how uncovering my family's history set me free 305.896 H393
Jessica Hoppe First in the family : a story of survival, recovery, and the American dream 362.292 H798
Melissa Blake Beautiful people : my thirteen truths about disability 362.4092 B636
Tracy O'Neill Woman of interest : a memoir 362.73 O586
Carol Lynn Mithers Rethinking rescue : Dog Lady and the story of America's forgotten people and pets 636.7 M684
Fawn Weaver Love & whiskey : the remarkable true story of Jack Daniel, his master distiller Nearest Green, and the improbable rise of Uncle Nearest 663.52 W363
Graydon Carter When the going was good : an editor's adventures during the last golden age of magazines 070.4 C323
Lincoln Abraham Mitchell Three years our mayor : George Moscone and the making of modern San Francisco 979.461 M896

Business & Economics
Jennifer Moss Why are we here? : creating a work culture everyone wants 658.312 M913
Allen C. Benello Concentrated investing : strategies of the world's greatest concentrated value investors 332.6 B465
Melody Wilding Managing up : how to get what you need from the people in charge 658.45 W673
Ramit Sethi Money for couples : no more stress, no more fights, just a 10-step plan to create your rich life together 332.024 S75m

Chess
Zsuzsa Polgár A world champion's guide to chess : step-by-step instructions for winning chess the Polgar way! 794.1 P76w
Jeroen Bosch How to out-prepare your opponent : a complete guide to successful chess opening preparation 794.122 B742
Cyrus Lakdawala Clinch it! : how to convert an advantage into a win in Chess 794.12 L192c
Gerard Welling The Lasker method to improve in chess : a manual for modern-day club players 794.1 L352w
Joel Benjamin World champion chess for juniors : learn from the greatest players ever Child 794.15 B459

Computer Science
Christopher Summerfield These strange new minds : how AI learned to talk and what it means 006.3 S955
Anil Ananthaswamy Why machines learn : the elegant math behind modern AI 006.3 A533

Food & Drink
Sam Cooper The fermentation kitchen : recipes and techniques for kimchi, kombucha, kōji, and more 641.4 C778
Nadiya Hussain Cook once, eat twice : [time-saving recipes to help you get ahead in the kitchen] 641.555 H972
Sarah Ahn Umma : a Korean mom's kitchen wisdom & 100 family recipes 641.5951 A286

Health
Naomi Watts Dare I say it : everything I wish I'd known about menopause 618.1 W348
Ilana Jacqueline Medical gaslighting : how to get the care you deserve in a system that makes you fight for your life 362.1 J162
Julie Radico You will get through this : a mental health first-aid kit : help for depression, anxiety, grief, and more 616.89 R129
John Green Everything is tuberculosis : the history and persistence of our deadliest infection 616.995 G820

History
Arnold Hylen Los Angeles before the freeways : images of an era 1850-1950 979.494 H996
Russell Shorto Taking Manhattan : the extraordinary events that created New York and shaped America 974.71 S56t
Picturing Black history : photographs and stories that changed the world 973.0496 P611
Clay Risen Red Scare : blacklists, McCarthyism and the making of modern America 973.918 R595
Gary Krist Trespassers at the Golden Gate : a true account of love, murder, and madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco 979.461 K928
Rick Atkinson The fate of the day : the war for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 973.3 A878
Nancy Goldstone The rebel empresses : Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, power and glamour in the struggle for Europe 940.28 G624
Who is government? : the untold story of public service 351 W628
Randy Shaw The Tenderloin : sex, crime, and resistance in the heart of San Francisco 979.461 S535

Law
Leah Litman Lawless : how the Supreme Court runs on conservative grievance, fringe theories, and bad vibes 347.732 L776
Elie Mystal Bad law : ten popular laws that are ruining America 349.73 M999

Literature & Writing
Marcel Proust Marcel Proust : letters to his mother. 843 P968Le
Scaachi Koul Sucker punch : essays 814.6 K881
Ira Madison Pure innocent fun : essays 814.6 M182
Lauren Markham Immemorial 809.93 M345

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Thor Hanson Close to home : the wonders of nature just outside your door 577.56 H251

Performing Arts & Music
Liz Pelly Mood machine : the rise of Spotify and the costs of the perfect playlist 780.285 P392
Paul Lisicky Song so wild and blue : a life with the music of Joni Mitchell 782.421 L769
Christopher Small Musicking : the meanings of performing and listening 781.1 S635

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Richard. Rorty Contingency, irony, and solidarity 190 R787c
Pico Iyer Aflame : learning from silence 204.2 I97
Lydia Kang Pseudoscience : an amusing history of crackpot ideas and why we love them 001.9 K856
Melinda French Gates The next day : transitions, change, and moving forward 158.1 F873

Reference
Maxine Arnold. Vogely A Proust dictionary Ref 843 P968
Avi Wigderson Mathematics and computation : a theory revolutionizing technology and science 511.3 W654
Jörg Bewersdorff Luck, logic, and white lies : the mathematics of games 519.3 B572

Social Sciences & Current Events
Catherine Coleman Flowers Holy ground : on activism, environmental justice, and finding hope 363.7 F644
Sarah Jones Disposable : America's contempt for the underclass 305.56 J791
David Pakman The echo machine : how right-wing extremism created a post-truth America 306.2 P152
Vauhini Vara Searches : selfhood in the digital age 302.23 V287
Wendell Berry Why I am not going to buy a computer : essays 303.4834 B534
Siva Sankrithi Do brown cows make chocolate milk? : family experiences around child-led learning 371.042 S227
Dana Mattioli The everything war : Amazon's ruthless quest to own the world and remake corporate power 381 M444
Jonathan (Jonathan J. M.) 2664302 Allen Fight : inside the wildest battle for the White House 324.973 A425f
Michael Luo Strangers in the land : exclusion, belonging, and the epic story of the Chinese in America 305.895 L964
Mary Brosnahan They just need to get a job : 15 myths on homelessness 362.592 B874
Cheryl L. Neely No human involved : the serial murder of Black women and girls and the deadly cost of police indifference 362.88 N379
Peter Schwartzstein The heat and the fury : on the frontlines of climate violence 304.2 S399
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson What if we get it right? : Visions of climate futures 363.7 J662
Eric Dezenhall Wiseguys and the White House : gangsters, presidents, and the deals they made 364.106 D532
Dan Slater The incorruptibles : a true story of kingpins, crime busters, and the birth of the American underworld 364.106 S631
Kim Mager A hunger to kill : a serial killer, a determined detective, and the quest for a confession that changed a small town forever 364.152 M192
Kate Winkler Dawson The sinners all bow : two authors, one murder, and the real Hester Prynne 364.152 D272s
Becky Holmes Keanu Reeves is not in love with you : the murky world of online romance fraud 306.73 H749
Steve Oney On air : the triumph and tumult of NPR 384.54 O588

Travel & Geography
Sarah Kendzior The last American road trip : a memoir 917.304 K337

Children's

Non-fiction
John A. Bain Chess tactics for students Child 794.1 B162

DVDS

Non-fiction
The world was ours : a film DVD 947.93 W927
Protocols of Zion DVD 305.892 P967

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FICTION
Brian Castleberry The Californians : a novel Fic Castleberry
Evie Wyld The echoes Fic Wyld
Olufunke Grace Bankole The edge of water : a novel Fic Bankole
Karissa Chen Homeseeking Fic Chen
Jacqueline Harpman I who have never known men Fic Harpman
Karen Thompson Walker The strange case of Jane O. : a novel Fic Walker
Philip Fracassi The third rule of time travel Fic Fracassi
Colwill Brown We pretty pieces of flesh : a novel Fic Brown
Katie Kitamura Audition Fic Kitamura
Camilla Barnes The usual desire to kill : a novel Fic Barnes
Ariel Courage Bad nature : a novel Fic Courage
Kevin Nguyen Mỹ documents : a novel Fic Nguyen
Therese Fowler A good neighborhood Fic Fowler
Manuel Betancourt Hello stranger : musings on modern intimacies Fic Betancour

Historical Fiction
Jo Harkin The pretender Fic Harkin
Jennifer Donnelly Where roses fall : a winter rose story Fic Donnelly
Alice Austen 33 Place Brugmann : a novel Fic Austen
Dominique Fortier Pale shadows Fic Fortier
David Baldacci Strangers in time Fic Baldacci
Joel H. (Joel Holloway) Morris All our yesterdays : a novel of Lady Macbeth Fic Morris
Isabel Allende My name is Emilia del Valle : a novel Fic Allende

Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, Espionage & Intrigue
John Banville The drowned : a novel Fic Banville
John Sandford Lethal prey Fic Sandford
Alex Finlay Parents weekend : a novel Fic Finlay
Robert Jackson Bennett The tainted cup Fic Bennett
Kate Atkinson Death at the sign of the rook Fic Atkinson
Jesse Q. Sutanto Vera Wong's guide to snooping (on a dead man) Fic Sutanto
Jesse Q. Sutanto Vera Wong's unsolicited advice for murderers Fic Sutanto
Maha Khan Phillips The museum detective Fic Phillips
Janet Evanovich Dirty thirty Fic Evanovich
Sarah Stewart Taylor Agony Hill : a mystery Fic Taylor
Marie Benedict The queens of crime : a novel Fic Benedict
Mick Herron Bad actors Fic Herron
Mick Herron Slough house Fic Herron
James Patterson The writer Fic Patterson
Harlan Coben Deal breaker : the first Myron Bolitar novel Fic Coben
Mick Herron The catch Fic Herron

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Ray Nayler Where the axe is buried : a novel Fic Nayler
M. R. Carey Once was Willem Fic Carey

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Becky Barnicoat Cry when the baby cries 741.5 B262 comics
Anders Nilsen Tongues. Book 1 741.5 N712t comics

DVDS

Classics
I am a camera
Robert Mitchum collection.
Bad girls of film noir. Volume 1.
Gotham City serials.
4 movie collection : Bobby Deerfield ; Baby, the rain must fall ; The chase ; Ship of fools.
The return of Frank James
Stagecoach
Tracy & Hepburn : the definitive collection.

Comedy
The best of Abbott & Costello. Volume 1
Soup to nuts
The best of Abbott & Costello. Volume 2

Drama
Wassup rockers
The hottest state
InterMission
Miss Julie
O Jerusalem

Foreign
He ni zai yi qi = Together DVD Chinese
Time regained DVD French
Vivement dimanche! = Confidentially yours DVD French
Jules et Jim = Jules and Jim DVD French
Two short films by François Truffaut : Les Mistons ; Antoine & Colette DVD French
Thieves and liars = : Ladrones y mentirosos DVD Spanish

Musicals
Jersey boys

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
X : the man with the x-ray eyes

BLU-RAYS

Drama
Mad men. Season two
Mad men. Season three
Mad men. Season one

MUSIC CDS

Popular
Sylvester Live at the opera house : the complete recordings CD Pop Sylvester

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FICTION
Brian Castleberry The Californians : a novel Fic Castleberry
Evie Wyld The echoes Fic Wyld
Olufunke Grace Bankole The edge of water : a novel Fic Bankole
Karissa Chen Homeseeking Fic Chen
Jacqueline Harpman I who have never known men Fic Harpman
Karen Thompson Walker The strange case of Jane O. : a novel Fic Walker
Philip Fracassi The third rule of time travel Fic Fracassi
Colwill Brown We pretty pieces of flesh : a novel Fic Brown
Katie Kitamura Audition Fic Kitamura
Camilla Barnes ...

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Keane Ng
Good news! After an extended time of mail delivery issues, the newest issues of one of our most popular magazines, Country Life, are once again available at the Mechanics' Institute Library. 
 
First published in 1897, Country Life is a beautifully produced magazine about life in the British countryside. Within its glossy pages, you'll find lush photography of lavish historic properties, charming commentaries on architecture and gardening, information on British dog breeds, and much more!
 
The latest issue of Country Life can be found by the windowsill in the periodicals section on the 3rd floor of the library, older issues are in the hanging files along the wall. Relax in one of our lounger chairs and enjoy the latest issue or peruse the back catalog.
Good news! After an extended time of mail delivery issues, the newest issues of one of our most popular magazines, Country Life, are once again available at the Mechanics' Institute Library. 
 
First published in 1897, Country Life is a beautifully produced magazine about life in the British countryside. Within its glossy pages, you'll find lush photography of lavish historic properties, charming commentaries on architecture and gardening, information on British dog breeds, and much more!
 
The latest issue of Country Life can be found by the windowsill in the periodicals section on the 3rd floor of the library, older issues are in the hanging files along the wall....
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FICTION

Eric Puchner Dream state : a novel Fic Puchner
Madeline Martin The booklover's library : a novel Fic Martin
Michael Amherst The boyhood of Cain Fic Amherst
Jojo Moyes We all live here Fic Moyes
Marcel Proust Swann in love Fic Proust
Allison Epstein Fagin the thief : a novel Fic Epstein
Marcy Dermansky Hot air Fic Dermansky
Saō Ichikawa Hunchback : a novel Fic Ichikawa
Omar Khalifah Sand-catcher Fic Khalifah
Holly Brickley Deep cuts : a novel Fic Brickley
Brian Castleberry The Californians : a novel Fic Castleberry
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Dream count : a novel Fic Adichie
Evie Wyld The echoes Fic Wyld
Olufunke Grace Bankole The edge of water : a novel Fic Bankole
Karissa Chen Homeseeking Fic Chen
Philip Fracassi The third rule of time travel Fic Fracassi
Colwill Brown We pretty pieces of flesh : a novel Fic Brown
Donatella Di Pietrantonio A girl returned Fic Di Pietra
Robert Seethaler The café with no name Fic Seethaler
Kristen Arnett Stop me if you've heard this one : a novel Fic Arnett
Abdulrazak Gurnah Theft Fic Gurnah
Yūko Tsushima Wildcat dome : a novel Fic Tsushima

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips

Becky Barnicoat Cry when the baby cries 741.5 B262 Comics

Historical Fiction

Ann McMan Dead letters from paradise Fic McMan
Stephen Graham Jones The buffalo hunter hunter Fic Jones
Kirsten Menger-Anderson The expert of subtle revisions : a novel Fic Menger-Anderson

Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, Espionage & Intrigue

Joseph Finder The oligarch's daughter : a novel Fic Finder
C. J. Box Battle mountain Fic Box
Shamini Flint Inspector Singh investigates : a deadly Cambodian crime spree Fic Flint
Jesse Q. Sutanto Vera Wong's unsolicited advice for murderers Fic Sutanto
Tess Gerritsen The summer guests Fic Gerritsen
Mick Herron Slough house Fic Herron
James Patterson The writer Fic Patterson
Harlan Coben Nobody's fool Fic Coben
Hannah Deitch Killer potential : a novel Fic Deitch

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror

Laila Lalami The dream hotel : a novel Fic Lalami
M. R. Carey Once was Willem Fic Carey

Short Stories

Clarice Lispector Covert joy : selected stories Fic Lispector
Curtis Sittenfeld Show don't tell : stories Fic Sittenfeld
Marcel Proust The complete short stories of Marcel Proust Fic Proust

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Eric Puchner Dream state : a novel Fic Puchner
Madeline Martin The booklover's library : a novel Fic Martin
Michael Amherst The boyhood of Cain Fic Amherst
Jojo Moyes We all live here Fic Moyes
Marcel Proust Swann in love Fic Proust
Allison Epstein Fagin the thief : a novel Fic Epstein
Marcy Dermansky Hot air Fic Dermansky
Saō Ichikawa Hunchback : a novel Fic Ichikawa
Omar Khalifah Sand-catcher Fic Khalifah
Holly Brickley Deep cuts : a novel Fic Brickley
Brian Castleberry...

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Arts, Architecture & Crafts

Barbara Ramos A fearless eye : the photography of Barbara Ramos : San Francisco and California, 1969-1973 770.9 R175
Jon Savage The secret public : how music moved queer culture from the margins to the mainstream 780.8 S264
Juan Escauriaza San Francisco and the American landscape 709.7946 E744
Eugène Atget A vision of Paris : the photographs of Eugène Atget : the words of Marcel Proust 770.92 A86v

Biography & Genealogy

Christopher L. Webber Black doctor : a biography of James McCune Smith, MD, the first fully trained and credentialed black doctor in America 610.92 S642
Laurie Woolever Care and feeding : a memoir 641.5092 W913
Lisa Marie Presley From here to the great unknown : a memoir 780.92 P934
Mayukh Sen Love, Queenie : Merle Oberon, Hollywood's first South Asian star 792.092 O12s
Fei Fei Li The worlds I see : curiosity, exploration, and discovery at the dawn of AI 004.092 L693
Jeffrey L. Amestoy Slavish shore : the odyssey of Richard Henry Dana Jr. 340.092 D16
Cristina Rivera Garza Liliana's invincible summer : a sister's search for justice 362.88 R621
David Sheff Yoko : a biography 700.92 O589

Books, Reading, Publishing, Journalism

David Robinson Stars and skeletons tales of life with my schizophrenic brother 616.898 R658

Business & Economics

Stephen Abram Succeeding in the world of special librarianship 025.5 A161
Ramit Sethi Money for couples : no more stress, no more fights, just a 10-step plan to create your rich life together 332.024 S75m
Ezra Klein Abundance 330.973 K672

Chess

Todd Bardwick Chess endgame workbook : acquiring skills to win close games 794.1 B247c
Todd Bardwick Chess openings : an overview of standard variations 794.1 B247ch
David Rudel The moment of Zuke : critical positions and pivotal decisions for Colle system players 794.122 R832
Alan L. Watson Alekhine's anti-Gruenfeld attack : 1.d4, Nf6 2.c4, g6 3.f3! : a White repertoire against the Indian defenses 794.1225 D70 W337
Lars Schandorff Playing the queen's gambit : a grandmaster guide 794.1225 D06 S311
Neil McDonald Main line Caro-Kann 794.1225 B15 M135
Chris Ward Unusual queen's gambit declined 794.122 W257u
Jaan. Ehlvest The Leningrad Dutch 794.1225 A81 E332
Todd Bardwick Chess tactics and combinations workbook : winning the battles between the pieces 794.1 B247w
Todd Bardwick Chess strategy workbook : a blueprint for developing the best plan 794.1 B247b
Todd Bardwick Chess workbook for children : the chess detective's introduction to the royal game Child 794.1 B247c
Lev Alburt The King in jeopardy 794.12 A345
Roman Pelts Comprehensive chess course. Volume I : learn chess in 12 lessons 794.1 P393
Roman Pelts From beginner to tournament player in 12 lessons 794.1 P393
Todd Bardwick Attacking the chess king workbook : patterns and strategies for successful attacks 794.1 B247a
Thomas Willemze World Chess Champion strategy training for club players : from Bobby Fischer to Ding Liren 794.15 W699
Todd. Bardwick Chess handbook : rules, tactics, and strategies for the improving player Child 794.1 B247
Todd. Bardwick Teaching chess in the 21st century : strategies and connections to a standards-based world Child 794.1 B247
Franco Zaninotto Super chess kids : win like the world's young champions! Child 794.1 Z31
John A. Bain Chess tactics for students Child 794.1 B162

Food & Drink

Scott Clark Coastal : 130 recipes from a California road trip 641.5979 C592
Neal D. Barnard The power foods diet : the breakthrough plan that traps, tames, and burns calories for easy and permanent weight loss 641.563 B253
Bill Harvey The engineer's cookbook 641.5 H341

Health

Naomi Watts Dare I say it : everything I wish I'd known about menopause 618.1 W348

History

Basil Henry Liddell Hart History of the Second World War 940.53 L71
Russell Shorto Taking Manhattan : the extraordinary events that created New York and shaped America 974.71 S56t
Nancy Goldstone The rebel empresses : Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, power and glamour in the struggle for Europe 940.28 G624

Literature & Writing

Scaachi Koul Sucker punch : essays 814.6 K881
Viet Thanh Nguyen To save and to destroy : writing as an other 814.6 N576
Ira Madison Pure innocent fun : essays 814.6 M182
David Rieff Desire and fate 814 S69
Marcel Proust Marcel Proust : letters to his mother. 843 P968Le
Mayumi Inaba Mornings without Mii 895.63 I358
Richard Smith Not a soul but us : a story in 84 sonnets 811.6 S657

Natural Sciences & Mathematics

Thor Hanson Close to home : the wonders of nature just outside your door 577.56 H251
D. J. Spiegelhalter The art of uncertainty : how to navigate chance, ignorance, risk and luck 519.2 S75

Performing Arts & Music

Liz Pelly Mood machine : the rise of Spotify and the costs of the perfect playlist 780.285 P392
Paul Lisicky Song so wild and blue : a life with the music of Joni Mitchell 782.421 L769

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion

Philip Shenon Jesus wept : seven popes and the battle for the soul of the Catholic Church 282.092 S546
Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho Voice for the voiceless : over seven decades of struggle with China for my land and my people 294.3 B917v
Robert Paul Wolff The autonomy of reason : a commentary on Kant's Groundwork of the metaphysic of morals 171 K167
Mel Robbins The let them theory : a life-changing tool that millions of people can't stop talking about 158.1 R63

Social Sciences & Current Events

Colleen Dolan The ghost ship fire : a mother's search for answers 363.37 D659
Joseph F. Johnson Economic theory and social justice 330 J661
James Patterson The secret lives of booksellers and librarians : true stories of the magic of reading 381.45 P317

Sports & Games

Jordan Mechner The making of Prince of Persia : journals, 1985-1993 794.8 M486

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Jerome E Copulsky American heretics : Religious adversaries to liberal order
Robin Reames The ancient art of thinking for yourself : the power of rhetoric in polarized times
Karen Bloom Gevirtz The apothecary's wife : the hidden history of medicine and how it became a commodity
Callan Wink Beartooth : a novel
Fernando A Flores Brother Brontë
Katherine Bucknell Christopher Isherwood inside out
Lisa Unger Close your eyes and count to 10 : a novel
Robert Sullivan Double exposure : Resurveying the west with Timothy O'sullivan, America's most mysterious war photographer
Alexandra Fuller i : a memoir of my son
Joseph O'Connor The ghosts of Rome : the Rome escape line trilogy
Ali Smith Gliff
Tamela J Gordon Hood Wellness : Tales of Communal Care from People Who Drowned on Dry Land
Morgan Falconer How to be avant-garde : modern artists and the quest to end art
Daniel J Levitin I heard there was a secret chord : music as medicine
Julian Winters I think they love you
Charles Bock I Will Do Better : A Father's Memoir of Heartbreak, Parenting, and Love
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Tati Richardson Losing Sight
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William Boyle Saint of the Narrows Street
Ian Goldin The shortest history of migration
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Charlotte Wood Stone yard devotional
Adriana Herrera A tropical rebel gets the duke
Jennifer Risher We need to talk : a memoir about wealth
Lori Ostlund Are you happy? : stories
Olufunke Grace Bankole The edge of water
Manuel Betancourt Hello stranger : musings on modern intimacies
Thomas Perry Pro Bono
Elon Green Last call : a true story of love, lust, and murder in queer New York
Jane Harper The Lost Man
Mayukh Sen Love, Queenie : Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star
Nicole Graev Lipson Mothers and other fictional characters : A memoir in essays
Lynn Hunt The revolutionary self : social change and the emergence of the modern individual 1770-1800
Ryan Hanley Robert Wedderburn : British insurrectionary, Jamaican abolitionist
Linda Gordon Seven social movements that changed America
Russell Shorto Taking Manhattan : the extraordinary events that created New York and shaped America
Cassidy Randall Thirty below : The harrowing and heroic story of the first all-women's ascent of Denali
Layla Martínez Woodworm
Brad Snyder You can't kill a man because of the books he reads : Angelo Herndon's fight for free speech

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Paul Scheer Joyful recollections of trauma
Robert Fisk Night of power : the betrayal of the Middle East
Barbara Sjoholm The Reindeer of Chinese Gardens
Aarathi Prasad Silk : a world history
Robert Paul Wolff Kant's theory of mental activity : A commentary on the transcendental analytic of the critique of pure reason

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Arts, Architecture & Crafts

Francis D. K. Ching A visual dictionary of architecture 720.3 C539

Biography & Genealogy

Eddie Campbell Kate Carew : America's first great woman cartoonist 741.592 C272

Business & Economics

Manisha Thakor MoneyZen : the secret to finding your "enough" 332.024 T364

Chess

Efstratios Grivas Your jungle guide to rook endings 794.124 G872
Dorsa Derakhshani Your jungle guide to unbalancing your opponents : tips & tricks of young chess guns 794.1 D427
Cyrus Lakdawala Chess for hawks : improve your vision, sharpen your talons, forget your fear 794.1 L192c
William Steinitz The Steinitz papers : letters and documents of the first world chess champion 794.1 S822sL

Health

Samantha Boardman Everyday vitality : turning stress into strength 613 B662

History

Will they ever trust us again? : letters from the war zone 355 W689
Michael Walsh A rage to conquer : twelve battles that changed the course of Western history 355 W223

Performing Arts & Music

Arthur. Lyons Death on the cheap : the lost B movies of film noir 791.43 L99

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion

Lynne Twist Living a committed life : finding freedom and fulfillment in a purpose larger than yourself 158 T97
Katty Kay The confidence code : the science and art of self-assurance--what women should know 158.1 K231
Becca Levy Breaking the age code : how your beliefs about aging determine how long & well you live 155.67 L668

Social Sciences & Current Events

Robert Paul. Wolff In defense of anarchism 335.83 W855
Judith. Rodin The resilience dividend : being strong in a world where things go wrong 303.485 R692
Kevin Fagan The lost and the found : a true story of homelessness, found family, and second chances 362.592 F151

Travel & Geography

Christopher Pitts Pocket Beijing 915.1156 L847p
Gill Campbell Greenland 919.8 B812
The rough guide to Brazil. 918.1 R856
Isabel Albiston Chile & Rapa Nui (Easter Island) 918.3 L847
Gemma Askham Fodor's Barcelona 914.67 F653
Robert Andrews Fodor's the Amalfi Coast, Capri, & Naples 914.573 F653
Liz Humphreys Fodor's Florence & Tuscany 914.551 F65
Orlando Crowcroft Hong Kong 915.125 L847
Simon Richmond Korea 915.19 L847

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FICTION

Roisín O'Donnell Nesting Fic O'Donnell
James Baldwin Just above my head Fic Baldwin
Shuangzi Yang Taiwan travelogue : a novel Fic Yang
Thomas Perry Pro Bono Fic Perry

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Arts, Architecture & Crafts

Francis D. K. Ching A visual dictionary of architecture 720.3 C539

Biography & Genealogy

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Business & Economics

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Chess

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Dorsa Derakhshani Your jungle guide to unbalancing your opponents : tips & tricks of young chess guns 794.1 D427
Cyrus Lakdawala Chess for hawks : improve your vision, sharpen your talons, forget your fear 794.1 L192c
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