Here is a sampling of the new materials that were added to the library collection during May:
Fiction Shilpa Agarwal, Haunting Bombay Elizabeth Berg, Home Safe Richard Flanagan, Wanting Laleh Khadivi, The Age of Orphans Elmore Leonard, Road Dogs Henning Mankel, Italian Shoes Anne Michaels, The Winter Vault Joyce Carol Oates, Dear Husband: Stories Iain Pears, Stone’s Fall Ann Stamos, Bitter Tide
Non-Fiction Katherine Brooks, You Majored in What? Mark Cleghorn, The Complete Guide to Light Adrian Desmond & James Moore, Darwin’s Sacred Cause Melanie Falick, Weekend Knitting Edith B. Gelles, Abigail & John Edward Humes, Eco Barons Robert G. Kaiser, So Damn Much Money Mark Kurlansky, The Food of a Younger Land Anne D. LeClaire, Listening Below the Noise Steve Luxenberg, Annie’s Ghosts Desmond Morris, Amazing Baby Johan Van Overtveldt, Bernanke’s Test Adam Shepard, Scratch Beginnings
Biography Simon Dixon, Catherine the Great Elizabeth Edwards, Resilience Gillian Gill, We Two Shawn Levy, Paul Newman: A Life Gerald Martin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life Azar Nafisi, Things I’ve Been Silent About Jennifer Scanlon, Bad Girls Go Everywhere Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, This Child Will Be Great
Poetry John Updike, Endpoint and Other Poems
Books on CD Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow John Sandford, Wicked Prey
DVDs The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Last Chance Harvey Taken
During April, we added more than 700 items to our collection. Here is just a sample:
Fiction Frederick Barthelme, Waveland Harlan Coben, Long Lost Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone Jami Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jane Hamilton, Laura Rider’s Masterpiece Jean Hanff Korelitz, Admission Alexander McCall Smith, Tea Time for the Traditionally Built Anne Michaels, The Winter Vault James Patterson, The 8th Confession Lisa Scottoline, Look Again Deirdre Shaw, Love or Something Like It
Non-Fiction Margaret Atwood, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth Laura Arens Fuerstein, My Mother, My Mirror Beverly Gage, The Day Wall Street Exploded Jack Horner and James Gorman, How To Build a Dinosaur David Magee, How Toyota Became #1 P. J. O’Rourke, Driving Like Crazy Fred Pearce, Earth Then and Now Adrienne Rich, A Human Eye Tom Robbins, B Is for Beer Julia A. Ross, How To Hug a Porcupine Martha Stewart, Encyclopedia of Craft
Biography Matthew Algeo, Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure Neal Bascomb, Hunting Eichman Thomas Buergenthal, A Lucky Child Catherine Clinton, Mrs. Clinton T. J. Stiles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt Lee Woodruff, Perfectly Imperfect
Books on CD Nevada Barr, Borderline Diane Mott Davidson, Fatally Flaky Elizabeth Warren & Amelia Warren Tyagi, All Your Worth
DVDs Bride Wars The Day the Earth Stood Still Doubt Frost/Nixon The Reader The Wrestler
During March we added more than 550 new items to our collection. Here is just a sample:
Fiction William Bernhardt, Nemesis: The Final Case of Eliot Ness Andrea Camilleri, August Heat Ray Bradbury, We’ll Always Have Paris: Stories Mary Gaitskill, Don’t Cry: Stories Barbara Hall, The Music Teacher Todd Johnson, The Sweet By and By Jim Lehrer, Oh, Johnny Walter Mosley, The Long Fall James Patterson, Max Malcolm Shuman, The Levee Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone A. N. Wilson, Winnie and Wolf: A Novel
Non-Fiction Liaquat Ahamed, Lords of Finance Tom Aitken, One Hundred & One Beautiful Towns in Great Britain Mark Caro, The Foie Gras Wars Simon Daley with Roshan Hirani, Cooking With My Indian Mother-in-Law Nicky Epstein, Knitting on Top of the World David Grann, The Lost City of Z Joseph T. Hallinan, Why We Make Mistakes Stephen Hinshaw, The Triple Bind Nancy Harmon Jenkins, The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook Gerard Koeppel, Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire Paul Krugman, The Return of Depression Economics David McGonigal, Antarctica Dev Patnaik, Wired To Care David E. Sanger, The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power Kimberly K. Smith, Powering Our Future
Biography Blake Bailey, Cheever: A Life Allen Barra, Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee Peter S. Canellos, ed., The Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy Cari Beauchamp, Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years Robert Crawford, The Bard: Robert Burns
Poetry Pablo Neruda, World’s End Cole Swensen and David St. John, American Hybrid: Norton Anthology of New Poetry
Books on CD John Grisham, The Associate Conn Iggulden, Genghis: Bones of the Hills Robert Parker, Night and Day Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
Teen Melissa de la Cruz, Blue Bloods Margarita Engle, The Surrender Tree Alison Goodman, Eon: Dragonfly Reborn Sherri Smith, Flygirl
DVDs Cadillac Records Elegy Milk Rachel Getting Married Synecdoche, New York
During February we added more than 450 new items to our collection. Here is just a sample:
Fiction Lauren Graff, Delicate Edible Birds Slavenka Drakulic, Frida’s Bed Helen Garner, The Spare Room Robert B. Parker, Night and Day Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care Lewis Robinson, Water Dogs Dana Stabenow, Whisper to the Blood Olen Steinhauer, The Tourist Paul Waters, The Republic of Vengeance Elie Wiesel, A Mad Desire To Dance
Non-Fiction Mark Bauerlein, The Dumbest Generation Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum, Keeping Bees and Making Honey Stephen Johnson, The Invention of Air Stephanie Klein, Moose Ann Mendelson, Milk Phyllis Montana-Leblanc, Not Just the Levees Broke David Reed, Mortgages 101 Eric Sundquist, King’s Dream Neil DeGrasse-Tyson, The Pluto Files Jena Waginrich, Made from Scratch
Biography Brad Gooch, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor George M. Marsden, A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards
Books on CD James Patterson, Run for Your Life Stuart Woods, Mounting Fears