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Recent Acquisitions - Adult

New materials at the Canton Public Library
AUGUST 22, 2012
Recenty Acquisitions: September


Fiction

Paul Auster, Winter Journal
Benjamin Black, Vengeance
Ivan Doig, The Bartender's Tale
Paul Doiron, Bad Little Falls
Karen Fossum, The Caller
Philippa Gregory, The Kingmaker's Daughter
Frances Itani, Requiem
Kate Kitamura, Gone to the Forest
Simon Mawer, Trapeze
Ruth Rendell, The St. Zita Society
Stephen White, Line of Fire
Elie Wiesel, Hostage



Non-Fiction

Nicholas Baker, The Way the World Works
Jesse Bering, Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?
Troy Bickham, The Weight of Vengeance
Stanley Coren, Do Dogs Dream?
Richard Hatch, A Rich Spot of Earth
Marie de Hennezel, The Art of Growing Old
Jake Kelly, The Graves Are Walking
Senator Joe Lieberman, The Gift of Rest
Callum Roberts, The Ocean of Life
Neal Stephenson, Some Remarks
Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
Bryan Sykes, DNA USA
Andrea Wulf, Chasing Venus



Biography

Amanda Bennet, The Cost of Hope
Susan Gubar, Memoir of a Debulked Woman
Helen Rappaport, The Magnificent Obsession
Gerald Schoenfeld, Mr. Broadway
Bob Spitz, The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
Alex Stone, Fooling Houdini



Book on CD

Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
Jeanne Ray, Calling
John Sandford, Stolen Prey
Marcus Samuelsson, Yes, Chef
Alexander McCall Smith, The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection




Teen

Andrea Cremer, Rift
Susan Dennard, Something Strange and Deadly
Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
James Patterson, Never-More
Sarah Rubin, Someday Dancer




DVD

Foreign Letters
Hospitalite
The Hunger Games
Jean-Luc Godard, 3-Disc Collection
Page Eight
Salmon Fishing on the Yemen






























































































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JULY 27, 2012
Recenty Acquisitions: June
Fiction

Roberto Ampuero, The Neruda Case
Peter Carey, The Chemistry of Tears
Elin Hilderbrand, Summerland
Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse
Frances Itani, Requiem
Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines
James Robbins, Blood Line
Harry Turtledove, Coup d'Etat
Lisa Unger, Heartbroke



Non-Fiction


Ross Chapin, Pocket Neighborhoods
Abigail Gehring, The Homesteading Handbook
Rob Hopkins, The Transition Company
Rachel Kaplan, Urban Homesteading
Christopher Koch, Consciousness
Brian Latell, Castro's Secrets
David Leff, Hidden in Plain Sight
Madeline Levine, Teach Your Children Well
Andrew Robinson, Cracking the Egypt Code
David Weinberger, Too Big To Know
Edmund O. Wilson, The Social Conquest of Earth



Biography


Peter Rader, Mike Wallace, A Life
Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez, Along the Way



Book on CD


Stephen Carter, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
Janet Evanovich, Wicked Business
Mark Haddon, The Red House
Charlaine Harris, Deadlocked
E. L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
E. L. James, Fifty Shades Darker
E. L. James, Fifty Hades Freer
Alexander McCall Smith, The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
Anna Quindlen, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake


Teen

Michael Grant, Fear: A Gone Novel
John Wilson, Death on the River

Garth Nix, A Confusion of Princes


DVD

The Artiste
The Deep Blue Sea
The Diamond Queen
Hatfields & McCoys
Sherlock
This Means War























































































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JUNE 16, 2012
"Recemt Acquisitions for June 1, 2012"
Fiction

Andrea Camilleri, The Age of Doubt
Richard Ford, Canada
Alan Furst, Mission to Paris
Mark Haddon, The Red House
Chris Knopf, Ice Cap:  A Mystery
The Harvard Lampoon, The Hunger Pains:  A Parody
Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bones
John Irving, In One Person
Alexander McCall Smith, A Conspiracy of Friends
Toni Morrison, Home
Charles Todd, An Unmarked Grave


Non-Fiction


Jimmy Carter, Through the Year with Jimmy Carter
Stephen Colbert, I Am a Pole (And So Can You!)
Fodor's Scotland
Erin Freuchtel-Dearing, Natural Wooden Toys
Jack Hitt, Bunch of Amateurs
Peter Kaminsky, Culinary Intelligence
Will Jones, How To Read New York
Peter Meyers, Kindle Fire
David Pogue, Switching to the Mac
Leanne Prain, Hoopla:  The Art of Unexpected Embroidery
Dan Zevin, Dan Gets a Minivan



Biography


Alan Brinkley, John F. Kennedy
Douglas Brinkley, Cronkite
Leon Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix
Eloisa James, Paris in Love
Mary C. Neal, To Heaven and Back
Anthony Shadid, House of Stone
Francis Slakey, To the Last Breath



Book on CD


Clive Cussler, The Storm
Richard Ford, Canada


Teen

Kathryn J. Atwood, Women Heroes of World War II
Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls
Melissa De La Cruz, Lost in Time
Lauren Kate, Rapture
Elizabeth Scott, Miracle
Dan Wells, Partials



DVD

Coriolanus











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MAY 18, 2012
Recent Acquisitions for June 1, 2012


Fiction


Alex Adams, White Horse
Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker's Lullaby:  A Spenser Novel
M. C. Beaton, Death of a Kingfisher
Nell Freudenberger, The Newlyweds
Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present
Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole
Christopher Moore, Sacre Bleu
Herta Muller, The Hunger Angel
Andre Neuman, Traveler of the Century
Ann Perry, Dorchester Terrace
Amanda Quick, Crystal Gardens
Joseph Saramago, Manual of Painting and Calligraphy:  A Novel
Lionel Shriver, The New Republic


Non-Fiction

Richard Aldous, Reagan and Thatcher
Elisabeth Badinter, The Conflict:  How Modern Motherhood Undermines
    the Status of Women

Jonathan Franzen, Farther Away
Jon Gertner, The Idea Factory
Marin Goodavage, Soldier Dog
Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind
A.J. Jacobs, Drop Dead Healthy
Jonah Lehrer, I Imagine:  How Creativity Works
Rachel Maddow, Drift
Jonathan Sarna, Why General Grant Expelled the Jews
Ian Stewart, Taming the Infinite
Margaret Sullivan, The Jane Austen Handbook



Biography

Walter B. Borneman, The Admiral
Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?
Frank Deford, Over Time:  My Life as a Sportswriter
Rodney King, The Riot Within
Anna Quindlen, Lots of Candy, Plenty of Cake
Dan Rather, Rather Outspoken



Teen

R. J. Anderson, Ultraviolet
Karen Blumenthal, Steve Jobs
Kim Harrington, Clarity
Pete Hautman, The Obsidian Blade
Klutz, The Encyclopedia of Immortality, Vol. I and II
James Patterson, The Fire
Mark Shulman, Scrawl



DVD
Prairie Love












































































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APRIL 27, 2012
Recent Acquisitions for May 1, 2012


Fiction

David Baldacci, The Innocent
Simon Brett, Guns in the Gallery
Harlan Coben, Stay Close
John Grisham, Calico Joe
Lauren Groff, Arcadia
Sanjay Gupta, Monday Mornings
Iris Johansen, What Doesn’t Kill You
Deborah Copaken Kagen, The Red Book
Philip Kerr, Prague Fatals
Ron Rash, The Cove
Lisa Scottoline, Come Home
Olen Steinhauer, An American Spy
Stuart Woods, Unnatural Acts



Non-Fiction

Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Gina Barreca, ed., Make Mine a Double
Richard Freeman, The Mirror of Yoga
Philip Galanes, Social Q’s
Michael Gazzaniga, Who’s in Charge?
Mark R. Levin, Ameritopia
Rhonda Massingham Hart, Vertical Vegetables & Fruit
Kate Payne, The Hip Girl’s Guide to Homemaking
Barb Stuckey, Taste What You’re Missing
Larry E. Swedroe, Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make
Laura Vanderkam, All the Money in the World
John Whyte, Is This Normal?




Biography

Hugh Brewster, Gilded Lives, Fatal Journey
Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles
Jenny Lawson, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
Howard Frank Mosher, The Great Northern Express
John Ramsey, The Other Side of Suffering



Teen

Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time
Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments
Ally Condie, Matched
Madeleine George, The Difference Between You and Me
April Henry, Girl, Stolen
Carl Hiaasen, Chomp
D.J. MacHale, Morpheus Road:  The Blood
Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Alexander Gordon Smith, Escape from Furnace:  Fugitives
David Weber, A Beautiful Friendship



Books on CD

Deepak Chopra, Spiritual Solutions
Rachel Maddow, Drift




DVD

A Dangerous Mind
The Descendants
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Iron Lady
J. Edgar
King of Devil’s Island
War Horse
We Bought a Zoo




































































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MARCH 28, 2012
Recent Acquisitions for April 1, 2012
Fiction
A.S. Byatt, Ragnarok:  The End of the Gods
Vince Flynn, Kill Shot
Alex George, A Good American
Noah Hawley, The Good Father
J.A. Jance, Left for Dead
Hari Kunzru, Gods Without Men
Donna Leon, Beastly Things
Christopher Moore, Sacre Bleu
James Patterson, Guilty Wives
Lief G.W. Persson, Another Time, Another Life
Kim Scott,That Deadman Dance
Alexander McCall Smith, The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
David Snodin, Iago
Joseph Wambaugh, Harbor Nocturne


Non-Fiction
Susan Cain, Quiet
George Dyson, Turing's Cathedral
Robert Dinwiddie, Violent Earth
Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight
Eric Klinenberg, Going Solo
Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan on the Brink
Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
Marcy Smith, The Best of Crochet
Louise Taylor, The Ceramics Bible
Kate Whouley, Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words
Jeffrey Zaslow, The Magic Room


Biography

Jean H. Baker, Margaret Sanger
Julia Fox, Sister Queens
Karen Gravano, Mob Daughter
Anne LaMott, Some Assembly Required
Alexander Masters, Simon:  The Genius in the Basement


Teen
Megan Crewe, The Way We Fall
Sara Wilson Etienne, Harbinger
Beth Revis, A Million Suns
Sara Ryan, Empress of the World
Joe Schreiber, Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick
Yvonne Woon, Dead Beautiful


Books on CD

Peggielene Bartels, King Peggy
George Dyson, Turings's Cathedral
Noah Hawley, The Good Father
Tami Hoag, Down the Darkest Road
Sophie Kinsella, I've Got Your Number
Matthew Pearl, The Technologists
Anne Rice, The Wolf Gift


DVD
Before Your Eyes
The Broken Tower
Courageous
A Dangerous Method
The Elephant in the Room
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (American version)
Hugo
Melancholia
My Week with Marilyn
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Worst in Show



































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FEBRUARY 22, 2012
Recent Acquisitions for March 1, 2012

Fiction

Niccola Ammaniti, Me and You
Ramona Ausubel, No One Is Here but All of Us
Alex Berenson, The Shadow Patrol
Dan Charon,Stay Awake
Frank Delaney, The Last Storyteller
Jonathan Kellerman, Victims
Thomas Mallon, Watergate, A Novel
Matthew Pearl, The Technologists
Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
J. D. Robb, Celebrity in Death
Peter Sis, The Conference of the Birds
Ellen Ullman, By Blood



Non-Fiction
Raymond Bonner, Anatomy of Injustice
William J. Broad, The Science of Yoga
Pamela Druckerman, Bringing Up Bebe
Russ Feingold, While America Sleeps
Jessica Fellows, The World of Downton Abbey
Dave Isay, All There Is
Sebastian Seung, Connectome
Timothy Snyder, Thinking the Twentieth Century
Philip Taubman, The Partnership
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Space Chronicles
David C. Unger, The Emergency State
Tim Weiner, Enemies:  A History of the FBI
Alic Wilkinson, The Ice Balloon



Biography
Mimi Alford, Once upon a Secret
Stacy A. Cordery, Juliette Gordon Low
Chris Kyle, American Sniper
Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower:  In War and Peace



Teen

Sarah Dessen, Dreamland
Beth Fantaskey, Jessica Rules the Dark Side
Adrain McKinty, Deviant
Lisa McMann, Dead to You
Robert Sharenow, The Berlin Boxing Club
Thomas E. Sniegoski, The Fallen (3)--End of Days



Books on CD

Bill Clinton, Back to Work
P. D. James, Death Comes to Pemberley
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
Faye Kellerman, Gun Games
Jo Nesbo, The Leopard
Sally Bedell Smith, Elizabeth the Queen
Tim Weiner, Enemies:  A History of the FBI



DVD
Abduction
The Guard
Luther
Luther, Season 2
Martha March May Marlene
Mighty Macs
Tower Heist
The Way
The Whistleblower
Whitechapel:  The Ripper Returns
























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JANUARY 28, 2012
Recent Acquisitions for February 1, 2012

Fiction
Alice Albinia, Leila's Book
Dave Barry, Lunatics
Simon Brett, Bones Under the Beach Hut
Robert Crais, Taken
H. Terrell Griffin, Collateral Damage
Tessa Harris, The Anatomist's Apprentice
Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man
Stuart O'Nan, The Odds
Edward St. Aubyn, At Last
Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs of Youth
Larry Watson, American Boy



Non-Fiction

John M. Barry, Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul
Wael Ghonim, Revolution 2.0
Vicki Goldberg, The White House
Billy Graham, Nearing Home
Andrea Hiott, Thinking Small
Ellie Krieger, Comfort Food Fix
Jamie Oliver, Meals in Minutes
Clara Parkes, The Knitter's Book of Socks
Steven Jay Schneider, 1001 Movies
David Sparks, iPad at Work
University of Chicago, The Chicago Manual of Style



Biography
Natalie Dykstra, Clover Adams
Michael Kranish and Scott Helman, The Real Romney
Eric Weiner, Man Seeks God



Teen
Michelle Cooper, A Brief History of Montmaray
Sarah Shepard, Never Have I Ever



Books on CD
Bernard Cornwell, Death of Kings
Matthew Reilly, Scarecrow Returns



DVD
Anonymous
Dream House
Drive
The Elephant in the Living Room
Green Lantern
The Ides of March
Moneyball
The Other F Word
Real Steal
When Rome Ruled



















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JANUARY 6, 2012
Recent Acquisitions for January 1, 2012
Fiction
Tom Clancy, Locked On
Michael Connelly, The Drop
Robin Cook, Death Benefit
Patricia Cornwell, Red Mist
Michael Crichton, Micro
Don Delillo, The Angel Esmeralda
Anita Desai, The Artist of Disappearance
Janet Evanovich, Explosive Eighteen
Diana Gabaldon, The Scottish Prisoner
Elizabeth George, Believing the Lie
Anthony Horowitz, The House of Silk
P. D. James, Death Comes to Pemberly
Penelope Lively, How It All Began
Jo Nesbo, The Leopard
Charles Todd, The Confession
Thrifty Umrigen, The World We Found
Stuart Woods, D. C. Dead

Non-Fiction
Lori Andrews, I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did
Anni Daulter, The Organic Family Cookbook
Thomas Byrne Edsall, The Age of Austerity
Meg Favreau, Little Old Lady Recipes
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Life upon These Shores
Daniel Kahnaman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
Lawrence M, Krauss, A Universe from Nothing
Dr. Louis E. Lagrand, Healing Grief, Finding Peace
Bee Yinn Low, Easy Chinese Cooking
Neil McGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects
Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln
Jacque Pepin, Essential Pepin
Rachel Emma Silverman, Complete Estate Planning Guide
Philip Taubman, The Partnership

Biography

Brad Asher, Cecilia and Fanny
Carrie Fisher, Shockaholic
James Garner, The Garner Files
Stephanie Madoff Mack, The End of Normal
Andrew Marr, The Real Elizabeth
Regis Philbin, How I Got This Way
Sally Bedell Smith, Elizabeth the Queen
Alison Weir, Mary Boleyn

Teen
Harlan Coben, Shelter
Sophie Jordan, Vanish
Marie Lu, Legend
Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
James Patterson, The Fire
Cassandra Prince, Clockwork Prince
Kristen Tracy, Sharks and Boys
Robinson Wells, Variant

Books on CD

Michael Crichton, Micro
Stephen King, 11/22/63

DVD
Cowboys and Aliens
The Eagle
Exportiong Raymond
Friends with Benefits
Hangover Part II
The Help
Midnight in Paris
Queen of Hearts

















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NOVEMBER 26, 2011
Recent Acquisitions for December 1, 2011

Fiction
Clive Cussler, Devil’s Gate
Sue Grafton, V Is for Vengeance
Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers
Susan Hill, The Betrayal of Trust
Hillary Jordan, When She Woke
Jeff Lindsay, Double Dexter
Chuck Palahniuk, Damned
James Patterson, Kill Alex Cross
Ian Rankin, The Impossible Dead
Jose Saramago, Cain
Coleson Whitehead, Zone One


Non-Fiction
Brett Bara, Sewing in a Straight Line
Patrick J. Buchanan, Suicide of a Superpower
Bill Clinton, Back to Work
Jonathan Dixon, Beaten ,Seared, and Sauced
Fodor’s Caribbean 2012
Fodor’s New York City 2012
Jeff Jarvis, Public Parts
Annie Liebowitz, Pilgrimage
Caroline Moorehead, A Train in Winter
Susan Orlean, Rin Tin Tin
Chuck Pfarrer, Seal Target Geronimo
Dava Sobel, A More Perfect Heaven


Biography
Mary Clearman Blew, This Is Not the Ivy League
Joan Didion, Blue Nights
Gabrielle Giffords & Mark Kelly, Gabby
Diane Keaton, Then Again
Robert K. Massie, Catherine the Great
Chris Matthews, Jack Kennedy, Elusive Hero
Shaquille O’Neal, Shaq Uncut
Lisa Rogak, And Nothing But the Truthiness:  The Rise (and Further Rise) of Stephen Colbert
Charles J. Shields, And So It Goes:  Kurt Vonnegut, A Life


Poetry
Bo Yenhwa, Fearless Expression


Teen
Tyra Banks, Modelland
Melinda de la Cruz, Misguided Angel
Alan Cumyn, Tilt
Suzanne Dunlap, In the Shadow of the Lamp
Katherine Easer, Vicious Little Darling
Jennifer Anne Kogler, The Death Catchers
Jessica Warman, Between
Scott Westerfeld, Goliath


Books on CD

Tom Brokaw, The Time of Our Lives
Deepak Chopra, War of the Worldviews
Paul Coelho, Aleph
Joan Didion, Blue Nights
Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery
Charles Frazier, Nightwoods
Diana Gabaldon, The Scottish Prisoner
Jeff Lindsay, Double Dexter



DVD
Beginners
Larry Crowne
Life in a Day
The Piano in a Factory
Pirates of the Caribbean on Stranger Tides
Sarah’s Key
Super 8








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NOVEMBER 23, 2011
Recent Acquisitions for November
November 1, 2011
Recent Acquisitions

Fiction
Arnaldur Indrideson, Operation Napoleon
David Baldacci, Zero Day
Chris Bohjalian, The Night Strangers
Anne Enright, The Forgotten Waltz
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
Charles Frazier, Nightwoods
John Grisham, The Litigators
Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers
William Kennedy, Chango’s Beads and Two-tone Shoes
Michael Ondaatje, The Cat’s Table
Louise Penny, A Trick of the Light
Ruth Rendell, The Vault
Charles Todd, A Bitter Truth


Non-Fiction

Margaret Atwood, In Other Worlds
Tom Brokaw, The Time of Our Lives
Mika Brzezinski, Knowing Your Value
Amy Cotler, The Locavore Way
Olivia Harrison, George Harrison:  Living in the Material World
Tony Horowitz, Midnight Rising
Robert Hughes, Rome
David Margolik, Elizabeth and Hazel, Two Women of Little Rock
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem
Ron Suskind, Confidence Men
Amy Traverso, The Apple Lover’s Cookbook
Barry Turner, ed., The Statesman’s Yearbook, 2012
Daniel Yergin, The Quest


Biography
Harry Belafonte, My Song
Paul Hendirckson, Hemingway’s Boat
Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Jacqueline Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy:  Historic Conversations
John Lithgow, Drama
Jane Lynch, Happy Accidents
Joe McGinnis, The Rogue
Michael Moore, Here Comes Trouble

Condoleezza Rice, No Higher Honor
Art Spiegelman, MetaMaus


Poetry

Tomas Transtromer, The Great Enigma



Teen

Richard Dawkins, The Magic of Reality
Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence
Margaret Johnson, The Name of the Star
A.S. King, Everybody Sees the Ants
Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
Amy Reed, Beautiful
Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Racers
Kate Thompson, Creature of the Night
Melissa Walker, Small Town Sinners
Rick Yancey, The Isle of Blood


Books on CD

Chris Bohjalian, The Night Strangers
Lee Child, The Affair
Jane Fonda, Prime Time
John Grisham, The Litigators
David Guterson, Ed King
John Lithgow, Drama
Michael Ondaatje, The Cat’s Table


DVD
Captain America:  The First Avenger
Green Lantern
Horrible Bosses
Karen Cries on the Bus
Prohibition
Protektor
Scream













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NOVEMBER 23, 2011
Recent Acquisitions for October

October 1, 2011
Recent Acquisitions

Fiction
Michael Brandman, Robert B. Parker’s Killing the Blues
James Lee Burke, Feast Day of Fools
Lee Child, The Affair
Fabio Geda, In the Sea There Are Crocodiles
Alexander McCall Smith, The Dog Who Came In from the Cold
Neal Stephenson, Reamde
Gordon Reece, Mice
John Sandford, Shock Wave
Stuart Woods, Son of Stone


Non-Fiction
David Eagleton, Incognito
Jsne Fonda, Prime Time
Christopher Hitchens, Arguably:  Essays
Penn Jillette, God, No!
Helge Kragh, Higher Speculations
Andrew Martin, How To Get Things Really Flat
Moosewood Collective, Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites
Robert S. Porter, ed., Merck Manual, 19th Ed.
Dana Priest and William Arkin, Top Secret America
Meg Ray, Miette
Martin Storey, Nordic Knits
Sherri Brooks Vinton, Put ‘Em Up!
Yale Daily News, The Insider’s Guide to the Colleges


Biography
Dick Cheney, In My Time
Mary Johnson, An Unquenchable Thirst
Dorothy Wickenden, Nothing Daunted



Teen
Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Hegemon
John Michael Greer, Monsters: An Investigator’s Guide to Magical Beings
Paul Griffin, Stay with Me
Kirsten Miller, All You Desire
Elizabeth Scott, As I Wake
Jason Wallace, Out of Shadows



Books on CD
James Lee Burke, Feast Day of Fools
Clive Cussler, The Race



DVD
Bridesmaid
Fringe, Season 3
The Good Wife, Season 2
The Kennedys
Listen to Your Heart
Mansfield Park








































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NOVEMBER 23, 2011
Recent Acquisitions for September


September 1, 2011
Recent Acquisitions

Fiction
Melanie Benjamin, The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
Benjamin Black, A Death in Summer
Robert Olen Butler, A Small Hotel
Karin Fossum, Bad Intentions
Lars Kepler, The Hypnotist
Hisham Matar, Anatomy of a Disappearance
Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
James Patterson, Now You See Her
Esmeralda Santiago, Conquistadora
Maxine Swann, The Foreigners
Brad Thor, Full Black
David Whitehouse, Bed


Non-Fiction
David Browne, Fire and Rain
Gerald Early, A Level Playing Field
Soleil Moon Frye, Happy Chaos
Ronald Kessler, The Secrets of the FBI
Michael Litchfield, In-laws, Outlaws, and Granny Flats
John Julius Norwich, Absolute Monarchs
Jeff Madrich, Age of Greed
Ben Mezrich, Sex on the Moon
Pat Shipman, The Animal Connection
Rachel Shteir, The Steal:  A Cultural History of Shoplifting
Frederick Taylor, Exorcising Hitler


Biography
Kevin Mitnick, Ghost in the Wires


Teen
Lauren Baratz-Logste, The Education of Bet
Cynthia Hand, Unearthly
Tanuja Desai Hidier, Born Confused
Brian Meehl, You Don’t Know About Me
L. A. Weatherly, Angel Burn
Andrea White, Windows on the World

Books on CD

Felix Francis, Dick Francis’s Gamble
W. E. B. Griffin, Victory and Honor
Kathy Reichs, Flash and Bone
Lisa Unger, Darkness, My Old Friend
Judy Warrick, The Triple Agent


DVD
The Conspirator
Gracecard
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
Jane Eyre
Life During Wartime
Limitless
Little Sparrows
Madagascar
A Small Act
Something Borrowed
Soul Surfer
Sympathy for Delicious
Terminator Salvation
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Win Win































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NOVEMBER 23, 2011
Recent Acquisitions for August

August 1, 2011
Recent Acquisitions

Fiction
David Baldacci, One Summer
Carol Birch, Jamrach’s Menagerie
Kate Christensen, The Astral
Laura Dave, The First Husband

Jeffrey Deaver, Carte Blanche
Meg Gardiner, The Nightmare Thief
Elly Griffins, The House at Sea’s End
Steve Hamilton, Misery Bay
Debbie Macomber, A Turn in the Road
Lee Martin, Break the Skin
Eric Van Lustbader, The Bourne Dominion


Non-Fiction
Mary Carlomagno, Live More, Want Less
Howard Dully, My Lobotomy
Fodor’s, Washington, DC  2011
Frances Sheridan Goulart, Super Immunity Foods
Ann Larkin Hansen, Organic Farming Manual
Annie Jacobsen, Area 51
David Mamet, The Secret Knowledge
James Andrew Miller, Those Guys Have All the Fun
Jo Myers, Good To Go
Rick Peters, Plumbing:  The Home How-to Handbook
Nina Sankovitch, Tolstoy and the Purple Chair


Biography
Patricia Gilman, The Anti-Romantic Child
Shirley MacLaine, I’m Over All That
David Roberts, Finding Everett Ruess
Joby Warrick, The Triple Agent


Teen
Judy Blundell, Strings Attached
Pete Hautman, Blank Confession
                            The Big Crunchy
Madeleine L’Engle, The Joys of Love
Rebecca Lim, Mercy
Alex Sanchez, Boyfriends with Girlfriends
Michael Scott, The Warlock
Gillian Summers, The Quicksilver Faire

Books on CD

Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got
J.A. Jance, Betrayal of Trust
Ben Mezrich, Sex on the Moon
Joby Warrick, The Triple Agent
Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse


DVD

Arthur
The Confessions
The Lincoln Lawyer
Prince Among Slaves
Source Code
Through Deaf Eyes
Vanishing of the Bees



























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NOVEMBER 23, 2011
Recent Acquisitions for July

July 1, 2011
Recent Acquisitions
 
Fiction

Mark Dunn, Under the Harrow
David Ignatius, Blood Money
Michael Koryta, The Ridge
Chris Knopf, Black Swan
Mary Alice Monroe, The Butterfly’s Daughter
Tom McNeal, To Be Sung Underwater
Bharati Mukherjee, Miss New India
Kevin Murphy, The Gandy Dancers
Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
Rebecca Rasmussen, The Bird Sisters
Lisa See, Dreams of Joy
Rachel Simon, The Story of the Beautiful Girl
Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse
 
 

Nonfiction


Ann Coulter, Demonic
Claire Garland, Knit & Purl Pets
Ann Larkin Hansen, Organic Farming Manual
Harold Holzer, Lincoln on War
Pauline Ineson, How To Create an Heirloom Quilt
Lia Leendert, The Twilight Garden
Joanne Sanderson, 3-D Rubber Stamping
Lee Schneller, The Ever-blooming Flower Garden
Mark Seal, The Man in the Rockefeller Suit
Len Solesky and James Cain, The Physics of Pitching
Terry Walters, Clean Start
Richard White, Railroaded
 
 

Biography


Chaz Bono, Transition
Melissa Coleman, This Life Is in Your Hands
Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes
Oscar Hijuelos, Thoughts Without Cigarettes
Kostya Kennedy, 56:  Joe DeMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports
Howard Waskin and Stephen Templin, Seal Team Six
 
 
Teen

Ann-Laure Baondoux, A Time of Miracles
Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
Catherine Jinks, The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group
Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now
Tim Tharp, Badd
 
 
Books on CD

Tina Fey, Bossypants
Amanda Hodgkinson, 22 Britannia Road
Ruth Rendell, An Unkindness of Ravens
 
 
 
DVD

The Company Men
True Grit
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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JUNE 8, 2011
Recent Acquisitions: June
Fiction
Lawrence Block, A Drop of the Hard Stuff
Erin Brockovich, Rock Bottom
Albert Brooks, 2030
Dale Brown, A Time for Patriots
Margaret Drabble, A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman
Jennifer Haigh, Faith
Pete Hamill, Tabloid City
Edna O’Brien, Saints and Sinners
Sarita Mandanna, Tiger Hills
Jo Nesbo, The Snowman
Francine Prose, My New American Life
John Sandford, Buried Prey

Non-Fiction
Sarah Burns, The Central Park Five
Robert Lane Greene, You Are What You Speak
J. M. Hirsch, High Flavor, Low Labor
Henry Kissinger, On China
Dalai Lama, How To Be Compassionate
Robin Lane Fox, Thoughtful Gardening
Donna Leon, Handel’s Bestiary
Sloan Miller, Allergic Girl
Marilynne Robinson, Absence of Mind
Jeff Shaara, The Final Storm
John Thorne, Baseball in the Garden of Eden

Biography
Andrew E. Kersten, Clarence Darrow
Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts
Rob Lowe, Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Ian O’Connor, The Captain: The Journey of Derek Jeter

Books on CD
Andre Dubus III, Townie
Kate Morton, The Distant Hours
Kate Nicholl, The Making of a Royal Romance
Robert Parker, Sixkill

DVD
Blue Valentine
The Client List
Faster
Green Hornet
Killers
No Strings Attached
Nowhere Boy
The Tourist
Welcome to the Rileys

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MARCH 16, 2011
Recent Acquisitions: March
Fiction
T. C.Boyle, When the Killing’s Done
Orson Scott Card, The Lost Gate
Louise Dean, The Old Romantic
W. E.B. Griffin, The Outlaws
Mo Hayden, Gone
Benjamin Hale, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
Alice Hoffman, The Red Garden
Liza Marklund, Red Wolf
Michelle Moran, Madame Tussand
Karen Russell, Swamplandia
Stuart Woods, Santa Fe Edge

Non-Fiction
Peter L. Bergen, The Longest War
Frank Close, Neutrino
Richard Cohen, Chasing the Sun
George Friedman, The Next Decade
Wendy Kopp, A Chance To Make History
Jane McGonigal, Reality Is Broken
Genevieve Miller, Vampire Knits
Keith Olbermann, Pitchforks and Torches
Shubhra Ramineni, Entice with Spice
Ian Sample, Massive
Kurt Timmermeister, Growing a Farmer
Sarah Z. Wexler, Living Large
Sara Wheeler, The Magnetic North

Biography
King Abdullah II of Jordan, Our Last Best Chance
Laurent Bouzereau, Hitchcock:  Piece by Piece
Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman
Stefan Kanfer, Tough Without a Gun
Kenneth Slawenski, J. D. Salinger
Jim Steinmeyer, The Last Great Magician in the World

Books on CD
Cecilia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow
Joanna Fluke, Devil’s Food Cake Murder
Brian Greene, The Hidden Reality
Mike Huckabee, A Simple Government
Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow’s Story

DVD
Burlesque
The Girl
It’s Kind of a Funny Story
Love & Other Drugs
127 Hours
Unstoppable
You Again

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011
Recent Acquisitions: February

Fiction
David Baldacci, Hell’s Corner
Michael Connelly, The Reversal
Robert Crais, The Sentry
Charles Finch, A Stranger in Mayfair
Michael Koryta, The Cypress House
Joyce Carol Oates, Give Me Your Heart
James Patterson, Tick Tock
Jed Rubenfeld, The Death Instinct
Colm Toibin, The Empty Family:  Stories
Charles Todd, A Lonely Death
Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany

Non-Fiction
D.K. Eyewitness Travel: Where To Go:  Great Britain and Ireland
John W. Dower, Cultures of War
Conor Grennan, Little Princes
Richard Heinberg, Peak Everything
Brian Hicks, Toward the Setting Sun
V.S. Ramachandran, The Tell-tale Brain
Daniel Rasmussen, American Uprising
Michael Reagan, The New Reagan Revolution
Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Surviving a Shark Attack on Land
Elizabeth V. Warren, Quilts

Biography
Mira Bartok, The Memory Palace
Michael Caine, The Elephant to Hollywood
Josh Kilmer-Purcell, The Bucolic Plague
Ron Reagan, My Father at 100

Books on CD

David Sedaris, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
Dick Francis and Felix Francis, Crossfire
Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
George Friedman, The Next Decade
Julia Glass, The Widower’s Tale
Brian Greene, The Hidden Reality
W.E.B. Griffin, The Outlaws
Alice Hoffman, The Red Garden
Alexander McCall Smith, The Charming Quirks of Others
Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany
Stuart Woods, Strategic Moves

DVD
Catfish
Conviction
Exit Through the Gift Shop
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
(Swedish version)
Inception
Never Let Me Go
Salt
The Social Network
The Town
Twelve
Wall Street:  The Money Never Sleeps
Wildlife in Peril:  Video Collector’s Series

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011
Recent Acquisitions: January

Fiction
Ann Beattie, The New Yorker Stories
Steve Berry, The Emperor’s Tomb
Patricia Cornwell, Port Mortuary
Susan Fletcher,  Corrag
Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question
Walter Mosley, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
James Patterson, Cross Fire
Salmon Rushdie, Luka and the Fire of Life
Anita Shreve, Rescue
Andrew Winer, The Marriage Artist

Non-Fiction
John Brenkus, The Perfection Point
Katherine Ellison, A Year of Paying Attention
Timothy Ferris, The 4-Hour Body
Bruce Fogle, Dog
Barrie W. Jones, Pluto:  Sentinel of the Outer Solar System
Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenthiel, Blur
Mark Lachs, Treat Me, Not My Age
A.J. Langguth, Driven West
Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies
Deborah J. Swiss, The Tin Ticket
David Weintraub, How Old Is the Universe?

Biography
Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken
Hoda Kotb, Hoda:  How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, And Kathy Lee
Katie Nicholl, Behind the Palace Walls
Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra
David Wooten, Galileo

Poetry
Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Dancing

Books on CD
Patricia Cornwell, Port Mortuary
Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken
Anne Rice, Of Love and Evil
Mary Roach, Packing for Mars
Edward Rutherfurd, New York
John Sandford, Storm Prey
Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven
Elie Wiesel, The Sonderberg Case

DVD
Eat Pray Love
The Girl Who Played with Fire
(Swedish version)
God in America
Going the Distance
I’m Still Here
The Kids Are All Right
The Lightkeeper
Mother and Child
The Other Guy
Patrik, Age 15
Restrepo


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OCTOBER 6, 2010
Recent Acquisitions: October 1

A sampling of items recently added to our collection:

Fiction
Sandra Brown, Tough Customer
Janet Evanovich, Wicked Appetite
William Gibson, Zero History
Julia Glass, The Widower’s Tale
Sara Gruen, Ape House
Joyce Maynard, The Good Daughter
Stuart Neville, Collusion
Joyce Carol Oates, Sourland
Sara Paretsky, Body Work
James Patterson, Don’t Blink
James Patterson and Liza Marklund, The Postcard Killers
Laura Restrepo, No Place for Heroes
Charles Todd, An Impartial Witness
Elie Wiesel, The Sonderberg Case

Non-Fiction
Tony Blair, A Journey
Joelle Hoverson, More Last-minute Knitted Gifts
Mark Jacobson, The Lampshade
Mags Kandis, Gifted:  Lovely Little Things To Knit and Crochet
Roberta Pianaro, Brunetti’s Cookbook
Robert Reich, Aftershock
Richard Rhodes, The Twilight of the Bomb
Geneen Roth, Women Food and God
Jon Stewart, et. al., The Daily Show Presents Earth:  A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race
Robert I. Sutton, Good Boss, Bad Boss
Melanie Thernstrom, The Pain Chronicles
Isabel Wiklerson, The Warmth of Other Suns

Biography
S. C. Gwyne, Empire of the Summer Moon
Michele Norris, The Grace of Silence
Justine Picardie, Coco Chanel
Anna Whitelock, Mary Tudor:  Princess, Bastard, Queen
Kate Williams, Becoming Queen Victoria

Books on CD
Tony Blair, A Journey:  My Political Life
Joanne Fluke, Gingerbread Cookie Murder
William Gibson, Zero History
John Sandford, Bad Blood

DVD
Crash Landing
Everybody Loves Babies
The Karate Kid
Murders of Hollywood
Temple Grandin
The Wall:  A World Divided

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010
Recent Acquisitions - September 1

Sorry these haven't been posted in a while!  Maternity leave will do that.  But now I'm back, so posting will resume!

Fiction

Michael Byers, Percival’s Planet
Robin Cook, Cure
Eric Jerome Dickey, Tempted by Trouble
Jonathan Franzen, Freedom:  A Novel
Stephen King, Blockade Billy
Andrea Levy, The Long Song
Irene Nemirovsky, Dimanche
Carolyn Parkhurst, The Nobodies Album
Per Petterson, I Curse the River of Time
Ayelet Waldman, Red Hook Road

Non-Fiction
Elizabeth Abbott, Sugar
Andrew Bacevich, Washington Rules:  America’s Path to Permanent War
Roderic H. Blackburn, Old Homes of New England
Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake, Cyber War
Fodor's Alaska 2010
Lyndall Gordon, Lives Like Loaded Guns
Michael Hiltzik, Colossus
Meera Patricia Kerr, Big Yoga
Manjit Kumar, Quantum
Robert Love, The Great Oom:  The Improbable Birth of Yoga in America
James F. O’Gorman, ed., Hill-Stead:  The Country Place of Theodate Pope Riddle
Mary Roach, Packing for Mars
Jason Turbow, The Baseball Codes
UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Wisconsin Milk Marketing, The Great Big Cheese Cookbook
Nathan Ward, Dark Harbor:  The War for the New York Waterfront

Biography
Gail Caldwell, Let’s Take the Long Way Home
Roxana Saberi, Between Two Worlds
Bill Strickland, Tour de Lance

Poetry
C. K. Williams, Wait

Books on CD
Kelly Armstrong, Waking the Witch
Sandra Brown, Tough Customer
James Lee Burke, The Glass Rainbow
Tracy Chevalier, Remarkable Creatures
Jude Devereaux, Scarlet Nights
Russell Freedman, The War To End All Wars:  WW II
Tana French, Faithful Place
Philippa Gregory, The Red Queen
Ann B. Ross, Miss Julia Renews Her Vows

DVD
The Back-up Plan
Clash of the Titans
Crossing Over
Dejavu
Harry Brown
The Ghost Writer
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Grand Canyon Adventure
One Last Bet
Righteous Kill



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