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Recent Acquisitions - Adult

New materials at the Canton Public Library
APRIL 23, 2010
Recent Acquisitions: March
The following is a sample of new materials added to the library collection during March 2010:

Fiction
John Banville, The Infinities
Jerome Charyn, The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson
Harlan Coben, Caught
Lynn Cullen, The Creation of Eve
Frank Delaney, Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show
Carol Goodman, Arcadia Falls
Thomas Kaufman, Drink the Tea
Chang-Rae Lee, The Surrendered
Walter Mosley, Known to Evil
Lisa Scottoline, Think Twice
Mark Spragg, Bone Fire

Non-Fiction
Dave Awl, Facebook Me
Philipp Blom, The Vertigo Years
Anthony Brandt, The Man Who Ate His Boots
Joseph E. Garland, Unknown Soldiers
Annie Leonard, The Story of Stuff
Frances Mayes, Every Day in Tuscany
Timothy M. Gay, Twitter:  Tips, Tricks, and Tweets
Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the American School System
Mitt Romney, No Apology
Sam Rothman, Historic Photos of Connecticut
Rick Smith & Bruce Lourie, Slow Death by Rubber Duckie
Timothy Stanley, Kennedy vs Carter
John Yoo, Crisis and Command

Biography
John Biskind, Star:  How Warren Beatty Seduced America
John Kiriakou, The Reluctant Spy
Michael Shelden, Mark Twain:  Man in White
Laura Skandera Trombley, Mark Twain’s Other Woman
Andrew Young, The Politician:  An Insider’s Account of John Edwards’s Pursuit of the Presidency

Books on CD
John Banville, The Infinities
Clive Cussler, The Silent Sea
Michael Davis, Street Gang:  The Complete History of Sesame Street
Robert B. Parker, Split Image
Jodi Picoult, House Rules
Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

Poetry
Margaret Atwood, Selected Poems I  1965-1975
Margaret Atwood, Selected Poems II  1976-1986
Honor Moore, ed., Poems from the Women’s Movement

DVD
Couples Retreat
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Hachi
Men Who Stare at Goats
Precious
2012
Up in the Air





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MARCH 3, 2010
Recent Acquisitions: February
The following is a sample of the new materials added to the library collection during February 2010:

Fiction

George Bishop, Letter to My Daughter
Ben Bova, Able One
T. C. Boyle, Wild Child
J. M. Coetzee, Summertime
Norberto Fuentes, The Autobiography of Fidel Castro
Diana Gabaldon, Lord John and the Hand of Devils
James W. Hall, Silencer
Chris Knopf , Short Squeeze
Henning Mankell, The Man from Beijing
Joyce Carol Oates, A Fair Maiden
Robert B. Parker, Split Issue
Ian Rankin, Doors Open

Non-Fiction
Kim Knox Beckius, The Everything Family Guide to New England
Cathy Erway, The Art of Eating In
LaVerna Ferguson-Kosinski, Europe by Eurail 2010
R. Douglas Fields, The Other Brain
Ken Gormley, The Death of American Virtue
Clara Parker, The Knitter’s Book of Wool
Ellen Gordon Reeves, Can I Wear My Nose Ring to the Interview?
Roger Rosenblatt, Making Toast
Rod Rotondo, Raw Food for Real People
Lenore Skenazy, Free-range Kids
Shankar Vedantam, The Hidden

Biography

James S. Hirsch, Willie Mays
Michael Kranish, Flight from Monticello
James McGrath Morris, Pulitzer

Books on CD

Dominick Dunne, Too Much Money
Joe Hill, Horns
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner, Superfreakonomics
Adriana Trigiani, Brava, Valentine
Stuart Woods, Kisser

DVD
Between the Folds
Coco Before Chanel
Founding Brothers
More Than a Game
New York I Love You
September Issue
Seven Wonders of the Muslim World
Storm
Zombieland

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010
Recent Acquisitions: January
The following is a sampling of new materials added to the library collection during January 2010.

Fiction
Belinda Bauer, Blacklands
Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been
Amy Bloom, Where the God of Love Hangs Out
Tracey Chevalier, Remarkable Creatures
Bernard Cornwell, The Burning Land
Robert Crais, The First Rule
Barbara Delinsky, Not My Daughter
Gail Godwin, Unfinished Desires
Anne Tyler, Noah’s Compass
Kurt Vonnegut, Look at the Birdie
 
Non-Fiction
Michael Belfiore, The Department of Mad Scientists
Jonathan Satran Foer, Eating Animals
Ariel Glucklich, Dying for Heaven
Hendrik Hertzberg, Obamanos!
Anne E. Kornblut, Notes from the Cracked Ceiling
Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
Susan Love and Alice Domar, Live a Little
Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England
Cynthia Thornton, Enchanted Adornments
 
Biography
Madeleine Albright, Read My Pins
Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed

Books on CD

Michael Crichton, Pirate Latitudes
Cory Doctorow, Makers
Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed
Paul Johnson, Churchill
Alexander McCall Smith, The Unbearable Lightness of Scones
 
DVD
Fame
The Hurt Locker
In the Loop

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OCTOBER 21, 2009
Recent Acquisitions: September

Here is a sampling of new materials that were added to the library collection during September:

Fiction
Sherman Alexie, War Dances
Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
Robert Olen Butler, Hell
Pete Dexter, Spooner
E. L. Doctorow, Homer & Langley
Philippa Gregory, The White Queen
Davis Liss, Devil’s Company
Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs
Joyce Carol Oates, Little Bird of Heaven
Kathy Reichs, 206 Bones

Non-Fiction
Colin Ellard, You Are Here:  Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon But Get Lost in the Mall
Fodor’s Caribbean 2010
Jane Goodall, Hope for Animals and Their World
Alex O’Meara, Chasing Medical Miracles:  The Promise and Perils of Clinical Trials
T. R. Reid, The Healing of America:  A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
Ellen Ruppell Shell, Cheap:  The High Cost of Discount Culture
David Allen Sibley, The Sibley Guide to Trees
Karen Solomon, Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It
Nicholas Thompson, The Hawk and the Dove
Henry Waxman, The Waxman Report:  How Congress Really Works
Emily Yellin, Your Call Is (not that) Important to Us

Biography
Lori D. Ginzberg, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Kay Redfield Jamison, Nothing Was the Same
Edward M. Kennedy, True Compass
Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor, Traveling with Pomegranates:  A Mother-Daughter Story
Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains
Jon Krakauer, Where Men Win Glory
Simon Reid-Henry, Fidel and Che

Poetry
Louise Gluck, A Village Life

Books on CD
C. J. Box, Below Zero
Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
Siobhan Dowd, Bog Child
Dave Eggers, Zeitoun
Mark Falanga, The Suburban You

DVD
Duplicity
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Mad Men:  Season Two
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency—Season One
Observe and Report
State of Play

 

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2009
Recent Acquisitions: August

Here is a sampling of new materials that were added to the library collection during August:

Fiction
Sandra Brown, Smash Cut
Robin Cook, Intervention
Lev Grossman, The Magicians
M. J. Hyland, This Is How
Larry McMurtry, Rhino Ranch
Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice
Christopher Reich, Rules of Vengeance
Karen Rose, I Can See You
Richard Russo, That Old Cape Magic
Stephen White, The Siege
Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Angel’s Game

Non-Fiction
J. North Conway, King of Heists
Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft
Fodor’s Japan
Peter Greenberg, Tough Times, Great Travels
Nick Lane, Life Ascending
Elizabeth Lunday, Secret Lives of the Great Artists
Joy Manning and Tara Mataraza Desmond, Almost Meatless
Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman, Tears in the Darkness
Holly Robinson, The Gerbil Farmer’s Daughter
Richard Wolffe, Renegade:  The Making of a President

Biography

Larry Tye, Satchel

Books on CD

Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire
Steve Martini, Guardian of Lies
Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
Brad Thor, The Apostle

 

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AUGUST 11, 2009
Recent Acquisitions: July

Here is a sampling of new materials that were added to the library collection during July:

Fiction
Stephen Carter, Jericho’s Fall
Lindsey Davis, Alexandria
Robert Goodrich, A Reliable Wife
Greg Iles, The Devil’s Punchbowl
Peter Rock, My Abandonment
Lisa See, Flower Net
Sara Shepard, The Visibles
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun
Wells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
David Updike, Old Girlfriends

Non-Fiction
Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten, The 100 Best Business Books of All Time
Tui de Roy, Albatross
Charles Fernyhough, A Thousand Days of Wonder
Seth Jones, In the Graveyard of Empires
Sally Melville and Coddy Melville Ledbetter, Mother-Daughter Knits
Cesar Millan, A Member of the Family
Joanne Seiff, Fiber Gathering
Willard Spiegelman, Seven Pleasures
Bill Streever, Cold

Biography
Douglas Brinkley, The Wilderness Warrior
Charles Fernyhough, A Thousand Days of Wonder
Melissa Gilbert, Prairie Tale
Karl Taro Greenfield, Boy Alone
Michael Lewis, Home Game
Harry Reid, The Good Fight
Glenn Stout, Young Woman of the Sea

Books on CD

Robert B. Parker, Brimstone
James Patterson, Swimsuit
Eckhart Tolle, Realizing the Power of Now

DVDs
Knowing
Watchmen

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JULY 8, 2009
Recent Acquisitions: June

Here is a sampling of the new materials that were added to the library collection during June:

Fiction
Anita Brookner, Strangers
Ann Emery, Cecilian Vespers:  a mystery
Janet Evanovich, Finger Lickin’ Fifteen
Alica Hoffman, The Story Sisters
Robert Littell, The Stalin Epigram
Isla Morley, Come Sunday
Stefanie Pintoff, In the Shadow of Gotham
Lisa See, Shanghai Girls
Lisa Unger, Die for You
John Updike, My Father’s Tears and Other Stories
Kate Walbert, A Short History of Women

 
Non-Fiction
Russ Baker, Family of Secrets
Vincent Cannato, American Passage:  The History of Ellis Island
Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd, Our Life in Gardens
Bobby Flay, Bobby Flay’s Burgers, Fries & Shakes
Thomas Levenson, Newton and the Counterfeiter
Andrew Roberts, Masters and Commanders
Eric W. Sanderson, Mannahatta:  A  Natural History of New York City
Stephan Talty, The Illustrious Dead
Robert Wright, The Evolution of God
Jeffrey Zaslow, The Girls from Ames

 
Biography
Charles Fernyhough, A Thousand Days of Wonder
Peter Golenbock, George
Elliott S. Gorn, Dillinger’s Wild Ride
Larry King, My Remarkable Journey
Walter Kirn, Lost in the Meritocracy
Lillian Pizzichini, Blue Hour:  A Life of Jean Rhys
Bill Russell, Red and Me

 
Books on CD
Harlan Coben, Hold Tight
Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow
Clive Cussler, Medusa
Iris Johansen, Deadlock
Alexander McCall Smith, The World According to Bertie
Phillip Margolin, Fugitives
Lisa Scottoline, Look Again
Stuart Woods, Loitering with Intent

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MAY 27, 2009
Recent Acquisitions: May

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
 

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MAY 19, 2009
Recent Acquisitions: April

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

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MAY 19, 2009
New Acquisitions: March

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
 

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MAY 19, 2009
New Acquisitions - February

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

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