NEW BOOKS:
NON-FICTION
- Atlas, Teddy - Atlas: from the streets to the ring : a son's struggle to become a man
- Berkow, Ira - Full swing: hits, runs and errors in a writer's life
- Bouillier, Gregoire - The mystery guest
- Clare, Horatio - Running for the hills: growing up on my mother's sheep farm in Wales
- Doctorow, E. L. - Three screenplays
- Ferguson, Niall - The war of the world: twentieth-century conflict and the descent of the West
- Flanders, Judith - Consuming passions: leisure and pleasure in Victorian Britain
- Franzen, Jonathan - The discomfort zone: a personal history
- Golden, Daniel - The price of admission: how America's ruling class buys its way into elite colleges--and who gets left outside the gates
- Goleman, Daniel - Social intelligence: the new science of human relationships
- Hughes, Robert - Things I didn't know: a memoir
- Kiesling, John Brady - Diplomacy lessons: realism for an unloved superpower
- Kosner, Edward - It's news to me: the making and unmaking of an editor
- LaFantasie, Glenn W - Gettysburg requiem: the life and lost causes of Confederate Colonel William C. Oates
- Lawrence, Bruce B - The Qur'an: a biography
- Leier, James Mark - Bakunin: the creative passion
- Lemann, Nicholas - Redemption: the last battle of the Civil War
- Madigan, Tim - I'm proud of you: my friendship with Fred Rogers
- Marokvia, Mireille - Sins of the innocent: a memoir
- Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam - The lost: a search for six of six million
- Phillips, Julie - James Tiptree, Jr.: the double life of Alice B. Sheldon
- Posner, Richard A - Not a suicide pact: the constitution in a time of national emergency
- Quammen, David - The reluctant Mr. Darwin: an intimate portrait of Charles Darwin and the making of his theory of evolution
- Raphael, Frederic - Cuts and bruises: Personal terms 3
- Rich, Frank - The greatest story ever sold: the decline and fall of truth from 9/11 to Katrina
- Schreiner, Samuel Agnew - The Concord quartet: Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and the friendship that freed the American mind
- Spoto, Donald - Enchantment: the life of Audrey Hepburn
- Stashower, Daniel - The beautiful cigar girl: Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Rogers, and the invention of murder
- Stern, Jewel - Ely Jacques Kahn, architect: beaux-arts to modernism in New York
- Stiglitz, Joseph E - Making globalization work
- Taraborrelli, J. Randy - Elizabeth
- Taylor, Barbara Brown - Leaving church: a memoir of faith
- Wilentz, Amy - I feel earthquakes more often than they happen: coming to California in the age of Schwarzenegger
- Williams, Juan - Enough: the phony leaders, dead-end movements, and culture of failure that are undermining Black America-- and what we can do about it
FICTION
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi - Half of a yellow sun
- Alderman, Naomi - Disobedience
- Ammaniti, Niccolo - I'll steal you away
- Braselton, Jeanne - The other side of air: a novel
- Brewer, Sonny - A sound like thunder: a novel
- Camilleri, Andrea - Rounding the mark
- Cannon, Michael - Lachlan's war
- Canobbio, Andrea - The natural disorder of things
- Chen, Da - Brothers: a novel
- Collinsworth, Eden - It might have been what he said: a novel
- Danielewski, Mark Z - Mark Z. Danielewski's only revolutions by Sam
- Dave, Laura - London is the best city in America
- Drabble, Margaret - The sea lady: a late romance
- Felber, Adam - Schrödinger's ball: a novel
- Fitch, Janet - Paint it black: a novel
- Forna, Aminatta - Ancestor stones
- Fresán, Rodrigo - Kensington gardens
- Freudenberger, Nell - The dissident
- Gilmore, Jennifer - Golden country: a novel
- Grant, Richard - Another green world
- Haddon, Mark - A spot of bother: a novel
- Hamilton, Jane - When Madeline was young: a novel
- Harris, Robert - Imperium: a novel of ancient Rome
- Heller, Jane - Some nerve
- Joss, Morag - Puccini's ghosts
- Just, Ward S - Forgetfulness
- Kennedy, Pagan - Confessions of a memory eater: a novel
- Kojima, Nobuo - Embracing family
- Levin, Janna - A madman dreams of Turing machines
- Margolis, Seth Jacob - Closing costs
- Maxted, Anna - A tale of two sisters
- McCall Smith, Alexander - Love over Scotland: a 44 Scotland Street novel
- McDermott, Alice - After this
- McKay, Ami - The birth house: a novel
- Messud, Claire - The emperor's children
- Michaels, Fern - Fool me once
- Mullen, Thomas - The last town on earth: a novel
- O'Farrell, Maggie - The vanishing act of Esme Lennox
- Petterson, Per - In the wake
- Pitlor, Heidi - The birthdays: a novel
- Powers, Tim - Three days to never
- Quindlen, Anna - Rise and shine: a novel
- Smith, Lee - On Agate Hill: a novel
- Stone, Katherine - Caroline's journal
- Stross, Charles - Glasshouse
- Thom, James Alexander - Saint Patrick's Battalion: a novel
- Tolkin, Michael - The return of the player
- Wagner, Bruce - Memorial
- Walter, Jess - The zero: a novel
- Wildgen, Michelle - You're not you: a novel
- Winston, Lolly - Happiness sold separately: a novel
- Woodrell, Daniel - Winter's bone: a novel
- Wu Ming - 54
- Yan, Geling - The banquet bug
- Zigman, Laura - Piece of work
- Zweig, Stefanie - Somewhere in Germany: an autobiographical novel
MYSTERIES
- Allan, Barbara - Antiques roadkill: a trash 'n' treasures mystery
- Ashford, Lindsay Jayne - Frozen*
- Beaton, M. C - Love, lies, and liquor: an Agatha Raisin mystery*
- Bell, Ted - Spy: a thriller
- Brockmann, Suzanne - Into the storm: a novel
- Cannell, Stephen J - White sister
- Chesney, Marion - Our lady of pain
- Cohen, William S - Dragon fire
- Collins, Michael - Death of a writer: a novel
- Cotterill, Colin - Disco for the departed
- Cox, Michael - The meaning of night: a confession
- Crosby, Ellen - The Merlot murders: a wine country mystery
- Darrell, Elizabeth - Chinese puzzle*
- Gerritsen, Tess - The Mephisto Club: a novel
- Gleeson, Janet - The thief taker: a novel*
- Greenwood, Kerry - Flying too high: a Phryne Fisher mystery*
- Hamilton, Steve - A stolen season
- Judson, D. Daniel - The darkest place
- Keating, H. R. F - One man and his bomb*
- Klavan, Andrew - Damnation Street
- Le Carré, John - The mission song
- Levack, Simon - Shadow of the lords
- Massey, Sujata - Girl in a box
- Mathews, Francine - The Alibi Club
- McCall Smith, Alexander - The right attitude to rain
- McKevett, G.A - Corpse Suzette: a Savannah Reid mystery
- Meltzer, Brad - The book of fate
- Mosley, Walter - Fear of the dark: a novel
- Mystery Writers of America presents Death do us part: new stories about love, lust, and murder
- Patterson, James - Judge & jury
- Purser, Ann - Secrets on Saturday*
- Rubenfeld, Jed - The interpretation of murder: a novel
- Siegel, James - Deceit
- Simon, Michael - Little faith: a novel
- Slaughter, Karin - Triptych
- Spencer, Sally - A long time dead*
- Steinhauer, Olen - Liberation movements
- Talton, Jon - Arizona dreams
- Tanenbaum, Robert - Counterplay
- Taylor, Sarah Stewart - Still as death
- Walton, Jo - Farthing*
- Wilhelm, Kate - Sleight of hand
- Winspear, Jacqueline - Messenger of truth: a Maisie Dobbs novel*
- Wozencraft, Kim - The Devil's backbone
* indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS:
LITERATURE
- Booth, Wayne C. - The essential Wayne Booth, 809 B
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The notebooks for The idiot, 891.73 D
- Hilliard, Christopher. - To exercise our talents: the democratization of writing in Britain, 820.9 H
- James, Henry - Theory of fiction: Henry James, 808.3 J
- Kirsch, Arthur C. - Auden and Christianity, 821.09 A
- Milosz, Czeslaw. - Czeslaw Milosz: conversations, 891.85 M
- The novel, 809.3 R
- The Oxford guide to literature in English translation, 418 O
- Scott-Warren, Jason. - Early modern English literature, 820.9 S
POETRY
- Colonna, Vittoria - Sonnets for Michelangelo: a bilingual edition, 851 C
- Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich - The gypsies & other narrative poems, 891.71 P
- Reed, Ishmael - New and collected poems, 1964-2006, 821 R
- Santayana, George - The complete poems of George Santayana: a critical edition, 821 S
- Wright, Charles - Scar tissue, 821 W
- Wright, Franz - God's silence: poems, 821 W
BOOKS & READING
- Baines, Phil - Penguin by design: a cover story, 1935-2005, 741.64 B
- Bragg, Melvyn - 12 books that changed the world, 028 B
- Lancaster, Jane - Inquire within: a social history of the Providence Athenaeum since 1753, 027 L
- Mann, Thomas - The Oxford guide to library research, Ref. 025.5 M
- Prose, Francine - Reading like a writer: a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them, 780.921 H
ART
- Brown, Jonathan - Goya's last works, 759.6 G
- Fairbrother, Trevor J. - Painting summer in New England, 759.1 F
- Hicks, Carola. - The Bayeux tapestry: the life story of a masterpiece, 746 H
- Keene, Donald. - Frog in the well: portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793-1841, 759.95 K
- Nochlin, Linda. - Bathers, bodies, beauty: the visceral eye, 704.942 N
- Parshall, Peter W. - Origins of European printmaking: fifteenth-century woodcuts and their public, 761 P
- Rapetti, Rodolphe. - Symbolism, 709.4 R
- Sandqvist, Tom. - Dada East: the Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, 709.498 S
- Whitney Museum of American Art: selected works from the permanent collection, 709.73 W
MUSIC
- Baker, Richard - Schubert: a life in words and pictures, 780.92 S
- Barron, James - Piano: the making of a Steinway concert grand, 786.2 B
- Beauvert, Thierry. - Opera houses of the world, 792 B OVERSIZE
- Levitin, Daniel J. - This is your brain on music: the science of a human obsession, 780.1 L
- Prial, Dunstan - The producer: John Hammond and the soul of American music, 780.921 H
- Stowe, David W. - How sweet the sound: music in the spiritual lives of Americans, 783 S
PHILOSOPHY
RELIGION
- Aharoni, Yohanan - The land of the Bible: a historical geography, 221.9 A
- Balmer, Randall Herbert. - Thy kingdom come: how the religious right distorts the faith and threatens America, an Evangelical's lament, 322.1 B
- Neuhaus, Richard John. - Catholic matters: confusion, controversy, and the splendor of truth, 282.73 N
- Rogerson, Barnaby. - The Prophet Muhammad: a biography, 92 M697 R
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Goodwin, Jason - On foot to the Golden Horn: a walk to Istanbul, 914 G
- Mentzel, Peter. - A traveller's history of Venice, 945.3 M
- Mishra, Pankaj. - Temptations of the West: how to be modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet and beyond , 915 M
- Sachs, Aaron - The Humboldt current: nineteenth-century exploration and the roots of American environmentalism, 508 S
- Severgnini, Beppe. - La bella figura: a field guide to the Italian mind, 914.5 S
- Stewart, Rory. - The prince of the marshes: and other occupational hazards of a year in Iraq, 915.6 S
ARCHAEOLOGY
HISTORY
- Belozerskaya, Marina - The Medici giraffe: and other tales of exotic animals and power, 591.5 B
- Bowden, Mark - Guests of the Ayatollah: the first battle in America's war with militant Islam, 955 B
- Calloway, Colin G. - The scratch of a pen: 1763 and the transformation of North America, 973.2 C
- Dirks, Nicholas B. - The scandal of empire: India and the creation of imperial Britain, 954 D
- Kagan, Frederick W. - The end of the old order: Napoleon and Europe, 1801-1805, 940.27 K
- Palmier, Jean Michel - Weimar in exile: the antifascist emigration in Europe and America, 325.2 P
- Purkiss, Diane - The English Civil War: Papists, gentlewomen, soldiers, and witchfinders in the birth of modern Britain, 942.06 P
- Raphael, Frederic - Some talk of Alexander, 938 R
- Stern, Fritz Richard - Five Germanys I have known, 943.087 S
- Tremlett, Giles. - Ghosts of Spain: travels through a country's hidden past, 946.081 T
- Wells, Colin - Sailing from Byzantium: how a lost Empire shaped the world, 940 W
WORLD WAR II
CHINA
- China: the balance sheet : what the world needs to know now about the emerging superpower, 951 C
- DeWoskin, Rachel. - Foreign babes in Beijing: Behind the scenes of a new China, 915.1 D
- Elvin, Mark. - The retreat of the elephants: an environmental history of China, 304.2 E
- Girardot, N. J. - The Victorian translation of China: James Legge's oriental pilgrimage, 266 G
- Hessler, Peter - Oracle bones: a journey between China's past and present, 915.1 H
- Lovell, Julia - The Great Wall: China against the world, 1000 BC-AD 2000, 951 L
- Pomfret, John. - Chinese lessons: five classmates and the story of the new China, 951 P
- Shuyun, Sun. - The long march, 951 S
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Dunn, John - Democracy: a history, 321.8 D
- Fallaci, Oriana. - The force of reason, 940.55 F
- Norris, Pippa. - Sacred and secular: religion and politics worldwide, 322.1 N
- Remini, Robert Vincent - The House: the history of the House of Representatives, 328.73 R
- Stille, Alexander. - The sack of Rome: how a beautiful European country with a fabled history and a storied culture was taken over by a man named Silvio Berlusconi, 945.09 S
ECONOMICS, INDUSTRY & FINANCE
9/11 & THE WAR ON TERROR
SOCIAL STUDIES
- Ardagh, John - France in the new century: portrait of a changing society, 944.082 A
- Carr, C. - Our town: a heartland lynching, a haunted town, and the hidden history of white America, 305.88 C
- Collini, Stefan - Absent minds: intellectuals in Britain, 942 C
- Marcus, Greil. - The shape of things to come: prophecy and the American voice, 917.3 M
- Taussig, Michael T. - Walter Benjamin's grave, 301 T
- Weber, Donald - Haunted in the New World: Jewish American culture from Cahan to The Goldbergs, 305.8 W
CRIME & VICE
- Benjamin, Walter - On hashish, 838 B
- Buruma, Ian. - Murder in Amsterdam: the death of Theo van Gogh and the limits of tolerance, 364.1 B
- Dalrymple, Theodore. - Romancing opiates: pharmacological lies and the addiction bureaucracy, 362.293 D
- De Stefano, George - An offer we can't refuse: the Mafia in the mind of America, 364 D
- Gilfoyle, Timothy J. - A pickpocket's tale: the underworld of nineteenth-century New York, 364.1 G
- Marlowe, Ann - How to stop time: heroin from A to Z, 362.293 M
HAPPINESS
- Armstrong, John - Love, life, Goethe: how to be happy in an imperfect world, 171 A
- Gilbert, Daniel Todd. - Stumbling on happiness, 708 W
- Haidt, Jonathan. - The happiness hypothesis: finding modern truth in ancient wisdom, 171 H
- McMahon, Darrin M. - Happiness: a history, 171 M
SCIENCE
- Bernstein, Jeremy - Secrets of the old one: Einstein, 1905, 530.1 B
- Collins, Francis S. - The language of God: a scientist presents evidence for belief, 215 C
- Lloyd, Seth - Programming the universe: a quantum computer scientist takes on the cosmos, 530.1 L
- Shermer, Michael. - Why Darwin matters: the case against intelligent design, 575 S
- Stafford, Robert A. - Scientist of empire: Sir Roderick Murchison, scientific exploration and Victorian imperialism, 550 S
GARDENS
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