NEW BOOKS:
NON-FICTION
- Alfonsi, Christian - Circle in the sand: why we went back to Iraq
- Armstrong, Karen - Muhammad: a prophet for our time,
- Atwan, Abdel Bari - The secret history of al Qaeda
- Baker, James Addison - Work hard, study-- and keep out of politics!: adventures and lessons from an unexpected public life
- Blumenthal, Sidney - How Bush rules: chronicles of a radical regime
- Bodanis, David - Passionate minds: the great love affair of the Enlightenment, featuring the scientist Emilie Du Châtelet, the poet Voltaire, sword fights, book burnings, assorted kings, seditious verse, and the birth of the modern world
- Book that changed my life: 71 remarkable writers celebrate the books that matter most to them
- Borowitz, Andy - The Republican playbook: stolen from the White House
- Brigham, Robert K - Is Iraq another Vietnam?
- Bryson, Bill - The life and times of the thunderbolt kid: a memoir
- Buchanan, Patrick J - State of emergency: the third world invasion and conquest of America
- Burke, Kathy - Detective: the inspirational story of the trailblazing woman cop who wouldn't quit
- Cannadine, David - Mellon: an American life
- Cassidy, Tina - Birth: the surprising history of how we are born
- Chandrasekaran, Rajiv - Imperial life in the emerald city: inside Iraq's green zone
- Cockburn, Patrick - The occupation
- Company they kept: writers on unforgettable friendships
- Constable: the great landscapes
- Danforth, John C - Faith and politics: how the "moral values" debate divides America and how to move forward together
- DeYoung, Karen - Soldier: the life of Colin Powell
- Drake, Alicia - The beautiful fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and the glorious excess in 1970s Paris
- Edwards, Elizabeth - Saving graces: finding solace and strength from friends and strangers
- Eisler, Benita - Naked in the marketplace: the lives of George Sand
- Ferguson, Niall - The war of the world: twentieth-century conflict and the descent of the West
- Franzen, Jonathan - The discomfort zone: a personal history
- Friedland, Roger - The Fellowship: the untold story of Frank Lloyd Wright & the Taliesin Fellowship
- Fritzinger, Linda B - Diplomat without portfolio: Valentine Chirol, his life and the Times
- Glendinning, Victoria - Leonard Woolf
- Gold, Philip - The coming draft: the crisis in our military and why selective service is wrong for America
- Goldberg, Jeffrey - Prisoners: a Muslim and a Jew across the Middle East divide
- Gopnik, Adam - Through the children's gate: a home in New York
- Gove, Michael - Celsius 7/7
- Grisham, John - The innocent man: murder and injustice in a small town
- Hammer, Joshua - Yokohama burning: the deadly 1923 earthquake and fire that helped forge the path to World War II
- Hefez, Nir - Ariel Sharon: a life
- Hirsi Ali, Ayaan - The caged virgin: an emancipation proclamation for women and Islam
- Houpt, Simon - Museum of the missing: a history of art theft
- Howell, Georgina - Daughter of the desert: the remarkable life of Gertrude Bell
- Isikoff, Michael - Hubris: the inside story of spin, scandal, and the selling of the Iraq War
- Jaffrey, Madhur - Climbing the mango trees: a memoir of a childhood in India
- Jeanneney, Jean - Google and the myth of universal knowledge: a view from Europe
- Johnson, Steven - The ghost map: the story of London's most terrifying epidemic-- and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world
- Kagan, Robert - Dangerous nation
- Kammen, Michael G - Visual shock: a history of art controversies in American culture
- Kamp, David - The United States of arugula: how we became a gourmet nation
- Keneally, Thomas - A commonwealth of thieves: the improbable birth of Australia
- Korda, Michael - Journey to a revolution: a personal memoir and history of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- Kurlansky, Mark - Nonviolence: twenty-five lessons from the history of a dangerous idea
- Lapham, Lewis H - Pretensions to empire: notes on the criminal folly of the Bush administration
- Larson, Erik - Thunderstruck
- Lewis, Michael - The blind side: evolution of a game
- Maddox, Brenda - Freud's wizard: the enigma of Ernest Jones
- Mamet, David - The wicked son: anti-Semitism, self-hatred, and the Jews
- Mann, William J - Kate: the woman who was Hepburn
- Masters, Brooke A - Spoiling for a fight: the rise of Eliot Spitzer
- Max, D. T - The family that couldn't sleep: a medical mystery
- Maynard, Joyce - Internal combustion: the true story of a marriage and a murder in the Motor City
- McGreevey, James E. - The confession
- McKechnie, Donna - Time steps: my musical comedy life
- Meyerowitz, Joel - Aftermath
- Moore, James - The architect: Karl Rove and the master plan for absolute power
- Morgan, Bill - I celebrate myself: the somewhat private life of Allen Ginsberg
- Musharraf, Pervez - In the line of fire: a memoir
- Nasaw, David - Andrew Carnegie
- Obama, Barack - The audacity of hope: thoughts on reclaiming the American dream
- Powers, Kim - The history of swimming: a memoir
- Prochnik, George - Putnam camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam, and the purpose of American psychology
- Ragusa, Kym - The skin between us: a memoir of race, beauty, and belonging
- Restak, Richard M. - The naked brain: how the emerging neurosociety is changing how we live, work, and love
- Roizen, Michael F - You, the owner's manual: an insider's guide to the body that will make you healthier and younger
- Satrapi, Marjane - Chicken with plums
- Schor, Esther H - Emma Lazarus
- Suarez, Ray - The holy vote: the politics of faith in America
- Sullivan, Andrew - The conservative soul: how we lost it, how to get it back
- Thubron, Colin - Shadow of the Silk Road
- Uchitelle, Louis - The disposable American: layoffs and their consequences
- Wilkes, Stephen - Ellis Island: ghosts of freedom
- Winder, Simon - The man who saved Britain: a personal journey into the disturbing world of James Bond
- Woodward, Bob - State of denial
- Wynne, Frank - I was Vermeer: the rise and fall of the twentieth century's greatest forger
FICTION
- Ackroyd, Peter - The fall of Troy
- Adrian, Chris - The children's hospital
- Albom, Mitch - For one more day
- Amis, Martin - House of meetings
- Atkinson, Kate - One good turn
- Beall, Will - L.A. rex
- Berne, Suzanne - The ghost at the table
- Bernhard, Thomas - Frost
- Boyd, William - Restless
- Bradbury, Ray - Farewell summer
- Delbanco, Nicholas - Spring and fall
- Epstein, Leslie - The eighth wonder of the world
- Erickson, Carolly - The last wife of Henry VIII
- Ford, Richard - The lay of the land
- Frazier, Charles - Thirteen moons
- Julavits, Heidi - The uses of enchantment
- Kanehara, Hitomi - Snakes and earrings
- King, Stephen - Lisey's story
- Koen, Karleen - Dark angels
- Lawson, Mary - The other side of the bridge
- Ledgard, J. M - Giraffe
- Lee, Rebecca - The city is a rising tide
- Long, David - The inhabited world
- Lustbader, Eric - The testament
- Macomber, Debbie - Christmas letters
- Mankell, Henning - Depths
- Masters, Hilary - Elegy for Sam Emerson
- McCarthy, Cormac - The road
- Mendelson, Cheryl - Love, work, children
- Morton, Brian - Breakable you
- Naslund, Sena Jeter - Abundance: a novel of Marie Antoinette
- O'Brien, Edna - The light of evening
- O'Hagan, Andrew - Be near me
- Oates, Joyce Carol - Black girl white girl
- Powers, Richard - The echo maker
- Robbins, Harold - The devil to pay
- Schreiber, Joe - Chasing the dead
- Unsworth, Barry - The ruby in her navel: a novel of love and intrigue in the twelfth century
- Vida, Nina - The Texicans
- Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn - Roman dusk: a novel of the Count Saint-Germain
MYSTERIES
- Baldacci, David - The collectors
- Ballard, J. G. - Kingdom come*
- Beckett, Samuel - The unnamable
- Benjamin, Carol Lea - The hard way: a Rachel Alexander mystery
- Benn, James R - Billy Boyle: a World War II mystery
- Black, Michael A - A final judgment: a Ron Shade novel
- Bowen, Gail - The endless knot: a Joanne Kilbourn mystery
- Brown, Rita Mae - The hounds and the fury
- Bruen, Ken - American skin
- Burke, Jan - Kidnapped
- Callison, Brian - Redcap
- Carofiglio, Gianrico - A walk in the dark
- Connelly, Michael - Echo Park
- Corley, Elizabeth - Grave doubts*
- Dunn, Carola - Gunpowder plot: a Daisy Dalrymple mystery*
- Evanovich, Janet - Motor mouth
- Flora, Kate Clark - Playing god: a Joe Burgess mystery
- Flynn, Gillian - Sharp objects
- Flynn, Vince - Act of treason
- Francis, Dick - Under orders
- Franklin, Ariana - City of shadows
- George, Elizabeth - What came before he shot her*
- Greenwood, Kerry - Murder on the Ballarat train: a Phryne Fisher mystery
- Hyzy, Julie A - Deadly interest: an Alex St. James mystery
- Izzo, Jean-Claude - Chourmo
- Jungstedt, Mari - Unseen
- Littell, Robert - Vicious circle: a novel of complicity
- Ludlum, Robert - The Bancroft strategy
- Maitland, Barry - No trace: a Brock and Kolla mystery*
- Mayor, Archer - The second mouse
- Neggers, Carla - The widow
- Olson, Karen E - Secondhand smoke
- Pearce, Michael - A dead man in Athens
- Pirie, David - The dark water: the strange beginnings of Sherlock Holmes*
- Spencer-Fleming, Julia - All mortal flesh
- Tapply, William G - Out cold: a Brady Coyne novel
- Turnbull, Peter - False knight*
- Winslow, Don - The winter of Frankie Machine
- Woods, Stuart - Short straw
* indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Allen, Jenny - The long chalkboard, and other stories
- Busch, Frederick - Rescue missions: stories
- Faber, Michel - The apple: new Crimson petal stories
- Gaiman, Neil - Fragile things: short fictions and wonders
- Gordon, Mary - The stories of Mary Gordon
- McCall Smith, Alexander - Dream Angus: the Celtic god of dreams
- Russell, Karen - St. Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves
- Schnitzler, Arthur - Bachelors: stories and novellas
- Toibin, Colm - Mothers and sons
- Vidal, Gore - Clouds and eclipses: the collected short stories
SELECTED CATALOGED BOOKS
LITERATURE
- Bradbury, Malcolm - Liar's landscape: collected writing from a storyteller's life, 820.81 B
- Eagleton, Terry - The function of criticism, 801 E
- Fox, Adam - Oral and literate culture in England, 1500-1700, 820.9 F
- Neaman, Elliot Yale - A dubious past: Ernst Jünger and the politics of literature after Nazism, 833 J
- Paulin, Tom - The day-star of liberty: William Hazlitt's radical style, 824.09 H
- Rosenbaum, Ron - The Shakespeare wars: clashing scholars, public fiascoes, palace coups, 822.33 C
POETRY
- Bernhard, Thomas - In hora mortis ;Under the iron of the moon : poems, 831 B
- Fanthorpe, U. A. - Collected poems 1978-2003, 821 F
- Golden Age: poems of the Spanish Renaissance, 861.08 G
- Johnson, Samuel - The lives of the most eminent English poets: with critical observations on their works, 821.09 J
- Levine, Mark - The wilds, 821 L
- Oxford book of American poetry, 821.08 O
- Reynolds, Barbara - Dante: the poet, the political thinker, the man, 851.09 D
NEW TRANSLATIONS
ANTHOLOGIES
ART
- Barbera, Gioacchino - Antonello da Messina: Sicily's Renaissance master, 759.5 A
- Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: tourism and the American landscape, 759.1 F
- Painters of reality: the legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy, 759.5 P
- Rebels and martyrs: the image of the artist in the nineteenth century, 759 R
- Societe anonyme: modernism for America, 709.04 S
- Sussman, Elisabeth - Eva Hesse: sculpture, 730.92 H
MUSIC & DANCE
- Baronova, Irina - Irina: ballet, life and love, 92 B2665 B
- Gossett, Philip - Divas and scholars: performing Italian opera, 782.1 G
- Hartmann, Arthur - Claude Debussy as I knew him and other writings of Arthur Hartmann, 780.92 H
- Kaiso!: writings by and about Katherine Dunham, 793.9 K
- Priestley, Brian - Chasin' the Bird: the life and legacy of Charlie Parker, 92 P2384 P
PHILOSOPHY
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
HUMOR
BIOGRAPHY & LETTERS
- Abbey, Edward - Postcards from Ed: dispatches and salvos from an American iconoclast, 92 A1235 A
- Aptheker, Bettina - Intimate politics: how I grew up Red, fought for free speech, and became a feminist rebel, 92 A6556 A
- Stubbs, John - Donne: the reformed soul, 92 D685 S
- Trevor-Roper, H. R - Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson, 92 T8164 T
HISTORY
- Clark, Christopher M - Iron kingdom: the rise and downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947, 943.1 C
- Gilbert, Martin - Kristallnacht: prelude to destruction, 940.5318 G
- Kiernan, Ben - The Pol Pot regime: race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79, 959 K
- Labunski, Richard E - James Madison and the struggle for the Bill of Rights, 342.73 L
- Leslie, Edward E - The devil knows how to ride: the true story of William Clarke Quantrill and his Confederate raiders, 973.74 L
- Mattingly, D. J - An imperial possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC-AD 409, 942.01 M
- Sage, Steven F. - Ibsen and Hitler: the playwright, the plagiarist, and the plot for the Third Reich, 943.085 S
- Weber, David J - Barbaros: Spaniards and their savages in the Age of Enlightenment, 970 W
- Woods, Randall Bennett - LBJ: architect of American ambition, 973.923 W
MILITARY
- Gilbert, Martin - The Somme: heroism and horror in the First World War, 940.42 G
- Goetz, Robert - 1805, Austerlitz: Napoleon and the destruction of the Third Coalition, 940.27 G
- Richards, Frank - Old soldiers never die, 940.48 R
- Smith, Rupert - The utility of force: the art of war in the modern world, 355.03 S
- Strauss, Barry S - The Trojan War: a new history, 939.2 S
SCIENCE
RELIGION
SCIENCE & RELIGION
PSYCHOLOGY
MEDICINE
EDUCATION
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
ECONOMICS & INDUSTRY agenda, 306.3K
SOCIAL STUDIES
AUDIO
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