May 2008 New Non-Fiction Books

• Acing the interview: how to ask and answer the questions that will get you the job / Tony Beshara, 650.144 BES
• Bar flower: my decadently destructive days and nights as a Tokyo nightclub hostess / Lea Jacobson, 362.292 JAC
• Best sports writing of Pat Jordan / introduced and selected by Alex Belth, 796.0973 JOR
• Bin Ladens: an Arabian family in the American century / Steve Coll, 953.8052  COL
• Bobby Flay’s grill it! / Bobby Flay, 641.5784 FLA
• Body signs: how to be your own diagnostic detective / Joan Liebmann-Smith and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, 616.047 LIE
• Boss of you: everything a woman needs to know to start, run, and maintain her own business / Emira Mears & Lauren Bacon, 658.008 MEA
• Brothers in battle, best of friends: two WWII paratroopers from the original Band of brothers tell their story / William  Wild Bill  Guarnere and Edward  Babe  Heffron   , 940.5412 GUA
• Bush tragedy / Jacob Weisberg, 973.931 WEI
• Cape May / Russell Roberts, 917.4998 ROB
• Chasing the flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the fight to save the world / Samantha Power, 341.4809 POW
• Ciao Italia slow and easy: casseroles, braises, lasagne, and stews from an Italian kitchen / Mary Ann Esposito, 641.821 ESP
• Coleus: rainbow foliage for containers and gardens / Ray Rogers, 635.9339 ROG
• Common wealth: economics for a crowded planet / Jeffrey D. Sachs, 338.9 SAC
• Complete guide to chip carving / Wayne Barton, 736.4 BAR
• Compulsive acts: a psychiatrist’s tales of ritual and obsession / Elias Aboujaoude, 616.852 ABO
• Constantinople: capital of Byzantium / Jonathan Harris, 949.618 HAR
• Covert: my years infiltrating the Mob / Bob Delaney, 364.106 DEL
• Debating race with Michael Eric Dyson / Michael Eric Dyson, 305.896 DYS
• Designer birdhouses: 20 upscale homes for sophisticated birds / Richard T. Banks, 690.8927 BAN
• Dream: a memoir / Harry Bernstein, B BERNSTEIN
• Earth, the sequel: the race to reinvent energy and stop global warming / Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn, 621.042 KRU
• Elephant in the playroom: ordinary parents write intimately and honestly about the extraordinary highs and heartbreaking lows of raising kids with special needs / Denise Brodey, 306.874 BRO
• Ending slavery: how we free today’s slaves / Kevin Bales, 306.362 BAL
• Erased: missing women, murdered wives / Marilee Strong, 364.1523 STR
• Falling into manholes: the memoir of a bad/good girl / Wendy Merrill, 305.4092 MER
• Five years of my life: an innocent man in Guantanamo /  Murat Kurnaz, 973.931 KUR
• Forward from here: leaving middle age and other unexpected adventures / Reeve Lindbergh, 305.262 LIN
• Game of my life: a true story of challenge, triumph, and growing up autistic / Jason J-Mac McElwain, 616.852 MCE
• Girls like us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon–and the journey of a generation / Sheila Weller, 782.4216 WEL
• Glimpses of heaven: true stories of hope and peace at the end of life’s journey / Trudy Harris, 248.86 HAR
• Herb Society of America’s essential guide to growing and cooking with herbs / edited by Katherine K. Schlosser, 641.357 HER
• How come that idiot’s rich and I’m not? / Robert Shemin, 332.024 SHE
• How to marry a fabulous man: secrets that work for women of all ages /  Pari Livermore, 646.77 LIV
• Hug your people: hire, inspire, and recognize your employees to achieve remarkable results / Jack Mitchell, 658.314 MIT
• Human smoke: the beginning of the Second World War and the end of civilization / Nicholson Baker, 940.5311 BAK
• I was told there’d be cake: essays / Sloane Crosley, 814.6 CRO
• I’m fine with God — it’s Christians I can’t stand / Bruce Bickel, Stan Jantz, 277.308 BIC
• In the eye of the storm: swept to the center by God / Gene Robinson, 283.092 ROB
• Instamatic karma: photographs of John Lennon / by May Pang, 782.4216 PAN
• It’s not about the money: unlock your money type to achieve spiritual and financial abundance / Brent Kessel, 332.024 KES
• Just who will you be?: Big question, little book, answer within / Maria Shriver, 170.44 SHR
• King, Kaiser, Tsar: three royal cousins who led the world to war / Catrine Clay, 940.3092 CLA
• Kodak: the art of digital photography: mood, ambience & dramatic effects / Joseph Meehan, 775 MEE
• Ladies of liberty: the women who shaped our nation / Cokie Roberts, 973.4092 ROB
• Letter to America / By David Boren, 320.6097 BOR
• Life beyond measure: letters to my great-granddaughter / Sidney Poitier, B POITIER
• Long time leaving: dispatches from up South / Roy Blount, Jr., 975 BLO
• Madness: a bipolar life / Marya Hornbacher, 616.895 HOR
• Middle-class millionaire: the rise of the new rich and how they are changing America / Russ Alan Prince and Lewis Schiff, 305.5234 PRI
• Mistaken identity: two families, one survivor, unwavering hope / Don & Susie Van Ryn and Newell, Colleen & Whitney Cerak, 617.481 MIS
• My Italian garden: more than 125 seasonal recipes from a garden inspired by Italy / Viana La Place, 641.5945 LA
• Nobodies: modern American slave labor and the dark side of the new global economy / John Bowe, 331.1173 BOW
• O, The Oprah magazine cookbook: 175 delicious recipes to savor with friends and family, 641.5973 OPR
• One helluva ride: how NASCAR swept the nation / Liz Clarke, 796.72 CLA
• Only bake sale cookbook you’ll ever need: 201 mouthwatering, kid-pleasing treats / Laurie Goldrich Wolf and Pam Abrams, 641.815 WOL
• Physics of the impossible: a scientific exploration into the world of phasers, force fields, teleportation, and time travel / Michio Kaku, 530 KAK
• Pistol: the life of Pete Maravich / Mark Kriegel, B MARAVICH
• Please excuse my daughter / Julie Klam, B KLAM
• Polk: the man who transformed the presidency and America / Walter R. Borneman, B POLK
• Predictably irrational: the hidden forces that shape our decisions / Dan Ariely, 153.83 ARI
• Puppy chow is better than Prozac: the true story of a man and the dog who saved his life / Bruce Goldstein, 636.7527 GOL
• Reconciliation: Islam, democracy, and the West / Benazir Bhutto, 297.272 BHU
• Retire happy: what you can do now to guarantee a great retirement /Richard Stim & Ralph Warner, 646.79 STI
• Road to Dallas: the assassination of John F. Kennedy / David Kaiser, 973.922 KAI
• Secret language of tarot / Wald Amberstone & Ruth Ann Amberstone, 133.3242 AMB
• Splendid exchange: how trade shaped the world / William J. Bernstein, 382 BER
• Standing tall: a memoir of tragedy and triumph / C. Vivian Stringer , B STRINGER
• Starbucked: a double tall tale of caffeine, commerce, and culture / Taylor Clark, 338.1737 CLA
• Stop whining, start living / Laura Schlessinger, 158 SCH
• sTORI telling / Tori Spelling , B SPELLING
• Sum of our days / Isabel Allende   , B ALLENDE
• Sundays in America: a yearlong road trip in search of Christian faith / Suzanne Strempek Shea, 277.308 SHE
• Tell me where it hurts: a day of humor, healing and hope in my life as an animal surgeon / Nick Trout, 636.0897 TRO
• 610.92 WIC
• Three cups of tea: one man’s mission to fight terrorism and build nations– one school at a time / Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, 371.822 MOR
• Tiki: my life in the game and beyond / by Tiki Barber , B BARBER
• Touch of the sacred: a theologian’s informal guide to Jewish belief / Eugene B. Borowitz & Frances W. Schwartz, 296.7 BOR
• Trellises & arbors /  Steve Cory , 690.89 COR
• 361.92 ADD
• Ultralongevity: the seven-step program for a younger, healthier you / Mark Liponis, 613.2 LIP
• U-turn: what if you woke up one morning and realized you were living the wrong life? / Bruce Grierson, 155.25 GRI
• Veganomicon: the ultimate vegan cookbook / Isa Chandra Moskowitz & Terry Hope Romero, 641.5636 MOS
• Vindicated: big names, big liars, and the battle to save baseball / Jose Canseco, 796.357 CAN
• Wear your life well: use what you have to get what you want / Marilu Henner , 646.7 HEN
• Who’s your city?: how the creative economy is making where to live the most important decision of your life / Richard Florida, 304.23 FLO
• Why Mars & Venus collide: improving relationships by understanding how men and women cope differently with stress / John Gray, 155.9042 GRA
• Work from home handbook / Diana Fitzpatrick & Stephen Fishman, 658.0412 FIT
• Yum-O!: the family cookbook /  Rachael Ray, 641.555 RAY

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April 2008 New Non-Fiction Books

• Age of American unreason / Susan Jacoby, 973.91 JAC
• Age of miracles: embracing the new midlife / Marianne Williamson, 155.6 WIL
• Aristotle and an aardvark go to Washington: understanding political doublespeak through philosophy and jokes / by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, 401.41 CAT
• Around the world in 80 dinners: the ultimate culinary adventure / Cheryl and Bill Jamison, 641.59 JAM
• Be happy without being perfect: how to break free from the perfection deception / Alice Domar and Alice Kelly, 155.633 DOM
• Bill Mauldin: a life up front / Todd DePastino, B DEPASTINO
• Breaking news: a stunning and memorable account of reporting from some of the most dangerous places in the world / Martin Fletcher, 070.4332 FLE
• Camera, two kids, and a camel: my journey in photographs / by Annie Griffiths Belt, 779.092 BEL
• Cecil B. Demille: a life in art / Simon Louvish, B DEMILLE
• Celebrity culture in the United States / edited by Terence J. Fitzgerald, 973.92 CEL
• Comfortably numb: how psychiatry medicated a nation / Charles Barber, 616.89 BAR
• Fasting / Jentezen Franklin, 248.47 FRA
• Food you crave: luscious recipes for a healthy life / Ellie Krieger, 641.5 KRI
• Fortune cookie chronicles: adventures in the world of Chinese food / Jennifer 8. Lee, 641.5951 LEE
• From Harvey River: a memoir of my mother and her people / Lorna Goodison, B GOODISON
• Geography of bliss: one grump’s search for the happiest places in the world / Eric Weiner, 910.4 WEI
• Guide to the quaker parrot / Mattie Sue Athan, 636.6865 ATH
• Happy for no reason: seven steps to being happy from the inside out / Marci Shimoff with Carol Kline, 158 SHI
• Head trip: adventures on the wheel of consciousness / written and illustrated by Jeff Warren, 153 WAR
• Healthy cooking for the Jewish home: 200 recipes for eating well on holidays and every day / by Faye Levy, 641.5676 LEV
• Home: a memoir of my early years / by Julie Andrews, B ANDREWS
• Hope’s boy : [a memoir] / Andrew Bridge, B BRIDGE
• Hubert’s freaks: the rare-book dealer, the Times Square talker, and the lost photos of Diane Arbus / Gregory Gibson, 779.2 GIB
• Iceman: my fighting life / by Chuck Liddell , B LIDDELL
• Knitting new scarves: 27 distinctly modern patterns / Lynne Barr, 746.432 BAR
• Last princess: the devoted life of Queen Victoria’s youngest daughter / Matthew Dennison, 941.081 DEN
• Liberal fascism: the secret history of the American left, from Mussolini to the politics of meaning / Jonah Goldberg, 320.533 GOL
• Lincoln legends: myths, hoaxes, and confabulations associated with our greatest president / Edward Steers Jr.  , 973.7092 STE
• Linux bible: boot up to Ubuntu, Fedora, KNOPPIX, Debian, openSUSE, and 11 other distributions / Christopher Negus, 005.432 NEG
• Long embrace: Raymond Chandler and the woman he loved / Judith Freeman, B CHANDLER
• B BERTINELLI
• Lost Supreme: the life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard / Peter Benjaminson, 782.4216 BEN
• Lucia: a Venetian life in the age of Napoleon / by Andrea Di Robilant, 945.311 DIR
• Makers of modern architecture / Martin Filler, 724.6 FIL
• Manic: a memoir / Terri Cheney, 616.89 CHE
• Martha Stewart’s cookies: the very best treats to bake and to share / from the editors of Martha Stewart Living , 641.8654 STE
• Million is not enough: how to retire with the money you’ll need / Michael K. Farr , 332.024 FAR
• Remarkable mother / Jimmy Carter, B CARTER
• Rich dad’s increase your financial IQ: get smarter with your money  / Robert T. Kiyosaki, 332.024 KIY
• Robin to the rescue: quick & simple sauces for delicious home cooking / Robin Miller, 641.555 MIL
• Seducing the boys club: uncensored tactics from a woman at the top / Nina DiSesa, 658.409 DIS
• Staring at the sun: overcoming the terror of death / Irvin D. Yalom, 155.937 YAL
• Steering by starlight: find your right life no matter what / Martha Beck, 158.1 BEC
• Step from death: a memoir / Larry Woiwode, B WOIWODE
• Superman vs. Hollywood: how fiendish producers, devious directors, and warring writers grounded an American icon / Jake Rossen, 791.4365 ROS
• Swimming in a sea of death: a son’s memoir / by David Rieff, B SONTAG
• This republic of suffering: death and the American Civil War / Drew Gilpin Faust, 973.71 FAU
• Tip-off: how the 1984 NBA draft changed basketball forever / Filip Bondy, 796.323 BON
• To bless the space between us: a book of blessings / John O’Donohue, 242.8 O’D
• What your doctor may not tell you about cholesterol: the latest natural treatments and scientific advances in one breakthrough program / Stephen R. Devries, 616.3997 DEV
• WomenHeart’s all heart family cookbook: featuring the 40 foods proven to promote heart health / Kathy Kastan, 641.563 KAS
• Working at the ballpark: the fascinating lives of baseball people–from peanut vendors and broadcasters to players and managers / Tom Jones, 796.357 JON

 

 

 

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March 2008 New Non-Fiction Books

• 500 soups: the only soup compendium you’ll ever need  / Susannah Blake, 641.813 BLA
• About my life and the kept woman: a memoir / John Rechy, B RECHY
• Alzheimer’s from the inside out / Richard Taylor, 362.1968 TAY
• Are you there, God?: it’s me Kevin : a memoir / Kevin Keck, 170 KEC
• Artists in exile: how refugees from 20th century war and revolution transformed the American performing arts / Joseph Horowitz, 791.0869 HOR
• Bake until bubbly! / Clifford A. Wright, 641.821 WRI
• Beautiful boy: a father’s journey through his son’s addiction / David Sheff, 362.299 SHE
• Best American crime reporting 2007 / guest editor, Linda Fairstein   series editors, Otto Penzler and Thomas H. Cook., 364.973 BES
• Breathe life into your life story: how to write a story people will want to read / Dawn and Morris Thurston., 808.066 THU
• Charlatan: America’s most dangerous huckster, the man who pursued him, and the age of flimflam / Pope Brock, 615.856 BRO
• Dr. Nieca Goldberg’s complete guide to women’s health /  Nieca Goldberg, 613.0424 GOL
• Epilepsy: a Cleveland Clinic guide / Elaine Wyllie, 616.853 WYL
• Free lunch: how the wealthiest Americans enrich themselves at government expense (and stick you with the bill) / David Cay Johnston, 338.973 JOH
• God save the fan / Will Leitch, 796 LEI
• God’s problem : how the Bible fails to answer our most important question–why we suffer / Bart D. Ehrman., 231.8 EHR
• Gotcha capitalism: how hidden fees rip you off every day, and what you can do about it / Bob Sullivan, 351.34 SUL
• Greatest gift: the courageous life and death of Sister Dorothy Stang / Binka Le Breton, 271.97 LE
• Hard truth about soft skills: workplace lessons smart people wish they’d learned sooner / Peggy Klaus, 650.1 KLA
• Hello Charlie: letters from a serial killer / Charlie Hess and Davin Seay, 364.1523 HES
• Homemade biography: how to collect, record, and tell the life story of someone you love / Tom Zoellner, 809.9359 ZOE
• How not to look old: fast and effortless ways to look 10 years younger, 10 pounds lighter, 10 times better / Charla Krupp, 646.7042 KRU
• Introducing Bert Williams: burnt cork, Broadway, and the story of America’s first Black star / Camille F. Forbes, 792.702 FOR
• Making of Second Life: notes from the new world / Wagner James Au, 794.8 AU
• Meaning of sunglasses: and a guide to almost all things fashionable / Hadley Freeman, 391.4 FRE
• Murder in Mayberry: greed, death and mayhem in a small town / Mary Kinny Branson, Jack Branson, 364.1523 KIN
• New rules of lifting for women: lift like a man, look like a goddess / Lou Schuler , 796.41 SCH
• Nim Chimpsky: the chimp who would be human / Elizabeth Hess, 636.9885 HES
• Not the girl next door: Joan Crawford, a personal biography / Charlotte Chandler, B CRAWFORD
• One night, two teams: Alabama vs. USC and the game that changed a nation / Steven Travers, 796.3326 TRA
• Organic food shopper’s guide: what you need to know to select and cook the best food on the market / Jeff Cox, 641.563 COX
• Pictures at a revolution: five movies and the birth of the new Hollywood / Mark Harris, 791.43 HAR
• Pillsbury best of the bake-off cookies & bars., 641.8654 PIL
• Real change: from the world that fails to the world that works / Newt Gingrich, 320.6097 GIN
• Reason for God: belief in an age of skepticism / Timothy Keller, 239 KEL
• Revolution in mind: the creation of psychoanalysis / George Makari, 150.195 MAK
• Runner’s world guide to road racing: run your first (or fastest) 5-k, 10-k, half-marathon, or marathon / Katie McDonald Nietz, 796.425 MCD
• Send yourself roses: and other thoughts on life, love, and leading roles / Kathleen Turner , B TURNER
• Sex sleep eat drink dream: a day in the life of your body / Jennifer Ackerman, 612 ACK
• Sit, Ubu, sit / Gary David Goldberg, 791.4502 GOL
• Sky isn’t visible from here /  Felicia C. Sullivan, 362.7609 SUL
• Sport gambling 101 /  Oliver Jones, 795 JON
• Stop the 401(k) rip-off!: eliminate costly hidden fees to improve your life / David B. Loeper, 332.024 LOE
• Storming Las Vegas: how a Cuban-born, Soviet-trained commando took down the Strip to the tune of five world-class hotels, three armored cars, and  millions of dollars / John Huddy, 364.1552 HUD
• Third Jesus: the Christ we cannot ignore / Deepak Chopra, 232 CHO
• Three cups of tea: one man’s mission to promote peace — one school at a time / Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, 371.822 MOR
• Too young to feel old: the 28-day formula for pain-free living with arthritis / Richard Blau, 616.722 BLA
• Ultimate cheapskate’s road map to true riches: a practical (and fun) guide to enjoying life more by spending less /  Jeff Yeager, 332.024 YEA
• What the Gospels meant / Garry Wills, 226.06 WIL
• Who stole my church?: what to do when the church you love tries to enter the twenty-first century / Gordon MacDonald, 262.0017 MAC
• Woman’s guide to urinary incontinence / Rene Genadry and Jacek L. Mostwin, 616.62 GEN
• Yalo / Elias Khoury, 892.736 KHA
• Your first home: the proven path to home ownership /  Gary Keller, 333.3383 KEL

February 2008 New Non-Fiction Books

• 1080 recipes / Simone Ortega, 641.5946 ORT
• 3:16 : the numbers of hope / Max Lucado, 226.506 LUC
• 60 on up : the truth about aging in America / Lillian B. Rubin, 305.26 RUB
• Against the machine : being human in the age of the electronic mob / Lee Siegel, 303.48 SIE
• All-natural diabetes cookbook: 150 high-flavor recipes made with real foods / Jackie Newgent, 641.5631 NEW
• Annotated Hans Christian Andersen / edited with an introduction and notes by Maria Tatar, 398.2094 AND
• Art of jewelry. Wood : techniques, projects, inspiration / Terry Taylor, 745.594 TAY
• Augie’s quest: one man’s journey from success to significance / Augie Nieto and T.R. Pearson, 362.1968 NIE
• Bad dogs have more fun: selected writings on animals, family and life / John Grogan, 818.6 GRO
• Body has a mind of its own : how body maps in your brain help you do (almost) everything better / Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee, 150 BLA
• Boobs: a guide to your girls / Elisabeth Squires, 618.19 SQU
• Broken government: how Republican rule destroyed the legislative, executive, and judicial branches / John W. Dean, 973.931 DEA
• Built by animals / Mike Hansell, 591.564 HAN
• Chant to soothe wild elephants: a memoir / Jaed Coffin, 959.3044 COF
• Clint Eastwood, actor and director: new perspectives / edited by Leonard Engel, 792.028 CLI
• Designer dogs: portraits and profiles of popular new crossbreeds / Caroline Coile, 636.7 COI
• Don’t throw it out!: recycle, renew and reuse to make things last / Lori Baird, 640.41 BAI
• Eat this, not that: thousands of simple food swaps that can save you 10,20, 30 pounds–or more! / David Zinczenko, 613.2 ZIN
• Everything I want to do is illegal / Joel Salatin, 630.2 SAL
• Everything you know about God is wrong / Russ Kick, editor, 200 KIC
• Expecting money : the essential financial plan for new and growing families / Erica Sandberg, 332.024 SAN
• Exposed: the toxic chemistry of everyday products : who’s at risk and what’s at stake for American power / Mark Schapiro, 363.17 SCH
• Family guide to fighting fat:  a parent’s guide to battling obesity, diabetes, and eating issues / Texas Children’s Hospital, 618.92 FAM
• Family intervention guide to mental illness: recognizing symptoms & getting treatment / Bodie Morey, Kim T. Mueser, 616.89 MOR
• Fidel Castro: my life / Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramone, B CASTRO
• Fitness made simple: the power to change your body, the power to change your life / John Basedow, 613.7 BAS
• Fodor’s 08 Ireland / editor, Robert I.C. Fisher, 914.1504 FOD
• Foreskin’s lament: a memoir / Shalom Auslander, B AUSLANDER
• Freedom from addiction: the Chopra Center method for overcoming destructive habits / David Simon, Deepak Chopra, 616.86 SIM
• Fundamentals of typography / Gavin Ambrose & Paul Harris, 686.22 AMB
• Gaining: the truth about life after eating disorders / Aimee Liu, 616.8526 LUI
• Gang leader for a day: a rogue sociologist takes to the streets / Sudhir Venkatesh, 364.1 VEN
• Genius of America : how the Constitution saved our country–and why it can again / Eric Lane and Michael Oreskes, 342.7302 LA
• Girl’s guide to kicking your career into gear : valuable lessons, true stories, and tips for using what you’ve got (a brain!) to make your worklife work for you / Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio, 331.702 FRI
• Gluten-free girl: how I found the food that loves me back– & how you can, too / Shauna James Ahern, 615.854 AHE
• Golden eagle: a behind-the-scenes look at the art of bird carving / Floyd Scholz , 736.4 SCH
• Great awakening : the roots of evangelical Christianity in colonial America / Jim Wallis, 269.0973 WAL
• Great bar food at home / Kate Heyhoe, 641.812 HEY
• Great Partition: the making of India and Pakistan / Yasmin Khan, 954.042 KHA
• Green building & remodeling for dummies /  Eric Corey Freed, 690.837 FRE
• Helping me help myself: one skeptic, ten self-help Gurus, and a year on the brink of the comfort zone / Beth Lisick, 818.5409 LIS
• Henry James: the mature master / Sheldon M. Novick, B JAMES
• Her last death: a memoir / Susanna Sonnenberg, 362.2909 SON
• Hors d’oeuvre at home / Culinary Institute of America, 641.812 HOR
• I’m looking through you: growing up haunted / Jennifer Finney Boylan, B BOYLAN
• Inheriting the trade : a Northern family confronts its legacy as the largest slave-trading dynasty in U.S. history / Thomas Norman DeWolf, 306.362 DEW
• Inside Inside / James Lipton, 792.028 LIP
• It ain’t over ’til the thin lady sings: making your weight loss surgery a lasting success / Michelle Ritchie, 617.43 RIT
• It never rains in tiger stadium: football and the game of life, 796.332 BRA
• Knit kimono: 18 designs with simple shapes / Vicki Square, 746.34 SQU
• Longevity made simple: how to add 20 good years to your life : lessons from decades of research / Richard J. Flanigan, 613 FLA
• Lyrical ballads / edited by Michael Mason, 821.7 WOR
• Match: the day the game of golf changed forever / Mark Frost, 796.352 FRO
• Middle place / Kelly Corrigan, 362.1969 COR
• Miss Vickie’s big book of pressure cooker recipes / Vicki Smith, 641.587 SMI
• Modern jewelry from modular parts: easy projects using readymade components / Marthe Le Van, 745.594 LE
• My mistress’s sparrow is dead: great love stories from Chekhov to Munro / edited by Jeffrey Eugenides, 808.8385 EUG
• Natural pet food cookbook: healthful recipes for dogs and cats / Wendy Nan Rees, 636.7085 REE
• Nature of home : taking root in a place / Greta Gaard, 305.4209 GAA
• No more Mondays: fire yourself– and other revolutionary ways to discover your true calling at work / Dan Miller, 650.14 MIL
• Notes from a minor key: a memoir of music, love, and healing / Dawn Bailiff, 700.92 BAI
• One day in history–December 7, 1941 / Rodney P. Carlisle, 940.5426 ONE
• One day in history–July 4, 1776 / Rodney P. Carlisle, 973.303 ONE
• One day in history–September 11, 2001 / Rodney P. Carlisle, 973.931 ONE
• Pilules bleues. English;”Blue pills: a positive love story / Frederick Peeters, 741.594 PEE
• Punching in: the unauthorized adventures of a front-line employee / Alex Frankel, 658.314 FRA
• Raising baby green: the earth-friendly guide to pregnancy, childbirth, and baby care / Alan Greene, 618.2 GRE
• Read on– fantasy fiction: reading lists for every taste / Neil Hollands, 016.813 HOL
• Ready, fire, aim: zero to $100 million in no time flat / Michael Masterson, 658.11 MAS
• Regaining your self: breaking free from the eating disorder identity / Ira M. Saker, 616.8526 SAC
• Secret history of the American empire : economic hit men, jackals, and the truth about global corruption / John Perkins, 337.73 PER
• Secret history of the war on cancer / Devra Davis, 616.994 DAV
• Simon says : a true story of boys, guns and murder / Kathryn Eastburn, 364.1523 EAS
• Slumming in New York: from the waterfront to mythic Harlem / Robert M. Dowling, 813.009 DOW
• 612.76 RAT
• Stop spoiling that man : turn your needy guy into an equal, loving partner / John B. Arden, 306.7 ARD
• Sunzi bing fa. English.;”The art of war, 355.02 SUN
• Surgeons: life and death in a top heart center / Charles R. Morris, 617.092 MOR
• Teen whisperer: how to break through the silence and secrecy of teenage life / Mike Linderman, 649.154 LIN
• Tenth muse: my life in food / Judith Jones, 641.59 JON
• They can’t find anything wrong!: 7 keys to understanding, treating & healing stress illness / David D. Clarke, 616.98 CLA
• Tom Cruise: an unauthorized biography / Andrew Morton, B CRUISE
• Trail of crumbs: hunger, love, and the search for home / Kim Sunee, 641.5092 SUN
• Trust rules : how to tell the good guys from the bad guys in work and life / Linda K. Stroh, 158.2 STR
• Truth and consequences: special comments on the Bush administration’s war on American values / Keith Olbermann, 973.931 OLB
• Waking the warrior goddess: Dr. Christine Horner’s program to protect against & fight breast cancer / Christine Horner, 616.99 HOR
• What color is your parachute?: a practical manual for job-hunters & career changers / Richard Nelson Bolles, 650.14 BOL
• What is emotion?: history, measures, and meanings / Jerome Kagan, 152.4 KAG
• Whoa, my boss is naked!: a career book for people who would never be caught dead reading a career book / Jake Greene, 650.1 GRE
• Your symptoms are real: what to do when your doctor says nothing is wrong / Benjamin H. Natelson, 616.047 NAT
• You’ve got it made: deliciously easy meals to make now and bake later / Diane Phillips, 641.5 PHI

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January 2008 New Non-Fiction Books

• 4-hour work week : escape 9-5, live anywhere, and join the new rich / Timothy Ferriss, 650.1 FER
• Allergy-free cookbook / Alice Sherwood, 641.5631 SHE
• American crescent : A Muslim cleric on the power of his faith, the struggle against prejudice, and the future of Islam and America / Imam Sayid Hassan Al-Qazwini, Brad Crawford, 297.8209 QAZ
• American Jennie : the remarkable life of Lady Randolph Churchill / Anne Sebba, B CHURCHILL
• American Sonnets : an anthology / [edited by] David Bromwich, 808.814 AME
• An inconvenient book : real solutions to the world’s biggest problems / written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, 973.92 BEC
• Blue blood & mutiny : the fight for the soul of Morgan Stanley / Patricia Beard, 332.66 BEA
• Body in action : you can keep your joints young / Sarah Key, 612.76 KEY
• Boho baby knits : groovy patterns for cool tots / Kat Coyle, 746.432 COY
• Book of general ignorance / John Mitchinson and John Lloyd, 031.02 MIT
• Can’t buy me love : the Beatles, Britain, and America / Jonathan Gould, 781.66 GOU
• Details men’s style manual : the ultimate guide for making your clothes work for you / Daniel Peres and the editors of Details, 646.32 PER
• Discovery of France / Graham Robb, 944 ROB
• Dolce italiano : desserts from the Babbo kitchen / by Gina DePalma, 641.86 DEP
• Don’t bet against me! : beating the odds against breast cancer and in life / Deanna Favre   with Angela Hunt, B FAVRE
• End of America : letter of warning to a young patriot / Naomi Wolf, 323.49 WOL
• Everyday commitments : choosing a life of love, realism, and acceptance / David Richo, 170.44 RIC
• Forced to be family : a guide for living with sinister sisters, drama mamas, and infuriating in-laws / Cheryl Dellasega, 646.78 DEL
• Freedom from oil : how the next president can end the United States‘ oil addiction / David Sandalow, 338.272 SAN
• Future of management / Gary Hamel   with Bill Breen, 658 HAM
• God’s Harvard : a Christian college on a mission to save America / Hanna Rosin, 378.755 ROS
• Golf my own damn way : a real guy’s guide to chopping ten strokes off your score  / John Daly with Glen Waggoner, 796.352 DAL
• Good dog. Stay / Anna Quindlen, 818.54 QUI
• Hamas : a history from within / Azzam Tamimi, 324.2569 TAM
• Happiness is an inside job : practicing for a joyful life / Sylvia Boorstein, 294.3 BOO
• Hollywood’s censor : Joseph I. Breen & the Production Code Administration / Thomas Doherty, 791.4309 DOH
• Hospital stay handbook : a guide to becoming a patient advocate for your loved ones / Jari Holland Buck, 610 BUC
• In defense of food : an eater’s manifesto / Michael Pollan, 613 POL
• Independents day : awakening the American spirit / Lou Dobbs, 323.6 DOB
• iPod & iTunes for dummies, 006.5 BOV
• Isn’t it their turn to pick up the check? : dealing with all the trickiest money problems between family and friends, from serial borrowers to serious cheapskates / by Jeanne Fleming and Leonard Schwarz, 332.024 FLE
• Jane Boleyn : the true story of the infamous Lady Rochford / Julia Fox, B BOLEYN FOX
• Just in time! : all-new 30-minutes meals, plus super-fast 15-minute meals and slow it down 60-minute meals / Rachael Ray, 641.555 RAY
• Knitter’s book of yarn : the ultimate guide to choosing, using, and enjoying yarn / by Clara Parkes, 677.0282 PAR
• Knitting in plain English / Maggie Righetti, 746.432 RIG
• Leadership challenge / James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner, 658.4092 KOU
• Learning to drive : and other life stories / Katha Pollitt, 813.54 POL
• Life is still good : Rob Szymaszek: one man’s coaching philosophy applied to the toughest challenge of his life / Bryant Carpenter, B SZYMASZEK
• Macachiavellian intelligence : how rhesus macaques and humans have conquered the world / Dario Maestripieri, 599.8 MAE
• Meat market : inside the smash-mouth world of college football recruiting / Bruce Feldman, 796.3326 FEL
• Mountain rescue doctor : wilderness medicine in the extremes of nature / Christopher Van Tilburg, 616.02 VAN
• Murdered by Mumia : a life sentence of loss, pain, and injustice / Maureen Faulkner and Michael A. Smerconish, 364.1523 FAU
• Nigella express : good food, fast / Nigella Lawson   photographs by Lis Parsons, 641.555 LAW
• Prisoner of Tehran : a memoir / Marina Nemat, B NEMAT
• Return to Dragon Mountain : memories of a late Ming man / Jonathan D. Spence, 895.1 SPE
• Rule the Web : how to do anything and everything on the Internet– better, faster, easier / Mark Frauenfelder, 004.67 FRA
• Rumi : bridge to the soul : journeys into the music and silence of the heart / translations by Coleman Barks, with A.J. Arberry and Nevit Ergin], 891.55 JAL
• Running the table : the legend of Kid Delicious, the last great American pool hustler / L. Jon Wertheim, 794.7209 WER
• Sewing stitch and textile bible : a complete illustrated guide to techniques and materials / Lorna Knight, 646.2 KNI
• Shock doctrine : the rise of disaster capitalism / Naomi Klein, 330.12 KLE
• Slash / Slash   with Anthony Bozza, 787.87 SLA
• So help me God : the founding fathers and the first great battle over church and state / Forrest Church, 322.1097 CHU
• Surrender is not an option : defending America at the United Nations and abroad / John Bolton, 341.237 BOL
• Terra : our 100-million-year-old ecosystem–and the threats that now put it at risk / Michael Novacek, 576.8 NOV
• Time and materials : poems, 1997-2005 / Robert Hass, 811.54 HAS
• Touch and go : a memoir / Studs Terkel, B TERKEL
• Vegetarian cooking for everyone / by Deborah Madison, 641.5636 MAD
• View of the ocean / Jan de Hartog, B DE HARTOG
• Write it when I’m gone : remarkable off-the-record conversations with Gerald R. Ford / Thomas M. DeFrank, 973.925 DEF
• Young man & the sea : recipes & crispy fish tales from Esca / David Pasternack & Ed Levine, 641.69 PAS
• Your dog interpreter : how to understand man’s best friend / David Alderton, 636.7 ALD

2007 Tax Forms Now Available

 

Federal and State of Connecticut tax forms for the 2007 filing year are now available at the Library. Complete tax forms are also available to download from the Internet at these websites:

• Connecticut
• Federal
• Other US States

A State Full of Books

  
Need a book, movie or CD that Southington Library doesn’t own? Interlibrary Loan, or ILL, is a free library service that allows you to borrow books from nearly every public library (and some university libraries) in the state of Connecticut. In most cases, your materials will arrive in the Southington Library from seven to ten days after your request is placed.

Call or speak to someone at the Information Desk for more information or to place your request.

(ILL is not applicable for items that the library currently owns or brand-new releases)