December 3, 2007...9:48 pm

December 2007 New Non-Fiction Books

  • Airmen and the headhunters : a true story of lost soldiers, heroic tribesmen and the unlikeliest rescue of World War II / Judith M. Heimann, 940.54 HEI
  • Alice : Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House princess to Washington power broker / Stacy A. Cordery, 973.911 COR
  • American gangster : and other tales of New York / Mark Jacobson   foreward by Richard Price, 974.71 JAC
  • America’s child : a woman’s journey through the radical sixties / Susan Sherman, B SHERMAN
  • Animals matter : a biologist explains why we should treat animals with compassion and respect / Marc Bekoff , 179.3 BEK
  • Art of loving / Erich Fromm, 152.4 FRO
  • Beauty confidential : the no preaching, no lies, advice-you’ll-actually-use-guide to looking your best / Nadine Haobsh, 646.7 HAO
  • Best of American beer and food : pairing & cooking with craft beer / Lucy Saunders, 641.623 SAU
  • Bible : a biography / Karen Armstrong, 220 ARM
  • Blue rage, black redemption : a memoir / Stanley Tookie Williams, B WILLIAMS
  • Blue skies, no fences : a memoir of childhood and family / Lynne Cheney, B CHENEY
  • Blueprint : how the New England Patriots beat the system to create the last great NFL superpower / Christopher Price, 796.3326 PRI
  • Born standing up : a comic’s life / Steve Martin, B MARTIN
  • Buying a second home : income, getaway, or retirement / Craig Venezia, 643.12 VEN
  • Can we talk about race? : and other conversations in an era of school resegregation / Beverly Daniel Tatum, 305.8 TAT
  • Complete artist’s way : creativity as a spiritual practice / Julia Cameron, 204.4 CAM
  • Conscience of a liberal / Paul Krugman, 339.2209 KRU
  • Dark victory : the life of Bette Davis / Ed Sikov, B DAVIS
  • Deceptively delicious : simple secrets to get your kids eating good food / Jessica Seinfeld, 641.5973 SEI
  • Desserts by yard : from Brooklyn to Beverly Hills : recipes from the sweetest life ever / Sherry Yard, with Martha Rose Shulman, 641.86 YAR
  • Discovering God : the origins of the great religions and the evolution of belief / Rodney Stark, 200 STA
  • Essential baby : over 20 hand knits to take your baby from first days to first steps / Debbie Bliss, 746.43 BLI
  • Fair game : my life as a spy, my betrayal by the White House / Valerie Plame Wilson, B WILSON
  • Ferrets for dummies, 2nd edition / Kim Shilling, 636.976 SHI
  • Finding Iris Chang : friendship, ambition and an extraordinary mind / Paula Kamen, B CHANG
  • Free for all : oddballs, geeks, and gangstas in the public library / Don Borchert, 020.92 BOR
  • Get stronger, feel younger : the cardio and diet-free plan to firm up and lose fat / Wayne Westcott and Gary Reinl, 613.71 WES
  • Gonzo : the life of Hunter S. Thompson / Jann Wenner and Corey Seymour, B THOMPSON
  • Great funk : falling apart and coming together (on a shag rug) in the seventies / Thomas Hine, 973.924 HIN
  • Guide to a well-behaved parrot / Mattie Sue Athan, 636.6865 ATH
  • Head and heart : American Christianities / Garry Wills, 277.3 WIL
  • Hedge hunters : hedge fund masters on the rewards, the risk, and the reckoning / Katherine Burton, 332.64 BUR
  • Heroin diaries / Nikki Sixx with Ian Gittens, B SIXX
  • History of wine in America from prohibition to the present / Thomas Pinney, 663.2009 PIN
  • History of wine in America from the beginnings to prohibition / Thomas Pinney, 663.2009 PIN
  • HTML : a beginner’s guide / Wendy Willard, 006.74 WIL
  • HTML, XHTML & CSS : visual quickstart guide / Elizabeth Castro, 005.72 CAS
  • If I only knew then– : learning from our mistakes / Charles Grodin, 920.073 IF
  • It’s not the glass ceiling, it’s the sticky floor : and other things our daughters should know about marriage, work, and motherhood / Karen Engberg, 306.8743 ENG
  • Journals, 1952-2000 / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., 973.9109 SCH
  • Kings of New York : a year among the geeks, oddballs, and geniuses who make up America’s top high school chess team / Michael Weinreb, 794.1097 WEI
  • Knitting little luxuries : beautiful accessories to knit / Louisa Harding, 746.432 HAR
  • Land so strange : the epic journey of Cabeza de Vaca : the extraordinary tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth century / Andres Resendez, 970.01 RES
  • Life laughs : the naked truth about motherhood, marriage, and moving on / Jenny McCarthy, 791.45 MCC
  • Marie Claire makeup / from the editors of Marie Claire magazine., 646.72 MAR
  • Modernism : the thrill of heresy / Peter Gay, 700.9 GAY
  • Mosaic : pieces of my life so far / Amy Grant, B GRANT
  • Musicophilia : tales of music and the brain /  Oliver Sacks, 781.11 SAC
  • Never enough / Joe McGinniss, 364.1523 MCG
  • Nine : inside the secret world of the Supreme Court / Jeffrey Toobin, 347.7326 TOO
  • Obama : from promise to power / David Mendell, B OBAMA
  • Otto Preminger : the man who would be king / Foster Hirsch, B PREMINGER
  • Passion to lead : seven leadership secrets for success in business, sports, and life / Jim Calhoun with Richard Ernsberger, Jr., 158.4 CAL
  • Pomeranian handbook / Sharon L. Vanderlip , 636.76 VAN
  • Portable atheist : essential readings for the non-believer / edited by Christopher Hitchens, 211.8 HIT
  • Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote / Truman Capote, 814.54 CAP
  • Red wine diet / Roger Corder, 613.26 COR
  • Rescuing Sprite : a dog lover’s story of joy and anguish / Mark R. Levin, 636.7092 LEV
  • Sage-ing while age-ing / Shirley MacLaine, 791.4302 MAC
  • Shakespeare unbound : decoding a hidden life / Rene Weis, 822.33 WEI
  • Skating life / Dorothy Hamill, with Deborah Amelon, B HAMILL
  • Slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation / David W. Blight, 973.7 BLI
  • Start strong, finish strong : prescriptions for a lifetime of great health / Kenneth H. Cooper, Tyler C. Cooper, with William Proctor, 613.7 COO
  • Stuff of thought : language as a window into human nature / Steven Pinker, 401 PIN
  • Unchristian : what a new generation really thinks about Christianity … and why it matters / David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons, 277.3083 KIN
  • Valley Boy : the education of Tom Perkins / Tom Perkins, 338.761 PER
  • Warren Buffett speaks : wit and wisdom from the world’s greatest investor / [compiled by] Janet Lowe, 332.6 BUF
  • Water from a deep well : spirituality from early martyrs to modern missionaries / Gerald L. Sittser, 248.09 SIT
  • What’s so great about Christianity / Dinesh D’Souza, 230 DSO
  • Wolf of Wall Street / Jordan Belfort, 332.6 BEL
  • You are your choices : 50 ways to live the good life / Alexandra Stoddard, 170.44 STO
  • You, staying young : the owner’s manual to extending your warranty / Mehmet C. Oz … [et al.]  , 613.2 OZ