August 4, 2008...7:52 pm

August 2008 New Non-Fiction Books

  • Salvador Dali: an illustrated life / Montse Aguer Teixidor , B DALI
  • Anatomy of baseball / edited by Lee Gutkind , 796.357 ANA
  • Barbecue! bible /  Steven Raichlen, 641.5784 RAI
  • Best instruction book ever! / edited by Golf Magazine, 796.3523 GOL
  • Beyond tolerance: searching for interfaith understanding in America / Gustav Niebuhr, 201.5 NIE
  • Black wave: a family’s adventure at sea and the disaster that saved them / John and Jean Silverwood, 910.9164 SIL
  • Career quizzes: 12 tests to help you discover and develop your dream career / John J. Liptak, 153.94 LIP
  • Chicks with Sticks guide to crochet: learn to crochet with more than thirty cool, easy patterns / Nancy Queen, 746.434 QUE
  • Churchill, Hitler and  the unnecessary wa : how Britain lost its empire and the West lost the world / Patrick J. Buchanan, 940.5311 BUC
  • Civility solution: what to do when people are rude / P.M. Forni, 395 FOR
  • Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the last stand of the Aztecs / Buddy Levy, 972.02 LEV
  • Dali & I: the surreal story / Stan Lauryssens, 709.2 LAU
  • Dead lucky : life after death on Mount Everest / Lincoln Hall, 796.522 HAL
  • Duchamp book / Gavin Parkinson, 759.4 PAR
  • Easy to crochet cute clothes for kids: a gorgeous collection of 25 quick and easy designs / Sue Whiting, 746.43 WHI
  • End of days: predictions and prophecies about the end of the world / Sylvia Browne, 202.3 BRO
  • Essential guide to business etiquette / Lillian Hunt Chaney, 395.52 CHA
  • Fish without a doubt: the cook’s essential companion / Rick Moonen , 641.692 MOO
  • Flory: a miraculous story of survival / Flory A. Van Beek, 940.5318 VAN
  • Full burn : on the set, at the bar, behind the wheel, and over the edge with Hollywood stuntmen / Kevin Conley., 791.4302 CON
  • Furious improvisation: how the WPA and a cast of thousands made high art out of desperate times / Susan Quinn, 792.0973 QUI
  • Gaspipe: confessions of a Mafia boss / Philip Carlo, 364.1092 CAR
  • Good in a room: how to sell yourself (and your idea) and win over any audience / Stephanie Palmer, 650.1 PAL
  • Great expectations school: a rookie year in the new blackboard jungle / Dan Brown, 371.1009 BRO
  • Hiding in plain sight: the secret life of Raymond Burr, B BURR
  • Piaf: a biography / Monique Lange, B PIAF
  • How to think like a poker pro / Roy Cooke, 795.412 COO
  • Italian grill / Mario Batali , 641.5945 BAT
  • Jeffrey Gitomer’s sales bible: the ultimate sales resource, including the 10.5 commandments of sales success / edited by Jessica McDougall, 658.85 GIT
  • Know your power: a message to America’s daughters /  Nancy Pelosi , 328.7309 PEL
  • Last campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 days that inspired America / Thurston Clarke, 973.922 CLA
  • Last fish tale: the fate of the Atlantic and survival in Gloucester, America’s oldest fishing port and most original town / Mark Kurlansky, 639.2097 KUR
  • Living retro / Andrew Weaving, 747 WEA
  • Mammoth book of poker / Paul Mendelson , 795.412 MEN
  • My stroke of insight: a brain scientist’s personal journey / Jill Bolte Taylor, 362.1968 TAY
  • Night fire: big oil, poison air, and one woman’s fight to save her town /  Ronnie Greene, 363.7387 GRE
  • Out of Mao’s shadow: the struggle for the soul of a new China / Philip P. Pan, 306.2095 PAN
  • Outlaw journalist: the life and times of Hunter S. Thompson / William McKeen, B THOMPSON
  • Perfect answers to interview questions / Max Eggert, 650.14 EGG
  • Petite Anglaise: a true story / Catherine Sanderson, B SANDERSON
  • Poets’ corner: the one-and-only poetry book for the whole family / selected by John Lithgow., 821.008 POE
  • Prosecution of George W. Bush for murder / Vincent Bugliosi, 973.931 BUG
  • Quick & painless business writing: an essential guide to clear and powerful communication / Susan F. Benjamin, 651.74 BEN
  • Rome 1960: the Olympics that changed the world / David Maraniss, 796.48 MAR
  • Rutka’s notebook: a voice from the Holocaust / Kelly Knauer, 940.5318 KNA
  • Satisfied customers tell three friends, angry customers tell 3,000: running a business in today’s consumer-driven world / Pete Blackshaw, 658.812 BLA
  • Shark’s fin and Sichuan pepper: a sweet-sour memoir of eating in China / Fuchsia Dunlop, 641.5951 DUN
  • Shopping for porcupine: a life in arctic Alaska / Seth Kantner, B KANTNER
  • Smart kids, bad schools: 38 ways to save America’s future / Brian Crosby, 370.973 CRO
  • Smartest 401(k) book you’ll ever read: maximize your retirement savings– the smart way!  / Daniel R. Solin, 332.024 SOL
  • Society’s child: my autobiography / Janis Ian, B IAN
  • Somewhere in heaven: the remarkable love story of Dana and Christopher Reeve /  Christopher Andersen, B REEVE
  • Sway: the irresistible pull of irrational behavior / Ori Brafman, 155.92 BRA
  • Time to fight: reclaiming a fair and just America / Jim Webb, 320.6097 WEB
  • Turtle feet: the making and unmaking of a Buddhist monk / Nikolai Grozni, 294.3657 GRO
  • Upgrade me: our amazing journey to human 2.0 / Brian Clegg, 599.938 CLE
  • Way of the turtle / Curtis M. Faith, 332.6452 FAI
  • Web 2.0: a strategy guide / Amy Shuen, 658.4038 SHU
  • When you are engulfed in flames / David Sedaris, 814.54 SED
  • When you’re falling, dive: lessons in the art of living / Mark Matousek, 155.24 MAT
  • Willful blindness: a memoir of the Jihad / Andrew C. McCarthy, 363.325 MCC
  • Winner takes all: Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, Gary Loveman, and the race to own Las Vegas / Christina Binkley, 338.7617 BIN
  • Winner’s guide to Texas hold’em poker / Ken Warren, 795.412 WAR
  • World’s most influential painters and the artists they inspired / David Gariff, 759 GAR
  • You won’t believe it’s gluten-free!: 500 delicious, foolproof recipes for healthy living / Roben Ryberg, 641.5638 RYB