December 3, 2008...6:34 pm

December 2008 New Non-Fiction Books

  • Al’ America: travels through America’s Arab and Islamic roots / Jonathan Curiel, 909.0974 CUR
  • Al Jazeera effect: how the new global media are reshaping world politics / Philip Seib, 302.2345 SEI
  • Alphabet juice / Roy Blount, 818.5407 BLO
  • Amarcord, Marcella remembers  / Marcella Hazan, B HAZAN
  • American rifle: a biography / Alexander Rose, 683.422 ROS
  • Archimedes to Hawking: laws of science and the great minds behind them / Clifford A. Pickover, 509.22 PIC
  • Ascent of money: a financial history of the world / Niall Ferguson, 332.09 FER
  • Ayatollah begs to differ: the paradox of modern Iran / Hooman Majd, 955.061 HOO
  • Balanced life: nine strategies for coping with the mental health problems of a loved one / Tom Smith, 362.1968 SMI
  • Best American poetry 2008 / Charles Wright, 811.54 BES
  • Blue cotton gown: a midwife’s memoir / Patricia Harman, 618.2009 HAR
  • Bob Schieffer’s America / Bob Schieffer, 973.92 SCH
  • Buy ology: truth and lies about why we buy / Martin Lindstrom, 658.834 LIN
  • Chagall: a biography / Jackie Wullschlager, B CHAGALL
  • Chaplin: a life / Stephen Weissman , B CHAPLIN
  • Dance with the devil: a true story of marriage to a psychopath / Barbara Bentley, 364.1523 BEN
  • Duchess / Amanda Foreman, B GEORGIANA
  • Eating the sun: how plants power the planet / Oliver Morton, 572.46 MOR
  • Emily Post: daughter of the Gilded Age, mistress of American manners / Laura Claridge, B POST
  • Finding beauty in a broken world / Terry Tempest Williams, 814.54 WIL
  • First darling of the morning: selected memories of an Indian childhood / Thrity Umrigar, B UMRIGAR
  • Flat belly diet!: a flat belly is about food & attitude, period / Liz Vaccariello, 613.25 FLA
  • Four kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran, and the last great era of boxing / George Kimball, 796.8309 KIM
  • French milk / by Lucy Knisley, 914.436 KNI
  • From colony to superpower: U.S. foreign relations since 1776 / George C. Herring, 327.73 HER
  • Get up: a 12-step guide to recovery for misfits, freaks, & weirdos / Bucky Sinister, 616.86 SIN
  • Goat cheese / Maggie Foard, 641.673 FOA
  • Hitman: forty years making music, topping charts, & winning Grammys / David Foster, 781.6409 FOS
  • How football explains America / Sal Paolantonio, 796.332 PAO
  • How to cook everything: simple recipes for great food / Mark Bittman, 641.5 BIT
  • How to keep your collector car alive / Josh B. Malks, 629.2872 MAL
  • Inside Drucker’s brain / Jeffrey A. Krames, 658.0092 KRA
  • Irish Americans: a history / Jay P. Dolan, 973.0491 DOL
  • Izzy & Lenore: two dogs, an unexpected journey, and me / Jon Katz, 636.737 KAT
  • John Lennon: the life / Philip Norman, B LENNON
  • Law of attraction, plain, and simple: create the extraordinary life that you deserve / Sonia Ricotti, 131 RIC
  • Le Corbusier: a life / Nicholas Fox Weber, B LE CORBUSIER
  • Living with pigs: everything you need to know to raise your own porkers / Chuck Wooster, 636.4 WOO
  • Love your life: living happy, healthy, and whole / Victoria Osteen, 248.4 OST
  • Michelle: a biography / Liza Mundy, B OBAMA
  • Mormon America: the power and the promise / Richard N. Ostling , 289.373 OST
  • Mormonism: a very short introduction / Richard Lyman Bushman, 289.3 BUS
  • Mystical traveler: how to advance to a higher level of spirituality / Sylvia Browne, 299.93 BRO
  • Nathan Hale: the life and death of America’s first spy / M. William Phelps, B HALE
  • New elite: inside the minds of the truly wealthy / Jim Taylor, 332.024 TAY
  • Nightshift NYC / Russell Leigh Sharman, 331.2574 SHA
  • No job? No prob!: how to pay your bills, feed your mind, and have a blast when you’re out of work / Nicholas Nigro, 332.024 NIG
  • Numerati / Stephen Baker, 303.483 BAK
  • On architecture: collected reflections on a century of change / Ada Louise Huxtable, 724.6 HUX
  • Overcoming your parents divorce: 5 steps to a healthy relationship / Elisabeth Joy LaMotte, 306.89 LAM
  • Pages In between: a Holocaust legacy of two families, one home /  Erin Einhorn, 940.5318 EIN
  • Pet food politics: the Chihuahua in the coal mine / Marion Nestle, 363.1929 NES
  • Picture yourself shooting pool / Matthew Sherman, 794.73 SHE
  • Purpose of Christmas / Rick Warren, 263.915 WAR
  • Quicken 2009: the official guide / Maria Langer, 332.024 LAN
  • Roads to Quoz: an American mosey / William Least Heat-Moon, 917.3 HEA
  • Sea is so wide and my boat is so small: charting a course for the next generation / Marian Wright Edelman, 179.2097 EDE
  • Search for al Qaeda: its leadership, ideology, and future / Bruce Riedel, 363.325 RIE
  • Searching for Schindler / Thomas Keneally, B KENEALLY
  • Seven days in the art world / Sarah Thornton, 709.05 THO
  • Sinatra in Hollywood / Tom Santopietro, B SINATRA
  • Sit down come heel stay and stand book / Claire Arrowsmith, 636.7088 ARR
  • Smelling land: the hydrogen defense against climate catastrophe / David Sanborn Scott, 333.794 SCO
  • Smogtown: the lung-burning history of pollution in Los Angeles / Chip Jacobs, 363.7392 JAC
  • Strongest tribe: war, politics, and the endgame in Iraq / Bing West, 956.7044 WES
  • Sun in a bottle: the strange history of fusion and the science of wishful thinking / Charles Seife, 539.764 SEI
  • There’s no elevator to the top: a leading headhunter shares the advancement strategies of the world’s most successful executives / Umesh Ramakrishnan, 658.409 RAM
  • Think big: make it happen in business and life / Donald J. Trump, 650.1 TRU
  • Traitor to his class: the privileged life and radical presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt / H.W. Brands, B ROOSEVELT
  • Tried by war: Abraham Lincoln as commander in chief / James M. McPherson, 973.7092 MCP
  • Twin sense: a sanity-saving guide to raising twins–from pregnancy through the first year / Dagmara Scalise, 649.144 SCA
  • Urban hermit / Sam Macdonald, 975.2043 BRA
  • Versailles: a biography of a palace / Tony Spawforth, 944.3663 SPA
  • War is beautiful: an American ambulance driver in the Spanish Civil War / James Neugass , 973.867 NEU
  • Warlord: a life of Winston Churchill at war, 1874-1945 / Carlo D’Este, B CHURCHILL
  • Whatever it takes: Geoffrey Canada’s quest to change Harlem and America / Paul Tough, 362.748 TOU
  • Where war lives: a journey into the heart of war / Paul Watson, 070.4333 WAT
  • Wishful drinking / Carrie Fisher, B FISHER
  • World we have: a Buddhist approach to peace and ecology / Thich Nhat Hanh  ., 294.3377 NHA
  • You, being beautiful : the owner’s manual to inner and outer beauty / Mehmet C. Oz and Michael F. Roizen  , 613 OZ