December 2011 New Non-Fiction Books

• All the things you are: the life of Tony Bennett / David Evanier, LP B BENNETT
• American pickers guide to picking / Libby Callaway , 745.1075 CAL
• As we speak: how to make your point and have it stick / Peter Meyers , 808.51 MEY
• Back to Work: why we need smart government for a strong economy/ Bill Clinton, 330.973 CLI
• Beautiful unbroken: one nurse’s life / Mary Jane Nealon, B NEALON
• Beyond religion: ethics for a whole world / His Holiness the Dalai Lama, 170.44 BST
• Blackbird singing in the dead of night: what to do when God won’t answer / Gregory L. Hunt, 248 HUN
• Blue nights / Joan Didion, B DIDION
• Book of man / William J. Bennett, 808.8 BEN
• Breast cancer: 50 essential things you can do /  Greg Anderson, 616.99 AND
• Comfort food fix: feel-good favorites made healthy / Ellie Krieger, 641.5 KRI
• Concussion crisis: anatomy of a silent epidemic / Linda Carroll, 617.481 CAR
• Confidence men: Wall Street, Washington, and the education of a president / Ron Suskind, 330.973 SUS
• Death of an empire: the rise and murderous fall of Salem, America’s richest city / Robert Booth, 974.4 BOO
• Decade of hope: stories of grief and endurance from 9/11 families and friends / Dennis Smith , 973.931 SMI
• Dirty little secrets: breaking the silence on teenage girls and promiscuity /  Kerry Cohen, 306.7083 COH
• Doctor, your patient will see you now / Steven Z. Kussin, 610.696 KUS
• Dr. Riley’s box of tricks: 80 uncommon solutions for everyday parenting problems / Douglas A. Riley, 649.1 RIL
• Drama-free office / Jim Warne, 658.3 WAR
• End of normal: a wife’s anguish, a widow’s new life / Stephanie Madoff Mack   , B MACK
• Eva Braun : life with Hitler / Heike B. Gortemaker   , B BRAUN
• Garner files / James Garner , LP B GARNER
• Gift of rest: rediscovering the beauty of the Sabbath / Joe Lieberman , 296.4 LIE
• Glass House / essay by Philip Johnson   , 720.92 JOH
• Going home: finding peace when pets die / Jon Katz, LP 155.937 KAT
• Good housekeeping grilling /Rosemary Ellis, editor in chief , 641.76 GOO
• Good school: how smart parents get their kids the education they deserve / Peg Tyre, 371.192 TYR
• Hand printing from nature / Laura Bethmann, 761 BET
• Have yourself a very vintage Christmas / Susan Waggoner, 745.594 WAG
• Heights: anatomy of a skyscraper / Kate Ascher, OV 720.483 ASC
• Hemingway’s boat : everything he loved in life, and lost, 1934-1961 / Paul Hendrickson, B HEMINGWAY
• Homemade : the heart and science of handcrafts / Carol Endler Sterbenz   , 745.503 STE
• Hormone balance through yoga : a pocket guide for women over 40 / Claudia Turske, 618.1 TUR
• How I got this way / Regis Philbin, B PHILBIN
• It looked different on the model: epic tales of impending shame and infamy / Laurie Notaro, 814.6 NOT
• Jack Kennedy: elusive hero / Chris Matthews, B KENNEDY
• Leningrad: the epic siege of World War II, 1941-1944 / Anna Reid, 940.5421 REI
• Lennon: the man, the myth, the music–the definitive life / Tim Riley, B LENNON
• Lonely at the top: the high cost of men’s success / Thomas Joiner, 155.3 JOI
• Lucking out: my life getting down and semi-dirty in seventies New York / James Wolcott, B WOLCOTT
• Man in the music: the creative life and work of Michael Jackson / Joseph Vogel   , B JACKSON
• Margaret Sanger: a life of passion / Jean H. Baker, B SANGER
• Meditation: an in-depth guide / Ian Gawler, 615.852 GAW
• Complete guide to life drawing / Gottfried Bammes   , OV 743.4 BAM
• Midnight rising: John Brown and raid that sparked the Civil War / Tony Horwitz, LP 973.7 HOR
• Mirage man: Bruce Ivins, the anthrax attacks, and America’s rush to war / David Willman, 363.325 WIL
• My long trip home: a family memoir / Mark Whitaker, B WHITAKER
• New new rules/ Bill Maher, 791.4572 MAH
• No higher honor : a memoir of my years in Washington / Condoleezza Rice., B RICE
• Parenting through divorce  / Lisa  Reynolds, 649.1 REY
• Pauline Kael: a life in the dark / Brian Kellow, B KAEL
• Pinched : how the Great Recession has narrowed our futures and what we can do about it / Don Peck, 330.973 PEC
• Price of civilization: reawakening American virtue and prosperity / Jeffrey D. Sachs, 330.973 SAC
• Puppy diaries: raising a dog named Scout / Jill Abramson, 636.7527 ABR
• Quest: energy, security and the remaking of the modern world / Daniel Yergin, 333.79 YER
• Rome: a cultural, visual, and personal history /Robert Hughes, 945.632 HUG
• Rough cut: woodworking with Tommy Mac  / Tommy MacDonald, 684.08 MAC
• Shatner rules / William Shatner, LP 791.4502 SHA
• Shockaholic / Carrie Fisher, B FISHER
• Should I stay or should I go? / Lundy Bancroft, 306.81 BAN
• Signing their rights away: the fame and misfortune of the men who signed the United States Constitution /Denise Kiernan, 973.3092 KIE
• Smart parenting, smarter kids  / David Walsh, 649.1 WAL
• Spontaneous happiness / Andrew Weil, 613.223 WEI
• Stan Lee’s How to write comics! /  Stan Lee, 808.066 LEE
• Steampunk: the art of Victorian futurism / Jay Strongman, OV 709.05 STR
• Steve Jobs / Walter Isaacson, B JOBS
• Steve McQueen: a biography / Marc Eliot, LP B MCQUEEN
• Strange wilderness: the lives of the great mathematicians / Amir D. Aczel, 510.9 ACZ
• The beauty and the sorrow : an intimate history of the First World War / Peter Englund   , 940.3092 ENG
• Sum of my parts: a survivor’s story of dissociative identity disorder / Olga R. Trujillo, B TRUJILLO
• Switching to a Mac for dummies / Arnold Reinhold, 005.446 REI
• Then again / Diane Keaton, B KEATON
• Time of our lives / Tom Brokaw, 973.927 BRO
• Ultimate PC primer / Ben Kobulnicky, 004.16 KOB
• Unmeasured strength / Lauren Manning, B MANNING
• Unreal estate: money, ambition, and the lust for land in Los Angeles / Michael Gross, 979.494 GRO
• Van Gogh: the life / Steven Naifeh, B VAN GOGH
• Welcome to your child’s brain  / Sandra Aamodt, 618.92 AAM
• West by West: my charmed, tormented life / Jerry West, B WEST
• When every day is Saturday: the retirement guide for boomers / Richard E. Grace, 646.79 GRA
• When food is family: a loving approach to heal eating disorders / Judy Scheel, 616.85 SCH
• Wild life of our bodies: predators, parasites, and partners that shape who we are today / Rob Dunn, 579.17 DUN
• Women of the Cousins’ War : the Duchess, the Queen, and the King’s Mother / Philippa Gregory, 942.04 GRE
• World history of animation / Stephen Cavalier , 791.4334 CAV
• Your emotional type: key to the therapies that will work for you / Michael A. Jawer , 616.08 JAW