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August 2008 New Non-Fiction Books

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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

July 2008 New Non-Fiction Books

Southington Library Reference Dept. — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:20:18 +0000

50 artists you should know: from Giotto to Warhol / Thomas Koüster, 709.22 KOS
50 women artists you should know / Christiane Weidemann, 709.22 WEI
660 curries / Raghavan Iyer , 641.5954 IYE
Abrams guide to American house styles / William Morgan , 728.3709 MOR
Absolute beginner’s guide to computer basics / Michael Miller, 004.16 MIL
Absolute beginner’s guide to eBay / Michael Miller, 658.87 MIL
Accounting for dummies/ John A. Tracy, 657 TRA
Aftermath, Inc.: cleaning up after CSI goes home / Gil Reavill, 363.252 REA
Alcohol / Andrea C. Nakaya, 362.292 ALC
All the way home: building a family in a falling-down house / David Giffels, 643.7092 GIF
Along the roaring river: my wild ride from Mao to the Met / Hao Jiang Tian, 782.1092 TIA
Always by my side: a father’s grace and a sports journey unlike any other / Jim Nantz , B NANTZ
American art and artists / Tricia Wright, 709.73 WRI
Anatomy of story: 22 steps to becoming a master storyteller / John Truby., 808.543 TRU
Are you there vodka? It’s me Chelsea / Chelsea Handler, 306.7092 HAN
Authentic Confucius: a life of thought and politics / Annping Chin, 181.112 CHI
Basic economics: a common sense guide to the economy / Thomas Sowell, 330 SOW
Big money, little effort: a winning strategy for profitable long-term investment / Mark Shipman, 332.6 SHI
Biofeedback for the brain: how neurotherapy effectively treats depression, ADHD, autism, and more / Paul G. Swingle, 616.8916 SWI
Brief history of Mexico / Lynn V. Foster, 972 FOS
Broadway tails: heartfelt stories of rescued dogs who became showbiz superstars / William Berloni, 792.028 BER
Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors / Bill Bryson, 423.1 BRY
Build it, fix it, own it: a beginner’s guide to building and upgrading a PC / Paul McFedries, 621.3916 MCF
Chasing justice: my story of freeing myself after two decades on death row for a crime I didn’t commit / Kerry Max Cook, 345.7642 COO
Chronicle of a plague revisited: AIDS and its aftermath / Andrew Holleran, 614.5993 HOL
Circling my mother / Mary Gordon, B GORDON
Come to think of it: notes on the end of the millennium / Daniel Schorr, 973.928 SCH
Concise introduction to Tibetan Buddhism / John Powers, 294.923 POW
Contemporary graphic design / Charlotte Fiell, 741.6 FIE
Dali renaissance: new perspectives on his life and art after 1940 / edited by Michael R. Taylor, 709.2 DAL
Debt Cures They Don’t Want You to Know About / Kevin Trudeau, 332.024 TRU
Deep drive: a long journey to finding the champion within / Mike Lowell , B LOWELL
Dirty dozen: how twelve Supreme Court cases radically expanded government and eroded freedom / Robert A. Levy , 347.7326 LEV
Doctors book of food remedies: the latest findings on the power of food to treat and prevent health problems / Selene Yeager , 615.854 YEA
Doris Day: the untold story of the girl next door / David Kaufman, B DAY
Double or nothing: how two friends risked it all to buy one of Las Vegas‘ legendary casinos / Tom Breitling, 338.7617 BRE
Dreams and shadows: the future of the Middle East / Robin Wright, 956.054 WRI
Dumbest generation: how the digital age stupefies young Americans and jeopardizes our future (or, don’t trust anyone under 30) / Mark Bauerlein, 302.231 BAU
Eaves of heaven: a life in three wars / Andrew X. Pham, 973.0495 PHA
Economic facts and fallacies / Thomas Sowell, 330 SOW
Essential best foods cookbook: 225 irresistible recipes featuring the healthiest and most delicious foods / Dana Jacobi, 641.563 JAC
Everybody’s guide to small claims court / Ralph Warner , 347.73 WAR
Everyone’s guide to cancer therapy: how cancer is diagnosed, treated, and managed day to day / Andrew H. Ko,, 616.994 KO
Everything by design: my life as an architect / Alan Lapidus, 720.92 LAP
Everything they had: sportswriting from David Halberstam / David Halberstam, 070.4497 HAL
Family skeleton: [a brother and sister's journey from murder to truth] / Andre Carmichael, 364.1523 CAR
Family wars: classic conflicts in family business and how to deal with them / Grant Gordon, 658.4053 GOR
Feasting on asphalt: the river run / Alton Brown, 641.5 BRO
Final salute: a story of unfinished lives / Jim Sheeler, 956.7044 SHE
Fool’s paradise / John Gierach , 799.124 GIE
From eve to dawn: a history of women / Marilyn French, 305.4209 FRE
Fundamental Index: a better way to invest / Robert D. Arnott, 332.6 ARN
Girl with the crooked nose: a tale of murder, obsession, and forensic artistry / Ted Botha, 363.258 BOT
God’s master plan for your life: ten keys to fullfilling your destiny / Gloria Copeland, 248.4 COP
Great derangement: a terrifying true story of war, politics, and religion at the twilight of the American empire / Matt Taibbi, 973.931 TAI
Guy spaces: a guide to defining a man’s personal space / Wayne Kalyn, 747 KAL
Hot topic: what we can do about global warming / Gabrielle Walker, 363.7387 WAL
House of wits: an intimate portrait of the James family / Paul Fisher, 974.7 FIS
I have fun everywhere I go: savage tales of pot, porn, punk rock, pro wrestling, talking apes, evil bosses, dirty blues, American heroes, and the most notorious magazines in the world / Mike Edison, 070.5109 EDI
Intimate sex lives of famous people / edited by Irving Wallace , 392.6 WAL
Is your child bipolar?: the definitive resource on how to identify, treat, and thrive with a bipolar child / Mary Ann McDonnell , 618.9289 MCD
It’s our day: America’s love affair with the white wedding, 1945-2005 / Katherine Jellison, 392.509 JEL
Iwo Jima: World War II veterans remember the greatest battle of the Pacific / edited by Larry Smith, 940.5425 SMI
Judge’s guide to divorce: uncommon advice from the bench / Roderic Duncan, 346.7301 DUN
Knock ‘em dead 2008: the ultimate job search guide / Martin Yate, 650.14 YAT
Laptops all-in-one desk reference for dummies/ Corey Sandler, 004.16 SAN
Learn Italian in a hurry / Michael San Filippo, 458.2421 SAN
Lincolns: portrait of a marriage / Daniel Mark Epstein, B LINCOLN
Lolita effect: the media sexualization of young girls and what we can do about it / M. Gigi Durham, 305.2308 DUR
Louis I. Kahn: beyond time and style / Carter Wiseman, 720.92 WIS
Man who loved China: the fantastic story of the eccentric scientist who unlocked the mysteries of the Middle Kingdom / Simon Winchester, B NEEDHAM
Marie-Thérèse, child of terror: the fate of Marie Antoinette’s daughter / Susan Nagel, B ANGOULEME
Me of little faith / Lewis Black , 200.92 BLA
Mini aquariums / David E. Boruchowitz, 639.34 BOR
Mortgages 101: quick answers to over 250 critical questions about your home loan / David Reed, 332.722 REE
Moyers on democracy / Bill Moyers, 320.973 MOY
NCLEX-RN practice questions / Wilda Rinehart, 610.7307 RIN
Neatest little guide to stock market investing / Jason Kelly, 332.6322 KEL
Nixonland: the rise of a president and the fracturing of America / Rick Perlstein, 973.924 PER
Non-designer’s design book / Robin Williams, 686.22544 WIL
Original sin: a cultural history / Alan Jacobs, 233.14 JAC
Own it!: the ups and downs of homebuying for women who go it alone / Jennifer Musselman, 643.1208 MUS
Panic in level 4: cannibals, killer viruses, and other journeys to the edge of science / Richard Preston, 616.024 PRE
Perfect parties: tips and advice from a New York party planner / Linnea Johansson, 641.5 JOH
Power makers: steam, electricity, and the men who invented modern America / Maury Klein, 609.73 KLE
Proper care and feeding of marriage / Laura Schlessinger, 306.872 SCH
Quantum wellness: a practical and spiritual guide to health and happiness / Kathy Freston , 158.1 FRE
Quilter’s catalog: a comprehensive resource guide / Meg Cox, 746.46 COX
Rachel Carson: legacy and challenge / edited by Lisa H. Sideris , 179.1 RAC
Ravens in the storm: a personal history of the 1960s antiwar movement / Carl Oglesby, 973.923 OGL
Reclaiming history: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy / Vincent Bugliosi, 973.922 BUG
Sacco and Vanzetti: the men, the murders, and the judgment of mankind / Bruce Watson, 345.7302 WAT
Scalpel and the soul: encounters with surgery, the supernatural, and the healing power of hope / Allan J. Hamilton, 617.4809 HAM
Sephora: the ultimate guide to makeup, skin, and hair from the beauty authority / Melissa Schweiger, 646.72 SCH
Sex variant woman: the life of Jeannette Howard Foster / Joanne Passet, B FOSTER
Short history of film / Wheeler Winston Dixon, 791.437 DIX
Sistine secrets: Michelangelo’s forbidden messages in the heart of the Vatican / Benjamin Blech, 759.5 BLE
Sixties unplugged: a kaleidoscopic history of a disorderly decade / Gerard J. DeGroot, 909.826 DEG
Slaves’ war: the Civil War in the words of former slaves / Andrew Ward, 973.711 WAR
Staging your comeback: a complete beauty revival for women over 45 / Christopher Hopkins, 613.0424 HOP
Stay tuned: conversations with dad from the other side / Jenniffer Weigel, 133.9092 WEI
Such a pretty fat: one narcissist’s quest to discover if her life makes her ass look big, or why pie is not the answer / Jen Lancaster, B LANCASTER
Suck your stomach in & put some color on: what southern mamas tell their daughters that the rest of y’all should know too / Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, 975 TOM
Teach yourself visually Mac OS X Leopard / Lynette Kent, 005.446 KEN
Time to write to yourself: a guide to journaling for emotional health and self-development / Dianne Sandland, 158.1 SAN
Titan unveiled: Saturn’s mysterious moon explored / Ralph Lorenz , 523.986 LOR
Twenty-something manifesto: quarter-lifers speak out about who they are, what they want, and how to get it / Christine Hassler, 646.7008 HAS
Type 1 diabetes for dummies / Alan L. Rubin, 616.462 RUB
Ultimate Spanish review and practice / Ronnie L. Gordon, 468.2421 GOR
Understanding financial statements / Lyn M. Fraser, 657.3 FRA
Unthinkable: who survives when disaster strikes and how we can do better / Amanda Ripley, 155.935 RIP
Utmost living: creating and savoring your best life now / Tim Storey, 158.1 STO
Vanishing America: the end of Main Street / Michael Eastman, 779.9973 EAS
What happened: inside the Bush White House and Washington’s culture of deception / Scott McClellan, 973.931 MCC
What hath God wrought: the transformation of America, 1815-1848 / Daniel Walker Howe, 973.5 HOW
What would Audrey do?: timeless lessons for living with grace and style / Pamela Keogh, 646.7 KEO
While they slept: an inquiry into the murder of a family / Kathryn Harrison, 364.1523 HAR
Will work for fun: three simple steps for turning any hobby or interest into cash / Alan R. Bechtold, 658.041 BEC
Willie Nelson: an epic life / Joe Nick Patoski, B NELSON
Winning the disability challenge: a practical guide to successful living / John F. Tholen, 362.4 THO
Work less, live more workbook: get ready for semi-retirement / Bob Clyatt, 332.024 CLY
World that made New Orleans: from Spanish silver to Congo Square / Ned Sublette, 976.335 SUB
Yeltsin: a life / Timothy J. Colton, B YELTSIN
Yes, you’re pregnant, but what about me? / Kevin Nealon, B NEALON

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June 2008 New Non-Fiction Books

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Adventures of Johnny Bunko: the last career guide you’ll ever need / Daniel H. Pink, 650.14 PIN
Age of Reagan: America from Watergate to the War on Terror / Sean Wilentz, 973.927 WIL
Ahmadinejad: the secret history of Iran’s radical leader / Kasra Naji, B AHMADINEJAD
American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the birth of the It girl, and the crime of the century / Paula Uruburu, 974.7104 URU
American nerd: the story of my people / Benjamin Nugent, 305.9 NUG
American resting place / Marilyn Yalom, 929.5 YAL
American-made: the enduring legacy of the WPA / Nick Taylor, 331.1377 TAY
America’s hidden history: untold tales of the first pilgrims, fighting women, and forgotten founders who shaped a nation / Kenneth C. Davis, 973 DAV
Ancient Greece: an explorer’s guide / Robert Emmet Meagher, 938 MEA
Answer: grow any business, achieve financial freedom, and live an extraordinary life / John Assaraf and Murray Smith, 658.409 ASS
Armageddon in retrospect, and other new and unpublished writings on war and peace / Kurt Vonnegut , 818.54 VON
Arnie & Jack: Palmer, Nicklaus, and golf’s greatest rivalry / Ian O’Connor, 796.352 O’CO
Audition: a memoir / by Barbara Walters, B WALTERS
Bad money: reckless finance, failed politics, and the global crisis of American capitalism / Kevin Phillips, 330.973 PHI
Big payoff: 8 steps couples can take to make the most of their money and live richly ever after / Sharon Epperson, 332.024 EPP
Big sort: why the clustering of like-minded America is tearing us apart / Bill Bishop, 305.8 BIS
Blue death: disease, disaster and the water we drink / Robert Morris, 614.43 MOR
Boots on the ground by dusk: my tribute to Pat Tillman / Mary Tillman and Narda Zacchino, B TILLMAN
Brett Favre: the tribute / Sports Illustrated, 796.332 BRE
Busy family’s guide to money / by Sandra Block, Kathy Chu, & John Waggoner, 332.024 BLO
Candy bombers: the untold story of the Berlin Airlift and America’s finest hour / Andrei Cherny, 943.155 CHE
Chalked up: inside elite gymnastics’ merciless coaching, overzealous parents, eating disorders, and elusive Olympic dreams / Jennifer Sey, 796.44 SEY
Chris Farley show : a biography in three acts / Tom Farley, Jr. & Tanner Colby., B FARLEY
Civilization of love: what every Catholic can do to transform the world / Carl Anderson, 261 AND
Comfort table / by Katie Lee Joel, 641.5636 JOE
Comfort: a journey through grief / Ann Hood, 155.937 HOO
Concrete dragon: China’s urban revolution and what it means for the world / Thomas J. Campanella, 307.7609 CAM
Counselor: a life at the edge of history / Ted Sorensen, B SORENSEN
Crowd sounds happy: a story of love, madness, and baseball / Nicholas Dawidoff, 070.4497 DAW
Dancing with life: Buddist insights for finding meaning and joy in the face of suffering / Phillip Moffitt, 294.34 MOF
Dancing with Rose: finding life in the land of Alzheimer’s / Lauren Kessler, 362.1968 KES
Debunking 9/11 debunking: an answer to Popular mechanics and other defenders of the official conspiracy theory / David Ray Griffin, 973.931 GRI
Descartes’ loneliness / Allen Grossman, 811.54 GRO
Designated daughter: the bonus years with mom / D.G. Fulford, 306.8743 FUL
Don’t fill up on the antipasto: Tony Danza’s father-son cookbook, with memories of an Italian-American family and 50 of their best recipes / Tony Danza and Marc Danza, 641.5945 DAN
Downhill lie: a hacker’s return to a ruinous sport / Carl Hiaasen, 796.352 HIA
Dr. Gundry’s diet evolution: turn off the genes that are killing you-and your waistline-and drop the weight for good / Steven R. Gundry, 613.25 GUN
Earth architecture: from ancient to modern / William N. Morgan, 721.0449 MOR
Everything guide to pregnancy over 35: from conquering your fears to assessing health risks–all you need to have a happy, healthy nine months / Brette Sember, 618.2008 SEM
Execution of Willie Francis: race, murder, and the search for justice in the American South / Gilbert King, 364.6609 KIN
Executor’s handbook: a step-by-step guide to settling an estate for executors, administrators, and beneficiaries / Theodore E. Hughes and David Klein, 346.7305 HUG
Family Bible / Melissa J. Delbridge, 976.184 DEL
Film club / David Gilmour, 920 GIL
Final journeys: a practical guide for bringing care and comfort at the end of life / Maggie Callanan, 616.029 CAL
Fit and sexy for life: the hormone-free plan for staying slim, strong, and fabulous in your forties, fifties, and beyond / Kathy Kaehler , 613.71 KAE
Franklin and Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the other remarkable women in his life / Joseph E. Persico, B ROOSEVELT
Freewheelin’ time: a memoir of Greenwich Village in the sixties / by Suze Rotolo, 782.4216 ROT
Fueling our future: an introduction to sustainable energy / Robert L. Evans, 333.79 EVA
Gandhi : the man, his people, and the empire / Rajmohan Gandhi, B GANDHI
Genotype diet: change your genetic destiny to live the longest, fullest, and healthiest life possible / Peter J. D’Adamo with Catherine Whitney., 612.3 D’AD
Georgia cooking in an Oklahoma kitchen: recipes from my family to yours / Trisha Yearwood, 641.5975 YEA
Go green, live rich: 50 simple ways to save the earth and get rich trying / David Bach, 333.72 BAC
Good fight: hard lessons from Searchlight to Washington / Senator Harry Reid, B REID
Havanas in Camelot: personal essays / William Styron, 813.54 STY
Have you found her: a memoir / Janice Erlbaum, 362.74 ERL
Hershberg diet: discover how the 4th macro can help you shed pounds and beat the metabolic syndrome / Melissa Hershberg, 613.25 HER
History of modern Israel / Colin Shindler, 956.9405 SHI
House always wins: America’s most trusted home columnist’s guide to creating your (almost) perfect dream house / Marni Jameson, 747 JAM
How to sleep alone in a king-size bed: a memoir / Theo Pauline Nestor, 306.893 NES
Hungry Girl: recipes and survival strategies for guilt-free eating in the real world / Lisa Lillien, 641.5635 LIL
I don’t believe in atheists / Chris Hedges, 211 HED
Importance of music to girls / Lavinia Greenlaw, 780.92 GRE
In Europe: travels through the twentieth century / Geert Mak , 940.5 MAK
In Nixon’s web: a year in the crosshairs of Watergate / L. Patrick Gray III , 353.5092 GRA
Insomniac / Gayle Greene, 616.8498 GRE
Intern: a doctor’s initiation / Sandeep Jauhar, 610.92 JUA
Into the devil’s den: how an FBI agent got inside the Aryan Nations and a special agent got him out alive / Dave Hall and Tym Burkey, 320.56 HAL
Jingle jangle : the perfect crime turned inside out / Jim Rix., 365.973 RIX
Joy of pregnancy: the complete, candid, and reassuring companion for parents-to-be / Tori Kropp, 618.2 KRO
Julius Caesar / Philip Freeman, B CAESAR
Keep it real: everything you need to know about researching and writing creative nonfiction / edited by Lee Gutkind and Hattie Fletcher, 808.02 KEE
Lake compounce / Lynda J. Russell, 974.63 RUS
Last lecture / by Randy Pausch, 004.092 PAU
Learning ActionScript 3.0: a beginner’s guide / Rich Shupe, 006.786 SHU
Learning from the heart: lessons on living, loving, and listening / Daniel Gottlieb, 170.44 GOT
Lost in Katrina / Mikel Schaefer , 976.336 SCH
Magical chorus: a history of Russian culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn / Solomon Volkov, 891.7093 VOL
Make any divorce better!: specific steps to make things smoother, faster, less painful and save you a lot of money / Ed Sherman, 306.89 SHE
Man who pushed America to war: the extraordinary life, adventures, and obsessions of Ahmed Chalabi / Aram Roston, 956.7044 ROS
Maps and legends: reading and writing along the borderlands / Michael Chabon, 814.54 CHA
Maya Angelou: a glorious celebration / Marcia Ann Gillespie, Rosa Johnson Butler and Richard A. Long , B ANGELOU
Medical myths that can kill you: and the 101 truths that will save, extend, and improve your life / Nancy L. Snyderman, 610 SNY
Microcosm: E. coli and the new science of life / Carl Zimmer, 579.342 ZIM
Millennial makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the future of American politics / Morley Winograd, 320.973 WIN
Mirror of the Arab world: Lebanon in conflict / Sandra Mackey, 956.9204 MAC
My guy Barbaro: a jockey’s journey through love, triumph, and heartbreak with America’s favorite horse / Edgar Prado, 798.4009 PRA
Myth of Alzheimer’s: what you aren’t being told about today’s most dreaded diagnosis / Peter J. Whitehouse, 616.831 WHI
Never will we forget: oral histories of World War II / Marilyn Mayer Culpepper, 940.5373 CUL
New collected poems / Eavan Boland, 821.914 BOL
New concepts in paper quilling: techniques for cards & gifts / Marie Browning, 745.54 BRO
No-man’s lands: one man’s odyssey through The Odyssey / Scott Huler, 883.01 HUL
Notes on a life / Eleanor Coppola, 791.4302 COP
One drop: my father’s hidden life–a story of race and family secrets / Bliss Broyard, B BROYARD
One minute entrepreneur: the secret to creating and sustaining a successful business / Ken Blanchard, 658.11 BLA
One month to live: thirty days to a no-regrets life / Kerry and Chris Shook, 248.4 SHO
Only 127 things you need: a guide to life’s essentials / Donna Wilkinson, 646.7 WIL
Open road: the global journey of the fourteenth Dalai Lama / Pico Iyer, 294.3923 IYE
Opting in: having a child without losing yourself / by Amy Richards, 306.8743 RIC
Our bodies, ourselves: pregnancy and childbirth / the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, 618.2 OUR
Our daily meds: how the pharmaceutical companies transformed themselves into slick marketing machines / Melody Petersen, 338.4761 PET
Our story begins: new and selected stories / Tobias Wolff, 813.54 WOL
Parent’s guide to speech and language problems / Debbie Feit, 618.9285 FEI
Perfect hostage: a life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s prisoner of conscience / Justin Wintle, 959.105 WIN
Place called Canterbury: tales of the new old age in America / Dudley Clendinen, 305.2609 CLE
Please stop laughing at us: one survivor’s extraordinary quest to prevent school bullying / Jodee Blanco, 371.782 BLA
Post-American world / Fareed Zakaria, 303.49 ZAK
Prince of Frogtown / Rick Bragg, B BRAGG
Quiet, please: dispatches from a public librarian / by Scott Douglas, 020.92 DOU
Reappraisals: reflections on the forgotten twentieth century / Tony Judt, 909.82 JUD
Red leather diary: reclaiming a life through the pages of a lost journal / Lily Koppel, 974.7104 KOP
Rediscovering Jacob Riis: exposure journalism and photography in turn-of-the-century New York / Bonnie Yochelson & Daniel Czitrom, 770.9747 YOC
Retire-and start your own business: five steps to success / Dennis J. Sargent and Martha S. Sargent, 658.11 SAR
Retribution: the battle for Japan, 1944-45 / Max Hastings, 940.5425 HAS
Revolution: a manifesto / Ron Paul, 973.931 PAU
Road map to Holland: how I found my way through my son’s first two years with Down syndrome / Jennifer Graf Groneberg, 618.9285 GRO
Screen doors and sweet tea: recipes and tales from a Southern cook / Martha Hall Foose, 641.5975 FOO
Second plane: September 11 terror and boredom / Martin Amis, 974.879 AMI
Seeker’s guide: making your life a spiritual adventure / Elizabeth Lesser, 291.4 LES
Sell your home in any market: 50 surprisingly simple strategies for getting top dollar fast / Jim Remley, 643.12 REM
Several lives of Joseph Conrad / John Stape, B CONRAD
Shakespeare’s wife / Germaine Greer, B SHAKESPEARE
Snoop: what your stuff says about you / Sam Gosling, 155.91 GOS
Sodalicious cookbook / editor Sue Mann, 641.62 SOD
Soloist: a lost dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of music / Steve Lopez, 787.2092 LOP
Superclass: the global power elite and the world they are making / David Rothkopf, 305.5209 ROT
Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective / Kate Summerscale, 364.1523 SUM
Swish: my quest to become the gayest person ever / by Joel Derfner, 306.7662 DER
Switching to the Mac: the missing manual / David Pogue, 005.446 POG
Temples on the other side: how knowing about them can truly help you in your life / Sylvia Browne, 133.9013 BRO
Ten-cent plague: the great comic-book scare and how it changed America / David Hajdu, 302.232 HAJ
That summer in Sicily: a love story / Marlena de Blasi, 914.5804 DE B
The bishop’s daughter: a memoir / Honor Moore, B MOORE
Throes of democracy: the American Civil War era, 1829-1877 / Walter A. McDougall, 973.7 MCD
Time bandit: two brothers, the Bering Sea, and one of the world’s deadliest jobs / Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand, 639.5709 HIL
Tower stories: an oral history of 9/11 / [edited] by Damon DiMarco, 974.7104 TOW
Translator: a tribesman’s memoir of Darfur / Daoud Hari , 962.404 HAR
Trespass: living at the edge of the promised land / Amy Irvine, 979.259 IRV
Trillion dollar meltdown: easy money, high rollers, and the great credit crash / Charles R. Morris, 332.0415 MOR
Twisted triangle: a famous crime writer, a lesbian love affair, and the FBI husband’s violent revenge / Caitlin Rother, 364.1523 ROT
Up till now : the autobiography / William Shatner with David Fisher., B SHATNER
USA / Gwendolyn Wright, 720.973 WRI
Value of money: uncover the hidden wisdom of money / Susan McCarthy, 332.024 MCC
Voyage long and strange: rediscovering the new world / Tony Horwitz, 970.01 HOR
We plan, God laughs: 10 steps to finding your divine path when life is not turning out like you wanted / Sherre Hirsch, 296.7 HIR
Welcome to your brain: why you lose your car keys but never forget how to drive and other puzzles of everyday life / Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang, 612.82 AAM
When the husband is the suspect / F. Lee Bailey with Jean Rabe., 345.7302 BAI
Where did I leave my glasses?: the what, when, and why of normal memory loss / Martha Weinman Lear, 155.6713 LEA
While America aged: how pension debts ruined General Motors, stopped the NYC subways, bankrupted San Diego, and loom as the next financial crisis / Roger Lowenstein, 331.2524 LOW
Who on earth was Jesus?: the modern quest for the Jesus of history / David Boulton, 232.901 BOU
Wolf at the table: a memoir / Augusten Burroughs, B BURROUGHS
Woman who can’t forget: the extraordinary story of living with the most remarkable memory known to science: a memoir / by Jill Price , 153.1209 PRI
Yoga for arthritis: the complete guide / Loren M. Fishman, 616.722 FIS
You won’t believe it’s vegan!: 200 recipes for simple and delicious animal-free cuisine / Lacey Sher and Gail Doherty, 641.5636 SHE
You: the owner’s manual: an insider’s guide to the body that will make you healthier and younger / Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz, 613.2 ROI
Your pregnancy week by week / Glade B. Curtis, Judith Schuler, 618.2 CUR

May 2008 New Non-Fiction Books

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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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