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January 2008 New Non-Fiction Books

• 4-hour work week : escape 9-5, live anywhere, and join the new rich / Timothy Ferriss, 650.1 FER
• Allergy-free cookbook / Alice Sherwood, 641.5631 SHE
• American crescent : A Muslim cleric on the power of his faith, the struggle against prejudice, and the future of Islam and America / Imam Sayid Hassan Al-Qazwini, Brad Crawford, 297.8209 QAZ
• American Jennie : the remarkable life of Lady Randolph Churchill / Anne Sebba, B CHURCHILL
• American Sonnets : an anthology / [edited by] David Bromwich, 808.814 AME
• An inconvenient book : real solutions to the world’s biggest problems / written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, 973.92 BEC
• Blue blood & mutiny : the fight for the soul of Morgan Stanley / Patricia Beard, 332.66 BEA
• Body in action : you can keep your joints young / Sarah Key, 612.76 KEY
• Boho baby knits : groovy patterns for cool tots / Kat Coyle, 746.432 COY
• Book of general ignorance / John Mitchinson and John Lloyd, 031.02 MIT
• Can’t buy me love : the Beatles, Britain, and America / Jonathan Gould, 781.66 GOU
• Details men’s style manual : the ultimate guide for making your clothes work for you / Daniel Peres and the editors of Details, 646.32 PER
• Discovery of France / Graham Robb, 944 ROB
• Dolce italiano : desserts from the Babbo kitchen / by Gina DePalma, 641.86 DEP
• Don’t bet against me! : beating the odds against breast cancer and in life / Deanna Favre   with Angela Hunt, B FAVRE
• End of America : letter of warning to a young patriot / Naomi Wolf, 323.49 WOL
• Everyday commitments : choosing a life of love, realism, and acceptance / David Richo, 170.44 RIC
• Forced to be family : a guide for living with sinister sisters, drama mamas, and infuriating in-laws / Cheryl Dellasega, 646.78 DEL
• Freedom from oil : how the next president can end the United States‘ oil addiction / David Sandalow, 338.272 SAN
• Future of management / Gary Hamel   with Bill Breen, 658 HAM
• God’s Harvard : a Christian college on a mission to save America / Hanna Rosin, 378.755 ROS
• Golf my own damn way : a real guy’s guide to chopping ten strokes off your score  / John Daly with Glen Waggoner, 796.352 DAL
• Good dog. Stay / Anna Quindlen, 818.54 QUI
• Hamas : a history from within / Azzam Tamimi, 324.2569 TAM
• Happiness is an inside job : practicing for a joyful life / Sylvia Boorstein, 294.3 BOO
• Hollywood’s censor : Joseph I. Breen & the Production Code Administration / Thomas Doherty, 791.4309 DOH
• Hospital stay handbook : a guide to becoming a patient advocate for your loved ones / Jari Holland Buck, 610 BUC
• In defense of food : an eater’s manifesto / Michael Pollan, 613 POL
• Independents day : awakening the American spirit / Lou Dobbs, 323.6 DOB
• iPod & iTunes for dummies, 006.5 BOV
• Isn’t it their turn to pick up the check? : dealing with all the trickiest money problems between family and friends, from serial borrowers to serious cheapskates / by Jeanne Fleming and Leonard Schwarz, 332.024 FLE
• Jane Boleyn : the true story of the infamous Lady Rochford / Julia Fox, B BOLEYN FOX
• Just in time! : all-new 30-minutes meals, plus super-fast 15-minute meals and slow it down 60-minute meals / Rachael Ray, 641.555 RAY
• Knitter’s book of yarn : the ultimate guide to choosing, using, and enjoying yarn / by Clara Parkes, 677.0282 PAR
• Knitting in plain English / Maggie Righetti, 746.432 RIG
• Leadership challenge / James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner, 658.4092 KOU
• Learning to drive : and other life stories / Katha Pollitt, 813.54 POL
• Life is still good : Rob Szymaszek: one man’s coaching philosophy applied to the toughest challenge of his life / Bryant Carpenter, B SZYMASZEK
• Macachiavellian intelligence : how rhesus macaques and humans have conquered the world / Dario Maestripieri, 599.8 MAE
• Meat market : inside the smash-mouth world of college football recruiting / Bruce Feldman, 796.3326 FEL
• Mountain rescue doctor : wilderness medicine in the extremes of nature / Christopher Van Tilburg, 616.02 VAN
• Murdered by Mumia : a life sentence of loss, pain, and injustice / Maureen Faulkner and Michael A. Smerconish, 364.1523 FAU
• Nigella express : good food, fast / Nigella Lawson   photographs by Lis Parsons, 641.555 LAW
• Prisoner of Tehran : a memoir / Marina Nemat, B NEMAT
• Return to Dragon Mountain : memories of a late Ming man / Jonathan D. Spence, 895.1 SPE
• Rule the Web : how to do anything and everything on the Internet– better, faster, easier / Mark Frauenfelder, 004.67 FRA
• Rumi : bridge to the soul : journeys into the music and silence of the heart / translations by Coleman Barks, with A.J. Arberry and Nevit Ergin], 891.55 JAL
• Running the table : the legend of Kid Delicious, the last great American pool hustler / L. Jon Wertheim, 794.7209 WER
• Sewing stitch and textile bible : a complete illustrated guide to techniques and materials / Lorna Knight, 646.2 KNI
• Shock doctrine : the rise of disaster capitalism / Naomi Klein, 330.12 KLE
• Slash / Slash   with Anthony Bozza, 787.87 SLA
• So help me God : the founding fathers and the first great battle over church and state / Forrest Church, 322.1097 CHU
• Surrender is not an option : defending America at the United Nations and abroad / John Bolton, 341.237 BOL
• Terra : our 100-million-year-old ecosystem–and the threats that now put it at risk / Michael Novacek, 576.8 NOV
• Time and materials : poems, 1997-2005 / Robert Hass, 811.54 HAS
• Touch and go : a memoir / Studs Terkel, B TERKEL
• Vegetarian cooking for everyone / by Deborah Madison, 641.5636 MAD
• View of the ocean / Jan de Hartog, B DE HARTOG
• Write it when I’m gone : remarkable off-the-record conversations with Gerald R. Ford / Thomas M. DeFrank, 973.925 DEF
• Young man & the sea : recipes & crispy fish tales from Esca / David Pasternack & Ed Levine, 641.69 PAS
• Your dog interpreter : how to understand man’s best friend / David Alderton, 636.7 ALD

2007 Tax Forms Now Available

 

Federal and State of Connecticut tax forms for the 2007 filing year are now available at the Library. Complete tax forms are also available to download from the Internet at these websites:

• Connecticut
• Federal
• Other US States

A State Full of Books

  
Need a book, movie or CD that Southington Library doesn’t own? Interlibrary Loan, or ILL, is a free library service that allows you to borrow books from nearly every public library (and some university libraries) in the state of Connecticut. In most cases, your materials will arrive in the Southington Library from seven to ten days after your request is placed.

Call or speak to someone at the Information Desk for more information or to place your request.

(ILL is not applicable for items that the library currently owns or brand-new releases)

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