January 7, 2009

January 2009 New Non-Fiction Books

  • Alex & me: how a scientist and a parrot discovered a hidden world of animal intelligence / Irene M. Pepperberg, 636.6865
  • American lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House / Jon Meacham, B JACKSON
  • Bacardi and the long fight for Cuba / Tom Gjelten, 338.7663 GJE
  • BakeWise: the hows and whys of successful baking with over 200 magnificent recipes / Shirley O. Corriher, 641.815 COR
  • Between the covers: the Book Babes’ guide to a woman’s reading pleasures / Margo Hammond , 028.9082 HAM
  • Call me Ted / Ted Turner, B TURNER
  • Creative capitalism: a conversation / edited by Michael Kinsley, 330.122 CRE
  • Damn, it feels good to be a banker: and other baller things you only get to say if you work on Wall Street / Leveraged Sell-Out, 818.54 LEV
  • Deciding the next decider: the 2008 presidential race in rhyme / Calvin Trillin, 811.54 TRI
  • Do the right thing: inside the movement that’s bringing common sense back to America / Mike Huckabee, 320.5209 HUC
  • Estefan kitchen / Emilio Estefan, Gloria Estefan, 641.5972 EST
  • Factory girls: from village to city in a changing China / Leslie T. Chang, 331.4095 CHA
  • Fireside cook book / James A. Beard, 641.5 BEA
  • Fugitive days: memoirs of an antiwar activist / Bill Ayers, 973.9209 AYE
  • Georgian star: how William and Caroline Herschel revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos / Michael D. Lemonick, 520.922 LEM
  • God stories: modern day encounters with the divine / Jennifer Skiff, 204.32 SKI
  • Good housekeeping: good deals & smart steals  / Susan Randol, 640.73 RAN
  • Gourmet’s guide to cooking with wine / Alison Boteler, 641.622 BOT
  • Green design, a healthy home handbook / Alan Berman, 747 BER
  • In search of Bill Clinton: a psychological biography / John Gartner, B CLINTON
  • In the country of Brooklyn: inspiration to the world / Peter Golenbock, 974.723 GOL
  • Journal of Helene Berr /  David Bellos, 940.5318 BER
  • Knock ‘em dead 2009: the ultimate job search guide / Martin Yate, 650.14 YAT
  • Knock ‘em dead cover letters: great letter techniques and samples for every step of your search / Martin Yate, 650.14 YAT
  • Knock ‘em dead resumes : smart advice to make your online and paper resumes more productive / Martin Yate, 650.14 YAT
  • Korean table: from barbecue to bibimbap / Taekyung Chung, 641.5951 CHU
  • Learning C# 3.0 / Jesse Liberty , 005.133 LIB
  • Lost history of Christianity / Philip Jenkins, 270.1 JEN
  • Made in Spain: Spanish dishes for the American kitchen / Jose Andres , 641.5946 AND
  • Man who owns the news: inside the secret world of Rupert Murdoch / Michael Wolff, 070.5092 WOL
  • Managing your money all-in-one for dummies / Consumer Dummies, 332.024 MAN
  • Multiple blessings: surviving to thriving with twins and sextuplets / Jon & Kate Gosselin, 306.874 GOS
  • No limits: the will to succeed /  Michael Phelps , B PHELPS
  • No ordinary angel: celestial spirits and Christian claims about Jesus / Susan R. Garrett, 235.3 GAR
  • Oneness with all life: inspirational selections from A New Earth / Eckhart Tolle, 204.4 TOL
  • Outliers: the story of success / Malcolm Gladwell., 302 GLA
  • Panic: the story of modern financial insanity / edited by Michael Lewis, 338.542 LEW
  • Partnership: the making of Goldman Sachs / Charles D. Ellis, 332.6609 ELL
  • Passport to exotic real estate: buying U.S. and foreign property in breathtaking, beautiful, faraway lands / Steve Bergsman, 333.338 BER
  • Power of the middle ground: a couples guide to relationship renewal /  Marty Babits, 646.78 BAB
  • Prevent and reverse heart disease: the revolutionary, scientifically proven, nutrition-based cure / Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., 616.123 ESS
  • Reverse mortgage book: everything you need to know explained simply / Cindy Holcomb, 332.722 HOL
  • Rimbaud: the double life of a rebel / Edmund White, B RIMBAUD
  • Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: a ghost story and a biography / Clifton Crais, 305.896 CRA
  • Scorsese by Ebert / Roger Ebert   , 791.4302 EBE
  • Something of myself: an autobiography / Rudyard Kipling, B KIPLING
  • SQL in a nutshell / Kevin E. Kline , 005.7565 KLI
  • The green bible : New Revised Standard Version, 220.5204 BIB
  • Too fat to fish / Artie Lange, B LANGE
  • Toxic fat: when good fat turns bad / Barry Sears, 616.398 SEA
  • Very New York Christmas / Michael Storrings, 394.266 STO
  • Weird Massachusetts : your travel guide to the Bay State’s local legends and best kept secrets / Jeff Belanger, 917.44 BEL
  • Why we suck: a feel good guide to staying fat, loud, lazy and stupid / Denis Leary, 814.54 LEA
  • Woof!: writers on dogs / edited by Lee Montgomery, 636.7 WOO

 

December 3, 2008

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

 

November 8, 2008

November 2008 New Non-Fiction Books

  • 100 ways to simplify your life / Joyce Meyer, 248.4 MEY
  • Against medical advice: a true story / James Patterson, Hal Friedman., 616.83 PAT
  • All art is propaganda: critical essays / George Orwell, 824.912 ORW
  • American lightning / Howard Blum, 364.1523 BLU
  • American prince: a memoir / Tony Curtis, B CURTIS
  • American therapy: the rise of psychotherapy in the United States / Jonathan Engel, 616.8914 ENG
  • Angler: the Cheney vice presidency / Barton Gellman, 973.931 GEL
  • Anglo files: a field guide to the British / Sarah Lyall, 941.086 LYA
  • Barefoot Contessa back to basics : fabulous flavor from simple ingredients / Ina Garten , 641.5 GAR
  • Bay of Pigs / Howard Jones, 972.9106 JON
  • Betty Crocker cooking basics / Betty Crocker editors, 641.5 CRO
  • Big necessity / Rose George, 363.72 GEO
  • Birth of the new NFLl / Larry Felser, 796.332 FEL
  • Black belt patriotism: how to reawaken America / Chuck Norris, 306.0973 NOR
  • Born digital: understanding the first generation of digital natives / John Palfrey, 302.231 PAL
  • Boutique knits: 20+ must-have accessories / Laura Irwin, 746.432 IRW
  • Boys will be boys / Jeff Pearlman, 796.332 PEA
  • Breakfast at Sally’s: one homeless man’s inspirational journey / Richard LeMieux, 305.569 LEM
  • Buffalo gal: a memoir / Laura Pedersen, B PEDERSEN
  • Called out of darkness: a spiritual confession / Anne Rice, B RICE
  • Can’t fail room makeovers / Lucianna Samu, 747 SAM
  • Career chronicles: an insider’s guide to what jobs are really like : the good, the bad, and the ugly from over 750 professionals / Michael Gregory, 331.702 GRE
  • Casserole crazy: hot stuff for your oven! / Emily Farris, 641.821 FAR
  • Codependence and the power of detachment / Karen Casey, 362.2913 CAS
  • Contemplating divorce / Susan Pease Gadoua, 306.89 GAD
  • Daily readings from Become a better you / Joel Osteen, 248.4 OST
  • Death from the skies!: these are the ways the world will end / Philip Plait, 520 PLA
  • Death in a prairie house / William R. Drennan, 364.1523 DRE
  • Don’t mind if I do / George Hamilton , B HAMILTON
  • Enemy of the state: the trial and execution of Saddam Hussein / Michael A. Newton, 345.5674 NEW
  • Energy efficient homes for dummies / Rik DeGunther, 690.8 DEG
  • Faberge’s eggs / Toby Faber, 739.2092 FAB
  • Facing unpleasant facts: narrative essays / by George Orwell, 824.912 ORW
  • Fatal vows: the tragic wives of Sergeant Drew Peterson / Joseph Hosey, 364.1523 HOS
  • First tip-off: the incredible story of the birth of the NBA / Charley Rosen, 796.323 ROS
  • Foreclosure survival guide / by Stephen Elias, 346.7304 ELI
  • Forever war / Dexter Filkins, 956.7044 FIL
  • Fruitless fall / Rowan Jacobsen, 638.15 JAC
  • Genius: how Bill Walsh reinvented football and created an NFL dynasty / David Harris, 796.332 HAR
  • Ghost hunters of New England / Alan Brown, 133.1097 BRO
  • Giada’s kitchen: new Italian favorites / Giada De Laurentiis   , 641.5945 DE L
  • Going hungry / edited by Kate Taylor, 616.8526 GOI
  • Greatest words ever spoken / Steve K. Scott, 232.954 SCO
  • Green goes with everything / by Sloan Barnett, 613.5 BAR
  • Hello, everybody!: the dawn of American radio / Anthony Rudel, 384.5409 RUD
  • Here’s the story / Maureen McCormick., 791.4502 MCC
  • Hide & seek / Wendy Aron, 616.8527 ARO
  • Hollywood on the Hudson / Richard Koszarski, 384.8097 KOS
  • House at Sugar Beach / Helene Cooper, B COOPER
  • Introvert power: why your inner life is your hidden strength / Laurie Helgoe, 155.232 HEL
  • Jamie at home: cook your way to the good life / Jamie Oliver, 641.5 OLI
  • Julie Jason’s guide to Connecticut probate /  Julie Jason, 346.7305 JAS
  • Law of attraction in action / Deanna Davis, 158.1 DAV
  • Legs are the last to go / Diahann Carroll, B CARROLL
  • Let’s talk turkey/ by Rosemarie Ostler, 427.973 OST
  • Letter to my daughter / Maya Angelou, 818.5409 ANG
  • Life of meaning: reflections on faith, doubt, and repairing the world / Bob Abernethy, 204 ABE
  • Little book of bull moves in bear markets / Peter D. Schiff, 332.6 SCH
  • Loneliness as a way of life / Thomas Dumm, 320.01 DUM
  • Longest trip home: a memoir / John Grogan, B GROGAN
  • Lost loot: ghostly New England treasure tales /  Patricia Hughes, 133.097 HUG
  • Martha Stewart’s cooking school: lessons and recipes for the home cook / Martha Stewart, 641.5 STE
  • Martin Yan’s China , 641.5951 YAN
  • Member of the family: Cesar Millan’s guide to a lifetime of fulfillment with your dog / Cesar Millan , 636.7088 MIL
  • Migraine brain / Carolyn Bernstein, 616.8491 BER
  • Mortgages for dummies / Eric Tyson, 332.72 TYS
  • Mother Angelica’s private and pithy lessons from the Scriptures /edited by Raymond Arroyo, 220.6 MAR
  • Mother warriors: a nation of parents healing autism against all odds / Jenny McCarthy, 618.9285 MCC
  • Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American dream / Steven Watts, B HEFNER
  • Myth of multitasking: how doing it all gets nothing done / Dave Crenshaw, 658.4093 CRE
  • Necklace: thirteen women and the experiment that transformed their lives / the women of Jewelia, 302.3408 NEC
  • Never smoke again: the top 10 ways to stop smoking now & forever / Grant Cooper, 616.865 COO
  • New lasagna cookbook / Maria Bruscino Sanchez, 641.822 SAN
  • Next stop: growing up wild-style in the Bronx / Ivan Sanchez, 974.727 SAN
  • Not your mother’s weeknight cooking / Beth Hensperger, 641.538 HEN
  • Obsession: a history / Lennard J. Davis, 616.8522 DAV
  • Pieces of my heart: a life / Robert Wagner, B WAGNER
  • Promise to ourselves: a journey through fatherhood and divorce / Alec Baldwin, 792.028 BAL
  • Rachael Ray’s big orange book/ Rachael Ray, 641.555 RAY
  • Reagan I knew / William F. Buckley, Jr., B REAGAN
  • Secret lives of men / Chris Blazina, 155.632 BLA
  • Short history of the United States / Robert V. Remini, 973 REM
  • Smart Cookies’ guide to making more dough / The Smart Cookies, 332.024 SMA
  • Smoking food: a beginner’s guide / Chris Dubbs, 641.49 DUB
  • Snowball: Warren Buffett and the business of life / Alice Schroeder, B BUFFETT
  • So, you want to start a business? / Edward D. Hess, 658.11 HES
  • Somebody: the reckless life and remarkable career of Marlon Brando / Stefan Kanfer, B BRANDO
  • Splintered history of wood / Spike Carlsen., 620.12 CAR
  • Star Trek 101 / Terry J. Erdmann, 791.4575 ERD
  • State by State: a panoramic portrait of America / edited by Matt Weiland, 973 STA
  • Therapy 101 / Jeffrey C. Wood, 616.8914 WOO
  • Trouble with boys / Peg Tyre, 371.821 TYR
  • Venice is a fish: a sensual guide / Tiziano Scarpa, 945.311 SCA
  • Waiting for an ordinary day: the unraveling of life in Iraq / Farnaz Fassihi, 956.7044 FAS
  • Wake up: a life of the Buddha / prepared by Jack Kerouac  , 294.363 KER
  • Wesley the owl: the remarkable love story of an owl and his girl / Stacey O’Brien, 598.97 O’BR
  • What I talk about when I talk about running:a memoir / Haruki Murakami, 796.4252 MUR
  • Wild boy: my life in Duran Duran / Andy Taylor, 782.4216 TAY
  • Wordy shipmates / Sarah Vowell, 974.0882 VOW
  • Wrecking crew: how conservatives rule / Thomas Frank, 973.92 FRA
  • Wrong guys: murder, false confessions, and the Norfolk Four / Tom Wells, 364.1523 WEL
  • Your first year with diabetes / Theresa Garnero, 616.462 GAR

 

October 6, 2008

October 2008 New Non-Fiction Books

  • 29% solution: 52 weekly networking success strategies / Ivan R. Misner, 650.13 MIS
  • Acedia & me: a marriage, monks, and a writer’s life / Kathleen Norris, 255 NOR
  • American Heart Association’s low-fat, low-cholesterol cookbook, 641.5638 AME
  • America’s test kitchen family baking book / the editors at America’s Test Kitchen , 641.815 AME
  • Angel of Grozny: orphans of a forgotten war / Asne Seierstad, 947.52 SEI
  • Anticancer: a new way of life / David Servan-Schreiber, 616.994 SER
  • Antoine’s alphabet: Watteau and his world / Jed Perl, 759.4 PER
  • Aptitude test workbook: discover your potential and improve your career options with practice psychometric tests / Jim Barrett, 153.94 BAR
  • Beating Lyme: understanding and treating this complex and often misdiagnosed disease / Constance A. Bean, 616.9246 BEA
  • Beautiful soul of John Woolman, apostle of abolition / Thomas P. Slaughter, 289.6092 SLA
  • Being Catholic now: prominent Americans talk about change in the church and the quest for meaning / Kerry Kennedy, 282.0922 KEN
  • Being Christian: exploring where you, God, and life connect / Stephen Arterburn and John Shore, 230.222 ART
  • Beyond time-out: from chaos to calm / Beth A. Grosshans, 649.64 GRO
  • Big man on campus: a university president speaks out on higher education / Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, 378.73 TRA
  • Bold fresh piece of humanity: a memoir / by Bill O’Reilly, B O’REILLY
  • Bonk: the curious coupling of science and sex / Mary Roach, 612.6 ROA
  • Breakthrough: eight steps to wellness / Suzanne Somers, 613 SOM
  • Bumping into geniuses: inside the rock and roll business / Danny Goldberg, 781.66 GOL
  • Case against Barack Obama: the unlikely rise and unexamined agenda of the media’s favorite candidate / David Freddoso., 324.973 FRE
  • Case of a lifetime: a criminal defense lawyer’s story / Abbe Smith, 345.747 SMI
  • Ceremonial violence: a psychological explanation of school shootings / Jonathan Fast, 371.782 FAS
  • Christmas cookies: recipes to treasure for the holiday season / Lisa B. Zwirn , 641.8654 ZWI
  • Click: what millions of people are doing online and why it matters / by Bill Tancer, 006.312 TAN
  • Creating myself: how I learned that beauty comes in all shapes, sizes, and packages, including me / Mia Tyler, 746.92 TYL
  • Dangerous women / Larry A. Morris, 364.374 MOR
  • Deck & patio design guide, 690.89 DEC
  • Deconstructing Sammy: music, money, madness, and the mob / Matt Birkbeck, B DAVIS
  • Dewey: a small-town library cat who touched the world / Vicki Myron, 636.8092 MYR
  • Dry store room no.1: the secret life of the Natural History Museum / Richard Fortey, 508.0744 FOR
  • Everyday survival: why smart people do stupid things / Laurence Gonzales, 155.9 GON
  • First 30 days: your guide to any change (and loving your life more) / Ariane de Bonvoisin, 155.24 BON
  • First billion is the hardest: reflections on a life of comebacks and America’s energy future / T. Boone Pickens, 338.7622 PIC
  • China’s first emperor and his terracotta warriors / Frances Wood, 951.01 WOO
  • Firstborn advantage: making your birth order work for you / Kevin Leman, 155.924 LEM
  • Ghost train to the Eastern star: on the tracks of the great railway bazaar / Paul Theroux, 915.04 THE
  • Great emergence: how Christianity is changing and why / Phyllis Tickle, 270.83 TIC
  • Green baby / Susannah Marriott, 649.122 MAR
  • Guyland: the perilous world where boys become men / Michael Kimmel, 305.3109 KIM
  • Harry S. Truman / Robert Dallek, B TRUMAN
  • Heaven and hell: my life in the Eagles (1974-2001) / Don Felder, 782.4216 FEL
  • Hemingses of Monticello: an American family / Annette Gordon-Reed, 973.4609 GOR
  • Hot, flat, and crowded: why we need a green revolution– and how it can renew America / Thomas L. Friedman, 363.7 FRI
  • Hurry down sunshine / Michael Greenberg, 362.1968 GRE
  • Ice diaries: the untold story of the Cold War’s most daring mission / William R. Anderson , 359.933 AND
  • The other half : the life of Jacob Riis and the world of immigrant America / Tom Buk-Swienty , 974.7043 BUK
  • In reckless hands / Victoria F. Nourse, 344.7304 NOU
  • In the land of invisible women / Qanta A. Ahmed, 610.8209 AHM
  • Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British spy ring in wartime Washington / Jennet Conant, 940.5486 CON
  • Island world: a history of Hawai’i and the United States / Gary Y. Okihiro, 996.9 OKI
  • Just in case: how to be self-sufficient when the unexpected happens / by Kathy Harrison, 613.6 HAR
  • License to steal / Walter T. Shaw , 364.1552 SHA
  • Limits of power: the end of American Exceptionalism / Andrew J. Bacevich, 320.973 BAC
  • Looking for Anne of Green Gables / Irene Gammel, B MONTGOMERY
  • Making of a quarterback: the incredible rise of Eli Manning and the New York Giants / Ralph Vacchiano, 796.332 VAC
  • Management gurus: lessons from the best management books of all time / Chris Lauer , 658 LAU
  • Massacre at Mountain Meadows / Ronald W. Walker, 979.202 WAL
  • Murder by family: the incredible true story of a son’s treachery & a father’s forgiveness / Kent Whitaker, 364.1523 WHI
  • My father’s paradise: a son’s search for his Jewish past in Kurdish Iraq / Ariel Sabar, 956.7 SAB
  • My mother, your mother: embracing slow medicine / Dennis McCullough, 306.874 MCC
  • Not a happy camper: a memoir / Mindy Schneider, B SCHNEIDER
  • Nothing to be frightened of / Julian Barnes, 823.914 BAR
  • Off the deep end / W. Hodding Carter, 797.2109 CAR
  • Orange County: a personal history / Gustavo Arellano, 979.496 ARE
  • Planet Google/ Randall Stross, 338.761 STR
  • Playing through: a guide to the unwritten rules of golf / Peter Post, 796.352 POS
  • Poisoned profits: the toxic assault on our children / Philip Shabecoff , 618.9298 SHA
  • Reading people: how to understand people and predict their behavior– anytime, anyplace / Jo-Ellan Dimitrius, 153.69 DIM
  • Reagan: the Hollywood years / Marc Eliot, B REAGAN
  • Real food for healthy kids: 200+ easy, wholesome recipes / Tracey Seaman, 641.5973 SEA
  • Real life: preparing for the 7 most challenging days of your life / Phil McGraw, 158 MCG
  • Scheisshaus luck: surviving the unspeakable in Auschwitz and Dora / Pierre Berg , 940.5318 BER
  • The road of lost innocence / Somaly Mam, 362.7609 MAM
  • Slide:ology: the art and science of creating great presentations / Nancy Duarte, 658.4522 DUA
  • Surprised by God: how I learned to stop worrying and love religion / Danya Ruttenberg, 296.7092 RUT
  • Terra Cotta Army: China’s first emperor and the birth of a nation / John Man, 951.01 MAN
  • Thin is the new happy / Valerie Frankel, B FRANKEL
  • To love what is: a marriage transformed / Alix Kates Shulman, 617.481 SHU
  • True north: discover your authentic leadership / Bill George, 658.4092 GEO
  • Visual history of the English Bible / Donald L. Brake, 220.52 BRA
  • Walking through walls: a memoir / Philip Rand Smith, 130.92 SMI
  • War within: a secret White House history, 2006-2008 / Bob Woodward, 973.931 WOO
  • What does somebody have to do to get a job around here! / Cynthia Shapiro, 650.14 SHA

September 4, 2008

September 2008 New Non-Fiction Books

  • 1001 books for every mood / Hallie Ephron, 011.73 EPH
  • 101 questions & answers on popes and the papacy / Christopher M. Bellitto, 262.13 BEL
  • 200 crochet tips, techniques & trade secrets / Jan Eaton, 746.434 EAT
  • 500 smoothies & juices / Christine Watson, 641.87 WAT
  • Accidentally on purpose / Mary F. Pols, 306.8743 POL
  • After the war zone  / Laurie B. Slone and Matthew J. Friedman, 616.8521 SLO
  • American presidency / edited by Christopher Mari, 352.2309 AME
  • Art of being: 101 ways to practice purpose in your life / Dennis Merritt Jones, 299.93 JON
  • Assisted loving : true tales of double dating with my dad / Bob Morris., 306.8742 MOR
  • Beating gout: a sufferer’s guide to living pain free / Victor Konshin, 616.3999 KON
  • Beyond-the-square crochet motifs / Edie Eckman, 746.434 ECK
  • Billionaire’s vinegar / Benjamin Wallace, 641.2223 WAL
  • Books: a memoir / Larry McMurtry, B MCMURTRY
  • Can’t remember what I forgot / Sue Halpern, 616.8523 HAL
  • Cheech and Chong: the unauthorized autobiography / Tommy Chong, 791.4302 CHO
  • Clawing at the limits of cool / Farah Jasmine Griffin, 781.655 GRI
  • Cleopatra : last queen of Egypt / Joyce Tyldesley, 932.02 TYL
  • Complete idiot’s guide to vegan cooking / Beverly Lynn Bennett, 641.5636 BEN
  • Computers for seniors for dummies / by Nancy C. Muir, 004.1608 MUI
  • Country living, eating outdoors / Editors of Country living, 641.578 COU
  • Credit repair kit for dummies / Stephen Bucci, 332.743 BUC
  • Dark side / Jane Mayer, 973.931 MAY
  • Delighted states / Adam Thirlwell, 809.3 THI
  • Dinner with a cannibal / Carole A. Travis-Henikoff, 394.9 TRA
  • Don’t start the revolution without me! / by Jesse Ventura, B VENTURA
  • Epilogue / Anne Roiphe, B ROIPHE
  • Ernie: the autobiography / Ernest Borgnine, B BORGNINE
  • Everything guide to mortgages / Lisa Holton, 332.722 HOL
  • Feeding the whole family cooking with whole foods / Cynthia Lair, 641.5636 LAI
  • Few seconds of panic / Stefan Fatsis, 070.4497 FAT
  • Fitness swimming / Emmett Hines., 613.716 HIN
  • Fleeced / Dick Morris, 973.931 MOR
  • For the thrill of it: Leopold, Loeb, and the murder that shocked Chicago / Simon Baatz, 364.1523 BAA
  • Game boys / Michael Kane, 794.8 KAN
  • Gift of years: growing older gracefully / Joan Chittister, 200.846 CHI
  • Grill it!: recipes, techniques, tools / Chris Schlesinger, 641.5784 ROA
  • Havana nocturne / T.J. English, 364.106 ENG
  • Healthy skeptic: cutting through the hype about your health / Robert J. Davis, 613 DAV
  • History of philosophy: a reader’s guide  / Donald Phillip Verene, 190 VER
  • How to get started in real estate investing / Robert Irwin, 332.6324 IRW
  • How to self-destruct: making the least of what’s left of your career / Jason Seiden, 650.102 SEI
  • How to understand the financial pages / Alex Davidson, 332 DAV
  • Human: the science behind what makes us unique / Michael S. Gazzaniga, 612.8233 GAZ
  • I still have it– I just can’t remember where I put itg / Rita Rudner, 818.5402 RUD
  • Italian survival guide / Elizabeth Bingham, 458.3421 BIN
  • Killing sacred cows: overcoming the financial myths that are destroying your prosperity / Garret B. Gunderson, 332.024 GUN
  • Last days of old Beijing / Michael Meyer, 951.156 MEY
  • Life with my sister Madonna / by Christopher Ciccone, B MADONNA
  • Linux / Mike McGrath, 005.432 MCG
  • Little book that saves your assets / David M. Darst, 332.6 DAR
  • Loneliness: human nature and the need for social connection / John T. Cacioppo, 155.92 CAC
  • Lost spy: an American in Stalin’s secret service / Andrew Meier, 327.1247 MEI
  • Love the work, hate the job: why America’s best workers are unhappier than ever / David Kusnet, 331.012 KUS
  • Mary Kay way / Mary Kay Ash, 658 ASH
  • Milton: poet, pamphleteer, and patriot / Anna Beer, B MILTON
  • Mistress of the Vatican: the true story of Olimpia Maidalchini / Eleanor Herman, 945.634 HER
  • Money, and the law of attraction / Esther and Jerry Hicks , 133.93 HIC
  • Moving forward: taking the lead in your life / Dave Pelzer, 158.1 PEL
  • Mutiny: the true events that inspired the hunt for Red October / David Hagberg, 359.1334 HAG
  • New mom’s survival guide / Jennifer Wider, 618.6 WID
  • Nice guys can get the corner office: eight strategies for winning in business without being a jerk / Russ C. Edelman, 650.1 EDE
  • Night of the gun: a reporter investigates the darkest story of his life, his own / David Carr, 616.86 CAR
  • No complaining rule: positive ways to deal with negativity at work / Jon Gordon, 658.314 GOR
  • No-nonsense job interviews /  Arnold G. Boldt, 650.14 BOL
  • O2 / Richard Dahlstrom, 248.4 DAH
  • Obama nation: leftist politics and the cult of personality / Jerome R. Corsi, 973.0405 COR
  • One minute to midnight / Michael Dobbs, 972.9106 DOB
  • Painter in a savge land / Miles Harvey, 759.4 HAR
  • Put on a happy face: a Broadway memoir / Charles Strouse, B STROUSE
  • Rise of the Fourth Reich / Jim Marrs, 320.533 MAR
  • Road to Monticello: the life and mind of Thomas Jefferson / Kevin J. Hayes, B JEFFERSON
  • Sex, love, and fashion: a memoir of a male model / Bruce Hulse, 746.9209 HUL
  • Shotokan karate bible: beginner to black belt / Ashley P. Martin, 796.8153 MAR
  • Stolen innocence / Elissa Wall, B WALL
  • Stomp the elephant in the office / Steven W. Vannoy , 658.314 VAN
  • Stop me if you’ve heard this: a history and philosophy of jokes / Jim Holt, 809.7 HOL
  • Story of Yiddish: how a mish-mosh of languages saved the Jews / Neal Karlen, 439 KAR
  • Ten moments that shook the sports world / Stan Isaacs, 796 ISA
  • Totally vegetarian: easy, fast, comforting food for every kind of vegetarian / Toni Fiore, 641.5636 FIO
  • Traffic: why we drive the way we do (and what it says about us) / Tom Vanderbilt, 629.283 VAN
  • Travelers guide to the Hudson River Valley / Tim Mulligan, 917.473 MUL
  • Tuned in: uncover the extraordinary opportunities that lead to business breakthroughs / Craig Stull, 658.409 STU
  • U.S. immigration made easy / by Ilona Bray, 342.7308 BRA
  • Ultimate homebased business handbook / James Stephenson, 658.0412 STE
  • Up for renewal: what magazines taught me about love, sex, and starting over / Cathy Alter, 818.602 ALT
  • Waiter rant: thanks for the tip–confessions of a cynical waiter / The Waiter, 642.6 WAI
  • Way of the world: a story of truth and hope in an age of extremism / Ron Suskind, 973.931 SUS
  • Way we’ll be: the Zogby report on the transformation of the American dream / John Zogby, 306.0973 ZOG
  • We are soldiers still: a journey back to the battlefields of Vietnam / Harold G. Moore, 959.704 MOO
  • Why is God laughing?: the path to joy and spiritual optimism / Deepak Chopra, 204.4 CHO
  • Will work from home / Tory Johnson, 331.2567 JOH
  • Winners manual: for the game of life / Jim Tressel, 650.1 TRE
  • Wow! I’m in business: a crash course in business basics / Richard Stim , 658.11 STI
  • You can observe a lot by watching / Yogi Berra, B BERRA

 

September 2, 2008

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August 4, 2008

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

 

July 3, 2008

July 2008 New Non-Fiction Books

  • 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

June 10, 2008

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June 5, 2008

June 2008 New Non-Fiction Books

  • 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