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Morley Library
New Books

April 25, 2008


New Fiction

Delusion / Peter Abrahams.

Funny boys / Warren Adler.

Lady Lazarus / Andrew Foster Altschul.

Missing / Karin Alvtegen ; translated from the Swedish by Anna Paterson.

Murder on parade : a Murder, she wrote mystery : a novel / by Jessica Fletcher & Donald Bain.

The whole truth / David Baldacci.

Red car : stories / Sallie Bingham.

A richer dust / Amy Boaz.

Hunting the king : a novel / Peter Clenott.

Antiques to die for / Jane K. Cleland.

Hold tight / Harlan Coben.

Girls in trucks / Katie Crouch.

Death on the holy mountain / David Dickinson.

A girl called Rosie / Anne Doughty.

Waterloo sunset / Martin Edwards.

Practically perfect / Katie Fforde.

Buried too deep / Jane Finnis.

Nice to come home to / Rebecca Flowers.

People of the weeping eye / W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear.

Jumper : Griffin's story / Steven Gould.

Mary of Nazareth : a novel / Marek Halter ; translated by Howard Curtis.

The dreaming void / Peter F. Hamilton.

The year she disappeared : a novel / Ann Harleman.

Janeology : a novel / Karen Harrington.

The finder / Colin Harrison.

The girl with no shadow / Joanne Harris.

Love is not enough / Anne Herries.

Mummy dearest / Joan Hess.

Varanger / Cecelia Holland.

Bathtub admirals : a novel / Jeff Huber.

The sorrows of an American : a novel / Siri Hustvedt.

An instinctive solution / Roderic Jeffries.

Quicksand / Iris Johansen.

Roux morgue / Claire M. Johnson.

Till morning is nigh : a Wortham family Christmas novella / Leisha Kelly.

The genius / Jesse Kellerman.

The noble outlaw / Bernard Knight.

The lost / Roberta Kray.

Unaccustomed earth : stories / Jhumpa Lahiri.

Lavinia / Ursula K. Le Guin.

Mack to the rescue / Jim Lehrer.

The girl of his dreams / Donna Leon.

Perfect family / Pam Lewis.

The forbidden / Beverly Lewis.

South of Shiloh : a thriller / Chuck Logan.

The eye of the leopard / Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray.

Secrets of the Hollywood girls club : a novel / Maggie Marr.

The rough collier / Pat McIntosh.

We are now beginning our descent / James Meek.

The warriors / Mark Andrew Olsen.

Dictation : a quartet / Cynthia Ozick.

The body in the gallery : a Faith Fairchild mystery / Katherine Hall Page.

The Third Circle / Amanda Quick.

Searching for paradise in Parker, PA / Kris Radish.

Assassins at Ospreys / R.T. Raichev.

Seven for a secret / Mary Reed and Eric Mayer.

Three girls and their brother : a novel / Theresa Rebeck.

The fabric of sin / Phil Rickman.

Guilty / Karen Robards.

Road to nowhere / Paul Robertson.

Wolf totem / Jiang Rong ; translated by Howard Goldblatt.

Codex 632 : the secret identity of Christopher Columbus, a novel / Jose Rodrigues dos Santos.

The end of baseball : a novel / Peter Schilling, Jr.

The locktender's house : a novel / Steven Sherrill.

Infected : a novel / Scott Sigler.

The miracle at Speedy Motors / Alexander McCall Smith.

The Orpheus deception / David Stone.

Whatever makes you happy : a novel / William Sutcliffe.

Escape / Robert K. Tanenbaum.

Friday nights : a novel / Joanna Trollope.

The ten-year nap / Meg Wolitzer.

Santa Fe dead / Stuart Woods.

 

New Non-Fiction

Taking on the trust : the epic battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller / Steve Weinberg.   070.92 We

30 : the collapse of the great American newspaper / edited with an introduction by Charles M. Madigan.   071.3 Th

Where did I leave my glasses? : the what, when, and why of normal memory loss / Martha Weinman Lear.   153.12 Le

Steering by starlight : find your right life, no matter what! / Martha Beck.   158.1 Be

Living in the five-sense world / Kevin W. McPeek.   158.1 Mc

Smart mice, not-so-smart people : an interesting and amusing guide to bioethics / Arthur L. Caplan.   174.2 Ca

Happier than God : turn ordinary life into an extraordinary experience / Neale Donald Walsch.   204.4 Wa

The reason for God : belief in an age of skepticism / Timothy Keller.   239 Ke

Living by design : discovering the spirit, soul, and body connection / Ray D. Strand and Bill Ewing, with Todd Hilliard.   248.4 St

Reasons to believe : one man's journey among the evangelicals and the faith he left behind / John Marks.   269.2 Ma

A long retreat : in search of a religious life / Andrew Krivak.   271.53 Kr

The fire spreads : holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South / Randall J. Stephens.   280.4 St

A life with Karol : my forty-year friendship with the man who became pope / Stanislaw Dziwisz in conversation with Gian Franco Svidercoschi ; translated from the Italian by Adrian J. Walker.   282.092 Dz

The open road : the global journey of the fourteenth Dalai Lama / Pico Iyer.   294.39 Iy

X saves the world : how Generation X got the shaft but can still keep everything from sucking / Jeff Gordinier.   305.2 Go

The big squeeze :tough times for the American worker / Steven Greenhouse.   305.55 Gr

"Strong Medicine speaks" : a Native American elder has her say : an oral history / Amy Hill Hearth.   305.897 He

Homo politicus : the strange and barbaric tribes of the beltway / Dana Milbank.   306.2 Mi

Alexander and the wonderful, marvelous, excellent, terrific ninety days : an almost completely honest account of what happened to our family when our youngest son, his wife, their baby, their toddler, and their five-year-old came to live with us for three months / Judith Viorst ; illustrated by Laura Gibson.   306.87 Vi

The fortune hunters : dazzling women and the men they married / Charlotte Hays.   306.872 Ha

Upstream : the ascendance of American conservatism / Alfred S. Regnery.   320.52 Re

Swim against the current : even a dead fish can go with the flow / Jim Hightower with Susan DeMarco.   322.3 Hi

Deception : Pakistan, the United States, and the secret trade in nuclear weapons / Adrian Levy & Catherine Scott-Clark.   327.73 Le

Bridging the divide : my life / Edward W. Brooke.   328.73 Br

Taking the hill : from Philly to Baghdad to the United States Congress / Patrick J. Murphy with Adam Frankel.   328.73 Mu

Save now or die trying : achieving long-term wealth in your 20s and 30s / Mark Bruno.   332.024 Br

It's not about the money : unlock your money type to achieve spiritual and financial abundance / Brent Kessel.   332.024 Ke

The trillion dollar meltdown : easy money, high rollers, and the great credit crash / Charles R. Morris.   332.04 Mo

Plan B 3.0 : mobilizing to save civilization / Lester R. Brown.   333.7 Br

The bridge at the edge of the world : capitalism, the environment, and crossing from crisis to sustainability / James Gustave Speth.   333.7 Sp

Bananas : how the United Fruit Company shaped the world / Peter Chapman.   338.763 Ch

Stirring it up : how to make money and save the world / Gary Hirshberg.   338.763 Hi

India's global wealth club : the stunning rise of its billionaires and the secrets of their success / Geoff Hiscock.   338.9 Hi

Common wealth : economics for a crowded planet / Jeffrey D. Sachs.   338.9 Sa

The fighting 69th : one remarkable National Guard Unit's journey from Ground Zero to Baghdad / Sean Michael Flynn.   356.1 Fl

Hungry : lessons learned on the journey from fat to thin / Allen Zadoff.   362.196 Za

Her last death : a memoir / Susanna Sonnenberg.   362.29092 So

The echo from Dealey Plaza : the true story of the first African American on the White House Secret Service detail and his quest for justice after the assassination of JFK / Abraham Bolden.   363.2 Bo

Truth at last : the untold story behind James Earl Ray and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. / John Larry Ray and Lyndon Barsten.   364.1524 Ra

Group theory in the bedroom and other mathematical diversions / Brian Hayes.   500 Ha

The story of science : Einstein adds a new dimension / Joy Hakim.   509 Ha

How mathematicians think : using ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox to create mathematics / William Byers.   510.92 By

The haunted observatory : curiosities from the astronomer's cabinet / Richard Baum.   520 Ba

The telescope : its history, technology, and future / Geoff Andersen.   522.2 An

The joy of physics / Arthur W. Wiggins ; cartoons by Sidney Harris.   530 Wi

A stubbornly persistent illusion : the essential scientific writings of Albert Einstein.   530.11 Ei

The story of measurement / Andrew Robinson.   530.8 Ro

Six degrees : our future on a hotter planet / Mark Lynas.   551.6 Ly

What is life? : investigating the nature of life in the age of synthetic biology / Ed Regis.   570.1 Re

The living cosmos : our search for life in the universe / Chris Impey.   576.839 Im

The third domain : the untold story of archaea and the future of biotechnology / Tim Friend.   579.321 Fr

Sunflowers : the secret history : the unauthorized biography of the world's most beloved weed / Joe Pappalardo.   583.99 Pa

The private life of spiders / Paul Hillyard.   595.44 Hi

Intern : a doctor's initiation / Sandeep Jauhar.   610.92 Ja

Bonk : the curious coupling of science and sex / Mary Roach.   612.6 Ro

Dr. Gott's no flour, no sugar diet / Peter H. Gott with Robin Donovan.   613.25 Go

Are you ready! : take charge, lose weight, get in shape, and change your life forever / Bob Harper.   613.25 Ha

Neris and India's idiot-proof diet : a weight-loss plan for real women / India Knight and Neris Thomas ; illustrations by Neris Thomas.   613.25 Kn

Charlatan : America's most dangerous huckster, the man who pursued him, and the age of flimflam / Pope Brock.   615.856 Br

Pretty is what changes : impossible choices, the breast cancer gene, and how I defied my destiny / Jessica Queller.   616.9944 Qu

Head cases : stories of brain injury and its aftermath / Michael Paul Mason.   617.481 Ma

Mistaken identity : two families, one survivor, unwavering hope / Don & Susie Van Ryn and Newell, Colleen & Whitney Cerak with Mark Tabb.   617.481 Mi

Hiroshima : the world's bomb / Andrew J. Rotter.   623.4 Ro

Epic rivalry : the inside story of the Soviet and American space race / Von Hardesty and Gene Eisman.   629.409 Ha

Downsizing your home with style : living well in a smaller space / Lauri Ward.   640 Wa

Top chef : the cookbook / introduction by Tom Colicchio ; text by Brett Martin ; food photography by Lisa Hubbard ; recipes edited by Liana Krissoff and Leda Scheintaub.   641.5 To

The ungarnished truth : a cooking contest memoir / Ellie Mathews.   641.5092 Ma

The Splendid table's how to eat supper : recipes, stories, and opinions from public radio's award-winning food show / Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift.   641.53 Ka

Dr. Gott's no flour, no sugar cookbook / Peter H. Gott.   641.5638 Go

Healthy cooking for the Jewish home : 200 recipes for eating well on holidays and every day / by Faye Levy.   641.5676 Le

Spain and the world table / the Culinary Institute of America with text by Martha Rose Shulman ; photographs by Ben Fink.   641.5946 Sh

The Deen Bros. y'all come eat / [by Jamie and Bobby Deen and Melissa Clark].   641.5973 De

The best chicken recipes / by the editors of Cook's illustrated ; photography, Keller + Keller, Carl Tremblay, and Daniel J. Van Ackere ; illustrations, John Burgoyne.   641.665 Be

The Greyston Bakery cookbook : more than 80 recipes to inspire the way you cook and live / Sara Kate Gillingham-Ryan.   641.71 Gi

Elizabeth Falkner's demolition desserts : recipes from Citizen Cake / Elizabeth Falkner with Ann Krueger Spivack ; photography by Frankie Frankeny ; illustrations by Ryan Falkner.   641.86 Fa

Martha Stewart's cookies : the very best treats to bake and to share / the editors of Martha Stewart Living.   641.8654 Ma

Wear your life well : use what you have to get what you want / Marilu Henner with Lorin Henner.   646.7 He

The teen whisperer : how to break through the silence and secrecy of teenage life / Mike Linderman, with Gary Brozek.   649.125 Li

It's a boy! : understanding your son's development from birth to age 18 / Michael Thompson and Teresa Barker.   649.132 Th

Make the right choice : creating a positive, innovative, and productive work life / Joel Zeff.   650.1 Ze

Recruit or die : how any business can beat the big guys in the war for young talent / Chris Resto, Ian Ybarra and Ramit Sethi.   658.311 Re

Peak : how great companies get their mojo from Maslow / Chip Conley.   658.314 Co

The inside advantage : the strategy that unlocks the hidden growth in your business / by Robert Bloom with Dave Conti.   658.812 Bl

Authenticity : what consumers really want / James H. Gilmore, B. Joseph Pine II.   658.834 Gi

Sales blazers : 8 goal-shattering strategies from the world's top sales leaders / Mark Cook.   658.85 Co

Watch this, listen up, click here : inside the 300 billion dollar business behind the media you constantly consume / David Verklin, Bernice Kanner.   659.1 Ve

Masterful color : vibrant colored pencil paintings layer by layer / Arlene Steinberg.   741.24 St

Bill Mauldin : a life up front / Todd DePastino.   741.5092 De

Essential baby : over 20 hand knits to take your baby from first days to first steps / Debbie Bliss ; photography by Debi Treloar.   746.432 Bl

Men who knit & the dogs who love them : 30 great-looking designs for man & his best friend / Annie Modesitt & Drew Emborsky.   746.432 Mo

Kristin knits : 27 inspired designs for playing with color / Kristin Nicholas.   746.432 Ni

The knitting man(ual) : 20+ projects for guys / Kristin Spurkland ; photographs by John Valls.   746.432 Sp

Memorabilia quilts : fabulous projects with keepsakes & collectibles / Linda Causee, Rita Weiss.   746.46 Ca

Last-minute patchwork & quilted gifts / By Joelle Hoverson.   746.46 Ho

Decorating master class / Elissa Cullman, Tracey Winn Pruzan ; principal photography by Durston Saylor.   747 Cu

Kim Parker home : a life in design / photographs by Albert Vecerka.   747 Pa

On my journey now : looking at African-American history through the spirituals / Nikki Giovanni ; foreword by Arthur C. Jones.   782.253 Gi

The star machine / Jeanine Basinger.   791.43 Ba

501 movie stars / [Steven Jay Schneider, general editor.   791.43 Fi

The Buzzard : Inside WMMS and the glory days of FM rock radio : a memoir / John Gorman with Tom Feran.   791.44 Go

Grace after midnight : a memoir / Felicia Pearson and David Ritz.   791.45 Pe

God save the fan : how preening sportscasters, athletes who speak in the third person, and the occasional convicted quarterback have taken the fun out of sports (and how we can get it back) / Will Leitch, with illustrations by Jim Cooke.   796 Le

The franchise : Lebron James and the remaking of the Cleveland Cavaliers / Terry Pluto and Brian Windhorst.   796.323 Pl

Breaker boys : the NFL's greatest team and the stolen 1925 championship / David Fleming.   796.332 Fl

The Roger Federer story : quest for perfection / René Stauffer.   796.342 St

Arnie & Jack : Palmer, Nicklaus, and golf's greatest rivalry / Ian O'Connor.   796.352 Oc

Golf dads : fathers, sons, and the greatest game / Curt Sampson.   796.352 Sa

We would have played for nothing : baseball stars of the 1950s and 1960s talk about the game they loved / Fay Vincent.   796.357 Vi

The climb of my life : scaling mountains with a borrowed heart / Kelly Perkins.   796.522 Pe

From Lance to Landis : inside the American doping controversy at the Tour de France / David Walsh.   796.62 Wa

One helluva ride : how NASCAR swept the nation / Liz Clarke.   796.72 Cl

The physics of NASCAR : how to make steel + gas + rubber = speed / Diandra Leslie-Pelecky ; foreword by Ray Evernham.   796.72 Le

Becoming holyfield : a fighter's journey / Evander Holyfield with Lee Gruenfeld.   796.83 Ho

All for a few perfect waves : the audacious life and legend of rebel surfer Miki Dora / David Rensin.   797.32 Re

My guy Barbaro : a jockey's journey through love, triupmh, and heartbreak with America's favorite horse / Edgar Prado.   798.4 Pr

Miss Crandall's school for young ladies & little misses of color : poems / by Elizabeth Alexander and Marilyn Nelson ; pictures by Floyd Cooper.   811.54 ALE

Please excuse my daughter / Julie Klam.   813.6 KLA

Maya Angelou : a glorious celebration / by Marcia Ann Gillespie, Rosa Johnson Butler and Richard A. Long.   818.54 ANG

The lodger : his life on Silver Street / Charles Nicholl.   822.33 B

Becoming Shakespeare : the unlikely afterlife that turned a provincial playwright into the bard / Jack Lynch.   822.33 B

The several lives of Joseph Conrad / John Stape.   823.912 CON

Worlds at war : the 2,500-year struggle between east and west / Anthony Pagden.   909 Pa

The sixties unplugged : a kaleidoscopic history of a disorderly decade / Gerard J. DeGroot.   909.826 De

Fatal forecast : an incredible true tale of disaster and survival at sea / Michael J. Tougias.   910.9163 To

Stanley : the impossible life of Africa's greatest explorer / Tim Jeal.   910.92 Je

Cartographia : mapping civilizations / Vincent Virga and the Library of Congress ; introduction by Ronald E. Grim ; afterword by James H. Billington.   q 912 Vi

One hundred & one beautiful small towns in Mexico / Guillermo Garca Oropeza, Cristóbal García Sánchez.   917.2 Ga

Riding toward everywhere / William T. Vollmann.   917.304 Vo

The genetic strand : exploring a family history through DNA / Edward Ball.   929.1072 Ba

Aces falling : war above the trenches, 1918 / Peter Hart.   940.44 Ha

Human smoke : the beginning of World War II, the end of civilization / Nicholson Baker.   940.5311 Ba

Escape from Auschwitz / Andrei Pogozhev ; translators, Vladimir Krupnik, John Armstrong ; English text, Christopher Summerville.   940.5318 Po

The forger / Cioma Schönhaus ; with illustrations by the author ; original German version edited and with a postscript by Marion Neiss ; translated by Alan Bance.   940.5318 Sc

In the bunker with Hitler : 23 July 1944 - 29 April 1945 / Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven.   943.086 Fr

The force of destiny : a history of Italy since 1796 / Christopher Duggan.   945 Du

Murder of a Medici princess / Caroline P. Murphy.   945.51 Mu

The Russian Civil War / Evan Mawdsley.   947.0841 Ma

The Bin Ladens : an Arabian family in the American century / Steve Coll.   953.805 Co

Escape from Saddam : the incredible true story of one man's journey to freedom / Lewis Alsamari.   956.7044 Al

The man who pushed America to war : the extraordinary life, adventures and obsessions of Ahmed Chalabi / Aram Roston.   956.7044 Ro

The three trillion dollar war : the true cost of the Iraq Conflict / Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes.   956.7044 St

The translator : a tribesman's memoir of Darfur / Daoud Hari.   962.4 Ha

God in the White House : a history : how faith shaped the presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush / Randall Balmer.   973.099 Ba

Polk : the man who transformed the presidency and America / Walter R. Borneman.   973.61 Bo

Lincoln's Christianity / Michael Burkhimer.   973.7092 Bu

The conviction of Richard Nixon : the untold story of the Frost/Nixon interviews / James Reston, Jr.   973.924 Re

America : our next chapter : tough questions, straight answers / Chuck Hagel.   973.93 Ha

Bush's law : the re-making of American justice / Eric Lichtblau.   973.931 Li

Truth and consequences : special comments on the Bush administration's war on American values / Keith Olbermann.   973.931 Ol

The soiling of Old Glory : the story of a photograph that shocked America / Louis P. Masur.   974.461 Ma

Damned to eternity : the story of the man who they said caused the flood / Adam Pitluck.   977.835 Pi

In the land of the jaguar : South America and its people / Gena K. Gorrell ; illustrated by Andrej Krystoforski.   980 Go

How Starbucks saved my life : a son of privilege learns to live like everyone else / Michael Gates Gill.   B GILL

Never give in : battling cancer in the Senate / Arlen Specter ; with Frank J. Scaturro.   B SPECTER

Don't start the revolution without me! : from the Minnesota governor's mansion to the Baja outback : reflections and revisionings / by Jesse Ventura, with Dick Russell.   B VENTURA

Martin Scorsese : a biography / Vincent LoBrutto.   SCORSESE

 

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