New Fiction

Special assignments : the further adventures of Erast Fandorin / Boris Akunin ; translated by Andrew Bromfield.

Deep dish / Mary Kay Andrews.

Knowledge of hell / Antonio Lobo Antunes ; translation from the Portuguese by Clifford E. Landers.

The Jew of Home Depot and other stories / Max Apple.

Aunt Dimity, vampire hunter / Nancy Atherton.

The prodigy : a novel of suspense / by Charles Atkins.

Split estate / Charlotte Bacon.

Fathers and sins / Jo Bannister.

Sharp teeth / Toby Barlow.

The somnambulist / Jonathan Barnes.

The devil's bones / Jefferson Bass.

The soul thief / Charles Baxter.

Unknown means / Elizabeth Becka.

The ghost war / Alex Berenson.

Murder in the rue de Paradis / Cara Black.

Nazi literature in the Americas / Roberto Bolaño ; translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews.

The book of other people / edited by Zadie Smith.

St. Barts breakdown : a novel / Don Bruns.

Ragamuffin / Tobias S. Buckell.

Conception / Kalisha Buckhanon.

The devil's footprints : a novel / John Burnside.

The accident man : a novel / Tom Cain.

Johnny One-Eye : a tale of the American Revolution / Jerome Charyn.

The silver needle murder : tea shop mystery #9 / Laura Childs.

A person of interest : a novel / Susan Choi.

Shavetail : a novel / Thomas Cobb.

Turn up the heat / Jessica Conant-Park and Susan Conant.

Death in the French quarter : a Tony Boudreaux mystery / Kent Conwell.

Third strike : a Brady Coyne/J.W. Jackson mystery / Philip R. Craig and William G. Tapply.

Of all sad words / Bill Crider.

The Alpine traitor : an Emma Lord mystery / Mary Daheim.

The palace of illusions : a novel / Chitra Lekha Banerjee Divakaruni.

The poisoner of Ptah : a story of intrigue and murder set in ancient Egypt / P.C. Doherty.

Gardens of water : a novel / Alan Drew.

Final winter / Brendan DuBois.

Acacia : the war with the Mein / David Anthony Durham.

The kind one / Tom Epperson.

The understory / Pamela Erens.

Saved / Jack Falla.

Carrot cake murder : a Hannah Swenson mystery / Joanne Fluke.

Nameless night / G.M. Ford.

Souvenir : a novel / Therese Fowler.

Stalked / Brian Freeman.

Miscarriage of justice : a novel / Kip Gayden.

Kyra : a novel / Carol Gilligan.

Looking for salvation at the Dairy Queen : a novel / Susan Gregg Gilmore.

Celebutantes / Amanda Goldberg and Ruthanna Khalighi Hopper.

Dakota : a novel / Martha Grimes.

The monsters of Templeton / Lauren Groff.

Hell's Bay / James W. Hall.

Game over : a Bill Slider mystery / Cynthia Harrod-Eagles.

Pushing up daisies : a dirty business mystery / Rosemary Harris.

The outlaw demon wails / Kim Harrison.

The killing ground / Jack Higgins.

What never happens / Anne Holt ; [translated by Kari Dickson].

A garden of aloes / G. Davies Jandrey.

Deadly neighbors / Merry Jones.

Without mercy : a where are they now? mystery / Toni L. P. Kelner.

The learners : the book after The cheese monkeys / by Chip Kidd.

Killer year : stories to die for-- from the hottest new crime writers / edited by Lee Child.

Lady Macbeth : a novel / Susan Fraser King.

Remember me? / Sophie Kinsella.

The vagabond virgins / Ken Kuhlken.

Where the heart leads / Stephanie Laurens.

Betrayal : a novel / John Lescroart.

The pajama girls of Lambert Square / Rosina Lippi.

A secret inheritance / Elizabeth Lord.

The blood ballad / Rett MacPherson.

The chocolate lovers' club / Carole Matthews.

The killing room / Peter May.

The gateway : stories / T.M. McNally.

Fast track / Fern Michaels.

Water : nine stories / Alyce Miller ; selected by Norman Rush.

Dangerous laughter : thirteen stories / Steven Millhauser.

Shades of blue / Bill Moody.

The octopus on my head / Jim Nisbet.

Chances / Paula Nowak.

The first patient / Michael Palmer.

Capote in Kansas : a ghost story / Kim Powers.

Strangers in death / J.D. Robb.

Friend of the devil / Peter Robinson.

Lady killer / Lisa Scottoline.

Breathless in Bombay : stories / Murzban F. Shroff.

The lost city / Henry Shukman.

Standing still / Kelly Simmons.

Daughter of York / Anne Easter Smith.

A rose for the crown / Anne Easter Smith.

A particular circumstance / Shirley Smith.

Honor thyself / Danielle Steel.

Vienna blood : a novel / Frank Tallis.

An Irish country village / Patrick Taylor.

Curse of Al Capone's gold / Mike Thompson.

A fraction of the whole / Steve Toltz.

Desert cut : a Lena Jones mystery / Betty Webb.

The spa / Fay Weldon.

Captivity / Debbie Lee Wesselmann.

John : a novel / Niall Williams.

The seduction of the crimson rose / Lauren Willig.

Before Green Gables / Budge Wilson.

An incomplete revenge : a Maisie Dobbs novel / Jacqueline Winspear.

The rose of York : fall from grace / Sandra Worth.

Lady of the roses / Sandra Worth.

New Non-Fiction

100 best books for children / Anita Silvey.   011.62 Si

Free for all : oddballs, geeks, and gangstas in the public library / Don Borchert.   020.92 Bo

Heart of the community : the libraries we love : treasured libraries of the United States and Canada / edited by Karen Christensen and David Levinson ; with Leslie Burger ... [et al.]   027.473 He

Glamour, interrupted : how I became the best-dressed patient in Hollywood / Steven Cojocaru.   070.92 Co

American transcendentalism : a history / Philip F. Gura.   141.3 Gu

The church of 80% sincerity / David Roche ; [foreword by Anne Lamott].   155.916 Ro

The secret pulse of time : making sense of life's scarcest commodity / Stefan Klein ; translated by Shelley Frisch.   158 Kl

You don't have to be wrong for me to be right : finding faith without fanaticism / Brad Hirschfield.   201.5 Hi

The two Marys : the hidden history of the mother and wife of Jesus / Sylvia Browne.   232.91 Br

From my heart to yours : life lessons on faith, family, & friendship / Robin McGraw.   248.843 Mc

Unchristian : what a new generation really thinks about Christianity ... and why it matters / David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons.   277.3083 Ki

Against the machine : being human in the age of the electronic mob / Lee Siegel.   303.4834 Si

Atlas of human migration / editor-in-chief Russell King.   304.82 At

America unzipped : in search of sex and satisfaction / Brian Alexander.  306.77 Al

Liberal fascism : the secret history of the American left, from Mussolini to the politics of meaning / Jonah Goldberg.   320.533 Go

Real change : from the world that fails to the world that works / Newt Gingrich.   320.6 Gi

The spirit of democracy : the struggle to build free societies throughout the world / Larry Diamond.   321.8 Di

The party faithful : how and why Democrats are closing the God gap / Amy Sullivan.   324.2736 Su

Campaigning for president / Jordan M. Wright.   324.973 Wr

Memo to the President elect : how we can restore America's reputation and leadership / Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward.   327.73 Al

Wealth, war and wisdom / Barton M. Biggs.   332.609 Bi

Thrillcraft : the environmental consequences of motorized recreation / edited by George Wuerthner.   q 333.72 Th

Blue covenant : the global water crisis and the coming battle for the right to water / Maude Barlow.   333.9115 Ba

The last flight of the scarlet macaw : one woman's fight to save the world's most beautiful bird / Bruce Barcott.   333.95 Ba

The cigarette century : the rise, fall, and deadly persistence of the product that defined America / Allan M. Brandt.   338.476 Br

The small-mart revolution : how local businesses are beating the global competition / Michael H. Shuman.   338.642 Sh

Creating a world without poverty : social business and the future of capitalism / Muhammad Yunus with Karl Weber.   338.7 Yu

Con$umed : how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole / Benjamin R. Barber.   339.47 Ba

Unruly Americans and the origins of the Constitution / Woody Holton.   342.73 Ho

Beyond (straight and gay) marriage : valuing all families under the law / Nancy D. Polikoff.   346.016 Po

See you in court : how the Right made America a lawsuit nation / Thomas Geoghegan.   347.73 Ge

The FBI : a history / Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones.   363.25 Je

Covert : my years infiltrating the Mob / Bob Delaney, with Dave Scheiber ; foreword by Bill Walton.   364.106 De

Entering Hades : the double life of a serial killer / John Leake.   364.1523 Le

Until proven innocent : political correctness and the shameful injustices of the Duke lacrosse rape case / Stuart Taylor, Jr. and K.C. Johnson.   364.1532 Ta

Nell Hill's stylish weddings / Mary Carol Garrity ; written by Micki Chestnut with Michael J. Nolte.   395.22 Ga

Treasure-house of the language : the living OED / Charlotte Brewer.   423 Br

New theories of everything : the quest for ultimate explanation / John D. Barrow.   501 Ba

The Jewel house : Elizabethan London and the scientific revolution / Deborah E. Harkness.   509.4 Ha

Nets, puzzles, and postmen / Peter M. Higgins.   510 Hi

Chases and escapes : the mathematics of pursuit and evasion / Paul J. Nahin.   519.3 Na

Planets, stars, and galaxies : a visual encyclopedia of our universe / written and illustrated by David A. Aguilar ; contributing writers, Christine Pulliam & Patricia Daniels.   520 Ag

The history of astronomy / Heather Couper & Nigel Henbest ; foreword by Arthur C. Clarke.   520.9 Co

Physics for entertainment / Yakov Perelman.   530.01 Pe

The void / Frank Close.   530.1 Cl

The mystery of the missing antimatter / Helen R. Quinn and Yossi Nir ;illustrations by Rutu Modan.   539.7 Qu

Why the sky is blue : discovering the color of life / Götz Hoeppe ; translated with John Stewart.   551.566 Ho

Big Bone lick : the cradle of American paleontology / Stanley Hedeen ; foreword by John Mack Faragher.   560.9769 He

Elizabeth Blackburn and the story of telomeres : deciphering the ends of DNA / Catherine Brady.   572.092 Br

The animal dialogues : uncommon encounters in the wild / Craig Childs.   590 Ch

The most important fish in the sea : menhaden and America / H. Bruce Franklin.   597.45 Fr

Birds in love : [the secret courting & mating rituals of extraordinary birds] / Jean Léveillé.   598.156 Le

Listening to cougar / Marc Bekoff and Cara Blessley Lowe, editors.   599.7524 Li

The last wild wolves : ghosts of the rain forest / Ian McAllister ; with contributions by Chris Darimont ; introduction by Paul C. Paquet.   599.773 Mc

Your inner fish : a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body / Neil Shubin.   611 Sh

Snake oil science : the truth about complementary and alternative medicine / by R. Barker Bausell.   615.5 Sn

Gluten-free girl : how I found the food that loves me back-- & how you can, too / Shauna James Ahern.   615.854 Ah

Strong at the broken places : voices of illness, a chorus of hope / Richard M. Cohen.   616.044 Co

The autoimmune epidemic : bodies gone haywire in a world out of balance-- and the cutting-edge science that promises hope / Donna Jackson Nakazawa.   616.978 Na

The telephone gambit : chasing Alexander Graham Bell's secret / Seth Shulman.   621.385 Sh

Coleus : rainbow foliage for containers and gardens / Ray Rogers ; photographs by Richard Hartlage.   635.9339 Ro

The tenth muse : my life in food / Judith Jones.   641.5092 Jo

Trail of crumbs : hunger, love, and the search for home : a memoir / Kim Sunée.   641.5092 Su

Jewish holiday cooking : a food lover's classics and improvisations / Jayne Cohen.   641.5676 Co

My Bombay kitchen : traditional and modern Parsi home cooking / Niloufer Ichaporia King ; foreword by Alice Waters.   641.5954

Pillsbury best of the bake-off cookies & bars.   641.8654 Pi

Style A to Zoe : the art of fashion, beauty, & everything glamour / Rachel Zoe with Rose Apodaca ; illustrations by Blanca Apodaca ; original photography by Donato Sardella.   646.34 Zo

The 4-hour workweek : escape 9-5, live anywhere, and join the new rich / Timothy Ferriss.   650.1 Fe

Dare to prepare : how to win before you begin / Ronald M. Shapiro with Gregory Jordan.   658.4012 Sh

Ignited : managers! light up your company and career for more power, more purpose, and more success / Vince Thompson.   658.409 Th

Garden paths & stepping stones / Tara Dillard.   712.6 Di

Hacienda courtyards / Karen Witynski, Joe P. Carr ; photography by Karen Witynski.   712.6 Wi

Buildings for tomorrow : architecture that changed our world / Paul Cattermole.   721.044 Ca

Get your house right : architectural elements to use & avoid / Marianne Cusato & Ben Pentreath ; with Richard Sammons & Leon Crier ; foreword by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales ; in association with The Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America.   728 Cu

Small bungalows / Christian Gladu ; photography by Ross Chandler.   728.373 Gl

Origami jewelry : more than 40 exquisite designs to fold and wear / by Ayako Brodek.   736.892 Br

The complete guide to painting on porcelain & ceramic / Priscilla Hauser.   738.15 Ha

Found art mosaics / Suzan Germond.   738.5 Ge

Silver curios in the home / Dorothy T. Rainwater and Beryl Frank.   739.23 Ra

New directions in metal clay : 25 creative jewelry projects / CeCe Wire.   739.27 Wi

A lifetime of secrets : a PostSecret book / Frank Warren.   741.683 Wa

Design : intelligence made visible / Stephen Bayley & Terence Conran.   745 Ba

A gardener's book of homemade gifts : how to grow and make delightful presents for and from the garden / Stephanie Donaldson.   745.5 Do

200 creative crafts for you & your home / edited by Megan Hiller.   745.5 Tw

Country living crafting a business : make money doing what you love / Kathie Fitzgerald.   745.5068 Fi

Big book of papercrafts : 40 stunning projects / Vivienne Bolton.   745.54 Bo

Painted paper : techniques & projects for handmade books & cards / Alisa Golden ; photographs by Sibila Savage.   745.54 Go

Papier-mâché treasures with Teena Flanner : creating your own vintage-style collectibles.   745.542 Fl

French-inspired jewelry : creating with vintage beads, buttons & baubles / Kaari Meng.   745.582 Me

Scrapbooking / Helen Bradley.   745.593 Br

Vintage pop-up cards : making your own timeless treasures / by Taylor Hagerty.   745.5941 Ha

Handmade greeting cards for special occasions : step-by-step techniques & 30 original creative projects to make / Amanda Hancocks.   745.5941 Ha

Love notes : 40 exquisite handmade cards to express your love / edited by Jan Stephenson & Amy Appleyard.   745.5941 Lo

The art of floral arranging : learning from the master florists at Flowerschool New York / Eileen W. Johnson ; photographs by Brie Williams.   745.92 Jo

Lacy little knits : clingy, soft & a little risque / Iris Schreier.   746.432 Sc

Crochet inspiration / Sasha Kagan.   746.434 Ka

Jewelry with a hook : crocheted fiber necklaces, bracelets, & more / Terry Taylor.   746.434 Ta

Piecing the piece o' cake way : 15 skill-building projects / 27 quilts, today's guide to quilting basics, color choices made easy / Becky Goldsmith and Linda Jenkins.   746.46 Go

The yarn lovers guide to hand dyeing : beautiful color and simple knits / Linda La Belle ; photography by Donna Alberico, Kristin Duvall, Linda LaBelle.   746.6 La

Camouflage / Tim Newark ; introduction by Jonathan Miller.   746.92 Ne

Mastering composition : techniques and principles to dramatically improve your painting / Ian Roberts.   751.4 Ro

A celebration of light : painting the textures of light in watercolor / Jane Freeman.   751.422 Fe

Understanding color : creative techniques in watercolor / Marcia Moses.   751.422 Mo

Painting acrylic flowers A-Z : an illustrated directory of techniques for painting 40 popular flowers / Lexi Sundell.   751.426 Su

Your home, a living canvas / Curtis L. Heuser.   751.73 He

George Bellows : an artist in action / Mary Sayre Haverstock.   759.13 BEL

Color as field : American painting, 1950-1975 / Karen Wilkin ; with an essay by Carl Belz.   759.1309 Wi

Michelangelo / Hugo Chapman.   759.5 MIC

Ansel Adams : 400 photographs / edited by Andrea G. Stillman.   770.92 ADA

Rock and roll / by Lynn Goldsmith ; foreword by Iggy Pop.   q 779.092 Go

Legends of pop / Derek Caney.   781.63 Ca

The Billboard illustrated encyclopedia of country music / general editor Tony Byworth ; foreward by Jack Clement.   781.642 Bi

Rock & roll heaven / Robert Dimery & Bruno MacDonald.   781.66 Di

Legends of rock / Marjorie Galen and Gordon Matthews.   781.66 Ga

The rockabilly legends : they called it rockabilly long before they called it rock and roll / Jerry Naylor and Steve Halliday.   781.66 Na

Van Halen : a visual history, 1978-1984 / by Neil Zlozower ; foreword by David Lee Roth.   781.66 Zl

The sound of music companion / Laurence Maslon ; [with a foreword by Andrew Lloyd Webber].   782.14 Ma

Grand obsession : a piano odyssey / Perri Knize.   786.2092 Kn

Audrey Hepburn : a life in pictures / edited by Yann-Brice Dherbier.   791.43 Au

Conversations with Woody Allen : his films, the movies, and moviemaking / Eric Lax.   791.43 La

Sit, Ubu, sit : how I went from Brooklyn to Hollywood with the same woman, the same dog, and a lot less hair / Gary David Goldberg.   791.45 Go

Magical illusions, conjuring tricks, amazing puzzles & stunning stunts / Nicholas Einhorn.   793.8 Ei

Carlisle vs. Army : Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the forgotten story of football's greatest battle / Lars Anderson.   796.332 An

Classics for pleasure / Michael Dirda.   809 Di

Secret ingredients : the New Yorker book of food and drink / edited by David Remnick.   809.9335 Se

Valentines / Ted Kooser ; with a introduction by the poet ; illustrated by Robert Hanna.   811.54 KOO

Everything I needed to know about being a girl I learned from Judy Blume / edited by Jennifer O'Connell.   813.54 EVE

The Sweet Potato Queens' guide to raising children for fun and profit / by Jill Conner Browne.   818.54 BRO

The poets corner : the one-and-only poetry book for the whole family / [selected by] John Lithgow.   821.008 Po

Our secret discipline : Yeats and lyric form / Helen Vendler.   821.8 YEA

Shakespeare unbound : decoding a hidden life / René Weis.   822.33 B

Arthur Conan Doyle : a life in letters / edited by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower & Charles Foley.   823.8 DOY

Slicing the silence : voyaging to Antarctica / Tom Griffiths.   919.89 Gr

Into the tunnel : the brief life of Marion Samuel, 1931-1943 / Götz Aly ; translated by Ann Millin.   940.5318 Al

64735 : from a name to a number : a Holocaust survivor's autobiography / Alter Wiener.   940.5318 Wi

Endgame, 1945 : the missing final chapter of World War II / David Stafford.   940.5421 St

The great Partition : the making of India and Pakistan / Yasmin Khan.   954.04 Kh

The elephant, the tiger, and the cell phone : reflections on India, the emerging 21st-century power / Shashi Tharoor.   954.053 Th

Nepal : Kathmandu Valley, Chitwan, Annapurna, Mustang, Everest / Richard L'Anson ; foreword by Peter Hillary.   954.96 La

President Lincoln : the duty of a statesman / by William Lee Miller.   973.7092 Mi

The Teapot Dome Scandal : how big oil bought the Harding White House and tried to steal the country / Laton McCartney.   973.914 Mc

Listening is an act of love : a celebration of American life from the StoryCorps Project / edited and with an introduction by Dave Isay.   973.92 Li

The Kennedys : portrait of a family / Shannon Thomas Perich ; foreword by Robert Dallek.   973.922 Pe

The Bush tragedy / Jacob Weisberg.   973.931 We

Baldwin's Harlem : a biography of James Baldwin / by Herb Boyd.   B BALDWIN

Fidel Castro : my life : a spoken autobiography / Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet ; translated by Andrew Hurley.   B CASTRO

Someday my prince will come : adventures of a wannabe princess / by Jerramy Sage Fine.   B FINE

Same kind of different as me / Ron Hall and Denver Moore ; with Lynn Vincent.   B HALL

John F. Kennedy Jr. : a life in pictures / by Yann-Brice Dherbier & Pierre-Henri Verlhac.   B KENNEDY

Madonna : like an icon / Lucy O'Brien.   B MADONNA

Tearing down the wall of sound : the rise and fall of Phil Spector / Mick Brown.   B SPECTOR

Send yourself roses : thoughts on my life, love, and leading roles / Kathleen Turner in collaboration with Gloria Feldt.   B TURNER

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