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Morley Library
New Books

January 2, 2008


New Fiction

Metal swarm / Kevin J. Anderson.

Egrets to the flames / Barbara Anton.

Strange blood : a crime novel / Lindsay Jayne Ashford.

The steep approach to Garbadale / Iain Banks.

Zugzwang : a novel / Ronan Bennett.

The Venetian betrayal : a novel / Steve Berry.

The best dog stories / edited by Paul D. Staudohar.

A long and winding road : a novel of the mountain men / Win Blevins.

Antediluvian tales / Poppy Z. Brite.

Evening star / Carolyn Brown.

Almost Graceland / Steve Carlson.

Mountains painted with turmeric : a novel / Lil Bahadur Chettri.

Chicago blues / edited by Libby Fischer Hellman.

Hidden Moon : an Inspector O novel / James Church.

Runoff / Mark Coggins.

The graving dock / Gabriel Cohen.

Jazz & twelve o'clock tales : new stories / Wanda Coleman.

Dead man's hand : crime fiction at the poker table / edited by Otto Penzler.

From the depths / Gerry Doyle.

Deadly shoals / Joan Druett.

Twilight / Brendan DuBois.

Cobweb / Margaret Duffy.

Garcia's heart / Liam Durcan.

The farther shore / Matthew Eck.

Souls of angels : a novel / Thomas Eidson.

Into hot air : mounting Mount Everest / Chris Elliott ; illustrations by Amy Elliott Andersen.

The good thief's guide to Amsterdam / Chris Ewan.

Light fell / Evan Fallenberg.

The heroines : a novel / Eileen Favorite.

The honorable Marksley / Sherry Lynn Ferguson.

Knitting bones / Monica Ferris.

A blind eye / G.M. Ford.

Stardust : being a romance within the realms of faerie / story by Neil Gaiman.

Shadow music : a novel / Julie Garwood.

The victory gardens of Brooklyn : a novel / Merrill Joan Gerber.

Swan Island / Elizabeth Gill.

Still life with devils : a novel / Deborah Grabien.

Mr. Knightley's diary / Amanda Grange.

Dark Lord / Ed Greenwood.

Goodbye, she lied : an Esbeth Walters mystery / Russ Hall.

Ruby Tuesday : an Eddie Dancer mystery / Mike Harrison.

Mortal groove / Ellen Hart.

Precious blood / Jonathan Hayes.

Broken heartland : a Mad Dog & Englishman mystery / J.M. Hayes.

Someone knows my name / Lawrence Hill.

The man who killed Shakespeare / Ken Hodgson.

The contractor / Charles Holdefer.

Blood dreams / Kay Hooper.

Cupid's web / Carolyn Hughey.

Redemption / Lee Jackson.

Hand of evil / by J.A. Jance.

Rivalry : a geisha's tale / Nagai Kafu ; translated by Stephen Snyder.

Cache of corpses / Henry Kisor.

The living = Les vivants / Pascale Kramer ; translated by Tamsin Black.

Salamander cotton / Richard Kunzmann.

Chillwater Cove / Thomas Lakeman.

Down into darkness : a Detective Stella Mooney novel / David Lawrence.

Deadfall / Robert Liparulo.

Maiden Rock / by Mary Logue.

In for a pound : a novel by / Richard Marinick.

The critic / Peter May.

Them : a novel / Nathan McCall.

Symphony / Jude Morgan.

Thirteen / Richard K. Morgan.

Rumpole misbehaves / John Mortimer.

Tom Wasp and the murdered stunner / Amy Myers.

The redbreast / Jo Nesbo ; translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett.

The empanada brotherhood : a novel / John Nichols.

Dark aura / Diana O'Hehir.

Gods behaving badly : a novel / Marie Phillips.

The Muscovy chain / John Pilkington.

Learning to drive : and other life stories / Katha Pollitt.

Korea Strait / David Poyer.

Last call / James Grippando.

Pushcart prize XXXII : best of the small presses, 2008 / edited by Bill Henderson with the Pushcart prize editors.

Luck be a lady, don't die / Robert J. Randisi.

A darkling plain : a novel / by Philip Reeve.

The remains of an altar / Phil Rickman.

SPQR XI : under Vesuvius / John Maddox Roberts.

Twisted sister : sisters of sin / Natalie M. Roberts.

Two in the churchyard lie : a Harry Brock mystery / Kinley Roby.

Deadly waters / Pauline Rowson.

Person of interest / Theresa Schwegel.

Mausoleum / Justin Scott.

Barter Island / Peter Scott.

Cries and whiskers / Clea Simon.

Justice is served / Linda Sole.

Long shadows / Rowena Summers.

The reunion / Janet Tanner.

The late Hector Kipling / David Thewlis.

Academy X : a novel / by Andrew Trees.

Farewell, Shanghai : a novel / Angel Wagenstein ; translated by Elizabeth Frank and Deliana Simeonova.

Safe return home / Elizabeth Waite.

The seventh well / Fred Wander ; translated by Michael Hofmann.

Without warning / Eugenia Lovett West.

Soldier on the porch / Sharon Wildwind.

Pirate freedom / Gene Wolfe.

The coal gatherer / Janet Woods.

Red mandarin dress / Qiu Xiaolong

 

New Non-Fiction

What is emotion? : history, measures, and meanings / Jerome Kagan.   152.4 Ka

Practical intelligence : the art and science of common sense / Karl Albrecht.   153.9 Al

The passion test : the effortless path to discovering your destiny / Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood.   158.1 At

The message : 100 life lessons from hip-hop's greatest songs / Felicia Pride.   158.1 Pr

Trust rules : how to tell the good guys from the bad guys in work and life / Linda K. Stroh ; foreword by Norm Blake.   158.2 St

To die well : your right to comfort, calm and choice in the last days of life / Sidney H. Wanzer, Joseph Glenmullen.   179.7 Wa

Thank you power : making the science of gratitude work for you / Deborah Norville.    179.9 No

The art of simplicity : a simple guide to focusing on the essentials of the heart / Candy Paull.   179.9 Pa

The Bible : a biography / Karen Armstrong.   220.09 Ar

The scandalous Gospel of Jesus : what's so good about the good news? / Peter J. Gomes.   226.06 Go

Sister Wendy on prayer / Wendy Beckett ; biographical introduction by David Willcock.   248.32 Be

Pilgrims of Christ on the Muslim Road : exploring a new path between two faiths / Paul-Gordon Chandler.   261.27 Ch

The heirs of Muhammad : Islam's first century and the origins of the Sunni-Shia split / Barnaby Rogerson.   297.09 Ro

Nanny state : how food fascists, teetotaling do-gooders, priggish moralists, and other boneheaded bureaucrats are turning America into a nation of children / David Harsanyi.   303.36 Ha

The boomer century, 1946-2046 : how America's most influential generation changed everything / Richard Croker and Alexandria Productions ; foreword by Ken Dychtwald.   305.24 Cr

Race : a history beyond black and white / Marc Aronson.   305.8 Ar

Slave ship : a human history / Marcus Rediker.   306.362 Re

Black mass : apocalyptic religion and the death of utopia / John Gray.   321.07 Gr

Bill of wrongs : the executive branch's assault on America's fundamental rights / Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose.   323.49 Iv

Independents day : awakening the American spirit / Lou Dobbs.   323.65 Do

You can lead a politician to water, but you can't make him think : ten commandments for Texas politics / Kinky Friedman.   324.9764 Fr

The squandering of America : how the failure of our politics undermines our prosperity / by Robert Kuttner.   330.973 Ku

Lifelines for money misfortunes : how to overcome life's greatest challenges / Stephen M. Poll, Mark Levine.   332.024 Po

Grow your money! : 101 easy-to-use tips to plan, save, and invest / Jonathan D. Pond.   332.024 Po

Leading by example : how we can inspire an energy and security revolution / Bill Richardson.   333.79 Ri

Life in the valley of death : the fight to save tigers in a land of guns, gold, and greed / Alan Rabinowitz.   333.9597 Ra

Broken buildings, busted budgets : how to fix America's trillion-dollar construction industry / Barry B. LePatner, with Timothy Jacobson and Robert E. Wright.   338.476 Le

How Toyota became #1 : leadership lessons from the world's greatest car company / David Magee.   338.762 Ma

The genius of America : how the Constitution saved our country-- and why it can again / Eric Lane and Michael Oreskes.   342.73 La

Trump University asset protection 101 : tax and legal strategies of the rich / J. J. Childers.   343.0523 Ch

Trying Leviathan : the nineteenth-century New York court case that put the whale on trial and challenged the order of nature / D. Graham Burnett.   344.095 Bu

Warriors in uniform / Herman J. Viola ; foreword by Carson Walks Over Ice.   355.0089 Vi

Courage under fire : profiles in bravery from the battlefields of the Civil War / Wiley Sword.   355.0092 Sw  

Army 101 : inside ROTC in a time of war / David Axe.   355.223 Ax

Beyond hell and back : how America's Special Operations Forces became the world's greatest fighting unit / Dwight Jon Zimmerman and John D. Gresham.   356.16 Zi

Less safe, less free : why America is losing the War on Terror / David Cole and Jules Lobel.   363.325 Co

On the courthouse lawn : confronting the legacy of lynching in the twenty-first century / Sherrilyn A. Ifill.   364.134 If

Off mike : a memoir of talk radio and literary life / Michael Krasny.   384.5409 Kr

The Great Lakes : the natural history of a changing region / Wayne Grady ; principal photography by Bruce Litteljohn ; illustrations by Emily S. Damstra.   508.77 Gr

The science of Leonardo : inside the mind of the great genius of the Renaissance / Fritjof Capra.   509.2 Ca

The Archimedes codex : how a medieval prayer book is revealing the true genius of antiquity's greatest scientist / Reviel Netz and William Noel.   510.9 Ne

Benjamin Franklin's numbers : an unsung mathematical odyssey / Paul C. Pasles.   510.92 Pa

The Pythagorean theorem : a 4,000-year history / Eli Maor.   516.22

James Van Allen : the first eight billion miles / Abigail Foerstner.   520.92 Fo

Super volcano : the ticking time bomb beneath Yellowstone National Park / Greg Breining.   551.21 Br

After the dinosaurs : the age of mammals / Donald R. Prothero.   569 Pr

A guinea pig's history of biology / Jim Endersby.   576.509 En

Evolution : what the fossils say and why it matters / Donald R. Prothero ; with original illustrations by Carl Buell.   576.8 Pr

Golden wings and hairy toes : encounters with New England's most imperiled wildlife / Todd McLeish.   578.68 Mc

American chestnut : the life, death, and rebirth of a perfect tree / Susan Freinkel.   583.46 Fr

Watching : encounters with humans and other animals / Desmond Morris.   590.92 Mo

Built by animals : the natural history of animal architecture / Mike Hansell.   591.564 Ha

Enjoying hummingbirds : in the wild & in your yard / Larry and Terrie Gates.   598.764 Ga

Bears : a brief history / Bernd Brunner ; translated from the German by Lori Lantz.   599.78 Br

Stop prediabetes now : the ultimate plan to lose weight and prevent diabetes / Jack Challem, Ron Hunninghake.   616.462 Ch

Good germs, bad germs : health and survival in a bacterial world / Jessica Snyder Sachs.   616.9 Sa

The nuclear jihadist : the true story of the man who sold the world's most dangerous secrets-- and how we could have stopped him / Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins.   623.45119 Fr

Viburnums : flowering shrubs for every season / Michael A. Dirr ; illustrations by Bonnie L. Dirr.   635.9339 Di

Rescuing Sprite : a dog lover's story of joy and anguish / Mark R. Levin.   636.7 Le

Be the pack leader : use Cesar's way to transform your dog-- and your life / Cesar Millan with Melissa Jo Peltier.   636.708 Mi

The taste of conquest : the rise and fall of the three great cities of spice / Michael Krondl.   641.3383 Kr

How to pick a peach : the search for flavor from farm to table / Russ Parsons.   641.35 Pa

Cook with Jamie : my guide to making you a better cook / Jamie Oliver ; photography, David Loftus and Chris Terry.   641.5 Ol

The elements of cooking : translating the chef's craft for every kitchen / by Michael Ruhlman.   641.5 Ru

Made from scratch : a memoir / Sandra Lee.   641.5092 Le

Skinny bitch in the kitch : kick-ass recipes for hungry girls who want to stop cooking crap (and start looking hot!) / by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin.   641.563 Fr

Vegetarian cooking for everyone / Deborah Madison.   641.5636 Ma

Better Homes and Gardens the ultimate cookie book.   641.8654 Be

Alternation : transform, embellish, customize / Shannon Okey & Alexandra Underhill.   646.404 Ok

How : why how do we do anything means everything-- in business (and in life) / Dov Seidman.   650.1 Se

What men don't tell women about business : opening up the heavily guarded alpha male playbook / Christopher V. Flett.   650.1082 Fl

Fearless negotiating : the wish-want-walk method to reach solutions that work / by Michael C. Donaldson.   658.4052 Do

Be unreasonable : the unconventional way to extraordinary business results / Paul Lemberg.   658.409 Le

The exceptional presenter : a proven formula to open up! and own the room / Timothy J. Koegel.   658.452 Ko

Karma queens, geek gods & innerpreneurs : meet the 9 consumer types shaping today's marketplace / Ron Rentel ; with Joe Zellnik.   658.834 Re

Modernism : the lure of heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and beyond / Peter Gay.   700.9034 Ga

Rescuing da Vinci : Hitler and the Nazis stole Europe's great art : America and her allies recovered it / Robert M. Edsel ; forewords by Lynn H. Nicholas and Edmund P. Pillsbury.   709.043 Ed

A passion for jewelry : secrets to collecting and caring for your jewelry / Laura Fronty ; photographs by Yves Duronsoy.   739.27 Fr

Nifty knits for kids : fun wearables for kids on the go / by Catherine Ham.   746.432 Ha

Cecilia Beaux : American figure painter / Sylvia Yount ... [et al.].   759.13 BEA

Pissarro : creating the impressionist landscape / Katherine Rothkopf ; essay by Christopher Lloyd ; contributions by Gürlu Çakmak and Mary Sebera.   759.4 PIS

Musicophilia : tales of music and the brain / Oliver Sacks.   781.11 Sa

Nashville portraits : legends of country music : sixty portraits / by Jim McGuire introduction by William R. Ferris ; quotes and iterviews edited by Richard Carlin.   781.642 Mc

The paths we choose : a memoir / Sully Erna.   781.66 Er

Born in a small town : John Mellencamp : the story / by Heather Johnson.   781.66 Jo

Prince : a thief in the temple / Brian Morton.   781.66 Mo

The heroin diaries : a year in the life of a shattered rock star / Nikki Sixx with Ian Gittins.   781.66 Si

A history of American classical music / by Barrymore Laurence Scherer.   781.68 Sc

Lost genius : the curious and tragic story of an extraordinary musical prodigy / Kevin Bazzana.   786.2092 Ba

My boring-ass life : the uncomfortably candid diary of Kevin Smith.   791.4302 Sm

Hollywood science : movies, science, and the end of the world / Sidney Perkowitz.   791.436 Pe

Inside Inside / James Lipton.   791.45 Li

Sayers : my life and times / Gale Sayers with Fred Mitchell.   796.332 Sa

The match : the day the game of golf changed forever / Mark Frost.   796.352 Fr

Preferred lies : a journey into the heart of Scottish golf / Andrew Greig.   796.352 Gr

Connie Mack and the early years of baseball / Norman L. Macht ; with a foreword by Connie Mack III.   796.357 Ma

My view from the corner : a life in boxing / Angelo Dundee with Bert Randolph Sugar.   796.83 Du

Standing eight : the inspiring story of Jesus "El Matador" Chavez, who became lightweight champion of the world / Adam Pitluk.   796.83 Pi

A family Christmas / selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy ; illustrated by Jon J Muth and Laura Hartman Maestro.   808.8 Fa

Women who write / Stafan Bollmann ; foreword by Francine Prose ; [translated by Helen Atkins].   809.8928 Bo

Elegy : poems / by Mary Jo Bang.   811.54 BAN

The dog says how / Kevin Kling.   812.54 KLI

Anne McCaffrey : a life with dragons / Robin Roberts.   813.54 MCC

Turning back the clock : hot wars and media populism / Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen.   854.914 ECO

Rome and Jerusalem : the clash of ancient civilizations / Martin Goodman.   933.05 Go

Diary of a witness : 1940-1943 / Raymond-Raoul Lambert ; translated from the French by Isabel Best ; edited with an introduction by Richard I. Cohen.   940.5318 La

Edward VI : the lost King of England / Chris Skidmore.   942.053 Sk

Weimar Germany : promise and tragedy / Eric D. Weitz.   943.085 We

Napoleon's master : a life of prince Talleyrand / David Lawday.   944.05 La

Zhou Enlai : the last perfect revolutionary : a biography / Gao Wenqian ; translated by Peter Rand and Lawrence R. Sullivan.   951.05 Ga

Taiwan's statesman : Lee Teng-Hui and democracy in Asia / Richard C. Kagan.   951.249 Ka

The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears / Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green.   970.3 CHE

United States : an illustrated history / by Ron Fisher.   973 Fi

The president's table : two hundred years of dining and diplomacy / Barry H. Landau.   973.099 La

The case of Abraham Lincoln : a story of adultery, murder, and the making of a great president / Julie M. Fenster.   973.7092 Fe

The radical and the Republican : Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the triumph of antislavery politics / James Oakes.   973.7114 Oa

An inconvenient book : real solutions to the world's biggest problems / written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe ; writers Steve "Stu" Burguiere ... [et al.] ; contributors Carol Lynne ... [et al.] ; illustrations Paul Nunn.   973.92 Be

Brothers : the hidden history of the Kennedy years / David Talbot.   973.922 Ta

Takeover : the return of the imperial presidency and the subversion of American democracy / Charlie Savage.   973.931 Sa

The fall of the house of Bush : the untold story of how a band of true believers seized the executive branch, started the Iraq War, and still imperils America's future / Craig Unger.   973.931 Un

Hugo Chávez / Cristina Marcano and Alberto Barrera Tyszka ; translated by Kristina Cordero ; introduction by Moisés Naím.   B CHAVEZ

King of the club : Richard Grasso and the survival of the New York Stock Exchange / Charles Gasparino.   B GRASSO

Steve & me / Terri Irwin.   B IRWIN

The man who was Rip van Winkle : Joseph Jefferson and nineteenth-century American theatre / Benjamin McArthur.   B JEFFERSON

The courage to survive / by Dennis J. Kucinich.   B KUCINICH

Richard M. Nixon : a life in full / Conrad Black.   B NIXON

A boy named Shel : the life and times of Shel Silverstein / Lisa Rogak.   B SILVERSTEIN

David Suzuki : the autobiography.   B SUZUKI

Gonzo : the life of Hunter S. Thompson : an oral biography / by Jann Wenner and Corey   Seymour ; introduction by Johnny Depp.   B THOMPSON

The many lives of Tom Waits / Patrick Humphries.   B WAITS

 

 

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