New Books and Multimedia

by type, including title, author, and month added

(updated 4/27/08)

(Ref. = Reference - remains in library; all other books may be checked out)

(YA = Young Adult.)

 

000’s GENERALITIES

April

·         Atlantis. Don Nardo.

·         The Greenhaven encyclopedia of witchcraft.  Patricia Netzley. (Ref)

 

100’s PHILOSOPHY & PSYCHOLOGY

April

·         Witches. Stuart Kallen.

 

200’s RELIGION

April

·         Discovering God: the origins of the great religions and the evolution of belief. Rodney Stark.

·         Bhagavid Gita for modern times: secrets to attaining inner peace & harmony. Sadashiva Tirtha

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300’s SOCIAL SCIENCES

April

·         The Corporation: the pathological pursuit of profit and power.  Joel Bakan

·         Team Spirits; the Native American mascots controversy. C Richard King.

·         Domestic Revolutions; a social history of American family life. Steven Mintz.

·         A dream of freedom: the Civil Rights movement from 1954 to 1968. Diane McWorter.

·         Privacy Lost; how technology is endangering your privacy. David Holtzman.

·         Arguing Immigration: the debate over the changing face of America. Nicolaus Mills

·         Privacy on the Line: the politics of wiretapping and encryption. Whitfield Diffie.

·         Prescription and Non Prescription drugs. Paul Ruschmann.

·         Leopold and Loeb: teen killers. Andy Koopmans

·         Overtreated: why too much medicine is making us sicker and poorer.  Shannon Brownlee

·         AIDS and health issues in Africa.  LeeAnne Gelletly.

·         There is no me without you: one woman’s odyssey to rescue Africa’s children. Melissa Fay Greene.

·         Invisible girls: the truth about sexual abuse. Patti Feuereisen.

·         Abortion wars: a half century of struggle, 1950-2000. Rickie Solinger.

·         National Park Ranger: an American icon. Charles R Farabee.

·         The Murder of Emmett Till. David Aretha.

·         The Lindbergh Kidnapping. Geoffrey A Campbell.

·         The good rat: a true story.  Jimmy Breslin.

·         Massacre at Virginian Tech: disaster and survival. Richard Worth.

·         The rescue artist: a true story of art, thieves, and the hunt for a missing masterpiece.  Edward Dolnick.

·         Uniforms in Public Schools: a decade of research and debate. David L Brunsma.

·         Educational Standards.  David Hudson.

·         Qinceanera; the essential guide to planning a perfect sweet fifteen celebration. Michele Salcedo.

·         Science, Technology, and society: an encyclopedia.  Sal Restivo. (Ref)

 

 

500’s NATURAL SCIENCES & MATHEMATICS

April

·         Why don’t penguins’ feet freeze? New Scientist.

·         Krakatoa: the day the world exploded, August 27,1883. Simon Winchester.

·         The Little Ice Age: how climate made history, 1300-1850. Brian M Fagan.

·         Life in the universe. Joseph A Angelo.

·         A complete guide to Arctic wildlife. Richard Sale. (Ref)

 

600’s TECHNOLOGY

April

·         Mountains beyond mountains. Tracy Kidder.

·         Chemistry of drugs.  David E Newton.

·         Biotechnology and your health: pharmaceutical applications.  Bernice Zeldin Schacter.

·         The Duke encyclopedia of New Medicine; conventional and alternative medicine for all ages.  Tracy W Gaudet.

·         Alternative Medicine: the definitive guide.  Larry Trivieri.

·         Heart Transplants.  Nancy Hoffman.

·         Straight Talk about cosmetic surgery.  Arthur W Perry.

·         50 Aircraft that changed the world.  Ron Dick.

·         Truck: a love story.  Michael Perry.

·         Robot Spacecraft. Joseph A Angelo.

·         Barbie: the icon, them image, the ideal, and analytical interpretation of the Barbie doll in popular culture.  Kristion Noelle Weissman.

·         The encyclopedia of autism spectrum disorders. (Ref)

 

700’s THE ARTS

April

·         Superman on the couch.: what superheroes really tell us about ourselves and our society.  Danny Fingeroth.

·         The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia. Michael Gray.

·         Reality TV: remaking television culture.  Susan Murray and Laurie Ouellette.

·         The greatest basketball story ever told: the Milan miracle.  Greg Guffey.

·         The Munich Olympics. Hal Marcovitz.

·         American Shaolin: flying kicks, Buddhist monks, and the legend of iron crotch; an odyssey in the new China.  Matthew Polly.

·         Cheerleading: from tryouts to championships.  Caitlin Leffel. (YA)

 

800’s LITERATURE & RHETORIC

April

·         Mcgraw- Hill’s writing an outstanding college application essay.  Estelle M Rankin.The little book of plagiarism. Richard Posner.

·         Out of her mind:  women writing on madness.  Rebecca Shannonhouse.

·         Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut.  Kurt Vonnegut.

 

 

TWAYNE.

April

·         Slaughterhouse –Five: reforming the novel and the world.  Jerome Klinkowitz.

 

 

900’s GEOGRAPHY & HISTORY

April

·         Death March: the survivors of Bataan. Donald Knox

·         Pearl Harbor.  Don Nardo.

·         The coldest winter: America and the Korean War.  David Halberstam.

·         The long road home: a story of war and family.  Martha Raddatz.

·         The assassination of John F Kennedy. Carolyn McAuliffe.

·         Great Events from History / cumulative indexes, prehistory – 2000. Robert F Gorman. (Ref)

·         Great Events from History / The 20th Century, 1971-2000, vol. 2, 1975-1980. Robert F Gorman (Ref)

·         Great Events from History / The 20th Century, 1971-2000, vol 3.1980-1985. Robert F Gorman (Ref)

·         Great Events from History / The 20th Century, 1971-2000, vol.4, 1985-1990. Robert F Gorman. (Ref)

·         Great Events from History / The 20th Century, 1971-2000, vol.1 1971-1975. Robert F Gorman. (Ref)

·         Great Events from History/ The 20th Century, 1971-2000, vol.5 1990-1997. Robert F Gorman. (Ref)

·         Great Events from History / The 20th Century, 1971-2000, vol. 6, 1998-2000. Robert F Gorman. (Ref)

·         World War II Volume I, A-C: a student encyclopedia. Spencer C Tucker. (Ref)

·         World War II Volume II, D-K: a student encyclopedia.  Spencer C Tucker. (Ref)

·         World War II Volume III, L-R: a student encyclopedia. Spencer C Tucker. (Ref)

·         World War II Volume IV, S-Z: a student encyclopedia. Spencer C Tucker. (Ref)

·         World War II Volume V, documents: a student encyclopedia. (Ref)

·         The Presidency A to Z.  Gerhard Peters. (Ref)

·         Midway.  Richard Worth. (YA)

 

 

COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY

April

·         Fiske guide to colleges, 2008.  Edward B Fiske.

 

BIOGRAPHY

April

·         The sum of our days. Isabel Allende

·         Love me, hate me: Barry Bonds and the making of an antihero  Jeff Pearlman

·         Cleopatra: queen of ancient Egypt. Richard Worth.

·         Disguised: a war memoir. Rita La Fontaine Clercq Zubli.

·         James Dean ”dream as if you’ll live forever” Karen Clemens Warrick.

·         Jimi Hendrix: “Kiss the sky”.  Edward Willett.

·         I am Scout: the biography of Harper Lee. Charles J Shields.

·         Sound Shadows of the New World.  Ved Mehta

·         Nureyev: the life. Julie Kavanaugh.

·         The great adventure: Theodore Roosevelt and the rise of modern America. Albert Marrin.

·         Richard Wright: a biography. Debbie Levy.

 

 

 

FICTION

April

·         Does my head look big in this? Randa Abdel –Fattah.

·         Origin: a novel. Diana Abu –Jaber.

·         Don’t call me Ishmael. Michael Gerard Bauer.

·         Little Big Man: a novel. Thomas Berger.

·         Shark Girl. Kelly L Bingham.

·         Total Control. Pamela Britton.

·         Pants on Fire. Meg Cabot.

·         Old Dog. Teresa Cardenas Angulo.

·         Looking for JJ. Anne Cassidy.

·         The eyes of Van Gogh. Cathryn Clinton

·         Hold Tight.  Harlan Coben.

·         The secret agent: a simple tale. Joseph Conrad.

·         The blue star: a novel. Tony Earley.

·         Love falls.  Esther Freud.

·         The year my sister got lucky. Aimee Friedman

·         Bounce. Natasha Friend.

·         Nobody’s Princess. Esther M Friesner.

·         Stray: a novel.  Stacey Goldblatt.

·         Chasing the Jaguar. Michele Dominguez Greene.

·         The appeal.  John Grisham

·         Hail Caesar. Thu-Huong Ha.

·         A free life. Ha Jin

·         Chasing tail lights.  Patrick Jones.

·         The disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks: a novel.  E Lockhart.

·         The Spellman Files. Lisa Lutz.

·         Slot Machine.  Chris Lynch.

·         Buried. Robin Merrow MacCready.

·         Heaven looks a lot like the mall: a novel.  Wendy Mass.

·         No country for old men.  Cormac McCarthy.

·         Aurelia. Anne Osterlund.

·         7th Heaven.  James Patterson.

·         Teen, Inc. Stefan Petrucha.

·         Sealed with a kiss. Carly Phillips

·         The Commoner: a novel.  John Burnham Schwartz.

·         My swordhand is singing. Marcus Sedgwick.

·         My mother the cheerleader: a novel.  Rob Sharenow

·         Summer of night.  Dan Simmons.

·         First Shot. Walter Sorrells.

·         Crimes of the Sarahs. Kristen Tracy.

·         The Zero: a novel. Jess Walter.

·         The entertainer and the dybbuk. Sid Fleischman. (YA)

·         Something Girl. Beth Goobie. (YA)

·         Blood Brothers. S.A. Harazin. (YA)

·         Finn’s going.  Tom J Kelly. (YA)

·         A mango shaped space: a novel.  Wendy Mass. (YA)

·         Miss Spitfire: reaching Helen Keller.  Sarah Elizabeth Miller. (YA)

·         Saving Grace. Darlene Ryan. (YA)

·         The Darwin Expedition. Diane Tullson. (YA)

·         Overdrive. Eric Walters. (YA)

·         Breathless. Pam Withers. (YA)

·         Exit Point   Laura Langston. (YA)

 

 

SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY

April

·         Devlin’s Justice. Patricia Bray.

·         Iron Kissed.  Patricia Briggs.

·         Bloodsong. Melvin Burgess.

·         The sight.  David Clement-Davies.

·         Warlord.  Jennifer Fallon.

·         The goose girl.  Shannon Hale.

·         The fires of heaven.  Robert Jordan.

·         Lord of Chaos.  Robert Jordan.

·         The Shadow Rising. Robert Jordan.

·         The Execution Channel.  Ken MacLeod.

·         Mad Kestrel.  Misty Massey.

·         Blood and Memory. Fiona McIntosh.

·         Hero. Perry Moore.

·         The quest for the trilogy.: a rover novel of three adventures.  Mel Odom.

·         Horizons. Mary Rosenblum.

·         The Ancient.  R.A. Salvatore.

·         Dragon and the Herdsman. Timothy Zahn.

 

GRAPHIC NOVELS

April

·         Barefoot Gen: life after the bomb v3/ volume 3.  Keiji Nakazawa.

·         Barefoot Gen: out of the ashes.  Keiji Nakazawa.

·         Pumpkin Scissors: Imperial Army State Section III 1. Ryotaro Iwanaga.

·         Alive/ 1 The final evolution.  Tadashi Kawashima.

·         Batman: secrets. Sam Kieth.

·         Dragon Eye volume 1. Kairi Fujiyama.

·         Tokyo mew mew/ volume five. Mia Ikumi.

·         Tokyo mew mew/ volume four. Mia Ikumi

·         Tokyo mew mew/ volume one.  Mia Ikumi.

·         Tokyo mew mew/volume seven.  Mia Ikumi.

·         Tokyo mew mew/volume six.  Mia Ikumi.

·         Tokyo mew mew/volume three. Mia Ikumi.

·         King of Thorn/ volume 2. Yuji Iwahara.

·         Shekhar Kapu’s Devi/ 1 Namaha.  Siddharth Kotian.

·         Blue Beetle: shellshocked.  Keith Giffen.

·         Blue Beetle: road trip. John Rogers.

·         Kekkaishi/1. Yellow Tanabe.

 

STORY COLLECTION

April

·         Keeper of  Dreams.  Orson Scott Card.

 

 

VIDEOS/DVDs (Checkout is restricted to staff members.)

April

·         Death of a Salesman. Castle Hill productions.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL COLLECTION (Checkout is restricted to staff members.)

April

·         Booktalks and beyond: promoting great genre reads to teens.  Lucy Schall.

·         Complete copyright: an everyday guide to librarians.

 

 

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