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Highlights of Recent New Books
| Author |
Title |
Call Number |
| Bauerlein, Mark. |
The dumbest generation: how the digital age stupefies young Americans and jeopardizes our future. |
302.23 B344d 2008 |
| Benfey, Christopher. |
A summer of hummingbirds: love, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, & Martin Johnson Heade. |
811.4 B465s 2008 |
| Bernstein, William J. |
A splendid exchange: how trade shaped the world. |
382 B531s 2008 |
| Bishop, Bill. |
The big sort: why the clustering of like-minded America is tearing us apart. |
305.8 B622b 2008 |
| Borer, Michael Ian. |
Faithful to Fenway: believing in Boston, baseball, and America's most beloved ballpark. |
796.35764 B728f 2008 |
| Borneman, Walter R. |
Polk: the man who transformed the presidency and America. |
BP769bo 2008 |
| Burkett, Elinor. |
Golda. |
B M514b 2008 |
| Burroughs, Augusten |
A wolf at the table: a memoir of my father. |
B B972b-w 2008 |
| Cerami, Charles A. |
Dinner at Mr. Jefferson's: three men, five great wines, and the evening that changed America. |
973.4 C411d 2008 |
| Cherny, Andrei. |
The candy bombers: the untold story of the Berlin Airlift and America's finest hour. |
943.1 C521c 2008 |
| Clarke, Thurston. |
The last campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 days that inspired America. |
973.923 C 611L 2008 |
| Colley, Linda. |
The ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: a woman in world history. |
B M3654c 2007 |
| Cooley, John K. |
Currency wars: how forged money is the new weapon of mass destruction. |
364.133 C774c 2008 |
| Darby, Andrew. |
Harpoon: into the heart of whaling. |
338.37295 D213h 2008 |
| Daughan, George C. |
If by sea: the forging of the American navy -- from the Revolution to the War of 1812. |
359.009 D238i 2008 c.1 |
| Davis, Kenneth C. |
America's hidden history: untold tales of the first pilgrims, fighting women, and forgotten founders who shaped a nation. |
973 D262a 2008 |
| Dennison, Matthew. |
The last princess: the devoted life of Queen Victoria's youngest daughter. |
B B3692d 2008 |
| DiJulius, John R. III. |
What's the secret?: to providing a world-class customer experience. |
658.812 D574w 2008 |
| Du Sautoy, Marcus. |
Symmetry: a journey into the patterns of nature. |
516 D971s 2008 |
| Felsenthal, Carol. |
Clinton in exile: a President out of the White House. |
B C6411f 2008 |
| Ferguson, Kitty. |
The music of Pythagoras: how an ancient brotherhood cracked the code of the universe and lit the path from antiquity to outer space. |
182.2 F352m 2008 |
| Fuller, Alexandra. |
The legend of Colton H. Bryant. |
B B9151f 2008 |
| Gabrieli, Christopher and Warren Goldstein. |
Time to learn: how a new school schedule is making smarter kids, happier parents, and safer neighborhoods. |
371.24 G 118t 2008 |
| Gillis, Christina Marsden. |
Writing on stone: scenes from a Maine island life. |
B G481g 2008 c.1 |
| Gollner, Adam Leith. |
The fruit hunters: a story of nature, adventure, commerce and obsession. |
641.34 G626f 2008 |
| Gourevitch, Philip and Errol Morris. |
Standard operating procedure. |
956.704 G714s 2008 |
| Hadler, Nortin M. |
Worried sick: a prescription for health in an overtreated America. |
362.10973 H131w 2008 |
| Harman, Chris. |
A people's history of the world from the Stone Age to the new millennium. |
909 H287p 2008 |
| Heil, Nick. |
Dark summit: the true story of Everest's most controversial season. |
796.522 H466d 2008 |
| Henderson, Elizabeth with Robyn Van En. |
Sharing the harvest: a citizen's guide to community supported agriculture. |
334.683 H496s 2007 |
| Herman, Arthur. |
Gandhi & Churchill: the epic rivalry that destroyed an empire and forged our age. |
325.54 H551g 2008 |
| Hodges, Andrew. |
One to nine: the inner life of numbers. |
513.2 H688o 2008 |
| Hollinshead, Byron & Theodore K. Rabb. |
I wish I'd been there, book 2: European history. |
909.09821 I 11 2008 |
| Horwitz, Tony. |
A voyage long and strange: rediscovering the new world. |
970.01 H863v 2008 |
| Huffington, Arianna. |
Right is wrong: how the lunatic fringe hijacked America, shredded the Constitution, and made us all less safe (and what you need to know to end the madness). |
320.973 H889r 2008 |
| Iglesias, David with Davin Seay. |
In justice: inside the scandal that rocked the Bush administration. |
B I24i 2008 |
| Jessop, Carolyn with Laura Palmer. |
Escape. |
B J582j 2007 |
| Johnson, George. |
The ten most beautiful experiments. |
507.8 J67t 2008 |
| Keller, Julia. |
Mr. Gatling's terrible marvel: the gun that changed everything and the misunderstood genius who invented it. |
B G261k 2008 |
| Kershaw, Alex. |
Escape from the deep: the epic story of a legendary submarine and her courageous crew. |
940.5451 K41e 2008 |
| Kessel, Brent. |
It's not about the money: unlock your money type to achieve spiritual and financial abundance. |
332.024 K42i 2008 |
| Klare, Michael T. |
Rising powers, shrinking planet: the new geopolitics of energy. |
333.79 K63r 2008 |
| Kolsbun, Ken with Michael S. Sweeny. |
Peace: the biography of a symbol. |
303.66 K81p 2008 |
| Kutner, Lawrence and Cheryl K. Olson. |
Grand theft childhood: the surprising truth about violent video games and what parents can do. |
302.23 K97g 2008 |
| Larson, Kate Clifford. |
The assassin's accomplice: Mary Surratt and the plot to kill Abraham Lincoln. |
973.7092 L334a 2008 |
| Le Breton, Binka. |
The greatest gift: the courageous life and martyrdom of Sister Dorothy Stang. |
B S7855L 2007 |
| Lebo, Lauri. |
The devil in Dover: an insider's story of dogma v. Darwin in small-town America. |
345.730288 L447d 2008 |
| Leslie-Pelecky, Diandra. |
The physics of NASCAR: how to make steel+gas+rubber=speed. |
796.72 L637p 2008 |
| Lichtblau, Eric. |
Bush's law: the remaking of American justice. |
973.931 L699b 2008 |
| Lichtman, Allan J. |
White Protestant nation: the rise of the American conservative movement. |
350.52 L699w 2008 |
| Lopez, Steve. |
The soloist: a lost dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of music. |
B A977L 2008 |
| Marano, Hara Estroff. |
A nation of wimps: the high cost of invasive parenting. |
306.874 M311n 2008 |
| Masur, Louis P. |
The soiling of Old Glory: the story of a photograph that shocked America. |
974.4 tB74mas 2008 |
| McKibben, Bill. |
The Bill McKibben reader: pieces from an active life. |
333.72 M1583b 2008 |
| Mlodinow, Leonard. |
The drunkard's walk: how randomness rules our lives. |
519.2 M685d 2008 |
| Morris, Charles R. |
The trillion dollar meltdown: easy money, high rollers, and the great credit crash. |
332.0415 M875t 2008 |
| Moyers, Bill. |
Moyers on Democracy. |
320.973 M938m 2008 |
| Murphy, Caroline P. |
Murder of a Medici princess. |
B M4895m 2008 |
| Nugent, Benjamin. |
American nerd: the story of my people. |
305.9089 N966a 2008 |
| O'Connor, Ian. |
Arnie & Jack: Palmer, Nicklaus and golf's greatest rivalry. |
B P1732o 2008 |
| Off, Carol. |
Bitter chocolate: the dark side of the world's most seductive sweet. |
338.17374 O32b 2008 |
| Osgood, Charles. |
A funny thing happened on the way to the White House: humor, blunders, and other oddities from the presidential campaign trail. |
973.099 O82f 2008 |
| Pagden, Anthony. |
Worlds at war: the 2,500-year struggle between East and West. |
909 P131w 2008 |
| Patoski, Joe Nick. |
Willie Nelson: an epic life. |
B N432p 2008 |
| Paul, Pamela. |
Parenting, Inc. |
649.122 P324p 2008 |
| Porter, Anna. |
Kasztner's train: the true story of an unknown hero of the Holocaust. |
940.5318 P844k 2008 |
| Price, David A. |
The Pixar touch: the making of a company. |
384.806 P945p 2008 |
| Price, Jill with Bart Davis. |
The woman who can't forget: the extraordinary story of living with the most remarkable memory known to science. |
B P9457w 2008 |
| Price, Robert M. |
Top secret: the truth behind today's pop mysticisms. |
204 P946t 2008 |
| Robb, Daniel. |
Sloop: restoring my family's wooden sailboat -- an adventure in old-fashioned values. |
623.822 R631s 2008 |
| Rothenberg, David. |
Thousand mile song: whale music in a sea of sound. |
599.5 R846t 2008 |
| Rudman, Peter S. |
How mathematics happened: the first 50,000 years. |
510.9 R916h 2007 |
| Sandalow, David. |
Freedom from oil: how the next president can end the United States' oil addiction. |
338.27282 S213f 2008 |
| Sawyer-Fay, Rebecca. |
Gardens Maine style act II. |
635.09741 S271g-2 2008 c.1 |
| Schlesinger, Robert. |
White house ghosts: presidents and their speechwriters from FDR to George W. Bush. |
973.099 S342w 2008 |
| Sennett, Richard. |
The craftsman. |
601 S478c 2008 |
| Sheeler, Jim. |
Final salute: a story of unfinished lives. |
956.704 S5415f 2008 |
| Shorrock, Tim. |
Spies for hire: the secret world of intelligence outsourcing. |
327.1273 S 559s 2008 |
| Smith, Larry. |
Iwo Jima: World War II veterans remember the greatest battle of the Pacific. |
940.5425 I96 2008 |
| Sorensen, Ted. |
Counselor: a life at the edge of history. |
B S7135s 2008 |
| Soros, George. |
The new paradigm for financial markets: the credit crisis of 2008 and what it means. |
332.0973 S714n 2008 |
| Spencer, Lynn. |
Touching history: the untold story of the drama that unfolded in the skies over America on 9/11. |
973.931 S745t 2008 |
| Speth, James Gustave. |
The bridge at the edge of the world: capitalism, the environment, and crossing from crisis to sustainability. |
333.7 S752b 2008 |
| Standiford, Les. |
Washington burning: how a Frenchman's vision for our nation's capital survived Congress, the Founding Fathers, and the invading British army. |
975.3 S785w 2008 |
| Strand, Ginger. |
Inventing Niagara: beauty, power and lies. |
304.2 S897i 2008 |
| Swift, Will. |
The Kennedys amidst the gathering storm: a thousand days in London, 1938-1940. |
973.9092 S977k 2008 |
| Taibbi, Matt. |
The great derangement: a terrifying true story of war, politics, & religion at the twilight of the American Empire. |
973.93 T129g 2008 |
| Tillman, Mary and Narda Zacchino. |
Boots on the ground by dusk: my tribute to Pat Tillman. |
B T5775t 2008 |
| Wall, Elissa. |
Stolen innocence: my story of growing up in a polygamous sect, becoming a teenage bride, and breaking free of Warren Jeffs. |
B W1872w 2008 |
| Wallace, Mike. |
The way we will be 50 years from today: 60 of the world's greatest minds share their vision of the next half century. |
303.49 W357 2008 |
| Walters, Barbara. |
Audition: a memoir. |
B W235w 2008 |
| Wax, Steven T. |
Kafka comes to America: fighting for justice in the war on terror, a public defender's inside account. |
345.73056 W356k 2008 |
| Webb, Jim. |
A time to fight: reclaiming a fair and just America. |
320.6 W366t 2008 |
| Will, George. |
One man's America: the pleasures and provocations of our singular nation. |
973 W689o 2008 |
| Winchester, Simon. |
The man who loved China: the fantastic story of the eccentric scientist who unlocked the mysteries of the Middle Kingdom. |
B N374w 2008 |
| Yalom, Marilyn. |
The American resting place: four hundred years of history through our cemeteries and burial grounds. |
929.5 Y19a 2008 |
| Zakaria, Fareed. |
The post-American world. |
303.49 Z21p 2008 |
| Zimmer, Carl. |
Microcosm: E. coli and the new science of life. |
579.3 A72m 2008 |
