Highlights of new books added to the collection recently.
Recent New Books
| Author |
Title |
Call Number |
| Albright, Madeleine. |
Memo to the President Elect: how we can restore America's reputation and leadership. |
327.73 A342m 2008 |
| Andelman, David A. |
A shattered peace: Versailles 1919 and the price we pay today. |
940.3 A543s 2008 |
| Anderson, P. Elizabeth. |
The powerful bond between people and pets: our boundless connections to companion animals. |
636.0887 A5487p 2008 |
| Axelrod, Alan. |
Bradley: a biography. |
B B8119a 2008 |
| Bales, Kevin. |
Ending slavery: how we free today's slaves. |
306.362 B184e 2007 |
| Balmer, Randall. |
God in the White House: a history. |
973.099 B194g 2008 |
| Barnett, Cynthia. |
Mirage: Florida and the vanishing water of the eastern U.S. |
333.9113 B261m 2007 |
| Bekoff, Marc. |
The emotional lives of animals. |
591.5 B424e 2007 |
| Blake, Mark. |
Comfortably numb: the inside story of Pink Floyd. |
782.42166 B636c 2008 |
| Bowen, Mark. |
Censoring science: inside the political attack on Dr. James Hansen and the truth of global warming. |
363/7387 B786c 2008 |
| Boylan, Jennifer Finney. |
I'm looking through you, growing up haunted: a memoir. |
B B792b-I 2008 c.1 |
| Brock, Pope. |
Charlatan: America's most dangerous huckster, the man who pursued him, and the Age of Flimflam. |
B B8585b 2008 |
| Buchanan, Patrick J. |
Day of reckoning: how hubris, ideology, and greed are tearing America apart. |
973.93 B918d 2007 |
| Budiansky, Stephen. |
the bloody shirt: terror after Appomattox. |
973.8 B927b 2008 |
| Bumiller, Elisabeth. |
Condoleezza Rice: an American life. |
B R4954b 2007 |
| Burr, Chandler. |
The perfect scent: a year inside the perfume industry in Paris and New York. |
338.766854 B 968p 2008 |
| Bzdek, Vincent. |
Woman of the House: the rise of Nancy Pelosi. |
B P 392b 2008 |
| Campbell, Alastair. |
The Blair years: extracts from the Alastair Campbell diaries. |
941.086 C187b 2007 |
| Carr, Nicholas. |
The big switch: rewiring the world, from Edison to Google. |
303.4834 C312b 2008 |
| Castro, Fidel and Ignacio Ramonet. |
Fidel Castro: my life. |
B C355c-f 2008 |
| Cooper, Cynthia. |
Extraordinary circumstances: the journey of a corporate whistleblower. |
B C7762c 2008 |
| Darvill, Timothy. |
Stonehenge: the biography of a landscape. |
936.2 D227s 2006 |
| DeFelice, Jim. |
Rangers at Dieppe: the first combat action of U.S. Army Rangers in World War II. |
940.54214 D313r 2008 |
| Denny, Mark. |
Ingenium: five machines that changed the world. |
609 D412i 2007 |
| DePastino, Todd. |
Bill Mauldin: a life up front. |
B M4495d 2008 |
| Dershowitz, Alan. |
Finding Jefferson: a lost letter, a remarkable discovery, and the First Amendment in an age of terrorism. |
342.730853 D438f 2008 |
| DeWolf, Thomas Norman. |
Inheriting the trade: a Northern family confronts its legacy as the largest slave-trading dynasty in U.S. history. |
306.362 D524i 2008 |
| DiMarco, Damon. |
Tower stories: an oral history of 9/11. |
974.71 T738 2007 |
| Dupuis, Martin and Keith Boeckelman. |
Barack Obama, the new face of American politics. |
B O12d 2008 |
| Earley, Pete. |
Comrade J: the untold secrets of Russia's master spy in America after the end of the Cold War. |
B T799e 2007 |
| Eckstein, Bob. |
The history of the snowman. |
736.94 E19h 2007 |
| Einhorn, Stefan. |
The art of being kind. |
177.7 E35a 2007 |
| Einstein, Albert. |
A stubbornly persistent illusion: the essential scientific works of Albert Einstein. |
530.1 E35s 2007 |
| Evans, M. Stanton. |
Blacklisted by history: the untold story of Senator Joe McCarthy and his fight against America's enemies. |
B M1234e 2007 |
| Faust, Drew Gilpin. |
This republic of suffering: death and the American Civil War. |
973.71 F845t 2008 |
| Fleishman, Joel L. |
The foundation: a great American secret -- how private wealth is changing the world. |
361.7632 F596f 2007 |
| Fox, Julia. |
Jane Boleyn: the true story of the infamous Lady Rochford. |
B B6885f 2007 |
| Freinkel, Susan. |
American chestnut: the life, death, and rebirth of a perfect tree. |
634.9724 F865a 2007 |
| George-Warren, Holly. |
Public cowboy no. 1: the life and times of Gene Autry. |
B A941g 2007 |
| Ghahramani, Zarah with Robert Hillman. |
My life as a traitor. |
B G4115g 2008 |
| Gingrich, Newt. |
Real change: from the world that fails to the world that works. |
320.6 G492r 2008 |
| Goldberg, Alfred et.al. |
Pentagon 9/11. |
975.5 P419 2007 |
| Gordimer, Nadine. |
Beethoven was one-sixteenth black, and other stories. |
823 G661be 2007 |
| Griffeth, Bill. |
By faith alone: one family's epic journey through 400 years of American protestantism. |
280.4 G849b 2007 |
| Guelzo, Allen C. |
Lincoln and Douglas: the debates that defined America. |
973.68 G925L 2008 |
| Harris, Mark. |
Pictures at a revolution: five movies and the birth of the New Hollywood. |
791.43 H315p 2008 |
| Hayes, Bill. |
The anatomist: a true story of Gray's Anatomy. |
611 H417a 2008 |
| Jackson, Annette. |
My life in the Maine woods: a game warden's wife in the Allagash Country. |
917.41 J12m 2007 c.1 |
| Kakehashi, Kumiko. |
So sad to fall in battle: an account of war. |
B K9696k 2007 |
| Kamensky, Jane. |
The exchange artist: a tale of high-flying speculation and America's first banking collapse. |
364.168 K15e 2008 |
| Kelsey, Kerck. |
Remarkable Americans: the Washburn Family. |
920.0741 K29r 2008 c.1 |
| Kendrick, Paul and Stephen Kendrick. |
Douglass and Lincoln: how a revolutionary black leader and a reluctant liberator struggled to end slavery and save the Union. |
973.7114 K33d 2008 |
| Kodas, Michael. |
High crimes: the fate of Everest in an age of greed. |
796.522 K76h 2008 |
| Koeppel, Dan. |
Banana: the fate of the fruit that changed the world. |
634.772 K78b 2008 |
| Kowalski, Gary. |
Revolutionary spirits: the enlightened faith of America's Founding Fathers. |
277.3 K88r 2008 |
| Laszlo, Pierre. |
Citrus: a history. |
634.3 L349c 2007 |
| Lear, Martha Weinman. |
Where did I leave my glasses? The what, when, and why of normal memory loss. |
155.67 L438w 2008 |
| Lengel, Edward G. |
To conquer Hell: the Meuse-Argonne, 1918. |
940.4 L566t 2008 |
| Lewis, Anthony. |
Freedom for the thought that we hate: a biography of the First Amendment. |
342.730853 L673f 2007 |
| Lynas, Mark. |
Six degrees: our future on a hotter planet. |
551.6 L987s 2008 |
| McMillen, Sally G. |
Seneca Falls and the origins of the Women's Rights Movement. |
305.42 M1675s 2008 |
| Meldahl, Keith Heyer. |
Hard road west: history and geology along the gold rush trail. |
978.02 M518h 2007 |
| Morrison, Susan. |
Thirty ways of looking at Hillary: reflections by women writers. |
B C6415m 2008 |
| Mortimer, Gavin. |
The great swim. |
797.21 M888g 2008 |
| Motavalli, Jim. |
Naked in the woods: Joseph Knowles and the legacy of frontier fakery. |
B K735m 2007 c.1 |
| Neeley, Bill. |
The last Comanche chief: the life and times of Quanah Parker. |
B P2425n 2007 |
| Oglesby, Carl. |
Ravens in the storm: a personal history of the 1960's antiwar movement. |
B O353o 2008 |
| Ornish, Dean. |
The spectrum: a scientifically proven program to feel better, live longer, lose weight, gain health. |
613.2 O74s 2007 |
| Panagore, Peter B. |
Two minutes for God: quick fixes for the spirit. |
204.32 P187t 2007 c.1 |
| Piven, Joshua and David Borgenicht. |
The complete worst-case scenario survival handbook. |
613.69 P693w 2007 |
| Pollan, Michael. |
In defense of food: an eater's manifesto. |
613 P771i 2008 |
| Pollitt, Frances. |
Historic photos of Maine. |
974.1 P775h 2008 c.1 |
| Puls, Mark. |
Henry Knox: visionary general of the American Revolution. |
B K74pu 2008 |
| Ratey, John J. with Eric Hagerman. |
Spark: the revolutionary new science of exercise and the brain. |
612.76 R233s 2008 |
| Raymond, Barbara Bisantz. |
The baby thief: the untold story of Georgia Tann, the baby seller who corrupted adoption. |
364.18 R268b 2007 |
| Rosen, Jonathan. |
The life of the skies: birding at the end of nature. |
598.072 R813L 2008 |
| Rubin, Lillian B. |
60 on up: the truth about aging in America. |
305.26 R896s 2007 |
| Sabbagh, Marwan. |
The alzheimer's answer: reduce your risk and keep your brain healthy. |
616.831 S114a 2008 |
| Schaefer, Mikel. |
Lost in Katrina. |
976.3 S294L 2007 |
| Schorr, Danie. |
Come to think of it: notes on the turn of the Millennium. |
973.928 S374c 2007 |
| Shenon, Philip. |
The Commission: the uncensored history of the 9/11 investigation. |
973.931 S546c 2008 |
| Shnayerson, Michael. |
Coal River: how a few brave Americans took on a powerful company -- and the federal government -- to save the land they love. |
338.2724 S558c 2008 |
| Shubin, Neil. |
Your inner fish: a journey into the 3.5 -billion-year history of the human body. |
611 S562y 2008 |
| Siegel, Lee. |
Against the machine: being human in the age of the electronic mob. |
303.4833 S571a 2008 |
| Snitow, Alan & Deborah Kaufman with Michael Fox. |
Thirst: fighting the corporate theft of our water. |
333.91 S672t 2007 |
| Thayer, Helen. |
Walking the Gobi: a 1600-mile trek across a desert of hope and despair. |
915.173 T371w 2007 |
| Todd, Richard Watson. |
Much ado about English: up and down the bizarre byways of a fascinating language. |
422 T635m 2006 |
| van Maarsen, Jacqueline. |
My name is Anne, she said, Anne Frank. |
B M1113m 2007 |
| Warren, Susan. |
Bakcyard giants: the passionate, heartbreaking, and glorious quest to grow the biggest pumpkin ever. |
635.62 W293b 2007 |
| Weiner, Eric. |
The geography of bliss: one grump's search for the ahppiest places in the world. |
910.4 W423g 2008 |
| Wheelan, Joseph. |
Mr. Adams's last crusade: John Quincy Adams's extraordinary post-presidential life in Congress. |
B A2143w 2008 |
| Whitehouse, Peter J. with Daniel George. |
The myth of alzheimer's: what you aren't being told about today's most dreaded diagnosis. |
616.831 W593m 2008 |
| Wiggins, Arthur W. |
The joy of physics. |
530 W655j 2007 |
| Wilson, Derek. |
Out of the storm: the life and legacy of Martin Luther. |
B L973w 2008 |
| Yalom, Irvin D. |
Staring at the sun: overcoming the terror of death. |
155.937 Y16s 2008 |
| Yarbrough, Tinsley E. |
Harry A. Blackmun, the outsider justice. |
B B629y 2008 |
| Yunus, Muhammad. |
Creating a world without poverty: social business and the future of capitalism. |
338.7 Y95c 2007 |
