Friday, January 23, 2009

New Books that can be checked out

Popular Fiction / Bestsellers
Confessions of a shopaholic / Sophie Kinsella
Shopaholic takes Manhattan / Sophie Kinsella
The plague of doves / Louise Erdrich
Born to rock / Gordon Korman
The secret life of bees / Sue Monk Kidd
Light on snow: a novel / Anita Shreve
The practice of deceit / Elizabeth Benedict
Bridget Jones's diary / Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones: the edge of reason / Helen Fielding
Girls in pants: the third summer of the Sisterhood / Ann Brashares (audiobook also available)
Predator / Patricia Cornwell
Detour /James Siegel
Thunder on the mountain / David Poyer
Slow learner: early stories / Thomas Pynchon
Erotic trilogy of Sleeping Beauty / Anne Rice
War fever / J.G. Ballard
Cast of shadows / Kevin Guilfoile
Foe / J.M. Coetzee
The vampire tapestry / Suzy McKee Charnas
The river between us / Richard Peck
Homeless bird / Gloria Whelan
The white boy shuffle / Paul Beatty
The Da Vinci code / Dan Brown
Memoirs of a geisha / Arthur Golden
Award Winners
Samurai shortstop / Alan Gratz
After the wreck, I picked myself up, spread my wings, and flew away / Joyce Carol Oates
Soul mountain / Xingjian Gao
Oprah’s Picks
The heart is a lonely hunter / Carson McCullers
Graphic Novels
The opera house murders
Basara
Usagi Yojimbo: grasscutter II, journey to Atsuta Shrine
Usagi Yojimbo: Duel at Kitanoji
Mai, the psychic girl
Literature
Even the stars look lonesome / Maya Angelou
Anything we love can be saved: a writer's activism / Alice Walker
Christmas dogs: a literary companion
Classic Fiction
The lurking fear: and other stories / H.P. Lovecraft
The best of H.P. Lovecraft: bloodcurdling tales of horror and the macabre
The phantom of the Opera
Brideshead revisited: the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder / Evelyn Waugh
Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston
Religious Studies
Dianetics, the evolution of a science
Dianetics: the modern science of mental health
Scientology: a new slant on life
Scientology: the fundamentals of thought
Dianetics, the original thesis
Introduction to scientology ethics
Sports
The man who ran faster than everyone: the story of Tom Longboat
Military and War
An illustrated history of the Gestapo
People
Barack Obama
LeBron James
Yo-Yo Ma
Gonzo: the life of Hunter S. Thompson
Abraham Lincoln: the prairie years and the war years
Richard Nixon and his America
Fidel Castro
American daughter: discovering my mother / Elizabeth Kendall
Princess trilogy
The real rain man, Kim Peek
Science
Twentieth-century women scientists
ESRI Map Book
Business
Results: keep what's good, fix what's wrong, and unlock great performance
Disney: the Mouse betrayed: greed, corruption, and children at risk
Racial Issues
A practical guide to racism (satire)
Law, Crime, and Criminal Justice
Rights of the disabled
Dishonorable passions: sodomy laws in America, 1861-2003
Ethical, Social, and Political Issues
Dinner with a cannibal: the complete history of mankind's oldest taboo
True enough: learning to live in a post-fact society
Ethnic conflict
Agriculture and Food
Food in history
The calorie counter
The last days of haute cuisine
Cultural Studies
African-American alphabet: a celebration of African-American and West Indian culture, custom, myth, and symbol
Italian days
To the manner born: a most proper guide to modern civility
Nature and Animals
The last polar bear: facing the truth of a warming world
Florida Studies
The New Deal in south Florida: design, policy, and community building, 1933-1940
A most disorderly court: scandal and reform in the Florida judiciary
Florida's fossils: guide to location, identification, and enjoyment
The sunshine economy: an economic history of Florida since the Civil War
American History and Economics
Originalism, federalism, and the American constitutional enterprise: a historical inquiry
The Fourth of July: and the founding of America
Choosing sides on the frontier in the American Revolution
Bad money: reckless finance, failed politics, and the global crisis of American capitalism
World History and Economics
Ireland since 1939
Common wealth: economics for a crowded planet
Troy and the Trojans
Psychology and Sociology
Here comes everybody: the power of organizing without organizations
Shyness: a bold new approach
Arts, Music, and Film
Raphael
The art of small things
Second sight: printmaking in Chicago, 1935-1995
Essential history of art
Rock and Roll: an unruly history
Celluloid mavericks: a history of American independent filmmaking
How to make love like a porn star: a cautionary tale / Jenna Jameson

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Newly Added Books

Popular Fiction / Bestsellers
Twilight / Stephenie Meyer
New Moon / Stephenie Meyer
The house of the spirits / Isabel Allende
Duma Key / Stephen King
Planet of the apes / Pierre Boulle
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas / Hunter S. Thompson
Technology and Industry
The cell phone: an anthropology of communication
The unnatural history of the sea
Politics
All the presidents' spokesmen: spinning the news, White House press secretaries from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush
Florida Studies
A brief guide to Florida's monuments and memorials
A journey into Florida railroad history
Psychology and Sociology
X saves the world: how Generation X got the shaft but can still keep everything from sucking
Arts
Signs of life: bio art and beyond
Art history: the basics
Literature
The Cambridge companion to Toni Morrison
Literary theory: the basics
Classic Fiction
A raisin in the sun / Lorraine Hansberry
The Grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck
Frankenstein / Mary Shelley
I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou
Light in August / William Faulkner
Award Winners
The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / Sherman Alexie
Alfred and Emily / Doris Lessing
The Cleft / Doris Lessing
The golden notebook: a novel / Doris Lessing
No country for old men / Cormac McCarthy
Religious Studies
The little book of atheist spirituality
Sports
The physics of NASCAR: how to make steel + gas + rubber = speed
Military and War
U.S. military service
People
Sacagawea
Nancy Pelosi
Princess Diana
Tecumseh
Ho Chi Minh
Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder
Young Stalin
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the passion for invention
The sum of our days: a memoir / Isabel Allende
The Lost Boy / Dave Pelzer
Emily Dickinson
Science
The science of Leonardo: inside the mind of the great genius of the Renaissance
Archaeology: the basics
Philosophy
Sticks and stones: the philosophy of insults
Health and Medicine
The Hot Zone
Honey: a handbook for home, health, & happiness
Nursing
Anatomy & physiology made incredibly easy!
Business
The Internet and American business
Linguistics and Education
When languages die: the extinction of the world's languages and the erosion of human knowledge
The First Word: the search for the origins of language
The elements of style
The man who made lists: love, death, madness, and the creation of Roget's Thesaurus
Semiotics: the basics
Racial Issues
The silencing of Ruby McCollum: race, class, and gender in the South
Law, Crime, and Criminal Justice
Loving through bars: children with parents in prison
DNA evidence and forensic science
Dirty dealing: the untold truth about global money laundering, international crime and terrorism
We the students: Supreme Court cases for and about students
The Supreme Court: the personalities and rivalries that defined America
The Salem witch trials: a reference guide
Ethical, Social, and Political Issues
Let them in: the case for open borders
Euthanasia
Useless arithmetic: why environmental scientists can't predict the future
Global warning: the last chance for change
Disaster response
Agriculture and Food
Banana: the fate of the fruit that changed the world