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

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