Recent Acquisitions
May 2008
Nonfiction -- Fiction -- Graphic Novels -- DVDs
| Nonfiction | ||
| 028.1 B561 | Young Adult Library Services Association | Best Books for Young Adults |
| 179.3 B351F | Gene Baur | Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food |
| 179.3 D271T | Karen Dawn | Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals |
| 200.94 J52G | Philip Jenkins | God's Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe's Religious Crisis |
| 294.3 i97O | Pico Iyer | The Open Road:The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama |
| 301.451 G244ZG | Colin Grant | Negro With a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey |
| 305.895 P523D | Jean Pfaelzer | Driven Out: The Forgotton War Against Chinese Americans |
| 306.08 D265Li | Wade Davis | Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures |
| 306.3615 P647S | Susan Pinker | The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women, and the Real Gender Gap |
| 306.4 N966A | Benjamin Nugent | American Nerd: The Story of My People |
| 306.7 L193D | Ruby Lal | Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World |
| 320.9 D141G | Patricia Daley | Gender and Genocide in Burundi: The Search for Peace in the Great Lakes Region |
| 323.1196 G612P | Keli Goff | Party Crashing: How the Hip-hop Generation Declared Political Independence |
| 324.63 C548 (2 copies) | League of Women Voters | Choosing the President 2008: A Citizen's Guide to the Electoral Process |
| 333.7 S752B | James Speth | The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability |
| 338.174 C462B | Peter Chapman | Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World |
| 338.7 S642S | Barbara Smit | Sneaker Wars: The Enemy Brothers Who Founded Adidas and Puma anh the Family Feud That Forever Changed the Business of Sport |
| 324.7092 M346C | Stephen Marks | Confessions of a Political Hitman: My Secret Life of Scandal, Corruption, Hypocrisy and Dirty Attacks That Decide Who Gets Elected (and Who Doesn't) |
| 342.7308 K26O | Lisa Keen | Out Law: What LGBT Youth Should Know About Their Legal Rights |
| 342.7308 L673F | Anthony Lewis | Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment |
| 362.196 P294T | Ann Patchett | Truth and Beauty: A Friendship |
| 363.32 B663T | Philip Bobbitt | Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century |
| 363.738 B786C | Mark Bowen | Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming |
| 363.738 W179H | Gabrielle Walker and David King | The Hot Topic: What We Can Do About Global Warming |
| 364.16 S193R | David Samuels | The Runner: The True Account of the Amazing Lies and Fantastical Adventures of the Ivy League Imposter James Hogue |
| 371.1 F688R | Donna Foote | Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches With Teach for America |
| 378.1056 J24F | Joie Jager-Hyman | Fat Envelope Frenzy: One Year, Five Promising Students, and the Pursuit of the Ivy League Prize |
| 382 B531S | William Bernstein | A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World |
| 417.22 B583B | Derek Bickerton | Bastard Tongues: A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages |
| 500 N558W | NewScientist | Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions |
| 507.8 J67T | George Johnson | The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments |
| 530 K13P | Michio Kaku | Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel |
| 577.64 H777R | Mary Hood | River Time: Ecotravel on the World's Rivers |
| 578.77 K86S | Tony Koslow | The Silent Deep - Discovery, Ecology, and Conservation of the Deep Sea |
| 579.342 Z72M | Carl Zimmer | Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life |
| 598.072 A361N | Jonathon Alder and Jon Dunn | Birding Essentials: All the Tools, Techniques, and Tips You Need to Begin and Become a Better Birder |
| 611 S 562I | Neil Shubin | Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-billion-year History of the Human Body |
| 612.82 M411H | Michael Mason | Head Cases: Stories of Brain Surgery and Its Aftermath |
| 613 P771I | Michael Pollman | In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto |
| 614.43 M877B | Robert Morris | The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink |
| 616.85 H195C | Sue Halpern | Can't Remember What I Forgot: The Good News from the Front Lines of Memory Research |
| 616.978 N163A | Donna Nakazawa | The Autoimmune Epidemic: Bodies Gone Haywire in a World Out of Balance and the Cutting Edge Science That Promises Hope |
| 631.521 C97U | Claire Cummings | Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds |
| 641.5973 V699K | Ann Vileisis | Kitchen Literacy - How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes From and Why We Need to Get it Back |
| 641.598 Y51S | Sergio E. Yibrin | Shortcuts to 100 Best Latin American Recipes: Authentic Flavors Without the Trouble |
| 641.8 G292C | George Geary | The Complete Baking Cookbook - 350 recipes from cookies and cakes to muffins and pies |
| 650.1 K63H | Peggy Klaus | About Soft Skills: Workplace Lessons Smart People Wish They'd Learned Sooner |
| 760 E75G | Stephen J. Eskilson | Graphic Design: A New History |
| 781.66 H617F | Clinton Heylin | From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk Rock |
| 791.43 H315F | Mark Harris | Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood |
| 791.43 K96Z | Bert Cardullo, ed. | Akira Kurosawa: Interviews |
| 792.028 A466S | Glenn Alterman | Glenn Alterman's Secrets to Successful Cold Reading |
| 796.323 S558C | Paul Shirley | Can I Keep My Jersey?: 11 Teams, 5 Countries, and 4 Years in My Life as a Basketball Vagabond |
| 796.5 S713T | Joe Simpson | Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival |
| 796.6 T244ZB | Todd Balf | Major: A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight to Be the World's Fastest Human Being |
| 796.815 P777A | Matthew Polly | American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China |
| 809 B356H | Pierre Bayard | How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read |
| 810 A512 | Bill McKibben, ed. | American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau |
| 810.9 N532G | Henry Louis Gates, Jr., et al., eds. | The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 |
| 811.08 S762 | Mark Eleveld, ed. | The Spoken Word Revolution Redux |
| 812.6 L748R | David Lindsay-Abaire | Rabbit Hole: A Play |
| 909.07 K35G | Hugh Kennedy | The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In |
| 949.61 H314C | Jonathan Harris | Constantinople: Capital of Byzantium |
| 951.6 M657E | James A. Millward | Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang |
| 954.0317 D151L | William Dalrymple | The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 |
| 954.9105 B575R | Benazir Bhutto | Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West |
| 956.054 W952D | Robin Wright | Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East |
| 956.9204 M154M | Sandra Mackey | Mirror of the Arab World: Lebanon in Conflict |
| 963.07 H151H | Rebecca Haile | Held at a Distance: My Rediscovery of Ethiopia |
| 970.01 H816V | Tony Horwitz | A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World |
| 970.01 R433L | Andres Resendez | A Land So Strange: The Epic Journal of Cabeza de Vaca |
| 972.8 P242P | Matthew Parker | Panama Fever: The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time - The Building of the Panama Canal |
| 972.91064 C355Z | Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet | Fidel Castro: My Life |
| 972.91064 C761 | Philip Brenner, et al., eds. | A Contemporary Cuba Reader: Reinventing the Revolution |
| 973.6 G925L | Allen Guelzo | Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America |
| 973.7 M127L | Russell McClintock | Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession |
| 973.7 M137T | Walter McDougall | Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877 |
| 973.931 S546C | Philip Shenon | The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation |
| 976.335 S41W | Ned Sublette | The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square |
| 980.04 K88R | Nikolas Kozlaff | Revolution!: South America and the Rise of the New Left |
| Fiction | Back to top | |
| F Adlington | L. J. Adlington | Cherry Heaven |
| F Antrim | Taylor Antrim | The Headmaster Ritual |
| F Armitage | Simon Armitage | The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer's Epic |
| F Barnes | Jonathan Barnes | The Somnambulist |
| F Caldwell | Joseph Caldwell | The Pig Did It |
| F Bertagna | Julie Bertagna | Exodus |
| F Chabon | Michael Chabon | The Yiddish Policemen's Union |
| F Channer | Colin Channer | The Girl With the Golden Shoes |
| F Chen Headley | Justina Chen Headley | Girl Overboard |
| F Dole | Mayra Lazara Dole | Down to the Bone |
| F Farah | Nuruddin Farah | Knots |
| F Frost | Gregory Frost | Shadowbridge |
| F Johnson | Peter Johnson | What Happened |
| F Lahiri | Jhumpa Lahiri | Unaccostomed Earth |
| F Littell | Robert Littell | Viscious Circle |
| F Lockhart | E. Lockhart, Sarah Mlynowski, and Lauren Myracle | How To Be Bad |
| F Logsdon | Gene Logsdon | The Last of the Husbandmen |
| F McDonald | Ian McDonald | Brasyl |
| F Parker | Robert B. Parker | Edenville Owls |
| F Rosoff | Meg Rosoff | What I Was |
| F Schutt | Christine Schutt | All Souls |
| F Sinha | Indra Sinha | Animal's People |
| F Smith | Dominic Smith | The Beautiful Miscellaneous |
| F Smith | Alexander McCall Smith | The Good Husband of Zebra Drive |
| F Vizzini | Ned Vizzini | It's Kind of a Funny Story |
| F Yoo | Paula Yoo | Good Enough |
| uncat | Elizabeth Bear | Dust |
| SC L243B | Margo Lanagan | Black Juice |
| Graphic Novels | Back to top | |
| GN Brooks | Terry Brooks | Dark Wraith of Shannara |
| GN Gaiman Vol.3 | Neil Gaiman | Sandman: Dream Country |
| GN Gaiman Vol.4 | Neil Gaiman | Sandman: Season of Mists |
| GN Johnson | Mat Johnson | Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery |
| GN Kishimoto Vol.2 - Vol.6 | Masashi Kishimoto | Naruto: Volumes 2-6 |
| GN Martinson | Lars Martinson | Tonoharu |
| GN Nelson Vol.1 | Michael Alan Nelson | Fall of Cthulhu: The Fugue |
| GN Ohba Vol.4 - Vol. 6 | Tsugumi Ohba | Death Note: Volumes 4-6 |
| GN Talbot | Bryan Talbot | Alice in Sunderland |
| GN Vaughan Vol.4 | Brian K. Vaughan | Runaways: True Believers |
| GN Vaughan Vol. 4-5 | Brian K. Vaughan | Runaways Collection Volume 2 |
| DVDs | Back to top | |
| Video 302.2343 Girls | Reel Grrls | Girls Make Media That Matters |
| Video 305.8 Mix | Reel Grrls | Mix it Up: Youth and Race |
| Video 614.5 RX | RX for Survival - a global health challenge | |
| Video 614.532 Malaria | PBS | Malaria - Fever Wars |
| Video 720.47 Design | PBS | design e2: the economies of being environmentally conscious |
| Video 791.4375 Portraits | BAVC YouthLink | Cutting New Edges: Portraits from Inside, Outside and Everywhere in Between |
| Video 808.8 Operation | Docurama Films | Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience |
| Video 956.70443 Bush's War | PBS | Bush's War: Frontline |
| Video 954 Story | Michael Wood - BBC | Story of India |
| Video 962.7043 OnOur | PBS | On Our Watch - The world said "Never again!" Then came Darfur. |
| Video 967.9 Mozambique | The Ford Foundation | Mozambique: Sustainable Wilderness Development Initiative |