Recent Acquisitions

Since Fall, 2010

Alphabetized by genre (Art, Biography, Children’s, Fiction, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Science, Science Fiction) and then by title.

Please note that items on this list are not necessarily on the shelves (our new books are our most popular books).

Art

Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty; Phoebe Hoban
Alice Neel: DVD; Andrew Neel
Art in the Streets ;Dietch, Gastman, and Rose
The Art of Dahlov Ipcar; Carl Little
Boticelli: Likeness, Myth, Devotion; Andreas Schumacher
The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell; Edited by Stephanie Terenzo
The Gugenheim Museum Bilbao Collection; David Anfam
Inside the Painter’s Studio; Joe Fig
Masters: Book Arts: Major Works by Leading Artists; Eileen Wallace
Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico; Noland, Lavetelli, and Strong


Biography

Diaghilev: A Life; Sjeng Scheijen
Extraordinary, Ordinary People; Condoleezza Rice
Beethoven: The Universal Composer; Edmund Morris
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendezvous with American History; Yunte Huan
The Giant of the French Revolution: Danton; David Lawday
Grant Wood: a Life; JR Tripp Evans
Houdini: Art and Magic; Brooke Kamin Rappaport
In the Neighborhood of Zero: A World War II Memoir; William V. Spanos
I Just Lately Started Buying Wings; Kim Dana Kupperman
Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a 20th Century Skeptic; Michael Scammell
Radical: Saul Alinsky; Nicholas von Hoffman
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maughn; Selina Hastings
Writing; Michael Slater
Yehuda Halleir; Hillel Halkin
The Young Romantics; Daisy Hay


Children’s

13 Treasures; Michelle Harrison (age 9-12)
Abby Carnelia’s One and Only Magical Power; David Pogue
Forever Friends; Carin Berger (ages 4-8)
Across the Universe; Beth Revis (young adult)
As Easy as Falling Off the Face fo the Earth; Lynn Rae Perkins (young adult)
Ashley Bryan: Words to My Life’s Song; Ashley Bryan (age 4-8)
The Bat Scientists; Mary Kay Carson (ordered by Science)
Bink and Gollie; Kate DiCamillo (age 4-8)
Blockhead: the life of Fabbonacci; Joseph D’Agnese (ages 5-9)
Brontorina; James Howe (age 4-8)
Children Make Terrible Pets; Peter Brown (age 4-8)
City Dog Country Frog; Mo Willems (picture)
Dave the Potter  Laban Carrick Hill (age 4-8)
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night; Joyce Sidman (age 4-8)
Feeding the Sheep; Leda Schubert (picture)
The Gingerbread Man; Jim Aylesworth (picture)
Graceling  Kristin Cashore (young adult)
Heart of a Samurai; Margi Preus (young adult)
The Heroes of Olympus, Book One; Rick Riordan (age 9-12)
How Rocket Learned to Read; Tad Hills (ages 3-7)
Infinity: Chronicles of Nick; Sherrilyn Kenyon (young adult)
Interrupting Chicken; David Ezra Stein
The Longest Night; Marion Dane Bauer (ages 4-8)
The Looking Glass Wars; Frank Beddor (young adult)
Lousy Rotten Stinkin Grapes; Margie Palatini (picture)
Madeline at the White House; John Bemelmans Marciano (age 4-8)
Mockingbird; Kathryn Erskine (age 9-12)
Moon Over Manifest  Clare Vanderpool (age 9-12)
The Mysterious Benedict Society; Trenton Lee Stewart (young adult)
Neil Armstrong is my Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me; Nan Marino (age 9-12)
One Crazy Summer; Rita Williams-Garcia (age 9-12)
The Quiet Book; Deborah Underwood (ages 4-8)
The Shadows; Jaqueline West (age 9-12)
Ship Breaker; Paolo Bacigalupi (young adult)
Shiver; Maggie Stiefvater (young adult)
A Sick Day for Amos McGee; Philip Christian Stead (age 4-8)
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer; John Grisham (young adult)
An Unlikely Family: Voices Ethiopian and American Youth children of Selamta (young adult)


Fiction

Ape House   Sara Gruen
The Ask; Sam Lipsyte
By Nightfall; Michael Cunningham
The Elephant’s Journey; Jose Saramago
A Fine Balance; Rohinton Mistry
Freedom; Jonathan Franzen
Ghosts; Cesar Aira
The Glass Room; Simon Mawer
Great House; Nicole Krauss
The History of Love; Nicole Krauss
I Curse the River of Time; Per Peterson
The Imperfectionists; Tom Rachman
The Infinities; John Banville
Library of America; Raymond Chandler
The Lotus Eaters; Tatjana Soli
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand; Helen Simonson
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War; Karl Marlantes
McKay’s Bees  Thomas McMahon
Nemesis; Philip Roth
Private Life; Jane Smiley
Room; Emma Donoghue
Skippy Dies; Paul Murray
Tablet and Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East; Reza Aslan, Editor
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet; David Mitchell
To the End of the Land; David Grossman
A Visit from the Goon Squad; Jennifer Egan
Unfinished Desires; Gail Godwin
White Tiger; Aravind Adiiga
The Widow and the Tree; Sonny Brewer


Mystery

206 Bones; Kathy Reichs
A Question of Belief; Donna Leon
American Assassin; Vince Flynn
Bad Blood; John Sanford
Black Hills; Nora Roberts
Body Work; Sara Paretsky
The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing; Tarquin Hall
The Confession; John Grisham
The Dark Vineyard; Martin Walker
Edge; Jeffrey Deaver
The Godfather of Kathmandu; John Burdett
Gideon’s Sword; Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Half-Price Homicide; Elaine Viets
Hell’s Corner; David Baldacci
The Inner Circle; Brad Meltzer
The Lion; Nelson DeMille
One Rough Man; Brad Taylor
The Poacher’s Son; Paul Doiron
Portobello; Ruth Rendell
Midnight Fugue; Reginald Hill
Necessary as Blood; Deborah Crombie
The Reversal; Michael Connelly
The Search; Nora Roberts
The Sherlockian; Graham Moore
So Cold the River; Michael Koryta
Tick Tock; James Patterson


Non-Fiction

Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet; Jennifer Homans
As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto: Food, Friendship, and the Making of a Masterpiece; Joan Reardon
At Home: A Short History of Private Life; Bill Bryson
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories; Simon Winchester
Bossypants; Tina Fey
Chocolate Wars: The 150-year Rivalry Between the World’s Greatest Chocolate Makers; Deborah Cadbury
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy; David E. Hoffman
Decision Points; George W. Bush
The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English; Roy Peter Clark
The Great Oom: The Improbable Birth of Yoga in America; Robert Love
Hopes and Prospects; Noam Chomsky
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition; Daniel Okrent
Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction; Michael Ryan
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World; Liaquat Ahamed
No Man is an Island; Thomas Merton
The Oxford Book of Parodies; John Gross
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris; Graham Robb
Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests, and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Promise Me: How a Sister’s Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer; Nancy G. Brinker
Mediterranean; Adrian Tinniswood
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian; Avi Steinberg
Shadow of the Silk Road; Colin Thubron
Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People; Amy Sedaris
Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard; Chip and Dan Heath
The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam; Eliza Griswold
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival; John Vaillant
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption; Lauren Hildenbrand
The Whale; Philip Hoare


Poetry

The Apple Trees at Olema; Robert Hass
Anterooms; Richard Wilbur
The Best American Poetry 2010; Edited by Amy Gerstler
Canti; Giacoma Leopardi
Collected Poems; Edwin Arlington Robinson
Collected Poems by Ian Hamilton; Ian Hamilton
Collected Poems; Michael Donaghy
The Living Fire; Edward Hirsch
Lovers of the Lost; Wesley McNair
Poems 1959-2009; Frank Seidel
Poetry The Poetry Foundation (monthly subscription)
Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty; Tony Hoagland
Where I Live: New and selected poems 1990-2010;  Maxine Kumin


Science

Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology; David Abram
The Best American Science Writing 2010; Edited by Jerome Groopman
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010; Edited by Freeman Dyson
Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light; Jane Brox
DeepFreeze! A Photographer’s Antartic Odyssey in the Year 1959; Robert A. McCabe
Fannie’s Last Supper: Re-creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer’s 1896 Cookbook; Christopher Kimball
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food; Paul Greenberg
The Grand Design; Stephen Hawking and Leonard Miodinow
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks; Rebecca Skloot
Long for this World: The Strange Science of Immortality; Jonathan Weiner
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values; Sam Harris
The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, etc.; Melanie Thernstrom
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception; Charles Seife
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality;
Manjit Kumar Saved by the Sea: A Love Story with Fish; David Helvarg
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean; Susan Casey
Water: The Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization; Steven Solomon
The Wonderful Future That Never Was: Flying Cars, Mail Delivery by Parachute & Other Predictions from the Past; The Editors of Popular Mechanics


Science Fiction

The Forever War; Joe Haldeman
Foundation  Isaac Asimov
Foundation and Empire; Isaac Asimov
Gateway; Frederik Pohl
Old Man’s War; John Scalzi
The Postman; David Brin
Second Foundation Isaac Asimov
Stranger in a Strange Land; Robert Heinlein
Transitor; David Sharrock
Wasteland of Flint; Thomas Harlan
The Wise Man’s Fear; Patrick Rothfuss