Recent Acquisitions

By genre (Art, Biography, Children’s (Picture Books/Junior Fiction), 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 among our most popular).

Fall 2012 – Summer 2013

Art

By Hand: The Use of Craft In Contemporary Art  Shu Hung

The Complete Printmaker  John Ross

Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design Jeannine Falino

The Evolving Image Joseph Ferguson

Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood  Kathan Brown

Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer’s Civil War Peter Wood

The New Acrylics  Rheni Tauchid

Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series Sarah C. Bancroft

The Writings of Robert Motherwell  Dore Ashton

Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer’s Civil War Peter Wood

Biography

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo Tom Reiss

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman  Robert K. Massie

Dearie: The Remarkable Life Of Julia Child Bob Spitz

George F. Kennan: An American Life  John Lewis Gaddis

I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen Sylvie Simmons

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin  Erik Larson

Joseph Anton:  A Memoir  Salman Rushdie

Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller Tracy Daugherty

Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever   Bill O’Reilly

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention  Manning Marable

On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring William Souder

Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson  Robert A. Caro

The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy David Nasaw

The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh Jenny Uglow

Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War   Madeleine Albright

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power Jon Meacham

Tolstoy: A Russian Life  Rosamund Bartlett

Yes, Chef  Marcus Samuelsson 

Non-Fiction

Artful Ali Smith

Behind the Beautiful Forevers  Katherine Boo

Bringing Up Bebe Pamela Druckerman

Burma: Rivers of Flavor Naomi Duguid

Farther Away Jonathan Franzen

Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art From Egypt to Star Wars Camille Paglia

Hallucinations Oliver Sacks

Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories From the Road William Least Heat-Moon

A History of the World in 100 Objects  Neil MacGregor

Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, From One to Infinity  Steven Strogatz

Leonardo and the Last Supper  Ross King

Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court  Jeffrey Toobin

On Looking: Eleven Walks With Expert Eyes Alexandra Horowitz

The Price of Inequality  Joseph E. Stiglitz

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Susan Cain

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutions Evgeny Morozov

Who Stole the American Dream?  Hedrick Smith

Science & Nature

All Natural Nathanael Johnson

Animals Make Us Human Temple Grandin

Bad Pharma Ben Goldacre

Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012  Dan Ariely (editor)

Best American Science Writing 2012  Michio Kaku (editor)

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation Michael Pollan

The Drunken Botanist Amy Stewart

Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution  John Gribbin

The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden  Mark Bowden

Forks Over Knives: The Plant-Based Way to Health Gene Stone (editor)

Frankenstein’s Cat Emily Anthes

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal  Mary Roach

My Beloved Brontosaurus Brian Switek

Nature Wars Jim Sterba

A Planet of Viruses  Carl Zimmer

Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now Douglas Rushkoff

Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us Michael Moss

Storm Kings: The Untold Story of America’s First Tornado Chasers  Lee Sandlin

Poetry 

American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology  Cole Swensen and David St. John (editors)

Alien vs. Predator Michael Robbins

As Long As Trees Last Hoa Nguyen

The Best American Poetry 2012  Mark Doty (editor)

Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems From Emerging Writers  Natasha Trethewey (editor)

City of One Hundred Fires Richard Blanco

The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou Maya Angelou

Directions to the Beach of the Dead Richard Blanco

Life on Mars: Poems Tracy K. Smith

Looking for the Gulf Motel  Richard Blanco

Mayakovsky’s Revolver Matthew Dickman

Music For Porn Rob Halpern

Native Guard  Natasha Trethewey

The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine

Don Share (editor)

Phenomenal Woman Maya Angelou

Pink Thunder Michael Zapruder

Place Jorie Graham

Poetry for Young People: Maya Angelou

 Dr. Edwin Graves Wilson and Jerome Lagarrigue (editors)

Quick Question John Ashbery

The Seashell Anthology of Great Poetry  Christopher Burns (editor)

Thrall  Natasha Trethewey

Thunderbird Dorothea Lasky

Fiction

Back to Blood Tom Wolfe

The Baker’s Daughter  Sarah McCoy

The Bartender’s Tale Ivan Doig

The Best American Short Stories 2012  Tom Perrotta (editor)

The Burgess Boys Elizabeth Strout

The Chemistry of Tears  Peter Carey

The Colour of Milk Nell Leyshon

Dear Life: Stories  Alice Munro

The Dinner Herman Koch

The Flight of Gemma Hardy  Margot Livesey

The Folded Earth  Anuradha Roy

Freud’s Sister Goce Smilevksi

The Garden of Evening Mists Tan Twan Eng Heft  Liz Moore

In Sunlight and In Shadow  Mark Helprin

Juliet in August Dianne Warren

Lionel Asbo: State of England  Martin Amis

Maine  J. Courtney Sullivan

NW  Zadie Smith

The Orchardist Amanda Coplin

A Possible Life Sebastian Faulks

The Round House Louise Erdrich

Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d’Art Christopher Moore

San Miguel  T.C. Boyle

Summer Lies  Bernhard Schlink

Sweet Tooth Ian McEwan

Swimming Home Deborah Levy

Tenth of December George Saunders

There But for The  Ali Smith

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie Ayana Mathis

Vlad  Carlos Fuentes

We Others: New and Selected Stories  Steven Millhauser

Mystery

And When She Was Good  Laura Lippman

Bad Little Falls  Paul Doiron

The Beautiful Mystery Louise Penny

Beastly Things  Donna Leon

The Black House Peter May

Broken Harbor  Tana French

The Buzzard Table Margaret Maron

Cop to Corpse  Peter Lovesey

Criminal Karin Slaughter

Cut to the Quick  Kate Ross

The Cutting Season Attica Locke

The Dead Season Christobel Kent

Defending Jacob William Landay

The Invisible Ones  Stef Penney

The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection  Alexander McCall Smith

Murder at the Lanterne Rouge  Cara Black

Murder Below Montparnasse Cara Black

The Neruda Case  Roberto Ampuero

Port City Black and White Gerry Boyle

The St. Zita Society  Ruth Rendell

The Truth of All Things  Kieran Shields

An Unmarked Grave  Charles Todd

Science Fiction

Among Others  Jo Walton

The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction  Edward L Ferman and Gordon Van Gelder (editors)

The Dispossessed  Ursula K. LeGuin

Fiasco  Stanislaw Lem

Four Ways to Forgiveness  Ursula K. LeGuin

A Game of Thrones George R. R. Martin

The House of Storms Ian R. MacLeod

Kurt Vonnegut: Novels and Stories 1963-1973  Kurt Vonnegut

The Light Ages Ian R. MacLeod

On Basilisk Station David Weber

The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories  Tom Shippey (editor)

The Speed of Dark  Elizabeth Moon

The Star Diaries Stanislaw Lem

The Wise Man’s Fear  Patrick Rothfuss

Children’s and Young Adult 

Alexander Graham Bell: Setting the Tone for Communication  Mike Venezia

Art & Max  David Wiesner

The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse  Eric Carle

Blackout  John Rocco

Breaking Stalin’s Nose  Eugene Yelchin

Common Ground: The Water, Earth and Air We Share  Molly Bang

Dead End in Norvelt  Jack Gantos

Extra Yarn Mac Barnett

Eyewitness Books: Chemistry  Ann Newmark

The Fault In Our Stars John Green

Henry Ford: Big Wheel in the Auto Industry  Mike Venezia

Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the World to Life  Molly Bang

The Lost Books (Box Set)  Ted Dekker

Mister Seahorse  Eric Carle

My Map Book Sara Fanelli

The Other Wes Moore Wes Moore

The  Picture History of Great Inventors  Gillian Clements

The Plant Parts Series (Roots, Seeds, Flowers, Fruits, Stems, Leaves) Vijaya Bodach

Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak: Geek Heroes Who Put the Personal in Computers 

 Mike Venezia

Thomas Edison: Inventor With a Lot of Bright Ideas  Mike Venezia

Trash  Andy Mulligan

Treasury of Greek Mythology  Donna Jo Napoli

Tumford the Terrible  Nancy Tillman

Wired  Anastasia Suen

The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of Eastern North America Bill Thompson