New Books
May 2012
You need a schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the building of schools for the segregated South by Stephanie Deutsch
379.2609 DEUTSCH
Gossip: the untrivial pursuit by Joseph Epstein
302.2 EPSTEIN
Quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by Susan Cain
155.2 CAIN
Intelligence and U.S. foreign policy: Iraq, 9/11, and misguided reform by Paul Pillar
327.1273 PILLAR
The unraveling: Pakistan in the age of Jihad by John Schmidt
954.9105 SCHMIDT
Paper covers rock: a novel by Jenny Hubbard
FIC HUBBARD
Lost technologies of the pyramids: how the great pyramid was built by Steven Myers
932 MYERS
One hundred percent American: the rebirth and decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920's by Thomas Pegram
322.4 PEGRAM
A planet of viruses by Carl Zimmer
362.196 ZIMMER
Afghanistan: a cultural and political history by Thomas Barfield
958.1 BARFIELD
Everybody loves our town: an oral history of grunge by Mark Yarm
781.66 YARM
Flowers for her grave by July Clemens
PB CLEMENS
Broken Irish: a novel by Edward Delaney
PB DELANEY
Wanted women: faith, lies and the war on terror: the lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui by Deborah Scroggins
305.48 SCROGGINS
Stephen Hawking: an unfettered mind by Kitty Ferguson
530.092 HAWKING
The story of English: how the English language conquered the world by Philip Gooden
427 GOODEN
Gangs by Richard Swift
364.106 SWIFT
Destiny of the republic: a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president by Candice Millard
973.8 MILLARD
Out of the shadows: expanding the canon of classic film noir by Gene Phillips
791.43 PHILLIPS
Earth: the operator's manual by Richard Alley
621.04209 ALLEY
Other heartbreaks: stories by Patricia Henley
PB HENLEY
Race to nowhere, a film by Vicki Abeles (DVD)
PRC 370.1 RACE
The telescope: a short history by Richard Dunn
522.209 DUNN
White over black: American attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 by Winthrop Jordan
301.451 JORDAN
Rise: the story of the Egyptian revolution as written shortly before it began by Tarek Shahin
956.04 SHAHIN
The book of the universes: exploring the limits of the cosmos by John Barrow
523.1 BARROW
Incognito: the secret lives of the brain by David Eagleman
PRC 153 EAGLEMAN
After Custer: loss and transformation in Sioux country by Paul Hedren
978.004 HEDREN
A Florentine death: a novel by Michele Giuttari
PB GIUTTARI
The kingdom of childhood: a novel by Rebecca Coleman
PB COLEMAN
Borrow: the American way of debt by Louis Hyman
332.7 HYMAN
Great discoveries in medicine edited by William and Helen Bynum
610.9 GREAT
Glock: the rise of America's gun by Paul Barrett
338.7 BARRETT
Ten popes who shook the world by Eamon Duffy
282.092 DUFFY
A positive view of LGBTQ: embracing identity and cultivating well-being by Ellen Riggle
155.3 RIGGLE
Roosevelt's lost alliances: how personal politics helped start the Cold War by Frank Costigliola
940.53 COST
Patton (DVD)
940.54 PATTON
The quantum story: a history in 40 moments by Jim Baggott
530.12 BAGGOTT
The drum: a history by Matt Dean
786.909 DEAN
Textiles: the whole story by Beverly Gordon
746.09 GORDON
Laddertop, v.1 by Orson Scott Card
GN CARD
Clockwork angel by Cassandra Clare
PB CLARE
The printmaker's daughter by Katherine Govier
PB GOVIER
A + E 4ever by I. Merey
GN MEREY
The book of time: the secrets of time, how it works, and how we measure it by Adam Hart-Davis
529.7 HART
Effective communication skills by Dalton Kehoe (DVD)
PRC 302.2 EFFECT
Polar imperative: history of arctic sovereignty in North America by Shelagh Grant
971.9 GRANT
Alix and Nicky: the passion of the last tsar and tsarina by Virginia Rounding
947.08 ROUNDING
A thousand lives: untold story of hope, deception, and survival at Jonestown by Julia Scheeres
289.9 SCHEERES
The viral storm: the dawn of a new pandemic age by Nathan Wolfe
616.9 WOLFE
Islam and America: building a future without prejudice by Anouar Majid
297.0973 MAJID
New American Haggadah edited by Jonathan Safran Foer
296.4 NEW
The Mormon people: the making of an American faith by Matthew Bowman
289.309 BOWMAN
Language: the cultural tool by Daniel Everett
400 EVERETT
The twenties in America (3 volumes)
REF 973.91 TWENTIES
Wired for culture: origins of the human social mind by Mark Pagel
303.4 PAGEL
The lost history of 1914: reconsidering the year the Great War began by Jack Beatty
940.3 BEATTY
Intel wars: the secret history of the fight against terror by Matthew Aid
363.325 AID
Forged in the fiery furnace: African American spirituality by Diana Hayes
248.089 HAYES
Revolution: a novel by Jennifer Donnelly
PB DONNELLY
Anya's ghost by Vera Brosgol
GN BROSGOL
The social neuroscience of empathy edited by Jean Decety and William Ickes
PRC 155.2 SOCIAL
Martin Luther's anti-semitism: against his better judgement by Eric Gritsch
261.2 GRITSCH
A line in the sand: Britain, France & the struggle that shaped the Middle East by James Barr
956.02 BARR
Eisenhower: in war and peace by Jean E. Smith
973.921 EISEN