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New Books List 06-07

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B                Bruchac, Joseph.

BRU            At the end of Ridge Road:

B                Eggers, Dave.
EGG            A heartbreaking work of staggering genius

B                Ibadi, Shirin.
IBA                Iran awakening: a memoir of revolution

B                Lewis, Michael.
LEW            The blind side

B                Mah Yen Adeline.
MAH            Falling Leaves

B               Wright, Richard.

WRI            Black boy

028            Bauer, S. Wise.

BAU            The well-educated mind

153.4        Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-

GLA            Blink : the power of thinking without thinking

154.6        Freud, Sigmund.

FRE            The interpretation of dreams

204            James, William.

JAM            The varieties of religious experience

271            Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968

MER          The seven storey mountain

294.3        Kerouac, Jack.

KER            Some of the dharma

303.48       Friedman, Thomas L.

FRI              The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century

305.235     Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell

FRE            The Freedom Writers Diary

305.4        Jones, Constance.

JON            1000 things everyone should know about women's history

305.5        Ehrenreich, Barbara.

EHR            Nickel and dimed:on (not) getting by in America

320.473    Meltzer, Tom.

MEL            Cracking AP US Government and Politics Exam

333.78      Burnett, Jim.

BUR            Hey Ranger!:true tales of humor & misadventure from America's national parks

338.7        Katz, John.

KAT            Geeks: how two lost boys rode the Internet out of Idaho

345.766    Grisham, John. 

GRI            The innocent man: murder and injustice

355.02       Machiavelli Niccolò 

MAC            Art of War

362.7         Kozol, Jonathan.

KOZ            Amazing grace : the lives of children and the conscience of a nation

363.738    Carson, Rachel. 

CAR            Silent spring

378.1        Princeton Review

BES            The best 361 colleges

394.1        Pollan, Michael

POL            The omnivore's dilemma: a natural history of four meals

398.21        Calvino, Italo

CAL            Italian folktales

R 423        Lees, Gene.

LEE            The modern rhyming dictionary:how to write lyrics : including a practical guide to lyric writing for songwriters and poets

500            Bryson, Bill.

BRY            A short history of nearly everything

500            Trefil, James S., 1938-

TRE            101 things you don't know about science, and noone else does either /

500            Wolke, Robert L

WOL            What Einstein told his barber : more scientific answers to everyday questions

512            Livio, Mario

LIV                The equation that couldn't be solved

516.2        Livio, Mario

LIV                The golden ratio: the story of phi

516.22        Beckmann, Peter

BEC                A history of pi

523.1         Greene, Brian, 1963-

GRE            The fabric of the cosmos : space, time, and the texture of reality

523.46        Lovett, Laura. 

LOV            Saturn: a new view

530            Feingold, Morderchai and Newton, Issac

FEI                The Newtonian moment

530            Kakalios, James.

KAK            The physics of superheroes

530            Randall, Lisa

RAN            Warped passages, unraveling the mysteries of the universe's hidden dimensions

530            Smolin, Lee.

SMO            The trouble with physics: the rise of string theory, the fall of a science, and what comes next

530.12       Lloyd, Seth.

LLO            Programming the universe:a quantum computer scientist takes on the cosmos

540            Gonick, Larry.

GON            The cartoon guide to chemistry

551.51       Bowen, Mark 

BOW            Thin ice: unlocking the secrets of the climate in the world's highest mountains

553            

ZAN            Zanichelli compact Italian and English dictionary : English-Italian/Italian-English

576.8        Darwin, Charles.

DAR            The origin of species ; and, The voyage of the Beagle

599.35      Sullivan, Robert

SUL            Rats: observations on the history and habitat of the city's most unwanted inhabitants

599.884      Fossey, Dian.  

FOS           Gorillas in the mist   

611            Roach, Mary.

ROA            Stiff: the curious lives of human cadaver

616.8        Sacks, Oliver

SAC            The man who mistook his wife for a hat

741.5        Oppenheimer, Robert J.

FAL            Fallout

741.5        Gaiman, Neil.

GAI            The books of magic

741.5        How to draw manga

HOW

741.5        Kobayashi, Jin.

KOB            School Rumble. 1.

741.5        Miller, Frank.

MIL            Batman: the Dark Knight returns

741.5        Moore, Alan.

MOO        Watchmen

741.5        Moore, Alan.

MOO        V for vendetta

741.5          Takaya, Natsuki.

TAK            Fruits basket. Vol. 1.

741.5          Takaya, Natsuki.

TAK            Fruits basket. Vol. 2.

741.5         Togashi, Yoshihiro

TOG            YuYu Hakusho. Vol 1. Goodbye, material.

741.5         Togashi, Yoshihiro

TOG            YuYu Hakusho. Vol 2. Lonesome ghosts

741.5         Togashi, Yoshihiro

TOG            YuYu Hakusho. Vol 3. In the flesh.

741.5         Torres, J. 

TOR           Love as a foreign language 

741.5        Watterson, Bill.

WAT            Scientific progress goes "boink"

741.5        Whedon, Joss

WHE            Fray

775            Hedgecoe, John.

HED            The art of digital photography.

782.42166  Partridge, Elizabeth.

PAR               John Lennon : all I want is the truth : a photographic biography

792.02        Belli, Mary Lou.

BEL                Acting for young actors

796.332     Bissinger, H.G.

BIS                Friday night lights

796.6           Armstrong, Lance.

ARM            It's not about the bike : my journey back to life

808             Murphy, Barbara L.

MUR            Writing the AP English essay : a personal trainer for the AP english student

808           Prose, Francine.

PRO               Reading like a writer: a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them 

808.8        November, Sharon, ed.

FIR                Firebirds Rising:an anthology of original science fiction and fantasy

808.8        Mckillip, Patricia.

MCK            Harrowing the dragon

810            Levithan, David, ed.

LEV            You are here, this is now : the best young writers and artists in America : a PUSH anthology

810.8       Eggers, David, ed.

BES            The best American non-required reading

811            Hughes, Langston

HUG            The collected poems of Langston Hughes

811            Ortiz, Simon.

ORT            Orbiter

811            Glazner, Gary, ed.

POE            Poetry slam :the competitive art of performance poetry

812            Hansberry, Lorraine

HAN            A raisin in the sun

812            Auburn, David.

AUB            Proof

812            Wasserstein, Wendy

WAS            The Heidi Chronicles and other plays

812            Wilson, August.

WIL               Fences 

813            Alvarez, Julia

ALV            How the Garcia girls lost their accents

813            Chabon, Michael.

CHA            The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay: a novel/

813            Cisneros, Sandra.

CIS                The house on Mango Street

813            Didion, Joan.

DID                The year of magical thinking

813            Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977-

FOE               Extremely loud & incredibly close

813            Gaimon, Neil.

GAI              American gods : a novel

813            Gaimon, Neil.

GAI               Anansi boys

813            Haddon, Mark.

HAD            The curious incident of the dog in the night-time

813            Hosseini, Khaled.

HOS            The kite runner

813            Lahiri, Jhumpa.

JHU               Interpreter of maladies : stories

813            King, Stephen.

KAI                Lisey's story : a novel

813            Lee, Chang-rae

LEE                Native speaker

813            Morrison, Toni.

MOR            The bluest eye

813            Pate, Alexs D., 1950-
PAT             Amistad : a novel

813            Quinonez, Ernesto

QUI             Bodega dreams

823            Adams, Douglas

ADA            The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy  

823            McEwan, Ian

MCE              Saturday

823            Wolstonecraft, Mary Shelley

SHE                Frankenstein

861            Neruda, Pablo

NER                Canto general

895.6        Murakami, Haruki

MUR            Kafka on the shore

910           Lonely Planet    

TRA            Travel Book:a journey through every country in the world.

910            Wojtanik, Andrew.

WOJ            Afghanistan to Zimbabwe: country facts that helped me win the National Geographic Bee 

915.8104    Stewart, Rory

STE                The places in between

917.404      Bryson, Bill.

BRY                A walk in the woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

918.04      Guevara, Ernesto.  

GUE            The motorcycle diaries: notes on a Latin American journey

920          Ottaviani, Jim.

OTT         Dignifying science: stories about women

920            Rolka, Gail Meyer.

ROL               100 women who shaped world history:

940.54        Bradley, James.

BRA                Flags of our fathers: heroes of Iwo Jima

944.04        Carlyle, Thomas

THO             The French Revolution   

967.62        Elkins, Caroline.

ELK                Imperial reckoning: the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya

973            Obama, Barack

OBA            The audacity of hope : thoughts on reclaiming the American dream

973.931    Jacobson, Sid.

JAC            The 9/11 report

973.931    Spiegelman, Art 

SPI                In the shadow of no towers

F              Albom, Mitch      

ALB            The five people you meet in heaven

F             Allende, Isabel
ALL            Zorro: a novel

F                Almond, David.

ALM             Clay   

F                Alvarez, Julia.

ALV            Finding miracles

F                Anderson, M.T.

AND            The pox party

F                Austen, Jane.

AUS            The final solution: a story of detection

F                Bray, Libba.

BRA             A great and terrible beauty

F                Calvino, Italo.

CAL               Invisible cities

F                Card, Orson Scott

CAR            Ender's game

F                Chabon, Michael.
CHA            The final solution: a story of detection

F                Chima, Cinda Williams.
CHI            The warrior heir

F                Clarke, Arthur Charles
CLA              2001: a space odyssey

F                Coelho, Paulo.

COE            The alchemist

    
F                Conrad, Joseph.
CON            Heart of darkness

F                Cormier, Robert.

COR            We all fall down

F                Crutcher, Christopher.

CRU            Athletic shorts : six short stories

F                Deuker, Carl

DEU            Night hoops

F                Draper, Sharon
DRA            Copper sun

F                Draper, Sharon
DRA            Tears of a tiger

F                Eugenides, Jeffrey.
EUG            Middlesex

F                Erikson, Steven
ERI               Memories of ice

F                Faulkner, William.

FAU                The sound and the fury

F                Foer, Safron Jonathan

FOE               Everything is illuminated

F                Galloway, Gregory

GAL            As simple as snow

F                Gibson, William
GIB                Neuromancer

F                Golden, Author

GOL                Memoirs of a geisha

F                Green, John.

GRE            An abundance of Katherines

F                Green, John.

GRE            Looking for Alaska

F                Hartnett, Sonya

HAR            Surrender.

F                Hautman, Pete.
HAU            Rash

F                 Hinton, S. E.

HIN             Rumble fish

F                Hornby, Nick.
HOR            High Fidelity
    

F                Immel, Mary Blair
IMM            Captured!:a boy trapped in the Civil War 

F                Irving, John.
IRV            The world according to Garp

F                Ishiguro, Kazuo

ISH                Never let me go

F                Lahiri, Jhumpa

LAH            The namesake

F                Lethem, Jonathan
LET              Motherless Brooklyn

F                Levithan, David.

LEV            Are we there yet?

F                 Levithan, David.

LEV              Wide awake    

F                Lynch, Chris
LYN            Slot machine

F                Kesey, Ken.
KES            One flew over the cuckoo's nest

F                Korman, Gordon.

KOR            Son of the mob

F                Krovatin, Christopher.

KRO            Heavy metal and you

F                Mailer, Norman.

MAI            The naked and the dead.

F                Edited by Mercado, Nancy E.

MER             Every man for himself : ten short stories about being a guy

F                Meyer, Stephanie
MEY            Twilight

F               Murakami, Haruki.

MUR            Norwegian wood

F                Nabokov, Vladimir

NAB            Lolita

F                Nix, Garth
NIX                Sabriel

F                 Nix, Garth

NIX                Shade's children

F               O'Brien, Tim
OBR            Northern Lights

F                Paolini, Christopher.

PAO             Eldest

F                Paolini, Christopher.

PAO              Eragon

F                Pynchon, Thomas.
PYN            Gravity's rainbow

F                Pynchon, Thomas.
PYN            The crying of lot 49

F                Sebold, Alice.

SEB            The lovely bones

F                 Simmons, Michael.      

SIM            Finding Lubchenko

F                Smith, Zadie.
SMI            White Teeth

F                Stephenson, Neal.
STE             Snow Crash   

F                Stevenson, Robert Louis.
STE            Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

F                Styron, William

STY             Sophie's choice

F                Tan, Amy.

TAN            The Joy Luck Club

F                Torres, Steven.
TOR            Missing in Precinct Puerto Rico.

F                Walker, Alice

WAL            The color purple

F                Vonnegut, Kurt.

VON            Breakfast of champions

F                Zusak, Markus.

ZUS              The book thief

Audiovisual

DVD             Gore, Al.      

INC                An inconvenient truth : the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about

Audio

CD                The United States Navy Band and Sea Chanters Chorus

AME                   American Salute

CD                "The President's Own" United States Marine Band

CHA                    Charles Ive's America

CD                The United States Navy Band

COU                    Country Current LIVE

CD                The United States Navy Band Presents: The Cruisers:

CRU                  Cruisin' Roundabout

CD                "The President's Own" United States Marine Band
EMB                 Emblems

CD                "The President's Own" United States Marine Band
FAM                 Family Album

CD                "The President's Own" United States Marine Band

GRA                  Grand Scenes

CD                The United States Navy Band
HAP                   Happy Holidays

CD                United States Navy Band Sea Chanters Chorus

HOM                 Homeward Bound

CD                "The President's Own" United States Marine Band
LIV                    Live in Concert

CD                 "The President's Own" United States Marine Band  
MAR                 Marine Band Retrospective

CD                United States Navy Band Sea Chanters Chorus

JOU                 Journey

CD                "The President's Own" United States Marine Band

ORI                   Originals

CD                "The President's Own" United States Marine Band

PLA                    Playing America's Music for 200 Years 1798-1998                   

CD                "The President's Own" United States Marine Band

SYM                Symphonies of Wind Instruments

CD                Commodores Jazz Ensemble

THR                Three Shades of Blue

CD                United States Navy Band

WOR                The World's Finest 1925-2000