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Recent Acquisitions

Fiction

[FIC And] Anderson, Laurie Halse. Chains. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2008.

[FIC Boy] Boyle, Tom Coraghessan. The tortilla curtain. Penguin, 1995.

[FIC Bro] Brooks, Geraldine.Year of wonders: a novel of the plague. Penguin Books, 2001.

[FIC Che] Chesterton, G. K. The Man Who Was Thursday. North Books, 2003.

[FIC DeM] DeMille, Nelson. By the rivers of Babylon. Warner, 1990.

[FIC DeL] De los Santos, Marisa. Belong to me. William Morrow, 2008.

[FIC Div] Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. Sister of my heart. Anchor Books, 2000.

[FIC Eng] Enger, Leif. Peace like a river. Doubleday, 2001.

[FIC Goo]Goodman, Alison. Eon: Dragoneye reborn. Viking, 2008.

[FIC Gre] Greene, Graham. The quiet American. Penguin Books, 1974.

[FIC Hrd] Hrdlitschka, Shelley. Sister wife. Orca Book Publishers, 2008.

[FIC Keh] Kehlmann, Daniel. Me and Kaminski. Pantheon Books, 2008.

[FIC LeC] Le Carré, John. The mission song. Little, Brown and Co., 2006.

[FIC May] Mayes, Frances. Under the Tuscan sun: at home in Italy. Broadway Books, 1997.

[FIC Pat] Patchett, Ann. Bel canto: a novel. Perennial, 2002.

[FIC Pic] Picoult, Jodi. Plain truth. Hodder & Stoughton, 2004.

[FIC Rag] Ragen, Naomi. The ghost of Hannah Mendes. St. Martin's Griffin, 2001.

[FIC Sei] Seigel, Andrea. Like the red panda. Harcourt, 2004.

[FIC Ste] Stegner, Wallace Earle. Angle of repose. Penguin Books, 2000.

[FIC Vog] Vogel, David, Married life. Toby, 2007.

[FIC Wel] Wells, Rebecca. Little altars everywhere. HarperPerennial, 1996.

[POETRY Has] Hass, Robert. Time and materials: poems, 1997-2005. Ecco, 2007.

Non-Fiction

[BIO Bilal] Bilal, Wafaa. Shoot an Iraqi: art, life and resistance under the gun. City Lights, 2008.

[BIO Dillon] Kennedy, Pagan. The first man-made man: the story of two sex changes, one love affair, and a twentieth-century medical revolution. Bloomsbury: 2007.

[BIO Hitler] Kershaw, Ian. Hitler: a biography. W.W. Norton, 2008.

[BF637 .S8G533 2008] Gladwell, Malcolm. Outliers: the story of success. Little, Brown and Co.,
2008.

[BL238 .S32 2008] Schimmel, Solomon. The tenacity of unreasonable beliefs:
fundamentalism and the fear of truth
. Oxford University Press, 2008

[BL2775.3.D39 2006] Dawkins, Richard. The God delusion. Houghton Mifflin, 2006.

[BM723.K288 1985] Kaplan, Aryeh. Jewish Meditation: A Practical Guide. Schocken Books,
1995.

[BM729 .H34N53 2008] Niditch, Susan. My brother Esau is a hairy man: hair and identity in ancient Israel. Oxford University Press, 2008.

[BS1225.53 .S383 2006] Schorsch, Ismar. Canon without closure: Torah commentaries. Aviv Press, 2007.

[BV4655 .H44 2006] Hester, Joseph P. The Ten commandments: a handbook of religious, legal, and social issues. McFarland & Co., 2006.

[CR4743 .F6213 2009] Frale, Barbara. The Templars: the secret history revealed. Arcade. Pub.,
2009.

[DS119.76 .C354 2009]Carter, Jimmy. We can have peace in the Holy Land: a plan that will work. Simon & Schuster, 2009.

[DS135 .G7F54 2008] Fleming, K. E. Greece: a Jewish history. Princeton University Press, 2008.

[E457.2 .R333 2008] Reinhart, Mark S. Abraham Lincoln on screen: fictional and documentary portrayals on film and television. McFarland, 2008.

[E901.1 .O23A3 2006b] Obama, Barack. The audacity of hope: thoughts on reclaiming the American dream. Random House, in association with Crown Publishers, 2006.

[EDUCATION LB 2822.82 .K65 1999] Kohn, Alfie. The schools our children deserve:
moving beyond traditional classrooms and "tougher standards."
Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999.

[GV558 .P67 2008] Why a curveball curves: the incredible science of sports. Hearst Books, 2008.

[GV1317 .S44 2006] Shenk, David. The immortal game: a history of chess or how 32 carved pieces on a board illuminated our understanding of war, art, science, and the human brain. Doubleday, 2006.

[KF3020 .S57 2008] Simpson, Carol. Copyright for administrators. Linworth Pub., 2008.

[PN1995.9 .C34H57 2006] Hirshenson, Janet. A star is found: our adventures casting some of Hollywood's biggest movies. Harcourt, 2006.

[PN1995.9 .D55K39 2006] Kay, Glenn. Disaster movies: a loud, long, explosive, star-studded guide to avalanches, earthquakes, floods, meteors, sinking ships, twisters, viruses, killer bees, nuclear fallout, and alien attacks in the cinema!!!! Chicago Review Press, 2006.

[Ref HV6322.7 .H67 2006] Horvitz, Leslie Alan. Encyclopedia of war crimes and genocide. Facts on File, 2006.

[Ref JK524 .M48 2005] Menendez, Albert J. The geography of presidential elections in the United States, 1868-2004. McFarland & Company, 2005.

[Ref RA649 .E53 2008] Encyclopedia of plague and pestilence: from ancient times to the present Facts On File, 2008.

[SF428.73 B38 2006] Bauer, Nona Kilgore. Dog heroes of September 11th: a tribute to America's search and rescue dogs. Kennel Club Books, 2006.

DVDs

[Vid Civ] The Civil War in four minutes. BRC Imagination Arts, 2008.

[Vid Ham] Hamlet. Warner Home Video, 2004.

[Vid Tim] Time for a new God. Giraffe Partners, 2004.