New Library Acquisitions 12.01.2006

Fiction
   Call #     F Atk
   Author     Atkinson, Kate.
   Title      One good turn : a novel /
   Note     A brilliant new thriller from the author of 2005's breakout favorite, Case Histories, again featuring the irresistibly reluctant detective Jackson Brodie.

   Call #     F Bah
   Author     Bahr, Howard,
   Title      The Judas Field : a novel of the Civil War /
   Notes      It's been twenty years since Cass Wakefield returned from the Civil
              War to his hometown in Mississippi, but he is still haunted by
              battlefield memories. Now he is presented with a chance to literally
              retrace his steps from the past, as his dying friend Alison urges him
              to accompany her on a trip to Franklin, Tennessee, to recover the
              bodies of her father and brother...
            
   Call #     F Bak
   Author     Baker, Calvin,
   Title      Dominion /
   Note    A novel about three generations of an African American family in the years leading up to the Revolutionary War.

   Call #     F Bar
   Author     Barton, Emily,
   Title      Brookland /
   Note     Set in eighteenth-century Brooklyn, this is the story of a determined and intelligent woman who is consumed by a vision of a bridge: a gargantuan construction of timber and masonry she devises to cross the East River in a single, magnificent span. With the help of the local surveyor, Benjamin Horsfield, and her sisters—the high-spirited, obstreperous Tem, who works with her in the distillery, and the silent, uncanny Pearl—she fires the imaginations of the people of Brooklyn and New York by promising them a bridge that will meet their most pressing practical needs while being one of the most ambitious public works ever attempted. Prue’s own life and the life of the bridge become inextricably bound together as the costs of the bridge, both financial and human, rise beyond her direst expectations.
 
   Call #     F Ber
   Author     Berg, Elizabeth.
   Title      We are all welcome here : a novel /
   Notes      Having contracted polio at 22 while pregnant, Paige Dunn delivers her baby from an iron lung, and ends up raising her daughter, Diana, alone after her husband divorces her. Able to move only her head, Paige requires round-the-clock nursing care that social services barely cover. Now 13, Diana has taken over the night shift to save them money, sharing her mother's care with no-nonsense African-American day worker Peacie, who is protective of Paige and unforgiving of Diana's adolescent yearning for freedom... Presented in honor of Linda Miller, Librarian, Westminster School, 1980-2000.

   Call #     F Car
   Author     Carver, Raymond.
   Title      Where I'm calling from : the selected stories /

   Call #     F Esq
   Author     Esquivel, Laura,
   Title      Malinche /
   Notes     When Malinalli, a member of the tribe conquered by the Aztec warriors, first meets Cortés, she -- like many -- believes that he is the reincarnated forefather god of her tribe. Naturally, she assumes that her task is to help Cortés destroy the Aztec empire and free her people. The two fall passionately in love, but Malinalli gradually comes to realize that Cortés's thirst for conquest is all too human. He is willing to destroy anyone, even his own men, even their own love.

   Call #     F Fre
   Author     Freudenberger, Nell.
   Title      The dissident /
   Notes     From the PEN/Malamud Award-winning author of Lucky Girls comes a bold, intricately woven first novel about an enigmatic stranger who disrupts the life of one American family.

   Call #     F Gie
   Author     Gien, Pamela.
   Title      The syringa tree : a novel /
   Notes     This novel tells the apartheid story through the eyes of a white child who loses her innocence as she confronts the anguish of a black family torn apart by law, separated from each other and from her.

   Call #     F Ham
   Author     Hamilton, Jane,
   Title      When Madeline was young : a novel /
   Notes      When Aaron Maciver’s beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers brain damage in a bike accident, she is left with the intellectual powers of a six-year-old. In the years that follow, Aaron and his second wife care for Madeline with deep tenderness and devotion as they raise two children of their own.Narrated by Aaron's son, Mac, it chronicles the Maciver family through the decades, from Mac’s childhood growing up with Madeline and his cousin Buddy in Wisconsin through the Vietnam War, through Mac’s years as a husband with children of his own, and through Buddy’s involvement with the subsequent Gulf Wars. Presented in honor of Linda Miller, Librarian,  Westminster School, 1980-2000.

   Call #     F Jus
   Author     Just, Ward S.
   Title      Forgetfulness /
   Notes    Thomas Railles, a former parttime spy for the CIA, is a respected painter living in the south of France with his beloved wife, Florette. One day Florette goes for a walk in the hills and is killed by unknown assailants. Her death is devastating to Thomas, and he struggles to find a way forward in a world that seems defined by violence and grief. Each night he tracks the war in Iraq on the evening news, and Florette's killers are still at large. Suddenly Iraq is on his doorstep: French officials have detained four Moroccan terrorists and charged them with her murder. Thomas is invited to witness their interrogation. The experience completely undermines him, his world is utterly changed, and he finds himself unable to remain at a distance from America, the country he left long ago.

   Call #     F Mar
   Author     Martínez, Tomás Eloy.
   Title      The tango singer /
   Notes     It is 2001, and inflation is spiraling out of control in Argentina as Bruno Cadogan, an American graduate student specializing in Borges, arrives in Buenos Aires. Cadogan is on the trail of Julio Martel, an elusive tango singer rumored to be even better than Carlos Gardel, the greatest singer of the 1920s and ’30s...

   Call #     F Nun
   Author     Nunez, Elizabeth.
   Title      Prospero's daughter : a novel /
   Notes     A retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest set on a lush Caribbean island during the height of tensions between the native population and British colonists. Addressing questions of race, class, and power, it is first and foremost the story of a boy and a girl who come of age and violate the ultimate taboo.

   Call #     F O'Br
   Author     O'Brian, Patrick.
   Title      The hundred days /
   Notes     The year is 1815, and Europe's most unpopular (not to mention tiniest) empire-builder has escaped from Elba. In The Hundred Days, it's up to Jack Aubrey--and surgeon-cum-spymaster Stephen Maturin--to stop Napoleon in his tracks... Presented by Lawrence Gilman, Archivist.

   Call #     F Pea
   Author     Pears, Iain.
   Title      The portrait /
   Notes     An influential art critic in the early years of the twentieth century journeys from London to the rustic, remote island of Houat, off France's northwest coast, to sit for a portrait painted by an old friend, a gifted but tormented artist living in self-imposed exile...

   Call #     F Pes
   Author     Pessl, Marisha.
   Title      Special topics in calamity physics /
   Notes     A coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone to aphorisms and meteoric affairs), Blue is clever, deadpan, and possessed of a vast lexicon of literary, political, philosophical, and scientific knowledge—and is quite the cineaste to boot. In her final year of high school at the elite (and unusual) St. Gallway School in Stockton, North Carolina, Blue falls in with a charismatic group of friends and their captivating teacher, Hannah Schneider. But when the drowning of one of Hannah’s friends and the shocking death of Hannah herself lead to a confluence of mysteries, Blue is left to make sense of it all with only her gimlet-eyed instincts and cultural references to guide—or misguide—her.

   Call #     F Rot
   Author     Roth, Philip.
   Title      The counterlife /
   Notes     One of Roth's "Zuckerman" books, The Counterlife follows protagonist Nathan Zuckerman from New York to Israel to London. "Along the way, monologues, eulogies, letters, interviews, and conversations ponder Judaism and Zionism, the nature of personality, the competing claims of imagination and life, and sex"

   Call #     F Upd
   Author     Updike, John.
   Title      Terrorist /
   Notes    It tells of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy and his devotion to Allah and the words of the Holy Qur’an, as expounded to him by a local mosque’s imam.The son of an Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three, Ahmad turned to Islam at the age of eleven. He feels his faith threatened by the materialistic, hedonistic society he sees around him in the slumping factory town of New Prospect, in northern New Jersey. Neither the world-weary, depressed guidance counselor at Central High School, Jack Levy, nor Ahmad’s mischievously seductive black classmate, Joryleen Grant, succeeds in diverting the boy from what his religion calls the Straight Path. When he finds employment in a furniture store owned by a family of recently immigrated Lebanese, the threads of a plot gather around him, with reverberations that rouse the Department of Homeland Security.

 Literature
   Call #     811.008 Blo
   Title      American religious poems : an anthology /

   Call #     811.008 Wor
   Title      Words for the hour : a new anthology of American Civil War poetry /

Women
   Call #     305.42 Ima
   Title      Imagining ourselves : global voices from a new generation of women /

   Call #     305.42 Zei
   Author     Zeitz, Joshua.
   Title      Flapper : a madcap story of sex, style, celebrity, and the women who
              made America modern /

   Call #     305.4209 In
   Title      In her place : a documentary history of prejudice against women /

Psychology
     Call #     153.6 Pea MEZ)
   Author     Pease, Allan.
   Title      The definitive book of body language /
    Note      Shelved in the MEZzanine Lounge

Biography
Call #     305.8 Hou
   Author     Houze, David,
   Title      Twilight people : one man's journey to find his roots /
   Note       A journey of self-discovery and reconnection that ranged from the dirt roads of MIssissippi to the shores of South Africa - and back.
 
Economics
   Call #     330.973 Sti
   Author     Stiglitz, Joseph E.
   Title      The roaring nineties : a new history of the world's most prosperous
              decade /

   Call #     330.973 Wel
   Author     Wells, Wyatt C.
   Title      American capitalism, 1945-2000 : continuity and change from mass
              production to the information society /

   Call #     331.702 Bol (MEZ)
   Author     Bolles, Richard Nelson.
   Title      What color is your parachute? for teens : discovering yourself,
              defining your future /
   Note    Shelved in the MEZzanine Lounge

Environment
   Call #     333.95 Mey
   Author     Meyer, Stephen M.
   Title      The end of the wild /
   Note     With the extinction rate at 3000 species a year and accelerating, we can now predict that as many as half of the Earth's species will disappear within the next 100 years. The species that survive will be the ones that are most compatible with us: the weedy species--from mosquitoes to coyotes--that thrive in continually disturbed human-dominated environments.

Education
   Call #     371.334 Ric
   Author     Richardson, Will.
   Title      Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful web tools for classrooms /

Mythology
   Call #     201.309 Arm Booksale 2006
   Author     Armstrong, Karen,
   Title      A short history of myth /
   Notes      Human beings have always been mythmakers. Theologian Armstrong here
              investigates myth: what it is, how it has evolved, and why we still so
              desperately need it.

  Call #     398.21 Ada
   Author     Adams, Amanda.
   Title      A mermaid's tale : a personal tale for love and lore /
   Note    The myth and meanings of the mermaid across times and cultures.

   Call #     629.409 Cad
   Author     Cadbury, Deborah.
   Title      Space race : the epic battle between America and the Soviet Union for
              dominion of space /

Arts
   Call #     700.973 Car
   Author     Carlson, Marvin A.,
   Title      Performance: a critical introduction /

   Call #     701.18 Bar Booksale 2006
   Author     Barrett, Terry Michael,
   Title      Criticizing art : understanding the contemporary /

   Call #     702.8 Har Booksale 2006
   Author     Harrison, Lorraine,
   Title      Artist's materials : all the materials you will ever need to make art
            
   Call #     704.042 Gue
   Title      The Guerrilla Girls' bedside companion to the history of Western art /

   Call #     709.04 Met
   Author     Metropolitan Museum of Art.
   Title      Modern Europe /

   Call #     709.2 Gug
   Author     Dearborn, Mary V.
   Title      Mistress of modernism  the life of Peggy Guggenheim /

   Call #     709.2 War
   Author     Greenberg, Jan,
   Title      Andy Warhol : prince of pop /

   Call #     709.6 Mil
   Author     Miller, Judith.
   Title      Tribal art /
 
   Call #     741.5 Com
   Title      The complete New Yorker /
   Notes      Book and DVDs. Booksale 2006. Shelved in the Library Office.

   Call #     741.509 Sup
   Title      Superheroes and philosophy : truth, justice, and the socratic way /

   Call #     755.4 Dec
   Author     De Capoa, Chiara.
   Title      Old Testament figures in art /
   Notes      Includes indexes. Booksale 2006

   Call #     755.4 Zuf
   Author     Zuffi, Stefano,
   Title      Gospel figures in art /

   Call #     759.13 De K
   Author     Stevens, Mark,
   Title      De Kooning : an American master /

   Call #     759.13 Sto
   Author     Storr, Robert.
   Title      Chuck Close

   Call #     759.4 Kin
   Author     King, Ross,
   Title      The judgement of Paris : Manet, Meisonnier and an artistic revolution

   Call #     759.972 Kah
   Author     Morrison, John,
   Title      Frida Kahlo /
   Notes     For Spanish Language classes

Sports
 Call #     796.357 Flo
   Author     Snyder, Brad.
   Title      A well-paid slave : Curt Flood's fight for free agency in professional
              sports /

   Call #     797.2109 Mul
   Author     Mullen, P. H.
   Title      Gold in the water : the true story of ordinary men and their
              extraordinary dream of Olympic glory /

History and Politics
   Call #     320.5209 Sch
   Author     Critchlow, Donald T.,
   Title      Phyllis Schlafly and grassroots conservatism : a woman's crusade /

   Call #     323.1761 Wil
   Author     Williams, Donnie,
   Title      The thunder of angels : the Montgomery bus boycott and the people who
              broke the back of Jim Crow /

   Call #     327.73 Kin
   Author     Kinzer, Stephen.
   Title      Overthrow : America's century of regime change from Hawaii to Iraq / Call #     815 Ame vol. 1
   Title      American speeches : political oratory from the Revolution to the Civil
              War.

   Call #     341.23 Ken
   Author     Kennedy, Paul M.,
   Title      The parliament of man : the past, present, and future of the United
              Nations /

   Call #     815 Ame vol. 2
   Title      American speeches : political oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill
              Clinton.

   Call #     940.5318 Gil
   Author     Gilbert, Martin,
   Title      Kristallnacht : prelude to destruction /

   Call #     955.05 Far
   Author     Farber, David R.
   Title      Taken hostage : the Iran hostage crisis and America's first encounter
              with radical Islam /

   Call #     956.01 Fin
   Author     Finkel, Caroline.
   Title      Osman's dream : the story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923 /
   
   Call #     973.3092 Car
   Author     Levy, Andrew,
   Title      The first emancipator : the forgotten story of Robert Carter, the
              founding father who freed his slaves /
 
   Call #     973.92 Jen
   Author     Jenkins, Philip,
   Title      Decade of nightmares : the end of the sixties and the making of
              eighties America /

   Call #     973.921 Mcc
   Author     Wicker, Tom.
   Title      Shooting star : the brief arc of Joe McCarthy /

   Call #     973.925 For
   Author     Cannon, James M.,
   Title      Time and chance : Gerald Ford's appointment with history /

   Call #     973.926 Car
   Author     Jones, Charles O.
   Title      The trusteeship presidency : Jimmy Carter and the United States
              Congress /

Reference
   Call #     R 200 Bre
   Author     Breuilly, Elizabeth.
   Title      Religions of the world : the illustrated guide to origins, beliefs,
              traditions & festivals /
 
   Call #     R 820.9 Bac v. 1
   Title      Backgrounds to English literature : the Renaissance : English
              literature in its historical, cultural and social contexts.

   Call #     R 820.9 Bac v. 2
   Title      Backgrounds to English literature : the Romantics : English literature
              in its historical, cultural and social contexts.

   Call #     R 820.9 Bac v. 3
   Title      Backgrounds to English literature : the Victorians : English
              literature in its historical, cultural and social contexts.
   Notes     

   Call #     R 820.9 Bac v. 4
   Title      Backgrounds to English literature : the Modernist period, 1900-1945 :
              English literature in its historical, cultural and social contexts.

   Call #     R 820.9 Bac v. 5
   Title      Backgrounds to English literature : Post-war literature, 1945 tot the
              present :English literature in its historical, cultural and social
              contexts.