Monday, May 21, 2007

NEW to the library

NEW to the library:
Nonfiction
And I Haven’t Had a Bad Day Since / Charles B. Rangel
In this inspiring and often humorous memoir, the outspoken Democratic congressman from Harlem - now the chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee - tells about his early years on Lenox Avenue, being awarded a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart for wounds sustained in a horrific Korean War battle the last bad day of his life, he says), and his many years in Congress.

Visual Shock / Michael Kammen
Pulitzer Prize winner Kammen explains why art matters in this study of the nature, diversity and persistence of major disputes generated by art and artists since the 1830s. In reviewing the controversies over art in US history, he discusses the kind of art appropriate for a democratic society, how a distinctively American art can be achieved, and the reasons for the politicalization of art since the late 1960s.
The Glory of Southern Cooking / James Villas
From award-winning author James Villas, the most complete, authentic, and authoritative book available on Southern cooking As Paula Wolfert has said, "there are not many writers around who are as much fun to read as James Villas." Now this proud North Carolina native brings together the best of traditional and new Southern cooking in one definitive volume.
In An Instant / Lee and Bob Woodruff
Lee Woodruff, along with her husband, Bob Woodruff, shares the couple's never-before-told story of romance, resilience, and survival following the tragedy that transformed their lives and gripped a nation. In an Instant is the account of how Bob and Lee's lives came together, were blown apart, and then were miraculously put together again - and how they persevered, with grit but also with humor, through intense trauma and fear.
Jewels / Michael Cunningham and Connie Briscoe
The Last Tycoon / William D. Cohan
My Year Inside Radical Islam / Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
The New American Story / Bill Bradley
The Original African Heritage Study Bible
350 Affordable Home Plans / Dreams Home Source

Fiction
Angelica /Arthur Phillips
Angelica is a Victorian ghost story, an intriguing literary and psychological puzzle, and a meditation on marriage, childhood, memory, and fear." "The novel opens in London, in the 1880s, with the Barton household on the brink of collapse. Mother, father, and daughter provoke one another, consciously and unconsciously, and a horrifying crisis is triggered. As the family's tragedy is told several times from different perspectives, events are recast and sympathies shift.

Absolute Fear / Lisa Jackson
Eve Renner has returned to New Orleans hoping to forget the past . . . but it will not be so easily forgotten. Now, as memories begin to surface, someone is watching, planning . . . for the sins of the past must be revealed, the crimes brought to justice, and the price paid--in blood.

Heartstopper / Joy Fielding
Welcome to Torrance, Florida. Population: 4,160. As Sheriff John Weber would attest, the deadliest predators to date in his tiny hamlet were the alligators lurking in the nearby swamps. But that was before someone abducted and murdered a runaway teenage girl...and before the disappearance of popular and pretty Liana Martin. The pattern is chilling to Sandy Crosbie, the town's new high school English teacher. With a marriage on the rocks, thanks to her husband's online affairs, and a beautiful teenage daughter to protect, Sandy wishes she'd never come to the seemingly quiet town with shocking depths of scandal, sex, and brutality roiling beneath its surface.

Patterns in Silicon / Maureen Robb
Lea Sherwood, chef-owner of San Francisco's acclaimed new restaurant, Panache, is the toast of the city until a Silicon Valley CEO dies of poisoning over dinner. Branded a suspect in the murder of her old flame, Lea soon resolves to investigate on her own. Her pursuit of the killer pits her against rogue executives, wannabe millionaires, and cocky software wizards. It also leads her into a treacherous underworld of the Valley, where industrial espionage and financial fraud flourish, and greed reigns. As her life spins out of control, Lea risks all to confront the killer and the dark side of the human heart.

Boomsday / Christopher Buckley
Obsession /Jonathan Kellerman
Flight / Sherman Alexie
Timothy, or Notes of an Abject Reptile / Verlyn Klinkenborg
Spanish Dagger / Susan Wittig Albert

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