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Browse the list below or choose a broad category to see new titles that have been added recently. You may also look in theonline catalog for more information about the books on this list. |
The following are new titles in the Library’s collection:
General Works
| AG | Book of useless information. N. Botham. |
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AG |
Exploring the unexplained: the world’s greatest marvels, mysteries, and myths. Time Magazine. |
Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
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B |
Husserl: a guide for the perplexed. M. Russell. |
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BF |
Mind: a user’s manual. J. Taylor. |
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BF |
In control. R. Williams. |
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BF |
Overachievers: the secret lives of driven kids. A. Robbins. |
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BF |
How to spot a liar: why people don’t tell the truth … and how you can catch them. G. Hartley. |
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BF |
Wicca for beginners. T. Sabin. |
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BJ |
Great personal letters for busy people. D. Booher. |
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Why we believe: our biological need for meaning, spirituality, and truth. A. Newberg. |
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BL |
G.O.D. experiments: how science is discovering God in everything, including us. G. Schwartz. |
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BL |
Botanica Los Angeles: Latino popular religious art in the city of angels. P. Polk. |
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Faiths of the founding fathers. D. Holmes. |
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BQ |
Tibetan book of the dead. G. Coleman. |
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BR |
Religion gone bad. M. White. |
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BT |
Kingdom coming: the rise of Christian nationalism. M. Goldberg. |
Biography, Auxiliary Materials
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CB |
Ancient civilizations: the illustrated guide to belief, mythology, and art. G. Woolf. |
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I hate the 21st century reader. C. Willis. |
World History
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DK |
Tajikistan. R. Abazov. |
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DK |
Turkmenistan. M. Knowlton. |
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Uzbekistan. M. Knowlton. |
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Images of Asia: cultural perspectives on a changing Asia. K. Bergquist. |
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DS |
How to cure a fanatic. A. Oz. |
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DS |
Kabul in winter: life without peace in Afghanistan. A. Jones. |
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DS |
America’s lost war: Vietnam, 1945 – 1975. C. Neu. |
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DT |
They poured fire on us from the sky: the true story of three lost boys from Sudan. A. Deng. |
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DT |
Machete season: the killers in Rwanda speak. J. Hatzfeld. |
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DT |
In his words. N. Mandela. |
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DT |
Prisoner in the garden: the Nelson Mandela Foundation. N. Mandela. |
American History
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E |
The Crow. R. Bial. |
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E |
The Delaware. R. Bial. |
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E |
East Main Street: Asian American popular culture. S. Dave. |
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E |
Translation nation: defining a new American identity in the Spanish-speaking United States. H. Tobar. |
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E |
Beat of a different drum: the untold stories of African Americans forging their own paths in work. R. Dax-Devlon. |
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E |
Invisible privilege: a memoir about race, class, and gender. P. Rothenberg. |
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E |
Darkest dawn: Lincoln, Booth, and the great American tragedy. T. Goodrich. |
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E |
People’s history of the Civil War. D. Williams. |
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E |
Middle Tennessee society transformed, 1860 – 1870. S. Ash. |
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E |
New Pearl Harbor: disturbing questions about the Bush administration and 9/11. D. Griffin. |
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F |
Crack in the edge of the world: America and the great California earthquake of 1906. S. Winchester. |
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F |
Maya script: a civilization and its writing. M. Longhena. |
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F |
Nicaragua. J. Kott. |
Geography, Anthropology, Recreation
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G |
Preparedness now: an emergency survival guide for civilians and their families. A. Edwards. |
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GA |
To the ends of the earth: 100 maps that changed the world. J. Harwood. |
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GN |
Shutting out the sun: how Japan created its own lost generation. M. Zielenziger. |
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GR |
Girl who married a lion and other tales from Africa. A. Smith. |
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GT |
Remember me: a lively tour of the new American way of death. L. Cullen. |
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GV |
Baseball: a history of America’s favorite game. G. Vecsey. |
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GV |
Where football is king: a history of the SEC. C. Walsh. |
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GV |
Golf tips from the pros. T. Baker. |
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GV |
Golf rules & etiquette simplified: what you need to know to walk the links like a pro. J. Companiotte. |
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GV |
Inside the Tour de France: the pictures, the legends, and the untold stories of the world’s most beloved bicycle race. E. Delanzy. |
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GV |
Tour de France: a cultural history. C. Thompson. |
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GV |
Competitive running. A. Bean. |
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GV |
Injury-free running. A. Bean. |
Business, Social Sciences
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H |
Action research dissertation. K. Herr. |
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HD |
Brandsimple: how the best brands keep it simple and succeed. A. Adamson. |
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HD |
Tips and traps for getting started as a real estate agent. R. Irwin. |
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HD |
Growing season: the life of a migrant community. G. Harwood. |
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HD |
There is no place like work: seven leadership insights for creating a workplace to call home. S. Margolis. |
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HD |
Labor rights are civil rights: Mexican American workers in twentieth-century America. Z. Vargas. |
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HD |
Reflective practitioner: how professionals think in action. D. Schon. |
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HD |
Working Americans, 1880 – 1999. S. Derks. |
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HD |
Bottomless well: the twilight of fuel, the virtue of waste, and why we will never run out of fuel. P. Huber. |
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HF |
Roadtrip nation: find your path in life. N. Gebhard. |
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HF |
Butterfly hunter: the adventures of people who found their true calling off the beaten path. C. Ballard. |
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HF |
100 great businesses and the minds behind them. E. Ross. |
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HF |
Global business etiquette: a guide to international communication and customs. J. Martin. |
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HF |
Marketing. A. Hiam. |
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Culturally customized Website. N. Singh. |
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HF |
Sales and marketing the six sigma way. M. Webb. |
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HF |
Customer service from the inside out made easy. P. Levesque. |
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HF |
Excel 2007 all-in-one desk reference for dummies. G. Harvey. |
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HF |
Teach yourself visually Excel 2007. N. Muir. |
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HF |
Office 2007 all-in-one desk reference for dummies. P. Weverka. |
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HF |
Say it with presentations: how to design and deliver successful business presentations. G. Zelazny. |
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HG |
Automatic wealth for grads … and anyone else just starting out. M. Masterson. |
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HJ |
Taxes. K. Kowalski. |
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HM |
Friendship. J. Epstein. |
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HQ |
Is it a choice? E. Marcus. |
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HQ |
Over-scheduled child: avoiding the hyper-parenting trap. A. Rosenfeld. |
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HQ |
Wall between women: the conflict between stay-at-home and employed mothers. B. Brykman. |
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HQ |
Science of parenting: practical guidance on sleep, crying, play, and building emotional well-being for life. M. Sunderland. |
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HQ |
Alpha girls: understanding the new American girl and how she is changing the world. D. Kindlon. |
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HQ |
Elephant in the living room: make television work for your kids. D. Christakis. |
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HQ |
Where should I sit at lunch? H. Mosatche. |
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HQ |
Help yourself for teens: real-life advice for real-life challenges. D. Pelzer. |
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HQ |
Gay marriage, real life: ten stories of love and marriage. M. Deakin. |
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HQ |
America’s struggle for same-sex marriage. D. Pinello. |
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HQ |
Denial of aging: perpetual youth, eternal life, and other dangerous fantasies. M. Gillick. |
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HQ |
I do but I don’t: walking down the aisle without losing your mind. K. Wicoff. |
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HQ |
Calling this place home: women on the Wisconsin frontier, 1850 – 1925. J. Jensen. |
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HQ |
Woman today: a celebration: fifty years of South African women. H. Reynolds. |
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HS |
Complete idiot’s guide to freemasonry. S. Morris. |
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HV |
Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the failure of Homeland Security. C. Cooper. |
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HV |
Breach of faith: Hurricane Katrina and the near death of a great American city. J. Horne. |
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HV |
Educating deaf students: from research to practice. M. Marschark. |
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HV |
Animal testing. K. Judson. |
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HV |
Wake-up call: the political education of a 9/11 widow. K. Breitweiser. |
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HV |
Because they hate: a survivor of Islamic terror warns America. B. Gabriel. |
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HV |
The facts about heroin. S. LeVert. |
Political Science
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JK |
Courage of our convictions: a manifesto for Democrats. G. Hart. |
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JV |
Patrolling chaos: the U.S. border patrol in deep South Texas. R. Maril. |
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JZ |
U.N. exposed: how the United Nations sabotages America’s security and fails the world. E. Shawn. |
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KF |
Million reasons: why I fought for the rights of the disabled. A. Labonte. |
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KF |
Paralegal career starter. J. Southard. |
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KF |
Law 101: everything you need to know about the American legal system. J. Feinman. |
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KF |
Legal guide for Americans over 50. American Bar Association. |
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KF |
American Bar Association guide to marriage, divorce, & families. |
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KF |
Copyright handbook: how to protect and use written works. S. Fishman. |
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KF |
Censorship. T. Gottfried. |
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LB |
Creative teacher: an encyclopedia of ideas to energize any curriculum. S. Springer. |
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LB |
Handbook of educational psychology. P. Alexander. |
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LB |
Building blocks: making children successful in the early years of school. G. Maeroff. |
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LB |
High school confidential. J. Iversen. |
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LB |
Faculty diversity: problems and solutions. J. Moody. |
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LB |
Free yourself from student loan debt. B. O’Connell. |
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LB |
Intercultural campus: transcending culture & power in American higher education. G. Tanaka. |
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LB |
How to choose a college major. L. Andrews. |
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LB |
Guiding students from cheating and plagiarism to honesty and integrity. A. Lathrop. |
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LC |
Quality and quantity of contact: African Americans and Whites on college campuses. R. Moore. |
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LC |
Educating the reflective practitioner. D. Schon. |
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ML |
Savvy guide to digital music. R. Mansfield. |
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ML |
700 years of classical treasures. Reader’s Digest. |
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ML |
American music: a panorama. L. Candelaria. |
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ML |
Sound of Stevie Wonder. J. Perone. |
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ML |
Blowin’ hot and cool: jazz and its critics. J. Gennari |
| MT |
Teach yourself visually piano. M. Taylor. |
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N |
World of ancient art. J. Boardman. |
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N |
Earthworks and beyond: contemporary art in the landscape. J. Beardsley. |
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N |
Digital canvas: discovering the art studio in your computer. J. Raimes. |
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NC |
Human anatomy: from the Renaissance to the digital age. B. Rifkin. |
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NC |
Business side of creativity: a complete guide to running a small graphic design or communications business. C. Foote. |
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NC |
Building design portfolios: innovative concepts for presenting your work. S. Eisenman. |
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NK |
Cowboy style. C. Ewald. |
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NK |
How to start a home-based interior design business. N. Phillips. |
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NK |
Interior design course. T. Tangaz. |
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NK |
Plan your bathroom: hundreds of design combinations at-a-glance. L. Mack. |
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P |
Infinite gift: how children learn and unlearn languages of the world. C. Yang. |
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PE |
How not to write: an office primer for the grammatically perplexed. T. Denman. |
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PE |
Basic American grammar and usage: an ESL/EFL handbook. M. Danesi. |
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PG |
Chekhov: scenes from a life. R. Bartlett. |
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PL |
Columbia anthology of modern Japanese literature. J. Rimer. |
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PL |
Chinese fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. P. Hanan. |
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PN |
Writing tools: 50 essential strategies for every writer. R. Clark. |
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PN |
Godzilla on my mind: fifty years of the king of monsters. W. Tsutsui. |
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PN |
Measure of a man: a spiritual autobiography. S. Poitier. |
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PN |
Jimmy Stewart: the truth behind the legend. M. Munn. |
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PN |
Public speaking for success. D. Carnegie. |
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PQ |
Latin American fiction: a short introduction. P. Swanson. |
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PR |
Jeeves and the feudal spirit. P.G. Wodehouse. |
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PR |
Oxford companion to the Brontes. C. Alexander. |
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PR |
Charlotte Bronte. R. Reiff. |
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PR |
Madonna of Excelsior. Z. Mda. |
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PR |
Vintage book of modern Indian literature. A. Chaudhuri. |
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PS |
Touching the web of Southern novelists. D. Madden. |
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PS |
Redreaming America: toward a bilingual American culture. D. Castillo. |
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PS |
Clotel, or, The president’s daughter. W. Brown. |
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PS |
Acolytes. N. Giovanni. |
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PS |
June Jordan: her life and letters. V. Kinloch. |
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PS |
Toni Morrison. R. Andersen. |
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PS |
Chicano sketches: short stories. M. Suarez. |
Mathematics, Computer Science, Sciences
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Q |
Does anything eat wasps? New Scientist. |
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Q |
Challenging nature: the clash of science and spirituality at the new frontiers of life. L. Silver. |
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QA |
Artist and the mathematician: the story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the genius mathematician who never existed. A. Aczel. |
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QA |
Oracle PL/SQL for dummies. M. Rosenblum. |
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QA |
Networking and online games: understanding and engineering multiplayer Internet games. G. Armitage. |
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QA |
Network security: a hacker’s perspective. A. Fadia. |
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QA |
SQL Server 2005 for developers. R. Ericsson. |
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QA |
Oracle e-business suite security. J. Abel. |
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QA |
How to do everything with Adobe Acrobat 8. D. Sahlin. |
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QA |
Technical math demystified. S. Gibilisco. |
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QA |
Schaum’s outline of differential equations. R. Bronson. |
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QB |
Conflict in the cosmos: Fred Hoyle’s life in science. S. Mitton. |
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QC |
Categories – on the beauty of physics: essential physics concepts and their comparisons in art and literature. E. Sefusatti. |
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QC |
Restless skies: the ultimate weather book. P. Douglas. |
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QC |
Global warming. K. Kowalski. |
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QH |
Real mosquitoes don’t eat meat: this and other inquiries into the oddities of nature. B. Wetzler. |
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QH |
Human experiment: two years and twenty minutes inside Biosphere 2. J. Poynter. |
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QL |
Sailing with Noah: stories from the world of zoos. J. Bonner. |
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QL |
National Geographic complete birds of North America. J. Alderfer. |
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QP |
Owner’s manual for the brain. P. Howard. |
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R |
Unplugged: reclaiming our right to die in America. W. Colby. |
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RA |
Body hunters: testing new drugs on the world’s poorest patients. S. Shah. |
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RA |
AIDS in Latin America. T. Frasca. |
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RA |
Shape your self. M. Navratilova. |
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RA |
Longevity bible: 8 essential strategies for keeping your mind sharp and your body young. G. Small. |
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RA |
Health consequences of involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke. |
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RC |
Polio: an American story. D. Oshinsky. |
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RC |
The facts about amphetamines. F. Menhard. |
|
RF |
Save your hearing now: the revolutionary program that can prevent and may even reverse hearing loss. M. Seidman. |
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RJ |
Fed up!: winning the war against childhood obesity. S. Okie. |
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RZ |
Curandero: a life in Mexican folk healing. E. Torres. |
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SB |
Nature-friendly garden. M. Condon. |
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SB |
Landscaping Southern gardens. P. Cornelison. |
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SB |
Before & after garden makeovers. V. Webster. |
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Keeper of bees: notes on hive and home. A. Wallace. |
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T |
Technical communication and the World Wide Web. M. Day. |
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T |
Dance of molecules: how nanotechnology is changing our lives. T. Sargent. |
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T |
Teach yourself visually Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. L. Bucki. |
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T |
AutoCAD 2007 for dummies. D. Byrnes. |
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T |
Just enough AutoCAD 2007. G. Omura. |
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TA |
Asbestos and fire: technological tradeoffs and the body at risk. R. Maines. |
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TA |
Handbook of face recognition. S. Li. |
|
TH |
Popular mechanics outdoor and garden projects. A. Jackson. |
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TK |
Hands-on guide to streaming media: an introduction to delivering on-demand media. J. Follansbee. |
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TK |
Understanding search engines. M. Berry. |
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TK |
Absolute beginner’s guide to podcasting. G. Colombo. |
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TK |
Pro tools 101: official courseware. Digidesign. |
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TK |
Geeks on call PCs: 5-minutes fixes. J. Geier. |
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TL |
Terror on the highway: rage on America’s roads. P. Eberle. |
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TL |
Miracle in the Andes: 72 days on the mountain and my long trek home. N. Parrado. |
|
TR |
Learning to see creatively: design, color, & composition in photography. B. Peterson. |
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TR |
Photoshop elements drop dead fantasy techniques. D. Lea. |
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TR |
How to create a high-profit photography business in any market. J. Williams. |
|
TR |
Final Cut Pro 5 for Mac OS X: visual quickpro guide. L. Brenneis. |
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TR |
Avid editing: a guide for beginning and intermediate users. S. Kauffmann. |
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TS |
Packaging design: successful product branding from concept to shelf. M. Klimchuk. |
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TT |
So simple upholstery. |
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TT |
Success with routing. S. Lawson. |
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TT |
Spectacular walls. J. Dostal. |
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TX |
Elle décor home. |
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TX |
Organic housekeeping. E. Sandbeck. |
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TX |
Better world shopping guide: every dollar makes a difference. E. Jones. |
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TX |
Chew on this: everything you don’t want to know about fast food. E. Schlosser. |
|
U |
Beyond shock and awe: warfare in the 21st century. E. Haney. |
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UA |
Defense strategy for the post-Saddam era. M. O’Hanlon. |
|
UG |
Applications of information systems to homeland security and defense. H. Abbass. |
|
Z |
Teach yourself visually Word 2007. E. Marmel. |
|
Z |
Designing type. K. Cheng. |
|
Z |
Intellectual freedom manual. |
Reference Books
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GT |
Traditional festivals. C. Roy. |
|
HA |
Social change in America: the historical handbook. P. Becker. |
|
HF |
Big book of jobs/occupational outlook handbook. |
|
ML |
Uncloudy days: the gospel music encyclopedia. B. Carpenter. |
|
PE |
You say to-ma-to. R. Jackson. |
|
PE |
Wrong word dictionary. D. Dowling. |
|
PE |
Official dictionary of unofficial English. G. Barrett. |
|
PR |
Critical companion to William Shakespeare. C. Boyce. |
|
QA |
Handy math answer book. T. Svarney. |
|
RB |
101 diseases you don’t want to get. M. Powell. |
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RM |
Drugs and society. |