Come and check out these and some of the other new books and materials (or at least new to us) added to our library collection…
FICTION:
Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
Black Hills by Dan Simmons
Pym by Mat Johnson
I don’t know much about this novel other than it’s a satirical fantasy inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s sole novel, The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym Of Nantucket, but I’m still excited to read it. Not just because of the critical raves it’s been collecting (though that does help), but because I’m a huge fan of a graphic novel we have by author Mat Johnson entitled Incognegro, a thriller set in the 1930s about a fair skinned African American reporter who would go undercover to investigate lynchings. It was an incredible story, so I’m definitely interested in anything else by the same writer.
Brasyl by Ian McDonald
The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler
Listed as one of Time‘s top fiction books of the year, and highly recommended just about everywhere else you look, it would appear that this was released just in time to cash in on our obsession with Swedish crime stories like Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, or the American version of The Killing on AMC, or even the Wallander stories, which were done as a series of TV movies starring Kenneth Branagh in the UK. One patron who returned this the other day said that it was pretty good, but incredibly dark, but I’m curious what you’ll think.
Nouvelle Soul by Barbara Summers
Monument To Murder: A Capital Crimes Novel by Margaret Truman
NON-FICTION:
Stormy Weather: Middle-Class African American Marriages Between The Two World Wars by Anastasia C. Curwood
How To Build A Business And Sell It For Millions by Jack Garson
Holy Ignorance: When Religion And Culture Part Ways by Olivier Roy
Tiger Trap: America’s Secret Spy War With China by David Wise
Black Pioneers: Images Of The Black Experience On The North American Frontier by John W. Ravage
Quantum Physics For Dummies by Steve Holzner
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
A fascinating read and one of the most highly anticipated books of the year even before Jobs’ unfortunate demise a few months ago.
Unhitched: Love, Marriage, And Family Values From West Hollywood To Western China by Judith Stacey
Poison Widows: A True Story Of Witchcraft, Arsenic, And Murder by George Cooper
Search And Destroy: Why You Can’t Trust Google, Inc. by Scott Cleland
An interesting book and one that might work as a nice companion read to the Jobs biography? Also, it has a dinosaur on the cover so that’s worth the check out alone. Obviously.
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Please note that books could be checked out between the time they end up on the blog and when you come to check them out. If you don’t see the items you’re looking for then please come up to the front desk and we’ll put your name on the reserve list for when the item returns.
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Previous New/Featured books:
12/19/11.
12/17/11.
12/16/11.
12/15/11.
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