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JUVENILE New and Recent Acquisitions ARE UNDER THE CHILDREN'S LIBRARY, REDWOOD READER.

NEW ACQUISITIONS

April 2010

Members are encouraged to request acquisition of titles

 

Please see circulation desk for assistance.

FICTION

Amis, Martin  

The Pregnant Widow

Ilf and Petrov 

The Twelve Chairs  

Berg, Elizabeth  

The Last Time I Saw You

Larsson, Stieg

The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Carey, Peter

Parrot and Olivier in America

Miller, Sue

The Lake Shore Limited

Doiron, Paul 

The Poacher's Son

Simonson, Helen 

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Durrow, Heidi W.

The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

Smiley, Jane  

Private Life

Estleman, Loren D.

The Book of Murdock

Soli, Tatjana 

The Lotus Eaters

Hood, Ann  

The Red Thread

 

MYSTERY

Bannister, Jo  

Liars All

Helms, Richard W.

Six Mile Creek

Black, Benjamin

Elegy for April

Hosp, David  

Among Thieves

Box, C. J.  

Nowhere to Run

Kellerman, Jesse 

The Executor

Brown, Rita Mae  

Cat of the Century

Langton, Jane

Dead as a Dodo

Carkeet, David  

From Away

May, Peter

Freeze Frame

Davis, Lindsey  

Alexandria

McCall Smith, Alexander

The Double Comfort Safari Club

Eastland, Sam 

Eye of the Red Tsar

Nova, Craig 

The Informer

Fitzgerald, Conor  

The Dogs of Rome

Peters, Elizabeth

A River in the Sky

Franklin, Ariana  

A Murderous Procession

Tolkien, Simon 

The Inheritance

Harvey, Michael T.  

The Third Rail

Wan, Michelle  

A Twist of Orchids

 

Winspear, Jacqueline

The Mapping of Love and Death

BIOGRAPHY &  MEMOIR

Brinkley, Alan 

The Publisher: Henry Luce and his American Century

PN 4874 .L76 B75 2010

Pease, Donald E.  

Theodor Seuss Geisel

PS 3513 .E2 Z794 2010

Harman, Claire 

Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World

PR 4036 .H37 2010

Rove, Karl 

Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight

E 840.8 .R68 A3 2010

Maier-Katkin, Daniel

Stranger from Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship, and Forgiveness

B 945 .A694 M35 2010

Twain, Mark

Mark Twain: His Words, Wit, and Wisdom

PS 1303 .R37 2001

AMERICAN HISTORY

Children Bound to Labor: the Pauper Apprentice System in Early America

HD 6250 .U3 C453 2009

Damrosch, Leopold   

Tocqueville's Discovery of America

E 165 .D16 2010

Bunker, Nick 

Making Haste from Babylon: the Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World

F 68 .B936 2010

Moye, J. Todd  

Freedom Flyers: the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II

 D 790.252 332nd .M69 2010

Carbone, Gerald M.  

Washington: Lessons in Leadership

E 312.25 .C29 2010

Tyler, John W. 

Smugglers & Patriots: Boston Merchants and the Advent of the American Revolution

E 209 .T95 1986

  WORLD HISTORY

Black, Jeremy 

The Battle of Waterloo

DC 242 .B53 2010

Jardine, Lisa 

Going Dutch: how England Plundered Holland's Glory

DA 435 .J37 2008

Hastings, Max  

Winston's War: Churchill, 1940-1945

DA 566.9 .C5 H274 2009

Lester, Toby 

The Fourth Part of the World: the Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map that gave America its Name

E 18.75 .L47 2009

Hennessy, Peter

Having it so Good: Britain in the Fifties

DA 589 .H36 2006

Morgan, Ted 

Valley of Death: the Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu that led America into the Vietnam War

DS 553.3 .D5 M665 2010

Hirsch, Marianne  

Ghosts of Home: the Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory

DS 135 .U42 C4533 2010

Winder, Simon 

Germania: in Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History DD 61 .W545 2010

 

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Farmer, Roger E. A.   

How the Economy Works: Confidence Crashes and Self-fulfilling Prophecies

HB 95 .F37 2010

McDonald, Lawrence G.  

A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: the Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers

HB 3722 .M34 2009

Gray, John

Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia

BL 65 .P7 G69 2007

Prochnik, George 

In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise

BF 353.5 .N65 P76 2010

Markopolos, Harry   

No One Would Listen: a True Financial Thriller

HV 6697 .M37 2010

 

 

FINE ARTS & PHOTOGRAPHY

Froud, Brian  

Faeries

GR 549 .F76 1979 quarto

 

ARCHITECTURE & INTERIOR DESIGN

 

Windows: a Tasteful Reflection of Historic Rhode Island  

TX 715 .W769 1995

Yorke, James  

Lancaster House: London's Greatest Town House

NA 7512.4 .L6 Y67 2001 quarto

 

LITERATURE & LITERARY CRITICISM

Ten Short Stories (Bloomsbury Classics Series)

PN 6120.2 T46 1996

Grossman, Edith 

Why Translation Matters 

PN 241 .G75 2010

 

ZOOLOGY & NATURAL SCIENCES

Smith, Roland

National Parks of Britain

SB 484 .G7 S58 2009 quarto

SPORTS & RECREATION

Mackey, William J. 

American Bird Decoys

   SK 335 .M32 1965

MILITARY SCIENCES

Sunzi  

The Art of War

U 101 .S93213 2004

LIBRARY SCIENCES & BIBLIOGRAPHY

Codex Book Fair and Symposium

N 7433.3 .C63 2007 quarto

Lindsay, Jen  

Fine Bookbinding: a Technical Guide

 Z 271 .L62 2009

Danforth, Susan

A Matter of Taste: Discrimination in Nineteenth-century Book Collecting : Catalogue of an Exhibition of Rare Books from the John Carter Brown Library  

Z 987.5 .U6 D36 2008 quarto

 

REFERENCE

An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840

Ref Z 473 .E98 2010

Fitzgerald, Carol

Series

Americana: Post Depression-era Regional Literature, 1938-1980 : a Descriptive Bibliography, including Biographies of the Authors, Illustrators, and Editors

 Ref Z 1225 .F57 2009

Rosendorf, Theodore  

The Typographic Desk Reference

Tech Z 118.5 .R67 2009

 

 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

Benson John, 1813-1891.  

A common - school history of the United States: from the earliest period to the present time / by Benson J. Lossing ; illustrated by maps, and over 200 other engravings.   New York : Mason Bros.,

1866, c1864.  Dec. 27, 2006B

Special E 178.1 .L86 1866

Bendiner, Alfred 

Music to my eyes.  

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1952.

Special ML 87 .B4 1952

Frost, Lowell C. (Lowell Chester), 1882-. Poems of Hua Lo / by Lowell C. Frost.   Los Angeles : Anderson & Ritchie: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1942. 

Special PS 3511 .R926 P6 1942

Bendiner, Alfred

Translated from the Hungarian: notes toward an autobiography / by Alfred Bendiner.   South Brunswick, [N.J.] : A.S. Barnes, 1967.

Special NA 737 .B45 A2 1967

Growoll, Adolf, 1850-1909.  

Book - trade bibliography in the United States in the XIXth century / By A. Growoll. New York : Printed for the Dibdin Club, 1898. 

Special Z 1215 .G88 1898

Smith, Roswell Chamberlain, 1797-1875. English grammar on the productive system: a method of instruction recently adopted in Germany and Switzerland : designed for schools and academies / by Roswell C. Smith.  

Stereotype ed. Hartford : Spalding & Storr's, 1841, c1832.

Special PE 1111 .S54 1841

Woodbridge, William C. (William Channing), 1794-1845

Rudiments of geography: on a new plan, designed to assist the memory by comparison and classification; with numerous engravings of manners, customs, & curiosities. Accompanied with an atlas, exhibiting the prevailing religions, forms of government, degrees of civilization, and the comparative size of towns, rivers and mountains / by William C. Woodbridge.   11th ed., from the 3rd improved ed., with corrections. Hartford : Oliver D. Cooke & co., 1829.

Special G 125 .W6 1829

Bingham, Caleb, 1757-1817. 

The Columbian orator: containing a variety of original and selected pieces, together with rules ; calculated to improve youth and others in the ornamental and useful art of eloquence / by Caleb Bingham.   Stereotype ed.   Boston : Printed and published by J.H.A. Frost, 1827. 

Special PN 4200 .B5 1827

Woodbridge, William C. (William Channing), 1794-1845.

Rudiments of geography: on a new plan : designed to assist the memory by comparison and classification: with numerous engravings of manners, customs, and curiosities : accompanied with an atlas exhibiting the prevailing religions, forms of government, degrees of civilization and the comparative size of towns, rivers, and mountains / by William C. Woodbridge.   17th ed. enl., corrected and improved with preparatory lessons, a series of questions.   Hartford, Ct. : Oliver D. Cooke, 1833, c1832.

Special G 125 .W66 1833x

Russell, Anna U.

The young ladies' elocutionary reader: containing a selection of reading lessons / by Anna U. Russell ; with introductory rules and exercises in elocution adapted to female readers, by William Russell.   Boston : James Munroe, 1845 (Boston : Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry).

Special PN 4201 .R85 1845

 

New York (State). Superintendent of Common Schools.  Decisions of the Superintendent of Common Schools of the State of New-York / selected and arranged by John A. Dix, Superintendent ; together with the laws relating to common schools, and the forms and regulations prescribed for their government.   Albany : Printed by Croswell, Van Benthuysen & Burt, 1837.

Special KFN 5648 .N4 1837

 

 

 


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