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New Books List

List date: 
January 19, 2012

The following books are available at the State Library.  Borrowers may request them by contacting the Circulation Desk at (609)-278-2640 x104 [voice] Monday through Friday, 8:30am – 5:00pm or by email:  circulation@njstatelib.org  If you would like to receive this list via email please submit your email address to cwarrick@njstatelib.org  Current email recipients need not resubmit their addresses.  The List is also available online at the Library’s website : http://slic.njstatelib.org.

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERS – HARDCOVER NONFICTION
985.37 Ada
Adams, Mark.  Turn right at Machu Picchu : rediscovering the lost city one step at a time.  Dutton, 2011.  333 pages.

153.8 Bau
Baumeister, Roy F.  Willpower : rediscovering the greatest human strength.  Penguin, 2011.  291 pages.

973.927 Bro
Brokaw, Tom.  The time of our lives.  Random House, 2011.  291 pages.

324.973 Cai
Cain, Herman.  This is Herman Cain! : my journey to the White House.  Threshold Editions, 2011.  222 pages.

973.931 Che
Cheney, Richard B.  In my time : a personal and political memoir.  Threshold Editions, 2011.  565 pages.

339.5 Cli
Clinton, Bill. Back to work : why we need smart government for a strong economy.  Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.  196 pages.

813.54 Did
Didion, Joan.  Blue nights.  Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.  188 pages.

909 Fer
Ferguson, Niall.  Civilization : the West and the rest.  Penguin, 2011.  402 pages.

973.932 Fri
Friedman, Thomas L.  That used to be us : how America fell behind in the world it invented and how we can come back.  Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011.  380 pages.

968.91 Ful
Fuller, Alexandra.  Cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness.  Penguin, 2011.  238 pages. 


686.224 Gar
Garfield, Simon.  Just my type : a book about fonts.  Gotham Books, 2011.  356 pages. 

303.3 Gha
Ghaemi, S. Nassir.  A first-rate madness : uncovering the links between leadership and mental illness.  Penguin, 2011.  340 pages.

940.21 Gre
Greenblatt, Stephen.  The swerve : how the world became modern.  W.W. Norton, 2011.  356 pages.

813.52 Hen
Hendrickson, Paul.   Hemingway’s boat : everything he loved in life, and lost, 1934-1961. Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.  531 pages.

814.54 Hit
Hitchens, Christopher.  Arguably : essays.  Twelve, 2011.  788 pages.

306.874 Hol
Holroyd, Michael.  A book of secrets : illegitimate daughters, absent fathers.  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.  258 pages.

621.39 Isa
Isaacson, Walter.  Steve Jobs.  Simon & Schuster, 2011.  630 pages.

153.42 Kah
Kahneman, Daniel.  Thinking, fast and slow.  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.  499 pages.

363.25 Kes
Kessler, Ronald.  The secrets of the FBI.  Crown, 2011.  296 pages.

798.2 Let
Letts, Elizabeth.  The eighty-dollar champion : Snowman, the horse that inspired a nation.  Ballantine, 2011.  329 pages.

330.9 Lew
Lewis, Michael.  Boomerang : travels in the new Third World.  W.W. Norton & Co., 2011.  213 pages.

930.1 Mac
MacGregor, Neil.  A history of the world in 100 objects.  Viking, 2011.  707 pages.

909.4
Mann, Charles C.  1493 : uncovering the new world Columbus created.  Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.  535 pages. 

959.704 Mar
Marlantes, Karl.  What it is like to go to war.  Atlantic Monthly Press, 2011.  256 pages.


947.063 Mas
Massie, Robert K.  Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman.  Random House, 2011.  625 pages.

364.16 Mez
Mezrich, Ben.  Sex on the moon : the amazing story behind the most audacious heist in history.  Doubleday, 2011.  308 pages.

973.8 Mil
Millard, Candice.  The destiny of the republic : a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president.  Doubleday, 2011.  319 pages.

364.16 Mit
Mitnick, Kevin D.  Ghost in the wires : my adventures as the world’s most wanted hacker.  Little, Brown and Co., 2011.  413 pages.

759.949 Nai
Naifeh, Steven W.  Van Gogh : the life.  Random House, 2011.  953 pages.

330.15 Nas
Nasar, Sylvia.  Grand pursuit : the story of economic genius.  Simon & Schuster, 2011.  558 pages.

262.13 Nor
Norwich, John Julius.  Absolute monarchs : a history of the papacy.  Random House, 2011.  512 pages.

973.922 Ona
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy.  Jacqueline Kennedy : historic conversations on life with John F. Kennedy, interviews with Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., 1964.  Hyperion, 2011.  368 pages + 8 sound discs.

636.737 Orl
Orlean, Susan.  Rin Tin Tin : the life and the legend.  Simon & Schuster, 2011.  324 pages.

303.609 Pin
Pinker, Steven.  The better angels of our nature : why violence has declined.  Viking, 2011.  802 pages.

363.325 Pri
Priest, Dana.  Top secret America : the rise of the new American security state.  Little, Brown and Co., 2011.  296 pages.

327.73 Ric
Rice, Condoleezza.  No higher honor : a memoir of my years in Washington.  Crown, 2011.  766 pages.

330.973 Sac
Sachs, Jeffrey.  The price of civilization : reawakening American virtue and prosperity.  Random House, 2011.  324 pages.

812.54 Sal
Salamon, Julie.  Wendy and the lost boys : the uncommon life of Wendy Wasserstein.  Penguin, 2011.  460 pages.

973.931 Sou
Soufan, Ali H.  The black banners : the inside story of 9/11 and the war against Al-Qaeda. W.W. Norton & Co., 2011.  572 pages.

973.932 Sus
Suskind, Ron.  Confidence men : Wall Street, Washington, and the education of a president.  Harper, 2011.  515 pages.

001.9 Wil
Wilcock, David.  The source field investigations : the hidden science and lost civilizations behind the 2012 prophecies.  Dutton, 2011.  536 pages.

333.79 Yer
Yergin, Daniel.  The quest : energy, security and the remaking of the modern world.  Penguin, 2011.  804 pages.

BUSINESS/ECONOMICS
658.872 Car
Carter, Sandy.  Get bold : using social media to create a new type of social business.  IBM Press, 2012.  267 pages.

332.6 Cor
Cortese, Amy.  Locavesting : the revolution in local investing and how to profit from it.  John Wiley, 2011.  252 pages.

338.7 Edw
Edwards, Douglas.  I’m feeling lucky : the confessions of Google employee number 59.  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.  416 pages.

330.94 Lyn
Lynn, Matthew.  Bust : Greece, the Euro, and the sovereign debt crisis.  Bloomberg Press, 2011.  282 pages. 

332.1 Meh
Mehrling, Perry.  The new Lombard Street : how the Fed became the dealer of last resort.  Princeton University Press, 2011.  174 pages.

305.5 San
Sanders, Bernard.  The speech : a historic filibuster on corporate greed and the decline of the middle class.  Nation Books, 2011.  270 pages.

330.156 Wap
Wapshott, Nicholas.  Keynes Hayek : the clash that defined modern economics.  W.W. Norton & Co., 2011.  382 pages.


658.3 War
Warner, Jim.  The drama-free office : a guide to healthy collaboration with your team, coworkers and boss.  Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2011.  205 pages.

332.024 Wil
Williams, Fred O.  Fight back against unfair debt collection practices : know your rights and protect yourself from threats, lies, and intimidation.  FT Press, 2011.  207 pages.

 


COMPUTERS006.76 Bei
Beighley, Lynn.  Drupal for dummies.  Wiley, 2010.  364 pages.

005.133 Daw
Dawson, Mike.  Python programming for the absolute beginner.  Course Technology Cenage Learning, 2010.  455 pages.

025.04 Goo
Google for seniors : get acquainted with free Google applications.  Visual Steps, 2010.  320 pages.

005.276 McD
McDaniel, Adam.  Perl and Apache : your visual blueprint for developing dynamic Web content.  Wiley, 2010.  435 pages.

004.678 Par
Pariser, Eli.  The filter bubble : what the Internet is hiding from you.  Penguin Press, 2011.  294 pages.

338.7 Vai
Vaidhyanathan, Siva.  The Googilization of everything : (and why we should worry).  University of California Press, 2011.  265 pages.

006.74 Wil
Wilton, Paul.  Beginning JavaScript.  Wiley, 2010.  758 pages.

HISTORY
909.4 Cli
Cliff, Nigel.  Holy war : how Vasco de Gama’s epic voyages turned the tide in a centuries-old clash of civilizations.  Harper, 2011.  547 pages.

941.009 Far
Farquhar, Michael.  Behind the palace doors : five centuries of sex, adventure, vice, treachery, and folly from royal Britain.  Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2011.  307 pages.

973.7 Fon
Foner, Eric.  The fiery trial : Abraham Lincoln and American slavery.  W.W. Norton, 2010.  426 pages.

973.921 Nic
Nichols, David A.  Eisenhower 1956 : the president’s year of crisis : Suez and the brink of war.  Simon & Schuster, 2011.  346 pages.

940.542 Rei
Reid, Anna.  Leningrad : the epic siege of World War II, 1941-1944.  Walker & Co., 2011.  492 pages.

976.8 Wal
Wallis, Michael.  David Crockett : the Lion of the West.  W.W. Norton & Co., 2011.  380 pages.

 


JERSEYANAJ813.54 E92x
Evanovich, Janet.  Explosive eighteen.  Bantam Books, 2011.  305 pages.

J940.53 G221
Isenberg, Sheila.  Muriel’s war : an American heiress in the Nazi resistance.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.  239 pages.

J927.84 S615k
Kaplan, James.  Frank : the voice.  Doubleday, 2010.  786 pages.

J813.6 R813o
Rosenfelt, David.  One dog night.  Minotaur Books, 2011.  387 pages.

 


MEDICINE/HEALTH618.92 Aam
Aamodt, Sandra.  Welcome to your child’s brain : how the mind grows from conception to college.  Bloomsbury, 2011.  314 pages.

362.196 Bel
Beltz, Lisa A.  Emerging infectious diseases : a guide to diseases, causative agents, and surveillance.  Jossey-Bass, 2011.  734 pages.

617.4 Car
Carroll, Linda.  The concussion crisis : anatomy of a silent epidemic.  Simon & Schuster, 2011.  320 pages.

616.079 Fuh
Fuhrman, Joel.  Super immunity : the essential nutrition guide for boosting our body’s defenses to live longer, stronger, and disease free.  HarperOne, 2011.  278 pages.

610 Gro
Groopman, Jerome E.  Your medical mind : how to decide what is right for you.  Penguin, 2011.  308 pages.
616.89 McN
McNally, Richard J.  What is mental illness?  Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.  277 pages.
362.176 Nut
Nutrition in public health : a handbook for developing programs and services.  Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2011.  424 pages.

362.196 Sul
Sulik, Gayle A.  Pink ribbon blues : how breast cancer culture undermines women’s health.  Oxford University Press, 2011.  402 pages.

616.07 Wel
Welch, H. Gilbert.  Overdiagnosed : making people sick in the pursuit of health.  Beacon Press, 2011.  228 pages.

616.91 Wol
Wolfe, Nathan.  The viral storm : the dawn of a new pandemic age.  Times Books, 2011.  304 pages.

 


MISCELLANEOUS305 Bes
Best, Joel.  Everyone’s a winner : life in our congratulatory culture.  University of California Press, 2011.  199 pages.

794.1 Bra
Brady, Frank.  Endgame : Bobby Fischer’s remarkable rise and fall - - from America’s brightest prodigy to the edge of madness. Crown, 2011.  402 pages.

353.36 Dom
Domscheit-Berg, Daniel.  Inside WikiLeaks : my time with Julian Assange at the world’s most dangerous website.  Crown, 2011.  282 pages.

647.95 Wat
Waters, Alice.  40 years of Chez Panisse : the power of gathering.  Clarkson/Potter, 2011. 303 pages.

 


MCNAUGHTON LEASING PROGRAM – HARDOVER BOOKSF Adi  Adiga, Aravind.   Last man in tower.
F Beb  Bebris, Carrie.   The deception at Lyme, or the peril of persuasion.
F Box  Box, C.J.    Back of beyond.
F Bro  Brown, Rita Mae.  Murder unleashed : a novel.
F Cri  Crichton, Michael.  Micro.
F Enr  Enright, Anne.   The forgotten waltz : a novel.
F Fra  Frank, Dorothea Benton. Folly Beach.
F Gar  Garwood, Julie.   The ideal man.
F Gra  Grafton, Sue.   V is for vengeance.
F Gri  Grisham, John.   The litigators.
F Har  Hart, John.   Iron House.
F Jan  Jance, J.A.    Betrayal of trust.
F Joh  Johansen, Iris.   Quinn.
F Joh  Johnson, Denis.   Train dreams.
F Ken  Kenyon, Sherrilyn.   Retribution.
F Kin  King, Stephen.   11/22/63 : a novel.
F Mag  Maguire, Gregory.  Out of Oz : the final volume in the Wicked Years.
F Mar  Martin, George R.R.   The cat’s table.
F Ots  Otsuka, Julie.   The Buddha in the attic.
F Pat  Patterson, James.  Now you see her.
F Pea  Pearson, Allison.  I don’t know how she does it.
F Pel  Pelecanos, George.  The cut.
F Per  Perry, Anne.   A Christmas homecoming.
F San  Sandford, John.   Buried prey.
F Spa  Sparks, Nicholas.  The best of me.
F Sul  Sullivan, J. Courtney.  Maine.
F Toe  Toews, Miriam.   Irma Voth.
F Wat  Watson, S.J.    Before I go to sleep.

MCNAUGHTON LEASING PROGRAM – AUDIO BOOKS *
F Bal  Baldacci, David.   One summer.     7 discs
F Ban  Banks, Maya.   Sweet possession.    7 discs
F Car  Card, Orson Scott.  Pathfinder.     15 discs
F Chi  Child, Lee.   The affair.     11 discs
B Dugard Dugard, Jaycee Lee.  A stolen life : a memoir.    6 discs
F Gre  Gregory, Philippa.  The lady of the rivers.     15 discs
F Gri  Grisham, John.   The litigators.      9 discs
F Lee  Lee, Linda Francis.  Emily and Einstein.     9 discs
796.357 Lew Lewis, Michael.   Moneyball.       8 discs
658.8 Mai Mainwaring, Simon.  We first : how brands and consumers use  9 discs
social media to build a better world.    
658.4 Max Maxwell, John C.  5 levels of leadership.     6 discs
F McL  McLain, Paula.    The Paris wife.      10 discs
070.4 Mil Miller, James A.   Those guys have all the fun :    24 discs
inside the world of ESPN.   
F Mon  Monk, Devon.   Magic on the storm.    9 discs
B Moore  Moore, Michael.  Here comes trouble : stories from my life.  10 discs
F Pat  Patterson, James.  10th anniversary.     7 discs
F Pat  Patterson, James.  The Christmas wedding.    4 discs
F Pel  Pelecanos, George.  The cut.      6 discs
B Ryan  Ryan, Tom.   Following Atticus.     8 discs
F San  Sandford, John.   Shock wave.     8 discs
F Sav  Savage, Michael.  Abuse of power.     9 discs
F Sid  Siddons, Anne Rivers.  Burnt Mountain.    8 discs
F Spa  Sparks, Nicholas.  The best of me.     9 discs
B Wasdin Wasdin, Howard E.  Seal team six : memoirs of an elite Navy  8 discs
SEAL sniper.
  
*All titles are unabridged

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