Recent Acquisitions
October 2005
Non-Fiction:
| 070.43 | Miles, Hugh | Al-Jazeera: the inside story of the Arab news channel |
| 179.3 | Wasserstein, Wendy | Sloth |
| 198.9 | Garff, Joakim | Soren Kierkegaard. Translated by Kirmsse |
| 201.3 | Phlip, Neil | Mythology of the world |
| 230.09 | Vaus, Will | Mere theology: a guide to the thought of CS Lewis |
| 303.625 | Katz, Samuel M | Jihad: Islamic fundamentalism terrorism |
| 328.73 | Helms, Jesse | Here's where I stand |
| 332.11 | Wells, Donald R | The Federal Reserve System |
| 332.6 | Gardner, David | Motley Fool investment guide for teens: 8 steps to having more money than you parents dreamed of |
| 338.47 | Almond, Steve | Candyfreak: a journey through the chocolate underbelly of America |
| 338.47 | Yafa, Stephen | Big cotton: how a humble fiber created fortunes, wrecked civilizations, and put America on the map |
| 371.7 | Sexton-Radek, Kathy | Violence in schools: issues, consequences and expressions |
| 371.81 | Halpin, Mikki | It's your world - if you don't like it, change it: activism for teenagers |
| 398.2 | MacDonald, Margaret Read | Three-minute tales: stories from around the world to tell or read when time is short |
| 427.973 | MacNeil, Robert | Do you speak American? |
| 540.9 | Moran, Bruce T | Distilling knowledge: alchemy, chemistry and the scientific revolution |
| 576.8 | Larson, Edward | Evolution: the remarkable history of a scientific theory |
| 590.73 | Robinson, Phillip T | Life at the zoo: behind the scenes with the animal doctors |
| 610 | Leyner, Mark | Why do men have nipples? hundreds of questions you'd only aks a doctor after your third martini |
| 614.54 | Oshinsky, David M | Polio: an American story |
| 616 | Panno, Joseph | Stem cell research: medical applications and ethical controversy |
| 618.92 | Polis, Ben | Only a mother could love him: my life with and triumph over ADD |
| 621.43 | Ward, Bob | Dr. Space: the life of Wernher von Braun |
| 641.5 | Carle, Megan | Teens cook: how to cook what you want to eat |
| 686.44 | Owen, David | Copies in seconds: how a lone inventor and an unknown company created the biggest communication breakthrough since Gutenberg: Chester Carlson and the birth of the Xerox machine |
| 759.13 | Biel, Steven | American gothic: a life of America's most famous painting |
| 775 | Bidner, Jenni | The kids' guide to digital photography: how to shoot, save, play with and print your digital photos |
| 780.23 | Hatschek, Keith | How to get a job in the music and recording industry |
| 796.357 | Bissinger, Buzz | Three nights in August: strategy, heartbreak and joy inside the mind of a manager |
| 796.357 | Bryant, Howard | Juicing the game: drugs, power and the fight for the soul of Major League Baseball |
| 796.357 | McGough, Matthew | Bat boy: my true life adventures coming of age with the New York Yankees |
| 796.83 | Schaap, Jeremy | Cinderella man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the greatest upset in boxing history |
| 796.83 | Ward, Geoffrey C | Unforgivable blackness: the rise and fall of Jack Johnson |
| 797.32 | Hamilton, Bethany | Soul surfer: a true story of faith, family, and fighting to get back on the board |
| 813.54 | Ehrman, Bart D | The truth and fiction in the Da Vinci Code: a historian reveals what we really know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine |
| 813.54 | Weller, Sam | The Bradbury chronicles |
| 932 | Smith, Craig B | How the Great Pyramid was built |
| 940.5315 | Rees, Laurence | Auschwitz |
| 941.1 | Tabraham, Chris | The illustrated history of Scotland |
| 956 | Halliday, Fred | 100 myths about the Middle East |
| 956.7 | Polk, William R | Understanding Iraq: the whole sweep of Iraqi history |
| 949 | Short, Philip | Pol Pot: anatomy of a nightmare |
| 962 | Deng, Alephonsion | They poured fire on us from the sky: the true story of three Lost Boys from Sudan |
| 970.11 | Mann, Charles C | 1491: new revelations of the Americas before Columbus |
| 973.3 | McCullough, David | 1776 |
| 973.41 | Johnson, Paul | George Washington: the founding father |
| 973.51 | Cote, Richard N | Strength and honor: the life of Dolley Madison |
| 973.924 | Woodward, Bob | The secret man: the story of Watergate's Deep Throat |
| 973.93 | National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States | The 9/11 commission report: final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States |
Fiction:
Allende, Isabel. Zorro
Devoto, Pat Cunningham. The summer we got saved
Doctorow, E.L. The march
Elkins, Aaron. Where have all the birdies gone?
Hornby, Nick. A long way down
Hosseini, Khaled. The kite runner
Jensen, Liz. The ninth life of Louis Drax
Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice (822.33P3)
Shakespeare, William. Twelfth night (822.33Q7)
Reference:
The Islamic World: past and present. 3 volumes.