MARCH 2008

FICTION

Brightwell, Gerri.   The dark lantern.  
Carey, Peter.   My life as a fake.  
Choi, Susan.   A person of interest.  
Docx, Edward.   Pravda.  
Earley, Tony.   The blue star.  
Freeman, Castle.   Go with me.  
Graham, Laurie.   The importance of being Kennedy.  
Harwood, John.   The ghost writer.  
Higgins, Jack.   The killing ground.  
Jones, Sadie.   The outcast.  
Joss, Morag.   The night following.  
Mansbach, Adam.   The end of the Jews.  
McCall Smith, Alexander.   Espresso tales.  
Sheehan, James.   The law of second chances.  
Vassanji, M. G.   The assassin's song.  

MYSTERY
Baldacci, David.   Simple genius.  
Callaghan, Mary Rose.   Billy, come home.  
Langan, Mike.   Dark horse.  
MacPherson, Rett.   The blood ballad.  
Pearl, Matthew.   The Poe shadow .  
Penny, Louise.   The cruelest month : a Three Pines mystery.  
Price, Richard.   Lush life.  
Robinson, Peter.   Friend of the devil.  
Schwegel, Theresa.   Person of interest.  
Webb, Betty.   Desert cut : a Lena Jones mystery.  

 

BIOGRAPHY

Wylie, Paul R.   The Irish general : Thomas Francis Meagher.  
Marcano, Cristina.   Hugo Chavez.  
Burke, Timothy M.   The Paradiso files : Boston's unknown serial killer.  
Hempel, Frieda.   My golden age of singing.  
Mintzer, Charles.   Rosa Raisa : a biography of a diva with selections from her memoirs.  
Uglow, Jennifer S.   Hogarth : a life and a world.  

Woiwode, Larry.   A step from death : a memoir.  

 

RELIGION

Tolle, Eckhart.   A new earth : awakening to your life's purpose.  
Eddy, Paul R.   The Jesus legend : a case for the historical reliability of the synoptic Jesus tradition.  
McClory, Robert.   As it was in the beginning : the coming democratization of the Catholic Church.  
Price, Lorna.   The Plan of St. Gall in brief : an overview based on the 3-volume work by Walter Horn and Ernest Born.  

WORLD HISTORY

Hastings, Max.   Nemesis : the battle for Japan, 1944-45.  
Brendon, Piers.   The decline and fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997.  
McLynn, Frank.   Richard and John : kings at war.  
Plumptre, George.   The country house guide.  
Leapman, Michael.   London.  
Bold, John.   Greenwich : an architectural history of the Royal Hospital for Seamen and the Queen's House.  
Perry, Tim.   Dublin.  
Boulton, Susie.   Venice & the Veneto.  

AMERICAN HISTORY

Howard, Hugh.   The houses of the founding fathers.  
Jones, John Paul.   John Paul Jones' Memoir of the American Revolution presented to King Louis XVI of France.  
McDougall, Walter A.   Throes of democracy : the American Civil War era, 1829-1877.  
Jordan, Don.   White cargo : the forgotten history of Britain's White slaves in America.  
Guelzo, Allen C.   Lincoln and Douglas : the debates that defined America.  
Nosworthy, Brent.   Roll call to destiny : the soldier's eye view of Civil War battles.  
Glatthaar, Joseph T..   General Lee's army : from victory to collapse.  
Grandchamp, Robert.   The Seventh Rhode Island Infantry in the Civil War.  
Weinberger, Caspar W.   In the arena : a memoir of the 20th century.  
Hoyle, Russ.   Going to war : how misinformation, disinformation, and arrogance led America into Iraq.  
Ray, Judith Jencks.   Founders and patriots of the town of Cumberland, Rhode Island : presented at the occasion of the rededication of Peck Cemetery, Cumberland, Rhode Island, May 27, 1990.  

--.  An invitation to the United Nations Organization to establish permanent headquarters in historic Newport, Rhode Island on the Island of Aquidneck -- "Isle of Peace.”

Parker, Matthew.   Panama fever : the epic story of one of the greatest human achievements of all time--the building of the Panama Canal.  

GEOGRAPHY

--.  Newport in 1780.  
Florida, Richard L.   Who's your city? : how the creative economy is making where to live the most important decision of your life.  

MANNERS AND CUSTOMS

--.  Histoire de la vie privee. English.   A history of private life.  
Colquhoun, Kate.   Taste : the story of Britain through its cooking.  

RECREATION

Mortimer, Gavin.   The great swim.  

SOCIAL SCIENCES

--.  A nation transformed by information : how information has shaped the United States from Colonial times to the present.  
Sachs, Jeffrey.   Common wealth : economics for a crowded planet.  
Bernstein, William J.   A splendid exchange : how trade shaped the world.  
Pillar, Paul R.   Terrorism and U.S. foreign policy.  

LAW

Holton, Woody.   Unruly Americans and the origins of the Constitution.  
--.  Originalism : a quarter-century of debate.  
Kurnaz, Murat.   Five years of my life : an innocent man in Guantanamo. 

 

MUSIC

Cheke, Dudley.   Josephine and Emilie : stars of the bel canto in Europe and America, 1823-1889.  
Matheopoulos, Helena.   Diva : great sopranos and mezzos discuss their art. 

 

FINE ARTS

--.  Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.  

Sprenger, Maja.   The Etruscans : their history, art, and architecture.  

Benson, Frank Weston.   The art of Frank W. Benson : American impressionist.  

Harrison, Tony.   Winslow Homer in England.  

Shvidkovskii, O. A.   Zurab T︠S︡ereteli = Zurab Cereteli.  

Wasserman, Krystyna.   The book as art : artists' books from the National Museum of Women in the arts.  

--.  Picturing the Bible : the earliest Christian.  

--.  Vozrozhdennye iz pepla. English.   Risen from the ashes : Petrodvoret︠s︡, Pushkin, Pavlovsk.  

--.  Grand hotel : the golden age of palace hotels : an architectural and social history.  

Hartt, Frederick.   Michelangelo.  
Wasserman, Jack.   Leonardo.  

Edwards, Clive.   Encyclopedia of furnishing textiles, floorcoverings and home furnishing practices, 1200-1950.  

Claret Rubira, Jose.   Classical European furniture design.  

Hinckley, F. Lewis.   A directory of antique French furniture, 1735-1800 : over 300 illustrations of provincial, Parisian, and other European antique furniture.  

Shelburne Museum.   Art of the needle : 100 masterpiece quilts from the Shelburne Museum.  

A.B. & W.T. Westervelt.   American antique weather vanes : the complete illustrated Westervelt catalog of 1883.  

Lehrer, Jonah.   Proust was a neuroscientist.  

 

LITERATURE

Bayard, Pierre.   How to talk about books you haven't read.  
Gioia, Dana.   Disappearing ink : poetry at the end of print culture.  
Mason, F. van Wyck.   Stars on the sea.  
Petrie, Paul James.   Rooms of grace : new and selected poems.  

 Wolff, Tobias.   Our story begins : new and selected stories.  

Gudding, Gabriel.   Rhode Island notebook.  

 

SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

Du Sautoy, Marcus.   Symmetry : a journey into the patterns of nature.  

Reeves, Richard.   A force of nature : the frontier genius of Ernest Rutherford.  

Walker, Gabrielle.   The hot topic : what we can do about global warming.  

Rosen, Jonathan.   The life of the skies.  

Dow, Andrew.   Dow's dictionary of railway quotations.  

Daniele, Joseph William.   Building early American furniture.  

Jamison, Cheryl Alters.   Around the world in 80 dinners : the ultimate culinary adventure.  

 

MEDICINE

Finkelstein, Eric.   The fattening of America : how the economy makes us fat, if it matters, and what to do about it.  

 

AGRICULTURE

Garden Club of America.   Gardens of colony and state : gardens and gardeners of the American colonies and of the republic before 1840.  

MILITARY SCIENCE

Nichols, Thomas M..   Eve of destruction : the coming age of preventive war.  

LIBRARY SCIENCE

Meggs, Philip B.   Meggs' history of graphic design.  

MUSIC CDs

Anderson, Marion.  Spirituals.

Brahms,  Johannes.  Cello Sonatas.

Canteloube de Malaret, Marie-Joseph.  Chants D’Auvergne. 

De La Rue, Pierre.  Early Music.

Delius, Frederick.  Florida Suite.

DesPrez, Josquin.  The Early Josquin.

Dvorak, Antonin.  Dvorak in Prague.

Gade, Niels.  Symphonies 3 & 4.

Gesualdo, Carlo.  Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday.

Gillespie, Dizzy.  Greatest Hits.

Glass, Philip.  Civil Wars.

Gounod, Chris.  Faust.

Gounod, Chris.  St. Cecelia Mass.

Graves, Denyce.  Voci  di  Donna.

Horne, Lena.  Stormy Weather.

Kern, Jerome.  Showboat.

McGrath, Jim.  Red Right Returning.

Mussorgsky, Modest.  Pictures  at an Exhibition.

Price, Leontyne.  The Ultimate Collection.

Rachmaninoff, Sergei.  The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op31.

Schubert, Franz.  Alfred Plays Schubert.

Scriabin, Alexander.  The Poem of Ecstasy; The Poem of Fire.

Strauss, Richard.  Also Sprach Zarathustra.

Strauss, Richard.  Don Quixote / Don Juan.

Strauss, Richard.  Four Last Songs.

Strauss, Richard.  Scenes from Salome and Elektra.

Various.  Beliebte  Ouvertüren  Vol.ll.

Various.  Psallite! A Renaissance Christmas.

Various.  Cabin in the Sky, Porgy and Bess, and Carib Song.

Various.  Virgin’s Lament.

 

BOOKS ON TAPE

Binchy, Maeve.  The Copper Beech.

 

BOOKS ON CD

Atlas, James.  My Life in the Middle Ages.

Bernstein, Carl.  Woman in Charge.

Brown, Tina.  Diana Chronicles.

Jones, Edward P.  All Aunt Hagar’s Children.

Maupin, Armistead.  Michael Toliver Lives.

White , Stephen.  Dry Ice.

 

JUVENILE NON-FICTION (Young Adult)

Sis, Peter.   The wall : growing up behind the Iron Curtain.  

JUVENILE FICTION (Young Adult)

King-Smith, Dick.   The Water Horse.  

 

JUVENILE NON-FICTION (ANNEX)

Masiello, Ralph.   Ralph Masiello's dinosaur drawing book.  
Masiello, Ralph.   Ralph Masiello's ocean drawing book.    

Masiello, Ralph.   Ralph Masiello's bug drawing book.  
Shange, Ntozake.   Ellington was not a street.  
Rustad, Martha E. H.   Sea anemones.
Rustad, Martha E. H.   Sea urchins.
Rustad, Martha E. H.   Lobsters.

Pipe, Jim.   Minibeasts : going on a bug hunt.  
Rustad, Martha E. H.   Termites.  

Rustad, Martha E. H.   Mosquitoes.
Hurtig, Jennifer.   Butterflies.  

Rustad, Martha E. H.   Butterflies.  

Rustad, Martha E. H.   Moths.  

Rustad, Martha E. H.   Wasps.  

Rustad, Martha E. H.   Ladybugs.  

Rustad, Martha E. H.   Parrotfish.  
Sexton, Colleen A.   Sharks.  

Magloof, Lisa.   Duckling.  

Sexton, Colleen A.   Walruses.  
Endres, Hollie J.   Dogs.  
Endres, Hollie J.   Cats.  
Endres, Hollie J.   Rabbits.  

Endres, Hollie J.   Ducks.  
Endres, Hollie J.   Geese.  

Endres, Hollie J.   Turkeys.  

 

JUVENILE FICTION

Broach, Elise.   When dinosaurs came with everything.  

James, Brian.   Ahoy! ghost ship ahead.  

James, Brian.   Attack on the high seas!   

James, Brian.   Port of spies.  

James, Brian.   The curse of Snake Island.  

Jenkins, Emily.   Toys go out : being the adventures of a knowledgeable Stingray, a toughy little Buffalo, and someone called Plastic.  

McCourt, Lisa.   I love you, Stinky Face.  

Osborne, Mary Pope.   Ghost town at sundown.  

Osborne, Mary Pope.   Good morning, gorillas.  

Osborne, Mary Pope.   Night of the Ninjas.

Osborne, Mary Pope.   Sunset of the sabertooth.  

Osborne, Mary Pope.   Thanksgiving on Thursday.  

Pennypacker, Sara.   Clementine. 

Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman.   Nate the Great and the stolen base.  

Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman.   Nate the Great and the Halloween hunt.  

Sloat, Teri.   I'm a duck!  

Tegen, Katherine Brown.   The story of the Easter Bunny.  

Urbanovic, Jackie.   Duck at the door.  

Urbanovic, Jackie.   Duck soup.  

 

FEBRUARY 2008

 

FICTION

Child, Lee.   Bad luck and trouble : a Jack Reacher novel.
Fabre, Dominique.   The waitress was new.  
Grimbert, Philippe.   Memory.  
Grisham, John.   The appeal.  

King, Stephen.   Duma Key.  

Mercier, Pascal.   Night train to Lisbon.  

Nemirovsky, Irene.   David Golder ; The ball ; Snow in autumn ; The Courilof affair.  

Ogawa, Yoko.   The diving pool : three novellas.  

Patterson, James.   You've been warned : a novel.  

Beckett, Simon.   Written in bone.  

Daheim, Mary.   Scots on the rocks : a bed-and-breakfast mystery.  

Franklin, Ariana.   The serpent's tale.  

Ison, Graham.   Lost or found : a Brock and Poole mystery.  

Lavender, Will.   Obedience : a novel.  

Parker, Robert B.   Stranger in paradise.  

Winspear, Jacqueline.   An incomplete revenge : a Maisie Dobbs novel.  

 

BIOGRAPHY

Castro, Fidel.   Fidel Castro : my life : a spoken autobiography.  

Nilsson, Birgit.   La Nilsson : my life in opera.  

 DePastino, Todd.   Bill Mauldin : a life up front.  

Colonna, Bob.   "Greetings, Gate!" : the story of Professor Jerry Colonna.  

Nadel, Ira Bruce.   David Mamet : a life in the theatre.  

 

RELIGION

Appiah, Anthony.   Experiments in ethics.  

WORLD HISTORY

Lewis, David L.   God's crucible : Islam and the making of Europe, 570 to 1215.  
Carr, Jonathan.   The Wagner clan : the saga of Germany's most illustrious and infamous.  

Bartov, Omer.   Erased : vanishing traces of Jewish Galicia in present-day Ukraine.  

 

AMERICAN HISTORY

Resendez, Andres.   A land so strange : the epic journey of Cabeza de Vaca : the extraordinary tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth century.  

Balaji, Murali.   The professor and the pupil : the politics of W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson.  

Miller, William Lee.   President Lincoln : the duty of a statesman.  

McCartney, Laton.   The Teapot Dome Scandal : [how big oil bought the Harding White House and tried to steal the country].  

Link, William A.   Righteous warrior : Jesse Helms and the rise of modern conservatism.  

DeWolf, Thomas Norman.   Inheriting the trade : a Northern family confronts its legacy as the largest slave-trading dynasty in U.S. history.  

 

GEOGRAPHY

Bergreen, Laurence.   Marco Polo : from Venice to Xanadu.  

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Taylor, Nick.   American-made : the enduring legacy of the WPA : when FDR put the nation to work.  

Rediker, Marcus Buford.   The slave ship : a human history.  

Shenon, Philip.   The Commission : the uncensored history of the 9/11 investigation.

Breslin, Jimmy.   The good rat : a true story.  

Delaney, Bob.   Covert : my years infiltrating the Mob.  

 

FINE ARTS

Binney, Marcus.   In search of the perfect house : 500 of the best buildings in Britain and Ireland. 

LITERATURE

Tain bo Cuailnge. English.   The Tain : a new translation of the Tain bo Cuailnge.  

Gioia, Dana.   Can poetry matter? : essays on poetry and American culture.  

Harris, Mark.   Pictures at a revolution : five movies and the birth of the new Hollywood.  

The anthology : poems for Poetry Out Loud : national recitation contest.  

Nicholl, Charles.   The lodger : his life on Silver Street.  

Meyer, Howard N.   Colonel of the black regiment : the life of Thomas Wentworth Higginson.  

Gioia, Dana.   Interrogations at noon : poems.  

Quindlen, Anna.   Good dog, stay.  

 

SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

Carr, Nicholas G.   The big switch : rewiring the world, from Edison to Google.  

Neufeld, Michael J..   Von Braun : dreamer of space, engineer of war.  

Price, Monica T..   The sourcebook of decorative stone : an illustrated identification guide.  

 

MEDICINE

Brock, Pope.   Charlatan : America's most dangerous huckster, the man who pursued him, and the age of flimflam.  

JUVENILE NON-FICTION (Young Adult)

Chin-Lee, Cynthia.   Amelia to Zora : twenty-six women who changed the world. 

 Colman, Penny.   Rosie the riveter : women working on the home front in World War II.  

Schwager, Tina.   Gutsy girls : young women who dare.  

Hayford, James.   Knee-deep in blazing snow : growing up in Vermont : poems.  

Schlitz, Laura Amy.   Good masters! Sweet Ladies! : voices from a medieval village.  

 

JUVENILE FICTION (Young Adult)

Clements, Andrew.   Room one : a mystery or two.

Dell, Pamela.   Shaky Bones : a story of the Harlem Renaissance.  

Namioka, Lensey.   Ties that bind, ties that break : a novel.  

 

JUVENILE NON-FICTION (Annex)

Krull, Kathleen.   Wilma unlimited : how Wilma Rudolph became the world's fastest woman.  

JUVENILE FICTION (Annex)

Aston, Dianna Hutts.   Mama outside, Mama inside.  

Borden, Louise.   Across the blue Pacific : a World War II story.  

Davies, Nicola.   White owl, barn owl.  

DiCamillo, Kate.   Mercy Watson fights crime.  

Donnio, Sylviane.   I'd really like to eat a child.  

Fromental, Jean-Luc.   365 penguins.  

Giblin, James.   The boy who saved Cleveland : based on a true story.  

Hartfield, Claire.   Me and Uncle Romie : a story inspired by the life and art of Romare Bearden.  

Hartland, Jessie.   Clementine in the city.  

Levine, Ellen.   Henry's freedom box.  

Marshall, James.   George and Martha : two great friends.  

Seeger, Laura Vaccaro.   First the egg.  

Stanley, Diane.   Rumpelstiltskin's daughter.  

Stevenson, James.   Flying feet : a Mud Flat story.  

Straaten, Harmen van.   Duck's tale.  

Swallow, Pamela Curtis.   Groundhog gets a say.  

Wallace, Carol.   One nosy pup.  

Willems, Mo.   I am invited to a party!.