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Redwood Library& Athenæum

NEW ACQUISITIONS

AUGUST 2010

Donated materials & member requests are indicated.

Named funds for purchases are indicated if applicable.

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This list reflects books ordered but not necessarily received as of printing.

Members are encouraged to request acquisition of titles, dependant upon availability.

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* = Indicates title is located in the John E Rovensky Delivery Room.

All other titles located in the stacks. Please see circulation desk for assistance.

 

FICTION

*Beck, Glen          

Overton window

Member Request

                 

*Bender, Aimee

The particular sadness of lemon cake

Member Request

 

*Boyajian, Michelle           

Lies of the heart

Member Request

 

*Cameron, W. Bruce

Dog's purpose                                           

 

*Cook, Thomas H.              

The last talk with Lola Faye

 

*Cronin, Justin

The passage

 

*Deford, Frank    

Bliss, remembered

 

*Donoghue, Emma

Room

Member Request

 

*Forsyth, Frederick

The cobra

 

*Frank, Dorothea

Low country summer

Member Request

 

*Frank, Dorothea

Return to Sullivan's Island

Donation

 

*Gonzales, Laurence

Lucy

 

*Gregory, Philippa

The Red Queen

 

*Harding, Paul

Tinkers                      

 

*Hiaasen, Carl  

Star Island

Member Request

 

*Hilderbrand, Elin

The island

 

*Keilson, Hans  

Death of the adversary

 General Book fund

 

Le Carre, John

A most wanted man

Donation

 

*Martin, William

City of dreams

Member Request

 

*McCall Smith, Alexander  

Corduroy mansions

                 

*Morais, Richard C.

The hundred-foot journey

 

*Oates, Joyce Carol

Sourland                

 

*Perry, Thomas

Strip

Donation

 

*Richards, Emilie

Endless chain

Donation

 

Vonnegut, Kurt 

Bagombo snuff box: uncollected short fiction

Donation

 

Ware, Chris

Jimmy Corrigan: the smartest kid on earth 

 

MYSTERY

 # = indicates British Isles mystery

 

*Atkinson, Michael

Hemingway cutthroat

 

*Brown, Sandra,

Tough customer

 

#*Chisholm, P. F.  

A murder of crows

 

 

*Delors, Catherine

For the king

 

*Duncan, Elizabeth J.        

A brush with death

 

*Elias, Gerald

Danse macabre

 

*Greenlaw, Linda

Slipknot

Donation

 

*Haddam, Jane

Wanting Sheila dead

 

*Johansen, Iris    

Shadow zone

 

*Kisor, Henry  

Cache of corpses

Donation

 

Nesbø, Jo

The redbreast

 

*Pope, Barbara Corrado  

The blood of Lorraine         

 

*Reichs, Kathy  

Spider bones

 

#*Robinson, Peter

Bad boy  

 

*Smith, Martin Cruz 

Three stations

 

*Steinhauer, Olen  

Victory Square

 Donation

 

*Tafoya, Dennis

The wolves of Fairmount Park

Member Request

 

*Unger, Lisa

Fragile

 

*Yessayan, Raffi  

2 in the hat

Member Request

 

*Zouroudi, Anne

The messenger of Athens

 

BIOGRAPHY &  MEMOIR

 

Peter Jennings: a reporter's life

PN 4913 .J46 P48 2007

Donation

 

Browning, Dominique

Slow love: how I lost my job, put on my pajamas & found happiness       

PN 4874 .B785 A3 2010

Member request

 

D'Antonio, Michael  

A full cup: Sir Thomas Lipton's extraordinary life and his quest for the America's Cup  

CT 828 .L5 D36 2010

Member request

 

De Waal, Edmund

The hare with amber eyes: a family's century of art and loss

HG 1552 .E64 D49 2010

 

Grimes, Tom        

Mentor: a memoir                 

PS 3557 .R489985 Z46 2010

 

Harris, Ruth 

Dreyfus: politics, emotion, and the scandal of the century                           

DC 354 .H37 2010

Member request

Perry fund

 

Hogue, John

Nostradamus

BF 1815 .N8 H64 2003

Donation

 

Lawday, David

The giant of the French Revolution: Danton, a life

DC 146 .D2 L39 2009a

Jay Hall fund

 

Philipponnat, Olivier  

The life of Ire`ne Ne´mirovsky, 1903-1942

                  PQ 2627 .E4 Z8313 2010

Jay Hall fund

 

Schulze, Franz

Mies van der Rohe: a critical biography

NA 1088 .M65 S38 1985

Donation

 

Weintraub, Jerry

When I stop talking, you'll know I'm dead: useful stories from a persuasive man  

PN 1998.3 .W435 A3 2010

                  Member request

 

Wyly, Sam  

1,000 dollars and an idea: entrepreneur to billionaire

HC 102.5 .W95 W95 2009

Donation

 

AMERICAN HISTORY

 

*Clary, David A.  

Adopted son: Washington, Lafayette, and the friendship that saved the Revolution

E 312.17 .C58 2008

Perry fund

 

Coffin, Tristram Potter

Uncertain glory: folklore and the American Revolution

GR 105 .C62 1971

Donation

 

*Conley, Patrick T.                              

Rhode Island's founders: from settlement to statehood

F 78 .C66 2010

Donation

 

*Dolin, Eric Jay  

Fur, fortune, and empire: the epic history of the fur trade in America

E 46 .D65 2010

Perry fund

 

*Donovan, Thayer

The Maxies and other short stories of growing up on the point section on Newport, Rhode Island

CT 258 .D66 M39 2009

Donation

 

*Howard, David  

Lost rights: the misadventures of a stolen American relic           

E 480 .H847 2009

 

Lehmann, Herman

Nine years among the Indians, 1870-187: the story of the captivity and life of a Texan among the Indians

E 99 .A6 L44 2001

Donation

*Paul, Joel R.

Unlikely allies: how a merchant, a playwright, and a spy saved the American Revolution                 

E 279 .P38 2009

 

*Richard, Carl J.  

The founders and the classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment

JA 84 .U5 R48 1994

Perry fund

 

*Selig, Robert

March to victory: Washington, Rochambeau, and the Yorktown Campaign of 1781 

E 241 .Y6 S45 2005

Perry fund

 

Tuleja, Tad

The New York Public Library book of popular Americana

E 169.1 .T83 1994

Donation

 

Williams, Selma R.  

Demeter's daughters: the women who founded America, 1587-1787

HQ 1416 .W54 1976

                  Donation

 

WORLD HISTORY

 

Cumings, Bruce

The Korean War

DS 918 .C75 2010

 

Gardiner, Juliet

The thirties: an intimate history

DA 566.4 .G37 2010

Member request

Perry fund

 

Stone, Norman

The Atlantic and its enemies: a personal history of the Cold War

D 840 .S735 2010

 

R ELIGION

 

Bloom, Paul

How pleasure works

BF515 .B56 2010

 

Berman, Paul  

Flight of the intellectuals

BP 161.3 .B47 2010

 

Gragg, Rod

Forged in faith     

BR 520 .G74 2010

 

McBeth, Leon

The Baptist heritage

BX 6231 .M37 1987

Perry fund

 

R ECREATION & SPORTS

 

Brown, Nigel 

Ice-skating: a history

GV 849 .B84 1959

Donation

 

Simpson, Richard V.

Herreshoff yachts: seven generations of industrialists, inventors, and ingenuity                  

VM 139 .S56 2007

Perry fund

 

SOCIAL SCIENCES

 

Bacevich, Andrew J.

Washington rules: America's path to permanent war  

JZ 1480 .B335 2010

 

Kinzer, Stephen   

Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's future

E 183.8 .I55 K56 2010

Member request

 

COLLECTIBLES

Godden, Geoffrey A 

Godden's guide to Mason's china and the ironstone wares

NK 4210 .M3 G6 1980 quarto

Donation

 

FINE ARTS & PHOTOGRAPHY

All items are donations

 

150 years of photo journalism

TR 820 .H84 1995x quarto

 

Bettmann moments: celebrating the Bettmann Archive. 

TR 199 .B48 2003b quarto

 

Speltz, Alexander 

Styles of ornament: exhibited in designs, and arranged in historical order, with descriptive text. A handbook for architects, designers, painters, sculptors, wood-carvers, chasers, modellers, cabinet-makers and artistic locksmiths as well as also for technical schools, libraries and private study

Pres NK 1530 .S7 1906

 

Szarkowski, John 

The photographer's eye

TR 650 .S92 2007

 

A RCHITECTURE

All items are donations

 

 

Greeves, Lydia

Houses of the National Trust

Pres DA 660 .G745 2008

 

Lazzaro, Claudia

The Italian Renaissance garden: from the conventions of planting, design, and ornament to the grand gardens of sixteenth-century Central Italy

Hamilton SB 457.85 .L39 1990 quarto

 

Campitelli, Alberta  

The Vatican gardens: an architectural and horticultural history

Hamilton SB 466 .V3 C36 2009 quarto

 

LITERATURE &LITERARY CRITICISM

 

Great cat tales

PS 648 .C38 G7 1991

Donation

 

Cabell, Craig  

Ian Rankin and Inspector Rebus

PR 6068 .A57 Z57 2010

 

Deck, Jeff

The great typo hunt:changing the world one correction at a time                 

E 169 .Z83 D43 2010

 

Kundera, Milan  

Encounter

 PN773 .K86 2010

 

Wiesel, Elie

The Sonderberg case           

PQ 2683 .I32 C3713 2010

 

 

ZOOLOGY & NAUTRAL SCIENCES

 

Greenberg, Paul

Four fish: the future of the last wild food       

SH 167 .S17 G74 2010

 

CUNLINARY SCIENCE

 

Ghazarian, Barbara

Simply quince       

TX 813 .Q85 G43

Perry fund

                 

Johnson, Hugh

The world atlas of wine  

TP 548 .J66 2007 quarto

Donation

 

MILITARY SCIENCE

 

Baar, James

Polaris

VG 93 .B3 1960

Donation

 

BOOK ARTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY & LIBRARY SCIENCE

 

4th international survey of children's book illustration

NC 965 .A14 1979 quarto

Donation

 

Librarianship in Gilded Age America              

Z 665.2 .U6 L535 2009

Wish-list donation

 

Hyde, Lewis

Common as air: revolution, art, and ownership ZA3270 .H93 2010

 

Schimmelman, Janice Gayle

Books on art in early America 

Z 5961.U5 S35 2007

Schumacher fund

 

Tillman, Lynne

Bookstore:              the life and times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co

Z 473 .B673 T35 1999

 

 

V IDEO

The blue planet: seas of life

DVD GC 21 .B58 2007

Donation