New Books for December 2009

updated 1/5/10

NON FICTION

I used to know that: stuff you forgot from school by Caroline Taggart
Chakra meditation: discover energy, creativity, focus, love, communication, wisdom, and spirit by Swami Saradananda
50 great myths of popular psychology: shattering widespread misconceptions about human behavior by Scott O. Lilienfeld
How to change someone you love: four steps to help you help them by Brad Lamm
How to save your own life: 15 lessons on finding hope in unexpected places by Michael Gates Gill
59 second: think a little change a lot by Richard Wiseman
Life after death: the evidence by Dinesh D'Souza
Jersey brew: the story of beer in New Jersey from our early breweries to Prohibition gangsters to the breweries of today by Michael Pellegrino
The 5 big lies about American business: combating smears against the free-market economy by Michael Medved
Tokyo vice: an American reporter on the police beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein
But I trusted you: and other true cases by Ann Rule
Stones into schools: promoting peace with books, not bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Greg Mortenson
The everything vampire book: from Vlad the Impaler to the vampire Lestat: a history of vampires in literature, film, and legend by Barb Karg, Arjean Spaite, and Rick Sutherland
The checklist manifesto: how to get things right by Atul Gawande
The program: the brain-smart approach to the healthiest you: the life-changing 12-week method by Kelly Traver and Betty Kelly Sargent
The belly fat cure: is cover the new carb system and lose 4 to 9 lbs. every week by Jorge Cruise
The spark: the 28-day breakthrough plan for losing weight, getting fit, and transforming your life by Chris Downie
Crash course in love by Steve Ward and JoAnn Ward
In good times and bad: strengthening your relationship when the going gets tough and the money gets tight by M. Gary Neuman and Melisa Neuman
Unclutter your life in one week by Erin Rooney Doland
How to get your share of the 30-plus billion dollars being offered by U.S. foundations : a complete guide for locating, preparing, and presenting your proposals by Richard Helweg
Nell Hill's O Christmas tree by Mary Carol Garrity
Watercolor: a beginner's guide by Elizabeth Horowitz
Brangelina by Ian Halperin
Ancient Greece: a history in eleven cities by Paul Cartledge
The time traveler's guide to medieval England: a handbook for visitors to the fourteenth century by Ian Mortimer
How the left swiftboated America: the liberal media conspiracy to make you think George Bush was the worst president in history by John Gibson
I am what I am by John Barrowman
Thank heaven: a memoir by Leslie Caron
The autobiography of Fidel Castro by Norberto Fuentes
Duchess of death: the unauthorized biography of Agatha Christie by Richard Hack
The mascot: unraveling the mystery of my Jewish father's Nazi boyhood by Mark Kurzem
Cleaving: a story of marriage, meat, and obsession by Julie Powell
Pop: the genius of Andy Warhol by Tony Scherman and David Dalton
In my father's shadow: a daughter remembers Orson Welles by Chris Welles Feder
Hard work: a life on and off the court by Roy Williams

LARGE PRINT NON FICTION

Super freakonomics: global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

SPANISH

Tao teh King por Lao Tse
Hombres : manual de la usuaria por Claudia Ponte
El arte de la guerra por Sun-Tzu
Cronicas de sucesos por Michael Connelly
Nunca se duche durante una tormenta electrica: hechos sorprendentes y creencias erroneas acerca de la salud y el mundo que nos rodea por Anahad O'Connor
Yoga para el mundo de hoy por Ramiro Calle
Afrodisiacos: consejos y remedios naturales para una vida sexual plena y saludable por Txumari Alfaro
Perros: como son por Nacho Sierra
Prohibido querjarse: una historia para dar energia a los equipos de trabajo por Jon Gordon
Amor: seleccion de citas por Paulo Coelho
201 mensajes para emprender y liderar por Marcelo Berenstein
Una manana de marzo por Joaquin M. Barrero
El simbolo perdido por Dan Brown
Suenos asesinos por Iris Johansen

 

FICTION

Brazen by Maya Banks
Be with me by Maya Banks
Stand-in groom by Suzanne Brockmann
Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
The target by Catherine Coulter
Murder game by Christine Feehan
Retribution! by M. Flagg
Deeper than the dead by Tami Hoag
Erin's rebel by Susan Macatee
The bargain bride by Barbara Metzger
Noble blood by Linda J. Parisi
The last Dickens by Matthew Pearl
Altar of Eden by James Rollins
Hollywood moon by Joseph Wambaugh

MYSTERY

The big wake-up by Mark Coggins
The crossing places: A Ruth Galloway mystery by Elly Griffiths
Heat wave by Richard Castle
Impact by Douglas Preston
Desert lost: a Lena Jones mystery by Betty Webb

SCIENCE FICTION

Darth Bane: dynasty of evil: a novel of the Old Republic by Drew Karpyshyn
Thousandth night; Minla's flowers by Alastair Reynolds
Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer
Hidden empire by Orson Scott Card

LARGE PRINT FICTION

Tall cotton by Lori Copeland
Pursuit of honor by Vince Flynn
Once in a blue moon by Eileen Goudge
The lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
The collected short stories of Louis L'Amour: the frontier stories Volume 7 by Louis L'Amour
La's orchestra saves the world by Alexander McCall Smith
Angel time by Anne Rice
Vision in white by Nora Roberts
The girl on Legare Street by Karen White
U is for undertow by Sue Grafton
The end of the road: a Maxie and Stretch mystery by Sue Henry