Week of December 14, 2009
Seasons Greetings! “In the News” will be on holiday for three weeks. We’ll return with a new list of titles on January 11, 2010. – Maris
News Item: Need something to read during Intersession? Pick up one of these award-winning titles and top-picks by New York Times, NPR, and Publishers Weekly critics.
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science – (Publishers Weekly Top 10; New York Times Notable Book, Non Fiction)
By Richard Holmes. Pantheon Books, 2008
Call Number: Q127 .G4 H65 2008
All Souls – (Pulitzer Finalist, Fiction)
By Christine Schutt. Harcourt, 2008
Call Number: PS3569 .C55555 A45 2008
Amateur Barbarians: A Novel – (New York Times Notable Book, Fiction)
By Robert Cohen. Scribner, 2009
Call Number: PS3553 .O4273 A8 2009
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House – (Pulitzer Winner, Biography or Autobiography)
By Jon Meacham. Random House, 2008
Call Number: E382 .M43 2008
American Salvage: Stories – (National Book Award Finalist, Fiction)
By Bonnie Jo Campbell. Wayne State University Press, 2009
Call Number: PS3553 .A43956 A8 2009
The Anthologist – (New York Times Notable Book, Fiction)
By Nicholson Baker. Simon & Schuster, 2009
Call Number: PS3552 .A4325 A83 2009
Asterios Polyp – (New York Times Notable Book, Fiction; NPR Recommendation)
By David Mazzucchelli. Pantheon Books, 2009
Call Number: PN6727 .M2476 A77 2009
Await Your Reply: A Novel – (Publishers Weekly Top 10; New York Times Notable Book, Fiction)
By Dan Chaon. Ballantine Books, 2009
Call Number: PS3553 .G277 A95 2009
Big Machine: A Novel – (Publishers Weekly Top 10)
By Victor LaValle. Spiegel & Grau, 2009
Call Number: PS3562 .A8458 B54 2009 (At Jupiter)
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century – (Pulitzer Finalist, Biography or Autobiography)
By Steve Coll. Penguin Press, 2008
Call Number: CS1129 .B552 2008 (At Jupiter)
The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe – (Pulitzer Finalist, General Nonfiction)
By William I. Hitchcock. Free Press, 2008
Call Number: D755.7 .H56 2008
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It – (New York Times Best Book, Fiction)
By Maile Meloy. Riverhead Books, 2009
Call Number: PS3613 .E46 B68 2009
Cheever: A Life – (Publishers Weekly Top 10; New York Times Notable Book, Nonfiction)
By Blake Bailey. Alfred A. Knopf, 2009
Call Number: PS3505 .H6428 Z53 2009
The Children’s Book: A Novel – (Man Booker Shortlist)
By A. S. Byatt. Knopf, 2009
Call Number: PR6052 .Y2 C48 2009
Chronic – (Publishers Weekly Best Book, Poetry)
By D. A. Powell. Graywolf Press, 2009
Call Number: PS3566 .O828 C47 2009
Chronic City, A Novel – (New York Times Best Book, Fiction)
By Jonathan Lethem. Doubleday, 2009
Call Number: PS3562 .E8544 C47 2009
Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo – (NPR Recommendation)
By Werner Herzog. Ecco, 2009
Call Number: PN1998.3 .H477 A3 2009 (At Jupiter)
Cutting for Stone: A Novel – (Publishers Weekly Best Book, Fiction)
By Abraham Verghese. Alfred A. Knopf, 2009
Call Number: PS3622 .E744 C87 2009
Far North – (National Book Award Finalist, Fiction)
By Marcel Theroux. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009
Call Number: PS3570 .H395 F37 2009
The First Tycoon: The Epic of Cornelius Vanderbilt – (National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction; New York Times Notable Book, Nonfiction)
By T. J. Stiles. Alfred A. Knopf, 2009
Call Number: CT275 .V23 S85 2009
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor – (New York Times Notable Book, Nonfiction)
By Brad Gooch. Little, Brown and Co., 2009
Call Number: PS3565 .C57 Z6795 2009
Following the Water: A Hydromancer’s Notebook – (National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction)
By David M. Carroll. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009
Call Number: QH105 .N4 C267 2009
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City – (National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction)
By Greg Grandin. Metropolitan Books, 2009
Call Number: F2651 .F55 G72 2009
Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age – (Pulitzer Finalist, General Nonfiction)
By Arthur Herman. Bantam Books, 2009
Call Number: DA47.9 .I4 H47 2009
Going Away Shoes: Stories – (NPR Recommendation)
By Jill McCorkle. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2009
Call Number: PS3563 .C3444 G65 2009
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel – (New York Times Best Book, Fiction)
By Jeannette Walls. Scribner, 2009
Call Number: PS3623 .A3644 H35 2009
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family – (Pulitzer Winner, History)
By Annette Gordon-Reed. W. W. Norton & Co., 2008
Call Number: E332.74 .G67 2008
How to Sell – (Publishers Weekly Best Book, Fiction)
By Clancy Martin. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009
Call Number: PS3613 .A77787 H68 2009
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders – (National Book Award Finalist, Fiction)
By Daniyal Mueenuddin. W. W. Norton, 2009
Call Number: PR9540.9 .M84 I52 2009
The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America – (New York Times Notable Book, Nonfiction)
By Steven Johnson. Riverhead Books, 2008
Call Number: QD22 .P8 J635 2008
Lark and Termite: A Novel – (New York Times Notable Book, Fiction)
By Jayne Anne Phillips. Alfred A. Knopf, 2009
Call Number: PS3566 .H479 L37 2009 (At Jupiter)
The Last War: A Novel – (Publishers Weekly Best Book, Fiction)
By Ana Menéndez. HarperCollins, 2009
Call Number: PS3563 .E514 L37 2009
Let the Great World Spin: A Novel – (National Book Award Winner, Fiction; New York Times Notable Book, Fiction)
By Colum McCann. Random House, 2009
Call Number: PR6063 .C335 L47 2009
The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s – (Pulitzer Finalist, History)
By G. Calvin Mackenzie & Robert Weisbrot. Penguin Press, 2008
Call Number: E841 .M223 2008
Little Bee – (NPR Recommendation)
By Chris Cleave. Simon & Schuster, 2009
Call Number: PR6103 .L43 L58 2009
The Little Stranger – (Man Booker Shortlist; Publishers Weekly Best Book, Fiction)
By Sarah Waters. Riverhead Books, 2009
Call Number: PR6073 .A828 L58 2009
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World – (New York Times Best Book, Nonfiction)
By Liaquat Ahamed. Penguin Press, 2009
Call Number: HG172 .A2 A43 2009
Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir – (New York Times Notable Book, Nonfiction)
By Christopher Buckley. Twelve, 2009
Call Number: PS3552 .U3394 Z46 2009
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon – (Publishers Weekly Top 10)
By David Grann. Doubleday, 2009
Call Number: F2546 .G747 2009 (At Jupiter)
Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever – (New York Times Notable Book, Nonfiction)
By Walter Kim. Doubleday, 2009
Call Number: PS3561 .I746 Z46 2009
Olive Kitteridge – (2009 Pulitzer Winner, Fiction)
By Elizabeth Strout. Random House, 2008
Call Number: PS3569 .T736 O5 2008
Open Interval – (National Book Award Finalist, Poetry)
By Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009
Call Number: PS3622 .A585 O64 2009
The Plague of Doves – (Pulitzer Finalist, Fiction)
By Louise Erdrich. HarperCollins, 2008
Call Number: PS3555 .R42 P55 2008
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species – (National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction)
By Sean B. Carroll. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009
Call Number: QH361 .C275 2009
Sag Harbor: A Novel – (New York Times Notable Book, Fiction; Publishers Weekly Best Book, Fiction)
By Colson Whitehead. Doubleday, 2009
Call Number: PS3573 .H4768 S35 2009
The Shadow of Sirius – (2009 Pulitzer Winner, Poetry)
By W. S. Merwin. Copper Canyon Press, 2008
Call Number: PS3563 .E75 S48 2008
A Short History of Women – (New York Times Best Book Fiction)
By Kate Walbert. Scribner, 2004
Call Number: PS3573 .A42113 S54 2009
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II – (Pulitzer Winner, General Nonfiction)
By Douglas A. Blackmon. Doubleday, 2008
Call Number: E185.2 .B545 2008
Spooner – (NPR Recommendation; Publishers Weekly Best Book, Fiction)
By Pete Dexter. Grand Central Pub., 2009
Call Number: PS3554 .E95 S66 2009
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original – (New York Times Notable Book, Nonfiction)
By Robin D. G. Kelley. Free Press, 2009
Call Number: ML417 .M846 K46 2009
The Third Reich At War – (New York Times Notable Book, Nonfiction)
By Richard J. Evans. Penguin Press, 2009
Call Number: D757 .E83 2009
This is Where I Leave You – (NPR Recommendation)
By Jonathan Tropper. Dutton, 2009
Call Number: PS3570 .R5885 T47 2009
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War – (Pulitzer Finalist, History)
By Drew Gilpin Faust. Alfred A. Knopf, 2008
Call Number: E468.9 .F385 2008
Tinkers – (Publishers Weekly Best Book, Fiction)
By Paul Harding. Bellevue Literary Press, 2009
Call Number: PS3608 .A72535 T56 2009
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt – (Pulitzer Finalist, Biography or Autobiography)
By H. W. Brands. Doubleday, 2008
Call Number: E807 .B735 2008
Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy – (National Book Award Winner, Poetry)
By Keith Waldrop. University of California Press, 2009
Call Number: PS3573 .A423 T73 2009
The Vagrants: A Novel – (Publishers Weekly Best Book, Fiction)
By Yiyun Li. Random House, 2009
Call Number: PL3946 .Y59 V34 2009 (At Jupiter)
Versed – (National Book Award Finalist, Poetry)
By Rae Armantrout. Wesleyan University Press, 2009
Call Number: PS3551 .R455 V47 2009
Watching the Spring Festival – (Pulitzer Finalist, Poetry)
By Frank Bidart. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
Call Number: PS3552 .I33 W38 2008
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America – (New York Times Notable Book, Nonfiction)
By Douglas Brinkley. HarperCollins, 2009
Call Number: E757 .B84 2009
The Year of the Flood: A Novel – (New York Times Notable Book, Fiction)
By Margaret Atwood. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2009
Call Number: PR9199.3 .A8 Y43 2009
Zeitoun – (New York Times Notable Book, Nonfiction)
By Dave Eggers. McSweeney’s Books, 2009
Call Number: E184 .A65 E34 2009