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Toby's Room
Barker, Pat.
FICTION B244T
This dark novel explores the horror and loss of the First World War, largely through the thoughts of Elinor, an artist whose brother and close friends leave for the front line.
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Gold: A Novel
Cleave, Chris.
FICTION C585G
Cyclists Zoe and Kate are friends and athletic rivals for Olympic gold, while Kate and her husband Jack, also a world-class cyclist, must contend with the recurrence of their young daughter's leukemia.
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A Wanted Man
Child, Lee
FICTION AT96IN
Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don't add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a broken nose, hitching a ride east to Virginia. An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others, but he never came out. He has been executed, the knife work professional, the killers vanished. Within minutes, the police are notified. Within hours, the FBI descends, laying claim to the victim without ever saying who he was or why he was there. All Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia. All he did was stick out his thumb. But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride. He has tied himself to a massive conspiracy that makes him a threat to both sides at once.
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The Yellow Birds
Powers, Kevin
FICTION P58Y
In the midst of a bloody battle in the Iraq War, two soldiers, bound together since basic training, do everything to protect each other from both outside enemies and the internal struggles that come from constant danger.
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NEW NON-FICTION
New Materials in Support of the Art Curriculum
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The Anglo-Florentine Renaissance : art for the early Tudors
709.45 AN34
Under the rule of Henry VII (r. 1485-1509) England became a powerful nation. The Tudor court sought to express its worldliness and political clout through major artistic commissions, employing Florentine sculptors and painters to create lavish new interiors, suitable for entertaining foreign dignitaries, for its royal palaces. These were exemplified by Henry VIII's palace of Nonsuch, so named because no other palace could match its magnificence. Italian sculpture, painting, and tapestries of the day reflected an interest in portraiture and dynastic monuments, epitomized in England by the royal tomb projects created by Baccio Bandinelli, Benedetto da Rovezzano, and Pietro Torrigiani. Generously illustrated throughout, The Anglo-Florentine Renaissance traces the artistic links between Medicean Florence and Tudor England through essays by an international team of scholars and explores how the language of Florentine art effectively expressed England's political aspirations and rose to prominence as a new international courtly style
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Murillo : virtuoso draftsman
Brown, Jonathan
741.092M86B
Known primarily as a great painter, Bartolome; Esteban Murillo (1617-1682) was also one of the best draftsmen of the 17th century. Although his devotional paintings seem to have been created effortlessly, they are the result of careful thought and study, a process that comes alive in the preparatory drawings. Murillo used a variety of techniques, favoring pen and ink and brown wash and red-and-black chalk. Like painters schooled in Italian Renaissance practice, the Spaniard developed his paintings in stages, starting with sketches of the full composition and then focusing on details that posed specific problems. Occasionally, Murillo used drawings as a medium for original compositions; these are highly finished pieces, usually enhanced by the use of wash and unmistakably stamped with the artist's personality. This sumptuous book is a thoroughly revised edition of the 1976 publication Murillo & His Drawings. Twenty sheets have been added to the catalogue of authentic works, the bibliography has been brought up to date, and the entries have been revised.
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New Materials in Support of the Athletics Curriculum
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New Materials in Support of the English Curriculum
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New Materials in Support of the History and Social Sciences Curriculum
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Ashbel P. Fitch : champion of old New York
Remington, David F.
Forebears and early years, 1848-1885 -- Politics and the road to Washington -- National prominence, tariff speech : fiftieth congress, 1886-1888 -- New York's world's fair lost : fifty-first congress, 1888-1890 -- Republican overreach, democratic momentum : fifty-first congress, 1888-1890 -- Silver beckons : fifty-second congress, 1890-1892 -- New York and the election law in Cleveland's victory : fifty-second congress, 1890-1892 -- Repeal of the election law and Sherman Act : fifty-third congress, 1892-1894 -- New York City's watershed -- Reformers in charge, 1895 -- A crash and a bang -- Silver and the New York elections of 1896 and 1897 -- Passage.
328.73 R35AS
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Plessy v. Ferguson : race and inequality in Jim Crow America
342.73 H65P
Hoffer, Williamjames
Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another traveler in the Deep South tried to strike a blow against racial discrimination--but ultimately fell short of that goal, leading to the Supreme Court's landmark 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. Now Williamjames Hull Hoffer vividly details the origins, litigation, opinions, and aftermath of this notorious case.
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The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness
Alexander, Michelle
364.973 AL28N
The rebirth of caste -- The lockdown -- The color of justice -- The cruel hand -- The new Jim Crow -- The fire this time.
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New Materials in Support of the Math Curriculum
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In pursuit of the unknown : 17 equations that changed the world
Stewart, Ian
511.3 ST28IN
Why equations? -- The squaw of the hippopotamus : Pythagoras's theorem -- Shortening the proceedings : logarithms -- Ghosts of departed quantities : calculus -- The system of the world : Newton's law of gravity -- Portent of the ideal world : the sqaure root of minus one -- Much ado about knotting : Euler's formula for polyhedra -- Patterns of chance : normal distribution -- Good vibrations : wave equation -- Ripples and blips : Fourier transform -- The ascent of humanity : Navier-Stokes equation -- Waves in the ether : Maxwell's equations -- Law and disorder : second law of thermodynamics -- One thing is absolute : relativity -- Quantum weirdness : Schrödinger equation -- Codes, communications, and computers : information theory -- The imbalance of nature : chaos theory -- The Midas formula : Black-Scholes equation -- What next?
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New Materials in Support of the Music Curriculum
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New Materials in Support of the Philosophy and Religious Studies Curriculum
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New Materials in Support of the Psychology Curriculum
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Steal like an artist : 10 things nobody told you about being creative
Wilson, Timothy D.
153.3 K44ST
Steal like an artist -- Don't wait until you know who you are to get started -- Write the book you want to read -- Use your hands -- Side projects and hobbies are important -- The secret: do good work and share it with people -- Geography is no longer our master -- Be nice (the world is a small town) -- Be boring (it's the only way to get work done) -- Creativity is subtraction.
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Subliminal : how your unconscious mind rules your behavior
Mlodinow, Leonard.
154.2 M45S
In this book the author of The Drunkard's Walk and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking), gives us an examination of how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world and how, for instance, we often misperceive our relationships with family, friends, and business associates, misunderstand the reasons for our investment decisions, and misremember important events. Your preference in politicians, the amount you tip your waiter, all judgments and perceptions reflect the workings of our mind on two levels: the conscious, of which we are aware, and the unconscious, which is hidden from us. The latter has long been the subject of speculation, but over the past two decades researchers have developed remarkable new tools for probing the hidden, or subliminal, workings of the mind. The result of this explosion of research is a new science of the unconscious and a sea change in our understanding of how the subliminal mind affects the way we live. Employing accessible explanations of the most obscure scientific subjects, the author takes us on a tour of this research, unraveling the complexities of the subliminal self and increasing our understanding of how the human mind works and how we interact with friends, strangers, spouses, and coworkers. In the process he changes our view of ourselves and the world around us.
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New Materials in Support of the Natural Sciences Curriculum
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New Materials in Support of the Theater and Dance Curriculum
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New Materials in Support of the World Languages Curriculum
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