Recent Acquisitions
May 2010
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Call Number Title Author
REFERENCE
REF 032 GUI  Guinness world records /  
REF 973.09 BAU  Our country's Presidents : all you need to know about the presidents, from George Washington to Barack Obama / Bausum, Ann.
     
GENERALITIES    
070.430973 BAU  Muckrakers : how Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Lincoln Steffens helped expose scandal, inspire reform, and invent investigative journalism / Bausum, Ann.
071.3 NEW  The news and its future /  
     
PHILOSOPHY & PSYCHOLOGY    
155.41826 KAG  The long shadow of temperament / Kagan, Jerome
170.44 THI  This I believe II : more personal philosophies of remarkable men and women /  
170.44 THI  This I believe : the personal philosophies of remarkable men and women /  
     
RELIGION    
211 ARM  The case for God / Armstrong, Karen, 1944-
220.5 HOL  The Holy Bible.  
282 JOH  Crossing the threshold of hope / John Paul II, Pope, 1920-2005
297 HAR  Zoroastrianism / Hartz, Paula
     
SOCIAL SCIENCE    
304.2 MCK  Eaarth : making a life on a tough new planet / McKibben, Bill
304.62 POP  Population growth /  
305.23 PHE  No turning back : milestones for girls in the twentieth century / Phelps, Edith B.
305.231 BRO  NurtureShock : new thinking about children / Bronson, Po, 1964-
305.8 IND  Indigenous peoples /  
306.362 SLA  Slavery /  
306.8109 MAR  Marriage /  
306.8723092 ALI  I am Nujood, age 10 and divorced / Ali, Nujood
306.87430973 ROS  If you knew Suzy : a mother, a daughter, a reporter's notebook / Rosman, Katherine
323.445 FRE  Freedom of expression /  
324.973 HEI  Game change : Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the race of a lifetime / Heilemann, John, 1966-
325.73 BAU  Denied, detained, deported : stories from the dark side of American immigration / Bausum, Ann.
325.73 CAN  American passage : the history of Ellis Island / Cannato, Vincent J., 1967-
327.73051 COH  America's response to China : a history of Sino-American relations / Cohen, Warren I.
330.973 LEW  The big short : inside the doomsday machine / Lewis, Michael (Michael M.)
331.31 CHI  Child labor /  
332.02400835 MON  Money management /  
338.470053 LEW  The new new thing : a Silicon Valley story / Lewis, Michael (Michael M.)
345.0235 TAU  International crime and punishment : a guide to the issues / Taulbee, James Larry, 1942-
362.29092 SON  Her last death : a memoir / Sonnenberg, Susanna, 1965-
365.43092 KER  Orange is the new black : my year in a woman's prison / Kerman, Piper
371.2070974461 NAT  The hardest questions aren't on the test : lessons from an innovative urban school / Nathan, Linda F., 1955-
371.33 OPP  The flickering mind : saving education from the false promise of technology / Oppenheimer, Todd
373.222 OFF  The official preppy handbook / Birnbach, Lisa.
376.8 CON  Wellesley College; a chronicle of the years, 1875-1938. Converse, Florence, 1871-
     
PURE SCIENCE    
508.092 BAU  Dragon bones and dinosaur eggs : a photobiography of Roy Chapman Andrews / Bausum, Ann.
509.4109033 HOL  The age of wonder : how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science / Holmes, Richard, 1945-
595.7 RAF  Insectopedia / Raffles, Hugh, 1958-
     
APPLIED SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY    
612.4 WIL  The endocrine system : hormones, growth, and development / Wilson, Michael R., 1967-
613.66082 SOO  Self-defense for women / Soo-Warr, Lavinia
613.7046 FIN  The yoga handbook / Finney, Sumukhi
613.7148 PAW  The tai chi handbook / Pawlett, Raymond
613.7192 BRI  The pilates handbook / Brignell, Roger
616.02774092 SKL  The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-
616.3623 FRE  Hepatitis B / Freedman, Jeri
616.8900844 STR  The secret life of the grown-up brain : the surprising talents of the middle aged mind / Strauch, Barbara
616.99465 ORR  Ovarian tumors and cysts / Orr, Tamra
618.1 WIL  Pelvic inflammatory disease / Wilson, Michael R., 1967-
618.172 ORR  Amenorrhea : why your period stops / Orr, Tamra
618.178 WIL  Fertility / Wilson, Michael R., 1967-
646.404 ARM  Patternmaking for fashion design / Armstrong, Helen Joseph
649.125 BRA  Yes, your teen is crazy! : loving your kid without losing your mind / Bradley, Michael J., 1951-
658.834 LIN  Buy ology : truth and lies about what we buy / Lindstrom, Martin, 1970-
     
THE ARTS    
709.024 SNY  Northern Renaissance art : painting, sculpture, the graphic arts from 1350 to 1575 / Snyder, James
720.103 GOL  Why architecture matters / Goldberger, Paul
741.5 MIL  Non sequitur's Sunday color treasury / Miller, Wiley, 1951-
741.5 WAT  The essential Calvin and Hobbes : a Calvin and Hobbes treasury / Watterson, Bill.
741.672 BOR  Fashion illustration next / Borrelli, Laird
741.672 WAT  Contemporary fashion illustration techniques / Watanabe, Naoki, 1963-
745.4 GUI  The Guild : the designer's reference book of artists.  
746.92 SCH  Paris 1962 : Schatzberg : Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior : the early collections / Schatzberg, Jerry, 1927-
746.92092 DIO  Christian Dior : the biography / Pochna, Marie France, 1941-
746.92092 DIO  Dior by Dior : the autobiography of Christian Dior / Dior, Christian
747.0922 LEW  The great Lady Decorators : the women who defined interior design, 1870-1955 / Lewis, Adam
759.13 POR  Rufus Porter, Yankee pioneer Lipman, Jean, 1909-1998
759.5 BRO  The drawings of Bronzino / Bambach, Carmen
770.92 MAR  Match prints / Marshall, Jim, 1936-2010
779.092 CAR  Henri Cartier-Bresson : the modern century / Galassi, Peter.
783.9 PIL  The Pilgrim Hymnal.  
792.8 AND  Modern dance / Anderson, Janet, 1952-
792.8028092 KAR  The sugarless plum : a ballerina's triumph over diabetes / Karz, Zippora
796.0698 DAV  The Olympic Games effect : how sports marketing builds strong brands / Davis, John, 1960 Feb. 17-
796.082 WOM  Women and sports in the United States : a documentary reader /  
796.3238 IKA  Just for fun : the story of AAU women's basketball / Ikard, Robert W.
796.357092 HIR  Willie Mays : the life, the legend / Hirsch, James S.
796.424 MCD  Born to run : a hidden tribe, superathletes, and the greatest race the world has never seen / McDougall, Christopher, 1962-
796.4257 EDW  Triathlons for women / Edwards, Sally, 1947-
796.6082 YEA  Every woman's guide to cycling : everything you need to know, from buying your first bike to winning your first race / Yeager, Selene
796.812092 LEE  The queen of the ring : sex, muscles, diamonds, and the making of an American legend / Leen, Jeff
796.962082 NOR  Women on ice : the early years of women's hockey in Western Canada / Norton, Wayne R. (Wayne Reid), 1948-
797.21092 DAH  America's girl : the incredible story of how swimmer Gertrude Ederle changed the nation / Dahlberg, Tim
797.32082 AFC  Sister surfer : a woman's guide to surfing with bliss and courage / Afcari, Kia
797.32082 GAB  Girl in the curl : a century of women in surfing / Gabbard, Andrea
     
LITERATURE    
808.88 SWE  The Sweetness of honey and the sting of bees : a book of love from the ancient Mediterranean /  
810.8092837 GIR  GirlSpoken : from pen, brush & tongue /  
810.915 FRO  The Frontier experience and the American dream : essays on American literature /  
811.54 BOU  The fogg : poems / Bouchard, Alfred
811.54 CAD  History of hurricanes : poems / Cader, Teresa
811.54 GIL  The dance most of all : poems / Gilbert, Jack, 1925-
811.54 GLU  A village life / Gluck, Louise, 1943-
811.54 HAU  Legend of the recent past : poems / Haug, James, 1954-
811.54 LIG  Song of two worlds / Lightman, Alan P., 1948-
811.54 LOU  If the Delta was the sea / Lourie, Dick
811.54 MAJ  Memory's daughter / Major, Alice.
811.54 OLI  Evidence : poems / Oliver, Mary, 1935-
811.54 ROB  The body alters / Roberts, J. P. (Janine P.)
811.54 RON  Marrowbone Lane / Ronan, John J. (John Joseph), 1944-
811.54 SLA  The seven deadly sins : and other poems / Slavitt, David R., 1935-
811.54 STE  Steerage : new and collected poems / Stern, Bert
811.54 WIE  Selected poems / Wier, Dara, 1949-
811.54 WRI  Wheeling motel : poems / Wright, Franz, 1953-
811.6 AMO  In praise : poems / Amorosi, Ray, 1946-
811.6 COH  Long division / Cohen, Andrea
811.6 GAU  Hunger all inside : poems / Gauthier, Marie
811.6 HOU  The us / Houlihan, Joan
811.6 MAR  The looking house : poems / Marchant, Fred
811.6 OLS  Lost alphabet / Olstein, Lisa, 1972-
811.6 SLA  The great wave / Slate, Ron
811.6 WHI  The goddess of goodbye : poems / Whitley, James R.
811.6 WHI  This is the red door / Whitley, James R.
812.54 NOT  Ruined / Nottage, Lynn
812.54 SHA  Doubt : a parable / Shanley, John Patrick
812.54 WRI  I am my own wife : studies for a play about the life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf / Wright, Doug
812.6 LET  August: Osage County / Letts, Tracy, 1965-
812.6 LIN  Rabbit hole / Lindsay-Abaire, David
818.403 MAT  Eden's outcasts : the story of Louisa May Alcott and her father / Matteson, John
821.008 CON  Contemporary verse. New ed., Merrill, A. Marion, ed.
822.33 SHA Q7  Twelfth night / Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
824.914 SMI  Changing my mind : occasional essays / Smith, Zadie
841 ANT  Anthologie de la poesie francaise : les poetes et les oeuvres, les mouvements et les ecoles /  
882.0108 ORE  An Oresteia /  
     
HISTORY    
910.45 HAY  My old man and the sea : a father and son sail around Cape Horn / Hays, David, 1930-
917.444 BRA  Early days in Wellesley : being casual recollections of boyhood and later years, 1867 to 1881 / Bradford, Gamaliel, 1863-1932. cn
917.445 EAS  Dogtown : death and enchantment in a New England ghost town / East, Elyssa
951.06 WAS  China in the 21st century : what everyone needs to know / Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N.
951.95043 WIC  Korea on the brink : a memoir of political intrigue and military crisis / Wickham, John Adams, 1928-
952.033 STU  Japan's Yasukuni Shrine : place of peace or place of conflict? regional politics of history and memory in East Asia = Heiwa to funso no shototsu kukan to shite no Yasukuni Jinja : rekishi to kioku o meguru Higashi Ajia chiiki seiji / Sturgeon, William Daniel.
952.033 YAS  Yasukuni, the war dead and the struggle for Japan's past /  
956.04 PAP  The modern Middle East / Pappe, Ilan
956.6 DEB  Rebel land : unraveling the riddle of history in a Turkish town / De Bellaigue, Christopher, 1971-
970.916327 BRA  The man who ate his boots : the history of the search for the Northwest passage / Brandt, Anthony
973.0496073022 CON  Martin & Malcolm & America : a dream or a nightmare / Cone, James H.
973.4092 ADA  My dearest friend : letters of Abigail and John Adams / Adams, John, 1735-1826.
973.7082 SLA  Women and the Civil War / Slavicek, Louise Chipley, 1956-
973.70922 MCN  Civil War leaders / McNeese, Tim
973.711 MOU  Causes of the Civil War : the differences between the North and South / Mountjoy, Shane, 1967-
973.73 MCN  Civil War battles / McNeese, Tim
973.7301 MOU  Technology and the Civil War / Mountjoy, Shane, 1967-
973.7415 REI  African Americans and the Civil War / Reis, Ronald A.
973.786 WAG  Spies in the Civil War / Wagner, Heather Lehr
973.8 MCN  Reconstruction : life after the Civil War / McNeese, Tim
974.4 HIN  Five pounds currency, three pounds of corn : Wellesley's centennial story / Hinchliffe, Elizabeth M.
974.44 WEL  The Wellesley post card album /  
979.404 BRA  The age of gold : the California Gold Rush : the new American dream / Brands, H. W.
     
BIOGRAPHY    
B DIAKITE  A gift from childhood : memories of an African boyhood / Diakite, Baba Wague
     
FICTION    
F AND  Peaches : a novel / Anderson, Jodi Lynn
F BAK  The anthologist / Baker, Nicholson.
F BLO  Albatross / Bloss, Josie, 1981-
F BRE  Moloka'i / Brennert, Alan
F BRO  The hunt ball : a novel / Brown, Rita Mae
F BUR  The vast fields of ordinary / Burd, Nick
F BYN  Molly Moon's hypnotic time travel adventure / Byng, Georgia
F BYN  Molly Moon, Micky Minus and the mind machine / Byng, Georgia
F CAS  Imagining Isabel / Castaneda, Omar S., 1954-
F CAS  Among the volcanoes / Castaneda, Omar S., 1954-
F CHA  The secret life of CeeCee Wilkes / Chamberlain, Diane, 1950-
F COL  Artemis Fowl / Colfer, Eoin
F COO  What girls learn : a novel / Cook, Karin, 1969-
F CRO  Whip it / Cross, Shauna
F DEE  The privileges : a novel / Dee, Jonathan
F FLA  Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe / Flagg, Fannie.
F GAS  Stealing Fatima : a novel / Gaspar, Frank, 1946-
F GIO  The solitude of prime numbers / Giordano, Paolo, 1982-
F GRE  Will Grayson, Will Grayson / Green, John, 1977-
F GRI  The orange houses / Griffin, Paul, 1966-
F HIA  Scat / Hiaasen, Carl
F HOR  How to be good / Hornby, Nick
F KAD  A million shades of gray / Kadohata, Cynthia
F LAM  Imperfect birds / Lamott, Anne.
F LAS  Ashes / Lasky, Kathryn
F LOW  Spotting for Nellie / Lowell, Pamela
F MAR  The pleasure of my company : a novel / Martin, Steve, 1945-
F MAR  Take me with you / Marsden, Carolyn
F MCM  Wake / McMann, Lisa
F NEM  Dimanche and other stories / Nemirovsky, Irene, 1903-1942
F PEA  The last Dickens : a novel / Pearl, Matthew
F QUI  Every last one : a novel / Quindlen, Anna
F SAN  Triple time / Sanow, Anne
F SEL  The cricket in Times Square / Selden, George, 1929-
F STA  Getting in / Stabiner, Karen.
F STJ  Dolphin song / St. John, Lauren, 1966-
F STO  The last summer of the death warriors / Stork, Francisco X.
F STO  Marcelo in the real world / Stork, Francisco X.
F STR  Chanda's secrets / Stratton, Allan
F THO  A faraway island / Thor, Annika
F WHI  The Sultan's seal : a novel / White, Jenny B. (Jenny Barbara), 1953-
F WHI  The Abyssinian proof : a novel / White, Jenny B. (Jenny Barbara), 1953-
F WHI  The winter thief / White, Jenny B. (Jenny Barbara), 1953-
F WIL  Trajan, lion of Rome : the untold story of Rome's greatest emperor / Wildfeuer, C. R. H.
F WOL  The electric Kool-Aid acid test / Wolfe, Tom.
F ZEV  The hole we're in : a novel / Zevin, Gabrielle
     
GRAPHIC NOVELS    
GN F CAS  The plain Janes / Castellucci, Cecil, 1969-
GN F KIM  The color of heaven / Kim, Tong-hwa, 1950-
GN F KIM  The color of Earth / Kim, Tong-hwa, 1950-
GN F NAK  Sugar princess : skating to win / Nakajo, Hisaya
GN F SID  Gunnerkrigg Court / Siddell, Tom
     
VIDEO    
VIDEO  Coco avant Chanel [videorecording] /  
VIDEO 302.231 DIG  Digital nation [videorecording] /  
VIDEO 347.732 SUP  The Supreme Court [videorecording] /  
VIDEO 791.4375 WHO  Wholphin. no. 11 [videorecording].  
VIDEO 792.809 TAY  Paul Taylor, dancemaker [videorecording] /  
VIDEO 843.914 AFF  Une affaire de femmes [videorecording] = Story of women /  
VIDEO 843.914 FEM  Femme Nikita [videorecording] /  
VIDEO 843.914 LAC  Lacombe, Lucien [videorecording] /  
VIDEO 843.92 BON  Bon voyage [videorecording] /  
VIDEO 929.20973 FAC  Faces of America [videorecording] /  
VIDEO F FAN  Fantastic Mr. Fox [videorecording] /  
VIDEO F GRE  The great Gatsby [videorecording] /  
VIDEO F HAR  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [videorecording] /  
VIDEO F HAR  Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone [videorecording] /  
VIDEO F LIT  A little princess [videorecording] /  
VIDEO F LOR  Lord of the rings. The fellowship of the ring [videorecording] /  
VIDEO F MAD  Mad men. Season three [videorecording] /  
VIDEO F MEM  Memoirs of a geisha [videorecording] /  
VIDEO F OKL  Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! [videorecording] /  
VIDEO F POC  Pocahontas [videorecording] /  
VIDEO F SHE  Sherlock Holmes [videorecording] /  
VIDEO F STA  Star wars. Episode V, The Empire strikes back [videorecording] /  
VIDEO F STA  Star wars. Episode VI, Return of the Jedi [videorecording] /  
VIDEO F STA  Star wars. Episode IV, A new hope [videorecording] /  
VIDEO F YOU  The young Victoria [videorecording] /  
     
ALUMNAE AUTHORS    
AGS 305.23 PHE  No turning back : milestones for girls in the twentieth century / Phelps, Edith B.
AGS 811.08 ANC  Ancient ballads traditionally sung in New England, from the Helen Hartness Flanders ballad collection, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. Flanders, Helen Hartness 1890- ed.
AGS B JOHNSTON  The footprints of the pheasant in the snow / Johnston, Alnah James.
AGS B WOODY  Dancing for joy. Woody, Regina Jones.
AGS CD GP HALE REJ H42  Rejoyce [sound recording] : inspirational piano music to enhance your time with God \ Haley, Karin Brant.
AGS CD P HINC SCL H21  Sports car lady with a station wagon life [sound recording] \ Hinckley, Jenny Lois.
AGS CD P MEAN HS M20  Heartbeat from the sea [sound recording] / Nell, Daisy
AGS CD P MEAN THM M21  Time has made a change in me [sound recording] / Nell, Daisy
     
AUDIO    
AUDIO 811.54 OLI  Many miles [sound recording] / Oliver, Mary, 1935-
AUDIO 811.54 OLI  At Blackwater Pond [sound recording] : Mary Oliver reads Mary Oliver. Oliver, Mary, 1935-
AUDIO 940.54252 PEL  The last train from Hiroshima [sound recording] : the survivors look back / Pellegrino, Charles R.
     
MUSIC    
CD B PUCC TAB F04  Il tabarro [sound recording] / Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924
CD C BRIT SN N13  St. Nicholas, op. 42 [sound recording] / Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976
CD D HAND HTA M01  Concerti grossi, op. 3 nos. 1 & 2 [sound recording] ; Chandos anthems, nos. 6 & 10 / Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759
CD D MAHL LE C11  Das Lied von der Erde [sound recording] = [The Song of the Earth] / Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911
CD EA COLL ERN P00  Encore! [sound recording] : The Russian National Orchestra live in concert /  
CD EA COLL GAC B16  Second rhapsody [sound recording] / Gershwin, George, 1898-1937
CD EA JANA SIN H02  Sinfonietta [sound recording] ; Glagolitic Mass / Janacek, Leos, 1854-1928
CD EC BRAH P-1 G10  Piano concerto no. 1 in D minor, op. 15 [sound recording] ; Academic festival overture, op. 80 / Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897
CD EC MOZA P-21 C03  Piano concertos nos 21 & 23 [sound recording] / Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
CD EC POUL CC E18  Concert champetre [sound recording] / Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963
CD ES BERL TD M17  Te Deum [sound recording] ; Grand symphonie funebre et triomphale / Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869
CD ES HAYD 22 K07  Symphonies nos. 22, 26, 67 & 80 [sound recording] / Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809
CD ES SCHU 4 M14  Symphony no. 4 [sound recording] ; Konzertstuck for four horns / Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856
CD ES SHOS 11 K09  Symphony no. 11 [sound recording] / Shostakovich, Dmitrii Dmitrievich, 1906-1975
CD ES WALT 1 B08  Symphony no. 1 [sound recording] / Walton, William, 1902-1983
CD F BEET BSQ P05  String quartets [sound recording] / Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
CD GP CHOP CPM R15  200th anniversary [sound recording] / Chopin, Frederic, 1810-1849
CD MA COLL ME R38  Music from the 80's [sound recording]  
CD MA COLL STG R60  Songs that got us through WWII [sound recording].  
CD PROK VN-2 S12  Violin concerto no. 2 in G minor, op. 63 [sound recording] ; Violin sonata no. 2 in D, op. 94 / Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953
CD Q SOUT-A GSA A11  The great South African trip [sound recording].  
CD T SENI TRUM D08  Trumpet voluntary [sound recording] / Clarke, Jeremiah, 1669?-1707
     
FACULTY LIBRARY    
FL 507.1 RAH  Teaching science fact with science fiction / Raham, Gary
FL 507.2 SAM  Girls can succeed in science! : antidotes for science phobia in boys and girls / Samuels, Linda S.
     
PICTURE BOOKS    
P 398.2 MIN  Sleepless Beauty / Minters, Frances
P 398.20944 LIG  Puss in boots / Light, Steve
P F NYE  Sitti's secrets / Nye, Naomi Shihab.