| Recent Acquisitions | |||
| December 2009 | |||
| (click here for archived lists) | |||
| Call Number | Title | Author | |
| REFERENCE | |||
| REF 133.5 DEV | Encyclopedia of astrology / by Nicholas de Vore. | De Vore, Nicholas, b. 1882 | |
| REF 220.2 CRU | Cruden's complete concordance to the Old and New Testaments / by Alexander Cruden. | Cruden, Alexander, 1699-1770 | |
| REF 305.48 ENC | Encyclopedia of women in the Renaissance : Italy, France, and England / Diana Robin, Anne R. Larsen, Carole Levin, editors. | Robin, Diana Maury | |
| REF 333.95 ADD | Disappearing world : 101 of the earth's most extraordinary and endangered places / Alonzo C. Addison. | Addison, Alonzo C. | |
| REF 443 PET | Le petit Larousse illustre en couleurs : 87 000 articles, 5 000 illustrations, 321 cartes, chronologie universelle / [direction generale, Isabelle Jeuge-Maynart ; direction editoriale, Yves Garnier, Line Karoubi, Mady Vinciguerra]. | Garnier, Yves | |
| REF 808.027 MLA | MLA handbook for writers of research papers. | Gibaldi, Joseph, 1942- MLA handbook for writers of research papers. | |
| REF 822.33 G SHA | Shakespeares after Shakespeare : an encyclopedia of the Bard in mass media and popular culture / edited by Richard Burt. | Burt, Richard, 1954- | |
| GENERALITIES | |||
| 027.10973 ELL | At home with books : how booklovers live with and care for their libraries / Estelle Ellis, Caroline Seebohm, Christopher Simon Sykes. | Ellis, Estelle | |
| PHILOSOPHY & PSYCHOLOGY | |||
| 179.8 THU | Anger / Robert A.F. Thurman. | Thurman, Robert A. F. | |
| RELIGION | |||
| 220.61 BIB | The Bible and its influence / Cullen Schippe, Chuck Stetson, general editors. | Stetson, Chuck | |
| 299.51 BIR | Chinese mythology : an introduction / Anne Birrell ; with a foreword by Yuan Ko. | Birrell, Anne | |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE | |||
| 305.4201 BAU | Manifesta : young women, feminism, and the future / Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards. | Baumgardner, Jennifer, 1970- | |
| 306.766 NEW | Margaret Mead made me gay : personal essays, public ideas / Esther Newton ; forewords by Judith Halberstam and William L. Leap. | Newton, Esther | |
| 333.9522 SHE | Endangered species / Sean Sheehan. | Sheehan, Sean, 1951- | |
| 362.55650973 UNI | U.S. national debate topic 2009-2010 : social services for the poor / edited by Margaret Roush. | Roush, Margaret | |
| 363.73874 IGN | Ignition : what you can do to fight global warming and spark a movement / edited by Jonathan Isham and Sissel Waage | Waage, Sissel A. | |
| 378.1662 FOD | The SAT word slam : rhyme your way to a better vocabulary and higher SAT and ACT scores / Jodi Fodor. | Fodor, Jodi. | |
| 398.2454 MYT | Mythical beasts : an anthology of verse & prose. | ||
| LANGUAGE | |||
| 495.1 LIU | Wo jia de da yan fei zou le / zhu bian Liu Yuehua, Chu Chengzhi ; yuan chuang Zhao Shaoling = Our geese have gone / Yuehua Liu and Chengzhi Chu, with Shaoling Zhao. | Liu, Yuehua | |
| 495.1 LIU | Wo ke yi qing ni tiao wu ma? / zhu bian Liu Yuehua, Chu Chengzhi ; Zhao Shaoling = Can I dance with you? / Yuehua Liu and Chengzhi Chu with Shaoling Zhao. | Liu, Yuehua | |
| 495.1 LIU | Liang ge xiang shang tian de hai zi / zhu bian Liu Yuehua, Chu Chengzhi ; yuan chuang Wang Lingshu = Two children seeking the Joy Bridge / Yuehua Liu and Chengzhi Chu with Lingshu Wang. | Liu, Yuehua | |
| 495.1 LIU | Cuo, cuo, cuo! / zhu bian Liu Yuehua, Chu Chengzhi ; yuan chuang Zhao Shaoling = Wrong, wrong, wrong! / Yuehua Liu and Chengzhi Chu with Shaoling Zhao. | Liu, Yuehua | |
| 495.1 LIU | Xiang zuo xiang you / zhu bian Liu Yuehua, Chu Chengzhi ; yuan chuang Niu Tong = Left and right, the conjoined brothers / Yuehua Liu and Chengzhi Chu with Tong Niu. | Liu, Yuehua | |
| 495.1 LIU | Ni zui xi huan shui? : Zhongguancun gu shi zhi yi / zhu bian Liu Yuehua, Chu Chengzhi ; yuan chuang Wen Jinhai = Whom do you like more? : the first story from Zhongguancun / Yuehua Liu and Chengzhi Chu with Jinhai Wen. | Liu, Yuehua | |
| PURE SCIENCE | |||
| 551.312094912 BAL | Extreme ice now : vanishing glaciers and changing climate : a progress report / James Balog. | Balog, James | |
| 572.8 TAK | The manga guide to molecular biology / Masaharu Takemura, Sakura, Becom Co., Ltd. | Takemura, Masaharu, 1969- | |
| 577.680974272 CAR | Following the water : a hydromancer's notebook / David M. Carroll. | Carroll, David M. | |
| 599.9 DEE | Bodies from the ice : melting glaciers and the rediscovery of the past / by James M. Deem. | Deem, James M. | |
| APPLIED SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY | |||
| 610.73 GOR | Life support : three nurses on the front lines / Suzanne Gordon ; foreword by Claire M. Fagin. | Gordon, Suzanne, 1945- | |
| 614.43 MOR | The blue death : the intriguing past and present danger of the water you drink / Robert D. Morris | Morris, Robert D., 1956- | |
| 641.5951 LEE | The fortune cookie chronicles : adventures in the world of Chinese food / Jennifer 8. Lee. | Lee, Jennifer 8., 1976- | |
| 686.2312 SHE | Hatch Show Print : the history of a great American poster shop / by Jim Sherraden, Elek Horvath, and Paul Kingsbury. | Sherraden, Jim | |
| THE ARTS | |||
| 709.04 KER | Modern art / author: Michael Kerrigan ; foreword: Michael Robinson. | Kerrigan, Michael | |
| 709.0403 TWE | The 20th-Century art book | ||
| 709.04063 MAR | Essential surrealists / Tim Martin ; introduction by Mike O'Mahony. | Martin, Tim | |
| 709.2 CRE | Leonardo da Vinci / Simona Cremante ; coordinamento e introduzione di Carlo Pedretti. | Cremante, Simona | |
| 709.2 MAT | Matisse / Sarah Wilson. | Wilson, Sarah, 1956- | |
| 709.430904 WEB | The Bauhaus group : six masters of modernism / Nicholas Fox Weber. | Weber, Nicholas Fox, 1947- | |
| 730.92 BRA | Constantin Brancusi [by] Carola Giedion-Welcker. Translated by Maria Jolas and Anne Leroy. | Brancusi, Constantin, 1876-1957 | |
| 739.278 ALB | Read my pins : stories from a diplomat's jewel box / Madeleine Albright ; with Elaine Shocas, Vivienne Becker, and Bill Woodward ; photography by John Bigelow Taylor ; photography composition by Dianne Dubler. | Albright, Madeleine Korbel | |
| 741.5973 SCH | Peanuts treasury / by Charles M. Schulz ; foreword by Johnny Hart. | Schulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe), 1922-2000 | |
| 759 CHU | Painting as a pastime. | Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 | |
| 759.05 PIS | Camille Pissarro / Gramercy Books. | ||
| 759.13 POL | The essential Jackson Pollock / by Justin Spring. | Spring, Justin, 1962- | |
| 759.3 KIE | Anselm Kiefer : Dein und mein Alter und das Alter der Welt = Your age and mine and the age of the world / [edited by Heiner Bastian] | Kiefer, Anselm, 1945- | |
| 759.4 CHA | Marc Chagall, 1887-1985 : painting as poetry / Ingo F. Walther/Rainer Metzger ; [English translation, Michael Hulse]. | Walther, Ingo F. | |
| 759.94 KLE | Paul Klee / [edited by Stefano Roffo] | Roffo, Stefano, editor. | |
| 770.92 NEW | Arnold Newman / essay by Philip Brookman | Newman, Arnold, 1918-2006 | |
| 779.092 DAV | The photographs of Homer Page : the Guggenheim year : New York, 1949-50 / Keith F. Davis. | Page, Homer | |
| 779.2 YAN | Mount Zion : sepulchral portraits / photographs by John Yang. | Yang, John | |
| 779.9974 CAP | New England days : photographs / by Paul Caponigro ; introduction by Paul Caponigro ; foreword by Aprile Gallant. | Caponigro, Paul, 1932- | |
| 794.81 GIL | Fantasy freaks and gaming geeks : epic quest for reality among role players, online gamers, and other dwellers of imaginary realms / Ethan Gilsdorf. | Gilsdorf, Ethan | |
| LITERATURE | |||
| 809 PRE | Writers' houses / photographs by Erica Lennard ; text by Francesca Premoli-Droulers ; prologue by Marguerite Duras. | Lennard, Erica | |
| 809.392 TUR | Maps of the imagination : the writer as cartographer / Peter Turchi. | Turchi, Peter, 1960- | |
| 812.54 ROS | Twelve angry men / Reginald Rose ; introduction by David Mamet. | Rose, Reginald | |
| 813.6 WES | Mind-rain : your favorite authors on Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series / edited and original introduction by Scott Westerfeld ; with Leah Wilson. | Westerfeld, Scott | |
| 821.914 DUF | Rapture / Carol Ann Duffy. | Duffy, Carol Ann | |
| 823.8099 SHO | A literature of their own : British women novelists from Bronte to Lessing / Elaine Showalter | Showalter, Elaine. | |
| 892 BOO | The book of the thousand nights and one night / rendered into English from the literal & complete French translation of Dr. J. C. Mardrus by Powys Mathers. | Arabian nights. English | |
| 895.1 ONE | Zhongguo gu shi bai shou du = 100 ancient Chinese poems / Zhu Hongda, Wu Jiemin xuan zhu ; Xu Yuanchong, Wang Xianzhong yi. | Zhu, Hongda | |
| HISTORY | |||
| 938 NEL | Complete idiot's guide to ancient Greece / Eric D. Nelson, Susan K. Allard-Nelson. | Nelson, Eric (Eric Dolaine) | |
| 940.1 HAL | The complete idiot's guide to the Middle Ages / Timothy C. Hall. | Hall, Timothy C. (Timothy Charles) | |
| 944.91 FIS | Two towns in Provence / M.F.K. Fisher. | Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), 1908- | |
| 976.044 JOR | In Katrina's wake : portraits of loss from an unnatural disaster / photographs by Chris Jordan ; essays by Bill McKibben and Susan Zakin ; poems by Victoria Sloan Jordan. | Jordan, Chris, 1963- | |
| FICTION | |||
| F ADI | The white tiger : a novel / Aravind Adiga. | Adiga, Aravind | |
| F BAR | Bittersweet / Nevada Barr. | Barr, Nevada | |
| F BAU | Rosie & Skate / Beth Ann Bauman. | Bauman, Beth Ann, 1964- | |
| F BOY | Through black spruce / Joseph Boyden | Boyden, Joseph, 1966- | |
| F BYA | The children's book : a novel / A.S. Byatt. | Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936- | |
| F CAM | American salvage : stories / by Bonnie Jo Campbell | Campbell, Bonnie Jo, 1962- | |
| F CHO | Al Capone shines my shoes / Gennifer Choldenko. | Choldenko, Gennifer, 1957- | |
| F DIO | Models don't eat chocolate cookies / by Erin Dionne. | Dionne, Erin, 1975- | |
| F FOR | Parade's end / Ford Madox Ford, with an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury. | Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939 | |
| F FRE | The mother-daughter book club / Heather Vogel Frederick. | Frederick, Heather Vogel | |
| F GIE | The syringa tree : a novel / Pamela Gien. | Gien, Pamela | |
| F HOR | Juliet, naked / Nick Hornby. | Hornby, Nick | |
| F JOH | The colony of unrequited dreams / Wayne Johnston. | Johnston, Wayne | |
| F JOH | The navigator of New York : a novel / Wayne Johnston | Johnston, Wayne | |
| F KAZ | Saint Francis / Nikos Kazantzakis ; translated from the Greek by P.A. Bien. | Kazantzakis, Nikos, 1883-1957 | |
| F KET | Newsgirl / Liza Ketchum. | Ketchum, Liza, 1946- | |
| F LAS | Beyond the burning time / Kathryn Lasky. | Lasky, Kathryn | |
| F LON | Gilgamesh : a novel / Joan London. | London, Joan, 1948- | |
| F MAN | Wolf Hall : a novel / Hilary Mantel. | Mantel, Hilary, 1952- | |
| F MCC | Let the great world spin : a novel / Colum McCann. | McCann, Colum, 1965- | |
| F MCK | Going away shoes : stories / Jill McCorkle. | McCorkle, Jill, 1958- | |
| F MER | Night train to Lisbon / Pascal Mercier ; translated from the German by Barbara Harshav. | Mercier, Pascal, 1944- | |
| F MIT | Still summer / Jacquelyn Mitchard. | Mitchard, Jacquelyn | |
| F MYR | L8r, g8r / Lauren Myracle. | Myracle, Lauren, 1969- | |
| F NAB | The original of Laura (Dying is fun) / by Vladimir Nabokov ; edited by Dmitri Nabokov. | Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 | |
| F ROS | Sarah's key / Tatiana de Rosnay. | Rosnay, Tatiana de, 1961- | |
| F SHA | The steel wave : a novel of World War II / Jeff Shaara. | Shaara, Jeff, 1952- | |
| F SHR | Light on snow : a novel / Anita Shreve. | Shreve, Anita | |
| F SMI | Espresso tales / Alexander McCall Smith ; illustrations by Iain McIntosh. | McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948- | |
| F TSU | Women of the silk / Gail Tsukiyama | Tsukiyama, Gail | |
| F WAS | Crashed / Robin Wasserman. | Wasserman, Robin | |
| F WER | Impossible : a novel / Nancy Werlin. | Werlin, Nancy | |
| F WYN | The uninvited / Tim Wynne-Jones. | Wynne-Jones, Tim | |
| GRAPHIC NOVELS | |||
| GN 515 KOJ | The manga guide to calculus / Hiroyuki Kojima, Shin Togami, and Becom Co., Ltd. | Kojima, Hiroyuki, 1958- | |
| GN F COB | Frankenstein : the graphic novel / Mary Shelley ; script adaptation Jason Cobley ; American English adaptation: Joe Sutliff Sanders ; linework: Declan Shalvey ; coloring: Jason Cardy & Kat Nicholson ; lettering: Terry Wiley. | Sanders, Joe Sutliff. | |
| GN F KAT | Red snow / Susumu Katsumata ; [translated by Taro Nettleton]. | Katsumata, Susumu, 1943-2007 | |
| GN F LEE | Maximum Ride. [2] / James Patterson ; [adaptation and illustration: NaRae Lee ; lettering, Abigail Blackman]. | Lee, NaRae | |
| GN F LEM | Ghost stories / by Jeff Lemire | Lemire, Jeff | |
| KINDLE | |||
| Kindle | U is for undertow / Sue Grafton. | Grafton, Sue | |
| Kindle | Academy 7 / Anne Osterlund. | Osterlund, Anne | |
| Kindle | The professional / Robert B. Parker. | Parker, Robert B., 1932- | |
| VIDEO | |||
| VIDEO 294.343 SHA | Shaolin si [videorecording] = The Shaolin temple. | ||
| VIDEO 294.3923 UNM | Unmistaken child [videorecording] / Oscilloscope Laboratories presents ; a film by Nati Baratz ; director and script writer Nati Baratz ; producers, IlIl Alexander, Arik Bernstein, Nati Baratz. | ||
| VIDEO 338.19 FOO | Food, Inc. [videorecording] / | ||
| VIDEO 495.1 KAI | Ni Hao, Kai-lan. Kai-lan's great trip to China! [videorecording] / Nickelodeon. | ||
| VIDEO 709.73 ART | Art:21 [videorecording : DVD] : art in the twenty-first century. Season five / a production of Art21 Inc. ; series created by Susan Sollins and Susan Dowling. | ||
| VIDEO 730.92 AUG | Augustus Saint-Gaudens [videorecording] : master of American sculpture / | ||
| VIDEO 791.457 FOR | Sesame Street. 40 years of sunny days [videorecording]. | ||
| VIDEO 843.914 HUS | Le hussard sur le toit [videorecording] = The horseman on the roof / | ||
| VIDEO 843.92 AVE | Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob [videorecording] = The mad adventures of Rabbi Jacob / | ||
| VIDEO 843.92 MOL | Moliere [videorecording] / | ||
| VIDEO 843.92 PAR | Faubourg 36 [videorecording] = Paris 36 / | ||
| VIDEO 843.92 PRE | Prete-moi ta main [videorecording] = I do : how to get married and stay single / a film by Eric Lartigau. | ||
| VIDEO 843.92 RID | Ridicule [videorecording] / | ||
| VIDEO 892.152 TRO | Etz Limon [videorecording] = Lemon tree / Mact Productions, RNA Films & Heimatfilm ; screenplay, Suha Arraf, Eran Riklis ; producers, Bettina Brokemper, Antoine de Clermont-Tonnere, Eran Riklis, Michael Eckelt ; director, Eran Riklis. | ||
| VIDEO 895.152 KIN | Hai zi wang [videorecording] = King of the children / Xi'an dian ying zhi pian chang. | ||
| VIDEO 895.152 ROA | The road home [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia presents GuangXi Film Studio ; producer, Zhao Yu ; screenplay writer, Bao Shi ; director, Zhang Yimou. | ||
| VIDEO 895.152 SEV | Guo nian hui jia [videorecording] = Seventeen years / dao yan Zhang Yuan | ||
| VIDEO 895.152 TRO | Wan zhu [videorecording] / bian ju Wang Shuo, Mi Jiashan ; dao yan Mi Jiashan ; Emei dian ying zhi pian chang she zhi | ||
| VIDEO 895.152 UPR | Da nao tian gong [videorecording] = Uproar in heaven / Shanghai mei shu dian ying zhi pian chang ; dao yan, Wan Laiming, Tang Cheng ; bian ju, Li Keruo, Wan Laiming. | ||
| VIDEO 895.192 FAR | Ba wang bie ji [videorecording] = Farewell to my concubine / Beijing dian ying zhi pian chang, Tang Chen (Xianggang) dian ying you xian gong si lian he she zhi ; dao yan Chen Kaige. | ||
| VIDEO F ANG | Angels & demons [videorecording] / | ||
| VIDEO F CAS | Casablanca [videorecording] / a Warner Bros Pictures ; a Hal B. Wallis production ; directed by Michael Curtiz ; screenplay by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch. | ||
| VIDEO F GON | Gone with the wind [videorecording] / David O. Selznick's production of Margaret Mitchell's [novel], a Selznick International Picture ; screenplay by Sidney Howard ; directed by Victor Fleming. | ||
| VIDEO F HAR | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [videorecording] / | ||
| VIDEO F JUL | Julie & Julia [videorecording] / | ||
| VIDEO F KAR | The Karate Kid [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures ; written by Robert Mark Kamen ; produced by Jerry Weintraub ; directed by John G. Avildsen. | ||
| VIDEO F MY | My sister's keeper [videorecording] / | ||
| VIDEO F NIG | Night at the museum [videorecording] : battle of the Smithsonian / | ||
| VIDEO F NOR | Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest [videorecording] / [presented by] M-G-M ; written by Ernest Lehman ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock. | ||
| VIDEO F NUM | The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. The complete first season [videorecording] / | ||
| VIDEO F PRE | Pretty woman [videorecording] / Touchstone Pictures in association with Silver Screen Partners IV ; an Arnon Milchan production ; a Garry Marshall film ; written by J.F. Lawton ; produced by Arnon Milchan, Steven Reuther ; directed by Garry Marshall. | ||
| VIDEO F SNO | Snow White and the seven dwarfs [videorecording] / Walt Disney Pictures ; supervising director, David Hand ; story adaptation, Ted Sears ... [et al. ; produced by Walt Disney]. | ||
| VIDEO F STA | Star trek [videorecording] / Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment present a Bad Robot production ; produced by J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof ; written by Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman ; directed by J.J. Abrams. | ||
| VIDEO F UP | Up [videorecording] / | ||
| VIDEO F WID | Wide Sargasso Sea [videorecording] / a Kudos Film and Television Production for BBC Wales ; directed by Brendan Maher ; produced by Elwen Rowlands ; screenplay by Stephen Greenhorn. | ||
| ALUMNAE AUTHORS | |||
| AGS 739.23 GEB | George Christian Gebelein, Boston silversmith, 1878-1945 : a biographical sketch / by Margaretha Gebelein Leighton, in collaboration with Esther Gebelein Swain and J. Herbert Gebelein. | Leighton, Margaretha Gebelein | |
| AGS B HULL | Where's my bride? : essays / Pamela Hull. | Hull, Pamela. | |
| PICTURE BOOKS | |||
| P 398.2094202 BOF | Jack and the beanstalk = Juan y los frijoles magicos / adaptation by Francesc Bofill ; illustrations by Arnal Ballester. | Bofill, Francesc | |
| P 863.64 FRE | Corduroy / escrito e ilustrado por Don Freeman. | Freeman, Don | |
| P 863.64 GUT | La noche de las estrellas / Douglas Gutierrez ; Maria Fernanda Oliver. | Gutierrez, Douglas | |
| P 863.64 MIC | Gustavo va a la escuela / Tilde Michels ; ilustraciones de Carmen Cardemil ; traduccion de Viviana Aguirre. | Michels, Tilde | |
| P 863.64 MIN | Ah, pajarita si yo pudiera-- / Ana Maria Machado ; ilustraciones de Ivar Da Coll ; traduccion de Juan Fernando Esguerra. | Machado, Ana Maria, 1941- | |
| P 863.64 MIN | Un beso para Osito / por Else Holmelund Minarik ; ilustraciones de Maurice Sendak ; [traduccion de Rosa Benavides]. | Minarik, Else Holmelund. | |
| P 863.64 NUM | Si le das una galletita a un raton / [por] Laura Joffe Numeroff ; ilustrado por Felicia Bond ; traducido por Teresa Mlawer. | Numeroff, Laura Joffe | |
| P 863.64 REY | Jorge el curioso / de H.A. Rey ; traduccion, Jose Maria Catala y Eugenia Tusquets. | Rey, H. A. (Hans Augusto), 1898-1977 | |
| P 863.64 SOT | Que monton de tamales! / Gary Soto ; ilustrado por Ed Martinez ; traducido por Alma Flor Ada y F. Isabel Campoy. | Soto, Gary | |