Recent Acquisitions
December 2009
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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