New Books - Week of December 27, 2010

Visit the New Books area on the first floor of the library to see what has just arrived at GPL. Click on a title below to place it on hold through our catalog. 

New Fiction

The Great Christmas Bowl by Susan May Warren

New Adult Nonfiction

Microsoft Outlook 2010: Inside Out by Jim Boyce

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 for Dummies (7 Books in 1) by Peter Weverka

Microsoft Access 2010: Step by Step by Joyce Cox and Joan Lambert

The Book of Calamities: Five Questions about Suffering and Its Meaning by Peter Trachtenberg

What to Do When You Can’t Decide: Useful Tools for Finding the Answers Within by Meg Lundstrom

Understand Humanism by Mark Vernon

Brain Training: Boost Memory, Maximize Mental Agility, & Awaken Your Inner Genius by James Harrison and Mike Hobbs

The Power by Rhonda Byrne

What’s Your Type of Career?: Finding Your Perfect Career by Using Your Personality Type (2^nd ed.) by Donna Dunning

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris

Why You Think the Way You Do: The Story of Western Worldviews from Rome to Home by Lenn S. Sunshine

The 3 Essentials: All You Need for Success in Life by Casey Treat

Where the Hell Is God by Richard Leonard, SJ

Already Gone: Why Your Kids Quit Church and What You Can Do to Stop It by Ken Ham and Britt Beemer with Todd Hillard

Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus

Choosing a President: The Electoral College and Beyond, edited by Paul D. Schumaker and Burdett A. Loomis

The Weekend That Changed Wall Street: An Eyewitness Account by Maria Bartiromo with Catherine Whitney

First Along the River: A Brief History of the U.S. Environmentalist Movement (3^rd ed.)by Benjamin Kline, Ph.D.

Wheels Down: Adjusting to Life After Deployment by Bret A. Moore and Carrie H. Kennedy

Passages in Caregiving: Turning Chaos into Confidence by Gail Sheehy

The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago by Douglas Perry

Cyber Kids, Cyber Bullying, Cyber Balance by Barbara C. Trolley and Constance Hanel

Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk by Massimo Pigliucci

Volcano: Iceland’s Inferno and Earth’s Most Active Volcanoes, edited by Ellen J. Prager

The Endocrine System by Lynette Rushton

The PDR Pocket Guide to Prescription Drugs (9^th ed.)

Booze Cakes: Confections Spiked with Spirits, Wine, and Beer by Krystina Castella and Terry Lee Stone

Beyond the Street: The 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art, edited by Patrick Nguyen and Stuart Mackenzie

Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People by Amy Sedaris

My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addict’s Attempt to Discover If Not Being a Dumb Ass Is the New Black, or a Culture-Up Manifesto by Jen Lancaster

The Britannica Guide to Explorers and Explorations That Changed the Modern World, edited by Kenneth Pletcher

Pre-Columbian America, edited by Kathleen Kuiper

Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought on the Civil War by Douglas R. Egerton

The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss

Manifest Destinies: America’s Westward Expansion and the Road to the Civil War by Steven E. Woodworth

Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain by Antonio Damasio

The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters by Bruce Parker

Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s Food Answers to a Higher Authority by Sue Fishkoff

New Adult Biographies

Composed by Rosanne Cash

The Science of Leonardo by Fritjof Capra

Muhammad: A Story of the Last Prophet by Deepak Chopra

Frank: The Voice by James Kaplan