New Items in the Library

Check out one of these new items available in the E.W. King Library:

Fiction

• A changed man : a novel / Francine Prose.
• A room called Remember : uncollected pieces / Frederick Buechner.
• Feathers / Jacqueline Woodson.
• Good faith / Jane Smiley.
• Henry’s freedom box / by Ellen Levine   illustrated by Kadir Nelson.
• Living to tell the tale / Gabriel Garci­a Marquez   translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
• Los gatos black on Halloween / Marisa Montes   illustrated by Yuyi Morales.
• November blues / Sharon M. Draper.
• Now and forever / Ray Bradbury.
• Peeling the onion / Gunter Grass   translated from German by Michael Henry Heim.
• Solo : my adventures in the air / Clyde Edgerton.
• The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay : a novel / Michael Chabon.
• The invention of Hugo Cabret : a novel in words and pictures  / by Brian Selznick.
• The learned banqueters / Athenaeus   edited and translated by S. Douglas Olsen.
• The white darkness : a novel / by Geraldine McCaughrean.

Nonfiction

• American Gothic : a life of America’s most famous painting / Steven Biel.
• American musical theatre : a chronicle / Gerald Bordman.
• Augustus : the life of Rome’s first emperor / Anthony Everitt.
• Blue dreams : Korean Americans and the Los Angeles riots / Nancy Abelmann and John Lie.
• Bound for Canaan : the underground railroad and the war for the soul of America / Fergus M. Bordewich.
• Building a bridge to the 18th century : how the past can improve our future / by Neil Postman.
• Dictionary of the social sciences / edited by Craig Calhoun.
• Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama.
• First lady of the Confederacy : Varina Davis’s Civil War / Joan E. Cashin.
• Harvest of empire : a history of Latinos in America / Juan Gonzalez.
• Massive resistance : southern opposition to the second reconstruction / edited by Clive Webb.
• My year in Iraq : the struggle to build a future of hope / L. Paul Bremer with Malcolm McConnell.
•  Negro president  : Jefferson and the slave power / Garry Wills.
• Shakespeare : the biography / Peter Ackroyd.
• Teaching to transgress : education as the practice of freedom / Bell Hooks.
• The anatomy of hope : how people prevail in the face of illness / by Jerome Groopman.
• The audacity of hope : thoughts on reclaiming the American dream / Barack Obama.
• The judgment of Paris : the revolutionary decade that gave the world Impressionism / Ross King.
• The poet slave of Cuba : a biography of Juan Francisco Manzano  / Margarita Engle   art by Sean Qualls.
• Wikinomics : how mass collaboration changes everything / Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams.
• Young Hickory : the making of Andrew Jackson / Hendrik Booraem.