New Books and Media Received (April 2013)

The following Book and DVD (2 items) were received into the Library collection through the Acquisitions Budget during April 2013:

Maddie on things : a super serious project about dogs and physics / by Theron Humphrey. San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2013.

Shakespeare uncovered [videorecording]. [United States] : PBS, 2013.

The following Books (5 items) were received into the Library’s bestsellers collection during April 2013:

Everything is perfect when you’re a liar / Kelly Oxford. New York : It Books, [2013], 2013.

Gulp : adventures on the alimentary canal / Mary Roach. New York : W.W. Norton, c2013.

Lean in : women, work, and the will to lead / Sheryl Sandberg. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.

Vegetables please / Carolyn Humphries. London ; New York : DK Pub., 2013.

Your survival instinct is killing you : retrain your brain to conquer fear, make better decisions, and thrive in the 21st century / Marc Schoen with Kristin Loberg. New York : Hudson Street Press, 2013.

The following Books, CDs, and DVDs (37 items) were received into the Library collection as Gift Donations during April 2013:

Atheism : a philosophical justification Michael Martin. Philadelphia Temple University Press 1990.

Atlantic : great sea battles, heroic discoveries, titanic storms, and a vast ocean of a million stories / Simon Winchester. New York : Harper, c2010.

Beethoven: impressions by his contemporaries. Edited by O. G. Sonneck. New York, Dover Publications [1967, c1954].

Believers : a journey into evangelical America / Jeffery L. Sheler. New York : Viking, 2006.

The Bible makes sense / Walter Brueggemann. Cincinnati, Ohio : St. Anthony Messenger Press, c2003.

Therapy for the sane : how philosophy can change your life / Lou Marinoff. New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2004.

Booknotes : on American character / [compiled by] Brian Lamb. New York : PublicAffairs, c2004.

Can fantasy carry the Gospel? [sound recording]. St. Paul, MN : Luther Prodcutions ; [St. Paul, MN] : Seraphim Communications, 2005.

Doubt : a history : the great doubters and their legacy of innovation, from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson / Jennifer Michael Hecht. New York, NY : HarperSanFrancisco, 2004.

Drama : an actor’s education / John Lithgow. New York : Harper, c2011.

Enter the wardrobe [videorecording]. St. Paul, MN : Luther Prodcutions ; [St. Paul, MN] : Seraphim Communications, 2005.

Fuzzy-set social science / Charles C. Ragin. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.

The Gospel of Mary of Magdala : Jesus and the first woman apostle / Karen L. King. Santa Rosa, Calif. : Polebridge Press, 2003.

Grassroots post-modernism : remaking the soil of cultures / Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash. London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by St. Martin’s Press, 1998.

Imagined London : a tour of the world’s greatest fictional city / Anna Quindlen. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2004.

The immigration crisis : immigrants, aliens and the Bible / James K. Hoffmeier. Wheaton, Ill. : Crossway Books, 2009.

In sacred loneliness : the plural wives of Joseph Smith / Todd Compton. Salt Lake City : Signature Books, 1997.

J. S. Bach / by Albert Schweitzer; English translation by Ernest Newman. Vol 1. New York : Dover Publications, 1966.

Job, a comedy of justice / Robert A. Heinlein. New York : Ballantine Books, 1984.

King Lear [videorecording (DVD)] / a co-production of The Performance Company, Iambic Productions Limited, Thirteen/WNET New York and Channel 4 in association with NHK ; a Royal Shakespeare company production ; by William Shakespeare ; produced by Richard Price and Chris Hunt ; directed by Trevor Nunn and Chris Hunt. [New York, NY] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, 2009, c2008.

The Koran, a very short introduction / Michael Cook. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

London : the biography / Peter Ackroyd. New York : Nan A. Talese, c2001.

Mission possible : reaching the next generation through the small church  / Terry W. Dorsett. Bloomington, Ind.  : CrossBooks, 2012.

The outside world / Tova Mirvis. New York : Vintage Books, 2005.

The pleasures and sorrows of work / Alain de Botton. London : Hamish Hamilton, 2009.

The rivals / Richard Brinsley Sheridan ; the Bristol Old Vic production ; producer, Robert Marshall ; director, Rachel Kavanaugh. West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, [2005].

The scarlet letter [videorecording] / a WGBH/Boston production ; produced and directed by Rick Hauser ; adapted for television by Allan Knee and Alvin Sapinsley. Boston : WGBH, [2003].

Serving up love–past and present : a unique collection of recipes, 1930-1988 / compiled by the Ladies Mission Group of Hopwood Memorial Christian Church. Milligan College, TN : Hopwood Memorial Christian Church, 1988.

Sex, art, and American culture : essays / Camille Paglia. New York : Vintage Books, 1992.

She stoops to conquer [videorecording] / by Oliver Goldsmith ; Sky Arts ; Capriol Films ; produced by Averil Brennan ; adapted and directed by Tony Britten. Silver Spring, MD : Acorn Media, [2008].

Snail Shell Cave / Larry E. Matthews and Bob Biddix. Huntsville, Ala. : National Speleological Society, 2012.

Status anxiety / Alain de Botton. New York : Pantheon Books c2004.

A stone for a pillow / Madeleine L’Engle. Wheaton, Ill. : H. Shaw, c1986.

Storm warning : whether global recession, terrorist threats, or devastating natural disasters, these ominous shadows must bring us back to the gospel / Billy Graham. Nashville, Tenn. : Thomas Nelson, c2010.

The temple of my familiar / Alice Walker. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1989.

This business of music : the definitive guide to the music industry / M. William Krasilovsky and Sidney Schemel ; contributions by John M. Gross. New York : Billboard Books, 2003.

Three who made a revolution : a biographical history / by Bertram D. Wolfe. New York : Stein and Day, 1984, c1964.