New Books and Media Received (August 2012)

The following Books, CDs, and DVDs (162 titles) were received into the Library collection through the Acquisitions Budget during August 2012:

2 Maccabees : a critical commentary / by Robert Doran ; edited by Harold W. Attridge. Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2012.

After lives : a guide to heaven, hell, and purgatory / John Casey. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Against throne and altar : Machiavelli and political theory under the English Republic / Paul A. Rahe. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

The Aleppo Codex : a true story of obsession, faith, and the pursuit of an ancient Bible / by Matti Friedman. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2012.

America and the pill : a history of promise, peril, and liberation / Elaine Tyler May. New York : Basic Books, 2011.

American insurgents, American patriots : the revolution of the people / T.H. Breen. New York : Hill and Wang, 2010.

American saint : Francis Asbury and the methodists / John Wigger. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

The anarchical society : a study of order in world politics / Hedley Bull. New York : Columbia University Press, 2012.

Animating difference : race, gender, and sexuality in contemporary films for children / C. Richard King, Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo, Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2011.

Appetite for America : Fred Harvey and the business of civilizing the Wild West- -one meal at a time / Stephen Fried. New York : Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks, 2011, c2010.

Approaches to teaching Beowulf / edited by Jess B. Bessinger, Jr. and Robert F. Yeager. New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1984.

As the leaves turn gold : Asian Americans and experiences of aging / Bandana Purkayastha … [et al.]. Lanhalm, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2012.

The athletic musician : a guide to playing without pain / Barbara Paull, Christine Harrison. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1997.

Autism [videorecording] : the musical. [Van Nuys, CA  : Bunim-Murray Productions, c2007] ; [New York, NY] : New Video Group [distributor], c2008.

Avant garde : an American odyssey from Gertrude Stein to Pierre Boulez / Robin Maconie. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, c2012.

Baroque and Rococo. Phaidon.

Beethoven’s immortal beloved : solving the mystery / Edward Walden ; introduction by William Meredith. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2011.

The best big band songs ever. Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard, 1987.

The Best jazz standards ever : piano, vocal, guitar. Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard, c1994.

Birth control on main street : organizing clinics in the United States, 1916-1939 / Cathy Moran Hajo. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2010.

Blood diamond [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures presents in association with Virtual Studios, a Spring Creek/Bedford Falls production in association with Initial Entertainment Group, an Edward Zwick film ; produced by Paula Weinstein, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Graham King, Gillian Gorfil ; story by Charles Leavitt and C. Gaby Mitchell ; screenplay by Charles Leavitt ; directed by Edward Zwick. Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, c2007.

Brisingr, or, The seven promises of Eragon Shadeslayer and Saphira Bjartskular / Christopher Paolini. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman / Robert K. Massie. New York : Random House, c2011.

A century of wisdom : lessons from the life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world’s oldest living Holocaust survivor / Caroline Stoessinger. New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2012.

Charles Brockden Brown’s revolution and the birth of American Gothic / Peter Kafer. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2004.

The civil war of 1812 : American citizens, British subjects, Irish rebels, & Indian allies / Alan Taylor. New York : Vintage Books, 2011.

Columbia rising : civil life on the upper Hudson from the Revolution to the age of Jackson / John L. Brooke. Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c2010.

The compassion fatigue workbook : creative tools for transforming compassion fatigue and vicarious traumatization / Francoise Mathieu. New York : Routledge, c2012.

Conflicts of interest and the future of medicine : the United States, France, and Japan / Marc A. Rodwin. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.

Creating The Lord of the rings symphony [videorecording] : a composer’s journey through Middle-earth / Howard Shore ; Amerimage-Spectra, inc. [S.l.] : New Line Home Entertainment, c2004.

Cry liberty : the great Stono River slave rebellion of 1739 / Peter Charles Hoffer. New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

The Dartmouth review pleads innocent : twenty-five years of being threatened, impugned, vandalized, sued, suspended, and bitten at the ivy league’s most controversial conservative newspaper / edited with an introduction by James Panero and Stefan Beck. Wilmington, DE : ISI Books, 2006.

Death in the New World : cross-cultural encounters, 1492-1800 / Erik R. Seeman. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.

Defiance of the patriots : the Boston Tea Party & the making of America / Benjamin L. Carp. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2011.

Demanding child care : women’s activism and the politics of welfare, 1940-71 / Natalie M. Fousekis. Urbana, Chicago and Springfield : University of Illinois Press, c2011.

Destinations : a compass for K-12 music educators / Joseph Alsobrook ; edited by Michael D. Worthy. Chicago : GIA Publications, c2011.

The devil in pew number seven : a true story / Rebecca Nichols Alonzo with Bob DeMoss. Carol Stream, Ill. : Tyndale House Publishers, c2012.

Dragonflies and damselflies of the East / Dennis Paulson. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011.

The early church on killing : a comprehensive sourcebook on war, abortion, and capital punishment / edited by Ronald J. Sider. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, c2012.

Eden on the Charles : the making of Boston / Michael Rawson. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2010.

An education in Georgia : Charlayne Hunter, Hamilton Holmes, and the integration of the University of Georgia / by Calvin Trillin ; foreword by Charlayne Hunter-Gault. Athens : Brown Thrasher Books : University of Georgia Press, 1991.

Eldest / Christopher Paolini. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2007], c2005.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton : an American life / Lori D. Ginzberg. New York : Hill and Wang, 2009.

Encyclopedia of garden ferns / Sue Olsen. Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2007.

End zone / Don DeLillo. New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1986, c1972.

Endowed by our creator : the birth of religious freedom in America / Michael I. Meyerson. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012.

Eragon / Christopher Paolini. New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2003.

Excel and R Companion to Quantifying the User Experience.

Exposing myths about Christianity : a guide to answering 145 viral lies and legends / Jeffrey Burton Russell. Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Books, c2012.

Feed / M.T. Anderson. Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2012, 2002.

Fighting chance : the struggle over woman suffrage and Black suffrage in Reconstruction America / Faye E. Dudden. New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.

Five easy lessons : strategies for successful physics teaching / Randall D. Knight. San Francisco, Calif. : Addison Wesley, c2004.

Fly away [videorecording] / Cricket Films, the Ministry of Content & [Catherine Hardwicke] present ; producers, Janet Grillo, Pavlina Hatoupis ; written and directed by Janet Grillo. [United States] : Flat Iron Film Co. : Distributed by New Video, 2011.

Fly away : the great African American cultural migrations / Peter M. Rutkoff and William B. Scott. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2010.

The fog of law : pragmatism, security, and international law / Michael J. Glennon. Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010.

The forever war / Dexter Filkins. New York : Vintage Books, 2009.

From Chicaza to Chickasaw : the European invasion and the transformation of the Mississippian world, 1540-1715 / Robbie Ethridge. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.

Fugitive justice : runaways, rescuers, and slavery on trial / Steven Lubet. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.

Galaxy Quest [videorecording] / Dreamworks Pictures presents a Mark Johnson production ; produced by Mark Johnson, Charles Newirth ; story by David Howard ; screenplay by David Howard and Robert Gordon ; directed by Dean Parisot. Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, [2009].

General Lee’s army : from victory to collapse / Joseph T. Glatthaar. New York : Free Press, 2009, c2008.

Genius within [videorecording] : the inner life of Glenn Gould / a White Pine Pictures production ; directors: Michele Hozer and Peter Raymont ; produced by Peter Raymont. Canada : White Pine Pictures, c2009.

Gentlemen and Amazons : the myth of matriarchal prehistory, 1861-1900 / Cynthia Eller. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

A global history of history / Daniel Woolf. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

God is red : the secret story of how Christianity survived and flourished in Communist China / Liao Yiwu ; translator, Wenguang Huang. New York : HarperOne, c2011.

God of liberty : a religious history of the American Revolution / Thomas S. Kidd. New York : Basic Books, c2010.

Great Jones Street / Don DeLillo. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1994.

Habeas corpus : from England to empire / Paul D. Halliday. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.

Halfway home [videorecording] / Film by Paul Freedman ; narrated by Martin Sheen. [S.I.]  : Global Media, c2011.

Hansel and Gretel [videorecording] / Engelbert Humperdinck ; production by Richard Jones ; directed by Barbara Willis Sweete ; a Metropolitan Opera production in association with PBS and Thirteen/WNET New York. [London] : EMI Classics, [2008].

Health, illness, and healing : society, social context, and self : an anthology / [edited by] Kathleen C. Charmaz, Debora A. Paterniti. Los Angeles, Calif. : Roxbury Pub. Co., c1999.

Hiding in the spotlight : a musical prodigy’s story of survival, 1941-1946 / Greg Dawson. New York : Pegasus Books, 2009.

A home for every child : the Washington Children’s Home Society in the Progressive Era / Patricia Susan Hart. Seattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, c2010.

Hope in a scattering time : a life of Christopher Lasch / Eric Miller. Cambridge, U.K. ; Grand Rapids, Mich. : Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2010.

In search of Beethoven [videorecording] / Seventh Art Productions in association with Sky Arts ; produced, written and directed by Phil Grabsky. [Brighton, East Sussex, England] : Seventh Art Productions : distributor, Microcinema International, [2010].

The intolerance of tolerance / D.A. Carson. Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub., 2012.

Introduction to bryophytes / edited by Alain Vanderpoorten and Bernard Goffinet. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Investing in life : insurance in antebellum America / Sharon Ann Murphy. Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

Justice church : the new function of the church in North American Christianity / Frederick Herzog. Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, [1980].

The killing zone : the United States wages Cold War in Latin America / Stephen G. Rabe. New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Kinshasa Symphony [videorecording] / a film by Claus Wischmann and Martin Baer ; [presented by] Sounding Images ; in koproduktion mit WDR und RBB ; script, Claus Wischmann. Berlin : C Major, c2011.

Larousse diccionario = dictionary : English-Spanish, espanol-ingles. Paris ; Boston : Editions Larousse ; Boston : Houghton Mifflin [distributor], 2009, 2008.

The limits of voluntarism : charity and welfare from the New Deal through the great society / Andrew J.F. Morris. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Living into community : cultivating practices that sustain us / Christine D. Pohl. Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c2012.

Living life to its fullest : Stories of occupational therapy / edited by Ashley Hofmann and Molly Strzelecki ; foreword by Rebecca Austill-Clausen. Bethesda, MD : AOTA Press, c2010.

Lucretia Mott’s heresy : abolition and women’s rights in nineteenth-century America / Carol Faulkner. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011.

Manifest destinies : America’s westward expansion and the road to the Civil War / Steven E. Woodworth. New York : Vintage Books, 2011, c2010.

Margaret Mead : the making of an American icon / Nancy C. Lutkehaus. Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.

The Monroe Doctrine : empire and nation in nineteenth-century America / Jay Sexton. New York : Hill and Wang, c2011.

The moral property of women : a history of birth control politics in America / Linda Gordon. Urbana and Chicago : University of Illinois Press, 2007.

More perfect unions : the American search for marital bliss / Rebecca L. Davis. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.

Mosquito empires : ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 / J.R. McNeill. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Moss gardening : including lichens, liverworts, and other miniatures / George Schenk. Portland, Or. : Timber Press, c1997.

Music curriculum writing 101 : assistance with standards-based music curriculum and assessment writing : for band, choir, orchestra, and general music / Denese Odegaard. Chicago, IL : GIA Publications, c2009.

The music never stopped [videorecording] / Roadside Attractions presents ; an Essential Pictures production ; in association with Peter Newman, Interal Productions ; produced by Julie W. Noll … [et al.] ; screenplay by Gwyn Lurie & Gary Marks ; directed by Jim Kohlberg. Santa Monica, Calif. : Lions Gate Films, 2011.

The musician’s way : a guide to practice, performance, and wellness / Gerald Klickstein. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Musician’s yoga : a guide to practice, performance, and inspiration / Mia Olson ; edited by Jonathan Feist. Boston, Mass. : Berklee Press, c2009.

The myth of the addicted army : Vietnam and the modern war on drugs / Jeremy Kuzmarov. Amherst, [Mass.] : University of Massachusetts Press, c2009.

The nature of the book : print and knowledge in the making / Adrian Johns. Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1998.

The new CEOs : women, African American, Latino and Asian American leaders of Fortune 500 companies / Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2011.

No impact man [videorecording] / Oscilloscope Laboratories + Impact Partners ; directed by Laura Gabbert, Justin Schein ; produced by Laura Gabbert, Eden Wurmfeld ; an Eden Wurmfeld Films, Shadowbox Films & Laura Gabbert Films production. [New York, N.Y.?] : Oscilloscope Laboratories, c2009.

Objectified [videorecording] / a Swiss Dots production ; produced and directed by Gary Hustwit. [London] : Swiss Dots Limited ; [Brooklyn, NY] : [Distributed by] Plexifilm, c2009.

On our way [videorecording] : the story of nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and the New Century Chamber Orchestra. [S.l.] : Counterpoint Films, in association with NSS Music, 2012.

Open access / Peter Suber. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012.

Pathways : a guide for energizing & enriching band, orchestra & choral programs / Joseph Alsobrook ; foreword by Tim Lautzenheiser. Chicago : GIA Publications, c2002.

Peer instruction : a user’s manual / Eric Mazur. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1997.

Pervasive information architecture : designing cross-channel user experiences / Andrea Resmini and Luca Rosati. Burlington, MA : Morgan Kaufmann, c2011.

The Philokalia : volume 4 : the complete text compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain and St. Makarios of Corinth / edited by G. E. H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard and Kallistos Ware. London : Faber & Faber, 1998.

Philosophy of economics, volume 13 / edited by Uskali Maki. Oxford, UK : North Holland, 2012.

Physics and technology for future presidents : an introduction to the essential physics every world leader needs to know / Richard A. Muller. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010.

Planned obsolescence : publishing, technology, and the future of the academy / Kathleen Fitzpatrick. New York : New York University Press, c2011.

Plans unraveled : the foreign policy of the Carter administration / Scott Kaufman. DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, c2008.

Players / Don DeLillo. New York : Vintage Books, 1989, c1977.

The power of habit : why we do what we do in life and business / Charles Duhigg. New York : Random House, c2012.

Pursuits of happiness : the Hollywood comedy of remarriage / Stanley Cavell. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1981.

Quantifying the user experience : practical statistics for user research / Jeff Sauro, James R. Lewis. Amsterdam ; Waltham, MA : Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann, [2012].

Racism, misogyny, and the Othello myth : inter-racial couples from Shakespeare to Spike Lee / Celia R. Daileader. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Reading fiction in antebellum America : informed response and reception histories, 1820-1865 / James L. Machor. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

The red market : on the trail of the world’s organ brokers, bone thieves, blood farmers, and child traffickers / Scott Carney. New York : William Morrow, c2011.

Reinventing diversity : transforming organizational community to strengthen people, purpose, and performance / Howard J. Ross. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2011.

Religion and American foreign policy, 1945-1960 : the soul of containment / William Inboden. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

The rise and fall of modern American conservatism : a short history / David Farber. Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2010.

River of God : an introduction to world missions / ed. by Doug Priest and Stephen E. Burris. Eugene, OR : WIPF & Stock, 2012.

Rock the Casbah : rage and rebellion across the Islamic world / Robin Wright. New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2012.

Roman Catholic saints and early Victorian literature : conservatism, liberalism, and the emergence of secular culture / by Devon Fisher. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, c2012.

Roman Catholic saints and early Victorian literature : conservatism, liberalism, and the emergence of secular culture / by Devon Fisher. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, c2012.

Sacred gifts, profane pleasures : a history of tobacco and chocolate in the Atlantic world / Marcy Norton. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010, c2008.

Scale your way to music assessment : the ultimate guide to creating a quality music program / Paul Kimpton and Delwyn L. Harnisch. Chicago : GIA Publications, c2008.

Secret histories : reading twentieth-century American literature / David Wyatt. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

Selections. English. 2006. Selected poems / Jibanananda Das ; translated from the Bengali with an introduction by Chidananda Das Gupta. New Delhi ; New York, NY : Penguin Books, 2006.

The senses of Walden / Stanley Cavell. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.

The singer’s musical theatre anthology : a collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type, in authentic settings and original keys, edited for “16-bar” auditions / compiled and edited by Richard Walters. Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard, 2010.

The singer’s musical theatre anthology : a collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type, in authentic settings and original keys, edited for “16-bar” audition / compiled and edited by Richard Walters. Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard, 2010.

The singer’s musical theatre anthology : a collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type, in authentic settings and original keys, edited for “16-bar” audition / compiled and edited by Richard Walters. Milwaukee, WI : H. Leonard, 2010.

The singer’s musical theatre anthology : a collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type, in authentic settings and original keys, edited for “16-bar” audition / edited by Richard Walters. Milwaukee : Hal Leonard, c2010.

The singer’s musical theatre anthology. Baritone/Bass. Volume 3 : a collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type : the selections are presented in their authentic settings, excerpted from the original vocal scores / compiled and edited by Richard Walters. Milwaukee, Wis. : Hal Leonard Corp., [2000?].

The singer’s musical theatre anthology. Mezzo-soprano/Belter. Volume 3 : a collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type : the selections are presented in their authentic settings, excerpted from the original vocal scores / compiled and edited by Richard Walters. Milwaukee, Wis. : Hal Leonard Corp., [2000?].

The singer’s musical theatre anthology. Soprano. Volume 3 : a collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type : the selections are presented in their authentic settings, excerpted from the original vocal scores / compiled and edited by Richard Walters. Milwaukee, Wis. : Hal Leonard Corp., [2000?].

The singer’s musical theatre anthology. Tenor. Volume 3 : a collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type : the selections are presented in their authentic settings, excerpted from the original vocal scores / compiled and edited by Richard Walters. Milwaukee, Wis. : Hal Leonard Corp., [2000?].

Slavery and the Supreme Court, 1825-1861 / Earl M. Maltz ; foreword by Mark A. Graber. Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2009.

Slavery’s constitution : from revolution to ratification / David Waldstreicher. New York : Hill and Wang ; Godalming : Melia [distributor], 2010, c2009.

Social participation in occupational contexts : in schools, clinics, and communities / Marilyn B. Cole and Mary V. Donohue. Thoroughfare, NJ : Slack, c c2011.

Spaceballs [videorecording] / Brooksfilms presents ; directed by Mel Brooks ; written by Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan & Ronny Graham ; produced by Mel Brooks. Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, c2000.

Subjects unto the same king : Indians, English, and the contest for authority in colonial New England / Jenny Hale Pulsipher. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005.

The talent code : greatness isn’t born : it’s grown, here’s how / Daniel Coyle. New York : Bantam Books, 2009.

Tasting heaven on earth : worship in sixth-century Constantinople / Walter D. Ray. Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c2012.

The theory toolbox : critical concepts for the humanities, arts, and social sciences / Jeffrey Nealon and Susan Searls Giroux. Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c2012.

The Thoreau you don’t know : the father of nature writers on the importance of cities, finance, and fooling around / Robert Sullivan. New York : Harper Perennial, 2011.

To free a family : the journey of Mary Walker / Sydney Nathans. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2012.

The tree of life [videorecording] / Fox Searchlight Pictures and River Road Entertainment present ; produced by Sarah Green … [ et al.] ; written and directed by Terrence Malick. Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2011.

The two Hendricks : unraveling a Mohawk mystery / Eric Hinderaker. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011, 2010.

Unprotected labor : household workers, politics, and middle-class reform in New York, 1870-1940 / Vanessa H. May. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.

Untimely ruins : an archaeology of American urban modernity, 1819-1919 / Nick Yablon. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Urbanized [videorecording] : a documentary film / a Swiss Dots production ; a film by Gary Hustwit ; produced and directed by Gary Hustwit. [Brooklyn, N.Y.] : Plexifilm : [New York] : New Video, 2011.

Violin masters [videorecording] : two gentlemen of Cremona / directed by John Forsen ; produced by John Forsen and David Fulton ; written by Pamela Mason Davey and David Fulton. [United States] : PBS Distribution, [2012].

The violinist’s thumb : and other lost tales of love, war, and genius, as written by our genetic code / Sam Kean. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.

Vocal workouts for the contemporary singer / Anne Peckham. Boston : Berklee Press ; Milwaukee : Distributed by Hal Leonard, c2006.

Waves and oscillations : a prelude to quantum mechanics / Walter Fox Smith. New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

White parents, black children : experiencing transracial adoption / Darron T. Smith, Cardell K. Jacobson, and Brenda G. Juarez. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2011.

The wild rover : a blistering journey along Britain’s footpaths / Mike Parker. London : Collins, 2012.

Women of influence in contemporary music : nine American composers / edited by Michael K. Slayton. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2011.

The Writer’s market. Cincinnati, Writer’s Digest.

You are your instrument : the definitive musician’s guide to practice and performance / by Julie Lyonn Lieberman. New York : Huiksi Music, c1991.

The following Books (4 items) were received into the Library’s bestsellers collection during August 2012:

The dog stars / Peter Heller. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2012.

Double cross : the true story of the D-day spies / Ben Macintyre. New York : Crown, c2012.

When we were the Kennedys : a memoir from Mexico, Maine / Monica Wood. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.

The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry : a novel / by Rachel Joyce. New York, NY : Random House, c2012.

The following Books (8 items) were received as gift donations during August 2012:

Associated press 2010 stylebook and briefing on media law / edited by Darrel Christian, Sally Jacobsen, David Minthorn. New York : Associated Press, 2010.

Born into brothels : companion curriculum / A  film by Zana Briski, [Writers, Clare Garvie, Sheetal Khemchandani, and Melissa Robinson]. [New York, NY] : Amnesty International USA, Human Rights Education Program, [2007?].

The kite runner : companion curriculum / a book by Khaled Hosseini, a film by Marc Forster ; [writer, Sheetal Khemchandani-Daswani]. [New York, NY] : Amnesty International USA, Human Rights Education Program, [2007?].

Love walked in / Merrillee Whren. New York : Steeple Hill Books, c2006.

Redeeming science : a God-centered approach / Vern S. Poythress. Wheaton, Ill. : Crossway Books, c2006.

Twentieth century interpretations of Gray’s Elegy; a collection of critical essays. Edited by Herbert W. Starr. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1968].

Twentieth century interpretations of The nigger of the “Narcissus”; a collection of critical essays, edited by John A. Palmer. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1969].

William Golding. New York, Capricorn Books [1971, c1969].