Osterhout Free Library

New Non-Fiction

In Books, NEW BOOKS on September 30, 2013 at 3:01 pm

The American way of poverty: how the other half still lives / Sasha Abramsky.
Jane Austen’s England / Roy and Lesley Adkins.
Cotton tenants : three families / James Agee [photographs by] Walker Evans
These few precious days : the final year of Jack with Jackie / Christopher Andersen.
Lawrence in Arabia : war, deceit, imperial folly and the making of the modern Middle East / Scott Anderson.
Zealot : the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth / Reza Aslan.
The right to stay home : how US policy drives Mexican migration / David Bacon.
To the end of June : the intimate life of American foster care / Cris Beam.
Wilson / A. Scott Berg.
Fantasy life : the outrageous, uplifting, and heartbreaking world of fantasy sports from the guy who’s lived it / Matthew Berry

Etched in sand : a true story of five siblings who survived an unspeakable childhood on Long Island / Regina Calcaterra.
Party time : who runs China and how / Rowan Callick.
Everybody’s brother : my brother / CeeLo with Big Gipp and David Wild.
Killing Custer / Margaret Coel.
Gaddafi’s harem : the story of a young woman and the abuses of power in Libya / Annick Cojean
Still foolin’ ’em : where i’ve been, where i’m going, and where the hell are my keys? / Billy Crystal.
Cracked : the unhappy truth about psychiatry / James Davies.
An appetite for wonder : the making of a scientist / Richard Dawkins.
A mayor’s life : governing New York’s gorgeous mosaic / David N. Dinkins with Peter Knobler.
The Nazi and the psychiatrist : Hermann Goring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a fatal meeting of minds at the end of WWII / Jack El-Hai

Sister mother husband dog, etc. / Delia Ephron.
Five days at Memorial : life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital / Sheri Fink.
The dyslexia empowerment plan : a blueprint for renewing your child’s confidence and love of learning / Ben Foss.
Marijuana is safer : so why are we driving people to drink? / Steve Fox; Paul Armentano; Mason Tvert
Skinnygirl solutions : your straight-up guide to home, health, family, career, style, and sex / Bethenny Frankel with Eve Adamson
Queen’s gambit / Elizabeth Fremantle.
The book of immortality : the science, belief, and magic behind living forever / Adam Leith Gollner.
Battle for ground zero : inside the political struggle to rebuild the World Trade Center / by Elizabeth Greenspan.
Manson : the life and times of Charles Manson / Jeff Guinn.
Hanns and Rudolf : the true story of the German Jew who tracked down and caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz / Thomas Harding

My brother my sister : story of a transformation / Molly Haskell.
The butler : a witness to history / Wil Haygood.
The great dissent : how Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind and changed the history of free speech in America / Thomas Healy.
Picture perfect : the Jodi Arias story : a beautiful photographer, her Mormon lover, and a brutal murder / Shanna Hogan.
Indian cooking unfolded : a master class in Indian cooking, with 100 easy recipes using 10 ingredients or less / by Raghavan Iyer
How to lose a bride in one night / Sophie Jordan.
Orange is the new black : my year in a women’s prison / piper Kerman.
No plan B : Peyton Manning’s comeback with the Denver Broncos / Mark Kiszla.
I wear the black hat : grappling with villians (real and imagined) / Chuck Klosterman.
This town : two parties and a funeral–plus, plenty of valet parking!–in America’s gilded capital / Mark Leibovich

The liberty amendments : restoring the American republic / Mark R. Levin.
Hezbollah : the global footprint of Lebanon’s party of god / Matthew Levitt.
Abominable science! : origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and other famous cryptids / Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero.
A wild justice : the death and resurrection of capital punishment in America / Evan J. Mandery.
Randolph Caldecott : the man who could not stop drawing / Leonard S. Marcus.
Fevered : why a hotter planet will hurt our health and how we can save ourselves / Linda Marsa.
Hanging man : the arrest of Ai Weiwei / Barnaby Martin.
Surgeon in blue : Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War doctor who pioneered battlefield care / Scott McGaugh.
Oil and honey : the education of an unlikely activist / Bill McKibben.
Marina and Lee : the tormented love and fatal obsession behind Lee Harvey Oswald’s assassination of John F. Kennedy / Priscilla Johnson McMillan

Room 1219 : the life of Fatty Arbuckle, the mysterious death of Virginia Rappe, and the scandal that changed Hollywood / Greg Merritt.
The Bee Gees : the biography / by David N. Meyer.
Leading the Starbucks way : 5 principles for connecting with your customers, your products and your people / by Joseph Michelli.
Soul food : the surprising story of an American cuisine, one plate at a time / by Adrian Miller.
Roosevelt’s second act : the election of 1940 and the politics of war / Richard Moe.
Jimmy Stewart : the truth behind the legend / Michael Munn.
Cold, hard truth on men, women, and money : 50 common money mistakes and how to fix them / Kevin O’Leary.
Crazy rich : power, scandal, and tragedy inside the Johnson & Johnson dynasty / by Jerry Oppenheimer.
Killing Jesus : a history / Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard.
Grain brain : the surprising truth about wheat, carbs, and sugar–your brain’s silent killers / David Perlmutter, MD, Kristin Loberg

Behind the shock machine : the untold story of the notorious Milgram psychology experiments / Gina Perry.
Mass flourishing : how grassroots innovation created jobs, challenge, and change / Edmund Phelps.
Reign of error : the hoax of the privatization movement and the danger to America’s public schools / Diane Ravitch.
Undercover cop : how I brought down the real-life Sopranos / Mike Russell with Patrick W. Picciarelli.
The remarriage blueprint : how remarried couples and their families succeed or fail / Maggie Scarf.
Command and control : nuclear weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the illusion of safety / Eric Schlosser.
Old Man River : the Mississippi River in North American history / Paul Schneider.
Turn around bright eyes : the rituals of love & karaoke / Rob Sheffield.
Springboard : launching your personal search for success / G. Richard Shell.
Meatonomics : how the rigged economics of meat and dairy make you consume too much-and how to eat better, live longer, and spend smarter / David Robinson Simon

The big disconnect : protecting childhood and family relationships in the digital age / Catherine Steiner-Adair, Ed. D. with Teresa H. Barker.
Latino Americans : the 500-year legacy that shaped a nation / Ray Suarez, PBS NewsHour Senior Correspondent.
Smarter than you think : how technology is changing our minds for the better / Clive Thompson.
Exposed : the secret life of Jodi Arias / Jane Velez-Mitchell
Ecstatic nation : confidence, crisis, and compromise, 1848-1877 / Brenda Wineapple.
Masterminds & wingmen : helping our boys cope with schoolyard power, locker-room tests, girlfriends, and the new rules of Boy World / Rosalind Wiseman.
American coup : how a terrified government is destroying the constitution / William M. Arkin.
No kidding : women writers on bypassing parenthood / edited by Henriette Mantel.

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