LMU Library Popular Reading Collection

New titles: January 4, 2013

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Call #: ALC

Marmee & Louisa : the untold story of Louisa May Alcott and her mother / Eve LaPlante. New York : Free Press, 2012.

Call #: AST

Legends of Guatemala = Leyendas de Guatemala / by Miguel Ángel Asturias ; translated with an introduction by Kelly Washbourne. Pittsburgh, Pa. : Latin American Literary Review Press, 2011.

Call #: BUS

Bitter brew : the rise and fall of Anheuser-Busch and America's kings of beer / William Knoedelseder. New York : HarperBusiness, c2012.

Call #: CHA

Little America : the war within the war for Afghanistan / Rajiv Chandrasekaran. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

Call #: JEF

Thomas Jefferson : the art of power / Jon Meacham. New York : Random House, 2012.

Call #: SAR

Raised from the ground / José Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.

Call #: SCH

Two-part inventions : a novel / Lynne Sharon Schwartz. Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2012.

Call #: WAL

Every love story is a ghost story : a life of David Foster Wallace / D.T. Max. New York : Viking, c2012.

New titles: December 19, 2012

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Call #: CAH

Brain on fire : my month of madness / by Susannah Cahalan. New York : Free Press, 2012.

Call #: CAS

A land more kind than home : [a novel] / Wiley Cash. New York : William Morrow, 2012

Call #: COL

The colony / A.J. Colucci. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2012.

New titles: December 18, 2012

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Call #: APP

Iron curtain : the crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 / Anne Applebaum. New York : Doubleday, c2012.

Call #: BAL

The forgotten / David Baldacci. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2012.

Call #: BOO

Behind the beautiful forevers / Katherine Boo. New York : Random House, c2012.

Call #: BYA

Ragnarök : the end of the gods / A.S. Byatt. New York : Canongate, c2011.

Call #: COR

The bone bed / Patricia Cornwell. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2012.

Call #: DIS

Swift run : a mystery / Laura DiSilverio. New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur, 2012.

Call #: DOE

The thieves of legend : a thriller / Richard Doetsch. New York : Atria Books, 2012.

Call #: EAS

The leading indicators / Gregg Easterbrook. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2012.

Call #: EVA

Notorious nineteen : a Stephanie Plum novel / Janet Evanovich. New York : Bantam Books, c2012.

Call #: FIE

Shadow Creek : a novel / Joy Fielding. New York : Emily Bestler Books/Atria, 2012.

Call #: JAC

Zoo time : a novel / Howard Jacobson. New York : Bloomsbury, 2012.

Call #: KIM

The trial of fallen angels / James Kimmel, Jr. New York : Amy Einhorn Books, c2012.

Call #: OTT

Eight girls taking pictures : a novel / Whitney Otto. New York : Scribner, 2012.

Call #: PAU

Paul and Jesus : how the Apostle transformed Christianity / James D. Tabor. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012.

Call #: POW

The yellow birds : a novel / Kevin Powers. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.

Call #: RAI

The heat of the sun : a novel / David Rain. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2012.

Call #: ROB

When I was a child I read books / Marilynne Robinson. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

Call #: SAM

Yes, chef : a memoir / Marcus Samuelsson. New York : Random House, c2012.

Call #: SCH

The end of your life book club / Will Schwalbe. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

Call #: SHA

The art forger : a novel / by B.A. Shapiro. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2012.

Call #: TRA

Broken like this / Monica Trasandes. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2012.

Call #: WOL

Back to blood : a novel / Tom Wolfe. New York : Little, Brown, 2012.

Call #: WOU

The lawgiver / Herman Wouk. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012.

New titles: December 7, 2012

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Call #: CHU

The last lion, Winston Spencer Churchill. [Vol. 3], Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 / William Manchester & Paul Reid. New York, NY : Little, Brown & Co., c2012.

New titles: December 6, 2012

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Call #: BIR

Strong in the rain : surviving Japan's earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear disaster / Lucy Birmingham, David McNeill. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Call #: KIN

Flight behavior : a novel / Barbara Kingsolver. New York : Harper, c2012.

New titles: December 4, 2012

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Call #: MAD

London Bridge in plague and fire : a novel / David Madden. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2012.

Call #: MCE

Sweet tooth : a novel / Ian McEwan. New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, c2012.

Call #: MOS

A garden of trees / Nicholas Mosley. Champaign, IL : Dalkey Archive Press, 2012.

Call #: MUT

The queen of Katwe : a story of life, chess, and one extraordinary girl's dream of becoming a grandmaster / Tim Crothers. New York : Scribner, c2012.

New titles: November 21, 2012

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Call #: BES

The best American nonrequired reading 2012 / edited by Dave Eggers ; introduction by Ray Bradbury. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.

New titles: November 19, 2012

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Call #: BAN

Ancient light / John Banville. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

Call #: BUR

A clockwork orange : the restored edition / Anthony Burgess ; edited with an Introduction and notes by Andrew Biswell. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2012.

Call #: ERD

The antelope wife : a novel / Louise Erdrich. New York : Harper Perennial, c2012.

Call #: ZOL

The fortune of the Rougons / Émile Zola ; translated with an introduction and notes by Brian Nelson. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

New titles: November 16, 2012

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Call #: CHI

Dearie : the remarkable life of Julia Child / Bob Spitz. New York : A.A. Knopf, 2012.

Call #: DON

Astray / Emma Donoghue. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.

Call #: FON

The man who saw a ghost : the life and work of Henry Fonda / Devin McKinney. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.

Call #: MAR

Life of Pi : a novel / Yann Martel. Boston ; New York : Mariner Books, 2012, c2001.

Call #: SLO

Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore / Robin Sloan. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

New titles: October 12, 2012

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Call #: ANN

Interventions : a life in war and peace / Kofi Annan with Nader Mousavizadeh. New York : Penguin Press, 2012.

Call #: BES

The best American poetry 2012. New York, N.Y. : Charles Scribner's Sons, c1988-.

Call #: DIA

This is how you lose her / Junot Díaz. New York : Riverhead Books, 2012.

Call #: OAT

Black dahlia & white rose / Joyce Carol Oates. New York : Ecco, c2012.

Call #: RUS

Joseph Anton : a memoir / Salman Rushdie. New York : Random House, c2012.

Call #: SEW

Seward : Lincoln's indispensable man / Walter Stahr. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012.

Call #: WOL

Vagina : a new biography / Naomi Wolf. New York, NY. : Ecco, c2012.