LMU Library Popular Reading Collection

New titles: February 21, 2012

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Call #: ELI

Elizabeth the Queen : the life of a modern monarch / Sally Bedell Smith. New York : Random House, c2012.

Call #: KAH

Thinking, fast and slow / Daniel Kahneman. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

Call #: REY

Retromania : pop culture's addiction to its own past / Simon Reynolds. London ; [New York] : Faber & Faber, c2011.

Call #: ROO

The plots against the president : FDR, a nation in crisis, and the rise of the American right / Sally Denton. New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2012.

New titles: February 16, 2012

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Call #: AKH

American dervish : a novel / by Ayad Akhtar. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.

Call #: ALL

El cuaderno de Maya / Isabel Allende. Nueva York : Vintage Español, 2011.

(This book is in Spanish)

Call #: BOL

The Third Reich / Roberto Bolaño ; translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

Call #: BUT

A small hotel / Robert Olen Butler. New York : Grove Press, c2011.

Call #: EDG

The night train : a novel / Clyde Edgerton. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2011.

Call #: ENG

The beauty and the sorrow : an intimate history of the First World War / by Peter Englund. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

Call #: FRA

Pity the billionaire : the hard times swindle and the unlikely comeback of the Right / Thomas Frank. New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., c2012.

Call #: GOE

The sufferings of young Werther / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; a new translation by Stanley Corngold. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2012.

Call #: KIN

I've got your number : a novel / Sophie Kinsella. New York : Dial Press, c2012.

Call #: LIV

How it all began / Penelope Lively. New York : Viking, 2012.

Call #: MOO

Heft / Liz Moore. New York : W.W. Norton, c2012.

New titles: February 10, 2012

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Call #: CAI

Quiet : the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking / Susan Cain. New York : Crown Publishers, c2012.

Call #: CAR

Shadows in flight / Orson Scott Card. New York : Tor, 2012.

Call #: CHE

The fat years : a novel / Chan Koonchung ; translated from the Chinese by Michael S. Duke ; with a preface by Julia Lovell. New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2011.

Call #: FIF

The 50 funniest American writers* : an anthology of humor from Mark Twain to the Onion / *according to Andy Borowitz. New York : Library of America, c2011.

Call #: GIB

Distrust that particular flavor / William Gibson. New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, c2012.

Call #: HAR

The fear index / Robert Harris New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

Call #: JOH

The orphan master's son : a novel / Adam Johnson. New York : Random House, c2012.

Call #: KAN

The Obamas / Jodi Kantor. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.

Call #: KOO

The favored daughter : one woman's fight to lead Afghanistan into the future / Fawzia Koofi with Nadene Gourhi. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Call #: LEO

Raylan / Elmore Leonard. New York : William Morrow, c2012.

Call #: MOS

All I did was shoot my man / Walter Mosley. New York : Riverhead Books/Penguin Group, 2012.

Call #: NEW

The accordion family : boomerang kids, anxious parents, and the private toll of global competition / Katherine S. Newman. Boston : Beacon Press, c2012./p>

Call #: ONA

The odds : [a love story] / Stewart O'Nan. New York : Viking, c2012.

Call #: PAR

The jaguar : a Charlie Hood novel / T. Jefferson Parker. New York : Dutton, c2012.

Call #: SCO

The last holiday : a memoir / Gil Scott-Heron. New York : Grove Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2012.

Call #: UNS

The quality of mercy : a novel / Barry Unsworth. New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, c2011.

New titles: February 6, 2012

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Call #: CUR

Radioactive : Marie & Pierre Curie, a tale of love & fallout / by Lauren Redniss. New York : !t Books, c2011.

Call #: HAN

Home front / Kristin Hannah. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.

Call #: TAY

Derby Day / D.J. Tayor. London : Chatto & Windus, 2011.