LMU Library Popular Reading Collection

New title: May 16, 2012

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Call #: IRV

In one person : a novel / John Irving. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012.

New title: May 11, 2012

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Call #: JAC

Drop dead healthy : one man's humble quest for bodily perfection / A. J. Jacobs. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012.

New titles: May 7, 2012

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Call #: BAL

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

Call #: CHU

Forgotten country / Catherine Chung. New York : Riverhead Books, c2012.

Call #: DAU

The book of Jonas / Stephen Dau. New York : Blue Rider Press, c2012.

Call #: ENR

Making babies : stumbling into motherhood / Anne Enright. New York, NY : W.W. Norton, 2012.

Call #: FRA

Farther away / Jonathan Franzen. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

Call #: GOR

No time like the present / Nadine Gordimer. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2012.

Call #: GRE

Another piece of my heart / Jane Green. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.

Call #: GRI

Calico Joe / John Grisham. New York : Doubleday, c2012.

Call #: GUT

Gossip / Beth Gutcheon. New York : William Morrow, c2012.

Call #: HAR

Enchantments : a novel / by Kathryn Harrison. New York : Random House, c2012.

Call #: KIN

The riot within : my journey from rebellion to redemption / Rodney King with Lawrence J. Spagnola. New York : HarperOne, c2012.

Call #: LEH

Imagine : how creativity works / Jonah Lehrer. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.

Call #: MAD

Drift : the unmooring of American military power / Rachel Maddow. New York : Crown, c2012.

Call #: MCC

The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection / Alexander McCall Smith. New York : Pantheon Books, [2012], ©2012.

Call #: MOO

Sacre bleu : a comedy d'art / Christopher Moore. New York : William Morrow, c2012.

Call #: MOR

Home / Toni Morrison. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

Call #: OME

The book of madness and cures : a novel / by Regina O'Melveny. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.

Call #: PEA

The technologists : a novel / Matthew Pearl. New York : Random House, c2012.

Call #: QUI

Lots of candles, plenty of cake / Anna Quindlen. New York : Random House, c2012.

Call #: SAN

What money can't buy : the moral limits of markets / Michael J. Sandel. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

Call #: SCO

Come home / Lisa Scottoline. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.

Call #: TYL

The beginner's goodbye : a novel / by Anne Tyler. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

Call #: ULL

By blood / Ellen Ullman. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

New titles: April 17, 2012

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Call #: ENG

What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank / Nathan Englander. New York : Knopf, 2012.

Call #: GER

The idea factory : Bell Labs and the great age of American innovation / Jon Gertner. New York : Penguin Press, 2012.

Call #: GHO

Revolution 2.0 : the power of the people is greater than the people in power : a memoir / Wael Ghonim. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2012.

Call #: LET

The ecstasy of influence : nonfictions, etc. / Jonathan Lethem. New York : Doubleday, c2011.

Call #: LEV

Free ride : how digital parasites are destroying the culture business, and how the culture business can fight back / Robert Levine. New York : Doubleday, c2011.

Call #: MOH

The hunt for KSM : inside the pursuit and takedown of the real 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed / Terry McDermott and Josh Meyer. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.

Call #: OZ

Scenes from village life / Amos Oz ; translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.

Call #: ROD

It calls you back : an odyssey through love, addictions, revolution, and healing / Luis Rodriguez. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2011.

Call #: SEB

Jerusalem : the biography / Simon Sebag Montefiore. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011

Call #: TWE

21 essential American short stories / edited by Leslie M. Pockell. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2011.

Call #: WAR

Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward. New York : Bloomsbury, 2011.

Call #: WEI

Enemies : a history of the FBI / Tim Weiner. New York : Random House, c2012.

New titles: April 16, 2012

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Call #: MUR

Coming apart : the state of white America, 1960-2010 / Charles Murray. New York [N.Y.] : Crown Forum, c2012.

New titles: April 12, 2012

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Call #: BER

Birds of a lesser paradise : stories / Megan Mayhew Bergman. New York : Scribner, 2012.

Call #: GOL

Power and constraint : the accountable presidency after 9/11 / Jack Goldsmith. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2012.

Call #: KEL

Pigeon English / Stephen Kelman. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2011.

Call #: KUN

Gods without men / Hari Kunzru. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

Call #: RAS

Pakistan on the brink : the future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan / Ahmed Rashid. New York : Viking, [2012].

Call #: ROO

Island of vice : Theodore Roosevelt's doomed quest to clean up sin-loving New York / Richard Zacks. New York : Doubleday, c2012.

Call #: SHI

Rights at risk : the limits of liberty in modern America / David K. Shipler. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

New titles: April 10, 2012

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Call #: CEN

The century's best horror fiction. Volume two, 1951-2000 / edited by John Pelan. Baltimore : Cemetery Dance Publ., 2011.

Call #: GOL

The maid and the queen : the secret history of Joan of Arc / Nancy Goldstone. New York : Viking, 2012.

Call #: HAW

The good father / Noah Hawley. New York : Doubleday, c2012.

Call #: JAM

Death comes to Pemberley / P.D. James. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

Call #: LAN

Defending Jacob : a novel / William Landay. New York : Delacorte Books, c2012.

Call #: LAP

Easy money / Jens Lapidus ; translated from the Swedish by Astri von Arbin Ahlander. New York : Pantheon Books, c2011.

Call #: LAU

The professionals / Owen Laukkanen. New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, c2012.

Call #: MCC

The land of decoration : a novel / Grace McCleen. New York : Henry Holt and Co., c2012.

Call #: MOR

The silent oligarch / Chris Morgan Jones. New York : Penguin Press, 2012.

Call #: NAK

The thief / Fuminori Nakamura ; translated from the Japanese by Satoko Izumo and Stephen Coates. New York : Soho Crime, 2012.

Call #: SHR

The new republic : a novel / Lionel Shriver. New York : Harper, c2012.

Call #: WIL

Roger Williams and the creation of the American soul : church, state, and the birth of liberty / John M. Barry. New York : Viking, c2012.

New titles: March 29, 2012

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Call #: ANS

Carry the one / Carol Anshaw. New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, c2012.

Call #: BAK

The Gilly salt sisters / Tiffany Baker. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2012.

Call #: BAR

The benefit and the burden : tax reform--why we need it and what it will take / Bruce Bartlett. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012.

Call #: BON

Anatomy of injustice : a murder case gone wrong / Raymond Bonner. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

Call #: BRA

Fraternity / Diane Brady. New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2012.

Call #: CEN

The century's best horror fiction. Volume one, 1901-1950 / edited by John Pelan. Baltimore : Cemetery Dance Publ., 2011.

Call #: CLI

The affair : a novel / Alicia Clifford. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.

Call #: DUB

A partial history of lost causes : a novel / by Jennifer DuBois. New York : Dial Press, 2011.

Call #: HAN

Night road / Kristin Hannah. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2011.

Call #: IVE

The snow child : a novel / Eowyn Ivey. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.

Call #: JAC

A grown-up kind of pretty / Joshilyn Jackson. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2012.

Call #: KAZ

The last good man : a novel / A.J. Kazinski ; translated from the Danish by Tiina Nunnally. New York : Scribner, 2012.

Call #: KRA

A universe from nothing : why there is something rather than nothing / Lawrence M. Krauss ; with an afterword by Richard Dawkins. New York : Free Press, 2012.

Call #: MCM

The American way of eating : undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, farm fields and the dinner table / Tracie McMillan. New York, NY : Scribner, 2012.

Call #: PAV

The expats : a novel / Chris Pavone. New York : Crown, c2012.

Call #: PIC

Lone wolf : a novel / Jodi Picoult New York : Emily Bestler Books/Atria, 2012.

Call #: POW

Hide me among the graves / Tim Powers. New York : William Morrow, c2012.

Call #: REA

The mark inside : a perfect swindle, a cunning revenge, and a small history of the big con / Amy Reading. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

Call #: RIC

The wolf gift : a novel / Anne Rice. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

Call #: ROU

Alix and Nicky : the passion of the last tsar and tsarina / Virginia Rounding. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.

Call #: VAC

That's how I roll / Andrew Vachss. New York : Pantheon Books, c2012.

New titles: March 27, 2012

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Call #: RIC

Power concedes nothing : one woman's quest for social justice in America from the courtrooms to the kill zones / Connie Rice. New York : Scribner, 2012.

Call #: SIM

That woman : the life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor / Anne Sebba. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.

Call #: URR

Queen of America : a novel / Luis Alberto Urrea. New York : Little, Brown, 2011.

New titles: March 14, 2012

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Call #: LIU

No enemies, no hatred : selected essays and poems / Liu Xiaobo ; edited by Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao, and Liu Xia ; with a foreword by Václav Havel. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.

Call #: WEI

Too big to know : rethinking knowledge now that the facts aren't the facts, experts are everywhere, and the smartest person in the room is the room / David Weinberger. New York : Basic Books, c2011.