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Turing's cathedral : the origins of the digital universe / George Dyson.

Anatomy of injustice : a murder case gone wrong / Raymond Bonner.

Plan B 3.0 : mobilizing to save civilization / Lester R. Brown.

Carly's voice : breaking through autism / Arthur Fleischmann with Carly Fleischmann.

Language : the cultural tool / Daniel L. Everett.

Subliminal : how your unconscious mind rules your behavior / Leonard Mlodinow.

The power of habit : why we do what we do in life and business / Charles Duhigg.

Assisted death in Europe and America : four regimes and their lessons / Guenter Lewy.

Social work with African American males : health, mental health, and social policy / edited by Waldo E. Johnson, Jr.

Conversations with myself / Nelson Mandela.

Without sanctuary : lynching photography in America / James Allen ... [et al.].

The tender cut : inside the hidden world of self-injury / Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler.

Blind goddess : a reader on race and justice / edited by Alexander Papachristou.

Growing up to be violent : a longitudinal study of the development of aggression / Monroe M. Lefkowitz ... [et al.].

Masters of management : how the business gurus and their ideas have changed the world--for better and for worse / Adrian Wooldridge with a foreword by John Micklethwait.

Thinking, fast and slow / Daniel Kahneman.

What is a person? : rethinking humanity, social life, and the moral good from the person up / Christian Smith.

Winning : reflections on an American obsession / Francesco Duina.

Humanity on a tightrope : thoughts on empathy, family, and big changes for a viable future / Paul R. Ehrlich and Robert E. Ornstein.

The monster within : the hidden side of motherhood / Barbara Almond.

The hidden wealth of nations / David Halpern.

Imagine : how creativity works / Jonah Lehrer.

Learning : a survey of psychological interpretations / Winfred F. Hill.

The brain and the meaning of life / Paul Thagard.

Young adult literature : from romance to realism / Michael Cart.

Bootleg : murder, moonshine, and the lawless years of prohibition / Karen Blumenthal.

The Great Migration : journey to the North / by Eloise Greenfield illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist.

Never forgotten / by Patricia C. McKissack artwork by Leo and Diane Dillon.

The watcher : Jane Goodall's life with the chimps / Jeanette Winter.

Swirl by swirl : spirals in nature / written by Joyce Sidman illustrated by Beth Krommes.

Roots and blues : a celebration / Arnold Adoff paintings by R. Gregory Christie.

Flesh and blood so cheap : the Triangle fire and its legacy / Albert Marrin.

Heart and soul : the story of America and African Americans / words and paintings by Kadir Nelson.

999 tadpoles / by Ken Kimura illustrated by Yasunari Murakami.

Drawing from memory / Allen Say.

Stars / by Mary Lyn Ray and [illustrations by] Marla Frazee.

Basketball belles : how two teams and one scrappy player put women's hoops on the map / by Sue Macy illustrated by Matt Collins.

The house Baba built : an artist's childhood in China / Ed Young, text as told to Libby Koponen.

Mouse and lion / Aesop retold by Rand Burkert pictures by Nancy Ekholm Burkert.

Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade / written and illustrated by Melissa Sweet.

Loose balls : the short, wild life of the American Basketball Association --as told by the players, coaches, and movers and shakers who made it happen / Terry Pluto.

When pride still mattered : a life of Vince Lombardi / David Maraniss.

The summer game / Roger Angell.

Satchel : the life and times of an American legend / Larry Tye.

Instant replay : the Green Bay diary of Jerry Kramer / Jerry Kramer and Dick Schaap foreword by Jonathan Yardley.

Friday night lights : a town, a team, and a dream / H.G. Bissinger.

Eight men out : the Black Sox and the 1919 World Series / by Eliot Asinof.

Scoreboard, baby : a story of college football, crime, and complicity / Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry.

Last call : the rise and fall of Prohibition / Daniel Okrent.

The fight / Norman Mailer.

Moneyball : the art of winning an unfair game / Michael Lewis.

A season on the brink : a year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers / John Feinstein.

My losing season / Pat Conroy.

Ball four / Jim Bouton edited by Leonard Shecter.

Our worlds in our words : exploring race, class, gender, and sexual orientation in multicultural classrooms / Mary Dilg.

The new southern university : academic freedom and liberalism at UNC / Charles J. Holden.

The blind side : evolution of a game / Michael Lewis.

The science of yoga : the risks and the rewards / William J. Broad.

Avant-garde art in everyday life : early-twentieth-century European modernism / edited by Matthew S. Witkovsky with essays by Jared Ash ... [et al.].

The Renaissance portrait : from Donatello to Bellini / edited by Keith Christiansen and Stefan Weppelmann essays by Patricia Rubin ... [et al.].

Prom / Mary Ellen Mark.

Drawing on the right side of the brain / Betty Edwards.

The sewing machine classroom : learning the ins and outs of your machine / Charlene Phillips.

Spider Woman's gift : nineteenth-century Diné textiles at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture / edited by Shelby J. Tisdale essays by Joyce Begay-Foss and Marian E. Rodee studio photography by Blair Clark.

Keep on pushing : Black power music from blues to hip-hop / Denise Sullivan.

Advanced textiles for health and well-being / Marie O'Mahony.

Little crochet : modern designs for babies and toddlers / Linda Permann.

The best American comics 2011 / edited and with an introduction by Alison Bechdel Jessica Abel and Matt Madden, series editors.

American letters, 1927-1947 : Jackson Pollock and family / choice of letters by Francesca Pollock edited and annotated by Sylvia Winter Pollock introduction by Michael Leja drawings by Charles Pollock.

21st Century Jewelry : The Best of the 500 Series / Marthe Le Van.

The right color / Eve Ashcraft with Heather Smith MacIsaac.

Harvesting color : how to find plants and make natural dyes / Rebecca Burgess photographs by Paige Green.

Designing the modern interior : from the Victorians to today / edited by Penny Sparke ... [et al.].

Enemies : a history of the FBI / Tim Weiner.

Medgar Evers : Mississippi martyr / Michael Vinson Williams.

Boys' bodies : speaking the unspoken / edited by Michael Kehler and Michael Atkinson.

In Brown's wake : legacies of America's educational landmark / Martha Minow.

God's hotel : a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine / Victoria Sweet.

Beauty imagined : a history of the global beauty industry / Geoffrey Jones.

The Mormon people : the making of an American faith / Matthew Bowman.

Power and dependence in Renaissance Florence / Richard C. Trexler.

Power and dependence in Renaissance Florence / Richard C. Trexler.

Power and dependence in Renaissance Florence / Richard C. Trexler.

The great inversion and the future of the American city / Alan Ehrenhalt.

The man within my head / Pico Iyer.

The new hate : a history of fear and loathing on the populist right / Arthur Goldwag.

Moving to Opportunity : the story of an American experiment to fight ghetto poverty / Xavier de Souza Briggs, Susan J. Popkin, John Goering.

The crisis of caregiving : social welfare policy in the United States / edited by Betty Reid Mandell.

The Cambridge companion to Kant's Critique of pure reason / edited by Paul Guyer.

The Cambridge companion to Dewey / edited by Molly Cochran.

The Cambridge companion to ancient scepticism / edited by Richard Bett.

The Cambridge companion to Gabriel Garciá Márquez / edited by Philip Swanson.

The Norton anthology of Latino literature / Ilan Stavans, general editor [editors], Edna Acosta-Belén ... [et al.].

Cultures of war : Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq / John W. Dower.

The killing of Crazy Horse / Thomas Powers.

The civil war of 1812 : American citizens, British subjects, Irish rebels, and Indian allies / Alan Taylor.

Revolution 2.0 : the power of the people is greater than the people in power : a memoir / Wael Ghonim.

The Cambridge companion to utopian literature / [edited by] Gregory Claeys.

Destination Saigon : adventures in Vietnam / Walter Mason.

Seabiscuit : an American legend / Laura Hillenbrand.

Quest for equality : the failed promise of black-brown solidarity / Neil Foley.

The honor code : how moral revolutions happen / Kwame Anthony Appiah.

In your face : the new science of human attraction / David Perret.

Prophetic encounters : religion and the American radical tradition / by Daniel Patrick McKanan.

Life and morals of Jesus of Nazareth;"The Jefferson Bible : the life and morals of Jesus of Nazareth, extracted textually from the Gospels in Greek, Latin, French and English / by Thomas Jefferson with essays by Harry R. Rubenstein, Barbara Clark Smith, and Janice Stagnitto Ellis."

African women writing resistance : an anthology of contemporary voices / edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, Pauline Dongala, Omotayo Jolaosho, [...] et al.

Fly away : the great African American cultural migrations / Peter M. Rutkoff and William B. Scott.

Polybius: The Histories

Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

In search of the miraculous, or, one thing leads to another / Milton Glaser.

interdisciplinary studies

Our South : geographic fantasy and the rise of national literature / Jennifer Rae Greeson.

math and natural sciences

Wild flowers of North Carolina / William S. Justice, C. Ritchie Bell and Anne H. Lindsey.

Innovating science teacher education : a history and philosophy of science perspective / Mansoor Niaz.

Loving animals : toward a new animal advocacy / Kathy Rudy.

Radioactivity : a history of a mysterious science / Marjorie C. Malley.

Bees, wasps, and ants : the indispensable role of Hymenoptera in gardens / Eric Grissell.

Typhoon, and other stories / Joseph Conrad.

The two Dianas... By Alexandre Dumas.

The whites and the blues / by Alexandre Dumas.

Persuasion : an annotated edition / Jane Austen edited by Robert Morrison.

Far from the madding crowd.

Winter's tales.

Bleachers / John Grisham.

Kon-Tiki: across the Pacific by raft. Translated by F.H. Lyon.

Ninety-three / by Victor Hugo.

Remembrance of things past.

The leatherstocking tales / James Fenimore Cooper.

Pamela, by Samuel Richardson.

Possessed. Introduction by J. Middleton Murry translated by Constance Garnett-.

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