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New Books in Mellon Library in February Fiction FIC CAR Carhart, Thaddeus. The piano shop on the Left Bank : discovering a forgotten passion in a Paris atelier. New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, c2001. Thad Carhart enters the small piano shop in his village to find that it is more than an ordinary shop; instead, it is a place where locals can come together to learn about life, love, and music. FIC DES Desai, Kishwar. Witness the night. London : Beautiful Books, c2010. In a small town in the heart of India, a young girl is found tied to a bed inside a townhouse where 13 people lie dead. The girl is alive, but she has been beaten and abused. She is held in the local prison, awaiting interrogation for the murders she is believed by the local people to have committed. FIC GRI Grissom, Kathleen. The kitchen house. 1st Touchstone trade pbk. ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010. After seven-year-old Lavinia is orphaned on the journey from Ireland to the United States, she begins work in the kitchen house of a tobacco plantation and bonds with the slaves who become her adopted family, but when Lavinia is accepted into the big house, her loyalties are challenged. FIC HEL Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. London : Vintage Books. Set on a tiny Mediterranean island during World War II, this comic novel recounts the amazing adventures of the 256th bombing squadron and its lead bombardier, Captain Yossarian. FIC HOM Homes, A. M. The end of Alice. London : Granta Publications, c1996. Story of the correspondence between a convicted pedophile in his twenty-third year of prison and a nineteen-year-old co-ed who is attracted to young boys and especially one twelve-year-old boy. FIC KIN King, Stephen, 1947-. Cujo. New York : Signet, [1982], c1981. Cujo, a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, becomes infected with rabies and kills four people in Maine. FIC OFA O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972-. The hand that first held mine. London : Headlinet, 2010. Interweaves the stories of two women from different decades as they navigate the changing relationships that come with motherhood and find their lives influenced by art and family secrets. Middle School Fiction M FIC BOS Bosch, Pseudonymous. This isn't what it looks like. UK : Usborn, 2010. Cass finds herself alone and disoriented in a dream-like world, while back at home she is in the hospital in a coma with Max-Ernest desperately searching for a way to awaken her. M FIC COO Cooper, Susan, 1935-. The dark is rising. New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, c1973. On his eleventh birthday Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark. M FIC FLA Flanagan, John (John Anthony). The burning bridge. 1st American ed. New York : Philomel Books, 2006, c2005. Will is forced to overcome his fear of Wargals, the foot soldiers of rebel warlord Morgarath, as Araluen's army prepares to battle Morgarath's forces. M FIC MCK McKay, Hilary. Forever Rose. London : Hodder Children's, 2007. M FIC PAU Paulsen, Gary. Hatchet. London : Macmillan Children's Books, 2005, 1987. After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. M FIC PEI Peirce, Lincoln. The boy with the biggest head in the world. London : HarperCollins Children's, 2010. M FIC UPD Updale, Eleanor. Montmorency : thief, liar, gentleman? 1st Orchard Books ed. New York : Orchard Books, 2004. In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician's case study exhibit to create a new, highly successful, double life for himself. Graphic Novels 741.5 GRO Big bouncy book of Bart Simpson. 1st ed. Santa Monica, CA : Bongo Comics Group, c2006. Legends of the Bartman family -- Bart Simpson secret agent, man (part one) -- The truth about cats and mice -- Bart Simpson secret agent, man (part two) -- Are you gonna eat that? -- Art for Bart's sake -- Maggie's mobilization -- The mediocre misadventures of Martin and Milhouse! Bartless on a Tuesday -- The great Springfield donut war! -- Bart's fun pages! -- Movie mayhem. 741.5 GRO Big beastly book of Bart Simpson. 1st ed. New York : Bongo Comics Group, c2007. Yet another collection of the antics of Bart Simpson and his television cartoon family. 741.5 GRO Groening, Matt. Futurama conquers the universe. London : Harper, c2007. The big sweep -- How to draw Fry and Bender -- The cure for the common cold -- Hostile makeover -- Sideshow Fry -- The Bender you say. A collection of comics by Emmy-winning cartoonist Matt Groening featuring the adventures of Philip J. Fry, a New York City pizza boy who is cryonicly frozen and revived one thousand years in the future. 300—Social Sciences 363.25 FBI The FBI : a centennial history, 1908-2008. Washington, DC : U.S. Dept. of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, [2008]. The nation calls, 1908-1923 -- The FBI and the American gangster, 1924-1938 -- World War, cold war, 1939-1953 -- And justice for all, 1954-1971 -- Crime and corruption across America, 1972-1988 -- A world of trouble, 1989-2001 -- A new era of national security, 2001-2008. Photographs and text chronicle the history of the FBI from its creation in 1908 to 2008, exploring how it became one of the most respected agencies in the American government. 600—Technology 641.591 DEM Preserving the Italian way. Australia : Memoirs Foundation Inc, 2007. A collection of old style casalinga Italian recipes, with a mix of memories and anecdotes of the author's childhood and travels. 700—Arts and recreation 700 MUS The museum of everything. Milano : Electa, 2010. 720.942 WAT Watkin, David, 1941-. English architecture : a concise history. London : Thames & Hudson, 1979. 728.82 CHI Chiappini Di Sorio, Ileana. Palazzo Pisani Moretta : economia, arte, vita sociale di una famiglia veneziana nel diciottesimo secolo. Milano : F.M. Ricci, c1983. 781.1 BAL Ball, Philip, 1962-. The music instinct : how music works and why we can't do without it. Oxford ; : Oxford University Press, 2010. Prelude: The harmonious universe. An introduction -- Overture: Why we sing. What is music and where does it come from? -- Staccato: The atoms of music. What are musical notes and how do we decide which to use? -- Andante: What's in a tune? Do melodies follow rules, and if so, which? -- Legato: Keeping it together. How do we decode the sound? -- Tutti: All together now. How do we use more than one note at a time? -- Con moto: Slave to the rhythm. What gives music its pulse? -- Pizzicato: The colour of music. Why do instruments sound different, and how does that affect the music? -- Misterioso: All in the mind. Which bits of the brain do we use for music? -- Appassionato: Light my fire. How does music convey and elicit emotion? -- Capriccioso: Going in and out of style. What are musical styles? ; Is music about notes, or patterns, or textures? -- Parlando: Why music talks to us : Is music a language? Or is it closer to the non-verbal arts? -- Serioso: The meaning of music. What are composers and musicians trying to say? ; Can music in itself say anything at all? -- Coda: The condition of music. Explains the author's belief that the human capacity for music-making and the enjoyment in music is an inevitable consequence of the way the human brain seeks out patterns, forming interpretations and setting up expectations. 781.2 POW Powell, John, 1955-. How music works : a listener's guide to the science and psychology of beautiful sounds. London : Particular, 2010. Discover the secrets of how music works in this straight-talking, funny account of its nuts and bolts (or notes and instruments). 796.357 LEW Lewis, Michael (Michael M.). Moneyball : the art of winning an unfair game. 1st ed. New York : W. W. Norton, c2003. Examines the mathematical strategies by which manager Billy Beane handled the financially strapped Oakland Athletics' 2002 draft and led the baseball team to success despite its lack of high profile players. 800 – Literature 821.914 SHA Shapcott, Jo, 1953-. Of mutability. London : Faber and Faber, 2010. In a series of poems that explore the nature of change - in the body and the natural world, and in the shifting relationships between people - these poems look freshly but squarely at mortality. 843.914 WIE Wiesel, Elie, 1928-. Dawn. Pbk. ed. New York : Hill and Wang, 2006. An eighteen-year-old terrorist spends a night waiting to kill an English officer in Palestine as a reprisal for Britain's execution of a Jewish prisoner. 896.108 CHU Chukwumerije, Dike-Ogu. The Revolution has no tribe : Contemporary poetry on African history, culture and society. London : Afriscope, 2010. 900 – History, geography, and biography 909 KID Kidder, David S. The intellectual devotional : revive your mind, complete your education, and roam confidently with the cultured class. New York : Rodale, c2006. A secular compendium of 365 readings designed to refresh the spirit and stimulate the mind, featuring daily devotionals that, over the course of each week, cover the fields of history, literature, visual arts, science, music, philosophy, and religion. 909.04924 DEW De Waal, Edmund. The hare with amber eyes : a family's century of art and loss. 1st American ed. London : Vintage, 2010. Recounts the history of the Ephrussis family during the tumultuous events of the twentieth century, intertwined with the story behind a collection of netsuke that was smuggled away by a loyal maid when family members were imprisoned or scattered and their books are art were confiscated by Nazis.