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BUSINESS
Communicating for success 
Hyden, Janet S. Call number: HF 5718 .H93 2006 

Doing leadership differently: gender, power and sexuality in a changing business culture
Sinclair, Amanda. Call number: HD 57.7 S548 2005 

The effective executive
Drucker, Peter Ferdinand. Call number: HD 38.25 .U6 D78 2006 

The fifth discipline: the art and practice of the learning organization
Senge, Peter M. Call number: HD 58.9 .S46 2006 

L. L. Bean: the making of an American icon
Gorman, Leon A. Call number: HD 9993 .C354 L1828 2006 

The long tail: why the future of business is selling less of more
Anderson, Chris. Call number: HF 5415.127 .A54 2006 

Sales forecasting management: a demand management approach
Mentzer, John T. Call number: HF 5415.2 .M393 2005
 

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EDUCATION
Best practices in quantitative methods for developmentalists 
McCartney, Kathleen. Call number: LB 1103 .S6 2006 

Foundations for self-awareness: an exploration through autism
Hobson, R. Peter. Call number: LB 1103 .S6 no. 284 2006 

Graduating class: disadvantaged students crossing the bridge of higher education
Goodwin, Latty Lee. Call number: LC 4069.6 .G66 2006 

Grappling with the good: talking about religion & morality in public schools
Kunzman, Robert. Call number: LC 111 .K86 2006 

What's happening to public higher education? 
Ehrenberg, Ronald G. Call number: LB 2328.62 .U6 W43 2006 
 

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HUMANITIES
Absurdistan 
Shteyngart, Gary. Call number: PS 3619 .H79 A63 2006 

Against the day
Pynchon, Thomas. Call number: PS 3566 .Y55 A73 2006 

Alanis Obomsawin: the vision of a native filmmaker
Lewis, Randolph. Call number: PN 1998.3 .024 2006 

American architecture: an illustrated encyclopedia
Harris, Cyril M. Call number: REF NA 705 .H36 1998 

American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau : their lives, their loves, their work
Cheever, Susan. Call number: PS 255 .C6 C48 2006 

An introduction to Zen Buddhism
Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro. Call number: BQ 9265.4 .S95 1991 

Andrew Wyeth: master drawings from the artist's collection
Adams, Henry. Call number: NC 139 .W9 A4 2006 

The ardors
Peirce, Kathleen. Call number: PS 3566 .E34 A73 2004 

The art of happiness: a handbook for living
Bstan-dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV. Call number: BQ 7935 .B774 A78 1998 

Art nouveau
Miller, Judith. Call number: NK 775.5 .A7 M547 2004
 

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Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian painting 
Brown, David Alan. Call number: ND 621 .V5 B76 2006 

Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West
McCarthy, Cormac. Call number: PS 3563 .C337 B4 2001 

Body of the world
Taylor, Sam. Call number: PS 3620 .A967 B63 2005 

Body piercing saved my life: inside the phenomenon of Christian rock
Beaujon, Andrew. Call number: ML 3187.5 .B43 2006 

A book of common praise
Boyers, Robert. Call number: PS 221 .B57 2002 

The brass girl brouhaha
Blevins, Adrian. Call number: PS 3602 .L475 B73 2003
 

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The charge 
Donnelly, Patrick. Call number: PS 3604 .05634 C47 2003 

Chicken soup for the soul: 101 stories to open & rekindle the spirit 
Canfield, Jack. Call number: BL 624 .C457 1993 

The Christmas blessing
VanLiere, Donna. Call number: PS 3622 .A66 C48 2003 

The Christmas shoes
VanLiere, Donna. Call number: PS 3622 .A66 C48 2001 

Collected poems
Auden, W. H. Call number: PR 6001 .U4 A17 1991 

The collected stories of Amy Hempel
Hempel, Amy. Call number: PS 3558 .E47916 A6 2006 

Confucius: a biography
Clements, Jonathan. Call number: B 128 .C8 C54 2004 

Critical companion to James Joyce: a literary reference to his life and work
Fargnoli, A. Nicholas. Call number: PR 6019 .09 Z533376 2006
 

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The damnation of Theron Ware, or Illumination 
Frederic, Harold. Call number: PS 1707 .D3 2002 

Dark under Kiganda stars
Hegnauer, Lilah. Call number: PS 3608 .E35 D37 2005 

Dead souls
Gogol, Nikolai V. Call number: PG 3333 .M4 2004 

Declension in the village of Chung Luong: new poems
Weigl, Bruce. Call number: PS 3573 .E3835 D43 2006 

Designs on the heart: the homemade art of Grandma Moses
Marling, Karal Ann. Call number: ND 237 .M78 M37 2006

The elephant's child: new & selected poems, 1978-2005
Orlen, Steve. Call number: PS 3565 .R577 E44 2006 

English: meaning and culture
Wierzbicka, Anna. Call number: PE 1585 .W53 2006 

The essential Chaplin: perspectives on the life and art of the great comedian
Schickel, Richard. Call number: PN 2287 .C5 S35 2006 

The essential writings of Christian mysticism
McGinn, Bernard. Call number: BV 5082.3 .E87 2006 

Everyday greatness: inspiration for a meaningful life
Covey, Stephen R. Call number: BJ 1531 .C69 2006
 

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Folk music: the basics 
Cohen, Ronald D. Call number: ML 3551 .C578 2006 

Gardening in the dark
Kasischke, Laura. Call number: PS 3561 .A6993 G37 2004 

George Gershwin: his life and work
Pollack, Howard. Call number: ML 410 .G288 P65 2007 

Helen of Troy: goddess, princess, whore
Hughes, Bettany. Call number: BL 820 .H45 H84 2005 

Housekeeping
Robinson, Marilynne. Call number: PS 3568 .03125 H6 1980 

The human stain
Roth, Philip. Call number: PS 3568 .0855 H8 2000 

In the time of the butterflies
Alvarez, Julia. Call number: PS 3551 .L845 I5 1994 

Inside my heart: choosing to live with passion and purpose
McGraw, Robin. Call number: BV 4527 .M3923 2006 

Insomnia diary
Hicok, Bob. Call number: PS 3558 .I28 I57 2004 

Interglacial: new and selected poems & aphorisms
Richardson, James. Call number: PS 3568 .I3I78 I58 2004
 

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Journey to the lost city 
Aaron, Jonathan. Call number: PS 3551 .A7 J68 2006

Ladder of hours: poems 1969-2005
Althaus, Keith. Call number: PS 3551 .L777 L33 2005 

The lay of the land
Ford, Richard. Call number: PS 3556 .0713 L39 2006 

Let me tell you where I've been: new writing by women of the Iranian diaspora
Karim, Persis M. Call number: PS 508 .I69 L48 2006 

Letters to Jane
Carruth, Hayden. Call number: PS 3505 .A77594 Z45 2004 

Libra
DeLillo, Don. Call number: PS 3554 .E4425 L53 1989 

Lizard
Yoshimoto, Banana. Call number: PL 865.07 I38 T6513 1996 

Love about love
Williams, C. K. Call number: PS 3573 .I4483 A6 2001
 

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Mary Poppins 
Travers, P. L. Call number: JUV PZ 7 .T689 Mar 1997b 

Mi revalueshanary fren: selected poems
Johnson, Linton Kwesi. Call number: PR 6060 .0345 M5 2006 

Moral minority: our skeptical Founding Fathers
Allen, Brooke. Call number: BR 516 .A46 2006 

Naked in the marketplace: the lives of George Sand
Eisler, Benita. Call number: PQ 2412 .E37 2006 

A new hunger
Bosselaar, Laure-Anne. Call number: PS 3552 .0772 N49 2007 

Novel beginnings: experiments in eighteenth-century English fiction
Spacks, Patricia Ann Meyer. Call number: PR 858 .E982 S66 2006 

Oracle figures
Pankey, Eric. Call number: PS 3566 .A575073 2003 

Oxford-Paravia: il dizionario inglese italiano, italiano inglese 
Call number: REF PC 1640 .095 2006
 

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The Penguin guide to compact discs and DVDs: Yearbook 
March, Ivan. Call number: REF ML 156.9 .M373 2006 

Poems of Sidney Lanier
Lanier, Sidney. Call number: PS 2205 .A2 L35 1999 

Prime green: remembering the sixties
Stone, Robert. Call number: PS 3569 .T6418 Z47 2007 

Radio crackling, radio gone
Olstein, Lisa. Call number: PS 3615 .L78 R34 2006 

Rediscovering Homer: inside the origins of the epic
Dalby, Andrew. Call number: PA 4037 .D335 2006 

Reliquaries
Pankey, Eric. Call number: PS 3566 .A575 R45 2005 

The rented violin
Whalley, Karen. Call number: PS 3623 .H36 R46 2003
 

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Sailing alone around the room: new and selected poems 
Collins, Billy. Call number: PS 3553 .047478 S25 2001 

Salt water amnesia
Skinner, Jeffrey. Call number: PS 3569 .K498 S25 2005 

The satires of Horace
Horace. Call number: PA 6396 .S3 M38 2002 

The slightly irregular fire engine; or, The hithering thithering djinn
Barthelme, Donald. Call number: JUV PZ 7 .B28125 Sl 1971 

Slowly, slowly, horses
Buchsbaum, Julianne. Call number: PS 3602 .U26 S56 2001 

Taras Bulba
Gogol, Nikolai V. Call number: PG 3333 .T3 2004 

The trouble with poetry and other poems
Collins, Billy. Call number: PS 3553 .047478 T76 2005 

This particular eternity
Orlen, Steve. Call number: PS 3565 .R577 T47 2001 

20th-century glass
Miller, Judith. Call number: NK 5110 .M55 2004 

Underworld
DeLillo, Don. Call number: PS 3554 .E4425 U53 2003
 

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Vectors: aphorisms & ten-second essays 
Richardson, James. Call number: PS 3568 .I3I78 V43 2001 

When things fall apart: heart advice for difficult times
Chödrön, Pema. Call number: BQ 5410 .C434 2002 

Where I'm calling from: new and selected stories
Carver, Raymond. Call number: PS 3553 .A7894 W43 1989 

Will power: how to act Shakespeare in 21 days
Basil, John. Call number: PR 3091 .B374 2006 

A woman's book of meditation: discovering the power of a peaceful mind
Khalsa, Hari Kaur. Call number: BL 1238.56 .K86 K525 2006 

Words on fire: the unfinished story of Yiddish
Katz, David. Call number: PJ 5113 .K38 2004 

Zen Buddhism: beliefs and practices
Fowler, Merv. Call number: BQ 9265.4 .F68 2005 

Zodiac of echoes
Mattawa, Khaled. Call number: PS 3563 .A8387 Z44 2003
 

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NURSING AND HEALTH
Brain science and psychological disorders: therapy, psychotropic drugs, and the brain 
Kraly, F. Scott. Call number: RC 343 .K925 2006

The diet myth: why America’s obsession with weight is hazardous to your health
Campos, Paul F. Call number: RM 222.2 .C27535 2005 

Fat politics: the real story behind America's obesity epidemic
Oliver, J. Eric. Call number: RA 645 .023 045 2006 

Gestalt therapy: history, theory, and practice
Woldt, Ansel L. Call number: RC 489 .G4 G4845 2005

The healing power of herbs: the enlightened person’s guide to the wonders of medicinal plants
Murray, Michael T. Call number: RM 666 .H33 M865 2004 

Henry's clinical diagnosis and management by laboratory methods
McPherson, Richard A. Call number: REF RB 37 .C54 2007 

The hormone survival guide for perimenopause: balance your hormones naturally
Jackson, Nisha. Call number: RG 188 .J33 2004
 

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Natural causes: death, lies, and politics in America’s vitamin and herbal supplement industry 
Hurley, Dan. Call number: RA 1250 .H87 2006 

Nurse-midwifery: the birth of a new American profession
Ettinger, Laura Elizabeth. Call number: RG 950 .E77 2006 

Psychoanalysis, the impossible profession
Malcolm, Janet. Call number: RC 506 .M283 1982 

Songs of the gorilla nation: my journey through autism
Prince-Hughes, Dawn. Call number: RC 553 .A88 P756 2004 

Vaccine: the controversial story of medicine's greatest lifesaver
Allen, Arthur. Call number: RA 638 .A45 2007
 

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SCIENCES
Adirondack fire towers: their history and lore: the southern districts 
Podskoch, Martin. Call number: ADK SD 421.375 .P6 2003 

Campesino a campesino: voices from Latin America’s Farmer to Farmer Movement for Sustainable Agriculture
Holt-Giménez, Eric. Call number: S 476 .A1 .H65 2006 

Does measurement measure up? How numbers reveal and conceal the truth
Henshaw, John M. Call number: QA 465 .H46 2006 

The end of the line: how overfishing is changing the world and what we eat
Clover, Charles. Call number: SH 327.5 .C58 2006 

Jane's aircraft recognition guide
Endres, Günter G. Call number: REF TL 671 .R46 2005 

Joy of cooking
Rombauer, Irma von Starkloff. Call number: TX 715 .R6 1995 

Many worlds in one: the search for other universes
Vilenkin, A. Call number: QB 981 .V526 2006 

Microsoft PowerPoint 2002: comprehensive certification
Rutkosky, Nita Hewitt. Call number: T 385 .R892 2002 

Minding animals: awareness, emotions, and heart
Bekoff, Marc. Call number: QL 751 .B366 2003
 

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Nature writings: the story of my boyhood and youth, my first summer in the Sierra, the mountains of California, Stickeen, selected essays 
Muir, John. Call number: QH 31 .M9 A3 1997 

Pigeons: the fascinating saga of the world's most revered and reviled bird
Blechman, Andrew. Call number: QL 696 .C63 B58 2006 

The quest for environmental justice: human rights and the politics of pollution
Bullard, Robert D. Call number: GE 220 .Q47 2005 

Rand McNally world atlas
Rand McNally and Company. Call number: REF G 1021 .R21 2005 

The revolution will not be microwaved: inside America’s underground food movements
Katz, Sandor Ellix. Call number: TX 357 .K38 2006 

Rivers by design: state power and the origins of U.S. Flood control
O'Neill, Karen M. Call number: TC 530 .055 2006
 

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SOCIAL SCIENCES 
The age of homespun: objects & stories, creation of an American myth
Ulrich, Laurel. Call number: F 8 .U47 2001 

Ageism: stereotyping and prejudice against older persons
Nelson, Todd D. Call number: HQ 101 .A42442 2004 

Alternatives to the Peace Corps: a guide to global volunteer opportunities
Backhurst, Paul. Call number: HN 49 .V64 A47 2005

The American dream vs. the gospel of wealth: the fight for a productive middle-class economy
Garfinkle, Norton. Call number: HC 103 .G32 2006 

Andrew Carnegie
Wall, Joseph Frazier. Call number: CT 275 .C3 W33 1989 

Black Hawk: the battle for the heart of America
Trask, Kerry A. Call number: E 83.83 .T73 2006 

Bleeding Blue and Gray: Civil War surgery and the evolution of American medicine
Rutkow, Ira M. Call number: E 621 .R88 2005 

Blessed among nations: how the world made America
Rauchway, Eric. Call number: E 744 .R375 2006 

China marches west: the Qing conquest of Central Eurasia
Perdue, Peter C. Call number: DS 754 .P47 2005 

The clash: U.S. - Japanese relations throughout history
LaFeber, Walter. Call number: E 183.8 .J3 L34 1998  

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Dark journey : black Mississippians in the age of Jim Crow 
McMillen, Neil R. Call number: E 185.93 .M6 M33 1990 

Dealing with debt
Jasper, Margaret C. Call number: KF 1501 .Z95 J37 2007 

Disposable people: new slavery in the global economy
Bales, Kevin. Call number: HT 867 .B35 2004 

Early modern Europe, 1450-1789
Wiesner, Merry E. Call number: D 102 .W54 2006

Earning more and getting less: why successful wives can’t buy equality
Tichenor, Veronica Jaris. Call number: HQ 734 .T526 2005

The end of the old order: Napoleon and Europe, 1801-1805
Kagan, Frederick W. Call number: DC 226.3 .K34 2006 

Falling through the Earth: a memoir
Trussoni, Danielle. Call number: HQ 755.86 .T78 2006 

Federal narcotics laws and the war on drugs: money down a rat hole
Rowe, Thomas C. Call number: KF 3890 .R69 2006
  

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Gaming: essays on algorithmic culture 
Galloway, Alexander R. Call number: GV 1469.34 .S63 G35 2006 

George III
Black, Jeremy. Call number: DA 506 .A2 B53 2006 

The Gettysburg gospel: the Lincoln speech that nobody knows
Boritt, G. S. Call number: E 475.55 .B68 2006 

Into the American woods: negotiators on the Pennsylvania frontier
Merrell, James Hart. Call number: F152 .M48 2000 

Inventing the people: the rise of popular sovereignty in England and America
Morgan, Edmund Sears. Call number: JF 1059 .G7 M67 1988 

Japan at war: an oral history
Cook, Haruko Taya. Call number: D 811 .A2 C62 1992
  

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Labor of love, labor of sorrow: Black women, work, and the family 
Jones, Jacqueline. Call number: HD 6057.5 .U5 J66 1986 

Land of the spotted eagle
Standing Bear, Luther. Call number: E 99 .T34 S7 2006 

Libraries and Google
Miller, William. Call number: Z 674.75 .I58 L535 2005 

Life as a psychologist: career choices and insights
Oster, Gerald D. Call number: BF 76 .088 2006 

The lifelong activist: how to change the world without losing your way
Rettig, Hillary. Call number: HN 18.3 .R47 2006 

Local people: the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi
Dittmer, John. Call number: E 185.93 .M6 D58 1994

Mad seasons: story of the first Women's Professional Basketball League, 1978-1981
Porter, Karra. Call number: GV 885.515 .W66 P67 2006 

Made to stick: why some ideas survive and others die
Heath, Chip. Call number: HM 1033 .H43 2007 

My Indian boyhood
Standing Bear, Luther. Call number: E 99 .T34 S72 2006 

The New Encyclopædia Britannica
Call number: REF AE 5 .E363 2007
  

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On the road to the wolf's lair: German resistance to Hitler 
Hamerow, Theodore S. Call number: DD 256.3 .H335 1997 

Party wars: polarization and the politics of national policy making
Sinclair, Barbara. Call number: JK 2261 .S49 2006 

Pet law
Jasper, Margaret C. Call number: KF 390 .P4 J37 2007 

The places in between
Stewart, Rory. Call number: DS 352 .S74 2006 

Postmortem: how medical examiners explain suspicious deaths
Timmermans, Stefan. Call number: HV 8073 .T56 2006 

The power of play: how spontaneous, imaginative activities lead to happier, healthier children
Elkind, David. Call number: BF 717 .E397 2007 

The quotable Jefferson
Jefferson, Thomas. Call number: E 302 .J442 2006b 

Roman Britain: a new history
De la Bédoyère, Guy. Call number: DA 145 .D46 2006 

A royal affair: George III and his scandalous siblings
Tillyard, S. K. Call number: DA 506 .A1 T55 2006
  

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Seeking security in an insecure world 
Caldwell, Dan. Call number: JZ 5588 .C35 2006 

Selecting materials for library collections
Fenner, Audrey. Call number: Z 687 .S435 2004

Stolen voices: young people’s war diaries, from World War I to Iraq
Filipović, Zlata. Call number: HQ 784 .W3 S75 2007 

Stories of the Sioux
Standing Bear, Luther. Call number: E 99 .T34 S73 2006 

A stronger kinship: one town's extraordinary story of hope and faith
Cox, Anna-Lisa. Call number: F 574 .C73 C69 2006

Superpower syndrome: America’s apocalyptic confrontation with the world
Lifton, Robert Jay. Call number: E 902 .L54 2003 

Teaching Web search skills: techniques and strategies of top trainers
Notess, Greg R. Call number: ZA 4230 .N68 2006 

Terrorism and the politics of fear
Altheide, David L. Call number: HN 90 .M3 A47 2006
  

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Waiting 'til the midnight hour: a narrative history of Black power in America 
Joseph, Peniel E. Call number: E 185.615 .J68 2006 

Wedding of the waters: the Erie Canal and the making of a great nation
Bernstein, Peter L. Call number: HE 396 .E6 B47 2005

Welcome to the homeland: a journey to the rural heart of america’s conservative rebellion
Mann, Brian. Call number: JC 573.2 .U6 M344 2006 

A well-regulated militia: the founding fathers and the origin of gun control
Cornell, Saul. Call number: KF 4558 2nd C67 2006
  

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