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Fairfax News => Current News & Events => Topic started by: Fairfax Librarian on August 18, 2011, 02:21:32 PM

Title: New Books 8/18/11 at the Fairfax Library
Post by: Fairfax Librarian on August 18, 2011, 02:21:32 PM

NEW BOOKS 8/18/11

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Fiction
The Omen Machine            Terry Goodkind
The Cut                  George P. Pelecanos
The Lantern               Deborah Lawrenson
Moneyball                  Michael Lewis
Open City                  Teju Cole
Ratking                  Michael Dibdin
Vendetta                  Michael Dibdin
The Arrivals                  Meg Mitchell Moore
Blue Moon                  Laurell K. Hamilton
A Clash of Kings               George R.R. Martin
A Game of Thrones            George R.R. Martin
A Storm of Swords            George R.R. Martin
Face the Fire (replacement copy)      Nora Roberts
The Magician King            Lev Grossman
Raising Stony Mayhall            Daryl Gregory
Turn of Mind               Alice Laplante
You Lost Me There            Rosecrans Baldwin[/color]

Non-Fiction
In the Garden of Beasts         Erik Larson
The Ledge:  An Adventure      Jim Davidson
Making Supper Safe            Ben Hewitt
Those Guys Have All the Fun      James A. Miller
Lies that Chelsea Handler Told Me   Chelsea Handler Inc
At Home with Madhur Jaffrey      Madhur Jaffrey
Italian Cooking               Gianni Scappin
New Persian Cooking         Jila Dana-Haeri

Title: Re: New Books 8/18/11 at the Fairfax Library
Post by: Dick Brown on August 18, 2011, 02:48:14 PM

For Baseball fans  who consider themselves students of the GAME , Michael Lewis' Moneyball Novel is a must-read . It's widely speculated in the Boston Globe that  the General Managers of the Sox, Rays & the Yankees subscribe to Billy Beane's theories .

Title: Re: New Books 8/18/11 at the Fairfax Library
Post by: Fairfax Librarian on August 19, 2011, 08:24:34 AM

Thanks for the endorsement!  The movie is due out soon, starring Brad Pitt.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210166/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210166/)

Title: Re: New Books 8/18/11 at the Fairfax Library
Post by: Mike Raburn on August 20, 2011, 01:38:52 AM

Quote from: Fairfax Librarian on August 19, 2011, 08:24:34 AM

Thanks for the endorsement!  The movie is due out soon, starring Brad Pitt.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210166/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210166/)

I have heard of that book and movie.

I cannot wait to see it. Although the movie won't do justice to the book.

Fairfax Librarian mentioned Brad Pitt in it, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!
I had no idea who was in the cast.
I would have thought George Plimpton or Ken Burns...

You go geerl!

Title: Re: New Books 8/18/11 at the Fairfax Library
Post by: Dick Brown on August 20, 2011, 07:03:59 AM

The Chicago Cubs just fired their General Manager and are looking outside their organization for a replacement , " one who is familiar with and can utilize recent statistical formulas"
i.e., that started by Billy Beane's system which is discussed in Moneyball .

Title: Re: New Books 8/18/11 at the Fairfax Library
Post by: Fairfax Librarian on August 22, 2011, 03:33:45 PM

I will try to get the movie for the library too when it comes out on DVD!