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Home, Sweet Haunted Home: Hair-Raising Reads By Neal Wyatt - 10/15/2009
There is nothing more frightening than the turning of what should be a haven into a nightmare. Which is why haunted house stories are perennial favorites with readers who like to be scared witless. Evil spirits and horrifying previous occupants are just some of the unwanted guests in the homes conjured by these masters of the disquieting. More
Iran 11/01/2009
Arjomand, Said Amir . After Khomeini: Iran Under His Successors . Oxford Univ. Dec. 2009. c.272p. photogs. index. ISBN 978-0-19-539179-4 . $24.95. INT AFFAIRS The Iranian revolution that overthrew the country's pro-Western monarchy and established an Islamic republic is now 30 years old. Yet the future direction of the political system that Ayatollah Khomeini established is still undetermined.
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Reexamining Keynes By Lawrence Maxted, Gannon Univ. Lib., Erie, PA - 11/01/2009
Clarke, Peter . Keynes: The Rise, Fall, and Return of the Twenieth Century's Most Influential Economist . Bloomsbury , dist. by Macmillan. 2009. c.224p. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-1-60819-023-2 . $20. Lewis, Hunter . Where Keynes Went Wrong: And Why World Governments Keep Creating Inflation, Bubbles, and Busts .
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Social Sciences 11/01/2009
Biography Jones, Allen & Mark Naison . The Rat That Got Away: A Bronx Memoir . Fordham Univ. 2009. c.224p. illus. ISBN 978-0-8232-3102-7 . $29.95. AUTOBIOG Jones pursued two successful careers in Europe: professional basketball player and banker. If you met him, you might not guess he spent his teen years as a heroin dealer in New York.
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Science & Technology 11/01/2009
Agriculture Bonine, Paul . Black Plants: 75 Striking Choices for the Garden . Timber . 2009. 160p. illus. ISBN 978-0-88192-981-2 . pap. $14.95. GARDENINGA A nice palette of colors may be a top priority in garden planning, but there is also a place for plants with black flowers or foliage—they add a touch of mystery, drama, and the exotic and almost always capture attention.
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Reference 11/01/2009
General Reference Ash, Russell . Top 10 of Everything 2010: Discover More Than Just the No.1! Sterling . 2009. 256p. illus. index. ISBN 978-0-600-62048-8 . $24.95. REF This popular annual—Ash's 20th Top 10 of Everything book—is an entertaining, full-color collection of top ten lists covering an array of topics and disciplines, including, among many others, the universe, music and...
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Fiction 11/01/2009
Adams, Lorraine . The Room and the Chair . Knopf . Feb. 2010. c.336p. ISBN 978-0-307-27241-6 . $25.95. F In her second novel (after Harbor), Adams, a former Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at the Washington Post, jumps back and forth between a newsroom in Washington, DC, and the secretive world of covert military operations in Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
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Arts & Humanities 11/01/2009
Arts Campbell, Sara & others. Degas in the Norton Simon Museum: Nineteenth-Century Art . Vol. 2. Yale Univ. 2009. 607p. illus. index. ISBN 978-0-300-14884-8 . $95. FINE ARTS American philanthropist Norton Simon (1907–93) spent more than 30 years acquiring the best available paintings and sculptures.
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Design Institute 2007 December 11, 2007 at Chicago's Harold Washington Library Center:Design Institute 2007
Learning Gardens New York's GreenBranches program links the library to the street.
Green Picks: LBD May 2007 Want to reduce your library's carbon footprint? Join the Cradle-to-Cradle revolution. Helen Milling shares the green products her firm is using.
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