Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall

New Books April 2008

The following books were cataloged during April. If you are interested in any of these books, you can reserve them on-line. Click here for instructions. When the books are available, you will be notified.

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Available at the Circulation Desk:  Eleventh census of the United States 1890. Pennsylvania [microform] : schedules enumerating Union veterans and widows of Union veterans of the Civil War.  This is the only copy in Allegheny County libraries.

DVD's

• Abraham and Mary Lincoln.
• Abraham Lincoln.
• Birth of a nation.
• Charlie Wilson's war.
• Echoes of the blue & gray Volumes I & II.: Civil War Veterans on DVD.
• Gettysburg 1938: the last reunion of the Blue & Gray.
• Juno.
• Kite runner.
• Passport to Europe with Samantha Brown. France & Italy.
• Sweeney Todd.
• There will be blood.
   

Audio Recordings

• Another thing to fall / by Laura Lippman.
• Black widow / by Randy Wayne White.
• Change of heart / by Jodi Picoult.
• Children's favorite songs, 1.
• Darkest Hour.
• Free to be you and me / Marlow Thomas and friends.
• Naughty neighbor / by Janet Evanovich.
• Searching for paradise in Parker, PA / by Kris Radish.
• Sundays at Tiffany's / James Patterson.
• Whaddaya think of that? / Laurie Berkner.
• Winter study / by Nevada Barr.
     
  

Civil War Collection

• At the wall : the 69th Pennsylvania at Gettysburg / Don Ernsberger.
• Bouquets from the cannon's mouth : soldiering with the Eighth Regiment of the Pennsylvania Reserves / by Robert E. Eberly Jr.   with foreword by Edwin C. Bearss.
• Douglass and Lincoln : how a revolutionary black leader and a reluctant liberator struggled to end slavery and save the Union / Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick.
• Fields of freedom : United States Colored Troops : southwestern Pennsylvania's Black Civil War soldier / by Ron Gancus.
• Flags of the American Civil War. 1, Confederate / text by Philip Katcher   colour plates by Rick Scollins   editor, Martin Windrow.
• Flags of the American Civil War. 2, Union / text by Philip Katcher   colour plates by Rick Scollins   editor, Martin Windrow.
• Gangrene and glory : medical care during the American Civil War / Frank R. Freemon.
• History of the Fifty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry : First Brigade, First Division, Third Corps, and Second Brigade, Third Division, Second Corps, Army of the Potomac / compiled by James M. Martin ... [et al.].
• How the South could have won the Civil War : the fatal errors that led to Confederate defeat / Bevin Alexander.
• Jack Burd's Civil War source book.
• Pennsylvania Bucktails : a photographic album of the 42nd, 149th & 150th Pennsylvania regiments / by Patrick A. Schroeder from the collection of Ronn Palm.
• Pittsburgh during the American Civil War, 1860-1865 / by Arthur B. Fox.
• Roll call to destiny : the soldier's eye view of Civil War battles / Brent Nosworthy.
• The American Jew as patriot, soldier and citizen, by Simon Wolf  ed. by Louis Edward Levy.
• The gallant Seventy-Eighth : Colonel William Sirwell and the Pennsylvania Seventy-Eighth, Stones River to Pickett's Mill / Ronald S. Gancas.
• The Hunley : submarines, sacrifice & success in the Civil War / by Mark K. Ragan.
• The Oxford dictionary of Civil War quotations / [edited by] John D. Wright.
• Twenty days : a narrative in text and pictures of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the twenty days and night that followed--the Nation in mourning, the long trip home to Springfield / by Dorthy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr. Foreword by Bruce Catton.
• Warships of the Civil War navies / Paul H. Silverstone.
• Women at Gettysburg, 1863 / E.F. Conklin.
• Women at the front : hospital workers in Civil War America / Jane E. Schultz.

Nonfiction

• Bartending / [author, maranGraphics Development Group].
• Country living : crafting a business : make money doing what you love  / Kathie Fitzgerald.
• Frommer's 500 places to take your kids before they grow up / by Holly Hughes.
• Frommer's Philadelphia & the Amish country.
• Go green, live rich : 50 simple ways to save the earth and get rich trying / David Bach, with Hillary Rosner.
• Growing up green : baby and childcare / Deirdre Imus.
• Home : a memoir of my early years / Julie Andrews.
• It's a boy! : understanding your son's development from birth to age 18 / Michael Thompson and Teresa H. Barker.
• Ladies of liberty : the women who shaped our nation / Cokie Roberts.
• Playing with the enemy : a baseball prodigy, a world at war, and a field of broken dreams / Gary W. Moore.
• Predictably irrational : the hidden forces that shape our decisions / Dan Ariely.
• Protect yourself at college : smart choices--safe results / Thomas M. Kane.
• The comfort table / by Katie Lee Joel   foreword by Paula Deen.
• The last lecture / Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow.
• The Splendid table's how to eat supper : recipes, stories, and opinions from public radio's award-winning food show / Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift.
• This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War / Drew Gilpin Faust.
• What now? / Ann Patchett   designed by Chip Kidd.
   

Mysteries

• A carrion death : introducing Detective Kubu / Michael Stanley.
• Degrees of separation : a Jessie Arnold mystery / Sue Henry.
• Getting away is deadly / Sara Rosett.
• Hold tight / Harlan Coben.
• Mummy dearest / Joan Hess.
• Murder on parade : a Murder, she wrote mystery : a novel / by Jessica Fletcher & Donald Bain.
• Nightshade / Susan Wittig Albert.
• The calling / Inger Ash Wolfe.
• The cat who moved a mountain / Lilian Jackson Braun.
• The cruelest month : a Three Pines mystery / Louise Penny.
• The merlot murders : a wine country mystery / Ellen Crosby.
• The miracle at Speedy Motors / Alexander McCall Smith.
• The pure in heart : a Simon Serrailler mystery / Susan Hill.
• Winter study / Nevada Barr.
• Zapped : a Regan Reilly mystery / Carol Higgins Clark.

Fiction

• Beginner's Greek : a novel / James Collins.
• Blue-eyed devil / Lisa Kleypas.
• Death walked in : a death on demand mystery / Carolyn Hart.
• Guilty / Karen Robards.
• Hollywood crows : a novel / Joseph Wambaugh.
• Infected : a novel / Scott Sigler.
• Losing you / Nicci French.
• Lost souls / Lisa Jackson.
• Marie. English;"Mary of Nazareth : a novel / Marek Halter   translated by Howard Curtis."
• Miss Julia paints the town / Ann B. Ross.
• Perfect family / Pam Lewis.
• Pleasure / Eric Jerome Dickey.
• Quicksand / Iris Johansen.
• Santa Fe dead / Stuart Woods.
• Scottsboro : a novel / Ellen Feldman.
• Searching for paradise in Parker, PA / Kris Radish.
• Shifting fog;"The house at Riverton : a novel / Kate Morton."
• South of Shiloh : a thriller / Chuck Logan.
• Stalked / Brian Freeman.
• Suddenly.
• Sundays at Tiffany's / James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet.
• The death dealer / Heather Graham.
• The devil's bones / Jefferson Bass.
• The disagreement : a novel / Nick Taylor.
• The ex-debutante / Linda Francis Lee.
• The genius / Jesse Kellerman.
• The Hollow / Nora Roberts.
• The other mother : a novel / Gwendolen Gross.
• The third angel : a novel / Alice Hoffman.
• The Third Circle / Amanda Quick.
• The whole truth / David Baldacci.
• The winding ways quilt : an Elm Creek quilts novel / Jennifer Chiaverini.
• Time bomb / Jonathan Kellerman.
• Twisted / Andrea Kane.
• Where are you now? / Mary Higgins Clark.
  

Large Print

• Blue-eyed devil / Lisa Kleypas.
• Buckingham Palace gardens : a novel / Anne Perry.
• Guilty / Karen Robards.
• Hold tight / Harlan Coben.
• Miss Julia paints the town / Ann B. Ross.
• Santa Fe dead / Stuart Woods.
• The miracle at Speedy Motors / Alexander McCall Smith.
• The Third Circle / Amanda Quick.
• The winding ways quilt : an Elm Creek quilts novel / Jennifer Chiaverini.
• Where are you now? / Mary Higgins Clark.

Reference

• Pittsburgh during the American Civil War, 1860-1865 / by Arthur B. Fox.
• Soldiers' orphan schools of western Pennsylvania / compiled by Diane Ragan.
• The War of the Rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies. Pub. under the direction of the ... Secretary of War.
    

Adult New Reader

• None this month. 

Teen Fiction

• Eagles on their buttons : a Black infantry regiment in the Civil War / Versalle F. Washington.
• Emma / Jane Austen   edited with an introduction by Ronald Blythe.
• Persuasion / Jane Austen   with a memoir of Jane Austen, by J.E. Austen-Leigh   edited with an introd. by D.W. Harding.
• Pride and prejudice  edited with an introduction by Tony Tanner.
• Saturday night dirt / Will Weaver.
• Saving the world and other extreme sports : a Maximum Ride novel / James Patterson.
• Secrets of my Hollywood life : Family Affairs / by Jen Calonita.
• Sense and sensibility / Jane Austen   edited with an introduction by Ros Ballaster.
• Sunrise over Fallujah / Walter Dean Myers.
• Sweet Miss Honeywell's revenge : a ghost story / Kathryn Reiss.
• The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian [sound recording] / by Sherman Alexie.
• The fortunes of Indigo Skye / Deb Caletti.
• The postcard / by Tony Abbott.
• The sea of monsters / Rick Riordan.
• The vampire's assistant / by Darren Shan.
• Trials of death / by Darren Shan.
• Trouble / Gary D. Schmidt.
• Tunnels of blood / by Darren Shan.
      
  

DVD's - Juvenile

• Alvin and the chipmunks.
• Charlie Brown Christmas.

Audio Recordings  - Juvenile

• Best of both worlds concert / Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus.
  

Nonfiction - Juvenile

• Andrew Carnegie : builder of libraries / by Charnan Simon.
• Clara Barton : angel of the battlefield / by editors of Time for kids with Anna Prokos.
• Dinomummy / Dr. Phillip Lars Manning   foreword by Tyler Lyson.
• Smash it! crash it! launch it! : 50 mind-blowing, eye-popping science experiments / Rain Newcomb & Bobby Mercer.
   

Mysteries - Juvenile

• None this month
   
  

Fiction - Juvenile

• Cat and mouse in a haunted house / Geronimo Stilton.
• The Mouse Island Marathon / Geronimo Stilton.
• The weird club : the search for the Jersey devil / by Randy Fairbanks.
• The Willoughbys / Lois Lowry.
• Up, down, and around / Katherine Ayres   illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott.
  

Graphic Novels - Juvenile

• Batman : the Dark Knight returns / Frank Miller, with Klaus Janson and Lynn Varley.
      
  

Elementary Easy Reading

• Laffite the pirate / by Ariane Dewey.

Preschool Easy Reading

• Baby Pteranodon / [concept and paper engineering by Dick Dudley   illustrations by Robert Cremins].
• Christopher counting / Valeri Gorbachev.
  Cinderella / William Wegman, with Carole Kismaric and Marvin Heiferman.
• Diary of a spider / by Doreen Cronin   pictures by Harry Bliss.
• Dinosaurs : a lost world / devised and designed  by Keith Moseley   illustrated by Robert Cremins.
• Go, go America / Dan Yaccarino.
• If animals kissed good night-- / Ann Whitford Paul   pictures by David Walker.
• Journey to Egypt / illustrated by Piero Ventura   [written by Joan Knight   design and paper engineering by Dick Dudley and David A. Carter].
• King Pom and the fox / Jessica Souhami.
• Little Rabbit's new baby / written and illustrated by Harry Horse.
• Little Red Riding Hood / William Wegman, with Carole Kismaric and Marvin Heiferman.
• Meerkat mail / Emily Gravett.
• Monarch and milkweed / by Helen Frost and Leonid Gore.
• Monkey and me / Emily Gravett.
• My name is Elmo;"Tickle me : my name is Elmo / by Constance Allen   illustrated by Maggie Swanson   featuring Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets."
• Orange pear apple bear / Emily Gravett.
• Please bury me in the library / J. Patrick Lewis   illustrated by Kyle M. Stone.
• Say good night / By Anna Ross.  Ill. by Norman Gorbaty.
• Snoring Beauty / Bruce Hale   illustrated by Howard Fine.
• The Jemima Puddle-Duck pop-up book : from the tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, the original and authorized edition / by Beatrix Potter   [illustrations by Colin Twinn].
• The pigeon wants a puppy! / words and pictures by Mo Willems.
• The secret Olivia told me / by N. Joy   illustrations by Nancy Devard.
• Twenty-six princesses / Dave Horowitz.
• Whose tail, Peter Rabbit? / [Beatrix Potter]
• Zen ties / by Jon J Muth.

Reference - Juvenile

• A storytime year : a month-to-month kit for preschool programming / by Susan M. Dailey and illustrated by Nancy Carroll Wagner.

Other - Juvenile

• None this month