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Updated: February 1, 2010

10 button book
Accorsi, William.
New York : Workman, 1999.
Verses introduce numbers from one to ten with ten real buttons, which snap in to the book.
West Brookfield Juvenile - E (BOARD) ACC

90-day geisha : my time as a Tokyo hostess
Haywood, Chelsea.
New York : Pegasus Books, 2009.
West Brookfield General - B HAY

99 yarns and counting : more designs from the green mountain spinnery
Green Mountain Spinnery.
Woodstock, VT : Countryman Press, 2009.
West Brookfield General - 746.43 NIN

The AARP Retirement Survival Guide : how to make smart financial decisions in good times and bad
Jason, Julie.
New York : Sterling Pub. Co., c2009.
West Brookfield General - 332.02 JAS

Amulet. Book 1, The stonekeeper
Kibuishi, Kazu, 1978-
New York : Graphix, 2008.
"After the tragic death of their father, Emily and Navin move with their mother to the home of her deceased great-grandfather, but the strange house proves to be dangerous. Before long, a sinister creature lures the kids' mom through a door in the basement. Em and Navin, desperate not to lose her, follow her into an underground world inhabited by demons, robots, and talking animals. Eventually, they enlist the help of a small mechanical rabbit named Miskit. Together with Miskit, they face the most terrifying monster of all, and Em finally has the chance to save someone she loves" -- from publisher's web site.
West Brookfield Juvenile - JF KIB

An analysis of Captain Thomas Wheeler's narrative for the purpose of finding the true location of the "Wheeler's Surprise" ambush site
Nash, Ed.
Leominster, MA : Nashaway Valley Productions, 2009.
West Brookfield General - REF (Local History)

Anne Frank : the book, the life, the afterlife
Prose, Francine, 1947-
New York : Harper, c2009.
Francine Prose argues that the diary of Anne Frank is as much a deliberate work of art as it is an historical record, noting its literary merits and thoroughly investigating the diary's unique afterlife as one of the world's most read, and banned, books.
West Brookfield General - 940.53 PRO

The art of disappearing
Pochoda, Ivy.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2009.
West Brookfield General - F POC

Asylum : inside the closed world of state mental hospitals
Payne, Christopher, 1968-
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.
West Brookfield General - 362.21 PAY

Baking
Peterson, James.
Berkeley : Ten Speed Press, c2009.
West Brookfield General - 641.81 PET

A bomb in every issue : how the short, unruly life of Ramparts magazine changed America
Richardson, Peter, 1959-
New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, c2009.
West Brookfield General - 320.53 RIC

Bop
Hollywood, CA : Laufer Pub. Co.
West Brookfield Periodica - P JAN 2010

Born round : the secret history of a full-time eater
Bruni, Frank.
New York : Penguin Press, 2009.
Bruni, restaurant critic for "The New York Times," tells his heartbreaking and hilarious account of his lifelong, often painful struggle with food.
West Brookfield General - B BRU

Brain : the complete mind
Sweeney, Michael.
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic ; Enfield : Publishers Group UK [distributor], 2009.
West Brookfield General - 612.82 SWE

The burn farm
Benson, Michael.
New York : Pinnacle ; Godalming : Melia [distributor], c2009.
Draws on victim recordings and perpetrator statements to trace the story of serial murderer Sheila LaBarre, describing how she sexually tormented troubled young men before brutally murdering them at her remote farmhouse.
West Brookfield General - 364.15 BEN

Chicago : a biography
Pacyga, Dominic A.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
West Brookfield General - 977.31 PAC

A Cornish maid
Aitken, Rosemary, 1942-
Surry, England : Severn House Publishers, Ltd., c2009.
West Brookfield General - F AIT

D-day : the Battle for Normandy
Beevor, Antony, 1946-
New York : Viking, 2009.
West Brookfield General - 940.54 BEE

Day of reckoning : how hubris, ideology, and greed are tearing America apart
Buchanan, Patrick J. (Patrick Joseph), 1938-
New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2007.
In this book, pundit Buchanan reveals the perilous path our nation has taken: The era of U.S. global dominance is over. A struggle for hegemony among the United States, China, a resurgent Russia and radical Islam has begun. Torn apart by a culture war, America has begun to break down along class, cultural, ethnic, and racial lines. Free trade is hollowing out U.S. industry, destroying the dollar, and plunging the country into permanent dependency and unpayable debt. One of every six U.S. manufacturing jobs has vanished under Bush. The Third World invasion through Mexico is a grave threat to U.S. survival than anything happening in Afghanistan or Iraq. To save America, Buchanan would start by removing from power the ideologues of both parties, reviewing America's Cold War commitments, and securing our borders. He offers ideas to halt the erosion of our sovereignty and restore our manufacturing preeminence and economic independence.--From publisher description.
West Brookfield General - 973.93 BUC

Dostoevsky : a writer in his time
Frank, Joseph, 1918-1993.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2010.
West Brookfield General - B DOS

Drawing faeries : keys to the kingdom
Hart, Christopher.
New York : Watson-Guptill, c2006.
West Brookfield General - 743.89 HAR

Dreaming of Baghdad
Zangana, Haifa, 1950-
New York, NY : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, c2009.
West Brookfield General - 892.73 ZAN

The everything job interview
Adams, Bob, 1955-
Holbrook, MA : Adams Media, 2001.
West Brookfield General - 650.14 ADA

The first fall classic : the Red Sox, the Giants and the cast of players, pugs, and politicos who reinvented the World Series in 1912
Vaccaro, Mike.
New York : Doubleday, c2009.
West Brookfield General - 796.35 VAC

Fly by wire : the geese, the glide, the miracle on the Hudson
Langewiesche, William.
New York : Farrar Straus & Giroux 2009.
West Brookfield General - 629.13 LAN

French feasts : 299 traditional recipes for family meals & gatherings
Reynaud, Stéphane.
New York : Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2009.
West Brookfield General - 641.59 REY

Game six : Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 world series : the triumph of America's pastime
Frost, Mark, 1953-
New York : Hyperion, 2009.
West Brookfield General - 796.35 FRO

God's battalions : the case for the Crusades
Stark, Rodney.
New York : HarperOne, c2009.
In God's Battalions, award-winning author Rodney Stark takes on the long- held view that the Crusades were the first round of European colonialism, conducted for land, loot, and converts by barbarian Christians who victimized the cultivated Muslims. Instead, Stark argues that the Crusades were the first military response to Muslim terrorist aggession.
West Brookfield General - 909.07 STA

The Goliath bone
Spillane, Mickey, 1918-2006.
Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., 2008.
West Brookfield General - LT F SPI

Googled : the end of the world as we know it
Auletta, Ken.
New York : Penguin Press, c2009.
A revealing, forward-looking examination of the outsize influence Google has had on the changing media landscape, telling the story of how it formed and crashed into traditional media businesses--from newspapers to books, to television, to movies, to telephones, to advertising, to Microsoft.
West Brookfield General - 338.76 AUL

Growing up bin Laden : Osama's wife and son take us inside their secret world
Bin Laden, Najwa.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2009.
West Brookfield General - 920 BIN

Half broke horses : a true-life novel
Walls, Jeannette.
New York : Scribner, 2009.
A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of indomitable spirit.
West Brookfield General - F WAL

Helen Keller : activist
Koestler-Grack, Rachel A., 1973-
New York : Chelsea House, c2009.
West Brookfield Juvenile - JB KEL

Homer's odyssey : a fearless feline tale, or how I learned about love and life with a blind wonder cat
Cooper, Gwen.
New York : Delacorte Press, c2009.
A pet rescue volunteer and literacy outreach coordinator describes her relationship with a three-pound blind cat whose daredevil character and affectionate personality saw the author through six moves, a burglary, and the healing of her broken heart.
West Brookfield General - 636.8 COO

Horton Foote : America's storyteller
Hampton, Wilborn.
New York : Free Press, 2009.
West Brookfield General - B FOO

If you could see what I see : the tenets of Novus Spiritus
Browne, Sylvia.
Carlsbad, Calif. : Hay House, c2006.
West Brookfield General - 299 BRO

Impossible : a novel
Werlin, Nancy.
New York, NY : Dial Books, c2008.
When seventeen-year-old Lucy discovers her family is under an ancient curse by an evil Elfin Knight, she realizes to break the curse she must perform three impossible tasks before her daughter is born in order to save them both.
West Brookfield YA - YAF WER

Inside of a dog : what dogs see, smell, and know
Horowitz, Alexandra.
New York, NY : Scribner, 2009.
West Brookfield General - 636.7 HOR

Just food : where locavores get it wrong and how we can truly eat responsibly
McWilliams, James E.
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
West Brookfield General - 394.12 MCW

The kids are all right : a memoir
Welch, Diana.
New York : Harmony Books, c2009.
The poignant, harrowing story of four siblings--Amanda, Liz, Dan, and Diana Welch--who despite their wrenching loss and subsequent separation, retained the resilience and humor that both their mother and father endowed them with--growing up as lost souls, taking disastrous turns along the way, but eventually coming out right side up and being together again.
West Brookfield General - 920 WEL

La's orchestra saves the world
McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-
Waterville, Me. : Wheeler Pub. : Thorndike Press, 2009.
It is 1939. Lavender--La to her friends--decides to flee London, not only to avoid German bombs but also to escape the memories of her shattered marriage. Settling in as small town, she organizes an amateur orchestra from the village and the local RAF base and falls in love with one of her prized recruits.
West Brookfield General - LT F MCC

The long snapper : a second chance, a Super Bowl, a lesson for life
Marx, Jeffrey, 1962-
New York : HarperOne, c2009.
Chronicles the improbable and inspirational journey of Brian Kinchen, a family man and Bible school teacher three years retired from the NFL who was recalled to play for the New England Patriots in their drive to Super Bowl XXXVIII.
West Brookfield General - B KIN

Love as a foreign language
Torres, J., 1969-
Portland, Or. : Oni ; London : Diamond [distributor], 2007.
West Brookfield YA - YA 741.5 TOR

Love as a foreign language. Book 1
Torres, J., 1969-
Portland, OR : Oni Press, 2006.
West Brookfield YA - YA 741.5 TOR

Making mischief : a Maurice Sendak appreciation
Maguire, Gregory.
New York, NY : William Morrow, c2009.
West Brookfield General - 741.64 MAG

The meaning of Matthew : my son's murder in Laramie, and a world transformed
Shepard, Judy.
New York, N.Y. : Hudson Street Press, c2009.
West Brookfield General - 364.15 SHE

Middle way : faith grounded in reason
Bstan-dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-
Boston : Wisdom Publications, 2009.
West Brookfield General - 294.3 DAL

Mr. Putter and Tabby bake the cake
Rylant, Cynthia.
New York : Scholastic, c1994, (1995 printing).
With his fine cat Tabby at his side, Mr. Putter bakes a Christmas cake for his neighbor Mrs. Teaberry.
West Brookfield Juvenile - ER RYL

A Nantucket Christmas
Linsley, Leslie.
New York : Bulfinch Press, c2004.
West Brookfield General - 394.266 LIN

National Geographic Image Collection
Washington, DC : Focal Point : National Geographic, c2009.
West Brookfield General - 779 NAT

Noah Webster : weaver of words
Shea, Pegi Deitz.
Honesdale, Pa. : Calkins Creek, 2009.
West Brookfield Juvenile - JB WEB

Not easily broken
Jakes, T. D.
Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., 2007.
West Brookfield General - LT F JAK

Nubs : the true story of a mutt, a Marine & a miracle
Dennis, Brian, 1971-
New York : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, c2009.
The story of a wild dog who befriended Marine Major Brian Dennis in Iraq, and, when they were separated, trekked seventy miles through the desert winter to rejoin his friend.
West Brookfield Juvenile - J 636.7 DEN821

Olivia acts out
Shepherd, Jodie.
New York : Simon Spotlight, 2009.
Assigned the less-than-leading role of "Cow Number 2" in her school's play, Olivia manages to secure her place in the spotlight after all.
West Brookfield Juvenile - E SHE

On monsters : an unnatural history of our worst fears
Asma, Stephen T.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
West Brookfield General - 398.24 ASM

One week in December
Chamberlin, Holly, 1962-
New York : Kensington ; Godalming : Melia [distributor], c2009.
West Brookfield General - F CHA

Only you
Bedford, Deborah.
Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., 2008.
West Brookfield General - LT F BED

The original duct tape Halloween book
Nyberg, Tim, 1953-
New York : Workman Pub., 2003.
West Brookfield YA - YA 745.59 NYB

Privacy, please! : gaining independence from your parents
Amblard, Odile.
New York : Amulet Books, 2009.
Presents advice for teenagers on the conflicts that can arise in a family over their increasing need for independence, discussing such issues as privacy, school, friends, parental authority, money, and communication.
West Brookfield General - 155.51 AMB

The Queen Mother : the official biography
Shawcross, William.
New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother : consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles--and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century. A revelatory royal biography that is, as well, a singular history of Britain in the twentieth century.
West Brookfield General - B ELI

A quilter's holiday
Chiaverini, Jennifer.
Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2009.
West Brookfield General - LT F CHI

Rainwater
Brown, Sandra, 1948-
Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2009.
West Brookfield General - LT F BRO

Ralph Masiello's dragon drawing book
Masiello, Ralph.
Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, c2007.
Describes and gives step-by-step instructions for drawing several different types of dragons.
West Brookfield Juvenile - J 743.6 MAS

Read my pins : stories from a diplomat's jewel box
Albright, Madeleine Korbel.
New York : Harper : Melcher Media, c2009.
West Brookfield General - 327.73 ALB

Rescue Ink : how ten guys saved countless dogs and cats, twelve horses, five pigs, one duck, and a few turtles
Flaim, Denise.
New York : Viking, 2009.
West Brookfield General - 179.3 FLA

Robert Frost speaking on campus : excerpts from his talks, 1949-1962
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963.
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2009.
West Brookfield General - 818.52 FRO

Ronald Morgan goes to camp
Giff, Patricia Reilly.
New York : Viking, c1995.
Ronald Morgan is afraid he won't get a medal at camp because he's not especially good at swimming or running or singing, but on Medal Day he discovers what he is really good at.
West Brookfield Juvenile - ER GIF

A room for learning : the making of a school in Vermont
Birdsey, Tal.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2009.
West Brookfield General - 373.11 BIR

Searching for Whitopia : an improbable journey to the heart of white America
Benjamin, Rich.
New York : Hyperion, 2009.
An examination of a recent migration of white Americans to small, predominantly white cities describes the author's visits to "whitopias" throughout the country, where he met white citizens from myriad walks of life, learned the causes of the migration, and familiarized himself with each neighborhood's landscapes and social structures.
West Brookfield General - 305.8 BEN

Sexism in America : alive, well, and ruining our future
Berg, Barbara J.
Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, c2009.
West Brookfield General - 305.42 BER

The sisters who would be queen : Mary, Katherine, and Lady Jane Grey : a Tudor tragedy
De Lisle, Leanda.
New York : Ballantine Books, [2009].
West Brookfield General - 920 DEL

Strength in what remains
Kidder, Tracy.
New York : Random House, c2009.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder returns with the extraordinary true story of Deo, a young man who arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. After surviving a civil war and genocide, he ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores until he begins to meet the strangers who will change his life, pointing him eventually in the direction of Columbia University, medical school, and a life devoted to healing.
West Brookfield General - B NIY

The super hungry Dinosaur
Waddell, Martin.
New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2009.
Hal and his little dog Billy deal with a dinosaur's monstrous hunger. Billy's mom makes him a super dinner which saves everyone from being eaten by the dinosaur.
West Brookfield Juvenile - E WAD

The ten lost tribes : a world history
Ben-Dor Benite, Zvi.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
West Brookfield General - 909.04 BEN

That bird has my wings : the autobiography of an innocent man
Masters, Jarvis Jay, 1962-
New York : HarperOne, 2009.
West Brookfield General - B MAS

A thousand years of pirates
Gilkerson, William.
Toronto : Tundra Books, 2009.
West Brookfield Juvenile - J 910.4 GIL

The time of my life
Swayze, Patrick.
New York : Atria Books, 2009.
In vivid detail, the thirty-year veteran of stage and screen describes his Texas upbringing, his personal struggles, his rise to fame with North and South, his commercial breakthroughs in "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost," and the soul mate who's stood by his side through it all: his wife, writer and director Lisa Niemi.
West Brookfield General - B SWA

Trial by fire
Jance, Judith A.
Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2009.
West Brookfield General - LT F JAN

A tribute to John F. Kennedy
Salinger, Pierre, ed.
Chicago : Encyclopaedia Britannica, c1964.
West Brookfield General - 973.92 SAL

U is for undertow
Grafton, Sue.
Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2009.
West Brookfield General - LT F GRA

An Uncommon History of Common Things
Patrick, Bethanne Kelly.
National Geographic Society 2009.
West Brookfield General - 973 PAT

Under the dome : a novel
King, Stephen, 1947-
Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2009.
West Brookfield General - LT F KIN

Where men win glory : the odyssey of Pat Tillman
Krakauer, Jon.
New York : Doubleday, c2009.
Irrepressible individualist and iconoclast Pat Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract in May 2002 to enlist in the United States Army. Deeply troubled by 9/11, he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a desolate hillside in Afghanistan. Though obvious to most on the scene that a ranger in Tillman's own platoon had fired the fatal shots, the Army aggressively maneuvered to keep this information from Tillman's family and the American public for five weeks following his death, while President Bush repeatedly invoked Tillman's name to promote his administration's foreign policy. Biographer Krakauer draws on his journals and letters, interviews with his wife and friends, conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him, and extensive research in Afghanistan to render this driven, complex, and uncommonly compelling figure as well as the definitive account of the events and actions that led to his death.--From publisher description.
West Brookfield General - B TIL

Whole earth discipline : an ecopragmatist manifesto
Brand, Stewart.
New York : Viking, c2009.
West Brookfield General - 304.2 BRA

Winter gardening
Bradley, Steven.
Alexandria, Va. : Time Life Books, c2000.
West Brookfield General - 635.9 BRA

The wrecker
Cussler, Clive.
Detroit : Wheeler Pub., 2009.
West Brookfield General - LT F CUS

You were always mom's favorite! : sisters in conversation throughout their lives
Tannen, Deborah.
New York : Random House, c2009.
West Brookfield General - 306.87 TAN

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