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These materials have either been purchased for the Library or have been donated and are now ready for patron use (as of January 11, 2012). Use OPAC to check call numbers and availability.

Nonfiction:
The age of Augustus (Werner Eck)
Ancient Rome (Hal Marcovitz)
Animals in translation: Using the mysteries of autism to decode
     animal behavior (Temple Grandin)
Apollo's angels: A history of ballet (Jennifer Homans)
Are America's wealthy too powerful?  (Greenhaven Press)
Art deco (Diane Yancey)
The atlas of legendary places (James Harpur)
Basketball (Diane Yancey)
Brown v. Board of Education: A civil rights milestone and its
     troubled legacy (James T. Patterson)
Careers in the court system (Tamra Orr)
Careers in web development (Laura La Bella)
Copyright infringement (Greenhaven Press)
Creating content: Maximizing wikis, widgets, blogs, and more
     (J. Elizabeth Mills)
Documenting the Industrial Revolution (Peter Hicks)
Edgar Allan Poe: "deep into that darkness peering" (Jeff Burlingame)
Education (Greenhaven Press)
The elements of style (William Strunk)
The end of apartheid (Greenhaven Press)
The English governess at the Siamese court: The true story
     behind ‘The King And I' (Anna Leonowens)
Family (Greenhaven Press)
Founders of faith (Joan A. Price)
Free speech (Greenhaven Press)
Genetic disorders (Peggy J. Parks)
Genetic engineering (Greenhaven Press)
GLBT teens and society (Jeanne Nagle)
Global resources (Greenhaven Press)
Going green (Lydia D. Bjornlund)
A great and sublime fool: The story of Mark Twain (Peggy Caravantes)
Has technology increased learning? (Greenhaven Press)
Hebrew phrasebook (Klara Ilana Wistinetzki)
How buying and selling futures work (Susan Meyer)
How should the U.S. proceed in Afghanistan?  (Greenhaven Press)
How should the world respond to natural disasters? (Greenhaven Press)
How to build a prize-winning robot (Joel Chaffee)
Human trafficking around the world (Kaye Stearman)
The information revolution (Stuart A. Kallen)
Janis Joplin: Rise up singing (Ann Angel)
J. R. R. Tolkien: A biography (Humphrey Carpenter) 
Joan Miró (Rosa Maria Malet)
Just my type: A book about fonts (Simon Garfield)
Lady Gaga (Bridget Heos)
The landscape of history: How historians map the past
     (John Lewis Gaddis)
Legal system (Greenhaven Press)
Managing your digital footprint (Robert Grayson)
The Middle East (Greenhaven Press)
Modern Mexico (R. Conrad Stein)
Peer pressure (Greenhaven Press)
Political scandals (Greenhaven Press)
The politics of saving the environment (Britannica Educational
     Pub. & Rosen Educational Services)
A portrait of the artist as a young man: Complete, authoritative text
     with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays
     from five contemporary critical perspectives (James Joyce)
Robert Frost: The life of America's poet (Sara McIntosh Wooten)
Self reliance: The story of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Peggy Caravantes)
The seventies: The great shift in American culture, society, and
     politics (Bruce J. Schulman)
The sixteen satires (Juvenal)
Skin cancer: Current and emerging trends in detection and
   treatment (Tracie Egan)
Space exploration (Greenhaven Press)
The story of Charlotte's Web: E. B. White's eccentric life in nature
     and the birth of an American classic (Michael Sims)
Students' rights (Kate Burns)
Tattoo art around the world (Diane Bailey)
Thinking in pictures: And other reports from my life with autism (Temple Grandin)
Three plays by Aristophanes: Staging women (Aristophanes)
The U.S. policy on Cuba (Greenhaven Press)
Understanding your right to privacy (Kathy Furgang)
Warfare in the classical world: An illustrated encyclopedia of weapons, warriors,
     and warfare in the ancient civilisations of Greece and Rome (John Gibson Warry)
What is the impact of automation? (Greenhaven Press)
White-collar crime (Greenhaven Press)
Writing is my business: The story of O. Henry (Peggy Caravantes)
[Founder's Collection] Dr. LeOre Cobbley: A photobook (Marge Appuglise)
[Literary Criticism] Class conflict in F. Scott Fitzgerald's ‘The Great Gatsby'
     (Greenhaven Press)
[Literary Criticism] Women's issues in Nathaniel Hawthorne's ‘The Scarlet
     Letter' (Greenhaven Press)
[Reference] English-Arabic, Arabic-English dictionary & phrasebook (Mahmoud Gaafar)
[Reference] MLA handbook for writers of research papers (Modern Language Association)

Fiction:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: An authoritative text, contexts and sources,
     criticism (Mark Twain)
Anything but typical (Nora Raleigh Baskin)
Diary of a wimpy kid: Rodrick rules (Jeff Kinney)
The dovekeepers: A novel (Alice Hoffman)
Grendel (John Gardner)
If I stay (Gayle Forman)
The isle of stone (Nicholas Nicastro)
The London Eye mystery (Siobhan Dowd)
Memnoch the devil (Anne Rice)
Messenger (Lois Lowry)
No way to treat a First Lady: A novel (Christopher Buckley)
The shadow of the wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
Someone like you (Sarah Dessen)

Media:
Barnabus & Bella: A new musical comedy--in Latin!
     (Ethan Corn, dir., SAMOHI) (DVD)
Monuments of ancient Rome: pts. 1,2,3 (Educational Video
     Network, prod,) (VHS)
Pacifica: Episodii I-IV (Santa Monica High School Latin Program) (DVD)
Pompeii: Pts. 1-2 (Educational Video Network, prod.) (VHS)
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) (2-DVD)