Lipscomb University

New Books 2009-2010

Non-fiction

Beahm, George  Twilight Tours: the Illustrated Guide to the REAL Forks

Beckwith, Frances   Defending Life: a Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice

Bennett, Tammy  101 Makeover Minutes

Bennett, Tammy  Looking Good From the Inside Out: Fashion

Bert, Norman  The Scenebook for Actors: Great Monologs and Dialogs from Contemporary and Classical Theatre

Best, Nicholas  The Greatest Day in History: How, on the Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month, the First World War Finally Came to an End

Betts, R. Dwayne   A Question of Freedom: a Memoir of Learning, Survival and Coming of Age in Prison

Bloomfield, Shelley  The Everything Guide to Edgar Allan Poe: the Life, Times, and Work of a Tormented Genius

Botting, Douglas  The Second Front

Burrough, Bryan   Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34

Chan, Francis  Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

Chan, Francis  Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit

Clark, Lloyd  Crossing the Rhine: Breaking into Nazi Germany, 1944 and 1945—the Greatest Airborne Battles in History

Coleman, Penny  Girls: a History of Growing Up Female in America

Colman, Penny  Thanksgiving: the True Story

Craddock, David   Renewable Energy Made Easy: Free Energy from Solar Wind, Hydropower, and Other Alternative Energy Sources

Cucullu, Gordon   Inside Gitmo: the True Story Behind the Myths of Guantanamo Bay

Danby, Jeff  The Day of the Panzer: a Story of American Heroism and Sacrifice in Southern France

Ehrman, Bart  Lost Christianities: the Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew

Ehrman, Bart  Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It Into the New Testament

Einstein, Albert  The Evolution of Physics from Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta

Elliot, Elisabeth  Taking Flight: Wisdom for Your Journey

Fink, Sam  The Book of Exodus

Gabriel, Brigette   They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It

Gorn, Elliott   Dillinger’s Wild Ride: the Year That Made America’s Public Enemy Number One

Guibert, Emmanuel   Alan’s War: the Memories of G.I. Alan Cope

Halbertson, David  Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made

Hall, Ron   Same Kind of Different as Me

Harris, Alex & Brett   Do Hard Things: a Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectaations

Helvarg, David   Rescue Warriors: the US Coast Guard, America’s Forgotten

Hooks, Ed  The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook: an Actor’s Guide to Over 1,000 Scenes and Monologues from More than 300 Contemporary Plays

Howe, Daniel   What God Hath Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848

Johnson, Timothy D.   A Gallant Little Army: the Mexico City Campaign

Kendrick, Stephen  The Love Dare

Klaus, Vaclav   Blue Planet in Green Shackles: What is Endangered: Climate or Freedom?

Korda, Michael   Ulysses S. Grant: the Unlikely Hero

Kurzem, Mark   The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of my Jewish Father’s Nazi Childhood

Manning, Peyton  Manning

McDonough, James Lee  The Wars of Myron King: a B-17 Pilot Faces World War II and U.S.-Soviet Intrigue

McKissack, Patricia  Goin’ Someplace Special

Mostert, Noel  The Line Upon a Wind: the Great War at Sea, 1793-1815

Mowat, Farley  Never Cry Wolf

Murphy, Jim   The Boys War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War

Nadell, Judith  The Longman Writer: Rhetoric and Reader

Newton, Michael   Enemy of the State: the Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein

Ridley, Matt  Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code

Satrapi, Marjane  Persepolis: the Story of a Childhood

Schonberg, Harold  The Great Pianists from Mozart to the Present

Shields, Charles  I am Scout: the Biography of Harper Lee

Sleeth, Emma   It’s Easy Being Green: One Student’s Guide to Serving God and Saving the Planet

Smithson, Ryan   Ghosts of War (the True Story of a 19 Year Old GI)

Steinberg, Peter  Sylvia Plath

Stowe, Harriet Beecher  The Annotated Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Swanson, James   Chasing Lincoln’s Killer

The Green Bible

Warner Bros. Presents: My Fair Lady

Weiss, Mindy  The Wedding Book: the Big Book for Your Big Day

Wildmore, Donald   Speechless: Silencing the Christians

Wolf, Allan  Immersed in Verse: an Informative, Slightly Irreverent and Totally Tremendous Guide to Living the Poet’s Life

Yate, Martin  Knock ‘em Dead, 2009: the Ultimate Job Search Guide

Yu, Chun  Little Green

 

Fiction

Adams, Stacy  Nothing But the Right Thing

Adams, Stacy  Watercolored Pearls

Bauer, Joan  Thwonk

Boyne, John   The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Bradley, Alan  The Sweetness of the Bottom of the Pie

Brown, Dan  Angels and Demons

Brown, Dan  The Lost Symbol

Carlson, Melody  Just Another Girl

Collins, Suzanne  Catching Fire

Collins, Suzanne  The Hunger Games

Cooney, Caroline  Family Reunion

Craven, Margaret  I Heard the Owl Call My Name

Dekker, Ted  Bone Man’s Daughter

Dekker, Ted  Burn

Dekker, Ted  Elyon

Dekker, Ted  Kiss

Dekker, Ted  Lunatic

Dessen, Sarah  Along for the Ride

Gilman, David  The Devil’s Breath

Haddix, Margaret  Claim to Fame

Hale, Shannon  Book of a Thousand Days

Hale, Shannon  The Actor and the Housewife

Hall, Barbara  The Noah Confessions

Hamilton, Tim  Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451: the Authorized Adaptation

Hannon, Irene  Against All Odds

Hoffman, Alice  Incantation

Hopkins, Cathy  Mates, Dates and Sleepover Secrets

Hopkins, Cathy  Mates, Dates, and Cosmic Kisses

Hunt, Angela  The Face

Hunt, Angela  The Novelist

Hunt, Angela  The Truth Teller

Ibbotson, Eva  A Countess Below Stairs

Ibbotson, Eva  The Morning Gift

Kantor, Melissa  Invisible I

Kidd, Ronald  Monkey Town

Kidd, Ronald  On Beale Street

Kingsbury, Karen  Shades of Blue

Kingsbury, Karen  Take One

Kingsbury, Karen  Take Two

Klass, David  Timelock

Klavan, Andrew  The Last Thing I Remember

Korman, Gordon  Pop

Lahiri, Jhumpa  Interpreter of Maladies

Lawson, Mary  Crow Lake

Liparulo, Robert  House of Dark Shadows

Lowry, Lois  The Silent Boy

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia  One Hundred Years of Solitude

Mazer, Harry  Heroes Don’t Run

McCormick, Patricia  Purple Heart

McKinley, Robin  Chalice

Meyer, Stephenie  The Host

Moore, John  The Breaking of Ezra Riley

Morton, Kate  The Forgotten Garden

Morton, Kate  The House at Riverton

Musser, Elizabeth  The Swan House

Na, An  The Fold

Oke, Janette  Love Finds a Home

Oke, Janette  Love Takes Wing

Patterson, James  Daniel X: Watch the Skies

Patterson, James  Max: a Maximum Ride Novel

Pattou, Edith  East

Pierce, Tamora  Beka Cooper

Pierce, Tamora  First Test

Pierce, Tamora  Lady Knight

Pierce, Tamora  Page

Pierce, Tamora  Squire

Platt, Kim  A Mystery for Thoreau

Poe, Edgar Allan  The Murders in the Rue Morgue: the Dupin Tales

Robertson, Paul  According to Their Deeds

Robinson, Marilynne  Gilead

Ryan, Carrie  The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Shaara, Jeff  The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II

Shaffer, Mary Ann   The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Shusterman, Neal  Dread Locks

Shusterman, Neal  Full Tilt

Smith, Andrew  Ghost Medicine

Smith, Roland  IQ (Book One: Independence Hall)

Smith, Roland  Peak

Tashjean, Janet  The Gospel According to Larry

Tey, Josephine  The Daughter of Time

Tolkien, J. R. R.  The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún

Trigiani, Adriana  Viola in Reel Life

Welty, Eudora  The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

Wilson, Eric  Fireproof

Winspear, Jacqueline  Among the Mad

 

Reference

All Music Guide to Rock: the Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul

Best 371 Colleges (Princeton Review)

Cook, Mariana  Mathematicians: an Outer View of the Inner World

Phillips, Charles  The Complete Illustrated History of the Aztec and Maya: the Definitive Chronicle of the Ancient Peoples of Central America and Mexico—Including the Aztec, Maya, Olmec, Mixtec, Taltec and Zapotec

The Sports Book: the Games, the Rules, the Tactics, the Techniques

Westrup, J.A.  The New College Encyclopedia of Music

 

Professional

Lesesne, Teri  Naked Reading: Uncovering What Tweens Need to Become Lifelong Readers

Levine, Mel  A Mind at a Time

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th ed.

Rivers, Margriet  The Power of Poems: Teaching the Joy of Writing Poetry

Williams, Pat  Read For Your Life: 11 Ways to Transform Your Life with Books

 

Audio

Christie, Agatha  Hallowe’en Party

Griffith, Andy  The Wit and Wisdom of Andy Griffith

Karon, Jan  At Home in Mitford

Rice, Scott  It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: the Best (?) from the Bulwer-Lytton Contest: 101 Funniest Openings from the Worst Novels Ever Written

Young, William  The Shack