Library News

NEW ADDITION - AUDIO BOOKS on CD

The library now has a small, but growing collection of current bestsellers available on CD. 

 

NEW BOOKS:

May 20

Katharine and R.J.Reynolds: Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South
The Duke Forest at 75: A Resource for All Seasons

Who Took My Pen...Again?: Secrets from Dynamic Executive Assistants

Group Dynamics and Team Interventions: Understanding and Improving Team Performance
A Sociology of Family Life

Religion: A Clinical Guide for Nurses
End-of-Life Care: A Practical Guide

May 6

The Community College Advantage: Your Guide to a Low-Cost, High-Reward College Experience
Reading with Babies, Toddlers & Twos

Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century
Patent Searching Made Easy
Excel Outside the BoxLegal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business

April 29

Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter From Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation

Nice Companies Finish First: Why Cutthroat Management is Over - and Collaboration is In

The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success

April 19

Hidden History of the Outer Banks
Ticked: A Medical Miracle, a Friendship, and the Weird World of Tourette Syndrome

The U. S. Constitution and Constitutional Law
The Science of Nutrition
How Many Ways Can You Make Five?: A Parent's Guide to Exploring Math With Children's Books

Ammo & Ballistics 5: For Hunters, Shooters, and Collectors
Small Time Operator: How to Start Your Own Business, Keep Your Books, Pay Your Taxes, and Stay Out of Trouble

The Mountains-to-Sea Trail Across North Carolina
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Modern Manners
Dictionary of Developmental Disabilities Terminology

The Homegrown Preschooler: Teaching Your Kids in the Places They Live
Ants in Their Pants: Teaching Children Who Must Move to Learn
The Handbook of High-Risk Challenging Behaviors in People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Cowboys Count, Monkeys Measure and Princesses Problem Solve: Building Early Math Skills Through Storybooks

How to Do Everything with Windows 8
The Concealed Handgun Manual: How to Choose, Carry, and Shoot a Gun in Self Defense

April 8

The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey
Successful Time Management In a Week

Duct Tape Parenting: A Less is More Approach to Raising Respectful, Responsible, and Resilient Kids
Who Helps the Helper?: Proven Stress Management Techniques for Law Enforcement Officers

Confessions of a Community College Administrator
Community College Success: How to Finish with Friends, Scholarships, Internships, and the Career of Your Dreams

Creating Literacy-Rich Preschools and Kindergartens
They Don't Like Me: Lessons on Bullying and Teasing from a Preschool Classroom
Classroom Bullying Prevention: Children's Books, Lesson Plans, and Activities

No Ducks in the Attic & Other Basics of HVAC Installation
The Nightmare Dictionary: Falling Elevators, Lost Teeth, Slithering Snakes, and Everything Else that Keeps You Up at Night
Office 2013 for Dummies

April 5

Introduction to Forestry and Natural Resources
Field Guide to the Piedmont

The Founders' Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms
Promise Unfulfilled: Juvenile Justice in America

Your Baby's Best Shot: Why Vaccines are Safe and Save Lives
Party Planning for Children and Teens on the Autism Spectrum: How to Avoid Meltdowns and Have Fun
A Parent's Guide to Children's Medicines

Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Self Leadership
Community College Student Success: From Boardrooms to Classrooms

Empty Mills: The Fight Against Imports and the Decline of the U.S. Textile Industry
Administrative Assistant's and Secretary's Handbook

A Simple Guide to the Gospels: John
A Simple Guide to the Gospels: Matthew
A Simple Guide to the Gospels: Luke
A Simple Guide to the Gospels: Mark

April 3

Color Atlas of Common Oral Diseases
Woelfel's Dental Anatomy

From Handprints to Hypotheses: Using the Project Approach with Toddlers and Twos
Putting on the Brakes: Activity Book for Kids with ADD or ADHD
The 5 Love Languages of Children

The 7 Minute Solution: Time Strategies to Prioritize, Organize & Simplify Your Life at Work & at Home
8 Keys to Stress Management

Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married
The Darkest Child: A Novel

March 19

The Great Clay Adventure: Creative Handbuilding Projects for Young Artists
Hand Building
Wheel Throwing
Masters: Earthenware
The Best of 500 Ceramics: Celebrating a Decade in Clay
500 Vases: Contemporary Explorations of a Timeless Form
500 Prints on Clay
Complete Ceramics: Easy Techniques and over 20 Great Projects
Mirrors of Clay: Relfections of Ancient Andean Life in Ceramics from the Sam Olden Collection

The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia
Nutrition for Dummies
American Dietetic Association Complete Food & Nutrition Guide

Community Forestry: Local Values, Conflict and Forest Governance
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
Forest Sustainability: The History, the Challenge, the Promise
American Forests: A History of Resiliency and Recovery
Wood for Bioenergy: Forests as a Resource for Biomass and Biofuels
America's Forested Wetlands: From Wasteland to Valued Resource

The Innovative Admin: Unleash the Power of Innovation in Your Administrative Career
Administrative Excellence: Revolutionizing Our Value in the Workplace
The New Office Professional's Handbook
The Definitive Personal Assistant & Secretarial Handbook: A Best Practice Guide for All Secretaries, PAs, Office Managers and Executive Assistants
Mean Girls at Work: How to Stay Professional when Things Get Personal

10 Things Employers Want You to Learn in College
Emotional Well-being for Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
How to Teach Students Who Don't Look Like You: Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies
Differentiating Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities
Being Visual: Raising a Generation of Innovative Thinkers
Make Your Brain Smarter: Increase Your Brain's Creativity, Energy, and Focus
Bully: An Action Plan for Teachers, Parents, and Communities to Combat the Bullying Crisis

You Need Help : A Step-by-Step Plan to Convince a Loved One to Get Counseling
Sexuality and Addiction: Making Connection, Enhancing Recovery
Beyond Human Nature: How Culture and Experience Shape the Human Mind
Military Mental Health Care
The Nature-Nurture Debates: Bridging the Gap
The Practice of Collaborative Counseling & Psychotherapy: Developing Skills in Culturally Mindful Helping
Culturally Alert Counseling
Criminal Conduct & Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents
Connecting Across Cultures: The Helper's Toolkit

The Violinist's Thumb: An Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, As Written by Our Genetic Code
Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings
Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
The Woman with a Worm in Her Head & Other True Stories of Infectious Disease
The Demon in the Freezer
Barron's E-Z Microbiology
Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
Radiation: What It Is, What You Need to Know
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases

The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America
Red Letter Revolution: What if Jesus Really Meant What He Said?
Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat
The Click Moment: Seizing Opportunity in an Unpredictable World
Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills ofr an Uncertain World
Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled off the Most Audacious Rescue in History

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for IdentityUnderstanding Alzheimer's
Dr. Ruth's Guide for the Alzheimer's CaregiverHawthorne's Habitations: A Literary Life

Langston Hughes and American Lynching Culture
The Art of Robert Frost
The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Live Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece

The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds
iDisorder: Understanding Our Obsession with Technology and Overcoming Its Hold On Us
How to Find Out Anything: From Extreme Google Searches to Scouring Government Documents, a Guide to Uncovering Anything About Everyone and Everything

Life Without Parole: America's New Death Penalty?
Dimension of Crime as a Social Problem
Manifest Injustice: The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His Freedom
The Making of Lee Boys Malvo: The D.C. Sniper
The Murder Mystique: Female Killers and Popular Culture
Guilty By Popular Demand: A True Story of Small-Town Injustice

Novels:The Bubble Gum Thief
The Bartender's Tale

Children's Books:Car Safety
Back-to-School Safety
Fire Safety
Bicycle Safety
Stranger Safety
Internet Safety
Abigail Adams: First Lady of the American Revolution
No Dogs Allowed
And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon
Full Moon SoupIn the Trees, Honey Bees
Chicky Chicky Chook Chook
Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic
Pop!: The Invention of Bubble Gum
E-mergency!
Red Sings from Treetops: A Year In Colors
Jack and the Beanstalk
A Little Bitty Man and Other Poems for the Very Young
Bring on the Birds
The Bees CountDolores Huerta: A Hero to Migrant Workers
Animal Folk Tales of America
Tweak Tweak
The Big Bad Wolf Goes on Vacation
Bag in the Wind
Aesop's Fables
The Recess Queen
The Little Red Pen

February 15

Free Marketing: 101 Low and No-Cost Ways to Grow Your Business Online and Off
Likeable Social Media: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible Brand, and Be Generally Amazing on Facebook

Small Business for Dummies
Start Your Own Gift Basket Business and More
Start Your Own Fashion Accessories Business
How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business
Start & Run a Catering Business
Start Your Own Food Truck Business
Running a Food Truck for Dummies

Bookkeepers' Boot Camp
Just the Basics: Simple Help for Starting a Business and Creating a Good Bookkeeping System
Small Business Accounting Simplified

Three Days Dead: A Donald Youngblood Mystery

February 13

Branding Basics for Small Business
Branding for Dummies
Webcentric Local Business Marketing: How to Market Your Business on the Web and Beyond
Start and Run a Successful Beauty Salon
Start Your Own Hair Salon and Day Spa

February 12

100% Online Student Success
Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies
The Online Student's User Manual

Captain of Death: The Story of Tuberculosis

February 4

Masters of True Crime: Chilling Stories of Murder and the Macabre
Second That Emotion: How Decisions, Trends, & Movements are Shaped
Change-Friendly Leadership: How to Transform Good Intentions into Great Performance
Flames in Our Forest: Disaster or Renewal?

January 17

The "Backwards" Research Guide: Using Your Life for Reflection, Connection, and Inspiration
Teaching Information Literacy Online
Advanced Web-Based Training Strategies: Unlocking Instructionally Sound Online Learning

Raku: Investigations Into Fire
The Potter's Complete Studio Handbook

The Science of Navigation: From Dead Reckoning to GPS
Fed Up with Frenzy" Slow Parenting in a Fast-Moving World
Global Business Etiquette: A Guide to International Communication and Customs
The Trivia Lover's Guide to World: Geography for the Lost and Found
Picture Book Parties!

In Doubt: The Psychology of the Criminal Justice Process
Understanding Why Addicts Are Not All Alike: Recognizing the Types and How Their Differences Affect Intervention and Treatment

Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler & Saved D-Day
Three Testaments: Torah, Gospel, and Quran

Managing Fire in the Urban Wildland Interface
Tending Fire: Coping with America's Wildland Fires
Living with Fire: Fire Ecology and Policy for the Twenty-First Century
The Wild Fire Reader: A Century of Failed Forest Policy
Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire

Reference Sets:
Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreaming (2 vol.)
Addictions & Substance Abuse (2 vol.)
The Twenties in America (3 vol.)

 

January 2

EarthFlight: Breathtaking Photographs from a Bird's-Eye View of the World
Universal Methods of Design: 100 Ways to Research Complex Problems, Develop Innovative Ideas, and Design Effective Solutions

Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury
Leading So People Will Follow
Insider's Guide to Community College Administration

America's Fires: Management on Wildlands and Forests
Elder Rage - or - Take My Father...Please! : How to Survive Caring for Aging Parents

Three Deuces Down: A Donald Youngblood Mystery

December 13

The Year's Best Science Fiction
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Business Writing and Communication

Writing the South Through the Self: Explorations in Southern Autobiography
Lamb in His Bosom
In With the Devil: A Fallen Hero, A Serial Killer, and A Dangerous Bargain for Redemption

Killer Year: Stories to Die for...From the Hottest New Crime Writers

November 19

The World Encyclopedia of Calligraphy: The Ultimate Compendium on the Art of Fine Writing
How to Raise Your Adult Children: Real-Life Advice for When Your Kids Don't Want to Grow Up
Pot, Inc.: Inside Medical Marijuana, America's Most Outlaw Industry

Teaching Research Processes: The Faculty Role in the Development of Skilled Student Researchers
Blue Ridge Commons: Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North Carolina
Conserving Southern Longleaf

The Complete Photo Guide to Cake Decorating

November 9

Is Killing Wrong?: A Study in Pure Sociology
Prodigal Father, Pagan Son: Growing Up Inside the Dangerous World of the Pagans Motorcycle Club
The Takedown: A Suburban Mom, A Coal Miner's Son, and the Unlikely Demise of Colombia's Brutal Norte Valle Cartel
American Anthrax: Fear. Crime, and the Investigation of the Nation's Deadliest Bioterror Attack

Geothermal HVAC: Green Heating and Cooling
HVAC Design Sourcebook
Electricity and Electronics for HVAC
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration

Electronic Circuits for the Evil Genius
Electricity Experiments You Can Do At Home
Electrician's Calculations Manual
Electrical Safety Handbook

Leadership by Example: The Ten Key Principles of All Great Leaders
The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective
The Three Commitments of Leadership: How Clarity, Stability, and Rhythm Create Great Leaders
360 Degrees of Influence: Get Everyone to Follow Your Lead on Your Way to the Top
The Mountain Within: Leadership Lessons and Inspiration for Your Climb to the Top
The Twelve Absolutes of Leadership
Measuring Leadership Development: Quantify Your Program's Impact and ROI on Organizational Performance
Breaking Away: How Great Leaders Create Innovation That Drives Sustainable Growth - and Why Others Fail
The Well-Balanced Leader

Perfect Phrases for Leadership Development
Perfect Phrases for Customer Service
Anatomy Essentials for Dummies
The Secrets of College Success
Easy Writing Skills Step-by-Step

Fearless Resumes
Boost Your Interview IQ
Conversation Transformation: Recognize and Overcome the 6 Most Destructive Communication Patterns
From Idea to Success: The Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network Guide for Start-ups
Start Your Own Child-Care Service
How to Find a Job on LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Google+

The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You
Kindle Fire Quick Steps
iPad 2 Quick Steps
62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer (and other Discarded Electronics)
Wireless Network Security: A Beginner's Guide

GED Cram Plan
Pre-GED: Everything You Need to Start Preparing for the GED

Ducktown Smoke: The Fight Over One of the South's Greatest Environmental Disasters
The Battle for North Carolina's Coast: Evolutionary History, Present Crisis, & Vision for the Future
City Trees: ID Guide to Urban & Suburban Species
Aliens in the Backyard: Plant and Animal Imports into America

Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains & Piedmont
Smithsonian Nature Guide: Trees
The Survival Handbook: Essential Skills for Outdoor Adventure
Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region: NC, SC, GA
The Wolf in the Parlor: The Eternal Connection Between Humans and Dogs
Birds of North America

And Then Life Happens: A Memoir
The Apple Experience: Secrets to Building Insanely Great Customer Loyalty
Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone
Making an Exit: From the Magnificent to the Macabre - How We Dignify the Dead

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
     Volume 18 Media
     Volume 19 Violence

Crossing the Creek: The Literary Friendship of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World
When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays
The Story of English in 100 words

Tar Heel Terrors: More North Carolina Ghosts and Legends
Collected Ghost Stories
The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
Chemistry and Other Stories
Long Story Short: Flash Fiction by Sixty-Five of North Carolina's Finest Writers
The Hills Remember: The Complete Short Stories of James Still
The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Novels:
Murder at the Jumpoff
Becoming Jane Eyre
Goliath
The Right-Hand Shore
Sailor
Silver Sparrow
Murder on the Outer Banks
Wadmalaw: A Ghost Story
The Weird Sisters
The Ballad of Tom Dooley

November 6

Advancing Oral Health in America
The Encyclopedia of Kidney Diseases and Disorders
The Nursing Profession: Development, Challenges, and Opportunities
Bacteria: The Benign, the Bad, and the Beautiful

The Moment: Wild, Poignant, Life-Changing Stories from 125 Writers and Artists
Where Did the Jobs Go and How Do We Get Them Back? : Your Guided Tour to America's Employment Crisis
I Got My Dream Job and So Can You: 7 Steps to Creating Your Ideal Career After College

Understanding Abortion: From Mixed Feelings to Rational Thought
Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business

The Resignation of Eve: What if Adam's Rib is no Longer Willing to be the Church's Backbone?
The Religious Beliefs of America's Founders: Reason, Revelation, and Revolution
To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker
Lincoln, Inc. Selling the Sixteenth President in Contemporary America

The Naturescaping Workbook: A Step-by-Step Guide for Briniging Nature to Your Backyard
Cakelove: How to Bake Cakes from Scratch
Southern Cakes: Sweet and Irresistible Recipes for Everyday Celebrations

Tyranny of the Textbook: An Insider Exposes How Educational Materials Undermine Reforms
Sexual Harassment and Bullying: A Guide to Keeping Kids Safe and Holding Schools Accountable
Art Lab for Kids: 52 Creative Adventures in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Paper, and  Mixed Media
Auditory Communication for Deaf Children
Guide to Recommended Children's Books and Media for Use with Every Elementary Subject

Performance Management and Appraisal: A How-to-do-It Manual for Librarians
Instructional Design for Librarians and Information Professionals
Active Learning Techniques for Librarians: Practical Examples
Combating Student Plagiarism: An Academic Librarian's Guide
Stop Plagiarism: A Guide to Understand and Prevention

The Ceramics Bible: The Complete Guide to Materials and Techniques
Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark & Mark Del Vecchio Collection

Treating Addiction: A Guide for Professionals
Women and Mental Disorders
     Volume 1: Understanding Women's Unique Life Experiences
     Volume 2: Roots in Abuse, Crime, and Sexual Victimization
     Volume 3: Women and Common Mental Disorders
     Volume 4: Treatments and Research

A Troubled Marriage: Domestic Violence and the Legal System
Justice for Kids: Keeping Kids Out of the Juvenile Justice System

Toward a Unified Criminology: Integrating Assumptions about Crime, People, and Society
Cop Watch: Spectators, Social Media, and Police Reform
In This Timeless Time: Living & Dying on Death Row in America

Essential Supreme Court Decisions: Summaries of Leading Cases in U.S. Constitutional Law
Gay and Lesbian Cops: Diversity and Effective Policing

The U.S. Justice System: An Encyclopedia (3 volumes)
Landmark Supreme Court Cases: The Mist Influential Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States ( 3 volumes)
The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encyclopedia (5 volumes)

October 23

Copyright Law for Librarians and Educators
Quick Hits for Teaching with Technology: Successful Strategies by Award-Winning Teachers
From Text to Txting: New Media in the Classroom
Children's Picturebooks: The Art of Visual Storytelling
An Integrated Play-based Curriculum for Young Children
Everyday Activities to Help Your Young Child with Autism Live Life to the Full

Owls of the World: A Photographic Guide
Turtles Tortoises and Terrapins:  A Natural History

Prairie Fire: A Great Plains History
The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature
Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge:  Sustaining Communities, Ecosystems and Biocultural Diversity
A Sanctuary of Trees: Beechnuts, Birdsongs, Baseball Bats, and Benedictions

Landscaping for Privacy: Innovative Ways to Turn Your Outdoor Space into a Peaceful Retreat
Stand Up and Garden: The No-digging, No-tilling, No-stooping Approach to Growing Vegetables and Herbs
Beautiful No-mow Yards: 50 Amazing Lawn Alternatives

100 Fondant Animal Cake Toppers
The Homebuilt Winery
Top 100 Step-by-step Napkin Folds
Salads: Beyond the Bowl
500 Best Quinoa Recipes
250 Best Beans, Lentils & Tofu Recipes

The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating-Heart Cadavers - How Medicine is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death

Surviving Sexual Violence: A Guide to Recovery and Empowerment
When Your Parent Moves In: Every Adult Child's Guide to Living with and Aging Parent
Grow Your Handmade Business: How the Envision, Develop, and Sustain a Successful Creative Business

Don't Fear the Spreadsheet: A Beginner's Guide to Overcoming Excel's Frustrations
Anatomy of Yoga

Silent Witness: How Forensic Anthropology is Used to Solve the World's Toughest Crimes
American Police: A History, 1945-2012
Profiling: The Psychology of Catching Killers
Hidden Evidence: 50 True Crimes and How Forensic Science Helped Solve Them

Mark Twain and the Colonel: Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Arrival of a New Century
Stay Awake: Stories
Other People We Married: Stories

Novels:
The Expats
All I Did Was Shoot My Man
Catch Me
Three Deadly Drops
Three Devils Dancing

 

October 16

The Acid Reflux Solution: A Cookbook and Lifestyle Guide for Healing Heartburn Naturally
The Joy of Gluten-Free, Sugar-Free Baking
The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food From My Frontier
Vintage Cakes: Timeless Recipes for Cupcakes, Flips, Rolls, Layer, Angel, Bundt, Chiffon, and Icebox Cakes for Today's Sweet Tooth

How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America
Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas
The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith
Escape from Camp 14: On Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

Glock: The Rise of America's Gun
The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards
The Woman Who Wasn't There:  The True Story of an Incredible Deception

The 8-minute Organizer: Easy Solutions to Simplify Your Life in Your Spare Time
You Are What You Wear: What Your Clothes Reveal About You
The Whole Life Prostate Book
Glass: A Short History

Novels:
The Cop with the Pink Pisotl
The 500
Unwanted