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NEW BOOKs for February 2012 Non Fiction All the Devils Are Here By Bethany McLean • Call #330.973 M132a Two business journalists look back over the past 20 years to reveal how Wall Street., the mortgage industry and the U.S. government contributed to the financial crisis. Everyone Helps, Everyone Wins By David T. Levinson • Call #361.37 L578e Through personal anecdotes and relatable stories Levinson offers both traditional and off-beat ways to contribute to your community. The Master Switch By Tim Wu • Call #384 W95m A secret history of the industrial wars behind the rise and fall of the 20 th century’s great information empires such as Hollywood, the broadcast networks and ATT New Works • Call #759.21 B315n By Robert Bateman An exquisite collection of new artwork by one of the world’s greatest wildlife painters and committed naturalists. Includes eleven short essays by Bateman and commentary on specific works. The Paper Garden By Molly Peacock • Call #745.54 D313p A fascinating biography of Mary Delany a talented eighteenth century woman who at age 72 began a new art form with her creation of botanically correct cut paper flowers. Vij’s At Home By Meeru Dhalwala • Call #641.5954 D535v The owners of Vij’s and Rangoli restaurants in Vancouver show you how to prepare the recipes they eat at home in this award winning cookbook. Biography A.R. Rahman: The Musical Storm By Kamini Mathai • Call #780.954 R129m The fascinating life story of the film composer, musician and singer from India, best known for his musical Slumdog Millionaire, and his rise from humble beginnings to international celebrity.
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NEW BOOKs for February 2012
Non Fiction All the Devils Are Here By Bethany McLean • Call #330.973 M132a Two business journalists look back over the past 20 years to reveal how Wall Street., the mortgage industry and the U.S. government contributed to the financial crisis.
Everyone Helps, Everyone Wins By David T. Levinson • Call #361.37 L578e Through personal anecdotes and relatable stories Levinson offers both traditional and off-beat ways to contribute to your community.
The Master Switch By Tim Wu • Call #384 W95m A secret history of the industrial wars behind the rise and fall of the 20th century’s great information empires such as Hollywood, the broadcast networks and ATT
New Works • Call #759.21 B315n By Robert Bateman An exquisite collection of new artwork by one of the world’s greatest wildlife painters and committed naturalists. Includes eleven short essays by Bateman and commentary on specific works.
The Paper Garden By Molly Peacock • Call #745.54 D313p A fascinating biography of Mary Delany a talented eighteenth century woman who at age 72 began a new art form with her creation of botanically correct cut paper flowers.
Vij’s At Home By Meeru Dhalwala • Call #641.5954 D535v The owners of Vij’s and Rangoli restaurants in Vancouver show you how to prepare the recipes they eat at home in this award winning cookbook.
Biography A.R. Rahman: The Musical Storm By Kamini Mathai • Call #780.954 R129m The fascinating life story of the film composer, musician and singer from India, best known for his musical Slumdog Millionaire, and his rise from humble beginnings to international celebrity.
The Elephant to Hollywood By Michael Caine • Call #792B C123e In this long-awaited, self-penned, new autobiography, Michael Caine recounts the events of the almost 20 years since his last book.
Piano Lessons By Anna Goldworthy • Call #786.2 G579p The story of a young piano student and the spirit, passion and courage that her world-class Russian piano teacher brought to her musical life.
Songs of Blood and Sword By Fatima Bhutto • Call #954.9 B469s The story of the Bhutto family who grew from feudal landlords to became powerbrokers. It is an epic tale of intrigue, the making of modern Pakistan, and ultimately, of tragedy.
Telling Times By Nadine Gordimer • Call #828 G652t A collection of Gordimer’s non-fiction covering the period of white rule in South Africa through to the overthrow of apartheid.
You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know By Heather Sellers • Call #818 Se48y A memoir of a woman who has lived her whole life with prosopagnosia - the inability to recognize people’s faces.
Fiction
Dead Zero By Stephen Hunter A thriller that plunges deep into the world of high-tech national security, the hearts and minds of those who kill for duty, and the latest mission for veteran sniper Bob Lee Swagger.
Goodnight Tweetheart By Teresa Medeiros Told almost entirely in tweets and DMs, Goodnight Tweetheart is a modern take on a classic tale of love and loss—a Griffin and Sabine for the Twitter generation.
The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog and of his friend Marilyn Monroe Andrew O’Hagan Maf, the dog who was given to Marilyn Monroe by Frank Sinatra, tells the story of living with her for the last two years of her life.
Miral By Rula Jebreal Miral is a novel that focuses on remarkable women whose lives unfold in the turbulent political climate along the borders of Israel and Palestine.
Queen Hereafter By Susan Fraser King King chronicles the life of little-known Margaret of Scotland, a contemporary of the infamous Lady Macbeth, and a woman who would become Scotland's only royal saint.
The Weekend By Bernhard Schlink Reuniting in a secluded country home after decades apart, a group of old friends and lovers exchange clandestine judgments on their divergent paths.
Mysteries The Coast Road By John Brady A student photographing a bay south of Dublin is surprised when a couple’s terrier finds the corpse of a local man known by Dubliners as the “High King”.
A Hundred Thousand Dragons By Dolores Gordon-Smith The murder of an archeologist and Middle East expert leads Jack Haldean back to Arabia where he must face the demons from his past.
A Lonely Death By Charles Todd After surviving the horrors of trench warfare, Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge must discover who is garroting WWI veterans.
Music of the Distant Stars By Alys Clare A medieval story of love and murder in which a young healer finds a dead pregnant woman while on her way to visit her grandmother’s grave.
Negative Image By Vicki Delany When a photographer who has returned to Trafalgar, B.C. to do a piece on mountain tourism shows up dead, fingers point to the woman he lost to another man 25 years.
Threats at Three By Ann Purser When it looks like the body in the canal was killed over a dispute to save the hall, the ever reliable Lois Meade is called in to sort out the culprits before the village hall turns into a funeral hall.
Quick Picks
Damage By John Lescroart
Family Affair By Debbie Macomber
In Too Deep By Jayne Ann Krentz
The Judas Gate By Jack Higgins
Left Neglected By Lisa Genova
The Outlaws By W E B Griffin
Secrets to the Grave By Tami Hoag
Sentry By Robert Crais
Shadowfever By Karen Marie Moning
Strategic Moves By Stuart Woods
Tigerlily’s Orchids By Ruth Rendell
To Have and To Kill By Mary Jane Clark
What the Night Knows By Dean Koontz
NEW FILMS for February 2012
Feature Films Amazon Falls A fading B-movie actress wants her big break but struggles with a sleazy boss at the nightclub where she
works and a man who tempts her down a dark path, Gabrielle Rose, April Telek. 2010
The Art of Getting By When high school slacker and fatalist George Zingavoy meets Sally, a popular but complicated girl, he is finally inspired to take school and life more seriously. Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts. 2011
Blue Hawaii Elvis, playing an ex-G.I. beachcomber in Hawaii, takes a job as a tour guide, which provides him the opportunity to romance several pretty young women. Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman. 1961
The Cable Guy A misguided cable installer whose attempts at male bonding with a fellow bachelor are hazardous to the latter's health. Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick. 1996
Champions Millions of martial artists compete for the chance to demonstrate Wushu to the world at the Olympics. In Chinese with English subtitles.
Dear Santa After a wealthy woman's parents decide to cut her off from her money, she discovers a little girl's letter to Santa Claus and tries to make the girl's Christmas wishes come true. Amy Acker, David Haydn-Jones. 2011
The Debt In 1966 three Mossad agents were assigned to track down a Nazi war criminal; thirty years later surprising revelations come to light about their task. Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington. 2011
For Your Consideration From mockumentary master Christopher Guest: the lives of the cast and crew of a period drama become chaotic when word spreads of possible award winning performances. Catherine O'Hara, Stephen Rannazzisi. 2006
Hanna After being raised by her father to become an assassin, a teenage girl is sent on a mission and must evade intelligence agents that have knowledge about her past. Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana. 2011
Horrible Bosses
After a night of drinking, three friends devise a seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their intolerable employers. Jason Bateman, Charlie Day. 2011
Larry Crowne After being fired from his job because he doesn't have a college education, middle-aged Larry Crowne decides to enroll in a community college. Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts. 2011
Little Ashes Young S
. 2008
Little Women As the Civil War rages on, the four sisters of the March family struggle to grow up without the guiding hand of their loving father. Winona Ryder, Gabriel Byrne. 1994
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Heavily in debt after a crooked card game four friends come up with a plan to steal the cash from their next-door neighbours, a gang of hardcase drug-dealers. Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher. 1998
Midnight in Paris While in Paris on vacation, a writer travels back in time each night at midnight and discovers what he truly wants from life. Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams. 2011
Molly in Springtime In springtime, Molly Gingerbread is crowned Queen of the Flower Festival and chooses Leon as her king. But the scoundrel Bonifacio is scheming to become king himself. After stealing a magic apple, he poisons the town's water--until Molly and her trusty friends find the antidote. Animated. 2009
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian Now at the head of his own company as an inventor, former security guard Larry Daley travels to the Smithsonian to rescue his old exhibit friends from storage, and stop an evil pharaoh from raising an army to take over the world. Ben Stiller, Amy Adams. 2009
Our Idiot Brother When perennially optimistic Ned is dumped by his girlfriend, he moves in with his sisters, driving them crazy with his unfailing commitment to honesty and apparent lack of common sense. Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks. 2011
Pretty in Pink The high school girl from the wrong side of town goes to the prom with the wealthy heart-throb, but their romance is threatened by peer pressure. Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy. 1986
Rise of the Planet of the Apes A genetically-enhanced chimpanzee uses its intelligence to help other apes escape. James Franco, Freida Pinto. 2011
Shopgirl In search of love, happiness and an end to her loneliness, a salesgirl dates two men, an older wealthy man and a young struggling musician. Steve Martin, Claire Danes. 2005
Sk8 Life: (Skate Life: Life’s Short Enjoy the Ride) When a group of skateboarders, who are making a video of a legendary skate spot, discover it is threatened, they try to save it. Kris Foley, Chad Dickson. 2006
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Centuries after two inseparable friends in China exchange messages through a secret language inside the folds of a fan, their descendents discover the fan and the history of their own friendship. In English and Mandarin with English subtitles. 2011
The Verdict A down-and-out lawyer takes on the system against impossible odds. Paul Newman, James Mason. 1982
TV Shows Doctor Who. A Christmas Carol 3rd Rock from the Sun. The Complete Season One
NEW INFO/FOREIGN LANGUAGE DVDS
for February 2012
Info/Documentary Tabloid: An Errol Morris Love Story DVD364.15 T114a
Why We Wear Clothes: The Functions of Fashion DVD391 W622c
Extraordinary Minds: Noam Chomsky DVD410 Ex87n
Darwin’s Lost Paradise DVD576.8 D259p
Exhale: Core Fusion Cardio Pure Intensity DVD613.7 Ex47c
The Myths of Nutrition and Fitness DVD613.7 G621m
Managing Menopause Naturally: What Every Woman Needs DVD618.1 M311m
Dare to Cook. Seasonal Italian Cuisine. Winter DVD641.5945 D246w
Stitch Heaven Salutes Barbara G. Walker DVD746.43 St59b
Mariza: Concerto Em Lisboa DVD782.42162 M339c
Kaguyahime = The Moon Princess DVD792.84 K119m
NEW MUSIC for February 2012
Bluesland by Bill Bourne • CD BLUES BOURNE BI
The Road is Dark by Michael Jerome Browne • CD BLUES BROWNE MI
Where it all begins by Lalah Hathaway • CD BLUES HATHAWAY
The Reflection by Keb’ Mo’ • CD BLUES KEB MO
Twenty Three by Cindy Cruse Ratcliff • CD BLUES RATCLIFF
Low Down and Tore Up by Duke Robillard Band • CD BLUES ROBILLARD
Soul by Seal • CD BLUES SEAL
Soul Music : Volume 1 CD BLUES SOUL MUSI VOL.1
Soul Music : Volume 2 CD BLUES SOUL MUSI VOL.2
Soul Music : Volume 3 CD BLUES SOUL MUSI VOL.3
Lioness : Hidden Treasures by Amy Winehouse • CD BLUES WINEHOUSE
Betty Wright : the Movie by Betty Wright • CD BLUES WRIGHT BE
Wildflower by Lauren Alaina • CD COUNTRY ALAINA LA
Streets With No Lights by Dustin Bentall • CD COUNTRY BENTALL D
Kings and Queens by Blackie and the Rodeo Kings • CD COUNTRY BLACKIE A
Four the Record by Miranda Lambert • CD COUNTRY LAMBERT M
Clear as Day by Scotty McCreery • CD COUNTRY MCCREERY
Taurey Butler by Taurey Butler • CD JAZZ BUTLER TA
Catch a Corner by Cinque • CD JAZZ CINQUE
Live in Baden, Switzerland by Oliver Jones • CD JAZZ JONES OLI
Changing Seasons by Phil Dwyer Orchestra • CD JAZZ PHIL DWYE
Man of the World by ALO • CD ROCK ALO
Alter Ego by Andre 3000 • CD ROCK ANDRE 300
Humbug by Arctic Monkeys • CD ROCK ARCTIC MO
All of You by Colbie Caillat • CD ROCK CAILLAT C
Showroom of Compassion by Cake • CD ROCK CAKE
Break the Spell by Daughtry • CD ROCK DAUGHTRY
Ramble at the Ryman by Levon Helm • CD ROCK HELM LEVO
MGMT by MGMT • CD ROCK MGMT
Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1 by George Michael • CD ROCK MICHAEL G
The Awakening by James Morrison • CD ROCK MORRISON
Neverending White Lights Act III : Love Will Ruin by Neverending White Lights • CD ROCK NEVERENDI
Bleach by Nirvana • CD ROCK NIRVANA
Dedicated to Chaos by Queensrÿche • CD ROCK QUEENSRYC
The Double Cross by Sloan • CD ROCK SLOAN
SuperHeavy by SuperHeavy • CD ROCK SUPERHEAV
The Help : Music from the Motion Picture CD SHOWS HELP
Ocean’s Kingdom by Paul McCartney • CD781.556 M127o
Live at the Metropolitan Opera by Anna Netrebko • CD782.1 N384r
Aftermath by Hillsong United • CD782.254 H559a
The Secret by Vieux Farka Toure • CD782.42163 T645s
Night & Day by Keshia Chante • CD782.42164 C364n
The Best of Sam Cooke by Sam Cooke • CD782.42164 C776b
Do it in the AM by Frankmusik • CD782.42164 F854d
Fastlife by Joe Jonas • CD782.42164 J694f
The Four Elements by Nigel Kennedy • CD782.42164 K384f
Siberia by Lights • CD782.42164 L626s
Ritual Union by Little Dragon • CD782.42164 L722r
Play by Roxanne Potvin • CD782.42164 P859p
Under the Soles of my Shoes by Jeffery Straker • CD782.42164 St81u
Cole World : the Sideline Story by J. Cole • CD782.421649 C675c
Not 4 Sale by Kardinal Offishall • CD782.421649 Of2n
Keyboard Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach • CD784.262 B122k
Broken Hearts & Madmen by Patricia O’Callaghan • CD784.42 O'C1b
The Prussian Quartets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • CD785.7194 M877qp
Russian Fantasy : Music for 2 Pianos by Vladimir Ashkenazy • CD786.2 As47r
International guitar Night VI CD787.87 In8L
