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Download Friends Winter 2012 Newsletter and read about John Bogert, the speaker for our upcoming (October 22) annual dinner, take a book quiz, meet our new senior librarian, find information on upcoming Friends events, and much more. For questions about our newsletter email us at: newsletter@friendsspl.org.

New Books for January 2012

The following were purchased by Friends of San Pedro Library for your enjoyment. Click on a title to read a book review. Some books may have an podcast or Wikipedia entry instead of a review. We've tried to include as many different sources, but the opinions expresses by these sources do not reflect the opinions of Friends of San Pedro Library or LAPL. For authors, go to the LAPL database Biography Resource Center (Gale). There will be a new list of books at the beginning of each month. It takes a few weeks for the library to process the books before they are placed on the Friends of San Pedro Library Book Shelf next to the circulation desk.

Title	Author(s)
Moneyball	Michael Lewis
Trick of Light	Louise Penny
Last Man in Tower	Aravind Adiga
Irma Voth	Miriam Toews
Missing Martyrs	Charles Kurzman
1491	Charles C. Mann
Dark Predator	Christine Feehan
A Visit from the Goon Squad	Jennifer Egan
Oriental Wife	Evelyn Toynton
Crossbones	Nurrudin Farah
Sarah's Key	Tatiana de Rosnay
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson	Joseph J. Ellis
Blue Nights	Joan Didion
End of Normal	Stephanie Madoff Mack
No Higher Honor	Condoleezza Rice

The following much-loved classics were replaced by Friends per request from the Senior Librarian.

Five Little Pigs	Agatha Christie
1984	George Orwell
2001: A Space Odyssey	Arthur C. Clark
Streetcar Named Desire	Tennessee Williams
Absalom, Absalom	William Faulkner
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain
All Quiet on the Western Front	Eric Maria Remarque
Always Running	Luis Rodriguez
American Born Chinese	Gene Luen Yang
An American Tragedy	Theodore Dreiser
American	Henry James
Arabian Nights	Richard Burton
Around the World in 80 Days	Jules Verne
As I Lay Dying	William Faulkner
As You Like It	William Shakespeare
Autobiography of Malcom X	Alex Haley
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman	Ernest Jay Gaines
Awakening	Kate Chopin
Babbit	Sinclair Lewis
Beloved	Toni Morrison
Best Short Stories Dostoevsky	Fydor Dostoevsky
Bluest Eye	Toni Morrison
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley
Captains Courageous	Rudyard Kipling
Catch 22	Joseph Heller
Catcher on the Rye	J. D. Salinger
Chosen	Chaim Potok
Clan of the Cave Bear	Jean M. Auel
Claudius the God	Robert Graves
Color Purple	Alice Walker
Complete Poetry of Edgar Alan Poe	Edgar Allan Poe
Count of Monti Cristo	Alexandre Dumas
Crucible	Arthur Miller
Cyrano de Bergerac	Edmond Rostand
David Copperfield	Charles Dickens
Devils	Fydor Dostoevsky
Divine Comedy	Dante Alighieri
Fellowship of the Ring	J.R.R. Tolkien
Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lesson Before Dying	Ernest J. Gaines
Kidnapped	Louis Stevenson
Odyssey	Homer

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