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New Books for April 2013

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. Since reviews are written at the time of their book publication, some reviews may be a few years old. 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)
A Child Called "It"	Dave Pelzer
48 Laws of Power	Robert Greene, Joost Elffers
As a Man Thinketh	James Allen
Boundaries	Henry Cloud, John Townsend
Piercing the Darkness	Frank Peretti
The Oath	Frank Peretti
Animal Farm (Wikipedia)	George Orwell
The Notebook	Nicholas Sparks
Tenth of December	George Saunders
Worse Hard Times	Timothy Egan
Antidote: Happiness For People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking	Oliver Burkeman
A Land More Kinder Than Home	Wiley CAsh
The Dinner (NPR podcast)	Herman Koch
Bend Not Break
Light Between Ocean	H. L. Stedman
Marmee and Louisa	Eve LaPlante
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks	Jeanne Theoharis
House at Tyneford	Natasha Solomons
Samuel Adams: A Life	Ira Stoll
Going Clear	Lawrence Wright
Standing in Another Man's Grave	Ian Rankin
Last Runaway	Tracy Chevalier
The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable	James Owen Weatherall
Daddy Love	Joyce Carol Oates
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity	Katherine Boo
Kind of Kin	Rilla Askew
Signora Da Vinci	Robin Maxwell
The Art Forger	B. A. Shapiro
Middle C	William H. Gass
The New Mind of the South	Tracy Thompson
The Wool Omnibus	Hugh Howey
All Natural (Berkeley podcast	Nathanael Hawthorne
A Tale for Time Being	Ruth Ozeki
Sister Mine	Nalo Hopkinson
Ike and Dick	Jeffrey Frank's
Life Code: The New Rules For Living in the Real World	Dr. Phil McGraw
The Still Point of the Turning World
The Fault in Our Stars	John Green
Wallflower Volumes 1-6, 13, 30	Tomoko Hayakawa
Seaforth World Naval Review 2013	Conrad Walters, Editor
Naval Institute Guide to Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet, 18th Edition	Norman Polmar

Recommendations Requested

Got a good book to recommend or want to read books not available (hard to believe) at our library? Then email us. Please state: "Subject: Book recommendations for Friends of San Pedro Library". We'll submit the titles to the Book Buying committee for future purchases.

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