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New and Notable

Fall Selections at Orangeburg Library

Non-Fiction
Censored 2010: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2008-2009/ Peter Phillips.
Think you’re up on all the news? You’ll be surprised to read the most important overlooked stories of the past year.



Feed Your Pet Right: The Authoritative Guide to Feeding Your Dog and Cat/ Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim.
With the help of two nutritionists, cat and dog owners can select the healthiest food for their pets.


Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures/ Robert K . Wittman.
Leader of the FBI’s Art Crime Team relates his fascinating 20-year career of traveling the world to recover stolen artwork and documents.



Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things/ Rany O. Frost and Gail Stekettte.

Hoarding is more common than most of us realize. Two psychologists share their experiences in treating compulsive hoarders.


Fiction
Ape House/ Sara Gruen.

A scientist’s life is thrown in to turmoil when her six bonobos (chimpanzees), fluent in sign language, are stolen from a research facility.



Black Mamba Boy/ Nadifa Mohamed.

A Somali boy travels over a thousand miles across North Africa and through parts of Europe in search of his father.



The Hundred-Foot Journey/ Richard C. Morais.

A lively immigrant family, new to the French Alps, opens an Indian restaurant much to the chagrin of a local chef.



Rembrandt Affair/ Daniel Silva.

A detective travels the world to recover a lost portrait by the Dutch master.




Skippy Dies/ Paul Murry.

The untimely demise of a 14 year-old boy at a Dublin boarding school starts a chain of horrifying and hilarious events.




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