Stacks Spotlight – March 2012

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Here’s a look at the latest hot fiction and bestsellers recently added to Cowles’ collection. Find these new books, as well as others, on the main floor stand at the top of the ramp and in the Cowles Cafe area.

The happiness of pursuit: what neuroscience can teach us about the good life / Shimon Edelman.

On an Irish island / Robert Kanigel.

Borrow: the American way of debt / Louis Hyman.

Killing the messenger: a story of radical faith, racism’s backlash, and the assassination of a journalist / Thomas Peele.

The swing vote: the untapped power of independents / Linda Killian.

We’re with nobody: two insiders reveal the dark side of American politics / Alan Huffman, Michael Rejebian.

Babel no more: the search for the world’s most extraordinary language learners / Michael Erard.

The accidental feminist: how Elizabeth Taylor raised our consciousness and we were too distracted by her beauty to notice / M.G. Lord.

Ten pound pom / Niall Griffiths.

The confession / Charles Todd.

Flatscreen: a novel / Adam Wilson.

Abundance: the future is better than you think / Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler.

The American way of eating: undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, farm fields and the dinner table / Tracie McMillan.

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