Lafayette College Library

Each month Skillman Library adds about 50 volumes to the Browsing Collection. The collection consists of new fiction and works of general interest in all subjects, and is shelved in the Drinkhouse Reading Room on the main level of the Library.

This page is updated periodically to reflect recent additions to the collection. For a list of all books currently available in the Browsing Collection, check the Library Catalog.

Additions to the collection, April 23, 2012 update:

1222 : a Hanne Wilhelmsen novel / Anne Holt ; translated by Marlaine Delargy.
New York : Scribner, c2011.
PT8952.18.O386 A61313 2011.
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Abelard to Apple : the fate of American colleges and universities / Richard A. DeMillo.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
LA227.4 .D46 2011.
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All I did was shoot my man / Walter Mosley.
New York : Riverhead Books/Penguin Group, 2012.
PS3563.O88456 A77 2012.
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American dervish : a novel / by Ayad Akhtar.
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.
PS3601.K53 A83 2012.
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American triumvirate : Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, and the modern age of golf / James Dodson.
New York : Alfred. A. Knopf, 2012.
GV964.A1 D64 2012.
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The Arab uprising : the unfinished revolutions of the new Middle East / Marc Lynch.
New York : PublicAffairs, c2012.
JQ1850.A91 L92 2012.
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Arcadia / Lauren Groff.
New York : Hyperion, cc2012.
PS3607.R6344 A73 2012.
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Are you smart enough to work at Google? : trick questions, zen-like riddles, insanely difficult puzzles, and other devious interviewing techniques you need to know to get a job anywhere in the new economy / William Poundstone.
New York : Little, Brown & Co., 2012.
HF5549.5.I6 P678 2012.
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At last / Edward St. Aubyn.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
PR6069.T134 A93 2012.
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Below stairs : the classic kitchen maid's memoir that inspired "Upstairs, downstairs" and "Downton Abbey" / Margaret Powell.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.
TX649.P68 A3 2012.
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Bloodland : a novel / Alan Glynn.
New York : Picador, 2012.
PR6107.L93 B58 2012.
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Bond girl : [a novel] / Erin Duffy.
New York : William Morrow, 2012.
PS3604.U3775 B66 2012.
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Borrow : the American way of debt / Louis Hyman.
New York : Vintage Books, c2012.
HG3756.U54 H95 2012.
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Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance : a portrait in black and white / Emily Bernard.
New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2012.
PS3543.A653 Z59 2012.
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Defending Jacob : a novel / William Landay.
New York : Delacorte Books, c2012.
PS3612.A5477 D44 2012.
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Don't let me go / J.H. Trumble.
New York : Kensington Books, c2012.
PS3620.R8584 D66 2012.
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The fallback plan / Leigh Stein.
Brooklyn, N.Y. : Melville House, 2012.
PS3619.T465 F355 2012.
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The fat years : a novel / Chan Koonchung ; translated from the Chinese by Michael S. Duke ; with a preface by Julia Lovell.
New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2011.
PL2840.G84 S5413 2011.
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The fault in our stars / John Green.
New York : Dutton Books, c2012.
PZ7.G8233 Fau 2012.
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FDR and Chief Justice Hughes : the president, the Supreme Court, and the epic battle over the New Deal / James F. Simon.
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2012.
E806 .S5527 2012.
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The fear index / Robert Harris.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
PR6058.A69147 F43 2012.
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Flagrant conduct : the story of Lawrence v. Texas : how a bedroom arrest decriminalized gay Americans / Dale Carpenter.
New York : W. W. Norton, c2012.
KF224.L39 C37 2012.
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The flame alphabet / Ben Marcus.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
PS3563.A6375 F57 2012.
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The flight of Gemma Hardy : a novel / Margot Livesey.
New York : Harper, c2012.
PR9199.3.L563 F58 2012.
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El Gavilan / Craig McDonald.
Cincinnati, Ohio : Tyrus Books, c2011.
PS3613.C38698 G3 2011x.
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Girl land / Caitlin Flanagan.
New York : Little, Brown and Co., c2012.
HQ798 .F58 2012.
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Going solo : the extraordinary rise and surprising appeal of living alone / Eric Klinenberg.
New York : Penguin Press, 2012.
HQ800.4.U6 K56 2012.
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Green Girl / by Kate Zambreno.
New York, N.Y. : Emergency Press, 2011.
PS3626.A6277 G74 2011x.
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Guitar zero : the new musician and the science of learning / Gary Marcus.
New York : Penguin, 2012.
ML3838 .M44 2012.
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Health care reform : what it is, why it's necessary, how it works / Jonathan Gruber, with HP Newquist ; illustrated by Nathan Schreiber.
New York : Hill and Wang, 2011.
RA395.A3 G78 2011.
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Hope : a tragedy : a novel / Shalom Auslander.
New York : Riverhead Books, 2012.
PS3601.U85 H67 2012.
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The house at Tyneford : [a novel] / Natasha Solomons.
New York : Plume, c2011.
PS3619.O4374 N68 2011.
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How it all began / Penelope Lively.
New York : Viking, 2012.
PR6062.I89 H69 2012.
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I know who you are and I saw what you did : social networks and the death of privacy / Lori Andrews.
New York : Free Press, c2012.
HM851 .A66 2012.
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The ice balloon : S.A. Andrée and the heroic age of arctic exploration / Alec Wilkinson.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
G700 1897 .W55 2012.
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The idea factory : Bell Labs and the great age of American innovation / Jon Gertner.
New York : Penguin Press, 2012.
TK5102.3.U6 G47 2012.
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Imagine : how creativity works / Jonah Lehrer.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
BF408 .L455 2012.
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The invisible ones / Stef Penney.
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2012.
PR6116.E58 I58 2012b.
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Island of vice : Theodore Roosevelt's doomed quest to clean up sin- loving New York / Richard Zacks.
New York : Doubleday, c2012.
HV6795.N5 Z33 2012.
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It calls you back : an odyssey through love, addiction, revolutions, and healing / Luis Rodriguez.
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2011.
PS3568.O34879 Z46 2011.
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Jack Holmes and his friend : a novel / Edmund White.
New York : Bloomsbury, 2012.
PS3573.H463 J33 2012.
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Juliette Gordon Low : the remarkable founder of the Girl Scouts / Stacy A. Cordery.
New York : Viking, 2012.
HS3268.2.L68 C67 2012.
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Kingdom animalia : poems / by Aracelis Girmay.
Rochester, NY : Boa Editions, 2011.
PS3607.I47 K56 2011.
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The last nude / Ellis Avery.
New York : Riverhead Books, 2011.
PS3601.V466 L37 2011.
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Leela's book / Alice Albinia.
London : Harvill Secker, 2011.
PR6101.L42 L44 2011b.
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Liberation Square : inside the Egyptian revolution and the rebirth of a nation / Ashraf Khalil.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.
DT107.87 .K43 2012.
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Liebestod : opera buffa with Leib Goldkorn / Leslie Epstein.
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2012.
PS3555.P655 L54 2012.
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Life sentences : literary judgments and accounts / William H. Gass.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
PS3557.A845 L54 2011.
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The lives of Margaret Fuller : [a biography] / John Matteson.
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., c2012.
PS2506 .M38 2012.
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Lone wolf : a novel / Jodi Picoult.
New York : Atria Books, 2012.
PS3566.I372 L66 2012.
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A lovesong for India / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ; illustrations by C. S. H. Jhabvala.
Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2012.
PR9499.3.J5 L68 2012.
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Man seeks God : my flirtations with the divine / Eric Weiner.
New York : Twelve, 2011.
BL73.W425 A3 2011.
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Men in space : a novel / Tom McCarthy.
New York : Vintage Books, 2012.
PR6113.C369 M46 2012.
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The Mormon people : the making of an American faith / Matthew Bowman.
New York : Random House, c2012.
BX8611 .B695 2012.
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Mr g : a novel about the creation / Alan Lightman.
New York : Pantheon Books, c2012.
PS3562.I45397 M7 2012.
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Mush! : sled dogs with issues / written by Glenn Eichler ; art by Joe Infurnari.
New York : First Second, 2011.
PN6727.E346 M87 2011.
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New York diaries, 1609 to 2009 / edited by Teresa Carpenter.
New York : Modern Library, 2012.
F128.36 .N49 2012.
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No one is here except all of us / Ramona Ausubel.
New York : Riverhead Books, 2012.
PS3601.U868 N6 2012.
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Nod house / Nathaniel Mackey.
New York : New Directions, 2011.
PS3563.A3166 N63 2011.
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Not myself without you / Lourdes Vázquez ; English translation by Bethany M. Korp-Edwards.
Tempe, Ariz. : Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, c2012.
PQ7440.V284 N68 2012.
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The odds / Stewart O'Nan.
New York : Viking, 2012.
PS3565.N316 O33 2012.
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Parts of a world : a novel / A. G. Mojtabai.
Evanston, Ill. : Triquarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, c2011.
PS3563.O374 P37 2011.
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Portrait of the mother as a young woman / Friedrich Christian Delius ; translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
PT2664.E4 B5513 2012.
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Power play / Ben Bova.
New York : Tor, 2012, c2011.
PS3552.O84 P58 2012.
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Pure / Julianna Baggott.
New York : Grand Central Pub., 2012.
PZ7.B14026 Pu 2012.
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The quality of mercy : a novel / Barry Unsworth.
New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, c2011.
PR6071.N8 Q35 2011.
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Reckles$ endangerment : how outsized ambition, greed, and corruption led to economic armageddon / Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner.
New York : Times Books/ Henry Holt and Co., 2011.
HG2040.5.U5 M58 2011.
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Revelations : visions, prophecy, and politics in the book of Revelation / Elaine Pagels.
New York : Viking, 2012.
BS2825.52 .P34 2012.
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Revolution 2.0 : the power of the people is greater than the people in power : a memoir / Wael Ghonim.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
DT107.828.G445 A3 2012.
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The righteous mind : why good people are divided by politics and religion / Jonathan Haidt.
New York : Pantheon Books, c2012.
BJ45 .H25 2012.
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The royal Stuarts : a history of the family that shaped Britain / Allan Massie.
New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2010.
DA28.35.S89 M37 2010.
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Sealab : America's forgotten quest to live and work on the ocean floor / Ben Hellwarth.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012.
GC66 .H45 2012.
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The snow child : a novel / Eowyn Ivey.
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.
PS3609.V54 S66 2012.
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Stay awake : stories / Dan Chaon.
New York : Ballantine Books, [2012], 2012.
PS3553.H277 S73 2012.
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Straight : the surprisingly short history of heterosexuality / Hanne Blank.
Boston : Beacon Press, c2012.
HQ23 .B56 2012.
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Sword of the spirit, shield of faith : religion in American war and diplomacy / Andrew Preston.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
E183.7 .P74 2012.
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The time in between : a novel / María Dueñas ; translated by Daniel Hahn.
New York : Atria Books, 2011.
PQ6704.U35 T5413 2011.
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The vanishers / Heidi Julavits.
New York : Doubleday, c2012.
PS3560.U522 V36 2012.
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Vicky Swanky is a beauty / Diane Williams.
San Francisco : McSweeney's Books, c2012.
PS3573.I44846 V53 2012.
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Watergate : a novel / Thomas Mallon.
New York : Pantheon Books, c2012.
PS3563.A43157 W38 2012.
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We are all equally far from love / by Adania Shibli ; translated from the Arabic by Paul Starkey.
Northampton, Mass. : Clockroot Books, 2012.
PJ7962.H425 K7513 2012.
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Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail / Cheryl Strayed.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
PS3619.T744 Z46 2012.
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