New for 2012-- Bossypants is Tina Fey's story from her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her years on Saturday Night Live; from her passionate pursuit of physical beauty to her opinions on princesses, the electoral process. and everything in between. Tina Fey proves that you're no one until someone calls you bossy. B FEY
Einstein's Refrigerator is a collection of 30 fascinating stories from the history we don't read about in school. True tales of disaster, inventive genius, facts that make us shake our heads in wonder. 031.02 SIL
First Descent is a riveting adventure tale about an extreme sport sent against a dangerous jungle and a wild river in South America where military commandos are as dangerous as the elements of nature. F WITHERS ADVENTURE FICTION
The Toss of a Lemon is a captivating novel that relates the story of one Indian woman and her family who struggle in a changing society. At the novel's heart is Sivakami, married at ten, widowed at eighteen, and left with two children during a half century of social and political turbulence. F VISWANATHAN MULTICULTURAL FICTION
Why We Broke Up Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up, so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a box. Inside the box is why they broke up. Two bottle caps, a movie ticket, a folded note, a box of matches, a protractor, books, a toy truck, a pair of ugly earrings, a comb from a motel room, and every other item collected over the course of a giddy, intimate, heartbreaking relationship. Item after item is illustrated and accounted for, and then the box, like a girlfriend, will be dumped. F HANDLER ROMANCE FICTION
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