Take a look! We have added a lot of new fiction, literature, and poetry as well as non-fiction titles on many other topics. We invite you to browse these titles and check them out! To check for item availability and call number location, use the Durham Tech library catalog.

New Reference Books!

These items can be used in the library but not taken out.

North Carolina City and County Management Association at 50

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Peterson’s Master the GED Test

Women in America by Mark Lane

A male teacher assists students working on computers

Education in America by Stephen Meyer

Growing Old in America by Barbara Wexler

People protesting in front of government buildings

Abortion by Barbara Wexler

Capital Punishment by Kim Masters Evans

AIDS/HIV by Barbara Wexler

The Environment by Kim Masters Evans

Silhouettes of various bodies in motion.

Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A resource for the transgender community

Sports in America by Steven Meyer

New Circulating Books!

These items can be checked out for three weeks at a time.

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Computer Basics by Michael Price

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

A woman with tape across her mouth sits in the spotlight between two men at podiums

Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story by Reter Bagge

Hoodlum by K’Wan

50 Things You Can Do Today to Manage Stress at Work by Cary Cooper and Howard Kahn

App Inventor: Create Your Own Android Apps

CompTIA Network+ Exam Guide, 5th ed. (Exam N10-005) by Mike Myers

A fountain with no water running at the top

A Wish after Midnight by Zetta Elliott

Android for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach, Volume 1

Brooklyn, Burning by Steve Brezenoff

In My Skin: My Life On and Off the Basketball Court by Brittney Griner with Sue Hovey

Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion by Robert Gordon

Science fiction cover and mystical images

Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

Mobile Development with C# by Greg Shackles

Takedown by Allison van Diepen

Gaston by Kelly DiPucchio (children’s literature)

A Faculty Guide to Addressing Disruptive and Dangerous Behavior by Brian Van Brunt and W. Scott Lewis

Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS and HTML5: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites (3rd ed) by Robin Nixon

Available at Main Campus (PR 6120 .A487 G65 2013)

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Aftermath: A Snapped Novel by Tracy Brown

Motivating and Retaining Online Students Research-Based Strategies that Work by Rosemary M. Lehman and Simone C.O. Conceicao

Harlem Girl Lost by Treasure E. Blue

A black and white photo of people including Stephen Hawking

My Brief History by Stephen Hawking

If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan

Rough water with a city on the far background

Visitation Street by Ivy Pochoda

Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant by Jose Angel N.

50 Fantastic Things to Do with Preschoolers by Sally and Phill Featherstone

Mathematical tools against a blue background

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 by Joe Kraynak

Paint in the vague form of a woman's head

Adobe Flash Professional CS6: Classroom in a Book: The Official Training Workbook from Adobe Systems

The Pigeon Needs a Bath! by Mo Willems (children’s literature)

Self. Destructed by Evan Jacobs

African American children and schoolbuses

Hope against Hope: Three Schools, One City, and the Struggle to Educate America’s Children by Sarah Carr

Adobe Dreamweaver CS6: Classroom in a Book: The Official Training Workbook from Adobe Systems

Mastering Computer Typing, revised ed. by Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts

Images of the sky in different weather situations

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Single Mom by Omar Tyree

Teaching Social Skills to People with Autism: Best Practices in Individualizing Interventions. Editors: Andy Bondy and Mary Jane Weiss

Supporting Student Affairs Professionals. Editors: C. Casey Ozaki, , Anne M. Hornak, and Christina J. Lunceford

Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah

Image of one of the first airplanes in flight

Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtis, and the Battle to Control the Skies by Lawrence Goldstone

If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch

Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement

Adobe Illustrator CS6: Classroom in a Book: The Official Training Workbook from Adobe Systems

An illustrated fox sleeping under a tree

The Big Book of Slumber by Giovanna Zoboli and Simona Mulazzani

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Think like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists by Hillary L. Chute

I Spy with My Little Eye by Edward Gibbs

View through a window of two girls in a field

Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain

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Born Reading: Bringing Up Bookworms in a Digital Age – from Picture Books to eBooks and Everything in Between by Jason Boog

Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures by Virginia Morell

Uses for Boys by Erica Lorraine Scheidt

Ade by Rebecca Walker

On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History by Nicholas A. Basbanes

Most Wanted by Kiki Swinson, Nikki Turner

Parenting beyond Pink and Blue: How to Raise Your Kids Free of Gender Stereotypes by Christia Spears Brown

Lovely, Raspberry: Poems by Aaron Belz

The Everything Guide to Starting an Online Business: The Latest Strategies and Advice on How to Start a Profitable Internet Business by Randall Craig

A basketball player in the air for a dunk

Dr. J: The Autobiography by Julius Erving with Karl Taro Greenfeld

Photo of a building with people on the landings

The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba by Julia Cooke

Illustration of a boy walking and a lion

When Lions Roar by Robie H. Harris

Prodigy by Marie Lu

Illustrated kitten curled up with its parent

Bits & Pieces by Judy Schachner

This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration by Jacqueline Woodson

The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis. Lectures by Ben S. Bernanke

Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing by Vaclav Smil

Nursing Assistant/Nurse Aide Exam (5th ed.) (In the circulating collection at Main and on reserve at Orange County.)

Illustration of a man and dog at the North Pole

The Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg

Poor Doreen: A Fishy Tale by Sally Lloyd-Jones and Alexandra Boiger

An animal made of various other animal parts (red wings, an elephant leg, a cat head).

What’s Your Favorite Animal? by Eric Carle and friends

Neurocomic by Matteo Farinella and Hana Ros

Available at the Main Campus Graphic Novel Collection ()

The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Collection. Edited by Tom Leger, Riley MacLeod

Learn Java for Android Development (3rd ed) by Jeff Friesen

A girl in front holding books with a boy in the background

Teenage Love Affair by Ni-Ni Simone

HTML5 and CSS3 All-in-One for Dummies (3rd ed) by Andy Harris

A hundred dollar bill pokes from behind a page

The Standout Business Plan: Make It Irresistible – And Get the Funds You Need for Your Startup or Growing Business Vaughan Evans and Brian Tracy

Freak Boy by Kristin Elizabeth Clark

Edge of Ready by L.B. Tillit

Barron’s SAT, 27th ed.

A girl looking over her shoulder and a man in the background

Upgrade U by Ni-Ni Simone

Stronger by Jeff Bauman with Bret Witter

Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats

A house with lights on inside against an evening sky

Fellow Mortals by Dennis Mahoney

Black and white science fiction illustrations

Now Write!: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror: Speculative Genre Exercises from Today’s Best Writers and Teachers. Edited by Laurie Lamson

Steppes with a building and person at the top

The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence

A girl with a guy in the background near a microphone

A Girl Like Me by Ni-Ni Simone

A woman with sunglasses and bright red lipstick

Fly Betty by Treasure Blue

Foul Trouble by John Feinstein

The Hurricane Sisters by Dorothea Benton Frank

China Dolls by Lisa See

Apt. 3 by Ezra Jack Keats

Slips of paper form an ocean with the title

Leaving the Sea: Stories by Ben Marcus

Saint Monkey by Jacinda Townsend

Building Your I.T. Career: A Complete Toolkit for a Dynamic Career in Any Economy, 2nd ed. by Matthew Moran

True Stories, Well Told: from the First 20 Years of Creative Nonfiction Magazine. Editors: Lee Gutkind and Hattie Fletcher

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The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez

I Wasn’t Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse. Edited by Lee Gutkind

Bark: Stories by Lorrie Moore

Let that Be the Reason by Vickie M. Stringer

No Boyz Allowed by Ni-Ni Simone

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Just Say No! by Omar Tyree

An African American girl with a bow in her hair

What the River Washed Away by Muriel Mharie Macleod

Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr

Available at the Main Campus (TL 789.85 .R53 S54 2014)

iOS 7 Programming Fundamentals: Objective-C, XCode, and Cocoa Basics by Matt Neuburg

A young man with a woman in the background

If I Was Your Girl by Ni-Ni Simone

Jump-Starting Careers as Medical Assistants and Certified Nursing Assistants by Jennifer Culp

Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems by James Baldwin

Beginning ASP.NET 4.5.1 in C# and VB by Imar Spannjaars

Linux All-in-One for Dummies (5th ed.) by Emmett Dulaney

Endangered by Eliot Schrefer

Teach Yourself Visually HTML5 by Mike Wooldridge

Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography by Miriam Pawel

Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age: Designed for 21st Century Learning (2nd ed)

Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kirstin Cronn-Mills

Pictures of children in various environments

All the Colors We Are: The Story of How We Got Our Skin Color = Todos los Colores de Nuestra Piel: La Historia de por que Tenemos Diferentes Colores de Piel (Children’s Literature) by Katie Kissinger

Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile

Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson

Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh

An African American woman in front of a microphone

I’ll Take You There: Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers, and the March Up Freedom’s Highway by Greg Kot

Leslie by Omar Tyree

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright

A black woman with feathers for eyelashes

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5: Classroom in a Book: The Official Training Workbook from Adobe Systems

This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales

Enon by Paul Harding

Pioneers of Digital: Success Stories from Leaders in Advertising, Marketing, Search and Social Media by Paul Springer and Mel Carson

Artistic depiction of a woman and mirror image

Linked by Imogen Howson

Expert Resumes for Health Care Careers, 2nd ed. by Wendy S. Enelow and Louise M. Kursmark

The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa Mohamed

The HR Answer Book: An Indispensable Guide for Managers and Human Resources Professionals by Shawn Smith and Rebecca Mazin

Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time by Adrian Miller

Peterson’s Master the SAT 2015

Red Moon by Benjamin Percy

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Photo down the middle of a street of an urban area

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore

Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster – The Creators of Superman by Brad Ricca

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton book cover

“Elegantly written and densely plotted… simultaneously and intellectual delight…and gripping page turner”

The How Can It Be Gluten Free Cookbook: Revolutionary Techniques, Groundbreaking Recipes

Stripes of various colors coming off the title

Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture by Erez Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel

Raising Capital: Get the Money You Need to Grow Your Business (3rd ed) by Andrew J. Sherman

Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them by Wayne Pacelle

Street Pharm by Allison van Diepen

The Brothers Torres by Coert Voorhees

And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

A male and female laying in separate beds

Franny and Zoey by J.D. Salinger

Finding Our Families: A First-of-Its-Kind Book for Donor-Conceived People and Their Families by Wendy Kramer

50 Things You Can Do Today to Manage Stress by Wendy Green

Microsoft Visual Basic 2013: Step by Step by Michael Halvorson

Illustration of a woman in a yellow dress

For the Love of Money by Omar Tyree

An African American woman looking over her shoulder

Always Unique by Nikki Turner

Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary by Harryette Mullen

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Let Freedom Ring by Michael Teitelbaum and Lewis Helfand

CompTIA A+ Certification Exam Guide, 8th ed. (Exams 220-801 and 202-802) by Mike Myers

Hum by Jamaal May

Monster: A Novel of Frankenstein by Dave Zeltserman

The Glamorous Life 2: All that Glitters Isn’t Gold by Nikki Simone

The Fall of Saints by Wanjiku Wa Ngugi

March. Book One by John Lewis

Anatomy of a Business Plan: The Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Business and Securing Your Company’s Future, 8th ed. by Linda Pinson

Hi, Koo!: A Year of Seasons by Jon J. Muth

Legend by Marie Lu

Quiet Dell by Jayne Anne Phillips

The Inheritor’s Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science by

Microsoft Visual C# 2013: Step by Step by John Sharp

In the Kingdom of the Sick A Social History of Chronic Illness in America

Kinder Than Solitude by Yiyun Li

Teach beyond Your Reach: An Instructor’s Guide to Developing and Running Successful Distance Learning Classes, Workshops, Training Sessions, and More (2nd ed) by Robin Neidorf

A keyboard in the center and the alphabet around the cover edge

Dr. Fry’s Computer Keyboarding for Beginners by Edward Fry

A road sign with signs pointing in various directions and words like "Reliable, "Tolerant," and "Brave."

Talk with Your Kids: 109 Conversations about Ethics and Things that Really Matter by Michael Parker

A Poet’s Glossary by Edward Hirsch

Little Poems for Tiny Ears by Lin Oliver

Threatened by Eliot Schrefer

Illustrations of a large bird looking down at a small bird

Hello, My Name is Ruby by Philip C. Stead

Silhouette of a person against the outline of a city

Earth Girl by Janet Edwards

Frog Music by Emma Donoghue

Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Boss Lady by Omar Tyree

Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou

Climate Changed: A Personal Journey through the Science by Philippe Squarzoni

Snitch by Allison van Diepen

Green tree with a black bird on its branches

Byrd by Kim Church

Good Things, Bad Kings by Susan Nussbaum

The Unemployed College Graduate’s Survival Guide: How to Get Your Life Together, Deal with Debt, and Find a Job after College by Bonnie Kerrigan Snyder

Collage in the form of a person and a crown

Once a King, Always a King: The Unmaking of a Latin King by Reymundo Sanchez

Nolo’s Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home (4th ed.)

Goggles! by Ezra Jack Keats

Small Time Operator: How to Start Your Own Business, Keep Your Books, Pay Your Taxes, and Stay Out of Trouble (13th ed) by Bernard B. Kamoroff

Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening: How I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green Thumb and an Open Heart by Carol Wall

$Hydrofracking worksite$

Hydrofracking by Alex Prud’Homme

Silhouettes of two girls walking in a yard

The Death of Bees by Lisa O’Donnell

Focuses on the faces of a man and a woman

A Do Right Man by Omar Tyree

One used match and one unused them remain in a pack

Crash and Burn by Michael Hassan

A pair of hands reaches around the shirtless torso of another individual in handcuffs

Black by Tracy Brown

Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King

Street Dreams by K’Wan

Circular images from different areas of science

National Geographic Science of Everything: How Things Work in Our World from Cell Phones, Soap Bubbles and Vaccines to GPS, X-Rays and Submarines

Dreams of Other Worlds The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration by Chris Impey and Holly Henry

B-More Careful by Shannon Holmes

Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham Clinton

A woman's arm glows with a tattoo-like design

The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson

Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice by Paula Bryne

Ferris Beach by Jill McCorkle

Color illustrations, a semi-circle and a circle

For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey by Richard Blanco

Francis: A New World Pope by Michel Cool

iOS 7 App Development Essentials by Neil Smyth

Next Generation Real Estate: New Rules for Smarter Home Buying and Faster Selling by Brendon De Simone

A woman in a red dress flashing most of her legs

A Wanted Woman by Eric Jerome DIckey

Preventing Disruptive Behavior in Colleges: A Campus and Classroom Management Handbook for Higher Education by Howard Seeman

Girls from Da Hood by Nikki Turner

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina

The silhouette of a woman against a blue background

All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou

Get It Girls by Treasure Blue

Conversational Intelligence: How Great Leaders Build Trust and Get Extraordinary Results by Judith E. Glaser

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Thirty Girls by Susan Minot

A woman sitting on a pile of books smiles down at a globe

Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid by Nikki Giovanni

Jump-Starting a Career in Pharmaceuticals by Tamra B. Orr

The Story of Music: from Babylon to the Beatles: How Music Has Shaped Civilization by Howard Goodall

Cube images form North and South America

Pinholes in the Night: Essentials Poems from Latin America

The Circle by Dave Eggers

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