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.

Abortion by Barbara Wexler

Education in America by Stephen Meyer

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

The Environment by Kim Masters Evans

Women in America by Mark Lane

Peterson’s Master the GED Test

Sports in America by Steven Meyer

North Carolina City and County Management Association at 50

AIDS/HIV by Barbara Wexler

Growing Old in America by Barbara Wexler

Capital Punishment by Kim Masters Evans

New Circulating Books!

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

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

Teenage Love Affair by Ni-Ni Simone

Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary by Harryette Mullen

Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems by James Baldwin

Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kirstin Cronn-Mills

Enon by Paul Harding

Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Francis: A New World Pope by Michel Cool

Stronger by Jeff Bauman with Bret Witter

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

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

Mobile Development with C# by Greg Shackles

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

Ade by Rebecca Walker

Apt. 3 by Ezra Jack Keats

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

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

Kinder Than Solitude by Yiyun Li

What the River Washed Away by Muriel Mharie Macleod

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

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

Street Pharm by Allison van Diepen

Boss Lady by Omar Tyree

Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story by Reter Bagge

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

Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou

Upgrade U by Ni-Ni Simone

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

Bits & Pieces by Judy Schachner

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Street Dreams by K’Wan

Self. Destructed by Evan Jacobs

Byrd by Kim Church

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

Hello, My Name is Ruby by Philip C. Stead

Hydrofracking by Alex Prud’Homme

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

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

Always Unique by Nikki Turner

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

App Inventor: Create Your Own Android Apps

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

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

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

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

Thirty Girls by Susan Minot

Crash and Burn by Michael Hassan

The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence

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

Leslie by Omar Tyree

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

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

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

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

Gaston by Kelly DiPucchio (children’s literature)

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

Edge of Ready by L.B. Tillit

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina

Harlem Girl Lost by Treasure E. Blue

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

Threatened by Eliot Schrefer

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

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

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

Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid by Nikki Giovanni

The Circle by Dave Eggers

Aftermath: A Snapped Novel by Tracy Brown

Prodigy by Marie Lu

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

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

Good Things, Bad Kings by Susan Nussbaum

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

Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh

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

The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa Mohamed

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

Let that Be the Reason by Vickie M. Stringer

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

The Brothers Torres by Coert Voorhees

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

Visitation Street by Ivy Pochoda

This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales

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

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

A Girl Like Me by Ni-Ni Simone

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

Monster: A Novel of Frankenstein by Dave Zeltserman

Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King

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

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

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

Frog Music by Emma Donoghue

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

My Brief History by Stephen Hawking

Peterson’s Master the SAT 2015

Foul Trouble by John Feinstein

Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah

And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement

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

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

Pinholes in the Night: Essentials Poems from Latin America

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

Snitch by Allison van Diepen

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

Hoodlum by K’Wan

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

Single Mom by Omar Tyree

If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch

The Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg

Hum by Jamaal May

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

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

Available at the Main Campus Graphic Novel Collection ()

Black by Tracy Brown

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

Little Poems for Tiny Ears by Lin Oliver

No Boyz Allowed by Ni-Ni Simone

Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile

Fellow Mortals by Dennis Mahoney

The Big Book of Slumber by Giovanna Zoboli and Simona Mulazzani

Saint Monkey by Jacinda Townsend

iOS 7 App Development Essentials by Neil Smyth

Most Wanted by Kiki Swinson, Nikki Turner

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Do Right Man by Omar Tyree

Computer Basics by Michael Price

Bark: Stories by Lorrie Moore

A Wanted Woman by Eric Jerome DIckey

Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

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

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

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

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

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

Uses for Boys by Erica Lorraine Scheidt

Endangered by Eliot Schrefer

The Fall of Saints by Wanjiku Wa Ngugi

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

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

The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography by Miriam Pawel

The Hurricane Sisters by Dorothea Benton Frank

Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Red Moon by Benjamin Percy

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

The Collection. Edited by Tom Leger, Riley MacLeod

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

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

I Spy with My Little Eye by Edward Gibbs

Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain

B-More Careful by Shannon Holmes

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

Barron’s SAT, 27th ed.

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

A Wish after Midnight by Zetta Elliott

Quiet Dell by Jayne Anne Phillips

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

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

The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Takedown by Allison van Diepen

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

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

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

China Dolls by Lisa See

The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez

If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan

Fly Betty by Treasure Blue

Leaving the Sea: Stories by Ben Marcus

A Poet’s Glossary by Edward Hirsch

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

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

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

Freak Boy by Kristin Elizabeth Clark

Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

Linked by Imogen Howson

Just Say No! by Omar Tyree

Microsoft Visual Basic 2013: Step by Step by Michael Halvorson

The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson

Girls from Da Hood by Nikki Turner

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

Ferris Beach by Jill McCorkle

If I Was Your Girl by Ni-Ni Simone

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

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

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

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

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

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

Earth Girl by Janet Edwards

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

All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou

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

Goggles! by Ezra Jack Keats

Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats

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

Get It Girls by Treasure Blue

Legend by Marie Lu

The Death of Bees by Lisa O’Donnell

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

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

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

Lovely, Raspberry: Poems by Aaron Belz

For the Love of Money by Omar Tyree

When Lions Roar by Robie H. Harris

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

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

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

Brooklyn, Burning by Steve Brezenoff

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

March. Book One by John Lewis

Teach Yourself Visually HTML5 by Mike Wooldridge

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

Franny and Zoey by J.D. Salinger

I think that there are few things more wonderful than new books, but I acknowledge that, being a librarian, I’m biased. See a full list of the gems recently added to our collection in this PDF: New Books.

Highlights from the full list include:

Ivory, Horn, and Blood: Behind the Elephant and Rhinoceros Poaching Crisis by Ronald Orenstein

This alarming book tells a crime story that takes place thousands of miles away, in countries that few of us may visit. But like the trade in illegal drugs, the traffic in elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn has far-reaching implications not only for these endangered animals, but also for the human victims of a world-wide surge in organized crime, corruption and violence.

The Last Animal: Stories by Abby Geni

This is a series of stories unified around one theme: people who use the interface between the human and the natural world to contend with their modern challenges in love, loss, and family life. These are vibrant, weighty stories that herald the arrival of a young writer of surprising feeling and depth.

Looking Out, Looking In: Anthology of Latino Poetry. William Luis, editor.

This twelfth edition continues its outstanding tradition of combining current information with a fun, reader-friendly voice that links course topics to your everyday life.

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald

In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. That source turned out to be the 29-year-old NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and his revelations about the agency’s widespread, systemic overreach proved to be some of the most explosive and consequential news in recent history, triggering a fierce debate over national security and information privacy.

Even though all of our new books are exciting, below are just some of the books recently added to the Durham Tech library collection. Check them out! More new books are noted in a new books list.

A Bit of Difference by Sefi Atta

At thirty-nine, Deola Bello, a Nigerian expatriate in London, is dissatisfied with being single and working overseas. She works as a financial reviewer for an international charity. When her job takes her back to Nigeria in time for her father’s five-year memorial service, she finds herself turning her scrutiny inward. In Nigeria, Deola encounters changes in her family, the urban landscape of her home, and new acquaintances who offer unexpected possibilities. Deola’s journey is as much about evading others’ expectations to get to the heart of her frustration as it is about exposing the differences between foreign images of Africa and the realities of contemporary Nigerian life.

Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution: Voices from Tunis to Damascus by Layla Al-Zubaidi, Matthew Cassel, Naomi Craven Roderick, editors

With unrest in so many areas of the world right now, this may be a timely book for reflection. Focusing on the revolution that swept through the Arab world in spring of 2011, the book brings together testimony from people who were on the ground at the time. These essays and profoundly moving, often harrowing, firsthand accounts span the region from Tunisia to Syria and include contributors ranging from student activists to seasoned journalists—half of whom are women. This unique collection explores just how deeply politics can be held within the personal and highlights the power of writing in a time of revolution.

Do It Anyway: The Next Generation of Activists by Courtney E. Martin

If you care about social change but hate feel-good platitudes, Do It Anyway is the book for you. Courtney Martin’s rich profiles of the new generation of activists dig deep, to ask the questions that really matter: How do you create a meaningful life? Can one person even begin to make a difference in our hugely complex, globalized world?

From Moon Cakes to Mao to Modern China: An Introduction to Chinese Civilization by Zhu Fayuan, Wu Qixing, Xia Hanning, Gao Han

To understand China, we need to step into the palace of her culture and explore her rich history. With this in mind, a group of scholars from China and America have put this book together as a kind of primer on all things China, from art and science to religion and society. They have tried to offer here a panoramic view of the totality of Chinese culture, using only the most representative material, to introduce to the West the most typical aspects of Chinese civilization and life.

Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster by David Lochbaum, Edwin Lyman, Susan Q. Stranahan, and the Union of Concerned Scientists

In the first definitive account of the Fukushima disaster, two leading experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists, David Lochbaum and Edwin Lyman, team up with journalist Susan Q. Stranahan, the lead reporter of the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Pulitzer Prize–winning coverage of the Three Mile Island accident, to tell this harrowing story. Fukushima combines a fast-paced, riveting account of the tsunami and the nuclear emergency it created with an explanation of the science and technology behind the meltdown as it unfolded in real time. Bolstered by photographs, explanatory diagrams, and a comprehensive glossary, the narrative also extends to other severe nuclear accidents to address both the terrifying question of whether it could happen elsewhere and how such a crisis can be averted in the future.

How Serious Is Teen Drunk and Distracted Driving? (In Controversy series) by Patricia D. Netzley

This series is very good if you’re writing a pros and cons paper or thinking about a debate! This particular book examines the controversy surrounding the issue of dangerous driving, including how cell phones impact teen driving habits and whether teen drivers are more susceptible to distractions than adult drivers.