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New SJSU Arts and Humanities Materials

Newest titles added to this subject area on Floors 5-8 at King Library.































The year of the flood : a novel / Margaret Atwood.
cover imageWhen a natural disaster predicted by God's Gardeners leader Adam One obliterates most human life, two survivors trapped inside respective establishments that metaphorically represent paradise and hell wonder if any of their loved ones have survived.




Love and summer / William Trevor.
cover imageLiving an unfulfilling existence at the side of a tragic husband, shy orphan Ellie Dillahan begins an affair that forces her to choose between an uncertain future with the man she loves and the desolate life she has built for herself.



The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America / Timothy Egan.
cover imageNarrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire of August, 1910, and Teddy Roosevelt's pioneering conservation efforts that helped turn public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service with consequences felt in the fires of today.

An artist in treason : the extraordinary double life of General James Wilkinson / Andro Linklater.
cover imagePatriot, traitor, general, spy: James Wilkinson was a consummate contradiction. Brilliant and precocious, at age twenty he was both the youngest general in the revolutionary Continental Army, and privy to the Conway cabal to oust Washington from command. He was Benedict Arnold's aide, but the first to reveal Arnold's treachery. ...











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