New Nonfiction The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross Published 2007 by Farrar Straus Giroux Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780374249397 Find this book in our catalog. Jacket Notes: Ross, music critic for "The New Yorker," takes readers from Vienna before the First World War to New York in the 1970s and seventies. The result is not so much a history of 20th-century music as it is a history of the 20th century through its music. More... Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 by Robert Hass Published 2007 by Ecco Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780061349607 Find this book in our catalog. Jacket Notes: The poems in Robert Hass's new collection--his first to appear in a decade--are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate, stylistically varied, redemptive, and wise.... More... Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed Are Tearing America Apart by Patrick J. Buchanan Published 2007 by Thomas Dunne Books Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780312376963 Find this book in our catalog. Jacket Notes: With his razor-sharp pen, "New York Times" bestselling author and conservative commentator Buchanan deals with the greatest crisis facing the nation today: whether America can survive its own societal and cultural self-destruction. More... Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson by Jann S. Wenner Published 2007 by Little Brown and Company Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780316005272 Find this book in our catalog. Jacket Notes: The star-studded, rollicking, juicy story of Hunter S. Thompsons life brings to vivid focus a man who was more complicated and talented than any previous portrait has shown. Its all here: the creative frenzies, the love affairs, the drugs, booze, guns, and, ultimately, the tragic suicide.Little, Brown and Company More...