10/29: New in the library this week

Books:

• Eragon / Christopher Paolini: the first book of the Inheritance trilogy follows the travels of a young boy named Eragon and his dragon, Saphira.
• A breath of snow and ashes / Diana Gabaldon: this sixth novel in her Outlander saga continues the story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his 20th-century wife, Claire.
• Haunted : a tale of the mediator / Meg Cabot: Suze Simon, a mediator who can see and communicate with the dead, begins her junior year of high school in Carmel, CA.
• The time hackers / Gary Paulsen: Dorso, 12, finds himself the brunt of time-travel-related practical jokes and soon realizes that the incidents are related to his laptop.
• At the crossing-places / Kevin. Crossley-Holland: Holy wars and romantic intrigue adventure combine in book two in the Arthur Trilogy (begun with The Seeing Stone). Here 13-year-old Arthur begins life as squire to Lord Stephen at Holt and aspires to be a Crusader in his own right, and perhaps win the hand of a fair maiden.
• The Amulet of Samarkand / Jonathan Stroud: Nathaniel is a boy magician-in-training, sold to the government by his birth parents at the age of five and sent to live as an apprentice to a master. When he musters the strength to summon the 5,000-year-old djinni Bartimaeus to avenge Lovelace by stealing the powerful Amulet of Samarkand, the boy magician plunges into a situation more dangerous and deadly than anything he could ever imagine.
• Bone / Jeff Smith (v. 1. Out from Boneville, v. 2. The great cow race): Smith's epic graphic novel series concerns three blobby creatures who have stumbled into a valley full of monsters, magic, farmers, an exiled princess and a huge, cynical dragon.
• Uncle Shelby's story of Lafcadio, the lion who shot back / Shel Silverstein: the story of a lion who obtains a hunter's gun and practices until he becomes a good enough marksman to join a circus.
• The missing piece / Shel Silverstein: a circle with a wedge-shaped missing piece rolls along in search of its mate.
• Uncle Shelby's A giraffe and a half / Shel Silverstein: an add and subtract prose poem.
• Consent to kill : a thriller / Vince Flynn: Flynn continues to ratchet up the stakes for CIA assassin Mitch Rapp, who here battles a Saudi billionaire bent on revenge, an ex–East German Stasi spy and a deadly husband-and-wife team of assassins.
• Heron street / Ann Turner: an illustrated history of a marsh from before the American Revolution till the present.
• The camel club / David Baldacci: takes readers inside the Beltway as four unlikely misfits struggle not only to survive, but to save their president and their country from a plot that will lead to nuclear disaster.
• Predator / Patricia Cornwell: Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, takes charge of a case that stretches from steamy Florida to snowbound Boston.

DVDs

• Behaving badly
• Simisola/Road rage
• The student prince
• Romper stomper
• Kiss daddy goodnight