4/1: New at the library this week

Books:

• Prior bad acts / Tami Hoag —It was a crime so brutal, it changed the lives of even the most hardened homicide cops. The Haas family murders left a scar on the community nothing can erase, but everyone agrees that convicting the killer, Karl Dahl, is a start. Only Judge Carey Moore seems to be standing in the way. Her ruling that Dahl's prior criminal record is inadmissible raises a public outcry- and puts the judge in grave danger.
• Chill factor / Sandra Brown —Cleary, North Carolina, is a sleepy mountain town — the kind of place where criminal activity is usually limited to parking violations. Not so, lately. Four women have disappeared from Cleary over the past two years. And there's always a blue ribbon left near the spot where each of the women was last seen.
• Our fifty states / Mark H. Bockenhauer —The richness of America, in all its grandeur and diversity, is captured here in the pages of Our Fifty States. (Age Range: 10)
• The Eyre affair / Jasper Fforde —Welcome to a surreal version of Great Britain, circa 1985, where time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem, militant Baconians heckle performances of Hamlet, and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection, until someone begins kidnapping charactersfrom works of literature. When Jane Eyre is plucked from the pages of Bronte's novel, Thursday must track down the villain and enter the novel herself to avert a heinous act of literary homicide.
• Lost in a good book / Jasper Fforde —When Landen, the love of her life, is eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath Corporation, Thursday must moonlight as a Prose Resource Operative of Jurisfiction—the police force inside books. She is apprenticed to the man-hating Miss Havisham from Dickens's Great Expectations, who grudgingly shows Thursday the ropes.
• The well of lost plots / Jasper Fforde —Resourceful literary detective Thursday Next definitely needs some downtime. And what better place for a respite than in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots, where all unpublished books reside? But peace and quiet remain elusive for Thursday, who soon discovers that the Well is a veritable linguistic free-for-all, where grammasites run rampant, plot devices are hawked on the black market, and lousy books—like the one she has taken up residence in—are scrapped for salvage.
• Something rotten / Jasper Fforde —The resourceful literary detective Thursday Next returns to Swindon from the BookWorld accompanied by her son Friday and none other than the dithering Hamlet. But returning to SpecOps is no snap-as outlaw fictioner Yorrick Kaine plots for absolute power, the return of Swindon's patron saint foretells doom, and, if that isn't bad enough, The Merry Wives of Windsor is becoming entangled with Hamlet.
• Country fabric style : creative projects for the home / Julia Bird
• Mary Engelbreit's home companion : the Mary Engelbreit look and how to get it / Mary Engelbreit —This book contains fifteen chapters on everything from Kitchens, Tabletops, and Entries, to Cozy Corners, Cheap Tricks, and Odd Sports.
• Mary Engelbreit's outdoor companion : the Mary Engelbreit look and how to get it / Mary Engelbreit —With the help of her friends, Mary presents new inspirational ideas for readers to carry across the threshold of their homes, and into the great outdoors.

Descriptions are as provided by the publisher on the linked sites.