5/13: New at the library this week

DVDs:

• Hustle & flow
• Equilibrium
• Elizabethtown
• The ice harvest
• Raising Helen
• In her shoes
• Kinsey
• Brokeback mountain
• Harry Potter and the goblet of fire

Books:

• The island / Heather Graham — A slice of paradise in the turquoise waters of southern Florida, the island is a lush, breathtaking sanctuary. Few can resist its allure, or its primitive beauty— but fewer still know its secrets.
• Cell / Stephen King — The cause of the devastation is a phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse, and the delivery method is a cell phone. Everyone's cell phone. Clay and the few desperate survivors who join him suddenly find themselves in the pitch-black night of civilization's darkest age,
• Marley & me: life and love with the world's worst dog / John Grogan — John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wiggly yellow furball of a puppy. Life would never be the same.
• Eat, drink, and weigh less: a flexible and delicious way to shrinkyour waist without going hungry / Mollie Katzen — offers a medically sound, extremely effective program that shows people how they can lose weight by adding delicious food to their diet and making simple changes in what they eat throughout the day.
• Blue shoes and happiness / Alexander McCall Smith — A cobra has been found in Precious Ramotswe's office. Then a nurse from a local medical clinic reveals to Mma Ramotswe that faulty blood-pressure readings are being recorded there. And it looks as though Aunty Emang, the advice columnist in the local newspaper, may not be what she seems.
• The two minute rule / Robert Crais — Ask anyone on the wrong side of the law about the two minute rule and they'll tell you that's as long as you can hope for at a robbery before the cops show up. Break the two minute rule and it's a lifetime in jail. But not everyone plays by the rules.
• Curious George: the movie / Jasmine Jones — A Curious George adventure perfect for fans who are just beginning to read on their own- simple pictures stand in for some words in this rebus reader. Includes full-color illustrations from the motion picture.
• The kindness of strangers / Katrina Kittle — On a quiet street in the suburban Midwest, a popular, seemingly stable family keeps a terrible, dark secret behind closed doors -- a secret that will have life-changing consequences for all who know them
• Night / Elie Wiesel — Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie’s wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author’s original intent.
• The Sonoma diet: trimmer waist, better health in just 10 days! /Connie Guttersen — Inspired by the sun-drenched foods and vibrant lifestyle of California's breathtakingly beautiful wine country, The Sonoma Diet is a surefire weight loss plan based on wholesome, satisfying, flavorful meals.
• The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay / Michael Chabon — It is New York City in 1939. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat to date: smuggling himself out of Nazi-occupied Prague. He is looking to make big money, fast, so that he can bring his family to freedom. His cousin, Brooklyn's own Sammy Clay, is looking for a collaborator to create the heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit the American dreamscape: the comic book. Out of their fantasies, fears, and dreams, Joe and Sammy weave the legend of that unforgettable champion the Escapist. (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
• Sex and the seasoned woman: pursuing the passionate life / Gail Sheehy — In her most groundbreaking work since Passages and The Silent Passage, bestselling author Gail Sheehy reveals a hidden cultural phenomenon -- increased vitality in women’s sex and love lives after fifty.
• Christopher Lowell's seven layers of organization: unclutter your home, unclutter your life / Christopher Lowell — Lowell takes you through the organizing process step by step, breaking down each layer into simple tasks that anyone can make time to do. He shows how to plan ahead for better, faster, longer-lasting results; how to decide what to keep and what to toss; and how to store or show off your possessions.
• The Alpine recluse / Mary Daheim — In the middle of a hot midsummer night, Emma is awakened by fire trucks rushing to a blaze at the nearby home of newlyweds Tim and Tiffany Rafferty. At daybreak, Tiffany and her unborn child are safe, but Tim, never blessed with good luck in all his thirty-plus years, has perished in the fierce conflagration. Sheriff Milo Dodge suspects murder and arson, and rumors fly from the Burger Barn and Mugs Ahoy to the Grocery Basket and the Venison Inn.
• The end of faith: religion, terror, and the future of reason / Sam Harris — An impassioned plea for reason in a world divided by faith.This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behavior and sometimes heinous crimes.
• The English patient / Michael Ondaatje — During the final moments of World War II, in a deserted Italian villa, four people come together: a young nurse, her will broken, all her energy focused on her last, dying patient, a man in whom she has seen something "she wanted to learn, to grow into and hide in"... the patient: an unknown Englishman, survivor of a plane crash, his mind awash with a life's worth of secrets and passions ... a thief whose "skills" have made him one of the war's heroes, and one of its casualties ... an Indian soldier in the British army, an expert at bomb disposal whose three years at war have taught him that "the only thing safe is himself."
• Sailing a practical handbook; the complete guide to sailing and racingdinghies, catamarans and cruisers / Jeremy Evans
• Under sail : equipment for the serious sailor / edited by Tony Meisel —
• The sailor's world / Beiser, Arthur