6/10: New at the library this week

Videos:

• The long kiss goodnight

DVDs:

• The curse of the were rabbit
• Jarhead

Books:

• My sister's keeper / Jodi Picoult — examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child's life, even if that means infringing upon the rights of another?

• In the bleak midwinter / Julia Spencer-Fleming — Clare Fergusson, St. Alban's new priest, fits like a square peg in the conservative Episcopal parish at Miller's Kill, New York. She is not just a "lady," she's a tough ex Army chopper pilot, and nobody's fool. Then a newborn infant left at the church door brings her together with the town's police chief, Russ Van Alstyne, who's also ex-Army and a cynical good shepherd for the stray sheep of his hometown. Their search for the baby's mother quickly leads them into the secrets that shadow Miller's Kill like the ever-present Adirondacks.

• Killer dreams / Iris Johansen — If you close your eyes, he'll get you. Sophie Dunston knows all too well how dreams can kill. As one of the nation's top sleep therapists, she specializes in the life-threatening night terrors that her ten-year-old son, Michael, suffers from. But she is also an expert in another kind of terror --the kind that can turn a dream life into a living nightmare in the blink of an eye.

• Wisdom of our fathers : lessons and letters from daughters and sons / Tim Russert — What does itreally mean to be a good father? What did your father tell you, that has stayed with you throughout your life? Was there a lesson from him, a story, or a moment that helped to make you who you are? Is there a special memory that makes you smile when you least expect it?

• Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides — The breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; nominated for the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award, Fiction; 2002 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Transgender.