7/1: New at the library this week

Books:

• Twelve sharp / Janet Evanovich — In the natural order of things, New Jersey bounty hunters do not enjoy high status. But whatever her place in the universe is, Stephanie Plum knows that maintaining it is a crazy full-time job; whether she's tracking down menacing, lowlife fugitives or attempting to reconstitute her sporadic love life and dysfunction family.
• Fire and ice / Dana Stabenow — Newenham, Alaska, is a long way from the big-city comforts of Anchorage, where Sergeant Liam Campbell was an up-and-coming state trooper with everything going his way. But that was before his life unraveled...before five people died on his watch and a drunk driver killed his son and put his wife into a coma.
• Marked man / William Lashner — All Victor Carl knows is that he's just woken up with his suit in tatters, his socks missing, and a stinging pain in his chest thanks to a new tattoo he doesn't remember getting: a heart inscribed with the name Chantal Adair.
• Our man in Washington / Roy Hoopes — Hoopes's first work of fiction is a historical novel featuring James M. Cain, later the master of "hard-boiled" mystery novels, and H. L. Mencken, the famous iconoclastic journalist, as amateur detectives. Two Baltimore reporters (friends at that time and later in real life), they are investigating the deaths and sex scandals in the Harding administration in 1923, just before the big Teapot Dome scandal breaks.
• Timepiece / Richard Paul Evans — The bestselling author of The Christmas Box now provides readers with an inspirational message which reminds them about the gifts they pass on to their children. Timepiece traces the poignant love story of MaryAnne and David Parkin as they struggle to learn the lessons of love, loyalty, and forgiveness in the face of tragedy.
• Sailing fundamentals : the official learn-to-sail manual of the American Sailing Association / Gary Jobson— Unlike most introductory sailing books, which reflect the biases and idiosyncrasies of their authors, Sailing Fundamentals has been extensively pretested by ASA professional instructors to ensure that it offers the fastest, easiest, most systematic way to learn basic sailing and basic coastal cruising. This book covers every aspect of beginning sailing — from hoisting sail to docking and anchoring — and specifically prepares the learner to qualify for sailing certification according to international standards.
• Pleasure boating : sail and power / Crescent Books