7/10: New at the library this week

DVDs:

• King Kong
• Casanova
• Crash

Books:

• Shining water / Kim Andrew Buchman — poetry by a former Seldovian
• Kachemak Bay years : an Alaska homesteader's memoir / Elsa Pedersen
• Strong women, strong bones : everything you need to know to prevent, treat, and beat osteoporosis / Miriam E. Nelson — Increasingly, women know that it's so important to maintain their bones as they get older, but they're uncertain about the best strategy to follow. I decided to write this book so I could pull together all the information women - and men - need to beat this terrible disease.
• A hunt for justice : the true story of a woman undercover wildlife agent /Lucinda Delaney — For thirty years, Lucinda Delaney Schroeder held an unusual government position: she was one of the handful of women special agents with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Her job: to investigate crimes against wildlife. Unlike the majority of hunters who respect both their prey and the laws, evidence was piling up against an unscrupulous outfitter who was decimating populations of big game in Alaska's Brooks Range. In August 1992, she accepted an assignment that forever changed--and endangered--her life. She left her husband and seven-year-old daughter behind in Wisconsin and posed as a big-game hunter in Alaska in order to infiltrate an international ring of poachers out to kill the biggest and best of that state's wildlife.
• Niagara Falls, or does it? / Henry Winkler — Inspired by his own experiences with undiagnosed dyslexia, actor/director Henry Winkler presents this new series about the high-spirited and funny adventures of a fourth-grader with learning differences. When Hank Zipzer has to write an essay on what he did over the summer, he decides instead to "show" what he did.
• Summer school! : what genius thought that up? / Henry Winkler — Summer school are two words in the English language that Hank Zipzerdoesn't want to learn. But there's no getting out of this one for Hank—summer school, here he comes! Will Hank have to spend the summer bored to death inside a sweltering classroom, or will he actually learn a cool lesson or two?
• I got a "D" in salami / Henry Winkler — After getting three Ds on his report card, a panicked Hank and his friends go to his mom's deli. His report card winds up in the meat grinder, and Hank watches as his Ds are ground into a big salami--and this particular salami is being made for a very important client. How will Hank get out of this one?
• Help! Somebody get me out of fourth grade! / Henry Winkler — Fearing that he may be failing fourth grade, Hank enlists the help of his friends, and even his annoying younger sister, in an effort to prevent his parents from attending a parent-teacher conference.
• The night I flunked my field trip / Henry Winkler — Fourth-grader Hank, while on a field trip aboard "The Pilgrim Spirit," tries to learn knot tying in his own unique way, which causes unforeseen problems.
• James and the volcano / Hannah C. Watkins — Emergency preparation written for children by a Kenai Central High School student
• Mr. Whitekeys' Alaska bizarre : direct from the Whale Fat Follies Revue in Anchorage / Mr. Whitekeys — The lowfalutin' look at the biggest, wildest state in the Union, from the originator of the Fly By Night Club's zany musicomedy show.
• Learning to Quilt / Lori Yetmar Smith
• The illustrated biographical encyclopedia of artists of the American West / Peggy Samuels
• Criminal intent / William Bernhardt — When a priest with radical ideas and a parish council with traditional values lock horns over the beliefs they hold most sacred, there's bound to be controversy—and consequences. But murder crosses the line between committing a sin and committing a crime, turning a battle over faith into a battle for justice.
• Those who walk in darkness / John Ridley — "Officer Soledad "Bullet" O'Roark loathes her nickname - and the notoriety it represents. She didn't join L.A.P.D.'s elite M-Tac squad to fight the Brass or make rookie cops idolize her. She joined M-Tac to kill freaks." "Freaks, muties, metanormals - back in the day, they were called superheroes. They had amazing powers, lurid costumes, and snappy names: Nightshift, Civil Warrior, Nubian Princess, The Giggler. They seemed to be saviors and gods. But where there are heroes, there are villains.