7/31: New at the library this week

Videos:

• Curtain call

DVDs:

• Stay
• Iron Monkey 2
• The phantom of the opera
• A sound of thunder
• Be cool

Books:

• At risk / Stella Rimington — An announcement is made at a meeting of the BritishIntelligence Joint Counter-Terrorist group: "The opposition may be about to deploy an invisible." Intelligence officer Liz Carlyle has had to prove herself in countless ways as she's come up through the ranks of the traditionally all-male world of Britain's Security Service, MI5. But this announcement marks the start of an operation that will test all her hard-won knowledge and experience-and her intelligence and courage-as nothing has before.
• Before I wake / Anne Frasier — Anne Frasier delivers a new blockbuster about a one-time criminal profiler who will risk everything-even her own sanity-to lure out of hiding the madman who murdered her family. Even if it means she becomes the number-one suspect.
• The house on the point : a tribute to Franklin W. Dixon and the Hardy Boys / Benjamin Hoff — Hoff sets this recast story, based on the original Hardy Boys The House on the Cliff, in 1947, when the Swing Era was giving way to the Baby Boom, and gives it a plot involving a post-war smuggling racket, a young newcomer to town who may have something to hide, and a police chief who's in no hurry to investigate. And he does so with a greater attention to detail, more fully developed characters, and a modern ear for dialogue.
• The road to Inconceivable / J. M. DeMatteis — Kate's little brother Matt is missing, and Kate thinks she will never see him again. But then she finds out that Matt is trapped in the world of Abadazad. Will Kate have the courage to look for her brother? And if she leaves home -- will she ever return? (Abadazad, #1; age range: 9 to 12)
• The dream thief / J. M. DeMatteis — Kate needs all the help she can get when she encounters the Lanky Man. He's mean and heartless, and he wants to steal children's dreams. Everyone seems to be against her -- which only makes her more determined to find her brother. And Matt is getting closer -- isn't he? (Abadazad, #2; age range: 9 to 12)
• The vacation / Polly Horvath — When his mother decides on a whim to be a missionary in Africa and drags his unwilling father with her, Henry is left in the care of his Aunts Magnolia and Pigg. Henry's sure they dislike him and he's trying to keep his distance, but that becomes more difficult when Mag decides they should take a destination-less road trip. (Age range: 12 and up)
• The touch / Colleen McCullough — When Alexander Kinross -- remembered in his native Scotland only as a shiftless boilermaker's apprentice and godless rebel -- summons his bride Elizabeth Drummond to Australia, his Scottish relatives realize that Kinross has made a fortune in the goldfields and is now a man to be reckoned with. (Large print edition)