9/9: New at the library this week

DVDs:

• Memoirs of a geisha

Books:

• Why Darwin matters : the case against intelligent design / Michael Shermer —A creationist-turned-scientist demonstrates the facts of evolution and exposes Intelligent Design's real agenda.
• Digging to America / Anne Tyler —In what is perhaps her richest and most deeply searching novel, Anne Tyler gives us a story about what it is to be an American, and about Maryam Yazdan, who after thirty-five years in this country must finally come to terms with her 'outsiderness.'
• Copper River / William Kent Krueger —This book finds Cork O'Connor running for his life from professional hit men who have already put a bullet through his leg. Desperate, he finds sanctuary outside a small town called Bodine on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in an old resort owned by his cousin, Jewell DuBois. (Cork O'Connor Mystery Series)
• Crime beat : a decade of covering cops and killers / Michael Connelly —Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles. In vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and, of course, the killers--to tell the real stories of murder and its aftermath.
• Living rooms / Amanda Harling
• The complete book of floorcloths : designs & techniques for painting great-looking canvas rugs / Kathy Cooper —Two dozen different methods for creating and embellishing a design; eight projects ranging from geometric patterns to freeform squiggles; 63 artists showing off a glorious range of contemporary work: and dozens of luscious pictures: in short, it's the home decorator's dream guide to making the perfect floorcloth.
• The Hawaiian quilt / Reiko Mochinaga Brandon
• Hand-painting china : how to design and paint your own beautiful ceramics, without the need for kiln-firing / Lesley Harle
• The book of beads : a practical and inspirational guide to beads and jewelry making / Janet Coles
• The garden problem solver / Reader's Digest Association —Few sites offer ideal conditions for the gardener. An eyesore, such as an old (but useful) storage shed, might dominate the scene. Or perhaps your site has a steep slope making garden design difficult. Still other gardens are shady or have very acidic or poor alkaline soil. For any and all of these situations, help is finally at hand.
• 52 McGs. : the best obituaries from legendary New York Times writer Robert McG. Thomas Jr. / Robert McG. Thomas —Among his devoted fans, his pieces were known simply as McGs. With a "genius for illuminating that sometimes ephemeral apogee in people's lives when they prove capable of generating a brightly burning spark" (Columbia Journalism Review), Robert McG. Thomas Jr. commemorated fascinating, unconventional lives with signature style and wit.
• Messenger of truth / Jacqueline Winspear —London, 1931. The night before an exhibition of his artwork opens at a famed Mayfair gallery, the controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death. The police rule it an accident, but Nick's twin sister, Georgina, a wartime journalist and a infamous figure in her own right, isn't convinced. When the authorities refuse to consider her theory that Nick was murdered, Georgina seeks out a fellow graduate from Girton College, Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator, for help. (Maisie Dobbs Series, #4)
• Cover of night / Linda Howard —In the charming rural town of Trail Stop, Idaho, accessible to the outside world by only a single road, young widow Cate Nightingale lives peacefully with her four-year-old twin boys, running a bed-and-breakfast. Though the overnight guests are few and far between - occasional hunters and lake fishermen - Cate always manages to make ends meet with the help of the local jack-of-all-trades, Calvin Harris, who can handle everything from carpentry to plumbing. But Calvin is not what he seems, and Cate's luck is about to run out.
• Blue screen / Robert B. Parker —Buddy Bollen is a C-list movie mogul who made his fortune producing films of questionable artistic merit. When Buddy hires Sunny Randall to protect his rising star and girlfriend, Erin Flint, Sunny knows from the start that the prickly, spoiled beauty won't make her job easy. And when Erin's sister, Misty, is found dead in the lavish home they share with sugar daddy Bollen, there doesn't seem to be a single lead worth pursuing. (Sunny Randall Series, #5)
• Kinds of love / May Sarton — Friendship, marriage, and intertwined lives in a small New Hampshire town.
• George Washington : a life / Willard Sterne Randall —Randall tells the fascinating tale of a man who turned an impoverished childhood into a life of creative rebellion and creation. He follows Washington's rise to greatness as he turns from managing plantations to becoming a professional soldier and eventually joining in the fight again taxation without representation, which would spark the American Revolution.
• Alaska's sky follies : the funny side of flying in the far north / Joe Rychetnik —You know those outlandish tales you've heard about early bush pilots of the Far North? Turns out some of them are true.
• The Esprit quilt collection / Julie Silber
• Dr. Seuss goes to war / Theodor Seuss Geisel —For decades, readers throughout the world have enjoyed the marvelous stories and illustrations of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. But few know Geisel's work as a political cartoonist during World War II for the New York daily newspaper PM. In these marvelously trenchant cartoons, Geisel captured the Zeitgeist - especially the attitudes of the New Deal liberals who read PM - with a wonderful Seussian flair.
• The quilt design workbook / Beth Richardson Gutcheon
• Last climb : the legendary Everest expeditions of George Mallory / David Breashears —George Leigh Mallory is not the only man to have died tragically on the forbidding heights of Mount Everest, but he is surely the most famous. When he and Andrew Irvine disappeared into the mists not far from the summit in June 1924, they climbed into mountaineering legend. For more than 70 years, the fraternity of high-altitude adventurers could only speculate on their fate--until 1999 when Mallory's body was found at last, 2,000 feet below the summit.
• Calming crafts : relaxing crafts to inspire your creativity / Dawn Frankfort