3/25: New at the library this week

Videos:

• Stargate

Books:

• Unholy dying / Robert Barnard —England's celebrated, multiple-award-winning master crime novelist returns with a witty and poignant chiller about the evil of gossip and the sin of indifference.
• Murder me now / Annette Meyers —Olivia Brown is having the time of her life. A party in Croton promises still more fun. But when she arrives at the rustic farmhouse of Fordy and Kate Vaude, she finds their nanny hanging from a tree.
• Scene of crime / Jill McGown — It’s three days before Christmas, and the Malworth Amateur Dramatic Society’s rehearsal of Cinderella, scripted by GP Carl Bignall, is struggling thanks to a flu epidemic that has hit the production. But as rehearsals finally get under way at the Riverside Theatre, the police across town are entering Carl’s house – and discovering the body of his wife, Estelle.
• July, July / Tim O'Brien —Tim O'Brien is widely acclaimed as our finest chronicler of the Vietnam War and its afermath. In his ambitious, compassionate, and terrifically compelling new novel, this American master returns to his signature themes -- passion, memory, and yearning -- in a brilliant ensemble piece. (interview)
• Once a thief / Kay Hooper —It had taken centuries for Max Bannister's family to acquire their treasures, and now he's been asked to risk his collection as bait for a master criminal.
• Amagansett / Mark Mills —Conrad Labarde, a Basque fisherman transplanted to the shores of Amagansett, knows there's something strange about the weight in the net that he and his partner Rollo are pulling from the deep. Little did they suspect that it would be the body of a beautiful young socialite. (reading guide, interview)
• Malice in the Highlands / Graham Thomas —Detective Chief Superintendent Erskine Powell of New Scotland Yard embarks on a salmon-fishing competition in the Scottish Highlands. There, in the castle-dotted countryside along the picturesque River Spey, he seeks peace and seclusion. But a cold-blooded murderer soon turns Powell's haven into a busman's holiday—and a quiet anglers' paradise becomes just as deadly as the mean streets of London.
• The Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle treasury / Betty Bard MacDonald —Children love Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle for her upside-down house, her delicious cookies, and her ability to understand just how they feel. Their parents love her because she knows how to cure absolutely any bad habit. Her outrageous antidotes for Answer-backers, Never-Want-To-Go-To-Bedders, and Waddle-I-Doers have endeared her to millions of readers.
• Our search for happiness : an invitation to understand the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints / M. Russell Ballard
• Living with folk art / Rebecca Sawyer-Fay —Country Living magazine's unique take on the enormously popular subject of folk art makes this full-color book as distinctive as the one-of-a-kind pieces showcased within. Full of extraordinary collections displayed throughout the home, this book is a tribute to the spirit of American folk art.
• Mosaic magic : afghans made easy / Lily M. Chin —The newest addition to the Crochet Treasury series, features all-new afghan designs from Lily Chin, one of today's most talented crochet designers. Her simple techniques and tips will help readers create intricate, patterned afghans with minimum effort.
• Acu-yoga : self help techniques to relieve tension / Michael Reed Gach —
• Christmas threads : four romantic novellas about the roots of family traditions / Andrea Boeshaar
• A prairie home companion pretty good joke book / Brian Becker —Each April, people across the country tune in to A Prairie Home Companion's® annual Joke Show and laugh themselves silly. The best jokes from these much-requested shows are finally available.
• Cook now, serve later / Reader's Digest —A full-range general cookbook of 425 recipes especially designed to be prepared in advance and stored for convenient, no-fuss meals in minutes. Each recipe has easy, step-by-step instructions, storing and reheating directions, serving and menu suggestions, calorie counts and nutritional information.

Text quoted from is book publishers.

3/16: New at the library this week

DVDs:

• March of the penguins
• Batman begins
• Rocki's Prenatal Yoga

Videos:

• The jazz workout
• For love of the game
• New Jack City

Books:

• False impression / Jeffrey Archer —When an aristocratic old lady is brutally murdered in her English country home on the night before September 11, 2001, it will take all the resources of the FBI and Interpol to work out the connection between her death and a priceless Van Gogh, which is stolen that night.
• Lucky you / Carl Hiaasen — Grange, Florida, is famous for its miracles—the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the Road-Stain Jesus, the stigmata man. And now it has JoLayne Lucks, unlikely winner of the state lottery.
• Nightlife / Thomas Perry — By turns horrifying and erotic, Perry's new thriller takes us on a dangerous cat-and-mouse game that pits two women against each other: a beautiful serial killer and the detective who is determined to stop her.
• The bookshop / Penelope Fitzgerald — In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop - the only bookshop - in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers.
• The divine circle of ladies making mischief / Dolores Riccio — The continuing adventures of a circle of Wiccan women, as they snoop into some mysterious deaths at a local rehab centre.
• Circle of five / Dolores Riccio — A fictional tale about 5 Wiccan women who get involved in the search for a serial killer.
• Charmed circle / Dolores Stewart. Riccio — Continuing crime-fighting adventures of a Wiccan circle of friends.
• The tender bar / J. R. Moehringer — Riveting, moving, and achingly funny, The Tender Bar is at once an evocative portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man, and a touching depiction of how some men remain lost boys.
• The planets / Dava Sobel — The sun's family of planets become a familiar place in this personal account of the lives of other worlds. Sobel explores the planets' origins and oddities through the lens of popular culture, from astrology, mythology, and science fiction to art, music, poetry, biography, and history.
• Vanish / Tess Gerritsen — A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis in this timely and relentless new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Body Double.
• The experts' book of sewing tips & techniques : from the sewing stars of America / Marya Kissinger Amig — This book is filled with helpful hints and tips from America's top sewing experts. Learn their trade secrets as they share timesaving methods, smart shopping suggestions, how-to information on sewing for a professional look, and advice on fabrics, buttons, stabilizers, and more.
• Scales over chords : How to improvise...and never play bad notes! / Wilbur M. Savidge — All you need to know about the art of improvisation. Basic theory, scales, modes, and creative tools of expression explained and illustrated.
• Strange fits of passion / Anita Shreve — The reader is left to uncover the truth in this labryinth of a tale, a riveting story told within the framework of one reporter's notes and a woman's letters from prison.
• The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane / Kate DiCamillo — Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him completely. And then, one day, he was lost. (Age Range: 9 to 12)
• The great serum race : blazing the Iditarod Trail / Debbie S. Miller — In this award-winning children's picture book, Debbie S. Miller tells the dramatic story of the great 1925 Nome serum run. (Age Range: 7 to 12)
• The kite runner / Khaled Hosseini — Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul.
• The last templar / Raymond Khoury — In a hail of fire and flashing sword, as the burning city of Acre falls from the hands of the West in 1291, The Last Templar opens with a young Templar knight, his mentor, and a handful of others escaping to the sea carrying a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the Order's dying Grand Master. The ship vanishes without a trace.
• Tree Girl / Ben Mikaelsen — Rowanna's stern caretaker has warned her again and again not to go near the trees that surround their seaside cottage. But Rowanna is drawn to the forest-especially the High Willow on its faraway hill. Are the trees really forest ghouls, as Mellwyn says? Or could they possibly hold the secret to Rowanna's past and the mother she can hardly remember? (Ages 8-15)
• Red midnight / Ben Mikaelsen — After soldiers kill his family, twelve-year-old Santiago and his four-year-old sister flee Guatemala in a kayak and try to reach the United States. (Age Range: 10)
• Touching Spirit Bear / Ben Mikaelsen — After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life. (Age Range: 10)
• Countdown / Ben Mikaelsen — When 14-year-old Elliott Schroeder is selected by NASA to become the first Junior Astronaut, he has no way of knowing the profound effect it will have on his life and the life of Vincent Ole Tome, a young Masai herder. (Age Range: 12 and up)
• Rescue of Josh McGuire / Ben Mikaelsen — When thirteen-year-old Josh runs away to the mountains of Montana with an orphaned bear cub destined for laboratory testing, they both must fight for their lives in a sudden snowstorm. (Age Range: 12 and up)
• Stranded / Ben Mikaelsen — Twelve-year-old Koby, who has lost a foot in an accident, sees a chance to prove her self-reliance to her parents when she tries to rescue two stranded pilot whales near her home in the Florida Keys. (Age Range: 12 and up)
• Sparrow Hawk Red / Ben Mikaelsen — Thirteen-year-old Ricky, the Mexican American son of a former Drug Enforcement Agency man, tries to avenge his mother's murder by crossing over into Mexico to steal a high-tech radar plane from drug smugglers. (Age Range: Young Adult)
• Petey / Ben Mikaelsen — In 1922 Petey, who has cerebral palsy, is misdiagnosed as an idiot and institutionalized; sixty years later, still in the institution, he befriends a boy and shares with him the joy of life. (Age Range: 12 and up)
• The Templar legacy / Steve Berry — The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. But now two forces vying for the treasure have learned that it is not at all what they thought it was-and its true nature could change the modern world.
• The magician's tale / David Hunt —An achromat suffering from total color blindness, Kay possesses a vision that informs her world and sharpens her skills as talented photographer. When Tim Lovsey, a handsome prostitute, is brutally slain, he becomes much more than Kay's subject. She makes it her mission to find his killer, even though the police would prefer to quietly let the case drop.

Book descriptions are from the websites cited.

Genealogy group moving to new headquarters

The Seldovia Family Tree Searchers will be moving out of the library proper and into the former mental health office, on the lower floor of the Multipurpose Building. This will give them more space and more freedom to discuss their researches without worrying about bothering other library patrons, as well as internet access on their research computer. The new office will be opening on March 25. At present, regular hours are planned for Wednesdays and Saturdays from 1-4 pm although other times may be arranged by appointment by contacting Sandee Elvsaas or John & Mary Sanger (8010).

3/4: New at the library this week

DVDs:

• Blood simple

Videos:

• Happy Gilmore

Books:

• If you lived here, I'd know your name : news from small-townAlaska / Heather Lende — Like Bailey White's tales of Southern life or Garrison Keillor's reports from the Midwest, NPR commentator Heather Lende's take on her offbeat Alaskan hometown celebrates life in a dangerous and breathtakingly beautiful place.
• Salem Falls / Jodi Picoult— When Jack St. Bride arrives by chance in the sleepy New England town of Salem Falls, he decides to reinvent himself. Tall, blond, and handsome, Jack was once a beloved teacher and soccer coach at a girls' prep school—until a student's crush sparked a powder keg of accusation and robbed him of his reputation.
• Perfect Match / Jodi Picoult— In the course of her everyday work, career-driven assistant district attorney Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters and works determinedly to ensure that a legal system with too many loopholes keeps these criminals behind bars. But when her own five-year-old son, Nathaniel, is traumatized by a sexual assault, Nina and her husband, Caleb, a quiet and methodical stone mason, are shattered, ripped apart by an enraging sense of helplessness in the face of a futile justice system that Nina knows all too well.
• Wild animus / Rick Shapero (also available on cd)
• The pact : a love story / Jodi Picoult— For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything from Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty - they've grown so close it seems they have always been a part of each other's lives. Parents and children alike have been best friends - so it's no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more.
• Vanishing acts / Jodi Picoult— Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father, Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall.
• Five complete novels : series II / Louis L'Amour (Crossfire trail, Utah Blaine, Heller with a gun, Last stand at Papago Wells, To tame a land)
• Fly away Peter / David Malouf— In this shimmering work of imagination, one of Australia's most honored writers conjures a single still moment on the edge of the 20th century in which two unlikely people share a friendship.
• The blackbirder / James L. Nelson— In the wake of The Guardship comes the second in the Brethren of the Coast trilogy and the swash-buckling adventures of former pirate Thomas Marlowe.