5/27: New at the library this week

Videos:

• Cycle

DVDs:

• Yours, Mine and Ours
• Narnia

Books:

• The Chala Project : murder in the Grand Canyon / Ann Livesay — Hounto Chala, a leader with the United Nations Environment Programme, has proposed a deeply radical idea-that the killing of any wild animal become a worldwide capital offense-making him the target of outraged gunmen. His rafting trip through the Grand Canyon becomes a breathtaking challenge to international investigator Barry Ross and the park rangers charged with protecting him.
• Rainbows end / Vernor Vinge — Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed and so has his place in it. Living with his son's family, he has no choice but to learn how to cope with a new information age in which the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum, layers of reality built on digital views seen by a single person or millions, depending on your choice.
• The stars can wait / Jay Basu — In this powerful debut set in 1940s German-occupied Poland, a young Catholic boy unearths the secrets of his brother's mysterious life.
• The further adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle —
• To America : personal reflections of an historian / Stephen E. Ambrose — Completed shortly before Ambrose's untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation's history through the eyes of one of the twentieth century's most influential historians. Ambrose roams the country's history, praising the men and women who made it exceptional.
• Decorating magic / John Sutcliffe — A new and original approach to the art of interior decoration revealing the secrets of a wide range of techniques, effects and finishes

5/20: New at the library this week

Books:

• Beach road / James Patterson & Peter De Jonge —Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy's client list is woefully small--occasional real estate closings barely keep him in paper clips. When he is hired to defend a local man accused in a triple murder that has the East Hampton world in an uproar, he knows that he has found the case of his lifetime.
• Dead days of summer / Carolyn Hart —Murder hits close to home for Death on Demand bookstore owner Annie Darling and her beloved husband, Max. While investigating a new case, Max calls Annie to let her know he may be late getting home. He never shows up.
• Dark Harbor / Stuart Woods —Stone Barrington investigates the secrets of a CIA officer's suicide in this next thriller in the bestselling series. Stone enters the picturesque town Dark Harbor off the coast of Maine, where the shocking deaths of three people have cast a long shadow over this island haven-a locale as mysterious as it is exclusive.
• The old wine shades / Martha Grimes —Stopping by a tavern called The Old Wine Shades to knock back a few pints, Jury meets a well-to-do man named Harry Johnson, who recounts a bizarre story about how his friend's wife, son, and dog all suddenly vanished without a trace and how, nine months later, the dog inexplicably reappeared.
• Kingdom come / Tim Green —Bob King is a self-made billionaire who parlayed a rusty backhoe into the 27th spot on Forbes' list. Now, his corporation is a multi-billion dollar construction company that instills greed and competition among friends, including his son Scott and his two best friends, Thane and Ben.
• The tall ships : a sailing celebration / Hyla M. Clark —Photographic account of Operation Sail 1976
• Bedroom & bath storage / Sunset magazine
• Sailing companion / Arthur Somers

5/13: New at the library this week

DVDs:

• Hustle & flow
• Equilibrium
• Elizabethtown
• The ice harvest
• Raising Helen
• In her shoes
• Kinsey
• Brokeback mountain
• Harry Potter and the goblet of fire

Books:

• The island / Heather Graham — A slice of paradise in the turquoise waters of southern Florida, the island is a lush, breathtaking sanctuary. Few can resist its allure, or its primitive beauty— but fewer still know its secrets.
• Cell / Stephen King — The cause of the devastation is a phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse, and the delivery method is a cell phone. Everyone's cell phone. Clay and the few desperate survivors who join him suddenly find themselves in the pitch-black night of civilization's darkest age,
• Marley & me: life and love with the world's worst dog / John Grogan — John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wiggly yellow furball of a puppy. Life would never be the same.
• Eat, drink, and weigh less: a flexible and delicious way to shrinkyour waist without going hungry / Mollie Katzen — offers a medically sound, extremely effective program that shows people how they can lose weight by adding delicious food to their diet and making simple changes in what they eat throughout the day.
• Blue shoes and happiness / Alexander McCall Smith — A cobra has been found in Precious Ramotswe's office. Then a nurse from a local medical clinic reveals to Mma Ramotswe that faulty blood-pressure readings are being recorded there. And it looks as though Aunty Emang, the advice columnist in the local newspaper, may not be what she seems.
• The two minute rule / Robert Crais — Ask anyone on the wrong side of the law about the two minute rule and they'll tell you that's as long as you can hope for at a robbery before the cops show up. Break the two minute rule and it's a lifetime in jail. But not everyone plays by the rules.
• Curious George: the movie / Jasmine Jones — A Curious George adventure perfect for fans who are just beginning to read on their own- simple pictures stand in for some words in this rebus reader. Includes full-color illustrations from the motion picture.
• The kindness of strangers / Katrina Kittle — On a quiet street in the suburban Midwest, a popular, seemingly stable family keeps a terrible, dark secret behind closed doors -- a secret that will have life-changing consequences for all who know them
• Night / Elie Wiesel — Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie’s wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author’s original intent.
• The Sonoma diet: trimmer waist, better health in just 10 days! /Connie Guttersen — Inspired by the sun-drenched foods and vibrant lifestyle of California's breathtakingly beautiful wine country, The Sonoma Diet is a surefire weight loss plan based on wholesome, satisfying, flavorful meals.
• The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay / Michael Chabon — It is New York City in 1939. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat to date: smuggling himself out of Nazi-occupied Prague. He is looking to make big money, fast, so that he can bring his family to freedom. His cousin, Brooklyn's own Sammy Clay, is looking for a collaborator to create the heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit the American dreamscape: the comic book. Out of their fantasies, fears, and dreams, Joe and Sammy weave the legend of that unforgettable champion the Escapist. (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
• Sex and the seasoned woman: pursuing the passionate life / Gail Sheehy — In her most groundbreaking work since Passages and The Silent Passage, bestselling author Gail Sheehy reveals a hidden cultural phenomenon -- increased vitality in women’s sex and love lives after fifty.
• Christopher Lowell's seven layers of organization: unclutter your home, unclutter your life / Christopher Lowell — Lowell takes you through the organizing process step by step, breaking down each layer into simple tasks that anyone can make time to do. He shows how to plan ahead for better, faster, longer-lasting results; how to decide what to keep and what to toss; and how to store or show off your possessions.
• The Alpine recluse / Mary Daheim — In the middle of a hot midsummer night, Emma is awakened by fire trucks rushing to a blaze at the nearby home of newlyweds Tim and Tiffany Rafferty. At daybreak, Tiffany and her unborn child are safe, but Tim, never blessed with good luck in all his thirty-plus years, has perished in the fierce conflagration. Sheriff Milo Dodge suspects murder and arson, and rumors fly from the Burger Barn and Mugs Ahoy to the Grocery Basket and the Venison Inn.
• The end of faith: religion, terror, and the future of reason / Sam Harris — An impassioned plea for reason in a world divided by faith.This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behavior and sometimes heinous crimes.
• The English patient / Michael Ondaatje — During the final moments of World War II, in a deserted Italian villa, four people come together: a young nurse, her will broken, all her energy focused on her last, dying patient, a man in whom she has seen something "she wanted to learn, to grow into and hide in"... the patient: an unknown Englishman, survivor of a plane crash, his mind awash with a life's worth of secrets and passions ... a thief whose "skills" have made him one of the war's heroes, and one of its casualties ... an Indian soldier in the British army, an expert at bomb disposal whose three years at war have taught him that "the only thing safe is himself."
• Sailing a practical handbook; the complete guide to sailing and racingdinghies, catamarans and cruisers / Jeremy Evans
• Under sail : equipment for the serious sailor / edited by Tony Meisel —
• The sailor's world / Beiser, Arthur