8/29: New at the library this week

DVDs:

• Howl's moving castle (fully-redubbed English version)
• good night, and good luck

Audiobooks:

• Before the dawn / Carol Warburton — plot synopsis

Books:

• Freshwater fishing secrets / North American Fishing Club —
• The secret of sigma seven / Franklin W. Dixon —The aliens are invading! No, they're not from another galaxy. They're not even from Mars. They're from Hollywood! A science fiction convention has come to Bayport, and movie director Simon Devoreaux has lost his billion-dollar baby: the film of his latest blockbuster has dematerialized before his eyes. (Hardy Boys Paperback Mystery Stories Series, #110)
• Day of the dinosaur / Franklin W. Dixon — A new museum is under construction outside Bayport--and it's like no museum Frank and Joe have ever seen. Its theme is prehistory, and its #1 attraction is sure to be the dinosaur park. But when the boys sign on to help prepare for opening day, they make a startling discovery: Not only are the dinosaurs incredibly lifelike...they are potentially lethal! (Hardy Boys Paperback Mystery Stories Series, #128)
• Footprints under the window / Franklin W. Dixon — Hardy Boys Mystery Stories Series, #12
• Fear on wheels / Franklin W. Dixon — A quarter of a million in cold cash - that's how much an unknown extortionist is demanding to insure the safety of the monster truck and hot rod show at the Bayport Arena. Promoter Grant Tucker asks Frank and Joe to go underground and crush the crooked plot before the cook delivers a crushing blow. (Hardy Boys Paperback Mystery Stories Series, #108)
• Cleese encounters / Jonathan Margolis — The introverted and awkwardly tall boy (six feet, four and three-quarter inches at the age of thirteen) from the dreary English village of Weston-super-Mare nearly became a lawyer, until he discovered Cambridge and the footlights at the dawn of the Swinging Sixties. Today, after masterful roles in films like Life of Brian ("miserable little film" - Malcolm Muggeridge), Clockwise, and A Fish Called Wanda (thought to be incredibly sexy in Japan), John Cleese may at last have the answer to that tormenting question from Wanda: "Do you have any idea what it's like being English?"
• Complex cloth : a comprehensive guide to surface design / Jane Dunnewold — Discover textile artist Jane Dunnewold's secrets to creating visual complexity and depth in fabric. In this comprehensive guide, Jane explains her system of layering simple processes to produce intriguing surface designs. Full-color photographs of fabric, quilts, and clothing provide a sampling of her beautiful results.
• French by design / Betty Lou Phillips — Demonstrates how interior designers create a French country look in contemporary American homes.
• The complete stenciling handbook / Sandra Buckingham — Beginning with the simple stencil — a template that lets you easily create a painted shape on a surface and allows you to repeat the exact pattern wherever and as often as you wish — renowned stenciler Sandra Buckingham literally transforms the world around her.

8/23: New at the library this week

Videos:

• Lake Placid
• What women want
• Fierce creatures
• Arch of triumph
• The eagle has landed
• The Great Waldo Pepper
• Dead again
• Lassiter
• Legally blonde

Books:

• Dead wrong / Judith A. Jance — Juggling a family and a career is never easy - and it's becoming a real challenge for Sheriff Joanna Brady. Coping with the impending delivery of her second child as well as a staff shortage, the last things Joanna needs are two serious crimes. (Joanna Brady Series, #12)
• The fourth bear / Jasper Fforde — Detective Chief Inspector Jack Spratt and his trusty sergeant, Mary Mary, are back in another sidesplitting Nursery Crime adventure. Spratt must track down a legendarily violent criminal known as the Gingerbreadman, a "seven-foot biscuit with a bad attitude." (Nursery Crime Series, #2)
• Two sticks and a string: Knitting Designs Inspired by Nature / Kerry Ferguson
• Fighting ships of the world / Robert Jackson
• Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe / Fannie Flagg — It’s first the story of two women in the 1980s, of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women—of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth—who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder.
• The edge of town / Dorothy Garlock — At 21, Julie Jones is convinced that life is passing her by. Her mother's death four years ago left her in charge of caring for her father and five siblings, and dashed her hopes of meeting that special someone who would whisk her away to the glamorous big city. Then all at once, Julie's predictable existence is overturned when her father finds love with an attractive widow, and Evan Johnson, the mysterious son of the town drunkard returns home and starts courting her.

8/16: New at the library this week

Videos:

• Deceived
• Entertaining Angels
• Tora! Tora! Tora!
• Gladiator
• Crossing Delancey
• Spy who came in from the cold
• The North Avenue irregulars
• Bennies from heaven
• Face/off
• City slickers
• A midsummer night's dream
• Jagged edge

DVDs:

• The Manchurian candidate
• The quick and the dead
• A fool and his money
• Copper Mountain

Books:

• Promise me / Harlan Coben —Because of the simple urge to protect two neighborhood high-school girls from the all-too-dangerous and all-too-common mistake of getting in a car with a drunk driver, Myron has them make him a promise: If they are ever in a bind but are afraid to call their parents, they should call him rather than get in a car with someone who's been drinking. Several nights later, the call comes at 2:00 am, and true to his word, Myron picks up one of the girls in midtown Manhattan and drives her to a quiet cul-de-sac in New Jersey where she says her friend lives. The next day, the girl's parents discover that their daughter is missing. And that Myron was the last person to see her. (Myron Bolitar Series, #8)
• Out of my mind : the discovery of Saunders-Vixen / Richard Bach —Bach's journey begins as he puzzles over design modifications for his airplane, a Piper Cub. Perfect designs--simple and practical--seem to come to him out of the blue. But one day when a design appears, along with a fleeting glimpse of an intriguing woman, Bach sets out to discover the source of the visions. The journey leads to a startling destination: a parallel universe where a British airplane manufacturer--Saunders-Vixen Aircraft Company Ltd.--makes superb biplanes and solves problems for perplexed aviators.
• Lonely hearts / John Harvey —British detective Charlie Resnick--middle-aged, overweight, divorced and disillusioned--investigates the murders of two women who shared nothing except their use of the local paper's lonely-hearts column to meet men. (Charlie Resnick Series, #1)
• A girl named Zippy : growing up small in Mooreland, Indiana / Haven Kimmel —When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would run around like a circus monkey, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back in time to when small-town America was still trapped in the amber of the innocent post-war period—people help their neighbors, go to church, keep barnyard animals in their backyards.
• Plainsong / Kent Haruf —In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl — her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house — is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known.
• House beautiful : decorating with books : use your library to enhance your decor / Marie Proeller Hueston —From grand bookcases in home libraries to casual stacks artfully arrayed on chairs, House Beautiful presents countless eye-catching ideas for displaying and arranging your hardcovers, paperbacks, encyclopedias, and even valuable first editions. Useful tips shed light on how to organize a large collection; situate bookcases in the room for the best effect; and make the most of books' appealing visual and tactile qualities.

8/5: New at the library this week

Books:

• The Wright 3 / Blue Balliett— Spring semester at the Lab School in Hyde Park finds Petra and Calder drawn into another mystery when unexplainable accidents and ghostly happenings throw a spotlight on Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House, and it's up to the two junior sleuths to piece together the clues. (Age Range: 9 to 12)
• Broken trail / Alan Geoffrion— During the late 1800s two unique events were taking place in the American West. The British were deep in the throes of the Boer War and were coming to the U.S. to purchase horses for their military campaigns. Meanwhile, another trade was taking place. Chinese women were being kidnapped from the West Coast and brought to the interior west to serve as prostitutes. In Broken Trail, the story unfolds upon these historical facts, following the story of five Chinese women, kidnapped and destined for a life of misery, whose fate becomes intertwined with two horseman (Duvall/Church) wrangling horses for sale to the British Empire.
• Dancing in a distant place / Isla Dewar— A warm and intelligent novel about a young teacher who throws herself into the lives of her students in the hopes of forgetting the past, only to find it returning more vividly than ever.When Iris Chisholm arrives in the tiny Scottish Highland community of Green Cairns, she's still in a state of shock--not so much from her husband's untimely death as from the discovery that he'd gambled away all their money and even their home. In addressing the problems of the children at the school where she works, Iris finds distractions from worries.
• Artful illusions : designs to fool your eyes / Aki Nurosi— These exquisitely designed brain-bending, mind-blowing, all-color optical illusions will really fool your eyes. Each is a masterpiece, created to appeal to wide-eyed children, design students, and art lovers.
• The joy of origami / Margaret. Van Sicklen— Traditional in spirit—she reaches back to origami's original aim, as a way to share unique gifts with friends and family—yet contemporary in look and feel, with 100 sheets of paper featuring bold, often whimsical patterns specially designed to complement the models, it's a jazzy, essential book for every origami hobbyist, whether an old hand at folding or new to the craft.
• The kids' guide to digital photography : how to shoot, save, play with & print your digital photos / Jenni. Bidner— Digital photography is hot, and kids want to get in on the fun. This comprehensive instructional guide, created especially for youngsters, tells them exactly what they need to know to capture those birthday parties, school events, sleepovers, and family vacations. Every important question gets an easy-to-understand answer.
• Lola at the library / Anna McQuinn — (Age Range: For infants or children in preschool)
• The geographer's library / Jon Fasman — When reporter Paul Tomm is assigned to investigate the mysterious death of a reclusive academic, he finds himself pursuing leads that date back to the twelfth century and the theft of alchemical instruments from the geographer of the Sicilian court. Now someone is trying to retrieve them. Interspersed with the present action are the stories of the men and women who came to possess those charmed—and sometimes cursed— artifacts, which have powers that go well beyond the transmutation of lead into gold.
• Break no bones / Kathy Reichs — The inspiration for the hit Fox series Bones, Kathy Reichs explores another high-stakes crime from today's headlines-in a case that lands forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan in the middle of a gruesome international scheme. Summoned to South Carolina to fill in for a negligent colleague, Tempe is stuck teaching at a lackluster archeology field school in the ruins of a Native American burial ground on the Charleston shore. But when Tempe stumbles upon a fresh skeleton among the ancient bones, her old friend Emma Rousseau, the local coroner, persuades Tempe to stay on and help with the investigation. (Temperance Brennan Series, #9)
• Bleeding hearts / Susan Wittig Albert— High school football coach Tim Duffy is handsome, charming, and married into a wealthy local family. But now, an anonymous accuser has made shocking allegations of improper behavior-and China Bayles is asked to conduct a discreet investigation. (China Bayles Series, #14)
• Reader's Digest North American wildlife / Susan J. Wernert— A valuable athome reference and an extraordinarily usable guide to more than 2000 of the most common and conspicuous wild plants and animals. Specially designed for quick and easy identification. Vibrant, specially drawn fullcolor illustrations of each of the 2000plus species.
• Piloting & dead reckoning / H. H. Shufeldt— This basic reference is filled with practical advise, step-by-step calculations, diagrams, and lots of helpful illustrations. It also introduces the reader to the increasingly sophisticated, satellite-monitoring navigational aids that have become more widely available in recent years.
• Better homes and gardens new complete guide to home repair/ Charles Wing