1/21: New at the library this week

Videos:

• Hook
• Coyote ugly
• Panic room
• Mother's boys
• Hanoi Hilton
• SNL goes commercial
• Dumb and dumber
• With honors
• The three stooges: 4 episodes
• Death becomes her
• Housesitter
• Mrs. Soffel
• Duel in the sun
• Final analysis
• Return to me
• Mulholland Falls
• There's something about Mary

DVDs:

• Prime
• The man
• The white countess
• Birth
• The lake house
• L'enfant
• Take the lead

Books:

• True evil / Greg Iles — If you wanted to kill your spouse and get away with it, you had to do something truly ingenious: something that wouldn't even be perceived as murder. And that was the service that Andrew Rusk had found a way to provide. Like any quality product, it did not come cheap. Nor did it come quickly. And perhaps most important of all, it was not for those with weak constitutions. (read a sample chapter)
• Cross / James Patterson — Cross's former partner, John Sampson, calls in a favor. He is tracking a serial rapist in Georgetown, one whose brutal modus operandi recalls a case Sampson and Cross worked together years earlier. When the case reveals a connection to [his wife] Maria's death, Cross latches on for the most urgent and terrifying ride of his life. (Alex Cross Series, #12) (read a sample chapter)
• That wild berries should grow : the story of a summer / Gloria Whelan — Elsa is a precocious fifth-grade girl who cannot imagine living anywhere but amid the hustle and bustle of busy downtown Detroit. Even in the midst of the Great Depression there are many exciting things to occupy her time. But when the prescription for a sudden illness includes spending the summer at her grandparents’ country cottage beside Lake Huron, Elsa must learn to find excitement in "empty" places. (Age Range: 9 to 12)
• The Pox party, volume one (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation) / M. T. Anderson — It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother - a princess in exile from a faraway land - are the only persons in their household assigned names. As the boy's regal mother, Cassiopeia, entertains the house scholars with her beauty and wit, young Octavian begins to question the purpose behind his guardians' fanatical studies. Only after he dares to open a forbidden door does he learn the hideous nature of their experiments - and his own chilling role in them. (Age Range: Young Adult) (National Book Award winner)(download a study guide from the publisher)
• Web of evil / Judith A. Jance — The highway from Los Angeles to the Palm Springs desert is parched, unforgiving, and deadly. In the suffocating stillness of a car trunk, a man — his mouth and hands bound with tape — waits to learn his fate. Fortunately for him, he'll never know. What possible enemy could be bitter enough to commit such a heinous crime? And when will the monster make another move?