1/6: New at the library this week

Videos:

• Her alibi
• Wagons east!
• Black hawk down
• The horse soldiers
• Mission: impossible
• My girl
• Scent of a woman
• Batman returns
• Dangerous liasons
• World war II : The Stillwell Road; The Nuremberg trials
• Family business
• Brubaker
• Romeo & Juliet
• Foul play
• Guarding Tess

DVDs:

• Tristram Shandy
• The Da Vinci Code
• Black Books
• Cars
• M:i:III
• Domino

Books:

• The Mephisto Club / Tess Gerritsen — The Latin is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman's brutal murder: I HAVE SINNED. It's a chilling Christmas greeting for Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli, who swiftly link the victim to controversial celebrity psychiatrist Joyce O'Donnell-Jane's professional nemesis and member of a sinister cabal called the Mephisto Club. (Jane Rizzoli & Maura Isles Series, #6)
• Mannheim Steamroller Christmas : a night like no other / Jill (Jill Parsons) Stern — When Evan Darling realizes that his children have become so focused on gifts that they've completely lost sight of the true meaning of Christmas, he knows he has to do something to help them see the wonder of it all. As a blizzard rages, Evan sits the family down and tells them the extraordinary tale of a young boy's magical experience during another blizzard long ago.
• Retro stud : muscle movie posters from around the world / David Chapman
• Public radio : behind the voices / Lisa A. Phillips — After adecade of working at public radio stations around the country, Phillips was driven to know more about the people who deliver the news, the conversation and the diverse programs that she and millions of listeners enjoy every day. The result is a collection of personal stories from more than 40 of the most listened to voices in public radio. (read an exerpt)
• Stalemate / Iris Johansen — Eve Duncan has turned down the job twice already. Her skill and devotion in identifying murder victims and helping bring their killers to justice may be world-renowned. But Eve works exclusively for law enforcement and the families of the innocent, and the man on the other end of the phone is many things-none of them law-abiding or innocent. (Eve Duncan Series, #7)
• The thirteenth tale / Diane Setterfield — Margaret Lea works in her father's antiquarian bookshop where her fascination for the biographies of the long-dead has led her to write them herself. She gets a letter from one of the most famous authors of the day, the mysterious Vida Winter, whose popularity as a writer has been in no way diminished by her reclusiveness. Until now, Vida has toyed with journalists who interview her, creating outlandish life histories for herself - all of them invention. Now she is old and ailing, and at last she wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary life. Her letter to Margaret is a summons. (read an exerpt)
• Lisey's story / Stephen King — Lisey Debusher Landon lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty five year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Lisey knew there was a place Scott went -- a place that both terrified and healed him, could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to live. Now it's Lisey's turn to face Scott's demons, Lisey's turn to go to Boo'ya Moon. What begins as a widow's effort to sort through the papers of her celebrated husband becomes a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited. (read an exerpt)
• Barefoot Contessa at home : everyday recipes you'll make over and over again / Ina Garten — Ina shares her life in East Hampton, the recipes she loves, and her secrets to making guests feel welcome and comfortable.
• The innocent man : murder and injustice in a small town / John Grisham — In 1982, a 21-year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder. If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty, this book will disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate you.
• The Bancroft strategy / Robert Ludlum — When Todd Belknap—a legendary field agent for Consular Operations with a reputation as something of a cowboy— is cut loose from the agency after an operation goes wrong, his best friend and fellow agent is abducted in Lebanon by a militia group with a vicious reputation. When the government refuses to either rescue him or negotiate for his release, Belknap decides to take matters into his own hands.
• State of denial / Bob Woodward — examines how the Bush administration avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to Congress, and often to themselves. (read a sample chapter)