4/14: New at the library this week

DVDs:

• The departed

Books:

• Water like a stone / Deborah Crombie — When Scotland Yard superintendent Duncan Kincaid takes Gemma, Kit, and Toby for a holiday visit to his family in Cheshire, Gemma is soon entranced with Nantwich's pretty buildings and the historic winding canal, and young Kit is instantly smitten with his cousin Lally. But their visit is marred by family tensions exacerbated by the unraveling of Duncan's sister Juliet's marriage. And tensions are brought to the breaking point on Christmas Eve with Juliet's discovery of a mummified infant's body interred in the wall of an old dairy barn—a tragedy hauntingly echoed by the recent drowning of Peter Llewellyn, a schoolmate of Lally's. (Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James Series, #11; read a sample chapter)
• Man in the middle / Brian Haig — Dispatched to investigate the suicide of one of D.C.'s most influential defense officials--an ardent, early supporter of the war in Iraq--Drummond and his female partner find themselves in the middle of a tug-of-war between Washington's most influential power brokers and his own personal allegiance to the soldiers dying overseas. (read a sample chapter)
• People of the nightland / W. Michael Gear. ; Kathleen O'Neal Gear — It has been a thousand years since Wolf Dreamer lead his people up through the dark hole in the ice to a rich, untouched continent bursting with game. But the world has changed. When a young orphaned boy named Silvertip receives a vision from Wolf Dreamer that their world is about to end, no one believes him--no one except a jaded war chief and a little girl. (First North Americans Series)
• Lush / Natasha Friend — It's hard to be a thirteen-year-old-girl. But it's even harder when your father's a drunk. It adds an extra layer to everything - your family's reaction to things, the friends you're willing to bring home, the way you see yourself and the world. For Samantha, it's something that has been going on for so long that she's almost used to it. Only, you never get used to it. Especially when it starts to get worse. (Age Range: Young Adult)
• Song of Solomon / Toni Morrison — Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this novel, Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world. (read an exerpt)
• Fight fat : secrets to successful weight loss / Alisa Bauman
• Low-fat living cookbook : skillpower not willpower / Leslie L. Cooper — The Low-Fat Living program is not a diet. It's a system that shows you how to make simple "switches" in your everyday eating patterns.
• Eat great lose weight : tried and true recipes and tips from real weight-loss winners / Jane Kirby
• Dead and berried / Karen MacInerney — developers have returned to Cranberry Island. This time, theyre planning to wipe out a natural cranberry bog, along with the island's namesake berries, to build a luxury subdivision. Natalie Barnes isn't sweet on the idea of commercial interests souring their cozy oasis, but the single innkeeper has other problems on her plate: a withering relationship with her best friend Charlene, the sudden appearance of her ex-fiancé with a tempting proposal, and eerie bumps in the night suggesting the Gray Whale Inn is haunted.
• Pillsbury baking / Pillsbury Company — This is the cookbook with fun family appeal that draws upon the Pillsbury consumer's love of easy baking, packed with choice recipes for baked goods and the latest baking information.