8/25: New at the library this week

Books:

• Last breath / Mariah Stewart — As renowned archaeologist Dr. Daria McGowan readies the most important project of her career–a University museum exhibit showcasing the priceless artifacts her great-grandfather unearthed a century earlier in the Middle East–she makes a shocking discovery: many of the most significant pieces have vanished. Panicked, Daria turns to the FBI. (read an exerpt)
• High profile / Robert B. Parker — When the body of controversial talk-show host Walton Weeks is discovered hanging from a tree on the outskirts of Paradise, police chief Jesse Stone finds himself at the center of a highly public case, forcing him to deal with small-minded local officials and national media scrutiny. When another dead body-that of a young woman-is discovered just a few days later, the pressure becomes almost unbearable. (Jesse Stone Series, #6)
• Woodworking classics : skill-building projects for the home woodworker / Woodworker's Journal
• Woodworking favorites : top projects and techniques for your shop and home / Woodworker's Journal
• Woodworking secrets : essential methods and projects for fine-tuning your shop skills / Woodworker's Journal
• The home woodworker : classic projects for your shop and home / Woodworker's Journal
• From start to finish : quality plans and techniques for the home woodworker / Woodworker's Journal
• The complete woodworker : time-tested projects and professional techniques for your shop and home / Woodworker's Journal
• From shop to home : essential projects, tips and techniques for today's home woodworker / Woodworker's Journal
• Olivia Owl's opposites / Maurice Pledger — Maurice Pledger's Olivia Owl teaches children how to identify opposites in this beautifully illustrated board book. Children will delight as they turn each page and learn such things like big and small, long and short. Each page is packed with wonderful drawings of Maurice Pledger's animal friends. (Age Range: For infants or children in preschool)
• Bobby Bear's ABC / Maurice Pledger — Maurice Pledger's lovable Bobby Bear coaxes children to think of a creature for each letter of the alphabet in this colorful board book. Young ones travel from A is for Ant to Z is for Zebra before going Zzzz along with a sleepy Bobby Bear. Children will delight in the wonderful drawings of busy bugs, reptiles, birds, and animals. (Age Range: For infants or children in preschool)
• Billy Bunny's 123 / Maurice Pledger — Maurice Pledger's cuddly Billy Bunny makes counting fun in this delicately illustrated board book. Children count with Billy, finding and adding up the correct number of animals on each page, from one little bunny to ten beautiful butterflies! It's counting at its cutest and most fun! (Age Range: For infants or children in preschool)
• Oscar Otter's colors / Maurice Pledger — Maurice Pledger's lovable Oscar Otter 's Colors will delight children with it's vividly illustrated spreads. This book will captivate children as they turn each page and learn about color in nature. Each page is packed with animal friends and things in nature that are so different yet created in the same color. (Age Range: For infants or children in preschool)
• Justice denied / Judith A. Jance — Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont is handed a hush–hush special assignment: find out what really happened in the shooting death of an ex–con. At first, everything seems straightforward, but the deeper Beau digs, the more complicated it becomes. The ex–con really had turned over a new leaf and his murder has nothing to do with, say, a drug deal gone bad. Someone targeted DeShawn for death. (read a sample chapter)