6/2: New at the library this week

DVDs:

• Meet the Fockers

Books:

• The grave tattoo / Val McDermid — After torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, long discarded old wives' tales takes on a chilling new plausibility. For centuries, Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian staged the massacre on Pitcairn so that he could return home. And there, he told his story to an old friend and schoolmate, William Wordsworth, who turned it into a long narrative poema poem that remained hidden lest it expose Wordsworth to the gallows for harboring a fugitive. Wordsworth specialist Jane Gresham, herself a native of the Lake District, feels compelled to discover once and for all whether the manuscript ever existedand whether it still exists today. But as she pursues each new lead, death follows hard on her heels. (read an exerpt)
• The Homer Spit : coal, gold, and con men / Janet R. Klein
• Exploring Alaska's Prince William Sound, its fiords, islands, glaciers, and wildlife / Neil C. Johannsen ; Elizabeth Johannsen
• A Parade of Alaska history : sculptured in bas-relief for the Alaska Mutual Savings Bank, Anchorage, Alaska / Miriam Hilscher ; Herb Hilscher
• Charles Russell / Charles M. Russell, ; Sophia Craze — Charles Russell's life and art are revealed in this large-format volume focusing on sixty-six full color paintings and sculptures. Known as the "cowboy artist," he embodied the rugged individualism of his time.
• Prisoner of Tehran : a memoir / Marina Nemat — What would you give up to protect your loved ones? Your life? In her heartbreaking, triumphant, and elegantly written memoir, Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat tells the heart-pounding story of her life as a young girl in Iran during the early days of Ayatollah Khomeini's brutal Islamic Revolution.
• The overlook / Michael Connelly — In his first case since he left the LAPD's Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch is called out to investigate a murder that may have chilling consequences for national security. A doctor with access to a dangerous radioactive substance is found murdered on the overlook above the Mulholland Dam. Retracing his steps, Harry learns that a large quantity of radioactive cesium was stolen shortly before the doctor's death. With the cesium in unknown hands, Harry fears the murder could be part of a terrorist plot to poison a major American city. (Harry Bosch Series, #12; watch a video of four novel exerpts)
• The Odyssey / Homer ; Robert Fitzgerald
• Shadow divers : the true adventure of two Americans who risked everything to solve one of the last mysteries of World War II / Robert Kurson — For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents, braving depths that induced hallucinatory effects, navigating through wreckage as perilous as a minefield, they pushed themselves to their limits and beyond, brushing against death more than once in the rusting hulks of sunken ships. But in the fall of 1991, not even these courageous divers were prepared for what they found 230 feet below the surface, in the frigid Atlantic waters sixty miles off the coast of New Jersey: a World War II German U-boat, its ruined interior a macabre wasteland of twisted metal, tangled wires, and human bones–all buried under decades of accumulated sediment. (read a sample chapter)
• The unquiet / John Connolly — Daniel Clay, a once-respected psychiatrist, has gone missing. His daughter insists that he killed himself after allegations surfaced that he had betrayed his patients to foul and evil men -- but when a killer obsessed with uncovering the truth behind his own daughter's disappearance comes seeking revenge, long-forgotten secrets begin to emerge.
• The remains of the day / Kazuo Ishiguro — A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England.

11/18: New at the library this week

Videos:

• Wallace & Gromit: A grand day out
• Wallace & Gromit: A close shave
• Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers

DVDs:

• To be or not to be
• United 93
• High school musical
• Love, Ludlow
• West Side waltz
• Music from another room
• The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
• A good woman

Books:

• More bitter than death / Dana Cameron — In an historic, if isolated, New England hotel, some of the most respected names in archaeology are coming together to celebrate the work of Julius Garrison, a legend in the field. It's a conference Emma Fielding is determined to attend -- braving a furious winter storm to get there -- even though Garrison is no friend to her or her family.And when the honoree's lifeless body is discovered outside the snow-bound inn, Emma suddenly finds she is a murder suspect, along with a surprising number of the other guests.
• Missing justice / Alafair Burke — Newly promoted Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid's first assignment back after a much-needed vacation is a hot one: Judge Clarissa Easterbrook has gone missing from a wealthy Portland neighborhood, and Sam has to make the DA look good until the prodigal judge returns. Yet it soon becomes clear that the woman didn't vanish voluntarily-and it's no surprise when her bludgeoned body turns up at a local construction site. (Samantha Kincaid Series, #2)
• Good-bye, Boise—hello, Alaska : True Story of a Family's Move to a Remote Island Ranch / Cora Holmes
• Antarctica : both heaven and hell / Reinhold Messner — Detailed account of Reinhold Messner's and Arved Fuchs' 1,800-mile, 92-day journey on foot across Antarctica.