8/9: New at the library this week

Videos:

• The pelican brief
• Lightning Jack

Books:

• Dead connection / Alafair Burke — When two young women are murdered on the streets of New York, exactly one year apart, Detective Ellie Hatcher is called up for a special assignment on the homicide task force. The killer has left behind a clue connecting the two cases to First Date, a popular online dating service, and Flann McIlroy, an eccentric, publicity-seeking homicide detective, is convinced that only Ellie can help him pursue his terrifying theory: someone is using the lure of the Internet and the promise of love to launch a killing spree against the women of New York City. (read a sample chapter)
• Harry Potter and the deathly hallows / Joanne Kathleen Rowling — The final volume in the series.
• The grey pilgrim / J. M. Hayes — A strikingly original plot blends unknown bits of real history with imagined incidents to create an unusual thriller. Its base is the last American Indian uprising in Arizona ,occuring in October, 1940. At its core lay a struggle for civil rights. Deputy U.S. Marshall and Spanish Civil War veteran J.D. Fitzpatrick arrives in Tucson, a shell shock case. His job should have been a sinecure, but then the insensitive local BIA agent provokes a gunfight over the draft and riles the Papagos. Fitpatrick is sent to the reservation to arrest the ringleader, Jujul, and his band of renegades, but they have skipped out into the desert. Why should they accept a call for military service from a country that refuses to recognize their citizenship?
• Daddy's girl / Lisa Scottoline — University of Pennsylvania assistant law professor Natalie "Nat" Greco finds herself in way over her head when an unintended visit to a minimum-security prison in nearby Chester County puts her in the middle of a deadly uprising -- and places her at the center of an elaborate plot that involves an incarcerated crime boss and more than a few improbable conspirators. (read an exerpt)
• Epic / Conor Kostick — Generations ago, violence was banned on New Earth. Society is governedand conflicts are resolved in the arena of a fantasy computer game, Epic. Everyone plays. If you win, you have the chance to go to university, get more supplies for your community, and fulfill your dreams; if you lose, your life both in and out of the game is worth nothing.
• Interworld / Neil Gaiman ; Michael Reaves — Joey Harker isn't a hero. In fact, he's the kind of guy who gets lost in his own house. But then one day, Joey gets really lost. He walks straight out of his world and into another dimension. (read a sample chapter)
• The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency / Alexander McCall Smith — The No.1 Ladies´ Detective Agency, located in Gaborone, Botswana, consists of one woman, the engaging Precious Ramotswe. A cross between Kinsey Millhone and Miss Marple, this unlikely heroine specializes in missing husbands, wayward daughters, con men and imposters. When she sets out on the trail of a missing child she is tumbled headlong into some strange situations and not a little danger. Deftly interweaving tragedy and humor to create a memorable tale of human desires and foibles, the book is also an evocative portrait of a distant world. (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series, #1; read a sample chapter)
• Tears of the giraffe / Alexander McCall Smith — Mma Ramotswe faces a new challenge: resolving a mother´s pain for her son who is long lost on the African plains. Mma Ramotswe´s own impending marriage to the most gentlemanly of men, Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, the promotion of Mma´s secretary to the dizzy heights of Assistant Detective, and the arrival of new members to the Matekoni family, all brew up the most humorous and charmingly entertaining of tales. (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series, #2; read an exerpt)
• Morality for beautiful girls / Alexander McCall Smith — Continuing the adventures of Mma. Ramotswe, Morality for Beautiful Girls finds her expanding her business to take in the world of car repair and a beauty pageant. (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series, #3; read a sample chapter)

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?

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)

12/2: New at the library this week

Videos:

• The Alamo
• Open range
• The hunted
• Spy game
• Fascination
• North and south : Book 1 & Book 2

DVDs:

• The sea inside
• Vengeance valley
• Casablanca express/Swiss conspiracy
• Mystery woman
• Night of the living dead
• Paradise now

Books:

• Murder below zero / Ronald P. Lovell — Professor and sometime amateur sleuth Thomas Martindale leaves campus to sign on as a science writer for a research expedition to the Arctic for a change of pace from the often mundane world of the university. The work is unique: an attempt to study ice as a tool for national security. Soon after the members of the team board a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker for the journey to their base—a remote island in the Beaufort Sea—Russian scientists join the group with unpleasant consequences. (read a sample chapter)
• The end / Lemony Snicket — This book is the last in A Series of Unfortunate Events, and even if you braved the previous twelve volumes, you probably can't stand such unpleasantries as a fearsome storm, a suspicious beverage, a herd of wild sheep, an enormous bird cage, and a truly haunting secret about the Baudelaire parents. (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #13)(Age Range: 9 to 12) (read a sample chapter)
• The life and times of the thunderbolt kid / Bill Bryson — Bill Bryson's first travel book opened with the immortal line, "I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." In this hilarious new memoir, he travels back to explore the kid he once was and the weird and wonderful world of 1950s America. He modestly claims that this is a book about not very much: about being small and getting much larger slowly. But for the rest of us, it is a laugh-out-loud book that will speak volumes - especially to anyone who has ever been young.
• Happy feet : the movie storybook — Little Mumble isn't like the other penguins--he loves to dance! When the penguin elders blame Mumble's unique "happy feet" for the shortage of food, Mumble bravely sets off on an epic quest to prove them wrong . (Age Range: 3 to 6)
• Santa cruise / Mary Higgins Clark — Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth; her husband, Willy; recently hitched private detective Regan Reilly and her groom, Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad; and Regan's parents, Nora and Luke, are guests on the Royal Mermaid's maiden voyage, the Santa Cruise. The cruise is Commodore Randolph Weed's gift to a select group of people who in the last year "made the world a better place." What he really wants is good publicity that will generate future bookings for his struggling new venture. He also plans to scatter his beloved mother's ashes at sea during this four-day odyssey in the Caribbean. What he doesn't know is that his ne'er-do-well nephew, Eric, has smuggled two escaping criminals on board. (read a sample)

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.

9/23: New at the library this week

Videos:

• New Port South
• Solaris
• The getaway
• Second nature
• The cell
• Crime spree
• Turn of faith
• Rising sun
• The quick and the dead
• Enough
• Sphere
• Donnie Brasco
• Smoke signals

DVDs:

• Young Adam
• The black & blue collection
• Gardens of stone
• About Schmidt
• The rats
• Mazes and monsters
• Skeleton man
• Waterborne
• Muhammad Ali : through the eyes of the world
• Bats
• The grudge
• Man on the moon
• Best of Gallagher : Volume 1
• Young Ivanhoe

Books:

• Slim to none / Taylor Smith — After losing custody of her young son, security specialist Hannah Nicks has one goal: earn enough money to retire and raise her child. The fastest way to accomplish that is to take on a covert, privately funded mission in the Middle East, and in a war fueled more by money than morality, Hannah is on only one side—her own.
• The five lost aunts of Harriet Bean / Alexander McCall Smith — Alexander McCall Smith takes readers into the world of 9-year-old Harriet, who lives alone with her father, an absentminded inventor of extraordinary but useless things. When Harriet's father tells her one day that she has five aunts-his sisters-that he's never told her about before, and with whom he tragically lost touch in childhood, Harriet is delighted, and determined to track down each of her colourful aunts one-by-one. (Harriet Bean Series #1, Age Range: 7 to 9)
• Harriet Bean and the League of Cheats / Alexander McCall Smith — Harriet is invited to help her two mind-reading detective aunts, Thessalonika and Japonica, investigate serious cheating in the world of horse racing. Cunningly disguised by Aunt Thessalonika as a jockey, 9-year-old Harriet works to uncover the dastardly deeds of the unscrupulous League of Cheats. (Harriet Bean Series #2, Age Range: 7 to 9)
• The book of fate / Brad Meltzer — A two-hundred-year-old code devised by Thomas Jefferson becomes the key to a present-day conspiracy at the highest levels of Washington and the power elite of Palm Beach.
• Bread Alone : bold fresh loaves from your own hands / Daniel Leader, Judith Blahnik — In a richly told tale, Leader chronicles his crossings of America and Europe to locate the most vital ingredients at the source, to learn from the methods of the world's great bakers, and to perfect their traditional techniques. His recipes are ones that have been used for centuries: large sourdough ryes, rich and dark raisin pumpernickel loaves, real French pain au levain, big round wheats with walnuts, crusty baguettes, high and airy breads, and more.
• Changeling / Delia Sherman — Neef is a changeling, a human baby stolen by fairies and replaced with one of their own. She lives in "New York Between," a parallel Manhattan of elves, fairies, demons, and mythological spirits. Neef has always been protected by her (rat) nursemaid,Astris, until she winds up breaking Fairy Law. Now, unless she can meet the challenge of the Lady of Central Park, she'll be sacrificed to the bloodthirsty Wild Hunt. But Neef is a native New Yorker, streetwise and sharp, and she's determined to beat the rap.
• Hinduism and other Eastern religions: worship, festivals, and ceremonies from around the world / Trevor Barnes — World Faiths: Hinduism and Other Eastern Religions explores the major religions of the Eastern world, including Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, and Buddhism. From Hindu gods and goddesses to life in a Buddhist monastery, it reveals the origins of each religion, the key elements of its belief systems, and the appeal of Eastern religions to the West. (Age Range: 12 and up)
• Islam : worship, festivals, and ceremonies from around the world / Trevor Barnes — Islam is practiced by almost one billion Muslims worldwide. World Faiths: Islam covers the life and teachings of the prophet Muhammad, as well as the development and history of Islam, the sacred text of the Koran, and important geographic locations like Mecca and Medina. This beautifully illustrated book also presents the crowning achievements of Islamic art and a fascinating survey of Islamic customs. (Age Range: 12 and up)
• Christianity : worship, festivals, and ceremonies from around the world / Trevor Barnes Christianity is practiced by almost a third of the world's population. World Faiths: Christianity tells the story of Jesus and examines how different festivals, including Christmas and Easter, are celebrated around the globe. It also explores the many divisions within Christianity, as well as the architecture of the world's great cathedrals and churches. (Age Range: 12 and up)
• Judaism : worship, festivals, and ceremonies from around the world / Trevor Barnes — From the early history of Judaism to the festivals celebrated today, World Faiths: Judaism is the definitive guide to the world's oldest monotheistic religion. All of the significant events, including the destruction of the Temple and the Diaspora, are vividly recounted. The importance of tradition—both written and oral—and the central role of worship in Jewish life are covered, as well as key rituals and celebrations such as the Passover meal. (Age Range: 12 and up)
• The weight of water / Anita Shreve — On a small island off the New Hampshire coast in 1873, two women were brutally murdered by an unknown assailant. A third woman survived the attack, hiding in a sea cave until dawn. More than a century later, a photographer, Jean, comes to the island to shoot a photo-essay about the legendary crime.
• At home with Michael Chiarello : easy entertaining, recipes, ideas, inspiration / Michael Chiarello — Celebrated television, cookbook, and restaurant chef Michael Chiarello is a master of simple, casually elegant cooking—and a fabulous host. In this cookbook—packed with great recipes, gorgeous photographs, and inspiring entertaining ideas—he shares his secrets for celebrating in style (and having fun doing it too!).

9/16: New at the library this week

Videos:

• The Sicilian
• Sweet dreams
• Cabaret
• Once upon a time in the west
• Broadcast news
• The neon empire
• The Family Man

DVDs:

• Red eye
• The greatest game ever played
• Saraband
• The family Stone
• Rent
• Tristan + Isolde
• Munich

Books:

• Water for elephants / Sara Gruen — When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town.
• Peter and the Starcatchers / Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson — Discover richly developed characters in the sweet but sophisticated Molly, the scary but familiar Black Stache, and the fearless Peter. Treacherous battles with pirates, foreboding thunderstorms at sea, and evocative writing immerse the reader in a story that slowly and finally reveals the secrets and mysteries of the beloved Peter Pan. (Peter Pan Series)
• Peter and the shadow thieves / Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson — Peter leaves the relative safety of Mollusk Island - along with his trusted companion, Tinker Bell - for the cold, damp, dangerous streets of London. On a difficult journey across the sea, he and Tink discover the dark and deadly slithering part-man/part-creature Lord Ombra, who is intent on recovering the missing starstuff - celestial dust that contains unimagined powers. (Peter Pan Series)
• Behind the curtain / Peter Abrahams — In echo falls you never know what's coming next -- and everyone has a secret. Things are amiss at 99 Maple Lane: Ingrid's dad's job is in jeopardy, but he won't explain why. Ingrid's brother, Ty, is getting buff -- really buff -- but when Ty starts getting moody, Ingrid wonders if there's more to his physical fitness than lifting weights. Meanwhile, Ingrid's beloved soccer coach is replaced by an icy newcomer named Julia LeCaine, who seems a little too savvy to be in it for the post game pizza. True to her hero, Sherlock Holmes, Ingrid begins fishing around to find out who's really pulling the strings in Echo Falls. Age Range: 12 and up (Echo Falls Mystery Series, #2)
• The rookie club / Danielle Girard — A seasoned inspector in the Sex Crimes department, Jamie Vail is on a terrifying case: female officers brutalized by a stranger who leaves no clues to his identity and whose sick game is turning into a deadly vendetta. As she hunts a killer, who could be one of their own, Jamie's time is running out-because she's the killer's ultimate prize.
• This dame for hire / Sandra Scoppettone — New York, 1943. Almost anything in pants has gone to serve Uncle Sam in the war - including Woody Mason, the head of a detective agency in midtown Manhattan. Left to run the show is his secretary, Faye Quick, who signed on to be a steno, not a shamus. At twenty-six and five foot four, there's not much to Faye, but she's got moxie - which she'll need when she stumbles over a dead girl in the street and takes on her first murder case. (Faye Quick Series, #1)
• The 5th horseman James Patterson — Somebody dies. A young mother is recuperating in a San Francisco hospital when she is suddenly gasping for breath. The call button fails to bring help in time. The hospital's doctors, some of the best in the nation, are completely mystified by her death. How did this happen? Apocalypse nears. This is not the first such case at the hospital. Just as patients are about to be released with a clean bill of health, their conditions take a devastating turn for the worse. (Women's Murder Club Series, #5)
• The complete book of boat electronics / Ernest A. Zadig —
• Long shadows / Susan Saxton D'Aoust — Story of the MacTavish family, set in Alaska

8/23: New at the library this week

Videos:

• Lake Placid
• What women want
• Fierce creatures
• Arch of triumph
• The eagle has landed
• The Great Waldo Pepper
• Dead again
• Lassiter
• Legally blonde

Books:

• Dead wrong / Judith A. Jance — Juggling a family and a career is never easy - and it's becoming a real challenge for Sheriff Joanna Brady. Coping with the impending delivery of her second child as well as a staff shortage, the last things Joanna needs are two serious crimes. (Joanna Brady Series, #12)
• The fourth bear / Jasper Fforde — Detective Chief Inspector Jack Spratt and his trusty sergeant, Mary Mary, are back in another sidesplitting Nursery Crime adventure. Spratt must track down a legendarily violent criminal known as the Gingerbreadman, a "seven-foot biscuit with a bad attitude." (Nursery Crime Series, #2)
• Two sticks and a string: Knitting Designs Inspired by Nature / Kerry Ferguson
• Fighting ships of the world / Robert Jackson
• Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe / Fannie Flagg — It’s first the story of two women in the 1980s, of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women—of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth—who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder.
• The edge of town / Dorothy Garlock — At 21, Julie Jones is convinced that life is passing her by. Her mother's death four years ago left her in charge of caring for her father and five siblings, and dashed her hopes of meeting that special someone who would whisk her away to the glamorous big city. Then all at once, Julie's predictable existence is overturned when her father finds love with an attractive widow, and Evan Johnson, the mysterious son of the town drunkard returns home and starts courting her.

8/16: New at the library this week

Videos:

• Deceived
• Entertaining Angels
• Tora! Tora! Tora!
• Gladiator
• Crossing Delancey
• Spy who came in from the cold
• The North Avenue irregulars
• Bennies from heaven
• Face/off
• City slickers
• A midsummer night's dream
• Jagged edge

DVDs:

• The Manchurian candidate
• The quick and the dead
• A fool and his money
• Copper Mountain

Books:

• Promise me / Harlan Coben —Because of the simple urge to protect two neighborhood high-school girls from the all-too-dangerous and all-too-common mistake of getting in a car with a drunk driver, Myron has them make him a promise: If they are ever in a bind but are afraid to call their parents, they should call him rather than get in a car with someone who's been drinking. Several nights later, the call comes at 2:00 am, and true to his word, Myron picks up one of the girls in midtown Manhattan and drives her to a quiet cul-de-sac in New Jersey where she says her friend lives. The next day, the girl's parents discover that their daughter is missing. And that Myron was the last person to see her. (Myron Bolitar Series, #8)
• Out of my mind : the discovery of Saunders-Vixen / Richard Bach —Bach's journey begins as he puzzles over design modifications for his airplane, a Piper Cub. Perfect designs--simple and practical--seem to come to him out of the blue. But one day when a design appears, along with a fleeting glimpse of an intriguing woman, Bach sets out to discover the source of the visions. The journey leads to a startling destination: a parallel universe where a British airplane manufacturer--Saunders-Vixen Aircraft Company Ltd.--makes superb biplanes and solves problems for perplexed aviators.
• Lonely hearts / John Harvey —British detective Charlie Resnick--middle-aged, overweight, divorced and disillusioned--investigates the murders of two women who shared nothing except their use of the local paper's lonely-hearts column to meet men. (Charlie Resnick Series, #1)
• A girl named Zippy : growing up small in Mooreland, Indiana / Haven Kimmel —When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would run around like a circus monkey, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back in time to when small-town America was still trapped in the amber of the innocent post-war period—people help their neighbors, go to church, keep barnyard animals in their backyards.
• Plainsong / Kent Haruf —In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl — her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house — is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known.
• House beautiful : decorating with books : use your library to enhance your decor / Marie Proeller Hueston —From grand bookcases in home libraries to casual stacks artfully arrayed on chairs, House Beautiful presents countless eye-catching ideas for displaying and arranging your hardcovers, paperbacks, encyclopedias, and even valuable first editions. Useful tips shed light on how to organize a large collection; situate bookcases in the room for the best effect; and make the most of books' appealing visual and tactile qualities.

7/31: New at the library this week

Videos:

• Curtain call

DVDs:

• Stay
• Iron Monkey 2
• The phantom of the opera
• A sound of thunder
• Be cool

Books:

• At risk / Stella Rimington — An announcement is made at a meeting of the BritishIntelligence Joint Counter-Terrorist group: "The opposition may be about to deploy an invisible." Intelligence officer Liz Carlyle has had to prove herself in countless ways as she's come up through the ranks of the traditionally all-male world of Britain's Security Service, MI5. But this announcement marks the start of an operation that will test all her hard-won knowledge and experience-and her intelligence and courage-as nothing has before.
• Before I wake / Anne Frasier — Anne Frasier delivers a new blockbuster about a one-time criminal profiler who will risk everything-even her own sanity-to lure out of hiding the madman who murdered her family. Even if it means she becomes the number-one suspect.
• The house on the point : a tribute to Franklin W. Dixon and the Hardy Boys / Benjamin Hoff — Hoff sets this recast story, based on the original Hardy Boys The House on the Cliff, in 1947, when the Swing Era was giving way to the Baby Boom, and gives it a plot involving a post-war smuggling racket, a young newcomer to town who may have something to hide, and a police chief who's in no hurry to investigate. And he does so with a greater attention to detail, more fully developed characters, and a modern ear for dialogue.
• The road to Inconceivable / J. M. DeMatteis — Kate's little brother Matt is missing, and Kate thinks she will never see him again. But then she finds out that Matt is trapped in the world of Abadazad. Will Kate have the courage to look for her brother? And if she leaves home -- will she ever return? (Abadazad, #1; age range: 9 to 12)
• The dream thief / J. M. DeMatteis — Kate needs all the help she can get when she encounters the Lanky Man. He's mean and heartless, and he wants to steal children's dreams. Everyone seems to be against her -- which only makes her more determined to find her brother. And Matt is getting closer -- isn't he? (Abadazad, #2; age range: 9 to 12)
• The vacation / Polly Horvath — When his mother decides on a whim to be a missionary in Africa and drags his unwilling father with her, Henry is left in the care of his Aunts Magnolia and Pigg. Henry's sure they dislike him and he's trying to keep his distance, but that becomes more difficult when Mag decides they should take a destination-less road trip. (Age range: 12 and up)
• The touch / Colleen McCullough — When Alexander Kinross -- remembered in his native Scotland only as a shiftless boilermaker's apprentice and godless rebel -- summons his bride Elizabeth Drummond to Australia, his Scottish relatives realize that Kinross has made a fortune in the goldfields and is now a man to be reckoned with. (Large print edition)

6/10: New at the library this week

Videos:

• The long kiss goodnight

DVDs:

• The curse of the were rabbit
• Jarhead

Books:

• My sister's keeper / Jodi Picoult — examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child's life, even if that means infringing upon the rights of another?

• In the bleak midwinter / Julia Spencer-Fleming — Clare Fergusson, St. Alban's new priest, fits like a square peg in the conservative Episcopal parish at Miller's Kill, New York. She is not just a "lady," she's a tough ex Army chopper pilot, and nobody's fool. Then a newborn infant left at the church door brings her together with the town's police chief, Russ Van Alstyne, who's also ex-Army and a cynical good shepherd for the stray sheep of his hometown. Their search for the baby's mother quickly leads them into the secrets that shadow Miller's Kill like the ever-present Adirondacks.

• Killer dreams / Iris Johansen — If you close your eyes, he'll get you. Sophie Dunston knows all too well how dreams can kill. As one of the nation's top sleep therapists, she specializes in the life-threatening night terrors that her ten-year-old son, Michael, suffers from. But she is also an expert in another kind of terror --the kind that can turn a dream life into a living nightmare in the blink of an eye.

• Wisdom of our fathers : lessons and letters from daughters and sons / Tim Russert — What does itreally mean to be a good father? What did your father tell you, that has stayed with you throughout your life? Was there a lesson from him, a story, or a moment that helped to make you who you are? Is there a special memory that makes you smile when you least expect it?

• Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides — The breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; nominated for the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award, Fiction; 2002 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Transgender.

5/27: New at the library this week

Videos:

• Cycle

DVDs:

• Yours, Mine and Ours
• Narnia

Books:

• The Chala Project : murder in the Grand Canyon / Ann Livesay — Hounto Chala, a leader with the United Nations Environment Programme, has proposed a deeply radical idea-that the killing of any wild animal become a worldwide capital offense-making him the target of outraged gunmen. His rafting trip through the Grand Canyon becomes a breathtaking challenge to international investigator Barry Ross and the park rangers charged with protecting him.
• Rainbows end / Vernor Vinge — Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed and so has his place in it. Living with his son's family, he has no choice but to learn how to cope with a new information age in which the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum, layers of reality built on digital views seen by a single person or millions, depending on your choice.
• The stars can wait / Jay Basu — In this powerful debut set in 1940s German-occupied Poland, a young Catholic boy unearths the secrets of his brother's mysterious life.
• The further adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle —
• To America : personal reflections of an historian / Stephen E. Ambrose — Completed shortly before Ambrose's untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation's history through the eyes of one of the twentieth century's most influential historians. Ambrose roams the country's history, praising the men and women who made it exceptional.
• Decorating magic / John Sutcliffe — A new and original approach to the art of interior decoration revealing the secrets of a wide range of techniques, effects and finishes

3/25: New at the library this week

Videos:

• Stargate

Books:

• Unholy dying / Robert Barnard —England's celebrated, multiple-award-winning master crime novelist returns with a witty and poignant chiller about the evil of gossip and the sin of indifference.
• Murder me now / Annette Meyers —Olivia Brown is having the time of her life. A party in Croton promises still more fun. But when she arrives at the rustic farmhouse of Fordy and Kate Vaude, she finds their nanny hanging from a tree.
• Scene of crime / Jill McGown — It’s three days before Christmas, and the Malworth Amateur Dramatic Society’s rehearsal of Cinderella, scripted by GP Carl Bignall, is struggling thanks to a flu epidemic that has hit the production. But as rehearsals finally get under way at the Riverside Theatre, the police across town are entering Carl’s house – and discovering the body of his wife, Estelle.
• July, July / Tim O'Brien —Tim O'Brien is widely acclaimed as our finest chronicler of the Vietnam War and its afermath. In his ambitious, compassionate, and terrifically compelling new novel, this American master returns to his signature themes -- passion, memory, and yearning -- in a brilliant ensemble piece. (interview)
• Once a thief / Kay Hooper —It had taken centuries for Max Bannister's family to acquire their treasures, and now he's been asked to risk his collection as bait for a master criminal.
• Amagansett / Mark Mills —Conrad Labarde, a Basque fisherman transplanted to the shores of Amagansett, knows there's something strange about the weight in the net that he and his partner Rollo are pulling from the deep. Little did they suspect that it would be the body of a beautiful young socialite. (reading guide, interview)
• Malice in the Highlands / Graham Thomas —Detective Chief Superintendent Erskine Powell of New Scotland Yard embarks on a salmon-fishing competition in the Scottish Highlands. There, in the castle-dotted countryside along the picturesque River Spey, he seeks peace and seclusion. But a cold-blooded murderer soon turns Powell's haven into a busman's holiday—and a quiet anglers' paradise becomes just as deadly as the mean streets of London.
• The Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle treasury / Betty Bard MacDonald —Children love Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle for her upside-down house, her delicious cookies, and her ability to understand just how they feel. Their parents love her because she knows how to cure absolutely any bad habit. Her outrageous antidotes for Answer-backers, Never-Want-To-Go-To-Bedders, and Waddle-I-Doers have endeared her to millions of readers.
• Our search for happiness : an invitation to understand the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints / M. Russell Ballard
• Living with folk art / Rebecca Sawyer-Fay —Country Living magazine's unique take on the enormously popular subject of folk art makes this full-color book as distinctive as the one-of-a-kind pieces showcased within. Full of extraordinary collections displayed throughout the home, this book is a tribute to the spirit of American folk art.
• Mosaic magic : afghans made easy / Lily M. Chin —The newest addition to the Crochet Treasury series, features all-new afghan designs from Lily Chin, one of today's most talented crochet designers. Her simple techniques and tips will help readers create intricate, patterned afghans with minimum effort.
• Acu-yoga : self help techniques to relieve tension / Michael Reed Gach —
• Christmas threads : four romantic novellas about the roots of family traditions / Andrea Boeshaar
• A prairie home companion pretty good joke book / Brian Becker —Each April, people across the country tune in to A Prairie Home Companion's® annual Joke Show and laugh themselves silly. The best jokes from these much-requested shows are finally available.
• Cook now, serve later / Reader's Digest —A full-range general cookbook of 425 recipes especially designed to be prepared in advance and stored for convenient, no-fuss meals in minutes. Each recipe has easy, step-by-step instructions, storing and reheating directions, serving and menu suggestions, calorie counts and nutritional information.

Text quoted from is book publishers.

3/16: New at the library this week

DVDs:

• March of the penguins
• Batman begins
• Rocki's Prenatal Yoga

Videos:

• The jazz workout
• For love of the game
• New Jack City

Books:

• False impression / Jeffrey Archer —When an aristocratic old lady is brutally murdered in her English country home on the night before September 11, 2001, it will take all the resources of the FBI and Interpol to work out the connection between her death and a priceless Van Gogh, which is stolen that night.
• Lucky you / Carl Hiaasen — Grange, Florida, is famous for its miracles—the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the Road-Stain Jesus, the stigmata man. And now it has JoLayne Lucks, unlikely winner of the state lottery.
• Nightlife / Thomas Perry — By turns horrifying and erotic, Perry's new thriller takes us on a dangerous cat-and-mouse game that pits two women against each other: a beautiful serial killer and the detective who is determined to stop her.
• The bookshop / Penelope Fitzgerald — In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop - the only bookshop - in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers.
• The divine circle of ladies making mischief / Dolores Riccio — The continuing adventures of a circle of Wiccan women, as they snoop into some mysterious deaths at a local rehab centre.
• Circle of five / Dolores Riccio — A fictional tale about 5 Wiccan women who get involved in the search for a serial killer.
• Charmed circle / Dolores Stewart. Riccio — Continuing crime-fighting adventures of a Wiccan circle of friends.
• The tender bar / J. R. Moehringer — Riveting, moving, and achingly funny, The Tender Bar is at once an evocative portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man, and a touching depiction of how some men remain lost boys.
• The planets / Dava Sobel — The sun's family of planets become a familiar place in this personal account of the lives of other worlds. Sobel explores the planets' origins and oddities through the lens of popular culture, from astrology, mythology, and science fiction to art, music, poetry, biography, and history.
• Vanish / Tess Gerritsen — A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis in this timely and relentless new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Body Double.
• The experts' book of sewing tips & techniques : from the sewing stars of America / Marya Kissinger Amig — This book is filled with helpful hints and tips from America's top sewing experts. Learn their trade secrets as they share timesaving methods, smart shopping suggestions, how-to information on sewing for a professional look, and advice on fabrics, buttons, stabilizers, and more.
• Scales over chords : How to improvise...and never play bad notes! / Wilbur M. Savidge — All you need to know about the art of improvisation. Basic theory, scales, modes, and creative tools of expression explained and illustrated.
• Strange fits of passion / Anita Shreve — The reader is left to uncover the truth in this labryinth of a tale, a riveting story told within the framework of one reporter's notes and a woman's letters from prison.
• The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane / Kate DiCamillo — Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him completely. And then, one day, he was lost. (Age Range: 9 to 12)
• The great serum race : blazing the Iditarod Trail / Debbie S. Miller — In this award-winning children's picture book, Debbie S. Miller tells the dramatic story of the great 1925 Nome serum run. (Age Range: 7 to 12)
• The kite runner / Khaled Hosseini — Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul.
• The last templar / Raymond Khoury — In a hail of fire and flashing sword, as the burning city of Acre falls from the hands of the West in 1291, The Last Templar opens with a young Templar knight, his mentor, and a handful of others escaping to the sea carrying a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the Order's dying Grand Master. The ship vanishes without a trace.
• Tree Girl / Ben Mikaelsen — Rowanna's stern caretaker has warned her again and again not to go near the trees that surround their seaside cottage. But Rowanna is drawn to the forest-especially the High Willow on its faraway hill. Are the trees really forest ghouls, as Mellwyn says? Or could they possibly hold the secret to Rowanna's past and the mother she can hardly remember? (Ages 8-15)
• Red midnight / Ben Mikaelsen — After soldiers kill his family, twelve-year-old Santiago and his four-year-old sister flee Guatemala in a kayak and try to reach the United States. (Age Range: 10)
• Touching Spirit Bear / Ben Mikaelsen — After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life. (Age Range: 10)
• Countdown / Ben Mikaelsen — When 14-year-old Elliott Schroeder is selected by NASA to become the first Junior Astronaut, he has no way of knowing the profound effect it will have on his life and the life of Vincent Ole Tome, a young Masai herder. (Age Range: 12 and up)
• Rescue of Josh McGuire / Ben Mikaelsen — When thirteen-year-old Josh runs away to the mountains of Montana with an orphaned bear cub destined for laboratory testing, they both must fight for their lives in a sudden snowstorm. (Age Range: 12 and up)
• Stranded / Ben Mikaelsen — Twelve-year-old Koby, who has lost a foot in an accident, sees a chance to prove her self-reliance to her parents when she tries to rescue two stranded pilot whales near her home in the Florida Keys. (Age Range: 12 and up)
• Sparrow Hawk Red / Ben Mikaelsen — Thirteen-year-old Ricky, the Mexican American son of a former Drug Enforcement Agency man, tries to avenge his mother's murder by crossing over into Mexico to steal a high-tech radar plane from drug smugglers. (Age Range: Young Adult)
• Petey / Ben Mikaelsen — In 1922 Petey, who has cerebral palsy, is misdiagnosed as an idiot and institutionalized; sixty years later, still in the institution, he befriends a boy and shares with him the joy of life. (Age Range: 12 and up)
• The Templar legacy / Steve Berry — The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. But now two forces vying for the treasure have learned that it is not at all what they thought it was-and its true nature could change the modern world.
• The magician's tale / David Hunt —An achromat suffering from total color blindness, Kay possesses a vision that informs her world and sharpens her skills as talented photographer. When Tim Lovsey, a handsome prostitute, is brutally slain, he becomes much more than Kay's subject. She makes it her mission to find his killer, even though the police would prefer to quietly let the case drop.

Book descriptions are from the websites cited.

3/4: New at the library this week

DVDs:

• Blood simple

Videos:

• Happy Gilmore

Books:

• If you lived here, I'd know your name : news from small-townAlaska / Heather Lende — Like Bailey White's tales of Southern life or Garrison Keillor's reports from the Midwest, NPR commentator Heather Lende's take on her offbeat Alaskan hometown celebrates life in a dangerous and breathtakingly beautiful place.
• Salem Falls / Jodi Picoult— When Jack St. Bride arrives by chance in the sleepy New England town of Salem Falls, he decides to reinvent himself. Tall, blond, and handsome, Jack was once a beloved teacher and soccer coach at a girls' prep school—until a student's crush sparked a powder keg of accusation and robbed him of his reputation.
• Perfect Match / Jodi Picoult— In the course of her everyday work, career-driven assistant district attorney Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters and works determinedly to ensure that a legal system with too many loopholes keeps these criminals behind bars. But when her own five-year-old son, Nathaniel, is traumatized by a sexual assault, Nina and her husband, Caleb, a quiet and methodical stone mason, are shattered, ripped apart by an enraging sense of helplessness in the face of a futile justice system that Nina knows all too well.
• Wild animus / Rick Shapero (also available on cd)
• The pact : a love story / Jodi Picoult— For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything from Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty - they've grown so close it seems they have always been a part of each other's lives. Parents and children alike have been best friends - so it's no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more.
• Vanishing acts / Jodi Picoult— Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father, Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall.
• Five complete novels : series II / Louis L'Amour (Crossfire trail, Utah Blaine, Heller with a gun, Last stand at Papago Wells, To tame a land)
• Fly away Peter / David Malouf— In this shimmering work of imagination, one of Australia's most honored writers conjures a single still moment on the edge of the 20th century in which two unlikely people share a friendship.
• The blackbirder / James L. Nelson— In the wake of The Guardship comes the second in the Brethren of the Coast trilogy and the swash-buckling adventures of former pirate Thomas Marlowe.

11/28: New at the library this week

DVDs:

• Wicker Park
• Enemy Mine
• Raising Victor Vargas
• Poltergeist
• The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
• A Foreign Field

Videos:

• Time Out

Books: The library has just been given a lovely edition of Margaret Mitchell's classic Gone with the Wind to replace an aging and falling-apart copy that was all we had on the shelf.

11/23: New at the library this week

Books

• Callahan Cousins: Summer Begins/Elizabeth Doyle Carey (Grade 3-6) - In this first book in the series, the 12-year-old Callahan cousins all converge on their beloved grandmother for a summer of excitement.
• Callahan Cousins: Home Sweet Home/Elizabeth Doyle Carey (Grade 4-6) - Continuing the summer saga of four 12-year-old cousins running loose and free on Gull Island, this installment finds the girls redecorating a house on their grandma's property.
• Akimbo and the Elephants/Alexander McCall Smith (Grade 2-3) - This beginning chapter book series features a young African boy fiercely devoted to the conservation of his animal friends.
• Akimbo and the Lions/Alexander McCall Smith (Grade 3-5) - By a well-known author of adult books, this story featuring a young boy, Akimbo, who lives "in the heart of Africa," conveys appreciation and respect for the African landscape, culture, and people, as well as a sense of the importance of wildlife conservation.
• Seldovia Sam and the Blueberry Bear/Susan Woodward Springer (Ages 9-12) - This exciting series continues with Sam dreading the looming first day of school where he fears his annual back to school essay about his summer's activities will not be as impressive as the know-it-all Melody Chambers'.
• Eldest/Christopher Paolini (Grade 5 Up) - The land of Alagaesia is suffering under the Empire of the wicked Galbatorix, and Eragon and his dragon Saphira, last of the Riders, are the only hope.
• The Penultimate Peril/Lemony Snicket (Ages 9-12) - Lemony Snicket has captured the hearts of childen and adults alike with the hilariously gloomy series that began, of course, with The Bad Beginning.
• Flush/Carl Hiaasen (Grade 5-8) – Noah and his sister, Abbey, are more understanding of their volatile dad's latest arrest than their mother, who begins talking of divorce. Dad sank the Coral Queen, a casino boat on a Florida Key because, he alleges, its owner, Dusty Muleman, has been illegally dumping raw sewage into the local waters.
• At First Sight/Nicholas Sparks - The relationship between journalist Jeremy Marsh and librarian Lexie Darnell that began in True Believer (2005) has now progressed. Jeremy is moving from New York to Boone Creek, North Carolina, as they plan for their wedding and the birth of their child.
• Skeleton Man/Tony Hillerman - Joe Leaphorn, former Navajo tribal police lieutenant, is not a happy retiree. So when his successor asks him to look into how a young Hopi named Billy Tuve came by a valuable diamond the boy tried to pawn for a fraction of its worth, Joe finds himself involved in a five decade old mystery.
• Iron Orchid/Stuart Woods - Having ditched her Orchid Beach, Fla., police chief post, returning supersleuth Holly Barker opts for a CIA career in Woods's by-the-numbers thriller, the fourth in the Barker series.
• Delectable Mountains/Earlene Fowler - At the start of Fowler's topnotch 12th cozy to feature the quilter and amateur sleuth, Benni stumbles on the body of church handyman Walt Adams, who's oozing blood onto the sanctuary's new carpeting.
• Remains Silent/Michael Baden and Linda Kenney - Married couple Baden, former New York City medical examiner, and Kenney, legal commentator for CNN and Court TV, team up for this debut thriller starring a romantic and professional pair with job titles remarkably similar to their own.
• Mrs. Mike and the Search for Joyful/Benedict & Nancy Freedman - More than 50 years after the publication of the popular Mrs. Mike, which told of Mary O'Fallon's journey from Boston to Alberta and her marriage to RCMP Sgt. Mike Flanagan, the story continues during WWII with one of Mary's adopted children, Kathy Forquet.

Videos:

• An Everlasting Piece
• Dinner with Friends

DVDs:

• Because of Winn-Dixie
• The Polar Express
• Vintage Mickey
• Twelfth Night
• Dead Cert
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

11/12: New at the library this week

Books:

• Bait and switch : the (futile) pursuit of the American dream /Barbara Ehrenreich: The author goes undercover to "try to understand the human underside of corporate America."
• Point blank an FBI thriller / Catherine Coulter: This is the tenth book in her romantic thriller series.
• The widow of the south / Robert Hicks: In 1894 Carrie McGavock is an old woman who has only her former slave to keep her company...and the almost 1,500 soldiers buried in her backyard.
• Queen of Christmas / Mary Engelbreit: Ann Estelle is very busy working on The List. The Queen of Christmas knows there's nothing more important! How else can she get all the things she really wants?
• Mary Engelbreit's Mother Goose / Mary Engelbreit: One hundred best-loved verses.
• Inkspell / Cornelia Funke: A sequel to the literary fantasy Inkheart.
• Guiness World Records 2006

DVDs:

• Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie

Videos:

• X-Files: Ascension/One Breath
• X-Files: Little Green Men/The Host
• X-Files: Sleepless/Duane Barry
• X-Files:Irresistible/Die Hand Die Verletzt
• X-Files: Humbug/Anasazi
• X-Files: Colony/End Game

10/8: New in the library this week

One of the things we'll be letting you know about regularly is what we have new in the library collection. We get new items regularly, either through a rental service, purchases, or donations. We'll try to link our new items to reviews so that you can do a little browsing at home, straight from this website. And with our new circulation system, you can get on a waiting list for a new item if it's not available next time you stop by the library. Just let us know and we can sign you up. This week we added the following new items: DVDs: The Grifters--Anjelica Huston, John Cusak, Annette Bening Blood Work--Clint Eastwood Chinatown--Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway Books: The Divide--Nicholas Evans The Historian--Elizabeth Kostova Audiobooks: The Pied Piper--Ridley Pearson (CD) Videotapes: Our Gang Comedy Festival On Our Own