New Titles February 2010

FICTION


Allston, Aaron. Outcast. 1st ed. New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, c2009.
With the Galactic Alliance still in recovery from the civil war, Luke Skywalker goes on a quest with his son, Ben, to unravel the mystery of what drew Jacen Solo to the dark side.


Alvtegen, Karin, 1965-. Missing. New York : Felony & Mayhem Press, 2009.
Sibylla, born into privilege, has chosen instead to live anonymously as a homeless person in Stockholm, treating herself on occasion by hooking up with a businessman at the Grand Hotel for dinner and a clean bed, but when one of her benefactors is killed, she becomes a murder suspect, and when more bodies turn up, Sibylla suddenly finds she is public enemy number one.


Barclay, Linwood. Fear the worst. 1st ed. New York : Bantam Books, c2009.
After his teenage daughter Sydney suddenly vanishes, Tim Blake learns that his suburban Connecticut town is not what it seems, and as he retraces Sydney’s steps, Tim discovers he is not alone in his search.


Barton, Beverly. The murder game. New York : Kensington Pub., c2008.
Private investigator Griffin Powell and FBI agent Nicole Baxter team up again to catch a serial killer who is targeting athletic women and who has set his sights on Nicole as his ultimate adversary.


Barton, Beverly. Every move she makes. New York, NY : Kensington Pub., c2001.
Hot, steamy nights and dark family secrets abound in Barton’s (The Protectors, etc.) suspenseful but somewhat convoluted romantic melodrama. When he was 18 years old, handsome bad boy Reed Conway was convicted of a crime he didn’t commit, killing his abusive stepfather, Junior Blalock. Out on parole after 15 years and back in his hometown of Spring Creek, Ala., Reed is determined to find the real murderer. But it seems everyone had a reason to kill Junior, including Senator Web Porter, the man who prosecuted Reed when he was the county DA. Meanwhile, the murderer, aware of the danger posed by Reed’s probing, arranges events that will put the parolee back in the slammer. Complicating matters further is Reed’s attraction to Web’s daughter, taciturn Ella Porter. Ella is drawn to Reed’s raw strength, and together the two overcome their vastly different backgrounds, join forces and try to find the real killer. The narrative’s myriad subplots including a romance between Reed’s mother and Web, and a sibling rivalry between Ella’s aunt and mother may overwhelm the reader, but the novel’s sizzling sexual chemistry and high suspense will satisfy sunbathers longing for sultry poolside reading. (Publishers Weekly).


Bear, Greg, 1951-. Mariposa. New York : Vanguard Press, c2009.
Three FBI agents on the fringes of society attempt to thwart Talos—a corporation that trains soldiers and security forces for the U.S. government and plans to destroy the federal system and constitutional law—while experiencing side effects of the Mariposa program, which has turned them into brilliant sociopaths.


Beaton, M. C. Death of a valentine. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2010.
Wedding bells are about to ring for the most famous police sergeant in the Scottish countryside—Hamish Macbeth. While everyone thinks the newest constable and blushing bride-to-be, Jane McSween, is the perfect mate for Hamish, he finds himself with a case of what some feel is pre-marital jitters. But Hamish thinks it’s more than that and his suspicions are soon confirmed about love being blind, deaf . . . and deadly.


Bradley, James, 1967-. Wrack : a novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Henry Holt, 1999.
Archaeologist David Norfolk, searching for the wreck of a Portuguese ship he believes has been buried in the remote sandhills of New South Wales for nearly five centuries, instead uncovers the body of a man murdered fifty years before, and must depend on the help of a dying man to solve both mysteries.


Bradley, Marion Zimmer. Hastur Lord. New York : DAW Books, c2010.
Regis Hastur is confronted with the destiny he has never wanted as his grandfather lies on his deathbed, but after the Terran Empire assassinates members of Darkover’s long-ruling council and Regis’ grandfather confesses that Regis has an older half-brother, Regis must decide whether to accept his destiny to become the Regent of Darkover or to follow his dreams.


Brockmann, Suzanne. The defiant hero. 1st ed. New York : Ivy Books, 2001.
Meg Moore, a translator in a European embassy, takes an ambassador hostage to save her grandmother and ten-year-old daughter, who have been kidnapped by a terrorist group called the Kazbekistani Extremists, and when Navy SEAL Lieutenant John Nilsson, her ex-boyfriend, is called in to resolve the situation, they find an unexpected chemistry.


Brockmann, Suzanne. The unsung hero. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2000.
A near-fatal head injury gives the Navy cause to ignore Lieutenant Tom Paoletti’s claim to have seen a terrorist in his New England hometown, but Tom refuses to give up and assembles his own unit of trusted officers, veterans, misfit teenagers, and the woman he loves to save the day.


Brown, Nic, 1977-. Floodmarkers. Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2009.
A fictional account of September 21, 1989, in a small North Carolina town, describing individual experiences in the wake of Hurricane Hugo.

Brown, Josie. True Hollywood lies. 1st ed. New York : Avon Trade, c2005.
Hannah Fairchild is the levelheaded daughter of Hollywood glitterati, more interested, we’re told, in astronomy than any other kind of stargazing. But her hobby mostly serves as an abundant source of puns, as she’s reduced to working as a personal assistant to British heartthrob Louis Trollope when her famous father dies and her stepmother freezes her trust fund. The wildly egotistical star keeps Hannah on her toes ordering Zone-kosher foods and arranging his trysts. Brown captures the humor of working for a megalomaniac: an offhand remark from Hannah, “Don’t go believing your own press clippings,” sends her boss into a panic. “Why? What have you read? What have you heard?” A love triangle between Hannah, her boss and his best friend Mick Bradshaw gives the book the tension that drives this well-paced, entertaining story forward.


Buchan, Elizabeth. Consider the lily. New York : Penguin Books, 2005, c1993.
Kit Dysart, heir to the Hinton Dysart estate, choose to marry for money, rather than love, in the hopes of saving his family’s dying dynasty, but he soon learns that passion is more important than riches.


Buckley, Christopher, 1952-. Thank you for smoking. 1st HarperPerennial ed. New York : HarperPerennial, 1995.
Nick Naylor, chief spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies, is accustomed to being harassed, heckled, and vilified by antismoking zealots, but things turn really ugly when he is forced to step up his efforts on behalf of smoking in order to keep his job.


Burke, Betsy, 1956-. Lucy’s Launderette. 1st ed. Don Mills, Ont. : Red Dress Ink., 2003.
Lucy Madison’s life is a mess. Her beloved grandfather, Jeremy, has just died; she works at an art gallery for the boss from hell; and her crazy and possibly dangerous brother, Dirk, is back in town. In walks Paul Bleeker, a handsome artist Lucy has always admired. Although he sweeps her off her feet, his interest waxes and wanes. Then Lucy is surprised to discover that her grandfather’s sour girlfriend, Connie, is pregnant, and she makes every effort to befriend her. Finally, Lucy stumbles upon a project for herself: fixing up her grandfather’s launderette, which now belongs to Connie. She finds herself employing both her artistic skills and her newfound business savvy to turn the launderette into the hippest place in town. Though her brother remains a thorn in her side, Lucy can’t help but wonder about Sam, Dirk’s caseworker with the sexy voice.


Cameron, Julia. Mozart’s ghost. 1st ed. St. Martin’s Press : Thomas Dunne Books, 2008.
Complications ensue when Anna, a young, single New York City schoolteacher and medium, falls for her downstairs neighbor, a reserved concert pianist, especially when a playful ghost gets in the act to play matchmaker.


Carver, Raymond. Short cuts : selected stories. 1st ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1993.
Collects nine short stories and one poem by Raymond Carver that examine the themes of innocence and loss.


Coggins, Mark, 1957-. The big wake-up. Boulder, CO : Bleak House Books, c2009.
Soon after flirting with an attractive young woman in a Laundromat, Riordan watches in horror as an apparently deranged cable car operator guns her and an older woman down at a cable car stop. Riordan pursues the killer and stops his bloody rampage. The Argentine family of the first victim, 23-year-old Araceli Rivero, hires him to investigate an unrelated matter, the location of Araceli’s dead aunt, whose body was transferred from a Milan cemetery to somewhere in the Bay Area. After quickly getting a promising lead, Riordan learns that his clients have been less than straight with him. The missing corpse is actually that of Evita Peron.


Collins, Natalie R. Wives and sisters. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2004.
Allison Jensen, haunted by the disappearance of her childhood friend and her own brutal attack, lashes out against the powerful leaders of her Mormon community as she struggles to bring her attacker to justice and uncover the truth about her friend’s disappearance.


Compton, Ralph, 1950-. Bullet for a bad man : a Ralph Compton novel. New York : Signet, 2008.
“The son of a prosperous Arizona rancher, Boone Scott is content to raise cattle for the rest of his days. His brother Eppley is another story. Dangerously dissatisfied, he secretly plots to take over the family ranch. When Epp pays an assassin to kill his brother, Boone’s lightning-quick hands leave a fistful of dead men behind. Unaware of his brother’s treachery, Boone flees and soon faces danger from hired gunmen, horse rustlers, and wild Apaches. If he can survive all those threats, he just might come up against the deadliest peril of all: a showdown with his own flesh and blood.”—p. [4] of cover.


Crombie, Deborah. Necessary as blood. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2009.
Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James, struggling with plans for their upcoming wedding and dealing with emotions from Gemma’s recent miscarriage, are assigned to investigate a racially and socially charged case of a mother who disappeared a few months before her husband was murdered.


Cumming, Charles, 1971-. Typhoon. 1st U.S. ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2009, c2008.
Joe Lennox, an operative for MI6 is back in China after losing both his girlfriend and a prominent defector who disappeared from a safe house ten years earlier, in order to thwart the CIA’s plot to use an Islamic group to destabilize China during the 2008 Olympics.


Cummings, Barbara. A killing in retrospect : a Sister Mary Agnes mystery. 1st ed. Waterville, Me. : Five Star, 2009.
A gangland war threatens to break out in Depression-era Providence, R.I., in Cummings’s gripping second Sister Agnes mystery (after 2006’s A Killing on Church Grounds). Dante Ricci, the nine-year-old son of reputed mob boss Vincent Ricci, asks Sister Mary Agnes of the Merciful Sisters of Mary to catch whoever killed his mother, who died a year earlier in a suspicious car crash at the Ricci family farm. Aggie’s policeman cousin, Sgt. Josiah Morgan, and Pietro Tiny DiSilva, Vincent’s partner, join the informal investigation. After Irish maid Kitty Killian dies from eating cyanide-laced sugar cubes intended for Vincent, Sister Agnes begins to think they’re starring in their own version of the gangster film Public Enemy. Sure enough, more murders follow. Cozy fans will appreciate Aggie’s prayerful approach to crime solving, though some may wonder about her fondness for firearms (I did love the feel of a gun in my hands). -Publishers Weekly.


DeLeeuw, Brian. In this way I was saved. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Six-year-old Luke, living in New York with his troubled mother Claire following his parents’ divorce, becomes best friends with Daniel, an imaginary boy who gains increasing control of Luke’s life—eventually leading to tragedy.


Delinsky, Barbara. Not my daughter. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Doubleday, 2010.
Single parent Susan Tate is stunned when her 17-year-old daughter, Lily, announces that she is pregnant. Susan, who struggled to be a good mother and do everything right, looks on this situation as an unconceivable tragedy for both her and her daughter. When word comes of two more pregnancies among other high school juniors who happen to be Lily’s best friends, rumors of a pregnancy pact begin to circulate and the emotional ties between mothers and daughters are stretched to the breaking point.


Dexter, Pete, 1943-. Spooner. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2009.
Warren Spooner, born shortly before the death of his father, grows up with his mother amid a series of misfortunes, including an elbow injury that halts his pitching career, while remaining loosely connected to his ex-naval officer stepfather, Calmer Ottosson.


Domingue, Ronlyn. The mercy of thin air : a novel. 1st Washington Square Press pbk. ed. New York : Washington Square Press, 2006, c2005.
Immediately after her death in 1920’s New Orleans, Raziela Nolan chooses to stay between, in a realm that exists after life and before whatever lies beyond it, witnessing her lost love’s life and the trials of a couple whose home she haunts.


Elton, Ben. The first casualty. London : Black Swan, 2006.
In Flanders in June 1917, a British officer and celebrated poet is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence, charged with his murder. Douglas Konig, formerly a detective with the London police, soon discovers that both the evidence and the witnesses he needs are quite literally disappearing into the mud that surrounds him.


Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Sartoris. New York : New American Library, 1983.
Sartoris is Faulkner’s first novel to be set in Yoknapatawpha County, the fictional locale that was to preoccupy him throughout his career—though here it is called “Yocona.” The story of a disillusioned and world-weary Southern soldier returning home from World War I, SARTORIS also introduces several of Faulkner’s main themes: the decline of an old culture, the influence of the past on the present, and the subtle destruction of personality wrought by war.

Fforde, Katie. Wedding season. 1st U.S. ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2010.
Sarah is a wedding planner hiding a rather inconvenient truth—she doesn’t believe in love. But as the confetti flutters away on the June breeze of yet another successful wedding season she finds herself agreeing to organize two more events, on the same day, and only two months away. And while her celebrity bride is all sweetness and light, the other bride, Sarah’s own sister, quickly starts driving her crazy with her high expectations and very limited budget. Luckily, Sarah is aided in her seemingly impossible task by two best friends, Elsa, an accomplished dress designer, and Bron, a multitalented hairdresser. All three are very good at their jobs, but romance doesn’t feature very prominently in any of their lives. As the big day draws near, every moment is spent preparing for the weddings, and they certainly haven’t got any time to even think about love; or have they?

Foster, Lori, 1958-. Caught! Don Mills, Ont., Canada : HQN, c2008.
Things are heating up between security expert Dillon Jones and the notorious Virginia Johnson! They’re trying to find out who framed Dillon’s brother for embezzlement. As they search for the truth, Dillon can’t help but draw closer to feisty Virginia. His code of honor is barely keeping him in check - but leave it to a take-charge woman to take what she wants.

García Márquez, Gabriel, 1928-. Love in the time of cholera. 1st Vintage International ed. New York : Vintage International, 2003.
The story of a fantastic wedding, the return of the bride to her parents in disgrace, her brothers’ resolve to seek revenge on her corruptor, and the townspeoples’ refusal to depart from routine.


Gardam, Jane. The man in the wooden hat. New York : Europa Editions, 2009.
Betty, who spent the war in a Japanese internment camp, meets Sir Edward Feathers, a romantically awkward barrister, in Hong Kong and agrees to marry him, despite knowing neither she nor Edward are in love.


Gardner, John. Cold fall. New York : Berkeley, 1997.
No one claims responsibility after a British jetliner is blown apart as it approaches Washington’s Dulles Airport, but James Bond makes it his mission to discover who targeted 439 people for obliteration, and why.


Gardner, John E. Win, lose, or die. New York : Berkley Books, 1990, c1989.
This novel marks James Bond’s return to the navy. His mission is to serve on the Royal Navy’s major aircraft carrier HMS as minder to British, American and Russian admirals who are on board for a NATO exercise.


Gardner, John E. No deals, Mr. Bond. New York : Berkley, 1988, c1987.
Two agents of Operation Cream Cake - double agents against the KGB - are murdered. Bond must protect the rest and expose the traitor amongst them. In a race against time, Bond travels to Ireland and Hong Kong, where, weaponless, he is hunted by four assassins.


Gardner, John E. Brokenclaw. New York : Berkley Books, 1991, c1990.
As James Bond clashes with Brokenclaw—the villainous leader of the underworld in San Francisco’s Chinatown—he must decide how much he is willing to risk to help save his partner and romantic interest, Chi-Chi.


Gerstler, Amy. Dearest creature. New York : Penguin Books, 2009.
A poetry collection by Amy Gerstler that features love poems, elegies, and epistolary pleadings that combine fact, fiction, and fantasy.


Gilman, Laura Anne. Flesh and fire. 1st Pocket Books hardcover ed. New York : Pocket Books, 2009.
Only one Vineart senses the danger when strange creatures begin appearing in the vineyards and his only weapon against them is his slave, Jerzy, who holds the secret of crafting spells from wines.


Godwin, Gail. The red nun : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Random House, 2009.
Tildy Stratton is the undisputed queen bee of the ninth grade class at Mount St. Gabriel’s all-girls’ Catholic School. Chloe Starnes, a student recently taken in by her uncle following her mother’s death, is thrilled when Tildy befriends her. When Tildy has Chloe and all her classmates acting in a play based on the founding story of the school it changes her life, their teacher’s and the school’s matriarch, forever. So much so that 50 years later she is still trying to reconcile the past and the present.


Goldberg, Tod. Burn notice. New York, N.Y. : New American Library/Penguin Group (USA), 2009.
The second novel based on the hit USA Network series finds Michael Westen hired by a helmsman for a yacht in a winner-take-all race financed by the superrich. The man’s family has been taken hostage, and to see them again, he’ll have to throw the race.


Gregory, Philippa. The queen’s fool : a novel. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2004.
Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, finds herself caught in the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half sister, Elizabeth, after her ability to foresee the future leads her to work for the Queen as a spy.


Hamilton, Lyn. The Thai amulet : an archaeological mystery. 1st ed. New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2003.
Lara agrees to search for a missing antiques dealer while on vacation in Bangkok, but her vacation is soon pushed aside as she becomes more involved in the search and uncovers a deadly conspiracy from the not-so-distant past.


Harbison, Elizabeth M. Shoe addicts anonymous. 1st St. Martin’s Griffin ed. New York : St. Martin’s Griffin, 2008.
Four different women, one common shoe size, and a shared lust for fabulous footwear. The wife of a controlling politician, a debt-ridden eBay addict, an agoraphobic phone-sex operator, and a nanny for the family from hell (who barely knows a sole from a heel but who will do anything to get out of the house) meet Tuesday nights to trade shoes, and, in the process, form friendships that will help them each triumph over their problems—from secret pasts to blackmail, bankruptcy, and dating.—From publisher description.


Harte, Kelly. Guilty feet. Don Mills, Ont. : Red Dress Ink, c2003.
When Jo left her music-writer boyfriend, Dan, she fully expected him to chase after her and beg her to come back to the apartment they shared. He didn’t, partially because he couldn’t figure out why she left him in the first place. Jo is stunned and hurt to learn from Libby, who lives in the flat above Dan’s, that after she left Dan immediately took up with another neighbor, Aisling. Nothing could be further from the truth, but Libby has her own plans to snag Dan. Jo isn’t out of the picture entirely: she begins to e-mail Dan under the name of “Sarah Daly,” ostensibly to ask him about his knowledge of the music world. As Dan and “Sarah” correspond, Dan gradually reveals details about the break-up that puzzle Jo. She’s also dealing with the attentions of Marco, a handsome Italian waiter, and the dissolution of her parents’ marriage, which Jo actually thinks might be for the best. A zesty, satisfying romantic comedy full of intrigue, backstabbing, and passion.


Heat wave. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, 2009.
New York Police Department Homicide Detective Nikki Heat encounters an unanticipated challenge when the commissioner asks her to take magazine journalist Jameson Rook with her on patrol; she finds that the handsome, wisecracking journalist is the least of her problems as she attempts to unravel a case involving a murdered real estate tycoon.


Higgins, Jack, 1929-. The Khufra run. 2nd Berkeley mass-market ed. New York : Berkley Books, 2002.
Vietnam vet Jack Nelson makes a decent living peddling his flying talents to the highest bidder. When he rescues a young beauty from an attack on Ibiza, he ends up with the opportunity to pull off the heist of a lifetime. There are millions in sunken treasure for the taking in a go-for-broke caper tailor made for Nelson and his partner Harry Turk—and all he has to do to collect the loot is live through it.


Higgins, Jack, 1929-. The wrath of God. 2nd Berkeley ed. New York, N.Y. : Berkeley Books, 2002.
Three desperate men—each trying to escape his past in the chaos of Central America in the 1920s—find that violence is a way of life from which no one escapes unscarred.


Holt, Terrence. In the Valley of the Kings : stories. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton, c2009.
Collects eight stories by American author Terrence Holt that explore themes such as the apocalypse, outer space, the desert, and mythology.


Hooper, Kay. The haviland touch. New York : Berkley, 1991.
It’s been ten years since Spencer Wyatt jilted Drew Haviland for another man. Now she is free—and Drew will do anything to get vengeance and take what’s been promised to him. But closer inspection tells him that Spencer is in dire straits—and in desperate need of his help.


Howard, Linda, 1950-. Ice : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2009.
Gabriel McQueen agrees to help his county-sheriff father and check on a distant neighbor before a brutal ice storm, but when Gabriel arrives at Lolly Helton’s home to find a group of gun-toting strangers, he uses his stealth training to save Lolly from her captors and struggles to keep them both safe from the dangerous men and the deadly storm.


Huneven, Michelle, 1953-. Blame. 1st ed. New York : Sarah Crichton Books, 2009.
Functioning alcoholic and history professor Patsy MacLemoore, having been charged with the deaths of two Jehovah’s Witnesses she hit while driving under the influence, thinks about her past actions while in prison and emerges with a mission to do good, help those in need, and stay sober, but, after years of living the straight and narrow, an unimaginable piece of information comes to light which makes her reassess who she has become and reapportion the blame over what happened on that fateful night.


Hunt, James Patrick, 1964-. Maitland’s reply. 1st ed. Detroit : Five Star, 2009.
Evan Maitland, a part-time bounty hunter, is forced to survive by breaking his own rules in order to protect his partner, Bianca, and forming an allegiance with Frank Chang, an enforcer for the White Lotus triad of New York who is sent to Chicago on an assassination mission only to find himself betrayed and marked for death.


Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963. Ape and essence. 1st Elephant paperback ed. Chicago, Ill. : Elephant Paperbacks/Ivan R. Dee, 1992, c1948.
In Los Angeles in the year 2108, a rediscovery expedition from New Zealand is trying to make sense of what is left after the planet is almost completely destroyed by a nuclear holocaust.


Israel, Andrea. The Recipe Club : a tale of food and friendship. 1st Harper ed. New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins, c2009.
In childhood, “LillyPad” and “ValPal” form an exclusive two-person club, writing intimate letters in which they share hopes, fears, deepest secrets—and recipes, from Lilly’s “Lovelorn Lasagna” to Valerie’s “Forgiveness Tapenade.” Readers can cook along as the friends travel through time facing the challenges of independence, the joys and heartbreaks of first love, and the emotional complexities of family relationships, identity, mortality, and goals deferred. The Recipe Club sustains Lilly and Val’s bond through the decades, regardless of what different paths they take or what misunderstandings threaten to break them apart . . . until the fateful day when an act of kindness becomes an unforgivable betrayal. Now, years later, while trying to recapture the trust they’ve lost, Lilly and Val reunite once more—only to uncover a shocking secret. Will it destroy their friendship, or bring them ever closer?


Jecks, Michael. The king of thieves. London : Headline, 2008.
Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and Bailiff Simon Puttock go to France with Prince Edward, who must make a submission in order to hold onto French territories, and when circumstances place them in the Queen’s custody, they uncover a murderous plot threatening the future of England.


Krantz, Judith. Princess Daisy. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c1980.
Born the daughter of a Russian prince and an American movie goddess, Daisy lived in a world of aristocrats and wealth. Then one day the fairy tale ended and Daisy had to start again, with nothing.


Krueger, William Kent. Heaven’s keep : a novel. 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, 2009.
Cork O’Connor tries to accept that his wife Jo is dead after her plane goes down in a snowstorm over the Wyoming Rockies, but when two women show up months later with evidence that the pilot was not who he claimed to be, Cork starts a dangerous investigation that he hopes will lead him to Jo.


Kunstler, James Howard. World made by hand. 1st ed. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2008.
In this fictionalized future of American civilization, the terminal decline of oil production and the fall of the central government has made life in the small town of Union Grove, New York, remote until a radical religious sect, the New Faith order, clashes with the locals, and Robert Earle, a former software executive turned carpenter, is sent off to recover the missing crew of a trading boat.


Kurland, Lynn. Dreams of stardust. Jove mass-market ed. New York : Jove Books, 2005.
Journeying to Seakirk castle to research jewels for his latest creation, Jake Kilchurn is transported back in time to medieval England where he finds the woman of his dreams in Amanda de Piaget, but the constraints of time threaten their love.


L’Amour, Louis, 1908-1988. Big medicine. New York : Leisure Books, c2008.
A collection of four stories about the American West by Louis L’Amour, including “Big Medicine,” “Trail to Pie Town,” “McQueen of the Tumbling K,” and “Showdown on the Hogback.”.


Learner, Tobsha. The witch of Cologne. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Forge, 2005, c2003.
In seventeenth-century German Catholic Cologne, Ruth bas Elazar Saul’s interest in the Kabbalah and her skills as a successful midwife earn her the label of “witch” and threaten her future.


Leffland, Ella. Breath and shadows. 1st Ballantine Books ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2000, c1999.
The fragile beacon of moral integrity defies an enigmatic hereditary gloom and illuminates a richly imagined story of three generations of a Danish family over two centuries. Thorkild, born a dwarf and now a widowed financial adviser living in early 19th century Copenhagen, has been tormented by shame over his handicap all his life. When his beloved son and only child is killed in the battle of Leipzig, he gradually grows unhinged with grief, and his sister commits him to a mental institution. This tragic legacy becomes an unhealthy fixation for Thorkild’s granddaughter, Grethe Rosted, the novel’s second character, a happily married mother of two residing on the Northern Danish coast in the 1880s. Despite her pleasant life as a member of the liberal bourgeois circles then revolutionizing Scandinavian culture, Grethe slowly goes mad and devastates her family in one terrible, irreversible act. Paula, a middle-aged American woman living in present-day Switzerland, is the novel’s third character and the granddaughter that Grethe never knew.


Leithauser, Brad. The art student’s war. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Eighteen-year-old aspiring artist Bianca Paradiso, visiting hospitals to draw pictures of wounded World War II soldiers in order to escape her tumultuous home life, falls in love with two men—a patient who is supposed to return to battle soon and a painter who is the heir to a drugstore chain—and eventually starts a family with one of them.


Le May, Alan. The searchers. Mattituck, N.Y. : Aeonian Press, 1977, c1954.
Reprint of a 1954 novel in which Mart Pauley, raised by the Edwards family after the death of his parents in a Comanche attack, sets out to exact his revenge after his adopted family is slaughtered by the Indians and a young girl taken hostage.


Lescroart, John T. The vig. New York, N.Y., USA : Signet, 2006, c1990.
Ex-cop, part-time investigator, and sometime bartender Dismas Hardy faces a death threat as he investigates the disappearance of his friend Rusty Ingraham, an investigation that exposes foot-dragging police and corruption.


Lindbergh, Judith. The thrall’s tale. New York : Penguin Group, 2007, c2006.
A tale set in Viking Greenland at the turn of the ninth century follows the intertwined lives of three women straddling the pagan past and Christian future, from the slave Katla, who anticipates the promise of a new land; to Bibrau, the daughter born to Katla after a brutal rape; to the prophetess Thorbjorg, who teaches Norse magic to Bibrau.


Lively, Penelope, 1933-. Family album. 1st American ed. New York : Viking, 2009.
Alison, who tries to create a blissful family environment for her six children with help from Ingrid, the family’s au pair, finds it difficult to contain long-repressed secrets that nobody in the household dares to mention.


Macomber, Debbie. Reflections of yesterday. Don Mills, Ont. : MIRA, c1986.
Angie had come to make peace with the past, and Simon. When Angie had taken the money Simon’s parents offered her to leave, she’d accepted her part in a drama of manipulation and betrayal. She hoped by returning the money now--12 years later—that she could leave the past behind. But as determined as she was to move on, neither her heart, nor her body, nor Simon, would allow it.


Macomber, Debbie. Lonesome cowboy. Toronto, Ont. ; New York : Harlequin Books, c1998.
In “Heart of Texas”, Debbie Macomber’s newest six-book series, readers are taken to the ever-popular state of Texas to share in the lives and loves of residents in the ranching community of Promise, Texas. Savannah Weston led a quiet life growing heirloom roses and helping her brother with the struggling family ranch. Never in her wildest dreams did she believe that her life of solitude would be shattered by Laredo Smith, the handsome drifter who captured her heart and showed her that love can be found in unexpected places.


Macomber, Debbie. Right next door. Don Mills, Ont. : Mira, c2009.
Father’s day—The courtship of Carol Sommars. Presents two stories by Debbie Macomber, “Father’s Day” in which Robin Masterson’s ten-year-old son, Jeff, falls in love with the neighbor’s dog, a pairing that shows Robin that love may be closer than she thinks, and “The Courtship of Carol Sommars” in which Carol’s son Peter and his best friend plot to match their single parents up so they can be brothers.


Macomber, Debbie. Sooner or later. New York : HarperPaperbacks, 1996.
When stubborn but proper Texas postmistress Letty Madden hires a rough soldier, Jack Murphy, to help her find her brother for the price of one night together, she has no idea that he will fall deeply in love with her.


May, Peter, 1951-. Chinese whispers. 1st U.S. ed. Scottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, 2009, c2004.
A man calling himself the Beijing Ripper leaves a trail of dead prostitutes in his wake, and criminal investigator Li Yan calls in help from his lover, American pathologist Margaret Campbell, whose autopsy reports yield shocking results.


McCaffrey, Anne. Catalyst : a tale of the Barque cats. 1st ed. New York : Del Rey Ballantine Books, 2010.
Duchess—or Chessie, to those who love her and depend on her services—is no ordinary cat. A purebred Barque Cat, she has been trained to patrol the ship on which she serves, sniffing out oxygen leaks and spotting other problems. When a corrupt government announces it has found an epidemic that requires impounding and the possible destruction of all animals, including cats, two young people and a cat with a hidden agenda are all that stands between the galaxy’s animals and annihilation.

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McCall Smith, Alexander, [R. Alexander], 1948-. The full cupboard of life ; In the company of cheerful ladies : two complete novels. 1st large print ed. ; 2008 ed. New York : Random House Large Print ; distributed by Random House, 2008.
Full cupboard of life: Mma Ramotswe has been engaged to Mr. J.L.B Matekoni for quite some time, and still they have no wedding date. But she doesn’t want to be too pushy, for Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni has much on his mind. Mma Potokwani, who runs the orphan farm, has tricked him into a parachute jump to benefit charity. In the company of cheerful ladies: Handling a busy case load at The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency and contending with an intruder in her home, Mma Ramotswe has plenty on her mind. So when her unfortunate past returns to haunt her, she is happy her husband, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, is distracted as well. It seems one of his apprentices at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors has raced off with an older, wealthy woman.


McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-. The unbearable lightness of scones. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 2010.
The story of Bertie, a precocious six-year-old and his dysfunctional family is continued here by McCall Smith and includes other favorite characters like Big Lou, Domenica, and others, who are all in pursuit of happiness. ‘44 Scotland Street, Bk. 5.’


McIntosh, Pat. The stolen voice : a Gil Cunningham murder mystery. 1st US ed. London ; New York : Soho Constable, 2009.
Gil Cunningham and his wife Alys are sent to Perthshire to investigate the disappearance of four local singers and the possible link between the vanished singers and a young boy who disappeared forty years earlier only to reappear looking not a day older.


McLaughlin, Emma. Nanny returns : a novel. 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, 2009.
Nan returns to New York after twelve years abroad with her husband, and as she tries to get her new business off the ground, she once again encounters Grayer X, who is sixteen and demands to know why she abandoned him years earlier.


Meloy, Maile. Both ways is the only way I want it. New York : Riverhead Books, 2009.
Contains eleven short stories in which author Maile Meloy explores the lives of characters caught between innocence and experience, fidelity and desire, and impulse and stability.


Michaels, Anne, 1958-. The winter vault. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Newlyweds from Canada, Avery and Jean travel from Toronto to Egypt where Avery has been hired to rescue a temple from the rising waters of the Aswan Dam, but a tragedy threatens their marital bonds.


Michaels, David, 1955-. Tom Clancy’s endwar. Berkley ed. New York : Berkley Books, 2008.
America’s Joint Strike Force sends a Special Forces team into Moscow to capture Russian Colonel Pavel Doletskaya, the man who holds the key to Russia’s plan to invade America and Europe.


Mortimer, John, 1923-2009. A Rumpole Christmas. New York : Viking, 2009.
A collection of stories by John Mortimer that recount the Christmastime adventures of Horace Rumpole, who always seems to find excitement during the Christmas season, despite his ambivalent feelings on the holiday.


Munro, Alice. Too much happiness : stories. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
A collection of ten short stories of men and women whose lives are changed in unpredictable ways.


Neggers, Carla. Tempting fate. Don Mills, Ont. : MIRA, 1990.
While living with her wealthy relatives in Saratoga Springs, New York, Dani Pembroke remains hopeful that she can uncover the truth about her mother’s mysterious disappearance, but when she teams up with security expert Zeke Cutler, they close in on a killer who will do anything to remain anonymous.


Novak, Brenda. Dead Right. Don Mills, Ont. : MIRA, c2007.
The discovery of her father’s car submerged in a quarry twenty years after his disappearance from Stillwater, Mississippi, prompts journalist Madeline Barker to hire a private investigator to find out once and for all what happened to him, but there is someone in the small town who would prefer the truth remain hidden—even if it means murder.


Novak, Brenda. Trust me. Don Mills, Ont. : Mira, c2008.
After Oliver Burke, the man who attempted to rape Skye Kellerman, gets back onto the streets after cutting a deal in prison, Skye fears for her life and gets help from her friend, Sacramento detective David Willis, who sacrifices his own happiness to make sure Skye is safe.


O’Callaghan, Thomas. Bone thief. New York : Kensington Publishing, 2006.
Proving himself a worthy successor to Thomas Harris, O’Callaghan introduces one of the most compelling serial killers since Hannibal Lecter. NYPD Lieutenant John Driscoll leads a troubled investigative team while battling his own demons in order to catch a cunning predator who keeps his victims’ bones as trophies.


Page, Jean Reynolds. Accidental happiness : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2005.
Gina Melrose moves to a houseboat, drinking, her life unraveling, after her husband, Ben, dies unexpectedly at the age of thirty-six, but when Ben’s ex-wife, Reese, and Reese’s daughter, Angel, enter her life, she discovers hope again.

Pamuk, Orhan, 1952-. The museum of innocence. 1st North American ed. New York : Knopf, 2009.
Kemal, the thirty-year-old son of a wealthy family in Istanbul in 1975, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when a chance encounter with Fusun, a distant relation, sparks an obsessive love that changes his entire life.


Patterson, James, 1947-. Witch & wizard. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2009.
A sister and brother, along with thousands of young people, have been kidnapped and either thrown in prison or turned up missing after accusations of witchcraft were made against them, and the ruling regime will do anything in order to suppress life and liberty, music and books.


Penny, Louise. The cruelest month : a Three Pines mystery. 1st U.S. ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2008, c2007.
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is sent to Three Pines, where he investigates the mysterious death of one of the villagers, who died in the middle of a seance trying to rid the town of evil.


Preston, Douglas J. Impact. 1st ed. New York, NY. : Tom Doherty Associates, 2010.
After a meteorite passes straight through the earth, Wyman Ford is called on to investigate the exit hole. What he discovers shatters all that is known about the universe. His investigation leads him to one of Mars’ moons where a structure in the shape of a gun is found. It had been built to destroy any intelligent life that might challenge it, but who built it? Since it obviously poses a threat to Earth, Ford’s team races against time to dismantle it.


Rave, Robert. Spin. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2009.
Taylor Green moves from the Midwest to New York City, where he finds a job with public relations diva Jennie Weinstein, who sucks Taylor into a world of sex, greed, power, drugs, and fame and shows him the success may not be worth the price Jennie is demanding.


Roberts, Nora. The MacGregors : Serena, Caine. New York : Silhouette Books, c2006.
In “Playing the Odds,” Serena MacGregor gets a run for her money in the arms of a handsome gambler; in “Tempting Fate,” ruthless attorney Caine MacGregor meets his match in the beautiful Diana Blade.


Roberts, Nora. Night shift : Night shadow. New York : Silhouette Books, c2005.
Night shift—Night shadow. Presents two novels in one volume, including “Night Shift,” in which Cilla O’Roarke is drawn to a detective who is protecting her, and “Night Shadow,” in which Deborah O’Roarke, an idealistic prosecutor, finds herself falling in love with Nemesis, a mysterious vigilante.


Rodriguez, Abraham, 1961-. Spidertown : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c1993.
Story of Miguel and his friends living in the South Bronx of New York City making life-and-death decisions before their sixteenth birthday.


Rosenfelt, David. New tricks. 1st ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2009.
Attorney Andy Carpenter agrees to represent a Bernese mountain dog puppy in a custody battle after its owner is murdered, but he does not realize the animal is in possession of a valuable secret that puts it, as well as Andy and his loved ones, in peril.


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Russo, Richard, 1949-. That old cape magic. 1st large print ed. New York : Random House Large Print, 2009.
The wedding of a daughter’s best friend and—a year later—the wedding of a daughter brings Griffin back to Cape Cod, his childhood home, where he confronts old hurts, the loss of his father, and more of his own troubles.


Ryan, Chris, 1961-. Ultimate weapon. 1st American ed. New York : Weinstein Books, c2008.
SAS agent Nick Scott puts his dislike for Jed Bradley aside in order to rescue his scientist daughter, Sarah, and they are soon caught up in global intrigue and terrorist activity in the days before the downfall of Saddam Hussein.


Ryan, Chris. Blackout. London : Arrow, 2006.
A terrifyingly realistic story of what happens when technology and terrorism combine.


Scotch, Allison Winn. The department of lost & found. 1st ed. New York : Avon A, c2007.
Natalie Miller is the senior aide to a senator from New York, and nothing stands in her way—not even friends and lovers. Nothing, that is, until she is diagnosed with stage III breast cancer. Her live-in boyfriend leaves, her chemo treatments nearly kill her, and her job is in jeopardy. For the first time in her life, Natalie has time on her hands, and she uses it to examine her life. What she finds is a string of relationships that ended basically because she let them. And she discovers that the senator to whom she has devoted so much is less interested in issues than in election results. And most disturbing, the love that she thought she lost was never really hers at all.


Self, Will. Liver : a fictional organ with a surface anatomy of four lobes. New York : Bloomsbury, 2009, c2008.
British satirist Will Self spins four interconnected stories into a brilliantly insightful commentary on human foible and resilience.


Shayne, Maggie. Stranger in town. New York, NY : Silhouette Books, c2004.
Combines the first two stories of the Oklahoma branch of the Brand family.


Singer, Randy (Randy D.). The justice game. Carol Stream, Ill. : Tyndale House, c2009.
Kelly Starling and Jason Noble, two lawyers on opposite sides of a case involving a lawsuit against a gun manufacturer, after the killing of a television reporter, do battle with each other while learning that external forces seek to control them both.


Specktor, Matthew. That summertime sound : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Brooklyn : MTV Press ; Distributed by powerHouse Books, c2009.
Freshman summer, 1986: You think you’re looking for happiness and you’re in love with the world’s best and most obscure band. Your roommate tells you both reside in Columbus, Ohio. These aren’t the first fantasies you’ve indulged. Blind faith, after all, may be your one true religion. In the thrall of dead philosophers and mad prophets on the radio, you charge off on a group pilgrimage to Anywhere, Everywhere, Nowhere, USA. You still believe in sex, drugs, and rock and roll—but you’re not sure in what order. You’re digging in the crates for that one true thing. You know something is happening, but you don’t know what it is.... That Summertime Sound is the liner note to that perfect summer single and all its aching echoes, written with the gimlet eye of Jim Thompson, Kazuo Ishiguro’s sense of wonder, and a true believer’s ear for music.


Stewart, Mary, 1916-. Wildfire at midnight. New York : HarperTorch, [2003], c1956.
Gianetta Fox cannot seem to escape her past or her ex-husband when she retreats to a remote hotel on the Scottish Isle of Skye.


Thompson, Carlene. Black for remembrance. New York : Avon Books, c1992.
Twenty years ago, Caroline’s five-year-old daughter Hayley was kidnapped and murdered; her killer was never caught. Now Caroline and her new family, particularly her little girl Melinda, are being terrorized by someone who knows their shocking past.


Thompson, Victoria (Victoria E.). Murder on St. Mark’s Place. New York : Berkley Prime Crime, c2000.
In turn-of-the century New York City, midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy see birth and death—and even murder.


Thurlo, Aimée. Earthway. 1st ed. New York : Forge, 2009.
Ella Clah, a special investigator for the Navajo Tribal Police, finds a pipe bomb in her friend’s classroom and attempts to track down a group of activists opposed to the construction of a nuclear power plant on the reservation.


Tremayne, Peter. Smoke in the wind. 1st St. Martin’s Minotaur ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2003, c2001.
In seventh-century Ireland, Fidelma, a religieuse and sister to the King of Muman, finds herself and her shipmates stranded on the coast of Dyfed, where she is asked to investigate the disappearance of an entire community.


Tropper, Jonathan. This is where I leave you. New York : Dutton, c2009.
Judd Foxman honors his father’s dying request by spending a week with his dysfunctional family while simultaneously coping with his wife’s infidelity.


Tyler, Anne. Noah’s compass : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2009.
Liam is a happily retired school teacher, despite the fact that he was forced to retire earlier than he planned. His only concern these days is that he doesn’t remember what happened to him the first night he moved into his condominium. All he can remember is that he woke up the next day in the hospital with a bandaged head. When he hires a ‘rememberer,’ his efforts take him on an unexpected detour and he gets something quite different.


Urquhart, Jane. The underpainter. 1st American ed. New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1997.
Artist Austin Fraser creates a series of paintings as he reflects back on his career and personal relationships, recalling his childhood in upstate New York, his friendships with fellow painters Robert Henn and Rockwell Kent, and his love for a woman who served as his model.


Verne, Jules, 1828-1905. In search of the castaways. McLean, Va. : IndyPublish. com., [200-?].
South America—Australia—New Zealand. The contents of a shark’s stomach contain a bottle that holds partially deteriorated notes written in three different languages. Together they give clues to the location of Captain Harry Grant, whose ship the Britannia was lost at sea. While the latitude (37th parallel) of Grant is known from the notes, the longitude is a mystery. Lord Glenarvan makes it his quest to find Grant; together with his wife, Harry Grant’s two children, and the crew of his yacht the Duncan, they set off for South America. On their journey the searchers encounter storms, earthquakes, deserts, floods, pirates, cannibals, wolves, and numerous other dangers as they trace the 37th parallel across South America, then across Australia, and finally across New Zealand.


Walker, Shiloh. The missing. Berkley Sensation trade pbk. ed. New York : Berkley Sensation, 2008.
Taige Branch’s psychic gifts cost her the only man she ever loved when Cullen Morgan turned his back on Taige after she failed to prevent his mother’s murder, but when Cullen’s daughter is kidnapped, he asks Taige for help in finding the little girl before it is too late and both begin to wonder if their love might have another chance.


Wick, Lori. As time goes by. Eugene, Or. : Harvest House, c1992.
In 1871, Jeff Taylor wonders if Bobbie Bradford will forgive him for betraying her five years earlier, especially since she has returned to town on the verge of marrying another man.


Wick, Lori. Where the wild rose blooms. Eugene, Or. : Harvest House, c1996.
After a rocky start, Jackie and Clayton find themselves falling in love, but when Jackie is blinded in an accident she decides to end their relationship rather than suffer possible rejection.


Wick, Lori. A place called home. Eugene, Or. : Harvest House Publishers, c1990.
After the death of her grandfather, Christine Bennett escapes the small community of Baxter to find new love, new faith, and a new life, after being threatened by her evil cousin Vince Jeffers.


Wick, Lori. Sophie’s heart. Eugene, OR : Harvest House Publishers, c1995.
After the tragic death of his wife, Alec Riley struggles to put his life back together. He and his three children are lost in their grief...until Sophie walks unexpectedly into their lives. Having left her native Czechoslovakia, Sophie has discovered the land which seemed so bright with promise is far from her dream. A highly educated woman, Sophie now finds herself keeping house for Alec and his family. How can Sophie find peace in her new job? Will God use her gentle spirit to help heal Alec’s broken heart?


Wick, Lori. Sean Donovan. Eugene, Or. : Harvest House, c1993.
Sean Donovan is sentenced to hang for robbery, but independent Charlotte Cooper saves him from the gallows by marrying him, and his calm and concerned ways touch her in ways she never imagined possible.


Woods, Stuart. Kisser. New York : G. P. Putnam’s Sons, c2010.
Stone Barrington is drawn into the world of Manhattan’s rich, beautiful upper class when his romantic involvement with a Broadway actress and lip model shows him that even the rich have their secrets to hide.


Duncan, Ann Rich. Johnny Vic’s Nautical Adventures. Infinity Pub, 2009.
In Champlain Gold Johnny Vic travels back in time to witness the Battle of Valcour. While there he discovers a fortune in gold, but will he be able to find it when he returns to his own century? In Columbus, Johnny Vic gets to watch Columbus use the eclipse of the moon to save his men from the natives.


NON-FICTION

005.7 MCF
McFedries, Paul. The complete idiot’s guide to creating a website. New York : Alpha, c2008.
A guide to creating successful Web sites, explaining the basics of getting a site up and running, discussing Web site design and publishing, showing how to automate a Web site with JavaScripts, and including tips on how to get started as a professional Web designer. Includes a CD.


070.92 MOR
Moret, Jim. The last day of my life. Beverly Hills, CA : Phoenix Books, c2009.
A memoir in the form of short anecdotes in which the author discusses his work, contemplation of suicide and speculation as to what he would have done on the last day of his life, and various aspects of life to be grateful for.


071.3 BUR
Burns, Eric. Infamous scribblers : the founding fathers and the rowdy beginnings of American journalism. 1st ed. New York : Public Affairs, c2006.
Explores the factors that influenced the development of American journalism after the Revolutionary War, and examines the role the media played in the development of the nation and how the nation’s development influenced the media.


158.1 ORS
Orsborn, Carol. The art of resilience : 100 paths to wisdom and strength in an uncertain world. 1st ed. New York : Three Rivers Press, c1997.
Carol Orsborn, the former head of an international PR firm who jumped off the fast track to pursue a saner life, shows us how to move through and beyond disappointments and rechannel valuable energy to overcome life’s setbacks. Her motivating compendium of anecdotes, Eastern and Western wisdom, and practical advice will make it easier to get through the tough times.


222.1105 BIB
The book of Genesis illustrated. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton, c2009.
An illustrated adaptation of the entire book of Genesis, providing the biblical accounts of the Creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the ark, the Tower of Babel, and other people and events.


232 GOR
Gordon, Mary, 1949-. Reading Jesus : a writer’s encounter with the Gospels. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c2009.
Presents a literary interpretation of the Bible, studying Jesus as a character and examining the various Gospels as literature that possesses unresolved moral ambiguities, useful fables, and Christian teachings.


241 KIN
King, Jason. Save the date : a spirituality of dating, love, dinner, and the divine. New York : Crossroad Pub. Co., c2003.
In this funny and lighthearted book by twentysomethings Freitas and King, the authors present a positive view of dating, showing young people how dating can be a spiritual path that promotes maturity and growth.


248.8 YAN
Yancey, Philip. Where is God when it hurts? Anniversary ed. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, c1990.
The author draws on his personal experiences, as well as examples from the Bible, to explore the question of why God allows people to suffer pain and discusses how to respond to one’s own pain, as well as the suffering of others.


291.4 MOO
Moon, Janell. The Wise Earth speaks to your spirit. Boston, MA : Red Wheel, 2002.
A heartfelt combination of spiritual discovery, environmental observations, and journal writing, The Wise Earth Speaks to Your Spirit offers readers a 52-week cycle of themed essays and related questions about the natural world. Entries on night and sky and parakeets, wind and mud and rain, snakes and tea and thistle, among others. In addition to folklore, myths, stories, and symbols connected to each theme, Janell Moon includes inspirational quotes from well-known writers - among them E. B. White, Ursula K. LeGuin, Gertrude Stein, and Mother Theresa – and shares her original poetry and personal experiences with the natural world. As she writes in the introduction, “It is my wish that through the telling of these stories, and the deepening of your own connections through your writing, that you will better enjoy a rainbow or a tree with angel’s wings in a storm.” In this era of mechanization and cultural disintegration, Moon calls us back to our source, our strength, our refuge: the earth from which we draw our very existence. From the strands of myth, folklore, symbolism, and her own personal stories, she weaves 52 essays that carry us through a year’s worth of inspired journaling. She proves, beyond a doubt, that we can go home again, that we can reconnect with earth’s sacredness, and that the journey is well worth the effort.


294.3 BST
Bstan-‘dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-. The joy of living and dying in peace. 1st ed. [San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, 1997.
Bringing us closer to the essence of Buddhist teachings, and to his own peerless insight, the Dala Lama offers his thoughts on achieving a meanful life and death. At the heart of his eloquent presentation is this lesson: by cultivating compassion, wisdom, and positive thought and action--in short, by living a good life--we can approach death without fear or regret, and welcome our passage and rebirth.


302.3 CHR
Christakis, Nicholas A. Connected : the surprising power of our social networks and how they shape our lives. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2009.
Discusses how various aspects of a person’s life—including emotional well-being, marital spouses, and more—are influenced by the thoughts, actions, and feelings of people within their social network; and explains how emotions can be contagious.


305.31 BOR
Bordo, Susan, 1947-. The male body : a new look at men in public and in private. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.
Discusses how men’s and women’s ideas about the male body are influenced by society’s expectations.


305.4 MEN
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956. In defense of women. Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books, 1982, c1922.
The author presents a comprehensive analysis of the intelligence and stamina of women, and maintains that an average woman is greatly superior to an average man in many ways.


305.4097 COL
Collins, Gail. When everything changed : the amazing journey of American women from 1960 to the present. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2009.
Examines the history of women in America from the 1960s and into the early twenty-first century, discussing politics, fashion, popular culture, economics, sex, families, the workforce, and related topics.


305.9069 MAR
Marton, Kati. Enemies of the people : my family’s journey to America. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Kati Marton recounts how her family was spied on by the Communist Terror State during both the Nazi and Communist periods due to their actions and beliefs and discusses her parents’ arrest in Cold War Budapest, the separation that followed, the horrors they endured in prison, and the political game between Washington and Moscow.


306 DUN
Dunn, Jancee. Why is my mother getting a tattoo? : and other questions I wish I never had to ask. New York : Villard, c2009.
Chronicles the author’s experiences with her family, and issues with getting older, while realizing that her parents are trying to recapture their youth, with phone transcripts of conversations with her best friend.


306.87 ZAN
Zanichkowsky, Stephen. Fourteen : growing up alone in a crowd. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Basic Books, 2003, c2002.
Stephen Zanichkowsky discusses what it was like growing up in a large family, explaining how he found his true place among his thirteen siblings.


320.9743 NEW VT COLL
Newcomb, Tim. A gaggle of governors : 25 years of Vermont cartoons : selections from 1982-2008. Montpelier, VT : Newcomb Studios, c2008.
Selected from 1,500 cartoons that were published in various Vermont newspapers, these cartoons represent the issues of the year published. Here is a modern history of Vermont in cartoon format.


324.973 HER
Hertzberg, Hendrik. Obámanos! : the birth of a new political era. New York : Penguin Press, 2009.
Collects articles from Hendrik Hertzberg, political essayist for “The New Yorker,” in which he discusses his own political history and Barack Obama’s path toward the presidency, beginning with the Democratic National Convention in 2004 through the 2008 election.


324.973 PLO
Plouffe, David. The audacity to win : the inside story and lessons of Barack Obama’s historic victory. New York : Viking, 2009.
David Plouffe chronicles the Barack Obama presidential campaign, sharing the ideas and events that shaped the campaign and helped Obama become the country’s first African-American president and exploring how the election changed the face of American politics.


330.076 BIS
AP macroeconomics/microeconomics. 2008 ed. New York : Kaplan Pub., c2008.
A study guide to the Advanced Placement tests in macroeconomics-microeconomics, featuring test-taking strategies, diagnostic tests, subject reviews, definitions of key terms, and two full-length practice exams with explained answers.


330.973 COR
Corsi, Jerome R. America for sale : fighting the new world order, surviving a global depression, and preserving U.S.A. sovereignty. 1st Threshold Editions hardcover ed. New York : Threshold Editions, 2009.
Examines the economic crisis in America including outsourcing of American jobs, rising socialism, and U.S. assets being bought up by foreign investors; and shares practical strategies for helping families survive and strengthening the national economy.


330.973 GOO
Goodman, Peter S. Past due : the end of easy money and the renewal of the American economy. 1st ed. New York : Times Books, 2009.
Peter S. Goodman, economics correspondent for “The New York Times,” examines the effect of the 2008 financial crisis on the American public, and discusses how to move forward.


332.024 WEB
Weber, Lauren. In cheap we trust : the story of a misunderstood American virtue. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2009.
Examines frugality in the American consumer culture, discussing a historical overview of social programs, alternative movements, and mainstream institutions that promote economical spending habits, along with the distinction between cheapness and thriftiness, and related topics.

355.0092 SHE
Sheehan, Neil. A fiery peace in a cold war : Bernard Schriever and the ultimate weapon. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2009.
Presents a discussion of the intercontinental ballistic missile program of the 1950s and 1960s in the United States as led by Air Force General Bernard Shriever and his group of aides, civilian patrons, and others who helped him fight against Pentagon bureaucracy in an effort to keep the peace during the Cold War.


358.4 JAN OVERSIZE
Jane’s fighting aircraft of World War II. New York : Avenel, N.J. : Crescent Books ; distributed by Random House Value Pub., 1995.
A collection of photographs, line drawings, data tables, and text on the airplanes of all the participating countries of World War II.


362.1968 DAV
Davis, Nancy (Nancy Sue). Lean on me : ten powerful steps to moving beyond your diagnosis and taking back your life. New York : Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Introduction: “You’re Lucky”; Step One: Embrace Change; Step Two: Fear Less ; Step Three: Never Take No for an Answer; Step Four: Find Your Dr. Right; Step Five: Build Your Health Team; Step Six: You Are What You Ingest; Step Seven: Let’s Get Physical; Step Eight: Explore Alternative Therapies; Step Nine: Tame the Health Care Monster; Step Ten: Give Back.


363.2 SAB
Sabbag, Robert. Too tough to die : down and dangerous with the U.S. marshals. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1992.
An account of marshalls past and present from 1789 to the present. Also covers the Witness Security Program and many who have been touched by the U.S. Marshals.


371.8234 MOR
Mortenson, Greg. Stones into schools : promoting peace with books, not bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan. New York : Viking, 2009.
Greg Mortenson describes his efforts to promote peace throughout the world, and details how he was able to establish over 130 schools—mostly for girls—in remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan with the backing of the Central Asia Institute—a nonprofit organization.


394.1209 GRI
Grimes, William. Appetite city : a culinary history of New York. 1st ed. New York : North Point Press, 2009.
Former “The New York Times” restaurant critic William Grimes provides an overview of the culinary history of New York City.


395.2 POS
Post, Peggy, 1945-. Emily Post wedding etiquette : cherished traditions and contemporary ideas for a joyous celebration. 4th ed. New York : HarperResource, c2001.
Today's weddings are more complicated than ever before, with new traditions replacing old, and new relationships to consider as family life grows more complex. In this thoroughly revised edition, Peggy Post provides sensible solutions to wedding questions old and new, showing how to manage both the big decisions and the tiny details with tact, consideration, and confidence. While continuing to provide the tried-and-true guidelines every bride needs for planning her specials day, Emily Post's Wedding Etiquette, 4th Edition also provides expert advice on the complex issues of today's weddings, with new chapters on encore weddings, multicultural wedding traditions, and postwedding responsibilities, and fully expanded sections on interfaith and nontraditional commitment ceremonies. this edition also features new sidebars, candid Q&A's drawn from Peggy's interviews, and much more at-a-glance information for busy brides-to-be.


422 WIL
Wilton, David, 1963-. Word myths : debunking linguistic urban legends. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Reveals the truth behind commonly-held myths about various phrases in the English language.


428.2 GOR
Gordon, Karen Elizabeth. The deluxe transitive vampire : the ultimate handbook of grammar for the innocent, the eager, and the doomed. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c1993.
Examples of confusing appositives, many uses of gerunds, and the complicated matter of agreements.


509.4109 HOL
Holmes, Richard, 1945-. The age of wonder : how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c2008.
Discusses the influence of discoveries by astronomer William Herschel and his sister Caroline; chemist and poet Humphrey Davy, and explorer Joseph Banks on the Romantic Age as elements of religious faith and scientific truth combined to form a new cultural paradigm.


530 FRA
Frary, Mark. Freaky science : 1500 weird and wonderful scientific facts. London ; Sydney : New Holland, c2008.
Freaky Science is an eyebrow-raising collection of weird stories, cool experiments and amazing facts from the world of science. Discover things you would never have believed about the universe, from the smallest bits to the biggest, to the edge of the Universe and beyond!


530.076 BRA
AP physics B & C. 2008 ed. New York, N.Y. : Kaplan Publishing, c2008.
Presents a study plan to build knowledge and confidence, discusses study skills and strategies, reviews core topics, and provides two full-length practice tests.


530.076 WAE
Waechtler, Paul. Cracking the AP physics C exam. 2009 ed. New York : Random House, c2008.
Scoring high on the AP Physics C Exam is very different from earning straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about physics-only the strategies and information you’ll need to get your highest score. In Cracking the AP Physics C Exam, we’ll teach you how to: Use our preparation strategies and test-taking techniques to raise your score, Focus on the topics most likely to appear on the test, Test your knowledge with review questions for each physics topic covered. This book includes 2 full-length practice tests. All of our practice questions are just like those you’ll see on the actual exam, and we explain how to answer every question.


613.7 PET
Simply yoga. Standard format. [Dingley Village, Victoria 3172, Australia] : Hinkler Books Pty Ltd, c2002.
Instructor: Yolanda Pettinato. One of the most popular forms of exercise is now available in Book & DVD format for you to use in the comfort of your own home. Yolanda Pettinato will guide you through the exercises as you improve your health and strengthen your flexibility and stamina. Yolanda Pettinato instructs in basic yoga exercise methods.


615.9 DAV
Davis, Devra Lee. When smoke ran like water : tales of environmental deception and the battle against pollution. Hardback ed. New York : Basic Books, 2002.
Examines the health consequences of local and global pollution, sharing the story of how her family was affected by pollution, and arguing that the government needs to take a proactive position to prevent environmental hazards from killing and incapacitating the public.


616.85 SLO
Slone, Laurie B. After the war zone : a practical guide for returning troops and their families. [Cambridge, Mass.] : Da Capo Lifelong, 2008.
Offers military personnel and their families practical tips and advice to help them cope with the unique challenges they may face after returning from combat.


618.89 KOZ
Kozak, Arnold. Wild chickens and petty tyrants : 108 metaphors for mindfulness. Boston : Wisdom Publications, c2009.
Contains 108 brief entries that offer ways for the reader to incorporate mindfulness in daily life, which can relieve stress, anxiety, and depression.


618.92 CYT
Cytryn, Leon. Growing up sad : childhood depression and its treatment. New York : W.W. Norton, 1998, c1996.
Presents information for understanding, treating, and preventing depression in children, looking at advances made in the diagnosis and treatment of the illness, with discussion of the causes of depression and a call for early intervention.


623.850 CAL
Calder, Nigel. Boatowner’s mechanical and electrical manual : how to maintain, repair, and improve your boat’s essential systems. 3rd ed. Camden, ME : International Marine/McGraw-Hill, c2005.
A comprehensive guide to the electrical and mechanical systems that offers boat owners practical advice on how to maintain, repair, and improve their boats’ essential systems.


629.1355 LAN
Langewiesche, William. Fly by wire : the geese, the glide, the miracle on the Hudson. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Examines factors that contributed to the successful, emergency landing of a U.S. Airways Airbus A320 on January 15, 2009, discussing the design of the aircraft and bird strikes throughout aviation history, along with the financial problems of the airlines, the competition between Airbus and Boeing, and more.


635.9 BEN
Benson, Dianne. Dirt, the lowdown on growing a garden with style. New York : Dell Pub., 1994.
A humorous guide to gardening, discussing tools, what clothes to wear, where to order plants, and more.


636.7 FRA
Franklin, Jon. The wolf in the parlor : the eternal connection between humans and dogs. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt, 2009.
Examines the origins, history, and uniqueness of the bond shared between humans and dogs, and also discusses dog behavior.


636.7 HOR
Horowitz, Alexandra. Inside of a dog : what dogs see, smell, and know. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, 2009.
The author, a cognitive scientist, introduces the reader to a dog’s perceptual and cognitive abilities in order to determine how they think about their daily worlds.


636.8 RAI
Rainbolt, Dusty. Kittens for dummies. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, c2004.
Presents guidelines designed to help prospective pet owners choose a kitten, offers advice on preparing the home and family for the kitten’s arrival, and discusses day-to-day care, kitten behaviors, and what to do when a kitten arrives unexpectedly.


636.8 RIC
Richards, James R., 1948-. ASPCA complete guide to cats. San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 1999.
An illustrated guide to cats that provides detailed profiles of fify breeds and information on choosing the right cat, preparing to bring a new cat home, keeping a cat healthy, litter box training, feeding and grooming, and other related topics.


641.303 FOE
Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977-. Eating animals. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2009.
Examines various philosophical topics related to vegetarianism and eating habits in general, chronicling the author’s struggle, as he approaches fatherhood, with how to make dietary choices on a child’s behalf, and analyzes various aspects of folklore, culture, tradition, and myth that help people justify eating habits.


641.815 BUL
Bullock-Prado, Gesine. Confections of a closet master baker : one woman’s sweet journey from unhappy Hollywood executive to contented country baker. 1st ed. New York : Broadway Books, c2009.
The author tells the story of how she gave up a very lucrative job as head of her sister Sandra Bullock’s production company to become a Vermont baker and owner of Gesine Confectionary. Includes recipes.


658.3 NEL
Nelson, Bob, 1956-. The 1001 rewards & recognition fieldbook : the complete guide. New York : Workman Pub., c2003.
Beginning with the basics of motivation, including the decline of traditional incentives and the trend toward empowered employees, the book lays the groundwork for developing and managing a rewards or recognition program in any work situation: how to recognize an individual or a group; how to develop a low-cost recognition program; how to sell it to upper management, prevent and fix common problems, and assess its effectiveness. There are planning worksheets, templates for different purposes-improving morale, improving attendance, increasing retention-plus perforated reference cards for immediate guidance, and 101 new low-cost/no-cost recognition ideas. Running through the margins are Nelson’s answers to the questions most frequently asked since the publication of 1001 Ways to Reward Employees.


658.4 GRA
Gray, John, 1951-. How to get what you want at work : a practical guide for improving communication and getting results. 1st Quill ed. New York, NY : Quill, 2003, c2002.
Explores the differences in the ways men and women think and interact in the workplace, offering valuable advice for reducing unnecessary conflict and frustration to create a fulfilling work environment.


688.7 MCG
McGonagle, Dorothy A. A celebration of American dolls : from the collections of Strong Museum. Grantsville, Md. : Hobby House, c1997.
A celebration of American dolls.


728.37 FRA
Frampton, Kenneth. American masterworks : the twentieth century house. New York : Rizzoli, 1995.
Text, illustrations and diagrams describe a variety of architectural styles as works of art and the text discusses the prevalent themes found in different time periods.


745.5 BRA
Brabec, Barbara. The crafts business answer book & resource guide : answers to hundreds of troublesome questions about starting, marketing, and managing a homebased business efficiently, legally, and profitably. New York : M. Evans and Co., 1998.
Answers to hundreds of troublesome questions about starting, marketing, and managing a homebased business efficiently, legally, and profitably.


745.5 BRA
Brabec, Barbara. Handmade for profit! : hundreds of secrets to success in selling arts & crafts. New York : M. Evans, c1996.
Offers crafters expert tips and strategies to help them break into the arts and crafts market, explaining the best ways to sell handmade items for maximum profit.


745.5 ILA
Ilasco, Meg Mateo. Craft inc. : turn your creative hobby into a business. San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c2007.
Meg Mateo Ilasco offers a step-by-step guide to everything from developing products and naming the company to writing a business plan, applying for licenses, and paying taxes. Chapters on sales, marketing, trade shows, and publicity round out the mix. Plus, in-depth interviews with such craft luminaries as Jonathan Adler, Lotta Jansdotter, Denyse Schmidt, and Jill Bliss provide inspiration and practical advice. Accessible, informative, and more than a little spunky, Craft, Inc. paves the way for today’s creative minds to become tomorrow’s trendsetters.


746.43 FAS
Fassett, Kaffe. Vintage knits : thirty knitting designs from Rowan for men and women. North Pomfret, VT : Trafalgar Square Publishing, 2005, c2004.
Glorifying the recovered pleasures of fine cloth, rich texture, and a relaxed fit, this collection of vintage patterns draws its inspiration from the charm, simplicity, and elegance of mid-20th-century clothing. Rejuvenated by the postwar years, men and women embraced styles that captured feminine appeal and masculine exuberance, with well-tailored designs and graceful finishing touches that are re-created here. The 31 patterns in this volume—from cardigans and jackets to scarves and pullovers—have been inspired by old photographs, archival patterns, and classic Hollywood films and have been adapted for modern figures and contemporary knitters.


746.43 ROB
Roberts, Luise. 1000 great knitting motifs. North Pomfret, Vt. : Trafalgar Square Pub., 2004.
Contains color illustrations and brief instructions for one thousand knitting motifs, including traditional knitting and pictorial motifs, and modern pictorial motifs, and includes a review of techniques.


746.43 SIM
Simple 1-2-3. Lincolnwood, IL : Publications International, Ltd., 2007.
Three books in one: Knitting for Babies, Great Gifts, and Fabulous Scarves.


747 DES
Designed to sell : smart ideas that pay off! 1st ed. Des Moines, IA : Meredith Books, c2006.
Provides tips from television’s “Designed to Sell,” on how to redecorate, update, and otherwise improve rooms in the home to increase value in the real estate market, and includes photographs and cost breakdowns.


747.7 JEN
Jennings, Lynette. Lynette Jennings straight talk on decorating. 1st ed. Des Moines, IA : Meredith Books, c2002.
Presents a comprehensive full-color guide to home decorating and provides advice on basic design, personal color scheme, and dispels common decorating myths.


778.9 SCH
Schaub, George. Digital photographer’s guide to black & white landscape photography. 1st ed. New York, N.Y. : Lark Books, 2009.
Digital technology has revolutionized photography—nowhere more dramatically than with black-and-white. Interest in the subject has reached an all-time high, and this guide by an esteemed photographer and editor of Shutterbug magazine is the only complete foundation course on monochrome digital landscape photography. It explains all the basics of the highly popular subject: how to meter and expose scenes so they convert well to grayscale, control how colors are rendered as gray tones, expose for highlights and develop (in the computer) for the lowlights, manage contrast, and create a magical print.


796 SCH
Schmidt, Mike, 1949-. Clearing the bases : juiced players, monster salaries, sham records, and a Hall of Famer’s search for the soul of baseball. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2006.
Former baseball player Mike Schmidt examines the scandals and controversies that have begun to define professional baseball in recent years, addressing steroid use, skyrocketing payrolls, callous owners, and unapproachable players and the negative impact they are having on the sport’s image.


814.54 JAC
Jacobs, A. J., 1968-. The guinea pig diaries : my life as an experiment. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Journalist A. J. Jacobs conducts a series of life experiments, and describes the results of outsourcing all aspects of his life to a team of people in Bangalore, India, practicing “Radical Honesty,” disguising himself as a movie star and infiltrating the Academy Awards, following George Washington’s rules for life, spending a month adhering to his wife’s every whim, and more.


814.54 MIC
Michaels, Leonard, 1933-2003. The essays of Leonard Michaels. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
A collection of essays in which American author Leonard Michaels discusses a variety of topics, such as his New York childhood, art, and sex in movies.


820.9 WEL
Welty, Eudora, 1909-. The eye of the story : selected essays and reviews. 1st Vintage books ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1979, c1978.
A collection of essays in which Eudora Welty meditates on the art of writing and explores the works of other writers, including Jane Austen, Willa Cather, Anton Chekhov, and Virginia Woolf.


883.01 ALE
Alexander, Caroline, 1956-. The war that killed Achilles : the true story of Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War. New York : Viking, 2009.
Offers a detailed analysis of Homer’s epic poem “Iliad,” discussing the central questions about war that Homer addressed in the poem, what the poem reveals about the brutal, ten-year Trojan War, what Homer might have hoped people learned from his poem, and other related topics.


917.3 WOO
Woodall’s North American campground directory. 2010 North American ed. Ventura, CA : Woodall’s Publications, 2010.
Provides information about RV camping in North America, including profiles and ratings of campgrounds, attractions, and suggested one-day trips.


917.43 CEN
A century in the mountains : celebrating Vermont’s Long Trail. 1st ed. Waterbury Center, VT : Green Mountain Club, 2009.
This book is a beautifully illustrated documentation of Vermont’s Long Trail and the men and women who built it.


917.43 GRE VT COLL
Place names on Vermont’s Long Trail : from Wampahoofus to Devil’s Gulch. 1st ed. Waterbury Center, Vt. : GMC, c2007.
This book is a companion to the “Long Trail Guide.” Hikers will enjoy the historical descriptions of the names assigned to mountains, hills, and shelters located along the trail.


917.43 HIN VT COLL
Hindes, James Gordon, 1909-1973. So clear, so cool, so grand : a 1931 hike on Vermont’s Long Trail. Waterbury Center, Vt. : Green Mountain Club, c2008.
This is a journal of James Gordon Hindes as he traveled Vermont's Long Trail in 1931. This entertaining account of early days of long distance hiking also gives you a picture of life in Vermont when telephones required operators and listening to the radio was the primary form of entertainment.


917.43 TRE VT COLL
Tree, Christina. Vermont : an explorer’s guide. 12th ed. Woodstock, Vt. : Countryman Press, c2009.
A travel guide to Vermont that provides information on the state’s major destinations, less-traveled areas, interesting sights, popular attractions, hotels, restaurants, shops, and outdoor activities.


917.43 WILL VT COLL
Wilson, Robert F. Vermont curiosities : quirky characters, roadside oddities & other offbeat stuff. Guilford, CT : Globe Pequot Press, 2008.
A fun, accessible read for travelers and non travelers alike, Vermont Curiosities is part zany Vermont guidebook and part Who’s Who of unusual and unsung heroes. This compendium of the state’s quirks and characters will amuse Vermont residents and visitors alike.


920 BIR
Bird, Larry, 1956-. When the game was ours. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Presents a collaborative memoir in which the two basketball stars reevaluate their competitive relationship and achievement of many championships and awards during an important time in the National Basketball Association.


920 CLI VT COLL
Clifford, Deborah Pickman. More than petticoats : Remarkable Vermont women. Guilford, CT : Globe Pequot Press, c2009.
Profiles twelve women from various walks of life who made significant
contributions to the history of Vermont, including African-American poet and pioneer Lucy Terry Prince, celebrated writer Shirley Jackson, historian Abby Maria Hemenway, and education activist Emma Willard.


920 LEV VT COLL
Levesque, Sandra M. Under a fig tree : a family memoir. Randolph, VT : The Author, c2009.
From Randazzo to Rutland... Francesco Paolo and Antonia Maria Delpopolo Scafidi met under a fig tree in the vineyards of Castiglione di Sicilia. In 1920, just five months after their wedding, the couple left their impoverished Mediterranean island and began a journey that would take them to the unlikely destination of Rutland, Vermont in northern New England. This is the immigrant’s story, oft told, but with the rich and stirring details of one three-generation family in an Italian-American community that is quietly receding into history.


920 VAN VT COLL
Van Camp, Julie F. Searching for Ichabod : his eighteenth century diary leads me home. [S.l.] : BookSurge, c2009.
This is the story of one woman’s search to find her ancestors. It’s written as an historical narrative as she searches for her great, great, great, grandfather’s grave. The author’s interesting journey may serve as an inspiration to others seeking similar information. Illustrations, end notes and bibliography.


921 CARLIN
Carlin, George. Last words. 1st Free Press hardcover ed. New York : Free Press, 2009.
Provides autobiographical stories from comedian George Carlin in which he recounts personal experiences and reflects on his fifty-year career, along with biographical content from Carlin’s friend Tony Hendra, to cover the entire span of his life, from birth until his death in 2008.


921 CARVER
Sklenicka, Carol, 1948-. Raymond Carver : a writer’s life. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, 2009.
A biography of American author Raymond Carver, covering his upbringing in the Pacific Northwest, struggles with finances and alcoholism, friendship with other writers, publication of stories and poems, and family life.


921 ELIZABETH
Shawcross, William. The Queen Mother : the official biography. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Chronicles the life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, drawing on the Queen Mother’s personal letters, diaries, and papers to discuss her childhood, marriage to King George VI, role in British politics, personal life, and other related topics.


921 GREENBERG
Greenberg, Michael, 1952-. Beg, borrow, steal : a writer’s life. New York : Other Press, c2009.
An autobiography in which Michael Greenberg discusses his early years as a writer, telling of his contentious relationship with his father who was scornful of his writing ambitions, his artistic first wife, and his son, and sharing some of the unexpected encounters that have fueled his career.


921 JONES
Jones, Judith. The tenth muse : my life in food. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 2008, c2007.
Author and editor Judith Jones shares the story of her life, experiences, and achievements including her involvement in publishing some of the food world’s most admired figures such as Julia Child.


921 KAMKWAMBA
Kamkwamba, William, 1987-. The boy who harnessed the wind : creating currents of electricity and hope. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2009.
The author details how he ignored naysayers and was able to bring electricity and running water to his Malawian village when he built a makeshift windmill out of scrap metal and spare parts.


921 MCNALLY VT COLL
Wheeler, Scott. Don “Sleepy” McNally : from Vaudeville to drive-in pioneer. 1st ed. Derby, Vt. : Vermont’s Northland Journal, c2008.
Features the biography of Don “Sleepy” McNally, born into a vaudeville family, an early pioneer of the drive-in movie industry, and a founder of the Derby-Port Drive-In Theater in Derby, Vermont and the Morrisville Drive-In Theater in Morrisville, Vermont.


921 VANLIERE
VanLiere, Donna, 1966-. Finding Grace : a true story about losing your way in life—and finding it again. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2009.
Author Donna VanLiere shares how her sexual abuse, struggles with infertility, and the adoptions of her three children taught her about God’s grace in everyday life.


921 WILLIAMS
Williams, Roy, 1950-. Hard work : a life on and off the court. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, c2009.
Chronicles the life and accomplishments of Roy Williams, the head coach of the University of North Carolina’s men’s basketball team, describing the troubles he faced during his childhood and his early love for the sport.


937.7 PEL
Pellegrino, Charles R. Ghosts of Vesuvius : a new look at the last days of Pompeii, how the towers fell, and other strange connections. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2004.
Looks at what modern forensic archaeology has revealed about the everyday lives of the citizens of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the days before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius destroyed the twin cities, and applies the lessons of volcano physics to draw parallels between the ancient disaster and the collapse of the World Trade Center towers.


943.086 BES
Bessel, Richard. Germany 1945 : from war to peace. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Harper, c2009.
Documents the last days of the Third Reich and Germany’s transition from the devastation and social upheaval of World War II to a period of relative peace and prosperity.


956.7 WES
West, Francis J. No true glory : a frontline account of the battle for Fallujah. New York : Bantam Books, 2005.
Presents a comprehensive analysis of the battle for Fallujah and the political firestorm that ensued after the Marines were forced to withdraw and then ordered to attack the city a second time.


973 HOD
Hodgson, Godfrey. The myth of American exceptionalism. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2009.
Godfrey Hodgson argues that it is dangerous and irresponsible for the United States to try and promote the ideals of democracy and capitalism to other countries, drawing on historical evidence to prove that democracy is not always the best government system and that it often alienates countries from the global community.


973.38 MAR
Martin, Joseph Plumb, 1760-1850. Private Yankee Doodle; : being a narrative of some of the adventures, dangers, and sufferings of a Revolutionary soldier. [1st ed.]. Boston, : Little, Brown, [1962].
Recreates the daily life of the revolutionary soldier.


973.7 RUS VT COLL
Rush, Daniel S. The St. Albans raiders : an investigation into the identities and life stories of the bold and enigmatic confederate soldiers who attacked St. Albans, Vermont on October 19, 1864. Saline, Mich. : McNaughton and Gunn for the Blue and Gray Education Society, 2008.
The Confederate attack at St. Albans on October 19, 1864 was unexpected by the people in the northern part of the United States. No one was expecting a Rebel raid and it now meant Union troops would have to be placed along the Canadian border. The army was now facing foreign as well as domestic fronts.


973.911 EGA
Egan, Timothy. The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Describes a forest fire that erupted in August of 1910 in the Bitterroot Mountains along the Idaho-Montana border, discussing efforts to combat it and how the actions of individuals fighting the fires had a positive influence on popular opinion about Teddy Roosevelt’s notion of conservation.


974.3 ARM VT COLL
Armitage, Peggy. Around Pittsford. Charleston, SC : Arcadia Pub., c2009.
Winding north through Pittsford, Otter Creek has powered the lumber, grain, and marble mills essential to this region since 1770. Chittenden lies east of Pittsford, on the west flank of the Green Mountains, where iron and manganese deposits supplied Pittsford’s iron industry. To the south, Pittsford and Proctor share deep marble formations that support the economies of both towns. The first settlers were farmers drawn to the valley’s fertile soil and mountain forests. They were joined by lumber barons, lawyers, merchants, and artists. European and French Canadian immigrants soon followed and farmed, built the railroad, or quarried and carved marble. Closely linked by the industries that helped build them, these communities have evolved into today’s thriving hometowns of workers in Rutland.


974.3 BUS VT COLL
Bushnell, Mark, 1964-. It happened in Vermont. Guilford, Conn. : Globe Pequot Press, 2009.
From the French and Indian War to the exposure of Maple Corner, thirty-two events that shaped the Green Mountain State.


974.3 FAR VT COLL
Farfan, Matthew F. The Vermont-Quebec border : life on the line. Charleston, SC : Arcadia Pub., c2009.
The Vermont-Quebec Border: Life on the Line is a visual record of life in the villages, towns, and countryside in this unique and special part of the world. In recent years, issues relating to the border have been thrust to the forefront as never before. This is due not only to growing security concerns but also to an increasing scrutiny in the media of border issues and of how heightened security is impacting life in communities all along the border. The border has played an important role in the history and everyday lives of the people living along its length, both in Vermont and Quebec, and it will undoubtedly continue to shape these communities in the years to come.


974.3 GEL
Gellman, Ginger. Historic photos of Vermont. Nashville, Tenn. : Turner Pub. Co., c2009.
This volume tells the story of Vermont’s history using almost 200 black and white photographs. This journey into the past shows why Vermonters cherish the land they call home. Notes on the photographs are included.


974.3 HAN VT COLL
Hansen, Fran Lynggaard. Brattleboro : historically speaking. Charleston, SC : History Press, 2009.
Founded as Fort Dummer in 1724, from its earliest days the town that would become Brattleboro enjoyed beautiful views and a strong spirit. It quickly grew into a home for Vermont industry and pleasure, attracting tourists, traders and innovators from across the region. Former Brattleboro Reformer contributor Fran Lynggaard Hansen describes the town’s history through highlights from her ‘Downstreet’ column, including accounts of the 1848 smallpox outbreak, the founding of the Estey Organ Company, the construction of the Harris Ski Jump, the story behind George Crowell’s Lindenhurst mansion and the efforts of the dedicated volunteers who launched the first Winter Carnival. Portraying residents at work, at play and in service to one another, she captures the essence of Brattleboro’s enduring charm.


974.3 LAK
Lake Champlain : an illustrated history : a celebration of America’s most historic lake. Jay, N.Y. : Adirondack Life, c2009.
This celebration of America’s most historic lake includes towns along the lake, the lake’s formation and history, the first people, use as a highway and waterway as well as sports and play on the lake. More than 300 historic maps, photographs and illustrations are included.


974.3 LIL VT COLL
Lake Champlain Islands. Arcadia Pub, 2009.
On July 3, 1609, French explorer Samuel de Champlain and his group canoed south from Canada into an expansive lake and found four islands. Those islands are now the Lake Champlain Islands, and it was that trip that gave birth to Vermont and sparked 400 years of history. Located in the far northwest corner of the state, the islands are well known as a shoreline retreat for all of New England, with their small-town feel and picturesque farmlands. In this birthplace of Vermont, with its rich soil, early settlers found success growing local varieties of apples, which they shipped by steamboat directly to international cities. Several large deposits of unique dark limestone brought marble trade to the area, and these materials are still mined in working quarries today. The Lake Champlain Islands are a tranquil, yet vibrant area of Vermont, where historical buildings are often used as schools, museums, libraries, and private homes.


974.3 MIL VT COLL
Miller, Peter, 1934-. Nothing hardly ever happens in Colbyville, Vermont : and other stories and essays. Colbyville, Vt. : Silver Print Press, c2008.
This book collects some of the very best of Peter Miller’s writing for the first time. Some of the essays previously appeared in national magazines, others in local newspapers. A few were written for this book. Altogether they offer insight into the culture of Vermont and how it has changed over the past 40 years, while revealing what has shaped this Vermonter into a photographer and writer.


974.3 PEA VT COLL
Pearl, Peggy. A brief history of St. Johnsbury. Charleston, SC : History Press, 2009.
Tucked away in the dark forests of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, St. Johnsbury was mostly unbroken wilderness when first chartered in 1786. Swinging axes soon made way for the burgeoning split-level town, with stately Main Street homes on St. Johnsbury Plain presiding in grandeur over the bustling commerce of Railroad Street below. Peggy Pearl brings a decidedly human element to this comprehensive history, wandering the graves of Mount Pleasant Cemetery and bringing to life the stories of those tanners, cobblers, millworkers and brick makers who made St. Johnsbury their home. With excerpts from vintage newspapers like the Caledonian-Record and the Farmer’s Herald, Pearl unfolds the transformation from quiet mill town into picturesque manufacturing hub of Caledonia County.


974.3 SKI VT COLL
Skiffington, Kerry K. Bristol : historically speaking. Charleston, SC : History Press, 2009.
Since 1762, Bristol has prospered alongside the New Haven River. Its mighty waters powered mills, and hardworking farmers, entrepreneurs and shopkeepers fueled the local economy. Local author Kerry Skiffington describes Bristol’s history through brief essays highlighting its most remarkable people and moments, from the rise of Outlook Club and the Bristol Town Band to the many floods and fires that have challenged but never broken the town. She also uncovers forgotten figures, like Dr. Francis Briggs, known as much for his music as for his ministrations, and state representative Florence Cragen, one of many Vermont women to serve the legislature during World War II. Carefully researched and enlivened by interviews with longtime residents, Bristol, Vermont: Historically Speaking captures the essence of the town’s enduring charm.


974.3 THO VT COLL
Thompson, Donald H. Lake Bomoseen : the story of Vermont’s largest little-known lake. Charleston, SC : History Press, 2009.
Lake Bomoseen—the largest lake entirely within Vermont’s borders—once attracted thousands of visitors each year. Its resorts and restaurants welcomed travelers of all stripes, from Walt Disney and Harpo Marx to humble groups of workers and families. Crowds flocked to beaches and picnic areas during the daytime, and headliners like Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong kept the Casino at the lake buzzing late into the night. Donald H. Thompson describes these and other glamorous moments in Lake Bomoseen’s past and explains how the area has evolved since the last hotels and dance halls closed their doors. Carefully researched and accompanied by dozens of rare images, this is the definitive history of one of Vermont’s finest spots.



AUDIO-VISUAL

CD 355.02 LAN
Langewiesche, William. The atomic bazaar : the rise of the nuclear poor. [Ashland, Or.?] : Blackstone Audio, p2007.
Read by Tom Weiner. Journalist William Langewiesche investigates the rise of the global threat of nuclear weapons, the movement of nuclear weapons technology from the rich to the poor and the chances for nuclear terrorism. He looks at Abdul Qadeer Khan, the scientist who was behind the theft and sale of centrifuge designs that helped build Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal and his involvement in the distribution of nuclear plans to North Korea, Iran, and other hostile countries.


CD 814 BLO
Blount, Roy. Long time leaving : [dispatches from up South]. [Minneapolis, Minn.] : HighBridge, p2007.
Read by the author and friends. “Hard-working humorist Roy Blount Jr. lives in the North but he’s from the South, a delicious tension that has always informed and shaped his work. In this new collection, he directs his acerbic wit and finely-tuned insight toward the persistent and colorful differences between the two. His essays treat every conceivable topic on which North and South misunderstand each other, from music to sports, eating, education, politics, child-rearing, religion, race, and language (“remember when there was lots of discussion of ‘ebonics’?”). In this eminently quotable collection, Blount does justice to the charming, funny, infuriating facets of Southern tradition and their equally odd Northern counterpoints”—Publisher’s Web-site.


CD 818 VON
Vonnegut, Kurt. Armageddon in retrospect. Ashland, Or. : Blackstone Audiobooks, 2008.
Twelve previously unpublished writings on war and peace include such pieces as an essay on the destruction of Dresden, a story about the first-meal fantasies of three soldiers, and a meditation on the impossibility of shielding children from the temptations of violence.


CD 921 EINSTEIN
Isaacson, Walter. Einstein : [his life and universe]. [New York] : Simon & Schuster Audio, cp2007.
Read by Edward Herrmann. A narrative portrait based on the complete body of Einstein’s papers offers insight into his contributions to science, in an account that describes the influence of his discoveries on his personal views about morality, politics, and tolerance.


CD 921 LEWIS
Lewis, Richard, 1947-. The other great depression : how I’m overcoming, on a daily basis, at least a million addictions and dysfunctions and finding a spiritual (sometimes) life. Beverly Hills, CA : Phoenix Audio, p2008.
Read by the author. After landing in an emergency room due to excessive cocaine and alcohol abuse, comedian Richard Lewis had to majorly reassess his priorities. Delving into his troubled childhood, his familial relationships, and the beginning of his drug abuse in this memoir, Lewis also discusses the bits of faith that he clings to in order to stay sober and happy. This is a compelling peek inside the mind of one of this century’s great comic minds.


CD 921 REICHL
Reichl, Ruth. Not becoming my mother : and other things she taught me along the way. Unabridged. New York, N.Y. : Penguin Audio, 2009.
Read by the author. Chronicles the mother-daughter relationship of culinary author Ruth Reichl, now editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine, and her late mother, Miriam. Miriam Brudno, who bowed to societal and familial pressure to become a wife and a mother over pursuing a fulfilling career, cheered her daughter on and pointed out that Ruth had an obligation, both to herself and to her mother, to use her life well.


CD ALL
Allston, Aaron. Star wars : fate of the Jedi. New York : Holland, Ohio : Random House Audio ; repackaged by Midwest Tape, p2009.
Read by Marc Thompson. In the first book of the Star Wars: fate of the Jedi series, listeners experience the Galactic Alliance in crisis after a violent civil war and the fall of Darth Caedus. As prominent leaders gather for a crucial summit at Coruscant, the future of the Jedi remains uncertain. When Chief of State Natasi Daala and the media stir up mass anti-Jedi sentiments, Luke and his son Ben go rogue and investigate Jacen Solo’s corruption and downfall, uncovering startling secrets within the Force.


CD BRO
Brown, Sandra, 1948-. Best kept secrets. Grand Haven, Mich. : Brilliance Audio, 2007.
Read by Dick Hill. Alexandra Gaither is a state prosecutor who has the authority to reopen an unsolved homicide case. Twenty-five years ago Alex’s mother was murdered and no one was ever tried for the crime. Now armed with new evidence that could lead to an arrest and a conviction, Alex visits the remote Texas town where her mother died.


CD CHI
Child, Lee. Bad luck and trouble : [a Jack Reacher novel]. New York : Random House Audio, p2007.
Read by Dick Hill. “From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night... In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of ex-army investigators is being hunted down one by one... And on the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher—soldier, cop, hero—is pulled out of his
wandering life by a code that few other people could understand. From the first shocking scenes in Lee Child’s explosive new novel, Jack Reacher is plunged like a knife into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends... and is on its way to something even worse. A decade post-military, Reacher has an ATM card and the clothes on his back—no phone, no ties, and no address. But now a woman from his old unit has done the impossible. From Chicago, Frances Neagley finds Reacher, using a signal only the eight members of their elite team of army investigators would know. She tells him a terrifying story—about the brutal death of a man they both served with. Soon Reacher is reuniting with the survivors of his old team, scrambling to raise the living, bury the dead, and connect the dots in a mystery that is growing darker by the day. The deeper they dig, the more they don’t know: about two other comrades who have suddenly gone missing—and a trail that leads into the neon of Vegas and the darkness of international terrorism. For now, Reacher can only react. To every sound. Every suspicion. Every scent and every moment. Then Reacher will trust the people he once trusted with his life—and take this thing all the way to the end. Because in a world of bad luck and trouble, when someone targets Jack Reacher and his team, they’d better be ready for what comes right back at them...”—from publisher’s web site.


CD FOL
Follett, Ken. Lie down with lions. Library ed. Grand Haven, Mich. : Brilliance Audio, [2003], p1986.
An American man, a French physician, and an English woman are terrorized by the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.


CD GRE
Greene, Graham, 1904-1991. Our man in Havana. [London, England] : CSA Telltapes Ltd., p2009.
Read by Jeremy Northam. Due to the excessive, and expensive, demands of his 13-year-old daughter, Milly, vacuum cleaner salesman Wormold acquires a higher-paying position as Secret Agent 5920015 for the Secret Intelligence Service. Set in Cuba during the regime of Fulgencio Batista, this critically acclaimed novel, first published in 1958, eerily predicts the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.


CD MAC
Macomber, Debbie. Back on Blossom Street. Unabridged. Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, c2007.
Read by Laural Merlington. When Susannah, the owner of a new flower store, and her employee, a young widow named Colette Blake, join the knitting class at A Good Yarn, they meet a group of unforgettable women who offer them life-changing advice, support, and friendship.


CD MIC
Michaels, Fern. Lethal justice. Library ed. Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, p2006.
Read by Laural Merlington. After spending a year wrongly imprisoned for fraud, Alexis calls on the Sisterhood to seek revenge on the real criminals, Arden Gillespie and Roland Sullivan.


CD PAT
Patterson, James, 1947-. The 6th target. New York : Hatchette Audio, p2007.
Narrated by Carolyn McCormick. When an unthinkable tragedy leaves one of the members of the Women’s Murder Club in critical condition, the others must fight to keep a deranged man locked away. Meanwhile, a series of ransomless child kidnappings rocks the city and confounds law enforcement.


CD PER
Perry, Anne. At some disputed barricade. Library ed. Grand Haven, Mich. : Brilliance Audio, 2007, p2006.
Read by Michael Page. Men and women torn by their convictions are challenged by the perils of war.


CD ROB
Robb, J. D., 1950-. Betrayal in death. Grand Haven, MI. : Brilliance Audio, p2007.
Read by Susan Ericksen. New York Lieutenant Eve Dallas is up against a hit-man for the elite, whose next target may be her own husband, Roarke.


CD SEB
Sebold, Alice. The almost moon : a novel. New York, NY : Hachette Audio, p2007.
Read by Joan Allen. For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined.


CD SPA
Sparks, Nicholas. The lucky one : a novel. Unabridged. New York : Hachette Audio, p2008.
Read by John Bedford Lloyd. A soldier in Iraq finds a photograph that he soon considers a good luck charm, but he keeps this fact a secret when he returns home and meets the woman in it.


CD WRI
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. Native son. New York : HarperAudio, p2008.
Performed by Peter Francis James. Bigger Thomas, a 20 year-old black man, is uneducated, unsophisticated, and unemployed. When a wealthy family offers him a chauffeur’s position, Bigger is torn between gratitude for the job and anger over his subservient status. On his first evening, the family’s daughter orders Bigger to spend a drunken night on the town with her and a gentleman friend. By morning the young woman is dead. Native Son is a stark and troubling account of murder, guilt, and racial hatred.


DVD 796.48 FIR
The first olympics : blood, honor, and glory. [United States] : A & E Home Video, 2004.
Return to ancient Greece and witness the Bacchanalian excess and raw competition of The First Olympics. While the gods looked down, brutal contests of boxing, wrestling, chariot racing, and an early from of no-holds-barred fighting called Pankration.


DVD BEN
Benito : the rise and fall of Mussolini. Santa Moncia, Calif. : Lions Gate Entertainment, 2006.
Rising quickly from within the ranks of the socialist party, Benito Mussolini became local chief of the Italian Socialist Party at a young age, where he developed his instinct for power and his talent for intrigue as he played off various sections of the left against each other. His dangerous rise to power ultimately played out against the backdrop of World War I and gave rise to a new and frightening government—Facism.


DVD CHR
Christmas cottage. Santa Monica, CA : Lionsgate, 2008.
Special features: Widescreen presentation—Audio commentary with director Michael Campus an Thomas Kinkade—Deleted scenes with optional commentary—“Building the Christmas Cottage” featurette—“Home for Christmas: A conversation with Thomas Kinkade” featurette—On the set with Thomas Kinkade. Returning from college one Christmas, Thomas Kinkade finds his mother is ready to lose the family cottage to foreclosure. He is inspired to paint a mural of his hometown, which launches his career and helps the town rediscover their Christmas spirit.


DVD DAN
Dances with wolves. Special ed. ; Widescreen version (2.35:1 ; 16x9). [United States] : MGM Home Entertainment, [2003], c1990.
Rewarded for his heroism in the Civil War, Lt. John Dunbar wants to see the American frontier before it is gone. Assigned to an abandoned fort with a Sioux tribe as his only neighbor, he overcomes the language barrier and mutual fear and distrust to become a friend of the tribe. But his knowledge of their ultimate fate forces him to make a crucial decision.


DVD DIA
Diary of a mad black woman. [Widescreen ed.]. Santa Monica, Calif. : Artisan Home Entertainment : Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment, c2005.
Helen McCarter would seem to have it all. She’s married to Charles who is one of Atlanta’s most successful attorneys. But despite having wealth and prestige, things are not as they seem in the McCarter home. On the evening of their anniversary, Charles drops a bombshell on Helen - he’s divorcing her for another woman. Thrown out of the house with nowhere to go, Helen moves in with her grandmother Madea, a sassy woman with no shortage of opinions and a gun that she’s not afraid to use. As Madea helps Helen get back on her feet emotionally, she meets Orlando, a nice and handsome man who is obviously attracted to her. But after her experiences with Charles, Helen isn’t sure if she’s ready to trust a man again.


DVD ELV
Elvis Presley musicals. : 4 film favorites. Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, [2008].
Mountain boy, swimsuit photographer, club singer, rodeo champ - 4 great Presley roles.


DVD K19
K-19 : the widowmaker. Widescreen version. Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Pictures, c2002.
Captain Vostrikov, a Russian naval officer, has being given command of the Soviet Union’s first nuclear submarine, K-19, at the height of the Cold War in 1961. The vessel’s executive officer, Captain Polenin, asserts that the flagship is not yet ready for deployment. But political pressure forces Vostrikov to sail his crew into the North Atlantic anyway, for a missile fire test that serves as a warning to the U.S. The test is a success, but a leak in the K-19’s cooling system soon threatens the nuclear payload.

DVD LAS
The last samurai. Full-screen ed. Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2003.
“Tom Cruise plays Civil War hero Capt. Nathan Algren, who comes to Japan to fight the Samurai and ends up pledging himself to their cause. Ken Watanabe plays Katsumoto, a Samurai leader facing a vanishing way of life, whose destiny becomes intertwined with that of the American captain. Edward Zwick directs this sweeping and emotional epic tale of the birth of modern Japan.”—on back cover.


DVD MON
Montana Christmas skies. Santa Monica, Calif. : [S.l.] : Delta Music ; LaserLight Video, c1999.
Christmas specials with John Denver have been a favorite holiday tradition with families for years. This 1991 CBS television special finds John Denver joined by friends Clint Black, Kathy Mattea, and Patty Loveless on Montana’s Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. Images of Denver on horseback, traversing the wide open plains and herding and roping cattle are interspersed with more intimate looks at Denver, Mattea, Black, Loveless, and other friends gathered for an old-fashioned sing-along in a rustic barn.


DVD NAN
The nanny diaries. Widescreen ed. [New York] : Santa Monica, CA : Weinstein Co. ; Distributed by Genius Products, c2007.
Annie is a young girl from a working-class neighborhood who suddenly finds herself working as a nanny for a wealthy family in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Between catering to the every whim of her employers and their precocious son and falling in love with their gorgeous neighbor, Annie tries to figure out what she wants to do with her life.


DVD THR
The three tenors Christmas. New York : Sony, p19??.
Medley: White Christmas; Let it snow; Oh Tannenbaum; Ay! para Navidad—Tu scendi dalle stelle—Carol of the drum (The little drummer boy) -- Medley: Ave Maria, dolce Maria; Brahms’ Wiegenlied—Jingle bells—Medley: Children of Christmas; La virgen lava panales; I’ll be home for Christmas—Adeste fideles—Cantique de Noel (O holy night) -- Amazing grace—Feliz Navidad—Silent night—Pregaria (El cant de l’anima a la Verge) -- Medley: Winter wonderland; Strauss’ Wiegenlied; Sleigh ride; Susani—Un nuevo siglo—Medley: Dormi, o bambino (Lulaj ze Jezunin); Happy Christmas/War is over. José Carreras, Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, tenors.


DVD TRA
Training day. 16x9 Widescreen version (2.35:1). Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2002], c2001.
Jake Hoyt, a fresh-faced rookie in the Los Angeles Police Department, gets a chance to join the elite narcotics squad headed up by 13-year veteran Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris. Jake is to prove himself during a one-day ride-along. As the day wears on, it becomes increasingly clear that Detective Harris has blurred the line between right and wrong to an alarming degree, enforcing his own code of ethics and street justice. Eventually, Hoyt begins to suspect that he is, rather than having the opportunity to join the squad, being set up to take the fall.

New Titles January 2010

FICTION

Abbott, Megan E., 1971-. Bury me deep. 1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2009.
Marion Seeley, abandoned in Phoenix by her doctor husband, gets a job at a medical clinic and is drawn into the wild lifestyle of coworker Louise and her roommate Ginny, and falls in love with charming rogue and politician Joe Lanigan, whose links to all three young women lead to disaster.


Abraham, Daniel. The price of spring. 1st ed. New York : Tor, 2009.
Otah Machi, emperor of all the Khaiate cities in the wake of a devastating war between the cities of the Khaiem and the Galtic empire, tries to find a path to peace, while Maati Vaupathai, the last poet of the Khaiem, secretly works to create an andat--a magical creature that he hopes will restore the cities to their former glory.


Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-. Purple hibiscus : a novel. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 2004.
A teenaged Nigerian girl and her older brother struggle to cope with life in their tense, stifling household--caused by their father's demands for perfection--after getting a taste of freedom during a visit to their aunt's home.


Akpan, Uwem. Say you're one of them. 1st Back Bay pbk. ed. New York : Back Bay Books, 2009, c2008.
A collection of short stories by Uwem Akpan that celebrate the resilience and wisdom of children in third world countries.


Anthony, Jessica, 1974-. The convalescent. San Francisco [Calif.] : McSweeney's Books, c2009.
Rovar Pfliegman, a lonely troll-like man who sells meat out of his bus, halfheartedly seeks treatment for his various ailments, but he seems more intent on fulfilling the self-destructive destiny of the Pfliegman clan, which goes all the way back to pre-medieval Hungary.


Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Sanditon : Jane Austen's unfinished masterpiece completed. Berkeley, CA : Ulysses Press, c2009.
Contains unpublished manuscripts written by Jane Austen, including "Sandition" in which Charlotte Heywood travels to a new seaside resort in England and meets a strange variety of people who seem oblivious to the romances that are occurring around them.

Baker, Nicholson. The anthologist. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Paul Chowder struggles to write the introduction to a new anthology of poetry, and as his life seems to fall apart around him, he finds solace and inspiration in the works of great poets throughout history.


Bazell, Josh. Beat the reaper : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2009.
Peter Brown is a young Manhattan emergency room doctor with an unusual past. His morning begins with disarming of a mugger and is topped off by a visit with a new patient. That patient knows Peter from his other life, when he had a different name and a very different job. The only reason he's a doctor now is thanks to the Witness Protection Program, and even they can't protect him from the long reach of the New Jersey mob. Now he's got to do whatever it takes to keep his patient alive so he can buy some time and beat the reaper.


Bell, Madison Smartt. Devil's dream. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c2009.
A fictionalized account of Nathan Bedford Forrest's experiences during the Civil War, describing his involvement in key battles, courtship and marriage, obsessive gambling, disdain for the Confederate bureaucracy, and his humane treatment of slaves.


Blundy, Anna, 1970-. Breaking faith. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Minotaur Books, 2009.
Faith Zanetti doesn't much care who put the bomb on flight TAA67, the plane that blew up over the tiny Scottish village of Cairbridge 25 years ago. Wasn't it those Libyan blokes who went to prison? For a woman whose comfort zone is a war zone, it seems like the boring assignment from hell. But as the conspiracy theories start seeming less theoretical, Faith realizes she's skating on thin ice. With the ghost of her dead father creeping out of her dreams, and the screams of the doomed passengers ringing in her ears, Faith begins to suspect that the truth she seeks might be closer to home than she thought.


Brody, Jessica. Love under cover. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2009.
Jennifer Hunter never saw herself as the relationship type. After all, she’d spent the last two years of her life as an undercover fidelity inspector, hired to test men’s faithfulness—not exactly the kind of job that lends itself to intimacy. But when Jamie Richards walked into her life, everything changed, and Jennifer vowed to trade in her undercover lifestyle for something more normal. That’s why she formed the Hawthorne Agency: five full-time fidelity inspectors, hired to carry out Jennifer’s mission while she manages the process from a safe (relationship-saving) distance. Jen's business is booming, and just when it seems like things can’t possibly get any better, Jamie proposes. Despite her lifelong issues with trust and commitment, Jen says yes. But can a woman who’s seen nothing but failed marriages ever come to terms with tying the knot herself? And when Jen receives a frantic phone call from one of her employees in trouble, she’s forced to make a choice. A choice that lands her in an all-too familiar place—a strange hotel room, kissing another man. And she knows that nothing will be the same.


Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-. The children's book : a novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
A novel that spans from the Victorian era through World War I that finds famous children's book author Olive Wellwood taking in a runaway who reminds her of the characters in her books.


Casey, Kevin, 1940-. A state of mind. Dublin : Lilliput Press, 2009.
John Hughes, a journalist and aspiring novelist in the mid-1970s, is comfortably settled in rural Wicklow away from his wife and daughter, spending most of his time in the local pub, but his unfocused existence is pulled sharply back to reality when once-famous English author Bill Cromer and his German girlfriend move into the Old Rectory, dragging marital betrayal, suicide, nationalist resentment, and blackmail in his wake.


Casey, Kathryn. Blood lines. 1st ed. New York : Minotaur Books, 2009.
Following the apparent suicide of Houston oil businesswoman Billie Cox, the victim's sister insists her sibling was murdered. Texas Ranger Sarah Armstrong, after viewing the photos from the 'suicide' scene, agrees and decides to investigate further. Meanwhile, teen pop sensation Cassie has been receiving threatening e-mail and text messages. Fearful she's being stalked, Sarah and her colleagues do everything they can to protect her, yet still the unthinkable happens. Now Sarah has not one, but two difficult cases to solve.


Cassidy, Carla (Carla Bracale). Up close and personal. New York, N.Y.: Signet, 2009.
When Jordan Sampson attends her fifteen-year high school reunion she reunites with her old flame, Clint Cooper. But, in addition to reuniting with old friends, former cheerleaders from Jordan's old squad are being murdered.


Clare, Alys. Out of the dawn light. 1st world ed. Surrey, England : Severn House, 2009.
Lassair becomes captivated by the mysterious stranger who appears in her village on the day of her sister's wedding, and agrees with little hesitation to help locate a mysterious treasure, but after a night of marching across East Anglia, Lassair starts to become aware of the danger she has brought upon herself.


De los Santos, Marisa, 1966-. Belong to me. 1st HarperLuxe ed. New York : HarperLuxe, c2008.
Cornelia Brown willingly gives up her urban life to move with her husband, Teo, to the suburbs, where she struggles to form friendships with her judgmental neighbor, and a kindred soul who helps Cornelia overcome the loneliness that seems to be consuming her.


Dixon, K. B. The sum of his syndromes. Chicago : Academy Chicago Publishers, 2009.
"The Sum of His Syndromes" is a wry, odd, idiosyncratic book. A collage of notes written in a sixth-floor men's room, it is the story of a dissatisfied, slightly disturbed young man named David who has found himself at a personal and professional crossroads. He has a job he hates, but cannot leave, and a girl he loves, but cannot fully understand. With help from his friend, Peter, and his therapist, the irrepressible Dr. Costa, he struggles to make sense of his complicated young life. A fractured, fragmented, unconventional narrative, "Syndromes" offers a comic look at office angst, contemporary psychiatric practice and romantic uncertainty. A conglomeration of thoughts, observations, commentary, overheard conversations and cameo appearances, its story - David and Kate's story emerges surreptitiously from this innovative presentation of a confused and chaotic time.


Doctorow, Cory. Makers. 1st ed. New York : Tor, 2009.
Perry and Lester, two inventors, create strange contraptions and new economic systems such as New Work, and when the country falls into collapse, they build a network of interactive rides in abandoned WalMarts and try to avoid lawsuits amid other chaos that ensues.


Doss, James D. The widow's revenge. 1st ed. New York : Minotaur Books, 2009.
No one believes the widow Loyola Montoya when she claims there are witches taunting and harassing her from the woods near her property, including Charlie Moon, and by the time he arrives to investigate it is too late to save her, but Moon decides to help the widow get her revenge.


Fairbairn, Ann, 1901 or 2-1972. Five smooth stones. Unabridged ed. Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2009, c1966.
Civil rights activist David Champlain struggles to overcome racism in his New Orleans community.

Falco, Edward. Saint John of the five boroughs. Denver, Colo.: Unbridled Books, 2009.
Avery Walker is a typical college student: partying, drinking, and trying to find herself in the world. At a party, she meets Grant Danko, a brooding, older performance artist from New York, who awakens her to a world outside of small-town college life. The two return to New York together, where Avery quickly adapts to city life, and Grant returns to work for his gangster uncle. Meanwhile, Avery's mother, aunt, and uncle are caught up in a precarious relationship that they must confront when they venture to New York to retrieve Avery. Like his previous novel, Wolf Point (2005), Falco's latest examines the underbelly of love and relationships, but he also populates the story with a cast of diverse and unusual characters. As the plot twists and turns, readers don't know what to expect next, which can prove both exciting and baffling. A solid story that will find a broad range of readers. - Booklist.


Fate, Robert. Baby Shark's high plains redemption. Fort Collins, CO : Capital Crime Press, 2008.
When Kristin Van Dijk and Otis Millett are hired to bring home Savannah, the kidnapped girlfriend of an Oklahoma bootlegger, they learn the hard way that someone wants the gorgeous redhead so badly they will kill to get her. Kristin and Otis must discover the reason behind Savannah’s popularity before she is murdered.

Finlay, C. C. A spell for the Revolution. New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, c2009.
Proctor Brown and Deborah Walcott, two young patriots and leaders of a ragtag band of witches, must break the curse of a Hessian necromancer who controls the British troops relentlessly pressing back General Washington's struggling young armies in an attempt to enslave America.


Fossum, Karin, 1954-. The water's edge. 1st U.S. ed. Boston [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Inspector Konrad Sejer investigates when eight-year-old Jonas August Lowe is found murdered in Linde Forest, and the case becomes critical when a second child goes missing; while Reinhardt Ris, the man who discovered and photographed Jonas's body while out walking with his horrified wife, becomes more and more obsessed with the boy's death.


Gerard, Cindy. Feel the heat. 1st Pocket Star Books pbk. ed. New York : Pocket Star Books, 2009.
Defense Intelligence officer B. J. Chase, having been summoned from personal leave, is assigned to go undercover as the girlfriend of Black Ops agent and bad boy Raphael Mendoza, and the two find themselves in the middle of an international conspiracy revolving around Raphael's Columbian uncle and the suspicious death of a government official.


Grafton, Sue. U is for undertow. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2009.
Kinsey Millhone was alone in her office doing paperwork when Michael Sutton, 27, arrived unannounced to ask for her help. Twenty-one years earlier, a four-year-old girl had disappeared and was never found. Recent references to her case had triggered memories in Sutton, who now believed he had stumbled upon her burial site when he was six years old. He wanted Kinsey to help him locate the child's remains and find those responsible for her death. Kinsey would soon discover that Sutton had an uneasy relationship with the truth.


Grange, Amanda. Mr. Darcy's diary. Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, c2007.
Mr. Darcy, torn between his duty to his family and his growing love for Elizabeth Bennett, and unable to confide in anyone, works out his dilemma in his diary.


Graves, Sarah. Crawlspace : a home repair is homicide mystery. 1st ed. New York : Bantam Books, 2010.
Six years after murderer Randy Dodd was thought to have drowned, a true-crime writer and her assistant come to Eastport to investigate what they're convinced is a faked death and soon have their suspicions confirmed. Meanwhile, Jacobia 'Jake' Tiptree has problems of her own, including her home remodeling project and anonymous death threats. Nothing could have prepared her for the news that Dodd had been discovered alive and was now holding her son hostage.


Greenwood, Kerry. Murder on a midsummer night : a Phryne Fisher mystery. 1st U.S. ed. Scottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, 2009, c2008.
The Honorable Phryne Fisher is hired to determine the cause of death of the son of a Pre-Raphaelite model, and at the same time is engaged to locate the lost illegitimate child of a wealthy woman.


Hage, Rawi. Cockroach. 1st American ed. New York : W. W. Norton, 2009, c2008.
A young man is forced to attend sessions with a well-intentioned but naive therapist after a suicide attempt and begins to imagine he is a cockroach invading the lives of the people who surround him.


Haig, Matt, 1975-. The possession of Mr. Cave. 1st American ed. New York : Viking, 2009, c2008.
When antiques dealer Terence Cave's wife and son are tragically killed on separate occasions, Terence focuses himself on Reuben's twin sister, fifteen-year-old Byrony, who begins sneaking out to meet boys, and his protective drive quickly becomes obsessive and dangerous.


Hamilton, Laurell K. Divine misdemeanors : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2009.
Los Angeles private investigator Meredith Gentry, having chosen exile from the faerie realm where she was a princess with the hope of living an idyllic life, investigates the murders of her kind and is suspected of banned magical activities when humans she healed begin to perform miracles on their own.

F HAMILTON LP
Hamilton, Laurell K. Swallowing darkness : a novel. 1st large print ed. New York : Random House Large Print, c2008.
Meredith Nic Essus, pregnant with twins, accepts her uncle's false claim that he is the father of her unborn children in order to gain her own place on the throne, but conspirators, slander, and Taranis himself are all determined to eliminate Meredith's personal guard, the only ones who can protect her.


Harris, Charlaine. Grave secret. 1st ed. New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2009.
Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver take a break from their sleuthing to visit their two stepsisters, but find themselves facing memories of their horrible childhoods and the news that Tolliver's father is out of jail and hoping for a reunion with the son who wants nothing to do with him, and searching for their missing sister.


Hart, Ellen. The mirror and the mask. 1st ed. New York : Minotaur Books, 2009.
Minneapolis restaurateur Jane Lawless takes a job as a private investigator when the economy forces her to put her expansion plans on hold, and gains insights into the difference between finding the information people pay for and getting at the truth, when she is assigned to track down Annie Archer's long-lost stepfather.


Hart, Lenore. Waterwoman. Berkley hardcover ed. New York : Berkley Books, 2002.
Annie Revels has always wondered what her role in life is, as each member of her family plays a specific part, except for her, but when her father, a waterman, dies, Annie is called on to take up his business, and she finally realizes what her true purpose is.


Hatcher, Robin Lee. Speak to me of love. Wheaton, Ill. : Tyndale House Publishers, c2003.
Shakespearean actress Faith Butler, stranded in Dead Horse, Wyoming, with her two children, accepts employment with Drake Rutledge and manages to pull him out of his reclusive life, but they must turn to God for help when shadows from Faith's past come to haunt her.


Higgins, Jack, 1929-. In the hour before midnight. Berkeley ed. New York : Berkeley Books, 2000, c1969.
Stacey Wyatt is a gifted pianist. He is also a competent mercenary soldier. But at the moment, he is sojourning in an Egyptian prison. Sean Burke has plans to rescue him. Charity is not his motive. He merely needs Stacey for what becomes a deadly intrigue. There is just one hitch. An astonishing story of high-action and foreign intrigue.


Hill, Tobias, 1970-. The hidden : a novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Harper Perennial, c2009.
Ben Mercer, running from a failed marriage and family, eagerly joins a close-knit group of archaeologists searching for buried traces of a formidable ancient power in Greece in 2004, not realizing how the group's dynamic and dangerous games are going to affect his life.


Hirvonen, Elina, 1975-. When I forgot. 1st U.S. ed. Portland, OR : Tin House Books, 2009, c2007.
Anna, a young journalist, spends the day alone in a Helsinki café, reading "Mrs. Dalloway," a novel given to her by her professor and lover Ian, and as the hours pass, she begins to see links between the story and her own life.


Arnaldur Indriðason, 1961-. Arctic chill. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Minotaur Books, 2009, c2005.
Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson is called to the scene of the murder of a young, dark-skinned boy found frozen to the ground in the garden of a block of Reykjavik apartments and his investigation exposes tensions beneath the surface of Iceland's multicultural society and forces him to confront a tragedy from his own past.


Jackson, Jon A., Dead folks. 1st paperback ed. New York : Grove Press, cop. 1996.
The sixth novel in the hard-boiled crime fiction series follows Detective Mulheisen as he goes on the trail of mobster Joe Service, who threatens to turn Salt Lake City into a cemetery unless he recovers his millions.


Jacobs, Kate, 1973-. Knit the season. New York : Putnam's, c2009.
Dakota Walker travels to Scotland to spend the holidays with her Gran, along with her father, grandparents, and others, and the group of family and friends reminisces about past Christmases that were spent with Dakota's mother, Georgia Walker.


Colsen, Jake. So you don't want to go to church anymore : an unexpected journey. Los Angeles, Calif. : Windblown Media, c2006.
What would you do if you met someone you thought just might be one of Jesus' original disciples still living in the 21st century? That's Jake's dilemma as he meets a man who talks of Jesus as if he had known him, and whose way of living challenges everything Jake had previously known. This book is Jake's journal, chronicling thirteen conversations with his newfound friend over a four-year period and how those exchanges turn Jake's world upside-down. With his help, Jake faces his darkest fears, struggles through brutal circumstances and comes out on the other side in the joy and freedom he always dreamed was possible.

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King, Stephen, 1947-. Just after sunset. Large print ed. Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2008.
Collects twelve short stories by Stephen King on the theme of relationships, including new stories and previously released material such as "The Gingerbread Girl," "The Things They Left Behind," and "The Cat from Hell."


Kingsbury, Karen. Shades of blue. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, c2009.
Brad Cutler, a twenty-eight-year old New York advertising agent who is about to get married, seeks God's forgiveness and redemption when he is reminded of his high school girlfriend and a difficult choice he made long ago.


Krol, Torsten. The Dolphin People : a novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Harper Perennial, c2009.
A Nazi-sympathizer family, including two children and a war widow, Helga, flee to Venezuela after the fall of the Third Reich, and after they crash in the Amazon en route to their new home, they are welcomed by the Yayomi tribe, who believe them to be dolphins in human form, as prophesied by one of their tribesmen.


Krzhizhanovski, Sigizmund, 1887-1950. Memories of the future. New York : New York Review Books, 2009.
Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s—but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher—the seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovski’s boundless imagination, black humor, and breathtaking irony: a man loses his way in the vast black waste of his own small room; the Eiffel Tower runs amok; a kind soul dreams of selling “everything you need for suicide”; an absentminded passenger boards the wrong train, winding up in a place where night is day, nightmares are the reality, and the backs of all facts have been broken; a man out looking for work comes across a line for logic but doesn’t join it as there’s no guarantee the logic will last; a sociable corpse misses his own funeral; an inventor gets a glimpse of the far-from-radiant communist future.


Lamott, Anne. Hard laughter : a novel. New York : North Point Press, [1999], c1980.
Twenty-three-year-old Jennifer, a writer and sometimes housecleaner, is swept up into an emotional wake, along with her two brothers, self-contained Ben and lovable Randy, when their beloved father, Wallace, is diagnosed with a brain tumor.


Lennon, J. Robert, 1970-. Pieces for the left hand : 100 anecdotes. Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, [2009], c2005.
Contains one hundred related anecdotes in which a forty-seven-year-old married man living in a small New York university town reflects on work, money, professors, children, confusion, and other aspects of life.


Levien, David. City of the sun : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2008.
Fourteen months after the disappearance of their son, Paul and Carol Gabriel hire private investigator Frank Behr to look into the case and are soon on an adventure which leads them to Mexico in search of a drug-dealing real estate tycoon who may be responsible for abducting the boy.

Lewis, Beverly, 1949-. The missing. Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House, c2009.
Twenty-one-year-old Grace Byler longs to find her missing mother and to uncover the secret that drove her to leave their Amish community, but she fears she will never know the truth, and while she struggles to accept her family's loss, she tries to make the community understand her decision to remain single.


Lindley, Maureen. The private papers of Eastern Jewel : a novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury, 2009, c2008.
In 1914 Peking, eighteen-year-old princess Eastern Jewel is caught spying on her father's misdeeds and is banished to live with a powerful Japanese family; after many years, Jewel--who is renamed Yoshiko Kawashima--returns to Peking as an agent of Japan's secret service.


Littell, Robert, 1935-. The company : a novel of the CIA. New York : Penguin, 2003, c2002.
A group of young people, recruited into the CIA in 1950, interact with some of the major historical figures and events of the late twentieth century, knowing one of them is a mole.


Little, Bentley. His father's son. New York : Signet, c2009.
Steve Nash thinks his life is on the right track until his father attacks his mother and is admitted to an insane asylum, where his dad relates a cryptic message to him, leading Steve down a dangerous path.


Macomber, Debbie. Angels at Christmas. Don Mills, Ont. : MIRA, c2009.
Presents two short stories featuring the adventures of three Christmas angels, Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy, as they try to fulfill people's wishes in time for the holidays.


Mansell, Jill. Perfect timing. Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks Landmark, c2009.
The night before her wedding, Poppy Dunbar meets Tom, a man she thinks might be her soul mate, and, although she does not go through with her arranged meeting with Tom, Poppy knows she cannot go through with the wedding either, so she flees to London, where she rents a room from Caspar French, a good-looking artist who just might break Poppy's heart.


March, Stephen, 1948-. Strangers in the land of Egypt. Sag Harbor, NY : Permanent Press, c2009.
Jesse Terrill, angry about a lot of things, is arrested for vandalizing a synagogue and sentenced to do community service for Mendel Ebban, a Holocaust survivor who tries to deepen Jesse's spiritual awareness of life, and makes the young man question his quest for revenge against the mugger who attacked his father.


McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-. La's orchestra saves the world. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c2008.
Lavender, known as La to her friends, flees London in 1939 hoping to escape the horrors of war and the memories of her shattered marriage, and to combat boredom and despair in her new town, La creates an orchestra that boosts the town's morale and shows people the beauty of music and friendship.


McDonell, Nick. An expensive education : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2009.
Harvard graduate Mike Teak, recruited by his godfather to work for the CIA, is instructed to meet with rebel leader Hatashil near a Somali village and deliver cash and a cell phone, but a missile attack on the village minutes later has serious repercussions for Teak, Hatashil, and people back in the U.S., including Harvard professor Susan Lowell who wrote a book celebrating Hatashil, and prospective student David Ayan who was born in the targeted village.


Michaels, Fern. Deadly deals. New York : Kensington Books, c2009.
Rachel and Tom Dawson felt their dreams had come true the day they brought home their adopted twins after trying unsuccessfully for years to conceive on their own. They were shocked and frightened when the surrogate mother reappeared demanding more money, and then the twins themselves. Suddenly, the attorney was nowhere to be found and the Dawson's were once again childless. That's when high-profile attorney Lizzie Fox and the Sisterhood come to their aid and they plan to make attorney Baron Bell pay big time!


Miles, J. L. (Jacquelyn L.), 1947-. Cold Rock River : a novel. Nashville, Tenn. : Cumberland House, c2006.
In 1963, pregnant seventeen-year-old Adie Jenkins is intrigued by the diary of a young slave girl who had three illegitimate children with her master; and after she gives birth, Adie starts to wonder if her midwife is the daughter of the woman who wrote the journal.


Millet, Lydia, 1968-. Love in infant monkeys : stories. New York : Soft Skull Press, c2009.
A collection of short fiction from American novelist Lydia Millet, featuring portrayals of popular icons and celebrities interacting with animals.


Milward, Richard. Ten storey love song : a novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Harper Perennial, c2009.
A streaming paragraph describes the lives of Bobby the Artist and his friends after Bent Lewis, a famous art dealer from London, triggers an adventure of indulgent self-discovery and violence.


Neville, Stuart, 1972-. The ghosts of Belfast. New York : Soho, 2009.
Fegan, an IRA killer who served twelve years in Ireland's Maze Prison, discovers love at an inopportune moment in his life, and while the ghosts of his innocent victims demand appeasement--forcing Fegan to find and kill the men who called for their murders--Fegan works to keep his leading lady and her young daughter safe from harm.


Novak, Brenda. The perfect murder. Don Mills, Ont. : Mira, c2009.
Sebastian Costas, convinced that his ex-wife and son were murdered by her second husband, follows a slim lead to Sacramento where he meets investigator Jane Burke, and together they set out to track down a killer who is obviously trying to get them first.


Patterson, James, 1947-. Lifeguard. New York : Grand Central Pub., [2006], c2005.
Lifeguard Ned Kelly goes on the run to save his life when a simple heist his cousin arranged that could set him up financially for a very long time, goes horribly wrong.

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Patterson, James, 1947-. Witch & wizard. Large print ed., 1st large print ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2009.
A sister and brother, along with thousands of young people, have been kidnapped and either thrown in prison or turned up missing after accusations of witchcraft were made against them, and the ruling regime will do anything in order to suppress life and liberty, music and books.


Pepper, Andrew, 1969-. The last days of Newgate. London : Phoenix, 2007.
A story of high intrigue and low politics, of brutal murder and cunning conspiracies, set against the backdrop of a fascinating period in British history and introducing an ingenious, pragmatic, and unforgettable hero. St. Giles, London, 1829—three people have been brutally murdered and the city simmers with anger and political unrest. Pyke, sometime Bow Street Runner, sometime crook, finds himself accidentally embroiled in the murder investigation but quickly realizes that he has stumbled into something more sinister and far-reaching. In his pursuit of the murderer Pyke ruffles the feathers of some powerful people and, falsely accused of murder himself, he soon faces a death sentence and the gallows of Old Bailey. Imprisoned and with only his uncle and the headstrong, aristocratic daughter of his greatest enemy who believe in him, Pyke must engineer his escape, find the real killer, and untangle the web of politics that has been spun around him.


Powell, Padgett. The interrogative mood : a novel? 1st ed. New York : Ecco, c2009.
Presents a constant string of free-associative questions in which the author explores various topics, including beliefs, memories, life, science, language, art, and philosophy.


Resnick, Michael D. Dreamwish beasts and Snarks. 1st ed. Urbana, IL : Golden Gryphon Press, 2009.
Collects nine short stories by American science fiction author Mike Resnick in which he explores concepts related to safaris and hunting.


Rigler, Laurie Viera. Rude awakenings of a Jane Austen addict : a novel. New York : Dutton, c2009.
Jane Mansfield's wish to escape her boring life in nineteenth-century England is granted when she is transported to the twenty-first-century as an independent woman named Courtney Stone, and while trying to understand what has happened, she also attempts to survive in a different time and place and navigate a relationship with the woman's attractive friend, Wes.


Robinson, Roxana. Cost. 1st Picador ed. New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009, c2008.
As summer approaches, professional painter and art professor Julia Lambert's plans to spend time bonding with her elderly parents on their Maine farmhouse gets interrupted when she discovers that her twenty-two year old son, Jack, is suffering from heroin addiction.


Sapphire, 1950-. Push : a novel. 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Contemporaries/Vintage Books, 1997, c1996.
Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old who is pregnant with her second child by her father, meets a radical teacher who helps her take control of her life.


Smith, Sherwood. King's shield. New York : DAW Books : Distributed by Penguin Group (USA), [2009], c2008.
Inda returns home from exile when he discovers that his homeland is about to be invaded and is pressed into service as the king's "royal shield arm" to defend his country against its most powerful and ancient enemy.


Snow angels. New York : Kensington Pub., c2009.
Snow angels / Fern Michaels -- The presents of angels / Marie Bostwick -- Decorations / Janna McMahan -- Miracle on Main Street / Rosalind Noonan. Contains four stories of holiday romance, featuring selections by Rosalind Noonan, Janna McMahan, Marie Bostwick, and Fern Michaels, author of the title work in which magic sparks when social worker Grace Landry finds her way out of a snowstorm into the arms of Olympic skier Max Jorgenson.

F STEEL LP
Steel, Danielle. A good woman. 1st large print ed. New York : Random House large print, c2008.
When Annabelle Worthington loses her family due to the sinking of the Titanic, she becomes a medical volunteer at Ellis Island, marries badly, and eventually finds purpose by volunteering in a field hospital during World War I.

F STEIN LP
Stein, Garth. The art of racing in the rain : a novel. 1st HarperLuxe ed., [Large print ed.]. New York : HarperLuxe, c2008.
Enzo, the dog of professional race car driver Denny Swift, recalls the memories of his life and shares his insight into the human condition that he learned from observing his owner.


Taylor, Holly, 1965-. May earth rise. 1st ed. [St. Charles, Ill.] : Lancaster : Medallion ; Gazelle [distributor], 2009.
In this conclusion to a powerful saga, cruel deprivation and a full-scale conflict bring the Y Dawnus to the brink of annihilation. In the land of Kymru, High King Arthur has designated the talented pillars of society as the Gifted. When they are taken captive by the Corianans, King Arthur confronts his mortal enemy, Havgan the Warleader.


Vámos, Miklós. The book of fathers : a novel. Other Press ed. New York : Other Press, 2009.
A gold pocket watch discovered by Kornel Csillag's grandfather offers each first-born son the gift of clairvoyance, and though some find the gift a curse and the others a blessing, each records his experiences in a battered old journal that is passed on from generation to generation for over three hundred years.


Vonnegut, Kurt. Look at the birdie : unpublished short fiction. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2009.
A collection of fourteen short stories written by American author Kurt Vonnegut, that describes various people and experiences from post-World War II America.


White, J. P. Every boat turns south. Sag Harbor, NY : Permanent Press, 2009.
Thirty-year-old Matt Younger returns to his parents' Florida home with a heavy heart. Guilt-ridden over the death, years earlier, of his brother, an Olympic-caliber swimmer, and over his recent unsuccessful stint as a boat captain, he's come home to find redemption by sitting vigil at his father's deathbed. He determines to tell his dad the truth, no matter how ugly, about the circumstances surrounding his brother's death and his own desperate bid to make a killing by running drugs in the Turks and Caicos islands. As Matt spends night after night pouring out his story to his father, a veteran sailor himself, he tells of one misadventure after another involving a loyal French mechanic and a hard- bitten criminal masquerading as a cook. He also reveals his love for a Dominican prostitute looking to escape her squalid life. First-novelist White's lyrical style sometimes works and sometimes falters against the grittiness of his story. Still, lovers of the sea and adventure will appreciate the long, poetic passages paying tribute to the skills of a sailor and the dangers of deep water. -BOOKLIST.


Woodsmall, Cindy. The hope of refuge : a novel. 1st ed. Colorado Springs, Colo. : Waterbrook Press, 2009.
New Yorker Cara Moore, a single parent, flees poverty and a relentless stalker by going to an Amish community in Pennsylvania, where she receives help from Ephraim Mast in digging up secrets of her family's Amish past.

NON-FICTION

005.432 AND
Anderson, Fritz. Xcode 3 unleashed. Indianapolis, Ind. : Sams, c2009.
Apple’s new Xcode 3 is the most powerful Mac development suite ever created. In Xcode 3 Unleashed, renowned Mac developer Fritz Anderson has written the definitive guide to making the most of Xcode 3 to build any Macintosh or iPhone application. Anderson leads you through a simple project that covers the entire Xcode 3.x development lifecycle. You’ll walk through building and debugging command-line tools, creating Mac OS X user interfaces, modeling data, localizing languages, compiling applications, and much more. Along the way, he introduces each of Apple’s remarkable development tools from the latest version of Interface Builder to Instruments—a powerful new tool for analyzing and optimizing your code. Anderson shows how to manage your source code in any environment, whether you’re working solo or participating in a worldwide team. He thoroughly illuminates Xcode 3’s build system and shows how to make the most of Apple’s performance tools, led by the deep and powerful Shark statistical profiler.

155.232 EHR
Ehrenreich, Barbara. Bright-sided : how the relentless promotion of positive thinking has undermined America. 1st ed. New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2009.
Explores the downsides of the positive thinking mentality that is found in the business community, megachurches, and even in the medical profession, maintaining that this type of thinking only leads to frustration, guilt, and denial.

179.9 LES
Lesowitz, Nina. Living life as a thank you : the transformative power of gratitude in your life. San Francisco, Calif. : Viva Editions, c2009.
Authors Nina Lesowitz and Mary Beth Sammons present a simple but comprehensive program for incorporating gratitude into one's life, and reaping the many benefits that come from doing so. The book is divided into ten chapters from "Thank You Power" and "Ways to Stay Thankful in Difficult Times" to "Gratitude as a Spiritual/Cultural Practice " and "Putting Gratitude into Action." Each chapter includes stories of individuals whose lives have been transformed by embracing this program, along with motivating quotes and blessings, and a suggested gratitude practice such as keeping a weekly gratitude journal and starting a gratitude circle.

242.335 MUR
Murphey, Cecil B. Christmas miracles. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2009.
A collection of inspirational true stories about ordinary people who have experienced miracles that have shown them the true meaning of Christmas.

302.3 DEL
Dellasega, Cheryl. Girl wars : 12 strategies that will end female bullying. New York : Fireside/Simon & Schuster, c2003.
Addresses the problem of aggression in preteen and teenage girls, featuring true stories from mothers and girls who have bullied or been victims of bullying, and including suggestions for preventing and intervening in aggressive behavior among girls.

306.7082 REV
Reverend Jen, 1972-. Live nude elf : the sexperiments of Reverend Jen. Brooklyn : Soft Skull Press, 2009.
Live Nude Elf chronicles Reverend Jen's two-year stint as sex columnist for nerve.com; she details her “sexperiments,” ranging from harrowing (working as a live nude girl at “Wiggles”) to embarrassing (fellatio school) to transcendent (reaching a mystical state through tantric sex). Along the way there is transvestitism, female ejaculation, opium smoking, and heartbreak.

306.874 KEN
Kenison, Katrina. The gift of an ordinary day : a mother's memoir. 1st ed. New York : Springboard Press, 2009.
Rediscover the wonder of ordinary days with families as they approach the "letting go" that comes with raising teenagers.

320.5309 RIC
Richardson, Peter, 1959-. A bomb in every issue : how the short, unruly life of Ramparts magazine changed America. New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, c2009.
A Bomb in Every Issue tells the largely untold story of the wild ride of this hugely influential magazine that achieved countless firsts: it published the first conspiracy theory about JFK's assassination, it was the first to reveal that the CIA had backed the National Student Association during the Cold War, and its article about the use of napalm on Vietnamese children (another first) caused Martin Luther King Jr. to speak out against the war for the first time. Launched in 1962 as an intellectual Catholic quarterly, within five years Ramparts had become a secular magazine and won a George Polk Award for "its explosive revival of the great muckraking tradition." Deeply committed to the civil rights and antiwar movements, its contributors included Noam Chomsky, César Chávez, Seymour Hersh, Angela Davis, and Susan Sontag. It was in its pages that Che Guevara's diaries and the prison diaries of Eldridge Cleaver (which became Soul on Ice) first appeared. Although by 1975, out of money and time, it had folded for good, Ramparts left an important journalistic legacy, influencing a generation of reporters and editors that is still apparent today.

327.730 ALB
Albright, Madeleine Korbel. Read my pins : stories from a diplomat's jewel box. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2009.
Madeleine Albright discusses her life and accomplishments, global politics, and her extensive collection of brooches; and features more than two hundred photographs.

330 LEV
Levitt, Steven D. Super freakonomics : global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2009.
The authors explore the economics of real-world issues often viewed as insignificant, such as the odds of someone with both a Muslim first and last name being a terrorist, if eating kangaroo can save the planet, and if it is safer to drive or walk drunk.

332.1109 PAU
Paul, Ron, 1935-. End the Fed. 1st ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2009.
Presents an argument about why the status of the U.S. economy, as of 2009, cannot be improved without acknowledging the negative influence of the Federal Reserve and its impact on the devaluation of the dollar.

333.7 ALI
Ali, Saleem H. (Saleem Hassan), 1973-. Treasures of the earth : need, greed, and a sustainable future. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, c2009.
The pleasure of treasure -- What lies beneath: the material and mystical origins of mineral wealth -- Creating value: the endurance of precious jewels -- The rush factor: tracing the mineral roots of global power through gold, coal, and oil -- Toil and treasure -- The darker side of fortune: the psychology of treasure dependence -- Curing the resource curse: minerals and global development -- The spoils of the earth: the ecological toll of extractive excitement -- Measure for measure -- Destination cradle: the quest for material cycling -- The restoration ethic: hurting and healing ecosystems -- Embracing the treasure impulse: toward cautionary creativity.

362.1097 BLU
Blumenthal, David, 1948-. The heart of power : health and politics in the Oval Office. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
Discusses the various health issues of presidents such as John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Bill Clinton and how the impact of their own mortality has influenced their politics with regard to health care, and covers related lessons that pertain to the twenty-first century.

362.1969 SOM
Somers, Suzanne, 1946-. Knockout : interviews with doctors who are curing cancer-- and how to prevent getting it in the first place. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c2009.
Suzanne Somers draws on interviews with doctors from around the world to provide information about cancer treatments and prevention, and reveals the personal choices she made about her health after being diagnosed with breast cancer.

364.1523 BRO
Brown, Ethan, 1972-. Shake the devil off : a true story of the murder that rocked New Orleans. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt, 2009.
Details the New Orleans murder-suicide in which Iraq War veteran Zachary Bowen killed and dismembered his girlfriend, Addie Hall, and then jumped from the roof of a hotel to take his own life, and examines the couple's relationship before their deaths and how his military experience affected his life.

394.2663 CHI
Chicken soup for the soul : Christmas cheer : stories about the love, inspiration, and joy of Christmas. Cos Cob, CT : Chicken Soup for the Soul, c2008.
A collection of the best stories about Christmas and the holiday season. Stories are funny, inspirational, poignant; some are religious, but most are non-denominational. Appropriate for adults but can be shared with children, as all stories are "Santa-safe."

394.2663 HUC
Huckabee, Mike, 1955-. A simple Christmas : twelve stories that celebrate the true holiday spirit. New York : Sentinel, 2009.
Collects twelve holiday stories centered on themes such as sacrifice, family, hope, and transitions, based on the personal experiences and memories of Mike Huckabee.

508 COO
Cooper, Susan Fenimore, 1813-1894. Rural hours. Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c1998.
Presents a collection of nature writings by Susan Fenimore Cooper, written in the form of journal entries that follow the passage of the four seasons in her rural home village of Cooperstown, New York, in the mid-1800s.

599.67 OWE
Owens, Mark. Secrets of the savanna : twenty-three years in the African wilderness unraveling the mysteries of elephants and people. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Mark Owens chronicles the experiences he and his wife Delia had during the twenty-three years they spent in Africa fighting to save the country's people and wildlife.

613.2 CHO
Cholesterol cures : more than 325 natural ways to lower cholesterol and live longer : from almonds and chocolate to garlic and wine. Rev. & updated. [Emmaus, Pa.] : Rodale, c2002.
Discusses ways to control cholesterol problems with diet, exercise, and supplements, with information on the cholesterol content of five hundred everyday foods, including desserts, meats, beverages, and snacks.

613.9608 SIL
Silverstein, Charles. The joy of gay sex. Fully rev. and expanded 3rd ed., 1st Collins ed. New York, NY : Collins, 2006.
For a new century and a new generation of readers comes a fully revised and expanded edition of a classic guide to gay sex, love, and life. Invaluable as a sex guide, a resource on building self-esteem, and a trusted aid for coming out of the closet, The Joy of Gay Sex covers the ins and outs of gay life alphabetically from "anus" to "wrestling." Noted psychologist Dr. Charles Silverstein has collaborated once again with critically acclaimed novelist Felice Picano on this third edition, updating every single entry and adding nearly thirty new entries. The authors provide positive and responsible advice on safe sex in all its varieties; on emotional and relationship-oriented issues such as long-term couples, loneliness, and growing older; and on scores of diverse topics ranging from spirituality to online dating. With fifty new line drawings by acclaimed illustrator Joseph Phillips, this landmark reference is a necessary addition to every gay man's bookshelf.

614.5 SPU
Spurlock, Morgan, 1970-. Don't eat this book : fast food and the supersizing of America. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2005.
Presents a comprehensive study on the effects of fast food on American health, and examines school lunch programs, marketing strategies by fast food restaurants, the decline in physical education, and the rise in obesity, hypertension, and diabetes, especially in children.

616.443 MOO
Moore, Elaine A., 1948-. Graves' disease : a practical guide. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2001.
Presents information on Grave's disease, a common form of hyperthyroidism, including its association with related autoimmune disorders, and emphasizes the patient's role in the healing process.

616.8 FUR
Furney, Kym Orsetti, 1966-. When the diagnosis is multiple sclerosis : help, hope, and insights from an affected physician. Johns Hopkins paperback ed. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Being diagnosed -- Grieving -- The psychological challenges of MS -- Facing the needle: the MS medications -- Whom do I tell and when? -- Impact on our jobs -- Having children --Staying healthy and fit -- Managing the fatigue of multiple sclerosis -- Could I be depressed? -- You and your doctor -- Dealing with disability -- Getting involved with the MS community -- Finding balance.

616.9944 LIN
Link, John S. The breast cancer survival manual : a step-by-step guide for the woman with newly diagnosed breast cancer. 4th ed., 4th Holt Paperbacks ed., Completely rev. and updated. New York : H. Holt, 2007.
Provides practical advice for women just diagnosed with breast cancer, covering surgery and radiation, systemic control, chemotherapy, ductal cancer in situ (DCIS), diet and exercise, clinical research trials, getting a second opinion, quality-of-life issues, and other related topics.

617.564 GOK
Gokhale, Esther. 8 steps to a pain-free back : natural posture solutions for pain in the back, neck, shoulder, hip, knee, and foot. Stanford, CA : Pendo Press, c2008.
Draws lessons from athletes, children, and people from traditional societies to show how natural posture can end back pain, presenting step-by-step, illustrated techniques and postures for sitting, standing, sleeping, bending, and walking.

617.95 FIN
Finn, Robert, 1955-. Organ transplants : making the most of your gift of life. 1st ed. Beijing ; Cambridge [Mass.] : O'Reilly, c2000.
Addresses the concerns of potential organ recipients and their families, providing information on how to make the decision to have a transplant, and discussing the organ transplant registry, and wait, different types of transplants, anti-rejection drugs, physical and emotional issues, donors, and other topics.

636.8092 COO
Cooper, Gwen. Homer's odyssey : a fearless feline tale, or how I learned about love and life with a blind wonder cat. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2009.
The author reveals the lessons she learned about love and acceptance through her relationship with her blind cat.

641.5 OLI
Oliver, Jamie, 1975-. Jamie's food revolution : rediscover how to cook simple, delicious, affordable meals. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Hyperion, c2009.
Chef Jamie Oliver presents simple recipes for delicious, affordable meals that are easy to prepare, and encourages readers to pass on their favorite recipes and inspire a worldwide movement that will improve overall health and help stop the obesity epidemic.

641.561 JON
Jones, Judith, 1924-. The pleasures of cooking for one. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2009.
Collects recipes for dishes suitable for one person, including the utilization of leftover poultry, meat, and fish dishes; seasonal soups; vegetables, salads, and sauces; pasta, rice, and grains, and various desserts.

644 CON
Amann, Jennifer Thorne. Consumer guide to home energy savings. 9th ed. Washington, D.C. : American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, c2007.
How efficient are front-load washing machines? When is it time to replace your old refrigerator? These questions and many more are answered in The Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings, a one-stop resource for consumers who want to improve their home's energy performance and reduce costs. Zeroing in on the most useful response can be a challenge; this ninth edition cuts through the confusion.

644 STO
Stoyke, Godo, 1963-. The Carbon Buster's home energy handbook : slowing climate change and saving money. Gabriola, B.C. : New Society Publishers, c2007.
Most people are unaware that environmental problems such as climate change can be easily avoided, at a profit, through the intelligent application of appropriate technology. The Carbon Buster's Handbook describes how to achieve this goal in the residential field. The handbook reveals North America's best-kept investment secret: that the highest rates of return can be found not at your bank, but in your home! Environmental problems such as climate change can be easily avoided, at a profit, through the intelligent application of appropriate technology. The first book in North America to provide a detailed carbon accounting of a family's carbon emissions and how to reduce them, it systematically analyzes energy costs and evaluates which measures yield the highest returns for the environment and the pocketbook. It provides answers to questions such as: Which measure is more effective: putting solar panels on your roof, or buying a hybrid car? Where do I need to invest first: in high-efficiency shower-heads, or solar tubes? Is a 500 dollar fridge that uses 800 kWh of power per year a good buy? The book allows individuals to quickly and accurately assess which products are a good deal and which aren't. It systematically analyzes residential carbon emissions and energy costs and prioritizes solutions based on highest carbon reductions and monetary returns, yielding results that are often surprising. While government savings bonds may yield a financial return of around 5% per annum, and pension funds in 2005 yielded 11%, the Carbon-Buster strategies described in this book have an average annual return of 32%. The book enables readers to dramatically reduce their carbon emissions far below the levels targeted under the Kyoto Protocol. At the same time, readers implementing the recommendations will save an average of US 15,000 dollars in energy costs over the next five years.

646.7 KEL
Kelly, Clinton. Freakin' fabulous : how to dress, speak, behave, eat, drink, entertain, decorate, and generally be better than everyone else. 1st ed. New York : Simon Spotlight Entertainment, c2008.
Clinton Kelly, host of TLC's "What Not to Wear", offers practical advice to help men and women look their best, sound smart, behave better, entertain guests, and be the most fabulous person they can be.

650.1 TES
Tesh, John. Intelligence for your life : powerful lessons for personal growth. Nashville, Tenn. : Thomas Nelson, c2008.
Radio host John Tesh draws from his own experiences as well as the thoughts of experts on interpersonal relationships, health and fitness, spiritual awareness, work, and other areas, to offer advice on how to live a life of intelligence, purpose, and passion.

741.5973 FOS
Foster, Harold, 1892-. Prince Valiant. 1st ed. Seattle : Fantagraphics Books, 2009.
Collects the early adventures of the young Prince Valiant, while he explores his new home in the fen marshes where he learns to hunt from a native boy, and later befriends Sir Gawain, Sir Tristram, and others; and includes a brief biography and interview with Hal Foster that features black-and-white photographs.

741.5973 MAZ
Mazzucchelli, David. Asterios Polyp. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c2009.
A graphic novel in which Asterios Polyp, an award-winning architect who has never had one of his designs built, loses his home to a fire on his fiftieth birthday and sets out in search of love, meaning, and a new life.

745.592 BRO
Brown, Ellen Lumpkin, 1956-. Doll fashionistas : sewing stylish dolls and their wardrobes. Cincinnati, Ohio : Krause Publications, c2009.
Step-by-step instructions, photographs, and illustrations explain how to create customized dolls with fashionable accessories. Includes patterns, expert tips, and a DVD demonstrating all of the covered techniques.

745.592 GAD
Gadia-Smitley, Roselyn. Dolls' clothes pattern book. New York : Sterling Pub. Co., c1987.
Full-scale patterns and easy-to-follow instructions for a variety of colorful, original designs.

745.592 PEA
Peake, Pamela. The complete book of dollmaking : a practical step-by-step guide to more than 50 traditional and contemporary techniques. New York : Watson-Guptill, 1997.
More than 50 practical dollmaking techniques, from homely cloth and spoon dolls to sophisticated armature and bisque dolls.

746.43 BET
Better homes and gardens knitting year-round. Des Moines, IA : Better Homes and Gardens Books, c2003.
A guide to knitting for every season that includes seventy-five projects, ranging from easy to advanced, for wearables for babies, children, men, women, and pets.

746.43 LYS
Lystrup, Lise-Lotte. Vintage knitwear for modern knitters. New York : Thames & Hudson, 2008.
The knitters of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s needed no reminding that knitting is hugely rewarding. They knew it could be glamorous too, and wore with pride the elegant garments they had crafted. In Vintage Knitwear, the designs have been carefully adapted for contemporary knitters: they use modern yarns, the patterns have been subtly simplified, and instructions are given for six different sizes. There are options for the novice, intermediate, and experienced knitter, with each pattern graded with one, two, or three balls of wool according to level of difficulty. The new garments are pictured alongside reproductions from the vintage patterns that inspired them. This charming book is sure to inspire knitters and would-be knitters to take up their needles in pursuit of the authentic elegance of a bygone era. 101 illustrations, 67 in color.

791.4372 HER
Herzog, Werner, 1942-. Conquest of the useless : reflections from the making of Fitzcarraldo. 1st ed. New York : Ecco, c2009.
Filmmaker Werner Herzog chronicles the making of his film "Fitzcarraldo" about a hopeful rubber baron who pulled a steamship over a hill in order to access a rich rubber territory, describing the hardships he faced throughout the film's production.

793.73 DRA
Drabble, Margaret, 1939-. The pattern in the carpet : a personal history with jigsaws. 1st U.S. ed. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Margaret Drabble, an English novelist, describes spending time as a child with her aunt in Long Bennington and her life-long fondness for jigsaw puzzles, along with her thoughts on the importance of childhood play, art, writing, aging, and memory.

796.3236 JAM
James, LeBron. Shooting stars. New York : Penguin Press, 2009.
Provides an account of the Shooting Stars, a group of boys from Akron, Ohio, including NBA star LeBron James, who first met on a youth basketball team and formed lasting bonds of friendship while growing up and aspiring to win a national title in high school.

796.3236 SIM
Simmons, Bill, 1969-. The book of basketball : the NBA according to the sports guy. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine/ESPN Books, c2009.
Presents a discussion of a wide variety of topics pertaining to professional basketball, covering the best players and teams, reevaluating the NBA Hall of Fame inductee system, and examining the secret of the game through a conversation with an NBA superstar.

796.64 BYR
Byrne, David, 1952-. Bicycle diaries. New York : Viking, 2009.
David Byrne, former frontman for the Talking Heads, shares his thoughts on bicycling through cities around the world, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of getting around on two wheels, and sharing his insights on some of the problems plaguing urban areas, art, class systems, self-censorship, and other topics.

811.54 WRI
Wright, Franz, 1953-. Wheeling motel : poems. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2009.
A collection of poems from Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Franz Wright, in which he reflects on his past and expresses acceptance about the future.

814.6 CRO
Cross, David, 1964-. I drink for a reason. 1st ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2009.
Presents an array of essays and satirical fiction that criticizes politics, the media, celebrities, religion, and other topics with the author's unique brand of scathing humor.

818.5409 AME
Ames, Jonathan. The double life is twice as good. 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed. New York : Scribner, 2009.
Collects essays, cartoons, and short fiction from Jonathan Ames that discuss the U.S. Open, a Goth music festival, speaking to a gathering of corduroy lovers, and more.

823.8 STA
Standiford, Les. The man who invented Christmas : how Charles Dickens's A Christmas carol rescued his career and revived our holiday spirits. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c2008.
Traces the many influences in Charles Dickens's life that led to his writing the classic holiday story, "A Christmas Carol."

914.4 FOD
Fodor's France. New York, : D. McKay.
Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in France!

914.6 FOD
Fodor's Spain. New York : D. McKay.
Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. While you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in Spain!

917.204 FOD
Fodor's Mexico. New York, : Fodor's Travel Publications [etc.].
Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in Mexico!

917.296 FOD
Fodor's Bahamas. New York, N.Y. : Fodor's Travel Guides, c1985
Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in the Bahamas! Experience the Bahamas like a local! Fodor’s Bahamas includes choices for every traveler, from exploring deserted cays to bar hopping and boutique shopping, and much more!

920 AND LP
Andersen, Christopher P. Barack and Michelle : portrait of an American marriage. 1st HarperLuxe ed. New York : HarperLuxe, c2009.
Presents a close examination of Barack and Michelle Obama's relationship and marriage, with insights about each of their backgrounds and the struggles and achievements that have solidified their bond with each other.

920 SOS
Soskice, Janet Martin. The sisters of Sinai : how two lady adventurers discovered the Hidden Gospels. 1st American ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Chronicles the lives and accomplishments of Agnes and Margaret Smith, the twin sisters and Semitic scholars who discovered the earliest Syriac version of the Gospels, and describes the sisters' travels to the Middle East, and related topics.

920 STE LP
Stewart, Alana. My journey with Farrah : a story of life, love, and friendship. 1st HarperLuxe ed. New York : HarperLuxe, c2009.
Presents a memoir of the author's friendship with Farrah Fawcett, covering their support of each other through life in Hollywood and various family issues, focusing on the three years spent dealing with Fawcett's debilitating disease.

921 BAUM
Rogers, Katharine M. L. Frank Baum, creator of Oz. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2002.
Chronicles the life of L. Frank Baum, discussing his childhood, the inspirations for his Oz books, his personal relationships, his other literary achievements, and other related topics.

921 DIRAC
Farmelo, Graham. The strangest man : the hidden life of Paul Dirac, mystic of the atom. New York : Basic Books, 2009.
Chronicles the life and work of Paul Dirac, focusing on his work in various scientific fields, including his role in the discovery of quantum mechanics, his prediction of antimatter, his work with Einstein, and other related topics.

921 DISKI
Diski, Jenny. The sixties. 1st Picador ed. New York : Picador, 2009.
The author provides a reassessment of the social, political, and personal meaning of the 1960s from the perspective of London.

921 FRIEND
Friend, Tad. Cheerful money : me, my family, and the last days of Wasp splendor. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2009.
Tad Friend recounts his own family's history, recounting his grandparents' brushes with greatness, his parents' failings and successes, and his own struggles to reconcile his Wasp ascendancy with his family's tendencies towards drunkenness, depression, and derangement.

921 GELLHORN
Moorehead, Caroline. Gellhorn : a twentieth-century life. 1st ed. New York : Holt, 2003.
Chronicles the life of twentieth-century war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, covering such topics as her St. Louis childhood, her experiences in the Spanish Civil War and other conflicts, and her troubled marriage to Ernest Hemingway.

921 HOGAN
Hogan, Hulk, 1953-. My life outside the ring. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2009.
Hulk Hogan shares the stories behind some of the most important moments in his life and career, discussing his difficult youth, his involvement in wrestling, the Hogan family's successful reality show, the car accident that landed his son in jail, the destruction of his marriage, and his spiritual enlightenment.

921 JACKSON LP
Meacham, Jon. American lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House. 1st large print ed. New York : Random House Large Print, c2008.
Details the life of the seventh President of the United States, Andrew Jackson, and focuses on his political actions and choices that shaped the White House and inspired the later presidents--including Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and others.

921 JANZEN
Janzen, Rhoda. Mennonite in a little black dress : a memoir of going home. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt, 2009.
The author describes how after a series of life-altering events, including her husband of fifteen years announcing his homosexuality and near-fatal car accident, the California poet journeys back to her family to heal within the Mennonite community that she had parted with years before.

921 PALIN
Palin, Sarah, 1964-. Going rogue : an American life. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2009.
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin shares details about her life, family, and political career, describes her views on faith and the trials of being a high-profile working mother.

921 REICHL LP
Reichl, Ruth. Not becoming my mother : and other things she taught me along the way. Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2009.
In Not Becoming My Mother, bestselling author Ruth Reichl embarks on a clear-eyed, openhearted investigation of her mother's life, piecing together the journey of a woman she comes to realize she never really knew. Looking to her mother's letters and diaries, Reichl confronts the painful transition her mother made from a hopeful young woman to an increasingly unhappy older one and realizes the tremendous sacrifices she made to make sure her daughter's life would not be as disappointing as her own.

921 RUDNICK
Rudnick, Paul. I shudder : and other reactions to life, death, and New Jersey. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2009.
Collects fifteen essays in which humor writer Paul Rudnick muses on various topics, including his family and growing up in New Jersey.

921 WHITE
White, Edmund, 1940-. City boy : my life in New York during the 1960s and '70s. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2009.
A memoir in which the author discusses his life and work in New York City during the 1960s and 1970s, covering his work as an editor, novelist, and critic and interactions with various literary figures.

940.421 MUR
Murphy, Jim, 1947-. Truce : the day the soldiers stopped fighting. New York : Scholastic Press, c2009.
Tells the story of the December 25, 1914 truce between German and British soldiers as they laid down their weapons and met in No Man's Land to celebrate Christmas.

940.53 CHI
Chiger, Krystyna, 1935-. The girl in the green sweater : a life in Holocaust's shadow. 1st St. Martin's Griffin ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2009, c2008.
Krystyna Chiger describes growing up during the Holocaust in Lvov, Poland, and details her memories after her family decided to go into hiding inside the city's sewer system, and describes Leopold Socha, the Polish Catholic man--and former thief--who risked everything to help them.

940.5318 PRO
Prose, Francine, 1947-. Anne Frank : the book, the life, the afterlife. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2009.
The author examines the context of Anne Frank's diary, discussing Frank's narrative voice, characterizations, dialogue, and other stylistic qualities, along with evidence of revisions Frank made prior to her arrest that imply an intent to publish.

941.105 WEI
Weir, Alison. Mary, Queen of Scots, and the murder of Lord Darnley. Ballantine Books trade pbk. ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2009, c2003.
Uses historical documents to attempt to solve the mysterious death of Lord Darnley, whose murder led to Mary, Queen of Scots’ ruin and has baffled historians for centuries.

973.DAV LP
Davis, Kenneth C. America's hidden history : untold tales of the first Pilgrims, fighting women, and forgotten founders who shaped a nation. 1st HarperLuxe ed. New York : HarperLuxe, c2008.
Contains stories from early American history, including the French Huguenots arrival in America, the story behind the pigs carried by Columbus that might have been responsible for the disease that spread throughout the Native American population, and the lesser known background of George Washington.

973.713 FOR
Ford, Lacy K. Deliver us from evil : the slavery question in the old south. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
A comprehensive narrative on the white South's efforts to justify the economic, political, and social necessity of slavery during the early nineteenth century, and describes the varying debates on the subject between the upper and lower South.

973.92 KLO
Klosterman, Chuck, 1972-. Eating the dinosaur. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, 2009.
Presents a discussion of a variety of topics pertaining to popular culture and dynamics between people's expectations and reality with regard to politics, entertainment, sports, consumerism, and modern life.

973.932 MAL
Malkin, Michelle. Culture of corruption : Obama and his team of tax cheats, crooks, and cronies. Washington, DC : Regnery Pub., c2009.
An indictment of U.S. President Barack Obama and his administration, providing evidence to support the author's contention that Obama's team is rife with nepotism, a lack of ethics, unaccountable appointees, tax evasion, and greed.

AUDIO-VISUAL

CD 306.87 VIO
Viorst, Judith. Alexander and the wonderful, marvelous, excellent, terrific ninety days : [an almost completely honest account of what happened to our family when our youngest son, his wife, and their baby, their toddler, and their five-year old came to live with us for three months]. [Old Saybrook, Conn.] : Tantor Media, p2007.
Reading by Laural Merlington of the 2007 book. Viorst relates her experience with having her youngest son and his family live with her.

CD 921 CHENOWETH
Chenoweth, Kristin. A little bit wicked : [life, love, and faith in stages]. Carol Stream, IL : Springwater, 2009.
Read by the author. In this frank and funny memoir, the Tony Award-winning star of stage and screen shares her journey from small-town Oklahoma to big-time Broadway.

CD BLA
Black, Benjamin, 1945-. The lemur : [a novel]. New York : Macmillan Audio, p2008.
Read by John Keating. John Glass's life in New York should be plenty comfortable, having given up his career as a journalist to write an authorized biography of his father-in-law, communications magnate and former CIA agent Big Bill Mulholland. When a shifty young researcher whom he calls 'The Lemur," turns up some unflattering information about the family, Glass's whole easy existence is threatened.

CD CLA
Clark, Carol Higgins. Popped : [a Regan Reilly mystery]. New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, p2003.
Read by the author. Private detective Regan Reilly flies to Las Vegas to help an old school chum, who is producing the pilot of a reality television show. Someone is trying to sabotage the show, and Regan is determined to stop the saboteur and keep the show on schedule.

CD CUS
Cussler, Clive. The navigator : [a novel from the NUMA files]. New York : Penguin Audio, p2007.
Read by Scott Brick. Someone has killed for a statue stolen from the Baghdad Museum years ago, and the NUMA team must find why.

CD DOL
Dolan, Harry. Bad things happen : a novel. New York, NY : Penguin Audio, p2009.
Read by Erik Davies. When Tom Kristoll, mystery magazine publisher, is murdered, David Loogan, a friend to Tom and a lover to Tom's wife, teams up with Ann Arbor's finest detective, Elizabeth Waishkey, to find the culprit. Loogan, a recluse with a broken past, believes Tom's death is just one piece in a grand puzzle. And as the body count rises, his theory proves right. As suspicions fall on everyone including Loogan, Waishkey must not only solve the homicide mysteries, but also figure out her perplexing cohort.

CD KEN
Kenyon, Sherrilyn, 1965-. Bad moon rising. [New York, N.Y.] : Macmillan Audio, p2009.
Read by Holter Graham. "In the 28th installment of Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series, Aimee Peltier of the Bear Clan takes in the wounded werewolf, Fang Kattalakis, and inexplicably falls in love with him. Fang, a brother of the powerful law-enforcing group Omegrion, also struggles to deny his feelings for his caretaker. While the two know they can never be together, they're forced to make difficult decisions when war breaks, questionable alliances are formed, and both Aimee and Fang's lives are endangered."--Container.

CD LAR
Larson, Erik. Thunderstruck. Abridged ed. [New York, NY] : Random House Audio, 2006.
Tells the parallel stories of the skepticism and incredulity that accompanied Guglielmo Marconi's invention of wireless communication in the late nineteenth century, and the investigation of the murder of an inconvenient wife by her love-starved husband, Dr. H.H. Crippen, who would likely have pulled off the perfect crime had it not been for the ability to send wireless transatlantic transmissions. Read by Tony Goldwyn.

CD PER
Perrotta, Tom, 1961-. The abstinence teacher. New York, N.Y. : Audio Renaissance, p2007.
Read by Campbell Scott. Ruth Ramsey, the human sexuality teacher at the local high school, butts heads with the soccer coach, Tim Mason, a former addict who became an evangelical Christian after hitting rock bottom.

CD PET
Peters, Elizabeth. The laughter of dead kings. Unabridged. New York : HarperAudio, p2008.
Performed by Barbara Rosenblat. Vicky's love is suspected in the theft of an Egyptian antiquity and he is determined to prove his innocence.

CD TUR
Turtledove, Harry. Opening Atlantis : a novel of alternate history. [S.l.] : Tantor Media Inc., 2007.
Todd McLaren. Atlantis lies between Europe and the east coast of Terranova. For many years, the vast natural resources of this land of opportunity have lured dreamers from around the globe, offering a new beginning for those willing to brave the wonders of the unexplored territory. But will its settlers destroy the very wonders they journeyed to Atlantis to find?

DVD 793.3 DAN
Dancing with the stars latin cardio dance. [Santa Monica, Calif.] : Lions Gate Entertainment, c2008.
Dance yourself slim with four sizzling and sexy Latin dance routines that feature some of the best fat-burning moves from the show. Includes a specialized toning workout that dancers use to sculpt and lengthen their muscles. No partner needed!

DVD 6137.7 JOE
Firming after 50 : a complete upper and lower body workout. [Wixom, MI] : DPTV Media, c2009.
Instructor, Joel Harper ; intro with Drs. Michael Rosen and Mehmet Oz. From firming and shaping the entire body to building cardio strength to advanced relaxation techniques, this series shows how to use yoga to help tone and firm your whole body and achieve total fitness. Useful for both beginners and advanced users.

DVD AGA
Against a crooked sky : Guns of the revolution ; Blue steel : 3 full-length features. [United States] : Dreamline, [2008]. .
Against a crooked sky stars Richard Boone. A strange and mysterious Indian tribe kidnaps the daughter of a pioneer family. The oldest son goes after the Indians. When he finds them, the only way to free his sister is by passing the test of the "crooked sky". Guns of the revolution stars Ernest Borgnine. Borgnine stars as the "general" in this classic western film. Blue steel stars John Wayne as U.S. Marshal, John Carruthers. Carruthers observes a robbery and Sheriff Jake thinks the Marshal may be the bandit.

DVD BES
The best of the Dean Martin variety show. [S.l.] : Distributed by Guthy-Renker, c2003.
"The best of the Dean Martin variety show, assembled by producer-director Greg Garrison, contains exclusive footage from the popular variety show series. Included in this irresistible blend of classic entertainment are many of Dean's celebrity guests over the years"--Container.

DVD CAV
The cave of the yellow dog : Höhle des gelben Hundes. Widescreen. [Los Angeles, Calif.] : Tartan Video, [2006].
A little girl in a family of nomads in Mongolia finds herself at odds with her family when she brings home a dog her father is certain killed their sheep, and he will not allow her to keep it.

DVD CHI
Chisum. [Burbank, CA] : Warner Home Video, [c2003].
A successful cattle rancher battles with corrupt government officials and their stooges.

DVD COM
Combat diary. [Burlington, VT] : [New York] : A&E Television Networks ; Marketed and distributed in the U.S. by New Video, [2006].
A personal look from the soldiers' point of view of the war in Iraq. Shot firsthand by the soldiers of Lima Company, the hardest hit combat unit in Iraq.

DVD GUY
A guy thing. Special ed. [United States] : MGM Home Entertainment, [2003], c2002.
Paul is a regular guy who is engaged to marry Karen. Shortly before the wedding, Paul's friends throw him a bachelor party. Paul strikes up a conversation with one of the dancers, Becky, and the next morning, he wakes up bleary-eyed with a massive hangover and Becky in bed next to him. Karen comes over and Paul attempts to explain some incriminating evidence with a few white lies, but this messy situation gets messier when Paul runs into Becky at a pre-wedding family get-together ... and discovers she's Karen's cousin.

DVD MID S.13 Midsomer murders. Widescreen. Silver Spring, MD : Distributed by Acorn Media, [2009].
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these four contemporary British television mysteries. Dance with the dead: A young man's apparent suicide leads Barnaby and his team searching for the man's missing girlfriend and ballroom dance partner. Animal within: When a woman presumed dead in a plane crash visits her uncle's estate three years later, she surprises everyone there, but it's an even greater shock when the uncle is murdered without a clear heir. King's crystal: Barnaby investigates a bitter feud at the heart of a family-owned glassworks involving the death of the family accountant. Axeman cometh: An aging band making a comeback tour stops for a concert in Midsomer, but someone's out to murder the band members one by one.

DVD MON
Monty Python's flying circus : Graham Chapman's personal best. [New York] : A&E Home Video : Distributed by New Video, c2006.
A selection of some of Graham Chapman's best comedy sketches from the Monty Python television program, selected by the five Pythons.

DVD MON Terry Gilliam's personal best. Standard format. New York : New Video, c2006.
A collection of Terry Gilliam’s animated shorts from the television program Monty Python's flying circus.

DVD NOR
Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest. 50th anniversary ed. Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2009].
Roger Thornhill is a New York advertising executive who is kidnapped by a gang of spies led by Philip Vandamm, who believes Thornhill is CIA agent George Kaplan. Thornhill escapes, but must find Kaplan in order to clear himself of a murder that Kaplan is accused of committing. Following Kaplan to Chicago as a fugitive from justice, Thornhill is helped by beautiful Eve Kendall. In Chicago, she delivers a message to Kaplan that almost costs Thornhill his life when he is chased across a cornfield by a crop-dusting plane.

DVD ROO
Roots : the next generations. Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2007].
Follows the Haley family from the post-Civil War era until the more contemporary but still turbulent time of the 1960s and '70s, when Alex himself begins his research into the discovery of his roots.

DVD SAG
Sagebrush trail : The dawn rider. Full frame. New York, N.Y. : GoodTimes Entertainment, c2002.
In Sagebrush trail, a man wrongfully convicted of murder in Baltimore breaks out of prison and heads west. In The dawn rider, a man hunts down the bandits who shot his father.

DVD SEI S.8
Seinfeld : Season 8. Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2007].
The continuing misadventures of neurotic New York stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld and his equally neurotic New York friends. In this season, Jerry runs into old girlfriend Dolores, Elaine has to take charge at work, George copes with Susan's death, and Kramer switches personalities with Jerry.

DVD VEN Vengeance Valley. [Dunellen, N.J.] : Digiview Productions., c2004, 1951.
A ranch foreman (Lancaster) is continually battling his wayward brother (Walker) in this melodramatic tale of the western range.

New Materials - December 2009

BROWNELL LIBRARY
NEW TITLES, DECEMBER 2009

FICTION

Abercrombie, Joe. Best served cold. 1st North American ed. New York : Orbit, 2009.
Monza Murcatto, a mercenary in the employ of the ruthless Duke of Orso, is attacked by order of the Duke for becoming too popular with the public, and recovers from her wounds with a burning desire for revenge.

Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-. The casebook of Victor Frankenstein : a novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, c2008.
A retelling of Mary Shelley’s classic novel that describes Victor Frankenstein’s meeting with the radical atheist and poet Percy Bysshe Shelley at Oxford and recruiting “resurrection men” to deliver fresh bodies to a secret laboratory, where the monster is created.

Akunin, B. (Boris). Murder on the Leviathan : a novel. Random House trade paperback ed. New York : Random House, c2005.
Paris, 1878: Eccentric antiquarian Lord Littleby and his ten servants are found murdered in Littleby’s mansion on the rue de Grenelle, and a priceless Indian shawl is missing. Police commissioner “Papa” Gauche recovers only one piece of evidence from the crime scene: a golden key shaped like a whale. Gauche soon deduces that the key is in fact a ticket of passage for the Leviathan, a gigantic steamship soon to depart Southampton on its maiden voyage to Calcutta. The murderer must be among its passengers.

Atwell, Sarah. Pane of death. Berkley Prime Crime mass-market ed. New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2008.
Glassblower Emmeline Dowell finds herself accused of murder after a priceless stained glass collection is stolen and the owner is killed. And since the police chief is also her boyfriend, she needs to crack the case fast—before their relationship is permanently shattered.

Bain, Donald, 1935-. A fatal feast : a Murder, she wrote mystery : a novel. New York : Obsidian, c2009.
Jessica’s Thanksgiving holiday is interrupted when she and Inspector George Sutherland from Scotland Yard stumble upon the body of a man with a carving knife stuck in his chest.

Barbieri, Heather. The lace makers of Glenmara : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2009.
Fashion designer Kate Robinson, overwhelmed by heartbreak and loss, travels to her ancestral home of Ireland where she becomes involved with a group of lacemakers in the Gaelic village of Glenmara who provide her with inspiration, friendship, and strength for the future.

Belzer, Richard. I am not a psychic! 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Television cop Richard Belzer receives a strange phone call from his old newspaper colleague, Paul Venchus, pertaining to the mysterious death of starlet Bridget Burgeon twenty-six years earlier, and when Venchus turns up dead in Las Vegas, The Belz teams up with an eccentric female psychic to continue the investigation.

Berry, Steve, 1955-. The Paris vendetta : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2009.
Cotton Malone is startled from sleep by a stranger breaking into his home. The stranger introduces himself as Sam Collins, an American Secret Service agent and a friend of Henrik Thorvaldsen, Cotton’s dearest and most dangerous friend in the world. Fleeing operatives hot on Sam’s trail, he and Cotton go to Henrik’s estate where Cotton discovers that Henrik is actually hunting down the men who killed his son. In action that takes the three men from Copenhagen to Britain to France they unite in a common goal.

Best African American fiction, 2009. New York : Bantam Books, 2009.
A collection of sixteen fiction stories and novel excerpts by African-American authors, including ZZ Packer, Helen Elaine Lee, Michael Thomas, and others, which were originally published from 2006 through 2009.

Blackstock, Terri, 1957-. Intervention. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, c2009.
Barbara Covington, having staged an intervention as her last attempt to help her drug-addicted eighteen-year-old daughter, finds her life going from bad to worse when the interventionist is found dead and her daughter goes missing.

Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003. The skating rink. New York : New Directions Books, c2009.
In the seaside town of Z, north of Barcelona, a murder is committed at a skating rink, and the mystery of the crime is slowly revealed through a discussion of a situation involving a beautiful figure skating champion named Nuria Martí.

Boswell, Robert, 1953-. The heyday of the insensitive bastards : stories. Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2009.
Collects thirteen short stories by American writer Robert Boswell in which he explores the inner lives of ordinary people.

Boyden, Amanda. Babylon rolling. 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Contemporaries; Vintage Books, 2009.
A gritty, unflinching story of five families—black, white and Indian—living along one block of Uptown, New Orleans.

Bredes, Don. The errand boy : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Three Rivers Press, 2009.
Twelve years after the events of ‘The Fifth Season,’ Hector and Wilma are happily married and expecting a baby. Then the couple are nearly run down by egg magnate Harold Tuttle’s overindulged and under-supervised son, Seb. Wilma is left comatose, and two days later Seb is found beaten to a bloody pulp. Harold hires Hector to investigate the murder. If he can’t solve the mystery, the lives of everyone he loves are on the line.

Brown, Sandra, 1948-. Rainwater : a novel. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Ella Barron, mother of a son, ten, runs her Texas boarding house with the efficiency of a ship’s captain. Then she’s pulled into an unusual series of events when she reluctantly rents one of her rooms to the handsome and dying Dr. David Rainwater. The winds of change are blowing all over Texas, just as they are in the life that Ella has painstakingly built for herself and her son.

Brown, Sandra, 1948-. The devil’s own. Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2002.
Targeting a man whose tough exterior had kept him alive, a young woman formulates a desperate plan to save nine children, teaming up with him despite his disreputable and dangerous looks, and finding an unexpected and equally risky passion.

Bruns, Don. Stuff to spy for : a novel. Ipswich, Mass. : Oceanview Pub., c2009.
Best friends James Lessor and Skip Moore are still stuck in dead end jobs. When Skip lands a job to install a state-of-the-art security system for Synco Systems, they think their dreams have finally come true. But, as usual for these two, things are not exactly what they seem.


Carie, Jamie. Love’s first light : a novel. Nashville, Tenn. : B&H Pub., c2009.
After losing his family in the French Revolution, Christophe, the Count of St. Laurent, flees to an ancient castle on the southern border of France, where he meets Scarlett, a young widow who has the power to pull the count out of his depression, if they are both willing to let go of past secrets that could threaten their future.

Cash, Dixie. Curing the blues with a new pair of shoes. 1st Avon pbk. ed. New York : Avon A, 2009.
After someone steals the blue suede shoes on display at Hogg’s Drive-in, which were there to honor Elvis Presley’s birthday, Debbie Sue Overstreet and Edwina Perkins-Martin agree to help Salt Lick’s sheriff nab the thief.

Cherryh, C. J. Conspirator. New York : DAW Books, c2009.
In the aftermath of the atevi civil war, Bren Cameron, the human paidhi of Tabini-aiji, the ruler of the Western Association, leaves Bujavid for his country estate in Najida, but the peaceful community is no longer as safe as it once was; and meanwhile, Cajeiri, Tabini-aiji’s son, escapes his father’s boring tutelage and secretly follows Bren to the coast.

Chiaverini, Jennifer. A quilter’s holiday : an Elm Creek quilts novel. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
The Elm Creek Quilters come together the day after Thanksgiving to work on quilt blocks and projects that represent their thankfulness and gratitude and share stories of love, family, and friends.

Clockwork phoenix. : more tales of beauty and strangeness. Trade pbk. ed. Winnetka, CA : Norilana Books, 2009.
The second volume of this extraordinary new annual anthology series of fantastic literature dares to surpass the first, with works that sidestep expectations in beautiful and unsettling ways, that surprise with their settings and startle with the manner in which they cross genre boundaries, that aren’t afraid to experiment with storytelling techniques, and yet seamlessly blend form with meaningful function. The effervescent offerings found within these pages come from some of today’s most distinguished contemporary fantasists and brilliant rising newcomers.
Coel, Margaret, 1937-. The silent spirit. 1st ed. New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2009.
Father John O’Malley, attorney Vicky Holden, and Adam Lone Eagle agree to help a man uncover facts about the death of his grandson who left their reservation and traveled to California in search of information about his great-grandfather who went to Hollywood to appear in the first motion picture to feature Native Americans and never returned.

Cottam, Francis, 1957-. The house of lost souls. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2009, c2007.
Paul Seaton, a psychically sensitive journalist, returns to the haunted Fischer House on the Isle of Wight after four philosophy students have an unfortunate encounter in the building, and as he revisits the mansion’s dark legacy, he attempts to hold onto his own sanity.

Crichton, Michael, 1942-2008. Pirate latitudes : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2009.
On Jamaica, a remote Caribbean colony in 1665, Captain Charles Hunter plots to steal Spanish gold from the galleon “El Trinidad,” which awaits repairs in a nearby, heavily fortified harbor that is guarded by Cazalla, a bloodthirsty commander.

Cristofano, David. The girl she used to be. 1st ed. New York : Grand Central, 2009.
A woman in her twenties, who has been in the Witness Protection Program since she was six-years-old, tires of constantly changing her name and lifestyle, and willingly goes with the man who knows her true identity, the Mafioso who was hired to kill her.

Cussler, Clive. The wrecker. New York : Putnam’s, c2009.
Detective Isaac Bell, working for the Van Dorn Detective Agency in 1907, is sent to stop a man known only as the Wrecker, a criminal who traverses the American West, sabotaging railroads and causing death while building up to what Bell guesses will be a grandiose and devastating act.

Dave, Laura. aut. The divorce party : [a novel]. New York [etc.] : Penguin Books, 2009.
On the event of their 35th wedding anniversary, Gwyn and Gabe Huntington decide to throw a party. To say that it will be memorable is an understatement because they’ve decided to divorce and want their friends and family to celebrate with them. The multi-generational story finds one woman at the end of her relationship and another at the beginning, both asking the same tough questions. How do you ever really know someone? Which relationships should you fight to keep, and which should you let go?.

Davis, Lydia, 1947-. The collected stories of Lydia Davis. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
The complete stories to date from a writer who ‘tinkers with nearly every convention imaginable’ (The New York Times Book Review).

Martin, Valerie, 1948-. The confessions of Edward Day : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Nan A. Talese, c2009.
Edward Day’s life is changed after he joins a weekend workshop for actors on the Jersey shore and develops an attraction to Madeleine Delavergne, a notion shared by Guy Margate, a fellow actor with a striking resemblance to Edward who saves him from drowning.

Deaver, Jeffery. A maiden’s grave. New York : Signet, [1996.], c1995.
Eight deaf schoolgirls are taken hostage by escaped convicts who are ready to kill the children if their demands are not met, but FBI negotiator Arthur Potter and deaf teacher Melanie Charrol, herself a hostage, are determined to save the innocent girls.

Denning, Troy. Abyss. 1st ed. New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, c2009.
Luke Skywalker tries to redeem the Jedi Order while searching for answers about Jacen Solo’s downfall, battling the Sith, and probing the mysteries of the Maw Cluster with his son, Ben.

Dewitt, Helen, 1957-. The last samurai. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Hyperion, c2000.
Ludo, a six-year-old prodigy, embarks on a quest to find his father.

Doss, James D. Grandmother Spider : a Charlie Moon mystery. New York : Avon Books, c2001.
Ute policeman Charlie Moon does not much believe in his Aunt Daisy’s visions, but her story about seeing a gargantuan arachnid rise up out of Navajo Lake seems to coincide a little too neatly with a series of murders.

Elkins, Aaron J. Skull duggery. 1st ed. New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2009.
Anthropology professor Gideon Oliver travels with his wife Julie to the Mexican village of Teotitlan de Valle for a vacation, but rest and relaxation escape him when he is asked to examine a mummified corpse found in the desert, gets involved in a cold-case investigation of a child’s murder, and discovers the ancient skull of a Zapotec princess in a local museum is actually that of a much-younger male.

Ellroy, James, 1948-. Blood’s a rover : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
The unsolved heist of an armored car in Los Angeles in 1964 has far-reaching repercussions that ripple out to involve J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, the FBI, and the Mob.

Erdman, Paul Emil. The last days of America. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1981. An American businessman, an American corporation, and finally America itself get drawn into European diplomacy and corruption and go down the drain.

Evanovich, Janet. Foul play. New York : Harper, c2008.
Amy Klasse is replaced in her television job by a dancing chicken and accepts the offer to become the receptionist for handsome Jake Elliot at his veterinarian clinic, but when the dancing chicken suddenly disappears, Amy is blamed, and she and Jake search for clues to prove her innocence.

Evans, Richard Paul. The Christmas list. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Successful businessman James Kier is shocked to see his obituary in the local paper and devastated at the harsh comments left by those who knew him, but instead of getting angry, James is inspired to turn over a new leaf, and as he looks back on his life and tries to make amends to the people he has hurt the most, he learns the true meaning of Christmas and the real price of love and family.

Fallada, Hans, 1893-1947. Every man dies alone. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Melville House, c2009.
Based on the true story of Elise and Otto Hampel, a working-class couple who defied the Third Reich, tells a story of Otto and Anna Quangel who launch a personal resistance campaign against the Gestapo after their only son is killed at the front.

Fallon, Jennifer. Warlord. New York : Tor, 2008.
Grieving the devastating loss of her closest confidante, Marla Wolfblade encounters a formidable adversary, while her son Damin finds his ability to fight invaders hampered by political factors, and mad Mahkas Damaran plots continued tyranny over the city of Krakandar.

Feehan, Christine. Dark slayer : a Carpathian novel. 1st ed. New York : Berkley Books, 2009.
Ivory Malinov, the Carpathian slayer of vampires who travels with a pack of wolves, frees Razvan the mage from his prison, and as they flee together, chased by Carpathian hunters and the undead, they begin to find new love.

Ferris, Monica. Blackwork. 1st ed. New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2009.
Part-time sleuth Betsy Devonshire investigates the murder of alcohol aficionado Ryan McMurphy, but has reservations about the guilt of Wicca member Leona Cunningham, who has been accused of the crime by some townspeople of Excelsior, Minnesota.

Finlay, C.C. The demon redcoat. New York : Ballantine, c2009.
When Deborah gives birth, a powerful demon called Balfri, summoned by the secret society of witches known as the Covenant, tries to possess the child. With the help of Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, Proctor takes the fight to the heart of the Covenant’s power in Europe, where he will uncover a dark, necromantic design of chilling proportions. Meanwhile, back in America, Deborah will face Balfri again, only this time the demon will have the whole British army to command. ‘Traitor to the Crown, Bk. 3’.

Flynn, Vince. Pursuit of honor : a novel. 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, 2009.
Mitch Rapp, an elite counterterrorism operative, deals with the political uproar after a series of explosions devastates Washington, D. C., and must track down the three al-Qaida terrorists that are still at large, with help from Mike Nash, a trusted teammate who is mentally shaken after the attacks.

Ganek, Danielle. Lulu meets God and doubts him. New York : Viking, 2007.
Mia McMurray finds herself in the middle of an artistic frenzy when the gallery she works for features the sought-after work of an artist who was recently killed and manages to turn the situation to her advantage when she unexpectedly finds love and fame.

Gardner, James Alan. Vigilant. New York : Avon Eos, c1990.
Two species lived in peaceful coexistence on the planet Demoth until a deadly plague wiped out millions of the winged Ooloms while leaving humans untouched, helpless to do more than ease the suffering of their alien friends and neighbors. Faye Smallwood saw the horror firsthand, caring for the plague victims in her father’s hospital. She was there when he discovered the cure that made him famous. She was also there when a freak accident killed him. Desperate to escape her past, Faye joins the Vigil, a band of fiercely independent monitors charged with rooting out government corruption. To help in this struggle, her mind is linked to the powerful datasphere that regulates the planet...and suddenly, she receives a cryptic vision promising peace and healing. Instead, Faye becomes the target of unknown assassins in a sinister conspiracy that threatens to unleash a new and more deadly outbreak. For humans and Ooloms were not the first species to inhabit Demoth. Somewhere in the ruins of long-abandoned settlements, something was left behind: an alien technology of unimaginable potential to build—or destroy. Enemy agents will stop at nothing to find it. Some of Faye’s own people will kill to uncover its secret. With no one else to trust, she turns to the one person who can help unravel the mystery: Festina Ramos—explorer, outcast, ever-vigilant champion of those whom society deems expendable.

Gingrich, Newt. To try men’s souls : a novel of George Washington and the fight for American freedom. 1st ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2009.
A historical novel that follows events in the lives of General George Washington, commander of the Continental Army, pamphleteer Thomas Paine, and merchant’s son Jonathan Van Dorn, as Washington prepares to cross the Delaware on Christmas, 1776, to launch a surprise attack on the British in Trenton.

Goddard, Robert. Name to a face. Delta trade pbk. ed. New York : Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2009, c2007.
Tim Harding travels to Cornwall to help his friend purchase a rare antique ring and while there he becomes involved with Hayley Winter, but when the ring is stolen and Hayley disappears, Tim discovers that no one can be trusted and things are not as they seem.

Green, George Dawes. Ravens. 1st ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2009.
The Boatwright family is thrilled and shocked when they are the sole winners of a $318 million dollar lottery jackpot, but their dream life turns into a nightmare when drifter Shaw McBride decides he wants half the money and will kill anyone who stands in his way.

Gregson, Julia. East of the sun. 1st Touchstone trade pbk. ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Autumn 1928. Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Rose, a beautiful but naïve bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows. Victoria, her bridesmaid, couldn’t be happier to get away from her overbearing mother, and is determined to find herself a husband. And Viva, their inexperienced chaperone, is in search of the India of her childhood, ghosts from the past and freedom. Each of them has her own reason for leaving their homeland but the hopes and secrets they carry can do little to prepare them for what lies ahead in India.

Grisham, John. Ford County : stories. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, 2009.
Few details were provided on Grisham’s latest offering. All that is being revealed is that he returns to Ford County, Miss., and brings readers a collection of stories (his first) that will remind them once again why he is America’s favorite storyteller.

Grodstein, Lauren. A friend of the family : a novel. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2009.
Pete Dizinoff has spent years working toward a life that would be, by all measures, deemed successful. A skilled internist, he’s built a thriving practice in suburban New Jersey. He has a devoted wife, a network of close friends, and an impressive house, and most important, he has a son, Alec, on whom he’s pinned all his hopes. Pete has afforded Alec every opportunity, bailed him out of close calls with the law, and even ensured his acceptance into a good college. But Pete never counted on the wild card: Laura, his best friend’s daughter—ten years older than Alec, irresistibly beautiful, with a past so shocking that it’s never spoken of. When Laura sets her sights on Alec, Pete sees his plans for his son not just unraveling but being destroyed completely. Believing he has only the best of intentions, he sets out to derail this romance and rescue his son. He could never have foreseen how his whole world would shatter in the process.

Grossman, Lev. The magicians : a novel. New York : Viking, 2009.
High school senior Quentin Coldwater’s real world never quite measures up to Fillory, the enchanted land in his favorite fantasy novels, and even an education at the mysterious Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy leaves him without purpose, but when he discovers a way into Fillory, his life becomes a dangerous adventure.

Gudenkauf, Heather. The weight of silence. Don Mills, Ont. : Mira, c2009.
Seven-year-old Callie, silent since a violent incident in her home three years earlier, is dragged off into the forest by her drunk, irrational father Griff one morning, and when her friend Petra disappears from her home at the same time, things begin to look very dark for Griff.

Hambly, Barbara. Darkmage. [Book Club ed.]. Garden City, N.Y. : N. Doubleday, c1988.
In her latest novel, The Silent Tower, Barbara Hambly has written a complex tale of dark magic, mystery and deadly danger involving a woman computer programmer who struggles to help a condemned wizard save—or perhaps destroy?—two worlds. Armed with a .38 Colt, a Renaissance gown, and a worn program computer disk, Joanna Sheraton crosses the Void and reenters a world of magic now threatened by the Dark Mage, whose mastery of the secrets of science and technology poses a danger to his world as well as her own. This sequel to The Silent Tower combines taut fantasy adventure with an intriguing love story.

Hamilton, Laurell K. Burnt offerings. Ace ed. New York : Ace Books, 1998.
Vampire hunter Anita Blake winds up trying to save the very monsters she has sworn to destroy when an arsonist begins terrorizing the city’s undead.

Hamilton, Laurell K. A caress of twilight. 1st mass market ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2003, c2002.
Princess Meredith is heir to the throne of the City of Angels, but in order to claim it, she must produce a child before her cousin, Prince Cel, can.

Hand, Elizabeth. Generation loss : a novel. 1st Harvest ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, 2008, c2007.
Thirty years after the height of her career, New York photographer Cass Neary gets an assignment to interview a reclusive artist in Maine, where she learns about the woman’s communal living and obsession with the mysteries of life and death.

Hannah, Sophie, 1971-. The wrong mother. New York : Penguin Books, 2009.
Sally Thorning is shocked when she hears that a man she had an affair with while on a secret vacation the previous year has been found dead, especially when the picture on the news is not the man she had fallen in love with.

Harbison, Elizabeth M. Hope in a jar. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2009.
Allie Denty and Olivia Pelham, inseparable as teens until a vicious rumor ended their friendship, meet again twenty years later at their high school reunion and team up to save a favorite classmate from marrying the wrong woman.

Harris, E. Lynn. Mama dearest. 1st Karen Hunter Pub./Pocket Books hardcover ed. New York : Pocket Books/Karen Hunter Pub., 2009.
Yancy Harrington Braxton has designs to star in a reality television series, but in order to live her dreams, Yancy will have to overcome Madison B., a rising star on the music charts, and the unbridled ambition of Ava Middlebrooks.

Harris, Charlaine. A touch of dead : Sookie Stackhouse, the complete stories. Ace hardcover ed. New York : Ace Books, 2009.
Contains five short stories from Charlaine Harris that feature Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress, and her adventures with vampires, fairies, and other supernatural occurrences.

Harrison, Colin, 1960-. Risk. 1st Picador ed. New York : Picador, 2009.
George Young, an insurance firm lawyer who investigates suspicious claims, is asked by the firm founder’s eccentric wife—who only has months to live—to look into the truth behind the violent death of her son, Roger, who had become involved with a seductive Czech hand model named Eliska.

Hart, Carolyn G. Ghost at work : a Bailey Ruth mystery. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2008.
Bailey Ruth Raeburn, always great at solving mysteries, is thrilled to discover in death that she can play an even bigger role in lending a helping hand—especially when she sees that there is a dead man on the porch of Kathleen, a pastor’s wife, and that the pastor is sure to become a suspect.

Hatcher, Robin Lee. Dear lady. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, c2000.
Beth Wellington travels halfway around the world to escape from a man she loathes, only to find herself falling in love with a man who still pines for his dead wife.

Hatcher, Robin Lee. Patterns of love. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, c2001.
Swedish immigrant Inga Linberg arrives in Uppsala, Iowa, in the late nineteenth century and takes a job caring for the sick mother and two young nieces of dairy farmer Dirk Bridger, and though she chides her sisters for their infatuation with the handsome and hardworking Dirk, she cannot hide the growing truth that she too would like to attract his attention.

Hatcher, Robin Lee. In his arms. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, c2001.
Mary Malone comes to America to join the father of the child she’s carrying, and instead has to flee New York when she thinks she has killed a man. Escaping to Idaho, she finds love, family, and faith.

Hijuelos, Oscar. Mr. Ives’ Christmas. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1995.
Mr. Ives’ personal peace and faith in the goodness of God are imperiled when his son is shot and killed just before Christmas.

Himes, Chester B., 1909-. Cotton comes to Harlem. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1988, c1965.
Deke O’Hara, black flim-flam man, is no sooner out of an Atlanta prison than he is working the scam of a lifetime. Then his money is stolen by white gunmen and hidden in a bale of cotton that everyone wants to find.

Hollinghurst, Alan. The line of beauty : a novel. New York : Bloomsbury, 2005.
Winner of 2004’s Man Booker Prize for fiction and one of the most talked about books of the year, The Line of Beauty is a sweeping novel about class, sex, and money that brings Thatcher’s London alive.

Hornby, Nick. Juliet, naked. New York : Riverhead Books, 2009.
Annie, with her relationship with Duncan over, strikes up an E-mail correspondence with Duncan’s idol Tucker Crowe, a reclusive singer/songwriter who has not been heard from in over twenty years, and possibilities abound when Tucker, about to release an acoustic version of his greatest album, is summoned to England—where Annie lives.

Huggins, James Byron. Hunter. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1990.
Hunter, a renowned tracker, is hesitant to accept a commission from a group of military men who want him to track a killer beast that is loose somewhere north of the Arctic Circle, and when he learns exactly what the creature is he has been seeking, Hunter wishes he had heeded his instincts to refuse the job.

James, Bill, 1929-. PIX. 1st American ed. Woodstock, VT : Countryman Press, 2009, c2008.
Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his unstable boss, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Illes, struggle to keep their community calm when a drug war erupts, a cache of valuable paintings is stolen, and a man is found murdered.

Just, Ward S. Exiles in the garden. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Photographer Alec Monroe, having shunned his senator father’s political dreams for him and refused an assignment to cover the Vietnam War, connects with his ex-wife’s long-lost dad, an antifascist commander, and is forced to reflect on his life.

Kelly, Leisha. Rorey’s secret : a novel. Grand Rapids, MI : Revell, c2005.
Sarah Wortham is harboring a secret that could reveal the cause of the fire that destroyed their neighbor’s farm, but is caught between the truth and a promise to a dear friend.

Kelly, Leisha. Katie’s dream : a novel. Grand Rapids, MI : Revell, c2004.
Julia Wortham, counting herself blessed to have been given a farm on which to live with her husband Samuel and two children during the Great Depression, finds her faith tested when her brother-in-law, just out of prison, shows up at their home with a child he claims was fathered by Samuel.

Kelly, Leisha. Emma’s gift : a novel. Grand Rapids, Mich. : F.H. Revell, c2003.
In her sequel to Julia’s Hope, Kelly once again offers a compellingly simple tale of faith, hardship and community during the Great Depression. Using two points of view—those of Julia Wortham and her husband, Samuel—Kelly unfolds a series of events that will leave Julia with more questions about her faith than answers. As her neighbor Wilametta Hammond draws her last breaths, Julia despairs of understanding how a God of love could allow Wilametta to die. More unexpected chaos follows. With Wilametta’s 10 children motherless and George Hammond deranged with grief, Julia and Samuel try to pick up the pieces, caring for the children as best they can. (Publishers Weekly).

Kelly, Leisha. Julia’s hope. Grand Rapids, Mich. : F.H. Revell, c2002.
From a fresh new voice in Christian fiction comes this simple, well-told story of one family’s experience of love, generosity, forgiveness and faith during the Great Depression. Samuel and Julia Wortham and their two young children leave Harrisburg, Pa., with only eight dollars and three bags containing all their worldly goods. They’re hitchhiking to Vernon, Ill., where there is the promise of a job and a roof over their heads. Along the way, the family stumbles onto a deserted farmhouse belonging to the elderly widow Emma Graham, who was forced to leave her home because of her health and longs to return. As Julia works out a solution to her family’s troubles and Emma’s, the small farm promises to be a haven and place of healing for all concerned, if the neighbors don’t interfere. George Hammond’s farm adjoins Emma’s, and he sees the interlopers as moving in on his territory, while spinster Hazel Sharpe is determined to see her version of justice done. Kelly tells the story from several different points of view, handling the switches smoothly and changing voices believably. The faith threads in the novel are gently woven in, rather than feeling forced or contrived, and the writing is beautifully descriptive without being overdone. (Publishers Weekly).

Kim, Eugenia (Eugenia SunHee). The calligrapher’s daughter : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt, 2009.
Najin Han, the headstrong daughter of a calligrapher in early twentieth-century Korea, is sent by her mother to become a companion of the young princess to prevent her father from forcing her to marry, but when the king is assassinated, Najin faces countless hardships on her quest for education and love.

King, Stephen, 1947-. Under the dome. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, 2009.
King introduces readers to the inhabitants of Chester’s Mills, Maine, and their frightening problem. The town has been inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. No one knows where it came from, when, or if it will go away. It’s in this cloistered town that Dale Barbara, an Iraq vet, and several of his fellow townsfolk, are pitted against Big Jim Rennie, a politician, who will stop at nothing to keep a horrible secret.

Kingsolver, Barbara. The lacuna : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2009.
Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds, Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, finds himself pulled into some of the twentieth century’s most tumultuous events as he searches for his true identity.

Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-. Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein : a novel. New York : Bantam Books, c2009.
The final confrontation between a damned creature and its creator approaches as a hurricane approaches New Orleans and Victor Helios is faced by not only Deucalion—his first attempt to create a human—but other monstrosities that have evolved.

Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-. The door to December. New York : Signet, [2002], c1985.
A suspenseful thriller involving multiple murders and the supernatural.

Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-. Breathless : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Bantam Books, c2009.
Reclusive carpenter Grady Adams and his friend, veterinarian Cammy Rivers, are enchanted by a pair of beautiful furred animals Grady discovered in the woods near his Colorado home, and they must figure out how to save the unique species and themselves when they are placed under quarantine by Homeland Security and targeted by biologists, naturalists, and scientists.

Lawhead, Steve. Tuck. Nashville, Tenn. : Thomas Nelson, c2009.
King Raven—Rhi Bran—has defended the people of Wales from their Norman overlords, but Rhi Bran, aided by Friar Tuck and his loyal band of forest outlaws, is being pursued by King William, Abbot Hugo, and the Sheriff de Glanville.

Le Clézio, J.-M. G. (Jean-Marie Gustave), 1940-. Desert. 1st U.S. ed. Boston : David R. Godine, 2009.
Presents two intertwining stories about a boy named Nour and his tribe, the Blue Men, who are driven out of the desert by French colonialists and struggle to find a new land; and about a descendant of the Blue Men named Lalla who flees a forced marriage and finds success as a model in France.

Lethem, Jonathan. Chronic city : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, 2009.
Chase Insteadman, a former child star who supports his active Manhattan social life with residual income from a sitcom on which he worked whose scientist-astronaut fianceé is stuck in space, is befriended by a marijuana-smoking pop critic who enlists Chase’s help in unearthing the answers to several questions he has about truth and reality.

Lewycka, Marina, 1946-. We are all made of glue. London : Fig Tree, 2009.
Georgie Sinclair’s husband has left her; her sixteen-year-old son is busy exploring fundamentalist Christian websites and becoming more distant by the day; and all those overdue articles for Adhesives in the Modern World aren’t looking too appealing either. So when she spots Mrs. Shapiro, an eccentric old Jewish emigre neighbour with an eye for a bargain and a fondness for matchmaking, rummaging through her skip in the middle of the night, it’s just the distraction she needs. And although they mistrust each other at first (Georgie doesn’t like the look of that past-its-sell-by-date fish while Mrs Shapiro thinks it’s prize produce) a firm friendship is formed over the reduced-price shelf at the supermarket. And so when two slimy rival estate agents (one with a taste for bondage) start competing to trick Mrs Shapiro into selling her rickety old mansion, home also to seven stinky cats, Georgie must step in and help her new friend. Along the way she uncovers the long buried mysteries of Mrs. Shapiro’s past.

Lewycka, Marina, 1946-. Strawberry fields. 1st American ed. New York : Penguin Press, 2007.
A farmer’s indiscretions force a band of illegal migrant workers from different backgrounds to flee their strawberry fields and embark on a haphazard journey across England in search of better lives, an effort marked by an unlikely love affair.

Lindsay, Jeffry P. Dexter by design : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, 2009.
Dexter Morgan returns from his honeymoon in Paris and gets to work perfecting his disguise as the perfect husband, father, and investigator, and wondering if he will be able to put his homicidal tendencies to rest, but when a new serial killer is identified, Dexter is once again drawn into the battle for fitting justice.

Lovesey, Peter. Skeleton Hill. New York : Soho, 2009.
Detective superintendent Peter Diamond investigates the murder of a professor who, while participating in a British Civil War reenactment, found the skeleton of a woman who was killed more than three hundred years earlier, and tries to connect the two deaths while finding the killer.

Lustbader, Victoria. Stone creek : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2008.
Forty-six-year-old Lily, unable to connect with her workaholic husband Paul, and having given up hope of ever having a child, retreats to Stone Creek in the Catskills for the summer, where a chance encounter with young widower Danny and his five-year-old son, Caleb, brings big changes to all their lives.

Lynch, Jim, 1961-. Border songs. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2009.
Freakishly tall Brandon Vanderkool is pushed by his dairy farmer father into joining the Border Patrol and proves to be very adept at catching drug smugglers and illegal aliens trying to cross the ditch between British Columbia and Washington State, but his efforts do not necessarily please local residents who are not averse to turning a blind eye—for a small fee—to the traffic between borders.

MacBride, Stuart. Blind eye. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Minotaur Books, 2009.
Detective Sergeant Logan McRae contends with a serial offender who has been terrorizing a Polish community by leaving mutilated victims on building sites around Granite City.

Macomber, Debbie. 92 Pacific Boulevard. Don Mills, Ont. : Mira, c2009.
Troy Davis, sheriff of Cedar Grove, Washington, finds plenty to keep him occupied with a failed romance, a friend battling cancer, break-ins at 203 Rosewood Lane, and the unidentified remains found in a cave outside town.

Macomber, Debbie. The perfect Christmas. Don Mills, Ont. : Mira, c2009.
Thirty-three-year-old Cassie’s Christmas wish is for a husband and children and she decides to hire a professional matchmaker to help her dreams come true, but Simon Dodson demands Cassie complete three tasks before he introduces her to her perfect mate.

Macomber, Debbie. Small town Christmas. Don Mills, Ont. : Mira, c2008.
Return to promise—Mail-order bride. Contains two Christmas-themed novels by Debbie Macomber, including “Return to Promise” in which Cal Patterson and his wife, Jane, facing trouble in their marriage, separate and hope for a reconciliation at Christmas; and “Mail-Order Bride” in which Caroline Myers, having been dumped by her fiancé, is sent to Gold River, Alaska, where she spends Christmas with Paul Trevor, unaware of the fact that her aunts sent her as a mail-order bride.

Mansell, Jill. Miranda’s big mistake. Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks Casablanca, c2009.
Miranda plans the sweetest and most public revenge she can imagine when she learns her current boyfriend left his wife when she found out she was pregnant, and her quest for revenge and despair over her failed love life may prevent her from realizing the man of her dreams has been waiting for her all along.

Mantel, Hilary, 1952-. Wolf Hall : a novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Henry Holt, 2009. Henry VIII, anxious about the consequences of dying without a male heir, is denied permission to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn, but the power struggle between the Church and the Crown is mediated by astute politician Thomas Cromwell, who manages to get the king what he wants while keeping his eye on the prize of a free England.

Marciano, Francesca. The end of manners. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c2008.
Facing a moral dilemma, and physical dangers, Maria Galante, a photojournalist, must decide what to do when sent on an assignment with a hard-nosed reporter, Imo Glass, to capture the story of women in Kabul who have attempted suicide to escape their arranged marriages.

Marillier, Juliet. Heir to Sevenwaters. 1st ed. New York : ROC, c2008.
Clodagh, daughter of Lord Sean and Lady Aisling of Sevenwaters, travels with a warrior beyond the veil to the shadowy Otherworld to confront the prince who rules there, and reclaim her baby brother—the next heir to Sevenwaters—who was stolen from his room and replaced with a changeling.

McManus, Patrick F. The double jack murders : a Sheriff Bo Tully mystery. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Sheriff Bo Tully, his father, and Dave, an expert tracker, head out to a remote part of Blight County to not only try and solve a seventy-five-year-old missing person’s case, but also to trap an escaped murderer who has his sights on killing Tully.

Mistry, Rohinton, 1952-. Family matters. 1st Vintage International ed. New York : Vintage, 2003, c2002.
Nariman Vakeel, the elderly patriarch of a small, discordant family in Bombay, finds himself at the mercy of his ungrateful stepchildren when an injury requires him to have constant care, but as he struggles to put his family life back together, he learns some important lessons about familial love.

Moning, Karen Marie. Dreamfever : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2009.
MacKayla Lane, under the control of the Lord Master’s spell on the floor of a church, is sent into a seductive trance that consumes her mind while Jericho Barrons and Fae prince V’lane compete for her body and spirit.

Morgan, C. E., 1976-. All the living. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Orren becomes lonely and confused over her life’s direction after she moves to an isolated tobacco farm with her lover, who inherited the land after his family was killed in an accident, and things are further complicated by Orren’s newfound friendship with a handsome preacher.

Morrissy, Mary, 1957-. Mother of pearl. New York : Scribner, c1995.
Irene Rivers, recovered from tuberculosis but remaining at the sanitarium because she has nowhere else to go, meets and marries Stanley Godwin in an attempt to find a life for herself. Stanley, however, is impotent. After a time, Irene steals a baby from the hospital and brings her home, naming her Pearl. The real mother, Rita Spain, hadn’t wanted the child to begin with; when the baby disappears Rita feels all the more guilty. She tells people that her baby was stillborn. Four years after the theft, Pearl is returned to Rita, who renames her Mary and tells her the story of a stillborn older sibling. This ‘ghost’ haunts Mary’s childhood.

Morton, Kate, 1976-. The forgotten garden : a novel. 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, 2009, c2008.
When a little girl is abandoned on a ship going to Australia in 1913 and arrives with only her clothes and a book of fairy tales, she is raised by the dockmaster and his wife as their own; as a young woman, she travels to England where, over time, her own granddaughter eventually assembles the pieces of her life’s puzzle.

Neilson, Melany, 1958-. The Persia café. 1st ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2001.
The life of Fannie Leary, a cook at a local cafe in Persia, Mississippi in the 1960s, changes forever when she discovers the body of Earnest March, a young African-American man who had been dating a white woman, floating dead in the Mississippi River.

Némirovsky, Irène, 1903-1942. David Golder : The Ball ; Snow in autumn ; The Courilof Affair. New York : Knopf, 2008.
Contains English translations of four novels by Jewish novelist Irène Némirovsky, including “David Golder” in which a greedy businessman reevaluates his life after having a heart attack.

Palmer, Diana. Men of the West. New York : Silhouette Books, c2004.
Harden—Evan—Donavan. Relive the spellbinding magic of Harden, Evan and Donavan when the spirited women who love these Men of the West lasso their elusive hearts.

Patterson, James, 1947-. I, Alex Cross : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2009.
On his birthday, detective Alex Cross is informed that his niece, Caroline, has been brutally murdered and Cross’ investigation leads him to a fantasy-driven scene in Washington, D.C., where he realizes he is tracking a serial killer, but danger mounts when Cross connects the deaths to some very important people.

Peelle, Lydia. Reasons for and advantages of breathing. 1st ed. New York : Harper Perennial, c2009.
Contains eight short stories from the American writer, Lydia Peelle, that explore the lives of characters who have become estranged to their natural environments, and features “Mule Killers,” “Sweethearts of the Rodeo,” “This is Not a Love Story,” and others.

Pelecanos, George P. The way home : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
Chris Flynn starts to work for his father’s company and discovers something troublesome in the floorboards of the house he is helping to remodel; and his father, Thomas, who is still adjusting to the fact that his son is grown and working, worries when Chris does not show up to work one morning.

Powers, Richard, 1957-. Generosity : an enhancement. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Russell Stone, a creative nonfiction writing teacher in Chicago, encounters Thassadit Amzwar, a young Algerian woman whose exuberance he finds puzzling, and as he researches the woman, he learns about Thassadit’s genetic secret of happiness.

Pynchon, Thomas. Inherent vice. New York : Penguin Press, 2009.
Doc Sportello is surprised by his ex-girlfriend, who appears with knowledge of a plot against her billionaire lover in 1960s Los Angeles, and gets caught up in a bizarre series of events that involves surfers, a loan shark, a tenor sax player, and others.

Robb, J. D., 1950-. Kindred in death. New York : G. P. Putnam’s Sons, c2009.
The newly promoted Captain of the NYPSD and his wife are returning from vacation a day early and are looking forward to spending time with their daughter, who had not accompanied them on their trip. Not even their worst nightmares could have prepared them for the scene they found upon arriving at their home. Their daughter, Deena, 16, had been brutally murdered—her body showing signs of trauma that horrified even the toughest cops, including Lt. Eve Dallas.

Roberts, Nora. Bed of roses. Berkley trade paperback ed. New York : Berkley Books, 2009.
Emma Grant’s love of romance has helped her turn the wedding planning company she started with her three best friends into a success, but that same romantic streak may ruin her one chance at true love when her feelings for Jack, a longtime friend of all four girls, turn towards more than friendship.

Rose, Karen, 1964-. Have you seen her? New York : Warner Books, 2004.
Special Agent Steven Thatcher has a lot on his mind. A serial killer is targeting teenage girls and he’s on the case. In his personal life, his son, Brad, is suddenly misbehaving and failing in school. Brad’s teacher, Jenna Marshall, is worried too and discusses her concerns with Steven. They soon find themselves falling in love. But their courtship turns dangerous when they end up on the twisted path of a serial killer.

Rose, Karen, 1964-. I can see you. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2009.
Eve Wilson, who suffered an attack that left her face scarred, enters graduate school and starts research on the addictive aspects of the Internet, but when her test subjects begin to die of apparent suicides, Eve begins to work with detective Noah Webster to chase a killer.

Rosenblatt, Roger. Beet : a novel. 1st Harper Perenial ed. New York : Harper Perenial, 2009, c2008.
Peace Porterfield, an English professor at Beet College in New England, finds himself up against formidable odds and strange people as he tries to bring the institution back from the brink of disaster, where it has strayed in its effort to be trendy.

Rutherfurd, Edward. New York : the novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Doubleday, c2009.
The intertwining fates of characters rich and poor, black and white, native born and immigrant, brings to life the momentous events that shaped New York City and America: the Revolutionary War, the emergence of the city as a great trading and financial center, the excesses of the Gilded Age, the explosion of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the trials of World War II, the near-demise of New York in the 1970s and its roaring rebirth in the ’90s, and the attacks on the World Trade Center.

Schreiber, Joe, 1969-. Star Wars, death troopers. 1st ed. New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, c2009.
Several survivors from the Imperial prison barge “Purge” will do whatever it takes to stay alive, but they are not prepared for what awaits them aboard the Star Destroyer.

Schubart, Bill, 1945-. The Lamoille stories : tales of Vermont. White River Junction, VT : White River Press, 2008.
Author Bill Schubart brings to life the friends and characters of his native Lamoille County, where in the late 1950s and early 1960s, life was lived close to the earth and often against the grain. Schubart’s collection of twenty-two stories captures Vermont in its transition from an enclave of hill farms and small towns where everyone knew your grandfather to a place where vehicles bearing license plates from “away” mix with hippie vans filled with born-again Vermonters getting back to the land…until snowfall. It’s a time and place where the Jeeters of The Lamoille Stories rub elbows with the ladies of the Uplift Club, all to the fiddle accompaniment of Québécois music played by people whose conversations often weave French and English together in a single sentence. Schubart’s full-hearted and compassionate evocation of this Vermont is by turns poignant, funny and savory. The stories give readers a good excuse to stay up too late to discover how Wyvis will circumvent the new Vermont prohibition on having more than three junk cars in your yard or how Charlie is going to get Edgar to pay him for his new chimney. Schubart’s thoroughly enjoyable short story collection is as finely etched as the frost crystals on your winter window.

Sethi, Ali. The wish maker. New York : Riverhead Books, 2009.
Zaki Shirazi, a fatherless boy, is raised in contemporary Pakistan along with his female cousin, Samar, while surrounded by outspoken women, and as the cousins grow up and their lives diverge, they learn about the nature of happiness, selfhood, and commitment.

Stasheff, Christopher. The warlock wandering. New York, N.Y. : Berkley Pub. Group, c1986.
Five hundred years from their own time on the magical planet Gramarye, Rod and Gwen Gallowglass are held captive on another world. Lost within time and space they struggle for freedom and survival.

Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury), 1844-1931. “Sailing on the ice” and other stories from the old squire’s farm. Nashville, Tenn. : Rutledge Hill Press, c1996.
This new collection of twenty-eight stories follows on the heels of the critically-acclaimed anthology Stories from the Old Squire’s Farm. It centers around six children orphaned by the Civil War and being raised on their grandparents’ farm in rural Maine. It reminds us how storytellers such as Stephens are the true historians, for they are the preservers of emotion, the documentarians of feeling. “Nobody does the late-19th century on the ground better, more gently or with a lighter hand than Stephens,” says the Courier-Gazette. With the works of C. A. Stephens still entertaining the young and the young at heart, we can rest assured that the memories and the wisdom of a gentler time will always be around to comfort and teach us.

Stirling, S. M. The sword of the lady : a novel of the change. New York : Roc, c2009.
Rudi Mackenzie, having traveled across the land that used to be the U.S., attempts to find the source of The Change, an event that fundamentally altered the world, and when he arrives at a small community in Nantucket, he finds a unique sword that will determine his own destiny.

Stoker, Dacre. Dracula : the un-dead. New York : Dutton, c2009.
A sequel to Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” set twenty-five years after the vampire was destroyed, in which Quincey, the son of Jonathan and Mina Harker, having left law school to pursue an acting career, learns the secrets of his parents’ past through a production of the play “Dracula,” directed by Bram Stoker, and stumbles upon a plot to kill all the people involved in Count Dracula’s demise.

Stott, Rebecca. The coral thief : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2009.
Daniel Connor, a medical student from Edinburgh, arrives in nineteenth-century Paris to study anatomy only to discover that his letters of introduction and rare coral specimens have been stolen by a woman whose world of outlaws and radical theories of evolution he gradually becomes acquainted with.

Strom, Kay Marshall, 1943-. The call of Zulina. Nashville, TN : Abingdon Press Fiction, c2009.
Grace Winslow, the daughter of an English sea captain and African princess in West Africa in 1787, flees the family compound to escape an unwanted betrothal, and becomes caught up in a slave revolt in which she finds herself sympathizing with the slaves—especially the passionate Cabeto.

Stross, Charles. Wireless. 1st ed. New York : Ace Books, 2009.
In this collection of short stories, novelist Stross moves the U.S.-U.S.S.R. conflict onto a massive disk in another galaxy in “Missile Gap,” offers a spam-filter solution to the Fermi paradox in “MAXOS,” suggests clever bargains with the devil in a newly frozen Scotland in “Snowball’s Chance,” and sets the stage for appearances by Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould in “The Colder War.”

Sulivan, Jean. Eternity, my beloved. 1st River Boat Books ed. St. Paul, MN : River Boat Books, 1998.
Eternity, My Beloved tells the story of a rebel priest, Jerome Strozzi, who falls between the cracks of both church and state during the German occupation of Paris during World War II. Befriending prostitutes, petty thieves, and con-men, he becomes the unofficial pastor of the notorious Pigalle district. Told by a skeptical narrator who is himself searching for Strozzi’s secret, this contemporary lyric masterpiece becomes a sustained meditation on love and freedom.

Theorin, Johan, 1963-. The darkest room : a novel. Delta Trade pbk. ed. New York : Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2009.
Stockholm schoolteacher Joakim Westin, having lost his wife in a mysterious drowning accident after relocating with her and his children to the northern island of Öland, decides to conduct his own investigation, learning that rookie police officer Tilda Davidsson also thinks the death is suspicious and uncovering disturbing secrets about the town’s past.

Thoene, Bodie, 1951-. A thousand shall fall. Minneapolis, MN : Bethany House, c1992.
The peace and prosperity promised with the end of World War I fail to come to pass for two ex-soldiers—Arkansas farmer Birch Tucker, who faces the loss of everything he and his family have worked for; and Max Meyer, a financial columnist who may have to forfeit his wealth and influence to gain the son he never knew he had.

Thoene, Bodie, 1951-. In my father’s house. Minneapolis : Bethany House, c1992.
Max Meyer, a Jew from New York; Ellis Warne, an Irish doctor’s son; Birch Tucker, an Arkansas farm boy; and African-American Jefferson Canfield, join together in a common cause on the battlefield of the Great War, but their friendship is tested by the racial, religious, and cultural intolerance they encounter when they return home.

Thurman, Wallace, 1902-1934. The blacker the berry-- 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed. New York : Scribner Paperback Fiction, c1996.
One of the most widely read and controversial works of the Harlem Renaissance, The Blacker the Berry was the first novel to openly explore prejudice within the Black community. This pioneering novel found a way beyond the bondage of Blackness in American life to a new meaning in truth and beauty. Emma Lou Brown’s dark complexion is a source of sorrow and humiliation—not only to herself, but to her lighter-skinned family and friends and to the white community of Boise, Idaho, her home-town. As a young woman, Emma travels to New York’s Harlem, hoping to find a safe haven in the Black Mecca of the 1920s. Wallace Thurman re-creates this legendary time and place in rich detail, describing Emma’s visits to nightclubs and dance halls and house-rent parties, her sex life and her catastrophic love affairs, her dreams and her disillusions—and the momentous decision she makes in order to survive.A lost classic of Black American literature, The Blacker the Berry is a compelling portrait of the destructive depth of racial bias in this country. A new introduction by Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, author of The Sweeter the Juice, highlights the timelessness of the issues of race and skin color in America.

Trevor, William, 1928-. Love and summer. 1st American ed. New York : Viking, 2009.
Ellie Dillahan leads a shy, quiet life alongside her husband in Rathmoye, a small Irish town, but a chance encounter with Florian Kilderry, a young photographer set on escaping both Ireland and his past, sparks a love affair and tempts Ellie to make a difficult decision.

Walls, Jeannette. Half broke horses : a true-life novel. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, 2009.
Lily Casey Smith grows up breaking horses with her father and leaves home at fifteen to ride five hundred miles in order to teach in a frontier town before encountering various difficulties, marrying a rancher, and speaking out against prejudice in various parts of the U.S.

Weber, David, 1952-. By heresies distressed. 1st ed. New York : Tor, 2009.
Two Kingdoms, Charis and Chisholm, join forces against the tyranny and corruption of the Church, which has suppressed technology for eight hundred years, and when cybernetic avatar Merlin Athrawes develops ways to defeat enemy agents, the Church rulers take drastic measures.


NON-FICTION

005.54 SHE
Shelly, Gary B. Microsoft Office Excel 2007 : comprehensive concepts and techniques. Australia ; Boston : Course Technology/Cengage Learning, c2008.
A comprehensive guide to using Microsoft Excel 2007 that covers creating a worksheet and an embedded chart, formulas, functions, formatting, Web queries, financial functions, amortization schedules, working with tables, SmartArt, and other related topics, and includes explanatory screenshots.

025.524 FAR
Farkas, Meredith G., 1977-. Social software in libraries : building collaboration, communication, and community Online. Medford, N.J. : Information Today, c2007.
A guide for libraries and librarians that discusses popular social software technologies—blogs, RSS, wikis, social networking, screencasting, photo-sharing, podcasting, instant messaging, gaming, and more—and provides examples and interviews to explain the impact of each technology.

071.3 JON
Jones, Alex S. Losing the news : the future of the news that feeds democracy. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Examines the accountability of fact-based news reporting in the early twenty-first century, and discusses the impact of the Internet on reported news, journalistic objectivity and ethics, and other topics.

081 ONI
The Onion : Dispatches from the tenth circle : the best of The onion. 1st ed. New York : Three Rivers Press, c2001.
A collection of articles from the satirical newspaper “The Onion.”

081 ONI
The onion ad nauseam. : complete news archives, V.15. 1st ed. New York : Three Rivers Press, c2004.
Collects all issues of the parody newspaper “The Onion” spanning October 2002-October 2003, which feature political and celebrity satire and headlines such as “Man Thinks Receptionist Is Hitting On Him.”

133.1 LEW VT COLL
Lewis, Thea. Haunted Burlington : spirits of Vermont’s Queen City. Charleston, SC : Haunted America, 2009.
Introduction
A hero keeps watch—Memories in the meadow—Backstage ghost—Haunted harbor—At home with Henry—Phantoms of the Opera House—The black cat—Spirits of the overlook—America’s first serial killer—The legend of Timothy Follett—Terror in the walk in—The haunted mall—Next-door nightmares. The vibrant city of Burlington is a perpetual hub of activity, with hordes of shoppers strolling up and down Church Street and groups of college students scattered about the lawns of UVM. Stop and listen to the stories of Queen City Ghostwalk guide Thea Lewis, and discover the ghostly shapes and spirits that appear among the throngs of the city s living. Meet the mischievous poltergeist who haunts Converse Hall and the ghost of the Flynn Theater. Take a peek at peculiar happenings at the Firehouse Center or the old Howard Opera House. Lewis delivers plenty of chills with a strong dose of history and a pinch of humor.

133.43 ZIM
Zimmermann, Denise. The complete idiot’s guide to wicca and witchcraft. 2nd ed. Indianapolis, IN : Alpha, c2003.
A revised edition, updated with magickal concentration exercises, magickal ethics, expanded coverage of Wicca and its deities, and new spells and recipes.—From publisher description.

155.432 COR
Corbett, Ken. Boyhoods : rethinking masculinities. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.
Familiar and expected gender patterns help us to understand boys but often constrict our understanding of any given boy. Writing in a wonderfully robust and engaging voice, Ken Corbett argues for a new psychology of masculinity, one that is not strictly dependent on normative expectation. As he writes in his introduction, “no two boys, no two boyhoods are the same.” In Boyhoods Corbett seeks to release boys from the grip of expectation as Mary Pipher did for girls in Reviving Ophelia.

155.92 MAI
Maitland, Sara, 1950-. A book of silence. Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, c2008.
The author, one of six children, who grew up to be a vocal feminist and mother, describes how she fell in love with silence in her late forties while living alone in the country, discusses her experiences with quiet in the Sinai desert, the Scottish hills, and the Isle of Skye, and explores the cultural history of silence.

174.29 MUN
Munson, Ronald, 1939-. Raising the dead : organ transplants, ethics, and society. Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Traces the history of organ transplantation in the United States, and discusses how they are performed, how doctors decide who receives a new organ, and how society has dealt with the issues raised by it.

204 FOR
Fortgang, Laura Berman. The little book on meaning : why we crave it, how we create it. New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, c2009.
In The Little Book on Meaning, Fortgang reveals that while our hunger for a “meaningful” life can be enormous, our desire for meaning is usually satiated by small, bite-size morsels of meaning—the little, almost incidental events or “achievements” that comprise the fabric of our lives. According to Fortgang, meaning is where you look for it and through tenderly drawn stories from her own life and the lives of those around her, she shows readers how they too can peek around corners to discover the small elements of their lives that truly matter.

211 ARM
Armstrong, Karen, 1944-. The case for God. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2009.
Examines how humans from prehistoric times to the present have tried to experience a sacred reality, describing the different ways religion has been practiced and how attitudes towards a holy being have changed throughout time.

220.61 GEO
Geoghegan, Jeffrey C. The Bible for dummies. New York : Wiley Pub., c2003.
The Bible For Dummies explains in plain English what’s in the Bible, how it’s organized, who wrote it, and what it’s all about. This engaging guide includes easy-to-use maps, charts, and pictures to help you make sense of the Bible and important historical and cultural insights that bring the Bible to life. Writing from an interfaith perspective, the authors focus on the Bible not only as a holy book for people of faith but also as a cultural reference necessary for understanding works of art, literature, and public discourse. With fascinating background information, The Bible For Dummies is an interesting one-stop guide to the world’s all-time bestseller.

232 CHO
Chopra, Deepak. The third Jesus : the Christ we cannot ignore. 1st ed. New York : Harmony Books, c2008.
Explores the teachings of Jesus Christ and discusses how they are accessible to everyone, contending that Jesus is not only a historical figure and the Son of God, but also a spiritual guide.

282.73 STE
Steinfels, Peter. A people adrift : the crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2003.
Argues that the Catholic Church in the United States must transform itself or suffer irreversible decline, discussing how a combination of generational change and the thinning ranks of priests and nuns are creating a crisis of leadership and identity.

289.3 JES
Jessop, Carolyn, 1968-. Escape. 1st ed. New York : Broadway Books, c2007.
Carolyn Jessop recounts her involvement in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which forced her to become the fourth wife of a fifty-year-old man before she managed to escape and expose the group and its practices, leading to the arrest of their notorious leader, Warren Jeffs.

303.485 SOL
Solnit, Rebecca. A paradise built in hell : the extraordinary communities that arise in disaster. New York : Viking, c2009.
Draws on archival research and oral histories to examine community responses to disasters, such as earthquakes, heat waves, terrorist attacks, and hurricanes.

303.6 GAR
Garbarino, James. Lost boys : why our sons turn violent and how we can save them. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 2000.
A leading psychologist examines the recent explosion of adolescent violence, identifies children at risk, and offers proven methods to prevent aggressive behavior.

304.8088 CAL
Caldwell, Christopher. Reflections on the revolution in Europe : immigration, Islam, and the West. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2009.
Examines the question of whether the immigration of a large number of Muslims to Europe fundamentally alters the culture of the region, and considers social, political, and cultural implications of the demographic change.

304.8794 VOL
Vollmann, William T. Imperial. New York : Viking, 2009.
The author analyzes the social, economic, and cultural history of Imperial County, California; and discusses immigration, agribusiness, corporate exploitation, and other topics.

305.231 BRO
Bronson, Po, 1964-. Nurtureshock : new thinking about children. 1st ed. New York : Twelve, 2009.
Contains ten essays that challenge conventional wisdom about raising children, contending that good intentions in child rearing practices are actually backfiring and discussing topics such as praise, emotional well-being, race, lying, and teen rebellion.

305.244 ALT
Altoonian, Linda. Living agelessly : answers to your most common questions about aging gracefully. New York : DiaMedica Pub., c2009.
A guide to superlative living and health for midlife, and provides tips and advice on nutrition, exercise, family relationships, volunteering, travel, and more.

305.697 BAW
Bawer, Bruce, 1956-. Surrender : appeasing Islam, sacrificing freedom. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2009.
Reveals how a combination of fear and political correctness has forced politicians, intellectuals, religious leaders, and the media in both America and abroad to appease radical Islam, even when it means they must sacrifice basic values such as freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

305.896 WES
West, Cornel. Restoring hope : conversations on the future of Black America. Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c1997.
The author interviews nine of America’s most influential artists, scholars, and public figures about the sources of hope among African-Americans.

306.85 BRO
Bronson, Po, 1964-. Why do I love these people? : honest and amazing stories of real families. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2005.
Presents twenty stories of real people who have struggles with various problems of love, relationships, and families; and describes how each one either mended that relationship or moved on to find a better life.

306.8743 MYE
Myerson, Julie. The lost child : a mother’s story. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury, 2009.
Julie Myerson shares how her search for the grave of a young woman who died in Regency, England, before her artistic potential could be realized helped her cope with her feelings of grief, failure, and confusion over her son’s drug addiction and her decision to kick him out of their home.

306.8754 TAN
Tannen, Deborah. You were always mom’s favorite! : sisters in conversation throughout their lives. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2009.
Tommy Smothers, one half of the 1960’s comedy team The Smothers Brothers, often chided his brother Dick with, ‘Mom always liked you best.’ Siblings have probably been saying that to one another for uncountable years. Tannen, the youngest of three girls, delivers the last word on sisters as she shares insights, anecdotes, and practical solutions, to help readers understand the special gifts and strains of sister relationships.

307.76 SAV
Savageau, David. Places rated almanac. 7th ed., 25th anniversary ed. Washington, DC : PlacesRatedBooks, c2007.
Ranks and compares 379 metropolitan areas across the United States, considering cost of living, transportation, jobs, education, climate, crime, ambience, health care, and recreation.

324.2734 BLU
Blumenthal, Max. Republican Gomorrah : inside the movement that shattered the party. New York : Nation Books, c2009.
An investigation of the Christian right, the conservative movement the author says is controlling the Republican Party in the early twenty-first century, with profiles of some of the movement’s leading figures, including Newt Gingrich, Ted Haggard, Sarah Palin, and others.

327.73 ALT
Alterman, Eric. When Presidents lie : a history of official deception and its consequences. New York : Viking, 2004.
Examines four key lies told by American presidents in the postwar period, explaining why presidents choose to lie about the Yalta conference, the Cuban Missle Crisis, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and the Central American wars of the 1980s, and how those lies impacted the American people.

327.7305 RAD
Radosh, Allis. A safe haven : Harry S. Truman and the founding of Israel. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2009.
Explores the events that surround the United States’ decision to become the first nation to recognize the State of Israel in 1948, and discusses the global pressures that President Harry S. Truman faced over making his decision.

332.0973 SOR
Sorkin, Andrew Ross. Too big to fail : the inside story of how Wall Street and Washington fought to save the financial system from crisis—and themselves. New York : Viking, 2009.
Examines the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century and how powerful people in finance and politics have wrestled with the problem, and analyzes secret alliances and human dramas amid the bankruptcy of investment banks such as Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch.

332.6324 FAB
Faber, David, 1964-. And then the roof caved in : how Wall Street’s greed and stupidity brought capitalism to its knees. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, c2009.
Presents a discussion of the financial collapse of 2008, covering its causes, including greed, deregulation by the U.S. government, and bad financial decisions, and the consequences, with an analysis of the actions of insiders from investment banks and mortgage lenders who were motivated by short-term profit instead of sustainability.

347.7312 FRI
Friedman, Barry, 1958-. The will of the people : how public opinion has influenced the Supreme Court and shaped the meaning of the Constitution. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
This account of the relationship between the American public and the Supreme Court from the Declaration of Independence to the end of the Rehnquist Court in 2005 details how the American people came to accept this controversial institution.

347.7326 BUR
Burns, James MacGregor. Packing the court : the rise of judicial power and the coming crisis of the Supreme Court. New York : Penguin Press, 2009.
Examines the judicial power of the Supreme Court and how its growing power disrupts the system of checks and balances established by the U.S. Constitution; and discusses the appointment history from 1789 to the twenty-first century, and how American presidents have sought to fill the bench with like-minded justices.

362.1 HAM
Hammergren, John. Skin in the game : how putting yourself first today will revolutionize health care tomorrow. Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley, c2008.
While the American health care system has consistently been criticized for its noticeable detriments, few have taken the time to recognize the significant benefits and potential of this system. But with Skin in the Game, authors John Hammergren and Phil Harkins provide a comprehensive overview of the history of our health care system, an explanation of its current state, and a picture of the great strides that they see being made in the near future.

362.1042 WEI
Weil, Andrew. Why our health matters : a vision of medicine that can transform our future. New York : Hudson Street Press, c2009.
Dr. Andrew Weil examines the state of health care in America during the early twenty-first century and outlines a solution he believes will lead to an effective, accessible, and affordable health care system.

362.8309 KRE
Kristof, Nicholas D., 1959-. Half the sky : turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Tells the stories of women in Africa and Asia who have been victims of sex trafficking and forced prostitution, gender-based violence, and maternal mortality, and shows how girls’ education and micro-finance can change their lives while providing a boost to the economies of developing countries.

363.7 NIE
Nielsen, Ron. The little green handbook : seven trends shaping the future of our planet. 1st Picador ed. New York : Picador, 2006.
Presents up-to-date facts and figures about the current environmental crisis, its impact on the planet, and future outlook, with an overview of the most important global developments, and suggestions for positive change.

364.151 GOL
Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. Worse than war : genocide, eliminationism, and the ongoing assault on humanity. 1st ed. New York : PublicAffairs, c2009.
An investigation of genocide, arguing that the problem should be considered as part of a larger political phenomenon the author calls eliminationism, identifying the elements of eliminationism, and discussing how it can be prevented.

364.16 DOL
Dolnick, Edward, 1952-. The rescue artist : a true story of art, thieves, and the hunt for a missing masterpiece. 1st Harper Perennial ed. New York : Harper Perennial, 2006, c2005.
Presents a comprehensive examination of the 1994 theft of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” a seventy-two million dollar painting stolen from the National Gallery in Oslo on the opening day of the Winter Olympics, and describes the extensive investigation led by American art detective and undercover cop, Charley Hill.

495.182 FAZ
Fazzioli, Edoardo. Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. 1st American ed. New York : Abbeville Press, c1987.
A guide to reading the pictographs or symbols of the Chinese language, focusing on the 214 radicals of the Kang Xi; divided into eight groups based on analogies in form or meaning.

576.8 DAW
Dawkins, Richard, 1941-. The greatest show on Earth : the evidence for evolution. 1st Free Press hardcover ed. New York : Free Press, 2009.
Richard Dawkins presents a defense of the theory of evolution, examining evidence from science in support of the theory, and explaining why he believes advocates of “intelligent design” are wrong.

613.7 BIR
Birch, Beryl Bender. Power yoga : the total strength and flexibility workout. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1995.
Demonstrates Astanga, an ancient form of yoga that features a series of choreographed gymnastic stretching, strengthening, and breathing positions.

614.5 KEL
Kelly, John, 1945-. The great mortality : an intimate history of the Black Death, the most devastating plague of all time. 1st Harper Perennial ed. New York : Harper Perennial, 2006, c2005.
Traces the history of the Black Death that spread across Europe in the fourteenth century, describing the devastating impact the plague had on European history and culture.

616.042 BRA
Bradlee, Quinn. A different life : growing up learning disabled and other adventures : a memoir. 1st ed. New York : PublicAffairs, c2009.
Quinn Bradlee, son of “Washington Post” editor Ben Bradlee and columnist and author Sally Quinn, reveals the challenges and triumphs he experienced growing up with a learning disability, telling of his struggles before being diagnosed at age fourteen with Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome, and discussing his development of an interactive Website for the learning disabled community.

616.4 PRE
Outsmart diabetes. [Emmaus, PA] : Rodale Press, c2004.
Combines authoritative guidelines on how to stay healthy and avoid the complications of diabetes with sound advice on preventing the onset of Type 2 diabetes among high-risk adults, information on the latest diabetes medications and monitoring technologies, exercise tips, and menus.

616.8 MAR
Marks, David R. The headache prevention cookbook : eating right to prevent migraines and other headaches. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Presents over one hundred recipes for breakfast and brunch foods, appetizers, soups, pasta, poultry, meats, fish, side dishes, and desserts, all featuring ingredients that have proven not to be triggers for migraines and other headaches.

616.99 LAN
Lange, Vladimir. Be a survivor : your guide to breast cancer treatment. 2nd ed., fully rev. Los Angeles : Lange Productions, c2002.
Informative, empowering, and concise, this user-friendly book is designed to help the patient and her family participate in her treatment and recovery. Developed in consultation with 28 medical experts, it provides information about standard treatments, complementary therapies, clinical trials, and more. Illustrations.

617.742 DEV
Devgan, Uday, 1969-. Cataract surgery : a patient’s guide to cataract treatment. Omaha, Neb. : Addicus Books, c2008.
A practical guide that answers a number of commonly asked questions about cataract surgery, with color photographs showing how cataracts are removed.

618.1453 STR
Streicher, Lauren F. The essential guide to hysterectomy : a gynecologist’s advice on your choices before, during, and after surgery, including alternatives to hysterectomy. New York : M. Evans & Co., c2004.
In clear, conversational language, Dr. Lauren Streicher discusses everything a woman needs to know to make informed choices about this often-controversial subject, including: emotions and sex after surgery, hormone replacement and much more.

618.2 DOL
Dolan, Deirdre. The complete organic pregnancy. 1st ed. New York : Collins, c2006.
Presents a health and hygiene guide for pregnant women, and focuses on organic solutions, and discusses all areas of daily life including diet, living environments, fitness, beauty, and more; and also contains recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, baby food, and more.

618.9777 GOR
Gordon, Sandra. The aging eye. New York : Fireside, c2001.
One out of every five of us is affected by impaired vision by the time we turn sixty-five. To help you preserve your vision now—and beyond—The Aging Eye discusses three common eye disorders that pose the greatest threat to your vision: cataracts, glaucoma, and age-related macular degeneration (AMD). This valuable guide will help you determine whether you are at risk of developing these disorders, describes their symptoms, and discusses diagnosis and the latest treatments.

621 DAV
Davis, Thomas Bieber, 1942-. Audel millwrights and mechanics guide. All new 5th ed. Indianapolis, IN : Wiley Pub., c2004.
Here, in concise, straightforward language, is the guidebook your father trusted, completely overhauled and updated for the first time in three decades. Clearly organized to help you find what you need, it covers tools, drawing and sketching, measuring and connecting, installation, bearings, motor maintenance, electrical devices, structural steel, and more. Everything about the newest equipment is here, as well as information vital to maintaining the older machinery still found in many shops.

621.3916 THO
Thompson, Robert Bruce. Repairing and upgrading your PC. 1st ed. Sebastopol, CA : O’Reilly, c2006.
“Repairing and Upgrading Your PC” delivers start-to-finish instructions, simple enough for even the most inexperienced PC owner, for troubleshooting, repairing, and upgrading your computer.

629.454 NEL
Nelson, Craig, 1955-. Rocket men : the epic story of the first men on the moon. New York : Viking, 2009.
Chronicles the American space program’s quest to put a man on the moon, from the origins of the NASA program to the day the “Eagle” lunar module landed on the moon, making Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong the first humans to walk on the moon.

635.9 REG
Regel, Pat, 1947-. The houseplant survival guide. Newtown, CT : Taunton Press, c1997.
Presents the basics of plant care, offering information on light, watering, fertilizing, humidity, and repotting; discussing how to combat plant pests; and presenting color photographs for easy plant identification.

636.71 YAM
Kojima, Toyoharu. Legacy of the dog : the ultimate illustrated guide to over 200 breeds. San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 1995. , c1993.
Illustrated guide to over 200 breeds of dogs, arranged by group type, such as herding group, working group, and terrier group. Each breed includes photographs, background notes, key characteristics, care and exercise tips, and puppies and training information.

641 DUP
Superb slices. Singapore : Periplus, 2000.
Slices are a fabulous all-occasion treat for experienced cooks and complete beginners alike.

641.5 EIC
Eichner, Bill, 1944-. The new family cookbook : recipes for nourishing yourself and those you love. White River Junction, VT : Chelsea Green, c2000.
The New Family Cookbook is a thoroughly engaging compendium of tips, facts, and recipes for flavorful, exciting dishes drawn from cultures and cuisines worldwide and eminently suited for the family table. From hors d’oeuvres such as Deviled Eggs and Marinated Mushrooms, to Vegetable dishes ranging from Spinach and Portobello Mushroom Stir-Fry and Green Pepper Vegetable Au Gratin, to Fish And Meat entrees like Grilled Tuna Steaks and Roasted Chicken, to mouth-watering desserts like Pumpkin-Pecan Spice Cake and Raspberry Sherbet, The New Family Cookbook offers palate pleasing, appetite satisfying, kitchen-cook friendly dishes for every occasion.

641.5631 HOL
Diabetic meals. Des Moines, Iowa : Grand Avenue Books, c2005.
Fresh and satisfying ideas for everyone in the family, any day of the week.

641.5636 SIL
Silverstone, Alicia. The kind diet : a simple guide to feeling great, losing weight, and saving the planet. [Emmaus, Pa.] : Rodale, c2009.
Actress Alicia Silverstone discusses the benefits of a plant-based diet and offers recipes.

641.5942 BLA
Black, Maggie. The medieval cookbook. New York : Thames and Hudson, 1992.
Contains eighty recipes taken from medieval manuscripts, reflecting all levels of society; adapted for the modern kitchen.

641.5944 LOO
Loomis, Susan Herrmann. Cooking at home on rue Tatin. New York : Morrow, 2005.
This companion to “On Rue Tatin” includes easy, accessible recipes for French cuisine including appetizers, soups, salads, poultry, meats, fish, breads, pastries, and desserts.

641.5954 HUS
Husain, Shehzad. Healthy Indian cooking. London : Lorenz Books, 2002.
A guide to cooking simple, healthy Indian dishes that includes information on the different ingredients commonly used and recipes for a variety of vegetarian dishes, entrees, breads, rice, salads, side dishes, and desserts.

641.5954 ORO
O’Rourke, Kathleen. Cooking with the spices of India : 50 easy to follow recipes to transform ordinary foods into extraordinary meals. 1st ed. Palo Alto, Calif. : Culinary Alchemy, c1995.
In India, a centuries old tradition in home cooking is the source of extraordinary dishes and meals.

641.658 GRI
Grigson, Jane. The mushroom feast. New York : Lyons & Burford, [1992].
A delightful cookbook to satisfy the appetites of mushroom dabblers and die-hards alike, with over 250 recipes and illustrations of the most popular species.

641.8 SCH
Schloss, Andrew, 1951-. One-pot cookies : 60 recipes for making cookies from scratch, using a pot, a spoon, and a pan. 1st ed. New York, NY : Broadway Books, c1998.
Easy, time-saving, and delicious cookies, including Pecan Pie Bars, Orange Cranberry Shortbread, and the Darkest Deadliest Brownies of All Time.

642.4 COL
Colwin, Laurie. More home cooking : a writer returns to the kitchen. Rev. ed. New York : Perennial, 2000, c1993.
Author Laurie Colwin explores her appreciation of home-cooked food in essays and recipes, paying attention to often overlooked items such as beets and black beans.

642.7 YEO
Yeoward, William. Perfect tables : tabletop secrets, settings and centerpieces for delicious dining. New York : Cico, 2006.
“Perfect Tables” showcases the artistry of acclaimed tabletop designer William Yeoward in setting a beautiful table. He begins with an essential section on Getting Started, so you have all the linen, china, and glass you need. Next, themed chapters from Celebrations to Informality showcase twenty-four stunning creations, covering occasions including Thanksgiving, a Summer Wedding, Halloween, and Valentine’s Day, and informal settings such as a buffet supper, a girl’s lunch, a child’s birthday, or the perfect breakfast tray. Inspired by William’s love of entertaining friends, “Perfect Tables” reveals the secrets behind his eye for detail and colour, and shows how you can find inspiration in a fabric or item you may already own. William’s invaluable hints and tips include reassurance for the nervous hostess and even dealing with dining disasters! The book concludes with myriad ideas for tying napkins, arranging glasses, and laying cutlery.

643 MAN
Lovett, Susan Maney. The new smart approach to kitchen design. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Northam : Creative Homeowner ; Roundhouse, 2003.
The New Smart Approach to Kitchen Design has all the answers for anyone who is contemplating a new kitchen. With more than 280 color photographs, it presents the best examples of what it means to call the kitchen "the heart of the home." Easy to read text and captions explain in full detail the complete design and decorating process. Concise Smart Steps and Smart Tips help homeowners to plan a project, hire a contractor, shop for appliances and materials, and decorate like a design professional.

643.7 BAR
Barbara K. Room for improvement : change your home! enhance your life! with tools, tips, and inspiration from Barbara K! [Emmaus, Pa.] : [S.l.] : Rodale ; Distributed to the book trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, c2005.
Presents full-color photographs and illustrations that describe how to tackle such things as plumbing and electrical work, walls and floors, simple repair jobs, and other projects around the house.

646.7 BRO
Brown, Bobbi. Bobbi Brown, living beauty. 1st ed. New York : Springboard Press, 2007.
A beauty guide for women of all ages that discusses skin care, make-up techniques, hair care, menopause, diet, head-to-toe makeovers, and other related topics; and includes beauty advice from Susan Sarandon, Vera Wang, Mary Steenburgen, Vanessa Williams, and others. This is about creating a new ideal, a new reality, and a new aspiration for yourself. It’s a guide filled with knowledge, secrets, and solutions to make you look and feel great.

646.724 HAN
Handel, Gloria. Cutting your family’s hair. New York : Sterling, 2005, c2002.
A guide to cutting family members’ hair that offers suggestions for trimming everyone from baby’s to grandpa’s hair; includes photographs and instructions for different styles.

649.122 GAR
Garabedian, Helen. Itsy bitsy yoga : poses to help your baby sleep longer, digest better, and grow stronger. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2004.
Explains the benefits of yoga for infants and toddlers, with step-by-step instructions for yoga poses that can improve a baby’s sleeping, digestion, growth, and overall health.

649.62 STA
Stafford, Diane. Potty training for dummies. Indianapolis, IN : Hungry Minds, 2002.
Potty Training For Dummies is your total guide to the mother of all toddler challenges. Packed with painless solutions and lots of stress-reducing humor, it helps you help your little pooper make a smooth and trauma-free transition from diapers to potty.

650.1 EIS
Eisenberg, Ronni. Organize your life : free yourself from clutter & find more personal time. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2007.
Offers practical advice on becoming more organized, discussing using a daily planner, to-do lists, procrastination, household storage, clearing clutter, housework, time management, and other related topics.

658.4 FIE
Millennial leaders : success stories from today’s most brilliant Generation Y leaders. New York, NY : Morgan James Pub., c2008.
Gen Y—those individuals born after 1980—are making an indelible mark on our culture. Raised on praise and technology, they are savvier and more confident than any prior generation. Their characteristic values, like social responsibility and authenticity, drive their actions. A majority of the 78 million Gen Yers in the U.S. have entered the workforce, creating a new dynamic. Millennial Leaders presents 28 success stories from brilliant Gen Y leaders and those professionals who have studied this social phenomenon, from a 14 year-old political appointee to a finalist on “The Apprentice.

684.16 YOD
Cabinetry : the woodworkers guide to building professional-looking cabinets and shelves. Emmaus, PA : Rodale/St. Martins, c1992.
Features classic cabinet and shelving projects with step-by-step directions and illustrations.

693.83 HAR
Harley, Bruce, 1964-. Insulate and weatherize : expert advice from start to finish. Newtown, CT : Taunton Press, c2002.
A full-color, illustrated guide to home insulation and weatherization, with advice on sealing air leakage, choosing the right materials, preventing moisture damage, and identifying energy wasters.

741.5 AME
Amend, Bill. Assorted Foxtrot. Kansas City, Mo. : Andrews McMeel Pub., c2000.
An omnibus treasury of favorite FoxTrot cartoons presents the trials and tribulations of the Fox family as they cope with the zany complexities of modern pop culture, from Beanie Baby collection to The X-Files to video games.

745.58 WEL
Wells, Carol Wilcox, 1949-. Creative bead weaving : a contemporary guide to classic off-loom stitches. Asheville, N.C. : New York : Lark Books ; Distributed in the U.S. by Sterling Pub., 1996.
You can weave beads without a loom. Learn a variety of stitches, then apply them in 25+ irresistible projects including earrings, beaded sculptures, necklaces, and baskets. “A bold and innovative book. The variety and quality of work are inspiring in their own right—the diagrams and study of the various techniques are an added bonus.”—Lapidary Journal

745.5942 KAN
Kan, Lisa. Bead romantique : elegant beadweaving designs. Loveland, CO : Interweave Press, c2007.
Full-color, illustrated instructions for creating seventeen beaded jewelry designs, providing basic techniques including off-loom seed beadweaving, stringing, and wirework.

746.4 BAS
Baskett, Mickey. Embellished fashions. New York : Sterling, c2008.
Full-colored, illustrated instructions for adding beads, jewels, appliqués, embroidery, and other embellishes to clothing, purses, shoes, and other items.

746.43 BOR
Bordhi, Cat, 1951-. A treasury of magical knitting. Friday Harbor, Wash. : Passing Paws Press, c2004.
With her latest book, A Treasury of Magical Knitting, Cat Bordhi introduces knitters of all levels to the warm welcome of a simple and mysterious dimension of knitting. Here you will find thirty-three projects, including scarves with one side and one edge, knitted in one fell swoop, like the Fringed Cedar Bark Scarf or the Mercurial Moebius Wraps. . . graceful headwear, like the Beaded Tresses Hat. . . felted footwear both practical and functional, like Sophie’s Mermaid Feet . . . the Lost Trail Cape with its four-way convertible collar . . . and the Seven Socklings Necklace.

746.43 BOR
Bordhi, Cat, 1951-. A second treasury of magical knitting. Friday Harbor, WA : Passing Paws Press, c2005.
Readers of the first book in this two-volume series (A Treasury of Magical Knitting) have fallen in love with the new world of Magical Knitting, a dimension so simple yet so captivating that one could spend a year exploring the huge variety of designs which Cat offers. Beginning with Cat’s unique Moebius Cast-On, which is so easy that she usually demonstrates it in workshops behind her back while twirling slowly around on one foot, the reader first learns to knit a Moebius band, or scarf. This is the magic key that opens the way to all the other designs. The Second Treasury includes felted baskets (with no inside or outside!), felted fringed bowls, felted and unfelted sling bags, six different felted cat beds (one with paws and a tail!), and the trifold designs, including a knitter’s bowl with pockets for tools and a place to keep working yarn away from playful felines. The Felted Needle Cozies, colorful, highly textured sheaths to hold straight needles, and the felted wallets are both excellent patterns for beginners and first-time felters. The book includes detailed information on felting, designing, and yarn substitutions.

746.43 MCT
McTague, Fiona. Knits for children and their teddies. Woodinville, WA : Martingale & Co., c2003.
Presents over twenty projects that will appeal to infants and children. Patterns can be adapted to create coordinating teddy bear wearables for a range of bear sizes. Projects include sweaters, a Christmas stocking, jackets, a hat and scarf set, and a bear backpack.

746.43 SPU
Spurkland, Kristin, 1968-. Knits from the heart : quick projects for generous giving. Woodinville, WA : Martingale, c2004.
Knit up speedy gifts for friends, family, charities, and more! Whether you want to make one simple gift or a large quantity of items, you’ll find lots of fun ideas in this easy-to-make pattern collection.

746.43 VOG
Vogel, Lynne, 1952-. The twisted sisters sock workbook. Loveland, Colo. : Interweave Press, c2002.
An overview of sock knitting that provides step-by-step technique instructions and discusses color, dyeing, fiber preparation, two- and three-ply yarns, and other related topics.

746.9 WRI
Wright, Susan Ramey. Quick quilts. Birmingham, Ala. : Oxmoor House, c1991.
Contains quick-quilting methods, instructions on machine quilting, stenciling, and appliqué techniques. Includes diagrams and patterns for 50 quilts.

747 HIL
Hiller, Shari. Real decorating for real people. Berne, Ind. : DRG, c2005.
“Shari Hiller and Matt Fox, stars of HGTV’s Room by Room, show you how to transform your home into a haven that reflects your personality, fits your lifestyle and wins you rave reviews—room by beautiful room!”—Cover, P. [4].

747 TRE
Trends perfect home. San Francisco, CA : Fog City Press, 2003.
A sourcebook of hundreds of ideas to suit different budgets, tastes, and lifestyles.

779.092 SPA
Spano, Michael, 1949-. Time frames : city pictures. New York : London : PowerHouse ; Turnaround [distributor], 2008.
Spano’s act of transforming the world into pictures is imaginative, and his perspective is wholly unexpected.

781.64 FOS
Foster, David, 1949-. Hitman : forty years making music, topping charts & winning Grammys. 1st Pocket Books hardcover ed. New York : Pocket Books, 2008.
A memoir in which producer, songwriter, and performer David Foster discusses the highlights of his long career in the music business, telling stories of some of the superstars he has met and worked with, revealing his own contributions to the world of music, and sharing the secrets of his success.

787.87 MAR
Maran illustrated guitar. Mississauga, Ont. : Boston, MA : MaranGraphics ; Thomson Course Technology, c2003-2005.
Step-by-step instructions covering all you need to know about playing the guitar.

796.332 PET
Peterson, Robert, 1925-. Pigskin : the early years of pro football. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Presents an overview of the early years of professional football, from the late 1880s to the 1958 championship game between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants, with descriptions of the teams and games, and profiles of some of the most famous players of the era.

796.3346 WAH
Wahl, Grant. The Beckham experiment : how the world’s most famous athlete tried to conquer America. 1st ed. New York : Crown Books, c2009.
Draws on insider interviews to examine David Beckham’s five year contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy and goal of making soccer a prime time sport in the United States.

796.352 NIC
Nicklaus, Jack. Golf my way,. London, : Heinemann, 1974.
Fully illustrated in color and designed for maximum accessibility, this is one of the greatest instructionals on the game of golf, written by its finest player.

796.42 MCD
McDougall, Christopher, 1962-. Born to run : a hidden tribe, superathletes, and the greatest race the world has never seen. 1st ed. New York : A. Knopf, 2009.
The author describes his work with Caballo Blanco, an outsider who befriended the Tarahumara Indians, in which the two men organized a running event between the tribesmen, who are considered to have superhuman running abilities, and Americans, including an ultramarathoner, a surfer, and others; and includes facts about techniques and the history of running.

796.9 HOW
Howe, Susanna. Sick : a cultural history of snowboarding. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Griffin, c1998.
Susanna Howe traces the development of snowboarding from its roots beginning with those snow-revolutionaries that got the sport off the ground, right through the very best in the world today. It is the skill and expertise of those around the world who are the finest in the sport that got snowboarding its proper recognition and respect necessary for its inclusion as a full medal sport in Nagano. Ms. Howe also examines the fashion trends the sport has created, along with the various styles of snowboarding necessary, depending on the geographical location you’re in throughout the U.S.

808.042 GAR
Garvey, Mark. Stylized : a slightly obsessive history of Strunk & White’s The elements of style. 1st Touchstone hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Discusses the history of “The Elements of Style,” covering the working relationship between E. B. White and his professor, William Strunk, Jr., as they created and modified the helpful guide to clear, simple, and stylistic prose, and includes personal letters between the two.

808.8 CHR
Christmas classics from the Modern Library. 1997. Modern Library ed. New York : Modern Library, c1997.
Christmas as seen through the eyes of some of our favorite writers. This little treasury of Christmas favorites from the Modern Library is our selection of stories, songs, carols, poems, and more to gladden the heart for the festive season. It is ideal to be dipped into for reading aloud—perhaps around a Christmas tree or in front of a fire in happy re-creation of a holiday scene that Charles Dickens might have described.

811.54 GLU
Glück, Louise, 1943-. A village life. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009.
A collection of poems from the German-American poet, Louise Glück, including selections entitled “Twilight,” “Earthworm,” “Burning Leaves,” “Marriage,” “Midsummer,” and others.

818.602 BEC
Beck, Glenn. Arguing with idiots : how to stop small minds and big government. 1st Threshold Editions-Mercury Radio Arts hardcover ed. London ; New York : Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts, 2009.
Libertarian American radio host Glenn Beck offers advice on how to win arguments about various topics of political intrigue, providing retorts and facts relevant for conversations about gun control, health care, and more.

821.4 MIL
Milton, John, 1608-1674. The Riverside Milton. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1998.
An annotated selection of writings by seventeenth-century English author John Milton, featuring both major and shorter poems, including “Paradise Lost”; and providing fifteen prose works in which Milton offers his thoughts on education, Christian doctrine, and other topics.

828 ADU
The adult only joke book. Dingley, Vic. : Hinkler Books, 2002.
Only for adults who can laugh at themselves, don’t take life too seriously, and hate to be politically correct.

882.2 SOP
Sophocles. The Oedipus cycle : an English version. San Diego : Harcourt, Brace & Co., c1949.
Oedipus Rex / Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald—Oedipus at Colonus / Robert Fitzgerald—Antigone / Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald.

909.82 ROD
Foreign affairs : conflicts in the global village. 1st ed. New York : Alternative Museum, c1988. Introduction : interview with the curator / G. Roger Denson and Geno Rodriguez—International terrorism : what is the remedy? / Noam Chomsky Central America : the next phase / Noam Chomsky—Power by proxy / Eqbal Ahmed—Shared memories : with the cooperation of Nabil Ahmed / Ellen Siegel—Irangate : a many-sided crisis / Edward W. Said—First impressions / Jon Lister—South Africa : major issues in struggle / Saths Cooper—Interview with A. Lenora Taitt-Magubane / Houston Conwill—U.S. policy toward Angola / Cherri D. Waters.

909.82 TUC
Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim. The proud tower : a portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914. 1st Ballantine Books ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 1996.
A history of the twenty-five years leading up to World War I, focusing on the people, places, and events that shaped the era in which society was undergoing rapid transformation.

915.1 CHI
China. 1st American ed. London ; New York : DK, 2005.
A region-by-region travel guide to China that covers the country’s history, culture, and landscapes and provides color photos, cutaway illustrations of architecture, maps, practical information, and details on sights to see, things to do, lodgings, and restaurants.

917.28 FOD
Fodor’s 2010 Costa Rica. New York : Fodor’s Travel Publications, c2010.
A comprehensive travel guide to Costa Rica, with pull-out map and information on accommodations and restaurants, shopping and entertainment, beaches and national parks, and other attractions.

921 AGASSI
Agassi, Andre, 1970-. Open : an autobiography. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Tennis player Andre Agassi reflects on his personal and professional life, discussing his childhood, family, training, media attention, matches, challenges, successes, struggle with depression, and more.

921 BAKER
Baker, Elna. The New York regional Mormon singles Halloween dance. New York : Dutton, c2009.
It’s lonely being a Mormon in New York City. So once again, Elna Baker attends the New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance—a virgin in a room full of virgins doing the Macarena. Her Queen Bee costume, which involves a black funnel stuck to her butt for a stinger, isn’t attracting the attention she’d anticipated. So once again, Elna is alone at the punch bowl, stocking up on generic Oreos, exactly where you’d expect to find a single Mormon who’s also a Big Girl. But loneliness is nothing compared to what happens when she loses eighty pounds. . . and falls in love with an atheist.

921 BRANDEIS
Urofsky, Melvin I. Louis D. Brandeis : a life. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c2009.
Chronicles the life and accomplishments of Louis D. Brandeis, discussing his career as a lawyer and Supreme Court Justice, as well as his reform work with the American Zionist movement in the early twentieth century, and other related topics.

921 BRU
Bruni, Frank. Born round : the secret history of a full-time eater. New York : Penguin Press, 2009.
“New York Times” restaurant critic Frank Bruni chronicles his lifelong battle with his weight, describing how his love of food from an early age led to health and self-esteem problems as an adult and explaining how he finally managed to lose weight and keep it off, despite his profession.

921 CHABON
Chabon, Michael. Manhood for amateurs : the pleasures and regrets of a husband, father, and son. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2009.
A collection of personal writings by Michael Chabon that explore the encounters that have shaped his life and reflect on what he believes it means to be a son, husband, and father of four young children.

921 CLINTON
Branch, Taylor. The Clinton tapes : wrestling history with the president. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Collects private dialogues between the author and President Clinton that reveal thoughts and feelings he felt he could not disclose while in office, and includes the author’s recollections immediately after each of the seventy-nine discussions.

921 DE SADE
Gray, Francine du Plessix. At home with the Marquis de Sade : a life. New York, NY : Penguin Group, 1990.
The Marquis De Sade is now so suspended in a limbo between legend and myth that the world has forgotten that he was a man, a lord, a husband and father, and, of course, a pornographer of genius in a real time and place, pre-Revolutionary France. (Gore Vidal).

921 FERGUSON
Ferguson, Craig, 1962-. American on purpose : the improbable adventures of an unlikely patriot. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2009.
Craig Ferguson traces his journey from working class Glasgow to the comedic limelight of Hollywood, revealing the funny and heartwarming story of attaining his most cherished dream—becoming an American citizen.

921 GRIFFIN
Griffin, Kathy, 1960-. Official book club selection : a memoir according to Kathy Griffin. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2009.
A memoir in which comedian Kathy Griffin looks back over her life and career, settles some old scores, celebrates people who helped her up the ladder of success, and shares celebrity stories.

921 JACKSON
Taraborrelli, J. Randy. Michael Jackson : the magic, the madness, the whole story, 1958-2009. 1st Grand Central Pub. ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2009.
Draws on research and interviews to examine the life and career of Michael Jackson, discussing his upbringing, family, rise to fame, child molestation charges, personal relationships, death, and more.

921 JONES
Jones, Lisa, 1959-. Broken : a love story : horses, humans and redemption on the Wind River Indian Reservation. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, 2009.
Lisa Jones describes how she managed to heal her inner hurts and find true happiness with the help of a Native American quadriplegic shaman whose life Lisa was investigating for a newspaper article, and shares her impressions of the shaman’s mysterious spiritual powers.

921 KEITETSI
Keitetsi, China. Child soldier : fighting for my life. Bellevue [South Africa] : Jacana, 2002.
This is the heartrending account of the author's terrifying journey out of her family home and into the world of bloody warfare. Set in Uganda in the 1970s, China runs away from abuse at home at the tender age of 8 and gets drafted into Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army (NRA), fighting to depose Dr Milton Obote's regime.

921 KENNEDY
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009. True compass : a memoir. 1st ed. New York : Twelve, 2009.
Edward M. Kennedy tells his personal story, discussing his legendary family, political career, cancer diagnosis, faith, and more.

921 KINCHEN
Marx, Jeffrey, 1962-. The long snapper : a second chance, a Super Bowl, a lesson for life. 1st ed. New York : HarperOne, c2009.
Chronicles the career of professional football player Brian Kinchen, who was called up in 2003 as a snapper for the New England Patriots.

921 MAINTENON
Buckley, Veronica. The secret wife of Louis XIV : Françoise d’Aubigné, madame de Maintenon. 1st American ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009, c2008.
A detailed biography of Françoise d’Aubigné, the secret wife of King Louis XIV, describing her impoverished childhood, early marriage to poet Paul Scarron, position as governess to Louis’s illegitimate children, and finally as mistress and wife of Louis.

921 MATLIN
Matlin, Marlee. I’ll scream later. 1st Simon Spotlight Entertainment hardcover ed. New York : Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2009.
Actress Marlee Matlin shares how she overcame deafness, prejudice, addictions, and fears to become one of the most acclaimed actresses in Hollywood.

921 MONK
Kelley, Robin D. G. Thelonious Monk : the life and times of an American original. 1st Free Press hardcover ed. New York : Free Press, 2009.
Chronicles the life of Thelonious Sphere Monk, discussing his childhood, unique style, influential work, impact on American jazz, and other related topics.

921 MONROE
Taraborrelli, J. Randy. The secret life of Marilyn Monroe. 1st ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2009.
Chronicles the life of Marilyn Monroe, and discusses the relationships she had with three women who had an impact on her life, which includes her mentally unstable mother, Gladys Baker; foster mother Ida Bolender; and legal guardian Grace McKee.

921 NIYIZONKIZA
Kidder, Tracy. Strength in what remains. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2009.
The author relates his experiences speaking and traveling with an African refugee named Deo, who escaped genocide and earned his doctorate degree in medicine from Columbia University, to Burundi, where Deo built a hospital and reflected on the many deaths in the region.

921 PHILLIPS
Phillips, Mackenzie. High on arrival. 1st Simon Spotlight Entertainment hardcover ed. New York : Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2009.
Actress and singer Mackenzie Phillips reflects on her life, discussing her childhood, career, drug use, incestuous relationship with her father, personal demons, and more. Includes photographs.

921 SULLENBERGER
Sullenberger, Chesley, 1951-. Highest duty : my search for what really matters. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2009.
Captain “Sully” Sullenberger describes his life and reflects on how he saved the lives of the passengers and crew aboard US Airways Flight 1549 with an emergency landing onto the Hudson River in January 2009.

921 SWAYZE
Swayze, Patrick. The time of my life. 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, 2009.
Patrick Swayze shares his personal and professional life, career, and experiences, describing his childhood and family, marriage, early film roles, and his battle with pancreatic cancer.

932.014 PAT
Patterson, James, 1947-. The murder of King Tut : the plot to kill the child king : a nonfiction thriller. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2009.
The authors relate their findings from investigating the death of King Tut, and contend that the boy king was murdered and did not, as many believe, die of disease.

940.53 GOL
Goldsmith, Martin, 1952-. The inextinguishable symphony : a true story of music and love in Nazi Germany. New York : Wiley, c2000.
Set amid the growing tyranny of German’s Third Reich, here is the riveting and emotional tale of Gunther Goldschmidt and Rosemarie Gumpert, two courageous Jewish musicians who strugged to perform under unimaginable circumstances and found themselves falling in love in a country bent on destoying them.

940.54 BLA
Blair, Clay, 1925-. Hitler’s U-boat war : the hunted, 1942-1945. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c1998.
The U-boat campaign against the British Commonwealth and the United States: September 1942-May 1945. Addresses the German submarine war against Allied forces examining German strategy, results, and the Allied counter attack.

940.54 BLA
Blair, Clay, 1925-. Hitler’s U-boat war : the hunters, 1939-1942. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c1996.
Addresses the German submarine war against Allied forces examining German strategy, results, and their breaking of Allied secret codes.

940.5472 NOR
Norman, Michael, 1947 Oct. 2-. Tears in the darkness : the story of the Bataan Death March and its aftermath. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Chronicles the experiences of Ben Steele, an aspiring artist who faced danger, humiliation, imprisonment, and forced labor during World War II after he was captured by enemy forces and held as a prisoner of war.

943.0009 MEY
Meyer, Michael, 1952-. The year that changed the world : the untold story behind the fall of the Berlin Wall. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, 2009.
Examines the history of 1989 with a focus on the end of the Cold War, and discusses how domestic resistance movements aided efforts to end communism in Eastern Europe.

956.7044 BOG
Bogdanos, Matthew. Thieves of Baghdad : one marine’s passion to recover the world’s greatest stolen treasures. Pbk. ed. New York : Bloomsbury, 2006, c2005.
Colonel Matthew Bogdanos recounts his family’s experiences at Ground Zero on September 11, his missions to hunt down al-Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan, and the investigation that led him to the discovery of more than five thousand priceless objects in Iraq.

956.7044 GAR
Garrels, Anne, 1951-. Naked in Baghdad. 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2003.
Reporter Anne Garrels chronicles the experiences she had while staying in Baghdad’s Palestine Hotel through the American invasion of Iraq.

958.104 WAL
Waller, John H. Beyond the Khyber Pass : the road to British disaster in the First Afghan War. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c1990.
Chronicles the wars of the 19th century in India and Afghanistan resulting in the siege of Kabul and the deaths of 16,000 British soldiers and their families.

973.927 HAY
Hayward, Steven F. The age of Reagan : the conservative counterrevolution, 1980-1989. 1st ed. New York : Crown Forum, c2009.
Examines events during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, discussing domestic and foreign affairs and policies, how he was perceived by politicians, the media, and the public, and other related topics.

975.9063 HIA
Hiaasen, Carl. Kick ass : selected columns of Carl Hiaasen. 10th anniversary ed. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2009], c1990.
“Readers who know Hiaasen only from his bestselling crime novels will find that this collection of columns from the Miami Herald showcases the same voice singing in a different key. He writes with an old-time columnist’s sense of righteous rage and an utterly current and biting wit.”—Publishers Weekly.


REFERENCE

REF 394.26 CHA
Chase’s ... calendar of events. New York : McGraw-Hill, c1994.
The world's datebook for more than 50 years Chase's Calendar of Events 2010 is the authoritative guide to special occurrences, holidays, anniversaries, celebrity birthdates, religious observances, sporting events, and more from around the world. Librarians, marketers, journalists, and other professionals have come to rely on it to find out what's going on that day, in a week, or even a year ahead. Chase's answers questions such as when La Tomatina, the world's largest food fight, will be (August 25), where celebrations of the Boy Scouts of America centennial will happen; and when the 2010 Olympic Winter Games start (February 12). Includes CD-ROM.

AUDIO-VISUAL

CD 345.766 GRI
Grisham, John. The innocent man. New York : Random House Audio, p2006.
Read by Craig Wasson. Presents the real-life case of Ron Williamson, a mentally ill former baseball player who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for the 1982 murder of a 21-year-old woman in his Oklahoma hometown.

CD EASY LISTENING WHITNEY HOUS
Houston, Whitney. The greatest hits. New York : Arista, p2000.
You give good love—Saving all my love for you—Greatest love of all—All at once—If you say my eyes are beautiful—Didn’t we almost have it all—Where do broken hearts go—All the man that I need—Run to you—I have nothing—I will always love you—Exhale (Shoop shoop) —Why does it hurt so bad—I believe in you and me—Heartbreak hotel—My love is your love—Same script, different cast—Could I have this kiss forever : Metro mix—Fine—If I told you that—It’s not right but it’s okay : Thunderpuss mix—My love is your love : Jonathan Peters mix—Heartbreak hotel : Hex Hector mix—I learned from the best : HQp2s mix—Step by step : Junior Vasquez mix—I’m every woman : Clivilles & Cole mix—Queen of the night : C.J. Mackintosh mix—I will always love you : Hex Hector mix—Love will save the day : Jellybean & David Morales mix—I’m your baby tonight : Dronez mix—So emotional : David Morales mix—I wanna dance with somebody (who loves me) : Junior Vasquez mix—How will I know : Junior Vasquez mix—Greatest love of all : Junior Vasquez mix—One moment in time—The star spangled banner.

CD HOF
Hoffman, Alice. The ice queen. [New York] : Hachette Audio, [2007], c2005.
Read by Nancy Travis. After a small town librarian survives a lightning strike, she seeks out a fellow survivor in a quest for meaning, only to begin an obsessive love affair between two opposites joined by a single common thread.

CD MAG
Maguire, Gregory. Son of a witch. [United States] : Harper Audio, p2005.
Includes an interview with the author. Read by the author. In the land of Oz, after Dorothy has detroyed the witch, an adolescent boy named Liir, who may be the witch’s son, is willed back to life at the Cloister of Saint Gilda.

CD PAT
Patterson, James, 1947-. Cross. Unabridged. New York : Hachette Audio, p2006.
Read by Peter J. Fernandez and Jay O. Sanders. Detective Alex Cross’ wife was killed by a psychopath long ago. Finally feeling stable again, he gets a call asking for help tracking a rapist and killer who sounds eerily familiar, but the rape victims won’t talk.

CD ROCK KID ROCK
Kid Rock (Rapper). Cocky. New York, N.Y. : Lava/Atlantic Recording Corp., p2001. Kid Rock with accompanying vocalists and musicians, including Sheryl Crow.

CD STO
Stout, Rex, 1886-1975. Gambit : Nero Wolfe series. Complete & unabridged. Prince Frederick, Md. : Auburn, Calif. : Books on Tape ; distributed by Audio Partners, p1996.
Read by Michael Prichard. Nero Wolfe helps a pawn accused of murder at a private chess club. Can he checkmate the real killer?

CD STO
Stout, Rex, 1886-1975. Before midnight : a Nero Wolfe mystery. Unabridged. Prince Frederick, Md. : Landmark Audiobooks, p1995.
Read by Michael Prichard. The Pour Amour perfume contest reeks of death when Louis Dahlmann is robbed of the riddles and then shot dead. The LBA ad firm wants the clever campaign to continue and hires Nero Wolfe to locate the pilfered paper. While Archie trails the scent of fragrant ladies, Wolfe tracks a murderer and detects something foul close to home.

CD STO
Stout, Rex, 1886-1975. A family affair. Unabridged. Auburn, CA : Audio Partners, p2000.
Read by Michael Prichard. Nero Wolfe finds himself under pressure when a murder is committed in the old brownstone on West 35th Street.

DVD BON
The Bonanza collection. : V.1. Fullscreen. North Hollywood, Calif. : Passport Video, 2005.
Take your boots off, put the feedbag on the horses, sit back, and enjoy a passel of mighty fine episodes from television’s most beloved western series: Bonanza!

DVD FOO
Food, Inc. Widescreen. [Los Angeles, CA] : Magnolia Home Entertainment, 2009.
Special feature: deleted scenes; celebrity public service announcements; resources; “You are what you eat: food with integrity” [segment originally broadcast on ABC News Nightline on June 16th, 2009 ; ca. 7 min.) ; “The amazing food detective: Snacktown smackdown” (by Kaiser Permanente ; animated children’s segment with scenes from interactive game Snacktown Smackdown ; ca. 3 min.) ; information on the companion book of the same title ; original theatrical trailer ; links to related organizations. Interviewees include Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan, Gary Hirshberg, Joel Salatin. Lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing how our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profits ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Reveals surprising and often shocking truths about what we eat, how it’s produced and who we have become as a nation.

DVD HEL
Helmut Lotti : from Russia with love. [Germany] : Capitol Records, c2004.
The Dutch singer performs fourteen Russian, mostly folk, songs in settings around Russia. Includes a road movie of Lotti’s travels around the country and bonus tracks.

DVD I RO
I, robot. [Widescreen ed.]. [London?] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2004.
In the year 2035, robots are a common, trusted part of life. But that trust is broken when a scientist is found dead, and a skeptical Chicago police detective investigating the murder believes that a robot is responsible. It seems impossible for a robot to break the Three Laws of Robotics, for if that were to happen there would be nothing to stop them from taking over the world. Aiding the detective in his investigation is a psychologist who specializes in the psyches of robots. Will technology ultimately lead to mankind’s salvation or annihilation?

DVD JOH
The best of Johnny Carson and friends! [Minneapolis, MN] : Mill Creek Entertainment, c2008.
Contains 35 episodes of classic television—The Johnny Carson Show , Carson’s Cellar, The Johnny Carson Morning Show, Who Do You Trust?, The Jack Benny Program, Bobby Darin and Friends, Frank Sinatra Timex Special, Timex All Star Comedy Show, Caesar’s Hour, Colgate Comedy Hour , The Martha Raye Show, Shower of Stars, Stars in the Eye, The Milton Berle Show.

DVD LAD
Ladder 49. Full screen. [United States] : Burbank, CA : Touchstone Home Entertainment ; Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2005].
Joaquin Phoenix, John Travolta,
Probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran of the Baltimore Fire Department under the watchful eye of his mentor Chief Mike Kennedy. Responding to the worst blaze in his career, he becomes trapped inside a 20-story building. As Jack reflects on his life—seeing his first fire, bonding with fellow firefighters, the impact his job has had on his wife and kids —Chief Kennedy frantically coordinates the effort to save Jack’s life.

DVD LIK
Like water for chocolate. Widescreen format. Burbank, Calif. : Touchstone Home Video : Buena Vista Home Entertainment, c1992.
Romantic fantasy set in Mexico during the early 20th century. A young couple is blocked from marrying by the demands of the young woman’s cold and selfish mother. To be near his love, the young man marries her sister, and she expresses her passion for him through her cooking.

DVD LON
Lonely hearts. Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2007.
Based on a true story. In the late 1940’s, Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez became known as the notorious “Lonely Hearts Killers”. They would swindle and then viciously murder war widows who would answer their personal ads. Ray would describe himself as a sexy Latin Lover. Martha was Ray’s initial mark. But when they met, it was love at first sight. With Martha posing as Ray’s sister, they bilked elderly spinsters and widows of their savings and then viciously murdered them in a bloodbath of sexual frenzy. When they were arrested, Martha and Ray confessed to 12 killings, although it is believed the actual number is closer to 20. At their sensational trial, Martha and Ray appeared as though they could not get enough of each other. Their plea of not guilty by reason of insanity was rejected, and on August 22, 1949, the homicidal lovers were sentenced to death. After numerous appeals, they were electrocuted on March 8, 1951, side-by-side in Sing Sing prison.

DVD LOS
Lost in translation. [Full screen version]. Universal City, CA : Distributed by] Universal, c2003.
A middle-aged actor and the wife of a photographer meet while on business in Tokyo. They strike up an unusual friendship in the hotel bar that helps them both overcome boredom and loneliness.

DVD MUR
Murder most English. [Silver Spring, Md.] : Acorn Media, [2009].
Clad in tweed and puffing on a pipe, Detective Inspector Purbright pursues the evildoers of Flaxborough with a doggedness that belies his polite conversation and mild manner. Although the quiet country town appears all gentility, beneath the surface lies a darker world of deception, intrigue, treachery, and infidelity.

DVD MUR S.1
Murdoch mysteries. [London?] : ITV DVD, c2008.
In the 1890’s, Detective William Murdoch adopts modern techniques like ‘finger marks’ and forensics to track Toronto’s most sinister killers. Though derided by his skeptical boss, Murdoch finds friends and allies in a lovely pathologist and an eager-to-learn constable. Along the way they cross paths with some of the era’s most famous figures, including Nikola Tesla, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Prince Alfred.

DVD OUT
Outrageous fortune. Burbank, Calif. : Touchstone Pictures : Distributed by Buena Vista Distribution Co., Inc., c1987.
When opposites, Lauren and Sandy, discover they have been dating the same man, they band together on a cross country adventure to track him down.

New Titles - November 2009

BROWNELL LIBRARY
NEW TITLES, NOVEMBER 2009


FICTION

Addonia, Sulaiman S. M. Y. The consequences of love. 1st ed. New York : Random House, 2009.
Set in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, this novel conveys the brutally repressive rules of Wahhabi Islam that strictly prohibits contact between unmarried men and women. It tells the story of Naser, an African now living in Jeddah, who begins a forbidden relationship with a young Saudi woman. Though it is quite dangerous, their love blossoms, and eventually faces the hardest test of all.


Aldiss, Brian Wilson, 1925-. Hothouse. San Diego, CA : IDW Pub., c2009.
A young boy on the brink of manhood in a future world in which the Earth has stopped spinning, leaving half the planet in darkness and the other half in light, is cast from his tribe for the crime of curiosity, and embarks on a dangerous journey into the unknown.

Aldiss, Brian Wilson, 1925-. Neanderthal planet. [Book Club ed.]. New York : Avon, c1969.
Four short stories; in the title story, Anderson returns to earth from the planet Nehru II, to find that mankind has been nearly wiped out in the holocaust of Nuclear Week.

Alexie, Sherman, 1966-. War dances. 1st ed. New York : Grove Press, c2009.
Contains short stories and poems from Native-American writer Sherman Alexie, including selections entitled “The Limited,” “The Senator’s Son,” “Ode to Mixed Tapes,” “Salt,” and others.

Ali, Monica, 1967-. In the kitchen : a novel. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, 2009.
Gabriel Lightfoot, who attempts to run a successful kitchen staff at the Imperial Hotel, meets constant challenges from his staff, hotel management, and business partners, and when a worker is found dead in the establishment’s basement, the delicate balance of Gabe’s life begins to fall apart.

Alleyn, Susanne, 1963-. The cavalier of the apocalypse. 1st ed. New York : Minotaur Books, 2009.
Aristide Ravel, a penniless writer already suspected of trying to turn the people against France’s royal court in 1786, goes on the run when he finds a man murdered in a churchyard, surrounded by Masonic symbols, and knows the police are going to jump at the chance to accuse him of the crime.

Appelfeld, Aron. Laish. 1st American ed. New York : Schocken Books, c2009.
Laish, a fifteen-year-old orphan, travels with a caravan of Jewish strangers on a pilgrimage to Palestine, but their journey is filled with many hardships and death before what is left of the group reaches the port city of Galacz, and they remain uncertain whether they will reach their destination.

Baldacci, David. True blue. 1st ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2009.
Mason “Mace” Perry, having been incarcerated for two years and lost her badge for a crime she did not commit, is released from prison and determined to be reinstated, deciding the only way to do so is to solve a murder of a female lawyer, but evidence of secrets within the private and public world of the nation’s capital threaten her chances of becoming a police officer again, and her life.

Balzo, Sandra. Brewed, crude and tattooed : a Maggy Thorsen mystery. 1st world ed. New York : Severn House, 2009.
Coffeeshop owner Maggy Thorsen, trapped inside a mall with other merchants due to a snowstorm, finds the owner of the shopping complex murdered and races to figure out who is the killer, realizing that everyone had a motive to kill the man because he was evicting each of them in order to create space for natural foods giant Gross National Produce.

Barnes, John, 1957-. Mother of storms. 1st mass market ed. New York : TOR, 1995, c1994.
Astronaut Louie Tyman, a man who has developed super intelligence through a computer link, emerges as the last hope for the salvation of the planet when a missile strike unleashes tons of methane from the ocean floor, spawning massive, perpetual hurricanes.

Battles, Brett. Shadow of betrayal. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2009.
Jonathan Quinn, a freelance operative and professional “cleaner,” is fresh from a job in Ireland that went horribly wrong when he is called upon to find an aide worker who has disappeared from her assignment in Africa along with a child with Down Syndrome who is being pursued for sinister purposes.

Beal, Daphne. In the land of no right angles : a novel. New York : Anchor Books, 2008.
The lines between friendship, love, and lust become blurred when Alex, a twenty-year-old American student spending a year in Nepal, agrees to her friend Will’s suggestion that she help Maya, a young Nepali woman who wants to leave her traditional family to find work in Kathmandu.

Beaton, M. C. There goes the bride : an Agatha Raisin mystery. 1st ed. New York : Minotaur Books, 2009.
Agatha Raisin can’t seem to stop obsessing about her ex-husband, James, who is about to be married, even though she has set her sights on a handsome, beguiling new Frenchman, and is determined to move on with her life. When James’ bride-to-be is shot to death just minutes before saying ‘I do,’ and Agatha is named the prime suspect, her sleuthing sidekick, Toni, comes to her aid. In a case that proves to be complicated, can Toni clear Agatha’s name?

Bernhardt, William, 1960-. Capitol offense : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2009.
Attorney Ben Kincaid s approached with an odd request: defend Dennis Thomas for a murder he has not committed yet, but when Thomas’s intended victim is shot down just hours after Thomas sees him, Ben is reluctant to believe his client is innocent, until he uncovers a shocking secret about the victim that changes everything.

Bradford, Barbara Taylor, 1933-. Breaking the rules. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2009.
A young woman reinvents herself, becomes the muse for French fashion designer Jean-Louis Tremont, and reaches celebrity status; but a malevolent figure from her past reemerges and reminds her of the terrifying encounter that she survived in the English countryside.


Butcher, Jim, 1971-. Turn coat : a novel of the Dresden files. New York : Roc Book, c2009.
Harry Dresden, a professional wizard who consults with the Chicago police on cases involving the supernatural, is not always in good standing with the magical ruling body, the White Council, so he takes a big risk when he agrees to help Morgan, a veteran Warden with the Council who has been accused of treason and needs a place to hide while trying to clear his name.


Buzzelli, Elizabeth Kane, 1946-. Dead floating lovers. 1st ed. Woodbury, MN : Midnight Ink, c2009.
Freelance writer Emily Kincaid helps deputy Dolly Wakowski uncover the identities of two bodies found in the lake, and after finding out they belong to Dolly’s ex-husband and a young Odawa Indian woman with whom he was having an affair, sets out to solve the murders.

Caputo, Philip. Crossers. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
After losing his wife on September 11, 2001, Gil Castle retreats to his family’s isolated Arizona ranch, where he tries to cope with his own grief while learning about the hardships his father and grandfather faced throughout the twentieth century.

Chaon, Dan. Await your reply : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2009.
Three strangers’ lives interconnect in strange ways as eighteen-year-old Lucy Lattimore runs away with her high school teacher; Miles Cheshire searches for his unstable twin, Hayden, who may be responsible for a deadly fire; and Ryan Schuyler operates identity-theft scams with his father, who he reconnects with after college.

Cherryh, C. J. The Pride of Chanur. New York : DAW Books, c1982.
Giving refuge to a human fleeing captivity by a sadistic alien race, the captain of the spaceship The Pride of Chanur becomes involved in interstellar, multibeing intrigue.

Cherryh, C. J. Merchanter’s luck. New York : DAW Books, c1982.
Sandor Kreja, a down-on-his luck independent merchanter, arrives at Viking Station on forged papers looking for someone to serve as crew on his freighter, but his luck changes when he meets Allison Reilly, a princess of the powerful family that owns the mighty starship, Dublin Again.

Cherryh, C. J. Brothers of Earth. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, c1976.
Humans try to escape their alien captors.

Cherryh, C. J. Heavy time. New York, NY : Warner Books, c1991.
Two asteroid miners intercept signals from a derelict spacecraft and find clues to a secret that might change the fate of the world.

Childs, Laura. Tragic magic. 1st ed. New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2009.
Life in the Big Easy gets complicated again for scrapbooking shop owner Carmela when she arrives to help set up the old mansion Melody Mayfedlt is converting into a haunted house only to have Melody’s flaming body come crashing through a tower window to greet her.

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. The hollow : a Hercule Poirot mystery. New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers ; Distributed by Workman Pub. Co., [2007?], c1946.
Belgian detective Hercule Poirot sets out to investigate a baffling case when he arrives at Lady Angkatell’s estate for a weekend house party to find a doctor lying dead in a puddle of blood and his timid wife standing over the corpse with a gun.

Connelly, Michael, 1956-. Nine dragons : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2009.
Detective Harry Bosch searches for the man who killed John Li, the owner of a small shop located in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles, but his investigation becomes even more personal when the person he holds most dear is taken and Bosch must travel to Hong Kong during the city’s Hungry Ghosts festival to recover what he has lost.

Cornwell, Patricia Daniels. The Scarpetta factor. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2009.
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, who works as the senior forensic analyst for CNN, offers her services pro bono to the chief medical examiner of New York City, and when she becomes involved in a strange plot involving a famous actor and is asked to launch her own television show, she worries about her future as a professional.

Davidson, MaryJanice. Undead and unwelcome. Berkley Sensation hardcover ed. New York : Berkley Sensation, 2009.
Vampire queen Betsy Taylor, having traveled with her husband and legal ward to Wyndham Manor to deliver the body of her werewolf friend to her pack, worries that she will be held accountable for the death and learns that her half sister is acting erratically back home.

Diamant, Anita. Day after night : a novel. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, 2009.
Four young women who survived the Holocaust are haunted by their pasts while staying in the Atlit internment camp and find comfort in their friendships and shared experiences while struggling with the prospect of recreating themselves in a foreign country.

Dickey, Eric Jerome. Resurrecting midnight. New York : Dutton, c2009.
International assassin Gideon, having taken an assignment to track down a briefcase, soon realizes the contents are of great concern to a group of killers known as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and that he has a personal connection to a man in the organization.

Douglas, Carole Nelson. Cat in a sapphire slipper : a Midnight Louie mystery. 1st ed. New York : Forge, 2008.
Feline sleuth Midnight Louie goes on the prowl looking for answers when Matt Devine, the secret ex-priest fiance of Louie’s owner Temple Barr, is whisked away to a Las Vegas prostitution ranch for the bachelor party of Temple’s beloved Aunt Kit’s mobster boyfriend, and ends up with a dead hooker in what looks to be a crime of passion.

Drake, David. Some golden harbor. Riverdale, NY : New York : Baen Pub. ; Distributed by Simon & Schuster, c2006.
Commander Daniel O’Leary, at odds with the brass of the Royal Cinnabar Navy, has only an unarmed ship and the assistance of Signals Officer Adele Mundy to help him save Dunbar’s World from being taken over by the invading forces of Nathaniel Arruns, son of the dictator of Pellegrino.

Drake, David. Caught in the crossfire. Riverdale, NY : New York, NY : Baen ; distributed by Simon & Schuster, c1998.
Contains two novels, short stories, and a novella about the adventures of mercenary leader Alois Hammer and his armored regiment.

Foreign legions. Riverdale, NY : New York : Baen Books ; Distributed by Simon & Schuster, c2001.
A collection of six short science fiction stories by various authors.

Drake, David. The sharp end. Riverdale, N.Y. : Baen, c1993.
A survey team arrives on Cantilucca where two syndicates dominate the planet and are arming for a final war.

Drake, David. All the way to the gallows. Riverdale, N.Y. : New York : Baen Pub. Enterprises ; Distributed by Simon & Schuster, c1996.
A collection of side-splitting science fiction shorts includes tales of paratrooper goblins, space cops and their politically correct alien supervisor, a band of mercenary elves, and a collaboration with Larry Niven.

Drake, David. The tank lords. New York : Baen Books, c1997.
Under the Hammer—Rolling hot—Night march—Code-name Feirefitz—The tank lords.

Drake, David. Lt. Leary, commanding. Riverdale, NY : New York : Baen ; Distributed by Simon & Schuster, c2001, c2000.
Dan Leary and Signal Officer Adele Mundy prove an uncommonly engaging pair of protagonists. Mundy in particular is something of a novelty in the field and not particularly attractive; she’s not only older than Leary, but she’s also a formidable pistol shot, a genius with electronics (albeit something of a klutz otherwise) and not romantically involved with Leary (or anybody else). Finding themselves aboard the Royal Cinnabar Navy ship Princess Cecile, the two plunge into a multilayered sequence of adventures. They survive bureaucratic pettifogging as well as the machinations of charming and unscrupulous political exiles trying to get home, peril in space, attempted assassinations and an encounter with a den of pirates they hope to make into allies against Cinnabar’s enemies.

Drake, David. The far side of the stars. Riverdale, NY : New York : Baen ; Distributed by Simon & Schuster, c2003.
Their old ship has been sold out of the navy and is now the private yacht of the Klimovs, two mad Russians touring the stars in search of big game, high stakes gambling, and the priceless Earth Diamond—the last known map of old Earth.

Efaw, Amy. After. New York : Viking, 2009.
Devon Davenport is a straight-A student and prominent player on her school’s soccer team, but when she is linked to an abandoned baby found in the trash she is accused of attempted murder.

Eisdorfer, Erica. The wet nurse’s tale. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2009.
Susan Rose, a Victorian woman with a big heart and equally large bosom, secures a job as a professional wet nurse and makes it her business to learn all the secrets and scandals of the high-class people for whom she works, and when her own child is threatened, she does not hesitate to use what she knows to rescue her baby.

Evanovich, Janet. Smitten. New York : HarperTorch, c2006.
Hired as a construction worker by the virile Matt Hallahan, single mom Lizabeth Kane finds herself falling in love with her boss, in spite of their many differences.

Evanovich, Janet. Love overboard. New York : HarperTorch, c2005.
Burned-out New Jersey narcotics officer Stephanie Lowe buys a house on the coast of Maine with intentions of opening a bed-and-breakfast, but a leaky toilet and other problems—including a ghost—lead her to a cooking gig on a schooner captained by Ivan, the man who sold her the place, whose good looks and charm suddenly seem more potent to Stephanie at sea than they did on land.

Feintuch, David. Prisoner’s hope. Warner Books ed. New York : Aspect, c1995.
Captain Nicholas Seafort of the U.N. Navy has been appointed liaison to the wealthy planters of the colony planet Hope Nation, but when the U.N. space flotilla that monitors the planet is forced to flee an alien attack, Seafort is left alone to deal with rebellious colonists and rampaging aliens.

Feintuch, David. Challenger’s hope. Warner Books ed. New York : Aspect, c1995.
Nicholas Seafort, a Commander in the U.N. Navy in 2197 assigned to defend the galaxy’s starways, is stranded aboard a ship teeming with arrogant colonists and violent street children, and must find a way to protect them from the alien predators that are preparing to attack.

Feintuch, David. Voices of hope. Warner Books ed. New York : Aspect, c1996.
War is brewing in 2229 in a world where the poor and the wealthy are sharply divided and brilliant young Philip Seafort finds himself in the midst of the chaos when he goes in search of a lost friend.

Ferris, Monica. Thai die. 1st ed. New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2008.
Betsy Devonshire, owner of the Crewel World needlework shop, steps in to investigate when one of her regular customers, Doris Valentine, returns from a trip to Thailand with a cache of small treasures which, judging from the resulting number of threats and deaths, must be much more valuable than Doris realized.

Finder, Joseph. Vanished. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2009.
International investigator and corporate security consultant Nick Heller uses his Special Forces skills to look into the whereabouts of his estranged brother, who disappeared after he and his wife were attacked, and uncovers a conspiracy involving his brother’s work for a multibillion-dollar defense contractor and twelve billion in U.S. funds that went missing in Iraq.

Flint, Eric. Boundary. Riverdale, NY : New York : Baen ; Distribted by Simon & Schuster, c2006.
Dr. Helen Sutter sets out to find the truth behind an unusual fossil found in the Arizona desert that could hold the key to the great extinction at the KT boundary.

Fluke, Joanne, 1943-. Plum pudding murder. New York : Kensington Books, c2009.
Baker Hannah Swenson investigates the murder of a local businessman, who was running a nontraditional Christmas tree lot and had a few enemies, while preparing food for the wedding of the season. Includes recipes.

Foster, Alan Dean, 1946-. The false mirror. 1st mass market ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 1993, c1992.
He was a Human in an alien body, and he had a secret that could pit an entire galaxy against the Human race.

Foster, Alan Dean, 1946-. The spoils of war. 1st mass market ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 1994, c1993.
For Humans fighting a millenia-long galactic war, the price of victory could be higher than the cost of combat.

Foster, Alan Dean, 1946-. Flinx in flux. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 1988.
Not even the extraordinary minidrag Pip could help Flinx out of his most dangerous entanglement - love!.

Frank, Dorothea Benton. Return to Sullivan Island. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2009.
Beth Hayes, having just graduated from college and aspiring to become a writer, puts her career plans on hold to house sit the family home on Sullivan Island and learns about her family’s past, falls in love with a man who is not suitable for her, and encounters obstacles which she must rely on her family and friends to overcome.

Gabaldon, Diana. Lord John and the private matter. Delta trade pbk. ed. New York : Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2004, c2003.
Lord John has just witnessed something shocking. But his efforts to avoid a scandal that might destroy his family are interrupted by something still more urgent: The Crown appoints him to investigate the brutal murder of a comrade-in-arms who may have been a traitor.

Gardner, James Alan. Radiant. 1st ed. New York : Eos, c2004.
With this Buddhist-tinged military SF novel featuring Admiral Festina Ramos and the Expendables (skilled, dispensable scouts), Aurora Award winning Canadian author Gardner (Expendable, etc.) makes a well-earned leap from paperback to hardcover. Explorer Third Class Youn Suu, a scout for the elite Explorer Corps, and her partner Tut set out to rescue the Cashlings from the Balrog, an alien intelligence capable of knowing its enemy’s best-laid plans. Accompanied by Admiral Ramos, Youn and Tut travel to an eerie planet that holds the answer to the mystery of the hidden origins of the Explorers. Filled with believably flawed, emotionally involving characters, this entertaining novel of brawn and brains thoughtfully explores questions of honor, culpability and the price of survival. (Publishers Weekly).

Garlock, Dorothy. The moon looked down. 1st ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2009.
Sofie and her family immigrated from Germany to a small town in Illinois, but the start of World War II causes the locals to discriminate against Sofie’s family, and they are blamed for a train derailment, but a high school teacher is on Sophie’s side and a romance blossoms.

Goudge, Eileen. Once in a blue moon. New York : Vanguard Press, c2009.
Sisters Lindsay and Kerrie Ann, who endured a difficult life without help from their neglectful mother, try to reconnect thirty years later, after being separated and put into foster care, and find that they ended up in dissimilar situations that make formation of a new bond difficult.

Greenwood, Kerry. Trick or treat : a Corinna Chapman mystery. 1st U.S. ed. Scottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, 2009, c2007.
Corinna Chapman, amateur detective and owner of Earthly Delights bakery, is faced with competition when a tall, gorgeous blonde opens Best Fresh Bread down the street, and she wrestles with boyfriend troubles, outbreaks of madness on Lonsdale Street, and other complications, while trying to save her business.

Gregory, Susanna, 1958-. The Westminster poisoner. London : Sphere, 2008.
Thomas Chaloner finds he may be the next victim after his employer, the Lord Chancellor, instructs him to investigate the deaths of two government officials and prove that a certain clerk named Greene is the killer even though Chaloner can prove otherwise.

Hamilton, Steve. Blood is the sky. 1st ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2003.
Investigator Alex McKnight agrees to help a friend search for his brother, who has disappeared along with a group of hunters in northern Ontario, and the search soon lands Alex and his friend stranded in the wilderness with a madman.

Hamilton, Laurell K. Micah. Jove mass-market ed. New York : Jove Books, 2006.
Vampire hunter Anita Blake arrives in Philadelphia to raise a witness from the dead so that his testimony can be taken with the help of Micah, the king of the wereleopards, but she is more fearful of spending time alone with Micah, her former lover, than dealing with a zombie.

Hamilton, Laurell K. Narcissus in chains. Berkley hardcover ed. New York : Berkley Books, 2001.
When two of the were leopards in her care are abducted at a seedy club called Narcissus in Chains, vampire hunter Anita Blake melds with her lovers, vampire Jean-Claude and werewolf Richard, in order to gain access to their powers and finds herself losing more and more of her humanity.

Harvard, Jane. The student body : a novel. New York : MayaLuna Books, c2000.
In Harvard, students are selling their bodies for tuition money. The prostitution ring is discovered by Toni Isaacs, a black reporter for the university newspaper. The novel is a combined work by four Harvard students.

Herbert, Frank. Eye. New York : ibooks, c2001.
A collection of thirteen short stories by Frank Herbert. Journalist, ecologist, conservationist, and bestselling novelist FRANK HERBERT captured the imagination of entire generations. Novels like The Dosadi Experiment and The White Plague explored science’s effect on society. The Green Brain and The Dragon in the Sea introduced Herbert’s main theme: how societies and individuals respond to changing or threatening environments. In Dune, winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, Herbert expanded this theme to create a series that has fascinated more readers than any other contemporary work of the imagination. Among Herbert’s other works were The Eyes of Heisenberg; Santaroga Barrier; Whipping Star; Project 40; Threshold; five additional novels in the Dune series, and two anthologies of short fiction.

Herbert, Brian. The winds of dune. 1st ed. New York : Tor, 2009.
After Paul-Muad’Dib walks off into the desert and is presumed dead, his mother, Jessica, returns to Dune to assist sixteen-year-old regent Alia, who is trying to counteract the propaganda spread by Bronso of Ix but does not know that Paul had charged him with the task when they were boyhood friends.

Howard, Linda, 1950-. Burn : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2009.
When Jenner Redwine wins the lottery, she never imagined how much it would cost her. Luckily she finds an ally-and a guide to the rarefied realm of privilege in a shy, kind-hearted heiress who invites Jenner on a charity cruise. But what should have been a “Love Boat” cruise suddenly turns into a game of dizzying intrigue and harrowing danger, and Jenner finds herself taken hostage by a menacing stranger—a stranger that helps her rediscover feelings she hasn’t had in years. Now if she can only survive to live a life worth living

Howatch, Susan. The waiting sands : and The devil on Lammas night. New York, : Stein and Day, [1972, c1966].
Two superb Gothic novels filled with power and intrigue.

Humphreys, Helen, 1961-. Coventry. 1st American ed. New York : W.W. Norton, 2009, c2008.
Harriet Marsh aids her friend Jeremy in finding his mother after the infamous Luftwaffe bombing in Coventry on November 14, 1940, and as they search the city, Harriet learns of the horrors of war and the endurance of the human heart.

Irving, John, 1942-. Last night in twisted river : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Random House, 2009.
In a story spanning five decades, ‘Last Night in Twisted River’ depicts the recent half-century in the United States as a ‘living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course. In 1954, an anxious boy, 12, mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the boy and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County, pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger who befriends them.

Jensen, Liz, 1959-. The rapture. 1st ed. in the U.S.A. New York : Doubleday, c2009.
Looking for a fresh start, Gabrielle Fox accepts a temporary position as an art therapist at a psychiatric hospital for one hundred of the most dangerous children in England, including teenage killer Bethany Krall, who believes she can predict natural disasters, but Gabrielle is surprised when her sessions reveal truth in Bethany’s delusional claims.

Johansen, Iris. Blood game. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2009.
After the daughter of a Georgia senator is murdered and her body drained of blood, Eve Duncan becomes enmeshed in the nefarious plot of serial murderer Kevin Jelak, who Eve thinks might know something about her missing daughter.

Jordan, Robert, 1948-2007. The gathering storm. 1st ed. New York : Tor, 2009.
Chosen as the author to finish Jordan’s book, which was partially finished when Jordan passed in 2007, Sanderson brings to a close a journey begun almost 20 years ago and concludes the Wheel of Time series as Rand al’Thor, the Dragon Reborn, struggles to unite a network of kingdoms and alliances in preparation for the Last Battle.

Jungstedt, Mari, 1962-. Unspoken. 1st U.S. ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2007.
On the Swedish island Gotland, inspector Anders Knutas investigates the disappearance of a fourteen-year-old girl who worked at a racing stable, which may be related to the murder of an alcoholic photographer with ties to a racetrack; meanwhile, television journalist Johan Berg searches for the killer and tries to repair his relationship with a married woman.

Keillor, Garrison. Pilgrims : a Wobegon romance. New York : Viking, c2009.
Radio host Gary Keillor returns to his hometown of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, to deliver a speech and gets roped into paying for a group of Lake Wobegonians to travel to Rome to tend the grave of a local World War II hero, and the trip proves enlightening for everyone involved when a camaraderie develops that encourages the sharing of secrets they would not think of revealing at home.

Kellerman, Jonathan. Evidence : an Alex Delaware novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2009.
Two Bel Air lovers murdered in the most intimate of circumstances propel psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis on a twisted path towards the depraved evil found among the super rich.

Kellerman, Faye. Blindman’s bluff. 1st HarperLuxe ed., [Large print ed.]. New York : HarperLuxe, c2009.
Los Angeles homicide detective Peter Decker, investigating the murders of a billionaire developer and his family members, suspects the killings are an inside job, and finds the case becoming personal when his wife becomes involved and her life is put in danger.


Kenyon, Sherrilyn, 1965-. Bad moon rising. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2009.
Fang Kattalakis, a wolf who is also a powerful member of the Omegrion, gets into trouble when the lycanthropes begin to fight among themselves and the woman he loves is accused of betraying her people.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. The red tree. New York : Roc, c2009.
Sarah Crowe, having moved to a house in rural Rhode Island to escape an unhealthy relationships, becomes interested in a tree which is tied to magic and death in the area, and, after finding a manuscript about the oak in the walls of her house, decides to write her own book about it, risking her health and sanity to do so.

Kline, Christina Baker, 1964-. Bird in hand. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2009.
Two couples, Alison and Charlie, and Claire and Ben, struggle to find their way as Alison struggles with grief and guilt over a car accident, Charlie works at an unfulfilling job to provide for his family, Claire begins an affair with Charlie, and Ben longs for the life he believes his friends Charlie and Alison have.

Koryta, Michael. The silent hour. 1st ed. New York : Minotaur Books, 2009.
Convicted killer Parker Harrison asks private investigator Lincoln Perry to find the daughter of a deceased Mafia don, but the request leads him to the discovery of the bones of the woman’s husband buried on the grounds of Whisper Ridge.

Lamplighter, L. Jagi. Prospero lost. 1st ed. New York : Tor, 2009.
Miranda, the daughter of the sorcerer Prospero, heads the family business, Prospero, Inc., centuries after the events of “The Tempest,” and when Miranda receives an ominous warning from her father, she tries to find her family and learn about her own mysterious past.

Lewycka, Marina, 1946-. Two caravans. London ; New York : Fig Tree, Penguin Books, 2007.
In the idyll of the English countryside, on a beautiful summer’s evening in a Kent field, and around their two caravans, a little group of strawberry pickers is getting ready to celebrate a birthday. But who picks our strawberries these days? The Ukrainians: Irina, just off the coach from Kiev, and eager to improve her excellent English and find true love with a romantic Englishman; Andriy, the miner’s son from the other Ukraine; the Poles: Bob Dylan fan, Tomasz, (whose smelly trainers will soon punish those in the men’s caravan), Yola, the petite, voluptuous gangmistress and her religious niece Marta, who finds the wild mushrooms to cook with the sliced loaf; then there is Vitaly, king of the new mobilfon world of the shiny new Eastern Europe; two Chinese girls; Emanuel, the round eyed eighteen-year-old from Malawi, come to England to look for his sister. And although he can’t exactly help pick strawberries, there’s also the Dog...But these are a group leading dangerous lives - exploitative employers, British regulations and gang masters with guns will all threaten their existence as they take to the caravan road until each of them peels off to find their destiny.

Li, Yiyun, 1972-. The vagrants : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2009.
Gu Shan, a young woman of Muddy River, faces a death sentence as a political prisoner for renouncing her faith in communism in the 1970s and standing behind Chairman Mao, and while her mother turns to tradition by burning the clothing of her only child, Gu Shan’s father retreats into memories.

MacDonald, John D. (John Dann), 1916-1986. Time and tomorrow. [Book club ed.]. Garden City, N.Y. : N. Doubleday, [1980?].
Time and Tomorrow is vintage MacDonald - 3 brilliantly conceived Suspense Fiction Novels in One Mammoth Volume. Wind of the Dreamers; The Girl, The Gold Watch, & Everything; and Ballroom of the Skies.

MacKenzie, Ian. City of strangers. New York : Penguin Books, 2009.
Struggling writer Paul Metzger tries to stop two thugs from assaulting a young man outside his Brooklyn apartment and ends up being beaten himself, giving him a new perspective on his own life, and his relationships with his estranged half-brother, his ex-wife, and his recently deceased father, a former Nazi sympathizer.

Manfredo, Lou. Rizzo’s war. 1st ed. New York : Minotaur Books, 2009.
Rookie detective Mike McQueen, partnered with seasoned veteran Joe Rizzo at Brooklyn’s Bensonhurst precinct, learns the truth of Rizzo’s refrain—“There’s no wrong, there’s no right, there just is”—over the course of a year solving cases, including the task of finding and returning the runaway daughter of a local politician.

Martin, Charles, 1969-. Where the river ends. 1st ed. New York : Broadway Books, c2008.
Doss Michaels, a fishing guide and aspiring artist, meets Abigail Grace Coleman, the daughter of a powerful South Carolina senator, and when Abbie faces a fatal illness ten years after their marriage, the two take a trip down the St. Mary’s River to fulfill an old promise.

Mayle, Peter. The vintage caper. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2009.
Crime-fighting wine expert Sam Levitt is hired by entertainment lawyer Danny Roth’s insurance company to recover a multimillion-dollar cache of wine stolen from Roth’s wine cellar.

Mayor, Archer. The price of malice : a Joe Gunther novel. 1st ed. New York : Minotaur Books, 2009.
When Wayne Castine, a suspected child predator, is found brutally murdered in Brattleboro, Vermont, Joe Gunther tries to solve the case while also dealing with the disappearance of his girlfriend’s father and brother that may actually turn out to have been a murder.

McCrery, Nigel, 1953-. Still waters. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c2007.
Detective Chief Inspector Mark Lapslie, who has only just returned to the force after a year of solitude due to his diagnosis of synesthesia, must face a homicide case involving the death of a woman whose fingertips have been snipped off by gardening shears.

McLane, LuAnn. Dancing shoes and honky-tonk blues. New York : Signet Eclipse, 2007.
From the author of “Dark Roots and Cowboy Boots” comes another sexy Southern romance. Despite her two left feet, waitress Abilene Harper joins a reality TV dance competition and cha-chas and rumbas her way into the heart of the TV audience—and into the arms of her sexy dance instructor.

Miles, Jonathan. Dear American Airlines. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
Fifty-three-year-old Bennie Ford, sitting in O’Hare Airport drafting a complaint letter to American Airlines for canceling his flight to his daughter’s wedding, gains insight into how he has been living his life and decides he is going to try and make things right.

Millhauser, Steven. Dangerous laughter : thirteen stories. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
A collection of thirteen dark comedies by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steven Millhauser.

Mitchard, Jacquelyn. No time to wave goodbye : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2009.
Twenty-two years after her three-year-old son Ben was abducted and eleven years after he returned home, Beth Cappadora and her family must relive the horror of their experience when her other son Vincent’s documentary about kidnapped children brings old memories to the surface and sets in motion a series of events that could tear the family apart forever.

Moore, Lorrie. A gate at the stairs : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2009.
Tassie Keltjin, a twenty-year-old girl from a small town, comes of age as a college student while the U.S. prepares for war in the Middle East, and when she takes a part-time job as a nanny, she encounters various emotional and political issues and learns more about herself.

Muller, Marcia. Locked in. 1st ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2009.
After private eye Sharon McCone is shot in the head by an unknown attacker, she finds herself afflicted with locked-in syndrome, and she lies immobile in her hospital bed trying to figure out her assailant’s identity with help from her staff’s investigations.

Murray, Victoria Christopher. Lady Jasmine. 1st Touchstone trade pbk. ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Jasmine Larson Bush, who nearly destroys her marriage to Pastor Hosea Bush with her lies, is blackmailed with a truth about her dark, sinful past, and while she is tempted to continue being honest with her husband, she realizes that she might need to commit murder to leave her previous life behind.

Myers, Amy, 1938-. Murder takes the stage. 1st world ed. Sutton, Surrey, England : Severn House, 2009.
Peter and Georgia Marsh investigate the disappearance of Georgia’s missing brother Rick who was accused of murdering his wife and seemingly committed suicide.

Niffenegger, Audrey. Her fearful symmetry : a novel. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, 2009.
Twenty-year-old twins Valentina and Julia Poole inherit their aunt Elspeth Noblin’s London apartment and travel from Chicago to England where they become caught up in the lives of their neighbors, including Martin, a crossword-puzzle setter with obsessive compulsive disorder, his devoted wife Marijke, and Elspeth’s lover Robert, as well as the ghosts of the vast Highgate Cemetery next to the building.

Ore, Rebecca. Being alien. New York, NY : Tom Doherty Associates, c1989.
The fascinating sequel to Becoming Alien - a provocative tale of humans as outsiders.

Ore, Rebecca. Becoming alien. New York : Tom Doherty Associates, c1988.
When a spaceship crashes near their isolated home, Tom takes in the sole surviving alien, which he calls Alpha, and they “talk” through drawings. The expected of course occurs and Alpha’s family show up to take him back. But when they leave, it’s with Tom, who - as was Mica’s (Alpha’s real name) wish - then becomes the first earthling ever to be accepted as a Federation cadet.

Ore, Rebecca. Human to Human. [Book Club ed.]. New York, NY : T. Doherty Associates, c1990.
The trilogy winds up with a bittersweet ending. If you’ve read the previous two books, you know about the human/alien relationships—but this one ties a bow on most of the storylines, including Tom Gentry (Red Clay) and the contact and induction of Earth into the Federation—and Tom’s dealing with his own species self-hate, as well as his past—and his wife’s unfaithfulness, as well as the Sharwan Problem.

Parker, Robert B., 1932-. The professional. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2009.
A knock on Spenser’s office door can only mean one thing: a new case. This time the visitor is a local lawyer with an interesting story. Gary Eisenhower is blackmailing the wealthy wives he had affairs with. Shaw hires Spenser to make Eisenhower ‘cease and desist’, but when women start turning up dead, his assignment goes from blackmail to murder.

Pawlik, Tom, 1965-. Valley of the shadow. Carol Stream, Ill. : Tyndale House Publishers, c2009.
Connor Hayden survives a near-death experience and believes he has been sent back to save the life and soul of Mitch Kent, whose spirit is trapped in the Interworld with Howard Bristol, and as Connor tries to find a way to bring Mitch out of the other dimension, Mitch is racing to find his own escape before a mysterious stranger and a terrifying creature trap him there for good.

Perry, Anne. A Christmas promise : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2009.
Thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps and eight-year-old Minnie Maude, having enlisted the help of shop owner Mr. Balthasar, search for Minnie’s uncle Alf’s donkey and cart, which disappeared after the man was murdered and is believed to hold a dazzling golden box, which Mr. Balthasar warns may contain evil.

Pratchett, Terry. Unseen academicals : a novel of Discworld. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2009.
The wizards of Ankh-Morpork’s Unseen University attempt to learn the rules of football and win a game without using magic.

Prescott, Michael. Last breath. New York : New American Library, c2001.
Catlin, or C.J. as she prefers to be called, is a tough L.A. cop with a past that has been haunting her since she was 10 years old. An intruder, whom she thinks of as the boogeyman, broke into her home and frightened her so badly she has never been able to get the experience out of her mind. Now, he’s come back to find her, and this time, he vows not to leave empty handed. A few surprising plot twists heighten the suspense.

Rendell, Ruth, 1930-. The monster in the box : an Inspector Wexford novel. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, 2009.
Inspector Wexford is reminded of his first murder case and his suspicions against Eric Targo when Targo reappears in Kingsmarkham after a long absence; and meanwhile, Wexford’s partner’s wife suspects Tamima Rahman’s parents are forcing her to accept an arranged marriage.

Rice, Anne, 1941-. Angel time : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Toby O’Dare is a dead man walking; he’s fallen from grace and lives under a series of aliases. He takes his orders from someone he calls ‘The Right Man’. When the novel opens, O’Dare is in California on an assignment to kill. A mysterious stranger comes into his nightmarish world of lone and lethal missions and offers him a chance to save lives rather than destroy them.

Robertis, Carolina De. The invisible mountain. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Pajarita, regarded as a miracle child when she disappeared and then reappeared from a small Uruguayan village on the first day of the year 1900, grows up to become the mother of Eva, an unconventional beauty who pursues a life as a poet, and who in turn gives birth to Salomé, whose dangerous political leanings in the 1960s nearly bring the three generations to an end.

Roberts, Nora. Taming Natasha : & Luring a lady. New York : Silhouette Books, c2008.
Taming Natasha—Luring a lady. Presents two stories by Nora Roberts, “Taming Natasha” in which toy store owner Natasha Stanislaski falls for single-father Spence Kimball, and “Luring a Lady”, featuring Natasha’s brother, Mikhail, and his struggle to find happiness with Sydney Hayward despite her cold exterior.

Roberts, Nora. Black rose. Jove mass market ed. New York : Jove, 2005.
Roz Harper begins a relationship with Mitch Carnagie after her failed second marriage; however, her life gets complicated when her deceitful ex-husband arrives and the Harper Bride, a ghost who haunts her historic home, appears.

Roth, Philip. The humbling. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Life as Simon Axler knew it was over. Now in his 60s, the one time leading stage actor had lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His confidence was drained away and he imagined people laughed at him. His wife was gone, his audience had left him, and his agent couldn’t persuade him to make a comeback. Simon was about to take a journey that would have a dark and shocking end.

Ruiz Zafón, Carlos, 1964-. The angel’s game. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Doubleday, c2009.
Struggling author David Martin, upset over losing his lover to another man and trying to find success, takes an assignment to write a book that the editor promises will make him immortal and is thrown into a web of long-buried secrets, double-crosses, and madness.

Rushdie, Salman. Midnight’s children : a novel. Random House Trade Paperback ed., 25th anniversary ed. New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006, c1981.
Saleem Sinai was born at midnight on the night that India gained its independence and finds several years later that he is connected to over 1,000 others who were born at the same time—including the one with whom he was switched at birth.

Sandford, John, 1944 Feb. 23-. Rough country. New York : G. P. Putnam’s Sons, c2009.
Virgil Flowers, an investigator with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, is pulled from a fishing tournament to take the case of a murder at a nearby resort for women only, and his queries reveal a second murder the year before, and the very real possibility of a third about to happen.

Saul, John. House of reckoning : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2009.
Fourteen-year-old Sarah Crane, coping with the untimely death of her mother, ends up in foster care after her alcoholic father is jailed for killing a man in a bar fight and injuring her in a car accident, and is befriended by a schizophrenic boy and an art teacher who help Sarah hone her psychic abilities.

Schwegel, Theresa. Last known address. 1st ed. New York : Minotaur Books, 2009.
Chicago police detective Sloane Pearson, new to the sex crimes division, puts her job, reputation, and life on the line in an attempt to solve a series of rapes perpetrated by a man who thinks he is untouchable.

Shattuck, Jessica. Perfect life : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Norton, c2009.
Jenny Callahan is shocked when Neil Banks, her former college boyfriend and the biological father of her child who waived all paternity rights, unexpectedly shows up for the baby’s christening.

Shreve, Anita. A change in altitude : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
British newlyweds Margaret and Patrick decide to spend a year living in Kenya, where photojournalist Margaret begins to realize how little she knows about her husband, but when the couple is invited on a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, tragedy strikes and scars their marriage forever.

Simak, Clifford D., 1904-. Mastodonia. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 1978. Asa Steele just wants to live on the farm but discovers a way to travel to other time periods. First item? Allowing some big game safari hunters go after dinosaurs, then finding a time niche between glacial periods to settle in a nice cozy cottage (“Mastodonia”) to avoid U.S. taxes,.

Simak, Clifford D., 1904-. Shakespeare’s planet. [New York] : Berkley Pub. Corp. : distributed by Putnam, c1976.
“Shakespeare” was a marooned adventurer whose last days on an uncharted planet were solaced only by the companionship of a nasty-looking alien named Carnivore and an old copy of the Bard to which he confided his final paranoid speculations. Carnivore and Shakespeare’s nicely bleached remains are apparently in sole possession of their unappetizing planet when a cruising cyborg-guided spaceprobe arrives from one direction and a girl maroonee from the other.

Simmons, Dan. Hyperion cantos. New York : Guild America Books, [1991?].
Travel is instantaneous throughout the galaxy thanks to the TechnoCore. People can literally have different rooms of their houses on different planets. Hyperion is the site of the Time Tombs, traveling back in time, sent by an unknown entity.

Smith, Sherwood. Inda. New York : [New York] : DAW Books ; Distributed by Penguin Group, [2007], c2006.
Inda, the second son of the Prince and Princess of Choraed Elgaer, is sent to the King’s Academy where, while training to become his brother’s military champion, he is subjected to cruelty at the hands of the other students and decides to fight back.

Stabenow, Dana. So sure of death : a Liam Campbell mystery. New York : Dutton, 1999.
Trooper Liam Campbell, living on a leaky gillnetter in Newenham, is brooding on how to rekindle his relationship with bush pilot Wyanet Chouinard when he is called to the site of a fatal shipboard fire; while Wyanet, on a routine run to a dig near Chinook Air Force Base, discovers a young archaeological worker, gruesomely murdered.

Steel, Danielle. Southern lights : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2009.
Assistant District Attorney Alexa Hamilton reluctantly sends her seventeen-year-old daughter Savannah, to live with her ex-husband and his family in Charleston after she received death threats against Savannah’s life for prosecuting serial killer Luke Quentin.

Talton, Jon. The pain nurse. 1st ed. Scottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, 2009.
Cheryl Beth Wilson, a nurse at Cincinnati Memorial Hospital, finds herself under suspicion when a doctor is found murdered in a secluded office, and desperate to clear her name, she teams up to investigate with former homicide detective Will Borders who sees similarities in the killing to a case he thought closed years earlier.

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863. Vanity fair : a novel without a hero. New York : Quality Paperback Book Club, 1991.
The classic by William Thackeray. “If she did not wish to lead a virtuous life, at least she desired to enjoy a character for virtue, and we know that no lady in the genteel world can possess this desideratum, until she has put on a train and feathers and has been presented to her Sovereign at Court. From that august interview they come out stamped as honest women. The Lord Chamberlain gives them a certificate of virtue.”

Trojanow, Ilija. The collector of worlds. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Ecco, c2009.
A fictionalized account of nineteenth-century British colonial officer and explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton, who assimilated into various indigenous cultures in India and East Africa, learned over twenty languages, and participated in the pilgrimage to Mecca.

Turtledove, Harry. Worldwar : tilting the balance. 1st mass market ed. New York : Del Rey/Ballantine, 1996, c1995.
World War II comes to a halt when a formidable enemy from outer space begins dropping atom bombs on the world, and steps must be taken to stop this.

Vinge, Joan D. Alien blood : Psion, Catspaw. Book Club ed. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1988?.
Cat is a mixed breed psion (a telepathic half-human) that is thrust into a world he hates and doesn’t want to understand. It is the story of the street tough tossed into the world of the rich.

Weaver, Michael D. My father immortal. New York : Avon Books, 1991, c1989.
A group of children ejected from a starship in individual life pods and set on a trajectory for their home planet gradually discovers the tragic history of their parentage and the uncertain future to which they are committed. This is a story-within-a-story of internecine warfare on an Earth devastated by nuclear holocaust.

White, Stephen, 1951-. The siege. New York : Dutton, c2009.
A series of high-profile disappearances on the Yale campus bring together suspended Boulder police detective Sam Purdy, FBI agent Christopher Poe, and CIA analyst Deirdre Drake as they face off against an unknown enemy who is holding students hostage in the fortress-like tomb of one of the school’s oldest secret societies and releasing them one by one to be killed in front of the building until his terrorist demands are met.

Williams, Walter Jon. City on fire. New York, N.Y. : HarperPrism, 1997.
Aiah has helped Constantine overthrow the corrupt dynasty that had been ruling the world-city and is now assigned by the new leader to track down the outlaw thieves of the Silver Hand mafia who are stealing the all-important plasm that runs the city.

Zelazny, Roger. Blood of amber. New York : Arbor House, c1986.
In the seventh Amber novel, Merle pursued by a fiendish enemy must battle through an intricate web of vengeance and murder that threatens the Bay area as well as the Royal House of Amber.

Zelazny, Roger. Knight of shadows. 1st ed. New York : Morrow, c1989.
Merlin pursues the mysterious disappearances of Julia and his father, the two people dearest to him. When the powers of Order and Chaos intervene, Merlin must choose where his allegiance lies.

005.5 WAN
Wang, Wally. Office 2007 for dummies. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Pub., c2007.
A guide to using Office 2007 that covers getting help, typing and formatting text, designing pages, spreadsheet basics, formulas, charting and analyzing data, creating presentations, organizing E-mail, and querying a database.

006.696 PAR
Parent, Rick. Computer animation : algorithms and techniques. 2nd ed. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann,
c2008.
Driven by the demands of research and the entertainment industry, the techniques of animation are pushed to render increasingly complex objects with ever-greater life-like appearance and motion. This rapid progression of knowledge and technique impacts professional developers, as well as students. Developers must maintain their understanding of conceptual foundations, while their animation tools become ever more complex and specialized. The second edition of Rick Parent’s Computer Animation is an excellent resource for the designers who must meet this challenge. The first edition established its reputation as the best technically oriented animation text. This new edition focuses on the many recent developments in animation technology, including fluid animation, human figure animation, and soft body animation. The new edition revises and expands coverage of topics such as quaternions, natural phenomenon, facial animation, and inverse kinematics. The book includes up-to-date discussions of Maya scripting and the Maya C++ API, programming on real-time 3D graphics hardware, collision detection, motion capture, and motion capture data processing.

006.7 MEZ
Mezrich, Ben, 1969-. The accidental billionaires : the founding of Facebook : a tale of sex, money, genius, and betrayal. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2009.
Presents an account of Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg’s creation of Facebook, the social networking site, as a way to meet women during their time as Harvard undergraduates, and covers how the two men’s different ideas about the business caused a rift between them.

200.9 WRI
Wright, Robert, 1957-. The evolution of God. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2009.
Discusses the common pattern of the most popular monotheistic faiths throughout history, covering their evolution through the perspective of archaeology, theology, and evolutionary psychology in a challenge of long-held assumptions about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

248.2 LEW
Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. Surprised by joy : the shape of my early life. [1st American ed.]. New York : Harcourt, Brace, [1956], c1955.
C.S. Lewis tells the story of how he passed from atheism to Christianity, giving information on his childhood and adolescence as background to understanding his spiritual life.

277.3082 SHA
Sharlet, Jeff. The family : the secret fundamentalism at the heart of American power. 1st Harper Perennial ed. New York : Harper Perennial, 2009, c2008.
Traces the history of America’s most powerful fundamentalist group, describing how they have influenced politicians, generals, and foreign dictators since their creation in 1935, and how they impacted American democracy.

302 BRO
Brodie, Richard. Virus of the mind : the new science of the meme. 2nd Hay House ed. Carlsbad, Calif. : Hay House, 2009, c1996.
An introduction to memetics, the science of memes—the invisible DNA of human society that can influence events and infect the minds of masses—and discusses how the mass media and the Internet help to further mind viruses that can infect governments, education systems, and more.

322.6609 MCD
McDonald, Lawrence G. A colossal failure of common sense : the inside story of the collapse of Lehman Brothers. 1st ed. New York : Crown Business, c2009.
Larry McDonald provides an account of his rise to the position of vice president at Lehman Brothers and discusses the people and reasons behind the collapse of the investment bank.

324.973 WOL
Wolffe, Richard, 1968-. Renegade : the making of a president. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c2009.
Explores the life and political career of Barack Obama, based on interviews, and discusses his youth and early political career, the triumphs and personal setbacks he faced during his presidential campaign, and his election into office as the forty-forth American president.

330 VEN
Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi. Off the books : the underground economy of the urban poor. 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008, c2006.
Explores the desperate, dangerous, and remarkable ways in which the residents of Maquis Park, a poor African-American neighborhood on Chicago’s Southside, struggle to survive.

330.973 MOR
Morris, Dick. Catastrophe : how Obama, Congress, and the special interests are transforming—a slump into a crash, freedom into socialism and a disaster into a catastrophe—and how to fight back. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2009.
Presents an argument against the policies of President Obama with regard to the economy, health care, illegal immigrants, terrorism, and other topics.

332.1109 WES
Wessel, David. In Fed we trust : Ben Bernanke’s war on the great panic. 1st ed. New York : Crown Business, c2009.
Examines the economic recession of the early twenty-first century, discussing the reaction and course of action taken by the Federal Reserve and chairman Ben Bernacke, and how Hank Paulson and Tim Geithner performed under pressure.

333.78 DUN
Duncan, Dayton. The national parks : America’s best idea : an illustrated history. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2009.
An exploration of the history of the United States national park system that discusses the original idea of preserving natural areas for all to enjoy, political battles, significant individuals in its creation, individual parks, and other related topics, and includes 440 illustrations and one removable map.

338.973 HAW
Hawken, Paul. Natural capitalism : creating the next industrial revolution. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1999.
Details the principles and underlying theory of natural capitalism; demonstrates how those principles are transforming the automobile, building, and real estate industries; outlines the principles and benefits of resource productivity in industry and materials; and looks at the impact of natural capitalism on the economy and environment.

362.1097 REI
Reid, T. R. The healing of America : a global quest for better, cheaper, and fairer health care. New York : Penguin Press, 2009.
Draws on the exploration of health care systems from around the world to examine the absence of universal health care in the United States and suggests an international model the author believes could work in America.

362.3092 DOU
Dougan, Terrell. That went well : adventures in caring for my sister. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2009.
When Irene was born, her parents were advised to institutionalize her. They refused and instead became trailblazers in advocating for the rights of people with mental disabilities.

363.28 KES
Kessler, Ronald, 1943-. In the president’s secret service : behind the scenes with agents in the line of fire and the presidents they protect. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c2009.
Shares some of the untold stories of the experiences of Secret Service agents, telling of presidents and their families, assassination attempts, and extramarital affairs, and discusses the risks posed by understaffing, lack of training, and other problems within the agency.

613.2 KAT
Katz, David L., MD. The flavor point diet : the delicious, breakthrough plan to turn off your hunger and lose the weight for good. Emmaus, Penn. : Rodale, c2005.
From Dr. David Katz comes a groundbreaking diet that maximizes eating pleasure, optimizes health, and guarantees permanent weight loss. And it doesn’t require any calorie counting or restrictions on food groups. Supported by scientific research at the Yale Center, this new diet is proven to improve blood sugar, lower blood pressure, and even reverse key markers of diabetes and heart disease. By combining foods selected by flavor, The Flavor Point Diet tricks the brain into being satisfied all day long, so readers don’t eat when they don’t need to.

613.25 HAS
Hasselbeck, Elisabeth. The g free diet : a gluten-free survival guide. 1st ed. New York : Center Street, c2009.
Television host Elisabeth Hasselbeck chronicles her experiences with celiac disease, describing her symptoms, the events that helped her get diagnosed, and the treatments that have controlled it, and offers others practical strategies for living a gluten-free life without sacrificing good foods.

616.075 SAN
Sanders, Lisa, 1956-. Every patient tells a story : medical mysteries and the art of diagnosis. 1st ed. New York : Broadway Books, c2009.
Describes the process by which physicians make difficult diagnoses, drawing from what they know from their studies and applying that knowledge to real-life people, and shares the stories of several seemingly impossible diagnoses.

618.19 LOV
Love, Susan M. Dr. Susan Love’s breast book. 4th ed., fully rev., 1st Da Capo Press ed. Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Lifelong, 2005.
Provides information and guidance on breast cancer diagnosis, treatment options, clinical trials, second opinions, prevention of recurrence, and quality of life, discussing statistics and research in such areas as chemotherapy for early stage cancer and treatments for metastatic cancer; and also covers breast development, the healthy breast, and noncancerous breast problems.

631.5 KRU
Krupp, Ron. Lifting the yoke : local solutions to America’s farm and food crisis. Brattleboro, Vt. : Whetstone Books, c2009.
The Globalization of Food and Farming. The Battle of the Bulge. Sustainable Markets and Regional Solutions

636.7527 KOO
Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-. A big little life : a memoir of a joyful dog. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2009.
Presents a memoir that discusses the lessons learned by author Dean Koontz from his dog, Trixie, who helped teach him about appreciating life.

638.15 JAC
Jacobsen, Rowan. Fruitless fall : the collapse of the honey bee and the coming agricultural crisis. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury, 2008.
Examines the importance of bees to the balance of the environment, and discusses the inadequacy of professional pollinators, and analyzes the mysteries of colony collapse disorder.

641.5 CHA
Chalmers, Irena. Good old food : a taste from the past. New York : Barron’s, c1988.
This longtime Barron’s kitchen favorite features authentic recipes brought to America in past generations from around the world. All 264 recipes and 64 full-color photos from the original hardcover edition are now available in this paperback edition.

641.5 FAM
Family circle slow cooker meals. Des Moines, Iowa : Meredith Books, c2008.
Contains recipes for more than two hundred slow cooker dishes, including cheesy cauliflower, savory beef sandwiches, turkey and pasta primavera, and more.

641.5 PEP
Pépin, Jacques. Jacques Pépin celebrates. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2001.
A collection of two hundred recipes from chef Jacques Pepin for soups, appetizers, main dishes, side dishes, salads, and desserts.

646.7 KIN
Kinsel, Brenda, 1952-. Brenda Kinsel’s fashion makeover : 30 days to diva style! San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c2007.
Aimed at women 40+, the book is structured into a four week plan of attack with clear, attainable goals. Packed with real-life success stories, style solutions for every body type, confidence-inspiring motivation, and full-colour fashion illustrations, this gorgeous manual puts women on the fast track to fantastic style.

646.7 MCG
McGraw, Phillip C., 1950-. Love smart : find the one you want, fix the one you got. New York : Free Press, c2005.
Dr. Phil McGraw presents a program designed to help women meet a partner and develop a committed relationship, or put the spark back into an existing relationship.

646.78 HAL
Hall, Julie. The boomer burden : dealing with your parents’ lifetime accumulation of stuff. Nashville, Tenn. : Thomas Nelson, c2007.
Discusses essential issues for the executor, heir, or beneficiary to deal with the death of parents, and explains dividing parental estates, cleaning out the family home in ten days or less, looking for items of potential value, and other related topics.

658.4 GRA
Gratton, Lynda. Hot spots : why some teams, workplaces, and organizations buzz with energy—and others don’t. 1st ed. San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2007.
Introduction : elements for creating hot spots—Generating extraordinary energy—Hot spots burning bright across the world—The first element : a cooperative mindset—The second element : boundary spanning—The third element : the igniting purpose—The fourth element : productive capacity—The leader’s role in hot spots—Designing for the emergence of hot spots - Appendix A : resources for creating hot spots—Appendix B : background to the research on hot spots—Appendix C : Methodology of the hot spots research.

684.1 KRA
Make it yours! 1st ed. Des Moines, IA : Meredith Books, 2003.
Presents decorating tips from the interior designers of The Learning Channel’s “Trading Spaces,” showing how to customize the furnishings and other elements of a room to personalize its look; provides tours of over twenty rooms transformed on the show and includes sixteen projects.

686.2 WHI
White, Alex (Alex W.). The elements of graphic design : space, unity, page architecture, and type. 1st ed. New York : Allworth Press, c2002.
The author demonstrates how to use scale, color, and position in graphic design and how to utilize white space using display and text type.

700.89 EXP
Explorations in the city of light : African-American artists in Paris, 1945-1965. New York, NY : Studio Museum in Harlem, c1996.
Introduction / Kinshasha Holman Conwill—Artful lives: travelling in the tradition—Confluence: Harlem Renaissance, modernism and Négritude. Paris in the 1920s-1930s / Catherine Bernard—School of Paris at mid-century / Peter Selz—The cultural milieu in postwar Paris / Michel Fabre—Explorations in the city of light: African-American artists in Paris, 1945-1965 / Valerie J. Mercer.

709.6 CON
Contemporary African artists : changing tradition : El Anatsui, Youssouf Bath, Ablade Glover, Tapfuma Gutsa, Rosemary Karuga, Souleymane Keita, Nicholas Mukomberanwa, Henry Munyaradzi, Bruce Onobrakpeya. 1st ed. New York : Studio Museum in Harlem, c1990.
Contemporary African art by numerous artists.

741.2 MAR
Martin, Judy (Frances Judy). Sketching school. Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader’s Digest Association, 1992.
Provides step-by-step instructions on developing the basic artistic skills for producing quality sketches, with forty projects that offer detailed advice on various techniques, and information on tools, materials, and keeping a workbook.

745.107 KOV
Kovel, Terry H. Kovels’ antiques & collectibles price guide 2010. 42nd ed. New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, c2009.
Contains pricing information for more than forty-five thousand antiques and collectibles, arranged in over four hundred categories; and includes 2,500 color photographs as well as tips on collecting.

745.92 OHR
Ohrbach, Barbara Milo. The scented room : Cherchez’s book of dried flowers, fragrance, and potpourri. 1st ed. New York : C.N. Potter : Distributed by Crown Publishers, c1986.
Includes making sachets, door hangings, recipes and dried arrangements.

746.4 PAR
Parker, Freda. Victorian embroidery. New York : Crescent Books, 1991.
A superb collection of classic Victorian designs featuring beautiful color photography of the glorious embroidery in their original settings all specially commissioned for the book, full color charts and trace-off patterns, and detailed practical instructions for each project.

746.43 BUS
Buss, Katharina. Big book of knitting. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Sterling Pub. Co., 2001, c1999.
Describes and illustrates the basic techniques of knitting; provides reference information on knitting problems; features advice on tools and materials; and includes a variety of patterns.

746.43 CHU
Chunky scarves & hats. 1st ed. New York : Sixth&Spring Books, c2004.
Presents patterns for twenty-four “chunky” hats and scarves for women, men, children, and babies, and includes skill-level ratings and an introduction to knitting.

746.43 CLE
Clever, Kristine, 1962-. Clever knits : 15 great looks for kids. Woodinville, Wash. : Martingale & Co., 2002.
Discover this fresh, relaxed approach to knitting for kids.

746.43 COR
Knitting yarns and spinning tales : a knitter’s stash of wit and wisdom. Stillwater, MN : Voyageur Press, c2005.
Knitting daughter / by Perri Klass—In honor of grandma, baseball, and knitting / by Michael Dregni—Cellophane butterflies, pinochel, and brown acrylic / by Greta Cunningham—The will to knit / by Kari Cornell—The perfect baby hat / by Amy Votava—The mysterious stitch / by Carrie Mercer—Faith, hope, and knitting / by Betty Christiansen—Baby blue snuggly / by Kay Dorn—Knitting is work and the widows of sant’ arsenio / by Lela Nargi—Norsk knitting / by Eric Dregni—Another knitter on the block / by Teva Durham—How to read a pattern / by Laura Billings—Ode to my stash / by Sigrid Arnott—Really, it’s not so bad or dermatitis of the lambs / by Amy R. Singer—Curse the fruit hat / by Amy Nelson Sander—Wool and remembrance / by Margret Aldrich—Dumping guilt / by Kay Dorn—Animal comfort / by Susan Gordon Lydon—Knitter’s therapy / by Suzyn Jackson—A day at schoolhouse press / by Meg Swansen—The rhythm and destiny of living loops / by Jennifer Hansen—The road to becoming the fastest crocheter in the world / by Lily M. Chin—Potholder prodigy makes good / by Sigrid Arnott.

746.43 HAM
Ham, Catherine. Knitting : 20 simple & stylish wearables for beginners. 1st ed. New York : Lark Books, c2003.
Contains step-by-step instructions for knitting twenty simple clothing items.

746.43 HAT
Hats : a knitter’s dozen. Sioux Falls, S.D. : XRX, 2005.
Traditional to whimsical stocking caps and hats with twists and turns, textures, and lots of color work, are among the best ideas for hats from Knitter’s Magazine featured in this project book. Providing knitters with an opportunity to learn while they create, these 18 hat projects range in complexity to appeal to beginning through advanced skill levels. Knitters are invited to either start out with more ordinary yarns and stitches or to experiment with rich yarns and sophisticated stitches. A variety of embellishments and visually appealing instructions will inspire knitters to create their own custom designs.

746.43 JEN
Jensen, Candi. Knit scarves! : 16 cool patterns to keep you warm. North Adams, MA : Storey Pub., c2004.
Presents sixteen patterns for knit scarves along with twenty-seven additional yarn variations designed to help beginners learn the basic techniques of knitting.

746.43 LIP
Christmas stockings : 18 holiday treasures to knit. Loveland, CO : Interweave Press, c2001.
Celebrates the joy, beauty, and charm of the Christmas stocking tradition with creations from today’s top designers.

746.43 ROG
KnitLit : sweaters and their stories—and other writing about knitting. 1st ed. New York : Three Rivers Press, c2002.
Contains stories, essays, anecdotes, and recollections about knitting. Whether you’re a dedicated knitter who bestows lovingly crafted gifts upon family and friends at every possible occasion, a sometimes knitter with a bag of fully conceived but half-completed projects, or a newcomer who has recently taken up the needles with great gusto, you know the rewards that this hobby can bring. You may also know that knitting as a hobby can verge on obsession be it the compulsive purchasing of stunning hand-spun wool, the desire to rip out nearly finished sweaters because you dropped a stitch, or the need to knit wherever, whenever, or however you can. Most important, though, knitting offers a camaraderie, a society of women and men who converse in a language all their own, flock to yarn stores with religious devotion, and can recite the time and place where they first learned to purl. These feelings are what KnitLit is all about. In this charming collection of stories, essays, anecdotes, and recollections, knitters of every color celebrate their hobby and share with you the joy it brings into their lives.

746.43 ROG
Knitlit too : stories from sheep to shawl—and more writing about knitting. 1st ed. New York : Three Rivers Press, c2004.
Knitters are a breed unto themselves. They speak their own language, and they harbor a passion for their craft that takes a strong hold, blocking out troubles and worry, whenever they pick up the needles. But knitters are not exclusionary: all are welcome into the warm circle once you appreciate the beauty of hand-spun and dyed yarn, the sense of focus that comes with starting a new project, and the joy of creating something beautiful to share with a loved one. KnitLit Too includes folksinger Christine Lavin and writers Perri Klass, Lesléa Newman, and Suzanne Strempek Shea. Featured as well are stories by a third-grader who picks up the needles for the first time, a mother waiting to wrap her soon-to-be-adopted child in the blanket she made for him, a sister upstaged by her Merchant Marine brother who just so happens to be a natural knitter, a man who is forced to admit to the new woman in his life that, yes, he knows how to knit, and a young girl living with her mother in a battered women’s shelter who is brought back from the brink when she learns to knit. Rounding out these heartwarming true tales are original poetry, meditations, fiction, and even a mystery, all about knitting. KnitLit Too features more than 70 pieces, some sweet and touching, others inspirational or hilarious, and all woven together by the dedication and devotion that knitters feel for a cherished hobby that is for many a way of life.

746.43 SCR
Scruggs, Afi. Beyond stitch & bitch : reflections on knitting and life. Hillsboro, Or. : Beyond Words Pub., c2004.
A collection of essays that explores the emotional and spiritual experiences common to those who knit. Its stories chronicle how knitting can be a spiritual, meditative experience, and how one can learn patience, creativity, discipline, and diligence from knitting. Intertwined with the essays are knitting patterns with easy how-to steps and photographs.

746.43 STE
Knit baby blankets! North Adams, MA : Storey Books, 2003.
These 15 easy to follow patterns will help even first time knitters create an heirloom piece any newborn’s parents will surely treasure.

746.43 VAN
Vanna’s afghans A to Z : 52 crochet favorites. Birmingham, Ala. : Oxmoor House : Leisure Arts, c1994.
Television personality Vanna White presents 52 of her favorite afghan designs. Vanna leads readers through the collection from A to Z in beautiful full-color photos. Designs cover everything from the traditional granny square and designs for men to delicate heirlooms, baby designs, and designs for Christmas.

746.43 VOG
Vogue knitting scarves. New York : Sixth&Spring Books, c2002.
Contains illustrated instructions and patterns for knitting twenty-four scarves, including pom-pom, triangular, gossamer shawl, hooded, and more.

746.43 VOG
Vogue knitting scarves two. 1st ed. New York : Sixth & Spring Books, c2003.
Contains detailed instructions and photographs for making twenty-five knitted scarves for both the beginner as well as for the novice knitter.

751.4 SHI
Shiraishi, Yuko, 1956-. Yuko Shiraishi. Ostfildern : Cantz, 1996.
Issued on the occasion of the exhibition held June 6-Aug. 24, 1996 at the ACP Viviane Ehrli Galerie, Zurich

751.45 ROS
Ross, Bob, 1942-. The best of the Joy of painting with Bob Ross, America’s favorite art instructor. 1st ed. New York : W. Morrow, c1989.
A selection of Bob’s sixty favorite paintings, with step-by-step instructions.

759.5 AHL
Ahl, Diane Cole, 1949-. Fra Angelico. London ; New York, N.Y. :Phaidon Press, 2008.
Fra Angelico (Fra Giovanni di Fiesole, c. 1390/95-1455) was the most celebrated religious painter of the early Italian Renaissance. This new monograph surveys Fra Angelico’s entire career, from his little-known beginning as a lay painter through his work at San Marco in Florence after taking holy orders as a Dominican, and finally to his prestigious commissions at the Vatican and Orvieto Cathedral. The book includes reproductions of all of Fra Angelico’s greatest works, including altarpieces, frescoes, and ceilings. It explores how Fra Angelico’s religious devotion informed his work, contributing to its intensity and originality.

782.4216 BUR
Burnett, David, 1946-. Soul rebel : an intimate portrait of Bob Marley. San Rafael, CA : Insight Editions, c2009.
Contains photographs of singer/songwriter Bob Marley taken by photojournalist David Burnett in Jamaica in 1976 and throughout the reggae legend’s European tour in the spring of 1977, and includes text in which Burnett comments on his experiences with Marley and his band.

792.09 BRO
Brockett, Oscar Gross, 1923-. History of the theatre. 10th ed. Boston : Pearson, c2008.
Known as the “bible” of theatre history, Brockett and Hildy’s History of the Theatre is the most comprehensive and widely used survey of theatre history in the market. This 40th Anniversary Edition retains all of the traditional features that have made History of the Theatre the most successful text of its kind, including worldwide coverage, more than 530 photos and illustrations, useful maps, and the expertise of Oscar G. Brockett and Franklin J. Hildy, two of the most widely respected theatre historians in the field. As with every edition, the text reflects the current state of knowledge and brings the history of theatre up to the present.

796.7201 LES
Leslie-Pelecky, Diandra L. The physics of NASCAR : how to make steel + gas + rubber = speed. New York : Dutton, c2008.
Explains the physics of race car driving, focusing on how NASCAR stock cars are engineered and the applications of engine power, aerodynamics, and tire grip capability.

814.6 GLA
Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-. What the dog saw and other adventures. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2009.
Collects essays from Malcolm Gladwell, a British-born journalist and staff writer for “The New Yorker,” that explore a range of topics, including intelligence tests, ethnic profiling, the history of hair dye, and more.

907.2 MIL
Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Evidence explained : citing history sources from artifacts to cyberspace. Baltimore, Md. : Genealogical Pub. Co., 2007.
Offers students, scholars, and history buffs practical tips and strategies for citing different types of historical sources, including websites, DVDs, audio files, podcasts, and e-zines.

910.911 STR
Streever, Bill. Cold : adventures in the world’s frozen places. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
Presents a discussion of the influence of cold on the planet, from glaciers to snowflakes, permafrost, and hibernation, and includes anecdotes about polar expeditions, migration, refrigeration, and the climates of past ages.

917.43 FRA
Frank, Catherine L. A kayaker’s guide to Lake Champlain : exploring the New York, Vermont & Quebec shores. 1st ed. paperback. Hensonville, N.Y. : Black Dome Press Corp., 2009.
50 different watery paths of adventure divided into eight sections covering the Champlain Islands, the Inland Sea, Missisquoi Bay, Broad Lake North, Malletts Bay, Broad Lake East, Broad Lake West, and South Bay, provide an intimate, cove by cove, island by island exploration of America s other great lake, celebrating the 400th anniversary of Samuel de Champlain s epochal journey of discovery in 1609. The routes are described, paddle stoke by paddle stroke, augmented with maps and photographs and enlivened with essays on early Native Americans, the pivotal naval battles of Plattsburgh and Valcour Island, lighthouses and shipwrecks, the French & Indian wars, the Revolution and the War of 1812, smugglers, the fascinating geology of this fossil-rich one-time arm of the sea, and up-to-date environmental issues like algae bloom, urban and farm runoff, milfoil, zebra mussels, fish hatcheries and endangered species. The result is a well-rounded overview of a remarkable natural resource. Appendices include information on Lake Champlain environmental organizations, museums & historical places, wildlife areas, state parks, and launch sites. Includes 54 maps, 93 photographs, and 9 original drawings.

920 EDG
Edgerton, James. The Unknown Rockwell. Waterside Pub, 2008.
Authors James Buddy Edgerton and Nan O’Brien remind us in their latest book of the courage that got our country through an incredibly tough time in the past, that of the Great Depression and World War II. The book, told in anecdotal narratives, provides a first person account of two families who were unique because of both their disparity and their similarity. While they came from two economic ends of the spectrum - the Edgertons, poor dairy farmers/the Rockwells, successful due to Norman’s talents - they shared a love of family, a commitment to integrity, and a consideration of one another that created a closeness of friendship that mirrored the physical closeness of their two houses. The book is supplemented by 32 pages of personal photos and photos from Norman’s actual modeling sessions, accompanied by the resulting illustrations.

920 STE
Stewart, Alana. My journey with Farrah : a story of life, love, and friendship. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2009.
Presents a memoir of the author’s friendship with Farrah Fawcett, covering their support of each other through life in Hollywood and various family issues, focusing on the three years spent dealing with Fawcett’s debilitating disease.

921 CLEMONS
Clemons, Clarence. Big man : real life & tall tales. 1st ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2009.
For the first time ever comes the inside story of Clarence “Big Man” Clemons—his life before, during and beyond the E-Street Band, including unbelievable, never-before-told adventures with Bruce Springsteen, the band, and an incredible cast of other famous characters recounted by himself and his best friend, television writer/ producer Don Reo.

921 JACKSON
Halperin, Ian. Unmasked : the final years of Michael Jackson. 1st Simon Spotlight Entertainment hardcover ed. New York : Simon Spotlight Entertainment, c2009.
Discusses the life of entertainer Michael Jackson, covering topics such as his health problems, family, and celebrity friends in order to clarify the truth behind various controversies and analyze the reasons for his death.

921 KENNEDY LP
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009. True compass : a memoir. 1st large print ed. New York : Twelve Large Print, 2009.
Edward M. Kennedy tells his personal story, discussing his legendary family, political career, cancer diagnosis, faith, and more.

921 KIDD
Kidd, Sue Monk. Traveling with pomegranates : a mother-daughter story. New York : Viking, 2009.
Best-selling author Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter, Ann, chronicle their travels together between 1998 and 2000, when they embarked on a journey of self-discovery and reconnection through Greece and France.

921 MO
Spirit bridges : coming of age in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, Madrid and New York City in the 60’s : a memoir. Boston, MA : Streetfeet Press, 2009.
In Spirit Bridges, Li Mo undertakes a personal odyssey against the background of flight from Mao’s China, the beauty and mystery of a child’s world in Taiwan, then a rural, undeveloped island refuge, her family’s sojourn in Spain during its struggle with fascism, and coming of age in New York, at the height of the political upheavals of the 1960s. She must find words in a new language ‘English was like sawdust in my mouth’, cope with the depression of her widowed mother, a gifted journalist in exile, face the fear and fascination of a violent yet intensely creative urban American culture, and discover at last her own voice through visual arts, storytelling, and the writing of this absorbing book.

921 ROOSEVELT
Brinkley, Douglas. The wilderness warrior : Theodore Roosevelt and the crusade for America. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2009.
Examines the life and presidential legacy of Theodore Roosevelt, covering his efforts for the conservation of American wilderness, the influences of figures such as John James Audubon and Charles Darwin on Roosevelt, and his impact on the lives of future Americans.

921 SILONE
Pugliese, Stanislao G., 1965-. Bitter spring : a life of Ignazio Silone. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
A biography of Italian author Ignazio Silone, who founded the Italian Communist Party, was an outspoken opponent of both fascism and Soviet oppression, and, after his death, was suspected of being an informant for the Fascist police.

921 SPELLING
Spelling, Candy. Stories from Candyland. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2009.
Candy Spelling reflects on her life, discussing her childhood, marriage to film and television producer Aaron Spelling, views on being a wife and mother, relationship with her son and estranged daughter, pets, and much more.

921 TILLMAN
Krakauer, Jon. Where men win glory : the odyssey of Pat Tillman. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2009.
Presents a biographical discussion of Pat Tillman, covering the true events and actions surrounding the death of the U.S. Army soldier by friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004, and examines the misrepresentation of his story by the Bush administration before the truth was revealed.

940.53 EDS
Edsel, Robert M. The monuments men : Allied heros, Nazi thieves, and the greatest treasure hunt in history. 1st ed. New York : Center Street, 2009.
Presents an account of those who were part of a special force of American and British curators, art historians, museum curators, and other experts who risked their lives to prevent the destruction of cultural artifacts and structures while also trying to locate missing items that had been stolen by the Nazis during World War II.

940.5316 BRE
Brenner-Wonschick, Hannelore, 1951-. The girls of room 28 : friendship, hope, and survival in Theresienstadt. 1st American ed. New York : Schocken Books, c2009.
Ten women who survived the Theresienstadt internment camp near Prague before going to Auschwitz recount how they survived the horrors of the war.

960.32 DOW
Dowden, Richard. Africa : altered states, ordinary miracles. 1st ed. New York : Public Affairs, 2009.
Explores the history, cultures, and peoples of Africa, with a focus on the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries; and describes commerce in Senegal, spirituality in Sierra Leone, and the pitfalls of Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo.

972.92 THO
Thompson, Nicholas, 1975-. The hawk and the dove : Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the history of the Cold War. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt, 2009.
Presents a comprehensive biography of Paul Nitze and George Kennan, describing the influence each man had upon American politics and the events surrounding the Cold War.

973.922 WAL
Waldron, Lamar, 1954-. Legacy of secrecy : the long shadow of the JFK assassination. Berkeley [Calif.] : Counterpoint, c2008.
Describes how a full investigation on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was prevented by Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and other top officials who were hiding information on a planned invasion of Cuba in November 1963, for fear of inviting a nuclear confrontation from Russia, but resulted in the assassins’ involvement in the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.

973.932 BAL
Balz, Daniel J. The battle for America, 2008 : the story of an extraordinary election. New York : Viking, 2009.
Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson followed this campaign from the candidates’ first forays into Iowa and New Hampshire to the historic night of Obama’s victory celebration.

974.3 FEE VT COLL
Feeney, Vincent. Finnigans, slaters, and stonepeggers : a history of the Irish in Vermont. 1st ed. Bennington, Vt. : Images from the Past, 2009.
The first book that peels back the Yankee mythos and examines the surprisingly rich, true story of the Irish in Vermont, from the first steady trickle of colonial pioneers to the flood of famine refugees and onward. From Fort Ticonderoga to Civil War battlefields to up until the years after World War II: how the Irish arrived, survived, fought, labored, organized, worshipped, played, and managed to prosper . . . a surprisingly behind-the-scenes American success story that has never been fully told until now.

976.335 EGG
Eggers, Dave. Zeitoun. San Francisco [Calif.] : McSweeney’s Books, c2009.
Details the experiences of Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a Syrian-American and New Orleans resident, and his family, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and details how he was arrested and falsely imprisoned because of his ethnicity.

REFERENCE

REF 378.3 PET
Peterson’s how to get money for college : financing your future beyond federal aid, 2010. 27th ed. Lawrenceville, NJ : Peterson’s, c2009.
HOW TO GET MONEY FOR COLLEGE is a great resource for anyone looking to supplement his or her federal financial aid package with aid from colleges and universities. This comprehensive directory points you to complete and accurate information on need-based and non-need gift aid, loans, work-study, athletic awards, and more. Unique to this book is the Colleges-at-a-Glance Cost Chart, an easy-to-use comparison chart that lists the full costs that can be expected, aid packages, and more for each of more than 2,000 four-year colleges and universities, organized by state.

REF 378.73 PET
Peterson’s (COR). Two-year colleges. 33rd ed. (2003)-.Lawrenceville, NJ : Thomson/Peterson’s, c2002-. Offers information on more than 1,700 community and junior colleges in the United States and Canada.


AUDIO-VISUAL

CD COB
Coben, Harlan, 1962-. Gone for good. New York : Random House, 2005.
Read by Dylan Baker. “As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins’ affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman—a girl Will had once loved—was found brutally murdered in her family’s basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished. And when his shattered family never heard from Ken again, they were sure he was gone for good. Now eleven years have passed. Will has found proof that Ken is alive. And this is just the first in a series of stunning revelations as Will is forced to confront startling truths about his brother, and even himself. As a violent mystery unwinds around him, Will knows he must press his search all the way to the end. Because the most powerful surprises are yet to come”—Publisher’s web site.

CD CRU
Crusie, Jennifer. Tell me lies. Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, p2004.
Read by Joyce Bean. After finding a pair of black lace panties under the front seat of her husband’s car and cavorting herself in the back seat of another vehicle with her old high-school flame, Maddie Faraday realizes that the truth is elusive in a small town.

CD CUS
Cussler, Clive. Polar shift. Unabridged. New York, NY : Penguin Audio, p2005.
Read by Scott Brick. An anti-globalization activist learns how to artificially trigger a polar shift. He plans to use the event to jolt industrialized nations into corrective action. Unfortunately, unless NUMA Special Assignment Team can stop him, his “wake-up call” could annihilate the entire population of the world.

CD DIC
Dickey, Eric Jerome. Sleeping with strangers. Unabridged. Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, p2007.
Read by Dion Graham. In London on assignment, contract killer Gideon searches for a murderer called ‘The Big Bad Wolf.’ Gideon has a personal vendetta this time around, and will stop at nothing to fulfill it.

CD EVA
Evanovich, Janet. Between the Plums. [New York, N.Y.] : Macmillan Audio, p2009.
Read by Lorelei King. Janet Evanovich presents a special addition to the Stephanie Plum series. For the first time ever, listeners can experience three between-the-numbers Stephanie Plum novels (Visions of Sugar Plums; Plum Lovin’; and Plum Lucky) together in one entertaining audiobook. Join the ditzy yet lovable New Jersey bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum, as she gets lucky in Atlantic City, crosses paths with the smoldering Diesel, and tries to get into the holiday spirit, all while catching town-skipping criminals.

CD KEL
Kellerman, Jonathan. Silent partner. New York : Random House Audio, p1989.
Read by John Rubinstein. This audio selection is a suspense thriller with clues from the victim’s difficult childhood where family secrets cover a disturbing past.

CD NEI
Neill, Fiona. Slummy mummy. Unabridged. New York : Listen & Live Audio, p2007.
Katherine Kellgren. Follows the misadventures of a stay-at-home mom, who struggles between the chaos of caring for three young boys and her ideals as inspired by a perfectionist reality-television style program.

CD OPERA TOSCA
Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924. Tosca. [Italy] : Portland, OR : Opera D’Oro ; Columbia River Entertainment, c1998.
Music from the opera Tosca by Puccini.

DVD 333.78 NAT
The national parks : America’s best idea. [United States] :Hollywood, Calif. : PBS Home Video ; Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, c2009.
Narrator: Peter Coyote. Traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years. Using archival photographs, first-person accounts of historical characters, personal memories and analysis from more than 40 interviews, and what Burns believes is the most stunning cinematography in Florentine Films’ history, the series chronicles the steady addition of new parks through the stories of the people who helped create them and save them from destruction.

DVD 822.33 WHY
Why Shakespeare? [Washington, D.C.] : National Endowment for the Arts, 2004.
Various famous and not so famous individuals state the effect that Shakespeare’s works have had in their lives. A main video presentation accompanied by seventeen vignettes.

DVD BUT
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Special ed. Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2000].
Paul Blends adventure, romance and comedy to tell the story of the West’s most likeable outlaws, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as they set out for Bolivia with the law on their heels.

DVD CEL
Celebrity. Widescreen version. Burbank, Calif. : Miramax Home Entertainment, [1998
Following their divorce, the lives of a restless writer and his inhibited ex-wife take off in unpredictable directions.

DVD CON
The constant gardener. Widescreen ed. Universal City, CA : Focus Features : Distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2006].
In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa’s companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa’s widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife’s infidelities, Quayle surprises everyone by embarking on a personal odyssey that will take him across three continents. Using his privileged access to diplomatic secrets, Justin risks his own life and will stop at nothing to expose the truth - a conspiracy more far-reaching and deadly than Quayle could ever have imagined.

DVD DYI
Dying young. Widescreen. Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2004.
A young woman is hired as the caretaker of a terminally ill young man. Their friendship grows into a love that is tested by the fact that they both know he will die.

DVD ELE
Electra. Santa Monica, CA : MGM DVD, 2002.
“Desolation and despair reign supreme in the kingdom of Mycenae. The great Agamemnon has been brutally murdered; his son Orestes has fled and his daughter Electra has been imprisoned within the walls of the castle. All hope seems lost until the sacred oracle speaks and replaces Electra’s broken spirit with an unquenchable desire for justice and bloody vengeance.”

DVD HOP
Hopscotch. [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2002].
One of the CIA’s top international operatives is suddenly relegated to a desk job in an agency power play. Unwilling to go quietly, and with the aid of a chic Viennese widow, he puts himself back in the game by writing a memoir exposing the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world. The CIA now wants him dead, but he refuses to cooperate—because he’s having to much fun!

DVD KEN
Kenny. [London] : Contender Films, c2008.
Follow Kenny, the affable portable loo plumber as he tackles every septic challenge that comes his way, juggling family tensions, fatherhood and sewage with charm, humour and unflinching dignity.

DVD MYS
Mystic pizza. Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, [2001].
Three young women, waitresses at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut, spend a special summer discovering romance.

DVD RAN
Ransom. Special ed. Burbank, Calif. : Touchstone Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2004.
When the son of a wealthy businessman is kidnapped, he defies the experts and turns the tables on the kidnappers in a last-chance effort to rescue his boy.

DVD SER
Serenity. Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, c2005.
A group of intergalactic revolutionaries get more than they bargained for when they agree to transport two teenagers aboard their ship.

DVD SMA S.1
Smallville. : Season 1. Widescreen. Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2003.
Focuses on the life of the young Clark Kent as he struggles to deal with his powers as well as teenage life in Smallville, Kansas.

DVD STU
Stuck on you. [Full screen version]. [United States] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2004], c2003.
Conjoined twins, Bob and Walt, are happy living their lives together and manage just fine, playing hockey, working at the diner, and cruising for babes, until one decides he wants to be an actor and the other has stage fright and panic attacks.

DVD TUL
Tulpan. New York, NY : Zeitgeist Films, [2009].
Asa is a young Russian naval service dreamer who returns to his sister’s nomadic brood on the desolate Hunger Steppe to begin a hardscrabble career as a shepherd. But before he can tend a flock of his own, Asa must win the hand of the only eligible bachelorette for miles, his alluringly mysterious neighbor Tulpan. Accompanied by his girlie magazine-reading sidekick, Asa will stop at nothing to prove he is a worthy husband and herder.

DVD WIL
Wild about Harry. Toronto : TVA Films, 2002.
When it comes to memory, Harry’s at a loss.

New Titles - October 2009

FICTION

F ANDERSEN
Andersen, Kurt, 1954-. Heyday : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2007.
Aristocratic Benjamin Knowles impulsively leaves the Old World in the mid-nineteenth century and travels to New York where he is befriended by muckraking journalist Timothy Skaggs, Mexican War veteran and firefighter Duff Lucking, and Duff’s actress sister Polly, and together the four set off for the frontier, chasing the prospects of new beginnings and California gold.

F ANDERSON
Anderson, James. The affair of the mutilated mink. Scottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, [1999], c1981.
The Earl of Burford permits a movie mogul to use his seventeenth-century country estate for a new Rex Ransom film, leaving the Countess reluctantly playing hostess to Hollywood’s elite.

F ASIMOV
Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992. The currents of space. 1st Tor ed. New York : Tor, 2009.
Rik—who was abducted, brought to Florina, and brainwashed—is considered unintelligent by his community, but when his memories begin to return to him he becomes helplessly aware of a threat against all life on Florina.

F BAGSHAWE
Bagshawe, Tilly. Sidney Sheldon’s Mistress of the game. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2009.
Eve and Alexandra, the great-granddaughters of Kate Blackwell, battle for control of the powerful multibillion-dollar corporation, but their desire to lead the company is threatened by their own ambitions, dark secrets from the past, and a little-known descendant of Kate’s great-grandfather.

F BAJWA
Bajwa, Rupa, 1976-. The sari shop : a novel. 1st American ed. New York : Norton, 2004.
Ramchand, a lowly clerk in a sari shop, sees both sides of the class gap when he strives to improve his own status in society, but is soon disillusioned.

F BARR
Barr, Nevada. Borderline. New York : G. P. Putnam’s Sons, c2009.
Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon, on administrative leave after being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, hopes that a rafting trip in Big Bend National Park, planned by her husband of one year, will pull her out of her depression, but trouble finds her once again when the raft is lost in the rapids and one of the rafters discovers a pregnant woman, near death, caught in a tangle of downed branches.

F BASS
Bass, Hyatt. The Embers : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Holt, 2009.
The pending marriage of Emily Asher, on the grounds of the family’s old vacation home in the Berkshires, forces her and her divorced parents to finally confront the difficulties that arose among them following the death of her brother Thomas years earlier.

F BENFORD
Benford, Gregory, 1941-. Heart of the comet. [Book club ed.]. Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1986.
An odyssey of discovery, from a shattered society through the solar system with a handful of men and women who ride a cold, hurtling ball of ice to the shaky promise of a distant, unknowable future.

F BISHOP
Bishop, Michael. Transfigurations. [Book club ed.]. New York : Berkley Pub. Corp. : Distributed by Putnam, c1979.
An anthropological science fiction novel that delves deeply into what it means to be human. It is the haunting and disturbing tale of an anthropologist who follows the footsteps of his brilliant former partner who disappeared into the alien jungle after totally immersing himself physically and psychologically in the life of another species. The Asadi are hominids that appear to have degenerated from a much more advanced society into the primitive daily reenacting of brutish, incomprehensible, almost hallucinatory rituals. The closer he comes to the intuitive leap that would let him understand them, the deeper he slips into the madness, which may be the fate of any member of a species that too deeply partakes in the nature of another. The aliens are some of the most convincing ever invented, the story is gripping and the conclusion (actually the whole story) is unforgettable.

F BROWN
Brown, Sandra, 1948-. Smash cut : a novel. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
When a prominent Atlanta businessman is shot and killed during an armed robbery, it at first appears to be just a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. His friend Julie Rutledge believes differently, however, and sets out to prove it wasn’t an accident but murder, orchestrated by the victim’s nephew, Creighton Wheeler. Wheeler’s defense attorney soon realizes that his client is as depraved as is claimed.

F BRUCHAC
Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-. The waters between : a novel of the dawn land. Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, c1998.
Young Hunter, a Native American shaman, must use his full powers to defeat the threat of a huge water-snake monster that is keeping his people from reaping the harvest of the Petonbowk Lake, and to stop the senseless evil of Watches Darkness, an outcast who has turned against his tribe.

F BUKOWSKI
Bukowski, Charles. Post Office : a novel. 1st Ecco ed. New York : Ecco, 2002, c1971.
Despite Henry Chinaski’s lust for women, betting, and booze, he has managed to drag himself out of his hangover every day to work for the United States Postal Service for twelve years where he faces the trials and tribulations associated with being a postal carrier.

F BUNCH
Bunch, Chris. Star Risk, Ltd. New York : Roc, c2002.
M’chel Riss, out of promotion options after eight years in the Alliance Marines, decides to recoup her fortunes by joining Star Risk, Ltd., a mercenary outfit whose first mission is to free a dangerous supersoldier confined in a maximum-security prison.

F BURROUGHS
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950. Llano of Gathol, and John Carter of Mars. [Book Club ed.]. Garden City, N.Y. : N. Doubleday, c1977.
“Llano of Gathol” is a collection of four novellas written in the Martian series of Edgar Rice Burroughs which was written for Amazing Stories in 1941. Llano, the daughter of Gahan of Gothol, is the perfect damsel in distress. “The Llano of Gathol” consists of four stories. First “The Ancient Dead” (originally “The City of Mummies”) followed by “The Black Pirates of Barsoom”, “Escape on Mars” and finally “Invisible Men of Mars”. The four books in this series are truly comprised of parody and satire.

F BY
By blood we live. Portland, Or. : London : Night Shade ; Diamond [distributor], 2009.
Vampires. They are the most elegant of monsters—ancient, seductive, doomed, deadly. They lurk in the shadows, at your window, in your dreams. They are beautiful as anything you’ve ever seen, but their flesh is cold as the grave, and their lips taste of blood. From Dracula to Twilight, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to True Blood, many have fallen under their spell. Now acclaimed editor John Joseph Adams brings you 33 of the most haunting vampire stories of the past three decades, from some of today s most renowned authors of fantasy, science fiction, and horror.

F CASSELLA
Cassella, Carol Wiley. Oxygen. 1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2009, c2008.
Anesthesiologist Marie Heaton is devastated when her patient, an eight-year-old girl, dies on the operating table, leaving Marie open to a lawsuit and questioning her own abilities as she struggles to deal with the aftermath of her mistake and her own father’s failing health.

F CLARKE
Clarke, Arthur Charles, 1917-. Prelude to Mars; : an omnibus containing the complete novels Prelude to space and The sands of Mars and sixteen short stories. [1st ed.]. New York, : Harcourt, Brace & World, [1965].
This collection houses the classic novels Prelude To Space (ACC’s first published novel) and The Sands of Mars, as well as a good amount of short stories broken up into two categories: On The Light Side and On The Serious Side. On The Light Side contains a handful of stories from Clarke’s classic sci-fi comedy collection Tales From The White Hart, as well as the hilarious short story Trouble With The Natives. On The Serious Side contains Clarke stories from various places that focus on the more serious aspects of science fiction. Included in it are several selections from the Reach For Tomorrow collection and a few other places, as well as the longer short stories Exile of the Eons and Second Dawn.

F CLEVERLY
Cleverly, Barbara. The last Kashmiri rose. Dell mass market ed. New York : Ba