New books and media for March 08

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F AULT
Ault, Sandi. Wild inferno. 1st ed. New York : Berkley Prime Crime, c2008.
Wild Indigo introduced rough and ready Bureau of Land Management agent Jamaica Wild. Now she returns—deployed to a wildfire on the Southern Ute reservation, where a puzzling plea whispered by a burning man points to a mystery more menacing than murder.

F BALZO
Balzo, Sandra. Grounds for murder : a Maggy Thorsen mystery. 1st world ed. New York : Severn House, 2008, c2007.
Coffee shop owner Maggy Thorsen, while at a coffee convention in Milwaukee, discovers the dead body of her top competitor and decides she better do some investigating on her own—before police start to suspect she is the murderer.

F BANKS
Banks, Russell. The Reserve : a novel. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2008.
Part love story, part murder mystery, set on the cusp of the Second World War, Russell Banks’s sharp-witted and deeply engaging new novel raises dangerous questions about class, politics, art, love, and madness - and explores what happens when two powerful personalities, trapped at opposite ends of a social divide, begin to break the rules.

F BARNES
Barnes, Jonathan. The somnambulist. 1st U.S. edition. New York : William Morrow, c2007.
Edward Moon, “a conjuror by profession” whose act has fallen on hard times, has cracked some of the city’s most notorious murders. Now, he’s leading the investigation into a shadowy religious group aiming to overtake London and do away with its oppressive, bourgeois tendencies. (from Publisher’s Weekly).

F BARRETT
Barrett, Jo. This is how it happened : (not a love story). 1st ed. New York : Avon, c2007.
Madeline Piatro devises a plan for revenge after her boyfriend Carlton steals her business idea and dumps her, leaving Madeline broke and broken hearted, and with the help of a bumbling hit man and her best friends, Madeline sets out to make Carlton pay for his actions, with surprising results.

F BASS
Bass, Jefferson. The devil’s bones : a novel. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2008.
Two cases occupy Dr. Bass’s fictional alter ego, Dr. Bill Brockton—the death of Mary Latham, a 47-year-old Knoxville native, whose charred remains were found in a burned-out car, and a disreputable Georgia crematorium that simply dumped bodies on its grounds. These probes soon take a backseat to a cat-and-mouse game with the doctor’s arch nemesis, Garland Hamilton, who tried to frame him for murder in Flesh and Bone. (from Publishers Weekly).

F BEATON
Beaton, M. C. Death of a gentle lady. 1st ed. New York : Warner Books, c2008.
Scotland’s most laconic and low-tech policeman, Hamish MacBeth, is back and this time he must investigate the death of a gentle lady. (from the publisher).

F BERENSON
Berenson, Alex. The ghost war. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2008.
When the CIA’s efforts to extract Dr. Sung Kwan, a North Korean scientist and an invaluable source on Kim Jong Il’s nuclear ambitions, result in the deaths of Kwan and the rescue team, Wells’s significant other, Jennifer Exley, searches to identify the person in U.S. intelligence who compromised Kwan’s security. Meanwhile, Wells returns to Afghanistan, the scene of much of the action in The Faithful Spy, to find out what outside country has been helping the Taliban reassert itself. (from Publishers Weekly).

F BERRY LP
Berry, Steve. The Venetian betrayal : a novel. 1st Large Print ed. New York : Random House Large Print, c2007.
Cotton Malone, a retired intelligence officer turned rare book dealer, is thrown into the middle of a diabolical plot for world domination. Irina Zovastina, the Supreme Minister of a powerful collective of old Soviet republics, has an insidious plan to use biological weapons, at the cost of millions of lives, in a maniacal attempt to conquer the world. For her stratagem to succeed, she must unearth a secret hidden within the final resting place of Alexander the Great, a burial site whose location has been shrouded in mystery for millennia. (from Publishers Weekly).

F BLACK
Black, Cara. Murder in the rue de Paradis. New York : Soho, c2008.
Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc accepts the marriage proposal of her former lover, Yves, and then finds herself trying to avenge his murder, which is connected to Turkish-Kurdish politics and Islamic terrorism.

F BOHJALIAN LP
Bohjalian, Christopher A. The double bind. 1st large print ed. New York : Random House Large Print in association with Vintage Books : Distributed by Random Books, c2008.
When college sophomore Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont’s back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography and begins to work at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of photographs that he won’t let anyone see. When Bobbie dies suddenly, Laurel discovers that he was telling the truth: before he was homeless, Bobbie Crocker was a successful photographer who had indeed worked with such legends as Chuck Berry, Robert Frost, and Eartha Kitt. As Laurel’s fascination with Bobbie’s former life begins to merge into obsession, she becomes convinced that some of his photographs reveal a deeply hidden, dark family secret.

F CAREY
Carey, Peter. His illegal self. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2008.
When the boy was almost eight, a woman stepped out of the elevator into the apartment on East Sixty-second Street and he recognized her straightaway. No one had told him to expect it. That was pretty typical of growing up with Grandma Selkirk . . . No one would dream of saying, Here is your mother returned to you.

F COETZEE
Coetzee, J. M.. Diary of a bad year. 1st American ed. New York : Viking, 2008, c2007.
Senor C, an aging author, sets out to write his opinions on the changing world and draws the criticisms and ire of world leaders, ordinary citizens, and friends and family from around the world.

F COONTS LP
Coonts, Stephen. The traitor. Center Point large print ed. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2006.
Within the European Union, national espionage agencies are fiercely competing for supremacy against each other and against the CIA. When the Americans discover that the director of the French spy agency has secret investments in the Bank of Palestine, alarm bells go off. Jake Grafton is sent to investigate, with the help of Tommy Carmellini. Together they uncover an elaborate strategy to infiltrate the highest levels of Al Qaeda and even more frightening, a plan to shake the West as never before.

F DELINSKY LP
Delinsky, Barbara. The secret between us. 1st large print ed. New York : Random House Large Print, c2008.
Deborah Monroe makes a split-second decision to take the blame for a car accident that left a man dead, hiding the fact that her daughter, Grace, was driving, and as the lie seems to overshadow everything else, Grace and Deborah find their relationship tested and their futures changed forever.

F DIVAKARUNI
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. The palace of illusions : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2008.
A reinterpretation of the ancient Indian epic the “Mahabharat,” in which Panchaali, a child destined to change history, marries all five Pandava brothers and builds the magnificent Palace of Illusions, only to have her spiritual failings lead them all to the brink of disaster.

F DOHERTY
Doherty, P. C. The poisoner of Ptah : a story of intrigue and murder set in ancient Egypt. 1st U.S. ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2008, c2007.
Amerotke, Chief Judge of the Halls of Two Truths in Pharoah Hatusu’s Egypt, is called in to find a killer known as the Poisoner of Ptah, who has been targeting leading scribes in ancient Egypt.

F ENGLEHARDT
Motrocycle Man : Voodoo Moon. Pub Works, c2006.
Book two of the Motorcycleman series.

F EVANOVICH
Evanovich, Janet. Plum lucky. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2008, c2007.
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum wades into the middle of a confusing case of stolen race horses and dirty money when her Grandma Mazur finds a duffle bag full of cash on St. Patrick’s Day, buys a Winnebago, and heads to Atlantic City.

F EVANOVICH LP
Evanovich, Janet. Plum lucky. 1st large print ed. New York : Random House Large Print, c2007.
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum wades into the middle of a confusing case of stolen race horses and dirty money when her Grandma Mazur finds a duffle bag full of cash on St. Patrick’s Day, buys a Winnebago, and heads to Atlantic City.

F EVANS
Evans, Harriet. A hopeless romantic. New York : Downtown Press, c2007.
Laura Foster is a hopeless romantic. Her friends know it, her parents know it - even Laura acknowledges she lives either with her head in the clouds or buried in a romance novel. It’s proved harmless enough, even if it hasn’t delivered her a real-life dashing hero yet. But when her latest relationship ends in a disaster that costs her friendships, her job, and nearly her sanity, Laura swears off men and hopeless romantic fantasies for good. With her life in tatters around her, Laura agrees to go on vacation with her parents. After a few days of visiting craft shops and touring the stately homes of England, Laura is ready to tear her hair out. And then, while visiting grand Chartley Hall, she crosses paths with Nick.

F FARMER
Farmer, Philip José. Venus on the half-shell. New York : Dell Publishing, 1975, 1976 printing.
Farmer appends his own name at last to his stories written under pen names borrowed from other authors’ characters, most famously Venus on the Half-Shell, a novel allegedly by Kurt Vonnegut’s fictional science fiction writer, Kilgore Trout. As Harry Manders, created by E.W. Horning, Farmer pens the suspenseful “The Problem of the Sore Bridge-Among Others.” As Rex Stout’s psychologically and physically maimed Paul Chapin, he offers the violent “The Volcano.” A story by Harlan Ellison’s Cordwainer Bird, “The Last Rise of Nick Adams,” discloses that Bird was related to Farmerian heroes the Shadow and the Spider. Finally, after demonstrating how Tarzan might have sounded had he been written by William S. rather than Edgar Rice, Farmer dons the mantle of Conan Doyle’s Dr. Watson and introduces Tarzan to Holmes in “The Adventure of the Peerless Peer.” (from Publishers Weekly).

F FAUST
Faust, Christa. Money shot. New York : Enfield : Hard Case Crime ; Publishers Group UK [distributor], c2008.
It all began with the phone call asking former porn star Angel Dare to do one more movie. Before she knew it, she’d been shot and left for dead in the trunk of a car. However, Angel is a survivor and that means she’ll get to the bottom of what’s been done to her even if she has to leave a trail of bodies along the way. (from the publisher, edited).

F FERRIGNO
Ferrigno, Robert. Sins of the assassin : a novel. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, c2008.
In 2043, almost 30 years after a series of suitcase nukes destroyed New York City and Washington, D.C., the U.S. is divided into two major regions—the Islamic Republic and the Bible Belt. Islam and fundamentalist Christianity have respectively filled the spiritual vacuum caused by the mass destruction and the subsequent imposition of martial law. The underdeveloped plot focuses on the efforts of master killer Rakkim Epps to keep a powerful weapon out of the hands of the Colonel, a leader of the Bible Belt.

F FREEMAN
Freeman, Brian. Stalked. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, c2008.
When Maggie Sorenson, a cop in Duluth, MN, finds her husband murdered in their home, she knows the spouse is always the prime suspect. Jonathan Stride, her partner, her best friend, and the chief of detectives, is off the case but trying to help, as is his lover, Serena, an ex-cop from Las Vegas and now a private investigator. Stride also is busy with an old murder case and a newly missing woman, while Serena is in the middle of a disturbing blackmail case. (from Library Journal).

F GARWOOD LP
Garwood, Julie. Shadow music : a novel. 1st large print ed. New York : Random House Large Print, c2007.
Princess Gabrielle of St. Biel is sent to Scotland by King John of England to marry a Highland chieftain in hopes of deterring conflict along the border, and while on her way, she saves the life of a man, resulting in her marrying the man’s brother and the start of a war.

F GOULD LP
Gould, Judith. The secret heiress. Center Point large print ed. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2006.
Ariadne and Nikoletta are identical twins but opposite in every way that matters. Nikoletta has been groomed to take over her father’s empire, while Ariadne, who was raised in obscurity and unaware of her vast family fortune, is generous and naive. When Ariadne agrees to a shady scheme orchestrated by her late father’s board of advisors to take the place of the twin she’s never met, she becomes involved in a web of passion, deception, and danger.

F GRISHAM
Grisham, John. Playing for pizza. 1st large print ed. New York : Random House Large Print : Distributed by Random House, c2007.
After losing an important game for his team, NFL backup quarterback Rick Dockery is fired; but his agent finds him an opportunity to play for the Panthers of Parma, and he moves to Italy hoping for a second chance.

F HALL
Hall, James W. (James Wilson). Hell’s Bay. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, c2008.
Descended from pioneer stock, the Bateses are an aristocratic Floridian family with vast holdings in real estate and mining. When matriarch Abigail Bates is discovered drowned in the Peace River, a chain of events is set into motion, embroiling Thorn with a family he never knew he had and a fortune he doesn’t necessarily want. Thorn is leading a fishing expedition into the isolated lakes and mangrove swamps of Hell’s Bay when Abigail’s son and beautiful granddaughter arrive, claiming Thorn as a long-lost relative and asking him to solve the woman’s murder. Little do they know that the killer is already on their trail.

F HARRIS
Harris, Rosemary. Pushing up daisies : a dirty business mystery. 1st ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, c2008.
Meet Paula Holliday, a transplanted media exec who trades her stilettos for garden clogs when she makes the move from the big city to the suburbs to start a gardening business. Paula can handle deer, slugs, and the occasional human pest—but she’s not prepared for the mummified body she finds while restoring the gardens at Halcyon, a local landmark.

F HARRIS LP
Harris, Charlaine. All together dead. Waterville, Me. : Wheeler Pub., c2007.
Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every sort of undead and paranormal creature imaginable. And after being betrayed by her longtime vampire love, Sookie must not only deal with a new man in her life—the shapeshifter Quinn—but also contend with the long-planned vampire summit.

F HOCKENSMITH
Hockensmith, Steve. The black dove : a Holmes on the range mystery. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, c2008.
In the summer of 1893, Gustav “Old Red” Amlingmeyer and his brother Otto (a.k.a. “Big Red”) find themselves down and out in San Francisco. Though cowpokes by training, the brothers are devotees of the late, great Sherlock Holmes and his trademark method of “deducifying.” But when they set out to land jobs as professional detectives, they land themselves in hot water, instead.

F HUNTER
Hunter, Faith. Host. New York : Roc, c2007.
Thorn St. Croix attempts to rally the people of Mineral City together in order to combat the forces of the Dark.

F HUSTON
Huston, Charlie. Half the blood of Brooklyn : a novel. New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, c2007.
Joe Pitt, a private investigator in a New York in which people have been infected by a “vyrus” that condemns them to a near-eternal life in darkness and a need for human blood, is drawn into a dangerous web of family feuds and personal grudges when he sets out on behalf of the Society Clan to discover why the lower classes in the outlying boroughs are trying to infiltrate Manhattan.

F KINSELLA
Kinsella, Sophie. Remember me? New York, N.Y. : Dial Press, c2008.
After taking a nasty bump on the head, Lexi Smart awakens in a hospital convinced that it’s 2004 and that she’s just missed her father’s funeral. It’s actually three years later, and she no longer has crooked teeth, frizzy hair and a loser boyfriend. Initially wowed by what she’s become—a gorgeous, cut-throat businesswoman—Lexi soon finds herself attempting to figure out how it happened. (from Publishers Weekly).

F KRAMER
Kramer, Pascale. The living : (Les vivants). Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2007.
The lives of a young mother, her teenage brother, and her husband unravel after her two young sons fall from a gondola and drown.

F KRENTZ
Krentz, Jayne Ann. Sizzle and burn. New York : G. P. Putnam’s Sons, c2008.
When Raine Tallentyre made the mistake of revealing her paranormal abilities, her most recent romantic relationship came to a hasty end. Her Aunt Vella, a gifted but troubled soul, had told her years ago to keep her talents a secret. And now that poor Aunt Vella—her last blood relative—has died, Raine has resigned herself to a lonely life. But when she journeys to Shelbyville, Washington, to clear out Aunt Vella’s house, Raine’s highly developed sensitivity leads her to a horrifying discovery: a young woman bound and terrified in a basement storage locker. The victim has survived, but the culprit is still on the loose. Without warning, a new man enters Raine’s life—investigator Zack Jones. Surprisingly, Zack isn’t repelled by her powers: in fact, he has them himself. While Raine hears voices, Zack sees visions and within hours of their meeting, Raine experiences an intense, thrilling intimacy—-mental, emotional, and physical—she never dared to expect.

F LAMOUR LP
L’Amour, Louis, 1908-1988. The rider of Lost Creek. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2007.
Lance Kilkenny has a debt to pay, and he isn’t about to let the friend who saved his life go down in a range war. But when Kilkenny tries to stop the fighting, he finds there’s more at stake than land or wire. Whoever is stirring up trouble has big ideas for the Live Oak country—and an army of hired guns to back them up.

F MARTINEZ
Martinez, A. Lee. The automatic detective. 1st trade paperback ed. New York : Tom Doherty Associates, 2008.
Mack Megaton drives a cab in the mutant-infested “technotopia” of Empire City. It’s a step down for a massive killing machine created for world domination, but kindhearted Megaton has bucked his programming, and when his secretive neighbors, the Bleakers, go missing, he begins a search. Young Holt Bleaker has something in his mutant blood that makes him valuable to aliens poised to invade Empire City, and only a giant robot—a robot like Mack Megaton—can break him out of the fortress where he’s held prisoner. Soon plans go awry when sinister psychic Grey subverts Megaton’s programming, but he finds an unlikely ally in Lucia Napier, an outrageously beautiful and talented media star and roboticist. (from Publishers Weekly).

F MCBRIDE
McBride, James. Song yet sung. New York : Riverhead Books, c2008.
Escaped slaves, free blacks, slave-catchers and plantation owners weave a tangled web of intrigue and adventure in bestselling memoirist (The Color of Water) McBride’s intricately constructed and impressive second novel, set in pre-Civil War Maryland. (from Publishers Weekly).

F MILLER
Miller, Sue. The senator’s wife. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, c2008.
Two neighbors, Meri, a recently married thirty-seven-year-old, and Delia, the wife of an adulterous senator, find their lives and marriages are not as different as they once thought.

F MINA
Mina, Denise. Slip of the knife : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., c2008.
Paddy Meehan is no stranger to murder—as a reporter she lives at crime scenes—but nothing has prepared her for this visit from the police. Her former boyfriend and fellow journalist Terry Patterson has been found hooded and shot through the head. Paddy knows she will be of little help—she had not seen Terry in more than six months. So she is bewildered to learn that in his will he has left her his house and several suitcases full of notes. Drawn into a maze of secrets and lies, Paddy begins making connections to Terry’s murder that no one else has seen, and soon finds herself trapped in the most important—and dangerous—story of her career.

F NICHOLSON
Nicholson, William. The society of others : a novel. 1st American ed. New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2005], c2004.
A cynical young Englishman, newly graduated from college, has decided there is no reason ever to leave his room, but he is finally persuaded out into the world where he soon finds himself fighting for his life after hitching a ride with a truck driver hauling banned literature into Eastern Europe and being labeled a terrorist.

F PARKER
Parker, Robert B.. Stranger in paradise. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2008.
The last time Jesse Stone, chief of police of Paradise, Massachusetts, saw Wilson “Crow” Cromartie, the Apache Indian hit man was racing away in a speedboat after executing one of the most lucrative and deadly heists in the town’s history. Crow was part of a team of ex-cons who plotted to capture Stiles Island, the wealthy enclave off the Paradise coast, by blowing up the connecting bridge. Residents were kidnapped, some were killed, and Crow managed to escape with a boatload of cash, never to be seen again. Until now. (from Amazon.com).

F PARKER
Parker, T. Jefferson. L.A. outlaws : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Dutton, c2008.
Los Angeles is gripped by the exploding celebrity of Allison Murietta, her real identity unknown, a modern-day Jesse James with the compulsion to steal beautiful things, the vanity to invite the media along, and the conscience to donate much of her bounty to charity. Nobody ever gets hurt—until a job ends with ten gangsters lying dead and a half-million dollars worth of glittering diamonds missing.

F PATTERSON
Patterson, James. 7th heaven. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., c2008.
A terrible fire in a wealthy suburban home leaves a married couple dead and Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin searching for clues. And after California’s golden boy, Michael Campion has been missing for a month, there finally seems to be a lead in his case—a very devastating lead. As fire after fire consume couples in wealthy, comfortable homes, Lindsay and the Murder Club must race to find the arsonists responsible and get to the bottom of Michael Campion’s disappearance. But suddenly the fires are raging too close to home. Frightened for her life and torn between two men, Lindsay must find a way to solve the most daunting dilemmas she’s ever faced—at work and at home.

F PICOULT
Picoult, Jodi. Plain truth : a novel. Washington Square Press trade pbk. ed. New York : Washington Square Press, 2007, c2000.
Philadelphia defense attorney Ellie Hathaway, unsatisfied with the course of her career and personal life, leaves her job for an open ended stay at her great aunt’s home in Paradise, Pennsylvania, arriving just in time to become embroiled in the case of a young, unmarried Amish woman accused of killing her newborn baby.

F RICE LP
Rice, Luanne. Light of the moon. 1st large print ed. New York : Random House Large Print, c2008.
Anthropologist Susannah Connolly, having been inspired by her mother’s dying wish, travels to the French Camargue in search of a saint and starts a romantic relationship with a man whose wife abandoned him and his daughter, and forms a bond with the female gypsy community.

F ROBB
Robb, J. D.. Strangers in death. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2008.
In 2060 New York, Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates the murder of a prominent businessman and finds that the facts don’t seem to add up and that the killer may be closer than she originally thought.

F SAMUELS
Samuels, Mina. The queen of cups. [Bloomington, IN : Unlimited Publishing LLC, c2006].
From the gypsy camps of Russia, to glittering Paris and New York, to her final exile to obscurity in the countryside of Pennsylvania, Juliette’s journey traces the life of an independent woman, who, betrayed by those she loves, finds her way forward by forging new identities. Through it all, she never loses her belief in the possibility of redemption, and in the power of love and loyalty.”—Author’s website. “Based on true historical figures, The Queen of Cups is the fictionalized journals of Juliette, an enigmatic woman with a past she must hide, who marries the brilliant post-Civil War philosopher, Charles Peirce, a man plagued by devastatingly painful facial neuralgia, drug addiction, and manic depression, whose place in the pantheon of great American minds is lost to his illness.

F SCOTTOLINE
Scottoline, Lisa. Lady killer. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2008.
Philadelphia attorney Mary DiNunzio is surprised when her high school rival Trish Gambone shows up in her office looking for help getting out of an abusive relationship with the possibly Mob-connected Bobby Mancuso, and she is forced to investigate on her own when Trish and Bobby disappear, and the FBI cuts her out of the loop for failing to tell what she knows about Bobby—a former crush.

F SMITH
Smith, April. Judas horse : an FBI special agent Ana Grey mystery. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2008.
Emotionally vulnerable after a shooting incident, Ana has just returned to the job when she learns that a fellow agent has been murdered by a group of hard-core anarchists operating behind the façade of FAN (Free Animals Now). Dispatched to the FBI’s infamous undercover school to learn the art of deceit, Ana takes on the identity of a down-on-her-luck animal lover determined to save the wild mustangs of the West. Now she’s ready to work her way into the inner circle of Julius Emerson Phelps, the unstable, charismatic leader of a “family” of outcasts who live on an isolated farm in Oregon, and who are preparing an act of terrorism Phelps has dubbed “the Big One.”

F STEEL LP
Steel, Danielle. Honor thyself. 1st large print ed. New York : Random House Large Print, c2008.
Actress and author Carole Barber is caught in a Paris terrorist attack and awakens from a coma with no memory of who she is, and as she struggles to rebuild her life, she finds happiness with a man from her past who never stopped loving her.

F WEST
West, Michael Lee. Mermaids in the basement. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2008.
Renata DeChavannes, still reeling from the deaths of her mother and stepfather in a plane crash five months earlier, leaves Hollywood and rumors that her movie director boyfriend is having an affair, and heads to her hometown in Alabama to think about the future and confront her past—including her estranged father who is about to marry for the fourth time.

F WHYTE
Whyte, Jack. Standard of honor. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2007.
This second entry in Whyte’s Templar trilogy (after Knights of the Black and White), covering Richard the Lionhearted’s crusade, finds the author in top form. Alexander Sinclair, a Knight of the Temple, is part of a 50,000-man army headed to battle in the Lower Galilee. At stake for the Christian army is its claim to the Holy Land, now under the jurisdiction of Kurdish Saracen leader Saladin. The coming disaster will force English King Richard to raise an even larger army and set sail from England himself, along with Henry St. Clair, the English army’s master-at-arms, and Henry’s son, Andre, a member of the secret Templar society, Brotherhood of Sion. (from Publishers Weekly).

F WICK
Wick, Lori. Leave a candle burning. Eugene, Or. : Harvest House, c2006.
Dannan MacKay arrives in Tucker Mills prepared to take over his uncle’s medical practice, where he is welcomed by the town’s residents and begins to make a new life for himself, but that new life is soon interrupted by a beautiful young woman and an orphaned cousin who help Dannan realize what his life is missing.

F WIDEMAN
Wideman, John Edgar. Fanon. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2008.
An African-American novelist researches the life of Frantz Fanon while trying to write a biographical novel about his life and dealing with an aging mother and a brother who is incarcerated.

F WILLIG
Willig, Lauren. The seduction of the crimson rose. New York : Dutton, c2008.
Determined to secure another London season without assistance from her new brother-in-law, Mary accepts a secret assignment from Lord Vaughn on behalf of the Pink Carnation: to infiltrate the ranks of the dreaded French spy, the Black Tulip, before he and his master can stage their planned invasion of England. Every spy has a weakness, and for the Black Tulip that weakness is black-haired women—his “petals” of the Tulip. A natural at the art of seduction, Mary easily catches the attention of the French spy, but Lord Vaughn never anticipates that his own heart will be caught as well. Fighting their growing attraction, impediments from their past, and, of course, the French, Mary and Vaughn find themselves lost in the shadows of a treacherous garden of lies.

F WINSPEAR
Winspear, Jacqueline. An incomplete revenge : a Maisie Dobbs novel. 1st ed. New York : H. Holt, c2008.
The psychologist/investigator digs deep into a village’s long-buried secrets. Maisie’s benefactor, tycoon James Compton, wants to buy an estate in the bucolic hamlet of Heronsdene, but is wary after a string of mysterious fires. Maisie soon proves Compton’s suspicions correct when she encounters the shady current landowner and a vaguely menacing band of Gypsies in town for the seasonal harvest. The locals are also curiously tight-lipped about Heronsdene’s wartime tragedy, when a zeppelin raid wiped out a family. Teasing out Heronsdene’s secrets will take all the intrepid former nurse’s psychological skills and test her ability to navigate between the Gypsy and gorja (non-Gypsy) worlds. (from Publishers Weekly).

F WODICKA
Wodicka, Tod. All shall be well; and all shall be well; and all manner of things shall be well. New York : Pantheon Books, c2007.
Meet Burt Hecker: a mead-drinking, tunic-wearing medieval re-enactor from upstate New York. He prefers oat gruel to French fries because potatoes were unavailable in Europe before 1200 AD; and, at war with the modern world, he enjoys hosting large-scale re-enactments at the Victorian bed and breakfast he calls home. But Burt has some serious problems. After an incident involving the New York State police and an illegally borrowed car, Burt is forced to join a local music therapy workshop to manage his anger. He gallantly accompanies the group to Germany for a festival celebrating the music of the visionary saint Hildegard von Bingen—but he has no plan to return home. His real destination is Prague: he must find his estranged son Tristan, who, he believes, has lost his way in the Bohemian city.

NON-FICTION

021.7 WOO
Woodward, Jeannette A. Creating the customer-driven library : building on the bookstore model. Chicago : American Library Association, c2005.
Presents a comprehensive guide that addresses specific problems with libraries and why library attendance has diminished, and offers suggestions for changing library interiors based upon the decors of popular bookstores.

133.4 MAC
MacCoun, Catherine. On becoming an alchemist : a guide for the modern magician. 1st ed. Boston : Trumpeter, c2008.
On Becoming an Alchemist helps readers to understand how the alchemical transmutation is achieved - not through trying to change circumstances, but through changing ourselves. At its essence, practicing alchemy involves developing an understanding of our relationship to the situation, person, or object in question - and realizing that by changing our viewpoint, we can exert influence over people and events. The alchemical principles presented by MacCoun can be applied to all the ordinary challenges of life including relationships, family life, work, health, finances, and creative endeavors.

158.2 KLA
Klatte, Bill. It’s so hard to love you : staying sane when your loved one is manipulative, needy, dishonest, or addicted. Oakland, CA : New Harbinger Publications, c2007.
This book offers a program for anyone who feels anguished by loving a difficult person but wants to maintain a sane relationship with him or her. Using it, you’ll become aware of the negative effects your loved one’s behavior is having on your life and learn to accept that your loved one will probably not change. The book helps you shift your focus from changing the difficult person to changing your reaction to them. Once you learn to relate to your difficult loved one on your own terms, the book helps you find ways to deal with possible negative reactions that might arise from the new dynamic of the relationship.

158.2 URY
Ury, William. The power of a positive no : how to say no and still get to yes. New York : Bantam Books, c2007.
Describes the art of the “Positive No,” a three-step method for saying “no” to people at work, home, and in the community without destroying relationships.

305.42 EIC VT
Eickhoff, Diane. Revolutionary heart : the life of Clarina Nichols and the pioneering crusade for women’s rights. Kansas City, KS : Quindaro Press, c2006.
Chronicles the life of Clarina I. H. Nichols, the country’s first female newspaper editor and stump speaker, focusing on her role in the American women’s movement and her desire to end the mistreatment of women.

323.6 DOB
Dobbs, Lou. Independents day : awakening the American spirit. New York, N.Y. : Viking, c2007.
In Independents Day, Dobbs descries domestic and foreign policy decisions that he believes have undermined individual liberties and the quality of life in our country. (from Barnes and Noble, edited)

323.623 CIV
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Civics and citizenship toolkit : a collection of educational resources for immigrants. Rev. ed. Washington D.C. : U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Institute of Museum and Library Services, U.S. Govt. Printing Office, : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. Of Docs., c2007.
Welcome to the United States: a guide for new immigrants—Bienvenidos a los Estados Unidos de América: guía para inmigrantes nuevos—Civics flash cards—Learn about the United States: quick civics lessons (includes audio CD)—Citizen’s almanac—Pocket size Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States—Library services for immigrants: a report on current practices—(DVD) A promise of freedom: an introduction to U. S. history and civics for immigrants—(Flash presentation) Becoming a U. S. citizen: an overview of the naturalization process—CD-ROM with electronic versions of the publications listed above—Civics and citizenship toolkit quick start guide—2 posters.

330.12 KLE
Klein, Naomi. The shock doctrine : the rise of disaster capitalism. 1st ed. New York : Metropolitan Books/Holt, c2007.
Reveals how the American government is using public disorientation after massive shocks such as wars, terrorist attacks, and natural disasters, to push through unpopular and controversial decisions and policies, creating an atmosphere of “disaster capitalism” that has shaped the global market in recent years.

338.7 YUN
Yunus, Muhammad, . Creating a world without poverty : social business and the future of capitalism. New York : PublicAffairs, c2007.
Nobel Peace Prize-winner Muhammad Yunus argues that the problems of hunger, poverty, and inequality can be solved by harnessing the power of the free market, explaining how, by using basic business dynamics and theories, countries can work together to solve the world’s greatest problems.

338.973 JOH
Johnston, David C. Free lunch : how the wealthiest Americans enrich themselves at government expense (and stick you with the bill). New York : Portfolio, c2007.
Investigative reporter David Cay Johnston reveals how industry and commerce repeatedly shift risks and costs to the taxpayer, government attempts to manipulate or adjust the market, and how the wealthiest Americans continue to get richer at government expense.

363.738 VOL
Voluntary carbon markets : an international business guide to what they are and how they work. London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, c2007.
The book covers all aspects of voluntary carbon markets in the US, Europe, Australia, Canada, and Asia: what they are, how they work and, most critically, their business potential to help slow climate change. (from the publisher).

597.0974 LAN VT
Langdon, Richard W. Fishes of Vermont. Waterbury : Vermont Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, c2006.
The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department published this field guide, Fishes of Vermont, a comprehensive handbook for identifying fishes across the state. (from the publisher, edited).

613.2 ORN
Ornish, Dean. The spectrum : a scientifically proven program to feel better, live longer, lose weight, and gain health. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2007.
Ornish’s spectrum consists of nutrition (extremely low in fat, vegetarian), exercise (aerobic, resistance training and flexibility), stress management (yoga, meditation) and nurturing relationships, and he describes how they influence specific conditions. Recipes contributed by Oprah Winfrey’s personal chef, Art Smith, ground Ornish’s principles with dishes based on fresh, seasonal ingredients and ways to adapt them to a person’s place along the spectrum. (from Publishers Weekly).

616 COH
Cohen, Richard M. Strong at the broken places : lifting lives above illness. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2008.
In Strong at the Broken Places, Richard M. Cohen describes the day-to-day lives of five people with serious chronic illnesses. His subjects cover a range of illness types and severity, ages, races, and socioeconomic position. (from Barnes & Noble, edited).

625.7 CIR VT COLL
Circ-Williston environmental assessment : Chittenden County Circumferential Highway. [Manchester, Vt. : Louis Berger Group, Inc., c2005].
Local assessment materials - complete in a binder.

641.509743 PAS
Pasanen, Melissa. Cooking with Shelburne Farms : food and stories from Vermont. New York, NY : Viking Studio, c2007.
Recipes from Shelburne Farms, a historic working farm, inn, and restaurant in Shelburne, VT.

643 BEC
Becker, Norman. The complete book of home inspection. 3rd ed. New York : McGraw-Hill, c2002.
Originally intended to be for buyers and owners, many professional home inspectors use this home inspection guide as well. (from the publisher, edited).

737.4 STA
Standard catalog of world coins. Eighteenth century, 1701-1800. Iola, Wis. : Krause Publications. New edition.
Standard Catalog of World Coins: 1701-1800 delivers the complete coverage of coinage from every nation existing during the 18th century, with up-to-date pricing in five grades of condition.

737.4 STA
Krause, Chester L. Standard catalog of world coins, 1801-1900. 3rd ed. Iola, Wis. : Krause Publications, c2001.
A reference for collectors of 19th century coins, this guide delivers descriptive and metallic details plus invaluable pricing, in five grades of condition, for everything from tokens and patterns to sets and standard issues.

741.5 AME
Amend, Bill. Think iFruity : a Fox trot collection. Kansas City, Mo. : Andrews and McMeel, c2000.
Presents a selection of “Fox Trot” comic strips depicting the humorous side of technology.

741.5 AME
Amend, Bill. May the force be with us, please : a FoxTrot collection. Kansas City : Andrews and McMeel, c1994.
Presents a collection of comics from the FoxTrot collection of Bill Amend.

748.8 KOV
Kovel, Ralph M. Kovels’ bottles price list. 13th ed. New York : Random House Reference, c2006.
Written by Ralph and Terry Kovel, this handbook includes the most accurate current prices and histories of more than 90 categories from the 1700s to the 2000s, from flasks and fruit jars to miniature pottery bottles, and from medicine and perfume bottles to Avon, Coca-Cola, and Jim Beam and Ezra Brooks. (from the publisher, edited).

749.2 FLE
Flea market trader. Paducah, Ky. : Collector Books. 16th edition, c2007.
Containing over 10,000 alphabetical listings with current values, this unique and completely revised price guide provides information on the latest market trends. Hundreds of crisp photographs have been added to make identification even easier. Designed specifically for the flea market enthusiast, it includes the well-established collectibles subjects, plus many items that are unique to flea markets. This book is organized into categories from advertising to World’s Fair collectibles. It covers many current, modern categories like Strawberry Shortcake and Anchor Hocking’s Fire-King glassware. (publisher’s description refers to the 16th edition).

796.5109742 APP
The Appalachian Mountain Club’s White Mountain guide : hiking trails in the White Mountain National Forest. 28th ed. Boston, Mass. : Appalachian Mountain Club Books, c2007.
This is an all-purpose guide that includes maps.

796.58 BRA
Bratt, Ian. Orienteering. 1st ed. Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, c2002.
Orienteering is a sport that combines a variety of physical and mental skills and appeals to people of all ages and fitness levels. In this introductory guide, four well-known competitors explain why they love the sport. The book explains the different levels of events—cross-country, score, relay, and night orienteering—for the novice and the advanced athlete. Perfect for the beginner, this book covers every basic detail, from what to wear to how to read a map, use a compass, and cope with different terrain. Covered are the four different types of orienteering recognized by the International Orienteering Federation: foot, ski, mountain bike, and trail orienteering.

796.93 HAR
Harb, Harald R. Harald Harb’s essentials of skiing. Long Island City, NY : Hatherleigh Press, c2006.
Describes the essential movements of skiing as taught by Harald Harb, designed for skiers at any level from beginner to expert, discussing tipping, flexing and extending, counterbalancing, counteracting, the complete upper body, and fore/aft balance. Includes a companion DVD.

796.93 HIN
Hindman, Steve, . Cross-country skiing : building skills for fun and fitness. 1st ed. Seattle : Mountaineers Books, c2005.
For the novice to intermediate cross-country skier: instruction by a member of the national Nordic Demonstration Team.

796.93 SMI
Smith, Jim. The art of snowboarding : kickers, carving, halfpipes, and more. Camden, ME : Ragged Mountain Press, c2007.
A comprehensive guide to snowboarding that explains the sport’s basic and more advanced techniques, offers tips on how to push the limits and create a unique style on the slopes, and includes expert tips and stop-action photos.

799.2 BOW
Bowhunting tactics of the pros : strategies for deer and big game. Paperback ed. Guilford, CT : Lyons Press, c2002.
This is a manual about bowhunting.

799.3 ARC
Engh, Douglas. Archery fundamentals. Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, c2005.
Presents a comprehensive instruction manual that teaches the essentials of archery and provides information on equipment and accessories, recurve and compound bows, and entering and competing in tournaments.

813 HAL VT
Hall, John S. The west window : a novel. Lincoln, NE : iUniverse, c2006.
A sixty-year-old farmer and a nineteen-year-old orphan struggle to find compatibility on a Vermont hill farm in 1948.

813.01 BRI
Bridges, Karl. 100 great American novels you’ve (probably) never read. Westport, CT : Libraries Unlimited, c2007.
Profiles one hundred American novels published between 1797 and 1997 that are accessible to readers despite their relative obscurity, with quotes, plot summaries, author biographies, and critical reviews for each novel.

920 SMI
Smith, Sally Bedell. For love of politics : Bill and Hillary Clinton : the White House years. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2007.
The author presents a comprehensive expose of the Clinton marriage and political life, describing the inner workings of their eight years in the White House, their personal and professional crises, and just how much Bill Clinton relied on Hillary for advice on foreign and domestic issues.

921 CRANDALL VT
Pelletier, Joyce. A Vermont woman’s life in 1883. Baltimore, [Md.] : PublishAmerica, c2007.
Adaline Turner, born in Duxbury, Vermont, in 1833, married George Crandall in 1857. In the early 1880s they purchased a farm in Berlin, near Montpelier. In 1883, Addie began what is believed to be her first diary for her children’s sake. Her diary accounts are included in this book along with personal reflections from the author.

921 RICE
Kessler, Glenn. The confidante : Condoleezza Rice and the creation of the Bush legacy. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, c2007.
Chronicles the life of Condoleezza Rice, focusing on her political career, the role she has played in President George W. Bush’s administration, her years as Secretary of State, her interactions with world leaders, and other related topics.

921 ROBISON LP
Robison, John Elder. Look me in the eye : my life with Asperger’s. Large print edition. Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, c2007.
The author describes life growing up different in an odd family, his unusual talents, his struggle to live a “normal” life, his diagnosis at the age of forty with Asperger’s syndrome, and the dramatic changes that have occurred since that diagnosis.

921 SONNENBERG
Sonnenberg, Susanna. Her last death : a memoir. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, c2008.
The author shares details of her traumatic childhood and relationship with her mother, a charismatic, pathological liar with a history of drug abuse and sexual misconduct; discusses her determination to break the pattern and live a normal life; and seeks to justify her decision not to rush off to Barbados after receiving a call that her mother was in a coma and not expected to survive.

951.904 HAL
Halberstam, David. The coldest winter : America and the Korean War. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2007.
Tells the story of the Second Infantry Division and their terrible defeat by forces of the People’s Republic Army in 1950.

951.904 HAL LP
Halberstam, David. The coldest winter : America and the Korean War. Large print ed. Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, c2007.
Tells the story of the Second Infantry Division and their terrible defeat by forces of the People’s Republic Army in 1950.

973.7 PEL VT
Péladeau, Marius B. Willie Johnston : youngest medal of honor recipient, drummer, 3rd Vermont Regiment. Newport, Vt. : Vermont Civil War Enterprises, c2005.
A historical account of Willie Johnston, the youngest medal-of-honor recipient.

973.7092 MAH VT
Maharay, George S. Vermont hero : Major General Lewis A. Grant. New York : iUniverse, c2006.
Major General Lewis A. Grant organized the Fifth Vermont in 1861 and led the First Vermont Brigade from February 1863 to June 1865. He participated in 22 battles; most notable were Savage’s Station in 1862, Marye’s Heights and Bank’s Ford in 1863, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, and Cedar Creek in 1864, and the breakthrough of the Confederate lines in 1865. He was selected by General Meade to lead the brigade to suppress the Draft Riots in New York after Gettysburg, and also to defend the Brock Road in the Battle of the Wilderness. He personally discovered the weak point in the Confederate lines at Petersburg and was honored by having his brigade lead the assault on April 2, 1865, action which quickly led to the end of the war.

973.771 BRO VT
Harris, Luther B. Luther B. Harris : a prison story : a Vermont soldier’s memoir of Andersonville and other rebel camps. [Newport, Vt.] : Vermont Civil War Enterprises and Lyndon Historical Society, c2006.
A Civil War memoir of Vermont soldier Luther B. Harris, who spent time as a prisoner in the notorious Andersonville prison.

973.92 BRO LP
Brokaw, Tom. Boom! : voices of the sixties. 1st large print ed. New York : Random House Large Print, c2007.
Journalist Tom Brokaw looks back on life in the United States during the 1960s, sharing the perspectives and experiences of famous and ordinary people who were affected by the tumultuous times, discussing changes that occurred in politics, culture, and society, and looking at how the era influenced events to come.

974.302 BOO
Book, J. David. “It is sweet and honorable to die for the fatherland” : Latin inscription on Cabot’s Civil War monument ; Civil War soldiers from Cabot, Vermont. Newport, Vt. : Vermont Civil War Enterprises, c2007.
Provides information on soldiers from Cabot, Vermont who served during the American Civil War.

974.302 CHA VT
Chase, Harriet M. Randolph, Vermont, 1777-1927 : its discovery, creation & development, with emphasis on the industries & businesses of Slab City and West Randolph (now known as Randolph). Randolph, Vt. : The authors, c2006.
This is a history of Randolph Vermont, encompassing the years 1777-1927.

974.302 DAV VT
Davis, Thomas C. Beyond depot square : more central Vermont memories. Barre, Vt. : The author, c2006.
The author writes about small town life in central Vermont.

Reference

REF 378.73 PET
Peterson’s graduate and professional programs, an overview. Princeton, N.J. : Peterson’s Guides, c1988-.
Complete details on more than 44,000 master, doctoral, and first-professional degree programs in 476 disciplines at more than 2,000 accredited colleges and universities in the U.S. (from the publisher, edited - description refers to the 2008 edition).


AUDIO-VISUAL

CAS 921 ADAMS
McCullough, David G. John Adams. Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2001.
Narrated by Nelson Runger. The book reexamines both the most famous and least well known stories of Adams’s contribution to the experiment in American democracy—from his complex and often troubled relationships to Thomas Jefferson and the manipulative Benjamin Franklin to a brilliant interweaving of some of the most moving of the now-famous conversations on paper between John and his beloved wife, Abigail. (from Barnes & Noble).

CD 921 CRUISE
Morton, Andrew. Tom Cruise : an unauthorized biography. New York : Macmillan Audio, p2008.
Read by John Hinch. Presents the life of controversial actor and Scientologist Tom Cruise.

CD CAR
Card, Orson Scott. Speaker for the dead. Unabridged. New York : Audio Renaissance, p2005.
Read by David Birney, Stefan Rudnicki, and a full cast. Ender Wiggin, the young military genius, discovers that a second alien war is inevitable and that he must dismiss his fears to make peace with humanity’s strange new brothers.

CD CLASSICAL MOZART
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. The late string quartets, nos. 14-23. Germany : Teldec, 1994.
No. 14 in G major, K. 387 (“Spring”)—No. 17 in B flat major, K. 458 (“Hunting”)—No. 15 in D minor, K. 421—No. 16 in E flat major, K. 428—No. 20 in D major, K. 499 “Hoffmeister”—No. 18 in A major, K. 464—No. 19 in C major, K. 465 “Dissonant”— No. 21 in D major, K. 575—No. 22 in B flat major, K. 589—No. 23 in F major, K. 590. Alban Berg Quartett. Previously released performances of some of Mozart’s works by the Alban Berg Quartett.

CD CLASSICAL SCHUBERT
Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828.
Forellenquintett, D. 667 : Quartett, D. 810, “Der Tod und das Mädchen” Hamburg : Deutsche Grammophon, p1976. Emil Gilels, piano, Norbert Brainin, violin, Peter Schidlof, viola, Martin Lovett, violoncello, Ranier Zepperitz, double bass (in the 1st work) ; Amadeus-Quartett (in the 2d).

CD CLASSICAL VIVALDI
Vivaldi, Antonio, 1678-1741. Vivaldi, Vier jaargetijden, Mutter, Mutter. [S.l. : s.n.], 1999.
Bevat De vier jaargetijden, op 8 no 1-4 / Antonio Vivaldi. de Duivelstrillersonate van Giuseppe Tartini.

CD CLASSICAL WEBER
Weber, Carl Maria von, 1786-1826. Clarinet concertos : Concertino & clarinet quintet. England : EMI Classics, p1985, c2003.
Sabine Meyer, clarinet ; Staatskapelle Dresden ; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor ; Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn ; Jörg Faerber, conductor (Quintet). Sabine Meyer’s 1985 recordings of Weber’s clarinet works were controversial in their time—some thought her too dramatic, some too polished, some too reserved—but time was on Meyer’s side and her performances have come to be regarded as classic recordings, poised, polished, and yet still passionate. (from Barnes & Noble).

CD EASY LISTENING AARON COPLAN
Copland, Aaron. The young pioneers : the complete music for solo piano. [S.l.] : Sony Music, c p1994.
A collection of works by Aaron Copland that were both previously released and newly recorded for this two disc set.

CD EASY LISTENING CELINE DION
Dion, Céline. The collector’s series. New York : 550 Music, p2000.
The power of the dream—Where does my heart beat now—Us—The reason—Seduces me—With this tear—Falling into you—Pour que tu m’aimes encore—Un garçon pas comme les autres (Ziggy)—Be the man (on this night)—Tell him (duet with Barbra Streisand)—The prayer (duet with Andrea Bocelli)—All by myself : Spanish version— Amar haciendo el amor—Only one road—That’s the way it is. Celine Dion performs some of her earlier hits, with several recorded in languages other than English.

CD EASY LISTENING ELLIOTT CART
Carter, Elliott. The complete music for piano. New York : Bridge Records, P 1997.
Music from the famous pianist.

CD EASY LISTENING PAUL MORAVEC
Moravec, Paul. The time gallery : Protean fantasy ; Ariel fantasy. [Hong Kong] : Naxos, p2006.
The time gallery. Bells: Devotional hours; Time machine; Pulse: The feeling of what happens; Overtime: Memory sings. Eighth Blackbird (Molly Alicia Barth, flute ; Michael J. Maccaferri, clarinet; Matt Albert, violin; Nicholas Photinos, violoncello; Matthew Duvall, percussion; Lisa Kaplan, piano) (1st work); Peter Sheppard-Skærved, violin; Aaron Shorr, piano (2nd-3rd works).

CD FOLK CAT POWER
Cat Power. The greatest. N[ew] Y[ork] C[ity] : Matador, p2006.
Cat Power (Chan Marshall), vocals, guitar, piano ; with assisting instrumentalists. Recorded in Memphis, The Greatest could be described, in shorthand, as Cat Power’s soul album, but that’s only part of the story. Employing Al Green’s stalwart rhythm section—and a passel of the town’s better horn players—adds a burnished, Hi Records feel to soul struts like the misty “Lived in Bars,” but that’s only one of the ways Marshall dips into the essential Memphis zeitgeist. Sounding far more assured than usual, she forays into the blues on the austere (and aptly titled) strummer “Hate” and even allows herself a moment of basking in the sunshine—during “Love and Communication,” an organ-tinged ditty that could’ve appeared on a lost Box Tops album. (from Barnes & Noble).

CD FOLK HORSE FEATHERS
Horse Feathers (Musical group). Words are dead. Portland, OR : Lucky Madison Records, p2006.
Hardwood pews—Finch on Saturday—Dustbowl—Blood on the snow—Honest doubters—In our blood—Untitled—Falling through the roof—Like lavender—Walking & running—Eyes full of rose—Mother’s sick. Justin Ringle: vocals, guitar, percussion ; Peter Broderick: violin, banjo, mandolin, cello, viola, piano, saw, percussion, vocals. Words are Dead is a debut album from the Portland folk-songwriter duo Horse Feathers.

CD FOLK JOANNA NEWSOM
Newsom, Joanna. Ys. Chicago : Drag City, p2006.
Emily—Monkey & bear—Sawdust & diamonds—Only skin—Cosmia. Joanna Newsom, harp, vocals; with accompanying instrumentalists and orchestra; Van Dyke Parks, conductor. Folk rock artist Joanna Newsom sings to a diverse accompaniment of instruments.

CD FOLK JONI MITCHELL
Mitchell, Joni. Songs of a prairie girl. United States : Asylum, p2005.
Urge for going—The tea leaf prophecy (Lay down your arms)—Cherokee Louise (orchestral version, 2002)—Ray’s dad’s Cadillac—Let the wind carry me—Don Juan’s reckless daughter—Raised on robbery—Paprika Plains (remix)—Song for Sharon—River—Chinese Cafe/Unchained melody—Harlem in Havana—Come in from the cold. Joni Mitchell, vocals ; with accompanying musicians. Folk artist Joni Mitchell sings 13 songs.

CD JAZZ JOHNNY FRIGO
Frigo, John, 1916-2007. Johnny Frigo : collected works. Newport Beach, CA : Luv N’ Haight/Ubiquity, p2001.
Gazebo—The happening—The Arabian—Appollo—Thank you—Do whatever sets you free—Walk from Regios—Dance of love—Garden of the moon—Scorpio—Lennox—Funky 42—Eye of the needle—Them changes. Dick Marx (perhaps), piano, organ; Rick Frigo, drums; Ron Steele, guitar; Bobby Christian, percussion; Rudy Stauber, trumpet; Mike Simpson, sax/flute. Life-long jazz artist Johnny Frigo performs on this collection of works.

CD JAZZ NORAH JONES
Jones, Norah, 1979- prf. Not too late. [S.l.] : Blue Note, 2007.
Norah Jones; with additional musicians. Nora Jones and several guest artists perform a variety of jazz songs.

CD JAZZ STEVEN BERNSTEIN’S MIL
Bernstein, Steven. MTO. [S.l.] : Sunnyside, p2006.
Steve Bernstein, Clark Gayton, Charlie Burnham, Doug Wieselman, Peter Apfelbaum, Erik Lawrence, Matthew Munisteri, Ben Allison, Ben Perowsky, and Doug Wamble. Trumpeter Steven Bernstein’s Millenial Territory orchestra is inspired by the leader hearing some of the exciting late ‘20s and early ‘30s recordings of territory bands. While some of the music performed is taken from that early period, including “Boy In the Boat,” “Happy Hour Blues” and “Toby,” they alternate with originals that are sometimes only loosely connected to the style.

CD OPERA CARMEN
Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875. Carmen. [England] : EMI Classics, c2000, p1960.
Victoria de los Angeles, Janine Micheau, sopranos; Nicolai Gedda, tenor; Ernest Blanc, baritone; supporting soloists; Petits chanteurs de Versailles; Churs, Maîtrise & Orchestre nationale de la Radiodiffusion francaise; Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor. Sir Thomas Beecham directed this 1960 version of the Opera Carmen.

CD OPERA IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGL. 1998.
Rossini, Gioacchino. Il barbiere di Siviglia.
The recording is one of conductor Claudio Abbado’s early efforts and one of his most successful. (from Barnes & Noble).

CD OPERA NORMA
Bellini, Vincenzo, 1801-1835. Norma. New York : EMI Classics, c1997, p1961.
Maria Callas, Edda Vincenzi, sopranos; Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano; Franco Correlli, Piero De Palma, tenors; Nicola Zaccaria, bass; Orchestra e Corro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Tullio Serafin, condu. This new remastering of an already excellent 1960 production also allows one to appreciate the expressive orchestral contribution led by veteran maestro Tullio Serafin. (from Barnes & Noble).

CD RAN
Rankin, Ian. The naming of the dead. New York : Hachette Audio, p2007.
Read by James Gale. “When the leaders of the free world descend on Scotland for an international conference, every cop in the country is needed to control the mob of protestors in Edinburgh’s streets—except one. Inspector John Rebus’s reputation precedes him, so while Presidents Bush and Putin confer in isolated splendor, Rebus mans an empty police station, safely out of the way where he can’t offend any visiting dignitaries. Then a delegate falls to his death during a preconference dinner at Edinburgh Castle, and Rebus is given what looks like a simple suicide to write up. But even as he keeps it out of the headlines, Rebus probes where no probing is wanted—and doesn’t like the sidesteps and powerplays his questions engender. And this week Edinburgh is a dangerous place to be: Rebus also investigates the death of a recently paroled rapist, murdered in a particularly grisly fashion. The discovery of more bodies leads Rebus to consider an unexpected and politically unacceptable possibility. (from the publisher).

CD ROCK ADEM
Adem (Musical group) prf. Love and other planets. [S.l.] : Domino, p2006.
Warning call—Something’s going to come—X is for kisses—Launch yourself—Love and other planets—Crashlander—Sea of tranquility—You and moon—Last transmission from the lost mission—These lights are meaningful—Spirals - Human beings gathered ‘round.

CD ROCK THE DECEMBERISTS
Decemberists (Musical group). The crane wife. Hollywood, Calif. : Capitol, p2006.
The Decemberists (Nate Query, bass, violoncello, vocal, percussion; Colin Meloy, vocal, guitar, bouzouki, percussion; Jenny Conlee, keyboards, accordion, glockenspiel, vocal, percussion; John Moen, drums, vocal, percussion; Chris Funk, guitar, bouzouki, banjo, hurdy-gurdy, hammered dulcimer, percussion, vocal); Laura Veirs, Ezra Holbrook, vocal; Eyvind Kang, viola, violin; Christopher Walla, vocal, keyboards; Steve Drizos, percussion. The Crane Wife is loosely based on a Japanese folk tale that concerns a crane, an arrow, a beautiful woman, and a whole lot of clandestine weaving. The record’s spirited opener and namesake picks off almost exactly where Picaresque left off, building slowly off a simple folk melody before exploding into some serious Who power chords. This is the first indication that the band itself was ready to take the loosely ornate, reverb-heavy Decemberists sound to a new sonic level, or rather that producers Tucker Martine and Chris Walla were. (from All Music Guide).

CD SOUNDTRACK ANNIE
Annie. New York : Columbia, c1982.
Tomorrow—It’s the hard-knock life—Maybe—Dumb dog—Sandy—I think I’m gonna like it here—Little girls—We got Annie—Let’s go to the movies—Sign—You’re never fully dressed without a smile—Easy street—Tomorrow (white house version)—Maybe (Reprise)—Finale: I don’t need anything but you/We got Annie/Tomorrow. Starring Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, Ann Reinking, Tim Curry, Geoffrey Holder, Edward Herrmann, Aileen Quinn. The soundtrack to John Houston’s movie adaptation of the Broadway blockbuster Annie. (from Barnes & Noble).

CD SOUNDTRACK LAYER CAKE
Layer cake : music from the motion picture. [London] : EMI, c2004.
Various performers. This is the soundtrack from the motion picture “Layer Cake,” with songs and music from various artists.

CD SOUNDTRACKS PEARL HARBOR
Zimmer, Hans. Pearl Harbor : music from the motion picture. Burbank, CA : Hollywood Records/Warner Bros., p2001.
Orchestra; Gavin Greenaway, conductor. Music from the 2001 motion picture Pearl Harbor.

DVD 310
3:10 to Yuma. [Widescreen ed.]. Santa Monica, Calif. : Lionsgate, c2008.
Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Logan Lerman, Dallas Roberts, Ben Foster, Peter Fonda, Vinessa Shaw, Alan Tudyk, Luce Rains, Gretchen Mol, Lennie Loftin, Rio Alexander, Johnny Whitworth. Arizona in the late 1800s. Infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the train that will take the killer to trial. On the trail, Evans and Wade, from very different worlds, begin to earn each other’s respect. But with Wade’s outfit on their trail, and dangers at every turn, the mission soon becomes a violent, impossible journey toward each man’s destiny.

DVD 956.70443 NOE
No end in sight. [New York, N.Y.] : Magnolia Home Entertainment, c2007.
An insider’s look at the decisions that led to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and the handling of the occupation. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officals, as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers and prominent analysts. Examines the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy—the use of insufficient troop levels, allowing the looting of Baghdad, the purging of professionals from the Iraqi government and the disbanding of the Iraqi military—largely created the insurgency and chaos that engulf Iraq today.

DVD CAB
The cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Restored authorized ed., [fullscreen version]. New York, NY : Kino on Video, c2002.
Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Fehér, Lil Dagover, Hans Hainz v. Twardowsky, Rudolph Lettinger. A carnival sleepwalker commits murders under a hypnotist’s influence.

DVD CIT
Citizen Kane. [S.l.] : Warner Bros., c2001.
Citizen Kane (119 min.)—The battle over Citizen Kane (113 min.) Feature film: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Everett Sloane. Documentary: Host and narrator, David McCullough. Feature film: An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being “Rosebud”, which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominant publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it. Documentary: Looks at the lives and careers of Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst, and how Hearst tried to suppress the film Citizen Kane and destroy Welles.

DVD CLO
A clockwork orange. Two-disc special ed. [Burbank, CA] : Distributed by Warner Home Video, c2007.
Disc 1: Digitally remastered movie—Disc 2: Special features. Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri, Miriam Karlin. “Stamping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating, Derby-topped hooligan Alex has a good time—at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick’s future-shock vision of the Anthony Burgess novel.” (from the container).

DVD DRW
Doctor Who. [London] : Burbank, CA : BBC Video : Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas ; Distributed by Warner Home Video, c2007.
Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Ian Marter. Mortally weakened by the Spider Queen on Metebilis 3, the Doctor is forced to regenerate. His recuperation is cut short as UNIT investigates a spate of robberies involving components for a top-secret disintegrator gun. The culprit is quickly identified as a highly sophisticated robot built by Professor Kettlewell, which is being ordered to act against its Prime Directive.

DVD FLA
Flags of our fathers. [Universal City, CA] : Dreamworks Home Entertainment, c2007.
Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, Barry Pepper, Jamie Bell, Paul Walker, Joseph Cross, Benjamin Walker, Tom McCarthy, George Grizzard, Harve Presnell, George Hearn, Len Cariou. The story of the five Marines and one Navy corpsman that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. When Joe Rosenthal’s photograph of the event becomes a symbol of hope for the families at home, the three surviving men are pulled from combat and sent on a tour across America to raise desperately-needed bond money. It is a trip that brings out the truths of both that symbolic act, and of their lives during war.

DVD GRO
Groundhog Day. 15th anniversary special ed. Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2008.
Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott. Teamed with a relentlessly cheerful producer and a smart-aleck cameraman, TV weatherman Phil Connors is sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities. But on his way out of town, Phil is caught in a giant blizzard, which he failed to predict, and finds himself stuck in small-town hell. Just when things couldn’t get any worse, they do. Phil wakes the next morning to find it’s Groundhog Day all over again—and again—and again.

DVD JAW
Jaws. 30th Anniversary ed. Universal City, CA : Universal Home Video, c2005.
Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton. The 30th anniversary edition of the classic ‘I’m-Never-Going-In-The-Water-Again’ story of a killer shark that has taken over the waters near a seaside community, and the three men who set out to kill it.

DVD KNI
Knight rider. Universal City, CA : Universal, [2004], c1982.
David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, Patricia McPherson. K.I.T.T. voice: William Daniels. Michael Knight is recruited by the dying billionaire Wilton Knight to work for the Foundation of Law and Government. He works along side with K.I.T.T. (Knight Industries Two Thousand), a supercar outfitted with outrageous gadgets and a personality. Michael Knight is a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, and the powerless in a world of criminals who think that they can operate above the law.

DVD ONG
On Golden Pond. Special ed. [Santa Monica, Calif.] : Artisan Home Entertainment, c2003.
Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Doug McKeon, Dabney Coleman, William Lanteau, Christopher Rydell, Troy Garity. Shows the conflicts between three generations as the Thayers, a crotchety old professor and his wife, spend their summer together on a lake in New England. The couple agrees to mind their estranged daughter’s boyfriend’s child, while daughter and boyfriend go on a trip. The boy bonds with the old man in a way his daughter never did. Shows the terrors and graces of aging.

DVD ROC
Rocky. Santa Monica, CA. : MGM/UA Home Video, c1997.
Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith. Rocky Balboa (Stallone), the underdog, gets his million-to-one shot at love, self-respect and the world heavyweight boxing crown ... and comes out a winner.

DVD SPA
Spartacus. [Widescreen version]. Universal City, CA : Universal, c1998.
Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin, Tony Curtis. Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial Rome in this epic true account of man’s eternal struggle for freedom.

DVD STA
Stardust. Widescreen [ed.]. Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, c2007.
Charlie Cox, Sienna Miller, Henry Cavill, Nathaniel Parker, Peter O’Toole, Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes, Robert De Niro. Narrator, Ian McKellen.
Tristan hopes to win the heart of his beautiful, but shallow love, Victoria. He promises to recover a star that fell somewhere beyond the stony Wall that sets between the mundane England and the fantasy kingdom of Stormhold. So Tristan sets forth on his own journey in Stormhold. Meanwhile in that magical land, the dying king has set his four surviving sons on a quest for the crown. And the witch Lamia is seeking the heart of the star for an entirely different purpose, one that involves her secret power.

DVD SUF
Suffocationh[videorecording] /cCinevision International : production ; producer, Cao Biao ; director, Zhang. [English subtitled, widescreen version]. Chatsworth, CA :bImage Entertainment, c2007.
Ge You, Qin Hailu, Li Bin, Li Mengnan, Wang Ning, Wang Qianhuan, Le Geng. A cello case becomes an instrument of terror for a photographer convinced he murdered his cheating wife. The lines between the subconscious and conscious, the dead and the living, horrifically blur in this intense, atmospheric, psychological thriller.

New books and media for February 08

Brownell Library

FICTION

F ABUJABER
Abu-Jaber, Diana. Origin : a novel. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton, c2007.
Mentally fragile Lena Dawson, a fingerprint expert at a Syracuse crime lab, is forced to face the truth about her own past when she begins investigating a rash of crib deaths in the community.

F ALLBEURY
Allbeury, Ted. Dangerous arrivals. Sutton : Severn House, c2007.
Max Farne can finally relax, lounging on a boat moored at Santa Margherita, escaping the hot Italian sun in cool Italian bars. But following the sudden arrival of a beautiful woman, the disappearance of a rich man and the appearance of a soft-treading, armed stranger, who Max is forced to kill, it seems that the violence has only just begun...

F ANDERSON
Anderson, Kevin J.. Metal swarm. New York : Little, Brown and Co., c2007.
In the aftermath of a devastating war, swarms of ancient black robots built by the lost insectoid Klikiss race continue their depredations on helpless worlds with stolen and heavily armed Earth battleships. Among the humans, the Hansa’s brutal Chairman struggles to crush any resistance even as King Peter breaks away to form his own new Confederation among the colonies who have declared their independence. And meanwhile, the original, voracious Klikiss race, long thought to be extinct, has returned, intent on conquering their former worlds and willing to annihilate anyone in the way.

F BARLOWE
Barlowe, Wayne Douglas. God’s demon. 1st ed. New York : Tor, c2007.
Barlowe conjures up the creatures who sided with Lucifer and were ejected from heaven, thrown down into Hell to become freakishly mangled demons. After innumerable eons of exile, the demon Sargatanas has started to dream of being reunited with God. Sargatanas amasses an army to aid him in overthrowing Lucifer’s regent, Beelzebub, in an attempt to catch God’s eye.

F BECKETT
Beckett, Simon. Written in bone. New York : Delacorte Press, c2007.
Forensic anthropologist Dr. David Hunter is prevailed upon to leave London and travel to a remote island in the Outer Hebrides to inspect a corpse that has been badly burned—except for one hand and one foot—and left in an unoccupied cottage that shows no fire damage, and the situation deteriorates as more bodies turn up and a storm moves in, trapping a now endangered Hunter with little hope of rescue.

F BENNETT
Bennett, Alan. The uncommon reader. 1st Americana ed. New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, c2007.
The Queen of England stumbles upon a mobile library while she is in pursuit of her wayward dogs, strikes up a conversation with the man in charge, and feels it her duty to borrow a book, transforming her view of the world through the written word.

F BERRY
Berry, Steve. The Venetian betrayal : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2007.
Rare book dealer Cotton Malone tries to locate the final resting place of Alexander the Great, believing it holds a secret healing serum which can stop a ruthless dictator, with biological weapons, from destroying the world.

F BOX
Box, C. J. Blue heaven. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, c2008.
Twelve-year-old Annie Taylor and her younger brother William go on the run after witnessing a murder by four retired Los Angeles cops in the town of Kootenai Bay, Idaho, and find refuge with rancher Jesse Rawlins who has trouble knowing who to trust with the situation.

F BROOKS
Brooks, Geraldine. People of the book : a novel. New York : Viking, c2008.
Rare book expert Hanna Heath discovers a number of tiny artifacts hidden within the binding of a fifteenth-century Hebrew manuscript and begins to unravel the mysteries behind its past.

F BROWN
Brown, Jason. Why the devil chose New England for his work : stories. 1st ed. New York : Open City Books, c2007.
A linked collection of short fiction stories of forbidden love, patrimony, alcoholism, survival, runaway children, and other domestic dramas in northern New England.

F BROWN
Brown, Rita Mae. The tell-tale horse : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2007.
“Sister” Jane Arnold, the septuagenarian master of Virginia’s Jefferson Hunt Club, uses her common sense to try to solve the mystery of who killed a local woman and posed her corpse naked on a horse statue, while resident foxes, horses, and hounds devise their own theories about the murder.

F BRYANT LP
Bryant, Sarah. The other Eden. c2006.
Eleanor Rose dreams of comfort. Devastated by the death of the beloved grandfather who had raised her, seeking guidance and desperate for distraction, Eleanor heeds the words whispered to her in a dream. Leaving the security of her privileged life in Boston, she heads for Eden’s Meadow, a Louisiana estate that is part of her inheritance and as far from Boston as she can reasonably get as a single woman in the 1920s. Eleanor longs for a tranquil haven in which to nurse her grief and concentrate on her music, but soon she is caught in a tangle of lies and deception that have cursed her family for generations.

F CHABON
Chabon, Michael. The Yiddish policemen’s union : a novel. 1sted. New York : HarperCollins, c2007.
An alternate history novel in which Alaska was established as the Jewish homeland after World War II and fifty years later the inhabitants are being forced to leave their neighborhoods, but before moving, detective Meyer Landsman is determined to find his neighbor’s murderer and uncover the truth behind his sister’s accidental death.

F CHILD
Killer year : stories to die for—from the hottest new crime writers. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, c2008.
Killer Year is a group of 13 debut crime/mystery/suspense authors whose books will be published in 2007.

F CHURCH
Church, James. Hidden moon : an Inspector O novel. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, c2007.
Inspector O is called to investigate a bank robbery, the first ever in Pyongyang, and he soon learns that someone does not want him to solve the crime, which only encourages Inspector O to try and uncover the real motive behind the robbery, and he is shocked to uncover a scandal that will rock the entire North Korean regime.

F CLARKE
Clarke, Arthur Charles. Firstborn. New York : Ballantine Books, c2008.
In this novel about Clarke’s mysterious race, the Firstborn, a “quantum bomb” is speeding toward Earth. It is a device that human scientists can barely comprehend, that cannot be stopped or destroyed and one that will obliterate Earth.

F COBB
Cobb, James H. Robert Ludlum’s The arctic event : a Covert-One novel. 1st ed. New York : Grand Central, c2007.
Lieutenant Colonel Jon Smith is sent to the Canadian Arctic with a group of covert agents to recover a downed Soviet strategic bomber carrying anthrax and is confronted with an arms dealer who wants the weapon and Russians who will kill to protect a deadly secret.

F COLLINS
Collins, James. Beginner’s Greek : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, and Co., c2008.
When Peter Russell finally meets the woman of his dreams he falls as madly in love as you can on a flight from New York to LA. Her name is Holly. She’s achingly pretty with strawberry-blonde hair, and reads Thomas Mann for pleasure. She gives Peter her phone number on a page of The Magic Mountain, but in his room that night Peter finds the page is inexplicably, impossibly, enragingly...gone. So begins the immensely entertaining story of Peter and his unrequited love for his best friend’s girl; of Charlotte and her less-than-perfect marriage to a man in love with someone else; of Jonathan and his wicked and fateful debauchery; and of Holly, the impetus for it all. Along the way, there’s the evil boss, the desirable temptress, miscommunications, misrepresentations, fiendish behavior, letters gone astray, and ultimately, an ending in which every character gets his due. Both incisive and wonderfully funny, this is a brilliantly understated comedy of manners in which love lost is found again.

F CONANT
Conant, Susan. All shots : a dog lover’s mystery. 1st ed. New York : Berkley Prime Crime, c2007.
Massachusetts malamute trainer and dog columnist Holly Winter’s life becomes a lot more complicated when she goes searching for a missing dog and instead discovers a dead woman who had apparently been trying to steal her identity, as well as the identity of another Holly Winter—this one a dog-hating academic.

F CORNWELL
Cornwell, Bernard. Sword song : the battle for London. New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers, c2008.
Uhtred has been made Governor of London while Alfred, building fortified towns to hold Wessex, pushes into Mercia.

F CRAIG
Craig, Philip R. Third strike : a Brady Coyne/J.W. Jackson mystery. New York : Scribner, c2007.
Tapply’s Boston lawyer, Brady Coyne, responds to an anguished call for help from an old client living on Martha’s Vineyard, where the late Philip Craig’s ex-cop, J.W. Jackson, is being urged by his wife to investigate the death of a striking ferry boat worker. (from Publishers Weekly).

F CRUSIE
Crusie, Jennifer. Agnes & the hitman. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, c2007.
Agnes Crandall’s life takes an unexpected turn when a stray dog invades her kitchen, bringing a hitman named Shane into the picture, who then pulls Agnes into his involvements with the Mafia.

F CRUSIE
Crusie, Jennifer. The unfortunate Miss Fortunes. New York : Godalming : St. Martin’s ; Melia [distributor], c2007.
For years, the three orphaned Fortune sisters, each endowed with a different magical ability, have been on the run from their evil aunt Xan. Dee, the oldest, is their shape-shifting protector; sullen middle child Lizzie has transmutative abilities (her latest aim is turning straw into gold); and self-satisfied Mare can move things with her mind. (from Publishers Weekly).

F DELINSKY
Delinsky, Barbara. The secret between us. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2007.
On a rainy night, Deborah Monroe and her teenage daughter, Grace, are driving home when their car hits a man. The victim, who turns out to be Grace’s history teacher, is unconscious but alive. Although Grace was driving, Deborah sends her home and takes responsibility for the accident when the cops show up. Deborah is juggling a lot: as a family doctor, she is in private practice with her über-demanding widower father, who is trying to hide a drinking problem; her son, Dylan, is vision impaired; her mother’s death continues to affect the family; Deborah is still dealing with her ex-husband’s new, separate life; and her unmarried sister, Jill, has just announced she’s pregnant. Grace’s guilt about not taking responsibility for the accident makes her withdraw from friends and family, and the accident victim turns out to have a more complex private life than anyone imagined.

F DIXON
Dixon, Stephen. Meyer. Hoboken, NJ : Melville House, c2007.
An accomplished fiction writer living in Baltimore contemplates aging and his life thus far as he struggles with a bout of writer’s block.

F DRAKE
Drake, David. The mirror of worlds. 1st ed. New York : Tor, c2007.
Prince Garric, his consort, Liane, his family, and a group of soldiers and diplomats travel to the small kingdoms of the Isles, but are unprepared for the powerful magic they encounter on their journey.

F DUNBAR
Dunbar, Anthony P. Tubby meets Katrina : a Tubby Dubonnet novel. Montgomery, AL : NewSouth Books, c2006.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, lawyer and sleuth Tubby Dubonnet finds himself in the New Orleans Convention Center with hundreds of other refugees and an escaped psychopath that is targeting his daughter.

F EIDSON
Eidson, Tom. Souls of angels : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2007.
When Don Maximiato Lugo, the patrón of La Cienega, is arrested for a prostitute’s murder, his daughter, Sister Ria Lugo, returns home from India, where she has spent 10 years in self-imposed exile in a convent, to try to clear his name. She suspects he was framed because he refused to sell land to a powerful syndicate planning to install lamplights throughout the city. Don Lugo’s refusal to deny his guilt, his increasingly eccentric behavior and his bizarre past make it difficult for Ria to be sure of his innocence, even as his execution day draws near. (from Publishers Weekly).

F FAQIR
Faqir, Fadia. The cry of the dove. New York, NY : Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic Inc., c2007.
The Cry of the Dove is the story of one young woman and an evocative portrait of forbidden love and violated honor in a culture whose reverberations are felt profoundly in our world today. Salma has committed a crime punishable by death in her Bedouin tribe of Hima, Levant: she had sex out of wedlock and became pregnant. Despite the insult it would commit against her people, Salma has the child and suddenly finds herself a fugitive on the run from those seeking to restore their honor.

F FAROOKI
Farooki, Roopa. Bitter sweets. 1st U.S. ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, c2007.
Rashid Karim, a young man from one of Calcutta’s best families, is shocked to learn on his wedding night that his bride is not the educated, seventeen-year-old child of a successful businessman, but Henna, an illiterate, thirteen-year-old shopkeeper’s daughter, and the lie echoes down through fifty years until Shona, Rashid and Henna’s daughter, now a mother herself, decides to inject a little honesty into the family tree.

F FLEMING
Fleming, Ian, 1908-1964. Casino Royale. New York : Penguin Books, c2006.
In the first of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels, 007 declares war on Le Chiffre, French communist and paymaster of the Soviet murder organization SMERSH. The battle begins in a fifty-million-franc game of baccarat, gains momentum during Bond’s fiery love affair with a sensuous lady spy, and reaches a chilling climax with fiendish torture at the hands of a master sadist. For incredible suspense, unexpected thrills, and extraordinary danger, nothing can beat James Bond in his inaugural adventure.

F FOLLET
Follett, Ken. The Pillars of the earth. New American Library deluxe ed. New York : New American Library, 2007, c1989.
The construction of a cathedral involves a story of betrayal, revenge and love in 12th century England.

F FORSTER
Forster, Margaret. Keeping the world away : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2006.
Follows the imagined life of an early-twentieth-century painting, recounting the lives of the successful women who take possession of it over the years.

F FREEMAN
Freeman, Castle. Go with me : a novel. 1st ed. Hanover, N.H. : Steerforth Press, c2008.
Covering 24 hours, set in small-town Vermont, the novel begins and ends with a certain New England ennui, but what fills the in-between is an absorbing tale of toppling the giant of the woods. The day begins with Lillian sitting in her car, a paring knife in her lap, her dead cat in the passenger seat. Waiting for the sheriff, she wants to lodge a complaint against Blackway, a notorious thug who has been stalking her, and most recently offed fluffy Annabelle. (from Kirkus Review).

F FRIEDMANN
Friedmann, Patty. A little bit ruined : a novel. Emeryville, CA : [Berkeley, Calif.] : Shoemaker & Hoard ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2007.
Eleanor Rushing, star of Friedmann’s earlier novel of the same name, is an unreliable narrator; her woman of all work, Naomi, and childhood friend Patti Ann are always plotting to save Eleanor from herself. When Eleanor decides to get plastic surgery to repair a scar on her face, she becomes devoted to her plastic surgeon. Her devotion isn’t enough to make her leave her New Orleans house during Hurricane Katrina, but her loneliness following the devastation is. . .(from Library Journal).

F GIRZONE
Girzone, Joseph F. Joshua’s family. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2007.
Eleven-year-old Joshua and his family move to a small town, where his mysterious spiritual gifts change the lives of many and spark suspicion in others.

F GLOSS
Gloss, Molly. The hearts of horses. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2007.
Nineteen-year-old Martha Lessen travels to eastern Oregon in 1917, hoping to be hired by local ranchers to tame their wild horses, and when George Bliss and his wife invite Martha into their home for the winter, she forms a special bond with the ranch’s horses, and the many people she meets while caring for them.

F GRAVES
Graves, Sarah. The book of old houses. New York : Bantam Dell, c2008.
A gun-toting college professor arrives in Eastport, Maine, looking for revenge. Ignoring the fact that she’s hosting a party the next day in honor of retired schoolteacher Merrie Fargeorge, whose Eastport pedigree is ancient, Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree has just taken a sledgehammer to the bathroom in her 200-year-old fixer-upper when Dave DiMaio arrives on her doorstep certain that he knows who murdered his friend Horace Robotham, a rare-book expert who was vetting the strange old volume Jake discovered in her foundation (Trap Door, 2007.)

F GREENWOOD
Greenwood, Kerry. Raisins and almonds : a Phryne Fisher mystery. 1st U.S. ed. Scottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, 2007, c2002.
Phryne Fisher, a super-sleuth investigating a poisoning and a wrongful arrest, is thrust into the world of Jewish politics, poison, and kosher dinners while trying to solv.

F GRIPPANDO
Grippando, James. Last call. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2008.
Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck agrees to help his friend, Theo Knight, help an escaped convict willing to reveal who killed Theo’s mother.

F GRISHAM
Grisham, John. The appeal. 1st large print ed. New York : Random House Large Print, c2008.
In a crowded courtroom in Mississipi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town’s water supply, causing the worst “cancer cluster” in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it.

F HARPER
Harper, Tom. Siege of heaven. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books/ St. Martin’s Press, c2007.
August, 1098. After countless battles and sieges, the surviving soldiers of the first crusade are at last within reach of their ultimate goal: Jerusalem. But rivalries fester and new enemies are massing against them in the Holy Land. Demetrios Askiates, the Emperor’s spy, has had enough of the crusade’s violence and hypocrisy. He longs to return home. But when a routine diplomatic mission leads to a deadly ambush, he realizes he has been snared in the vast power struggles which underlie the crusade. The only way out now leads through the Holy City.

F HARRIS
Harris, C. S. Why mermaids sing : a Sebastian St. Cyr mystery. New York : New American Library, c2007.
Ex-spy Sebastian St. Cyr is called in to investigate a series of grisly murders among some of London’s most prominent families, and sets out to decipher a cryptic code that connects a wealthy banking family and a Kentish vicar.

F HARRIS
Harris, Charlaine. All together dead. 1st ed. New York : Ace Books, c2007.
Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is used to the undead, changeling, and preternatural beings that surround her, but the shapeshifter Quinn and the Rhodes vampire summit test Sookie’s patience for the supernatural and pull her into a dangerous situation that threatens the fate of humanity.

F HART
Hart, Ellen. Mortal groove. 1st St. Martin’s Minotaur ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, c2007.
Minneapolis restaurateur and amateur sleuth Jane Lawless is in the middle of ringing in the New Year the best way she knows how—with her family, friends, and some excellent champagne—when the biggest financial backers in Minnesota politics break up the party with a little backroom proposition for her father: How’d he like to be the state’s next governor? Flattered, Ray Lawless, a retired defense attorney, agrees to run, and the latecomer’s sprint to the state capital is going great until reporters and opponents start digging up the kind of dirt that is more valuable than gold out on the campaign trail. He and his family are fair game, but worse than that, so are the men running his campaign. Their secrets, involving the mysterious death of a young woman, have been buried since the summer they all came home from Vietnam. Unfortunately for Jane and her father, those secrets won’t stay that way for long.

F HENKIN
Henkin, Joshua. Matrimony. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books c2007.
Follows the individual lives of Julian Wainwright, the son of a wealthy investment banker, and Carter Heinz, born of lesser means, as they struggle through college and personal relationships.

F HOEG
Høeg, Peter. The quiet girl. 1st American ed. New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, c2007.
World-renowned circus clown Kasper Krone begins working with a mysterious order of nuns, protecting a group of children with special powers, and when one of the children vanishes, Krone sets out to find her, and in the course of his search uncovers shocking truths about the girl’s identity and the nuns’ true intentions.

F HOLDEFER
Holdefer, Charles. The contractor. Sag Harbor, NY : The Permanent Press, c2007.
Gulf War veteran George Young takes a job working for the U.S. government as a contracted civilian interrogator and soon finds himself questioning if he is willing to betray his own humanity in order to defend his country and his family.

F JACKSON
Jackson, Lisa. Almost dead. New York : Kensington Pub., c2007.
Cissy Cahill sets out to find the person who is killing members of her family, but a shocking secret from the family’s past may offer insight into why her family is being targeted, and who is responsible.

F JANCE
Jance, Judith A. Hand of evil. 1st Touchstone hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2007.
While in Arizona trying to come to terms with the loss of her newscasting job and the death of her husband, Ali Reynolds is asked to assist a high school friend in the search for his missing daughter, and help Arabella Ashcroft, a member of the family that provided Ali with a college scholarship, write a memoir about incest.

F JILES
Jiles, Paulette. Stormy weather. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2007.
After their father’s death, the three Stoddard girls travel with their mother back to the family farm where they struggle to survive during the Dust Bowl and put all of their faith in the success of a wildcat oil well.

F JOHN
John, Sally. Castles in the sand. Eugene, Or. : Harvest House Publishers, c2006.
When Susan and Drake Starr discover that their 20-year-old daughter Kenzie is pregnant, their lives are turned upside down. The news sends Drake, a pastor of a huge San Diego church, reeling—and he sends Kenzie packing. Susan finds herself caught in the middle. Does loving Drake mean cutting ties with her only child? What will this path mean for her daughter? For herself?

F JORDAN
Jordan, R. T. Final curtain : a Polly Pepper mystery. New York : Kensington Books, c2008.
Polly Pepper, the legendary superstar of television’s golden age, is finally back in the entertainment headlines. She’s landed the title role in a new production of the musical Mame, and though it’s off-off-off-off Broadway (Glendale, California, actually), Polly’s bank account—and her ego—need the job. And if all goes well, the show just might go to New York! There’s one minor detour, though: on the second day of rehearsals, wunderkind director Karen Richards turns up dead.

F JUNGSTEDT
Jungstedt, Mari. Unseen. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, c2006.
When a serial killer begins stalking the residents and tourists of the Swedish island of Gotland, Inspector Anders Knutas teams up with journalist Johan Berg to find the killer before any more victims are claimed by the brutal murderer.

F KING
King, Laurie R. Touchstone. New York, N.Y. : Bantam Dell, c2008.
It’s eight years after the Great War shattered Bennett Grey’s life, leaving him with an excruciating sensitivity to the potential of human violence, and making social contact all but impossible. Once studied by British intelligence for his unique abilities, Grey has withdrawn from a rapidly changing world - until an American Bureau of Investigation agent comes to investigate for himself Grey’s potential as a weapon in a vicious new kind of warfare. Agent Harris Stuyvesant desperately needs Grey’s help entering a world where the rich and the radical exist side by side - a heady mix of the powerful and the celebrated, among whom lurks an enemy ready to strike a deadly blow at democracy on both sides of the Atlantic. Here, among a titled family whose servants dress in whimsical costumes and whose daughter conducts an open affair with a man who wants to bring down the government, Stuyvesant finds himself dangerously seduced by one woman and - even more dangerously - falling in love with another. And as he sifts through secrets divulged and kept, he uncovers the target of a horrifying conspiracy, and wonders if he can trust his touchstone, Grey, to reveal the most dangerous player of all.

F KING
King, Stephen. Duma Key. New York : Scribner, c2008.
A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle’s right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation.

F KLEYPAS
Kleypas, Lisa. Mine till midnight. St. Martin’s Paperbacks ed. New York : St. Martin’s Paperbacks, c2007.
When an unexpected inheritance elevates her family to the ranks of the aristocracy, Amelia Hathaway discovers that tending to her younger sisters and wayward brother was easy compared to navigating the intricacies of her new rank. Even more challenging: the attraction she feels for the tall, dark, and dangerously handsome Cam Rohan.

F LAWRENCE
Lawrence, David. Down into darkness : a Detective Stella Mooney novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Minotaur, c2007.
London detective Stella Mooney struggles to find the connection between the murders of a young woman found hanging from a tree and a researcher for a prominent and controversial member of Parliament discovered on a bench with his throat cut—both corpses bearing messages that prove they were victims of the same killer.

F LOOMIS
Loomis, Jon. High season. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, c2007.
Even though he left his job in Baltimore because he felt as if he could no longer work on murder cases, Provincetown sheriff Frank Coffin decides to investigate the killing of a television evangelist who was found dead and dressed as a woman.

F LOW
Low, Robert. The whale road. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, c2007.
Orm Rurikson is taken from Norway to serve on a Viking raiding ship and must rely on his own creativity and wit to survive as a member of the notorious crew.

F LUTZ
Lutz, John. In for the kill. New York : Pinnacle Books c2007.
New York homicide detective Frank Quinn, accustomed to working gruesome cases, is nevertheless shaken when he realizes the first letter of the last names of the latest five victims of a killer known as the Butcher spell out “Q-u-i-n-n,” and the investigation becomes even more urgent when it becomes obvious that the killer is moving in on Quinn’s own circle of loved ones.

F MACOMBER LP
Macomber, Debbie. Back on Blossom Street. Large print ed. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2007.
Blossom Street begins with a new knitting class at the shop Lydia Goetz owns in downtown Seattle. Lydia’s business is doing well, and in attendance are Susannah, who runs the flower shop next door; Colette, a young widow who lives upstairs; and Alix Townsend, a baker and former hoodlum engaged to a future minister. Lydia always tries to encourage friendship among her pupils, but this group is none too warm. Colette’s reticence is attributed to grief, but she is actually in hiding. Alix is trying her best to please her future in-laws, but as the wedding draws near, worries mount. (from Booklist, edited).

F MARTIN
Martin, George R. R. Dreamsongs. New York : Bantam Books, 2007, c2003.
A collection of shorter writings by award-winning fantasy author George R. R. Martin, including two previously unpublished screenplays, short stories, and an original novella, accompanied by author commentary.

F MCCAFFREY
McCaffrey, Anne. Dragon Harper. 1st ed. New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, c2007.
Life in the Harper Hall is busy for best friends Kindan, Nonala, and Kelsa. As the only female apprentices, Nonala and Kelsa are the butt of jokes and easy targets for the bully Vaxoram and his cronies. But when Kindan springs to Kelsa’s defense, he winds up in a fight for his life against the older, bigger Vaxoram - a fight that will lead to a surprising friendship. Meanwhile, in nearby Fort Hold, a clutch of fire-lizard eggs is about to hatch, and Lord Bemin’s beautiful young daughter, Koriana, is determined to Impress one of the delightful creatures. At the hatching, Kindan Impresses a fire-lizard of his own . . . and wins the heart of Koriana. But Lord Bemin mistrusts harpers and will not hear of a match between his daughter and the low-born Kindan.


F MCCARTHY
McCarthy, Tom, 1969 May 22-. Remainder. New York : Vintage Books, 2007.
McCarthy weaves a gripping story about a man who tries to recreate and reenact a past that has been wiped clean by a severe accident. But questions of morality and reality come to the fore as his pursuit veers out of control into darker, more disturbing territory. (from Barnes & Noble).

F MCDEVITT
McDevitt, Jack. Cauldron. 1st ed. New York : Ace Books, c2007.
Priscilla Hutchins, a speaker and fundraiser for a foundation trying to carry on the old Academy mission, gains access to late physicist Henry Barber’s FTL drive that could make interstellar journeys to such destinations as Makaii 4417, the believed home of the race that awakened the Chindi, possible.

F MCDOWALL LP
McDowall, Iain. Killing for England. 1st large print ed. Anstey, Leicester : Ulverscroft, 2006, c2005.
Chief Inspector Jacobson had been on leave when the body of a young black man, Darren McGee, was fished out of the River Crow. The autopsy had pointed to suicide by drowning. But now Darren’s cousin, Paul Shaw, is in town: an investigative journalist who is claiming that Darren had been the victim of a racially motivated murder. Jacobson isn’t convinced. But when Paul Shaw turns up as terminally wet as his cousin, Jacobson and DS Kerr face a baffling double murder. And a dangerous confrontation lies ahead with the murky world of the Far Right.

F MCFADYEN
McFadyen, Cody. The face of death. New York : Bantam Books c2007.
Special Agent Smoky Barrett is called in to find a ruthless killer who is turning an innocent sixteen-year-old into the ultimate weapon and may have his sights set on Smoky’s own family.

F MILLER
Miller, Linda Lael. McKettrick’s heart. Ontario, Canada : HQN Books, c2007.
Keegan McKettrick has learned the hard way that women can’t be trusted. The only female in his life these days is the young daughter he sees all too rarely, and his sole passion is for his job overseeing his family’s corporation. Until beautiful mysterious Molly Shields arrives in Indian Rock on a mission and keeping a suspicious eye on her becomes Keegan’s full-time hobby.

F MILLET
Millet, Lydia. How the dead dream. Brooklyn, NY : Soft Skull Press, c2008.
T. is a young Los Angeles real estate developer consumed by power and political ambitions. His orderly, upwardly mobile life is thrown into chaos by the sudden appearance of his nutty mother, who’s been deserted by T.’s now out-of-the-closet father. After his mother’s suicide attempt and two other deaths, T. finds himself increasingly estranged from his latest project: a retirement community in the middle of the California desert. As he juggles family, business, and social responsibilities, T. begins to nurture a curious obsession with vanishing species. Soon he’s living a double life, building sprawling subdivisions by day and breaking into zoos at night to be near the animals. A series of calamities forces T. to a tropical island, where he takes a Conrad-esque journey up a river into the remote jungle.

F MILLS
Mills, Kyle. Darkness falls. New York : Vanguard Press c2007.
Environmentalist Erin Neal, retired from the field and grieving in isolation since the death of his eco-terrorist girlfriend, is pressed back into service by Homeland Security when terrorists mutate the controllable oil-eating bacteria Neal invented to clean up oil spills and unleash it in the oil reserves of Saudi Arabia.

F MONETTE
Monette, Sarah. The Mirador. 1st ed. New York : Ace Books c2007.
The wizard Felix has reclaimed his sanity, his magic, and his position in society, despite the fact that many in the wizarding world still want to see him fail, and finds himself an unwilling spy for the Bastion, which wants to bring down the Mirador.

F MORTIMER
Mortimer, John Clifford. Rumpole misbehaves. 1st American ed. New York : Viking, c2007.
English barrister Horace Rumpole agrees to represent twelve-year-old Peter Timson after the boy is cited with an Anti-Social Behavior Order for playing soccer in the streets of an upscale London neighborhood and it is not long before he starts to wonder why the trivial case against Peter is being pursued so vigorously.

F NORTON
Norton, Andre. Dragon mage. 1st ed. New York : Tor, c2008.
Shy is transported to ancient Babylon after discovering an enchanted dragon puzzle that once belonged to her father, and learns that she must take up her father’s legacy as a servant of the dragon and save her world by defeating a dark wizard with dangerous insight into dragon magic.

F OBRIEN
O’Brien, Patricia. Harriet and Isabella. New York : Touchstone c2008.
As Henry Ward Beecher lies dying in 1887, his estranged sister, Isabella Hooker, comes to Brooklyn Heights for a final attempt at reconciliation. Among those who oppose her visit is her sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe. The rich and powerful Beecher family has never recovered from the trial 12 years earlier in which Henry, a charismatic preacher, stood accused of committing adultery with Elizabeth Tilton. Rather than supporting Henry unquestioningly, Isabella stood by Victoria Woodhull, the outspoken suffragette who made the charges public to advance her own causes. (from Library Journal).

F OCONNOR
O’Connor, Joseph. Redemption falls. 1st Free Press hardcover ed. New York : Free Press, c2007.
Follows the lives of Irish immigrants through the American Civil War and after, focusing on James O’Keefe, an ex-felon who fought for the Yankees, became a celebrity lecturer in New York, married a Latino aristocrat, was elected as a governor, and ended up facing charges of grand larceny and general anarchy.

F ONAN
O’Nan, Stewart. Last night at the lobster : a novel. New York : Viking, c2007.
O’Nan peers into a suburban Connecticut Red Lobster restaurant on the last night of its operation. (from Barnes & Noble).

F PANCAKE
Pancake, Ann. Strange as this weather has been : a novel. [Emeryville, CA] : Shoemaker & Hoard, c2007.
The Turrell family finds their beliefs and unity challenged by the strip mining that is ruining their small Appalachian town and putting food on their table, leaving each family member to decide where their loyalties lie and what their ties are to the region they have grown up in.

F PARETSKY
Paretsky, Sara. Bleeding Kansas. New York : G.P. Putnam’s c2008.
One of America’s most highly-praised crime novelists tackles the concepts of freedom and family, as seen through the eyes of a teenage girl coming of age in the American Midwest during the first Gulf War.

F PARKS
Parks, Tim. Cleaver : a novel. 1st North American ed. New York : Arcade Pub. : Distributed by Hachette Book Group USA, c2007.
Through terse, confrontational prose, Parks puts on display the self-absorbed and egotistical mind of notable British journalist and womanizer Harold Cleaver. (from Publishers Weekly).

F PATTISON
Pattison, Eliot. Bone rattler. Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint c2008.
Brought to the New York colony on a British convict ship, exiled clan chief Duncan McCallum ventures into the wilderness alone amidst the French and Indian War, searching for connections between the British army, Native American priests, and a rash of suicides and murders among his fellow Scottish prisoners.

F PRESTON
Preston, Douglas J. Blasphemy. 1st hardcover ed. New York : Forge Books, c2008.
The world’s biggest supercollider, locked in an Arizona mountain, was built to reveal the secrets of the very moment of creation: the Big Bang itself. The Torus is the most expensive machine ever created by humankind, run by the world’s most powerful supercomputer. It is the brainchild of Nobel Laureate William North Hazelius. Will the Torus divulge the mysteries of the creation of the universe? Or will it, as some predict, suck the earth into a mini black hole? Or is the Torus a Satanic attempt, as a powerful televangelist decries, to challenge God Almighty on the very throne of Heaven? Twelve scientists under the leadership of Hazelius are sent to the remote mountain to turn it on, and what they discover must be hidden from the world at all costs.

F REES
Rees, Matt. A grave in Gaza : an Omar Yussef mystery. New York : Soho Press, c2007.
Palestinian history teacher Omar Yussef travels from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip, where he becomes immersed in local violence and politics, in this over-the-top sequel to Rees’s The Collaborator of Bethlehem (2007). (from Publishers Weekly).

F ROBERTS
Roberts, Nora. Blood brothers. Jove mass-market ed. New York : Jove Books, c2007.
After three boys accidentally awaken an ancient evil near their small Maryland town, the tight-knit community finds itself lost to a Stephen King-style plague of madness and destruction for a week every seven years. Twenty-one years later, those three boys, now grown, are hoping to find a way to stop the evil before its third return, which may mean the end of the town; they don’t know much about the “anomalies,” but they do know that “[e]very time it gets stronger.” This time, the town is graced by author Quinn Black, eager to document the paranormal mystery. When two more women arrive—one an associate of Quinn’s, the other led to town by strange visions—the circle of six decide to face the oncoming apocalypse together. (from Publishers Weekly).

F ROBERTS
Roberts, Nora. Stars. New York : Silhouette, c2007.
Hidden star: She couldn’t remember a thing, not even who she was. But it was clear Bailey James was in trouble. Big trouble. And she desperately needed private eye Cade Parris to help her find out just what kind. Surely she wasn’t a criminal - but then what on earth was she doing with a bag full of cash and a stunning blue diamond as big as a baby’s fist? Captive star: Someone had set them both up. Now, handcuffed together, bounty hunter Jack Dakota and bail jumper M. J. O’Leary were on the run from a pair of hired killers. And M. J. wasn’t talking - not even when Jack found a gigantic blue diamond hidden in her purse. Everything told Jack the sexy skip he’d been hired to recover couldn’t be trusted - everything, that is, but his heart.

F ROLLINS
Rollins, David. The death trust. New York : Bantam Books, 2007, c2005.
Air Force Special Investigator Major Vin Cooper is assigned to look into the death of a four-star general and his son, an American soldier on a routine patrol in Iraq.

F SHINN
Shinn, Sharon. Reader and raelynx. 1st ed. New York : Ace Books, c2007.
In this novel of secret sorceries and forbidden desires, the mystic Cammon must put aside his personal feelings for Princess Amalie while he reads the souls of her suitors for any potential threats. But Cammon is unable to read Amalie, and he begins to suspect that she herself possesses magic powers-a revelation which would put her life in danger, and throw the kingdom into chaos.—From publisher’s description.

F SWERLING
Swerling, Beverly. City of glory : a novel of war and desire in Old Manhattan. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2007.
In 1812, war hero and surgeon Patrick Turner retreats from society after losing his hand, and hopes to make his fortune in the China trade, but in order to succeed, he must run the British blockade or risk losing both his livelihood and the woman he loves.

F THEROUX
Theroux, Paul. The Elephanta suite. Boston : Houghton Mifflin c2007.
Contains three connected novellas about Westerners whose lives are changed through their trips to India.

F THURLO
Thurlo, Aimée. False witness. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, c2007.
When a stolen SUV crashes through the walls of Our Lady of Hope Monastery, the nuns are faced with the daunting task of raising money for repairs and agree to what appears to be a simple task, helping Sister Agatha track down a benefactor’s missing niece, but the investigation soon pulls the nuns into a deadly situation that could end in disaster.

F TODD
Todd, Charles. A pale horse. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2008.
In the ruins of Yorkshire’s Fountains Abbey lies the body of a man wrapped in a cloak, the face covered by a gas mask. Next to him is a book on alchemy, which belongs to the schoolmaster, a conscientious objector in the Great War. Who is this man, and is the investigation into his death being manipulated by a thirst for revenge?

F TREMAYNE
Tremayne, Peter. A prayer for the damned : a mystery of ancient Ireland. 1st U.S. ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2007, c2006.
Fidelma of Cashel turns her attention from marriage to murder in February of 668 A.D. when the King of Connacht, a distinguished guest at her wedding, is accused of killing the much-disliked Abbot Ultan.

F TURTLEDOVE
Turtledove, Harry. Opening Atlantis. New York : Roc, c2007.
An English fisherman, Edward Radcliffe, discovers an isolated new continent between Europe and North America during the reign of King Henry VI and transports himself and his family there in order to be free from social, political, and religious repression.

F WEBB
Webb, Charles Richard. Home school. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, c2008.
Eleven years and 3,000 miles later, Benjamin and Elaine live in Westchester County, a suburb of New York City, with their two sons, whom they are educating at home. A continent now stands between them and the boys’ surviving grandparent, now known as Nan, but who in former days answered to Mrs. Robinson. The story opens with the household in turmoil as the Westchester School Board attempts to quash the unconventional educational methods the family is practicing. Desperate situations call for desperate remedies - even a cry for help to the mother-in-law from hell, who is only too happy to provide her loving services - but at a price far higher than could be expected.

F WILHELM
Wilhelm, Kate. A wrongful death. Don Mills, Ont. : Mira, c2007.
Oregon attorney Barbara Holloway becomes caught in a web of murder and money when she tries to help Elizabeth Kurtz, a woman on the run from her ex-husband, whose company is involved in illegal activities that, if discovered, could derail a very lucrative deal.

F WILLEFORD
Willeford, Charles Ray. The way we die now : a novel. 1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed. New York : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, c2005.
When Miami Homicide Detective Hoke Moseley receives an unexplained order to let his beard grow, he doesn’t think much about it. He has too much going on at home, especially with a man he helped convict ten years before moving in across the street. Hoke immediately assumes the worst, and considering he has his former partner, who happens to be nursing a newborn, and his two teenage daughters living with him, he doesn’t like the situation one bit. It doesn’t help matters when he is suddenly assigned to work undercover, miles away, outside of his jurisdiction and without his badge, his gun, or his teeth.

F WOODS
Woods, Stuart. Beverly Hills dead. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2007.
Rick Barron, a former Beverly Hills cop, has risen to head of production of Centurion Pictures, and he’s at the top of his game. But tensions are high in Hollywood, and when Rick’s friend Sidney Brooks, a successful screenwriter, receives a subpoena from the House Un-American Activities Committee, Rick isn’t surprised. The witch hunt is spreading, and those under investigation are Rick’s closest friends—even his wife, the glamorous starlet Glenna Gleason.

F YARBRO
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn. Borne in blood : a novel of the Count Saint-Germain. 1st ed. New York : Tom Doherty Associates, c2007.
The year is 1817. In Switzerland, the Count Saint-Germain leads a comfortable life with his paramour Hero whose husband died fighting Napoleon. Saint-Germain’s loving kindness cannot keep Hero from missing her children who are being raised by their hard-hearted grandfather. The Count has become intrigued by the work of an Austrian noble investigating the properties of blood, a subject always of key interest to a vampire. But when the noble’s beautiful ward fixates sexually on the Count, the vampire fears for himself and his gentle lover.

NON-FICTION

155.4 ELK
Elkind, David. The power of play : how spontaneous, imaginative activities lead to happier, healthier children. Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Lifelong Books, c2007.
Discusses the importance of unstructured play during childhood, featuring examples and evidence to support the author’s contention that play is crucial to the physical, intellectual, social, and emotional development of children.

297.1 COO
Cook, M. A. The Koran, a very short introduction. London ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2000.
Provides a direct account of the significance of the Koran in both the modern world and in traditional Islamic culture.

324.7 HAL
Halperin, Mark. The way to win : taking the White House in 2008. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2006.
Political reporters Mark Halperin and John F. Harris examine the developments in modern presidential campaigns that will shape the 2008 elections and reveal inside details of the last two presidential elections and the factors that influenced their outcomes.

332.60973 CRA
Cramer, Jim. Jim Cramer’s stay mad for life : get rich, stay rich (make your kids even richer). 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2007.
Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s “Mad Money,” offers practical advice on lifetime investing, explaining how to build wealth by avoiding common investing pitfalls, making smart money decisions, investing in bull markets, identifying winning funds, and understanding the dangers and promise of investing.

342.73 SCH
Schwarz, Frederick A. O. (Frederick August Otto) . Unchecked and unbalanced : presidential power in a time of terror. New York : New Press : Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law : Distributed by Norton, c2007.
Reveals how President George W. Bush acted unilaterally in making decisions in the years following the September 11 terrorist attacks, arguing that he overstepped, ignored, and rewrote the law in the name of fighting terror.

401 PIN
Pinker, Steven. The stuff of thought : language as a window into human nature. New York : Viking, c2007.
Examines how humans use words to express emotions, drawing on real-life examples to argue that human thoughts are all based on core ideas that are turned into metaphors for every possible situation.

610 SIL
Silence kills : speaking out and saving lives. 1st ed. Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, c2007.
The dozen personal essays in this collection, from patients and their caregivers, nurses, social workers, and physicians, address the devastating human results that can occur from a lack of communication and understanding among those in the health care profession.

632 BAD
Bader, Myles. 1001 all-natural secrets to a pest-free property. [United States] : Myles H. Bader, c2005.
Every bug, pest, critter and animal related problem you can think of is covered in this comprehensive, detailed and creative book. And every one of the 1001 solutions in this book avoids the use of any kind of pesticide or other poison that could potentially cause harm to our families, our communities, and our natural environment. .

641.5973 SEI
Seinfeld, Jessica. Deceptively delicious : simple secrets to get your kids eating good foods. 1st ed. New York : Collins, c2007.
Provides recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert dishes which contain vegetable purees that are healthy and appealing to children, and contains advice on meal conversation, letting kids help with prep and cleaning, and more.

649 NEV
Neville, Helen. Is this a phase? : child development & parent strategies, birth to 6 years. Seattle, Wash. : Parenting Press, c2007.
Provides an overview of behaviors parents can expect from children as they grow and develop from birth to age six, describes phases common to children from birth to three months, two to nine months, crawling to eighteen months, eighteen months to three years, three years, four years, and five years, and includes reference charts for dealing with child development in daily life.

658.8 BOR
Borelli, Anthony. Affiliate millions : make a fortune using search marketing on Google and beyond. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2007.
This book is about building income through search marketing and affiliate advertising on the Web.

737.4 STA
Standard catalog of world coins. Iola, Wis. : Krause Publications, c2008.
The newest edition of this standard guide to coins.

747 NEW
New decorating book. 9th ed. Des Moines, Iowa : Meredith Books, c2007.
Here are hundreds of ideas to help home decorators create the comfortable, truly personal homes they desire.

769 STA
Standard catalog of baseball cards. [Iola, Wisc.] : Krause Publications, c2008.
This comprehensive price guide contains one million listings for cards from the mid-1800s through early 2007. Everything from Tobacco Cards of the 1880s and 1910 and Bubblegum cards from the hey day of Gehrig through home plate heroes like Jeter, to specialty cards and memorabilia, critical pricing and identifying details are the key ingredients in this mammoth reference. (description refers to the 2008 guide)

769.56 SCO
Scott Specialized Catalogue of United States Stamps & Covers. New York : Scott Publishing Co. 2008.
Includes postage, air post, plate blocks, first day covers, postal stationery, essays, proofs, computer vended postage, 19th century carriers & locals, booklets, revenue stamps, telegraph stamps, Confederate states, U.S. posessions, and the United Nations.

791 UNO
Sehlinger, Bob. The unofficial guide to Walt Disney World 2008. Hoboken, N.J. : Chichester : Wiley ; John Wiley [distributor], c2007.
This guide includes almost 250 hotels rated and ranked for quality and value, including the top non-Disney hotels for families, a complete Dining Guide with ratings and reviews of all Walt Disney World restaurants including extensive alternatives for dining deals outside the World, as well as ratings and rankings for attractions according to the appropriate corresponding age group, with head-to-head comparisons of the Disney and Universal theme parks. (from the publisher, edited).

791 WAL
Wiley, Kim Wright. Walt Disney World with kids, 2008. 18th ed. New York : Fodor’s, c2008.
A detailed guide to Disney World, Universal Orlando, and SeaWorld for families that provides traveling and money-saving tips, scare factors for each ride and venue, detailed maps, restaurant and hotel profiles, Don’t-Miss lists, and more.

791.06 BIR
Birnbaum guides 2008 Walt Disney World : expert advice from the inside source. New York : Disney Editions, c2007.
A comprehensive guide to Walt Disney World that provides information on tours, transportation, and accommodations, restaurants, Epcot Center, Magic Kingdom, MGM Studios, and Animal Kingdom.

791.06 BIR
Birnbaum guides 2008 Walt Disney World for kids : the official guide. New York : Disney Editions, c2007.
Presents a full-color kids’ guide to Walt Disney World that describes many of the attractions and characters seen in the park; and includes a special scrapbook section for autographs.

811.52 STA
Stanlis, Peter J. (Peter James). Robert Frost : the poet as philosopher. Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, c2007.
In Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher, Stanlis shows how Frost’s philosophical dualism of spirit and matter is perceived through metaphors and applied to science, religion, art, education, and society. He further argues that Frost’s dualism provides a critique of the monistic forces that were instrumental in the triumph of twentieth-century totalitarianism.

921 BUSH
Koch, Doro Bush. My father, my president : a personal account of the life of George H.W. Bush. 1st ed. New York : Warner Books, c2006.
An inside look at the life and storied career of former President George H.W. Bush—filled with personal stories and family memories.

921 MARTIN
Martin, Steve. Born standing up : a comic’s life. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, c2007.
Steve Martin reflects on his early career as a stand-up comic, how he walked away from it to become a writer for “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour,” his mentors and complex relationship with his parents and sister, and the work and dedication it took to become one of the world’s greatest comedians.

921 RICHARDSON
Richardson, Bill, 1947 Nov. 15-. Between worlds : the making of an American life. New York : Putnam’s, c2005.
New Mexico governor Bill Richardson discusses how his Mexican-American roots shaped his beliefs and influenced his political career.

973.3 CLA
Clary, David A. Adopted son : Washington, Lafayette, and the friendship that saved the Revolution. New York : Bantam Books, c2007.
They were unlikely comrades-in-arms. One was a self-taught, middle-aged Virginia planter in charge of a ragtag army of revolutionaries, the other a rich, glory-seeking teenage French aristocrat. But the childless Washington and the orphaned Lafayette forged a bond as strong as any between father and son, a trust that saw them through betrayals, shifting political alliances, and the trials of war. Their friendship continued throughout their lives. Lafayette inspired widespread French support for a struggling young America and personally influenced Washington’s antislavery views. Washington’s enduring example as general and statesman guided Lafayette during France’s own revolution years later. Using personal letters and other key documents, author Clary offers a rare glimpse of the American Revolution, including intimate portraits of such major figures as Alexander Hamilton, Benedict Arnold, and Benjamin Franklin. The result is a remarkable, little-known epic of friendship, revolution, and the birth of a nation.

973.4 ADA
Adams, John, 1735-1826. My dearest friend : letters of Abigail and John Adams. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2007.
A collection of letters between Abigail and John Adams written from 1762 to 1801 covering topics of revolution, independence, and nation building, along with those that reflect their love for one another.

973.737 PRI VT COLL
Prince, Cathryn J.. Burn the town and sack the banks! : Confederates attack Vermont! 1st Carroll & Graf ed. New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, c2006.
On a dreary October afternoon, bands of Confederate raiders held up the three banks in St. Albans. With guns drawn, they herded the townspeople out into the common, sending the people of the North into panic. Operating out of a Confederate stronghold in Canada, the raiders were young men, mostly escapees from Union prison camps, who had been recruited to inaugurate a new kind of guerilla war along the Yankees’ unprotected border.

AUDIO-VISUAL

CD 792.702 NEW
Newhart, Bob. I shouldn’t even be doing this : and other things that strike me as funny. New York : Hyperion Audiobooks, p2006.
Read by the author. Now in his mid-70s, comedian Newhart riffs lightly on his life and career, publishing along the way portions of his most popular routines. (from Kirkus Reviews).

CD BLUES TOM WAITS
Waits, Tom. Orphans : brawlers, bawlers & bastards. Los Angeles : Anti, p2006.
Tom Waits; with instrumental acc.

CD CLASSICAL BRAHMS
Trios. Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Brahms trios nos. 1 & 2. New York, N.Y. : Angel, p2002.
Eroica Trio (piano trio).

CD CLASSICAL MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi, Claudio, 1567-1643. Vespro della Beata Vergine : 1610. London, England : Virgin, p1999.
Taverner Consort, Choir, & Players, Andrew Parrott, conductor.

CD CLASSICAL SHOSTAKOVICH TCHAIKOVSKY TRIOS
Sostakovic, Dmitrij. D. Trios. Hamburg : Dt. Grammophon, p1999.

CD COUNTRY LEANN RIMES
Rimes, LeAnn. Unchained melody : the early years. Nashville, TN : Curb Records, p1997.
LeAnn Rimes, vocals ; with instrumental and vocal acc.

CD EASY LISTENING CÉLINE DION
Dion, Céline. Falling into you. New York, NY : Sony 550 Music/Epic, p1996.
It’s all coming back to me now—Because you loved me (theme from “Up close & personal”)—Falling into you—Make you happy—Seduces me—All by myself—Declaration of love—Dreamin’ of you—I love you—If that’s what it takes—I don’t know—River deep, mountain high—Call the man—Fly. Céline Dion, vocals ; with assisting musicians.

CD EASY LISTENING EMILY HAINES
Haines, Emily. Knives don’t have your back. Toronto : Last Gang Records, p2006.
Our hell—Doctor blind—Crowd surf off a cliff—Detective daughter—The lottery—The maid needs a maid—Mostly waving—Reading in bed—Nothing & nowhere—The last page—Winning.

CD EASY LISTENING GLEN HANSARD
Hansard, Glen. The swell season. Chicago, IL : Overcoat Recordings, p2006.
This low—Sleeping—Falling slowly—Drown out—Lies—When your minds made up—The swell season—Leave—The moon—Alone apart. Glen Hansard, vocals ; Marketa Irglova, vocals, piano ; with Marja Tuhkanen, violin ; Bertrand Galen, cello.

CD EVA
Evanovich, Janet. Plum lucky. New York : Macmillan Audio, p2008.
Read by Lorelei King. Stephanie finds herself in over her head with a caper involving thrice stolen money, a racehorse, a car chase and a bad case of hives—not to mention her grandmother playing the slots in Atlantic City using the stolen money!

CD FOLK ANDALUCIAN DOGS
Golijov, Osvaldo. Ayre. Hamburg : [Universal City, Calif.] : Deutsche Grammophon ; Distributed by Universal Music & Video, p2005.
Dawn Upshaw, soprano ; Andalucian Dogs.

CD FOLK ERIC BACHMANN
Bachmann, Eric. To the races. Omaha NE : Saddle Creek, p2006.
Eric Bachmann; additional performers: Tom Hagerman, violin; Miranda Brown, vocals.

CD FOLK JENNY LEWIS
Lewis, Jenny, Rabbit fur coat. N[ew] Y[ork] C[ity], NY : Team Love, p2006.
Jenny Lewis, the Watson Twins, vocals; with acc.

CD FOLK LUCINDA WILLIAMS
Williams, Lucinda. West. Nashville, TN : Lost Highway, p2007.
Lucinda Williams, lead vocals, acoustic guitar ; with additional musicians.

CD JAZZ ANAT COHEN
Cohen, Anat. Poetica. New York : Anzic Records, p2007.
Anat Cohen, clarinet ; with Jason Lindner, piano ; Omer Avital, bass ; Daniel Friedman, drums ; and other musicians.

CD JAZZ BEN SIDRAN
Sidran, Ben. Feel your groove. Hollywood, Calif. : Capitol, p1971.
Rock and jazz songs with ensemble; Ben Sidran, vocals, piano, and organ.

CD JAZZ CHICK COREA & BÉLA FLECK
Corea, Chick. The enchantment. Beverly Hills, CA : Concord Records, p2007.
Performed by Chick Corea, piano, and Béla Fleck, banjo.

CD JAZZ DIZZY GILLESPIE
Gillespie, Dizzy. Dizzy Gillespie : greatest hits. New York : RCA Victor, p1996.
Performed by Dizzy Gillespie and his orchestra.

CD JAZZ JIMMY HEATH BIG BAND
Jimmy Heath Big Band. Turn up the Heath. Catskill, NY : Planet Arts., p2006.
Jimmy Heath, saxophones ; various other musicians.

CD JAZZ JOHN COLTRANE & JOHNNY HARTMAN
Coltrane, John, 1926-1967. John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman : original sessions. New York, NY : MCA, p1995.
They say it’s wonderful—Dedicated to you—My one and only love—Lush life—You are too beautiful—Autumn serenade. John Coltrane, tenor sax ; Johnny Hartman, vocals; McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums.


CD JAZZ KARRIN ALLYSON
Allyson, Karrin. Footprints. Beverly Hills, CA : Concord Jazz, p2006.
Karrin Allyson, vocals; with Jon Hendricks (tracks 5 and 13), Nancy King (tracks 2, 4, 7-9, and 13), vocals, and instrumentalists.

CD JAZZ MARIAN MCPARTLAND
McPartland, Marian. 85 candles : live in New York. Beverly Hills, CA : Concord Jazz, p2005.
Marian McPartland, piano; with various vocalists and instrumentalists.

CD JAZZ MICHAEL BRECKER
Brecker, Michael. Pilgrimage. [Europe] : WA Records, p2007.
Michael Brecker, tenor sax; Pat Metheny, guitar; Herbie Hancock, Brad Mehldau, piano; John Patitucci, bass;Jack DeJohnette, drums.

CD JAZZ MOCEAN WORKER
Cinco de mowo! [New York] : Mowo!, p2007.
Mocean Worker ; with additional performers.

CD MISCELLANEOUS NEKO CASE
Case, Neko. Fox confessor brings the flood. Los Angeles : Anti, p2006.
Margaret vs. Pauline—Star witness—Hold on, hold on—A widow’s toast—That teenage feeling—Fox confessor brings the flood—John saw that number—Dirty knife—Lion’s jaws—Maybe sparrow—At last—The needle had landed.

CD MISCELLANEOUS REGINA SPEKTO
Spektor, Regina. Begin to hope. New York, NY : Sire p2006.
Regina Spektor, vocals; with acc.

CD OPERA DON GIOVANNI
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Don Giovanni. Middlesex, England : EMI Classics, p2002.
Joan Sutherland, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Graziella Sciutti, sopranos; Luigi Alva, tenor; Eberhard Wächter, Giuseppe Taddei, Piero Cappuccilli, baritones; Gottlob Frick, bass; Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus; Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor.

CD OPERA TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Tristan und Isolde. [London] : EMI Classics, p2001.
Kirsten Flagstad, soprano; Blanche Thebom, mezzo-soprano; Ludwig Suthaus, tenor; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; Josef Greindl, bass; other soloists; Churs du Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Philharmonia Orchestra ; Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor.

CD PAT
Patterson, James. The quickie. New York : Hatchette Audio, p2007.
Read by Mary Stuart Masterson. When NYPD officer Lauren Stillwell discovers her husband coming out of a hotel with another woman she decides to beat him at his own game but her revenge goes awry.

CD ROCK BOB DYLAN
Dylan, Bob, 1941- Modern times. New York, NY : Columbia p2006.
Bob Dylan, vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano; Tony Garnier, bass, violoncello; George C. Receli, drums, percussion; Stu Kimball, Denny Freeman, guitars; Donnie Herron, steel guitar, violin, viola, mandolin.

CD ROCK DISPATCH
Dispatch (Musical group). Bang bang. New York : Bomber Records p2004.
Dispatch (Pete Heimbold, vocals, bass, guitar; Brad Corrigan, vocals, drums, guitar, percussion; Chad Urmston, vocals, guitar, bass, trombone, percussion); Geoff Burke, saxophone; The Belfry Chorus.

CD ROCK M. WARD
Ward, M., musician. Post-war. [Chapel Hill, NC] : Merge Records, p2006.
M. Ward, vocals, keyboards, guitar; with assisting musicians.

CD ROCK THE THERMALS
Thermals (Musical group). The body, the blood, the machine. Seattle, WA : Sub Pop, p2006.
Rock music from outside the mainstream.

DVD 591.709 ARC
Arctic tale. Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment c2007.
Narrator, Queen Latifah. Follow Nanu the polar bear cub and Seela the walrus pup through exciting and often dangerous struggles for survival, with only their natural instincts and mothers’ guidance to help them face the challenges of a world that is melting around them.

DVD 974.3 IND
In days gone by : Vermont country ways. Vermont : Vermont Public Television, c2000.
In the early 1900s technology began propelling the world into a future vastly different from centuries past. Rural communities had a much different experience and only 10% had electricity by 1935! These communities share their stories and memories of rural farm life.

DVD 974.3 VER
Vermont memories II : into the ‘50s. Colchester, VT : Vermont ETV, 1996.
Narrator, Willem Lange. Covers Vermont history after World War II. Includes the growth of the car culture, the advent of television, growth of ski areas, and the rise of Vermont tourism.

DVD 974.3 VER
Vermont memories III : vanished images. Colchester, VT : Vermont ETV, c1996.
Narrator, Willem Lange. Fun and adventure, discusses Island Park in Brattleboro, hotels, summer camps, the ski jump featured at the winter carnival in Newport, and racing at Milton’s Catamount Speedway.

DVD DEA
Quentin Tarantino’s Death proof. Unrated special ed. [New York] : Solana Beach, Calif. : Weinstein Company ; Genius Products, c2007.
Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Jordan Ladd, Rose McGowan, Sydney Poitier, Tracie Thoms, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Zoë Bell, Michael Parks. A deranged stuntman stalks his victims from the safety of his killer car, but when he picks on the wrong group of babes, all bets are off. He becomes involved in an automotive duel of epic proportions.

DVD HER
Heroes. Universal City, Calif. : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, c2007.
Masi Oka, Hayden Panettiere, Zachary Quinto, Jack Coleman, Snedhil Ramamurthy, Santiago Cabrera, Milo Ventimiglia, Adrian Pasdar, Noah Gray-Cabey, Leonard Roberts, Ali Larter, Greg Grunberg. Niki harbors a secret dark side, cheerleader Claire heals from any injury, Japanese Dilbert Hiro can bend time and space, Senatorial candidate Nathan is able to fly, his brother Peter can copy others’ powers, Matt is a cop who can read minds, and junkie artist Isaac sees the future. While Claire and Hiro explore the potential of their new powers, Niki and her son try to elude some hired thugs and end up overwhelmed by her dark side. Suresh searches for the answer to his father’s death. Hiro takes a trip, five weeks into the future, to New York and sees the city destroyed by a massive blast. Isaac sees the same, but through his paintings. The Heroes begin slowly coming into contact through a haze of dreams, visions, murder, swords and death. They need to stop the serial killer and save New York.

DVD SIM
The Simpsons movie. Widescreen [ed.]. : Beverly Hills, Calif. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. Captioned. c2007.
MPAA rating: PG-13; for irreverent humor throughout. Lisa convinces the locals to clean up the polluted Lake Springfield after a crowd of fans sink the Green Day concert stage. Meanwhile, Homer saves a pig from being killed in Krusty Burger and adopts it, calling the animal Spider Pig. After two days, Spider Pig fills up a silo with its excrement and not knowing what else to do, Homer dumps the silo in the lake, polluting it. The angry population forces the Simpsons to move to Alaska. Meanwhile, the president is induced by his adviser from the EPA to put a dome over Springfield to hold in the population and destroy the city. When Marge sees the news on television, she tells Homer that they must return to Springfield to save their town and friends, but Homer is not convinced that the people of Springfield deserve their support.

DVD SUP
Superbad. Theatrical version. Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2007.
Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Bill Hader, Seth Rogen, Martha MacIsaac, Emma Stone, Aviva Farber. Chris L. Spellman. Seth and Evan are accepting the fact that they will be going to different colleges in the fall. Now, it seems
more important than ever that they go to a high school party and achieve some of their long time goals. This includes, but is not limited to, losing their virginity with the girl of their dreams by getting them wasted and being their “regret hookup.” Their awkward friend Fogell gets a fake ID, with just the name McLovin, and agrees to get liquor to bring to Jules’ a.k.a. Seth’s dream girl’s graduation party. All seems to be going well until McLovin is sucker-punched in the liquor store by a robber. When the police come, they try to get a story out of the clerk, but she is too worried about her exam tomorrow, so they question McLovin.

DVD TAL
Talladega nights. Widescreen ed. Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2006.
Will Ferrell, Gary Cole, Jane Lynch, Michael Clarke Duncan, John C. Reilly, Adam McKay, David Koechner, Ian Roberts, Jack McBrayer, Houston Tumlin, Grayson Russell. NASCAR sensation Ricky Bobby is a racing hero because of his “win at all costs” approach. He and his loyal racing partner, childhood friend Cal Naughton Jr., are a fearless duo. Dubbed “Shake” and “Bake” by their fans, the two have the ability to finish so many races in the #1 and #2 positions, with Cal always in second place. When flamboyant French Formula One driver Jean Girard challenges Ricky and Cal for the supremacy of NASCAR, Ricky must face his own demons and fight Girard for the right to be known as racing’s top driver.

DVD THR
3:10 to Yuma. Burbank, Calif. : Columbia Tristar Home Video c2002.
Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Henry Jones, Richard Jaeckel. As other volunteers quit or are killed, a rancher is left alone to deal with the responsibility of putting a captured outlaw aboard a Fort Yuma-bound train.

DVD UNF
Unforgiven. Wide screen ed. Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, c2002.
Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris. “Two retired, down-on-their luck outlaws pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whis.