New books & media for July 07

New fiction books:

F AKUNIN
Akunin, B. (Boris). The winter queen : a novel. Random House trade pbk. ed. New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004, c2003.
Ernst Fandorin, a young detective with the Criminal Investigation Division of the Moscow Police in 1876, is forced to unravel a complicated web of events when his inquiry into the suicide of a talented student in a public park reveals links to a murder, an orphanage, and a worldwide terrorist conspiracy.

F ALLENDE LP
Allende, Isabel. Zorro : a novel. 1st Harper large print ed. New York : HarperLargePrint, c2005.
Diego de la Vega was a child of two worlds. His father was an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner and his mother was a Shoshone warrior. At 16, he’s sent to Barcelona for a European education. While there he joins ‘La Justicia,’ a secret underground resistance movement devoted to helping the powerless and poor. That’s when the legendary hero, Zorro, comes into existence. When he returns to America he continues to seek justice for all who cannot fight for themselves.

F ALLSTON
Allston, Aaron. Betrayal. New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, c2006.
The Skywalker and Solo clans find themselves on opposing sides of a potentially explosive conflict when the Galactic Alliance and the planet Corellia, Han Solo’s home planet, move closer and closer to war.

F ARCHER
Archer, Jeffrey, 1940-. Cat o’nine tales and other stories. 1st U.S. ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, c2007.
Cat O’Nine Tales is Archer’s fifth collection of short stories, some of which were plotted out during his two years in prison. It includes the story of a company chairman who tries to poison his wife while on a trip, with unexpected consequences. It also includes: The Red King, The Commissioner, The Alibi, and Charity Begins at Home, each of which include richly drawn characters and Archer’s trademark unexpected conclusions.

F ARCHER LP
Archer, Jeffrey, 1940-. False impression. Center Point large print ed. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2006.
Anna Petrescu narrowly escapes the North Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001 only to be tracked by both the FBI and an assassin as she runs from New York City across the globe and back to New York City. She’s out to discover why an aristocratic old lady was brutally murdered in her English country home and its connection to the theft of a priceless Van Gogh, which so many people seem to be willing to risk their lives to own.

F ARMSTRONG
Armstrong, Kelley. No humans involved. New York : Bantam Books, c2007.
In Armstrong’s assured seventh Otherworld paranormal romance, her first in hardcover (after Broken), pretty Jaime Vegas, a 44-year-old necromancer who can reanimate the dead, faces her biggest career challenge yet—freeing the trapped ghosts of six murdered children. Thankfully, Jeremy Danvers, Jaime’s hunky and very Alpha werewolf boyfriend, tags along for this hair-raising ride.
(From Publishers Weekly, edited).

F BACHMAN
Bachman, Richard. Blaze : a novel. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, c2007.
Written 35 years ago, this title was dismissed by King as too sweet when he decided to publish ‘the Bachman books,’ and it then became lost among boxes of papers. After it was recently recovered, King re-read it and realized it as a crime novel not just sweet, but sad and suspenseful. With a little editing and rewriting he brought Clayton Blaisdell Jr. to life. This is the story of the crimes committed against Blaisdell and the crimes he himself commits.

F BERNHARDT
Bernhardt, William, 1960-. Capitol threat : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2007.
Ex-lawyer and newly appointed senator Ben Kincaid comes to the defense of Supreme Court justice Thaddeus T. Roush, who, right after his appointment, admitted on live television that he was homosexual and whose partner is the prime suspect in the killing of a young woman.

F BRADLEY
Bradley, Marion Zimmer. The Alton gift. New York : DAW Books, c2007.
This long-awaited continuation of the popular Darkover trilogy is the story of Darkover’s ruling class, the comyn, and their struggles to reclaim their realm from the devastating effects of the Tarran Federation.

F BROWN LP
Brown, Rita Mae. The hounds and the fury. Large print ed. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2006.
Book five of Rita Mae Brown’s ‘Foxhunting’ series draws readers into the murky financial scandals of foxhunting society, including a sharp-tongued, wheelchair-bound hellion of a bookkeeper, Sister Jane’s handsome, brilliant boyfriend, and a rich former hunt club donor who thinks he can outclass the intrepid Master of the Hunt by purchasing his own pack of hounds. Only Sister Jane and her animal friends, the foxes, hounds, birds, cats, and dogs, are able to uncover the mystery of the missing money, and the missing body!.

F BRUNDAGE
Brundage, Elizabeth. The doctor’s wife. New York : Plume, [2005], c2004.
The Knowles family seems to have it all, wealth, health, and happiness, until Annie becomes bored with her role as a wife and mother and begins an affair with celebrity painter Simon Hass that threatens Annie and those she loves.

F BUCHANAN
Buchanan, Edna. Love kills : a Britt Montero novel. New York : Simon and Schuster, c2007.
‘Miami News’ reporter Britt Montero, recovering from the death of her lover on a Caribbean island, becomes caught up in a case involving a couple on their honeymoon who may not have been as happy as everyone thought. Now, with the bride missing following a sailing trip, Britt offers to tell the groom’s tragic story, only to discover that it was not the first honeymoon tragedy he had been involved in. This case, and one being investigated by the Cold Case Squad in Florida, come crashing together.

F BUNN
Bunn, T. Davis, 1952-. Winner take all : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Colorado Springs : Doubleday ; Waterbrook Press, c2003.
Against his better judgement, lawyer Marcus Glenwood agrees to help a man who once tried to kill him find his kidnapped daughter, but he soon realizes he is in over his head and he might not be able to save the child’s life, or his own.

F BURKE
Burke, James Lee, 1936-. Jesus out to sea : stories. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2007.
The 11 previously published stories in this strong collection showcase Burke’s handling of familiar themes and places, minus the trappings that accompany his popular Dave Robicheaux or Bill Bob Holland novels. The inevitable marriage of war and atrocity is powerfully described in the very brief Vietnam War tale, “The Village.” The title story, one of two dealing with Katrina and its aftermath, shows the lasting damage of war on survivors. Both “Winter Light” and “A Season of Regret” feature disillusioned, stoical academics, loners coping with the encroachments of cruder society. Also includes: “Texas City, 1947” depicts brutalized children and contains a surprising dénouement; “The Molester” and “The Burning of the Flag” both feature childhood friends from the WWII era confronting bullies or demons.
(From Publisher’s Weekly, edited).

F BUTCHER
Butcher, Jim, 1971-. White night : a novel of the Dresden files. New York : Roc, c2007.
Chicago wizard Harry Dresden investigates the slayings of several of the city’s supernatural underclass by a murderer referencing the book of Exodus and the killing of witches and finds himself caught in a power struggle with the White Court of vampires and trying to clear his half brother Thomas’s name.

F CHEVALIER
Chevalier, Tracy. Burning bright. New York : Dutton, c2007.
The Kellaway family, newly arrived in London in 1792 where father Thomas has been offered work by circus entrepreneur Philip Astley, discovers they are neighbors to famous printer, poet, and political radical William Blake, who is inspired by the coming-of-age adventures of young Jem Kellaway and his sister Maisie to writer one of his most famous works.

F CLARK LP
Clark, Mary Jane Behrends. Dancing in the dark. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2005.
KEY News correspondent Diane Mayfield has come to the New Jersey town of Ocean Grove to investigate a story. ‘Girls Who Cry Wolf’ is the topic for the season premier of ‘Hourglass,’ television’s top news magazine show. She interviews a troubled young woman who claims to have been abducted and held against her will for three days. Police don’t believe her story until two more victims turn up, one of them dead. Now Diane and the police team up to rid Ocean Grove of mortal danger.

F CLARKE LP
Clarke, Richard A. The scorpion’s gate. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2006.
A coup has finally toppled the sheiks of Saudi Arabia and put a determined but shaky Islamic government in its place. Soon, the scent of oil attracts the scorpions, and the dominos begin to fall.

F COONTS LP
Coonts, Stephen, 1946-. 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 COULTER
Coulter, Catherine. Double take. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2007.
Readers are taken on a wild ride from the twisted streets of San Francisco to the woods of Virginia when Julia Ransom, widow of acclaimed psychic August Random, is attacked and nearly killed. The search for her assailant sets in motion a cross-country manhunt involving law enforcement at every level.

F CRAIG
Craig, Philip R., 1933-. Vineyard stalker : a Martha’s Vineyard mystery. New York : Scribner, c2007.
Secret love affairs and real estate schemes drive Craig’s lively 18th Martha’s Vineyard mystery featuring retired Boston cop J.W. Jackson (after 2006’s Dead in Vineyard Sand). While J.W.’s kids and wife, Zee, are off-island, Zee’s friend Carole Cohen asks J.W. to help track down a stalker harassing her reclusive brother, Roland Nunes. A carpenter and Vietnam vet known as “The Monk,” Roland lives in a cottage on a valuable plot of land. Carole, a realtor, worries that someone wants to scare her brother away.

F CUSSLER
Cussler, Clive. The navigator : a novel from the Numa files. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2007.
Years before the current Gulf war, a diminutive statue was stolen from the Baghdad Museum. For some reason, this missing Phoenician icon has recently attracted marked interest among men not readily identifiable as art connoisseurs. In fact, the men who seek the so-called Navigator are ruthless killers who have already struck once. Saving the life of a UN investigator, Curt Austin and Zavala learn of this homicidal quest firsthand, thus beginning NUMA’s full immersion into a mystery of Da Vinci Code dimensions. (From Barnes & Noble).

F CUSSLER LP
Cussler, Clive. Treasure of Khan : a Dirk Pitt novel. Center Point large print ed. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2007.
Genghis Khan once ruled an empire four times the size of Alexander the Great’s: an expanse that stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea. When Dirk Pitt tracks down a missing survey team which disappears from Siberia under questionable circumstances, he discovers a mysterious mogul who is wreaking havoc on Middle East oil export facilities. The Mongolian dreams of restoring the conquests of ancient Mongolia, and holds a dark secret about Genghis Kahn, Kublai Khan, and the treasures of Xanadu.

F DEAVER LP
Deaver, Jeffery. The cold moon : a Lincoln Rhyme novel. Center Point large print ed. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2006.
On a freezing moonlit December night in New York City, two people are brutally murdered. Their deaths are marked by eerie calling cards: moon-faced clocks ticking away the victims’ last minutes on earth. It’s clear that more murders are planned, and Lincoln Rhyme and his team have only hours to stop a cold, calculated killer they call the Watchmaker.

F DEFORD
Deford, Frank. The entitled : a novel. Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, c2007.
After a career spent knocking around in the minor leagues as a player and manager, Howie Traveler has finally made it to the majors as manager of the Cleveland Indians. The team, however, is struggling, and Howie’s job is in jeopardy when the team’s star player, Jay Alcazar, is accused of rape. Though Howie’s playing career stalled out in Triple A, his big league management career depends on how well he can handle Alcazar, heralded as “the best player in the game.” (From Publishers Weekly, edited).

F DELILLO
DeLillo, Don. Falling man : a novel. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, c2007.
Keith Neudecker, a survivor of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, returns home from the ruins to his wife Lianne, from whom he had separated, and his young son Justin, and finds in the aftermath that he has become a very different man.

F DENNING
Denning, Troy. The joiner king. New York : Del Rey, c2005.
Luke, Han, and Leia follow Jaina and Jacen to the Unknown Regions and discover a mysterious alien colony expanding toward the edge of Chiss space, led by an adept user of the Force who is growing his power by convincing old friends to join the colony and meld their Force abilities with his. Also includes the story “Ylesia.”.

F DILLARD
Dillard, Annie. The Maytrees. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2007.
Toby Maytree meets Lou Bigelow in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts, where they marry and have a child; however, twenty years later after Toby runs off with another woman, he returns.

F EMERSON
Emerson, Kathy Lynn. No mortal reason : a Diana Spaulding mystery. Corona del Mar, CA : Pemberly Press, c2007.
Columnist Diana Spaulding looks for lost relatives and finds an uncle accused of murder in the Lake Region of 1888 New York. (From Library Journal, edited)

F EVANOVICH
Evanovich, Janet. Lean mean thirteen. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, c2007.
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum becomes the prime suspect in the disappearance of her ex-husband, and along with her boyfriend, police officer Joe Morelli, she tries to clear her name; discovering her ex had been involved with a shady group of criminals who believe she is in possession of a lot of their money.

F FAIRSTEIN LP
Fairstein, Linda A. Bad blood. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2007.
Attorney Alexandra Cooper is in court to prosecute a young businessman charged with murdering his wife. Although he has an alibi, she intends to prove that the man hired a hit man to do the job. When the city’s rocked by an explosion in a tunnel below in the middle of the trial, she discovers a connection between the tunnel workers and the accused. Cooper and Detective Mike Chapman go into the tunnels where they find a body and clues that undermine her case.

F FAIRSTEIN LP
Fairstein, Linda A. Death dance. Center Point large print ed. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2006.
Alex Cooper, teaming up with longtime friends and colleagues Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, investigates the disappearance of world-famous dancer Natalya Galinova, who vanished backstage at Lincoln Center’s Metropolitan Opera House. At the same time, Alex and Mercer are trying to nab a doctor who’s been using his knowledge of and access to pharmaceuticals to drug women before assaulting them.

F FEATHER
Feather, Jane. The bachelor list. New York : Bantam Books, c2004.
Set in London in 1906, Feather’s latest (after Venus) touches on a topic that is near and dear to many romance readers’ hearts—women’s right to vote. (From Publishers Weekly).

F FIELDING
Fielding, Joy. Heartstopper : a novel. 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, c2007.
High school English teacher Sandy Crosbie regrets moving to the small town of Torrance, Florida, from Rochester, New York, when her husband promptly leaves her for the local woman with whom he has been having an online affair—but things get worse when the town’s secret scandals and brutality start to surface, two teenage girls turn up dead, and the killer targets Sandy’s beautiful daughter.

F FINDER LP
Finder, Joseph. Killer instinct. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2006.
While sales exec Jason Steadman is witty, charismatic, and well liked at the office, he lacks the instinct to move up the corporate ladder, much to the chagrin of his ambitious wife. Then one evening he meets Kurt Semko, a former Special Forces’ officer just back from Iraq. After arranging a job for Kurt in Corporate Security, good things begin happening for Jason while bad things start happening to his rivals. Only too late does he discover that Kurt is responsible for both.

F FLYNN LP
Flynn, Vince. Act of treason. Center Point large print ed. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2007.
After Vice President Brian Baxter’s motorcade is ambushed by terrorists who kill his wife and several Secret Service agents, it appears to be an open and shut case. That is, until a package appears on the doorstep of Special Agent Skip McMahon, lead investigator on the case, the contents of which are so toxic that he considers destroying the evidence. That’s when he thinks of Mitch Rapp, the one man who’s reckless enough to follow the evidence to its explosive conclusion.

F FRANK
Frank, Dorothea Benton. The land of mango sunsets. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2007.
Miriam Elizabeth Swanson’s life is turned upside down by her tenants, estranged son, ex-husband, and Harry, her African Gray parrot, all of whom seem to be trying to drive Miriam over the edge.

F FREEDMAN
Freedman, Dave, 1966-. Natural selection. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2006.
A team of marine scientists discovers a previously unknown predatory species that is being forced into the open, where they threaten all of humanity.

F GARDNER LP
Gardner, Lisa. Hide. Center Point large print ed. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2007.
Imagine Annabelle Mary Granger’s surprise when she opened up the morning newspaper and learned that she was supposed to be dead. This discovery forces her to question her very existence, including the motives of the parents who loved her, and thrusts her into the center of a 20-year-old crime. That’s when she turns to Bobby Dodge, a sniper turned Massachusetts State homicide detective, who can’t ignore the similarities between the two-decades-old case and Annabelle’s.

F GROSS
Gross, Andrew. The blue zone. 1st ed. New York : W. Morrow, c2007.
Kate Raab’s perfect life begins to crumble when the father she adores is pulled into the Witness Protection Program for testifying against a group of dangerous criminals, and in her quest to save her father, she uncovers some shocking secrets that will change her life forever.

F HAMILTON
Hamilton, Laurell K. The harlequin. 1st ed. New York : Berkley, c2007.
Anita Blake is about to face the challenge of her life. For the Harlequin, creatures so feared that even the powerful, centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names, have entered her realm. Now, Jean-Claude and Richard, longtime rivals for Anita’s affection, will need to become allies, and shapeshifters Nathaniel and Micah will have to step up their support. Anita’s also very aware that she needs to call on the only man who has always been there for her.

F HARWIN
Harwin, Patricia. Arson & old lace. New York : Pocket Books, c2004.
‘You’re a librarian, not a detective,’ Catherine Penny’s daughter reminds her. Catherine, suddenly single in her sixties, is leaving behind New York City and a failed marriage for a lovely 17th-century cottage in the idyllic English village of Far Wychwood. But behind the town’s quaint stone walls and lace-curtained windows lurk dark secrets and whispers of witchcraft. And when her crusty neighbor dies in a tragic fire, Catherine alone suspects arson.

F ISAACS LP
Isaacs, Susan, 1943-. Past perfect. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2007.
Katie Schottland had worked as an analyst for the CIA for two years. Then suddenly, and without explanation, she was fired. Eventually moving on with her life, she had a child and wrote a novel called ‘Spy Guys.’ Then, a phone call for help from a former colleague offered her the chance to get answers to why she suddenly became ‘persona non grata’ with the CIA. But, did she really want to return to the dangerous world of espionage?.

F JANCE LP
Jance, Judith A. Edge of evil. Center Point large print ed. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2006.
A philandering husband and the disappearance of a childhood friend send Alison Lawson back to her hometown of Sedona, Ariz., where she finds comfort in her parent’s diner, the Sugarloaf Cafe. There she creates an online journal discussing her current troubles, the termination of her job and a divorce. Someone starts leaving threatening posts on her blog, which could be the work of a killer.

F KELLERMAN LP
Kellerman, Jesse. Trouble. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2007.
Jonah Stern is an overworked New York City medical student who, in addition to his studies, bears the burden of a teen romance that went wrong. Navigating med school rotations is hard, but he must also face the scrutiny of each attending physician. The only bright spot is the girl he meets whose life he literally saves. Unfortunately, like the rest of his life, nothing is that easy for Jonah and his journey proves that the road to hell is, indeed, paved with good intentions.

F KING LP
King, Laurie R. The art of detection. Center Point large print. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2006.
Kate Martinelli has never seen anything quite like this: an ornate Victorian sitting room straight out of a Sherlock Holmes story— complete with violin and gunshots in the wallpaper that spell out the initials of the late queen. Philip Gilbert was a true Holmes fanatic. He had a collection of priceless memorabilia including a manuscript purportedly written by Holmes himself - a manuscript that echoes the details of Gilbert’s own murder.

F KINGSBURY
Kingsbury, Karen. Sunrise. Carol Stream, Ill. : Tyndale House, c2007.
Dayne and Katy are determined to keep their wedding ceremony a secret from the paparazzi and enlist the help of the Baxter family and many of the CKT kids to pull it off.

F LEON
Leon, Donna. Suffer the little children. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2007.
Donna Leon’s charming, evocative, and addictive Commissario Guido Brunetti series continues with Suffer the Little Children. When Commissario Brunetti is summoned in the middle of the night to the hospital bed of a senior pediatrician, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men—a young captain and two privates from out of town—have burst into the doctor’s apartment in the middle of the night, attacked him and taken away his eighteenth-month old baby boy.

F LESCROART LP
Lescroart, John T. The suspect. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2007.
When Dr. Caryn Dryden is found floating dead in her hot tub, her husband becomes the prime suspect. Gina Roake takes the case and feels her client’s innocence will be easy to prove since he was at his cabin on Echo Lake that weekend.

F LEVINE
Levine, Laura, 1943-. Death by pantyhose. New York : Kensington Books, c2007.
Agreeing to write jokes for Dorcas, a struggling stand-up comic, Jaine Austen discovers that murder is the punchline when Dorcas’s rival, a heckler named Vic, is strangled with one of her props—a pair of pantyhose.

F LUSTBADER
Lustbader, Eric. Robert Ludlum’s the Bourne betrayal. 1st ed. New York : Warner Books, c2007.
Jason Bourne takes a mission to rescue his only friend in the CIA, Martin Lindros, who disappeared in Africa while tracking shipments of yellowcake uranium. Once safely back in America, Lindros persuades Bourne to help track the money trail of terrorists buying the nuclear material in Odessa. But once there, Bourne is hampered by confusing flashbacks of unfamiliar places and events and he wonders: Is someone brainwashing him in order to throw him off the trail? Worse, is the man he saved in Africa really Martin Lindros? Now, Bourne is alone gathering evidence while trying to stay one step ahead of the terrorists who won't let anyone stand in their way of destroying the U.S.

F MACOMBER
Macomber, Debbie. Back on Blossom Street. Don Mills, Ont. : Mira Books, c2007.
The friends in Lydia Goetz’s knitting classes offer love and support to help each other through the problems that occur when Lydia’s niece Julia is the victim of a carjacking, her upstairs tenant Colette, a young widow, faces an unexpected pregnancy, and Alix, a once troubled teen who joined the group years earlier, is overwhelmed by plans for her wedding.

F MCCRUMB
McCrumb, Sharyn, 1948-. Once around the track. New York : Kensington Pub. Corp., c2007.
The brainchild of trust fund baby Christine Berenson, the Vagenya team quickly grabs national attention, first with its sponsor and then with its driver. Through a racing season of dizzying highs and terrifying lows, Team 86 will face the thrill of victory and the agony of bad press to prove that women can do a man’s job. And when the unthinkable happens, each will realize that they’ve been hurtling at breakneck speed toward a moment that will change them forever.

F MCMAHON
McMahon, Jennifer. Promise not to tell : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2007.
Soon after returning to her childhood home in Vermont to care for her mother who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, Kate Cypher learns about a recent murder that is similar to one thirty-one years earlier in which her friend Del was the victim, and as she investigates, surprising details about the community begin to unfold.

F MILLS LP
Mills, Kyle, 1966-. Fade. Center Point large print ed. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2005.
When a secret department of Homeland Security needs to recruit agents to work undercover in the Middle East, Matt Egan knows just who to call: Salam Al Fayed, better known as Fade, an ex-Navy SEAL. Except that Fade is still embittered because the U.S. government refused to pay for his surgery after he’d been shot in the line of duty years earlier. Now Egan is caught between his angry friend and a bureaucratic director who wants Fade, no matter the cost.

F MORRIS
Morris, Gilbert. The miracle. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, c2007.
Lanie Freeman, 17, raises her siblings after the death of her mother and her father’s imprisonment. To make money, they turn their truck into a traveling store called The Freeman Rolling Emporium, but it is only a prelude to other changes. The arrival of author Brent Hayden breathes fresh life into Lanie’s dream of becoming a writer. When her father is diagnosed with cancer, faith and the unity of their family are stretched to the limit.

F NORMAN
Norman, Michael, 1947 June 29-. The commission. 1st U.S. ed. Scottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, c2007.
Sam Kincaid, Chief of the Special Investigations Branch of the Utah Department of Corrections, is called in to help the local police department solve the murder of a powerful figure on the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole, and finds himself drawn into the city’s seedy underbelly as he tracks a violent ex-convict.

F O’SHAUGHNESSY LP
O’Shaughnessy, Perri. Sinister shorts. Center Point large print ed. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2006.
This collection of crime and suspense tales, many appearing in print for the first time, takes readers from locked-room mysteries to hard- boiled cases, from psychological thrillers, to cozy whodunits, and even to a Nina Reilly tale. There are 19 stories in all that run the gamut of emotions from love and betrayal, to rage and revenge.

F OATES
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-. The gravedigger’s daughter : a novel. 1st ed. New York: Ecco, c2007.
Using characters based on her own family history, Oates shares the story of the Schwarts family who came to America to escape Nazi Germany. Settling in a small town in upstate New York, the father, a former high school teacher, is forced to take a job as a gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. After prejudice and the family’s own emotional frailty results in tragedy, daughter Rebecca strikes out on her own, assured by her father that, since she was born in America, no one will harm her.

F PALAHNIUK
Palahniuk, Chuck. Rant : an oral biography of Buster Casey. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2007.
High school rebel Buster “Rant” Casey escapes from his small hometown and heads to the city, where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing, which eventually costs Rant his life and brings his friends together to reflect on his legacy. (description edited).

F PARKER
Parker, Robert B., 1932-. Spare change. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2007.
At the start of Parker's engaging sixth Sunny Randall novel (after Blue Screen), the cop-turned-PI helps her father track down a Boston serial killer whose depredations begin again after a 20-year hiatus. The "spare change" killer executes victims with a single shot to the head, leaving three coins near the body. Sunny's dad, Phil, headed the old task force formed to catch the killer, who wrote Phil taunting letters as the killings piled up. A new killing and a fresh letter to Phil have him and Sunny serving as consultant and assistant respectively to a new task force.

Parker, Barbara (Barbara J.). The perfect fake. Center Point large print ed. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2007.
The promise of a large sum of money has a way of making people do things on the wrong side of the law. Like Tom Fairchild, who’s offered $50,000 by real estate developer Stewart Barlowe in exchange for forging a 500-year-old Gaetano Corelli map. Tom’s assistant is a former love, Barlowe’s daughter, Allison. Neither Tom or Allison knows why her father wants the map, why they’re being tailed by a hit man, or why people involved suddenly start turning up dead.

F PATTERSON
Patterson, James, 1947-. The quickie : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, c2007.
When NYPD cop Lauren Stillwell spots her husband leaving a hotel with a sexy woman, she doesn’t call Dr. Phil; she goes ballistic. Her devious plan to exact retribution, however, lands her in a messy situation that no marriage manual could solve. To make bad things worse, her latest department assignment forces her to confront her core values and a deadly secret. (From Barnes & Noble).

F PICKENS
Pickens, Cathy. Southern fried. New York : St. Martin’s, c2005.
Southern Fried is a mystery filled with humor and believable people going about their sometimes bizarre business. Humor, atmosphere, and a challenging puzzle set the scene for the next big series. Avery Andrews, the heroine of Southern Fried, has just been downsized from her job at a law office in a North Carolina city and has returned to her small hometown to lick her wounds and consider, with hesitation, trying to set up a law practice there. . .Avery finds that small-town life is not nearly so dull as she feared. And sometimes wishes it were. (From the publisher, edited).

F RANKIN
Rankin, Ian. The naming of the dead. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2007, c2006.
In the midst of security mayhem after a Scottish delegate turns up dead days before the 2005 Group of Eight summit in Edinburgh, Inspector John Rebus searches for the brutal killer of a recently paroled rapist, discovering potential connections between the two deaths.

F RICHARDS
Richards, Emilie, 1948-. Whiskey Island. Don Mills, Ont. : Mira Books, c2007, 2000.
Once a struggling community of Irish immigrants, Lake Erie’s Whiskey Island has a past as colorful as the patrons who frequent the Whiskey Island Saloon. A local gathering place for generations, the saloon is now run by the Donaghue sisters, whose lives and hearts have been shaped by family tragedy and a haunting mystery. When an act of violence sets the wheels of fate in motion, Megan Donaghue, a woman unwilling to trust in love, and Niccolo Andreani, a man unwilling to trust in himself, are determined to learn the truth about one fateful night in the family’s long-forgotten past. As an old man struggles to protect a secret as old as Whiskey Island itself, a murder that still shadows too many lives is about to be solved with repercussions no one can predict.

F ROBERTS LP
Roberts, Nora. Birthright. Doubleday large print home library ed. New York, NY : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2003.
During a week-long birthday party on a Greek millionaire’s island, ex- Crown Prince Gregory of Hirtenstein soon begins to worry that something strange is going on. The birthday girl, Elissa Paroskolos, seems almost out of her mind and her husband is overly protective. Gradually, Gregory uncovers a plot which could involve three nations in a scandal. In the end, only he and Liz can save Elissa.

F ROSS
Ross, JoAnn. No safe place. New York : Pocket Books, c2007.
Ross’s return to the bayous of Louisiana sizzles with the sensuality and danger fans of her romantic thrillers have come to expect, as Chicago detective Kate Delaney travels to post-Katrina New Orleans to investigate the supposed suicide of her estranged twin sister. (From Publishers Weekly).

F RUSSELL
Russell, Karen, 1981-. St. Lucy’s home for girls raised by wolves and other stories. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, c2006.
Ava wrestles the alligator—Haunting Olivia—Z.Z.’s sleep-away camp for disordered dreamers—The star-gazer’s log of summer-time crime—From children’s reminiscences of the Westward Migration—Lady Yeti and the palace of artificial snows—The city of shells—Out to sea—Accident brief, occurence #00/422—St. Lucy’s home for girls raised by wolves. A collection of ten stories by Karen Russell that are all set in the Florida Everglades.

F SEE
See, Lisa. Peony in love : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2007.
Set in 17th-century China, See’s fifth novel is a coming-of-age story, a ghost story, a family saga and a work of musical and social history. (From Publishers Weekly).

F SMITH
Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942-. Stalin’s ghost : a novel. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2007.
Detective Arkady Renko returns to his Moscow base where he explores what has changed and what hasn’t in the new Russian republic. A series of supernatural appearances of the deceased Communist dictator, Joseph Stalin, have Renko investigating ghost sightings. As he quickly unravels the shenanigans behind the appearances, he uncovers a frightening crime scheme that includes greed, murder, and some World War II relics.

F STEEL
Steel, Danielle. Bungalow 2. New York : Delacorte Press, c2007.
Tanya Harris went from devoting her energies to her family, to a bungalow in Hollywood following a phone call that offered her a chance to write a Hollywood screenplay, a lifelong dream. In addition to the culture shock, she was also thrust into the world of A-list actors used to getting what they wanted when they wanted it. She soon found herself needing to choose between her two worlds. Would it be as a wife and mother, or that of a writer in tinsel town?

F TRAVISS
Traviss, Karen. Bloodlines. London : Arrow, c2006.
As civil war widens in the Galactic Alliance, terrorism provokes the Alliance towards harsh repressive rules that cause widespread recriminations. As brother turns against brother, old foes Han Solo and Boba Fett are drawn together by the new dangers, and Luke and Mara Skywalker grow anxious that their only son will be endangered by a choice beyond their control. (From Barnes & Noble).

F VIDA
Vida, Vendela. Let the Northern Lights erase your name : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ecco, c2007.
On the day of her father’s funeral, Clarissa Iverton is shocked to learn that the man she called “Daddy” was not her biological father after all, and sets out to learn the truth about her past.

F VREELAND
Vreeland, Susan. Luncheon of the boating party. New York : Viking, c2007.
A fictionalized account of Auguste Renoir’s painting of subjects drinking and flirting over several Sundays and his desire to do breakout work instead of portraits of society women in their parlors.

F WEBER
Weber, David, 1952-. In fury born. Riverdale, NY : New York : Baen Books ; Distributed by Simon & Schuster, c2006.
Imperial Intelligence couldn’t find them, the Imperial Fleet couldn’t catch them, and local defenses couldn’t stop them. It seemed the planet-wrecking pirates were invincible. But they made a big mistake when they raided ex-commando leader Alicia DeVries’ quiet home, tortured and murdered her family, and then left her for dead. Alicia decided to turn “pirate” herself, and stole a cutting-edge AI ship from the Empire to start her vendetta. Her fellow veterans think she’s gone crazy, the Imperial Fleet has shoot-on-sight orders. And of course the pirates want her dead, too. But Alicia DeVries has two allies nobody knows about, allies as implacable as she is: a self-aware computer, and a creature from the mists of Old Earth’s most ancient legends. And this trio of furies won’t rest until vengeance is served.

F WESTLAKE LP
Westlake, Donald E. The road to ruin. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2004.
The con is on. The mark is Monroe Hall, a corrupt CEO. The loot? A fleet of vintage automobiles. The catch? Trying to outsmart a collection of angry union men who’ve been taken for a ride and blue-blooded suckers who’ve been taken for their family fortunes. If Dortmunder and his merry band of crooks are to drive off with the loot, they’ll have to act fast—before they get caught in the crossfire.

F WHITE LP
White, Stephen, 1951-. Kill me. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2006.
Colorado psychologist Alan Gregory faces a cutting-edge case. If you were horribly disabled, would you really mean it when you said you wanted to die? He thought he would. That’s why he prearranged for a group who called themselves the Death Angels to end his life in such a circumstance. When he later received bad news regarding his health however, he knew the Death Angels would come. The problem is, he had decided he didn’t want to die. Can he escape the Death Angels?

F WHITELAW
Whitelaw, Stella. Turn and die. Sutton : Severn House, c2007.
Jordan Lacey has a back-to-front mystery to solve. The lovely Holly Broughton has been acquitted of trying to murder her husband, but she hires Jordan to find out who framed her and why. When Jordan’s life is threatened on three separate occasions, she realizes that she may, for once, be on the right track. Jordan finds herself propelled towards a solution that is claustrophobic and totally unexpected.

F WILHELM
Wilhelm, Kate. The unbidden truth. Don Mills, Ont. : MIRA Books, [2005], c2004.
The large retainer offered by a client who asks for complete anonymity is not the only thing that intrigues Barbara Holloway. The defendant, Carol Fredricks, is a gifted young pianist charged with killing the manager of a piano bar. But Carol is as much of a mystery as the details of the murder for which she is accused. She can’t remember anything about her life before the age of eight, and she has been having haunting nightmares about a woman she cannot identify. (From the publisher).

F WINSPEAR LP
Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-. Messenger of truth. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2007.
When controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death the night before an exhibition of his work, the police rule it an accident. Nick’s twin sister, Georgina, a wartime journalist, isn’t convinced. To prove the police theory wrong, she asks for Maisie Dobbs’ help. Maisie’s search for the truth leads her to the desolate beaches of Dungeness in Kent and into the sinister underbelly of the city’s art world where she uncovers the perilous legacy of the Great War.

F WRENN
Wrenn, Elizabeth, 1957-. Around the next corner. New York : NAL Accent, c2006.
For Deena Munger, the transformation to underappreciated housewife was subtle and gradual. Not that she didn’t love her family dearly, but Deena was starting to wonder: When did I disappear? And how come I never even noticed? Then one day she stuns her family by volunteering to raise a puppy for K-9 Eyes for the Blind. Suddenly, Deena’s once-stable life is turned upside down. And, it turns out, this rambunctious, impulsive ball of fur could actually be the damage control she needs to save her family, her marriage, and her self.


New Non-fiction

003 TAL
Taleb, Nassim. The black swan : the impact of the highly improbable. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2007.
Umberto Eco’s antilibrary, or how we seek validation—We just can’t predict—Those gray swans of extremistan—The end. Explains the “black swan” phenomenon, which is an event characterized by its unpredictability, massive impact, and the explanations used to try and make it appear less random, and explores how “black swans” throughout history have influenced civilizations, religions, and governments.

133.8 MCM
McMoneagle, Joseph, 1946-. Memoirs of a psychic spy : the remarkable life of U.S. Government remote viewer 001. Charlottesville, VA : Hampton Roads Pub. Co., c2006.
Childhood : troubles and experience—From enlistment through school—From my first assignment—To a near-death experience—Reaching the top—The special project—A new remote viewer—A crisis—Fighting the system—Downward spiral—The Army and Bob Monroe—End of the line—Retirement—Exploring new territories—Research—Mind trek and searches—Put to the test on live TV—The air report—Going public—Curtain call. “A first-person look at the U.S. Army’s Stargate Project—a top-secret, intelligence-gathering initiative launched at the height of the Cold War—from the Army’s Remote Viewer 001. McMoneagle recounts his distinguished military career as well as his work with scientists who tested his abilities in the lab”—Provided by publisher.

133.9 STO
Storm, Howard. My descent into death : a second chance at life. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Doubleday, c2005. Howard Storm chronicles his own near death experience, describing how he found himself being dragged into realms of darkness and death, and discussing how that experience helped him change his life for the better.

153 TAV
Tavris, Carol. Mistakes were made (but not by me) : why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts. 1st ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2007.
Cognitive dissonance: the engine of self-justification—Pride and prejudice—and other blind spots—Memory, the self-justifying historian—Good intentions, bad science: the closed loop of clinical judgment—Law and disorder—Love’s assassin: self-justification in marriage—Wounds, rifts, and wars—Letting go and owning up. Reveals how the brain is wired for self-justification, which prevents people from taking responsibility for their own actions, and explains how people can overcome the destructive trend and learn to take charge of their life.

200 HIT
Hitchens, Christopher. God is not great : how religion poisons everything. 1st ed. New York : Twelve, c2007.
Journalist Christopher Hitchens explains why he believes religion “poisons everything,” and presents his arguments for a more secular approach to life.

305.48 ROD
Rodriguez, Deborah. Kabul Beauty School : an American woman goes behind the veil. New York : Random House, c2007.
Hairdresser Deborah Rodriguez details her experiences in post-Taliban Afghanistan, discussing the opening of her beauty school and recalls the personal stories of various women who overcame obstacles to obtain an education in cosmetology.

306.3 MCK
McKibben, Bill. Deep economy : the wealth of communities and the durable future. 1st ed. New York : Times Books, c2007.
After growth—The year of eating locally—All for one, or one for all—The wealth of communities—The durable future. Calls for a movement toward the local production of food, energy, and culture in order to strengthen community, move away from consumerism, and help the environment.

306.874 ORE
Mother outlaws : theories and practices of empowered mothering. Toronto, Canada : Women’s Press, c2004.
Feminist mothering -- Lesbian mothering—African-American mothering—Mothers and daughters—Mothers and sons. The theory and practice of empowered mothering recognizes that both mothers and children benefit when the mother lives her life, and practices mothering, from a position of agency, authority, and autonomy. Secondly, this new perspective, in this collection examines how mothers seek to imagine and implement a theory and practice of mothering that is empowering to women as opposed to oppressive under five sections: Feminist Mothering, Lesbian Mothering, African American Mothering, Mothers and Daughters, Mothers and Sons. (From Barnes & Noble).

327.1273 TEN
Tenet, George J., 1953-. At the center of the storm : my years at the CIA. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2007.
Former CIA director George Tenet describes the events that led to the September 11 attacks and discusses his actions and those of the Bush administration regarding the counterattack on al-Qaeda and the decision to go to war in Iraq.

336 ESS
Essex Reappraisal Values 2007. 2007 reappraisal figures for Essex, Vermont.

359.9 MIL
Miller, David (David M. O.). The illustrated directory of submarines of the world. St. Paul, MN : MBI Pub. Co., c2002.
Provides photographs, sketches, and detailed descriptions of more than 270 submarines used by countries around the world from 1860 to the present.

362.196 MUN
Mundy, Liza, 1960-. Everything conceivable : how assisted reproduction is changing men, women, and the world. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2007.
Explores how rising infertility rates and advances in reproductive technology are changing the American family and the way society views parenthood, childbirth, and life, and addresses the many controversies surrounding the industry.

362.82 LAT
Latus, Janine, 1959-. If I am missing or dead. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2007.
Janine Latus recounts her family’s search for her younger sister, Amy, and the subsequent trial of her former boyfriend Ron Ball for the murder.

385 BAI
Bain, David Haward. Empire express : building the first transcontinental railroad. New York : Penguin Books, 2000, c1999.
Chronicles the events that took place in the thirty years it took to complete the first transcontinental railroad, profiling the key players in its development, the major setbacks the workers faced, and the public objections to the railroad’s completion.

394.1 LET
Letcher, Andy, 1968-. Shroom : a cultural history of the magic mushroom. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Ecco, c2007.
Explores how the magic mushroom has influenced cultural history, philosophy, literature, art, and folklore, describing how hallucinogenic mushrooms have become such an influential drug.

523.8022 DUN
Dunlop, Storm. How to identify night sky. New York : Barnes & Noble Books, c2004.
How to Identify Night Sky is divided into easy-to-follow sections. Once you can navigate your way around you can then identify what is visible in the sky on any given night during the year. (From Barnes & Noble).

641.5 ESS
Favorite recipes cook book. Essex Art League, c2006.
This is a colorfully illustrated local cookbook featuring the art and recipes of its contributors.

641.8654 GRA
The complete book of cookies : over 425 quick and easy recipes, plus expert tips on mixing, baking, and storing. London : New Burlington Books, 2002, c1999.
Contains over 425 recipes.

643 BAR
Barbara K. Invest in your nest : add style, comfort, and value to your home. [Emmaus, Pa] : [New York] : Rodale ; Distributed to the book trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, c2006.
Barbara K. shares her own experiences as a professional contractor and a single woman buying, renovating, building, and selling homes. Room by room, she examines the value to both homeowner and potential buyer of a variety of home improvement projects, whether they are Do-It-Yourself (installing decorative molding) or Call-in-the- Pros (what you should know before calling the contractor. (From Amazon.com, edited).

658.4 KEL
Kelley, Tom, 1955-. The art of innovation : lessons in creativity from IDEO, America’s leading design firm. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2001.
Reveals the strategies and secrets that contribute to the creative inventions of the design company IDEO, and discusses how other companies can benefit from their strategies.

769.55 CUH
Standard catalog of world paper money. 11th ed. Iola, WI : Krause Publications, c2006.

769.55 CUH
Standard catalog of world paper money. 10th ed. Iola, Wis. : KP, c2005.
Our increasingly connected society continues to drive interest in collectible paper money from around the world. This unique identification and price guide contains a wealth of information comparable only to owning a small library on the specialized world of paper money.

775 MCG
McGechie, Estelle. Getting started with Aperture. Berkeley, CA : Peachpit Press, c2006.
Designed specifically for professional digital photographers, Aperture is an enormously powerful tool for handling some of the most time-consuming and tedious tasks of professional photography. This collection of Apple Pro Training tutorials will get you up and running in no time. You’ll learn how to sort, rank, and manage images with unparalleled efficiency; display onscreen proofs and contact sheets in compelling ways for clients; edit and retouch your selected images professionally; publish proofs, portfolios, and final images on the Web and in print; and archive images in a way that’s easy, secure, and intuitive. (From the publisher, edited).

796.352 FEI
Feinstein, John. Tales from Q school : inside golf’s fifth major. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Company, c2007.
Dreams (and nightmares) come true—Forty years ago—In the beginning—Nine hundred and seventy-three dreamers—Nineteen and ties—On to November—Lake Jovita blues—Moving day—The unkindest cuts of all—What is, is—Endings—Six days—“This isn’t a sprint”—Cold and wind and cold—Beginning of the end—Go low or bust—Final countdown—Hawaii, here we come. Provides details about the 2005 PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament, discussing the competition and what the athletes learned during the four day event.

796.42 KAR
Karnazes, Dean, 1962-. Ultramarathon man : confessions of an all-night runner. 1st trade pbk. ed. New York : J.P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2006, c2005.
Karnazes is an ultramarathoner: a member of a small, elite, hard-core group of extreme athletes who race 100 miles and longer. They can run forty-eight hours and more without sleep. They can scale mountains, in brutally hot or cold weather, pushing their bodies, minds, and spirits well past what seems humanly possible. Karnazes has run 226.2 miles nonstop; he has completed the 135-mile Badwater Ultramarathon across Death Valley in 130-degree weather; and he is the only person to complete a marathon to the South Pole in running shoes. With an insight and candor rarely seen in sports memoirs, he reveals how he merges the solitary, manic, self-absorbed life of hard-core ultrarunning with a full-time job, a wife, and two children, and how running has made him who he is today. (From publisher description).

817 LES
Funny times presents the best of the best American humor : the funniest cartoons, columns, and essays from The Funny times newspaper. 1st ed. New York : Three Rivers Press, c2002.
Includes: Dave Barry, Stephanie Brush, Cathy Crimmins, Allen Ginsberg, Spalding Gray, Molly Ivins, Garrison Keillor, P. J. O’Rourke, Rita Rudner, Hunter S. Thompson, Bailey White ... and many more.
(From the publisher, edited).

827 JON
Jones, Terry, 1942-. Terry Jones’s war on the war on terror. New York : Nation Books, c2005.
Terry Jones is known the world over as one of the beloved creators of the legendary Monty Python. But independent of the Python team, Jones has been writing columns targeting the Anglo-American response to September 11. His wit and venom are particularly focused on the messianic vernacular of Bush and Blair and the semantics of the “war on terror.” (From the publisher).

904 BEY
Beyer, Rick, 1956-. The greatest stories never told : 100 tales from history to astonish, bewilder, & stupefy. 1st ed. New York : HarperResource, c2003.
History isn’t always made by great armies colliding or by great civilizations rising or falling. Sometimes it’s made when a chauffeur takes a wrong turn, a scientist forgets to clean up his lab, or a drunken soldier gets a bit rowdy. That’s the kind of history you’ll find in The Greatest Stories Never Told.

910.4 RED
Rediker, Marcus Buford. Villains of all nations : Atlantic pirates in the golden age. Boston : Beacon Press, c2004.
The so-called golden age of Atlantic piracy was the first quarter of the eighteenth century. Lawless rebels, including well-known men such as William Fly and Edward Teach—as well as numerous social outcasts, debtors, escaped slaves, and various predatory personalities—used terrorist tactics to prey upon merchant ships from New England waters to the Spanish Main. Rediker’s revealing and often surprising work views pirates and piracy within the context of the social, political, and economic milieu of the eighteenth century. He does much to deromanticize pirate life, for these were brutal, sometimes heartless men, and many of them were prime examples of a variety of social pathologies. Yet, as Rediker illustrates, pirates often did create a distinct subculture with its own set of values, codes of honor, and taboos. . .An informative look at a popular topic. (From Booklist, edited).

915.104 FOD
Fodor’s China. 5th ed. New York : Fodor’s Travel Publications : Distributed by Random House, c2007.
A guide to traveling in China, describing the attractions of ten regions, with advice on where to stay and eat in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, notes on Chinese history and culture, a selection of topical essays, and maps. Includes coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

917.633 FOD
Fodor’s 07 New Orleans. New York : Fodor’s Travel, c2007.
In addition to the usual travel guide entries listing hours of operation (with many hours much shorter than in the past), entry fees, etc., there are special sections, FAQs, and tips throughout the book that advise travelers of what to expect and how to handle a post-Katrina New Orleans. (From Library Journal, edited).

921 CLINTON
Bernstein, Carl, 1944-. A woman in charge : the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2007.
A profile of Hillary Rodham Clinton, discussing her midwestern girlhood, the development of her religious faith and political ideals, her education, her marriage to Bill Clinton, and her strengths and weaknesses as a politician and presidential candidate.

921 ORTIZ
Ortiz, David, 1975-. Big Papi : my story of big dreams and big hits. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, c2007.
Professional baseball player David Ortiz chronicles his life and career, discussing his childhood in the Dominican Republic, immigration to America, years with the Seattle Mariners and the Minnesota Twins, and role in the Boston Red Sox’s first World Series win in eighty-six years.

941.082 LAN
Lanchester, John. Family romance : a love story. New York : Putnams, c2007.
The author describes his childhood as the son of an international banker and a former nun, and reveals many of the secrets behind his mother’s past.

970.01 DUG
Dugard, Martin. The last voyage of Columbus : being the epic tale of the great captain’s fourth expedition, including accounts of swordfight, mutiny, shipwreck, gold, war, hurricane, and discovery. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., c2005.
The author chronicles the details involving the last known voyage of explorer Christopher Columbus in 1500 and his attempts to regain his credibility after he had fallen into disgrace.

970.01 VIK
Vikings : the North Atlantic saga. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press in association with the National Museum of Natural History, c2000.
Viking homelands—Viking raiders—Vikings in the North Atlantic—Viking America—Norse Greenland—Viking legacy. An illustrated history of the Vikings, looking at the Scandinavian warriors from the perspectives of history, archaeology, oral tradition, literature, and natural science.

973.3 FER
Ferling, John E. Almost a miracle : the American victory in the War of Independence. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2007.
In this gripping chronicle of America’s struggle for independence, award-winning historian John Ferling transports readers to the grim realities of that war, capturing an eight-year conflict filled with heroism, suffering, cowardice, betrayal, and fierce dedication. As Ferling demonstrates, it was a war that America came much closer to losing than is now usually remembered. General George Washington put it best when he said that the American victory was “little short of a standing miracle.”

973.924 NIXON
Dallek, Robert. Nixon and Kissinger : partners in power. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2007.
Explores Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger’s tumultuous personal relationship—their collaboration and rivalry—and the extent to which they struggled to outdo each other in the reach for foreign policy achievements.

973.931 GOR
Gore, Albert, 1948-. The assault on reason. New York : Penguin Press, c2007.
The former vice-president presents his analysis of how the politics of fear and secrecy has created a society and environment dangerously hostile to reason.

977.3 SOL
Soloway, Elaine. The Division Street princess : a memoir. Minneapolis, MN : Syren Book, c2006.
The author recalls her memories of growing up in a three-room flat above her parents’ grocery store on Division Street in Chicago during the 1940s, the struggle to rise above poverty, and the rapidly changing neighborhood.

978.02 DEN
Denton, Sally. Faith and betrayal : a pioneer woman’s passage in the American West. New York : Vintage Books, c2006.
Journalist and historian Denton (American Massacre, 2003) traces the westward journey of her great-great grandmother, Mormon convert Jean Rio Griffiths. Basing this chronicle largely on Jean Rio's diaries, the author is able to paint an intimate portrait of one uniquely American experience. Leaving her comfortable home in England, middle-aged widow Jean Rio traveled across the ocean, the plains, and the mountains with her seven children, seeking the elusive Eden promised by the Mormon missionaries.

REF 423 ULT
Visual dictionary. Rev. and updated. ed. New York : DK Pub., c2006.
This revised and updated version of the DK classic includes cutaways and exploded views which provide new perspectives on everything from the inside of a volcano to the inner working of a computer. With more than 6,000 full-color photographs and illustrations, readers can learn about everything from prehistoric Earth and science, to sports, art, and music.

Other media

CD 781.64 GOD
God bless America. New York, NY : Columbia, p2001.
Various performers. God Bless America. . .features a new studio version of the timeless Irving Berlin anthem as sung by Celine Dion, who performed the song live on the historic “America: A Tribute to Heroes” telethon on Friday, September 21, 2001. Also included is a previously unreleased track by John Mellencamp plus a host of classic soul-stirring songs, from Frank Sinatra’s “America The Beautiful” to Bill Withers’s “Lean on Me,” and Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.” (From Barnes & Noble, edited).

CD 920 CHE
Cheever, Susan. American Bloomsbury : [Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau : their lives, their loves, their work]. [Old Saybrook, Conn.] : Tantor Audio, p2006.
Read by Kate Reading. Concord, Mass., was once home to several literary figures that made their mark on the world in many ways. People like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry and John Thoreau, Bronson Alcott and daughter, Louisa May, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Henry James, Emily Dickinson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Horace Mann, Walt Whitman, Henry Ward Beecher, and Edgar Allan Poe. ‘American Bloomsbury’ is a controversial, fascinating biography of this eclectic cast of characters, highlighting their love lives, their private lives, etc.

CD EVA
Evanovich, Janet. Lean mean thirteen : [a Stephanie Plum novel]. New York : Audio Renaissance, p2007.
Read by Lorelei King. Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, along with her offbeat family and associates, embarks on her thirteenth perilous adventure.

DVD 324.7 HAC
Hacking democracy. [United States] : Docurama : Distributed by New Video Group, c2007.
Takes a nonpartisn, clear-eyed look at the secrecy, cronyism, and incompetence of elections in present-day America as it captures a citizens’ movement intent on taking back elections and democracy itself.

DVD 363.46 LEO
Leona’s sister Gerri. [United States] : Docurama : distributed by New Video, c2007.
Tells the story of Gerri Santoro, the real person in the police photograph of an anonymous woman collapsed on a motel room floor, dead from an illegal abortion.

DVD 363.738 GLO
Global warming : what’s up with the weather? Full screen (4 x 3) presentation. [United States] : WGBH Boston Video, c2007.
One of today’s hottest topics is global warming. Will the earth’s temperature rise nearly 10 degrees, wreaking havoc on the ice caps? Or will the weather stay normal. A heated debate between scientists, climatologists, and futurists.

DVD 364.1 ORI
Origins of the Mafia : secrecy, unity and the oath of silence. [New York, N.Y.] : A&E Television Networks : Distributed by New Video, c2007.
Narrator, Richard Johnson. Joseph Cotten, Lee J. Cobb, Edward Albert. This 5-part drama journeys back more than 400 years to 16th-century Sicily, where the small Italian island has fallen victim to corruption, intimidation, extortion, and brutality, all at the hands of the ruthless Gramignano family. The series then follows the development of succeeding Sicilian Mafiosos, illustrating the limitless power wielded by these fearsome and powerful men, and revealing the merciless atrocities which were carried out on any and all who dared to stand in their way.

DVD 780 MUS
Music from the inside out. Special collector’s ed. New York : Docurama ; New Video Group, c2007.
Musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra. A cinematic exploration of the magic and mystery of music through the stories, passions, and artistry of the 105 musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

DVD 909 ENG
Engineering an empire. New York, NY : A & E Home Video, c2007.
disc 1. Greece ; Greece : age of Alexander ; The Aztecs— disc 2. Carthage ; China ; Russia—disc 3. Great Britain ; The Persians ; The Maya—disc 4. Napoleon and beyond ; The Byzantines ; Age of architects. Peter Weller, host; Michael Carroll, narrator. Explores the architectural and engineering legacies of some of the world’s most powerful empires from the past.

DVD 909 MED
Medieval warfare. West Long Branch, N.J. : Kultur, c2007.
Commentary and analysis, David Chandler ; narrators, Terry Molloy (v. [1]), Brian Blessed (v. [2-3]). “This informative and entertaining military history series features an in-depth look at three key events in the history of medieval warfare.”

DVD 937 LEA
Leaders in battle. [West Long Branch, NJ] : Kultur Video, c2001.
Each DVD looks at the life of a famous military figure: Julius Caesar, Oliver Cromwell, the Duke of Marlborough, Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson. Featuring full-scale historically accurate filmed reconstructions of the events which gave him his place in history.

DVD 937 LEG
The Roman invasions. West Long Branch, N.J. : Kultur, c2007.
James Clarkson as Julius Caesar ; comment and analysis, David Chandler. This series features filmed re-creations; Location footage; battle reconstructions; historical commentary, analyses; graphic illustrations and maps; and imagery from the period.

DVD 972.83 LOS
Lost king of the Maya. [Boston] : WGBH Educational Foundation : WGBH Boston Video, c2007.
Containing two programs including Lost King of the Maya and Maya Lords of the Jungle, these DVDs provide a closer look at the civilization and the rule of the ancient Mayan people.

DVD CHI
Childstar. [United States] : New York, NY : Sundance Channel LLC; Hart Sharp Video, c2005.
Don McKellar, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mark Rendall, Dave Foley, Kirstin Adams. Taylor Burns is the world’s most famous child actor, thanks to his work on a popular sitcom. Life is perfect in a sitcom world, but in the real world, his parents are divorcing, and his 13th birthday approaches along with pimples and voice changes.

DVD ONC
Once upon a time in the West. Special collector’s ed. Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, c2003.
Claudia Cardinale, Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Gabriele Ferzetti, Paolo Stoppa, Woody Strode, Jack Elam, Keenan Wynn. A man preparing to welcome his new wife to his home is killed, along with his entire family.

DVD SIM
The Simpsons : the complete seventh season. Collector’s ed. Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2005.
Voices of: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer. Season 7 of The Simpsons brought fans the answer to the question ‘Who shot Mr. Burns?’ They also got to go rock out at Homerpalooza and watch as Lisa became a vegetarian. This set contains the complete season along with many extras.

DVD STR
The strange case of the end of civilization as we know it. West Long Branch, NJ : White Star, c2003.
John Cleese, Arthur Lowe, Stratford Johns, Connie Booth. John Cleese is hilarious as a descendant of Sherlock Holmes. Unlike his grandfather this Sherlock Holmes only succeeds in bungling every job he organizes. He plans to capture Moriarity before he gains control of the world. From then on nothing goes right.

VID 625 GRE
Great model railroads. Talbott, TN : Allen Keller Productions, c1987.
The library owns the following VHS tapes: v.6. Hoosac Valley / Dick Elwell—v. 25. New England Berkshire & Western, pt. 2—v. 39. Franklin & South Manchester, pt. 3. All tapes focus on a particularly outstanding layout. The format consists of a tour of the layout using a train and trackplan to help familiarize you with the railroad. Then we feature an operating segment to show you how the railroad earns its keep.

New books & media for June 07

FICTION


F ABDALMAJID
Ibrahim Abdel Megid Distant train : a novel. Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, 2007.
This fable from Egyptian novelist Megid, winner of the prestigious Naguib Mahfouz award, is more a combination of interconnected stories than a single narrative, but its characters are united in their yearning for the “distant train” - at once real and metaphorical.

F AMICK
Amick, Steve. The lake, the river & the other lake : a novel. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 2006.
It is the summer of 2001, Roger Drinkwater, a ’Nam vet, an Ojibwe Indian, and lifelong resident of the resort town of Weneshkeen, nestled along Michigan’s Gold Coast, is plotting extra-legal revenge against the “idiot boy” jet-skiers polluting his beloved lake, even as he’s pursuing Janey Struska, the take-no-guff deputy sheriff. Meanwhile, Mark Starkey, a summer kid from downstate, stumbles into a danger-laced romance with the sexiest rich girl in town; the old-guard cherry farmer “Von” vonBushberger struggles with the legacy of his rapidly changing family; and the town’s retired reverend discovers the Internet in the aftermath of his wife’s death and finds a new friend in his computer tutor, Kimmy, a teenager who is having a challenging summer of her own. These lives intertwine in surprising ways as the summer blooms, becoming a season of crises both actual and averted, and of rewarding human connection. Finally, ‘The Lake, the River & the Other Lake’ is a moving testament to the homegrown Midwestern view that most people, when really pressed, will do the right thing.

F BALDACCI
Baldacci, David. Simple genius. 1st ed. New York : Warner Books, 2007.
Former Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell have reached a crisis in their relationship in this less than compelling Washington political thriller from bestseller Baldacci. When Maxwell instigates a fight with the most intimidating bruiser she could find at a local bar and lets herself be beaten unconscious, despite her superior fighting skills, her partner suggests she voluntarily commit herself to a psychiatric facility. While Maxwell reluctantly undergoes treatment to find the childhood roots of her death wish, King probes the suicide of a scientist found on the grounds of Virginia’s Camp Peary, a mysterious CIA facility. Publisher’s Weekly.

F BERG
Berg, Elizabeth. Dream when you’re feeling blue : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Random House, 2007.
Set in the time of World War II, readers are introduced to the Heaney sisters, the eldest of six children of Irish parents. With sisters Kitty and Louise’s men off fighting the war, Tish enlists their help in writing to soldiers through the USO club. Through these exchanged letters, readers see love and war through the eyes of the young men who went away, and the evolution of something that will surprise Kitty and change the family’s life forever.

F BINCHY LP
Binchy, Maeve. Whitethorn Woods. Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2007.
When a new highway threatens to bypass the town of Rossmore and cut through Whitethorn Woods, everyone has an opinion about whether the town will benefit or suffer. Father Flynn is most concerned with the fate of St. Ann’s Well, which is set at the edge of the woods. Not knowing which faction to favor, he listens to all those caught up in the conflict, and these are the voices we hear in the stories of Whitethorn Woods—men and women deciding between the traditions of the past and the promises of the future.

F BOX
Box, C. J. Free fire. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2007.
Joe Pickett, having been fired from his job as a game warden, is working on his father-in-law’s ranch when he receives a special request from the Governor that he can’t refuse. Governor Rubin wants Joe to investigate a case in which an attorney has been accused of murdering four campers in Yellowstone National Park. With the promise of being reinstated as game warden, Joe and his partner, Nate Romanowski, set off for the beauty and danger of Yellowstone and find something even more dangerous.

F BROWN
Brown, Dale, 1956-. Strike force. New York : W. Morrow, 2007.
Brown takes the subject of his latest from current headlines: the rapprochement between Iran and Russia (the former wants to secure nuclear technology, the latter a new foothold in the Middle East). The emergence of an Iranian nuclear arsenal sets off a crisis which the usual high-tech weaponry and clean-cut American flyboys (and now girls) deal with as effectively as ever in Brown’s fictional world. The author presents his Iranian characters as more than cardboard villains, showing the influence of Islamic culture on their motivations. Of course, Brown also provides plenty of fast action and exotic hardware, like the XR-A9 space plane, plus such touches as a U.S. president who wants to make a space flight.

F BUTCHER
Butcher, Jim, 1971-. Storm front. New York : ROC : New American Library, 2000. Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he’s the only at what he does. So when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends mortal creativity or capability, they come to him for answers. For the “everyday” world is actually full of strange and magical things—and most of them don’t play too well with humans. That’s where Harry comes in. Takes a wizard to catch a—well, whatever.

F CHERRYH
Cherryh, C. J. Deliverer. New York, NY : DAW Books, Inc., 2007.
At the start of the stirring ninth entry in Cherryh’s much praised Foreigner series, the atevi ruler Tabini has thwarted an attempt to overthrow him, though the usurper, Murini, has not yet been captured. Things appear to have settled back into routine, except for the hijinks of Cajeiri, Tabini’s young heir, who has grown used to the liberties allowed a human child but not the heir to atevi rule. Then Cajeiri disappears and a troublesome Eastern lord is suspected of kidnapping him. Murini may also be involved. Human translator and diplomat Bren Cameron, along with the elderly but indomitable atevi matriarch Ilisidi and their deadly servants from the Assassins’ Guild, must set off cross country in the dead of winter to attempt a rescue, while Cajeiri must prove that he is indeed worthy to be Tabini’s heir.

F COBEN
Coben, Harlan, 1962-. The woods. New York : Dutton, 2007.
Twenty years ago, four teenagers at summer camp walked into the woods at night. Two were found murdered, and the others were never seen again. Four families had their lives changed forever. Now, two decades later, they are about to change again. For county prosecutor Paul Copeland, mourning the loss of his sister has only recently begun to subside. Balancing family life and a rapidly ascending career distracts him from his past traumas, but only for so long. When a homicide victim is found with evidence linking him to Cope, the well-buried family secrets are threatened. Is this victim one of the campers who disappeared with his sister? Could his sister be alive? Cope has to confront so much he left behind that summer—he must decide what is better left hidden in the dark and what truths can be brought to the light.—From publisher description.

F CONNELLY
Connelly, Michael. The overlook : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2007.
The story centers around the idea that radioactive cesium stolen from a doctor might lead to terrorism.

F CRATER
Crater, Theresa, 1950-. Under the stone paw : a novel. Charlottesville, VA : Hampton Roads Pub. Co., 2006.
“When a secret family history is uncovered, Anne Le Clair finds herself at the center of an attempt to open a gateway to the knowledge of the galaxy before a shadowy consortium can claim the power for themselves”—Provided by publisher.

F CROWLEY
Crowley, John, 1942-. Endless things : a part of Ægypt. 1st ed.
Northampton, MA : Small Beer Press : Distributed to the trade by Consortium, 2007.
This is the fourth novel-and much-anticipated conclusion-of John Crowley's astonishing and lauded Aegypt sequence: a dense, lyrical meditation on history, alchemy, and memory. Spanning three centuries, and weaving together the stories of Renaissance magician John Dee, philosopher Giordano Bruno, and present-day itinerant historian and writer Pierce Moffitt, the Aegypt sequence is as richly significant as Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet or Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time. Crowley, a master prose stylist, explores transformations physical, magical, alchemical, and personal in this epic, distinctly American novel where the past, present, and future reflect each other.

F DICKEY
Dickey, Eric Jerome. Sleeping with strangers. New York : Dutton, 2007.
While trying to settle a personal vendetta in London and having affairs with three different women, African-American hitman Gideon worries that he may be the target of another contract killer who is seeking revenge for the death of the famous rapper Big Bad Wolf.

F DIETRICH
Dietrich, William, 1951-. Napoleon’s pyramids : a novel. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, 2007.
Expatriate American Ethan Gage wins an ancient and mysterious medallion in a card game that may hold the secrets of the pyramids, but must flee for his life when he is framed for a murder and forced to accompany Napoleon Bonaparte on his quest to conquer Egypt.

F DRABBLE
Drabble, Margaret, 1939-. The sea lady : a late romance. 1st U.S. ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, 2006.
Feminist scholar and television pundit Ailsa Kelman and marine biologist Humphrey Clark, once childhood friends who have not seen each other since a brief, disastrous marriage in the 1960s, head back to the scene of their happy youth to attend an awards ceremony and find they have unresolved feelings for each other.

F ERIKSSON
Eriksson, Kjell, 1953-. The cruel stars of the night. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2007.
Laura Hindersten, 35, has reported her father, a local professor, missing. Police Inspector Ann Lindell investigates only to find the body of another man. When a second old man’s body is found, Lindell searches for a connection between the two cases. She soon realizes that a deranged killer may be closer than she thinks.

F FLANAGAN
Flanagan, Richard, 1961-. The unknown terrorist. New York : Grove Press, 2006.
Gina Davies, a.k.a. the Doll, already leads a life in the margins. A pole dancer at the Chairman’s Lounge, she’s learned to embrace life’s disappointments, socking away hundred-dollar bills in a hole in her bedroom ceiling while allowing herself one dream: to buy her own home one day. A chance meeting with a handsome surfer leads to a night of drug-infused sex. When the Doll wakes up, her shot at a “normal” life has disappeared, along with her lover whose face can be seen all over the news, a suspected al Qaeda terrorist. The Doll is wanted for questioning, and soon the media and government propaganda machine is spinning lies about every aspect of her existence, sending her up as Australia’s first domestic terrorist.

F FOLSOM
Folsom, Allan. The Machiavelli covenant. 1st ed. New York : Forge, 2007, 2006.
Former Los Angeles detective Nicholas Martin begins to investigate the deaths of his ex-girlfriend and her child and husband and uncovers a secret organization established in the sixteenth century that is involved with weapons of mass destruction, assassinations of world leaders, and genocide.

F FRASER
Fraser, Anthea. Rogue in porcelain. Sutton : Severn House Paperbacks, 2007.
Writing an article on old family businesses, Rona Parish contacts Curzon, local manufacturers of fine bone china, when she learns they’re launching a spectacular new line. Little does she realize that she will directly precipitate a terrible tragedy, a tragedy whose roots stretch back to George Curzon, son of the firm’s founder and known to his contemporaries as ‘The Rogue in Porcelain’.

F GALLAGHER
Gallagher, Nora, 1949-. Changing light. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, 2007.
Eleanor, a successful painter, has relocated to New Mexico to escape a crumbling marriage. While walking by the river she meets Leo Kavan, who has gone AWOL from the Los Alamos project. As their past lives fold into their present they fall in love. Eleanor finally learns Leo’s true identity and of the situation he’s in.

F GORDON
Gordon, Alan (Alan R.). The lark’s lament. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2007.
A family of medieval Fools must solve a murder to protect their Guild from the Pope’s wrath. (From Kirkus Reviews, edited).

F GRUBER
Gruber, Michael, 1940-. The book of air and shadows. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, 2007.
Intellectual property lawyer Jake Mishkin and bookstore employee Albert Crosetti discover a Jacobean document that suggests the existence of an unknown Shakespeare play, and realize their lives are in danger when the Shakespearean scholar they are working with is murdered.

F HADDAM
Haddam, Jane, 1951-. Glass houses. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2007.
A serial killer has the people of Philadelphia living in fear. So, when Henry Tyder, an alcoholic, often homeless, albeit member of a socially prominent family, is arrested at the site of the most recent murder after being found covered in the victim’s blood, the populace breaths a sigh of relief. In spite of the fact that Tyder has confessed, his attorney doubts his guilt and asks Gregor Demarkian, a retired head of the FBI’s Behavioral Sciences Unit, to look into the case.

F HAIG
Haig, Matt, 1975-. The dead fathers club. 1st American ed. New York : Viking, 2007, 2006.
Eleven-year-old Philip Noble finds himself with a dilemma on his hands when he is contacted by a ghost that claims to be his father and tells him he must kill his Uncle Alan—his dad’s supposed killer—sometime within the next ten weeks or doom dear old dad to an eternity of unrest.

F HART
Hart, Carolyn G. Set sail for murder. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, 2007.
When retired newspaper reporter Henrietta O’Dwyer Collins, Henrie O to her friends, receives a call for help, she discovers that love once kindled never burns to ashes. Although she refused Jimmy Lennox’s marriage proposal, there is still a special place for him in her heart. She wished him well when he found happiness with Sophia Montgomery, world-famous documentary filmmaker and stepmother to the now grown heirs of a great fortune. Sophia is at odds with the heirs, and Jimmy fears for her safety. He asks Henrie O to come along with the family on a Baltic cruise. Henrie O can’t turn down her old friend, though old passions are stirred when he calls.

F HEARN
Hearon, Shelby, 1931-. Year of the dog. 1st ed. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.
When her husband dumps her for an old girlfriend and sets all of Peachland, South Carolina, gossiping, Janey Daniels has to get away—far away—for a “sabbatical” year. She flees to Burlington, Vermont, home of Aunt May, her mother’s only living relative. There she adopts Beulah, a Labrador puppy in training to become a companion dog for the blind. Not for a moment does Janey suspect that this “year of the dog” will change her life forever.

F HIRSHBERG
Hirshberg, Glen. American morons : stories. 1st ed. Northborough, MA : Earthling Publications, 2006.
American morons—Like a lily in a flood—Flowers in their bridles, hooves in the air—Safety clowns—Devil’s smile -- Transitway—The muldoon. A collection of short fiction stories by Glen Hirshberg that explore the everyday losses that create vengeful ghosts.

F IGGULDEN
Iggulden, Conn. Genghis : birth of an empire. New York : Delacorte Press, 2007.
Author of the bestselling Emperor series on the life of Julius Caesar, Iggulden turns to another of history’s great conquerors, Genghis Khan, for a new series of historical fiction. (From Publisher’s Weekly, edited).

F JORDAN
Jordan, R. T. Remains to be scene : a Polly Pepper mystery. New York : Kensington Books, 2007.
Full of “Hollywood types” focused on success and willing to do anything to get it, Jordan’s comedic, name-dropping tale is full of snide comments and sniping at what has become the norm in the movie capital of the world.

F KERRIGAN
Kerrigan, Gene. The midnight choir. New York : Europa Editions, 2007, 2006.
The current Irish economic and real estate boom forms the backdrop for the second novel from Irish journalist Kerrigan (after Little Criminals). Any smalltime hood with an entrepreneurial bent and a workable scam can quickly work himself into the ranks of the millionaires produced by the boom, forcing police departments all over the country to scramble to keep up. In Dublin, Det. Insp. Harry Synnot, a man with an acute sense of morality and justice, is working a rape and a jewelry store robbery, manipulating his snitch, Dixie Peyton, and being groomed for a job in the Serious Crime Department of Europol. Meanwhile in Galway, policeman Joe Mills is investigating a mysterious double murder, probably committed by a man he’s just rescued from a rooftop suicide attempt.

F KLEYPAS
Kleypas, Lisa. It happened one autumn. New York : Avon Books, 2005.
Lillian Bowman is one of the four young ladies that enters London society in hopes of finding a man, and her American ways are disapproved of, especially by Marcus, Lord Westcliff. When Marcus grabs Lillian in the garden, she is smitten. Marcus is left wondering if Lillian is suitable to be his bride.

F KOONTZ
Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-. The good guy. New York : Bantam Books, 2007.
Timothy Carrier is sitting in a bar when the man next to him mistakes him for someone else and hands him an envelope with $10,000. The man leaves after handing Tim a photo of a woman marked for death and her address. Soon the killer arrives believing Tim is the one who wants to hire him.

F LUCKEY
Luckey, William A. The English horses : a western story. 1st ed. Waterville, Me. : Five Star, 2007.
Luckey’s 12th western is a lively horse opera set in 1889 New Mexico. Wealthy Englishman Gordon Meiklejon buys the giant L Slash ranch and proceeds to enclose it in barbed wire. His pasture-deprived neighbors are more than just unhappy; his biggest problems, however, are cattle rustler and horse thief Jack Holden (an outlaw and despoiler of young women) and mustanger Burn English.

F LUTZ
Lutz, Lisa. The Spellman files. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2007.
While deciding if she should quit working for her family’s private investigation firm, Izzy Spellman copes with meddling parents, an alcoholic uncle, the disappearance of her younger sister, and her own problems with men and drinking.

F MCCALL SMITH
McCall Smith, Alexander, [R. Alexander], 1948-. The good husband of Zebra Drive. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Pantheon Books, 2007.
Mme Ramotswe’s husband, J.L.B. Matekoni, has been hinting for some time now that he intends to do something special for their adopted daughter, Motholeli. Of course, his plans have a way of hitting a snag. That’s when he’s glad he married the ever-resourceful, ever understanding Precious Ramotswe.

F MCCALL SMITH
McCall Smith, Alexander, [R. Alexander], 1948-. Love over Scotland : a 44 Scotland Street novel. Edinburgh : Polygon, 2006.
‘Love Over Scotland’ is the third in the series and revolves around the many characters that come and go at No. 44 Scotland Street: the stalwart Tory chartered surveyor, the pushy mother, most importantly in this novel, the Italian-speaking prodigy, Bertie.

F MORRISON
Morrison, Toni. The bluest eye : a novel. 1st Vintage International ed. New York : Vintage International, Vintage Books, 2007.
An eleven-year-old African-American girl in Ohio, in the early 1940s, prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be beautiful.

F NOVIK
Novik, Naomi. Black powder war. New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2006.
Captain Will Laurence and his dragon, Temeraire, are waylaid by a mysterious envoy bearing urgent orders for Britain that send them to the Ottoman Empire, where they must escort three valuable dragon eggs back to England.

F OLSSON
Olsson, Linda. Astrid & Veronika. New York : Penguin Books, 2007.
With extraordinary emotional power, Linda Olsson’s stunningly well-crafted debut novel recounts the unusual and unexpected friendship that develops between two women. Veronika, a young writer, rents a house in a small Swedish village as she tries to come to terms with a recent tragedy while also finishing a novel. Her arrival is silently observed by Astrid, an older, reclusive neighbor who slowly becomes a presence in Veronika’s life, offering comfort in the form of companionship and lovingly prepared home-cooked meals. Set against a haunting Swedish landscape, Astrid & Veronika is a lyrical and meditative novel of love and loss, and a story that will remain with readers long after the characters’ secrets are revealed.

F PATTERSON
Patterson, James, 1947-. 6th target. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2007.
A vicious attack on one of the members of the Women’s Murder Club leaves the woman fighting for her life, while the other members attempt to keep a madman behind bars. Meanwhile, Lindsay Boxer and her new partner in the San Francisco police department, are concerned about the rash of kidnappings of children and their nannies, for which there are no ransom demands. With the entire city on edge, Lindsay must make a choice she never dreamed she’d face.

F PEREZREVERTE
Pérez-Reverte, Arturo. The sun over Breda. New York : Putnam’s, 2007.
Captain Alatriste rejoins his elite Cartagena regiment along with his aide, fifteen-year-old Inigo Balboa, in the battles and siege of Breda.

F PERRY
Perry, Anne. We shall not sleep : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2007.
Chaplain Joseph Reavley and his sister Judith struggle to bring peace to the Western Front in the final days of World War I while their sibling, Matthew, brings startling news from a sinister ideologue who may undermine their efforts.

F PHILLIPS
Phillips, Susan Elizabeth. Natural born charmer. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, 2007.
While on his way to his farmhouse, injured football star Dean Robillard picks up stranded portrait artist Blue Bailey, and together the two spend a summer trying to deny their attraction to each other and resolving personal issues.

F QUICK
Quick, Amanda. The river knows. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2007.
Anthony Stalbridge and Louisa Bryce are caught in a place they don’t belong in their search for secrets hidden by Elwin Hastings, a prominent member of society. Anthony grabs Louisa and kisses her, making it look like they’re two lovers in a dimly-lit hallway. Continuing their search, their instincts about Hastings are verified when they crack his safe, finding more than jewels and ledger books. Now, fighting a growing attraction for one another, they’re determined to bring Hastings to justice.

F RESTREPO
Restrepo, Laura. Delirium. New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2007.
Lyrical, thought-provoking, and remarkably nuanced, Delirium is a masterful novel about a man’s attempt to discover the root of the madness that has overtaken the wife he so deeply loves.

F ROBARDS
Robards, Karen. Obsession. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2007.
Katharine Lawrence recovered consciousness on her kitchen floor. Or, was it her kitchen? Staring into a mirror following the attempt on her life, the 29-year-old special assistant to the head of the National Security Agency knows she’s lucky to be alive, but doesn’t know who she is. CIA Agent Nick Huston, investigating Katharine’s boss, has been assigned to keep an eye on Jenna Hill, the Katharine look-alike being used while the real Katharine Lawrence is being debriefed.

7 Nora Roberts Classics are now available in the Hidden Gems series!
These titles include:

F ROBERTS
Roberts, Nora. Rules of the game. New York : Silhouette Books, 1984.
F ROBERTS
Roberts, Nora. Treasures lost, treasures found. New York, NY : Silhouette Books, [2003], 1986.
F ROBERTS
Roberts, Nora. Once more with feeling. New York, NY : Silhouette Books, [2003], 1983.
F ROBERTS
Roberts, Nora. The law is a lady. New York, NY : Silhouette Books, [2003], 1984.
F ROBERTS
Roberts, Nora. The name of the game. New York, NY : Silhouette Books, [2003], 1988.
F ROBERTS
Roberts, Nora. Opposites attract. New York, NY : Silhouette Books, [2003], 1984.
F ROBERTS
Roberts, Nora. The heart’s victory. New York : Silhouette Books, [2005?], 1982.

F ROSENBERG
Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor. Revenge of innocents. New York : Kensington Pub. Corp., 2007.
Looking down at her friend Veronica lying on the morgue table, California probation officer Carolyn Sullivan knows there’s no way Veronica would have killed herself, as others are saying. When she receives a threatening note to not delve into the case, she knows she’s right and that there’s a killer out there somewhere. Continuing to investigate, she learns things about her friend that the woman chose to keep hidden from others. She’s also growing closer to Veronica’s daughter. Meanwhile, the killer is coming closer, as well.

F SANDFORD
Sandford, John, 1944 Feb. 23-. Invisible prey. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2007.
Lucas Davenport has to wonder if there isn’t some other motive besides robbery behind the murder of two elderly women whose home was then ransacked. While it would make perfect sense to blame it on the act of someone looking for money to support their drug habit, the longer Lucas examines the case, the more a pattern begins to emerge that leads him to something he never expected. That in itself is bad, because the killers are expecting ‘him.’

F SCHWEGEL
Schwegel, Theresa. Probable cause. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2007, 2006.
Rookie officer Ray Weiss, a third generation cop in Chicago, is anxious to be accepted as one of the guys, so he reluctantly agrees when his senior partner tells him he must break into a local jewelry store as an initiation stunt, but everything goes wrong when he gets inside and discovers the owner has been murdered.

F SHARPE
Sharpe, Matthew, 1962-. Jamestown : a novel. Brooklyn, NY : Soft Skull Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2007.
‘Jamestown’ chronicles a group of “settlers” (more like survivors) from the ravaged island of Manhattan, departing just as the Chrysler Building has mysteriously plummeted to the earth. This ragged band is heading down what’s left of I-95 in a half-school bus, half-Millennium Falcon. Their goal is to establish an outpost in southern Virginia, find oil, and exploit the Indians controlling the area. Based on actual accounts of the Jamestown settlement from 1607 to 1617, Jamestown features historical characters including John Smith, Pocahontas, and others enacting an imaginative re-version of life in the pioneer colony. In this retelling, Pocahontas’s father Powhatan is half-Falstaff, half-Henry V, while his consigliere is a psychiatrist named Sidney Feingold. John Martin gradually loses body parts in a series of violent encounters, and John Smith is a ruthless and pragmatic redhead continually undermining the aristocratic leadership. Communication is by text-messaging, IMing, and, ultimately, telepathy. Punctuated by jokes, rhymes, “rim shot” dialogue, and bloody black-comic tableaux, Jamestown is a trenchant commentary on America’s past and present that confirms Matthew Sharpe’s status as a major talent in contemporary fiction.

F STOTT
Stott, Rebecca. Ghostwalk. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2007.
When the body of a Cambridge historian is found floating in the river, the question arises as to whether her death had anything to do with the unfinished magnum opus on Sir Isaac Newton’s alchemy and the suspicious circumstances under which he gained the appointment. After Lydia Brooke steps in to finish the book, strange things begin happening in her home. Soon, the present is entangled with the 17th century, with Isaac Newton at the center of the mystery.

F THOMAS
Thomas, Donald Serrell. The execution of Sherlock Holmes. 1st Pegasus Books ed. New York : Pegasus, 2007.
The execution of Sherlock Holmes—The case of the Greek key—The case of the Peasenhall murder—The case of the Phantom chambermaid—The queen of the night. Holmes and Watson are out of retirement and into another adventure in the third of the series. (From Library Journal).

F TOIBIN
Tóibín, Colm, 1955-. Mothers and sons : stories. New York : Scribner, 2007.
The use of reason—A song—The name of the game—Famous blue raincoat—A priest in the family -- A journey—Three friends—A summer job—A long winter. A collection of nine short stories by Colm Tóibin that explore the delicate balance of power between mothers and sons.

F TOLKIEN
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. Narn i chin Hurin : the tale of the children of Hurin. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Presented for the first time as a fully continuous and stand-alone story, ‘The Children of Hurin’ reunites readers with Elves and Men, dragons and Dwarves, and the landscape and characters unique to Tolkien. It was something that Tolkien worked on throughout his life and never lived to see published, and now has been reconstructed by Christopher Tolkien to culminate a 30-year endeavor to bring his father’s body of unpublished work to his fans.

F TOLSTAIA
Tolstaia, Tat’iana, 1951 May 3-. White walls : collected stories. New York : New York Review Books, 2007.
Loves me, loves me not—Okkervil river—Sweet shura—On the golden porch—Hunting the wooly mammoth—The circle—A clean sheet—Fire and dust—Date with a bird—Sweet dreams, son—Sonya—The fakir—Peters—Sleepwalker in a fog—Serafim—The moon came out—Night—Heavenly flame—Most beloved—The poet and the muse—Limpopo—White walls—Yorick. Angels, imaginary friends, near-saints, shades and über-ogres fall to Earth among ordinary Russians and routinely succeed in whetting the imagination in this sparkling collection from Tolstoy’s great-grandniece, a longtime New Yorker fiction contributor. It includes her two previous story collections, ‘On the Golden Porch’ and ‘Sleepwalker in a Fog,’ along with more recent work.

F WESTLAKE
Westlake, Donald E. What’s so funny? 1st ed. New York, NY : Warner Books, 2007.
Hapless crook John Dortmunder cares nothing about righting ancient wrongs or for the game of chess. He is however, interested in finding a highly valuable, 700-pound chess set which was said to have been a planned gift for the last Russian czar. As he reunites his merry band of crooks, the treasure hunt is troubled from the beginning. There are few leads, so Dortmunder turns to ex-cop Johnny Eppick for help.

F WHITE
White, Randy Wayne. Hunter’s moon. New York : Putnam’s, 2007.
Doc Ford, a marine biologist with links to the intelligence community, places his own life in jeopardy when he agrees to help Kal Wilson, an ex-president dying of a fatal illness, escape his security detail long enough to hunt down the people he believes responsible for the death of his wife in a plane crash that has officially been ruled an accident.

F WILLETT
Willett, Marcia. Echoes of the dance. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2007.
In the mellow stone house of his childhood, Roly Carradine has found refuge in the stream running past the garden where a heron makes his nest. A broken marriage and a terrible burden of guilt made Roly remove himself from his busy London life; here in Cornwall he welcomes Kate, who also seeks refuge from the grief of losing her husband, and young Daisy Quin, a dancer recovering from a back injury. Roly’s son Nat, a garden designer with his own secret, lives not far away, and is plagued by the unsympathetic visits of his mother Monica, Roly’s ex-wife. Daisy, her burgeoning talent frustrated by her back problems, has been taken in by Mim, Roly’s sister and a brilliant ballerina until an accident forced her into early retirement. Living in Bath, Daisy thinks she has found love with the attractive schoolmaster in the nearby flat—but her dreams prove to be false ones.

F ZEFFER
Zeffer, Andy. Going down in La-La Land. New York : Southern Tier Editions, Harrington Park Press, 2006.
Going Down in La-La Land is a candid, sexy, and outrageously funny look at what an actor can-and will-do to survive in Hollywood. Young, ambitious, and gay, Adam Zeller arrives from New York with the looks and talent to become a star but soon finds himself lost in a seamy (and steamy) underworld of gay porn and male prostitution, dealing with down-and-out directors, washed up starlets, crystal meth addicts, and the pretty boy Hollywood "A" list.

PIERCE
Pierce, Bethany, 1983-. Feeling for bones. Chicago : Moody Publishers, 2007. Pressurized family dynamics and a dysfunctional church experience force 16-year-old Olivia to seek her own reality. Hounded by the distorted reflections of mirrors, car doors, and shop windows, she sets things in order by papering her bedroom wall with glossy clippings from glamour magazines. . .Olivia’s baggy clothes and exhaustive calorie scrutiny can’t cover up the fact that she is allowing her body to wither away. . .This novel opens a window to the thought processes and struggles of teen and college-aged women who struggle with eating disorders. Young women will find a friend who thinks like they do and mothers will find a compatriot in the battle to help their daughters deal with body image. (From the publisher, edited).


NON-FICTION


005.4 THO
Thomas, Keir. Beginning Ubuntu Linux. 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA : New York : Apress ; Distributed to the Book trade worldwide by Springer-Verlag New York, 2007.
A guide to Ubuntu Linux covers such topics as installation, hardware components, the BASH shell, multimedia, office tasks, software installation and removal, and data backup.

005.7 TIT
Tittel, Ed. HTML 4 for dummies. 3rd ed. Foster City, CA : IDG Books Worldwide, 2000.
This friendly guide delivers the most recent updates to HTML tags and scripting so you can start publishing Web-savvy documents -- fast! Whether you want to create simple or complex Web pages, these easy-to-follow explanations will help you plan your content and carry your concept through to get the results you want.

032 GUI
Guinness World Records, 2007. Bantam ed., Rev. American ed. New York : Bantam Books, 2007.
Presents the biggests, smallests, fastests, longests, and other world records in such categories as the human body, human achievement, life on Earth, engineering, science and technology, arts and media, and sports and games.

155.2 TIE
Tieger, Paul D. Do what you are : discover the perfect career for you through the secrets of personality type. 4th ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2007.
Presents a step-by-step guide for determining personality types in order to customize job searches, and includes a number of case studies and simple exercises.

200.71 PRO
Prothero, Stephen R. Religious literacy : what every American needs to know and doesn’t. 1st ed. [San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, 2007.
Explores the author’s belief that religion should become a mandatory subject in American public schools maintaining that major domestic and foreign challenges can be better addressed with faith-based resolutions.

297 HIR
Hirsi Ali, Ayaan, 1967-. The caged virgin : an emancipation proclamation for women and Islam. First Free Press ed. New York : Free Press, 2006.
Dutch parliamentarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an activist for the rights of women and against religious fundamentalism who was raised Muslim in Somalia, discusses the treatment of women in Islamic countries, freedom, domestic violence, and Western governments’ relations with countries in which genital mutilation and forced marriages of minors are practiced, and provides practical advice for women who want to leave Islamic countries.

303.3 GOL
Goldberg, Bernard, 1945-. Crazies to the left of me, wimps to the right : how one side lost its mind and the other lost its nerve. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, 2007.
Bernard Goldberg argues that American politics is at risk from fanatics on both sides of the political divide and offers advice on how Americans can reclaim their government and start making wise decisions about the country’s future.

303.3 IAC
Iacocca, Lee A. Where have all the leaders gone? 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, 2007.
Where have all the leaders gone? -- Had enough? -- People and priorities : its that simple—Can you show me where it’s working? --Aren’t we supposed to be the good guys? -- How much do we love democracy? -- Where have all our friends gone? -- Will the real leader of the free world please stand up? -- Meet the coalition of the unwilling—What will we do for oil? Free trade must be fair trade—Don’t fence me in - or out—Is capitalism letting us down? -- Where does all the money go? -- Will we ever trust Corporate America again? -- Chrysler’s lesson : resist the urge to merge—Can anyone around here run a car company? -- Who will save the middle class? -- The blame game is killing us—Can America be great again? -- Are we too fat and satisfied for our own good? -- Bring back brain power—Three men who taught me how to lead—Get off the golf course and do something—2008: a call to action. Auto executive Lee Iacocca examines the difficult questions today’s political leaders are failing to address and offers his own thoughts on how the country can be improved.

305.24 CRO
Croker, Richard, 1946-. The boomer century, 1946-2046 : how America’s most influential generation changed everything. 1st ed. New York : Springboard Press, 2007.
The Baby Boom generation has always been known as a demographic anomaly and these 77 million Americans have dominated our society for the past 60 years, setting trends and revolutionizing entire industries. They didn’t just date, they transformed sex roles and practices. They didn’t just go to the doctor, they reinvented healthcare. And now retirement and aging will never be the same as the oldest boomers move into their 60s with no thoughts of traditional retirement or old-age homes! Featuring insightful interviews and essays from Baby Boomers like Dr. Andrew Weill, Erica Jong, Eve Ensler, Rob Reiner, Alvin Toffler, Lester Thurow, and Tony Snow.

320.52 BOO
Boortz, Neal. Sombody’s gotta say it. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, 2007.
Talk radio host Neal Boortz shares his somewhat controversial opinions on a wide range of topics related to politics, pop culture, and American society in the twenty-first century.

327.73 BRZ
Brzezinski, Zbigniew. Second chance : three presidents and the crisis of American superpower. New York : Basic Books, 2007.
Brzezinski provides a critical analysis of the leadership styles and performance of Presidents George H.W. Bush, William Clinton, and George W. Bush; and maintains that America has lost a great deal of its power and prestige over the past two decades.

332.660944 COH
Cohan, William D. The last tycoons : the secret history of Lazard Frères & Co. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, 2007.
A former investigative reporter who has also done time on Wall Street (including six years at Lazard Frères) explains how the seemingly indestructible Lazard hit the skids. (From Library Journal).

333.78 BLE
Blehm, Eric. The last season. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2006.
Chronicles the life of backcounty ranger Randy Morgenson, focusing on his years in the wilderness, career as a National Park Service ranger, solitary life, mysterious disappearance in California’s Sierra Nevada, and other related topics.

355.3 SCA
Scahill, Jeremy. Blackwater : the rise of the world’s most powerful mercenary army. New York : [S.l.] : Nation Books ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2007.
Examines the history and actions of Blackwater USA, a private mercenary army hired by the United States to carry out missions all over the world; focusing on the firm’s role in the War on Terrorism.

363.7 KER
Kerry, John, 1943-. This moment on Earth : today’s new environmentalists and their vision for the future. 1st ed. New York : BBS/PublicAffairs, 2007.
Examines the environmental crisis facing everyone on Earth, profiles men and women trying to stop the crisis and protect the environment, and identifies practical, simple steps people can take to lessen their impact on the world around them.

363.7 STE
Steinman, David. Safe trip to Eden : 10 steps to save planet Earth from the global warming meltdown. New York : [Berkeley, Calif.] : Thunder’s Mouth Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2007.
The author presents a comprehensive analysis of the effects of global warming and climate changes that he maintains pose a greater threat to the planet than the war on terror.

371.102 CLA
Clark, Ron, 1971-. The essential 55 : an award-winning educator’s rules for discovering the successful student in every child. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, 2003.
Ron Clark shares fifty-five ideas that can help educators uncover the potential in every student.

392.1 KOR
Korn, Fadumo, 1964-. Born in the big rains : a memoir of Somalia and survival. New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2006.
A nomad’s life—In Mogadishu—In Germany. Fadumo Korn recalls her experiences after undergoing female genital mutilation at the age of seven, a common ritual in her Somali tribe, discusses the complications that led her to Mogadishu, Rome, and Germany where she had reconstructive surgery, and urges anti-FGM activists to be sensitive to traditional practices.

509 GRI
Gribbin, John R. The fellowship : Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton, and the story of a scientific revolution. Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2007, 2005.
John Gribbin examines the lives and obsessions of the men associated with the scientific revolution and the birth of the Royal Society in seventeenth-century England including William Gilbert, Francis Bacon, William Harvey, Christopher Wren, and Isaac Newton.

616 GAW
Gawande, Atul. Better : a surgeon’s notes on performance. 1st ed. New York : Metropolitan Books/Holt, 2007.
Dr. Atul Gawande explores how doctors struggle to achieve optimum performance in the face of obstacles, recounting true stories of doctors trying to do right by their patients in the face of insurmountable challenges and conditions.

641.0973 KIN
Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food life. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, 2007.
Novelist Barbara Kingsolver once wrote, “If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.” In Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, she manages to do both, applying her literary skills to a new food environment. In her seamless diary narrative, Kingsolver tells how she and her family relocated to southern Appalachia after suffering through years of drought in Arizona. The purpose of the move was simple: The Kingsolvers sought to “live in a place that could feed us” by growing their own food and living among a community of local organic growers.

646.7 ASL
Aslett, Don, 1935-. Clutter’s last stand : it’s time to de-junk your life! 2nd ed. Avon, MA : Adams Media, 2005.
Okay, I’ll confess first -- 101 feeble excuses for hanging on to clutter—Committing junkicide—The economy of clutter—Home sweet home-- (full of junk!) -- Those personal treasures—might some be clutter? -- Taming the paper tiger and other dejunking adventures—Dress less for success (so your clothes don’t wear you out) -- Junk on wheels (some junk—drives you mad) -- Junk danger zones—You can take it with you (clutter!) -- Getting off the excess express—There is a solution to clutter—Judging junk—How to leave it and love it (clutter!) -- Clutter’s last stand. Presents humorous guidance for eliminating and preventing clutter, covering such topics as papers, mementos, clothing, car clutter, and “junk rooms,” as well as unwanted friendships.

648 ASL
Aslett, Don, 1935-. Help! around the house : a mother’s guide to getting the family to pitch in and clean up. Avon, Mass. : Adams Media, 2006.
With this guide you no longer have to spend all your time and energy cleaning house and picking up after the kids. This homecare book outlines specific strategies for involving the family in keeping your home clean and clutter to a minimum.

648 ASL
Aslett, Don, 1935-. Do I dust or vacuum first? : answers to the 100 toughest, most frequently asked questions about housecleaning. 2nd ed. Avon, Mass. : Adams Media, 2005.
Answers to the 100 questions asked most often in the author’s housecleaning seminars and by mail.

648 ASL
Aslett, Don, 1935-. Done! 2nd ed. Avon, MA : Adams Media, 2005.
Forget “todo” lists. All they do, says multitasker extraordinaire Don Aslett, is remind you of all you have to do they don’t help you get anything DONE! Don, a selfmade millionaire entrepreneur who’s founded several successful businesses, written more than a dozen bestselling books, raised five kids, and still vacations in Hawaii every year, knows how to get the most done in the least amount of time. In DONE!, Don reveals the secrets behind his time management philosophy.

796.357 MCI
McIntosh, Ned. Managing Little League baseball. Rev. ed. Chicago : Contemporary Books, 2000.
Presents a guide to coaching Little League baseball, including advice on helping teach the fundamentals of the game, covering rules, hitting, baserunning, defense, and pitching, with additional information on motivation, strategy, and handling competitive pressure.

811 HAD
Hadas, Rachel. Laws : poems. 1st ed. Lincoln, Neb. : Zoo Press : Distributed to the trade by The University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
Laws is a capacious collection by one of America’s most renowned poets.

813 PAR
Paretsky, Sara. Writing in an age of silence. London ; New York : Verso, 2007.
In this brief, potent memoir, bestselling novelist Paretsky (Fire Sale) proves as sharp and straight shooting as V.I. Warshawski, the female private investigator she’s made famous in 12 novels. Carefully sketching her conjoined lives as an artist and activist who cut her political teeth on the civil rights and feminist movements of the 1960s, she paints a moving portrait of herself as an engaged intellectual looking to make a substantive and life-affirming mark on society. (From Publishers Weekly).

823 WIN
Winder, Simon. The man who saved Britain : a personal journey into the disturbing world of James Bond. 1st American ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. Simon Winder presents a comprehensive study of the character of James Bond by author Ian Fleming in the context of post-World War II England, describing its influence on British attitudes and behaviors.

839 BER
Berliner, Yizhak, 1899-1957. City of palaces : poems. Basking Ridge, NJ : Jacoby Press, 1996.
A collection of poems by Isaac Berliner, with illustrations by Diego Rivera.

920 CHE
Cheever, Susan. American Bloomsbury : Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau : their lives, their loves, their work. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2006.
Cheever offers a revealing look at the tumultuous, often scandalous lives of five of the greatest authors in nineteenth-century American literature.

921 ALTHER
Alther, Lisa. Kinfolks : falling off the family tree : the search for my Melungeon ancestors. 1st ed. New York : [S.l.] : Arcade Pub. ; Distributed by Hachette Book Group USA, 2007.
Lisa Alther chronicles her quest to discover the truth about the Melungeons, a group of six-fingered men and women who hid in cliff caves outside of town in the years following the Civil War, who were linked to Alther’s own family history.

921 BYER
Byer, Heather. Sweet : an eight-ball odyssey. New York : Riverhead Books, 2007.
In ‘Sweet,’ Byer recounts her first fumbling attempts to learn a game that beckoned to her for years. She describes the hypnotic pull that surrounds the sport of pool: the netherworld of bars that serve as dens for substance abuse; the troubled players who lose themselves in the game; the constant quest for the win. As her game improves, she finds her persona changing, becoming less verbal and analytical and more intuitive and physical as she meets a series of people who leave lasting impressions: a lanky, country-boy pool instructor; a good-hearted lawyer with a drinking problem; a strange South American bank-shot specialist; a hot-tempered woman with a nose-ring and an endless supply of sex appeal; mentors and hustlers; friends and lovers. As she moves through this beguiling, sometimes treacherous subculture, Byer vividly describes her progress and mishaps on the tables. Ultimately, the humiliating losses and exhilarating wins - both in the pool bars and her personal life - alter how she thinks of the game and herself.

921 EINSTEIN
Isaacson, Walter. Einstein : his life and universe. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Einstein’s brain and Einstein’s mind. The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. Biographer Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk—a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn’t get a teaching job or a doctorate—became the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals. These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age.—From publisher description.

921 FOLEY
Foley, Mick. The hardcore diaries. New York : Pocket Books/World Wrestling Entertainment Books, 2007.
Three-time WWE champion Mick Foley knows about the hard-knocks world of pro wrestling, and he has the scars to prove it. . .his Hardcore Diaries presents this challenging sport in all its excitement and violence. (From Amazon.com).

921 TAMMET
Tammet, Daniel, 1979-. Born on a blue day : inside the extraordinary mind of an autistic savant. 1st Free Press ed. New York : Free Press, 2007, 2006.
Daniel Tammet, an autistic savant, offers an inside look at his life, describing how his rare condition, which gives him incredible mental powers and a compulsive need for order and routine, has influenced every aspect of his life and what challenges he has faced while trying to be independent.

921 WOODRUFF
Woodruff, Lee. In an instant : a family’s journey of love and healing. 1st ed. New York : Random House, 2007.
Lee and Bob Woodruff share the story of their life together and tell of their experiences after Bob suffered a critical head injury in an attack while covering the war in Iraq for ABC News.

956.7044 CLA
Clancy, Tom, 1947-. Into the storm : a study in command. 2nd Berkley trade paperback ed. New York, N.Y. : Berkley Publishing Group, 2007.
Having conquered the best sellers lists in both the fiction and nonfiction arenas, Clancy now offers the first in a series of historical accounts of American military leaders in times of war. His first target: the Gulf War. (From Library Journal).

956.7044 KOP
Kopelman, Jay. From Baghdad, with love : a Marine, the war, and a dog named Lava. Guilford, CT : The Lyons Press, 2006.
During a tour of duty in Iraq, Marine Lt. Col. Jay Kopelman suffered the emotional ravages common to those involved in the bloody battle for Fallujah. Then amidst the pockmarked buildings, with the words ‘Jihad, Jihad, Jihad’ plastered on every wall still standing, he and a group of brother Marines found a puppy. Breaking strict military rules forbidding pets, Kopelman and his comrades adopted the dog which he named Lava and eventually smuggled out of Iraq. It’s a touching story of hope in the face of war.

972.904 TAL
Talty, Stephan. Empire of blue water : Captain Morgan’s great pirate army, the epic battle for the Americas, and the catastrophe that ended the outlaws’ bloody reign. 1st ed. New York : Crown, 2007.
Stephan Talty chronicles the adventures of seventeenth-century privateer Captain Henry Morgan and his crew as they traveled through the Caribbean raiding ports and attacking Spanish ships in the name of England.

973.7 MAN
Manning, Chandra. What this cruel war was over : soldiers, slavery, and the Civil War. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2007.
The author presents a comprehensive account of how both Union and Confederate soldiers felt about the Civil War, how many on both sides eventually identified slavery as the root cause, and how the conflict changed the fabric of the nation.

973.931 BRA
Bradley, Bill, 1943-. The new American story. New York : Random House, 2007.
Bill Bradley shares his analysis of the state of America in the twenty-first century, exploring why the government is failing to protect the American people and their way of life and offering his suggestions for improving the country.

MEDIA

CD 305.48 ROD
Rodriguez, Deborah. Kabul Beauty School : an American woman goes behind the veil. [Ashland, Oregon : Blackstone Audio, 2007.
Read by Bernadette Dunne. With warmthand humor, Rodriguez details the lushness of a seemingly desolate region and reveals the magnificence behind the burqa. Kabul Beauty School is a remarkable tale of an extraordinary community of women who come together and learn the arts of perms, friendship, and freedom.

CD 600 WIL
Wilson, Daniel H. (Daniel Howard), 1978-. Where’s my jetpack? : a guide to the amazing science fiction future that never arrived. Ashland, Or. : Blackstone Audio, 2007.
Read by Stefan Rudnicki. Offers a whimsical look at the science behind the great inventions and technology that still do not exist, covering everything from teleportation to self-contained skyscraper cities, hoverboards, and moon colonies.


DVD 303 CYB
Cyber war! [Alexandria, Va.] : distributed by PBS Home Video : PBS DVD Video, 2003.
1. Warning messages -- 2. Warriors in an invisible war -- 3. Wake up calls -- 4. Power grid -- 5. How real is the threat? -- 6. Public-private partnership. Reporter: Jim Gilmore; narrator: Will Lyman. The Slammer hit on Super Bowl Sunday. Nimda struck one week after 9/11. Code Red had ripped through the system that summer. Moonlight Maze moved from the Russian Academy of Science and into the U.S. Department of Defense. A new form of warfare has broken out and the battleground is cyberspace. With weapons like embedded malicious code, probes and pings, there are surgical strikes, reverse neutron bombs, and the potential for massive assaults aimed directly at America’s infrastructure—the power grid, the water supply, the complex air traffic control system, and the nation’s railroads. FRONTLINE investigates just how real the threat of war in cyberspace is and reveals what the White House knows that the rest of us don’t.

DVD 359 COA
The Coast Guard ships. Burlington, VT : New York : A&E Home Video ; Distributed by New Video, 2005.
This in-depth program goes aboard some of the many craft employed by the Coast Guard, from the small boats used for shoreline rescue operations, to the deep-sea patrol ships that form the vanguard in America’s war against drugs.

DVD 362 NEW
The new heroes : their bottom line is lives. Portland, Ore. : Oregon Public Broadcasting, 2005.
Host: Robert Redford. Narrators: Robert Redford, Charles C. Stuart, Linda Hunt, Andrew Gersh, Bonni Cohen. The New Heroes tells the dramatic stories of 14 daring people from all corners of the globe who, against all odds, are successfully alleviating poverty and illness, combating unemployment and violence, and bringing education, light, opportunity and freedom to poor and marginalized people around the world.

DVD 500 GOD
God, the universe and everything else. West Long Branch, NJ : Distributed by Kultur International, 2007.
Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke. Presenter, Magnus Magnusson. An educational colloquium that attempts to uncover that unified grand theory of the laws that govern the universe. Delves deep into topics such as the Big Bang Theory, the expansion of the universe, black holes, and more.

DVD 625 BUI
Building your first model railroad. [S.l.] : World’s Greatest Hobby, 2003?.
Narrated by Michael Gross. Teaches you everything you need to know to build a 4x8 foot scale model railroad layout. Describes building the table and laying the track, building structures and scenery, and wiring techniques.

DVD 625 GRE
Great model railroads. Host: Allen Keller. New episodes to the library include 44, 46, & 47.
All DVDs focus on a particularly outstanding railroad layout. The format consists of a tour of the layout using a train and trackplan to help familiarize you with the railroad. Then we feature an operating segment to show you how the railroad earns its keep.

DVD 625 SCE
Scenery & airbrushing made easy. [Waukesha, Wis.] : Kalmbach Pub., 2006?. Presented by the staff of Model Railroader magazine; third work hosted by Michael Gross. The expert staff of Model Railroader magazine shows you everything you need to know about building fantastic layout scenery and the art of airbrushing with acrylic paints. From start to finish, you’ll learn about the tools, applications, and special techniques you can use to create realistic-looking model railroad scenery and detailing projects.

DVD FRI
Fried green tomatoes. Collector’s ed. Universal City, CA : Universal Home Video, [2004], 1998.
Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Cicely Tyson. A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago, inspiring the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results.

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