September 2006

FICTION:
F ALBERT
Albert, Susan Wittig. The tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood. Berkley
Prime Crime, c2006. Beatrix Potter returns from a trip to
find her attic overrun with rats. It seems resident rat,
Rosabelle, had offered her family a place to stay and now
they won't leave. To get rid of the rats, Beatrix invites
some cats over, offending Felicia Frummety, resident cat. In
addition to those problems, three of Beatrix's favorite
village children are in trouble. Beatrix must work with her
friends, human and animal, to set things right.

F ALI
Ali, Monica, 1967-. Alentejo blue : fiction. New York :
Scribner, c2006. The village of Mamarrosa is different
things to different people. Its story is told through the
lives of those who live there and those who are passing
through, from children and old men, to expatriates of all
ages, tourists, and locals. One old man reflects on his life
and the anticipated return of the village's prodigal son.
When the man does finally appear, everyone's jealousies,
passions, and disappointments collide.

F ANSAY
Ansay, A. Manette. Blue water. 1st ed. New York : William
Morrow, c2006. Meg and Rex Van Dorn's lives are forever
changed after a drunk driver slams into their car, killing
their six-year-old son, and when the driver, a woman who
used to be Meg's best friend, is let off with just a small
fine, Meg and Rex escape their heartache and rent a boat to
sail around the world in search of solace.

F BAANTJER
Baantjer, A.C. DeKok and variations on murder : number 21 in the
Inspector DeKok series. Denver, CO : London : Speck Press,
Turnaround [distributor], c2006. As has been her habit
since her husband's death, Marlies van Haesbergen does
nightly rounds in the large office building where she
resides. Her husband had been the building superintendent,
and an apartment on the top floor came with the job. During
one of her nightly tours, Mrs. van Haesbergen finds Paul
Vreeden, managing director of a multi-national dredging
company, in the boardroom, dead. She turns to Inspector
DeKok, for help when the body disappears before the police
come.

F BAILEY
Bailey, Tom, 1961-. The grace that keeps this world : a novel.
1st ed. New York : Shaye Areheart Books, c2005. Gary and
Susan Hazen have tried to bring up their sons with the same
values and ambitions they hold dear; however, but both young
men have secrets that threaten to strain the family fabric.

F BALL
Ball, Margaret, 1947-. Duchess of Aquitaine : a novel of
Eleanor. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2006.
Eleanor, beautiful daughter of the Duke of Aquitaine,
becomes heir to the richest province in France in 1137, when
she's just 15. This also makes her an irresistible prize for
the first baron who rides in to kidnap her and seize her
lands. Eleanor hatches a scheme to marry King Louis himself,
but can't hold up her end of the bargain afterward and
strikes her own path out of a loveless marriage to an even
greater alliance with Henry II of England.

F BARR
Barr, Nancy Verde. Last bite : a novel. 1st ed. Chapel Hill,
N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006. Casey
Costello, chef for a network morning news show swears off
men after a bad relationship, until Danny O'Shea, a handsome
Irish chef from New York, shows up to make a guest
appearance on her television show.

F BARTLETT
Bartlett, Anne. Knitting. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005. Two
widows find themselves bonding over their joint knitting
projects and help each other overcome their grief and move
on with their lives.

F BEAR
Bear, Elizabeth. Blood and iron. New York : ROC, c2005.
Ancient grudges and ruthless schemes are simply business as
usual to the Faerie court in Bear's complex and involving
contemporary fantasy. Seeker, formerly Elaine Andraste, is a
changeling bound to the Mebd, the queen of the Daoine Sidhe,
to find other changelings and bring them to the Faerie
court. There, like legendary Tam Lin, and Seeker's own son,
Ian, they entertain the queen until she tires of them. Now
the queen needs Seeker to find and win the heart of the new
Merlin, latest incarnation of a being who, in the hands of
the Prometheans, could be used to destroy the Fae. Pragmatic
college professor Carel Bierce, the first female Merlin, is
not easily swayed by Fae or Promethean advances.
Long-forgotten rivalries and unsuspected blood ties arise to
tug at Seeker's loyalties, even as the queen promises to
free Ian when she succeeds. Publisher's Weekly.

F BLOCK
Block, Lawrence. Hit parade. New York : W. Morrow, c2006. John
Keller is a pro at what he does. He's a hit man's hit man.
But, he's also prone to doubts and loneliness, like everyone
else. In this third novel featuring Keller, readers learn
more about the assassin that they love to cheer for, even
when he's killing a complete stranger in cold blood.

F BLOCK
Block, Francesca Lia. Ruby : a novel. 1st ed. New York :
HarperCollins Publishers, c2006. Ruby, a Midwestern girl
named for the jewel that is believed to ward off evil
spirits, has a special gift, a sixth sense that makes her at
one with nature and gives her the ability to know her own
destiny. After growing up in an abusive family, Ruby escapes
to Los Angeles and learns of her soulmate, Orion Woolf, a
British actor. She travels to England, where she works at a
potions and herbs shop, and through a series of coincidental
circumstances, ends up nursing Orion back to health without
confessing that she has been on a quest to find him all
along. But just when she thinks her dream is becoming a
reality, Ruby is stopped in her tracks by the violent demons
of her past. Only by facing the darkness together can she
and Orion finally fulfill their destiny.--From publisher
description.

F BOYLE
Boyle, T. Coraghessan. Talk talk : a novel. New York : Viking,
2006. Deaf Dana Halter is falsley arrested for assault with
a deadly weapon, auto theft, and passing bad checks, while
William Wilson has been living a blameless life of criminal
excess at her expense. Dana and her boyfriend Bridger set
out to track him down.

F BREWER
Brewer, Sonny. The poet of Tolstoy Park : a novel. 1st ed. New
York : Ballantine, 2005. A fictionalized account of the
life of Henry Stuart that recounts Henry's reaction to the
news he has less than a year to live, and his desire to
create a utopian society in Alabama.

F BUCHAN
Buchan, Elizabeth. Wives behaving badly. New York : Viking,
2006. What happens when the mistress becomes the wife?
Minty Lloyd is now the second wife to her husband,
Nathan--but she is shunned by his friends, despised by his
grown children, and haunted by her very much alive, and
quite reborn, predecessor Rose. Yet after a shocking phone
call, Minty finds herself united with an unexpected
ally--the woman she once betrayed.--From publisher
description.

F BURKE
Burke, James Lee, 1936-. Pegasus descending : a Dave Robicheaux novel. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2006.Just when Dave
Robicheaux thinks stability has come to his life, memories
emerge to send the recovering alcoholic into a tailspin. It
all begins with the appearance of a young woman named Trish
Klein, who could be the daughter of one of Robicheaux's old
crime partners. The suicide of another young woman named
Yvonne Darbonne doesn't help his mood, either. Soon, Dave
finds himself caught up in a web of connections linking the
suicide to a Mafia thug and back into his own haunted past.

F CASH
Cash, Dixie,. My heart may be broken, but my hair still looks
great. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2005. Fort
Worth socialite Paige McBride, forced to get a job when her
wealthy father decides she needs to learn the value of a
dollar, finds work on a horse farm in Salt Lick, Texas,
where she becomes involved with the town's most famous
residents, the Domestic Equalizers, a team of hairstylist
detectives on the lookout for a horse thief, and falls in
love with the new local veterinarian.

F CLARK
Clark, Mary Jane Behrends. Lights out tonight. 1st ed. New
York : St. Martin's Press, 2006. K-E-Y News film and
theater critic Caroline Enright is used to irate phone calls
and the occasional threat from disgruntled movie producers
and agents after her reviews, but she's totally unprepared
when her trip to a summer theater festival is interrupted by
murder. Ferreting out a killer takes on a special urgency
because her stepdaughter, who has a small part in a new play
there, could be a ruthless killer's next victim.

F CLARKE
Clarke, Will. The worthy : a ghost's story. New York : Simon &
Schuster, c2006. Conrad, a newly deceased
nineteen-year-old, sets out to prove that his fraternity
brother has a dark side, despite the fact that he had no
earthly body and no way to prove his suspicions.

F CLEMENT
Clement, Alison, 1953-. Twenty questions : a novel. New York :
Atria Books, c2006. It seemed to June that she had the
perfect marriage until the day Ronald Pruett was arrested
for the murder of Vernay Hanks. Through her job at an
elementary school, June knew both the victim's child and
Pruett. Moreover, on the day of the murder, she had almost
taken a ride from Pruett herself. This connection with the
murder becomes an obsession for June and leads her into a
deceitful and increasingly complicated involvement with the
dead woman's brother and her child. Pretending to have been
a friend of the victim, June inserts herself into their
lives and through this discovers disturbing things about her
marriage and herself.

F COELHO
Coelho, Paulo. The Devil and Miss Prym : a novel of temptation.
1st U.S. ed. New York : $b $c : HarperCollins Publishers,
2006. A stranger arrives in the remote village of Viscos
with a backpack containing a notebook and 11 gold bars,
setting in motion an extraordinary struggle between good and
evil. As the stranger searches for the answer to whether
humans, in essence, are good or evil, the village becomes an
accomplice to his plot, which will mark their lives forever.

F CRAIG
Craig, Philip R., 1933-. Dead in Vineyard sand : a Martha's
Vineyard mystery. New York : Scribner, c2006. A clash
between golfers and cyclists stirs up tension on idyllic
Martha's Vineyard. Ex-cop J.W. Jackson is buying a pound of
shrimp when he's verbally and physically attacked by Yale
professor Henry Highsmith, who takes exception to J.W.'s
parking his SUV too close to Highsmith's bike. When the
professor's wife, Abigail, is run off the road by an old
SUV, rumor suggests J.W. is to blame. A round of golf with
some friends reveals Highsmith's body buried in a sand trap.
When someone takes a shot at Abigail, J.W. starts sleuthing
to clear his name.

F DEPOY
DePoy, Phillip. A minister's ghost. 1st ed. New York : St.
Martin's Minotaur, 2006. Professor and noted folklorist
Fever Devilin abandons academia to return to his small
hometown of Blue Mountain, Georgia, where he takes up with
old friends and a former flame, and becomes involved in the
investigation of the deaths of two teens who were killed
while sitting in their vehicle at a train crossing.

F EFFINGER
Effinger, George Alec. A fire in the sun. New York : Tom
Doherty Associates, 2006, c1989. Marid Audran has become
everything he once despised. Not so long ago, he was a
hustler in the Budayeen, an Arabian ghetto in a Balkanized
future Earth. Back then, as often as not, he didn't have the
money to buy himself a drink. But he had his independence.
Now Marid works for Friedlander Bey, "godfather" of the
Budayeen, a man whose power stretches across a shattered,
crumbling world. During the day, Marid is a policeman...and
Bey's personal envoy to the police. His new position has
brought him money and power which he would abandon in a
moment if he could return to a life of neither owning nor
being owned. Which, unfortunately, isn't one of his options.
It's also not an issue. For something dark is afoot.
Something that is sending the city into chaos. Helping a
child-mutilator to avoid arrest. Sending a killer to murder
Marid's partner. Murdering prostitutes and savaging their
remains. Signs point to the hand of Abu Adil--the one man in
the city whose power rivals Friedlander Bey's. Whatever
happens next, it's not going to be good news for Marid
Audran...

F FEIST
Feist, Raymond E. Honored enemy. New York : Eos, 2006. In the
first volume of the 'Legends of the Riftwar' series, sworn
enemies band together in the frozen Northlands of Midkemia
to survive the perilous climate and an enemy. Since both
sides carry painful scars from past wars, will they be able
to put their distrust aside?.

F GELLIS
Gellis, Roberta. Chains of folly : a Madgdalene la Bâtarde
mystery. 1st ed. Waterville, Me. : Five Star, 2006. When
the body of a murdered woman winds up in the bishop of
Winchester's bedchamber, the bishop and his knight, Sir
Bellamy of Itchen, realize that someone is out to tarnish
the bishop's reputation and perhaps threaten his life.

F GIFFIN
Giffin, Emily. Baby proof. New York : St. Martin's Press,
c2006. Claudia and Ben were the 'perfect' couple. Ever
since their first date when they both admitted they had no
desire for children, their courtship and marriage seemed
destined. Now that they're married Ben had changed his mind.
He did want children, after all. Can the 'perfect' couple
survive this unexpected twist in their relationship? Which
is more important: children or love?.

F GOLDSTEIN
Goldstein, Judy. 24 karat kids. New York : St. Martin's Press,
2006. One might say the trappings of power and privilege
changed Shelley Green's life and not necessarily for the
better! Hired by a trendy medical practice in Manhattan,
she's soon wearing Fendi and weekending in the Hamptons,
which baffles her school teacher fiance. Then Shelley drifts
into a secret relationship with a blue-blood hunk that
eventually starts to open her eyes about the bleakness under
the fashionable life she's been living and sets her back on
the right path.

F GOUDGE
Goudge, Eileen. Immediate family. New York : Pocket Books,
c2006. Fifteen years after graduation, best friends Jay,
Franny, Emerson, and Stevie meet at their college reunion.
Life has taken each of them in different directions -- Jay
is a married man with a baby on the way while Franny yearns
for a child as she searches for love in all the wrong
places. Divorced single mom Emerson is drawn to a man who
challenges everything she's come to believe about finding a
once-in-a-lifetime love. And Stevie's life has recently been
rocked by a shocking revelation -- the answer to a family
secret that will shatter everything she believes about
herself.

F GUNNING
Gunning, Sally. The widow's war. 1st ed. New York : Morrow,
c2006. Lyddie, the wife of successful whaler Edward Berry,
finds her life turned upside down after her husband is lost
at sea, forcing her to rebuild her identity and adapt to
life as a widow, while struggling to keep her property out
of the hands of her closest male relative.

F HANAUER
Hanauer, Cathi. Sweet ruin : a novel. 1st Atria Books hardcover
ed. New York : Atria Books, 2006. Thirty-five-year-old
Elayna Leopold lives in suburban New Jersey. Working from
home so that she can raise her six-year-old daughter, Hazel,
while her husband, Paul, puts in long hours as a corporate
lawyer. Two years ago her infant son died, sending her into
a deep depression from which she is just emerging. Awakening
now to the idea that she can want more than simply to get
through the day, Elayna finds herself suddenly --
thrillingly -- craving life's passions again. When she meets
Kevin, a young artist with whom she begins to spend more and
more time during Paul's absences, Elayna discovers a version
of herself she thought was gone forever. As she uncovers
yearnings that could destroy everything she cherishes, a
threat to Hazel emerges from an unlikely source, making
Elayna's choices and decisions that much more critical.

F HARRIGAN
Harrigan, Stephen, 1948-. Challenger Park. 1st ed. New York :
Knopf, 2006. Astronaut Lucy Kincheloe's dream of flying in
space finally come true, but as she prepares for her
mission, her personal life comes crashing down around her as
her husband, a fellow astronaut, is threatened by her
success, her son's health deteriorates, and her relationship
with her team leader becomes dangerously intimate.

F HECHT
Hecht, Daniel. Bones of the Barbary Coast : a Cree Black novel.
1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury Pub., 2006. Bert
Marchetti, a friend and a San Francisco homicide inspector,
has asked Cree Black to help investigate a human skeleton
recently unearthed in the foundation of a Victorian home.
When the bones are sent to UC Berkeley for analysis, the
forensic anthropology team is intrigued. They call the
skeleton 'Wolfman.' Cree decides to find out who the Wolfman
was, what caused his obvious anatomical deformities, and how
he ended up where he did.

F HEWSON
Hewson, David. The sacred cut. Delacorte Press hardcover ed.
New York : Delacorte Press, 2006, c2005. Detective Nic
Costa investigates the murder of an American woman found
near the Pantheon in Rome and teams up with Agent Emily
Deacon, who has her own personal connection to the killer.

F HOLLAND
Holland, Thomas D. One drop of blood. New York : Simon &
Schuster, c2006. Robert Dean "Kel" McKelvey, director of
the Department of the Army's Central Identification
Laboratory, joins disgraced FBI agent Michael Levine in an
unpopular investigation of the involvement of a Vietnam War
hero from Arkansas in a forty-year-old racial killing.

F HOOPER
Hooper, Kay. Sleeping with fear. New York : Bantam Books,
c2006. Agent Riley Crane of the FBI's Special Crimes Unit
is used to dealing with bizarre situations and violent
death, but when she wakes up alone, head pounding, and
covered with human blood, she know's she's entered a new
kind of nightmare. Just as frightening as is is that she has
no memory of the past two weeks, she's right in the middle
of an undercover operation where friend and foe look alike,
and there's thought that she could possibly be a murderer!.

F HYDE
Hyde, Catherine Ryan. Love in the present tense. New York :
Doubleday/Flying Dolphin Press, c2006. Pearl, only thirteen
when she gives birth to her son, Leonard, and on the run for
accidently killing his father, begins leaving the child with
her neighbor Mitch while she is at work, and Mitch and
Leonard are left to figure out how to approach the future
when Pearl fails to return home from work one day.

F HYDE
Hyde, Elisabeth. The abortionist's daughter. 1st ed. New York
: Knopf, 2006. On a chilly December evening, Colorado
abortion clinic founder Dr. Diana Duprey is found dead
beside her home pool. Who killed her? The clues are few but
the suspects are legion-Diana's high-profile career had
inflamed feelings on both sides of the Roe v. Wade aisle.
Among the suspects are the minister whose pro-life group
regularly picketed her clinic; the woman who left hate
messages on her voice mail; her daughter, with whom she'd
argued that morning; and her husband, whose litany of
resentment and rejection grew daily. The police have a tough
time sifting through the sensational publicity and intricate
interrelationships of these small-town, high-powered people
to answer this fundamental question. Library Journal.

F JAMES
James, Bill, 1929-. Wolves of memory. W.W. Norton, c2006. A
large, carefully plotted "cash-in-transit" raid goes
hopelessly awry when armed policemen intervene to seize the
perpetrators. Relatives and friends of the incarcerated are
convinced that information (the date, the time) was leaked
by the only man to escape before his arrest. Deputy
Constable Colin Harpur and Assistant Constable Desmond Iles
are delegated the job of hiding and protecting the informant
and his family.

F JAMES Favorite
James, Peter, 1948-. Dead simple. 1st Caroll & Graf ed. New
York : [S.l.] : Carroll & Graf Publishers ; Distributed by
Publishers Group West, 2005, c2004. Michael Harrison is
enclosed in a coffin by a group of friends during his
bachelor party, but when his friends are killed in a car
accident before setting him free, Michael is left buried
alive while his fiance scrambles to find him before it is
too late.

F JANCE
Jance, Judith A. Dead wrong. 1st ed. New York : William
Morrow, c2006. Juggling a career and a family is becoming a
challenge for Sheriff Joanna Brady. In addition to coping
with the impending birth of her second child, she's also
dealing with a staff shortage and two serious crimes. First,
the body of an unidentified man is found in the desert with
all his fingers severed. Then, one of her officers is
brutally attacked and left for dead while on an unauthorized
stakeout. Strapping on a bulletproof vest, Joanna risks
everything to see justice done for all parties.

F JOHN
John, Marie-Elena. Unburnable. 1st ed. New York : Amistad,
c2006. Lillian Baptiste had left Dominica when she was 15
after discovering she was the daughter of a half-crazy woman
whose life was told of in 'chante mas' songs sung during
Carnival. Songs that told of a village on a mountaintop,
bones and bodies, flying masquerades, and a man who dropped
dead. Now, after 20 years, Lillian was back to face the
demons of her past, and with the help of Teddy, the man she
loved, she would hopefully find a way to heal.

F KALFUS
Kalfus, Ken. A disorder peculiar to the country : a novel. 1st
ed. New York : Ecco, c2006. Amidst the fear of terrorism,
anthrax, the stock market collapse, and war, Marshall and
Joyce Harriman are caught up in their own drama as they
conduct a scorched-earth divorce campaign against each
other. Marshall works in the World Trade Center. Joyce has
booked a doomed flight out of Newark. On 9/11, each thinks
the other is dead and is visited by an intense, secret,
satanically guilty satisfaction. Both manage to survive, but
will it change anything between them?.

F KAPLAN
Kaplan, Janice. The men I didn't marry : a novel. 1st ed. New
York : Ballantine Books, 2006. Hallie Lawrence Pierpont is
proof that love the second time around is never dull. When
her husband dumps her, she decides the path to love just
might be behind her and has a major pity party. Then she
decides to rejoin the dating world by looking up some old
loves. First up is Eric, the financial whiz she adored in
college. It's a journey into the past that will lead to her
future.

F KECK
Keck, David. In the eye of heaven. 1st ed. New York, NY : Tor,
2006. After Durand is displaced by the return of a knight's
son who was thought to be dead, he becomes involved with
some unsavory characters that draw him into murder and
subterfuge. Hoping to turn his life around, he enters
tournaments anonymously as 'The Red Knight,' where he
demonstrates his heroism and prowess. With conspiracies
afoot that bind the kingdom, it could fall to Durand to save
the world of Man.

F KERLEY
Kerley, Jack. A garden of vipers : a novel. New York : Dutton,
2006. Mobile, Alabama, homicide detectives Carson Ryder and
Harry Nautilus find themselves at odds with the powerful and
wealthy Kincannons when their investigation of a string of
murders leads back to the family of philanthropists.

F KESSLER
Kessler, Brad. Birds in fall : a novel. New York : Scribner,
c2006. When a plane crashes off the coast of a remote
island in Nova Scotia, a diverse group of characters are
thrown together as mourning family members gather at an inn
near the crash site awaiting news of their loved ones.

F KING
King, Kevin. All the stars came out that night : a novel. New
York : Dutton, c2005. A fictionalized account of the 1934
baseball game between an all-white, non-Jewish team and the
African-American all-stars.

F KING
King, Laurie R. The art of detection. New York : Bantam Books,
2006. San Francisco cop Kate Martinelli encounters her most
peculiar case yet while investigating a crime that seems to
be straight out of a Sherlock Holmes murder mystery.

F KITTLE
Kittle, Katrina. The kindness of strangers. 1st ed. New York :
William Morrow, c2005. Young widow and mother of two Sarah
Laden becomes the foster mother to Jordon, a neighborhood
boy after a tragedy leaves him an orphan.

F LACKEY
Lackey, Mercedes. When darkness falls. 1st ed. New York : Tor,
2006. As the Demon War reaches its climax, humans fear Wild
Magic, Elves, and all magical beings. But in order to
survive, save the High Magic, and the Golden City of the
Bells, they must join forces with those they've been taught
to hate. Meanwhile, Knight-Mage Kellen has learned how to
marry High and Wild Magic into an almost unstoppable magical
force. Together with an Elf Warrior, a dragon, a half-Demon,
half-human, and a High Mage in training, they will fight the
final battle against Darkness.

F LARSON
Larson, Leslie, 1956-. Slipstream : a novel. 1st ed. New York
: Shaye Areheart Books, c2006. The loss of his job as head
of an airplane cleaning crew at Los Angeles Airport sends
Rudy spiraling into a mental breakdown that has far-reaching
repercussions for his wife Inez, his coworker Wylie and his
ex-con brother Logan, and Logan's estranged daughter Jewell.

F LYNCH Favorite
Lynch, Jim, 1961-. The highest tide : a novel. 1st U.S. ed.
New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by
Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2005. When thirteen-year-old Miles
O'Malley discovers a rare deep-sea creature stranded in the
mud of the tidal flats of Puget Sound, he finds himself
thrown into the limelight, but when he continues discovering
rare ocean creatures, some begin to wonder if he is an
unlikely prophet.

F MACDONALD
MacDonald, Patricia J. Married to a stranger : a novel. New
York : Atria, 2006, c2005. Emily Webster, married a year,
and pregnant, is happy to be spending a weekend alone with
her husband in a cabin in New Jersey. When David leaves the
cabin for firewood, a man wearing a black ski mask enters
and attacks Emily with an ax. Near death, she's transported
to a hospital where she begins a recovery period and an
investigation into her husband's past that causes her to
fear for her life and the safety of their unborn baby.

F MANKELL
Mankell, Henning, 1948-. The return of the dancing master. New
York : Vintage Books, 2005. Stefan Lindman, a young
policeman just diagnosed with cancer of the tongue, travels
to Harjedalen, Sweden to investigate the murder of a former
colleague, who seems to have been hiding some shocking
secrets about his involvement in the Holocaust.

F MARTIN
Martin, Nancy, 1953-. Have your cake and kill him too : a
Blackbird Sisters mystery. New York, N.Y. : New American
Library, 2006. Nora Blackbird and her two sisters, Libby
and Emma, are back in a rollicking mystery about a sports
bar with hot wings and hotter waitresses, explosive
political secrets, former rock stars, a dangerous
fame-and-fortune hungry aristo-brat, and, of course, a case
of blue- blooded murder that only Nora can solve.

F MASIEL
Masiel, David. The western limit of the world : a novel. 1st
ed. New York : Random House, c2005. At age fifty-nine,
Harold Snow knows that death is creeping closer than ever,
and his new post as boatswain aboard a decrepit tanker
carrying a lethal cargo of chemicals tests his courage and
endurance as he embarks on a dangerous quest to steal a
black-market fortune.

F MCCALL SMITH
McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-. Espresso tales : the latest from
44 Scotland Street. New York : Anchor Books, 2006. Follow
the lives of Pat, Bruce, Domenica, Irena, and her son
Bertie. It's the first day of kindergarten, and Bertie finds
himself sporting pink overalls. Bruce lost his job as a
surveyor, and is contemplating becoming a wine merchant. Pat
is attending Edinburgh University, and is dating a new man
thanks to Domenica, her witty neighbor.

F MCFADYEN
McFadyen, Cody. Shadow man. New York : Bantam Books, 2006.
After FBI Special Agent Smoky Barrett's husband and daughter
are killed by a psychotic killer, she's emotionally and
physically scarred and suicidal. Then a new killer issued
Smoky a challenge to find him, in spite of the fact that he
had defied profilers' attempts to understand him. His latest
crime was enough to shock Smoky back to work. Little did she
know she was about to face her greatest fears as a cop, a
woman, a mother . . . and as a killer's next victim.

F MEBUS
Mebus, Scott. The big happy : a novel. 1st ed. New York :
Miramax Books, c2006. David has left behind his comfortable
career as a TV producer for a shot at the big happy. But
while he waits for his novel to sell, his life is falling
down around him. He’s almost thirty, he’s single, and his
apartment is the size of a Tic Tac. To pay the bills, he
takes on work as a downmarket DJ, doing weddings and bar
mitzvahs for chump change. At least he has his friends, or
does he? His best friend Annie is about to marry a man David
dubs "Rat Boy" and disappear forever. David’s trusty
bachelor buds Dustin and Cameron are doing the unthinkable
and settling down, while Zach, the model of cool, as aloof
and evasive as a wisp of smoke, is harboring a secret that
could capsize the whole crew. On top of everything, David
finds himself falling in love with Janey, an alluring
younger woman whose knack for witty repartee is matched only
by her instability.

F MINA
Mina, Denise. The dead hour : a novel. 1st ed. New York :
Little, Brown and Co., 2006. The domestic dispute in a
wealthy suburb seems like nothing unusual. The elegant
blonde bleeding in the shadows doesn't want help; and the
well-dressed, ingratiating man at the front door tells
investigative journalist Paddy Meehan everything's fine.
Then he asks her to make sure nothing appears in the paper,
slipping cash into her hand. The next morning Paddy sees on
TV: the blond woman had been tortured, beaten, and left to
die. The untraceable man was neither her boyfriend nor her
husband. Soon Paddy begins to make connections, and after a
suicide is pulled from the river, she finds links between
the two deaths. It's the story she's dreamed of, but she'll
lose all credibility if word gets out about the bribe, and
her boss at the newspaper is impatient with her hunches.
Only Paddy cares enough to pursue a brutal truth that could
make her career--or kill her.--From publisher description.

F MINOT
Minot, Eliza. The brambles. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2006.
"The Brambles" examines the contrasting lives of three
siblings. There's Margaret, the mother of three children
under the age of six; Margaret's sister, Edie, aimless,
single, and a city-dweller with no commitments to anything
except a daily yoga class; and their newly married brother,
Max, who is buckling under the unexpected difficulties of
marriage to a woman he's discovering he doesn't understand.
It captures family life from every angle, anchored by
marriage, or undone by it.

F MOSLEY
Mosley, Walter. The wave. 1st ed. New York : Warner Books,
2006. Errol Porter finds himself on the run from the U.S.
government when his dead father returns as a twenty-year-old
and brings him in on the secret of the "wave," a phenomenon
sparked by a meteor crash a billion years before, which has
"reanimated" dead people, who claim to be parts of a
primordial life-form.

F MUIR
Muir, Kate, 1964-. Left bank. 1st American ed. New York :
Viking, c2006. Oliver and Madison Malin are the epitome of
a self-involved power couple. Madison is a beautiful
American movie star turned Parisian 'It' girl who has buried
her Texan upbringing beneath an impeccable French accent.
Oliver is a philosopher, gourmand, and media personality
with his mistress de jour on speed dial. When their trophy
daughter, Sabine, goes missing, they must unite to find her.
Along the way they come to differing conclusions about their
lives, their marriage, their career, their lifestyle, and
most importantly, their daughter.

F MULLER
Muller, Marcia. Vanishing point. 1st ed. New York : Mysterious
Press, 2006. "Sharon McCone is hired to investigate the
22-year-old cold-case of a housewife and artist who vanished
inexplicably in the central part of California"--Provided by
publisher.

F NEEL
Neel, Janet. Ticket to ride. 1st U.S. ed. New York : St.
Martin's Minotaur, 2005. Lawyer Jules Carlisle learns more
about illegal immigration than she would like after taking
on the case of Mirko Dragunovic, who has overstayed his work
visa and wants to find a way to stay in England, but when
Mirko reveals that his brother may be one of the victims of
a recent mass murder, Jules is torn between protecting her
client and following correct procedure.

F NESSER
Nesser, Håkan, 1950-. Borkmann's point : an Inspector Van
Veeteren mystery. 1st American ed. New York : Pantheon
Books, c2006. Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is called in to
help the local police find a suspected serial killer who
seems to choose his victims at random, but the case becomes
more personal when a colleague is taken by the murderer,
leading Veteren and the police on a chase to find their
friend before it is too late.

F OAKDALE
Oakdale confidential. Pocket Books hardcover ed. New York :
Pocket Books, 2006. Wickham, producer of the long-running
TV soap 'As the World Turns' web site, brings readers a
mystery which ties in to the shows' 50th anniversary and
features the drama's most popular female characters as they
band together to solve the murder of philanthropist Gregory
Marron Jr. Katie, Maddie and Carly decide to give the police
a helping hand in solving the case. There is any number of
suspects, including the man's wife, his father, his
financial advisor, or his spoiled 21-year-old step-daughter.

F PATTERSON
Patterson, James, 1947-. Judge & jury. 1st ed. New York :
Little, Brown and Co., c2006. FBI agent Nick Pellisante,
closing in on the notorious mob boss 'The Electrician,' vows
the Electrician's next move will be to a jail cell. Andie
Echeverra, a part-time actress and a single, full-time mom,
becomes a juror for the trial of Mafia Don Dominic Cavello.
Though Cavello's influence extends across blue uniforms and
black robes, the case should be open-and-shut. But the legal
system fails and Nick and Andie are the ones left to seek
justice by taking matters into their own hands.

F PERRY
Perry, Tyler. Don't make a black woman take off her earrings :
Madea's uninhibited commentaries on love and life. New York
: Riverhead Books, 2006. Madea is a fictitous character
featured in Tyler Parry's movies and stage shows. This book
is full of her hilarious "advice" on such topics as romance,
love and marriage, kids, beauty, etiquette, health,
finances, the Bible and the church, and gun care.

F PRITCHETT
Pritchett, Laura, 1971-. Sky bridge. 1st ed. Minneapolis,
Minn. : Milkweed Editions, 2005. Libby, a
twenty-two-year-old supermarket clerk, keeps her sister Tess
from having an abortion by promising to raise the baby and
is somewhat surprised to find she must honor her word when
Tess skips town, leaving Libby to deal with single
motherhood, job loss, and a demand for custody by the
infant's father.

F QUINLAN
Quinlan, Patrick. Smoked. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's
Press, 2006. Smoke Dugan is on the run. The aging
bomb-maker was once a prized asset to the mafia. But when he
learns that one of his bombs was used to take down a plane
that killed innocent women and children, he was furious. He
took his revenge by killing a mafia boss and taking his 2.5
million dollars. Now he's hiding out, which only delays the
inevitable: a violent showdown.

F RAYNE
Rayne, Sarah. A dark dividing. London : Pocket Books, 2005.
When his editor asks him to investigate the background of
Simone Anderson, a new Bloomsbury artist, journalist Harry
Fitzglen is skeptical. But once he's met the enigmatic
Simone, Harry is intrigued. What did happen to Simone's twin
sister who disappeared without trace? And what is the
Anderson sisters' connection to another set of twin girls,
Viola and Sorrel Quinton, born in London a century before?
All Harry's lines of inquiry seem to lead to the small
Shropshire village of Weston Fferna and the imposing ruin of
Mortmain House, standing grim and forbidding on the Welsh
borders. As Harry delves into the terrible history of
Mortmain, he finds himself drawn into a series of
interlocking mysteries, each one more puzzling--and
sinister--than the last.

F REICHS
Reichs, Kathy. Break no bones. New York : Simon & Schuster,
2006. Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is
teaching at an archaeology field school in South Carolina
when she stumbles upon a fresh skeleton among the ancient
bones. Her investigation takes her to a free street clinic
where patients are going missing and winding up dead. The
list of suspects includes a charismatic evangelist, a shady
doctor, and several members of the underpaid staff. Now, she
must find a killer while juggling a current boyfriend in
Montreal and an old flame in Charleston.

F RENDELL
Rendell, Ruth, 1930-. End in tears : a Chief Inspector Wexford
mystery. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c2005.
There was no reason to believe, at first, that the deaths of
two people were linked. After all, a piece of concrete
falling off an overpass onto the first victim's car could
have been an accident. By contrast, the bludgeoning death of
Amber, a teenager returning home from an evening of
night-clubbing was obviously calculated. The link for
Inspector Wexford came when he discovered that Amber's car
had been right behind the car crushed by the falling piece
of concrete. Unfortunately, the killing would not stop
there!.

F SAUL
Saul, John. In the dark of the night : a novel. 1st ed. New
York : Ballantine Books, c2006. The Brewster family
envisions an idyllic summer when they set off from Chicago
to a rented house on Phantom Lake. Then their teenage son
and his friends discover a mysterious secret room, filled
with disassembled objects including lamps without shades and
bladeless hacksaws. This leads the boys to imaginings about
the house's former resident, curious losses of time from
their memories, and nightmares. When another boy goes
missing, the teens fear they themselves may have become
murderers.

F SITTENFELD
Sittenfeld, Curtis. The man of my dreams : a novel. 1st ed.
New York : Random House, c2006. Between the ages of
fourteen and twenty-eight, Hannah Gavener learns about love,
the lies one tells oneself, growing up, and taking risks as
she struggles through two relationships and an unrequited
love for her friend Henry for which she moves halfway across
the country.

F SMITH
Smith, Dominic. The mercury visions of Louis Daguerre : a novel.
1st Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, 2006. After a decade of using poisonous mercury vapors to cure his
delusions, Louis Daguerre is losing his mind, believing the
world will end within one year and creating a list of ten
items he must photograph before his final day.

F SPIEGELMAN
Spiegelman, Ian, 1974-. Welcome to yesterday : a novel. 1st ed.
New York : Miramax Books : Hyperion, c2006. Leon Koch, a
reporter for an unnamed New York City tabloid owned by some
unsavory figures from down under, has long lived a life of
ennui, not caring much about anything. His attitude begins
to change after he receives a disturbing anonymous call from
a woman blaming him for the suicide of a talent agent, the
subject of a recent gossip column. A homicide detective
takes an interest in the case, and soon Koch and his
colleagues find themselves at the center of a scandal. In
order to unravel the mystery, Koch plunges into the bleak
and untrustworthy world of celebrities, publicists and
others who follow in their wake. Publisher's Weekly.

F SPINDLER
Spindler, Erica, 1957-. Copycat. Richmond : Mira, 2006. Five
years ago three young victims were found dead, posed like
little angels. The case nearly destroyed Illinois homicide
detective Kitt Lundgren's career - and her life. Now, with a
new rash of killings, it would seem the Sleeping Angel
Killer was back. Or, is he? Kitt's not so sure because
there's something different about the latest victims. As the
new detective on the case begins to investigate, Kitt starts
getting disturbing phone calls from the real Sleeping Angel
Killer who offers his help in finding the copycat.

F STANSBERRY
Stansberry, Domenic. The big boom. 1st ed. New York : St.
Martin's Minotaur, 2006. Dante Mancuso, an ex-cop, is back
in San Francisco following his father's death, to work for a
private investigator on a missing person case. When the
missing girl's body washes up on a beach, it becomes a
homicide causing Dante to face not only new adversaries, but
the demons of his own past, as well. Sequel to "Chasing the
Dragon".

F STRINGER
Stringer, Vickie M. Dirty Red : a novel. 1st Atria Books
hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, c2006. When Red, 18,
tells Q she's pregnant when she isn't, he buys her a new
home, baby accessories, and offers love and affection. When
she gets pregnant for real by her ex-boyfriend, Bacon, who's
now in prison, circumstances get crazy. Soon, she's in more
trouble than she's ever known. Even so, she still manages to
become a successful author, purchase a new home, and obtain
a free car and $5,000! All her drama unravels when she's
overpowered by, of all things, love!.

F SWIFT
Swift, Virginia. Hello, stranger. 1st ed. New York :
HarperCollins, c2006. College professor Sally Alder helps a
troubled student after she has been brutally beaten, but
when the girl's father is found dead, Sally immediately
suspects her student may be the one responsible.

F THAYER
Thayer, Nancy, 1943-. The Hot Flash Club chills out. New York :
Ballantine Books, 2006. The lively ladies of the Hot Flash
Club assemble on Nantucket Island to house-sit a beach
house. What would be a relaxing summer for others is not the
case for this quintet. The women's personal lives are plenty
busy. By summer's end, the five have dealt with personal
issues and find themselves contemplating the sale of their
spa retreat for middle- aged women. The holiday will
conclude with a wedding, but whose?.

F THURLO
Thurlo, Aimée. Prey for a miracle. 1st ed. New York : St.
Martin's Minotaur, 2006. Sister Agatha is an extern nun in
the cloistered order at Our Lady of Hope Monastery near a
small New Mexican desert town. As such, Sister Agatha is the
link between her cloistered sisters and the outside world.
Usually this means running errands in the monastery's slowly
dying car (dubbed the Anti-Chrystler) or their motorcycle,
with Pax, the order's German Shepherd, in the side car. But
sometimes it means something a bit more -- like now when the
diocese is upset by reports of a young girl whose parents
claim is receiving visitations from the Virgin Mary and
providing insight into future events.

F TROUP
Troup, Gary. Bad twin. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2006.
Private detective Paul Artisan must come up with a plan to
learn the truth when his investigation into the
disappearance of Alexander Widmore, one of the heirs to the
vast Widmore fortune, along with his twin brother Clifford,
yields more questions than answers.

F TURTLEDOVE
Turtledove, Harry. The grapple. Del Rey/Ballantine Books,
c2006. Book three of Turtledove's series that re-imagines
World War II asks readers to imagine what would have
happened if the Confederacy had taken on Nazi Germany's role
during World War II as North battled South, brother killing
brother, with all the weapons available in the first half of
the 20th century. As the tide turns against the
Confederates, and Northern paratroopers swarm the Southern
capitol, its president finds his back against the wall,
which is not a good thing: especially with the atomic bomb
at his disposal.

F VINTON
Vinton, Victoria, 1954-. The jungle law : a novel. San
Francisco : MacAdam/Cage, c2005. Chronicles Rudyard
Kipling's early years in Bombay and England, discussing how
his troubled past formed the foundations of his art and
helped inspire the enduring character of Mowgli.

F WHITEHEAD
Whitehead, Colson, 1969-. Apex hides the hurt. 1st ed. New
York : Doubleday, c2006. The Winthrop town council hire a
consultant to help in the renaming of their town; however,
once there, the consultant must confront three members who
have very different ideas on what the name should be and
why.

F WILDGEN
Wildgen, Michelle. You're not you : a novel. 1st ed. New York
: Thomas Dunne Books, c2006. Bec, a Wisconsin college
student who is beginning to question her future, applies for
a summer job as caretaker for Kate Norris, a mid-thirties
woman paralyzed by ALS, and her friendship with Kate soon
comes to transcend everything else in her life.


NON-FICTION:

578 WEI
Weidensaul, Scott. Return to wild America : a yearlong search
for the continent's natural soul. 1st ed. New York : North
Point Press, 2005. The author retraces the legendary 1953
journey around North America of naturalists Roger Tory
Peterson and James Fisher, and describes how the continent's
natural landscape has changed over the past fifty years.

635.09747 ALE
Alexander, William, 1953-. The $64 tomato. Chapel Hill, NC :
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006. Bill Alexander
recounts the challenges he faced while trying to cultivate
his own vegetable garden and offers a cost-benefit analysis
of his efforts, determining that it cost him $64 to grow
each of his beloved tomatoes.

796.357 MNO
Mnookin, Seth. Feeding the monster : how money, smarts, and
nerve took a team to the top. New York : Simon & Schuster,
2006. A century of Boston baseball -- For sale -- A fresh
start: 2002 -- The best hitting team ever assembled: 2003 --
The World Champion Boston Red Sox: 2004 -- Feeding the
monster: 2005. When the Boston Red Sox won the World Series
on October 27, 2004, they made history. Their stunning
comeback against the New York Yankees and their four-game
annihilation of the St. Louis Cardinals capped one of the
most thrilling postseason runs ever. Seth Mnookin was given
access never before granted to a reporter in the history of
organized sports. He had a key to Fenway Park and a desk in
the team's front office. He spent weekends talking business
with John Henry and afternoons in the clubhouse with Manny
Ramirez and David Ortiz. He learned never-before-told
details of the team's Thanksgiving Day wooing of Curt
Schilling, the jealousy Nomar Garciaparra felt toward
better-paid teammates, and the anxiety that impelled Pedro
Martinez to insist that the Red Sox guarantee his future. He
was there when general manager Theo Epstein's frustration
over the organization's ceaseless drive for more media
coverage and new revenue streams collided with his
fracturing relationship with CEO Larry Lucchino. The
resulting narrative -- juicy, gripping, and overflowing with
thrilling detail -- reveals how a savvy sports organization
tries to stay on top while under the relentless scrutiny of
the country's most voracious sportswriters and baseball's
most demanding fans.

814 LET
Lethem, Jonathan. The disappointment artist and other essays.
New York : Vintage contemporaries, c2006. In a volume he describes as "a
series of covert and not-so-covert autobiographical pieces,"
Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural
obsession--from western films and comic books, to the music
of Pink Floyd and the New York City subway. Along the way,
he shows how each of these "voyages out from himself" has
led him to the source of his beginnings as a writer. "The
Disappointment Artist is a series of windows onto the
collisions of art, landscape, and personal history that
formed Lethem's richly imaginative, searingly honest
perspective on life. A touching, deeply perceptive portrait
of a writer in the making.

921 DARWIN
Quammen, David, 1948-. The reluctant Mr. Darwin : an intimate
portrait of Charles Darwin and the making of his theory of
evolution. 1st ed. New York : Norton, c2006. The human
drama and scientific basis of Darwin's twenty-one-year delay
from the time he hit upon the idea that "natural selection"
among competing individuals would lead to wondrous
adaptations and species diversity and the publication of "On
the Origin of Species." constitute a fascinating, tangled
tale that elucidates the character of a cautious naturalist
who initiated an intellectual revolution.

956.7044 GAL
Galbraith, Peter. The End of Iraq :--How American Incompetence
Created a War Without End. Simon & Schuster, c2006. 'The
End of Iraq' examines how U.S. intentions resulted in the
disintegration of Iraq, further unsettling of the Middle
East, and how little U.S. policy makers understood about
Iraq before they tried to remake it. Laying out the depth
and breadth of U.S. miscalculations, Galbraith, a former
employee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, shows
how the U.S.'s central problem now is how to extricate
itself and learn how it will have to contend with the
aftermath for decades to come.

MEDIA:

CD 232.9 TAB
Tabor, James D., 1946-. The Jesus dynasty : [the hidden history
of Jesus, his royal family, and the birth of Christianity].
Abridged. New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, p2006. Read
by the author. Using new evidence, Tabor argues that Jesus
understood himself as a descendant of the royal throne of
David, someone who could be both a kingly leader of the Jews
and a spiritual Messiah. Tabor says that Jesus attempted to
establish a dynasty, a leadership of which first passed to
his brother James and after James' death, to their younger
brother Simon, and later to other family members. Tabor's
research reveals a striking 'alternative' version of
Christianity that contrasts sharply with Paul's letters and
the Gospels.

CD 395.22 BRO
Browne, Jill Conner. The Sweet Potato Queens' wedding planner.
New York : Random House Audio, c2005. Read by the author.
This tongue-in-cheek audio helps listeners plan a truly
regal wedding, or if it doesn't work out, also instructs in
how to survive even the nastiest divorce while maintaining
queenly composure. It also offers tips on planning wedding
'and ' divorce showers; what to wear or what not to wear to
a wedding; sending out wedding 'and' divorce announcements,
and hilarious personal stories from the Queens and their
fans.

CD 614.5 TAY
Tayman, John. The colony : the harrowing true story of the
exiles. Library ed. [S.l] : Tantor Media, p2006. Read by
Patrick Lawlor. Reveals the untold history of the infamous
American leprosy colony on Molokai and the extraordinary
people who struggled to survive under the most horrific
circumstances. Tracked by bounty hunters and torn screaming
from their families, the luckles were loaded into shipboard
cattle stalls and abandoned in a lawless place where
brutality held sway. Many did not have leprosy, and most of
those whodid were not contagoius, yet all were caught in a
shared nightmaer. The colony hadl little food, little
medicine, and very little hope. Exile continued for more
than a century, the logest and deadliest instance of medical
segregation in American history. Nearly 9,000 people were
banished to the colony, trapped by pounding surf and armed
guards and the highest sea cliffs in the world. 28 live
there still.

CD 658.4092 LEN
Lencioni, Patrick, 1965-. Silos, politics, and turf wars : [a
leadership fable about destroying the barriers that turn
colleagues into competitors]. New York, NY : Audio
Renaissance, c2006. Read by Eric Conger. Barriers to
workplace effectiveness (Silos) devastate organizations,
kill productivity, push good people out the door, and
jeopardize the achievement of corporate goals. They cause
stress, exasperation, and disappointment by forcing
employees to fight bloody, unwinnable battles with people
who should be teammates. Lencioni shares the fictionalized
tale of three organizations, all struggling to eliminate
their silos and bridge a sense of alignment back in place.
The lessons learned can be applied to real-life companies
today.

CD 658.8 PAD
Padwa, Lynette. Say the magic words. Roseland, NJ : Listen &
Live Audio, p2005. Read by Matilda Novak. Anyone who's
tried booking a hotel room, talking with their child's
teacher, or buying a new car knows that encounters that used
to be simple now feel like micro-excursions to a foreign
country. Now a proven master of the popular reference book
gives readers a passport to those daily encounters. Each
chapter is a crash course in the culture of a specific
field, its buzz-words, its policies, and the attitudes of
its insiders. Here are the "magic words" that unlock
information and secure cooperation-and the "absolute
no-no's" that guarantee nothing but grief. The insights come
directly from the pros, and their advice is both
entertaining and unnervingly candid.

CD 811.54 OLI
Oliver, Mary, 1935-. At Blackwater Pond : Mary Oliver reads Mary
Oliver. [Boston] : Beacon Press, [2005]. Featuring the
poet reading her selection of forty poems. Mary Oliver has
published fifteen volumes of poetry and five books of prose
in the span of four decades, but she rarely performs her
poetry in live readings. Now, with the arrival of At
Blackwater Pond, Mary Oliver has given her audience what
they"ve longed to hear: the poet"s voice reading her own
work. In this beautifully produced compact disc, Mary Oliver
has recorded forty of her favorite poems, nearly spanning
the length of her career, from Dream Work through her newest
volume, New and Selected Poems, Volume Two. The package is
shrink-wrapped so that the elegant clothbound audiobook can
takes its place on the poetry shelf. It also includes a
fifteen-page booklet with an original essay, "Performance
Note," photos of the author at Blackwater Pond, and a full
listing of the poems and their sources.

CD 978.032 EGA
Egan, Timothy. The worst hard time : the untold story of those
who survived the great American dust bowl. Unabridged.
[Old Saybrook, CT] : Tantor Media, p2006. Read by Patrick
Lawlor. The story of the Dust Bowl is an unwritten chapter
in U.S. history. Ravaging the American High Plains for
nearly a decade, it dramatically changed lives and the
landscape of a nation. Tim Egan gives listeners a
character-driven narrative that captures the full drama of
the event and the voice of the times, its grit, pathos, and
abiding heroism.

CD FES
Fesperman, Dan, 1955-. The prisoner of Guantánamo. Library ed.
Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, p2006. Read by David
Colacci. Revere Falk, interrogator of prisoners at
Guatanamo, is put in charge of the investigation into the
death of an American soldier whose body washes ashore on
Cuban territory.

CD FRE
Frey, Stephen W. The protége. Auburn, CA : Audio Partners,
p2006. Read by Holter Graham. Christian Gillette, head of
the world's most powerful private equity firm, hates to be
manipulated. But when a shadowy government agent asks his
cooperation in exchange for information about the death of
Gillette's father, he consents. Meanwhile, two of the firms'
employees with ulterior motives are vying for his attention.
When an attempt is made on his life, he assumes it's his
past catching up with him. He soon discovers however, that
it's not the past but the present that he has to be
concerned about.

CD PAY
Payne, David (William David). Back to Wando Passo. Ashland, Or.
: Blackstone Audiobooks, 2006. Read by Dick Hill. "Back to
Wando Passo" grapples with the tangled subject of race in
America, and the plot lines are haunted by an occult twist.
When Ransom Hill, the contemporary protagonist, discovers a
Civil War-era "prenda", an iron pot used by Cuban slaves for
conjuring, he unearths something very strange indeed.

CD RAY
Ray, Jeanne. Julie and Romeo get lucky. Library ed. Grand
Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, p2005. Read by Jeanne Ray.
Busy with aging parents, grown kids, grandchildren, and
their two flower shops, all Julie Roseman and Romeo
Cacciamani want is to find ten minutes alone together. When
a back injury puts Romeo flat on his back in Julie's
bedroom, they get their wish. When her eldest daughter is
put on pregnancy bed rest and joins the household with her
husband, Julie must find a way to keep the peace, her
sanity, and two flower shops running amidst the pandemonium.
Sequel to 'Julie and Romeo'.

CD REI
Reichs, Kathy. Break no bones. New York, N.Y. : Simon &
Schuster Audio, 2006. Read by Dorothée Berryman. The
success of the Fox TV show Bones, based on bestseller
Reich's series featuring forensic anthropologist Temeperance
Brennan (Cross Bones, etc.), bodes well for this latest
installment, in Brennan once again stumbles on a modern-day
mystery inadvertently. While supervising a dig of Native
American burial grounds in Charleston, S.C., Brennan finds
more recent remains. Soon, her ex-husband who's a lawyer,
appears in town, pursing leads in a missing persons case
connected with a local church. Bodies start piling up at an
alarming rate, and Brennan begins to suspect that the deaths
are linked to each other and her ex-husband's inquiry.
Reichs's down to earth heroine is an apppealing creation who
deftly juggles personal problems with professional
challenges. Despite the somewhat obvious solution this novel
confirms the series' place in the front rank of the ever
expanding forensic thriller subgenre.

CD WIN
Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-. Birds of a feather. Unabridged ed.
Hampton, NH : BBC Audiobooks America, p2005. Read by Kim
Hicks. At first, Maisie Dobbs thinks that the Charlotte
Waite case involves nothing more than a strict father and a
runaway heiress. But that first impression dissolves
instantly when the lifeless bodies of three of Charlotte's
closest friends turn up; each of them poisoned, bayoneted,
then left in a crime scene decorated by a white feather. Who
committed these mocking murders? Is Charlotte Waite the
culprit or merely the next name on the hit list?

August 2006

FICTION:

F ACKROYD
Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-. The Lambs of London. 1st ed. in the U.S.A. New York : Nan A. Talese, 2006.
Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile. The great solace of her life is her brother Charles, an aspiring writer. It is no surprise when Mary falls for the bookseller’s son, antiquarian William Ireland, from whom Charles has purchased a book. But this is no ordinary book—it once belonged to William Shakespeare himself. And William Ireland with his green eyes and red hair is no ordinary young man.

F ARNOULT
Arnoult, Darnell, 1955-. Sufficient grace : a novel. New York : Free Press, c2006.
After hearing voices in her head telling her to get in her car and leave everything and everyone behind, Gracie Hollaman drives off leaving her home, her husband, her daughter, and her identity in the dust. Her journey will have profound effects on everyone concerned. Her quest leads her to the home of Mamma Toot and Mattie, two African- American women going through their own life changes. Eventually, Gracie’s new world and her old world collide.

F BAYARD MYSTERY
Bayard, Louis. The pale blue eye : a novel. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2006.
When a grisly murder takes place on the grounds of West Point, retired New York City detective Gus Landor is recruited to solve the case. Given permission to choose a cadet from among the ranks to be his spy, he selects Cadet Edgar Allan Poe. Together they narrow down the suspects while dealing with their own personal demons.

F CABOT ROMANCE
Cabot, Meg. Queen of babble. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2006.
Lizzie Nichols has a problem. Not only can’t she keep a secret, but now she’s stranded in London without money, without a place to stay, and an airline ticket she can’t use for another month! Fortunately, her best friend is spending the summer in France catering weddings at Chateau Mirac, which just happens to need a bartender. Although Lizzie’s never mixed drinks before and speaks no French, she takes the job. While most bartenders are discreet, Lizzie’s the exception, which gets her into big trouble!

F CHASE FANTASY
Chase, Clifford. Winkie. 1st ed. New York : Grove Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2006.
After decades of neglect from children who once loved him, Winkie, a mild-mannered teddy bear, decides to take charge of his fate. Hurling himself off the shelf, he jumps out the window and takes to the forest. Just as he’s discovering the joys and wonders of mobility, self- determination, and true love, he also finds himself trapped in the jaws of a society gone rabid with fear and paranoia when he is accused by the FBI of being responsible for several terrorist acts.

F CHILDRESS
Childress, Mark. One Mississippi : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2006.
Daniel Musgrove and his family moved to a small Mississippi town when he was in his junior year of high school. He and Tim, a fellow outsider, become fast friends. Together they negotiate the triumphs and tribulations of young manhood. When the first-ever black prom queen of Minot High School is hit by a car and emerges from a coma, believing she is white, Daniel and Tim find themselves caught up in a shocking chain of events leading to a shattering climax.

F CLAUDEL MYSTERY
Claudel, Philippe, 1962-. By a slow river. 1st American ed. New York : Knopf, 2006.
On a frigid morning in December 1917, the body of a 10-year-old girl is discovered, strangled, on the banks of the “slow” river that slices through a small, unnamed French village. The townsfolk are stunned by the murder, though they’re curiously oblivious to the seemingly endless slaughter taking place on the nearby Western front. Told by Dadais, a former policeman with a sharp memory and (it gradually becomes apparent) a shadowy history of his own, the story is a re-creation of his dogged pursuit of the killer. Was it the town’s haughty prosecutor, Pierre-Ange Destinat? Was it the Breton deserter who confesses under duress? Could it possibly have been Dadais himself? The answer, like everything else in the story, is far from tidy. Publisher’s Weekly.

F CLELAND MYSTERY
Cleland, Jane K. Consigned to death. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2006.
Josie Prescott needed a change of scenery and a new start after having found herself involved in a high profile price-fixing scandal at the New York auction house where she worked. The New Hampshire coast was her choice of venue. It appeared she made the right choice until she got mixed up in murder and is pegged by the local police chief as a suspect. Refusing to move again, she set out to find a killer and along the way, also found a little romance.

F CONANT-PARK ROMANCE
Conant-Park, Jessica. Steamed. 1st ed. New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2006.
Chloe Carter is a boy-crazy 20-something gourmand who lives in Brighton, Mass. She thinks she might have found both romantic and gastronomic satisfaction in Eric Rafferty, a foodie she meets online. But their first date is a bust: Eric is a dolt, and he winds up getting stabbed before dessert. Chloe later falls for gorgeous Josh Driscoll, a chef acquaintance of Eric’s. But Josh has a temper-and it turns out he owned the knife that killed Eric. Chloe must help clear Josh’s name if their romance is to stand a chance. Publisher’s Weekly.

F COONTS
Coonts, Stephen, 1946-. The traitor. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2006.
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 hassecret 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 DAVIS MYSTERY
Davis, Lindsey. See Delphi and die. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2005.
While things are looking up for Marcus Didius Falco in 76 A.D., it doesn’t mean things are quiet for him, his wife Helena, or their two young daughters. An informer by trade, he’s been hired to pry his errant brother-in-law away from a murder investigation. Traveling to Olympia in Greece under the guise of being tourists, he must investigate the suspicious goings on with a fly-by-night travel agency. Two women have already gone missing from the packaged tour, when two more, including Falco’s brother-in-law, also disappear.

F DAVISGARDNER
Davis-Gardner, Angela. Plum wine : a novel. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, Terrace Books, c2006.
American teacher Barbara Jefferson sets out on a life-changing quest when her Japanese surrogate mother, Michi, dies, leaving Barbara a sheaf of rice paper containing a personal narrative revealing the tragedies of Michi’s life.

F DICKEY
Dickey, Eric Jerome. Chasing destiny. New York : Dutton, c2006.Tough, talented Billie’s life is thrown into a tailspin when she learns she is pregnant and that her lover is a married man who wants Billie to terminate the pregnancy, forcing Billie to flee in order to protect her unborn child and herself.

F DUNCAN FANTASY
Duncan, Dave, 1933-. Children of chaos. 1st ed. New York : Tor, c2006.
Fifteen years after the doge of the walled city of Celebre handed over his four children as hostages to the invading Vigaelians besieging Celebre, the siblings have grown up separately as captives in the land of Vigaelia. One boy, Benard, has become a stonemason of amazing, god-given talent in the city of Kosord. Another boy, Orlando, has become an initiate in the cult of Weru, the god of storm and battle. Frena, who was a babe in arms 15 years earlier, has no memory of the family she was wrenched from, and the revelation of her past history completely changes her life. As for the fourth child, Dantio, he supposedly died early on.

F DUNCAN MYSTERY
Duncan, Alice, 1945-. Lost among the angels. 1st ed. Waterville, Me. : Five Star, 2006.
It is 1926 Los Angeles, where men wear hats and hold doors for ladies, and women
worry about the length of their hair and hemlines. Enter 21-year-old Mercedes “Mercy Louise Allcutt, the daughter of an old-money Boston family living with her sister who is married to a new-money motion picture mogul. Wanting to get experience so she can write books, Mercy gets a job as secretary to a private detective. Although she is way out of her depth, the engaging and lively Mercy plows right along in a number of sticky situations, finding the missing mother of a street urchin, a kidnapped dog, and a serial killer of beautiful young women. Library Journal.

F EISLER
Eisler, Barry. The last assassin. G.P. Putnam, c2006.
John Rain, a Japanese-American contract killer who has been trying to get out of the business, finds he must put his best talents to work once again when he learns his former lover Midori is raising their child in New York and reaches out to her only to have his watching enemies resurface.

F ELKINS MYSTERY
Elkins, Aaron J. Unnatural selection. 1st ed. New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2006.
Forensic sleuth Gideon Oliver accompanies his second wife, Julie, to an unusual gathering of conservation experts in the Scilly Isles. Frustrated by his passive role and forced to bite his tongue when opinions are voiced that strike him as lacking intellectual rigor, Oliver leaps at a chance to examine some human remains stored at the local museum. His casual look becomes something more when he determines that one humerus bone is a recent relic, leading to his rousing the sleepy local constabulary to a murder probe. When the victim turns out to have belonged to the conservation group, the circle of suspects centers on the surviving members.

F EVANOVICH MYSTERY
Evanovich, Janet. Twelve sharp : [a Stephanie Plum novel]. New York : St Martins Press, c2006. Trenton, New Jersey’s premier troublemaker, bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum, is once again struggling with her tangled love life, her chaotic family, and her gift for destroying every car she drives. Not to mention her attempts to bring in the sometimes scary bail jumpers and the sudden appearance of a mysterious female stalker who turns out to have a close connection to fellow-bounty hunter, Ranger.

F FERRIS MYSTERY
Ferris, Monica. Sins and needles : a needlecraft mystery. New York: Berkley Prime Crime, c2006.
Lucille Jones and Jan Henderson meet when Lucille comes to town researching her roots. An immediate friendship is made. When Jan’s wealthy great-aunt is found dead, and Jan is the prime suspect, Lucille begs Jan’s friend, Betsy, to help clear Jan’s name. Could Jan’s Aunt’s death have anything to do with an embroidered pillow that Jan found in her Aunt’s belongings with a map of Lake Minnetonka stitched in the lining? It’s a secret that someone would kill to conceal.

F FFORDE
Fforde, Katie. Restoring Grace. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2006.
Grace Soudley’s only security is the beautiful old house her godmother left her. Now all she has to do is find a fortune to upkeep the place. The solution comes in the form of Ellie Summers who is pregnant and needs a place to stay. Together the two women work at fixing up the house. When an unexpected man turns up and they discover some potentially valuable paintings, they begin to restore not only the house, but their lives as well.

F FLAGG
Flagg, Fannie. Can’t wait to get to heaven : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2006.
When 80-year-old Mrs. Shimfessle falls out of a fig tree in her front yard one morning, what follows is a series of extraordinary events that gives a comic turn to the age old question: What happens to us after we die? It’s a hilarious novel about a woman’s peculiar experience in the afterlife.

F FOSSUM MYSTERY
Fossum, Karin, 1954-. When the devil holds the candle. 1st U.S. ed. Orlando : Harcourt, Inc., c2006.
A stolen purse; an infant’s death; two teenagers in trouble; a switchblade and an old woman. It’s up to Inspector Konrad Sejer and his partner Jacob Skarre to discern the connection between all these elements and the disappearance of a local delinquent. As the unflappable Sejer digs below the surface of small-town tranquility in an effort to understand how and why violence destroys everyday lives, the question remains: will he figure it out before teens Zipp and Andreas take another life?

F FUENTES
Fuentes, Carlos. The eagle’s throne : a novel. 1st. U.S. ed. New York : Random House, c2006.
A disagreement with the U.S. has led to the severance of satellite power to Mexico during the 2020s; and as the government resorts to old-fashioned methods of communication, political adversaries come out to prey.

F FURST
Furst, Alan. The foreign correspondent : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Random House, 2006. In Paris, 1938, an apparent murder/suicide is fodder for the tabloids. Especially when the deceased, found in a lover’s hotel, turns out to be an Italian political émigré and the wife of a prominent French politician. Upon further investigation, it’s later determined that it was in fact an assassination involving Mussolini’s secret police. It also opens up the secret spy life and secret love life of Carlo Weisz, editor of an underground newspaper, set against the background of an inevitable European war.

F GARCIA MYSTERY
Garcia, Eric. Anonymous Rex : Casual Rex. Ace trade pbk. one-vol. ed. New York : Ace, 2004.
“Anonymous Rex—Casual Rex” presents Eric Garcia’s first two novels featuring Vincent Rubio, a Los Angeles private investigator who also happens to be one of many dinosaurs who roam the Earth disguised in latex costumes that allow them to blend into human society.

F GAUS MYSTERY
Gaus, Paul L. A prayer for the night : an Ohio Amish mystery. Athens : Ohio University Press, c2006.
Amid a whirlwind of drugs, sex, and other temptations of the “English” world, a group of Amish teenagers on their Rumschpringe test the limits of their parents’ religion to the breaking point. The murder of one and the abduction of another challenge Professor Michael Branden as he confronts the communal fear that the young people can never be brought home safely. Along with Holmes County Sheriff Bruce Robertson and Pastor Cal Troyer, Professor Branden works against the clock to find a murderer and a kidnapper, and to break a drug ring operating in the county, determined, wherever the trail may lead him, to restore the shattered community.

F GRANDE
Grande, Reyna. Across a hundred mountains : a novel. 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, 2006.
Juana Garcia had left her small town in Mexico to find her father who had disappeared 19 years earlier. Now, out of money and in need of someone to help her cross the border, Juana meets Adelina Vasquez, who had left her family in California three years before to follow forbidden love in Mexico. Grande puts a human face on the story of those who make it across the border, those who don’t, and those who are left behind.

F GREEN
Green, Jane, 1968-. Swapping lives. 1st American ed. New York : Viking, 2006.
No matter what we have, the grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. That’s the case for Vicky Townsley and Amber Winslow. Vicky has a fantastic job, lives in an exciting city, and is financially secure. But, she’d give it up in a heartbeat for marriage, children, and a house in the country. Amber has that but isn’t happy either. When Amber enters a Life Swap contest, wins, and the two swap lives, will they finally find happiness?

F GRENVILLE
Grenville, Kate, 1950-. The secret river. 1st American ed. Edinburgh ; New York : Canongate, 2005.
The Orange Prize-winning author Kate Grenville recalls her family’s history in an astounding novel about the pioneers of New South Wales. Already a best seller in Australia, “The Secret River” is the story of Grenville’s ancestors, who wrested a new life from the alien terrain of Australia and its native people. London, 1806. William Thornhill, a Thames bargeman, is deported to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia. In this new world of convicts and charlatans, Thornhill tries to pull his family into a position of power and comfort. When he rounds a bend in the Hawkesbury River and sees a gentle slope of land, he becomes determined to make the place his own. But, as uninhabited as the island appears, Australia is full of native people, and they do not take kindly to Thornhill’s theft of their home.

F GRIFFIN
Griffin, W. E. B. The saboteurs. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2006.
Griffin and his son team up to bring readers another tale featuring Wild Bill Donovan’s agents who are preparing to invade Sicily and then Italy. U-boats have put German commando-trained saboteurs on American shores and ships are burning at their moorings in U.S. ports. Wild Bill’s spies in the Office of Strategic Services, answerable only to the President, find themselves battling on two fronts and with some very unlikely allies.

F HARPER MYSTERY
Harper, Karen (Karen S.). The fatal fashione : an Elizabeth I mystery. 1st ed. New York : Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s Press, 2006.
In the eighth year of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, a royal starcher is drowned, setting off a series of events that threatens the Queen, her court, and all of England.

F HENRY
Henry, Diane, 1945-. Blood red, snow white : a novel. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, c1992.
In the midst of defending a messy skimming operation with millions going to foreign banks, lawyer Alec Anton is contacted by his beautiful neighbor to find her missing son. His investigations turn up a billion-dollar cocaine operation, money laundering, and corruption everywhere. His fatal attraction for Lee, the mother, interferes with his work; and he is set up for a sexual harrassment charge by an office assistant. As he goes from New York to California to Montreal, he unearths an incredibly complex international scam.

F HILDEBRAND
Hilderbrand, Elin. The love season. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2006.
Renata is visiting her fiance’s family in Nantucket for the summer when she ignores her father’s wishes and goes to see Marguerite, the godmother she’s been forbidden to see her entire life. She’s hoping to get some questions answered regarding her mother’s untimely death. She soon discovers that Marguerite’s life is not so simple and preparing dinner for her goddaughter proves much more complicated than either of them imagined.

F HOLLERAN
Holleran, Andrew. Grief. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2006.
A haunting, exquisite novel about the nature of loss, grief and the illusion of intimacy. The unnamed protagonist, having taken care of his failing mother for some 12 years, is devastated by her death. When a friend offers a one-semester teaching gig in Washington, D.C., and a lead on a room rental, the professor jumps at the deal. So begins Holleran’s spare story: “The house that I lived in that winter in Washington had been a rooming house with fourteen rooms, rented out mostly to addicts, when my landlord bought it in 1974.” On the nightstand is a collection of Mary Todd Lincoln’s letters; the widow’s words become a reference for everything the professor notices as he wanders the nation’s capital. Kirkus Reviews.

F HOLT MYSTERY
Holt, Anne, 1958-. What is mine. Warner Books, c2006. Anne Holt, the most popular crime writer in Norway, makes her American debut with What Is Mine. As child after child disappears in Norway, police commissioner Stubo asks former FBI profiler Johanna Vik for help. Already immersed in an investigation, she’s reluctant until a gruesome turn in Stubo’s case changes her mind. The bodies of the young victims start turning up in their families’ homes with notes attached that read: ‘You got what you deserved.’ Now, Stubo and Vik must solve the case before more innocent children die. First of a three book series.

F HOROWITZ ROMANCE
Horowitz, Laurie, 1960-. The family fortune. 1st ed. New York: William Morrow, c2006.
Times are tough for the once very wealthy old Boston Fortune family. Forced to rent out their Beacon Hill townhouse, they leave the task of looking after the property to middle daughter, Jane, a self-professed old maid, who heads the Fortune Family Foundation. The winds of change are blowing however, and they’re about to blow across the sedate Jane, moving her right into the path of the first love she’s never been able to forget.

F HOWARD
Howard, Linda, 1950-. Cover of night. New York : Ballantine, 2006.
Cate Nightingale, a young widow and mother, owns and operates a bed- and-breakfast in Idaho. She occasionally enlists the aid of a mysterious, strong handyman named Calvin Harris. After a trio of thugs invade the inn, demanding the possessions of a previous guest who vanished days before, Cal manages to chase them off. The thugs then shut down phone service for the entire village, holding its citizens hostage. Desperate to survive, Cate and Cal strike out to seek help from a neighboring town.

F HUGHES MYSTERY
Hughes, Declan, 1963-. The wrong kind of blood. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2006.
Private detective Ed Loy returns to his native Dublin for his mother’s funeral, but his grieving takes an unexpected turn when an old classmate pleads with him to find her missing husband, taking Ed on a journey into the deadly Irish underworld of drugs, extortion, and murder.

F JACKSON MYSTERY
Jackson, Lisa. Shiver. New York : Kensington Books, c2006.
Detective Reuben “Diego” Montoya must team up with the prime suspect in a murder case to catch a serial killer who is keeping New Orleans in the grip of fear, an investigation that leads them to an abandoned asylum where unspeakable evil awaits them.

F JUDSON MYSTERY
Judson, D. Daniel. The darkest place. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2006.
Record cold weather has come to the Long Island resort community of Shinnecock Bay. So has a series of enigmatic drowning deaths. Deacon Kane, a local college professor, recovering from the accidental drowning of his only son years ago, with the help of alcohol and an affair with a married woman, is the prime suspect. As police watch his every move, it becomes clear that Kane himself may not know the extent of his involvement. Something dark and sinister is definitely at work in Southhampton.

F KELLY
Kelly, Lauren, 1938-. Blood mask : a novel of suspense. 1st ed. New York : Ecco, c2006.
A wealthy, charismatic, and controversial ‘benefactress of art’ named Drewe Hildebrand
has seemingly been abducted from her estate on the Hudson River. Her niece, Marta, found in a wooded area nearby, is too traumatized to describe the abductors. Then an exhibit of avant-garde ‘bio-art’ including a blood mask of Drewe is disrupted by protestors. The world of ‘bio-artists’ and their admirers is explored in this new novel from Kelly.

F LASHNER MYSTERY
Lashner, William. Marked man. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2006.
When Victor Carl wakes up with his suit in tatters, his socks missing, and a tattoo on his chest with the name Chantal Adair inscribed, he doesn’t know how it got there, or who Chantal is, but he intends to find out. So begins a hunt that takes him to a strip club and the tale of a missing girl; delicate negotiations with an ex-con who has a stolen Rembrandt painting, and someone who doesn’t like the questions Victor has been asking.

F LAWRENCE MYSTERY
Lawrence, David, 1942 Dec. 9-. Cold kill. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2005.
This third entry in the highly praised Detective Stella Mooney series finds the memorable Stella at a crime scene in a wintry London park where the brutalized corpse of a young woman has just been discovered. When a man walks into a Notting Hill police station and confesses to the murder, it’s an open-and-shut case—just what the police want this close to Christmas. But Stella has her doubts. And if their suspect didn’t commit the murder, who did?

F LEVINE MYSTERY
Levine, Laura, 1943-. The PMS murder : a Jaine Austen mystery. New York : Kensington Books, c2006.
On the front lines of the battle of the bulge, otherwise known as trying on bathing suits in the communal dressing room at Loehmann’s, Jaine makes a new friend—a wannabe actress named Pam. Their feeling of connection is mutual, so Pam invites Jaine to Join the PMS club—a women’s support group that meets once a week over guacamole and margaritas to commiserate about love and life. But joining the club proves to be a curse more than a blessing for Jaine. Though she is warned that Rochelle, the hostess, makes a guacamole to die for, Jaine never takes the warning literally. Until another PMS member—Marybeth—drops dead over a mouthful of the green stuff...

F LINDSTROM
Lindstrom, Kara. Sparkle life. New York, NY : Other Press, 2006.
The three 30-something stars of this ambitious debut are not friends but New York film world acquaintances at one degree of separation. Joy and Sara see the same psychiatrist, who turns out to be Liv’s uncle. Liv is dating Sara’s brother who cheats on her with Joy. And not far into the book, all three seal their romantic fates at the same movie premier party. The coincidences that bring them together drive their lives-yielding epiphanies, movie deals and weddings-but never bring them closer emotionally.

F LIPPMAN MYSTERY
Lippman, Laura, 1959-. No good deeds. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2006.
Tess Monaghan, a consultant to the local newspaper, inadvertently gets caught up in the unsolved murder of a young federal prosecutor when her boyfriend brings home a young street kid who doesn’t even realize he holds an important key to the man’s death. Protecting the boy’s identity becomes even more crucial after one of the boy’s friends is killed in what appears to be a case of mistaken identity. Federal agents are just as determined to learn the boy’s identity at any cost.

F LOWELL MYSTERY
Lowell, Elizabeth, 1944-. The wrong hostage. 1st ed. New York : W. Morrow, c2006.
Joe Faroe was a kidnap specialist until a friend died trying to kill him. But he agrees to help federal judge Cate Silva when her son falls into the wrong hands. Library Journal.

F LYNN MYSTERY Staff Favorite
Lynn, Jackie. Down by the riverside. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2006.
Abandoned by her husband for a younger woman, Rose Frankin buys a camper and sets off for a campsite in North Carolina called Shady Grove. While she’s there, a respected and well-liked man in the community seems to commit suicide for no apparent reason. Could his death be somehow connected to the ancient slave burial ground that he was researching? Rose decides to find out and unravels the mystery of why a man lost his faith and the consequences of his loss.

F MALKANI
Malkani, Gautam, 1976-. Londonstani. 1st American ed. New York: Penguin Press, 2006.
Jas has no intention of assimilating to mainstream British society. He prefers to be a proper ‘desi rudeboy,’ a term given to second and third generation Indian and Pakistani youth, or Indostanis who continue to assert their ethnicity while borrowing from American gangsta rap. Aligning himself with other rudeboys, his relationship with Samira, a Muslim girl, causes friction and results in dire consequences for Jas.

F MANKELL
Mankell, Henning, 1948-. Chronicler of the winds. New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2006. A departure for Swedish crime novelist Mankell, this work takes place in an African country after the overthrow of its longtime dictator by revolutionaries. In the ensuing confusion, bandits terrorize the countryside and conscript young boys into their ranks, among them the child Nelio. Nelio escapes and journeys to a big city, where he joins up with a group of street children. When Nelio is shot, he is cared for by a baker named Jos and tells Jos his story, ending with the gunshot that leads to his death. Nelio’s tragic tale changes Jos ‘s life, and he decides to spend his own life telling Nelio’s story, thus becoming known as the “Chronicler of the Winds.” Library Journal.

F MANRIQUE
Manrique, Jaime, 1949-. Our lives are the rivers : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Rayo, c2006.
Manrique offers a fictionalized account of the love affair between Manuela Saenz and South American liberator Simon Bolivar.

F MARGOLIN MYSTERY
Margolin, Phillip. Proof positive. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2006.
Both defense attorney Amanda Jaffe, and her father, Frank, are defending killers in two separate cases. Both clients claim to be innocent, despite forensic evidence that shows differently. But, what if the fingerprints, ballistics tests, and other evidence analyzed by the crime lab are not what they seem? When Amanda starts checking the possibility that a CSI technician misused his position to frame two innocent men, people start to die and she discovers that a madman with the power to alter the truth is on the loose.

F MARKLUND MYSTERY
Marklund, Liza, 1962-. Paradise. London : Simon & Schuster, 2004.
A hurricane sweeps across Sweden leaving chaos in its wake. Two men lie dead in Stockholm, shot in the head at point-blank range. A young woman runs for her life. She finds refuge in Paradise, a foundation dedicated to those whose lives are in danger. Newspaper sub-editor Annika Bengtzon is trying to piece her life back together following the violent death of her fiancé, and covering the story of Paradise is just the break she needs. But as she’s about to find out, neither the young woman nor Paradise are quite what they appear to be.

F MCCAFFREY SCIENCE FICTION
McCaffrey, Anne. Dragon’s fire. 1st ed. New York : Del Rey Books, c2006.
Mother and son writing team Anne and Todd McCaffrey collaborate on a second Pern adventure and continue to shed new light on the world of the dragonriders. Mining the firestone that allows the dragons of Pern to breathe fire is a job normally left to the Shunned, people who have committed crimes against the community. But, when an explosion kills the miners, young Cristov volunteers to take over. If he doesn’t survive, the dragons’ flame will be forever extinguished, leaving Pern defenseless.

F MCGOVERN MYSTERY
McGovern, Cammie. Eye contact : a novel. New York : Viking, 2006.
A young girl has been murdered and the only witness is an autistic child who cannot tell what he saw.

F MONARDO
Monardo, Anna. Falling in love with Natassia : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, 2006.
Natassia was conceived on a dare by Mary, an ambitious dancer, and Ross, her infatuated, drug-abusing lover, while they are studying abroad during college. Raised in seeming security in Manhattan by her paternal grandparents and doted on by her godparents, she appears well adjusted. But a secret affair with an older man turns sour, and the 11th grader implodes, as do the many adults in her life as they attempt to make up for years of self-interest. Then a shocking incident in Natassia’s past is revealed, threatening marriages and friendships. Library Journal.

F MOORE
Moore, Christopher, 1957-. A dirty job. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2006.
Charlie Asher a neurotic and anxious hypochondriac who hates change, confronts the challenges of being a widower and a single parent when his wife dies of a freak medical condition on the day his new daughter, Sophie, is born.

F NAYLOR
Naylor, Clare, 1971-. The first assistant : a continuing tale from behind the Hollywood curtain. New York : Viking, 2006.
It’s been awhile since Lizzie Miller came to The Agency and the world of high-powered Hollywood deal-making. She paid her dues by working at the bottom of the ladder however. Now Scott Wagner’s first assistant, she knows company protocol, but is also unfazed by the sparkling mirage that is Los Angeles. Can she continue to be unfazed as her boyfriend waves Harry Winston diamonds and a black AmEx in front of her eyes?

F OTHMER
Othmer, James P. The futurist : a novel. New York : Doubleday, 2006. Yates is a Futurist who dispenses premonitory wisdom to world governments, corporations, and at global leadership conferences. Thus, he’s an optimist by trade and a cynic by choice. While on his way to the Futureworld Conference in Johannesburg, he opens a note from his girlfriend that tells him she’s left him and witnesses a soccer riot in which five South Africans are killed, after which he writes and delivers a career-ending speech at Futureworld. Could his life get any worse?

F PARKER MYSTERY
Parker, Robert B., 1932-. Blue screen. New York : G. Putnam’s Sons, c2006.
Private Investigator Sunny Randall is hired by a sleazy movie producer to serve as a bodyguard for his prize client, the beautiful Xena-like actress, Erin Flint. Though everyone in the entertainment business has a past, Erin’s troublesome back story has really deadly implications.

F PARKHURST
Parkhurst, Carolyn, 1971-. Lost and found. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2006.
Seven oddly matched pairs are thrown together to compete in a high- stakes, televised contest on a new reality show called ‘Lost and Found,’ a global scavenger hunt. Each contestant has their own reasons for wanting to participate . . . and their own secrets. As the game escalates, tension mounts, temptations beckon, and the bonds between teammates begin to fray. The question is not only who will capture the final prize, but at what cost?

F PARKS
Parks, Tim. Rapids : a novel. 1st North American ed. New York: Arcade Pub., 2006.
On the surface, this latest novel from Parks tells the story of a group of kayaking enthusiasts learning how to hold their own in the white water of the Italian Alps. In fact, this novel is about the inner struggles of three of these characters: Clive, the rugged instructor who yearns to change the world; Michela, his loyal girlfriend, whose deepest wish is to leave Italy; and Vince, a high-powered British banker who is literally and figuratively drowning in the aftermath of his wife’s death.

F PENNY MYSTERY
Penny, Louise. Still life. 1st St. Martin’s Minotaur ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2006.
The discovery of the body of Jane Neal, a resident of a small rural village south of Montreal, has brought Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team of investigators to the scene. While the locals are certain it was a hunting accident, Gamache suspects something more sinister than a careless hunter caused her death.

F PINEIRO
Pineiro, R. J. Havoc. New York : Forge, c2005.
CIA officer Tom Grant is pulled out of early retirement to investigate a high-tech robbery at a government-run agency for the development of nanoweapons and is thrown into the middle of a conspiracy that could threaten the future of all mankind.

F POMEROY MYSTERY
Pomeroy, Julia. The dark end of town. 1st Carroll & Graf ed. New York : Carroll & Graf, 2006.
Abbey, the thirty-year-old widow and protagonist, returns from her brief career as an New York City model to the upstate New York resort town where she grew up in order to recover from her husband’s suicide. While working in a friend’s trendy new restaurant, she gets pulled into the dark side of small-town Bantam in ways she never imagined. Two dead bodies turn up: One, the mother of a local troubled teen, the other of the town bad girl.

F PRESTON
Preston, Douglas J. The book of the dead. 1st ed. New York : Warner Books, 2006.
The New York Museum of Natural History receives their stolen gem collection back . . . ground to dust. Diogenes, the killer who stole it, has thrown down the gauntlet to both the city and to his brother, FBI Agent Pendergast. To quiet the P.R. nightmare, the museum decides to reopen the Tomb of Senef: a popular exhibit until the 1930s. When they do, the killings and whispers of an ancient curse begin again. By the time the opening’s over, only one brother will emerge alive.

F PRONZINI MYSTERY
Pronzini, Bill. The crimes of Jordan Wise : a novel. New York : Walker & Co. : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2006.
Jordan Wise was your ordinary run-of-the-mill accountant until he met Annalise Bonner, who lived for adventure and the good life. Intoxicated by her, Jordan resolved to get it for both of them by doing a little creative bookkeeping with his engineering firm’s books. After embezzling a half-million dollars, he arranged escape for himself and Annalise outside the reach of the law. Yes, he had everything under control . . . or so he thought!

F RAMSAY MYSTERY
Ramsay, Frederick. Impulse. Scottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, c2006.
Frank Smith was bound for Phoenix to attend his 50th class reunion. He arrived at Scott Academy where he got caught up in a mystery now 25 years old. A group of young boys had walked from the campus into the woods and just disappeared. Bringing back memories of his own wife’s mysterious disappearance four years earlier, he decided to probe the mystery as he relived his own boyhood and that of some of the classmates of the missing boys, on campus for their 25th reunion.

F RICE
Rice, Luanne. Sandcastles. New York : Bantam Books, 2006.
Honor Dillon teaches art at the Star of the Sea Academy, thereby making a life for herself and her three daughters. Now she’s also planning the wedding of her oldest daughter, Regis, who naturally, wanted her father, a sculptor, to be a part of her special day. Although he’d broken Honor’s heart, he would come out of a self-imposed exile to return to the family he’d left and set in motion a chain of events that would shake the Star of the Sea Academy to its foundation.

F ROBINSON MYSTERY
Robinson, Peter, 1950-. Piece of my heart. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, 2006.
Detective Inspector Alan Banks’ latest case involving the murder of a freelance music journalist takes him back more than 30 years, and into the unsolved murder of a young woman found wrapped in a sleeping bag after an outdoor rock concert in 1969 where the up-and-coming psychedelic band, The Mad Hatters was playing. The journalist had been working on a feature story about the now aging rock superstar band. What was the connection, and what hornets’ nest had the journalist inadvertently stirred up?

F ROSENBLATT
Rosenblatt, Roger. Lapham rising : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ecco, c2006.
Harry March, an eccentric writer living as a recluse on his own island with his talking dog Hector, comes up with a scheme to take on his irritating new neighbor, a multimillionaire named Lapham, who is building an enormous new house next door.

F SANDFORD
Sandford, John, 1944 Feb. 23-. Dead watch. New York : G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2006.
The wife of a former U.S. Senator is on the run. Her husband has been missing for days. She doesn’t know if he’s been kidnapped or murdered, but fears for her own safety. In Washington, D.C., chief investigator and Army Intelligence veteran Jacob Winter has been summoned by the White House chief of staff. The disappearances are bad, but when a blackened body shows up barbed-wired to a tree, Winter suspects there’s much worse to come. He doesn’t know how right he is!

F SEE
See, Carolyn. There will never be another you : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Random House, 2006.
Set in the UCLA Medical Center of the near future, There Will Never Be Another You
follows three generations of Californians as they struggle to live in a post-9/11 world amid the threat of bioterrorism. As the Los Angeles area weathers one medical crisis after another, the four protagonists of this very real novel-a heartbroken widow, a poetry-loving gangbanger, an innocent coed, and a dermatologist recruited to a highly classified emergency response team-strive to define themselves within and outside the most significant relationships of their lives. The instability of the country pushes each of them to focus on what is important, providing the courage needed to make the decisions that will change their lives. Library Journal.

F SHAARA MYSTERY
Shaara, Lila. Every secret thing : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2006.
Once a top model, Gina Paletta now enjoys the quieter life as mother to two sons and a job as a university professor. That quiet is disturbed when photos of her are posted on a sleazy web site by some of her male students who are also suspects in the murder of a classmate. With danger facing her and her boys, she reluctantly finds herself drawn to police detective Tommy Galloway.

F SIERRA
Sierra, Javier, 1971-. The secret supper : a novel. New York : Atria Books, 2006.
Pope Alejandro VI heard through unnamed sources that Leonardo Da Vinci’s almost finished painting of the Last Supper contained unpopular elements. Elements that caused the pope to send Fray Agustine Leyre, a Dominican Inquisitor, to the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan to confirm his suspicions. Fray instantly knows the painting contains a hidden message and sets out to decode it.

F SNYDER
Snyder, Scott. Voodoo heart : stories. New York : Dial Press, 2006.
These dispatches from disaffected but strangely likeable American oddities have much the same effect as good American roots music: their simplicity is deceptive, their emotional power considerable. And at some point between the mystery-blimp of “Blue Yodel” and the World War I-era Curtis Jenny of “The Star Attraction of 1919,” you may discover that Snyder’s plain folks have stolen your heart. I think what impressed me most about these stories—even the ones in which terrible things happen—was their warmth and humanity.

F STELLA
Stella, Charlie. Shakedown. 1st Pegasus Books ed. New York : Pegasus Books, 2006.
Can a mob bookmaker have a wife and a family and be out for good? “Fuhgetaboutit,” say the wiseguys. Bobby Genarro had at least a shot at escape until the untimely flipping of Nicky D’Angelo, an underboss with the Vignieri family, who when presented with limited options by the FBI chose the Witness Protection Program. Suddenly, Bobby’s position is ambiguous enough to require a hasty visit from a pair of Vignieri soldiers: If Nicky squealed, how can they be sure that Bobby, who worked for him, won’t? And by the way, it would show respect if he came up with $50,000. Annoyed not so much by the breakdown in logic-he knows full well the wiseguy way with a syllogism-as by the boldfaced attempt at extortion, he stonewalls. Kirkus Reviews.

F STEWART
Stewart, Mariah. Final truth : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2006.
Regan Landry, a true-crime writer, has followed lots of big stories throughout his career, but none more challenging than that of convicted rapist/killer Edgar Barnes, who persuades Regan to reinvestigate his case. When Regan and FBI Special Agent Mitch Peyton oblige, they discover a startling number of irregularities, including a crucial DNA mismatch that results in Barnes’ parole. A month after his release, a series of sexually motivated slayings occur. Mitch, Regan, and the FBI, fearing they have set free a monster, sweep into action.

F THOMAS
Thomas, Will, 1958-. The Limehouse text. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2006.
Agent Cyrus Barker, along with assistant Thomas Llewelyn, head to London’s Chinatown district, Limehouse, where they retrieve a Chinese book. Ho, a restaurateur, inspects the book, and informs them that it is a rare and secret martial arts book containing lethal techniques forbidden in the West. The book’s exposure could cause even more trouble between the United Kingdom and China. Barker and Llewelyn must find out how it got to England.

F TIFFANY
Tiffany, Carrie, 1965-. Everyman’s rules for scientific living : a novel. 1st Scribner ed. New York : Scribner, 2006, c2005.
Jean Finnegan is an independent, resilient woman looking for her place in a world wracked by the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II when the ‘Better Farming Train’ slides into her small town in Australia. It’s filled with agricultural and domestic experts like Robert Pettergree, a scientist with an unusual taste for soil. Following a sudden seduction between Robert and Jean, they marry and settle in the impoverished Mallee farmland with the ambition of transforming the land with science.

F TURTLEDOVE
Turtledove, Harry. Fort Pillow. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2006.
Turtledove recreates a real-life controversial battle that took place at Fort Pillow in 1864. Manned by 600 mostly black Union troops, they were overrun by about 1,500 Confederate troops and driven out into a deadly crossfire that left only 62 of the black troops unwounded. The controversy over what many considered a massacre continues today and became a Union rallying cry that sustained Union troops to see the war through to its conclusion.

F TYREE
Tyree, Omar. What they want : a novel. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2006.
Successful male model Terrance Mitchell had no plan to ever settle down and have a family. He liked his freedom and being able to date any woman he wanted. In his line of work, he had many to choose from. He was content with his life the way it was.
Then it happened. One of his beautiful women fell over the cuckoo’s nest and shattered his peace of mind. From then on, Terrance could never again lead women on without feeling guilty about it.

F UPDIKE
Updike, John. Terrorist. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Ahmad, 18, was born to an Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father, and is devoted to Allah and the sacred words of the Qu’ran, as revealed to him by the local imam. With his father long since disappeared, Ahmad craves spiritual nurture and views the self-indulgent society around him in New Jersey with contempt. Neither the well-intentioned Jewish guidance counselor at the high school, nor a seductive classmate is able to succeed in deflecting Ahmad’s course of terror.

F WELDON
Weldon, Fay. She may not leave. 1st American ed. New York : [Berkeley, Calif.] : Atlantic Monthly Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2005.
Unmarried partners Hattie and Martyn are the proud parents of a newborn. They’re happy and the baby is healthy. All is fine until the question of who will go back to work and who will stay home with the baby comes up. They compromise by hiring Agnieska, a Polish nanny, who also happens to be a domestic goddess and a first-rate belly dancer. When problems arise with her immigration papers, Martyn and Hattie will do anything to keep her in the country.

F YANCEY MYSTERY
Yancey, Richard. The highly effective detective. 1st ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2006.
Teddy Ruzak has wanted to become a detective since childhood. His opportunity comes following the death of his mother, who leaves him a substantial nest egg. After quitting his job as a watchman to become a private investigator, he hires Felicia, a former waitress at his favorite restaurant, to be his secretary. What begins as a seemingly inconsequential case of a hit-and-run of a family of geese quickly evolves into a murder investigation.

YA 741.5 TEE GRAPHIC NOVEL
Teen Titans. New York : DC Comics, c2005The heroes-in-training travel to the thirty-first century to help the Legion of Super-Heroes battle the Fatal Five Hundred; make a stop, on their way back, at ten years in the future, where they are stunned and disturbed by the adults they turn out to be; and, back in the present, welcome their newest member, Speedy, and face off against Dr. Light, who seeks revenge for past humiliations.


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174 LUT
Lutz, Tom. Doing nothing : a history of loafers, loungers, slackers and bums in America. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2006.
Whenever the world of labor changes in significant ways, the pulpits, politicians, and pedagogues ring with exhortations of the value of work, and the slackers answer with a strenuous call of their own: “To do nothing,” as Oscar Wilde said, “is the most difficult thing in the world.” From Benjamin Franklin’s “air baths” to Jack Kerouac’s “dharma bums,” Generation-X slackers, and beyond, anti-work-ethic proponents have held a central place in modern culture. Moving with verve and wit through a series of fascinating case studies that illuminate the changing place of leisure in the American republic, Doing Nothing revises the way we understand slackers and work itself.

176 WIL
Wilmut, Ian. After Dolly :--the uses and misuses of human cloning. W.W.Norton, c2006.
Scientist Ian Wilmut describes the process by which he and other researchers at Scotland’s Roslin Institute cloned the first mammal, a sheep named Dolly, and makes a case for the medical uses of cloning.

362.196 GAR
Garrison, Julia Fox. Don’t leave me this way : or when I get back on my feet you’ll be sorry. 1st HarperCollins ed. New York : HarperCollins, 2006.
Garrison was a thirty-something software professional living in suburban Boston and surrounded by a large and loving family when she suffered what was eventually diagnosed as a brain hemorrhage and stroke that left one side of her body paralyzed. This book, based on her privately printed memoir, “P.S. Julia: Missing a Piece of Your Mind Can Be Puzzling”, tells the story of her more than yearlong struggle toward recovery in the 1990s. Garrison has few kind words for the medical profession or the Boston-area hospitals at which she was treated and does not downplay the many indignities of her intensive rehabilitation effort, including her guilt over not being able to take proper care of her young son. This well-written, episodic memoir is neither a caregiver’s guide nor a self-help manual, and despite the author’s best efforts to be flippant and put a happy face on her medical calamities, it is more harrowing and disturbing than amusing or quirky. Library Journal.

364.1523 BEL VT COLL
Belding, Patricia W. (Patricia Wyman). One less woman : a Vermont murder : 1919. Barre, VT : Potash Brook Publishing, c2006.
In 1919, a woman’s naked body is found just off North main Street in Barre. Belding covers an alleged crime of passion and the trial that followed.

613.20973 PLA
Planck, Nina, 1971-. Real food : what to eat and why. New York : Bloomsbury Pub., 2006.
In lively, personal chapters on produce, dairy, meat, fish, chocolate, and other real foods, Nina explains how ancient foods like beef and butter havebeen falsely accused, while industrial foods like corn syrup and soybean oil have created a triple epidemic of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Real Food upends the conventional wisdom on diet and health and explains our taste for good things.

627 NOR
Norton, Trevor. Underwater to get out of the rain : a love affair with the sea. Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2006.
Marine biologist Norton (Univ. of Liverpool, UK; Stars Beneath the Sea: The Pioneers of Diving) grew up in a seaside town near Newcastle and was fascinated from an early age by underwater plants and animals. In these lighthearted essays that are part memoir, part natural history, he conveys his profound love of nature and the ocean, injecting his dry sense of humor into such topics as diving, sea anemones, sea cucumbers, island biology, human evolution, seaweed ecology, and luminescence. His autobiographical accounts are interwoven with marine science topics accompanied by lovely line drawings by his wife, Win. Traveling around the world in connection with his scientific work, he finds humor and interest in his human encounters as well as in his biological studies. Library Journal.

658 COL
Collins, James C. (James Charles), 1958-. Good to great : why some companies make the leap—and others don’t. 1st ed. New York : HarperBusiness, c2001.
Presents the findings of a long-term study on a group of companies that made the leap from good to great and sustained those results for at least fifteen years, looking at how those businesses compared with organizations that failed to achieve high performance, and identifying the factors that make the difference.

690 SNE
Snell, Clarke. Building green : a complete how-to guide to alternative building methods : earth plaster, straw bale, cordwood, cob, living roofs. 1st ed. New York : Lark Books, c2005.
A comprehensive guide to alternative building methods that provides information on alternative building materials and techniques that can be used in various construction projects.

741.5 BEC
Bechdel, Alison, 1960-. Fun home : a family tragicomic. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Alison’s father is a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family’s Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, the reader is drawn into a daughter’s complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned ‘fun home,’ as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books.

921 BRACCO
Bracco, Lorraine, 1955-. On the couch. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2006.
Actress Lorraine Bracco, known for her role as psychiatrist Dr. Jennifer Melfi on the hit TV series ‘The Sopranos,’ shares stories of her life as an artist, her career, her tempestuous romances, motherhood, and her role on the TV show. More than your standard memoir, it’s a no-holds-barred account of her life, warts and all, as well as her struggles with work, men, and depression.

921 CORNWELL
Cornwell, John, 1940-. Seminary boy. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2006.
Cornwell, author, journalist, and fellow at Jesus College in Cambridge, England, here tells the story of his life at an all-male school in the 1950s. Son of a struggling working-class family in London, John was sent to Cotton College to become a Catholic priest. Here, during his teen years, he experienced the best and worst of pre-Vatican II seminary life. Some of his teachers were pious and dedicated men; others were sexual predators. He had close friendships and fierce rivalries with other boys and felt forbidden romantic attractions. Though Cornwell chose not to continue into the priesthood, this book is not a denunciation of the system. Instead, it is a bittersweet recollection of a vanished world of religious insights and social isolation that profoundly influenced the author’s character.

921 DUNN
Dunn, Jancee. But enough about me : from eighties geek to rock ‘n’ roll chic - adventures in celebsville. New York : HarperCollins, 2006.
Known for her celebrity profiles, journalist Dunn blends interviewing tips, dirt-digging secrets and memoir-type snippets in a mix that’s tough to define, but a delight to read. As a frequent writer for Rolling Stone and contributor to Vanity Fair, GQ and Vogue, Dunn can reach an array of stars and has the anecdotes to prove it. She details ducking the paparazzi with Mel Gibson, eating in Dolly Parton’s kitchen and posing for three minutes as Ben Affleck’s girlfriend to prove a point about how quickly gossip spreads. Refreshingly, she maintains an “Aw, shucks” quality that has become her work’s hallmark. By providing a zesty glimpse at her New Jersey childhood and young adulthood, Dunn offers a grounded counterpoint to the breezy tales of pop idol handling. Even after rising in the ranks at Rolling Stone, Dunn is mildly astounded that a Jersey girl who still slips phrases like “Yeah, right!” into her conversation should be shaking in her ritzy hotel room after being berated by Flashdance icon Jennifer Beals for asking about her personal life.

921 KAHN
Kahn, Roger. Into my own : the remarkable people and events that shaped a life. 1st ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2006.
Roger Kahn, often called the dean of American sportswriters and the best baseball writer in the country, has lived a life most people only dream of having. Now in his eighth decade, he shares his own story, chronicling his life and the people who influenced him. People like Stanley Woodward, Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, Robert Frost, Eugene McCarthy, and others, whose relationships define his identity as a person, a father, and as a friend.

921 MARLEY
Farley, Christopher John. Before the legend : the rise of Bob Marley. 1st ed. New York : Amistad, c2006.
Farley goes beyond the myth of Marley to bring you the private side of a man few people ever really knew. Drawing from original interviews with the people closest to Marley—including his widow, Rita, his mother, Cedella, his bandmate and childhood friend Bunny Wailer, his producer Chris Blackwell, and many others—he paints an entirely fresh picture of one of the most enduring musical artists of our times. This is a portrait of the artist as a young man, from his birth in the tiny town of Nine Miles in the hills of Jamaica to the making of his debut international record, “Catch a Fire.” We see Marley on the tough streets of Trench Town before he found stardom, struggling to find his way in music, in love, and in life, and we take the wild ride with him to worldwide acceptance and adoration.

940.53 GIL
Gilbert, Martin, 1936-. Kristallnacht : prelude to destruction. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2006.
On the night of November 9-10, 1938, the Nazis subjected the Jews in Germany to an organized wave of violence. Historian Gilbert begins this history by detailing the events of Kristallnacht (“The Night of Broken Glass”), drawing on eyewitness reports from Berlin and other parts of Germany, as well as Vienna. He then devotes a chapter to background on the treatment of the Jews in Germany once Hitler had ascended to power. The remainder of the book reviews the aftermath of Kristallnacht and includes news accounts and official responses from other countries at the time.

976.3 BRI
Brinkley, Douglas. The great deluge : Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. New York : Morrow, 2006.
Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley returns with his most powerful and personal book:the complete story of Hurricane Katrina, the natural disaster that devastated New Orleans, stunned America and the world. Brinkley, like thousands of his fellow New Orleanians, was forced to leave his home. This is his unique, piercing analysis of the ongoing crisis, its historical roots, and its repercussions for America. He’s now documenting the tragedy and its aftermath for posterity as part of the Tulane University Task Force.

MEDIA:

CD 759.409 KIN
King, Ross, 1962-. The judgment of Paris : [the revolutionary decade that gave the world Impressionism]. Unabridged. New York : Audio Renaissance, p2006. Read by Tristan Layton.“The Judgment of Paris” chronicles the dramatic decadebetween two famous exhibitions set against the rise and dramatic fall of Napoleon III and the Second Empire after the Franco-Prussian War. King offers a fast-paced romp through the Parisian art scene between 1863 (the first Salon des Refuses exhibition) and 1874 (the first impressionist exhibition). Political upheaval and public scandal set the background for artistic endeavors, which King cleverlyframes with two diverse figures who seem to share only initials: Ernest Meissonier (representing the successful old guard) and Edouard Manet (the radical provocateur of the new order). Library Journal.

CD 920 TOL
Tolan, Sandy. The lemon tree : [an Arab, a Jew, and the heart of the Middle East]. Minneapolis, MN : HighBridge, p2006. Read by the author.
Tolan brings the Israeli/Palestinian conflict down to its most human level, as he tells the story of Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian man, and Dalia Ashkenzzi Landau, an Israeli woman, who meet under extraordinary circumstances and begin a rare and difficult friendship that would be tested over 35 years in ways that neither could imagine.

CD ADL
Adler, Elizabeth (Elizabeth A.). The house in Amalfi. Hampton, NH : BBC Audiobooks America, p2005. Read by Carrington MacDuffie.
Lamour Harrington’s husband died two years ago. It is the second time she has lost a man she loved to a tragedy: her father died in a mysterious boating accident when she was seventeen. When a devastating discovery about her husband’s death leaves Lamour feeling stunned and betrayed, she returns to the house on the lush Amalfi coast where she’d lived with her father during the happiest years of her childhood.

CD CAN
Cannell, Stephen J. Cold hit : a Shane Scully novel. Hampton, NH : Sound Library/BBC Audiobooks America, p2005. Read by Scott Brick.
Shane Scully is part of an elite LAPD unit attempting to track down a serial killer who murdered two homeless Vietnam vets. The third killing leads to the case being pulled from Shane and given to a task force led by an ambitious FBI agent. However, Shane isn’t convinced that the same person perpetrated the latest crime. The politically charged investigation gives him two possibilities: the killing was to cover the activities of a rogue national security agent and the Russian mob, or Shane’s alcoholic and divorced partner might be a suspect. Library Journal.

CD RIV
Rivière, William. By the Grand Canal. Ashland, Or. : Blackstone Audiobooks, 2005. Read by Simon Vance.
A novel that takes place in Venice in 1919, about empires and their crises, the desolation and hope that followed the war to end all wars, about death, time, memory, and innocent, as well as not so innocent love.

DVD 974.3 COM
Common ground : the stories of Waterbury to Warren. [Duxbury, Vt. : Harwood Union High School : Duxbury Land Trust, 200-?].
“Common ground” features interviews with townspeople, historic photographs, and film footage on the history of six towns in Washington County: Waterbury, Duxbury, Moretown, Fayston, Waitsfield, and Warren.


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