February 2007

FICTION:

F ADRIAN
Adrian, Chris, 1970-. The children’s hospital. San Francisco : McSweeney’s Books, c2006.
After the Earth is flooded, a hospital is preserved and set afloat, leaving the doctors and patients left inside to remember the world they have lost and wonder about the new world that awaits them in the future.

F ALI
Ali, Monica, 1967-. Brick lane : a novel. 1st Scribner ed. New York : Scribner, 2003.
Nanzeen, married off to an older man, moves from her Bangladeshi village to live with him in London in the 1980s and 1990s, where she raises a family, learns to love her husband, and comes to a realization that she has a voice in her own life.

F ALLAN
Allan, Clare, 1968-. Poppy Shakespeare : a novel. New York : Bloomsbury, 2006.
Set in a psychiatric hospital where each floor houses patients more disturbed than the floor below, ‘Poppy Shakespeare’ introduces readers to 25 residents whose last names cover each letter of the alphabet, except X. A new arrival to the group is Poppy Shakespeare, who strikes up a friendship with N., a patient for 13 years. What happens in the next six months changes both their lives forever as readers will find themselves asking themselves: Who is mad and who is sane? And, who gets to decide?

F AMIS
Amis, Martin. House of meetings. 1st American ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
House of meetings—The last days of Muhammad Atta—In the palace of the end. In 1946, two brothers and a Jewish girl fall into alignment in Moscow. The fraternal conflict then marinates in a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the House of Meetings will haunt all three lovers long after the brothers are released. For the narrator, the sole survivor, the reverberations continue into the new century.

F BANNISTER MYSTERY
Bannister, Jo. Requiem for a dealer : a Brodie Farrell mystery. 1st St. Martin’s Minotaur ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2006.
Brodie Farrell’s job is to find things for people. Her agency, aptly named ‘Looking for Something?’ has looked for things and people in some strange places in the past. She’s expecting a quiet day when she agrees to refresh her friend Daniel Hood’s driving skills but, a seemingly innocuous accident with a hysterical girl changes those thoughts in a hurry. With Daniel shaken and haunted, Brodie looks for answers to who the girl is and why she’s now accusing Daniel of trying to kill her.

F BENNI
Benni, Stefano, 1947-. Margherita Dolce Vita. New York : Europa Editions, 2006.
Enjoying the simple life she lives on the outskirts of town, fifteen-year-old Margherita Dolce Vita decides it is up to her to protect her quaint family from their new neighbors and the consumerism that drives their lives.

F BOYD
Boyd, William, 1952-. Restless : a novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York : [S.l.] : Bloomsbury ; Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Pub., 2006.
In the summer of 1976, Sally Gilmartin turns to her daughter Ruth, a struggling single mother, when she realizes someone is trying to kill her, and is forced to reveal the truth about her past to Ruth, even if it means ruining their relationship forever.

F BRADBURY
Bradbury, Ray, 1920-. Farewell summer. 1st ed. New York : W. Morrow, c2006.
With school approaching, thirteen-year-old Doug Spaulding and his neighborhood friends decide to attempt to stop time by waging war against the elders of their small town, trying everything from fasting to breaking the village clock, and the men, led by school board member Calvin C. Quartermain, fight back.

F BRADFORD
Bradford, Barbara Taylor, 1933-. The Ravenscar dynasty. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2007.
The lives of the Deravenel family change forever in 1904 when Cecily Deravenel tells her son Edward, 18, that his father, brother, and cousins have perished in a fire. Edward and his cousin, Neville Watkins, are suspicious. They decide to investigate the deaths and take control of the business empire which has been handled by Edward’s cousin Henry Grant. With both Edward and Henry’s personal lives less than steady, betrayal rocks the family from within. Soon, catastrophe threatens to destroy the family and the business.

F BRAUN MYSTERY
Braun, Lilian Jackson. The cat who had 60 whiskers. New York : G. Putnam’s Sons, c2007. Moose County is in an uproar following vast inheritances from wealthy old families. Only ‘Cool Koko’ knows what’s happening and he’s not telling. Jim Qwilleran thinks it’s because he has more whiskers than ordinary cats, but who’s counting? Meanwhile, Koko meets a piano tuner, Polly goes to Paris, Qwill writes a play, and there’s a mysterious death from a bee sting.

F CAMERON MYSTERY
Cameron, Stella. A marked man. Don Mills, Ont. : MIRA, c2006.
When Max savage opens his practice in a remote bayou town he hopes it’s the start of a new life. But soon Max discovers he can’t escape a past riddled with accusations of murder, especially since another woman is missing and he was the last to see her alive. Annie Duhon knows all about nightmares and the need to escape the past, but as her fascination with Max grows she must decide if he can be trusted with her secrets and deepest desires. Max is a marked man, the object of hatred, who has unwittingly attracted danger to anyone he’s cared about. Now he loves Annie, and knows with chilling certainty that he faces one last chance to unmask a killer before there’s nothing left to fight for.

F CHEN
Chen, Da, 1962-. Brothers : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Shaye Areheart Books, c2006.
Half brothers Tan and Shento grow up in different parts of China without knowing about the existence of the other, until their desires and love for the same woman bring them together.

F CHRISTIANSE
Christiansë, Yvette. Unconfessed. New York : Other Press, c2006.
Sila, imprisoned on South Africa’s Robben Island for the murder of her son, recalls her life as a slave, the chance for freedom that was stolen from her, the children who were taken from her, and the reasons why she decided to set her son free from the sufferings of the world.

F CLARKE
Clarke, Richard A. Breakpoint. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2007.
A group is at work to ‘disconnect the globe’ by destroying internet cable centers, computer grids, communications satellites, and biotech firms. Some see that as impossible to accomplish, but it’s not. Now, a team has assembled to track them down, searching through right-wing militias and Russian organized crime, Jihadist terrorists and enemy-nation states. With the attacks coming more swiftly, and growing in destructiveness, they must double their efforts before it’s too late and nothing anyone does will be able to stop them.

F CONANT MYSTERY
Conant, Susan, 1946-. Gaits of heaven. New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2006.
In the 17th book of the ‘Dog Lover’s’ series, dog trainer Holly Winter is following the tracks of an odd breed of pup to an even stranger breed of human when she’s hired to rein in a dysfunctional New Age couple’s spirited Aussie huskapoo. After the wife dies of an accidental overdose of mixed meds, Holly finds herself embroiled in the family’s secrets and investigating what she suspects is murder.

F CRICHTON
Crichton, Michael, 1942-. Next : a novel. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2006.
Crichton interweaves the stories of various human and animal characters with genetic abnormalities, including a boy who has chimpanzee chromosomes, a parrot that was injected with human genes and can figure out mathematical equations, and an orangutan that can talk, and the complications that are associated with their existence.

F DE LINT FANTASY
De Lint, Charles, 1951-. Yarrow : an autumn tale. 1st Orb ed. New York : Orb, 1997.
Cat Midhir has made a name for herself as the author of many popular fantasy novels. When a thief steals Cat’s mysterious Otherworld—a real place where she wandered at night with bright lords and the horned woman—she cannot write and becomes trapped in the everyday world.

F DOYLE
Doyle, Roddy, 1958-. Paula Spencer. New York : Viking, 2007.
Paula Spencer, 47, is now a widow, with two of her four children living on their own. It has been four months and five days since she’s had a drink. Living paycheck to paycheck, she cleans houses to make ends meet. This story tells how Paula begins to get her life back together, how she learns to live again, struggles to reconnect with her ex-junkie son and her two sisters, and meets a man. Could Paula’s luck be truly changing?

F EDDINGS FANTASY
Eddings, David. Crystal Gorge. New York : Warner Books, c2005.
The mortal defenders of Dhrall face a new threat when the insectoid Vlagh discover a way to give themselves a human appearance and intelligence, and infiltrate the Dhrall army planting seeds of discontent and rebellion, and to make matters worse it appears that the Elders Gods who have reigned over Drall for centuries are getting senile.

F ESTLEMAN WESTERN
Estleman, Loren D. The adventures of Johnny Vermillion. 1st ed. New York : Forge, 2006. Johnny Vermillion, leader of a traveling theater troupe dedicated to bringing culture to the Wild West, attracts the attention of a Pinkerton agent who has noticed a suspicious link between the group’s performances and a string of bank robberies.

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

F FLORA MYSTERY
Flora, Kate Clark. Playing god. 1st ed. Waterville, Me. : Five Star, 2006.
Detectives Stan Perry and Terry Kyle set out to investigate the mysterious murder of a prominent local doctor, and uncover a long line of suspects including ex-wives, drug dealers, and a mystery girl unknown to anyone on the street.

F FLYNN
Flynn, Vince. Act of treason. 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, 2006.
CIA operative Mitch Rapp finds a shocking link between a group of killers and the American government and risks everything to bring them to justice.

F FORNA
Forna, Aminatta. Ancestor stones. 1st American ed. New York :[S.l.] : Atlantic Monthly Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2006.
Abie travels to the coffee groves of Kholifa Estates in West Africa, where she hopes to rediscover her past and learns of her aunts’ struggle to survive in the midst of change, violence, and loss.

F FOWLER MYSTERY
Fowler, Christopher. Ten second staircase. New York : Bantam Books, 2006.
A controversial artist is murdered and displayed as part of her own piece, and Arthur Bryant and John May, the founders of the Peculiar Crimes Unit, must work together to find the killer, who an eyewitness claims is a cape-clad highwayman riding a black stallion.

F FREY LP
Frey, Stephen W. The protege : a novel. 1st large print ed. New York : Random House Large Print in association with Ballantine Books, 2006.
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.

F FROST FANTASY
Frost, P. R. Hounding the moon. New York, NY : DAW Books, Inc., 2006.
Together with her companion imp, the foul-mouthed, cigar-smoking Scrappy, Teresa investigates the case of a young Navaho girl pursued by a monstrous, doglike demon but soon finds herself shadowed by two men who seem to know more about her than she would like. Frost’s fantasy debut series introduces a charming protagonist, both strong and vulnerable, and her cheeky companion. An intriguing plot and a well-developed warrior sisterhood make this a good choice for fans of the urban fantasy of Tanya Huff, Jim Butcher, and Charles deLint. Library Journal

F GAIMAN
Gaiman, Neil. Fragile things : short fictions and wonders. 1st ed. New York : W. Morrow, c2006.
“Fragile things” contains over thirty short stories and poems by Neil Gaiman, some previously published, written in the genres of horror, science fiction, dark fantasy, and speculative fiction.

F GARWOOD ROMANCE
Garwood, Julie. Shadow dance. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2007.
A sizzling, tumultuous, and long-awaited pairing between Garwood’s recurring characters, Jordan Buchanan and Noah Clayborne, finally comes to fruition in ‘Shadow Dance’ as their romance shuttles between Boston and Texas.

F GREGORY
Gregory, Philippa. The Boleyn inheritance. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2006.
‘The Boleyn Inheritance,’ told in the voices of Jane Boleyn, the only survivor of the Boleyn family, and the two queens she served and betrayed: Anne of Cleeves and Catherine Howard. When Anne comes to England to become queen, she instead nearly ends up being hung as a witch when Jane bears false witness against her. Jane wants Catherine to be queen. While Catherine captures the King’s love, she too finds it’s not enough to save her from his murderous spite.

F GREGORY
Gregory, Jill. The book of names. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2007.
Professor David Shepherd finds himself in possession of knowledge that holds the world in a delicate balance. He has discovered the Book of Names, an ancient text originating with the biblical Adam that contains the 36 names of righteous souls called the Hidden Ones. Legend states that when all the Hidden Ones are dead, the world would end. With only three Hidden Ones still alive, Shepherd finds himself battling those whose goal it is to eliminate them. The world’s future depends on his success.

F GRIFFIN
Griffin, W. E. B. The hunters. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2007.
The man that presidential agent Charley Castillo and his crew are pursing for his role in the UN/Iraq oil-for-peace scandal is killed right before their eyes, although they personally don’t see who was responsible. Charley suspects it’s someone higher up the money chain who doesn’t want their secrets revealed. Unfortunately for them, they’ve left just enough of a trail for Charley to follow. With carte blanche from the President to go wherever it takes, the trail leads Charley somewhere totally unexpected.

F GRIPPANDO MYSTERY
Grippando, James, 1958-. When darkness falls. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2007.
Miami attorney Jack Swyteck immediately knew something wasn’t right when his homeless client came up with his $10,000 bail in cash. Then the body of a murdered woman was found in the trunk of the car in which the man was living. On the run, the man took Jack’s best friend Theo hostage, and Jack had only hours to rescue him. What Jack didn’t realize was, the man had a bigger agenda and that there were people behind the scenes who didn’t want their secrets revealed.

F HARRIS MYSTERY
Harris, C. S. When gods die : a Sebastian St. Cyr mystery. New York : New American Library, c2006.
Sebastian St. Cyr, the Viscount Devlin, a detective in Regency England, is called to investigate when the young wife of an aging marquis is found dead in the arms of the dissolute Prince Regent, and discovers a conspiracy that threatens his own family, as well as the monarchy.

F HARVEY MYSTERY
Harvey, John, 1938-. Darkness & light. 1st U.S. ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2006.
Former cop Frank Elder must struggle with the weight of the past when he reluctantly agrees to his ex-wife’s request that he look into the disappearance and subsequent murder of a friend’s sister—a case that bears striking similarities to one he investigated years earlier.

F HEARN
Hearn, Lian. The harsh cry of the heron : the last tale of the Otori. New York : Riverhead Books, 2006.
Lord Otori Takeo battles intruders and assassins from far and wide and struggles with the prophecy that he will die by the hand of one of his family members.

F HILLERMAN MYSTERY
Hillerman, Tony. The shape shifter. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2006.
Retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is called out of retirement to investigate a crime that seems to be linked to Joe’s last case, which remains unsolved and continues to haunt him.

F HOFFMAN
Hoffman, Alice. Skylight confessions. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2007.
This tale of three generations of a family haunted by love begins the night Arlyn Singer’s father dies and John Moody knocks on her door. Believing in destiny and in love, Arlyn marries John, although they are exact opposites in every way that’s important to a marriage. Their search for family and identity carries over to their children, Sam and Blanca, and even to their grandson, Will, who will ultimately have to deal with people who don’t know the first thing about love.

F HOLLINGSHEAD
Hollingshead, Greg, 1947-. Bedlam. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2006.
James Tilly Matthews, committed to Bethlem, the British insane asylum, in the wake of the French Revolution, contends he is a political prisoner, while his wife works steadfastly to secure his release, and John Haslam, the Bethlem apothecary, confronts his own motives for keeping Matthews confined.

F HOOD
Hood, Ann, 1956-. The knitting circle. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton, c2007.
Following the loss of her only child, Stella, Mary Baxter finds solace in the company of a knitting circle. Each woman teaches Mary a new knitting technique, and as they do, they share their own personal stories of grief, which allows her to reclaim love for her husband, face the hard truths about her relationship with her mother, and come to terms with the loss of her child.

F HUNTER FANTASY
Hunter, Faith. Bloodring. New York, N.Y. : Roc, 2006.
The apocalypse has come and gone, and now seraphs and demons rule the world, waging war on an Earth plunged into an ice age. Only a few gifted humans, such as Thorn St. Croix, live as fugitives among normal humans. When Thorn’s ex-husband is kidnapped, Thorn is accused of the crime, and she is forced to use her magic to find him at the risk of her own life and freedom. Hunter’s distinctive future vision offers a fresh though dark glimpse into a newly made postapocalyptic world. Library Journal.

F HYZY MYSTERY
Hyzy, Julie A. Deadly interest : an Alex St. James mystery. 1st ed. Waterville, Me. : Five Star, 2006.
When Alex returns home after a humiliating evening with her former lover, she’s dismayed to discover that Evelyn Vicks, her elderly neighbor, has been murdered. Evelyn, who worked at a bank, had earlier asked Alex’s advice about some suspicious financial business involving the bank. Alex soon finds herself stalked by an ex-con and dealing with the victim’s estranged son. New romantic interests and the care of her handicapped sister further complicate Alex’s life as she puts her keen investigative skills to work for the police under the direction of the efficient, astute Detective Lulinski. Publisher’s Weekly.

F JOHANSEN MYSTERY
Johansen, Iris. Stalemate. New York : Bantam Books, 2007, c2006.
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan was close to discovering the identity of a murdered child from the skull she was examining when a phone call came from one of the most sinister men she’d ever encountered. One of the world’s most wanted men, Luis Montalvo, had a reconstruction for her and was willing to ensure her cooperation with an offer she couldn’t refuse, even if it could destroy her relationship with Atlanta detective Joe Quinn, while opening the mystery of her past.

F KELLAWAY
Kellaway, Lucy. Who moved my BlackBerry? 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2006.
Martin Lukes, successful businessman, husband, and father, has managed to climb the corporate ladder by stepping on anyone who gets in his way, but his own karma kicks in when his company restructure wreaks havoc on his life.

F KELMAN
Kelman, Judith. Backward in high heels. 1st world ed. New York : Severn House, c2006.
The day Maggie heard her husband’s office had burned down, she was heartbroken. Never again would he refuse a restaurant table, niggle about a hotel room or carp about the Yankees or the Giants. But actually, the disaster was worse than she thought. Harold wasn’t in the building. He was in bed with a twenty-three-year-old. He didn’t even have the decency to go for a bimbo; he was with a beautiful graduate student, younger, firmer, prettier and brighter than Maggie. Now he’s leaving her, and Maggie has to pull herself together. Who should she listen to? The lawyer who’s certain he’s diddling her on the settlement? Janine, fashionista and benevolent bully, whose motto is ‘A bitch in time does fine’? Or her overbearing mother, who keeps pointing out that a woman Maggie’s age is statistically more likely to be kidnapped by aliens than to find another man?.

F KNOX
Knox, Tyler. Kockroach. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, 2007.
In the mid-1950s, Kockroach is living in a hotel off New York City’s 42nd Street, perfectly content with his life as an arthropod. Then one night he awakens to discover that he’s become a human. Step by step, Kockroach learns the ways of humans: how to walk, talk, and dress. The question is: can a cockroach, with its primitive desires and amorality, survive or thrive in the world of men? Will Kockroach change humanity, or will humanity change him?.

F LEVACK MYSTERY
Levack, Simon. Shadow of the lords. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2006, c2005.
A strange figure with the face of a snake and the body of a bird strikes fear in the Aztec capital of Mexico in 1517, and Yaotl, the chief minister’s slave, takes advantage of the turmoil to run from his master, but when he stumbles upon a mangled corpse, he must choose between stopping a killer and maintaining his freedom.

F LUCARELLI MYSTERY
Lucarelli, Carlo, 1960-. Carte blanche. New York : Europa Editions, 2006.
Author of the Grazia Negro series set in contemporary Bologna, Lucarelli also writes stand-alones. This one, set in Milan near the end of World War II, finds the country in chaos, with the south liberated by the Allies and the north under the control of the Nazis and a collaborationist government run by Mussolini. Commisario De Luca is a policeman caught between the various factions (there were 14 different police forces in Milan at the time) and trying to solve the murder of a local power broker. Following the tangled plot proves tough sledding, but the appeal here isn’t story but mood: the darkened city streets, teeming with danger, both imagined and real; the trench-coated hero, dodging from shadow to shadow, hoping to get to the bottom of the problem in front of him but, contrarily, trying to stay off everybody’s radar. Booklist.

F MAILER
Mailer, Norman. The castle in the forest : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Random House, 2007.
In Norman Mailer’s first novel in 11 years, he offers readers the first of a planned series of books on Hitler. The narrator, a mysterious SS man who is later revealed to be an exceptional presence, gives us young Adolf from birth, as well as Hitler’s father and mother, his sisters and brothers, and the intimate details of his childhood and adolescence.

F MAXTED
Maxted, Anna. A tale of two sisters. New York : Dutton, c2006.
Sisters Lizbet and Cassie are very close in spite of their vastly different lifestyles, but things become strained when Lizbet announces she is pregnant, and the balance of their relationship changes.

F MAY MYSTERY
May, Peter, 1951-. Extraordinary people. 1st ed. Scottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, 2006.
Enzo Macleod, a Scottish forensic biologist who lives in France, bets that he can solve an old case with new science. Lonely and bored with his teaching career, the widowed biologist takes on the unsolved case of Jacques Gaillard, a public intellectual with a controversial political career who disappeared without a trace 10 years earlier. With the help of his adored daughter, Sophie, and new flame, Charlotte, a beautiful psychologist trained in criminal profiling, Enzo traverses France and Germany to follow a series of clues that lead to scattered body parts and Gaillard’s dangerous killers. Despite some unlikely coincidences, this travelogue-cum-murder mystery makes for a fun puzzle. Publishers Weekly.

F MAY
May, Antoinette. Pilate’s wife. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2006.
A novel which imagines the life of Claudia, a woman who schemed to marry the ambitious Pontius Pilate and supported his efforts even though her heart was given elsewhere, and whose often prophetic dreams led her to urge her husband, who presided over the crucifixion of Jesus, to have nothing to do with the divine martyr.

F MCCAFERTY
McCafferty, Megan. Charmed thirds : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Crown, c2006.
During the summer after her first year in college, Jessica has a hard time fitting in with the hipster staff at the Brooklyn-based magazine for which she’s interning and is tempted by three very different guys—a neoconservative resident assistant, an “emo” boy, and a married Spanish graduate student—when problems with Marcus arise.

F MCPHERSON MYSTERY
McPherson, Catriona, 1965-. The Burry Man’s day. New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, c2006.
Summer 1923, and as the village of Queensferry prepares for the annual Ferry Fair and the walk of the Burry Man, feelings are running high. With his pagan greenery, his lucky pennies and the nips of whisky he is treated to wherever he goes, the Burry Man has much to offend stricter souls like the minister or temperance pamphleteer. And then at the Fair, in full view of everyone, including Dandy Gilver, invited to hand out the prizes, the Burry Man falls down dead. If he has been poisoned then the list of suspects includes anyone with a bottle of whisky in the house, and, here at Queensferry, that means just about everyone.

F MORGAN MYSTERY
Morgan, Philippa. Chaucer and the doctor of physic. New York : Carroll & Graf, 2006.
Poet and diplomat Geoffrey Chaucer, newly returned from a delicate mission to Florence on behalf of Edward III, is dispatched to sort out a home-grown problem in the Devon seaport of Dartmouth. Geoffrey must leave his family in London and travel west, expecting to solve the theft of the cargo of a Genoese ship with comparative ease. Chaucer and his companions are lodging with a wealthy doctor of physic in his fine house overlooking the water. But there is deep hostility in the port town between citizens and sailors - accusations and daggers fly.

F NAVARRO
Navarro, Julia, 1953-. The brotherhood of the Holy Shroud. New York : Bantam Books, 2007, c2006.
Marco Valoni, an art historian and chief of the special Art Crimes Department in Turin, Italy, becomes involved in a case that has roots in the history of early Christianity when he is called upon to investigate a fire at the cathedral that houses the Shroud of Turin and the discovery of a strangely mutilated body that bear marks identical to those of a mystery man serving out a sentence in a Turin prison.

F OATES
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-. Black girl/White girl : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ecco, c2006.
Genna Meade looks back from the perspective of fifteen years to 1975 when, as a student at an exclusive women’s liberal arts college near Philadelphia, she tried to befriend one of the school’s few African-American students who was the victim of racially-motivated harassment.

F OCONNELL MYSTERY
O’Connell, Carol, 1947-. Find me. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2006.
After a mutilated body is found in Chicago on Adams Street, also known as Route 66, it brings to the area a bevy of parents looking for missing children. They have heard the rumors about the gravesites supposedly found along this route. Detective Kathy Mallory drives with them. The child she seeks, though, is not like the others. It is herself, the feral child adopted off the streets. She’s also hunting a killer like none she’s ever known.

F PAGE MYSTERY
Page, Katherine Hall. The body in the ivy : a Faith Fairchild mystery. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2006.
Caterer Faith Fairchild accepts a job on novelist Hélène Prince’s private island, but when she arrives she realizes the writer is trying to solve a mystery about her sister’s death and all of the guests are suspects.


F PATTERSON
Patterson, Richard North. Exile : a novel. 1st ed. New York : H. Holt, 2007.
David Wolfe’s life is as near perfect as it can get. He’s a successful lawyer, about to get married, and is being primed for a stint in Congress. When he gets an unexpected phone call from a woman he’d had a brief fling with while in law school, he faces a choice. Will he, a Jew, represent a Palestinian woman accused of masterminding the assassination of Israel’s prime minister and risk his career and impending marriage for a woman he’s never been able to forget?.

F RANDISI MYSTERY
Randisi, Robert J. Everybody kills somebody sometime. 1st ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2006.
Eddie G, a pit boss at the Sands Casino, may not be a detective, but when Dean Martin begins receiving threats while the Rat Pack is in town for the filming of Ocean’s 11, Eddie hopes to find the culprit and endear himself to his idols. Aided by a private eye friend and some muscle from New York, Eddie’s search leads him to a murder and a realization that being a Rat Pack fan is bad for his health.

F RIGGS MYSTERY
Riggs, Cynthia. Indian pipes. 1st ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St Martin’s Minotaur, 2006.
Ninety-two-year-old Martha’s Vineyard native Victoria Trumbull is enjoying a vacation with her granddaughter, Elizabeth, when she sees a young man fall to his death and is pulled into an investigation that will change her life and have a lasting influence on Elizabeth’s.

F RIPLEY MYSTERY
Ripley, Ann. Death in the orchid garden : a gardening mystery. New York : Kensington Pub. Corp. c2006.
Louise Eldridge, host of a PBS show, Gardening with Nature, is on location to the Hawaiian island of Kauai, the lush setting for an elite botanical conference. Louise has scheduled a panel featuring an explosive mix of egos and agendas from plant explorer and entrepreneur Dr. Bruce Bouting, pharmaceutical company consultant Dr. Matthew Flynn, environmentalist Dr. Charles Reuter and Pacific Island plant expert Dr. Tom Schoonover. But on a sunset walk along the beach, Louise discovers one of these men dead, the deep wound gouged at the base of his skull definitely not sustained from a fall off a cliff. As another botanist perishes, Louise once again turns amateur detective to solve the murders.

F ROBBINS
Robbins, Harold, 1916-1997. The devil to pay. 1st ed. New York : Forge, 2006.
Nash Novak, a struggling Seattle businesswoman, is frantically trying to raise money for her legal defense against arson and murder charges that someone is framing her for. Her only solution is to make the coffee plantation she’s inherited profitable. The only problem is, it’s located in the jungles of Colombia, the land of drug lords and warlords. Home to men like Pablo Escobar, king of the Medellin drug cartels, and one of the most dangerous men in Colombia. Can she protect her plantation and stay alive?.

F ROBBINS
Robbins, David L. 1954-. The assassins gallery. New York : Bantam Books, 2006.
History hangs in the balance as Professor Mikhal Lammeck, a specialist in the history and weaponry of assassins, pits his skills against an unknown killer who has targeted President Franklin Roosevelt in the waning days of World War II.

F ROLLINS
Rollins, James, 1961-. Black order : a Sigma Force novel. New York : W. Morrow, c2006.
The elite scientists of Sigma Force race to crack the ultimate mystery of mankind in a quest that will save or destroy the human race.

F ROWLAND MYSTERY
Rowland, Laura Joh. Red chrysanthemum. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2006.
Seventeenth-century Japanese chamberlain Sano Ichiro’s wife, Reiko, is suspected of murdering Lord Mori, a man accused of treason and pedophilia, and together the couple work to clear her name.

F ROZAN
Rozan, S. J. In this rain. New York : Delacorte Press, 2007.
Ex-con and former Building Department inspector Joe Cole lives a broken life, cut off from his wife and daughter after having been wrongly convicted of a child’s death in New York City. Now, the murder of a woman and a young man’s death open old wounds, plunging Joe and his former partner into the darkest corners of the city and into a race to expose the secrets that help the powerful hide their crimes.

F SALVATORE FANTASY
Salvatore, R. A., 1959-. Road of the patriarch. Renton, WA : Wizards of the Coast, c2006.
Ruthless assassin Artemis Entreri and his dark elf companion Jarlaxle Baenre are heralded as heroes by King Gareth of Bloodstone for vanquishing the evil undead sorcerer Zhengyi, but there are some who are not at all ready to honor the duo, and they must still contend with enemies who would much rather see them dead.

F SHARFEDDIN MYSTERY
Sharfeddin, Heather. Mineral spirits : a novel. 1st ed. Bridgehampton, N.Y. : Lanham, Md. : Bridge Works Pub. ;Distributed in the U.S. by National Book Network, c2006.
While struggling to fit into the community, newly appointed Mineral County sheriff Kip Edelson investigates the murder of a woman whose decomposed body was found by a neglected ten-year-old boy.

F SIMMONS
Simmons, Dan. The terror : a novel. New York : Little, Brown and Co., c2007.
The crewmen in ‘The Terror’ are trapped in the Arctic ice aboard their stranded ship and at the mercy of the elements. But, the real threat is whatever is out in the frigid darkness that stalks them, snatching one seaman at a time, leaving only mangled bodies behind. Now one lone man strikes out on foot in hopes of finding help for his crew who become more deranged and mutinous by the day, only to face an even-more- inconceivable nightmare.

F SMITH
Smith, Ali, 1962-. The accidental. 1st American ed. New York : Pantheon, c2005.
Eve Smart is immediately suspicious of Amber, a thirtysomething woman who shows up on Eve and her husband Michael’s front porch and talks her way into the family’s life, but as Eve and Michael begin to view their life through Amber’s eyes, they make some startling realizations about their so-called perfect family.

F SPRING
Spring, Michelle. The night lawyer : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2006.
Michelle Spring, hailed by the ‘London Times’ as ‘one of the 20th century’s 100 masters of crime,’ brings readers a story drawn from a harrowing real-life experience. In contemporary London, a young woman has just accepted a job with a daily tabloid. Working the evening shift, her task is to vet the morning edition. By day, the offices and docks along the Thames bustle with activity. It’s different at night. For somewhere in the darkness a stalker is lurking.

F STABENOW MYSTERY
Stabenow, Dana. A deeper sleep : a Kate Shugak novel. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2007.
P.I. Kate Shugak has been working on a case for the Anchorage D.A. involving the murder of a woman by her husband. What makes this case most intriguing for authorities is that this particular man had been the subject of previous investigations, but they were never able to get a conviction. Kate and State Trooper Jim Chopin are convinced ‘this time’ will be different. When he’s acquitted again, Kate and Jim, sure the man has gotten away with murder, know he’ll kill again. They’re right!.

F SUMMERS
Summers, Rowena, 1932-. Blackthorn Cottage. Sutton : Severn House, 2006.
As a city girl, Jasmine Wyatt isn’t at all sure what to think at inheriting a cottage in a small Somerset village. Her irascible widowed father is totally against her living there, and the opposition of local estate agent William Hedges puts her in a defiant mood. Even when she discovers the cottage has a bad reputation, Jasmine falls in love with it at first sight. Could she live there, in such a different environment, isolated from her father and sister and her busy life in Bristol? It seems that Blackthorn Cottage weaves a magic of its own, and despite doubts on all sides, circumstances dictate the future for her. As Jassy’s twenty-first birthday approaches, and her father finally comes to terms with this milestone day, Jassy discovers that she is not the only one to find unexpected happiness through the legacy of Blackthorn Cottage.

F SWIERCZYNSKI
Swierczynski, Duane. The blonde. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2006.
Jack Eisley, a husband and a father, thinks there’s no harm in a little flirting with the blonde sitting next to him in the airport bar. That is, until she leans toward him and says, ‘I poisoned your drink.’ She tells Jack that unless she keeps someone within ten-feet of her at all times, she’ll die, and if he wants the antidote, he’ll have to take her back to his hotel room, and stay by her side. Will ‘either’ of them live to see the morning?.

F SWOFFORD
Swofford, Anthony. Exit A : a novel. New York : Scribner, c2007.
In Swofford’s fiction debut he tells the story of Severin Boxx, 17, who lives on an Air Force base in Japan and is secretly in love with Virginia, the general’s daughter. Unknown to Severin, she had fallen in with the Japanese underground following her Japanese mother’s death. Then she disappeared. Although Severin’s family is transferred stateside shortly afterward, he can’t forget Virginia and decides to return to Japan to search for her.

F TABUCCHI
Tabucchi, Antonio, 1943-. It’s getting later all the time : a novel in the form of letters. New York : New Directions Pub., 2006.
This epistolary novel is composed of 18 love letters; the fictional authors are 17 men and one woman, whose sweeping, summative voice closes the collection abruptly. Are all the letters addressed to her? Does she even exist? There are no names—she is, variously My dear; My love; My sweet Ophelia (a nickname), among other second-person addresses. Written from places all over Europe, the letters are intimate and often exquisite, lingering over transcendent details of landscape, or ruefully soliloquizing on memory. One rancorous letter, “A Good Man Like You,” recalls a betrayal seven years in the past, while another contemplates a journey never taken: “Do you remember when we didn’t go to Samarkand?” The whole makes for delicious voyeurism, leavened with pointed bafflement at these partially rendered relationships: just as the reader wishes for all the gaps to be filled in, the letter writers wish to re-compose fractured relationships. Publisher’s Weekly.

F TAYLOR MYSTERY
Taylor, Sarah Stewart. Still as death. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2006.
Art history professor Sweeney St.George is in the middle of putting together an exhibit on her specialty, “the art of death,” for the university museum when she makes an unusual discovery: A valuable piece of Egyptian funerary jewelry that should be in the museum’s collection seems to be missing. Searching for answers, Sweeney learns that a student intern at the museum was the last person to check out the piece, a young woman who died of an apparent suicide soon after she handled the piece, more than twenty-five years ago.

F THOM
Thom, James Alexander. Saint Patrick’s battalion : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2006.
Thom offers a fictionalized account of the Mexican-American War of 1846 in which two soldiers on opposite sides of the battle recount their experiences as they fight alongside of the Hidalgo horsemen and native Indians.

F TRACY MYSTERY
Tracy, P. J. Snow blind. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2006.
Minneapolis Detectives Magozzi and Rolseth, along with the new sheriff, Iris Rikker, are on high alert after two policemen are killed during a friendly snowman-building contest, and set out to find the killer before he claims another victim.

F TREMAYNE MYSTERY
Tremayne, Peter. Master of souls : a mystery of Ancient Ireland. 1st St. Martin’s Minotaur ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2006, c2005.
In seventh-century Ireland, Sister Fidelma investigates the brutal murders of an abbess—who is the niece of the Ui Fidgente warlord Conri—and one of the abbey’s senior scholars as well as the disappearance of six young nuns, events that may be connected to the mysterious “Master of Souls” stirring up trouble in the countryside.

F TRUMAN LP MYSTERY
Truman, Margaret, 1924-. Murder at The Washington tribune : a Capital crimes novel. Large print ed. Waterville, Me. Thorndike Press, 2005.
At the big, aggressive newspaper The Washington Tribune, a young woman has been murdered. Then a second woman is killed, in Franklin Square. Like the first, she was young, attractive, and worked in the media. For veteran Trib reporter Joe Wilcox, the case strikes close to home. His own daughter is a beautiful rising TV-news star. Joe sees a chance to renew himself as a reporter and as a man. Spearheading the Trib’s investigation, he baits a trap with a secret from his own past.

F TURNBULL MYSTERY
Turnbull, Peter, 1950-. False knight. 1st World ed. New York : Severn House, 2006.
Mary Golightly was not a happy woman: she and her husband were known throughout the neighborhood for their violent fights. But in the last few weeks before she vanished, she seemed almost joyful, as if something wonderful had come into her life. That was before a bin man found her thigh in a refuse sack. Her husband makes no pretence at grief—but does that mean he killed her?

F VINCENZI
Vincenzi, Penny. Almost a crime. 1st ed. Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2006.
In late 1990s London, Tom and Octavia Fleming glitter among the chattering classes. Tom, a brilliant political consultant, and Octavia, an equally talented charity consultant, appear to have it all, three pretty children, money, success, health and good looks, everything but precious time together. When Octavia realizes that Tom is having an affair, she turns for support to her best friend, Louise Cheltenham, a former top model now married with children, and embarks on professional and sexual revenge against her husband. But her initial hurt is magnified tenfold when she learns the identity of Tom’s mistress, and her misdemeanors hardly compare to the revenge plan of Tom’s very troubled lover once he ends his affair. Publisher’s Weekly

F WAMBAUGH MYSTERY
Wambaugh, Joseph. Hollywood Station : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2006. Oracle, a sergeant for the Hollywood police force, and the other members of his team work together to solve the robbery of a Hollywood jewelry store and find themselves pulled into the city’s dark underworld.

F WHYTE
Whyte, Jack. The eagle : the concluding volume of the Camulod chronicles. 1st hardcover ed. New York : Forge, 2007.
In the conclusion of Whyte’s retelling of the Arthurian legend, Lancelot has come to Arthur’s court where he and the King form a strong bond. Together they share a vision for peace and law that will unite all the peoples of Britain. With Guinevere at Arthur’s side, they work to make that vision a reality. Then dark forces rise in opposition and it becomes hard to tell friend from foe.

F WILLIG
Willig, Lauren. The deception of the emerald ring. New York : Dutton, c2006.
In 1803, as England and France continue to battle, Letty Alsworthy is rushing to save her sister Mary from eloping with Geoffrey Pinghingdale-Snipe. Following an accidental meeting, Letty’s forced into a wedding with Geoffrey, who later steals away on a ship bound for Ireland. Mistaken identities and surprise romance provide the backdrop to the third novel in the Pink Carnation series while the League of the Pink Carnation works to stop the Irish Rebellion.

F WINEGARDNER
Winegardner, Mark, 1961-. The godfather’s revenge. New York : Putnam, 2006.
The Corleones and the assassination of JFK go head-to-head in this, the third and last volume of the official Mario Puzo-sanctioned ‘Godfather’ trilogy. This story opens in 1963 with Nick Geraci, Michael’s right hand man, who has betrayed him, on the run from Michael and the FBI. In the background is Carlos Tramonti, a New Orleans mob boss who has just returned from Colombia where he’d been sent at the orders of Robert F. Kennedy, brother of the President. Now Carlos wanted revenge.

F ZWEIBEL
Zweibel, Alan. The other Shulman : a novel. New York : Villard, c2005.
While at a crossroads in his personal and professional life, Shulman, a chubby, middle-aged stationery-store owner, encounters a man who has become successful and happy by making the life and career choices Shulman has spurned.


NON-FICTION:
158.1 BYR
Byrne, Rhonda. The secret. New York : Hillsboro, Ore. : Atria Books ; Beyond Words Pub., c2006.
This tie-in to the independent movie of the same name shares ‘the secret’ of obtaining anything one desires. Once known only to the elite, it is now shared by prominent physicists, authors, and philosophers through the understanding of the law of Attraction. The best part is, it is something that is contained within each of us.

179.7 KIE
Kiernan, Stephen. Last rights : rescuing the end of life from the medical system. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2006.
Drawn from medical research and personal stories, the author addresses the difficult issues associated with dying; and discusses how patients and families can regain control of the dying process.

211 DAW
Dawkins, Richard, 1941-. The God delusion. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Evolutionary theorist Richard Dawkins is not an atheist who sits quietly in the pews. The scientist dubbed “Darwin’s Rottweiler” refuses to regard religion as mere harmless nonsense; he views it instead as one of humanity’s most pernicious creations. In ‘The God Delusion’, he attacks arguments for the existence of God; accuses religions of fomenting divisiveness, war, and bigotry and castigates believers in intelligent design.

306.81 DOO
Doocy, Steve. The Mr. & Mrs. Happy handbook : everything I know about love and marriage (with corrections by Mrs. Doocy). New York : William Morrow, 2006.
A whimsical and provocative guide to understanding the opposite sex counsels readers on the intricacies of dating, marriage, and parenthood in spite of stereotypical shortcomings, in a volume that draws on the experiences of the author, his friends, and celebrities.

613.2 ROI
Roizen, Michael F. You, on a diet : the owner’s manual to waist management. New York : Free Press, c2006.
Presents a comprehensive study that explains how and why the body stores calories, burns fat, and reacts to certain foods; and offers advice on creating an effective diet and exercise plan.

793.2 SED
Sedaris, Amy. I like you : hospitality under the influence. 1st ed. New York : Warner Books, 2006.
Amy Sedaris offers a tongue-in-cheek guide to entertaining with practical advice on how to avoid nosy guests, what to serve uptight neighbors, how to help guests relax, and more.

818 POU
Poundstone, Paula. There’s nothing in this book that I meant to say. 1st ed. New York : Harmony Books, c2006.
Part memoir, part monologue, with a pinch of self-deprecation and a dash of startling honesty, this surprisingly unique laugh-out-loud book features biographies of legendary historical figures from which Poundstone can’t help digressing to tell her own. Mining gold from the lives of Abraham Lincoln, Helen Keller, Charles Dickens, Joan of Arc and Beethoven, among others, the eccentric and utterly inimitable mind of Paula Poundstone dissects, observes, and comments on the successes and failures of her own life with spot-on comedic timing. If you like Paula Poundstone’s ironic and blindingly intelligent humor, you’ll love this book.

920 U B
U2 by U2. 1st U.S. ed. New York : HarperCollins, 2006.
The members of the rock band U2 chronicle the group’s history, describing the band’s beginnings in high school, their rise to fame, the making of their albums, aspects of their personal lives, and other topics.

921 DIANA
Burrell, Paul, 1958-. The way we were : remembering Diana. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2006.
Paul Burrell opens the door to Kensington Palace to provide a unique visual tour. With previously unseen interior photographs, the reader is led inside the world of Princess Diana—room-by-room, memory-by-memory. He paints a faithful and poignant tribute in remembrance of ‘the boss’ as the person who shared her private world and knew her best. In this fascinating new account, he allows the reader to feel ‘at home with Diana’, sharing her innermost feelings, hopes and philosophies that teach us more about her mind and the way she thought. From the Publisher.

921 DIANA
Bradford, Sarah, 1938-. Diana. New York : Viking, 2006.
Presents a comprehensive biography on the life and tragic death of Diana, Princess of Wales; and describes how the shy Lady Diana Spencer came to marry Charles, Prince of Wales, their troubled marriage, separation and divorce, and Diana’s struggle with the press.

921 POWELL
DeYoung, Karen, 1949-. Soldier : the life of Colin Powell. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2006.
A biography of Colin Powell that covers his childhood as the son of Jamaican immigrants in the Bronx, personal life, military career, and work as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and chief diplomat.

921 TOUCHETTE
Touchette, Charleen. It stops with me : memoir of a Canuck girl. Santa Fe, NM : Touch Art Books, c2004.
Charleen Touchette shares how she healed a legacy of anger, alcoholic rages, violence, and denial through her artwork and writing.

921 VIDAL
Vidal, Gore, 1925-. Point to point navigation : a memoir, 1964 to 2006. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2006.
Gore Vidal reflects on his remarkable life, sharing the moments that shaped his life and career and the people who have inspired him along the way.

940.54 MIL
Miller, Donald L., 1944-. Masters of the air : America’s bomber boys who fought the air war against Nazi Germany. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2006.
Miller presents a narrative of the American bomber crews who flew hundreds of missions against Nazi Germany during World War II, and describes life in wartime England and in German POW camps.

974.3 COF VT COLL
Coffin, Bruce, 1942-. The long light of those days : recollections of a Vermont village at mid-century. Woodstock, Vt. : Woodstock Historical Society, c2005.
“You can go home again, if only in memory,” Bruce Coffin assures us in this illuminating record of growing up in a small Vermont village fifty years ago....With the remarkable clarity of Norman Rockwell paintings, the author reveals the people, sights, sounds, and atmosphere of Woodstock, whose natural and manmade beauty has made it a memorable landmark.

974.3 HIG VT COLL
Higgins, Dan. Vacancy, art & transformation : Winooski, 1969-2005, recollections and photographs. Winooski, Vt. :The Photo Lounge, c2006.
‘Vacancy, art & transformation’ offers a remarkable 35-year photographic record of social change in this unique Vermont community. Dan Higgins describes a 1970s downtown where people socialized in the restaurants, where shuffleboard table were ubiquitous, and where people filled the bingo parlors nightly. He describes the Urban Renewal Project that demolished the east half of the neighborhood and uprooted many of its residents. He recalls the importance to musicians of the Melanson’s Mill Restaurant, of the town’s ongoing attraction for artists, and of the city’s visionary proposal to use federal funds to cover Winooski with a dome. He describes the regional excitement over the “Renaissance Project” in the 1980s, and finally honors the influx of residents from other countries who have added to Winooski’s cultural richness.

MEDIA:

CD 793.2 SED
Sedaris, Amy. I like you : [hospitality under the influence].
New York : Hachette Audio, p2006. Read by the author.

CD 956.7044 GAR
Garrels, Anne, 1951-. Naked in Baghdad : [the Iraq war as seen by NPR’s correspondent]. Unabridged. New York, NY : Audio Renaissance, p2003. Read by Anne Garrels and Vint Lawrence.
One of only sixteen un-imbedded American journalists who stayed in the now-legendary Palestine Hotel in Baghdad throughout the American invasion, Garrels was uniquely placed to describe the war. She narrates her evolving relationship with her Iraqi driver, Tahir, who becomes her friend and confidant, often serving as her eyes and ears among the populace and taking her where no other reporter was able to penetrate. Tahir’s own opinions and poignant personal story provide a trenchant counterpoint to the headline news. The diary is also punctuated by e-mail bulletins sent by Garrels’ husband, Vint Lawrence, to friends around the world, providing a private view of the
rough-and-tumble, often dangerous life of a foreign correspondent, along with much-needed comic relief. The result is an enthralling, deeply personal, utterly authentic picture of this war that no one else could have written.

CD FRE
Frey, Stephen W. The power broker. North Kingstown, RI : BBC Audiobooks America, p2006. Narrated by Holter Graham.
In this tense thriller, Christian Gillette, hero of The Protégé, is approached by a shadowy group representing vast wealth (but vague motives). It’s a politically conservative alliance interested in a partnership with Gillette’s company, Everest Capital. Then he is contacted by a charismatic liberal politician named Jesse Wood, who is about to announce his candidacy for President; Wood and his advisors want Gillette to run for vice President. Skeptical of both offers, Gillette tries to discern who can be trusted. But he soon realizes a colleague has ties to one party... and ultimately, he can’t trust anybody at all.

DVD 974.3 LIF
Life in Franklin County. [Waterbury, VT : Peregrine Productions, 200-?].
Fifteen Franklin County residents share their stories of what life was like!.

DVD SHA
Shall we dance? [United States] : Burbank, Calif. : Miramax Home Entertainment ; Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2005]. Koji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka, Eriko Watanabe.
A middle-aged businessman’s dull life takes an interesting turn when he signs up for a ballroom dance class just to meet the beautiful dance instructor.

Please note: Some of the book descriptions have been excerpted from Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com. They are most often based on Publisher's descriptions. Sources such as Booklist, the New York Times Book Reviews, Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus and others are specifically identified.

January 2007

FICTION:

F ABOULELA
Aboulela, Leila, 1964-. The translator. 1st American ed. New York : [S.l.] : Black Cat ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2006], c1999.
Sammar, a Sudanese widow working as an Arabic translator at a Scottish University, develops a deep friendship with a secular Islamic scholar that helps her awaken to the possibility of real love, but their relationship is threatened by her lover’s lack of faith.

F ADICHIE
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-. Half of a yellow sun. 1st North American ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
The lives of Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy, Olanna, the mistress of the professor the boy works for, and Richard, a Englishman in love with the woman’s sister, are endangered during the political unrest resulting from the forming of the independent nation of Biafra in Nigeria.

F AMMANITI
Ammaniti, Niccolò, 1966-. I’ll steal you away. 1st American ed. Edinburgh ; New York : Canongate, 2006.
“Ischiano Scalo. A place where even the main road out of town gives up after a couple of miles, where escape from a life of boredom and emptiness is almost impossible. Forced into crimes he never wanted to commit, 11-year-old Pietro reaches crisis point when his parents ignore his pleas for support and his schoolteacher turns her back on him - looking for help, he find instead a terrible revenge. Escape from Ischiano Scalo comes at a price. Life there will never be the same again.” Through the eyes of a desperate boy and a deluded small-town Don Juan, Niccolo Ammaniti gradually reveals his cast of misfits, lighting up the grand dreams and sad realities of ordinary people living extraordinary lives in this taut and bittersweet masterpiece.

F ANDREWS MYSTERY
Andrews, Donna. No nest for the wicket. 1st ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2006.
Croquet is a genteel game, usually played on a summer afternoon on a tranquil green lawn. Extreme Croquet is a whole other story. That’s what Meg Langslow and her new friends are playing on the several-acre farm of her new neighbor, a countryside studded with rocks, steep hills, and placid, seemingly immovable cows. While this society game can get quite warm, it hasn’t reached the stage of actual homicide—at least not until Meg knocks her ball down a small cliff and encounters the body of a dead woman.—From publisher description.

F ANTHONY FANTASY
Anthony, Piers. Stork naked. 1st ed. New York : Tor, 2006.
‘Stork Naked’ tells the tale of Surprise Golem, an expectant mother who has just lost her baby. In Xanth, babies are actually delivered by storks and the stork assigned to deliver Surprise’s bundle of joy has inexplicably refused to surrender it, flying off instead through a hole in the fabric of reality. Now, to track down her child, Surprise must lead an ill-assorted group of associates on a quest through dozens of different Xanths with sinister forces determined to stop them.

F ARNALDUR INDRIASON MYSTERY
Arnaldur Indriðason, 1961-. Silence of the grave. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2006.
In Indridason’s excellent second mystery (after 2005’s ‘Jar City’), a skeleton, buried for more than 50 years, is uncovered at a building site on the outskirts of Reykjavik. Who is it? How did he or she die? And was it murder? The police wonder, chief among them the tortured, introspective Inspector Erlendur, introduced in ‘Jar City’. While an archeologist excavates the burial site, several other narratives unfold: a horrifying story of domestic abuse set during WWII, a search for missing persons that unearths almost-forgotten family secrets involving some of the city’s most prominent citizens, and Erlendur’s own painful family story (his estranged, drug-addicted daughter is in a coma, after miscarrying her child). Publisher’s Weekly.

F ARSENAULT
Arsenault, Mark. Gravewriter. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press/Thomas Dunne Books, 2006.
Although Billy Povich and his wife had been separated at the time she was killed in a car accident, he still intended to kill the man who had been at the wheel the night of her death. A summons to jury duty for a murder trial changes his plans as he finds himself in a race against time to save all he holds dear.

F ASHFORD MYSTERY
Ashford, Lindsay Jayne. Frozen. 1st U.S. ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books, 2006.
Profiler Megan Rhys has been asked to advise the police on the murders of two young prostitutes whose killers may be working together. When information provided by police doesn’t add up, Megan wonders if someone is trying to manipulate her, or if her own prejudices are coloring her judgment. After still more deaths, and a break-in at her home, other questions come to mind. Could the killer be closer than she realizes, and is she being betrayed by a member of her own family?

F ATWOOD
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939-. The tent. 1st ed. in the U.S.A. New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, c2006.
Here is a collection of illustrated fictional essays by Margaret Atwood that explore a wide range of subjects, including youth, history, Shakespeare, and orphanhood.

F BARBIERI MYSTERY
Barbieri, Maggie. Murder 101. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2006.
English professor Alison Bergeron was not having a good day! Waking to find her car had been stolen, she had walked to the train station to get to work. Arriving at her office at St. Thomas College, she discovered two homicide detectives waiting for her. The good news: they found her car. The bad news: the body of one of her students was in the trunk. Trying to get her name off Detective Bobby Crawford’s suspect list was foremost in her thoughts as she began her own investigation.

F BARRON MYSTERY
Barron, Stephanie. Jane and the barque of frailty. New York : Bantam Books, 2006.
It’s 1811 and Jane Austen is with her brother in London awaiting the publication of her first novel. She’s distracted by the murder of a woman said to have been having an affair with Lord Castlereagh. Suspecting there’s more to the story than meets the eye, Jane’s attempt to learn the truth leads her into the heart of a conspiracy with roots in the French Revolution.

F BECKETT MYSTERY
Beckett, Simon. The chemistry of death. New York : Delacorte Press, 2006.
Three years after moving to rural Norfolk to escape his life, David Hunter if thrown back into a nightmare when the corpse of a woman is found in the woods, bringing everything David has been trying to escape back into his life and forcing him to confront a killer and the dreams that haunt him.

F BRASELTON
Braselton, Jeanne. The other side of air : a novel. New York : Ballantine Books, c2006.
As Katy Doyal’s time on Earth draws to a close, she struggles to leave behind an orderly life and enlists the help of a stranger, a middle-aged free-spirit named Rose, to care for her husband, Ephraim, and after Katy’s death, Ephraim finds a sense of peace with Rose.

F BREWER
Brewer, Sonny. A sound like thunder : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2006.
Rove MacNee, approaching eighty, looks back on his sixteenth year, recalling the death of his grandmother, his father’s drunken rages, and the possibility that his mother was having an affair with Josef, a German neighbor who gave Rove his first boat, allowing him to escape his troubled home life.

F BROCKMANN
Brockmann, Suzanne. Into the storm : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2006.
A friendly competition between U.S. Navy SEALS Team Sixteen and Troubleshooters, Inc., turns serious for former lovers and operatives Mark Jenkins and Lindsey Fontaine, when receptionist Tracy Shapiro, who had been posing as a hostage during the training exercise, goes missing and evidence of a serial killer is found in the area.

F BROOKS FANTASY
Brooks, Max. World War Z : an oral history of the zombie war. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c2006.
Max Brooks,son of actor Mel Brooks, chronicles the fictitious “zombie wars” that nearly decimated the human population, with first-hand accounts from people who have had a brush with the undead and facts and figures documenting how many undead currently roam the planet.

F BRUEN MYSTERY
Bruen, Ken. American skin. 1st ed. Boston : Lanham, Md. : Kate’s Mystery Books ; Distributed by National Book Network, c2006.
Stephen Blake is a good man blown in bad directions. He and girlfriend Siobhan, best friend Tommy, IRA terrorist Stapleton, and a particularly American sort of psychopath named Dade, are all on a collision course somewhere on the road between the dive bars of New York, and the pitiless desert of the Southwest. American Skin is the long-awaited American novel by Ken Bruen, the hardboiled master of Irish Noir.

F BURKE MYSTERY
Burke, Jan. Kidnapped. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2006.
Irene Kelly hopes the articles profiling missing children run in the local newspaper will bring in more tips and help authorities uncover the truth, but she is unprepared for the articles’ deadly backlash and teams up with one victim’s brother to try and find the children before it is too late.

F CAREY
Carey, Lisa. Every visible thing. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2006.
Five years after their oldest son, Hugh, disappeared, the members of the Furey family try to move on with their lives, with his mother losing herself in a new career, his father leaving behind his faith, and his two siblings, Owen and Lena, trying to come to terms with the loss of their brother and their own adolescent crises.

F CAROFIGLIO
Carofiglio, Gianrico, 1961-. A walk in the dark. London : Bitter Lemon, 2006.
When Martina accuses her ex-boyfriend-the son of a powerful local judge-of assault and battery, no witnesses can be persuaded to testify on her behalf, and one lawyer after another refuses to represent her. Guido Guerrieri knows the case could bring his legal career to a messy end, but he cannot resist the appeal of a hopeless cause. Nor can he deny an attraction to Sister Claudia, the young woman in charge of the shelter where Martina is living, who shares his love of martial arts and his virulent hatred of injustice.

F CARTER
Carter, Steven, 1961-. Famous writers school : a novel. New York : Counterpoint, 2006.
Famous Writers School is composed of the letters and stories of three authors who are taking a would-be correspondence course by that grandiose name, and the self-serving “lessons” that Wendell Newton, their endearingly obtuse instructor, doles out in response. Wendell’s oddball collection of students include Rio, an alluring blues singer on whom he quickly develops a crush; Linda Trane, an unhinged housewife who seems to be stalking him; and Dan, a truly talented author of hardboiled detective fiction. As Dan’s gritty mystery arrives piece by piece, Wendell gets hooked on the story, and decides to dress it up in his own style in order to pass it off as his creation. Gradually the slender threads of connection between each character become apparent, even as Wendell’s imagination careens out of control.

F CASE
Case, John. Ghost dancer : a thriller. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2007.
Having just been released from Allenwood Federal Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania, Jack Wilson is hell-bent on a return to Paradise, which to him is a destruction of Western civilization. Native American by birth, though skeptical of so-called Indian culture, he’s obsessed with the secret notebooks of Nicola Tesla and the ‘Ghost Dance’ of his namesake. Tesla claimed to have discovered a weapon of unparalleled destructiveness that would rid the earth of the white civilization. If it was real, Wilson not only wanted it, but planned to use it!

F CASEY MYSTERY
Casey, Donis. Hornswoggled : an Alafair Tucker mystery. 1st ed. Scottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, 2006.
Set in the prairie town of Boynton, Okla., in the spring of 1913, Casey’s nostalgic, folksy second novel to feature Alafair Tucker finds the full-time mother of 11 and part-time sleuth worried about one of her grown daughters, Alice. Alice is sweet on barber Walter Kelley, an attractive widower whom the determined and discerning Alafair mistrusts; Walter is just too popular with the ladies. Since Alice is set on having Walter, Alafair seeks distraction by investigating the unsolved murder of Louise Kelley, Walter’s late wife, whose stabbed body surfaced in a creek bordering the Tucker farm eight months earlier.

F CAULEY
Cauley, Harry. Millersburg. Sag Harbor, NY : Permanent Press, c2006.
Ben and his sister, Estella, struggle to lead normal lives under the tyrannical rule of their grandmother, Mamu, who rules the family with an iron fist, but when the family estate becomes the scene for murder, they rely on their own strengths to find the killer and protect themselves.

F CHERRYH FANTASY
Cherryh, C. J. Fortress of ice. 1st ed. New York : EOS, c2006.
Cefwyn, who is king at last, is rebuilding his kingdom following its destruction in ‘Fortress of Dragons.’ Then a new challenge arises and peace is threatened by a sinister force through his own son. It’s up to Cefwyn and his powerful friend Tristen Sihhe to unmask the dark forces that threaten Cefwyn’s reign and the tentative peace.

F CHURCH MYSTERY
Church, James. A corpse in the Koryo. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, c2006.
Inspector O is pulled into a web of betrayal and death in North Korea when he becomes the target of a government plan to eliminate anyone who knows too much about a series of decades-old kidnappings and murders.

F CLEGG FANTASY
Clegg, Douglas, 1958-. The lady of serpents. 1st ed. New York: Ace Books, 2006.
Aleric and his vampire companion, Ewen, become trapped in a subterranean prison and are forced to survive by drinking each other’s blood; but when they are released, they face Alienora, a powerful sorceress, determined to create her own world.

F CLEVERLY MYSTERY
Cleverly, Barbara. The bee’s kiss. 1st Carroll & Graf ed. New York : [Berkeley, Calif.] : Carroll & Graf Publishers ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2006.
Former Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands is called in to investigate the murder of Dame Beatrice Jagow-Joliffe and the theft of her emerald necklace, and finds himself embroiled in political intrigue when the authorities suddenly close the case and demand the return of the files.

F COEL MYSTERY
Coel, Margaret, 1937-. The drowning man. 1st ed. New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2006.
Father John and Vicky Holden investigate the theft of a petroglyph sacred to the Arapaho of Wyoming and a similar case from seven years before, attempting to clear a suspect, Travis Birdsong, of both crimes—and of manslaughter—and as they struggle to do so, the death toll rises.

F COLLINSWORTH
Collinsworth, Eden. It might have been what he said : a novel. 1st ed. New York : [S.l.] : Arcade Pub. ; Distributed by Time Warner Book Group, c2006.
Isabel seems to have everything a woman could want, intelligence, a fabulous job, and a loving husband, but when Isabel is driven to an act of insanity, she is forced to reexamine her life and determine where everything went wrong.

F CONNOLLY MYSTERY
Connolly, John, 1968-. The book of lost things. New York : Atria Books, c2006.
Twelve-year-old David’s grief over his mother’s death at the start of World War II intensifies with his father’s remarriage and the impending birth of a sibling, so when his books begin talking to him, tempting him to enter a portal into a magical world, he decides to take the risk.

F COX MYSTERY
Cox, Michael, 1948-. The meaning of night : a confession. 1sted. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2006.
London scholar and murderer Edward Glyver makes his confession about how he sought revenge on Phoebus Rainsford Daunt, the man he believed responsible for everything wrong in his life, especially a missed chance at a large inheritance.

F CRANE
Crane, Caprice. Stupid and contagious. 1st ed. New York : 5 Spot, 2006.
Two twenty-something neighbors—Heaven, who has just been fired from her loathed waitressing job, and Brady, who is full of big ideas but has yet to sign a band to his record label—set out on a mission to find the founder of Starbucks.

F CUSSLER
Cussler, Clive. Treasure of Khan. New York : Putnam, 2006.
Genghis Khan once ruled an empire four times the size of Alexander the Great’s: an expanse that stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea. When Dirk Pitt tracks down a missing survey team who disappears from Siberia under questionable circumstances, he discovers a mysterious mogul who is wreaking havoc on Middle East oil export facilities. The Mongolian dreams of restoring the conquests of ancient Mongolia, and holds a dark secret about Genghis Kahn, Kublai Khan, and the treasures of Xanadu.

F DANIELEWSKI
Danielewski, Mark Z. Only revolutions : Only revolutions. 1sted. New York : Pantheon Books,cc2006.
Presents a story about teenage lovers Hailey and Sam printed on two sides with one side telling the story from Hailey’s point of view, and the other from Sam’s.

F DAVIS
Davis, Charles. Angel’s rest. Don Mills, Ont. : Mira, c2006.
Eleven-year-old Charlie York’s idyllic life in Sunnyside, Virginia, is shattered in 1967 when his father is killed by a shotgun blast and his mother is arrested for murder, and he becomes even more confused when his caretaker, Lacy Albert Coe, is victimized by townspeople who are offended that the elderly African-American storyteller has been left in charge of a white child.

F DOSS MYSTERY
Doss, James D. Stone butterfly. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2006.
Because of a dream Ute tribal elder Daisy Perika has been having, she fears that a girl is in danger of being murdered. Since she has not seen the girls’ face in her dreams, she can’t give her nephew, part-time rancher, part-time investigator Charlie Moon, a description when she asks him to find the girl. Charlie thinks this gets him out on a wild goose chase. Then an elderly man is murdered in Nevada and the suspect found standing over him is the girl from Daisy’s dream.

F DOUGLASS FANTASY
Douglass, Sara. The crippled angel. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Tor, 2006.
As demons fight to breach the gates of heaven, the archangel Michael asks former monk Thomas Neville to find the demons that have taken human forms and expose their evil nature, forcing Thomas to turn his back on his vows and begin a new life.

F DU BRUL
Du Brul, Jack B. Havoc. New York : Dutton, 2006.
Long before the German zeppelin ‘Hindenburg’ kept its appointment with destiny in 1937, death was already onboard in the form of a madman with a locked safe containing something that could change the course of history. Just before arriving at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, he threw the safe overboard, planning to return for it later. Seven decades later, mining engineer Philip Mercer discovered the lost safe and the cryptic letter inside, launching him on an adventure like none he’d ever experienced before.

F DUNN MYSTERY
Dunn, Carola. Gunpowder plot : a Daisy Dalrymple mystery. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2006.
Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher travels to a school friend’s family home to write an account of the estate’s famous Guy Fawkes celebration, but her quiet weekend is ruined when tension between family members turns deadly.

F EDWARDSON MYSTERY
Edwardson, Åke, 1953-. Sun and shadow : an Erik Winter novel. New York : Viking, 2005.
Erik Winter, the youngest chief inspector in Sweden, is already dealing with the stresses of his father’s death, his fortieth birthday, and impending parenthood, when a serial killer with a penchant for death metal music strikes in Gothenburg and investigation indicates a link to the police department.

F ENRIGHT MYSTERY
Enright, Tracey. Claire Fontaine, crime fighter : a novel of life and death—and shoes. New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Minotaur, c2006.
Assistant Claire Fontaine uses her wealth and connections to help her boss, private investigator Henry Bennett, find a serial murderer who victimizes Los Angeles party girls.

F ERICKSON
Erickson, Carolly, 1943-. The last wife of Henry VIII. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2006.
Catherine Parr was the least known, yet most clever of all of Henry VIII’s six wives. Although she was very much in love with Thomas Seymour, she was thrown into the intrigue-filled snake pit of the royal court. From the splendors of the Field of the Cloth of Gold to Henry’s last gory years when heads rolled, Catherine withstood the onslaught, eventually finding happiness with Seymour, who coveted Princess Elizabeth’s affections. Catherine won out, but at great cost.

F FEEHAN FANTASY
Feehan, Christine. Dark celebration : a Carpathian reunion. 1st ed. New York : Berkley Books, 2006.
Mikhail Dubrinsky, Prince of the Carpathians, fears he can’t protect his people from the extinction of their species. His enemies are plotting to slaughter Carpathian females, which also puts his life mate, Raven, and their daughter Savannah, in danger. He becomes more hopeful as Carpathians from around the world gather to join their powers. Now for the first time, all the inhabitants of Carpathian legend reunite for a celebration of sensual adventure, undying passion, and astonishing fantasy.

F FORBES
Forbes, Charlotte. The good works of Ayela Linde : a novel in stories. 1st ed. New York : [S.l.] : Arcade Pub. ; Distributed by Time Warner Book Group, c2006.
The housekeeper, butcher, family and friends, and others describe their encounters with Ayela Linde, the illegitimate daughter of a Mexican dressmaker born during the Great Depression, providing a portrait of her life from the age of seventeen to old age.

F FORD
Ford, Richard, 1944-. The lay of the land. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2006.
Frank Bascombe’s career in real estate is thriving and his life finally seems to be on the right track, but when he is faced with marital and medical crises, he must find a new way to navigate the challenges of life without endangering everything he has worked for.

F FRESAN
Fresán, Rodrigo, 1963-. Kensington gardens. 1st American ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Peter Hook, a wildly successful writer of children’s books, kidnaps, binds, and gags the child actor who plays the time-traveling child hero of Hook’s books in the movies. During the course of an evening, Hook narrates two intertwining tales: his own life story as a child of a Swinging Sixties couple in London and that of Peter Pan’s creator, J.M. Barrie. Fresan forces ironic parallels, for example, between Hook’s and Barrie’s lives (with Kensington Gardens as the focus of both of them) and between the Edwardian and psychedelic ages. Library Journal.

F GEORGE
George, Margaret, 1943-. Helen of Troy. New York : Viking, 2006.
A novel about the legendary Helen of Troy and her epic Homeric story set in the heart of the Mycenaean culture.

F GLAUSER MYSTERY
Glauser, Friedrich, 1896-1938. Fever. London : Bitter Lemon Press, 2006.
When two women are “accidentally” killed by gas leaks, Sergeant Studer investigates the thinly disguised double murder in Bern and Basel. The trail leads to a geologist dead from a tropical fever in a Moroccan Foreign Legion post and a murky oil deal involving rapacious politicians and their henchmen. With the help of a hashish-induced dream and the common sense of his stay-at-home wife, Studer solves the multiple riddles on offer. But assigning guilt remains an elusive affair.

F GLEESON MYSTERY
Gleeson, Janet. The thief taker : a novel. 1st Simon & Schuster pbk. ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2006.
Agnes Meadowes’ seeks refuge from the streets of 1750’s London by working in the kitchen in the house of the Blanchards. For 40 pounds a year she prepares jugged hare, oyster loaves, and cauliflower pickles. With the murder of an apprentice and the disappearance of an expensive silver wine cooler and the kitchen maid, Nicholas Blanchard asks Agnes to investigate. She enters a dark labyrinth of secrets, jealousy, and criminal intent in her search for the truth.

F GREENWOOD MYSTERY
Greenwood, Kerry. Murder on the Ballarat train : a Phryne Fisher mystery. 1st U.S. ed. Scottsdale, Ariz. : Poisoned Pen Press, 2006, c1991.
On the train to Ballarat, 1920s Australian feminist flapper and private investigator Phryne Fisher (Flying Too High) wakes up to the smell of chloroform. She saves all her fellow passengers, except an old, cantankerous woman whose body is found at the side of the train tracks. While investigating the murder for the woman’s daughter, Phryne also takes in an amnesiac waif on the train who has no knowledge of why she is traveling in the opposite direction of her ticket. Library Journal.

F GUENE
Guène, Faïza. Kiffe kiffe tomorrow. 1st ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harvest Original/Harcourt, c2006.
After her father’s abandonment, Doria struggles to make a new life for herself and her mother in the projects of Paris.

F HAMILTON MYSTERY /FANTASY
Hamilton, Laurell K. Mistral’s kiss : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2006.
Meredith Gentry, a detective, is also a princess to the Faerie world. Now it’s time for her to fulfill her obligation to conceive an heir to the throne of the Unseelie Court. Though the quest may be rife with pleasures, the shadows of intrigue continue to spread over the royal court and sabotage lurks at every turn. While the Unseelie Mound reawakens in the dead gardens, powerful curses are at work and Meredith’s own command of magic has turned dangerously unpredictable.

F HARRIS
Harris, Robert, 1957-. Imperium : a novel of ancient Rome. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2006.
Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, sets in motion a chain of events that puts his master in one of the most suspenseful courtroom dramas in history when he invites a terrified stranger into his home.

F HARRIS MYSTERY
Harris, Charlaine. Grave surprise. Berkley Prime Crime, c2006.
A college class gets more than it bargained for when Harper Connelly gives a demonstration of her uncanny talent. Instead of just finding one body in an old grave, she finds two: the original occupant and a recently deceased girl whom Harper had tried, and failed, to find two years previously. To dispel suspicions about her own innocence, Harper and her stepbrother Tolliver undertake their own hunt to find the killer-only to find yet another body in the same grave.

F HARTE ROMANCE
Harte, Amanda. Painted ponies. New York : Avalon Books, c2006.
Her face forever changed by a tragic fire, Anne Moreland returns to her hometown of Hidden Falls, hoping to resume her old life. But nothing is the same. Her brother is gone; his nemesis is back in town; and the man who meets her train is a stranger, a handsome stranger who carves the most incredible carousel horses. He’s a man who loves beauty and adventure—absolutely the wrong man for a scarred woman who is building a new life for herself in Hidden Falls. No matter how wonderful he is, it would be foolish to dream of a future with Rob.

F HERBERT SCIENCE FICTION
Herbert, Brian. Hunters of Dune. 1st ed. New York : Tor, 2006.
Duncan, Sheeana, and several refugees struggle to keep the Enemy at bay, using genetic technology to bring back Paul Muad’Dib, Chani, Lady Jessica, Dr. Wellington Yueh, and others from Dune’s past. Based on an outline by late “Dune” author Frank Herbert.

F ILES
Iles, Greg. True evil. New York : Scribner, 2006.
Following her sister’s death, FBI agent Karen Crowe, suspecting that her brother-in-law was responsible, took her nephew and fled with him. Nine weeks later, in another part of Mississippi, Karen walks into a doctor’s office where she tells him she’s uncovered a strange rash of deaths among clients of a local divorce attorney and, since the doctor’s wife was one of the attorney’s clients, she warns the doctor that he might be in danger of being killed. Together they work to expose the attorney.

F JAKES
Jakes, John, 1932-. The gods of Newport : a novel. New York : Dutton, c2006.
Before Newport became the great summer resort of New York’s moneyed elite, the town at the southern tip of Aquidneck Island was the home port for smugglers and slavers. In the 1880s and 90s, thanks to social gadflies like Ward McCallister and Harry Leher, Newport began to attract rich Americans who turned the quiet New England village into a haven for the extravagant and social climbers. This is the story of what happened when New York aristocrats and Newport locals found themselves in a social struggle.

F JOERN
Joern, Pamela Carter, 1948-. The floor of the sky. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2006.
A widow soon to lose her ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills is faced with questions about family and the future when her sixteen-year-old pregnant granddaughter arrives from the city for the summer.

F JONES
Jones, Edward P. All Aunt Hagar’s children. New York : Amistad, c2006.
Here is a collection of fourteen short stories by award-winning author Edward Jones that explore the people and unique sub-culture of Washington, D.C.

F JUST
Just, Ward S. Forgetfulness. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Thomas Railles, an American expatriate who at one time did small jobs for the CIA, is devastated when his French wife, Florette, is murdered after she is injured while out walking and found by four Moroccans who, believing her to be American, chose to kill rather than help her.

F KADISH
Kadish, Rachel. Tolstoy lied : a love story. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Tracy Farber has always been happy with her single life and her career at a major university, but when she takes on a project to disprove Tolstoy’s theory that happiness is boring and determine whether happiness can be interesting, she is forced to re-examine her own life and discover if she is truly happy.

F KEATING
Keating, H. R. F. (Henry Reymond Fitzwalter), 1926-. One man and his bomb. 1st St. Martin’s Minotaur ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2006.
Detective Superintendent Harriet Martens had worked tirelessly to prevent terror. Then she and her husband got the phone call every parent dreads. Their twin sons had been the victims of a bombing. One was dead and the other seriously injured. In spite of her tragedy, her superior entrusts her to investigate the disappearance of an accidentally created substance from a local agricultural lab that could devastate every plant form on the globe. To find the culprit she must pull out all the stops.

F KELLERMAN
Kellerman, Jonathan. Capital crimes. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2006.
The Kellerman’s team up to bring readers two white-knuckle stories. In ‘Thy Sister’s Keeper,’ a California legislator is killed and Detectives Will Barnes and Amanda Iris are assigned the task of whittling down the lesbian’s long list of enemies to find a killer. In ‘Music City Breakdown,’ Martel ‘Sweetboy’ Jeffries, a music legend, is murdered before he can start enjoying his royalty payments. Detectives Southerby and Van Gundy, dig into his past in an effort to find a killer. The selections include special appearances by Alex Delaware, Peter Decker, and Rina Lazarus.

F KERR MYSTERY
Kerr, Philip. The one from the other : a Bernie Gunther novel. New York : Putnams, c2006.
Bernie Gunther, a private detective in Munich in 1949, is prospering in the aftermath of the war cleaning up some of the messes left behind by the Nazis, but he finds himself surrounded by enemies, not knowing who to trust, when he is hired by a woman to confirm that her missing husband, a wanted man for his deeds at a Polish concentration camp, is really dead.

F KING
King, Tabitha. Candles burning : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Berkley Books, 2006.
After her father is brutally murdered, Calley Dakin and her mother find themselves exiled to Pensacola Beach, where Calley learns she has psychic abilities and struggles to protect herself from those who wish to exploit her gift.

F KOONTZ
Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-. Brother Odd. New York : Bantam Books, 2006.
Odd Thomas is back. This time he’s done something he never imagined he would do. He’s left Pico Mundo and everyone he held dear to embrace the solitude and peace of an isolated monastery high in the western mountains. Now, even among the monks, he’s managed to find himself in trouble. A killer is stalking the ancient, holy halls and Odd is about to confront an enemy more powerful than any he has yet encountered.

F KUSHNER FANTASY
Kushner, Ellen. The privilege of the sword. New York : Bantam Books, 2006.
Katherine Talbert travels to live with her impulsive and self-indulgent uncle, the Mad Duke of Tremontaine, who decides she should be trained in swordsmanship instead of prepare for marriage, and she proves to be as good as any of the men.

F LAHAYE
LaHaye, Tim F. John’s story : the last eyewitness. New York : Putnam Praise, c2006.
Ninety-year-old John, the last surviving apostle, remembers his broken life before befriending Jesus and is called upon to write a gospel that definitively establishes Jesus as the Son of God.

F LAZEBNIK
LaZebnik, Claire Scovell. Knitting under the influence. 1st ed. New York : 5 Spot/Warner Books, 2006.
“Three twentysomething women in Los Angeles deal with relationships and family, with their weekly Sunday knitting circle as the only thing holding them together”—Provided by publisher.

F LINDSEY ROMANCE
Lindsey, Johanna. Captive of my desires. New York : Pocket Books, 2006.
After her mother’s death, Gabrielle Brooks sets sail to the Caribbean in search of her father, discovers he has become a pirate, and spends three happy years sailing with him. His decision that she should return to London to find a proper husband leads to intrigue, scandal, and Gabrielle’s passionate quest for revenge, as she finds herself falling for a carefree sea captain with no interest in matrimony.

F MATHEWS
Mathews, Francine. The Alibi Club. New York : Bantam Books, 2006.
As the Nazis approach Paris, Sally King, Memphis Jones, Nell Bracecourt, and Irene Curie are thrown together by a murder at the infamous Alibi Club and their attempts to keep a deadly weapon out of German hands.

F MCCALL SMITH
McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-. The right attitude to rain. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon, c2006.
Isabel’s cousin, Mimi, arrives in Edinburgh with her husband Joe and turns Isabel’s world upside down when she introduces Isabel to Tom Bruce and pulls Isabel into a romantic triangle that could ruin all their lives.

F MIAMI MYSTERY
Miami noir. New York : Akashic Books, [2006].
Sixteen new, diverse and highly entertaining mystery stories pack Akashic’s latest city-by-city tour of modern noir, spotlighting the “Miami School,” which has sprung to dynamic life in the wake of the legendary Charles Willeford and his signature novel Miami Blues. This anthology prowls through South Beach and across Alligator Alley, hitting every demographic, from long-term Cuban migr s to Haitian boat people and the garden variety psychopathic redneck. In James W. Hall’s “Ride Along,” a college professor with an interest in crime writing goes slumming with a thug called Jumpy-“6’4”, skinny as a greyhound, pasty-skinned, all knuckles and Adam’s apple”-with unexpected results. Vicki Hendricks does a neat deconstruction of classic noir with “Boozanne, Lemme Be,” wherein the 4’10” protagonist-“too short for normal chicks, too tall for a dwarf”-lives undetected under a house until he connects with the titular Boozanne and dives still further into ruin. This volume is as solid as the coral rock lying beneath the Miami streets. Publisher’s Weekly.

F MODESITT FANTASY
Modesitt, L. E. Soarer’s choice. 1st ed. New York, NY : Tor Book, 2006.
‘Soarer’s Choice’ concludes the Corean Chronicles begun in ‘Alector’s Choice’ and finds the civilization of the Alectors again on the move. Corus, the planet they’re moving from, will be used as a dumping ground for malcontents and others who don’t make the cut to move on to a richer new world. It doesn’t bode well for the future of human civilization, nor for Dainyl, who is trying to hold everything together. The mysterious Ancients, the Soarers, may hold a powerful, destructive trump card.

F MORTIMER
Mortimer, John Clifford, 1923-. Rumpole and the reign of terror. New York : Viking, c2006.
Rumpole is once again defending one of the Timsons on a theft charge when Tiffany Timson, who has married a Pakistani doctor, against her family’s wishes, comes to him begging for his legal help. It seems her husband had begun receiving anonymous letters and computer messages at the hospital where he worked that appeared to connect him to Al Qaeda. Rumpole accepts the job after the doctor is arrested. Defending a suspected terrorist proves a daunting task under the new terrorism laws.

F MORTON
Morton, Brian, 1955-. Breakable you. 1st ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2006.
As his ex-wife struggles with her emotions over their failed marriage and his daughter becomes involved with a man mourning the death of his child, novelist Adam Weller deals with his waning career, relationship with a younger woman, and the opportunity to submit a lost manuscript of his literary mentor’s as his own.

F MOSLEY MYSTERY
Mosley, Walter. Fear of the dark : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2006.
Bookseller Paris Minton and his friend Fearless Jones search for Ulysses S. Grant, Minton’s missing cousin who became involved in a blackmail scheme.

F MURAKAMI
Murakami, Haruki, 1949-. Blind window, sleeping woman : twenty-four stories. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2006.
A collection of short stories by Haruki Murakami that explore the fantastic and the natural in everyday life.

F ORTHS
Orths, Markus, 1969-. Catalina. New Milford, Conn. : Godalming : Toby ; Melia [distributor], 2006.
Catalina is the story of Catalina d’Erauso, the ‘Lieutenant Nun’. When Catalina’s beloved older brother Miguel is sent to the New World to see to the family’s fortunes, Catalina has only one wish: to follow him. She begins her quest by earning her education in a convent. And then, one day, she leaves. She cuts her hair, dresses in men’s clothing, and becomes Francisco. Catalina develops and internalizes her new identity as a man so thoroughly that she convinces not only everyone around her - including her lovers - but eventually even herself. Her path leads her from San Sebastian to New Spain, Chile and Peru. It is the story of a despairing quest for the other - and for one’s self.

F POWERS
Powers, Richard, 1957-. The echo maker. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Set in small-town Nebraska near the bird-watching spectacle of Platte River, Powers’s ninth novel centers on the life of 27-year-old Mark Schluter, who is unable to recognize his sister, Karin, after suffering a near-fatal accident. Desperate for clarity, Karin turns to world-renowned cognitive neurologist and writer Gerald Weber (reminiscent of the real-life Oliver Sacks). Cleverly, this novel isn’t simply about Mark’s damaged brain (he appears to suffer from a rare case of Capgras syndrome); instead, it sheds light generally on the human mind and our struggle to make sense of both the past and the present. Echo Maker is both mystery and case history as Mark struggles to investigate his accident through an anonymous note and Weber attempts to sort through the nuance and plasticity of the mind in his own declining years. Library Journal.

F QASHU
Qashu, Sayed, 1975-. Let it be morning. 1st ed. New York : [Berkeley, Calif.] : Black Cat ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2006.
A disillusioned journalist returns to his Arab village in Israel hoping to find peace and simplicity with his family, but when Israeli tanks surround the village, he must help his family find safety before their world is blown apart.

F ROBERSON FANTASY
Roberson, Jennifer, 1953-. Karavans. New York : DAW Books : Distributed by Penguin Group, c2006.
Fleeing the war-torn land of Sancorra and the blood thirsty Hecari, pregnant Audrun, her husband Davyd, and their four children seek to travel in the last karavan of the season.

F SCARROW Scarrow, Simon. The eagle’s prophecy. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2006.
It is spring ad 45 in Rome, and Centurions Macro and Cato, dismissed from the Second Legion in Britain, are waiting for an investigation into their involvement in the death of a fellow officer. It is then that the imperial secretary, the devious Narcissus, makes them an offer they can’t refuse: to rescue an imperial agent who has been captured by pirates operating off the Illyrian coast. With him were scrolls vital to the safety of the emperor and the future of Rome. But Narcissus also sends Vitellius, an old enemy of the two centurions.

F SHAARA
Shaara, Jeff, 1952-. The rising tide : a novel of the Second World War. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2006.
‘The Rising Tide’ begins a trilogy of the Second World War that offers you-are-there immediacy, historical detail, and all-inclusive points of view as Shaara portrays the events that pulled America into the conflict. Beginning with Hitler’s conquest of Poland, Norway, France, and most of Western Europe, through Japan’s attack, and to the deserts of North Africa, he introduces a gallery of characters that includes Eisenhower, Patton, Rommel, Churchill, and Mussolini, as well as tank drivers and paratroopers.

F SHINN FANTASY
Shinn, Sharon. Dark moon defender. 1st ed. New York : Ace Books, 2006.
The King’s Rider Justin is sent to the small town of Neft to watch for suspicious activity at the Lumanen Convent, which houses the Daughters of the Pale Mother, but when Justin befriends a young novice from the convent, his mission is endangered by his feelings for the girl.

F STARK
Stark, Richard, 1933-. Ask the parrot. 1st ed. New York, NY : Mysterious Press, 2006.
Parker thinks he’s home free when a quiet recluse in the backwoods of Massachusetts saves him from being taken into custody by the police who are pursuing him for having pulled off one of the biggest and most dangerous bank heists the state has ever seen. Little does Parker realize that this recluse, with only a parrot for company, has something even more dubious and dangerous in mind for him. A whistleblower, tossed aside by a corrupt political establishment, the recluse has plans for revenge, and Parker holds the key.

F TAPPLY MYSTERY
Tapply, William G. Out cold : a Brady Coyne novel. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, c2006.
Boston attorney Brady Coyne finds trouble nearly on his doorstep when he lets his dog out into his backyard one January morning and finds a teenage girl buried in the snow. The only clue to her identify is a small piece of paper with his address scribbled on it. Now he must find out who she was, why she had his address, and what happened to her. These are details someone doesn’t want him to find the answers to.

F TRUMAN MYSTERY
Truman, Margaret, 1924-. Murder at the opera : a capital crimes novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2006.
In Truman’s newest ‘Capital Crimes” novel, an attempt is made on the President’s life on opening night at the Kennedy Center where it’s hard to tell if the actors are on the stage or sitting in the best seats. Just when readers think they’ve figured out what’s going on, Truman throws them a curve which proves that, as the old expression so succinctly puts it: ‘It’s not over until the fat lady sings.’

F TUROW
Turow, Scott. Limitations. 1st Picador ed. New York : Picador, 2006.
George Mason, 59, a judge on the Court of Appeals in Kindle County, has enjoyed most of his life on the bench. A rape case brought before him has him questioning the very nature of the law and his role within it. What could be troubling him so deeply? Is it his wife’s recent diagnosis, or the strange and threatening e-mails he’s started receiving? Or, is it something in the case that has led him to question his fitness to judge?

F WALLER
Waller, Robert James, 1939-. The long night of Winchell Dear : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Shaye Areheart Books, c2006.
Although Winchell Dear is a retired gambler and perfectly content with his life as a rancher, he hasn’t lost his ability to sense danger. Like the evening three men approach in a car filled with semi-automatic weapons and instructions for their target: a little adobe hut on a ranch in the middle of nowhere. Now, with pistol in hand and his dog by his side, Winchell waits.

F WALTERS
Walters, Minette. The devil’s feather. 1st American ed. New York : Knopf, 2006.
Reporter Connie Burns vows to expose a British mercenary who is using the chaos of the war in Africa to hide his sadistic, misogynistic fantasies and murderous intentions, but her efforts to reveal the truth have devastating consequences when Connie is taken hostage and held for three terrifying days.

F WILHELM MYSTERY
Wilhelm, Kate. Sleight of hand. Don Mills, Ont. : MIRA, c2006.
A chance reunion with a childhood acquaintance turns into a nightmare for Wally Lederer and his wife, Meg. Wally is accused of theft and hires Barbara Holloway to represent him against what he insists is a set-up. Then the man who accused Wally is found dead, making Wally the prime suspect. As Holloway looks into her client’s past, she doesn’t like what she finds, including an abandoned first wife and children and the questionable death of a second wife. Could she be defending a guilty man?

F WILSON
Wilson, Robert, 1957-. The hidden assassins. 1st U.S. ed. Orlando, FL : Harcourt, c2006.
As Inspector Jefe Javier Falcon investigates a mutilated corpse, Seville is rocked by a massive explosion which reveals a mosque in the basement of a devastated apartment building. It confirms everyone’s terrorist fears. As panic sweeps the city with every body that’s dragged from the rubble, Falcon suspects that something’s amiss. Just as he’s about to crack the conspiracy, he makes a terrifying discovery that hints of a catastrophe far beyond Spain’s borders.

F WOODRELL
Woodrell, Daniel. Winter’s bone : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2006.
Ree Dolly, a sixteen-year-old living in poverty in the Ozarks, sets out alone to find her father after he puts the family home up for bond on drug charges and disappears with the court date swiftly approaching.

F ZHANG
Zhang, Ailing. Love in a fallen city. New York : New York Review Books, 2006.
This posthumous collection contains virtually all new translations of Chang’s six novellas, which are well known in both China and Taiwan. Set in China and featuring characters with ties to Shanghai, Chang’s birthplace, the stories are further tied together by relationship issues and the question of (true) love at a time when women were expected to marry well and discussion of class, divorce, and illicit affairs was taboo. Library Journal.


NON-FICTION:

320.9743 GRA VT COLL
Graff, Chris. Dateline Vermont : covering and uncovering the stories, big and small, that shaped a state—and influenced a nation. North Pomfret, Vt. : Thistle Hill Pub., c2006.
The inside story of how Vermont transformed itself from a rural, Republican outpost into the state of Howard Dean, Jim Jeffords, Pat Leahy, and Bernie Sanders. A veteran reporter Graf speaks out about his more than 25 years of writing about the Green Mountain state and its remarkable transformation from the most reliably Republican state in the nation to a bastion of progressivism.

327.1273 BER
Berntsen, Gary. Jawbreaker : the attack on Bin Laden and al-Qaeda : a personal account by the CIA’s key field commander. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c2005.
Former CIA officer Gary Berntsen reveals the American government’s pursuit of Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, and recounts his experiences searching for the enemy in Afghanistan.

364.152 LAR
Larson, Erik. Thunderstruck. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c2006.
Larson tells the parallel stories of the skepticism and incredulity that accompanied Guglielmo Marconi’s invention of wireless communication in the late nineteenth century, and the investigation of the murder of an inconvenient wife by her love-starved husband, Dr. H.H. Crippen, who would likely have pulled off the perfect crime had it not been for the ability to send wireless transatlantic transmissions.

613.2 GUI
Guiliano, Mireille, 1946-. French women for all seasons. 1sted. New York : Knopf, 2006.
More than a theory or ideal, the French woman’s way is an all- encompassing program that can be practiced anytime, anywhere. Here are four full seasons of strategies for shipping, cooking, moving, even a tip or two for rolling out of bed looking effortlessly chic, throughout the year. Here are also 100 new no-brainer recipes celebrating staples such as leeks and chocolate, as well as less-heralded edibles, guaranteeing that boredom will never be a guest at your table.

759.13 DAV
Davis, Deborah, 1952-. Strapless : John Singer Sargent and the fall of Madame X. New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, c2003.
Davis explores the story behind John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X,” a painting of twenty-three-year-old Amelie Gautreau which unleashed a storm of controversey when it was unveiled at the Paris Salon to show the young wife with one strap of her gown falling off her shoulder, and provides insights into the lives of the artist and his subject.

909.07 CAH
Cahill, Thomas. Mysteries of the Middle Ages : the rise of feminism, science, and art from the cults of Catholic Europe. 1st ed. New York : N.A. Talese, c2006.
Cahill explores how the rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science that took place in the Middle Ages created the foundations of modern Western civilization.

921 BURAU
Burau, Caroline, 1973-. Answering 911 : life in the hot seat. St. Paul, MN : Borealis Books, c2006.
Caroline Burau, a former newspaper reporter and nursing student who couldn’t stand the sight of blood, takes a job as an emergency dispatcher because she likes helping people. But on-the-job training at the comm center proves to be more than she bargained for. As she adjusts to a daily life of catastrophe and comedy, domestics and drunks, cops and robbers, junk food and sarcasm, lost cats and suicides, she discovers that crisis can become routine, that coworkers can be mean, but that she must continue to care and, at times, learn how to let go.

921 CONNOLLY
Hodes, Martha Elizabeth. The sea captain’s wife : a true storyof love, race, and war in the nineteenth century. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton, c2006.
Tells the life story of Eunice Connolly, a poor New Englander who lost her husband after the Civil War and crossed the color line in order to marry a sea captain and move to his homeland in the Grand Cayman Islands.

921 MCCARTNEY
Sandford, Christopher, 1956-. McCartney. 1st Carroll & Graf ed.New York : [S.l.] : Caroll & Graf Publishers ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2006.
Christopher Sandford relates the life of Paul McCartney, drawing upon interviews with family and colleagues, court documents, and other original sources to tell the story of the Beatles, examine the band’s breakup and McCartney’s relationship with John Lennon, and discuss his solo career and marriages to Linda Eastman and Heather Mills.

921 SHEEHAN
Sheehan, Cindy. Peace mom : a mother’s journey through heartache to activism. 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, 2006.
On April 4, 2004, Cindy Sheehan learned that Casey, the eldest of her four children, had been killed in Iraq, where he was serving in the United States Army. After struggling through crippling grief for three weeks, she came to an epiphany: “I will spend my life trying to make Casey’s sacrifice count for peace and love, not killing and hate”. Here are the stories Cindy has never shared before about her own experiences at the center of a media firestorm, the life-altering events that were sparked by her simple act of defiance one hot August day in Texas. Going behind the headlines and sound bites, Cindy writes candidly about the toll her activism has taken on her own life and her family, as well the unforeseen rewards her quest for peace has brought.
MEDIA:

CD 921 EISENHOWER
Wukovits, John F., 1944-. Eisenhower. Library ed. Ashland, Or. : Blackstone Audiobooks, 2006. Read by Brian Emerson.
Wukovitz explores the leadership strategies of Dwight D. Eisenhower during the World War II Allied invasion of Europe and explains the lasting impact his actions had on American and world history.

DVD 921 BLERIOT
A daring flight. Widescreen. [Boston, Mass.] : WGBH Boston Video, 2005. Narrator: David Ogden Stiers.
This is the biography of aviator Louis Blériot in the years before he produced the Bleriot XI, which in 1909 became the first heavier-than-air machine to fly the English Channel.

DVD ALL
All the king’s men. Boston : WGBH Boston Video, [2005]. David Jason, Maggie Smith, William Ash, Sonya Walger, Stuart Bunce, James Murray, Ed Waters, Tom Burke, Ben Crompton, David Troughton, Gaye Brown.
Here is a recounting of one of the strangest legends of the First World War - the disappearance of the Sandringham Company in action in Gallipoli in 1915.

DVD RIV
The River Niger ; Death of a prophet. La Crosse, WI : Echo Bridge/Platinum Disc Corporation, 2004.
The River Niger: A house-painter/poet struggles to support his cancer-plagued wife. Death of a prophet combines documentary footage with reenactments to weave a fascinating work and is a suspense thriller which follows the events in the final 24 hours of the life of religious and political leader Malcolm X.

DVD SED
La grande séduction : Seducing Doctor Lewis. New York, NY : Wellspring Media, [2005]. Raymond Bouchard, David Boutin, Benoît Brière, Pierre Collin, Rita Lafontaine, Clemence Desrochers, Lucie Laurier, Bruno Blanchet.
St. Marie-La-Mauderne is a tiny fishing village. For eight years the locals have stood in line for weekly welfare checks, remembering the good old days when the catch was good. A small company wants to build a factory on the island, but only if a full-time doctor lives in St. Marie. The situation seems hopeless until a young doctor in Montreal has an unfortunate incident with a traffic cop and finds himself on a boat to the faraway village. In order to convince Dr. Lewis to stay, the town resorts to just a bit of seductive subterfuge.

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