New books and media for September 2008

BROWNELL LIBRARY
NEW TITLES, SEPTEMBER, 2008

FICTION

F ABE
Abé, Shana. Queen of dragons. New York : Bantam Books, c2008.
Kimber Langford, Earl of Chasen and alpha lord of a tribe of drakon—creatures that can change from human to smoke to dragon at will, is surprised to learn of the existence of a lost tribe of drakon in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania, but the discovery comes with the news that an unknown enemy is trying to annihilate the drakon, and he soon finds himself united with Carpathian princess Maricara in a struggle to preserve their race.

F AKUNIN
Akunin, B. (Boris). Sister Pelagia and the black monk : a novel. New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, c2008.
Sister Pelagia, the ward of Bishop Mitrofanii of Zavolzhsk, volunteers to investigate when a monk from the island monastery of New Ararat announces something is very wrong at the isolated retreat, and though she is first denied on the basis of her sex, when Mitrofanii’s other envoys fall victim to the mysterious Black Monk, he finally takes Pelagia up on her generous offer.

F ANDERSON
Anderson, Kevin J.. The ashes of worlds. 1st ed. New York : Orbit, c2008.
The culminating volume in Kevin J. Anderson’s Saga of Seven Suns weaves together the myriad storylines into a spectacular grand finale.

F ASHER
Asher, Bridget. My husband’s sweethearts. New York : Delacorte Press, c2008.
When Lucy discovered that her charming, cheating husband was dying, she came home, opened up his little black book, and decided she wasn’t going through this alone. After all, Artie’s sweethearts were there for the good times - is it fair that Lucy should have to manage the hard times herself? In this wise, wickedly funny new novel, Lucy dials up the women in Artie’s black book and invites them for one last visit. The last thing she expects is that any will actually show up.

F ATHERTON
Atherton, Nancy. Aunt Dimity, vampire hunter. New York : Viking, c2008.
Lori Shepherd, alarmed when her five-year-old twins come home with a story about seeing a cloaked figure with bloodstained lips lurking in the nearby woods, calls upon the ghost of her Aunt Dimity for supernatural help in learning the truth about a mystery that has haunted her Cotswold village for decades.

F BLOCK
Manhattan noir 2 : the classics. New York, NY : Akashic Books, c2008.
Classic reprints from: Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, O. Henry, Irwin Shaw, Jerome Weidman, Damon Runyon, Evan Hunter, Jerrold Mundis, Edgar Allan Poe, Horace Gregory, Geoffrey Bartholomew, Cornell Woolrich, Barry N. Malzberg, Clark Howard, Jerome Charyn, Donald E. Westlake, Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Block, Susan Isaacs, and others.

F BRADFORD
Bradford, Barbara Taylor. Being Elizabeth. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, c2008.
At age twenty-five, Elizabeth Deravenel finds herself in a position few women her age could image: the head of Deravenels, a business empire that spans the globe. It’s a company whose reach is wide and whose secrets are deep. Deravenels has roots that go far back in her family’s history, and she knows the price that many had to pay to see it reach the success it is today. Elizabeth is also the youngest executive in the company she now leads. (from the publisher, edited).

F BRENNAN
Brennan, Allison. Killing fear : a novel of suspense. Ballantine Books mass-market original [ed.]. New York : Ballantine Books, c2008.
When Theodore Glenn escapes from prison, he continues the murdering spree ended by his incarceration seven years ago, but this time his target is the woman who put him behind bars—ex-stripper and club owner Robin McKenna.

F BROOKS
Brooks, Kix. The adventures of Slim & Howdy : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Center Street, c2008.
Slim and Howdy, country musicians with opposite personalities, join together to save a friend who was kidnapped, leading them down a road full of back-room poker games, wild women, and trouble at every stop along the way through Texas.

F BROOKS
Brooks, Terry. The gypsy morph. New York : Ballantine Books, c2008.
Eighty years into the future, the United States is a no-man’s-land: its landscape blighted by chemical warfare, pollution, and plague; its government collapsed; its citizens adrift, desperate, fighting to stay alive. In fortified compounds, survivors hold the line against wandering predators, rogue militias, and hideous mutations spawned from the toxic environment, while against them all stands an enemy neither mortal nor merciful: demons and their minions bent on slaughtering and subjugating the last of humankind. But from around the country, allies of good unite to challenge the rampaging evil. Logan Tom, wielding the magic staff of a Knight of the Word, has a promise to keep - protecting the world’s only hope of salvation - and a score to settle with the demon that massacred his family. Angel Perez, Logan’s fellow Knight, has risked her life to aid the elvish race, whose peaceful, hidden realm is marked for extermination by the forces of the Void. Kirisin Belloruus, a young elf entrusted with an ancient magic, must deliver his entire civilization from a monstrous army. And Hawk, the rootless boy who is nothing less than destiny’s instrument, must lead the last of humanity to a latter-day promised land before the final darkness falls.

F BROWN
Brown, Sandra. Smoke screen. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2008.
Charleston, S.C., TV reporter Britt Shelley wakes up in bed next to the dead body of police detective Jay Burgess. While Jay had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, the authorities suspect foul play. (from Publishers Weekly).

F BRUNSTETTER
Brunstetter, Wanda E. The storekeeper’s daughter. Uhrichsville, OH : Barbour Pub., c2005.
Naomi Fisher spends so much of her time helping her widowed father run a store, manage the household, and raise seven siblings that she barely has time to think about her feelings toward Caleb Hoffmeir; but when her baby brother disappears one afternoon, Naomi’s priorities suddenly change.

F BUCHANAN
Buchanan, Edna. Legally dead. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2008.
U.S. Marshal Michael Venturi used to work for the witness protection program, but after a relocated mobster caused problems for a small town Venturi turned in his badge and started over, relocating the deserving instead, but when the citizens he helped start a new life begin to die Venturi seeks help to protect those he has relocated.

F BUJOLD
Bujold, Lois McMaster. Passage. 1st ed. New York : Eos, c2008.
Fawn Bluefield and soldier-sorcerer Dag Redwing Hickory, having encountered suspicion and prejudice from their kin, decide to strike out on their own, and set off down the river, collecting an odd assortment of followers along the way.

F BUJOLD
Bujold, Lois McMaster. The sharing knife. New York : Eos, 2008, c2007.
Ill-chance brought young Fawn Bluefield together with Dag Redwing Hickory, the seasoned soldier-sorcerer, but it was love and loyalty that joined their fates. While their unorthodox marriage has been grudgingly accepted by the clever farm girl’s people, Dag’s Lakewalker kin are less tolerant, greeting their union with derision, suspicion, and prejudice.

F CAIN
Cain, Chelsea. Sweetheart. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2008.
Damaged detective Archie Sheridan is back home in Portland, Ore., trying to resume a normal life. Archie’s ties to serial killer Gretchen Lowell still run deep, even if he’s stopped their weekly visits in prison. Meanwhile, reporter Susan Ward is finishing an article accusing a beloved U.S. senator of seducing his children’s 14-year-old babysitter a decade earlier. When three bodies are discovered in a local park-where Archie’s team found Gretchen’s first victim 12 years earlier-Archie worries another serial killer is at large. (from the publisher, edited).

F CANIN
Canin, Ethan. America America : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2008.
Corey Sifter overcomes his modest beginnings to become an aide for a powerful presidential candidate, and finds himself drawn into a complex web of political intrigue, lies, sex, and scandal.

F CARTER
Carter, Stephen L.. Palace council. 1st ed. New York : A.A. Knopf, c2008.
Eddie Wesley, a young African-American writer, stumbles across the corpse of Wall Street attorney Philmont Castle and conducts an investigation of the murder after noticing a strange cross held by the victim, which leads him to a group of conspirators called the Palace Council.

F CLARKE
Clarke, Breena. Stand the storm : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, c2008.
Annie Coats and her son Gabriel, having managed to buy their freedom, are building a new life for themselves in Washington’s Georgetown neighborhood where Annie works as a seamstress and laundress, and Gabriel a tailor, but their lives and hard-earned prosperity are threatened when the District of Columbia’s emancipation efforts put Gabriel’s three daughters, all born free of free parents, at risk of becoming the property of the Coats’s former master.

F COOK
Cook, Robin. Foreign body. New York : Putnam’s, c2008.
UCLA medical student Jennifer Hernandez is shocked when she learns that her beloved grandmother has died following hip replacement surgery in a hospital in New Delhi, India, and when her attempts to learn what happened meet with resistance, she calls upon her friend New York City medical examiner Dr. Laurie Montgomery for help, and together the women uncover a sinister conspiracy of global proportions.

F CRAIG
Craig, Philip R.. Vineyard chill : a Martha’s Vineyard mystery. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, c2008.
J.W. Jackson, a year-round resident of Martha’s Vineyard, looks forward to the peace and quiet of the winter season in the popular tourist area, but the calm he seeks is disturbed when long-ago pal Clay Stockton arrives looking for a place to hide out from trouble, and another friend, Bonzo, makes a frightening discovery that implicates him in murder.

F CRAIS
Crais, Robert. Chasing darkness : an Elvis Cole novel. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2008.
Private investigator Elvis Cole, instrumental in uncovering evidence that allowed suspected murderer Lionel Byrd to walk free three years earlier, is determined to learn the truth when Byrd is found dead, an apparent suicide, with an album of photographs that implicate him in the murders of seven young women—two of which occurred after his trial.

F DELINSKY LP
Delinsky, Barbara. Looking for Peyton Place : a novel. Doubleday large print home library ed. New York : Scribner, c2005.
When a successful writer based in Washington, DC, returns home to New Hampshire’s Middle River following her mother’s death, many of the small community’s residents are nervous. They fear Annie Barnes is planning to write a thinly disguised novel about their town, just like they believe Grace Metalious did many years ago with her blockbuster Peyton Place. Actually, Annie visits for a month to investigate why her mother got sick and why one of her sisters is now ill. She also hopes to mend fences with her siblings, who feel she should have done more when their mother was sick.

F EDGERTON
Edgerton, Clyde. The Bible salesman : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, c2008.
While Preston Clearwater, a seasoned thief, sees his new passenger Henry Dampier, an innocent young Bible salesman, as an easy and gullible mark to aid him in a car theft scheme, Henry believes he has found a ticket to an exciting double life.

F ENGER
Enger, Leif. So brave, young, and handsome. 1st ed. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2008.
Husband and father Monte Becket, unable to repeat the success of his first novel despite years of attempts, leaves his family behind in Minnesota in 1915 to join self-confessed rascal Glendon Hale, an aging train robber, on a journey in search of the wife he abandoned nearly two decades earlier—pursued by ex-Pinkerton detective Charles Siringo every step of the way.

F FRANCIS
Francis, Dick. Silks. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2008.
Soon after London barrister Geoffrey Mason, an amateur jockey by avocation, starts receiving a series of threatening messages from a former client, Julian Trent, whose conviction for assault was overturned on appeal, Mason reluctantly accepts the defense of a jockey, Steve Mitchell, accused of the pitch-fork murder of fellow rider Scot Barlow at a steeplechase event. (from Publishers Weekly).

F GILMAN
Gilman, Laura Anne. Free fall. New York : Luna, c2008.
Wren Valere, separated from her lover Sergei, takes a Retrieval job that puts her to the challenge as the Truce holding violence at bay is shattered and Magical Manhattan goes to war.

F GORDON
Gordon, Alan (Alan R.). The moneylender of Toulouse. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, c2008.
Jester and agent for the Fools’ Guild, sent to Toulouse on a mission to convince the bishop to retire, becomes involved in a murder investigation when the town’s money lender is found dead.

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

F GREENLAW
Greenlaw, Linda. Fisherman’s bend. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2008.
While stopping for a moment to take in the scenery, Jane Bunker catches sight of a lobster boat on the bay, but when the boat turns out to be deserted Jane discovers a chain of strange occurrences that pulls her right into another heavy investigation.

F HAIGH
Haigh, Jennifer. The condition : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2008.
Tells the story of the McKotches, a proper New England family that comes apart during one fateful summer, when the family notices something different in their daughter only to find she has Turner’s syndrome.

F HARRIS
Harris, Joanne. The girl with no shadow. 1st U.S. ed. New York : William Morrow, c2008.
Vianne Rocher, who has moved to Paris under a new name, Yanne Charbonneau, opens a chocolaterie and hopes to protect her daughters Anouk and Rosette, but her life is blown off course when a businessman named Thierry and a vibrant woman named Zozie enter her life.

F HARRISON
Harrison, Colin. The finder. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2008.
Jin Li is forced to run for her life when the scam she is running on Tom Reilly and his company Good Pharma is revealed, leaving her former boyfriend Ray Grant at the mercy of thugs who believe he knows where she has gone.

F HIGGINS
Higgins, Jack. Rough justice. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2008.
Dispatched by the President to report on the state of still troubled Kosovo, his trusted agent Blake Johnson runs into a military man there named Harry Miller, who has the same task from the British Prime Minister.

F HILDERBRAND
Hilderbrand, Elin. A summer affair : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, c2008.
Artist Claire Danner Crispin agrees to chair the committee for Nantucket’s Summer Gala, unaware of how the event will change her life, and is soon drawn into a passionate affair with her co-chair that threatens to ruin her marriage, her work, and her life.

F HOWARD
Howard, Linda. Death angel : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2008.
Drea Rousseau, a beauty with a taste for the finer things in life, is forced to run after betraying her boyfriend, crime lord Rafael Salinas, who sends the Assassin after her, and when fate intervenes to give her another chance, she teams up with the most dangerous man she has ever met, risking her life and heart to bring Salinas down.

F HUNT
Hunt, Samantha. The invention of everything else. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2008.
A fictionalized account of inventor Nikola Tesla’s final days, in which he begins an unlikely friendship with a young chambermaid at the Hotel New Yorker.

F KEYES
Keyes, Marian. This charming man. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2008.
Debonair Irish politician Paddy de Courcy’s winning smile has earned him the approval of all of Ireland, but his dark temper and violent outbursts forever change the lives of four women who love him.

F KINKADE LP
Kinkade, Thomas. The Christmas angel : a Cape Light novel. Large print home library ed. New York : Berkley Books, c2005.
The spirit of the season is spreading throughout the seaside hamlet of Cape Light. But town mayor Emily receives an unexpected and precious Christmas gift when she finds a baby girl outside the church. A note attached asks whoever discovers the child to take care of her. As the police try to determine who the baby belongs to, Emily is granted temporary custody, causing her to face her own feelings of regret and loss, and forces her to make a decision about what her heart truly desires.

F LEON
Leon, Donna. The girl of his dreams. 1st American ed. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2008.
Issues of religion and politics take center stage in the household of Venice’s Commissario Guido Brunetti when he and his wife go undercover to investigate the possibility that a charlatan posing as a preacher has begun developing an American-style Christian sect in the city, and Brunetti’s attempts to investigate the death of a gypsy child found floating in a canal are hindered by sensitivities to multicultural issues.

F LIPPMAN
Lippman, Laura. Another thing to fall. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2008.
When the production of a Hollywood film in Baltimore brings mayhem and murder to the area, private investigator Tess Monaghan finds her job complicated by the acting skills of her numerous suspects.

F LUSTBADER
Lustbader, Eric. First daughter. New York : Forge, c2008.
Alli Carson, the 19-year-old daughter of the U.S. president-elect, moderate Republican Edward Carson, is abducted a month before her father’s inauguration to be programmed to do something truly terrible at the inauguration ceremony. ATF agent Jack McClure is chosen to lead the search for Alli, primarily because she was the boarding-school roommate of his now-deceased daughter, Emma. (from Publishers Weekly).

F MACOMBER LP
Macomber, Debbie. Susannah’s garden. Large print home library edition. Don Mills, Ont. : Mira, c2006.
The year Susannah Nelson’s parents sent her to school abroad at 18, she said goodbye to her boyfriend, Jake, and never saw him again. Now, at 50, she finds herself regretting the paths not taken. Long married, a mother and a teacher, she should be happy. She feels there’s something missing. Returning to her hometown of Pine Ridge, Wash., to care for her aging mother, she also returns to the past, and the choices she made back then.

F MARON
Maron, Margaret. Death’s half acre. 1st ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., c2008.
Margaret Maron is back with a new mystery featuring her critically acclaimed sleuth Judge Deborah Knot. (from the publisher).

F MARTINI
Martini, Steve. Shadow of power : a Paul Madriani novel. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2008.
San Diego defense attorney Paul Madriani investigates the murder of legal scholar Terry Scarborough after he hints of a letter written by Thomas Jefferson holding secrets that could divide the nation.

F MCGINNISS
McGinniss, Joe, Jr.. The delivery man. 1st ed. New York : Black Cat, c2008.
Twenty-five-year-old artist Chase returns to his childhood home of Las Vegas, after being fired from his teaching job, and spends the summer working as a chauffer for his friend’s call girl service, which exposes him to sex and drugs and distances him from his dreams.

F MCGRATH
McGrath, Patrick. Trauma. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2008.
Manhattan psychiatrist Charlie Weir, trying to cope with the death of his mother, is reunited with his ex-wife, whose brother was one of Charlie’s post-traumatic stress disorder patients until he committed suicide, and uncovers a forgotten trauma in his own past.

F MEYER
Meyer, Stephenie. Breaking dawn. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, c2008.
Continues the story of the human Bella and the vampire Edward whose love is threatened by their difference, a werewolf named Jacob, and other outside influences.

F PERRY
Perry, Thomas. Fidelity. 1st ed. Orlando : Harcourt, c2008.
As she investigates the murder of her private investigator husband, Emily Kramer, unaware that a hitman has been hired to kill her, links the crime to a wealthy playboy.

F REICHS
Reichs, Kathy. Devil bones. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, c2008.
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan investigates the murders of a teenage boy and girl in Charlotte, North Carolina, uncovering a web of dishonest politics, religious persecution, and voodoo.

F RICE
Rice, Luanne. Last kiss. New York : Bantam Books, c2008.
Nell Kilvert, a year after the death of her eighteen-year-old boyfriend Charlie Rosslare, asks Gavin Dawson—Sheridan Rosslare’s former lover, and Charlie’s mother—for help to uncover the truth behind Charlie’s mysterious murder.

F ROBB LP
Robb, J. D.. Survivor in death. Large Print Home Library ed. New York : G. P. Putnam’s sons, c2005.
Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb sets her story in the New York City of 2059, where Lieutenant Eve Dallas will struggle to solve murder of a seemingly ordinary family, and protect one small, terrified survivor.

F SAKEY
Sakey, Marcus. Good people : a novel. New York : Dutton Books, c2008.
A family, and the security to enjoy it: that’s all Tom and Anna Reed ever wanted. But years of infertility treatments, including four failed attempts at in-vitro fertilization, have left them with neither. A lucky, chance event leads them to believe the story of their lives may yet have a fairy tale ending - but Tom and Anna soon realize that fairy tales never come cheap. (from the publisher, edited).

F SCHWARZ
Schwarz, Christina. So long at the fair : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2008.
While living in a small town in Wisconsin, Jon struggles to come to terms with his life, but when his wife, Ginny, starts working for a man who is somehow connected to the families’ pasts, and a troublesome man tries to move in on Jon’s mistress, Jon must decide whether to end his marriage or his affair.

F SEDLEY
Sedley, Kate. The Green Man. 1st World ed. New York : Severn House, c2008.
Roger Chapman reluctantly assumes the role of personal bodyguard to the Duke of Albany in 1482 during a bid designed to make Albany king of Scotland, but Chapman begins to question Albany’s motives as the mission is plagued by sinister incidents centered on the mythical Green Man, and he has more reason to feel uneasy when he realizes his own life could be in danger.

F SHAFFER
Shaffer, Mary Ann. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. New York, N.Y. : The Dial Press, c2008.
The letters comprising this small charming novel begin in 1946, when single, 30-something author Juliet Ashton (nom de plume Izzy Bickerstaff) writes to her publisher to say she is tired of covering the sunny side of war and its aftermath. When Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams finds Juliet’s name in a used book and invites articulate - and not-so-articulate - neighbors to write Juliet with their stories, the book’s epistolary circle widens, putting Juliet back in the path of war stories.

F SIDDONS
Siddons, Anne Rivers. Off season. 1st ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., c2008.
“Anne Rivers Siddons tells the beautiful, tragic, and redemptive story of a woman who searches for meaning after her husband dies”—Provided by publisher.

F SPENCER-FLEMING
Spencer-Fleming, Julia. I shall not want. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, c2008.
After the death of his wife, police chief Russ Van Alstyne and Episcopal priest Clare Fergusson team up to uncover the truth when a van of migrant farm workers is attacked, and they fear a war on foreigners might be starting in upstate New York.

F STRAUSS
Strauss, Darin. More than it hurts you : a novel. New York : Dutton, c2008.
Businessman Josh Goldin finds his happy life disrupted when his eight-month-old son is admitted to the hospital and the attending doctor believes his wife may suffer from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a psychological condition in which a parent harms their child.

F STROHMEYER
Strohmeyer, Sarah. Sweet love. New York : Dutton, c2008.
Forty-something single mother Julie Mueller signs up for a dessert cooking class unaware that her mother is trying to reunite her with an old flame who is also in the class and finds herself falling for him all over again.

F WICK LP
Wick, Lori. City girl. Large print ed. Eugene, Or. : Harvest House, c2001.
City girl Reagan Sullivan may know her way around New York City, but nothing back East has prepared her for the land of armadillos and tall Texans. Chasing after adventure to blur an unhappy past, the highly independent Reagan has landed a job out West—but quite clearly she is not out to land a husband. When the gentle rancher Cash Rawlings comes into her life, Reagan finds herself intrigued with the man and his faith—but love and commitment are adventures this city girl has vowed never to embark upon. Will Reagan be able to come to terms with her fragile past and discover a new way of living without fear?

NON-FICTION

098 BOO
Books challenged or banned. Chicago : American Library Association.
2008 list of books that been challenged by members of the public at libraries around the United States.

155.92 BRA
Brafman, Ori. Sway : the irresistible pull of irrational behavior. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2008.
Discusses hidden psychological influences on people’s decision-making process about things such as relationships, advice, and money, drawing from fields such as social psychology and organizational behavior, revealing that loss aversion, diagnosis bias, and the “chameleon effect” can lead to irrational behaviors.

158 PIN
Pink, Daniel H. A whole new mind : why right-brainers will rule the future. 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed. New York : Riverhead Books, c2006.
Explores how the business world is changing in the twenty-first century, becoming more “right-brain” based and allowing people more creative and artistic than earlier generations to succeed more than those with left-brain dominance.

248 BAR
Barna, Ria. Losing My Religion. Xlibris Corporation, c2008.
The author presents a motivational, self-help plan built from her interpretations of Christian beliefs.

327.5404 HER
Herman, Arthur. Gandhi & Churchill : the epic rivalry that destroyed an empire and forged our age. New York : Bantam Books, c2008.
Discusses the lives and forty-year rivalry of Winston Churchill and Mohandas Gandhi as they led their respective nations through two world wars and as Gandhi attempted, through passive resistance, to free India from British rule.

330.973 PHI
Phillips, Kevin. Bad money : reckless finance, failed politics, and the global crisis of American capitalism. New York : Viking, c2008.
Describes twentieth-century American economy, addressing the weak state of the dollar, and supposing possible causes including America’s extensive financial debts and the strain caused by the war in Iraq.

342.7308 LAN
Lane, Frederick S.. The court and the cross : the religious right’s crusade to reshape the Supreme Court. Boston : Beacon Press, c2008.
Explores how the Religious Right has helped to shape the nature of the Federal Supreme Court over the past thirty years, questioning whether or not their decisions have been helpful or harmful to the nation.

361.7 VER VT REF
Vermont directory of foundations. Shaftsbury, Vt. : CPG Enterprises : Nonprofit Vermont.
The library has the most recent edition of the directory.

647.95 WAI
Waiter rant : thanks for the tip—confessions of a cynical waiter. 1st ed. New York : Ecco, c2008.
Taken from the popular blog, WaiterRant.net, tells the story from the server’s point of view about customer stupidity, arrogance, misbehavior and even human grace.

650.14 BOL
Bolles, Richard Nelson. What color is your parachute? : a practical manual for job-hunters and career-changers. 2008 ed. Berkeley, Calif. : Enfield : Ten Speed ; Publishers Group UK [distributor], c2007.
The #1 best-selling career book of all time, revised and updated. .

658.8 HOL
Homes, Mark. Wooing customers back : how to give great service and increase your own success. Springfield, MO : Advance Mark Pub., c2006.
The author claims to show the reader how to go beyond customer expectations, develop a personal level of enthusiasm, and develop better ways to handle problems in the customer service sector using a title which provides many specifics for handling customers. Summary lessons conclude examples in each chapter. (from Midwest Book Review).

662.65 RIT
Ritchie, Ralph W. Wood pellets as a fuel, stoves, buyers’ guide, user’s handbook : all that’s practical. Springfield, Oregon : R. & F. Ritchie, c2004.
Here is a User’s Handbook for a new technology that tells nearly all about the use of Wood Pellet fuels for heating. It promotes no particular product, stoves or whatever. It offers suggestions for wood pellet selection, pellet handling, use, stove operation, repair, and maintenance, and even provides a Buyer’s Guide for purchasing one.

737.4 YEO
A guide book of United States coins. Racine, Wis. : Whitman Pub.Co. 2009 edition.
The Red Book covers the history and values of colonial and early American coins, half cents through silver dollars and gold, commemoratives, Proof and Mint sets, errors, Civil War tokens, territorial gold, state quarters, Presidential dollars, and other U.S. coins, with practical essays on grading, investing, auctions, and more. Pricing for more than 6,000 individual coins More than 700 full color photographs. Updated values, mintages, and auction records. Expanded coverage of commemoratives, sets, and other coins. New state quarters and Presidential dollars. (description from 2009 edition).

741.5 HAM
Hamilton, Laurell K. Anita Blake, vampire hunter : guilty pleasures. New York : Marvel, c2008.
Anita Blake tries to save her friend’s life and solve the St. Louis murders for Nikolaos, the master vampire, who is targeted for an assassination by Edward.

769.56 SCO
Scott’s standard postage stamp catalogue. New York, : Scott Pub. Co.

782.42164 WEL
Weller, Sheila. Girls like us : Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon—and the journey of a generation. 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, c2008.
Chronicles the lives of American musicians Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon, focusing on their experiences during the 1960s and 1970s.

787.87 BUR
Burrell, Kenny. Best of Kenny Burrell. Milwaukee, WI : H. Leonard Corp., c2006.
All night long—All of you—body and soul—Broadway—Cheetah—Chitlins con carne—Freight train—Midnight blue—Mood indigo—Now see how you are—Phinupi—Satin doll—Tenderly—A weaver of dreams. Printed music from Kenny Burrell.

796.334
Goldblatt, David. The ball is round : a global history of soccer. 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed. New York : Riverhead Books, 2008, c2006.
A history of soccer around the world, looking at how the game has been played, watched, and followed, sharing stories of players, managers, fans, owners, clubs, and national teams, and discussing the sport in relation to developments in economics, politics, and society.

796.93 PET OVERSIZE
Petterson, Jimmy. Skiing Around the World : Over 30 years in search of the ultimate ski descent. Goteborg, Sweden : Zetterqvist Publishing Company, c2005.
Skiing Around the World takes readers around the globe to over 200 ski areas.

914.9904 ROU
Bousfield, Jonathan. The rough guide to Bulgaria. 6th ed. New York : Rough Guides, c2008.
The Rough Guide is written and researched by people who have lived in Bulgaria, and so provides deeply insightful accounts of all the regions and their attractions. As ever, this is a guide for independent travellers on any budget, with accommodation listings ranging from the film stars’ favourite, Castle Hrankov in Sofia, to local campsites.

917.29 FOD
Fodor’s Caribbean. New York : Fodor’s Travel Guides. newest edition.

917.47 GOO
Adirondack trails. 13th ed. Lake George, N.Y. : Adirondack Mountain Club, c2004.
Includes the latest trail routes, designated campsite and lean-to locations, DEC regulations, and updated trail mileages. The latest edition of the High Peaks topographic trail map is included.

920 AND
Andersen, Christopher P. Somewhere in heaven : the remarkable love story of Dana and Christopher Reeve. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2008.
Presents the story of Dana and Christopher Reeve, their life together, family, and strong bond that continued after the accident that paralyzed Chris from the neck down; and describes their efforts on behalf of stem-cell research, Chris’s death, and Dana’s own struggles with lung cancer.

921 DARWIN
Brief Guide to Charles Darwin. Running Pr Book Pub, c2007.
Charles Darwin has become one of the most important men in history. The quiet, unsure polymath who avoided confrontation, ensconced in his family home at Downe House in Kent, was also a revolutionary who developed his idea of Natural Selection in isolation.

921 HARDY
Tomalin, Claire. Thomas Hardy. New York : Penguin Books, 2007, c2006.
Investigates the life and work of Victorian novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, author of “Tess of the d’Urbervilles,” focusing on the many contradictions that seemed to characterize his life.

921 SPELLING
Spelling, Tori. sTori telling. 1st Simon Spotlight Entertainment hardcover ed. New York : Simon Spotlight Entertainment, c2008.
Tori Spelling reflects on her life, discussing her childhood, famous father, family life, marriages, cosmetic procedures, problems with her parents, success as a television actress, and more. Includes photographs.

921 TOCQUEVILLE
Brogan, Hugh. Alexis de Tocqueville : a life. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2007.
Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the greatest political thinkers of all time. Born a French aristocrat, he lost nearly his entire family in the Reign of Terror, and spent most of his adult life struggling for liberty under the unsuccessful regimes of nineteenth-century France. He was a man of apparent contradictions: an aristocrat who believed in democracy, a conservative with liberal ideals, an agnostic with Christian faith in humanity. At age 25 he traveled to America and encountered democracy for the first time. This firsthand experience contributed to his incisive writing on liberty and democracy. His book The Ancien Régime launched the scholarly study of the French Revolution, and Democracy in America remains the best book ever written by a European about the United States. In the first full-length biography in English, historian Brogan puts the man and his ideas together for a fuller understanding of how his influential interpretations came into being.—From publisher description.

973.35 PAT
Patton, Robert H. (Robert Holbrook). Patriot pirates : the privateer war for freedom and fortune in the American Revolution. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c2008.
Examines the naval tactics of the American colonies during the Revolutionary War, and focuses on the acts of piracy which set sights against British merchant ships, and discusses how the spoils were divided.

973.7 ROG VT COLL
Rogers, Phil S. Everlasting glory : Vermont soldiers who were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for service during the Civil War, 1861-1865. Hardwick, Vt. : Vermont Civil War Hemlocks, c2007.
This book contains the records of Vermont soldiers who were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for serving during the American Civil War.

973.931 BUG
Bugliosi, Vincent. The prosecution of George W. Bush for murder. New York : Vanguard Press, c2008.
Prosecutor argues there is overwhelming evidence President Bush took the nation to war in Iraq under false pretenses and must be held accountable for what is considered to be monumental crimes.

974.043 MIN
The 1955 floods, hurricanes Connie and Diane, August 17-19th, 1955 : an historical and pictorial summary. Rutland, Vt. : Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, c2005.
An illustrated history of 1955’s storm season along the East Coast.

974.3 CRO VT COLL
Historical markers on the Crown Point Road. 2004 ed. [Springfield, VT] : Crown Point Road Association, c1992.
A guide with pictures and descriptions of historical markers along Crown Point Road in Vermont.

974.3 LEP VT COLL
Lepkoff, Rebecca. Almost utopia : residents and radicals of Pikes Falls, Vermont 1950. Barre : Vermont Historical Society, c2008.

REFERENCE

REF 909.82 COU
Countries of the world and their leaders yearbook. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co.. latest edition.
Supplies current information on over 170 countries of the world with cross references and sub-entries from the United States government.

REF 920.03 NEW
Newmakers. Detroit : Gale Research, c1988-. 2008 edition.
The annual directory of people who’ve made the news.

AUDIO-VISUAL

CD 225.9 WIL
Wills, Garry. What Paul meant. Unabridged. [Ashland, OR] : Blackstone Audio, p2006.
Read by the author. A synthesis of the apostle’s thought and influence evaluates the disparate qualities attributed to his character in the Bible and throughout history, arguing that Paul’s intentions were consistent with the teachings of Jesus and sought to manage controversy throughout the early days of Christianity.

CD 746.432 AME
Falick, Melanie. America knits. Stockton Springs, Me. : Knitting Out Loud, p2007.
Read by Christine Marshall. Melanie Falick celebrates artisans from all over the world of knitting in these thirty-eight illuminating interviews with America’s leading spinners, weavers and knitters. Meet the fascinating people behind the knitting scene: shepherds caring for rare breeds, a plant biologist developing a strain of naturally colored cotton, the hand spinners and hand dyers who produce gorgeous skeins of yarn which are works of art in themselves and the creative knitting designers, all of whom have changed our knitting lives and made knitting the important, magical craft it is.

CD 791.4472 KEI
English majors. [Minneapolis, Minn.] : HighBridge, p2008.
Disc 1. English majors (with Dave Barry) ; John Henry (Garrison Keillor & the Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band) ; The old life (Donald Hall) ; Guy Noir, private eye (with Billy Collins) ; The lanyard (Billy Collins) ; The revenant (Billy Collins) ; Emily Dickinson suite (Sally and Richard Dworsky) ; The six-minute Hamlet ; Long time leaving (Roy Blount Jr.) ; English majors: for whom? ; The Hochstetter house—disc 2. Celebrity classics: the ten-minute MacBeth ; Red, red rose (Garrison Keillor & the Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band) ; Starting a poem (Robert Bly) ; Song of myself / Walt Whitman (read by Allen Ginsberg) ; Kerouac ; The scarlet letter (with Calvin Trillin) ; Family man (Calvin Trillin) ; The family Shakespeare ; Wild geese / Mary Oliver (read by Meryl Streep) ; Helen Marie. Garrison Keillor ; with other performers.

CD ADV
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. [Old Saybrook, Conn.] : Tantor Media, c2008.
Read by William Dufris. The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.

CD FIN
O’Connell, Carol. Find me. Roseland, NJ : Listen & Live Audio, Inc., 2007, c2006.
Read by Alyssa Bresnaham. A mutilated body is found lying on the ground in Chicago, a dead hand pointing down Adams Street, also known as Route 66, a road of many names. And now of many deaths. A silent caravan of cars, dozens of them, drives down that road, each passenger bearing a photograph, but none of them the same. They are the parents of missing children, some recently disappeared, some gone a decade or more—all brought together by word that children’s grave sites are being discovered along the Mother Road. 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, her father a blank, her mother dead and full of mysteries. During the next few extraordinary days, Mallory will find herself hunting a killer like none she has ever known, and will undergo a series of revelations not only of stunning intensity—but stunning effect. (from the container).

DVD 179.9 POW
The power of forgiveness. [United States] : First Run Features, c2008.
Narrated by Martin Doblmeier ; those interviewed include Elie Wiesel, Thich Nhat Hanh, Thomas Moore, Marianne Williamson, and James Forbes. Explores the important concept of forgiveness under an amazingly wide variety of conditions, from petty insults to sexual assault, to the tragedy of 9/11. Includes Desmond Tutu speaking at the Washington National Cathedral and a short film.

DVD 304.2 ELE
The 11th hour. [United States] : Warner Home Video, c2008.
Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. Explores the indelible footprint that humans have left on this planet, and the catastrophic effects of environmental neglect and abuse, and calls for restorative action through a reshaping of human activity.

DVD 332.1 MAX
Maxed out : nothing is priceless. [Austin, TX] : Los Angeles, Calif. : Truly Indie ; Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment, c2007.
Take a journey deep inside the American style of debt, where things seem fine as long as the minimum monthly payment arrives on time. Shocking and incisive, it paints a picture of a national nightmare, which is all too real for most.

DVD 363.28 DOG
Dog the bounty hunter. [United States] : A&E Television Networks, c2007.
Starring Duane “Dog” Chapman. “Dog’s personally selected favorite eight episodes from the fast and furious, highly rated third season of the hit real-life A&E series. Follow Dog and his band of rugged crime-busting accomplices, which includes his own flesh and blood, as they scourge the land of bail jumpers, escaped criminals, and vagabond outlaws.”—Container.

DVD 448.2421 FRE
French in action. S. Burlington, VT : Annenberg/CPB Collection, [2002?].
The student is instructed in French language and culture by seeing people interact in true-to-life situations, while speaking idiomatic, natural French. The course is based on the teaching method of Pierre J. Capretz of total immersion learning.

DVD 609 CON
Connections 1. New York : Ambrose Video Pub., c2007.
James Burke presents science as a detective story, illustrating the connections between events of the past and inventions of the future. Burke tracks through twelve thousand years of history for the clues that lead to eight great life-changing inventions—the atom bomb, telecommunications, the computer, the production line, jet aircraft, plastics, rocketry and television.

DVD 609 CON
Connections 2. New York : Ambrose Video Pub., c1996.
Presenter, James Burke. James Burke back tracks the fascinating links between technological invention, social history, economics, and, well, everything.—Container.

DVD 622.3382 CRU
A crude awakening : the oil crash. [New York, N.Y.] : Docurama : Distributed by New Video Group, c2007.
A rock-solid argument that the era of cheap oil is in the past. Goes deep into the uncomfortable realities of a world that is both addicted to fossil fuels and blissfully unaware of the looming “peak oil” crisis. Debunks the conventional wisdom that oil production will continue to climb, and instead stares bleakly at a planet facing economic meltdown and conflict over its most valuable resource.

DVD 647.9573 SUP
Super size me. New York : Hart Sharp Video, c2004.
Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock embarks on a journey to find out if fast food is making Americans fat. For 30 days he can’t eat or drink anything that isn’t on McDonald’s menu; he must eat three square meals a day, he must eat everything on the menu at least once and supersize his meal if asked. He treks across the country interviewing a host of experts on fast food and a number of regular folk while downing McDonald’s to try and find out why 37% of American are now overweight. Spurlock’s grueling diet spirals him into a metamorphosis that will make you think twice about picking up another Big Mac.

DVD 791.45 WIL
The wild blue yonder. Widescreen ed. [United States] : Subversive CInema, c2006.
From legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog comes an inspired vision: As humans search for a new planet to colonize, aliens attempt to settle on the nearly uninhabitable earth.

DVD 909 HOL
Holy War in World History. c2008.
A discussion of religious warfare through history.

DVD 921 ANGIER
WWII Pilot Major Francis Angier : his aviation career and POW experience. c2008.
Major Francis Angier discusses his military service during World War II.

DVD 921 BAILEY
A Vermont Pathfinder : Consuelo Northrup Bailey. c2008.
Consuelo Northrop Bailey was a U.S. lawyer and elected official. She was the first female lieutenant governor of any state in U.S. history, serving as Republican lieutenant governor of Vermont between 1955 and 1959. This is a program about her that took place at Brownell Library in March of 2008.
(description from en.wikipedia.com).

DVD 921 CARTER
American experience. [Alexandria, VA.] : PBS Home Video, 2006, c2002.
Narrator, Linda Hunt. Examines the failings of Carter’s political leadership in the context of the turbulent 1970’s ; and explores the role religion played in his career.

DVD 921 JOHNSON
American experience. Standard format. [Alexandria, Va.] : Hollywood, Calif. : PBS Home Video ; Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, c2006.
Narrated by David McCullough. A biography of Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, serving between 1963 and 1969.

DVD 921 KENNEDYS
The Kennedys. [Alexandria, Va.] : Hollywood, Calif. : PBS ; Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, c2004, c2003.
Narrator, Stacy Keach. “The Kennedys explores the building of the Kennedy legend, a story in part created and then brilliantly promoted by the family itself, a story whose afterglow still captures the American imagination. Featuring extensive interviews with family members, friends and first-hand witnesses to the many chapters of the Kennedy saga, and using a wealth of still photographs and archival footage ...”—Container box.

DVD 921 ROOSEVELT
TR. [United States] : PBS Home Video, [2006], c1996.
Narrator, Jason Robards. Documentary about Theodore Roosevelt. Explores the influence of Rossevelt’s childhood, his rise to the U.S. Presidency, and the years after he left office.

DVD 921 TRUMAN
American experience. Standard format. [Alexandria, Va.] : Burbank, Calif. : PBS Home Video : Distributed by Warner Home Video, c2006.
Host: David McCullough; narrator, Jason Robards. The story of Harry S. Truman’s life, with comments by contemporaries and historians.

DVD 937.7 VER
Vermont Women in the Abolitionist Movement. c2008.
Jane Williamson leads a discussion about Abolitionist women from Vermont.

DVD 956.7 IRA
Iraq in fragments. [Seattle, Wash.] : Typecast Releasing, c2007.
Offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the U.S. presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied. American director James Longley spent more than two years filming in Iraq to create this stunningly photographed, poetically rendered documentary of the war-torn country as seen through the eyes of Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.

DVD 974.3 RUR
Rural Vermont Speaks Out : A discussion of farm fresh meat, raw milk and industrial hemp for Vermont Agriculture. c2008.
A discussion of the agricultural importance of meat, milk and industrial hemp in Vermont.

DVD 974.3 TAK
Take Notice : a historical talk about the American Revolution and the Green Mountain Boys. c2008.
A video recording of a program held at Brownell Library.

DVD ADA
The Adams chronicles. Silver Spring, MD : Distributed by Acorn Media, c2008.
Four generations of Adamses and 150 years of American history from the birth of the Revolution through the Gilded Age. John Adams, a passionate revolutionary and second president; John Quincy Adams is the proud son of a famous father and sixth president; Charles Francis Adams is a skillful minister to Great Britain during the Civil War; Henry Adams the historian; Charles Francis Adams, Jr. is a railroad magnate. Going beyond politics, portrays these men as husbands, fathers, brothers, sons, as well as leaders.

DVD BAB
Baby take a bow. [United States] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2005.
Shirley Temple. A little girl helps her father accused of theft by finding the real crook.

DVD BEF
Before the devil knows you’re dead. Chatsworth, Calif. : Image Entertainment, c2008.
A stockbroker who is having financial troubles and in need of extra cash, and his younger brother conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. The only problem is that the owners of the jewelry store are their own parents. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed.

DVD BEY
Beyond the rocks. Harrington Park, N.J. : New York : Milestone Film & Video ; Distributed by New Yorker Video, c2006.
Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino. Long considered one of the great ‘lost’ films from the Hollywood golden age, it was amazingly discovered by the Nederlands Filmmuseum in 2005. It’s a roller-coaster ride through the English countryside, Swiss Alps, Paris, London, and the Sahara!.

DVD BRI
Bright eyes. Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2001], c1934.
Shirley is the little darling of a group of aviators, who splits her time between her pilot godfather, Loop, and her long-suffering mother, a housemaid for a selfish, wealthy family. When a tragic accident leaves Shirley orphaned, Loop sets out to adopt Shirley—until he learns he’s not the only one determined to keep the adorable youngster.

DVD BUC
The bucket list. Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2008.
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common, except they both have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to make a Bucket List of all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die.

DVD CUR
Curly top. [United States] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2005.
Edward Morgan, rich trustee of an orphanage, meets and is entranced with little Elizabeth and her older sister Mary. He adopts them and they come to adore Edward. Mary falls in love with Edward, and he has the same feelings; Elizabeth plays matchmaker.

DVD HAL
Halloween. [Restored ed.]. [Englewood, Colo.] : Starz Home Entertainment, c2007.
In 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers brutally killed his older sister. The silent child was incarcerated in the Smith’s Grove Sanitarium under the care of psychiatrist Sam Loomis. Michael’s hometown of Haddonfield was slowly beginning to forget the tragic crime. That is until Loomis returns to the town to warn them of Myers’ escape from Smith’s Grove. With Michael set on killing a group of high school students, Loomis gets the hesitant town sheriff to help him stop Michael before it’s too late.

DVD HEI
Heidi. [United States] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2005.
When her aunt tires of caring for her, orphan Heidi goes to live in the Alps with her gruff grandfather, who comes to adore her. Eventually placed with another family, Heidi fights to join her grandfather again.

DVD IAM
I am legend. [Widescreen ed.]. Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2008.
Robert Neville is the last human survivor in what is left of New York City. A pandemic has left only 1% of the population alive and most of those who survived are no longer human. The infected, now lurking in the shadows, watch Neville’s every move. Perhaps mankind’s last, best hope, Neville is driven by the only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood.

DVD IND
Indiana Jones : the adventure collection. Anamorphic widescreen. Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, c2008.
Indiana Jones and the raiders of the lost ark (1981, 115 min.) / produced by Frank Marshall ; directed by Steven Spielberg ; written by Lawrence Kasdan—Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984, 118 min.) / produced by Robert Watts ; directed by Steven Spielberg ; screenplay by Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz -- Indiana Jones and the last crusade (1989, 126 min.) / produced by Robert Watts ; directed by Steven Spielberg ; story by George Lucas and Menno Meyjes ; screenplay by Jeffrey Boam. Harrison Ford ; Raiders of the lost ark: Karen Allen, Paul Freeman ; Temple of Doom: Kate Capshaw, Amrish Puri ; Last crusade: Denholm Elliott, Sean Connery. An unconventional archaeologist is assigned by the U.S. government to find the mystically empowered Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can obtain it for their own evil use; Indiana Jones sets out to find the Ankara Stone in order to save hundreds of children who have been enslaved by a mysterious Indian cult; Indy and his father go in search of the Holy Grail, battling Nazis along the way. (Each film is shelved separately.)

DVD JOH
John Adams. [New York, N.Y.] : HBO Video, c2008.
While our new nation was suffering attacks from both within and without, John Adams had a vision of a nation of liberty and justice for all. He guided his peers—General George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson—in setting the values and agenda for a glorious, free America. Adams and his wife Abigail refined these ambitious democratic ideals, and their partnership became one of the most moving love stories in American history.

DVD KNI
Knight rider. Universal City, CA : Universal, [2005], c1983.
Gear up for action with superstar David Hasselhoff and his supercar K.I.T.T. as they throttle crime in every high-octane episode from the second season’s 21 episodes on 3 double-sided discs.

DVD LIT
Little Miss Broadway. Beverly Hills, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2005.
An orphan adopted by a kind hotel manager who rents rooms to down-on-their-luck entertainers lives happily enough until the owner of the hotel complains about the noise her showbiz friends make and threatens to close the hotel and send her back to the orphanage.

DVD MAN
Manor house. [Alexandria, VA] : PBS Home Video, c2004.
“Following in the tradition of Upstairs, Downstairs and Robert Altman’s 2001 Edwardian comic feature Gosford Park, Manor House takes a fascinating look at the grand and grueling British class system of the early 1900s”—Container.

DVD MIS
Ultimate missions collection. Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Pictures, c2006.
Mission: impossible—Mission: impossible II—Mission: impossible III. These three films star Tom Cruise and are based on the popular television series. Each film is shelved separately.

DVD MUR
Murder, she wrote. [Universal City, CA] : Universal, c2005.
Includes all 21 episodes from the unforgettable first season plus the pilot movie The Murder of Sherlock Holmes. Join super sleuth Jessica Fletcher and investigate every entertaining episode of Murder, She Wrote.

DVD MYS
Mystery science theater 3000 : the essentials. Burbank, CA : Rhino Home Video, p2004.
“Manos” the hands of fate—Santa Claus conquers the Martians. Host: Joel Hodgson. Are you ready for the best of the best (well, in this case, the worst of the worst)? Join host Joel Hodgson and his robot pals in two of the finest feature-length episodes of this hilarious, award-winning series.

DVD ORP
The orphanage. [Burbank, CA] : New Line Home Entertainment : Warner Home Video, distributor, c2008. Laura decides to purchase her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a place for disabled children. The new environment awakens the imagination of Laura’s son. His ongoing fantasy games played with an invisible friend quickly turn into something more disturbing. Upon seeing her family increasingly threatened by the strange occurrences in the house, Laura looks to a group of parapsychologists for help in unraveling the mystery that has taken over the place.

DVD PUS
Pushing tin. Widescreen version. Beverly Hill, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, c1999. Two air traffic controllers have an intense rivalry and penchant for one-upmanship, causing hilarious havoc with their careers, marriages and planes in their airspace.

DVD REB
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. [United States] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2005.
A talent scout believes that little Rebecca could be the next big thing on radio and tries to get her on the air.

DVD RUI
The ruins. Unrated [ed]. Universal City, Calif. : DreamWorks Home Entertainment, c2008.
A group of American college students go to Mexico for a vacation. They find themselves in a brutal struggle for their lives when, on an archaeological dig in the jungle, they are ambushed by hostile Mayans and forced to the top of an ancient temple. There, a monstrous and diabolically clever entity awaits them among the ruins.

DVD SCH
Schindler’s list. Widescreen (1.85:1) version. Universal City, CA : Universal, [2004], c1993.
The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps. He employed Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods for the German army. At the same time he tries to stay solvent with the help of a Jewish accountant and negotiates business with a vicious Nazi commandant who enjoys shooting Jews as target practice from the balcony of his villa that overlooks the prison camp he commands.

DVD SIL
The silence of the lambs. Collector’s ed. ; [2-disc set]. [Los Angeles, CA] : MGM Home Entertainment ; Beverly Hills, Calif. : Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2007.
When FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned a case involving a monstrous serial killer, she seeks counsel from an imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, whose fascination with the young woman is as great as his hunger for murder. As their relationship develops, Starling must confront her own demons, and an evil so powerful that she may not have the courage or strength to stop it.

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

DVD WOY, DVD NOS, DVD FIT, DVD COB, DVD AGU, DVD 791.4 MYB
Herzog/Kinski collection. Troy, Mich. : Anchor Bay Entertainment, 2002, c1972-2000.
The six films of this collection are shelved separately. The collection is the result of several years of collaboration between director Werner Herzog and actor Klaus Kinski.

New books and media for August 2008

FICTION

F ALEXIE
Alexie, Sherman . Flight : a novel. 1st ed. New York : [S.l.] : Black Cat ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2007.
Follows the life of a troubled teen as he is transported back and forth in time in a search for his true identity.

F ALLEN
Allen, Sarah Addison. Garden spells. New York : Bantam Books, c2007.
Claire Waverley has used her unique gifts to cast a protective boundary around her home and life, but when her rebellious sister, Sydney, unexpectedly arrives on Claire’s doorstep, she finds her life turned upside down as they both struggle to heal the wounds of the past.

F ASNER
Asner, Jules. Whacked. 1st ed. New York : Weinstein Books, c2008.
Dani Hale, a writer for the television crime series “Flesh and Bone,” draws from her vast knowledge of Hollywood murders to get revenge when she learns that her boyfriend Dave, the show’s director, has been cheating on her.

F BANKS
Banks, L. A. The wicked : [a vampire huntress legend]. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Griffin, c2007.
Cain, the son of Eve, has escaped his banishment to ascend his father’s throne as the Chairman of the Vampire Council and resurrects the deadly Fallon Nuit to lead a powerful new army.

F BELMOND
Belmond, C. A. A rather lovely inheritance. New York : New American Library, c2007.
Historical researcher Penny Nichols inherits her Aunt Penelope’s estate and sets out to uncover the truth about her aunt and other haunting family secrets.

F BIDDLE
Biddle, Cordelia Frances. The conjurer. 1st ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Minotaur, c2007.
Twenty-six-year-old spinster Martha Beale teams up with investigator Thomas Kelman in an attempt to learn what happened to her father, a Philadelphia financier who disappeared while on a hunting trip,and uncovers connections to a woman in an insane asylum, a shady psychic, and the serial murders of child prostitutes.

F BLACK
Black, Cara . Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis. New York : Soho, c2007.
Paris computer expert Aimee Leduc, alerted by an anonymous phone call to look in her courtyard, finds an abandoned infant, and her search for the baby’s mother leads her into a plot involving espionage, environmental degradation, and murder.

F BOND
Bond, Stephanie. Body movers: 2 bodies for the price of 1. Don Mills, Ont. : Mira, c2008.
Rich girl-turned-Neiman’s shop girl Carlotta was left at 18 to raise her 10-year-old brother, Wesley, after their parents, Randolph and Valerie, skipped town to avoid investment fraud charges. Ten years later, snarky Atlanta DA Kelvin Lucas has reopened the case. Grouchy love interest Det. Jack Terry wants information that Carlotta’s afraid to divulge. Randolph makes a mysterious call to Carlotta and also gets in touch with Peter Ashford, her attentive ex-fiancé. Wesley, an oddly likable slacker and compulsive gambler, believes in their dad’s innocence, but Carlotta’s not so sure. (from Publishers Weekly).

F BOWEN
Bowen, Rhys. A royal pain. 1st ed. New York : Berkley Prime Crime, c2008.
Lady Georgiana is summoned by the Queen to entertain a Bavarian Princess and introduce her to a playboy prince in hopes he will finally marry; however, since Georgiana’s brother, Binky, cut off her allowance, she doesn’t have the proper funds to feed them.

F BOX LP
Box, C. J. Free fire. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2007.
Joe Pickett, having been fired from his job as a game warden, is working on his father-in-law’s ranch when he receives a special request from the Governor that he can’t refuse. Governor Rubin wants Joe to investigate a case in which an attorney has been accused of murdering four campers in Yellowstone National Park. With the promise of being reinstated as game warden, Joe and his partner, Nate Romanowski, set off for the beauty and danger of Yellowstone and find something even more dangerous.

F BROWN
Brown, Janelle. All we ever wanted was everything : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Spiegel & Grau, c2008.
Janice Miller and her two daughters band together to face off against divorce lawyers, debt collectors, mean girls, and other foes when Janice is informed her husband Paul is divorcing her just when his pharmaceutical company is hitting the big time, Margaret is dumped by her newly famous actor boyfriend, and Lizzie learns that her winning battle to lose weight has made her the target of school bathroom graffiti.

F BURKE
Burke, James Lee . Swan Peak : a Dave Robicheaux novel. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2008.
Detective Dave Robicheaux is out of his element this time as the story finds him in the wilds of Montana where Clete Purcel has to confront ghosts from his past. Jimmy Dale Greenwood continues to hide from the law. Robicheaux uncovers fraudulent ministers who garner support for nefarious political enterprises, and comes into contact with two brothers who are the sons of the most famous wildcatter in Texas oil history.

F CLARK
Clark, Mary Higgins. Where are you now? 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2008.
Twenty-six-year-old Carolyn MacKenzie, having suffered from the September 11, 2001, death of her father and finished her clerkship in Manhattan, decide to track down her brother who disappeared ten years earlier, and uncovers a web of lies and deceit involving her family and wealthy, powerful people who want to keep a secret quiet.

F CLARK LP
Clark, Mary Higgins. Where are you now? Large print ed. Waterville, Me. : Thorndike/Windsor/Paragon, c2008.
Twenty-six-year-old Carolyn MacKenzie, having suffered from the September 11, 2001, death of her father and finished her clerkship in Manhattan, decide to track down her brother who disappeared ten years earlier, and uncovers a web of lies and deceit involving her family and wealthy, powerful people who want to keep a secret quiet.

F COEL LP
Coel, Margaret . Eye of the wolf. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2006.
At the Wind River Reservation, Father John O’Malley is alarmed on receiving a cryptic voice-mail message that leads him to a century-old battlefield and three newly slain Shoshones. Could these be revenge killings for the bloody battle that took place between the now co-existing Arapahos and Shoshones? When a client of Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden, Frankie Montana, is accused of the murders, Vicky’s law partner and lover, Adam Lone Eagle, urges her to pass Montana to the attractive new lawyer in town. Past experience sets off her warning bells, and Vicky begins to wonder about Adam’s interest in the beautiful blond newcomer.

F COLLINS
Collins, Jackie. Married lovers. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, c2008.
Cameron Paradise has started her life over in L.A. as a personal trainer to the stars and is striving to fulfill her dream of opening her own studio, but her affair with married movie producer Ryan Lambert threatens to destroy everything she has worked for, and may even end her life.

F COOK
Cook, Claire . Summer blowout. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2008.
Bella Shaughnessay helps her father run a small chain of beauty salons in Marshbury, Massachusetts, after swearing off all men, until a handsome entrepreneur comes along.

F COULTER
Coulter, Catherine. TailSpin. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2008.
FBI Special Agent Jackson Crowne is able to save himself and psychologist Dr. Timothy MacLean after their plane crashes in Parlow, Kentucky, where they stumble upon Rachael Abbott, a woman with a shocking secret who is running from an unknown enemy and helps Crowne and Dr. MacLean outsmart the people who will stop at nothing to keep the doctor from revealing what he knows about a political scandal that could destroy the government.

F DEAVER
Deaver, Jeffery. The broken window : a Lincoln Rhyme novel. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2008.
New York police department forensic consultant Lincoln Rhyme and detective Amelia Sachs try to clear Rhyme’s cousin, Arthur, of a murder charge and uncover a serial killer who is using data mining to frame innocent people.

F DEVERAUX
Deveraux, Jude. Secrets. 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, c2008.
Cassandra Madden, in love since the age of twelve with Jefferson Ames, a young man she met at one of her mother’s business conferences, grows up unable to find anyone who lives up to her vision of Jeff as the ideal man, and she finally gets a chance to be near him when she gets a job as nanny for the now-widowed Jeff’s young daughter in Williamsburg, Virginia, but must still find a way to make him notice her as a woman.

F DOHERTY
Doherty, P. C. The assassins of Isis : a story of ambition, politics and murder set in ancient Egypt. 1st St. Martin’s Minotaur ed. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2006, c2004.
Lord Amerotke, chief justice for Pharoah Queen Hatusu, places his own life in danger when he tries to discover the links between the disappearance of four handmaidens from the Temple of Isis, the plunder of Rahimere’s tomb, and the strange death of military hero General Suten.

F ERDRICH
Erdrich, Louise. The plague of doves. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2008.
In 1911, a farm family is killed in Pluto, North Dakota, and three Ojibwe are lynched for the murders even though there is no evidence of their guilt; and years later, the events of the crime reverberate among the descendants of those involved.

F EVANOVICH LP
Evanovich, Janet. Fearless fourteen. 1st large print ed. New York : Random House Large Print, c2008.
Stephanie Plum, a bond enforcement agent, takes a job from security expert Carlos Manoso, but her boyfriend, Joe Morelli, a police officer who is looking for his cousins, Dom and Loretta Rizzi, who are suspects in a bank robbery, thinks she should be spending her nights with him.

F FREY
Frey, James . Bright shiny morning. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2008.
Presents a compilation of vignettes of several characters who come to the city of Los Angeles in order to fulfill their dreams.

F FURST
Furst, Alan. The spies of Warsaw : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2008.
Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, a military attaché at the French embassy in Warsaw in 1937, gathers snippets of information while living the life of an aristocrat in Poland and conducting an affair with a lawyer for the League of Nations, but he finds himself scrambling to save the life of one of his spies and alert authorities to what is going on when it becomes clear the Nazis are preparing to mount a tank attack.

F GARDNER
Gardner, Lisa. Say goodbye. New York : Bantam Books, c2008.
Delilah Rose is a Georgia prostitute familiar with pregnant FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy (“beautiful, brainy, and pedigreed”) through Kimberly’s well-publicized nabbing of the Eco-Killer in The Killing Hour(2003). Delilah asks the detective to investigate her friend Ginny Jones’s possible abduction by a creepy-crawly john who calls himself Dinchara, an anagram of “arachnid.” (from Publishers Weekly).

F GIFFIN
Giffin, Emily. Love the one you’re with. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, c2008.
Ellen’s seemingly perfect marriage comes into question when she runs into Leo, the man who left her brokenhearted eight years before.

F GREEN
Green, Simon R. . Hell to pay : a novel of the nightside. Ace mass-market ed. New York : Ace Books, c2007.
An immortal called the Griffin hires John Taylor, a private investigator whose special abilities are blocked, to find his missing granddaughter in the Nightside, a dark city within London.

F GREEN
Green, Simon R. . Paths not taken. Ace mass market ed. New York : Ace Books, c2005.
John Taylor, a “finder” who works in the magical underworld of London, uncovers the mystery of his past just in time to try to stop his mother, a being who has been around since before the dawn of history, from destroying the Nightside, a realm of her own making.

F GREEN
Green, Simon R. . Nightingale’s lament. Ace mass market ed. New York : Ace Books, c2004.
John Taylor, a “finder” who works in the Nightside, the magical underworld of London, is hired to find out why a local diva called the Nightingale has cut herself off from her family and friends, and why suicide-prone fans believe her voice is literally “to die for.”

F GREEN
Green, Simon R. . Agents of light and darkness. Ace mass-market ed. New York : Ace Books, c2003.
John Taylor, a man who has a supernatural ability to find things, ventures into the Nightside, the magical underworld of London, on a mission to locate the Unholy Grail, the cup that Judas drank from at the Last Supper and that corrupts all who touch it while at the same time conferring great power.

F GREEN
Green, Simon R. . Hex and the city. Ace mass market ed. New York : Ace Books, c2005.
Detective John Taylor is hired to uncover the origins of the Nightside, a small glimpse of hell in London, and in turn finds out a shocking secret about his own long-vanished mother.

F GRIFFIN
Griffin, W. E. B. Death and honor. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2008.
In 1943, Marine fighter pilot Cletus Frade is sent to Argentina as a spy while posing as head of an OSS airline, and uncovers a plot to help Nazi officers escape to safe havens around the world, but his thirst for revenge against the soldiers responsible for his father’s death may endanger Cletus’s ultimate mission.

F GUTERSON
Guterson, David. The other. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, c2008.
John William Barry and Neil Countryman are brought together by their mutual love of the outdoors; but when Neil asks John to help him disappear into Washington’s backcountry, he finds himself in the center of secrets and deceit that will shatter his life.

F HALL
Hall, Steven . The Raw Shark Texts. 1st American ed. Edinburgh, Scotland ; New York : [Berkeley, Calif.] :Canongate ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2007.
Eric Sanderson, having awakened with no memory, finds a note directing him to a doctor who tells him he is suffering from a dissociative disorder that has flared up on several occasions since the drowning death of his girlfriend three years earlier, and soon discovers, through notes he has written to himself, that he is being pursued by a metaphysical shark that is eating up his memories and sense of himself.

F HARRIS
Harris, Charlaine. From dead to worse. 1st ed. New York : Ace Books, c2008.
Louisiana telepath and cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who is friendly with a pack of werewolves and blood bonded to a vampire leader, finds herself caught in the middle of a werewolf power struggle and learns about her family’s past and her powers from her great grandfather.

F HARTE
Harte, Amanda. The golden thread. New York : Avalon Books, c2008.
If there’s one thing Eleanor Menger knows it’s that she will never marry the man her uncle has chosen for her. Even though it means giving up her comfortable life in New York City, somehow she’ll find a way to support herself until she’s free from her uncle’s guardianship. An advertisement for workers at the textile mill in Hidden Falls seems like the answer to Eleanor’s dilemma. No matter how difficult it is to handle a loom, she’ll be safe there, for no one would expect an heiress to be a common laborer. All she needs to do is make sure no one—especially not Brad Harrod—learns her true identity.

F HEARN
Hearn, Lian. Heaven’s net is wide : the first tale of the Otori. New York : Riverhead Books, c2007.
Details the character Lord Otori Shigeru’s early life; providing information on his warrior training, tests of his skills and talents, relationship with a tribe of assassins, and encounters with Lady Maruyama.

F HORNER
Modern magic : tales of fantasy and horror. Wilmington, DE : Fantasist Enterprises, c2006.
Envisioning a darker version of today’s world, the 26 authors present tales of the fae, including P. Kirby’s story of an unusual attempt to change fate by a precognitive member of the fae and his vampire associate (“Salvation in a Plastic Bag”); wizards, including Jon Allan Sprunk’s tale of magic in unlikely places (“Office Magic”); and other supernatural denizens of the modern era. (from Library Journal).

F IGNATIUS
Ignatius, David . Body of lies : a novel. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton, c2007.
Roger Ferris, an idealistic CIA agent who has dedicated himself to preventing further al-Qaeda attacks, becomes caught up in a web of lies, deception, manipulation, and hypocrisy when he concocts an elaborate plot to find a terrorist known as Suleiman, patterned on a British scheme used against the Nazis in World War II.

F JACKSON
Jackson, Lisa. Lost souls. New York : Kensington Books, c2008.
Aspiring crime writer Kristi Bentz, having already survived two run-ins with serial killers, enrolls at All Saints College in New Orleans to investigate the disappearances of four girls, all of whom had been enrolled in a popular class on vampirism, and finds she has once again been targeted by a killer and has completely underestimated her enemy.

F JACKSON
Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965. The haunting of Hill House. New York : Penguin Books, 2006, c1959.
Four visitors to Hill House are unaware that the old evil mansion will soon choose one of them to make its own.

F JANCE
Jance, Judith A. Damage control. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2008.
Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady must somehow find a way to balance her complicated home life with her even more difficult job, especially when she is called upon to solve two cases involving the deaths of an elderly couple whose car ran off a mountain in the Coronado National Monument, and the discovery of the remains of a handicapped woman who had wandered away from her care facility.

F JOHANSEN
Johansen, Iris. Silent thunder : Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2008.
Hannah Bryson, a marine architect, is thrilled when she’s assigned to create a schematic of a Russian nuclear submarine which has been purchased by the United States for display in a museum. It is her job to check for hazards and to design modifications to make it safe for visitors. Her brother, Connor, her assistant, discovers a mysterious message hidden behind one of the panels and is then murdered. Remaining on the job, Hannah plans to finish what she started, and to find her brother’s killer.

F KINGSBURY
Kingsbury, Karen. Between Sundays. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, c2007.
God brings hope and healing into the lives of young quarterback Aaron Hill; his teammate Derrick Anderson, a family man looking to keep a promise he made years earlier; Cory, an orphan in the foster care system who is convinced that Hill is his father; and Megan Gunn, the woman who wants to adopt Cory.

F KINGSBURY LP
Kingsbury, Karen. Like dandelion dust. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2006.
Jack and Molly Campbell live an idealistic life in a small town, with their adopted son Joey, four. When the child’s biological father is released from prison, the courts order for Joey to return to his father. Jack and Molly are devastated and they consider devising a plan that will keep Joey with them forever.

F LAMARCHE
LaMarche, Phil. American youth : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2007.
After being involved in an accidental shooting, fourteen-year-old Ted LeClare awaits the discovery of his guilt by the local police officers and joins a group of boys called the American Youth who pride themselves on anti-federalist beliefs and vandalizing property of the wealthy.

F LARKIN
Larkin, Alison. The English American. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2008.
Follows the trials of Pippa Dunn, who is adopted by British parents and finally meets her American birth parents when she is twenty-eight, but chaos and confusion ensue as she is caught between two opposing cultures.

F LEARY
Leary, Ann. Outtakes from a marriage : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Shaye Areheart Books, c2008.
The innocent mistake of listening to her actor-husband’s voicemail instead of her own sends Julia DeLuca on a mission to determine if Joe is having an affair with the sultry Southern-sounding woman on the phone message. Yet, she must be discreet so as not to endanger her ability to attend the Golden Globe awards with Joe, only days away.

F LUSTBADER
Lustbader, Eric. Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne sanction. 1st ed. New York, NY : Grand Central Pub., c2008.
Jason Bourne must confront a nightmare version of himself—an amoral, heartless killer—in this new novel in Robert Ludlum’s bestselling series. (from the publisher).

F MACOMBER
Macomber, Debbie. Twenty wishes. Don Mills, Ont. : Mira, c2008.
Anne Marie Roche, who feels empty inside after the husband she was separated from dies, invites other widows to her book store to make a list of twenty wishes, the fulfillment of which leads each woman into unexpected relationships or friendships.

F MACOMBER LP
Macomber, Debbie. Almost paradise. Large print ed. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2007.
Sherry White spends her summer working at a camp for gifted children, caring for seven precocious girls and developing an unexpected relationship with camp director Jeff Roarke.

F MCCARTHY LP
McCarthy, Cormac . The road. Large print ed. Thorndike, ME : Center Point Pub., 2007, c2006.
Traces the journey of a father and his son as they walk alone after a great fire has consumed the nation and left everything in ashes.

F MCMAHON
McMahon, Jennifer. Island of lost girls : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2008.
A woman who witnesses a girl’s kidnapping by someone in a rabbit costume joins the investigation and finds connections to the disappearance of her own childhood best friend.

F MEYER
Meyer, Stephenie . The host : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, c2008.
Melanie, whose mind has been almost completely taken over by an alien named Wanderer, convinces the alien to search for her lost lover, who fled the extraterrestrial invasion, and tries to find a way in which she and Wanderer can coexist.

F MODESITT
Modesitt, L. E. The Elysium Commission. 1st ed. New York : Tor, c2007.
When a scientist on the planet Devanta creates a small universe similar to Earth, retired military special operative Blaine Donne uncovers a disturbing link between the new utopian universe and a series of disturbing crimes.

F MOSHER LP
Mosher, Howard Frank. Disappearances. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2006.
The time: 1932, just before the repeal of Prohibition and just shy of Wild Bill’s 14th birthday. The place: Vermont, near the Canadian border. Bill’s dad, desperate to preserve his cattle herd through a bitter winter, resorts to smuggling whiskey—a traditional family occupation. He takes his son on a voyage that will remain etched in the reader’s mind: a journey into the demonic and spellbinding past. What they find is the genuine stuff of legends.

F MYERS
Myers, Tamar. Hell hath no curry : a Pennsylvania Dutch mystery with recipes. New York : New American Library, c2007.
Three days before he’s due to tie the knot with Priscilla Livengood, eligible bachelor Cornelious Weaver suffers a massive heart attack in another woman’s bed. The scandal is about as good as television for the insular citizens of Hernia, Pennsylvania, and it gets even spicier when the coroner’s report reveals possible foul play: Cornelious’s curry was spiked with a stimulant.

F OATES
Oates, Joyce Carol . My sister, my love : the intimate story of Skyler Rampike. 1st ed. New York : Ecco, c2008.
Nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike looks back on the ten years since the murder of his younger sister Bliss, a rising figure skater whose unsolved death created a media circus that destroyed his parents’ marriage and cast suspicion on him, keeping him from finding any sense of normalcy in his life.

F ONEILL
O’Neill, Joseph . Netherland. 1st American ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c2008.
Hans van den Broek finds himself alone in New York City after his wife and son return to London, and stumbles upon the subculture of cricket, builds a friendship with Chuck from Trinidad, and begins a new life in his adopted country.

F PATTISON
Pattison, Eliot. Prayer of the dragon. New York : Soho, c2007.
Shan Tao Yun, an exiled Chinese national, must save a comatose man from execution for two murders in which the victims’ arms have been removed.

F PELECANOS
Pelecanos, George P. The turnaround : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, and Co., c2008.
In 1972, three white teenagers drive into a solidly African American neighborhood bent on “rais[ing] a little hell.” What follows is tragic: one boy is left dead, another scarred for life, and a young African American is in prison. Thirty years later, two survivors of that fated afternoon accidentally reconnect and explore accommodation. But a third party to these past events has more sinister plans. (from Library Journal).

F PICOULT LP
Picoult, Jodi . Nineteen minutes. Center Point large print ed. Thorndike, ME : Center Point Pub., c2007.
The people of Sterling, New Hampshire, are forever changed after a shooting at the high school leaves ten people dead, and the judge presiding over the trial tries to remain unbiased, even though her daughter witnessed the events and was friends with the assailant.

F POLLOCK
Pollock, Donald Ray . Knockemstiff. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2008.
A collection of interrelated stories about the lives of the people in a small rural town in Ohio from the 1960s through the 1990s.

F PRICE
Price, Richard . Lush life. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2008.
In Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Eric Cash, a restaurant manager and struggling writer, witnesses the shooting death of one of his employees, and detective Matty Clark and his partner Yolonda Bello try to reconstruct the crime to find the perpetrator, while suspecting Eric may have been involved.

F QUINN
Quinn, Tara Taylor. Behind closed doors. Don Mills, Ontario : MIRA Books, c2007.
Laura Elizabeth Clark goes against her parents wishes and marries biracial Harry Kendall. But happily-ever-after goes horribly wrong one night when an intruder—a member of a white supremacist organization—forces his way into their Arizona home and commits an unthinkable crime, in this second part of a trilogy.


F ROBERTS
Roberts, Nora. Tribute. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2008.
Former child star Cilla McGowan returns to the Blue Ridge Mountain area to restore her grandmother’s farmhouse, which began to fall into ruin after the woman’s death; but after Cilla discovers a secret pile of unsigned letters in the attic leads, she encounters a series of personal attacks.

F ROMANO-LAX
Romano-Lax, Andromeda . The Spanish bow. 1st ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2007.
The bequest of a cello bow in early twentieth-century Spain sets young Feliu Delargo on the path to a music career which is enhanced by his partnership with eccentric piano prodigy Justo Al-Cerraz, and the two spend years making beautiful music together while disagreeing about nearly everything else—except their daring final collaboration with Jewish Italian violinist Aviva.

F RUSHDIE
Rushdie, Salman. The enchantress of Florence : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2008.
A young European who calls himself the Mughal of Love travels to the court of Emperor Akbar and tells a tale about a mysterious woman who possesses enchanting beauty and tries to control her destiny during the High Renaissance in Florence, where Niccolo Machiavelli learns about power.

F RUSSELL
Russell, Kirk . Deadgame : a John Marquez crime novel. 1st Chronicle Books LLC pbk. ed. San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2007, c2005.
Ex-DEA agent John Marquez, working undercover for the California Department of Fish and Game, investigates the illegal poaching of sturgeon and the disappearance of his key confidential informant.

F SHAARA
Shaara, Jeff . The steel wave : a novel of World War II. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2008.
The second of Jeff Shaara’s epic trilogy on World War II covers the story of D-Day and the Allied invasion of France told from the perspective of some of the event’s major characters.

F SILVA
Silva, Daniel . Moscow rules. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2008.
Gabriel Allon-art restorer, master spy, and sanctioned assassin-returns in Silva’s 11th thriller about terrorism in our violent world. After the murder of an informant in St. Peter’s Basilica, Allon is sent to the newly wealthy but corrupt Moscow to stop arms dealer Ivan Kharkov from selling sophisticated weapons to al-Qaeda. (from Library Journal).

F SIMENON
Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989. The friend of Madame Maigret : an inspector Maigret mystery. New York : Penguin Books, c2007.
In The Friend of Madame Maigret, Simenon.portrays the Marais quarter of Paris and those who haunt its narrow streets as Inspector Maigret attempts to prove that a murder has actually been committed without a corpse anywhere to be found. (from the publisher, edited).

F SLAUGHTER
Slaughter, Karin . Fractured. New York : Delacorte Press, c2008.
Finding her daughter murdered in her upscale home, Abigail Campano kills her daughter’s assailant in revenge. But is the situation that simple? (from Library Journal).

F SMITH
Smith, Tom Rob. Child 44. 1st ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., c2008.
Leo Demidov, an officer of the MGB, the State Security Force in Stalin’s Soviet Union, finds himself demoted and on the run for suggesting the presence of a murderer in the insisted idealistic Moscow.

F SOMERS
Somers, Jeff . The digital plague. 1st ed. New York : Orbit, c2008.
Criminal Avery Cates finds himself in the unlikely role of savior when everyone around him begins to die in a gruesome manner, leaving him behind to track down the people, or things, responsible for the deaths.

F STABENOW LP
Stabenow, Dana. A deeper sleep. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2007.
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 STROHMEYER LP
Strohmeyer, Sarah. Bubbles all the way. Center Point large print ed. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., c2006.
For years the local ladies of Lehigh, Pennsylvania, have wished aloud that Debbie Shatsky would meet an untimely end—so they could get their hands on Phil Shatsky, sports-hating, dinner-cooking, massage-giving husband extraordinaire. But when Debbie gets hair extensions at the House of Beauty and dies from a reaction to the glue, it’s salon owner Sandy who gets the blame. Her best friend Bubbles Yablonsky, reporter and sleuth, is determined to investigate—despite distractions from the two men in her life. And from a mysterious Santa Claus, who warns Bubbles not to cry, not to pout and not to scream...when he tries to kill her.

F STROSS
Stross, Charles. Saturn’s children : a space opera. 1st ed. New York : Ace Books, c2008.
Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct, leaving only androids behind. Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of the last of her kind still functioning. With no humans left to pay for the pleasures she provides, she agrees to transport a mysterious package from Mercury to Mars.

F THOR
Thor, Brad. The last patriot : a thriller. 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, c2008.
Former Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath is drawn back into his old life when he saves University of Virginia professor Anthony Nichols from an assassin’s bomb in Paris and becomes involved in trying to uncover the final and startling revelation of the prophet Mohammed which, if revealed, will transform Islam.

F WEISBERGER
Weisberger, Lauren . Chasing Harry Winston. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2008.
The bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and Everyone Worth Knowing returns with the story of three best friends who vow to change their entire lives...and change them fast.

F WELLS
Wells, Shirley. A darker side. New York : Soho Press, c2008.
Forensic psychologist Jill Kennedy has given up police work for a quiet life in the Lancashire village of Kelton Bridge. But when Martin Hayden, a seventeen-year-old schoolboy, is murdered, DCI Max Trentham, Jill’s ex-colleague, wants her back at work.

F WINFIELD
Winfield, Jess. My name is Will : a novel of sex, drugs, and Shakespeare. 1st ed. New York : Twelve, c2008.
Tells the intersecting stories of a young William Shakespeare, teaching at Stratford-upon-Avon, and grad student Willie Shakespeare Greenberg, who finds himself an unwitting drug smuggler thanks to one bad choice.

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

F WINTERSON
Winterson, Jeanette . The stone gods. 1st U.S. ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2007.
Billie Crusoe, sent to colonize a new blue planet along with the renegade robo-sapian Spike, learns the unhappy truth of the old adage about people being doomed to repeat their mistakes when a technical maneuver fails, sending the travelers on a gender-bending adventure through time and space.

F WROBLEWSKI
Wroblewski, David. The story of Edgar Sawtelle : a novel. New York : Ecco, c2008.
A tale reminiscent of “Hamlet” that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father’s death.

NON-FICTION

155.6 SIL
Silver, Burton. Everything he hasn’t told you yet : a new way to get men talking about stuff that matters. Berkeley, Calif. : Ten Speed Press, c2007.
Presents over one hundred scenarios, each with a series of questions, designed to give women insights into what men really think and how they feel about a variety of life issues, and to provide a basis from which to have more in-depth conversations.

155.9 GRO
Groves, Richard F. The American book of dying : lessons in healing spiritual pain. Berkeley : Celestial Arts, c2005.
Written for the non-professional caretaker, “The American Book of Dying” is an invaluable resource that offers comfort, direction, and hope for those living and those dying. Drawing from real-life experiences, authors Richard F. Groves and Henriette Anne Klauser present a collection of nine stories, each illustrating a common archetype, as well as insightful, timeless lessons gleaned from each experience.

170.44 SHR
Shriver, Maria. Just who will you be? : big question, little book, answer within. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2008.
Offers advice to anyone of any age who wants to do something different with their life, and describes how her life changed drastically when her husband was elected governor of California.

200 TIP
Tippett, Krista. Speaking of faith : why religion matters—and how to talk about it. Penguin Books, c2008.
As a journalist and then a diplomat, author Tippett was enthralled by the promise of political solutions to divisive issues. When politics failed to provide worthy answers, she attended Yale Divinity School to pursue larger questions about what makes a meaningful life. In her quest for faith’s illumination of life’s complexities, passions, and frailties, she developed a style of discourse—a “life of conversation”—that she now shares with millions of people every week via her public radio program. Tippett’s in-depth conversations with theologians, scientists, ethicists, and seekers who share their experiences, combined with her engaging style, are revolutionizing the way many think and speak of faith in their families and communities and in the larger world. (from the publisher).

226.06 GOM
Gomes, Peter J. The scandalous Gospel of Jesus : what’s so good about the good news. 1st ed. New York : HarperOne, c2007.
Argues that the real message of the Christian church should not be the “good news” of salvation through Jesus, but the controversial gospel of hope and revolution preached by Jesus during his time on Earth.

248.8 GUT
Guthrie, David. When your family’s lost a loved one : finding hope together. Carol Stream, Ill. : Tyndale House Publishers, c2008.
In this book, Nancy and David Guthrie explore the family dynamics involved when a loved one dies—and debunk some myths about family grief. Through their own experiences of losing two young children and interviews with those who’ve faced losing spouses and parents, they show how grief can actually pull a family closer together rather than tearing it apart.

294.3 YON
Yongey Mingyur, Rinpoche . The joy of living : unlocking the secret and science of happiness. 1st ed. New York: Harmony Books, c2007.
World-renowned Buddhist teacher Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche offers insight into the secrets of meditation, drawing on neuroscience research to explain how meditation can help people enhance their happiness and compassion and offering simple meditation strategies that can be easily implemented.

303.49 ZAK
Zakaria, Fareed. The post-American world. 1st ed. New York : Norton, c2008.
The author describes a world where the United States will no longer dominate the global economy, maintaining that the economic growth of other nations like China, India, and Russia have challenged America’s standing around the world.

305.23 BRI
Briski, Zana. Born into brothels : photographs by the children of Calcutta. 2nd ed. New York : Umbrage Editions, c2004.
A collection of photos by Indian children born and raised in brothels where their mothers work as prostitutes, who were introduced to the art of photography by American photographer Zana Briski while she lived among them in Calcutta’s red light district.

306 SIN
We owe you nothing : Punk Planet : the collected interviews. New York, NY : Akashic Books, c2001.
The expanded edition of We Owe You Nothing brings the definitive book of conversations with the underground’s greatest minds up to 2007.

306.76 KEN
Kennedy, Pagan . The first man-made man : the story of two sexes, one love affair, and a twentieth-century medical revolution. 1st U.S. ed. New York : [S.l.] : Bloomsbury ; Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, c2007.
Recounts the true story of Michael Dillon, the first person in the world to undergo a sex change operation, transforming from female to male in a time when plastic surgery was not the norm.

324.973 FOR
Ford, Marcia. We the purple : faith, politics, and the independent voter. Carol Stream, Ill. : Tyndale House Publishers, c2008.
In We the Purple, Ford describes and interprets her fellow “Purple” voters—independents who are neither Republican red nor Democratic blue. Through dozens of interviews with independent voters and candidates, politicians, political observers and activists of many stripes, she explains how these citizens eschew partisan politics, guided instead by their core values, their faith, and their experience.

327.1273 SHO
Shorrock, Tim. Spies for hire : the secret world of intelligence outsourcing. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2008.
Private corporations employing former high-ranking federal government and military officials are making huge profits from secret contracts with the CIA, NSA and various baronies in the Defense Department, avers freelance journalist Shorrock. In his first book, the author penetrates the covert worlds of corporations with names like CACI International Inc., Mantech International and Booz Allen Hamilton, as well as government agencies spending tens of billions of taxpayer dollars with no accountability. (from Kirkus Reviews).

327.561 MOR
Morris, Chris . The new Turkey : the quiet revolution on the edge of Europe. London : Granta Books, 2006, c2005.
Discusses the economic and political reforms occurring in twentieth-century Turkey, and explores the new problems that the country is facing as well as the expectations of the people who live there.

330.943 ALY
Aly, Götz . Hitler’s beneficiaries : plunder, racial war, and the Nazi welfare state. 1st U.S. ed. New York :
Metropolitan, 2007, c2006.
Examines the economic workings of the Third Reich, revealing how Adolf Hitler won the allegiance of Germans for his program of mass murder and military conquest by stealing money from them and using those funds to support generous social programs that earned their approval and consent.

331.702 YEA
Yeatman, C. Perry. Get ahead by going abroad : a woman’s guide to fast-track career success. 1st ed. New York : Collins, c2007.
Explains how the business world’s growing international operations field is offering women more opportunities to advance their careers and get ahead in the corporate world, and offers women practical advice on how they can take advantage of the latest trends and showcase their unique skills and accomplishments.

332.6 EIN
Einhorn, David. Fooling some of the people all of the time : a long short story. Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley, c2008.
In 2002, Einhorn spoke publicly about Allied Capital—a leader in the private finance industry—presenting it as an excellent short opportunity. Einhorn describes the incredible events that followed his speech and how Allied and the investment community attacked him to protect the company—and its stock price. Informative and intriguing, “Fooling Some of the People All of the Time” details how the current environment on Wall Street—and the world of hedge funds in particular—not only allows for such behavior, but how it protects the companies and attacks those who attempt to uncover them.—From publisher’s description.

333.79 SWA
Swan, Christopher C. Electric water : the emerging revolution in water and energy. Gabriola, B.C. : New Society Publishers, c2007.
Building on current mainstream trends in solar energy and wind power, Electric Water offers a clear vision of how the world’s energy and water infrastructure could be transformed.

341.48 SAN
Sands, Philippe . Torture team. New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, c2008.
On December 2, 2002 the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed his name at the bottom of a document that listed eighteen techniques of interrogation—techniques that defied international definitions of torture. The Rumsfeld Memo authorized the controversial interrogation practices that later migrated to Guantanamo, Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, as part of the policy of extraordinary rendition. From a behind-the-scenes vantage point, Phillipe Sands investigates how the Rumsfeld Memo set the stage for a divergence from the Geneva Convention and the Torture Convention and holds the individual gatekeepers in the Bush administration accountable for their failure to safeguard international law.

347.73 GRE
Greenburg, Jan Crawford. Supreme conflict : the inside story of the struggle for control of the United States Supreme Court. New York : Penguin Press, c2007.
ABC News correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg offers an inside look at the struggle for power within the Supreme Court in recent years, discussing how that struggle has influenced the Court’s dynamics and rulings.

364.941 THO
Thomas, Donald Serrell. Villains’ paradise : a history of Britain’s underworld. 1st Pegasus Books ed. New York : [St. Paul, Minn.] : Pegasus Books ; Distributed by Consortium, c2006.
British newspapers have always been obsessed with criminal personalities, and this book is a collection of some of the most famous tales. (from the New York Times, edited).

381 HAR
Hart, Marjorie . Summer at Tiffany. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2007.
The author recalls the summer of 1945 when she and her friend Marty Garrett, fresh from the University of Iowa, were hired as pages at Tiffany & Co., becoming the first women to ever work on the sales floor where they rubbed elbows with the rich and famous, celebrated VJ Day in Times Square, danced away the weekends, and created lasting memories.

610 WOO
Woodman, Josef. Patients beyond borders : everybody’s guide to affordable, world-class medical tourism. Chapel Hill, NC : Healthy Travel Media, c2007.
Patients Beyond Borders is the first comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide to medical tourism, aimed at the 84 million uninsured and under-insured Americans seeking treatment options abroad for increasingly expensive procedures in the US.

615.5 LIV
Livingstone, Bob. The body mind soul solution : healing emotional pain through exercise. 1st Pegasus Books ed. New York : Pegasus Books, c2007.
Introduction : How I discovered this innovative program—Emotional pain—The eight benefits of facing your emotional pain—Discovering the source of your emotional pain—Investigating your emotional pain—The major aspects of exercise’s healing power : preparing for the body-mind-soul solution—The body-mind-soul solution—Discoveries—The journaling experience—Conclusion : How to make the body-mind-soul solution an essential part of your life.

616.024 PRE
Preston, Richard . Panic in level 4 : cannibals, killer viruses, and other journeys to the edge of science. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2008.
Richard Preston shares true stories of some of the more disturbing and bizarre illnesses and plagues in the world and the scientists who are working to understand them, including the phenomenon of “self-cannibals,” the Ebola virus, and others.

618.1 ORE
Orenstein, Peggy. Waiting for Daisy : a tale of two continents, three religions, five infertility doctors, an oscar, an atomic bomb, a romantic night, and one woman’s quest to become a mother. 1st U.S. ed. New York : [S.l.] :
Bloomsbury USA ; Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007.
Peggy Orenstein chronicles her increasingly desperate attempts to get pregnant after deciding at age thirty-five and with one ovary that she wanted a child, discussing the obstacles she faced, the strain her quest put on her marriage, and the burgeoning fertility industry.

640.22 BAC
Bach, David. Go green, live rich : 50 simple ways to save the earth and get rich trying. 1st ed. New York : Broadway Books, c2008.
Financial expert David Bach reveals fifty ways people can make their lives, homes, shopping, and finances more environmentally friendly and money-savvy, explaining how to improve the environment while spending less, and saving and earning more.

641.2 HAI
Hailman, John R. . Thomas Jefferson on wine. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2006.
A comprehensive account of Thomas Jefferson’s knowledge and love of good wines, his efforts to learn as much about wine while serving as an ambassador in France, and his own vineyards at Monticello.

641.5951 WEI
Chiang, Cecilia. The seventh daughter : my culinary journey from Beijing to San Francisco. Berkeley, Calif. : Ten Speed Press, c2007.
Cecilia Chiang tells the story of her life and how she came to be a restauranteur in San Francisco, and shares seventy-five recipes from her legendary Mandarin restaurant.

641.5974 MED
Medeiros, Tracey. Dishing up Vermont. North Adams, MA : Storey Pub., c2008.
145 authentic recipes from the Green Mountain State.

641.8 REI
Reinhart, Peter. Peter Reinhart’s whole grain breads : new techniques, extraordinary flavor. Berkeley, Calif. : Ten Speed Press, c2007.
Provides guidance for making one’s own whole grain bread, covering topics such as the wheat kernel, enzymes, and the process of delayed fermentation, and presents fifty-five recipes for whole grain sandwich, hearth, and specialty breads as well as bagels, crackers, and other items.

658.02 TYS
Tyson, Eric (Eric Kevin). Small business for dummies. 3rd ed. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, c2008.
Provides practical guidance for budding entrepreneurs, covering financing, legal and tax issues, buying an existing business, home-based businesses, hiring, marketing, and other topics.

741.5 AME
Amend, Bill. Foxtrotius maximus. Kansas City, Mo. : Andrews McMeel Pub. : Distributed internationally by Universal Press Syndicate, c2004.
Collects hundreds of “FoxTrot” comic strips, which chronicle the adventures of the Foxes, an average American family, including works from the books “Who’s Up for Some Bonding?”, “Am I a Mutant, or What!”, and “Your Momma Thinks Square Roots Are Vegetables.”

741.5 KIN
David, Peter (Peter Allen). The Dark Tower. New York : DC Comics, c2007.
Roland Deschain, the last surviving gunslinger, encounters evil forces and falls in love for the first time while on a mission to Hambry.

741.5 KOO
Chan, Queenie. In Odd we trust. New York : Del Rey/Ballantine, c2008.
Nineteen-year-old Odd Thomas is able to see the lingering spirits of the dead, and when the sad spirit of a frightened child asks Odd for help, Odd finds himself facing a deadly stalker determined to kill again.

746.43 SPU
Spurkland, Kristin . The knitting man(ual) : 20+ projects for guys. Berkeley, Calif. : Ten Speed Press, c2007.
Contains instructions for over twenty knitting projects for men’s clothing and accessories, featuring a range of projects for knitters of all skill levels and reflecting a contemporary urban aesthetic.

791.43 GAB
Gabler, Neal. Walt Disney : the triumph of the American imagination. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, c2006.
Presents a comprehensive biography of American film producer, director, screenwriter, and animator Walt Disney that chronicles his childhood, his early achievements in the art of animation, and the technical innovations he pioneered.

792 DEW
DeWees, Rusty. Scrawlins. 1st ed. Morrisville, Vt. : Rusty D. Inc., c2007.
Scrawlins has a little bit of everything for everyone. As many uses as Vermonters find for duct tape, there are facets to Rusty DeWees . Rusty writes in a casual style, like someone you’re comfortable standing next to against the wall at a barn dance. But he has a keen eye, a sharp mind, and a big heart matched with a curiosity that makes readers look at family, strangers, and the world around us with a fresh-sometimes humbled, sometimes twinkling-eye.

793.73 SHO
Sudoku easy. : 100 wordless crossword puzzles. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Griffin, c2005.
Presents dozens of “New York Times” crossword editor Will Shortz simple wordless crossword puzzles, known as sudoku, with an introduction to the puzzles and tips on how to solve them.

796.357 FEI
Feinstein, John. Living on the black : two pitchers, two teams, one season to remember. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, c2008.
Recounts the 2007 season of professional baseball pitchers Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina, describing how each player strived to reach personal milestones as they neared the end of their careers.

796.83 CAV
Cavanaugh, Jack. Tunney : boxing’s brainiest champ and his upset of the great Jack Dempsey. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2006.
Tells the life story of early-twentieth-century boxer Gene Tunney, describing his youth in Greenwich Village, his relationship with Polly Lauder, the 1920s boxing world, his rivalry with Jack Dempsey, and his later years, including his work in the business world.

808.02 BRE
Writer’s market 2009. 88th annual ed., completely rev. & updated. Cincinnati, OH : Writer’s Digest Books, c2008.
Provides contact information and submission guidelines for 3,500 markets for writers, covering literary agents, book publishers, Canadian and international book publishers, small presses, consumer magazines, trade journals, and contests, and includes contact information for professional organizations, advice on the business of writing, and comments from successful authors.

813 HAY
Hay, Sheridan. The secret of lost things : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2006.
Eighteen-year-old Rosemary Savage moves from Tasmania to New York following the death of her mother and secures a job at the Arcade, a huge emporium of used and rare books, where she becomes involved in the lives of her quirky colleagues and the search for a lost Melville manuscript.

813.54 ABB
Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989. Postcards from Ed : dispatches and salvos from an American iconoclast. 1st ed. Minneapolis, Minn. : Milkweed Editions, c2006.
A collection of postcards and letters in which Edward Abbey shares his wit, wisdom, world views, and personal reflections.

813.54 LEL
Leland, John . Why Kerouac matters : the lessons of On the road (they’re not what you think). New York : Viking, c2007.
Provides an analysis of the life lessons in Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” and discusses the novel’s relevance fifty years after its publication.

813.6 SET LP
Setterfield, Diane. The thirteenth tale. Center Point large print ed. Thorndike, ME : Center Point, 2007, c2006.
Aging, reclusive author Vida Winter, having given out multiple versions of her life story over the years, decides to finally set the record straight and engages Margaret Lea, a London bookseller’s daughter, to write her biography, drawing the young woman into a tale of a governess, a ghost, a willful woman, feral twins, and a gothic mansion.

853.912 MES
Messina, Maria, 1887-1944. Behind closed doors : Her father’s house and other stories of Sicily. New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, c2007.
A collection of ten stories about family and early-twentieth-century Sicily by Italian author Maria Messina.

892.7 JOH
The Anchor book of modern Arabic fiction. New York : Anchor Books, c2006.
An anthology of short stories by Arabic writers spanning the full history of modern Arabic literature from the end of the nineteenth century to the present.

909.0976 KEN
Kennedy, Hugh (Hugh N.). The great Arab conquests : how the spread of Islam changed the world we live in. 1st Da Capo Press ed. Philadelphia, PA : Da Capo Press, c2007.
A comprehensive history of the Arab expansion from Spain to Asia by the mid-eighth century, describing how the Arab armies conquered almost everything in their path, major battles, and the clash between civilizations and religions.

910.46 LAN
Lanier, Pamela. Elegant small hotels : a connoisseur’s guide. 22nd ed. Petaluma, CA : Berkeley, CA : Lanier Pub. International ; Distributed to the trade by Ten Speed Press, c2008.
This hotel connoisseurs’ favorite presents the great boutique accommodations of the world. From luxury hotels to affordable getaways, outstanding resorts to country inns, each establishment has been hand selected for its special touches and exceptional features. . .(from the publisher).

910.92 FER
Fernández-Armesto, Felipe. Pathfinders : a global history of exploration. 1st American ed. New York : W.W. Norton, c2006.
Chronicles the history of world exploration over the course of five thousand years, showing how human groups spread throughout the world, converged and exchanged culture, and looking at specific explorers and their expeditions.

914.04 MEL
Melnik, Peg. The Napa & Sonoma book : a complete guide. 8th ed. Woodstock, VT : Countryman Press, c2008.
The Napa & Sonoma Book: Acclaimed by The Wine Advocate, Wine Spectator, and Wine & Spirits, provides in-depth reviews of well-known and undiscovered wineries, with a wealth of lodging, dining and recreation listings.

914.4048 COR
Cortázar, Julio. Autonauts of the cosmoroute : a timeless voyage from Paris to Marseille. Archipelago Books 1st ed. Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, c2007.
Belgian-born Argentine author Julio Cortázar and his wife, writer and photographer Carol Dunlop, chronicle their experiences on a thirty-three-day journey from Paris to Marseille in the spring of 1982 on a highway that normally takes ten hours to travel, during which they stopped at two rest stops a day and always spent the night at the second.

916.0432 GOL
Goltz, Thomas. Assassinating Shakespeare : [the true confessions of a bard in the bush]. London ; San Francisco : Saqi, c2006.
Work your way around Africa putting on one-man Shakespeare performances? It’s the type of escapade that could only have sprung from the restless, feverish mind of the young Thomas Goltz, then a naive twenty-one-year-old in 1976 looking for adventure and an errant brother.

917.404 TRE
Maine : an explorer’s guide. Woodstock, Vt. : Countryman Press, c2008.
This guide in the Explorer’s Guide series now includes complete coverage and a new map of Portland’s Old Port, a recently revitalized and hip city destination. (from the publisher, edited).

917.45 MER
Rhode Island : an explorer’s guide. Woodstock, Vt. : Countryman Press, c2008.
A comprehensive and selective guide to the Ocean State’s best lodging and dining establishments and recreational activities, including everything from locally-revered clam shacks to pick-your-own apple farms. (refers to 2008 edition).

917.47 MCM
McMartin, Barbara. Discover the eastern Adirondacks : guide to the trails of Lake George & the Pharoah Lake Wilderness. 3rd ed. Barneveld, NY : Wild River Press, c2006.
Guide to the eastern Adirondacks region with highlighted areas of interest.

920 ENG
Engleheart, Murray. AC/DC : maximum rock & roll. 1st U.S. ed. New York : HarperEntertainment, c2006.
Chronicles the story of the rock band, AC/DC, that began in Sydney, Australia with brothers Malcolm and Angus Young, and spanned over three decades.

921 BRAGG
Bragg, Rick. The prince of Frogtown. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, c2008.
The author describes the life of his alcoholic father, from his upbringing in Jacksonville, Alabama, until his death from tuberculosis, and merges it with his own fatherly experiences with his ten-year-old stepson.

921 DARWIN
Browne, E. J. (E. Janet) . Darwin’s Origin of species : a biography. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2006.
Darwin’s foremost biographer, historian Janet Browne, delivers an accessible introduction to the book that permanently altered our understanding of what it is to be human. A sensation on its publication in 1859, The Origin of Species profoundly shocked Victorian readers by calling into question the belief in a Creator with its description of evolution through natural selection. And Darwin’s seminal work is nearly as controversial today. In this study, Browne delves into the long genesis of Darwin’s theories, from his readings as a university student and his five-year voyage on the Beagle, to his debates with contemporaries and experiments in his garden. She explores the shock to Darwin when he read of a competing scientist’s similar discoveries, and the wide and immediate impact of Darwin’s theories on the world, showing why The Origin of Species can fairly claim to be the greatest science book ever published.—From publisher description.

921 DONNE
Stubbs, John. John Donne : the reformed soul. 1st American ed. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007.
Presents a comprehensive biography of sixteenth-century British poet, John Donne, following his life through the religious conflict in England, his break with his family, and rise to assume the post of Dean of St. Paul’s in London.

921 MCMURTRY
McMurtry, Larry. Books : a memoir. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2008.
Although Larry McMurtry has written 28 novels, including a Pulizer-Prize winner, two collections of essays, three memoirs, and more than 30 screenplays (one of which won him an Academy Award), until now the memoir has been his least explored genre. Herein he writes about himself from his days as a bookless boy, to a fledgling writer and family man, to his present day success as one of America’s most prominent ‘bookmen’ and of his lifelong passion for buying, selling, and collecting rare and antiquarian books.

921 NEUTRINO
Wilkinson, Alec . The happiest man in the world : an account of the life of Poppa Neutrino. 1st ed. New York :
Random House, c2007.
Chronicles the life and experiences of David Pearlman, an eccentric vagabond whose travels have allowed him to pursue a number of occupations including street musician, San Francisco beatnik, football enthusiast, sign painter, mariner, and preacher.

921 PICASSO
Richardson, John . A life of Picasso : the triumphant years, 1917-1932. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, c2007.
A comprehensive biography of Spanish painter and sculptor, Pablo Picasso, that chronicles his life and works from the time he left Paris in 1917 to 1932, the artist’s fiftieth birthday.

921 ROOSEVELT
Smith, Jean Edward. FDR. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2007.
Presents a comprehensive biography of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that chronicles his childhood and family, marriage to Eleanor, struggle with polio, and political career.

940.53 GIN
Ginz, Petr, 1928-1944. The diary of Petr Ginz, 1941-1942. 1st ed. New York : [S.l.] : Atlantic Monthly Press ;
Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2007.
Presents the writings and drawings of teenager, Petr Ginz, who died in 1944 at Auschwitz, recording his life under Nazi occupation, his transport to and life at Thereisenstadt concentration camp at fourteen, ending just prior to his transport to Auschwitz.

940.54 THO
Thomas, Evan . Sea of thunder : four commanders and the last great naval campaign, 1941-1945. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2006.
Follows the experiences of four commanders who participated in the naval war of 1941 to 1945 in the South Pacific.

970.01 HOR
Horwitz, Tony . A voyage long and strange : rediscovering the new world. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt, c2008.
Presents a comprehensive examination of North American history between Columbus’s landing in 1492 and the founding of Jamestown in 1607; and describes the explorations by the Vikings, French, Moorish slaves, and Spanish conquistadors.

973.7 BON
Bonner, Robert E. . The soldier’s pen : firsthand impressions of the Civil War. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Hill and Wang, c2007.
Glimpses of many things untold—The tender lines of war—Army life and the comforts of home—Combat, bloodshed and the traces of battle—The union divided?—The fading gray—Bonds broken, bonds restored—Relics of war.

973.931 AIR
Air America : the playbook : what a bunch of left-wing media types have to say about a world gone right. Emmaus, PA : New York : Rodale ; Melcher Media, c2006.
A collection of essays in which Left-Wing talk radio hosts challenge the ideas and actions of the Bush administrations and explain why they could run the country better than Bush has been.

973.931 MCC
McClellan, Scott . What happened : inside the Bush White House and Washington’s culture of deception. 1st ed. New York : BBS/Public Affairs, c2008.
Scott McClellan, former press spokesman for Texas governor George W. Bush, offers an inside look at Bush’s presidential campaign and at his first years in the White House, where he witnessed the events that took the president on a drastically different course during his administration.

973.931 PAU
Paul, Ron . The revolution : a manifesto. 1st ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., c2008.
Texas congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul argues that the political, financial, and social changes threatening the United States are a direct result of the government’s refusal to follow the guiding principles laid out in the United States Constitution.

REFERENCE

REF 378.73 PET
Four-year colleges, 2009. 39th ed. Lawenceville, NJ : Peterson’s, c2008.
The advice center—Majors and more—College data center. Presents profiles of more than 2,500 colleges and universities; includes a list showing which schools offer which majors; and offers information on the college admissions process.

REF 975.3 WAS
Washington information directory. [Washington] : Congressional Quarterly, inc. 2008.
Newest edition.

AUDIO-VISUAL

CD EVANOVICH
Evanovich, Janet. Fearless fourteen. [S.l.] : Macmillan Audio, p2008.
Read by Lorelei King. The latest installment of the Stephanie Plum series comes complete with non-stop action, mayhem, hot sexual tension, plenty of junk food, exploding cars, pot roast with the Plum family, and a viewing at the Burg’s premier funeral home.

DVD 638 HEA
Health and the hive. c2008.
Health & the Hive: A Beekeeper’s Journey explores the importance of honeybees in our lives. Topics addressed in the film include pollination, queen breeding, disease control, bee venom therapy, organic agriculture and honey-based plant medicine. (from the publisher).

DVD 914 ONE
One Woman’s Solo Trip to the Arctic Circle. c2007.
This disc contains the video recording of a program presented May 28, 2008 at Brownell Library.

DVD AUG
Augustus. Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, c2005.
Peter O’Toole, Charlotte Rampling, Vittoria Belvedere, Benjamin Sadler, Ken Duken, Russell Bar. Caesar has been assassinated. As the Roman Empire struggles to regain itself, a young Emperor steps forward, prepared to claim the abandoned throne. This is an epic tale of political intrigue, heroism, villany and of Augustus’ love for one woman.

DVD CIT
City of women. Collectors ed. New York, NY. : New Yorker Video, c2001.
Marcello Mastroianni, Ettore Manni, Anna Prucnal, Bernice Stegers, Donatella Damiani. Modern day Don Juan finds himself in a surrealistic world of women.

DVD IAM
I am Sam. Widescreen version. [Calif.?] : New Line Home Entertainment, c2002.
Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning. Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks, is obsessed with the Beatles and has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them. As the daughter reaches age 7, Sam’s limitations start to become a problem. When the authorities take his daughter away, Sam shames a high-priced lawyer into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it’s really all you need.

DVD LAS
The last of the Mohicans. Port Washington, NY : KOCH Vision : Distributed by KOCH Entertainment, [2007], c1971.
Kenneth Ives, Philip Madoc, John Abineri, Richard Warwick, Andrew Crawford, Tim Goodman, Joanna Davis, Patricia Maynard. In 1757, during the French and Indian War, half-sisters Cora and Alice Munro set out to join their father, the British Commander of Fort William Henry. After they are betrayed by Magua, the sisters are rescued by Hawkeye whose efforts to lead them to safety are aided by the noble Mohican Uncas, the last of this tribe.

DVD SIS
The sisters. [Troy] MI : Anchor Bay Entertainment, c2005.
Elizabeth Banks, Maria Bello, Erika Christensen, Steven Culp, Tony Goldwyn, Mary Stuart Masterson, Eric McCormack, Alessandro Nivola, Chris O’Donnell, Rip Torn. Three sisters living in a college town struggle with the death of their father, while trying to reconcile relationships in their own lives.

DVD SWA
The Swarm. Unrated theatrical version. New York : Warner Home Video, c2002.
Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia De Havilland, Ben Johnson, Lee Grant, Jose Ferrer, Patty Duke Astin, Slim Pickens, Bradford Dillman, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda. A swarm of killer bees attacks the United States.

New - self-contained, portable library audiobooks!

PLA 940.5373 WAR
Ward, Geoffrey C. The war : an intimate history, 1941-1945. Unabridged. [Solon, Ohio] : Playaway Digital Audio : [manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC, [released 2007], c2007.
Read by Ken Burns with Tom Hanks, Josh Lucas, and Rebecca Holtz. Chronicle of the war that shaped our world; captures the American experience of World War II through the words and deeds, thoughts and feelings of those who made history on the battlefields and on the home front.

PLA 975 BLO
Blount, Roy. Long time leaving : dispatches from up South. Minneapolis, MN : Cleveland, OH: HighBridge; Findaway World, LLC, c2007.
Read by the author and friends. “Hard-working humorist Roy Blount Jr. lives in the North but he’s from the South, a delicious tension that has always informed and shaped his work. In this new collection, he directs his acerbic wit and finely-tuned insight toward the persistent and colorful differences between the two. His essays treat every conceivable topic on which North and South misunderstand each other, from music to sports, eating, education, politics, child-rearing, religion, race, and language (“remember when there was lots of discussion of ‘ebonics’?”). In this eminently quotable collection, Blount does justice to the charming, funny, infuriating facets of Southern tradition and their equally odd Northern counterpoints”—from publisher’s web-site.

PLA ROBERTS
Roberts, Gregory David. Shantaram. Unabridged. [Solon, Ohio] :bbc[released 2008], c2007. : Playaway Digital Audio : [manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC, [released 2008], c2007.
Read by Humphrey Bower. Tells the epic journey of Lin, an escaped convict who flees maximum security prison in Australia to disappear into the underworld of contemporary Bombay, a hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, actors and exiles.