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| Smokin seventeen [Stephanie Plum mysteries, 17] | Evanovich, Janet | Female bounty hunters, fiction | Adults | Hardcover, audiobook | Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum leans on her network of friends and supporters, including Grandma Mazur and mentor Ranger, when an assignment brings more trouble than anticipated. 0622 |
| In the garden of beasts | Larson, Erik | Non-fiction, biography | Adults | Audiobook | Documents the efforts of the first American ambassador to Hitler's Germany, William E. Dodd, to acclimate to a residence in an increasingly violent city where he is forced to associate with the Nazis while his daughter pursues a relationship with Gestapochief Rudolf Diels. 0622 |
| If You Ask Me (and of course you won't) | White, Betty | Autobiography | Adults | Hardcover, audiobook | A personal account by the popular actress shares stories from her decades in Hollywood while offering her lighthearted perspectives on topics ranging from sex and aging to animal welfare and television. 0906 |
| More mysteries! | Multiple authors | Mystery, suspense fiction | Adults | Hardcover | Enjoy a good mystery? New titles are added to the Marshall collection of mysteries on a regular basis--donated to the library by local author Vicki Lane. |
| Sarah's key | Rosnay, Tatiana de | France--History--German occupation, fiction | Adults, teens | Audiobook | On the anniversary of the roundup of Jews by the French police in Paris, Julia is asked to write an article on this dark episode and embarks on an investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah. 0622 |
| Little Bee | Cleave, Chris | Identity (Psychology, Nigerians, Emigration and immigration, fiction | Adults, teens | Audiobook | The lives of two women collide and one of them has to make a terrible choice. Then they meet again after two years, and the story start there. ALA Notable Books - Fiction: 2010. 0622 |
| Catching fire [Hunger Games trilogy, 2] | Collins, Suzanne | Science fiction | Teens, adults | Audiobook | By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion. Multiple award winner. 0622 |
| Book thief (The) | Zuzak, Markus | Australian fiction, coming-of-age stories, historical fiction | Teens, adults | Audiobook | Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors. Multiple award winner. 0622 |
| Stranger in a strange land | Heinlein, Robert A. | Science fiction | Adults, teens | Audiobook | A nonhuman visitor brings into doubt the values and self-evident truths of Western society. Hugo Award winner. 0622 |
| Heartache Falls [Eternity Springs novels, 3] | March, Emily | Love stories, fiction | Adults | Paperback | Married for more than 20 years, Ali Timberlake, searching for what's missing in her life and pursuing a lifelong dream, arrives in the charming mountain town of Eternity Springs where she takes a lease on the Bristlecone Cafe and is welcomed into the community with open arms. 0622 |
| Lightkeeper's ball [A Mercy Falls novel, 3] | Coble, Colleen | Love stories, Christian fiction | Adults | Paperback | In 1910, New York socialite Olivia resists an arranged, socially advantageous marriage. The mysterious death of her sister Eleanor in Northern California is an unhappy but convenient excuse to go West. On the way, she is nearly drowned, and decides to hide her identity when she arrives in Mercy Falls. 0622 |
| Trader of secrets [Paul Madriani mysteries, 12] | Martini, Steve | Assassins, nuclear weapons, fiction | Adults | Hardcover | While in Paris to find a former NASA employee whose name has been found on papers left in his nemesis's apartment, Paul Madriani stumbles upon a plot to harness the destructive forces of nature using stolen technology. 0622 |
| Tomato red | Woodrell, Daniel | Pastoral fiction | Adults | Paperback | Sammy Barlach, a down-and-out man from Arkansas, finds himself on a collision course with violence. Multiple awards. 0622 |
| Summer garden | Simons, Paullina | Love stories | Adults | Paperback | The magnificent conclusion to the timeless epic saga--Tatiana and Alexander: To regain the happiness they once knew, to wash away the lingering pain of the past, two lovers grown distant must somehow forge a new life...or watch the ghosts of their yesterdays destroy their firstborn son. 0622 |
| Learning | Kingsbury, Karen | Love stories, Christian fiction | Adults | Paperback | Bailey Flanagan finds her life in New York exciting as she grows closer to becoming an actress and dancer but feels something is missing since she is separated from Cody Coleman, who is coaching a small town high school football team. 0622 |
| Fallen angels | Myers, Walter Dean | Coming of age stories, Vietnam, fiction | Teens, adults | Paperback | Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam. Winner of multiple awards. 0622 |
| Carte blanche [James Bond series, 41] | Deaver, Jeffrey | Spy stories, fiction | Adults | Hardcover | A James Bond thriller set in the present day finds the iconic British spy engaging a horrific modern villain in a cat-and-mouse chase that takes him from the Balkans and London to the African Continent. 0622 |
| Breaking silence [Kate Burkholder thrillers, 3] | Castillo, Linda | Amish--Ohio, fiction | Adults | Hardcover | When the fatal accidents of three Amish farmers are proven to be murders, former Amish woman Kate investigates a possible link between the killings and recent hate crimes, a case that is complicated by a dark secret and her precarious relationship with agent John Tomasetti. 0622 |
| Blackberry summer | Thayne, Raeanne | Love stories, fiction | Adults | Trade paperback | After a tragic car accident forces her to slow down and accept help from others, single mom Clair Bradford, the owner of a successful bead shop, opens her heart to the possibilities of love when her best friend's sexy younger brother returns to Hope's Crossing as the new chief of police. 0622 |
| Robopocalypse | Wilson, Daniel H. | Science fiction | Adults | Audiobook | A tale set in the near future finds the world thrown into chaos by rebelling artificial intelligences under the leadership of a murderous technology called Archos that kills its creator and takes over the global network, triggering an unprecedented united front among all human cultures. 0615 |
| Bel-Air Dead | Woods, Stuart | Mystery fiction | Adults | Aduiobook | Stone Barrington receives a rather unexpected phone call from Arrington Calder, the ex-girlfriend with whom he has a son. Arrington's much older husband, the actor Vance Calder, has just died, leaving her a fortune in Centurion Studio stock. Arrington has plans for the money and asks Stone to represent her in the sale of the company. But when he arrives at her home in Bel-Air to finalize the deal, things take a nasty turn. It seems many of Hollywood's rich and beautiful have Arrington and Centurion in their sights, and Stone finds himself dragged into a surprisingly deadly web of intrigue. 0615 |
| Loitering with Intent | Woods, Stuart | Mystery fiction | Adults | Audiobook | After being dumped by his girlfriend, Stone Barrington is looking forward to working on a seemingly open-and-shut case in sunny Key West, but deception and a mysterious death test the limits that Stone is willing to go for a client. 0615 |
| Hunger Games | Collings, Suzanne | Science fiction | Teens, adults | Audiobook | In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. 0615 |
| Mockingjay | Collins, Suzanne | Science fiction | Teens, adults | Audiobook | Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol wants revenge, and President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe. 0615 |
| Big Country | L'Amour, Louis | Western fiction | Adults, teens | Audiobook | Collection of two stories about the men and women who lived in the American West. 0615 |
| Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (The) | Skloot, Rebecca | Non-fiction, medical ethics | Adults | Audiobook | Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb's effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. 0615 |
| Amber Room | Berry, Steve | Suspense fiction | Adults | Audiobook | When her father dies under suspicious circumstances, Rachel Cutler finds everything she loves threatened by the rival quests of two art collectors who seek one of the world's greatest treasures, lost after the Second World War. 0615 |
| Cutting for Stone | Verghese, Abraham | Fiction | Adults | Audiobook | Born of a secret union between and Indian nun and a brash British surgeon in Addis Ababa, twin brothers Marion and Shiva Stone are orphaned by their mother's death and their father's disappearance. Their close connection is destroyed, however, by their love for the same woman, and Marion flees to practice medicine in New York City. But when the past catches up to him and nearly destroys him, he must turn to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him. 0615 |
| Dreams of Joy | See, Lisa | Historical fiction | Adults | Audiobook | A continuation of "Shanghai Girls" finds a devastated Joy fleeing to China to search for her real father while her mother, Pearl, desperately pursues her, a dual quest marked by their encounters with the nation's intolerant Communist culture. 0615 |
| New Movies | | | Various ratings | DVD | 127 Hours -- Battle: Los Angeles -- Big Mammas: Like Father, Like Son -- Broken Hill -- Gnomeo & Juliet -- The Green Hornet -- Guliver's Travels -- I am Number Four -- Sybil Ludington -- True Grit -- Unstoppable. 0615 |
| Missing Piece TThe) | Silverstein, Shel | Fable, fiction | Juvenile | Hardcover | A circle has difficulty finding its missing piece but has a good time looking for it. What it finds on its search for the missing piece is simply and touchingly told in this fable that gently probes the nature of quest and fulfillment. 0613 |
| 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America | Brooks, Albert | Dystopias, fiction | Adults | Hardcover | A near-future world struggles with the challenges of a dramatically aging population revitalized by the cure for cancer, a scenario that is challenged by an unprecedented natural disaster that drives the government into bankruptcy. 0613 |
| One Summer [Available June 14] | Baldacci, David | Life-changing events, domestic fiction | Adults | Hardcover | Jack, terminally-ill and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront. |
| Sisterhood Everlasting [Available June 14] | Brashares, Ann | Female friendship, fiction | Adults | Hardcover | Having lost touch with each other over the years, Carmen, Lena, and Bridget are surprised when they receive plane tickets to travel to Australia for a reunion with Tibby, but after tragedy strikes their lives are changed forever. 0613 |
| Against All Enemies [Available June 14] | Clancy, Tom | Suspense fiction | Adults | Hardcover | After a vicious Mexican drug cartel joins forces with the Taliban, ex-Navy SEAL and current CIA operative Maxwell Moore and his team must spring into action to protect the United States from unprecedented terror and destruction. 0613 |
| Violets of March | Jio, Sarah | Life-changing events, psychological fiction | Adults | Hardcover | Emily Watson, trying to recover from a broken marriage, retreats to Bainbridge Island in Washington State at the invitation of her great-aunt Bee and discovers a diary dated to 1943 with a secret about her grandmother's past, which helps her resolve a decision she needs to make about her own life. 0613 |
| Tender Mercy of Roses | Michaels, Anna | Mississippi, ghost stories, fiction | Adults | Hardcover | The ghost of a murdered cowgirl guides her grief-stricken father and a disgraced former detective into an unlikely partnership to find her killer, a pursuit that unleashes intense emotions and dark family secrets. 0613 |
| Summer Rental | Andrews, Mary Kay | Outer Banks, NC, female friendship, vacations, love stories, fiction | Adults | Hardcover | Ellis questions everything she believed after losing an all-consuming job, while Julia struggles with insecurities that threaten a loving relationship and Dorie confronts a maelstrom of problems after a shocking betrayal. 0613 |
| Summer and the City | Bushnell, Candace | Chick-lit, female friendships, fiction | Adults | Hardcover | Tells the story of Manhattan columnist Carrie Bradshaw's first summer in New York, describing how she meets Samantha, Miranda, and Charlotte, and makes her first attempts at becoming a successful writer. 0613 |
| South of Superior | Airgood, Ellen | Self-realization in women, fiction | Adults | Hardcover | Moving to Michigan's Upper Peninsula to care for an aging family friend, Madeline Stone becomes involved in the lives of the small community and two octogenarian sisters who teach her valuable lessons about love and goodwill. 0613 |
| If He's Dangerous | Howell, Hannah | Love stories, fiction | Adults | Trade paperback | Lorelei falls in love with Argus who can disappear, and she is his only hope for salvation. 0613 |
| Graveminder | Marr, Melissa | Family secrets, supernatural fiction, love stories | Adults | Hardcover | When her grandmother Maylene, who always gave tender attention to the dead with unusual rituals, dies mysteriously, Rebekkah Barrow returns home and discovers that Maylene was murdered and that there was good reason for her odd traditions. 0613 |
| Gone with a Hondsomer Man | West, Michael Lee | Humorous stories, mystery fiction | Adults | Hardcover | After ending her relationship with her unfaithful fianc?e, out-of-work Charleston pastry chef Teeny Templeton is wrongly accused of his murder days later and turns to a lawyer ex-boyfriend, who broke her heart a decade earlier, for help. 0613 |
| Creed's Honor | Miller, Linda Lael | Love stories, fiction | Adults | Trade paperback | An estranged identical twin reenters Conner Creed's life and he also meets Tricia McCall. 0613 |
| Beach Lane | Woods, Sherryl | Life changing events, love stories, fiction | Adults | Trade paperback | A couple faces the loss of a job and a devastating diagnosis. 0613 |
| State of Wonder: a novel | Patchett, Ann | Fiction | Adults | Hardcover | A researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh journeys into the heart of the Amazonian delta to check on a field team that has been silent for two years--a dangerous assignment that forces Marina to confront the ghosts of her past. 0613 |
| So Cold the River | Koryta, Michael | Horror fiction | Adults | Hardcover | After he is hired by Alyssa Bradford to research the life of her 95-year-old billionaire father-in-law, Eric Shaw visits the man's hometown, where he discovers a restored hotel that has a checkered past--and a newly reawakened evil bent on revenge. 0613 |
| Killer Book of Serial Killers (The) | Philbin, Tom and Philbin, Michael | Non-fiction | Adults | Paperback | incredible stories, facts, and trivia from the world of serial killers. Terrifying tales of the ultimate evil among us. 0613 |
| Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, 1800-1930 | McCullough, David | Biography | Adults | Hardcover | Relates the story of the American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris in the nineteenth century, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned there. 0610 |
| China Study | Campbell, T. Colin | Non-fiction, Nutritionally induced diseases | Adults | Paperback | The most comprehensive study of nutrition ever conducted and the startling implications for diet, weight loss and long-term health. 0610 |
| Be Different: adventures of a free-range Aspergian with practical advice for Aspergians, misfits, families & teachers | Robison, John Elder | Non-fiction, Asperger's syndrome, individual differences | Adults | Hardcover | Presents an anecdotal guide to individuals with Asperger's and their families that offers insight into the Aspergian mind while outlining recommendations for improving communication skills and embracing differences. 0610 |
| Broken Gun | L'Amour, Louis | Western fiction | Adults, teens | Audiobook | The brutal slayings of the Alverez brothers follow an announcement by western fiction writer Dan Sheridan that he is investigating the strange disappearance of twenty men and four thousand head of cattle ninety years early. 0609 |
| Blue-Eyed Devil | Parker, Robert B. | Western fiction | Adults, teens | Audiobook | Refusing recruitment by ambitious new chief Amos Callico, itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch protect local merchants who the chief is harassing for protection money, a situation that escalates to the shooting of a politically connected landowner's son. By the author of Appaloosa. 0609 |
| Five Flavors of Dumb | John, Antony | Family life, rock bands, people with disabilities, fiction | Teens | Paperback | Eighteen-year-old Piper becomes the manager for her classmates' popular rock band, called Dumb, giving her the chance to prove her capabilities to her parents and others, if only she can get the band members to get along. Award Winners - Schneider Family Book Awards: Teens (ages 13-18) 0609 |
| Twelfth Prophecy [A.D. chronicles, bk. 12] | Thoene, Bodie | Bible, Christian fiction | Adults | Hardcover | Abigail, the Samaritan woman, is pregnant and longs for a home for her soon-to-arrive baby and forgiveness for her anguished soul. The answers will come from the most unlikely of places. 0609 |
| My Lucky Life in and out of Show Business | Van Dyke, Dick | Autobiography | Adults | Hardcover | The popular entertainer looks back on his extensive career, reminiscing about productions ranging from "The Dick Van Dyke Show" to "Mary Poppins" while describing his relationships with such figures as Carl Reiner and Mary Tyler Moore. 0609 |
| Mermaid: a twist on the classic tale | Turgeon, Carolyn | Fantasy fiction | Adults | Paperback | Falling in love with a prince whose rescue by a mermaid she secretly witnessed, Princess Margrethe is promised in marriage to the prince to bring peace to their warring kingdoms only to discover that he has taken a familiar-looking lover. 0609 |
| I Need Your Love--Is That True? | Katie, Buron | Non-fiction, self-actualization, interpersonal relationships | Adults | Paperbback | Here is your key to finding meaningful love and connection. How to stop seeking love, approval, and appreciation and start finding them instead. 0609 |
| Guernica: A novel | Boling, Dave | Spain, love stories, historical fiction | Adults | Paperback | Fleeing his home in 1935 after a conflict with a Spanish Civil Guard, Miguel Navarro attempts to make a new start in the culturally rich town of Guernica, where his shared love with charismatic dancer Miren Ansotegui is tested by the German Luftwaffe. 0609 |
| Final Storm: A novel of the war in the Pacific | Shaara, Jeff | World War--1939-1945, naval operations, fiction | Adults | Hardcover | A fictional account of the struggle for Okinawa through the eyes of combatants on both sides: Private Clay Adams, Admiral Chester Nimitz, General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., and General Mitsura Ushijima, the Japanese general in charge of defending the island. 0609 |
| Druggist of Auschwitz (The): A documentary novel | Schlesak, Dieter; translated from the German by John Hargraves | Concentration camps, historical fiction | Adults | Hardcover | "A harrowing novel about surviving in Auschwitz and the nature of evil." 0609 |
| Dead Town [Book 5, the final volume] | Koontz, Dean | Frankenstein, scientists, horror fiction | Adults | Paperback | As Rainbow Falls, Montana, is attacked by terrifying creatures intent on destroying humanity, the remaining survivors must fight an impossible-seeming battle. And soon, they'll learn the rest of Victor Frankenstein's horrifying plan. 0609 |
| Dead Reckoning [Sookie Stackhouse novel/True blood, 11] | Harris, Charlain | Werewolves, vampires, occult, mystery fiction | Adults | Hardcover | "With her knack for being in trouble's way, Sookie Stackhouse witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover, Eric Northman, and his "child" Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plot--which is much more complicated than she knows. Caught up once again in the politics of the vampire world, Sookie will learn that she is as much of a pawn as any ordinary human--and that there is a new queen on the board..." 0609 |
| Crusade [Brethren trilogy, 2] | Young, Robyn | Eigth crusade--1200, fiction | Adults | Paperback | Follows the efforts of Brethren member Will Campbell to discover who is sabotaging the group's peace-keeping efforts, an investigation that is hampered by a cabal of merchants that would promote war in the Middle East to increase their profits. 0609 |
| Caleb's Crossing | Brooks, Geraldine | Biographical fiction, Indian scholars, Martha's Vineyard | Adults | Hardcover | Forging a deep friendship with a Wampanoag chieftain's son on the Great Harbor settlement where her minister father is working to convert the tribe, Bethia follows his subsequent ivy league education and efforts to bridge cultures among the colonial elite. 0609 |
| Bargain [Fallen angels series] | Putney, Mary Jo | Love stories, fiction | Adults | Paperback | 0609 |
| Buried Prey (The) [Prey series, 21] | Sanford, John | Serial murder investigation, myster fiction | Adults | Hardcover | Investigating the discovery of two bodies in a house demolition, Lucas Davenport identifies the victims as two girls who disappeared in 1985, a cold case that overshadowed the early years of his career. 0609 |
| Jefferson Key (The) [Cotton Malone novels, 7] | Berry, Steve | Code and cipher stories, political, suspense fiction | Adults | Hardcover | Cotton Malone battles a group of families whose influence dates back to U.S. Constitution and who seek to crack a code devised by Thomas Jefferson himself in their quest for power. 0609 |
| Crunch Time: A Novel of Suspense [Goldy Bear mysteries, 6] | Davidson, Diane Mott | Caterers and catering, arsen investigation, mystery fiction | Adults | Hardcover | Inviting fellow chef Yolanda to stay with her in the wake of two arson fires that ended the life of a local private investigator, Goldy Schulz reluctantly accepts protection from the police and dons her sleuthing cap when the killer targets her home. 0609 |
| Devil's Light (The) | Patterson, Richard N. | Nuclear terrorism, Pakistan, suspense fiction | Adults | Hardcover | Sidelined after a colleague's blunder, CIA agent Brooke Chandler envisions a way to halt an Al Qaeda plot to set off a massive nuclear explosion and begins a race against time that returns him to Lebanon, where nothing is quite as it seems. 0609 |
| Snowman (The) [Detective Harry Hole, 5] | Nesbo, Jo; translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett | Mystery fiction | Adults | Hardcover | The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its black eyes glaring up at the bedroom windows. Round its neck is his mother's pink scarf. 0609 |
| Time for Patriots (A) | Brown, Dale | Air pilots--military, terrorists, fiction | Adults | Hardcover | When the country explodes in violence after the president institutes an unprecedented austerity program, retired Air Force general and aviator Patrick McLanahan trains a new generation of dedicated patriots to hunt down those who threaten America. 0609 |
| Visit from the Goon Squad (A) | Egan, Jennifer | Sound recording executives and producers, middle aged men, young women, fiction | Adults | Paperback | Working side-by-side for a record label, former punk rocker Bennie Salazar and the passionate Sasha hide illicit secrets from one another while interacting with a motley assortment of equally troubled people from 1970s San Francisco to the post-war future. Multiple awards, including Pulitzer Prize 2011. 0609 |
| Tenth Anniversary [Women's murder club, 10] | Patterson, James | Women detectives, suspense, mystery fiction | Adults | Hardcover | Detective Lindsay Boxer's anniversary celebration is forgotten when she is called to investigate a badly injured teenage girl whose newborn baby is missing. 0609 |
| Complete Maus (The) | Spiegelman, Art | Biography, Holocaust--Jewish, children of Holocaust survivors | Teens, Adults | Hardcover, Graphic Novel | Presents Art Spiegelman's novel entitled Maus which describes the Holocaust experiences of his father, Vladek Spiegelman. Includes interviews with the Spiegelmans, audio and video commentary by Art Spiegelman, sketches and family photographs, and artwork by Art Spiegelman. 0609 |
| 100 Years of Solitude | Garcia Marquez, Gabriel | Epic literature, social conditions--Latin America, fiction | Teens, adults | Hardcover | Tells the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town. 0609 |
| Kaplan Act 2011: strategies, practice, and review | Kaplan Publishing | Non-fiction, study guide, college entrance examinations | Teens, Adults | Paperback | Presents a guide to the ACT that includes test-testing strategies for each section, practice exercises, and two full-length sample tests. 0609 |
| Feed | Anderson, M. T. | Science fiction. | Teens, Adults | Hardcover | In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble. Multiple Award Winner. 0609 |
| Devils Highway (The): A True Story | Urrea, Luis Alberto | Non-fiction, Mexican-American Border Region, illegal aliens | Teens, Adults | Paperback | Describes the attempt of twenty-six men to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, a region known as the Devil's Highway, detailing their harrowing ordeal and battle for survival against impossible odds. 0609 |
| Cracking the GED 2011 | Princeton Review | Non-fiction, study guide | Teens, Adults | Hardcover | General educational development tests for High school equivalency examinations. 0608 |
| Roget's 21st century thesaurus in dictionary form: the essential reference for home, school, or office | Kipfer, Barbara Ann, Head Lexicographer. | Reference | | Hardcover | 0609 |
| Roget's International Thesaurus | Kipfer, Barbara Ann, Editor | Reference | | Hardcover | 0609 |
| Kaplan SAT 2011 | Kaplan Publishing | Non-fiction, study guide | Teens, Adults | Paperback | Offers test-taking strategies for each section of the exam, detailed answer explanations, and four full-length practice tests. 0608 |
| Witch and Wizard: Operation Zero | Patterson, James | Occult, suspense fiction | Teens | Graphic novel, hardcover | Whit and Wisty get the shock of their lives when a member of the New Order's inner circle, The One Who Bans Books, contacts them with a clandestine proposal: he wants their help in removing The One Who Is The One from power!!. 0608 |
| Under the Lake | Woods, Stuart | City and town life, fiction | Adults | Large type, hardcover | In a backwoods Georgia town, investigative reporter John Howell becomes obsessed with the dark secrets of a local family that vanished after their farm was flooded a quarter-century earlier. 0608 |
| Typhoon | Cumming, Charles | Spy stories, fiction | Adults | Paperback | Just as the British are about to return Hong Kong to Chinese rule, Joe Lennox, a young operative for SIS, loses both his girlfriend and his first high-profile asset--a prominent defector who disappears from a safe house. New York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry 2009. 0608 |
| Spider Web [Benni Harper mysteries, 15] | Fowler, Earlene | Mystery fiction | Adults | Hardcover | When a mysterious sharpshooter with a vendetta takes aim at a local cop during a craft festival, Benni Harper fears for her loved ones, particularly her police chief husband, but still vows to make her hometown safe. 0608 |
| Songs of the Humpback Whale | Picoult, Jodi | Interpersonal relationships, fiction | Adults | Paperback | After a volatile argument, a woman leaves her husband in San Diego and takes her daughter on a cross-country odyssey to her brother's farm in Massachusetts, where self-discovery awaits. Meanwhile, as her husband searches the continent for her, he finds a new way of seeing the world, his family, and himself. 0608 |
| Something Borrowed | Griffin, Emily | Women's lives and friendships, fiction | Adults | Paperback | After a night of indiscriminate partying, Rachel sleeps with a close friend's fianc?e and is consumed with guilt, until the intensity of her feelings forces her to make a difficult choice. 0608 |
| Sixkill [Spenser novels, 39] | Parker, Robert B. | Mystery fiction | Adults | Hardcover | Investigating a suspicious charge against a notorious actor who has been accused of murdering a young woman, Spenser forges a bond with the celebrity's bodyguard, Zebulon Sixkill, who reveals secrets about both the actor and the victim. 0608 |
| Predator | Blackstock, Terri | Cyberstalking, suspense fiction | Adults | Paperback | When fourteen-year-old Ella Carmichael is killed by a cyberstalker, her sister Krista vows to protect others from falling into the same trap while she hunts down the online predator. 0608 |
| Penderwicks at Point Mouette [Sequel to: The Penderwicks on Gardam Street] | Birdsall, Jeanne | Vacations, family life, Maine, fiction | Juvenile | Hardcover | When the three younger Penderwick sisters go to Maine with Aunt Claire and are separated from oldest sister Rosalind for the first time in their lives, an uncertain Skye is left in charge as the OAP--oldest available Penderwick. National Book Award. 0608 |
| One Magic Moment [de Piaget novels, 13] | Kurland, Lynn | Time travel, fantasy, love stories, fiction | Adults | Paperback | Medieval studies scholar Tess Alexander jumps at the chance to live in a perfectly restored medieval castle and is drawn into a world of magic and destiny when she meets mysterious, sword-wielding mechanic John de Piaget. 0608 |
| Longevity Project (The) | Friedman, Howard S. | Non-fiction | Adults | Hardcover | Surprising discoveries for health and long life from the eight-decade study. 0608 |
| Just Like Heaven [Smythe-Smith quartet, 1] | Quinn, Julia | Love stories, historical fiction | Adults | Paperback | After they survive a deadly fever and the world's worst musical performance, Honoria Smythe-Smith, a really bad violinist, and Marcus Holroyd, her older brother's best friend, fall desperately in love. 0608 |
| Jeannie Out the Bottle | Eden, Barbara | Autobiography | Adults | Hardcover | A magical childhood -- Show business beginnings -- A babe in Hollywoodland -- Twentieth Century Fox -- Hollywood star -- Getting Jeannie -- I dream of Matthew -- All about Larry -- Viva Las Vegas -- Tragedy -- Chuck -- Free again -- The end -- Today. 0608 |
| Atlantic: great sea battles, heroic discoveries, titanic storms, and a vast ocean of a million stories | Winchester, Simon | Atlantic Ocean, geography, history, folklore | Adults | Hardcover | Preface: The leaving of Liverpool -- Prologue: The beginnings of its goings on -- From the purple isles of Mogador -- All the shoals and deeps within -- Oh! the beauty and the might of it -- Here the sea of pity lies -- They that occupy their business on great waters -- Change and decay all around the sea -- The storm surge carries all before -- Epilogue: Falls the shadow, fades the sea. 0608 |
| Vicious Cycle: [Intervention novels, 2] | Blackstock, Terri | Suspense, Christian fiction | Adults | Paperback | When fifteen-year-old Lance Covington finds the abandoned baby of a drug addict, he is accused of kidnapping, and his mother Barbara looks for help from her old lover, Kent Harlan. 0608 |
| Summer in Mossy Creek [Mossy Creek hometown, 3] | Smith, Deborah | Humorous, fiction | Adults | Paperback | 0608 |
| Reunion at Mossy Creek [Mossy Creek Hometown, 2] | Smith, Deborah | Humorous fiction | Adults, Teens | Paperback | Welcome back to Mossy Creek! The warm-hearted but stubborn residents of the small town whose motto is "Aint Going No Where - and Don't Want To" are once again sorting out the joys, sorrows, and everyday mysteries of life. This time around, they've got the added drama of the big town reunion commemorating the 20-year-old mystery of the late, great Mossy Creek High School, which burned to the ground amid quirky rumors and dark secrets. Are the villains who caused the fire at the grand old school finally ready to come forward? 0608 |
| Mossy Creek [Mossy Creek Hometown, 1] | Smith, Deborah | Humorous fiction | Adults | Paperback | A delightful new collection of original Southern stories set in the charming, fictitious down-home town of Mossy Creek, where there's a friendly face on every corner and a heartfelt story behind every door... 0608 |
| Those in Peril | Smith, Wilbur A. | Internation relations, fiction | Adults | Hardcover | An adventure set in the violent world of modern piracy and terrorism follows the kidnapping of an oil heiress's daughter for a multi-billion-dollar ransom and the efforts of Cross Bow Security head Hector Cross to secure her release. 0608 |
| Precious and the Boo Hag | McKissack, Pat | Monsters, fiction | Easy reader picture book, ages 4 - 8 | Hardcover | Home alone with a stomachache while the family works in the fields, a young girl faces up to the horrifying Boo Hag that her brother warned her about. School Library Journal Best Books: 2005. 0608 |
| Splendor Falls | Clement-Moore, Rose | Supernatural fiction | Adults | Paperback | The dark secrets linking two Alabama families and their Welsh ancestors slowly come to light when Sylvie, whose ballet career has come to a sudden end, spends a month with a cousin she barely knows in her father's ancestral home. 0608 |
| Revolution | Donnelly, Jennifer | Diaries, family issues, historical fiction | Teens | Hardcover | An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France. YALSA Best Books for Young Adults. 0608 |
| Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel | Delaney, Frank | Irish folklore, self-realization, missing persons, historical fiction | Adults | Hardcover | Forging a powerful friendship with the enigmatic Miss Begley at the height of World War II, Ben McCarthy slowly recovers from the loss of his wife and supports Miss Begley's romance with a high-ranking U.S. officer who tests her love by sending her on a dangerous mission in enemy territory. 0608 |
| Friendship Bread | Gee, Darien | Female friendships, fiction | Adults | Hardcover | Receiving an unexpected gift of friendship bread and instructions for creating more to pass along, Julia Everts, a woman chronically depressed by the loss of her son, surprises her family by making the bread and sparking new friendships. 0608 |
| Freak Observer | Woolston, Blythe | Emotional issues, fiction | Teens | Hardcover | Suffering from a crippling case of post-traumatic stress disorder, sixteen-year-old Loa Lindgren tries to use her problem solving skills, sharpened in physics and computer programming, to cure herself. William C. Morris YA Debut Award. 0608 |
| City of Fallen Angels [The mortal instruments, 4] | Clare, Cassandra | Vampires, demonology, fiction | Adults | Hardcover | After the death of his father, Moon leaves their forest shelter home and is sent to an Alabama institution, becoming entangled in the outside world he has never known and making friends, a relentless enemy, and finally a new life. 0608 |
| Alabama Moon | Key Watt | Orphans, wilderness survival, bullies, fiction | Juvenile | Paperback | After the death of his father, Moon leaves their forest shelter home and is sent to an Alabama institution, becoming entangled in the outside world he has never known and making friends, a relentless enemy, and finally a new life. 0608 |
| World Almanac and Book of Facts 2011 | | Reference | | Harcover | 20110608 |