New items are purchased monthly. These include the newest best sellers, fiction, non-fiction, picture books, youth titles, movies on DVD, music CDs and audio books on both CD and cassette. We also own all of the books on the Flume High School List, Great Stone Face Book List and the Isinglass Teen Read List for 2007-2008! Lists of new and upcoming book purchases for children and young adults can be found on the Kids' Corner and Teen Zone pages.
If you would like to be on the reserve list for any of these titles please e-mail the library and include your FIRST and LAST name, library card number, complete titles, format and authors. Please consider donating your books, DVDs, audio books or music CDs to the library once you have read/viewed/listened to them.
Have you read a book lately that
you'd like to review? Viewed a movie that you loved? Listened to an audio
book that blew your socks off? If so, please send your book reviews to Amy
Inglis at
blibrary@metrocast.net We'll try to include
some book/media reviews in our e-news letter and on the web site, under the New
Arrivals button. Your review could help someone else find a great item!
Reviews will be posted as time allows, and under the discretion of the library
staff.
New Book Titles by Month:
November 2008
Divine Justice by David Baldacci
Bodies Left Behind by Jeffrey Deaver
Santa Clawed by Rita Mae brown
Private Patient by PD James
Just Past Sunset by Stephen King
Your heart belongs to Me by Dean Koontz
Arctic Drift by Clive Cussler
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Cross Country by James Patterson
Crossroads by Belva Plain
Divine Justice by David Baldacci
Chimera's Curse By Golding
Dashing Through the Snow by Mary Higgins Clark
Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
December 2008
Show No Fear by Perri O'Shaunessy
Black Ops by WEB Griffin
Deeper Than the Dead by Tami Hoag
Running Hot by Jane Ann Krentz
Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell
Show No Fear by Perri O'Shaunnessy
Treasure by Iris Johansen
Tales of Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling
Gate House by Demille
Good Woman by Steel
The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker
Paths of Glory by Jeffrey Archer
January 2009
The Associate by John Grisham
Bones of the Dragon by Margaret Weis
Devils Punchbowl by Greg Iles
Eclipse by Richard North Patterson
Nemesis by William Bernhardt
People of the Thunder by Michael W. Gear
Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich
Switch by Anthony Horowitz
February 2009
Death of a Witch by Beaton
Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
Night and Day by Robert Parker
Run for Your Life by James Patterson
One Day at a Time by Danielle Steel
Darker Place by Jack Higgins
Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs
True Colors by Kristin Hannah
Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
Geometry of Sisters by Luanne Rice
Lethal Legacy by Linda Fairstein
While My Sister Sleeps by Barbara Delinsky
Promises in Death by JD Robb
The Sign by Raymond Khoury
March 2009
Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
Corsair by Clive Cussler
Life Sentences by Laura Lippman
Don't Look Twice by Andrew Gross
True Detectives by Jonathan Kellerman
Pusuit by Karen Robards
Long Lost by Harlan Coben
Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles
Lavender Morning by Jude Deveraux
Execution Dock by Anne Perry
April 2009
Turn Coat by Jim Butcher
Cursed by Carol Higgins Clark
Lost Quilter by Jennifer Chiaverini
Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern
Deadlock by Iris Johansen
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall-Smith
8th Confession by James Patterson
Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark
Borderline by Nevada Barr
Look Again by Lisa Scottoline
8th Confession by James Patterson
Home Safe by Elizabeth Berg
Bloodhound: The Legend of Beka Cooper by Tamora Pierce
The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
We're always expanding our collection of DVD titles for you and your family!
New
DVD Titles:
Batman: The Dark Knight (12/2008)
Wall-E
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Frontier House
Lewis & Clark
Mamma Mia (12/2008)
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (12/2008)
The Phantom Tollbooth (Jan.2009)
Godspell (12/2008)
South Pacific (12/2008)
The Jungle Book (12/2008)
Awakenings (12/2008)
Lost: Seasons 2 & 3 (12/2008)
Henry V (12/2008)
Anne of Green Gables Set (12/2008)
Spirited Away (12/2008)
Giant (12/2008)
Jane Austen's Emma (12/2008)
New Music CD Titles at the Library
Creed: Greatest Hits
Radiohead: Greatest Hits
Toby Keith: 35 Greatest Hits
A Girl Like Me by Rihanna
Mamma Mia: the Musical
A Little Bit Longer: The Jonas Brothers
Trisha Yearwood: Greatest Hits
Best of the J. Geils Band
The Best of Peter Frampton
New AudioBook Titles on CD at the Library
19th Wife by Ebershoff (October)
Art of Racing in the Rain by Stein (October)
Book of a Thousand days by Hale (October)
Devil Bones by Reichs (October)
Dexter in the Dark by Lindsay (October)
The Gargoyle by Davidson (October)
The Hungry Ocean by Greenlaw (October)
The Lace Reader by Brunonia (October)
The Lottery by Wood (October)
The Last Witness by Hoffman (October)
Mad River Road by Fielding (October)
The Mercedes Coffin by Kellerman (October)
Sanctuary by Khoury (October)
Smoke Screen by Brown (October)
Story of Edgar Sawtelle by Wroblewski (October)
Zookeeper's Wife by Ackerman (October)
Ritual in Death by Robb (October)
Salvation in Death by Robb (November)
Dark Summer by Johansen (October)
The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer (November)
Book Award Links
Need a new author, a great new book to read? Check out some of these sites that list current and past award winners and recommended titles!
The Edgar Award: Mystery and Suspense Novels
The Pen/Faulkner Award: The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is a national prize which honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year....list of winners is located at the bottom of the page.
Pulitzer Prize for Literature: Covers fiction, poetry, music, drama, biography, non-fiction, and news reporting!
The National Book Award: Covers fiction and non-fiction.
The RITA Awards: Romance Writer's of America choices. Current years winners and runners-up listed on bottom of the page.
The HUGO Awards: For best science fiction and fantasy titles.
The Printz Award: For best teen novels.
Bram Stoker Award: Best Horror books.
The Spur Awards: Best Westerns.
The Hammett Awards: Best crime fiction.
National Book Critics Circle Award: Every year the NBCC presents awards for the finest books and reviews published in English
The Man Booker Prize: Prizes for best International fiction.
Book Sense: A wonderful site with tons of recommended reads from independent booksellers.
State Awards for Children's and Young Adult Books Lots of wonderful titles picked by teachers, librarians, and kids!
Caldecott Awards: Most distinguished American picture book for children.
Newbery Award: It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
Agatha Awards: The Agatha Awards, named for Malice inspiration Agatha Christie, are awarded for the Best Novel, First Mystery Novel, Nonfiction, and Short Story in the genre for the previous year.
Nebula Awards: Science Fiction novels, short stories, etc.