ADULT FICTION
"Electric Barracuda" by Tim Dorsey - "In Dorsey’s thirteenth Serge Storms novel, the manic spree-killer and Florida native son is off his meds again and building a website that encourages tourists to undertake “fugitive” vacations. ..Once again, it’s a Smokey and the Bandit chase story, fueled by dangerous drugs; imaginative dispatchings of arrogant Wall Street plutocrats; beautiful, dangerous women; and Agent Mahoney, whose decade-long pursuit of Serge has reduced him to speaking in the hilarious, fractured argot of a pulp fiction shamus. It’s Dorsey’s standard mash-up, bizarre and often very funny. His wonderful tour of Florida’s boltholes might make them prime-tourist destinations, but fortunately, they are very difficult to reach." --Thomas Gaughan--Booklist
MYSTERY
"The Brutal Telling" by Louise Penny - "Louise Penny applies her magic...giving the village mystery an elegance and depth not often seen in this traditional genre."--The New York Times Book Review
AUDIO BOOKS
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll - "On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole and an extraordinary adventure begins. In strange world with even stranger characters, she meets a rabbit with a pocket watch, joins a Mad Hatter's Tea Party, and plays flamingo croquet with the Queen! Lost in this fantasy land, Alice finds herself growing more and more curious by the minute..." -- back cover
PICTURE BOOKS
"Five Little Monkey's Jumping on the Bed" by Eileen Christelow
"Olivia Goes to Venice" by Ian Falconer
"Red Sings From Treetops: A Year in Colors" by Joyce Sidman
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
NEW ARRIVALS
AUDIO BOOKS
"Museum of Thieves" by Lian Tanner - "The children of Jewel are well protected. Each wears a silver guard chain that links them to their parents or the Blessed Guardians. Goldie Roth sometimes also wears the brass punishment chain for her willfulness in both action and attitude. On the day of her separation ceremony, ...all hell breaks loose....(Goldie) winds up at a mysterious museum, where she learns that she may have an important part in saving her city and the danger coming at it from many sides. Easy to read, with plenty of action and strange events..." - Booklist
YOUNG ADULT
"You Killed Wesley Payne" by Sean Beaudoin - "This smart, slick, and hilarious detective novel..evokes the distinctive voices of legendary crime noir authors Dashiell Hammett and Jim Thompson. It'll tease you, please you, and never leave you. Actually that's not true. It's only a book. One that's going to suck you in, spit you out, and make you shake hands with the devil. Probably." --inside front cover
JUVENILE FICTION
'Heart of a Samurai" by Margi Preus - "A Japanese teenager living in the mid-19th century bridges two worlds in this stunning debut novel based on true events. Preus places readers in the young man's shoes, whether he is on a ship or in a Japanese prison. Her deftness in writing is evident..characters gain sympathy from readers as their backgrounds are revealed...beautifully articulated"--School Library Journal, starred review
"Killer Pizza" by Greg Taylor - "Taylor delivers some fun, frightful fare in this high-concept novel. Fourteen-year-old Toby Magill...gets a summer job flipping dough at Killer Pizza...the teens discover that the establishment is actually a front for a secret-monster-hunting organization, they are the newest recruits...The author's screenwriting background is evident in the plotting of the nonstop action sequences that lead up to the satisfying conclusion."-- School Library Journal
"One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams- Garcia - "Rita Williams-Garcia's One Crazy Summer absolutely blew me away. What an amazing and beautifully written story. I find myself still thinking about Delphine, Vonetta and Fern and all the many other people Rita brought to life. Rita took me right into the world of the Black Panthers and Oakland in the 1960s. This novel is just glorious."--Jacqueline Woodson, author of After Tupac & D Foster
JUVENILE NON-FICTION
"Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night" by Joyce Sidman - "this picture book combines lyrical poetry and compelling art with science concepts. Here, poems about the woods at night reveal biology facts that are explained in long notes on each double-page spread...explains his elaborate, linoleum-block printmaking technique, and each atmospheric image shows the creatures and the dense, dark forest with astonishing clarity."--Booklist
PICTURE BOOKS
"The Invisible Man" by Arthur Yorinks
"Interrupting Chicken" by David Ezra Stein
"Rhyming Dust Bunnies" by Jan Thomas
"A Sick Day for Amos McGee" by Philip C. Stead
"Zero" by Kathryn Otoshi
"Museum of Thieves" by Lian Tanner - "The children of Jewel are well protected. Each wears a silver guard chain that links them to their parents or the Blessed Guardians. Goldie Roth sometimes also wears the brass punishment chain for her willfulness in both action and attitude. On the day of her separation ceremony, ...all hell breaks loose....(Goldie) winds up at a mysterious museum, where she learns that she may have an important part in saving her city and the danger coming at it from many sides. Easy to read, with plenty of action and strange events..." - Booklist
YOUNG ADULT
"You Killed Wesley Payne" by Sean Beaudoin - "This smart, slick, and hilarious detective novel..evokes the distinctive voices of legendary crime noir authors Dashiell Hammett and Jim Thompson. It'll tease you, please you, and never leave you. Actually that's not true. It's only a book. One that's going to suck you in, spit you out, and make you shake hands with the devil. Probably." --inside front cover
JUVENILE FICTION
'Heart of a Samurai" by Margi Preus - "A Japanese teenager living in the mid-19th century bridges two worlds in this stunning debut novel based on true events. Preus places readers in the young man's shoes, whether he is on a ship or in a Japanese prison. Her deftness in writing is evident..characters gain sympathy from readers as their backgrounds are revealed...beautifully articulated"--School Library Journal, starred review
"Killer Pizza" by Greg Taylor - "Taylor delivers some fun, frightful fare in this high-concept novel. Fourteen-year-old Toby Magill...gets a summer job flipping dough at Killer Pizza...the teens discover that the establishment is actually a front for a secret-monster-hunting organization, they are the newest recruits...The author's screenwriting background is evident in the plotting of the nonstop action sequences that lead up to the satisfying conclusion."-- School Library Journal
"One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams- Garcia - "Rita Williams-Garcia's One Crazy Summer absolutely blew me away. What an amazing and beautifully written story. I find myself still thinking about Delphine, Vonetta and Fern and all the many other people Rita brought to life. Rita took me right into the world of the Black Panthers and Oakland in the 1960s. This novel is just glorious."--Jacqueline Woodson, author of After Tupac & D Foster
JUVENILE NON-FICTION
"Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night" by Joyce Sidman - "this picture book combines lyrical poetry and compelling art with science concepts. Here, poems about the woods at night reveal biology facts that are explained in long notes on each double-page spread...explains his elaborate, linoleum-block printmaking technique, and each atmospheric image shows the creatures and the dense, dark forest with astonishing clarity."--Booklist
PICTURE BOOKS
"The Invisible Man" by Arthur Yorinks
"Interrupting Chicken" by David Ezra Stein
"Rhyming Dust Bunnies" by Jan Thomas
"A Sick Day for Amos McGee" by Philip C. Stead
"Zero" by Kathryn Otoshi
Thursday, March 10, 2011
NEW ARRIVALS
ADULT FICTION
"Of Love and Evil" by Anne Rice - "Toby O'Dare, the assassin who started on the path to redemption in Angel Time (2009), continues his quest for salvation....Toby is transported to fifteenth-century Rome to respond to the prayer of a Jewish physician named Vitale, whose best friend and patient, Niccolo, has clearly been poisoned. Given the city's virulent anti-Semitism, Vitale is at risk if the real culprit isn't discovered..... Toby must discover the origins of an angry spirit that is haunting the house Vitale lives in. Toby is surprised by the dangers he faces in a story shaped by Catholic doctrine. Readers who enjoy Rice's larger-than-life tales and elegant writing will find much to appreciate here, and the cliff-hanger ending will leave fans eager for the next installment. Kristine Huntley."- AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
"Room" by Emma Donoghue - Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness. Room is a book to read in one sitting. When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days."--Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry
"Tick Tock" by James Patterson - Detective Michael Bennett joins forces with FBI Agent Beth Peters to root out a terrorist who is threatening New York City with a devastation of the greatest magnitude, and must simultaneously sort out his feelings for Beth and protect his 10 adopted children, all while his relationship with his children's nanny, Mary Catherine, takes an unexpected turn.
"A Visit From the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan - "In the hands of a less-gifted writer, Egan's time-hopping narrative, unorthodox format, and motley cast of characters might have failed spectacuarly. But it works here, primarily because each person shines within his or individual chapter that offers a distinct voice and a facsinating backstory. A few reviewers mentioned the uneven nature of the chapters and the different stylistic experiments within them. Yet, hailed as a " frequently dazzling piece of layer-cake metafiction" (Entertainment Weekly), A Visit from the Goon Squad is a gutsy novel that succeeds on all levels." - Bookmarks
ADULT BIOGRAPHY
"A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides" by David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill - "David Rohde has survived one of the most terrifying things that can happen to a foreign reporter. His account of captivity with the Taliban illuminates important things about courage, about war--and also about marriage. His wife, Kristen, is the real hero of this story. This is a brilliant, beautifully written book and I could not read it fast enough." --Sebastian Junger, author of "War"
ADULT NONFICTION
"The Haves and Have-Nots" by Branko Milanovic - "Charming, erudite, curious, and deeply informed about every aspect of economic inequality, Branko Milanovic takes us on a tour from Austen to Tolstoy, from ancient Rome to modern Brazil via the late Soviet Union. He explores almost all the ways of thinking about inequality that there are. And he makes it seem easy, which it definitely is not." - James. K. Galbraith
"The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda" by Peter L. Bergen - "Drawing on vast firsthand knowledge of the region and mining a huge stock of primary and secondary material, including his own interviews with combatants, the book's depth of detail and breadth of insight make it one the more useful analyses of the ongoing conflict." --Publisher's Weekly, starred review
"Never Say Die: the Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age" by Susan Jacoby - "Jacoby, a sworn enemy irrationality of every form, has some shockingly bad news: we will all die, and most of us will get old first--not 'older' but actually old. In this book, she punctures the promises that aging will eventually be 'cured'. The good news is that if we wake up from our delusions we may be better able to grow old with dignity." -- Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed
"The Next Decade: Where We've Been..and Where We're Going" by George Friedman - " With a unique combination of cold-eyed realism and boldly confident fortune-telling, Friedman (America's Secret War) offers a global tour of war and peace in the upcoming century...Engrossing." -- Publisher's Weekly
"The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee - "The Emperor of All Maladies" is an extraordinary achievement. It's hard to think of many books...that have rendered any area of modern science and technology with such intelligence, accessibility, and compassion."--The New Yorker
"The View From Lazy Point" by Carl Safina - "For Carl Safina--and for us--Lazy Point, a resuscitated shack on a lonely beach at the eastern end of Long Island, is the center of the natural world, and the point from which he travels, literally and figuratively, to the ends of the earth. Written by a brilliant stylist and deeply concerned conservationist, this book brings into sharp (and often painful) focus the plight of wildlife in a world largely indifferent to the fate of our fellow travelers on Spaceship Earth. Alive with fresh ideas to help bring our species in sync with the natural world."--Richard Ellis, author of Tuna: A Love Story
MYSTERY
"The Devotion of Suspect X" by Keigo Higashino - "What's in an alibi? In The Devotion of Suspect X, Keigo Higashino weaves a web of intellectual gamesmanship in which the truth is a weapon that leads both police and readers astray. The ingenious conclusion is so unexpected that it's difficult to imagine anyone seeing it coming. Smart, smart characters." -- Jacqueline Winspear
"I'd Know You Anywhere" by Laura Lippman - "a powerful and utterly riveting tale that skillfully moves between past and present to explore the lasting effects of crime on a victim's life..."--inside front cover
"Rogue Island" by Bruce DeSilva - "Not since Dennis Lehane's A Drink Before the War have I read a first novel as compelling and sure-handed as Rogue Island. Investigative reporter Liam Mulligan has the gritty, tough-talking charm, old-school street smarts, and sexy chivalry of a Marlowe or Spade."--James W. Hall, author of Hell's Boy
"Faithful Place" by Tana French - "Tana French is back with a brilliant thriller in Faithful Place. Hard-edged and smart, like the scene-stealing detective at the center of this haunting novel, the book is a stunning tale of love and betrayal." --Linda Fairstein author of Hell Gate and Lethal Legacy
"The Queen of Patpong" by Timothy Hallinan - "Timothy Hallinan's The Queen of Patpong is pure magic; a compelling thriller grown from a dark and treacherous soil. The brushstrokes that form the fully realized character of Rose are revealed with honesty and compassion and it's impossible not to fall for her head over heels. Hallinan is courageous in his exploration of sexual exploitation, greed and corruption. I've read no one better on the subject."--Stephen Jay Schwartz, author of Boulevard
AUDIO BOOKS
"Juliet: a Novel" by Anne Fortier, read by Cassandra Campbell - "A high-flying debut...Fortier navigates around false clues and twists, resulting in a ...love story that reads like a Da Vinci Code for the smart modern woman."--Publisher's Weekly starred review
JUVENILE FICTION
"The Adventures of Nanny Piggins" by R. A. Spratt - "The most exciting saga about a flying pig nanny ever told. There is a laugh on every page and a lesson in there somewhere. I recommend it highly."--Madeline K. Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State
"The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis" - "With humor and authenticity, this beguiling tale of summer friendship mines the small, jewellike adventures of a rural childhood...Irresistibly quirky."-- Publishers Weekly starred review
"The Red Pyramid" by Rick Riordan - "Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharoahs.
JUVENILE NON-FICTION
"They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti - "This is the story of how a secret terrorist group took root in America's democracy. Filled with chilling and vivid personal accounts unearthed from oral histories, congressional documents, and other primary sources, this is a book to read and remember." -- inside front cover
PICTURE BOOKS
"Old Bear and His Cub" by Olivier Dunrea
"That New Animal" by Emily Jenkins
"Of Love and Evil" by Anne Rice - "Toby O'Dare, the assassin who started on the path to redemption in Angel Time (2009), continues his quest for salvation....Toby is transported to fifteenth-century Rome to respond to the prayer of a Jewish physician named Vitale, whose best friend and patient, Niccolo, has clearly been poisoned. Given the city's virulent anti-Semitism, Vitale is at risk if the real culprit isn't discovered..... Toby must discover the origins of an angry spirit that is haunting the house Vitale lives in. Toby is surprised by the dangers he faces in a story shaped by Catholic doctrine. Readers who enjoy Rice's larger-than-life tales and elegant writing will find much to appreciate here, and the cliff-hanger ending will leave fans eager for the next installment. Kristine Huntley."- AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
"Room" by Emma Donoghue - Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness. Room is a book to read in one sitting. When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days."--Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry
"Tick Tock" by James Patterson - Detective Michael Bennett joins forces with FBI Agent Beth Peters to root out a terrorist who is threatening New York City with a devastation of the greatest magnitude, and must simultaneously sort out his feelings for Beth and protect his 10 adopted children, all while his relationship with his children's nanny, Mary Catherine, takes an unexpected turn.
"A Visit From the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan - "In the hands of a less-gifted writer, Egan's time-hopping narrative, unorthodox format, and motley cast of characters might have failed spectacuarly. But it works here, primarily because each person shines within his or individual chapter that offers a distinct voice and a facsinating backstory. A few reviewers mentioned the uneven nature of the chapters and the different stylistic experiments within them. Yet, hailed as a " frequently dazzling piece of layer-cake metafiction" (Entertainment Weekly), A Visit from the Goon Squad is a gutsy novel that succeeds on all levels." - Bookmarks
ADULT BIOGRAPHY
"A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides" by David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill - "David Rohde has survived one of the most terrifying things that can happen to a foreign reporter. His account of captivity with the Taliban illuminates important things about courage, about war--and also about marriage. His wife, Kristen, is the real hero of this story. This is a brilliant, beautifully written book and I could not read it fast enough." --Sebastian Junger, author of "War"
ADULT NONFICTION
"The Haves and Have-Nots" by Branko Milanovic - "Charming, erudite, curious, and deeply informed about every aspect of economic inequality, Branko Milanovic takes us on a tour from Austen to Tolstoy, from ancient Rome to modern Brazil via the late Soviet Union. He explores almost all the ways of thinking about inequality that there are. And he makes it seem easy, which it definitely is not." - James. K. Galbraith
"The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda" by Peter L. Bergen - "Drawing on vast firsthand knowledge of the region and mining a huge stock of primary and secondary material, including his own interviews with combatants, the book's depth of detail and breadth of insight make it one the more useful analyses of the ongoing conflict." --Publisher's Weekly, starred review
"Never Say Die: the Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age" by Susan Jacoby - "Jacoby, a sworn enemy irrationality of every form, has some shockingly bad news: we will all die, and most of us will get old first--not 'older' but actually old. In this book, she punctures the promises that aging will eventually be 'cured'. The good news is that if we wake up from our delusions we may be better able to grow old with dignity." -- Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed
"The Next Decade: Where We've Been..and Where We're Going" by George Friedman - " With a unique combination of cold-eyed realism and boldly confident fortune-telling, Friedman (America's Secret War) offers a global tour of war and peace in the upcoming century...Engrossing." -- Publisher's Weekly
"The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee - "The Emperor of All Maladies" is an extraordinary achievement. It's hard to think of many books...that have rendered any area of modern science and technology with such intelligence, accessibility, and compassion."--The New Yorker
"The View From Lazy Point" by Carl Safina - "For Carl Safina--and for us--Lazy Point, a resuscitated shack on a lonely beach at the eastern end of Long Island, is the center of the natural world, and the point from which he travels, literally and figuratively, to the ends of the earth. Written by a brilliant stylist and deeply concerned conservationist, this book brings into sharp (and often painful) focus the plight of wildlife in a world largely indifferent to the fate of our fellow travelers on Spaceship Earth. Alive with fresh ideas to help bring our species in sync with the natural world."--Richard Ellis, author of Tuna: A Love Story
MYSTERY
"The Devotion of Suspect X" by Keigo Higashino - "What's in an alibi? In The Devotion of Suspect X, Keigo Higashino weaves a web of intellectual gamesmanship in which the truth is a weapon that leads both police and readers astray. The ingenious conclusion is so unexpected that it's difficult to imagine anyone seeing it coming. Smart, smart characters." -- Jacqueline Winspear
"I'd Know You Anywhere" by Laura Lippman - "a powerful and utterly riveting tale that skillfully moves between past and present to explore the lasting effects of crime on a victim's life..."--inside front cover
"Rogue Island" by Bruce DeSilva - "Not since Dennis Lehane's A Drink Before the War have I read a first novel as compelling and sure-handed as Rogue Island. Investigative reporter Liam Mulligan has the gritty, tough-talking charm, old-school street smarts, and sexy chivalry of a Marlowe or Spade."--James W. Hall, author of Hell's Boy
"Faithful Place" by Tana French - "Tana French is back with a brilliant thriller in Faithful Place. Hard-edged and smart, like the scene-stealing detective at the center of this haunting novel, the book is a stunning tale of love and betrayal." --Linda Fairstein author of Hell Gate and Lethal Legacy
"The Queen of Patpong" by Timothy Hallinan - "Timothy Hallinan's The Queen of Patpong is pure magic; a compelling thriller grown from a dark and treacherous soil. The brushstrokes that form the fully realized character of Rose are revealed with honesty and compassion and it's impossible not to fall for her head over heels. Hallinan is courageous in his exploration of sexual exploitation, greed and corruption. I've read no one better on the subject."--Stephen Jay Schwartz, author of Boulevard
AUDIO BOOKS
"Juliet: a Novel" by Anne Fortier, read by Cassandra Campbell - "A high-flying debut...Fortier navigates around false clues and twists, resulting in a ...love story that reads like a Da Vinci Code for the smart modern woman."--Publisher's Weekly starred review
JUVENILE FICTION
"The Adventures of Nanny Piggins" by R. A. Spratt - "The most exciting saga about a flying pig nanny ever told. There is a laugh on every page and a lesson in there somewhere. I recommend it highly."--Madeline K. Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State
"The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis" - "With humor and authenticity, this beguiling tale of summer friendship mines the small, jewellike adventures of a rural childhood...Irresistibly quirky."-- Publishers Weekly starred review
"The Red Pyramid" by Rick Riordan - "Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharoahs.
JUVENILE NON-FICTION
"They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti - "This is the story of how a secret terrorist group took root in America's democracy. Filled with chilling and vivid personal accounts unearthed from oral histories, congressional documents, and other primary sources, this is a book to read and remember." -- inside front cover
PICTURE BOOKS
"Old Bear and His Cub" by Olivier Dunrea
"That New Animal" by Emily Jenkins
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