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by Tony Abbott.
It’s a dangerous time in Droon. Ko
and Gethwing are about to wage war.
Young Sparr is on a risky undercover
mission to try to defeat the evil
emperor from within. And a wicked
ancient sorcerer named Shadowface
is vowing to wake the infamous
Warriors of the Skorth to aid Ko’s
army of beasts. It’s up to Eric, Julie,
Neal, and Keeah to stop him—no
matter what the cost.
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Books: Children
QUEEN OF
THE TOILET
BOWL
by Frieda
Wishinsky.
Renata is constantly
teased by the snobs
at High Road High because her
mother works as a cleaning
woman. When she earns the role
of Maria Von Trapp in the school
musical, Karin, who wanted the
part, exacts revenge by accusing
Renata of stealing her watch.
• Order # J3772
BARFING
IN THE
BACKSEAT
by Henry Winkler.
Hank must work
on a huge homework
packet during a
family trip to North Carolina or
he will spend the day with his
father at a crossword puzzle
tournament rather than riding
roller coasters with his mother,
sister, and friend Frankie.
• Order # J3835
SHREDDERMAN:
SECRET
IDENTITY
by Wendelin
Van Draanen.
Fifth-grader Nolan
Byrd has suffered at the hands of
school bully Bubba Bixby for too
long. Inspired by a class project,
Nolan (a.k.a “Byrd-the-Nerd”)
creates a “cyber-superhero” alter
ego called Shredderman, and sets
out to avenge himself and his
fellow Bubba-sufferers.
• Order # J3817
WIRED
by Sigmund
Brouwer.
Keegan Bishop
must snowboard
to safety.
• Order #
J3781
THE GREAT
HOUDINI
by Monica
Kulling.
No handcuffs could
hold Harry Houdini,
the world’s most
famous magician. Learn all about
his fascinating life and amazing
escapes.
• Order # J3824
THE KID
WHO
INVENTED
THE
POPSICLE
by Don L.
Wulffson.
Brief factual stories about how
various familiar things were
invented, many by accident, from
animal crackers to the zipper.
• Order # J3823
DOG
WALKER
by Karen
Spafford-Fitz.
Turk’s moneymaking scheme of
walking dogs gets
out of control.
• Order # J3782
GENTLE
BEN
by Walt Morey.
The Alaskan
wilderness is a
lonely place for
Mark Andersen. In
time Mark finds a
friend named Ben, who happens
to be an Alaskan brown bear.
Ben and Mark form a special
bond, but when the townspeople
find out about Mark’s newfound
friendship, they are determined
to destroy it.
• Order # J3777
LONE WOLF
by Kristin L.
Franklin.
When a large family
moves into the
house near where
he and his father
live in the woods, Perry’s
friendship with the oldest girl
helps him come to terms with his
sister’s death and his parents’
divorce.
• Order # J3622
HANK THE
COWDOG
50: THE
CASE OF
THE MOST
ANCIENT
BONE
by John R. Erickson.
When Hank the Cowdog, Head
of Ranch Security, follows Little
Alfred to an archaeological
excavation, he runs into trouble
in the form of a gorgeous
golden-haired lady dog, a peanut
butter sandwich, and an enticing,
ancient, buffalo bone.
• Order # J3836
THANKS
TO NICKI
by Ann Howard
Creel.
Nicki’s spent every
day working with
Sprocket, the
adorable service dog
she’s raising. How much longer
does Nicki have with Sprocket
before he leaves for advanced
training with the service-dog
organization—and permanent
placement with someone else?
• Order # J3843
SEWER RATS
THE
SECRETS
OF DROON:
QUEEN OF
SHADOW
THORN
by Tony Abbott.
A visitor from the future has
returned to Droon. Her name
is Salamandra and she is a
sorceress—and old foe. She
shows the kids a terrifying vision
of Droon’s future. The kids will
do anything to prevent this vision
from becoming a reality. But can
Salamandra be trusted?
• Order # J3842
STAR WARS,
THE LAST
OF THE JEDI:
AGAINST
THE EMPIRE
by Jude Watson.
For Ferus Olin,
hatred of the Empire is personal.
The things that have been closest
to him have been destroyed. The
Jedi order he once belonged to
has been decimated, and the
future isn’t looking much brighter.
Unless a true rebellion can be born.
• Order # J3839
LIGHTS,
CAMERA...
LIFTOFF!
by Dan
Greenburg.
Siblings Klatu, Lek,
and Ploo, along
with their human
friends Lily and Jo-Jo, travel to
Hollywood, California, where the
aliens become extras on a science
fiction television show while
waiting for the spaceship that will
take them home.
• Order # J3840
by Sigmund
Brouwer.
A group known as
Sewer Rats take up
the challenge of an
underground game
of paintball.
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Books: Children
WHY ARE
DOGS’ NOSES
WET?
by Howie Dewin.
Why do dogs bury
bones? Or howl at
the moon? And
why in the world do they sniff at
everything? Inside, you’ll find the
answers to everything you ever
wanted to know about dogs.
• Order # J3691
MAYFLOWER
TREASURE
HUNT
by Ron Roy.
When Dink, Josh,
and Ruth Rose
visit Plymouth,
Massachusetts, for
Thanksgiving, they uncover a
mystery that dates back to the
landing of the Pilgrims.
• Order # J3837
DINOSAUR
HUNTERS
by Kate McMullan.
Digging up
dinosaurs is hard
work. Hidden deep
in the earth, fossils
are surrounded by
solid stone. The tools to scrape
away the rock are tiny. But to a
dinosaur hunter, it’s the greatest
job in the world!
• Order # J3773
CHILDREN’S
SONGBAG
by Paul Dubois
Jacobs.
Grab a copy of
Children’s Songbag
and get ready for
some musical fun!
This great collection includes
music and lyrics to 50 of the
best-loved children’s songs.
• Order # J3714
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HANK
ZIPPER
by Henry Winkler.
Hank’s school is
putting on the play
Anna and the King
of Siam as its winter
musical, and he is sure he’ll get
the part of the king. There’s just
one small problem. His dad says
he has to get a B-plus on his math
test in order to be in the play!
• Order # J3831
THE
SECRETS
OF DROON:
ESCAPE
FROM
JABAR-LOO
by Tony Abbott.
Eric, Julie, Neal, and Keeah are
on a rescue mission! Galen, Max,
King Zello, and Queen Relna are
being held prisoner in the
forbidding forest of Jabar-Loo,
and it’s up to the kids to save them.
• Order # J3829
JUNIE B.,
FIRST
GRADER:
ALOHAHA-HA
ADAM
SHARP #6:
CODE WORD
KANGAROO
by George
Edward Stanley.
Eight-year-old
secret agent Adam Sharp travels
to Australia where, with the
assistance of Alice Springs and a
washed-up TV star, he tracks down
the evil mastermind behind a plan
to block all television stations
except his own—the Happy
Channel.
• Order # J3826
GRASSLANDS
by Debra Seely.
Thirteen-year-old
Thomas Hunter has
been invited to join
his father’s new
family on their
Kansas farm. But
the hardscrabble farm is a lot
tougher than Thomas expected.
Just as he begins to grow restless,
his family’s herd gets swept up in
a cattle stampede and he must
follow a group of cowboys to
reclaim it.
• Order # J3771
CAMP WILD
by Barbara Park.
Excitable Junie B.
Jones manages to find trouble
both before and during a trip to
Hawaii and records each incident
in a photo journal given to her by
her teacher.
• Order # J3828
ADAM
SHARP #5:
MOOSE
MASTER
by George
Edward Stanley.
Eight-year-old spy
Adam Sharp goes undercover as a
Mountie to discover why Ecanem
is winning all of Canada’s logrolling contests—and putting the
other lumber companies out of
business.
• Order # J3825
by Pam Withers.
Wilt figures he’s too
old for summer
camp but has just
what it takes to plot
his escape from one.
• Order # J3778
CHAT ROOM
by Kristin
Butcher.
On the school
website, planned
and set up by Chad,
is a chat room that
only Wellington
students can use. Linda decides
to join the chat room as
`Roxanne.’ But soon Linda
realizes she may be the victim of
mistaken identity.
• Order # J3775
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DAWN
UNDERCOVER
by Anna Dale.
Dawn Buckle, 11,
is so ordinary that
even her parents
frequently fail to
notice her. This invisibility pays
off when a top-secret spy
organization called P.S.S.T.
recruits her for an important
rescue mission.
• Order # J3637
WHO
ORDERED
THIS BABY?
DEFINITELY
NOT ME! #13
HANK ZIPZER
by Henry Winkler
& Lin Oliver.
One afternoon, Hank overhears
his mom and Frankie’s mom
talking about having a baby. It
must be Frankie’s mom that
they’re talking about! Hank
worries about how to break the
news to his best friend—until he
finds out that it’s his own mother
who is pregnant! How could she
do this to him?
• Order # J3847
TIME STOPS
FOR NO
MOUSE
by Michael
Hoeye.
When Linka
Perflinger, a jaunty
mouse, brings a
watch into his shop to be
repaired and then disappears,
Hermux Tantamoq is caught up
in a world of dangerous search
for eternal youth as he tries to
find out what happened to her.
• Order # J3850
Books: Children
GHOSTHUNTERS
AND THE
GRUESOME
INVINCIBLE
LIGHTNING
GHOST!
by Cornelia Funke.
No ghoul can defeat Tom and
the ghosthunters—until their too
close encounter at a beachfront
hotel with a Gruesome Invincible
Lightning Ghost. This super-heated
specter is passing its eternal
vacation by turning the guests
into ghosts themselves!
• Order # J3853
GHOSTHUNTERS
AND THE
MUDDY
MONSTER
OF DOOM!
by Cornelia Funke.
To earn his ghosthunting diploma, Tom’s got to
nab a deadly Twelfth Messenger.
But while on the hunt in the
haunted town of Bogpool, Tom
stumbles into the mucked-up lair
of a mud-loving minotaur who
has an entire army of ghosts at his
command.
• Order # J3857
MORE
ADVENTURES
OF THE
GREAT BRAIN
by John D.
Fitzgerald.
The citizens of
Adenville, Utah, can count on
the Great Brain’s genius, from
finding the ghost of Silverlode to
helping Britches Dotty act like a
lady. Then someone robs the
bank, and even the police are
stumped. Can the Great Brain
solve the crime and put the
crooks behind bars?
• Order # J3854
HONUS & ME
by Dan Gutman.
Joe, who loves
baseball but is not
very good at it,
finds a valuable
1909 Honus
Wagner card and
travels back in time to meet Honus.
• Order # J3858
GHOSTHUNTERS
AND THE
TOTALLY
MOLDY
BARONESS!
by Cornelia Funke.
The spirit of a brutal
baroness has possessed the
landlady of Gloomsbury Palace,
infecting her with a killer case of
hiccups! Looks like the time has
come for Tom and the team to
put an end to the “foul” play and
find a way to dispel this decaying
royal for good!
• Order # J3856
GHOSTHUNTERS
AND THE
INCREDIBLY
REVOLTING
GHOST!
by Cornelia Funke.
Dripping sticky
slime wherever it goes, an
Averagely Spooky ghost is hiding
out in Tom’s cellar. Why?
Because he’s being haunted, too.
Good thing Tom’s grandmother’s
best friend just happens to be a
world-famous ghosthunter.
• Order # J3859
BABE & ME
by Dan Gutman.
A boy and his father
zip back in time to
discover whether
Babe Ruth actually
predicted his home
run in Game Three
of the 1932 World Series
• Order # J3870
THE INDIAN
IN THE
CUPBOARD
by Lynne Reid Banks.
It all starts with a
birthday present
Omri doesn’t even
want—a small plastic Indian of
no use to him at all. But when
an old wooden cupboard and a
special key bring the unusual toy
to life, Omri’s Indian becomes his
most important secret.
• Order # J3860
THE RETURN
OF THE
INDIAN
by Lynne Reid Banks.
Omri discovered a
magical world when
he brought a
three-inch-high Indian named
Little Bear to life. Now, Omri
tries to see his friend Little Bear
again, only to find himself in the
middle of a whole new series of
astonishing and dangerous
adventures.
• Order # J3862
ME AND
MY LITTLE
BRAIN
by John D.
Fitzgerald.
The Great Brain’s
little brother, J.D.
realizes that he just doesn’t have
that crafty Great Brain knack.
But when his younger brother is
kidnapped by outlaws, J.D. finds
that his little brain may not be so
ordinary after all.
• Order # J3864
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THE
HOBOKEN
CHICKEN
EMERGENCY
by Daniel
Pinkwater.
When Arthur
Bobowicz is sent out to bring
home the family’s Thanksgiving
turkey, he returns instead with
Henrietta—a 266-pound chicken
with a mind of her own.
• Order # J3866
THE SECRET
OF THE
INDIAN
by Lynne
Reid Banks.
Patrick time-travels
back to the roughand-tumble frontier age of his
cowboy friend, Boone. When he
returns to the present day, he’s
accompanied by a disastrous bit
of Texas weather that devastates
half of England.
• Order # J3867
HARRIS
AND ME
by Gary Paulsen.
Sent to live with
relatives on their
farm because of his
unhappy home life,
an eleven-year-old
city boy meets his distant cousin
Harris and is given an introduction to a whole new world.
• Order # J3868
THE GREAT
BRAIN
by John D.
Fitzgerald.
Who else could
come up with a
plan to save two
friends lost in a cave? To help
assimilate a new Greek boy into
turn-of-the-century Utah culture?
To help a friend overcome his
disability? Why, the Great Brain,
of course.
• Order # J3872
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Books: Teens
CLUB MEDS
by Katherine
Hall Page.
High Schooler Jack
Sutton has ADHD
and has been on
Rialin since third
grade. When a major-league bully
forces Jack to turn over his Ritalin,
Jack’s friends come to his defense
with a plan that’s outrageous and
dangerous, and a long shot at best.
• Order # J3496
PARTY
PRINCESS
by Meg Cabot.
In a series of
humorous diary
entries, fifteen-yearold Mia tries to
figure out how to
raise money for the bankrupt
student government at her school
while also worrying about how to
become a “party girl.”
• Order # J3667
THE CLOUD
CHAMBER
by Joyce Maynard.
In 1966, when his
father’s attempted
suicide causes the
ostracism of the
family in their small
Montana community, fourteenyear-old Nate copes with his
sadness and anger by trying to win
the school science fair.
• Order # J3660
SECRETS
OF A SOUTH
BEACH
PRINCESS
by Mary Kennedy.
Amber Fielding is
rich, blond, totally
hot and Miami’s newest “It Girl.”
Then she meets Nick Crawford
who says he is shooting a
documentary about architecture
in South Beach. But this princess
had better be careful just what gets
caught on tape.
• Order # J3663
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GILDA JOYCE
PSYCHIC
INVESTIGATOR
by Jennifer Allison.
During the summer
before ninth grade,
intrepid Gilda Joyce
invites herself to the San Francisco
mansion of distant cousin Lester
Splinter and his thirteen-year-old
daughter, where she uses her
purported psychic abilities and
detective skills to solve the mystery
of the mansion’s boarded-up
tower.
• Order # J3657
PIRATICA
by Tanith Lee.
A bump on the
head restores Art’s
memories of her
mother and the
exciting life they led,
so the sixteen-yearold leaves Angels Academy for
Young Maidens, seeks out the
pirates who were her family before
her mother’s death, and leads
them back to adventure on the
high seas.
• Order # J3633
CAR
TROUBLE
by Jeanne DuPrau.
Early one
August morning,
seventeen-year-old
computer “nerd”
Duff Pringle leaves
Richmond, Virginia, in a newly
acquired used car and begins an
unexpectedly convoluted journey
to San Jose, California, and the
job that awaits him there.
• Order # J3632
HITCH
by Jeanette Ingold.
To help his family
during the Depression
and avoid becoming
a drunk like his
father, Moss Trawnley
joins the Civilian Conservation
Corps, helps build a new camp
near Monroe, Montana, and leads
the other men in making the
camp a success.
• Order # J3631
MARGAUX
WITH AN X
by Ron Koertge.
Margaux, known as
a “tough chick” at
her Los Angeles
high school, makes
a connection with
Danny, who, like her, struggles
with the emotional impact of
family violence and abuse.
• Order # J3628
BURIED
ONIONS
by Gary Soto.
When nineteenyear-old Eddie drops
out of college, he
struggles to find a
place for himself as a
Mexican American living in a
violence-infested neighborhood of
Fresno, California.
• Order # J3627
THE
FORETELLING
by Alice Hoffman.
Growing up the
daughter of an
Amazon queen who
shuns her, Rain
rebels against the
ways of her tribe through her
sister-like relationship with Io and
her feelings for a boy from a tribe
of wanderers.
• Order # J3619
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GUITAR
HIGHWAY
ROSE
by Brigid Lowry.
Two fifteen-yearolds, Rosie and
Asher, upset over the
various unhappy circumstances of
their lives in the Australian city of
Perth, decide to run away.
• Order # J3724
HERO’S
SONG
by Edith Pattou.
On a quest to rescue
his kidnapped sister,
Collun discovers
that he is a key
figure in the struggle
to save the kingdom of Eirren
from conquest by Medb, the
Queen of Ghosts.
• Order # J3723
WHITE FANG
by Jack London.
In the Northland
Wild a gray cub is
born. Part wolf, he
is at home in the
wild; part dog, he
reveres humans as
gods. Will White Fang survive the
many natural and man-made
dangers he encounters? Where
will he find his true home?
• Order # J3693
GIFTS
by Ursula K.
LeGuin.
When a young man
in the Uplands
blinds himself rather
than use his gift of
“unmaking”—a
violent talent shared by members
of his family—he upsets the
precarious balance of power
among rival, feuding families, each
of which has a strange and deadly
talent of its own.
• Order # J3638
Books: Teens
13 LITTLE
BLUE
ENVELOPES
by Maureen
Johnson.
When seventeenyear-old Ginny
receives a packet of mysterious
envelopes from her favorite aunt,
she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross
Europe on a sort of scavenger
hunt that transforms her life.
• Order # J3635
INVISIBLE
by Pete Hautman.
Doug and Andy are
unlikely best
friends—one a loner
obsessed by his
model trains, the
other a popular
student involved in football and
theater—who grew up together
and share a bond that nothing can
sever.
• Order # J3654
FAR
TRAVELER
by Rebecca
Tingle.
After the death
of her mother,
Æthelflæd of
Mercia, sixteen-yearold Ælfwyn flees imprisonment by
her uncle King Edward and, in
the guise of a youthful bard, plays
her part in the resolution of the
tangled political enmities of
tenth-century Britain.
• Order # J3648
LEAP DAY
by Wendy Mass.
On her fourth Leap
birthday, when she
turns sixteen, Josie
has a number
of momentous
experiences,
including taking her driver’s test,
auditioning for a school play, and
celebrating with her family and
friends.
• Order # J3647
DEAD ON
TOWN LINE
by Leslie Connor.
A murdered teen’s
experience of her
afterlife includes her
efforts to have her
body found and to provide
comfort to her loved ones.
• Order # J3643
FUNNY
LITTLE
MONKEY
by Andrew Auseon.
Arty, an abnormally
short fourteen-yearold boy, enlists the
help of a group of
students, known at school as the
“pathetic losers,” to take revenge
against his abusive, tall fraternal
twin brother.
• Order # J3642
PROM
by Laurie Halse
Anderson.
Eighteen-year-old
Ash wants nothing
to do with senior
prom, but when
disaster strikes and
her desperate friend, Nat, needs
her help to get it back on track,
Ash’s involvement transforms her
life.
• Order # J3732
ART GEEKS
AND PROM
QUEENS
by Alyson Noël.
A New York
transplant,
sixteen-year-old Rio
Jones has no clue how she’s going
to fit in at her fancy new private
school in southern California.
Then Rio meets Kristi.
Beautiful, rich, and a cheerleader.
At first Rio is having a great time,
but she figures out there is one
last rule that her new friends
forgot to mention: Don’t cross
Kristi.
• Order # J3730
STOLEN
VOICES
by Ellen Dee
Davidson.
Life in Noveskina
is designed to be
harmonious and
free of conflict. But
15-year-old Miri, daughter of
two of the city’s most important
Officials, faces a shameful
dilemma. She has matured with
no clear Talent. As Miri comes
face-to-face with the dark secrets
of her once-perfect world, the
quiet peace of Noveskina reveals
itself as something infinitely more
sinister.
• Order # J3729
THE BOY
FROM THE
BASEMENT
FIRE ARROW
by Edith Pattou.
While on the trail
of her father’s
murderers, the
young archer from
Hero’s Song discovers
her birthright—a
magical arrow—and the sinister
doings of an evil sorcerer.
• Order # J3731
by Susan Shaw.
For Charlie, the
cold, dark basement
is home. Father has
kept him locked in
there as punishment. Charlie
doesn’t intend to leave, but when
he is accidentally thrust outside,
he awakens to the alien surroundings of a world to which he’s
never before been exposed.
• Order # J3734
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NOW YOU
SEE IT
by Vivian
Vande Velde.
With Wendy’s new
glasses, she begins
to see cheerful
corpses, old crones disguised as
teenyboppers, and portals to
another world—a place where
everyone knows of the glasses’
powers and will do anything they
can to get them.
• Order # J3735
THE HUMAN
FLY AND
OTHER
STORIES
by T. C. Boyle.
Here is a collection
of classic T. C.
Boyle stories ( including the O.
Henry Award-winning “The
Love of My Life”) that will speak
directly to teenagers—and those
who remember their teenage selves.
• Order # J3736
SKYBREAKER
by Kenneth Oppel.
Matt Cruse, a
student at the
Airship Academy,
and Kate de Vries, a
young heiress, team
up with a gypsy and a daring
captain to find a long-lost airship,
rumored to carry a treasure
beyond imagination.
• Order # J3737
SNOWWALKER
by Catherine
Fisher.
The Snow-walker
Gudrun came from
the swirling mists
and icy depths
beyond the edge of the world to
rule the Jarl’s people with fear and
sorcery, but a small band of
outlaws will fight to the death to
restore the land to its rightful leader.
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Books: Fiction
IN FOR THE KILL
by John Lutz.
Accustomed to working on the
most grisly homicides, detective
Frank Quinn’s nerves don’t rattle
easily. But when the last names
of a killer’s victims spell out
“Quinn,” the veteran cop feels a chill run
down his spine. This time, Quinn is up
against a psychopath that will test him as
never before. (FICTION)
• Order # F3427
FREE FALL
by Fern Michaels.
The Sisterhood has helped each
other exact vengeance on rotten
men before, but this time it’s
different. Their target is none
other than America’s favorite
movie star—a brute who has
conned the world into believing he’s Mister
Perfect. But he’s about to learn that nobody is
above the sisterhood’s special brand of payback.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3147
SHANTARAM
by Gregory David Roberts.
Crime and punishment, passion
and loyalty, betrayal and
redemption are only a few of
the ingredients in Shantaram,
a massive, over-the-top, mostly
autobiographical novel. (FICTION)
• Order # F3167
HALF OF A
YELLOW SUN
by Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
illuminates a seminal moment in
African history: Biafra’s struggle
to establish an independent republic in
southeastern Nigeria during the
late 1960s. (FICTION)
• Order # F3172
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LISEY’S STORY
by Stephen King.
Lisey Landon’s husband, Scott, is
a celebrated bestselling novelist
with many secrets. One was the
place where his gifts of
imagination came from, a place
that could heal or destroy him. Now, two years
after his death, it’s Lisey’ turn to face Scott’s
demons on a nearly fatal journey into the
darkness he inhabited. (FICTION)
• Order # F3162
EDGE OF MIDNIGHT
by Shannon McKenna.
Sean McCloud must protect the
woman he has never stopped
loving: Liv Endicott. Years ago,
Sean had to send Liv Endicott
away to save her life. Now he has
to keep her close, very close—for
the same reason. (FICTION)
• Order # F3160
RICOCHET
by Sandra Brown.
A spine-tingling story of murder
and betrayal in high society
Savannah, where a homicide
detective finds his career—and
life—on the line. (FICTION)
• Order # F3141
EXILE
by Richard North Patterson.
David Wolfe is a successful
American lawyer being primed
for a run for Congress. But when
the phone rings and he hears the
voice of Hana Arif—the
Palestinian woman with whom
he had a secret affair in law school—he begins
a completely unexpected journey. (FICTION)
• Order # F3140
IF SHE ONLY KNEW
by Lisa Jackson.
After surviving a deadly car
accident, Marla Cahill is
consumed by confusion and
panic. For the people gathered at
her bedside—her family—are
strangers. Marla’s life is in danger,
controlled by a twisted killer who’s waiting for
the right moment to strike...the moment
Marla remembers. (FICTION)
• Order # F3166
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FRESH DISASTERS
by Stuart Woods.
A chance encounter with a
small-time crook sends Stone
Barrington straight into the heart
of New York’s mafia underworld.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3132
WHAT CAME BEFORE
HE SHOT HER
by Elizabeth George.
A kind and well-loved woman
was brutally and inexplicably
murdered—the pregnant wife of
a respected police inspector—and
her death has left Scotland Yard
shocked and searching for answers. Perhaps
most horrifying of all, the trigger of the
weapon was apparently pulled by a stranger...a
twelve-year-old boy. (FICTION)
• Order # F3133
BREAK NO BONES
by Kathy Reichs.
Among the ancient remains in a
Native American burial ground,
Tempe discovers a fresh
skeleton—and what began as an
ordinary teaching stint at an
archeology field school in
Charleston, South Carolina, fast becomes a
heated investigation into an alarming pattern
of homicides. (FICTION)
• Order # F3121
HUNDRED-DOLLAR
BABY
by Robert B. Parker.
It’s been years since Spenser
helped teenage runaway April
Kyle get off the streets and into a
safer line of work. Now their
paths have crossed again, and
April’s past is still hounding her—this time
with deadly complications. (FICTION)
• Order # F3137
THE RUINS
by Scott Smith.
Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a
group of friends stumble upon a
creeping horror unlike anything
they could ever imagine.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3122
Books: Fiction
ECHO PARK
by Michael Connelly.
In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared
after walking out of a supermarket.
Harry Bosch worked the case but
couldn’t crack it. Now, more
than a decade later, a man
accused of two heinous murders is willing to
come clean about several others, including the
killing of Marie. Discovering that he missed a
clue back in 1993 that could have stopped nine
other murders may just be the straw that
breaks Harry Bosch. (FICTION)
• Order # F3134
THE BOLEYN
INHERITANCE
by Philippa Gregory.
The Boleyn Inheritance is a novel
about three women whose
positions brought them wealth,
admiration, and power as well
as deceit, betrayal, and terror.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3120
AT FIRST SIGHT
by Nicholas Sparks.
Jeremy Marsh is engaged to the
love of his life, Lexie Darnell, and
anticipating the start of their
family. But just as everything
seems to be settling into a blissful
pattern, a mysterious e-mail sets
off a chain of events that will test the strength
of Jeremy and Lexie’s love. (ROMANCE)
• Order # F3138
ACT OF TREASON
by Vince Flynn.
The fallout from a horrific
Washington explosion has just
begun—and so has CIA
superagent Mitch Rap’s hunt for
a killer with a personal agenda.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3126
SPY
by Ted Bell.
In this exhilarating tale of
international suspense,
counterterrorist operative
Alexander Hawke, must save the
United States from a devastating
terrorist operation. (FICTION)
• Order # F3186
PEGASUS
DESCENDING
by James Lee Burke.
When a nice young woman
named Trish Klein blows into
Louisiana passing hundred-dollar
bills in local casinos, detective
Dave Robicheaux senses a storm bearing down
on his new life of contentment. (FICTION)
• Order # F3125
THE AFGHAN
by Frederick Forsyth.
British and American intelligence
have discovered a major Al Qaeda
operation in the works. They
have no sources in Al Qaeda, and
it’s impossible to plant someone.
Unless the Afghan is Izmat Dhan,
a Guantanamo Bay prisoner and former
Taliban commander. The Afghan is also
Colonel Mike Martin. But nothing can truly
prepare Martin for the dark and shifting world
he is about to enter. (FICTION)
• Order # F3123
TRIPWIRE
by Lee Child.
Jack Reacher's anonymity in
Key West is shattered by the
appearance of a private
investigator who's come to town
looking for him. But only hours
after his arrival, the stranger is
murdered. Retracing the PI's cold trail back to
New York city, Reacher is compelled to find
out who was looking for him and why.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3151
SUSPECT
by Jasmine Cresswell.
For twenty-five years multimillionaire businessman Ron Raven
played the loving husband and
father—to two very different
households. But when Ron
disappears, his deception is
revealed. Faced with the ultimate betrayal,
both families are left questioning who can be
trusted...and who remains suspect. (FICTION)
• Order # F3435
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BLOOD BROTHERS:
BOOK ONE
by Nora Roberts.
Bestselling author Nora Roberts
presents a compelling new trilogy
of three best friends bound by
fate, blood, and a timeless enemy.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3432
THE LAST TOWN
ON EARTH
by Thomas Mullen.
The Last Town on Earth centers
on the inhabitants of a small
logging town in Washington and
what happens when they take
drastic measures (quarantine) to
try and protect themselves from the virulent
and deadly flu epidemic of 1918. When a
deserting WWI soldier demands sanctuary,
events are set in motion that change the town
forever. (FICTION)
• Order # F3181
THE BEST AMERICAN
SHORT STORIES 2007
edited by Stephen King.
These stories examine the turning
points in life when we, as
children or parents, siblings or
friends or colleagues, must break
certain rules in order to remain
true to ourselves. (FICTION)
• Order # F3169
THE BOURNE
ULTIMATUM
by Robert Ludlum.
When the international terrorist
known as Carlos the Jackal
penetrates his civilian identity,
David Webb, aka Jason Bourne,
must again assume the Bourne
persona to protect his wife and small children.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3201
GOLDEN BUDDHA
by Clive Cussler.
Juan Cabrillo is determined to
help a man of peace return to his
home. And to do it, he's taking
on two of the most dangerous
nations on Earth. (FICTION)
• Order # F3191
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Books: Fiction
C. J.'S FATE
by Kay Hooper.
C. J. Adams thinks marriage is a
fine tradition—for somebody
else. But when her close friends
resolve to find her soul mate
during a trip to Aspen, C.J. stays
a step ahead of them by enlisting a gorgeous
stranger to pose as her lover. But the man
proves to be far more charismatic—and
convincing—than she expected.
(ROMANCE)
• Order # F3351
PIRATE
by Ted Bell.
In a maelstrom of razor's-edge
danger, counterterrorist operative
Alex Hawke must enter the
nightmare visions of madmen to
defuse an axis of evil no historian
could have predicted—and no
living soul would survive. (FICTION)
• Order # F3314
30 DAYS OF NIGHT
by Tim Lebbon.
In the sleepy and secluded town
of Barrow, Alaska, its citizens are
preparing for the annual coming
of the Dark, when the sun will set
for more than thirty consecutive
days and nights. But this year,
the Dark will bring a horrifying evil.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3238
THE ROAD TO HOME
by Vanessa Del Fabbro.
Set against the dynamic
patchwork of South Africa, The
Road to Home is an inspiring
story of love, courage and
everyday miracles. (FICTION)
• Order # F3233
THE HUNTERS
by W.E.B. Griffin.
Having thwarted a nuclear
disaster and uncovered a figure in
an international scandal involving
Iraqi oil, presidential operative
Charley Castillo now hunts for
the culprits who committed two
related murders. (FICTION)
• Order # F3492
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BEEN THERE,
DONE THAT
by Carol Snow.
Her youthful appearance is
forcing journalist Kathy Hopkins
into an undercover assignment
she could do without: posing as a
freshman at a small liberal arts college where,
rumor has it, a secret prostitution ring is
flourishing. (FICTION)
• Order # F3378
ODD MOM OUT
by Jane Porter.
Advertising executive Marta
Zinsser is no poster child for her
wealthy Seattle suburb. But can
this former New Yorker remain
uniquely herself without alienating
the inner circle of smug executive
wives, and take a chance at something frighteningly, and tantalizingly new? (FICTION)
• Order # F3321
BABY PROOF
by Emily Giffin.
This is the witty, heartfelt story
about what happens to the
perfect couple when they
suddenly want different things.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3344
FACING THE GIANTS
by Eric Wilson.
It's been six years without a
winning season and Coach Grant
Taylor's job is on the line. Only
by turning their lives over to God
can Coach Taylor and the Eagles
find their true purpose in life and
rise above the fear and failure that have kept
them down for so long. (FICTION)
• Order # F3335
DAUGHTER
OF THE SUN
by Barbara Wood.
A sweeping saga of one woman's
struggle to survive within the
dangerous and exotic world of
the Toltec court. Set against the
backdrop of Chaco Canyon and
the mysterious Anasazi people, Daughter of the
Sun is an unforgettable novel of power,
seduction, murder, and betrayal. (FICTION)
• Order # F3323
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STRIKE THE DRAGON
by Charles Dyer & Mark Tobey.
A fiery FBI agent is frustrated
with too much paperwork and
not enough action. A college
professor stumbles upon a series
of ominous Middle Eastern
photographs. And a devastated Israeli widower
goes on the offensive to avenge his loss. Now,
they all must work together to figure out
what's next. (FICTION)
• Order # F3346
THE BLADE ITSELF
by Joe Abercrombie.
Murderous conspiracies rise to
the surface, old scores are ready to
be settled, and the line between
hero and villain is sharp enough
to draw blood. Unpredictable,
compelling, wickedly funny, and
packed with unforgettable characters, The
Blade Itself is noir fantasy with a real cutting
edge. (FICTION)
• Order # F3319
ROBERT LUDLUM'S
THE ARCTIC EVENT
by James H. Cobb.
On a remote island in the
Canadian Arctic, researchers
discover the wreckage of a
mysterious World War II-era
aircraft, a discovery that forces the
Russian Federation into a shocking admission.
The unmarked plane is a Soviet strategic
bomber that disappeared with its crew more
than fifty years ago while carrying two metric
tons of weaponized anthrax. (FICTION)
• Order # F3329
ONE FOR
THE MONEY
by Janet Evanovich.
Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey,
home to wiseguys, average Joes,
and Stephanie Plum, who sports
a big attitude and even bigger
money problems. Stephanie
needs cash fast, and soon she's forced to turn to
the last resort of the truly desperate: family.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3203
Books: Fiction
TWO FOR
THE DOUGH
by Janet Evanovich.
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum
is still learning the ropes at her
cousin Vinnie's bail bond office,
so when she sets out on the trail
of Kenny Mancuso—a suspiciously wealthy,
working-class Trenton boy who has just shot
his best friend—the stakes are higher than ever.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3208
THREE TO
GET DEADLY
by Janet Evanovich.
A "saintly" old candy-store owner
is on the lam—and bounty
hunter extraordinaire Stephanie
Plum is on the case. As the body
count rises, Stephanie finds
herself dealing with dead drug dealers and
slippery fugitives on the chase of her life.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3209
FOUR TO SCORE
by Janet Evanovich.
Stephanie Plum, Tenton, New
Jersey's favorite pistol-packing
bounty hunter, is back—and on
the trail of a revenge-seeking
waitress who's skipped bail.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3193
HIGH FIVE
by Janet Evanovich.
sets out to find her missing
uncle—and along the way
smacks slam-bang into: a dead
body, a nasty bookie, her
stun-gun-toting grandmother,
two very sexy men, an angry little man who
won't leave her apartment, and a Mafia
wedding. (FICTION)
• Order # F3217
HOT SIX
by Janet Evanovich.
is faced with her most daunting
task yet: bring in the mysterious
former Special Forces agent
Carlos Manoso (aka Ranger).
He's the man who taught her everything about
fugitive apprehension, and Stephanie knows
she will be testing her skills against the master.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3214
SEVEN UP
by Janet Evanovich.
All New Jersey bounty hunter
Stephanie Plum has to do is bring
in semi-retired bail jumper Eddie
DeChooch. For an old man he's
still got a knack for slipping out
of sight—and raising hell. How
else can Stephanie explain the bullet-riddled
corpse in Eddie's garden? (FICTION)
• Order # F3213
HARD EIGHT
by Janet Evanovich.
Fugitive apprehension agent
Stephanie Plum has a big
problem on her hands:
Seven-year-old Annie Soder and
her mother, Evelyn, have
disappeared. But Evelyn's
grandmother lives next door to Stephanie's
parents, so Stephanie follows the trail left by
Annie and Evelyn—and finds a lot more than
she bargained for. (FICTION)
• Order # F3216
TWELVE SHARP
by Janet Evanovich.
Ranger needs bounty hunter
Stephanie Plum for more reasons
than he can say. And now, the
two are working together to find
a killer, rescue a missing child,
and stop a lunatic from raising
the body count.. (FICTION)
• Order # F3206
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MOTOR MOUTH
by Janet Evanovich.
Alexandra "Barney" Barnaby
knows a little something about
cheating. First there was
NASCAR driver Sam Hooker
and that salesclerk. Now she's
convinced one of the competitors is up to no
good on the track. Snooping to find evidence,
Hooker and Barney wind up with a "borrowed"
NASCAR hauler, two race cars, and a dead
guy. And that's just the beginning of the
trouble. (FICTION)
• Order # F3197
THE DEVIL'S
BACKBONE
by Kim Wozencraft.
One sister's murder leads to the
other's investigation of it, and
brings her into a world more
deadly than she can imagine.
As the truth unfolds, one sister
begins to question everything—even her own
sanity—and the role she might have played in
this lethal dance. (FICTION)
• Order # F3257
SLEEPING
WITH FEAR
by Kay Hooper.
Special Agent Riley Crane woke
up in a beach cottage fully dressed,
a gun under her pillow, and
covered in blood. Even more
frightening, she didn't remember
what had happened the night before. What
Riley can't remember is more than enough to
cost her her life. (FICTION)
• Order # F3253
TRIPTYCH
by Karin Slaughter.
In the city of Atlanta, women
are dying at the hands of a killer.
Leaving behind enough evidence
to fuel a frenzied police hunt, this
cunning madman is bringing
together dozens of lives, crossing
the boundaries of wealth and race. But another
player has entered the game: a loser ex-con
who has stumbled upon the killer's trail—
someone who may be the key to breaking the
case wide open. (FICTION)
• Order # F3220
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Books: Fiction
I AM LEGEND
by Richard Matheson.
Robert Neville may well be the
only survivor of an incurable
plague that has mutated every
other man, woman, and child
into bloodthirsty, nocturnal
creatures who are determined to destroy him.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3368
DEAD WRONG
by J. A. Jance.
Juggling a family and a career
has never been easy for Cochise
County Sheriff Joanna Brady.
Now the impending birth of her
second child only adds to her
burden, especially when two
brutal crimes fall under her jurisdiction.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3374
ONE LAST LOOK
by Linda Lael Miller.
As a special investigator for the
D.A.'s office, Clare Westbrook
is plunged into a race to find a
missing child whose mother was
murdered. And on a case this
hot, the promise of Clare's bright
future could vanish in the blink of an eye.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3171
FEAR OF THE DARK
by Walter Mosley.
When his cousin Ulysses S. Grant
IV comes knocking, Paris Minton
would rather keep the door shut,
because "Useless" is a snake who
brings bad luck wherever he goes.
But trouble always finds an open
window, and soon there's a man murdered on
his bookshop floor, evidence of blackmail is
discovered, and Useless has vanished.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3219
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HAWKE
by Ted Bell.
Lord Alexander Hawke is one of
England's most decorated naval
heroes. Now, in the Caribbean
on a secret assignment for the
American government, Hawke
must disarm a ticking time bomb—a highly
experimental stealth submarine carrying forty
nuclear warheads that has fallen into the hands
of an unstable government just ninety miles
from the U.S. mainland. (FICTION)
• Order # F3369
MASK MARKET
by Andrew Vachss.
Two decades ago, Burke
"recovered" a teenage runaway
from a pimp. Now she's on the
run, again. After watching as the
man who hired him to find her is
gunned down by a professional
hunter-killer team, Burke realizes he could be
next. Now he's looking for a predator, not a
victim. (FICTION)
• Order # F3183
THE CHRISTMAS
ANGEL
by Thomas Kinkade.
Emily is granted temporary
custody of an abandoned baby
girl. She badly wants to keep the
baby if the mother is not found,
but her husband, Dan, who's
already raised children does not want that
responsibility again. Now Emily must come to
terms with her duty to her family, her own
feelings of regret and loss and what her heart
truly desires. (FICTION)
• Order # F3226
THE GODS
OF NEWPORT
by John Jakes.
In the late 19th century,
Newport, Rhode Island—is a
summer playground of the very
rich. Into this rarefied world
comes infamous railroad mogul
and robber baron Sam Driver. He wants his
beautiful daughter to have the best Newport
has to offer—even if that means breaking all
the rules. (FICTION)
• Order # F3266
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KIDNAPPED
by Jan Burke.
News reporter Irene Kelly
untangles the threads of a past
crime and a haunting disappearance while trying to survive the
present. (FICTION)
• Order # F3267
AMERICAN GANGSTER
by Max Allan Collins.
Richie Roberts is an outcast cop
close enough to the streets to feel
a shift of control in the drug
underworld. Roberts believes
someone is climbing the rungs
above the known Mafia families
and starts to suspect that a black power player
has come from nowhere to dominate the scene.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3259
CROSS
by James Patterson.
Alex Cross was a rising star in the
Washington, D.C., Police
Department when his wife was
murdered. Now years later, a
new case triggers a connection to
his wife's death and Alex may
finally catch the murderer. Is this a chance for
justice at long last? Or the culminating scene
in his own deadly obsession? (FICTION)
• Order # F3277
THE EXECUTIONER:
DRAGON'S DEN
by Don Pendleton.
A bloodbath aboard a celebritypacked yacht leaves the daughter
of a high-ranking politician dead.
Going undercover as a DEA
official, Mack Bolan probes what
appears to be a drug deal gone bad. But
Bolan's investigation exposes something worse
than business as usual for local gangs and dirty
politicians. (FICTION)
• Order # F3276
ASSASSIN
by Ted Bell.
A desperate race to avert an
assault on America has
intelligence agent Alexander
Hawke battling terrorists on a
breathtaking worldwide scale.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3185
Books: Fiction
DARK CELEBRATION
by Christine Feehan.
After centuries as the prince of
the Carpathians, Mikhail
Dubrinsky fears he can't protect
his people for long from their
greatest threat: the extinction of
their species at the hands of their immortal
enemies—who are devising a scheme to
slaughter Carpathian females. (FICTION)
• Order # F3269
THE OTHER
BOLEYN GIRL
by Philippa Gregory.
A compelling novel of love, sex,
ambition, and intrigue, The
Other Boleyn Girl introduces a
woman of extraordinary
determination and desire who
lived at the heart of the most exciting and
glamorous court in Europe and survived by
following her heart. (FICTION)
• Order # F3258
STEALING SHADOWS
by Kay Hooper.
Psychic Cassie Neill has become
certain that a murderer is stalking
Ryan's Bluff. The sheriff won't
even listen to her—until the first
body is found exactly where and
how she predicted. Now a
suspect herself, she races to unmask the killer in
the only way she knows: by entering his
twisted mind. (FICTION)
• Order # F3237
MISSING
revealed. Now both families are left with
questions, while the man who holds the
answers is...missing. (FICTION)
• Order # F3420
TRUE EVIL
by Greg Iles.
Dr. Chris Shepard is pulled into
a terrifying ring of murderous
secrets in this powerhouse thriller.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3242
BEACH ROAD
by James Patterson.
A friend of attorney Tom
Dunleavy is arrested for triple
murder near a movie star's
mansion in the wealthy resort
town of East Hampton. Tom
knows that Dante Halleyville is innocent.
With the entire nation's eyes on him, Tom
orchestrates a series of revelations to expose the
killer. And what emerges is staggering—and
will shock everyone. (FICTION)
• Order # F3278
THE BOURNE
SUPREMACY
by Robert Ludlum.
Jason Bourne, an expert assassin,
is still plagued by the splintered
nightmares of his former life.
This time the stakes are higher
than ever. For someone else has
taken on the Bourne identity—a ruthless killer
who must be stopped or the world will pay a
devastating price. (FICTION)
• Order # F3299
KEEPER
OF THE KEYS
by Perri O'Shaughnessy.
For troubled architect Ray
Jackson, the nightmare begins
one California night when his
wife disappears. Suspected by his
wife's friend and by the police,
Ray launches a desperate search of his own. As
a chilling mystery begins to unravel, Ray is
confronted with the most agonizing decision of
his life. (FICTION)
• Order # F3251
SWORD OF GOD
by Chris Kuzneski.
While interrogating one of the
world's most dangerous terrorists,
an ex-member of the MANIAC
Special Forces squad is brutally
executed. His former commanders offer to spearhead the
investigation. They quickly realize there is
more to this atrocity than terrorist reprisal—
there is a plot in motion that will burn the
world in the fires of a holy war. (FICTION)
• Order # F3249
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THE MESSENGER
by Daniel Silva.
On the trail of a deadly al-Qaeda
operative, Gabriel Allon returns
in a spellbinding story of
deception, power, and revenge.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3247
RESISTANCE
by Daniel Kalla.
An ultra resistant form of group
A strep is spreading like wildfire
throughout hospitals and
emergency rooms in Seattle and
the Pacific Northwest. Desperate
to contain the spread of the new
superbug, Dr. Graham Kilburn joins forces
with Lina Lopez as they try to find some way
to halt the growing epidemic. What they don't
realize is that shadowy forces are conspiring to
spread the disease on purpose—and they will
stop at nothing to avoid exposure. (FICTION)
• Order # F3417
DIE FOR ME
by Karen Rose.
The first victim is found in a
snow-covered Philadelphia field.
Vito Ciccotelli enlists the aid of
archaeologist Sophie Johannsen
to determine exactly what lies
beneath the frozen ground. But
nothing can prepare Sophie for the matrix of
graves dug with chilling precision. The victims
buried there haunt her. But the empty graves
terrify her—the killer isn't done yet.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3270
THE MEPHISTO CLUB
by Tess Gerritsen.
The Latin phrase is scrawled in
blood at the scene of a young
woman's brutal murder: I HAVE
SINNED. It's a chilling
Christmas greeting for Boston
medical examiner Maura Isles
and Detective Jane Rizzoli, who swiftly link the
victim to the sinister Mephisto Club, a cult of
scholars who aim to prove that Satan himself
exists among us. (FICTION)
• Order # F3130
15
Books: Fiction
MENDING FENCES
by Sherryl Woods.
For ten years Emily Dobbs and
Marcie Carter have been the
closest of friends. But when
Marcie's son, now a college
freshman sports star, is arrested
for date rape, the bond between the families
could be shattered forever. (ROMANCE)
• Order # F3702
HARD TO HANDLE
by Lori Foster.
After a failed attempt at the title
belt, extreme fighter Harley
Handleman is taking a break.
But his vacation isn't nearly as
restful as he expected—thanks to
his landlady, Anastasia Bradley.
Someone is putting her life in danger. To
protect Stasia, Harley must stay close, but his
growing feelings for her may be a bit hard to
handle. (ROMANCE)
• Order # F3700
THE LAST TWILIGHT
by Marjorie M. Liu.
Amiri must protect a woman
who is the target of murderers,
who has unwittingly involved
herself in a conflict that threatens
not only the lives of millions, but
Amiri's own soul...and his heart.
(ROMANCE)
• Order # F3697
THE MANNING
SISTERS
by Debbie Macomber.
The first day Christy Manning
visits her sister, Taylor in
Montana, she meets Sheriff Cody
Franklin. To Christy's
shock—and Cody's—they're
immediately attracted to each other. There's a
problem, though. Christy's engaged to
someone else, someone back in Seattle.
(ROMANCE)
• Order # F3696
16
CAPTURE
THE RAINBOW
by Iris Johansen.
A classic tale of excitement, risk,
and romance, as two people make
a connection so unexpected
and so intimate, it may have
consequences for a lifetime. (ROMANCE)
• Order # F3581
CONFESSIONS
AT MIDNIGHT
by Jacquie D'Alessandro.
The last thing Daniel Sutton
wanted was to be shackled by
marriage vows. He lusted after
Carolyn Turner, sure, but he
never imagined that once he
lured her to his bed he'd never want to let her
go. Yet only when a murderer targets his
beloved will he be spurred to confess his true
love...and claim Carolyn as his bride.
(ROMANCE)
• Order # F3679
IF YOU WERE MINE
by J. S. Hawley.
After the death of her father,
Jailyn Wyatt points her energies
in a positive direction by putting
her bohemian mark on an old
Connecticut farmhouse.
Something else also makes the
long drive from New York City worthwhile:
Caleb Vincent, a real estate mini-mogul who
appreciates Jailyn's eccentric outlook, not to
mention her sexy curves. (ROMANCE)
• Order # F3675
SNOWFALL AT
WILLOW LAKE
by Susan Wiggs.
Snowfall at Willow Lake speaks
from the heart about all the loves
that fill a woman's life, and all the
ways that love is tested and made
to grow. It's the story of what
comes after a woman survives an unspeakable
horror and finds her way home, to healing and
redemption and a new chance at happiness.
(ROMANCE)
• Order # F3643
1-800-426-READ
PREDATORY GAME
Christine Feehan returns to the
world inhabited by GhostWalkers, men and women invisible to
their enemies, yet unprotected
from their own haunted
pasts—and from the passions that could be
their downfall. (ROMANCE)
• Order # F3731
THE BRIDEGROOM
by Joan Johnston.
Lady Regina Wharton, the Duke
of Blackthorne's daughter, was
determined to avoid the perils of
marriage. Then Clay Bannister,
the dashing Earl of Carlisle, dared
to steal a kiss and stir new and
exciting desires. Carlisle intrigued her with his
dangerous charm. She never suspected she was
about to marry her father's most vengeful
enemy. (ROMANCE)
• Order # F3724
BORDER WEDDING
by Amanda Scott.
A woman caught between
clashing worlds, a brave hero
learning to trust her...Amanda
Scott plunges readers into the
untamed and breathtaking
fourteenth-century Scottish
Borders—a land of blood and beauty.
(ROMANCE)
• Order # F3714
THE BRITON
by Catherine Palmer.
Lady Bronwen, proud inheritor
of the ancient ways of the
Britons, had lost all she held dear.
She had been widowed in war,
then robbed of the ancestral
home that was her birthright.
And now her last hope was a stranger—one
with whom she'd shared a single tender kiss.
(ROMANCE)
• Order # F3709
Books: Fiction
THE McCAFFERTYS:
RANDI
by Lisa Jackson.
Was hiding the identity of her
child's father worth risking her
life? Randi McCafferty seemed
to believe so, and investigator
Kurt Striker was hell-bent on changing her
mind. Hired by her well-meaning but
overbearing brothers to keep Randi and her
son safe, Kurt knew the only way to eliminate
the danger was to reveal Randi's darkest
secret...any way he could. (ROMANCE)
• Order # F3279
STRAIGHT FROM
THE HEART
by Tami Hoag.
Straight From the Heart is a
powerful classic romance of
passion, heartbreak, and
redemption—a story that
celebrates our capacity to love one
time, for all time, even in the face of adversity
and change. (ROMANCE)
• Order # F3308
THE TIGER PRINCE
by Iris Johansen.
From the shimmering cities of a
faraway land to the heather-scented
hills of the Scottish Highlands
comes this passionate tale of
adventure and dangerous desire
by one of America's bestselling
and beloved authors. (ROMANCE)
• Order # F3306
SHOTGUN BRIDE
On the run from her outlaw
stepfather, Mandy Sperrin hides
beneath her solemn disguise, and
vows to keep her wild, passionate
nature from the respectable
citizens of Indian Rock. Yet
when the handsome Marshall makes it clear
that he wants her, Mandy gives in to her heated
desires. (ROMANCE)
• Order # F3302
CAN'T STOP
LOVING YOU
by Lisa Harrison Jackson.
When their budding relationship
causes a rift between their families,
Kaycee Jordan and Kendrick
Thompson must decide what
hurts more—going against their loved ones or
denying what's in their hearts. (ROMANCE)
• Order # F3296
HEART OF TEXAS,
VOL.1: LONESOME
COWBOY & TEXAS
TWO-STEP
by Debbie Macomber.
Savannah Weston lives quietly on
the family ranch with her brother,
Grady. Until a stranger named Laredo Smith
comes along—a disenchanted cowboy who
just might change Savannah's life!
(ROMANCE)
• Order # F3528
HEART OF TEXAS,
VOL 2: CAROLINE'S
CHILD & DR. TEXAS
by Debbie Macomber.
Who's the father of Caroline
Daniels's child? Everyone in
town wants to know, but no
one's ever asked—or ever will.
The people of Promise are protective of
Caroline and five-year-old Maggie. They care.
Especially rancher Grady Weston, who's
beginning to realize he more than cares.
(ROMANCE)
• Order # F3527
BORDER
LORD'S BRIDE
by Bertrice Small.
The price to be paid by two
strangers thrown together by fate
is higher than they can imagine.
And more dangerous than the
passion—and betrayal—that
could consume them. (ROMANCE)
• Order # F3304
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LOVE IN THE
TIME OF CHOLERA
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
In their youth, Forentino Ariza
and Fermina Daza fall passionately
in love. When Fermina chooses
to marry a wealthy doctor,
Florentino is devastated. Over the years, as he
rises in his business career, he reserves his heart
for Femina. When her husband dies,
Florentino purposefully attends the funeral.
Fifty-one years after he first declared is love for
Fermina, he will do so again. (ROMANCE)
• Order # F3552
DARING MOVES
Love 101 isn't a class you can
take, Amanda Scott knew she'd
have to rely on her instincts. Fate
placed Jordan Richards right in
front of her nose...and chemistry
took it from there. But things
got a little dicy when her ex-lover showed
up—with his estranged wife not far behind.
Yikes! (ROMANCE)
• Order # F3313
TAKEN BY STORM
by Tami Hoag.
Taken By Storm is a bittersweet
romance classic about a woman
who's rebuilt her life—and her
heart—after the disappointments
of the past, only to find her
carefully laid plans shattered by a
knock on the door. (ROMANCE)
• Order # F3371
TO SCOTLAND,
WITH LOVE
by Karen Hawkins.
In this saucy battle of the sexes,
New York Times bestseller Karen
Hawkins pits a hard-headed
Scottish lord with an unusual
family curse against a headstrong
heiress who has a solution for every problem...
except her own wayward heart. (ROMANCE)
• Order # F3349
17
Books: Fiction
DAKOTA HOME
by Debbie Macomber.
Jeb McKenna is a rancher, a
solitary man who's learned to
endure. Maddy—unafraid and
openhearted—is drawn to Jeb,
but he rejects her overtures.
Until one of North Dakota's deadly storms
throws them together. (ROMANCE)
• Order # F3402
DEAD OF NIGHT
by J. D. Robb.
Nora Roberts, writing as J.D.
Robb, puts futuristic lieutenant
Eve Dallas in a supernatural
showdown with a most seductive
criminal: a vampire.
(ROMANCE)
• Order # F3419
THE GIFT
by Nora Roberts.
Just in time for the holidays,
three heartwarming fireside
romances by #1 New York Times
bestselling author Nora Roberts.
(ROMANCE)
• Order # F3385
ENGAGING
THE ENEMY
by Nora Roberts.
Sometimes the last man on earth
you'd ever want turns out to be
the very one your heart secretly
yearns for. (ROMANCE)
• Order # F3456
THE PRINCESS
AND THE COWBOY
by Lois Faye Dyer.
Justin Hunt's wealthy father has
issued a challenge: his four sons
had to marry within one year, or
forfeit their inheritances. Now
he's chasing after Lily Spencer.
But when he turns up on her doorstep, Justin
finds more than an angry ex-girlfriend
waiting—there's a little girl in her arms that
looks a lot like him! (ROMANCE)
• Order # F3502
CAPTURING THE
MILLIONAIRE
by Marie Ferrarella.
Being stranded without
electricity in a houseful of
orphaned dogs wasn't high on
Alain Dulac's agenda. But when
a car accident landed the West Coast attorney
in the care of Kayla McKanna, he had a change
of heart. Something about the compassionate
but oh-so-seductive vet was making Alain
suddenly yearn for the simple life.
(ROMANCE)
• Order # F3503
A SUMMER SMILE
by Iris Johansen.
From #1 New York Times
bestselling author Iris Johansen
comes a classic tale of thrilling
adventure and unbound passion,
as two people embark on a
journey through terror and
desire. (ROMANCE)
• Order # F3400
THE MAIDENSTONE
LIGHTHOUSE
by Sally Smith O'Rourke.
At once moving and suspenseful,
charming and evocative, The
Maidenstone Lighthouse is a
spellbinding story of mystery,
secrets, and the power of love.
(ROMANCE)
• Order # F3340
THE ROYAL MESS
by Mary Janice Davidson.
A reluctant princess and a
determined royal bodyguard are
about to discover that when it
comes to powerful love, there are
no defenses. (ROMANCE)
• Order # F3322
MATT JENSEN:
THE LAST
MOUNTAIN MAN
by William W. Johnstone.
A new saga begins as the adopted
son of Smoke Jensen takes his
place on the unforgiving and
violent American frontier.
(WESTERN)
• Order # F3200
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1-800-426-READ
THE FIRST
MOUNTAIN MAN:
BLOOD ON
THE DIVIDE
by William W. Johnstone.
Trapped on the Continental
Divide by a blinding snowstorm,
legendary mountain man, Preacher, and his
party are sitting ducks for the Pardee boys, who
are about to close in for the kill in the dead of
night. But the settlers have underestimated
Preacher's will to survive. So have the Pardees.
(WESTERN)
• Order # F3474
DEATH HEAD
CROSSING
by James Reasoner.
Death-Head Crossing is just the
name of a town in Texas—until
the population starts shrinking
one body at a time. But the
deaths are as mysterious as the face of the
murderer, and only gunslinger Hell Jackson has
what it takes to ride through the reign of terror
and put an end to the killings. (WESTERN)
• Order # F3198
MONTANA REVENGE
by Dusty Richards.
Herschel Baker left his life as a
rancher to become sheriff of
Yellowstone County, Montana.
Only weeks into the job, he's
about to find out what it means
to bring the law to a lawless land.
(WESTERN)
• Order # F3204
THE FUGITIVE
by Max Brand.
Stephen Macona fled his home
with only two possessions: his
talent for survival and his prize
mare, Christy. Before he can be
charged with a killing he never
meant to commit, he's south of
the border with a new name. But it's Christy
who attracts the most attention. Senor Don
Rudolfo Alvarez wants the horse for himself,
and he'll do everything to get her. (WESTERN)
• Order # F3218
Books: Fiction
BLOOD OF
BASS TILLMAN
by Cotton Smith.
Bass Tillman has only one thing
on his mind—tracking down the
men who murdered his son and
daughter-in-law in cold blood.
Tillman swore on his loved-ones' graves that he
would bring their killers to justice, and with
only a few clues to go by, that's what he's going
to do...even if it means going back to a life he
left behind. (WESTERN)
• Order # F3196
THE THUNDER
RIDERS
by Frank Leslie.
The Thunder Riders has just
robbed a fortune in bullion from
a stagecoach. But what really
riles Yakima Henry is the
banditos making off with his
prized stallion and a sassy saloon girl. To save
his good name and recover the horse, the gal
and the gold, he'll have to shoot straight, or
he'll die in a torrent of bullets and fury.
(WESTERN)
• Order # F3222
THE MOTHER LODE
by Gary Franklin.
Mountain man Joe Moss
continues his quest to find the
woman he loves and the child
she bore him. Like it or not,
Fiona's father, Brendan may be
the only one who can help Joe
find his family. And that will require Joe to do
the hardest thing of all—remain on his best
behavior. (WESTERN)
• Order # F3188
THE MONEY GUN
by Robert J. Randisi.
Faulkner is a money gun, a gun
for hire. He has agreed to watch
his friend's back and help him
track down the notorious Frank
Sunday and his gang. But the
gang is headed straight for
Gunman's Crossing, a small town with a big
reputation—as a wild place with no law and
lots of gunplay. And it's filled to bursting with
plenty of men who want to put a bullet into
the famous money gun. (WESTERN)
• Order # F3211
GHOST OF THE
CHINOOK
by Peter Dawson.
Llano Ackers is on the verge of
losing everything. Twice, the
stage line he owns has been
robbed while transporting
thousands of dollars worth of gold bullion to
the smelter. Each time, both the driver and the
guard were killed. Tonight, Llano will load the
gold and take it to Butte himself. But he can't
foresee the disastrous consequences that lie
ahead. (WESTERN)
• Order # F3187
LASSITER TOUGH
by Loren Zane Grey.
Lassiter doesn't have to go far to
find Brad Sanlee, the man who
murdered his friend. He and
Brad just signed on for the same
roundup. And while Sanlee's
out to get Lassiter to join his
crew of cutthroats, Lassiter's just plain out to
get Sanlee. (WESTERN)
• Order # F3182
CAVALRY MAN:
DOOM WEAPON
by Ed Gorman.
Arnold Grieves is hell-bent
on getting rich by selling a
doomsday weapon to evil men
who are not reluctant to use it.
The powers back East suspect
something—so they're sending Noah Ford to
Colorado to hunt Grieves down. But Ford is
riding into a town that's fixing to explode with
chaos, treachery, and unimaginable violence.
(WESTERN)
• Order # F3202
THE BLOODY TRAIL
by Ralph Compton
& Marcus Galloway.
While on a long journey west to
Oregon, Jeremiah Correy'a plans
are waylaid when bounty hunter
Sam Madigan takes fugitive
Emmett Natham by force and
holds all the travelers for ransom. Now
Jeremiah must find a way to stop Madigan and
his murderous crew. And his greatest ally may
be the mysterious and dangerous Emmett.
(WESTERN)
• Order # F3194
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HOLDING
THE ACE CARD
by Lauran Paine.
Hired gun Lou Bellanger had
just started his poker game when
the law caught up with him.
With a posse ready to string
him up for murder at his back and a gang of
blood-thirsty hardcases head of him, Lou better
have more than an ace up his sleeve if he hopes
to stay alive. (WESTERN)
• Order # F3265
NIGHT RIDERS
by Giff Cheshire.
Tully Gale was chasing his
mustang when he happened
upon a dam holding up the only
source of water for miles. And
Sugar Lagg had put it there on
purpose. The horse trader and
his crew of cutthroats wanted the land for
themselves and were willing to cause a drought
to get it. For Splinter Creek to run again, Tully
would have to outwit the wily gang leader.
(WESTERN)
• Order # F3192
THE LAWLESS WEST
edited by Jon Tuska.
In the field of Western fiction,
three authors, Louis L'Amour,
Zane Grey, and Max Brand
stand unmatched. And now
three of their best short novels
are collected in a single volume.
(WESTERN)
• Order # F3248
DEAD STREET
by Mickey Spillane.
For 20 years, former NYPD cop
Jack Stang has lived with the
memory of his girlfriends's death
in an attempted abduction. But
what if she didn't actually die?
What if she somehow secretly
survived, but lost her sight, her memory, and
everything else she had...except her enemies?
Now Jack has a second chance to save the only
woman he ever loved. (MYSTERY)
• Order # F3440
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Books: Fiction
THE CAT WHO HAD
60 WHISKERS
by Lilian Jackson Braun.
Times are a-changin' in Pickax,
giving Jim Qwilleran some
newsworthy notes for the Qwill
Pen. But when a mysterious
death from a bee sting leaves everyone but
Koko the Siamese in a state of confusion, the
kitty with sixty whiskers will need to stop
pussyfooting around and let Qwill in on the
deadly secret. (MYSTERY)
• Order # F3491
BUST
by Ken Bruen & Jason Starr.
Wealthy New York City business
owner Max Fisher finds himself
in a delightfully familiar scenario:
he wants to get rid of his nagging
wife so he can shack up with his
sexy secretary, Angela Petrakos.
When Angela introduces Max to Dillon, a
former IRA hit man, Max thinks he's found
his man; what Max doesn't know is that Dillon
is already Angela's man—and the two plan to
double-cross Max as soon as it becomes
profitable. (MYSTERY)
• Order # F3408
DEATH OF A MAID
by M. C. Beaton.
A housecleaner who damages
more items than she dusts, Mrs.
Gillespie is a notorious snoop.
After winning her cleaning
services in a church raffle,
Lochdubh constable Hamish
Macbeth feels an ill wind coming. Sure
enough, the mean-spirited maid is soon found
bludgeoned to death with her own pail.
Hamish faces a cluttered list of suspects along
with some jealous colleagues who are hindering
his investigation. (MYSTERY)
• Order # F3486
AERIE
by Mercedes Lackey.
Kiron, the man who had once
been a dragon-boy called Vetch,
has united the dragon riders
and managed to rid their world
of both war and magical
domination. But are the evil
Magi really gone for good? (FANTASY)
• Order # F3225
20
STAR WARS:
LEGACY OF THE
FORCE: INFERNO
by Troy Denning.
Luke Skywalker wanted to unify
the Jedi Order and bring peace
to the universe. Instead his wife,
Mara, lies dead at the hands of an unknown
assassin, his wayward nephew Jacen has seized
control of the Galactic Alliance, and the galaxy
has exploded in all-out civil war.
(SCIENCE FICTION)
• Order # F3131
PROVEN GUILTY
by Jim Butcher.
The White Council of Wizards
has assigned wizard Harry
Dresden to look into rumors of
black magic in the Windy City.
Malevolent entities that feed on
fear are loose in Chicago, but it's
all in a day's work for a wizard, his faithful dog,
and a talking skull named Bob. (FANTASY)
• Order # F3264
STORK NAKED
by Piers Anthony.
The Stork assigned to deliver
Surprise Golem's baby has
inexplicably refused to surrender
it, flying off instead through
as hole in the fabric of reality.
Now, to track down her offspring,
Surprise must lead an ill-assorted assemblage
of confederates on a desperate quest through
dozens of different Zanths. But sinister,
unseen forces are determined to stop her.
(FANTASY)
• Order # F3245
THE CANDLE OF
DISTANT EARTH
by Alan Dean Foster.
Marcus Walker and a wisecracking
dog named George, who has
been speech-enhanced to
increase his market value, have
escaped their alien Vilenjji
captors, who saw the two as cuddly extraterrestrial "pets" to be sold for a hefty sum.
But Walker hasn't a clue which way will lead
him back home to Chicago. With Vilenjji hot
on his trail, Walker must pull off the impossible
and pinpoint his needle of a solar system in the
universal haystack.
(SCIENCE FICTION)
• Order # F3129
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A MEETING
AT CORVALLIS
by S. M. Stirling.
Ten years after modern
technology and most of the
human race go extinct, what was
Oregon is divided among three
societies. Ex-pilot and professional survivor
Mike Havel rules around Salem. Juniper
Mackenzie holds sway as bard and high
priestess of her clan in the southern Willamette
Valley. Self-styled protector Norman Arminger
is building a medieval empire based on a social
core of former street-gang members in Portland.
These factions haven't met in battle but the
entire region is about to engage in open warfare.
(FANTASY)
• Order # F3223
STORM FRONT
by Jim Butcher.
When the police bring him in
to consult on a grisly double
murder committed with black
magic, wizard Harry Dresden's
seeing dollar signs. But where
there's black magic, there's a
black mage behind it. And now that mage
knows Harry's name. And that's when things
start to get..interesting. (FANTASY)
• Order # F2947
MASTER
OF DRAGONS
by Margaret Weis.
Master of Dragons is the epic
conclusion of Margaret Weis's
triumphant Dragonvarld trilogy,
an epic of politics, war, and the
delicate balance of the ways of
dragon and men. (FANTASY)
• Order # F3099
WHEN
DARKNESS FALLS
by Mercedes Lackey
& James Mallory.
Knight-Mage Kellen has molded
his troops and the Unicorn
Knights into a deadly fighting
force. Soon the Elven King and
his Commanders put Kellen's magical gifts to
their greatest test, in the final battle between
the Elves, the humans, and the Demons.
(FANTASY)
• Order # F3010
Books: Fiction
THE SHARING KNIFE
by Lois McMaster Bujold.
The first volume in an epic
two-part fantasy of devotion,
destiny, and perilous magic from
one of the most honored writers
in the field. (FANTASY)
• Order # F3005
CLAIMED
BY SHADOW
by Karen Chance.
A recent legacy made Cassandra
Palmer heir to the title of Pythia,
the world's chief clairvoyant.
What's more, she's just
discovered that a certain arrogant
master vampire has put a geis on her—a
magical claim that warns off any would-be
suitors. But Cassie's had it with being jerked
around, and anyone who tries it from now on
is going to find out that she makes a very bad
enemy. (FANTASY)
• Order # F3000
RAINBOWS END
by Vernor Vinge.
Robert Gu missed twenty years
of progress while he nearly died
from Alzheimer's. Now, when
he awakens in San Diego, in the
year 2025, with his mind and
health restored, reality's a shock.
As Gu tries to catch up with his future, a
mysterious stranger draws him and other
innocents into a conspiracy that could have
disastrous consequences. (SCIENCE FICTION)
• Order # F2915
DIME STORE MAGIC
by Kelley Armstrong.
From one of today's most
original writers comes the
mesmerizing tale of an
exceptional young woman
caught up in an otherworldly
realm where some will stop at
nothing to get what they want. (FANTASY)
• Order # F2834
DANGEROUS GAMES
HAMMERJACK
by Marc D. Giller.
Cray Alden was once one of
them: a high-tech pirate riding
virtual waves of code around the
world's top security systems and
selling priceless secrets to the
highest bidder. Now he's a corporate spook
chasing down the hammerjacks who've turned
business into all-out war. (SCIENCE
FICTION)
• Order # F2795
FLIGHT OF THE
NIGHTHAWKS
by Raymond E. Feist.
A web of evil ensnares Midkemia,
stretching from the deepest
criminal underworld to the
highest seats of power. And the
fate of two worlds hangs in the
balance. (FANTASY)
• Order # F2973
THE HERO
STRIKES BACK
by Moira J. Moore.
In a realm beset by natural
disasters, only the magical
abilities of the bonded
Pairs—Source and Shield—
make the land habitable and
keep the citizenry safe. The ties that bind them
are far beyond the relationships between lovers
or kin—and last their entire lives...whether
they like it or not. (FANTASY)
• Order # F2790
IN DUBLIN'S
FAIR CITY
by Rhys Bowen.
Molly Murphy, Bowen's plucky
early-twentieth-century private
investigator, sails back home to
Ireland to find a woman who is
in line for a large inheritance.
But the investigatory work starts earlier than
she expects when, onboard ship, a young
woman is murdered and another woman,
an actress, disappears. (MYSTERY)
• Order # F3751
I HEARD THAT
SONG BEFORE
by Mary Higgins Clark.
Worldwide bestselling suspense
writer Mary Higgins Clark takes
the reader deep into the mysteries
of the human mind, where
half-forgotten secrets can hold deadly danger.
(MYSTERY)
• Order # F3727
BEWARE FALSE
PROFITS
by Emilie Richards.
There's no rest for weary Aggie
Sloan-Wilcox and her minister
husband—who were praying
for a relaxing weekend until a
member of their Emerald Springs
church vanished. (MYSTERY)
• Order # F3695
LACED
by Carol Higgins Clark.
A haunted Irish castle,
international jewel thieves, and
a hotel fire—New York Times
bestselling author Carol Higgins
Clark has sent Regan and Jack
Reilly on a honeymoon like
no other! (MYSTERY)
• Order # F3677
DEATH COMES
FOR THE FAT MAN
by Reginald Hill.
Barreling his way into an
investigation of possible terrorist
activities, Superintendent Andy
Dalziel is caught in the blast of a
huge explosion at a video shop—
and only "Fat Andy's" considerable bulk
prevents his colleague, Chief Inspector Peter
Pascoe, from suffering a similar fate. Now
Dalziel lies on a hospital bed barely clinging to
life, while Pascoe remains determined to find
those responsible. (MYSTERY)
• Order # F3607
by Keri Arthur.
To catch a killer, Riley Jenson will
use every seductive trick in the
book. But this killer has found a
new way to play. (FANTASY)
• Order # F2991
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Books: Fiction
TOO PRETTY TO DIE
by Susan McBride.
Aging beauty queen Miranda's
wrinkles have seen better days,
and she blames it all on Dr.
Madhavi. When Miranda is
found dead the next morning,
the police suspect suicide, but Andy Kendricks
knows that no former pageant girl would give
up that easily. She's determined to find
Miranda's killer herself, but she'll have to be
careful. After all, Botox can make you look
younger, but it can't bring you back from the
grave. (MYSTERY)
• Order # F3608
LESS THAN FRANK
by Lynn Bulock.
Gracie Lee Harris, dead body
finder. First, her con-man
husband. Now, Frank, the
no-good contractor renovating
Gracie's apartment. Frank was
less than, well, frank, with
people; now someone has made sure he's less
than alive. And Gracie thinks Ray—Detective
Fernandez—is starting to wonder about her,
since she's always sticking her nose into his
homicide investigations. That could be the
reason he keeps coming to question Gracie.
(MYSTERY)
• Order # F3815
DRAGONWELL DEAD
by Laura Childs.
Mark Congdon, commodities
broker and co-owner of a
Charleston bed and breakfast,
drops dead after sipping a glass
of sweet tea at the Spring
Plantation Ramble. This was
no simple heart attack—Mark was poisoned.
(MYSTERY)
• Order # F3782
WHAT'S SO FUNNY?
by Donald E. Westlake.
Perennially star-crossed thief
John Dortmunder is blackmailed
by Johnny Eppick, a retired New
York City cop. After careful
study, Eppick has concluded that
Dortmunder is the finest thief
not already in jail. So, unless Dortmunder
steals an 800-pound gold-and-jewel-encrusted
chess set intended for Russia's last czar, he's off
to prison again. (MYSTERY)
• Order # F3729
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PUSS 'N CAHOOTS
by Rita Mae Brown.
Soon after Mary Minor "Harry"
and Fair Haristeen arrive in
Shelbyville for the famous
saddlebred horse show, events
veer mysteriously—and
murderously—off course. By the time a body
is found flagrantly murdered, the message is
clear: winning is literally a matter of life and
death. (MYSTERY)
• Order # F3573
SUMMER OF THE
BIG BACHI
by Naomi Hirahara.
In the foothills of Pasadena, Mas
Arai is just another JapaneseAmerican gardener. But while
Mas was building a life on the
edge of the American dream, he
has kept powerful secrets: about three friends
long ago, about two lives entwined, and about
what really happened when the bomb fell on
Hiroshima in August 1945. (MYSTERY)
• Order # F3571
KEY LIME PIE
MURDER
by Joanne Fluke.
Sometime sleuth Hannah
Swensen, owner of the Cookie
Jar in Lake Eden, Minn., is
judging the baking contest at
the Tri-County Fair. When one
of her fellow judges, home economics teacher
Willa Sunquist, is murdered, Hannah
determines to sniff out the killer. (MYSTERY)
• Order # F3562
THE ALPINE
SCANDAL
by Mary Daheim.
It’s a quiet morning at the
Advocate until the mail brings
shocking news: a formal obituary
for Alpiner Elmer Nystrom. As
far as anyone knows, Elmer is
alive and well. But he hasn’t turned up for
work, so Emma and her House & Home
editor, Vida Runkel, rush to the Nystrom
home, where they find Elmer’s lifeless body in
the henhouse, half buried under straw. Not
only has he been murdered, but his obituary
had been mailed before he died. (MYSTERY)
• Order # F3574
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RUNNING BLIND
by Lee Child.
Across the country, women are
being murdered, victims of a
disciplined and clever killer who
leaves no trace evidence. They
are, truly, perfect crimes. In
fact, there's only one thing that links the
victims. Each of the women knew Jack
Reacher—and it's got him running blind.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3297
THE WITNESS
by Sandra Brown.
The best public defender in
Prosper, South Carolina, Kendall
Deaton had stumbled upon the
town's chilling secret, turning her
marriage to one of the town's
most powerful men into a living
hell. Now Kendall is a terrified mother trying
to save her child's life...a reluctant witness who
knows too much about an insidious evil...and a
woman surrounded by forces that will stop at
nothing to protect what is "theirs." (FICTION)
• Order # F3311
THIRTEEN MOONS
by Charles Frazier.
At the age of twelve, an orphan
named Will Cooper is given a
horse, a key, and a map and is
sent on a journey through the
uncharted wilderness of the
Cherokee Nation. Will tells of a
lifelong search for home, the hunger for fortune
and adventure, the rebuilding of a trampled
culture, and above all an enduring pursuit of
passion. (FICTION)
• Order # F3298
THE KEEP
by Jennifer Egan.
Award-winning author Jennifer
Egan brilliantly conjures a world
from which escape is impossible
and where the keep—the tower,
the last stand—is both everything
worth protecting and the very
thing that must be surrendered in order to
survive. (FICTION)
• Order # F3292
Books: Fiction
LEFTOVERS
by Laura Wiess.
In this follow-up to her
heartbreaking debut, Such a
Pretty Girl, Laura Wiess once
again spins a shattering tale of
the tragedies that befall young
women who are considered
society's Leftovers. (FICTION)
• Order # F3547
NAPOLEON'S
PYRAMIDS
by William Dietrich.
The world changes for Ethan
Gage—one-time assistant to the
renowned Ben Franklin—on a
night in post-revolutionary Paris,
when he wins a mysterious
medallion in a card game. With the help of a
Macedonian slave, he will come to realize that
the unusual prize he won at the gaming table
may be the key to solving one of history's
greatest and most perilous riddles: who built
the Great Pyradmids...and why? (FICTION)
• Order # F3512
THE MIST
by Stephen King.
A dangerous storm causes a lot
of damage to the small town of
Bridgton, Maine. David
Drayton takes his son to town
for some groceries the next
morning only to get socked in by
an extremely thick fog. Unfortunately, there
are creatures out there in the mist that are like
nothing on Earth. (FICTION)
• Order # F3384
SECRETS
IN THE ATTIC
by V. C. Andrews.
For Karen, the attic is her escape
from the reality of her
stepfather's unwanted attention.
Together in the eaves of a house
with its own murderous history,
Karen and her best friend concoct a scheme
that will put Karen's stepfather in his place. It
wasn't supposed to turn deadly. (FICTION)
• Order # F3383
HIDE AND SEEK
by Fern Michaels.
Together, the seven friends
known as The Sisterhood have
served sweet justice to villains
who thought they were above
the law. But payback has its
price, and the Sisterhood's last
assignment almost landed them in jail. Now
the women are fugitives with a bounty on their
heads, but they're not planning on hiding out
for long—not when good friends need their
help. (FICTION)
• Order # F3460
THE LAST COYOTE
Harry Bosch is obsessed with
investigating an unsolved crime
from 1961: the brutal slaying of
a prostitute who happened to be
his own mother. Even after three
decades, Harry's questions
generate heat among L.A.'s top politicos. And
as the shocking truth starts to emerge, the
Bosch gets closer to an enemy who is very
powerful, cunning...and deadly. (FICTION)
• Order # F3442
PAYBACK
revealed. Now it's time for PAYBACK.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3458
WIFE FOR HIRE
by Janet Evanovich.
Hank Mallone knows he's in
trouble when Maggie Toone
agrees to pretend to be his wife
in order to improve his rogue's
reputation. Will his harebrained
scheme to get a bank loan for his
business backfire once Maggie arrives in his
small Vermont town and lets the gossips take a
look. (FICTION)
• Order # F3399
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CHRISTMAS WISHES
by Debbie Macomber.
Katherine adores her five-yearold twin nieces, and strongly
objects to her sister's plans to
dispense with Christmas. Zelda
is following the theories of child
psychologist Wynn Jeffries.
Katherine is particularly horrified by his edict
to "bury Santa under the sleigh," and she's out
to prove that Wynn and his ideas are full of...
snow. He's not going to ruin her nieces'
Christmas! Too bad the guy's so darned
attractive. (FICTION)
• Order # F3398
THE SHAPE SHIFTER
by Tony Hillerman.
With newly wedded officers Jim
Chee and Bernie Manuelito just
back from their honeymoon,
retired Navajo Tribal Police
Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is on
his own to pick up the threads of
a crime he'd once thought
impossible to untangle. (FICTION)
• Order # F3510
PLUM LOVIN'
by Janet Evanovich.
Mysterious men have a way of
showing up in Stephanie Plum's
apartment. When the shadowy
Diesel appears, he has a task for
Stephanie—and he's not taking
no for an answer. (FICTION)
• Order # F3529
THE ALEXANDRIA
LINK
by Steve Berry.
Cotton Malone's teenage son
has been kidnapped, and an
anonymous email from those
responsible proves they will stop
at nothing to get their hands on
a coveted prize: the legendary lost Library of
Alexandria, which vanished 1,500 years ago.
Within that vast reserve of 500,000 manuscripts, one holds the key to ultimate power—a
revelation so shocking it could alter modern
geopolitics.. (FICTION)
• Order # F3507
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Books: Fiction
THE SUSPECT
by John Lescroart.
As his wife's body lies next to the
hot tub at their San Francisco
home, Stuart Gorman seems
confident the cops will recognize
his innocence. So confident, in
fact, that he freely discusses
Caryn's recent request for a divorce and her
vast personal wealth. Gorman isn't just the
number-one suspect anymore; he's number
one with a bullet. (FICTION)
• Order # F3519
WICKED
by Gregory Maguire.
When Dorothy triumphed over
the Wicked Witch of the West in
L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we
heard only her side of the story.
But what about her arch
nemesis, the mysterious Witch?
Where did she come from? How did she
become so wicked? (FICTION)
• Order # F3386
HOLLYWOOD STATION
by Joseph Wambaugh.
The violent robbery of a
Hollywood jewelry store quickly
connects to a Russian nightclub
and an undercover operation
gone wrong, and the sergeant
they call the Oracle and his squad
of quirky cops have to make sense of it all.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3379
THE BANCROFT
STRATEGY
by Robert Ludlum.
Two Americans find themselves
facing a shadowy organization
working to twist global politics
toward an unsavory end.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3450
BODY SURFING
by Anita Shreve.
A young widow gets drawn into
a rivalry between two adult
brothers, with heartbreaking
consequences. (FICTION)
• Order # F3530
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THE OVERLOOK
Near Mulholland Drive, Dr.
Stanley Kent is found shot twice
in the back of the head. When
LAPD detective Harry Bosch
discovers that Kent had access to
dangerous radioactive substances,
what begins as a routine investigation becomes
something darker, more deadly, and frighteningly urgent. (FICTION)
• Order # F3485
CAT O' NINE TALES
by Jeffrey Archer.
An irresistible collection of twelve
short stories from bestselling
author Jeffrey Archer. Witty,
suspenseful, sad, surprising and
unforgettable, Cat O' Nine Tales
is Jeffrey Archer at his best.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3540
STALEMATE
by Iris Johansen.
The suspense begins with a
phone call and leads forensic
sculptor Eve Duncan onto the
harrowing trail of a killer that
even the most cold-blooded
killers fear to face. (FICTION)
• Order # F3471
MOTHERS AND SONS
by Colm Tóibín.
With exquisite grace and
eloquence, Tóibín writes of
men and women bound by
convention, by unspoken
emotions, by the stronghold
of the past. He brings to this
stunning first collection an acute understanding
of human frailty and longing. (FICTION)
• Order # F3513
NEW STORIES
FROM THE SOUTH
edited by Edward P. Jones.
As acclaimed for his story
collections as for his novels, guest
editor Edward P. Jones brings to
this year's volume his aesthetic for
the short story and finds its best
practitioners—both the well-established masters
and an exciting array of newcomers. (FICTION)
• Order # F3305
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THE QUILTER'S
HOMECOMING
by Jennifer Chiaverini.
As young bride Elizabeth
Bergstrom Nelson sets off with
her husband, Henry, from her
family home of Elm Creek
Manor in Pennsylvania, this rich historical
narrative travels to the unfamiliar terrain of
southern California, where the adventurous
newlyweds embrace a life as dramatic as the
landscape. (FICTION)
• Order # F3517
THE CONFESSION
by Beverly Lewis.
Katie Lapp's identity had been
shattered the moment she found
the satin baby dress in the attic
of her parents' Amish home.
Painfully torn from her close-knit
community in the frightening
ordeal called the shunning, Katie—now
Katherine Mayfield—sets out to find the ailing
birth mother she has never known. (FICTION)
• Order # F3506
THE REDEMPTION
by M. L. Tyndall.
Lady Charlisse Bristol sets off on
a voyage in search of a father she
never knew, only to find herself
shipwrecked on a deserted island.
After weeks of combating the
elements her salvation comes in the form of a
band of pirates and their fiercely handsome
leader, Edmund Merrick. Will Charlisse free
herself from the seductive lure of this pirate
captain and find the father's love she so ardently
craves? (FICTION)
• Order # F3561
A LADY OF
HIDDEN INTENT
by Tracie Peterson.
Forced to disguise her past and
create a completely new life,
Catherine Newbury carves out
a tenuous future for herself as a
seamstress. Soon her dress designs are sought
throughout Philadelphia. When the dashing
Carter Danby accompanies his mother and sister
for a design consultation, Catherine suddenly
encounters her past face-to-face. (FICTION)
• Order # F3735
Books: Health & Fitness
THE BIGGEST
LOSER FITNESS
PROGRAM
Not all of us can be on
television, but everyone can
use this fitness program for
improved health and weight loss.
• Order # F3317
YOU:
STAYING YOUNG
by Michael f. Roizen, M,D.
& Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
With their entertaining style
and great insight, the doctors
show you how to beat the
seemingly inevitable decline of your system as
you age. Their enlightening explanations of
the Major Agers that science has only recently
discovered culminate in an amazing 14-day
plan for staying young that can allow us to live
longer with great vitality.
• Order # F3452
YOUR PREGNANCY
WEEK BY WEEK
by Glade B. Curtis,
M.D., M.P.H.
The week-by-week format lets
you look for changes and
compare the details of your
pregnancy based on the same
weekly schedule your doctor uses..
• Order # F3494
INSTANT RELIEF
by Peggy W. Brill, P.T.
Peggy Brill shows you how to
find relief from chronic and
everyday aches and pains, plus
those stress-related pains that
can attack suddenly—whether
you're at work, in a car or a
plane, at home with your kids, recovering
from surgery, or relaxing in bed..
• Order # F3470
POTATOES
NOT PROZAC
by Kathleen DesMaisons,
Ph.D.
Join the thousands who have
successfully healed their
addiction to sugar, lost weight,
and attained maximum health and well-being
by using this updated, innovative plan.
• Order # F3548
THE SCIENCE
OF SEXY
by Bradley Bayou.
Top celebrity fashion designer
Bradley Bayou gives you the
red-carpet treatment in this
foolproof guide to choosing
clothes that make you look
fabulous—with tailor-made tips for forty-eight
body types.
• Order # F3543
THE GREEN TEA BOOK
by Lester A. Mitscher, Ph.D.
The Green Tea Book shows you
how to use green tea to fight
cancer, promote healing, and
slow the aging process.
• Order # F3542
THE SOUTH BEACH
HEART HEALTH
REVOLUTION
by Arthur Agatston, M.D.
Dr. Arthur Agatston's
innovative approach to heart
disease prevention will show
you how to protect your heart
and live a longer, healthier life.
• Order # F3553
THE GIFT OF ADHD
by Lara Honos-Webb, Ph.D.
If you're a parent of a child with
attention-deficit/hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD), you already
know about your child's
difficulty paying attention, as
well as his or her impulsivity and
agitation. This book will show you how to
transform your vision of your child and your
relationship with your child and his or her
symptoms.
• Order # F3481
THE BEST LIFE DIET
by Bob Greene.
This book includes easy-to-follow
meal plans that make it simple
to meet your daily energy and
nutrient requirements, whether
you are on the run or you have
time to shop for fresh produce
and make something special.
• Order # F3469
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THE WISDOM
OF MENOPAUSE
by Christiane Northrup,
M.D.
This trusted resource shows
women how they can make
menopause a time of personal
empowerment and positive energy—emerging
wiser, healthier, and stronger in both mind
and body than ever before.
• Order # F3428
YOUNGER
NEXT YEAR
by Chris Crowley &
Henry S. Lodge, M.D.
Younger Next Year shows you
how to become functionally
younger every year for the next
five to ten years, and continue
to live with newfound vitality and pleasure.
• Order # F3350
FIT AND SEXY
FOR LIFE
by Kathy Kaehler.
Celebrity trainer Kathy
Kaehler's all-natural diet and
exercise program is geared
specifically toward your
body's changing needs—so
that you can control your weight, boost your
energy, protect your heart and bones, and be
healthy, slim, and sexy through your forties,
fifties, and beyond.
• Order # F3686
MENOPAUSE: WITH
SCIENCE AND SOUL
by Judith Boice.
Drawing from the latest medical
studies, naturopath Dr. Judith
Boice advises women on
practical concerns such as bone
health, phytoestrogens, diet and
exercise, and hormone replacement therapy,
and offers stories, interviews, and rituals to
nurture women's mental and emotional health.
• Order # F3676
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Books: Self Improvement
SIMPLE PRINCIPLES
TO RAISE A
SUCCESSFUL CHILD
by Alex A. Lluch.
No matter what issue your
child is struggling with (poor
grades, bad friends, lack of
trust, motivation or self-esteem, drugs, crime,
etc.) this book can help. We all want the best
for our children. Simple Principles to Raise a
Successful Child makes that goal a reality.
• Order # F3326
IT'S OK TO MISS
THE BED ON THE
FIRST JUMP
by John O'Hurley.
From the New England woods
of his childhood to the
manicured lawns of Los
Angeles, John O'Hurley has
never known life without the pleasure of a dog
by his side. Now, O'Hurley brings his love for
dogs to the page, exploring with his characteristic wit and warmth lessons learned from a life
lived with canine companions.
• Order # F3377
THE SECRET
by Rhonda Byrne.
The centuries-old Secret has
been understood by some of
the most prominent people
in history: Plato, Galileo,
Beethoven, Edison,
Carnegie, Einstein—along
with other inventors, theologians, scientists,
and great thinkers. Now The Secret is being
revealed to the world.
• Order # F3445
THE POWER
OF NOW
by Eckhart Tolle.
To make the journey into The
Power of Now we will need to
leave our analytical mind and its
false created self, the ego, being.
From the very first page of this extraordinary
book, we move rapidly into a significantly
higher altitude where we breathe a lighter air.
• Order # F3437
26
BEING HERE:
MODERN DAY TALES
OF ENLIGHTENMENT
by Ariel & Shya Kane.
We have learned how to acquire
and Have things. We have
learned how to Do things and
get things done. But when have we ever
learned how to simply Be? Being Here offers
a new possibility.
• Order # F3365
BREAKING
MURPHY'S LAW
by Suzanne C.
Segerstrom, PhD.
Breaking Murphy's Law shows
you simple ways to develop the
skills that natural-born optimists
use to get what they want from
life. Dr. Segerstrom helps you break free from
the inertia of cynicism and self-doubt and
encourages you to engage the world around you.
• Order # F3325
SIMPLE PROSPERITY:
FINDING REAL
WEALTH IN A
SUSTAINABLE
LIFESTYLE
by David Wann.
In Simple Prosperity, David
Wann shows us how we can overcome the
debilitating disease of overconsumption to
recapture a more abundant and sustainable
lifestyle without sacrificing everything we love.
• Order # F3680
CHICKEN SOUP FOR
THE FATHER & SON
SOUL
by Jack Canfield.
You will be inspired by the
stories of sons looking up to
their fathers and learning by
example, and fathers recollecting
their own childhoods and relationships with
their dads. These insightful stories show men
and boys working through the ups and downs
of life, learning as they go and becoming better
because of their relationship with each other.
• Order # F3831
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CHICKEN SOUP
FOR THE SOUL: A
TRIBUTE TO MOMS
by Jack Canfield.
Chicken Soup for the Soul A
Tribute to Moms will help you
show your thankfulness to the
many moms in your life, be it your mother,
stepmom, mother-in-law, or even your best
girlfriend who is a mother. It's your chance
to tell them how much they mean to you and
how much you care.
• Order # F3660
PETERSON'S
MASTER THE SAT
2008
by Phil Pine.
Everything you need to get
the SAT score you want.
Detailed answer explanations
for all practice test questions. Thorough,
easy-to-follow lessons covering critical reading,
writing, and math topics. Hundreds of
exercises designed to improve your skills.
Expert score-raising strategies and study
techniques.
• Order # F3666
PETERSON'S
MASTER THE GED
2008
by Ronald M. Kaprov.
Everything you need to get
the GED score you want
including detailed answer
explanations; thorough, easy-to-follow lessons
covering the GED from start to finish;
hundreds of exercises designed to improve your
skills; writing strategies to help you ace your
essay.
• Order # F3495
Books: Cookbooks
RACHAEL RAY
JUST IN TIME!
by Rachael Ray.
In this irresistible collection
Rachael continues to work
her 30-minute magic with
nearly 100 awesomely
delicious brand-new recipes.
From pasta to pizzas, soups to sammies, and
chicken, fish, and meat, you'll find a
30-minute-meal to suit every appetite.
• Order # F3448
TASTE OF HOME
SIMPLE & DELICIOUS COOKBOOK
by Taste of Home.
Inside this cookbook you'll
discover 242 scrumptious,
speedy recipes your whole
family will love, all from great home cooks
and the trusted Taste of Home Test Kitchen
experts.
• Order # F3818
ROBIN
TO THE RESCUE
by Robin Miller.
"What's for dinner?" With
Robin to the Rescue, answering
that question will be a snap.
Packed with more than 200
easy-to-prepare dishes, Robin to the Rescue will
become your go-to cookbook for getting fresh,
delicious meals on the table in no time.
• Order # F3760
WHAT CAN I BRING?
COOKBOOK
by Anne Byrn.
From party entrees like
Oven-Barbecued Beef
Brisket and Parmesan
Chicken Rolls to desserts
like Peach and Blueberry Crisp and German
Chocolate Cake, plus 30 appetizers, soups,
salads, countless sides, and a chapter on gifts
from the kitchen, Anne Byrn offers solutions
to recipe block with her delicious answers to
that age-old question, "What can I bring?"
• Order # F3409
MAGIC FOODS
by Robert A. Barnett.
Written for regular folks like
yourself—who just want to
know what to eat and don't
want to bother with strict
eating regimens or crazy
rules about carbohydrates—
Magic Foods gives you the 57 foods that will help
you lose weight, increase your energy, slash
your diabetes risk, and improve your overall
health. Plus...there are more than 100 recipes.
• Order # F3550
SIMPLY ORGANIC
by Jesse Ziff Cool.
This cookbook introduces
you to the world of healthy
organic living with 150
simple, delicious recipes that
celebrate fresh ingredients at
the peak of ripeness. Let it
be your guide to discovering how to easily
make natural, flavorful foods part of your
family's everyday life.
• Order # F3661
Books: Miscellaneous Non-Fiction
THE POCKET GUIDE
TO MISCHIEF
by Bart King.
Written by Bart King, The
Pocket Guide to Mischief
covers everything you need
to know to pull the perfect
prank (and even includes
thoughts on how to beg forgiveness
afterward). There's information on classic
practical jokes, mischief quizzes and tips on
how to conduct a mischief duel.
• Order # F3728
THE MOMS' BOOK:
FOR THE MOM WHO'S
BEST AT EVERYTHING
Surviving motherhood is one
thing, surviving with your
sanity is quite another! Have
no fear: we've gathered the
most essential tricks of the trade from some of
the world's best moms.
• Order # F3796
BEYOND BEDTIME
STORIES
by V. Susan BennettArmistead.
Filled with tips, photos,
milestones to watch for; and
great ideas to try today,
Beyond Bedtime Stories will not only help
prepare your child for school, but also bring
great joy into his or her life from birth.
• Order # F3662
THE PORTABLE
ATHEIST
by Christopher Hitchens.
Christopher Hitchens
continues to make the case
for a splendidly godless
universe in this first-ever
gathering of the influential
voices—past and present—
that have shaped his side of the current God/
no-God debate.
• Order # F3706
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FROM CRIB TO
KINDERGARTEN:
THE ESSENTIAL
CHILD SAFETY GUIDE
by Dorothy A. Drago.
In this essential guide, an
eminent child safety
specialist explains how to
reduce the risk of childhood injury at home
and beyond. Her tips help protect children
from birth to age five—those who are most
vulnerable to serious injury.
• Order # F3674
PLAN B 3.0
by Lester R. Brown.
Lester Brown, founder of the
Earth Policy Institute,
investigates the most salient
issues from global warming to
the impact of unstable
governments on our global
society. Brown, who has been analyzing the
interaction between global environmental and
economic trends for over forty years, provides
a map for saving civilization now.
• Order # F3635
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Books: Miscellaneous Non-Fiction
1001 DO-IT-YOURSELF HINTS & TIPS
Imagine having a pro by your
side to guide you through the
shortcuts and how-to's for all
of the maintenance projects
inside, outside, and all around
your home. This money-saving, illustrated
guide can help you handle these jobs with
confidence.
• Order # F3664
THE INNOCENT
MAN
by John Grisham.
Impeccably researched,
grippingly told, filled with
eleventh-hour drama, John
Grisham's first work of
nonfiction reads like a
page-turning legal thriller. It is a book that will
terrify anyone who believes in the presumption
of innocence.
• Order # F3624
THE WHITE
CASCADE
by Gary Krist.
On February 1910, a monstrous
blizzard hit the Northwest,
marooning two trainloads of
passengers and crew near the
town of Wellington. A desperate rescue team
struggled to rescue the trains, but just when
escape seemed possible, the unthinkable
occurred—a colossal avalanche tumbled down,
sweeping the trains over the steep slope and
down the mountainside. The White Cascade is
the masterfully told story of a long-forgotten
tragedy.
• Order # F3638
BETTER:
A SURGEON'S
NOTES ON
PERFORMANCE
by Atul Gawande.
The struggle to perform well is
universal. But nowhere is this
drive to do better more important than in
medicine, where lives may be on the line with
any decision. Atul Gawande examines, in
riveting accounts of medical failure and
triumph, how success is achieved in this
complex and risk-filled profession.
• Order # F3639
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1,000 PLACES TO SEE
BEFORE YOU DIE
by Patricia Schultz.
Covering the U.S.A. and Canada
like never before, here are 1,000
spectacular, compelling, essential,
offbeat, utterly unforgettable
places. Includes more than 150 places of
special interest to families, and, for every entry,
the nuts and bolts of how and when to visit.
• Order # F3628
HOW TO FOSSILIZE
YOUR HAMSTER
by Mick O'Hare.
Explaining everything from the
extraordinary reaction between
Mentos and cola that sets off a
geyser to the geological
conditions necessary to preserve
a family pet for eternity, Mick O'Hare of the
New Scientist and his team present dozens of
mind-opening experiments that display
scientific principles in action.
• Order # F3644
WENATCHEE'S
DARK PAST
by Maureen E. Brown.
This book is a history of racial
minorities and race relations in
Wenatchee, Washington. The
book is divided into chapters of
each major racial group to live in Wenatchee.
• Order # F3602
PARACHUTE
INFANTRY
by David Kenyon Webster.
Offering a remarkable snapshot
of what it was like to enter
Germany in the last days of
World War II, David Webster
presents a vivid, varied cast of
young paratroopers from E Company, 101st
Airborne Division, and unforgettable glimpses
of enemy soldiers and hapless civilians caught
up in the melee.
• Order # F3711
21: BRINGING
DOWN THE HOUSE
by Ben Mezrich.
The inside story of six M.I.T.
students who took Vegas for
millions.
• Order # F3743
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TOO LATE TO
SAY GOODBYE
by Ann Rule.
Go inside one of the most
compelling double homicide
investigations of our time with
Ann Rule, who was given
exclusive access inside the case of Bart Corbin,
the "handsome twin" responsible for murder
times two.
• Order # F3699
FORGIVE ME,
FATHER
by John Glatt.
Sister Margaret Ann, age 72, was
well-loved at Mercy Hospital.
When, in the hospital's sacristy,
she was found dead with
numerous stab wounds to her
neck, chest, and head. For years, there was no
answer. Finally, in 2004, cold-case detectives
accused Father Gerald Robinson, who presided
at Sister Margaret Ann's own funeral, of her
murder.
• Order # F3667
RELENTLESS
PURSUIT
by Kevin Flynn.
On a late May morning in 1993,
a mother and daughter were
found murdered in their home
in Northeast Washington, D.C.
Within a matter of days, an
arrest was made. For the victims'
family and friends, and for a prosecutor
obsessed with justice, the harrowing impact of
the crime was just beginning.
• Order # F3775
THE FALSE
PROPHET
by Claire Booth.
This is the true account of one
man's reign of unholy terror, the
fanatical followers who did his
bidding as if it were the word
of God, and those unfortunate
victims who would die for the greater glory of
Taylor Helzer.
• Order # F3577
Books: Book Club Favorites
PLAIN TRUTH
by Jodi Picoult.
Plain Truth is the riveting story
of a murder that shatters the
picturesque calm of Amish
country—and tests the heart and
soul of the lawyer defending the
woman at the center of the storm.
• Order # F3271
THE ECHO MAKER
by Richard Powers.
After a near-fatal car accident,
twenty-seven-year-old Mark
Schluter emerges from a coma
unable to recognize his sister
Karin. Cognitive neurologist
Gerald Weber diagnoses Mark as
having Capgras syndrome. The mysterious
nature of the disease, combined with the
strange circumstances surrounding Mark's
accident, threaten to change all of their lives
beyond recognition.
• Order # F3301
THE EMPEROR'S
CHILDREN
by Claire Messud.
The Emperor's Children is a richly
drawn, brilliantly observed novel
of fate and fortune—about the
intersections in the lives of three
friends, now on the cusp of their
thirties, making their way—and not—in New
York City.
• Order # F3124
ON AGATE HILL
by Lee Smith.
Indomitable, unforgettable, and
orphaned by the Civil War,
Molly Petree is about to embark
on an extraordinary journey
toward a life she never could
have imagined.
• Order # F3173
THE FAITH CLUB
by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne
Oliver, & Priscilla Warner.
A groundbreaking book about
Americans searching for faith
and mutual respect, The Faith
Club weaves the story of three
women, their three religions, and
their urgent quest to understand one another.
• Order # F3370
ONE GOOD TURN
by Kate Atkinson.
Two years after the events of Case
Histories left him a retired
millionaire, Jackson Brodie has
followed Julia, his occasional
girlfriend and former client, to
Edinburgh for its famous summer arts festival.
But when he witnesses a brutal assault on a man,
a chain of events is set in motion. Jackson is
once again in the midst of several mysteries
that intersect in one giant and sinister scheme.
• Order # F3286
DIGGING
TO AMERICA
by Anne Tyler.
Two families meet by chance
at the Baltimore airport, each
anticipating the arrival of an
adopted infant daughter from
Korea, and an improbable
friendship begins. Over the years, as the
parents, children, and grand-parents become
more deeply entwined, cultures clash, values
are challenged, and the American way is seen
from the beguiling perspectives of both those
who are born here and those who are struggling
to fit in.
• Order # F3289
ATONEMENT
by Ian McEwan.
On a summer day in 1935,
young Briony Tallis witnesses a
moment's flirtation between her
older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie
Turner, the son of a servant. But
Briony's misunderstanding of
adult motives and her precocious imagination
bring about a crime that will change all their lives.
• Order # F3487
WHEN MADELINE
WAS YOUNG
by Jane Hamilton.
When Aaron Mciver's beautiful
young wife, Madeline, suffers a
head injury in a bicycle crash,
she is left with the mental
capabilities of a six-year-old. In
the years that follow, Aaron and his second
wife care for Madeline with deep tenderness
and devotion as they raise two children of their
own.
• Order # F3372
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INÉS OF MY SOUL
by Isabel Allende.
In the early years of the conquest
of the Americas, Ines Suarez, a
seamstress condemned to a life
of toil, flees to Spain to seek
adventure in the New World.
As Ines makes her way to Chile, she begins a
romance with Pedro de Valdivia. Together the
lovers will build the new city of Santiago, and
they will wage war against the indigenous
Chileans.
• Order # F3310
A SPOT OF BOTHER
by Mark Haddon.
At sixty-one, George Hall is
settling down to a comfortable
retirement. When his
tempestuous daughter, Katie,
announces that she is getting
married to the deeply inappropriate Ray, the Hall family is thrown into a
tizzy. Unnoticed in the uproar, George
discovers a sinister lesion on his hip and quietly
begins to lose his mind.
• Order # F3148
THE LAY
OF THE LAND
by Richard Ford.
Frank Bascombe's uncertain
youth behind him, we follow
him through three days during
the autumn of 2000, when his
trade as a Realtor on the Jersey
Shore is thriving. But as a presidential election
hangs in the balance, and a postnuclear-family
Thanksgiving looms before him, Frank discovers
that what he terms the "Permanent Period" is
fraught with unforeseen perils.
• Order # F3150
WHAT IS THE WHAT
by Dave Eggers.
What is the What is the epic
novel based on the life of
Valentino Achak Deng who,
along with thousands of other
children—the so-called Lost
Boys—was forced to leave his
village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek
hundreds of miles by foot, crossing the deserts
of three countries to find freedom.
• Order # F3388
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Books: Classics
WAR AND PEACE
by Leo Tolstoy.
Set in the years leading up to
and culminating in Napoleon's
disastrous Russian invasion, War
and Peace focuses on an entire
society torn by conflict and
change. Here is humanity in all its innocence
and corruption, wisdom and folly, painful
defeats and enduring triumphs.
• Order # F3632
THE OX-BOW
INCIDENT
by Walter Van Tilburg Clark.
Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow
Incident focuses on the lynching
of three innocent men and the
tragedy that ensues when law
and order are abandoned.
• Order # F3630
TO KILL
A MOCKINGBIRD
by Harper Lee.
The unforgettable novel of a
childhood in a sleepy Southern
town and the crisis of conscience
that rocked it. The 1961
Pulitzer Prize winner.
• Order # F3627
LES MISÉRABLES
by Victor Hugo.
An ex-con struggles for
redemption in the punishing
world of post-Napoleonic
France.
• Order # F3622
DRACULA
by Bram Stoker.
Count Dracula has been dead
for centuries, yet he may never
die. Here begins the story of an
evil both age-old and forever
new. It is the tale of those who
instill a diabolical craving in their
victims, the men and women from whose
blood they draw their only sustenance.
• Order # F3620
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THE LAST OF
THE MOHICANS
by James Fenimore Cooper.
The Last of the Mohicans is the
classic portrait of the man of
moral courage who severs all
connections with a society
whose values he can no longer accept.
• Order # F3701
THE WAR
OF THE WORLDS
by H. G. Wells.
The War of the Worlds is a science
fiction classic that first proposed
the possibility of intelligent life
on other planets. This compelling
tale describes the Martian
invasion of earth. When huge, tireless
creatures land in England, complete chaos
erupts. Is life on earth doomed? Will mankind
survive?
• Order # F3404
MADAME BOVARY
by Gustave Flaubert.
Emma Bovary is a bored
housewife who indulges her
romantic fantasies with a series
of adulterous affairs. Charged
with obscenity when first
published, the novel became
a literary scandal and a bestseller.
• Order # F3588
JANE EYRE
by Charlotte Brontë.
A young governess falls in love
with her employer in this classic
coming-of-age tale set in
19th-century England.
• Order # F3614
CRIME AND
PUNISHMENT
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
A troubled young man commits
the perfect crime—the murder
of a vile pawnbroker no one will
miss. Raskolnikov is desperate
for money but convinces himself
that his motive for the killing is to benefit mankind. So begins a journey into the criminal
mind, a police thriller, and a philosophical
meditation on morality and redemption.
• Order # F3832
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PERSUASION
by Jane Austen.
Since Anne Elliot eight years ago
rejected the marriage proposal of
Captain Wentworth, a penniless
naval officer, she has resigned
herself to a quiet life at home,
tending to her spoiled sisters and vain father.
But when Captain Wentworth reappears in
their midst, having made his fortune at sea,
Anne must ask herself whether she made the
right decision—or allowed herself to be
persuaded against her heart.
• Order # F3594
THE AGE
OF INNOCENCE
by Edith Wharton.
Young lawyer Newland Archer
believes that he must make an
impossible choice: domesticity
with his docile and lovely
fiancée, May Welland, or passion
with her highly unsuitable but irresistible
cousin, the Countess Ellen Olenska. What
Newland does not suspect—but will learn—is
that the women also hold cards in this game.
• Order # F3786
ARROWSMITH
by Sinclair Lewis.
As a bright, curious boy in a
small Midwestern town, Martin
Arrowsmith spends his free time
in old Doc Vickerson's office
avidly devouring medical texts.
Destined to become a physician
and a researcher, he discovers that societal
forces of ignorance, greed, and corruption
can be as life-threatening as the plague.
• Order # F3788
THE VIRGINIAN
by Owen Wister.
The epic tale of one man's
journey into the untamed
territory of Wyoming, where he
is caught between his love for a
woman and his quest for justice.
• Order # F3589
BOOKS: Large Print
THE YEAR OF
MAGICAL THINKING
by Joan Didion.
This powerful book is Didion's
attempt to make sense of the
"weeks and then months that cut
loose any fixed idea I ever had
about death, about illness...about marriage and
children and memory...about the shallowness
of sanity, about life itself." (NON-FICTION)
• Order # F3509
THE OMNIVORE'S
DILEMMA
by Michael Pollan.
Pollan follows each of the food
chains that sustain us—industrial food, organic or alternative
food, and food we forage
ourselves—from the source to
the final meal, and in the process develops a
definitive account of the American way of
eating. (NON-FICTION)
• Order # F3434
THE FAITH CLUB
by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne
Oliver, & Priscilla Warner.
The Faith Club is a memoir of
spiritual reflections in three
voices, chronicling the
blossoming of a profound
interfaith friendship and the
birth of a new way of relating to others.
(NON-FICTION)
• Order # F3497
YOU ON A DIET
by Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
Drs. Roizen and Oz, America's
most trusted doctor team, teach
you about your body: how and
why it stores calories, burns fat,
and reacts to the foods you test
your body with. Ultimately, they give you the
plans and the formulas that will help you lose
up to two inches from your waist in two weeks.
(NON-FICTION)
• Order # F3531
FOUND
by Karen Kingsbury.
Diven by his wife's dying wish to
find their firstborn son, John
Baxter sets about the search. His
prayer? That Elizabeth's wish
would be fulfilled before the
upcoming Baxter family reunion. When the
answers finally come they shake John to his
core. Will he agree to walk away and keep the
secret of a lifetime, or decide it's time to let the
truth come to light no matter what the cost?
(CHRISTIAN FICTION)
• Order # F3498
FOREVER
by Karen Kingsury.
As Katie Hart plans her wedding
and looks for a house, she
receives tragic news. Now she
and the Baxter family must travel
to Los Angeles and sort through
their options. Ultimately, the
Baxters must pull together one last time to help
Katie and her fiance find what they've been
looking for—a chance at forever.
(CHRISTIAN FICTION)
• Order # F3500
C.J.'S FATE
by Kay Hooper.
When C.J.'s friends resolve to
find her soul mate during a trip
to Aspen, C.J. stays a step ahead
of them by enlisting a gorgeous
stranger as her lover. But the
man proves to be far more
charismatic than she expected, and C.J. soon
discovers a side of herself she didn't know
existed. (ROMANCE)
• Order # F3523
THE SPANISH DUKE'S
VIRGIN BRIDE
by Chantelle Shaw.
Duke Javier Herrera need a wife
in order to inherit his family's
banking business. In Grace
Beresford, whose father swindled
Javier out of millions, Javier can
take revenge and a convenient wife.
(ROMANCE)
• Order # F3504
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A SUMMER SMILE
by Iris Johansen.
Daniel Siefert is the most lethal
weapon a security agency could
wish for. Offered his riskiest
mission yet, it's more than
adventure that compels him to
risk his life—it's a young woman in a
photograph. Zilah Dabala has survived a
harrowing past and Daniel is determined to
rescue her. But when he learns her tragic
secret, he fears she can never truly trust him.
(ROMANTIC SUSPENSE)
• Order # F3525
CALDER STORM
by Janet Dailey.
With his rugged-cowboy good
looks, Trey Calder could have his
pick of women. But he's been
holding out for someone special,
and the minute he lays eyes on
freelance photographer Sloan
Davis he knows he's found her. (ROMANCE)
• Order # F3496
HUNDRED-DOLLAR
BABY
A well-established madam, April
Kyle oversees an upscale callgirl
operation in Boston's Back Bay.
Now that some men are trying
to take it away from her, she
needs PI Spenser. Spenser and Hawk find ties
to organized crime and soon it becomes clear
that April's not as innocent as she seems.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3524
BLOOD BROTHERS
by Nora Roberts.
Caleb Hawkins can never forget
what happened at The Pagan
Stone twenty-one years ago, and
neither can Hawkins Hollow.
For every seven years in July, the
locals do unspeakable things and
then don't remember them. It is only February,
but Cal has already sensed the stirrings of evil.
(FICTION)
• Order # F3532
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Libros en Español
LOS 7 PASOS PARA
SER MÁS FELIZ
LOS CUATRO
ACUERDOS
COCINA
FANTÁSTICA
por Dra. Isabel.
• Orden # F3447
por Don Miguel Ruiz.
• Orden # F3438
por Reader's Digest.
• Orden # F3391
AYUDE A SUS
HIJOS A TRIUNFAR
EN LA ESCUELA
SECUNDARIA Y
LLEGAR A LA
UNIVERSIDAD
QUÉ SE PUEDE
ESPERAR CUANDO
SE ESTÁ ESPERANDO
por Mariela Dabbah.
• Orden # F3461
por Heidi Murkoff,
Arlene Eisenberg y Sandee
Hathaway.
• Orden # F3421
SU MEJOR VIDA
AHORA
INGLÉS EN 10
MINUTOS AL DÍA
por Joel Osteen.
• Orden # F3464
COME, REZA, AMA
por Elizabeth Gilbert.
• Orden # F3463
YOGA: COMO
MÉTODO DE
RELAJACIÓN
DEFIENDA SU
SALUD COMIENDO
por Arturo R. Pluma.
• Orden # F3418
MÁS ALLÁ DEL
ARROZ Y LAS
HABICHUELAS
por Anna Trökes.
• Orden # F3415
por Lorena Drago.
• Orden # F3755
BASTAN MINUTOS
UN HOMBRE
LLAMADO DAVE
por Thorsten Tschirner.
• Orden # F3414
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por Kristine K. Kershul.
• Orden # F3429
por Dave Pelzer.
• Orden # F2818
1-800-426-READ
COCINA
BETTY CROCKER
por Betty Crocker.
• Orden # F3381
COCINAR
CON CHILE
por Edimat Libros.
• Orden # F3394
COCINA AL
INSTANTE
ASIÁTICA
por Farina W. Kingsley.
• Orden # F3395
LA DIETA IDEAL
por Dr. Michael Hamm.
• Orden # F3412
ASANDO
por Rick Rodgers.
• Orden # F3396
Books: Christian
SUNRISE
by Karen Kingsbury.
In preparation for their wedding
day, Dayne Matthews and Katy
Hart are determined to keep the
ceremony a secret from the
paparazzi. Their relationship
grows closer and stronger as they plan together,
but before the wedding, Katy and Dayne face
what may be their greatest challenge.
• Order # F3336
AWAKEN MY HEART
by DiAnn Mills.
Marianne Phillips, the daughter
of a wealthy rancher, has never
agreed with her father's harsh
treatment of the poor mestizos
who first inhabited the colony
of Texas. When rebels kidnap
Marianne, in hopes her father will trade back
their land for her freedom, she realizes her loyalty
lies with her abductors, not her father.
• Order # F3663
A NEW PROMISE
by Julie Eller.
In her debut novel, A New
Promise, author Julie Eller brings
you into the presence of an
omniscient, omnipotent, and
unconditionally loving God
through the Parnell family's
struggle to survive the multifaceted, devastating
effects of Huntington's disease.
• Order # F3683
SABRINA
by Lori Wick.
Sabrina Matthews is a prostitute.
Miserable but with no way out,
she finds herself confronted by
a police officer who has been
called to the night district where
she lives and works. Sure she's in
trouble, she instead finds herself befriended by
Danny Barshaw and his wife, Callie. Through
their kindness she walks away from the night
district and into a new life—life in Christ.
• Order # F3488
THE TRIUMPH
OF DEBORAH
by Eva Etzioni-Halevy.
The richly imagined tale of
Deborah, the courageous biblical
warrior who saved her people
from certain destruction.
• Order # F3715
THE RECKONING
by Beverly Lewis.
Shunned from the Plain life of
her youth, Katie Lapp delights in
the modern world, yet she longs
for the peace that reigned in her
mother's heart. Though her life
is far removed from Lancaster
County, she must come to terms with her
Amish heritage—and the man she once loved.
• Order # F3665
ON HER OWN
by Wanda E. Brunstetter.
Barbara Zook lost the love of her
life when her husband, David,
died unexpectedly eight months
ago. Now, after the birth of
another child, Barbara is barely
able to take care of herself, much
less raise four boys and run David's beloved
harness shop. Will Barbara find a way to
manage on her own?
• Order # F3405
THE PARTING
by Beverly Lewis.
A growing number of
Honeybrook's Amish farmers are
demanding tractors and other
forbidden modern conveniences.
When a revival adds to the
tensions, passions flare. With
the Old Order community pushed to the
breaking point, Nellie and Caleb find their
families—and themselves—in the midst of
what threatens to become an impossible divide.
• Order # F3387
THE MERMAID
IN THE BASEMENT
by Gilbert Morris.
A wealthy widow of a nobleman,
daughter of a famous scientist,
and skeptic who only trusts what
can be proven. Meet Serafina
Trent. A woman about to take
19th Century London by storm.
• Order # F3449
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WITHIN THIS CIRCLE
by Deborah Raney.
After a tumultuous courtship,
John and Julia Brighton have a
second chance at happiness!
With tragedy behind them and
their children grown, they're
looking forward to a new and promising era in
their lives. Only, such a promise is never
guaranteed. And life can change in a moment.
• Order # F3451
A SISTER'S SECRET
Will one woman's secrets destroy
an entire Amish community?
Can love and faith triumph over
shame and deception?
• Order # F3287
JUST BEYOND
THE CLOUDS
by Karen Kingsbury.
An unforgettable story of two
brothers and the only woman
whose love can set them both
free.
• Order # F3280
TO LOVE ANEW
by Bonnie Leon.
Hannah Talbot has no one.
Forced to leave the only home
she's ever known, she works for a
cruel employer who brutally takes
the one thing she has left—her
dignity. When she is banished
to an Australian prison, she is certain God has
turned his back on her. How could he—or
anyone else—ever love her again?
• Order # F3158
GOING HOME
Faith Stutzman Andrews ran
away from her Amish home in
Webster County, Missouri, ten
years ago to chase a dream of
being an entertainer on the
English stage. Will the lure of
the English world prove too strong for Faith,
or will she discover that home is where her
future lies?
• Order # F3170
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or CDs. No downloads. There’s
nothing left to do but listen!
THE NIGHT FERRY
by Michael Robotham.
Metropolitan police detective Ali
Barba receives an urgent letter
from her estranged friend Cate.
The obviously pregnant Cate begs
Ali to stop those who are trying to
take her baby. But the plot soon
takes a bizarre twist when a careening car kills
Cate and her husband—and Ali discovers the
truth about Cate’s pregnancy. Unabridged.
735 min.
• Order # T2382
NORTH RIVER
by Pete Hamill.
In North River, critically
acclaimed, bestselling author Pete
Hamill whisks listeners back to
1934—when the Great
Depression held New York City in
its relentless grip—for a story of one remarkable
man’s perseverance. Unabridged. 735 min.
• Order # T2384
MR. SEBASTIAN
AND THE NEGRO
MAGICIAN
by Daniel Wallace.
Traveling through the 1950s
South with Jeremiah Musgrove’s
Chinese Circus is Henry Walker,
formerly a world-class illusionist.
Henry’s black skin and green eyes make him a
novelty to crowds. But when Henry finds
trouble with a group of white teens, his very life
is at stake—and it falls to his menagerie of
circus friends to recount his story. Unabridged.
615 min.
• Order # T2387
DEXTER
IN THE DARK
THE NAMING
OF THE DEAD
by Jeff Lindsay.
Macabre yet hugely entertaining,
Dexter in the Dark takes America’s
most endearing murderer to places
even he isn’t comfortable exploring.
Unabridged. 750 min.
• Order # T2388
by Ian Rankin.
When a Scottish delegate dies
mysteriously before a summit
of world leaders, detective John
Rebus’ superiors would rather that
he stay as far away from the whole
mess as possible. But Rebus will do whatever is
necessary to ferret out the truth. Unabridged.
960 min.
• Order # T2381
BUBBLES
ALL THE WAY
by Jasper Fforde.
The Goliath Corporation is up to
their old mischief. Now they’re
trying to sell reality book shows
—guided excursions into literature designed
to liven up the classics for modern audiences.
Thursday Next will need all the help she can get
to outwit Goliath and a horde of Mrs. Danvers
clones. Unabridged. 765 min.
• Order # T2380
IN AN INSTANT
by Lee & Bob Woodruff.
Lee and Bob Woodruff share the
never-before-told story of their
romance, their career pursuits, and
their determination in the face of a
tragedy that captivated America.
• Order # T2385
DOG DAYS
by Jon Katz.
Living with four dogs is one thing.
But what happens when you add a
couple cows, four donkeys, a
growing flock of sheep, a few hens,
a temperamental rooster, and even
Mother ( barn cat) to the mix?
As Jon Katz adjusts to the daily grind of life on
a farm, Katz discovers that all animals have
something to teach him—and they occasionally
bring out his very best. Unabridged. 450 min.
• Order # T2379
THE BLACK SWAN
by Hassim Nicholas Taleb.
Bestselling author Nassim Nicholas
Taleb continues his exploration of
randomness in his fascinating new
book, The Black Swan, in which he
examines the influence of highly
improbable and unpredictable
events that have massive impact. Unabridged.
870 min.
• Order # T2386
by Sarah Strohmeyer.
Bubbles Yablonsky—the
Pennsylvania Polish hairdresser
turned amateur sleuth—delights
fans with equal jolts of fun and
suspense. In Bubbles All the Way,
murder and betrayal get tangled up in the latest
hairstyles. Unabridged. 795 min.
• Order # T2383
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for the most common travel situations. Programs include
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LANGUAGE 30 CASSETTES
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learning, stressing conversationally useful words and phrases.
90 minutes of guided practice in greetings, introductions,
requests and general conversation at hotels, restaurants and
places of business and entertainment.
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FRENCH IN 30 DAYS
FRENCH WITH MICHEL THOMAS
INSTANT IMMERSION FRENCH
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SING AND LEARN ENGLISH!
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A MANGO-SHAPED
SPACE
by Wendy Mass.
For 13-year-old Mia Winchell, the
world has always been filled with a
wonderful, if sometimes dizzying,
sensory onslaught--numbers,
letters, words, and sounds all cause
her to see a distinct array of colors. She keeps her
unusual condition a secret until eighth grade, but
then her color visions make math and Spanish
impossibly confusing, and she must go to her
parents and a doctor for help. Unabridged.
420 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1884
HARRY POTTER
AND THE DEATHLY
HALLOWS
by J. K. Rowling.
The heart of Book 7 is a hero’s
mission--not just in Harry’s quest
for the Horcruxes, but in his
journey from boy to man--and
Harry faces more danger than that found in all
six books combined, from the direct threat of the
Death Eaters and you-know-who, to the subtle
perils of losing faith in himself. Unabridged.
• Order # T2043
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THE BARTIMAEUS
TRILOGY: BOOK
ONE: THE AMULET
OF SAMARKAND
by Jonathan Stroud.
Bartimaeus, a five-thousand-yearold djinni, possesses abilities far
beyond those of an extraordinarily talented
magician. Nathaniel, an 11-year-old apprentice
magician has called up Bartimaeus to avenge
himself against a brutal magician, Simon
Lovelace. Nathaniel can summon Bartimaeus,
but can he control him? Unabridged. 812 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2113
OTHERWISE KNOWN
AS SHEILA THE
GREAT
by Judy Blume.
Sheila Tubman sometimes
wonders who she really is: the
outgoing, witty, and capable Sheila
the Great or the “secret” Sheila
who’s afraid of the dark, spiders, swimming, and
dogs. Unabridged. 165 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2115
THE DARK IS RISING
by Susan Cooper.
On his eleventh birthday, Will
Stanton discovers a special gift,
he is the last of the Old Ones,
immortals dedicated to keeping
the world from domination by the
forces of evil, the Dark. At once,
he is plunged into a quest for the six magical
Signs that will one day aid the Old Ones in the
final battle between the Dark and the Light.
Unabridged. 520 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2114
FUDGE-A-MANIA
by Judy Blume.
Peter Hatcher’s little brother,
Fudge—the five-year-old human
hurricane—has big plans to marry
Peter’s sworn enemy, Sheila Tubman.
That alone would be enough to
ruin Peter’s summer, but now his
parents have decided to rent a summer home
next door to Sheila the Cootie Queen’s house in
Maine. Unabridged. 160 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2106
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OVER SEA,
UNDER STONE
by Susan Cooper.
On holiday in Cornwall, the three
Drew children discover an ancient
map in the attic of the house that
they are staying in. It is the key to
finding a grail, a source of power to fight the
forces of evil known as the Dark. And in
searching for it themselves, the Drews put their
very lives in peril. Unabridged. 440 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2107
THE SPIDERWICK
CHRONICLES,
BOOK 1-5
by Tony DiTerlizzi
& Holly Black.
A remarkable adventure awaits
the authors as they follow Jared,
Simon, and Malory Grace and a strange old
book into a world filled with elves, goblins,
dwarves, trolls, and a fantastical menagerie of
other creatures. Unabridged. 338 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2109
THE MAGIC TREE
HOUSE, BOOKS 29-32
by Mary Pope Osborne.
Included in this series is Christmas
in Camelot; Haunted Castle on
Hallow’s Eve; Summer of the Sea
Serpent; and Winter of the Ice
Wizard. Unabridged. 308 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2111
THE MAGIC TREE
HOUSE, BOOK 38:
MONDAY WITH A
MAD GENIUS
by Mary Pope Osborne.
Jack and Annie know they have
to search for one of the four secrets
of happiness to help Merlin the
magician find joy in his life again. Unabridged.
• Order # T2110
Kids
by Guillaume Prévost.
Ten days ago, Sam Faulkner’s dad
disappeared. Ten minutes ago,
Sam discovered a hidden room.
Five minutes ago, he picked up a
book about Dracula’s castle. Two
minutes ago, he found a way to travel through
time. Now the adventure begins. Unabridged.
• Order # T2102
RABBIT EARS
TREASURY OF
WORLD TALES:
VOLUME 5
Rabbit Ears Treasury of World
Tales Volume 5 enlightens and
entertains with these classic stories
read by your favorite stars.
Included in this volume is Pinocchio and
Tom Thumb. 52 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2097
RABBIT EARS
TREASURY OF
WORLD TALES:
VOLUME 1
Rabbit Ears Treasury of World
Tales Volume 1 enlightens and
entertains with these classic stories
read by your favorite stars.
Included in this volume is Squanto and the First
Thanksgiving and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
• Order # T2101
CROSS MY HEART
AND HOPE TO SPY
by Ally Carter.
After staking out, obtaining, and
then being forced to give up her
first boyfriend, Josh, all Cammie
Morgan wants is a peaceful
semester. But that’s easier said than
done when you’re a CIA legacy and go to the
premier school in the world...for spies.
• Order # T2159
ALCATRAZ VERSUS
THE EVIL LIBRARIANS
by Brandon Sanderson.
On Alcatraz Smedry’s thirteenth
birthday, he receives a bag of sand,
and his life takes a bizarre turn.
This is no ordinary bag of sand...
and it is quickly stolen by the cult of evil
Librarians who are taking over the world. The
sand will give the evil Librarians the edge they
need to achieve world domination. Unabridged.
• Order # T2166
THE LAND OF ELYON:
INTO THE MIST
by Patrick Carman.
Raised in a horrible orphanage and
forced to escape into a strange,
unknown world, Thomas and
Roland found adventure wherever
they turned—and danger wherever
they looked. Their story is one of magic,
exploration, fellowship, and secrets—all of which
need to be revealed as the chronicles of Elyon
unfold. Unabridged. 416 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2132
SUPERFUDGE
by Judy Blume.
Dealing with his little brother,
Fudge, has been hard enough, but
now Peter has a whole new set of
problems. His parents have
decided to move to New Jersey for
a whole year! What’s more, Peter’s
mom is going to have a new baby. How will
Peter survive if the new baby becomes a carbon
copy of Fudge? Unabridged. 189 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2117
MARTIN
THE WARRIOR
by Brian Jacques.
In a cold stone fortress a stoat
named Badrang holds dozens
of innocent creatures as slaves.
Among those slaves is a mouse
named Martin who has a warrior’s
heart, and a burning desire for freedom. There
is no risk he will not take, no battle he will not
fight, to end the stoat’s evil reign. Unabridged.
• Order # T2209
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THE CASTLE
CORONA
by Sharon Creech.
In Castle Corona lived the family
of King Guido: rich and royal
and...spoiled. Far below this
grand, glittering castle lived two
peasants. But not just any peasants. These
peasants, though poor and pitiful, were plucky
and proud. And in possession of a stolen pouch.
But not just any pouch. A pouch whose very
contents had the power to unlock secrets and
transform lives. Unabridged. 300 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2202
BEYOND THE
SPIDERWICK
CHRONICLES, BOOK 1:
THE NIXIE’S SONG
by Tony DiTerlizzi
& Holly Black.
Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas
only thinks his life has been turned upside down
after his father remarries and moves his new wife
and daughter to Mangrove Hollow. But an
“expedition” to a nearby lake turns up a little
nixie with a giant problem - the huge,
lumbering, fire-breathing variety - and it’s up to
Nick; his stepsister, Laurie; and his big brother,
Julian to figure out the best way to stop a host
of rampaging giants. Unabridged. 100 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2196
PAINT THE WIND
by Pam Muñoz Ryan.
A puzzling photograph, a box
filled with faded toy horses, and
a single fractured memory are all
that Maya has left of her mother.
In Grandmother’s house in
California, she lives like a captive,
tethered by Grandmother’s rules: no talk of her
mother, no friends, no foolishness of any kind...
until a shocking event changes everything.
• Order # T2184
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THE DEVIL
WHO TAMED HER
by Johanna Lindsey.
Having purposely wrecked her
engagement to Duncan MacTavish,
a future marquis, which her
social-climbing father arranged,
Ophelia wants to return to London’s marriage
mart and make her own choice of a wealthy
husband. But on her journey home, something
unexpected happens. Unabridged. 540 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1982
MICHAEL TOLLIVER
LIVES
by Armistead Maupin.
Michael Tollicer Lives follows its
protagonist as he finds love with a
younger man, attends to his dying
fundamentalist mother in Florida,
and finally reaffirms his allegiance
to a wise octogenarian who was once his
landlady. Unabridged. 420 min. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T1984
THE WITCH
OF PORTOBELLO
by Paulo Coelho.
How do we find the courage to
always be true to ourselves—even
if we are unsure of who we are?
The Witch of Portobello is the story
of a mysterious woman named
Athena, told by the many who knew her
well—or hardly at all. Unabridged. 480 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1985
THE GOOD GUY
by Dean Koontz.
Timothy Carrier, having a beer
after work at his friend’s tavern,
enjoys drawing eccentric customers
into amusing conversations. But
the jittery man who sits next to
him tonight has mistaken Tim for
someone very different—and passes to him a
manila envelope full of cash. “Ten thousand
now. You get the rest when she’s gone.”
• Order # T1987
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THE MAYTREES
by Annie Dillard.
In spare, elegant prose, Dillard
traces Toby and Lou Bigelow’s
decade of loving and longing.
They live cheaply among the
nonconformist artists and writers
that the bare tip of Cape Cod attracts. These
people are all loving, ironic. Theirs is a simple
and bold story. Unabridged. 330 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1986
SPECIAL TOPICS IN
CALAMITY PHYSICS
by Marisha Pessl.
Enrolled at the elite St. Gallway
School, Blue van Meer falls in with
a charismatic group of friends and
their captivating teacher, Hannah
Schneider. But a sudden
drowning, a series of inexplicable events, and
finally the shocking death of Hannah herself lead
to a confluence of mysteries. And Blue is left to
make sense of it all. Unabridged. 1320 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1964
AT SOME DISPUTED
BARRICADE
by Anne Perry.
Matthew Reavley continues
his search for the traitorous
mastermind—the “Peacemaker”—
plotting to align Britain with
Germany to end the war, while his
brother Joseph is working on a smaller mystery:
was British officer Howard Northrop killed by
one of his own men? Unabridged. 720 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1970
BACK ON
BLOSSOM STREET
by Debbie Macomber.
A new knitting class at the shop
Lydia Goetz owns in downtown
Seattle is doing well, and in
attendance are Susannah, who runs
the flower shop next door; Colette,
a young widow who lives upstairs; and Alix
Townsend, a baker and former hoodlum
engaged to a future minister. Lydia always tries to
encourage friendship among her pupils, but this
group is none too warm. Unabridged. 660 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1956
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BELOVED
by Toni Morrison.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni
Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding
and dazzlingly innovative portrait
of a woman haunted by the past.
Unabridged. 720 min. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T1978
AUSTENLAND
by Shannon Hale.
New Yorker Jane Hayes’s obsession
with Mr. Darcy is ruining her life.
No real man can compare. When
a wealthy relative bequeaths her a
trip to an English resort catering
to Austen-crazed women, Jane’s
fantasies of meeting the perfect gentleman
suddenly become more real than she ever
could have imagined. Unabridged. 390 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1988
SCAVENGER
by David Morrell.
Frank Balenger finds himself
trapped in a nightmarish game of
fear and death. To save himself
and the woman he loves, he must
play by the rules of a god-like
Game Master with an obsession
for unearthing the past. But sometimes the past
is buried for a reason. Unabridged. 480 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1955
THE SKY PEOPLE
by S. M. Stirling.
The space race is on between the
United States and the Eastern Bloc
countries as they vie for control of
the new frontier, Venus. Modern
day explorers find themselves
confronting dinosaurs, mammals,
and a wide variety of tribes people in a habitat
that is strangely identical to Earth. Unabridged.
• Order # T1976
A WANTED MAN
The sweeping tale of two people
running from dangerous
secrets—and the love that can set
them free. Unabridged. 540 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2033
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Audio: CD
HIGH NOON
DEDICATION
by Michael Ondaatje.
Divisadero is a multilayered novel
about passion, loss, and the
unshakable past, about the often
discordant demands of family, love,
and memory. Unabridged. 480
min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1999
by Nora Roberts.
A woman walks fearlessly into
danger, but must draw on her
courage to let love into her life.
Disc.)
• Order # T2042
by Emma McLaughlin.
Kate Hollis’s ex-boyfriend, Jake
Sharpe is one of the biggest
recording stars on the planet, and
every song he’s famous for is about
Kate. Now thirty-year-old Kate
gets the call that Jake has landed back in their
Vermont hometown for an MTV special. The
moment she has been waiting for has arrived.
• Order # T1994
THE EXPECTED ONE
by Kathleen McGowan.
When journalist Maureen Paschal
begins the research for a new book,
she has no idea that she is stepping
into an ancient mystery so secret,
so revolutionary, that thousands of
people have killed and died for it.
• Order # T2001
ROBERT LUDLUM’S
THE BOURNE
BETRAYAL
by Eric Van Lustbader.
Troubled by visions of a woman
dying in his arms, Bourne seeks
psychiatric help, unaware that the
doctor is an imposter who has
tampered with the rogue agent’s already messy
and incomplete memories. That mental
sabotage is part of a diabolical plan by Islamic
terrorists to strike at Washington, D.C.
• Order # T1997
THE NAVIGATOR
by Clive Cussler.
Years ago, an ancient Phoenician
statue known as the Navigator was
stolen from the Baghdad Museum,
and there are men who would do
anything to get their hands on it.
What’s so special about this statue?
The search for answers will take the NUMA
team on an astonishing odyssey through time
and space, one that encompasses no less than the
lost treasures of King Solomon. Unabridged.
• Order # T2018
POLAR SHIFT
by Clive Cussler.
Sixty years ago, an eccentric
Hungarian genius discovered how
to artificially trigger a Polar shift.
Now, the charismatic leader of an
antiglobalization group plans to
use his work to give the world’s
industrialized nations a small jolt, before
reversing the shift back again. The only problem
is, it cannot be reversed. 360 min. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T2019
WHITE LIES
by Jayne Ann Krentz.
As a level 10 para-sensitive, Clare
Lancaster can tell for certain when
someone is telling the truth. So
Clare knows that her half-sister,
Elizabeth Glazebrook, isn’t lying
when she says her husband, Brad
McAllister, is trying to kill her. But Brad is
murdered instead, and as the first person to find
his body, Clare becomes the Stone Canyon
Police Department’s favorite suspect. 360 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2020
SPARE CHANGE
When a serial murderer dubbed
“The Spare Change Killer” by the
Boston press surfaces after three
decades in hiding, the police
immediately seek out the cop, now
retired, who headed the original
task force: Phil Randall. Unabridged. 360 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2021
FOREVER ODD
by Dean Koontz.
Odd Thomas never asked to
communicate with the dead.
But as the unofficial goodwill
ambassador between our world
and theirs, he’s got a duty to do
the right thing. Now, a childhood
friend of Odd’s has disappeared. As Odd applies
his unique talents to the task of finding the
missing person, he discovers something worse
than a dead body. 510 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1996
DUNE
by Frank Herbert.
Set on the desert planet Arrakis,
Dune is the story of the boy Paul
Atreides, who would become the
mysterious man known as
Muad’Dib. He would avenge the
traitorous plot against his noble
family—and would bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream.
• Order # T1991
ON CHESIL BEACH
by Ian McEwan.
Ian McEwan has caught with
understanding and compassion
the innocence of newly married
Edward and Florence at a time
when marriage was presumed to
be the outward sign of maturity
and independence. 270 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1992
KILLER WEEKEND
by Ridley Pearson.
A local sheriff races against the
clock to protect a controversial
politician from an assassin.
Disc.)
• Order # T2028
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THE SLEEPING DOLL
by Jeffery Deaver.
The lies of the past and the
evasions of the present boil up
under the relentless probing of
Special Agent Kathryn Dance, but
will the truth about suspected
murderer Daniel Pell emerge in time to stop him
from killing again? 810 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1989
STRIKE FORCE
by Dale Brown.
On the run from the Pasdaran, the
theocrat’s terror army, and unable
to count on support from his
friends in the regular army, Iranian
rebel leader General Hesarak
al-Kan Buzhazi desperately turns
to his old nemesis, U.S. Air Force LieutenantGeneral Patrick McLanahan, for help. 840 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1990
A CERTAIN JUSTICE
by P. D. James.
Criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge
has successfully defended Garry
Ashe on murder charges. But the
next victim is Aldridge herself.
Enter Commander Adam
Dalgliesh and his team, whose
struggle to investigate and understand the
shocking events cannot halt the spiral into more
horrors, and more murders. Unabridged. 900
• Order # T2031
INNOCENT AS SIN
by Elizabeth Lowell.
Kayla Shaw is a smart and capable
private banker in Arizona. Rand
McCree is a haunted man painting
landscapes in the Pacific Northwest,
burning with a need for answers.
They are two strangers with
nothing in common—until their lives entwine...
and explode. Unabridged. 660 min. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T2034
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Fiction
HOW TO TALK
TO A WIDOWER
by Jonathan Tropper.
Funny, sexy, and smart, How to
Talk to Widower is a novel about
finding your way, even when you
have no idea where it is you want
to go. Unabridged. 540 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2032
DROP DEAD
BEAUTIFUL
by Jackie Collins.
Dynamically sexy Lucky
Santangelo is preparing for the
opening of her multibillion-dollar
hotel complex in Las Vegas, the
Keys, but Anthony Bonar—a
vicious killer—is out to stop her any way he can.
• Order # T2036
FLETCH WON
by Gregory Mcdonald.
Reporter Fletch’s first big interview,
a millionaire lawyer with a crooked
streak and an itch to give away
some of his ill-gotten gains, ends
up dead in the News-Tribune’s
parking lot before Fletch can ask
question number one. So Fletch ends up going
after the murderer, instead, and ends up learning
a thing or two about crime and punishment.
• Order # T2040
THE QUICKIE
by James Patterson.
When she sees her husband with
another woman, Lauren Stillwell’s
heart nearly stops beating. Their
marriage is perfect, she has a great
job, she loves her life. But his
betrayal turns her into someone
she never imagined she could be—a woman
lusting for revenge. Unabridged. 360 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2035
BLAZE
by Richard Bachman.
Blaze is the story of Clayton Blaisell,
Jr.—of the crimes committed
against him and the crimes he
commits, including his last, the
kidnapping of a baby heir worth
millions. Unabridged. 480 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2025
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THE BLACK ROCK
COFFIN MAKERS
by Louis L’Amour.
Two men in the isolated town of
Tucker want the XY ranch—Jim
Walker and the ruthless Wing
Cary—and one of them wants it
badly enough to kill for it. 60 min. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T2029
BUNGALOW 2
by Danielle Steel.
Danielle Steel takes us beyond
the dazzle of Hollywood in her
compelling new novel—the story
of one woman’s journey from
suburban mom to award-winning
screenwriter...and all the joy,
heartbreak, and challenges along the way.
• Order # T2037
DIRTY MARTINI
by J. A. Konrath.
In Dirty Martini, Homicide
Lieutenant Jacqueline “Jack”
Daniels faces her toughest
adversary yet: a sicko who wants
to murder an entire city. Can she
catch him—and decide whether to
accept boyfriend Latham’s surprise proposal—
without destroying both her reputation and her
sanity? Unabridged. 480 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2039
THE WATER’S
LOVELY
by Ruth Rendell.
Nine years after Guy was found
dead in the bathtub, Ismay and
Heather still live in their childhood
home. The two sisters never talk
about what happened. It seems as
if the mysterious death of their stepfather is
behind them. But the surprising truth will
emerge whether Ismay wants it to or not.
• Order # T2048
Fiction
PORTRAIT OF AN
UNKNOWN WOMAN
by James Lee Burke.
James Lee Burke has created a
hauntingly bleak picture of life in
New Orleans after Katrina. Filled
with complex characters and
depictions of people at both their best and
worst, The Tin Roof Blowdown is not only an
action-packed crime thriller but a poignant story
of courage and sacrifice. Unabridged. 950 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2053
by Vanora Bennett.
The year is 1527. Portrait of an
Unknown Woman is an
unforgettable story of sin and
religion, desire and deception. It is
the story of a young woman on the brink of
sensual awakening and of a country on the edge
of chaos. Unabridged. 900 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2023
THE DEVIL’S
LABYRINTH
by Margaret Weis
& Tracy Hickman.
Kitiara discovers that a former
lover, Tanis Half-elven, and his
friends were responsible for the
death of Highlord Verminaard.
This revelation puts Kit in danger, for Emperor
Ariakas hears of the connection and suspects Kit
of having arranged the assassination. But Kit is
not one to take a sentence of death easily.
• Order # T2027
by John Saul.
After his father’s untimely death
sends fifteen-year-old Ryan
McIntyre into an emotional
tailspin, his mother enrolls him in
St. Isaac’s Catholic boarding
school. As Ryan witnesses with mounting dread
the transformations of his fellow pupils, his
certainty grows that forces of darkness, not
divinity, are at work. Unabridged. 660 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2041
WHAT MATTERS
MOST
by Luanne Rice.
In Dublin a young man named
Seamus Sullivan is on a search,
dreaming of being reunited with
his first love. They’d been
inseparable growing up together at
the orphanage, until Kathleen Murphy’s parents
claimed her and she vanished to America. Now
that very girl, grown to womanhood, works as a
maid and waits for the miracle that will bring
back the only boy she’s ever loved. Unabridged.
• Order # T2044
THE NICK ADAMS
STORIES
by Ernest Hemingway.
The now-famous “Nick Adams”
stories show a memorable character
growing from child to adolescent
to soldier, veteran, writer, and
parent—a sequence closely
paralleling the events of Hemingway’s life.
• Order # T2024
DRAGONS OF THE
HIGHLORD SKIES
THE SECRET SERVANT
by Daniel Silva.
On what appears to be a routine
assignment in Amsterdam, Gabriel
Allon discovers a conspiracy of
terror festering in the city’s Islamic
underground, a plot that is about
to explode on the other side of the
English Channel, in the middle of London.
• Order # T2045
THE ROBOTS
OF DAWN
by Isaac Asimov.
Detective Elijah Baley is called to
the Spacer world Aurora to solve a
bizarre case of roboticide. The
prime suspect is a gifted roboticist
who had the means, the motive,
and the opportunity to commit the crime.
There’s only one catch: Baley must prove the
man innocent. Unabridged. 930 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2046
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WHISPERS
by Dean Koontz.
Beautiful screenwriter, Hilary
Thomas, is confronted in her own
home by an intruder named
Bruno Frye. It seems that Mr. Frye
has been stalking Ms. Thomas in
the belief that Ms. Thomas is his long deceased
mother, Katherine, who has ostensibly come
back from the dead in order to kill him. He feels
that he must kill her, before she kills him. 1140
• Order # T2055
UP CLOSE
AND PERSONAL
by Fern Michaels.
Trinity Henderson swore never
to return to Crestwood, South
Carolina. But some ties—to a
place, to a past, to the people we
once were and dreams we once
had—can never be fully broken. And as family
secrets are revealed, and desires old and new
come to light, Trinity may discover the one thing
she never expected to find in Crestwood: a place
to call home at last. Unabridged. 600 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2064
SANDWORMS
OF DUNE
by Brian Herbert
& Kevin J. Anderson.
Sandworms of Dune will reveal the
tantalizing future of the planet
Arrakis, the final revelation of
the Kwisatz Haderach, and the
resolution to the war between man and machine.
• Order # T2065
LOVING FRANK
by Nancy Horan.
Drawing on years of research,
Horan weaves little-known facts
into a compelling narrative, vividly
portraying the conflicts and
struggles of a woman forced to
choose between the roles of
mother, wife, lover, and intellectual. Unabridged.
• Order # T2066
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THE TIN ROOF
BLOWDOWN
Audio: CD
Audio/Video Catalog
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WAKING
WITH ENEMIES
by Eric Jerome Dickey.
As the hunter becomes the hunted,
hit man Gideon’s hedonistic
lifestyle turns into a deadly game of
cat and mouse. He will need to
find his friends—and also depend on his
enemies—to get out of the game alive.
• Order # T2069
FORCE OF NATURE
by Suzanne Brockmann.
Florida primate investigator and
ex-cop Ric Alvarado’s life is
spiraling out of control. His new
girl Friday, Annie Dugan, is far
more interested in fieldwork than
filing, and sparks are flying
between them. Then one of Ric’s clients turns
femme fatale and tries to gun down an innocent
man. Rick comes to the rescue, only to learn he’s
done a very good deed for some very bad people.
• Order # T2071
SHADOW PUPPETS
by Orson Scott Card.
Peter Wiggin, Ender’s older, more
ruthless brother, sees that any hope
for the future of Earth lies in
restoring a sense of unity and
purpose. And he has an irresistible
call on the loyalty of Earth’s young
warriors. With Bean at his side, the two will
reshape our future. Unabridged. 600 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2056
DEAD WITCH WALKING
by Kim Harrison.
Witches, warlocks, vampires, and
werewolves have lived beside
humans for centuries, hiding their
powers. But now they’ve stopped
hiding, and nothing will be the
same. Unabridged. 810 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2061
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Fiction
SULA
by Toni Morrison.
Toni Morrison brilliantly evokes
not only a bond between two lives,
but the harsh, loveless, mad world
in which that bond is destroyed.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2062
MALICE
by Robert K. Tanenbaum.
New York District Attorney Butch
Karp, recovering from an
assassination attempt that came
within a few millimeters of killing
him, takes on a shadowy cartel that
uses terrorists to further its criminal
empire while sliding the United States toward a
fascist state that the cartel controls. Unabridged.
• Order # T2063
UP CLOSE
AND DANGEROUS
by Linda Howard.
Bailey Wingate’s scheming adult
stepchildren are surprised when
their father’s will leaves Bailey in
control of their fortune, and war
ensues. A year later, while flying
from Seattle to Denver in a small plane, Bailey
nearly dies herself when the engine sputters–and
then fails. Cam Justice, her sexy Texan pilot,
manages to crash-land the aircraft. Stranded in
the wilderness, and struggling to douse her
feelings for the ruggedly handsome man by her
side, Bailey begins to wonder whether this was a
mere accident. Who tampered with their plane?
• Order # T2059
JUSTICE DENIED
by J. A. Jance.
Seattle special homicide
investigator works three cases
simultaneously. The first involves
the murder of a wrongly
imprisoned ex-con, the second the
disappearance of a whistle-blowing
electronics engineer who vanished the day
Mount Saint Helen’s erupted in 1980, the third
the deaths of several former felons. Unabridged.
• Order # T2060
1-800-426-READ
THE YELLOW
ADMIRAL
by Patrick O’Brian.
Stephen Maturin returns from
France with the news that the
Chileans, to secure their
independence, require an English
navy. And just as Jack is dusting of his captain’s
hat, an urgent dispatch orders him to Gibraltar:
Napoleon has escaped from Elba. 510 min.
Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2104
THE OFFICE
OF DESIRE
by Martha Moody.
The Office of Desire is a smart,
touching novel about the intimate
yet fragile relationships among five
very different people, thrown
together in a small medical office,
and how each life affects the others. 570 min.
• Order # T2108
DARK POSSESSION
A dedicated counselor for battered
women, ManyAnn has a fulfilling
life with no room for someone like
Manolito, born and bred in the
Carpathian Mountains, a law unto
himself. But when MaryAnn
agrees to go to South America to offer guidance
to a brutalized young woman, she has no idea of
the trap that awaits her in the sweltering thick of
the jungle. 780 min. Unabridged. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T2112
I AM LEGEND
by Richard Matheson.
A plague has decimated the world,
and transformed the unfortunate
survivors into bloodthirsty
creatures of the night. Robert
Neville is the last living man on
earth. Every other man, woman,
and child has become a vampire, hungry for
Neville’s blood. How long can one man survive
in a world of vampires? 330 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2098
Fiction
by Dale Brown.
The Dreamland team used stealth,
raw nerve, and technology to
defuse a nightmare on the other
side of the world. But now the
darkness is racing toward America at blinding
speed. With more than two dozen nuclear
devices unaccounted for, the global masters of
terror have set a catastrophe in motion. 720
min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2099
PLAY DIRTY
by Sandra Brown.
Play Dirty is Sandra Brown’s wildest
ride yet, with hairpin turns of plot
all along the way and a fallen
football star whose future, and life,
hinges on one last play. 720 min.
• Order # T2100
SUMMER
by Karen Kingsbury.
Hollywood actor Dayne Matthews
and Katy Hart are married. Katy
wins the part to star in his next
film and is cast opposite her
super-star husband. In an effort to
appease the press, the couple agrees
to a 12-episode reality show. By the time they
finish filming the movie, they feel cracks around
the edges of their marriage. 570 min.
• Order # T2095
GENESIS
OF SHANNARA
by Terry Brooks.
An unforgettable second volume in
the Tale of Shannara’s Beginnings,
full of mystery, magic, and
momentous events. 840 min.
• Order # T2096
CONSEQUENCES
by Penelope Lively.
London, 1935: A chance meeting
on a park bench on the eve of
World War II sets in motion a love
affair that reverberates through
three generations. 540 min.
• Order # T2093
GARDEN SPELLS
by Sarah Addison Allen.
The Waverleys have always been a
curious family, endowed with
peculiar gifts that make them
outsiders even in their hometown
of Bascom, North Carolina. Even
their garden has a reputation. Generations of
Waverleys tended this garden. Their history was
in the soil. But so were their futures. 480 min.
• Order # T2091
ACACIA, BOOK 1:
THE WAR WITH
THE MEIN
by David Anthony Durham.
In this sprawling and vividly
imagined fantasy, historical novelist
David Anthony Durham
chronicles the downfall and
reinvention of the Akaran Dynasty, whose
empire, called Acacia, was built on conquest,
slaving and drug trade. Unabridged. 1770 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2072
THE AFTERMATH,
BOOK 4 OF THE
ASTEROID WARS
by Ben Bova.
In the wake of the Asteroid Wars,
Victor Zacharias makes his living
running the ore-carrier Syracuse.
When the Syracuse stumbles into
the middle of a military attack on the habitat
Chrysalis, Victor flees in a control pod to draw
the attacker’s attention away from his family.
Now, as his wife and children plunge into the
far deeps of space, Victor has been rescued by
Cheena Madagascar. He must do her bidding
if he’s to have a prayer of ever seeing his family
again. 670 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2074
THE LAST STREET
NOVEL
by Omar Tyree.
Shareef Crawford, a celebrated
writer of romantic fiction, leaves
his sunny mansion in South
Florida and returns to his Harlem
roots to pen a true crime book that
may just end his life. 840 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2080
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LAWMAN
by Diana Palmer.
San Antonio FBI agent Garon
Grier tackles the most difficult case
of his career, hunting an escaped
convict, a child predator whose
former victims are all dead. All
except one. 510 min. Unabridged. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T2082
AGNES AND
THE HITMAN
by Jennifer Crusie
& Bob Mayer.
Take one food writer named
Cranky Agnes, add a hitman
named Shane, mix them together
with a Southern mob wedding, a
missing necklace, two annoyed flamingos, and a
dog named Rhett, and you’ve got a recipe for a
hilarious novel about the disastrous side of true
love. 720 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2085
THE VIEW FROM
MOUNT JOY
by Lorna Landvik.
The View from Mount Joy, Lorna
Landvik’s delightfully quirky and
intensely moving new novel, is
about the unexpected pleasures
found in living a good life. 300
• Order # T2116
THE BURNT HOUSE
by Faye Kellerman.
A gripping tale of a modern-day
nightmare that ensnares L.A.
Homicide Detective Peter Decker
and his wife Rina Lazarus in a web
of secrets and murder. 780 min.
• Order # T2076
BEYOND REACH
by Karin Slaughter.
A riveting tale of murder in a
small town, a troubled woman
cop at the center of it all, and the
shocking secrets that keep a killer
just beyond reach. 840 min.
• Order # T2090
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RETRIBUTION
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MAD DASH
Fiction
1984
by Patricia Gaffney.
Living on her own for the first
time in years. Dash can do
whatever she wants...if only she
could figure out what that is. But
every time she starts making plans
for the future, she finds herself thinking about
the past—remembering the mother she’s lost, her
daughter’s childhood, and the husband she isn’t
entirely sure she wants to leave behind. 360 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2077
by George Orwell.
Winston Smith, the hero with no
heroic qualities, longs only for
truth and decency. But living in a
social system in which privacy does
not exist and where those with
unorthodox ideas are brainwashed or put to
death, he knows there is no hope for him.
690 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2133
CASANEGRA
by Ann Packer.
Songs Without Words is about the
sometimes confining roles we take
on in our closest relationships,
about the familial myths that shape
us both as children and as parents,
and about the limits—and the power—of the
friendships we create when we are young. 840
• Order # T2134
by Blair Underwood.
Tennyson Hardwick struggles
to hang on to his acting career
and redeem his gigolo history,
which estranged him from his
family—especially his father, a
decorated LAPD captain. Now, in
the wake of his father’s sudden stroke, Tennyson
has to save himself from taking the fall for the
murder of a female rapper. In the process he
discovers his hidden talents—the hard way. 840
• Order # T2087
AWAY
by Amy Bloom.
Away is the epic and intimate story
of young Lillian Leyb. When her
family is destroyed in a Russian
pogrom, Lillian comes to America
alone, determined to make her way
in a new land. When word comes
that her daughter, Sophie might still be alive,
Lillian embarks on an unforgettable odyssey.
• Order # T2128
THREE BAGS FULL
by Leonie Swann.
On a hillside near the cozy Irish
village of Glennkill, the members
of the flock gathered around their
shepherd, George, whose body lies
pinned to the ground with a spade.
Led by Miss Maple, the smartest
sheep in Glennkill (and possibly the world), they
set out to find George’s killer. 540 min.
• Order # T2089
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SONGS
WITHOUT WORDS
THE GOOD EARTH
by Pearl S. Buck.
In old agrarian China, the humble
Wang Lung glories in the soil he
works, nurturing the land as it
nurtures him and his family.
Nearby, the nobles of the House of
Hwang consider themselves above
the land and its workers; but they will soon meet
their own downfall. 630 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2135
TREE OF SMOKE
by Denis Johnson.
This is the story of William
“Skip” Sands, CIA—engaged in
Psychological Operations against
the Vietcong—and the disasters
that befall him. This is also the
story of the Houston brothers,
Bill and James, young men who drift out of the
Arizona desert and into a war where the line
between disinformation and delusion has blurred
away. 1260 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2139
1-800-426-READ
DARK RIVERS
OF THE HEART
by Dean Koontz.
Spencer Grant is hiding from a
past he can’t fully remember. On
his trail is a shadowy security
agency that answers to no one and
a man who considers himself a compassionate
Angel of Death. But worst of all, he is on a
collision course with inner demons he thought
he’d buried years ago. 1170 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2145
THE REST OF HER LIFE
by Laura Moriarty.
In The Rest of Her Life, Laura
Moriarty delivers a luminous,
compassionate, and provocative
look at how mothers and
daughters with the best intentions
can be blind to the harm they do
to one another. 660 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2122
HARD EVIDENCE
by John Lescroart.
When the bullet-ridden body of a
Silicon Valley billionaire washes up
on shore, assistant D.A. Dismas
Hardy finds himself the prosecutor
in San Francisco’s murder trial of
the century. 1020 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2125
THE SCANDAL
OF THE SEASON
by Sophie Gee.
The Scandal of the Season captures
the hedonism, romance, and risk
of a time when marriage was a
market, the wrong beliefs equaled
treason and dishonor, and sex was
a temptation fraught with danger. 600 min.
• Order # T2127
SOMETHING MORE
by Janet Dailey.
A captivating story of a man who’s
given up, a woman who won’t let
go, and a race to find a treasure
that could bring them wealth and
so much more. 660 min.
• Order # T2084
Fiction
by Troy Denning.
Luke Skywalker wanted to unify
the Jedi Order and bring peace to
the universe. Instead is wife, Mara,
lies dead at the hands of an unknown assassin,
his wayward nephew Jacen has seized control
of the Galactic Alliance, and the galaxy has
exploded in all-out civil war. 390 min.
• Order # T2120
SILVER MASTER
by Jayne Castle.
Fleeing a lurid scandal, matchmaker Celinda Ingram arrived in
Cadence City desperate for a new
start. Known for her strong
para-resonator abilities, she is able
to match up clients by reading
their psi waves. It’s this talent that sets her body
tingling when security specialist David Oakes
shows up at her office. 540 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2150
TO TAME A
HIGHLAND WARRIOR
by Karen Marie Moning.
Hiding his identity from the
relentless rival clan that hunted
him, Gavrael McIllioch called
himself Grimm to protect the
people he cared for, vowing never
to acknowledge his love for ravishing Jillian St.
Clair. Yet even from afar he watched over her,
and when her father sent an urgent summons,
“Come for Jillian,” he raced to her side—into a
competition to win her hand in marriage. 600
• Order # T2149
THE JANISSARY
TREE
by Jason Goodwin.
The year is 1836. Europe is
modernizing, and the sultan of the
Ottoman Empire feels he has no
choice but to follow suit. But just
as he’s poised to announce
sweeping political change, a wave of murders
threatens the fragile balance of power in his
court. Who is behind the killings? 660 min.
• Order # T2152
THE 47TH SAMURAI
by Stephen Hunter.
Philip Yano, the son of the
Japanese officer who commanded
the bunker on Iwo Jima where
Bob Lee Swagger’s marine father
won the Medal of Honor in 1945,
approaches Swagger about a missing sword
wielded by his father, Hideki, during the battle
for the island. The sword turns out to be not just
a family heirloom but a national treasure that
evokes echoes from the most sacrosanct corners
of Japanese history. 780 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2154
STRONG POISON
by Dorothy L. Sayers.
Detective Lord Peter Wimsey is
caught up in the murder trial of
mystery writer Harriet Vane. Her
fiance has died of poisoning exactly
as described in one of Harriet’s
novels—so naturally she is the
prime suspect. Will she be convicted and
executed for the crime, or can he save her life
and win her hand in marriage? 450 min.
• Order # T2158
PLAYING FOR PIZZA
by John Grisham.
Rick Dockery was the third-string
quarterback for the Cleveland
Browns until he was cut. Against
enormous odds Rick’s agent finally
locates a team that miraculously
needs Rick as a starting
quarterback—for the mighty Panthers of Parma,
Italy. To say that Italy holds a few surprises for
Rick Dockery would be something of an
understatement. 420 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2164
BRIDGE OF SIGHS
by Richard Russo.
Bridge of Sighs is a typically
stunning portrait of three small
town families struggling--like the
town itself--to strike a balance
between obsessively embracing
their own history or shunning it
entirely, with devastating consequences along
both paths. 1620 min. Unabridged. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T2165
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LIFE ON THE
REFRIGERATOR DOOR
by Alice Kuipers.
Heartfelt, touching and
unforgettable, Life on the
Refrigerator Door deftly captures
the impenetrable fabric that
connects mothers and daughters throughout the
world and delivers universal lessons about love
in a wonderfully simple and poignant narrative.
• Order # T2155
YOU’VE BEEN
WARNED
by James Patterson.
When Kristin’s photographs are
considered by an elite Manhattan
art gallery, it seems she might
finally get the chance that will start
her career. But Kristin has a major
distraction: forbidden love. Breathless with an
inexhaustible passion and the excitement of
being within reach of her goals, Kristin ignores
all signs of catastrophe brewing. 420 min.
• Order # T2156
MAKING MONEY
by Terry Pratchett.
Postmaster general Moist von
Lipwig, former arch-swindler and
confidence man, has exceeded
all expectations in running the
Ankh-Morpork Post Office. So
it’s somewhat disconcerting when
Lord Vetinari summons Moist to the palace and
asks, “Tell me, Mr. Lipwig, would you like to
make some real money?” 660 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2157
SWEET REVENGE
by Diane Mott Davidson.
Goldy Schulz is thrilled to be
catering a holiday breakfast feast
for the staff of the Aspen Meadow
Library. But little does she know
that on the menu is a large helping
of murder. 690 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2121
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STAR WARS:
LEGACY OF THE
FORCE: INFERNO
Audio: CD
Audio/Video Catalog
Audio: CD
BIG COUNTRY
by Louis L’Amour.
Louis L’Amour said that the West
was a “big country needing big
men and women to live it.” The
two stories (Ride, You Tonto Raiders
and War Party) in this collection
provide a good sample of the kinds of people he
had in mind. 150 min. Unabridged. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T2136
DEATH TRUST
by David Rollins.
Amid the dust, death, and chaos
of Iraq, an American soldier on
a routine patrol is killed by an
unseen enemy. It’s a tragedy but
not a crime—until it’s linked to
the bizarre death of a decorated
four-star general who happens to be the dead
man’s father...and the son-in-law of history’s
most feared and powerful U.S. vice president.
• Order # T2177
ISABELLA MOON
by Laura Benedict.
Two years ago, nine-year-old
Isabella Moon disappeared on her
way home from school. Is it just
coincidence that Kate Russell, a
young woman with no discernible
past, arrived in town just months
before Isabella’s disappearance? When Kate
walks into Sheriff Bill Delaney’s office to tell him
that Isabella’s ghost has led her to the child’s
hidden grave, he immediately views her as a
suspect. 840 min. Unabridged. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T2175
THE BONE GARDEN
by Tess Gerritsen.
Julia Hamill has made a horrifying
discovery on the grounds of her
new home in rural Massachusetts:
a skull buried in the rocky
soil—human, female, and,
according to the trained eye of
Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred
with the unmistakable marks of murder. 780
• Order # T2178
Fiction
MARION ZIMMER
BRADLEY’S RAVENS
OF AVALON
by Diana L. Paxson.
This prequel to The Forest House
tells the story of the Roman
conquest of Britain and the origin
of the Forest House that preceded the return to
Avalon. 960 min. Unabridged. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T2172
FRESH DISASTERS
by Stuart Woods.
Stone Barrington embarks on his
most dangerous adventure yet
when a chance encounter with the
wrong man sends him straight into
the heart of New York’s Mafia
underworld. 450 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2171
BLOODFEVER
MacKayla Lane’s ordinary life
underwent a complete makeover
when she landed on Ireland’s
shores and was plunged into a
world of deadly sorcery and
ancient secrets. 197 min.
• Order # T2213
THE DEVIL YOU
KNOW
by Mike Carey.
Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist,
and London is his stamping
ground. It may seem like a good
ghostbuster can charge what he
likes and enjoy a hell of a lifestyle,
but there’s a risk: Sooner or later he’s going to
take on a spirit that’s too strong for him. 840
• Order # T2214
TERMINAL
by Andrew Vachss.
Burke is forced back in time to
keep a commitment to a brother
from his prison past and to avenge
the rape-murder of a teenage girl
that happened thirty years ago.
600 min. Unabridged. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T2180
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LAST KNOWN VICTIM
by Erica Spindler.
Captain Patti O’Shay’s tough,
unflinching character is fractured
when her husband and fellow
police captain is found murdered.
Still grieving, Patti gets a call from
homicide: skeletal remains have been unearthed
in City Park. The unknown female victim is
missing her right hand. But for Patti, this grave
holds something even more shocking—her
husband’s police badge. 720 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2179
THE HOUSE
OF THUNDER
by Dean Koontz.
In a cavern called The House of
Thunder, Susan Thornton watched
in terror as her love died a brutal
death in a college hazing. And in
the following four years, the four
young men who participated in that grim
fraternity rite likewise died violently. Or did
they? 600 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2181
THE CHOICE
by Nicholas Sparks.
Spanning the eventful years of
young love, marriage, and family,
The Choice ultimately confronts us
with the most heart-wrenching
question of all; How far would
you go to keep the hope of love
alive? 540 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2188
NO TIME
FOR GOODBYE
by Linwood Barclay.
Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge
woke that morning to find herself
alone. Her family—mother,
father, and brother—had vanished
without a word, without a note,
without a trace. Twenty-five years later, Cynthia
is still looking for answers. Now she is about to
learn the devastating truth. 660 min.
• Order # T2192
Fiction
by Garrison Keillor.
In the little town of Lake
Wobegon, a wedding is planned
down to the last detail, from the
cheese to the flying Elvis to the
pontoon boat. Meanwhile, a good
Lutheran lady prepares to die, her daughter
meets a lover at the Romeo Motel, and a
delegation of renegade Lutheran pastors from
Denmark comes to town. It is Lake Wobegon
as you’ve imagined it—good, loving people who
drive each other slightly crazy. 480 min.
• Order # T2183
FREE FALL
by Fern Michaels.
Yoko Akia’s mother was only
fifteen when a wealthy man swept
her off her feet with promises of
love. Instead, he filled her brief life
with horror and misery. The
Sisterhood has helped each other
exact vengeance on rotten men before, and this
time not even a powerful superstar is above the
Sisterhood’s special brand of payback. 720 min.
• Order # T2182
THE WORST
THING I’VE DONE
by Ursula Hegi.
The Worst Thing I’ve Done is a
poignant voyage of self-discovery,
resilience, and understanding that
resonates long after each character’s
story is told. 570 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2215
DARK OF THE MOON
by John Sandford.
Bluestem, Minnesota, is a quiet
town where everybody knows
everyone else's business and
murder is unheard of. But now
someone is killing off a generation
of old-timers, and Virgil Flowers,
of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal
Apprehension, is in town to find the person
responsible. 630 min. Unabridged. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T2198
PANDORA’S DAUGHTER
by Iris Johansen.
A woman must unlock the secrets
of her own mind before she loses
her life. 660 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2197
DEAD HEAT
by Dick Francis
& Felix Francis.
Max Moreton is a superstar chef
whose life gets complicated when
more than 200 people get sick after
eating a dinner he catered at a
racetrack. The next day, while he's
serving lunch at another race, the glass-fronted
box of the grandstand explodes. Max turns
sleuth to save his reputation and his restaurant.
• Order # T2167
TOEHOLD
by Stephen H. Foreman.
Like many residents in Toehold,
Alaska, Mary Ellen Mel Madden
came to Toehold with just no place
left to go. But thanks to Cody
Rosewater, the town’s taxidermist,
Mel soon learns how to track, hunt
and trap. She puts her new skills to work by
hanging out her hunting guide shingle. But her
first client, a smarmy Hollywood producer, may
prove to be more dangerous than the golden grizzly they set out after. 570 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2230
SOUL CATCHER
by Michael White.
In the perilous years before the
Civil War, the fates of two
remarkable people will intertwine
in an extraordinary adventure,
a journey of hardship and
redemption that will take them
from Virginia to Boston and back—and one that
will become an extraordinary test of character
and will, mercy and compassion. 960 min.
• Order # T2228
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DUNE MESSIAH
by Frank Herbert.
Dune Messiah picks up the story of
the man known as Muad’Dib, heir
to a power unimaginable, bringing
to fruition an ambition of
unparalleled scale: the centuriesold scheme to create a superbeing who reigns not
in the heavens but among men. 540 min.
• Order # T2236
FALSE MEMORY
by Dean Koontz.
Martie Rhodes’ best friend, Susan,
suffers from agoraphobia, or a fear
of open spaces, and relies on
Martie to take her to weekly
therapy sessions. Suddenly and
inexplicably, Martie herself begins
exhibiting worrying signs of a mental disorder.
But the truth behind their phobias will be more
horrible than Susan or Martie can imagine.
• Order # T2226
SHOOT HIM
IF HE RUNS
by Stuart Woods.
Besieged on one side by the local
authorities and on the other by
impossible demands from CIA
headquarters, Stone Barrington
and friends fight their way through
a web of secrecy toward their quarry, burdened
with orders they don’t really want to follow.
• Order # T2235
BEL CANTO
by Ann Patchett.
Somewhere in South America at
the home of the country’s vice
president, a lavish birthday party
is being held in honor of Mr.
Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese
businessman. Roxanne Coss,
opera’s most revered soprano, has mesmerized
the guests with her singing. It is a perfect
evening—until a band of terrorists breaks in,
taking the entire party hostage. 690 min.
• Order # T2219
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PONTOON
Audio: CD
Audio/Video Catalog
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THE ALMOST MOON
by Alice Sebold.
With fierce intelligence and
emotional intensity, Alice Sebold
brings us a searing portrait of a
mother-daughter bond that
descends into murder. 570 min.
• Order # T2225
THE COLLECTED
BOWDRIE DRAMATIZATIONS: VOL. 3
by Louis L’Amour.
Follow Chick Bowdrie’s adventures
in these six classic westerns by
America’s favorite storyteller, Louis
L’Amour. 420 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2224
THE PILLARS
OF THE EARTH
by Ken Follett.
A spellbinding epic tale of ambition,
anarchy, and absolute power set
against the sprawling medieval
canvas of twelfth-century England.
2460 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2227
WORLD
WITHOUT END
by Ken Follett.
Four children, who will become a
peasant’s wife, a knight, a builder
and a nun, share a traumatic
experience that will affect each of
them differently as their lives play
out from 1327 to 1361. 2730 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2222
THE CHESS MACHINE
by Robert Löhr.
Vienna, 1770—Baron Wolfgang
von Kempelen unveils the
Mechanical Turk, an uneatable
chess-playing automation. But the
chess machine is secretly operated
from inside by the Italian dwarf
Tibor, a social outcast whose chess-laying abilities
and diminutive size make him the perfect
accomplice in this grand hoax. 810 min.
• Order # T2216
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Fiction
BLONDE FAITH
by Walter Mosley.
The tenth Easy Rawlins thriller
puts him on the streets of L.A. to
solve a case that threatens the lives
of his closest friends. 420 min.
• Order # T2218
WAR AND PEACE
by Leo Tolstoy.
Leo Tolstoy’s epic War and Peace
chronicles one of the most
turbulent eras in Russian history,
encompassing the drama and
intensity of life during and after
the Napoleonic Wars. 570 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2265
CREATION IN DEATH
by J. D. Robb.
Lieutenant Eve Dallas never forgets
a corpse or the killers she couldn’t
capture. With the recent murder
of a young brunette, Eve is
catapulted back to a case nine years
earlier, when a man whom the
media tagged “The Groom” put the city on edge
with a killing spree that took the lives of four
women in fifteen days. Now The Groom seems
to have come back to where he started. 720 min.
• Order # T2264
SEDUCTION
IN DEATH
by J. D. Robb.
Eve Dallas searches for a Casanova
killer with a deadly appetite for
seduction. 600 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2262
NOW & THEN
Dennis Doherty asks Spenser
to investigate his wife Jordan’s
abnormal behavior. Not
surprisingly, Spenser catches Jordan
with another man, tells Dennis
what he’s found out. Then all hell
breaks loose. Now three people are dead and
Spenser’s in the middle of a hornet’s nest of
trouble, and he has to get out of it without getting
stung. 330 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2251
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A LICK OF FROST
by Laurell K. Hamilton.
Meredith Gentry is princess and
heir apparent to the throne in the
realm of faerie, and onetime
private investigator in the mortal
world. Now King Taranis, ruler
of faerie’s Seelie Court, has leveled accusations
against her noble guards of a heinous crime.
But Meredith knows that Taranis’s charges are
baseless, and senses that his true target is her.
• Order # T2244
THE MEPHISTO CLUB
by Tess Gerritsen.
Delving into the most baffling case
of their careers, Boston medical
examiner Maura Isles and
Detective Jane Rizzoli embark on a
terrifying journey to the very heart
of evil, where they encounter a
malevolent foe...one whose work is only just
beginning. 300 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2243
THE LAST NOEL
by Heather Graham.
With a storm paralyzing New
England, the O’Boyle household
becomes prey to a pair of brutal
escaped killers desperate to find
refuge. Skyler O’Boyle is convinced
the only way they can live through
the night is by playing a daring psychological
game to throw the convicts off their guard. 360
• Order # T2249
THE GHOST
by Robert Harris.
Former British prime minister
Adam Lang is up against a firm
deadline to submit his memoirs to
his publisher, and the project is
dangerously derailed when his aide
perishes in a ferry accident. To
salvage the book, a professional ghostwriter is
hired, but the unnamed writer soon finds that
separating truth from fiction in Lang’s
recollections a challenge. As the new writer
probes deeper, he uncovers evidence that his
predecessor’s death may have been a homicide.
• Order # T2255
Fiction
by Louis L'Amour.
Louis L'Amour's world is built on
those dramatic moments when
men and women cast their fears,
doubts, and pasts behind them and plunge into
the unknown. Nowhere is that more evident
than in this latest collection of stories set on the
American frontier. 180 min. Unabridged
Selections. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2279
GENTLEMEN
OF THE ROAD
by Michael Chabon.
Zelikman and Amram, respectively
a gawky Frank and a gigantic
Abyssinian, make their living by
means of confidence tricks,
doctoring, body guarding and the
occasional bit of skullduggery along the Silk
Road. The unlikely duo find themselves caught
up in larger events when they befriend Filaq, the
headstrong and unlikable heir to the recently
deposed war king of the Khazars. 240 min.
• Order # T2278
THIRD DEGREE
by Greg Iles.
Third Degree plunges the reader
into a world of sex, violence,
marital betrayal, medical
malpractice, and southern intrigue.
780 min. Unabridged. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T2287
STONE COLD
by David Baldacci.
Oliver Stone, the leader of the
mysterious group that calls itself
the Camel Club, is both feared and
respected by those who've crossed
his path. Keeping a vigilant watch
over our leaders in Washington,
D.C., the Camel Club has won over some allies,
but it has also earned formidable enemies—
including those in power who will do anything
to prevent Stone and his friends from uncovering
the hidden, secret work of the government. 630
• Order # T2273
AMAZING GRACE
by Danielle Steel.
On a warm May night in San
Francisco, a celebrity-studded
crowd gathers for a charity dinner
dance at the Ritz-Carlton. But just
minutes before midnight an
earthquake hits. In the quake's aftermath, the
lives of four strangers will converge. As the city
staggers back to life, a chain reaction of
extraordinary events will touch each of them.
• Order # T2275
PROTECT
AND DEFEND
by Vince Flynn.
An action-packed and all-toorealistic vision of nations
navigating the minefield of
international intrigue, Protect and
Defend is Vince Flynn's most
explosive political thriller yet. 660 min.
• Order # T2282
THE PARTING
by Beverly Lewis.
Nearly 100 days have passed since
the untimely death of Nellie Mae
Fisher's beloved younger sister,
Suzy, and Nellie dares again to
dream of a future with handsome
Caleb Yoder. But with rumors
about Suzy still flying among the People, there
are those who would keep the young courting
couple apart. 360 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2253
TAKEN BY STORM
by Tami Hoag.
Taken By Storm is a bittersweet
romance classic about a woman
who's rebuilt her life and her heart
after the disappointments of the
past, only to find her carefully laid
plans shattered by a knock on the
door. 360 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2274
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REDEMPTION FALLS
by Joseph O'Connor.
After the Civil War, Eliza Mooney
treks across America to find her
brother. General James OKeeffe
watches his efforts at peacekeeping
deteriorate as vigilantism comes to
Redemption Falls. Outlaws, runaway slaves, the
ravaged land, and bleak prospects offer a
kaleidoscope of characters and confusion. 1140
• Order # T2257
ON THE ROAD
by Jack Kerouac.
Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing,
On The Road is thinly fictionalized
autobiography, filled with a cast
made of Kerouac's real life friends,
lovers, and fellow travelers. 1140
• Order # T2277
BEOWULF
read by J. B. Bessinger, Jr.
Listen as J. B. Bessinger, Jr. reads
Beowulf and many other Old
English poems, including
Caedmon's Hymn. Listen to poems
about love, war, faith, and heroism
from centuries past. 50 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2199
HORNBLOWER AND
THE "HOTSPUR"
by C. S. Forester.
The year is 1803, just as Napoleon
is amassing an army of ships
destined to attack England. The
task of stopping him falls to young
Horatio Hornblower, one of the
Royal Navy's most daring and resourceful
officers. 360 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2267
PURITY IN DEATH
by J. D. Robb.
When two men die under nearly
identical circumstances, Detective
Eve Dallas starts racking her brain
for answers and for courage to face
the impossible...that this might be
a computer virus able to spread
from machine to man. 600 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2263
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THE COLLECTED
SHORT STORIES
OF LOUIS L'AMOUR
Audio: CD
Audio/Video Catalog
Audio: CD
DEADFALL
by Robert Liparulo.
What happens when people with
no sense of values have the keys to
the ultimate weapon? You may
not want to know the answer.
780 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2268
THE CHASE
by Clive Cussler.
Detective Isaac Bell has never had
a challenge like this one. From
Arizona to Colorado to the streets
of San Francisco during its
calamitous earthquake and fire,
he pursues what quickly becomes
clear to him is the best criminal mind he has ever
encountered, and the woman who seems to hold
the key to the man's identity. 750 min.
• Order # T2298
TWICE SHY
by Dick Frances.
Young physics teacher Jonathan
Derry receives some music tapes
from a friend. Or so he thinks.
But it turns out they really contain
an elaborate computerized
racetrack betting system that can
make the owner a rich man—or a dead one.
There are greedy, desperate men who will do
anything to get their hands on the lucrative
software. 547 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2301
FROM THE
CORNER OF HIS EYE
by Dean Koontz.
At the age of three, Barty Lampion
is blinded. As the growing boy
copes with his blindness and
proves to be a prodigy, his mother
counsels him that there is meaning
even in his suffering. At thirteen, Barty regains
his sight. How and why he regains it result in a
breathtaking journey of courage, suspense, and
adventure. 1320 min. Unabridged. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T2290
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Fiction
DANCE UPON
THE AIR
by Nora Roberts.
Steeped in history, romance, and
legend, Dance Upon the Air is an
unforgettable tale of friendship,
fate, and the mysterious ways of
the heart. 540 min. Unabridged. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T2303
FACE THE FIRE
by Nora Roberts.
Years ago, Mia Devlin and Sam
Logan shared an incredible bond
built on passion, legend, and fate.
But then one day Sam fledThree
Sisters Island, leaving Mia lost in
memories of the magic they
shared. Now Sam has returned to the island
with hopes of winning back Mia's affections.
• Order # T2302
PORTRAIT IN DEATH
by J. D. Robb.
Lieutenant Eve Dallas faces a serial
killer who offers his victims eternal
youth by taking their lives. 720 min.
• Order # T2304
DOUBLE CROSS
by James Patterson.
A psychotic killer who craves
an audience, and a murdering
mastermind who works alone.
Both are after the same detective—
Alex Cross. 480 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2300
THE NEW YEAR'S
QUILT
by Jennifer Chiaverini.
Silvia Bergstrom Compson and
Andrew Cooper married on
Christmas Eve. But their union
did not fill everyone with holiday
cheer—Andrew's daughter Amy
has withheld her blessing. Hoping to bring Amy
into the fold, Silvia and Andrew journey to
Amy's home, bringing along a quilt that
expresses the holiday traditions of Elm Creek
Manor. 375 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2305
1-800-426-READ
THE HIGHLANDER'S
TOUCH
He was a mighty Scottish warrior
who lived in a world bound by
ancient laws and timeless magic.
But no immortal powers could
prepare the laird of Castle Brodie for the lovely
accursed lass who stood before him. For this
woman he burned to possess was also the woman
he had foresworn to destroy. 660 min.
• Order # T2299
THE RACE
by Richard North Patterson.
A vivid and sometimes frightening
depiction of contemporary power
politics, The Race also takes on the
most incendiary issues in American
culture: racism, terrorism, religious
fundamentalism, gay rights, and
the rise of media monopolies with their own
agendas and lust for power. 660 min.
• Order # T2291
THE QUIET GIRL
by Peter Høeg.
Wanted for tax evasion and on the
verge of extradition, Kasper Krone
is drafted into the service of a
mysterious order of nuns who
promise him reprieve from the
international authorities in return
for his help safeguarding a group of children with
mystical abilities. When one of the children goes
missing, Krone sets off to find the young girl,
making a series of shocking discoveries along the
way about her identity and the true intentions of
his young wards. 720 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2292
HOME TO
HOLLY SPRINGS
by Jan Karon.
After more than thirty-eight years.
Father Tim Kavanagh returns to
his childhood home of Holly
Springs, Mississippi, on a
profoundly personal journey. He
figures Thomas Wolfe was right: You can't go
home again. Then he discovers the truth: A
surprising number of old connections have
miraculously survived time and neglect. 690
• Order # T2296
Fiction
by Margaret Truman.
Arriving home from a fund-raising
dinner, senior Illinois senator Lyle
Simmons discovers his wife's
brutally bludgeoned body. Former
DA Philip Rotondi harbors unsettling suspicions.
And after a second woman is killed, he discovers
that a long-buried secret from his past may hold
the key to cracking the case. 600 min.
• Order # T2280
MIDNIGHT CLEAR
by Jerry B. Jenkins
& Dallas Jenkins.
A middle-aged man, jobless and
recently evicted. An old woman
estranged from her family. A
frustrated youth pastor. A young
mother and son spending their
first holiday alone since her husband's accident.
And a gas station owner forced to work on a
holiday. As midnight approaches, these five
randomly cross paths, changing each others' lives
forever. 240 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2285
DESERT TALES:
DESERT DEATH
SONG & LAW
OF THE DESERT
by Louis L'Amour.
Nat Bodine had a choice: to die
by hanging or take his chances in
the desert. But when a good
woman believes in a man, he finds the will to
survive. 60 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2308
A FREE LIFE
by Ha Jin.
Newcomers to the United States,
Nan Wu and his wife, Pingping,
have just brought their six-year-old
son from China, so that they can
all begin a freer life in the West.
Unsure but optimistic, the Wu
family sets out on an uncharted journey in search
of the American Dream. 1311 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2307
EXIT GHOST
by Philip Roth.
After 11 years of isolation in his
New England mountain refuge,
Nathan Zuckerman returns to
New York City and makes three
important connections. The first is
to a young couple with whom he suggests
swapping homes. The second is to Amy, the
former muse of Zuckerman's first literary hero,
E.I. Lonoff. And the third is to a bold, ambitious
Lonoff biographer who is irritatingly persistent,
It seems Zuckerman's carefully protected sense of
isolation is bound to be shattered. 465 min.
• Order # T2314
WIFE FOR HIRE
by Janet Evanovich.
Hank Mallone knows he's in
trouble when Maggie Toone agrees
to pretend to be his wife in order
to improve his rogue's reputation.
Will his harebrained scheme to get
a bank loan for his business
backfire once Maggie arrives in his small
Vermont town and lets the gossips take a look?
• Order # T2325
THE MIST
by Stephen King.
Stephen King's sinister imagination transports you to a hot, lazy
day in a sleepy all-American
town—where a sudden, violent
storm leaves behind a mysterious
mist that traps you in the
supermarket with dozens of others, cut off from
your families and the world. 90 min. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T2316
LOST
by Gregory Maguire.
Winifred Rudge travels to London
to jump-start her new novel about
a woman who is being haunted by
the ghost of Jack the Ripper.
Upon her arrival, she finds that her
old friend John Comestor has
disappeared, and a ghostly presence seems to
have taken over his apartment in the nineteenthcentury row house once owned by Winnie's
great-great-grandfather. 690 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2311
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MISTER B. GONE
by Clive Barker.
A demon known as Jakabok has
embedded his very self inside each
word of this meticulously printed
tale of autobiographical terror. The
reader is taunted and teased by his
pleas for release from the confines of the very ink
and paper that provide the vehicle for his life
story. Little do they know, the depths of horror
they hold in their hands. 390 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2312
A VERSION
OF THE TRUTH
by Jennifer Kaufman
& Karen Mack.
Cassie Shaw desperately needs a
decent paycheck. Which is why,
against all her principles, she lies on
her resume for an office job at an
elite university—and then finds herself employed
in academia by two professors. But Cassie's
masquerade is about to come undone...in a chain
of events that will transform her life—and the
lives of those around her—forever. 600 min.
• Order # T2332
THE GOOD,
THE BAD, AND
THE UNDEAD
by Kim Harrison.
Former bounty hunter Rachel
Morgan has it pretty good. But
living with a reformed vampire
isn't all it's cracked up to be,
particularly when your roommate's ex-boyfriend
wants her back and wouldn't mind you in the
process. To save herself and her roommate,
Rachel must confront the vampire master—and
the dark secrets she's hidden even from herself.
• Order # T2330
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MURDER
ON K STREET
Audio: CD
Audio/Video Catalog
Audio: CD
IT AIN’T ALL ABOUT
THE COOKIN’
by Paula Deen.
Courageously honest, downright
inspiring, and just a little bit saucy,
Paula shares the highs and lows of
her life. But even when the going
got tough, Paula never lost the good grace and
sense of humor that would eventually help carry
her to success and stardom. 420 min. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T1908
BETTER
by Atul Gawande.
Atul Gawande explores how doctors
strive to close the gap between best
intentions and actual performance
in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Unabridged.
• Order # T1909
THE WILD TREES
by Richard Preston.
The biggest redwood trees are over
a thousand years old. Believed to
be impossible to ascend, these
majestic giants have remained
unexplored until recently...when a
tiny group of daring botanists and
amateur naturalists discovered a lost, dangerous
and hauntingly beautiful world high above
California. Unabridged. 360 min. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T1910
WOMEN & MONEY
by Suze Orman.
With Women & Money, Suze
Orman offers not only the
possibilities of what a life of wealth
can be but also the power and tools
to attain that life. 360 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1913
iWOZ
by Steve Wozniak.
From the invention of the first
personal computer to the rise of
Apple as an industry giant, Woz
treats listeners to a rollicking,
no-holds-barred account of his
life—for once, in the voice of the
wizard himself Unabridged. 540 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1979
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Non-Fiction
THE NIGHT STALKERS
by Michael J. Durant
& Steven Hartov.
The thrilling never-before-heard
stories of the Army’s elite aviation
unit, the most daring and
professional helicopter crews in the
world. Unabridged. 660 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1915
YOU: ON A DIET
and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
With their combined, expert
knowledge of the human body, the
doctors vividly—and amusingly—
spell out the dynamic do’s and
don’ts of healthy waist control.
• Order # T1981
A MORMON IN THE
WHITE HOUSE?
by Hugh Hewitt.
Mixing exclusive interviews with
the governor and candid
conversations with some of the
country’s leading Christian pastors
and shrewdest political observers,
this is a riveting look inside the most wide-open
battle for the presidency since 1948. Unabridged. 600 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1983
THE LAST CHANCE
MILLIONAIRE
by Douglas R. Andrew.
Regardless of whether you’re
retiring in just a few years or
retirement is still down the road,
Andrew’s well-researched financial
strategies will turn everything
you’ve heard about retirement planning upside
down. Unabridged. 810 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1974
WIKINOMICS
by Don Tapscott.
Bestselling author Don Tapscott
shows how masses of people can
participate in the economy like
never before. An important look
into the future, Wikinomics will be
your road map for doing business
in the twenty-first century. Unabridged. 810
• Order # T1942
1-800-426-READ
GO PUT YOUR
STRENGTHS TO
WORK
by Marcus Buckingham.
Research data show that most
people do not come close to
making full use of their assets at
work. Go Put Your Strengths to Work will reveal
the hidden dimensions of your strengths through
a six-step, six-week experience. Unabridged.
• Order # T1963
BUDDHA
by Deepak Chopra.
From the rocky terrain of the
material world to the summit of
the spiritual one, Buddha entertains
and inspires—ultimately leading
us closer to understanding the true
nature of life and ourselves.
• Order # T1887
THE BATTLE
FOR THE RHINE
by Robin Neillands.
The post-Normandy battles that
the Allies fought as they struggled
for seven months to advance from
the Seine to the Rhine were
complex and controversial. Could
the war in Europe have been won in 1944 with
better strategies? Unabridged. 720 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1968
LAST FLAG DOWN
by John Baldwin
& Ron Powers.
As the Confederacy felt itself
slipping beneath the Union
juggernaut in late 1864, the South
launched a desperate counteroffensive to force a standoff. Its secret
weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship whose
mission was to sink the U.S. merchant fleet. The
raider’s name was Shenandoah, and her executive
officer was Conway Whittle, a twenty-four-yearold warrior. 360 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1928
Non-Fiction
EMPIRE OF
BLUE WATER
by Frank W. Abagnale.
Considering the fact that a fresh
identity-theft victim is hit in the
U.S. every four seconds, Stealing
Your Life is the reference everyone
needs, by an unsurpassed authority on the latest
identity-theft schemes. Unabridged. 450 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1906
by Stephan Talty.
He challenged the greatest empire
on earth with a ragtag bunch of
renegades—and brought it to its
knees. Empire of Blue Water is
the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean.
• Order # T1932
EINSTEIN: HIS LIFE
AND UNIVERSE
by Walter Isaacson.
How did Einstein’s mind work?
What made him a genius?
Isaacson’s biography shows how
his scientific imagination sprang
from the rebellious nature of his
personality. His fascinating story is a testament
to the connection between creativity and freedom.
• Order # T1905
THE NOT SO BIG LIFE
by Sarah Susanka.
Sarah Susanka reveals that we have
all the space and time we need for
the things in our lives that really
matter. But perhaps the greatest
reward is the discovery that small
changes can yield enormous
results. 360 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1918
SEND
by David Shipley
& Will Schwalbe.
Whether you email just a little or
never stop, here, at last, is an
authoritative and delightful
audiobook that shows how to
write the perfect email anywhere.
• Order # T1919
DRAGON SEA
by Frank Pope.
A true tale of treasure, archeology,
and greed off the coast of Vietnam.
Disc.)
• Order # T2017
RELIGIOUS
LITERACY
by Stephen Prothero.
Religious Literacy reveals what every
American needs to know in order
to confront the domestic and
foreign challenges facing this
country today. Unabridged. 600
• Order # T1929
ANIMAL, VEGETABLE,
MIRACLE
by Barbara Kingsolver.
Part memoir, part journalistic
investigation, Animal, Vegetable,
Miracle makes a passionate case for
putting the kitchen back at the
center of family life, and diversified
farms at the center of the American diet.
• Order # T1936
RECLAIMING HISTORY:
THE ASSASSINATION
OF PRESIDENT JOHN
F. KENNEDY
by Vincent Bugliosi.
Twenty years in the making,
Reclaiming History resolves, beyond
any reasonable doubt, every lingering question
surrounding the Kennedy Assassination.
• Order # T1939
TOO LATE
TO SAY GOODBYE
by Ann Rule.
America’s foremost true-crime
writer offers her most riveting
real-life drama ever: a heartbreaking story of treachery, jealousy and
murder. Unabridged. 300 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1998
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THE REAGAN
DIARIES
edited by Douglas Brinkley.
The Reagan Diaries provides a
striking insight into one of
this nation’s most important
presidencies and sheds new light
on the character of a true American leader.
• Order # T2000
THE PERSONALITY
CODE
by Travis Bradberry.
The Personality Code explores and
explains the results of a decadelong, global study that determined
fourteen types of people on the
basis of their unique personality
profiles. Unabridged. 240 min. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T1995
RETHINKING THIN
by Gina Kolata.
Rethinking Thin offers commonsense answers to questions about
weight, eating habits, and
obesity—giving us a better
understanding of the weight that is
right for our bodies. Unabridged.
• Order # T2022
MEGATRENDS 2010
by Patricia Aburdene.
Seven new trends that will
transform how you work, live, and
invest. Unabridged. 135 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1993
RICHISTAN
by Robert Frank.
The rich have always been different
from you and me, but this
revealing and funny journey
through “Richistan” entertainingly
shows that they are more different
than ever. Unabridged. 450 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2026
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STEALING
YOUR LIFE
Audio: CD
Audio/Video Catalog
Audio: CD
THE LOVED DOG
by Tamar Geller.
In The Loved Dog, Tamar gives you
all the instruction, insights, and
tips you need to teach your dog
good manners, as well as to
troubleshoot specific problems and
unwanted behaviors. Unabridged. 330 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2030
BODY OF WORK
by Christine Montross.
Body of Work is a mesmerizing,
rarely seen glimpse into the
day-to-day life of a medical
student—an unforgettable
examination of the mysteries of the
human body and a remarkable
look at our relationship with both the living and
the dead. Unabridged. 570 min. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T2038
LEVIATHAN: THE
HISTORY OF WHALING
IN AMERICA
by Eric Jay Dolin.
Containing a wealth of naturalistic
detail on whales, Leviathan is the
most original and stirring history
of American whaling in many
decades. Unabridged. 960 min. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T2049
BLACK ELK SPEAKS
by John G. Neihardt.
This account of the life of Black
Elk, Oglala visionary and medicine
man, has opened the eyes of
contemporary America to the true
depths of our native culture. 180
• Order # T2067
WAY OFF THE ROAD
by Bill Geist.
Celebrated roving correspondent
for CBS News Sunday Morning and
bestselling author Bill Geist serves
up a rollicking look at some
small-town Americans and their
offbeat ways of life. Unabridged.
• Order # T2054
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Non-Fiction
THE PREACHER AND
THE PRESIDENTS
by Nancy Gibbs
& Michael Duffy.
No other figure in American
history managed to do what
evangelist Billy Graham did: he
counseled every president from Harry Truman
to George W. Bush, prayed with them all, knew
their spouses, their children, their aides—and
played a role in almost every presidential election
between 1952 and 2000. 660 min. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T2068
MANAGING
TRANSITIONS
by William Bridges.
As veteran business consultant
William Bridges explains in detail,
successful organizational change
takes place when employees have a
purpose, a mental picture, a plan
for, and a part to play in change. Unabridged.
• Order # T2070
THE WORLD
WITHOUT US
by Alan Weisman.
Weisman’s enthralling tour of the
world of tomorrow explores what
little will remain of ancient times
while anticipating, often poetically,
what a planet without us would be
like. Unabridged. 660 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2047
OUR FIRST
REVOLUTION
by Michael Barone.
The story of the Glorious
Revolution is a rich and riveting
saga of palace intrigue, loyalty and
shocking betrayal, and bold
political and military strategizing. Unabridged.
• Order # T2052
INTO THIN AIR
by Jon Krakauer.
Into Thin Air is the definitive,
personal account of the deadliest
season in the history of Mount
Everest. 480 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2079
1-800-426-READ
THE WORLD IS FLAT
by Thomas L. Friedman.
The World is Flat 3.0 is an essential
update on globalization, its
opportunities for individual
empowerment, its achievements
at lifting millions out of poverty,
and its drawbacks—environmental, social, and
political. Unabridged. 1440 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2058
THE VOLUMETRICS
EATING PLAN
by Barbara Rolls, Ph.D.
The Volumetrics Eating Plan is a
commonsense, scientifically sound
approach to eating that shows you
how to choose foods that control
hunger while losing weight. 290
• Order # T2051
CESAR’S WAY
by Cesar Millan.
Tracing his own amazing journey,
Cesar recounts how he learned
what makes dogs tick. In Cesar’s
Way, he shares this wisdom,
laying the groundwork for you
to have stronger, more satisfying
relationships with your canine companions.
• Order # T2050
PLATO’S REPUBLIC
by Simon Blackburn.
Plato is perhaps the most
significant philosopher who has
ever lived, and The Republic,
composed in Athens in about 375
BC, is widely regarded as his most
famous dialogue. In Plato’s
Republic, Blackburn explains the judicial, moral,
and political ideas in The Republic. Unabridged.
• Order # T2057
ONCE UPON A
QUINCEAÑERA
by Julia Alvarez.
Once Upon a Quinceañera is an
entertaining and thoughtful
portrait of contemporary Latino
culture as well as a critical look at
the rituals of coming of age. 540
• Order # T2075
Non-Fiction
by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto.
In 1507, European cartographers
were struggling to redraw their
maps of the world and to name the
newly found lands of the Western
Hemisphere. The name they
settled on: America, after Amerigo Vespucci, an
obscure Florentine explorer. Unabridged. 570
• Order # T2103
PEELING THE ONION
by Günter Grass.
This is the story of a childhood
in Danzig that ends with the
beginning of World War II. The
family in a crowded two-room
apartment—mother, father, sister,
and the young Günter, who
collects cigarette cards featuring the masterpieces
of Renaissance art and dreams of enlisting in the
submarine corps. Unabridged. 930 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2094
DON’T KNOW MUCH
ABOUT ANYTHING
by Kenneth C. Davis.
Everything you need to know but
never learned about people, places,
events, and more! 270 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2092
SAVAGE KINGDOM
by Benjamin Woolley.
An intimate story in an epic
setting, Benjamin Woolley shows
how the land of Pocahontas came
to be drawn into a new global
order, reaching from London to
the Orinoco Delta, from the
warring kingdoms of Angola to the slave markets
of Mexico, from the gates of the Ottoman Empire
to the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
• Order # T2073
ESSENTIAL HUGHES
Read by Langston Hughes.
A rare and exceptional recording
of Langston Hughes reading is
own poetry, as well as his own
commentary and reflections. 60
• Order # T2088
IN THE RUINS
OF EMPIRE
by Ronald H. Spector.
With access to recently available
firsthand accounts by Chinese,
Japanese, British, and American
witnesses and previously top-secret
U.S. intelligence records, Spector tells for the
first time the fascinating story of the deadly
confrontations that broke out—or merely
continued—in Asia after peace was proclaimed
at the end of World War II. 750 min.
• Order # T2081
LEGACY OF ASHES:
THE HISTORY OF
THE CIA
by Tim Weiner.
Legacy of Ashes is based on more
than 50,000 documents, primarily
from the archives of the CIA.
Everything is on the record. There are no
anonymous sources, no blind quotations. With
shocking revelations that will make headlines,
Tim Weiner gets at the truth and tells how the
CIA’s failures have profoundly jeopardized our
national security. 1290 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2083
ESSENTIAL
CUMMINGS
Read by E. E. Cummings.
E. E. Cummings, a master of
experimental and abstract poetry,
reads a collection of some of his
finest poems, now on CD for the
first time. 60 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2086
THE EDGE
OF EVOLUTION
by Michael J. Behe.
Thanks to genetics, for the first
time in history Darwin’s theory
can be rigorously evaluated. The
results are shocking. Although
Darwin’s theory can explain
marginal changes in evolutionary history,
random mutation and natural selection explain
very little of the basic machinery of life. 660
• Order # T2078
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HEALTHY SLEEP
by Andrew Weil, M.D.
& Rubin Naiman, Ph.D.
With Healthy Sleep, two trusted
medical innovators bring you their
expert guidance for achieving a
critical yet often overlooked
building block of any healthy lifestyle: a good
night’s rest. 135 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2118
THE THREE SIGNS
OF A MISERABLE JOB
by Patrick Lencioni.
Whether you're n executive
looking to establish a cultural
competitive advantage, a manager
trying to engage and motivate your
people, or an employee searching
for fulfillment in your work, The Three Signs of a
Miserable Job will provide you with immediate
relief and hope. 300 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2119
DRIVEWAY MOMENTS:
ALL ABOUT ANIMALS
by NPR.
A deer that ran middle-school
track, prairie dogs sucked up by
giant vacuums, and a too-chatty
parrot—just some of the 21 stories
of unusual encounters with our
friends from the animal kingdom that you’ll hear
on this NPR compilation. 90 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2124
SUPER CRUNCHERS
by Ian Ayres.
Entertaining, enlightening, and
absolutely essential, Super Crunchers
is an audiobook that no business
person, consumer, or student—
statistically, that’s everyone!—
should make another decision
without first listening to. Thinking-by-numbers
is the new way to be smart. 360 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2126
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AMERIGO
Audio: CD
Audio/Video Catalog
Audio: CD
LOOK ME IN THE EYE:
MY LIFE WITH
ASPERGER’S
by John Elder Robison.
Ever since he was small, John
Robison had longed to connect
with other people, but by the time
he was a teenager, his odd habits had earned him
the label “social deviant.” It was not until he was
forty that an insightful therapist told him he had
the form of autism called Asperger’s syndrome.
• Order # T2160
THE WOLF OF
WALL STREET
by Jordan Belfort.
Jordan Belfort was a stock market
multimillionaire at 25, federal
convict at 36. He partied like a
rock star, living like a king, and
barely survived his rise and fall as
an American entrepreneurial icon. 360 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2161
MICRO TRENDS
by Mark J. Penn.
Penn shows readers how to identify
the microtrends that can transform
a business enterprise, tip an
election, spark a movement, or
change your life. In today’s world,
small groups can have the biggest
impact. 720 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2140
THOMAS PAINE’S
RIGHTS OF MAN
by Christopher Hitchens.
Thomas Paine is one of the greatest
political propagandists in history.
The Rights of Man, first published
in 1791, was inspired by Paine’s
outrage at Edmund Burke’s attack
on the uprising of the French people. Paine’s text
is a passionate defense of the rights of man. 210
• Order # T2141
SCREAM FREE
PARENTING
by Hal Edward Runkel.
The revolutionary approach to
raising your kids by keeping your
cool. 300 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2146
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Non-Fiction
HOG PILOTS, BLUE
WATER GRUNTS
by Robert D. Kaplan.
This provocative and illuminating
audiobook not only conveys the
vast scope of America’s military
commitments, but also shows us
astonishing and vital operations right as they
unfold—from the point of view of the troops
themselves. 540 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2137
THE WAR: AN
INTIMATE HISTORY
1941-1945
by Geoffrey C. Ward
& Ken Burns.
An intimate, profoundly affecting
chronicle of the war that shaped
our world, The War 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. 540 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2138
UNLOCKING THE
SECRETS OF 2012
by John Major Jenkins.
Did the ancient Mayans predict
that the “end of time” would occur
in 2012...or is that a modern
misunderstanding of their
intended message? Respected
author and researcher John Major Jenkins goes to
the source—the original Mayan calendar found
in the city of Izapa—to find the astonishing
answers. 210 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2131
GUT FEELINGS:
THE INTELLIGENCE
OF THE
UNCONSCIOUS
by Gerd Gigerenzer.
In wry, accessible prose and in the
tradition of Blink and Freakonomics,
Gut Feelings provides us with a brilliant
exploration of what makes us tick. 450 min.
• Order # T2105
1-800-426-READ
SIN IN THE
SECOND CITY
by Karen Abbott.
Step into the perfumed parlors
of the Everleigh Club, the most
famous brothel in American
history—and the catalyst for a
culture war that rocked the nation. 690 min.
• Order # T2130
PURE DRIVEL
by Steve Martin.
Hilariously funny and intelligent
in their skewering of the topic at
hand, the audiobook’s pieces, some
of which first appeared in The New
Yorker, feature Steve Martin at his
finest. 120 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2354
3:16 THE
NUMBERS OF HOPE
by Max Lucado.
The heart of the human problem
is the heart of the human. And
god’s treatment is prescribed in
John 3:16. He loves, He gave.
We believe. We live. 140 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2162
MICHAEL PALIN
DIARIES 1969-1979:
THE PYTHON YEARS
by Michael Palin.
This volume of Michael Palin’s
diaries reveals how Monty Python
emerged and triumphed, how he,
John Cleese, Graham Chapman,
the two Terrys—Jones and Gilliam—and Eric
Idle came together and changed the face of
British comedy. 300 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2153
DOING WHAT
MATTERS
by James M. Kilts.
Whether you’re CEO of a
multibillion-dollar global
company, the brand manager for a
product, an entrepreneur starting a
small business, or just beginning a
career, Doing What Matters provides the practical
ideas that get results. 360 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2144
Non-Fiction
BEYOND
THE BODY FARM
by Robyn Meredith.
Not since the United States rose to
prominence a century ago have we
seen such tectonic shifts in global
power but India and China are
vastly different nations, with opposing economic
and political strategies—strategies we must
understand in order to survive in the new global
economy. 540 min. Unabridged. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T2147
by Dr. Bill Bass
& Jon Jefferson.
A pioneer in forensic anthropology,
Dr. Bill Bass created the world’s
first laboratory dedicated to the
study of human decomposition. In this riveting
book, the bone sleuth explores the rise of modern
forensic science, using cases from his career to
take readers into the real world of “CSI.” 360
• Order # T2142
JAZZ: A HISTORY OF
AMERICA’S MUSIC
THINGS I OVERHEARD
WHILE TALKING TO
MYSELF
by Geoffrey C. Ward
& Ken Burns.
Here are the stories of the
extraordinary men and women
who made the music, among
them: Louis Armstrong, Duke
Ellington, Bix Beiderbecke, Bennty Goodman,
Charlie Parker, and Miles Davis. 540 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2151
BAD DOGS
HAVE MORE FUN
by John Grogan.
Bad Dogs Have More Fun is an
unforgettable collection of more
than 75 newspaper columns by
John Grogan, the #1 New York
Times best-selling author of Marley
& Me. Combining humor, wit, poignancy and
affection, these columns provide insight into the
intriguing and wonderful world we live in. 330
• Order # T2148
ZOOM: THE GLOBAL
RACE TO FUEL THE
CAR OF THE FUTURE
by Iain Carson
& Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran.
As political leaders debate our
energy, environmental, and
economic future, ZOOM offers a lucid and
visionary portrait of what that future can be.
Anyone planning to vote will find compelling
truth in its assertions and conclusions. 180 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2240
by Alan Alda.
In an audiobook that is candid,
wise, and as questioning as it is
incisive, Alda amuses and moves us
with his meditations on questions
great and small. 360 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2123
THE STUFF
OF THOUGHT
by Steven Pinker.
By looking closely at our everyday
speech—our conversations, our
jokes, our legal disputes—Pinker
paints a vivid picture of the thoughts
and emotions that populate our
mental lives. 570 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2191
ULTRA-LONGEVITY
by Mark Liponis, MD.
Do you want to live the longest,
healthiest life possible? According
to the latest scientific research, you
can control the aging process,
simply by paying attention to one
thing: our immune system. 360
• Order # T2189
www.ncrl.org
THE GREAT UPHEAVAL
by Jay Winik.
As the 1790s began, a fragile
America teetered on the brink
of oblivion, Russia towered as a
vast imperial power, and France
plunged into monumental
revolution. But none of these remarkable events
occurred in isolation. In The Great Upheaval,
acclaimed historian Jay Winik masterfully
illuminates how their fates combined in one
extraordinary moment to change the course
of civilization. 750 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2185
TRAVELS WITH
HERODOTUS
by Ryszard Kapuscinski.
Inspired by the common-sensical
Herodotus, the 5th-century
chronicler who tried to explain the
world beyond their gates to his
fellow Greeks, Ryszard Kapuscinski
embarked on a series of travels that he details in
his many other books and describes here. 600
• Order # T2174
A MAGNIFICENT
CATASTROPHE
by Edward J. Larson.
Edward Larson’s masterful account
revisits the wild ride that was the
1800 presidential election—an
election so convulsive and so
momentous that Thomas Jefferson
would later dub it “America’s second revolution.”
• Order # T2173
THINK INDIA
by Vinay Rai.
Steel tycoon-turned-educator
Vinay Rai, who now runs one of
India’s two private universities—
with fifteen campuses nationwide—couples with New York
Times bestselling writer William L.
Simon to explore the foundation and future of
the new India. 420 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2170
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THE ELEPHANT
AND THE DRAGON
Audio: CD
Audio/Video Catalog
Audio: CD
STORM WORLD
by Chris Mooney.
One of the leading science
journalists and commentators
working today, Chris Mooney
delves into a red-hot debate in
meteorology: whether global
warming is increasing the ferocity of hurricanes.
• Order # T2169
A TIME TO LEAD
by Wesley K. Clark.
A powerful story of how the
promise of America empowered
a young boy to become a man,
a soldier, and a hero. 480 min.
• Order # T2168
THE COLDEST WINTER:
AMERICA AND THE
KOREAN WAR
by David Halberstam.
The Korean War has been the
black hole of modern American
history. The Coldest Winter gives
us a masterful narrative of the
political decisions and miscalculations on
both sides and provides us with Halberstam’s
trademark highly evocative narrative journalism.
• Order # T2163
THE PARENT
YOU WANT TO BE
by Drs. Les & Leslie Parrott.
When it comes to parenting, who
you are is more important than
what you do. After all, your child
internalizes your traits more than
anyone else’s on the planet. And
that’s why Les and Leslie Parrott give you a
proven plan for cultivating the traits you most
want your child to have. 300 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2200
DAVE BARRY’S
HISTORY OF THE
MILLENNIUM
by Dave Barry.
A brilliantly funny exploration of
the tumultuous years just past,
from the Pulitzer Prize-winning
humorist, Dave Barry 270 min.
• Order # T2195
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Non-Fiction
CLAPTON:
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
by Eric Clapton.
More than a rock star, Eric
Clapton is an icon, a living
embodiment of the history of rock
music. Well known for his reserve
in a profession marked by self-promotion,
flamboyance, and spin, he now chronicles, for
the first time, his remarkable personal and professional journeys. 360 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2201
THE SHARPER YOUR
KNIFE, THE LESS
YOU CRY
by Kathleen Flinn.
In 2003, thirty-six-year-old
Kathleen Flinn cleared out her
savings account and moved to Paris
to pursue a dream—a diploma
from the venerable Le Cordon Bleu cooking
school. But instead of being ushered into a
“glamorous world of soufflés and foie gras,” Flinn
found herself struggling in the stew of
hot-tempered chefs, competitive classmates, and
her own “wretchedly inadequate” French. 630
• Order # T2143
THE WAR FOR ALL
THE OCEANS
by Roy Adkins & Lesley Adkins.
From its very first page, The War
for All the Oceans is an adventure
story—a superb account of the
naval war that lasted from
Napoleon’s seizure of power in
1798 to the War of 1812 with the United States.
• Order # T2187
CHENEY
by Stephen F. Hayes.
During his forty-year career in
politics, Vice President Dick
Cheney has been involved in some
of the most consequential decisions
in recent American history. New
York Times bestselling author
Stephen F. Hayes offers listeners a groundbreaking
view into the world of this most enigmatic man.
• Order # T2186
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ALAN GREENSPAN:
THE AGE OF
TURBULENCE
by Alan Greenspan.
The Age of Turbulence is Alan
Greenspan’s attempt to understand
the nature of this new world: how
we got here, what we’re living through, and what
lies over the horizon, for good and for ill. 1200
• Order # T2193
THE LAST DAYS
OF THE INCAS
by Kim MacQuarrie.
Drawing on both native and
Spanish chronicles, Kim
MacQuarrie vividly describes the
dramatic story of the Spanish
conquest of the Incas, with all its
savagery and suspense. MacQuarrie also relates
the story of how Machu Picchu was discovered
and of how a trio of colorful American explorers
only recently discovered the lost Inca capital of
Vilcabamba. 1320 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2190
INTO THE WILD
by Jon Krakauer.
In April 1992 a young man from a
well-to-do family hitchhiked to
Alaska and walked alone into the
wilderness north of Mr. McKinley.
His name was Christopher
Johnson McCandless. He had
given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned
his car and most of his possessions, burned all
the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for
himself. 420 min. Unabridged. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T2129
THE JESUS
CHRONICLES:
MARK’S STORY
by Tim LaHaye
& Jerry B. Jenkins.
Mark’s Story is a thrilling account
that vividly depicts the day before
Jesus’ crucifixion and the danger early believers
faced as they boldly proclaimed Him Christ the
Lord. 600 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2205
Non-Fiction
by A. J. Jacobs.
Raised in a secular family but
increasingly interested in the
relevance of faith in our modern
world, A. J. Jacobs decides to dive
in headfirst and attempt to obey the Bible as
literally as possible for one year. 300 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2210
AN ARMY AT DAWN:
THE WAR IN NORTH
AFRICA, 1942-1943
by Rick Atkinson.
Beginning the trilogy that
continues with The Day of Battle,
An Army at Dawn opens on the
eve of Operation TORCH, the
daring amphibious invasion of Morocco and
Algeria. After three days of hard fighting against
the French, American and British troops push
deeper into North Africa. But the confidence
gained after several early victories soon wanes;
casualties mount rapidly, and hope for a quick
victory evaporates. 420 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2208
THE DAY OF BATTLE:
THE WAR IN SICILY
AND ITALY,
1943-1944
by Rick Atkinson.
In The Day of Battle, Rick
Atkinson follows the American
and British armies as they invade Sicily in July
1943, attack Italy two months later, and then
fight their way, mile by bloody mile, north
toward Rome. 540 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2220
A COMPLAINT
FREE WORLD
by Will Bowen.
More that six million people have
taken up the challenge, trying to be
twenty-one consecutive days
without complaining, criticizing,
or gossiping, and in so doing,
forming a new, positive habit. By changing your
words you can change your thoughts and then
begin to create your life by design. 240 min.
• Order # T2207
THE NINE: INSIDE
THE SECRET WORLD
OF THE SUPREME
COURT
by Jeffrey Toobin.
Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin
takes you inside the chambers of
the Supreme Court and reveals the complex
dynamic among the nine people who decide the
law of the land. 390 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2176
MUSICOPHILIA
by Oliver Sacks.
In Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks
examines the powers of music
through the individual experiences
of patients, musicians, and
everyday people. 300 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2223
I AM AMERICA
(AND SO CAN YOU!)
by Stephen Colbert.
Realizing that it takes more than
thirty minutes a night to fix
everything that's destroying
America, Colbert bravely takes on
the forces aligned to destroy our
country—whether they be terrorists, environmentalists, or Kashi brand breakfast cereals. 180
• Order # T2217
THE BODY HAS A
MIND OF ITS OWN
by Sandra Blakeslee.
The Body has a Mind of its Own
explains how you can tap into the
power of body maps to do almost
anything better: play tennis, strum
a guitar, ride a horse, dance a waltz,
empathize with a friend, raise children, or cope
with stress. 540 min. Unabridged. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T2212
WHAT IS THE WHAT
by Dave Eggers.
What is the What illuminates the
history of the civil war in Sudan
through the eyes of Valentino
Achak Deng, a refugee now living
in the United States. 1230 min.
• Order # T2204
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ESCAPE
by Carolyn Jessop.
Carolyn Jessop was born into
and raised in the Fundamentalist
Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the
radical offshoot of the Mormon
Church. At eighteen, she became the fourth wife
of a fifty-year-old man. Over the next fifteen
years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood
her husband's psychological abuse. In 2003,
Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her
home with her eight children. This is her story.
• Order # T2206
THE 21 IRREFUTABLE
LAWS OF LEADERSHIP
by John C. Maxwell.
John C. Maxwell has combined
insights learned from his
thirty-plus years of leadership
successes and mistakes with
observations from the worlds of
business, politics, sports, religion, and military
conflict. The result is a revealing study of
leadership delivered as only a communicator like
Maxwell can. 210 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2203
SECRET SOCIETIES
by Sylvia Browne.
Sylvia Browne shares her
knowledge of the conspiracies,
cover-ups, misinformation, and
power manipulations of secret
societies, as well as how they can
affect us now and in the future.
• Order # T2232
THE PIRATE QUEEN
by Susan Ronald.
In The Pirate Queen, historian
Susan Ronald offers a fresh look at
Elizabeth I, focusing on her
uncanny instinct for financial
survival and the superior intellect
that propelled and sustained her
rise. 840 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2229
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Audio/Video Catalog
THE YEAR OF
LIVING BIBLICALLY
Audio: CD
Audio/Video Catalog
Audio: CD
THE IMMORTALISTS
by David M. Friedman.
For all the attention lavished on
Charles Lindbergh, one story has
remained untold until now: how
macabre scientific collaboration
with Dr. Alexis Carrel. Together
this oddest of couples—one a brilliant surgeon,
the other a failed dirt farmer turned hero of the
skies—embarked on a secret quest to achieve
immortality. 690 min. Unabridged. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T2248
THE FORGOTTEN 500
by Gregory A. Freeman.
During a bombing campaign over
Romanian oil fields, hundreds of
American airmen were shot down
in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia. The
Forgotten 500 is the breathtaking
behind-the-scenes look at the most
daring escape of World War II. 660 min.
• Order # T2246
NEGOTIATION
GENIUS
by Deepak Malhotra
& Max H. Bazerman.
From two leaders in executive
education at Harvard Business
School, here are the mental habits
and proven strategies you need to achieve
outstanding results in any negotiation. 840 min.
• Order # T2245
KIDS ARE
AMERICANS TOO
by Bill O'Reilly.
Kids Are Americans Too! And that
means you have rights just like
everybody else. But it's not
enough to just say you have them.
You have to know what those
rights are...and are not. Bill O'Reilly is back
opining for kids on that very subject—your legal
rights. 150 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2247
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Non-Fiction
ANA'S STORY
by Jenna Bush.
Jenna Bush has written a powerful
narrative nonfiction account of a
girl who struggles to break free
from a vicious cycle of abuse,
poverty, and illness. 180 min.
• Order # T2242
YOUNG STALIN
by Simon Sebag Montefiore.
Based on exhaustive research and
astonishing new evidence, Young
Stalin is a brilliant prehistory of the
USSR from the perspective of
those who would bring it into
being. 990 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2241
THE GREATEST
BATTLE
by Andrew Nagorski.
The battle for Moscow was the
biggest battle of World War II.
Drawing on recently declassified
documents form Soviet archives,
accounts of survivors, and reports
of Western diplomats and correspondents, The
Greatest Battle finally illuminates the full story of
a clash between two systems based on sheer
terror and relentless slaughter. 840 min.
• Order # T2256
A BALL, A DOG,
AND A MONKEY
by Michael D'Antonio.
Pulitzer Prize winner Michael
D'Antonio shares the remarkable
story of America's first efforts
to succeed in space, a time of
exploding rockets, national space
mania, and fierce interservice rivalries. 660 min.
• Order # T2254
BE THE PACK LEADER
by Cesar Millan.
Bestselling author Cesar Millan
takes his principles of dog psychology
a step further, showing you how to
develop the calm-assertive energy
of a successful pack leader and use
it to improve your dog's life—and
your own. 360 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2239
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BREAK THROUGH
by Ted Nordhaus
& Michael Shellenberger.
In this eagerly anticipated
follow-up of their self-published
essay, "The Death of Environmentalism," the authors expand upon
their argument that the paradigms driving the
environmental movement and much of liberal
politics are outdated and ineffective. 570 min.
• Order # T2231
WHAT'S SO
GREAT ABOUT
CHRISTIANITY
by Dinesh D'Souza.
In his new book, best-selling
author Dinesh D'Souza
investigates both Christianity and
atheism and their influences on culture to show
why there is, indeed, something great about
Christianity. 720 min. Unabridged. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T2234
SETTING THE TABLE
by Danny Meyer.
Full of behind-the-scenes history
on the creation of Danny Meyer's
most famous restaurants, and the
anecdotes, advice and lessons he
has accumulated on his long and
ecstatic journey to the top of the
American restaurant scene, Setting the Table is
a treasure trove of innovative insights that are
applicable to any business or organization.
• Order # T2233
THE LIES
ABOUT MONEY
by Ric Edelman.
Learn how to correctly handle the
money in your retirement plan
at work, the best way to save for
college, and how retirees can
generate high current income.
With his entertaining and breezy style, Ric gives
you the most valuable advice on investing you'll
ever have. 360 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2238
Non-Fiction
by Bill Bryson.
William Shakespeare, the most
celebrated poet in the English
language, left behind nearly a
million words of text, but his
biography has long been a thicket
of wild supposition arranged around scant facts.
With a steady hand and his travemark wit, Bill
Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to
reveal the man himself. 360 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2289
THE SLAVE SHIP
by Marcus Rediker.
For three centuries slave ships
carted millions of people from the
coasts of Africa across the Atlantic
to the Americas. In The Slave Ship,
award-winning historian Marcus
Rediker draws on thirty years of
research to create an unprecedented history of
these vessels and the human drama acted out on
their rolling decks. 780 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2270
RIGGED
by Ben Mezrich.
Rigged is the startling, rags-to-riches
story of an Italian-American kid
from the streets of Brooklyn who
claws his way into the wild, frenetic
world of the oil exchange. 510
• Order # T2271
THE REAL
ANIMAL HOUSE
by Chris Miller.
Thirty years after Animal House
showed the world the meaning of
toga, Chris Miller—the writer
whose National Lampoon stories
inspired the movie—finally
answers the question: Was it really that wild?
• Order # T2260
THE TWO MARYS
by Sylvia Browne.
With the unique perspective only
Sylvia Browne could bring, The
Two Marys focuses on one of the
greatest unknowns: the lives of the
two most important women in the
life of Jesus. 270 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2276
LION IN THE
WHITE HOUSE
by Aida D. Donald.
Theodore Roosevelt was a cowboy,
a soldier, a historian, an intrepid
explorer, and an unsurpassed
environmentalist, all in all perhaps
the most accomplished chief
executive in our nation's history. In Lion in the
White House, historian Aida D. Donald
masterfully chronicles the life of this first modern
president. 480 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2288
MARCO POLO
by Laurence Bergreen.
As the most celebrated European
to explore Asia, Marco Polo was
the original global traveler and the
earliest bridge between East and
West. Now, comes the first fully
authoritative biography of one of
the most enchanting figures in world history.
• Order # T2250
SUPERCAPITALISM
by Robert B. Reich.
Reich sets out a clear course that
can lead the nation to a vibrant
capitalism and a concurrent,
equally vibrant democracy. 570
• Order # T2284
BROTHERS IN BATTLE
BEST OF FRIENDS
by William Guarnere
& Edward Heffron.
William Guarnere and Edward
Heffron were among the U.S.
Army's first paratroopers—members of the 101st Airborne Division in an elite
unit called Easy Company. United by their
experience, the two reconnected at the war's end
and have been the best of friends ever since.
Their story is a tribute to the lasting bond forged
between comrades in arms—and to all those
who fought for freedom. 630 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2266
NO SIMPLE VICTORY:
WORLD WAR II IN
EUROPE 1939-1945
by Norman Davies.
Far from being a revisionist history,
No Simple Victory is instead a
clear-eyed reappraisal of World
War II and its outcome, offering
new insight by reevaluating well-established facts
as well as pointing out lesser-known ones. 1260
• Order # T2269
IF I ONLY
KNEW THEN...
by Charles Grodin.
Writer, activist, and actor Charles
Grodin delivers a fascinating
collection of more than eighty
intimate and revealing stories from
friends and colleagues in the
worlds of entertainment, sports, journalism,
politics, and business—inspiring, entertaining,
and heartfelt accounts of mistakes they've made
and the lessons they learned. 210 min.
Unabridged Selections (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2259
YOU:
STAYING YOUNG
Doctors Roizen and Oz explain
the principles of longevity and
many of the causes of aging and
how to fight their effects. 300 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T2258
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SHAKESPEARE
Audio: CD
Audio/Video Catalog
Video: DVD
THE SIMPSONS
MOVIE
When Homer adopts a pig (“Sir
Oinks-A-Lot”) destined for
Krusty’s slaughterhouse, it triggers
an environmental catastrophe,
forcing the government to seal
Springfield into a dome and destroy the city.
While the family manages to escape and flee to
Alaska, they eventually decide to return and
help save the city. Animated. (2007) PG-13.
87 min.
• Order # V4347
HARRY POTTER AND
THE ORDER OF THE
PHOENIX
w/Daniel Radcliff, Rupert
Grint, Emma Watson.
Lord Voldemort has returned,
but the Ministry of Magic is
doing everything it can to keep the wizarding
world from knowing the truth - including
appointing Ministry official Dolores Umbridge
as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts
professor at Hogwarts. When Umbridge
refuses to teach practical defensive magic, Ron
and Hermione convince Harry to secretly train
a select group of students for the wizarding war
that lies ahead. (2007) PG-13. 139 min.
• Order # V4339
UNDERDOG
w/Jim Belushi
After an accident in the lab of
mad scientist Dr. Simon
Barsinister, an ordinary beagle
named Shoeshine finds himself
with extraordinary powers...and
the ability to talk! When a plot
by Barsinister threatens to destroy Capital City,
only Underdog can save the day. A Walt
Disney video. (2007) PG. 82 min.
• Order # V4337
SHREK THE THIRD
When his frog-in-law suddenly
croaks, Shrek embarks on another
whirlwind adventure with
Donkey and Puss In Boots to
find the rightful heir to the
throne. Animated. (2007) PG.
92 min.
• Order # V4302
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Kids
ARNIE THE
DOUGHNUT
Tag along with Arnie and his
friends as they live, work, and
play through adventures big and
small. Animated (2007) Not
Rated. 57 min.
• Order # V4336
THE STONECUTTER
w/Teiki Pambrum, Hereiti
Biron, Papa Matarau.
A poor island stonecutter who,
with the help of an angelic young
girl, learns to appreciate what is
the most valuable possession in
life: the love of his family!
(2007) Not Rated. 80 min.
• Order # V4343
THE ARISTOCATS
In the heart of Paris, a kind and
eccentric millionairess wills her
entire estate to Duchess, her highsociety cat, and her three little
kittens. Laughs and adventure
ensue as the greedy, bumbling
butler pulls off the ultimate
catnap caper. A Walt Disney animated video.
(2008) G. 79 min.
• Order # V4355
THE WUBBULOUS
WORLD OF DR.
SEUSS: THE CAT'S
HOME BUT NOT
ALONE
Three terrific shows in one
including: Make Yourself at
Home; The Cat in the Hat Gets
a Package; and Mrs. Zabarelli's Holiday Baton.
• Order # V4357
THE WUBBULOUS
WORLD OF DR.
SEUSS: THE CAT'S
PLAYHOUSE
Three hilarious shows including:
The Cat in the Hat Cleans Up His
Act; The Cat in the Hat's Indoor
Picnic; and The Cat in the Hat's
big Birthday Surprise. (2007) Not Rated. 72
min.
• Order # V4358
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THE WUBBULOUS
WORLD OF DR.
SEUSS: THE CAT'S
MUSICAL TALES
Three videos in one volume
including: The Sounds All
Around; Horton Has a Hit; The
Grinch Meets His Max/Halfway Home to
Malamaroo. (2007) Not Rated. 73 min.
• Order # V4359
MARIPOSA AND HER
BUTTERFLY FAIRY
FRIENDS
Mariposa, a beautiful butterfly
fairy, and her friends journey
beyond the safe borders of the
city in search of a hidden antidote
that will save the Queen. Join the
butterfly fairy friends on an exciting adventure
that will transform them forever! Animated.
• Order # V4360
BRATZ KIDZ FAIRY
TALES
The Bratz Kidz star as Snow
White, Cinderella, Rapunzel and
Little Red Riding Hood in one
big movie! Animated. (2008)
Not Rated. 73 min.
• Order # V4361
THE TALE OF MRS.
TIGGY-WINKLE AND
MR. JEREMY FISHER
AND OTHER STORIES
Lucie loses her pocket handkerchief. In her search she meets
Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, a kindly (but
strangely prickly) washerwoman,
and Mr. Jeremy Fisher who tells her of his
eventful fishing trip. Animated. Not Rated.
77 min.
• Order # V4362
THE TALE OF
PIGLING BLAND AND
OTHER STORIES
Pigling Bland's trip to market
becomes an unexpected
adventure when he meets
Pig-wig, a lovely little black pig
who has been stolen, and offers
to help her escape from the wicked farmer.
Animated. Not Rated. 77 min.
• Order # V4369
Kids
These three beautifully animated
stories are based on the original
Peter Rabbit books by Beatrix
Potter. Animated. Not Rated.
77 min.
• Order # V4368
CURIOUS GEORGE
GOES TO THE
DOCTOR AND LENDS
A HELPING HAND!
With 8 shows plus fun-filled
games and activities, you'll never
be without a friend when Curious
George Goes to the Doctor and Lends Helping
Hand! Animated. (2008) Not Rated. 108 min.
• Order # V4363
THE REEF
When Pi, an orphaned fish,
escapes the fisherman's net to
move in with his aunt on an
exotic coral reef, he meets his true
love, Cordelia. But before Pi can
start is life with Cordelia, he must
outsmart the bully tiger shark also
determined to win her heart. Animated.
(2006) G. 79 min.
• Order # V4366
DR. SEUSS' HORTON
HEARS A WHO!
Dr. Seuss' classic of a jungle
elephant named Horton teaches
us what it means to be a true
friend. (2007) Not Rated. 26
min.
• Order # V4367
ENCHANTED
w/Amy Adams Patrick
Dempsey, James Marsden.
For princess-to-be Giselle, life is a
fairy tale—until she's banished
from the animated land of
Andalasia and thrust into the very
unmagical, live-action world of
modern-day Manhattan. When a cynical
divorce lawyer comes to her aid, little does he
realize this joyful, wide-eyed innocent is about
to enchant him. (2007) PG. 107 min.
• Order # V4377
101 DALMATIANS
Cruella De Vil dognaps all of the
Dalmatian puppies in London—
including 15 from Pongo and
Perdita's family. Pongo leads a
heroic cast of animal characters
on a dramatic quest to rescue
them. Animated. (2007) G. 79 min.
• Order # V4372
NANCY DREW
w/Emma Roberts.
Nancy Drew's out to solve one of
the greatest mysteries ever: the
death of movie star Dehlia
Draycott. But the bigger mystery
is how our perky, plaid-clad
sleuth will fit in with the
text-messaging teen queens of mean she meets
at Hollywood High. (2007) PG. 79 min.
• Order # V4374
BEE MOVIE
w/Jerry Seinfeld, Renee
Zellweger.
Ambitious young worker bee
Barry B. Benson soars out into
the world with the high-flying
pollen jocks in search of nectar
and adventure. But when he
breaks one of the cardinal rules of beedom and
speaks to humans, Barry sets off an un-beelievable chain of events that proves even a little
bee can make a big difference! Animated.
(2007) PG. 90 min.
• Order # V4375
ALVIN AND THE
CHIPMUNKS
w/Jason Lee.
When struggling songwriter
Dave Seville opens his home to a
talented trio of chipmunks
named Alvin, Simon and
Theodore, they become
overnight music sensations. But a greedy
record producer intends to exploit the "boys."
(2007) PG. 91 min.
• Order # V4382
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THE WATER HORSE:
LEGEND OF THE
DEEP
w/Emily Watson, Alex Etel,
Ben Chaplin.
When a lonely young boy named
Angus discovers a large, mysterious
egg along the shores of Loch Ness, no one is
prepared for what lies within. He soon discovers
that the strange, mischievous hatchling inside
is none other than The Water Horse, the loch's
most mysterious and fabled creature! (2007)
PG. 112 min.
• Order # V4383
ALADDIN
In the heart of an enchanted city,
a commoner named Aladdin and
his mischievous monkey Abu
battle to save the free-spirited
Princess Jasmine from the
schemes of the evil sorcerer Jafar.
A Disney animated DVD.
(2004) G. 90 min.
• Order # V4388
ALADDIN AND THE
KING OF THIEVES
Join Aladdin and his friends as
they pursue the Forty Thieves,
battle for the Hand Of Midas
and discover that Aladdin's
long-lost father is still alive. A
Disney animated DVD. (2005)
Not Rated. 81 min.
• Order # V4389
ALADDIN: THE
RETURN OF JAFAR
When Jafar's last wish was
granted, he became the most
powerful genie of all. But it came
with a price—entrapment in a
magic lamp! A Disney animated
DVD. (2005) G. 69 min.
• Order # V4390
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THE WORLD OF
PETER RABBIT AND
FRIENDS
Video: DVD
Audio/Video Catalog
Video: DVD
THE NANNY DIARIES
w/Scarlett Johansson,
Laura Linney, Chris Evans,
Alicia Keys.
Annie is a young college grad
who becomes a nanny for
Manhattan socialite and
mother-from-hell “Mrs. X”. As Annie balances
her boss’s demands with her attraction to
“Harvard Hottie”, she learns all about life, love
and surviving in the urban jungle. (2007)
PG-13. 104 min.
• Order # V4334
HAIRSPRAY
w/John Travolta, Michelle
Pfeiffer, Christopher
Walken, Nikki Blonsky.
It’s 1962 and Tracy Turnblad has
only one passion in life—to
dance on “The Corny Collins
Show.” When her chance arrives, she grooves
her way into instant stardom and the eyes of
teen dream Link Larkin. (2007) PG-13. 117
min.
• Order # V4328
THE NAMESAKE
w/Kal Penn, Tabu, Irrfan Khan.
Gogol Ganguli, a suburban
teenager is caught between his
Indian roots and his American
birthright. Gogol and his
Indian-born parents must
somehow strike a balance
between age-old traditions and modern-day
sensibilities as they search for a patch of
common ground. (2006) PG-13. 122 min.
• Order # V4330
WHO’S YOUR
CADDY?
w/Antwan “Big Boi”
Patton, Sherri Shepherd,
Jeffrey Jones.
When rap mogul C-Note applies
for membership to an exclusive
golf club, he goes head-to-head with its
stuck-up president. With his wise-cracking
entourage, C-Note turns the place upsidedown as he tries to win respect and add a little
flavor to the blue-blood club. (2007) PG-13.
91 min.
• Order # V4331
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Fiction
PIRATES OF THE
CARIBBEAN: AT
WORLD’S END
w/Johnny Depp, Orlando
Bloom, Kiera Knightley.
Just when he’s needed most,
Captain Jack Sparrow is trapped
on a sea of sand in Davy Jones’ Locker. In
an increasingly shaky alliance, Will Turner,
Elizabeth Swann and Captain Barbossa begin a
desperate quest to find and rescue him. (2007)
PG-13. 169 min.
• Order # V4332
MR. BEAN’S HOLIDAY
w/Rowan Atkinson.
Mr. Bean can’t believe his luck
when he wins a camcorder and
an all-expense-paid vacation to
the French Riviera. But during
his train journey to the south of
France, he falls face first into a
series of mishaps and fortunate coincidences.
(2007) G. 90 min.
• Order # V4333
SANTA CLAUSE: THE
ESCAPE CLAUSE 3
w/Tim Allen, Martin Short.
The holidays take a chaotic turn
when Scott Calvin discovers a
way out of his “Santa Clause” and
the mischievous Jack Frost puts
the big freeze on Christmas’ big
cheese! (2007) G. 92 min.
• Order # V4305
AMAZING GRACE
w/Joan Gruffudd, Romola
Garai.
Based on the true story of
William Wilberforce, Amazing
Grace follows his courageous
quest to end the British slave
trade. (2007) PG. 118 min.
• Order # V4303
STARDUST
w/Claire Danes, Michelle
Pfeiffer, Robert DeNiro.
In hopes of wooing a beautiful
girl, Tristan promises to bring her
a falling star. But he’s in for the
adventure of his life when he
discovers the star is actually a
celestial beauty named Yvaine. (2007) PG-13.
127 min.
• Order # V4348
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OCEAN’S THIRTEEN
w/George Clooney,
Brad Pitt, Matt Damon.
Danny Ocean again runs the
game, so no one gets hurt.
Except for double-crossing Vegas
kingpin Will Bank. Ocean’s crew
will hit him where it hurts: in his wallet. On
opening night of Bank’s posh new casino
tower, every turn of a card and roll of the dice
will come up a winner for bettors. And that’s
just the start of the flimflams. (2007) PG-13.
122 min.
• Order # V4304
JAPÓN
w/Carlos Reygadas Barquin,
Alejandro Ferretis Elizondo,
Magdalena Flores.
A man leaves Mexico City for the
remote countryside to prepare for
his death. There he finds lodging
with an old Indian widow in her
rickety home overlooking a desolate canyon.
He confronts the old woman’s infinite
humanity and oscillates between cruelty and
lyricism. His dulled senses return to him,
reawakening his desires and instincts for life.
• Order # V4314
THE BOURNE
ULTIMATUM
w/Matt Damon.
Matt Damon returns as highly
trained assassin Jason Bourne,
who is on the hunt for the agents
who stole his memory and true
identity. With CIA operatives
tracking his every move, Bourne is in a
non-stop race around the globe as he finally
learns the truth behind his mysterious past.
(2007) PG-13. 116 min.
• Order # V4340
RUSH HOUR 3
w/Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan.
When a Chinese criminal
mastermind flees to Paris,
there's only one culture-clashed,
crime-fighting duo for the job.
Chief Inspector Lee and Detective
Carter get caught in an explosive
battle between the French police, the Triad
gang and two gorgeous femmes fatales! (2007)
PG-13. 90 min.
• Order # V4350
Fiction
w/Amanda Bynes.
When Sydney is banished from
the most popular sorority on
campus, she is taken in by seven
socially challenged but endearing
guys. With the help of her new
friends, Sydney stands up for outcasts
everywhere and takes on the reigning campus
queen in a popularity showdown! (2007)
PG-13. 108 min.
• Order # V4351
MR. WOODCOCK
w/Billy Bob Thornton,
Dean William Scott,
Susan Sarandon.
As a chubby 7th grader, John
Farley and his friends were
helpless against the most evil
man on the planet—their P.E. teacher, Mr.
Woodcock. Four years later, John (successful
and thin) returns to his hometown only to
discover that Woodcock is still in his life...and
dating his mom! (2007) PG-13. 88 min.
• Order # V4352
THE GAME PLAN
w/Dwayne'The Rock' Johnson.
In this hilarious and heartwarming family comedy, one of sports'
toughest players ever takes on his
biggest challenge yet—fatherhood! (2008) PG. 110 min.
• Order # V4353
THE JANE AUSTEN
BOOK CLUB
w/Kathy Baker, Maria Bello,
Marc Blucas, Emily Blunt,
Amy Brenneman, Jimmy Smits.
When five women and one man
get together to discuss the English
writer's beloved novels, they realize the
heartaches of Emma, Mr. Darcy and the
Bennet sisters are not so different from their
own. (2007) PG-13. 106 min.
• Order # V4354
BEOWULF
w/Anthony Hopkins,
Angelina Jolie.
In a mystical time of monsters,
demons and dragons, one man
heroically rises above all others.
His name if Beowulf. (2007)
PG-13. 114 min.
• Order # V4371
ACROSS
THE UNIVERSE
w/Jim Sturgess,
Evan Rachel Wood.
Across the Universe is a revolutionary rock musical that re-imagines
America in the turbulent
late-1960s, a time when battle
lines were being drawn at home and abroad.
(2007) PG-13. 133 min.
• Order # V4356
BEHIND THE MASK
w/Donald Sutherland,
Matthew Fox, Bradley
Whitford, Mary McDonnell.
Based on the true story of Dr.
Robert Shushan, an overworked
clinic director and absent father
to his son, Brian. After suffering
a heart attack, his life is saved by a patient,
James Jones. An unlikely hero is made and a
rare friendship born that proves to be
life-altering for them both. (2007) Not Rated.
94 min.
• Order # V4364
I COULD NEVER
BE YOUR WOMAN
w/Michelle Pfeiffer, Paul Rudd.
Rosie is a 40+ successful-butdivorced TV producer and single
mom who falls for the charming
new 29-year-old on her show.
When their relationship gets hot
ad heavy, Rosie must come to terms with the
not-so-easy reality of dating a younger man.
(2007) PG-13. 97 min.
• Order # V4365
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DAN IN REAL LIFE
w/Steve Carell.
Advice columnist Dan Burns is
an expert on relationships, but
somehow struggles to succeed as a
brother, a son and a single parent
to three precocious daughters.
Things get even more complicated when Dan
finds out that the woman he falls in love with
is actually his brother's new girlfriend. (2008)
PG-13. 98 min.
• Order # V4373
HIGH SCHOOL
MUSICAL 2,
EXTENDED EDITION
w/Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens,
Corbin Bleu, Monique
Coleman.
The East High Wildcats are gearing
up for big fun as they land the coolest summer
jobs imaginable. (2007) TV-G. 111 min.
• Order # V4378
THE KITE RUNNER
w/Khalid Aedalla,
Homayoun Ershad.
As young boys, Amir and Hassan
were inseparable friends, until
one fateful act tore them apart.
Years later, Amir will embark on
a dangerous quest to right the
wrongs of the past—and redeem himself in ways
he never expected. (2007) PG-13. 127 min.
• Order # V4379
I AM LEGEND
w/Will Smith.
The last man on earth is not
alone. Will Smith portrays that
lone survivor in I Am Legend, The
action epic fusing heart-pounding
excitement with a mind-blowing
vision of a desolated Manhattan.
(2007) PG-13. 100 min.
• Order # V4381
SAVING SARAH CAIN
w/Lisa Pepper.
When the untimely death of her
sister draws her to Amish country
for the funeral, Sarah Cain makes
a discovery that will change her
life: she is now the legal guardian
to five Amish nieces and nephews!
(2007) PG. 103 min.
• Order # V4387
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VERDICT ON
AUSCHWITZ
One of the most important trials
of the 20th century began in
1963, when 360 witnesses from
19 countries, including 211
Auschwitz survivors, confronted
former members of Hitler’s SS - many of
whom had made comfortable lives in postwar
West Germany - and accused them of taking
part in the mass murder of millions. (1993)
Not Rated. 180 min.
• Order # V4345
THE TEACHINGS
OF JON
This award-winning, soul
touching and funny documentary
about Jon, a 40-year-old man
who is severely affected by Down
Syndrome, ponders the serious
questions of how we value each
other and what is truly important in life.
• Order # V4344
SINS OF
THE MOTHER
A chilling, true story of a
psychopath created by a mother’s
destructive love. Ruth Coe is a
domineering, manipulative
mother who’s emotionally
dependent son, Kevin, is a violent
serial rapist. Their bizarre relationship is
marked by overtones of incest and by harsh,
dissonant chords of loathing and despair.
• Order # V4342
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Non-Fiction
ARCTIC TALE
Join narrator Queen Latifah as
she follows two very different
arctic creatures, Nanu the polar
bear cub and Seela the Walrus
pup, through exciting and
harrowing struggles for survival.
(2007) G. 86 min.
• Order # V4335
INSIDE IRAQ: THE
UNTOLD STORIES
Join Mike Shiley as he travels Iraq
discovering the untold stories
about the lives of the Iraqi people
and the US soldiers. As a
freelance filmmaker, Shiley will
take you on a unique personal
journey uncovering stories that go beyond the
headlines and politics. Not Rated. 80 min.
• Order # V4349
O PALOUSE!
"O Palouse!" is a tale of the
Palouse region of Eastern
Washington and Northern Idaho,
told by those whose roots run
deepest, whose ancestors found in
the Palouse a fertile land, well
suited for their crops, their
livestock, and their families. Farmers and city
builders, entrepreneurs and educators. More
than a documentary this moving combination
of images and insights, revelations and
reminiscences, will be treasured by everyone
who sees it. (2005) Not Rated. 75 min.
• Order # V4385
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RAILROAD CLASSICS
This DVD set includes Conquest
of the Cascades, the General
Electric documentary of the
building of the Eight-mile Tunnel
in Washington's Cascade
Mountains. Other films take you
from Chicago to Seattle, via Wenatchee! Not
Rated. 180 min.
• Order # V4376
APPLE BOX ART
Apple box labels identified and
promoted Washington State
apples on the ends of wooden
fruit crates from the early 1900s
until the 1960s when they were
replaced by cardboard cartons.
The art on the end of apple boxes
has left an enduring history of the early days
when Wenatchee was the Apple Capital of the
World. (2007) Not Rated.
• Order # V4341
THE NATURE OF
NORTH CENTRAL
WASHINGTON
• Order # V4386
Spanish/Español
w/Carlos Ponce,
Genesis Rodriguez.
(Génesis Rodríguez). (2007)
TV-PG. 780 min.
• Order # V4346
La SOMBRA
DEL NEGRO
w/Mario Almada,
Roberto “Flaco” Guzman,
Carlos Rotzinger.
• Order # V4307
LAGRIMAS
DE CRISTAL
w/Ernesto D’Alessio,
Roberto Ballesteros.
• Order # V4322
EL DE LA
CAMISA NEGRA
w/Leonardo Garcia Vale,
Claudia Vega, Rodolfo
De Amda, Jr.
• Order # V4321
A SANGRE FRIA
w/Alfredo Gutierriz,
Diana Ferreti,
Fernando Saenz.
• Order # V4317
EL REGRESO
w/Lito Cruz, Juan
Palomino, Jose Luis
Alonzo,
Maria Socas.
• Order # V4316
HISTERIA
DE TODOS
w/Paola Valles,
Ona Rock, Nury Doll.
Not Rated. 225 min.
• Order # V4338
PERSEGUIDO
w/Nelly Godoy,
Hernan Casariego.
• Order # V4327
MARIANA
DE LA NOCHE
w/César Évora,
Jorge Salinas,
Alejandra Barros,
Angelica Rivera.
• Order # V4324
TE SIGO AMANDO
w/Claudia Ramíerez,
Luis José Santander.
• Order # V4323
AGARREN!!!
AL DE LOS
HUEVOS
w/Julio Aleman, Gregorio
Cassals, Rafael Goyri,
Patricia Rivera.
• Order # V4320
LA CURVA
DEL OLVIDO
w/Ana Patricia Rojo,
Otto Sirgo, Hector
Soberon.
• Order # V4319
CLASE 406
w/Jorge Poza,
Iran Castillo, Sherlyn,
Dulce María, Christian
Chavez.
• Order # V4318
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CORAZON SALVAJE
w/Eduardo Palomo,
Edith González.
(2005) TV-PG. 280 min.
• Order # V4315
EN QUE TRABAJA
EL MUCHACHO
w/Ernesto D’Alessio,
Jorge Vargas,
Miguel Angel Rodriguez,
Isaura Espinoza.
• Order # V4313
THE HOLE
EL AGJERO
w/Roberto Cobo,
Pedro Alamirano,
Jorge Bavardo,
Lorenzo Feijoo,
Jorge Becerril.
• Order # V4312
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