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Firstborn: The Conclusion of a Time Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke &
Stephen Baxter
Ever since the appearance of the black monolith in 2001
(detailed in Clarke’s classic 2001: A
Space Odyssey), humanity has been fascinated with the creatures they
call the Firstborn, possessors of technology far more sophisticated than
earthly scientists can even imagine. Now
in the final book in the series - it is 2064, an object traveling through space
will collide with Earth in 2072 unless steps are taken, and the Firstborn have
arrived.
Death Walked
in: A Death on Demand Mystery by Carolyn Hart (Apr.)
A stolen coin collection and a dead woman with something to
hide have bookstore owner Annie Darling and her PI husband digging for answers
in their 18th case.
Nightshade by Susan Wittig Albert (Apr.)
Sixteen-year-old secrets of her father come back to haunt
herbalist China Bayles and family in the 16th book in the series.
Quicksand by Iris Johansen (Apr.)
One book later, sculptor Eve Duncan (Stalemate) is drawn into killer Henry Kistle’s sick game as
she desperately tries to find her missing daughter, Bonnie.
Lavinia by Ursula K. LeGuin (Apr.)
Lavinia is a shadowy character in Virgil’s Aeneid, but in LeGuin’s brilliant
reimagining of the last six books of Virgil’s epic poem, Lavinia, the Latin
king’s daughter with whom the Trojan hero Aeneas founds the Roman Empire, finds
her voice and springs fully to life.
Sundays at
Tiffany’s by
James Patterson & Gabrielle Charbonnet (Apr.)
Patterson goes whimsical:
thirty-ish Jane reunites with sweet, handsome Michael – her imaginary
childhood friend.
Searching for Paradise
in Parker, PA by
Kris Radish (Apr.)
Now that her husband is laid up, Addy decides it’s time to
fix her marriage.
Miss Julia
Paints the Town by Ann B.Ross (Apr.)
Miss Julia finds that it’s a little too easy to scare off
developers by pointing out Abbotsville’s oddities.
Sante Fe Dead by Stuart Woods (Apr.)
Ed Eagle’s wife once tried to kill him – and now she’s
escaped from police custody.
Winter Study by Nevada Barr (Apr.)
Strange things start happening when Park Ranger Anna Pigeon
arrives on Isle Royale in Lake Superior to
help observe wolves.
Zapped by Carol Higgins Clark (Apr.)
Just as sleuth Regan Reilly and husband Jack start
renovating their apartment, a black out hits - and Regan lands a startling new
case.
Glimpses of
Heaven by Trudy Harris, RN (Apr.)
A former hospice nurse shares stories of patients at the end
of their lives, as they began to hear with spiritual ears and see with
spiritual eyes. Tender, heartbreaking,
and eye-opening – tremendous comfort and hope for readers facing the loss of a
loved one.
.An Inconvenient
Book by Glenn
Beck
In this appraisal of America’s
woes, conservative TV and talk-radio host Beck (The Real America) lays lighthearted siege to everything that makes
the world worse.
Blood Trail: A
Joe Pickett Novel by C.J. Box (May)
A gruesome murder ends the elk season in the Rockies, and game
warden Pickett must trap a hunter in this eighth novel by Box, who lives in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Bulls Island by Dorothea Benton Frank (Apr.)
Betts finally returns to the island home where her mother’s
death led to accusations that ended her marriage plans.
Careless in Red
by Elizabeth
George (May)
Can Thomas Lynley crack an airtight case?
Days of Infamy by Newt Gingrich & William
R. Forstchen (May)
This second novel of the author’s World War II series opens
with the Japanese failing to declare war before slamming Pearl
Harbor.
Odd Hours by Dean Koontz (May)
A red tide pulls Odd Thomas to a California coastal town.
Phantom Prey by John Sandford (May)
Davenport
is called upon to investigate the murders of a bunch of Goths.
The Whole Truth
by David Baldacci
(Apr.)
Find out what a defense contractor who “perception manages”
global conflict, an agent for peace, and a reporter tracking a massacre have in
common.
Hold Tight by Harlan Coben (Apr.)
“Just stay quiet and all safe.” Not a good message to find when spying on
your 16-yar-old son’s computer.
The Front by Patricia Cornwell (May)
Cornwell brings back Massachusetts
state investigator Win Garano, who’s ordered to find trouble in Watertown.
Secrets by Jude Deveraux (May)
Surprise for Cassandra when she works as a nanny for the
widowed Jeff, whom she has secretly worshipped since childhood.
In Defense of
Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan
Have a New Kid
by Friday by
Kevin Leman
His new book shows parents how to reverse negative behavior in
their children – fast! With his
signature wit and encouragement, Dr. Leman offers hope and real, practical,
doable strategies for regaining control and becoming the parents they always
wanted to be.
Stop Whining
Start Living by Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Dr. Laura Schlessinger challenges readers to take charge of
their lives by assuming full responsibility for one’s obligations and providing
tough-love counsel on how to interact with others in more productive ways.
The Plague of
Doves by Louise
Erdrich (May)
Violence in a North Dakota
town near an Ojibwe reservation resonates through the generations.
Write it When
I’m Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record
Conversations with Gerald R. Ford by Thomas M. DeFrank
Four months before President Richard Nixon resigned in 1974,
Vice President Ford blurted out to deFrank, a young Newsweek reporter, that Nixon would be forced out of office. Realizing that he would lose credibility if
this remark were made public, Ford grabbed the shocked reporter and made him
promise not to quote him until after his (Ford’s) death. So began a close personal and professional
relationship.
Unaccustomed
Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (April)
From the bestselling author of The Namesake, a new collection of eight luminous stories
that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they explore
the power of love, fate, and the secrets that lie at the heart of family
life. The story takes us around the
globe and into the lives of siblings, parents, friends, and lovers.
Shadow Command by Dale Brown (June)
When the Russians pounce after persuading the U.S. President
to cease funding Gen. Patrick McLanahan’s Aerospace Battle Force, McLanahan
must kick into action.
The Broken
Window by
Jeffery Deaver (June)
Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are stalking a killer who
excels at framing others.
Rogue by Danielle Steel (June)
Pleasantly divorced from insouciant millionaire Blake,
Maxine is about to settle for a doctor when Blake turns a corner and asks her
to help with his new humanitarian project.
Panic in Level
4: Tales of Intrigue from the World of
Science by
Richard Preston (May)
Preston’s collected essays
revisit numerous hot zones!
Nothing to Lose
by Lee Child
(June)
Jack Reacher is in Despair – not a state of mind but a small
Colorado town
that’s out to get him!
Tailspin: An FBI Thriller by Catherine Coulter (June)
Special agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock have been
made caretakers of Timothy MacLean, Psychiatrist to numerous Washington bigwigs who’s starting to babble
from dementia and may let some dangerous cats out of the bag.
Plague Ship by Clive Cussler and Jack DuBrul
(June)
Capt. Juan Cabrillo sails his covert spy ship, the Oregon, into dangerous waters after
encountering a cruise ship adrift with hundreds of dead passengers aboard.
Death and
Honor: An Honor Bound Novel by W.E. B. Griffin and William
E. Butterworth (June)
A return to Griffin’s “Honor Bound” OSS
series, with marine pilot Cletus Frade countering German operations in neutral Argentina.
Fearless
Fourteen by Janet
Evanovich (June)
Personal vendettas, hidden treasure, and a monkey named Carl
will send bounty hunter Stephanie Plum on her most explosive adventure yet.
Sail by James Patterson & Howard
Roughan (June)
The sailing trip that was supposed to pull together widowed
Anne Dunne’s distraught family goes very, very wrong.
Resolution by Robert Parker (June)
Fresh from the bloodshed in Appaloosa, Everett Hitch rides into Resolution and is soon
taking on the nasty mine owners.
Twenty Wishes by Debbie Macomber (May)
Return to Blossom
Street with this unforgettable tale that proves
wishes can come true – but not
necessarily in the way you expect.
Hit and Run by Lawrence Block (July)
Premier hit man Keller is looking forward to a well-deserved
retirement, but just can’t say no to a job in Des Moines, of all places. While he’s there the governor of Ohio is assassinated in
town, and the evidence points to Keller.
He’s been set up - what a way to spend the golden years. Before it’s all over though, the old guys show
they’ve got what it takes to teach the youngsters a thing or two in this brisk,
suspenseful, and funny romp.
Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door by David Kaufmann
This is the long-awaited, definitive biography of Doris Day
from the 1940’s to the 1980’s.
Executive by Phillip Margolin (June)
A private eye trails a teenager who winds up dead – after a
late-night visit to the President. Then
a convict claims he was framed for the murder of a teenager who worked for a
former governor – who’s now the President.
Sounds suspicious!
Tribute by Nora Roberts (July)
Former child actress Cilla McGowan just wants to be left
alone to restore the farmhouse that belonged to her superstar grandmother, but
then she discovers letters that make her wonder about her grandmother’s
untimely death.
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews (April)
Andrew’s memoir looks to be the first in a series
chronicling this much-loved star’s life, as it spans only her early years
through her stage success in Camelot (1960). Her story begins in 1935 England, when
she was born to an aspiring vaudevillian mother and a well-liked father.
Last Kiss by Luanne Rice (Aug.)
After the inexplicable murder of a charming 18-year-old, his
singer-songwriter mom can’t make music and his girlfriend is inconsolable. So a family friend rustles up the mom’s old
flame and asks him to look into the mystery.
who was a teacher.
Her parents divorced, and her mother married Canadian tenor Ken Andrews;
together, they performed in music halls across England. When Julie’s voice was “discovered,” she was
made part of the act and began her professional career at 12, becoming the
youngest solo performer at a Royal Command Performance.
Swan Peak: A Dave Robicheaux Novel by James Lee Burke (July)
The Louisiana
lawman is back in a brand-new setting – the Rocky Mountains of Montana – in the
latest by the ever popular Burke.
Fidelity by Thomas Perry (June)
In this high-energy thriller, Emily Kramer tries to find out
why her husband, Phil, was shot dead and discovers he’d been keeping secrets
from her. Jerry Hobart completed his
contract killing of Phil Kramer, but now his employer wants Phil’s wife dead as
well; Jerry decides he can instead make more money finding out what his
employer is hiding.
Sisterchicks Go
Brit! By Robin
Jones Gunn (May)
Midlife friends Kellie and Liz embark on a trip to England. Liz has always dreamed of going to London and Kellie has
always wanted to run an interior design firm.
When a spry old woman, Opal, inspires Kellie’s decorating plans and
gives the friends airline tickets, both women’s dreams appear to be coming
true.
Winding Ways
Quilt by
Jennifer Chiaverini
The Elm Creek Quilts
series continues with The Winding Ways
Quilt in which the arrival of new comers to the Circle of Quilters illuminates the power of friendship to navigate
life’s unexpected pathways.
The Sand Castle by Rita Mae Brown (July)
Remember Brown’s “Six in One” trilogy, starring the
Hunsenmeir sisters? Wheezie and Juts
return for some family trouble at the beach.
Queen of Babble
Gets Hitched by
Meg Cabot (July)
Dizzy Lizzie Nichols (the Queen of Babble) is getting married to Jean-Luc at his chateau in
southern France. But his family, her family, the best man, and
finally Lizzie herself are starting to have second thoughts.
Undiscovered
Country by Lin
Enger (July)
The MFA director at Minnesota
State University,
Moorhead, Enger
follows in brother Leif’s literary footsteps with this story of a man’s
putative suicide, his son’s suspicions, and his wife’s attentions to her
brother-in-law. Hamlet up north!
Silent Thunder by Iris Johansen & Roy Johansen (July)
The brother of marine architect Hannah Bryson is helping her
ready a Russian nuclear sub for display in America when he discovers something
unusual on board – and is promptly murdered.
Not in the Flesh by Ruth Rendell (June)
Chief Inspector Wexford has two long-dead bodies and not
many clues, but long-buried secrets are brought into daylight, immigrant family
structures fray, and hopes that local people who disappeared more than a decade
ago may yet come home are forever put to rest.
The Day I ate
Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts
of Liberation by
Elizabeth Berg (Apr.)
Fictional stories about women shedding “the shoulds,” and doing,
saying, eating whatever they really want.
Berg takes us into the heart of women’s lives – confronting true joys,
memories, losses, friendships, desires, diets, and feelings.
The Third Angel
by Alice
Hoffman (Apr.)
Three interlinked stories set in three different decades –
the 50’s, 60’s and the present – about the mysterious choices we make in love,
and how those choices can haunt us for the rest of our lives.
Death Angel by Linda Howard (June)
After she double-crosses her lover, a ruthless crime lord,
Drea must flee from a relentless assassin who ultimately succeeds in killing
her. But after a very brief death, Drea
returns to life a changed woman: no
longer selfish and cruel, determined to bring down the ones who marked her for
death. Joining forces with the FBI,
little does she suspect that the man she will come to love is the same assassin
who took her life.
Audition by Barbara Walters
The honest and revealing memoir by the most celebrated woman
in the history of television journalism.
For 40 years she’s been at the top of her game: co-host of the Today Show, first female network news anchor, host and producer of
countless top rated specials, star of 20/20, creator and co-host of The View. She is a star who spends her time talking to
, examining, and befriending other stars.
The Senator’s
Wife by Sue Miller
You, Staying
Young: The Owner’s Manual for Extending
Your Warranty by
Michael F. Roizen, M.D. & Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
How Not To Look
Old: Fast and Effortless Ways to Look 10
years Younger, 10 Pounds Lighter, 10 Times Better by Charla Krupp
The Yada Yada
Prayer Group Gets Tough by Neta Jackson
This is number 4 in the popular series.
Escape by Carolyn Jessop
Escape
provides an astonishing look behind the tightly drawn curtains of the FLDS Church,
one of the most secretive religious groups in the United States. The story of Carolyn Jessop tells is so weird
and shocking that one hesitates to believe a sect like this, with 10,000
polygamous followers, could really exist in 21st-century
America. But Jessop’s courageous,
heart-wrenching account is absolutely factual.
Don’t Start the
Revolution Without Me by Jesse Ventura
Former governor, wrestler, and Navy SEAL writing on what’s
wrong with the Democrats, the Republicans, and politics in America.
Puppy
Training: Owner’s Week-by-Week Training
Guide by
Charlotte Schwartz
Puppy Training presents a unique and useful approach for new
owners, carefully detailing an 8-week home training program.
The 100 Best
Worldwide Vacations to Enrich Your Life by Pam Grout (May)
Grout’s many examples emphasize connecting with divergent
cultures that cramming on a cruise ship and following tour guides never
touches. This is a great book full of
ideas for those who want more from their travels.
My Sister, My
Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler
Rampike by
Joyce Carol (July)
In Oates’ latest novel, she fictionalizes the JonBenet
Ramsey murder case to satirize upper-middle-class status seekers, media
fixation, and opportunity-grabbing victims.
Vineyard Chill: A Martha’s Vineyard
Mystery by
Philip R. Craig (June)
It is always sad to say goodbye to old friends - this is
Craig’s final “Martha’s Vineyard” mystery, as
the author died last year.
The Other by David Guterson
A compelling new novel about youth and idealism, adulthood
and its compromises, and two powerfully different visions of what it means to
live the good life.
Before Green
Gables by Budge
Wilson
The remarkable and heartwarming prequel to the classic Anne of Green Gables.
Ladies of Liberty
by Cokie
Roberts
These are the women who shaped our nation!
Revenge of the
Innocents by
Nancy Taylor Rosenberg
Probation officer Carolyn Sullivan, is a study in how little
we know about our friends. Carolyn, by
most measures, lives a storybook life.
Her family is harmonious: she is engaged to the man of her dreams; she
has just gotten a promotion. Before her
job upgrade, she worked alongside her childhood friend, Veronica Campbell. Now she is in the somewhat uncomfortable
position of being Veronica’s boss.
Veronica’s life is the opposite of Carolyn’s: Her career has gone downhill, her family runs
roughshod, and it looks as if she is having an extramarital affair with a co-worker. Then the unthinkable happens – Veronica is
found dead in a cheap hotel, half of her face blown away by her own handgun.
The coroner thinks it’s a suicide, but that doesn’t wash with Carolyn. Her hunch solidifies when she receives an
anonymous letter warning her off the case.
Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner (July)
Young women from society’s outskirts have been saying their
final good-byes, and pregnant 18-year-old Delilah Rose thinks she knows
why. She just needs to speak to pregnant
FBI agent Kimberly Quincy.
Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry (July)
How a bookless boy became a famed author and owner of
bookstores featuring rare and collectible volumes.
A New
Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
The March 2008 Oprah Book Club pick!
It Only Takes A
Moment by Mary
Jane Clark (Aug.)
The Sunrise Suspense
Society searches for the kidnapped daughter of a high-profile anchorwoman
in the latest series entry by best-selling New Jersey author Clark.
Damage Control by J.A. Jance (Aug.)
Sheriff Joanna Brady returns – with a newborn – to solve the
cases of a car driven over a cliff and a young woman who shoots a man she
thought was her stalker ex-boyfriend.
Hollywood
Crows by Joseph Wambaugh (May)
Two LAPD cops aren’t smart enough to realize that the cutie
they’re toying with is setting them up for her rich husband’s murder.
Moon of Madness by Don Coldsmith
A new western title!
Fine Just the Way it Is: Wyoming Stories 3 by
Annie Proulx (May)
More Wyoming stories by the
author of Broke
Back Mountain.
The Shooters: A Presidential
Agent Novel by W.E.B. Griffin (Jan.)
A DEA agent has gone missing in Paraguay, and a young officer at
the embassy thinks that Charley Castillo is just the guy to bring him back.
When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep by Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
(Dec.)
Nitido Amán doesn’t know why his parents abandoned Guatemala for the United States, so why not travel to
the little town he thinks was their home to find out? Being mistaken for the new priest helps with
his plan (think what you can learn during confession), but eventually he’s led
to some dark secrets.
To the Edge by Anne Rivers Siddons (June)
After husband Cam’s death,
Lilly travels to their favorite spot for a little reflection.
Dark Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon
Now appearing for the first time together, three of Sidney
Sheldon’s number one bestselling novels – The
Other Side of Midnight, Rage
of Angels, and Bloodline
– are included in this celebratory collection.
A Question of Mourning by Arnie Martens
Another mystery from a South Dakota author! He sets his mystery in fictitious Clearwater, South
Dakota where Kyle Snyder’s wife disappears, and with
an overzealous detective leading the charge and the public ready to string him
up, Kyle fights to stay free so that he can conduct his own investigation. But the secrets Kyle uncovers cause his
greatest pain.
Armagedon’s Children by Terry Brooks
In this exciting first of a new fantasy trilogy, bestseller
Brooks effortlessly conjures up the Tolkien-infused magic of his Shannara books with the urban, post
apocalyptic world of the Word and Void series. The last surviving members of the Knights
seek to keep the “balance of the world’s magic in check.”
Pale Horse by Bernard Cornwell
In this sequel to Bernard Cornwell’s The Last Kingdom, the Vikings have taken over most of England and the
isolated English may be betrayed by a dispossessed nobleman raised by Danes.
White
Road by John Connolly
A frightening new thriller that finds the troubled private
eye Charlie Parker racing to unravel the brutal rape and murder of a Southern
millionaire’s daughter.
A Lady of Hidden Intent by Tracie Peterson (March)
In the second volume of Montana-native Peterson’s new
historical series ( after A Lady of
High Regard), Catherine Newbury’s father is accused of slave trading in
19th–century England. Catherine flees to America, where she must start a new
life with a new name. When Carter Danby,
whom she had met briefly in England,
takes an interest in her, Catherine would rather sacrifice her own future
happiness to protect her father.
Hit and Run by Lawrence Block (July)
A simple whack-the-guy job in Des Moines has assassin Keller framed for
murder and on the lam in the latest by Block novel.
Foreign Body by Robin Cook (Aug.)
When medical student Jennifer Hernandez discovers that the
grandmother who raised her has died in New
Delhi, where she has gone in search of an affordable
hip replacement, she’s on to the next plane to investigate.
The Face of Fear by John Saul (Aug.)
Alison goes along with her mother’s plans to pretty her up
through plastic surgery, even when the surgeon becomes her stepfather. But as the surgery continues, she notices
that she’s starting to look more and more like the surgeon’s deceased first
wife.
Fractured by Karin slaughter (Aug.)
Having escaped an abusive husband, Gailyn is good and ready
to take on an intruder who’s holding her daughter hostage – though perhaps she
wasn’t expecting the man to end up dead.
Hold Tight by Harlan Coben (Apr.)
Mike and Tia Baye’s son Adam delivers typically teen angst
to his befuddled family. As a precaution,
Mike and Tia invest in a spyware program that will report every keystroke on
Adam’s personal computer so they can track his movements. The results terrify them, and then Adam
disappears. Life moves forward, and the
questions become complex: How far would
you go to protect your family? How well
do you know your children?
The Tempest Tales by Walter Mosley (May)
Tempest Landry, a quick-witted African American resident of Harlem, NY,
is walking home when a case of mistaken identity leads to his being shot and
killed by police. He finds himself
standing in line at the gates of heaven waiting to talk to St. Peter, who
reviews his past transgressions and finds Tempest wanting, denied entry into
heaven, and ordered to hell. Tempest
challenges St. Peter which evolves into a humorous, thought-provoking, and
accessible literary tale of the concept and treatment of sin and sinners in
contemporary times.
Hit and Run by Lawrence
Block (July)
Sent to Des Moines
to do one last job, master hit man John Keller gets framed for a murder he
didn’t commit.
The Dangerous Days of Daniel X by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge
(July)
Meet Daniel, whose role as the Alien Hunter is to protect
Earth. Patterson says it’s the best
story he’s ever written!
The Laughter of Dead Kings by Elizabeth Peters (Sept.)
An enormous treasure has vanished from Egypt’s Valley of the Kings,
and Vicky Bliss wonders if her boyfriend has returned to his thieving ways. (All those still wondering whether the Vicky Bliss series is connected to the Amelia Peabody series will at last find
the answer here.)
Indignation by Philip Roth (Sept.)
Marcus Messner’s father is so anxious about the well-being
of his darling son that Marcus is compelled to flee 1950s Newark, NJ,
and attend college in a place that seems truly foreign. – Ohio!
The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks (Sept.)
The photo of a smiling woman he has never met proves to be
one man’s lucky charm.
Acedia & Me: A Marriage,
Monks, and a Writer’s Life by South
Dakota Author Kathleen Norris (Sept.)
Cloister Walk
author Norris was relieved to discover the work acedia in a fourth-century Christian text; it summed up perfectly
her sense of restlessness and disaffection – and maybe yours, too.
Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs (Aug.)
When the head of a teenaged girl is discovered in a cellar
along with some headless chickens, the locals suspect devil worshippers – and
Temperance Brennan launches her 11th case.
Heat Lightning by John Sandford (Sept.)
Sandford brings us Virgil Flowers, a Minnesota Bureau of
Criminal apprehension investigator, to investigate a string of murders near a
veterans memorial.
The Comfort of Muddy Saturday by Alexander McCall Smith (Sept.)
Isabel Dalhousie steps in to help a doctor accused of
scientific fraud regarding a new drug.
Hot Mahogany: A Stone Barrington Novel by
Stuart Woods (Sept.)
An army intelligence officer whose memory is muddled after
an act of violence, Barton Lance needs
watching, and Stone Barrington gets the job.
Hounded to Death by Rita Mae Brown (Aug.)
A hound stolen, a master murdered, a pet food manufacturer
vanished, and a vet who’s shot herself - Sister Jane, Master of Foxhounds, is
in for lots of trouble.
The Keepsake by Tess Gerritsen (Aug.)
Dr. Maura Isles is intrigued by an offer to observe the
X-raying of a mummy – until she discovers that the mummy is a contemporary
murder victim.
Smoke Screen by Sandra Brown (Aug.)
In Brown’s 57th New York Times bestseller, she writes about good guys who become
bad guys – and vice versa.
The Assassin by Stephen Coonts (Aug.)
Industry and political leaders in the West decide to go
after the al Quaeda minion who nearly blew up the Group of 7 in Coonts’s The
Traitor. Now they’re being
picked off one-by-one.
Promises by Fern Michaels
Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell (Oct.)
The NYPD asks Kay Scarpetta to examine a hand-cuffed man who
claims to have been injured during the course of a murder. Did he kill someone, or is the killer after
him?
A Most Wanted Man by John leCarre´ (Oct.)
A young Russian named Issa, smuggled into Hamburg and
claiming he’s Muslim…..Annabel, the civil rights lawyer trying to stop his
deportation…..and British banker Tommy Brue, to whom Annabel turns for
help….Everyone is after him in le Carre´’s latest!
The Letters by Luanne
Rice & Joseph Monninger (Oct.)
Friends who corresponded for years, these two top authors
found the fictional Sam and Hadley emerging in the letters, which evolved into
this epistolary novel about a couple facing loss.
This I Believe II: More
Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women by Jay Allison & Dan
Gediman
(Oct.)
Dark Summer by Iris Johansen(Oct.)
Lucky for a wounded black lab named Ned that veterinarian
Devon Brady is tending to him. Not so
lucky for Devon, who is dragged into a cycle
of violence by Ned’s owner.
Burn Out by Marcia Muller (Oct.)
Mulling things over at her high-desert ranch, Sharon McCone
is reluctantly drawn into investigating a murder at an abandoned resort.
Testimony by Anita Shreve (Oct.)
A sex scandal rocks a posh New England
boarding school, and, what’s worse, there’s a videotape. The result?
Divorces, wrecked careers, and one death.
The Quilter’s Kitchen: An Elm
Creek quilts Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini (Oct.)
Find out how Chef Anna ends up writing the official cookbook
for the Elm Creek Quilters and get 100 recipes in the bargain.
The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly (Oct.)
Mickey Haller takes the case of a Hollywood
lawyer who’s been murdered – and discovers that the killer is now after him.
The Gate House by Nelson DeMille (Oct.)
Years after his wife killed her Mafia lover, John Sutter
finds himself living in the gate house of her family’s grand estate – and
contending with the victim’s enraged son.
Untitled by Richard Paul Evans (Oct.)
No hints on the title or plot, but plan on the book being
filled with love, hope, and Christmas.
I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass (Oct.)
The story of two sisters whose lives mesh, for better and
worse.
Roads to Quoz: An American
Mosey by William Least Heat-Moon (Oct.)
Here’s another road trip from the author of Blue Highways, who says we’ve got
to travel slowly and deliberately if we want to eat well along the way.
The Way We work: Getting to
Know the Amazing Human Body by David Macaulay (Oct.)
Macaulay sat in on anatomy classes, surgeries, and autopsies
so that he could get the workings of the human body just right.
The Mercedes Coffin by Faye Kellerman (August)
When a Hollywood murder
echoes the execution-style killing of one of her favorite teachers 15 years
earlier, heiress Genoa Greeves convinces LAPD Lt. Peter Decker to start looking
for clues.
Parenting With Love and Logic:
Teaching Children Responsibility by W. Cline Foster
Audio CD Book
Dragonheart by Todd McCaffrey (October)
After the dread plague, dragons and dragonriders are no
longer dying…but Thread is falling again, and the surviving dragons are too few
in number to protect the whole planet.
Only “timing it” can help, and at first it does, but then the young
dragons begin to disappear, and it begins to look as though the answer lies not
in the past, but in the unknown future….
The Gypsy Morph by Terry Brooks (August)
Fifty years from now, our world is a very different
place. Governments have fallen. Pollution has poisoned the skies, water, and
soil. Thousands live in highly fortified
strongholds; others roam the landscape, as either predator or prey. Standing against the forces that have tipped
the balance from good to evil are a very few heroes, men and women imbued with
powerful magic and sworn to a high destiny.
Bones by Jonathan Kellerman (October)
When human bones are found scattered throughout L.A., Detective Milo
Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware team up to track a ruthless and bizarre
killer.
The Hero by Jon Krakauer (October)
The universally acclaimed, bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air and Under the Banner of Heaven
returns with another masterful work of narrative nonfiction in which he
intimately chronicles the remarkable life and controversial “friendly fire”
death of NFL player turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman, while powerfully
illuminating such themes as the high price of idealism and the nature of modern
warfare.
Crossroads by Belva Plain (November)
In this moving novel, a tragic car accident forces a New England widow to raise a child from infancy, setting
into motion a story that will play itself out over three generations of mothers
and daughters.
Called out of Darkness by Anne Rice (October)
The legendary Anne Rice’s intimate memoir – riveting;
moving; honest – of her Catholic girlfriend; her unmaking as a devout believer,
and the path she found to a new, all encompassing belief in her faith.
A Good Woman by Danielle Steel (October)
From the glittering ballrooms of Manhattan to the fires of
World War I, Danielle Steel takes us on an unforgettable journey in her new
novel – a spellbinding tale of war, loss, history, and one woman’s unbreakable
spirit
When Presidential Politics Hits Fever Pitch by Ann Coulter
(Nov.)
The Private Patient by P.D. James (November)
The first murder takes place at Cheverall Manor, a private
nursing home for rich patients. The
killing is brutal, but at first there seems to be no reason for it. Commander Dalgliesh uncovers more and more
motives until the air is clouded with suspicion and fear. And then there is another murder. An examination of the real meaning of
violence from the master of her craft.
Your Heart Belongs To Me by Dean Koontz (November)
A year after the heart transplant that saved him from
certain death, thirty-four-year-old Ryan Perry has never felt better, but
someone is out there who intends to collect on a prior claim to the one thing
that made it all possible…and as every facet of his life comes under siege, he
begins to glimpse a mysterious woman stalking him….a woman who looks just like
the 21-year-old donor of the heart beating steadily within his own chest. She wants it back!
A Mercy by Toni Morrison (November)
From 1993 Nobel Prize-winning author, a new novel, set, like
Beloved, in the American
past. Set in the 1680’s, A Mercy reveals what lies beneath
the surface of slavery. But at its
heart, like Beloved, it is the
ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughter – a mother who casts
off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise
that abandonment.
The Charlemagne Pursuit by Steve Berry (December)
Cotton Malone heads to Germany to uncover the secrets of his
father’s death in a sunken U.S. submarine in the North Atlantic, but the Nazis
explored Antarctica a decade earlier, inspired by historical clues discovered
in a manuscript unearthed from the tomb of Charlemagne. Now, the only way to find the answers to
Cotton’s questions is to follow the original historical clues that led the
Nazis there in the first place.
Deeper Than the Dead by Tami Hoag (December)
When 2 boys and a girl stumble on a dead woman’s body, the
discovery rocks their idyllic California
town. The killing seems to match a
similar crime the year before. Special
Agent Tony Mendez knows about serial killers, and as the body count begins to
rise, he launches the search for the psychopath dubbed “The See No Evil
Killer.”
The Treasure by Iris Johansen (December)
As young girls, Selene and her sister Thea escaped from
slavery with the help of a mysterious assassin named Kadar. For years, they’ve all lived happily at
Ware’s estate in Scotland…while
Selene and Kadar hide a smoldering passion for each other. When a summons from out of Kadar’s past
forces him to leave the safety of Scotland – with Selene and a young
soldier at his side – they will wrestle with demons from his previous life and
fend off the deadly attacks. And when
their mission becomes clear, the lovers face a choice beyond imagining.
Walking With Grandfather: The
Wisdom of Lakota Elders by Joseph M. Marshall III
From the Lakota storyteller Loved by the Buffalo
of TNT/DreamWorks epic mini-series Into
the West.
Divine Justice by David Baldacci (November)
Having offed two guys who knew too much about his past,
Oliver Stone is hiding – and his Camel Club is bereft.
Arctic Drift by Clive & Dirk Cussler (November)
A silvery and slightly sinister mineral dating back to the
search for the Northwest passage is the only
link NUMA director Dirk Pitt sees among a series of unsettling events.
The Bodies Left Behind by Jeffery Deaver (November)
Deaver delivers a whole new cast of characters – and a
ticking bomb!
Ghost at Work by Carolyn
Hart (November)
Death doesn’t get Bailey down, and this sleuthing ghost
helps the residents of a small Ohio
town in this series debut by the author of Death
on Demand series.
Cross Country by JamesPatterson (November)
Alex Cross takes on the Nigerian underworld in Washington, DC.
A Christmas Grace by Anne Perry (November)
Tending to her dying aunt on Ireland’s west coast, Emily Radley
finds a town wrung out over a terrible secret.
Easy Innocence by Libby Fischer Hellmann
A tough and tender book that brings to life the reality of
hazing and bullying among teenage girls in a story with enough twists and turns
to keep you reading to the end.
Lives of Mothers & Daughters:
Growing Up with Alice Munro by Sheila Munro
This book is the story of Canadian author Alice Munro’s life
and work, as seen through the eyes of her eldest daughter, Sheila. Each chapter contains references to Alice’s literary work as
Sheila analyzes the interdependence of her mother’s writing and their “real
life story” as a family. It gently
tackles the experience of living with a writer and how this affected Sheila’s
finding her own voice in the same medium.
Drive: 9 Ways to Motivate
Your Kids to Achieve by Janine walker Caffrey (August)
Over the past couple of decades, we’ve managed to raise a
generation of kids who, while smart, engaging, and technically savvy, lack
personal drive and ambition and crave instant gratification. Author Caffrey, founder and head of a private
K-12 school in Florida,
lays out the problems as she sees them with today’s kids and outlines nine
sensible, doable solutions for motivating and reenergizing them. This is an excellent resource for parents and
teachers.
Rough Justice by Jack Higgins (August)
While in Kosovo, Blake Johnson, an aide to the president of
the United States,
meets Harry Miller, a military agent for the British prime minister. The two become entangled in an incident with
a Russian military squad that results in the British agent shooting a Russian
soldier who was trying to torch a mosque.
This killing in turn leads to a series of escalating retaliatory actions
from the Russians that affect Johnson and Miller, as well as other British and
American associates.
Wishbones by Carolyn Haines
This Sarah Booth
Delaney mystery is packed with an extra surprise for South
Dakota readers - Patsy
Kringel, Research Library associate at the State Library assists the author
with South Dakota related reference questions
and is included in this book as the research
librarian at Petaluma.
Rebecca’s Reward by Laura Snelling (September)
This is the 4th in the Daughters of Blessing series.
Children’s Book
The
Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Seinzick
Winner of the 2008 Caldecott Medal for illustration. A mesmerizing
illustrated novel about an orphan who lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station.
Gossamer by Lois Lowry
While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries
to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the
nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.
Leaves by David Ezra Stein 2008 Ezra Keats Award
Hank the Cowdog and the Case of the most Ancient Bone by John R.
Erickson
#50 in the popular juvenile fiction series
On
the Farm by
David Elliott
Simple verse and beautiful woodcut and watercolor illustrations combine
to capture a busy family farm that is full of life, from a crowing rooster to
buzzing bees.
Storm: the Lightning Fair
Hayley:
the Rain Fair
Ruby:
The Red Fairy
India: The Moonstone Fairy
The Snow Angel by Christine Leeson
On Christmas morning, Daisy and Sam are playing in the snow when they
see something magical soar through the sky.
It’s a snow angel! But as they
watch, the angel swoops, flutters, and tumbles to the ground. Is there anything the mice can do to help the
lost and lonely angel before it’s too late?
The Wednesday
Wars by Gary D.
Schmidt
The year is 1967, and everyone has bigger things to worry
about, especially Vietnam. But on Wednesday afternoons when all his
classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, 7th-grader
Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker’s classroom where they read the plays of
William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he live
in.
My Dog May Be A
Genius by Jack
Prelutsky
Get ready for more than 100 new poems and pictures by the
reigning czars of silliness!
Inheritance by Christopher Paolini
This is book #3 in his series, following the popular title Eldest.
Acting Out by Avi
These are original one-act plays written by six masterful
children’s authors for middle graders full of so much drama, comedy, and truly
great storytelling!
Airhead by Meg Cabot
When Emerson Watts is involved in a mysterious accident, she
wakes up to find she’s now in the body of a supermodel.
Good
Masters! Sweet Ladies! By Laura Schlitz 2008 Newberry Award Winner!
Using a series of interconnected monologues and dialogues
featuring young people living in and around an English manor in 1255, Schlitz
offers first-person character sketches that build upon each other to create a
finer understanding of medieval life.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
It’s a small story about a girl, some words, an
accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and a lot of
thievery!
The Opal Deception, The Lost Colony and The Time Paradox by
Eoin Colfer
Numbers 4, 5, and 6 in the Artemis Fowl series.
