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Interested in Upcoming books, author interviews, and book reviews?  Try The Book Studio ...an online site with great content about new titles and authors.

New items are purchased monthly. These include the newest best sellers, fiction, non-fiction, picture books, youth titles, movies on DVD, music CDs and audio books on both CD and cassette. We also own all of the books on the Flume High School List, Great Stone Face Book List and the Isinglass Teen Read List for 2009-2010! Lists of new and upcoming book purchases for children and young adults can be found on the Kids' Corner and Teen Zone pages.

If you would like to be on the reserve list for any of these titles please e-mail the library and include your FIRST and LAST name, library card number, complete titles, format and authors.  Please consider donating your books, DVDs, audio books or music CDs to the library once you have read/viewed/listened to them. 

Have you read a book lately that you'd like to review? Viewed a movie that you loved?  Listened to an audio book that blew your socks off?  If so, please send your book review (or just the title) to Amy Inglis at blibrary@metrocast.net We also have a display board where these books are put out so people may see "great finds" by other patrons!

 

New Book Titles by Month:


 

October 2009

13 1/2 by Nevada Barr
Archenemy by Frank Beddor (YA)
Black Friday by Alex Kava
Blood game by Iris Johansen
Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve
Dark Calling by Darren Shan (YA)
Death on Demand by Carolyn Hart
Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima (YA)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid #4 (Dog Days) by Jeff Kinney) YA
Diary of a Witness by Catherine Hyde
Dragonfly by Julia Golding (YA)
Enna Burning by Shannon Hale (YA)
Everafter by Amy Huntly (YA)
Evidence by Jonathan Kellerman
Executive Power by Vince Flynn
Fair is the Rose by Liz Higgs
Fire by Kristin Cashore (YA)
Front and Center by Catherine Murdock (YA)
Grave Secret by Charlaine Harris
Guinness World Records 2010
Hour of the Hunter by JA Jance
Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs
In the President's Secret Service by Ronald Kessler
Islands of the Blessed by Nancy Farmer (YA)
Leven Thumps and the Wrath of Ezra by Obert Skye (YA)
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (YA)
Locked In by Marcia Muller
Maze Runner by James dashner (YA)
Missing by Beverly Lewis
Necessary As Blood by Deb Crombie
Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly
Ninth Daughter by Barbara Hamilton
Nurtureshock by Po Bronson
Peter and the Sword of Mercy by Dave Barry (YA)
Price of Malice by Archer Mayor
Professional by Robert B. Parker
Pursuit of Honor by Vince Flynn
Rampant by Diana Peterfeund (YA)
River of Secrets by Shannon Hale (YA)
Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater (YA)
Syren by Angie Sage (YA)
Talking to Your Kids About Sex by Laura Berman
Tempted by PC Cast (YA)
True Blue by David Baldacci
Vanishing Act by Fern Michaels
Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf
Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer
Secret of Lost THings by Sheridan Hay
No Spin Zone by Bill O'Reilly
Quilting Bible by Singer
Patios and Decks by Sunset

 
November New Books
Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan
First Lord's Fury by Jim Butcher
Bed of Roses by Nora Roberts
Kindred in Death by JD Robb
Under the Dome by Stephen King
Wrecker by Clive Cussler
Ford Country by John Grisham
Breathless by Dean Koontz
Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
I, Alex Cross by James Patterson
Deadly Little Lies by Laurie Stolarz (YA)
Splendor by Anna Godbersen (YA)
Horrible Harry on the Ropes by Suzy Kline (CH)
January Joker by Ron Roy (CH)
February Friend by Ron Roy (CH)
Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni (CH)
Everwild by Neal Shusterman (YA)
Tenderness of Wolves by Penney
North by Northanger by Carrie Bebris
Pretty Dead by F.L. Block (YA)
Christmas List by RP Evans
Great Death by Smelcer (YA)
Goodbye Season by Marion Hale (YA)
Breaking the Rules by BT Bradford
Candor by Pam Bachorz (YA)
Windfall by Penny Vincenzi
Matters at Mansfield by Carrie Bebris
Mr. Maybe by  Jane Green
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti (YA)
Along for the Ride by S. Dessen (YA)
Rivers of Gold by Tracie Peterson
Looking Through a Microscope by Bullock (CH)
Widow's Revenge by James Doss
A World Without Bees by McCallum
Rainwater by Sandra Brown
The Children's Book by AS Byatt
Shadowland by A. Noel (YA)
Two Bobbies by Larson (CH)
Firefighter Ted by Beaty (CH)
Friend of the family by Grodstein
Dreamfever by Moning
Lego Star Wars by Beecroft (CH)
Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Body in the Sleigh by KH Page
Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton

New DVD Titles at the Library

We're always expanding our collection of DVD titles for you and your family!

New DVD Titles:
 

September-November

Abs of Steel
Buns of Steel
Food Inc. (11/03)
Ice Age 3 (10/27)
The Proposal (10/17)
Star Trek 2009 (11/17)
Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (11/03)
Transformers II (10/20) 
Up (11/10)
Grey's Anatomy Season Five (10/17)

The Tudors Season III (12/09)

Ken Burns: National Parks

Calling All Engines (Thomas the Tank)

Serpico
Along Came A Spider
Thumbelina
Brigadoon
Die Another Day
The World is Not Enough
Thomas Crown Affair
Erin Brockovich
French Kiss
Inrerview with a Vampire
Much Ado About Nothing
Moby Dick
Laura
All Dogs Go to Heaven
Andre
Anastasia
Cats & Dogs
Babe (1 & 2)
An Affair to Remember

New CD Software Titles at the Library

Berlitz Learn English Premier


New Music CD Titles at the Library

None For October 2009


New AudioBook Titles on CD & Playway at the Library

October 2009

The 39 Clues Books 2-5

Catching Fire by Collins

Ever by Gail Carson Levine

Shipwreck Series by Korman

Her Fearful Symmetry by Niffenegger

Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

Martian Chronicles by Bradbury

U is for Undertow by Grafton (12/09)

Year of the Flood by Atwood

Wedding Girl by Wickham

Archenemy by F. Beddor

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (Playaway)

Island Trilogy by Gordon Korman (Playaway)

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by O'Farrell

Hard Truth

Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Finney 

Knitting Circle by Hood

Silas Marner by Eliot

Vicious Circle by Littell

Wrongful Death by Wilhelm

 

 

Remember:  We get a new set of audio books on CD every three months from our cooperative.  25-30 titles that circulate here for 3 months...then we get a new batch!  We get new ones in March, June, September, and December. (Usually the 2nd week of the month)


Book Award Links

Need a new author, a great new book to read?  Check out some of these sites that list current and past award winners and recommended titles!

The Edgar Award:  Mystery and Suspense Novels

The Pen/Faulkner Award:  The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is a national prize which honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year....list of winners is located at the bottom of the page.

Pulitzer Prize for Literature: Covers fiction, poetry, music, drama, biography, non-fiction, and news reporting!

The National Book Award:  Covers fiction and non-fiction.

The RITA Awards:  Romance Writer's of America choices. Current years winners and runners-up listed on bottom of the page.

The HUGO Awards:  For best science fiction and fantasy titles.

The Printz Award:  For best teen novels.

Bram Stoker Award:  Best Horror books.

The Spur Awards:  Best Westerns.

The Hammett Awards:  Best crime fiction.

National Book Critics Circle Award: Every year the NBCC presents awards for the finest books and reviews published in English

The Man Booker Prize: Prizes for best International fiction.

Book Sense:  A wonderful site with tons of recommended reads from independent booksellers.

State Awards for Children's and Young Adult Books     Lots of wonderful titles picked by teachers, librarians, and kids! 

Caldecott Awards:  Most distinguished American picture book for children.

Newbery Award: It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

Agatha Awards:  The Agatha Awards, named for Malice inspiration Agatha Christie, are awarded for the Best Novel, First Mystery Novel, Nonfiction, and Short Story in the genre for the previous year.

Nebula Awards:  Science Fiction novels, short stories, etc.


Revised October 2009
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