Archive for December, 2007

New items 12-27-07

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

New items continue to flood in! Please check out the online catalog or give us a call at 241-1472 to put any of these items on hold.

Fiction

Brunstetter, Wanda. Going Home 

Castle, Jayne. Silver Master

Laurie, Victoria. What’s a Ghoul To Do? 

Thompson, Carlene. Last Seen Alive

Non-Fiction

Alda, Alan. Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself. B Alda, A. A357t 

Greenburg, Jan Crawford. Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court. 347.7326 G798

Karol, Amy. Bend-the-Rules Sewing. 646.2 K18

O’Donnell, Rosie. Celebrity Detox (The Fame Game). 792.7028 O26

Sussman, Ellen (ed). Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave. 813.10892 B132

Swiller, Josh. The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa. 968.94042 S977

New Items 12-20-07

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Please check out the online catalog or give us a call at 241-1472 to put any of these items on hold.

Fiction

Bennett, Alan. The Uncommon Reader: A Novella 

Brooks, Max. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Chiaverini, Jennifer. The New Year’s Quilt 

Crusie, Jennifer, and Bob Mayer. Agnes and the Hitman

Evans, Richard Paul. The Gift.

Gabaldon, Diana. Lord John and the Hand of Devils 

Horan, Nancy. Loving Frank

Jackson, Neta. The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Decked Out

Kingsbury, Karen. Just Beyond the Clouds.

Koontz, Dean. The Darkest Evening of the Year

Macomber, Debbie. Where Angels Go

Mystery

Anderson, Gerald. Death Before Dinner

Clark, Mindy Starns.  Elementary, My Dear Watkins.

Young Adult

Hirano, Kohta. Hellsing: 8

Nonfiction

Ackerman, Kenneth D. Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil Liberties. B Hoover, J. A182 

Badaracco, Claire Hoertz.  Prescribing Faith: Medicine, Media, and Religion in American Culture. 201.6619073 B132

Baker, Emerson W. The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft & Conflict in Early New England. 133.43 B167 

Barthlott, Wilhelm. The Curious World of Carnivorous Plants: A Comprehensive Guide to Their Biology and Cultivation. 583.75 K18

Beauregard, Marion & Denyse O’Leary. The Spiritual Brain: a Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul. 200.19 B383

Beck, Glenn.  An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World’s Biggest Problems. 973.92 I37

Blakeslee, Sandra & Matthew Blakeslee. The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better. 150 B637

Brady, James. Why Marines Fight. 359.960973 B812

Burnett, John J. Nonprofit Marketing: Best Practices. 658.8 B964

Cashill, Jack. What’s the Matter with California? Cultural Rumbles from the Golden State and Why the Rest of Us Should be Shaking. 306.097974 C338

Chan, Bernard, MD and Georges M. Halpern, MD, PhD. The Yin and Yang of Cancer: Breakthroughs from the East and the West. 616.994 C454

Collins, Judy. The Seven T’s: Finding Hope and Healing in the Wake of Tragedy. 155.937 C712

Davis, Mike, and Daniel Bertrand Monk, ed. Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism. 330.122 E93

Dean, John. Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches. 973.91 D281

de Flon, Nancy & James A. Wallace, ed. All Your Waves Swept Over Me: Looking for God in Natural Disasters. 231.8  A416

Doohan, Leonard. Spiritual Leadership: The Quest for Integrity. 253 D691

Drumheller, Tyler with Elaine Monaghan. On the Brink: An Insider’s Account of How the White House Compromised American Intelligence. 327.1273 D795

Einhorn, Stefan. The Art of Being Kind. 177.7 E35

Erlich, Reese. The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of US Policy and the Middle East Crisis. 327.73055 E69

Fawcett, Jan. New Hope for People With Bipolar Disorder. 616.895 F278 

Flynn, Eileen P. How Just Is the War on Terror?: A Question of Morality. 172.42 F648 

Foreman, George. Going the Extra Smile: Discover the Life-Changing Power of a Positive Outlook. 158.1 F115

Frank, Robert H. Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class. 305.550973 F828

Friedman, Kinky. You Can Lead a Polititian to Water But You Can’t Make Him Think: Ten Commandments for Texas Politics. 324.9764 F911

Gingrich, Newt, and Terry L. Maple. A Contract with the Earth. 333.72 G492

Goldstein, Niles Elliot. Craving the Divine: A Spiritual Guide for Today’s Perplexed. 296.7 G624

Grayling, A. C. Toward the Light of Liberty: The Struggles for Freedom and Rights That Made the Modern Western World. 323.09 G783 

Horowitz, Joy. Parts Per Million: The Poisoning of Beverly Hills High School. 346.794038 H816

Hunter, Mic. Honor Betrayed: Sexual Abuse in America’s Military. 355.1334 H946 

Inslee, Jay & Bracken Hendricks. Apollo’s Fire: Igniting America’s Clean Energy Economy. 333.790973 F59

Kantner, Rosabeth Moss. America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again. 338.973 K16 

Kennedy, Eugene. Blogging Towards Bethlehem: Discovering the Eternal in the Seasons of Ordinary Time. 282.09 K35

Kessler, Lauren. Dancing With Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer’s. 362.196831 K42

Krugman, Paul. The Conscience of a Liberal. 339.220973 K94

Kuhn, Cynthia, PhD; Scott Swartzwelder, PhD; and Wilkie Wilson, PhD. Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy. 617.78 K96

Lane, Christopher. Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness. 616.852 L265

Lax, Eric. Conversations with Woody Allen: His Films, the Movies, and Moviemaking. 791.43092 L425

Lester, Meera. The Everything Women of the Bible Book. 220.92082 L642

Levine, Mark. F5: Devastation, Survival, and the Most Violet Tornado OUtbreak of the Twentieth Century. 551.553 L665

Levy, Adrian & Catherine Scott-Clark. Deception: Pakistan, the United States, and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons. 327.7305491 L668 

Lileks, James. Gastroanomalies: Questionable Culinary Creations From the Golden Age of American Cookery. 641.502 L728g

Liponis, Mark. Ultra-Longevity: The Seven-Step Program for a Younger, Healthier You. 613.2 L764

Loeb, Penny. Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice From Big Coal. 344.754 L825

McCoy, Alfred W. A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror.  323.490973 M131

MacDonogh, Giles. After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation. 943.0874 M136 

McGowan, John. American Liberalism: An Interpretation for Our Time. 320.50973 T455 

Martin, Steve. Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life. B Martin, S. M383

Matthews, Chris. Life’s a Campaign: What Politics Has Taught Me About Friendship, Rivalry, Reputation, and Success. 324.70973 M438

Matthews, Mark. Lost Years: Bush, Sharon and Failure in the Middle East. 327.7305694 M441

Mooney, Chris. Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming. 363.73874 M318

Morgan, Robert. Boone: A Biography. B Boone, D. M849

Morris, Charles R. The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center. 617.092 M875

Natelson, Benjamin H., MD. Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong: Overcoming Pain, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, IBS, and More. 616.047 N273

O’Collins, Gerald, SJ; Daniel Kendall, SJ; and JeffreyLaBelle, SJ; eds. Pope John Paul II: A Reader. 230.2 J65

Pfeiffer, Mary Beth. Crazy in America: The Hidden Tragedy of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill. 348.38 P527

Price, Randall. Searching for the Original Bible. 220.1 P946

Punke, Michael. Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West. 599.643092 P984 

Quindlen, Anna. Good Dog. Stay. 818.603 Q7

Ray, John. The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt. 493.1 R263

Rhodes, Richard. Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race.  355.0217 R479

Sabato, Larry J. A More Perfect Constitution: 23 Proposals to Revitalize Our Constitution and Make America a Fairer Country. 342.7302 S113

Schwartz-Nobel, Loretta. Poisoned Nation:  Pollution, Greed, and the Rise of Deadly Epidemics. 615.902 S399

Shellenberger, Susie & Kathy Gowler. What Your Daughter Isn’t Telling You: Expert Insight Into the World of Teen Girls. 248.845 S544

Silver, Julie K. Super Healing: The Clinically Proven Plan to Maximize Recovery From Illness or Injury. 617.03 S587

Sites, Kevin. In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars. 070.4333 S623

Slavin, Barbara. Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation. 327.73055 S631

Stafford, Tim. Shaking the System: What I Learned from the Great American Reform Movements. 261.830973 S779

Stark, Rodney. Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief. 200 S795

Szpiro, George G. Poincaré’s Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math’s Greatest Puzzles. 510.76 S998

Temple-Raston, Dina. The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in the Age of Terror. 364.1092 T286

Thomas, Cal & Bob Beckel. Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That Is Destroying America. 320.51973 M146

Thomas, Dana. Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster. 338.47 T455

Twitchell, James B. Shopping for God: How Christianity Went From In Your Heart to In Your Face. 254.4 T914

Vermeulen, Stephanie. Kill the Princess: Why Women Still Aren’t Free from the Quest for a Fairytale Life. 305.45 V524

Ventner, J. Craig. A Life Decoded. My Genome: My Life. Biography Ventner, J. V465

Vogel, Steve. The Pentagon: A History: The Untold Story of the Wartime Race to Build the Pentagon–and to Restore It Sixty Years Later. 355.6 V879

Walden, Harvey IV. Harvey Walden’s No Excuses! Fitness Workout. 613.7 W162

Zeruneith, Keld. The Wooden Horse: The Liberation of the Western Mind, From Odysseus to Socrates. 126 Z58

DVD

The Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect and Communicate with Your Baby (Nonfiction 649.122 B115)

Deja Vu (Drama)

Heart of the Game (Nonfiction 796.323 H436)

Premonition (Drama)

300 (Drama)

Audiobook

Fiction

Baldacci, David. Split Second

Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights

Cussler, Clive. White Death

Hoffman, Jilliane. Retribution

O’Brian, Patrick. The Commodore

Science Fiction

Atwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake

Music CDs

New Age

Sissel. Northern Lights

Rock

Gorillaz. D-Sides

New Items 12-17-07

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Please check out the online catalog or give us a call at 241-1472 to put any of these items on hold.

Fiction

Allen, Sarah Addison. Garden Spells 

Baldacci, David. Stone Cold

Barker, Clive. Mister B. Gone

Chabon, Michael. Gentlemen of the Road

Clowes, Daniel. David Boring

Doss, James D. Three Sisters

Iles, Greg. Third Degree

Karon, Jan. Home to Holly Springs

King, Stephen. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born (graphic novel)

Moning, Karen M. Bloodfever

Patchett, Ann. Run

Powers, Kim. Capote In Kansas

Swierczynski, Duane. The Blonde

Woodiwiss, Kathleen. Everlasting

Mystery

Peters, Elizabeth. The Mummy Case

Robb, J.D. Creation in Death

Science Fiction/Fantasy

Monette, Sarah. A Companion to Wolves

Pratchett, Terry. Making Money

Nonfiction

Brokaw, Tom. Boom! Voices of the Sixties. 973.92 B867

Cooper, Diana. Angel Answers: What the Angels Can Teach Us About the World We Live In. 202.15 C776

Davis, Angela J. Arbitrary Justice. 345.7301 D261

Faludi, Susan. The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America. 306.24 F197

Halberstam, David. The Coldest Winter. LP 951.90424 H157

Hayes, Mike. Googling God: The Religious Landscape of People in Their 20s and 30s. 259.25 H418

Jacobs, A.J. The Year of Living Biblically. 220 J17

Kolster, Bernard C., M.D. and Astrid Waskowiak, M.D. The Accupressure Atlas Oversize 615.8222 K81

McCarthy, Jenny. Louder than Words: A  Mother’s Journey in Healing Autism. 618.9285882 M123

McGraw, Phillip C. The Relationship Rescue Workbook: Exercises and Self-Tests to Help You Reconnect with Your Partner. 306.7 M147

Maradona, Diego. Maradona. Biography Maradona, D. M298

Merchent, Tenna. He’s Not Autistic, But . . . .  616.85882 M554

Navellier, Louis. The Little Book that Makes You Rich. 332.6322 N323

Paulson, Daryl S. Haunted By Combat. 616.85212 P332

Perricone, Nicholas. Ageless Face, Ageless Mind. 613.04244 P456

Ross, Alex. The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century. 780.904 R823

Sacks, Oliver. Musicophilia. 781.11 S121

Sante, Luc. Kill All Your Darlings. 306.0973 S234

Tanner, Dennis C. The Family Guide to Surviving Stroke. 616.8105 T166

Tarantino, P.C. Tarot for the New Aeon. 133.32424 T176

Taubes, Gary. Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease.  613.263 T222

Trump, Donald. Think Big and Kick Ass. 650.1 T871

DVDs

The Agronomist (Nonfiction 972.94073 A281)

Are We Done Yet? (Comedy)

Black Books: Season 1 (Comedy)

The Clean Stand-Up Comedy Tour (Comedy)

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (Foreign Language Film)

Disturbia (Drama)

Evan Almighty (Comedy)

1408 (Drama)

Hairspray (Music) 

The Last Mimzy (Family)

Lost: Season 3 (Drama)

The Nativity Story (Drama)

Opal Dream (Family) 

Purple Rain (Music)

Ruby in the Smoke (Drama)

Saraband (Foreign Language Film)

The Seventh Seal (Foreign Language Film)

Shallow Grave (Drama)

Shameless (Comedy)

Shut Up and Sing (Nonfiction 781.642 S562)

Sicko  (Nonfiction 632.10973 S566)

Sleepers (1991, Comedy)

Sopranos: Season Six, Part II (Drama)

Style Wars. (Nonfiction 751.73 S938)

Through the Back Door (Drama)

Waking Ned Devine (Comedy)

The War Tapes (Nonfiction 956.70443 W253)

Weeds: Season 2  (Comedy)

Whole (Nonfiction 616.852 W628)

Audiobooks

Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women

Dees, David B. Quick Spanish for Emergency Responders: Essential Words and Phrases for Firefighters, Paramedics, and EMTs. (468.34 D312) 

CDs

Dawson, Kimya. Remember That I Love You. (Folk D272)

Lennon, John. Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur.  (Rock L567)

The Lion King: Original Broadway Cast Recording. (Musical L763)

Rilo Kiley. Under the Blacklight. (Rock R574)

Superbad. (Soundtrack S959)

Read the Latest Children’s Books Being Turned Into Movies - Before You See Them

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

From The Ant Bully to Zathura, from picture books to novels, children’s literature has long been a rich source of material for Hollywood filmmakers. Over the years, several classics such as Charlotte’s Web, Heidi, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory have been put on film multiple times.  But as the recent controversy surrounding the novel The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman demonstrates, parents differ as to what is appropriate for their own children to read and see. 

During the remainder of December and throughout 2008, nine different children’s books are slated for release as movies. Read the books first and decide for yourself whether they’re movies you’d like your kids to see.

The Water Horse by Dick King-Smith - due out December 25, 2007

The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black - due out February 15, 2008

Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss - due out March 14, 2008

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke - due out March 19, 2008

Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis - due out May 16, 2008

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak - due out October 3, 2008

The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau - due out October 10, 2008

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling - due out November 21, 2008

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo - due out December 19, 2008

Wheel of Time Still Rolling

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

A few months ago we blogged about the death of fantasy writer Robert Jordan, leaving his Wheel of Time series in limbo.

 Jordan’s estate has announced that Brandon Sanderson will be completing the Wheel of Time. Sanderson is best known for the Mistborn Trilogy, perhaps the only books in the exclusive “fantasy/heist” genre.

List of Brandon Sanderson titles at FPL.

Lists here and here of Robert Jordan titles at FPL.

Warm your soul this holiday season

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

In the midst of your holiday shopping and seasonal events, you may be looking for that perfect recipe for your holiday get-together. Come and check out our book display at the temporary library downtown for a wide selection of books and DVDs filled with soul-warming recipes. 

There is something for everybody, including The Secrets of Baking by Sherry Yard, The Children’s Jewish Holiday Kitchen by Joan Nathan, and the DVD Martha’s Baking Favorites with Martha Stewart. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, be sure to ask our staff, as we have a large collection of cookbooks and recipe magazines not currently on display.

New Video Games

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Please check out the online catalog or give us a call at 241-1472 to put any of these items on hold.

Wii

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Surf’s Up

Madden 08

Mario Party 8

Super Paper Mario

The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess

Wing Island

Big Brain Academy

PlayStation 2

Over the Hedge

Xenosaga

Supercar: Street Challenge

Strawberry Shortcake: The Sweet Dreams Game

Kim Possible: What’s the Switch?

Sonic Mega Collection

Kingdom Hearts

Kingdom Hearts 2

Final Fantasy XII

Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja

XBOX 360

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition

College Hoops 2K7

Beautiful Katamari

Software

Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None

Bejeweled

Chessmaster 

Dead Reefs

Dirt

Heroes of Might and Magic IV

Learn to Speak Spanish

Madden 08

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