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GHOST OF SPIRIT BEAR
by Ben Mikaelsen.
After a year in exile on an
Alaskan island as punishment for
severely beating a fellow student,
Cole Matthews returns to school
in Minneapolis having made
peace with himself and his
victim—but he finds that
surviving the violence and
hatred of high school is even
harder than surviving in the
wilderness.
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Books: Storytime
BOARD BOOKS!
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Scaredy Mouse
by Alan MacDonald.
Hickory, Dickory, Dock Where's My Mommy? Animals Talk
by Emily Bolam.
by Sanja Rescek.
by Jo Brown.
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Let's Say HI to Friends
Who Fly!
by Mo Willems.
Scranimals
by Jack Prelutsky.
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Amelia Bedelia
and the Cat
by Herman Parish.
Are We There Yet,
Daddy?
by Virginia Walters.
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Amelia Bedelia's
Masterpiece
by Herman Parish.
The Three Little Wolves
and the Big Bad Pig
by Eugene Trivizas.
Tale of a Tadpole
by Karen Wallace.
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Clumsy Crab
by Ruth Galloway.
Books: Storytime
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Boris and the Snoozebox
by Leigh Hodgkinson.
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Little Beauty
Billy Monster's Daymare by Anthony Browne.
by Alan Durant.
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Just a Little Music
by Mercer Mayer.
The Very Greedy Bee
by Steve Smallman.
Mole's in Love
by David Bedford.
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Order # J4398
BAA! MOO!
What Will We Do?
by A. H. Benjamin.
A Very Special Hug
by Steve Smallman.
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Meet Martha
by Susan Meddaugh.
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The Frog Prince
by Sindy McKay.
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The Mighty Little
Lion Hunter
by Jana Carson.
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Too Many Cats
by Sindy McKay.
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Books: Children
MUDSHARK
by Gary Paulsen.
Principal Wagner confidently deals with a
faculty washroom crisis, a psychic parrot, and a
terrorizing gerbil, but when sixty-five erasers go
missing he enlists the help of the school's best
problem-solver and locator of lost items,
twelve-year-old Lyle Williams, aka Mudshark.
• Order # J4350
THE SISTERS GRIMM:
THE EVERAFTER WAR
by Michael Buckley.
After their parents awake from a sleeping spell,
Daphne and Sabrina become caught in the
middle of a war between the Scarlet Hand and
Prince Charming's Everafter army and learn a
shocking secret about a deadly enemy.
• Order # J4333
THE DIAMOND OF DARKHOLD
by Jeanne DuPrau.
When a roamer trades them an ancient book
with only a few pages remaining, Lina and
Doon return to Ember to seek the machine the
book seems to describe in hopes that it will get
their new community, Sparks, through the winter.
AMELIA BEDELIA TALKS TURKEY
by Herman Parish.
When Amelia Bedelia helps out with the
school Thanksgiving play, she causes quite a
scene. Let's all give thanks for another funny
new Amelia Bedelia story!
LOST AND FOUND
by Andrew Clements.
Twelve-year-old identical twins Jay and Ray
have long resented that everyone treats them as
one person, and so they hatch a plot to take
advantage of a clerical error at their new school
and pretend they are just one.
GHOST OF SPIRIT BEAR
by Ben Mikaelsen.
After a year in exile on an Alaskan island as
punishment for severely beating a fellow
student, Cole Matthews returns to school in
Minneapolis having made peace with himself
and his victim—but he finds that surviving the
violence and hatred of high school is even
harder than surviving in the wilderness.
• Order # J4335
• Order # J4355
ABOUT DINOSAURS
by Sindy McKay.
This book explores the lives of many species of
dinosaurs and explains why there aren't any
more of these ancient creatures—except
perhaps modern birds!
• Order # J4378
ENDANGERED ANIMALS
by Elise Forier.
This book takes a close look at various animals
from around the world that are in danger of
becoming extinct. It discusses how the animals
have become endangered due to worldwide
threats including pollution, deforestation and
global warming.
• Order # J4374
• Order # J4339
FOILED
by Jane Yolen.
Aliera Carstairs just doesn’t fit in. She’s always
front and center at the fencing studio, but at
school she’s invisible. And she’s fine with
that...until Avery Castle walks into her first
period biology class. Avery may seem perfect
now, but will he end up becoming her Prince
Charming or just a toad?
• Order # J4373
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THE YGGYSSEY
by Daniel Pinkwater.
The ghosts of Los Angeles are disappearing
right and left! Iggy Birnbaum is determined to
get to the bottom of this mystery. There’s just
the little matter of traveling to another plane of
existence, first…and then, of course, not
irritating a witch once she gets there.
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A SCALY TALE (Ripley's RBI #1)
The Florida swamplands are home to hungry
gators, wild electrical storms, and a most
unusual creature. Sightings of a strange
lizard-like animal reach Ripley High and the
RBI are sent to investigate.
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GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
by Jonathan Swift.
Lemuel Gulliver has an itch to travel the world. But whenever he steps onto a ship, something
goes wrong and he ends up in a strange land
no one has seen before!
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Books: Children
WAGGIT AGAIN
by Peter Howe.
After being left in the country by his owner,
Waggit sets out on the long journey to New
York City and meets some unexpected friends
along the way.
VOLCANOES!
by Anne Schreiber.
The cool story of volcanoes will intrigue kids and
adults alike. Hot melted rock from the middle
of our planet forces its way up through cracks
in the Earth’s crusts, exploding violently and
sometimes unexpectedly in volcanic fury that
can terrorize populations for months, even years.
• Order # J4340
HERBERT'S WORMHOLE
by Peter Nelson.
When almost-sixth-grader Alex, a video game
fanatic, is forced on a playdate with his neighbor
Herbert, an inventor, the two travel to the twentysecond century and face off against aliens, who
are not as beneficent as most people think.
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DANGER IN THE DARK:
A HOUDINI & NATE MYSTERY
by Tom Lalicki.
Thirteen-year-old Nathaniel, aided by the
famous magician Harry Houdini, plots to
unmask a phony spirit adviser attempting to
relieve the boy's great-aunt of her fortune.
• Order # J4383
THE MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD
TREASURE HUNT
by Megan McDonald.
During a weekend trip to Ocracoke Island, Judy
and Stink Moody take part in a pirate treasurehunting game, in which various clues lead them
to silver coins, or "pieces of eight," hidden across
the island.
• Order # J4360
NIGHTMARE AT THE BOOK FAIR
by Dan Gutman.
When fifth-grader Trip Dinkleman, who does
not like to read very much, is hit on the head
by a heavy box and becomes a character in a
series of different books, his view of reading is
changed forever.
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THE PENDERWICKS
ON GARDAM STREET
by Jeanne Birdsall.
Mr. Penderwick's sister has decided it's time for
him to start dating—and his daughters know that
can only mean one thing: disaster. Enter the
Save-Daddy Plan—a plot so brilliant, so bold,
so funny, that only the Penderwick girls could
have come up with it!
CAPTAIN NOBODY
by Dean Pitchford.
When ten-year-old Newton dresses up as an
unusual superhero for Halloween, he decides to
keep wearing the costume after the holiday to help
save townspeople and eventually his injured brother.
• Order # J4371
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THE SEVEN KEYS OF BALABAD
by Paul Haven.
Unlike his news-reporter father and art-historian
mother who find living in the ancient, war-torn
country of Balabad endlessly interesting, twelveyear-old Oliver, homesick for New York City,
feels very much out of his element until he gets
caught up in a centuries-old mystery involving
stolen artifacts and buried treasure.
• Order # J4393
FROM RUSSIA WITH LUNCH
by Bruce Hale.
Detectives Chet Gecko and his partner Natalie
Attired try to solve the mystery of why Emerson
Hicky Elementary School students have suddenly
stared acting strangely.
• Order # J4359
THE HIGHER POWER OF LUCKY
by Susan Patron.
Fearing that her legal guardian plans to
abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old
aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to
run away while also continuing to seek the
Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
• Order # J4415
GOOSEBUMPS: THE SCARECROW
WALKS AT MIDNIGHT
by R. L. Stine.
Jodie's grandparent's farm has really changed.
The cornfields are sparse. And the single scarecrow has been replaced by twelve evil-looking
ones. Then one night Jodie sees something
really odd. The scarecrows seem to be moving. Twitching on their stakes. Coming alive!
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Books: Teens
DARKWOOD
by M. E. Breen.
A clever and fearless orphan endures increasing
danger while trying to escape from greedy,
lawless men and elude the terrifying "kinderstalks"—animals who steal children—before
discovering her true destiny.
• Order # J4372
VAMPIRE ACADEMY
by Richelle Mead.
After two years on the run, best friends Rose,
half-human/half-vampire, and Lissa, a mortal
vampire princess, are caught and returned to
St. Vladimir's Academy. Up until then, Rose
had kept Lissa safe from her enemies; school,
however, brings both girls additional challenges
and responsibilities. How they handle peer pressure, nasty gossip,
new relationships, and anonymous threats may mean life or death.
• Order # F5679
PAPER TOWNS
by John Green.
One month before graduation from his
Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q"
Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of
his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo
Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate,
takes him on a midnight adventure and then
mysteriously disappears.
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CITY OF BONES
(The Mortal Instruments, Book 1)
by Cassandra Clare.
Teenager Clary discovers she can see supernatural beings that no one else can, gets drawn
into the world of the Shadowhunters (teens
who kill demons and monsters) and learns that
her mother is somehow mysteriously connected
to all the strange happenings around her.
POISON STUDY
by Maria V. Snyder.
About to be executed for murder, Yelena is
offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the
best meals, have a room in the palace--and risk
assassination by anyone trying to kill the
Commander of Ixia. And so Yelena chooses
to become a food taster.
• Order # F4579
BEFORE I DIE
by Jenny Downham.
With only a few months to live, sixteen-year-old
Tessa has made a list of ten things she wants to
do before she dies. Number one is sex. But
getting what you want isn't easy. And getting
what you want doesn't always give you what
you need. And sometimes the most unexpected
things become important.
• Order # F5689
THE ROAD OF THE DEAD
by Kevin Brooks.
When his sister Rachel is murdered, Ruben
and his older brother Cole set out to reclaim
their sister's body and uncover the cold truth
behind her killing. It's a long road that
requires a hard and violent journey...with a
brutal mystery at its end.
• Order # F5691
WAKE
by Lisa McMann.
Ever since she was eight years old, high school
student Janie Hannagan has been uncontrollably
drawn into other people's dreams, but it is not
until she befriends an elderly nursing home
patient and becomes involved with an enigmatic
fellow student that she discovers her true power.
• Order # F5703
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CITY OF ASHES
(The Mortal Instruments, Book 2)
by Cassandra Clare.
Sixteen-year-old Clary continues trying to
make sense of the swiftly changing events and
relationships in her life as she becomes further
involved with the Shadowhunters and their
pursuit of demons and discovers some
terrifying truths about her parents, her brother Jace, and her
boyfriend Simon.
• Order # J4448
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ME, MY ELF & I
by Heather Swain.
Zephyr, a fifteen-year-old elf, moves with
her family from their home in the Michigan
forests, determined to adjust to living in
Brooklyn among humans so that she can
attend the Brooklyn Academy of Performing
Arts High School.
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FALLEN
by Lauren Kate.
Suspected in the death of her boyfriend,
seventeen-year-old Luce is sent to a Savannah,
Georgia reform school where she meets two
intriguing boys and learns the truth about the
strange shadows that have always haunted her.
LITTLE WOMEN
AND WEREWOLVES
by Louisa May Alcott & Porter Grand.
In this uncensored version of Little Women, the
March girls learn some biting lessons, transforming from wild girls into little women—
just as their neighbors transform from
gentlemen into blood-thirsty werewolves!
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GOING BOVINE
by Libba Bray.
Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen-year-old
who, after being diagnosed with CreutzfeldtJakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a
road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming
dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to
find a cure.
WE WERE HERE
by Matt De La Peña.
Haunted by the event that sentences him to
time in a group home, Miguel breaks out with
two unlikely companions and together they
begin their journey down the California coast
hoping to get to Mexico and a new life.
• Order # F5937
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KEEPING THE MOON
by Sarah Dessen.
Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends
the summer working as a waitress in a
beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and eccentric aunt Mira, and trying to
explore her sense of self.
WALK OF THE SPIRITS
by Richie Tankersley Cusick.
After losing everything in a Florida hurricane,
seventeen-year-old Miranda and her mother
move to her grandfather's home in Louisiana,
where she falls in with an interesting group of
students, and discovers that she can communicate with spirits like her grandfather did.
• Order # J4446
RAT LIFE
by Tedd Arnold.
After developing an unusual friendship with a
young Vietnam War veteran in 1972, fourteenyear-old Todd discovers his writing talent and
solves a murder mystery.
• Order # J4445
SCAT
by Carl Hiaasen.
Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate
when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida
wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes
missing.
• Order # J4452
13 TO LIFE
by Shannon Delany.
Everything about Jessie Gillmansen’s life changed
when her mother died. Now even her hometown of Junction is changing. Mysterious dark
things are happening. All Jessie wants is to
avoid more change. But showing a hot new
guy around Junction High, she’s about to
discover a whole new type of change.
• Order # J4453
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UN LUN DUN
by China Miéville.
When twelve-year-old Zanna and her friend
Deeba find a secret entrance leading out of
London and into the strange city of Un Lun
Dun, it seems that an ancient prophecy is
coming true at last. But then things begin to
go shockingly wrong.
THE LAST OF THE HIGH KINGS
by Kate Thompson.
When eleven-year-old Jenny Liddy, in turmoil
over learning that she is a changeling, makes a
deal with a devil creature, she endangers the
human race but her own cleverness, her human
and fairy fathers, and the last of Ireland's High
Kings help to make things right.
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Books: Fiction
PLAGUE SHIP
by Clive Cussler.
Capt. Juan Cabrillo, who heads the Corporation,
a covert military company for hire, and the crew
of the Oregon, a high-tech ship disguised to
look like a tramp steamer, take on a group
known as the Responsivists. The Responsivists
are secretly planning a devastating attack on
the human race utilizing a virulent virus found aboard an
ancient ship that may be Noah's Ark.
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CROSSROADS
by Belva Plain.
Cassie Wright’s life was quiet and well-ordered
until a tragic accident forces her to take in a
one-year-old child who has no one else to care
for her. As the years pass, Cassie will raise young
Gwen as her own, and the girl will flourish in
a world of privilege and opportunity. Enter
Jewel Fairbanks. Beautiful and conniving, Jewel will touch the
lives of both Cassie and Gwen in powerful ways.
THE BROKEN WINDOW
by Jeffery Deaver.
Lincoln Rhyme’s cousin has been arrested for
murder. The case seems airtight, but when he
looks into it, Rhyme begins to suspect that he
has stumbled onto an especially devious serial
killer, one who uses cutting-edge data-mining
techniques to steal the identities of his victims
and of the innocent people he frames for his crimes.
• Order # F5051
A KILLER'S KISS
by William Lashner.
Victor Carl was once engaged to a beautiful
woman named Julia. He always assumed she'd
burn him, and she did. Now she's back. Julia's
husband has been murdered, her fingerprints
are all over the crime scene, and $1.7 million
in cash is missing. Julia is suddenly in
desperate need of a fall guy. Now Victor is no longer fighting
to rekindle a lost love, he's fighting to save his life.
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THE HEAVENSTONE SECRETS
by V. C. Andrews.
The Heavenstone sisters live with their mother
and father in Kentucky. Semantha, the younger
one is afraid of many things. But nothing
frightens her more than her sister, Cassie. When tragedy strikes, Semantha's life becomes
a living hell and she becomes a helpless pawn
in her sister's cruel game.
THE ROSETTA KEY
by William Dietrich.
Surviving murderous thieves, a nerve-racking
sea voyage, and the deadly sands of Egypt with
Napoleon's army, American adventurer Ethan
Gage solved a five-thousand-year-old riddle
with the help of a mysterious medallion. But
the danger is only beginning.
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ROBERT LUDLUM'S
THE BOURNE SANCTION
by Eric Van Lustbader.
In Europe, Jason Bourne's investigation into
the Muslim extremist sect called the Black
Legion turns into one of the deadliest and
most tangled operations of his double life—
the pursuit of the leader of a murderous
terrorist group with roots in the darkest days of World War II.
• Order # F5049
ANGELS & DEMONS
by Dan Brown.
World renowned Harvard symbologist Robert
Langdon has discovered an ancient secret
brotherhood with a devastating new weapon
of destruction and an unthinkable target.
• Order # F4925
TRIBUTE
by Nora Roberts.
The #1 New York Times bestselling author
presents her latest novel, the story of a
big-screen legend, a small-town scandal and
a young woman caught up in the secrets and
shadows of both.
• Order # F4912
BLOOD BLADE (Skinners Book 1)
by Marcus Pelegrimas.
Seattle video game designer Cole Warnecki
takes an extreme vacation in British Columbia
and ends up hunting supernatural monsters.
• Order # F4747
DEATH AND HONOR
by W.E.B. Griffin.
W.E.B. Griffin returns to his Honor Bound
series set in the shadowy atmosphere of World
War II espionage in South America.
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PREPARED FOR RAGE
by Dana Stabennow.
NASA is preparing to launch the space shuttle,
this time with a high-paying visitor on board
as a guest. But one Pakistani man with a
bottomless personal grudge and the commitment of many zealous men behind him is
determined to strike back at the most visible
target he can find.
THE IMMORTAL HUNTER
by Lynsay Sands.
Even vampires need a vacation. But Decker
Argeneau's ends abruptly when he's asked to
help hunt the group of rogue vampires
targeting mortals—one that might include
a defector in his own family.
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THE MANNY
by Holly Peterson.
What’s a Park Avenue working mom to do
when her troubled son desperately needs a
male role model and her husband is a power
workaholic? If she's like Jamie Whitfield, she
hires herself a manny. Peter Bailey is cool,
competent, and so charming. Will the new
manny in her life put the ground back beneath her feet, or
sweep her off them?
SAIL
by James Patterson.
Only an hour out of port, the Dunne family's
summer getaway to paradise turns disastrous. But this catastrophe is just a tiny taste of the
true danger that lurks ahead—somewhere out
there, someone wants to make sure that the
Dunne family never leaves paradise alive.
• Order # F5048
THE LAST SONG
by Nicholas Sparks.
57-year-old Landon Carter spirits himself
back to his fateful senior year in high school
in Beaufort, N.C., when he was an archetypal
troublemaking teenager of the 1950s, changed
forever by an unexpected first love.
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CRIMINAL PARADISE
by Steven M. Thomas.
Tough but humane professional thief Rob
Rivers knocks over a Southern California steak
house and uncovers photographic evidence of
what appears to be a sex slave operation that
his conscience won't let him ignore.
• Order # F4918
PLUM SPOOKY
by Janet Evanovich.
Klutzy bounty hunter Stephanie Plum teams
up with mysterious Diesel and the monkey
left on her doorstep to track down a nerdy
genius and his sinister business partner in the
depths of the New Jersey Pine Barrens.
• Order # F5626
WINTER STUDY
by Nevada Barr.
Park ranger and amateur detective, Anna
Pigeon investigates a case on Isle Royale
National Park in the middle of Lake Superior.
Amidst its barren landscape, a group of
researchers observe a group of ravenous
wolves. But a killer is on the loose as well,
and only Anna can halt his murderous designs.
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DOGS AND GODDESSES
by Jennifer Crusie, Anne Stuart,
Lani Diane Rich.
After meeting at a local dog obedience-training
session, coffeehouse owner Abby, Web writer
Daisy and history professor Shar become fast
friends. They also discover that the dog trainer
is the Mesopotamian goddess Kammani,
determined to rule the world like she did 4,000 years ago.
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THE SCARECROW
by Michael Connelly.
Forced out of his job amid the latest budget
cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to
use his final days at the paper to write the
definitive murder story of his career. He
focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug
dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder. But as he delves into the story, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called
confession is bogus. The kid might actually be innocent.
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Books: Fiction
FIRST FAMILY
by David Baldacci.
Former secret service agents Sean King and
Michelle Maxwell return for another top-secret
executive mission. This time the first lady calls
on them to conduct a strictly below-the-radar
investigation of a daring kidnapping that took
place at a Camp David kids' party.
G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA
by Max Allan Collins.
An elite international unit of special operatives
known as GI Joe, operating out of The Pit
and led by General Hawk, take on an evil
organization, Cobra, led by the notorious
arms dealer Destro.
VANISHING ACT
by Fern Michaels.
Harry Wong has become the victim of a ruthless
identity theft ring. Harry's bank accounts have
been closed out, his beloved dojo is being foreclosed, and he's being evicted. A situation like
Harry's requires finesse, careful planning and the
Sisterhood's distinctive brand of vigilante justice.
THE LAST ORACLE
by James Rollins.
In Washington, D.C., a homeless man takes
an assassin's bullet and dies in Commander
Gray Pierce's arms. A bloody coin clutched in
the dead man's hand—an ancient relic that can
be traced back to the Greek Oracle of Delphi—
is the key to a conspiracy that dates back to
the Cold War and threatens the very foundation of humanity.
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HOT ROCKS
by Nora Roberts.
Laine Tavish surrounds herself with antiques in
her store. As for her own past, she'd rather avoid
it. And when that doesn't work, she has to rely
on an enigmatic stranger to figure out who is
chasing her and why. The answer lies in a
hidden fortune that will change her life forever.
BONEMAN'S DAUGHTERS
by Ted Dekker.
A serial killer is kidnapping young girls, breaking
their bones, and leaving them to die. Ryan
Evans is an intelligence officer who is alienated
from his own family. When the BoneMan
kidnaps Ryan's daughter, Ryan must take
on this deranged killer himself to save her.
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ROUGH JUSTICE
by Jack Higgins.
Member of Parliament Harry Miller is also a
troubleshooter for the prime minister. When
the PM sends Miller to Kosovo, he discovers
uniformed Russian soldiers about to set fire to
a village mosque, and he shoots their young
commanding officer in the head. This rough
justice reverberates through the Kremlin, and acts of revenge
begin across Europe and the Middle East.
ANOTHER THING TO FALL
by Laura Lippman.
When private investigator Tess Monaghan runs
into a TV crew, she doesn't expect an assignment.
Keeping a spoiled movie princess under wraps
may be more than she can handle. But the
fish-out-of-water P.I. is abruptly pulled back
in by murder. Suddenly a wall of secrets is in
danger of toppling, leaving a catastrophe that threatens the
people Tess cares about . . . and the city she loves.
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THE COPTIC SECRET
by Gregg Loomis.
It was a gala evening to celebrate the find of
the century—previously unknown Gospels
containing startling revelations. But before
the parchments could be revealed, shots rang
out in the British Museum and the Gospels—
along with Lang Reilly's friend—were taken. An ancient and mysterious organization will gladly kill anyone
who comes close to the parchments, but Lang can't be intimidated.
• Order # F5148
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MERCY STREET
by Mariah Stewart.
Billionaire Robert Magellan, who's haunted by
the disappearance of his wife and young son,
hires P.I. Mallory Russo to locate two missing
teens, Courtney Bauer and Ryan Corcoran. The
high school students vanished after a playground
shooting that left two of their friends dead. The Conroy police suspect the pair were involved, but Ryan's
grandmother and Courtney's mom are sure of their innocence.
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Books: Fiction
SALVATION IN DEATH
by J. D. Robb.
In the year 2060, sophisticated investigative
tools can help catch a killer. But there are
some questions even the most advanced
technologies cannot answer.
UNDER THE RADAR
by Fern Michaels.
Just returned to their mountaintop hideaway in
the wake of their latest successful mission, the
seven fearless friends know as the Sisterhood
have barely had time to enjoy a celebratory
dinner with their mentor, Charles Martin,
when they’re embroiled in a new adventure.
• Order # F5139
THE DIRTY SECRETS CLUB
by Meg Gardiner.
As a forensic psychiatrist, Jo Beckett determines whether murder or suicide has been
committed in questionable deaths. The San
Francisco Police Department needs her
services after a string of suspicious suicides.
The cops are concerned that more suicides
are imminent, and they're right.
• Order # F5131
FEARLESS FOURTEEN
by Janet Evanovich.
Personal vendettas, hidden treasure, and a
monkey named Carl will send bounty hunter
Stephanie Plum on her most explosive
adventure yet.
• Order # F5193
• Order # F5136
THE SHADOWS
by L. A. Banks.
The Dark Realms are taking cover after an
angel onslaught from On High. The Antichrist
has been injured and the fourth Biblical seal
has been broken. Seething in the underworld
is the Unnamed One, so furious that he's
bringing the battle topside, unleashing a
full-frontal assault on mankind for the offenses committed
by the Vampire Huntress team.
• Order # F5174
SWAN PEAK
by James Lee Burke.
Detective Robicheaux, his wife, and his buddy
Clete Purcel are staying at a friend's ranch in
rural Montana, hoping to spend their days
fishing and enjoying their distance from the
harsh, gritty landscape of Louisiana postKatrina. But the serenity is quickly shattered
when two college students are found brutally murdered in the
hills behind where the Robicheauxs and Purcel are staying.
CHASING DARKNESS
by Robert Crais.
A fire unearths evidence that someone P.I.
Elvis Cole helped prove innocent of murdering
a prostitute six years ago may actually have
been guilty-and may have killed many other
women. Cole and his partner Joe Pike dodge
bullets as they dig around to find out the truth.
• Order # F4854
HEART OF ICE
by Gregg Olsen.
Three bodies, three different towns. Each
victim was a sorority girl—pretty, privileged,
and brutally murdered. There are no fingerprints, no clues. He is scrupulously careful,
craving those exquisite seconds when the light
fades from his victim's eyes. But the rush
never lasts, and the killing won't stop—not until one special
woman has been made to suffer.
• Order # F4865
• Order # F5109
NUTCASE
by Charlotte Hughes.
Psychologist Kate Holly is about to get evicted
from her office, and her best option may be to
share space with her ex-boyfriend, Dr. Thad
Glazer. With her oddball patients, her
meddling mother, and her eccentric secretary
thrown into the mix—not to mention a spate
of suspicious fires—will Kate put her life back together before
she winds up in a padded cell?
Rubicon.
RUBICON
by Lawrence Alexander.
Hoping to escape the political spotlight,
Bobby Hart, senator from California, declined
a presidential run. But while in Germany, the
idealistic young politician discovers terrifying
evidence of a conspiracy to destroy democracy
in America—an unthinkable plot codenamed
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DEVIL BONES
by Kathy Reichs.
In Charlotte, North Carolina, a house under
renovation becomes the site of a heated
forensic investigation and unrelenting media
attention when a plumber stumbles upon a
forgotten cellar. There he finds animal and
human remains, cauldrons and religious
artifacts, all arranged in a gruesome display.
• Order # F5198
KILLER VIEW
by Ridley Pearson.
When a skier goes missing from a Sun Valley
mountaintop, Sheriff Walt Fleming’s crack
search and rescue team becomes a target.
Waist-deep in snow and neck-deep in lies,
Walt suspects that people of great wealth and
power—including a former state senator—
want to keep him where he started: out in the cold.
• Order # F5196
TAKEOVER
by Lisa Black.
A grisly death in a quiet suburb pulls forensic
scientist Theresa MacLean into the case. A
terrifying hostage situation at a downtown
bank makes it personal. But the nightmare
truly begins when she gets inside.
• Order # F5208
WHAT I DID FOR LOVE
by Susan Elizabeth Phillips.
Georgie York, once the costar of America's
favorite television sitcom, has been publicly
abandoned by her famous husband, her film
career has tanked, and her father is driving her
crazy. What should a down-on-her-luck actress
do? Not go to Vegas...not run into her detestable
former costar, Bram Shepard...and not get caught up in an ugly
incident that leads to a calamitous elopement.
are all she has.
• Order # F5290
NIGHTMARES & DREAMSCAPES
by Stephen King.
The haunting collection that comes from the
unique place where Ripley's Believe It or Not! ®
meets The Twilight Zone: Stephen King's
unparalleled imagination.
• Order # F5233
THE DANGEROUS DAYS
OF DANIEL X
by James Patterson.
Daniel X was born with the world's most
extraordinary power: the power to create. Now, he must uncover the dark truth behind
an apocalyptic struggle that will determine the
fate of all mankind. But hot on his trail is a
cunning killer—one who knows exactly what Daniel X can do.
• Order # F5211
MOSCOW RULES
by Daniel Silva.
The death of a journalist leads Israeli spy
Gabriel Allon to Russia, where he finds that,
in terms of spycraft, even he has something to
learn if he wants to prevent a former KGB
colonel from delivering Russia’s most
sophisticated weapons to al-Qaeda.
• Order # F5210
• Order # F5615
DEADLOCK
by Iris Johansen.
Emily Hudson, a U.N. artifacts expert, is
trying to track down a vicious criminal who
may have stolen "Zelov's hammer." Hidden
inside the old mallet is a treasure map to the
long-lost riches of Russia's assassinated
Romanov family. Helping Hudson is a roughand-ready CIA tracker, whose physical charms prove irresistible
to the usually proud and independent Hudson.
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COLD CASE
by Kate Wilhelm.
Twenty-two years ago, author David Etheridge
and state senator Robert McCrutchen were
investigated in the death of a young coed. But a circle of secrecy guaranteed the case
was never solved. With no strong evidence,
attorney Barbara Holloway's legal instincts
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THE LAST PATRIOT
by Brad Thor.
In Brad Thor's highest-voltage thriller to date,
Scot Harvath must race to locate an ancient
secret that has the power to stop militant
Islam dead in its tracks.
• Order # F5244
Books: Romance
ETERNAL PLEASURE
by Nina Bangs.
Kelly Maloy opens her car door to much more
than a great looking stranger at the Houston
airport. Terror, desire, and a horrible truth
climb in with him. She's only supposed to
drive Ty Endeka around the city for a few
weeks. Too bad no one tells her that once day
fades she'll become part of a battle fought in the darkened
streets with an enemy that isn't human.
• Order # F4010
happens.
MONTANA CREEDS: TYLER
by Linda Lael Miller.
Lily Kenyon has come home to Stillwater
Springs to put down roots for her daughter. What she doesn't expect is Tyler Creed, whom
she's loved since childhood. Now the handsome, stubborn cowboy who left home to seek
his fortune just might find it was always under
the Montana sky.
• Order # F4932
MARRIED IN SEATTLE
by Debbie Macomber.
Janine's Hartman's grandfather arranged a
husband for her. Zach Thomas, the intended
groom, was just as outraged as she was. But
Gramps insisted they'd be "a perfect match." Does Grandfather know best?
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
• Order # F4659
TO SIN WITH A STRANGER
by Kathryn Caskie.
The seven Sinclair brothers and sisters live for
scandal and delight in disgrace...until their
father decrees that they must reform. Propriety
has never come easily, but now they have no
choice. Marry in haste...or regret in poverty!
• Order # F4037
FIRE AND ICE
by Anne Stuart.
In the wake of a failed love affair, Jilly Lovitz
takes off for Tokyo. She's expecting to cry on
her sister's shoulder, then spend a couple
months blowing off steam in Japan. Instead,
she's snatched away on the back of a motorcycle by the handsome Reno, the Committee's
most unpredictable agent, narrowly avoiding a grisly execution
attempt meant for her sister and brother-in-law.
• Order # F4040
TEMPTATION RIDGE
by Robyn Carr.
Shelby McIntyre has big plans that include
finding Mr. Right. Her dream man will have
a clean-shaven jaw, creases in his pants and
hopefully an advanced degree. What she gets
is rugged Luke Riordan.
• Order # F4648
WAITING FOR NICK
& CONSIDERING KATE
by Nora Roberts.
Waiting for Nick: Frederica Kimball had been
waiting all her life for the day when Nicholas
LeBeck would fall as desperately in love with
her as she had always been with him.
Considering Kate: The only thing more
perfect than the building Kate Stanislaski Kimball had bought
for her new dance school was Brody O'Connell, the frustrating
contractor she'd hired for the renovation.
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• Order # F4861
UNDER HER SKIN
by Susan Mallery.
Faced with exactly thirty days to come up with
two million dollars, Lexi Titan is out of options. Marry Cruz Rodriguez or lose everything. If
Lexi agrees to be his fiancee for six months he'll
hand her a check on the spot and go their
separate ways. But neither one is prepared for
their long-ago shared passion to throw a wrench into what
would seem to be the perfect deal.
• Order # F4985
ETERNAL CRAVING
by Nina Bangs.
A darkly sexy adventure through the seamier
side of the City of Brotherly Love as The Eleven
battle to save humankind and Jenna battles to
save the soul of an ancient hunter.
• Order # F5062
DARK MAGIC
by Christine Feehan.
A beautiful magician catches the attention of a
powerful Carpathian male who will claim her
in a ritual as old as time.
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Books: Romance
8 SANDPIPER WAY
by Debbie Macomber.
Emily Flemming thinks her husband Dave, is
having an affair. She found an earring in his
pocket that is not hers, and some jewelry has
been stolen from an old woman that Dave used
to visit a lot. But Emily just can't believe he's
guilty of anything. You see, he's a pastor. • Order # F4293
NOT ANOTHER BAD DATE
by Rachel Gibson.
Adele Harris has had so many lousy dates that
she's sure she's cursed. When she learns the
marriage of her seemingly Miss Perfect sister is
on the rocks, she goes back to their hometown,
only to run smack into Zach Zemaitis...the one
who got away.
• Order # F3977
ALL OF ME
by Lori Wilde.
When a searing betrayal leaves attorney Jillian
Samuels jobless and heartbroken, a newly
inherited cottage in Salvation, Colorado, seems to
offer a fresh start. What she finds when she arrives
shocks her: The most gorgeous and infuriating
man she's ever met is living in her home!
THE BEST OF LORI WICK:
A GATHERING OF HEARTS
by Lori Wick.
Welcome to this special gathering of heartwarming scenes from bestselling author Lori
Wick's celebrated novels.
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GETTING RID OF BRADLEY
by Jennifer Crusie.
Lucy Savage is finally getting rid of Bradley—
and his hideous green recliner. Or so she
thinks. Turns out Officer Zach Warren
wants to arrest the very same Bradley for
embezzlement and figures the lovely Lucy
can lead him straight to his target.
• Order # F4973
WHAT A SCOUNDREL WANTS
by Carrie Lofty.
Meet Robin Hood's rakish nephew, Will
Scarlet, a man whose talents with the sword
and the ladies are legendary—until his desire
for one woman changes everything.
• Order # F4633
• Order # F4600
OUT OF TIME
by Samantha Graves.
Museum curator Jillian Talbot is a psychic. Her gift: She can "see" into the past. She
thinks this talent is her own little secret, until
it lands her in the middle of a battle for money
and power between murderous underground
elements.
IF THERE BE DRAGONS
by Kay Hooper.
Author Kay Hooper weaves seduction, suspense,
and the paranormal into a spellbinding romance
centered on an enigmatic woman—and the
man whose touch threatened to expose her
most intimate vulnerabilities.
• Order # F4294
• Order # F4096
WIND DANCER
by Jamie Carie.
Free spirited young woman Isabelle Renoir,
captured by Indians during the American
Revolution, falls in love with a fellow prisoner,
the spy Samuel Holt. Only faith can set them
free.
LUCKY STREAK
by Carly Phillips.
When Mike Corwin awakens after some wild
partying in Vegas $100,000 richer and married
to Amber, the gorgeous woman he met the
night before, he thinks he's hit the jackpot. The bad news is that Amber's a con who takes
his money and runs. Seems the family curse
has finally hit him. Hard.
• Order # F4658
HOMECOMING
by Jill Marie Landis.
Jill Marie Landis weaves an unforgettable story
about a young woman adrift in two worlds,
and her courageous journey to discovery,
belonging and love.
• Order # F5135
• Order # F3996
MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY
by Lenora Worth.
Stella Forsythe ran a B&B in rural Arkansas. That and raising her precious son alone kept
her busy. She wasn't looking for romance—
then a stranger came to town.
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Books: Romance
A BRIDE FOR HIS CONVENIENCE
by Edith Layton.
Inheriting his profligate family's debts along
with the title, Lord Ian Sutcombe has no
choice—he needs a rich wife, and Hannah
Leeds, a wealthy merchant's daughter, once
cruelly betrayed and with no illusions about
marrying for love, will do nicely. But marriage
has surprises for them both.
• Order # F4625
A RAKE'S GUIDE TO SEDUCTION
by Caroline Linden.
Anthony Hamilton cannot help it. The way he
looks, the way he lives, his past—it all conspires
to make him a man men fear, women desire. His name fills gossip circles in a seemingly
endless, lurid drama. But he's never forgotten
the only woman he's ever truly wanted—yet
could never have.
• Order # F4093
SIMPLY THE BEST
by Shirley Jump.
Mack and Alex have been best friends since first
grade, so naturally, after Alex finds out that her
fiancé is married, she turns to Mack for comfort. But things are starting to get tense between
them as Mack wonders if Alex will ever see him
as a man and not just a buddy.
HIDDEN
by Eve Kenin.
Before they can start some chemistry of their
own, Tatiana and Tristan have to survive being
trapped in an underground lab, hunted by a
madman, and exposed to a plague that could
destroy mankind.
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• Order # F4634
broke his heart.
THE FALL OF ROME
by Beth Ciotta.
Famous for bending the law to get his man,
former Wells Fargo detective Rome Garrett
signs on with the Peacemaker Alliance, a covert
government agency intent on taming the west. Unfortunately, his first assignment involves
teaming up with the only woman who ever
• Order # F4092
HOT PROPERTY
by Carly Phillips.
Just one short season ago, major league center
fielder John Roper had it all. But after a World
Series disaster, fans diss him, shock jocks mock
him and his dysfunctional family hassles him
for money he really can't spare. Now it's up to
him, and Hot Zone publicist Amy Stone, to get
his life back on track. Amy finds it's easier said than done.
• Order # F4091
FAMILY EVER AFTER
by Margaret Daley.
Three foster kids fell into Noah Maxwell's lap
and turned his life upside down. The successful
businessman knew nothing about children, so
he hired single mom Cara Winters to help care
for his new brood. Cara sensed that despite
Noah's confident facade, old wounds troubled
him. Perhaps her love could inspire Noah to relinquish his
independence and give Cara and the children the fairy-tale
ending they all deserved.
HEART OF DIXIE
by Tami Hoag.
New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag
mixes mystery and romance in this moving
classic novel of a missing woman and the search
that brings together the unlikeliest of lovers.
• Order # F4041
GODDESS OF THE HUNT
by Tessa Dare.
Ever the bold adventuress, Lucy Waltham has
decided to go hunting for a husband. But first
she needs some target practice. So she turns to
her brother’s best friend, Jeremy Trescott, the
Earl of Kendall, to hone her seductive wiles on
him before setting her sights on another man.
But her practice kisses spark a smoldering passion–one that
could send all her plans up in smoke.
• Order # F5264
LIP SERVICE
by Susan Mallery.
Skye Titan's wealthy father thinks he can still
dictate his daughter's choice in men. Now
widowed and a single mother, Skye isn't the
yes-girl she once was. Especially since the love
of her life is back in Texas after eight long years. He won't like the answers to the questions he's
asking. About why she left him at the altar. And about her
eight-year-old daughter.
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Books: Mystery
THE PURRFECT MURDER
by Rita Mae Brown.
Harry Haristeen and her cotererie of feline friends
(including the indomitable Mrs. Murphy) spring
into action after a local socialite is murdered at
a fund-raiser, and Harry’s friend, Tazio, is
found standing over the body, knife in hand.
• Order # F4801
BOOKMARKED FOR DEATH
by Lorna Barrett.
To celebrate her bookstore's anniversary, Tricia
Miles hosts a book signing for bestselling author
Zoë Carter. But the event takes a terrible turn
when the author is found dead in the washroom.
RINGING IN MURDER
by Kate Kingsbury.
This season, Cecily has a surprise for her guests: gorgeous Christmas crackers handmade for the
Pennyfoot. But when a mysterious fire breaks
out in an upstairs room, it kills the Christmas
mood—and two guests. Now Cecily’s dead-set
on solving this mystery before another deadly
present turns up.
• Order # F5538
HONEY IN HIS MOUTH
by Lester Dent.
A small-time grifter who's a look alike for a
South American dictator gets dragged into a
plot to steal the despot's ill-gotten wealth—
with the help of the man's beautiful mistress.
• Order # F4794
• Order # F5528
A VEILED DECEPTION
by Annette Blair.
While opening her own vintage clothing shop,
Maddie Cutler must clear her family’s name
when her sister’s wedding festivities hit a snag:
murder.
BOOKPLATE SPECIAL
by Lorna Barrett.
Bookstore owner Tricia Miles has put up—and
put up with—her uninvited college roommate
for weeks. In return, Pammy has stolen $100.
But the day she's kicked out, Pammy's found
dead in a Dumpster, leaving loads of questions
unanswered.
• Order # F4661
DEAD MAN TALKING
by Casey Daniels.
Heiress-turned-cemetery-tour-guide Pepper
Martin is not happy to discover that a local
reality TV show, Cemetery Survivor, will be
filmed at Cleveland's Monroe Street Cemetery—
and she has to be a part of it. To make matters
worse, the ghost of a wrongly convicted killer
needs Pepper's help to clear his name. But digging for the
truth could put her in grave danger.
• Order # F5542
MURDER HAD A LITTLE LAMB
by Cynthia Baxter.
Things get wild and woolly when Jessica
Popper's wedding to longtime fiancé Nick
Burby is interrupted by the sound of bloody
murder.
• Order # F5509
• Order # F5548
SINK TRAP
by Christy Evans.
Plumber's apprentice Georgiana Neverall is
a bit surprised when she finds the favorite
brooch of Martha Tepper, the town's former
librarian, clogging a sink. Georgiana has a
sinking feeling that Martha may have been
retired permanently—and suddenly it's up to
a plumber's apprentice to flush out a killer.
WRITTEN IN BLOOD
by Sheila Lowe.
The widow of a rich, older man, Paige
Sorensen is younger than—and hated by—her
stepchildren. And they’re dead set on proving
that she forged their father’s signature on his
will, which left his entire estate to her.
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• Order # F5521
MISCHIEF IN MUDBUG
by Jana DeLeon.
Everyone in Mudbug, Louisiana, knows that
when Helena Henry shows up, no good will
come of it. Especially now that Helena is dead. And more meddlesome than ever.
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UNEASY RELATIONS
by Aaron Elkins.
Buried ceremoniously, high in a cave on the
Rock of Gibraltar, lies the skeleton of a human
woman, clutching the skeleton of a part-human,
part-Neanderthal child. Fascinated, Professor
Oliver jumps at the chance to visit the site. But
two deaths, possibly murders, have rocked Gibraltar.
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Books: Mystery
BUNDLE OF TROUBLE
by Diana Orgain.
Kate Connelly may have found the perfect workfrom-home Mommy job: private investigator. But when a body is pulled from San Francisco
Bay that may be her brother-in-law, Kate must
crack the case faster than you can say “diaper
rash” in order to keep her family together.
• Order # F5258
HOMICIDE IN HARDCOVER
by Kate Carlisle.
On the eve of a celebration for his latest book
restoration, Brooklyn Wainwright finds her
mentor lying in a pool of his own blood. She
suddenly finds herself accused of murder and
theft, thanks to the British security officer who
found her kneeling over the body.
• Order # F4809
ESPRESSO SHOT
by Cleo Coyle.
Coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi has been hired
to create a gourmet coffee and dessert bar for her
ex-husband's wedding. But her main problem
is bridezilla Breanne Summour. When people
close to Breanne begin to suffer fatal accidents,
it's Clare who may get burned.
THE GIRL WITH BRAIDED HAIR
by Margaret Coel.
The remains of a skeleton with a gunshot
wound in the back of its skull have been
discovered at the bottom of a remote ravine
just outside the Wind River Reservation. Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father
John O'Malley attempt to unravel the truth,
only to incite the malice of a killer from the past.
• Order # F4328
HAUNTING JORDAN
by P. J. Alderman.
Jordan Marsh left L.A. for the Pacific Northwest
town of Port Chatham for some much needed
R&R. As the prime suspect in her cheating
husband's murder, she had been hoping to
immerse herself in the restoration of the Victorian
she'd just bought—and put all talk of
homicide investigations behind her. But as she soon discovers,
the coldest of cases cry out to be solved, too.
• Order # F5531
L IS FOR LAWLESS
by Sue Grafton.
Bemused, beleaguered and begrimed, Southern
California's premier PI, Kinsey Millhone leaves
her hometown of Santa Teresa in an adventure
that begins straightforwardly enough but
quickly twists into a knotted string of untruths.
• Order # F5505
FRANKLY MY DEAR, I'M DEAD
by Livia J. Washburn.
No one is surprised when feisty Delilah Dickinson
opens her own literary travel agency in Atlanta
after her divorce. But during her first group's
tour of an old plantation modelled after Tara
from "Gone with the Wind"—complete with a
full cast of actors—things go south really fast.
• Order # F5514
THE MATTERS AT MANSFIELD
by Carrie Bebris.
Soon after the birth of their first child, Elizabeth
and Darcy visit Mansfield Park, where they get
caught up in intrigue involving mistaken identities
and sudden disappearances more suited to a
bedroom farce than anything in the Austen canon.
• Order # F5558
EGGS BENEDICT ARNOLD
by Laura Childs.
When Cackleberry Clubber Suzanne delivers
a pie to funeral director Ozzie Driesden, she
discovers him not working at the embalming
table but lying on the embalming table. With
more suspects than breakfast specials, the
Cackleberry Club scrambles to crack the case
before one of their own ends up six feet under.
• Order # F5597
• Order # F5479
I SCREAM, YOU SCREAM
by Wendy Lyn Watson.
Tallulah Jones, proprietor of Dalliance, Texas's
old-fashioned ice-cream parlor, dishes up
luscious ice cream that is simply to die for.
CRUEL INTENT
by J. A. Jance.
A cold-blooded murderer lures former
newscaster Ali Reynolds into a chilling web
of online romance and doom.
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• Order # F5511
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Books: Science Fiction/Fantasy
STAR TREK VOYAGER: FULL CIRCLE
by Kirsten Beyer.
As Voyager is drawn into a desperate struggle to
prevent the annihilation of the Federation, lives
are shattered, and the bonds that were forged in
the Delta Quadrant are challenged in ways that
none could have imagined.
• Order # F4911
BETTER TO BEG FORGIVENESS
by Michael Z. Williamson.
Celadon, a poor nation on a poor planet,
engaged in civil war and a haven for every type
of villainy in space, is ripe for cleanup. The
military could pacify it handily, but it would
take a statesman to fix it.
STAR TREK, TITAN:
OVER A TORRENT SEA
by Christopher L. Bennett.
The planet Droplet is a world made mostly of
water without a speck of solid ground. Life
should not exist here, yet it thrives. Aili Lavena,
Titan's aquatic navigator, spearheads the
exploration of this mysterious world, facing
the dangers of the vast, wild ocean.
• Order # F4856
INTO THE STORM
(Destroyermen, Book 1)
by Taylor Anderson.
In this first novel in the Destroyermen trilogy—
an imaginative alternate history saga—the crew
of a World War II destroyer find themselves in
the midst of an altogether different war.
• Order # F4876
• Order # F4804
THE 13TH IMMORTAL
by Robert Silverberg.
"Who was your father?" the mutant asked Dale
Kesley. And try as he might, Kesley could not
remember; his past was an utter blank. But he
knew one thing—the answer to his life's riddle
lay in Antarctica, the once-frozen continent,
now an earthly paradise surrounded by an
impenetrable barrier.
OTHER EARTHS
edited by Nick Gevers & Jay Lake.
Alternate history explores the many possible
directions our world could follow if certain key
events didn't occur at all or were changed in
some crucial way. Is our Earth the only Earth,
our reality the only one that exists?
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GALAXY BLUES
by Allen Steele.
Expelled from the Union Astronautica space
fleet and facing charges of grand theft, Jules
Truffant agrees to sign up as shuttle pilot
aboard the freighter Pride of Cucamonga in
exchange for amnesty. After botching Pride's
mission to RhoCorenae and upsetting an alien
culture in the process, Jules must take part in a voyage across
the galaxy to place a probe squarely in the path of a black hole
as it plows through an inhabited star system.
DOWNSHADOW
by Erik Scott DeBie.
Watchman by day, vigilante by night, Shadowbane's world is turned upside down when he
runs across a powerful wizard—in the form of
a confused, hunted girl who finds herself at
the heart of a fell plot. When his friends start
dying and the girl is kidnapped, Shadowbane
must choose between the darkness and the light in his heart: to avenge the deaths of his friends, or to let the villain live to
face—and possibly escape—justice.
THE VALLEY-WESTSIDE WAR
by Harry Turtledove.
Usually Crosstime Traffic concerns itself with
trade. Our world owns the secret of travel
between parallel continuums, and we mean to
use it to trade for much-needed resources with
the worlds next door. But there’s one parallel
world that’s different. In it, the atomic war
broke out in 1967, at the height of the Summer of Love. Now,
Crosstime Traffic has been given a different sort of mission:
find out what on earth, or on the many earths, went wrong.
WHEN THE TIDE RISES
by David Drake.
Space Navy Commander Daniel Leary and spy
Lady Adele Mundy are dispatched to aid the
breakaway Independent Republic of Bagaria. However, there is one major problem: Because
of their ongoing war with the Alliance of Free
Stars, Cinnabar has no battleships to spare. For
the ever resourceful Leary and Mundy, this crippling impediment
is just a small hitch in their stride.
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THE ALCHEMIST'S CODE
by Dave Duncan.
Able swordsman Alfeo Zeno, a brash young
noble serving as Nostradamus's apprentice,
provides a firsthand account of murder and
romance in an alternate 16th-century Venice.
• Order # F4868
THE GRAND CONJUNCTION
(Astropolis, Book 3)
by Sean Williams.
Six hundred thousand years after Imre
Bergamasc's abdication, the Host rules the
supposedly peaceful galaxy. But revolution is
fomenting-and Imre's unexpected return may
be all it takes to light the final fuse.
• Order # F5071
IRONS IN THE FIRE
(Chronicles of the Lescari Revolution)
by Juliet E. McKenna.
Carved out of the collapse of the Old Tormalin
Empire, the country of Lescar has long been
laid waste by its rival dukes. But a mismatched
band of exiles and rebels are agreed that the
time has come for change, and they begin to
put a scheme together for revolution.
THE REPOSSESSION MAMBO
by Eric Garcia.
Thanks to the technological miracle of
artiforgs, now you can live virtually forever.
Nearly indestructible artificial organs, these
wonders are far more reliable and efficient than
the lungs and kidneys you were born with—
and the Credit Union will be delighted to work
out an equitable payment plan. But, of course, if you fall
delinquent, one of their dedicated professionals will be
dispatched to track you down and take their product back.
• Order # F4956
TANGLED WEBS
by Anne Bishop.
The invitation is signed “Jaenelle Angelline,”
and it summons her family to a special soirée.
But when her guests enter the house, they find
themselves trapped in a living nightmare created
by the Black Widow witches—and if they try to
use Craft as protection, they risk being sealed in
the house forever.
• Order # F4870
THE DREAMING VOID
by Peter F. Hamilton.
This novel begins a stunning new trilogy set in
a far future where one great mystery remains:
the nature of what is hiding within the Void, an
area of space from which amazing dreams are
being projected, allowing people everywhere to
experience a reality never before imagined.
• Order # F4920
LORD OF LIES
by David Zindell.
Valashu Elahad, young prince of the royal
house of Mesh, has succeeded in his quest
to discover the Lightstone, thought to possess
the power to stop the Dark Angel Morjin from
enslaving the world of Ea. But now the
Lightstone must be protected from Morjin
even as war comes to the world.
• Order # F4838
DEATH'S DAUGHTER
by Amber Benson.
Calliope Reaper-Jones so just wanted a normal
life. But when her father—who happens to be
Death himself—is kidnapped, and the Devil’s
Protege embarks on a hostile takeover of the
family business, Death, Inc., Callie returns
home to assume the CEO mantle—only to
discover she must complete three nearly impossible tasks in
the realm of the afterlife first.
• Order # F4872
HONOURKEEPER
by Nick Kyme.
In the ancient days of the Old World, long
before the time of men, the dwarfs and elves
were at the height of their prosperity. As King
Bagrik of the dwarfs and Prince Ithalred of the
elves forge a trade pact, a vast horde of northmen
attacks the elf settlement. When King Bagrik's
son is slain, the dwarfs join forces with the elves, eager for
vengeance.
• Order # F4924
• Order # F4815
THE SEVEN TOWERS
by Patricia C. Wrede.
Seven players in a game of deadly magic. Seven
Kingdoms at the edge of destruction. Seven
Towers holding a dark and dreadful secret.
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TEXAS BLOOD FEUD
by Dusty Richards.
Chet Byrnes was trying to hold the ranch
together through one more winter for one more
cattle drive when he hanged three horse thieves
this side of the Red River - and a blood feud
erupted. Now a family wants revenge - no
matter how just the hangings were.
DOUBTFUL CAÑON
by Johnny D. Boggs.
Three twelve-year-olds, two notorious gunfighters,
a half-crazed albino, and a grieving woman vie
for $30,000 in gold coin, buried twenty years
ago in treacherous Doubtful Cañon.
• Order # F5230
• Order # F5549
WHEEL OF FORTUNE
by Max Brand.
In this trio of novellas, Max Brand delves into
the gray area between right and wrong and
what happens when the good guys have to do
bad things.
CROSSING FIRE RIVER
by Ralph Cotton.
Lawrence Shaw is well-known as the fastest gun
alive—and for other reasons he'd just as soon
forget. But when he kills two bushwhacking
banditos, he becomes quarry for ruthless
bounty hunters led by a cunning Mexican
agent—and finds a chance for redemption. • Order # F5180
DEATH MASK
by Cotton Smith.
Texas Ranger Time Carlow has to track down a
mysterious hired gunman who seems to use a
different gun for each killing. Is Time next on
the killer's list?
• Order # F5286
THE MAN FROM NOWHERE
by Ralph Compton.
When the Apache surrounded the settlement of
Alma, New Mexico, the "respectable" townsfolk
began hanging those who weren't. Town drunk
Eddie Oates was lucky to be banished from the
town, left for the Apaches to kill. And he's
about to unleash a raging fury upon those who
would prey on those who others think aren't worth fighting for.
• Order # F5226
THE LAST GUNFIGHTER:
SUDDEN FURY
by William W. Johnstone.
Gunfighting legend Frank Morgan is about to
come face to face with another kind of legend—
one that stalks the woods of northern California.
• Order # F5201
• Order # F5517
BOUNTY HUNTER
by Ralph Compton.
Bounty Hunter John Tone was good at his job. Some would say ruthless. But when a nefarious
criminal from the Barbary Coast makes him an
offer he can't refuse, Tone himself becomes the
hunted one.
GALLOWS
by Robert J. Randisi.
When the abused wife of a brutal, but popular,
man finally kills him, his friends in town want
to try her for murder. Only Lancaster, a gunman
who found the wife with the dead man's body,
is willing to fend off the townspeople and keep
her alive and insure she sees a fair trial.
• Order # F5498
GUNSMOKE
by T.T. Flynn.
Buckshot Bledsoe was convinced he'd killed
young Jim Tenant when he set the man's ranch
ablaze. Yet descriptions of a scarred, blue-eyed
man fitting Jim's description make him believe
that now he's the one being hunted.
• Order # F5502
A COLD PLACE IN HELL
by William Blinn.
The story of Billy Piper becomes a powerful
tale of two men's undying friendship, of a
murder and a fight for justice.
• Order # F5518
RIDER OF DEATH VALLEY
by Dane Coolidge.
Most people avoid Death Valley. But Johnny
Lightfoot changes that when he rides into the
nearby town of Mormon Lake. He has an
unnaturally fast horse and a gold nugget that
matches ore from a legendary lost mine. Suddenly the race is on to see who will be the
first to the riches—and who will be the first to see Death Valley
live up to its name.
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ESCAPE FROM FIRE RIVER
by Ralph Cotton.
Lawrence Shaw is known as the fastest gun
alive—and it's no exaggeration. But after he
guns down thieves and recovers a fortune in
stolen gold at Fire River, being the fastest may
not be enough.
• Order # F5537
THE PLAINS OF LARAMIE
by Lauran Paine.
An innocent man makes a grave mistake when
he kills a local sheriff in self-defense, an act for
which the dead man's brother vows retribution.
RANGE OF GOLDEN HOOFS
by John Trace.
Dan Shea came to New Mexico Territory
looking to achieve the American dream. But
in the land of the lawless West, you only own
what you can hold on to, and there are plenty
of others looking to wrest away the ranch Dan
has built his future on.
• Order # F5231
TEXAS COWBOYS
by Tim McGuire.
Rance Cash finds himself in Abilene, which has
grown prosperous, attracting the likes of Jesse
James and Marshal Bill Hickock. But there's no
amount of money that will keep Rance from
busting a friend out of jail.
• Order # F5501
THE GUNS OF SAPINERO
by Frank Leslie.
Colter Farrow may be young, but ever since his
stepfather was savagely murdered, his blood has
boiled with a rage just as great as any man's. Now, riding with a Remington as his only
company, he sets out on a journey for justice.
• Order # F5281
DEATH GROUND
by Ed Gorman.
Bounty hunter Leo Guild is on the trail of a
wily mountain man wanted for a deadly bank
robbery, but he's not entirely convinced his
quarry is the true guilty party.
• Order # F5512
• Order # F5575
SMOKE TREE RANGE
by Arthur Henry Gooden.
Lee Cary goes against the patriarch of his
family when he champions the rights of a
young woman to help keep her ranch out of
the greedy clutches of his grandfather.
• Order # F5515
wrong people.
BLOODSHED OF EAGLES
by William W. Johnstone.
Colorado has just made Falcon MacCallister
Lt. Colonel in its Home Guard. Then, before
his military career can take off, Falcon loses one
of his men and two deadly new Gatling guns to
a murderous ambush. Falcon is going to get
those Gatling guns back - before they kill the
THE RATTLESNAKE SEASON
by Larry D. Sweazy.
After rejoining the Texas Rangers as part of the
Frontier Battalion, Josiah Wolfe must escort his
old friend Charlie Langdon to trial. But the
ride to the hangman's noose isn't going to be
easy. And Wolfe's killer instinct may be his
only chance to see his son again.
• Order # F5497
• Order # F5274
DAYS OF VENGEANCE
by Kent Conwell.
Nightriders and rustlers are determined to drive
Ben Elliott from his cattle ranch—but Ben is
even more determined to stay. As the attacks
continue, they quickly escalate to bloodshed
and vengeance.
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DARK KILL
by Todhunter Ballard.
Two brothers who are joint owners of the
largest cattle ranch in Colorado are headed
down a disastrous road when their loyalties
are pushed beyond the limit.
• Order # F5589
SIDEWINDER
by Jory Sherman.
Bitten by a rattlesnake, Brad Storm was saved
by a Hopi medicine man who nicknamed him
Sidewinder—and like his namesake, he strikes
hard and fast, leaving dead outlaws in his wake.
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WORLD WITHOUT END
by Ken Follett.
Two centuries after the townspeople of
Kingsbridge finished building their exquisite
Gothic cathedral, four children slip into the
forest and witness a killing—an event that will
braid their lives together by ambition, love,
greed, and revenge.
DOG ON IT
by Spencer Quinn.
Chet, the wise and lovable canine narrator of
Dog On It, and Bernie, a down-on-his-luck
private investigator, are quick to take a new case
involving a frantic mother searching for her
teenage daughter.
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• Order # F5859
FAR BRIGHT STAR
by Robert Olmstead.
In 1916, the aging Napoleon Childs assembles
a cavalry to search for the elusive bandit Pancho
Villa in Mexico. Though he is seasoned at such
missions, things go terribly wrong, and
Napoleon and his patrol find themselves at the
mercy of an enemy intent on their destruction.
• Order # F5911
THE LACUNA
by Barbara Kingsolver.
Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey
from the Mexico of artists Diego Rivera and
Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor,
FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is the
poignant story of a man pulled between two
nations as well as an unforgettable portrait of
the artist—and of art itself.
• Order # F5869
THE RIDERS
by Tim Winton.
The Riders is a dark and powerful journey into
the obsessive psyche of a man in search of a
woman vanished. It is a tale of the ghosts that
plague relationships; of revelation sought in
places and people; and of redemption found in
the determined will to carry on.
• Order # F5968
VELVA JEAN LEARNS TO DRIVE
by Jennifer Niven.
Velva Jean dreams of becoming a big-time
singer in Nashville until she falls in love with
Harley Bright, a handsome juvenile delinquent
turned revival preacher. As their tumultuous
love story unfolds, Velva Jean must choose
between keeping her hard-won home and
pursuing her dream of singing in the Grand Ole Opry.
• Order # F5967
THE CROWNING GLORY
OF CALLA LILY PONDER
by Rebecca Wells.
The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder is the
story of a pink-collar heroine whose willingness
to remain vulnerable in the face of adversity
opens our own hearts to the possibility of love
growing from sorrow.
• Order # F5825
NETHERLAND
by Joseph O'Neill.
Unexpectedly finding himself marooned among
the strange occupants of New York's Chelsea
Hotel, feeling lost in the country he has come
to regard as home, Hans van den Brock begins
an unlikely friendship with Chuck Ramkissoon,
a charming Trinidadian who introduces Hans
to an "other" America populated by immigrants and strivers of
every race and nationality.
• Order # F5023
WOLF HALL
by Hilary Mantel.
Henry VIII's challenge to the church's power
with his desire to divorce his queen and marry
Anne Boleyn set off a tidal wave of religious,
political and societal turmoil that reverberated
throughout 16th-century Europe.
• Order # F5966
THINGS I'VE BEEN SILENT ABOUT
by Azar Nafisi.
In this stunning personal story of growing up
in Iran, Azar Nafisi shares her memories of
living in thrall to a powerful and complex
mother against the backdrop of a country's
political revolution.
• Order # F5976
LOST IN A GOOD BOOK
by Jasper Fforde.
Thursday Next, who literally jumps into books
to do her detective work, must locate a surprise
enemy in Poe's "The Raven" to save her
beloved.
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DAY AFTER NIGHT
by Anita Diamant.
Day After Night is based on the extraordinary
true story of the October 1945 rescue of more
than two hundred prisoners from the Atlit
internment camp, a prison for "illegal"
immigrants run by the British military near the
Mediterranean coast south of Haifa.
• Order # F5975
SPINNING FORWARD
by Terri DuLong.
In a debut novel brimming with warmth and
wit, Terri DuLong spins a tale of new beginnings, old friends, and lives forever bound.
• Order # F5943
THE RAPTURE OF CANAAN
by Sheri Reynolds.
Ninah Huff, a member of an isolated religious
community, only sees the outside world at
school, where she is labeled as odd, and when
it is discovered that she is pregnant, Ninah
maintains her belief that she carries a holy child.
THE CORRECTIONS
by Jonathan Franzen.
After almost fifty years as a wife and mother,
Enid is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately,
her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to
Parkinson's disease, and their children have
long since flown the family nest to the
catastrophes of their own lives. Desperate for
some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on
bringing the family together for one last Christmas at home.
• Order # F5986
THE BIG BURN:
TEDDY ROOSEVELT & THE FIRE
THAT SAVED AMERICA
by Timothy Egan.
Egan, National Book Award winner for The
Worst Hard Time, spins a tremendous tale of
Progressive-era America out of the 1910 blaze
that burned across Montana, Idaho and
Washington and put the fledgling U.S. Forest Service through a
veritable trial by fire.
• Order # F5982
WHEN CRICKETS CRY
by Charles Martin.
A man with a painful past. A child with a
doubtful future. And a shared journey toward
healing for both their hearts. Before it's over,
they'll both know there are painful reasons why
crickets cry...and that miracles lurk around
unexpected corners.
• Order # F5973
THE HOUSEKEEPER
AND THE PROFESSOR
by Yoko Ogawa.
The Housekeeper and the Professor is an
enchanting story about what it means to live in
the present, and about the curious equations
that can create a family.
• Order # F5980
• Order # F5988
HALF BROKE HORSES
by Jeannette Walls.
Based on the author's grandmother, Lily Casey
Smith, this novel's feisty Texas protagonist, is a
frontier teacher, a rancher, a rodeo rider, a
poker player, and bootlegger. In Half Broke
Horses, she survives droughts, tornados, floods,
poverty, a bigamous husband, and whatever else
fate can throw against her.
BLINDNESS
by José Saramago.
Blindness has swept the reading public with its
powerful portrayal of man's worst appetites and
weaknesses—and man's ultimately exhilarating
spirit. The stunningly powerful novel of man's
will to survive against all odds, by the winner of
the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature.
• Order # F5979
• Order # F5987
THE MADONNAS OF LENINGRAD
by Debra Dean.
One of the most talked about books of the
year—a gripping, heartbreaking, and extraordinary first novel of beauty, pain, survival,
memory, art, and the fragile human mind—
from a bold new voice in American fiction.
GIRL IN A BLUE DRESS
by Gaynor Arnold.
An intimate look at the woman behind one
of literature's most esteemed men—and a
fascinating rumination on marriage that
resonates across centuries.
• Order # F5977
• Order # F5981
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TAKE TWO
(Above the Line, Book 2)
by Karen Kingsbury.
Producers Chase Ryan and Keith
Ellison are gaining respect and are
on the verge of truly changing
culture through the power of
film, but is the change worth
the cost? (Christian Fiction)
• Order # F5737
TAKE THREE
(Above the Line, Book 3)
by Karen Kingsbury.
Filmmakers Chase Ryan and
Keith Ellison celebrate their first
successful movie. But in the
midst of family relationships,
broken budgets, and conflicting
dreams, Chase and Keith must find their way
through the maze of pain and questions that
comes with everything they thought they wanted.
(Christian Fiction)
THE WHITE QUEEN
by Philippa Gregory.
Brother turns on brother to win
the throne of England in this
dazzling account of the wars of
the Plantagenets, the claimants
and kings who ruled England
before the Tudors. (Fiction)
• Order # F5845
THE PERFECT POISON
by Amanda Quick.
Botanist Lucinda Bromley
frequently used her unusual
psychic gift to discern death by
poisoning to help the London
police, but when a nobleman
is poisoned by a compound
containing elements of a rare fern, one that can
only be found in her conservatory, Lucinda
knows she better act quickly. (Romantic Suspense)
• Order # F5751
WICKED PREY
by John Sandford.
Out of Lucas Davenport's past comes
a psycho nursing a violent grudge.
But why go after Davenport for
revenge when Davenport's young
daughter is so close—and so
vulnerable? (Suspense)
• Order # F5718
THE THORN
(The Rose Trilogy, 1)
by Beverly Lewis.
Two Amish sisters are divided by
one sister's impulsive marriage to an
outsider. Hen longs for the Old
Ways she left behind. Rose is unsure
of her own heart—devoted to the
bishop's rebellious foster son, yet
courted by another. (Contemporary Fiction)
• Order # F5921
HOTHOUSE ORCHID
by Stuart Woods.
Going home can be hard. But for
Special Agent Holly Barker, it could
be her one chance for justice
against an old enemy. (Suspense)
• Order # F5763
THE APOSTLE
by Brad Thor.
Every politician has a secret. And
when the daughter of a politically
connected family is kidnapped
abroad, America’s new president
will agree to anything—even a
deadly and ill-advised rescue
plan—in order to keep his secret hidden. (Fiction)
• Order # F5854
• Order # F5747
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BURN
by Linda Howard.
When Jenner Redwine wins the
lottery, she finds herself alienated
from everything she knew. When
she agrees to go on a charity cruise
with her best friend Syd Hazlett,
she thinks it'll be the perfect escape. Onboard the Silver Mist, however, Syd is kidnapped
by a mysterious group, and her only shot at safety
is going along with the plan of her mysterious
captor Cael Traylor. (Romantic Suspense)
• Order # F5878
INTERVENTION
by Robin Cook.
Bestselling author Robin Cook
returns with another rippedfrom-the-headlines thriller, as
New York City medical detective
Jack Stapleton investigates the
promises—and deadly risks—of
alternative medicine and is led deep into the heart
of a religious conspiracy. (Fiction)
• Order # F5853
BILLY GRAHAM: HIS
LIFE AND INFLUENCE
by David Aikman.
David Aikman examines Billy
Graham's life and influence,
probing critical episodes of
Graham's life that help explain
his profound impact on both the
public and private lives of Americans. (Biography)
• Order # F5844
HORSE SOLDIERS
by Doug Stanton.
The extraordinary story of a
band of U.S. soldiers who rode
to victory in Afghanistan. (Non-Fiction)
GOING ROGUE:
AN AMERICAN LIFE
by Sarah Palin.
Going Rogue traces one ordinary
citizen's extraordinary journey,
and imparts Palin's vision of a
way forward for America and her
unfailing hope in the greatest
nation on earth. (Memoir)
• Order # F5871
RAIN GODS
by James Lee Burke.
When Hackberry Holland became
sheriff of a tiny Texas town near
the Mexican border, he'd hoped to
leave certain things behind: his
checkered reputation, his haunted
dreams, and his obsessive memories
of the good life with his late wife, Rie. But the
discovery of the bodies of nine illegal aliens, machinegunned to death and buried in a shallow grave, soon
makes it clear that he won't escape so easily. (Fiction)
• Order # F5782
KNOCK OUT
by Catherine Coulter.
After witnessing her relatives
burying a pile of dead bodies in
the middle of the night, a sevenyear-old uses her telepathic
powers to call a man she's seen
only on television: FBI Agent
Dillon Savich. Now Savich and his wife and
partner, Agent Lacey Sherlock, face their most
elusive foes to keep the child out of harm's
way—before it's too late. (Thriller)
• Order # F5855
• Order # F5787
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RESURRECTION IN MAY
by Lisa Samson.
May Seymour graduated from college with the
world at her feet… and no idea what to do
with it. A spontaneous mission trip to Africa
brought a great surprise—love—and a strong
sense of purpose. But in loving others there,
she encountered a severe tragedy that left her
deeply wounded.
• Order # F5889
PREDATOR
by Terri Blackstock.
The murder of Krista Carmichael's sister by an
online predator has shaken her faith and made
her question God's justice and protection. Desperate to find the killer she creates an
online persona to bait the predator. But when
hunters pursue a hunter, the tables can easily turn.
• Order # F5808
THE THORN (The Rose Trilogy, #1)
by Beverly Lewis.
Two Amish sisters are divided by one sister's
impulsive marriage to an outsider. Hen longs
for the Old Ways she left behind. Rose is
unsure of her own heart—devoted to the
bishop's rebellious foster son, yet courted by
another.
• Order # F5903
BEAUTIFUL BANDIT
by Loree Lough.
After witnessing a bank robbery in San Antonio
that left three men dead, rancher Joshua Neville
comes across a lost and confused young woman
on the trail. He takes Dinah to his ranch,
where he begins to fall in love with her. The
only problem is that he thinks he recognizes
her as the leader of the bank heist. Can he believe the truth
about Dinah? Will he fight for her?
• Order # F5883
ANGEL SONG
by Sheila Walsh & Kathryn Cushman.
After the tragic death of her sister, Anne
Fletcher begins to discover the very real
presence of angels around her. Will she finally
open her heart to receive God's healing love?
• Order # F5887
TWILIGHT'S SERENADE
by Tracie Peterson.
At a crossroads, Britta Lindquist must
determine what her heart truly longs for—
and if she's willing to fight for it.
• Order # F5890
THE SEEKER
by Ann H. Gabhart.
Ann H. Gabhart brings alive the strikingly
different worlds of the Southern gentry, the
simple Shakers, and the ravages of war in 1860s
Kentucky to weave a touching story of love,
freedom, and forgiveness.
• Order # F5783
A SHORE THING
by Julie Carobini.
A fiery young woman fights against the
development of property in her beachfront
hometown while falling for the architect
assigned to the job.
• Order # F5795
THE CHOICE
by Suzanne Woods Fisher.
A tender story of love, forgiveness, and looking
below the surface, The Choice uncovers the
sweet simplicity of the Amish world—and
shows that it's never too late to find your way
back to God.
• Order # F5804
LOVE, CHARLESTON
by Beth Webb Hart.
Family, friendship, and faith converge in a
beautiful story about how God's transforming
love works in the Holy City of Charleston.
• Order # F5882
ALMOST HEAVEN
by Chris Fabry.
Almost Heaven is a tender story of a single
gentle soul who chooses to live by faith despite
hardship, failure, and disappointment.
• Order # F5953
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A TIME TO DANCE
(Timeless Love Series #1)
by Karen Kingsbury.
After 21 years together, John and Abby have
decided to split. But before they can deliver
the painful message to their three children,
their daughter preempts them: She is getting
married that summer. To protect her happiness,
the couple secretly agree to shelve their plans until after the
wedding. What begins as a brief postponement becomes a
resuscitation of love, in this charming spiritual novel.
A WOMAN CALLED SAGE
by DiAnn Mills.
In this exciting historic romance set in the
late 1800s, murder, intrigue, kidnapping, and
questions of faith will keep you in suspense
until the final pages.
• Order # F5806
ELEVENTH QUEST
by Bodie & Brock Thoene.
The lepers in the Valley of Mak’ob hear rumors
that a miracle worker is walking the earth. Ten
are chosen to search for him, knowing that
outside the Valley lies almost certain death.
Could this healer be the Messiah they long
for? And will they find him in time?
• Order # F5800
A TIME TO EMBRACE
(Timeless Love Series #2)
by Karen Kingsbury.
After overcoming a crisis in their marriage, Abby
and John Reynolds are experiencing a season of
joy and restoration. But a car accident causes
Abby and John to suddenly face a future they
never imagined. God is moving mightily in
their lives, if they can just hold on to Him and each other.
• Order # F5801
• Order # F5767
THE BRIDGE OF PEACE
(Ada House Series, #2)
by Cindy Woodsmall.
Lena Kauffman and Grey Graber have been
lifelong friends, but their relationship begins
to crumble amidst unsettling deceptions,
propelling each of them to finally face their
own secrets. Can they both find a way past
their losses and discover the strength to build a new bridge?
(The Hope of Refuge, Ada House Series #1: F5330)
TAKE FOUR
(Above the Line Series #4)
by Karen Kingsbury.
The Above the Line Series follows two dedicated
Hollywood producers as they seek to transform
the culture through the power of film.
(Take One, Above the Line Series #1: F5199)
(Take Two, Above the Line Series #2: F5206)
(Take Three, Above the Line Series #3: F5724)
• Order # F5901
A MATTER OF CHARACTER
by Robin Lee Hatcher.
In 1918 writing gritty dime novels simply
isn't done by a woman. So Daphne McKinley
publishes her rough-and-tumble books under a
male pseudonym. But when a newspaperman
enlists her aid in restoring his grandfather's
good name, Daphne finds herself re-examining
the power of her words and reconsidering the direction of her life.
• Order # F5945
• Order # F5785
UNLOCKED
by Karen Kingsbury.
To his classmates, autistic teenager Holden
Harris is distant and downright weird. When
popular cheerleader Ella Reynolds gets to know
him, she begins to piece together the patchwork of her own life. Gradually, she realizes
that this kind boy holds the keys to lessons that
most of us still avoid learning.
• Order # F5807
SIXTEEN BRIDES
by Stephanie Grace Whitson.
The spirited tale of courageous women who
risk everything for the dream of owning land
and finding love on the prairies of Nebraska.
• Order # F5946
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Books: Retirement
WHAT COLOR IS YOUR
PARACHUTE? FOR RETIREMENT
by John E. Nelson & Richard N. Bolles.
This book helps you develop a detailed picture
of your ideal retirement, so that—whether
you're planning retirement or are there
already—you can take a comprehensive
approach to make the most of these vital years.
CREATIVE AGING
by Marjory Zoet Bankson.
Drawing on stories of people who have
reinvented their lives in their older years,
Bankson explores the issues you need to address
as you move into this generative period of life.
• Order # F5868
PERSONAL FINANCE FOR SENIORS
FOR DUMMIES
by Eric Tyson & Bob Carlson.
Are you nearing (or already basking in)
retirement? This hands-on, practical guide
empowers you to chart your financial course
with targeted advice for investing, spending, and
protecting our wealth for the decades to come.
• Order # F5834
THE SMARTEST RETIREMENT
BOOK YOU'LL EVER READ
by Daniel R. Solin.
This book covers a wide range of concerns for
retirees from investing during retirement, pensions,
social security, withdrawals, annuities, reverse
mortgages, estate planning, insurance, health
care, and the impact of working during retirement.
• Order # F5840
THE 100 BEST VOLUNTEER
VACATIONS TO ENRICH YOUR LIFE
by Pam Grout.
In this book you'll find a broad spectrum
of volunteering possibilities, spanning six
continents and a hundred different opportunities
ranging from archaeology and tourism to
humanitarian aid and conservation.
• Order # F5856
NOT DEAD YET
by Patrick Fanning.
Not Dead Yet, a wry, perceptive, and hilarious
account of the retirement years, debunks the
AARP-originated myth of ruddy-faced seniors
grinning and golfing their way into a golden
sunset, and offers some helpful (if cynical)
advice about finding a new purpose in later life.
• Order # F5842
• Order # F5852
SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE
& GOVERNMENT PENSIONS
by Attorney Joseph Matthews.
Everyone wants the highest possible retirement
and pension income—not to mention the best
medical coverage. Discover everything you're
entitled to with this completely updated edition.
• Order # F5851
THE HARD TIMES GUIDE
TO RETIREMENT SECURITY
by Mark Miller.
Many have not saved enough for retirement
and have not taken a hard look at how many
post-work years they may need to finance. This book tackles the tough questions about
retirement in the new post-crash economy.
• Order # F5843
EVERYDAY LAW FOR SENIORS
by Lawrence A. Frolik & Linda S. Whitton.
Everyday Law for Seniors provides a clear,
concise, understandable tour of the most
critical issues in law and aging.
HOW TO RETIRE HAPPY
by Stan Hinden.
Will you have enough money for health care? Do you need—and can you afford—long-term
care policy? How much income can your savings
produce? Apply Stan Hinden's reliable, easyto-understand advice and experience a happy,
healthful retirement for years and years to come.
• Order # F5838
THE BLUE ZONES
by Dan Buettner.
With the right lifestyle, experts say, chances
are that you may live up to a decade longer.
What’s the prescription for success? National
Geographic Explorer Dan Buettner has
traveled the globe to uncover the best strategies
for longevity found in the Blue Zones: places
in the world where higher percentages of people enjoy
remarkably long, full lives.
• Order # F5992
• Order # F5839
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Books: Non-Fiction
Personal Finance
Miscellaneous Non-Fiction
THE CHEAPSKATE NEXT DOOR
by Jeff Yeager.
From simple money-saving tips to truly
life-changing financial strategies, the cheapskates next door know that the key to financial
freedom and enjoying life more is not how
much you earn but how much you spend.
• Order # F5836
SUZE ORMAN'S ACTION PLAN:
NEW RULES FOR NEW TIMES
by Suze Orman.
So much has changed on the financial landscape
that it's hard to know which moves are the
right ones to make. Suze Orman's best-selling
financial action plan will show you the way.
THREE WAYS
TO CAPSIZE A BOAT
by Chris Stewart.
Chris Stewart has had a long and eclectic list of
jobs. When he is offered the chance to captain a
sailboat in the Greek Islands one summer, something he had never done, he jumps at the chance. Ever the optimist, Stewart is undaunted by the
fact that he's never actually sailed before!
• Order # F5749
THE COMPLETE PHOTO GUIDE
TO KNITTING
by Margaret Hubert.
Nearly 200 stitch patterns are taught with
written instructions and full-size photos for
clear understanding. Easy projects throughout
give you opportunities to try out what you've
learned.
• Order # F5707
RICH DAD POOR DAD
by Robert T. Kiyosaki.
Personal finance author and lecturer Robert
T. Kiyosaki developed his unique economic
perspective from two very different influences
—his two fathers. This text lays out Kiyosaki's
philosophy and his relationship with money.
• Order # F5627
KEVIN TRUDEAU'S FREE MONEY
"THEY" DON'T WANT YOU TO
KNOW ABOUT
by Kevin Trudeau.
This book is your guide to free money, and
when every dollar counts, you need to know
what "they" don't advertise. You need every
dollar that is rightfully yours.
• Order # F5817
SUPERSHOP
LIKE THE COUPON QUEEN
by Susan Samtur.
Susan Samtur's Five-Step Super-shopping System
is the first system that converges new supermarket
savings technologies—rewards programs, store
cards, websites—with traditional proven
techniques, like couponing and refunding.
• Order # F5781
THE COMPLETE PHOTO GUIDE
TO CROCHET
by Margaret Hubert.
The ultimate reference for all forms of
crochet—great for beginners and experienced
crocheters, too. Essential tools and all the
techniques for standard crochet and various
specialty methods are thoroughly explained
with step-by-step photographs.
• Order # F5721
CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL:
CHRISTMAS MAGIC
by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen,
Amy Newmark.
Share the magic and joy of Christmas with the
whole family. You'll love these 101 heartwarming, inspirational, and fun stories of
Christmas miracles, family reunions, charity,
the wonder of children, the joy of giving, and family and
religious traditions.
• Order # F5960
• Order # F5908
CUT YOUR GROCERY BILL IN HALF
WITH AMERICA'S CHEAPEST FAMILY
by Steve & Annette Economides.
America's Cheapest Family shows readers how
to save up to $3,000 annually on groceries with
their proven strategies, tips, tools, and tricks.
CITIZEN CANINE
by Mary R. Burch, Ph.D.
Inside Citizen Canine, you'll learn about the ten
test items of the CGS Test and how to teach
your dog the skills needed to pass them.
• Order # F5746
• Order # F5969
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Books: Non-Fiction
Self-Help, Advice, and How to
True Crime
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
by Brian McDonald.
The affluent suburb of Cheshire, Connecticut
seemed like the perfect place for Dr. William
Petit and his wife to raise their family. Until
July 23, 2007, when two ex-cons invaded the
Petit home hoping to embark on a robbery—
one that would ultimately prove deadly.
WINNING BY LOSING
by Jillian Michaels.
Focusing on the psychological aspects of being
overweight as well as on nutrition and fitness,
Jillian's program is designed to help you safely
shed weight fast.
• Order # F5764
THE SOUTH BEACH DIET
SUPER CHARGED
by Arthur Agatston, M.D.
To make losing weight faster and easier, Dr.
Arthur Agatston has built on the diet's proven
healthy eating principles and added a
breakthrough 3-phase fitness program—one
that will allow you to burn more calories and
fat in even less time.
• Order # F5624
WHY DON'T I DO THE THINGS
I KNOW ARE GOOD FOR ME?
by BJ Gallagher.
Simple, straightforward, and effective, BJ
Gallagher's tips, tools, and suggestions will
guide you to a life you love—taking care of
yourself AND your loved ones!
• Order # F5478
MOST EVIL
by Steve Hodel.
Former LAPD detective Steve Hodel compiles
never-before-seen evidence that reveals his
father as a serial killer who may have been
responsible for some of the most infamous
murders of the last century—including the
Zodiac killings.
• Order # F5902
MY STOLEN SON
by Susan Markowitz.
My Stolen Son is the gripping account of one
mother's relentless nine-year fight to bring her
son's killer to justice, and to rebuild a family
shattered by an unconscionable crime.
• Order # F5159
• Order # F5918
HOW TO LIVE WELL
WITH EARLY ALZHEIMER'S
by Deborah Mitchell.
Whether you've been experiencing mild to
moderate memory loss, or are in the early
stages of Alzheimer's, learn the facts—and live
smarter, healthier, and happier—with How to
Live Well With Early Alzheimer's.
COLD AS ICE
by Carlton Smith.
Drew Peterson lost two of his wives. Is he a
widower—or a cold-blooded killer? Author
Carlton Smith digs deep into the mystery
behind the two Peterson wives—and sheds
some light on one of the most complex crime
cases in modern American history.
• Order # F5694
• Order # F5899
AND THEN I HAD TEENAGERS
by Susan Alexander Yates.
Drawing from her experience raising five
teenagers, Yates walks you through everything
from preparing for the teen years to letting
your teens go. Her insight will help you create
open communication, set limits, understand
what's normal, take advantage of peer pressure,
build your teens' faith, and much more.
SAVAGE SON
by Corey Mitchell.
Bestselling author Corey Mitchell takes us
inside a chilling murder case to reveal the
twisted motives of a seemingly All-American
Boy-Next-Door who turned into a coldblooded killer.
• Order # F5673
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• Order # F5760
Books: Cookbooks
MORE OF AMERICA'S
MOST WANTED RECIPES
by Ron Douglas.
New York Times bestselling author Ron
Douglas reveals even more copycat recipes
from your family's favorite restaurants—all
for $10 or less!
THE SUPERMARKET
DIET COOKBOOK
by Janis Jibrin & Susan Westmoreland.
Lose up to 2 pounds a week with 175
irresistible recipes, 4 weeks of complete
menus, more than 150 mix-and-match meal
plans and advice you can trust on everything
from stocking a healthy kitchen and freezing
food safely to avoiding diet pitfalls.
• Order # F5818
• Order # F5041
HUNGRY GIRL HAPPY HOUR
by Lisa Lillien.
Blended drinks, mixed drinks, fruity
drinks...any and every cocktail you desire is
here in Hungry Girl Happy Hour, and they've
all got HG's guilt-free guarantee! Also
included are recipes for Hungry Girl's
delicious, decadent, party-pleasing finger
foods and appetizers.
THE CAKE MIX DOCTOR
RETURNS!
by Anne Byrn.
Transform ordinary cake mix into extraordinary cakes through just the right additions. Anne Byrn takes bakers boldly forward with
160 all-new, fast, foolproof recipes, plus
dozens of fresh ideas on frosting, garnishing,
and baking lighter cakes for lighter appetites.
• Order # F5481
• Order # F5774
TOMATO: A FRESH-FROMTHE-VINE COOKBOOK
by Lawrence David-Hollander.
When local tomatoes are in season they
deserve center-stage. Here are 150 recipes—
many contributed by celebrity chefs—that
make juicy, fresh tomatoes the stars of your
summer table.
• Order # F5741
HUNGRY GIRL 1-2-3
by Lisa Lillien.
Hungry Girl's recipes aren't just delicious,
they're super-simple, too. Hungry Girl
1-2-3 will help you make the world's most
delicious guilt-free appetizers, meals, snacks,
desserts, etc., with practically no effort.
• Order # F5725
COOKING GREEN
by Kate Heyhoe.
How we cook is as important as what we
cook. Fortunately, the kitchen is the place
where you can make real green choices, and
take direct control of your impact.
• Order # F4977
SAUSAGE
by Victoria Wise.
Victoria Wise shares more than 75 recipes for
easy-to-make, no-casing-required pork, beef,
lamb, poultry, seafood, and even vegetarian
sausages, including innovative recipes that
turn them into sophisticated meals.
• Order # F5735
GOOD MOOD FOOD
by Donal Skehan.
Good Mood Food is a cookbook that will
change your attitude to food, offering a
delicious range of simple, healthy and
delicious home-cooked recipes.
• Order # F5802
QUESADILLAS
by Donna Kelly.
Quesadillas are so simple, delicious, and
easy to make that their popularity is ever
increasing. So, why not make your favorite
meal or dessert into a quesadilla?
• Order # F5848
THE COOKIE PARTY COOKBOOK
by Robin L. Olson.
The country's biggest promoter of the cookie
swapping party writes the ultimate cookie
recipe book, with ideas, tips and organizing
plans for anyone to throw the best baking
event ever.
• Order # F5990
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LEVIATHAN
by Scott Westerfeld.
With World War I brewing, Alek's and
Deryn's paths cross in the most unexpected
way...taking them both aboard the airship
Leviathan, on a fantastical, around-the-world
adventure. One that will change both their
lives forever. Unabridged. 540 min.
THE RED PYRAMID
by Rick Riordan.
Sadie and Carter Kane discover that the gods
of Egypt are waking, and the worst of them,
Set, has his sights on the Kanes. To stop
him, the siblings embark on a dangerous
journey across the globe—a quest that brings
them ever closer to the truth about their
family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since
the time of the pharaohs. Unabridged. 882 min.
• Order # T3516
WHERE THE MOUNTAIN
MEETS THE MOON
by Grace Lin.
In the Valley of Fruitless Mountain, young
Minli spends her days working hard in the
fields and her nights listening to her father's
tales about the Jade Dragon and the Old Man
of the Moon. Minli believes these enchanting
stories and embarks on a journey to find the Old Man of the
Moon and ask him how her family can change their fortune. Unabridged. 297 min.
• Order # T3517
ARTEMIS FOWL:
THE TIME PARADOX
by Eoin Colfer.
The rules of time travel are far from simple,
but to save his ill mother, Artemis will have
to break them all...and outsmart his most
cunning adversary yet: Artemis Fowl, age ten. Unabridged. 533 min.
• Order # T3511
RIOT
by Walter Dean Myers.
Addressing such issues as race, bigotry, and
class head-on, Walter Dean Myers has
written another stirring and exciting novel
that will shake up assumptions, and lift the
spirit. Unabridged. 156 min.
• Order # T3529
• Order # T3505
FAIRIES AND THE QUEST
FOR NEVER LAND
by Gail Carson Levine.
Gwendolyn Carlisle, a descendant of Wendy
Darling, receives the precious "kiss" necklace
from her parents on her seventh birthday. A
year and a half later, Peter Pan arrives to
escort her to Never Land to meet Tink and
the other fairies. However, when she arrives, nothing goes
according to plan. Unabridged. 249 min.
• Order # T3514
OLD YELLER
by Fred Gipson.
Old Yeller, the eloquently simple story of a
boy and his dog in the Texas hill country, is
an unforgettable and deeply moving
experience. Unabridged. 240 min.
• Order # T3518
ESCAPE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN
by Alexander Key.
Tony and Tia have supernatural powers and
are sure that they come from another world. They begin a desperate search to find their
true home, which leads them to the strange
and mysterious Witch Mountain. Unabridged. 251 min.
• Order # T3513
THE EMPEROR'S CODE
(The 39 Clues #8)
by Gordon Korman.
A shocking discovery about their parents
shatters everything Amy and Dan think they
know, dividing the two siblings for the first
time ever. When Dan disappears in a
country of more than a billion people, Amy
has to make a terrible choice—find the next Clue...or find her
younger brother. Unabridged. 297 min.
• Order # T3504
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Kids
THE SAM KRUPNIK SERIES
by Lois Lowry.
Sam Krupnik is Anastasia’s pesky but lovable
younger brother. He has his own ideas about
haircuts, nursery school, getting shots, and
not eating broccoli. Sam thinks a lot about
being bigger and stronger, about secret codes
and show-and-tell. Make way for your little
brother, Anastasia. Here for the first time is Sam Krupnik’s
story. What a life! Unabridged. 688 min.
• Order # T3508
NINTH GRADE SLAYS
(The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod #2)
by Heather Brewer.
A trip to Siberia with Uncle Otis is Vlad’s crash
course in Vampire 101. Training alongside the
most gifted vampires is exactly what Vlad needs
to sharpen those mind-control skills he’s been
avoiding. And he’d better get it right, because
the battle brewing back home with the slayer who’s been
stalking him could be Vlad’s last. Unabridged. 422 min.
• Order # T3520
THE KING'S FIFTH
by Scott O'Dell.
In this deeply affecting novel Scott O’Dell
envelops the reader in the heroic world of the
conquistadors—a world that is at once
somber and many-colored. Though they may
have been ruthless, these steel-helmeted
young men of Spain lived their lives on the
very edge of eternity with style and uncommon courage. Unabridged. 479 min.
• Order # T3510
THE WORLD
ACCORDING TO HUMPHREY
by Betty G. Birney.
Humphrey the hamster enjoys being Room 26's
classroom pet. He adores Ms. Mac, and every
day brings new learning and experiences. Then
Ms. Mac unexpectedly leaves; worse, returning
teacher Mrs. Brisbane despises small furry
creatures—leaving Humphrey both brokenhearted and worried
about his future. Unabridged. 180 min.
BUD, NOT BUDDY
by Christopher Paul Curtis.
Bud sets off to track down his supposed dad,
a man he's never laid eyes on. And, being 10,
Bud-not-Buddy gets into all sorts of trouble
along the way. Unabridged. 315 min.
• Order # T3578
EMMY AND THE
INCREDIBLE SHRINKING RAT
by Lynne Jonell.
Since her family inherited a fortune, her
parents have become obsessed with status
and money, her teachers and fellow students
ignore her, and her welfare has been left in
the hands of her coldhearted nanny, Miss
Barmy. Now, she can hear the class pet, a rat, talking. What's
going on? Unabridged. 420 min.
• Order # T3581
CHARLOTTE'S WEB
by E. B. White.
One of the classics of children's literature,
this widely read tale takes place on a farm in
Maine and concerns a pig named Wilbur and
his devoted friend Charlotte, the spider who
manages to save his life by writing words in
her web. Unabridged. 214 min.
• Order # T3512
MOVIE FOR DOGS
by Lois Duncan.
When Bruce and his sister, Andi, find out
about a dog-themed filmmaking contest,
they can't wait to enter. But making the
movie is just the beginning—before they
know it, Hollywood calls! Unabridged. 231 min.
• Order # T3580
• Order # T3491
EIGHTH GRADE BITES
by Heather Brewer.
Vlad has a secret: His mother was human,
but his father was a vampire. When a strange
substitute teacher begins to question him a
little too closely, Vlad worries that his cover
is about to be blown. But then he realizes he
has a much bigger problem: He's being hunted
by a vampire killer who is closing in fast! Unabridged. 286 min.
• Order # T3554
• Order # T3519
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GHOST SHIP
by Dietlof Reiche.
A summer job waiting tables at her father's
seaside restaurant, Ye Olde Seashell Room,
gets more interesting for 12-year-old Vicki
when a mystery brews surrounding an old
sailing ship and missing gold. Unabridged. 360 min.
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FEARLESS
by Diana Palmer.
Even in the wide open spaces of Texas, secrets
find a place to hide…in the heart of a shy,
determined woman; behind the hard, rugged
exterior of a DEA agent; and in the dangerous
world of drug smuggling. Unabridged. 482 min.
• Order # T3104
• Order # T3157
RETURN TO SULLIVANS ISLAND
by Dorothea Benton Frank.
Dorothea Benton Frank returns to the
enchanted landscape of South Carolina's
Lowcountry made famous in her beloved
New York Times bestseller Sullivans Island
to tell the story of the next generation of
Hamiltons and Hayes. Unabridged. 720 min.
• Order # T3147
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
by Richard Yates.
April and Frank Wheeler are a young couple
living with their two children in a prosperous
Connecticut suburb in the mid-1950s. However, the self-assured exterior masks a
creeping frustration at their inability to feel
fulfilled in their relationships or careers. As
their relationship deteriorates, their dreams of self-fulfillment
are thrown into jeopardy. Unabridged. 690 min.
THE WIFE'S TALE
by Lori Lansens.
On the evening of Mary’s twenty-fifth
wedding anniversary, her husband, Jimmy,
doesn’t come home, initiating a domino-like
series of actions that turn Mary’s life around. Unabridged. 701 min.
• Order # T3432
THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS
by Debbie Macomber.
Cassie, at thirty-three, wants a husband and
kids, and so far, nothing's worked. Not blind
dates, not the Internet and certainly not leaving
love to chance. What's left? A professional
matchmaker. He's Simon Dodson, and he's
very choosy about the clients he takes on. Unabridged. 256 min.
• Order # T3252
• Order # T3085
THE TRIGGERMAN'S DANCE
by T. Jefferson Parker.
When a woman is mistakenly assassinated by
a sniper from a white supremacist militia, her
death brings together her FBI agent fiancee
and her journalist lover, John Menden. The
two team up to exact revenge. Unabridged. 832 min.
BRIMSTONE
by Robert B. Parker.
When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch track
down the woman who stole Virgil's heart,
they find a dispirited prostitute rather than
the innocent beauty she once was. Now they
must save her, even if murder is the price of
redemption. Unabridged. 300 min.
• Order # T3073
• Order # T3105
AND ANOTHER THING
by Eoin Colfer.
Arthur Dent has finally made it home to
Earth, but that does not mean he has escaped
his fate. His chances of getting hands on a
decent cuppa have evaporated rapidly, along
with all the world's oceans. For no sooner
has he touched down on the planet earth
than he finds out that it is about to be blown up...again. Unabridged. 630 min.
• Order # T3265
FUGITIVE
by Phillip Margolin.
Attorney Amanda Jaffe is back—in this twisting
tale of international intrigue and murder that
leads her deep into the past...and into the
crosshairs of a killer. Unabridged. 570 min.
• Order # T3072
THE DEFECTOR
by Daniel Silva.
Grigori Bulganov once saved Gabriel Allon's
life in Moscow, and Allon always repays his
debts. So when the former Russian intelligence officer vanishes, Allon gathers his team
of operatives to go after those responsible. Unabridged. 662 min.
• Order # T3158
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THE HONOR OF THE QUEEN
by David Weber.
On the planet Grayson to participate in
diplomatic talks between the Kingdom of
Manticore and the Republic of Haven, Honor
Harrington discovers that she is stuck on a
fiercely patriarchal, misogynist planet. Unabridged. 948 min.
Audio/Video Catalog
Audio: CD
Fiction
CRY MERCY
by Mariah Stewart.
After Ann Nolan, a California beat cop, adopts
the daughter of a notorious drug dealer, the
ruthless father vows to take back his only child. Ann flees across the country, changes her name
and begins a new life. But it soon becomes
clear that she has escaped one dangerous
man only to run head-on into another—one who's far more
determined and every bit as deadly. Unabridged. 640 min.
• Order # T3101
660 min.
• Order # T2896
THE 8th CONFESSION
by James Patterson.
Detective Lindsay Boxer, of the San
Francisco police department, is searching for
a killer who's knocking off the well-to-do
without leaving any signs of violence on the
bodies. Unabridged. 420 min.
FIRST FAMILY
by David Baldacci.
When the president's niece, 12-year-old
Willa, is kidnapped, the first lady brings in
Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to help find
her. Unknown to the PIs, the motive behind
the abduction has the potential to shake the
presidency to the core. Unabridged. 870 min.
• Order # T3098
• Order # T3091
MEDUSA
by Clive Cussler.
Mysterious undersea events lead Kurt Austin and
the NUMA team to discover a hideous series
of medical experiments, an extraordinarily
ambitious Chinese criminal organization, and
a secret new virus that threatens to set off a
world-wide pandemic. Unabridged. 810 min.
• Order # T3074
THRILLER 2: STORIES
YOU JUST CAN'T PUT DOWN
by Clive Cussler.
From Jeffery Deaver's tale of international
terrorism to Lisa Jackson's dysfunctional
family in the California wine country to
Ridley Pearson's horrifying serial killer, this
collection has something for everyone. Unabridged. 877 min.
• Order # T3075
VANISHING ACT
by Thomas Perry.
Jane Whitefield, a Native American guide
who secretly provides sanctuary to fugitives
seeking new identities, helps John Felker,
who draws her into a dangerous world where
she must use the knowledge of her ancestors
to escape. Unabridged. 630 min.
• Order # T3400
THE ASSOCIATE
by John Grisham.
Three months after leaving Yale, Kyle
McAvoy becomes an associate at the largest
law firm in the world, where, in addition to
practicing law, he is expected to lie, steal, and
take part in a scheme that could send him to
prison, if not get him killed. Unabridged. MATTERS OF THE HEART
by Danielle Steel.
In a spellbinding blend of suspense and
human drama, Danielle Steel tells a powerful
and unusual story of one woman’s journey
from darkness into light, as she fights to
escape a mesmerizing sociopath who holds
her in his thrall. Unabridged. 608 min.
• Order # T3077
BURN
by Linda Howard.
When Jenner Redwine wins the lottery, she
finds herself alienated from everything she
knew. When she agrees to go on a charity
cruise with her best friend Syd Hazlett, she
thinks it'll be the perfect escape. Onboard
the Silver Mist, however, Syd is kidnapped by
a mysterious group, and her only shot at safety is going along
with the plan of her mysterious captor Cael Traylor. Unabridged. 780 min.
• Order # T3114
STORM CYCLE
by Iris Johansen.
Rachel Kirby's sister is dying of a rare chronic
disease. Thousands of miles away, a
discovery—that humankind has been seeking
throughout history—may save her sister's life
and many thousands more. But a powerful
organization is also in hot pursuit, led by a
man who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Unabridged. 628 min.
• Order # T3155
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Fiction
HENDERSON THE RAIN KING
by Saul Bellow.
Saul Bellow's glorious, spirited story of an
eccentric American millionaire who finds a
home of sorts in deepest Africa. Unabridged. 851 min.
DAY OF ATONEMENT
by Faye Kellerman.
Peter Decker of the L.A.P.D. never dreamed
he'd be spending his honeymoon with his
new wife, Rina Lazarus, in an Orthodox
Jewish enclave in Brooklyn, New York—or
that a terrible event would end it so abruptly. Unabridged. 690 min.
THE DEVIL'S PUNCHBOWL
by Greg Iles.
Penn Cage now mayor of Natchez, Mississippi,
battles to save his hometown, his family and
his true love from the evil clutches of a pair
of homicidal casino operators who are being
protected by a homeland security bigwig. Unabridged. 1454 min.
• Order # T3322
• Order # T2882
THE KALAHARI
TYPING SCHOOL FOR MEN
by Alexander McCall Smith.
Precious Ramotswe's comfortable existence as
the only detective in Botswana is suddenly
rattled when the Satisfaction Guaranteed
Detective Agency opens, and its brochure
proclaims, "Don't take any chances! Entrust
your enquiries to a MAN!" But with wisdom on her side, Mma
Ramotswe figures to upstage her competition. Unabridged. 435 min.
• Order # T3347
THE MONSTER IN THE BOX
by Ruth Rendell.
In this enthralling new book, Ruth Rendell
takes Inspector Wexford back to his days as a
young policeman, and to the man he has
long suspected of murder—serial murder. Unabridged. 600 min.
• Order # T3115
• Order # T3116
SISTER CARRIE
by Theodore Dreiser.
Carrie Meeber leaves her home in rural
Wisconsin for big-city life in Chicago, and
faces a series of struggles—professional,
moral, and romantic—before achieving
success in the New York theater scene. Unabridged. 1110 min.
• Order # T2903
RAIN GODS
by James Lee Burke.
In a heat-cracked border town, the bodies of
nine illegal aliens—women and girls, killed
execution-style—are unearthed in a shallow
grave. Haunted by a past he can’t shake and
his own private demons, sheriff Hack
attempts to untangle the grisly case, which
may lead to more bloodshed. Unabridged. 780 min.
• Order # T3156
• Order # T3325
EXECUTION DOCK
by Anne Perry.
Detective William Monk has barely settled
into his new position as superintendent of
the Thames River Police when he witnesses a
young couple fall to their deaths from
Waterloo Bridge. Was it suicide, accident or
murder? Unabridged. 780 min.
BLACK HILLS
by Nora Roberts.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora
Roberts takes readers deep into the rugged
Black Hills of South Dakota, where the
shadows keep secrets, hunters stalk the land,
and a childhood friendship matures into an
adult passion. Unabridged. 1022 min.
• Order # T3152
• Order # T2967
TAKE FOUR
by Karen Kingsbury.
The Above the Line Series follows two
dedicated Hollywood producers as they seek
to transform the culture through the power of
film. Unabridged. 690 min.
• Order # T3502
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FORD COUNTY
by John Grisham.
In his first collection of short stories, John
Grisham takes us back to Ford County,
Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A
Time to Kill. Unabridged. 510 min.
Audio/Video Catalog
Audio: CD
Fiction
THE GIRL WHO KICKED
THE HORNET'S NEST
by Stieg Larsson.
Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition, a
bullet wound to her head, in the intensive
care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s
fighting for her life in more ways than one: if
and when she recovers, she’ll be taken back to
Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. Unabridged. 1230 min.
• Order # T3488
MAN RIDING WEST / GRUB LINE
RIDER / DOWN THE POGONIP TRAIL
by Louis L'Amour.
Jim Gary had always tried to avoid trouble, but
after he is forced to kill a Mexican gunman
in a cantina showdown, trouble seems to seek
him out. A shoot-out with the gunman’s
vengeful outlaw buddies sends Jim on the run
with an unwanted reputation as a dangerous gunslinger. Unabridged. 180 min.
• Order # T3472
CONFESSIONAL
by Jack Higgins.
For more than twenty years Cuchulain has
created chaos, fear and disorder in Ireland by
hitting counter-productive targets on both
sides of the border, making fools of British
Intelligence and the IRA. Hunted by the
combined forces of British Intelligence, the
IRA and the KGB who now regard him as an expendable
embarrassment, Cuchulain prepares to hit the most counterproductive target of all time. Unabridged. 518 min.
• Order # T3515
BETRAYED
by Robert K. Tanenbaum.
From the dark fantasies of a sexual underworld to the darkest realities of a terrorist
conspirator, New York Times bestselling
author Robert K. Tanenbaum draws District
Attorney Butch Karp deep into a combustible
courtroom game of politics, power, lies, and
murder. Unabridged. 794 min.
• Order # T3503
LAST NIGHT ON TWISTED RIVER
by John Irving.
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and
sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire,
an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the
local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both
the twelve-year-old and his father become
fugitives, forced to run from Coos County—
to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto—pursued by the
implacable constable. Unabridged. 1470 min.
EDGE OF APOCALYPSE
by Tim LaHaye & Craig Parshall.
From Tim LaHaye, creator and coauthor of
the world-renowned Left Behind Series, and
Craig Parshall comes an epic story ripped
from the headlines of world events and
filtered through Scriptural prophecy. Unabridged. 660 min.
• Order # T3489
• Order # T3363
RESOLUTION
by Robert B. Parker.
The New York Times–bestselling author’s
richly imagined work of historical fiction: a powerful tale of the Old West from the
acknowledged master of crime fiction. Unabridged. 270 min.
SIZZLING SIXTEEN
by Janet Evanovich.
Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter
Stephanie Plum has inherited a “lucky”
bottle from her Uncle Pip. Problem is, Uncle
Pip didn’t specify if the bottle brought good
luck or bad luck. Unabridged. 420 min.
• Order # T3500
THE VISION
by Dean Koontz.
Mary Bergen, a gifted clairvoyant, uses her
psychic ability and haunting visions to help
the police solve crimes both past and present
while feeling powerless to stop the murders,
until she envisions her own death. Unabridged. 441 min.
• Order # T3528
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• Order # T3482
THE BLACK ROCK COFFIN
MAKERS / A MULE FOR SANTA FE
/ CASE CLOSED-NO PRISONERS
by Louis L'Amour.
Cattleman Jum Gatlin isn't the kind of man
who goes looking for a fight. But he never
turns away when one comes looking for him.
And that's just what happens when he finds
himself mistaken for another man - a man who has some very
dangerous enemies. 180 min.
• Order # T3473
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Fiction
• Order # T3348
THE KILLER FROM THE PECOS /
LIT A SHUCK FOR TEXAS / THE
TURKEYFEATHER RIDERS
by Louis L'Amour.
Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie rides into the
wild town of Almagre trailing a Pecos bank
robber who has left two men dead. All
Bowdrie has to go on is an unconvincing
eyewitness description, a name scrawled on a tattered post card,
and his own skills as a master tracker. 180 min.
• Order # T3474
ENDER'S GAME
by Orson Scott Card.
Aliens have attacked Earth twice and almost
destroyed the human species. To make sure
humans win the next encounter, the world
government has taken to breeding military
geniuses -- and then training them in the arts
of war. The early training, not surprisingly,
takes the form of 'games'... Ender Wiggin is a genius among
geniuses; he wins all the games. But is he smart enough to save
the planet? Unabridged. 180 min.
• Order # T3269
THE VINTAGE CAPER
by Peter Mayle.
When a hot-shot Hollywood lawyer's most
treasured and expensive wines are stolen, his
insurance company calls in Sam Levitt, a
gourmand and lawyer-of-all-trades with a
varied background, to investigate. Unabridged. 420 min.
• Order # T3293
THE SCARPETTA FACTOR
by Patricia Cornwell.
Senior forensic analyst for CNN—Kay
Scarpetta is probing the murder of a Central
Park jogger as well as looking into the
disappearance of Hannah Starr, a wealthy
financial planner. Quizzed on-air about
previously undisclosed details of the
perplexing Starr case, Scarpetta realizes that the tentacles of the
case reach further than she imagined. Unabridged. 870 min.
• Order # T3290
INVISIBLE
by Paul Auster.
In the spring of 1967 in New York City,
twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring
poet and student at Columbia University,
meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rydolf Born
and his silent and seductive girlfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a
perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence
that will alter the course of his life. Unabridged. 360 min.
• Order # T3388
THE PROFESSIONAL
by Robert B. Parker.
Spenser agrees to help a quartet of married
women fend off extortion demands from
stud Gary Eisenhower, with whom each has
had an affair. But when women start turning
up dead, Spenser's case goes from blackmail
to murder. Unabridged. 330 min.
• Order # T3270
UP IN THE AIR
by Walter Kirn.
Sick of his job as a "Career Transition Counselor"
(he fires people), Ryan Bingham gives himself
six days to rack up the last of his million
frequent flyer miles while still on the company
dime. But every time Bingham descends from
what he affectionately calls "Airworld," he hits
the real turbulence: a runaway sister, a very un-PC boss and a
possible stalker whom he once helped fire. Unabridged. 180 min.
• Order # T3386
TRUE BLUE
by David Baldacci.
A mysterious high-profile homicide in the
nation's capital collides with the dark side of
national security in David Baldacci's new,
heart-stopping thriller. Unabridged. 840
min.
• Order # T3287
WHITEFIRE
by Fern Michaels.
Sixteenth-century Russia during the reign of
Ivan the Terrible is an age of unspeakable
savagery and unbridled passion. Here, in a
land torn by violence, a man and a woman
will journey to the limits of bitter hatred and
white-hot ecstasy. Unabridged. 840 min.
• Order # T3387
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A CHRISTMAS BLIZZARD
by Garrison Keillor.
Keillor returns to the snowy Midwest to
deliver a Dickensian tale of Chicago yuppies
James and Joyce Sparrow, who venture to
Looseleaf, N. D., to see James's dying uncle,
braving a deadly blizzard and equally deadly
small town eccentrics. Unabridged. 360 min.
Audio/Video Catalog
Audio: CD
Non-Fiction
EVERY OTHER MONDAY:
TWENTY YEARS OF LIFE, LUNCH,
FAITH, AND FRIENDSHIP
by John Kasich.
Every Other Monday is an honest look at how
to build faith and find solace, even during
the most heartbreaking circumstances, and
offers a template for reconsidering how we
make everyday choices as well as life-changing decisions. Unabridged. 390 min.
• Order # T3564
WOMEN, FOOD, AND GOD
by Geneen Roth.
Packed with revelations on every page, this
book is a knock-your-socks-off ride to a
deeply fulfilling relationship with food, your
body...and almost everything else. Women,
Food and God is, quite simply, a guide for
life. Unabridged. 120 min.
• Order # T3523
THE BIG SHORT
by Michael Lewis.
Much of what caused the recent financial
crisis is buried in complicated financial
transactions and shady accounting practices.
This book does an outstanding job of
demystifying the schemes that led to the
meltdown. Unabridged. 600 min.
• Order # T3524
THE LAST STAND
by Nathaniel Philbrick.
The Battle of Little Bighorn is one of the
most potent and embattled episodes in
American history. Nathaniel Philbrick brings
new evidence to bear as he moves through
layers of fact and myth to find the truth
about one of the iconic moments in our
history: that there were two Last Stands enacted on that
bloody battlefield. Unabridged. 720 min.
• Order # T3483
THE WILDERNESS WARRIOR:
THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND
THE CRUSADE FOR AMERICA
by Douglas Brinkley.
A groundbreaking and epic biography
of President Theodore Roosevelt and
his environmental legacy. Unabridged. 2430 min.
• Order # T3481
THE YOUTH PILL: SCIENTISTS
AT THE BRINK OF AN
ANTI-AGING REVOLUTION
by David Stipp.
This is an informative and provocative book
that shows how a small group of optimistic
and determined scientists are closing in on
drugs that will change the way we live forever. Unabridged. 660 min.
• Order # T3556
WIN FOREVER: LIVE, WORK,
AND PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION
by Pete Carroll.
Pete Carroll is one of the most successful
coaches in football today. Now he has
returned to the NFL to coach the Seattle
Seahawks. But Win Forever is about more
than winning football games; it's about
maximizing your potential in every aspect of your life. 240
min.
• Order # T3525
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EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
by S. C. Gwynne.
S. C. Gwynne presents a stunningly vivid
historical account of the forty-year battle
between Comanche Indians and white
settlers for control of the American West,
centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche
chief of them all. Unabridged. 900 min.
• Order # T3557
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Non-Fiction
• Order # T3522
WAR
by Sebastian Junger.
Sebastian Junger's on-the-ground account
follows a single platoon through a 15-month
tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost
in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. Through
the experiences of these young men at war,
he shows what it means to fight, to serve,
and to face down mortal danger on a regular basis. Unabridged. 450 min.
CHASING GOLDMAN SACHS
by Suzanne McGee.
Veteran Wall Street journalist Suzanne
McGee explores why the Wall Street
implosion happened—and why it could
happen again. Unabridged. 840 min.
• Order # T3521
NPR CLASSIC
DRIVEWAY MOMENTS
by National Public Radio.
Presented together for the first time, here are
the very first, and very best, definitive
listener favorites that came to be known as
Driveway Moments: the classic, spellbinding
stories that keep getting better with repeated
listening, selected from the National Public Radio archives. 120 min.
• Order # T3459
• Order # T3526
FOUR FISH: THE FUTURE
OF THE LAST WILD FOOD
by Paul Greenberg.
By examining the forces that get fish to our
dinner tables, Paul Greenberg shows how we
can start to heal the oceans and fight for a
world where healthy and sustainable seafood
is the rule rather than the exception. Unabridged. 531 min.
CHARLES AND EMMA:
THE DARWINS' LEAP OF FAITH
by Deborah Heiligman.
This biography of Charles Darwin takes a
personal look at the man behind evolutionary
theory. What emerges is a portrait of a
brilliant man, a radical science, and a great
love. Unabridged. 458 min.
• Order # T3509
• Order # T3527
ALMOST ASTRONAUTS
by Tanya Lee Stone.
Did you know that nearly twenty years
before the first women were let into NASA’s
astronaut program, there were others who
tried? Here is the tale of thirteen women
who proved that they were as tough as any
man but also that they were brave enough
to challenge the government. Unabridged. 222 min.
THE TIGER
by John Vaillant.
This ancient, tenuous relationship between
man and predator is at the very heart of this
remarkable audiobook. It is a gripping tale
of man and nature that leads inexorably to a
final showdown in a clearing deep in the
taiga. Unabridged. 720 min.
• Order # T3566
• Order # T3531
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THE NEW GOOD LIFE
by John Robbins.
Here is everything you need to develop
high-joy, low-cost solutions to life's challenges. Practical and timely, this book equips
you with the skills needed not only to survive
but to thrive in these challenging times. Unabridged. 720 min.
Video: DVD
Kids
Audio/Video Catalog
GOOSEBUMPS: CHILLOGY
Lured to a strange toy town by an eerie character
named "Karl," children become strange versions of
their former selves, and their dreams become
nightmares. Animated. (1998) Not Rated. 66 min.
• Order # V5241
GOOSEBUMPS:
ONE DAY AT HORRORLAND
On their way to Zoo Gardens Theme Park, the
Morris family stumbles upon another amusement
park, Horrorland. It seems like a pretty cool place! But the Morris family is about to discover that
Horrorland has some very scary attractions. (2005) Not Rated. 44 min.
GOOSEBUMPS:
HOW I GOT MY SHRUNKEN HEAD
Aunt Benna has sent Mark a shrunken head,
and he can't wait to show the kids at school! But late one night the head starts to glow. Because it's actually no ordinary head. It gives
Mark a strange power. A magical power. A
dangerous power. (2005) Not Rated. 44 min.
• Order # V5247
GOOSEBUMPS:
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DUMMY
Amy's ventriloquist dummy, Dennis, keeps
losing his head, literally. When her dad brings
her a new dummy called Slappy, a series of
strange pranks begin to happen. (2010) Not
Rated. 44 min.
• Order # V5242
GOOSEBUMPS: SCARY HOUSE
The Danger Club is a club for brave people. To
become a member, Chris Wakely has to spend
an entire hour alone in the Willow Hill House,
the spookiest, most haunted house in the
neighborhood! (2010) Not Rated. 174 min.
• Order # V5248
WE'RE BACK! A DINOSAUR'S STORY
Join Rex, Woog, Elsa and Dweeb as they
time-travel to New York City to meet their
biggest fans—modern day kids—and make all
of their wildest dreams come true. Animated. (2009) G. 72 min.
• Order # V5243
GOOSEBUMPS: DEEP TROUBLE
Billy and Sheena are visiting their Uncle who is
a marine biologist. While exploring the beach,
Billy finds a giant sharks tooth which causes his
Uncle to panic. He bans them from the beach
but Billy can't resist. An unwise move. (2005) Not Rated. 44 min.
• Order # V5251
• Order # V5244
GOOSEBUMPS:
IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SINK
Kat and her brother, Daniel, have just moved into
a new house and all is going well. However, that
is about to change, when Kat finds a strange
sponge under the kitchen sink, a sponge that has
eyes and fangs, and bad things happen whenever
it's around. (2007) Not Rated. 44 min.
• Order # V5270
• Order # V5245
GOOSEBUMPS: PERFECT SCHOOL
Brian's parents just won't settle for anything
less than perfect, so they send him away to the
"Perfect School." The grounds are pristine, the
hallways are spotless, and the students that
graduate really are perfect. Maybe a little too
perfect. (2006) Not Rated. 43 min.
• Order # V5246
PEANUTS 1970's COLLECTION
VOLUME 1
Six remastered Peanuts TV specials from the
1970's available together for the first time! Animated. (2010) G. 174 min.
• Order # V5266
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MIST:
SHEEPDOG TALES - THE ROUND UP
Mist may no longer be a puppy, but she still has
much to learn about life as a Borough farm
sheepdog. But with Swift, Ernie, Jake, Fern and
her Mother Gail around, Mist has all of the help
she needs to cope with the host of animals that
live at Borough farm. (2009) Not Rated. 66 min.
1-800-426-READ
SHELLEY DUVALL'S
FAERIE TALE THEATRE
w/Shelley Duvall.
Talking bears, sleeping giants, handsome princes,
evil fairies and more fill this 4-episode collection
from the award-winning series. Not Rated. 207 min.
• Order # V5271
SHELLEY DUVALL'S
FAERIE TALE THEATRE
Evil magicians, cursed princes, fierce orgres,
wicked queens and more fill this 4-episode
collection from the award-winning series. Not Rated. 201 min.
• Order # V5272
Kids
TINKER BELL AND THE
LOST TREASURE
Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure is a remarkable
tale about the power of true friendship that your
family will want to enjoy over and over again! Animated. (2009) G. 80 min.
• Order # V5286
• Order # V5277
SUPER WHY: JACK AND THE
BEANSTALK AND OTHER
FAIRYTALE ADVENTURES
Reading is power and Super WHY! helps kids
learn the fundamentals of reading through
interactive story book adventures! Animated. (2009) Not Rated. 100 min.
THE ANIMATED KID'S BIBLE #1:
CREATION
God created the world in six days, the heavens
and the earth and every living thing, including
Adam, who lives in the Garden of Eden. When
God creates Eve from Adam's rib as a companion
for Adam, he warns Adam and Eve about the
Tree of Knowledge, and to never eat its fruit. (2009) Not Rated. 40 min.
• Order # V5291
MATILDA
w/Marr Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rhea Pearlman.
See the world from a kid's-eye view with Matilda,
a modern fairy tale that mixes hilarious humor
with the magical message of love. (2005) PG. 98 min.
• Order # V5278
THE ANIMATED KID'S BIBLE #2:
VOYAGE OF THE ARK
Mankind has become corrupt, and God decides
to wipe evil from the earth with a mighty flood.
There is only one good family left to save, God
tells Noah to build an ark and take two of every
animal. (2009) Not Rated. 40 min.
• Order # V5292
STORYTELLERS' FAVORITE FABLES
w/Diane Ferlatte.
Your child will be delighted imagining the characters
and places of the fables, creating a different
experience every time your child participates
along with the audience. Not Rated. 62 min.
• Order # V5279
THE ANIMATED KID'S BIBLE #3:
TOWERING PRIDE AND TRUE LIES
Long after the flood, Noah's family spreads out
into new nations, and the become arrogant and
powerful. They decide to challenge God by
building a towering city that will reach to the
heavens. God teaches them a lesson by causing
everyone to speak an unknown language. (2009) Not Rated. 40 min.
• Order # V5295
FREE WILLY
w/Jason James Richter.
The story of a troubled boy and the captive Orca
whale he befriends. These two form a special
bond...one so strong that they're willing to risk
it all to find a way home! (2003) PG. 112 min.
• Order # V5296
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HARRY POTTER AND THE
HALF-BLOOD PRINCE
w/Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson.
Harry Potter and his friends struggle to keep
Lord Voldemort away from Hogwarts while also
learning how to handle new friendships and
romance. (2009) PG. 153 min.
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE:
FUN IN THE SUN
Join Little Miss Sunshine and all her Dillydale
friends as they explore the world of science,
wildlife and excitement on the beach. Animated. (2009) TV-G. 69 min.
• Order # V5284
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MR. TICKLE:
TICKLE TIME AROUND TOWN!
Join Mr. Tickle and all his friends as they explore
the world of farms, malls, and sightseeing along
with some fun and zany hijinks. Animated. (2009) TV-G. 69 min.
• Order # V5285
SNOW WHITE AND
THE SEVEN DWARFS
Join the beautiful princess Snow White as she
escapes her jealous stepmother, the queen, and
befriends a lovable group of dwarfs. But when
she falls under the queens wicked spell, only true
loves kiss can save her. Animated. (2009) G. 84 min.
• Order # V5305
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ICE AGE:
DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS
Manny and the herd discover a lost world of
ferociously funny dinosaurs, including a cranky
T. Rex who's got a score to settle with Sid! Animated. (2009) PG. 94 min.
Video: DVD
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ALIENS IN THE ATTIC
w/ Ashley Tisdale, Robert Hoffman.
It's summer vacation, but the Pearson family
kids are stuck at a boring lake house with their
nerdy parents. That is until feisty, little green
aliens crash-land on the roof, with plans to
conquer the house and Earth! (2009) PG. 86 min.
UP
Up follows the uplifting tale of 78-year-old
balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen, who finally
fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure
when he ties thousands of balloons to his house
and flies away to the wilds of South America. Animated. (2009) PG. 96 min.
• Order # V5314
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WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN:
HEROES RETURN TRILOGY (Vol. 1)
Wolverine must reunite the X-Men to prevent a
horrible vision of the future. (2004) PG/G. 68
min.
THE BARBIE DIARIES
It’s a new school year and Barbie is hoping this
year will be a little less ordinary. With a special
diary and charm bracelet suddenly Barbie finds
the courage to truly be herself, and exciting
things start happening! Animated. (2006) Not
Rated. 70 min.
• Order # V5318
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WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN:
DEADLY ENEMIES (Vol 2)
Wolverine and the X-Men continue their fight
to prevent an unspeakable future as menacing
opponents await. Animated. (2009) Not
Rated. 113 min.
BEN 10: ALIEN SWARM
w/Ryan Kelley.
Our world is threatened with an imminent
invasion from a swarming alien menace. And
there is only one hero brave enough, smart
enough and tough enough to fight back - Ben
Tennyson! (2009) TV-PG. 74 min.
• Order # V5340
WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN:
BEGINNING OF THE END (Vol 3)
Wolverine and the X-Men fight to stay alive as
sinister forces usher in the beginning of the end. Animated. (2008) Not Rated. 110 min.
• Order # V5334
THE ADVENTURES OF
TOM THUMB & THUMBELINA
Bursting with delightful songs and humor, this
heartwarming story of courage and friendship is
perfect entertainment for the whole family. Animated. (2004) G. 75 min.
• Order # V5315
WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE:
THE MOVIE
w/Selena Gomez, David Henrie, Jake T. Austin.
Embark on a exciting adventure as the Russos, a
family of wizards-in-training, join together on a
quest full of heart-stopping action and hilarious
magical mishaps! (2009) TV-G. 98 min.
• Order # V5336
9
A scientist gives the spark of life to nine of his
creations. The world has turned into an
unrecognizable landscape of machines and spare
parts, but this group of nine finds that if they
band together, their small community might
just be able to change the course of history. Animated. (2009) PG-13. 80 min.
• Order # V5320
G-FORCE
Just as the G-Force — an elite team of highly
trained guinea pigs — is about to save the world,
the F.B.I. shuts the secret unit down. But these
next-generation action heroes won’t be stopped. Animated. (2009) PG. 88 min.
• Order # V5321
RUNNING FREE
w/Chase Moore.
Running Free is the adventurous, inspiring story
of a remarkable friendship between a boy and an
abandoned young colt named Lucky. (2000) G. 88 min.
• Order # V5322
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THE ADVENTURES OF
BULLWHIP GRIFFIN
w/Roddy McDowall, Suzanne Pleshette,
Karl Malden.
To restore his family's lost wealth, a young
Boston lad stows away on a ship bound for the
California Gold Rush. When their very proper
butler gives chase, all roads lead to nonstop
adventure. (1967) Not Rated. 110 min.
• Order # V4904
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• Order # V5339
SHORTS
w/Kat Dennings, Leslie Mann.
A young boy living in a cookie-cutter suburb
gets hit on the head with a rainbow-colored rock
that grants wishes to anyone who holds it. (2009) PG. 89 min.
• Order # V5338
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
w/Max Records.
Nine-year-old Max runs away from home and sails
across the sea to become king of a wondrous realm
of gigantic fuzzy monsters—but being king may
not be a carefree as it looks! (2004) PG. 101 min.
• Order # V5364
HANNAH MONTANA:
MILEY SAYS GOODBYE?
w/Miley Cyrus.
Watch as Miley struggles with her biggest decision
yet! Will she leave her rock-star life in Malibu to
return home to her Tennessee roots to be with her
favorite horse, Blue Jeans? (2010) TV-G. 135 min.
• Order # V5371
HOT POPPIN' POPCORN
w/The Wiggles.
Step right up and join the fun as Ringmaster
Anthony leads the Wiggly Circus! (2010) Not
Rated. 61 min.
• Order # V5355
ASTRO BOY
Asto Boy has super strength, x-ray vision,
incredible speed and the ability to fly. But what
he really wants is to know where he belongs. Animated. (2009) PG. 94 min.
• Order # V5367
MY FRIEND RABBIT:
BETTER TOGETHER
Based on the Caldecott Gold Medal award-winning
kids' book, My Friend Rabbit chronicles the
adventures of Rabbit, his best friend Mouse, and
a group of other colorful characters from across
the animal kingdom. (2008) Not Rated. 66 min.
• Order # V5359
LEGALLY BLONDES
w/Milly Rosso, Becky Rosso.
Elle Woods' English cousins must use their wits
and charm to survive at their new Los Angeles
prep school. (2008) PG. 174 min.
• Order # V5010
VEGGIE TALES: PISTACHIO
Once upon a time, a lonely toymaker decided to
carve a little boy out of wood. Imagine his surprise
when he learned that this little toy boy could
walk and talk, and definitely had a mind of his
own! Animated. (2010) Not Rated. 50 min.
• Order # V5361
PONYO
Legendary filmmaker John Lasseter together
with Disney bring to life a heartwarming and
imaginative telling of Hans Christian Andersen's
classic fairy tale The Little Mermaid. Animated. (2010) G. 103 min.
OLIVIA TAKES BALLET
Olivia needs a partner to perform a ballet
routine in front of the class. Then, a duck and
her ducklings follow Olivia and Ian home from
the park! Animated. (2010) Not Rated. 95 min.
• Order # V5368
THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG
Discover what really happened after the princess
kissed the frog in an inspired twist on the world's
most famous kiss. Animated. (2010) G. 98 min.
• Order # V5370
FANTASTIC MR. FOX
Mr. Fox is up to his sneaky old ways and plots the
greatest chicken heist the animal world has ever seen. Animated. (2009) PG. 87 min.
• Order # V5378
ELMO'S WORLD LET'S PLAY MUSIC
Drum roll please! It will be music to your ears when
Elmo learns all about drums, bells, and violins. (2004) Not Rated. 52 min.
• Order # V5379
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CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE
OF MEATBALLS
Scientist, Flint Lockwood's latest contraption is a
miraculous device designed to solve the world
hunger crisis. But when Flint bites off more than
he can chew, he sets in motion a global disaster of
epic proportions. Animated. (2009) PG. 90 min.
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MARMADUKE
w/Owen Wilson, George Lopez.
When Marmaduke moves to a new neighborhood
with his family, the super-sized dog soon discovers
he just doesn't fit in—literally! (2010) PG. 88 min.
TOOTH FAIRY
w/Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
Derek Thompson is one of the toughest hockey
players around—until he's sentenced to one
week's hard labor as the world's most unlikely
tooth fairy! (2009) PG. 101 min.
• Order # V5456
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TOY STORY
When the toy rivals are separated from their
owner, they ultimately learn to put aside their
differences and work as a team to get back home
to the boy they love. Animated. (2010) G. 81
min.
THE MADELINE MOVIE: LOST IN PARIS
When her long-lost Uncle Horst appears to take
her away to Vienna, orphan Madeline thinks that
she's finally found her family. But Madeline
soon discovers that Horst is an impostor and
part of a plot to run a factory with orphaned
children. Animated. (2010) TV-G. 75 min.
• Order # V5406
• Order # V5398
TOY STORY 2
Enter Disney/Pixar's incredible world with
Woody, Buzz, Jessie and Bullseye in the movie
that shows us what being a toy, and a friend, is
all about. Animated. (2009) G. 92 min.
BEAR'S MASTERPIECE
Kangaroo's mail train is rushing toward a
broken train track! Bear, Frog and their
WordFriends must rush—on a tiny tricycle—to
help fix the track! Will they make it in time to
save KANGAROO? Animated. (2010) Not
Rated. 60 min.
• Order # V5414
PLANET 51
When Chuck the astronaut lands on a distant
planet filled with little green people, he gets the
shock of his life when the residents of Planet 51
mistakenly believe that his presence is the start of
an alien invasion of the human kind! Animated. (2010) PG. 91 min.
• Order # V5397
LOONEY TUNES:
SPOTLIGHT COLLECTION 7
A collection of remastered and restored classic
Looney Tunes cartoons. (2009) Not Rated. 180 min.
• Order # V5412
BANDSLAM
w/Aly Michalka, Vanessa Hudgens,
Gaelan Connell, Lisa Kudrow.
A new kid in town assembles a fledgling rock
band—together, they achieve their dreams and
compete against the best in the biggest event of the
year, a battle of the bands. (2009) PG. 111 min.
• Order # V5258
FLICKA 2
w/Patrick Warburton, Tammin Sursok,
Clint Black.
Flicka 2 is a thrilling story of the special bond
between one girl and the mustang no one could
tame. (2010) G. 96 min.
• Order # V5410
MIGHTY MACHINES: REVVVED UP!
Revvved Up! brings you 3 soaring adventures
including: Building an Airplane; Ride the
Mountain Rails; and Reach for the Sky! (2010) Not Rated. 90 min.
• Order # V5405
REDWALL: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS
Redwall Abbey is the home of gentle mice, voles,
otters, and badgers. As the inhabitants prepare
for the great Jubilee Feast danger stalks the
peaceful world of Redwall; the rats have arrived
at the Abbey walls! Animated. (2010) Not Rated. 132 min.
• Order # V5416
THE KARATE KID
w/Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan.
A young boy moves to a new place where he
feels isolated and is bullied by his peers.
Through an unlikely relationship with an adult,
the boy not only learns to protect himself
through martial arts, but develops the much
more important qualities of respect and the
mastery of one's own mind and body. (2010) PG. 140 min.
• Order # V5471
• Order # V5401
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• Order # V5012
FANBOYS
w/Jay Baruchel, Dan Foger, Sam Huntington.
Four childhood buddies with a shared love of all
things Star Wars reunite for one final, hilarious
odyssey. Their insane plan: a cross-country road
trip to storm George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch
and steal a copy of Episode I before it's released. (2008) PG-13. 90 min.
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN
w/Ben Stiller.
Larry Daley is a former night watchman at the
Museum of Natural History, where the exhibits
come to life after dark. But now Larry’s nocturnal
friends are being retired to the archives of the
Smithsonian Institution, luring him back for a hilarious, battle
against museum misfits who plan to take over the Smithsonian...
and the world! (2009) PG. 105 min.
• Order # V5304
THE MILL ON THE FLOSS
w/Emily Watson.
As her family endures financial hardship, Maggie
Tulliver finds herself torn by love—for her
struggling father; her headstrong brother, Tom;
her childhood friend, Philip; and her cousin
Lucy's fiancé. (2008) Not Rated. 112 min.
• Order # V5024
TRANSFORMERS:
REVENGE OF THE FALLEN
w/Shia Labeouf, Megan Fox.
Deception forces return to Earth on a mission to
take Sam Witwicky prisoner, after the young
hero learns the truth about the ancient origins
of the Transformers. (2009) PG-13. 149 min.
• Order # V5267
TERMINATOR: SALVATION
w/Christian Bale, Sam Worthington.
In the aftermath of Judgment Day and the
takover by the machines, John Connor, the
destined leader of the human resistance, must
counter Skynet's devastating plan to terminate
mankind. (2009) PG-13. 115 min.
• Order # V5307
IS ANYBODY THERE?
w/Michael Caine.
Ten-year-old Edward lives in his family-run
retirement home. Edward leads an increasingly
lonely existence until he meets Clarence, a retired
magician and grieving widower. The two strike
up an unlikely friendship which helps them both
remember that magic is possible when life is lived to its fullest. (2009) PG-13. 94 min.
• Order # V5309
• Order # V5301
JULIE & JULIA
w/Meryl Streep, Amy Adams.
A culinary legend provides a frustrated office worker
with a new recipe for life in Julie & Julia, the true
stories of how Julia Child's life and cookbook
inspired fledgling writer Julie Powell to whip up
524 recipes in 365 days and introduce a new
generation to the magic of French cooking. (2009) PG-13. 123 min.
• Order # V5302
FOREVER STRONG
w/Gary Cole, Sean Faris, Penn Badgley, Sean Astin.
A stand-up-and-cheer movie about loyalty,
courage, and conviction, set amid the intense
and often fierce competition of championship
rugby. (2009) PG-13. 112 min.
• Order # V5303
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MY SISTER'S KEEPER
w/Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin.
Conceived to be a donor to her cancer-stricken
sister, eleven-year-old Anna decides to sue her
parents for emancipation. (2009) PG-13. 109 min.
• Order # V5311
TRANSYLVANIA 6-5000
w/Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, Ed Begley, Jr.
Two reporters set out to discover the secrets
of modern Transylvania and come up with a
sensational story to boost their paper's circulation. (2002) PG. 94 min.
• Order # V5313
STAR TREK
w/Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto.
When the Romulan Nero comes from the future
to take revenge on the Federation, rivals Kirk
and Spock must work together to stop him from
destroying everything they know. (2009) PG-13. 126 min.
• Order # V5312
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EYE OF THE DOLPHIN
w/Carly Schroeder, Adrian Dunbar.
The uplifting story of a troubled teenager coming
of age through the relationship with the father
she never knew, a local with sage advice, and
discovering a very special friend, a wild dolphin
named Rasca. (2007) PG-13. 102 min.
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GOAL II: LIVING THE DREAM
w/Kuno Becker, Alessandra Nivola, Anna Friel.
Santiago Munez is a small town kid who
continues to live his dream of becoming a
professional soccer player. When he is traded to
Real Madrid and must deal with the trials and
triumphs of playing on one of soccer's biggest
stages. (2009) Not Rated. 115 min.
• Order # V5308
G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA
w/Channing Tatum.
The G.I. Joe team travels the world from the
Egyptian desert to the polar ice caps in a high
stakes pursuit of Cobra, an evil international
organization threatening to use a technology
that could bring the world to its knees. (2009) PG-13. 117 min.
(500) DAYS OF SUMMER
w/Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel.
A young greeting card writer is hopelessly,
helplessly searching for the girl of his dreams...
and his new co-worker, Summer Finn, may just
be "the one." But the 500 days of their
relationship reveal that the road to happiness
can be unpredictable, uncontrollable and funny! (2009) PG-13. 95 min.
• Order # V5333
ANGELS & DEMONS
w/Tom Hanks.
Expert symbologist Robert Langdon pursues
ancient clues on a heart-racing hunt through
Rome to find the four Cardinals kidnapped by
the deadly secret society, the Illuminati. (2009) PG-13. 138 min.
• Order # V5316
• Order # V5335
I LOVE YOU, BETH COOPER
w/Hayden Panettiere, Paul Rust.
When Denis, the geekiest guy in high school,
proclaims his love for super-popular Beth Cooper,
during his valedictorian speech, everyone is
speechless! But the real shock comes that night
when Beth shows up at Denis’ house with her two
best friends to show him how the cool kids party. (2009) PG-13. 102 min.
• Order # V5317
POST GRAD
w/Alexis Bledel.
Ryden Malby has a master plan. Graduate
college, get a great job, hang out with her best
friend and find the perfect guy. But her plan
spins out of control when she's forced to move
back home with her eccentric family. (2009) PG-13. 88 min.
• Order # V5341
THE INVENTION OF LYING
w/Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Rob Lowe.
In a world where the human race has never
evolved the ability to lie, a man who suddenly
discovers how will change the world. With this
superpower, he can get anything he wants. Well,
nearly everything. (2009) PG-13. 99 min.
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
w/Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.
A Manhattan advertising executive is plunged
into a realm of spy and counterspy and variously
abducted, framed for murder, chased and in
another signature set piece, crop-dusted. (1959) Not Rated. 136 min.
• Order # V5342
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ALL ABOUT STEVE
w/Sandra Bullock, Bradley Cooper.
After going out on one date, an eccentric
crossword puzzle creator follows a news
cameraman across the country to convince him
that they belong together. (2009) PG-13. 99 min.
• Order # V5331
FOUR CHRISTMASES
w/Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon.
When their flight to an exotic vacation is
cancelled, a couple have no choice but to spend
Christmas with each of their divorced parents and
dysfunctional families. (2009) PG-13. 88 min.
WILD CHILD
w/Emma Roberts.
Sixteen-year-old Poppy is an spoiled LA teen
diva who finds herself shipped off to the one
place where everything will change: a British
boarding school. Desperate to break free, she
sets in motion the ultimate escape plan involving
the head mistress’ son – only to discover that this
could be the reason she wants to stay. (2008) PG-13. 99 min.
• Order # V5347
• Order # V5332
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COUPLES RETREAT
w/Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman,
Kristen Bell, Kristin Davis.
Vince Vaughn leads an all-star cast in the
laugh-out-loud comedy about eight friends
whose vacation in paradise is one they'll never
forget. (2010) PG-13. 113 min.
• Order # V5350
• Order # V5343
EVERYBODY'S FINE
w/Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore.
When Frank Goode's grown children cancel a
family reunion, the recent widower sets off on a
cross-country journey to reconnect with each of
them. (2010) PG-13. 100 min.
WHIP IT
w/Ellen Page, Marcia Gay Harden,
Drew Barrymore.
Tired of following in her family’s footsteps of
compliance and conformity, Bliss Cavendar
discovers a way to put her life on the fast track...
literally. She lands a spot on a rough-and-tumble
roller derby team and becomes “Babe Ruthless”
— the hottest thing on eight wheels! (2009) PG-13. 111 min.
• Order # V5358
THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE
w/Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams.
Artist Clare Abshire shares a deep emotional
bond with Henry De Tamble, a handsome
librarian who travels involuntarily through time. Knowing they can be separated without warning,
Clare and Henry treasure the moments they
have together. (2009) PG-13. 107 min.
• Order # V5344
SURROGATES
w/Bruce Willis.
In the not-so-distant future, where people
experience life through perfect surrogates
controlled from the safety of their own homes,
murder is a thing of the past. But when a college
student linked to the creator of these replicants
is killed, one FBI agent must re-enter reality and
risk his life to unravel the mystery. (2010) PG-13. 89 min.
• Order # V5351
COCO BEFORE CHANEL
w/Audrey Tautou.
Audrey Tautou shines in this intriguing portrait
of the early life of Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel,
the orphan who would build a fashion empire
and be known universally by her nickname,
Coco. (2009) PG-13. 110 min.
• Order # V5346
McLEOD'S DAUGHTERS
w/Jack Thompson, Kym Wilson, Tammy McIntosh.
Tess returns home to Drovers Run, a family-run
ranch in Australia’s outback, to reunite with her
estranged father Jack and half sister Claire. Although Tess and Claire have feuded in the past,
they must now work together to save the ranch
from bankruptcy. (2009) Not Rated. 94 min.
• Order # V5352
• Order # V5349
THE BOX
w/Cameron Diaz, James Marsden.
Norma and Arthur Lewis find a plainly wrapped
package on their doorstep. Inside is a strange
box with a large, red button—and if they press
that button, explains a courtly but alarminglooking gentleman, they will receive a million
dollars… but someone they don't know will die. (2009) PG-13. 116 min.
THE GRUDGE
w/Sarah Michelle Gellar.
When Karen, an American student working
with a Japanese health center for college credit,
comes across a mysterious curse, she quickly
finds herself embroiled in a fight for her own
sanity, and, ultimately, her very survival. (2009) PG-13. 91 min.
• Order # V5353
• Order # V5356
CARRIERS
w/Chris Pine, Lou Taylor Pucce.
Determined to escape a lethal virus, four teens
set out in search of an uncontaminated refuge,
only to discover that they are far more dangerous
to each other than the virus they are trying to
survive. (2009) PG-13. 84 min.
• Order # V5354
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FAME
w/Debbie Allen, Charles S. Dutton,
Kelsey Grammer, Megan Mullally.
Fame is the inspiring story of a group of dancers,
singers, musicians and actors at the New York
City High School of Performing Arts, and their
spirited drive to live out their dreams of stardom. (2010) PG. 107 min.
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CIRQUE DU FREAK:
THE VAMPIRE'S ASSISTANT
w/ Chris Massoglia.
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant tells the
story of a small-town teen who inadvertently
shatters a 200-year-old truce between warring
factions of vampires. (2010) PG-13. 109 min.
LOVE HAPPENS
w/Aaron Eckhart, Jennifer Aniston.
When self-help author Dr. Burke Ryan arrives in
Seattle to teach a sold-out seminar, he unexpectedly
meets florist Eloise Chandler, the one person who
might be able to help him help himself. (2009) PG. 109 min.
• Order # V5357
• Order # V5373
OLD DOGS
w/John Travolta, Robin Williams.
Two best friends have their lives turned upside
down when they're unexpectedly charged with
the care of seven-year-old twins while on the
verge of the biggest business deal of their lives. (2009) PG. 88 min.
ARMORED
w/Matt Dillon, Jean Reno, Laurence Fishburne.
A crew of officers at an armored transport security
firm risk their lives when they embark on the
ultimate heist...against their own company. (2010) PG-13. 88 min.
• Order # V5369
• Order # V5360
DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE MORGANS?
w/Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker.
Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker star in this
delightful comedy about finding love in the
most unexpected places. (2009) PG. 103 min.
HACHI: A DOG'S TALE
w/Richard Gere, Joan Allen.
Professor Parker Wilson, a distinguished scholar
discovers a lost Akita puppy on his way home
from work. Despite initial objections from
Wilson's wife, Cate, Hachi endears himself into
the Wilson family and grows to be Parker's loyal
companion. (2009) G. 93 min.
• Order # V5372
THE BOYS ARE BACK
w/Clive Owen.
Successful sportswriter Joe Warr finds himself
completely unprepared to raise his rambunctious
6-year-old son Artie—and juggle the challenges
of a demanding job, running a household and the
possibility of romance. (2010) PG-13. 104 min.
• Order # V5362
2012
w/John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet.
As the world faces a catastrophe of apocalyptic
proportions, cities collapse and continents
crumble. 2012 brings an end to the world and
tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors. (2009) PG-13. 158 min.
• Order # V5365
NEW MOON
w/Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattison,
Taylor Lautner.
In the second chapter of Stephenie Meyer’s
best-selling Twilight series, the romance between
mortal Bella Swan and vampire Edward Cullen
grows more intense as ancient secrets threaten to
destroy them. (2009) PG-13. 130 min.
• Order # V5376
THE BLIND SIDE
w/Sandra Bullock, Quinton Aaron.
This real-life story of family and of Michael Oher's
growth from a homeless teenager into a blue-chip
football star will have you cheering with its mix
of gridiron action and heartwarming emotion. (2010) PG-13. 128 min.
• Order # V5375
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• Order # V5377
SHERLOCK HOLMES
w/Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law.
The hangman did his job, Dr. Watson declared
the condemned man dead...yet Lord Blackwood
has emerged from the tomb to assert his deadly
will over 1890 London. Is he in league with the
forces of hell itself? Is the whole Empire in peril? It's a mystery macabre—and only Sherlock
Holmes can master it. (2009) PG-13. 128 min.
• Order # V5386
THE LOVELY BONES
w/Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz,
Susan Sarandon.
When 14-year-old Susie Salmon was murdered, she
left her unfinished life behind. But now from her
place in a strange but beautiful in-between world,
she must help her father catch her killer and protect
her family before she can finally move on. (2009) PG-13. 130 min.
• Order # V5394
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NINE
w/Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard,
Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, Fergie, Kate
Hudson, Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren.
A world famous film director reaches a creative
and personal crisis of epic proportion, while
balancing numerous women in his life. (2010) PG-13. 119 min.
• Order # V5384
AVATAR
w/Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana,
Sigourney Weaver.
Set in the far future, Jake Sully travels to Pandora,
a lush, jungle-covered extraterrestrial moon and
home to a sentient humanoid race, the Na'vi. The
10-foot tall, blue-skinned Na'vi fight when a human
corporation attempts to remove the indigenous
people from their native lands. (2009) PG-13. 162 min.
• Order # V5395
EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES
w/Brendan Fraser, Harrison Ford, Keri Russell.
Idealistic father John Crowley joins forces with
reclusive medical researcher Dr. Robert Stonehill. Together this unlikely pair face impossible odds as
they battle the entire medical establishment and
time itself to find a cure to save two children
before it's too late. (2010) PG. 106 min.
• Order # V5408
• Order # V5402
ACCORDING TO GRETA
w/Hilary Duff.
Greta is a rebellious 17-year-old who's trying to
figure out who she wants to be, or if she wants
to be, while grappling with an overwhelming
sense of inadequacy and a rocky family life. (2009) PG-13. 92 min.
• Order # V5389
VALENTINE'S DAY
w/Jessica Alba, Kathy Bates, Jessica Biel, Bradley
Cooper, Patrick Dempsey, Jennifer Garner,
Julia Roberts, Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Fox.
Fights, kisses, wrong turns, right moves and so
much more. Whether new to love or through
with love, you'll fall in love with this 19-star,
funny-side-up celebration of romance. (2010) PG-13. 125 min.
• Order # V5404
THE YOUNG VICTORIA
w/Emily Blunt, Paul Bettany.
Based on the courtship and early reign of
England's longest-serving monarch, The Young
Victoria is a majestic tale of romance, intrigue and
power. (2010) PG. 105 min.
THE SPY NEXT DOOR
w/Jackie Chan, Billy Ray Cyrus, George Lopez.
When Bob Ho is called to babysit his neighbor's
unruly children, they accidentally blow his cover
as a spy by downloading secret codes on his
computer. (2010) PG. 95 min.
• Order # V5396
• Order # 5407
THE IMAGINARIUM
OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS
w/Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer,
Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrell.
In this captivating, explosive and wonderfully
imaginative race against time, Dr. Parnassus
must fight to save his daughter in a never-ending
landscape of surreal obstacles—and undo the
mistakes of his past once and for all! (2009) PG-13. 123 min.
• Order # V5399
INVICTUS
w/Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon.
What does Nelson Mandela do after becoming
president of South Africa? He rejects revenge,
forgives oppressors who jailed him 27 years for
his fight against apartheid and finds hope of
national unity in an unlikely place: the rugby
field. (2010) PG-13. 133 min.
• Order # V5409
LEAP YEAR
w/Amy Adams, Matthew Goode.
When Anna’s four-year anniversary to her
boyfriend passes without an engagement ring,
she decides to take matters into her own hands. (2010) PG. 101 min.
• Order # V5403
THE FOURTH KIND
w/Milla Jovovich, Will Patton.
In remote Alaska, citizens have been mysteriously
vanishing since the 1960s. Despite multiple
FBI investigations, the truth behind the
phenomena had never been discovered—until
now. (2009) PG-13. 98 min.
• Order # V5411
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AN EDUCATION
w/Peter Sarsgaard, Carey Mulligan,
Emma Thompson.
A teenage girl must decide whether to pursue
her education or to give it all up for the man she
has fallen in love with. (2010) PG-13. 100 min.
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DEAR JOHN
w/Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried.
Soon after John and Savannah fall madly in love, their relationship is put on hold. With one
leaving to complete his service, and the other to
complete her college education. They pass the
time by exchanging love letters, but when war
breaks out, their separation is extended
indefinitely. Will their relationship survive the greatest test of
all: the test of time? (2010) PG-13. 108 min.
• Order # V5413
WHEN IN ROME
w/Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel.
An ambitious young New Yorker, disillusioned with
romance, takes a whirlwind trip to Rome where she
defiantly plucks magic coins from a fountain of love,
inexplicably igniting the passion of those who threw
them in: a sausage magnate, a street magician, an
adoring painter and a self-admiring model. But when
a charming reporter pursues her with equal zest, how will she know if
his love is the real thing? (2010) PG-13. 91 min.
• Order # V5418
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
w/Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska.
Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical
world she first entered as a child and embarks on
a journey to discover her true destiny. (2010) PG. 109 min.
WHY DID I GET MARRIED TOO?
w/Janet Jackson, Jill Scott, Tyler Perry.
When Terry Bobb and his wife agree to meet three
other couples for a tropical getaway, they have no clue
how much emotional baggage is joining them. In no
time, there's lots of trouble in paradise. (2009) PG-13. 121 min.
• Order # V5415
• Order # V5454
ROBIN HOOD
w/Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett.
In an age of oppression and shameless tyranny, an
outlaw becomes the unlikely hero that saves a nation
and inspires generations to fight for freedom. (2010) PG-13. 156 min.
KILLERS
w/Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher.
He's tall, dark and handsome with a hint of mystery. What more does Jen need to know about Spencer, the
man who's just swept her off her feet down in the
French Riviera? Well, maybe that he's a professional
spy whose special talent is assassination. (2010) PG-13. 100 min.
• Order # V5474
IRON MAN 2
w/Robert Downey, Jr., Mickey Rourke,
Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle,
Scarlett Johansson.
Now that his Super Hero secret has been revealed,
Tony Stark's life is more intense than ever. Everyone
wants in on the Iron Man technology, whether for
power or profit...but for Ivan Vanko, it's revenge! (2010) PG-13. 124 min.
• Order # V5464
PRINCE OF PERSIA:
THE SANDS OF TIME
w/Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton.
It's a race against time when a rogue prince reluctantly
teams up with a rival princess to safeguard a magical
dagger that gives its possessor the power to reverse
time and rule the world. (2010) PG-13. 116 min.
• Order # V5477
• Order # V5467
LITTLE BEAR AND THE MASTER
w/Julian Lee, Bill Nunn, Frank Zagarino,
Cameron Keluchie.
An Ute Indian boy tries to save the animals on his
reservation from a gang of poachers with the help of a
mysterious martial arts master. (2008) PG. 87 min.
• Order # V5417
REMEMBER ME
w/Robert Pattinson, Emilie De Ravin.
Remember me is the unforgettable story about the
power of the heart, the strength of family, and the
importance of treasuring every day of one's life. (2010) PG-13. 112 min.
• Order # V5469
• Order # V5420
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LETTERS TO JULIET
w/Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave,
Christopher Egan.
In Verona, Italy—the beautiful city where Romeo first
met Juliet—there is a place where the heartbroken
leave notes asking Juliet for her help. It's there that
aspiring writer Sophie finds a 50-year-old letter that
will change her life forever. (2010) PG. 105 min.
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• Order # V5468
THIS IS IT
w/Michael Jackson.
In raw and candid detail, Michael Jackson's
THIS IS IT captures the singer, dancer,
filmmaker, architect, creative genius and great
artist at work as he creates and perfects his
planned final London shows. (2009) PG. 111 min.
• Order # V5345
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK
Glacier National Park in Montana is arguably
America's most stunning landscape, with carved
massive glaciers and a melting ice cycle that
supports ecosystems of more than 2,000 species
of plants and animals. However, the glaciers are
disappearing at a rapid rate and may be gone in
just 10 years. National Geographic treks into
the Continental Divide to uncover the hidden secrets of this
transforming landscape. (2010) Not Rated. 50 min.
SHRED-IT WITH WEIGHTS
w/Jillian Michaels.
Using a kettlebell or a single hand weight,
Shred-It With Weights helps you build lean
muscle and burn mega calories with two
30-minute boot camp workouts. (2009) Not Rated. 60 min.
• Order # V5476
INSIDE HURRICANE KATRINA
National Geographic takes you inside Hurricane
Katrina to shed new light on the fateful decisions
of those in charge—and the desperate struggles
of those fighting to survive the awesome impact
of one of nature's ultimate weapons of mass
destruction. (2010) Not Rated. 96 min.
• Order # V5465
THE CASCADE LOOP
The Cascade Loop is the best of Washington
State, from craggy snowcapped mountain peaks
to sunny Puget Sound beaches and the mighty
Columbia River to the turquoise waters of
Diablo Lake. Leap on to the Loop anywhere
along this 425-mile scenic highway. (2010) G. 30 min.
• Order # V5472
• Order # V5463
THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN JOURNEY
Using the evidence from genetics, fossils,
archaeology and climatology, Dr. Alice Roberts
uncovers five epic routes our ancestors took
across the globe and the obstacles and brutal
challenges they encountered along the way. (2010) PG/G. 293 min.
THE REAL ROBIN HOOD
Robin Hood is the inspiration for more movies,
radio and TV programs than any other folk hero,
but the man in tights and a feathered cap is a
recent addition to the myth. The Real Robin
Hood probes the fascinating story behind the
marauding vigilante of English folklore. (2010) Not Rated. 94 min.
• Order # V5475
• Order # V5455
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AMERICA THE STORY OF US
A riveting adventure of how America was
invented, America the Story of Us focuses on the
people, ideas and events that built our nation,
covering 400 years of American history in the
most extensive and in-depth television series ever
produced by HISTORY. (2010) Not Rated. 552 min.
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