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New Romance Fiction for February 2010

Posted Thu, 02/04/2010 - 3:49pm by Karen Ostertag

In paperback:

Shades of Midnight by Lara Adrian (7, Midnight Breed) C, S
Early Dawn by Catherine Anderson C, W
Chalice of Roses by Jo Beverly, et al. F, H, M
How I Met My Countess by Elizabeth Boyle (6, The Bachelor Chronicles) H
Kayla’s Daddy by Laura Bradford (Harlequin American Romance: Babies & Bachelors USA) C
Kismet by Monica Burns H
Perfect Partners? by C. J. Carmichael (Harlequin SuperRomance: The Fox & Fisher Detective Agency) C, M
Forbidden Falls by Robyn Carr (8, Virgin River) C
A Dark Love by Margaret Carroll C, M
Lead Me On by Victoria Dahl (3, Tumble Creek) C, M

New Speculative Fiction for February 2010

Posted Thu, 02/04/2010 - 3:13pm by Karen Ostertag

New to our shelves:

Blood Pact by Dan Abnett (12, Warhammer 40K: Gaunt's Ghosts) SF
Mr. Shivers by Robert Jackson Bennett H
The Spirit Lens by Carol Berg (1, Collegia Magica) F, M
Day by Day Armageddon by J. L. Bourne (1, Day by Day Armageddon) H
Iorich by Steven Brust (12, Vlad Taltos) F
Veracity by Laura Bynum SF
Hidden Empire by Orson Scott Card SF
The Silver Skull by Mark Chadbourn (1, Swords of Albion) F, M
Generation A by Douglas Coupland SF
The Dragon Book by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois, eds. F (shelved at Fantasy Dragon)

What's Cooking?: A Culinary Journey Around the World

Posted Wed, 02/03/2010 - 2:12pm by Dorothy Ng

Getting cabin fever? Want to do some traveling? Cookbooks are a great vehicle to expand your horizons to foreign lands. Get a taste of a culture, the people, and most importantly, the foods, just by walking through international cookbooks. You can travel across an exotic country like Tibet, a province like Provence, France, or a region like the Mediterranean. The trek is boundless. From browsing the recipes and their ingredients you can envision the types of spices, vegetables, grains and livestock that are indigenous to that area. Have you ever used turmeric, cumin, tamarind, or lemongrass? Have you heard about stinky tofu or durian fruit from Southeast Asia? How about being adventurous by adding octopus, eel or snails to your menu? Well, if these food items don’t turn you on, there are plenty of scrumptious dishes that are sure to entice you. “Traveling” through these cookbooks also introduces us to new and different methods of cooking.

Coming in June

Posted Wed, 02/03/2010 - 11:14am by Admin

Fiction:

Carey, Jacqueline. Naamah's Curse.

After Morin finds Bao, she is captured by the Patriarch of Riva, who wants to convert her or kill her.

Castillo, Linda. Pray for Silence.

Painters Mill Chief of Police Kate Burkholder has her work cut out for her after the murder of seven members of an Amish family.

Connolly, John. Whisperers.

Cussler, Clive with Justin Scott. The Spy: An Isaac Bell Novel.

When an American battleship gun designer dies in an apparent suicide, his daughter turns to the Van Dorn Detective Agency. The 3^rd book in the Isaac Bell series.

Coming in May

Posted Wed, 02/03/2010 - 11:04am by Admin

Fiction:
Amis, Martin. The Pregnant Widow.
Barry, Brunonia. The Map of True Places
The author of The Lace Reader takes on the difficult topic of suicide.
Blum, Jenna. The Stormchasers.
Author of Those Who Save Us.
Cleage, Pearl. Till You Hear from Me.
Doyle, Roddy. The Dead Republic.
Farooki, Roopa. Half Life.
Giffin, Emily. Heart of the Matter.
Hamann, Hilary Thayer. Anthropology of an American Girl.
Hambly, Barbara. Dead and Buried.
Hood, Ann. The Red Thread.
Author of The Knitting Circle has another work about a grieving mother. This time her herione starts an adoption agency.
Larsson, Stieg. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.
Parker, Robert B. Blue-Eyed Devil.
Pullman, Phillip. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.

Coming in May

Posted Wed, 02/03/2010 - 11:02am by Admin

Fiction:
Amis, Martin. The Pregnant Widow.

The year is 1970, and the youth of Europe are in the chaotic, ecstatic throes of the sexual revolution. Though blindly dedicated to the cause, its nubile foot soldiers have yet to realize this disturbing truth: that between the death of one social order and the birth of another, there exists a state of terrifying purgatory—or, as Alexander Herzen put it, a pregnant widow.

Barry, Brunonia. The Map of True Places
The author of The Lace Reader takes on the difficult topic of suicide.

Blum, Jenna. The Stormchasers.

Author of Those Who Save Us.

Cleage, Pearl. Till You Hear from Me.
Just when it appears that all her hard work on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is about to pay off with a White House job, thirty-five-year-old Ida B. Wells Dunbar finds herself on Washington, D.C.’s post-election sidelines even as her twentysomething counterparts overrun the West Wing.

New Large Print for February 2010

Posted Wed, 02/03/2010 - 10:36am by Admin

Fiction

Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum

Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

The First Rule by Robert Crais

Not My Daughter by Barbara Delinsky

Day into Night by Anita Diamant

Under the Dome by Stephen King

Treasure Hunt by John Lescroat

The Perfect Christmas by Debbie Macomber

LA's Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith

Cold River by Carla Neggers

Going Rogue by Sarah Palin

Worst Case by James Patterson

Bed of Roses by Nora Roberts

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler

Non-Fiction

Born Round by Frank Bruni

Lit by Mary Karr

True Compass by Edward Kennedy

New Music Releases February 2010

Posted Tue, 02/02/2010 - 2:25pm by Harriet Wollenberg

50 Cent. Before I Self-Destruct MR FIFT BIS A99

Allison, Ben. Think Free MJ ALLI TF P40

Barlow Girl. Love & War MG BARL LAW F61

New DVD Releases For February, 2010

Posted Mon, 02/01/2010 - 2:41pm by Harriet Wollenberg

THREE DAY DVDS

9 #11463

New Mysteries February 2010

Posted Fri, 01/29/2010 - 11:08am by Nancy Moskowitz

Merry Wives of Maggody by Joan Hess
Blacklands by Belinda Bauer
Wild Penace by Sandi Ault
Snow Angels by James Thompson
Doors Open by Ian Rankin
Thereby Hangs a Tail by Spencer Quinn
Butter Safe Than Sorry by Tamar Myers
Mist Over the Water by Alys Clare
Fourth Assassin by Matt Beynon Rees
Assassins of Athens by Jeffrey Siger
Gone 'til November by Wallace Stroby
No Mercy by Lori Armstrong
Death of a Valentine by M.C. Beaton
Parisian Prodigal by Alan Gordon
Whisper to the Living by Stuart Kaminsky
Paganini's ghost by Paul Adam
Treasure Hunt by John Lescroart
Unbearable Lightness of Scones by Alexander MCall Smith
Double Black by Wendy Clinch
Raining Cat Sitters and Dogs by Blaize Clement
Wings of Sphinx by Andrea Camilleri
Death by the Book by Lenny Bartulin
Wicked Craving by G.A. McKevett
Butterflies of Grand Canyon by Margaret Erhart
Silencer by James W. Hall

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