Recent Aquisitions
August 2008

Fiction

  • Being Elizabeth by Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Smoke Screen by Sandra Brown
  • It only takes a moment by Mary Jane Behrends Clark
  • Foreign body by Robin Cook
  • Assassin by Stephen Coonts
  • Dead place by Rebecca Drake
  • The little book by Selden Edwards
  • Forced out : a novel by Stephen W. Frey
  • Rough justice by Jack Higgins
  • Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • First daughter by Eric Lustbader
  • Robert Ludlum's the Bourne sanction: a new Jason Bourne novel by Eric Lustbader
  • House of daughters by Sarah-Kate Lynch
  • Faces of fear by John Saul
  • Moscow rules by Daniel Silva
  • Off season by Anne Rivers Siddons
  • Fractured by Karin Slaughter
  • Just breathe by Susan Wiggs
  • Matt Train
Children's Easy Fiction
  • Jack the Tripper
  • The magic school bus in the time of the dinosaurs
  • Thump, quack, moo : a whacky adventure
  • Boo, bunny!
  • Bats at the library
  • George and Martha: the complete stories of two best friends
  • Baron von Baddie and the ice ray incident
  • The crawly caterpillar
  • Madam President
  • Diapers are not forever
  • Bear feels scared
  • Abe Lincoln's hat
Fiction (For Grades 1 to 5)
  • The name of this book is secret
  • The report card
  • Book 7 Lewis, C.S.
  • Junie B., first grader: cheater pants
  • The scream of the haunted mask

Mysteries

  • Lie down with the devil by Linda Barnes
  • Legally dead by Edna Buchanan
  • Still of the night by Cynthia Danielewski
  • Damage control by Judith A. Jance
  • Mercedes coffin by Faye Kellerman
  • Death's half acre by Margaret Maron
  • Cinderella murders by Diane Sawyer

Science Fiction

  • Scent of shadows : first sign of the zodiac by Vicki Pettersson
  • Star Wars: the colone wars by Karen Traviss
  • Star Wars: the force unleashed by Sean Williams

Large Print

  • Smoke screen by Sandra Brown
  • Foreign body by Robin Cook
  • Assassin by Stephen Coonts
  • Rough justice by Jack Higgins

Non-Fiction

  • Computing for seniors in easy steps: for the over 50s
  • Is this thing on? : a computer handbook for late bloomer's, technophobes, and the kicking & screaming
  • Facebook for dummies
  • Facebook: the missing manual
  • MySpace.com handbook: the complete guide for members and parents
  • How to do everything: Facebook applications
  • Google AdSense for dummies
  • How to succeed in business using LinkedIn
  • The Language of emotional intelligence: the five essential tools for building powerful and effective relationships
  • Loneliness: human nature and the need for social connection
  • Culture making: recovering our creative calling
  • The cult of the amateur: how blogs, MySpace, You Tube, and rest of today's user-generated media are destroying our economy
  • Blogways: the new political battleground
  • Philadelphia presidential conventions
  • Through the seasons: an activity book for memory-challenged adults and caregivers
  • After the fire : a true story of friendship and survival
  • For the thrill of it: Leopold, Loeb, and the murder that shocked Chicago
  • Trick or treatment: the undeniable facts about alternative medicine
  • Living with heart disease: Everything you need to know to safeguard your health and take control of your life
  • Eat this, not that! for kids! : thousands of simple food swaps that can save your child from obesity!
  • What your explosive child is trying to tell you: discovering the pathways from symptoms to solutions
  • What ship is that?
  • Traffic: why we drive the way we do (and what it says about us)
  • The NFL game day cookbook: 150 recipes to feed the hungriest football fan for preseason to the Super Bowl
  • Outer Banks cookbook: Recipes and traditions from North Carolina's Barrier Islands
  • Your first home: Smart way to get it and keep it
  • The one-life solution: reclaim your personal life while achieving greater professional success
  • The winners manual: for the game of life
  • Keys to reading an annual report
  • Quickbooks 2008: All-in-one desk reference for dummies
  • The Mary Kay way: timeless principles from America's greatest woman entrepreneur
  • Jump point: how network culture is revolutionizing business
  • Business intelligence with Mircrosoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007
  • The One hundred: a guide to the pieces every stylish woman must own
  • Tiny Yarn animals: amigurumi friends to make and enjoy
  • Second Life for dummies
  • Bowls, polls & tattered souls tackling the chaos and controversy that reign over college football
  • Complete guide to climbing and mountaineering
  • Phoenix rising: fiction, poetry, memoir, essays & art by inmates of the Allegheny County Jail
  • Mike's election guide
  • Ghost train to the Eastern star: on the tracks of the great railway bazaar
  • Prehistory
  • The Anglo files: a field guide to the British
  • Southern storm: Sherman's march to the sea
  • The case against Barack Obama: the unlikely rise and unexamined agenda of the media's favorite candidate
  • Cheech & Chong: the unauthorized autobiography
  • Johnny Depp: Illustrated biography
  • Not just the levees broke: My story during and after Hurricane Katrina
  • The faith of Barack Obama
  • Know your power: a message to America's daughter
  • Somewhere in heaven: the remarkable love story of Dana and Christopher Reeve

Reference

  • Milestone documents in American History

College and Career

  • Salary facts handbook: the definitive source of pay information on 800 jobs
  • 101 ways to make studying easier and faster for college students: what every student needs to know
  • The complete book of colleges
  • Sending your child to college prepared parent's operational manual
  • University: The need to know and where to go guide to college life
  • CLEP: official study guide
  • Seventeen's guide to getting into college
  • Get it together for college: a planner to help you get organized and get in!
  • Washington & Jefferson College
  • The adult student's guide to survival & success
  • Kaplan College Guide 2009
  • SallieMae how to pay for college: practical guide for families
  • Peterson's 2 year colleges
  • Pe fit: Personal wellness for the modern college

Books on CD

  • A kiss of shadows
  • Smoke screen

Playaways

  • Magic hour
  • Earth in the balance
  • When you are ingulfed in flames

DVD's

  • Titanic
Children's
  • The little mermaid. Ariel's beginning

Music

  • Sugarland
  • Third Day
  • Around the bend
Children's Music
  • Totally '80s for kids

Children's Non-fiction

  • Guinness world records
  • What the world eats
  • The impressionists
  • Ballerina: a step-by-step guide to ballet
  • Frankenstein takes the cake
  • March on! : the day my brother Martin changed the world
  • Barack Obama: son of promise, child of hope
  • The trouble begins at 8 : a life of Mark Twain in the wild, wild West

Children's Books on CD

  • Going, going gone! with the pain & the great one

Young Adult Playaways

  • Hobbit

Young Adult Books on CD

  • Breaking dawn
  • An introduction to A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway
  • An introduction to the age of innocence by Edith Wharton
  • An introduction to Bless me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
  • An introduction to My Antonia by Willa Cather
  • An introduction to The call of the wild by Jack London
  • An introduction to The death of Ivan llyich by Leo Tolstoy
  • An introduction to Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury:audio guide
  • An introduction to The grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck: audio guide
  • An introduction to The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • An introduction to The heart is a lonely hunter by Carson McCullers : audio guide
  • An introduction to The Joy Luck club by Amy Tan : audio guide
  • An introduction to To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee : audio guide
  • An introduction to The Maltese falcon by Dashiell Hammett : audio guide
  • An introduction to Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston: audio guide

Graphic Novels

  • Satchel Paige: striking out Jim Crow
  • 1817-1862 Thoreau at Walden

Young Adult Fiction

  • Afrika
  • The gypsy crown
  • Breaking dawn
  • Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging

 

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