Recent Aquisitions
APRIL 2008

Fiction

  • The Future of Love by Shirley Abbott
  • Delusion by Peter Abahams
  • Nightshade by Susan Wittig Albert
  • The Whole Truth by David Baldacci
  • The Day I ate Whatever I wanted: and other small acts of liberation by Elizabeth Berg
  • The Winding Ways Quilt : an Elm Creek Quilts Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini
  • Hold Tight by Harlan Coben
  • Lambrusco by Ellen Cooney
  • Girls in Trucks by Katie Crouch
  • Adam by Ted Dekker
  • Suddenly by Barbara Delinsky
  • The Rosetta Key by William Dietrich
  • Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman
  • Practically Perfect by Katie Fforde
  • Wit's End by Karen Joy Fowler
  • Bulls Island by Dorothea Benton Frank
  • Losing You by Nicci French
  • The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber
  • Bound by Sally Gunning
  • Mary of Nazareth by Marek Halter
  • Late Nights On Air by Elizabeth Hay
  • The Third Angel by Alice Hoffman
  • Varanger by Cecilia Holland
  • Lost Souls by Lisa Jackson
  • Quicksand by Iris Johansen
  • The Genius by Jesse Kellerman
  • A Mending at the Edge by Jane Kirkpatrick
  • Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • The Ex-debutante by Linda Francis Lee
  • Lavinia by Ursula K. LeGuin
  • The Eye of the Leopard by Henning Mankell
  • River of Heaven by Lee Martin
  • Still Summer by Jacquelyn Mitchard
  • Sepulchre by Kate Mosse
  • Wild Nights! : Stories about the last days of Poe by Carol Joyce Oates
  • Dictation: a quartet by Cynthia Ozick
  • Sunday's at Tiffany's by James Patterson
  • The Third Circle by Amanda Quick
  • Guilty by Karen Robards
  • Falling For Rachel; & Convincing Alex by Nora Roberts
  • The Hollow by Nora Roberts
  • Miss Julia Paints the Town by Ann B. Ross
  • Picking Up the Pieces by Mary Sheepshanks
  • Dirty Money by Richard Stark
  • The Orpheus Deception by David Stone
  • The Ginseng Hunter byf Jeff Talarigo
  • Friday Nights by Joanna Trollope
  • Hollywood Crows by Joseph Wambaugh
  • Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner
  • Santa Fe Dead by Stuart Woods
  • Winter Study by Nevada Barr
  • Where Are You Now? by Mary Higgins Clark
  • Zapped by Carol Higgins Clark
  • Antiques to Die For by Jane K. Cleland
  • The Demon of Dahar by Kjell Eriksson
  • Cheating at Solitaire by Jane Haddam
  • Degrees of Separation by Sue Henry
  • Mummy Dearest by Joan Hess
  • An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James
  • The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith
  • A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley
Large Print
  • The Winding Ways Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini
  • Where Are You Now? by Mary Higgins Clark
  • Hold Tight by Harlan Coben
  • Blue-eyed Devil by Lisa Kleypas
  • The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith
  • Buckingham Palace Gardens by Anne Perry
  • The Third Circle by Amanda Quick
  • Guilty by Karen Robards
  • Miss Julia Paints the Town by Ann B. Ross
  • Santa Fe Dead by Stuart Woods
Children's Easy Fiction
  • Baby's potty
  • Goodnight baby
  • Playtime baby
  • Messy baby
  • Up, down, and around
  • Find the bird
  • Find the piglet
  • Maisy's fire engine
  • On a pirate ship
  • Mother Goose : numbers on the loose
  • Tracks of a Panda
  • 123 NYC : a counting book of New York City
  • Backyard
  • Lightship
  • Don't worry Bear
  • Dimity Dumpty: the story of Humpty's little sister
  • Orange pear apple bear
  • Usborne very first dictionary
  • Puppy place Pugsley
  • Los gatos black on Halloween
  • The Jellybeans and the big dance
  • Vulture view
  • Peanuts grand piano book
  • Fun in the sun
  • Big plans
  • Dinner time!
  • Sounds funny : book about comic sounds
  • I love you, baby
  • Princesses
  • That's not my monkey
  • That's not my penquin
  • That's not my reindeer
  • Trucks
  • Max's Easter surprise
  • Cowboys
  • Disney Handy Manny. Bunny trouble
  • Disney Mickey Mouse clubhouse. Donald's lost lion
  • Gingerbread man
  • Fancy Nancy at the museum
Fiction (For Grades 1 to 5)
  • The Penderwicks on Gardam Street
  • Edgar Font's Hu;nt for a house to haunt. Adventure two: Fakeresville Power Station
  • Edgar Font's hunt for a house to haunt. Adventure 1 The castle tower lighthouse
  • Miss Suki is kooky!
  • Mrs. Dole is out of control
  • Ms. LaGrange is strange!
  • Mr. Louie is screwy!
  • Mrs. Roopy is loopy!
  • Ida B : ... and her plans to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and (possibly) save the world
  • Just Grace walks the dog
  • Still just Grace
  • Remembering Mrs. Rossi
  • Stink and the great Guinea Pig Express
  • Stink and the world's worst super-stinky sneakers
  • Lemony Snicket : the unauthorized autobiography
  • Clementine's letter
  • The cat, or, how I lost eternity
  • Queste Book 4
  • Goosebumps night of the living dummy
  • Stay out of the basement
  • Good neighbors
  • Alice goes to Hollywood
  • Rex Zero and the end of the world
Young Adult Fiction
  • The Seer of Shadows by Avi
  • Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen

Mysteries

  • Winter Study by Nevada Barr
  • Where Are You Now? by Mary Higgins Clark
  • Zapped by Carol Higgins Clark
  • Antiques to Die For by Jane K. Cleland
  • The Demon of Dahar by Kjell Eriksson
  • Cheating at Solitaire by Jane Haddam
  • Degrees of Separation by Sue Henry
  • Mummy Dearest by Joan Hess
  • An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James
  • The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith
  • A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley

Science Fiction

  • Keeper of Dreams by Orson Scott Card
  • Shadow Gate by Kate Elliott
  • Spirit Gate Bk 1

Reference

  • Inventors and Inventions - 5 vols.
  • Livestrong Survivorship Notebook
Children's Reference
  • Rourke's world of science encyclopedia - 8 volumes

Non-Fiction

  • The complete idiot's guide to Webkinz
  • Clear and to the point: 8 psychological principles for compelling PowerPoint presentations
  • Field guide to happiness: a manual for identifying happiness in its natural habitat
  • Influencer: the power to change anything
  • Predictably irrational: the hidden forces that shape our decisions
  • Aspire higher: winning on and off the court with determination, discipline, and decisions
  • Ancient and Hellenistic thought
  • Contemporary thought
  • Understanding Philosophy: Medieval and modern philospphy
  • A new earth: awakening to your life's purpose
  • The Secret to true happiness: enjoy today, embrace tomorrow
  • Immigration
  • X saves the world: how Generation X got the shaft but can still keep everything from sucking
  • Smotherhood: the early years
  • Socialism
  • Theocracy
  • Monarchy
  • Democracy
  • Dictatorship
  • Bad money: reckless finance, failed politics, and the global crisis of American capitalism
  • Rich dad's increase your financial IQ : get smarter with your money
  • Communism
  • Our Constitution
  • Social Security, medicare & government pensions
  • The China price : the true cost of Chinese competitive advantage
  • Law 101: [everything you need to know about the American legal system]
  • The facts about drugs and society
  • The facts about drug dependence to treatment
  • Nolo's IEP guide : learning disabilities
  • Processes that shape the earth
  • Body fuel : a guide to good nutrition
  • Weighing in : nutrition and weight management
  • ChefMD's big book of culinary medicine
  • The complete weight loss workbook
  • Are you ready! : take charge, lose weight, get in shape, and change your life forever
  • Organic body care recipes
  • The facts about drugs and the body
  • The facts about the A-Z of drugs
  • Food as foe : nutrition and eating disorders
  • Germ proof your kids
  • The cancer dictionary
  • Livestrong survivorship notebook
  • Peak performance: sports nutrition
  • The smart woman's guide to plastic surgery
  • American armored fighting vehicles
  • Hot wheels 40 years
  • spaceflight: the complete story from Sputnik to shuttle--and beyond
  • Fallscaping: extending your garden season into autumn
  • Unlock your dog's potential : how to achieve a calm and happy canine
  • Your adopted dog : everything you need to know about rescuing and caring for a best friend in need
  • Go green, live rich : 50 simple ways to save the earth and get rich trying
  • Bobby Flay's grill it!
  • The all-natural diabetes cookbook
  • Allergy-free cookbook
  • The Hershey, Pennsylvania, cookbook
  • Serving up the harvest
  • The best chicken recipes
  • Cookie craft
  • Luscious creamy desserts
  • Raising a self-disciplined child
  • Beyond success: building a personal, financial, and philantropic legacy
  • The best...business schools 2008
  • Think better
  • 135 tips on email and instant messages : plus blogs, chatrooms, and texting
  • Warman's Fiesta : identification and price guide
  • Simple enchanted beading : Over 30 delightful projects to captivate and charm
  • Journal revolution: rise up and create art journals, personal manifestos and other artistic insurrections
  • Links: inspired bead and wire jewelry creations
  • Warm fuzzies : 30 sweet felted projects
  • When bad things happen to good knitters : an emergency survival guide
  • Party knits
  • Party crochet
  • A celebration of light : painting the textures of light in water color
  • Play piano today! Level 1 : the ultimate self-teaching method!
  • Play drums today! Level 1 : the ultimate self-teaching method!
  • Play guitar today! Level 1 : the ultimate self-teaching method!
  • Play flute today! Level 1 : the ultimate self-teaching method!
  • Play clarinet today! Level 1 : the ultimate self-teaching method!
  • Play alto sax today! Level 1 : the ultimate self-teaching method!
  • Play trumpet today! Level 1 : the ultimate self-teaching method!
  • Dark summit : the true story of Everest's most controversial season
  • Acting games for individual performers : a comprehensive workbook of 110 acting exercises
  • Maps and legends : reading and writing along the borderlands
  • Armageddan in retrospect, and other new and unpublished writings on war and peace
  • The sum of our days
  • Polar regions
  • The tropics
  • Deserts
  • The Titanic
  • Take your kids to Europe
  • Roadside attractions : cool cafes, souvenir stands, Route 66 relics, and other road trip fun
  • Fun with the family Pennsylvania
  • Ladies of liberty: the women who shaped our nation
  • Civil War sites 2008
  • Pennsylvania ghost towns: uncovering the hidden past
  • The Bin Ladens : an arabian family in the American century
  • A wolf at the taple : a memoir of my father
  • Shakespeare's wife
  • Breaking free
  • Girls like us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--and the journey of a generation
  • The complete quick and hearty diabetic cookbook

College and Career

  • Barron's AP Computer Science Levels A and AB
  • McGraw Hill 5 Steps to a 5 AP U.S. Government and Politics
  • Ferguson Career Resource Guide to Apprenticeship Programs v.1
  • Ferguson Career Resource Guide to Apprenticeship Programs v.2
  • 200 Best Jobs for Introverts
  • Computers
  • 100 Fastest-growing Careers
  • Careers for nature lovers & other outdoor types
  • What are you worth: 7 keys to unlocking your maximum potential
  • Career opportunities in law and the legal industry
  • The Small business start-up kit
  • Legal forms for starting & running a small business
  • Civil service exams
  • Master the case worker exam
  • Great jobs for environmental studies majors
  • McGraw-Hill's Praxis 1 & 11
  • Master the Praxis 1 : PPST exam
  • The Best Study Series for GED. Language arts, reading
  • Best study series for GED science
  • Peterson's Master the catholic high school entrance exams 2009
  • The Best study series for GED Language arts, writing
  • But what if I don't want to go to college? : a guide to success through alternative education
  • Writing a successful college application essay
  • 11 practice tests for the new SAT & PSAT
  • Peterson's competitive colleges 2008
  • Math study guide for the SAT, ACT and SAT subject tests
  • Cracking the AP. World history exam
  • MCAT45
  • Kaplan AP statistics 2008
  • Hot words for the SAT
  • Cracking the AP. English literature exam
  • Master the GMAT 2009
  • ACT premier program
  • Barron's LSAT
  • College rules! : how to study, survive, and suceed in college
  • The essential guide to business etiquette
  • Teaching English as a foreign or second language: a teacher self-development and methodology guide
  • McGraw-Hill's GED mathematics: the most complete and reliable study program for the GED math test
  • Career opportunities in health care
  • Master the nursing school and allied health entrance exams
  • How to start a home-based catering business
  • Start & run a coffee bar
  • Career and corporate cool: how to look, dress, and act the part at every stage of your career
  • 202 great cover letters
  • Expert resumes for managers and executives
  • Resumes for scientific and technical careers
  • Finding keepers : the Monster guide to hiring and holding the world's best employees
  • Send: the essential guide to email for office and home
  • Everything grant writing book
  • How to start a home-based day-care business
  • Virtual apprentice: pop musician

Books on CD

  • Dinner at Mr. Jefferson's
  • The palace of illustions
  • The outlaw demon wails
  • Death walked in
  • Compulsion
  • Unaccustomed earth
  • Sundays at Tiffany's
  • Class action : the story of Lois Jenson and the landmark case that changed sexual harassment
Children's Books on CD
  • Henry and Beezus by Beverly Cleary
  • The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
  • Magic Tree House Book 38 & 39 by Mary Pope Osborne
  • Once Upon a Time in the North by Phillip Pullman

DVD's

  • All the President's men
  • Cloverfield
  • Juno
  • Sweeney Todd
  • There will be blood
  • Eggs 101
Children's DVDs
  • Bee Movie
  • Go Diego Go!
  • Enchanted
  • Meet the Robinsons
  • Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
  • Nancy Drew
  • Shrek the Third
  • Thomas & Friends. Engines and Escapades

Music

  • Counting Crows - Saturday nights & Sunday mornings
  • Discipline - Janet Jackson
Children's Music
  • Alvin & the Chipmucks
  • Sleepytime tunes lullaby renditions of Jimmy Buffett
  • Sesame Street sing the alphabet
  • Horton hears a who! and other sounds of Dr. Seuss

Children's Non-fiction

  • Discovering today's library
  • My first message : a devotional bible for kids
  • Hanukkah : Jewish festival of lights
  • Ellis Island
  • The CIA
  • Checks, credit, and debit cards
  • Ninja
  • Dust bowl! : the 1930s black blizzards
  • What happens at a bike shop?
  • Martina, the beautiful cockroach : a Cuban folktale
  • Uncle Sam
  • Today is cold
  • Flowers
  • Micro bugs
  • Let's look at animal teeth
  • Ugly sea creatures
  • Crawling craps
  • Goliath bird-eating tarantula: the world's biggest spider
  • Deadly praying mantises
  • Hidden walkingsticks
  • Hungry cockroaches
  • Leaping grasshoppers
  • Smelly stink bugs
  • Dragonflies
  • Assassin bugs
  • Peanut-head bugs
  • Ugly bugs
  • Speedy dragonflies
  • Insect homes
  • Dung beetles
  • Goliath beetle
  • Helpful ladybugs
  • Bloodthirsty mosquitoes
  • Fleas: feasting on blood
  • Beautiful butterflies
  • Queen Alexandra's birdwing : the world's largest butterfly
  • Bees up close
  • Killer bees
  • The life cycle of a honeybee
  • Hello, bumblebee bat
  • Otters
  • Lice : head hunters
  • Mini Cooper
  • Big book of tractors
  • Maine coon cats
  • The Manx : the cat with no tail
  • Persian cats
  • Siamese cats
  • The Sphynx : the hairless cat
  • Ticks : digging for blood
  • Food creations : from hot dogs to ice cream cones
  • The toddler cookbook
  • The largest stadiums
  • How to draw cartoon insects
  • Let's draw a butterfly with circles
  • The biggest thrill rides
  • Ballerina dreams : a true story
  • Out and about at the baseball stadium
  • Girls' basketball : making your mark on the court
  • The Buffalo Bills
  • The Carolina Panthers
  • The Philadelphia Eagles
  • The Pittsburgh Steelers
  • The Miami Dolphins
  • Girls' softball: wining on the diamond
  • Here's a little poem : a very first book of poetry
  • Time travel
  • Today and today
  • One thousand tracings : healing the wounds of World War 11
  • Castle Dracula : Romania's vampire home
  • North Korea
  • South Korea
  • United Arab Emirates
  • India ABCs : a book about the people and places of India
  • Iran
  • Afghanistan
  • United States of America
  • The assault on Fort Wagner : Black soldiers make a stand in South Carolina battle
  • The capture of New Orleans : Union fleet takes control of the lower Mississippi River
  • The Johnstown flood, 1889
  • Cycling : Lance Armstrong's impossible ride
  • The cost of freedom : Crispus Attucks and the Boston Massacre
  • Kim Jong 11 : leader of North Korea
  • Down the Colorado : John Wesley Powell, the one-armed explorer
  • Keith Urban

Graphic Novels

  • Arf and the three dogs
Young Adult Titles
  • The Arrival

Young Adult Non-Fiction

  • Physics : an illustrated guide to science
  • Chemistry
  • Biology : an illustrated guide to science
  • Careers in computer gaming
  • Alice Walker/edited with an introduction by Harold Bloom

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Library Board


Kathleen Trehy, President
Joann Serakowski,
Vice President
Janet Domalik, Secretary
Jenny Bean, Treasurer
Kim Bissert
Mary Ann Compomizzi
Margaret Magreni
Mark Sampogna

Honorary Members
John Bonassi
Sue V. Giardina
William Z. Nasri, Ph.D.

Advisory Board
Phyllis Abinanti
Carmen Bochicchio
Mary R. Capenos, Ph.D.
Randall McFarland