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NEW FICTION & NON-FICTION
CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS
JUVENILE CHAPTER BOOKS
YOUNG ADULT BOOKS
DVDs
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Award Books
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
Edgar Award
EDGAR AWARD 2010
LAST CHILD by John Hart
Johnny, 13, once had a happy family. Then his twin sister, Alyssa, went missing. Now his family was shattered. Although Alyssa had been missing a year and was presumed dead, Johnny decided to explore the dark side of his hometown, which he finds is blacker than anyone imagined. With the help of a friend, and a man with a strange past, Johnny finds the terrible truth.
National Book Award
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2010
Fiction Award
LORD OF MISRULE by Jaimy Gordon
At the rock-bottom end of the sport of kings sits the ruthless and often violent world of cheap horse racing, where trainers and jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers, loan sharks and touts all struggle to take an edge, or prove their luck, or just survive. Equal parts Nathanael West, Damon Runyon and Eudora Welty, Lord of Misrule follows five characters, scarred and lonely dreamers in the American grain, through a year and four races at Indian Mount Downs, downriver from Wheeling, West Virginia
National Book Critics Circle Award
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD 2010
Non-Fiction Winner:
WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS by Isabel Wilkerson
From World War I through the 1970s there was a great migration of African-Americans from the South to the North and the West. This chronicles that migration as told through the stories of three individuals and their families. Wilkerson draws from her research, interviews with the three individuals and their families, and from archival materials to present this monumental telling.
Fiction Winner:
VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD by Jennifer Egan
Bennie is an aging punk rocker and record exec who employs Sasha, a troubled woman. While the two never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, along with the secret lives of a host of other people whose lives intersect with theirs over a 50-year period.
Pulitzer Prize
PULITZER PRIZE 2010
Fiction Winner
TINKERS by Paul Harding
An old man lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished New England youth.
Biography Winner 
THE FIRST TYCOON: THE EPIC LIFE OF CORNELIUS VANDERBILT by T.J. Stiles
This is the exhilarating story of a man and a nation maturing together: the powerful account of a combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism and whose life was as epic and complex as American history itself.
History Winner
LORDS OF FINANCE: THE BANKERS WHO BROKE THE WORLD by Liaquat Ahamed
With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers portraits of four men--Montagu Norman, Amile Hilaire Emile Moreau, Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, and Benjamin Strong--whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century.
Children's Picture Books
DVDs
CHILDREN'S MOVIES
YOUNG ADULT MOVIES
ADULT MOVIES
Check out our new DVD collections
Golden Globe Best TV Movie or Mini-Series/Emmy-Winning Best TV Movie and Mini-Series
Here are a few of the titles:
Juvenile Chapter Books
ADVENTURES OF NANNY PIGGINS by R. A. Spratt *
A circus pig as a nanny? There's never a dull day!
THE MAGIC THIEF by Sarah Prineas *
Wizardry, magic and adventure. (First book in a series)
WILD THINGS by Clay Carmichael *
There are lots of wild things in Zoe's new life: Uncle Henry's metal sculptures, a feral cat, a mysterious boy, and her own heart.
POWERLESS by Matthew Cody
Although Daniel doesn't have any super powers, his friends do and they're losing them. He is the only one who can find out why.
ONE-HANDED CATCH by MJ Auch
What would it be like to go through life with only one hand? That's what Norm finds out after he loses his left hand in an accident and must find the strength to move on with his life.
MASTERPIECE by Elilse Broach *
Boy and beetle share friendship, art and adventure.
ALL STATIONS! DISTRESS! by Don Brown *
Experience the gradeur of the Titanic and the sinking of that mighty passenger ship.
SWINDLE by Gordon Korman
Giffin Bing, "the man with a plan", puts together a band of middle-school misfits to take back the valuable baseball card stolen from him by con man Swindle.
ADVENTURES IN CARTOONING: How to Turn Your Doodles Into Comics by James Sturm *
This graphic novel is the adventure of a knight, a horse with a sweet tooth, and a magic elf hunting down a gum-chewing dragon. It is also a lesson in how to put together your own comics.
EXTRA CREDIT by Andrew Clements
A school pen pal exchange brings together a sixth-grade girl from Illinois and an Afghan boy, who learn about each other's lives and that "people are simple, but the stuff going on around them can get complicated."
DYING TO MEET YOU by Kate Klise
The first book in the 43 Old Cemetery Road series. I.B. Grumply, a writer of children's books, moves into an old mansion in Ghastly, Illinois, and discovers that he is sharing it with an 11-year-old boy, his cat, and a ghost.
ALL THE BROKEN PIECES by Ann Burg *
In 1977 the son of a Vietnamese woman and American soldier is airlifted to the U.S. and adopted by a loving family. He becomes a star pitcher on the baseball team, but is haunted by the life he left behind.
EVERY SOUL A STAR by Wendy Mass
After viewing a total solar eclipse, the lives of three very different young people are changed forever.
GREETING FROM NOWHERE by Barbara O'Connor
Just when Aggie has to put her run-down motel up for sale, she accumulates four families--each with a story to tell.
FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX by R. L. LaFevers
After Nate's parents are declared lost at sea, he goes to live with his Aunt Phil to learn the family business of mapmaking and beastology. In a story packed with adventure and mythological creatures, Nate discovers his inner hero. (First book in the Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist series.)
HEART OF A SHEPHERD by Rosanne Parry
When nearly everyone leaves the ranch, "Brother", just 11-years old, must care for the family's livestock and take on the responsibilities of a man.
New Fiction & Non-Fiction
NEW BOOKS FOR MAY
The following books are due to arrive in May.
A "*" indicates a starred review in Booklist,
Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews or Publishers Weekly,
Reserve books at the front desk.
FICTION:
Place in the Country / Elizabeth Adler
Columbus Affair / Steve Berry
Guilt by Degrees / Marcia Clark **
Storm / Clive Cussler
Honor / Janet Dailey
XO / Jeffery Deaver *
Wicked Business / Janet Evanovich
Porch Lights / Dorothea Benton Frank
Summerland / Elin Hilderbrand
Stonecutter / Camilla Lackberg **
Let Love Find You / Johanna Lindsey
Body in the Boudoir / Katherine Hall Page
Little Night / Luanne Rice *
The Lifeboat / Charlotte Rogan **
Lower River / Paul Theroux **
Heartbroken / Lisa Unger **
Don't Ever Get Old / Daniel Friedman **
NON-FICTION:
Mrs. Kennedy and Me / Clint Hill *
Prague Winter / Madeleine Albright **
Drift / Rachel Maddow
Presidents Club / Nancy Gibbs
Non-Fiction
New/Current/Bestselling Non-Fiction:
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand **
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larsen **
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller **
Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff **
Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard **
Rin Tin Tin by Susan Orlean **
A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
Pinched by Don Peck
Death in the City of Light by David King **
Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
Travel As a Political Act by Rick Steves
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
*=Received a starred review in Booklist and/or Publishers Weekly
Young Adult Books
BEASTLY by Alex Flinn
A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.
AFTER by Amy Efaw
In complete denial that she is pregnant, straight-A student and star athlete Devon Davenport leaves her baby in the trash to die, and after the baby is discovered, Devon is accused of attempted murder.
ANNA AND THE FRENCH KISS by Stephanie Perkins
When Anna's romance-novelist father sends her to an elite American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes, and meets an amazing boy who becomes her best friend, in spite of the fact that they both want something more.
HERO by Mike Lupica
Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.
MATCHED by Ally Condie
All her life, Cassia has never had a choice. The Society dictates everything: when and how to play, where to work, where to live, what to eat and wear, when to die, and most importantly to Cassia as she turns 17, who to marry. When she is Matched with her best friend Xander, things couldn't be more perfect. But why did her neighbor Ky's face show up on her match disk as well?
FRONT AND CENTER by Catherine Perkins Murdock
After five months of sheer absolute craziness D.J. just wants to be in the background again. But it turns out other folks have big plans for D.J. Like her coach. College scouts. All the town hoops fans. A certain Red Bend High School junior who's keen for romance and karaoke. Not to mention Brian Nelson, who she should not be thinking about! Who she is done with, thank you very much. But who keeps showing up anyway . . .
THE COMPOUND by S. A. Bodeen
After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in a vast underground compound built by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all.
SAPPHIQUE by Catherine Fisher
After his escape from the sentient prison, Incarceron, Finn finds that the Realm is not at all what he expected, and he does not know whether he is to be its king, how to free his imprisoned friends, or how to stop Incarceron's quest to be free of its own nature.
PROM KINGS AND DRAMA QUEENS by Dorian Cirrone
When high school junior Emily Bennet is caught between a new relationship with the boy of her dreams and planning an alternative prom with her longtime rival on the student newspaper, it forces her to think about her values and make a difficult decision.
FLASH BURNOUT by L.K. Madigan
Telephoto lens. Zoom. In a shutter release millisecond, Blake's world turns upside down. The nameless woman with the snake tattoo is not just another assignment. 'That's my mom!' gasps Marissa. Saturated self-portrait: Blake, nice guy, class clown, always trying to get a laugh, not sure where to focus. Contrast. Shannon, Blake's GF. Total. Babe. Marissa, just a friend and fellow photographer. Shannon loves him; Marissa needs him. How is he supposed to frame them both in one shot?
BLOOD ON MY HANDS by Todd Strasser
At a high school party, a girl finds her best friend murdered, only to be discovered holding the weapon and accused of the crime.
WORLD WAR Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
They survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of them are still haunted by that terrible time? Told in the haunting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, this is the only record of the plague years.