Publisher: Fox Home Entertainment
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/28/2006
UPC: 00024543267287

Who would have thought that a forensic investigation show could be so funny? Doctor Temperence Brennan and FBI Agent Seeley Booth work together to solve crimes, but their personalities clash- genius geek vs. regular joe.  With a wonderful cast, 'Bones' delivers crime drama with a bittersweet tinge.

Publisher: MIRA
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 1/1/2007
ISBN: 9780778324102
ISBN-10: 0778324109

"To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor." Can you read that opening and not want to find out what happens next in this Victorian murder mystery? After Lady Julia Grey is widowed, she finds threatening letters that were sent to her husband shortly before his death. Brisbane and Lady Julia team up in an investigation that reveals family secrets and starts a simmering flirtation between the two.

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Publisher: HQN
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 8/1/2008
ISBN: 9780373772995
ISBN-10: 0373772998

Not the movie from the 1980s, it's the new contemporary romance from RITA award-winning author Kristan Higgins! Chastity O'Neill loves living in her small Maine hometown, even if everyone knows her as "one of the guys." Nearly six feet tall, and with four older (firefighter) brothers, Chas doesn't even think her long-time crush regards her as anything but a younger sister. When a hot new doctor moves to town, maybe she can change her image. Chas is a gutsy protagonist who really wants to make positive change in her life. Not going with the classic chick-lit makeover, Chas takes an EMT class to overcome her fear of blood. Now that's guts!

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Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 5/18/2006
ISBN: 9780399246388
ISBN-10: 039924638X

Rossamund Bookchild, an orphan, leaves his orphanage in the city to become a lamplighter for the Emperor. Along the way to his new job he meets with monsters, monster hunters and begins to question everything he knows about the empire. The second book in the series is Lamplighter.

Publisher: Trafalgar Square
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 3/30/2005
ISBN: 9780091897314
ISBN-10: 0091897319

A fascinating and earthy account of the pitfalls (many) and the joys (many) of restoring a squalidly filthy, crumbling sixteenth century castle in North Wales.  The spirit of the castle and its history inspire Judy and her fiancé, Peter, to remain determined despite near destitution as they pursue their goal. This book is an intriguing testament to optimism, will-power, perseverance and dedication to the very essence of history – a sense of place.

Publisher: New American Library
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 7/1/2008
ISBN: 9780451224057
ISBN-10: 0451224051

A gentle, lively and picturesque descriptive novel that is filled with mystery and old-style glamour.  The reader can almost see Grace Kelly and Cary Grant starring in the lead roles of a movie version . . . A sequel to “A Rather Lovely Inheritance,” this enjoyable and relaxing read features Penny, a new heiress and her boyfriend, Jeremy who take off for a “splurge” summer on the French Riviera.  But in the midst of bidding on a dream yacht at an auction, they uncover a centuries old rivalry involving the theft of a strange priceless treasure linked to Beethoven’s Germany.

Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 5/27/2008
ISBN: 9781596433519
ISBN-10: 1596433515

A richly described tale of a penniless girl growing up in the rough, unprincipled world of the London streets in the late 1700’s.  Cat is luckier than most for she was “adopted” into the “family” of theater folks at Theater Royal in Covent Garden.  But danger lurks inside the theater as well as outside.  Cat is never safe – especially after she overhears a conversation about a diamond.  Who can she trust?  Children 6th grade and up will enjoy this first novel about Cat – there’s more to come!

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Publisher: HarperCollins
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/1/2007
ISBN: 9780060890285
ISBN-10: 0060890282

This is Gloria Whelan’s best, so far!  Political intrigue, greed, duplicity, desire for power are all motivations that lie behind the outward faces of the main characters of this novel.  These “shadows” make 16- year- old Julia’s adventure across the Middle Eastern deserts with her diplomat father on a tour of the Ottoman controlled cities of Instanbul, Damascus and Palmyra, increasingly dangerous.  Even her own father isn’t who he seems.  A good read for middle school grade youth and adults who like historical fiction.

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Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/1/2007
ISBN: 9781570615436
ISBN-10: 1570615438

Winston of Churchill (Canada), a fierce, brave bear, teaches the other bears about why the ice is melting in their world.  Using the words of his famous namesake, Winston rallies the bears to convince humans to save the bear’s arctic home. An amusing yet serious book which teaches children what they can do to help the world as well as introducing them to a real, heroic leader in history.  This is a book that can be read on several levels.

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 9/25/2007
ISBN: 9781416911715
ISBN-10: 1416911715

Females need to read this book!  This tells the story of 3 women at a time when women couldn’t vote, when women were treated like property, and they couldn’t even enter a bank.  Many of you have probably heard of the Triangle Waist Factory fire, but this book will show you it through the eyes of a Jewish girl, an Italian girl, a rich girl, and the boss’s daughter.

Publisher: HarperTrophy
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 1/1/2008
ISBN: 9780060775759
ISBN-10: 0060775750

Another good female read.  Bella, who is raised by peasants, learns she is a knight’s daughter.  When her father wants her back, Bella’s whole life is changed dramatically.

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 1/8/2008
ISBN: 9781582347394
ISBN-10: 1582347395

Have you ever wondered about letters that are undeliverable?  Do they just stay in post offices for years?  What if one of those letters would have changed the course of history, as we know it?  Three such letters have appeared and Gil must get them back in time.

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/1/2004
ISBN: 9781416905455
ISBN-10: 1416905456

Jiann, Soraya, and Kavi are three young people who will have to join together if they want to defeat the enemy that has come to conquer Farsala.  Will they be able to push aside their hatred towards one another or will it just consume them and their land?  This is the first book of the Farsala Trilogy.

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Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 3/1/2001
ISBN: 9780375811234
ISBN-10: 0375811230

Nim is an unusual girl for she lives with her father on remote island.  One day, when Nim’s father doesn’t return from his scientific research, Nim e-mails an adventure writer for help.  But, what Nim doesn’t know is that the writer is actually a very timid woman who has never had an adventure in her life!  How can she possibly help Nim?

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Publisher: A.A. Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 3/11/2008
ISBN: 9780440422327
ISBN-10: 0440422329

When Nim’s sea lion friend Selkie is kidnapped, Nim and Fred, a marine iguana, go to the rescue.  Their search takes them to a cruise ship with a very bad past.

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Publisher: Gray & Co.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 9/21/2007
ISBN: 9781886228474
ISBN-10: 1886228477

A rock and roll memoir of how jock radio used to be before the big station formats came in and took over.  John Gorman tells how Cleveland WMMS remade rock radio during the 70’s while Cleveland stacked its claim as the “Rock and Roll Capital”!   This story reads just like “WKRP in Cincinnati” except in book form!

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Publisher: Point
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 1/1/2008
ISBN: 9780439922272
ISBN-10: 0439922275

It’s a disaster of epical proportions to be moved from New York City (which Katie knows to be the center of the universe) to the backwoods town of Fir Lake. All her life she and her older sister have trained to be classical ballerinas, but the first day of ballet class in the boondocks consists of “shape and movement”, gentle jogging and three older women in sweatpants and white socks.  Katie can’t believe how awful things have become, and what’s more puzzling is why her older sister doesn’t care.

Publisher: Gadd & Co.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 6/30/2007
ISBN: 9780977405343
ISBN-10: 0977405346

This is an old fashioned read when you’re in the mood for something between Little House on the Prairie and Christie.  After Abby’s mother dies, she is left to raise her younger brother and sisters the best she can. She finds it an overwhelming task to keep house in the 19th century New England. When her father tells Abby she must give up school, she struggles to find a way to have both a family and a future.

Publisher: Penguin Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 6/1/2003
ISBN: 9780142002834
ISBN-10: 0142002836

Many people embrace a simpler lifestyle and talk of the virtue of getting back to nature, but Eustace Conway takes this idea to the extreme.  He lives simply off the land in a teepee in the Appalachian Mountains, making fire from sticks, hunting for his food, and wearing only clothes made from the skins of the animals he hunts. From childhood Conway has taught himself everything he needs to survive on his own without any modern convenience. He has tested his strength, and survival skills with a 2,000 mile hike down the Appalachian Trail, and a journey across America on horseback.  All this because he feels his destiny is to convince Americans to give up their materialistic lifestyles and return with him back to nature.

Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/5/2007
ISBN: 9780316013482
ISBN-10: 031601348X

What to know why you have such a love affair with Starbucks? You’re not drinking out of those green and white cups purely by chance.  Read and find out why it’s not just the caffeine that is addictive at everyone’s favorite coffee shop.

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Publisher: Criterion Collection
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 1/1/2008
UPC: 00715515029926

This film, one of the most spellbinding and beautiful of all movie fantasies, has been restored and polished back to its original luster. It is memorable in part for the wonderful performances of Conrad Veidt as the villain Jafar and Sabu as Apu, the title character, and also for the amazing work of producer Vincent Korda.   The film changed directors three times, spanned two continents and had its filming interrupted by World War II and has gone on to be one of the most treasured British films of all time.  References from this film persist into modern films, most prominently the Disney film Aladdin. The DVD includes commentary from two fans of the film: directors Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.

Publisher: Del Rey
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 1/15/2008
ISBN: 9780345497581
ISBN-10: 0345497589

In a world where humanity lives in cities that rest entirely on great bridges which traverse the world’s seas, orphaned 16 year old Leodora is forced to hide her gender and her identity as she travels the world’s spans across the endless ocean collecting and sharing the myths of cultures as a storyteller.  She meets a musician who also must stay under cover and the combination of their abilities begins to attract the dangerous chaos energy.  Frost creates a fantastical world with secrets and mysteries galore.  This book is followed by Lord Tophet.

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Publisher: Eos
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 6/1/2007
ISBN: 9780061170652
ISBN-10: 0061170658

In a time when the human race is facing a looming crisis that could mean its extinction, a child on Mars named Margaret is isolated from her playmates and develops a rich fantasy life filled with other possible lives.  Little does she know that the other lives she has dreamed up are becoming real and that the other Margarets are all living separate lives on various planets.  The Margarets must discover the mystery of their multiple existence and its relationship to the end of the human race before it is too late.

Publisher: Ghostlight
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 1/1/2008
UPC: 9787915584429
ISBN-10: 791558442922

Author, composer, performer Stew’s autobiographical piece of musical performance art was recorded live for this original cast release of the Tony winning show.  The story follows Stew as he leaves his middle class home in LA and sets out to discover himself as a musician and as a man moving through Amsterdam and Berlin.  The rock score also moves vibrantly from gospel to punk and reflects the wide ranging nature of the story and is completely enjoyable in its own right, apart from the stage performance.

Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 3/6/2007
ISBN: 9780312341015
ISBN-10: 0312341016

Sessums’ funny and bracingly candid memoir details his early years in Mississippi during the sixties and seventies.  Orphaned at age eight and given to asking people to call him Arlene (after the “What’s My Line” panelist), Sessums faces a difficult time in the Deep South.  However, he also meets with much love and understanding.  Through humorous and dark incidents Sessums wonderful writing, often reminiscent of Eudora Welty, carries the reader skillfully through his experiences.

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