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The
following are among the latest additions to Skidompha's
collection of books, audio books and videos:
The following is partial list of books,
DVDs, and Audio Books (CDs) chosen by the Library’s
selection committee and whenever possible, in response to
patron requests. New titles are always coming in so check
back often!
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New Titles for
June 2008
New Non-fiction
Roberts, Cokie
Ladies of Liberty: the women who shaped our nation
Using primary sources and
recounting with insight and humor, the author brings to
life the extraordinary accomplishments of women who
shaped America in Colonial times.
Michio, Kaku
Physics of the Impossible
From psychokinesis and
telepathy to time travel and parallel universes, this
best seller explores phenomena that most folks regard as
impossible, but just might not be.
Vonnegut, Kurt
Armageddon in Retrospect
These twelve
previously-unpublished essays on war and peace by a
favorite author are characterized by rueful humor.
Weller, Sheila Girls
Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon – and
the journey of a generation
The lives of these
enduring popular musicians embody the collective
experience of American girls of the 60s and the history
of the now mythic Sixties era.
Tyer, Pico The Open
Road: the global journey of the 14th
Dalai Lama
Friend and follower of
the great Tibetan Buddhist, who travels the world but
can never go home to his Chinese-occupied country, the
author presents the leader as icon, monk, philosopher
and politician.
Russo, Richard, ed. A
Healing Touch: true stories of life, death and hospice
Six essays by Maine
authors comprise this collection of intensely personal
and profoundly moving end-of-life experiences. In
memory of Zee Ward.
Grey, Lawrence How to
Win a Local Election: a complete step by step guide
For those starting out in
the process of elective politics, or thinking about it,
this handbook covers planning a campaign, marketing the
candidate, financial reporting requirements, and
strategies for winning one of 500,000 local offices.
Greer, Germaine
Shakespeare's Wife
This richly textured
account of the life of an extraordinary personality
represents as well the lives of ordinary women in
Stratford and similar towns in the late 16th
and early 17th centuries.
Robinson, John Elder
Look Me in the Eye: my life with Asperger's
Once termed social
deviants, victims of Asperger's syndrome, a kind of
autism, are unable to communicate easily, yet often have
savant-like capabilities. The author, himself a victim,
explains the disease while telling his life story from
his painful childhood to careers as a guitar-builder to
the stars and an engineer for a big toy company.
Penn, Mark J.
Microtrends: the small forces behind tomorrow's big
changes
A social analyst
identifies 70 small patterns of behavior in our culture
that wield great influence on business, politics, and
our personal lives. Examples: retirees are continuing to
work; teens are knitting; geeks are heroes; women are
driving technology.
New Fiction
McBride, James Song
Yet Sung
Set on antebellum
Maryland’s Eastern Shore, where abolitionists faced off
against nefarious slave traders in a battle that brought
economic hardship to both white and black families, this
story depicts those trapped in the middle: poor watermen
and oyster fishermen, a group of America's most original
and colorful pioneers.
Johansen, Iris
Quicksand
In this thriller a
forensic sculptor still reeling from the disappearance
of her daughter takes matters into her own hands,
enlisting the skills of a clairvoyant to find her.
Russell, Mary Doria
Dreamers of the Day
Fulfilling her life-long
dream to travel to Egypt, a 40-year-old spinster in the
1920s meets the historical figures involved in the Cairo
Peace Conference, which transforms the Arab world.
Berg, Elizabeth The
Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: and other small acts of
liberation
Exploring the everyday
challenges that women face, these stories feature
heroines of all ages who brave the emotional landmines
underlying domestic routine to break free from
convention – if only for a moment.
Trollope, Joanna
Friday Nights
When a British retiree
invites two young single mothers from the neighborhood
to her flat, a Friday night tradition begins, and their
stories unravel as their friendships develop, are
sabotaged, but endure.
Clark, Mary Higgins
Where Are You Now?
Her brother has been
missing for many years, making only a Mother's Day call
once a year, when his lawyer-sister vows to find him, no
matter what the cost, no matter what secrets have pushed
him into hiding.
De Los Santos, Marisa
Belong to Me
The dynamics of family
and friends collide as a confirmed urban dweller moves
to the suburbs, in spite of her fears of becoming
isolated in a stale environment.
Parks, Tim Cleaver
After a tangle with the
president, a TV journalist peaks in popularity, until
his son publishes a scathing denunciation of him as man
and father; the journalist slinks off to the Tyrol to
lick his wounds and decide how to rebuilt his life.
Nemirovsky, Irene
David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof
Affair
In these four early
novellas, the author of Suite Francaise develops
multi-faceted figures whose questionable beliefs and
actions compel us to re-examine our own.
Patterson, James
Sundays at Tiffany's
A rich but lonely child
enjoys the company of an imaginary companion, and as an
adult is no less lonely, and still trapped by her
overbearing mother, until she meets a man much like the
imaginary one she knew in her early years.
Macomber, Debbie
Twenty Wishes
When a group of widows
meets to draw up a list of things they always wanted to
do but haven't, one among them decides to volunteer at a
local school, where an eight-year-old girl waits to
change the widow's life.
Baldacci, David The
Whole Truth
IN this terrifying global
thriller, a man who leads the world’s largest defense
contractor butts heads with an agent from a secret
multi-national intelligence agency and an ambitious
female journalist.
Price, Richard Lush
Life
The author peels away
layers of class and history on Manhattan’s Lower East
Side, in a book about a seemingly random shooting and
the unreliable witnesses who report it.
Berenson, Alex The
Ghost War
China moves relentlessly
forward as a security threat to the US in this thriller
in which an inadvertent naval accident sparks a conflict
neither power really wants.
Fairstein, Linda
Killer Heat
In steaming hot
Manhattan, a DA is faced with three brutal murders and a
serial killer who has a twisted obsession with the
military.
Erdrich, Louise The
Plague of Doves
The unsolved murder of a
North Dakota farming family affects generations to come,
both in a small white town near the farm, and on the
neighboring Ojibwe reservation, where a survivor of the
subsequent lynching has an all-too-intimate knowledge of
the violent past.
Sarvas, Mark Harry,
Revisited
This is the funny and
heart-wrenching story of one man’s struggle with the
truth when, mourning his wife, he is drawn to the
characters at a local café.
Coben, Harlan Hold
Tight
How much do parents
really want to know about their kids? Strange behaviors,
a high school suicide, and signs of something deep and
sinister infecting the community mobilize a boy's
parents to break into his computer.
Cannell, Stephen J.
Three Shirt Deal
An internal affairs
investigation concerning a ruthless cop who may have
framed a small time crook for murdering his mother leads
detectives to a violent Hispanic gang, a millionaire
power broker, and the front runner in the LA mayoral
race.
Hustvedt, Siri Sorrows
of an American
A brother and sister
return to their Minnesota home to settle their father’s
estate, and find a mysterious letter, calling into
question the larger questions of art and madness, mind
and spirit.
Margolin, Phillip
Executive Privilege
Hired to follow a pretty
student interning in D.C.’s halls of power, a private
detective tails her to a secret meeting with the
President; the next day she’s dead.
Fowler, Karen Joy
Wit’s End
A woman unraveling the
mystery of her father’s life learns that her godmother,
a mystery writer, has modeled a character after him in
one of her books, and in that book he has murdered three
people.
Wolitzer, Meg The
Ten-Year Nap
Four women who have taken
time off from their careers for parenting are now faced
with decisions about the future, and the challenge of
reinventing themselves.
Woods, Stuart Santa Fe
Dead
Having escaped custody
after her arrest for plotting to murder her husband, a
very bad woman continues to chase him, threatening his
life and that of his new girlfriend, and luring into her
web as well any new rich man who crosses her path.
Martin, Lee River of
Heaven
A solitary, elderly gay
man keeps company only with his Bassett hound, until a
neighbor breaks into his life, and a dark secret
involving a childhood friend mysteriously killed on
train tracks comes back to haunt him.
Hanna, Chris Missy
Set in the Wild West,
where laudanum, or liquid opium, is called Missy, this
story stars a 19-year-old girl traveling the wagon trail
from San Francisco to the boomtowns of the Sierra Nevada
intent on fleecing the silver miners and having a
marvelous time.
Sanford, John
Phantom Prey
A widow returning to her
large house in a wealthy suburb finds blood on the
walls, and her daughter missing – a daughter who has
been hanging out with a group of Goths.
Chiaverini, Jennifer
The Winding Ways Quilt
When two of the eight
founding members of a longstanding quilting club decide
to leave and carve new paths for themselves, newcomers
are invited in.
Tanenbaum, Robert K.
Escape
In the courtroom trial of
a NYU poly sci professor accused of murdering her three
children, the forces of good and evil clash as jurors
question how to deal with supposedly “God-inspired” acts
of murder and mayhem.
Hoffman, Alice The
Third Angel
Intersecting in London,
three women of different generations come to their
separate crossroads, having fallen in love with the
wrong men, each woman saving others and being saved in
return, in spite of the forces toward self-destruction.
Perry, Thomas Fidelity
What secrets, so
masterfully hid, could explain the shooting down of a
suburban husband, running off in the middle of the night
after emptying his and his wife’s bank account?
Clark, Carol Higgins
Zapped
On the night of the New
York City blackout of 2003, a couple returns to their
new loft to find a nervous thief in the closet, who is
searching for a hidden safe the couple knows nothing
about.
Deveraux, Jude Secrets
In this sweet love story,
a woman who has loved a man secretly since age twelve
eventually becomes his child's nanny, in order to be
close to him, but discovers all around her that people
are not what they seem to be.
Koontz, Dean Odd Hours
A telepathic fry cook
haunted by dreams of an all-encompassing red tide is
pulled to the sea, to a small CA coastal town where
nothing is at is seems.
New Mysteries
Barron, Stephanie A
Flaw in the Blood
This
historically-atmospheric tale of pursuit begins in Queen
Victoria's troubled court, as Prince Albert lies dying,
and the Queen's barrister is attacked while traveling in
the Queen's carriage.
Leon, Donna The Girl
of His Dreams
Despite the devoted,
ethical Commissario’s best efforts, a child’s death goes
unpunished – a gypsy child in Venice, who haunts his
dreams and causes him to take action.
Page, Katherine Hall
The Body in the Gallery
When a caterer/sleuth
providing food to a Beacon Hill art museum learns that
her gift of a painting has been switched for a forgery,
she vows to get to the bottom of it, but is derailed
when a corpse is found in an art installation.
Lovesey, Peter The
Headhunters
When a half-naked female
body washes up on a beach, a female inspector works to
identify the victim; a second corpse throws suspicion
onto the ex-con boyfriend of the inspector’s best buddy.
Turnbull, Peter No
Stone Unturned
When Yorkshire police
find the body of a man who has been missing for 10
years, the DCI suspects the bossy widow, nicknamed the
long-haired colonel by her husband – until two more
bodies are found, pointing to political extremists and
respected local businessmen.
Meyer, Deon Devil’s
Peak
In South Africa, a
retired KGB-trained assassin working in a motorcycle
repair shop is pulled out of his quiet life when robbers
kill his son in a botched gas station robbery,
propelling him into a one-man rampage against those who
prey on children.
George, Elizabeth
Careless in Red
After the senseless
murder of his wife, a detective retreats to Cornwall's
cliffs, where he is distracted from his grief by the
body of a young man apparently fallen to his death – or
pushed.
Stanley, Michael A
Carrion Death
This new Botswana series
debut stars a rotund male detective investigating the
murder of a man found in the desert, ravaged by hyenas,
which leads to a deadly international scam.
Raichev, R.T.
Assassins at Ospreys
In this Henry James meets
Agatha Christie psychological whodunit, a mystery writer
gets caught up in a gothic game of wits involving a
tragic car accident, the two women it brings together,
and one of the drivers, now dying and wanting to make
amends.
Stark, Richard Dirty
Money
A master criminal takes a
turn for the worse when, after hiding the loot from an
aborted bank robbery in a church choir loft, he plots to
reclaim the stolen goods.
Abrahams, Peter
Delusion
Twenty years after a
pregnant graduate student helped convict her boyfriend’s
alleged murderer, new evidence has completely exonerated
him, and after his release the student, now married to
the police chief, grapples with her mistake as strange
events occur.
New in Large Print
Baldacci, David The
Whole Truth
In this terrifying global
thriller, a man who leads the world’s largest defense
contractor butts heads with an agent from a secret
multi-national intelligence agency and an ambitious
female journalist.
Kingston, Beryl
Octavia
Dreaming of changing the
world, a determined young woman finds a role in the
suffragette movement – until distracted by an
irresistibly dashing young man.
New Audiobooks
Selected Shorts:
Wondrous Women
Strong female
protagonists star in passionate stories dedicated to
mothers, daughters, wives and lovers.
Lukacs, John
“Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat”
As Hitler’s armies were
rapidly sweeping westward, Churchill’s first speech as
Prime Minister became a pivotal point in world history.
This audiobook includes a bonus recording of Churchill
himself giving the speech.
Barker, Clive Mister
B. Gone
In this horror story, the
medieval devil speaks directly to his reader in the
devil's never-before-published memoirs penned in 1438.
O’Farrell, Maggie The
Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
A young woman who lives
quietly as the owner of a consignment shop is stunned to
learn that a great-aunt whom she never knew existed is
being released from a mental institution where she has
been locked away for years, and who has named her
great-niece her custodian.
Angelou, Maya
Celebrations: Rituals of peace and prayer
This collection of poems
of peace and the spirit should soothe and inspire us in
difficult times.
Gabaldon, Diana
Dragonfly in Amber
When a successful
physician and recent widow returns to the Scottish
Highlands with her grown daughter, the visit unearths
secrets from the far distant past – as far back as the
warring clans of the Jacobite Rebellion.
Shatner, William Up
Till Now
Funny, self-deprecating
story of Shatner’s life, from Star Trek to Boston Legal
to his goofy commercials for Priceline. Beam us aboard,
Captain Kirk.
New Films
The Kite Runner
In Kabul at the end of the monarchy, a boy betrays
his childhood friend, and takes the pain and guilt of
that act with him as he and his father escape to
America.
Mongolian Ping Pong
In this humorous film, a ping pong ball found
floating in a stream becomes the source of wonderment
for 3 young boys who live in the remote grasslands of
Mongolia, a landscape unchanged since the time of
Genghis Khan.
Once An Irish
busker meets a Czech flower seller while singing on the
streets of Dublin; they write beautiful music together,
so why is she keeping her distance from him? Presenting
the real Dublin with all its affluence and poverty, the
film is filled with appealing folk-pop music.
Aberdeen When
a beautiful, feisty Scottish woman finally has her life
together, her mother calls to ask her to bring back to
her the estranged father – and the adventure begins.
I, the Worst of Them
All In 17th century Mexico, a
brilliant poet enters the convent in order to pursue her
love of writing, becoming world famous, until the
Inquisition pits a woman-hating Archbishop against her,
and a local aristocrat becomes her protectress and
erotic muse.
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