The Big Blue Brain

Did you know the library offers books in large print? Here are just a few new titles:

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

In 1996, Hanna Heath, a young Australian book conservator is called to analyze the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a priceless six-hundred-year-old Jewish prayer book that has been salvaged from a destroyed Bosnian library. When Hanna discovers a series of artifacts in the centuries' old, she unwittingly exposes an international cover up.

Blonde Faith by Walter Mosley

When L.A. detective Easy Rawlins'friend Christmas Black leaves his adopted daughter on Easy's doorstep and then disappears, Easy thinks the worst.  Things get even more complicated when Easy's friend Raymond "Mouse" Alexander, whom the police are after, disappears as well.  And Easy can't stop thinking about Bonnie Shay, the woman he pushed away.

Snowfall at Willow Lake by Susan Wiggs

When international lawyer Sophie Bellamy survives a hostage situation, she remembers what matters most — the children she loves back home. Haunted by regrets, she returns to the idyllic Catskills village of Avalon on the shores of Willow Lake, determined to repair the bonds with her family. There Sophie discovers the surprising rewards of small-town life—including an unexpected passion for Noah Shepherd, the local veterinarian. Noah has a healing touch for anything with four legs, but he's never had any luck with women—until Sophie. -- From Amazon.com

Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading RolesKathleen Turner has always lived her life according to her own rules. The screen icon opens up about her own life--both personal and professional -- the risks she's taken, and the lessons she's learned from her film and stage career, 20-year marriage (and recent separation), raising her daughter, and her successful struggle with rheumatoid arthritis.

 Detailed and timely information on accommodations, restaurants, and local attractions highlight these updated travel guides, which feature all-new covers, a two-color interior design, symbols to indicate budget options, must-see ratings, multi-day itineraries, Smart Travel Tips, helpful bulleted maps, tips on transportation, guidelines for shopping excursions, and other valuable features.

Counsels readers on how to make sense of everyday transitions, from moving and unemployment to having a baby and retiring, in a step-by-step guide that explains how to transform stressful changes into challenging experiences by building on one's strengths and cutting one's losses.

Provides advice for writing a college admissions essay, covering how to choose a topic, craft an essay in under an hour, and revise according to flow, consistancy, and grammatical errors, and includes a sampling of real essays as examples.

                       

Yearning for something new to watch?  Don't miss our new releases at the library!  Here are some of our amazing new titles....





Becoming Jane                                            Martian Child                                   



Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium                Goya's Ghosts                          



30 Days of Night                                                    Game Plan



American Gangster                            Beowulf   



Dan in Real Life                                           No Country for Old Men  



Michael Clayton

Here are just a few of the new fiction books at the library, stop by to browse them all!

Jennifer Kaufman's A Version of the Truth.

At the age of thirty, newly single and without a college degree, Cassie Shaw desperately needs a decent paycheck. Which is why, against all her principles, she lies on her résumé for an office job at an elite university--and then finds herself employed in academia by two professors who are as rare as the birds she covets. One of her new bosses is Professor William Conner, a sexy, handsome, cheerfully aristocratic expert in animal behavior. Soon, under Conner's charismatic tutelage, Cassie carefully begins her personal transformation....--From publisher description.

Arturo Pérez-Reverte's The painter of battles : a novel Faulques, a war photographer, witnessed most of the wars of the end of the 20th Century, but he was never able to capture the photo that would explain the chaos of the universe. Now, as continues to try to understand it, he starts painting a grand circular fresco on the inside wall of a tower on the Mediterranean, disturbed by the memories of a woman he can never forget, and an unexpected visit: a man who wants to kill him.   Walter Mosley's Diablerie : a novel Ben Dibbuk has a good job, an accomplished wife, a bright college-age daughter, and a patient young mistress. Even as he goes through the motions of everyday life, however, inside he feels nothing. The explanation for this emotional void lies in the years he spent as a blacked-out drunk before pulling his life together--years in which he knows he committed acts he doesn't remember. Then a woman from his past turns up at a gala for his wife's new gig at a magazine called Diablerie and makes it clear that she remembers something he doesn't. Their encounter sets wheels in motion that will propel Dibbuk toward new knowledge, and perhaps the chance to feel again.--From amazon.com.

Minette Walters'  The Chameleon's Shadow

Under suspicion for murder, a British war veteran is forced to confront the issues behind his desperate existence before it's too late: Has he always been the duplicitous chameleon that his ex-fiancée accuses him of being? Can he control this newly apparent sinister side of his personality? And why, if he truly hates women, does he in the end seek help from a woman--someone as straightforward and self-disciplined as he is unsure and seemingly out of control--to repair the damage to his mind?--From publisher description.