New DVDs out this Week!

"Battle: Los Angeles" - UFOs are no longer a mystery and the last stand against them is in the City of Angels - stars Aaron Eckhart and Bridget Moynahan

"Hall Pass" - wild comedy of husbands and wives starring Jason Sudeikis ("Saturday Night Live") and Christina Applegate

"Kill The Irishman" - organized crime families have a turf war in 1970s Cleveland - stars Ray Stevenson, Val Kilmer and Christopher Walken

"Mooz-Lum" - much applauded drama about life seen from the viewpoint of a black Muslim college freshman - cast features Danny Glover and Nia Long

"Red Riding Hood" - fantasy/adventure twist on the time-honored fairy tale starring Amanda Seyfried and Gary Oldman

New Audiobooks!

The husband-and-wife team of Sam and Remi Fargo are used to hunting for treasure, but they aren't used to hunting for people - until an investigator friend of their goes missing and they promise to search for him. On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Italy, and Siberia, the Fargos find themselves embroiled with black-market fossils and a skeleton that could just turn the history of human evolution on its head.

Raised by the assassin hired to kill her in infancy, Princess Alana of Lubinia unsuccessfully contacts her father the king and is imprisoned as a pretender by the handsome captain of the palace guards, to whom she is betrothed when her claims are proven. By the best-selling author of the Malory series.

David Brooks reveals that success isn't all about money and fame, but about quality of life and the ability to provide for others. Here, listeners will discover that the most important aspects of success are often taken for granted.

In 1933, President Roosevelt personally selected William E. Dodd to be the United States ambassador to Nazi Germany. Dodd took his family with him, including his daughter Martha. Initially enamored with the Nazi party and its passion, Martha supported the Third Reich. However, when Hitler's violent policies became apparent, Martha changed her opinion and watched in horror. Here, author Erik Larson offers a chilling first-person account of Germany's transformation under Hitler's rule.

The Astral is a huge rose-colored old pile of an apartment building in the gentrifying neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. For decades it was the happy home of poet Harry Quirk and his wife, Luz, a nurse, and their two children. But Luz has found some poems of Harry's that ignite her long-simmering suspicions of infidelity, and he's been summarily kicked out. He now has to reckon with the consequences of his literary, marital, financial, and parental failures.

NPR Previews Top Summer Reads

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Sign up for our Novel Destinations Adult Summer Reading Book Club! Travel the world by reading any book that takes place in another country or culture. You will receive 1 raffle ticket for every book you read and be entered to win our weekly raffle prize.

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Lilian Jackson Braun Dies at 97

Popular mystery author Lillian Jackson Braun died this past Saturday at the age of 97. She is well known for her "The Cat Who..." mystery series, which she had been writing since 1966. Read the full New York Times article here.

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New Staff Picks Added

Staff Picks are located in the lobby. Browse the selections or flip through the accompanying binder with the titles and their reviews.

Newly Added:

Angela Russo is thirty-three years old and single, stuck in a job she doesn't love and a life that seems, somehow, to have just happened. Though she inherited a flair for Italian cooking from her grandmother, she never has the time; for the past six months, her oven has held only sweaters. Tacked to her office bulletin board is a picture torn from a magazine of a cottage on the coast of Maine, a reminder to Angela that there are other ways to live, even if she can't seem to figure them out.
One day at work, Angela clicks on a tiny advertisement in the corner of her computer screen "Do Soulmates Exist?" - and finds herself at a dating website, where she stumbles upon "MaineCatch," a thirty-five-year-old sailing instructor with ice-blue eyes. To her great surprise, she strikes up a dizzying correspondence with MaineCatch - yet as her online relationship progresses, life in the real world takes a nosedive. Interpreting this confluence of events as a sign, Angela impulsively decides to risk it all and move to Maine.

But things don't work out quite as she expected. Far from everything familiar, and with little to return to, Angela begins to rebuild her life from the ground up, moving into a tiny cottage and finding work at a local coffee shop. To make friends and make ends meet, she leads a cooking class, slowly discovering the pleasures and secrets of her new small community, and - perhaps - a way to connect her heritage to a future she is only beginning to envision.






A long-lost letter arriving at its destination fifty years after it was sent lures Edie Burchill to crumbling Milderhurst Castle, home of the three elderly Blythe sisters, where Edie's mother was sent to stay as a teenager during World War II.
Nearly twenty years after her family nurses a wounded enemy pilot back to health, London playwright Queenie attends the deathbed of her father and is haunted by memories of an unspeakable death and a heartbreaking disappearance.Another unforgettable tale weaving history and mystery from the bestselling author of The House At Riverton and The Forgotten Garden.

New Audiobooks!

The discovery of two murder victims who were killed twenty years earlier is complicated by the body of a third, recent victim at the same location, a case that compels detective Patrik Hedstrom to investigate a feuding clan of misfits, religious fanatics, and criminals.






Ayla is training to become a Zelandoni, one of the community's spiritual leaders and healers. She becomes the acolyte to the Zelandoni for the Ninth Cave and begins the series of intensive journeys that are part of the sacred training. But as she struggles to find a balance between her calling and her duties as a new mother, her pursuits begin to take a toll on her relationship with Jondalar.





Cotton Malone is no stranger to adventure; he has defended his country in some of the world's most exotic locations. However, he now faces an enemy much closer to home, a clandestine group with considerable influence and a history dating back to the formation of the U.S. Constitution.





With her knack for being in trouble's way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover Eric Northman and his "child" Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, Sookie is drawn in to the blot--which is much more complicated than she knows.