Stuart Woods.... Lucid Intervals

Stone Barrington continues to enjoy good food, good drink, and good sex provided by an eager succession of beautiful women in bestseller Woods's smooth 18th novel to feature the New York City attorney (after Kisser). Unstable ex-wife Dolce Bianci once again menaces Stone; walking catastrophe Herbie Fisher pays Stone a $1 million retainer to keep him, Herbie, out of trouble; and attractive British intelligence officer Felicity Devonshire hires Stone to find Stanley Whitestone, an ex-agent still wanted by her superiors after 12 years and recently spotted in New York. Stone walks a tricky ethical line by agreeing to work for Jim Hackett, who owns a large private security firm, and who may in fact be Whitestone. Stone's powerful cop friend, Dino Bacchetti, is ready to do favors or share a Knob Creek bourbon at Elaine's. Woods mixes danger and humor into a racy concoction that will leave readers thirsty for more.

New Audiobooks!

When he is ambushed in Indonesia, Bourne fakes his death in an attempt to discover his enemy's true identity. Meanwhile, an American jet is shot down over Egypt, apparently by an Iranian missile. Soraya Moore is tasked with handling the situation. However, when Bourne's search coincides with Moore's mission, they team up to take down a common enemy.



After crushing his enemies and wedding the Queen Sharleyan, Cayleb Ahrmahk transforms the Charisian Empire into Safehold's greatest naval power. However, when the Church of God Awaiting decrees that Charis be destroyed for heresy, Cayleb must call on his friend, warrior-monk Merlin Athrawes, to help him face an impossible battle.





Account of wrongful acts and on-going cover-ups, Jesse Ventura takes a systematic look at the wide gap between what the American government knows and what it reveals to the American people. Topics discussed range from the murder of Abraham Lincoln and the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King to today's bailout plan by the Federal Reserve.



Here, an American art historian turned Army sleuth races to stay one step ahead of Nazi thugs who have absconded with the sacred Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire and their plot to create a Fourth Reich.








In 13 Bankers, prominent economist Simon Johnson and James Kwak show why our future is imperiled by the ideology of finance and by Wall Street's political control of government policy pertaining to it. Johnson and Kwak examine not only how Wall Street's ideology, wealth, and political power among policy makers in Washington led to the financial debacle of 2008, but also what the lessons learned portend for the future. To restore health and balance to our economy, Johnson and Kwak make a radical yet feasible and focused proposal: reconfigure the megabanks to be 'small enought to fail'.

Mission of Honor. Book Signing.

Book Revue in Huntington is hosting a series of book signings this summer; starting with David Weber.

Thursday, July 1st, 7pm

Bestselling science fiction and fantasy author DAVID WEBER will speak
about and sign the latest installment in his Honor Harrington series,
Mission of Honor.

The Star Kingdom of Manticore and the Republic of Haven have been
enemies for Honor Harrington's entire life, and she has paid a price
for the victories she's achieved in that conflict. And now the
unstoppable juggernaut of the mighty Solarian League is on a collision
course with Manticore. The millions who have already died may have
been only a foretaste of the billions of casualties just over the
horizon, and Honor sees it coming.

She's prepared to do anything, risk anything, to stop it, and she has
a plan that may finally bring an end to the Havenite Wars and give
even the Solarian League pause. But there are things not even Honor
knows about. There are forces in play, hidden enemies in motion, all
converging on the Star Kingdom of Manticore to crush the very life out
of it, and Honor's worst nightmares fall short of the oncoming
reality.

But Manticore's enemies may not have thought of everything after all.
Because if everything Honor Harrington loves is going down to
destruction, it won't be going alone.

New York Times Literary Treat of the Week......

Ward, Vicky. The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers.

The aftermath to the collapse of the 158-year-old Wall Street firm is still being played out in today's headlines nearly two years after the event. Ward, a Vanity Fair contributing editor and CNBC commentator, provides perspective going back over a quarter-century to chronicle what led to this fallout. She is able to do so in a fast-moving 270 pages due to choosing not to explain the global banking collapse but instead tell about the Lehman executives who contributed to it. Chief executive Richard Fuld is depicted as creating an environment addicted to money. Second in command T. Christopher Petit tried to turn the destructive tide but also fell prey to the lure of success before dying in 1997. Many in "The Devil's Casino" are pictured as deniers of coming realities which are still coming to light on the evening news.

Reviewed by:Librarian,Bob

New Non-Fiction DVDs

Must See Places of the World - America's National Parks:

Award-winning cinematographers transport viewers on the ultimate escape, a thrilling visual journey to America's most breathtaking national treasures. The National Park System comprises 391 areas covering more than 84 million acres of amazing wildlife and America's most compelling natural landscapes. This set focuses on the grand jewels of the National Parks.

Must See Places of the World - Mystic Places:

With brilliant cinematography, Mystic Lands chronicles a diverse array of sacred sites around the world. The idyllic places where man communes with the sacred are as varied as they are fascinating. Viewers can explore the vibrant mystic traces from ancient cultures, from tantric meditation amidst the Shangri-La beauty of Bhutan, to the never photographed Zoroastrian eternal flame glowing bright for 2,500 years in Iran, and more.

Must See Places of the World:

Viewers can experience a cavalcade of stunning and awe-inspiring sights whenever they want. The Must-See itinerary includes unforgettable visits to Victoria Falls; the Taj Mahal; the Great Wall of China; the Galapagos Islands; the Great Barrier Reef; Serengeti National Park; Angkor Wat; and much More!

Furious Love

Life outdoes movie melodrama in this raucous, intimate, dual biography of Hollywood's ultimate It Couple. As told by journalist Kashner (Sinatraland) and biographer Schoenberger (Dangerous Muse: The Life of Caroline Blackwood), the romance between the glittering Tinseltown diva and the sonorous, self-loathing Shakespearean reprises their co-starring movie roles: it has the passion of Cleopatra (the Vatican condemned their on-set adultery as erotic vagrancy), the riotous merriment of The Taming of the Shrew, the poisonous marital fights of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and a cast of thousands of paparazzi and shrieking fans. The well-researched narrative—the authors make good use of Burton's engaging love letters and diary entries—offers juicy details of his epic alcoholism and her towering tantrums, and is fascinated with the jewelry pieces, like the Taj Mahal diamond that Taylor famously extracted from Burton as tribute or penance. But from the binges and bling emerges a revealing portrait of the magnetic qualities—her vulgar warmth, his soulful virility—that glued the couple together. Here is that rare love story that holds one's interest beyond the wedding—and a reminder, after the thin gruel of Brangelina, of what a feast celebrity can be.

New York Times Literary Treat of the Week......

Deaver, Jeffery. The Burning Wire.

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.” Compared to Claudius in Hamlet all that besets Lincoln Rhyme in this latest adventure may not be sorrowful, but they do occur all at once. First, the quadriplegic forensics genius must content with tamperers of New York City’s electrical grid who destroy a bus and create mayhem that could eventually bring the metropolis to a standstill. Second, Rhyme is aiding from afar Mexican police that might apprehend assassin Richard “The Watchmaker” Logan who escaped in Deaver’s Cold Moon. Last, a visit from a fellow wheelchair-bound party holds out hope that Rhyme may one day rise out of his apparatus and the chronic bad health that has accompanied it.

Other "Lincoln Rhyme" books by Jeffery Deaver at Merrick Library:

The Broken Window
The Cold Moon
The Twelfth Card
The Vanished Man
The Stone Monkey
The Empty Chair

reviewed by librarian, Bob.