The following are books that are soon to be released.
To place a hold , just click on the title and then "Request item"and have your library card handy.New Release Alerts For October, 2007
New Release Alerts For October, 2007
Stone Cold by David Baldacci
Oliver Stone, the leader of the mysterious group that calls itself the Camel Club, is both feared and respected by those who've crossed his path. One by one, men from Stone's shadowy past are turning up dead. As the members of the Camel Club fight for their lives, the twists and turns whipsaw, leading to a finale that is as explosive as it is shattering. And when buried secrets are at last violently resurrected, the surviving members of the Camel Club will be changed forever.
Gentlemen Of The Road by Michael Chabon
Chabon summons the rollicking spirit of legendary adventures–from The Arabian Nights to Alexandre Dumas to Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories–in a wonderful new novel brimming with breathless action, raucous humor, cliff-hanging suspense, and a cast of colorful characters worthy of Scheherazade’s most tantalizing tales.
Clapton: the autobiography by Eric Clapton
“I found a pattern in my behavior that had been repeating itself for years, decades even. Bad choices were my specialty, and if something honest and decent came along, I would shun it or run the other way.” With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life in this poignant and honest autobiography.
Diary Of A Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee
A 72-year-old author hires his much younger, sexy neighbor to be his typist so he can spend more time with her. He eventually incurs the jealousy of her boyfriend who schemes to defraud the author.
The Chase by Clive Cussler
It’s 1906 and for two years, the western states of America have been suffering a string of bank robberies by a single man who cold-bloodedly murders any and all witnesses and then vanishes without a trace. Fed up by the depredations of the "Butcher Bandit," the U.S. government brings in the best man they can find--a tall, lean, no-nonsense detective named Isaac Bell, who has caught thieves and killers coast to coast.
T Is For Trespass by Sue Grafton
The latest in the Kinsey Milhone series has the detective matching wits with a sociopath who preys on the elderly in the guise of a home care-giver.
The Book of Old Houses by Sarah Graves
A former hotshot money manager from New York moves to a rural coastal town in Maine where she uncovers a long-buried book with her name written in blood on it. The book is given to the local book historian who turns out to be the first in a series of murders that seemingly surround the now missing book.
The Darkest Evening of the Year by Dean Koontz
Amy Redwing has dedicated her life to the southern California organization she founded to rescue abandoned and endangered golden retrievers. Among dog lovers, she’s a legend for the risks she’ll take to save an animal from abuse. Among her friends, Amy’s heedless devotion is often cause for concern. To widower Brian McCarthy, whose commitment she can’t allow herself to return, Amy’s behavior is far more puzzling and hides a shattering secret.
Inside Inside by James Lipton
Producer, writer and host of InsideThe Actors Studio, Lipton looks back over more than a decade of interviews with the show’s parade of personalities and includes autobiographical flashbacks with quotes from the original interview transcripts.
Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough
McCullough, author of The Thorn Birds, continues her Masters of Rome series with the story of one of history’s most infamous love affairs.
Never Enough by Joe McGinniss
Two fabulously wealthy brothers wind up murdered—one in Hong Kong by his wife who claimed self-defense against his brutal sexual abuse and the other in Greenwich , CT which remains unsolved. McGinniss, author of Fatal Vision, Blind Faith and Cruel Doubt, tells the saga of the Kissel family in all its sordid details.
Breakfast With Buddha by Roland Merullo
Merullo, author of the Revere Beach series and Golfing with God, delivers a comic but affecting spiritual road-trip novel. After his sister decides to give her half of their recently deceased parents’ farm to her guru, Otto Ringling reluctantly begins a cross-country odyssey with the guru in tow. The resulting trip is part comic, part travelogue of the best the Midwest has to offer.
Double Cross by James Patterson
A spate of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. has the whole East Coast on edge. They are like nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. With each murder, the case becomes increasingly complex. There's only one thing Alex knows: the killer adores an audience. The killer has the whole city by its strings--and he'll stop at nothing to become the most terrifying star that Washington D.C. has ever seen.
The Race by Richard North Patterson
Corey Grace—a handsome and charismatic Republican senator from Ohio —is plunged by an act of terrorism into a fierce presidential primary battle with the favorite of the party establishment and a magnetic leader of the Christian right.
Gulf Music by Robert Pinsky
Pinsky, a former Poet Laureate and one of America ’s best-known poets produces this work that revolves around both the Gulf of Mexico and the distance between an author’s thoughts and their expression.
Korea Strait by David Poyer
The 10 th book in the series with Navy commander Dan Lenson has the hero off the coast of Korea on board a South Korean frigate participating in an international training exercise when he discovers a disabled North Korean submarine. Clues abound that North Korea is taking steps to bring about a nuclear war.
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