When you read through this list of new books each week, do you ever find yourself saying “I want to read that. And that. And that?” But then when you’re looking for your next book, you don’t remember all the ones you said you wanted to read?
Yep, thought so. But the library has you covered. When you browse the the library catalog online, you can now add books to your Wish List. The next time you sign in to the system with your library card and pin, your list will be waiting for you. Cool, huh?
A couple of the books this week are so new they’re not even in the online catalog yet. But be patient, I’m sure they’ll be there soon.
ADULT:
Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 17), by Laurel K. Hamilton
When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she has to warn Sin City’s local authorities what they’re really dealing with. (Library catalog | Amazon
Just Take My Heart, by Mary Higgins Clark (Audiobook)
When her best childhood friend Natalie goes onto life support after an awful accident, Emily O’Connor, a 34-year-old professor at Boston Layman College, begs the hospital to use her dying friend’s heart in a transplant. The transplant recipient? Emily’s other best childhood friend, Alice. But with Natalie’s death and Alice’s heart surgery comes a series of unsettling and complex discoveries that may put Emily’s own life in danger. (Library catalog | Amazon
Crochet: The Complete Guide, by Jane Davis
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The Nixons: A Family Portrait, by Ed Nixon and Karen Olson
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CHILDREN’S:
Horns and Wrinkles, by Joseph Helgerson
Along a magic-saturated stretch of the Mississippi River near Blue Wing, Minnesota, twelve-year-old Claire and her bullying cousin Duke are drawn into an adventure involving Bodacious Deepthink the Great Rock Troll, a helpful fairy, and a group of trolls searching for their fathers. (Library catalog | Amazon
The Green Glass Sea, by Ellen Klages
It is 1943, and 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father–but no one will tell her exactly where he is. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns why: he’s working on a top secret government program. (Library catalog | Amazon
(The above two titles are on the newly released Massachusetts Children’s Book Award list 2009-2010)
Evolving Planet: Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, by Erica Kelly and Richard Kissel
Companion book to the Field Museum’s exhibit Evolving planet. (Library catalog | Amazon
