Adult bestseller:
Nighthawk, a Kurt Austin adventure by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown: A novel from the NUMA Files. Action-packed thriller. The X-37, the most sophisticated aircraft designed, has gone missing on the return leg of its first major mission over the South Pacific. Two other large countries covet this latest technology, sending out their best to find this plane. Kurt and Joe are drafted into this race against the others and they are informed that the X-37 was carrying a dangerous payload of exotic matter that will not be a problem as long as it stays frozen.
Camino Island by John Grisham: Thieves make a daring heist, raiding a secure vault below Princeton University’s Firestone Library. Bruce owns a bookstore in Santa Rosa on Camino Island, making money as a dealer in rare books. Mercer, a young novelist, is approached by a mysterious, elegant woman who apparently works for an even more mysterious company. She offers Mercer a generous amount of money to infiltrate Bruce’s circle of literary friends, working undercover. The idea is to get close enough to learn his secrets but then she learns too much.
You Will Pay by Lisa Jackson: Beginning as a prank after a long summer at Camp Horseshoe, some of the teen counsellors decide to scare Monica, just a little. No one will get hurt. Nothing could go wrong, could it? Twenty years later, Lucas Dalton, a senior detective with the sheriff’s department, investigates the discovery of remains in a cavern at what used to be the Camp. His father ran the camp and Lucas worked there that summer when two girls and a young man went missing. It’s time to uncover the truth. Seven former female counsellors are returning to the small Oregon town, one of them is Bernadette, whom Lucas has never forgotten.
Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Initiative, a new Jason Bourne novel by Eric Van Lustbader: The rogue secret agent who has lost his memory is back in the middle of a thrilling adventure, not knowing who to trust.
Adult inspirational:
Tried & True, book one in Wild at HeartMary Connealy: Kylie Wilde, the youngest sister, is the most civilized. She and her sisters, homesteading, are using the special exemptions they earned serving n the Civil War as “boys”. Kylie has grown her hair long and loves to dress up however. She plans to sell her property and return back East, to luxury. Local land agent Aaron notices when her long hair falls from under her cap. He becomes interested in her. When someone tries to force her from her land, he plans to convince her to marry him and settle on the frontier rather than return to the East.
Adult large print: Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton: 1876. Lawless gold-rush towns are dotting the landscape. Two paleontologists search the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils, while keeping a close watch on each other, each doing what they can to deceive and sabotage their rival.
Adult non-fiction:
The Practical Guide to Drawing Figures by Barrington Barber
The Coffee Lover’s Diet: change your coffee, change your life by Bob Arnot, M.D.
Adult science fiction / fantasy: Beren and Luthien by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien
Young adult: Bravelands: Broken Prideby Erin Hunter
Junior fiction:
Magic Tree House: Merlin Missions: no.25 Shadow of the shark by Mary Pope Osborne
Junior non-fiction:
The Sioux in the Canadian Aboriginal Art and Culture by Anna Rebus
Junior picture book:
Wade’s Wiggly Antlers by Louise Bradford
If You Ever Want to Bring a Circus to the Library, Don’t by Elise Parsley
Caring for Your Lion by Tammi Sauer
