Preview Shelf by Janice Clauser

Library News and Notable New Books

New DVDs Ready for Borrowing - Here are new movies listed alphabetically, 102 Minutes That Changed America - 9/11 (History Channel); 127 Hours; 1968: The Year That Everything Changed (History Channel; The A-Team; American; Black Swan; Burlesque; Conviction; Deathtrap; Desert Triumph (The complete story, with veteran interviews about Desert Storm; The Devil Wears Prada; Dilemma; The Divinci Code; Due Date; Fair Game; Faster; Funny Face; The Green Hornet; Gulliver's Travels; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1; Hereafter; Hidden Wars of Desert Storm; Hoosiers; How Do You Know?; I Am Number Four; It's Kind of a Funny Story; Just Go With It; The King's Speech; Life As We Know It; Like Dandelion Dust; Little Fockers; Morning Glory; Mother and Child; Never Let Me Go; Narnia; The Next Three Days; No Strings Attached; Operation Valkyrie; The Other Woman; The Postman Always Rings Twice; The Quick and the Dead; Red; Rabbit Hole; Salt; Skyline; Spider-Man 2; Super Babies; Supernatural (fourth season); The Switch; Tangled; Tarzan (Volume One and Volume Two); Tourist; The Town; True Blood (Second Season); True Grit (1969); True Grit (2010); Unstoppable; You Again.

Subject DVDs are Common Expressions in American Sign Language, volume1 and volume 2, First Aid (One) and (Two), Laugh and Learn About Childbirth, Nutrition During Pregnancy, Pregnancy, and San Francisco Earthquake.

Here are new novels requested by local patrons. Two come from Pam Jenoff. "The Things We Cherished" spanning decades and continents, about a man accused of World War II-era war crimes, which he can prove false if he can find a certain timepiece last seen in Nazi Germany. Her "A Hidden Affair" about a U.S. State Department intelligence officer's life turned upside down when told her college boyfriend drowned in the River Cam. She takes a journey halfway around the world to find better answers. The description of "Robopocalypse" by Daniel Wilson begins, "In the near future, at a precise moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will spontaneously malfunction." Steve Berry's "The Jefferson Key" asks if Americans would be shocked if all our assassinated Presidents were killed for the same reason, namely a clause in the U. S. Constitution (Article 1, Section 8). "Before I Go to Sleep" by S., J. Watson proposes a situation where anyone could lose his memory every time he went to sleep.

New mysteries are Alafair Burke's "Long Gone" where a newly hired art gallery manager arrives at work her first day to find the gallery gone and the owner's body on the floor. Janet Evanovich has released "Smokin' Seventeen", her newest Stephanie Plum story in which our heroine finds bodies in shallow graves, and no one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been killed, but she knows her name is on the killer's list. "Hush" by Nancy Bush starts with a tragic accident, followed by another twelve years later, showing that a group of friends are being eliminated one by one. The third "Silence" novel in Linda Castillo's series is "Breaking Silence" as a Police Chief is called to the scene of a tragedy on a peaceful Amish farm. In "Joy for Beginners" by Erica Bauermeister friends celebrate a member's recovery from illness, and the group agrees they'll all try to master some new difficult thing in the next year. "The Devil Colony" by James Rollins dares to answer a question extant in America: Could the founding of the United States be based on a fundamental lie? The answer lies hidden in the ruins of "impossibility", called The Devil Colony.