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Our collection contains not only fiction and non-fiction, but also large print, mysteries, and a large browsing collection of paperbacks including classics.

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NEW ARRIVALS in Fiction



The Brutal Telling

by Louise Penny


A Change in Altitude

by Anita Shreve


The Gates

by John Connolly


Capitol Offense

by William Bernhardt

NEW ARRIVALS in Non-Fiction



Superfreakonomics

by Steven Levitt


When The Game Was Ours

by Larry Bird and Earvin Johnson


What The Dog Saw

by Malcolm Gladwell

COMING ATTRACTIONS for November

Fiction

  • Baldacci, David – True Blue
  • Chiaverini, Jennifer – The Quilters' Holiday: An ELM Creek Quilts Novel
  • Cussler, Clive & Justin Scott – The Wrecker
  • Grisham, John – Ford Country: stories
  • Howard, Linda – Ice
  • Jacobs, Kate – Knit the Season: a Friday Night Knitting Club Novel
  • Jin, Ha – A Good Fall
  • King, Stephen – Under the Dome
  • Koontz, Dean & Keith Champagne – Breathless
  • Lively, Penelope – Family Album
  • Maquire, Gregory – Matchless
  • Moore, Christopher – Paying Back Jack
  • Munro, Alice – Too Much Happiness
  • Patterson, James – I, Alex Cross
  • Perry, Anne – A Christmas Promise
  • Robb, J.D. – Kindred in Death
  • Rollins, James – Altar of Eden
  • Roth, Philip – The Humbling
  • Rutherfurd, Edward – New York: the Novel
  • Shaara, Jeff – No Less Than Victory
  • Vonnegut, Kurt – Look at the Birdie: Stories
  • Wambaugh, Joseph – Hollywood Moon

Non-Fiction

  • Auletta, Ken – Googled: The End of the World As We Know It
  • Bin Laden, Najwa Ghenem – Growing Up bin Laden
  • Burroughs, Augusten – You Better Not Cry
  • Cooper, John Milton – Woodrow Wilson
  • Ellis, Richard – On Thin Ice: the Changing World of the Polar Bear
  • Gasparino, Charles – The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street's Greed
  • and Stupidity Destroyed America's Dominance of the Financial System
  • Karr, Mary – Lit
  • Lewis, Michale – The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
  • Ploufffe, David – The Audacity To Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory

COMING ATTRACTIONS for December

Fiction

  • Berry, Steve – Paris Vendetta
  • Bruen, Ken – London Boulevard
  • Coetzee, J.M. – Summertime
  • Coonts, Stephen – Disciple
  • Crichton, Michael – Pirate Latitudes
  • Deveraux, Jude – Days of Gold
  • Dunne, Dominick – Too Much Money
  • Grafton, Sue – U is for Undertow
  • Graves, Sarah – Crawlspace: a Home Repair is Homicide Mystery
  • Griffin, W.E.B. – Honor of Spies
  • Hamilton, Laurell K. – Divine Misdemeanors
  • Jance, J. A. – Trial by Fire
  • Koontz, Dean & Keith Champagne – Breathless
  • McCall Smith, Alexander – La's Orchestra Saves the World
  • McCullough, Colleen – Too Many Murders
  • Murphy, Shirley Rousseau – Cat Striking Back
  • Michaels, Fern – Deadly Deals
  • Wambaugh, Joseph – Hollywood Moon

Non-Fiction

  • Avatar: The Field Guide To Pandora
  • Caron, Leslie – Thank Heaven: a Memoir
  • Evans, Harold – Paper Chase
  • Gordimer, Nadine – Telling Times
  • McMurtry, Larry – Literary Life
  • Mandel, Howie – Here's The Deal: Don't Touch Me
  • Mortenson, Greg – Stones Into Schools
  • Powell, Julie – Cleaving: a Story of Marriage, Meat and Obsession
COMING ATTRACTIONS for January

Fiction

  • Beaton, M.C. – Death of a Valentine
  • Bloom, Amy – Where the God of Love Hangs Out
  • Boyle, T.C. – Wild Child: and Other Stories
  • Chevalier, Tracy – Remarkable Creatures
  • Coetzee, J.M. – Summertime
  • Cornwell, Bernard – The Burning Land
  • Davis, Lindsey – Rebels and Traitors
  • Delinsky, Barbara – Not My Daughter
  • Hall, Parnell – The Puzzle Lady vs. the Sudoku Lady
  • Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia – Fell Purpose
  • Hooper, Kay – Blood Ties
  • Kaminsky, Stuart – A Whisper to the Living
  • Keyes, Marian – The Brightest Star in the Sky
  • Kostova, Elizabeth – The Swan Thieves
  • Lescroart, John – Treasure Hunt
  • McCaffrey, Anne – Catalyst: A Tale of the Barque Cats
  • May, Peter – Virtually Dead
  • Parker, T. Jefferson – Iron River
  • Preston, Douglas – Impact
  • Rankin, Ian – Doors Open
  • Willig, Lauren – The Betrayal of the Blood Lily

Non-Fiction

  • Beattie, Melody – Make Miracles in Forty Days: Turning What You Have Into What You Want
  • Braestrup, Kate – Marriage and Other Acts of Charity
  • Collins, Francis – The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine
  • Gawande, Atul – The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right
  • Gilbert, Elizabeth – Committted: a Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage
  • Heilemann, John & Mark – Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
  • Lamm, Brad – How To Change Someone You Love
  • Maraniss, David – The Sweet Long Days
  • Obama, George – Homeland
  • Quinn, Jane Bryant – Making The Most of Your Money Now
  • Reeves, Richard – Daring Young Men: the Heroism and Triumph of the Berlin Airlift
  • Sears, William – Prime-Time Health
  • Wills, Garry – Bomb Power: the Modern Presidency and the National Security State