What's New at the Caestecker Public Library

Dodgeball: A true underdog story

MPAA rating: PG13.
Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Christine Taylor, Rip Torn.
Synopsis: "Winning a dodgeball tournament is the only hope Peter has of keeping his gym open. Since a new glitzy gym opened across the street Peter needs to raise $50,000 to keep his, and he's counting on a game he hasn't played in years! Can his ragtag team win?"

Secret window

Rated PG-13.
Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello, Timothy Hutton, Charles S. Dutton, Len Cariou.
Synopsis: "Following a bitter separation from his wife, famed mystery writer Mort Rainey is unexpectedly confronted at his remote lake house by a dangerous stranger named John Shooter. Claiming Rainey has plagiarized his short story, the psychotic Shooter demands justice. When Shooter's demands turn to threats -- and then murder -- Rainey turns to a private detective for help. But when nothing stops the horror from spiraling out of control, Rainey soon discovers he can't trust anyone or anything."

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Friday night lights

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The broker by John Grisham.

Read by Michael Beck.
Synopsis: "With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington power broker, Joel Blackman, receives a surprise pardon from a lame-duck president. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Blackman has serious enemies from his past. As the CIA watches him closely, the question is not whether he will be killed, but rather who will kill him first."
Unabridged.

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Hockey night

Synopsis: "A 14-year-old girl has the lonely experience of moving to a new town. The girl who is champion hockey player finally decides for fun and shocks many of the locals is to try out and is chosen for the only hockey team in town-- the boys hockey team."

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Magic hoofbeats by Josepha Sherman.

Synopsis: "Retellings of horse lore originating throughout the world."

Outside and inside killer bees by Sandra Markle.

Skyscraper: from the ground up by Susan E. Goodman.

Snakes!: strange and wonderful by Laurence P. Pringle.

What if you met a pirate?: an historical voyage of seafaring speculation by Jan Adkins.

Whose house is this?: a look at animal homes--webs, nests, and shells by Elizabeth Gregoire.

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Haunted castle on Hallows Eve by Mary Pope Osborne.

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The collected short stories of Louis L'Amour

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Bear stays up for Christmas by Karma Wilson.

Synopsis: "Bear's friends awaken him the day before Christmas and help him to stay awake as they bake fruitcakes, fill stockings, and sing carols; then, while they sleep, he prepares his own surprise."

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Back to school, Mallory by Laurie B. Friedman.

Synopsis: "After moving, eight-year-old Mallory struggles with being new at school, especially because her mother is now the music teacher and director of the third grade play."

MVP: Magellan Voyage Project by Douglas Evans.

Rosetta, Rosetta, sit by me! by Linda Walvoord.

Synopsis: "In 1848, Rosetta, the nine-year-old daughter of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, becomes the only Black student at Miss Tracy's Female Seminary in Rochester, New York, and while the students are pleased she is there, the faculty is not. Includes facts about Frederick and Rosetta's lives."

Sam I am by Ilene Cooper.

Synopsis: "Twelve-year-old Sam, the son of a Jewish father and Christian mother, struggles to understand religion and its role in his family's life during the Hanukkah and Christmas holidays."

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All about machine arts: decorative techniques from A to Z

Blink: the power of thinking without thinking by Malcolm Gladwell.

A brother's journey: surviving a childhood of abuse by Richard B. Pelzer.

Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared Diamond.

Glimpses of the devil: a psychiatrist's personal accounts of possession, exorcism, and redemption by M. Scott Peck.

Homeschooling: Take a deep breath - you can do this! by Terrie Lynn Bittner.

Hypocrite in a pouffy white dress: tales of growing up groovy and clueless by Susan Jane Gilman.

Ultimate robot by Robert Malone.

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Alice in jeopardy by Ed McBain.

Baker towers by Jennifer Haigh.

Bourne legacy by Robert Ludlum.

The broker by John Grisham.

By order of the President by W.E.B. Griffin.

The glass virgin by Catherine Cookson.

Hot target by Suzanne Brockmann.

The last dark place by Stuart Kaminsky.

Los Angeles by Peter Moore Smith.

The motive by John T. Lescroart.

The news from Paraguay by Lily Tuck.

Puppet by Joy Fielding.

The same sweet girls by Cassandra King.

Sight hound by Pam Houston.

Sun witch by Linda Winstead Jones.

Unexpected blessings by Barbara Taylor Bradford.

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Bound by Donna Jo Napoli.

Synopsis: "In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well."

Dungeon: Vol.1: Duck Heart by Joann Sfar.

Graphic novel.

The fallen by Celia Thomson.

Nine Lives of Chloe King, Book One.

Shockrockets: We have ignition by Kurt Busiek.

Graphic novel.

The stolen by Celia Thomson.

Nine Lives of Chloe King, Book Two.

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