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Space Dogs by Justin Ball and Evan Croker
Commanders Belka and Strelka, of the planet Gersbach, board their dog-shaped vehicle and head for earth, where they encounter Lucy Buckley and her family, attempt to capture two power-seeking renegades, and hope to save their own planet from destruction.
On the Run by Iris Johansen
Read by Jennifer Van Dyck.
For eight years, single mother Grace Archer has been living a picture-perfect life raising her daughter on a horse farm in the small town of Tallanville, Alabama. Forgeting the past, but the past never quite goes away. Which is why a certain charismatic man also moved to Tallanville eight years ago to watch over her. But when violence threatens to shatter Grace and Frankie's idyllic home, the waiting is over. The ghosts of the past have returned. And they're hungry for blood. Now Grace must resume an identity she thought she had cast off forever, and match wits with an opponent as deadly as he is cunning. The prize: an extraordinary secret that only she can unfold. The forfeit: losing the thing more precious to her than life itself.
Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark
Unabridged edition.
Read by Jan Maxwell.
Little Secrets: No accident by Emily Blake
Book #2 in the series
With her mother still in prison and her father a complete wreck, Alison accepts Grandmother Diamond's invitation (or was that an order?) to move into her mansion during this "difficult time." But does Her Highness want Alison close because she cares about her...or because she wants to keep Alison within her sight? After all, Alison has figured out some of her grandmother's biggest secrets...including that she's the one who framed Alison's mother. But Alison has a few secrets of her own--and she might need her grandmother's help to get back at her cousin and former best friend, Kelly.
Little Secrets: Playing with fire by Emily Blake
Book #1 in the series
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
It all starts when Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes. He only needs five minutes to avoid his ex-girlfriend, who's just walked in to his band's show. With a new guy. And then, with one kiss, Nick and Norah are off on an adventure set against the backdrop of New York City--and smack in the middle of all the joy, anxiety, confusion, and excitement of a first date.
Never Say Die by Tess Gerritsen
Twenty years after her father's plane crashes in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Willy Jane Maitland is finally tracking his last moves. Willy knows she can't proceed without the help of ex-army officer Guy Barnard. But in a place where truth has many faces, she suspects even Guy has hidden motives.
Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark
Margaret and Steve Frawley celebrate the third birthday of their twin girls, Kelly and Kathy, with an afternoon party in their new home, a modest fixer-upper in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The evening of the twins' birthday party, Steve and Margaret attend a black-tie dinner in New York. When they return home, the police are in the house, and they are told that the babysitter had been found unconscious, the children are gone, and a note demanding an eight-million-dollar ransom had been left in their room.
Vanished by Karen Robards
Ten years ago, Sarah Mason's six-year-old daughter vanished during an outing at a local park in Beaufort, South Carolina. Despite a furious search, little Lexie was never found, and Sarah was left to pick up the pieces of her shattered life and go on as best she could.
Then, on one hot July night, she returns home from work to hear the phone ringing. When she picks it up, a child's terrified voice whispers, "Mommy, help, come and get me . . ." The call is cut off, but not before Sarah's heart goes into overdrive: the voice belongs to Lexie. Six-year-old Lexie. Though ten years have passed, she sounds exactly the same.
Deadwood: The complete second season
6 videodiscs (710 min.)
For better or worse, times are changing in Deadwood, and the transformation from camp to town is imminent. In an era of hard decisions and brutal power struggles among the camp's founders, they learn the hard way that fortune comes with a price.
Rated R
Linda Hunt, David Rasche, George Morfogen, Concetta Tomei
Featuring Beth Witrogen McLeod, Pulitzer-nominated author and speaker, Avrene L. Brandt, clinical psychologist.
This program focuses on the positive aspects of caregiving and on what caregivers can obtain from their experience.
Angels Fall by Nora Roberts
New-to-town Reece Gilmore knows there's a killer in Angel's Fist, even if gruff loner Brody is the only one willing to believe her. When a series of menacing events makes it clear that someone wants her out of the way, Reece must put her trust in Brody-and herself-to find the killer before it's too late.
An Unexpected Song by Iris Johansen
Published for the first time in hardcover, this is a novel of unforgettable romance and unrelenting suspense-a ravishing thriller of a woman with a secret irresistibly drawn into the glittering world of a famous man whose past may be murder....
As Dead as It Gets by Cady Kalian
Maggie Mars used to be a journalist on the East Coast, but now she's come to LaLa Land to make a name for herself as a screenwriter
When Maggie's dear mentor Roger, the Executive Director and Chief Negotiator for the Creative Artist's Union, is found dead in a bathroom, it makes big time news--especially when it's revealed that he was wearing a ladies' silky red garter belt and bra.
As Maggie digs deeper into Roger's past, she realizes she was one of the few people who actually liked Roger--the list of folks who had it out for him is longer than the reception line at Grauman's during a premiere.
And if Maggie isn't careful, she could be the next hot item in the news...as the latest victim.
Judge & Jury by James Patterson and Andrew Gross
Senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante is closing in on the notorious mob boss "The Electrician," when the scheduled sting goes spectacularly awry. Two FBI agents are dead, the boss is wounded, and Pellisante vows the Electrician's next move will be from a jail cell.
Andie Echeverra, a part-time actress and a single, full-time mom, is assigned her next role as Juror #11 in the landmark trial against Mafia Don Dominic Cavello.
Though Cavello's influence extends across blue uniforms and black robes, the case should be open-and-shut. But the legal system fails with devastating results, and Nick and Andie are the only ones left to seek justice. To stop the Electrician, they must take matters into their own hands. They are the judge and jury now.
The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos
The haunting story of three cops - one good, one bad, one broken - and the murder that reunited them in a showdown decades in the making.
Saks & Violins by Mary Daheim
Judith McMonigle Flynn tries to extend a helping hand to a pesky new neighbor - and ends up with a corpse underfoot while she and cousin Renie cope with... Saks & Violins.
Crisis by Robin Cook
The inventor of the medical thriller shows us a healer's dark side: the terrifying story of a doctor who plunges into a web of corruption and lies.
Deal Breaker by harlan Coben
Hardball negotiating is paying off for Myron Bolitar. His newest client, Christian Steele, is about to become The Giants' new superstar. But when Christian's girlfriend disappears and her nude photo surfaces in a porno magazine, Myron gets entangled with a group of sleazy players--and a killer.
The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime by Jasper Fforde
Jack Spratt and Mary Mary return in their second Nursery Crime adventure.
The Keep by Jennifer Egan
Two cousins, devastated by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a castle in Eastern Europe. The fortress has a bloody history that stretches back hundreds of years. Amid extreme paranoia and eerie silence, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a third party - a prisoner, jailed for an unnamed crime - recounts an unforgettable story that brings the crimes of the past and present into stunning alignment.
Calder Storm by Janet Dailey
Sailing to Capri by Elizabeth Adler
Elizabeth Adler invites you on a decadent Mediterranean cruise--where nothing is what it seems, no one is telling the truth, and murder is on the agenda…
The Virtu by Sarah Monette
Felix Harrowgate was a dashing and powerful wizard until his former master wrenched Felix's magic from him and used it to shatter the Virtu - the orb that is the keystone for the protections and magic of the wizards of the city. Felix has painfully clawed his way back to sanity, and his only chance to reclaim the life he once knew is to repair the seemingly irreparable - to restore the Virtu." "Mildmay the Fox was an assassin and a car burglar - until a curse caught up with him and his life changed forever. Haunted by death, his leg damaged by the curse that should have killed him, he does not know what awaits him in Melusine, but for good or ill, his fate is tied to Felix's, by blood ... and by magic.
The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
Translated from the Portuguese.
A community devoured by greed, cowardice and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past. A young woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each of them will face questions of life, death and power, and each of them will have to choose their own path. Will they choose good or evil?
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
People start dropping dead around him, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. It's a dirty job. But hey, somebody's gotta do it. Christopher Moore shines his comic light on the undiscovered country we all eventually explore - death and dying - and the results are hilarious, heartwarming, and a hell of a lot of fun.
Lover's Knot by Emilie Richards
A Shenandoah album novel.
In a cave in the Shenandoah National Park, two bodies are discovered, wrapped in the tattered remains of a lover's knot quilt.
In Washington, D.C., Isaac Taylor inherits a nearly identical quilt from a grandmother whose name he never even knew.
Wives Behaving Badly by Elizabeth Buchan
Sequel to: Revenge of the middle-aged woman.
Buchan answers the age-old question: What happens when the mistress becomes the wife?
Calamity Jayne Rides Again by Kathleen Bacus
The Seduction of His Wife by Janet Chapman
Alex Knight is dead -- or so everyone thinks. A widowed logger baron with a risk-taking streak, he took on a South American engineering project and was reported dead after a rebel attack. So when he turns up back in Maine very much alive, his grieving family is shocked. But the biggest shock is Alex's, when he discovers he's now married -- to a woman he's never met.
Sparkle by Jennifer Greene
Trouble in High Heels by Christina Dodd
Brandi Michaels, a young, gorgeous lawyer, moves to Chicago to join her fiancé, only to find out he's gone to Vegas to marry his pregnant girlfriend. She pawns the engagement ring, vamps herself up, and prepares to sleep with the first sexy man she meets that night. That man turns out to be a playboy Italian count and jewel thief, Roberto Bartolini, and the weekend is as hot and heavy as she could wish. On Monday, there's another surprise -- guess who turns out to be the client of her new law firm? Brandi not only gets to defend Roberto, who's accused of stealing a jewel, but to spend time with him 24/7, as a judge remands him into her custody. Can she reform this handsome bad boy in a hurry and prevent the jewel heist of the century in the process?
Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the near death of a great American City by Jed Horne
Hurricane Katrina shredded one of the great cities of the South, and as levees failed and the federal relief effort proved lethally incompetent, a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe. As an editor of New Orleans' daily newspaper, the Times-Picayune, Jed Horne has had a front-row seat to the unfolding drama of the city's collapse into chaos and its continuing struggle to survive.
The Detonators: The secret plot to destroy America and an epic hunt for justice by Chad Millman
In 1916, while the Allied and Central forces waged war in Europe, a group of German saboteurs blew up Black Tom Island, a spit of land in New York Harbor within earshot of downtown Manhattan. The subsequent hail of missiles and gunpowder devastated much of lower Manhattan. The attack--so massive that as far away as Maryland people could feel the ground shake--had been shockingly easy. America was littered with networks of German agents, hiding in full daylight, an enemy within plotting further, deadlier attacks. All the way up to the president, officials had known something like this could happen, and yet nothing had been done.
Lost Mountain: A year in the vanishing wilderness by Erik Reece
A groundbreaking work of literary nonfiction that exposes how radical strip mining is destroying one of America's most precious natural resources and the communities that depend on it.
Erik Reece chronicles the year he spent witnessing the systematic decimation of a single mountain, aptly named "Lost Mountain." A native Kentuckian and the son of a coal worker, Reece makes it clear that strip mining is neither a local concern nor a radical contention, but a mainstream crisis that encompasses every hot-button issue-from corporate hubris and government neglect, to class conflict and poisoned groundwater, to irrevocable species extinction and landscape destruction.
One Planet: A celebration of biodiversity by Nicolas Hulot
This breathtaking work celebrates the amazing variety of species and ecosystems and how various forces affect them positively and negatively. In his absorbing, informative text, journalist Nicolas Hulot presents a lucid portrait of eight ecosystems (forests, oceans, deserts, poles, mountains, wetlands, grasslands, and cities), the species that inhabit them, and the role humans play in each. One Planet is a loving photographic tribute to the beauty of the earth-it will remind us all how important it is to preserve this exquisite planet.
The Overachievers: The secret lives of driven kids by Alexandra Robbins
Robbins tackles hard-hitting issues such as the student and teacher cheating epidemic, over-testing, sports rage, the black market for study drugs, and a college admissions process so cutthroat that some students are driven to depression and suicide because of a B. Even the earliest years of schooling have become insanely competitive, as Robbins learned when she gained unprecedented access into the inner workings of a prestigious Manhattan kindergarten admissions office.
A compelling mix of fast-paced storytelling and engrossing investigative journalism, The Overachievers aims both to calm the admissions frenzy and to expose its escalating dangers.
Coalition of Wisconsin Aging Groups
Learn about responsibility and how to care for the family dog, cat, and even Elmo's fish, Dorothy! Find out about feeding, bathing, and taking your pet to the doctor. Come along with Elmo as he learns about dogs with jobs, like seeing-eye dogs.
HBO Film Rated TV-MA (Adult content, adult language, violence)
Ben Kingsley, Annette Bening.
The Scarsdale diet doctor, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower, meets a brutal end at the hands of his jilted lover, Jean Harris.
The Amazing Life of Birds (the twenty-day puberty journal of Duane Homer Leech) by Gary Paulsen
As twelve-year-old Duane endures the confusing and humiliating aspects of puberty, he watches a newborn bird in a nest on his windowsill begin to grow and become more independent, all of which he records in his journal.
Turtle Rescue: Changing the future for endangered wildlife by Pamela Hickman
The turtle evolved around 200 million years ago. They are found from tropical rainforests to deserts and live in freshwater, saltwater and on land. Today, turtle populations are in decline. Areas of southeast Asia have lost up to 80% of their freshwater turtles in the past ten years due to society's demand for food, cosmetics and traditional medicine. Habitat destruction, pollution, fishing nets and the pet trade also threaten species, especially sea turtles.
Dial L for Loser by Lisi Harrison
Clique series #6
Just as the Pretty Committee is getting bored with being expelled and Massie begins worrying about losing her spot as the most popular girl, Claire is cast in a Hollywood film, and as Massie and Alicia report live from the set, Kristen and Dylan keep them posted on events in Westchester County.
Diary of a Crush: French Kiss by Sarra Manning
Frogs & French Kisses by Sarah Mlynowski
Love spells run amok in New York City when high school freshman Rachel asks her younger sister, who is a witch, for magical help in winning the affection of heartthrob Raf Kosravi.
Girl, Going on 17: Pants on Fire by Sue Limb
It's never fun when a great summer comes to an end.
Particularly when one argues with one's adorable, but grossly insensitive, boyfriend the night before school starts. It's such a terrible fight, Jess doesn't know--are they broken up? Should she apologize? Too bad Jess is spending all her time in detention and can't talk to Fred to figure it out.
The Lioness and Her Knight by Gerald Morris
Headstrong sixteen-year-old Lady Luneta and her distant cousin, Sir Ywain, travel to Camelot and beyond finding more adventure than they hoped for until, with the help of a fool, Luneta discovers what she really wants from life.
Robin: To kill a bird by Bill Willingham
graphic novel
Vandal by Michael Simmons
Will is pretty much your average 16-year-old. He does well enough in school, plays in a rock band, chases girls with little success, and has a typical collection of oddball friends...with one significant exception. For as long as he can remember, he has been systematically beaten up--physically, mentally, and emotionally--by his older brother. Taut, gripping and at times mordantly funny, Vandal amply fulfills the promise of Michael Simmons's justly praised first novel, Pool Boy.
Dooby Dooby Moo by Doreen Cronin, illustrated by Betsy Lewin
While Farmer Brown sleeps, his animals prepare for a talent show at the county fair.
If I had a Dragon by Amanda and Tom Ellery
Tired of playing with his little brother, a boy imagines having a dragon for a playmate instead.
The New Girl...and Me by Jacqui Robbins, illustrated by Matt Phelan
On her first day of school, who will be her friend? Raise your hand if it's you. You'll meet someone -- and something -- surprising.
This Little Pirate by Philemon Sturges, illustrated by Amy Walrod
Two bands of pirates fight over a box, but when they raise the white flag and open the box together, they find a treasure to share.