New Books @ Merrickville Library

New Thrillers & Book Club Favourites

2012-01-21T11:55:00.000-08:00

Acclaimed Authors

Distant Hours - Kate Morton

Ru - Kim Thuy (Governor-General Award winner)
The World We Found - Thrity Umrigar

New Thrillers

Death of a Chimney Sweep - M.C. Beaton

Taken - Robert Crais

Need You Now - James Grippando

The Bomber - Liza Marklund

The Retribution - Val McDermid
The Jaguar - T. Jefferson Parker
Gideon's Corpse - Preston & Child
Innocent - Scott Turow

More Best-sellers
Lunatics - Dave Barry & Alan Zweibel
On Lavendar Lane - Joann Ross (new Shelter Bay novel)

New Thrillers & more!

2012-01-18T15:37:00.000-08:00

New Thrillers
Gun Games - Faye Kellerman
Breakdown - Sara Paretsky
Cell 8 - Roslund & Hellstrom
The Innocent - Taylor Stevens

Historical Fiction
The Winter Palace: a novel of Catherine the Great
- Eva Stachniak

New Romance Series
Welcome to Harmony - Jodi Thomas

New! Thrillers & Romance!

2012-01-12T07:49:00.000-08:00

New Thrillers
The Hunter - John Lescroart
The Burning Edge - Rick Mofina
Private: #1 Suspect - James Patteson & Maxine Paetro
D.C. Dead - Stuart Woods (new Stone Barrington)

New Romance
Hidden Summit - Robyn Carr (new Virgin River)
Love in a Nutshell - Janet Evanovich & Dorien Kelly
Lover's Leap - Emily March (new Eternity Springs)
Mr. and Miss Anonymous - Fern Michaels

New Historical Fiction
Fire in the Sky - Michael & Kathleen Gear

New! Tom Clancy, PD James & more

2011-12-22T07:52:00.000-08:00

Just In!
Locked On - Tom Clancy
The Faithless - Martina Cole
Holy Warrior - Angus Donald (new in Robin Hood series)
Birth of the Kingdom - Jan Guillou (#3 in Crusades trilogy)
Death Comes to Pemberley - P.D. James
An O'Brien Family Christmas - Sherryl Woods (new Chesapeake Shores)

New - Connelly, Gabaldon, & more

2011-12-15T09:26:00.000-08:00

New Thrillers
Dead by Nightfall - Beverly Barton
The Drop - Michael Connelly (new Harry Bosch)
Red Mist - Patricia Cornwell (new Scarpetta)
Soft Target - Stephen Hunter

New Best-Sellers
Sisters of Holmes County omnibus - Wanda Brunstetter
The Scottish Prisoner - Diana Gabaldon (new Lord John & Jamie)
Passing through Paradise - Susan Wiggs
The Christmas Angel - Marcia Willett
Honor Among Thieves - David Chandler (new fantasy!)

Local Author

New by Lowell Green!
Lowell Green, one of Canada's best selling authors, rushes in where angels fear to tread!
His latest book, (his sixth best seller) Here's proof only we conservatives have our heads screwed on straight unleashes a firestorm of wit, wisdom and common sense that is bound to delight, titillate, entertain and educate all those who don't believe group hugs and long walks on lonely beaches with our enemies will solve the world's problems.

New Evanovich, Grafton & more

2011-12-01T10:31:00.001-08:00

New Thrillers
Explosive Eighteen - Janet Evanovich
V is for Vengeance - Sue Grafton
The Vault - Ruth Rendell - new Wexford novel
Justice - Karen Robards

Hot New Title

When She Woke - Hillary Jordan
A powerful reimagining of The Scarlet Letter, When She Woke is a timely fable about a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of the not-too-distant future. Hannah Payne awakens in a new body to a nightmarish new life - lying on a table in a bare room with cameras broadcasting every move to millions at home, for whom observing new Chromes--criminals whose skin color has been genetically altered to match the class of their crime--is a sinister form of entertainment. Hannah is a Red for the crime of murder. The victim, says the State of Texas, was her unborn child, and Hannah is determined to protect the identity of the father, a public figure with whom she shared a fierce and forbidden love.

Booker Finalist
Touch - Alexi Zentner
Returning home on the eve of his mother's death, an Anglican priest is haunted by memories of his far northern Canada hometown and its intertwined history with his family. Stephen recalls his childhood of 30 years earlier - after his father's death, his grandfather returns and insists he has come to find his wife, though she's been dead for years. The tales he tells Stephen—of golden caribou, malevolent wood spirits, and a winter that lasted so long it buried the town in snow until July—are woven in so seamlessly that the reader never questions their validity. The rugged wilderness is captured exquisitely, as is Stephen's uncommon childhood, and despite a narrative rife with tragedy, Zentner's elegant prose keeps the story buoyant.

More Great New Titles
Time of My Life - Cecelia Ahern
The Alloy of Law - Brandon Sanderson - new Mistborn novel

New Patterson, Steve Jobs bio & more

2011-11-24T11:34:00.001-08:00

New Titles
Bring Me Home for Christmas - Robyn Carr
- new Virgin River novel
Outlaw: a novel of Robin Hood - Angus Donald
Half-Blood Blues - Esi Edugyan - Booker finalist
Kill Alex Cross - James Patterson

Best-Selling Biography

Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson

Booker Winner & New Romance

2011-11-17T11:40:00.001-08:00

New Romance

Christmas at Timberwoods - Fern Michaels
The Next Always - Nora Roberts - new series!
Irish Hearts - Nora Roberts
Hotel Vendome - Danielle Steel

Booker Prize Winner

The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
The story of a man coming to terms with the mutable past, Julian Barnes's new novel is laced with his trademark precision, dexterity and insight.

Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they navigated gawky adolescence together. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, but they swore to stay friends forever. Until Adrian's life took a turn into tragedy, and all of them moved on and did their best to forget.

Now Tony is in middle age. He's had a career and a marriage, a calm divorce. He gets along nicely, he thinks, with his one child, a daughter, and even with his ex-wife. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove. The unexpected bequest conveyed by that letter leads Tony on a dogged search through a past suddenly turned murky. And how do you carry on, contentedly, when events conspire to upset all your vaunted truths?

Book Club Pick

The Midwife's Confession - Diane Chamberlain
Dear Anna,
What I have to tell you is difficult to write, but I know it will be far more difficult for you to hear, and I'm so sorry…

The unfinished letter is the only clue Tara and Emerson have to the reason behind their close friend Noelle's suicide. Everything they knew about Noelle—her calling as a midwife, her passion for causes, her love for her friends and family—described a woman who embraced life.

Yet there was so much they didn't know. With the discovery of the letter and its heartbreaking secret, Noelle's friends begin to uncover the truth about this complex woman who touched each of their lives—and the life of a desperate stranger—with love and betrayal, compassion and deceit.

New Thrillers & Christmas Titles

2011-11-03T11:07:00.000-07:00

New Thrillers
Zero Day - David Baldacci (new series)
Gamble - Dick/Felix Francis

'Tis the Season
I am Half-Sick of Shadows - Alan Bradley
(new Flavia de Luce novel)
A Plain & Fancy Christmas - Cynthia Keller

Paranormal Romance
Darkness Rising - Keri Arthur (Dark Angels series)

New - Grisham, Cornwell, Non-Fiction

2011-10-27T08:06:00.000-07:00

New Best-Sellers!
Death of Kings - Bernard Cornwell
(new in his Alfred the Great series)
The Litigators - John Grisham
Forever Faithful: the complete trilogy - Karen Kingsbury
1225 Christmas Tree Lane - Debbie Macomber
(new Cedar Cove)
The Virgin Cure - Ami McKay - Canadian Author!

New Non-Fiction

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
by Erik Larson
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romance--and ultimately, horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitler’s true character and ruthless ambition.
Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the period, and with unforgettable portraits, In the Garden of Beasts lends a stunning, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold. The result is a dazzling, addictively readable work that speaks volumes about why the world did not recognize the grave threat posed by Hitler until Berlin, and Europe, were awash in blood and terror.

The Memory Palace
by Mira Bartok
When piano prodigy Norma Herr was healthy, she was the most vibrant personality in the room. But as her schizophrenic episodes became more frequent and more dangerous, she withdrew into a world that neither of her daughters could make any sense of. After Norma attacked her, Mira BartÓk and her sister changed their names and cut off all contact in order to keep themselves safe.
At the age of 40, Mira suffered a debilitating head injury that left her memories foggy and her ability to make sense of the world around her forever changed. Hoping to reconnect with her past, Mira learned Norma was dying in a hospital, and she and her sister traveled to their mother’s deathbed to reconcile one last time.
Through stunning prose and gorgeous original art, The Memory Palace explores the connections between mother and daughter that cannot be broken no matter how much exists—or is lost—between them.

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
by Richard Dawkins
Magic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors used in order to explain the world before they developed the scientific method. But there is another kind of magic, and it lies in the exhilaration of discovering the real answers to these questions. It is the magic of reality—science. Packed with clever thought experiments, dazzling illustrations and jaw-dropping facts, The Magic of Reality explains a stunningly wide range of natural phenomena.

New Historical Fiction & more

2011-10-20T12:29:00.000-07:00

New Thrillers
Last Chance to Die - Noah Boyd (new Steve Vail)
Shock wave - John Sandford (new Virgil Flowers)
The Informationist - Taylor Stevens

New Historical Fiction
The Lady of the Rivers - Philippa Gregory
The Dovekeepers - Alice Hoffman
Conqueror - Conn Iggulden
Lionheart - Sharon Kay Penman
The Sea Captain's Wife - Beth Powning

Heartwarming Fiction
The Healing - Wanda Brunstetter (#2 in Kentucky series)
Barcelona Calling - Jane Kirkpatrick
The Best of Me - Nicholas Sparks

Humour
Wingfield's World - Dan Needles (based on the stage plays)
A Dublin Student Doctor - Patrick Taylor (new Irish Country Dr.)

Fantasy & Paranormal
Darkness Unbound - Keri Arthur (new series)
Den of Thieves & A Thief in the Night
- new fantasy series by David Chandler

New - Acclaimed Authors & Thrillers

2011-10-13T12:17:00.000-07:00

New Thrillers
Lethal - Sandra Brown
Feast Day of Fools - James Lee Burke
The Affair - Lee Child
Trick of the Dark - Val McDermid
Before the Poison - Peter Robinson
Hell to Pay - Wendy Corsi Staub
Son of Stone - Stuart Woods

Acclaimed Authors
The Night Strangers - Chris Bohjalian
The Sisters Brothers - Patrick deWitt
shortlisted for the Booker Prize
The Little Shadows - Marina Endicott

Romantic Fiction
Falling Together - Marisa de la Santos
Hometown Girl - Mariah Stewart
(new Chesapeake Diaries)

New - Thrillers & Love Stories!

2011-09-15T11:03:00.000-07:00

New Best-Sellers

Reinvention of Love
by Helen Humphries
Canadian Author
featured at Kingston Writers Fest
next week!

Second Nature: a love story - Jacquelyn Mitchard
An Irish Country Courtship - Patrick Taylor
New Series - Eternity Springs by Emily March
New Series - Chesapeake Diaries by Mariah Stewart

New Thrillers
The Race - Clive Cussler & Justin Scott
Prey - Linda Howard
Pirate King - Laurie R. King
Robopocalypse - Daniel Wilson

New Thrillers & Canadian Fiction

2011-09-08T12:46:00.000-07:00

New Giller Nominee
The Cat's Table - Michael Ondaatje

New Thrillers
The Hidden Child - Camilla Lackberg
Serial - John Lutz
Kill Me If You Can - James Patterson
A Trick of the Light - Louise Penny

New Thrillers & a little bit of Heaven

2011-08-24T17:38:00.000-07:00

New Thrillers
Born to Die - Lisa Jackson
The Cut - George Pelecanos
Flash and Bones - Kathy Reichs

New Non-Fiction
Heaven is for real: a little boy's astounding story of his trip to Heaven and back - Todd Burpo

New - Thrillers & Historical Adventure

2011-08-17T18:12:00.000-07:00

New Thrillers
The Accident - Linwood Barclay
The Templar Salvation - Raymond Khoury
Acceptable Loss - Anne Perry (new William Monk)
Cold Vengeance - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
The Wreckage - Michael Robotham
Before I Go To Sleep - S.J. Watson

New Historical Fiction
To die for: a novel of Anne Boleyn - Sandra Byrd
A Place Called Armageddon - C.C. Humphreys
A Battle Won - S. Thomas Russell

More New Fiction
A World Elsewhere - Wayne Johnston (new Canadian fiction)
Burnt Mountain - Anne Rivers Siddons

New - George RR Martin & more

2011-08-04T10:58:00.000-07:00

Blackveil - Kristin Britain   - new fantasy
       (#4 in Green Rider series)
English - Wang Gang   - international bestseller
A Dance with Dragons - George R. R. Martin - bestselling fantasy
      (#5 in The Song of Ice and Fire series)
Shattered - Karen Robards - new romantic suspense
An Irish Country Girl - Patrick Taylor - small-town Irish life
      (#4 in Irish Country series)

More New Summer Books!

2011-07-28T08:41:00.000-07:00

New Fiction

Sisterhood Everlasting - Anne Brashares
Juliet - Anne Fortier
The Castaways - Elin Hildebrand
Happy Birthday - Danielle Steel

New Thrillers
BlueEyedBoy - Joanne Harris
Iron House - John Hart
Quinn - Iris Johansen
The Bourne Dominion - Robert Ludlum / Eric Van Lustbader
Heads You Lose - Lisa Lutz & David Hayward
The Whisper - Carla Neggers
Portrait of a Spy - Daniel Silva

New Fantasy & Paranormal
Spectyr - Philippa Ballantine
(#2 in Book of the Order series)
Bloodlust - Michelle Rowen
(#2 in Nightshade series)

New Non-Fiction

Lots of New Summer Reads!

2011-07-14T08:02:00.000-07:00

Award-Winner
The Tiger's Wife - Tea Obreht

New Thrillers
The Silent Man - Alex Berenson
The Whisperers - John Connolly
Whiplash - Catherine Coulter (new FBI thriller)
Carte Blanche - Jeffrey Deaver (new James Bond)
The Fall - Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan
The Silent Girl - Tess Gerristson
Threat Warning - John Gilstrap
Veil of Night - Linda Howard
Betrayal of Trust - J.A. Jance
The Hypnotist - Lars Kepler
Dreams of the Dead - Perri O'Shaughnessy
Now You See Her - James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge
The Rembrandt Affair - Daniel Silva

New Romance
Escape - Barbara Delinsky
Betrayal - Fern Michaels
Sunset Bridge - Emilie Richards (new Happiness Key novel)
One Summer - JoAnn Ross (new Shelter Bay novel)
French Lessons - Ellen Sussman
Return to Rose Cottage - Sherryl Woods

New Book Club Favourites
The House at Riverton - Kate Morton
The Last Letter from your Lover - Jojo Moyes

New Non-Fiction

The Emperor of All Maladies: a Biography of Cancer
- Pulitzer Prize winner!

Seal Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper

A New Kind of Monster: the Secret Life and Chilling Crimes of Colonel Russell Williams

Just In! Janet Evanovich & Steve Berry!

2011-07-02T09:15:00.000-07:00

New - Clancy, Cussler & more

2011-06-25T12:41:00.000-07:00

New Thillers
Against all Enemies - Tom Clancy
The Kingdom - Clive Cussler
Trader of Secrets - Steve Martini

The Profession - Steven Pressfield
The year is 2032. The third Iran-Iraq war is over; the 11/11 dirty bomb attack on the port of Long Beach, California is receding into memory. Oil companies, multi-national corporations and banks employ powerful, cutting-edge mercenary armies to control global chaos and protect their riches. Even nation states enlist mercenary forces to suppress internal insurrections, hunt terrorists, and do the black bag jobs necessary to maintain the new New World Order.

Force Insertion is the world's merc monopoly. Its leader is the disgraced former United States Marine General James Salter, stripped of his command by the president for nuclear saber-rattling with the Chinese and banished to the Far East. A grandmaster military and political strategist,Salter's endgame is to take vengeance on those responsible for his exile and then come home...as Commander in Chief. The only man who can stop him is the novel's narrator, Gilbert "Gent" Gentilhomme, Salter's most loyal foot soldier and as close to him as the son Salter lost. As this action-jammed, lightning fast, and brutally realistic novel builds to its heart-stopping climax Gent launches his personally and professionally most desperate mission: to take out his mentor and save the United States from self destruction.

Historical Fiction
Day of War - Cliff Graham
Rome: The Coming of the King - M.C. Scott

Best-Selling Fiction
Joy for Beginners - Erica Bauermeister
A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
- Pulitizer Prize winner
Beach Lane - Sherryl Woods
- new Chesapeake Shores novel

Friendship Bread - Darien Gee
One afternoon, Julia Evarts and her five-year-old daughter, Gracie, arrive home to find an unexpected gift on the front porch: a homemade loaf of Amish Friendship Bread and a simple note: I hope you enjoy it. Also included are a bag of starter, instructions on how to make the bread herself, and a request to share it with others.

When Julia meets two newcomers to the small town of Avalon, Illinois, she sparks a connection by offering them her extra bread starter. The three women forge a friendship that will change their lives forever. In no time, everyone in Avalon is baking Amish Friendship Bread. But even as the town unites for a benevolent cause and Julia becomes ever closer to her new friends, she realizes the profound necessity of confronting the painful past she shares with her sister.

About life and loss, friendship and community, food and family, Friendship Bread tells the uplifting story of what endures when even the unthinkable happens.

New - Tanenbaum, Baldacci, See & more

2011-06-16T09:24:00.000-07:00

New Titles
One Summer - David Baldacci
   heart-warming drama
Daughter of Siena - Marina Fiorato
    historical fiction
Coppermine - Keith Leckie
   Canadian fiction for fans of "Three Day Road"
Dreams of Joy - Lisa See
   sequel to "Shanghai Girls"
Outrage - Robert Tanenbaum
   new thriller

New Non-Fiction
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
- David McCullough
Lost in Shangri-La: a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue story of World War II - Mitchell Zuckoff

New - Something for Everyone!

2011-06-02T10:31:00.000-07:00

Acclaimed Title

The Paris Wife - Paula McLain

Fan Favourite

Moonlight Cove - Sherryl Woods

new in her Chesapeake Shores series

New Historical Fiction
Sins of the House of Borgia - Sarah Bower

New Thrillers

Dead by Morning - Beverly Barton

The Faithful Spy - Alex Berenson

Our Kind of Traitor - John Le Carre

Disturbed - Kevin O'Brian

Strip - Thomas Perry

New Paranormal Fantasy & Steampunk

Phoenix Rising - Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris

Concrete Savior - Yvonne Navarro

New Biographies and more

2011-05-26T09:17:00.000-07:00

New Autobiographies

From This Moment On
by Shania Twain

Life
by Keith Richards

New Fiction

The Dry Grass of August
by Anna Jean Mayhew
In this beautifully written debut, Mayhew offers a riveting depiction of Southern life in the throes of segregation, what it will mean for a young girl on her way to adulthood--and for the woman who means the world to her. . . For fans of "The Help"

On a scorching day in August 1954, thirteen-year-old Jubie Watts leaves Charlotte, North Carolina, with her family for a Florida vacation. Crammed into the Packard along with Jubie are her three siblings, her mother, and the family's black maid, Mary Luther. For as long as Jubie can remember, Mary has been there--cooking, cleaning, compensating for her father's rages and her mother's benign neglect, and loving Jubie unconditionally.

Bright and curious, Jubie takes note of the anti-integration signs they pass, and of the racial tension that builds as they journey further south. But she could never have predicted the shocking turn their trip will take. Now, in the wake of tragedy, Jubie must confront her parents' failings and limitations, decide where her own convictions lie, and make the tumultuous leap to independence. . .

Infused with the intensity of a changing time, here is a story of hope, heartbreak, and the love and courage that can transform us--from child to adult, from wounded to indomitable.

New Thriller
Bleed for Me
by Michael Robotham

New Historical Fiction
Raven: Blood Eye
by Giles Kristian

New This Week!

2011-01-20T08:32:00.000-08:00

The Sentry - Robert Crais
The Salt Road - Jane Johnson
(author of the acclaimed "The Tenth Gift")
Family Affair - Debbie Macomber
Iron River & The Border Lords (Charlie Hood series)
- T. Jefferson Parker

New Thrillers & Book Club Favourites

2011-01-15T12:06:00.000-08:00

New Bestsellers
The Lake of Dreams - Kim Edwards
Left Neglected - Alice Genova
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson

New Thrillers
The Judas Gate - Jack Higgins
Secrets to the Grave - Tami Hoag
Damage - John Lescroart

Thrillers & New NonFiction

2011-01-06T14:18:00.000-08:00

New Thrillers

Dead Zero - Stephen Hunter

I, Alex Cross - James Patterson

Tigerlily's Orchids - Ruth Rendell

Faithful Place - Tana French

That which was buried is brought to light and wreaks hell--on no one more so than Frank Mackey, undercover guru and burly hero. Faithful Place is Frank's old neighborhood, the town he fled 22years ago, abandoning an abusive alcoholic father, harpy mother, and two brothers and sisters who never made it out. They say going home is never easy, but for Frank, investigating the cold case of the just-discovered body of his teenage girlfriend, it is a tangled, dangerous journey, fraught with mean motivations, black secrets, and tenuous alliances.
Faithful Place is Tana French's best book yet, a compelling and cutting mystery with the hardscrabble, savage Mackey clan at its heart.

New Non-Fiction

The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking
Unbroken: a WWII story of survival, resilience and redemption
- Laura Hillenbrand
Earth (the book) : a visitor's guide to the human race
- Jon Stewart
Never too late: take control of your retirement and your future
- Gail Vaz-Oxlade

New - Action & Biographies

2010-12-22T15:47:00.000-08:00

Military Action

Tom Clancy - Dead or Alive

Andy McNab - Zero Hour

Biographies

Changing my mind - Margaret Trudeau
I am my father's son - Dan Hill

Giller Winner & more!

2010-12-08T15:52:00.000-08:00

The Sentimentalists
The Giller Prize-winning novel by Johanna Skibsrud.

Haunted by the vivid horrors of the Vietnam War, exhausted from years spent battling his memories, Napoleon Haskell leaves his North Dakota trailer and moves to Canada.

He retreats to a small Ontario town where Henry, the father of his fallen Vietnam comrade, has a home on the shore of a man-made lake. Under the water is the wreckage of what was once the town - and the home where Henry was raised.

When Napoleon's daughter arrives, fleeing troubles of her own, she finds her father in the dark twilight of his life, and rapidly slipping into senility. With love and insatiable curiosity, she devotes herself to learning the truth about his life; and through the fog, Napoleon's past begins to emerge.

Lyrical and riveting, The Sentimentalists is a story of what lies beneath the surface of everyday life, and of the commanding power of the past. Johanna Skibsrud's first novel marks the debut of a powerful new voice in Canadian fiction.

More New Fiction

Greg Bear - Hull Zero Three (new SF)
Steve Berry - The Emperor's Tomb
Patricia Cornwell - Port Mortuary
Clive Cussler - Crescent Dawn (a Dirk Pitt novel)
Fiona McIntosh - King's Wrath (conclusion of the Valisar trilogy)
Anita Shreve - Rescue
Sheryll Woods - Chesapeake Shores series

The Inn at Eagle Point
Flowers at Main
Harbor Lights

New James Patterson & more

2010-11-24T15:28:00.000-08:00

The Desert Spear - Peter V. Brett
(#2 in this popular new fantasy series)
The Good Daughters - Joyce Maynard
Cross Fire - James Patterson - new Alex Cross

-plus new audiobooks from John Grisham, Lee Child, James Patterson, Sophie Kinsella, and many more!

Just in!

2010-11-17T16:18:00.000-08:00

Hell's Corner - David Baldacci
I Still Dream about You - Fannie Flagg
An Irish Country Doctor - Patrick Taylor

New Urban Fantasy/Paranormal series

Elemental Assassin series
1. Spider's Bite
2. Web of Lies
3. Venom

More New Titles!

2010-11-11T07:40:00.000-08:00

New Thrillers
The Confession - John Grisham
The Woodcutter - Reginald Hill
Moonlight Mile - Denis Lehane
Indulgence in Death - J.D. Robb

More Great Books
Moonlight Road - Robyn Carr
    (new in her Virgin River series)
Nikolski - Nicolas Dickner
     (Canada Reads Winner)
Happy Ever After - Nora Roberts
     (conclusion of the Wedding Quartet)
The Black Prism - Brent Weeks
     (new Fantasy series)

New Non-Fiction
Sh*t My Dad Says - Justin Halpern
Squirrel seeks Chipmunk - David Sedaris
Atlantic: the biography of an Ocean - Simon Winchester

Even More New Books!

2010-11-01T16:16:00.000-07:00

The School of Essential Ingredients - Erica Bauermeister

Busy Body - M.C. Beaton (Agatha Raisin series)

Edge - Jeffrey Deaver

Crossfire - Dick & Felix Francis

Freedom - Jonathan Franzen

Christmas Mourning - Margaret Maron

New Fantasy & SF

Troy trilogy - David Gemmell

Zero History - William Gibson

Towers of Midnight - Robert Jordan (new Wheel of Time)

New Biography

Cleopatra: a life - Stacy Schiff

More New Books!

2010-10-28T07:49:00.000-07:00

Worth Dying For - Lee Child
The Fort - Bernard Cornwell
Promise Me - Richard Paul Evans
Secret Daughter - Shilpi Somaya Gowda
In the Company of Others - Jan Karon
Call Me Mrs. Miracle - Debbie Macomber

New Titles!

2010-10-20T18:17:00.000-07:00

Arboretum Borealis

by Diana Beresford-Kroeger

Nothing on earth compares to the Boreal forest to maintain life on this planet. The vast primeval forest stretches across the northern regions of the world, from northern Canada and Alaska to northern Europe, Russia, China, and Japan. The circumpolar runoff from the Boreal enriches the seas with nutrients in the spring. The evergreens of the Boreal act as a passive ground coolant. And the needles of the evergreens and the trichomal hairs of the deciduous trees comb the air free of harmful minute particulate pollution.

Arboretum Borealis does for the northern forests of the world what Arboretum America did for the forests of North America. Diana Beresford-Kroeger further describes how each Boreal tree group relates to its natural environment and how these specific trees can be used to promote health or to counteract the effects of pollution and global warming.

Arboretum Borealis reveals the fascinating history of these trees in Native American culture, including their medicinal uses. Beresford-Kroeger offers practical design ideas and tips—where to plant these trees, what season they look best in, and what native plants complement them.

More New Non-Fiction
At home - Bill Bryson
Daily Planet: the Ultimate Book of Everyday Science
The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks - Stuart McLean
Cesar's Rules - Cesar Millan (the Dog Whisperer)
In the Still of the Night - true crime from Anne Rule
The Tiger: a true story of vengence and survival - John Vailant

New Thrillers
Snow Job - William Deverell
Djibouti - Elmore Leonard
Cross Roads - Fern Michaels (new in the Sisterhood series)
Don't Blink - James Patterson

More Bestselling Titles
Unlocked - Karen Kingsbury
Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese

New Best-Sellers In!

2010-10-14T11:48:00.000-07:00

Booker Award Nominees

Room (Emma Donoghue)
To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It's where he was born and where he and his Ma eat and play and learn. At night, Ma puts him safely to sleep in the wardrobe, in case Old Nick comes.

Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it's the prison where Old Nick has kept her for seven years, since she was nineteen. Through ingenuity and determination, Ma has created a life for herself and her son, but she knows it's not enough for either of them. Jack's curiosity is building alongside Ma's desperation -- and Room can't contain either of them for much longer...

Told entirely in the inventive, often funny voice of Jack, Room is a celebration of the resilient bond between parent and child, and a brilliantly executed novel about a journey from one world to another.

The Long Song (Andrea Levy)
You do not know me yet but I am the narrator of this work. My son Thomas, who is printing this book, tells me it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within its pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed.

July is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation called Amity and it is her life that is the subject of this tale. She was there when the Baptist War raged in 1831, and she was also present when slavery was declared no more. My son says I must convey how the story also tells of July's mama, Kitty; of the negroes that worked the plantation land; of Caroline Mortimer, the white woman who owned the plantation; and many more persons besides—far too many for me to list here. But what befalls them all is carefully chronicled upon these pages for you to peruse.

Perhaps, my son suggests, I might write that it is a thrilling journey through that time in the company of people who lived it. All this he wishes me to pen so the reader can decide if this is a novel they might care to consider. Cha, I tell my son, what fuss-fuss. Come, let them just read it for themselves.

New Thrillers
The Reversal - Michael Connelly
American Assassin - Vince Flynn
Painted Ladies - Robert Parker (new Spencer!)
Santa Fe Edge - Stuart Woods

Popular Authors
Minding Frankie - Maeve Binchy
Legacy - Danielle Steel
The Death & Life of Charlie St. Cloud - Ben Sherwood
- movie tie-in

Historical Fiction
Empire of Silver - Conn Iggulden
- conclusion of his Genghis Khan series

Just In!

2010-10-06T17:35:00.000-07:00

Merrickville:
a postcard reflective
(Jim Skelding)
This brand new book by local resident James Skelding contains pictures and descriptions of historic postcards from Merrickville & our surrounding communities. About half date from before 1910, and most others are pre-1950. Take a walk through Merrickville's past!

Best-Selling Author
Safe Haven - Nicholas Sparks

Inspirational Fiction
The Thorn - Beverly Lewis
The Bridge of Peace - Cynthia Woodsmall
Lydia's Charm - Wanda Brunstetter
-plus Brunstetter's Indiana Cousins trilogy & Brides of Lehigh Station trilogy

More New Books!

2010-09-25T08:34:00.000-07:00

The Exile - Diana Gabaldon (Outlander graphic novel)
Mini Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella

Lady in Waiting - Susan Meissner

Bury your Dead - Louise Penny

A Secret Kept - Tatiana de Rosnay

Bad Blood - John Sandford (Virgil Flowers series)

The Forest Laird - Jack Whyte

New Books in!

2010-09-23T11:26:00.000-07:00

New Titles

Mr. Shakespeare's Bastard - Richard B. Wright

Little Bee - Chris Cleave

We've also added more titles in these popular series:
Robyn Carr's Virgin River series
Sherryl Woods' Sweet Magnolias series
&
Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series (Trueblood).

More New Books!

2010-09-16T09:31:00.000-07:00

Acclaimed Authors
Ape House - Sara Gruen (author of Water for Elephants)
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
Sanctuary Line - Jane Urquhart

Mysteries & Thrillers
The Bricklayer - Noah Boyd
Lost Empire - Clive Cussler & Grant Blackwood
Willful Behavior - Donna Leon
Trust Me - Peter Leonard
Fever of the Bone - Val McDermid
Thereby hands a tail - Spencer Quinn
Body Work - Sara Paretsky
Bad Boy - Peter Robinson
Hard Rain - David Rollins

More Popular Authors!
Maybe this time - Jennifer Crusie
Wicked Appetite - Janet Evanovich
1022 Evergreen Place - Debbie Macomber (Cedar Cove series)
Flirting with Disaster - Sherryl Woods

The People's Queen - Vanora Bennett (historical fiction)
The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson (new fantasy series)

New Books for September

2010-09-09T07:32:00.000-07:00

Hot off the Presses!
The Cobra - Frederick Forsyth
Star Island - Carl Hiaasen
The Postcard Killers - James Patterson & Lisa Marklund
Spider Bones - Kathy Reichs

More New Arrivals
Crusader Gold - David Gibbons
Arctic Chill - Arnaldur Indridason (Scandi
navian noir)
The Backup Plan - Sherryl Woods
Books 1, 2, & 3 in Naomi Novik's Temeraire series - the Age of Sail with dragons!

More New Books coming next week!

New Titles!

2010-08-18T18:00:00.000-07:00

New Thrillers
Tough Customer - Sandra Brown
The Capitol Game - Brian Haig
Hangman - Faye Kellerman
The Sign - Raymond Khoury
In Harm's Way - Ridley Pearson

More New Titles
The Daisy Club - Charlotte Bingham
The Disappeared - Kim Echlin **Giller nominee
In Shelter Cove - Barbara Freethy (#3 in the Angel Bay series)
The Piano Teacher - Janice Lee

New Fantasy/Paranormal
The Demon Hunt - Kris Greene (#2 in the series)

More New Books in!

2010-08-03T12:51:00.000-07:00

New Titles

Infamous - Suzanne Brockman

Lowcountry Summer - Dorothea Benton Frank

Queen of the Night - J.A. Jance

Storm Cycle - Iris & Roy Johansen

Orchard Valley Brides - Debbie Macomber

Historical Fiction

The Red Queen - Philippa Gregory

Claudius - Douglas Jackson
The Steel Wave - Jeff Shaara
The Captive Queen - Alison Weir

Summer Bestsellers Keep Coming In!

2010-07-22T12:23:00.000-07:00

New Thrillers

The Glass Rainbow - James Lee Burke

Live to Tell - Lisa Gardner

The Defector - Daniel Silva

New Romance & Inspirational

Shades of Blue - Karen Kingsbury

The Parting & The Forbidden - Beverly Lewis

One Night - Debbie Macomber

The Search - Nora Roberts

And

New Fantasy Fiction from Fiona McIntosh

New Titles for Summer!

2010-07-12T18:19:00.000-07:00

New Thrillers
Inside Out - Barry Eisner
Ice Cold - Tess Gerritson
Panic Zone - Rick Mofina
The Mist - Carla Neggers
In the Name of Honor - Richard North Patterson
Betrayed - Robert K. Tanenbaum

More New Titles
A Summer in Sonoma - Robyn Carr
The Templar Knight - Jan Gillou
Family Ties - Danielle Steel

More Just In!

2010-06-29T13:01:00.000-07:00

Great New Titles - Just In!

2010-06-24T10:48:00.000-07:00

New Mysteries & Thrillers
Sizzling Sixteen - Janet Evanovich -new Stephanie Plum
Hostage Zero - John Gilstrap
The Rule of Nine - Steve Martini
Game Over - Fern Michaels -new "Sisterhood" novel
Dog On It - Spencer Quinn -funny new mystery series

More New Fiction
A Secret in the Family - Lyn Andrews
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt - Beth Hoffman
Hannah's List - Debbie Macomber
Orchard Valley Grooms - Debbie Macomber
Honeysuckle Summer - Sherryl Woods -new "Sweet Magnolias"

Book Club Favourites
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
Loving Frank - Nancy Horan

More New Books!

2010-06-17T09:06:00.000-07:00

Just In!

My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares

Insatiable by Meg Cabot

The Infinity Gate by Sarah Douglass -new in her fantasy series

Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott

Death Echo by Elizabeth Lowell

Dark Blood by Stuart MacBride

Angelology by Danielle Trussoni

Sweet Tea at Sunrise by Sherryl Woods

New Books!

2010-06-09T18:32:00.000-07:00

New Titles
Promises to Keep - Jane Green

61 Hours - Lee Child (new Jack Reacher novel)
The Spy - Clive Cussler & Justin Scott
The Lion - Nelson DeMille
The Bourne Objective - Robert Ludlum

New Best-Sellers!

2010-06-03T09:13:00.000-07:00

The Global Forest by Diana Beresford-Kroeger

International award-winning scientist
and Merrickville-Wolford resident!

A gorgeously-written exploration of the natural world and the peril of ignoring our disappearing forests.

One of the world's experts on how trees chemically affect the environment, Canadian scientist Diana Beresford-Kroeger is on a mission to save the planet-one newly planted tree at a time. In this new book, she skillfully weaves together ecology, ethnobotany, horticulture, spirituality, science, and alternative medicine to capture the magic spell that trees cast over us, from their untapped ecological and pharmaceutical potential to the roles they have played in our cultural heritage. Trees not only breathe and communicate; they also reproduce, provide shelter, medicine, and food, and connect disparate elements of the natural world. In celebrating forests' function and beauty, Beresford-Kroeger warns what a deforested world would look like. Her revolutionary bioplan proposes how trees can be planted in urban and rural areas to promote health and counteract pollution and global warming, maintaining biodiversity in the face of climate change.

Presented in short interconnected essays, The Global Forest draws from ancient storytelling traditions to present an unforgettable work of natural history. Beresford-Kroeger is an imaginative thinker who writes with the precision of a scientist and the lyricism of a poet. Her indisputable passion for her subject matter will inspire readers to look at trees with newfound awe.

More New Titles!

2010-05-27T07:55:00.000-07:00

New Thrillers

New Non-Fiction

Nomad (Ayaan Hirsi Ali)
In her powerful new memoir, the #1 bestselling author of Infidel tells the stirring story of her search for a new life as she tries to reconcile her Islamic past with her passionate adherence to democracy and Western values. A unique blend of personal narrative and reportage, moving, engaging, wryly funny at times, Nomad gives us an inside view of her battle for equality in the face of considerable odds.

Ayaan captured the world's attention with Infidel, the eye-opening memoir of her childhood in Africa and Saudi Arabia, and her escape to Holland en route to a forced marriage in Canada. Nomad is the story of what happened after the Dutch director with whom she made a documentary about the domestic abuse of Muslim women was murdered by a radical Islamist and death threats forced her into hiding; of her bid to start a new life in America; of her renewed contact with her family on her father''s death; and of her attempts to live by her adopted principles. With deep understanding, and through vivid anecdotes, and observations of people, cultures, and the political debacles that are engulfing the world, she takes us with her on an illuminating, unforgettable journey.

War (Sebastian Junger)

In his breakout bestseller, The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger created “a wild ride that brilliantly captures the awesome power of the raging sea and the often futile attempts of humans to withstand it” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, Junger turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat—the fear, the honor, and the trust among men in an extreme situation whose survival depends on their absolute commitment to one another. His on-the-ground account follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. Through the experiences of these young men at war, he shows what it means to fight, to serve, and to face down mortal danger on a daily basis.

New Arrivals!

2010-05-21T08:39:00.000-07:00

New Titles!

2010-05-12T18:23:00.000-07:00

New Fiction
The Road to Jerusalem - Jan Guillou
(start of a new historical fiction series)
We are All Made of Glue - Marina Lewycka
Take a Chance on Me - Jill Mansell
Miracle on the 17th Green - James Patterson
Every Last One - Anna Quindlen

New Thrillers
Deliver us from Evil - David Baldacci
The Shadow of your smile - Mary Higgins Clark
Moscow Rules - Daniel Silva

New Fantasy & Science Fiction
(both Canadian!)
Under Heaven - Guy Gavriel kay
Wake - Robert Sawyer

More New Books!

2010-05-01T11:02:00.000-07:00

Just In!
Island Beneath the Sea - Isabel Allende
A Question of Belief   - Donna Leon
9th Judgment - James Patterson
    (new in the Women's Murder Club)
Savor the Moment - Nora Roberts
    (new in the Brides' Quartet)

This Week's New Books

2010-04-29T07:52:00.000-07:00

More Great New Titles

This Body of Death - Elizabeth George
Eight Days to Live - Iris Johansen
The Double Comfort Safari Club - Alexander McCall Smith
(new No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency mystery)
Lucid Intervals - Stuart Woods (new Stone Barrington book)

New Gardening & Business Books

2010-04-22T10:24:00.000-07:00

New Gardening Titles
50 High-Impact, Low-care Garden Plants
Deer-Resistant Landscaping
The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Organic Food
Guide to Canadian Vegetable Gardening
Making the Most of Shade
The Truth about Organic Gardening

New Business Titles
Canadian Small Business for Dummies
Getting Started in Consulting
Home-based Business for Dummies
Start and Run a Real Home-Based Business

Lots of New Books - Just In!

2010-04-15T11:25:00.000-07:00

The Last Time I Saw You
Elizabeth Berg

Canadian Authors
Beatrice & Virgil - Yann Martell
Thunder River - Tony Cosier - Local Author!

New Mysteries & Thrillers
The Black Cat - Martha Grimes (Richard Jury series)
Dead & Gone - Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse series)
The Snowman - Jo Nesbo (Harry Hole series)
Victim 6 - Gregg Olsen
A River in the Sky - Elizabeth Peters (Amelia Peabody series)
Altar of Eden - James Rollins
Murder of a Wedding Belle - Denise Swanson (Scumble River series)

Fantasy Fiction
The Percheron Saga by Fiona McIntosh

Oladesque
Emissary
Goddess

This Week's New Books

2010-04-08T08:48:00.000-07:00

Acclaimed Authors
Solar - Ian McEwan
The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters

The Wreckage - Michael Crummey
The Independence of Miss Mary Bennett - Colleen McCullough
American Wife - Curtis Sittenfeld

New Thrillers
Without Mercy - Lisa Jackson
Deception - Jonathan Kellerman
Deadly Deals - Fern Michaels (Sisterhood series)

New Romance
Forbidden Falls - Robyn Carr (Virgin River series)
Hero at Large - Janet Evanovich
On Shadow Beach - Barbara Freethy
The Summer Hideaway - Susan Wiggs (Lakeshore Chronicles)
Home in Carolina - Sherryl Woods (Sweet Magnolias series)

Fantasy Fiction
The Warded Man - Peter V. Brett

New Thrillers & More

2010-04-01T11:04:00.000-07:00

New Thrillers
Caught - Harlan Coben
Nightwalker - Heather Graham
Vanishing Act - Fern Michaels (Sisterhood series)
L.A. Outlaws - T. Jefferson Parker
The Renegades - T. Jefferson Parker
A Knife Edge - David Rollins
Live to Tell - Wendy Corsi Staub

More New Titles
Paradise Valley - Robyn Carr (Virgin River series)
Angel's Peak - Robyn Carr (Virgin River series)
The Queen of New Beginnings - Erica James
Take Three - Karen Kingsbury
An Irish Country Christmas - Patrick Taylor

New SF & Paranormal
Bone Crossed - Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson series)
The Dark Storm - Kris Greene (new series)
Steal Across the Sky - Nancy Kress

New Non-Fiction

Game Change:
Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
by John Heilemann & Mark Helperin

New Books for Spring!

2010-03-25T13:50:00.000-07:00

New Thrillers
Fear the Worst - Linwood Barclay
Capitol Betrayal - William Bernhardt
Malice - Lisa Jackson
The Spellmans strike again - Lisa Lutz
The Man from Beijing - Henning Mankell
Nemesis - Jo Nesbo
The Little Death - P.J. Parrish
Pursuit - Karen Robards
Think Twice - Lisa Scottoline

Great Titles
Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
Astrid & Veronika - Linda Olsson

Award-Winning Non-Ficton
Just Watch Me: the life of Pierre Elliot Trudeau - John English

This Week's New Books

2010-03-17T17:17:00.000-07:00

More Great New Titles!

2010-03-11T13:14:00.000-08:00

New Titles
Secrets of Eden - Chris Bohjalian
The Lady and the Poet - Maeve Haran
Deeper than the Dead - Tami Hoag
House Rules - Jodi Picoult
The Other Family - Joanna Trollope

New Non-Fiction
Columbine - Dave Cullen

New on the Shelves!

2010-02-27T08:15:00.000-08:00

Dead by Midnight - Beverly Barton
Pirate Latitudes - Michael Crichton
Rome: the Emperor's Spy - M.C. Scott
The Sea Robber - Tim Severin
The Siege - Stephen White

New To Us
The Sugar Queen - Sarah Addison Allen
Beginner's Greek - James Collins
The March - E.L. Doctorow

Fantasy/SF/Paranormal Titles
Storm Front (Dresden Files) - Jim Butcher
Spook Country - William Gibson
Spellbinder - Melanie Rawn
and
Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing trilogy:

The Darkness that comes before
The Warrior-Prophet
The Thousandfold Thought

New on the Shelves!

2010-02-12T12:14:00.000-08:00

New Fiction

William Boyd - Ordinary Thunderstorms
Tracy Chevalier - Remarkable Creatures
Kristin Hannah - Winter Garden
Kate Jacobs - Comfort Food
James Patterson - Worst Case
Kate Pullinger - The Mistress of Nothing (GG Award Winner!)

New Non-Fiction

Going Rogue: an American life by Sarah Palin
Open: an autobiography by Andre Agassi
Born to Run: a hidden tribe, superathletes, and the greatest race the world has never seen
The Soloist: a lost dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of music
The Blue Zones: lessons for living longer from the people who've lived the longest
Decoding Love: why it takes 12 frogs to find a prince, and other revelations from the science of attraction

Just In!

2010-02-03T17:45:00.000-08:00

New at the Library!

2010-01-27T17:41:00.000-08:00

New Titles
Death of a Valentine - M.C. Beaton (a Hamish Macbeth mystery)
South of Broad - Pat Conroy
The First Rule - Robert Crais
Not My Daughter - Barbara Delinsky
Up in the Air - Walter Kirn (basis for the Academy Award nominated movie!)
Kisser - Stuart Woods (a Stone Barrington novel)

New Non-Fiction
Committed - Elizabeth Gilbert (author of Eat Pray Love)
The Greatest Show on Earth - Richard Dawkins (author of The God Delusion)

2010-01-20T17:48:00.000-08:00

New Fiction

Sizzle - Julie Garwood

The Wolf at the Door - Jack Higgins

Midnight Fugue - Reginald Hill

Knit the Season - Kate Jacobs

(Friday Night Knitting Club series)

The Body in the Sleigh - Katherine Hall Page

Best-Selling Non-Fiction

A Soldier First - Gen. Rick Hillier

Debt-Free Forever - Gail Vaz-Oxlade

(host of Til Debt Do Us Part)

See What's New in 2010!

2010-01-07T13:32:00.000-08:00

Note: Our online catalogue is experiencing technical problems at this time. But you can call (613-269-3326) or email the library to reserve books.

New Award-Winning (& Nominated) Canadian Fiction

The Bishop's Man - Linden MacIntyre

The Golden Mean - Annabel Lyon

Galore - Michael Crummey

More Great New Titles

I, Sniper - Stephen Hunter

Nanny Returns - Emma McLaughlin

The Monster in the Box - Ruth Rendell (Inspector Wexford!)

Push - Sapphire (basis for the movie Precious)

New to Us

Dashing through the Snow - Mary & Carol Higgins Clark

Suddenly One Summer - Barbara Freethy

Fatal Burn - Lisa Jackson

The Morning After - Lisa Jackson

The Water's Edge - Daniel Judson

Sundays at Tiffany's - James Patterson (romance from James Patterson - go figure!)

New Books for the Holidays!

2009-12-10T08:24:00.000-08:00

New Titles

The Paris Vendetta - Steve Berry
U is for Undertow - Sue Grafton
Trial by Fire - J.A. Jance
Angels at Christmas - Debbie Macomber

New Non-Fiction
Stones into Schools - Greg Mortenson
(follow-up to "Three Cups of Tea")
The Truth about Psychics - Sylvia Browne

Local Authors!!

By Brenda Carter:

Albatross: a birder murder mystery
The Roc that Flew

by Lowell Green:

Hoodwinked: the spy who didn't die
It's hard to say goodbye
The pork chop...and other stories
How the granola-crunching, tree hugging, thug huggers are ruining this country

New Books in!

2009-11-26T07:40:00.000-08:00

New Titles
2009 Man Booker Winner - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Spartan Gold - Clive Cussler & Grant Blackwood
The Wrecker - Clive Cussler & Justin Scott
Lustrum - Robert Harris
Breathless - Dean Koontz
Cold River - Carla Neggers
New York - Edward Rutherfurd

& by Merrickville-Wolford's own Carol Williams

Emma Field, Book II
Emma Field has dreams and desires that call her to go beyond her father’s struggle to survive as an immigrant in Canada West in the 1840s. With the love of a few peculiar people and her own courage, she takes her first tentative steps at understanding the world around her.

Emma Field, Book II takes place at the Nine Partners Boarding School in the Hudson River Valley of New York State. Emma assists the Quakers involved with the Underground Railroad. She also attends the First Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.

More New Fall Books!

2009-11-12T10:48:00.000-08:00

New Fiction

The Book of Tomorrow - Cecelia Ahern

True Blue - David Baldacci

The Burning Land - Bernard Cornwell

(#5 in the Saxon Chronicles)

Once upon a Blue Moon - Eileen Goudge

Ford County - John Grisham

The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver

Kindred in Death - J. D. Robb

New Non-Fiction

What the Dog Saw - Malcolm Gladwell

SuperFreakonomics - Steven Levitt

Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller - Jeff Rubin

This Just In!

2009-11-05T11:19:00.000-08:00

New Titles Just In!

The Scarpetta Factor - Patricia Cornwell

The Brutal Telling - Louise Penny

Bed of Roses - Nora Roberts (#2 in the Bride Quartet)

Rumpole for Christmas - John Mortimer

New Fantasy

The Gathering Storm - Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson

(#12 in the Wheel of Time series)

Canticle - Ken Scholes (#2 in the series!)

Local Author!

The Island of Canada (Victor Suthren)

Canada has the longest coastline of any nation on earth, together with the world's largest lake and river system.

In fact, bounded on three sides by oceans, and with a lake and river system that crosses the entire country east to west, Canada can be thought of as an island nation. Now, Victor Suthren, one of Canada's most articulate historians and an expert on maritime history, has written the first history that shows how the oceans and lakes of Canada have shaped our nation.

From the earliest days of Inuit and Aboriginal hunters, the Norse, Basque, Spanish, and French adventurers and fishermen to the explorers of the Pacific coast and the Arctic, the royal fleets of Britain and France, privateers, pirates, and merchantmen, the fur trade, and the great Age of Sail, here is a sweeping history that traces the development of the Canadian psyche as it has been shaped by its waters.

THE ISLAND OF CANADA is an extraordinary story about a sea-going nation informed by an examination of the mentality, which has made Canadians, inhabitants of an enormous land mass, nonetheless islanders in their unique character and heritage.
"This is not only a compelling history of Canada and saltwater, but a wholly original way of looking at who we are as a people." - from review

More New Titles!

2009-10-29T11:13:00.000-07:00

Plus New Christian Fiction from Cindy Woodsmall
The Hope of Refuge
and her Sisters of the Quilt trilogy:
When the Heart Cries
When the Morning Comes
When the Soul Mends

Last Night in Twisted River (John Irving)
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a 12-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the boy and his father become fugitives, pursued by the constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them.

In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River depicts the recent half-century in the United States as a world "where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course." From the novel's taut opening sentence to its elegiac final chapter, what distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author's unmistakable voice, the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller.

White Picket Fences (Susan Meissner)

When her black sheep brother disappears, Amanda Janvier eagerly takes in her 16 year-old niece Tally. The girl is practically an orphan: motherless, and living with a father who raises Tally wherever he lands and regularly takes off on wild schemes. Amanda envisions that she, her husband Neil, and their two teenagers can offer the girl stability and a shot at a “normal” life, even though their own storybook lives are about to crumble.

17-year-old Chase Janvier hasn’t seen his cousin in years, and doesn’t expect her arrival will affect him much–or interfere with his growing, disturbing interest in a long-ago house fire that plagues his dreams unbeknownst to anyone else.

Tally and Chase bond as they interview two Holocaust survivors for a sociology project, and become startlingly aware that the whole family is grappling with hidden secrets, with the echoes of the past, and with the realization that ignoring tragic situations won’t make them go away.

Will Tally’s presence blow apart their carefully-constructed world, knocking down the illusion of the white picket fence and reveal a hidden past that could destroy them all–or can she help them find the truth without losing each other?

More Fall Bestsellers!

2009-10-22T14:04:00.000-07:00

Mysteries & Thrillers
There goes the Bride - M.C. Beaton (Agatha Raisin series)
Trigger City - Sean Chercover
Pursuit of Honor - Vince Flynn
Even Money - Dick Francis
Chosen to Die - Lisa Jackson
Evidence - Jonathan Kellerman
Urge to Kill - John Lutz
Vengeance Road - Rick Mofina
The Professional - Robert Parker (a Spenser novel)

More New Titles

A Change of Altitude - Anita Shreve
The Missing - Beverly Lewis (#2 in Acts of Grace series)
Frostbitten - Kelley Armstrong
(new in her Women of the Otherworld series)
And Another Thing - new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Her Fearful Symmetry (Audrey Niffenegger)

When Elspeth Noblin dies of cancer, she leaves her London apartment to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina. These two American girls never met their English aunt, only knew that their mother, too, was a twin, and Elspeth her sister. Julia and Valentina are semi-normal American teenagers--with seemingly little interest in college, finding jobs, or anything outside their cozy home in the suburbs of Chicago, and with an abnormally intense attachment to one another.

The girls move to Elspeth's flat, which borders Highgate Cemetery in London. They come to know the building's other residents. There is Martin, a brilliant and charming crossword puzzle setter suffering from crippling Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; Marjike, Martin's devoted but trapped wife; and Robert, Elspeth's elusive lover, a scholar of the cemetery. As the girls become embroiled in the fraying lives of their aunt's neighbors, they also discover that much is still alive in Highgate, including--perhaps--their aunt, who can't seem to leave her old apartment and life behind.

Niffenegger weaves a captivating story in Her Fearful Symmetry about love and identity, about secrets and sisterhood, and about the tenacity of life--even after death.

Half-Broke Horses (Jeanette Walls)
"Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, in Jeannette Walls's magnificent, true-life novel based on her no-nonsense, resourceful, hard working, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town -- riding five hundred miles on her pony, all alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car ("I loved cars even more than I loved horses. They didn't need to be fed if they weren't working, and they didn't leave big piles of manure all over the place") and fly a plane, and, with her husband, ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She raised two children, one of whom is Jeannette's memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in The Glass Castle.

Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds -- against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn't fit the mold. Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa or Beryl Markham's West with the Night. It will transfix readers everywhere.

The Last River Child (Lori Ann Bloomfield)
A young woman struggles against a small town’s superstitious fears at the turn of the last century

In the summer of 1900 a meteorite lands on the day of Peg Staynor’s baptismal, barely missing the small church in rural Ontario. This, along with Peg’s almost colourless eyes, is enough to resurrect a local superstition that will haunt Peg and her family for years. Many believe Peg to be a “river child,” taken over by an evil spirit from the Magurvey river that winds its way through the town.

Feared and shunned throughout her childhood, Peg is blamed for every misfortune, from drought to ailing livestock. When her mother, her fiercest protector, dies suddenly on the same day WWI is declared, fourteen-year-old Peg must face not only the mistrust of the villagers, but of her father. His grief has driven him to take solace in drink and old superstition, leaving Peg with only her head-strong older sister for support.

It will take the terrible reality of the first World War to shake off the grip of old world beliefs. As the town’s young men begin to return mentally and physically damaged, or not return at all, the sheltered atmosphere of the town is broken. A bright flame of change will sweep through everyone’s lives, leading Peg into the future.

More New Fall Books!

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Thrillers
Rough Country - John Sandford
Capitol Offense - William Bernhardt

Romance
The Perfect Christmas - Debbie Macomber
Lakeshore Christmas - Susan Wiggs

Canadian Humour
Extreme Vinyl Cafe - Stuart McLean

Award-Winning Author
Summertime - J.M. Coetzee (author of Disgrace)

New Non-Fiction
Have a Little Faith - Mitch Albom
After the Fall: coming of age in the 60s (by the author of Too Close to the Falls)
The Lost City of Z: a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon
How to raise the perfect dog - Cesar Millan (the Dog Whisperer)

Read about our Twin Village - Fort Augustus, Scotland
The Caledonian Canal
Loch Ness & Inverness
The Great Glen Way
Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster

New Fall Bestsellers!

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New Titles

An Echo in the Bone - Diana Gabaldon (#7 in the Outlander series)

The Last Song - Nicholas Sparks

The Wife's Tale - Lori Lansens

That Old Cape Magic - Richard Russo

New Thrillers

Hothouse Orchid - Stuart Woods

Capture - Robert Tanenbaum

The Complaints - Ian Rankin

Hardball - Sara Paretsky

Vanished - Joseph Finder

Guardian of Lies - Steve Martini

The Spire - Richard North Patterson

More New Arrivals

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Steig Larrson

The Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks

New Non-Fiction

Traveling with Pomegranates: a mother-daughter story (by Sue Monk Kidd)

An Edible History of Humanity

The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah wishes you a Happy Birthday: unexpected encounters in the changing Middle East

Fifteen Days : stories of bravery, friendship, life and death from inside the new Canadian Army

Get Growing: keys to unlocking the potential of your small business

What You've Been Waiting For!

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The hot new title for Fall:

Dan Brown's
The Lost Symbol

More Great New Titles!

New Canadian Fiction!

More New Books!

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New Bestsellers for Fall!

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More New Titles coming soon!

More Summer Bestsellers!

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Once on a Moonless Night (Dai Sijie)
When Puyi, the last emperor, was exiled to Manchuria in the early 1930s, it is said that he carried an eight-hundred-year-old silk scroll inscribed with a lost sutra composed by the Buddha. Eventually the scroll would be sold illicitly to an eccentric French linguist named Paul d’Ampere, in a transaction that would land him in prison, where he would devote his life to studying the ineffably beautiful ancient language of the forgotten text.
Our unnamed narrator, a Western student in China in the 1970s, hears this story from the greengrocer Tumchooq—his name the same as that of the language in which the scroll is written—who has recently returned from three years of reeducation. She will come again and again to Tumchooq’s shop near the gates of the Forbidden City, drawn by the young man and his stories of an estranged father. But when d’Ampere is killed in prison, Tumchooq disappears, abandoning the narrator, now pregnant with his child. And it is she, going in search of her lost love, who will at last find the missing scroll and discover the truth of the Buddha’s lesson that begins “Once on a moonless night . . .” in this story that carries us across the breadth of China’s past, the myth and the reality.

Daughter of Kura (Debra Austin)
On the parched African earth more than half a million years ago sits the village of Kura, a matriarchal society of Homo erectus. Snap -- a young, passionate woman of Kura -- is destined to lead her people, and this year she must select a mate for the first time. Will she choose someone different each year, or will she find one mate she wants to pick over and over again, like her mother, Whistle, the next leader of Kura? As the Bonding ceremony approaches, Snap's future remains unknown. But Whistle, when her mate doesn't return, chooses a stranger with ideas far more dangerous than the lions that kill with a single slash.
When Snap challenges the stranger's growing power one too many times, she is brutally cast out to survive or perish. Abandoned and alone, she risks her life -- and the future of her people -- to stand up against an unthinkable evil. Unknown to her, the same danger threatens other villages as well. Soon, Snap and a new band of outcasts will face a force more terrifying -- and deadly -- than any of Africa's natural threats.
Both imaginative and believable, Daughter of Kura astonishingly brings to life an ancient and untamed world. Austin has created an unforgettable heroine who comes of age in a thrilling tale of courage, loyalty, and passion.

Hot off the Presses

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Just Arrived!

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More Bestsellers for Summer!

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New Arrivals

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More Books Just In!

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Still Alice (Lisa Genova)
Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University.
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what's it's like to literally lose your mind...

Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
(by Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith)
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem.
As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton-and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers-and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Can she vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry?
Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you'd actually want to read.

New Thrillers

Today's new books...

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