New Acquisitions

Book Selection Committee January/February /March 2024
FICTION
Akbar, Kaveh            The Martyr
Banks, Russell            American Spirits
Beaird, Rowan            The Divorcees
Chan, Vanessa            The Storm We Made
Fawcett, Heather        Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Fairies
Goodwin, Daisy            Diva
Hannah, Kristin            The Women
Howes, Emily            The Painter’s Daughters
Keegan, Clare            So Late in the Day
Lapena, Shari            Everyone Here is Lying
Michaels, Anne            Held 
Michaelides, Alex        The Fury 
Muaddi Darraj, Susan        Behind You is the Sea
Murry, Paul            The Bee Sting
Orange, Tommy            Wandering Stars 
Peters, Amanda            The Berry Pickers 
Quindlen, Anna            After Annie 
Robb, J.D,            Payback in Death
Robinson, Roxana        Leaving 
Theroux, Paul            Burma Sahib
Torres, Justin            Blackouts 
Williams, Pip            The Bookbinder

MYSTERIES
Baragwanath,Tom        The Paper Cage 
Box, C. J.                   Three Inch Teeth
Burke, James Lee          Harbor Lights
Casey, Jane            The Close
Delamotte, Anders            The Mountain King
Donovan, Kemper.          The Busy Body
French, Tana                 The Hunter
Herron, Mick               The Secret Hours
Mina, Denise.             The Second Murderer
O'Connor, Carlene         No Strangers Here
Perry, Thomas               Hero*
Plantinga, Adam         The Ascent
Shelton, Paige              The Lost Hours
Spotswood, Stephen           Fortune Favors the Dead
Swindler, Olivia             Break the Glass


Book Selection Committee March/April 2023

FICTION
Grisham, John        The Boys from Biloxi
Ison, Tara                At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf
Jha, Sonora            The Laughter
Moyes, Jojo            Someone Else’s Shoes

MYSTERIES
Box, C. J.                    Storm Watch
Coben, Harlan            The Match
Crombie, Deborah      A Killing of Innocents

NON-FICTION

DONATIONS
Barton, Fiona             The Child
Clayton, Meg             The Postmistress of Paris
Dolan, Harry               Very Bad Men (M)
Kaplan, Robert           When the Astors Owned New York (NF)
Kimmerer, Robin        Braiding Sweetgrass (NF)
                                     Writers of the Mendocino Coast: Common Ground
Longworth, M.L.         Murder on the Ile Sordou (M)
McCall Smith, A         The House of Unexpected Sister (M)
Melville, Alan              Quick Curtain (M)
North, Gil                    Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm (M)
O’Farrell, Maggie      The Marriage Portrait
Rhys, Jean                The Wide Sargasso Sea
Rowland, John          Murder in the Museum (M)
Schaffert, Timothy    The Perfume Thief
Villalobos, Juan        Invasion of the Spirit People
Williams, Niall           Boy and Man
Winn, Robert             The Death of Captain Ford



Book Selection Committee January/ February2023

FICTION
Benedict, Marie        The Mitford Affair
Boyne, John            All the Broken Places
Chen, Katherine    Joan: A novel of Joan of Arc
Keegan, Clare        FosterMcCarthy, Cormac   Stella Maris
Quinn, Joanna        The Whalebone Theatre

MYSTERIES    
Gentill, Sulari                The Woman in the Library
Hall, Rachel Howzell     And Now She’s Gone
Harper, Jane                  The Exiles
Kapoor, Deepti              Age of Vice
Perry , Thomas             The Left-Handed Twin
Perry, Thomas              The Murder Book
Smiley, Jane                  A Dangerous Business
Walker, Martin               To Kill a Troubadour

NON-FICTION
Greenidge, Kerri        The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
Perry, Imani                South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon

DONATIONS
Atkinson, Kate            Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Bellairs, George          Death of a Busybody (M)
Benedict, Marie           The Personal Librarian
Boall, Iain                    West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California (NF
Borowitz, Andy           Profiles in Ignorance (NF)
Bown, Rhys                 Peril in Paris (M)
Cleverly, Barbara        Folly du Jour (M)
Evanovich, Janet        Game On: Tempting Twenty-One (M)
Fowler, Therese          It All Comes Down to This
Gunty, Tess                The Rabbit Hutch
Hay, Mavis                  Death on the Cherwell (M)
Hilderbrand, Elin        Hotel Nantucket
Iyer, Pico                    The Half-Known Life (NF)
Bude, John                Death Makes a Prophet (M)
Ledoux, Joseph        The Deep History of Ourselves (NF)
Lapena, Shari            An Unwanted Guest
McPherson, C            Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corpses (M)
Maher, Kerri              The Paris Bookseller
Mystery Writers of America    Odd Partners: An Anthology (M)
Nicolson, Adam        Life Between the Tides (NF)
Patterson, James      Shattered (M)
                                    The 13-minute Murder
Barry, Quan                When I’m Gone, Look for Me in the East
Slaughter, Karin         False Witness (M)
Wynne, Anthony         Murder of a Lady (M)

Book Selection Committee November/December 2022
FICTION
Baldacci, David         Long Shadows
Banvile, John            The Singularities
Backman, Fredrick   The Winners
Irving, John               The Last Chairlift
Karunatilaka, S          The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Kingsolver, Barbara   Demon Copperhead
Li, Yiyun                      The Book of Goose
McCarthy, Cormac      The Passenger
McCracken, E              The Hero of This Book
Picoult, Jodi                 Mad Honey
Quick, Matthew            We Are the Light
Sparks, Nicholas          Dreamland
Zevin, Gabrielle            Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

MYSTERIES
Child, Lee                     No Plan B
Connelly, Michael        Desert Star
Crais, Robert                Racing the Light
DeMille, Nelson            The Maze
Doiron, Paul                 Almost Midnight
McDermid, Val              1989
Penny, Louise               A World of Curiosities
Rankin, Ian                    A Heart Full of Headstones
Raybourn, Deanna       Killers of a Certain Age
Sandford, John             Righteous Prey


NON-FICTION
Meacham, Jom               And There Was Light
Obama, Michelle            The Light We Carry
Schiff, Stacy                   The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
Unwin, Mike                    Around the World in 80 Birds
Yong, Ed                          An Immense World
Zamora, Javier                Solito: A Memoir



DONATIONS

Benedict, Marie            The Other Einstein
Bude, John                   The Lake District Murder (M)
Cleverly, Barbara         The Bee’s Kiss (M)
                                      The Blood Royal (M)
                                       Bright Hair About the Bone (M)
                                      The Damascened Blade (M)
                                      The Palace Tiger (M)
                                      The Spider in the Cup (M)
                                      Tug of War (M)
                                      The Tomb of Zeus (M)
Cosby, S. A.                  Razorblade Tears (M)
Cornwell, Patricia        Livid (M)
Faber, Michael             The Book of Strange New Things
Feeney, Alice                Daisy Darker
Finch, Charles             A Death in the Small Hours (M)
                                     The Laws of Murder (M)    
                                      An Old Betrayal (M)
                                      A Stranger in Mayfair (M)
Hart, Elsa                      The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne (M)                
Haynes, Natalie            A Thousand Ships
Knecht, Rosalie            Vera Kelly Is Not AMystery (M)
Linklater, Andro            Measuring America (NF)
Malliet, G. M.                 Devil’s Breath (M)
McDougall, C                Running with Sherman (NF)
McPherson, C              The Unpleasantness in the Ballroom (M)
                                      An Unsuitable day for a Murder (M)
                                      Quiet Neighbors (M)
                                      The Winter Ground (M)
Miranda, Megan            The Last to Vanish
Myerson, Amy              The Bookshop of Yesterdays
Newman, Paul               Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man (NF)
Osmundson, J              Virology: Essays for the Living. . . .(NF)
Prose, Nita                    The Maid (M)
Pryor, Mark                   The Paris Librarian (M)
Shakespeare, Willi       The Complete Pelican Shakespeare (NF)
Toibin, Colm                 The Magician
Turow, Scott                  Suspect
Unger, Lisa                    Secluded Cabin, Sleeps Six
Weidlinger, Tom            The Restless Hungarian (NF)
Winslow, Don                Dawn Patrol (M)
Yu, Charles                     Interior Chinatown






Book Selection Committee
September/October 2022

FICTION
Atkinson, Kate           Shrines of Gaiety
King, Stephen            Fairy Tale
McEwan, Ian              Lessons: A Novel
Stevens, Nell             Briefly, A Delicious Life
Strout, Elizabeth       Lucy by the Sea
Williams, Pip              Dictionary of Lost Words

MYSTERIES

Box, C, J.                  Treasure State
Cleeves, Ann            The Rising Tide
Jewell, Lisa               The Family Remains
Johnson, Craig          Hell and Back
King, Laurie                Back to the Garden
Kruger, William Kent  Fox Creek 
Mayor, Archer            Fall Guy
Osman, Richard        The Bullet that Missed
Carbo, Christine        Mortal Fall
                                    Sharp Solitude
                                    Weight of Night
                                     Wild Inside
Doiron, Paul               Poacher’s Son
                                    Trespasser

NON-FICTION

Buck, Rinker             Oregon Trail
Rodgers, Mary          Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs
Maraniss, David        A Path Lit by Lightning
Sibley, David              What It’s Like to be a Bird
Pawel, Miriam            The Browns of California



DONATIONS

Van Pelt, Shelby            Remarkably Bright Creatures
Jenkins Reid, Taylor     Carrie Soto is Back
Garmus, Bonnie            Lessons in Chemistry
Abrams, Stacy                While Justice Sleeps
Banville, John                The Infinities
Finch, Charles               The Fleet Street Murders (M)
                                        The September Society (M)
Griffiths, Elly                  The Janus Stone (M)
Horowitz, Anthony         The Moonflower Murders (M)
Lee, Chang-Rae              My Year Abroad
Malliet, G.M.                    Wicked Autumn (M)
McAllister, Gillian            Wrong Place, Wrong Time
McCall-Smith, A            To the Land of Long Lost Friends (M)
McDermid, Val                Out of Bounds (M)
McPherson, Catriona     After the Armistice Ball (M)
                                        The Burry Man’s Day (M)
                                         Most Misleading Habit (M)
                                         Spot of Toil and Trouble (M)
                                        The Mirror Dance (M)
                                         The Turning Tide (M)
Patterson, James            The Paris Detective
Potenza, Carol                Hearts of the Missing (M)
Quammen, David            Breathless: The scientific race  (NF)
Sparks, Nicholas             The Wish
Sager, Riley                     The House Across the Lake
Sorbel, Gina                     The Wise Women
Smith, Nona                     Writers of the Mendocino Coast 2022
Walker, Martin                 The Crowded Grave (M)
Whittlesey, Emily            The Tale of the California Rug (NF)
Wilkerson, Isabel            The Warmth of Other Suns (NF)


July/August 2022
Fiction

Baldacci, David        The 6:20 Man
Brooks, Geraldine    Horse
Dark, Alice Elliot      Fellowship Point
Hamid, Mohsin        The Last White Man
Holleran, Andrew     Kingdom of Sand
Marra, Anthony        Mercury Pictures Presents
Pavone, Chris          Two Nights in Lisbon
Silva, Daniel             Portrait of an Unknown Woman
Thompson, Jean      The Poet’s House
Wiggins, Marianne    Properties of Thirst 

MYSTERIES

Hall, Rachel Howzell     Land of Shadows
Penny, Louise               State of Terror
Sanford, John              The Investigator
Ware, Ruth                    The It Girl

NON-FICTION

Buck, Rinker                Life on the Mississippi 
Millard, Candace         River of the Gods
Philbrick, Nathaniel    Travels with George
Solnit, Rebecca           Orwell’s Roses

DONATIONS

Archer, Jeffrey            Over My Dead Body (M)
Berry, Connie              Legacy of Murder (M)
Crais, Robert               Taken (M)
Dermansky, Marcy      Hurricane Girl
Ferrer, Ada                   Cuba: An American History
Hendricks, Greer         The Golden Couple
Hillerman, Anne          The Sacred Bridge (M)
Losal, Yeshe                From A Mountain in Tibet
Sten, Camilla                Lost Village (M)
Thane, James L.         Tyndall (M)
White, Adam                The Midcoast (M)

NEW AUDIOBOOKS AUGUST 2022

FICTION
Jonathan Kellerman           Silent Partner
Kate Quinn                          The Rose Code
Stephen King                      Cell
Janet Evanovich                 Recovery Agent
Anne Hillerman                   Stargazer
Peng Shepherd                  Cartographers
James Rollins                    Blood Infernal
Jacqueline Winspear       The Consequences of Fear

NONFICTION
David Sedaris                    Happy-Go-Lucky
Rebecca Skloot               The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Cynthia L. Wall                 The Courage to Trust

DVD's
New Acquisitions June-Sept. 2022

Academy Award Nominated Films, 2022
Licorice Pizza
Parallel Mothers
Drive My Car
Dune
West Side Story
Belfast
Summer of Soul
The Irishman
Lunana, A Yak in the Classroom
King Richard
No Time to Die
Knives Out
Father Stu
The Father

Other newly accessioned films:

Worst Person in the World
Dog
Phantom Thread
Once Upon a time in Hollywood
Let Him Go
Grand Budapest Hotel
Last of the Mohicans
Topsy Turvy
Wonder
And many other popular and classic films from the 1930s to the 2020s