NEW ARRIVALS** BOOK LEASES

1.) The Lambs of London - - Ackroyd, Peter
Charles and Mary Lamb, who will achieve lasting fame as the authors of Tales from Shakespeare for children, are still living at their parents’ home. Charles, an aspiring writer bored stiff by his job as a clerk at the East India Company, enjoys a drink or three too many…(pg. 213)

2.) Duchess of Aquitaine - - Ball, Margaret
Beautiful and brilliant, Eleanor is the daughter of the duke of Aquitaine, whose glittering court is the twelfth-century birthplace of courtly love. For all of the duke’s boasts that Eleanor has the brains of a man and the soul of a warrior, everyone knows that a girl of fifteen…(pg. 377)

3.) Promise Me - -Coben, Harlan
It has been six years since entertainment agent Myron Bolitar last played superhero. In six years he hasn’t thrown a punch. He hasn’t held, much less fired, a gun. He hasn’t called his friend Win, still the scariest man he knows, to back him up or get him out of trouble…(pg. 370)

4.) Dispatches From the Edge - - Cooper, Anderson
Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has changed the way we watch the news. In this gripping, candid, and remarkably powerful memoir, he offers an unstinting…(pg.212)

5.) The Cold Moon - - Deaver, Jeffery
On a freezing December night, with a full moon hovering in the black sky over New York City, two people are brutally murdered—the death scenes marked by eerie, matching calling cards: moon-faced clocks investigators fear ticked away the victims’ last moments on earth…(pg. 400)

5.) Twelve Sharp - - Evanovich, Janet
First a stranger appears while chasing down the usual cast of miscreants and weirdos, Stephanie discovers that a crazed woman is stalking her. Then the stranger reveals her secrets. The woman dresses in black, carries a 9mm Glock, and has a bad attitude and a mysterious ..…(pg.310)

6.) Restoring Grace - - Fforde, Katie
Grace Soudley’s life is coming apart at the seams. Recently divorced, she is still living in the beautiful yet crumbling old house her godmother left her, but unless she can find a fortune, the house will disintegrate around her. Artist Ellie Summer’s life is unraveling, too…(pg. 338)

7.)The Saboteurs - - Griffin, W. E. B.
The Battle of the Atlantic is at its peak. Packs of German U-boats are hunting and sinking U. S. supply ships. Ships are burning at their moorings in U. S. ports, and a series of explosions has afflicted trains and train stations around the country—is it all…(pg. 305)

8.) Learning to Kill - - McBain, Ed
Ed McBain made his debut in 1956. In 2004, more than a hundred books later, he personally collected twenty-five of his stories written before he was Ed McBain. All but five of them were first published in the detective magazine Manhunt and none of them appeared under…(pg. 478)

9.) Beach Road - - Patterson, James
Tom Dunleavy has a one-man (and one-dog) law firm in the richest resort town in America—legendary East Hampton, summer home to billionaires and megacelebreties. But his job barely keeps him in paper clips. His clients come from the year-rounders he grew up…(pg. 390)

10.) The Book of the Dead - - Preston, Douglas J.
An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit...His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime…A young woman with an extraordinary past, on the edge of a violent breakdown…An ancient Egyptian…(pg. 454)

11.)Wisdom of Our Fathers -- - Russert, Tim
After the publication of Tim Russert’s #1 New York Times bestseller about his father, Big Russ & Me, he received an avalanche of letters from daughters and sons who wanted to tell him about their own fathers, most of whom were not superdads or heroes but ordinary men…(pg.273)

12.) Voyage of the Turtle - - Safina, Carl
An evolutionary marvel, the single surviving species of its genus and family, the leatherback turtle is a reptile that behaves like a warm-blooded dinosaur—males weigh up to 2,000 pounds—and is able to withstand colder water than most fishes and dive deeper than any whale…(pg.383)

13.) Thriller
Featuring North America’s foremost thriller authors, Thriller is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning names in the business. From…(pg.568)

14.)Digging to America - - Tyler, Anne
 Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport—the Donaldsons, a very American couple, and the Yazdans, Manyam’s fully assimilated son and his attractive Iranian American wife. Each couple is awaiting the arrival of …(pg.277)  

Other Recent Arrivals: 

1.) The Foreigner’s Gift - - Ajami, Fouad
Fouad Ajami, one of the world’s foremost authorities on Middle Eastern politics, offers a brilliant, illuminating, and lyrical portrait of the ongoing struggle for Iraq and of the American encounter with that volatile Arab land. Ajami situates the current unrest within the…(pg. 378)

2.) The Traitor - - Coonts, Stephen
When he is assigned to Paris, CIA officer Tommy Carmellini finds himself working for his old boss, Jake Grafton, who is the new CIA operations officer in charge of Europe. Grafton has a mission: He believes that the director of the French intelligence service has a secret…(pg. 370)

3.) Simple Courage - - Delaney, Frank
In late December 1951, laden with passengers and nearly forty metric tons of cargo, the freighter S. S. Flying Enterprise steamed westward from Europe toward America. A few days into the voyage, she hit the eye of a ferocious storm. Force 12 winds tossed men about…(pg. 300)

4.) My Team - - Dierker, Larry
Mantle or Mays? A-Rod or Jeter? Biggio or Morgan? Clemens, Maddux, and Randy Johnson—or Pedro, Palmer, and Carlton? These are questions baseball fans can spend endless hours debating. Former All-Star pitcher and National League Manager of the Year Larry…(pg. 275)

5.) In the Name Of The Father - - Furstenberg, Francois
A revelatory study of how Americans were bound together as a young nation by the words, the image, and the myth of George Washington, and how slavery shaped American nationalism in ways that define and haunt us still. How did people—North and South, East…(pg. 335)

6.) The Somme - - Gilbert, Martin
At 7:30 in the morning of July 1, 1916, tens of thousands of Allied soldiers advanced across noman’s-land north and south of the Somme River in France toward the barbed wire and machine guns of the German front lines. By the end of this first day of the Allied…(pg.332)

7.) The Senator & The Socialite - - Graham, Lawrence
This is the true story of America’s first black dynasty. The years after the Civil War represented an astonishing moment of opportunity for African-Americans. The rush to build a racially democratic society from the ruins of slavery is never more evident than in the…(pg.455)

8.) Lilah - - Halter, Marek
Living in exile, Lilah is in love with Antinoes, a Persian warrior. They have known each other since they were children, and Antinoes dearly wants to make Lilah his wife. Yet Lilah does not feel she can marry without the blessing of her brother, Erza. She and Ezra are close…(pg. 258)

9.) Hillbilly Gothic - - Martini, Adrienne
So begins Adrienne Martini’s candid, compelling, and darkly humorous history of her family’s and her own experiences with depression and postpartum syndrome. Illuminating depression from inside, Martini delves unflinchingly into her own breakdown and ...(pg. 221)

10.) Mayflower - - Philbrick, Nathaniel
How Did America Begin? This simple question launches acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behind our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. As Philbrick…(pg.461)

11.) Coming Out - - Steel, Danielle
Olympia Crawford Rubinstein has a busy legal career, a solid marriage, and a way of managing her thriving family with grace, humor, and boundless energy. With twin daughters finishing high school, a son at Dartmouth, and a kindergartner from her second marriage…(pg.195)

12.) What They Want - - Tyree, Omar
Successful male model Terrance Mitchell had no plans at all to ever settle down. For what? Being single was freedom, where relationships were binding. Nor did he have any plans for a family, with snotty-nosed kids running around, cramping his style, and eating for…(pg.418)

 

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