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New Books for 2009/2010

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New Books for 2009

March 2010

FICTION NON-FICTION
  • Split Image by Robert B. Parker
  • Big Girl by Danielle Steele
  • Money to Burn by James Grippando
  • Winter Garden by Kristen Hannah
  • Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb
  • Last Snow by Eric Van Lustbader
  • Horns by Joe Hill
  • Matthew's Story by Tim LaHaye & Jerry Jenkins
  • The Crimson Rooms by Katherine McMahon
  • A Good Fall by Ha Jin
  • The WIld Zone by Joy Fielding
  • Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris

TEEN FICTION AND NON FICTION

  • Seekers: The Last Wilderness by Erin Hunter
  • Goldstrike by Matt Whyman
  • The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
  • Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door by Harvey Mackey
  • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Park
  • Making Rounds with Oscar by David Dosa
  • Staying True by Jenny Sanford
  • The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensics Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
  • Knock "Em Dead" The Ultimate Job Search Guide by Martin Yate
  • Your Money Ratios: 8 Simple Tools for Financial Security by Charles Farrell
  • Mark Twain: The Man in White by Michael Sheldon

February 2010

FICTION NON-FICTION
  • Sizzle by Julie Garwood
  • Thereby Hangs a Tail by Spencer Quinn
  • Kisser by Stuart Woods
  • Raining Cat Sitters and Dogs by Blaize Clement
  • Treasure Hunt by John Lescroat
  • A Fair Lady by Joyce Carol Oates
  • Short Squeeze by Chris Knopf
  • The Burning Land by Bernard Cornwell
  • Not My Daughter by Barbara Delinsky
  • Where the God of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom
  • I, Sniper by Stephen Hunter

TEEN FICTION

  • The Declaration by Gemma Malley
  • The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma by Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Icecore by Matt Whyman
  • Tangled by Carolyn Mackler
  • The Summer I Got A Life by Mark Fink
  • The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons
  • The Hidden Brain by Shankar Vedantam
  • Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
  • The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir
  • China's Megatrends by John Naisbitt
  • All Things at Once by Mika Brzezinski
  • Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disater by Paul Ingrassia
  • Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a lifetime by John Heilmann

January 2010

FICTION NON-FICTION
  • U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton
  • Breathless by Dean Koontz
  • Too Many Murders by Colleen McCullough
  • The Paris Vendetta by Steve Berry
  • Push by Sapphire
  • Star Wars: Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil by Drew Karpyshyn
  • Haiku by Andrew Vachss
  • The Sweet By and By by Sara Evans
  • Hollywood Moon by Joseph Wambaugh
  • Deadly Deals by Fern Michaels

TEEN FICTION

  • Shadowland by Alyson Noel
  • Witch and Wizard by James Patterson
  • When the Game was Ours by Larry Bird and Magic Johnson
  • Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis by Al Gore
  • Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
  • Smoke, Fire and Angels: The Tragedy on Avon Mountain by Mark Robinson
  • When Everything Changed by Gail Collins
  • Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson
  • Jim Cramer's Getting Back to Even by Jim Cramer
  • Knockout by Suzanne Somers
  • The Mayo Clinic Diet

 

December 2009

FICTION NON-FICTION
  • Under the Dome by Steven King
  • Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
  • Wishin' and Hopin' by Wally Lamb
  • A Wish for Christmas by Thomas Kinkade
  • Ford County by John Grisham
  • The Gift by Cecilia Ahern
  • Haiku by Andrew Vachss
  • The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Lucuna by Barbara Kigsolver
  • The Christmas Blizzard by Garrison Keillor
  • True Blue by David Balacci

TEEN FICTION

  • Tempted by P.C. Cast
  • Unwind by Neal Shusterman
  • The Gift of Thanks: The Roots and Rituals of Gratitude by Margaret Visser
  • Going Rogue by Sarah Palin
  • Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne Heller
  • Have a Little Faith: A True Story by Mitch Albom
  • Superfreakonomics by Steven Levitt
  • Listen Up, Mr. President by Helen Thomas
  • Good without God: What a Billion Non-religious People Believe by Greg Epstein
  • Prophet of Purpose: The life of Rick Warren by Jeffrey Sheler
  • Cowboys Full" The story of Poker by James McManus

November 2009

FICTION NON-FICTION
 
  • 9 Dragons by Michael Connelly
  • House of Reckoning by Joan Saul
  • The Monster in the Box by Ruth Rendell
  • 13 1/2 by Nevada Barr
  • Heartbreak Cafe by Penelope Stokes
  • Ghost King by R. A. Salvatore
  • Breaking the Rules by Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Pursuit of Honor by Vince Flynn
  • Servant of a Dark God by John Brown
  • Stained Glass by Ralph Mcinerny
  • Home for Christmas by Andrew Greeley
  • Zumba! Ditch the Workout, Join the Party by Beto Perez
  • Runaway Dream: Born to Run and Bruce Springsteen's American Dream by Louis Masur
  • Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by John Krakauer
  • Reinventing the body by Deepak Chopra
  • Bright-sided: How the Relentless promotion of Possitive Thinking has Underminded America by Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Aguing with Idiots by Glenn Beck

October 2009

FICTION NON-FICTION
  • The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
  • The Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
  • The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
  • No Time to say Goodbye by Jaquelin Mitchard
  • Top Producer by Norb Vonnegut
  • Novel by F. Paul Wilson

TEEN FICTION

  • The Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead
  • Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
  • Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
  • The Blue Bloods series by Melissa De La Cruz
  • Poe's Children: The New Horrow: An Anthology
  • True Compass: A Memoir by Ted Kennedy
  • In the President's Secret Service by Roland Kessier
  • The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, Fairer Health Care by T. R. Reid
  • Culture of Corruption by Michelle Malkin
  • The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhart by Mary Lovell
  • In Fed we Trust by David Wessel
  • Why Our Health Matters by Andrew Weil

September 2009

FICTION NON-FICTION
  • 206 Bones by Kathy Reichs
  • The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
  • Even Money by Dick & Felix Francis
  • Hell's Gate by Stephen Frey
  • Star Wars: Abyss by Troy Denning
  • The Shortest Distance Between tow Women by T.L. Hines
  • Alex Cross: Trail by James Patterson
  • Self's Murder by Bernard Schlink
  • That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
  • The Birthing House by Christopher Ranson
  • South of Broad by Pat Conroy
  • Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
  • The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office by David Blumenthal
  • Why is My Mother Getting a Tattoo? by Jancee Dunn
  • Driving like crazy by P.J. O'Rourke
  • Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend by Larry Tye
  • The Road to Woodstock by Michael Lang
  • Insider's Guide to the Peace Corp by Dillon Banerjee
  • Your Call in (Not That) Important to Us by Emily Yellin
  • Cash in a flash: Fast Money in Slow Times by Robert Allen

August 2009

FICTION NON-FICTION
  • Guardian of Lies by Steve Martini
  • Fire and Ice by J.A. Jance
  • The Devil's Punchbowl by Greg Iles
  • Black Hills by Nora Roberts
  • The Defector by Daniel Silva
  • Dying for Mercy by Mary Jane Clark
  • Jericho's Fall by Stephen Carter
  • The crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder by Rebecca Wells
  • The Penny Pincher's Club by Sarah Strohmeyer
  • Rocket Men
  • Best Rail Trails, New England by Cynthia Mascott
  • Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places by Bill Streever
  • The Lady in Red: An 18th Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce by Hallie Rubenhold
  • Prairie Tale by Melissa Gilbert
  • Paddling Connecticut and Rhode Island by Jim Cole

July 2009

FICTION  
  • The Last Refuge by Chris Knopf
  • Finger-lickin Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
  • The Memory Collector by Meg Gardiner
  • Below Zero by C.J. Box
  • The 8th Confession by James Patterson
    The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi
  • April and Oliver by Tess Callahan
  • Killer Summer by Ridley Pearson
  • Swimsuit by James Patterson
  • Return to Sullivan’s Island by Dorothea Benton Frank
  •  The Apostle by Brad Thor
  • Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew Crawford
  • American Passage: The History of Ellis Island by Vincent Cannato
  • Connecticut Coast by Diana McCain
  • The HPV Vaccine Controversy
  • by Shobhan Krishnan
  • Old Ghosts of New England: A Traveler’s Guide to the Spookiest Sites in New  England by C.J. Fusco

June 2009

FICTION  
  • Home Safe by Elizabeth Berg
  • Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child
  • The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
  • The Increment by David Ignatius
  • Seducing an Angel by Raymond Khoury
  • Razor Sharp by Fern Michaels
  • Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
  • Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard
  • Wicked Prey by John Sandorf
  • Water, Heart, Stone by Will North
  • The Prayer Room by Shanthi Sekaran
  • Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties & Thirties by Beth Kobiner
  • Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud by Robert Pinsky
  • Mommywood by Tori Spelling
  • American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Saved Early America by Edmund Morgan
  • A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez by Selena Roberts

Oprahs' Picks

Oprah's Book Club

 

Oprah's Classics List

 

Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

While I Was Gone by Sue Miller

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

Gap Creek by Robert Morgan

A Map of the World  by Jane Hamilton

Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Anysay

River, Cross My Heart  by Breena Clarke

Tara Road by Maeve Binchy

Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes

White Oleander by Janet Fitch

The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Jewel  by Bret Lott

Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

Midwives by Chris Bohjalian

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day  by Pearl Cleage

I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen

Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman

Paradise by Toni Morrison

Meanest Thing to Say by Bill Cosby

The Treasure Hunt by Bill Cosby

The Best Way to Play by Bill Cosby

Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons

A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris

The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou

Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds

Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

The Deep End of the Ocean  by Jacquelyn Mitchard

Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

We were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

Icy sparks by Gwen Hyman Rubin

Stolen lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir, et al

Cane River by Lalita Tademy

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

Fall on Your Knees by Ann Marie MacDonald

Sula by Toni Morrison

A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

Night by Elie Wiesel

Road by Cormac McCarthy

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet

New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

Say You're One of Them by Uwen Akpan

 

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Cry the beloved country by Alan Paton

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Light in August by William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Staff Favorites

Lynn White - Director Gretchen Durley - Children' s Librarian
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  • The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
  • The Thief by Megan by Whalen Turner
  • The Diamond Throne by David Eddings
  • The South Beach Diet by Arthur Agatston
  • The Gardener by Sarah Stewart
  • The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

 

Lisa Bower Courtney - Reference Librarian Linda Goodwin - Circulation Supervisor
  • The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  • Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman
  • The Miss Zukas Series by Jo Dereske
  • Celestial Naviagation by Ann Tyler
  • Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg
  • A Year in Japan by Kate Williamson
  • Felted Knits by Beverly Galeskas

 

  • The Firm by John Grisham
  • Small Town Girl by LaVyrle Spencer
  • Cry in the Night by Mary Higgins Clark
  • Fix-it-and- forget-it Cookbook Series
  • Scrapbook Journaling Made Simple
  • Scrapbook Memorabila by Cori Dahmen

Laurie Marconis - Administrative Assistant Amy Empoliti - Reference Assistant
  • Woman in Red by Eileen Goudge
  • The Woods by Harlan Coben
  • Sweetwater Creek by Anne Rivers Siddons
  • Summer of Roses by Luanne Rice
  • Move to Strike by Perri O' Shaughnessy
  • Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
  • Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling

Jenn DelCegno - Technical Services Linda Russo - Children's Assistant
  • Silmarllion by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  • Women and Money by Suze Orman
  • The House of Abraham by Stephen Berry
  • Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
  • Issac's Storm by Erik Larson
  • Becoming A Better You by Joel Osteen

Mary Barbieri - Circualtion Assistant
Kathleen Lyga - Circualtion Assistant
  • Tell No One by Harlan Coben
  • Great Lion of God by Taylor Caldwell
  • Open Season by C.J. Box
  • Choke by Stuart Woods
  • Irish Mist by Andrew Greeley
  • The Bone Vault by Linda Fairstein
  • Weekend Warriors by Fern Michaels
  • In Defense of Food: An eater's manifesto by Michael Pollan

Lindsey Bourdeau – Page

Audrey Morrell - Page

  • Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albolm
  • The five people you meet in heaven by Mitch Albolm
  • Like Dandalion Dust by Karen Kingsbury
  • Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
  • Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

 

 

 

 

 
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