New Books
Following is a partial listing of new books added to the Library’s collection during January, 2012.
Adult Fiction:
Russell Banks’s Lost Memory of Skin – “Suspended in a strangely modern day version of limbo, the young man at the center of (this) new novel must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration.”
Terri Blackstock’s Shadow in Serenity – This is a story of a newcomers’ plan to build a huge amusement park in a small Texas town, and the heroin’s fight to block the plans of the “smoothest, slickest, handsomest” man who is leading the effort. The heroin was once part of a traveling carnival and senses the potential for a con by the newcomer. Complications follow.
Sandra Brown’s Lethal – (Brown) “returns to the bayous of Louisiana to deliver a heart pounding tale of corruption, betrayal, and murder…and the stakes couldn’t be higher.”
James Bruno’s Tribe – A CIA officer discovers a plan to obtain enormous wealth with the development of a new oil refinery in central Asia. Meanwhile terrorists have kidnapped his daughter and he joins with a Russian spy to rescue her and disrupt the scheme, while running from jihadists and CIA drones.
James Lee Burke’s Feast Day of Fools – Set in a small Texas border town, the local Sheriff works to solve a murder and stop the sheltering of illegals.
Paulo Coelho’s Aleph – a journey of self discovery takes the reader to Africa, Europe and Asia via the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes – this paperback provides a background for the recent popular movie.
Kaui Hart Hemmings’ The Descendants – This paperback is the basis for the current movie.
Mike Lawson’s House Divided – “Lawson goes for broke in this Machiavellian thriller, where Washington power brokers take on elite super spies with one rather perplexed Joe DeMarco trying to outwit-and outlast- the carnage.”
G.M. Malliet’s Wicked Autumn – “One of the most delightful English village mysteries … since Agatha Christie stopped writing … but Nether Monkslip is no village that time forgot – not with its New Age citizenry and a vicar who’s a dishy ex-MI5.”
Stuart Woods’ Son of Stone – “A Stone Barrington Novel”
Non Fiction
Don Graham’s State of Minds – Texas Culture & Its Discontents - “In a strong personal voice – wry, humorous, and ironic – Graham offers his take on Texas literary giants”… “and on films”.
