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100 Yards of Glory: The Greatest Moments in NFL History by Bob Costa and Joe Hamilton. Houghton Mifflin
A
testament to football's quintessential role in American culture, 100
YARDS OF GLORY covers the greatest dynasties, the best Super Bowls, the
most improbable catches, the most amazing runs, quarterback greats,
defensive greats, and coaching legends. Each entry is accompanied by
distinctive photographs drawn directly from the NFL's extensive library.
Readers can relive David Tyree's immaculate reception from Super Bowl
42, Roger Staubach's invention of the Hail Mary, the negative
temperatures from the 1967 Ice Bowl in Green Bay, and the magnificence
of the iron curtain, also known as the 1970's Steelers dynasty. An original 10-part DVD documentary produced by an Emmy award-winning team will accompany the book,
narrated by Costas and featuring original game footage, interviews, and
other ancillary video straight from the NFL's video library.
Locked On by Tom Clancy. Putnam
Tom
Clancy's All-Star lineup is back. Jack Ryan, his son, Jack Jr., John
Clark Ding Chavez and the rest of the Campus team are facing their
greatest challenge ever.
Jack
Ryan, Sr. has made a momentous choice. He's running for President of the
United States again and thus giving up a peaceful retirement to help
his country in its darkest hour. But he doesn't anticipate the treachery
of his opponent, who uses trumped up charges to attack one of Ryan's
closest comrades, John Clark.
Now,
Clark is in a race against time and must travel the world, staying one
step ahead of his adversaries, including a shadowy organization tasked
to bring him in, all while trying to find who is behind this. The answer
will ultimately lead to a desperate struggle, with nothing short of the
fate of the world at stake.
Red Mist by Patricia Cornwell. Penguin
The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's #1 bestselling crime writer.
Determined
to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding,
murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison
for Women, where an inmate has information not only on Fielding, but
also on a string of grisly killings. The murder of an Atlanta family
years ago, a young woman on death row, and the inexplicable deaths of
homeless people as far away as California seem unrelated. But Scarpetta
discovers connections that compel her to conclude that what she thought
ended with Fielding's death and an attempt on her own life is only the
beginning of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of
conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale. And she is
the only one who can stop it.
The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnette Friis
Nina
Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive
do-gooder who can't say no when someone asks for help-even when she
knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a
public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into
her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and
inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but
alive.
Is the boy a victim of child trafficking? Can he be
turned over to authorities, or will they only return him to whoever sold
him? When Karin is discovered brutally murdered, Nina realizes that her
life and the boy's are in jeopardy, too. In an increasingly desperate
trek across Denmark, Nina tries to figure out who the boy is, where he
belongs, and who exactly is trying to hunt him down.
Triangles: A Novel by Ellen Hopkins. Atria
Three female friends face midlife crises in a no-holds-barred exploration of sex, marriage, and the fragility of life.
As
one woman's marriage unravels, another's rekindles. As one woman's
family comes apart at the seams, another's reconfigures into something
bigger and better. In this story of connections and disconnections, one
woman's up is another one's down, and all of them will learn the meaning
of friendship, betrayal, and forgiveness.
Unflinchingly
honest, emotionally powerful, surprisingly erotic, Triangles is the
ultimate page-turner. Hopkins's gorgeous, expertly honed poetic verse
perfectly captures the inner lives of her characters. Hopkins is the
author of Crank and other hugely popular young adult books.
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
by Simon Winchester. Harper Collins
Blending
history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and
exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the
breathtaking saga of the Atlantic Ocean. A gifted storyteller and
consummate historian, Winchester sets the great blue sea's epic
narrative against the backdrop of mankind's intellectual evolution,
telling not only the story of an ocean, but the story of civilization.
Fans of Winchester's Krakatoa, The Man Who Loved China, and The
Professor and the Madman will love this masterful, penetrating, and
resonant tale of humanity finding its way across the ocean of history.
Micro by Michael Crichton and Richard Preston. Harper Collins
In
the vein of Jurassic Park, this high concept thriller follows a group
of graduate students lured to Hawaii to work for a mysterious biotech
company-only to find themselves cast out into the rain forest, with
nothing but their scientific expertise and wits to protect them. An
instant classic, Micro pits nature against technology in vintage
Crichton fashion. Completed by visionary science writer Richard Preston,
this boundary-pushing thriller melds scientific fact with
pulse-pounding fiction to create yet another masterpiece of
sophisticated, cutting-edge entertainment.
Be the Miracle: 50 Lessons for Making the Impossible Possible by Regina Brett. Hachette
Want
to live your dreams-or even surpass them? Want the world to change for
the better? Want to see a miracle? What are we waiting for? Why not be
the miracle? That's the challenge Regina Brett sets forth in this
collection of inspirational essays, stories, and columns. She shares
lessons that will help people make a difference in the world around
them. The lessons come from Regina's life experience and from the lives
of others, especially those she has met in her 24 years as a journalist.
Each chapter is a lesson that can stand alone, but together they form a
handbook for seeing the miracle of change everywhere.
Lunatics
by Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel. Putnam
One
of them is a bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist. The other is a
winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Together, they form the
League of Comic Justice, battling evildoers in the name of . . . Okay,
we made that line up. What they do form is a writing team of pure comic
genius, and they will have you laughing like idiots.
Philip
Horkman is a happy man-the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop,
and on Sundays a referee for kids' soccer. Jeffrey Peckerman is the sole
sane person in a world filled with goddamned jerks and morons, and he's
having a really bad day. The two of them are about to collide in a
swiftly escalating series of events that will send them running for
their lives, pursued by the police, soldiers, terrorists, subversives,
bears, and a man dressed as Chuck E. Cheese.
The Rope (an Anna Pigeon novel) by Nevada Barr. St. Martins
Anna
Pigeon's first case-this is the story her fans have been clamoring
for...this is where it all starts. In The Rope, the latest in Nevada
Barr's bestselling novels featuring Anna Pigeon, Nevada Barr gathers
together the many strings of Anna's past and finally reveals the story
that her many fans have been long asking for. In 1995 and 35 years old,
fresh off the bus from New York City and nursing a broken heart, Anna
Pigeon takes a decidedly unglamorous job as a seasonal employee of the
Glen Canyon National Recreational Area. On her day off, Anna goes hiking
into the park never to return. Her co-workers think she's simply moved
on-her cabin is cleaned out and her things gone. But Anna herself wakes
up, trapped at the bottom of a dry natural well, naked, without supplies
and no clear memory of how she found herself in this situation.
As
she slowly pieces together her memory, it soon becomes clear that
someone has trapped her there, in an inescapable prison, and no one
knows that she is even missing. Plunged into a landscape and a plot she
is unfit and untrained to handle, Anna Pigeon must muster the courage,
determination and will to live that she didn't even know she still
possessed to survive, outwit and triumph.
For
those legions of readers who have been entranced over the years by Park
Ranger Anna Pigeon's strength and determination and those who are new
to Nevada Barr's captivating, compelling novels, this is where it all
starts.
Love in a Nutshell by Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly. St. Martins
Kate
Appleton needs a job. Her husband has left her, she's been fired from
her position as a magazine editor, and the only place she wants to go is
to her parents' summer house, The Nutshell, in Keene's Harbor,
Michigan. Kate's plan is to turn The Nutshell into a Bed and Breakfast.
Problem is, she needs cash, and the only job she can land is less than
savory. Filled with humor, heart, and loveable characters, Love in a
Nutshell is delicious fun.
Childrens Books
I Want My Hat Back by J. Klassen. Candlewick/Random House (So fun to read aloud!)
he
bear's hat is gone, and he wants it back. Patiently and politely, he
asks the animals he comes across, one by one, whether they have seen it.
Each animal says no, some more elaborately than others. But just as the
bear begins to despond, a deer comes by and asks a simple question that
sparks the bear's memory and renews his search with a vengeance. Told
completely in dialogue, this delicious take on the classic repetitive
tale plays out in sly illustrations laced with visual humor-- and winks
at the reader with a wry irreverence that will have kids of all ages
thrilled to be in on the joke.
Home for Christmas by Jan Brett. Putnam
A
wild little troll runs away from home because he doesn't want to do his
chores. Rollo tries living with various woodland animals, but he finds
out that there is no place like home, and returns to his family just in
time for "the best Christmas ever."
Among the animals who take
him in are an owl family, a mother bear and two rambunctious cubs, some
playful river otters, a hungry lynx and a friendly moose family.
Jan Brett creates an irresistible, mischievous character that kids will recognize in themselves.
A Small Miracle by Peter Collington. Random House (Beautiful pictures; magical story.)
The
wooden figures in a Christmas crèche come to life to save a poor old
woman in this truly original, deeply moving contemporary parable. Told
with 96 pictures by Peter Collington, the master of the wordless story,
this is a Christmas treasure the entire family can enjoy.
In the
Publishers Weekly 12th Annual Off-the-Cuff Awards, booksellers chose A
Small Miracle as the Book We're Sorriest to See Go Out of Print. Knopf
is proud to reintroduce this picture book classic-priced $2 lower than
the original-just in time for Christmas.
The Christmas Tree Ship by Carol Crane and Chris Ellison. Sleeping Bear Press
On
November 21, 1912, the schooner Rouse Simmons set sail from a small
northern Michigan town across Lake Michigan. Affectionately dubbed the
"Christmas Tree Ship," this was an annual trek for the Rouse Simmons.
With its cargo of Christmas trees, the ship was bound for Chicago. There
Captain Herman Scheunemann would sell the trees for 50 cents or $1.00
and even gave many away to needy families. But the schooner never makes
its destination. The Rouse Simmons, with all hands and cargo, disappears
into the cold waters. The ship's wreckage is not found until 1971.
Drawing
from stories told by her grandfather, author Carol Crane weaves a
fictional tale based on the true events of the doomed schooner. And she
explains how the captain's widow went on to continue his tradition of
delivering holiday trees to Chicago.
by Bob Costas and Joe Garner. Houghton Mifflin
beautiful ice sculptures, the wonderful shops, restaurants and the wonderful Roxy Movie Theater.
Toddler Time
Gorgas
and Sue Ninness helped with sales, book straightening and
story-telling. The Miller family helped to transport the boxes of books
and set up the book displays. Thanks Lori! We very much enjoyed
working with Kay Conroy, the librarian at Wallace. They have a
beautiful building and the kids and parents were very supportive of the
Book Fair. Wallace earned over $1000 in store credits. We are already
looking forward to working with other schools this spring.
is the perfect season for book reading. After you wake up from your
cat nap, stretch and reach for that new book. I'd like to recommend a
few titles that involve the feline, canine and equine members of our
world.
As for the equine tale, pick up a copy of The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation
by Elizabeth Letts. From the slaughterhouse truck to the premier horse
show at Madison Square Garden, Snowman became the hero for a nation
worn down by joblessness and fears nuclear war. This is a great
cinderella story not only of the champion, Snowman but also the man who
rode him, Dutch immigrant Harry de Leyer. This is a story that
demonstrates you can soar if you work hard and dream big. Touching and
uplifting.
The
revival tent was the second home for young Donna Johnson as she
traveled around the south with her organist mom and the powerful
preacher David Terrell. You'll be entranced by Donna's stories of the
miracles and mishaps they experienced and gain a better understanding of
the powerful attraction of the revivalist meetings. Reminiscent of
Jeannette Walls Glass Castle.
Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop 
Wingshooters
Shaken: A Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels mystery
Secrets at Sea 
Maid: A Novel of Joan of Arc
Llama Llama Holiday Drama
Damned
Apothecary
Out of Oz 
Dark Eden 
The Son of Neptune 
A Bad Kitty Christmas 
