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Losing You / Nicci French

Call number: FIC FRE

It’s Nina Landry’s birthday, and she’s supposed to have her kids ready to leave in a few hours for a Christmas holiday in Florida with her new boyfriend, but her fifteen-year-old daughter Charlie spent the night at a friend’s and hasn’t come home yet. Not by ten a.m., not by eleven. Nina is getting angry—they have a plane to catch, and Charlie hasn’t even bothered to pack. As time passes, though slower and slower by the minute, Nina becomes uneasy. Her anger gives way to worry, and that worry quickly builds into panic.

Virgin River: A Barnaby Skye Novel / Richard S. Wheeler

Call number: FIC WHE

This is the sixteenth novel in Richard S. Wheeler’s long-running series about Barnaby Skye, the British seaman who carves out an amazing life for himself in the North American Wilderness, along with his wives and his ugly, cantankerous horse, Jawbone.
In Virgin River, the famed mountain man and his two wives, Victoria of the Crows and Mary of the Shoshones, take a party of tubercular young people to the southwestern desert where they hope to be healed. Their destination is the Virgin River, where the mild, dry climate offers a cure. This time, Skye and his wives must cope with rival guides and cross Utah at the time of heightened tensions between the federal government and the Latter-Day Saints.

L. A. Outlaws / T. Jefferson Parker

Call number: FIC PAR

Los Angeles is gripped by the exploding celebrity of Allison Murietta, her real identity unknown, a modern-day Jesse James with the compulsion to steal beautiful things, the vanity to invite the media along, and the conscience to donate much of her bounty to charity. Nobody ever gets hurt - until a job ends with ten gangsters lying dead and a half-million dollars worth of glittering diamonds missing.
Rookie Deputy Charlie Hood discovers the bodies, and he prevents an eyewitness - a schoolteacher named Suzanne Jones - from leaving the scene in her Corvette.

Certain Girls / Jennifer Weiner

Call number: FIC WEI

Readers fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, the smart, sharp-tongued, bighearted heroine of Good in Bed who found her happy ending after her mother came out of the closet, her father fell out of her life, and her ex-boyfriend started chronicling their ex-sex life in the pages of a national magazine.Now Cannie’s back. After her debut novel — a fictionalized (and highly sexualized) version of her life — became an overnight bestseller, she dropped out of the public eye and turned to writing science fiction under a pseudonym.

Stranger’s Game / Joan Johnston

Call number: FIC JON

From New York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston comes a dazzling new Bitter Creek novel that features all of the passion and intrigue in Texas high society that her readers know and love, mixed with an explosive, spine- tingling tale of murder, wrongful imprisonment, and a woman who counts no cost too high to see a killer brought to justice. FBI Special Agent Breed Grayhawk has the hottest sex in his life with a stranger who calls herself Grace Smith, only to discover early the next morning that her real name is Merle Raye Finkel — and she’s a convicted double murderer who broke her parole a year ago and disappeared. Now she’s his prime suspect in a terrorist threat against the U.S. president.

Change of Heart / Jodi Picoult

Call number: FIC PIC

The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author presents a spellbinding tale of a mother’s tragic loss and one man’s last chance at gaining salvation. Can we save ourselves, or do we rely on others to do it? Is what we believe always the truth? One moment June Nealon was happily looking forward to years full of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. In short, waiting for a miracle to happen.

Blue-Eyed Devil / Lisa Kleypas

Call number: FIC KLE

The New York Times bestselling author of Sugar Daddy is back with her most breathtaking, hot-and-bothered novel yet! His name is Hardy Cates. He’s a self-made millionaire who comes from the wrong side of the tracks. He’s made enemies in the rough-and-tumble ride to the top of Houston’s oil industry. He’s got hot blood in his veins. And vengeance on his mind. She’s Haven Travis. Despite her family’s money, she refuses to set out on the path they’ve chosen for her. But when Haven marries a man her family disapproves of, her life is set on a new and dangerous course. Two years later, Haven comes home, determined to guard her heart.

Searching for Paradise in Parker, PA / Kris Radish

Call number:FIC RAD

After twenty-eight years of marriage to her husband Lucky, Addy Lipton feels anything but happily married. In fact, just thinking of their garage, filled to the brim with Lucky’s useless junk collection, drives Addy dangerously close to plowing her car through it. But when Lucky wins a trip to paradise—aka Costa Rica—Addy has a faint hope they may be able to turn things around. Or maybe they won’t. Either way, Addy never gets the chance to find out.

Guilty / Karen Robards

Call number: FIC ROB

One cold November night when Kat White was fifteen years old, she and some friends held up a convenience store. In the heat of the moment, one of the others shot and killed an off-duty cop moonlighting as a security guard. Kat and her pals fled the scene in a panic, and no one was caught.
Sixteen years later, Kat - now Kate - has built a new life for herself. Now a single mom with an eight-year-old son, she works as a prosecutor in the Philadelphia DA’s office. But her dark past rears its head when she walks into court one day and discovers that she is to prosecute Mario Castellanos, one of her friends from that terrible night.

Universe 4 DVD set (History Channel)

Tracking numbers: 793GE-796GE

This documentary miniseries which first aired on the History Channel combines astronomy and history as it presents man’s continual quest to explore the outermost reaches of the universe. Satisfyingly realistic computer reconstructions allow viewers to go inside our sun, skirt the event horizon of a black hole, and travel to the deepest reaches of space all while giving considered attention to the age-old question: are we alone in the universe or is there life on other planets. (From Amazon)

Vagina Monologues with Eve Ensler DVD

The controversial off-Broadway stage show that went on to become a worldwide sensation comes to home video in a special one-woman production featuring creator Eve Ensler. As Ensler talks candidly on stage about her own and other women’s sexuality–and the mystery, exploitation and stigma society attaches to same–interviews with a variety of women shed light on a long-ignored topic. (from Movies Unlimited)

11th Hour DVD

Tracking number: 26EP

Environmental documentary 11th HOUR resides at the polar opposite of escapist summer fare, its mission to firmly confront viewers about the indelible human footprint that humans have left on this planet, and the catastrophic effects of environmental neglect and abuse. Produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, and ably directed by Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Peterson, the documentary doesn’t get much fancier than talking heads, news footage, and the occasional animated illustration, but its message is potent and delivered effectively.

American Ruling Class DVD

Tracking number: 780GE

The American Ruling Class, the world’s first dramatic-documentary-musical, explores our country’s most taboo topic: class, power and privilege in our nominally democratic republic. This feature-length satire stars Lewis Lapham, the renowned essayist and author, and a heavy-weight ensemble cast that includes former cabinet secretaries, corporate mandarins, media magnates, and at least one journalist working as a waitress. The film follows Lapham and two recent Yale graduates as they make the rounds of Pentagon briefings, the World Economic Forum, philanthropic foundations, law firms, corporations banks, and New York society dinners as they attempt to answer the question, Who rules America? (From IMDb)

Handmaid’s Tale DVD

Tracking number: 787GE

Set in a Fascistic future America, The Handmaid’s Tale tells the story of Kate, a handmaid. In this America, the religious right has taken over and gone hog-wild. Kate is a criminal, guilty of the crime of trying to escape from the US, and is sentenced to become a Handmaid. The job of a Handmaid is to bear the children of the man to whom she is assigned. After ruthless group training by Serena Joy in the proper way to behave, Kate is assigned as Handmaid to the Commander. Kate is attracted to Nick, the Commander’s chauffeur. At the same time, a resistance movement begins to challenge the regime. (by Reid Gagle)

Ebsco Updates

EBSCOhost 2.0 is scheduled for release in July 2008. This new version of EBSCOhost will incorporate powerful features in a simple, intuitive design. To watch the Flash Demonstration click on the Ebsco image to the left. It now includes details on the search query breadcrumb trail, and the Choose Databases enhancement.

Facts On File Databases Update

New Dictionary Tool

Check out the new pop-up dictionary that was added to American Women’s History Online. Users who click on the “Dictionary” link located on the top of every page will be able to look up unfamiliar words within articles without needing to open a new browser window or go outside the database. The dictionary contains more than 34,000 entries with concise, informative definitions, as well as the pronunciation, etymology, and syllable breaks of the word. Many entries also include variant spellings, and derived and inflected forms of the words. This new feature will allow students and researchers to broaden their vocabulary and clarify their understanding of the text.

Physics of the Impossible / Michio Kaku

Call number: QC 75 K18 2008

A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible—from death rays and force fields to invisibility cloaks—revealing to what extent such technologies might be achievable decades or millennia into the future. One hundred years ago, scientists would have said that lasers, televisions, and the atomic bomb were beyond the realm of physical possibility. In Physics of the Impossible, the renowned physicist Michio Kaku explores to what extent the technologies and devices of science fiction that are deemed equally impossible today might well become commonplace in the future.

Critical Care Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!

Call number: RT 120 I5 C766 2008

Now in its Second Edition, this handy reference is perfect for nurses entering or needing a refresher in critical care nursing. The book presents the latest information on over 100 critical care disorders in the award-winning Incredibly Easy! style, with light-hearted humor, memory joggers, recurring icons to emphasize key points, and numerous quick-scan tables, illustrations, and flow charts. Highlights of this edition include state-of-the-art information on hemodynamic monitoring and trauma, a new icon emphasizing evidence-based practice, and two new four-page full-color inserts. A bound-in CD-ROM contains over 300 NCLEX®-style questions, plus concept maps and charts of nursing diagnoses and disorders. (From Barnes & Nobles)

The Day Freedom Died / Charles Lane

Call number: F379 C59 L36 2008

The untold story of the slaying of a Southern town’s ex-slaves and a white lawyer’s historic battle to bring the perpretators to justice. Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town, like many, where African Americans and whites mingled uneasily. But on April 13, 1873, a small army of white ex–Confederate soldiers, enraged after attempts by freedmen to assert their new rights, killed more than sixty African Americans who had occupied a courthouse. With skill and tenacity, The Washington Post’s Charles Lane transforms this nearly forgotten incident into a riveting historical saga.

Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift / Andres R. Edwards

Call number: HC 79 E5 E327 2005

A comprehensive primer on the history, evolution and future of the movement toward sustainability. Sustainability has become a buzzword in the last decade, but its full meaning is complex, emerging from a range of different sectors. In practice, it has become the springboard for millions of individuals throughout the world who are forging the fastest and most profound social transformation of our time the Sustainability Revolution.

Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East / Robin Wright

Call number: DS44 W87 2008

One of the presumed justifications for the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, and the subsequent occupation, was to bring democracy and political stability to the entire Middle East. As Robin Wright, who has covered the Middle East for over 30 years for The Washington Post, makes wonderfully clear in this important, highly illuminating, and provocative book, the goals of regional democracy and stability may be mutually exclusive.