New and Featured Books for 07/16/2013:

Come and check out these and some of the other new books and materials (or at least new to us) added to our library collection…

FICTION:

Chose The Wrong Guy, Gave Him The Wrong Finger by Beth Harbison

The Cat Sitter’s Cradle by Blaize Clement and John Clement

Amy Falls Down by Jincy Willett

Star Wars: Crucible by Troy Denning

A Step Of Faith by Richard Paul Evans

Stranded by Alex Kava

Gone With The Win: A Bed-And-Breakfast Mystery by Mary Daheim

The Strain, vol. 2, story by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan, written by David Lapham, and illustrated by Mark Huddleston

The Dark Legacy Of Shannara: Witch Wraith by Terry Brooks

The Curiosity by Stephen P. Kiernan

Close My Eyes by Sophie McKenzie

True Love by Jude Deveraux

Visitation Street by Ivy Pochoda

Sandrine’s Case by Thomas H. Cook

First Sight by Danielle Steel

The Eye Of Moloch by Glenn Beck with Jack Henderson

NON-FICTION:

Pandora’s Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over The American Meal by Melanie Warner

Relish: An Adventure In Food, Style, And Everyday Fun by Daphne Oz

Cooking With Love: Comfort Food That Hugs You by Carla Hall with Genevieve Ko

In The Kitchen With David: QVC’s Resident Foodie Presents Comfort Foods That Take You Home by David Venable

The Tuscan Sun Cookbook: Recipes From Our Italian Kitchen by Frances Mayes and Edard Mayes, with photographs by Steven Rothfeld

Ready For A Brand New Beat: How “Dancing In The Street” Became The Anthem For Changing America by Mark Kurlansky

What Went Wrong: The Inside Story Of The GOP Debacle Of 2012… And How It Can Be Avoided Next Time by Jerome R. Corsi

Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales Of Epic Humiliation by Aisha Tyler

JFK’s Last Hundred Days: The Transformation Of A Man And The Emergence Of A Great President by Thurston Clarke

Real Talk For Real Teachers: Advice For Teachers From Rookies To Veterans: “No Retreat, No Surrender!” by Rafe Esquith

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Please note that books mentioned here could be checked out between the time they end up on the blog and when you come to check them out. If you don’t see the items you’re looking for then please come up to the front desk, OR call us, OR send us an email at robinsbaselibrary@gmail.com and  we’ll put your name on the reserve list for when the item returns.

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Previous New/Featured books for Adults:

07/10/13.

07/02/13.

06/18/13.

06/06/13.

05/31/13.

New and Featured Books for 01/02/2013:

Come and check out these and some of the other new books and materials (or at least new to us) added to our library collection…

FICTION:

The Child’s Child by Ruth Rendell (writing as Barbara Vine)

A Killer In The Wind by Andrew Klavan

Gun Machine by Warren Ellis

Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris and William Harms and illustrated by Denis Medri

Die Easy by Zoë Sharp

Big Sky River by Linda Lael Miller

Star Wars: Scoundrels by Timothy Zahn

Daddy Love by Joyce Carol Oates

Doctor Who: The Wheel Of Ice by Stephen Baxter

The Road To Cardinal Valley by Earlene Fowler

Too Bright To Hear Too Loud To See by Juliann Garey

Shadow Woman by Linda Howard

NON-FICTION:

Autism: The Scientific Truth About Preventing, Diagnosing, And Treating Autism Spectrum Disorders – And What Parents Can Do Now by Robert Melillo

May Cause Miracles: A 40-Day Guidebook To Subtle Shifts For Radical Change And Unlimited Happiness by Gabriel Bernstein

Life Below Stairs: True Lives Of Edwardian Servants by Alison Maloney

A Higher Call: An Incredibly True Story Of Combat And Chivalry In The War-Torn Skies Of World War II by Adam Makos with Larry Alexander

Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t by Nate Silver

The 8 Hour Diet: Watch The Pounds Disappear Without Watching What You Eat! by David Zinczenko, with Peter Moore

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Please note that books mentioned here could be checked out between the time they end up on the blog and when you come to check them out. If you don’t see the items you’re looking for then please come up to the front desk, OR call us, OR send us an email at robinsbaselibrary@gmail.com and  we’ll put your name on the reserve list for when the item returns.

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Previous New/Featured books for Adults:

12/27/12.

12/12/12.

12/04/12.

11/20/12.

11/19/12.

11/01/12.

New and Featured DVDs for 10/05/12:

Come and check out these and some of the other new DVDs and materials (or at least new to us) added to our library collection…

FICTION:

Murder By Death

The Sea Inside

The Great Outdoors

Blindness

Knight Rider

Stargate

Adaptation

The Fantasia Barrino Story: Life Is Not A Fairy Tale

The Road

Murder In Greenwich

The Seventh Seal

Liar Liar

Strange Days

I Am Love

The Dukes Of Hazzard

Raging Bull

Kiss Me Deadly

Thirteen Days

Gangs Of New York

Throne Of Blood

Disclosure

Payback

The Avengers

The Cabin In The Woods

Heathers

Downton Abbey, season 2

Babel

Good Will Hunting

NON-FICTION:

Banned From The Bible I

Mexico’s Great Pyramids

Frank Lloyd Wright

The Ancient Maya: Tools Of Astronomy

Ape To Man

Medal Of Honor

Liberty! The American Revolution

Bowling For Columbine

La Jetée/Sans Soleil

Islam: Empire Of Faith

The Wright Stuff: The Life Of Orville And Wilbur Wright

Holy Warriors: Richard The Lionheart & Saladin

The Mythology Of Star Wars

Ape To Man

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Please note that DVDs could be checked out between the time they end up on the blog and when you come to check them out. If you don’t see the items you’re looking for then please come up to the front desk and we’ll put your name on the reserve list for when the item returns.

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Previous New/Featured DVDs:

06/28/12.

06/07/12.

03/15/12.

02/14/12.

02/07/12.

Previous New/Featured books:

09/21/12.

09/06/12.

08/23/12.

08/15/12.

08/09/12.

08/02/12.

Happy Star Wars Day!

Happy Star Wars Day!

And don’t forget that Saturday is also Free Comic Book Day!

So no matter what you get up, we hope that you have yourself an incredibly fun and safe weekend…

And a great Cinco de Mayo.

Reading material for 03/12/12:

Some reading material from around the internet:

Apparently tweets can now be cited as evidence in academic papers.

The massive launch of Mass Effect 3.

RIP Jean Giraud, AKA Moebius.

Wal-Mart debuts their “Great For You” seal.

The “QWERTY Effect” is changing what words mean to us.

How do you ship a horse to the London Olympics?

The picture above is by Jan van der Veken, from here.

NASA would like you to know that the world will not end in 2012.

The youngest female self-made billionaire.

Car breaks down before Consumer Reports can even test it.

A 340 ton boulder turned work of art.

Inside some of the world’s tallest buildings.

Here’s a fascinating radio documentary: “Nuclear Power After Fukushima.”

Penguins fly first class on airplanes.

They’re going to make a movie out of the theft of Nic Cage’s prized Action Comics No.1!

by Yale Stewart, from here.

The 10,000 year plan for Amazon.

Get ready to share even more on Facebook.

Apple has announced the new iPad.

Speaking of which, are Apple’s insanely high profit margins built to last?

The Navy will be testing a new firefighting robot in 2013.

RFID your stuff, then find it with your mobile phone.

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes buys The New Republic.

Why are companies ditching Google maps?

10 of the most powerful female characters in literature.

The review of 1984 that Aldous Huxley sent to George Orwell.

The paranoia of Philip K. Dick.

Audiobooks and the celebrities who were born to read them.

There’s still quite a gender bias in book journalism.

10 essential history books written by women.

The only Game Of Thrones/Song Of Ice And Fire map you’ll ever need.

A few things that Jonathan Franzen actually likes.

The trailer for the return of Community.

Also, check out this mash up Community/The Dark Knight Rises trailer.

And speaking of The Dark Knight Rises: Action figures!

Jennifer Lawrence almost said no to The Hunger Games.

A complete guide to 2012’s TV pilots.

Apparently there’s an R-rated version of Galaxy Quest out there somewhere.

A picture of Peter Dinklage as Wolverine.

A chart that helps explain just how much of “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away” does Star Wars take place.

Speaking of Star Wars: Topher Grace has edited all the prequels into one concise 85 minute long film that is supposedly fairly good.

Your first look at Johnny Depp as Tonto in Gore Verbinksi’s The Lone Ranger adaptation.

by Scott Ferguson, from here.

The many dimensions of Catherine the Great.

Kids found living in abandoned bus.

Fiona Apple reveals her new album title, and it’s 23 words long (as opposed to 90 words).

Disturbing school lunch menus.

What visions of the future do high speed rail lines provide us?

Is this the nicest Taco Bell on the planet?

A 7 year old makes an awesome Rube Goldberg machine.

This will be an interesting week, since it contains both Pi Day and the Ides of March. Beware!

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Previous online reading material:

03/05/12.

02/27/12.

02/20/12.

02/13/12.

02/06/12.

Reading material for 02/13/12:

Some reading material from around the internet:

SeaWorld is being sued… by five of its “enslaved” killer whales.

Teens learn robotics as factories lack skilled workers.

Origami robots that run only on air.

RIP Whitney Houston.

Listen to Whitney Houston’s isolated vocal track from “How Will I Know?”

Sophisticated jewelry heist stumps Chicago cops.

Take a tour of NYC sewers on Valentine’s Day. Seriously.

California’s volcanoes to be monitored more closely.

34% of people aged 25 to 29 years old have moved back home.

The Pentagon to lift some restrictions on women in combat.

Social media explained.

Amazon tries out the brick and mortar approach.

Google might open a store too.

How to improve your odds in online dating.

The FBI file on Steve Jobs.

The man behind the fake Cormac McCarthy twitter account.

Do you want to open up a perpetual, invisible window into your gmail?

Also, men don’t read online dating profiles.

Stephen Fry says that British judges don’t understand twitter.

Arguing for a Zuckerberg tax.

Mad Men: a guide to catching up before season 5, which starts next month.

Also, Thomas Jane was almost Don Draper.

Natalie Portman to join both of Terrence Malick’s upcoming films.

Naomi Watts to play Princess Diana.

Roger Ebert says 3D is killing Hollywood.

It looks like House will be coming to an end in May with the conclusion of its 8th season.

George Lucas says Han never shot first.

Amy Adams to adapt Steven Martin’s An Object Of Beauty.

Anton Corbijn to adapt John Le Carré’s A Most Wanted Man, which will star Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

Navy SEALs moonlight as movie stars.

The trailer for The Bourne Legacy.

In the picture above: 15,000 different books about Abraham Lincoln arranged together to form a three story tower in the lobby of the Ford’s Theater Center for Education and Leadership.

What Dr. Seuss books were really about.

William Gibson on aging futurism.

10 of the greatest kisses in literature.

A neurodevelopmental perspective on A. A. Milne.

The top 10 Batman storylines.

Charles Dickens and Sinclair Lewis.

A list of ridiculous names in Charles Dickens novels (incomplete).

Jeffrey Zaslow, the man who wrote the recent Gabrielle Giffords book and the Chesley “Sully” Sullenberg, died on Friday.

Michael Chabon talks about his new short story.

Books that will change the way you think about love.

This is a very cool site: Better Book Titles.

from here.

How black lights work.

Legacy of nuclear drilling site in Colorado still lingers.

Entire genome of extinct human decoded from fossil.

Can bees make tupperware?

10 things you probably didn’t know about love and sex.

Metaphors trigger the visual parts of your brain.

The psychedelic cult that thrived for nearly 2000 years.

Greek protesters setting Athens aflame.

The world’s tallest hotel is, of course, in Dubai.

Why being sleepy and drunk is great for creativity.

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Previous online reading material:

02/06/12.

01/30/12.

12/27/11.

12/19/11.