New and Featured Books for 06/18/2013:

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:

Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen

Sea Glass Island by Sherryl Woods

World War Z: An Oral History Of The Zombie War by Max Brooks

After Earth by Peter David

Antonia Lively Breaks The Silence by David Samuel Levinson

The Heist by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg

The 9th Girl by Tami Hoag

Joyland by Stephen King

Sovereign by Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee

Instructions For A Heatwave by Maggie O’Farrell

One Heart To Win by Johanna Lindsey

The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls

NON-FICTION:

Humboldt: Life On America’s Marijuana Frontier by Emily Brady

Second Suns: Two Doctors And Their Amazing Quest To Restore Sight And Save Lives by David Oliver Relin

Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According To Questlove by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and Ben Greenman

The Wonder Of Aging: A New Approach To Embracing Life After Fifty by Michael Gurian

The Skies Belong To Us: Love And Terror In The Golden Age Of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner

The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story by Lily Koppel

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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:

06/06/13.

05/31/13.

05/28/13.

05/09/13.

04/29/13.

Reading material for 08/06/12:

from here.

Some reading material from around the internet:

RIP Gore Vidal.

Did Van Gogh really shoot himself?

The future is unevenly distributed.

What’s next for CNN?

The science of eyewitness memory.

Rare photographs of atomic bomb testing at Bikini Atoll, like the one below…

10 recent science fiction novels that are about big ideas.

Joyce Carol Oates and Charles Dickens.

The greatest books of all time?

In this e-book world, are book covers a dying art?

Jonah Lehrer and Bob Dylan.

Watch the only footage of Mark Twain in existence.

Historical fictions and fictional histories.

How Edward Gorey illustrates three classic fairy tales, see below:

Is Indiana Jones dead at last?

Vertigo is named the top film of all time, according to hundreds of directors and critics.

Surprising screenplays by famour authors.

Jimmy Fallon is/was in the running to host the Oscars.

10 movies that you didn’t realize were based on books.

M. Night Shyamalan to do a show on the SyFy network.

Check out the trailer for Cloud Atlas.

How to make living inside a shipping container look glamorous.

How much do you really spend emailing at work?

Hunting moons outside the solar system.

8 years after the Athens Olympics, many venues have been left to rot.

Dolphins form elite societies.

Anticipating NASA rover “Curiosity” touchdown…

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Previous online reading material:

07/23/12.

07/17/12.

07/09/12.

07/02/12.

06/25/12.