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New and Featured Books for 10/23/2013:

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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:

Identical by Scott Turow

Guests On Earth by Lee Smith

Rasputin casts a long shadow indeed...

Rasputin’s Shadow by Raymond Khoury

Mirror, Mirror by J. D. Robb, Mary Blayney, Elaine Fox, Marky Kay McComas, and R. C. Ryan

Rough Passage To London: A Sea Captain’s Tale by Robin Lloyd

Gilt Trip by Laura Childs with Diana Orgain

The dirtiest.

Dirty Love by Andre Dubus III

Vicious Circle by Wilbur Smith

Seances!

The Seance Society by Michael Nethercott

Dark City – Repairman Jack: The Early Years by F. Paul Wilson

The Wolves Of Midwinter by Anne Rice

Silencing Eve by Iris Johansen

Bond, James Bond.

Solo by William Boyd

Mortal Bonds by Michael Sears

Just One Evil Act by Elizabeth George

Law Of The Desert Born, adapted by Charles Santino, scripted by Beau L’Amour and Katherine Nolan, based on a short story by Louis L’Amour, and illustrated by Thomas Yeates

Sometimes life is a competition.

Losing To Win by Michele Grant

Lighthouse Island by Paulette Jiles

Absolute Top Ten by Alan Moore and illustrated by Gene Ha and Zander Cannon

Those are some tough looking mice.

Mouse Guard: The Black Axe by David Petersen

Mrs. Poe by Lynn Cullen

The Counterfeit Mistress by Madeline Hunter

The Tilted World by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly

NON-FICTION:

Who Really Killed Kennedy? – 50 Years Later: Stunning New Revelations About The JFK Assassination by Jerome R. Corsi

Where Were You? – America Remembers the JFK Assassination, compiled and edited by Gus Russo and Harry Moses

The creation of one nation, indivisible.

The Men Who United The States: America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, And Mavericks, And The Creation Of One Nation, Indivisble by Simon Winchester

America!!!!

One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson

Practice To Deceive by Ann Rule

From Scratch: Inside The Food Network by Allen Salkin

Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story by Peter Bagge

All that jazz!

Duke: A Life Of Duke Ellington by Terry Teachout

Johnny Carson by Henry Bushkin

Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, And Other Powerful Web Tools For Classrooms by Will Richardson

Who Discovered America? – The Untold History Of The Peopling Of The Americas by Gavin Menzies and Ian Hudson

Jeff Bezos and the age of Amazon.

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos And The Age Of Amazon by Brad Stone

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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:

10/21/13.

10/18/13.

09/25/13.

09/18/13.

09/03/13.

New and Featured Books for Kids/Juvenile Readers for 03/27/2013:

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

EASY READING:

Hands Off My Honey! by Jane Chapman and illustrated by Tim Warnes

One Gorilla: A Counting Book by Anthony Browne

I’m Not Reading! by Jonathan Allen

Meow!

Construction Kitties by Judy Sue Goodwin Sturges and illustrated by Shari Halpern

Love You When… by Linda Kranz

Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Jon Klassen

Now I’m Big by Karen Katz

Vacation!

The Big Bad Wolf Goes On Vacation by Delphine Perret

Uh-Oh, Baby! by Nancy Coffelt and illustrated by Scott Nash

The King Of Space by Jonny Duddle

The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen, retold by Cynthia Rylant and illustrated by Jen Corace

Rain! by Linda Ashman and illustrated by Christian Robinson

Exclamation mark!

Exclamation Mark! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld

FICTION:

Force Out by Tim Green

White Fur Flying by Patricia MacLachlan

The Witch’s Curse by Keith McGowan and illustrated by Yoko Tanaka

Stuck In The Middle (Of Middle School): A Novel In Doodles by Karen Romano Young

NON-FICTION:

Hoop Genius: How A Desperate Teacher And A Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball by John Coy and illustrated by Joe Morse

Nelly May Has Her Say by Cynthia DeFelice and illustrated by Henry Cole

From Cotton To T-Shirt by Robin Nelson

A poem by Langston Hughes.

Lullaby (For A Black Mother) by Langston Hughes and illustrated by Sean Qualls

Tito Puente: Mambo King by Monica Brown and illustrated by Rafael Lopez

The Eagles Are Back by Jean Craighhead George, with paintings by Wendell Minor

When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky: Two Artists, Their Ballet, And One Extraordinary Riot by Lauren Stringer

From Grass To Milk by Stacy Taus-Bolstad

The Story Behind Rubber by Barbara Somervill

Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries For Children by Jan Pinborough and illustrated by Debby Atwell

And they were funny!

The Beatles Were Fab (And They Were Funny) by Kathleen Krull & Paul Brewer and illustrated by Stacy Innerst

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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:

02/28/13.

02/07/13.

01/31/13.

01/02/13.

And for Young Adults:

02/06/13.

12/28/12.

12/05/12.

08/17/12.

And for Kids/Juvenile Readers:

03/04/13.

02/08/13.

12/22/12.

11/29/12.