RECENT ACQUISITIONS

Summer 2008

BOOKS IN PRINT FORMAT

Fiction

America America, Ethan Canin

Broken Window: a Lincoln Rhyme Novel, Jeffrey Deaver

Damage Control, Judith A. Jance

The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: and Other Small Acts of Liberation, Short Stories, Elizabeth Berg

Death Angel, Linda Howard

Last Patriot, Brad Thor

Made in the USA, Billie Letts

Moscow Rules, Daniel Silva

Netherland, Joseph O’Neill

Oxygen, Carol Wiley Cassella

Say Goodbye, Lisa Gardner

Silent Thunder, Iris Johansen

Sweet Love, Sarah Strohmeyer

Telex from Cuba, Rachel Kushner

Time is a River, Mary Alice Munroe

Tribute, Nora Roberts

Nonfiction

Assisted Loving: True Tales of Double Dating with My Father, Bob Morris

Champion’s Mind, Pete Sampras

Chosen Forever, Susan Richards

Prince of Frogtown, Rick Bragg

Rome 1906, David Maraniss

Up for Renewal, Cathy Alter 

Large Print

Chasing Darkness, Robert Crais

Killer View, Ridley Pearson

One of Those Malibu Nights, Elizabeth Adler

Tailspin, Catherine Coulter

BOOKS IN AUDIO FORMAT

Playaway is an easy-to-use audio book that is housed in one small unit. You supply the headphones, press a button, and start listening immediately.  Recently added titles:

Darkness Falls, Kyle Mills

Halsey’s Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue, Bob Drury

Inside the Red Mansion, Oliver August

Last Night at the Lobster, Stewart O’Nan

Lincoln’s Melancholy, Joshua Wolf Shener

On Whale Island: Notes from a Place I Never Meant to Leave, Daniel Hays

New Unabridged Audio Books on CD

Fiction

Another Thing to Fall, Laura Lippman

The Broken Window, Jeffery Deaver

Damage Control, J. A. Jance

The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted, Elizabeth Berg

Death of a Celebrity, M.C. Beaton

Girls in Trucks, Katie Crouch

Harvesting the Heart, Jodi Picolut`

Irish Country Village, Patrick Taylor

Pl ague of Doves, Louise Erdrich

Resolution, Robert B. Parker

Skeletons at the Feast, Chris Bohjalian

So Brave, Young and Handsome, Leif Enger

Still Life, Louise Penny

Winter Study, Nevada Barr

Nonfiction

The Airmen and the Headhunters, Judith M. Heimann

The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch

The Man Who Loved China, Simon Winchester

The Monster of Florence, Douglas Preston

What Happened: Inside the Bush Whitehouse Washington’s Culture of Deception,

Scott McClellan

Book Review by Georgia Edwards, Circulation Librarian

The legend of Colton H. Bryant

Author: Alexandra Fuller

            Readers of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight will not be disappointed by this wonderful new offering from Alexandra Fuller.   While doing investigative reports of the oil industry on the Western way of life, Fuller came across young Colton H. Bryant’s story, which she tells poignantly and simply.

            Colton’s story begins in grade school, where he is a poor student and called “retard” by his peers.  He survives this cruelty through the support of wonderful parents and his own unflagging optimism.  Colton’s mantra from an early age was, “It’s mind over matter; if I don’t mind, then it don’t matter.”  A true son of Wyoming, he loved nothing better than losing himself in fishing, camping under the stars or riding his horse.

            Married in his early twenties, Colton eventually gained employment as a rough neck on a Wyoming oil rig. It is on this job that the real world came calling with its attendant fears and responsibilities.

            Fuller tells the story of this Western “Forrest Gump” in also “telling of the land that grew him, where the great high plains meet the Rocky Mountains…”  In doing both, she has shared with us the life of a young man whose simple innocence and love for his Wyoming roots cannot easily be forgotten.