New & Noteworthy @ WHPLibrary

This year's Adult Summer Reading Program was a resounding success, with an increase in participation to over 30 entries.

8 lucky winners received a West Hempstead Public Library tote bag, along with a $10 pizza gift certificate, a bookmark, and their choice of a free book to take home and enjoy.

Congratulations to all our winners and a big THANK YOU to everyone who participated.

We are grateful to Gino's Pizza for their generous contribution to our Summer Reading Raffle.

New bestselling books by Jennifer Crusie, Clive Cussler and Sara Paretsky will be available on Tuesday, AUGUST 31.

In Jennifer Crusie's new book, Maybe This Time, when Andie Miller tries to gain closure with her ex-husband, he asks one final favor of her before they go their separate ways. A distant cousin of his has died and left him as the guardian of two orphans who have driven out three nannies already. He knows Andie can handle anything and asks for her help. Andie's fiance, however, thinks this is all a plan by her ex to get Andie back, and he may be right.

The Lost Empire, by Clive Cussler, is the second entry in his Fargo Adventure series. While scuba diving in Tanzania, Sam and Remi Fargo discover a relic belonging to a Confederate ship. An anomaly about the relic sets them off chasing a mystery and a rumored second artifact. However, a Mexican political party is intent on finding that artifact as well because it contains a secret that could destroy them.

Sara Paretsky's new book, Body Work, is the 14th book in the V.I. Warshawski series. The performer known as the Body Artist works at Chicago's Club Gouge and allows her audience to use her naked body as a canvas for their illustrations. V. I. Warshawski watches as people step forward but the evening takes a strange turn when one woman's sketch triggers a outburst from a man at the club. The man - an Iraqi war vet - leaves the club and days later, the woman is shot outside the club. The police arrest the veteran and V.I. is hired by the vet's family to clear his name.

You can reserve these or any other books by stopping by or calling the reference desk or by using your online library account.

Kathy Reichs' new book, Spider Bones, will be available on Tuesday, AUGUST 24. This is the 13th book in the Temperance Brennan series.

John Lowery was declared dead in 1968 in Vietnam and buried in North Carolina. Four decades later, Temperance Brennan is called to the scene of a drowning in Canada and the corpse is identified as John Lowery. Temperance exhumes Lowery's grave and takes the remains for reanalysis. Soon another set of remains is located with Lowery's dog tags. Three bodies all identified as John Lowery.

In another case, Temperance is contacted the Honolulu medical examiner, who needs help identifying the remains of an adolescent boy. Was he the victim of a shark attack or something more sinister?

Reichs is also the writer and producer of the television show Bones.