New & Noteworthy @ WHPLibrary

The library will be closed for the Independence Day Weekend,
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, July 3rd, 4th and 5th, 2010.
Plan ahead... come in soon to pick up books, music and videos to get you through the long weekend!

Don't forget, we close at 5 pm on Friday.

Stay cool and safe and enjoy your holiday!

Author of the Gossip Giri series, Cecily Von Ziegesar, will be at the Book Revue in Huntington to speak about and sign her new novel, Cum Laude. She will be there on Friday, JULY 16, at 7 p.m.

Freshmen at Dexter College find out there is more to school than just studying for exams. Shipley is determined to assert herself and to shed her good-girl image. Eliza came to college to get noticed. Tom is an athlete-turned-artist who thinks his paintings will change the world. Nick, Tom's roommate, wants to follow in the footsteps of his boarding-school hero. Brother and sister Adam and Tragedy Gatz come to college right from their family's farm. All of them will receive an unexpected education.

For more information about signing guidelines for the event, call the Book Review at 631-271-1442.

Authors Jennifer Weiner and Lisa Gardner will have new books available on Tuesday, JULY 13.

A mother and her two daughters must give each other strength in Jennifer Weiner's new book Fly Away Home. Sylvie Serfer has spent decades becoming the ideal political wife. When her husband's extramartial affair makes the headlines, Sylvie and her two daughters retreat to an old beach house.

        
Live to Tell, by Lisa Gardner, is the fourth book in the Detective D.D. Warren series. Four members of a family have been brutally murdered and a possible suspect, the father, is barely alive. Is he the murderer or could it be someone else in the family.

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

Look for new books by James Lee Burke and John Connolly on Tuesday, JULY 13.

The Glass Rainbow, by James Lee Burke, is the 18th book in the Dave Robicheaux series. Robicheaux is back in New Iberia, Louisiana. Seven young women in a neighboring parish have been brutally murdered. While the crimes seem to be done by a serial killer, the death of a high school honor student doesn't fit. In addition to investigating the murders, Robicheaux and his adopted daughter, Alafair, are not seeing eye-to-eye about Alafair's new romantic interest, Kermit Abelard. Abelard is the son of one of the region's most notorious robber barons and Robicheaux's investigation is leading close to the Abelard family.

        
John Connolly's new book, The Whisperers, is the 9th book in the Charlie Parker series. A dangerous smuggling operation is taking place, run by a group of former soldiers just returned from Iraq. As the smugglers begin to die one after another in apparent suicides, Parker is called in.

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

Daniel Silva and Iris Johansen will have new books available on Tuesday, JULY 20.

The Rembrandt Affair is the 10th book in the Gabriel Allon series by Daniel Silva. Gabriel has returned to the Cornish coast to help heal his wife, Chiara. But Gabriel is once again drawn into danger when an art restorer is murdered and the newly discovered Rembrandt on which he is working is taken. He will use his skills to trace the painting and hunt down those responsible for the crime.

        
Shadow Zone is the second book Iris Johansen has written with Roy Johansen. While mapping the ancient underwater city of Marinth, submersible designer Hannah Bryson may have finally uncovered the truth about the city's mysterious demise. She realizes that the ancient city's secret could have dire consequences for the modern-day world but Hannah isn't the only one who realizes it. When her key artifact disappears on its way to a research lab, she must deal with an enemy who will kill anyone who stands in his way.

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

Carl Hiaasen and J.A. Jance will both have new books available on Tuesday, JULY 27.

In Hiaasen's new book, Star Island, we get a look at celebrity life in the fast lane. Twenty-two-year-old pop star Cherry Pye is attempting a comeback after another drug and alcohol disaster. Ann DeLusia portrays Cherry whenever the singer is not fit to bee seen in public. One night when Ann is portraying Cherry she is mistakenly kidnapped from a hotel by an obsessed paparazzo. Now Cherry's handlers must rescue Ann while keeping her existence secret from the public and from Cherry.

        
Queen of the Night is the fourth book in J.A. Jance's Brandon Walker series.
Every summer the Queen of the Night flower blooms in the Arizona desert. But the annual celebration of the flower is shattered by gunfire and the only witness is a little girl. Working on this case is Dr. Lani Walker, Dan Pardee - a member of a border patrol unit called the Shadow Wolves and Pima County homicide investigator Brian Fellows. In a second case, retired homicide detective Brandon Walker is investigating the long unsolved murder of an Arizona State University coed.

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

Author Jonathan Tropper will be at the Book Revue in Huntington on Tuesday, JULY 27, at 7 p.m.

He will speak about and sign his new book, This Is Where I Leave You. In the book, Judd Foxman must come to terms with the death of his father and his marriage. As he sits shiva with his family, longstanding grudges resurface and secrets are revealed.

For more information, call the Book Revue at 631-271-1442.

Author Brad Thor will appear at the Book Revue in Huntington on Wednesday, AUGUST 4, at 7 p.m.

Thor will speak about and sign his new book Foreign Influence. This new book is the ninth book in the Scott Harvath series. Working as a covert operative, Harvath has just returned from his first assignment abroad when a bombing in Rome kills a group of American college students. It appears that a colleague from Harvath's past is responsible and Harvath is asked to lure the man out of hiding and kill him. But is he really the one responsible?

For more information, call the Book Revue at 631-271-1442.

Start off the beginning of August with best sellers from three popular authors: Nevada Barr, Faye Kellerman and Jude Deveraux. All will have new books available on Tuesday, AUGUST 3.

Burn, by Nevada Barr, is the 16th book in the Anna Pigeon series. Anna, a Ranger with the National Park Service, is newly married but on administrative leave from her job. She travels to New Orleans to stay with a friend and discovers what seems to be an attempt to place a curse on her. Amanda begins to slowly find traces of very dark doings in the heart of post-Katrina New Orleans.

        
Faye Kellerman's Hangman is the 19th book in her Peter Decker/Rina
Lazarus series. A friend of Decker's comes to L.A. and asks him for a favor. The favor soon becomes complicated when his friend and her husband go missing, leaving their fourteen-year-old son with no one to turn to except Decker and Lazarus. In a second case, a neonatal nurse at St. Timothy's Hospital signs off her night shift at eight a.m. and six hours later, a construction foreman supervising a house in a nearby suburb, discovers her body swinging from the rafters.

        
Scarlet Nights is the third book in Jude Deveraux's Edilean series. Sara Shaw is happily anticipating her wedding but three weeks before the wedding, her fiance Greg gets a call during the night and leaves without explanation. Two days later, a man claiming he is the brother of her best friend, moves into her apartment. What Sara does't know is that he is an undercover detective, assigned to use Sara to track down a notorious criminal who also happens to be the mother of the man Sara plans to marry.

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