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. ]]> http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2010/08/new_bestsellers_available_aug.html http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2010/08/new_bestsellers_available_aug.html Reader's Advisory best sellers Clive Cussler Jennifer Crusie Sara Paretsky Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:57:45 -0500 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. ]]> http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2010/08/new_kathy_reichs_book_availabl.html http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2010/08/new_kathy_reichs_book_availabl.html Reader's Advisory best sellers Kathy Reichs Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:08:56 -0500 See the slideshow on Flickr that details the installation that took place in July. The Haas Fountain will be dedicated on Saturday, Sept.11, 2010.]]> http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2010/08/fountain_dedication.html http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2010/08/fountain_dedication.html Community Friends of the Library fountain Haas Tom's Dream Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:31:48 -0500 Your blood donation will help to save up to THREE lives. To SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT call Ari Himber at 1-516-458-9647. Please tell your friends and download and Share this Flyer! WALK-INS are also welcome: THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 2010 from 2:30 PM-8:30 PM in the West Hempstead Public Library Community Room on the lower level, 500 Hempstead Ave., West Hempstead, NY. Thank you for caring and sharing this lifesaving gift! For questions concerning medical eligibility call Long Island Blood Services at 1-800-688-0900. ]]> http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2010/08/blood_drive_on_august_26_2010.html http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2010/08/blood_drive_on_august_26_2010.html Community blood community service Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:55:31 -0500 Postcard Killers, by James Patterson, will be available on Monday, AUGUST 16. NYPD detective Jack Kanon travels to Europe after his daughter and her boyfriend were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, couples in several European cities have become victims of the same killers. Kanon teams up with Swedish reporter, Gabby Larsen. Each killing is preceded by a postcard to the local newspaper and Kanon thinks he knows where the next victims will be.  

The Cobra, by Frederick Forsyth, will be available Tuesday, AUGUST 17. In this book, an unnamed U.S. president decides to bring all the resources of the federal government against the international cocaine trade. He declares drug traders and their cartels to be terrorists and brings in ex-CIA director Paul Devereaux in to head the team to implement the effort. Devereaux, known as the Cobra, is given free rein by the president to call in any arm of the government to fight the cartels.  

         Crossfire is the final book written by Dick Francis and his son Felix. It will be available Tuesday, AUGUST 17. Army Capt. Thomas Forsyth has lost a foot during his tour of duty in Afghanistan. Upon discharge, Forsyth returns home to Lambourn where he gets a less-than-warm welcome from his mother, horse trainer Josephine Kauri. Forsyth discovers that his mother has been sabotaging her own animals in response to a blackmailer's threats to reveal her tax evasion to the authorities. With nothing else to do, Forsyth turns detective to identify the extortionist.  

You can reserve these or any other books by stopping by or calling the reference desk or by using your online library account ]]> http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2010/08/new_best_sellers_for_august.html http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2010/08/new_best_sellers_for_august.html Reader's Advisory best sellers Dick Francis Frederick Forsyth James Patterson Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:04:17 -0500 August 16, at 7:30 p.m. She will be there to speak about and sign her new book As Husbands Go. In her new book, Susie Gerstsen's husband is found murdered in the apartment of an escort. She must take on her in-laws, her husband's partners, the police, and the district attorney to prove that her wonderful life with her husand was not a lie. For more information, call the Book Revue at 631-271-1442. ]]> http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2010/08/susan_isaacs_to_be_in_huntingt.html http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2010/08/susan_isaacs_to_be_in_huntingt.html Reader's Advisory book signing Susan Isaacs Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:29:50 -0500 Sworn to Silence, we meet Kate Burkholder, Chief of Police in Painter's Creek, Ohio. Burkholder grew up in this Amish community but left the Amish life after a tragedy occured in her past. Now she has been put in charge of a murder investigation and must use her understanding of Amish life to bridge the gap between two cultures.

        ]]> http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2010/08/mysteries_with_an_amish_twist.html http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2010/08/mysteries_with_an_amish_twist.html Reader's Advisory book review Linda Castillo Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:24:39 -0500 AUGUST 10. In Tough Customer, by Sandra Brown, private investigator Dodge Hanley doesn't let rules get in his way.That's why he's the first person Caroline King asks for help when a stalker attempts to murder their daughter, the daughter Dodge has never met. Dodge's daughter Berry has become the object of desire of a co-worker who has spent the past year making her life miserable and who now has vowed to kill her. Dodge joins forces with the local deputy sheriff as the stalker begins to claim other victims.  

         Cure is the 10th book in the Jack Stapleton/ Laurie Montgomery series by Robin Cook. New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery is investigating the death of CIA agent Kevin Markham. While her coworkers doubt her assassination theory, her husband, fellow medical examiner Jack Stapleton, agrees with her. Together they discover links to a pharmaceutical company and several biomedical start-ups dealing with stem-cell research.  

         In Veil of Night, by Linda Howard, Jaclyn Wilde is a wedding planner who loves her job. But helping Carrie Edwards with her wedding has been a nightmare. Carrie is a bridezilla whose tantrums are just about as crazy as her demands. When Carrie is brutally murdered, everyone involved with the ceremony is under suspicion.  

         You can reserve these or any other books by stopping by or calling the reference desk or by using your online library account.]]> http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2010/08/new_books_by_brown_and_cook.html http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2010/08/new_books_by_brown_and_cook.html Reader's Advisory best sellers Linda Howard Robin Cook Sandra Brown Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:59:31 -0500 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. ]]> http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2010/07/best_sellers_available_august.html http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2010/07/best_sellers_available_august.html Reader's Advisory best sellers Faye Kellerman Jude Deveraux Nevada Barr Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:12:30 -0500 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. ]]> http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2010/07/brad_thor_to_appear_in_hunting.html http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2010/07/brad_thor_to_appear_in_hunting.html Reader's Advisory book signing Brad Thor Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:33:05 -0500 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. ]]> http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2010/07/jonathan_tropper_to_have_book.html http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2010/07/jonathan_tropper_to_have_book.html Reader's Advisory book signing Jonathan Tropper Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:20:27 -0500 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. ]]> http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2010/07/new_best_sellers_at_the_end_of.html http://www.whplibrary.org/newandnoteworthy/2010/07/new_best_sellers_at_the_end_of.html Reader's Advisory best sellers Carl Hiaasen J.A. Jance Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:23:57 -0500