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Bestselling author Kristin Hannah will be speaking about and signing her new book, Home Front, at the Book Revue in Huntington on Tuesday, Feb. 14th at 7 p.m.

In Home Front, by Kristin Hannah, Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all: a great marriage, exciting careers, and children they adore. But after twelve years, they are unhappy and edging toward divorce. Then the Iraq war starts. An unexpected deployment will tear their family apart, sending one of them into harm's way and leaving the other at home. When the worst happens, each must face their darkest fear and fight for the future of their family.

All books signed must be purchased at the Book Revue. For more information, call
631-271-1442.

New books from best-selling authors Kristin Hannah and Elizabeth George are now available.

In Home Front, by Kristin Hannah, Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all: a great marriage, exciting careers, and children they adore. But after twelve years, they are unhappy and edging toward divorce. Then the Iraq war starts. An unexpected deployment will tear their family apart, sending one of them into harm's way and leaving the other at home. When the worst happens, each must face their darkest fear and fight for the future of their family.

Believing the Lie, by Elizabeth George, is the 17th book in the Inspector Lynley series. Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man's uncle, the wealthy Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning but when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging reveals the Faircloughs are awash in secrets and motives. Deborah's investigation of the prime suspect - Bernard's son Nicholas, a recovering drug addict - leads her to Nicholas's wife, a woman with whom she feels a kinship. Lynley and Simon search for information on the rest of the family, including the victim's bitter ex-wife and Bernard himself. As the investigation escalates, the Fairclough family's veneer cracks, with deception and self-delusion threatening to destroy everyone.

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Local author Alyson Richman will be speaking at the Syosset Public Library this Friday, Feb. 3, at 2 p.m. She will be discussing her latest book, The Lost Wife, which was chosen as the 2012 Long Island Reads selection.

In The Lost Wife, Lenka, a young art student, and Josef, who is studying medicine, fall in love in prewar Prague. They marry but like so many others, they are torn apart by the war. Now a successful obstetrician in America, Josef has never forgotten the wife he believes died in the war. But Lenka survived, relying on her skills as an artist and the memories of a husband she would never see again. Then, decades later, an unexpected encounter in New York leads to an inescapable glance of recognition, and the realization that providence has given Lenka and Josef one more chance.

For more information, contact the Syosset library at 921-7161.

Bestselling author Jodi Picoult will be at the Book Revue in Huntington on Friday, March 2 at 7 p.m. for a book signing event.

She will be there to sign her new book, Lone Wolf. All books signed at the event must be purchased at the Book Revue.

Tickets are on sale now at the Book Revue. Tickets are $28 for a copy of the book and a seat ticket or $5 just for a seat ticket. The $5 seat tickets can be redeemed for $5 off the price of any of Jodi's books available the night of the event.

Doors will open at 6 p.m. For more information, call 631-271-1442.

New books are now available by best-selling authors Dean Koontz, Robin Cook and Karen Robards.

77 Shadow Street, by Dean Koontz, is centered around the world of the Pendleton, a Gilded Age palace that's been converted into high-end condominiums. Its tenants feel lucky to live there yet its years have been colored by madness, kidnappings, murder, and strange, inexplicable accidents. But all of that is mostly unfamiliar to the people of the Pendelton. To them, their building is a sanctuary until it turns on them. Shadows with no source begin to skitter across the walls, voices whisper in unknown languages, security cameras show impossible feeds, and a little boy starts talking to an imaginary playmate. These are only a prelude to a terror that will fully engulf the tenants of Pendleton.

In Sleepwalker, by Karen Robards, Detroit police detective "Mick" Lange catches professional thief, Jason Davis, in the act of stealing big bucks from a mob boss's safe. He manages to embroil her in a crime so explosive it could cost both of them their lives. Natural adversaries, their only common ground is mutual dislike and distrust - and the fact that the same killers are now hunting them both. Sparks fly and passion flares as they run for their lives.

In Death Benefit, by Robin Cook, Wall Street whizzes turn their attentions from mortgages to the $25 trillion life-insurance industry. By securitizing the policies of the old and sick, they hope to make another financial killing. At the same time, Natalie Savondnik and Ronald Goodall - two medical residents - are working closely with their medical center's premier scientist on cutting-edge diabetes research. When their mentor dies suddenly, they launch an investigation. As they dig deeper, it becomes clear that the scientist's death was not from natural causes. Is it possible someone is manipulating life insurance information to allow investors to benefit from the deaths of others?

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The winners of the National Book Awards were recently announced in New York City. The winners were:

FiCTION: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

NON-FICTION: The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt

POETRY: Head Off and Split by Nikky Finney

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE: Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai

New books are now available by bestselling authors Stuart Woods and W.E.B. Griffin.

D.C. Dead, by Stuart Woods, is the 22nd book in the Stone Barrington series. Stone Barrington is at loose ends and is unsure if he wants to stay in New York and continue his work as a partner at Woodman & Weld. It comes as a welcome surprise when he's summoned to Washington, D.C., by President Will Lee. The president has a special operation that calls for Stone's unique skills and it's a mission that will reunite him with his former partner in crime, Holly Barker.

Covert Warriors, by W.E.B. Griffin, is the 7th book in the Presidential Agent series. There's an unholy alliance building across the Caribbean. Few in the U.S. government want to believe that a Third World country could pose a credible threat but then why are the Chinese helping to train its special forces? Why are the Russians helping to build a nuclear power plant? Charley Castillo and his men go in to investigate, but have no idea what they have just gotten themselves into. By the time they finish, they will be on the hit lists of the Kremlin, the Cubans, the Venezuelans, and the drug cartels - and totally out on their own.

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

New books are available from bestselling authors Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell.

The Drop, by Michael Connelly, is the 17th book in the Harry Bosch series. Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more than ever. In one morning, he gets two. DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab? Then Bosch and his partner are called to a death scene fraught with internal politics. Councilman Irvin Irving's son jumped or was pushed from a window at the Chateau Marmont. Working both cases, Bosch makes two discoveries: a killer operating unknown in the city for as many as three decades, and a political conspiracy that goes back into the dark history of the police department.

Red Mist, by Patricia Cornwell, is the 19th book in the Kate Scarpetta series.
Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate has information not only on Fielding, but also on a string of killings. The murder of an Atlanta family years ago, a young woman on death row, and the inexplicable deaths of homeless people seem unrelated. But Scarpetta discovers connections that compel her to conclude that what she thought ended with Fielding's death and an attempt on her own life is only the beginning of something far more destructive - and she is the only one who can stop it.

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

New bestsellers are now available by Michael Crichton and Janet Evanovich.

In Micro, by the late Michael Crichton and Richard Preston, three men are found dead in the locked office of a Honolulu building, with razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. The only clue left behind is a tiny bladed robot. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, seven graduate students at the forefront of their fields are recruited by a pioneering microbiology start-up. Nanigen MicroTechnologies dispatches the group to a mysterious lab in Hawaii, where they are promised access to tools that will open a whole new scientific frontier. But once in the Oahu rain forest, the scientists are thrust into a hostile wilderness that reveals profound and surprising dangers at every turn. Armed only with their knowledge of the natural world, they find themselves prey to a technology of radical and unbridled power.

Explosive 18, by Janet Evanovich, is the 18th book in the Stephanie Plum series. Before Stephanie can even step foot off Flight 127 from Hawaii to Newark, she's knee deep in trouble. Her dream vacation turned into a nightmare. Her seatmate never returned to the plane after the L.A. layover and now he's dead in a garbage can. His killer could be anyone. The FBI, the fake FBI, and guns-for-hire are all looking for a photograph the dead man was supposed to be carrying. Only one other person has seen the missing photograph - Stephanie Plum. Now she's the target, and she doesn't intend to end up in a garbage can. Over at the Bail Bonds Agency it's business as usual until the bonds bus serving as Vinnie's temporary HQ goes up in smoke, Stephanie's wheelman, Lula, falls in love with their 'largest' FTA yet and everyone wants to know what happened in Hawaii?

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New books are available by bestselling authors Sue Grafton, David Baldacci and James Patterson.

V is for Vengeance, by Sue Grafton, is the 22nd book in the Kinsey Milhone series. It's 1988 in Kinsey Milhone's hometown, Santa Teresa, CA. Kinsey eyes two women shoplifting at Nordstrom. Store security grabs one of the women, Audrey Vance, and Kinsey chases the other. In the store's parking lot, Kinsey is rammed with a black Mercedes. In jail, Vance panics and agrees to cooperate with the law. As soon as she's out on bail, a local mobster tosses her over a bridge, setting up the scene to look like a suicide. The victim's husband, certain Audrey would never have killed herself, entreats Kinsey to find out what happened.

In Zero Day, by David Baldacci, we meet John Puller, a combat veteran and military investigator in the Army's Criminal Investigative Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison. Puller is called out on a case in a remote, rural area in West Virginia coal country. Someone has stumbled onto a brutal crime scene, a family slaughtered. The local homicide detective joins forces with Puller in the investigation. As Puller digs through deception after deception, he realizes that nothing he's seen in this small town, and no one in it, are what they seem. Facing a potential conspiracy that reaches far beyond West Virginia, he is one man on the hunt for justice against an overwhelming force.

Kill Alex Cross, by James Patterson, is the 18th book in the Alex Cross series. The President's son and daughter are abducted, and Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene. But someone very high-up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark. A deadly contagion in the water supply cripples half of the capital, and Alex discovers that someone may be about to unleash the most devastating attack the United States has ever experienced. As time is running out to solve the crimes, Alex makes a desperate decision that goes against everything he believes - one that may alter the fate of the entire country.

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New books are now available by John Grisham and Danielle Steel.

In "The Litigators", by John Grisham, we are introduced to two middle-aged lawyers just getting by. Oscar Finley and Wally Figg qualify as ambulance chasers, specialists in DUIs, shoplifting defendants, and no-fault divorce cases. Then the arrival of burned out fast-track attorney David Zinc to the firm changes everything. Before long, they are taking on a real legal case, one that involves a $25 billion pharmaceutical corporation and a class action suit with infinite possibilities. What Finley and Figg don't realize is that their road to riches will pit them against a legal team not accustomed to losing.

In "Hotel Vendome", by Danielle Steel, Swiss-born Hugues Martin, a young, ambitious hotelier, buys a run-down hotel in Manhattan and transforms it into one of the world's finest luxury hotels. The Hotel Vendôme is soon renowned for its elegance, its efficiency, its unparalleled service and discretion. When his wife runs off with a rock star, Hugues is suddenly a single parent to four-year-old Heloise. As the years pass, Hugues and the hotel are the center of Heloise's life. She longs to follow in her father's footsteps and one day run the Vendôme with him. New challenges mark her way: an unexpected romance for Hugues and her own journey to hotel school in Switzerland. The lessons she has learned at her father's side will carry her through it all.

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New bestselling books by James Patterson, Iris Johansen and Phillipa Gregory are now available.

In The Christmas Wedding, by James Patterson, the biggest celebration this Christmas is Gaby Summerhill's wedding. Since her husband died three years ago, Gaby's four children have drifted apart. They haven't celebrated Christmas together since their father's death, but when Gaby announces that she's getting married--and that the groom will remain a secret until the wedding day--she may finally be able to bring them home for the holidays.

Bonnie, by Iris Johansen, is the conclusion of a triliogy that includes Eve and Quinn. On a class trip to a local park, Eve Duncan's seven-year-old daughter Bonnie vanished. A woman who would stop at nothing to find her own daughter's killer and bring her body home. With the help of Joe Quinn and CIA Agent Catherine Ling, Eve gets closer and closer to answering the questions that have tormented her. But the deeper she digs, the more she realizes that Bonnie's father, John Gallo, is a key player in solving this puzzle. And that Bonnie's disappearance was not as random as everyone had always believed.

The Lady of the Rivers, by Phillipa Gregory, is the third book in the Cousins' War series. It is the story of Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford who lived during the War of the Roses. Married to the Duke of Bedford, English Regent of France, her only friend in the great household is the Duke's squire Richard Woodville, who is at her side when the Duke's death leaves her a wealthy young widow. The two become lovers and marry in secret, returning to England to serve at the court of the young King Henry VI, where Jacquetta becomes a close and loyal friend to his new queen. Jacquetta fights for her King, her Queen, and for her daughter Elizabeth Woodville, a young woman married to a neighbor for whom Jacquetta can sense an extraordinary and unexpected future including the throne of England and the white rose of York.

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

New books are now available by bestselling authors Nicholas Sparks and M.C. Beaton.

The Best of Me, by Nicholas Sparks, is the story of two small-town former high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks. Now middle-aged, they've taken divergent paths, but neither has lived the life they imagined and neither can forget the passionate first love that altered their world. When they are both called back to their hometown for the funeral of a mentor, they will be forced to confront the choices each has made and ask whether love can rewrite the past.

As the Pigs Turns, by M.C. Beaton, is the 22nd book in the Agatha Raisin mystery series. The picturesque Cotwsold village of Winter Parva has decided to warm the winter months by roasting a pig in the town square. Agatha has arrived with her former protegée and business rival, Toni, to enjoy the merriment. But as the spit is placed over a bed of charcoals and the pig is carried toward its final resting place, Agatha realizes the "pig" is Gary Beech, a policeman not exactly beloved by the people of the village. Although Agatha has every intention of leaving matters to the police, everything changes when Gary's ex-wife hires Toni to investigate. With that provocation, what can Agatha do but solve the case herself?

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

New novels are now available from bestselling authors John Sandford and Chris Bohjalian.

Shock Wave, by John Sandford, is the 5th book in the Virgil Flowers series.
The superstore chain PyeMart has its sights set on a Minnesota river town, but two angry groups want to stop it: local merchants and environmentalists. The protests don't seem working so someone decides to take matters into his own hands. The first bomb goes off on the top floor of PyeMart's headquarters. The second one explodes at the construction site. The blasts are meant to inflict maximum damage - and they do. Who's behind the bombs, and how far will they go? It's Virgil Flowers's job to find out before more people get killed.

In Night Strangers, by Chris Bohjalian, Chip and Emily Lipton are attempting to rebuild their lives with their ten-year-old twin daughters after a tragic accident brought Chip's career as a pilot to an end. Chip had to make an emergency landing of a small jet when birds engulfed by the engines caused them to fail. Thirty-nine people lost their lives in this crash, a young girl being one of them. The Liptons decide to move to New Hampshire to a small town called Bethel. Their new home is a beautiful Victorian building with its own greenhouse.The townspeople are welcoming, particularly when they learn the children moving into the home are twins. Apparently this home has a past of it's own, involving a 12-year-old boy, a twin, committing suicide. In addition, they discover something very mysterious in the basement: a old chimney chute sealed shut with 39 6-inch long carriage bolts.

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

Bestselling author Philippa Gregory will read from and discuss two of her books on Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m. at The Landmark on Main Street.

Ms. Gregory, well known for her novel The Other Boleyn Girl, will read from and discuss her new book The Lady of the Rivers which will be published in October 2011. It tells the story of Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford, who lived during the reign of the Plantagenets.

She will also discuss the non-fiction book The Women of the Cousins' War which she co-authored with historians David Baldwin and Michael Jones.

New books are available from bestselling authors Sandra Brown and Stuart Woods.

In Lethal, by Sandra Brown, when her four year old daughter informs her a sick man is in their yard, Honor Gillette rushes out to help him. But the man turns out to be Lee Coburn, a man accused of murdering seven people the night before. Dangerous and armed, he promises Honor that she and her daughter won't be hurt as long as she does everything he asks. Coburn claims that Honor's late husband possessed something extremely valuable that places Honor and her daughter in grave danger. Coburn is there to retrieve it -- at any cost. Coburn and Honor run for their lives from the very people sworn to protect them, and unravel a web of corruption and depravity.

Son of Stone, by Stuart Woods, is the 21st book in the Stone Barrington series. After an eventful trip to Bel-Air and a reunion with his sophisticated former love, Arrington Calder, Stone Barrington is back in New York, and he's looking to stay closer to home and cash in on his partnership at Woodman & Weld. But Arrington has other plans for Stone...including introducing him to the child he fathered many years ago.

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

As of today, Kindle owners can browse, search, and checkout free eBook titles on our library's Nassau Digital Doorway website.

When you check out a Kindle Book, a "Get for Kindle" link will be presented that opens a new window (or tab) at Amazon prompting you to login to your Amazon account. Fulfillment will occur at Amazon's website, so you must have an Amazon account. No purchase or credit card is required to create an Amazon Kindle account; users only need to provide an email address.

Once signed in to your Amazon account, you will select which Kindle device or free Kindle app to deliver the eBook to for reading. Browse, check out, and fulfillment of Kindle eBooks from your library can be completed from web browsers on PC and Mac, iPad, and numerous other tablet devices. As with other titles from our Overdrive digital collection, the eBook will expire at the end of the lending period.

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New books are now available from J.D. Robb and the late Robert B. Parker.

New York to Dallas, by J.D. Robb, is the 33rd book in the In Death series. New York homicide cop Eve Dallas will take on a new case that will take her to the city that gave her her name - and plunge her into the nightmares of her childhood. When Isaac McQueen - a maniac that was taken down by Eve back in her uniform days - escapes from Rikers, he has two things in mind. One is to pick up where he left off, abducting young victims and leaving them scarred in both mind and body. The other is to get revenge on the woman who stopped him all those years ago.

Robert B. Parker's Killing the Blues, is the 10th book in the Jesse Stone series. This series is now by written by Michael Brandman. Paradise, Massachusetts, is preparing for the summer tourist season when a string of car thefts begins. In a sudden escalation of violence, the thefts become murder, and chief of police Jesse Stone finds himself facing one of the toughest cases of his career. Jesse confronts a personal dilemma as well: a burgeoning relationship with a young PR executive. When a mysterious figure from Jesse's past arrives in town, memories of his troubled days as a cop in L.A. threaten his ability to keep order in Paradise.

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

New best sellers by Clive Cussler and Jacqueline Mitchard are now available.

The Race, by Clive Cussler, is the fourth book in the Isaac Bell series. It is 1910 and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first daring aviator to cross America in less than 50 days. He is even sponsoring one of the prime candidates - a woman named Josephine Frost - and that's where Bell, chief investigator for the Van Dorn Detective Agency, comes in. Frost's hot-tempered husband has just killed her lover and tried to kill her. Bell has tangled with Harry Frost before and he knows that Frost won't be only after his wife, but after Whiteway as well. And if Bell takes the case Frost will be after him, too.

In Second Nature, by Jacqueline Mitchard, Sicily Coyne was just 13 when her father was killed in a school fire that left her face disfigured. Twelve years later, a surgeon offers hope in the form of a new surgery that may give Sicily back the grace and function she lost. Sicily rejects the offer: she knows who she is, and so do the people who love her. But when a secret surfaces that shatters Sicily's world, she agrees to the radical procedure in order to begin a new life. Her beauty is restored virtually overnight but Sicily soon discovers that her new face carries with it risks that no one could have imagined. Confronting a moral and medical crisis, Sicily is surrounded by experts and loving family, but the choice that will transform her future is one she must make alone.

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

New books are now available from bestselling authors Jeffrey Archer and James Patterson.

Only Time Will Tell, by Jeffrey Archer, is the first book in the Clifton Chronicles series. The tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1920, with the chilling words, 'I was told that my father was killed in the war'. But it will be another 20 years before Harry discovers how his father really died and who he was. Is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a stevedore who worked in Bristol docks or the first born son of a pillar of West Country society whose family owns a shipping line? The book covers the years from 1920 to 1940 and begins with ravages of the Great War to the outbreak of World War II when Harry must decide whether to take up a place at Oxford or join the navy and go to war with Germany.

Kill Me If you Can, by James Patterson, introduces us to Matthew Bannon, a poor art student living in New York City. Matthew finds a duffel bag filled with diamonds during an attack at Grand Central Station. Plans for a worry-free life with his girlfriend Katherine fill his thoughts until he realizes that he is being hunted. Whoever is after him won't stop until they have reclaimed the diamonds and exacted their revenge. Trailing him is the Ghost, the world's greatest assassin, who just killed Walter Zelvas, a top member of the international Diamond Syndicate. There's only one problem: the diamonds he was supposed to retrieve from Zelvas are missing. Even though the Ghost is on Matthew's trali so is a rival assassin.

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

New bestsellers are now available from Laura Lippman and Kathy Reichs.

In Most Dangerous Game, by Laura Lippman, years ago there were five best friends. But as time passed and circumstances changed, they grew apart, became adults with families of their own, and began to forget about the past--and the terrible lie they all shared. But now Gordon, the youngest and wildest of the five, has died and the others are thrown together for the first time in years. And then the revelations start.
Could their long-ago lie be the reason for their troubles today? Is it more dangerous to admit to what they've done or is it the strain of keeping the secret that is beginning to wear on them and everyone close to them?

Flash and Bones, by Kathy Reichs, is the 14th book in the Temperance Brennan series. A body is found in a barrel of asphalt next to Lowes Motor Speedway near Charlotte, NC. A NASCAR crew member tells Tempe that 12 years earlier his sister, Cyndi Gamble, who wanted to be a professional racecar driver, disappeared along with her boyfriend, Cale Lovette. Lovette kept company with a group of right wing extremists known as the Patriot Posse. Could the body be one of theirs? At the time of their disappearance, the FBI joined the investigation, but the search was quickly terminated. As Tempe considers multiple theories, a surprising substance is found with the body, leaving Tempe to wonder what exactly the government was up to.

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

New bestsellers are now available by W.E.B. Griffin, Julie Garwood and Linwood Barclay.

Victory and Honor, by W.E.B. Griffin, is the sixth book in the Honor Bound series. Just weeks after Hitler's suicide, Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS find themselves up to their necks in battles just as fierce as the ones just ended. The first is political - with every department grabbing for its covert agents and assets. The second is on a much grander scale - the possible next world war, against Joseph Stalin and his ambitions. To get a jump on the latter, Frade conducts a secret operation, one of great daring - and great danger.

In An Ideal Man, by Julie Garwood, Dr. Ellie Sullivan has just completed her residency at a large urban hospital. While jogging in a park, she witnesses the shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit of wanted criminals, a couple identified as the Landrys. Ellie is the only person to see the shooter's face. Agent Max Daniels takes over the Landry case. A no-nonsense lawman, he's not the ideal man that Ellie has always imagined, yet she's attracted to him. When Ellie heads home to Winston Falls, South Carolina, to attend her sister's wedding, Max Daniels arrives to tell her the Landrys have been captured and she'll be called to testify. But they've been captured before, and each time the witnesses are scared into silence - or disappear before they can take the stand.

In The Accident, by Linwood Barclay, Glen Carver is left with a daughter to raise and a head full of questions when his wife dies in a drunk-driving accident - one that she caused. Sheila wasn't a drinker. Sheila wasn't even supposed to be on the road where she died. A conspiracy is forming around Glen, one that involves virtually everyone he knows, and makes him wonder how well he knew the woman he married. If Carver is going to find out what really happened to his wife, he's going to have to seek a truth that could get him killed.

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

New books are available by bestselling authors C.J. Box and Douglas Preston.

In Back of Beyond, by C.J. Box, we meet Cody Hoyt, a brilliant cop who is an alcoholic struggling with sobriety when his AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the wagon, but when Cody takes a closer look at the scene of his friend's death, it becomes apparent that was murder. When clues found at the scene link the murderer to an outfitter leading tourists on a wilderness horseback trip into Yellowstone National Park - a trip that includes his son Justin - Cody is desperate to get on their trail and stop the killer before the group heads into the wild.

Cold Vengeance, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, is the 11th book in the Pendergast series. Devastated by the discovery that his wife, Helen, was murdered, Special Agent Pendergast must have retribution. As he stalks his wife's betrayers - a chase that takes him from Scotland to New York City to Louisiana - he is also forced to dig further into Helen's past. And he is stunned to learn that Helen may have been a collaborator in her own murder. Pendergast realizes that the conspiracy goes back generations and is more monstrous than he could have imagined - and everything he's believed, everything he's trusted, may be a horrific lie.

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

Award winning author, J.K. (Joanne Kathleen) Rowling, was born on July 31, 1965 in England. Before becoming an author, she was a teacher in both Scotland and Portugal. She is now one of the most popular writers of all time. Over 400 million copies of her books have been sold. They have been translated into 64 languages. Today, Harry Potter is a household name.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last book in the series, sold over 8.3 million copies in 24 hours!

Come to the library where we have the books, in both regular print and large type, in both English and Spanish. We have DVDs and CDs of the series, along with biographies of J.K. Rowling.

In the online catalog, type in "harry potter" as a keyword and see what you'll find!

Bestselling author Brad Thor has a new book available.

Full Black is the 10th book in the Scot Harvath series. A former Navy SEAL turned covert counterterrorism operative, Scot Harvath launches a plan to infiltrate a terrorist network to prevent one of the biggest threats the United States has ever faced. At the same time, while working on a secret documentary project, movie producer Larry Salomon has unknowingly exposed one of the world's wealthiest and most politically connected powerbrokers - a man with a radical anti-American agenda. As the plots rocket to their conclusion and the identities of the perpetrators are laid bare, Harvath will be left with only one means to save America.

You can reserve this book or any other titles by stopping by or calling the reference desk or by using your online library account.

Aldous Huxley (Brave New World), George Bernard Shaw (My Fair Lady), Beatrix Potter (The Tale of Peter Rabbit) and Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights) all have birthdays this week. Why not come to the library and read one of the classics written by these famous authors?

The International Thriller Writers recently announced the 2010 Thriller Awards.

Winner of Best Hard Cover Novel - Lisa Gardner for The Neighbor.

Winner of Best Paperback Original - Tom Piccirilli for The Coldest Mile.

Winner of Best First Novel - Jamie Freveletti for Running From the Devil.

New books are now available by Catherine Coulter, Danielle Steel and Eric Lustbader.

"Split Second," by Catherine Coulter, is the 15th book in the FBI series. A female serial killer is on the loose, and it's up to FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock to track her down. There's evidence that the woman, Kirsten Bolger has a connection to the notorious Ted Bundy. At the same time, Special Agent Lucy Carlisle learns from her dying father that her grandfather didn't simply walk away from his family 22 years earlier: he had been murdered by his wife, Lucy's grandmother. Determined to uncover the truth, Lucy moves into her grandmother's Maryland mansion, where she finds a skeleton in a steamer trunk. As the hunt for Bolger escalates, Savich and Sherlock find themselves in her crosshairs. It's up to Lucy to stop this deranged woman and save Savich and Sherlock before it's too late.

In Happy Birthday, by Danielle Steel, Valerie Wyatt is the queen of gracious living and the arbiter of taste and she is turning 60. Valerie's daughter, April, is turning 30 and has no love life and no prospect of that changing in the foreseeable future. Her popular one-of-a-kind restaurant in downtown New York, where she is chef and owner, consumes every ounce of her attention and energy. Twelve years after retiring from the NFL, Jack Adams is the most charismatic sports analyst on TV and has his pick of the desirable women. But after a memorable Halloween party, Jack wakes up on his fiftieth birthday, his back thrown out of whack, feeling every year his age. An act of violence, an out-of-the-blue blessing, and two unlikely love affairs turn lives inside out and upside down.

The Bourne Dominion, by Eric Van Lustbader, is the 9th book in the Bourne series. Jason Bourne is searching for terrorists planning to destroy America's most strategic natural resources. He needs the help of his long-time friend, General Boris Karpov, the head of Russia's spy agency, FSB-2. But in order for Karpov to remain the head of FSB-2, he must hunt down and kill Bourne. Now, these two trusted friends are on a deadly collision course. From the Colombia to Munich, Cadiz, and Damascus, the clock is counting down to a disaster that will cripple America's economic and military future. Only Bourne and Karpov have a chance to avert the catastrophe - but not if they destroy each other first.

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

The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume of the Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien, was published on July 19, 1954. This high fantasy epic is a sequel to The Hobbit. and discribes the adventures of the inhabitants of Middle Earth, a fictional world with fantastical characters. A group of heroes try to save the world from evil.

Come to the library and read the books or take out the movies.

Author: Tina Fey - Title: Bossypants

"Hilarious - I LOVED this book. I think Tina Fey is very talented. Great Autobiography." Review by Darcie Tracey.

Library Journal Reviews: In this big biggie, as the publicist puts it, Fey doesn't give a blow-by-blow account of her life but reflects on the joys (ha, ha) of balancing work, marriage, and motherhood. Watch her agonize drolly over finding the perfect beauty routine and embodying Sarah Palin.

Author: Laurell K. Hamilton - Title: Hit List

"Couldn't put it down. If you're an Anita fan you'll love it!!" Review by Marlene D. Tapley.

Publishers Weekly Reviews: As punchy as her first foray, Anita Blake's 20th adventure (after 2010's Bullet) finds the intrepid vampire hunter far from her familiar St. Louis environs. Someone is slaughtering weretigers just outside of Tacoma. When Anita recognizes the handiwork of the Harlequin, ninja-like paranormal assassins, she suspects they're in the employ of the Mother of All Darkness, the legendary vampire queen who wants to reincarnate herself in Anita's body and take advantage of her mingled vampire and lycanthrope bloodlines. Complicating matters are a marshal who detests Anita for no apparent reason and a psychopathic deputy who wants to kill her. The action occasionally bogs down in the sexual trysts Anita indulges in to stoke her supernatural abilities, but for the most part, Hamilton goes back to basics and delivers a sleek, hard-boiled page-turner.

Author: Stephen King - Title: Under the Dome

"Another great book by King! A town held captive under glass for one week. The strong of mind & heart survive. A hero always comes to the surface - great read!" Review by Denise Criollo.

BookPage Reviews: Small-town life with a King-size twist. Under the Dome opens with a signature Stephen King moment: a woodchuck, foraging for food, hides from a passing human--and is chopped in half as an impenetrable dome appears around the city limits.
As in his epic The Stand, King uses his characters' predicament to address major questions about human nature. The emphasis here is on compassion--or, sparing that, pity. What makes us stop seeing people as people, and why? These deeper themes combined with King's trademark suspense and folksy charm keep the almost 1,100 pages turning and make Under the Dome a novel readers will relish.

(W.Osorno coordinates the Adult Summer Reader Program)

Long Island Talking Book Library (LITBL) is a free library service for individuals who cannot hold, handle or see well enough to use regular print books. LITBL is a subregional library of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), a division of the Library of Congress that produces books and magazines in braille and recorded media for people with visual or physical disabilities.

Downloading is the easiest and quickest way to obtain these National Library Service audio books. Using a blank digital cartridge or USB flash drive, LITBL patrons download books and play them on the digital talking book machine.

In the past, LITBL sent professionally recorded books and magazines as cassettes. Now the service has gone digital with a collection of digital books, which currently number about 25,000, including over 50 magazines. They are available for download via the BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Download) web site: https://nlsbard.loc.gov/.

The older cassette collection and the new digital cartridges can still be delivered by mail, but the new players support standard usb memory devices. Once a borrower has established service with LITBL, they may apply for a BARD account to begin downloading books that can be read from the special player lent to the eligible resident.

For information about talking books and magazines, Long Island residents should contact the Long Island Talking Book Library at the Suffolk Cooperative System.
627 North Sunrise Service Road, PO Box 9000, Bellport, NY 11713-9000; telephone: (631) 286-1600, toll-free: (866) 833-1122 (Nassau/Suffolk).
To find out more about braille materials they will be referred to the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library, 40 West 20 Street, NY, NY, 10011-4211.

The 2011 Christy Awards were recently announced. The awards honor the best in Christian fiction in nine categories.

Young Adult - Motorcycles, Sushi and One Strange Book by Nancy Rue

New best sellers by Iris Johansen and Jennifer Weiner will be available on TUESDAY, JULY 12.

Quinn, by Iris Johansen, is the sequel to her book Eve. Former Navy SEAL turned cop, Joe Quinn, met Eve Duncan a decade ago. He never expected to fall in love with a woman whose torment was matched only by her dual desires to bring her missing daughter, Bonnie, home and reveal the truth of her disappearance. With the help of CIA agent Catherine Ling, they make a shocking discovery that sheds new light on young Bonnie's abduction and puts Quinn in the crosshairs of danger. Eve's first love, John Gallo, a soldier supposedly killed in the line of duty, is very much alive---and very much a threat.

In Then Came You, by Jennifer Weiner, Jules Wildgren is a Princeton senior who plans to take the $10,000 she'll receive from donating her eggs and try to save her father from addiction. Annie Barrow is a working-class mother of two. After watching a TV show about surrogates, she thinks she's found a way to recover a sense of purpose and bring in some extra cash. India Bishop, 38 (really 43), believes she's found her happy ending when she marries a wealthy, older man, Marcus Croft, but decides a baby will seal the deal. When her attempts at pregnancy fail, she turns to Annie and Jules to make her dreams come true. Each woman's plans are thrown into disarray when Marcus suddenly dies and his 23-year-old daughter is named guardian of the unborn child. As the baby's due date draws near, the women discover what makes each a mother in her own right.

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

The Together Book Club is an online reading club for kids and parents, co-sponsored by the New York State Library and the New York Council for the Humanities.

Kids can share their thoughts with other kids from all over New York. Submit your summer reading book review and it will be posted to the Together Book Club blog within a week. You get to see it ONLINE and WIN A FREE BOOK!

Parents, who are encouraged to read and discuss the same books with their children, can increase their quality time as a family, while sharing their love of reading. Read the instructions, and get plenty of booklist suggestions online.

New bestsellers are now available by J.A. Jance, Barbara Delinksky and Tess Gerritsen.

Betrayal of Trust, by J.A. Jance, is the 19th book in the J.P. Beaumont series. At first glance, a video appears to be showing a childish game: a teenage girl smiles for the camera, a blue scarf tied around her neck. All of a sudden things turn murderous, and the girl ends up dead. The video has been discovered on a phone that belongs to the grandson of Washington State's governor. The governor turns to J. P. Beaumont for help. Along with his partner, Mel Soames, Beaumont soon determines that what appears to be a childish prank gone wrong has much deeper implications. But Mel and Beaumont must follow this path to its end, before more young lives are lost.

In Escape, by Barbara Delinsky, Emily Aulenbach is thirty, a lawyer married to a lawyer, working in Manhattan. An idealist, she had once dreamed of representing victims of corporate abuse, but she spends her days talking on the phone with victims of tainted bottled water - and she is on the bottler's side. She doesn't connect the way she used to with her sister, her friends, or her husband, Tim. Acting on impulse, Emily leaves work early one day, goes home, packs her bag, and takes off. She heads north toward a New Hampshire town tucked between mountains. During her college years, she spent a watershed summer here. Painful as it is to return, she knows that if she is to right her life, she has to start here.

The Silent Girl, by Tess Gerritsen, is the ninth book in the Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series. When a severed hand, clutching a gun, is found in a Chinatown alley in Boston, detective Jane Rizzoli climbs to the adjacent roof-top and finds the hand's owner: a red-haired woman whose throat has been slashed. The only clues to her identity are a throwaway cell phone and an address of a long-closed restaurant. Chinatown is a closed neighborhood of long-held secrets - and nowhere is this more obvious than when Jane meets Iris Fang. Strikingly beautiful, Fang is a renowned martial arts master. Yet, despite being skilled in swordplay, neither she nor her daughter, Willow, will admit any knowledge of the rooftop murder. And pathologist Dr. Maura Isles has determined that the murder weapon was a sword crafted of ancient metal from China.

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

New books are now available by bestselling authors James Patterson and Janet Evanovich.

Now You See Her, by James Patterson, introduces us to Nina Bloom, a successful lawyer and loving mother. She would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York -including lying about her past. When an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows she can't let him pay for the real killer's crimes. Nina's secret life began 18 years ago in Key West. When she learned she was pregnant with her first child, her happiness was almost overwhelming but she unearthed a terrible secret that caused her to run for her life and change her identity. Now Nina will risk everything she's earned to return to Florida and confront the murderous evil she fled.

Smokin' Seventeen, by Janet Evanovich, is the 17th book in the Stephanie Plum series. Vincent Plum's bail bonds office has burned to the ground and dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot. No one is sure who the killer is or why the victims have been offed. Stephanie faces further complications when her family and friends decide that it's time for her to choose between her longtime off-again-on-again boyfriend, Trenton cop Joe Morelli, and security expert Ranger. And to add to the mix, there's a former high school football star who's just returned to town.

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

The Romance Writers of America recently announced the winners of their RITA and Golden Heart Awards.

RITA Award for Contemporary Single Title Romance - Simply Irresistible by Jill Shalvis

Summer is here! Need some suggestions on what to read?

Download these Middle School and High School booklists (compiled by the Nassau Library System's Teen and Youth Services) to your smartphone (iPhone, Droid, Blackberry). If it's available as an e-book, you can click on the link and check it out!

Access it on your smartphone by opening your web browser and typing in the address: www.nassaulibrary.org/teenreads

New books are now available from bestselling authors David Baldacci, Jeffrey Deaver and Tom Clancy.

In One Summer, by David Baldacci, Jack Armstrong, a terminally ill family man, is praying to make it to Christmas. Then his wife, Lizzie, is killed in a car accident while on a medicine run. Jack's three children get divided up among aunts and uncles across the country while he is put into hospice. However Jack's health turns around, and he's able to reclaim his children and move them from Ohio to the South Carolina shore where Lizzie grew up. There, he tries to reassemble the family and learn how to be a single parent and become a functional family again.

Carte Blanche, by Jeffery Deaver, is a new James Bond novel. James Bond, in his early thirties and already a veteran of the Afghan War, has been recruited to a new organization. This organization operates independent of MI5, MI6 and the Ministry of Defense. Its aim: to protect the Realm, by any means necessary. A Night Action alert calls James Bond away from dinner with a beautiful woman. Headquarters has decrypted an electronic whisper about an attack scheduled for later in the week: casualties estimated in the thousands, British interests adversely affected. And Agent 007 has been given carte blanche.

Against All Enemies, by Tom Clancy, features ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore. Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA. When he arrives at a rendezvous to take charge of a high-ranking Taliban captive, the meeting takes a horrific turn. Moore discovers that the Taliban has come to terms with a vicious Mexican drug cartel for which they will supply opium. It is up to Moore, and his team, to infiltrate and dismantle the drug cartel, even as they hunt for those who would bring terror and destruction to the streets of America.

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

Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, will be at the Book Revue in Huntington on TUESDAY, June 28 at 7 p.m.

She will be there to sign her new memoir, Finding Sarah. In the book, she shares her feelings on what it is like to feel lost and to find your way back and take back control of your life. Through diary excerpts and personal emails from friends and family, she hopes that others will look closely at their owns lives, follow their instincts and find their own true path.

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

Bestselling author Lisa See will be at the Book Revue in Huntington on SATURDAY, June 25, at 7 p.m.

She will be there to speak about and sign her new book, Dreams of Joy. The book continues the story of sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, and Pearl's strong-willed 19-year-old daughter, Joy. Joy runs away to Shanghai in early 1957 to find her birth father - the artist Z.G. Li, with whom both May and Pearl were once in love. Dazzled by him, and blinded by idealism, Joy throws herself into the New Society of Red China, heedless of the dangers in the communist regime. Terrified for Joy's safety, Pearl is determined to save her daughter. From the crowded cities to remote villages, Pearl confronts almost surmountable challenges as she follows Joy.

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

New books by Clive Cussler, Ann Patchett and Robert Tanenbaum are now available.

The Kingdom, by Clive Cussler, is the third book in the Fargo Adventure series. The husband-and-wife team of Sam and Remi Fargo are used to hunting for treasure, but haven't hunted for people until an investigator friend of theirs goes missing. On a journey that takes them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Italy, and Siberia, the Fargos find themselves embroiled with black-market fossils, an ancient Tibetan kingdom, a lost landmass in the North Sea, Stone Age ostrich egg shards inscribed in a cryptic language and a pair of battles separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years.

In State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett, an enigmatic scientist is developing a drug that could alter the lives of women for ever. Dr Annick Swenson refuses to report on her progress, especially to her investors. Anders Eckman, a lab researcher, is sent to investigate. A letter reporting his untimely death is all that returns. Now Marina Singh, Anders's colleague and a former student of Dr Swenson, is their last hope. Compelled by the pleas of Anders's wife, Marina leaves Minnesota to retrace her friend's steps into the heart of the South American darkness, determined to track down Dr. Swenson and uncover the secrets being guarded among the remotest tribes of the rainforest.

Outrage, by Robert Tanenbaum, is the 23rd book in the Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi series. Felix Acevedo, a shy Bronx teenager, has just confessed to horrific crimes. District attorney Butch Karp must deal with an ambitious young assistant district attorney, seeking career advancement, who has cut corners to indict Acevedo. Now, damned by a coerced confession and a media bent on lynching him, Acevedo sits in jail while a vicious killer stalks the city. Karp's wife, Marlene Ciampi, hits the streets for clues that will save Acevedo. What she discovers puts her on the trail of a drug-addicted psychopath and a disgruntled police detective who is willing to lie, withhold evidence, and kill to be labeled a hero.

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

New books by Steve Martini and Lisa See will be available on Tuesday, MAY 31.

Trader of Secrets, by Steve Martini, is the 12th book in the Paul Madriani series. Defense attorney Paul Madriani is involved in a case that involves an angry killer who will stop at nothing short of vengeance, and two missing NASA scientists who are holding secrets that a hostile government desperately wants to purchase. In addition, Madriani's daughter, Sarah, has evaded the man known as Liquida, who has stalked her all the way across the country. She is being kept under armed guard on a farm in Ohio but one morning, Sarah slips from her ring of protection. What she doesn't know is that her assailant is outside, waiting in the dark. Madriani, his companion Joselyn Cole, and his law partner, Harry Hinds, track Liquida, not knowing that their quest will carry them deep into the vortex of international terror.

Dreams of Joy, by Lisa See, continues the story of sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, and Pearl's strong-willed 19-year-old daughter, Joy. Joy runs away to Shanghai in early 1957 to find her birth father - the artist Z.G. Li, with whom both May and Pearl were once in love. Dazzled by him, and blinded by idealism, Joy throws herself into the New Society of Red China, heedless of the dangers in the communist regime. Terrified for Joy's safety, Pearl is determined to save her daughter. From the crowded cities to remote villages, Pearl confronts almost surmountable challenges as she follows Joy. Yet even as Joy's and Pearl's separate journeys converge, one of the most tragic episodes in China's history threatens their lives.

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

Mystery writer Lawrence Block will appear at the Book Revue in Huntington on FRIDAY, May 20 at 7 p.m. to speak about and sign his new book A Drop of the Hard Stuff.

A Drop of the Hard Stuff is the 17th novel in the Matthew Scudder series. Scudder is finally on the straight and narrow when he runs into "High-Low" Jack Ellery, a childhood friend from the Bronx. In Scudder, Jack sees the moral man he might have become. In Jack, Scudder sees the hard-won sobriety he hopes to achieve. Then Ellery is shot down while attempting to atone for past sins and Scudder is drawn into a murder investigation that threatens to upset his path toward recovery - and get him killed in the process.

Block is a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America and has won multiple Edgar and Shamus awards. For more information, contact the Book Revue at 631-271-1442.

Bestselling authors Dale Brown, Steve Berry and John Sandford have new books available.

In Time for Patriots, by Dale Brown, a SWAT team is ambushed and radioactive materials are stolen by a group called the Knights of the True Republic.
Lt. Gen. Patrick McLanahan and his son, Bradley, are members of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP), the U.S. Air Force auxiliary. They use their military skills in the sky and on the ground to hunt down violent terrorists. But how will Patrick respond when extremists launch a dirty bomb attack in Reno, spreading radiological fallout for miles? And when Bradley is caught in a deadly double-cross that jeopardizes the CAP, Patrick will have to fight to find out where his friends' loyalties lie.

The Jefferson Key, by Steve Berry, is the 7th book in the Cotton Malone series. Malone has been called on to defend his country's safety in many exotic locations around the world but never has the danger been so close to home. In this book, he must battle an extraordinary group of families whose unseen influence dates back to the pages of the U.S. Constitution and whose thirst for power is about to be satisfied by the craking of a code devised by Thomas Jefferson himself.

Buried Prey, by John Sandford, is the 21st book in the Lucas Davenport series. A house demolition provides an unpleasant surprise for Minneapolis - the bodies of two girls, wrapped in plastic. It looks like they've been there a long time. Lucas Davenport knows exactly how long. In 1985, when Davenport was a young cop, the girls' disappearance was a big deal. His bosses ultimately declared the case closed, but he never agreed with that. Now that he has a chance to investigate it all over again, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: It wasn't just the bodies that were buried. It was the truth.

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

Bestselling authors Robert B. Parker, James Patterson and Richard North Patterson have new books available.

Sixkill, by the late Robert B. Parker, is the last book in the Spencer series. On location in Boston, bad-boy actor Jumbo Nelson is accused of the rape and murder of a young woman. The Boston PD call on Spenser to investigate. Jumbo was his studio's biggest star, but he's become their biggest liability. In the course of the investigation, Spenser encounters Jumbo's bodyguard: a young Native American named Zebulon Sixkill. Sixkill acts tough, but Spenser sees something more in the young man. The two forge an unlikely alliance, with Spenser serving as mentor for Sixkill. As secrets about both Jumbo and the dead girl come to light, it's Spenser- with Sixkill at his side - who must put things right.

10th Anniversary, by James Patterson, is the 10th book in the Women's Murder Club series. Detective Lindsay Boxer's wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her life. A woman has been accused of murdering her husband in front of her two young children. Yuki's career rests on a guilty verdict, so when Lindsay finds evidence that could save the defendant, she is forced to choose. Should she trust her best friend or follow her instinct?

In The Devil's Light, by Richard North Patterson, an AL Qeda operative named Amer Al Zaroor directs the theft of a nuclear weapon from the Pakistani military, and then transports it toward Israel. Deep inside Washington, Brooke Chandler, a CIA operative whose cover was blown by an incompetent colleague in Lebanon, thinks he knows how the bomb is being moved toward its target and how to find it. First he must overcome the skepticism of the CIA and the White House, and then he must find the bomb and disable it before it causes the Middle East to go up in flames.

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

The winners of the 2010 Agatha Awards were recently announced at the Malice Domestic convention in Bethsda, MD. The awards honor the "traditional mystery" style.

Winner of BEST NOVEL: Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny

Winner of BEST FIRST NOVEL: The Long Quiche Goodbye by Avery Aames

Winner of the BEST NON-FICTION: Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks by John Curran

Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners for the 2011 Edgar Allan Poe Awards. Here are some of the winners announced last night at the banquet in New York City.

BEST NOVEL- The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR - Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL - Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard

MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD - The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths

New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan will be at the Book Revue in Huntington on Wednesday, May 4 at 7 p.m. to sign his new book Play LIke You Mean it.

In this memoir, Ryan writes about observations and experiences in his career in pro football. He discusses his time as defensive coach of the Baltimore Ravens and his experiences as the head coach of the Jets.

This is a book signing only. Please do not bring memorabilia and there will be no personalizations. For more information, contact the Book Revue at 631-271-1442.

Legendary actor Dick Van Dyke will be at the Book Revue in Huntington on TUESDAY, May 3 from 7-9 p.m. to sign his new book My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business.

In his memoir, Van Dyke recalls working on The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Poppins, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang among others. He is the receipient of numerous awards including a Tony, a Grammy and four Emmys.

For more information about the book signing, contact the Book Revue at 631-271-1442.

New bestsellers are available this week by Stuart Woods and Debbie Macomber.

Bel Air Dead, by Stuart Woods, is the 20th book in the Stone Barrington series. Barrington receives an unexpected call from Arrington Calder, the ex-girlfriend with whom he has a son. Arrington's much older husband, the actor Vance Calder, has just died, leaving her a fortune in Centurion Studios stock. Arrington has plans for the money and asks Stone to represent her in the sale of the company. But when he arrives at her home in Bel-Air to finalize the deal, things take a nasty turn. It seems many of Hollywood's rich and beautiful have Arrington and Centurion in their sights, and Stone finds himself dragged into a deadly web of intrigue.

A Turn in the Road, by Debbie Macomber, is the 8th book in the Blossom Street series. Bethanne Hamlin takes a road trip with her daughter, Annie, and her former mother-in-law, Ruth. They're driving to Florida for Ruth's 50th high-school reunion. A longtime widow, Ruth would like to reconnect with Royce, the love of her teenage life. Bethanne herself needs time to reflect. Her ex-husband, Grant wants to reconcile now that his second marriage has failed. Meanwhile, Annie's out to prove to her ex-boyfriend that she can live a great life without him! But even the best-planned journey can take you to a turn in the road. Or lead you to an unexpected encounter.

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

Come join us for a mystery book discussion on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson on Wednesday, MAY 4 at 1 p.m. in the board room.

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off an island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle, Henrik, is convinced that she was murdered by someone in her own family. Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomqvist is hired to investigate, but when he links Harriet's disappearance to a string of murders from 40 years ago, he realizes that he needs a competent assistant. He hires computer hacker Lisbeth Salander - a tattoed, truculent, angry girl who rides a motorbike. This unlikely pair form a fragile bond as they delve into the sinister past of this tightly-knit family.

To sign up for the book discussion stop by or call the reference desk.

Check out some new books this month by David Baldacci, Iris Johansen and Amanda Quick.

The Sixth Man, by David Baldacci, is the fifth book in his Sean King and Michelle Maxwell series. Edgar Roy, an alleged serial killer held in a secure Federal Supermax facility, is awaiting trial. King and Maxwell are called in by Roy's attorney, an old friend of Sean's, to help work the case. But en route to their first meeting with Roy's attorney, Sean and Michelle find him murdered. The more they dig into Roy's past, the more they encounter obstacles, half-truths, dead-ends, and escalating threats from every direction.

Eve, Iris Johansen's 11th Eve Duncan novel, is also the first of a trilogy. Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan zeros in on the kidnapper and serial killer who years earlier abducted and murdered her seven-year-old daughter, Bonnie. Eve's obsession with the case draws in her good friend, CIA agent Catherine Ling, as well as her lover, police detective Joe Quinn. Ling and Quinn work together to call in favors and pursue every possible lead. Their joint efforts uncover a cadre of malefactors who may be deeply involved, notably the emotionally unstable John Gallo, Eve's former lover and Bonnie's father. The finale set in the Wisconsin woods leads to an emotional cliffhanger.

Quicksilver, by Amanda Quick, is the second book in the Looking Glass Trilogy. Virginia Dean wakes up beside a dead body, with a bloody knife in her hand and no memory of the evening's events. Dark energy, emanating from the mirrors lining the room, overpower her. She is rescued by a man she has met only once before, Owen Sweetwater. Sweetwater has inherited his family's talent for hunting psychical monsters. The members of the Arcane Society consider Virginia a charlatan, even a criminal, but Owen knows better. Virginia's powers are real and might be the key to solving this challenging case.

You can place requests for these or any other books by stopping by or calling the library or by using your online library account.

Author Cathleen Schine will speak at the Port Washington Library on Friday from 3-4:30 p.m.

Schine is the author of "The Three Weissmans of Westport." In the novel, Betty Weissman is dumped by her husband of nearly fifty years and then exiled from their elegant New York apartment by his mistress. She is forced to move to a run-down Westport, Connecticut, beach cottage. Joining her are her daughters Miranda and Annie, who come along to keep an eye on their mother. As Miranda and Annie mingle with the suburban aristocracy, love starts to blossom for both of them.

For more information, contact the library at 883-4400.

New books are now available by bestselling authors Nora Roberts, Lisa Scottoline and Luanne Rice.

"Chasing Fire," by Nora Roberts, celebrates the smoke jumpers of Missoula, Montana. As close knit as any military unit, the "Zulies" include veteran Rowan Tripp, haunted by the loss of Jim Brayner, her onetime jump partner who was killed the previous season in a fall, and rookie Gulliver Curry. Threatening trouble is Dolly Brakeman, Jim's girlfriend, who blames Rowan for his death. Rowan and Gull grow closer as the team battles fires from Montana and Idaho to California and Alaska. Meanwhile, the Zulies are plagued by vandalism and sabotage as well as a killer with arson among his crimes.

In "Save Me," by Lisa Scottoline, Rose McKenna is forced to make a split-second decision after an explosion goes off in the school cafeteria in which she volunteers. Should she rescue her own daughter, Melly, trapped in the bathroom, or lead the girls standing in front of her, who constantly bully her daughter, to safety? Her choice reverberates throughout her hometown, as she is cast as the villain by the local news station, parents, and the school. While her attorney constructs a defense plan that includes filing a lawsuit against the school, Rose sets out to seek the truth behind the mysterious fire. She slowly unravels the truth and along with it some hidden secrets in the town's past, including one buried memory of her own.

In The Silver Boat, by Luanne Rice, Dar McCarthy, and her two sisters Delia and Rory, meet on Martha's Vineyard for a final visit to the family home before it is sold for taxes. The house has been in the family for generations, and as the sisters pack up mementos, they discuss the disappearance of their father when they were young. Michael was an Irish immigrant shipbuilder, while their mother came from a prestigious New England family. Michael always maintained that his family had a land grant from the king of England on Martha's Vineyard. Driven by the need to prove his worth, he sailed to Ireland to look for the original deed. After finding love letters between their parents, the sisters go to Ireland on their own quest.

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

New bestsellers are now available by Mary Higgins Clark, Michael Connelly and Danielle Steel.

In I'll Walk Alone by Mary Higgins Clark, Alexandra Moreland is a rising star in the architectural world and lives in Manhattan. But when she is plagued by identity theft, her life is turned upside down. Someone has gained access to her bank accounts, credit cards, personal background, and is now impersonating her. Then, with overwhelming circumstantial evidence stacked against her, Alexandra is arrested for the murder of a woman she claims she's never met.

The Fifth Witness, by Michael Connelly, is the fourth book in the Mickey Haller series. Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. Mickey and his team work to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealings of his own, Haller is assaulted - and he's certain he's on the right trail.

In 44 Charles Street, by Danielle Steel, struggling art gallery owner Francesca Thayer decides to put out an advertisement for boarders and soon her Greenwich Village house becomes a whole new world. First comes Eileen, a pretty L.A. transplant, now a New York City teacher. Then there's Chris, a young father struggling for custody of his seven-year-old son. The final tenant is Marya, a cookbook author hoping to heal after the death of her husband. Over the course of an unforgettable year, the house at 44 Charles Street fills with laughter, heartbreak, and hope.

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

New bestsellers are now available by Jonathan Kellerman, Henning Mankell and Jean Auel.

Mystery, by Jonathan Kellerman, is the 26th book in the Alex Delaware series. When Lt. Milo Sturgis of LAPD homicide asks psychologist Alex Delaware to view the faceless corpse of a young woman, Alex is shocked to recognize the victim as someone he and his wife saw the night before in a restaurant bar. A link turns out to exist between the dead woman and a sinister-looking man Alex observed outside the bar that night. An anonymous tip leads to an online service that matches "sugar daddies" with "sweeties." The victim, who called herself "Mystery," had a "daddy," Markham McReynolds, whose wealthy family offers plenty of suspects, including McReynolds's wife, two sons, and two daughters-in-law.

The Troubled Man, by Henning Mankell, is the 11th book in the Kurt Wallander series. At the 75th birthday party for Håkan von Enke, von Enke, a retired Swedish naval commander, tells Wallander about a 1980 incident involving an unidentified submarine that "invaded Swedish territorial waters." Von Enke was about to fire depth charges to bring the sub to the surface when higher-ups ordered him to abort. A few days after von Enke confides in the detective, he disappears; shortly after, his wife goes missing as well. Wallander's digging into the commander's life leads to what appears to be a cold war scandal that could rock the current government.

The Land of Painted Caves, by Jean Auel, is the sixth novel in the Earth Children series. Cro-Magnon Ayla; her mate, Jondalar and their infant daughter, Jonayla, are settling in with the clan of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonaii. Ayla is an acolyte in training to become a full-fledged Zelandoni (shaman) of the clan. During the course of the story, there are wild animals to face and earthquakes to survive, as well as a hunter named Balderan, who has targeted Ayla for death, and a potential cave-wrecker named Marona.

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

The following are some of the latest titles added to the West Hempstead Public Library large print collection.

The Secret Soldier - Alex Berenson
The Sentry - Robert Crais
The Scent of Jasmine - Jude Deveraux
The Lake of Dreams - Kim Edwards
The Outlaws - W.E.B. Griffin
Fadeaway Girl - Martha Grimes
The Judas Gate - Jack Higgins
The Red Garden - Alice Hoffman
Great House - Nicole Kraus
In Too Deep - Jayne Ann Krentz
Damage - John Lescroart
The Inner Circle - Brad Meltzer
The Distant Hours - Kate Morton
Heartwood - Belva Plain
Gideon's Sword - Douglas Preston
Clara and Mr. Tiffany - Susan Vreeland
Strategic Moves - Stuart Woods

The West Hempstead Public Library will have a mystery book discussion on Wednesday, MAY 4 at 1 p.m. We will be discussing the first book in the Stieg Larsson triliogy, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle, Henrik, is convinced that she was murdered by someone in her own family. Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomqvist is hired to investigate, but he needs to find a competent assistant. He pairs up with computer hacker Lisbeth Salander - a tattoed, angry girl who rides a motorbike and uses makeshift weapons. Together they delve into the sinister past of this tightly-knit family. But the Vangers are a secretive lot, and Mikael and Lisbeth are about to find out just how far they're prepared to go to protect themselves.

To sign up for the book discussion, stop by or call the reference desk at 481-6591 ext. 22.

The Titanic has always fascinated staff member, Rosemary Sena, who assembled our collection of books on the subject, currently on display in the library.

"I love cruising, and this must have been the most luxurious, sophisticated cruise line of her time. Everything new, pristine, fresh, with lots of anticipation and excitement!"

What do you love and want to know more about? Come to the library where almost anything can be explored! Whatever You Geek, The Public Library Supports It All.

As part of the Long Island Reads program, author Colson Whitehead will talk about and sign his book, Sag Harbor, on Thursday, April 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the Plainview-Old Bethpage Library.

Sag Harbor was chosen this year as the Long Island Reads selection. The book is set in the 1980s and Benji Cooper, son of a lawyer and a doctor, is one of the few black students at an elite prep school in New York City. Every summer, he, his brother Reggie and friends head east on the LIE and out to Azurest in Sag Harbor. Benji's observations and social commentary are uplifting and humorous.

Seating is first-come, first served. For more information, contact the Plainview-Old Bethpage Library at 938-0077.

Bestselling author Linda Fairstein will appear at the Great Neck Public Library on Monday, APRIL 11 at 7:30 p.m.

She will be discussing and signing her new book, Silent Mercy. This is the 13th book in the Alex Cooper series. Prosecutor Alexandra Cooper is called to Harlem's Mount Neboh Baptist Church because the body of a young woman has been decapitated, set on fire, and left burning on the church steps. Days later a second corpse is found at a cathedral in Little Italy. Convinced that another young woman is bound to die, Alex mines the depths of Manhattan's houses of worship to find a connection between the victims and in the process uncovers a terrible truth that takes her far beyond the scope of her investigation.

For more information, contact the library at 466-8055.

Bestselling authors James Grippando, Harlan Coben, Kristin Hannah and Alexander McCall-Smith all have new books available.

Afraid of the Dark, by James Grippando, is the ninth book featuring Jack Swyteck, a Miami defense attorney. Jack is acting as a pro-bono lawyer for a young man accused of being a terrorist. He is shocked to learn that the man is also the prime suspect in the murder of a girl and a subsequent house explosion that robbed a police officer of his sight. But the murder of which Jack's client is accused is only the first of many, and Jack, perhaps the only person who thinks his client might actually be innocent, has to decide if he wants to risk his own life to save his client's.

Live Wire, by Harlan Coben, is the tenth book in the Myron Bolitar series. When former tennis star Suzze T and her rock star husband, Lex, encounter an anonymous Facebook post questioning the paternity of their unborn child, Lex runs off, and Suzze asks Myron to save her marriage. But when he finds Lex, he also finds someone he wasn't looking for - his sister-in-law, Kitty, who along with Myron's brother abandoned the Bolitar family long ago. As Myron races to locate his missing brother while their father clings to life, he must face the lies that led to the estrangement.

In Night Road, by Kristin Hannah, we meet Jude Farraday, a happily married, stay-at-home mom. Her twins, Mia and Zach, are bright, happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill enters their lives, no one is more supportive than Jude. A former foster child with a dark past, Lexi quickly becomes Mia's best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable. However, one night, In the blink of an eye, the Farraday family will be torn apart and Lexi will lose everything. In the years that follow, each must face the consequences of that one night and find a way to forget or the courage to forgive.

The Saturday Night Big Tent Wedding Party, by Alexander McCall-Smith, is the 12th book in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series. Precious Ramotswe is haunted by a dream in which she is driving her dear old white van. Grace Makutsi dreams that her 97 percent on the Botswana Secretarial College exam was a mistake. When Mma Ramotswe discovers that her van is actually still in use, she sets out to retrieve it. In the meantime, one of Phuti Radiphuti's apprentices has gotten a girl pregnant and, under pressure to marry her, has run away. Naturally, it is up to Precious and Grace to help the couple work things out. And in other developments, Mma Ramotswe investigates a case of rural jealousy in which cattle are being poisoned.

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

To celebrate St. Patricks' Day, try a book by one of these popular Irish authors.

MAEVE BINCHY lives in Dublin and has written 16 novels about Ireland. Her latest book is Minding Frankie.

CECELIA AHERN was born in Dublin and has written 7 novels set in Ireland. Her latest book is The Book of Tomorrow.

MARIAN KEYES lives in Dublin and has written 6 novels set in Ireland. Her latest book is The Brightest Star in the Sky.

CATHY KELLY was born in Belfast and has written 12 novels set in Ireland. Her latest book is Once in a Lifetime.

PATRICK TAYLOR was born in Bangor and has written 5 novels in his Irish Country series. His latest book is Irish Country Courtship.

James Patterson's new book, Toys, will be available on Monday, March 14.

Hays Baker and his wife Lizbeth possess super-human strength, exceptional intelligence, stunning looks and two beautiful children. They're Elites - endowed at birth with the most advanced genetic enhancements available. The only problem in their perfect world are the humans and their toys. The top operative for the Agency of Change, Hays has been praised by the President and is a national hero. Suddenly, he receives a shock that overturns everything he thought was true and he is forced to leave his family and fight for his life. Now a hunted fugitive, Hays is thrown into a life he never dreamed possible, fighting to save humans from extinction.

You can reserve this book or any others by stopping by or calling the reference desk or by using your online library account.

In celebration of St. Patrick Day, why don't you check out some of these popular Irish mystery writers?

KEN BRUEN is known for his series featuring Jack Taylor, an ex-cop living in Galway.

TANA FRENCH has written three suspense novels set in Dublin.

DECLAN HUGHES is known for his series featuring private investigator Ed Loy, who moves back to Dublin after living in Los Angeles.

BRIAN McGILLOWAY is known for his series featuring Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin, who works in Donegal.

IAN SANSOM has written a mystery series featuring librarian Israel Armstrong, a book mobile driver who travels along the coast of Northern Ireland.

New books by Clive Cussler and Linda Fairstein are now available.

The Jungle, by Cussler, is the eighth book in the Oregon Files series. In this latest installment, Juan Cabrillo and his crew participate in a daring rescue in the mountains along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border, hunt for a woman gone missing in the jungles of northern Thailand and deal with a devastating new weapon unleashed in 13th century China. All of these events will come together leading to the greatest threat against U.S. security that the world has ever known.

Silent Mercy, by Fairstein, is the 13th book in the Alex Cooper series. Prosecutor Alexandra Cooper is called to Harlem's Mount Neboh Baptist Church because the body of a young woman has been decapitated, set on fire, and left burning on the church steps. Days later a second corpse is found at a cathedral in Little Italy. Convinced that another young woman is bound to die, Alex mines the depths of Manhattan's houses of worship to find a connection between the victims and in the process uncovers a terrible truth that takes her far beyond the scope of her investigation.

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

New books by Jodi Picoult and Maeve Binchy are now available.

In Minding Frankie, by Binchy, Noel learns that his former flame is terminally ill and pregnant with a child she claims is his. He agrees to take care of the baby once she's born. But he can't do it alone. Luckily, he has a network of family and friends who are ready to help including love-starved Lisa, his American cousin Emily and many other eager babysitters from the neighborhood. The unconventional arrangement works out beautifully until a social worker becomes convinced that Frankie would be better off in a foster home. Now everyone in town must persuade her that each of them has something special to offer when it comes to minding Frankie.

In Sing You Home by Picoult, we meet Zoe Baxter. Music has set the tone for most of her life. In the aftermath of a series of personal tragedies, Zoe throws herself into her career as a music therapist. When an unexpected friendship blossoms into love, she makes plans for a new life, but to her shock some people - even those she loves and trusts most - don't want that to happen.

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

Bestselling author Linda Fairstein will appear at the Book Revue in Huntington on Friday, MARCH 11 at 7 p.m.

She will sign and speak about ther new book Silent Mercy. It's her 13th book in the Alex Cooper series. Prosecutor Alexandra Cooper is called to Harlem's Mount Neboh Baptist Church because the body of a young woman has been decapitated, set on fire, and left burning on the church steps. Days later a second corpse is found at a cathedral in Little Italy. Convinced that another young woman is bound to die, Alex mines the depths of Manhattan's houses of worship to find a connection between the victims and in the process uncovers a terrible truth that takes her far beyond the scope of her investigation.

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

Several new books by best-selling authors will be available on Tuesday, February 22.

Treachery in Death, by J.D. Robb, is the 40th book in the In Death series. Detective Eve Dallas and her partner, Peabody, are following up on the murder of an elderly grocery owner killed by three stoned punks. But Peabody soon stumbles upon a trickier situation. After a workout, she's alone in the locker room when the gym door opens and - while hiding inside a shower stall - she overhears two fellow officers arguing. It doesn't take long to realize they're guilty, not just of corruption, but of murder. Now Peabody, Eve, and Eve's husband, Roarke, are trying to get the hard evidence they need to bring the dirty cops down.

In Now You See Her, by Joy Fielding, Marcy Taggart goes to Ireland after divorcing her husband of 25 years. Years earlier, her daughter, Devon, disappeared in the icy waters of Georgian Bay after a canoeing accident, her body never recovered. But on a day trip to Cork, Marcy is certain she spots Devon walking down the street. When her daughter disappears into a crowd, Marcy begins a desperate search to find her - and to uncover the disturbing truth.

Night Vision, by Randy Wayne White, is the 18th book in the Doc Ford series.
In a trailer park known as Little Guadalajara, inhabited principally by illegal laborers, the park manager is the hired gun of a financial syndicate that wants to develop the property. He's prepared to do whatever it takes but he can't figure out what to do about the teenage girl, the one the laborers believe has some sort of gift. When she witnesses him killing a man, though, and runs, he's got to find her and shut her up for good. Her only hope is a marine biologist named Doc Ford who must undertake a search through an underground nation and hopes he can reach her first.

Gideon's Sword, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, introduces Gideon Crew. At 12, Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, accused of treason and gunned down. At 24, summoned to his dying mother's bedside, Gideon learned that his father was framed and deliberately killed. His mother begged him to avenge his father's death. Now, with a new purpose in life, Crew crafts a mission of vengeance, aimed at those who brought about his father's destruction. But from the shadows, someone is watching. A powerful someone who is impressed by Gideon's special skills. Someone who needs just such a renegade.

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

The lastest book by Michael Palmer, A Hearbeat Away, will be available on TUESDAY, February 15.

President Max Hilliard has been forced to quarantine everyone in the Capitol building. A terrorist group called "Genesis' has unleashed a deadly, highly contagious virus, into the building. No one knows the deadly effect of the germ except for the team responsible for its development - a team headed by the President, himself. The one person who might be able to help is virologist Griffin Rhodes, currently in solitary confinement in a maximum security federal prison for alleged terrorist acts. Rhodes has no idea why he has been arrested, but when Hilliard offers to free him in exchange for his help, he reluctantly agrees to do what he can to help save the government.

You can reserve this book or any other item by stopping by or calling the reference desk or by using your online library account.

New books by Alex Berenson and Belva Plain will available on Tuesday, February 8.

The Secret Soldier, by Berenson, is the fifth book in the John Wells series. Wells may have left the CIA but it hasn't left him. A mysterious call brings a surprise meeting with the monarch of Saudi Arabia. The monarch's brother is plotting against him in order to get his son on the throne. Reluctantly, and with the secret blessing of the CIA, Wells goes undercover; but the more he learns, the more complicated things become.

In Heartwood, by Plain, we meet Iris Stern, a woman with a successful academic career and a happy marriage. However as one of her daughters tries to save her troubled marriage, Iris herself must deal with the discovery of a long-held family secret. And she will find that neither her beloved husband, nor the solidity of her own marriage, is immune to the ravages of time.

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

On March 9, the West Hempstead Public Library is holding a Book Chat, to participate in this year's Long Island Reads! Every year, a group of librarians from Nassau and Suffolk Counties pick one book for all of Long Island to read and discuss. Events and discussion take place at public libraries around the Island and the author speaks and signs books in April.

This year's choice is Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead.
Synopsis: It's the 1980s and Benji Cooper, son of a lawyer and a doctor, is one of the few black students at an elite prep school in New York City. Every summer, he, his brother Reggie and his friends head east on the LIE and 'out' to Azurest in Sag Harbor. Benji's observations and social commentary are uplifting and humorous and give the reader a wonderful sense of time and place.

Colson Whitehead will speak to us about his book on Thursday, April 14! He will be in Suffolk County at the Rogers Memorial Library at 3 pm and in Nassau County at the Plainview-Old Bethpage Public Library at 7:30 pm.

Call 481-6591 to register for our Book Chat which takes place on Wednesday March 9 at 1 PM. The books are available at the Circulation Desk. You may also download audio and eBook copies from the Nassau Digital Doorway (as a 7 day download)

New bestsellers by Martha Grimes and David Ellis will be available on Thursday, February 3.

Fadeaway Girl, by Grimes, is the fourth book in the Emma Graham series. Emma continues her investigation into the disappearance of the four- month-old Slade baby from the Belle Ruin Hotel more than 20 years before. The sudden appearance in town of the baby's father, Morris Slade, makes her even more determined to learn the truth. Then a mysterious drifter named Ralph Diggs appears at the Hotel Paradise, looking for work, ingratiating himself with everyone there. Everyone except Emma.

Breach of Trust, by Ellis, is the second book in the Jason Kolarich series. Jason has spent the last year struggling to recover from the deaths of his wife and baby daughter. On the night of their deaths, Kolarich was at the office, awaiting a call from a informant named Ernesto Ramirez. Kolarich blames himself not only for the deaths of his wife and child, but for the informant's murder as well. He sets out to find the murderer of Ramirez and bring the killer to justice. In doing so he lands right in the middle of an FBI probe of the corrupt governor of Illinois. To avoid jail, Kolarich must enter a world of wiretaps and kickbacks and soon discovers that the murder of his informant was only the tip of the iceberg.

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

New books by J.A. Jance and Dana Stabenow will be available on TUESDAY, Feb. 1.

Fatal Error, by Jance, is the sixth book in the Allison Reynolds series. Allison is furloughed by the Yavapai County Sheriff's Department because of budget cuts. So when Brenda Riley, a former TV journalist, asks for help in finding her online fiancé, Allison is interested. A background check reveals Brenda's fiancé is Richard Lowensdale, an engineer laid off by failing defense contractor Rutherford International. Richard has a history of cyberstalking vulnerable women. When he is murdered, Brenda disappears. Allison's search for Brenda puts her in pursuit of a coldblooded killer and in the midst of an FBI investigation involving Rutherford's unethical dealings.

Though Not Dead, by Stabenow, is the 18th book in the Kate Shugak series. Kate is stunned by the death of Old Sam, her 87-year-old uncle. In his will, he leaves almost everything to Kate, including a homestead deep in gold mining country and a letter that reads "Find my father." Sam's father was an outsider who disappeared shortly after learning about Sam's existence and took with him a priceless tribal artifact. During the first three days of Kate's search, she gets shot at, hit in the head, and run off the road in deep snow and left for dead. Kate does her best to fulfill Sam's last wish - as various people follow her every move.

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

The latest book by James Patterson, Tick Tock, is now available. It is the fourth book in the Michael Bennett series.

A bomb set in one of New York's busiest places is discovered before it explodes. But the police realize it is just a warning of more devastation to come. Detective Michael Bennett is pulled away from his vacation to help deal with the case. Bennett enlists the help of a former colleague, FBI Agent Beth Peters. Soon another crime will lead Bennett to a discovery that exposes the killer's pattern and the enormity of his plan.

The following books have recently been added to the library's large print collection:

Burn - Nevada Barr
Playing the Game - Barbara Taylor Bradford
Dead or Alive - Tom Clancy
To Have and To Kill - Mary Jane Clark
Port Mortuary - Patricia Cornwell
Crescent Dawn - Clive Cussler
The Confession - John Grisham
The Capitol Game - Brian Haig
What the Night Knows - Dean Koontz
The Postcard Killers - James Patterson
Tick Tock - James Patterson
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson
Betrayed - Robert Tanenbaum
Here We Go Again - Betty White

CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien will appear at the Book Revue in Huntington on Saturday, January 29 at 7 p.m. to speak about and sign her memoir, The Next Big Story.

In her book she covers her early years in journalism as well as her current position with CNN. In her career she has reported on many major events including Hurricane Katrina, the earthquake in Haiti and President Obama's inaugration.

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

The Mystery Writers of America announced today the nominees for the 2011 Edgar Allan Poe Awards. The awards will be presented on April 28, 2011 at the annual awards banquet.

The nominees for Best Novel are: Caught by Harlan Coben; Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin; Faithful Place by Tana French; The Queen of Patpong by Timothy Hallinan; The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton and I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman.

The nominees for Best First Novel by an American Author are: Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva; The Poacher's Son by Paul Dooron; The Serialist: A Novel by David Gordon; Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto and Snow Angels by James Thompson.

The nominees for Best Paperback Original are: Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard; The News Where You Are by Catherine O'Flynn; Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski; Vienna Secrets by Frank Tallis and Ten Little Herrings by L.C. Tyler.

For more information about all the nominees, go to www.mysterywriters.org.

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Bestselling author Jodi Picoult will appear at the Huntington High School on Friday, March 4, at 7 p.m. to speak about and sign her new book, Sing You Home.

This is a ticketed event. Tickets go on sale Tuesday, January 18 at the Book Revue in Huntington. Tickets are $28 plus tax which includes a copy of the book the night of the event or $5 which is a seating ticket only. The cost of the seating ticket may be used towards the purchase of any Jodi Picoult book the night of the event.

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

New books by Stuart Woods and Laura Lippman will be available on TUESDAY, JANUARY 18.

Strategic Moves, by Stuart Woods, is the 19th book in the Stone Barrington series. Barrington's client Herbie Fisher has married the daughter of a financier who might be guilty of embezzlement. Stone gets involved with Herbie's wife's aunt, but their relationship is cut short when she's murdered in her apartment. Before Stone can delve into the murder investigation, another client wants him to oversee a joint mission with the CIA to retrieve arms dealer Pablo Estancia, who stages a dramatic escape and then turns up in Stone's office requesting his legal counsel.

"Girl in the Green Raincoat," by Laura Lippman, is the 11th book in the Tess Monaghan series. In the third trimester of her pregnancy, Baltimore private investigator Tess Monaghan is under doctor's orders to remain immobile. Reduced to watching the world go by outside her window, she takes comfort in the mundane events she observes like the young woman in a green raincoat who walks her dog at the same time every day. Then one day the dog is running free and its owner is nowhere to be seen. Certain that something is terribly wrong, Tess is determined to get to the bottom of the dog walker's disappearance. But her inquisitiveness is about to fling open a Pandora's box of past crimes and troubling deaths.

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

Best sellers will be available, Tuesday, JANUARY 11, by three popular authors.

The Sentry, by Robert Crais, is the third book in the Joe Pike series. Dru Rayne and her uncle fled to L.A. after Hurricane Katrina. But now, five years later, they face a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru's uncle beaten by a protection gang, he offers his help but neither of them want it. As the level of violence escalates, and Pike becomes a target, he and his partner Elvis Cole learn that Dru and her uncle are not who they seem and everything he thought he knew about them has been a lie.

In The Inner Cirlce, by Brad Meltzer, we meet Benjamin January, an archivist at the National Archives. When Clementine Kaye, his childhood crush, shows up at the Archives asking for his help tracking down her long-lost father, Benjy tries to impress her by showing her the secret vault where the President privately reviews classified documents. In this vault Benjy and Clementine accidentally stumble upon a priceless artifact - a 200-year-old dictionary - hidden inside a desk chair. In attempting to discover why the President is hiding this important national treasure, they find themselves caught up in a web of deception, conspiracy, and murder.

The Border Lords, by T. Jefferson Paker, is the fourth book in the Charlie Hood series. Deputy Sheriff Hood, who's on loan to the ATF, is watching a house in the border town of Buenavista, California. The house is occupied by four young gunmen of the North Baja Cartel and Hood's ATF agent friend, Sean Ozburn, who's operating undercover as a meth and gun dealer. When Ozburn goes rogue and fatally shoots the cartel members, Hood knows he has to bring Ozburn in.

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

The latest book by Debbie Macomber, Family Affair, will be available on Tuesday, JANUARY 4.

After a painful divorce, Lacey Lancaster decides it's time to lay low for a while in her San Francisco apartment with her Abyssinian cat, Cleo. Everything would be wonderful except for her impossible neighbor Jack Walker. When he's not arguing day and night with his girlfriend, begging her to move in with him, he's chasing down his cat named Dog. When Lacey discovers that Cleo is in the family way and Dog's to blame, she's furious that Jack does not seem upset about the situation. But Lacey learns that things are not quite as they seem. Jack's "girlfriend" is really his sister and Lacey begins to discover the joy of falling in love all over again.

You can request this or any other book by stopping by or calling the reference desk or by using your online library account.

Due to the recent snow storm, the book signing with Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir has been rescheduled. He will be at the Book Revue in Huntington to sign his new book, Welcome to My World, on Monday, JANUARY 24 at 7 p.m.

In this memoir, Johnny covers such topics as pop culture, figure skating and fashion. For more information about the event, contact the Book Revue at 631-271-1442.

Bestselling authors Stephen Hunter and Colleen McCullough will have new books available on Tuesday, DECEMBER 28.

Dead Zero, by Stephen Hunter, is the seventh book in the Bob Lee Swagger series. Swagger has to track down an AWOL Marine sniper who resurfaces to complete his last mission. Ray Cruz is still hunting a warlord who has since become America's proudest ally in the Afghan war. Has Ray gone rogue, or insane, or has he turned? Or is someone imitating Ray while playing a deeper game.

Naked Cruelty, by Colleen McCullough, is the third book in the Carmine Delmonico series. Police Captain Delmonico is facing multiple problems. A serial rapist is increasing the violence of his attacks, gang violence threatens area high schools and the fate of a kidnapping victim strains resources. Within the department, everyone detests the ambitious detective trainee Helen MacIntosh, the daughter of the president of the local university. And to add to his problems, Delmonico's wife, Desdemona, may be suffering from postpartum depression and is worsening by the day.

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

Bestselling authors Dean Koontz and W.E.B. Griffin will have new books available on Tuesday, DECEMBER 28.

In What the Night Knows, by Dean Koontz, homicide detective John Calvino, as a child, was the sole survivor of a family massacre. Though Calvino killed the fiend who did the deed, he has always worried that the killings were demonic in nature and that the evil spirit responsible would return and harm his wife and three children. After Calvino visits the psychiatric ward where a 14-year-old killer is held, something starts to haunt every member of his family. The detective believes he has a deadline to thwart the force bent on repeating the earlier murders.

The Outlaws, by W.E.B. Griffin, is the sixth book in the Presidential Agent series. Delta Force officer Charlie Castillo's secret unit has been disbanded but that doesn't mean he's out of business. A FedEx package arrives bearing photos of barrels containing some of the most dangerous biohazard materials on earth. All of them were supposed to have been destroyed during a raid on a secret Russian factory in the Congo. Who has them, and what do they want?

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

The following titles were recently added to the Large Print collection at the library.

Hell's Corner - David Baldacci
Busy Body - M.C. Beaton
Worth Dying For - Lee Child
The Valcourt Heiress - Catherine Coulter
I Remember Nothing - Nora Ephron
Wicked Appetite - Janet Evanovich
American Assassin - Vince Flynn
The Confession - John Grisham
As Husbands Go - Susan Isaacs
Chasing the Night - Iris Johansen
Our Kind of Traitor - John Le Carre
Moonlight Mile - Dennis Lehane
Holiday Magic - Fern Michaels
Cross Fire - James Patterson
Happy Ever After - Nora Roberts
Broken - Karen Slaughter