NEW BOOKS ADDED IN FEBRUARY 2012

ADULT NON-FICTION

725.11/GIB 02/2012

GIBSON, RICHARD R. A CELEBRATION OF ILLINOIS STATE CAPITOL.

AC\320.473\SOB 2/2012

SOBEL, SYL. HOW THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WORKS. NEW YORK: BARRON'S, 02/2012.

AC\345.794/ ASH\2-2012

Ashton, Jeff. Imperfect justice : prosecuting Casey Anthony. 1st ed. New York  William Morrow, c2011.
Prosecutor Jeff Ashton presents his version of the 2011 Casey Anthony murder trial.

AC\635.9\SOR 02/2012

ADULT FICTION

Soria, Sandra S. Taunton's new front yard idea book. Newtown, CT: Taunton Press, c2011.

AC\FIC\BRU\02-2012

Brunstetter, Wanda E. Betsy's return. Uhrichsville, OH : Barbour, c2010.
Betsy Nelson leaves her life in the city to return to her hometown and care for her ailing father and finds herself drawn to the new pastor, William Covington, as they work together to help the townspeople of Walnutport, Pennsylvania.

AC\FIC\ CHI\2-12

Chiaverini, Jennifer. Sonoma Rose. New York : Dutton, c2012.
Rosa Diaz Barclay, mourning the loss of four of her eight children, lives on a rye farm in California with her abusive husband when she finally leaves him in order to save two of her remaining children from succumbing to a mysterious wasting disease and when she reunites with her ex-husband, the father of her two healthy children, they try to start a winery in the midst of prohibition.

AC\FIC\COP 02/2012

Copeland, Lori. Love blooms in winter. Eugene, Or. : Harvest House Publishers, c2012.
Mae Wilkey's lives next to a sweet elderly lady with dementia, who doesn't think she has any family to help her, but Mae searches and may have found her long lost nephew who comes to see her in North Dakota in 1892.

AC\FIC\GAR 02/2012

Gardner, Lisa. Catch me. New York : Dutton, c2012.
Charlene Grant believes she will be murdered in four days and while she intends to flee or fight, wants to make sure that if she dies her murder will be investigated by Detective D.D. Warren, Boston's top detective.

AC\FIC HAN\ 2-2012

Hannah, Kristin. Home front. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.
Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all but after twelve years together, the couple has lost their way; they are unhappy and edging toward divorce when the Iraq war starts and unexpected deployment will tear their already fragile family apart, sending one of them deep into harm's way and leaving the other at home, waiting for news.

AC\FIC\LAU\02/2012

Lauer, Rosalind. A simple winter : a seasons of Lancaster novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2011.
As a budding journalist with a major newspaper, Remy McCallister is eager to prove herself. While investigating an unsolved crime, Remy winds up in the close-knit Amish community of Lancaster County, the last place she would ever expect to find herself.

AC\FIC\ PRE\2/2012

Pressfield, Steven. Gates of fire : an epic novel of the Battle of Thermopylae. Bantam trade pbk. ed. New York : Bantam Books, 2005, c1998.
A young man chooses to join the Spartan army, and just as he grows accustomed to his new way of life he is forced to fight in the battle of Thermopylae, where all of his fellow soldiers are killed, and he is the only man left to carry on the Spartan traditions.

AC\FIC\RIC\2-12

Rice, Anne, 1941-. The wolf gift : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
A young reporter on assignment is attacked and bitten by an unknown beast in rural Northern California and begins a terrifying but seductive transformation into a being with a dual nature, both man and wolf.

AC\FIC\SCH\02-2012

SCHMIDT, ANNA. A STRANGER'S GIFT. WISCONSIN : BARBOUR.    On the heels of a horrific hurricane, Hester Detlef, field director for the Mennonite Disaster Service, blows into the life of self-made, shunned Amish man John Hafner. Will she find a way through his shield and into his heart? Although the hurricane has left John homeless and badly injured, the last thing he wants is some do-gooder Mennonite woman intruding in his life. Will his impatience with her intention of restoring his faith and property keep him from accepting this beguiling stranger’s kindness?

ADULT MYSTERY

AC\LP\MYS\ COU 2/2012

Coulter, Catherine. Prince of Ravenscar : a Sherbrooke novel. Large print ed. Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2011.
Lord Julian is feeling pressure from his family to remarry, despite the guilt he feels over the loss of his first wife, Lily, and agrees to accompany his mother on a trip to London, where he will be reintroduced to Miss Sophie Wilkins, a young lady who has become the acquaintance of Julian's nephew, Lord Devlin Monroe.

AC\MYS\ CRA 2/2012

Crais, Robert. Taken. New York : Putnam's, c2012.
Elvis Cole is hired by Nita Morales to find her daughter, who she thinks is just hiding out with her boyfriend and is asking for money, but Cole realizes they have been kidnapped by bajadores, bandits who prey on other bandits, and when Cole goes undercover to try and buy her back he goes missing and now it is up to his partner, Joe Pike to find them both.

AC\MYS\ GRA\2-12

Grace, Nancy, 1959-. The eleventh victim. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2009.
Hailey Dean, a young psychology student at the time of her fiance's murder, devotes herself to making sure other violent criminals are brought to justice, but the gruesome case of a serial murderer in Atlanta prompts her to return to New York and her work as a therapist, only to have a copycat killer set his sights on her.

AC\MYS\ KIN 2/2012

KING, JONATHON. MIDNIGHT GUARDIANS. NEW YORK : SEVERN HOUSE, 2012.

AC\MYS\ LUD 2-12

Garrison, Paul, 1952-. Robert Ludlum's The Janson command. 1st ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2012.
Paul Janson is working to find redemption and reform from his days of covert operations, so now not only does he help rehabilitate disenchanted agents and helps them find new lives, he also takes on missions for the greater good.

AC\MYS\ PAT 2-2012

Patterson, James, 1947-. Private games. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2012.
Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic games in London, but when a high-ranking member of the games' organizing committee and his mistress are killed just hours before the opening ceremony, the killer must be identified before others meet the same fate.

AC\MYS\ ROB\2-12

Robb, J. D., 1950-. Celebrity in death. New York : Putnam's Sons, c2012.
Eve Dallas New York City homicide detective, investigates the death of a young actress with the assistance of her husband Rourke and Detective Peabody.

AC\LP\ MYS\ ROB 2/2012

Roberts, Nora. The next always. Large print ed. Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, 2011.
Clare Brewster, single mother running a bookstore, finds a new man in her life across the street at the refurbished inn.

AC\LP\MYSIC\ROB 1/2012

JUVENILE NON-FICTION

Robb, J. D., 1950-. New York to Dallas. Large print ed. Detroit : Wheeler Pub., 2011.
New York homicide detective Eve Dallas is forced to return home to Dallas, Texas, and face her past after a criminal she caught years earlier escapes from Rikers and sets out to get revenge on her.

JC\523\ ARO 2/2012

ARLON, PENELOPE. SCHOLASTIC DISVOVER MORE PLANETS. NEW YORK : SCHOLASTIC INC., 02/2012.

JUVENILE FICTION

JC\FIC\BER 2/2012

BERENSTAIN, JAN AND MIKE 2011. EASTER STORY : BERENSTAIN BEARS AND THE EASTER STORY. NEW YORK : ZONDERVAN, 2012.

JC\FIC\ BLA 2-2012

Blade, Adam. First hero. New York : Scholastic Press, [2012], c2010.
Tanner, having been training with Firepos the Flame Bird since the murder of his father eight years earlier, sets out on a journey to stop an evil army from finding the pieces of the Mask of Death and controlling all beasts.

JC\FIC\ BUC\2-2012

Buckey, Sarah Masters, 1955-. The hidden gold. Middleton, WI : American Girl, c2012.
Marie-Grace, on a journey up the Mississippi River in a large steamboat with her father, meets Wilhelmina Newman, a girl her age who is traveling alone and carrying clues to hidden Gold Rush treasure, and, together, they work to unravel them.

JC\FIC\CAS 2/2012

Cast, P. C. Lebonia's vow : a House of Night novella. First edition. New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2012.
"A great journey... A new love... A dark secret revealed. Evreux, France, 1788: Before she is Zoey's favorite professor and the House of Night's powerful horse mistress... Lenobia is just a normal 16-year-old girl - with enough problems to last a lifetime. As the illegitimate daughter of a powerful baron, she has never quite belonged, and instead has to watch her spoiled half-sister, Cecile, get anything she wants. As if that's not enough, her remarkable beauty draws unwanted attention wherever she goes. For once, she would like to just fit in.

JC\FIC\ CAS 2/2011

Nyx in the house of night : mythology, folklore, and religion in the P.C. and Kristin Cast vampyre series. Dallas, Tex. : Smart Pop, c2011.
Examines elements of mythology, folklore, and religion in the House of Night series by P.C. and Kristin Cast, which follows the adventures of fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird at a vampyre boarding school in Oklahoma.

JC\FIC\DAY 02/2012

Day, Alexandra. The fairy dogfather. Seattle, WA : Green Tiger Press, 2012.
Hector, who has trouble differentiating between the letters "d" and "g", asks for a fairy godfather's help in obtaining a special gift for his mother's birthday, but the cigar-smoking Fairy Dogfather, adorned in a fedora and green jacket, arrives instead and seems more demanding than helpful.

JC\FIC\GAM 02/2012

GAMBLING, LOIS G. CAN I BRING WOOLLY TO THE LIBRARY MS. REEDER? NEW YORK : CHARLESBRIDGE.

JC\FIC\ GRE\2-2012

Greene, Jacqueline Dembar. The crystal ball : a Rebecca mystery. Middleton, WI : American Girl, c2012.
When Rebecca helps her injured neighbor, Mr. Rossi, by caring for his pigeons, she discovers a strange black pigeon with an eerie message warning Mr. Rossi of danger, and consults a fortune teller to learn if she is in danger, as well.

JC\FIC\ HOR\2-2012

Horvath, Polly. Mr. and Mrs. Bunny-- detectives extraordinaire! 1st ed. New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, c2012.
Middle-schooler Madeline's hippy parents have been kidnapped from Hornby Island, Canada, by foxes and Madeline, upon discovering that she can understand animal languages, hires two rabbit detectives to find them.

JC\FIC\KAP 02/2012

Kaplan, Michael B. Betty Bunny wants everything. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c2012.
Betty Bunny's mother takes her and her siblings to a toy store where each is allowed to pick out one item, but Betty refuses to choose just one and throws a tantrum when she learns the alternative is to get nothing.

JC\FIC\KIN 02/2012

Kingsbury, Karen. Far Flutterby. Grand Rapids, MI : Zonderkidz, 2012.
Cody the caterpillar is unhappy being stuck on the ground, but with encouragement from Beulah Lee Bird and Franny McFly he follows God's plan for him and strives to reach a place called Far Flutterby.

JC\FIC\LAR 02/2012

LARSEN, KIRSTEN 2012. MATER AND THE EASTER BUGGY. CALIFORNIA : DISNEY, 2012.

JC\FIC\PFI 02/2012

PFISTER, MARCUS. AVA'S POPPY. GERMANY : NORTH\SOUTH.

JC\FIC\PRI 02/2011

Primavera, Elise. Louise the big cheese and the Ooh-la-la Charm School. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2011.
Louise, who wants nothing more than to be important, jumps at the chance to attend a charm school run by Claire Eclaire, who is from Paris.

JC\FIC\ROB\02/2012

Roberts, Bethany. Valentine mice! Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c1997.
An energetic group of mice deliver valentines to the other animals.

JC\FIC\SAW\02/12

Sawyer, Kim Vogel. Katy's new world. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, c2010.
Katy Lambright gets permission to attend a public high school outside of her Mennonite community, but her relationships with her family and lifelong friends become strained as she struggles to find a balance between two very different worlds.

JC\FIC\SAW\02-12

Sawyer, Kim Vogel. Katy's debate. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, c2010.
Katy, a Mennonite teenager attending secular high school, joins the debate team, and tries to keep her father from remarrying so that she does not have to adjust to having a stepmother.

JC\FIC\TAN 02/2012

TANGVALD, CHRISTINE. SOMEONE I LOVE DIED. COLORADO SPRINGS, CO : DAVID COOK, 2012.

JC\FIC\WAR 2/2012

Ward, Jesmyn. Salvage the bones : a novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury, 2011.
Pregnant fifteen-year-old Esch and her family live in Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, which puts them in the path of Hurricane Katrina, and as they try to stock the small amount of food they have in preparation for the disaster, the family's love for each other will be their only hope for survival.

JC\FIC\WIL 2/2012

Wilson, Karma. Bear's loose tooth. 1st ed. New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, c2011.
When Bear discovers he has a loose tooth, his friends try to help make it fall out.

JC\FIC\WOL 2/2012

Wolff, Ashley. Baby Bear sees blue. 1st ed. New York : Beach Lane Books, 2012.
Leaving the den as the weather warms, Baby Bear discovers blue birds, red strawberries, orange butterflies, and other colorful things in nature.