Uluru, Australia's Aboriginal Heart
Carolyn Mott Ford – Children's Literature: Uluru is a tremendous rock rising more than one thousand feet high in the Petermann Aboriginal Reserve in the continent of Australia. The sandstone formation is a sacred site to the native Anangu people. The first chapter tells the story of the rock which is now a favorite tourist […]
Look What Came From Australia
Synopsis: The boomerang, the didgeridoo, the kangaroo, the koala, and swimming stroke known as the "crawl" are only a few of the interesting things that come from Australia.
TailSpin
Publishers Weekly: Dark secrets that can destroy lives propel bestseller Coulter's solid 12th FBI thriller (after Double Take). When a small plane carrying FBI Special Agent Jackson "Jack" Crowne makes a crash landing in mountainous Parlow, Ky., his friends FBI Special Agents Dillon Savitch and Lacey Sherlock fly by helicopter from Washington, D.C., to the […]
Chasing Darkness : an Elvis Cole Novel
Publishers Weekly: Crais returns L.A. PI Elvis Cole to center stage after 2007's The Watchman, which showcased Cole's partner, Joe Pike, though Cole doesn't wisecrack as much as usual and he has only a few scenes with close friends to reveal his warmth and decency. This one is all about plot; the story opens with […]
Touched By Fire : a National Historical Society Photographic Portrait of the Civil War, In Association With Civil War Times
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by the Law Firm of Samaha & Russell PA in memory of Robert E. Bean.
Home : a Memoir of My Early Years
The New York Times – Emma Brockes Julie Andrews's memoir?opens with a soppy poem she wrote about England, but what follows is a decisively unsoppy account of a typically dismal English childhood, complete with cramped lodgings and brutish relatives, which Andrews tells briskly and without self-pity?Many celebrity memoirs overegg the rotten aspects of a childhood […]
The Quest Begins
Publishers Weekly: Hunter (the Warriors series) kicks off a new series as three young bears, unknown to one another, each embark on a perilous journey. Two of the characters, Kallik, a polar bear, and Toklo, a grizzly, were born in the wild and lose their mothers to tragic events. To survive, they must draw on […]
Bound
Eleanor Bader – Library Journal: Gunning reprises many of the characters from her 2006 novel, The Widow's War, in this suspenseful and engaging look at the New England colonies in the decades immediately preceding the American Revolution. Richly detailed and impeccably researched, the novel focuses on the life of Alice Cole, beginning with her arrival […]
Delusion
Nicole A. Cooke – Library Journal: While a young, pregnant graduate student, Nell Jarreau witnessed her boyfriend's murder, helping convict and send the accused, Alvin Dupree, to prison for life. Nell then had her baby, married the lead detective on her case, and built an idyllic life. Fast-forward 20 years, and the incarcerated Dupree has […]
Frames : a Valentino Mystery
Susan Clifford Braun – Library Journal: Valentino is a UCLA film archivist with a passion for the silent screen. When he buys a decrepit movie theater in West Hollywood, he gets much more than he expects-a skeleton in a hidden Prohibition-vintage basement and a stack of priceless film reels of Erich von Stroheim's legendary Greed. […]