Pure

by Julianna Baggott

Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet, she thinks about what is lost--how the world went from amusement parks, movie theaters, birthday parties, fathers and mothers ... to ash and dust, scars, permanent burns, and fused, damaged bodies.

The Night Swimmer

by Matt Bondurant

The poignant unraveling of a marriage, the fierce beauty of the natural world, the mysterious power of Irish lore, and the gripping story of strangers in a strange land rife with intrigue and violence - The Night Swimmer is a novel of myriad enchantments by a writer of extraordinary talent.

No Mark Upon Her

by Deborah Crombie

A New York Times-bestselling author makes her mark with this absorbing, finely hued tale of suspense - a deeply atmospheric and twisting mystery full of deadly secrets, salacious lies, and unexpected betrayals involving the mysterious drowning of a rower, a Met detective, on the Thames.

Pineapple Grenade

by Tim Dorsey

In the latest laugh-riot thriller from the New York Times-bestselling author Tim Dorsey, Serge Storms has finagled his way into becoming a secret agent in Miami, spying for the president of a Banana Republic. Will he still have time for a cocktail before Homeland Security brings him down?

A Good American

by Alex George

It is 1904. When Frederick and Jette must flee her disapproving mother, where better to go than America, the land of the new? Originally set to board a boat to New York, at the last minute they take one destined for New Orleans instead, and later find themselves in the small town of Beatrice, Missouri. Not speaking a word of English, they embark on their new life together. Poignant, funny, and heartbreaking, A Good American is a novel about being an outsider-in your country, in your hometown, and sometimes even in your own family. It is a universal story about our search for home.

Defending Jacob

by William Landay

Andy Barber has been an ADA in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than 20 years. He is respected in his community and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But after a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His 14-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student.

Private: #1 Suspect

by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

Since former Marine helicopter pilot Jack Morgan started Private, it has become one of the world's most powerful investigation firms, sought out by the rich and famous to discretely handle their most sensitive problems. But when a former lover is found murdered in Jack's bed, he is instantly the number one suspect.

Celebrity in Death

by J.D. Robb

Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no party girl, but she's managing to have a reasonably good time at the celebrity-packed bash celebrating The Icove Agenda , a film based on one of her famous cases. It's a little spooky seeing the actress playing her, who looks almost like her long-lost twin. Not as unsettling, though, as seeing the actress who plays Peabody drowned in the lap pool on the roof of the director's luxury building. Now she's at the center of a crime scene-and Eve is more than ready to get out of her high heels and strap on her holster and step into the role she was born to play: Cop.

Indian Horse

by Richard Wagamese

Saul Indian Horse is dying. Tucked away in a hospice high above the clash and clang of a big city, he embarks on a marvellous journey of imagination back through the life he led as a northern Ojibway, with all its sorrows and joys. With compassion and insight, author Richard Wagamese traces through his fictional characters the decline of a culture and a cultural way.

The Garden Intrigue

by Lauren Willig

In the ninth installment of Lauren Willig's bestselling Pink Carnation series, an atrocious poet teams up with an American widow to prevent Napoleon's invasion of England.

MWF Seeking BFF: My yearlong search for a new best friend

by Rachel Bertsche

Shortly after moving to Chicago, Rachel Bertsche realizes her new life is missing one thing: friends. There's no one to call at the last minute for girl talk over brunch or a reality-TV marathon over a bottle of wine. Taking matters into her own hands, she develops a plan: She'll go on 52 friend-dates, one per week for a year, in hopes of meeting her new Best Friend Forever. In her thought-provoking, uproarious memoir, Bertsche blends the story of her "girl-dates" with the latest social research to examine how difficult-and hilariously awkward-it is to make new friends as an adult.

Hopper: A wild ride to the heart of the American dream

by Wayne W. Dyer

From film to politics to art to music, Dennis Hopper carved out his own rules, moved to his own rhythm, and lived out his strange and strangely idealistic version of the American dream. Full of hundreds of first-person accounts from the wide array of people he knew and worked with, this is an unconventional biography of a very unconventional life.

Apocalypse Not: Why everything you know about 2012, Nostradamus and the rapture is wrong

by John Michael Greer

For almost 3,000 years apocalypse prophecies have convinced people all over the world that the future is about to give them the world they want instead of the world they've got. All the end time prophecies splashed across the media in every age have had something else in common: every one of them has been wrong. Apocalypse Not is a lively and engaging survey of predictions about the end of the world, along with the failed dreams and nightmares that have clustered around them.

Thunder Dog: The true story of a blind man, his guide dog, and the triumph of trust at Ground Zero

by Frances Mayes and Edward Mayes

In Thunder Dog, follow Michael and his guide dog, Roselle, as their lives are changed forever by two explosions and 1,463 stairs. When the first plane struck Tower One, an enormous boom, frightening sounds, and muffled voices swept through Michael's office while shards of glass and burning scraps of paper fell outside the windows. In this harrowing story of trust and courage, discover how blindness and a bond between dog and man saved lives and brought hope during one of America's darkest days.

The Start-up of You: An entrepreneurial approach to building a killer career

by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha

LinkedIn co-founder and chairman Reid Hoffman and author Ben Casnocha show readers how to accelerate their career in today's competitive world. The key is to manage one's career as if it were a start-up business: a living, breathing, growing start-up of you.

My Pizza: The easy no-knead way to make spectacular pizza at home

by Jim Lahey

Cooks can make homemade pizza that exceeds their wildest expectations with Lahey's groundbreaking no-knead dough and inventive toppings. With gorgeous color photographs and helpful tips on equipment and techniques, My Pizza unlocks the secrets of great, easy pizza for home cooks everywhere.

What to Look for in Winter: A memoir in blindness

by Candia McWilliam

The story of a celebrated writer's sudden descent into blindness, and of the redemptive journey into the past that her loss of sight sets in motion.

TalentNextDoor.com

by Joe Blair

Talent Next Door features a catalogue of fabulous artists working in the Waterloo region and the smaller towns that surround it. Each artist's work has been judged by an international panel of fine artists and is accompanied by tantalizing bios, websites, locations, and contact information, so that after getting a taste of their work in the book, you can rush off to their studios to snap up their latest offerings while you still can!

The Accordion Family: Boomerang kids, anxious parents, and the private toll of global competition

by Katherine S. Newman

Why are adults in their twenties and thirties stuck in their parents' homes in the world's wealthiest countries?  There's no question that globalization has drastically changed the cultural landscape across the world. The cost of living is rising, and high unemployment rates have created an untenable economic climate that has severely compromised the path to adulthood. In this gripping and urgent book, Newman urges Americans not to simply dismiss the boomerang generation but, rather, to strategize how we can help the younger generation make its own place in the world.  

The Playful Brain: The surprising science of how puzzles improve your mind

by Richard Restak and Scott Kim

In The Playful Brain, science happily combines with recreation as leading neuroscientist and bestselling author Richard Restak, M.D., and noted puzzle master Scott Kim team up to create a fascinating exploration of how puzzles can change, reshape, and strengthen out brains.

Shades of Blue

by Karen Kingsbury

Brad Cutler, 28, is a rising star at his New York ad agency, about to marry the girl of his dreams. Anyone would agree he has it all: a great career, a beautiful and loving fiancee, and a fairy tale life ahead of him. But memories of a high school girlfriend begin to torment him, and he must find his old love and make amends .

Split Image

by Robert B. Parker

The body in the trunk was just the beginning. What appeared to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach. Jesse Stone teams with P.I. Sunny Randall to search for the killer who is eliminating the resident gangsters of Paradise.

Breakdown

by Sara Paretsky

A group of tweens in a fan club dedicated to Carmilla, Queen of the Night, a fictional shapeshifting raven, hold an initiation ritual in a cemetary and stumble upon an actual corpse: a man stabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying. For V. I. Warshawski, the questions multiply faster than the answers .

The Invisible Ones

by Stef Penney

Small-time private investigator Ray Lovell veers between paralysis and delirium in a hospital bed. But before the accident that landed him there, he had promised to find Rose Janko. Rose was married to the charismatic son of a travelling gypsy family, Ivo Janko. The Jankos are a clan touched by tragedy - either they are cursed, or they are hiding a terrible secret. Could it be that Rose's discovery of that secret led to her disappearance all those years ago?

D.C. Dead

by Stuart Woods

After a shocking loss, Stone Barrington is at loose ends, unsure if he wants to stay in New York and continue his work as a partner at Woodman & Weld. It comes as a welcome relief when he's summoned to Washington, D.C., by President Will Lee. The president has a special operation that calls for Stone's unique skill set, and it's a mission that will reunite him with his former partner in bed and in crime, Holly Barker.

The Fox (Volpone)

by Ben Jonson

Rich people always want more money, so Volpone and his servant play a game. People think Volpone is dying. They bring beautiful things for him. They want his money after he dies. But what will happen to Volpone's money? Who will win - and who will lose?

William Tell

by Friedrich Schiller

William Tell is a good man, but his country is a dangerous place. The Swiss people don't like the Austrian emperor or his governor in Switzerland. Can William Tell help them in their fight with the Austrians? Or is he a man of peace?

A Murder Is Announced

by Agatha Christie

When a notice appears in the local newspaper, the villagers are curious. Is it a joke, or is there really going to be a murder at Little Paddocks? At the announced time, the lights go out. Gunshots are heard. What is happening? Will Miss Marple be able to explain the mystery?

The Last Juror

by John Grisham

In Clanton, Mississippi, not much happens. There aren't many interesting stories for Willie Traynor's newspaper. But then there's a murder. When the killer goes to jail, the story does not end. Everybody is afraid now of this man and his family. Will there be more killings? Who will be next?

Silver Blaze and Other Stories

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr Watson, solve the strange cases of: The Blue Carbuncle, Silver Blaze and The Six Napoleons.

DVD

Cell 211

Suspense

The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot - the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.

DVD

If These Walls Could Talk

Drama

In this trilogy, different women face different social and political climates in choosing what to do about an unplanned pregnancy. In 1952, a recently widowed nurse (Demi Moore) must decide whether to go through with an illegal abortion. In 1974, a mother of four (Sissy Spacek) struggles to raise a family and have a career shortly after abortion is legalized. In 1996, a college student (Anne Heche) decides to get an abortion during a climate of violence. The stories span over 40 years and are set in the same house.

Audiobook on CD

Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

Two systems drive the way we think and make choices: System One is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System Two is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Examining how both systems function within the mind, Kahneman - whose studies have infuenced numberous authors including Steven Pinker and Malcom Gladwell - exposes the extraordinary capabilities as well as the biases of fast thinking and the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and our choices.

Audiobook on CD

Running the Rift

by Naomi Benaron

Rwandan runner Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal and uniting his ethnically divided country. But he is driven from everyone he loves when the violence starts, after which he must find a way back to a better life.

MP3 Audiobook

10th Anniversary

by James Patterson

Detective Lindsay Boxer's long-awaited 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. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals - but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well.

MP3 Audiobook

The Forgotten Garden

by Kate Morton

Thirty-eight year old Cassandra is lost, alone and grieving. Her much loved grandmother, Nell, has just died and Cassandra, her life already shaken by a tragic accident ten years ago, feels like she has lost everything known and dear to her. But an unexpected and mysterious bequest from Nell turns Cassandra’s life upside-down. and ends up challenging everything she thought she knew about herself, her family, and their history.

Music CD

Old Ideas

by Leonard Cohen

Music CD

Let It Be

Roberta Flack

Music CD

Groove Station 2012

Various Artists

Music CD

Voyageur

Kathleen Edwards

Try Not to Breathe

by Jennifer R. Hubbard

Ryan spends most of his time alone at the local waterfall because it's the only thing that makes him feel alive. He's sixteen, post-suicidal, and trying to figure out what to do with himself after a stint in a mental hospital. Then Nicki barges into his world, brimming with life and energy, and asking questions about Ryan's depression that no one else has ever been brave enough - or cared enough - to ask. Ryan isn't sure why he trusts Nicki with his darkest secrets, but that trust turns out to be the catalyst that he desperately needs to start living again.

Under the Never Sky

by Veronica Rossi

Aria has lived her whole life in the protected dome of Reverie. Her entire world confined to its spaces, she's never thought to dream of what lies beyond its doors. So when her mother goes missing, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland long enough to find her are slim. Then Aria meets an outsider named Perry. He's searching for someone too. He's also wild - a savage - but might be her best hope at staying alive. If they can survive, they are each other's best hope for finding answers ...

Stolen Away

by Alyxandra Harvey

Eloise Hart had no idea the world of Faery even existed. Now she has been abducted and trapped in the Rath of Lord Strahan, King of Faery. Strahan was only meant to rule for seven years, as Faery tradition dictates, and then give up his crown to another. But he won't comply, and now chaos threatens both worlds. The only one who can break his stranglehold on the Faery court is his wife ... Eloise's aunt Antonia.

The Fault in our Stars

by John Green

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.

Born Wicked

by Jessica Spotswood

Everybody knows Cate Cahill and her sisters are eccentric. Too pretty, too reclusive, and far too educated for their own good. But the truth is even worse: they're witches. And if their secret is discovered by the priests of the Brotherhood, it would mean an asylum, a prison ship - or an early grave.

Showoff

by Gordon Korman

The heroes of Swindle, Zoobreak, and Framed are back! When Luthor goes berserk at a mall dog show, he's accused of ruining the career of the three-time best-in-show beagle. Griffin always knew that Luthor's viciousness was simmering just below the surface - so why does he feel bad enough to spring him from the pound? Griffin and his team have a new plan. This one involves New York City, a sinister saboteur, a reclusive dog-trainer who's quit the business, an international dog show, and a whole lot of red dye. But if they pull it off, no one will even notice their sting operation ... right?

Sticky Ends
by Jeanne Willis

Have you heard the tale of Felicity Finch who was prone to pinch? Or that of Filthy Frankie the human toffee - all because of one small offense. Perhaps the one about Vince the Mince, the vegetarian dog who took his sprouts far too seriously. There's plenty more cautionary tales inside this collection to whet your appetite for the stickiest of ends.

Where's my t-r-u-c-k?

by Karen Beaumont

Young Tommy is not himself. He's lost his "T-R-U-C-K!" Tommy tears through the house and yard to hilarious and poignant effect, only to discover, in a grant moment of triumph, sneaky Bowser's secret stash.

The Runaway Hug

by Nick Bland

When Lucy's mother gives Lucy the last hug she has, Lucy promises to give it back, but first she must share it with everyone in the house - Dad, the twins, the baby and even her dog, Annie. Along the way, the hug changes - it becomes stronger, bigger, a bit slobbery, peanut-buttery, and at one point it even runs away on her. But it always comes back to her and it's always nice.

I'm Fast!

by Kate and Jim McMullen

Can a train pulling half a mile of heavy-duty freight cars make it to Chicago ahead of a speedy little race car? Through the desert ... Through the mountains ... Through a blizzard ... The race is on.