5 New Titles at Birmingham's Baldwin Public Library

Need a little action, suspense or adventure to get you through the week? The Baldwin Public Library has just what you need with the latest batch of new arrivals.

'Innocence' by Dean Koontz

Foraging for supplies by night in a beautiful but hostile urban world where 
strangers would kill him on sight, Addison endures a solitary existence before meeting a quicksilver girl engaged in a dangerous duel of wits with a malicious, well-placed enemy.

'Hunted' by Karen Robards

When the chief of police and the mayor of New Orleans are taken hostage 
by disgraced former co-worker Reed Ware, top hostage negotiator Caroline Wallace allows herself to be taken captive by the handsome Reed only to learn that he is being targeted for his discovery of high-level government corruption.

'The Heir Apparent' by Jane Ridley

Chronicling the eventful life of Queen Victoria's firstborn son, the quintessential black sheep of Buckingham Palace, who matured into as wise and effective a monarch as Britain has ever seen.

Battle of the Year (DVD)

Los Angeles hip-hop mogul and former B-Boy Dante wants to put the country
that started the sport back on top. He enlists his hard-luck friend Blake to coach his team. Blake must use every tactic he knows to get twelve talented individuals to unite as a team if they're going to bring the trophy back to America.

The Ultimate Life (DVD)

Three years after receiving life-changing gifts from his grandfather, Jason finds himself in need of guidance once again. When the foundation his grandfather left him is challenged in court, and the love of his life travels to Haiti, Jason realizes he's lost all direction. Just when it looks as though he may lose it all, he discovers his grandfather's precious journal and embarks on an incredible journey into the past to learn what it truly means to live the ultimate life.

The information for this post was provided by Bloomfield-Bloomfield Hills Patch reader Josh Rouan of the Baldwin Public Library.