5 New Titles at Birmingham's Baldwin Public Library

Dust by Patricia Cornwell

After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns 
home to Cambridge, Massachusetts, when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field and physical evidence links the case to a series of uniquely weird homicides in Washington, D.C., where Scarpetta's FBI husband has been deployed to help capture a serial killer dubbed the Capital Murderer.

Sins of the Flesh by Coleen McCullough

It's August 1969 in the sleepy college town of Holloman, Connecticut, and police Captain Carmine Delmonico is away on vacation. Back at home, first one, then two anonymous male corpses turn up--emaciated and emasculated. Sergeant Delia Carstairs and Lieutenant Abe Goldberg connect the victims to four other bodies, and suddenly they realize Holloman has a psychopathic killer on the loose. 

'Stella Bain' by Anita Shreve

An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling 
author Anita Shreve. When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in. 
A gesture of goodwill turns into something more as Bridge quickly develops a clinical interest in his 
houseguest. 

'Tatiana' by Martin Cruz Smith

When the brilliant and fearless young reporter Tatiana Petrovna--based 
on the real-life journalist Anna Politkovskaya--falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow in the same week that notorious mob billionaire Grisha Grigorenko is shot in the back of the head, Renko finds himself on the trail of a mystery as complex and dangerous as modern Russia itself. In a fast-changing and lethal race to uncover the truth, Renko makes a startling discovery that propells him deeper into Tatiana's past--and, at the same 
time, paradoxically, into Russia's future.

Man of Steel (DVD)

A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.


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