Five New Titles at Birmingham's Baldwin Public Library

Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon

Maxine Tarnow is running a nice little fraud investigation business
on the Upper West Side, chasing down different kinds of small-scale con artists. She used to be legally certified but her license got pulled a while back, which has actually turned out to be a blessing because now she can follow her own code of ethics: carry a Beretta, do business with sleazebags, hack into people’s bank accounts; without having too much guilt about any of it. Otherwise, just your average  working mom: two boys in elementary school, an off-and-on situation with her sort of semi-ex-husband Horst, life as normal as it ever gets in the neighborhood - till Maxine starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO, whereupon things begin rapidly to jam onto the subway and head downtown.

The Bones of Paris by Laurie R. King

Paris, France: September 1929. Private investigator Harris Stuyvesant, on the hunt for a missing twenty-two year old woman from Boston, must descend into the darkest depths of perversion to find a killer hiding in the Theatre du Grand-Guignol in Montmartre.

The Quest by Nelson Demille

After receiving a tip from a dying priest, four unlikely partners begin a
quest to find the Holy Grail in the jungles of Ethiopia.

World War Z (DVD)

Gary Lane travels the globe in an effort to eliminate the zombie pandemic that  endangers the existence of humanity.

Disconnect (DVD)

A couple is drawn into a dangerous situation when their secrets are exposed online. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide in this riveting dramatic thriller about ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.

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