This Week's New Titles at the Baldwin Public Library

New at Baldwin Public Library this week include Charlaine Harrs' recent novel and the latest suspense thriller from John LeCarre.

Need a little mystery, suspense or adventure to get you through the week? The Baldwin Public Libraryhas just what you need with the latest batch of new arrivals. This week's Library Picks are: Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harrs: When Sookie learns the reason why Eric's vampires are keeping their distance from her, she is devastated. Then a shocking murder rocks Bon Temps, and Sookie is arrested for the crime in this final Sookie Stackhouse novel. A Delicate Truth by John LeCarre: In 2008, a counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense …

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New Titles at the Baldwin Public Library

New at Baldwin Public Library this week include Elizabeth Lowell's recent novel and the latest mystery from Nora Robers.

  Need a little mystery or suspense to get you through the week? The Baldwin Public Library has just what you need with the latest batch of new arrivals. This week's Library Picks are: Dangerous Refuge by Elizabeth Lowell: On the surface Shaye Townsend has little in common with Tanner. He's a hard-edged big city cop come home to the historic Davis family ranch to settle his uncle's estate. She's working for an environmental conservancy that acquires and protects old ranches—and she wants to preserve the Davis homestead.  When the suspicious death of Tanner's uncle at his ranch throws the two opposites together, tempers flare and sparks fly. While they have trouble seeing eye to eye, Shaye and Tanner agree on one thing: They need to uncover…

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Library Picks: Best Books for Back to School

Baldwin librarians recommend books by Mo Willems and Audrey Vernick.

Going back to school means hitting the books, so how about you help them get prepared? Youth libriarians from Baldwin Public Library shared their picks for books to help get your kids ready for the classroom. Is Your Buffalo Ready for Kindergarten? by Aubrey Vernick From author Vernick and illustrator Daniel Jennewein comes this hilarious and heartwarming look at first-day-of-school jitters. Rubia and the Three Osos by Susan Middleton Elya This is the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears retold in a musical combination of English and Spanish, illustrated with great humor and heart by a Caldecott-winning artist, and featuring a surprise ending that is downright fabuloso. Just right for bilingual families, new Spanish speakers and anyone …

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Library Picks: '21 Jump Street', 'The Artist'

Also new at Baldwin Public Library is 'Tuesday Child' by Fern Michaels and 'Summerland' by Erin Hilderbrand.

What's new at Baldwin Public Library this week? Check out this week's Library Picks, courtesy of Baldwin librarians: Tuesday’s Child by Fern Michaels When nurse Sophie Lee, who has spent 10 years in prison for a crime she did not commit, is exonerated and released, she retreats to her attorney's home to avoid the media frenzy that surrounds her and must learn how to make her way back into the world and adjust to her freedom. Summerland by Erin Hilderbrand After a fatal car crash during a summer celebration on Nantucket island, four teenagers question if the roots of the accident lie further in the past than they seem; is true healing possible, in even these most devastating circumstance; and, can true friendship ever really die? Courageous…

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Library Picks: 'Jeff Who Lives at Home', 'Wanderlust'

Also new at Baldwin Public Library is 'A Place in the Country' by Elizabeth Adler and 'The Risk Agent' by Ridley Pearson.

What's new at Baldwin Public Library this week? Check out this week's Library Picks, courtesy of Baldwin librarians: A Place in the Country by Elizabeth Adler Newly-single mother Caroline Evans dreams of restoring an old barn into a restaurant, but her chance at happiness suddenly hangs in the balance as whispers of murder and vengeance find their way to her and her daughter Issy, hovering in that limbo between girl and young woman, begins to make some dangerous choices. The Risk Agent by Ridley Pearson When a Chinese National working for an American-owned construction company is grabbed off the streets of Shanghai in broad daylight and his one-man security detail goes missing, the security firm Rutherford Risk hires two unique outsiders …

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Library Picks: Latest Books From Lincoln Child, Alexander McCall Smith

Also new at Baldwin Public Library are the movies 'Good Deeds' and 'Ghost Rider.'

What's new at Baldwin Public Library this week? Check out this week's Library Picks, courtesy of Baldwin librarians: The Third Gate by Lincoln Child Believing he has discovered the burial chamber of a near-mythical Egyptian pharaoh and a mystical double crown, famed archaeologist Porter Stone and his team suffer bizarre accidents that Professor Jeremy Logan is brought in to investigate. A Conspiracy of Friends by Alexander McCall Smith There's never a dull moment for the residents of Corduroy Mansions: Berthea Snark is still at work on her scathing biography of her own son, Oedipus; literary agents Rupert Porter and Barbara Ragg are still battling each other; fine-arts graduate Caroline Jarvis is busy blurring the line between friendship …

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Library Picks: 'Act of Valor,' 'Safe House'

Also new at Baldwin Public Library are the latest novels from Kate Grenville and Gillian Flynn.

What's new at Baldwin Public Library this week? Check out this week's Library Picks, courtesy of Baldwin librarians: Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville In the final book of a trilogy that began with her bestselling novel, The Secret River, Grenville returns to the youngest daughter of the Thornhills and her quest to uncover, at her peril, the family's hidden legacy. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, MO, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media — as well as Amy’s fiercely doting …

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Library Picks: 'The Secret World of Arrietty' and More

Also new at Baldwin Public Library is the latest from author Elizabeth Lowell and the DVDS, 'Red Tails' and 'This Means War.'

What's new at Baldwin Public Library this week? Check out this week's Library Picks, courtesy of Baldwin librarians: Beautiful Sacrifice by Elizabeth Lowell A dedicated female archaeologist and a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officer must recover priceless South American artifacts that could bring deadly chaos into the world. Red Tails (DVD) Italy, 1944: As the war takes its toll on Allied forces in Europe, a squadron of black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen are finally given the chance to prove themselves in the sky, even as they battle discrimination on the ground. The Secret World of Arrietty (DVD) In a secret world hidden beneath the floorboards, little people called Borrowers live quietly among us. But when tenacious …

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Library Picks: Newest Book from Toni Morrison and More

Also new at Baldwin Public Library is 'In One Person' by John Irving and the film 'The Vow.'

What's new at Baldwin Public Library this week? Check out this week's Library Picks, courtesy of Baldwin librarians: Home by Toni Morrison Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. His home may seem alien to him, but he is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from and that he’s hated all his life. As Frank revisits his memories from childhood and the war that have left him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he had thought he could never possess again. In …

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Library Picks: Newest Tale from Stephen King and More

Also new at Baldwin Public Library this week is the movie 'Contraband' and 'Crystal Gardens' by Amanda Quick.

What's new at Baldwin Public Library this week? Check out this week's Library Picks, courtesy of Baldwin librarians: The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through the Keyhole." Crystal Gardens by Amanda Quick Moving to a country cottage where she seeks refuge in a paranormally-charged garden, Evangeline Ames is rescued from a would-be assassin by the …

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