Meg Cabot
author of The Princess Diaries series and other novels
Anything by Meg Cabot! She puts a humorous look on events that many teenagers experience. While her books are shelved in the teen section, I would recommend these books to adults. It has been fun reading these books and comparing how events in these books relate to what I experienced growing up. Her use of humor and realistic characters makes these books a must read!
Robin Hess
Circulation Clerk
Step on a Crack
James Patterson
Fiction/Thriller
With the unexpected death of a beloved former first lady, the nation falls into mourning as the world’s most powerful people gather in New York for her funeral. Then the inconceivable occurs. Billionaires, politicians, and superstars of every kind are suddenly trapped by one man’s brilliant and ruthless scenario. Pulled into the fray, Detective Michael Bennett-father of ten-faces the most sinister challenge of his career: a criminal who kills without hesitation and counters everything the NYPD and FBI throw at him with impunity. As New York descends into chaos, Bennett learns that the great love of his life, his wife, is battling a terrible disease and he may have to raise their children alone. Now with the entire world watching and the tension reaching a boiling point, Bennett must quickly find a way out-or become responsible for the greatest debacle in history.
Releases February 6, 2007
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Open Season
starring Martin Lawrence, Ashton Kutcher
Comedy/Family
A performing grizzly bear named Boog, who has been domesticated by a park ranger, Beth, helps deer friend Elliot escape from the mullet-sporting hunter, Shaw. When the two animals escape to the forest they become lost - just as hunting season begins. To make the situation worse, Boog doesn’t know how to survive outside of his beloved ranch. Elliott and Boog develop a strong bond not only between themselves but also with the other wild animals as they attempt to drive the hunters out of the forest.
Releases January 30, 2007
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Lisa Gardner
Fiction/Mystery/Thriller
It was a case that haunts Bobby Dodge to this day—the case that nearly killed him and changed his life forever. Now, in an underground chamber on the grounds of an abandoned Massachusetts mental hospital, a gruesome discovery resurrects his worst nightmare: the return of a killer he thought dead and buried. Bobby’s only lead is wrapped around a dead woman’s neck. Annabelle Granger has been in hiding for as long as she can remember. Her childhood was a blur of new cities and assumed identities. But what—or who—her family was running from, she never knew. Now a body is unearthed from a grave, wearing a necklace bearing Annabelle’s name, and the danger is too close to escape. This time, she’s not going to run.
Releases January 30, 2007
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The Last Full Measure
Jeff Shaara
It’s about the Civil War after the battle of Gettysburg, centering on General Grant, General Lee and General Chamberlin. After the battle at Gettysburg the armies were beat up and ragged, President Lincoln brought General Grant to assume control of the North Armies. Grant was surprised at the fight left in Confederate army and that it was not going to be easy to defeat Lee, even with a larger Army. The book follows the routes the armies take as they move to Virginia and the final surrender of the Confederate Army. Chamberlin shows real class at the surrender. The book showed the hardships and the elements that faced each army all the while the chess-like moves were being made by both sides. It was so well written that you felt you were fighting right alongside of the men in the book.
Gary Krajacic
Technology Administrator
The Guardian
starring Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher
Drama/Action
An aging United States Coast Guard rescue swimmer’s team is killed in a horrific rescue mission. Just prior to this same mission his wife announces that she cannot take anymore. This leaves him an emotional wreck. His commender gives him a choice - quit or take a position as an instructor at the USCG training facility in Louisiana. Reluctantly he takes the position and moves into the school. Once there he immediately increases the 18 week curriculum that routinely fails half of the people that attend. He meets a young man with unlimited potential, but with some secret that seems to hold him back as a team player. Delving into young man’s past, links are found that make him a psychic twin to the older man.
Releases January 23, 2007
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The Castle in the Forest
Norman Mailer
Historical Fiction
In The Castle in the Forest, Mailer offers what may be his consummate literary endeavor: He has set out to explore the evil of Adolf Hitler. The narrator, a mysterious SS man who is later revealed to be an exceptional presence, gives us young Adolf from birth, as well as Hitler’s father and mother, his sisters and brothers, and the intimate details of his childhood and adolescence. A tapestry of unforgettable characters, The Castle in the Forest delivers its playful twists and surprises with astonishing insight into the nature of the struggle between good and evil that exists in us all.
Releases January 23, 2007
White Lies
Jayne Ann Krentz
Fiction/Romance/Thriller
Petite, thirtysomething Clare Lancaster is a Level Ten para-sensitive-and a “human lie detector.” Over the years, she’s come to accept that someone with her extraordinary talents is likely to have trouble in the relationship department. And now it seems that meeting the half sister and family whom she never knew until seven months ago was a mistake. Her father summons her from California to play a role in his business empire, and Clare doesn’t intend on making the same mistake twice. But after meeting Jake Salter, Archer Lancaster’s “financial consultant,” Clare is convinced that things aren’t what they seem. Caught in a dizzying storm of secrets, lies, and half-truths, Jake and Clare will plunge into an investigation that demands every bit of their special gifts-together they must overcome their mutual distrust in order to unravel a web of conspiracy and murder.
Releases January 23, 2007
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Love Walked In
Maria de la Santos
A light romance set in the fair city of Philadelphia (ok, I am biased) tells the story of unattached café manager Cornelia Brown in a modern version of The Philadelphia Story. Handsome and debonair, Martin Grace sweeps Cornelia off her feet, and out of her rut. At the same time eleven-year-old Clare Hobbes must learn to fend for herself on the other side of town. As she tries to deal with her mother’s breakdown and disappearance, Clare seeks out her estranged father, and when the two of them show up at Cornelia’s café, the lives of Cornelia and Clare are changed in drastic and unexpected ways.
Rebecca Shaffer Mannion
Director of Community Relations, Teen Librarian
Bad Blood
Linda Fairstein
Fiction/Mystery
Bad Blood finds Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper deeply involved in a complicated, high-profile homicide case. Defendant Brendan Quillian, a prominent young businessman, is charged with the brutal strangulation of his beautiful young wife, Amanda. His conviction is not a certainty: Quillian was conveniently out of town on the day of the killing, and he has hired a formidable defense attorney who seems one step ahead of Cooper as the trial opens. But with the help of detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, she is confident she can prove Quillian was responsible.
Look for on Rapid Reads at Fayetteville Free Library
Tired of waiting forever on a hold list to get the hottest new releases? Think there’s never anything new on the shelf at your library? The Rapid Reads program at Fayetteville Free Library officially begins today, and is an answer to those complaints. The new titles in this collection are not used to fill holds; instead, they wait on the shelf until you come in and check them out. To keep these items moving, books are loaned for 7 days, and movies are loaned for 3. Returned items go right back to the Rapid Reads shelf for other patrons.
Come in and browse our selection of the newest, best-selling books and movies, like I Feel Bad About My Neck, Plum Lovin’, Pirates of the Carribean 2, and Little Miss Sunshine. More new titles will be added to the collection as they are released. Stop in and see what’s on the shelf!
The Suspect
John Lescroart
Fiction/Suspense
When Dr. Caryn Dryden is found floating dead in her hot tub, homicide inspector Devin Juhle targets a suspect close to home: her husband, Stuart Gorman. His alibi - that he was at his cabin on Tamarack Lake that weekend - doesn’t keep him out of hot water. But maybe a shrewd attorney will. Gina Roake, a partner in Dismas Hardy’s firm, is eager to take on such a high-profile case, especially when the client’s innocence seems so easy to prove. Yet the more time she spends with Stuart, the more complicated her feelings become. Racing to a stunning conclusion as Gina uncovers disturbing answers, The Suspect is a chilling story of secrets, love, and lies.
Releases January 16, 2007
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