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Live Free or Die Hard

Action
When someone hacks into the computers at the FBI’s Cyber Crime Division, the Director decides to round up all the hackers who could have done this. When he’s told that because it’s the 4th of July most of their agents are not around so they might have trouble getting people to get the hackers. So he instructs them to get local PD’S to take care of it. And one of the cops they ask is John McClane who is tasked with bringing a hacker named Farrell to the FBI. But as soon as he gets there someone starts shooting at them. McClane manages to get them out but they’re still being pursued. And it’s just when McClane arrives in Washington that the whole system breaks down and chaos ensues.

Releases November 27, 2007

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Hairspray

Drama/Musical
It’s 1962 and change is in the air in Baltimore. Tracy Turnblad, a girl with big hair and big dreams, has only one passion in life - to dance on “The Corny Collins Show.” When her chance arrives, she grooves her way into instant stardom and the eyes of teen-dream Link Larkin. But with the program’s scheming stage manager against her, trend-setting Tracy will need the help of her best friend Penny, her bighearted mother and sassy co-host Motormouth Maybelle to show the world that all it takes to make a dream come true is a toe-tappin’ beat and a little Hairspray!

Releases November 27, 2007

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Amazing Grace
Danielle Steel

Fiction
On a warm May night in San Francisco, the Ritz-Carlton ballroom shimmers with crystal and silver as a glittering, celebrity-studded crowd gathers for a charity dinner dance. The evening is perfect–until, just minutes before midnight, the room begins to sway. Glass shatters. And as the lights go out, people begin to scream….In the earthquake’s aftermath, the lives of four strangers will converge.
As the city staggers back to life, a chain reaction of extraordinary events will touch each of the survivors. As a year passes, and the anniversary of the earthquake approaches, more surprises are in store–as each discovers the unexpected gifts in a tragedy’s wake…and the amazing grace of new beginnings.

Releases November 27, 2007

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Darkest Evening of the Year
Dean Koontz

Fiction/Suspense
Amy Redwing has dedicated her life to the southern California organization she founded to rescue abandoned and endangered golden retrievers. Among dog lovers, she’s a legend for the risks she’ll take to save an animal from abuse. Among her friends, Amy’s careless devotion is often cause for concern. To widower Brian McCarthy, whose commitment she can’t allow herself to return, Amy’s behavior is far more puzzling and hides a shattering secret.
No one is surprised when Amy risks her life to save Nickie, nor when she takes the female golden into her home. The bond between Amy and Nickie is immediate and uncanny. The unmistakable sense that someone is watching Amy’s every move and that, whoever it is, he’s not alone.
Someone has come back to turn Amy into the desperate, hunted creature she’s always been there to save. But now there’s no one to save Amy and those she loves.

Releases November 27, 2007

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How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else

Non-Fiction

I read it because of the catchy title and the fact it is soon to be a movie starring Tom Hanks…The story began with a man named Michael in his mid 60’s, he’s lost his 6 figure job that he held for decades, had a affair on his wife that produced one child and a divorce. His kids don’t talk to him and he’s been diagnosed with a slow growing brain tumor…Out of work and almost out of money he stops in for his last indulgence, Starbucks coffee, and that’s where his life will begin to change. He’s offered a job at Starbucks and he takes it. For the first time he begins to see life not from his privileged upbringing and Ivy League degree but from the other side of the tracks. Michael begins to understand it’s not the job that counts it’s how you treat people. It’s also about how we interact with the people we love and slowly the transformation begins. Michael is given another chance to make a difference, mend fences and not be afraid to make changes and take some chances.

Released in September 2007

Barb Craner
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Barbara Kingslover

Non-Fiction
A must read for anyone interested in wholesome, farm raised food. It takes the reader on a journey with the family as they spend one year committed to eating food entirely grown or raised locally. Each page is educational, thoughtful and entertaining as you read about their experiences growing their own vegetables, raising chickens,and building relationships with local farmers, artisans and the joy of coming together with friends and family.

Dianne Settineri
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Released on May 1, 2007

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Ocean’s Thirteen

Drama
The last time we saw Danny Ocean’s crew, they were paying back ruthless casino mogul Terry Benedict after stealing millions from him. However, it’s been a while since they’ve come back together, which is all about to change. When one of their own, Reuben Tishkoff builds a hotel with known casino owner Willy Banks, the last thing he ever wanted was to get cut out of the deal personally by the loathsome Banks. Banks’ attitude even goes so far as to finding the amusement in Tishkoff’s misfortune when the double crossing lands Reuben in the hospital because of a heart attack. However, Danny and his crew won’t stand for Banks and what he’s done to a friend. Uniting with their old enemy Benedict, who himself has a vendetta against Banks, the crew is out to pull off a major plan. One that will unfold on the night Banks’ newest hot spot opens up, when the crew is out to bankrupt one of the city’s most despised businessmen. But they’re not in this for the money, but for the revenge.

Releases November 13, 2007

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I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry

Comedy
Adam Sandler and Kevin James star as best friends and fellow firefighters Chuck and Larry, the pride of their Brooklyn fire station. Chuck owes Larry for saving his life. Widower Larry calls in that favor big-time by asking Chuck to pose as his “domestic partner” so his kids will get his pension. But when a fact-checking bureaucrat becomes suspicious, the two straight guys are forced to improvise as love-struck newlyweds. Jessica Biel, Ving Rhames and Dan Aykroyd co-star in this hilarious comedy.

Releases November 6, 2007

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Double Cross
James Patterson

Fiction/Mystery
Alex Cross rejoins the police force to face the most diabolical villain he’s ever encountered-a serial killer with a hunger for mega-celebrity.
A series of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. has the whole East Coast on edge. It is like nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. As victims are made into gruesome spectacles citywide, inducing media hysteria, it becomes clear to Alex that the man he’s after is a genius of terror-and he’s after fame. The killer has the whole city on a string, and he’ll stop at nothing to become the most terrifying star that Washington D.C. has ever seen.

Releases November 13, 2007

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Creation in Death
J. D. Robb

Fiction/Mystery
NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas keeps the streets of a near-future New York City safe in this extraordinary series. But even she makes mistakes, and is haunted by those she couldn’t save-and the killers she couldn’t capture. When the body of a young brunette is found in East River Park, artfully positioned and marked by signs of prolonged and painful torture, Eve is catapulted back to a case nine years earlier. The city was on edge from a killing spree that took the lives of four women in fifteen days, courtesy of a man the media tagged “The Groom”-because he put silver rings on the fingers of his victims.

Releases November 6, 2007

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Stone Cold
David Baldacci

Fiction/Suspense

Oliver Stone and the Camel Club are back in their most dangerous adventure yet, a war on two fronts. Casino king Jerry Bagger from The Collectors is hunting Annabelle Conroy who conned him out of millions. Stone and his colleagues Reuben, Milton, and Caleb use all their resources to protect Annabelle. Yet all their skills may not be enough when a deadly new opponent rips off the veneer of Stone’s own mysterious past. Bagger’s menace pales next to newcomer Harry Finn’s lethality. Seeming a normal family-man, Finn has already killed three men with more targets to come. When Finn also sets his bulls-eye on Stone, his reason why will be the greatest shock of all, making readers reconsider their beliefs in good and evil. As bodies and institutions topple, the story rockets toward a shattering finale that will leave the survivors of this explosive tale changed forever.

Releases November 6, 2007

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