Thursday, November 10, 2011

SUBASE Library Announcement!

SUBASE LIBRARY FEATURED BEST SELLERS

FICTION

THE LITIGATORS, by John Grisham.  Partners in a small law firm take on a big case after a fast-track burnout joins them.

THE BEST OF ME, by Nicholas Sparks.   Twenty-five years after their high school romance ended, a man and woman who have gone their separate ways return to their North Carolina town for the funeral of a friend.

THE CHRISTMAS WEDDING, by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo.   A widow keeps the identity of the new man she is about to marry a secret as her children gather for Christmas.

THE MARRIAGE PLOT, by Jeffrey Eugenides.   Three Brown graduates in the early 1980s wrestle with love, religion and coming of age.

THE AFFAIR, by Lee Child.   For Jack Reacher, an elite military police officer, it all started in 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A cover-up.

DAMNED, by Chuck Palahniuk.   A 13-year-old who died of a pot overdose finds herself in hell.

SHOCK WAVE, by John Sandford.  Virgil Flowers investigates several bombings of a superstore chain that seeks to open a store in a Minnesota river town.

BONNIE, by Iris Johansen.   The forensic sculptor Eve Duncan learns more about her daughter’s disappearance and the girl’s father‘s possible involvement.

A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, by George R. R. Martin.   After a colossal battle, the Seven Kingdoms face new threats; Book 5 of "A Song of Ice and Fire."

THE NIGHT CIRCUS, by Erin Morgenstern.  Two young rivals at a magical circus become collaborators as they fall in love.

THE DOVEKEEPERS, by Alice Hoffman.  The lives of four women intersect during the siege of Masada in 70 A.D.

NONFICTION

STEVE JOBS, by Walter Isaacson.   A biography of the recently deceased entrepreneur, based on 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years.

KILLING LINCOLN, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard.  The commentator looks at the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman.  The winner of the Nobel in economic science discusses how we make choices in business and personal life and when we can and cannot trust our intuitions.

BOOMERANG, by Michael Lewis.  A look at some of the places — Greece, Ireland, Iceland — hardest hit by the financial collapse of 2008, and at how it happened.

UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand.   An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.

JACQUELINE KENNEDY: HISTORIC CONVERSATIONS ON LIFE WITH JOHN F. KENNEDY.  Recordings and transcripts of a seven-part interview with Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. in 1964.

SUICIDE OF A SUPERPOWER, by Patrick J. Buchanan.  How the death of faith has accelerated American decline.

VAN GOGH, by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith.  A biography of the artist.

IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS, by Erik Larson.  William E. Dodd, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, and his daughter, Martha, in 1930s Berlin.

YOUNG ADULT

BRAND NEW RELEASE!! INHERITANCE, BY CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI.  The much-anticipated, thrilling conclusion of the worldwide bestselling Inheritance cycle.

THE SON OF NEPTUNE, by Rick Riordan.   The cast of characters expands; Book 2 of the Heroes of Olympus. (Ages 9 to 12)

MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN, by Ransom Riggs.   An island, an abandoned orphanage and a collection of curious photographs. (Ages 12 and up)

THE POWER OF SIX, by Pittacus Lore.   Nine Loric aliens came to Earth seeking refuge. Six remain. (Ages 14 and up)

MICHAEL VEY: THE PRISONER OF CELL 25, by Richard Paul Evans.   Powers prove dangerous. (Ages 12 and up)

THE HUNGER GAMES, by Suzanne Collins.   In a dystopian society a girl fights for survival on live TV. (Ages 12 and up)

HOUSE OF NIGHT, by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast.   Vampires in school. (Ages 14 and up)

DORK DIARIES, by Rachel Renée Russell.  Nikki Maxwell navigates the halls of middle school. (Ages 9 to 13)

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID, written and illustrated by Jeff Kinney.   The travails of adolescence, in cartoons. (Ages 9 to 12)

THE MAZE RUNNER TRILOGY, by James Dashner.  Teenagers remember nothing of their past. (Ages 12 and up)

THE TWILIGHT SAGA, by Stephenie Meyer.   Vampire angst. (Ages 12 and up)

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