New Laura Lippman

Hush Hush by Laura Lippman
On a searing August day, Melisandre Harris Dawes committed the unthinkable: she left her two-month-old daughter locked in a car while she sat nearby on the shores of the Patapsco River. Melisandre was found not guilty by reason of criminal insanity. Freed, she left the country, her husband and her two surviving children, determined to start over. But now Melisandre has returned Baltimore to meet with her estranged teenage daughters and wants to film the reunion for a documentary. (Publisher Summary)

Hush Hush received a starred review from Booklist Reviews: "with an intriguing cast of characters, stinging dialogue, hilarious moments, and a superbly convoluted and suspenseful plot, Lippman has created an incisive and provocative tale about parents good and evil."

Click here to place a hold on this new mystery today!

February is Black History Month

Before February moves into March, don't forget to check out the book display on the main floor of the library that is dedicated to books celebrating the achievements of black Americans. Here is just a sample of what you will find:
Martin Luther King, Jr. by Marshall Frady

Eye on the Struggle by James McGrath Morris

Rosa Parks by Douglas Brinkley

Eye on the Struggle by James McGrath Morris
Describes the life and career of the journalist and network news commentator who publicly asked President Eisenhower to support desegregation and covered such important civil rights events as the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the desegregation crisis in Little Rock. (Publisher Summary)

Rosa Parks by Douglas Brinkley
A portrait of the African-American woman who is immortalized for refusing to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger examines who Rosa Parks was before, during, and after her historic act and how her action contributed to the end of the Jim Crow laws. (Publisher Summary)

Martin Luther King, Jr. by Marshall Frady
A renowned biographer presents an intimate and inspiring portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr., drawn from twenty-five years of award-winning commentary on American race relations, that combines the history of the civil rights movement with King's powerful rise to acclaim and influence, bringing to life his political relationships, his goals, and his achievements. (Publisher Summary)

USPS to Honor Maya Angelou with a Forever Stamp

"Maya Angelou inspired our nation through a life of advocacy and through her many contributions to the written and spoken word," said Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan. "Her wide-ranging achievements as a playwright, poet, memoirist, educator, and advocate for justice and equality enhanced our culture."
Check out the Community Library's extensive selection of Maya Angelou's work. Can't locate what you're looking for? Ask a librarian for assistance, we love to help!



New Titles on 'The New York Times' Best Sellers List

Here are the hardcover fiction titles that are new to The New York Times Best Sellers list. These titles will be listed in the March 1, 2015 issue of The New York Times Book Review
Twelve Days by Alex Berenson

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler

Obsession in Death by J.D.Robb

Motive by Jonathan Kellerman

Holy Cow by David Duchovny

Blood Infernal by James Rollins

Click here to view the complete best sellers list.

The Oscars: Birdman Leads Bookish Gold Rush

As outlined in the February 23, 2015 issue of Shelf Awareness, five of the eight best picture nominees at the 2015 Academy Awards ceremony were either based on books or were "book-related." 

Here they are, have you read them all?
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Books Most Borrowed

Check out the fifteen books most borrowed in U.S. libraries in January 2015!
Gray Mountain by John Grisham

The Burning Room by Michael Connelly

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Personal by Lee Child

Burn by James Patterson

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Deadline by Sandra Brown

Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

The Escape by David Baldacci

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Paris Match by Stuart Woods

Mean Streak by Sandra Brown

Gray Mountain by John Grisham
Losing her job at New York City's largest law firm in the weeks after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Samantha becomes an unpaid intern in a small Appalachian community, where she stumbles upon dangerous secrets. (Publisher Summary)

The Burning Room by Michael Connelly
Detective Bosch and new rookie partner Lucia Soto chase elusive leads in a case involving a victim who succumbs to complications from a bullet wound sustained nine years earlier. By the best-selling author of The Black Box. (Publisher Summary)

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
When a woman goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary, her diary reveals hidden turmoil in her marriage, while her husband, desperate to clear himself of suspicion, realizes that something more disturbing than murder may have occurred. (Publisher Summary)

Personal by Lee Child
A follow-up to the best-selling Never Go Back traces the fallout of game-changing events, placing Jack Reacher in a unique environment while pitting him against adversaries whose fates transform in unexpected ways.

Burn by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Back home in New York, Detective Michael Bennett investigates a burnt body left where a strange party had been held in a condemned building, in the seventh novel of the series following Gone. (Publisher Summary)

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast. (Publisher Summary)

Deadline by John Sandford
Already coping with Afghanistan battle fatigue, a journalist receives a tip he can't ignore about a potentially huge story involving the son of terrorists at-large for 40 years in this new thriller from the author of Tough Customer. (Publisher Summary)

Leaving Time by Jodi Piccolt
Abandoned by a grief-stricken father and scientist mother who disappeared under mysterious circumstances, thirteen-year-old Jenna Metcalf approaches a disgraced psychic and a jaded detective in the hopes of finding answers. (Publisher Summary)

The Escape by David Balducci
When his older brother escapes a military prison, John Puller finds himself part of the manhunt for him and discovers troubling details about the case. (Publisher Summary)

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
Follows three mothers, each at a crossroads, and their potential involvement in a riot at a school trivia night that leaves one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but which evidence shows might have been premeditated. (Publisher Summary)

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
Forced to take in lodgers in economically challenged 1922 South London, widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter find their lives profoundly and disturbingly changed by the arrival of a modern young couple. By the best-selling author of The Little Stranger. (Publisher Summary)

Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett
A conclusion to the epic trilogy by the best-selling author of Winter of the World continues the experiences of five intertwined international families as they confront the social, political and economic turmoil of the second half of the 20th century. (Publisher Summary)

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Taken in by a wealthy family friend after surviving an accident that killed his mother, thirteen-year-old Theo Decker tries to adjust to life on Park Avenue in this new novel by the author of The Secret History(Publisher Summary)

Paris Match by Stuart Woods
Stone Barrington has returned to Paris to attend to some business concerns, and finds himself embroiled in high-stakes trouble on both sides of the pond. An old enemy is still in hot pursuit, and this time he might have a powerful local resource on his side: a gentleman with his own ax to grind against Stone. (Publisher Summary)

Mean Streak by Sandra Brown
After being abducted from a mountain road in North Carolina, a pediatrician and avid runner, Dr. Emory Charbonneau, finds herself held captive by a violent man with a dark past who may ultimately end up being her savior, in the new thriller from the author of Deadline

This list was published in the January 13, 2015 edition of Library Journal Reviews. Click here to read the full article.

New Sci-Fi Series

Dreamer's Pool by Juliet Marillier
Looking for a new sci-fi series to sink your teeth into? Look no further than the brand new Blackthorn and Grim series written by award winning author, Juliet Marillier! The first book, Dreamer's Pool, has been released and promises to transport the reader to a magical vision of ancient Ireland...

After escaping her wrongful imprisonment, magical healer Blackthorn, living on the fringe of a mysterious forest with a former prison mate named Grim, is duty bound to assist anyone who asks for her help and must call upon her courage, ingenuity and magic when Prince Oran calls upon her. 

"The best thing about this novel (and there are many good components) is that it's the opener for a series featuring the taciturn Blackthorn and mysterious Grim. Typical for Marillier (Daughter of the Forest) is the evocative setting of an ancient Ireland that echoes with fairy tales and just a hint of magic." (Library Journal Reviews)

Baby, It's Cold Outside

Warm up with these selections from the Romantic Novelists' Association shortlist for The RoNAs (Romantic Novel Awards) 2015!
A Hundred Pieces of Me by Lucy Dillon

Under the Jewelled Sky by Alison McQueen

The Girl Who Came Home by William Morrow

The Gentleman Rouge by Margaret McPhee

A Hundred Pieces of Me by Lucy Dillon
Determined to make a fresh start following her divorce, Gina Bellamy is left to figure out how to live on her own, beginning with throwing away all her possessions except the one hundred that mean the most to her. (Publisher Summary)

Under the Jewelled Sky by Alison McQueen
Ten years after being forbidden to socialize with--let alone fall in love with--Jag, the son of a palace servant, Sophie returns to India with her British husband and finds that the memories of her first love have never truly left her. (Publisher Summary)

The Girl Who Came Home by William Morrow
After the death of her father, Grace Butler, struggling with what comes next, unexpectedly finds a new direction in life when her Great Nana Maggie shares a painful secret she has harbored for almost a lifetime about the RMS Titanic(Publisher Summary)

The Gentleman Rouge by Margaret McPhee
In a Mayfair ballroom, beautiful Emma Northcote stands in amazement. For gazing at her, with eyes she'd know anywhere, is Ned Stratham, a man whose roguish charm once held her captivated. (Publisher Summary)

Click here to read the full article.

2015 Notable Books Announced

Earlier this month, the Notable Books Council announced the 2015 selections of the Notable Books List, which is an annual "best-of" list consisting of twenty-six adult titles that were published in the United States. The categories include fiction, nonfiction and poetry. 

Check out the fiction titles below!
All My Puny Sorrow by Miriam Toews

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

The Children Act by Ian McEwan

The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness

The Enchanted by Rene Denfield

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee

Orfeo by Richard Powers

Something Rich and Strange by Ron Rash

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Tigerman by Nick Harkaway

All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
Two Mennonite sisters, Elfrieda and Yolandi, struggle with Elf's depression and attempts to end her life while holding their family together. By the author of Summer of My Amazing Luck. (Publisher Summary)

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with their respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast. By the award-winning author of About Grace(Publisher Summary)

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
Interweaves six narratives spanning the period between 1984 and the 2030s to chronicle a secret war between a cult of soul-decanters and a small group of vigilantes who would take them down. By the award-winning author of Cloud Atlas(Publisher Summary)

The Children Act by Ian McEwan
A highly respected London judge hides her decision to separate from a husband who wants an open marriage, a loss that challenges her beliefs throughout a case involving parents whose faith forbids a life-saving transfusion for their son. (Publisher Summary)

The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness
Enduring a lonely life in his London print shop, divorced American George Duncan rescues an injured white crane only to fall desperately in love with a an enigmatic Japanese artist who seems to hold the potential to change his entire life. By the award-winning author of A Monster Calls(Publisher Summary)

The Enchanted by Rene Denfield
Arriving at an ancient stone prison, the Lady, an investigator who searches for buried information from prisoners' pasts that can save those soon-to-be-executed, digs into the past of a killer named York, who can sense what others cannot, and unearths shocking secrets of her own. (Publisher Summary)

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Haunted by the death of his wife while attending brutally sick and injured soldiers at a World War II Japanese POW camp, surgeon Dorrigo Evans receives a letter that irrevocably shapes the subsequent decades of his life in Australia. By the award-winning author of Gould's Book of Fish(Publisher Summary)

On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee
A tale set in a class-divided future America where urban neighborhoods function as labor colonies for elite charter villages, Fan, a female fish-tank diver, embarks on what becomes a legendary quest to find the man she loves in a region overcome by anarchic forces. By the award-winning author of Native Speaker(Publisher Summary)

Orfeo by Richard Powers
An experimental composer becomes a fugitive after his home microbiology lab, set up to find music in surprising patterns, results in a Homeland Security raid in this new novel from the award-winning author of Generosity(Publisher Summary)

Something Rich and Strange by Ron Rash
An anthology of short fiction captures the complexities of Appalachia, illuminating the tensions between the traditional and the modern, the old and new south, tenderness and violence and man and nature. By the best-selling author of Serena, the basis for a motion picture released in Fall 2014. (Publisher Summary)

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The sudden death of a Hollywood actor during a production of "King Lear" marks the beginning of the world's dissolution in a story told at various past and future times from the perspectives of the actor and four of his associates. (Publisher Summary)

Tigerman by Nich Harkaway
Assigned to a ceremonial post in Mancreu, British consul and Afghanistan war veteran Lester Ferris is compelled to disregard widespread underworld activities while bonding with a comic-addicted youth who during a violent uprising desperately relies on him for help. By the award-winning author of Angelmaker(Publisher Summary)

Click here to view the official announcement.

2015 Andrew Carnegie Long List Announced

The longlist for the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in fiction and nonfiction was announced last week. The forty-three books on the longlist were selected from the most recent Booklist Editor's Choice and the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) Notable Books list.

The shortlist, for both fiction and nonfiction, will be announced in April and the winners will be announced at the American Library Association Annual Conference in June.

Click here to read the full article and view the list of selected books.

Oprah Announces New Book Club Selection

Ruby by Cynthia Bond
Oprah has announced her fourth selection for her book club - Ruby by Cynthia Bond!

The epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy her—this beautiful and devastating debut heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.

Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. Young Ruby, “the kind of pretty it hurt to look at,” has suffered beyond imagining, so as soon as she can, she flees suffocating Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s New York. (Publisher Summary)

Ruby received a starred review from Booklist Reviews: "in her first novel, Bond immerses readers in a fully realized world, one scarred by virulent racism and perverted rituals but also redeemed by love. Graphic in its descriptions of sexual violence and suffering, this powerful, explosive novel is, at times, difficult to read, presenting a stark, unflinching portrait of dark deeds and dark psyches.

Click here to learn more about Oprah's Book Club 2.0!

Take a Trip to Blueberry Cove, Maine

Donna Kauffman's third installment in the Bachelors of Blueberry Cove series, Sandpiper Island, has released and is sure to provide a sweet dose of romantic cheer this Valentine's Day!
Sandpiper Island by Donna Kauffman

Pelican Point by Donna Kauffman

Half Moon Harbor by Donna Kauffman

Ford Maddox was running from his past when he came back to Blueberry Cove, Maine. With feisty Delia O'Reilly there to cheer him on, he couldn't have picked a better place to start over--even if he's determined to do it alone in his island tree house, working to save endangered seabirds and himself. But when he finds Delia fighting to hold on to her local diner, and all that's best about their little seaside town, Ford has to lend a hand. Suddenly two fiercely independent people are building something sweeter than they ever imagined, together. (Publisher Summary)

And don't forget to read the first two books in the series, Pelican Point and Half Moon Harbor