Three hot new Regency romances

Looking for Regency romances to set your heart racing?  Try one of these three new books available at your Community Library, all named "Top Picks" by the March 2012 issue of Romantic Times.

• A Rogue By Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean - Determined to keep his new wife, the very proper Lady Penelope Marbury, away from London's illicit underworld, the Marquess of Bourne, the owner of London's most exclusive gaming hell, finds this task quite challenging when Penelope discovers her own desires.
• The Revenge of Lord Eberlin by Julia London - Determined to destroy Lily Boudine, the woman whose childhood testimony helped send his father to the gallows for stealing the valuable Ashwood jewels, Tobin Scott returns to Hadley Green where he offers Lily a choice, but their dangerous game leads to passion and a shocking truth.
• Between the Duke and the Deep Blue Sea by Sophia Nash - After her murderous blackguard of a husband tries to kill her, Roxanne Vanderhaven finds an unlikely champion in the notorious Duke of Kress, who, exiled to Cornwall by the Prince Regent himself, is searching for redemption. 

Happy reading from your Community Library!

6th book out in 'John Wells' series: 'Shadow Patrol'

Fans of Alex Berenson's popular "John Wells" series of suspenseful novels set in war-torn Afghanistan will be happy to hear that the sixth book in the series has just been published.  The Shadow Patrol continues the story of John Wells, an undercover operative for the CIA, as he travels to Kabul to investigate a drug trafficking operation that involves the agency, the military, and the Taliban.  New to the series?  Start with The Faithful Spy, and continue with The Ghost War, The Silent Man, The Midnight House, and The Secret Soldier.

Short mystery collections at MMSCL

For the amateur sleuth in all of us, here is a list of short mystery collections available at Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library.  Perfect for those who don't have the time or the patience for full-length myseries!

Unlikely duo attempts to save the world in 'Angelmaker'

Enjoy your spy thrillers leavened with a bit of humor?  You may enjoy Nick Harkaway's Angelmaker, a blistering gangster-noir-meets-absurdist-comedy in which only an unassuming repairman and an octogenarian former superspy can save the world from total destruction.  Avoiding the lifestyle of his late gangster father by working as a clock repairman, Joe Spork fixes an unusual device that turns out to be a former secret agent's doomsday machine and incurs the wrath of the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator.

Book to movie alert: 'The Lucky One'

The Lucky One, a new book-based movie, is hitting theaters on April 20th.  Author Nicholas Sparks, whose heartfelt stories of love and loss resonate with millions, is no stranger to film adaptations.  Nights in Rodanthe (film version here), Dear John (film version here), The Notebook (film version here), and The Last Song (film version here) are only a few of his books that have made it to the big screen.  The Lucky One, his newest book to reach movie theaters,  tells the story of a Marine who comes into the possession of a photograph of a smiling woman he has never met.  He experiences a chain of fortuitous events that cause him to regard the photograph as a lucky charm, a belief that prompts a heartfelt search for the woman.  Check the book out now to beat the post-movie crowd!