Here's the PDF of the juvenile books acquired in August, 2008.

And here's the same list without covers:
Wings: A Fairy Tale by E.D. Baker
Lamplighter (Monster Blood Tattoo, Book 2) by D.M. Cornish
Martha in the Middle by Jan Fearnley
My Chincoteague Pony by Susan Jeffers
House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
Pharaoh: Life and Afterlife of a God by David Kennett
Flight, Volume One by Kazu Kibuishi
Flight Explorer, Volume One by Kazu Kibuishi
Flight 29 Down , Static by d.j. machale
The Quillan Games (Pendragon) by D. J. MacHale
Black Water (Pendragon, Book 5) by D.J. MacHale
The Lost City of Faar (Pendragon Series #2) by D.J. MacHale
The Merchant of Death (Pendragon Series #1) by D. J. MacHale
Mouse Guard Volume 1: Fall 1152 (Mouse Guard Graphic Novels) by David Petersen
My Terrific Tractor Book by DK Publishing
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4) by Rick Riordan
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2) by Rick Riordan
The Seven: Flight 29 Down #2 (Unabridged) by MacHale, Stan, D. J. Rogow
On Fire: Flight 29 Down #6 (Unabridged) by MacHale, Stan, D. J. Rogow
The Storm: Flight 29 Down #4 (Unabridged) by MacHale, Stan, D. J. Rogow
The Way Home & The Bittersweet Summer (Owly (Graphic Novels)) by Andy Runton
Gallop!: A Scanimation Picture Book (Scanimation Books) by Rufus Butler Seder
How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz
The Last of the High Kings by Kate Thompson
The Return (Flight 29 Down) by John Vornholt
Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak by Kay Winters

You can always consult our Library Thing account to see all the books we've acquired since November, 2007.

New Adult Books in August

You can find a PDF with covers in color of the new adult books we acquired in August, 2008.

Here's the same list without covers:

Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher Novels) by Lee Child
Married Lovers by Jackie Collins
TailSpin (FBI Thriller, No. 12) by Catherine Coulter
Vineyard Chill: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery (Martha's Vineyard Mysteries) by Philip R. Craig
Where Memories Lie: A Novel (Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James Novels) by Deborah Crombie
Plague Ship (Oregon Files) by Clive Cussler
The Broken Window: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel (Lincoln Rhyme) by Jeffery Deaver
This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation by Barbara Ehrenreich
Uneasy Relations (A Gideon Oliver Mystery) by Aaron Elkins
Findings (Faye Longchamp Mysteries, No. 4) by Mary Anna Evans
Rock and Roll Never Forgets: A JP Kinkaid Mystery by Deborah Grabien
The Beach House by Jane Green
The Garden of Last Days: A Novel by Andre Dubus III
The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir by Honor Moore
Killer View by Ridley Pearson
Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times by Susan Quinn
Rules of Deception by Christopher Reich
The Last Oracle: A Novel (Sigma Force) by James Rollins
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
Masters: Art Quilts: Major Works by Leading Artists (The Masters) by Martha Sielman
The Prodigal Nun: A Sister Agatha Mystery (Sister Agatha Mysteries) by Aimee Thurlo
Murder on K Street: A Capital Crimes Novel (Capital Crimes) by Margaret Truman
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jef by Elissa Wall
The Lady Elizabeth: A Novel by Alison Weir
Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel by Lauren Weisberger
Sleeping Arrangements by Madeleine Wickham
December by Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop
Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's Prisoner of Conscience by Justin Wintle
Breath: A Novel by Tim Winton

PDFs of July Acquisitions

I hate those boring lists, but I haven't figured out how to incorporate images without sending you all to Amazon, which seems a bit weird for library books.

So, instead, I've created PDFs of the lists of new books, with covers, that you can download. You can also see these same pretty lists in the flesh at the library at the circulation desk.

July Adult Acquisitions, in color
July Juvenile Acquisitions, in color

Let me know if you have any questions or comments. There are a lot of great books out!

And don't forget, you can consult the list of all the books acquired by the Belding Library since November, 2007, at our Library Thing account.

New Juvenile Books in July

Face to Face With Wolves (Face to Face with Animals) by Jim Brandenburg
Valentine Surprise by Corinne Demas
Bewitching Season by Marissa Doyle
The Wolves Are Back by Jean Craighead George
Asterix and the Golden Sickle (Asterix) by Rene Goscinny
Asterix at the Olympic Games (Asterix) by Rene Goscinny
Found (Missing) by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
The Quest Begins (Seekers, Book 1) by Erin Hunter
Amulet: Book 1 (Amulet) by Kazu Kibuishi
Ever by Gail Carson Levine
Albert the Fix-it Man by Janet Lord
Face to Face with Frogs (Face to Face with Animals) by Mark Moffett
Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
Lady Liberty: A Biography by Doreen Rappaport
The Apple-Pip Princess by Jane Ray
The House of Djinn by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Garbage and Recycling (Opposing Viewpoints) by Mitchell Young

New Adult Books in July

The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir by Isabel Allende
Winter Study (Anna Pigeon Mysteries) by Nevada Barr
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beec by Christopher Benfey
Tell Me Another Morning: An Autobiographical Novel by Zdena Berger
The Strange Death of Republican America: Chronicles of a Collapsing Party by Sidney Blumenthal
Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg
A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father by Augusten Burroughs
Where Are You Now?: A Novel by Mary Higgins Clark
The Front by Patricia Cornwell
Playing With the Grown-ups: A Novel by Sophie Dahl
The Rosetta Key by William Dietrich
A Perfect Revenge: A Novel by Annabel Dilke
The Hudson: America's River by Frances F. Dunwell
Practically Perfect: A Novel by Katie Fforde
Bulls Island by Dorothea Benton Frank
Careless in Red: A Novel by Elizabeth George
Hubert's Freaks: The Rare-Book Dealer, the Times Square Talker, and the Lost Photos of Diane Arbus by Gregory Gibson
A Dangerous Age: A Novel by Ellen Gilchrist
Death Before Wicket: A Phyryne Fisher Mystery by Kerry Greenwood
Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer
The Girl with No Shadow (published in the UK as The Lollipop Shoes) by Joanne Harris
Degrees of Separation: A Jessie Arnold Mystery (Jessie Arnold Mysteries) by Sue Henry
Mummy Dearest (Claire Malloy Mysteries, No. 17) by Joan Hess
The Third Angel: A Novel by Alice Hoffman
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer
Quicksand by Iris Johansen
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt
Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening by Anna Kruger
The Girl of His Dreams (A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery) by Donna Leon
Perfect Family: A Novel by Pam Lewis
The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve Lopez
The Headhunters: An Inspector Hen Mallin Investigation by Peter Lovesey
The Host: A Novel by Stephenie Meyer
Moyers on Democracy by Bill Moyers
William Cullen Bryant: Author of America by Gilbert H. Muller
Things I Want My Daughters to Know: A Novel by Elizabeth Noble
The Complete Compost Gardening Guide: Banner batches, grow heaps, comforter compost, and other amazing techniques for sa by Barbara Pleasant
Assassins at Ospreys by R.T. Raichev
The Age of Dreaming by Nina Revoyr
Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound by David Rothenberg
Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa by Hans Silvester
The Miracle at Speedy Motors: The New Novel in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander Mccall Smith
Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History by Ted Sorensen
Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays by William Styron
Whatever Makes You Happy: A Novel by William Sutcliffe
The Book of Getting Even: A Novel by Benjamin Taylor
Friday Nights: A Novel by Joanna Trollope
The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
Santa Fe Dead by Stuart Woods

New DVD's for April 2008

Da Vinci's Inquest

The Lord of the Rings

Plain Truth

The Plow that Broke the Plains

Sleeping with the Enemy

Tara Road

New Juvenile Books April 08

There are 18 new kids books this April, 2008. You can see the full list with covers and everything on the Belding Library collection on Library Thing


Mia (American Girl) by Laurence Yep
Life on Earth -- and Beyond: An Astrobiologist's Quest by Pamela S. Turner
One Well: The Story of Water on Earth by Rochelle Strauss
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz
Key To Rondo by Emily Rodda
Buzz by DK Publishing
Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem by Jack Prelutsky
Dingo by Charles de Lint
National Geographic Investigates: Ancient Maya: Archaeology Unlocks the Secrets of the Maya's Past (NG Investigates) by Nathaniel Harris
The Groundbreaking, Chance-Taking Life of George Washington Carver and Science and Invention in America (Cheryl Harness by Cheryl Harness
Red Truck by Kersten Hamilton
Monarch and Milkweed by Helen Frost
Drive by Nathan Clement
How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming (About Our Changing Clim by Lynne Cherry
Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion (Scientists in the Field) by Loree Griffin Burns
A Great and Terrible Beauty (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy) by Libba Bray
Muckrakers: How Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Lincoln Steffens Helped Expose Scandal, Inspire Reform, and Invent Inve by Ann Bausum
The Brook Book by Jim Arnosky

New Adult Books April 08

There are 24 new adult books this month. You can see the covers and descriptions on Library Thing or the text-only list below:

A Step from Death: A Memoir by Larry Woiwode
Black Widow by Randy Wayne White
It's a Boy!: Understanding Your Son's Development from Birth to Age 18 by Michael Phd Thompson
Dreamers of the Day: A Novel by Mary Doria Russell
The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte by Laura Joh Rowland
What I Was: A Novel by Meg Rosoff
Friend of the Devil by Peter Robinson
Change of Heart: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nat by Melody Petersen
Buckingham Palace Gardens: A Novel (Thomas Pitt Mysteries) by Anne Perry
Panama Fever: The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time-- the Building of the Panama Canal by Matthew Parker
The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson
Hell's Bay (Thorn Mysteries) by James W. Hall
Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America by Allen C. Guelzo
The Appeal by John Grisham
The Green Mill Murder (Phryne Fisher Mysteries) by Kerry Greenwood
In the Woods by Tana French
The Gathering (Man Booker Prize) by Anne Enright
Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds by Claire Hope Cummings
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long by Eliot Coleman
Tell Me, Pretty Maiden (Molly Murphy Mysteries) by Rhys Bowen
Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West by Benazir Bhutto
Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food by Gene Baur
Aunt Dimity: Vampire Hunter (Aunt Dimity) by Nancy Atherton

Better links for new March books

Well, my links didn't quite work. Try these for

New Juvenile books in March

and

New Adult books added in March

Sorry for all the posts today. We'll now return to our nice low-traffic list :)

What is LibraryThing anyway?

When I first started compiling lists of our new books at the Belding Library, I wanted to be able to give you information about each of the books without sending you to a commercial site like Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

What I found was LibraryThing, an online cataloging system of books. The Belding Library has its own page at LibraryThing, and starting in December, 2007, all the new acquisitions have been and will be added to our catalog there. Each time I send out a new list of acquisitions, each title will be linked to its corresponding page on LibraryThing so you can get a synopsis of what the book is about, read reviews by other readers, and see the cover, among other things.

As our collection grows on LibraryThing, you'll also be able to use it to search for recent acquisitions to see if we have a particular new book you're looking for.

Feel free to contact me with any questions.

New Adult Books March 0308

And in that same vein, here is both a link to our new Adult books (on LibraryThing), as well as a text-only version below:

An Incomplete Revenge: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (Maisie Dobbs Novels) by Jacqueline Winspear
Out Cold: A Brady Coyne Novel (Brady Coyne Novels) by William G. Tapply
Honor Thyself by Danielle Steel
Prepared for Rage: A Novel by Dana Stabenow
Ice Trap: A Novel of Suspense by Kitty Sewell
Blasphemy by Douglas Preston
Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World by Samantha Power
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
High Profile (Jesse Stone Novels) by Robert B. Parker
Back On Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber
The Pajama Girls of Lambert Square by Rosina Lippi
If Not Love by Kay Langdale
Graciela Iturbide: Juchitan by Judith Keller
The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby
Runemarks by Joanne Harris
Constantinople: Capital of Byzantium by Jonathan Harris
The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
The Secret Between Us by Barbara Delinsky
Mozart's Ghost: A Novel by Julia Cameron
The Good Rat: A True Story by Jimmy Breslin
Death of a Gentle Lady by M. C. Beaton
The Reserve by Russell Banks
Wild Inferno (A WILD Mystery) by Sandi Ault

New Juvenile Books March 2008

Well, I think I shouldn't have been copying the covers into my lists, as pretty as they may have been. So, instead, I offer you here a link to our new Juvenile books on Library Thing, complete with covers, where you can find all of our recent acquisitions since December (or a subset of them, depending on what you type in the search box), as well as a text list below:

Abecedarios/ Alphabets: Mexican Folk Art, Abcs in Spanish and English by Cynthia Weill
Let's Clear the Air: 10 Reasons Not to Start Smoking by Deanna Staffo
One City, Two Brothers by Chris Smith
The Silk Princess (Picture Book) by Charles Santore
Body Drama: Real Girls, Real Bodies, Real Issues, Real Answers by Nancy Amanda Redd
Dinomummy by Phillip Manning
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) by Jeff Kinney
Child Labor Today: A Human Rights Issue (Issues in Focus Today) by Wendy Herumin
Asterix and the Big Fight (Asterix) by Rene Goscinny
Asterix the Gaul (Asterix) by Rene Goscinny
Genghis Khan: 13thûCentury Mongolian Tyrant (A Wicked History) by Enid A. Goldberg
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
101 Questions About Muscles: To Stretch Your Mind and Flex Your Brain (101 Questions) by Faith Hickman Brynie

New Juvenile Fiction and Non-Fiction Books Feb 10 2008

Here are the latest books we've gotten for kids (and kid-like grownups):

Juvenile Fiction
Juvenile NonFiction
Picture Books

Juvenile Fiction

The Magic Half by Annie Barrows


Airman by Eoin Colfer


Asterix and Cleopatra by Rene Goscinny


Asterix and the Chieftain's Shield by Rene Goscinny


Asterix and the Class Act by Albert Uderzo


Asterix and the Laurel Wreath by Rene Goscinny


Asterix at the Olympic Games by Rene Goscinny


Indigara: Firebird Novella by Tanith Lee


A Bridge to the Stars by Henning Mankell


Origins: Book Three in the Missing Link Trilogy by Kate Thompson

Juvenile Non-Fiction

The World Made New: Why the Age of Exploration Happened and How It Changed the World by Marc Aronson


The Daring Book for Girls by Andrea J. Buchanan


Who Was First?: Discovering the Americas by Russell Freedman

Explorer, A Daring Guide for Young Adventurers by Henry Hardcastle


Tree Shaker: The Story of Nelson Mandela by Bill Keller


Pirates Most Wanted by John Matthews


Down the Colorado: John Wesley Powell, the One-Armed Explorer by Deborah Kogan Ray


The Food Poisoning Update by Alvin Silverstein


Hurricane Force: In the Path of America's Deadliest Storms by Joseph B. Treaster

Picture Books

Big Book of Trucks by DK Publishing


Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella by Paul Fleischman


Imagine Harry by Kate Klise

New Books Feb 6 2008

New Mystery, Adult Fiction, and Adult Non-Fiction. Kids books coming soon.

Adult Mystery
Adult Fiction
Adult NonFiction

Adult Mystery

Third Strike: A Brady Coyne/J. W. Jackson Mystery by Philip R. Craig

The Skeleton Man by Jim Kelly

Touchstone by Laurie R. King

Bleeding Kansas by Sara Paretsky

Adult Fiction

The Chase by Clive Cussler

The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller

How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet

The Crazy School by Cornelia Read

Adult NonFiction

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

Big Book of Papercrafts: 40 Stunning Projects by Vivienne Bolton

Scientific Conversations: Interviews on Science from The New York Times by Claudia Dreifus

Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming by Mark Bowen

The Ultimate Teen Book Guide by Daniel Hahn

Out of the Storm: The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther by Derek Wilson

New books Jan 15 2008

OK, here goes with the first blog entry that will get mailed out to the list. Bear with me if it doesn't work quite right. I promise to sort it out.

We've got all sorts of great new books this week!
Adult Mystery
Adult Fiction
Adult NonFiction
Juvenile Fiction
Juvenile NonFiction
Picture Books
DVDs

Adult Mystery

T is for Trespass, by Sue Grafton


Step on a Crack, by James Patterson


Watchman, by Ian Rankin


High Profile, by Robert B. Parker

Adult Fiction (not Mystery)

People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks

Adult Non-Fiction

The Natural History of Western Massachusetts, by Stan Freeman and Mike Nasuti



Body: The Complete Human, by Patricia S. Daniels



Nigella Express: 130 Recipes for Good Food, Fast by Nigella Lawson

Juvenile Fiction

Redwall: The Graphic Novel by Brian Jacques

Juvenile Non-Fiction

Our Country's Presidents: Completely Revised and Expanded by Ann Bausum


Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages by Thomas R. Jr Dr Holtz



Arctic Adventures: Tales from the Lives of Inuit Artists by Raquel Rivera

Picture Books

Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco



My Mom Is a Firefighter by Lois G. Grambling

DVDs

Ruth Rendell Mysteries, 2006


Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)



Ladies in Lavender (2004)



Kristen's Fairy House DVD



Simon Birch (1998)