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