New Bookshelf

One of my favorite guilty pleasures is watching the Food Network.  I especially enjoy watching top cake decorators compete on Food Network Challenge & Ace of Cakes, a reality show centered around the doings of Charm City Cakes, a specialty cake shop in Baltimore, M.D. owned by Duff Goldberg.

So if you're a fan of Ace of Cakes or awed by cake in general, check out Duff's new book Ace of Cakes: Inside the World of Charm City Cakes.  The book explains how Charm City Cakes came to be what it is today: how the staff came together &  how the show came about.  It offers tips by various CCC staff members, answers frequently asked questions about the show, and highlights some pretty awesome cakes.

Coming soon to our New Non-Fiction Bookshelf:

• The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
• American on Purpose by Craig Ferguson
• Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir by Kathy Griffin
• Where Men Win Glory by John Krakauer
• The Murder of King Tut by James Patterson
• End This Fed by Ron Paul 

Get ahead in the game by putting these upcoming titles on hold now!

Coming in September

• The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown 
• An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
• Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
• Rough Country by John Sandford
• The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
• Hothouse Orchid by Stuard Woods

Coming in October

• Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly
• Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell
• Plum Pudding Murder by Joanne Fluke
• A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris
• Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
• Evidence by Jonathan Kellerman
• The Professional by Robert B. Parker

"Pulp Ficiton" describes the type of stories that were originally published in magazines and later in paperback format.  "Pulp" refers the cheap pulp paper that such stories were printed out.  Generally both the quality of the materials and often the publisher were considered cheap.  Classic pulp stories were often about adventurers, detectives, and even westerns.

Hunt at the Well of Eternity featuring the adventures of Gabriel Hunt is a modern day throwback to the old pulp ficiton novels.   An Indiana Jones type character Gabriel Hunt is a modern day traveler and adventurer.  When a museum benefit is crashed and a woman is kidnapped Gabriel Hunt knew that there was something the woman & her mysterious package that that the kidnappers were willing to kill for.   Check out the book to read more about this exciting adventure.

Plus coming soon:  Hunt Through the Cradle of Fear.   

Be sure to stop by the library to check out or put on hold the many new titles that are being released this summer.  Some of my favorite authors with new titles out include:

• Beth Harbison:  Hope in a Jar
• James Rollins:  The Doomsday Key
• Janet Evanovich: Finger Lickin Fifteen 
• Laurie Viera Rigler: Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addcit
• Mary Kay Andrews:  The Fixer Upper
• Rhys Bowen: Royal Flush
  
• Sophie Kinsella: Twenties Girl  (out in July)
• Philippa Gregory: The White Queen (out in August)

If you're a fan of Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire Mystery series starring telepath Sookie Stackhouse, check out the newest addition to our DVD collection, True Blood the HBO tv series based on the books.  True Blood stars Anna Paquin as Sookie.  Click here to put it on hold.   Sookie's latest adventure Dead and Gone has also recently hit the shelves and can be reserved

If you're a fan of Sophie Kinsella you may like the new book The Glamorous (Double) Life of Isabel Bookbinder by Holly McQueen.  Frustrated with her real life, Isabel fantasizes about being a world famous novelist.  After inadvertantly creating a scandal at work, Isabel encounters one misadventure after another while attempting to write (& sell) her book. Will she write her own happy ending?  Check out the book and find out!!

Under Their Thumb:  How a Nice Boy from Brooklyn Got Mixed Up with The Rolling Stones (and Lived to Tell About It) by Bill German is a"warts-and-all" "tell-all" account of German's career working for the Rolling Stones as public relations guy, personal assistant, and all-around fixer.  A journalism student until he dropped out to follow the Stones, German always knew what he wanted to do with his life:  chronicle the work and career of his favorite band, The Rolling Stones.  Amazingly, German went from publisher of a fan-zine to personal confidant.  This is his story:  "he was a player in the Mick-versus-Keith feud and was an eyewitness to Keith's midlife crisis and Ron's overindulgences."

Two new biographies of important and fascinating individuals from our nation’s past:

 

 

 

 

 

Sitting Bull by Bill Yenne

Up From History:  The Life of Booker T. Washington by Robert J. Norrell

New Biographies

We have a diverse group of new biographies on the new book shelf, with something to please everyone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Military History

If you ‘re interested in military history, you may enjoy one of these titles:

American Lion by Jon Meacham

Patton:  Ordeal and Triumph by Ladislas Farago

Beaumarchais: A Biography by Maurice Lever

The Peasant Prince:  Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution by Alex Storozynski

 

Celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s 200th Birthday!

A. Lincoln:  A Biography by Ronald C. White, Jr.

Lincoln by David Herbert Donald

Mrs. Lincoln:  A Life by Catherine Clinton

 

The Bicentennial of Edgar Allan Poe’s Birth:

Poe:  A Life Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd

 

Celebrating the lives and achievement of other writers:

 

 

 

The Haunted Heart:  The Life and Times of Stephen King by Lisa Rogak

Flannery:  A Life of Flannery O’Connor by Brad Gooch