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GQ

We've recently added subscriptions to GQ Magazine and Mother Jones to our collection. Come check them out!

Be sure to read Maeve Binchy's newest, Whitethorn Woods, in which she takes the reader to a charming Irish village facing twenty first century expansion. This community of endearing characters is portrayed through individual chapters with Binchy's warmth and humor, concluding with an unexpected resolution to the conflict between progress and tradition.

Fans of the author will be delighted with this new and entertaining addition to our Maeve Binchy collection.

Urban Shaman

Joanne Walker has three days to learn to use her shamanic powers and save the world from the unleashed Wild Hunt. No worries. No pressure. Never mind the lack of sleep, the perplexing new talent for healing herself from fatal wounds, or the cryptic, talking coyote who appears in her dreams. And if all that's not bad enough, in the three years Joanne's been a cop, she's never seen a dead body -- but she's just come across her second in three days. It's been a hell of a week. And it isn't over yet.

Graphic novels aren't just for kids! Explore this vibrant genre...

Embroideries

Iranian-born graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi follows the success of her autobiographical series, Persepolis and Persepolis 2, with this story based on conversations she overheard between her grandmother, aunts, and their circle of women friends.

V for Vendetta

Check out the book that inspired the major motion picture, V for Vendetta, by Alan Moore and David Llyod.

Just in on the Fantasy New Book shelf!

WebMage - Ravirn, the multi-great-grandson of the Fate Lachesis (who measures the thread of life), is in trouble. Great-aunt Atropos (who cuts it) has decided that human free will is a great nuisance. She plans to get rid of it by coding a spell into the Fate Core, the server that rules destiny. But there's a problem with the spell. Dedicated hacker Ravirn can catch the fatal flaw in any software but refuses to debug it. In fact, he's determined to defeat the project. All Hades breaks loose and it seems everyone is intent on pursuing him. His only allies are his webgoblin familiar, his gorgeous cousin (a mean programmer herself), and the webgoblin underground. When Discord and the Furies get involved, things get really complicated.

Ex Agent from the Department of Justice's Magellan Billet Cotton Malone is back. Malone's son has been kidnapped to force him to reveal "The Alexandria Link" the only person in the world who knows the location of the Lost Library of Alexandria. When the Link is killed, Malone is sent on a mission to find the lost library before the other side, thus protecting the library's secrets.

Check out these books now on our New Bookshelf.

• First, in Baghdad Burning, a young Iraqi blogger details her life and experiences as an eyewitness to the war. The second volume, Baghdad Burning II, is also available.
  
• Seond, Amy Sedaris, co-creator of Comedy Central's Strangers With Candy, offers hospitality hints that would horrify Martha Stewart in her book, I Like You.
• Finally, take a look at the groundbreaking, generation-defining novel Generation X by Douglas Coupland.

Check out our latest additions to our collection of music scores!! Love Broadway? We now have the scores for Wicked, an Andrew Lloyd Weber athology as well as scores for some classic Rogers and Hammerstein musicals. Country more your style? Try the 100 Greatest Songs of Country Music. Or perhaps you'd prefer 150 of the Most Beautfiful Songs Ever. There's something for everyone at the Brookfield Public Library!

Check out these new magazines on the Adult Periodicals shelf.

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