The items have been on the shelf for a while and are ready to be checked out again! See what we have on our “dusty bookshelf.”
The Dusty Bookshelf
The Book Shelf
by Penelope Fitzgerald
In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance risks everything to open a bookshop??-??the only bookshop??-??in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town’s less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge her neighbors’ lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Florence’s warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: a town that lacks a bookshop isn’t always a town that wants one. The basis for the major motion picture starring Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, and Patricia Clarkson.
Fic Fitzgerald
DVD Drama Bookshop
Ghost of Spirit Bear
by Ben Mikaelsen
After a year in exile on an Alaskan island as punishment for severely beating a fellow student, Cole Matthews returns to school in Minneapolis having made peace with himself and his victim–but he finds that surviving the violence and hatred of high school is even harder than surviving in the wilderness.
YAF Mikaelsen
Jitterbug Jam
by Barbara Jean Hicks and Alexis Deacon
Grandpa Boo-Dad not only believes that Bobo has seen a pink-skinned boy with orange fur on his head hiding under the bed, he knows exactly how a little monster can scare off such a horrible creature.
JE Hicks
The Lost Order
by Steve Berry
“The Knights of the Golden Circle was the largest and most dangerous clandestine organization in American history. It amassed billions in stolen gold and silver, all buried in hidden caches across the United States. Since 1865 treasure hunters have searched, but little of that immense wealth has ever been found. Now, one hundred and sixty years later, two factions of what remains of the Knights of the Golden Circle want that lost treasure–one to spend it for their own ends, the other to preserve it. Thrust into this battle is former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone, whose connection to the knights is far deeper than he ever imagined. At the center is the Smithsonian Institution–linked to the knights, its treasure, and Malone himself through an ancestor, a Confederate spy named Angus “Cotton” Adams, whose story holds the key to everything. Complicating matters are the political ambitions of a reckless Speaker of the House and the bitter widow of a United States Senator, who together are planning radical changes to the country. And while Malone and Cassiopeia Vitt face the past, ex-president Danny Daniels and Stephanie Nelle confront a new and unexpected challenge, a threat that may cost one of them their life. From the backrooms of the Smithsonian to the deepest woods in rural Arkansas, and finally, up into the rugged mountains of northern New Mexico, The Lost Order is a perilous adventure into our country’s dark past, and a potentially even darker future”–
Fic Berry
Okay For Now
by Gary D. Schmidt
While Doug struggles to be more than the thug that his teachers and the police think him to be, he finds an unlikely ally in Lil Spicer, as they explore Audubon’s art.
JPB SCHMIDT (2014 Teen Nutmeg Nominee)
YAF SCHMIDT
Here Lies
The Collected Stories
by Dorothy Parker
A collection of short stories by the witty satirist and founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. She was a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and also was nominated for two Academy Awards during her time in Hollywood as a screenwriter.
Cane River
by Lalita Tademy
Based on the author’s own search of her family’s past, Cane River is an epic novel based on the lives of four generations of African-American women. Beginning with Tademy’s great-great-great-great-grandmother, Elisabeth, this is a saga that sweeps from the early days of slavery through the Civil War and into a pre-Civil Rights South–a unique and moving slice of America’s past that will resonate with readers for years to come. Photos throughout.
Beggars at the Wall
“In Beggars at the Wall, Rochelle Ratner guides us through an Israel that is not quite the Middle Eastern country we’ve learned about from CNN or travel books. This is her Israel: a fabled and disquieting place she wants to love like a homeland but cannot entirely embrace. In these plain-spoken poems, so naked in their concerns and passions, Ratner has given us the work of a secular Jew who yearns to be centered in Zion but who knows that Israel can never be her home. Her poems are washed in the light of Safed, Masada, and Jerusalem–a light that reveals hard truths about the lone Jewish nation on the planet…and about ourselves”–Charles Fishman.
After the Fall: Poems Old and New
After the Fall refers to the twin towers, and is Field’s ode to the events that transpired thereafter–the war in Iraq and the attack on civil rights in America–as well as his own personal struggles over the indignities of aging.
