Fall 2011 additions to the Collection
The listed items were purchased or donated and processed for
the collection from September, 2011, through January 2012. Click on a title below to check for availability in the Willett Free Library and in Ocean State Libraries.
Books for Adults
The great sea : a human history of the Mediterranean / David Abulafia.
Only time will tell / Jeffrey Archer.
Washington rules : America's path to permanent war / Andrew J. Bacevich.
Zero day : a novel / David Baldacci.
Lost memory of skin / Russell Banks.
The sense of an ending / Julian Barnes.
On Canaan's side / Sebastian Barry.
I am half-sick of shadows : a Flavia de Luce novel / Alan Bradley.
Robert B. Parker's Killing the blues / Michael Brandman.
Step ahead of autism : what you can do to ensure the best possible outcome for your child / by Anne Moore Burnett.
The drop : a novel / Michael Connelly.
The magic of reality : how we know what's really true / Richard Dawkins iillustrated by Dave McKean.
Blue nights / Joan Didion.
The Prague cemetery / Umberto Eco.
The marriage plot / Jeffrey Eugenides.
Explosive eighteen : a Stephanie Plum novel / Janet Evanovich.
Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies.
Commodore Hornblower / by C. S. Forester.
Flying colours / by C.S. Forester.
Hornblower and the Atropos / by C.S. Forester.
Hornblower and the Hotspur / by C. S. Forester.
Hornblower during the crisis / C.S. Forester.
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower / C.S. Forester.
Nightwoods : a novel / Charles Frazier.
Believing the lie / Elizabeth George.
V is for vengeance / Sue Grafton.
The angel makers / Jessica Gregson.
The litigators / John Grisham.
The Betrayal of Trust: A Chief Superintendent Simon Serailler Mystery / Susan Hill.
The dovekeepers : a novel / Alice Hoffman.
Inside of a dog : what dogs see, smell, and know / Alexandra Horowitz.
Rome : a cultural, visual, and personal history / Robert Hughes.
Steve Jobs / Walter Isaacson.
Death comes to Pemberley / P.D. James.
What you call winter : stories / Nalini Jones.
Then again / Diane Keaton.
11/22/63 : a novel / Stephen King.
The secret lives of wives : women share what it really takes to stay married / Iris Krasnow.
Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman / Robert K. Massie.
Basking with humpbacks : tracking threatened marine life in New England waters / Todd McLeish.
Golden wings and hairy toes : encounters with New England's most imperiled wildlife / Todd McLeish.
An uncommon man : the life & times of Senator Claiborne Pell / G. Wayne Miller.
Extra virginity : the sublime and scandalous world of olive oil / Tom Mueller.
The emperor of all maladies : a biography of cancer / Siddhartha Mukherjee.
1Q84 / Haruki Murakami.
The leopard / Jo Nesbø .
The cat's table / Michael Ondaatje.
The Buddha in the attic / Julie Otsuka.
Girl hunter : revolutionizing the way we eat, one hunt at a time / Georgia Pellegrini.
The better angels of our nature : why violence has declined / Steven Pinker.
Shock wave / John Sandford.
Newport : a lively experiment 1639-1969 / Rockwell Stensrud.
Alan Lomax : the man who recorded the world / John Szwed.
The vestry handbook / Christopher L. Webber.
Audiobook on disc
Caleb's crossing [sound recording] : [a novel] / Geraldine Brooks.
Videodiscs for Adults
Batman begins
Bridesmaids
Cave of forgotten dreams
Chicago
Crazy, stupid, love
Frank Herbert's Dune
Footloose
Help
Hidden in the leaves
Jane Eyre
Life in a day
Midnight in Paris
No impact man
Peace is every step
The Power of forgiveness
Sarah's key
South Pacific
Super 8
Thor
The tree of life
The Trip
12 angry men
Uncle Boonmee who can recall his past lives
Water for elephants
Videodiscs for Children
The Berenstain Bears: Catch the bus
The Polar Express
Rio
Shrek 2
Hooray for Thomas & other adventures
The world of Peter Rabbit and friends
Children's Books
The artist who painted a blue horse / by Eric Carle.
Llama Llama home with Mama / Anna Dewdney.
The outlandish adventures of Liberty Aimes / Kelly Easton, illustrated by Greg Swearingen.
A dangerous engine : Benjamin Franklin, from scientist to diplomat / Joan Dash.
The story of Anti Claus / by Todd Hampson.
The adventures of Tintin. Vol. 1 / Hergé.
The adventures of Tintin. Vol. 2 / Hergé.
The adventures of Tintin. Vol. 3 / Hergé.
The Man in the Moon / William Joyce
Neville / by Norton Juster illustrated by G. Brian Karas.
The odious ogre / story by Norton Juster pictures by Jules Feiffer.
Diary of a wimpy kid : cabin fever / by Jeff Kinney.
Secrets at Sea / Richard Peck.
Swallows and Amazons / Arthur Ransome.
Goodnight, goodnight, construction site / Sherri Duskey Rinker and Tom Lichtenheld.
The lost hero / Rick Riordan.
The son of Neptune / Rick Riordan.
Becoming Naomi León / Pam Muñoz Ryan.
Riding freedom / by Pam Muñoz Ryan, drawings by Brian Selznick.
Swirl by swirl : spirals in nature / written by Joyce Sidman and illustrated by Beth Krommes.
Grandpa Green / Lane Smith.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star / [by Jane Taylor] [illustrations by] Jerry Pinkney.
Tumford the terrible / Nancy Tillman.
Press here / Hervé Tullet.
Books for Young Adults
Catching fire / Suzanne Collins.
The Hunger Games / Suzanne Collins.
Crossed / Ally Condie.
Matched / Ally Condie.
The three musketeers / Alexandre Dumas.
Inheritance : or, The vault of souls / Christopher Paolini.
Forever / Maggie Stiefvater.
Linger / Maggie Stiefvater.
Shiver / Maggie Stiefvater.
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