New items arrive at PCL on a weekly basis.  We encourage patrons to recommend titles to be considered for our collection!

Staff and patron picks from titles on our shelves:

Staff member Cathy Adams recently finished two books: Save Me by Lisa Scottoline and The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly. Both were very good and hard to put down. She is anxious to see the movie version of the Connelly book.

A frequent patron completed I'll Walk Alone by Mary Higgans Clark and had these comments to share: "It was OK, pretty simplistic, predictable yet with a surprise ending. You can tell it was written by a lady for a female audience."

Patron Mary Lyon read First Family by Joseph Ellis and had this to say –“I enjoyed reading this book very much. Whitney also read it. We were amazed at the details and all the credits at the end of the book. What a wealth of knowledge and so much research.” She also recently finished The King's Speech commenting, "This is one book I had a hard time putting down. Good thing it was on a weekend that I read it."

Rescue is the latest novel by Anita Shreve, author of The Pilot’s Wife. Desperate to keep his teenage daughter out of trouble, a man looks up the woman who abandoned them both years earlier. This title is one of Oprah’s “Titles to pick up now”.

Staff member Marla Gerber enjoyed The Winter of Our Disconnect by Susan Maushart. When a single mother and her “totally wired” teenagers go screen-free for six months, a whole new world opens up. Ms. Maushart includes not only bits of her journal during this time, but also tons of research relating to our “wired” world. Sometimes frustrating, often enlightening, home life goes through many changes. It is a great motivational read for paring down your life to enjoy the finer points.

 

A sampling of new books at PCL includes:

Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George

Gideon’s Corpse by Douglas Preston

New New Rules by Bill Maher

Imperfect Justice: Casey Anthony by Jeff Ashton

History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor

Breakdown by Sara Paretsky

Love in a Nutshell by Janet Evanovich

Deadline by Fern Michaels

Devil is Waiting by Jack Higgins

Need You Now by James Grippanido

The Hunter by John Lescroart

D.C. Dead by Stuart Woods

Being George Washington by Glenn Beck

Detachment by Barry Eisler

Devil’s Elixir by Raymond Khoury

 

Some of our new books on CD:

Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George

Love in a Nutshell by Janet Evanovich

The Hunter by John Lescroart

D.C. Dead by Stuart Woods

Taken by Robert Crais

Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero by Chris Matthews

Death Benefit by Robin Cook

 

 

A few of the hot DVDs at PCL:

ABDUCTION

COURAGEOUS

THE IDES OF MARCH

MONEYBALL

I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT

CATFISH

SONGCATCHER

MARGIN CALL

DOLPHIN TALE

GLEE IN CONCERT

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS

 

 

 

Patron Mercedes Kimling lives on the beach a hikable distance from the library.  With permssion, we reprint her poem, written about a view she noticed out of her window one day this summer:

A redhead on my beach?

Not my near-grown grandaughter, busy in Denver

Nor my usual visitor Alfie the the sea gull -

It's a merganser.

I try quietly for a better view;

She hits the water, followed by her six ducklings,

As always, in a straight line behind mom,

Practicing for their day as family leader.