Friday, July 27, 2007

NonFiction

NonFiction

Bomb Squad: a year inside the nation's most exclusive police unit by Richard Esposito and Ted Gersten. Two reporters for television program Nightline did a profile on the NYPD Bomb Squad and decided to do a book. A modern day and historical look at the Bomb Squad.

Armed and Dangerous: the hunt for one of America's most wanted criminals by William Queen. Queen worked for the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms for 20 years. Queen previously wrote Under and Alone about his undercover investigation of a California biker gang. Queen's previous experiences as a hunter and Special Forces soldier make him the ideal cop to track down a notoriously violent narcotics trafficker in the San Bernardino mountains.

Definitive Book of Body Language by Allan and Barbara Pease. Body movement that explains and shows deceit signals, eye signals, personal space and territory, hand gestures, etc.

Assorted Assortment

CD

Era Vulgaris by Queens of the Stone Age. We also have the Queens album Lullabies to Paralyze and Death by Sexy from bandleader Josh Homme's side project Eagles of Death Metal. Good stuff.

NonFiction

How to Start a Business in Wisconsin, 2nd Edition by Entrepeneur Press. Includes a CD-ROM with 198 forms and worksheets.

Large Print

Up Close and Dangerous by Linda Howard. Bailey's adult step-children are enraged when their father wills all his money to Bailey. Then Bailey's small plane crash lands in a forest and she must survive with the pilot, return to civilization, and find if the crash was really an 'accident'.

Meet Me in Venice by Elizabeth Adler. Some romance about Venice.

Audio Books

Don't forget the downloadable audiobooks from Overdrive at http://dbooks.wplc.info/

The Last Summer (of You & Me) by Ann Brashares. Two sisters, Riley and Alice, and a neighboring boy, Paul, grow up together during the summers on Fire Island. Now in their twenties a love triangle develops as Paul returns after three years away.

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. Newlyweds on their honeymoon in 1962 England worry over the upcoming wedding night. Edward fears failure and Florence is disgusted by physical contact.

The Navigator by Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos. Austin and Zavala get involved in the search for the Navigator statue stolen from Baghdad years ago.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

One New DVD. Just One.

Deadwood: The Complete Third Season. The twelve episodes of the HBO series. I've never seen any of these but we have all three seasons on DVD. I know the series characters curse a lot and the show is set in Deadwood, South Dakota during the gold rush there.