What's New at the Durham Library (Plus Staff Picks)

Books

Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir, by John Paul Stephens

Red Mist: A Scarpetta Novel, by Patricia Cornwell

The Scottish Prisoner, by Diana Gabaldon

DVDs

The Act of Getting By

Our Idiot Brother

30 Minutes or Less

One Day

30 Rock (Season 5)

This Week's Staff Picks

Cyndi’s pick:

The Cold Blue Blood, by David Handler 

A Connecticut author, Handler has set his Mitch Berger and Desiree Mitry Mystery in the fictional village of Dorset, CT. Look for local landmarks such as Devil’s Hopyard and “The Purple Pup Saloon”. You’ll love the characters of Dorset, well, some of them. One of them has committed murder and hopes to get away with it.  There are presently eight
books in the series.

Karyn’s pick:

Delirium, by Lauren Oliver

It’s the near future, a time when love has long since been identified as a disease. 17 year-old Lena is months away from the operation that everyone gets to cure
themselves. But then she meets Alex, one of the Invalids—a tribe of uncured who
live on the lam in the surrounding wilderness. Lena is drawn into Alex’s world, one of passion and freedom, while her emotionally castrated family members hope to turn her into yet another complacent zombie. The book never loses its edgy momentum. Grades 9-12

Karyn says: I Loved this book. Sweet romance in a world where love is a disease. Can't wait for the sequel (Pandemonium)