Exciting End-of-Summer Reads Arrive at Library

Wowbrary.com lists the top new releases at libraries around the country. Here is a look at 10 new items you can now find at the . 

1. Rizzoli & Isles: The Complete First Season, from Warner Home Video. Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander star as combative, working-class Boston detective Jane Rizzoli and cool, cerebral medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles in an exciting police procedural with a compelling point of view, based on the bestselling novels by Tess Gerritsen. The high-caliber supporting cast includes Lorraine Bracco (The Sopranos) as Jane’s overprotective mom.
2. Cars (Widescreen Edition), from Walt Disney Video. Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) is the slick rookie taking the Piston Cup series by storm when the last race of the season (the film's high-octane opening) ends in a three-way tie. On the way to the tie-breaker race in California, Lightning loses his way off Route 66 in the Southwest desert and is taught to stop and smell the roses by the forgotten citizens of Radiator Springs.
3. A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War, by Amanda Foreman. Acclaimed historian Amanda Foreman follows the phenomenal success of her New York Times bestseller Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire with her long-awaited second work of nonfiction: the fascinating story of the American Civil War and the major role played by Britain and its citizens in that epic struggle.
4. Split Second (An FBI Thriller), by Catherine Coulter. A female serial killer is on the loose, and it’s up to FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock to track her down – and stop her before it’s too late. There’s evidence that the woman, Kirsten Bolger, has a killer bloodline, too: a connection to the notorious Ted Bundy only complicates the case. But the crack team of Savich and Sherlock are on it – and better than ever.
5. Weeds: In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants, by Richard Mabey. The true story—and true glories—of the plants we love to hate. From dandelions to crabgrass, stinging nettles to poison ivy, weeds are familiar, pervasive, widely despised, and seemingly invincible. How did they come to be the villains of the natural world? And why can the same plant be considered beautiful in some places but be deemed a menace in others?
6. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, by Richard White. A new, incisive history of the transcontinental railroads and how they transformed America in the decades after the Civil War.
7. Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm—a place she finds foreign. In the midst of the struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan is everything her husband is not—charming, handsome, and haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers, has come home with the shine of a war hero.
8. The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road, by Paul Theroux. Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveler.
9. Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart, by Sarah Maclean. Bold, impulsive, and a magnet for trouble, Juliana Fiori is no simpering English miss. She refuses to play by society's rules. Her scandalous nature makes her a favorite subject of London's most practiced gossips – and precisely the kind of woman The Duke of Leighton wants far away from him. He swears by reputation.
10. The Alchemyst, by Michael Scott. He holds the secret that can end the world. The truth: Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on Sept. 28, 1330. Nearly 700 years later, he is acknowledged as the greatest Alchemyst of his day. It is said that he discovered the secret of eternal life. The records show that he died in 1418. But his tomb is empty. The legend: Nicholas Flamel lives. But only because he has been making the elixir of life for centuries.

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