What's New This Week at the Durham Library (Plus Staff Recommendations)

Books

Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson

Zero Day, by David Baldacci

The Next Always, Book One of the Inn Boonsboro Trilogy, by Nora Roberts

Traveling with Your Pet, The AAA Petbook 13th edition

DVDs

In Treatment (Season 3)

Conspiracy

This Week's Staff Picks

Valerie's pick: 

The Surrendered, by Chang-Rae Lee

Lee's novel documents the ravages and indelible effects of war, through the story of June Han, a starving 11-year-old orphaned refugee fleeing military combat during the Korean War. Hector Brennan was a young GI who fled the petty tragedies of his small town to serve his country. When the war ended, their lives collided at a Korean orphanage, where they vied for the attention of Sylvie Tanner, a beautiful yet deeply damaged missionary. A meditation on love, heroism, the will to survive and the possibility of salvation and forgiveness.

Powerful, deeply felt, compulsively readable.

Patti's pick: 

The Mischief of the Mistletoe, by Lauren Willig

Synopsis: Arabella Dempsey's dear friend Jane Austen warned her against teaching. But Miss Climpson's Select Seminary for Young Ladies seems the perfect place for Arabella to claim her independence while keeping an eye on her younger sisters nearby. Reginald "Turnip" Fitzhugh, often mistaken for the elusive spy known as the Pink Carnation, has blundered into danger before. But when he blunders into Miss Arabella Dempsey, it never occurs to him that she might be trouble.

Patti says:  I love the characters, especially Turnip! I also enjoyed Lauren Willig's humor throughout the book.