Tuesday, January 29, 2013

New DVDs ( February 2013 )

Orangeburg Library now has the following new DVDs. Please click on one of the titles to reserve.
Alex Cross  (2/5 Release Date)
Atlas Shrugged Part II    (2/19)
ARGO (2/19)
Bully (2/12)
Chasing Mavericks (2/26)
Celeste and Jesse Forever (2/5)
End of Watch (2/19)
Flight (2/5)
For a Good Time Call (2/19)
Fun Size (2/19)
Here Comes the Boom (2/5)
Hit & Run (2/5)
A Late Quartet (2/5)
The Master (2/26)
Perks of Being a Wallflower (2/12)
Robot & Frank (2/12)
Sessions (2/12)
Sinister (2/19)
Skyfall (2/12)

New Audiobooks ( February 2013 )

Orangeburg Library now has the following new audiobooks. Please click on one of the titles to reserve.
Kinsey and Me by Sue Grafton
Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
Hour of Peril by Daniel Stashower 
Things They Cannot Say by Kevin Sites 
Unleash the Power of the Female Brain by Daniel G. Amen
Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives by Pope Benedict XVI 
Insurgents by Fred Kaplan 
Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
Empire and Honor by WEB Griffin
Twelve by Justin Cronin
Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
Working Theory of Love by Scott Hutchins
Shiver by Karen Robards
Sins of the Mother by Danielle Steel
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Last Lion by William Manchester
Gangster Squad by Paul Lieberman
Memory of Light by Robert Jordan 
Until the End of time by Danielle Steel
Private Berlin by James Patterson
Philida by Andre Brink 

Thursday, January 24, 2013

New E-books

Please click on one of the titles to reserve.

After Dark by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin

Ask For It by Sylvia Day
Barefoot Contessa Foolproof by Ina Garten
Belly Fat Diet For Dummies by Erin Palinski-Wade
Betrayal by Karin Alvtegen
A Bomb Built in Hell by Andrew Vachss
A Christmas Bride / A Christmas Beau by Mary Balogh
Chronicle in Stone by Ismail Kadare, Arshi Pipa, David Bellos
Cold Quiet Country by Clayton Lindemuth
Dear Life by Alice Munro
Disclosure: The McCaffertys by Lisa Jackson
Echoes from the Dead by Johan Theorin, Marlaine Delargy
The Elephant Keepers' Children by Peter Hoeg
The First Four Notes by Matthew Guerrieri
A Gift of Hope by Danielle Steel
Glaciers by Alexis Smith
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
Hand for a Hand by T. Frank Muir
Heads in Beds by Jacob Tomsky
Iced by Karen Marie Moning
iPad For Dummies by Edward C. Baig, Bob LeVitus
Jack Reacher's Rules by Lee Child
Kept by Shawntelle Madison
Life Among Giants by Bill Roorbach
Memoir of the Sunday Brunch by Julia Pandl
New Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant, rev by Moosewood Collective Staff
Notorious Nineteen by Janet Evanovich
Playing for Pizza by John Grisham
Plum Island by Nelson DeMille
Rod by Rod Stewart
Scroll by Anne Perry
Shades of Gray by Kay Hooper
The Sins of the Mother by Danielle Steel
The Watchers by Stephen Alford
Thomas Jefferson by Jon Meacham
Training the Best Dog Ever by Larry Kay, Dawn Sylvia-Stasiewicz
E-books January 2013



NYT Bestsellers 1/26/2013 ( Fiction )

The Orangeburg Library now has the following titles which are New York Times Best Sellers. Please click on one of the titles to reserve.


1 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn.
A woman disappears on her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer?

2 KINSEY AND ME, by Sue Grafton.
Stories about Grafton’s character Kinsey Millhone as well as explorations of Grafton’s own past. 

3 COLLATERAL DAMAGE, by Stuart Woods.
Back in New York, the lawyer Stone Barrington joins his former partner Holly Barker in pursuing a dangerous case. 

4 THE HUSBAND LIST, by Janet Evanovich.
In New York City in 1894, a wealthy young woman yearns for adventure and the love of an Irish-American with new money, rather than the titled Britons to whom her mother hopes to marry her off. 

5 THE TWELVE TRIBES OF HATTIE, by Ayana Mathis.
Fifty-some years in the life of an African-American family whose matriarch arrives in Philadelphia in 1923. 

6 THE BLOOD GOSPEL, by James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell.
A hunt for the truth about a shadowy ancient order and a book supposed to have been written in Christ’s own hand and in his blood; the first book in a series, the Order of the Sanguines. 

7 THE RACKETEER, by John Grisham.
An imprisoned ex-lawyer schemes to exchange information about a murdered federal judge for his freedom.

8 DREAM EYES, by Jayne Ann Krentz.
A psychic counselor, returning to a small Oregon town after her mentor’s suspicious death, is drawn to a psychic investigator with disturbing power; a Dark Legacy novel. 

9 1356, by Bernard Cornwell.
In the fourth book of the Grail Quest series, the English and French face off at the Battle of Poitiers. 

10 THE FORGOTTEN, by David Baldacci.
The military investigator John Puller, the protagonist of “Zero Day,” probes his aunt’s mysterious death in Florida. 

11 CROSS ROADS, by William Paul Young.
A comatose businessman encounters Jesus, the Holy Spirit and God; from the author of “The Shack.” 

12 THREAT VECTOR, by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney.
The covert intelligence expert Jack Ryan Jr. aids his father’s administration as China threatens. 

13 EMPIRE AND HONOR, by W. E. B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV.
An O.S.S. agent’s plan to help his German intelligence counterparts reach Argentina encounters trouble; Book 7 of the Honor Bound series.

NYT Bestsellers 1/26/2013 ( Nonfiction )

The Orangeburg Library now has the following titles which are New York Times Best Sellers. Please click on one of the titles to reserve.


KILLING KENNEDY, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard.
The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

NO EASY DAY, by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer.
An account by a former member of the Navy SEALs, written pseudonymously, of the mission that killed bin Laden.

THOMAS JEFFERSON, by Jon Meacham.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer celebrates Jefferson’s skills as a practical politician. 

THE WORLD UNTIL YESTERDAY, by Jared Diamond.
The author of “Guns, Germs, and Steel” examines what we can learn from traditional societies. 

KILLING LINCOLN, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard.
The host of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. 

UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II. 

BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS, by Katherine Boo.
A journalist reports on families striving for better lives in a Mumbai slum. 

8 THE POWER OF HABIT, by Charles Duhigg.
A Times reporter’s account of the science behind how we form, and break, habits. 

9 A HIGHER CALL, by Adam Makos with Larry Alexander.
An encounter between two pilots, an American and a German, in the skies over Germany in December 1943.

10 WILD, by Cheryl Strayed.
A woman's account of a life-changing 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail in the summer of 1995. 

11 THE SIGNAL AND THE NOISE, by Nate Silver.
An examination of predictions, the ones that come true and the ones that don’t. 

12 AMERICA AGAIN, by Stephen Colbert, Richard Dahm, Paul Dinello, Barry Julien, Tom Purcell et al..
The mock pundit of Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report” tells how to bring America back from the brink. 

13 HOW CHILDREN SUCCEED, by Paul Tough.
The author argues that the qualities that matter most have to do with character, not intelligence. 12

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

NYT Bestsellers ( Fiction )

The Orangeburg Library now has the following titles which are New York Times Best Sellers. Please click on one of the titles to reserve.

1 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn.
A woman disappears on her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer? 

2 EMPIRE AND HONOR, by W. E. B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV.
An O.S.S. agent’s plan to help his German intelligence counterparts reach Argentina encounters trouble; Book 7 of the Honor Bound series. 

3 THE RACKETEER, by John Grisham.
An imprisoned ex-lawyer schemes to exchange information about a murdered federal judge for his freedom. 

4 THE FORGOTTEN, by David Baldacci.
The military investigator John Puller, the protagonist of “Zero Day,” probes his aunt’s mysterious death in Florida. 

5 THE TWELVE TRIBES OF HATTIE, by Ayana Mathis.
Fifty-some years in the life of an African-American family, starting with Hattie Shepherd, who leaves Georgia for Philadelphia in 1923. 

6 CROSS ROADS, by Wm. Paul Young.
A comatose businessman encounters Jesus, the Holy Spirit and God; from the author of “The Shack.” 

7 SHADOW WOMAN, by Linda Howard.
A woman’s inexplicable strange memories and altered appearance result from a far-reaching conspiracy. 

8 NOTORIOUS NINETEEN, by Janet Evanovich.
The New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum tracks down a con man who disappeared from a hospital. 

9 THE CASUAL VACANCY, by J. K. Rowling.
The sudden death of a parish councilman reveals bitter social divisions in an idyllic English town. 

10 THE BLACK BOX, by Michael Connelly.
The Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch links a recent crime to the killing of a photographer amid the 1992 race riots.

11 MERRY CHRISTMAS, ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson.
Detective Alex Cross confronts both a hostage situation and a terrorist act at Christmas. 

12 THE ROUND HOUSE, by Louise Erdrich.
A Native American family faces the ramifications of a vicious crime. 

13 TWO GRAVES, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast pursues a serial killer as well as his abducted wife. 

14 THE LAST MAN, by Vince Flynn.
The counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp searches for a missing C.I.A. asset amid treachery in Afghanistan. 

15 WINTER OF THE WORLD, by Ken Follett.
Members of five interrelated families from five countries grapple with the historical events of the years 1939-49. 

NYT Bestsellers ( Nonfiction )

The Orangeburg Library now has the following titles which are New York Times Best Sellers. Please click on one of the titles to reserve.

KILLING KENNEDY, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard.
The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. 

THOMAS JEFFERSON, by Jon Meacham.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer celebrates Jefferson’s skills as a practical politician. 

3 THE WORLD UNTIL YESTERDAY, by Jared Diamond.
The author of “Guns, Germs, and Steel” examines what we can learn from traditional societies.

NO EASY DAY, by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer.
An account by a former member of the Navy SEALs, written pseudonymously, of the mission that killed bin Laden.

KILLING LINCOLN, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard.
The host of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. 

BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS, by Katherine Boo.
A journalist reports on families striving for better lives in a Mumbai slum.

7 AMERICA AGAIN, by Stephen Colbert, Richard Dahm, Paul Dinello, Barry Julien, Tom Purcell et al.. The mock pundit of Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report” tells how to bring America back from the brink.

THE SIGNAL AND THE NOISE, by Nate Silver.
An examination of predictions, the ones that come true and the ones that don’t. 

WILD, by Cheryl Strayed.
A woman's account of a life-changing 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail.

10 UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand.
An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.

11 THE POWER OF HABIT, by Charles Duhigg.
A Times reporter’s account of the science behind how we form, and break, habits. 

12  A HIGHER CALL, by Adam Makos with Larry Alexander.
An encounter between two pilots, an American and a German, in the skies over Germany in December 1943. 

13  QUIET, by Susan Cain.
Introverts — one-third of the population — are undervalued in American society. 

14  ROLL ME UP AND SMOKE ME WHEN I DIE, by Willie Nelson.
The musician muses on family, friends, Texas and life on the road. 

15 HOW CHILDREN SUCCEED, by Paul Tough.
The author argues that the qualities that matter most have to do with character, not intelligence. 

16 FAR FROM THE TREE, by Andrew Solomon.
The difficulties and triumphs of families dealing with exceptional children.