My LINKcat AccountBy the time you read this, there will be fewer than 3 weeks left before Christmas. In fact there are 20 days until Christmas Day itself and only 19 if you celebrate on Christmas Eve. Those 20 days equate to 480 hours, 28,800 minutes, or 1,728,000 seconds - in case you're counting. There's still heaps of time to do all your shopping, get the presents wrapped, get the tree set up, the outdoor lights strung, the cookies baked, the Christmas music found (or checked out from your local public library), the eggnog nogged, and all the hundreds of little preparations necessary to create your family-specific brand of Christmas celebration. Now that we've survived Black Friday -survived all the advertising if not the actual throngs at the stores-and moused our way through Cyber Monday, there's more relaxed time to hunt for bargains and avoid the crowds. We continue to have new books arriving almost daily, so if you need a little down time, a little "me" time, sit down and relax with one of these new books. Enjoy!
New Non-Fiction
Stitches : a handbook on meaning, hope and repair / by Anne Lamott. The best-selling author of "Help, Thanks, Wow" shares lighthearted advice about how to make sense of chaotic experiences, providing recommendations for restoring peace while balancing emotional, spiritual and interpersonal aspects of everyday life.
What the dog knows : the science and wonder of working dogs /by Cat Warren. The author presents a firsthand exploration into the world of working dogs, as well as canine intelligence and training, as she and her German shepherd, Solo, work with forensic anthropologists, detectives and dog handlers to find the bodies of the missing.
1963, the year of the revolution : how youth changed the world with music, art, and fashion / by Ariel Leve. A riveting oral history chronicles the tumultuous year of 1963, told through the recollections of some of the period's most influential figures--from Keith Richards to Mary Quant, Vidal Sassoon to Graham Nash, Alan Parker to Peter Frampton, Eric Clapton to Gay Talese, Stevie Nicks to Norma Kamali and many more.
What are you hungry for? : the Chopra solution to permanent weight loss, well-being, and lightness of soul / by Deepak Chopra. The best-selling author of "Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul" draws on the latest findings in mainstream and alternative medicine to outline an approach to weight loss that explains how to meet physical, mental and spiritual needs.
Breakout : pioneers of the future, prison guards of the past, and the epic battle that will decide America's fate / by Newt Gingrich. The former Speaker of the House and best-selling author of "Winning the Future" outlines a bold vision of an America prosperously transformed by scientific innovations but threatened by special interest groups, powerful lobbyists and government bureaucrats determined to prevent or control new technologies.
New Fiction
Someone else's love story : a novel / by Joshilyn Jackson. Single mom Shandi Pierce's life takes turn when an enigmatic geneticist saves her and her 3-year-old genius son from an armed robber.
Knitting yarns : writers on knitting / by Ann Hood. This collection of essays from more than 20 different authors--including Elizabeth Berg, Ann Patchett, Andre Dubus III and Sue Grafton--describes their passion for knitting, recalling their triumphs and disasters in their craft projects and lives.
Practice to deceive / by Ann Rule. The best-selling author of "Dead by Sunset" traces the murder case of Whidbey Island resident Russ Douglas, who after spending Christmas with his estranged wife and children in 2003 was found murdered in his car and whose death implicated a long list of suspects, including an aging beauty queen and her boyfriend.
Stella Bain : a novel / by Anita Shreve. Suffering memory loss due from time on a French battlefield during World War I, American Stella Bain, is taken in by a London surgeon and his wife in this new novel from the author of "The Last Time They Met".
Dust / by Patricia Cornwell. Returning to Cambridge after attending one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, an exhausted Scarpetta investigates the murder of a young graduate student who is subsequently linked to bizarre homicides in Washington, D.C., where Scarpetta's FBI agent husband is tracking down a serial killer.
Ghost medicine / by Aimee and David Thurlo. When the body of former Navajo Police officer Harry Ute is found in a part of the Navajo Reservation rumored to be skinwalker country, Navajo Special Investigator Ella Clah, with no one willing to talk to her for fear of incurring the wrath of the Navajo witches, must find a way to bring Harry's killer to justice.
Inherit the Dead : a novel / by Lee Child. Twenty masters of suspense join forces to present one gripping mystery that follows a one-time NYPD homicide cop as he, hired by a wealthy Upper East Side matron to find her daughter, discovers that there is much more to this story during a bitterly cold winter where everyone has something to hide.
Spider woman's daughter : a Leaphorn & Chee novel / by Anne Hillerman. When one of her colleagues is gunned down, Navajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette Manality helps her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee, find the shooter and discovers a link to a cold case involving Jim's former boss and partner, Inspector Joe Leaphorn.