A brief selection of what was new at Ventnor Library last month. Books are free of course, DVDs for children from 49p and for adults 98p overnight.
DVDs
Pride and Glory – Ed Norton & Colin Farrell
Transsiberian – Ben Kingsley
Tuesday – British Heist story
Ghost Town – “He sees dead people”¦ and they annoy him.”
Saw V – “A blood drenched extravaganza of gore! ..”
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People – Romantic Comedy
The Women – “Glossy and Glamorous”
The Duchess – ‘There were 3 people in her marriage’
Space Buddies – ‘One giant leap for Dogkind’
Easy Virtue – Let’s misbehave! – Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas
Quantum of Solace – Daniel Craig as 007
Changeling – Angelina Jolie – Oscar nomination
Body of Lies – Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe
Fiction
Tom Rob SMITH Child 44- (Richard & Judy book of the month) ‘In Stalin’s Soviet Union, crime does not exist’
Sebastian BARRY The secret scripture – Costa Book of the Year 2008
Richard YATES Revolutionary Road – the book of the film
Matthew PEARL The Last Dickens – Ingenious literary mystery.
Paul TORDAY The Girl on the Landing- By the author of ‘Salmon Fishing in the Yemen’
Amos OZ Rhyming life and death
Patricia MELO Inferno – Tarantino meets Benigni
Ray BANKS Donkey punch – “This is the stuff Guy Ritchie dreams of”
Josephine COX Born Bad
Rosie HARRIS Love Changes Everything
John GRISHAM The Associate – the latest
Steve BERRY The Charlemagne pursuit “sexy, illuminating ..my kind of thriller..” – Dan Brown
Tess GERRITSEN Keeping the dead – a Rizzoli and Isles thriller
Linda FAIRSTEIN Lethal Legacy
Jeff LINDSAY Dexter By Design – The inspiration behind the award winning TV series ‘Dexter’
Jodi PICOULT Change of heart – your daughter needs a new heart
Josephine COX Born Bad – is it ever too late to turn your life around?
Christian JACQ Tutankhamun – the last secret
M G VASSANJI The Assassin’s song – “..grand historical sweep..”
Lindsey DAVIS Alexandria – The new Falco novel
Elizabeth GEORGE Careless in red
Peter ROBINSON All The Colours of Darkness – the new Inspector Banks
Graham HURLEY No Lovelier Death- A Faraday & Winter novel
Jeffrey ARCHER Paths to Glory
Chris EWAN The good thief’s guide to Paris – Charlie Howard mystery writer and professional thief
Claude IZNER The Marais Assassin – a Victor Legris mystery
Ian IRVINE Dark is the moon
Trudi CANAVAN The magicians apprentice ” ..In the remote village of Mandryn..”
Sophie KINSELLA Confessions of a shopaholic – now a film
Adele PARKS Tell me something – “deliciously down to earth”
Erica JAMES It’s the Little Things – ‘Sometimes surviving is only the beginning.’
Jim CARTWRIGHT Supermarket Supermodel – from minimum wage to centre stage
Lyndsey RUSSELL Fat chance – heaven is a plus size world
In Large print
Curtis SITTENFELD American wife
Non-Fiction
Philip GLENISTER Things ain’t what they used to be – the good and the bad from the 70’s and 80’s
Ed MITCHELL From headlines to hard times – biography of a journalist
Robert PRESTON Who Runs Britain”¦ and who’s to blame for the economic mess we’re in
David HAMPSHIRE Living and working if Britain
Larry ELLIOTT and Dan ATKINSON Fantasy Island
John LANGDON Wordplay – the philosophy, art and science of ambigrams
Robert KERSHAW Never surrender – lost voices of a generation at war
Nicholas BAKER Human smoke – beginnings of WW2
Judika ILLES The Element Encyclopedia of 1000 Spells:- A concise reference book for the magical arts
Sacred Symbols – peoples, religions, mysteries
Willie HARCOURT-COOZE Willie’s Chocolate Factory Cookbook- From the channel 4 series
The Ultimate film – the UK’s most popular films
Ken MOGG The Alfred Hitchcock Story
