Mathis, Ayana
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
FIC MATHIS
Compact Disc Edition

This was not the life that smart and lovely Hattie expected to live after fleeing Jim Crow Georgia in 1923 and settling in Philadelphia. Two years later, married at 16 to an irresponsible man, she is poor, cold, hungry, and desperate as her twin babies sicken with pneumonia. Writing with stunning authority, Mathis writes of lives racked with suffering yet suffused with beauty. Source: Booklist, Oct 15, 2012 

Patterson, James
NYPD Red
FIC PATTERSON
Compact Disc Edition

NYPD Red is a special task force charged with protecting the interests of Manhattan's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. When a world-famous movie producer is poisoned on the first day of a Manhattan film festival called “Hollywood on the Hudson”, NYPD Red is called. The killer has scripted an explosive finale that will bring New York and Hollywood to its knees. Source: From the Publisher

Kingsolver, Barbara
Flight Behavior
FIC KINGSOLVER
Compact Disc Edition
 
When young wife Dellarobia Turnbow comes upon millions of monarch butterflies glowing in a sheep pasture, it is  immediately branded a miracle and promises a lucrative tourist season for the financially beleaguered Turnbows.  But the arrival of a research team reveals the troubling truth that the butterflies have been driven by pollution from their usual winter grounds.  Source: Publishers Weekly, July 23, 2012 

Taleb, Nassim
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
155.24 T143a
Compact Disc Edition

The global financial crisis of 2008 is the watershed event of Taleb’s witty, thought-provoking, and irreverent book. He adroitly weaves in strands of psychology, child development, philosophy, education, military strategy, and the classics to explain how antifragility can make people and systems stronger in the same way that bones need stress to grow denser.  Source: Library Journal, Jan 01, 2013 

Rubin, Gretchen Craft
Happier at Home
158 R896h
Compact Disc Edition

Rubin (The Happiness Project) narrows in on a single element of happiness: the home. Whether it's decluttering her apartment, falling in love with fragrance, or trying to better manage her time, she wants to discover what it is that makes her happy in her favorite place.  In this audio production, the narration is soft and elegant. Source: PW Annex Reviews, Dec 24, 2012 

Cussler, Clive
Poseidon’s Arrow
FIC CUSSLER
Compact Disc edition

Ruthless Austrian entrepreneur Edward Bolcke runs a compound in Central America where kidnapped sailors are forced into servitude to assist in his many criminal enterprises.  Bolcke has now managed to steal a crucial component of the U.S. Navy's latest submarine technology, and he has found a way to hijack the world's supply of rare earth minerals.  Source: Publishers Weekly, Sept 24, 2012

Coddington, Grace
Grace: a Memoir
646.7 C669g
Compact Disc Editon

Coddington, creative director of Vogue magazine, has much to impart.  Fashionistas, rejoice, because not only does she chronicle the life and times of a former model turned editor; she also discusses those whose names appear in any celebrity column: photographers such as Annie Leibovitz, models like Naomi Campbell, and the Calvin Klein and French couture designers. Source: Booklist, Nov 15, 2012