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1. Episodes : my life as I see it / Blaze Ginsberg. by Ginsberg, Blaze, 1987- Roaring Brook Press, c2009. Call #: 616.85882 G493e Format:  Ya Books Number of Holds:  0 Bestseller / List Name:  CAT LIST: January 2010 Judging by its Cover       2. Going bovine / Libba Bray. by Bray, Libba. Delacorte Press, c2009. Call #: FICTION BRA Summary:  "All 16-year-old Cameron wants is to get through high school—and life in general—with a minimum of effort. It’s not a lot to ask. But that’s before he’s given some bad news: he’s sick and he’s going to die. Which totally sucks. Hope arrives in the winged form of Dulcie, a loopy punk angel/possible hallucination with a bad sugar habit. She tells Cam there is a cure—if he’s willing to go in search of it. With the help of a death-obsessed, video-gaming dwarf and a yard gnome, Cam sets off on the mother of all road trips through a twisted America into the heart of what matters most." --From the publisher. Format:  Ya Books Number of Holds:  2 Bestseller / List Name:  CAT LIST: January 2010 Judging by its Cover       3. Crossers / Philip Caputo. by Caputo, Philip. Alfred A. Knopf, c2009. Call #: FICTION CAP Summary:  "A blistering new novel about the brutality and beauty of life on the Arizona-Mexico border and about the unyielding power of the past to shape our lives. Taking us from the turn of the twentieth century to our present day, from the impoverished streets of rural Mexico to the manicured lawns of suburban Connecticut, from the hot and dusty air of an isolated ranch to New York City in the wake of 9/11, Caputo gives us an impeccably crafted story about three generations of an Arizona family forced to confront the violence and loss that have become its inheritance. When Gil Castle loses his wife in the Twin Tower attacks, he retreats to his family’s sprawling homestead in a remote corner of the Southwest. Consumed by grief, he has to find a way to live with his loss in this strange, forsaken part of the country, where drug lords have more power than police and violence is a constant presence. But it is also a world of vast open spaces, where Castle begins to rebuild his belief in the potential for happiness—until he starts to uncover the dark truths about his fearsome grandfather, a legacy that has been tightly shrouded in mystery in the years since the old man’s death. When Miguel Espinoza shows up at the ranch, terrified after two friends were murdered in a border-crossing drug deal gone bad, Castle agrees to take him in. Yet his act of generosity sets off a flood of violence and vengeance, a fierce reminder of the fact that while he may be able to reinvent himself, he may never escape his history."--Inside jacket. Format:  Adult books Number of Holds:  0 Bestseller / List Name:  CAT LIST: January 2010 Judging by its Cover       4. Ancestors and others : new and selected stories / Fred Chappell. by Chappell, Fred, 1936- St. Martin's Press, c2009. Call #: FICTION CHA Summary:  In this collection, Fred Chappell shows his mastery across a range of genres. Featuring folk fables in the Twain tradition, realistic stories of growing up in remote Appalachia, stories of family, kin, and community, and tales of the fantastic and spooky, this book will delight fans and surprise new readers. Format:  Adult books Number of Holds:  0 Bestseller / List Name:  CAT LIST: January 2010 Judging by its Cover       5. Makers / Cory Doctorow. by Doctorow, Cory. Tor, c2009. Call #: FICTION DOC Summary:  "Perry and Lester invent things—seashell robots that make toast, Boogie Woogie Elmo dolls that drive cars. They also invent entirely new economic systems, like the "New Work," a New Deal for the technological era. Barefoot bankers cross the nation, microinvesting in high-tech communal mini-startups like Perry and Lester’s. Together, they transform the country, and Andrea Fleeks, a journo-turned-blogger, is there to document it. Then it slides into collapse. The New Work bust puts the dot.com bomb to shame. Perry and Lester build a network of interactive rides in abandoned Wal-Marts across the land. As their rides, which commemorate the New Work’s glory days, gain in popularity, a rogue Disney executive grows jealous, and convinces the police that Perry and Lester’s 3D printers are being used to run off AK-47s. Hordes of goths descend on the shantytown built by the New Workers, joining the cult. Lawsuits multiply as venture capitalists take on a new investment strategy: backing litigation against companies like Disney. Lester and Perry’s friendship falls to pieces when Lester gets the ‘fatkins’ treatment, turning him into a sybaritic gigolo. Then things get really interesting."--Publisher. Format:  Adult books Number of Holds:  0 Bestseller / List Name:  CAT LIST: January 2010 Judging by its Cover       6. The fingers of one foot / Gerald Hammond. by Hammond, Gerald, 1926- Severn House, c2009. Call #: FICTION HAM Summary:  In a gentle village on the Scottish borders, Roland Fox, a young aspiring writer, moves in next door to the equally young and attractive Jane Highsmith, a newly qualified veterinary surgeon. But the growing attraction between them is muted by the mystery surrounding the recent death of her much beloved great-grandfather - who apparently fell off a narrow bridge into a stream. Add to the mix, a sibling rivalry between Jane and her older sister Violet, who has poached and subsequently married Jane's ex-boyfriend; and the initially unhelpful remarks of a distant relative; plus the local police inspector turning a blind eye to one or two of Jane's distinctly illegal, but acceptably rural, activities, and there are all the ingredients present for a traditional village mystery - in true Gerald Hammond style and with his usual Scottish flavour. Format:  Adult books Number of Holds:  0 Bestseller / List Name:  CAT LIST: January 2010 Judging by its Cover       7. Buying cigarettes for the dog : stories / by Stuart Ross. by Ross, Stuart. Freehand Books, c2009. Call #: FICTION ROS Summary:  A man steps out for a pack of smokes and winds up walking around the planet; a woman sun-tanning by a pool finds herself covered in chicken feet; a man hires a bodyguard to protect him from his poodle. The forms these pieces take are impressive in range: fables, political tracts, letters, minimalist surrealism, and even post-gothic novella. Buying Cigarettes for the Dog holds a mirror to the absurdities of 21st-century earth; his is an absurdism so true that it becomes real. Format:  Adult books Number of Holds:  7 Bestseller / List Name:  CAT LIST: January 2010 Judging by its Cover       8. The unquiet bones : the first chronicle of Hugh de Singleton, surgeon / Melvin R. Starr. by Starr, Melvin R. Monarch Books, 2008. Call #: FICTION STA Summary:  Hugh de Singleton, fourth son of a minor knight in Wyclif's England, is newly trained as a surgeon. He receives an invitation to set up his practice in the village of Brampton-- and before long, the request to identify some bones... Format:  Adult books Number of Holds:  5 Bestseller / List Name:  CAT LIST: January 2010 Judging by its Cover       9. The financial lives of the poets : a novel / Jess Walter. by Walter, Jess, 1965- Harper, c2009. Call #: FICTION WAL Summary:  Matt Prior is losing his job, his wife, and his house, and he's about to lose his mind--until he discovers a way that he might possibly be able to save it all: a Web site devoted to financial journalism in the form of blank verse. Format:  Adult books Number of Holds:  0 Bestseller / List Name:  CAT LIST: January 2010 Judging by its Cover       10. John dies at the end / David Wong. by Wong, David, 1975- Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, c2009. Call #: FICTION WON Summary:  This may be the story of John and David, a drug called soy sauce, and other-worldly beings invading the planet. Or, it may be the story of two beer-drinking friends who live in an unnamed Midwestern town and only think something horrific is going on. But the important thing is, according to the narrator, "None of this is my fault." Format:  Adult books Number of Holds:  2 Bestseller / List Name:  CAT LIST: January 2010 Judging by its Cover

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