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“Bonneville,” with Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Joan Allen and Tom Skerritt. Faced with the decision of a lifetime, Arvilla Holden hijacks her two best friends and sets off in a vintage ‘66 Bonneville convertible across the great American West to deliver her husband’s ashes to her step-daughter. What begins as a simple road trip for the trio will end up becoming a chance to rediscover themselves, their friendship, the importance of promises and always living life to the fullest.

“College Road Trip,” featuring Martin Lawrence, Raven-Symoné and Donny Osmond. A loving, but overprotective father, James Porter wants his daughter Melanie to attend nearby Northwestern College. When she’s waitlisted and called for an interview at Georgetown in Washington, D.C., James insists on a father-daughter road trip which he envisions being full of reminiscing, heart-to-heart conversations, and a healthy dose of persuasive promotion of Northwestern. The Porters manage to keep running into a super sweet dad and his college-bound daughter, who have a close relationship, are full of clean-cut enthusiasm, and for some reason, willing to befriend the Porters.

“Fool’s Gold,” starring Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson and Donald Sutherland. Finn is looking for a lost Spanish galleon in the Caribbean. He enlists the help of his ex-wife, Tess, who is intrigued until she finds he has no real proof of the Spanish ship’s location. Moe is an old mentor of Finn’s who also happens to be looking for the same treasure. Watching both is gangster rapper Bigg Bunny who Finn owes money to. Finn and Tess discover a clue as to where the fortune may lie. Now all Finn has to do is get the gold, get the girl, and get going before Bigg Bunny gets him.

“Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay,” starring John Cho, Kal Penn and Rob Corddry.
Harold and Kumar take an ill-fated flight to Amsterdam, but Kumar’s suspicious-looking bong is mistaken for a bomb. Their arrest prompts a racist Homeland Security official to send the boys to indefinite lockup at Guantanamo Bay. The guys manage to get away and make it back to the U.S., hoping the well-connected fiancé of Kumar’s old girlfriend, Vanessa, can get them out of their mess.

“Grace is Gone,” featuring John Cusack. Stanley Phillips is a sad, disconnected man unable to tell his young daughters that their mother, a soldier, has died in Iraq. Instead, he takes the girls on a road trip, where their innocent charm helps him rediscover a healing joy he thought he’d lost forever.

“Jumper,” with Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson and Diane Lane. David is a Jumper who can teleport himself anywhere in the world, which creates a fun and exciting life. Things turn deadly when David finds himself pursued by a secret organization sworn to kill Jumpers. He forms an uneasy alliance with another Jumper and becomes a player in a war that has been raging for thousands of years.

Other feature films recently added to the library’s collection include: “Be Kind Rewind,” “Drillbit Taylor,” “Meet Bill,” “One Missed Call,” “Superhero,” “The Bank Job,” “The Spiderwick Chronicles,” “Turn The River,” “Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins” and “Witless Protection.”

• 8/13: Middlesex Concert Band (rain date 8/14)
• 8/20: Bill Shontz’s Teddy Bear Picnic (rain date 8/21)
• 8/27: Black Velvet Band

• 8/9: Men’s 60kg, Women’s 48kg
• 8/10: Men’s 66kg, Women’s 52kg
• 8/11: Men’s 73kg, Women’s 57kg
• 8/12: Men’s 81kg, Women’s 63kg
• 8/13: Men’s 90kg, Women’s 70kg
• 8/14: Men’s 100kg, Women’s 78kg
• 8/15: Men’s 100kg, Women’s 78kg

For these and other live events, view online at http://www.nbcolympics.com

Alpert, Mark.
Final theory.
David Swift, a professor at Columbia University, is on the run for his life from the FBI and a ruthless mercenary as he frantically tries to work out an unpublished Einstein theory.

Benioff, David.
City of thieves.

Boaz, Amy.
A richer dust.

Brown, Janelle.
All we ever wanted was everything.

Brown, Rita Mae.
The sand castle.
A life-changing lesson about family and the pleasure and heartbreak that comes with it is told in this story of two sisters, their motherless cousin, and their day-trip to the shores of Chesapeake Bay in August, 1952.

Caldwell, Wayne.
Cataloochee.
Nestled in the mountains of North Carolina sits Cataloochee. In a time when where you was born was where God wanted you, the Wrights and the Carters, both farming families, travel to the valley to escape the rapid growth of neighboring towns and to have a few hundred acres all to themselves.

Carey, Jacqueline.
Kushiel’s mercy. [Fantasy]
Having paid dearly for ignoring Elua’s edict to love as thou wilt, Imriel and Sidonie have finally come forward to publicly confess their love for each other–only to watch the news ignite turmoil throughout the land.

Causey, Toni McGee.
Bobbie Faye’s (kinda, sorta, not exactly) family jewels. [Mystery]
Book 2; Smart Funny Women

Child, Lee.
Nothing to lose. [Suspense]
Reacher series

Clark, Nancy.
July and August.

Clayton, Meg Waite.
The Wednesday sisters.

Coulter, Catherine.
TailSpin. [Suspense]
FBI Special Agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock are assigned to protect Dr. MacLean, a physician with frontal lobe dementia that could compromise his ability to maintain doctor-patient confidentiality.

Cussler, Clive.
Plague ship: a novel of the Oregon files. [Suspense]
The crew of the Oregon has just completed a top secret mission against Iran in the Persian Gulf, when they come across a cruise ship adrift in the sea.

Dave, Laura.
The divorce party.

Davidson, MaryJanice.
Undead and unworthy. [Fantasy/Romance]
Just another happy American family adjusting to marital bliss– if you’re a couple of vampires, your reading list includes The book of the dead, and you’re being visited by an annoying ghost who blames you for her death.

Deaver, Jeffery.
The broken window: a Lincoln Rhyme novel. The mysterious 522 commits vicious crimes and then plants ironclad evidence to implicate innocent men. This timely thriller reunites Lincoln Rhyme with his partner and paramour Amelia Sachs, as they face their toughest adversary yet.

Deutermann, Peter T.
The moonpool. [Mystery]

Dubus, Andre.
The garden of last days.
Explosive elements converge one early September night in a Florida men’s club revealing the seamy underside of American life at the moment before the world changed.

Essex, Karen.
Stealing Athena. [Historical]
Chronicles of the Marbles’ amazing journey through the dynamic narratives of Mary Nisbet, wife of the Earl of Elgin, the British ambassador to Constantinople, and Aspasia, the mistress of Perikles, the most powerful man in Athens during that city’s Golden Age.

Evanovich, Janet.
Fearless fourteen: a Stephanie Plum novel. [Mystery]
Personal vendettas, hidden treasure, and a monkey named Carl will send bounty hunter Stephanie Plum on her most explosive adventure yet.

Forkner, Tina Ann.
Ruby among us.

Furst, Alan.
The spies of Warsaw. [Suspense]
A French aristocrat working as a military attache at the French embassy in Warsaw in 1937 tries to gather information for Poland and France, wondering what move Germany will make next. Romantic sparks fly between the French aristocrat’s cousin and a Franco-Polish woman who works as a lawyer for The League of Nations, all against the backdrop of Hitler’s gathering war.

Galant, Debra.
Fear and yoga in New Jersey.

Galloway, Steven.
The cellist of Sarajevo.
While a cellist plays at the site of a mortar attack to commemorate the deaths of twenty-two friends and neighbors, two other men set out in search of bread and water to keep themselves alive, and a woman sniper secretly protects the life of the cellist as her army becomes increasingly threatening.

Green, Jane.
The beach house.
Smart Funny Women

Griffin, W. E. B.
Death and honor. [Suspense]
The year is 1943, and Argentina is officially neutral, but crawling with every kind of spy, sympathizer, and military official imaginable.

Gunn, Robin Jones.
Sisterchicks go Brit!.
Two midlife mamas hop over to jolly ole England and encounter so much more than the usual tourist stops. Their journey is lined with evidence of God’s gracious compassion, and both come to realize that God know their every wish.

Guterson, David.
The other.
When two boys–John William Barry and Neil Countryman– meet in 1972 at age sixteen, they’re brought together by what they have in common: a fierce intensity and a love of the outdoors that takes them, together and often, into Washington’s remote backcountry, where they must rely on their wits–and each other–to survive.

Keyes, Marian.
This charming man.
Smart Funny Women

Land, Jon.
The Seven Sins: the tyrant ascending.

Lindsey, Johanna.
No choice but seduction. [Romance]
After her mother died, vivacious Katey Tyler fled her dull Connecticut town, hoping to meet her relatives in England and find adventure and romance on a grand tour of Europe. She had no idea that her life-changing travels would have both in spades, as well as danger and intrigue, when she catches the eye of ship owner Boyd Anderson and inadvertently stumbles upon a high-stakes kidnapping.

McFadden, Maryann.
The richest season.
Having lived in a dozen different towns due to her husband’s frequent corporate relocations, Joanna leaves her husband to return to the coastal South Carolina community she loves, while Paul, distraught by Joanna’s abandonment, endeavors to win her back.

Murray, Yxta Maya.
The king’s gold: an old world novel of adventure.

The queen jade: a New World novel of adventure.

Oates, Joyce Carol.
My sister, my love: the intimate story of Skylar Rampike.
The unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an infamous American family.

Parker, Robert B.
Resolution.
When greedy mine owner Eamon O’Malley threatens the loose coalition of local ranchers and starts buying up Resolution’s few businesses, Hitch and Cole find themselves in the middle of a makeshift war between O’Malley’s men and the ranchers. In a place where law and order don’t exist, Hitch and Cole must make their own, guided by their sense of duty, honor, and friendship.

Patterson, James & Howard Roughan.
Sail. [Suspense]
The Dunnes have set off on a ten day boat trip, a trip that hopefully will bring them closer together, despite the fact that the father, Stuart is staying behind on land. But only an hour into the trip they’re already falling apart.

Pattillo, Beth.
The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society.

Rhodes, Jenna.
The dark ferryman. [Fantasy]
As the civil war escalates, Sevryn and Rivergrace are separated from each other as Rivergrace battles the warrior queen Lariel’s accusations of high treason, with only her Dweller sister and the mysterious Dark Ferryman as her allies.

Robinson, Patrick.
To the death. [Suspense]

Rollins, James.
The last oracle. [Suspense]
An ancient relic, a murdered man, an international think tank of scientists known as the Jasons who have discovered a way to bioengineer autistic children, and a plot to wipe out a quarter of the world’s population have two men racing against time to solve a mystery that dates back to the first famous oracle of history–the Greek Oracle of Delphi.

Siegel, Sheldon M.
Judgment day: a Mike Daley mystery.

Spencer-Fleming, Julia.
I shall not want: a Clare Fergusson/Russ van Alstyne mystery.
People die. Marriages fail. In the small Adirondack town of Millers Kill, New York, however, life doesn’t stop for heartbreak.

Steel, Danielle.
Rogue.
Meet Maxine Williams, a dedicated doctor with three great kids, a challenging career, and the perfect new man in her life. Her only problem? Her irresistibly charming, utterly infuriating ex-husband, aka the Rogue, who wants her back is his life as a partner in a humanitarian project that could change countless lives.

Stolzman, Rachel.
The sign for drowning.
Anna is a woman haunted by the drowning of her sister when they were girls. When the family falls apart emotionally after the tragedy, young Anna tries to communicate with her dead sister by using sign language. Eventually, her interest in signing leads her to a career as a teacher for deaf children.

Tuccillo, Liz.
How to be single.
Smart Funny Women

Unger, Lisa.
Black out. [Suspense]
A woman has to quickly piece together disturbing events–one of which is the murder of her psychologist–before her past comes to claim her future and her daughter.

Vincenzi, Penny.
An absolute scandal.

Weisberger, Lauren.
Chasing Harry Winston.
A trio of best friends in Manhattan agree to change their lives in the most personal and dramatic way possible — and within one calendar year.

Wiggins, Marianne.
The shadow catcher.

Willett, Jincy.
The writing class.

Williams, Polly.
A bad bride’s tale.

Kidstock – original musical theater performed by kids for kids - returns to Beebe Library for one more performance this summer on Friday, August 15, at 10:30 a.m. This event is for all ages.

There are only two weeks left in the WildReads Summer Reading Program. If you haven’t signed up for the program yet, Friday, August 8 is the last day to join the club and earn prizes for the time you spend reading over the summer. The final day to get prizes or drop off raffle tickets is Friday, August 15.

WildReads kids read nearly 7,800 hours so far this summer. Over 1,400 people came to special programs and events during June and July. We’re looking forward to a busy August.

Just a reminder of the grand prizes:

Elementary School kids contend for:

• Webkinz
• Family membership for one year to the New England Aquarium.

Middle and high school kids can win:

• a $100 mall gift certificate
• a Nintendo Gameboy Advanced SP
• a Video Game Night after hours at Beebe Library for the winner and up to seven friends.

Are you a Wild Reader yet?

It really spotlights Salem (which is very much a character in the novel) and is a unique way to market a book.

“Morrow sent a film crew to Salem to make a video of scenes mentioned in the book, as well as a lacemaker at work. The video appears on the websites of the book (Lacereader.com) and Destination Salem (Salem.org), and on YouTube.com. Morrow also printed up a Salem walking-tour map, showing scenes in the book.”

Amazon.com gives us this review From Publishers Weekly
“Starred Review. In Barry’s captivating debut, Towner Whitney, a dazed young woman descended from a long line of mind readers and fortune tellers, has survived numerous traumas and returned to her hometown of Salem, Mass., to recover. Any tranquility in her life is short-lived when her beloved great-aunt Eva drowns under circumstances suggesting foul play. Towner’s suspicions are taken with a grain of salt given her history of hallucinatory visions and self-harm. The mystery enmeshes local cop John Rafferty, who had left the pressures of big city police work for a quieter life in Salem and now finds himself falling for the enigmatic Towner as he mourns Eva and delves into the history of the eccentric Whitney clan. Barry excels at capturing the feel of smalltown life, and balances action with close looks at the characters’ inner worlds. Her pacing and use of different perspectives show tremendous skill and will keep readers captivated all the way through. (Oct.)”
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This will be a title to watch!