We have an excellent selection of new and popular titles! Feel free to call us in advance at (617)-244-0700 and we will be happy to reserve a title for you.
Stop by to get the following hot new titles that are on a long waiting list at other public libraries:
Nemesis - Philip Roth, 2010 newest novel by this famous, prolific author
Moonlight Mile - Dennis Lehane’s newest title by celebrated Boston man of mystery
Barefoot Contessa How Easy is That ? - Ina Garten – Her latest.
Zeitoun - Latest from David Eggers, 2010 novel that’s being read by many book groups
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand - H. Simonson, our second copy
The Confession - the most recent Grisham, as in John
At Home A Short History of Private Life – Bill Bryson’s 2010 book
Great House - Nicole Krauss, National Book Award Finalist, 2010
Fair Game” My Life as A Spy, My Betrayal by the White House ~ ex-CIA Valerie Plame Wilson
A Gate at the Stairs ~ Lorrie Moore
Listen To This ~ Alex Ross
The other new titles we have for you, are:
The Big Short ~ Michael Lewis
Dead Silence ~ Randy Wayne White
This Body of Death ~ Elizabeth George
Rough Country ~ John Sandford
The Scarecrow ~ Michael Connelly
Lark and Termite ~ Jayne Anne Phillips
Making Rounds with Oscar ~ David Dosa
For Young Readers:
The Snowy Day - Ezra Jack Keats, Random House
The Big Snow - Berta and Elmer Hader, Caldecott Award Winner,
The Snow Day – Komaki Sakai, Scholastic, 2010
Snowflakes in Photographs - a classic, first published in 1960
Four Legs Bad, Two Legs Good ~ D.B. Johnson
Amelia Earhart ~ Shelley Tanaka
Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy ~ Jane O’Connor
Our most popular titles include:
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo ~ Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played With Fire ~ Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest ~ Stieg Larsson
The Help ~ Kathryn Stockett
Three Cups of Tea ~ Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Tinkers ~ Paul Harding
Cutting For Stone ~ Abraham Verghese
The Elegance of the Hedgehog ~ Muriel Barbery
Fall of Giants ~ Ken Follett
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk ~ David Sedaris (comic author)
Listen To This ~ Alex Ross (New Yorker music critic)
The Cookbook Collector ~ Allegra Goodman (newest title)
Painted Ladies ~ Robert Parker
Non-fiction:
The Happiness Project ~ Gretchen Rubin
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks ~ Rebecca Skloot
Have a Little Faith ~ Mitch Albom
Stones into Schools ~ Greg Mortenson
Game Change ~ John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
The new books list in alphabetical order can be found here.
Children’s picture books have had some brand new renditions of beloved old titles.
All here at the Waban Library Center.
