Bridgeport Library
Bridgeport Public LibraryBport Library - New Reads

New Reads

 

Want to read these titles as soon as possible? Reserve your copy today. You can place holds on books that have an “on order” status.

Worst Case Worst Case
By Patterson, James
Author Ledwidge, Michael
2010-02 – Little Brown and Company
9780316036221 Check Our Catalog  From the authors of “The Quickie” comes their most action-packed series yet. When the children of many of New York’s elite become murder victims, Detective Michael Bennett and FBI agent Emily Parker set out to capture a killer before he sends out a deadly message for the entire city to witness. …More 
Winter Garden Winter Garden
By Hannah, Kristin
2010-02 – St. Martin’s Press
9780312364120 Check Our Catalog  Can a woman ever really know herself if she doesn’t know her mother? From the author of “Firefly Lane” comes a powerful novel that illuminates the intricate mother-daughter bond and explores the enduring links between the present and the past. …More 
The Help The Help
By Stockett, Kathryn
2009-02 – Putnam Adult
9780399155345 Check Our Catalog  BookPage Notable Title
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women–black and white, mothers and daughters–view one another. …More 
 
Noah's Compass Noah’s Compass
By Tyler, Anne
2010-01 – Knopf Publishing Group
9780307272409 Check Our Catalog  BookPage Notable Title From the incomparable Tyler comes a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher who has been forced to retire at age 61, who must suddenly come to terms with the final phase of his life. …More 
I, Alex Cross I, Alex Cross
By Patterson, James
2009-11 – Little Brown and Company
9780316018784 Check Our Catalog  BookPage Notable Title Alex Cross’s niece is found brutally murdered. Overcome with grief, Alex vows to take down her killer before he strikes again. But shortly after he begins the investigation, Alex discovers that his niece had gotten mixed up with some very important, very dangerous people. …More 
Under the Dome Under the Dome
By King, Stephen
2009-11 – Scribner Book Company
9781439148501 Check Our Catalog  BookPage Notable Title On a beautiful fall day, the town of Chester’s Mill, Maine, is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. No one knows what this barrier is and when–or if–it will go away. …More 
Kindred in Death Kindred in Death
By Robb, J. D.
2009-11 – Putnam Adult
9780399155956 Check Our Catalog  When the newly promoted captain of the NYPD and his wife return from vacation, they look forward to spending time with their 16-year-old daughter who had stayed behind. Not even their worst nightmares could have prepared them for the crime scene that awaits them instead. …More 
Have a Little Faith: A True Story Have a Little Faith: A True Story
By Albom, Mitch
2009-09 – Hyperion Books
0786868724 Check Our Catalog  BookPage Notable Title New York Times bestselling author Albom goes back to his nonfiction roots with a timely, moving, and inspiring look at faith–not just who believes, but why–prompted by his search for the right words to eulogize a beloved rabbi. …More 
The Professional The Professional
By Parker, Robert B.
2009-10 – Putnam Adult
9780399155949 Check Our Catalog  A knock on Spenser’s office door can only mean one thing: a new case. This time the visitor is a local lawyer who claims her friends are being blackmailed. Spenser agrees to take the seemingly straightforward case, but when women start turning up dead, Spenser’s assignment takes a sinister turn. …More 
The Last Song The Last Song
By Sparks, Nicholas
2009-09 – Grand Central Publishing
9780446547567 Check Our Catalog  Seventeen-year-old Veronica Miller’s life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, until her mother sends her to spend the summer with him. The film adaptation of this novel will star Miley Cyrus. …More 
The Lost Symbol The Lost Symbol
By Brown, Dan
2009-09 – Doubleday Books
9780385504225 Check Our Catalog  The eagerly awaited follow-up to his #1 international phenomenon “The DaVinciCode, The Lost Symbol” once again features Brown’s unforgettable protagonist, Harvard symbol expert Robert Langdon. …More 
The Swan Thieves The Swan Thieves
By Kostova, Elizabeth
2010-01 – Little Brown and Company
0316065781 Check Our Catalog  Kostova’s masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy, from the late 19th century to the late 20th, from young love to last love to create a story of obsession, history’s losses, and the power of art to preserve human hope. …More 
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
By Gilbert, Elizabeth
2010-01 – Viking Books
0670021652 Check Our Catalog  BookPage Notable Title Picking up where her bestselling memoir “Eat, Pray, Love” left off, Gilbert details the extraordinary circumstances that surround her love with Felipe, the man she swore never to marry. Told with Gilbert’s trademark wit, “Committed” is a celebration of love with all the complexity and consequence that real love, in the real world, actually entails. …More