2010 Staff Picks of older titles

Older titles we just got to and think you should know about:

Fiction
The Broken Teaglass by Emily Arsenault (MYS)
Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (FIC)
Hate List by Jennifer Brown (Y) (staff review)
Little Bee by Chris Cleave (FIC) (staff review)
Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen (Y) (staff review)
Never Let Me Go by Kauzo Ishiguro (FIC)
Daughters of the Stone by Dahlma Llanos-Figuerora (HIS)
City and the City by China Miéville (SF)(staff review)
Front & Center by Catherine Murdock (Y)
True Grit by Charles Portis (WES)
Wife of the Gods by Kwei J. Quartey (MYS)
Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (FIC) (staff review)
Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco Stork (Y) (staff review)
Tales From Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan (Y) (staff review)

Non-Fiction
Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon (staff review)
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (staff review)
A Homemade Life: Stories and recipes from my kitchen table by Molly Wizenberg (staff reviews: Jolee H.  & Cheryl L.)
This Child will be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa’s First Woman President by Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

Music
Oh My God, Charlie Darwin by The Low Anthem.
Volume One by She & Him
Learning to Bend by Ben Sollee
At Home with Friends by Joshua Bell

Movies or TV
Fringe—Season One and two.
9

And in the realm of coming to your library someday but not yet… We suggest:

• For Colored Girls—based on For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf : a choreopoem by Ntozake Shange.
• The Social Network—The blockbuster movie on the creation of Facebook.
• The Walking Dead—currently viewable on AMC (episode 1 available online) based on the comic book series The Walking Dead: a continuing story of survival horror by Robert Kirkman
• The Oracle of Stamboul by Michael David Lukas—due out in February 2011