New Arrivals...

Forget everything you think you know about Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. Previous books and films, including the brilliant 1967 movie starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, have emphasized the supposed glamour of America's most notorious criminal couple, thus contributing to ongoing mythology. The real story is completely different--and far more fascinating.

In Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, bestselling author Jeff Guinn combines exhaustive research with surprising, newly discovered material to tell the real tale of two kids from a filthy Dallas slum who fell in love and then willingly traded their lives for a brief interlude of excitement and, more important, fame. Their timing could not have been better--the Barrow Gang pulled its first heist in 1932 when most Americans, reeling from the Great Depression were desperate for escapist entertainment. Thanks to newsreels, true crime magazines, and new-fangled wire services that transmitted scandalous photos of Bonnie smoking a cigar to every newspaper in the nation, the Barrow Gang members almost instantly became household names on a par with Charles Lindbergh, Jack Dempsey, and Babe Ruth. In the minds of the public, they were cool, calculating bandits who robbed banks and killed cops with equal impunity.

Nothing could have been further from the truth. Clyde and Bonnie were perhaps the most inept crooks ever, and their two-year crime spree was as much a reign of error as it was terror. Lacking the sophistication to plot robberies of big-city banks, the Barrow Gang preyed mostly on small mom-and-pop groceries and service stations. Even at that, they often came up empty-handed and were reduced to breaking into gum machines for meal money. Both were crippled, Clyde from cutting off two of his toes while in prison and Bonnie from a terrible car crash caused by Clyde's reckless driving. Constantly on the run from the law, they lived like animals, camping out in their latest stolen car, bathing in creeks, and dining on cans of cold beans and Vienna sausages. Yet theirs was a genuine love story. Their devotion to each other was real as their overblown reputation as criminal masterminds was not.
After her boss in a high-powered Washington public relations firm is caught in a political scandal, fledgling lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left almost broke, unemployed , and homeless. Out of options, she reluctantly accepts her father's offer to help refurbish Birdsong, the old family place he recently inherited in Guthrie, Georgia. All it will take, he tells her, is a little paint and some TLC to turn the fading Victorian mansion into a real-estate cash cow.

But, oh, is Dempsey in for a surprise when she arrives in Guthrie. "Bird Droppings" would more aptly describe the moldering Pepto Bismol-pink dump with duct-taped windows and a driveway full of junk. There's also a murderously grumpy old lady, one of Dempsey's distant relations, who has claimed squatter's rights and isn't moving out. Ever.

Furthermore, everyone in Guthrie seems to know Dempsey's business, from a smooth-talking real-estate agent to a cute lawyer who owns the local newspaper. It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the pesky FBI agents who show up on Dempsey's doorstep, hoping to pry information about her ex-boss from her.

All Dempsey can do is roll up her sleeves and get to work. And before long, what started as a job of necessity somehow becomes a labor of love and, ultimately, a journey that takes her to a place she never expected--back home again.

More New Arrivals...

Affinity Bridge, by George Mann
Angel's Game, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Apostle, by Brad Thor
Black Hills, by Nora Roberts
Burn, by Linda Howard
Castaways, by Elin Hilderbrand
The Crying Tree, by Naseem Rakha
Firethorn, by Sarah Micklem
In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms, by Laura Schlessinger
The Last Olympian, by Rick Riordan
Merchant of Death, by D.J. Machale
Neighbor, by Lisa Gardner
Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, by Katherine Howe
Promise of Lumby, by Gail R. Fraser
Queen Takes King, by Gigi Levangie Grazer
Return to Sullivans Island, by Dorothea Benton Frank
Roadside Crosses, by Jeffery Deaver
Scarecrow, by Michael Connelly
Shanghai Girls, by Lisa See
Sleeping with Strangers, by Eric Jerome Dickey
Stealing Lumby, by Gail R. Frazer
Swimsuit, by James Patterson
Voices from the Moon: Apollo Astroauts describe their Lunar experiences, by Andrew Chaikin
Waking with Enemies, by Eric Jerome Dickey
Wicked Prey, by John Sanford
Wildfire, by Sarah Micklem

New Arrivals...

August Witte is firmly against having children. But after seven years of marriage, his wife is delighted when she realizes she is unexpectedly pregnant. August is terrified, recognizing he never learned the first thing about being a good parent from his father, London. A widower since August was a toddler, London has always valued the game of golf--a sport August has never had any talent for--more than his son.
In spite of how he hates the game, when August confronts his father, he finds himself agreeing to meet each onth of pregnancy with a round of golf. In exchange, London will give him the only thing that could make August agree to pick up a club again--memories of his mother, which he has written on golf scorecards since the day he met her. But August quickly realizes that his father's motive is not to teach him about golf, but to teach him about life--and he may discover that the old man just might know something about it worth sharing.





Clara Kramer was a typical Polish-Jewish teenager from a small town at the outbreak of the Second World War. When the Germans invaded, Clara's family was taken in by the Beck's, a Volksdeutsche (ethically German) family from their town. Mrs. Beck worked as Clara's family's housekeeper. Mr. Beck was known to be an alcoholic, a womanizer, and a vocal anti-semite. But on hearing that Jewish families were being led into the woods and shot, Beck sheltered the Kramers and two other Jewish families.

Eighteen people in all lived in a bunker dug out of Beck's basement. Fifteen-year-old Clara kept a diary during the twenty terrifying months she spent in hiding, writing down details of their unpredictable life--from the house's catching fire to Mr. Beck's affair with Clara's neighbor; from the nightly SS drinking sessions in the room above to the small pleasure of a shared Christmas carp.

Against all odds, Clara lived to tell her story, and her diary is now a part of the permanent collection of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

More New Arrivals:

All Together Dead, by Charlaine Harris
Amulet of Samarkand, by Jonathan Stroud
Assailant, by James Patrick Hunt
Awakening, by S. J. Bolt
Beach, by Elisha Cooper
Building a Home with my Husband, by Rachel Simon
Dead and Gone, by Charlaine Harris
Diary of a Fly, by Doreen Cronin
Diary of a Spider, by Doreen Cronin
Die For You, by Lisa Unger
Dooby Dooby Moo, by Doreen Cronin
Everyone She Loved, by Sheila Curran
Fablehaven, by Brandon Mull
Fancy Nancy, by Jane O'Connor
Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy, by Jane O'Connor
Fingerlickin' Fifteen, by Janet Evanovich
Finishing Touches, by Hester Browne
Flying Carpet of Small Miracles, by Hala Jaber
From Dead to Worse, by Charlaine Harris
The Garth Factor, by Patsi Bale Cox
Golem's Eye, by Jonathan Stroud
Gone Tomorrow, by Lee Child
Grip of the Shadow Plague, by Brandon Mull
House of Suns, by Alastair Reynolds
Knockout, by Catherine Coulter
Matters of the Heart, by Danielle Steel
Medusa, by Clive Cussler
The Pretend Wife, by Bridget Asher
Ptolemy's Gate, by Jonathan Stroud
Relentless, by Dean Koontz
Rise of the Evening Star, by Brandon Mull
Rising Tide (A novel of WWII), by Jeff Shaara
Rogue Forces, by Dale Brown
Steel Wave (A novel of WWII), by Jeff Shaara
Widows Season, by Laura Brodie
Pendragon: Merchant of Death (bk.1), by D. J. Machale
Pendragon: Lost City of Faar (bk.2), by D. J. Machale
Pendragon: The Never War (bk.3), by D. J. Machale
Pendragon: The Reality Bug (bk.4), by D. J. Machale
Pendragon: Black Water (bk.5), by D. J. Machale

New Arrivals...

SUMMER READING INFO

When Judge Isaac Parker first arrived in Fort Smith, Arkansas, the town had a corrupt court and a lawless territory roughly the size of Great Britain, Parker immediately put the residents on notice by publicly hanging six convicted felons at one time. For the next two decades, his stern and implacable justice brought law and order to the West...and made him plenty of enemies.

As the sole law on the untamed frontier, Parker tried civil and criminal cases throughout the Western District of Arkansas and the Indian Nations. Only God and the president had the power to challenge Parker. His severe judgments, which scandalized Washington and the Eastern press, took an onerous toll on his private life, but the "Hanging Judge of the Border" never flinched from his duty. Over the years, he and his marshals, dubbed "Parker's Men," ran up against some of the most colorful and dangerous outlaws the West had to offer, including the notorious Dalton Gang; Belle Starr, the Bandit Queen; the murderous Cherokee Bill; and Ned Christie, who carried on a private war against the U.S. government for seven years.

There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Actor. Husband. Father. Activist. But readers of Always Looking Up will soon add another to the list: Optimist. Michael writes about the hard-won perspective that helped him see challenges as opportunities. Instead of building walls around himself, he developed a personal policy of engagementand discovery: an emotional, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual outlook that has served him throughout his struggle with Parkinson's disease. Michael's exit from a very demanding, very public arena offered him the time--and the inspiration--to open up new doors leading to unexpected places. One door even led him to the center of his own family, the greatest destination of all.

More New Arrivals....

Best Intentions, by Emily Listfield
Brimstone, by Robert B. Parker
Cold Light of Mourning, by Elizabeth J. Duncan
Do-Over, by Robin Hemley
First Family, by David Baldacci
From Lump to Laughter, by Connie Hill
8th Confession, by James Patterson
Intent to Kill, by James Grippando
Last Child, by John Hart
Late, Lamented Molly Clark, by Sally Koslow
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, by J. R. R. Tolkien
Marine One, by James W. Huston
Mr. and Miss Anonymous, by Fern Michaels
My Remarkable Journey, by Larry King
Perfect Poison, by Amanda Quick
Return of the Mountain Man, by William W. Johnstone
Road to Jerusalem, by Jan Guillon
Up Till Now, by William Shatner

Reading Club begins

IT'S A ZOO IN HERE!!

The annual Summer Reading Club at the Red River County Public Library is set to begin on Monday, June 1 and run through Wednesday, July 1.

For young children that can't yet read, we offer the Read-to-Me portion of the Club.  They may participate by keeping a reading log of the books read to them during the month.

Children in grades 1 through 3 keep a log of the number of books they read themselves.  We have books for all reading levels.

Older boys and girls in grades 4 through 6, will keep track of the number of pages they read.  This allows them the pleasure of enjoying lengthier books, since they are not having to count actual books read.

Prizes are awarded at

5 books/500 pages

10 books/1000 pages

15 books/1500 pages

Books must be library books, not personal books.

Readers may check out 3 books at a time.

Readers may register anytime during the month.  

Pre-school story time will continue 

Tuesday mornings - 10:00 - 11:00

The Closing Party will be held

Wednesday, July 1

10:00 a.m.

Books, Books, and ....... more books

After years of throwing make-believe weddings in the backyard, flowers, photography, desserts, and details are what these women do best: a guaranteed perfect, beautiful day full of memories to last the rest of your life.
With bridal magazines to her credit, Mackensie "Mac" Elliot is most at home behind the camera-ready to capture the happy moments she never experienced while growing up. Her father replaced her first family with a second, and now her mother, moving onto yet another man, begs Mac for attention and money. Mac's foundation is jostled again moments before an important wedding planning meeting when she bumps into the bride-to-be's brother...an encounter that has them both seeing stars.
Carter Maguire is definitely not her type: he's stable, and he's safe. He's even an English teacher at their high school alma mater. There's something about him that makes Mac think a casual fling is just what she needs to take her mind off dealing with bridezillas and screening her mother's phone calls. But a casual fling can turn into something more when you least expect it. And with the help of her three best friends-and business partners-Mac must learn how to make her own happy memories...

How is tonight different from all other nights? For Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier in the Union army during the Civil War, it is a question his commanders have already answered for him--on Passover, 1862, he is ordered to murder his own uncle in New Orleans, who is plotting to assassinate President Lincoln. After his harrowing mission, Jacob recruited to pursue another enemy agent, the daughter of a Virginia family friend. but this time, his assignment isn't to murder the spy, but to marry her.

Based on real personalities such as Judah Benjamin, the Confederacy's Jewish secretary of state and spymaster, and on historical facts and events ranging from an African American spy network to the dramatic self-destruction of the city of Richmond, All Other Nights is a gripping story of men and women driven to limits of loyalty and betrayal. It is also a brilliant parable of the rift in America that lingers a century and a half later: between those who value family and tradition first, and those dedicated, at any cost, to social and racial justice for all.



New Arrivals:
The Best of East Texas (bk.3), by Bob Bowman
Dead as a Doornail, by Charlaine Harris
Definitely Dead, by Charlaine Harris
Forgotten Garden, by Kate Morton
Gift of Grace, by Amu Clipston
Growing up Again, by Mary Tyler Moore
Havah, by Tosca Lee
Hidden, by Sheeley Shepard Gray
Home Safe, by Elizabeth Berg
I'll Scream Later, by Marlee Matlin
Liberty and Tyranny, by Mark R. Levin
Loitering with Intent, by Stuart Woods
Long Lost, by Harlan Coben
Might as well laugh about it now, by Marie Osmond
Nightwalker, by Heather Graham
On a Someday, by Roxanne Henke
Prayers for Sale, by Sandra Dallas
Priceless Memories, by Bob Barker
Promises in Death, by J.D. Robb
Pursuit, by Karen Robards
Ratio:the secret codes behind craft of everyday cooking, by Michael Ruhlman
The Servants' Quarters, by Lynn Freed
The Slobbering Love Affair, by Bernard Goldberg
Staying Home is a Killer, by Sara Rosett
Wanted, by Shelley Shepard Gray
Yesterday's Embers, by Deborah Raney

New Arrivals

     Miss Beaumont is about to become a teenager. As if that prospect weren't scary enough, thirteen is when a Beaumont's savvy strikes--and with one brother whocauses hurricanes and another who creates electricity, it promises to be outrageous...and positively thrilling.

     But just before her big day, Poppa is in a terrible accident. Suddenly, Mib's dreams of X-ray vision disappear like a flash of her brother's lightening: All she wants now is a savvy that will save Poppa. In fact, Mibs is so sure she'll get that powerful savvy that she sneaks a ride to the hospital on a rickety bus, with her siblings and the preacher kids in tow. But whenthe bus starts heading in the wrong direction only one thing is certain: After this extraordinary adventure, not a soul on board will ever be the same.



In 2008 an extraordinary two-minutefilm clip appeared on YouYube and immediately became an international phenomenon. It captures the moving reunion of two young menand their pet lion, Christian, after they had left him in Africa with Born Free's George Adamson to introduce him into his rightful home in the wild.
A Lion Called Christian tells the remarkable story of how Anthony "Ace" Bourke and John Rendall, visitors to London from Australia in 1969, bought the boisterous lion cub in the pet department of Harrods. For several months, the three of them shared a flat above a furniture shop on London's King's Road, where the charsmatic and intelligent Christian qiuckly became a local celebrity, cruising the streets i the back of a Bentley, popping in for lunch at a local restaurant, even posing for a fashion advertisement. But the lion cub was growing up--fast--and soon even the walled church garden where he went for exercise wasn't big enough for him. How could Ace and John avoid having to send Christian to a zoo for the rest of his life? A coincidental meeting with English actors Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, stars of the hit film Born Free, led to Christian being flown to Kenya and plced under the expert care of "the father of lions," George Adamson. Incredibly when Ace and John returned to Kenya to see Christian a year later, they received a loving welcome from their lion, who was by then fully integrated into Africa and a life with other lions.
Originally publishedin 1971, and now fully revised and updated with more than fifty photographs of Christian from cuddly cub in London to magnificent lion in Africa.

New Books

Blood and Sand, by Damien Graves
Cat Lady, by Damien Graves
Crispin the Cross of Lead, by Avi
Deadly Catch, Damien Graves
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, by Jeff Kinney
End Game, by Damien Graves
Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices from a medieval Village, by Laura Amy Schlitz
Handle With Care, by Jodi Piccoult
Higher Power of Lucky, by Susan Patron
Gouse in the Night, by Susan Marie Swanson
I Can See You, by Damien Graves
Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, by Mordicai Gerstein
Man of Bones, by Rick Riordan
Midnight Library Liar, by Damien Graves
My Friend Rabbit, by Eric Rohmann
One False Move, by Gordon Korman
Shut Your Mouth, by Damien Graves
Skippyjon Jones in the Doghouse, by Judy Schachner
Stardust, by Neil Gaiman
Sword Thief, by Peter Lerangis
Voices, by Nick Shadow
Wait Till Helen Comes, by Mary Downing Hahn

Spring into Reading with these Releases!

     A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel- an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.
     Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother's death in childbirth and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Yet it will be love, not politics-their passion for the same woman-that will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flle his homeland. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him-nearly destroying him- Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him.
     


--Biography--
The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch

--Fiction--
All the Colors of Darkness, by Peter Robinson
Among the Mad, by Jacqueline Winspear
Black Olives, by Martha Dudman
Corsair, by Clive Cussler
Cream Puff Murder, by Joanne Fluke
Dare to Die, by Carolyn Hart
Death of a Witch, by M.C. Beaton
Dog On It, by Spencer Quinn
Eggs in Purgatory, by Laura Childs
Heart and Soul, by Maeve Binchy
Help, by Kathryn Stockett
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford
Don't Look Twice, by Andrew Gross
Girl She Used to Be, by David Cristofano
Lethal Legacy, by Linda Fairstein
Life Sentences, by Laura Lippman
Little Giant of Aberdeen County, by Tiffany Baker
Love Mercy, by Earlene Fowler
Manna from Hades, by Carols Dunn
Murder on the Rocks, by Karen McInerney
Night and Day, by Robert B. Parker
The Second Opinion, by Michael Palmer

Shatter, by Michael Robotham
Stiffs and Swine, by J. B. Stanley
Still Life, by Joy Fielding
True Colors, by Kristin Hannah
What I Did for Love, by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
While My Sister Sleeps, by Barbara Delinsky
The Women, by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Very Valentine, by Adriana Trigiana

--Inspirational--
Beach Dreams, by Trish Perry
Blue Heart Blessed, by Susan Meissner
Castles in the Sand, by Sally John
Controlling Interest, by Elizabeth White
Hannah Grace, by Sharlene MacLaren
Last Mango in Texas, by Ray Blackston
Let Them Eat Cake, by Sandra Byrd
Long Journey Home, by Sharlene MacLaren
Mending Places, by Denise Hunter
Par for the Course, by Ray Blackston
Petticoat Ranch, by Mary Connealy
She's in a Better Place, by Angela Elwell Hunt
Sticks and Stones, by Susan Meissner
Surrender Bay, by Denise Hunter
Time to Gather, by Sally John
Until We Reach Home, by Lynn Austin
Wagered Heart, by Robin Lee Hatcher
Widows and Orphans, by Susan Meissner