Baldwin Library New Titles 3/20/2012

Clicking on the phrase  Check Availability marked in red takes you directly to the computer status page for that title. There you will see how many copies are available and where they are. Sometimes it is available at the library immediately . More often however you will have to put the book or DVD on hold. You can do that directly from the page you are on. If you see Check Availability at http://www.baldwinlib.org/  it means that the links the library provided and our  Google Chrome system  don't link up. This happens frequently with DVD's. When it does we send you the library's main web page. Type in title the library's search engine and request a search in the library's catalog. I did this with the The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

. My search produced this.

It says that one copy is available in Hot Picks DVDs. Perhaps  but knowing my wife's plans and mine for the day I decided to place it on hold by clicking the bottom box. 

Occasionally  however it's not so simple and  you get a screen like the one below which says No Results.

 Sometimes hitting OK  in the center of the screen puts you through. When it doesn't or produces a title different from the one you want try Search/Home from the shaded bar, far left. That will provide another search engine which which works much better.

Incidentally both The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy now available here were with in the last week available at Best Buy on Special at $20 each. They are also now on Directv (and probably cable pay per view). Just think how much my the library saves you with it's timely acquisitions !

 Mudwoman by Joyce Carol Oates:  M.R. Neukirchen – the first female president of a lauded Ivy League institution – struggles to hold onto her self-identity in the face of personal and professional demons.
Check Availability 

Fall from Grace by Richard North Patterson:  Adam Blaine arrives at the funeral of his estranged father, Ben Blaine, a famous and charismatic writer who left behind him a string of secret legal and financial arrangements. Using his training as a CIA operative, Adam seeks to find the truth of his father's death, even if it means exposing one or more of his own family members as the killer and discovering secrets about himself that he was never supposed to know. Check Availability

 

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (DVD): Hoping to distance himself from the fallout of a libel conviction, journalist Mikael Blomkvist retreats to a remote island in Sweden's far north where the unsolved murder of a young girl still haunts her industrialist uncle forty years later. Ensconced in a cottage on the island where the killer may still roam, Blomkvist's investigation draws him into the secrets and lies of the rich and powerful, and throws him together with one unlikely ally: tattooed, punk hacker, Lisbeth Salander.
Check Availability at http://www.baldwinlib.org/

The Muppets (DVD): While on vacation in Los Angeles, Walter and his friends, Gary and Mary, try to raise ten million dollars to save the Muppet Theater from Tex Richman, a business man who wants to demolish the theater in order to drill for oil. Check Availability at http://www.baldwinlib.org/

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (DVD): At the height of the Cold War, a former agent for the British Secret Intelligence Service is called back to root out a Russian spy who has infiltrated the organization's highest levels. Check Availability