New books, end of 2005

Rounding out the library’s acquisitions for 2005 are, in nonfiction: Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution by Stephen Breyer; President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination by Richard Reeves; Teacher Man by Frank McCourt; Why Do I Love These People? by Po Bronson; One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel Fick, The Tender Bar by Jake Moehringer (in audio); Digital Photography: An Introduction by Tom Ang; and Standard & Poor’s Guide to Saving and Investing for College. New in fiction are Fiddlers by Ed McBain (his last book); Third Girl from the Left by Martha Southgate; and Wedding in December by Anita Shreve (in audio.) New for young people: Two Shredderman books: Attack of the Tagger and Meet the Gecko by Wendell van Draanen; 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson; and Ranger’s Apprentice by John Flanagan, the first in a new fantasy series; and Who Was Thomas Jefferson? by Dennis Fradin.