This Week's New Titles at the Baldwin Public Library

Need a little mystery, suspense or adventure to get you through the week? The Baldwin Public Libraryhas just what you need with the latest batch of new arrivals. This week's Library Picks are:

Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harrs: When Sookie learns the reason why Eric's vampires are keeping their distance from her, she is devastated. Then a shocking murder rocks Bon Temps, and Sookie is arrested for the crime in this final Sookie Stackhouse novel.

A Delicate Truth by John LeCarre: In 2008, a counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's personal private secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it. Cornwall, UK, 2011. A disgraced Special Forces Soldier delivers a message from the dead. Was Operation Wildlife the success it was cracked up to be - or a human tragedy that was ruthlessly covered up?

Hyde Park on Hudson (DVD): As Great Britain faces an imminent war with Germany, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor, invited the King and Queen of England for a weekend at their home in upstate New York. But during the first-ever visit of a reigning British monarch to America,international affairs must be juggled with the complexities of FDR's domestic establishment, as wife,mother, and mistresses all conspire to make the royal trip an unforgettable one.

Jack Reacher (DVD): Ex-military investigator Jack Reacher leaps off the pages of Lee Child's best-selling novel and onto the big screen in this explosive thriller. When an unspeakable crime is committed, all evidence points to the suspect in custody who offers up a single note in defense: Get Jack Reacher!The law has its limits, but Reacher does not when his fight for the truth pits him against an unexpected enemy with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.

Safe Haven (DVD): Based on the novel from Nicholas Sparks, a young woman with a mysterious pastlands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.

Birmingham Patch reader Josh Rouan of the Baldwin Public Library provided the following information.