Adult Fiction:
Night Shadow
Cherry Adair
Quick Study
By Maggie Barbieri
The Christmas Sweater
By Glenn Beck
Princeps' fury
By Jim Butcher
Dying for Revenge
By Eric Jerome Dickey
Blue Moon
By Laurell K. Hamilton
Blood Sins
By Kay Hooper
Knit Two
By Kate Jacobs
The Private Patient
By P.D. James
The Treasure
By Iris Johansen
A McKettrick Christmas
By Linda Lael Miller
Crossroads
By Belva Plain
The United States of Atlantis
By Harry Turtledove
Adult Non-Fiction:
The Ascent of Money
By Niall Ferguson
Outliers
By Malcolm Gladwell
Do the Right Thing
By Mike Huckabee
Somebody
By Stefan Kanfer
Why We Suck
By Denis Leary
Annie Leibovitz at Work
By Annie Leibovitz
The American Journey of Barack Obama
By Life Books
The Rise of Barack Obama
By Pete Souza
Thursday, December 18, 2008
New Books
Thursday, December 4, 2008
New Books
Adult Fiction:
The Charlemagne Pursuit
By Steve Berry
Santa Clawed
By Rita Mae Brown
Ender in Exile
By Orson Scott Card
The Quilter's Kitchen
By Jennifer Chiaverini
Dashing Through the Snow
By Mary Higgins Clark
Scarpetta
By Patricia Cornwell
Arctic Drift
By Clive Cussler
The Bodies Left Behind
By Jeffery Deaver
The Eleventh Man
By Ivan Doig
Swallowing Darkness
By Laurell K. Hamilton
Ghost at Work
By Carolyn Hart
Cruel Intent
By J. A. Jance
Exposed
By Alex Kava
Just After Sunset
By Stephen King
Every Now and Then
By Karen Kingsbury
Your Heart Belongs to Me
By Dean Koontz
The Hour I First Believed
By Wally Lamb
A Mercy
By Toni Morrison
Cross Country
By James Patterson
Salvation in Death
By J.D. Robb
The Pagan Stone
By Nora Roberts
Midnight
By Sister Souljah
Adult Non-Fiction:
Bobbi Brown Makeup Manual
By Bobbi Brown
Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics
By Ina Garten
Too Fat to Fish
By Artie Lange
American Lion
By Jon Mecham
John Lennon
By Philip Norman
I Hate Your Guts
By Jim Norton
Rachael Ray's Big Orange Book
By Rachael Ray
You Being Beautiful
By Michael Roizen
Call Me Ted
By Ted Turner
The Flat Belly Diet
By Liz Vaccariello
The Purpose of Christmas
By Rick Warren
Thursday, November 20, 2008
New Books
Adult Fiction:
The White Tiger
By Aravind Adiga
Six Geese A-Slaying
By Donna Andrews
Divine Justice
By David Baldacci
Hounded to Death
By Rita Mae Brown
The Chocolate Snowman Murders
By Joanna Carl
Twice Loved
By Lori Copeland
Espresso Shot
By Cleo Coyle
Black and White and Dead All Over
By John Darnton
The Gate House
By Nelson Demille
Findings
By Mary Anna Evans
Extreme Measures
By Vince Flynn
Dark Summer
By Iris Johansen
A Wallflower Christmas
By Lisa Kleypas
Foundation
By Mercedes Lackey
A Most Wanted Man
By John LeCarre
Hardly Knew Her
By Laura Lippman
Star Wars : Millennium Falcon
James Luceno
The Fire
By Katherine Neville
A Christmas Grace
By Anne Perry
Testimony
By Anita Shreve
A Good Woman
By Danielle Steel
The Widows of Eastwick
By John Updike
Adult Non-Fiction:
Letter to My Daughter
By Maya Angelou
The Shadow Factory
By James Bamford
Kill Bin Laden
By Dalton Fury
Multiple Blessings
By Jon Gosselin
The Longest Trip Home
By John Grogan
Beyond Belief
By John Hamilton
What in the World is going on?
By David Jeremiah
Here's the Story
By Maureen McCormick
A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity
By Bill O'Reilly
Anticancer
By David Servan-Schreiber
Martha Stewart's Cooking School
By Martha Stewart
Murder by Family
By Kent Whitaker
Thursday, October 30, 2008
New Books
Adult Fiction:
The Brass Verdict
By Michael Connelly
Grace
By Richard Paul Evans
Quofum
By Alan Dean Foster
Bones
By Jonathan Kellerman
A Cedar Cove Christmas
By Debbie MaComber
Faefever
By Karen Marie Moning
Rough Weather
By Robert Parker
The Pirate King
By R.A. Salvatore
Adult Non-Fiction:
A Promise to Ourselves
By Alec Baldwin
Green Goes With Everything
By Sloan Barnett
Giada's Kitchen
By Giada de Laurentiis
The Green-Collar Economy
By Van Jones
Tried by War
By James McPherson
Ted, White, and Blue
By Ted Nugent
Wesley the Owl
By Stacey O'Brien
Against Medical Advice
By James Patterson
The Snowball
By Alice Schroeder
The Wordy Shipmates
By Sarah Vowell
Pieces of My Heart
By Robert Wagner
The Strongest Tribe
By Francis West
Thursday, October 23, 2008
New Books
Adult Fiction:
A Spoonful of Poison
By M.C. Beaton
Paul of Dune
By Brian Herbert
Liberty
By Garrison Keillor
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
By Steig Larsson
Heat Lightning
By John Sandford
The Lucky One
By Nicholas Sparks
Order 66
By Karen Traviss
Hot Mahogany
By Stuart Woods
Adult Non-Fiction:
Mystical Traveler
By Sylvia Browne
The Forever War
By Dexter Filkins
Angler
By Barton Gellman
The Given Day
Dennis LeHane
Mother Warriors
By Jenny McCarthy
Real Life
By Phillip McGraw
Dewey
By Vicki Myron
Acedia & Me
By Kathleen Norris
Boys Will Be Boys
By Jeff Pearlman
Breakthrough
By Suzanne Somers
Through the Storm
By Lynne Spears
The Trouble With Boys
By Peg Tyre
The War Within
By Bob Woodward
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
3rd Annual Harry Potter Night
Harry Potter Night
Saturday, October 25th
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Prattville Public Library
We are please to inform you that you have been invited to attend
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!
After being sorted into your house, you will be able to
attend Hogwarts classes, dine at the Leaky Cauldron, visit Diagon Alley, run Quidditch drills and much more!!
Come dressed as your favorite character!
For children in
grades K-6
For more information, please call the
Children’s Department at 365-3396.
Muggle parents must stay at the library during the activity.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
New Books
Adult Fiction:
Being Elizabeth
By Barbara Taylor Bradford
One Fifth Avenue
By Candace Bushnell
Sweetheart
By Chelsea Cain
Dark Curse
By Christine Feehan
Silks
By Dick Francis
The Keepsake
By Tess Gerritsen
The Other Queen
By Philippa Gregory
Rough Justice
By Jack Higgins
Night of Thunder
By Stephen Hunter
Sunset
By Karen Kingsbury
The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday
By Alexander McCall Smith
Laughter of Dead Kings
By Elizabeth Peters
A Promise to Believe In
By Tracy Peterson
The Letters
By Luanne Rice
Indignation
By Philip Roth
American Wife
By Curtis Sittenfeld
Anathem
By Neal Stephenson
Pecking Order
By Omar Tyree
The Force Unleashed
By Sean Williams
When the Soul Mends
By Cindy Woodsmall
Adult Non-Fiction:
House at Sugar Beach
By Helen Cooper
Hot, Flat, and Crowded
By Thomas Friedman
The One Hundred
By Nina Garcia
We Are Soldier Still
By Harold Moore
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Reading has gone to the dogs!
The P.A.W.S. Therapy Dogs are back by popular demand.
Come join us for a special reading time with the P.A.W.S. dogs every Tuesday and Wednesday beginning Sept. 16th.
Each reading time will be held at the Prattville Library from 3:30-4:30 and is open to all children in grades K-5.
Rheta Grimsley Johnson at the library
Please join us for a book signing with syndicated journalist Rheta Grimsley Johnson, celebrating her new book Poor Man's Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana.
The signing will be held Saturday Sept. 13, at 11:00 a.m. in the library.
Books are for sale at the library for $25.oo. Proceeds from the sales will benefit the Children's Department of the Autauga-Prattville Public Libraries.
New Books
Adult Fiction:
The Lace Reader
By Brunonia Barry
The Story of Forgetting
By Stefan Block
Into the Fire
By Suzanne Brockmann
The Gypsy Morph
By Terry Brooks
Legally Dead
By Edna Buchanan
Supreme Courtship
By Christopher Buckley
Angels Tip
By Alafair Burke
Death Swatch
By Laura Childs
The Legal Limit
By Martin Clark
The Gargoyle
By Andrew Davidson
Sinner
By Ted Dekker
The Bible Salesman
By Clyde Edgerton
The 19th Wife
By David Ebershoff
Forced Out
By Stephen Frey
Hannah's Dream
By Diane Hammond
Cold in Hand
By John Harvey
The Mercedes Coffin
By Faye Kellerman
Lord of Shadows
By Mary Lennox
The Book of Lies
By Brad Meltzer
A Lady of Secret Devotion
By Tracie Peterson
Devil Bones
By Kathy Reich
Faces of Fear
By John Saul
Where the Heart Leads
By Kim Vogel Sawyer
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
By Mary Ann Shaffer
Off Season
By Ann Rivers Siddon
Fractured
By Karin Slaughter
The Scourge of God
By S.M. Stirling
Crime
By Irvine Welsh
Adult Non-Fiction:
Limits of Power
By A.J. Bacevich
The Night of the Gun
By David Carr
The Obama Nation
By Jerome Corsi
Empires of the Sea
By Robert Crowley
Waiter Rant
By Steve Dublanica
Havana Nocturne
By T.J. English
The Case Against Barack Obama
By David Freddoso
Books
By Larry McMurtry
Traffic
By Tom Vanderbilt
Thursday, August 7, 2008
New Books
Adult Fiction:
Allison's Journey
By Wanda Brunstetter
It Only Takes a Moment
By Mary Jane Clark
Foreign Body
By Robin Cook
The Assassin
By Stephen Coonts
Where Memories Lie
By Deborah Crombie
Vi Agra Falls
By Mary Daheim
Damage Control
By J.A. Jance
A Journey By Chance
By Sally John
Acheron
By Sherrilyn Kenyon
Breaking Dawn
By Stephenie Meyer
Moscow Rules
By Daniel Silva
The Calling
By Inger Ash Wolfe
Adult Non-Fiction:
Slavery By Another Name
By Douglas Blackmon
Life With My Sister Madonna
By Christopher Ciccone
One Minute to Midnight
By Michael Dobbs
When Markets Collide
By Mohamed El-Erian
Rome 1960
By David Maraniss
Dark Side
By Jane Mayer
Yankee For Life
By Bobby Murcer
Goodnight Bush
By Erich Origen
The Billionaire's Vinegar
By Benjamin Wallace
Thursday, July 17, 2008
New Books
Adult Fiction:
Tempting Evil
By Allison Brennan
Suddenly Single
By Shana Burton
America America
By Ethan Canin
Say Goodbye
By Lisa Gardner
Romancing the Dead
By Tate Hallaway
A Passion Most Pure
By Julie Lessman
No Choice But Seduction
By Johanna Lindsey
Fearless
By Diana Palmer
Killer View
By Ridley Pearson
Rules of Deception
By Christopher Reich
Last Kiss
By Luanne Rice
Dyer Consequences
By Maggie Sefton
The Sorceress of Belmair
By Bertrice Small
The Last Patriot
By Brad Thor
My Enemy's Cradle
By Sara Young
Adult Non-Fiction:
End of Days
By Sylvia Browne
The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia
By Gary Gillette
It Was Never About a Hotdog and a Coke
By Rodney Hurst
Thursday, July 10, 2008
New Books
Adult Fiction:
Hit and Run
By Lawrence Block
The Sand Castle
By Rita Mae Brown
Swan Peak
By James Lee Burke
Undead and Unworthy
By Mary Janice Davidson
The Beach House
By Jane Green
Silent Thunder
By Iris Johansen
Dance Into Destiny
By Sherri Lewis
My Sister, My Love
By Joyce Carol Oates
Tribute
By Nora Roberts
The Last Oracle
By James Rollins
The Valley-Westside War
By Harry Turtledove
Adult Non-Fiction:
The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder
By Vincent Bugliosi
The Last Campaign
By Thurston Clarke
Can't Remember What I Forgot
By Sue Halpern
The Road to Monticello
By Kevin Hayes
America's Best Zoos
By Allen Nyhuis
Thursday, July 3, 2008
New Books
Adult Fiction:
The Whole Truth
By James Scott Bell
The Queen of Babble Gets Hitched
By Meg Cabot
TailSpin
By Catherine Coulter
Chasing Darkness
By Robert Crais
The Dirty Secrets Club
By Meg Gardiner
Death Angel
By Linda Howard
Winter Turns to Spring
By Catherine Palmer
Oh Don't You Cry For Me
By Philip Shirley
A Sticky Situation
By Kiki Swinson
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
By David Wroblewski
Adult Non-Fiction:
Short Sale Foreclosure Investing
By Dwan Bent-Twyford
The Best Game Ever
By Mark Bowden
Churchill, Hitler, and the "Unnecessary War"
By Patrick Buchanan
Bobby Flay's Grill It!
By Bobby Flay
The Drunkard's Walk
By Leonard Mlodinow
Fleeced
By Dick Morris
Tuned In
By Craig Stull
Thursday, June 26, 2008
New Books
Adult Fiction:
From a Distance
By Tamera Alexander
A Mile in My Flip-Flops
By Melody Carlson
Deep in the Heart of Trouble
By Deeanne Gist
The Death Dealer
By Heather Graham
Death and Honor
By W.E.B. Griffin
Wishbones
By Carolyn Haines
The Art of Keeping Secrets
By Patti Henry
This Charming Man
By Marian Keyes
Dead Silver
By Neil McMahon
Don't Tell A Soul
By David Rosenfelt
Cool Cache
By Patricia Smiley
I Shall Not Want
By Julia Spencer-Fleming
Rogue
By Danielle Steel
Adult Non-Fiction:
The Dumbest Generation
By Mark Bauerlein
Me of Little Faith
By Lewis Black
Sway
By Ori Brafman
Letters to a Young Sister
By Hill Harper
The Execution of Willie Francis
By Gilbert King
Lopsided
By Meredith Norton
Hiring Your First Employee
By Fred Steingold
Thursday, June 19, 2008
New Books
Adult Fiction:
The Sister
By Poppy Adams
Shadow Command
By Dale Brown
Nothing to Lose
By Lee Child
Married Lovers
By Jackie Collins
Master of the Delta
By Thomas H. Cook
Now and Always
By Lori Copeland
The Broken Window
By Jeffery Deaver
The Garden of Last Days
By Andre Dubus
Fearless Fourteen
By Janet Evanovich
One in a Million
By Kimberla Lawson Roby
Cool Cache
By Patricia Smiley
The Art of Racing in the Rain
By Garth Stein
December
By Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop
Adult Non-Fiction:
The Answer
By John Assaraf
Always By My Side
By Jim Nantz
The Monster of Florence
By Douglas Preston
My Stroke of Insight
By Jill Taylor
Thursday, June 5, 2008
New Books
Adult Fiction:
Swine Not?
By Jimmy Buffett
Vineyard Chill
By Philip R. Craig
Spies of Warsaw
By Alan Furst
The Others
By David Guterson
Sisterchicks go Brit
By Robin Jones Gunn
Blue Smoke and Murder
By Elizabeth Lowell
Mystery Writers of America Presents the Blue Religion
By the Mystery Writers of America
Resolution
By Robert B. Parker
Adult Non-Fiction:
A Place Called Canterbury
By Dudley Clendinen
Ghosts Among Us
By James Van Praagh
When You Are Engulfed In Flames
By David Sedaris
Up Till Now
By William Shatner
Stolen Innocence
By Elissa Wall
Friday, May 30, 2008
New Books
Adult Fiction:
Blood Trail
By C. J. Box
The Reapers
By John Connolly
The Front
By Patricia Cornwell
Devil May Care
By Sebastian Faulk
Bright Shiny Morning
By James Frey
Many a River
By Elmer Kelton
Blood Noir
By Laurell K. Hamilton
Shadow of Power
By Steve Martini
Executive Privilege
By Phillip Margolin
Blood Harvest
By Brant Randall
Scream For Me
By Karen Rose
The Ancient Rain
By Domenic Stansberry
The Book of Getting Even
By Benjamin Taylor
Black Out
By Lisa Unger
Chasing Harry Winston
By Lauren Weisberger
Adult Non-Fiction:
America's Hidden History
By Kenneth C. Davis
The Chris Farley Show
By Tom Farley
The Downhill Lie
By Carl Hiaasen
Harmonic Wealth
By James Arthur Ray
Yum-O
By Rachel Ray
Thursday, May 22, 2008
New Books
Adult Fiction:
The Sugar Queen
By Sarah Addison Allen
Antiques to Die For
By Jane Cleland
Invincible
By Troy Denning
Wit's End
By Karen Joy Fowler
Odd Hours
By Dean Koontz
Always Grace
By Tim LaHaye
Fidelity
By Thomas Perry
The Hollow
By Nora Roberts
The Steel Wave
By Jeff Shaara
Adult Non-Fiction:
A Remarkable Mother
By Jimmy Carter
Life Beyond Measure
By Sydney Poitier
Patent It Yourself
By David Pressman
The Woman Who Can't Forget
By Jill Price
8 Ways to Avoid Probate
By Mary Randolf
The New Paradigm For Financial Markets
By George Soros
Climate Confusion
By Roy Spencer
Thursday, May 15, 2008
New Books
Adult Fiction:
The Winding Ways Quilt
By Jennifer Chiaverini
Days of Infamy
By Newt Gingrich
From Dead to Worse
By Charlaine Harris
Comfort Food
By Kate Jacobs
Adult Non-Fiction:
Are You There Vodka? It's Me Chelsea
By Chelsea Handler
The Soloist
By Steve Lopez
Bad Money
By Kevin P. Phillips
Retire-and start your own business
By Dennis J. Sargent
The Post-American World
By Fareed Zakaria
Thursday, May 8, 2008
New Books
Adult Fiction:
Skeletons at the Feast
By Christopher Bohjalian
Hold Tight
By Harlan Coben
Secrets
By Jude Deveraux
A Promise for Tomorrow
By Sara Dubose
The Plague of Doves
By Louise Erdrich
Careless in Red
By Elizabeth George
Twenty Wishes
By Debbie Macomber
The Host
By Stephenie Meyer
Phantom Prey
By John Sanford
Adult Non-Fiction:
The Prince of Frogtown
By Rick Bragg
Screen Doors and Sweet Tea
By Martha Hall Foose
Debt Cure "They" Don't Want You to Know About
By Kevin Trudeau
Audition
By Barbara Walters
Thursday, May 1, 2008
New Books
Adult Fiction:
Wicked City
By Ace Atkins
Belong to Me
By Marisa De Los Santos
The Story of a Marriage
By Andrew Sean Greer
The Genius
By Jesse Kellerman
Sundays at Tiffany's
By James Patterson
Child 44
By Tom Rob Smith
The Lady Elizabeth
By Alison Weir
Adult Non-Fiction:
The South Beach Diet Supercharged
By Arthur Agatston
A Wolf at the Table
By Augusten Burroughs
Vindicated
By Jose Canseco
Critical
By Tom Daschle
Full Fathom Five
By Mary Lee Coe Fowler
A Voyage Long and Strange
By Tony Horwitz
Patterson for Alabama
By Gene Howard
Hungry Girl
By Lisa Lillien
Best Day Trips From London
By Donald Olson
The Revolution
By Ron Paul
Bonk
By Mary Roach
Apples Are From Kazakhstan
By Christopher Robbins
Just Who Will You Be?
By Maria Shriver
Thursday, April 24, 2008
New Books
Adult Fiction:
Morning Light
By Catherine Anderson
Personal Demon
By Kelley Armstrong
The Whole Truth
By David Baldacci
A Promise for Tomorrow
By Sara Dubose (coming soon)
Quicksand
By Iris Johansen
Unaccustomed Earth
By Jhumpa Lahiri
The Third Circle
By Amanda Quick
Dirty Money
By Richard Stark
Santa Fe Dead
By Stuart Woods
Adult Non-Fiction:
A Civilization of Love
By Carl Anderson
Step Up!
By Daniel Grissom
Harrington on Cash Games
By Dan Harrington
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown
By Charles Morris
The Last Lecture
By Randy Pausch
Mistaken Identity
By Don Van Ryn
Armageddon in Retrospect
By Kurt Vonnegut
Thursday, April 17, 2008
New Books
Adult Fiction:
Adam
By Ted Dekker
Wrath of a Mad God
By Raymond E. Feist
Mummy Dearest
By Joan Hess
The Miracle at Speedy Motors
By Alexander McCall Smith
Certain Girls
By Jennifer Weiner
Adult Non-Fiction:
The Sum or Our Days
By Isabel Allende
Family Bible
By Melissa Delbridge
Great American Hypocrites
By Glenn Greenwald
Shakespeare's Wife
By Germaine Greer
Physics of the Impossible
By Michio Kaku
The Red Leather Diary
By Lily Koppel
The Soiling of Old Glory
By Louis Masur
Girls Like Us
By Shelia Weller
Thursday, April 10, 2008
New Books
Adult Fiction:
By Peter Abrahams
By Carol Higgins Clark
By Mary Higgins Clark
By Silvia Day
By Dorothea Benton Frank
By Andrew Gross
By Mark Gruber
By Alice Hoffman
By Andrea Kane
By Deon Meyers
Adult Non-Fiction:
By Julie Andrews
By Nicholson Baker
The
By Charles Cloutier (local author)
By Max Hastings
The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan
By Pat Jordan
By Martha Weinman Lear
By Reeve Lindbergh
By Jeffrey Sachs
By Sports Illustrated
By Nick Trout
Thursday, April 3, 2008
New Books
Adult Fiction:
Winter Study
By Nevada Barr
Small Favor
By Jim Butcher
Unpredictable
By Eileen Cook
Pleasure
By Eric Jerome Dickey
Days of Atonement
By Michael Gregorio
Death Walked In
By Carolyn Hart
Her Little Black Book
By Brenda Jackson
The Barefoot Believers
By Annie Jones
The Ex-Debutante
By Linda Francis Lee
Compromised
By Kate Noble
Guilty
By Karen Robards
Miss Julia Paints the Town
By Ann B. Ross
My Heart Remembers
By Kim Vogel Sawyer
What Are You Wearing To Die
By Patricia Sprinkle
Torrent Falls
By Jan Watson
The Ten-Year Nap
By Meg Wolitzer
Adult Non-Fiction:
The Healthy Carb Diabetes Cookbook
By Jennifer Bucko
The Bin Ladens
By Steve Coll
Country Living: Crafting a Business
By Kathie Fitzgerald
Hat & Glasses
By Martha Frankel
Are You Ready!
By Bob Harper
Pretty Is What Changes
By Jennifer Queller