New books, new books, new books! We have the perfect way to beat the summer heat, and here are a few of the new books we got in this week. (And I totally didn't mean to rhyme.)
The Believing Brain
Michael Shermer
Nonfiction. Shermer demonstrates how our brains selectively assess data in an attempt to confirm the conclusions (beliefs) we've already reached. Drawing on evolution, cognitive science, and neuroscience, he considers not only supernatural beliefs but political and economic ones as well.
Awaken the Highland Warrior
Anita Clenney
Fiction. Faelan is from an ancient clan of Scottish Highland warriors, charged with shielding humanity from demonic forces. Betrayed and locked in a time vault, he has been sleeping for nearly two centuries when spunky historian Bree Kirkland inadvertently wakes him. She's more fearsome than the demon trying to kill him, and if he's not careful, she'll uncover the secrets his clan has bled and died to protect... When Bree inherits an old treasure map, she discovers a warrior buried in her backyard. But the warrior isn't dead. Bree shocks Faelan with her modern dress and her boldness, and he infuriates Bree every time he tries to protect her. With demons suddenly on the move, Bree discovers that Faelan's duty as protector is in his blood, and that her part in this fight was destined before she was born. But nothing is ever what it seems...
A Deadly Indifference
Marshall Jevons
Fiction. A mystery set in the world of academia in Cambridge, England, starring Henry Spearman, an American professor from Harvard who uses economic theory to solve crime. Here the theory of supply and demand comes in handy to solve two murders.
Changeling Moon
Dani Harper
Fiction. He roams the moonlit wilderness, his every sense and instinct on high alert. Changeling wolf Connor Macleod and his Pack have never feared anything--until the night human Zoey Tyler barely escapes a rogue werewolf's vicious attack. As the full moon approaches, Zoey has no idea of the changes that are coming, and only Connor can show her what she is, and help her master the wildness inside. With her initiation into the Pack just days away and a terrifying predator on the loose, the tentative bonds of trust and tenderness are their only weapons against a force red in tooth, claw...and ultimate evil.
Come on by and check them out. Or you can place them on hold at our website - CCPL.org.