MASSENA PUBLIC LIBRARY
Reserve Books Featured on our Weekly Table
The bottom of this page features instructions on how to reserve books from home
as well as a link to Amazon Books and Barnes & Noble Books where a synopsis of
most books can be found. You may also want to search for the authors official
web site.
Every Friday the library sets out new bestseller books on a special reserve item
table. Patrons can be placed on the reserve list by bringing the books and their
library card to the front desk. Patrons will be called when it is their turn. The library
is enhancing this service by allowing patrons to place reserves from their home
computer. First time users may need to contact the library to activate their pin number.
Below is the list for the current weeks table as well as a few weeks before. This list
will be updated between Thursday afternoon and Friday morning.
Week of September 3 - September 10, 2010
| Fiction |
Barr, Nevada |
Burn |
| Fiction |
Hilderbrand, Elin |
The Island |
| Fiction |
Reichs, Kathy |
Spider Bones |
| Fiction |
Verdon, John |
Think of A Numb3r |
| Fiction |
Wolff, Isabel |
A Vintage Affair |
| Mystery |
Kellerman, Faye |
Hangman |
| Non-Fiction |
Kean, Sam |
The Disappearing Spoon: and
Other Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World From the
Periodic Table of the Elements |
| Non-Fiction |
Goetz, Thomas |
The Decision Tree: Taking
Control of Your Health In the New Era of Personalized Medicine |
| Non-Fiction |
Pyne, Stephen |
Voyager: Seeking
Newer Worlds In the Third Great Age of Discovery |
| Non-Fiction |
Ingraham,
Laura |
The Obama Diaries |
Week of August 27 - September 3, 2010
| Fiction |
Beck, Glenn |
The Overton Window |
| Fiction |
Cook, Robin |
Cure |
| Fiction |
McDonnell, Adrienne |
The Doctor & the Diva |
| Fiction |
Weisberger, Lauren |
Last Night At Chateau
Marmont |
| Fiction |
White, Stephen |
The Last Lie |
| Mystery |
Francis, Dick |
Crossfire |
| Nin-Fiction |
Greenberg, Paul |
Four Fish: The
Future of the Last Wild Food |
| Non-Fiction |
Kumar, Manjit |
Quantum: Einstein,
Bohr, and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality |
| Non-Fiction |
Weiner,
Jonathan |
Long For This World: The
Strange Science of Immortality |
| Non-Fiction |
Mauro, James |
Twilight At the World of
Tomorrow: Genius, Madness, Murder, and the 1939 World's
Fair on the Brink of War |
Week of August 20 - August 27, 2010
| Fiction |
Brown Sandra |
Tough Customer |
| Fiction |
Dawson, Maddie |
The Stuff That Never
Happened |
| Fiction |
Goodman, Allegra |
Cookbook Collector |
| Fiction |
Isaacs, Susan |
As Husbands Go |
| Fiction |
Johansen, Roy |
Shadow Zone |
| Fiction |
Patterson, James |
Postcard Killers |
| Fiction |
Thomson, Keith |
Once A Spy |
| Non-Fiction |
French, Thomas |
Zoo Story: Life
In The Garden Of Captives |
| Non-Fiction |
Shah, Sonia |
The Fever; How
Malaria Has Ruled Humankind For 500,000 Years |
| Non-Fiction |
Abbott,
Elizabeth |
Sugar: A
Bitter Sweet History |
Week of August 13 - August 20, 2010
| Fiction |
Brown, Janelle |
This Is Where We Live |
| Fiction |
Carcaterra, Lorenzo |
Midnight Angels |
| Fiction |
Cook, Claire |
Seven Year Switch |
| Fiction |
Eisler, Barry |
Inside Out |
| Fiction |
Gregory, Philippa |
The Red Queen |
| Fiction |
Rabe, David |
Girl By The Road |
| Fiction |
Waldman, Ayelet |
Red Hook Road |
| Non-Fiction |
Kaguri, Twesigye |
The Price Of Stones; Building
A School For My Village |
| Non-Fiction |
Glanville,
Doug |
The Game From Where I
Stand: A Ballplayer's Inside View |
| Biography |
Gwynne, S.C |
Empire Of The Summer Moon: Quanah
Parker And The Rise and Fall Of The Comanches, The Most Powerful Indian
Tribe In American History |
Week of August 6 - August 13, 2010
| Fiction |
Adler, Elizabeth |
It All Begin in Monte Carlo |
| Fiction |
Gael, Juliet |
Romancing Miss Bronte |
| Fiction |
Hiaasen, Carl |
Star Island |
| Fiction |
Hurwitz, Gregg |
They're Watching |
| Fiction |
Pilcher, Robin |
The Long Way Home |
| Fiction |
Tobey, Danny |
The Faculty Club |
| Mystery |
Jance, J.A. |
Queen Of the Night |
| Non-Fiction |
Sean, Tuohy |
In a Heartbeat: Sharing
the Power of Cheerful Giving |
| Non-Fiction |
Trudeau, Kevin |
Free Money "They"
Don't Want You To Know About |
| Non-Fiction |
Hogeland,
William |
Declaration: The
Nine Tumultuous Weeks When America Became Independent, May 1-July 4,
1766 |
Week of July 30 - August 6, 2010
| Fiction |
Bender, Aimee |
The Particular Sadness of
Lemon Cake |
| Fiction |
Freeman, Brian |
The Burying Place |
| Fiction |
Gardner, Lisa |
Live to Tell |
| Fiction |
Green, Jane |
Promise to Keep |
| Fiction |
Kava, Alex |
Damaged |
| Fiction |
Nesbo, Jo |
The Devil's Star |
| Mystery |
McCall Smith, Alexander |
Corduroy |
| Non-Fiction |
Kirkpatrick, David |
The Facebook Effect: The
Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World |
| Non-Fiction |
Keizer, Garret |
The Unwanted Sound of
Everything We Want: A Book About Noise |
| Non-Fiction |
Buttar, Dr.
Rashid |
The 9 Steps to Keep the
Doctor Away: Simple Action to Shift Your Body and Mind to
Optimum Health for Greater Longevity |
| Biography |
Miller, Marla |
Betsy Ross and the Making
of America |
Week of July 23 - July 30, 2010
| Fiction |
Burke, James |
The Glass Rainbow |
| Fiction |
Frank, Dorothea |
Lowcountry Summer |
| Fiction |
Gerritsen, Tess |
Ice Cold |
| Fiction |
Stevens, Chevy |
Still Missing |
| Fiction |
Thor, Brad |
Foreign Influence |
| Fiction |
Weiner, Jennifer |
Fly Away Home |
| Mystery |
Pronzini, Bill |
Betrayers |
| Non-Fiction |
Bloom, Paul |
How Pleasure Works: The
New Science of Why We Like What We Like |
| Non-Fiction |
Clark,
Francesco |
Walking Papers: The
Accident that Changed My Life, and the Business that Got Me Back On My
Feet |
| Non-Fiction |
Bourdain,
Anthony |
Medium Raw: A
Bloody Valentine To the World of Food and the People Who Cook |
| Non-Fiction |
Macintyre, Ben |
Operation Mincemeat: How
a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied
Victory |
Week of July 16 - July 23, 2010
| Fiction |
Koryta, Michael |
So Cold the River |
| Fiction |
Lowell, Elizabeth |
Death Echo |
| Fiction |
Patterson, Richard |
In the Name of Honor |
| Fiction |
Roberts, Nora |
The Search |
| Fiction |
Slaughter, Karin |
Broken |
| Fiction |
Tanenbaum, Robert |
Betrayed |
| Fiction |
Thayer, Nancy |
Beachcombers |
| Non-Fiction |
McEneaney, Bonnie |
Messages: Signs,
Visits, and Premonitions from Loved Ones Lost on 9\11 |
| Non-Fiction |
Carr, Nicholas |
The Shallows: What
the Internet is Doing To Our Brains |
| Non-Fiction |
Tabor, James |
Blind Descent: The
Quest To Discover the Deepest Place On Earth |
| Non-Fiction |
Moore, Wes |
The Other Wes Moore: One
Name, Two Fates |
Patrons may reserve
books from home via the internet by following the instructions as listed:
- Go to
www.ncls.org
and click on Massena, then:
- Search
Box: Type in your request. Example: Ducks
(Subject), Chicken Soup for the Soul
(Title), Grisham, John (Author)
- Change CATALOG
to ALL.
- Click on
the appropriate blue button: Example: Author, Title, Subject,
Series
- Choose a
book or other type of material.
- Click on DETAILS
after you find the right entry.
- Click PLACE
HOLD in the box on the left.
- For user
ID, type in the 13 digit number from the back of your library card.
- For pin,
type in the last 4 digits of your phone number.
Please Note: First time users may need to
contact the library to activate the pin number.
- Confirm
pick-up library (in most cases it will be Massena).
- Click OK.
Note:
Do not place a hold on an item marked "NEW" that is from another
library.
You will never receive it.
Go
to Amazon to
find information about a book.
Go to
Barnes and Noble to
find information about a book.
Another
way to find information on a particular book is to search for the authors web
site.
