Here are a few things that have been returned recently:
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke: if you liked the movie, you will LOVE this enchanting fantasy, set in Europe - travel with Meggie and her father as they try to rescue her mother (and themselves) from evil Capricorn, untrustworthy Dustfinger, and the perilous magic that controls their fate... 87 circs for 3 copies (here at Central only - systemwide the 7 copies have 137 circulations!!!) And the 2 audios have checked out 38 times. 2 sequels Inkspell and Inkdeath are just as good.
The Minister's Daughter by Julie Hearn: Nell is a wild child in puritan England; when the Minister's daughters Grace and Patience begin to show signs of being affected by a witch, Nell is the obvious person to blame. We have both the audio and the book - audio has checked out 7 times, book has gone out 17 times.
Essential Silver Surfer Vol 1: contains 1-18 of the comics, plus Fantastic Four Annual #5. Follow Silver Surfer as he comes to Earth in a desperate quest to save his own world from Galactus... at the cost of ours. Can he be stopped? Is he truly evil? Find out! 5 circs. Vol 2 also available.
Blood Fever: A James Bond Adventure by Charlie Higson: teen-aged James Bond visits Sardinia (an island off the coast of Italy) over the summer with his school friends and his reclusive cousin Victor. But all is not as it seems, and soon he's involved in rescuing a kidnap victim and outsmarting ruthless enemies on all sides. Volume 2 of the Young Bond series, it has checked out 11 times.
Monster by Walter Dean Myers: written in the form of a movie tv script, sixteen year old Steve Harmon tells the tale of how he has come to be standing trial as an accomplice to murder, and the turns in his life that have led him to this fate. Myers is a fine writer, and this moving story is 23 checkouts.
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