Adult Summer Reading Thank You

The Pinckney Library would like to thank the following businesses, organizations and patrons who provided prizes for the
2009 Adult Summer Reading Program:


• Whispering Pines Golf Club
• Rush Lake Hills Golf Club
• Purple Rose Theatre Company
• ALDI Inc. Webberville Division
• Brighton Target
• Brighton Costco
• Scio Twp. Meijer
• Huron Lady II Cruises
• J&K Steamboat Line (Michigan Princess Riverboat)
• V: Fitness & Spa in Ann Arbor
• Rush Lake Hills Golf Club
• Kate Pratt
• Judy Mulholland
• Kathy Rooney
• Friends of the Pinckney Community Public Library
• Noodles & Co. in Arborland, Ann Arbor
• Hamburg Dairy Queen

The library would also like to thank the following organizations and businesses for their donations towards the
2009 “Be Creative @ Your Library” and “Express Yourself @ Your Library” Summer Reading Programs:

• Hamburg Dairy Queen
• Noodles & Co. in Arborland, Ann Arbor
• Marco’s Pizza in Pinckney
• Friends of the Pinckney Community Public Library
• Rollerama II in Brighton
• Planet Rock II, Inc. in Ann Arbor

New York Times Best Seller Hardcorver Nonfiction September 10, 2009

Hardcover Nonfiction

Published: September 11, 2009

Buy These Books From:

This Week		Last Week	Weeks on List
1	CULTURE OF CORRUPTION, by Michelle Malkin. (Regnery, $27.95.) President Obama and his team as tax cheats, petty crooks, influence peddlers and Wall Street cronies.	1	6
2	OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunity as well as talent — from the author of “Blink.”	2	42
3	IN THE PRESIDENT’S SECRET SERVICE, by Ronald Kessler. (Crown, $26.) Agents and the presidents they protect.	3	5
4	STRENGTH IN WHAT REMAINS, by Tracy Kidder. (Random House,, $26.) A medical student survives civil war and genocide in Burundi, and, after a difficult beginning, flourishes in the United States.	12	2
5	BORN TO RUN, by Christopher McDougall. (Knopf, $24.95.) Secrets of distance running from a Mexican Indian tribe.	4	12
6	A BOLD FRESH PIECE OF HUMANITY, by Bill O’Reilly. (Broadway, $26.) The Fox News commentator on his upbringing and career.	5	45
7*	LIBERTY AND TYRANNY, by Mark R. Levin. (Threshold Editions, $25.) A conservative manifesto from a talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation.	9	24
8	CATASTROPHE, by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. (Harper/HarperCollins, $26.99.) Stopping President Obama before he transforms America into a socialist state. (†) (†)	8	11
9	THE HEALING OF AMERICA, by T. R. Reid. (Penguin Press, $25.95.) How other industrialized democracies provide health care for all at a reasonable cost.	6	2
10	NURTURESHOCK, by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman. (Twelve, $24.99.) A report on recent research that challenges the conventional wisdom about child-rearing.		1

New York Times Best Seller Hardcorver Fiction September 10, 2009

Hardcover Fiction

Published: September 10, 2009

PCPL Owns

On Order

This Week		Last Week	Weeks on List
1	DARK SLAYER, by Christine Feehan. (Berkley, $25.95.) A slayer who travels with a wolf pack frees a Dragon­seeker from prison and falls in love with him; a Carpathian novel.		1
2	ALEX CROSS’S ‘TRIAL’, by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) The detective Alex Cross writes a novel about his great-uncle, who fought the Klan.	1	2
3	SOUTH OF BROAD, by Pat Conroy. (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $29.95.) An unlikely group’s friendship from the ’60s to the ’80s, by the author of "The Prince of Tides."	2	4
4	SPARTAN GOLD, by Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood. (Putnam, $26.96.) Husband-and-wife treasure hunters search for bottles of wine from Napoleon’s “lost cellar.”		1
5	THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s ­Mississippi.	3	23
6	THE WHITE QUEEN, by Philippa Gregory. (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, $25.99.) Palace intrigue during the War of the Roses, by the author of "The Other Boleyn Girl."	5	3
7	HOMER & LANGLEY, by E. L. Doctorow. (Random House, $26.) The lives of the reclusive Collyer brothers; by the author of “Ragtime.”		1
8	206 BONES, by Kathy Reichs. (Scribner, $26.99.) Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling an autopsy.	4	2
9	THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf, $25.95.) A Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect.	6	6
10	A GATE AT THE STAIRS, by Lorrie Moore. (Knopf, $25.95.) A Midwestern college student takes a job as a nanny with a couple on the eve of adoption.		1