Below are some of the new books the Aromas Branch has received. Some of the books are for adults and some are for children. If you are looking for any book in particular, or we don't have a subject you need, just call Jane Ward, our Branch Manager, and she will see if it is available within the large network of libraries throughout Monterey County. Come and check-out some great new books:

 

The Phoenix by Henning Boetius This book is an historical novel about the Hindenburg, and is set against the background of fascist Germany. The author is the son of the only living member of the crew the man who was at the controls when the big ship mysteriously and spectacularly burst into flames in 1947 with important American industrialists and high-ranking Nazi officers on board.	Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 by Garrison Keillor Greg, a 14-year-old wannabe writer, chronicles the trials of adolescence in this humorous and sometimes poignant story.	Miracles Happen: One Mother, One Daughter, One Journey by Brooke and Jean Ellison. This is the inspiring true story of a girl who became paralyzed in an auto accident at age eleven and who went on to become the first ventilator-dependent quadriplegic to graduate from Harvard University.	The Winter Garden by Johanna Verweerd translated by Helen Richardson-Hewitt The author, Holland's most popular Christian writer, tells the story of Ika, a landscape designer who returns to the site of her unhappy childhood to care for her dying mother and how she gradually makes peace with herself and her past.

Twin Towers: The Life of New York City's World Trade Center by Angus Kress Gillespie. This is the history of the Twin Towers: how they came to be built and how complex engineering problems were solved. It includes interviews with people who worked there daily and describes how it became a symbol of American capitalism.	Cultivating Delight; A Natural History of my Garden by Diane Ackerman The author delights in her garden through all the seasons. She describes its sensory pleasures in an imaginative and lyrical style.	Bee Season by Myla Goldberg Eliza, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year old, expects never to fit into her gifted family. But when she sweeps her school and district spelling bees, the family dynamics shift, exposing a dark side, which leads to a startling conclusion.	The Summons by John Grisham A law professor who has been called home to Mississippi by his father, a dying judge, discovers more than $3 million in cash in the old man's study.