And we're back! After a nice (wet) summer, it's time to start the Discoveries again. We've got some great ones to start off.

The Last Colony

Anathem

The Girl Who Played with Fire

The Ghost Map The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

What Was Lost

Promise Me

Twinkie, Deconstructed My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Into What America Eats

The Shack

Let the Right One In

We also added two DVDs, in an ongoing experiment to see if they're popular in that collection, as well: adaptations of Discoveries books (Let the Right One In, and Into the Wild).

So, what do you think? Any on here that you've already read, or have been dying to read? Any that you'd never even heard of before? I'll put in a strong plug for Anathem--yet another amazing sci-fi book by Stephenson. As with many of his books, it takes a bit to get into it--he takes his time setting the stage--but once you're in, you'll find it was well worth the effort to get there. I'm really looking forward to reading The Girl Who Played with Fire, as well--interested to see how that continues the series.

And last, but not least, if you swing by the Discoveries shelf, you'll notice we removed the books that had been on there for a year. One of the points of the collection is that it will be perpetually new--there's always something new to discover. To make it easier to highlight the new, you have to periodically take off the old. No fear, though: the old Discoveries have been put into the general collection, so they're still available for check out.

Happy Discovering!