Alert: The Plum Creek "Cook’n Book" cookbook is hot off the press. There are 446 pages of recipes for appetizers, soups, salads, main dishes, cookies, desserts, etc. Special dividers with helpful hints are included for each section. My name is in it, and many other names of librarians, library patrons, and Friends of the Library. There are close to 1,200 recipes in an attractive three-ring-binder for $15. Any profits we make on "Cook’n Book" will go toward new materials for Plum Creek Libraries. Stop by and purchase your copy today. I think they would make lovely gifts. Mark your calendar for National Library Week April 2-8. It’s a time to celebrate America’s libraries, and a good time to show your local librarians how much you appreciate the services they provide. We have new books this week, and every week. On the fiction shelf is "Prior Bad Acts" by Tami Hoag (a Minnesota author). It was a vicious crime. The Haas family murders left a scar on the community nothing can erase, but everyone agrees that convicting the killer, Karl Dahl, is a start. Only Judge Carey Moore seems to be standing in the way. Her ruling that Dahl’s prior criminal record is inadmissible raises a public outcry and puts the judge in grave danger.When an unknown assailant attacks Judge Moore in a parking garage, two of Minneapolis’ top cops are called upon to solve the crime and keep the judge from further harm. Detective Sam Kovac is as hard-boiled as they come, and his wisecracking partner, Nikki Liska, isn’t far behind. Neither one wants to be on this case, but when Karl Dahl escapes from custody, everything changes, and a seemingly straightforward case cartwheels out of control.The stakes go even higher when the judge is kidnapped from her own bed even as the police sit outside watching her house. Now Kovac and Liska must navigate through a maze of suspects that include the stepson of a murder victim, a husband with a secret life, and a rogue cop looking for revenge where the justice system failed. With no time to spare, the detectives are pulled down a strange dark trail of smoke and mirrors, where no one is who they seem and everyone is guilty of "Prior Bad Acts." Also new on the shelf this week is "Train From Marietta" by Dorothy Garlock. Katherine Tyler’s cross-country train trip is unexpectedly derailed when she is kidnapped by an unscrupulous band of outlaws. Her worried father calls out the Texas Rangers, but only a cowboy named T.C. Castle knows the bend of south Texas well enough to catch the ringleader who’s responsible. After freeing Katherine, T.C. spirits her away to his remote ranch, where he lives with his 5-year-old handicapped daughter, Emily. As their attraction blossoms and with the kidnappers closing in, T.C. and Katherine must risk love and limb to save the ranch — and a future Katherine never could have imagined.