Editor's Note: In November, Bloomfield Hills residents narrowly passed a a 0.39-mill levy to fund a three-year contract with the Baldwin Public Library, giving them a library to call their own after several years and two previous millage attempts.

What's new at Baldwin Public Library this week? Check out this week's Library Picks, courtesy of Baldwin librarians:

Mudwoman by Joyce Carol Oates

M.R. Neukirchen — the first female president of a lauded Ivy League institution — struggles to hold onto her self-identity in the face of personal and professional demons.

Fall from Grace by Richard North Patterson

Adam Blaine arrives at the funeral of his estranged father, Ben Blaine, a famous and charismatic writer who left behind him a string of secret legal and financial arrangements. Using his training as a CIA operative, Adam seeks to find the truth of his father's death, even if it means exposing one or more of his own family members as the killer and discovering secrets about himself that he was never supposed to know.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (DVD)

Hoping to distance himself from the fallout of a libel conviction, journalist Mikael Blomkvist retreats to a remote island in Sweden's far north where the unsolved murder of a young girl still haunts her industrialist uncle forty years later. Ensconced in a cottage on the island where the killer may still roam, Blomkvist's investigation draws him into the secrets and lies of the rich and powerful, and throws him together with one unlikely ally: tattooed, punk hacker, Lisbeth Salander.

The Muppets (DVD)

While on vacation in Los Angeles, Walter and his friends, Gary and Mary, try to raise ten million dollars to save the Muppet Theater from Tex Richman, a business man who wants to demolish the theater in order to drill for oil.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (DVD)

At the height of the Cold War, a former agent for the British Secret Intelligence Service is called back to root out a Russian spy who has infiltrated the organization's highest levels.

• Want to learn more? To check out any of these books or movies, visit the Baldwin Public Library website and reserve your copy straight from the online catalogue. Make sure you come back to Bloomfield-Bloomfield Hills Patch next week, to see what else is new in the stacks.