New Books- March 2009
Fiction
F Ben City of Thieves. David Benioff
Seventeen-year-old Lev Beniov, having been arrested for looting the corpse of a German paratrooper, is given the opportunity to be released from jail if he, along with a soldier imprisoned for desertion, can secure twelve eggs to be used in the colonel's daughter's wedding cake by traversing the dangerous streets of Leningrad.
F Bra 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows. Ann Brashares
Ama, Jo, and Polly, three close friends from Bethesda, Maryland, spend the summer before ninth grade learning about themselves, their families, and the changing nature of their friendship.
F Boo The Unnameables. Ellen Booraem
On an island in whose strict society only useful objects are named and the unnamed are ignored or forbidden, thirteen-year-old Medford encounters an unusual and powerful creature, half-man, half-goat, and together they attempt to bring some changes to the community.
F Boy The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. John Boyne
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
F Bra Shift. Jennifer Bradbury
When best friends Chris and Win go on a cross country bicycle trek the summer after graduating and only one returns, the FBI wants to know what happened.
F Bus Mostly Happy. Pam Bustin
Bean Fallwell spends her life collecting memories and mementos in her red Samsonite suitcase, which is the only touchstone that helps her remain sane and prevents her from being sucked into her mother's drama and depression.
F Buz Steinbeck’s Ghost. Lewis Buzbee
Unhappy after his parents move to a weird subdivision and become workaholics, thirteen-year-old Travis returns to his old Salinas neighborhood and becomes actively involved in saving the John Steinbeck Library and, at the same time, begins seeing characters from Steinbeck's books who seem to have a message for him.
F Cab Forever Princess. Meg Cabot
Although she has recently completed a 400-page romance novel, Princess Mia, in her last month of high school, has yet to pick a college, find a prom dress, or decide if her boyfriend J. P. is really The One.
F Cab Ransom My Heart. Meg Cabot
Finnula, desperate for money for her sister's dowry, comes up with a plan to kidnap Hugo Fitzstephen, Earl of Stephensgate, who is traveling back to England from the Crusades, and hold him for ransom, but the plot goes awry when Finnula falls in love with her hostage and learns he has been lying about his identity.
F Car Ender in Exile. Orson Scott Card
Ender is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but chooses to journey out to the colonies with his sister, Valentine.
F Car I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You. Ally Carter
As a sophomore at a secret spy school and the daughter of a former CIA operative, Cammie is sheltered from "normal teenage life" until she meets a local boy while on a class surveillance mission.
F Che Sword. Da Chen
When Miu Miu turns fifteen, she learns the truth about her father's violent death and discovers that she must avenge his murder before she can marry the man to whom she is betrothed. Based on a story told to the author by a former prisoner during China's Cultural Revolution.
F Coe Blood Memory. Margaret Coel
Denver newspaper investigative reporter Catherine McLeod, taking the assignment to cover a claim made by the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes to millions of acres of land, becomes the target of a killer and uncovers secrets and conspiracies.
F Coh You Know Where to Find Me. Rachel Cohn
In the wake of her cousin's suicide, overweight and introverted seventeen-year-old Miles experiences significant changes in her relationships with her mother and father, her best friend Jamal and his family, and her cousin's father, while gaining insights about herself, both positive and negative.
F Cra Afrika. Colleen Craig
Traveling to South Africa with her journalist mother, thirteen-year-old Kim finds her life forever changed as she explores the country's diverse and often shocking history, while trying to unlock the secret that has always kept her from knowing her father.
F Dav The Explosionist. Jenny Davidson
The murder of the medium of her great-aunt's séance hits fifteen-year-old Sophie hard and causes her to look into the case with the help of her friend, Mikael, but with doubting friends and a betraying teacher, Sophie knows she has to be wary of who she can trust.
F Deu Gym Candy. Carl Deuker
Mick Johnson works hard for a placement on the varsity team during his freshman year, and decides to use steroids in order to hold onto his edge, despite the consequences to his health and social life.
F Dun The Musician’s Daughter. Susanne Dunlap
In eighteenth-century Vienna, Austria, fifteen-year-old Theresa seeks a way to help her mother and brother financially while investigating the murder of her father, a renowned violinist in Haydn's orchestra at the court of Prince Esterhazy, after his body is found near a gypsy camp.
F Dup Diamond of Darkhold. Jeanne DuPrau
Book 4 or the Book of Ember Series
When a roamer trades them an ancient book with only a few pages remaining, Lina and Doon return to Ember to seek the machine the book seems to describe in hopes that it will get their new community, Sparks, through the winter.
F Eme Carlos Is Gonna Get It. Kevin Emerson
Recounts the events that occur at the end of seventh grade, when a group of friends plan to trick Carlos, an annoying "problem" student who says he is visited by aliens, while they are on a field trip in the mountains of New Hampshire.
F Gee Fancy White Trash. Marjetta Geerling
Fifteen-year-old Abby Savage hopes that her five rules for falling in love will keep her from making the same mistakes as her mother and two older sisters--all unwed mothers who have slept with the same man, among others--while she also tries to help her best friend Cody admit that he is gay, and decide how she really feels about Cody's older brother, Jackson.
F Geh Triple Shot Bettys In Love. Jody Gehrman
Sixteen-year-old Geena spends a winter coping with the gorgeous new girl who is after her boyfriend, Ben, her mother's return to dating, and her best friend Amber's crush on an English teacher, while continuing to serve espressos at Triple Shot Betty.
F Gil The Devil’s Breath. David Gilman
When fifteen-year-old Max Gordon's environmentalist-adventurer father goes missing while working in Namibia and Max becomes the target of a would-be assassin at his school in England, he decides he must follow his father to Africa and find him before they both are killed.
F Gra Something Rotten. Alan Gratz
In a contemporary story based on Shakespeare's play, "Hamlet," Horatio Wilkes seeks to solve the murder of his friend Hamilton Prince's father in Denmark, Tennessee.
F Gra Something Wicked. Alan Gratz
In a contemporary story based on Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, Horatio Wilkes seeks to solve the murder of Duncan MacKae at the Scottish Highland Games in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
F Gri The Associate. John Grisham
Three months after leaving Yale, Kyle McAvoy becomes an associate at the largest law firm in the world, where, in addition to practicing law, he is expected to lie, steal, and take part in a scheme that could send him to prison, if not get him killed.
F Hal Snakehead. Ann Halam
Compelled by his father Zeus to accept the evil king Polydectes's challenge to bring the head of the monstrous Medusa to the Aegean island of Serifos, Perseus, although questioning the gods' interference in human lives, sets out, accompanied by his beloved Andromeda, a princess with her own harsh destiny to fulfill.
F Hal Forever Changes. Brendan Halpin
Although encouraged to apply to colleges, Brianna Pelletier, a mathematically-gifted high school senior with cystic fibrosis, dwells on her mortality and the unfairness of life.
F Har The Ghost’s Child. Sonya Hartnett
When a mysterious child appears in her living room one day, the elderly Maddy tells him the story of her love for the wild and free-spirited Feather, who tried but failed to live a conventional life with her, and her search for him on a fantastical voyage across the seas.
F Hen Torched. April Henry
In order to save her parents from going to jail for possession of marijuana, sixteen-year-old Ellie must help the FBI uncover the intentions of a radical environmental group by going undercover.
F How Everything Beautiful. Simmone Howe
When sixteen-year-old Riley unwillingly attends a religious summer camp, she forms a deep bond with another camper who happens to be wheelchair bound.
F Hyz Hail to the Chief. Julie Hyzy
Ollie Paras, the executive chef for the White House, puts her own life on hold and attempts to find a killer when an electrician is electrocuted to death and the First Lady's nephew dies, shortly after cleaning shrimp with Ollie, in what appears to be a suicide.
F Joc Would You. Marthe Jocelyn
When her beloved sister, Claire, steps in front of a car and winds up in a coma, Nat's anticipated summer of working, hanging around with friends, and seeing Claire off to college is transformed into a nightmare of doctors, hospitals, and well-meaning neighbors.
F Jon Need. Carrie Jones
Depressed after the death of her stepfather, high school junior Zara goes to live with her grandmother in a small Maine town, where new friends tell Zara the strange man she keeps seeing may be a pixie king, and that only "were" creatures can stop him from taking souls.
F Joh Busted. Antony John
High school senior Kevin Mopsely tries to remake his image by joining a crowd of popular boys who are known for treating girls badly, but when Kevin's mother, a feminist college professor, comes to campus to teach a course, his strategy backfires badly.
F Jon Out of Reach. V.M. Jones
Pressured by his aggressively competitive father to play soccer, teenaged Pip McLeod secretly pursues a sport that he truly enjoys--indoor rock climbing.
F Kat Playing with Matches. Brian Katcher
Desperate to improve his standing with the girls at Zummer High, Leon Sanders--a junior--seems to be making headway with his long-time crush Amy Green, but when he starts to get to know a social pariah named Melody Sanders, Leon begins to see beyond Melody's disfigurement.
F Kle Two Girls of Gettysburg. Lisa Klein
When the Civil War breaks out, two cousins, Lizzie and Rosanna, find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict until the war reunites them in the town of Gettysburg.
F Lev Everything Beautiful in the World. Lisa Levchuk
Toward the end of the disco era, seventeen-year-old Edna refuses to visit her mother, who is in a New York City hospital undergoing cancer treatment, and barely speaks to her father, who finally puts her in psychotherapy, while her crush on an art teacher turns into a full-blown affair.
F Lin Thirteen Orphans: Breaking the Wall. Jane Lindskold
In an alternate world inspired by ancient Chinese lore and magic, Brenda learns about her magical ancestry after an attack on her father and finds herself among a band of orphans who each represent an animal from the Chinese zodiac.
F Lyg Hero Type. Barry Lyga
Feeling awkward and ugly is only one reason sixteen-year-old Kevin is uncomfortable with the publicity surrounding his act of accidental heroism, but when a reporter photographs him apparently being unpatriotic, he steps into the limelight to encourage people to think about what the symbols of freedom really mean.
F Lyn Inexcusable. Chris Lynch
High school senior and football player Keir sets out to enjoy himself on graduation night, but when he attempts to comfort a friend whose date has left her stranded, things go terribly wrong.
F Mac Boost. Kathy Mackel
Thirteen-year-old Savvy's dreams of starting for her elite basketball team are in danger when she is accused of taking steroids.
F Mal The Resistance. Gemma Malley
In a future England where young people, or "Surpluses," are heavily regulated and everyone takes a drug called Longevity, a member of the Underground infiltrates the Pincent Pharma manufacturing plant, and uncovers horrific acts being committed in an attempt to create eternal youth.
F Mar Cybele’s Secret. Juliet Marillier
Scholarly eighteen-year-old Paula and her merchant father journey from Transylvania to Istanbul to buy an ancient pagan artifact rumored to be charmed, but others, including a handsome Portuguese pirate and an envoy from the magical Wildwood, want to acquire the item, as well.
F Mar Wicked Lovely. Melissa Marr
Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.
F Mcd Torn to Pieces. Margot McDonnell
Seventeen-year-old Anne's life takes on a nightmarish quality when her quirky mother, frequently away on business trips, disappears, and a strange man begins leaving messages on the answering machine for someone who does not live there.
F Mcg Daylight Runner. Osin McGann
In the domed city of Ash Harbor, as sixteen-year-old Solomon Wheat and his friend Cleo seek Sol's missing father, they face great danger both from humans and failures of the city itself.
F McN Bonechiller. Graham McNamee
Four high school students face off against a soul-stealing beast that has been making young people disappear their small Ontario, Canada, town for centuries.
F Mit Shadowed Summer. Saundra Mitchell
In the small town of Ondine, Louisiana, fourteen-year-old Iris uncovers family secrets when she conjures up the ghost of a boy missing for decades and decides to solve the mystery of his disappearance.
F Mur Princess Ben. Catherine Gilbert Murdock
A girl is transformed, through instruction in life at court, determination, and magic, from sullen, pudgy, graceless Ben into Crown Princess Benevolence, a fit ruler of the kindgom of Montagne as it faces war with neighboring Drachensbett.
F Mye Amiri & Odette: A Love Story. Walter Dean Myers
Presents a modern, urban retelling in verse of the ballet in which brave Amiri falls in love with beautiful Odette and fights evil Big Red for her on the streets of the Swan Lake Projects.
F Myr Bliss. Lauren Myracle
Having grown up in a California commune, Bliss sees her aloof grandmother's Atlanta world as a foreign country, but she is determined to be nice as a freshman at an elite high school, which makes her the perfect target for Sandy, a girl obsessed with the occult.
F Nic Ways to Live Forever. Sally Nicholls
Eleven-year-old Sam McQueen, who has leukemia, writes a book during the last three months of his life, in which he tells about what he would like to accomplish, how he feels, and things that have happened to him.
F Ona Songs for the Missing. Stewart O’Nan
After a high school girl goes missing, her family and their town struggle to live with the unknown and the aftermath of loss.
F Pic Handle With Care. Jodi Picoult
When Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe learn about their daughter's illness, they wonder if they should have known about it sooner and begin to question what constitutes the value of even the most fragile life.
F Pol What World is Left. Monique Polak
Anneke Van Raalte and her family are taken by the Nazis to a concentration camp in 1942, and Anneke's father, who is a cartoonist, is coerced into helping a propaganda campaign falsely depicting the camp as an idyllic place for Jews; as time passes, Anneke struggles with her loyalty to her family and her sense of right and wrong.
F Ree Shimmer.
When the opening of a weird box releases a virus-like ailment that turns the citizens of a remote Colorado town into deranged and sometimes deadly maniacs, a group of high school students flees through a blizzard, struggling to survive.
F Sch Blackbox. Julie Schumacher
When her sixteen-year-old sister is hospitalized for depression and her parents want to keep it a secret, fourteen-year-old Elena tries to cope with her own anxiety and feelings of guilt that she is determined to conceal from outsiders.
F Sha Demon Apocalypse. Darren Shan
Grubbs Grady tries to resist his werewolf urges and evade the eight-armed grasp of the demonic Lord Loss.
F Sha Death’s Shadow. Darren Shan
As Bec's relationship with Dervish improves, werewolves and demons attack and she sends Shark and Meera through a window to another universe to seek Beranabus, and soon all must face an even greater force of evil, the Shadow.
F Smi Ghost Medicine. Andrew Smith
Still mourning the recent death of his mother, seventeen-year-old Troy Stotts relates the events of the previous year when he and his two closest friends try to retaliate against the sheriff's son, who has been bullying them for years.
F Smi Chameleon. Charles R. Smith Jr.
The summer before starting high school in inner-city Los Angeles, fourteen-year-old Shawn grapples with his first experience of love, the complicated bonds of friends and family, and the reality of street gang violence.
F Ste A Thousand Shades of Blue. Robin Stevenson
Rachel fears her family trip to the Caribbean will be to boring to bear, but when she and her brother discover a shocking secret, Rachel wonders if they will even survive the experience.
F Sto Marcelo in the Real World. Francisco X. Stork
Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.
F Swa The Dragons of Babel. Michael Swanwick
Enslaved by a war-dragon of Babel, young Will evacuates to the Tower of Babel where he meets the confidence trickster, Nat Whilk, and becomes a hero to the homeless living in the tunnels under the city. As he rises from an underling to a politician, Will falls in love with a high-elven woman he dare not aspire to.--From publisher description.
F Tes The Comet’s Curse. Dom Testa
Desperate to save the human race after a comet's deadly particles devastate the adult population, scientists create a ship that will carry a crew of 251 teenagers to a home in a distant solar system.
F Val Broken Soup. Jenny Valentine
While struggling with the loss of her brother and the distraught state of her family, Rowan is handed a photo negative by a mysterious boy that, when it finally gets developed and the powerful image is revealed, comes to change her entire outlook on life in ways she could never have imagined.
F Voo The Brothers Torres. Coert Voorhees
Sophomore Frankie finally finds the courage to ask his long-term friend, Julianne, to the Homecoming dance, which ultimately leads to a face-off between a tough senior whose family owns most of their small, New Mexico town, and Frankie's soccer-star older brother and his gang-member friends.
F Wat Vidalia in Paris. Sasha Watson
Teenage Vidalia's summer in Paris studying art settles into a stimulating and enjoyable routine until she becomes romantically involved with a mysterious young man who seems to have ties to an art-theft ring.
F Was Skinned. Robin Wasserman
Lia Kahn's family pays for the most advanced medical technology to save her when her body is devastated in a horrible accident, but when the operations are complete, Lia remains alive but her body does not.
F Wer The Rules of Survival Nancy Werlin
Seventeen-year-old Matthew recounts his attempts, starting at a young age, to free himself and his sisters from the grip of their emotionally and physically abusive mother.
F Woo This Full House. Virginia Euwer Wolff
High-school-senior LaVaughn's perceptions and expectations of her life begin to change as she learns about the many unexpected connections between the people she loves best.
F Zem Dear Julia. Amy Bronwen Zemser
Shy sixteen-year-old Elaine has long dreamed of being the next Julia Child, to the dismay of her feminist mother, but when her first friend, the outrageous Lucida Sans, convinces Elaine to enter a cooking contest, anything could happen.
Story Collection
SC Bea We Never Talk About my Brother . Peter S. Beagle
Collects nine fantasy stories from twentieth-century American writer Peter S. Beagle, and features the title selection, along with " The Stickball Witch," "The Unicorn Tapestries," and others.
SC Kin Just After Sunset. Stephen King
Collects twelve short stories by Stephen King on the theme of relationships, including new stories and previously released material such as "The Gingerbread Girl," "The Things They Left Behind," and "The Cat from Hell."
SC Wal Does This Book Make Me Look Fat Stories About Loving- and Loathing- Your Body. Marissa Walsh
Eight short stories and six personal essays sound off on body image, self-esteem, diets, eating disorders, and fashion magazines, in a volume that includes contributions by Carolyn Mackler, Daniel Pinkwater, and Megan McCafferty.
Non Fiction
016.65 Cov The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. Jack Covert
The founders of 800-CEO-READ, Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten, select and review one hundred business-related books, chosen for their relevancy and useful qualities.
158.1 Tra Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed. Brian Tracy
Tracy teaches ideas, concepts, and methods used by high-achieving people in every field everywhere. Learn how to unlock your individual potential for personal greatness.
155.5 Hin The Triple Bind: Saving our Teenage Girls from Today’s Pressures. Stephen Hinshaw
Combines personal stories with research to examine the pressures faced by teenage females, discussing how expectations, cultural trends, and mixed messages are leading to a high number of girls experiencing aggression, eating disorders, depression, and other negative effects, and providing advice on how to help.
179 She For the Love of Animals: The Rise of the Animal Protection Movement. Kathryn Shevelow
Examines the history of the animal protection movement, and discusses the important people who have worked to make a difference in the lives of animals, including Richard Martin, Samuel Pepys, and William Hogarth; and describes other related topics.
305.23 Wal When Elephants Fight: The Lives of Children in Conflict in Afghanistan , Bosnia , Sri Lanka , Sudan and Uganda. Eric Walters & Adrian Bradbury
Presents the stories of five children--Annu, Jimmy, Nadja, Farooq, and Toma--from five very different and distinct conflicts--Sri Lanka, Uganda, Sarajevo, Afghanistan, and the Sudan--showing that it is the children who suffer most when countries wage war.
320.53 Fle Socialism. Thomas Fleming
Discusses socialism as a political system, and details the history of socialist governments throughout the world.
323.09 Tur Freedom Song: Young Voices and the Struggle for Civil Rights. Mary C. Turck
Explores how songs helped strengthen the Civil Rights movement, discusses how churches and other groups created new songs from existing religious and secular music, and includes an audio CD with music by the Chicago Children's Choir.
330 Bus Money For Minors: A Student’s Guide to Economics. Marie Bussing-Burks
Defines economic terms, concepts, and organizations and provides six lessons on economics, covering the Federal Reserve, gross domestic product, the government's spending pattern, the national debt, the history of currency, and business cycles.
338.4 Tim Where Am I Wearing? A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People that Make Our Clothes. Kelsey Timmerman
Presents an account of the author's attempts to learn about the lives, personalities, and dreams of the people who make his five favorite clothing items, and discusses the forces, politics, and economics of globalized labor in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, and other places where garment workers live in poverty.
362.196 Rob Look Me In The Eye: My Life with Asperger’s. John Elder Robinson
John Robison recounts his struggles to fit in and communicate with others as he grew up, describing why he had so many problems relating to others and why he often turned to machines for comfort, rather than people, and explains how his life was changed when he was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at age forty.
365 Ye My Name is Number 4: A True Story from the Cultural Revolution. Ting-Xing Ye
Ting-Xing Ye recounts the brutality, horror, and desperation she and her family faced during the Chinese cultural revolution and reflects on how those events impacted every aspect of her life.
384.55 Gre From Betamax to Blockbuster: Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video. Joshua M. Greenberg
Explains how movies became tangible consumer goods thanks to the creation of the VCR and neighborhood video stories, tracing the history of the new industry and examining its impact on American film and the relationship between audiences and movies.
530 Bal The Atom and the Apple: Twelve Tales from Contemporary Physics. Sebastien Balibar
The author reflects on his life and career while discussing twelve physics problems, such as radioactivity, chaos theory, fluid mechanics, and cosmology.
576.8 Hei Charles and Emma: The Darwins ’ Leap of Faith. Deborah Heiligman
Provides an account of Charles Darwin's life and evolutionary theory, examining how his personal life affected his work and vice versa because of his wife's strong religious beliefs.
612 Mac The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body by David Macaulay
Explores the complex inner workings of the human body in a visual study of anatomy and physiology that ranges from the cells that form the building blocks of the body, to the individual organs and systems and how they function.
613.7 Pag Total Body Workout. Joan Pagano
Offers four, fifteen-minute exercise routines aimed at slimming and toning the body; and includes an instructional DVD.
613.7 Rob The Core Connection. Chris Robinson
Chris Robinson describes his program for using the body core, or abdominals, to achieve total body fitness.
613.7 Ung Everyday Pilates. Alycea Ungaro
A fifteen-minute Pilates program that includes step-by-step instructions for each exercises and a live-action DVD demonstrating each of the sequences in the book.
616.9 Par Climate Chaos: Your Health at Risk. Cindy Parker
Explains how the current climate crisis, lead by global warming, is placing people's health at risk, revealing the health problems caused by climate change and offering suggestions on how climate change and global warming can be stopped.
618.92 Jack Freaks, Geeks, and Asperger Syndrome :A User Guide to Adolescence.
Thirteen-year-old student Luke Jackson describes what it is like to live with Asperger Syndrome, offering a new perspective on bullying, friendships, the challenges associated with AS, problems at school, dating, and more.
618.92 Voi Voices of Autism: The Healing Companion.
A collection of personal essays in which people from diverse backgrounds share their experiences with autism, offering parents and caregivers of autistic children hope and encouragement.
640 Var The Eco Chick Guide to Life. Starre Vartan
Offers ideas on remaining trendy while living sustainably.
641.3 Aar Chocolate: A Healthy Passion. Shara Aaron & Monica Bearden
A celebration of chocolate, explaining how to fully savor the treat, looking at how cultures around the world enjoy chocolate, discussing its role in holidays and celebrations, tracing its origins and history, and considering what science has revealed about the healing properties of chocolate.
641.3 Mas The Face on Your Plate: The Truth about Food. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Examines the ways that food choice affects personal morals, health, and the planet; and discusses global warming, farming practices, and cultural differences over which animals are eaten or protected and worshiped.
641.5946 Bar The Cuisines of Spain : Exploring Regional Home Cooking. Teresa Barrenechea
Contains over 250 recipes that reflect both traditional and contemporary Spanish cuisines, including tapas, cold soups and salads, vegetables, bread and pastas, warm soups and legume stews, rice dishes, fish, poultry, meats, desserts, and beverages, and features discussion of the people, landscapes, and ingredients of Spain.
779 Wil Who We Were: A Snapshot History of America. Michael Williams
A collection of more than three hundred and fifty color and duotone photographs, taken as personal snapshots by American people, capture images from the beginning of the twentieth century until 1972.
810.8 Lev We Are Quiet, We Are Loud: The Best Young Writers and Artists in America. Ed. David Levithan
Presents a collection of poetry, essays, stories, paintings, and photographs by winners of the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards from 2005, 2006, and 2007.
810.8 War War Is… Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk About War. Marc Aronson
Presents an anthology of fiction, speeches, poems, and essays about the nature of war by such contributors as Rita Williams-Garcia, Mark Twain, Bob Dylan, Ernie Pyle, and Helen Benedict.
811 Sot Partly Cloudy: Poems of Love & Longing. Gary Soto
Experiencing first love, dealing with crushes, and mending a broken heart are some of the topics of love and life captured in these poems, told from the point of view of young adults of both sexes and diverse ethnicities.
813 Joh Class Conflict in F.Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Claudia Johnson
Provides background on the life of American author F. Scott Fitzgerald and the influences that shaped his life, features fourteen articles that explore class conflict as portrayed in his novel "The Great Gatsby," and examines issues of social class in the twenty-first century.
914.6 Bra The Roads to Santiago: The Medieval Pilgrim Routes through France and Spain to Santiago de Compostela. Derry Brabbs
914.604 Fod See It: Spain. Fodor’s
A guide to visiting Spain, providing background on the history, people, land, and culture of the country; featuring rated hotel and restaurant reviews, descriptions of notable attractions, notes on shopping and entertainment venues, and suggested walks and tours; and including maps, photographs, and trip planning advice.
940 Tak Take Me Back: A Trip Through History.
Presents a chronological exploration of the people and events that have shaped societies through time--from Mesopotamia to Mao, the Incas to Iraq, and the Spartans to the space shuttle.
940.54 Wag World War II: 365 Days. Margaret E. Wagner
Explores an important event for each calendar date that occurred during World War II.
973 Dol The Irish Americans: A History. Jay P. Dolan
Follows the Irish from their first arrival in the American colonies through the bleak days of the potato famine, the decades of ethnic prejudice and nativist discrimination, the rise of Irish political power, and on to the historic moment when John F. Kennedy was elected to this highest office in the land.
973.7 All Mr. Lincoln’s High-Tech War: How the North Used the Telegraph, Railroads, Surveillance Balloons, Iron-Clads, High-Powered Weapons, and More to Win the Civil War. Thomas B. Allen Roger Macbride Allen
Reveals how President Lincoln's appreciation for the power of technology played a critical role in the North's Civil War victory over the less developed South, and discusses the specific technologies used by the North in the war.
973.709 San Lincoln Through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Shaped an Extraordinary Life. Martin W. Sandler
Contains over one hundred images of the life of Abraham Lincoln that provide a portrait of his presidency and the events surrounding it.
973.709 Swa Chasing Lincoln’s Killer. James L. Swanson
Recounts the escape of John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln's assassin, and follows the intensive twelve-day search for him and his accomplices.
975.5 Cre Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11. Patrick Creek
Recounts the events surrounding the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon, focusing on the actions of heroic men and women who risked their lives in the rescue and recovery mission that took place in the days following the attacks, and the deadly fire that threatened to destroy the United States military.
977.7 Fel The Oxford Project Peter Feldstein
Presents black-and-white photographs of residents from the small Iowa community of Oxford, taken in 1984 and again two decades later, with accompanying first-person narratives.
Graphic Collection
741.5 Abe Life Sucks Jessica Abel
Dave is a vampire working the night shift in a convenience store, and after he becomes attracted to a Latina girl named Rosa, he soon finds himself competing for her affection with another vampire named Wes.
741.5 Bla The Good Neighbors. Holly Black & Ted Naifeh
Sixteen-year-old Rue Silver, whose mother disappeared weeks ago, believes she is going crazy until she learns that the strange things she has been seeing are real, and that she is one of the faerie creatures, or Good Neighbors, that mortals cannot see.
741.5 Fit The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: A Graphic Novel
Graphic adaptation of the Fitzgerald story, Benjamin Button is born an old man in 1860, much to the consternation of his father, and proceeds to age backwards, finally ending up an infant.
741.5 Ino Real. Takehiko Inoue
Suffering life-changing events that leave them in wheelchairs, three young men find their passion for basketball helps ease their pain and brings them closer together.
741.5 Ito Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror. Junji Ito
Teenager Kirie Goshima and her boyfriend, Shuichi Saito, struggle to survive and save others as their town is slowly, terrifyingly consumed by spirals.
741.5 Mec Prince of Persia. Jordan Mechner
In ninth- and thirteenth-century Persia, two princes despair over the corruption in their worlds, and as everything they believe in begins to fade, the princes find that only they can stand against the twilight of their eras.
741.5 Tam Skim. Mariko Tamaki
Presents the whole gamut of tortured teen life--friends, love, depression, suicide, and cliques--through the eyes of Skim, a.k.a. Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a would-be Wiccan goth at a girls' academy in Toronto during the 1990s.
915.2 Ste GRAPHIC Japan Ai: A Tall Girl’s Adventures in Japan. Aimee Major Steinberger
Aimee Major Steinberger uses illustrations and short journal entries to chronicle her vacation in Japan, describing the people, restaurants, shops, hotels, and historical sites she saw and her impressions of the country and its culture.