New Books Winter 2010
Fiction
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Freefall.
Ariela Anhalt
Briar Academy senior Luke prefers avoiding conflict and letting others make his decisions,
but he is compelled to choose whether or not to stand by the best friend whose reckless behavior
has endangered Luke and may have caused another student's death.
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Sidney Sheldon’s Mistress of the Game.
Tilly Bagshawe
Eve and Alexandra, the great-granddaughters of Kate Blackwell, battle for control of the
powerful multibillion-dollar corporation, but their desire to lead the company is threatened by
their own ambitions, dark secrets from the past, and a little-known descendant of Kate's
great-grandfather.
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The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin.
Josh Berk
When Will Halpin transfers from his all-deaf school into a mainstream Pennsylvania high
school, he faces discrimination and bullying, but still manages to solve a mystery surrounding the
death of a popular football player in his class.
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The Paris Vendetta.
Steve Berry
Former operative Cotton Malone, working at a secondhand bookshop in Copenhagen, gets caught
up with a American Secret Service agent when he breaks into Cotton's store while outrunning a pair
of assassins, and joins the man on a mission to uncover the truth about the death of Cotton's
millionaire friend's son and details about a secret organization that is trying to find Napoleon's
hidden treasures as well as take down the global economy.
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Pretty Dead.
Francesca Lia Block
Beautiful vampire Charlotte finds herself slowly changing back into a human after the
mysterious death of her best friend.
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Wish.
Alexandra Bullen
After her vivacious twin sister dies, a shy teenaged girl moves with her parents to San
Francisco, where she meets a magical seamstress who grants her one wish.
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All the Broken Pieces.
Ann E. Burg
Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin is haunted by the terrible
secret he left behind and, now, in a loving adoptive home in the United States, a series of
profound events forces him to confront his past.
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Frozen Fire.
Tim Bowler
Fifteen-year-old Dusty gets a mysterious call from a boy who says he is going to kill
himself, and while he claims to have called her randomly, he seems to know her intimately.
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Saved by the Music.
Selene Castrovilla
Fifteen-year-old Willow, forced to spend her summer on a barge which her aunt is converting
into a concert hall, connects with a teenage boy living on a neighboring sailboat who has a
troubled past, and the two find themselves struggling to save one another after a series of
devastating events.
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Gone for Good.
Harlan Coben
Will Klein becomes caught up in a web of murder, heartbreak, and betrayal when he learns, on
the day of his mother's funeral, that his older brother Ken, who disappeared eleven years earlier
after being implicated in the strangling death of Will's former lover, is still alive.
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Long Lost.
Harlan Coben
Sports agent Myron Bolitar answers a call for help from former lover Terese Collins who has
become a suspect in the murder of her ex-husband in Paris, and soon finds himself on the run from
Homeland Securty, Interpol, Mossad, and someone who does not want the truth about Terese's
long-believed dead daughter to come to light.
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No Second Chance. Harlan Coben
A surgeon suspected of killing his wife attempts to save his kidnapped infant daughter
without the help of the authorities.
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Promise Me.
Harlan Coben
A promise made on a whim comes back to haunt sports and entertainment agent Myron Bolitar
when he is asked to drop off a neighborhood girl in a suburban area and she promptly
vanishes.
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We Were Here. Matt de la Pena
Haunted by the event that sentences him to time in a group home, Miguel breaks out with two
unlikely companions and together they begin their journey down the California coast hoping to get
to Mexico and a new life.
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Chill.
Colin Frizzell
An artistically talented young man with a physical disability decides to fight for what he
believes when a spirit-crushing new teacher arrives at his school.
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Crossing Stones.
Helen Frost
Four young people in two families tell of their experience during World War I when the boys
enlist and are sent to fight, Emma finishes school, and Muriel joins the suffrage movement.
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Into the Wild Nerd Yonder: My Life on the Dork Side.
Julie Halpern
When high school sophomore Jessie's long-term best friend transforms herself into a punk and
goes after Jessie's would-be boyfriend, Jessie decides to visit "the wild nerd yonder" and seek
true friends among classmates who play Dungeons and Dragons.
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Tweaked.
Katherine Holubitsky
Gordie Jessup tries to deal with his older brother's crystal meth addiction that is
destroying their family.
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Missing in Action.
Dean Hughes
While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay
moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo
himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment
camp.
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Pop.
Gordon Korman
Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus
Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but
whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.
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Liar.
Justine Larbalestier
Compulsive liar Micah promises to tell the truth after revealing that her boyfriend has been
murdered.
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The Boy Book.
E. Lockhart
A high school junior continues her quest for relevant data on the male species, while
enjoying her freedom as a newly licensed driver and examining her friendship with a clean-living
vegetarian classmate.
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Million-Dollar Throw.
Mike Lupica
Eighth-grade star quarterback Nate Brodie's family is feeling the stress of the troubled
economy, and Nate is frantic because his best friend Abby is going blind, so when he gets a chance
to win a million dollars if he can complete a pass during the halftime of a New England Patriot's
game, he is nearly overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed.
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Once a Witch.
Carolyn MacCullough
Born into a family of witches, seventeen-year-old Tamsin is raised believing that she alone
lacks a magical "Talent," but when her beautiful and powerful sister is taken by an age-old rival
of the family in an attempt to change the balance of power, Tamsin discovers her true
destiny.
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Waiting to Score.
J.E. MacLeod
After moving to a small Montana town, hockey player Zack Chase contends with the enemity of
the captain of the hockey team, who has a grudge against Zack and some nasty secrets, and tries to
get Goth girl Jane to go out with him.
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Over the End Line.
Alfred C. Martino
After scoring the winning goal in the county soccer championship, New Jersey high school
senior Jonny finally attains some of the popularity enjoyed by his best friend Kyle, until a
devastating event changes everything.
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White Darkness.
Geraldine McCaughrean
Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a
vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with
seeking Symmes's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.
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Tell.
Norah McClintock
David must find a way to handle the secret he has learned about his stepfather and his
younger brother's death when he becomes the prime suspect in his stepfather's murder.
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The Time it Snowed in Puerto Rico.
Sarah McCoy
Eleven-year-old Verdita Ortiz-Santiago, living Puerto Rico in the early 1960s, finds herself
torn between wanting to grow up and longing to be treated like a child, yearning for independence
and needing the comfort of home.
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Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel.
Richelle Mead
Just days before graduating from St. Vladimir's Academy, guardian-in-training Rose travels to
Siberia to drive a stake into the heart of the boy she loves, the monstrous vampire Dimitri.
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Break.
Hannah Moskowitz
To relieve the pressures of caring for a brother with life-threatening food allergies,
another who is a fussy baby, and parents who are at odds with one other, seventeen-year-old Jonah
sets out to break every bone in his body in hopes of becoming stronger.
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Front & Center.
Catherine Gilbert Murdoch
Other folks have big plans for D.J. Like her coach. College scouts. All the town hoops fans.
A certain Red Bend High School junior who?s keen for romance and karaoke. Not to mention Brian
Nelson, who she should not be thinking about! Who she is done with, thank you very much. But who
keeps showing up anyway.
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Shadow of the Dragon: Book One Kira.
Kate O’Hearn
Kira, having escaped the knights who were taking her and her sisters to a prison because they
were unmarried during a time of war, relies on the help of a baby dragon in her quest to protect
her siblings and be reunited with her father, mother, and brother, who were all taken to the palace
to serve the king.
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When the Emperor was Divine.
Julie Otsuka
A novel in which the members of a Japanese American family present their unique perspectives
on the experience of being forced into an internment camp during World War II.
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The 8
th Confession.
James Patterson
Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the murder of San Francisco's most celebrated couple,
Isa and Ethan Bailey, and reporter Cindy Thomas becomes attracted to the case and Lindsay's partner
Rich Conklin, when the body of a preacher is found executed.
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I, Alex Cross.
James Patterson
On his birthday, detective Alex Cross is informed that his niece, Caroline, has been brutally
murdered and Cross' investigation leads him to a fantasy-driven scene in Washington, D.C., where he
realizes he is tracking a serial killer, but danger mounts when Cross connects the deaths to some
very important people.
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Run for Your Life.
James Patterson
A killer who refers to himself as The Teacher stalks New York City, murdering powerful,
arrogant people and drawing the attention of Detective Mike Bennett, who tackles the case while
also caring for his ten children, who all have the flu virus simultaneously.
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Saving Grace.
Darlene Ryan
Evie, a young girl who was forced to give up her baby, kidnaps the child and runs to Montreal
but must make a difficult decision when baby Brianna gets very ill.
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Last Night I Sang to the Monster.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
Eighteen-year-old Zach does not remember how he came to be in a treatment center for
alcoholics, but through therapy and caring friends, his amnesia fades and he learns to face his
past while working toward a better future.
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Cirque du Freak: Killers of the Dawn.
Darren Shan- Book 9
Vampire prince Darren Shan, working with old friends to solve the mystery of a series of
murders, finds himself pursued by the purple-skinned vampaneze, the police, and an angry mob after
he is framed for the killings.
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Cirque du Freak: The Lake of Souls.
Darren Shan- Book 10
The lives of Darren and Harkat are at risk as they face monstrous obstacles on a desperate
quest to the Lake of Souls.
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Cirque du Freak: Lord of the Shadows.
Darren Shan- Book 11
Darren Shan returns home, accompanied by Mr. Tall, but feels it is too dangerous to see his
friends and family, and Steve, Lord of the Vampaneze, sets up a fight to the death between himself
and Darren.
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Cirque du Freak: Sons of Destiny.
Darren Shan- Book 12
Dead if he loses and damned if he wins, the time has finally come for Darren to face his
archenemy, Steve Leopard.
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Struts and Frets.
Jon Skovron
Sammy wants to be a musician, as was his grandfather, but while the band he is in is
self-destructing, Sammy is too distracted by his grandfather's decline and confused feelings about
his best friend to fix it--and his mother stays too busy to help.
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The Last Song.
Nicholas Sparks
Seventeen-year-old Ronnie Miller is resentful when her mother insists she and her
ten-year-old brother spend the summer with their estranged father in North Carolina, and while
things get off to a rocky start, Ronnie eventually makes friends and begins to better understand
her dad and why he wanted her to visit. Includes a reading group guide.
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The Espressologist.
Kristina Springer
While working part-time as a barista in a Chicago coffee bar, high school senior Jane dabbles
in matchmaking after observing the coffee preferences of her customers.
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Hunted.
Walter Sorrells
When sixteen-year-old Chastity witnesses the murder of a pop star, her hopes of settling down
with her mother in San Francisco seem to disappear.
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In the Woods.
Robin Stevenson
When Cameron discovers a baby abandoned in the woods, he tries to discover whether his sister
is the mother.
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The Brothers Story.
Katherine Sturtevant
In the late seventeenth century, fifteen-year-old Kit, driven to desperation by the
starvation of one brother and mistreatment of his own simple-minded twin, realizes his dream of
becoming an apprentice in London but feels drawn by duty to return home to Essex.
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The Geek Girl’s Guide to Cheerleading.
Charity Tahmaseb
Bethany, a self-proclaimed "geek girl," struggles to adjust to the attention, her new social
life, and being forced to wear a very short skirt in public after she makes the varsity
cheerleading squad.
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Rikers High.
Paul Volponi
Arrested on a minor offense, a New York City teenager attends high school in the jail
facility on Rikers Island, as he waits for his case to go to court.
GRAPHIC COLLECTION
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Nightschool: The Weirn Books
volume 1.
Svetlana Chmakova
Alex, a special type of witch, enrolls in nightschool to discover the mystery behind her
sister's disappearance, but with classes consisting of vampires, demons, and other weirns--like
Alex--she is surprised by what she learns.
741.5 Chm Nightschool: The Weirn Books volume 2. Svetlana Chmakova Alex is transferred into Mr. Roi's class at Nightschool after she proves too powerful for her original class, but Mr. Roi is more concerned with unlocking the hidden meaning in Marina's vision than helping Alex harness her powers.
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Refresh Refresh.
Danica Novgorodoff
While their fathers are fighting in the war in Iraq, three teenagers--Josh, Cody, and
Gordon--are on the brink of graduating high school, but struggle to make the big decisions about
their futures.
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Trotsky: A Graphic Biography.
Rick Geary
A graphic novel that depicts the controversial life of Leon Trotsky, a Bolshevik and Marxist
theorist, describing his involvement in the Russian Revolution, his multiple imprisonments and
exiles, and related topics.
NONFICTION
070.5029
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Read Me!: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements.
Dwight Garner
An illustrated collection of over three hundred original advertisements for twentieth-century
American bestsellers, including books by Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Kurt
Vonnegut, and many others.
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Her
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Explores the downsides of the positive thinking mentality that is found in the business
community, megachurches, and even in the medical profession, maintaining that this type of thinking
only leads to frustration, guilt, and denial.
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Hyd
World Religions 101: An Overview for Teens.
Margaret O. Hyde
Offers teens an overview of the world's religions, with information on each religion's
beliefs, gods, rituals, stories, ceremonies, codes of conduct, and teachings.
305.4
Mil
Good Women of a Well-Blessed Land: Women’s Lives in Colonial America.
Brandon Marie Miller
A social history of the American colonial period with a focus on the daily lives of women,
including European immigrants, Native Americans, and slaves.
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice.
Phillip Hoose
Presents an account of fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin, an African-American girl who
refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine
months before Rosa Parks, and covers her role in a crucial civil rights case.
323.1
Fin
We Shall Overcome: The History of the American Civil Rights Movement.
Reggie Finlayson
Uses the words of spirituals and other music of the time to frame a discussion of the civil
rights movement in the United States, focusing on specific people, incidents, and court
cases.
333.79
Tab
Energy & The Environment: Wind & Water.
John Tabak
A comprehensive introduction to wind and water as renewable energy resources that discusses
the history of each, and examines related technology, economic and environmental impacts, and
government policies.
333.8
Tab
Energy & The Environment: Coal & Oil.
John Tabak
Looks at coal and oil as sources of energy and discusses the technology needed to convert it
to useful working energy, examining the history, chemistry, and geology of coal and oil, how it is
accessed, consumption and demand, and the social and environmental costs.
333.8
Tab
Energy & The Environment: Natural Gas & Hydrogen.
John Tabak
Presents information on the history and use of weight-loss drugs and discusses the different
types of drugs and their effects on the body. Includes resources for further study.
344.05
Axe
Reno v. ACLU: Internet Censorship.
Joan Axelrod-Contrada
Describes the historical context of the U.S. Supreme Court case of Reno v. ACLU that ruled
the Communications Decency Act, which regulated Internet pornography, was unconstitutional.
344.73
Per
Cruzan v. Missouri: The Right to Die.
Lila Perl
Examines the 1989 Supreme Court case Cruzan v. Missouri whereby the parents of Nancy Beth
Cruzan fought to have their daughter removed from life support following an automobile accident
that left her in a permanent vegetative state.
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Loving v. Virginia: Lifting the Ban Against Interracial Marriage.
Susan Dudley Gold
Examines the 1967 Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia in which the United States Supreme
Court declared Virginia's anti-miscegenation statute unconstitutional.
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Pag
Parallel Play: Growing Up With Undiagnosed Asperger’s.
Tim Page
The author, an American music critic who spent his life unaware that he had Asperger's
syndrome until he was forty-five-years-old, describes his childhood and the false medical
treatments he endured.
362.29
Hyd
Drugs 101: An Overview for Teens.
Margaret O. Hyde
An overview of drugs and drug abuse, including a review of the intoxicating and health
effects of drugs, starting and stopping using addictive drugs, and the war on drugs and the debate
over legalization.
362.29
Oli
Designer Drugs.
M. Foster Olive
Presents information on the history, legal status, physical characteristics, and use of
designer, or club drugs, and explores the effects of these substances on the human brain and body.
Includes resources for further study.
362.292
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Alcohol.
Heather Lehr Wagner
Presents information on the history and use of alcohol, discussing the effects of alcohol on
the human body, teen attitudes toward drinking, and alcoholism. Includes resources for further
study.
362.883
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Date Rape Drugs.
George B. Kehner
Presents information on the history and use of rohypnol, GHB, and ketamine, explores the
effects of these substances on the human brain and body, and discusses the legal consequences of
using date-rape drugs. Includes resources for further study.
363.25
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Criminal Investigations: Crime Scene Investigation.
Colin Evans
Uses real life cases to describe how forensic techniques and crime scene analysis are used to
solve crimes.
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New
Forensic Chemistry.
David E. Newton
Reports on developments in forensic chemistry, featuring a brief introduction to the history
of the field, and covering fingerprinting, serology, toxicology and drug testing, arson and
explosives investigations, and DNA.
364.1
New
Criminal Investigations: Gangs & Gang Crime.
Michael Newton
Chronicles the history of gangs in the United States since the nineteenth century, looking at
different types of criminal activity, and discussing the techniques used by law enforcement to
fight them.
364.106
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Criminal Investigations: Organized Crime.
Michael Benson
Chronicles the history of organized crime in the U.S., explaining what organized crime is and
how it works, and examining the methods used by law enforcement officials in their efforts to
combat organized crime.
364.16
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Criminal Investigations: White Collar Crime.
Michael Benson
Examines criminal cases involving white collar crime and explores the laws and techniques
used to capture criminals in commercial or business settings.
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Locked Up: A History of the U.S. Prison System.
Laura B. Edge
Describes the history of the prison system in the United States, from colonial times to the
invention of the electric chair, and through the twenty-first century; and includes a time
line.
391.009
Fas
Fashions of a Decade.
Various authors.
A decade-by-decade look at trends in twentieth-century fashion and the social and cultural
events that influenced them, covering the 1920s through the 1990s, with original paintings,
photographs, and illustrations of record jackets, advertisements, posters, and other
memorabilia.
391.009
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A History of Fashion & Costume.
Facts on File, various authors
Examines the development of costume and fashion over the course of history, focusing on the
styles and trends of the nineteenth century in the Americas, Europe, and the empires and colonies
in Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Includes photographs and a time line.
Volumes include
The Ancient World, The Medieval World,
The Elizabethan England, Early America, The Eighteenth Century, The Victorian Age, The Nineteenth
Century, The Twentieth Century
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Chemistry of Space.
David E. Newton
Explores information that has been learned through the research of astrochemists and space
exploration, discussing chemical composition of planets, the formation of heavy elements, star
classification, and other related topics.
609.2
Kam
The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind.
William Kamkwamba
The author details how he ignored naysayers and was able to bring electricity and running
water to his Malawian village when he built a makeshift windmill out of scrap metal and spare
parts.
614
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Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland.
Sally M. Walker
Anthropology scientists take readers through the process of investigating human remains found
at colonial-era sites to reveal causes of death, match remains with the names on the historical
records, and determine the skeletons' gender, age at death, nationality, and even economic
standing.
615
Dee
Diet Pills.
Deborah DeEugenio
Presents information on the history and use of diet pills and weight loss supplements,
explains how they work, and discusses their effectiveness and side effects. Includes resources for
further study.
615
May
Weight-Loss Drugs.
Suellen May
Presents information on the history and use of weight-loss drugs and discusses the different
types of drugs and their effects on the body. Includes resources for further study.
615
New
The Chemistry of Drugs.
David E. Newton
Describes the processes by which chemists design and develop drugs, discussing how drugs work
in the body, the use of natural products in drugs, recombinant DNA as a new source of drugs,
designer drugs, and rational drug design.
615.9
Sat
Food Alert! The Ultimate Sourcebook for Food Safety.
Morton Satin
Provides historical background on the topic of food-borne diseases; identifies the twenty
most common causes of food-borne illness in the kitchen; examines the dangers of various foods;
discusses consumer protection issues; and describes the different types of food-borne
pathogens.
616.9
Hyd
Stress 101: An Overview for Teens.
Margaret O. Hyde
An overview of stress for teenagers that discusses what stress is, how it affects the body
and the brain, its correlation to mental disorders, and how to avoid and reduce it.
616.97
Ano
Quicksand: HIV/AIDS in our Lives.
Anonymous
The author explores the emotions and feelings of friends and family members of someone who
has been diagnosed with the HIV virus, and discusses medical information and the importance of
receiving treatment immediately.
616.97
Kan
HIV/AIDS Treatment Drugs.
Brigid M. Kane
Provides a history of the HIV / AIDS epidemic and the discovery of the virus that causes
AIDS, explaining how HIV operates and the reasoning behind the design, development, and
effectiveness of drugs and drug combinations, and discusses ongoing efforts to develop less toxic,
more effective drugs.
618.92
Rod
Autism and Asperger Syndrome.
Ana Maria Rodriguez
Provides information on the causes, diagnosis, treatment, and symptoms of autism and Asperger
Syndrome, and discusses the likelihood of communication problems, social difficulties, and
obsessive behaviors.
620.1
New
Chemistry of New Materials.
David E. Newton
Describes the processes by which chemists design and develop new materials, discussing
biomaterials, composites in nature and human history, the evolution of materials, nanotechnology,
powder and chemical tests, and more.
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Tab
Energy & The Environment: Solar and Geothermal Energy.
John Tabak
A comprehensive introduction to solar and geothermal energy that discusses the history of
each, and examines related technology, economic and environmental impacts, and government
policies.
621.48
Tab
Energy & The Environment: Nuclear Energy.
John Tabak
A comprehensive introduction to nuclear energy that discusses its history, and examines
related technology, economic and environmental impacts, and government policies.
628.5
New
Chemistry of the Environment.
David E. Newton
Provides information on a variety of environmental topics, including air and water pollution,
Earth Day 1970, green chemistry, the ozone layer, solid waste disposal, and more. Includes
photographs, illustrations, a glossary, a list of resources, and an index.
650.14
Ehr
Bait & Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream.
Barbara Ehrenreich
The author addresses the issues of the unemployed white-collar worker offering a realistic
perspective on the corporate world and the difficulty in finding a job.
662
Tab
Energy & the Environment: Biofuels.
John Tabak
A comprehensive introduction to biofuels that discusses the history of fuels derived from
decayed biological materials, and covers biodiesel, biomass, combustion, electricity production,
environmental protection, ethanol.
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Food Chemistry.
David E. Newton
Provides historical background on the topic of food-borne diseases; identifies the twenty
most common causes of food-borne illness in the kitchen; examines the dangers of various foods;
discusses consumer protection issues; and describes the different types of food-borne
pathogens.
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Kre
Comic Book Century.
Stephen Krensky
Provides a history of comic books in America during the twentieth century, showing how it has
influenced and been influenced by American culture; and includes an epilogue about comics in the
early twenty-first century.
770
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Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits.
Linda Gordon
Chronicles the life of photographer Dorothea Lange, discussing childhood battle with polio,
introduction to photography, involvement in San Francisco's bohemian artistic world, marriage to
Maynard Dixon, images of some of America's most disadvantaged citizens, and other related
topics.
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Mil
Digital Art: Painting with Pixels.
Ron Miller
An introduction to digital art that discusses how the art form was developed, how it
influences everyday life, why it has become so popular, what the latest techniques are, and other
related topics.
782.421
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The American Songbook: The Singers, The Songwriters, and the Songs.
Ken Bloom
A photographic history of American music in the twentieth century, featuring profiles of
singers, songwriters, and Big Bands, each with a chronology of career highlights, and including a
decade-by-decade look at some of the most popular songs.
796.334
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The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer. David Goldblatt
A history of soccer around the world, looking at how the game has been played, watched, and
followed, sharing stories of players, managers, fans, owners, clubs, and national teams, and
discussing the sport in relation to developments in economics, politics, and society.
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Albert Einstein.
Kathleen Krull
An exploration of the life and times of German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein,
whose contributions to the field earned his a Nobel Prize.
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Rosa Parks
Mary Hull
Tells the life story of activist Rosa Parks, describing her childhood in segregated Alabama
and her work in the civil rights movement, including her historic refusal to give up her seat to a
white passenger on a bus and her involvement in the Montgomery bus boycotts.
930.1
Rub
Every Bone Tells a Story.
Jill Rubalicaba
Discusses the unearthing of four hominins--Turkana Boy, Lapedo Child, Kennewick Man, and
Iceman--and the ways that new technology has helped archaeological specialists to refine their
theories and change their view of the past.
940.4
Mur
Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting.
Jim Murphy
Tells the story of the December 25, 1914 truce between German and British soldiers as they
laid down their weapons and met in No Man's Land to celebrate Christmas.
940.53
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The Tragic History of Japanese-American Internment Camps.
Deborah Kent
Examines the sad history of the Japanese-American internment camps, including adapting to the
American lifestyle before Pearl Harbor, life and the conditions inside the camps, and creating a
new life after leaving the camps.
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Handbook to Life in America: The Colonial and Revolutionary Era Beginnings-1783 v.1
Provides an overview of what life was like in the United States from the early 1600s
through 1783, discussing family, social attitudes, religion, education, science, entertainment,
crime, labor, military, transportation, public health, and other related topics.
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Handbook to Life in America: The Early National Period and Expansion 1783-1859 v.2
Provides an overview of what life was like in the United States from 1783 through 1859,
discussing family, social attitudes, religion, education, science, entertainment, crime, labor,
military, transportation, public health, and other related topics.
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Handbook to Life in America: The Civil War & Reconstruction 1860-1876 v.3
Draws from diary entries, letters, speeches, and newspaper articles to provide firsthand
perspectives on the events of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and includes narratives that chart
the history of period, a chronology, excerpts from critical documents of the time, profiles of key
individuals, maps, and photographs.
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Handbook to Life in America: The Gilded Age 1870-1900 v.4
Discusses the dispirate social and economic aspects of the period between 1870 and 1900
in the U.S., covering topics such as material culture, social attitudes, technological
advancements, crime and violence, migration, and public health.
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Handbook to Life in America: The Age of Reform 1890-1920 v.5
Chronicles the technological advancements, political reforms, and changes in American
lifestyles between 1890 and 1920.
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Handbook to Life in America: The Roaring Twenties v.6
Discusses various aspects of the 1920s in the U.S., covering topics such as family life,
material culture, social attitudes, religion, education, entertainment, sports, public health, and
trends such as bootlegging, the Harlem Renaissance, Art Deco design, and jazz music.
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Handbook to Life in America: The Great Depression and WWII 1929-1949 v.7
Provides an overview of what life was like in the United States from 1929 through 1949,
discussing family, social attitudes, religion, education, science, entertainment, crime, labor,
military, transportation, public health, and other related topics.
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Handbook to Life in America: Postwar America 1950-1969 v.8
A social history of the United States in the years between 1950 and 1969, providing
information about family and daily life, material culture, social attitudes, city and rural living,
religion, education, crime, war, public health, and other topics.
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Handbook to Life in America: Contemporary America 1970-Present v.9
Provides an overview of life in the United States since 1970, discussing family, social
attitudes, religion, education, science, technology, entertainment, crime, labor, military,
transportation, public health, and other related topics.
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The Smart Aleck’s Guide to American History.
Adam Selzer
Presents a humorous discussion of obscure trivia relating to United States history, covering
details about presidents such as John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, and other leaders who are often
overlooked.
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Declaring Independence: Life During the American Revolution.
Brandon Marie Miller
Chronicles the lives of the colonists during the time of the American Revolution and includes
information on how African American slaves fled to the British, how Native American's were drawn
into the struggle, and how loyalists, dissidents, and patriots forged a new nation.
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Women and the Civil War.
Louise Chipley Slavicek
An exploration of the role of women during the Civil War that describes their work as nurses,
soldiers, scouts, spies, and saboteurs; provides information on significant individuals; and
examines the experiences of women in the North and South as well as African-American women on both
sides of the conflict.
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Copyright for Administrators. Carol Simpson
Offers school administrators a general overview of the copyright issues they need to be aware
of, with tips for staying in compliance with the law, a glossary of terms, and an easy-to-use index
for quick reference.
Chronicles of America’s Wars
Individual volumes covering the American Revolution, Mexican-American War, The War of 1812, The Vietnam War, The Korean War, The Cold War, Persian Gulf & Iraqi Wars, World War I, World War II, and the Civil War.