[bksvol-discuss] New Books (72) for 07-15
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=====FICTION, 23
AGNES AND THE HITMAN, BY BOB MAYER AND JENNIFER CRUSIE
Take one food writer named Cranky Agnes, add a hitman named Shane, mix
them together with a Southern mob wedding and a missing necklace, and
the result is a sexy, hilarious adventure from the bestselling author
team of Crusie and Mayer.
Excellent Quality, 419 Pages
Romance, Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/98338/
A NATURAL HISTORY OF LOVE, BY DIANE ACKERMAN
The author of A Natural History of the Senses now explores the allure of
adultery, the appeal of aphrodisiacs, and the cult of the kiss. This
"audaciously romp through the world of romantic love" is the next best
thing to love itself.
Excellent Quality, 360 Pages
Nonfiction, Romance
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99082/
CRY MERCY: A MERCY STREET NOVEL, BY MARIAH STEWART
In this follow-up to "Mercy Street," brilliant crime-scene investigator
Emme Caldwell takes the lead in Mercy Street Foundation's first case:
the disappearance of a 19-year-old co-ed, which is somehow connected
with a fertility clinic.
Excellent Quality, 411 Pages
Romance, Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/95752/
CURSE OF THE CHUPACABRA, BY RUDOLFO ANAYA
Professor Rosa Medina, a folklorist researching the ChupaCabra, goes to
Mexico to track down recent sightings of the creature which kills its
victims, particularly goats, by sucking their brains out.
Excellent Quality, 168 Pages
Horror, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99145/
EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE, BY FLANNERY O'CONNOR
This collection of 9 short stories is an exquisite legacy from a genius
of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar
to her readers: race, faith, and morality.
Excellent Quality, 269 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99129/
GIRLS AT WAR AND OTHER STORIES, BY CHINUA ACHEBE
Twelve stories by the internationally renowned novelist which recreate
with energy and authenticity the major social and political issues that
confront contemporary Africans on a daily basis.
Excellent Quality, 121 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99091/
GOD'S GRACE, BY BERNARD MALAMUD
Malamud's last novel, is a modern-day dystopian fantasy, set in a time
after a thermonuclear war prompts a second flood--a radical departure
from Malamud's previous fiction.
Excellent Quality, 223 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/98850/
JALAMANTA: A MESSAGE FROM THE DESERT, BY RUDOLFO ANAYA
It's been thirty years since Amado was banished to the desert by a
government that considered his ideas about religion and the state to be
subversive. Now he returns to find his people living in squalor outside
the glorious Seventh City of the Sun.
Excellent Quality, 194 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/98847/
JEMEZ SPRING, BY RUDOLFO ANAYA
When the governor of New Mexico is found drowned in the bath house at
Jemez Spring, Albuquerque private eye Sonny Baca is called in to
investigate. As he soon learns, murder is only the beginning of the evil
that must be sorted out.
Excellent Quality, 298 Pages
Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99086/
LAUGHTER IN THE DARK, BY VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus.
He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the
sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended
in disaster.
Excellent Quality, 292 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/98848/
LEADEN SKIES (SILVER RUSH MYSTERY #3), BY ANN PARKER
The summer of 1880: although possible investment in Leadville's silver
mines is a main reason that former president and Civil War general
Ulysses S. Grant is now touring this city at the top of the Rockies,
others in his retinue and in town are enticed by other visions.
Excellent Quality, 294 Pages
History, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99096/
LET IT SNOW: THREE HOLIDAY ROMANCES, BY MAUREEN JOHNSON AND LAUREN
MYRACLE AND JOHN GREEN
Sparkling white snowdrifts, beautiful presents wrapped in ribbons, and
multicolored lights glittering in the night through the falling snow. A
Christmas Eve snowstorm transforms one small town into a romantic haven.
Excellent Quality, 352 Pages
Romance
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99077/
OH, WHAT A PARADISE IT SEEMS, BY JOHN CHEEVER
An old man falls violently in love and does valiant battle against
unscrupulous polluters in John Cheever's ineffably joyful last novel.
Excellent Quality, 100 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99087/
SELECTED POEMS OF WENDELL BERRY, BY WENDELL BERRY
This is a collection of poems on the lines of themes of earth, marriage,
family; work and death weave the 100 poems of this collection together.
Excellent Quality, 183 Pages
Poetry
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99079/
THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS, BY IAN MCEWAN
As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own
intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though someone is
waiting for them who care deeply about how they appear.
Excellent Quality, 127 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99139/
THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY, BY EDITH WHARTON
As she unfolds the story of Undine Spragg, from New York to Europe,
Wharton affords us a detailed glimpse of what might be called the
interior door of this America and its nouveau riche fringes.
Excellent Quality, 393 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99140/
THE DARKER SIDE OF PLEASURE, BY EDEN BRADLEY
Prepare to enter a provocative, scintillating world where three women
are about to take ecstasy to the limit--and beyond.
Excellent Quality, 337 Pages
Romance, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/94506/
THE NEIGHBOR, BY LISA GARDNER
When a young wife and mother disappears from her suburban home, it's not
long before the cops have their first suspect: the missing woman's
husband, whose behavior is distinctly suspicious.
Excellent Quality, 379 Pages
Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99301/
THE TIGER'S DAUGHTER, BY BHARATI MUKHERJEE
Novel that examines moving from one culture to another, and how it's not
always possible to the new one.
Excellent Quality, 210 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99141/
THE WORLD OF APPLES, BY JOHN CHEEVER
10 short stories. Innocent, old-fashioned, self-aware, Cheever's people
are summoned by strange and improbable events to ponder the values they
have been taught to trust... decency, common sense, nostalgia, even
truth. Stunned by these encounters, they nevertheless survive.
Excellent Quality, 176 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99143/
TICKETS FOR A PRAYER WHEEL, BY ANNIE DILLARD
Celebrate re-publication of this Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first
book of poems.
Excellent Quality, 127 Pages
Poetry
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/98841/
WATCH WITH ME: AND SIX OTHER STORIES OF THE YET-REMEMBERED PTOLEMY
PROUDFOOT AND HIS WIFE, MISS MINNIE, NEE QUINCH , BY WENDELL BERRY
This collection of short stories of a farmer describes the depth of
affection and tolerance for eccentricity that neighbors bear toward one
another, and highlights the comic and poignant ways they cope with the
intrusions of the 20th century into their idyllic, agrarian world.
Excellent Quality, 211 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99132/
WRECKAGE, BY HA JIN
New poems by the author of Waiting, winner of the National Book Award.
Excellent Quality, 111 Pages
Poetry
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/98839/
=====NONFICTION, 33
ABBEY'S ROAD, BY EDWARD ABBE
Abbey's explorations include the territory of the Rio Grande in Texas,
Canyonlands National Park and Lake Powell in Utah. He takes readers to
such varied places as Scotland, the interior of Australia, the Sierra
Madre, and Isla de la Sombra in Mexico.
Excellent Quality, 198 Pages
Nonfiction, Travel, Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99092/
AIN'T I A WOMAN: BLACK WOMEN AND FEMINISM, BY BELL HOOKS
Ain't I a Woman examines the impact of sexism on black women during
slavery, the historic devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism,
racism within the recent women's movement, and black women's involvement
with feminism.
Excellent Quality, 207 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99122/
A DICTIONARY OF CREATION MYTHS, BY MARGARET A. LEEMING AND DAVID A. LEEMING
God made Heaven, and then, after measuring the space underneath with a
ball of thread, he began to form the earth. A mole asked to help, and
God gave him the thread to hold while he wove the patterns of the earth.
Excellent Quality, 330 Pages
Nonfiction, Reference, Religion and Spirituality
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99061/
A HYMNAL: THE CONTROVERSIAL ARTS, BY WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY
This latest Buckley collection of essays is uproarious and serene,
exciting and tranquilizing, mordant and gentle.
Excellent Quality, 511 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/98849/
A JOURNEY THROUGH ECONOMIC TIME: A FIRSTHAND VIEW, BY JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
A renowned economist presents an accessible, far-reaching history of the
century's economics from World War I and the Russian Revolution, through
the Depression and Keynesian theory, to colonialism's collapse and the
rise of the Third World.
Excellent Quality, 255 Pages
History, Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/98846/
A LIFE IN OUR TIMES, BY JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
The chapters on his ambassadorship to India during the Sino-Indian war,
on the Vietnam war, and on Lyndon Johnson will provide historians with
some new footnotes. Without Galbraith the political literature of our
time would be far drearier.
Excellent Quality, 563 Pages
History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99090/
A SENSE OF THE FUTURE: ESSAYS IN NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, BY JACOB BRONOWSKI
Scientist, humanist, optimist, the late Jacob Bronowski in these essays
explores the singularity of humankind, the essence of science, and the
idea of a life force antecedent to nature.
Excellent Quality, 286 Pages
Nonfiction, Science
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99093/
A SHORT HISTORY OF FINANCIAL EUPHORIA, BY JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
In this book, its brevity compelling attention, the eminent economist
chronicles the histories of several speculative periods of the last
three centuries, discussing their sad aftermaths and analyzing the
peculiar pitfalls of get-rich-quick schemes.
Excellent Quality, 113 Pages
History, Nonfiction, Business and Finance
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99126/
A WAY OF SEEING, BY RHODA METRAUX AND MARGARET MEAD
We have gone only a little way toward solving the problems we have
become aware. But we are moving, toward a deeper appreciation of the
kinds of commitments we must make to conserve and develop human
potentialities in an emerging world civilization.
Excellent Quality, 336 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99130/
BEST NEWSPAPER WRITING 1996, BY CHRISTOPHER SCANLAN
Best Newspaper Writing 1996 celebrates the winners of the American
Society of Newspaper Editors' Distinguished Writing Awards, including
the Jesse Laventhol Awards, created to honor deadline reporting.
Excellent Quality, 380 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99056/
BEST NEWSPAPER WRITING 1997, BY CHRISTOPHER SCANLAN
"Best Newspaper Writing 1997" celebrates the winners of the ASNE's
Distinguished Writing Awards, including the Jesse Laventhol Awards,
created to honor deadline reporting.
Excellent Quality, 373 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99063/
DARWIN'S DANGEROUS IDEA: EVOLUTION AND THE MEANINGS OF LIFE, BY DANIEL
CLEMENT DENNETT
Dennett demonstrates the power of the theory of natural selection and
shows how Darwin's idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view
of our place in the universe.
Excellent Quality, 588 Pages
History, Nonfiction, Science
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/98843/
DIRECTIONS TO SERVANTS, BY JONATHAN SWIFT
Directions to Servants is one of Jonathan Swift's last completed works.
It displays all his caustic skill as a satirist and his unerring eye for
the little annoyances of life.
Excellent Quality, 95 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99083/
ESSENTIAL BLOGGING, BY CORY DOCTOROW AND RAEL DORNFEST AND J. E.
JOHNSON AND SHELLEY POWERS AND BENJAMIN TROTT AND MENA G. TROTT
With weblogs or "blogs" exploding all over the Web, the only thing
lacking for power users and developers is detailed advice on how choose,
install, and run blogging software. Written by leading bloggers,
Essential Bloggingincludes practical advice and insider tips on the
features, requirements, and limitations of applications such as Blogger,
Radio Userland, Movable Type, and Blosxom. This book will get you up and
blogging in no time.
Publisher Quality
Computers and Internet
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/12172/
LISTEN UP: VOICES FROM THE NEXT FEMINIST GENERATION, BY BARBARA FINDLEN
A collection of essays explore such topics as feminist politics, sex,
racism, careers, identity, and abortion.
Excellent Quality, 318 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99075/
MENSTRUATION: A CULTURAL HISTORY, BY ANDREW SHAIL AND GILLIAN HOWIE
Ranging from Aristotle to twentieth-century gynecology, contributions to
this volume trace the semiotics of menstruation from magical act to
evolutionary deficiency.
Excellent Quality, 299 Pages
History, Nonfiction, Health, Mind and Body
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/98814/
MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRAS, BY JOHN MUIR
Muir kept this journal on his first extended trip to Yosemite in 1869.
Here he faithfully recorded his impressions of the dazzling animal and
plant life he encountered in the magnificent Sierra.
Excellent Quality, 270 Pages
History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99080/
NOLO'S PATENTS FOR BEGINNERS (5TH EDITION), BY RICHARD STIM AND DAVID
PRESSMAN
What are patents? Why do you need one? How do you get it? This book
provides a clear explanation of the entire process.
Excellent Quality, 214 Pages
Nonfiction, Professional and Technical, Business and Finance
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/98834/
OXFORD DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN ART AND ARTISTS, BY ANNE LEE MORGAN
Hailed by Choice as "concise, clear, and very informative," The Oxford
Dictionary of American Art and Artists--the first such dictionary to
appear in three decades--offers an informative, insightful, and long
overdue resource on our nation's artistic heritage.
Excellent Quality, 537 Pages
Nonfiction, Reference, Art and Architecture
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/98844/
PLACES, BY JAMES MORRIS
Essays on travel experiences in different places from different continents.
Excellent Quality, 187 Pages
Nonfiction, Travel
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/98845/
SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE: HER MEMORIES BEYOND THE AVENUE (THE CAMPUS HISTORY
SERIES), BY KYMBERLY A. DUNLAP
Saint Mary's College: Her Memories Beyond The Avenue depicts
recollections from alumnae dating back to the early 1900s.
Excellent Quality, 128 Pages
Textbooks and Educational Materials, History, Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99062/
SWAMI FOR PRECEDENT: A 7 STEP PLAN TO HEAL THE BODY POLITIC AND CURE
ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION, BY SWAMI BEYONDANANDA
Apparently, the world is in such serious condition that the Earth's
protective laugh force has been compromised. Scientists have discovered
a hole in the Bozone Layer -- our planetary clown chakra -- because not
enough levity is rising.
Excellent Quality, 194 Pages
Entertainment, Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/98836/
THE CENTURY OF THE GENE, BY EVELYN FOX KELLER
The Century of the Gene also calls our attention to the surprising ways
these advances challenge the familiar picture of the gene most of us
still entertain.
Excellent Quality, 186 Pages
History, Nonfiction, Science
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/98838/
THE CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, BY E. A. LIVINGSTONE
Based on the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, this abridged
version contains over 5,000 condensed and accessible entries.
Excellent Quality, 658 Pages
Nonfiction, Reference, Religion and Spirituality
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/98851/
THE ENDLESS CRISIS: AMERICA IN THE SEVENTIES, BY FRANCOIS DUCHENE
The Endless crisis: America in the seventies; a confrontation of the
world's leading social scientists on the problems, impact, and global
role of the United States in the next decade.
Excellent Quality, 310 Pages
Nonfiction, Science
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/98840/
THE LYING STONESTHE LYING STONES OF MARRAKECH: PENULTIMATE REFLECTIONS
IN NATURAL HISTORY, BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD
Essays culled from Gould's monthly column "The View of Life", in Natural
History magazine that he wrote for 27 years.
Excellent Quality, 372 Pages
History, Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99076/
THE VISIONARY EYE: ESSAYS IN THE ARTS, LITERATURE, AND SCIENCE, BY JACOB
BRONOWSKI
A collection of essays which discuss about examples taken from across
the spectrum of the arts, past and present--music, poetry, painting and
sculpture, architecture, industrial design, and engineering artifacts.
Excellent Quality, 185 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99078/
THE WRITER AS MIGRANT, BY HA JIN
Ha Jin's journey from an uneducated soldier in the People's Liberation
Army in China to a resident of the United States raises questions about
language, migration, and the place of literature in a globalizing world.
Excellent Quality, 96 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99142/
THE WRITING OF FICTION, BY EDITH WHARTON
Wharton provides general comments on the roots of modern fiction, the
various approaches to writing a piece of fiction, and the development of
form and style.
Excellent Quality, 125 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99133/
TIME, LOVE, MEMORY: A GREAT BIOLOGIST AND HIS QUEST FOR THE ORIGINS OF
BEHAVIOR, BY JONATHAN WEINER
Jonathan Weiner brings his skills to the story of Benzer, the
Brooklyn-born maverick scientist whose study of genetics and experiments
with fruit fly genes has helped revolutionize the connections between
DNA and behavior both animal and human.
Excellent Quality, 301 Pages
Nonfiction, Science
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/98842/
TRAVELS IN ALASKA, BY JOHN MUIR
John Muir first saw Alaska in 1879, only twelve years after it was
purchased from Russia by the United States. Four more times, he was
drawn back to this land of rivers and glaciers, sunsets and northern
lights, campfires and Arctic stars.
Excellent Quality, 334 Pages
Nonfiction, Travel, Biographies and Memoirs, Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99094/
TRILOBITE! EYEWITNESS TO EVOLUTION, BY RICHARD FORTEY
At last, I found a trilobite. The rock simply parted around the animal,
like some sort of revelation. I was left holding two pieces of
rock--surely what I held was the textbook come alive.
Excellent Quality, 293 Pages
Nonfiction, Science
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/98837/
VOLUNTARY MADNESS: MY YEAR LOST AND FOUND IN THE LOONY BIN, BY NORAH VINCENT
The journalist who famously lived as a man commits herself literally.
Suffering from severe depression after her eighteen months living
disguised as a man, Vincent felt she was a danger to herself. On the
advice of her psychologist she committed herself to a mental institution.
Excellent Quality, 287 Pages
Nonfiction, Disability-Related, Biographies and Memoirs, Health, Mind
and Body
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/96923/
=====UNCATEGORIZED, 3
ALIBI, BY TERI WOODS
Two men think they've found the perfect opportunity--a chance to rob the
stash house of Simon Shuller, one of Philadelphia's biggest drug lords.
But their plans are spoiled when one of Shuller's men catches them as
they break into the stash house.
Publisher Quality
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99277/
GREAT TALES FROM ENGLISH HISTORY: THE TRUTH ABOUT KING ARTHUR, LADY
GODIVA, RICHARD THE LIONHEART, AND MORE, BY ROBERT LACEY
From ancient times to the present day, the story of England has been
laced with drama, intrigue, courage, and passion-a rich and vibrant
narrative of heroes and villains, kings and rebels, artists and
highwaymen, bishops and scientists.
Publisher Quality
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99262/
NEW TRICKS, BY DAVID ROSENFELT
Andy Carpenter gains possession of an adorable Bernese puppy whose owner
was brutally murdered. Few can rival Andy's affection for dogs, and he
will do whatever it takes to insure that this little pup doesn't fall
into the wrong hands.
Publisher Quality
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99276/
=====TEENS & CHILDREN, 13
A WORLD LOST, BY WENDELL BERRY
Sadness and loss invade nine-year-old Andy's world on a hot July
afternoon when his Uncle Andrew is murdered. No one tells the boy why
his uncle and namesake was killed, and the question follows Andy into
manhood.
Excellent Quality, 151 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99084/
CITY OF ASHES (THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS #2), BY CASSANDRA CLARE
Clary continues trying to make sense of the swiftly changing events and
relationships in her life as she becomes further involved with the
Shadow hunters and their pursuit of demons and discovers some terrifying
truths about her parents.
Excellent Quality, 477 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99144/
CITY OF GLASS (THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS #3), BY CASSANDRA CLARE
Still pursuing a cure for her mother's enchantment, Clary uses all her
powers and ingenuity to get into Idris, the forbidden country of the
secretive Shadow hunters, and to its capital, the City of Glass.
Excellent Quality, 541 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99152/
DOPE SICK, BY WALTER DEAN MYERS
The itch starts when things get too heavy for Lil J. Skin popping or
stealing pain pills from his mom help him relax. But Lil J's focus is
wandering because money is short, and his man Rico knows a way to make
some quick cash. It's supposed to be an easy deal, but it isn't so
simple when the buyer is an undercover cop.
Excellent Quality, 187 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/96853/
HOW TO BE BAD, BY LAUREN MYRACLE AND SARAH MLYNOWSKI AND E. LOCKHART
From three critically acclaimed and bestselling authors comes one story
- equal parts charming, hilarious, and emotional - of a road trip that
proves that sometimes it doesn't matter where you're going, since
getting there is half the fun.
Excellent Quality, 325 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99121/
KELLY AND ME, BY CAROL LYNCH WILLIAMS
Eleven-year-old Leah has a summer of outrageous adventures in her small
Florida community, some involving her freethinking grandfather but all
shared with her younger sister, Kelly, until an unexpected loss changes
their lives.
Excellent Quality, 123 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99089/
OUR ELEANOR: A SCRAPBOOK LOOK AT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT'S REMARKABLE LIFE ,
BY CANDACE FLEMING
No matter how the question is answered, one thing is clear: There has
hardly been a life in the last century that Eleanor Roosevelt has not
affected, in one way or another.
Excellent Quality, 178 Pages
History, Nonfiction, Teens, Biographies and Memoirs
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/98835/
PARANOID PARK, BY BLAKE NELSON
A sixteen-year-old Portland, Oregon skateboarder, whose parents are
going through a difficult divorce, is engulfed by guilt and confusion
when he accidentally kills a security guard at a train yard.
Excellent Quality, 180 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99095/
PERFECT YOU, BY ELIZABETH SCOTT
Kate Brown's life has gone downhill fast. Her father has quit his job to
sell vitamins at the mall, and Kate is forced to work with him. Her best
friend has become popular, and now she acts like Kate's invisible. And
then there's Will.
Excellent Quality, 300 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99088/
PRETTY LIKE US, BY CAROL LYNCH WILLIAMS
A shy, small-town girl learns the true meaning of loyalty, love, and
beauty through her friendship with a classmate who is suffering from a
rare, life-threatening illness.
Excellent Quality, 185 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99097/
THE LOST CITIES (A DRIFT HOUSE VOYAGE), BY DALE PECK
Siblings Susan and Charles receive a mysterious book before leaving to
visit their uncle Farley at his time-traveling house, where they become
separated in the Sea of Time and struggle to find their way home.
Excellent Quality, 393 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99081/
AMBER WAS BRAVE, ESSIE WAS SMART, BY VERA B. WILLIAMS
Essie is smart. She can read hard library books and make cocoa. Amber is
brave. She isn't afraid of the rat in the wall or of climbing up in high
places. Amber and Essie are sisters and best friends in a family has
fallen on hard times. Together, they can do anything.
Excellent Quality, 72 Pages
Children's Books, Teens, Poetry
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99102/
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, BY MAURICE SENDAK
Max is sent to bed without supper and imagines sailing away to the land
of Wild Things, where he is made king.
Excellent Quality, 40 Pages
Children's Books, Teens, Animals, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99085/
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