324.6 Selma and the Voting
Rights Act Aretha, David
ARE Provides an account of the events of 1965
when civil rights activists, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., gathered in Selma
Alabama, to protest practices designed to keep African-Americans from being
able to vote.
590 Animals Casper,
Julie Kerr
CAS Explores the role of animals in the lives
of people.
614.5 Influenza Goldsmith, Connie
GOL A comprehensive examination of influenza that
explains how it presents itself, how it spreads, and how it is treated and prevented.
909.08 The Cartoon History of the Modern World, Part 1 Gonick,
Larry
GON Presents a cartoon history of the world from the pre-Columbus
era in the new world to the American Revolution that represents various themes
such as European exploration, renaissance, and reformation.
92 Hamid Karzai Abrams,
Dennis
KAR Describes the life, personality, and contemporary challenges
faced by Afghanistan's first democratically elected president.
92 Tomas de Torquemada Goldberg,
Enid A.
TOR An overview of the role Torquemada played in the Spanish
Inquisition, describing the cruel methods he used to attack the people of Spain
and punish those he believed broke the laws of the church.
FIC Looking for JJ Cassidy,
Anne
CAS 17-year-old Alice, released from prison with a new identity
after serving 6 years for murdering a child, tries to keep her anonymity from
the British tabloids, while haunted by memories of her past trauma.
FIC The Marvelous Effect Cle,
Troy
CLE Strange things are happening on Earth and Louis
Proof discovers he is one of the few people able to see-and combat-the responsible
beings, who come from Midkendia, the planet at the center of the universe, to
continue a battle that rages there.
FIC Ordinary Ghosts Corrigan,
Eireann
COR Emil Simons life is uneventful until he finds a key that
unlocks every building on campus and begins to discover truths about his mother's
death, missing brother, and emotionally unavailable father.
FIC Napolean's Pyramids Dietrich,
William
DIE Expatriate American Ethan Gage wins an ancient
and mysterious medallion in a card game that may hold the secrets of the pyramids,
but must flee for his life when he is framed for a murder and forced to accompany
Napoleon Bonaparte on his quest to conquer Egypt.
FIC Interworld Gaiman, Neil
GAI Joey Harker learns that is is a Walker, able to
travel between dimensions, and soon joins a team of different versions of himself,
each from another dimension, to fight the evil forces striving to conquer all
the worlds.
FIC I'm Exploding Now Hite,
Sid
HIT The summer he turns 17, Max is feeling off
his game with no job and nothing to do, but after spending a lot of time hanging
out in Manhattan, thinking about life, writing down his thoughts, and visiting
his aunt in Woodstock, he develops a personal philosophy called "coolism"
which seems to turn things around.
FIC Chasing Tail Lights Jones,
Patrick
JON Seventeen-year-old Christy, sad since her father's
death, ignored by her mother, and abused by her drug-dealing half-brother, finds
friends who help her learn to stand up for herself and move past the old hurts
and fears that are keeping her down.
FIC The Darkest Evening of the Year Koontz,
Dean
KOO No one is surprised when Amy Redwing brings a rescued female
golden retriever into her home, however, her joy is overshadowed by a series
of mysterious incidents and the feeling that she is being watched.
FIC Beaufort Leshem, Ron
LES Twenty-one-year-old Lieutenant Liraz Liberti,
commander of a small force of soldiers stationed at Beaufort, an outpost in
Southern Lebanon in the final days of occupation, learns firsthand the futility
of war when he and his men are assigned one final, heartbreaking mission.
FIC Uninvited Marrone, Amanda
MAR Jordan's life takes a surreal turn when her ex-boyfriend
Michael, who died two days earlier, shows up outside her window begging to be
let in, and even though she knows it would mean her own destruction, she is
very, very, tempted, especially when he keeps coming back, night after night….
FIC Dedication McLaughlin,
Emma
MCL Kate Hollis finally gets the chance to take revenge on
her superstar high school sweetheart for abandoning her, putting personal details
about their relationship in his hit songs, and stealing music from his old band
mates - but finds herself falling in love with him again.
FIC The Spell Book of Listen Taylor Moriarty,
Jaclyn
MOR Listen Taylor learns a great deal from the eccentric secretive
Zing family, as she fumbles her way through a new school, problems with old
friends, and a spell book she finds soon after she and her father move in with
Marbie Zing.
FIC Eye of the Crow Nance,
Andrew
NAN In 1867, Sherlock Holmes, an impoverished young outcast,
visits the scene of a woman's brutal murder, where he meets a wrongly accused
young Arab and becomes a suspect himself.
FIC Last Kiss Ripslinger,
Jon
RIP Billy O'Reilly a farm worker in rural Iowa,
is forced to keep his relationship with Lisa a secret due to their different
social standings, but when Lisa is murdered and circumstantial evidence points
to Billy, he must break through the town's class barriers to prove his innocence
and find the true killer.
FIC Remembering Raquel Vande Velde,
Vivian
VAN After Raquel is killed in a car accident, her fellow classmates, friends,
and family members, as well s the woman responsible for her death reflects on
Raquel's life and how her passing has changed their own lives.
SC Whodunit?
WHO A collection of 16 short detective stories by writers such as Agatha
Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Dorothy L. Sayers.