Melissa Lindsey's Library
Montgomery Central High
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780385337113 | The Rule Of Four | Caldwell, Ian, Thomason, Dustin | The Dial Press | |
| 9780143036401 | The Secret Life Of Bees | Kidd, Sue Monk | "The bees came the summer of 1964, the summer I turned fourteen and my life went spinning off into a whole new orbit, and I mean whole new orbit. Looking back on it now, I want to say the bees were sent to me. I want to say they showed up like the angel Gabriel appearing to the Virgin Mary, setting events in motion I could never have guessed." So begins the story of Lily Melissa Owens, a plucky girl, rich in humor despite heart wrenching circumstances. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her harsh, unyielding father, her entire life has been shaped around one devastating, though blurred, memory- the afternoon her mother was killed. Four at the time, she remembers innocently picking up the gun. And, she has her father's eyewitness account of the gun firing. People remind her it was an accident, yet she's inhabited by a torturous guilt. Lily's only real companion is Rosaleen, a tender, but fierce-hearted black woman who cooks, cleans and acts as her "stand-in mother." South Carolina in 1964 is a place and time of seething racial divides. When violence explodes one summer afternoon, and Rosaleen is arrested and beaten, Lily is desperate, not only to save Rosaleen, but to flee a life she can no longer endure. Calling upon her colorful wits and uncommon daring, she breaks Rosaleen out of jail and the two of them take off, runaway-fugitives conjoined in an escape that quickly turns into Lily's quest for the truth about her mother's life. Following a trail left ten years earlier, Lily and Rosaleen end up in the home of three bee-keeping sisters. No ordinary women, the sisters revere a Black Madonna and tend a unique brand of female spirituality that reaches back to the time of slavery. As Lily's life becomes deeply entwined with theirs, she is irrevocably altered. In a mesmerizing world of bees and honey, amid the strength and power of wise women, Lily journeys through painful secrets and shattering betrayals, finding her way to the single thing her heart longs for most. Learn more about Sue Monk Kidd at SueMonkKidd.com.Richmond Times-Dispatch...an Oprah pick just waiting to happen. | Penguin Books |
| 9781451661545 | The Silver Star: A Novel | Walls, Jeannette | Abandoned By Their Artist Mother At The Age Of 12, Bean And Her Older Sister, Liz, Are Sent To Live In The Decaying Antebellum Mansion Of Their Widowed Uncle, Where They Learn The Truth About Their Parents And Take Odd Jobs To Earn Extra Money Before An Increasingly Withdrawn Liz Has A Life-shattering Experience. Reprint. | Scribner |
| 9780060931414 | Their Eyes Were Watching God | Hurston, Zora Neale | Fair And Long-legged, Independent And Articulate, Janie Crawford Sets Out To Be Her Own Person--no Mean Feat For A Black Woman In The '30s. Janie's Quest For Identity Takes Her Through Three Marriages And Into A Journey Back To Her Roots. Foreword / Mary Helen Washington -- Their Eyes Were Watching God -- Afterword / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Selected Bibliography -- Chronology. Zora Neale Hurston ; With A Foreword By Mary Helen Washington And An Afterword By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [207]-210). | Harper Perennial Modern Classics |
| 9780062218346 | Think Like A Freak: The Authors Of Freakonomics Offer To Retrain Your Brain | Levitt, Steven D., Dubner, Stephen J | William Morrow Paperbacks | |
| 9780374533557 | Thinking, Fast And Slow | Kahneman, Daniel | In This Work The Author, A Recipient Of The Nobel Prize In Economic Sciences For His Seminal Work In Psychology That Challenged The Rational Model Of Judgment And Decision Making, Has Brought Together His Many Years Of Research And Thinking In One Book. He Explains The Two Systems That Drive The Way We Think. System 1 Is Fast, Intuitive, And Emotional; System 2 Is Slower, More Deliberative, And More Logical. He Exposes The Extraordinary Capabilities, And Also The Faults And Biases, Of Fast Thinking, And Reveals The Pervasive Influence Of Intuitive Impressions On Our Thoughts And Behavior. He Reveals Where We Can And Cannot Trust Our Intuitions And How We Can Tap Into The Benefits Of Slow Thinking. He Offers Practical And Enlightening Insights Into How Choices Are Made In Both Our Business And Our Personal Lives, And How We Can Use Different Techniques To Guard Against The Mental Glitches That Often Get Us Into Trouble. This Author's Work Has Transformed Cognitive Psychology And Launched The New Fields Of Behavioral Economics And Happiness Studies. In This Book, He Takes Us On A Tour Of The Mind And Explains The Two Systems That Drive The Way We Think And The Way We Make Choices. Two Systems. The Characters Of The Story ; Attention And Effort ; The Lazy Controller ; The Associative Machine ; Cognitive Ease ; Norms, Surprises, And Causes ; A Machine For Jumping To Conclusions ; How Judgments Happen ; Answering An Easier Question -- Heuristics And Biases. The Law Of Small Numbers ; Anchors ; The Science Of Availability ; Availability, Emotion, And Risk ; Tom W's Specialty ; Linda: Less Is More ; Causes Trump Statistics ; Regression To The Mean ; Taming Intuitive Predictions -- Overconfidence. The Illusion Of Understanding ; The Illusion Of Validity ; Intuitions Vs. Formulas ; Expert Intuition: When Can We Trust It? ; The Outside View ; The Engine Of Capitalism -- Choices. Bernoulli's Errors ; Prospect Theory ; The Endowment Effect ; Bad Events ; The Fourfold Pattern ; Rare Events ; Risk Policies ; Keeping Score ; Reversals ; Frames And Reality -- Two Selves. Two Selves ; Life As A Story ; Experienced Well-being ; Thinking About Life -- Judgment Under Uncertainty -- Choices, Values, And Frames. Daniel Kahneman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 447-482) And Index. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| 9780525514084 | Turning Pages: My Life Story | Sotomayor, Sonia | Philomel Books | |
| 9780452282827 | We Were The Mulvaneys (Oprah's Book Club) | Oates, Joyce Carol | The Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet—a hardworking father, a loving mother, three fine sons, and a bright, pretty daughter. They are confident in their love for each other and their position in the rural community of Mt. Ephraim, New York. But something happens on Valentine's Day, 1976—an incident that is hushed up in the town and never spoken of in the Mulvaney home—that rends the fabric of their family life.As the years pass the secrets they keep from each other threaten to destroy them, but ultimately they bridge the chasms between them, and reunite in the spirit of love and healing. Rarely has such an acclaimed writer made such a startling and inspiring statement about the value of hope and compassion.Salon - David Futrellein her gracefully sprawling new novel, Joyce Carol Oates delivers a modern family tragedy with a theme as painfully primal as Oedipus Rex. Over the course of 400-plus pages, we watch, in a kind of slow-motion horror, as life at the Mulvaneys' High Point Farm in upstate New York is wrenched apart by an act of careless brutality inflicted by an outsider upon the family's only daughter. The rape of the almost-too-perfect Marianne -- spoken of in hushed voices and euphemistic language designed to efface its blunt horror -- comes to haunt each member of the family in a different way. Shocked and embarrassed by Marianne's "trouble" (and unwilling to punish the young man who brutalized her), the community of Mt. Ephraim turns upon the Mulvaneys, and they turn upon each other. Marianne's mere presence becomes intolerable to her increasingly erratic father, who is filled with rage at his daughter's defilement and at the town's betrayal of his trust. She is banished from the house; her two older brothers send themselves into exile. While at college, Patrick -- as aloof and angrily obsessive as the Unabomber -- plans an act of rough justice against his sister's rapist. Reduced to the bare essence of its plot, Oates' book sounds uncomfortably like a movie-of-the-week melodrama -- a high-minded plea against the horrors of date rape. With its atmosphere of secrecy and doom, it might appear merely another example of Oates' gothic imagination run amok: The Fall of the House of Mulvaney. But this book is much more than that. Detailing the small rituals of intimacy that define a close-knit family, Oates pulls us gently into the comfortable Mulvaney world. When this world begins to break apart, we fully grasp the extent of the tragedy -- and the unsettling fragility of a life that seems at first as solidly anchored as the Mulvaneys' old farm house. Oates -- as obsessive as the Mulvaneys themselves -- follows each thread of the story to its conclusion -- a conclusion that hints at a kind of reconciliation and something close to closure. This is a novel that comes close, very close, to being as rich and as maddeningly jumbled as life itself. | Plume |
| 9780316076203 | What The Dog Saw: And Other Adventures | Gladwell, Malcolm | what Is The Difference Between Choking And Panicking? Why Are There Dozens Of Varieties Of Mustard-but Only One Variety Of Ketchup? What Do Football Players Teach Us About How To Hire Teachers? What Does Hair Dye Tell Us About The History Of The 20th Century?in The Past Decade, Malcolm Gladwell Has Written Three Books That Have Radically Changed How We Understand Our World And Ourselves: The Tipping Point; blink; And outliers. Now, In what The Dog Saw, He Brings Together, For The First Time, The Best Of His Writing From thenew Yorker Over The Same Period.here Is The Bittersweet Tale Of The Inventor Of The Birth Control Pill, And The Dazzling Inventions Of The Pasta Sauce Pioneer Howard Moscowitz. Gladwell Sits With Ron Popeil, The King Of The American Kitchen, As He Sells Rotisserie Ovens, And Divines The Secrets Of Cesar Millan, The Dog Whisperer Who Can Calm Savage Animals With The Touch Of His Hand. He Explores Intelligence Tests And Ethnic Profiling And Hindsight Bias And Why It Was That Everyone In Silicon Valley Once Tripped Over Themselves To Hire The Same College Graduate.good Writing, Gladwell Says In His Preface, Does Not Succeed Or Fail On The Strength Of Its Ability To Persuade. It Succeeds Or Fails On The Strength Of Its Ability To Engage You, To Make You Think, To Give You A Glimpse Into Someone Else's Head.what The Dog Saw is Yet Another Example Of The Buoyant Spirit And Unflagging Curiosity That Have Made Malcolm Gladwell Our Most Brilliant Investigator Of The Hidden Extraordinary. the New York Times - Janet Maslin this Book Full Of Short Conversation Pieces Is A Collection That Plays To The Author's Strengths. It Underscores His Way Of Finding Suitably Quirky Subjects (the History Of Women's Hair-dye Advertisements; The Secret Of Heinz's Unbeatable Ketchup; Even The Effects Of Women's Changing Career Patterns On The Number Of Menstrual Periods They Experience In Their Lifetimes) And Using Each As Gateway To Some Larger Meaning. It Illustrates How Often He Sets Up One Premise (i.e. That Crime Profiling Helps Track Down Serial Killers) Only To Destroy It. | Back Bay Books |
| 9781476740041 | Whistling Past The Graveyard | Crandall, Susan | Gallery Books | |
| 9780385486804 | Wild A Journey From Lost To Found, Into The Wild, Into Thin Air 3 Books Collection Set | Cheryl Strayed, Jon Krakauer | in April 1992 A Young Man From A Well-to-do Family Hitchhiked To Alaska And Walked Alone Into The Wilderness North Of Mt. Mckinley. His Name Was Christopher Johnson Mccandless. He Had Given $25,000 In Savings To Charity, Abandoned His Car And Most Of His Possessions, Burned All The Cash In His Wallet, And Invented A New Life For Himself. Four Months Later, His Decomposed Body Was Found By A Moose Hunter. how Mccandless Came To Die Is The Unforgettable Story Of into The Wild.immediately After Graduating From College In 1991, Mccandless Had Roamed Through The West And Southwest On A Vision Quest Like Those Made By His Heroes Jack London And John Muir. in The Mojave Desert He Abandoned His Car, Stripped It Of Its License Plates, And Burned All Of His cash. he Would Give Himself A New Name, Alexander Supertramp, And , Unencumbered By Money And Belongings, He Would Be Free To Wallow In The Raw, Unfiltered Experiences That Nature Presented. craving A Blank Spot On The Map, Mccandless Simply Threw The Maps Away. leaving Behind His Desperate Parents And Sister, He Vanished Into The Wild.jon Krakauer Constructs A Clarifying Prism Through Which He Reassembles The Disquieting Facts Of Mccandless's Short Life. admitting An Interst That Borders On Obsession, He Searches For The Clues To The Dries And Desires That Propelled Mccandless. digging Deeply, He Takes An Inherently Compelling Mystery And Unravels The Larger Riddles It Holds: The Profound Pull Of The American Wilderness On Our Imagination; The Allure Of High-risk Activities To Young Men Of A Certain Cast Of Mind; The Complex, Charged Bond Between Fathers And Sons.when Mccandless's Innocent Mistakes Turn Out To Be Irreversible And Fatal, He Becomes The Stuff Of Tabloid Headlines And Is Dismissed For His Naiveté, Pretensions, And Hubris. he Is Said to Have Had A Death Wish But Wanting To Die Is A Very Different Thing From Being Compelled To Look Over The Edge. Krakauer Brings Mccandless's Uncompromising Pilgrimage Out Of The Shadows, And The Peril, Adversity , And Renunciation Sought By This Enigmatic Young Man Are Illuminated With A Rare Understanding—and Not An Ounce Of Sentimentality. Mesmerizing, Heartbreaking, into The Wild Is A tour De Force. The Power And Luminosity Of Jon Krakauer's Stoytelling Blaze Through Every Page. | Atlantic Books/Pan |
| 9780316066419 | Winter's Bone | Woodrell, Daniel | Reaching Her Sixteenth Year In The Harsh Ozarks While Caring For Her Poverty-stricken Family, Ree Dolly Learns That They Will Lose Their House Unless Her Bail-skipping Father Can Be Found And Made To Appear At An Upcoming Court Date. Daniel Woodrell. Reader's Pick Guide Inside--cover. | Back Bay Books |