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| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9780394747231 | Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History | Spiegelman, Art | Memoir About Vladek Spiegelman, A Jewish Survivor Of Hitler's Europe, And About His Son, A Cartoonist Who Tries To Come To Terms With His Father, His Story, And With History Itself. The Second Volume Follows The Family's Move From Auschwitz To The Catskills. 1 : The Sheik -- 2 : The Honeymoon -- 3 : Prisoner Of War -- 4 : The Noose Tightens -- 5 : Mouse Holes -- 6 : Mouse Trap. Art Spiegelman. Previously Published As: Maus. Winner Of The 1992 Pulitzer Prize. | Pantheon |
| 9780316002905 | Max: A Maximum Ride Novel | James Patterson | Buckle up! Max and her flock take on their most daring rescue mission yet in James Patterson's #1 bestselling Maximum Ride series.Someone—or something—is decimating ships and sea life off Hawaii's coast, and Max and her flock find themselves sucked into the Navy's top-secret investigation of the catastrophe. Their objective: rescue Max's activist mom from a wicked subterranean enemy. The hitch: They must dive deep into dark waters, where gruesome evil dwells . . . and for high-flying Maximum Ride, could there be anything more terrifying than being trapped in the great abyss?With sky-high thrills, this soaring adventure takes Maximum Ride and the Flock into terrifying new territory—fans, hold your breath! | jimmy patterson |
| 9780439023511 | Mockingjay | Suzanne Collins | Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what's worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss's family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. Powerful and haunting, this thrilling final installment of Suzanne Collins's groundbreaking The Hunger Games trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year. | Scholastic Press |
| 9780486284996 | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass | The impassioned abolitionist and eloquent orator provides graphic descriptions of his childhood and horrifying experiences as a slave as well as a harrowing record of his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom. Published in 1845 to quell doubts about his origins, the Narrative is admired today for its extraordinary passion, sensitive descriptions, and storytelling power. | Courier Corporation |
| 9780316024969 | New Moon (The Twilight Saga) | Meyer, Stephenie | the #1 new York Times Bestseller Is Available For The First Time In A Mass Market Paperback Edition, Featuring A Striking Movie Tie-in Cover.in new Moon, Stephenie Meyer Delivers Another Irresistible Combination Of Romance And Suspense With A Supernatural Twist. The Star-crossed Lovers Theme Continues As Bella And Edward Find Themselves Facing New Obstacles, Including A Devastating Separation, The Mysterious Appearance Of Dangerous Wolves Roaming The Forest In Forks, A Terrifying Threat Of Revenge From A Female Vampire And A Deliciously Sinister Encounter With Italy's Reigning Royal Family Of Vampires, The Volturi. Passionate, Riveting, And Full Of Surprising Twists And Turns, This Vampire Love Saga Captures The Struggle Between Defying Our Instincts And Satisfying Our Desires. This Is A Love Story With Bite.publishers Weeklynot Since Tv's Buffy The Vampire Slayer Summers Battled Demons In The Halls Of Sunnydale High Has A Teenager Faced The Number Of Monsters That Bella Swan Does In Meyer's Melodramatic Sequel To Twilight. Bella's Vampire Boyfriend Edward And His Unusual Clan Are Joined By An Ancient Pack Of Werewolves-also With Connections To Bella-in A Story That's Got Romance, Adventure, Thrills And Even A Quick Detour To Italy. Thanks To Kadushin's (who Also Read Twilight) Consistently Smooth Delivery And Her Plausibility As A Teen Navigating Heartbreak, Hormones And Confusion, Listeners Are Likely To Hang On For The Many Fever-pitch Moments Of Suspense Here, Even If The Lengthy Tale Could Have Used Some Pruning. Ages 12-up. (oct.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information. | Little, Brown |
| 9780374500016 | Night | Wiesel, Elie | A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel night Is Elie Wiesel’s Masterpiece, A Candid, Horrific, And Deeply Poignant Autobiographical Account Of His Survival As A Teenager In The Nazi Death Camps. This New Translation By Marion Wiesel, Elie’s Wife And Frequent Translator, Presents This Seminal Memoir In The Language And Spirit Truest To The Author’s Original Intent. And In A Substantive New Preface, Elie Reflects On The Enduring Importance Of Night And His Lifelong, Passionate Dedication To Ensuring That The World Never Forgets Man’s Capacity For Inhumanity To Man.night Offers Much More Than A Litany Of The Daily Terrors, Everyday Perversions, And Rampant Sadism At Auschwitz And Buchenwald; It Also Eloquently Addresses Many Of The Philosophical As Well As Personal Questions Implicit In Any Serious Consideration Of What The Holocaust Was, What It Meant, And What Its Legacy Is And Will Be.author Bio: Elie Wiesel Is The Internationally Celebrated Author, Nobel Laureate, And Spokesperson For Humanity Whose Decision To Dedicate His Life To Bearing Witness For The Holocaust's Martyrs And Survivors Found Its Earliest And Most Enduring Voice In Night, His Penetrating And Profound Account Of The Nazi Death Camps. Born In The Town Of Sighet, Transylvania, He Was A Teenager When He And His Family Were Taken From Their Home In 1944 To The Auschwitz Concentration Camp, And Then To Buchenwald. Night Is The Terrifying Record Of Elie Wiesel's Memories Of The Death Of His Family, The Death Of His Own Innocence, And His Despair As A Deeply Observant Jew Confronting The Absolute Evil Of Man.elie Wiesel Is The Author Of More Than Forty Internationally Acclaimed Works Of Fiction And Nonfiction. He Has Been Awarded The Presidential Medal Of Freedom, The United States Of America Congressional Gold Medal, The French Legion Of Honor, And, In 1986, The Nobel Peace Prize. He Is The Andrew W. Mellon Professor In The Humanities And University Professor At Boston University. an Autobiographical Narrative In Which The Author Describes His Experiences In Nazi Concentration Camps, Watching Family And Friends Die, And How They Led Him To Believe That God Is Dead. | Paw Prints 2008-04-25 |
| 9780140177398 | Of Mice And Men (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Penguin Great Books Of The 20Th Century) | John Steinbeck | today, Nearly Forty Years After His Death, Nobel Prize Winner John Steinbeck Remains One Of America's Greatest Writers And Cultural Figures. Over The Next Year, His Many Works Published As Black-spine Penguin Classics For The First Time And Will Feature Eye-catching, Newly Commissioned Art. Penguin Classics Is Proud To Present These Seminal Works To A New Generation Of Readers—and To The Many Who Revisit Them Again And Again. | Turtleback Books |
| 9780061950728 | Orphan Train | Christina Baker Kline | between 1854 And 1929, So-called Orphan Trains Ran Regularly From The Cities Of The East Coast To The Farmlands Of The Midwest, Carrying Thousands Of Abandoned Children Whose Fates Would Be Determined By Pure Luck. Would They Be Adopted By A Kind And Loving Family, Or Would They Face A Childhood And Adoles-cence Of Hard Labor And Servitude?as A Young Irish Immigrant, Vivian Daly Was One Such Child, Sent By Rail From New York City To An Uncertain Future A World Away. Returning East Later In Life, Vivian Leads A Quiet, Peaceful Existence On The Coast Of Maine, The Memories Of Her Upbringing Rendered A Hazy Blur. But In Her Attic, Hidden In Trunks, Are Vestiges Of A Turbulent Past.seventeen-year-old Molly Ayer Knows That A Community-service Position Helping An Elderly Widow Clean Out Her Attic Is The Only Thing Keeping Her Out Of Juvenile Hall. But As Molly Helps Vivian Sort Through Her Keepsakes And Possessions, She Discovers That She And Vivian Aren't As Different As They Appear. A Penobscot Indian Who Has Spent Her Youth In And Out Of Foster Homes, Molly Is Also An Outsider Being Raised By Strangers, And She, Too, Has Unanswered Questions About The Past.moving Between Contemporary Maine And Depression-era Minnesota, orphan Train Is A Powerful Tale Of Upheaval And Resilience, Second Chances, And Unexpected Friendship. | William Morrow |
| 9780590371254 | Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse | In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. | |
| 9780142414934 | Paper Towns | John Green | From the #1 bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our StarsWinner of the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery#1 New York Times BestsellerUSA Today BestsellerPublishers Weekly BestsellerNow a major motion pictureWhen Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night—dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows her. Margo’s always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she’s always planned solo. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q . . . until day breaks and she has vanished. Always an enigma, Margo has now become a mystery. But there are clues. And they’re for Q.Printz Medalist John Green returns with the trademark brilliant wit and heart-stopping emotional honesty that have inspired a new generation of readers. | Penguin Books |
| 9780375714573 | Persepolis: The Story Of A Childhood | Marjane Satrapi | NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.“A wholly original achievement.... Satrapi evokes herself and her schoolmates coming of age in a world of protests and disappearances.... A stark, shocking impact.” —The New York Times: "The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years"In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the coming-of-age story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran’s last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country.Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. Marjane’s child’s-eye view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution allows us to learn as she does the history of this fascinating country and of her own extraordinary family. Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing up and a reminder of the human cost of war and political repression. It shows how we carry on, with laughter and tears, in the face of absurdity. And, finally, it introduces us to an irresistible little girl with whom we cannot help but fall in love. | Pantheon |
| 9781442419803 | Pretties (Uglies) | Westerfeld, Scott | In Tally's world, your 16th birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellant Ugly into a stunningly attractive Pretty, and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is having a really good time. Just before her birthday, Tally discovered that turning Pretty comes with a terrible price. She vowed to accept the operation, but with the understanding that her friends on the outside would rescue her, and let her be the guinea pig for the experimental and highly dangerous cure they're developing. But in the second book of the Uglies series, Tally's Pretty. And everything's changed. The new, Pretty Tally is totally happy right where she is. She doesn't think she needs any kind of cure at all. When someone from her Ugly life shows up with a message, Tally has a hard time listening. Did she really promise to give all this up? Is she bound by a promise she made when she was a different person? If there is anything left of the old Tally, how will she fight her way out to keep her word and help her friends? | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
| 9780134354583 | PRIDE & PREJUDICE (HC) C2000 | Savvas Learning Co | The Savvas Learning Company Library Collection offers you over 1200 fiction, nonfiction, classic, adapted classic, illustrated classic, short stories, biographies, special anthologies, atlases, visual dictionaries, history trade, animal, sports titles and more! | Savvas Learning Co |
| 9780545459013 | Prisoner B-3087 | Alan Gratz, Ruth Gruener, Jack Gruener | From Alan Gratz, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Refugee, comes this wrenching novel about one boy's struggle to survive ten concentration camps during the Holocaust. Based on the inspiring true life story of Jack Gruener.10 concentration camps. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face. As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis who have taken over. Everything he has, and everyone he loves, have been snatched brutally from him. And then Yanek himself is taken prisoner -- his arm tattooed with the words PRISONER B-3087. He is forced from one nightmarish concentration camp to another, as World War II rages all around him. He encounters evil he could have never imagined, but also sees surprising glimpses of hope amid the horror. He just barely escapes death, only to confront it again seconds later. Can Yanek make it through the terror without losing his hope, his will -- and, most of all, his sense of who he really is inside? Based on an astonishing true story. | Scholastic Press |
| 9781616202415 | Purple Hibiscus: A Novel | Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi | In the city of Enugu, Nigeria, fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother, Jaja, lead a privileged life. Their Papa is a wealthy and respected businessman; they live in a beautiful house; and they attend an exclusive missionary school. But, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, their home life is anything but harmonious. Her father, a fanatically religious man, has impossible expectations of his children and wife, and severely punishes them if they're less than perfect. Home is silent and suffocating. When Kambili's loving and outspoken Aunty Ifeoma persuades her brother that the children should visit her in Nsukka, Kambili and Jaja take their first trip away from home. Once inside their Aunty Ifeoma's flat, they discover a whole new world. Books cram the shelves, curry and nutmeg permeate the air, and their cousins' laughter rings throughout the house. Jaja learns to garden and work with his hands, and Kambili secretly falls in love with a young charismatic priest. When a military coup threatens to destroy the country and Kambili and Jaja return home changed by their newfound freedom, tension within the family escalates. And Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together after her mother commits a desperate act. | Algonquin Books |
| 9780545675673 | Reached | Ally Condie | Dutton | |
| 9780525423669 | Reached | Ally Condie | Cassia’s journey began with an error, a momentary glitch in the otherwise perfect façade of the Society. After crossing canyons to break free, she waits, silk and paper smuggled against her skin, ready for the final chapter.The wait is over.One young woman has raged against those who threaten to keep away what matters most—family, love, choice. Her quiet revolution is about to explode into full-scale rebellion.With exquisite prose, the emotionally gripping conclusion to the international–bestselling Matched trilogy returns Cassia, Ky, and Xander to the Society to save the one thing they have been denied for so long, the power to choose. | Dutton Books for Young Readers |
| 9780140384512 | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Mildred D. Taylor | The stunning repackage of a timeless Newbery Award Winner, with cover art by two-time Caldecott Honor Award winner Kadir Nelson! With the land to hold them together, nothing can tear the Logans apart. Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year—the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she is black—to show Cassie that having a place of their own is the Logan family's lifeblood. It is the land that gives the Logans their courage and pride, for no matter how others may degrade them, the Logans possess soemthing no one can take away. "[Taylor] writes not with rancor or bitterness of indignities, but with pride, strength, and respect for humanity."—The New York Times Book Review "The vivid story of a black family whose warm ties to each other and their land give them strength to defy rural Southern racism during the Depression . . . Entirely through its own internal development, the novel shows the rich inner rewards of black pride, love, and independence despite the certainty of outer defeat."—Booklist, starred review * Newbery Medal winner * A National Book Award Nominee * American Book Award Honor Book * An ALA Notable Book * A NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies * A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book | Puffin Books |
| 9780689841538 | Room 13 | Henry Garfield | COULD THE NEW TEACHER'S CLASSROOM BE HAUNTED? English teacher Marilou McCormick has moved to tiny Julian, California, to put a recent tragedy behind her. But it's hard to start life afresh when you're assigned to Room 13 at Drew Bailey Memorial High School. There's something decidedly creepy about the former domain of eccentric Scott "Scurvy" Lurvey, who took his life in the room eight years before. Like posters of authors that refuse to be torn down, students who seem possessed by fictional characters, and a heater with a mind of its own. Marilou's only ally, Cyrus "Moondog" Nygerski -- ex-minor-league baseball player, sometime writer, and occasional school bus driver -- suspects a supernatural force behind the sinister goings-on. And Moondog ought to know -- after all, he happens to be a werewolf. But can Moondog prevail over a malevolent spirit that will stop at nothing to get its way? | Simon Pulse |
| 9780802132758 | Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard | A new, beautiful updated edition of Tom Stoppard’s best-loved play and one of Grove Atlantic’s bestselling backlist titles, published with a new introduction by Tom Stoppard to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its debutRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is one of the most enduring and frequently performed plays of contemporary theater and has firmly established itself in the dramatic canon. Acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, it is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion intermix, and where fate leads our two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end. Revised and reissued to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the play’s first performance, this definitive edition includes a new introduction and previously unpublished ancillary material. | Grove Press |