Robert Ransdell's Library
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| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9780743418713 | Salem Falls | Jodi Picoult | From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult comes a compelling and “multilayered tale of small-town intrigue” (Glamour) about a prep schoolteacher accused of rape by a group of young girls, the woman who stands by him, and the repercussions of the case in a New England town where the past is only a heartbeat away.Love can redeem a man...but secrets and lies can condemn him.A handsome stranger comes to the sleepy New England town of Salem Falls in hopes of burying his past. Once a teacher at a girls prep school, Jack St. Bride was destroyed when a student’s crush sparked a powder keg of accusation. Now, washing dishes for Addie Peabody at the Do-Or-Diner, he slips quietly into his new routine, and Addie finds this unassuming man fitting easily inside her heart.But amid the rustic calm of Salem Falls, a quartet of teenage girls harbor dark secrets—and they maliciously target Jack with a shattering allegation. Now, at the center of a modern-day witch hunt, Jack is forced once again to proclaim his innocence: to a town searching for answers, to a justice system where truth becomes a slippery concept written in shades of gray, and to the woman who has come to love him in this unputdownable novel that will keep you “constantly guessing” (The Dallas Morning News) until the very last page. | Washington Square Press |
| 9780449005613 | Seabiscuit: An American Legend | Laura Hillenbrand | #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the runaway phenomenon Unbroken comes a universal underdog story about the horse who came out of nowhere to become a legend.Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success was a surprise to the racing establishment, which had written off the crooked-legged racehorse with the sad tail. Three men changed Seabiscuit’s fortunes:Charles Howard was a onetime bicycle repairman who introduced the automobile to the western United States and became an overnight millionaire. When he needed a trainer for his new racehorses, he hired Tom Smith, a mysterious mustang breaker from the Colorado plains. Smith urged Howard to buy Seabiscuit for a bargain-basement price, then hired as his jockey Red Pollard, a failed boxer who was blind in one eye, half-crippled, and prone to quoting passages from Ralph Waldo Emerson. Over four years, these unlikely partners survived a phenomenal run of bad fortune, conspiracy, and severe injury to transform Seabiscuit from a neurotic, pathologically indolent also-ran into an American sports icon.Praise for Seabiscuit“Fascinating . . . Vivid . . . A first-rate piece of storytelling, leaving us not only with a vivid portrait of a horse but a fascinating slice of American history as well.”—The New York Times“Engrossing . . . Fast-moving . . . More than just a horse’s tale, because the humans who owned, trained, and rode Seabiscuit are equally fascinating. . . . [Laura Hillenbrand] shows an extraordinary talent for describing a horse race so vividly that the reader feels like the rider.”—Sports Illustrated“REMARKABLE . . . MEMORABLE . . . JUST AS COMPELLING TODAY AS IT WAS IN 1938.”—The Washington Post | Ballantine Books |
| 9780545123266 | Shiver | Maggie Stiefvater | From a dazzlingly talented young writer, a haunting and original supernatural romance in the vein of TWILIGHT.For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf--her wolf--is a chilling presence she can't seem to live without. Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human . . . until the cold makes him shift back again. Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. It's her wolf. It has to be. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human--or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever. | Scholastic Press |
| 9780385730587 | Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants (Book 1) | Ann Brashares | The first novel in the wildly popular #1 New York Times bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, from the author of The Whole Thing Together and The Here and Now.Some friends just fit together.Once there was a pair of pants. Just an ordinary pair of jeans. But these pants, the Traveling Pants, went on to do great things. This is the story of the four friends—Lena, Tibby, Bridget, and Carmen—who made it possible.Pants = love. Love your pals. Love yourself."Funny, perceptive, and moving." --USA Today“An outstanding and vivid book that will stay with readers for a long time.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred, Flying Start“The loving depiction of enduring and solid friendship will ring true to readers.” —The Bulletin, Recommended“A feel-good novel of substance.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred“Uplifting.” —Seventeen | Ember |
| 9780393324822 | Stiff: The Curious Lives Of Human Cadavers | Mary Roach | "One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."―Entertainment Weekly Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers―some willingly, some unwittingly―have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. In this fascinating account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries and tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them. | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 9780375725609 | Stories Through The Ages Baby Boomers Plus 2017 | Peavler, Henry E., Peavler, Dan, Concannon, Tony, Greasley, Nadia, Jorgensen, Dan, Lebduska, Lisa, Lowell, Susan, Marcos, Ernesto, Mattaboni, Suzanne Grieco, McPherson, Richard | two Men, Each Handsome And Unusually Adept At His Chosen Work, Embodied An Element Of The Great Dynamic That Characterized America’s Rush Toward The Twentieth Century. The Architect Was Daniel Hudson Burnham, The Fair’s Brilliant Director Of Works And The Builder Of Many Of The Country’s Most Important Structures, Including The Flatiron Building In New York And Union Station In Washington, D.c. The Murderer Was Henry H. Holmes, A Young Doctor Who, In A Malign Parody Of The White City, Built His “world’s Fair Hotel” Just West Of The Fairgrounds—a Torture Palace Complete With Dissection Table, Gas Chamber, And 3,000-degree Crematorium. Burnham Overcame Tremendous Obstacles And Tragedies As He Organized The Talents Of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles Mckim, Louis Sullivan, And Others To Transform Swampy Jackson Park Into The White City, While Holmes Used The Attraction Of The Great Fair And His Own Satanic Charms To Lure Scores Of Young Women To Their Deaths. What Makes The Story All The More Chilling Is That Holmes Really Lived, Walking The Grounds Of That Dream City By The Lake.the devil In The White City draws The Reader Into A Time Of Magic And Majesty, Made All The More Appealing By A Supporting Cast Of Real-life Characters, Including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, And Others. In This Book The Smoke, Romance, And Mystery Of The Gilded Age Come Alive As Never Before.erik Larson’s Gifts As A Storyteller Are Magnificently Displayed In This Rich Narrative Of The Master Builder, The Killer, And The Great Fair That Obsessed Them Both.to Find Outmore About This Book, Go To Http://www.devilinthewhitecity.com.from The Hardcover Edition.publishers Weeklythis Is A Steady Performance Of A Book That, While Gripping In Its Content And Crisply Paced, Isn't Quite A Gold Mine For An Audio Performer. It Relies On Journalistic Narration And Includes Almost No Quotes, So There Isn't Much Chance For Interesting Characterization. But It Is Excellent Nonfiction, Chronicling The Hurly-burly Planning And Construction Of The 1893 Chicago World's Fair (which Did, As The Title Suggests, Include Building What Amounted To An Entire City) And A Cruelly Calculating Sociopath Who Used The Event's Tumult And Crowds To Serve His Homicidal Compulsion. Goldwyn Is An Experienced Narrator With A Keen Dramatic Sense, And His Resonant Voice Is Well-suited To The Project. Music Is Used Only Sparingly, But The Few Subdued, Creepy Bars Goldwyn Reads Over In The Beginning Do An Excellent Job Of Creating Atmosphere For A Tale That Is Subtle But Often Genuinely Unsettling. Listeners Will Also Be Fascinated By Descriptions Of The Sheer Logistics Of The Fair Itself, Which Serve As Not Only Carefully Crafted And Informative History, But Also As Welcome Breaks From The Macabre And Relentless Contrivances Of The Killer. In All, It's A Polished Presentation Of An Intriguing Book That Outlines The Heights Of Human Imagination And Perseverance Against The Depths Of Our Depravity. Simultaneous Release With The Crown Hardcover (forecasts, Dec. 16, 2002). (feb.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. | Living Springs Publishers |
| 9780439189323 | Summer of My German Soldier | Bette Greene | Scholastic | |
| 9780439286039 | Tangerine | Edward Bloor | Nearly blind, twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, moves to Tangerine, Florida with his family and enters a place where being different is accepted, and soon Paul starts to remember the events that damaged his eyesight. Reprint. | Scholastic Signature |
| 9780316013697 | The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner) | Sherman Alexie | A New York Times bestseller—over one million copies sold!A National Book Award winnerA Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winnerBestselling and award winning author Sherman Alexie tells the hearbreaking yet funny story about a boy living on the Spokane Indian Reservation who wants to break free of the life he was destined to live.Junior is a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, based on the author's own experiences and coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live. | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| 9781403710062 | The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer (The Great Classics For Children) | Mark Twain, W. T. Robinson (adapter) | 2009 Dalmation Press hardcover, 15th printing. Mark Twain (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn). The classic story of one of Mark Twain's most rascally and beloved characters. | Dalmation Press |
| 9780316067959 | The Angel Experiment: A Maximum Ride Novel (Book 1) | Patterson, James | in James Patterson's Blockbuster Series, Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, Better Known As Max, Knows What It's Like To Soar Above The World. She And All The Members Of The Flock—fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman And Angel—are Just Like Ordinary Kids—only They Have Wings And Can Fly. It May Seem Like A Dream Come True To Some, But Their Lives Can Morph Into A Living Nightmare At Any Time...like When Angel, The Youngest Member Of The Flock, Is Kidnapped And Taken Back To The School Where She And The Others Were Experimented On By A Crew Of Wack Jobs. Her Friends Brave A Journey To Blazing Hot Death Valley, Ca, To Save Angel, But Soon Enough, They Find Themselves In Yet Another Nightmare—this One Involving Fighting Off The Half-human, Half-wolf Erasers In New York City. Whether In The Treetops Of Central Park Or In The Bowels Of The Manhattan Subway System, Max And Her Adopted Family Take The Ride Of Their Lives. Along The Way Max Discovers From Her Old Friend And Father-figure Jeb—now Her Betrayed And Greatest Enemy—that Her Purpose Is Save The World—but Can She?publishers Weeklythe Angel Experiment James Patterson. Warner, $6.99 Isbn 0-446-61779-2. Thriller Writer Patterson Takes Characters That First Appeared In His Adult Novels When The Wind Blows And Its Sequel, The Lake House, And Places Them In A Story Pitched At Young Adults. Ages 12-up. (may) N Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information. | jimmy patterson |
| 9780375842207 | The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | DON'T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK'S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF. The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist-books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. "The kind of book that can be life-changing." --The New York Times "Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank." --USA Today | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
| 9780449213445 | The Chosen: A Novel | Potok, Chaim | "Anyone who finds it is finding a jewel. Its themes are profound and universal." THE WALL STREET JOURNAL It is the now-classic story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world that neither had ever considered before. In effect, they exchange places, and find the peace that neither will ever retreat from again.... This is the odyssey from boyhood to manhood for two Jewish boys amidst the conflict between generations and religious traditions. | Fawcett |
| 9780375822742 | The City of Ember | Jeanne DuPrau | In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions. | Random House Books for Young Readers |
| 9780446697828 | The Girl Who Stopped Swimming | Joshilyn Jackson | Laurel Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty, whether she's helping her mother make sure the literal family skeleton stays in the closet or turning scraps of fabric into nationally acclaimed art quilts. Her estranged sister Thalia, an impoverished Actress with a capital A, is her polar opposite, priding herself on exposing the lurid truth lurking behind middle class niceties. While Laurel's life seems neatly on track--a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in suburban Victorianna--everything she holds dear is suddenly thrown into question the night she is visited by the ghost of a her 13-year old neighbor Molly Dufresne.The ghost leads Laurel to the real Molly floating lifelessly in the Hawthorne's backyard pool. Molly's death is inexplicable--an unseemly mystery Laurel knows no one in her whitewashed neighborhood is up to solving. Only her wayward, unpredictable sister is right for the task, but calling in a favor from Thalia is like walking straight into a frying pan protected only by Crisco. Enlisting Thalia's help, Laurel sets out on a life-altering journey that triggers startling revelations about her family's guarded past, the true state of her marriage, and the girl who stopped swimming.Richer and more rewarding than any story Joshilyn Jackson has yet written, yet still packed with Jackson's trademarked outrageous characters, sparkling dialogue, and defiantly twisting plotting, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming is destined both to delight Jackson's loyal fans and capture a whole new audience. | Grand Central Publishing |
| 9780440219071 | The Giver | Lois Lowry | Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns 12 he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now, it is time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back. | Laurel Leaf |
| 9780440237686 | The Giver | Lois Lowry | In a future society, young Jonas is given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. | Laurel Leaf |
| 9780140042399 | The Grapes Of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 1983 The Grapes of Wrath (H) by John Steinbeck ***ISBN-13: 9780140042399 ***Pages: 581 | Penguin Books |
| 9780743273565 | The Great Gatsby | Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The mysterious Jay Gatsby embodies the American notion that it is possible to redefine oneself and persuade the world to accept that definition. Gatsby's youthful neighbor, Nick Carraway, fascinated with the display of enormous wealth in which Gatsby revels, finds himself swept up in the lavish lifestyle of Long Island society during the Jazz Age. Considered Fitzgerald's best work, The Great Gatsby is a mystical, timeless story of integrity and cruelty, vision and despair. The timeless story of Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan is widely acknowledged to be the closest thing to the Great American Novel ever written. | Scribner |
| 9780679734772 | The House On Mango Street (Thorndike Press Large Print The Literacy Bridge) | Cisneros, Sandra | The Story Of A Young Girl Growing Up In The Hispanic Quarter Of Chicago. Capturing Her Thoughts And Emotions In Poems And Stories, She Is Able To Rise Above Hopelessness And Create A Quiet Space For Herself In The Midst Of Her Oppressive Surroundings. The House On Mango Street -- Hairs -- Boys & Girls -- My Name -- Cathy Queen Of Cats -- Our Good Day -- Laughter -- Gil's Furniture Bought & Sold -- Meme Ortiz -- Louie, His Cousin & His Other Cousin -- Marin -- Those Who Don't -- There Was An Old Woman She Had So Many Children She Didn't Know What To Do -- Alicia Who Sees Mice -- Darius & The Clouds -- And Some More -- The Family Of Little Feet -- A Rice Sandwich -- Chanclas -- Hips -- The First Job -- Papa Who Wakes Up Tired In The Dark -- Born Bad -- Elenita, Cards, Palm, Water -- Geraldo No Last Name -- Edna's Ruthie -- The Earl Of Tennessee -- Sire -- Four Skinny Trees -- No Speak English -- Rafaela Who Drinks Coconut & Papaya Juice On Tuesdays -- Sally -- Minerva Writes Poems -- Bums In The Attic -- Beautiful & Cruel -- A Smart Cookie -- What Sally Said -- The Monkey Garden -- Red Clowns -- Linoleum Roses -- The Three Sisters -- Alicia & I Talking On Edna's Steps -- A House Of My Own -- Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes. Sandra Cisneros. Originally Published By Arte Público Press In 1984--t.p. Verso. | Thorndike Press Large Print |