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| 9780062024060 | [006202406X] [9780062024060] Allegiant-Hardcover | The Faction-based Society That Tris Prior Once Believed In Is Shattered -- Fractured By Violence And Power Struggles And Scarred By Loss And Betrayal. So When Offered A Chance To Explore The World Past The Limits She's Known, Tris Is Ready. Perhaps Beyond The Fence, She And Tobias Will Find A Simple New Life Together, Free From Complicated Lies, Tangled Loyalties, And Painful Memories. But Tris's New Reality Is Even More Alarming Than The One She Left Behind. Old Discoveries Are Quickly Rendered Meaningless. Explosive New Truths Change The Hearts Of Those She Loves. And Once Again, Tris Must Battle To Comprehend The Complexities Of Human Nature -- And Of Herself -- While Facing Impossible Choices About Courage, Allegiance, Sacrifice And Love. Veronica Roth. Sequel To: Insurgent. | Katherine Tegen Books | |
| 9780451524935 | 1984 | George Orwell | view Our Feature On George Orwell’s 1984.written In 1948, 1984 Was George Orwell’s Chilling Prophecy About The Future. And While 1984 Has Come And Gone, Orwell’s Narrative Is Timelier Than Ever. 1984 Presents A Startling And Haunting Vision Of The World, So Powerful That It Is Completely Convincing From Start To Finish. No One Can Deny The Power Of This Novel, Its Hold On The Imaginations Of Multiple Generations Of Readers, Or The Resiliency Of Its Admonitions—a Legacy That Seems Only To Grow With The Passage Of Time. examines Different Aspects Of Orwell's Anti-utopian Classic, With A Biographical Sketch Of The Author And Critical Essays On This Work. | Signet Classic |
| 9780743253970 | A Separate Peace | John Knowles | Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II. Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world. | Scribner |
| 9780061120077 | A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions) | Smith, Betty | a Moving Coming-of-age Story Set In The 1900's, a Tree Grows In Brooklyn Follows The Lives Of 11-year-old Francie Nolan, Her Younger Brother Neely, And Their Parents, Irish Immigrants Who Have Settled In The Williamsburg Section Of Brooklyn. Johnny Nolan Is As Loving And Fanciful As They Come, But He Is Also Often Drunk And Out Of Work, Unable To Find His Place In The Land Of Opportunity. His Wife Katie Scrubs Floors To Put Food On The Table And Clothes On Her Childrens' Backs, Instilling In Them The Values Of Being Practical And Planning Ahead.when Johnny Dies, Leaving Katie Pregnant, Francie, Smart, Pensive And Hoping For Something Better, Cannot Believe That Life Can Carry On As Before. But With Her Own Determination, And That Of Her Mother Behind Her, Francie Is Able To Move Toward The Future Of Her Dreams, Completing Her Education And Heading Oft To College, Always Carrying The Beloved Brooklyn Of Her Childhood In Her Heart.new York Timesa Profoundly Moving Novel, And An Honest And True One. It Cuts Right To The Heart Of Life...if You Miss a Tree Grows In Brooklyn You Will Deny Yourself A Rich Experience...it Is A Poignant And Deeply Understanding Story Of Childhood And Family Relationships. The Nolans Lived In The Williamsburg Slums Of Brooklyn From 1902 Until 1919...their Daughter Francie And Their Son Neely Knew More Than Their Fair Share Of The Privations And Sufferings That Are The Lot Of A Great City's Poor. Primarily This Is Francie's Book. She Is A Superb Feat Of Characterization, An Imaginative, Alert, Resourceful Child. And Francie's Growing Up And Beginnings Of Wisdom Are The Substance Of a Tree Grows In Brooklyn. | Harper Perennial Modern Classics |
| 9781481463348 | All American Boys | Reynolds, Jason, Kiely, Brendan | When Sixteen-year-old Rashad Is Mistakenly Accused Of Stealing, Classmate Quinn Witnesses His Brutal Beating At The Hands Of A Police Officer Who Happens To Be The Older Brother Of His Best Friend. Told Through Rashad And Quinn's Alternating Viewpoints. | Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books |
| 9781501173219 | All The Light We Cannot See: A Novel | Anthony Doerr | *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times). | Scribner |
| 9780689864803 | Among The Betrayed (Shadow Children, Book 3) | Margaret Peterson Haddix | What does it mean to save yourself?Nina Idi -- a third child in a society where families are allowed only two children -- has been betrayed by the boy she loved, and arrested by the Population Police for exposing other alleged third children. Angry and confused, Nina knows only one thing for sure: She is innocent of the charges. But now she is faced with the most difficult choice of her life: Get three other prisoners to admit they are shadow children and be spared herself, or refuse to cooperate and be killed.The options are clear. The choice, Nina discovers, is not.... | Aladdin |
| 9780689857973 | Among The Enemy (6) (Shadow Children) | Margaret Peterson Haddix | HIDE OR FIGHT?Matthias, an illegal third child, is caught in the cross fire between rebels and the Population Police. When he unwittingly saves a Population Police officer, Matthias is brought to Population Police headquarters to train as an officer himself. There he meets Nina, another third-born who enlists his help in a plot to undermine the Population Police. But Matthias is under constant scrutiny, and he has no idea whom he can trust. What can one boy do against a wicked bureaucracy? | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
| 9780142410707 | An Abundance Of Katherines | Green, John | Having Been Recently Dumped For The Nineteenth Time By A Girl Named Katherine, Recent High School Graduate And Former Child Prodigy Colin Sets Off On A Road Trip With His Best Friend To Try To Find Some New Direction In Life While Also Trying To Create A Mathematical Formula To Explain His Relationships. Paperback -when It Comes To Relationships, Colin Singleton's Type Is Girls Named Katherine. And When It Comes To Girls Named Katherine, Colin Is Always Getting Dumped. Nineteen Times, To Be Exact. On A Road Trip Miles From Home, This Anagram-happy, Washedup Child Prodigy Has Ten Thousand Dollars In His Pocket, A Bloodthirsty Feral Hog On His Trail, And An Overweight, Judge Judy -- Loving Best Friend Riding Shotgun -- But No Katherines. Colin Is On A Mission To Prove The Theorem Of Underlying Katherine Predictability, Which He Hopes Will Predict The Future Of Any Relationship, Avenge Dumpees Everywhere, And Finally Win Him The Girl. Love, Friendship, And A Dead Austro-hungarian Archduke Add Up To Surprising And Heart-changing Conclusions In This Ingeniously Layered Comic Novel About Reinventing Oneself. This Title Comes From The New York Times Bestselling Author Of The Fault In Our Stars And Looking For Alaska , John Green. John Has A Huge Online Presence Through His 1.1 Million Twitter Followers And Youtube Channel Vlogbrothers, Which Has Been Viewed Over 200 Million Times And Has 660,000 Subscribers, Making It One Of The Most Successful Online Channels In History. John Green. A Junior Library Guild Selection. Includes A Preview Of Green's Paper Towns. Michael L. Printz Honor For Excellence In Young Adult Literature, 2007. | Penguin Books |
| 9780684874357 | Angela's Ashes (The Frank Mccourt Memoirs) | McCourt, Frank | sometimes It's Worth The Wait. Having Waited 40 Years To Tell His Story, Frank Mccourt Doesn't Pull Any Punches In His Story Of Growing Up Dirt Poor In Limerick, Ireland. Having Emigrated To America, Mccourt's Family Returns To Ireland After His Sister Dies In Brooklyn. It Is There That Things Turn From Bad To Worse.it Is Mccourt's Contention That There Is Nothing Worse Than Irish Catholic Poverty, And His Book Would Seem To Bear It Out: His Family Moves To A Row House In Limerick That Is Located Next To The Street's Lavatory. However, The Book Is Written In A Lyrical Style From The Point Of View Of Frank Mccourt As A Boy, And It Is Still Filled With The Whimsy Of Growing Up And The Natural Humor Of Its Author. While The Book Is Often Angry (at The Church, At His Father, At His Poverty, At His Mother), It Is Also Filled With Forgiveness Without Bitterness.covering The Ages Spanning Three To 19, angela's Ashes Is The Story Of Frank Mccourt's Struggle To Escape From Poverty And A Tale Of Ireland Still Seemingly In The Dark Ages. Barred From The Good Schools Because Of His Class, Teeth Falling Out From Malnutrition, And Facing Life With A Shiftless Alcoholic Father, Mccourt Nevertheless Survives On His Wits And Manages To Return To America To Start His Life Over. Again. It Is A Triumph Of Both The Art Of Memoir Writing And The Author's Spirit. people a Splendid Memoir, Both Funny And Forgiving. | Scribner |
| 9780451526342 | Animal Farm | George Orwell | Signet | |
| 9780451524669 | Animal Farm | Margaret Sidney | 1946 Signet Classic -- Animal Farm (P) by George Orwell / with an Introduction by C. M. Woodhouse ***UPC# 071149003955 ***ISBN-13: 9780451524669 ***Pages: 128 | Companion Library |
| 9780452284241 | Animal Farm | George Orwell | 75th Anniversary Edition—Includes a New Introduction by Téa ObrehtGeorge Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM!“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned—a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.With a foreword by Ann Patchett | Plume |
| 9780441023622 | Another Fine Myth (Myth, Book 1) | Robert Asprin | After the murder of his master Garkin, a thief and apprentice magician joins forces with a demon dimension traveler named Aahz | Ace |
| 9780316042673 | Beautiful Creatures (Beautiful Creatures, 1) | Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl | FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Struggling to conceal her supernatural ability, a curse that has haunted her family for generations, Lena moves to Gatlin County's infamous plantation and inexplicably draws the attention of Ethan, who has been haunted by dreams of an unknown girl. | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| 9780375845598 | Bridge Of Clay (Signed Edition) | Zusak, Markus | Knopf Books for Young Readers |