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| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 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 |
| 9781575423395 | Teen Cyberbullying Investigated: Where Do Your Rights End And Consequences Begin? | Jacobs J.D., Thomas A. | How do teens know when they might be “one click away from the clink”? In Teen Cyberbullying Investigated, Judge Tom Jacobs presents a powerful collection of landmark court cases involving teens and charges of cyberbullying, which includes: sending insulting or threatening emails, text, or instant messages directly to someone; spreading hateful comments about someone through emails, blogs, or chat rooms; stealing passwords and sending out threatening messages using a false identity; and building a Web site to target specific people. Each chapter features the seminal case and resulting decision, asks readers whether they agree with the decision, and urges them to think about how the decision affects their lives. Chapters also include related cases, important facts and statistics, and suggestions for further reading. With an ever-increasing number of serious cases of cyberbullying and school violence, this book is needed more urgently than ever. | Free Spirit Publishing |
| 9780375873058 | The Beet Fields | Paulsen, Gary | For a 16-year-old boy out in the world alone for the first time, every day’s an education in the hard work and boredom of migrant labor; every day teaches him something more about friendship, or hunger, or profanity, or lust—always lust. He learns how a poker game, or hitching a ride, can turn deadly. He discovers the secret sadness and generosity to be found on a lonely farm in the middle of nowhere. Then he joins up with a carnival and becomes a grunt, running a ride and shilling for the geek show. He’s living the hard carny life and beginning to see the world through carny eyes. He’s tough. Cynical. By the end of the summer he’s pretty sure he knows it all. Until he meets Ruby.Publishers WeeklyNo stranger to memoir, Paulsen (My Life in Dog Years; Father Water, Mother Woods) returns to a series of episodes he previously fictionalized in the 1977 Tiltawhirl John and now presents the material as real as I can write it, and as real as I can remember it happening, as he says in an author's note. It is punishingly harsh stuff: 16 years old in 1955, the boy, as he is called throughout, wakes up to find his drunk mother in his bed and realizes that tonight something [is] different, wrong, about her need for him. He runs away and lands a backbreaking job on a beet farm in North Dakota, where his wages are cancelled out by the farmer's charges for the use of his hoe, for the tumbledown lodgings and for the only food available, sandwiches made of week-old bread that cost a dollar apiece. Eventually the boy starts working with a carnival, where he learns carny scams and is initiated into sex by the carnival stripper, Ruby. In a mannered prose style, Paulsen serves up strings of studied, impartial observations in paragraph-long sentences. The technique calls attention to itself, as does the occasional circumlocution (e.g., the seemingly endless sentence describing intercourse with Ruby concludes with sinking into the wetness, the forever-warm wetness of Ruby). Paulsen fans, however, will probably respond to the vote of confidence in their ability to handle such gritty subjects, and no one can fail to appreciate the author's transcendence of the appalling circumstances he describes. Ages 14-up. (Sept.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.| | Delacorte Press |
| 9780545630627 | The Darkest Path | Jeff Hirsch | Scholastic Press | |
| 9780826328090 | The Education Of Little Tree | Forrest Carter | The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression. "Little Tree" as his grandparents call him is shown how to hunt and survive in the mountains, to respect nature in the Cherokee Way, taking only what is needed, leaving the rest for nature to run its course. Little Tree also learns the often callous ways of white businessmen and tax collectors, and how Granpa, in hilarious vignettes, scares them away from his illegal attempts to enter the cash economy. Granma teaches Little Tree the joys of reading and education. But when Little Tree is taken away by whites for schooling, we learn of the cruelty meted out to Indian children in an attempt to assimilate them and of Little Tree's perception of the Anglo world and how it differs from the Cherokee Way. A classic of its era, and an enduring book for all ages, The Education of Little Tree has now been redesigned for this twenty-fifth anniversary edition. The super-seller memoir of a Cherokee boyhood in the 1930s. The most sensitive and evocative autobiographical account ever of the Cherokee way, as seen through the eyes of a young boy in the Appalachian Mountains. | University of New Mexico Press |
| 9780399562495 | The Giver Of Stars: A Novel | Moyes, Jojo | #1 New York Times Bestseller A Reese Witherspoon X Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick Usa Today's Top 100 Books To Read While Stuck At Home Social Distancing I've Been A Huge Jojo Moyes Fan. Her Characters Are So Compelling. . . . It's Such A Great Narrative About Personal Strength And Really Captures How Books Bring Communities Together. --reese Witherspoon From The Author Of Me Before You, Set In Depression-era America, A Breathtaking Story Of Five Extraordinary Women And Their Remarkable Journey Through The Mountains Of Kentucky And Beyond Alice Wright Marries Handsome American Bennett Van Cleve, Hoping To Escape Her Stifling Life In England. But Small-town Kentucky Quickly Proves Equally Claustrophobic, Especially Living Alongside Her Overbearing Father-in-law. So When A Call Goes Out For A Team Of Women To Deliver Books As Part Of Eleanor Roosevelt's New Traveling Library, Alice Signs On Enthusiastically. The Leader, And Soon Alice's Greatest Ally, Is Margery, A Smart-talking, Self-sufficient Woman Who's Never Asked A Man's Permission For Anything. They Will Be Joined By Three Other Singular Women Who Become Known As The Packhorse Librarians Of Kentucky. What Happens To Them--and To The Men They Love--becomes An Unforgettable Drama Of Loyalty, Justice, Humanity, And Passion. These Heroic Women Refuse To Be Cowed By Men Or By Convention. And Though They Face All Kinds Of Dangers In A Landscape That Is At Times Breathtakingly Beautiful, At Others Brutal, They're Committed To Their Job: Bringing Books To People Who Have Never Had Any, Arming Them With Facts That Will Change Their Lives. Based On A True Story Rooted In America's Past, The Giver Of Stars Is Unparalleled In Its Scope And Epic In Its Storytelling. Funny, Heartbreaking, Enthralling, It Is Destined To Become A Modern Classic--a Richly Rewarding Novel Of Women's Friendship, Of True Love, And Of What Happens When We Reach Beyond Our Grasp For The Great Beyond. Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture! | 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 |
| 9780062498533 | The Hate U Give: A Printz Honor Winner | Thomas, Angie | Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter Moves Between Two Worlds: The Poor Neighborhood Where She Lives And The Fancy Suburban Prep School She Attends. The Uneasy Balance Between These Worlds Is Shattered When Starr Witnesses The Fatal Shooting Of Her Childhood Best Friend Khalil At The Hands Of A Police Officer. Khalil Was Unarmed. Soon Afterward, His Death Is A National Headline. Some Are Calling Him A Thug, Maybe Even A Drug Dealer And A Gangbanger. Protesters Are Taking To The Streets In Khalil's Name. Some Cops And The Local Drug Lord Try To Intimidate Starr And Her Family. What Everyone Wants To Know Is: What Really Went Down That Night? And The Only Person Alive Who Can Answer That Is Starr. But What Starr Does Or Does Not Say Could Upend Her Community. It Could Also Endanger Her Life-- Provided By Publisher. | Balzer + Bray |
| 0060914130 | The Knight In History (Medieval Life) | Gies, Frances | A magisterial history of the origins, reality, and legend of the knight Born out of the chaos of the early Middle Ages, the armored and highly mobile knight revolutionized warfare and quickly became a mythic figure in history. From the Knights Templars and English knighthood to the crusades and chivalry, The Knight in History, by acclaimed medievalist Frances Gies, bestselling coauthor of Life in a Medieval Castle, paints a remarkable true picture of knighthood—exploring the knight’s earliest appearance as an agent of lawless violence, his reemergence as a dynamic social entity, his eventual disappearance from the European stage, and his transformation into Western culture’s most iconic hero. "A carefully researched and entertaining account of an institution that remains a part of the Western imagination."--Los Angeles Times | Harper Perennial |
| 9780446570961 | The Last Song | Sparks, Nicholas | in The Tradition Of A Walk To Remember, This Is A Story Of A Teenage Girl And Her First Encounter With Heartbreak ?? And Love. seventeen Year Old Veronica Ronnie Miller's Life Was Turned Upside?down When Her Parents Divorced And Her Father Moved From New York City To Wilmington, North Carolina. Three Years Later, She Remains Angry And Alientated From Her Parents, Especially Her Father...until Her Mother Decides It Would Be In Everyone's Best Interest If She Spent The Summer In Wilmington With Him. Ronnie's Father, A Former Concert Pianist And Teacher, Is Living A Quiet Life In The Beach Town, Immersed In Creating A Work Of Art That Will Become The Centerpiece Of A Local Church. the Tale That Unfolds Is An Unforgettable Story Of Love On Many Levels??first Love, Love Between Parents And Children ?? That Demonstrates, As Only A Nicholas Sparks Novel Can, The Many Ways That Love Can Break Our Hearts...and Heal Them. | Grand Central Publishing |
| 9781616149987 | The Life We Bury | Eskens, Allen | College Student Joe Talbert Has The Modest Goal Of Completing A Writing Assignment For An English Class. His Task Is To Interview A Stranger And Write A Brief Biography Of The Person. With Deadlines Looming, Joe Heads To A Nearby Nursing Home To Find A Willing Subject. There He Meets Carl Iverson, And Soon Nothing In Joe's Life Is Ever The Same. Iverson Is A Dying Vietnam Veteran--and A Convicted Murderer. With Only A Few Months To Live, He Has Been Medically Paroled To A Nursing Home, After Spending Thirty Years In Prison For The Crimes Of Rape And Murder. As Joe Writes About Carl's Life, Especially Carl's Valor In Vietnam, He Cannot Reconcile The Heroism Of The Soldier With The Despicable Acts Of The Convict. Joe, Along With His Skeptical Female Neighbor, Throws Himself Into Uncovering The Truth, But He Is Hamstrung In His Efforts By Having To Deal With His Dangerously Dysfunctional Mother, The Guilt Of Leaving His Autistic Brother Vulnerable, And A Haunting Childhood Memory. Thread By Thread, Joe Unravels The Tapestry Of Carl's Conviction. But By The Time Joe Discovers The Truth, It Is Too Late To Escape The Fallout-- Allen Eskens. | Seventh Street Books |
| 9780142407332 | The Outsiders | S. E. Hinton | The Outsiders is a book that delves deeply into the hearts, minds, and stories of a group that had no voice before S. E. Hinton gave them one. She began writing the book at age 15, spurred on by the disturbing trend she saw growing in her high school towards division between groups. I was worried and angered by the social situation, Hinton writes. I saw two groups at the extreme ends of the social scale behaving in an idiotic fashion -- one group was being condemned and one wasn't.... When a friend of mine was beaten up for no other reason than that some people didn't like the way he combed his hair, I took my anger out by writing about it. Thirty years after it was first published, The Outsiders still carries the same frightening and unifying messages for teens (and readers of all ages). The ruthlessly realistic and violent story of the Greasers and the Socs, rival gangs from very different sides of the railroad tracks, is narrated by Ponyboy Curtis, a smart, sensitive kid who has grown to become one of the most recognizable figures in the history of young adult literature. Any teen who has ever felt isolated or different can identify with Ponyboy, a kid forced to be tough on the outside, but who underneath is just as scared and needy as anyone. Hinton herself has said that she has never written a character as close to her own self as Ponyboy is. Young Adult fiction was shaped and defined by Susan Eloise Hinton, and the realism she attached to the genre became the norm, enabling later writers like Robert Cormier and Judy Blume to find characters and voices that actually spoke to adolescents. Since 1967, Ponyboy has become the hero for countless teenagers nationwide as The Outsiders stands to influence an entire new legion of adolescents who need Ponyboy as much as ever. | Viking Books for Young Readers |
| 9780545637282 | The Right Fight | Chris Lynch | When the draft board calls on the eve of World War II, Roman leaves behind a career in minor-league baseball to join the army, and finds himself driving a tank in the North African campaign. | Scholastic Press |
| 9780590467377 | The Road Home | White, Ellen Emerson | Rebecca, A Young Nurse Stationed In Vietnam During The War, Must Come To Grips With Her Wartime Experiences Once She Returns Home To The United States. | Scholastic |
| 9780345804327 | The Underground Railroad: A Novel | Whitehead, Colson | Originally Published: New York: Doubledday, 2016. | Anchor |
| 9780062457806 | They Both Die At The End | Silvera, Adam | Quill Tree Books | |
| 9781580493857 | Three Minutes Of Intimacy: Dance Your Way To A Sensational Social Life | Craig Marcott | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, first published in 1865, is usually thought of as a simple fantasy tale for children, enjoyable for its fun and whimsy. Through the years, though, the book has grown to become one of the most popular novels in literature, both for children and adults. Deeper than mere fantasy, Alice is a text rich in symbolism, satire, and thematic levels of meaning. The rigid and often nonsensical society filled with odd situations, incomprehensible rules, and unforgettable characters that Carroll allows us to enter is one that readers will fondly remember for the rest of their lives. This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader contend with Lewis Carroll's language, themes, and symbols. | Sundance Pub |
| 9780486408781 | Through The Looking-Glass (Dover Thrift Editions) | Lewis Carroll | In a fantastic land where everything is reversed, Carroll's inquisitive heroine finds herself a pawn in a bizarre chess game involving Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and other amusing nursery-rhyme characters. Features 50 illustrations.Publishers WeeklyClassics Illustrated comics returns with this dismal adaptation of Carroll's second Alice tale. Most of the charming paradoxes and silly puns are salvaged in gs the text, arranged in columns beneath the artwork rather than in word balloons. Consequently, a lot of very small illustrations are needed to carry the dialogue between Alice and the many looking-glass characters--to the detriment of the visual appeal of the work. g Baker ( Why I Hate Saturn ) is a good caricaturist, but the drawings often appear perfunctory and the color choicesg flat, garish and awkward. At its best (the Humpty Dumpty scenes), the g sketchy linework seems more appropriate to a realistic narrative, a thriller or a political satire, and the g book lacks throughout the careful design and rendering that a children's classic requires. (Feb.) | Dover Publications |
| 9780446310789 | To Kill A Mockingbird | Harper Lee | The Unforgettable Novel Of A Childhood In A Sleepy Southern Town And The Crisis Of Conscience That Rocked It, To Kill A Mockingbird Became Both An Instant Bestseller And A Critical Success When It Was First Published In 1960. It Went On To Win The Pulitzer Prize In 1961 And Was Later Made Into An Academy Award-winning Film, Also A Classic. Compassionate, Dramatic, And Deeply Moving, To Kill A Mockingbird Takes Readers To The Roots Of Human Behavior - To Innocence And Experience, Kindness And Cruelty, Love And Hatred, Humor And Pathos. Now With Over 18 Million Copies In Print And Translated Into Forty Languages, This Regional Story By A Young Alabama Woman Claims Universal Appeal. Harper Lee Always Considered Her Book To Be A Simple Love Story. Today It Is Regarded As A Masterpiece Of American Literature. | Grand Central Publishing |
| 9781575722603 | Tobacco (Just The Facts) | Connolly, Sean | Heinemann/Raintree |