Jeanette Shehy's Library
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| 9780446194068 | Max (Maximum Ride, Book 5) | Patterson, James | Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock have barely recovered from their last arctic adventure, when they are confronted by the most frightening catastrophe yet. Millions of fish are dying off the coast of Hawaii and someone—or something—is destroying hundreds of ships. Unable to discover the cause, the government enlists the Flock to help them get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late.While Max and her team are exploring the depths of the ocean, their every move is being carefully tracked by Mr. Chu—a criminal mastermind with his own plans for the Flock. Can they protect themselves from Mr. Chu's army of mercenaries and save the ocean from utter destruction?Publishers WeeklyThe fifth entry in Patterson's all-ages Maximum Ride fantasy/thriller series finds the teenaged title character facing her greatest challenge yet. Max, leading her flock of virtually indestructible part-human/part-bird hybrids, must rescue her human mom, kidnapped by a criminal mastermind with an elaborate plan to wreak worldwide ecological catastrophe. But in order to rescue her, 14-year-old Max and the five younger members of her flock (genetically developed by an environmental group) must team up with the U.S. Navy to determine why millions of fish are dying off the coast of Hawaii. All this, and Max is falling in love, too. Patterson doesn't spend much time on character development, opting to propel his wild story with quick action scenes, plenty of dialogue and chapters seldom longer than three or four pages; unfortunately, though, life-and-death situations are often solved by implausible plot turns. Max narrates with a precocious, snarky voice, but makes it relatively easy to jump into her complicated tale midstream. Not surprisingly, the open-ended conclusion begs for a follow-up; it's also little wonder that a movie franchise is in the works. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. | jimmy patterson |
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| 9780439023542 | Mockingjay | Suzanne Collins | Katniss Everdeen's having survived the Hunger games twice makes her a target of the Capitol and President Snow, as well as a hero to the rebels who will succeed only if Katniss is willing to put aside her personal feelings of anger and distrust and serve as their pawn. She must accept responsibility for countless lives in order to change the course of the future of Panem. District 13 really does exist. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding. | Scholastic Press |
| 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 |
| 9780762778430 | Murder, New England: A Historical Collection Of Killer True-Crime Tales | Phelps, M. William | Best-selling true-crime author M. William Phelps takes readers to his own backyard in eight bloodcurdling murder cases. Think New England is all bucolic landscapes and Robert Frost poems? Think again. In Murder, New England, Phelps explores different motives, themes, and community reactions to horrific crimes, including: The killing of Rebecca Cornwall, a 73-year-old widow who in 1673 was burned to death in front of her bedroom fireplace on an island in Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay. The 1879 case of Holyoke, Massachusetts, millworker John Kemmler, who lost his job and then killed his daughters because he feared they’d be forced into prostitution. Boston, 1931, and the New England Mafia’s murderous coming of age. The 2001 case of teenage slackers in Norton, Massachusetts, whose murder of a grandmother was blamed on TV, youth, drugs, sex, money, and rock-n-roll. And the 2008 murder of a young woman out for a jog in Woodstock, Connecticut, attacked by the groundskeeper of an estate owned by the puppeteer who played Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. | Lyons Press |
| 9780060837563 | Native Son (Perennial Classics) | Wright, Richard | Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.Gloria NaylorNative Son taught me that it's all right to have passion within your work. | Harper Perennial Modern Classics |
| 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 |
| 9781453064528 | Oliver Twist | W. T. Robinson | ||
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| 9780425190371 | Practical Magic | Hoffman, Alice | for More Than Two Hundred Years, The Owens Women Had Been Blamed For Everything That Went Wrong In Their Massachusetts Town. And Gillian And Sally Endured That Fate As Well; As Children, The Sisters Were Outsiders. Their Elderly Aunts Almost Seemed To Encourage The Whispers Of Witchery, But All Gillian And Sally Wanted Was To Escape. One Would Do So By Marrying, The Other By Running Away. But The Bonds They Shared Brought Them Back-almost As If By Magic...mark Childressms. Hoffman's Trademark Narrative Voice Is Upbeat, Breathless And Rather Bouncy. She Creates Vivid Characters, She Keeps Things Moving Along, And She's Not Above Using Sleight Of Hand And Prestidigitation To Achieve Her Considerable Effects. She Plays Tricks With The Reader's Expectations By Suddenly Shifting Tenses Or Passing The Point Of View Around The Room Like A Football. At One Brief But Memorable Juncture, We See Things Through The Eyes Of A Magician's Rabbit. -- New York Times | Berkley |
| 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 |
| 9781594743344 | Pride And Prejudice And Zombies | Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith | “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.” So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers—and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield. Can Elizabeth vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry? Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you’d actually want to read. | Quirk Books |
| 9780142427552 | Prodigy | Marie Lu | The second book in Marie Lu’s New York Times bestselling LEGEND trilogy—perfect for fans of THE HUNGER GAMES and DIVERGENT!June and Day arrive in Vegas just as the unthinkable happens: the Elector Primo dies, and his son Anden takes his place. With the Republic edging closer to chaos, the two join a group of Patriot rebels eager to help Day rescue his brother and offer passage to the Colonies. They have only one request—June and Day must assassinate the new Elector.It’s their chance to change the nation, to give voice to a people silenced for too long.But as June realizes this Elector is nothing like his father, she’s haunted by the choice ahead. What if Anden is a new beginning? What if revolution must be more than loss and vengeance, anger and blood—what if the Patriots are wrong?In this highly-anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestseller Legend, Lu delivers a breathtaking thriller with high stakes and cinematic action."Masterful." —The Los Angeles Times"Lu's action-packed series is the real deal." —Entertainment Weekly | Speak |
| 9781524763282 | Ready Player One: A Novel | Cline, Ernest | Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture Directed By Steven Spielberg.--cover | Ballantine Books |
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| 9781586638450 | Romeo And Juliet (No Fear Shakespeare) | Shakespeare, William | No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Romeo and Juliet on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare contains The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday language A complete list of characters with descriptions Plenty of helpful commentary Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character. | SparkNotes |