Melissa Lindsey's Library
Montgomery Central High
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780062200853 | How To Read Literature Like A Professor: For Kids | Foster, Thomas C | HarperCollins | |
| 9781328808653 | Imagine | Lennon, John | Illustrates, through the eyes of a little pigeon, John Lennon's song about imagining a world at peace, in which people of all sorts live as one. Includes afterword about peace, freedom, and Amnesty International. | Clarion Books |
| 9780143114963 | In Defense Of Food: An Eater's Manifesto | Pollan, Michael | Penguin Books | |
| 9780307742483 | Killers Of The Flower Moon: The Osage Murders And The Birth Of The FBI | Grann, David | Presents A True Account Of The Early Twentieth-century Murders Of Dozens Of Wealthy Osage And Law-enforcement Officials, Citing The Contributions And Missteps Of A Fledgling Fbi That Eventually Uncovered One Of The Most Chilling Conspiracies In American History. | Vintage |
| 9780385312202 | Leaving Cold Sassy: The Unfinished Sequel To Cold Sassy | Burns, Olive Ann | Delta | |
| 9780385730914 | Left For Dead: A Young Man's Search For Justice For The USS Indianapolis | Pete Nelson | Just after midnight on July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. The ship sank in 14 minutes. More than 1,000 men were thrown into shark-infested waters. Those who survived the fiery sinking—some injured, many without life jackets—struggled to stay afloat in shark-infested waters as they waited for rescue. But the United States Navy did not even know they were missing. The Navy needed a scapegoat for this disaster. So it court-martialed the captain for “hazarding” his ship. The survivors of the Indianapolis knew that their captain was not to blame. For 50 years they worked to clear his name, even after his untimely death. But the navy would not budge—until an 11-year-old boy named Hunter Scott entered the picture. His history fair project on the Indianapolis soon became a crusade to restore the captain’s good name and the honor of the men who served under him. Recalls the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the end of World War II, the navy cover-up and unfair court martial of the ship's captain, and how a young boy helped the survivors set the record straight fifty-five years later. | Delacorte Press |
| 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 |
| 9780679729778 | Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Pantheon Graphic Library) | Spiegelman, Art | ***winner Of The 1992 Pulizter Prize***acclaimed As A Quiet Triumph And A Brutally Moving Work Of Art, The First Volume Of Art Spiegelman's mausintroduced Readers To Vladek Spieglman, A Jewish Survivor Of Hitler's Europe, And His Son, A Cartoonist Trying To Come To Terms With His Father, His Father's Terrifying Story, And History Itself. Its Form, The Cartoon (the Nazis Are Cats, The Jews Mice), Succeeds Perfectly In Shocking Us Out Of Any Lingering Sense Of Familiarity With The Events Described, Approaching, As It Does, The Unspeakable Through The Diminutive.this Second Volume, Subtitled and Here My Troubles Began, Moves Us From The Barracks Of Auschwitz To The Bungalows Of The Catskills. Genuinely Tragic And Comic By Turns, It Attains A Complexity Of Theme And A Precision Of Thought New To Comics And Rare In Any Medium. mausties Together Two Powerful Stories: Vladek's Harrowing Take Of Survival Against All Odds, Delineating The Paradox Of Family Life In The Death Camps, And The Author's Account Of His Tortured Relationship With His Aging Father. At Every Level This Is The Ultimate Survivor's Tale—and That Too Of The Children Who Somehow Survive Even The Survivors. | Pantheon |
| 9780812981605 | Mind Hacking, The Power Of Habit, Smarter Faster Better 3 Books Collection Set | Sir John Hargrave, Charles Duhigg | Identifies The Neurological Processes Behind Behaviors, Explaining How Self-control And Success Are Largely Driven By Habits And Providing Guidelines For Achieving Personal Goals And Overall Well-being By Adjusting Specific Habits. Prologue : The Habit Cure -- Pt. 1. The Habits Of Individuals. The Habit Loop : How Habits Work -- The Craving Brain : How To Create New Habits -- The Golden Rule Of Habit Change : Why Transformation Occurs -- Pt. 2. The Habits Of Successful Organizations. Keystone Habits, Or The Ballad Of Paul O'neill : Which Habits Matter Most -- Starbucks And The Habit Of Success : When Willpower Becomes Automatic -- The Power Of A Crisis : How Leaders Create Habits Through Accident And Design -- How Target Knows What You Want Before You Do : When Companies Predict (and Manipulate) Habits -- Pt. 3. The Habits Of Societies. Saddleback Church And The Montgomery Bus Boycott : How Movements Happen -- The Neurology Of Free Will : Are We Responsible For Our Habits? -- Afterword : Some Things Learned About Weight Loss, Smoking, Procrastination, And Teaching. Charles Duhigg. With A New Afterword By The Author--cover. Originally Published In Hardcover In The United States By Random House, An Imprint Of The Random House Publishing Group, A Division Of Random House Llc, In 2012. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 305-365) And Index. | Gallery Books/Random House Books |
| 9781401308582 | Mitch Albom 5 Books Collection Set (Tuesdays With Morrie, For One More Day, The Five People You Meet In Heaven,The Next Person You Meet In Heaven, Have A Little Faith) | Mitch Albom | A Specially Produced Paperback Edition -- With Flaps -- Of The Phenomenal #1 New York Times Bestseller, That Has Sold More Than Six Million Copies In Hardcover Eddie Is A Grizzled War Veteran Who Feels Trapped In A Meaningless Life Of Fixing Rides At A Seaside Amusement Park. His Days Are A Dull Routine Of Work, Loneliness, And Regret. Then, On His 83rd Birthday, Eddie Dies In A Tragic Accident, Trying To Save A Little Girl From A Falling Cart. He Awakens In The Afterlife, Where He Learns That Heaven Is Not A Lush Garden Of Eden, But A Place Where Your Earthly Life Is Explained To You By Five People. These People May Have Been Loved Ones Or Distant Strangers. Yet Each Of Them Changed Your Path Forever. One By One, Eddie's Five People Illuminate The Unseen Connections Of His Earthly Life. As The Story Builds To Its Stunning Conclusion, Eddie Desperately Seeks Redemption In The Still-unknown Last Act Of His Life: Was It A Heroic Success Or A Devastating Failure The Answer, Which Comes From The Most Unlikely Of Sources, Is As Inspirational As A Glimpse Of Heaven Itself. In The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Mitch Albom Gives Us An Astoundingly Original Story That Will Change Everything You've Ever Thought About The Afterlife -- And The Meaning Of Our Lives Here On Earth. With A Timeless Tale, Appealing To All, This Is A Book That Readers Of Fine Fiction, And Those Who Loved Tuesdays With Morrie, Will Treasure. | Sphere ptd |
| 9781250808318 | Nickel And Dimed (20Th Anniversary Edition) | Ehrenreich, Barbara | In This Now Classic Work, Barbara Ehrenreich, Our Sharpest And Most Original Social Critic, Goes Undercover As An Unskilled Worker To Reveal The Dark Side Of American Prosperity. Millions Of Americans Work Full Time, Year Round, For Poverty-level Wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich Decided To Join Them. She Was Inspired In Part By The Rhetoric Surrounding Welfare Reform, Which Promised That A Job—any Job—can Be The Ticket To A Better Life. But How Does Anyone Survive, Let Alone Prosper, On $6 An Hour? To Find Out, Ehrenreich Left Her Home, Took The Cheapest Lodgings She Could Find, And Accepted Whatever Jobs She Was Offered. Moving From Florida To Maine To Minnesota, She Worked As A Waitress, A Hotel Maid, A Cleaning Woman, A Nursing-home Aide, And A Wal-mart Sales Clerk. She Lived In Trailer Parks And Crumbling Residential Motels. Very Quickly, She Discovered That No Job Is Truly Unskilled, That Even The Lowliest Occupations Require Exhausting Mental And Muscular Effort. She Also Learned That One Job Is Not Enough; You Need At Least Two If You Intend To Live Indoors. Nickel And Dimed Reveals Low-rent America In All Its Tenacity, Anxiety, And Surprising Generosity—a Land Of Big Boxes, Fast Food, And A Thousand Desperate Stratagems For Survival. Read It For The Smoldering Clarity Of Ehrenreich's Perspective And For A Rare View Of How Prosperity Looks From The Bottom. You Will Never See Anything—from A Motel Bathroom To A Restaurant Meal—in Quite The Same Way Again. | Picador Paper |
| 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 |
| 9780143038580 | OMNIVORES DILEMMA : NATURAL HISTORY OF FOUR MEALS | Michael Pollan | One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year Winner of the James Beard Award Author of #1 New York Times Bestsellers In Defense of Food and Food Rules Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described as a national eating disorder. Will it be fast food tonight, or something organic? Or perhaps something we grew ourselves? The question of what to have for dinner has confronted us since man discovered fire. But as Michael Pollan explains in this revolutionary book, how we answer it now, as the dawn of the twenty-first century, may determine our survival as a species. Packed with profound surprises, The Omnivore's Dilemma is changing the way Americans thing about the politics, perils, and pleasures of eating. Coming from The Penguin Press in 2013, Michael Pollan’s newest book Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation—the story of our most trusted food expert’s culinary education "Thoughtful, engrossing ... You're not likely to get a better explanation of exactly where your food comes from." -The New York Times Book Review "An eater's manifesto ... [Pollan's] cause is just, his thinking is clear, and his writing is compelling. Be careful of your dinner!" -The Washington Post "Outstanding... a wide-ranging invitation to think through the moral ramifications of our eating habits." —The New Yorker "If you ever thought 'what's for dinner' was a simple question, you'll change your mind after reading Pollan's searing indictment of today's food industry-and his glimpse of some inspiring alternatives.... I just loved this book so much I didn't want it to end." -The Seattle Times | Penguin Press |
| 9780143122180 | On Canaan's Side: A Novel | Barry, Sebastian | Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, a mesmerizing new novel from the award-winning author of The Secret Scripture A first-person narrative of Lilly Bere’s life, On Canaan’s Side opens as the eighty-five-year-old Irish émigré mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly, the daughter of a Dublin policeman, revisits her eventful past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland at the end of the First World War. She continues her tale in America, where—far from her family—she first tastes the sweetness of love and the bitterness of betrayal. Spanning nearly seven decades, Sebastian Barry’s extraordinary fifth novel explores memory, war, family ties, love, and loss, distilling the complexity and beauty of life into his haunting prose. | Penguin Books |
| 9780316516006 | One Nation: America Remembers | Little Brown & Co (T) | ||
| 9781524714680 | One Of Us Is Lying | McManus, Karen M. | When The Creator Of A High School Gossip App Mysteriously Dies In Front Of Four High-profile Students All Four Become Suspects. It's Up To Them To Solve The Case-- | Delacorte Press |
| 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 |
| 9780316017930 | Outliers: The Story Of Success | Gladwell, Malcolm | Identifies The Qualities Of Successful People, Maintaining That Culture, Family, And Idiosyncratic Factors Can Have A Decisive Impact On Shaping High Achievers, Introduction : The Roseto Mystery -- Part One : Opportunity -- The Matthew Effect (matthew 25:29) -- The 10,000 Hour Rule -- The Trouble With Geniuses, Part 1 -- The Trouble With Geniuses, Part 2 -- The Three Lessons Of Joe Flom -- Part Two : Legacy -- Harlan, Kentucky -- The Ethnic Theory Of Plane Crashes -- Rice Paddies And Math Tests -- Marita's Bargain -- Epilogue : A Jamaican Story -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Reading Group Guide -- Excerpt From David And Goliath. Malcolm Gladwell. Originally Published: New York : Little, Brown, 2008. Reading Group Guide ©2010. Excerpt From David And Goliath ©2013. First Back Bay Paperback Edition, June 2011. Includes Discussion Questions And An Excerpt From David And Goliath. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 287-296) And Index. | Back Bay Books |
| 9780060959036 | Prodigal Summer: A Novel | Kingsolver, Barbara | Barbara Kingsolver's fifth novel is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. It weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives amid the mountains and farms of southern Appalachia. Over the course of one humid summer, this novel's intriguing protagonists face disparate predicaments but find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they necessarily share a place. Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives in southern Appalachia. At the heart of these intertwined narratives is a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. | Harper Perennial |
| 9780205356607 | Psychology: Core Concepts (4Th Edition) | Zimbardo, Phillip G., Weber, Ann L., Johnson, Robert L. | Allyn & Bacon |