Vaughn Hart's Library
Rossview High
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9780345418913 | The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy | Douglas Adams | NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon.”—The Washington Post Book WorldSOON TO BE A HULU SERIES • Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy!Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadIt’s an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent . . . until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly after to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and Arthur’s best friend has just announced that he’s an alien.After that, things get much, much worse.With just a towel, a small yellow fish, and a book, Arthur has to navigate through a very hostile universe in the company of a gang of unreliable aliens. Luckily the fish is quite good at languages. And the book is The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . . . which helpfully has the words DON’T PANIC inscribed in large, friendly letters on its cover.Douglas Adams’s mega-selling pop-culture classic sends logic into orbit, plays havoc with both time and physics, offers up pithy commentary on such things as ballpoint pens, potted plants, and digital watches . . . and, most important, reveals the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything.Now, if you could only figure out the question. . . . | Del Rey |
| 9780439023528 | The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780439574273 | The Invisible Man | H. G. Wells | Scholastic Paperbacks | |
| 9780143038092 | The Joy Luck Club: A Novel | Tan, Amy | In 1949 four Chinese women-drawn together by the shadow of their past-begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Nearly forty years later, one of the members has died, and her daughter has come to take her place, only to learn of her mother's lifelong wish-and the tragic way in which it has come true. The revelation of this secret unleashes an urgent need among the women to reach back and remember... In this extraordinary first work of fiction, Amy Tan writes about what is lost-over the years, between generations, among friends-and what is saved. In 1949, four Chinese women begin meeting in San Francisco for fun. Nearly 40 years later, their daughters continue to meet as the Joy Luck Club. Their stories ultimately display the double happiness that can be found in being both Chinese and American. First serials to Ladies' Home Journal, Atlantic Monthly, and San Francisco Focus. Now available. | Penguin Books |
| The Junior Great Books Discussion Program | ||||
| 9780440419501 | The Last Dog On Earth | Daniel Ehrenhaft | WHAT IF MAN’S BEST FRIEND TURNED INTO MAN’S WORST ENEMY?It’s Stephen King meets Shiloh in this thrilling action-adventure survival story perfect for fans of Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet, #1 New York Times bestselling author D.J. MacHale’s the Sylo Chronicles, and anyone who appreciates the loyal bond between a boy and his dog.Logan Moore hates everyone. Everyone except Jack. A mangy mutt that nobody wants. Except Logan.But Jack is in terrible danger. A mysterious disease is sweeping across the country, turning dogs into vicious, raging predators. Jack isn’t infected, but that won’t keep her safe. People are shooting dogs on sight, and asking questions later. Logan’s own parents want to hand Jack over to the authorities.Now Logan and Jack are on the run. There’s nowhere they can turn and no one they can trust. Except each other. | Yearling |
| 9781401323257 | The Last Lecture | Pausch, Randy | we Cannot Change The Cards We Are Dealt, Just How We Play The Hand.--randy Pausch a Lot Of Professors Give Talks Titled The Last Lecture. Professors Are Asked To Consider Their Demise And To Ruminate On What Matters Most To Them. And While They Speak, Audiences Can't Help But Mull The Same Question: What Wisdom Would We Impart To The World If We Knew It Was Our Last Chance? If We Had To Vanish Tomorrow, What Would We Want As Our Legacy?when Randy Pausch, A Computer Science Professor At Carnegie Mellon, Was Asked To Give Such A Lecture, He Didn't Have To Imagine It As His Last, Since He Had Recently Been Diagnosed With Terminal Cancer. But The Lecture He Gave--really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams--wasn't About Dying. It Was About The Importance Of Overcoming Obstacles, Of Enabling The Dreams Of Others, Of Seizing Every Moment (because Time Is All You Have...and You May Find One Day That You Have Less Than You Think). It Was A Summation Of Everything Randy Had Come To Believe. It Was About living.in This Book, Randy Pausch Has Combined The Humor, Inspiration And Intelligence That Made His Lecture Such A Phenomenon And Given It An Indelible Form. It Is A Book That Will Be Shared For Generations To Come. | Hyperion |
| 9780062398949 | The Last Of August (Charlotte Holmes Novel) | Cavallaro, Brittany | Jamie Watson And Charlotte Holmes Are Looking For A Winter Break Reprieve In Sussex After A Fall Semester That Almost Got Them Killed. But Nothing About Their Time Off Is Proving Simple, Including Holmes And Watson's Growing Feelings For Each Other. When Charlotte's Beloved Uncle Leander Goes Missing From The Holmes Estate -- After Being Oddly Private About His Latest Assignment In A German Art Forgery Ring -- The Game Is Afoot Once Again, And Charlotte Throws Herself Into A Search For Answers. So Begins A Dangerous Race Through The Gritty Underground Scene In Berlin And Glittering Art Houses In Prague, Where Holmes And Watson Discover That This Complicated Case Might Change Everything They Know About Their Families, Themselves, And Each Other. | Katherine Tegen Books |
| The Naked Sun | ||||
| 9780393927429 | The Norton Anthology Of American Literature | Firmly grounded in the core strengths that have made it the best-selling undergraduate survey in the field, The Norton Anthology of American Literature has been revitalized in this Seventh Edition through the collaboration between three new period editors and five seasoned ones. Under Nina Baym’s direction, the editors have considered afresh each selection and all the apparatus to make the anthology an even better teaching tool. | W. W. Norton & Company | |
| 9780393927412 | The Norton Anthology Of American Literature: Volume C: 1865-1914 | Firmly grounded in the core strengths that have made it the best-selling undergraduate survey in the field, The Norton Anthology of American Literature has been revitalized in this Seventh Edition through the collaboration between three new period editors and five seasoned ones. Under Nina Baym’s direction, the editors have considered afresh each selection and all the apparatus to make the anthology an even better teaching tool. | W. W. Norton and Company | |
| 9780393927436 | The Norton Anthology Of American Literature: Volume E: 1945 To The Present | Firmly grounded in the core strengths that have made it the best-selling undergraduate survey in the field, The Norton Anthology of American Literature has been revitalized in this Seventh Edition through the collaboration between three new period editors and five seasoned ones. Under Nina Baym’s direction, the editors have considered afresh each selection and all the apparatus to make the anthology an even better teaching tool. | W. W. Norton & Company | |
| 9780393912531 | The Norton Anthology Of English Literature | Abrams, M. H. | The Ninth Edition Offers More Complete Works, More Teachable Groupings Than Ever Before And The Apparatus Teachers Trust. Read By More Than 8 Million Students, The Norton Anthology Of English Literature Sets The Standard. New Longer Texts Include: 'sir Gawain And The Green Knight' In Simon Armitage's New Translation, Sidney's 'defense Of Poetry', Wycherley's 'the Country Wife', Joyce's 'portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man', Woolf's 'mrs Dalloway' And Beckett's 'waiting For Godot' (exclusive To Norton). | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 9780393927184 | The Norton Anthology Of English Literature, Volume B: The Sixteenth Century/The Early Seventeenth Century | Abrams, M. H. | W. W. Norton & Company | |
| 9780393927191 | The Norton Anthology Of English Literature, Volume C: The Restoration And The Eighteenth Century | Abrams, M. H. | W. W. Norton & Company | |
| 9780393927207 | The Norton Anthology Of English Literature, Volume D: The Romantic Period | Abrams, M. H. | W. W. Norton & Company | |
| 9780545842006 | The One and only Ivan | Katherine Applegate | When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life. | |
| The Oxford Companion To Children's Literature | ||||
| 9781423101482 | The Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Three: Titan's Curse | Rick Riordan | When the goddess Artemis goes missing, she is believed to have been kidnapped. And now it’s up to Percy and his friends to find out what happened. Who is powerful enough to kidnap a goddess? They must find Artemis before the winter solstice, when her influence on the Olympian Council could swing an important vote on the war with the titans. Not only that, but first Percy will have to solve the mystery of a rare monster that Artemis was hunting when she disappeared—a monster rumored to be so powerful it could destroy Olympus forever. | Hyperion |
| 9781580495509 | The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | An annotated adaptation a Hawthorne classic. Each Spotlight Edition maintains the rich integrity of the original work while adapting the language to be more accessible to the average reader.In addition to providing a more readable text, Prestwick House Spotlight Editions are enhabced, providing readers with thoughtful guided reading questions and margin notes to help navigate trhe text; suggestions for thought and discussion; research opportunities for richer understanding of the text and its contexts; and suggested writing activities to foster deeper thinking. | Prestwick House Inc. |