Kara Brannon's Library
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| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9780142420591 | Between Shades Of Gray | Sepetys, Ruta | In 1941, Lina And Her Family Are Pulled From Their Lithuanian Home By Soviet Guards And Sent To Siberia, Where Her Father Is Sentenced To Death In A Prison Camp While She Fights For Her Life, Vowing To Honor Her Family And The Thousands Like Hers. | Philomel Books |
| 9780345804341 | Colson Whitehead Collection 3 Books Set (The Nickel Boys, The Underground Railroad, The Colossus Of New York) | Colson Whitehead | Fleet | |
| 9780618711659 | Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close: A Novel | Foer, Jonathan Safran | A New Novel By The Author Of Everything Is Illuminated Introduces Oskar Schell, The Nine-year-old Son Of A Man Killed In The World Trade Center Bombing Who Searches The City For A Lock That Fits A Black Key His Father Left Behind. Jonathan Safran Foer Emerged As One Of The Most Original Writers Of His Generation With His Best-selling Debut Novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, With Humor, Tenderness, And Awe, He Confronts The Traumas Of Our Recent History. What He Discovers Is Solace In That Most Human Quality, Imagination. Meet Oskar Schell, An Inventor, Francophile, Tambourine Player, Shakespearean Actor, Jeweler, Pacifist, Correspondent With Stephen Hawking And Ringo Starr. He Is Nine Years Old. And He Is On An Urgent, Secret Search Through The Five Boroughs Of New York. His Mission Is To Find The Lock That Fits A Mysterious Key Belonging To His Father, Who Died In The World Trade Center On 9/11. An Inspired Innocent, Oskar Is Alternately Endearing, Exasperating, And Hilarious As He Careens From Central Park To Coney Island To Harlem On His Search. Along The Way He Is Always Dreaming Up Inventions To Keep Those He Loves Safe From Harm. What About A Birdseed Shirt To Let You Fly Away? What If You Could Actually Hear Everyone's Heartbeat? His Goal Is Hopeful, But The Past Speaks A Loud Warning In Stories Of Those Who've Lost Loved Ones Before. As Oskar Roams New York, He Encounters A Motley Assortment Of Humanity Who Are All Survivors In Their Own Way. He Befriends A 103-year-old War Reporter, A Tour Guide Who Never Leaves The Empire State Building, And Lovers Enraptured Or Scorned. Ultimately, Oskar Ends His Journey Where It Began, At His Father's Grave. But Now He Is Accompanied By The Silent Stranger Who Has Been Renting The Spare Room Of His Grandmother's Apartment. They Are There To Dig Up His Father's Empty Coffin. Jonathan Safran Foer. A Mariner Book. | Mariner Books Classics |
| 9780062301673 | How To Read Literature Like A Professor: A Lively And Entertaining Guide To Reading Between The Lines, Revised Edition | Thomas C Foster | A thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Thomas C. Foster’s classic guide—a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes and contexts, that shows you how to make your everyday reading experience more rewarding and enjoyable.While many books can be enjoyed for their basic stories, there are often deeper literary meanings interwoven in these texts. How to Read Literature Like a Professor helps us to discover those hidden truths by looking at literature with the eyes—and the literary codes—of the ultimate professional reader, the college professor.What does it mean when a literary hero is traveling along a dusty road? When he hands a drink to his companion? When he’s drenched in a sudden rain shower?Ranging from major themes to literary models, narrative devices and form, Thomas C. Foster provides us with a broad overview of literature—a world where a road leads to a quest, a shared meal may signify a communion, and rain, whether cleansing or destructive, is never just a shower-and shows us how to make our reading experience more enriching, satisfying, and fun.This revised edition includes new chapters, a new preface and epilogue, and incorporates updated teaching points that Foster has developed over the past decade. | Harper Perennial |
| Into The Wild | ||||
| 9780525580065 | Just Mercy (Adapted For Young Adults): A True Story Of The Fight For Justice | Stevenson, Bryan | Lawyer And Social Justice Advocate Bryan Stevenson Offers A Glimpse Into The Lives Of The Wrongfully Imprisoned And His Efforts To Fight For Their Freedom. | Ember |
| 9781481438261 | Long Way Down | Reynolds, Jason | “an Intense Snapshot Of The Chain Reaction Caused By Pulling A Trigger.” —booklist (starred Review) “astonishing.” —kirkus Reviews (starred Review) “a Tour De Force.” —publishers Weekly (starred Review) A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner For Young Adult Literature Longlisted For The National Book Award For Young People’s Literature Winner Of The Walter Dean Myers Award An Edgar Award Winner For Best Young Adult Fiction Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner An Entertainment Weekly Best Ya Book Of 2017 A Vulture Best Ya Book Of 2017 A Buzzfeed Best Ya Book Of 2017 An Ode To Put The Damn Guns Down, This Is New York Times Bestselling Author Jason Reynolds’s Electrifying Novel That Takes Place In Sixty Potent Seconds—the Time It Takes A Kid To Decide Whether Or Not He’s Going To Murder The Guy Who Killed His Brother. A Cannon. A Strap. A Piece. A Biscuit. A Burner. A Heater. A Chopper. A Gat. A Hammer A Tool For Rule Or, You Can Call It A Gun. That’s What Fifteen-year-old Will Has Shoved In The Back Waistband Of His Jeans. See, His Brother Shawn Was Just Murdered. And Will Knows The Rules. No Crying. No Snitching. Revenge. That’s Where Will’s Now Heading, With That Gun Shoved In The Back Waistband Of His Jeans, The Gun That Was His Brother’s Gun. He Gets On The Elevator, Seventh Floor, Stoked. He Knows Who He’s After. Or Does He? As The Elevator Stops On The Sixth Floor, On Comes Buck. Buck, Will Finds Out, Is Who Gave Shawn The Gun Before Will Took The Gun. Buck Tells Will To Check That The Gun Is Even Loaded. And That’s When Will Sees That One Bullet Is Missing. And The Only One Who Could Have Fired Shawn’s Gun Was Shawn. Huh. Will Didn’t Know That Shawn Had Ever Actually Used His Gun. Bigger Huh. Buck Is Dead. But Buck’s In The Elevator? Just As Will’s Trying To Think This Through, The Door To The Next Floor Opens. A Teenage Girl Gets On, Waves Away The Smoke From Dead Buck’s Cigarette. Will Doesn’t Know Her, But She Knew Him. Knew. When They Were Eight. And Stray Bullets Had Cut Through The Playground, And Will Had Tried To Cover Her, But She Was Hit Anyway, And So What She Wants To Know, On That Fifth Floor Elevator Stop, Is, What If Will, Will With The Gun Shoved In The Back Waistband Of His Jeans, Misses. And So It Goes, The Whole Long Way Down, As The Elevator Stops On Each Floor, And At Each Stop Someone Connected To His Brother Gets On To Give Will A Piece To A Bigger Story Than The One He Thinks He Knows. A Story That Might Never Know An End…if Will Gets Off That Elevator. Told In Short, Fierce Staccato Narrative Verse, Long Way Down Is A Fast And Furious, Dazzlingly Brilliant Look At Teenage Gun Violence, As Could Only Be Told By Jason Reynolds. | Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books |
| Ready Player One | ||||
| The Devil In The White City | ||||
| 9780743247542 | The Glass Castle: A Memoir | Jeannette Walls | THE BELOVED #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER—FROM THE AUTHOR OF HANG THE MOONThe extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, “nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world’s most gifted storytellers.The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want the responsibility of raising a family.The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.The Glass Castle is truly astonishing—a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.The memoir was also made into a major motion picture from Lionsgate in 2017 starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts. | Scribner |
| 9780143136330 | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | One of the great American novels--and one of America's most popular--featuring a new introduction by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko, and extensive resources to enhance discussion of it in classroomsThe basis for the Broadway musical starring Jeremy Jordan and Eva NoblezadaOne of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsYoung, handsome, and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby seems to have everything. But at his mansion east of New York City, in West Egg, Long Island, where the party never seems to end, he's often alone in the glittering Jazz Age crowd, watching and waiting, as speculation swirls around him--that he's a bootlegger, that he was a German spy during the war, that he even killed a man. As writer Nick Carraway is drawn into this decadent orbit, he begins to see beneath the shimmering surface of the enigmatic Gatsby, for whom one thing will always be out of reach: Nick's cousin, the married Daisy Buchanan, whose house is visible from Gatsby's just across the bay.A brilliant evocation of the Roaring Twenties and a satire of a postwar America obsessed with wealth and status, The Great Gatsby is a novel whose power remains undiminished after a century. This edition, based on scholarship dating back to the novel's first publication in 1925, restores Fitzgerald's masterpiece to the original American classic he envisioned, and features an introduction addressing how gender, race, class, and sexuality complicate the pursuit of the American Dream and suggestions of a wide variety of multimedia resources for exploring the novel's themes. | Penguin Books |
| 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 |
| 9781454913559 | The Night Before Christmas | Tom Browning, Clement C. Moore | Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house … For decades families have gathered together to read Clement C. Moores enchanting holiday poem. Featuring beautiful original illustrations by award-winning artist Tom Browning, this stunning edition stands apart from the rest. Browning has created a classic Saint Nick—the quintessential round, jolly, white-bearded figure that everyone imagines. The look is timeless, filled with warmth and sentiment: exactly what Christmas should be.The storys enduring charm and Brownings memorable art make The Night Before Christmas a must-have for any child who is just discovering the tale—and every adult who has loved it forever. | Union Square Kids |
| 9780618706419 | The Things They Carried (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) | O'Brien, Tim | One of the first questions people ask about The Things They Carried is this: Is it a novel, or a collection of short stories? The title page refers to the book simply as "a work of fiction," defying the conscientious reader's need to categorize this masterpiece. It is both: a collection of interrelated short pieces which ultimately reads with the dramatic force and tension of a novel. Yet each one of the twenty-two short pieces is written with such care, emotional content, and prosaic precision that it could stand on its own. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and of course, the character Tim O'Brien who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they left back home. Yet they find sympathy and kindness for strangers (the old man who leads them unscathed through the mine field, the girl who grieves while she dances), and love for each other, because in Vietnam they are the only family they have. We hear the voices of the men and build images upon their dialogue. The way they tell stories about others, we hear them telling stories about themselves. With the creative verve of the greatest fiction and the intimacy of a searing autobiography, The Things They Carried is a testament to the men who risked their lives in America's most controversial war.It is also a mirror held up to the frailty of humanity. Ultimately The Things They Carried and its myriad protagonists call to order the courage, determination, and luck we all need to survive. In 1979, Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato -- a novel about the Vietnam War -- won the National Book Award. In this, his second work of fiction about Vietnam, O'Brien's unique artistic vision is again clearly demonstrated. Neither a novel nor a short story collection, it is an arc of fictional episodes, taking place in the childhoods of its characters, in the jungles of Vietnam and back home in America two decades later. | Turtleback Books |
| 9780525436140 | There There | Tommy Orange | PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A wondrous and shattering award-winning novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize.A contemporary classic, this “astonishing literary debut” (Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale) “places Native American voices front and center” (NPR/Fresh Air).One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsAmong them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. They converge and collide on one fateful day at the Big Oakland Powwow and together this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American—grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroismA book with“so much jangling energy and brings so much news from a distinct corner of American life that it’s a revelation” (The New York Times).It is fierce, funny, suspenseful, and impossible to put down--full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with urgency and force. There There is at once poignant and unflinching, utterly contemporary and truly unforgettable.Don't miss Tommy Orange's new book, Wandering Stars! | Vintage |
| 9781442419810 | Uglies | Westerfeld, Scott | The Uglies series has more than 3 million books in print, has been translated into twenty-seven languages, and spent more than fifty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now all four books feature fresh new covers and will reach an even wider audience. Tally’s adventures begin in Uglies, where she learns the truth about what life as a Pretty really means. She rebels against the surgery that will make her a Pretty, but ultimately succumbs. In Pretties, Tally has forgotten all about her Ugly life, and when she’s reminded, she has a hard time listening. And what little’s left of the old Tally is further compromised in Specials, because Tally has been transformed into a fierce fighting machine. But when she’s offered a chance to forever improve civilization, will she be able to overcome her brainwashing? The answer is evident years later in Extras, after the Pretty regime has ended. Boundless human creativity, new technologies, and old dangers have been unleashed upon the world. But fame and popularity can be just as dangerous as extreme beauty…. | Simon Pulse |
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