Monday, June 6, 2011

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana

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The Dressmaker of Khair Khana By Gayle Tzemach Lemmon HarperCollins, 2011, 256 pgs. Kamila Sidiqi was raised in a family that prized ...

Ruby Red

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Ruby Red By Kerstin Gier Henry Holt, 2011. 330 pgs. Young Adult Gwyneth has only had to deal with normal teenage issues and the fact t...
Wednesday, June 1, 2011

The Betrayal of Maggie Blair

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The Betrayal of Maggie Blair By Elizabeth Laird Houghton Mifflin, 2011. 423 pages. Young Adult Maggie and her granny live in a one-room co...

The Dark Game: True Spy Stories

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The Dark Game: True Spy Stories By Paul B. Janeczko Candlewick Press, 2010. 248 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction Spies and spying is such a fasci...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

...Then I Met My Sister

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...Then I Met My Sister By Christine Hurley Deriso Flux, 2011. 269 pgs. Young Adult Summer's sister, Shannon, died before Summer was...

How to Ruin a Summer Vacation

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How to Ruin a Summer Vacation By Simon Elkeles Flux, 2006. 234 pgs. Young Adult Amy Nelson's father, who she refers to as Sperm Dono...

The Boy Who Dared

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The Boy Who Dared By Susan Campbell Baroletti Scholastic Press, 2008. 202 pgs. Young Adult In Nazi Germany, some people recognized Nazi...

Spiral

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Spiral by Paul McEuen Dial, 2011. 310 pgs. Mystery Microcrawlers and a death-dealing fungus combine in this thriller that begins just af...
Saturday, May 28, 2011

The Tourist

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The Tourist By Olen Steinhauer Minotaur Books, 2009. 408 pgs. Milo Weaver has a desk job with the CIA. Milo interrogates a man being h...

Cold Wind

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Cold Wind by C. J. Box G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2011. 388 pgs. Mystery. What if you were called upon to defend your mother-in-law agains...
Friday, May 27, 2011

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship that Changed the World

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship that Changed the World By Penny Coleman Henry Holt and Company, 2011. 256 pgs. Y...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language

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Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language By Douglas R. Hofstadter Basic Books, 1997. 632 pgs. Nonfiction This is one ...
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Revelation of the Magi: The Lost Tale of the Wise Men's Journey to Bethlehem

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Revelation of the Magi: The Lost Tale of the Wise Men's Journey to Bethlehem Translated by Brent Landau, with introduction, conclusion...

Blue Blood

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Blue Blood by Edward Conlon Riverside, 2004. 562 pgs. Biography. Edward Conlon is a Harvard-educated policeman who likes being a cop, ra...

What Happened to Goodbye

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What Happened to Goodbye By Sarah Dessen Viking Childrens Books, 2011. 402 pgs. Young Adult Since her parents' divorce, Mclean Sweet...
Monday, May 23, 2011

The Paris Wife

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The Paris Wife By Paula McLain Ballantine Books, 2011. 320 pgs. Fiction In The Paris Wife , Paula McLain opens a window for us into the ...

Small Acts of Amazing Courage

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Small Acts of Amazing Courage By Gloria Whelan Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2011. 217 pages. Young Adult Rosy is very...

Candy Bomber

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Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot" By Michael O. Tunnell Charlesbridge, 2010. 110 pgs. Young ...

The Throne of Fire

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The Throne of Fire By Rick Riordan Disney/Hyperion Books, 2011. 452 pgs. Young Adult In book 2 of the Kane Chronicles, Sadie and Carter ...

The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth

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The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory , and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School By Alexandra Robbins Hyperion, 201...

Swamplandia!

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Swamplandia ! By Karen Russell Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 315 pgs . Fiction On a small island in the rural swamplands of Florida lives Ava Bi...
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Illusions

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Illusions By Aprilynne Pike Harper, 2011. 375 pgs. Young Adult As her senior year of high school starts, Laurel is just beginning to adj...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality

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The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality By Richard Panek Houghton Mifflin Harco...

The Queen of Attolia

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The Queen of Attolia By Megan Whalen Turner Greenwillow Books, 2000. 368 pgs. Young Adult Eugenides, the thief of Eddis, gets caught in ...

The Ruby Notebook

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The Ruby Notebook By Laura Resau Delacorte Press, 2010. 373 pgs. Young Adult Sixteen-year-old Zeeta is living in France, the 16th countr...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest By Stephen E. Ambrose Simon ...

Buddha

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Buddha By Karen Armstrong Viking, 2001. 205 pgs. Nonfiction It seems that no one would argue that the Buddha was a remarkable and dedica...

The Dangerous Edge of Things

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The Dangerous Edge of Things By Tina Whittle Poisoned Pen Press, 2011. 281 pgs. Mystery Tai’s life is already a bit complicated. Desp...

Bitter End

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Bitter End By Jennifer Brown Little, Brown and Company, 2011. 359 pgs. Young Adult Alex and her two best friends, Zack and Bethany, are ...
Monday, May 16, 2011

Main Street

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Main Street By Sinclair Lewis Signet Classic, 1998 Originally published in 1920, this satirical novel depicts life in a small rural town...