Thursday, June 30, 2011

Code Talker

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Code Talker By Joseph Bruchac Dial Books, 2005. 231 pgs. Young Adult From the time he is sent to a boarding school run by whites and ass...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea By Barbara Demick Spiegel & Grau, 2009. 314 pgs. Nonfiction Barbara Demick describes ...
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Heart of a Samurai

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Heart of a Samurai By Margi Preus Amulet Books, 2010. 301 pgs. Young Adult In 1841, fourteen year old Manjiro, while out fishing with so...

Smokin' Seventeen

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Smokin’ Seventeen By Janet Evanovich Bantam Books, 2011. 308 pgs. Mystery. Stephanie Plum has a serious problem. She is in love with two...
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22 Britannia Road

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22 Britannia Road By Amanda Hodgkinson Viking, 2011. 323 pgs. Historical Fiction. World War II stories abound in recent literature, but ...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Can I See Your I.D.?

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Can I See Your I.D.? By Chris Barton Dial Books for Young Readers, 2011. 121 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction Chris Barton shares ten stories...

Matterhorn

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Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War By Karl Marlantes Atlantic Monthly Press, 2010. 600 pgs. Fiction. The horrors of war are brought a...

The Good Daughter

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The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life by Jasmin Darznik Grand Central Publishing, 2011. 324 pgs. Biography Raised i...
Monday, June 27, 2011

Stormbreaker

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Stormbreaker By Anthony Horowitz Philomel Books, 2001. 192 pgs . Young Adult Fiction A "reader" can either make or break a b...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

The Lemon Tree

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The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East By Sandy Tolan Bloomsbury, 2006. 362 Pgs . Nonfiction. The title of thi...

Bloody Times

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Bloody Times By James L. Swanson Collins, 2011. 196 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction Swanson describes the final days of the Civil War, with ...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

The Abraham Enigma

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The Abraham Enigma by Jack Lyon Deseret Book, 2010, 191 pages, Fiction FBI agent David Hunter's honeymoon with his new bride is inte...

Entwined

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Entwined By Heather Dixon Greenwillow Books, 2011. In a retelling of the old fairy tale of The Twelve Dancing Princesses , twelve roya...

The Wise Man's Fear

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The Wise Man’s Fear By Patrick Rothfuss DAW Books, 2011. 993 pgs. Fantasy This is the spellbinding story of Kvothe, a young but brillian...

Uncommon Criminals

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Uncommon Criminals By Ally Carter Disney/Hyperion Books, 2011. 295 pgs. Young Adult Katarina Bishop has found a new calling in life: re-...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

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Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance By Barack Obama Three Rivers Press, 2004. 442 pgs. Nonfiction This is Barack'...

The Warmth of Other Suns

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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration By Isabel Wilkerson Random House, 2010. 640 pages. Nonfiction. ...
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Left Neglected

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Left Neglected By Lisa Genova Gallery, 2011. 327 pages. Fiction Sarah Nickerson is a 37-year-old overachieving multitasker with a Harva...

A Blue So Dark

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A Blue So Dark By Holly Schindler Flux, 2010. 277 pages. Young Adult Aura's mother is a highly talented artist, but she's also s...
Monday, June 20, 2011

In the Garden of Beasts

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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin By Erik Larson Crown Trade, 2011. 448 pgs. Nonficti...
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The Book of Lies

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The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer Grand Central Pub., 2008. 336 pgs. Fiction Cal Harper is a former federal who now spends his days round...

Where She Went

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Where She Went By Gayle Forman Dutton, 2011. 264 pgs. Young Adult Adam, now a rising rock star, and Mia, a successful cellist, reunite i...
Saturday, June 18, 2011

God So Loved the World

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God So Loved the World By Eric D. Huntsman Deseret Book, 2011. 148 pgs. Nonfiction. Huntsman breaks down the last week of Christ's l...

When the Wall Came Down

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When the Wall Came Down By Serge Schmemann Kingfisher, 2006. 127 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction Schmemann, who was a New York Times correspo...
Friday, June 17, 2011

Swept Off Her Feet

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Swept Off Her Feet By Hester Browne Gallery Books, 2011. 330 pgs. Fiction. Everybody has a weakness, Evie Nicholson’s is that she is in ...

Paranormalcy

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Paranormalcy By Kiersten White HarperTeen, 2010. 335 pgs. Young Adult Evie just wants a normal life. But since she's the only human ...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

Created for Greater Things

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Created for Greater Things By Jeffrey R. Holland Deseret Book, 2011. 156 pgs. Nonfiction This collection of quotations from LDS Apostle ...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Princess for Hire

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Princess for Hire By Lindsey Leavitt Disney/Hyperion, 2010. 239 pgs. Young Adult Desi Bascomb despairs of her life: she's somewhat o...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition

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Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition By Karen Blumenthal Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press, 2011. 154 pgs. Young...

Simple Sewing for Baby

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Simple Sewing for Baby By Lotta Jansdotter Chronicle Books, 2009. 144 pgs. Nonfiction Jansdotter provides directions for twenty-four sew...