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FIC ADA Adams The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Just before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is grabbed by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
FIC ADA Adams Life, The Universe and Everything
The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads, so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation.
FIC BUN Bunting The Presence
While visiting her grandmother in California, seventeen-year-old Catherine comes in contact with a mysterious stranger who says he can help her contact a friend who died in a car crash for which Catherine feels responsible. Summer Reading 2005.
FIC CAL Caletti Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
In the summer of her junior year, sixteen-year-old Ruby McQueen and her mother, both nursing broken hearts, set out on a journey to reunite an elderly woman with her long-lost love and in the process learn many things about the realities that bind people to one another.
FIC CHA Chandler The Long Goodbye
Marlowe befriends a down-on-his-luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lenox has a wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he’s divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. Now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a gangster are after Marlowe.
FIC COR Cornwell Trace
Deprived of assistance from colleagues, Scarpetta is faced with investigating the death of a fourteen-year-old girl, working with the smallest pieces of evidence, traces that only the most thorough hunters can identify. She must follow the twisting leads and track the strange details in order to make the dead speak, and to reveal the sad truth that may be more than even she can bear.
FIC DAL Dallas The Persian Pickle Club
1930 with hard times in Kansas, Queenie Bean, a young farm wife's highlights the weekly gathering of Persian Pickle Club, a group of local ladies. They work on improving their minds, exchanging gossip, and quilting. When a new member stirs up a dark secret, they must band together to support and protect.
FIC DAR Darrow The Painters of Lexieville
Seventeen-year-old Pert Lexie does not think things could get much worse in her small, impoverished community, but when her uncle's advances go too far, everything, including her determination to leave as soon as possible, suddenly changes.
FIC FLA Flagg A Redbird Christmas
Oswald T. Campbell leaves the cold and damp of
the Chicago to spend what he believes will be his last Christmas in Lost River,
a small town in Louisiana.
FIC FUN Funke The Thief Lord
Unabridged audiotape version. Set in Venice, Italy. After escaping from their cruel aunt and uncle, orphans Prosper and Bo meet a mysterious boy who calls himself the "Thief Lord." The Thief Lord leads a band of street children. Suddenly, Prosper and Bo find themselves on a fantastic journey to a forgotten place and make a discovery that will change their destiny. Summer Reading 2005.
FIC GIF Giff Pictures of Hollis Woods
Hollis Woods is a twelve-year-old girl who is an artist and has been in many foster homes. She is finally sent to stay with Josie, an elderly, eccentric artist. Hollis doesn't want anyone to separate them even though she draws pictures of one family, the Regans, that was so special to her. The book stresses the importance of family, creativity, and artistic vision. Summer Reading 2005.
FIC GRI Grisham The Rainmaker (audio version)
4 cassettes. In his final semester of law school, Rudy Baylor finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America, and exposing a complex, multibillion dollar insurance scam.
FIC HAD Haddix Among the Barons
Book four in the Shadow Children sequence. Sequel to Among the Betrayed. Luke Garner, an illegal third child, spent his first twelve years in hiding. Luke has for four months lived among the others with the identity of Lee Grant. Now Luke's little brother starts school. Luke finds himself caught in a tangle of lies, and wonders if he can trust Smits to keep his secret.
FIC HER Herrick Love, Ghosts, & Facial Hair
The companion to A Place Like This. A story related in free verse. Jack has many things on his mind: girls, his mother’s ghost, and facial hair. He meets beautiful, smart Annabel and suddenly love makes sense, and the future looks bright.
FIC HER Herrick A Place Like This
The companion to Love, Ghosts, & Facial Hair. A story related in free verse. Jack and Annabel have put off school and drive around the country. They stop to earn money at George's apple orchard. All is well, except that Jack recognizes something in George's family that his own family suffered from.
FIC HRD Hrdlitschka Kat’s Fall
When fifteen-year-old Darcy's mother is released from prison, he finds it is harder to love than to hate, until he too is accused of a horrific crime.
FIC JOH Johansen Dead Aim
Alex Graham, a photojournalist, has recorded some of the world's tragic and heartbreaking stories. Her latest assignment is dangerous. At a dam collapse in Colorado, she witnesses a conspiracy and knows that the dam collapse was not an accident. Her enemy never misses, never forgives, and never gives up.
FIC JOH Johansen Firestorm
For Kerry Murphy, the inferno is never far away. The flames of that long-ago night still burn in her nightmares. Now Kerry works as an arson investigator with her evidence-sniffing dog, Sam, and now her life is about to change. From out of the ashes a stranger, Silver, appears. Kerry and Silver may not have a chance against a psychopath as coldhearted as his method is red-hot. To save themselves and the innocent lives at stake, Kerry will have to do what she hoped she'd never have to do: fight fire with fire.
FIC KOJ Koja The Blue Mirror
Seventeen-year-old loner Maggy Klass, who frequently seeks a refuge from her alcoholic mother's apartment by sitting and drawing in a local cafe, becomes involved in a destructive relationship with a charismatic homeless youth named Cole.
FIC LEW Lewis The Crossroad
Sequel to The Postcard. After his discovery of a long-lost postcard, Philip Bradley simply cannot forget the Amish people he met while on assignment in Pennsylvania - particularly Rachel Yoder and her daughter, Annie. Philip's newfound knowledge of the true reason for Rachel's loss of sight spurs him on to uncover what he can about the possibility for a cure. Rachel has her own ideas about the way her vision might be restored, but as the memories of the trauma she suffered begin to resurface, Rachel questions whether she can bear the agonizing road to recovery, now that the memories of the trauma reoccur.
FIC MCC McCaughreab The Kite Rider
In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan. Summer Reading 2005.
FIC McW McWilliams Doormat
Fourteen-old Jamie has always been a doormat, but her diary reveals how getting the lead in a school play, finding her first boyfriend, discovering her dream, and helping her best friend cope with being pregnant transform her life.
FIC MON Monre God Still Don’t Like Ugly
The sequel to God Don't Like Ugly. Annette Goode is an overweight adult who has a lot of emotional baggage leftover from a horrible childhood. For 10 years, she was molested by a pedophile in her own home and made to feel inferior to other people because of her looks and weight. She has returned to her old home to resolve some of the things that she ran away from and mostly to confront Rhoda, her childhood friend that not only killed her molester Mr. BoatWright, but 4 others that she admitted to.
FIC MON Monroe Gonna Lay Down My Burdens
At 30, Carmen has spent her whole life in Belle Helene, Alabama, shouldering enough sadness and guilt to make her feel like an old woman. There are friends who have been lost in accidents, friends in destructive relationships, and her fiance, Burl, who has ended up in a wheelchair. To top it all off, Carmen has been in love with the unattainable Chester since she was a little girl. Luck finally shines down on her, and she spends one magical night with the man of her dreams, but guilt forces her to accept that she must stand by Burl whether she loves him or not.
FIC PIC Picoult Perfect Match
Assistant district attorney Nina Forst prosecutes child molesters. But when her own five-year-old son, Nathaniel, is traumatized by a sexual assault, Nina and her husband, Caleb, are ripped apart by a sense of helplessness. Nina's convictions are upset, and she exacts her own justice..
FIC PIC Picoult Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices
Jane Jones has lived in the shadow of her husband, oceanographer Oliver Jones. During an argument, Jane turns on him, and then leaves with their teenage daughter, Rebecca. The journey is charted by letters from her brother Joley, guiding them to his Massachusetts apple farm, where surprising self-discoveries await. Now Oliver will search for his wife across a continent, and find a new way to see the world, his family, and himself: through her eyes.
FIC PLU Plum-Ucci The SHE
Fourteen-year-old Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with his divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white suburban neighborhood.
FIC ROB Robbins Another Roadside Attraction
A former college football player, banished from organized football after a carnal episode with his coach's wife, is hiking through the wet wilderness of Olympic National Park. He comes upon a murdered Catholic monk with a letter of introduction. Stealing the monk's clothes and assuming his identity, he continues on the path until he arrives at what was to be the monk's destination: a completely unknown monastery that serves as a training ground for the Vatican hit squad. Passing himself off as the murdered monk, he soon finds himself transferred to duty at the Vatican where, after some time, he is able to use the confusion created by a rather severe earthquake to sneak his way into the lowest, off-limits section of the Vatican catacombs. Whose body does find, and what happens after that?
FIC ROB Robbins Skinny Legs and All
A painter's struggle with her art, a restaurant opened as an experiment in brotherhood, the journey of several inanimate objects to Jerusalem, a preacher's scheme to hasten Armageddon, and a performance of a legendary dance. In this book, the author’s primary concern is Middle Eastern politics, supplemented along the way with observations on art, religion, sex, and money.
FIC ROB Robbins Still Life With Woodpecker
A sort of love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romantic individualism, and paints a portrait of contemporary society that includes Arabs, exiled royalty and pregnant cheerleaders. It also deals with the problem of redheads.
FIC ROS Rossner Looking for Mr.Goodbar
Theresa is a lonely single girl, teaching underprivileged kids during the day and cruising the bar scene looking for love after dark. She’s looking in all the wrong places, and finds more than she bargains for.
FIC SHE Shelley Robert Andrew Parker’s Illustrated Frankenstein
The monster was supposed to be man's benefactor, but scorned for his ugliness, he swears revenge on his creator and the human race. Text by Mary Shelley.
FIC SOT Soto Taking Sides
Fourteen-year-old Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with his divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white suburban neighborhood. Summer Reading 2005.
FIC TRU Trueman Inside Out
A sixteen-year-old with schizophrenia is caught up in the events surrounding an attempted robbery by two other teens that eventually hold him hostage.
FIC VON Vonnegut God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
A man filled with love for humanity does random acts of kindness, and his wealthy family’s attorneys try to prove that he is insane.
FIC VON Vonnegut Mother Night
The author makes fun of sex, sin, and motherhood; of war and peace of the FBI and Communists; and the Nazis too.
FIC VON Vonnegut Player Piano
Based on the needs of today, is the story of life in Ilium, New York, where people have been replaced by machines. Dr. Paul Proteus revolts against the new electronic age.
FIC VON Vonnegut Sirens of Titan
Why should the richest depraved man in America blast off in his private space ship for parts unknown with one of the most beautiful woman capable of resisting him? What bizarre design lay behind the Martian’s strange invasion of Earth?
B ADDAMS BER Jane Addams: A Biography
Jane Addams, founder of Hull House. This is a chronicle of her childhood, her education constrained by notions of appropriate roles for females, and her success at bettering the lives of urban immigrants and social reform.
B CASTRO LEO Leonard Fidel Castro: A Biography
Describes Castro's life and career, including childhood, family, education, political endeavors, rise to political power, Cuban missile crisis, Bay of Pigs invasion and a timeline.
277.3 HAN Hankins Second Great Awakening and the Transcendentalists
Hankins details the wider impact the Second Great Awakening and Transcendentalism had on America’s social, political, racial, and gender matters.
299.514 LAO Laozi The Way of Life Lao Tzu
Translation of the eighty-one poems constituting an Eastern classic, the mystical and moral teachings which have influenced the scriptures of many religions.
333.72 ARE Are the World’s Coral Reefs Threatened?
A range of opinions on controversial issues using both primary and secondary sources. At Issue series.
335.6 BLU Blum The Rise of Fascism in Europe
A reference guide to the rise of fascism and the forces that brought about World War II.
363.192 FAS Fast Food
A range of opinions on controversial issues using both primary and secondary sources. At Issue series.
363.192 PRI Pringle Food, Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto, The Promise and Perils of the Biotech Harvest
Makes sense of the increasing complex food revolution in which production of a new miracle wheat is halted in the United States, skittish Europeans open their doors to a transgenic corn, and the developing world is left wondering what, if anything is in it for them.
385 STR Streissguth The Transcontinental Railroad
The stories behind the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad including the human endeavor with the scientific and technological principles required.
378.1 FUL Fuller The Missing Link: What You Really Need to Know to Maximize Your ACT or SAT Score!
How to be emotionally prepared to take ACT or SAT tests.
520 NAR Nardo The Trial of Galileo: Science versus the Inquisition
Summary of the trial of Galileo. Addresses the issue of why his trial remains memorable.
608 COO Cooper Patently Absurd: The Most ridiculous Devices Ever Invented
Shows designs of eccentric inventions.
613.7 GRE Greene Get With the Program: Getting Real About Your Weight, Health, and Emotional Well-Being
Keys to losing weight, keeping it off, and staying fit for a lifetime.
614.4 PET Peters Black Death
Describes the 1347-1351 outbreak of plague in Europe, known as the Black Death, which killed one out of three people and change the course of European history.
614.49 PET Peters The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Describes the 1918 influenza pandemic, from how World War I soldiers spread the disease to recent scientific efforts to understand the virus that took between twenty and forty million lives worldwide.
614.5 PET Peters Cholera: Curse of the Nineteenth Century
The history of cholera, the epidemics of 1831-1834, 1839, and 1854; and the strides made to eliminate it.
614.512 PET Peters Smallpox in the New World
Describes the history of smallpox in the Americas, covering the arrival of the Spanish as carriers, its spread throughout the New World, the development of the smallpox vaccine, the elimination of the disease, and its potential use as a terrorist weapon.
614.549 PET Peters The Battle Against Polio
The history of polio, examines the efforts of those in polio research, treatment, and prevention. It reports the global fight against the disease.
641.56 ING Inagram Vegetarian and Vegetable Cooking: The definitive encyclopedia of healthy vegetarian food
Features ideas for nutritious vegetarian recipes.
641.5972 BAY Bayless Authentic Mexican: Regional Cooking from the heart of Mexico
641.5972 BET Betty Crocker’s Mexican Cookbook
641.8653 BER Bernbaum Cake Bible
Many recipes for cakes, frostings, fillings, and toppings. Tips to making a really easy and good cake.
629.4 WOL Wolfe The Right Stuff
The first Americans in space were battling the Russians for control of the heavens by putting their lives on the line. It's the quality beyond bravery, beyond courage. It's men like Chuck Yeager, the greatest test pilot of all and the fastest man on earth. Pete Conrad, who almost laughed himself out of the running. Gus Grissom, who almost lost it when his capsule sank. John Glenn, the only space traveler whose apple-pie image wasn't a lie.
690.5 DOU Douglas Skyscrapers: A Social History in America
The history of skyscrapers examines how these tall buildings affected the cityscape and the people who worked in, lived in, and visited them. Focus is also on the architects, the steelworkers, the financiers, and the daredevils who attempt to conquer them. This book relates the impact of the skyscraper on popular culture, particularly film and literature.
726.6 LAC Lace The Medieval Cathedral
The story behind the building of the cathedrals in Europe including the stories of human endeavor, the scientific and technological principles required.
746.43 BAS Basic Knitting: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started
Teaches the skills need to knit and gives patterns for ten projects.
746.43 JEN Jensen Hooked on Crochet : 20 Sassy Projects
Teaches the crochet stitches and gives instructions for twenty projects.
759.4 BAI Bailey Renoir’s Portraits: Impressions of an Age
This sumptuously illustrated book is the first devoted exclusively to Renoir’s portraiture, and in it are gathered the finest examples of the portraits he painted during each period of his prolific career.
759.4 DIS Distel Gustave Caillebotte: Urban Impressionist
Caillebotte's vivid representations of Parisian life bridged the gap between Realism and Impressionism during the 1870s and early 1880s. His Paris Street: Rainy Day and Floorscrapers, each the subject of a fascinating, extensively illustrated analysis in this book, have become icons of the Impressionists' devotion to scenes of modern urban life.
759.4 STU Stuckey Claude Monet: 1840-1926
Discover the genius of Claude Monet through this highly informative guide, which tells the fascinating story of the life and work of one of the most famous figures in the history of art.
759.4 TUC Tucker Monet in the ‘90s: The Series Paintings
A comprehensive exhibition of the series of Monet.
782.1 SON Sondheim A Little Night Music
Romantic comedy.
795.43 GIB Gibson Hoyle’s Encyclopedia of Card Ga