1. Fantasy
Shattered Soul Lenzi hears voices and has visions - gravestones, floods, a boy
with steel gray eyes. Her boyfriend, Zak, can't help, and
Lindsey, Mary everything keeps getting louder and more intense. Then Lenzi
meets Alden, the boy from her dreams, who reveals that she's
Pages: 326 a reincarnated Speaker - someone who can talk to and help
lost souls - and that he has been her Protector for centuries.
FIC LIN
The Casual Vacancy When Barry Fairbrother dies unexpectedly in his early forties,
the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is,
Rowling, J.K. seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and
an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a
Pages: 503 town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with
their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at
FIC ROW war with their pupils…. Pagford is not what it first seems. And
the empty seat left by Barry on the town’s council soon
becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet
seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion,
duplicity and unexpected revelations?
Skellig After moving into a new house, Michael discovers Skellig, the
man-owl-angel who lies motionless behind the tea chests in
Almond, David the abandoned garage. As disturbing as this discovery is, it is
the least of Michael's worries. The new house is a mess, his
Pages: 182 parents are distracted, and his brand-new baby sister is
seriously ill. Still, he can't get this mysterious creature out of
FIC ALM his mind – even as he wonders if he has really seen him at all.
Tithe Sixteen-year-old Kaye Fierch is not human, but she doesn't
know it. Sure, she knows she's interacted with faeries since
Black, Holly she was little – but she never imagined she was one of them.
Kaye spends most of her time taking care of a would-be rock
Pages: 331 star mom, but when her mom's latest boyfriend turns
homicidal, they return to Gram's house at the New Jersey
FIC BLA shore where Kaye hooks up with childhood friend Janet and
her gay brother, Corny Stone.
Ironside In the realm of Faerie, the time has come for Roiben's
coronation. Uneasy in the midst of the malevolent Unseelie
Black, Holly Court, pixie Kaye is sure of only one thing – her love for
Roiben. But when Kaye, drunk on faerie wine, declares herself
Pages: 323 to Roiben, he sends her on a seemingly impossible quest. Now
Kaye can't see or speak to Roiben unless she can find the one
FIC BLA thing she knows doesn't exist: a faerie who can tell a lie.

2. The Child Thief Born of faerie blood, Peter hunts abandoned children,
runaways and the hopeless, recruiting for his Devils in Avalon
Brom and promising them a place where you never have to grow
up. He conveniently fails to mention that Avalon's monsters
Pages: 481 are very real, and the Devils must practice their war games or
risk being tortured to death, eaten or worse.
FIC BRO
The Blue Girl Seventeen-year-old Imogene decides to reinvent herself after
moving to a new town with her family, hoping to leave behind
de Lint, Charles her tough, rebellious nature, befriending the high school
outcast and trying her best to avoid trouble, but when she
Pages: 368 gets on the wrong side of a gang of malicious fairies, Imogene
finds herself in more trouble than ever before.
FIC DE
One Hundred Years The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village
of Solitude founded by José ArcadioBuendía and occupied by
descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor's
Garcia Marquez, name: his sons, José Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons,
Gabriel Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio
Segundo. Then there are the women – the two Úrsulas, a
Pages: 417 handful of Remedios, Fernanda, and Pilar – who struggle to
remain grounded even as their men build castles in the air.
FIC GAR
Runemarks Seven o'clock on a Monday morning, five hundred years after
the end of the world, and goblins have been at the cellar
Harris, Joanne again. Not that anyone would admit it was goblins. In Maddy
world, order rules. Chaos, old gods, faeries, magic—all of
Pages: 526 these were supposedly vanquished centuries ago. But Maddy
knows that a small bit of magic has survived. The “ruinmark”
FIC HAR she was born with on her palm proves it—and makes the
other villagers fearful and suspicious that she is a witch.
Sign of the Raven Tomwould rather be home in Dorset enjoying his summer
vacation and hanging out with his mates. Instead, his cancer-
Hearn, Julie stricken mother has driven them both to London to stay with
her estranged mother. As soon as they arrive, Tom begins to
Pages: 328 hear voices from across the gap, a time portal in the
basement of his grandmother's house. Tom enters their 18th-
FIC HEA century world and, with the assistance of some 21st-century
technology, helps to free them from their oppressive lives.

3. The Foretelling Growing up the daughter of an Amazon queen who shuns her
because she is the product of a rape, Rain struggles to find her
Hoffman, Alice identity and prove herself. She rebels against the ways of her
tribe through her sister-like relationship with Lo and her
Pages: 182 feelings for a boy from a tribe of wanderers.
FIC HOF
A Wrinkle in Time Meg Murry, her brother Charles, and their friend Calvin,
embark on a journey through space and time, assisted by
L’Engle, Madeleine three otherworldly women, when they set out to find Meg's
father, a physicist who disappeared while experimenting with
Pages: 245 time travel.
FIC LEN
Floating Islands When Trei loses his family in a tragic disaster, he must search
out distant relatives in a new land with the majestic Floating
Neumeier, Rachel Islands. Trei is instantly sky-mad, and desperate to be a
kajurai himself. The only one who fully understands his
Pages: passion is Araene, his newfound cousin. Prickly, sarcastic, and
gifted, Araene has a secret of her own. Trei and Araene
FIC NEU quickly become conspirators as they pursue their individual
paths.
Sabriel After receiving a cryptic message from her father, Abhorsen, a
necromancer trapped in Death, 18-year-old Sabriel sets off
Nix, Garth into the Old Kingdom. Fraught with peril and deadly trickery,
her journey takes her to a world filled with parasitical spirits,
Pages: 491 Mordicants, and Shadow Hands. Sabriel, who has taken on
her father's title and duties, must now slip over the border
FIC NIX into the icy river of Death, sometimes battling the evil forces
that lurk there, waiting for an opportunity to escape into the
realm of the living.
East In the rural villages of Norway, there is an ancient belief that
children inherit the qualities of the direction in which they are
Pattou, Edith born. Nymah Rose, the last daughter of eight siblings born to
a poor mapmaker and his superstitious wife, was a North-
Pages: 507 born baby. North-born babies are wild, unpredictable, and
destined to break their mothers' hearts because they all leave
FIC PAT home to travel to the far ends of the earth. Rose’s mother lied
and told her she had been born of the East, but destiny
cannot be denied.

4. The Children of With the lands of Middle-earth populated by Men and other
Hurin humanoid races: Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs, as well as divine
beings, Maiar and Valar. This story concentrates on a Man of
Tolkien, J.R.R. the House of Hador, TúrinTurambar, and his sister
NiënorNíniel, who are cursed along with their father Húrin by
Pages: 320 the Dark Lord Morgoth. The events take place more than
6,500 years before the War of the Ring.
FIC TOL
The Hobbit Bilbo Baggins, an upstanding member of the "little people.”
He is, like most of his kind, well off, well fed, and best pleased
Tolkien, J. R. R. when sitting by his own fire with a pipe, a glass of good beer,
and a meal to look forward to. When Gandalf the Grey invites
Pages: 320 him on an adventure, he feverishly refuses, but before he can
even grab his hat or an umbrella, Bilbo Baggins is swept out
FIC TOL his door and into a dangerous adventure.
Tril is a world where Barrons and Healers are Bound to each
Soulbound
other: Barrons fight and Healers cure their Barrons' wounds in
Brewer, Heather the ongoing war with the evil Graplar King. Seventeen-year-old
Kaya was born a Healer, but she wants to fight. Kaya must learn
Pages: 394 in secret how to fight, but she is Bound to a Barron who is
unwilling to teach her.
FIC BRE
Gemma seems to have it all—she’s carefree, pretty, and falling in
love with Alex, the boy next door. One night she takes a late
Wake
night swim when she finds Penn, Lexi and Thea partying on the
Hocking, Amanda cove. After joining them, she wakes up on the beach feeling
groggy and sick, knowing something is different. Her new powers
Pages: 309 come with a terrifying price. And as she uncovers the truth, she’s
is forced to choose between staying with those she loves—or
FIC HOC
entering a new world brimming with dark hungers and
unimaginable secrets.

5. Historical Fiction
Ashes Berlin, 1932. Thirteen-year-old Gabriella Schramm's world is
slowly, but steadily, crumbling as Adolf Hitler rises to power.
Lasky, Kathryn The only thing that soothes Gabriella is her favorite pastime-
reading. But then her country's tensions rise, the streets fill
Pages: 320 with soldiers, Gaby's sister's boyfriend raises his arm in a heil
Hitler salute, and a family friend-Albert Einstein-flees the
FIC LAS country. And her only solace-her books-come under attack.
Bring up the Bodies The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner
and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart
Mantel, Hilary of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn
Pages: 407 Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is
disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a
FIC MAN son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his
old friends and the noble families of England. When the
discarded Katherine dies in exile from the court, Anne stands
starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice.
The Fitzosbornes Sophie FitzOsborne and the royal family of Montmaray
At War escaped their remote island home when the Nazis attacked.
But as war breaks out in England and around the world,
Cooper, Michelle nowhere is safe. Sophie fills her journal with tales of a life
during wartime. Blackouts and the Blitz. Dancing in nightclubs
Pages: 552 with soliders on leave. And endlessly waiting for news of her
brother Toby, whose plane was shot down over enemy
FIC COO territory.
The Kitchen Boy Narrated by 94-year-old Mikhail Semyanov, a Russian
immigrant now living outside Chicago, the novel travels back to
Alexander, Robert the bloody days of the Russian revolution, when the entire
Romanv family is imprisoned in Siberia. There, the seven
Pages: 229 Romanovs-Tsar Nikolai, his wife Aleksandra, their son, Aleksei,
and their four daughters are confined with a small staff of
FIC ALE attendants, including Leonka, the kitchen boy of the title, who
may or may not be narrator Mikhail.

6. Chains Set in New York City at the beginning of the American
Revolution, Chains addresses the price of freedom both for a
Anderson, Laurie nation and for individuals. Isabel tells the story of her life as a
Halse slave. She was sold with her five-year-old sister to a cruel
Loyalist family even though the girls were to be free upon the
Pages: 316 death of their former owner.
FIC AND
The Pox Party Octavian, a young African American, and his mother, an African
princess, are kept isolated on an estate, and only as he grows
Anderson, M. T. older does he realize that while he is well dressed and well fed,
he is a captive being used by his guardians as part of an
Pages: 351 experiment to determine the intellectual acuity of Africans.
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle his
FIC AND experiences from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up
during the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary
War.
The Kingdom on After escaping a death sentence in the summer of 1775,
the Waves Octavian and his tutor find shelter but no safe harbor in British-
occupied Boston and, persuaded by Lord Dunmoreâs
Anderson, M. T. proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join his
counterrevolutionary Royal Ethiopian Regiment, Octavian and
Pages: 555 his friends soon find themselves engaged in naval raids on the
Virginia coastline as the Revolutionary War breaks out in full
FIC AND force.
Wish You Well In 1940, after a car accident kills Lou and Oz's father and leaves
their mother Amanda in a catatonic trance, the children find
Baldacci, David themselves sent from New York City to their great-
grandmother Louisa's farm in Virginia. Louisa's hardscrabble
Pages: 420 existence comes as a profound shock to precocious Lou and
her shy brother. Still struggling to absorb their abandonment,
FIC BAL they enter gamely into a life that tests them at every turn--and
offers unimaginable rewards.
What I Saw and In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and
How I Lied family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the
handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on
Blundell, Judy Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose
devastating outcome change her life and that of her family
Pages: 284 forever.
FIC BLU

7. The Boy in the Bruno’s father has received a promotion and the family must
Striped Pyjamas move from their home to a new house far away, where there is
no one to play with and nothing to do. Bruno longs to be an
Boyne, John explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate
new place than what meets the eye. While exploring his new
Pages: 215 environment, he meets another boy whose life and
circumstances are very different to his own, and their meeting
FIC BOY results in a friendship that has devastating consequences.
O Pioneers! The book takes place on the plains of Nebraska in the late 19th
Century as the Prairie is settled by immigrants trying to make a
Cather, Willa living from what appears to be a harsh, inhospitable land. The
heroine of the book is Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish
Pages: 230 immigrant farmer in Nebraska. She inherits the family farm
and finds love with an old friend.
FIC CAT
Girl With a Pearl In a thrilling emulation of Jan Vermeer's artistic style, Tracy
Earring Chevalier uses scenes drawn from everyday life and
painstaking attention to detail to tell the story of Griet, a 16-
Chevalier, Tracy year-old girl who is required by her family's misfortunes to
become a maid in the Vermeer household. This book imagines
Pages: 233 the young woman in the mysterious painting "The Girl With a
Pearl Earring" as a sixteen-year-old Dutch girl named Griet who
FIC CHE sparks the interest of the artist when she becomes a maid in
his turbulent household.
My Brother Sam is All his life, Tim Meeker has looked up to his brother Sam. Sam's
Dead smart and brave -- and is now a part of the American
Revolution. Not everyone in town wants to be a part of the
Collier, James rebellion. Most are supporters of the British -- including Tim
and Sam's father. With the war soon raging, Tim knows he'll
Pages: 216 have to make a choice – between the Revolutionaries and the
Redcoats . . . and between his brother and his father.
FIC COL
The Great Santini Set in the time of the Vietnam War, this story is about Bull
Meecham. He’s all Marine-fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and
Conroy, Pan absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife—beautiful,
southern-bred, with a core of velvet steel. Without her cool
Pages: 480 head, her kids would be in real trouble. Ben is the oldest, a
born athlete who’s best never satisfies the big man. Ben’s got
FIC CON to stand up, even fight back, against a father who doesn’t give
in—not to his men, not to his wife, and certainly not to his son.

8. The Last of the Hawkeye, a young frontier scout, and Chingachgook, a
Mohicans Mohican Indian, form an unlikely friendship as they attempt to
guide two sisters through hostile country in search of their
Cooper, James father. The chase is vividly described as going through
Fenimore picturesquely described forests, swirling waters, caves, and
Indian villages. The English had managed to vanquish most of
Pages: 562 the native Indians, but there were still some tribes who
attempted to maintain their independence. It is action
FIC COO packed, romantic and adventurous, set during the peak of the
French and Indian War in America.
The Red Badge of The story revolves around Henry Fleming, a member of the
Courage 304th regiment of the Union Army. At the start of the novel
Henry is eager to show his patriotism in battle but when faced
Crane, Stephen with the savagery of death he flees the frontline. Throughout
the novel Henry struggles with his courage in the face of the
Pages: 138 horror of war. The Red Badge of Courage is a timeless realistic
depiction of the psychological turmoil of war from the
FIC CRA perspective of an ordinary soldier.
Private Captain Twelve-year-old Ben sets off secretly from Lancaster to find his
older brother, Reuben, an officer in the 106th Pennsylvania
Crisp, Marty Company A, and bring him back to run the family store after
their father's death. Ben is joined by Reuben's dog Captain, an
Pages: 293 extremely loyal and capable hunter with "the best nose in
three counties.” They encounter burning bridges, shooting,
FIC CRI deserters, and wounded. All the while they are heading to the
Battle of Gettysburg, where they realize the enormity of war.
Bud, Not Buddy Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan,
during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and
Curtis, Christopher sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father – the
Paul renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. Guided
only by a flier for one of Calloway's shows, Bud sets off to track
Pages: 245 down his supposed dad, a man he's never laid eyes on.
FIC CUR
Tallgrass Thirteen-year-old Rennie Stroud finds her hometown of
Tallgrass, Colorado, changed forever when the government
Dallas, Sandra builds a Japanese internment camp in the rural area and the
prisoners become the target of the townspeople who believe
Pages: 305 Japanese-Americans are the enemy. Rennie's obvious love of
family slowly extends itself to the Japanese house and field
FIC DAL helpers the Strouds receive permission to hire.

9. Corelli’s Mandolin In the early days of WWII, before Benito Mussolini invaded
Greece, Dr. Iannis practices medicine on the island of
De Bernieres, Louis Cephalonia, accompanied by his daughter, Pelagia, to whom he
imparts much of his healing art. It isn't long before Pelagia gets
Pages: 437 involved in a heated affair with a man on the enemy’s side.
Love is complicated enough in wartime, even when the lovers
FIC DE are on the same side. And for Corelli and Pelagia, it becomes
increasingly difficult to negotiate the minefield of allegiance.
The Red Tent The red tent is the place where women gathered during their
cycles of birthing, menses, and even illness. Like the
Diamant, Anita conversations and mysteries held within this feminine tent, this
sweeping piece of fiction offers an insider's look at the daily life
Pages: 321 of a biblical sorority of mothers and wives and their one and
only daughter, Dinah. Told in the voice of Jacob's daughter
FIC DIA Dinahwe are privy to the fascinating feminine characters who
bled within the red tent.
Copper Sun The story begins with a 15-year-old African girl's journey
through American slavery. Beginning in Amari's Ashanti village,
Draper, Sharon the idyllic scene explodes in bloodshed when slavers arrive and
murder her family. Amari and her beloved, Besa, are shackled,
Pages: 314 and so begins the account of impossible horrors from the slave
fort, the Middle Passage, and auction on American shores,
FIC DRA where a rice plantation owner buys Amari for his 16-year-old
son's sexual enjoyment.
The Pillars of the Set in twelfth-century England this book tells the story of
Earth Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk
driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has
Follett, Ken known, Tom, the mason who becomes his architect-a man
divided in his soul, of the beautiful and elusive Lady Aliena,
Pages: 983 haunted by a secret shame, and of a struggle between good
and evil that will turn church against state, and brother against
FIC FOL brother.
Johnny Tremain This story of a tragically injured young silversmith who ends up
knee-deep in the American Revolution is inspiring, exciting, and
Forbes, Esther sad. Winner of the prestigious Newbery Award in 1944, Esther
Forbes's story has lasted these 50-plus years by including
Pages: 269 adventure, loss, courage, and history in a wonderfully written,
very dramatic package.
FIC FOR

10. Cold Mountain Inman, a wounded Confederate soldier, leaves the hospital
where he is being treated and determines to walk home to his
Frazier, Charles sweetheart Ada, only to find the land and the girl he
remembers are as changed by the war as he is. This book is a
Pages: 356 journey, a voyage through time and space and an exploration
of the human spirit. For Inman, the torturous wanderings test
FIC FRA his will to survive. For Ada, putting down roots opens a new life
of discipline and learning.
Memoirs of a Nitta Sayuri, a young Japanese woman who was taken from her
Geisha home at the age of nine and sold into slavery as a geisha,
discovers a rare opportunity for freedom when the outbreak of
Golden, Arthur World War II forces an end to the only life she has ever known.
Pages: 434
FIC GOL
Summer of my Minutes before the train pulled into the station in Jenkinsville,
German Soldier Arkansas, Patty Bergen knew something exciting was going to
happen. But she never could have imagined that her summer
Greene, Bette would be so memorable. German prisoners of war have arrived
to make their new home in the prison camp in Jenkinsville. To
Pages: 230 the rest of her town, these prisoners are only Nazis. But to
Patty, a young Jewish girl with a turbulent home life, one boy in
FIC GRE particular becomes an unlikely friend.
White Ghost Girls While their father is away photographing the war in Vietnam,
13-year-old Kate, the book's, and her big sister, Frances, revel
Greenway, Alice in the simple life of Pok Fu Lam village. Their mother, on the
other hand, spends her time pining for their absent father and
Pages: 168 painting watercolors that picture grassy western knolls. As
Frances grows wilder, Kate is forced to look more closely at
FIC GRE their father's growing addiction to war reporting and their
mother's lack of engagement with her surroundings and family.
Days of Infamy In this story of the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the notorious
gambler Yamamoto is pitted against the equally legendary
Gringrich, Newt American admiral Bill Halsey in a battle of wits, nerve, and skill.
Days of Infamy recounts this alternative history from a
Pages: 369 multitude of viewpoints – from President Roosevelt, Prime
Minister Churchill, and the two great admirals, on down to
FIC GRI American pilots flying antiquated aircraft, bravely facing the
vastly superior Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft.

11. Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor covers the full spectrum of characters and events
from that historic moment, from national leaders and admirals
Gringrich, Newt to the views of ordinary citizens caught in the chaos of war.
From the chambers of the Emperor of Japan to the American
Pages: 384 White House, from the decks of aircraft carriers to the playing
fields of the Japanese Naval Academy, this story portrays the
FIC GRI horrific brutality of war, and the desperate efforts of men of
reason on both sides.
A Time to Kill In Clanton, Mississippi, the life of a ten-year-old girl is
shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The
Grisham, John mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the
inhuman crime, until her black father acquires an assault rifle
Page: 515 and takes justice into his own outraged hands.
FIC GRI
Water For When Jacob jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of
Elephants freaks, drifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to
survive during the Great Depression. A veterinary student
Gruen, Sara who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring
for the circus menagerie. It is there he meets Marlena, the
Pages: 350 beautiful star of the equestrian act, who is married to August,
the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. He also meets
FIC GRU Rosie, an elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a
way to reach her.
Snow Falling on Set on an island in the straits north of Puget Sound, in
Cedars Washington, where everyone is either a fisherman or a berry
farmer, the story is nominally about a murder trial. But since
Guterson, David it's set in the 1950s, lingering memories of World War II,
internment camps and racism helps fuel suspicion of a
Pages: 460 Japanese-American fisherman, a lifelong resident of the
islands.
FIC GUT
Sarah Presents a novel based on the life of the Old Testament
character Sarah, the daughter of a powerful lord who employs
Halter, Marek drastic measures in an attempt to avoid an arranged marriage
and whose actions lead her to give up her exalted life to join
Pages: 325 Abram, a member of a nomadic tribe and follower of the one
true God.
FIC HAL

12. Snow in August In 1940s Brooklyn, friendship between an 11-year-old Irish
Catholic boy and an elderly Jewish rabbi might seem as unlikely
Hamill, Pete as, well, snow in August. But the relationship between young
Michael Devlin and Rabbi Judah Hirsch is only one of the many
Pages: 384 miracles large and small contained in the novel. Michael finds
himself in trouble when he witnesses the 17-year-old leader of
FIC HAM the dreaded Falcons gang beating an elderly shopkeeper, but
Michael feels he must keep the secret.
The Minister’s In 1645 in England during the English civil war, the daughters of
Daughter the town minister successfully accuse a local healer and her
granddaughter of witchcraft to conceal an out-of-wedlock
Hearn, Julie pregnancy, but years later during the 1692 Salem trials their lie
has unexpected repercussions.
Pages: 263
FIC HEA
Catch 22 A bombardier, based in Italy during World War II, repeatedly
tries to avoid flying bombing missions while his colonel tries to
Heller, Joseph get him killed by demanding that he fly more and more
missions.
Pages: 463 This book is a comedic attack on the rules that organizations
make and self-centered people who make them. It's also a
FIC HEL surprisingly poignant and powerful anti-war novel, one that
questions the foundations of patriotism and obedience that
lead soldiers to fight. It takes place in the heart of World War II.
A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms is one of Hemingway's earliest novels. With
much of the material loosely based on his own personal
Hemingway, Ernest experiences as an ambulance driver during World War I, the
story captures in great detail the conflict in all of its horror and
Pages: 322 barbarism. The book invites us to imagine all of the brave
soldiers who went into the war in search of glory. What they
FIC HEM found instead was the endless stalemate and hideous prospect
of trench warfare.
The Widow of the Carrie McGavock, The Widow of the South, took it upon herself
South to grieve the loss of so many young men in the battle of
Franklin, Tennessee, which took place on November 30, 1864.
Hicks, Robert Nine thousand men lost their lives that day. She and her
husband John eventually re-buried on their own land 1,481
Pages: 436 Confederate soldiers killed at Franklin, when the family that
owned the land on which the original shallow graves had been
FIC HIC dug decided to plow it under and put it into cultivation.

13. The Kite Runner This book follows the story of Amir, a privileged boy living in
Kabul, and Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant. As
Hosseini, Khaled children, the boys are inseparable until an unspeakable event
changes the nature of their relationship forever, and eventually
Pages: 371 cements their bond in ways neither boy could have ever
predicted. Amir remains haunted by his cowardly actions and
FIC HOS disloyalty. Returning back to his war-torn native land, Amir
finds solace through ways he never would have expected.
A Thousand This book is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events
Splendid Suns of Afghanistan’s last thirty years—from the Soviet invasion to
the reign of the Taliban to the post-Taliban rebuilding—that
Hosseini, Khaled puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country in
intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of
Pages: 372 characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of
war, where personal lives—the struggle to survive, raise a
FIC HOS family, find happiness—are inextricable from the history
playing out around them.
Les Miserables Taking place in 19th century France this is a story about Jean
Valjean, a convict freshly out of prison after serving nineteen
Hugo, Victor years hard labor for stealing a loaf of bread. Bitter and angry,
he became determined to have his revenge against society and
Pages: 1232 God. But an unthinkable act of mercy and generosity by a
bishop drastically alters the path of Valjean’s life. From that
FIC HUG point on, Valjean determines to live as an honest man and raise
Cosette whom he loves as his own daughter.
The Distance from Mead parachuted into Normandy on D-Day and fought his way
Normandy to Germany, through some of the most brutal violence of
World War II. But his most difficult battle was lost years later,
Hull, Jonathan when his beloved wife Sophie succumbed to cancer. Since
then, he has waged a private war against both loneliness and
Pages: 320 the terrible memory of a day in 1945 that went horribly wrong-
and has haunted him ever since. His grandson Andrew, a
FIC HUL scared and angry high school sophomore, has been expelled
and is heading down a path of self-destruction. Mead agrees to
take the boy in for three weeks, to set him right.
Annie John A fictional account of a young girl's coming of age in Antigua,
from a doted upon childhood to an adolescence fraught with
Kincaid, Jamaica events and alliances leading her away from mutual complacent
acceptance. It is the tale of a family's disintegration told from
Pages: 148 the perspective of Annie, 10. The story revolves around
Annie's transformation from an adoring, obedient child to
FIC KIN rebellious, hardheaded outcast within her own home. It is a
classic love-hate tale where balance is somehow lost.

14. The Poisonwood In Belgium in 1959 Nathan, a Baptist preacher, and his family
Bible have come to spread the Word in a remote village reachable
only by airplane. To say that he and his family are woefully
Kingsolver, Barbara unprepared would be an understatement. In addition to
poisonous snakes, dangerous animals, and the hostility of the
Pages: 546 villagers to Nathan's fiery take-no-prisoners brand of
Christianity, there are also rebels in the jungle and the threat
FIC KIN of war in the air.
A Separate Peace Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year
in which he and his best friend Phineas were roommates in a
Knowles, John New Hampshire boarding school. Their friendship is marred by
Finny's crippling fall, an event for which Gene is responsible
Pages: 204 and one that eventually leads to tragedy.
FIC HAL
The Historian A young woman discovers an ancient book and a cache of old
letters in her father's library, and thus begins her adventurous
Kostova, Elizabeth quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, a search that will
span continents and generations, and a confrontation with the
Pages: 676 darkest powers of evil. Kostova has three basic story lines–one
from 1930, when Professor Rossi begins his dangerous
FIC KOS research into Dracula, one from 1950, when Professor Rossi's
student takes up the scent, and the main narrative from 1972.
Ashes In 1932 Berlin, thirteen-year-old Gaby Schramm witnesses the
beginning of Hitler's rise to power, as soldiers become
Lasky, Kathryn ubiquitous, her beloved literature teacher starts wearing a
jeweled swastika pin, and the family's dear friend, Albert
Pages: 309 Einstein, leaves the country while Gaby's parents secretly bury
his books and papers in their small yard. This book portrays
FIC LAS the steady change that occurred in countries and communities
during Hitler’s reign of power.
When Crickets Cry On the shaded town square in a sleepy Southern town, a
spirited seven-year-old has a brisk business at her lemonade
Martin, Charles stand. Her latest customer drains his cup and heads to his car,
his mind on other things. But the little girl's pretty yellow dress
Pages: 336 can't quite hide the ugly scar on her chest. The stranger
understands more about it than he wants to admit. And the
FIC MAR beat-up bread truck careening around the corner with its radio
blaring is about to change the path of both their lives.

15. Purple Heart While recuperating in a Baghdad hospital from a traumatic
brain injury sustained during the Iraq War, eighteen-year-old
McCormick, soldier Matt Duffy struggles to recall what happened to him
Patricia and how it relates to his ten-year-old friend, Ali. Matt just
wants to go back to being the soldier he once was. But he lives
Pages: 224 in fear of not being able to pull the trigger when the time
comes. In combat, Matt soon discovers that the notion of who
FIC MCC is right or wrong is very complicated indeed.
The Bridges at Story of the men of a naval task force operating in the icy
Toko-Ri waters off the Korean shore with a vital mission to perform; to
destroy with jet bombers the heavily guarded bridge at Toko-ri
Michener, James A. and thus to stop essential supplies from moving to the
Communist front lines. Young and innocent, the soldiers came
Pages: 126 to a place they had barely heard of and prepared for war. They
were American fighter pilots, trained but frightened, facing an
FIC MIC enemy they couldn't understand, and waging a war they had to
win.
Gone With the The story of Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled and selfish daughter of
Wind a wealthy plantation owner, who arrives at young womanhood
just in time to see the Civil War sweep away the life for which
Mitchell, Margaret her upbringing had prepared her. This book gives an account
of the ugly end of the gallant “Old South” and a post-war
Pages: 719 description of the south while giving readers one of the best
love stories ever written.
FIC MAR
Coming of Age in Born to a poor couple in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through
Mississippi some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in
the South. An all-A student whose dream of going to college is
Moody, Anne realized when she wins a basketball scholarship. She has first-
hand experience of the demonstrations and sit-ins that were
Pages:384 the mainstay of the civil rights movement. This autobiography
lets us see history in the making, through the eyes of one of
FIC MOO the footsoldiers in the civil rights movement.
Beloved In the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a
murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave. This
Morrison, Toni angry, destructive ghost breaks mirrors, leaves its fingerprints
in cake icing, and generally makes life difficult for Sethe and
Pages: 321 her family; nevertheless, the woman finds the haunting oddly
comforting for the spirit is that of her own dead baby, never
FIC MOR named, only thought of as Beloved.

16. Fallen Angels Set in the trenches of the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, Fallen
Angelsis the story of Perry, a Harlem teenager who volunteers
Myers, Walter for the service when his dream of attending college falls
Dean through. Sent to the front lines, Perry and his platoon come
face-to-face with the Vietcong and the real horror of warfare.
Pages: 309 But violence and death aren't the only hardships as Perry
struggles to come to terms with why the U.S. is there at all.
FIC MYE
The Things They A gripping series of Vietnam stories gathered in a format of
Carried O'Brien's devising. It is not a collection of short stories, but it is
not one story with a beginning and an ending. It is perhaps
O’Brien, Tim closest to listening to a soldier storyteller over a long period of
time. While you listen to his stories, you hear a bit of the
Pages: 246 author’s personal life; he uses repetition of events and certain
phrases to reinforce familiarity with the tales.
FIC OBR
Bamboo People A Burmese boy soldier and an ethnic Karenni refugee narrate a
thrilling jungle survival story about war along the Myanmar
Perkins, Mitali border. In an unsparing novel for middle-grade readers, Perkins
sorts out the boys’ complicated feelings about revenge, justice,
Pages: 272 freedom and loyalty. The title metaphor honors the strength
and flexibility that individuals need when their simplest hopes
FIC PER are thwarted by geopolitical hatred.
The Chosen Recounts the story of ReuvenMalter and Danny Saunders – one
an orthodox Jew, the other the son of a Hasidic rabbi--and the
Potok, Chaim course of their friendship as they grow up in Brooklyn. Despite
their differences, they negotiate adolescence, family conflicts,
Pages: 272 the crisis of faith engendered when Holocaust stories begin to
emerge in the U.S., loss, love, and the journey to adulthood.
FIC POT
My Jim Ex-slave Sadie Watson reveals to her granddaughter her
experiences while in bondage and the love she had for her
Rawles, Nancy husband, Jim, who escaped down the Mississippi with Huck
Finn when he learned he was to be sold.
Pages: 190
FIC RAW

17. In My Father’s For two sisters growing up surrounded by the Civil War, there
House is conflict both outside and inside their home as their new step
father’s beliefs contradict that of their late biological father’s.
Rinaldi, Ann This book is about love, family loyalty and the conflict between
the “Old South” and the “New South.” It gives a rare account
Pages: 336 of what it might have been like as a woman during the Civil
War period in the southern United States.
FIC RIN
Scarlett A sequel to Gone With the Wind, this book makes you come
back to Tara . . . to Scarlett and Rhett . . . and to the greatest
Ripley, Alexandra love story in all fiction. This is the book whose initial
publication was an instant sensation: selling out immediately,
Pages: 823 setting new records, and enthralling readers all over the world.
This is the book everyone wants to read, savor and enjoy
FIC RIP
The Plot Against A novel that imagines what might have happened in America,
America particularly to one Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, had
Charles Lindbergh won the 1940 presidential election rather
Roth, Philip than Franklin Roosevelt and acted upon his anti-Semitic
leanings.
Pages: 391
FIC ROT
Esperanza Rising Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of
wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of
Ryan, Pam Munoz Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh
circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the
Pages: 262 Great Depression.
FIC RYA
Peony in Love In post-Ming dynasty China, Peony, a young girl betrothed to
someone she has never met, observes a handsome man while
See, Lisa hidden from view at a performance of the opera "The Peony
Pavilion"--a work that has compelled young Chinese women to
Pages: 284 starve themselves to death – and, dead at sixteen, begins a
transformative journey as a "hungry ghost."
FIC SEE

18. Snow Flower and Set in remote 19th-century China details the deeply affecting
the Secret Fan story of lifelong, intimate friends Lily and Snow Flower, their
imprisonment by rigid codes of conduct for women and their
See, Lisa betrayal by pride and love. Beginning with a detailed and
heartbreaking description of Lily and her sisters' foot binding
Pages: 276 the story widens to a vivid portrait of family and village life.
FIC SEE
Rise to Rebellion A historical novel that chronicles the story of the American
Revolution and the men and women who forged the nation,
Shaara, Jeff covering events from the Boston Massacre to the signing of the
Declaration of Independence. The story is told from the
Pages: 492 perspective of a handful of characters well known from our
history books. Richly embroidered with such heroes as Patrick
FIC SHA Henry, Thomas Paine, Paul Revere, John Hancock and Thomas
Jefferson, the book chronicles America's plunge toward liberty.
The Guernsey The letters comprising this small charming novel begin in 1946,
Literary and Potato when single, 30-something author Juliet Ashton (nom de plume
Peal Pie Society Izzy Bickerstaff) writes to her publisher to say she is tired of
covering the sunny side of war and its aftermath. When
Shaffer, Mary Ann Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams finds Juliet's name in a used
book and invites articulate—and not-so-articulate—neighbors
Pages: 290 to write Juliet with their stories, the book's epistolary circle
widens, putting Juliet back in the path of war stories.
FIC SHA
Balzac and the Two boys, moved to the country for "re-education" as part of
Little Chinese Mao's Cultural Revolution, find little to amuse them, but things
Seamstress change when they discover a stash of Western classics in
Chinese translation and use the stories of Balzac to capture the
Dai, Sijie attention of the beautiful daughter of the local tailor.
Pages: 197
FIC DAI
The Jungle This book describes the conditions of the Chicago stockyards
through the eyes of a young immigrant struggling in America.
Sinclair, Upton It is one of a handful of books throughout all of history which
have encapsulated the crying voices of the oppressed. While
Pages: 349 many readers and politicians at the time of its publication (and
since) have focused on the intolerable conditions in which
FIC SIN American food products were produced, the major thrust in
"The Jungle" is in regards to the ill-treatment of our workers.

19. A Tree Grows in Young Francie Nolan, having inherited both her father's
Brooklyn romantic and her mother's practical nature, struggles to
survive and thrive growing up in the slums of Brooklyn in the
Smith, Betty early twentieth century. Like the Tree of Heaven that grows
out of cement or through cellar gratings, resourceful Francie
Pages: 493 struggles against all odds to survive and thrive.
FIC SMI
East of Eden The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton
families in the early 1900s in Northern California. It is a
Steinbeck, John symbolic recreation of the biblical story of Cain and Abel
woven into a history of Salinas Valley, California. Spanning the
Pages: 602 period between the American Civil War and the end of World
War I, the novel highlights the conflicts of two generations of
FIC STE brothers; the first being the kind, gentle Adam Trask and his
wild brother Charles.
The Grapes of Taking place during the great depression, this book chronicles
Wrath the struggles of the Joad family's life on a failing Oklahoma
farm, their difficult journey to California, and their
Steinbeck, John disillusionment once they arrive there and fall prey to a
parasitic economic system. The insularity of the Joads – Ma's
Pages: 455 obsession with family togetherness, son Tom's self-
centeredness, and daughter Rose of Sharon's materialism –
FIC STE ultimately gives way to a sense of universal community.
The Help Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and
begins to write stories about the African-American women that
Stockett, Kathryn are found working in white households, which includes
Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for
Pages: 451 her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend,
the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.
FIC STO
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Presents the controversial novel, published in 1852, in which
author Harriet Beecher Stowe offers an indictment of the pre-
Stowe, Harriet Civil War South through the story of Uncle Tom, an elderly
Beecher slave who maintains his human dignity in the face of cruelty,
suffering, and death. Tom is actually one of American
Pages: 515 literature’s first African-American heroes, a man who suffers
for refusing to obey his white oppressors.
FIC STO

20. Chasing Lincoln’s The YA version of Swanson's bestselling Manhunt, this account
Killer of Lincoln's assassination and the 12-day search for his killer
reads like a historical thriller, no matter that the narrative
Swanson, James jumps among its locations and characters. As President Lincoln
delivers victory speeches in April 1865, an enraged John Wilkes
Pages: 208 Booth vows death: "Now, by God, I'll put him through." Every
bit of dialogue is said to come from original sources, adding a
FIC SWA chill to the already disturbing conspiracy.
Cane River A fact-based novel in which the author draws upon her own
family history to trace four generations of African-American
Tademy, Lalita women from slavery on a Creole plantation to the pre-civil
rights South. To enable the slow but steady advance of their
Pages: 529 clan, the black women of Cane River plot, plead, deceive, and
manipulate their way through history in order to survive.
FIC TAD
Red River They are men whose lives began in slavery, who weathered the
Civil War, and who grappled with the contradictions of
Tademy, Lalita emancipation through the turbulent years of Reconstruction.
Portraying the lives of the families who dwell in The Bottom, a
Pages: 432 poor settlement just down Red River from Colfax, Louisiana,
the story begins with a heart-wrenching battle for the Colfax
FIC TAD courthouse and goes on to show the struggle for freedom in
the deep south.
The Friendship On a hot and humid in 1933 Mississippi four children witness
the confrontation between two friends, elderly African-
Taylor, Mildred American man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi as
they test their friendship against a backdrop of racism and peer
Pages: 53 pressure. An explosive confrontation takes place when Tom
Bee greets the John Wallace by his first name. A group of
FIC TAY witnesses heckle Wallace allowing Bee to greet him this way.
The Gold Cadillac Two African-American girls living in the North are proud of
their family's beautiful new Cadillac until they take it on a visit
Taylor, Mildred to the deep South and encounter racial prejudice for the first
time in communities poisoned by racial segregation and other
Pages: 43 manifestations of racism. `Lois, the protagonist, gives readers a
first-person narrative which allows readers to understand the
FIC TAY youthful perspective on the dehumanizing intentions of racism.

21. The Land Paul-Edward, the son of a part-Indian, part-African slave
mother and a White plantation owner father, finds himself
Taylor, Mildred caught between the two worlds of his parents as he pursues his
dream of owning land in the aftermath of the Civil War. The
Pages: 375 author’s portrayal of a person being caught between black and
white worlds and not fitting into either one presents readers
FIC TAY with a dilemma that was ever-present in the deep south at this
time in history.
Let the Circle be Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the
Unbroken Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times and,
through them, readers can see what it was like to be black and
Taylor, Mildred powerless during that time in history. The children learn from
their parents the pride and self-respect they need to survive
Pages: 394 and keep their dignity. Intertwining actual historical events,
this book allows readers to learn about history while reading a
FIC TAY storyline that maintains intensity and emotion.
Mississippi Bridge During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-
old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers
Taylor, Mildred off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white
passengers and then set off across the raging Rosa Lee River.
Pages: 62 This is a story in which a tragic accident clearly dispenses a
bittersweet justice in that world of prejudice without taking
FIC TAY away the reader's sympathy for the victims.
The Road to In 1941 a black youth, sadistically teased by two white boys in
Memphis rural Mississippi, severely injures one of them with a tire iron
and enlists a member of the Logan family to help in trying to
Taylor, Mildred flee the state. A sequence of events including pregnancy,
death, the intrusion of Pearl Harbor, and World War II wreak
Pages: 290 havoc on the Logan family, they are faced with possible
separation from each other. Drawing upon their strength as a
FIC TAY family and the support of their community, the Logan’s fight
for survival.
Song of the Trees With the depression bearing down on her family and food in
short supply, Cassie Logan isn't sure where her next meal will
Taylor, Mildred come from, but there is one thing that she knows will always
be there-the whispering trees outside her window. The Logan
Pages: 290 family, being deeply attached to the forest on their land, tries
to save it from being cut down by an unscrupulous white man.
FIC TAY This is a story of strength and pride and love of the land.

22. The Well During a drought in 1910, 10-year-old David Logan's family has
the only working well in their part of Mississippi. His family
Taylor, Mildred generously shares their well water with both white and
African-American neighbors in an atmosphere of potential
Pages: 92 racial violence, but white teenager Charlie Simms tests their
generosity, forcing David's older brother into a fight resulting in
FIC TAY extra work on the farm.
Adventures of Huck Finn, the son of the town drunk, and Jim, an escaped
Huckleberry Finn slave, make a break for freedom down the vast Mississippi
River on a raft. This book tells the story of a teenaged misfit
Twain, Mark who finds himself having one of the greatest adventures of all
time. In the course of their perilous journey, Huck and Jim
Pages: 244 meet adventure, danger, and a cast of characters who are
sometimes menacing and often hilarious.
FIC TWA
Mila 18 A handful of men and women in the Warsaw ghetto, knowing
they will almost certainly die, gather their meager resources to
Uris, Leon stage a revolt against the Nazis armed with only homemade
weapons, bare hands, and courage. The book's title refers to
Pages: 563 the address of the Jewish resistance headquarters, and the
place of much of the action and confrontation in the latter half
FIC URI of the story.
The Devil’s 12-year-old Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish
Arithmetic heritage until she is transported back in time to a small Polish
1940's Nazi-occupied village. There she experiences the very
Yolen, Jane horrors that had embarrassed and annoyed her when her
elders related their Holocaust experiences. As she and her
Pages: 170 family are transported to the camp she endures inhumane
treatment and thus learns the importance of remembering
FIC YOL such a catastrophic and terrible time in history.
The Book Thief Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death tells
the story of Liesel--a young German girl as she manages to
Zusak, Markus evoke glimpses of pleasure using her stolen books and story-
telling skills despite the repressing nature of the Nazi régime.
Pages: 552 Liesel helps sustain the sanity of her family and the Jewish man
they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
FIC ZUS

23. Humor
Geektastic From Trekkers to science geeks, Buffy fanatics to Dungeon
Masters, nerds of all persuasions are sure to find themselves in
Black, Holly (editor) the pages of this anthology. A compilation of short stories, each
story is followed by a comic-book-style illustration offering
Pages: 403 information or advice such as "What Your Instrument Says
About You" and "How to Look Cool and Not Drool in Front of
FIC GEE Your Favorite Author." Simultaneously addressing the isolation
and loneliness that geeks can feel as well as the sense of
camaraderie and community that can be found.
The Amazing Joe Kavalier has managed to escape from Nazi-occupied
Adventures of Prague, and now he must use his cunning wits to help rescue
Kavalier and Clay his family from Hitler's evil plans. Complete with golems and
magic and miraculous escapes and evil nemeses and even
Chabon, Michael hand-to-hand Antarctic battle, it pursues the most important
questions of love and war, dreams and art, across pages
Pages: 639 brimming with longing and hope.
FIC CHA
Last Call After being diagnosed with terminal liver cancer, 55-year-old
Hayden MacBride decides to take control of his situation by
Pedersen, Laura plotting his final days. Hayden's approach changes when he
meets a kindred spirit named Rosamond Rogers who is railing
Pages: 320 noisily against the injustice of her inoperable lung cancer.
Hayden takes a shine to her, and convinces her to ditch the
FIC PED hospital and join him and Joey at a baseball game, where he
discovers something unexpected about her.
A Confederacy of The story is set in New Orleans in the early 1960s. The central
Dunces character is Ignatius J. Reilly, an educated but slothful 30-year-
old man still living with his mother in the city's Uptown
Toole, John neighborhood, who, due to an incident early in the book, must
Kennedy set out to get a job. In his quest for employment he has various
adventures with colorful French Quarter characters.
Pages:
FIC TOO

24. Non-Fiction
American Sniper From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the
most career sniper kills in United States military history. The
Kyle, Chris Pentagon has officially confirmed more than 150 of Kyles kills
(the previous American record was 109), but it has declined to
Pages: 381 verify the astonishing total number for this book. Iraqi
insurgents feared Kyle so much they named him al-Shaitan
92 KYL (“the devil”) and placed a bounty on his head. Kyle earned
legendary status among his fellow SEALs, Marines, and U.S.
Army soldiers, whom he protected with deadly accuracy from
rooftops and stealth positions.
Parallel Journeys The true story of two very different people who lived through
World War II. Helen Waterford, a Jewish young woman was
Ayer, Eleanor already married with a child when she went into hiding in
Amsterdam. Alfons Heck was just a boy when the war began.
Pages: 256 By the war's end, he was a high-ranking officer in the Hitler
Youth. This books shows the complexities of growing up
943.086 AYE during World War II and how different two children’s’ lives can
be even being from the same area.
A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah describes his experiences after he was driven
from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the
Beah, Ishmael government army at the age of thirteen, serving as a soldier
for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF
Pages: 229 and eventually moving to the United States.
92 BEA
Flyboys Examines the disappearance of eight American airmen shot
down and taken prisoner on the remote island of Chichi Jima
Bradley, James in World War II and the secrecy that surrounded the events
for decades, and discusses the violence inflicted by both sides
Pages: 398 in the Pacific war. The book keeps its eye on the aviators-
growing up under a variety of conditions before the war,
940.54 BRA entering service, serving as the U. S. Navy's spearhead aboard
the fast carriers, or facing captivity and death.
Running with The author chronicles his life from age twelve to sixteen, living
Scissors in the bizarre home of his mother's psychiatrist, where he was
sexually abused by the doctor's thirty-three-year-old adopted
Burroughs, son. Dealing with issues such as being the son of an alcoholic
Augusten father and an unstable mother, sexual abuse, and others, this
memoir is not your average coming of age story.
Pages: 315
92 BUR

25. In Cold Blood On November 15, 1959, in Holcomb, Kansas, the four
members of the Clutter family were dragged from their beds
Capote, Truman in the early hours of the morning and tied up. All four were
shot in the head with a shotgun at close range. None survived.
Pages: 343 The killers left few clues, and there was no apparent motive
for the slayings. This book recreates the slaying of the Clutter
364.15 CAP family of Kansas, and the capture, trial, and execution of their
murderers.
Nickel and Dimed Funny, poignant, and passionate, this revelatory firsthand
account of life in low-wage America. This book reveals the
Ehrenreich, story of Barbara Ehrenreich’s attempts to eke out a living
Barbara while working as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner,
nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart associate.
Pages: 256
305.56 EHR
Diary of a Young An inspirational story of the hardships of World War II in the
Girl viewpoint of a 13 year old Jewish girl in hiding during The
Holocaust. In her diary, Anne Frank shares her thoughts,
Frank, Anne feelings and insights about the many issues and conflicts in the
warehouse where her own family and another family hid for
Pages: 283 two years. Anne's diary entries show her growing, maturing
from a girl to a woman, and experiencing new emotions such
92 FRA as love and courage.
The World is Flat Contains an overview of the global political and economic
change since the turn of the twenty-first century, discussing
Freidman, Thomas the rapid developments in technologies that has allowed India
and China to become part of a growing supply chain of
Pages: 660 manufacturing impacting global markets.
303.48 FRE
Letters to a Bullied Olivia Gardner, a northern California teenager, was severely
Girl taunted and cyber-bullied by her classmates for more than
two years. News of her bullying spread, eventually reaching
Gardner, Olivia two teenage girls from a neighboring town, sisters Emily and
Sarah Buder. The girls were so moved by Olivia's story that
Pages: 240 they initiated a letter-writing campaign to help lift her spirits.
It was a tender gesture of solidarity that set off an
302.3 GAR overwhelming chain reaction of support, encouragement, and
love.

26. Cheaper by the Presents a memoir by two siblings from the Gilbreth clan in
Dozen which they look at the lives of their parents, Frank Bunker
Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth, discuss Frank and Lillian's
Gilbreth, Frank B. careers as industrial engineers and work with scientific
management, and share the adventures the couple
Pages: 207 encountered raising a family of twelve children.
920 GIL
The Hungry Ocean The term “fisherwoman” does not exactly roll trippingly off
the tongue, and Linda Greenlaw, the world's only female
Greenlaw, Linda swordfish boat captain, isn't flattered when people insist on
calling her one. This book tracks her month long sword fishing
Pages: 265 trip over 1,000 nautical miles out to sea. It shows what
happens when things go right – proving, in the process, that
639.27 GRE every successful voyage is a narrowly averted disaster.
Roots This book tells of the two-century drama of KuntaKinte and
the six generations who came after him. By tracing back his
Haley, Alex own roots, Haley tells the story of 39 million Americans of
African descent. He has rediscovered for an entire people a
Pages:899 rich cultural heritage that ultimately speaks to all races
everywhere, for the story it tells is one of the most eloquent
920 HAL testimonials ever written to the indomitability of the human
spirit.
Rocket Boys Homer Hickam, a NASA engineer, recounts his childhood in
Coalwood, a West Virginia mining town, and discusses his
Hickam, Homer dreams of launching rockets into outer space, and how he
made those dreams come true. decided in 1957 to build his
Pages: 368 own rockets. They were his ticket out of Coalwood; a mining
town that everyone knew was dying.
92 HIC
The Perfect Storm It was the storm of the century, boasting waves over one
hundred feet high – a tempest created by so rare a
Junger, Sebastian combination of factors that meteorologists deemed it "the
perfect storm." This book illuminates a world of
Pages: 227 swordfishermen consumed by the dangerous but lucrative
trade of offshore fishing. It recreates the last moments of the
974.4 JUN Andrea Gail crew and recounts the daring high-seas rescues
that made heroes of some and victims of others.

27. Into Thin Air The author relates his own experience of climbing Mount
Everest during its deadliest season and examines what it is
Krakauer, Jon about the mountain that makes people willingly subject
themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense.
Pages: 333
796.52 KRA
Shadow Divers This journalistic narrative tells of John Chatterton and Rich
Kohler, two deep-sea wreck divers who in 1991 dove to a
Kurson, Robert mysterious wreck lying at the perilous depth of 230 feet, off
the coast of New Jersey. Both had a philosophy of excelling
Pages: 375 and pushing themselves to the limit; both needed all their
philosophy and fitness to proceed once they had identified the
940.54 KUR wreck as a WWII U-boat.
Devil in the White Tells the parallel stories of Daniel Burnham, the main architect
City of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and serial killer Henry H.
Holmes, discussing the challenges Burnham faced in creating
Larson, Erik the hugely successful White City, and looking at how Holmes
used the opportunities afforded by the fair to lure victims to
Pages: 447 their deaths.
364.152 LAR
Brave Companions MuCullough culls the last few centuries for extraordinary men
and women whose names might vaguely trigger a bell, but
McCollough, David whose achievements and courage have mostly been
forgott
Pages: 240
920 MCC - , and
others.
Angela’s Ashes The author chronicles his impoverished childhood in Limerick,
Ireland, in the 1930s and 1940s, describing his father's
McCourt, Frank alcoholism and talent for storytelling; the challenges and
tragedies his mother faced, including the loss of three
Pages: 363 children; and his early experiences in the Catholic church, and
balances painful memories with humor. He recounts the
92 MCC painful loss of his siblings to avoidable sickness and hunger,
and the stench of the sewage-strewn streets that ran outside
the front door.

28. 1776 The story of those who marched with General George
Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence –
McCullough, David when the whole American cause was riding on their success,
without which all hope for independence would have been
Pages: 386 dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have
amounted to little more than words on paper. Based on
973.3 MCC American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama
written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the story of
Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color
who turned into soldiers.
To Hell and Back A republication of the classic World War II memoir, originally
published in 1949, in which Audie Murphy recounts his
Murphy, Audie experiences fighting with the infantry in Europe, emerging as
America's most decorated soldier, having received twenty-one
Pages: 274 medals, including our highest military decoration, the
Congressional Medal of Honor. His memoir of the war is a
92 MUR classic having been awarded almost every medal the Army
could offer as well as the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Reading Lolita in The author presents a memoir of her life in post-revolutionary
Tehran Iran. In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at a
university in Tehran due to repressive policies, AzarNafisi
Nafisi, Azar invited seven of her best female students to attend a weekly
study of great Western literature in her home. Since the books
Pages: 380 they read were officially banned by the government, the
women were forced to meet in secret, often sharing
820.9 NAF photocopied pages of the illegal novels.
My Brother’s Voice Stephen "Pista" Nasser was 13 years old when the Nazis
whisked him and his family away from their home in Hungary
Nasser, Stephen to Auschwitz. His memories of that terrifying experience are
still vivid, and his love for his brother Andris is everlasting
Pages: 232 remembers the terrible ordeal they endured together.
Stephen's account of the Holocaust, told in the refreshingly
940.531 NAS direct and optimistic language of a young boy, will help every
reader to understand the Holocaust.
Truth and Beauty Ann Patchett tells the story of her friendship with fellow
author Lucy Grealy chronologically, in bursts of dialogue,
Patchett, Ann memory and snippets of Grealy's letters, moving from the
unfolding of their deep connection in graduate school and into
Pages: 257 the more turbulent waters beyond. Later, when adulthood
brought success, but also heartbreak and drug addiction, the
362.196 PAT duo continued to be intertwined, even though their link
sometimes seemed to fray.

29. The Last Lecture Made famous by his Last Lecture at Carnegie Mellon and the
quick Internet proliferation of the video of the event, Pausch
Pausch, Randy decided that maybe he just wasn't done lecturing. Despite
being several months into the last stage of pancreatic cancer,
Pages: 224 he managed to put together this book. The crux of it is lessons
and morals for his young and infant children to learn once he
004 PAU is gone.
A Child Called “It” David J. Pelzer's mother, Catherine Roerva, was, he writes in
this ghastly, fascinating memoir, a devoted den mother to the
Pelzer, David Cub Scouts in her care, and somewhat nurturant to her
children--but not to David, whom she referred to as "an It."
Pages: 184 This book is a brief, horrifying account of the bizarre tortures
she inflicted on him, told from the point of view of the author
92 PEL as a young boy.
Letters to a Young The letters were originally written to Franz Kappus, a 19-year-
Poet old student at the Military Academy of Vienna, of which Rilke
was an alumnus. Discouraged by the prospect of military life,
Rilke, Rainer Maria Kappus began to send his poetry to the 27-year-old Rilke,
seeking both literary criticism and career advice. Their
Pages: 76 correspondence lasted from 1902 to 1908. In 1929, three
years after Rilke's death, Kappus assembled and published the
831 RIL ten letters.
Fast Food Nation Presents an examination of the fast food industry, tracing its
history and discussing how it arose in postwar America, as well
Schlosser, Eric as the impact it has had on economy, food production, and
popular culture.
Pages: 383
394.1 SCH
Me Talk Pretty One David Sedaris describes the struggles he has had in life due to
Day his voice problems, discussing how his voice has affected his
personal relationships, his career, and his family life.
Sedaris, David
Pages: 272
814 SED

30. Men to Match My Men to Match My Mountains is a true historical masterpiece,
Mountains an unforgettable pageant of giants-men like John Sutter,
whose dream of paradise was shattered by the California Gold
Stone, Irving Rush; Brigham Young and the Mormons who tamed the desert
with Bible texts; and the silver kings and the miners who
Pages: 459 developed Nevada's Comstock Lode and settled the Rockies.
America called for greatness ... and got it. There is nothing else
979 STO in history to match the stories of these men who braved a
wilderness to bring a new nation to the shores of the Pacific.
The Hiding Place The memoirs of a Dutch woman who was sent to Ravensbruck
concentration camp during World War II as a result of her
Ten Boom, Corrie activities in the anti-Nazi underground. During World War II,
Corrie Ten Boom and her family risked their lives to help Jews
Pages: 241 escape the Nazis, and their reward was a trip to Hitler's
concentration camps. But she survived and was released and
92 TEN now shares the story of how faith triumphs over evil.
My Life and Hard Widely hailed as one of the finest humorist of the twentieth
Times century, James Thurber looks back at his own life growing up
in Columbus, Ohio, with the same humor and sharp wit that
Thurber, James defined his famous sketches and writings. In My Life and Hard
times, first published in 1933, he recounts the delightful chaos
Pages: 106 and frustrations of family, boyhood, youth odd dogs,
recalcitrant machinery, and the foibles of human nature.
92 THU

31. Science Fiction/Supernatural
Robopocalypse Not far into our future, the dazzling technology that runs our
world turns against us. Controlled by a childlike—yet massively
Wilson, Daniel powerful—artificial intelligence known as Archos, the global
network of machines on which our world has grown dependent
Pages: 368 suddenly becomes an implacable, deadly foe. At Zero Hour—
the moment the robots attack—the human race is almost
FIC WIL annihilated, but as its scattered remnants regroup, humanity
for the first time unites in a determined effort to fight back.
Everneath Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld
known as the Everneath. Now she’s returned—to her old life,
Ashton, Brodi her family, her boyfriend—before she’s banished back to the
underworld . . . this time forever. She has six months before the
Pages: 370 Everneath comes to claim her, six months for good-byes she
can’t find the words for, six months to find redemption, if it
FIC ASH exists.
The Hitchhiker’s Construction workers arrive at Arthur Dent's house, in order to
Guide to the Galaxy demolish it to make way for a bypass. His friend, Ford Prefect,
arrives while Arthur is lying in front of the bulldozers, to keep
Adams, Douglas them from demolishing it. He tries to explain to Arthur that he
is actually from a planet somewhere in the vicinity of
Pages: 216 Betelgeuse and that the Earth is about to be destroyed.
Seconds before Earth is demolished, Ford saves Arthur, and
FIC ADA together they journey through the galaxy.
Kit’s Wilderness It seems fated that 13-year-old Christopher Watson, nicknamed
Kit, would move to Stoneygate, an old English coal-mining
Almond, David village where his ancestors lived, worked, and died. The drama
unfolds as the haunted, hulking, dark-eyed John Askew draws
Pages: 229 Kit and other classmates into the game of Death, a spin-the-
knife, pretend-to-die game that he hosts in a deep hole dug in
FIC PED the earth, with candles, bones, and carved pictures of the
children of the old families of Stoneygate.
Thirsty Chris has problems; bickering, divorce-bound parents, a
domineering older brother, and his best friends becoming
Anderson, M. T. estranged. Overshadowing everything is the fact that Chris, is
becoming a vampire. The good people of his Massachusetts
Pages: 237 town are almost inured to the murders committed by
vampires. Yet violent mobs shortcut justice with stake-through-
FIC AND the-heart lynchings. As Chris's blood lust grows, he's
increasingly challenged to hide his transformation.

32. Feed This book is set in a future world where television and
computers are connected directly into people's brains when
Anderson, M. T. they are babies. The result is a chillingly recognizable consumer
society where empty-headed kids are driven by fashion and
Pages: shopping and the avid pursuit of silly entertainment – even on
trips to Mars and the moon – and by constant customized
FIC AND murmurs in their brains of encouragement to buy, buy, buy.
The Handmaid’s In the Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, far-right-
Tale type ideals have been carried to extremes in the
monotheocratic government. The resulting society is a
Atwood, Margaret feminist's nightmare: women are strictly controlled, unable to
have jobs or money and assigned to various classes: the chaste,
Pages: 311 childless Wives; the housekeeping Marthas; and the
reproductive Handmaids, who turn their offspring over to the
FIC ATW "morally fit" Wives.
The Brief History of The City, where the recently departed reside as long as they are
the Dead remembered by the living, is home to Kuka Sims, who prints
the City's only newspaper, Coleman Kinzler, a vagrant who
Brockmeier, Kevin speaks the word of God, and Marion and Philip Byrd, who find
themselves falling in love once again, all of whom are
Pages: 252 remembered by Laura Byrd, whose own time is running out.
FIC BRO
Counter Clockwise When Nathan's mother is hit by a bus in London, his father
struggles with the tragedy and disappears through the
Cockcroft, Jason bathroom wall to travel back in time and prevent her death;
Nathan, with help from a Beefeater named Bartelby, tries to
Pages: 202 prevent his father from changing the future.
FIC COC
Rebecca A novel of mystery and passion, a dark psychological tale of
secrets and betrayal, dead loves and an estate called
Du Maurier, Manderley that is as much a presence as the humans who
Daphne inhabit it. Manderley is filled with memories of the elegant and
flamboyant Rebecca, the first Mrs. DeWinter. Rebecca may be
Pages: 357 physically dead, but she is a force to contend with.
FIC DU

33. The House of the In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special
Scorpion status as the young clone of El Patron, the one hundred forty-
two-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between
Farmer, Nancy Mexico and the United States. Fields of white opium poppies
stretch away over the hills, and uniformed workers bend over
Pages: 400 the rows, harvesting the juice. Gradually he realizes the fate
that is in store for him, and with the help of Tam Lin, his
FIC FAR Scottish bodyguard, he tries to escape.
The Secret Life of In Lily Dale, New York, a community dedicated to the religion of
Sparrow Delaney Spiritualism, tenth-grader Sparrow Delaney, the youngest
daughter in an eccentric family of psychics, agonizes over
Harper, Suzanne whether or not to reveal her special abilities in order to help a
friend.
Pages: 364
FIC HAR
Brave New World "Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's
utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of
Huxley, Aldous soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and
the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie
Pages: 259 that stimulates the senses. Though there seems to be no
problems, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses
FIC HUX his relationship with a young women has the potential to be
much more than the confines of their existence allow.
Never Let Me Go Through the voice of thirty-one-year-old Kathy, along with old
friends from school, are forced to face the truth about their
Ishiguro, Kazuo childhood at Hailsham. All children should believe they are
special. But the students of Hailsham, an elite school in the
Pages: 288 English countryside, are so special that visitors shun them, and
only by rumor and the occasional fleeting remark by a teacher
FIC ISH do they discover their unconventional origins and strange
destiny.
Gossamer Readers first meet the dream-givers as they creep around a
dark house in the middle of the night where an old woman and
Lowry, Lois a dog named Toby are sleeping. Littlest is very small, new to
the work, energetic and curious. Fastidious is tired, impatient,
Pages: 176 and had a headache. Littlest is soon paired with a new partner,
Thin Elderly, who is a much better guide and teacher than
FIC LOW Fastidious was. They are benevolent beings who visit humans
(and pets, too) at night.

34. The Host A species of altruistic parasites has peacefully assumed control
of the minds and bodies of most humans, but feisty Melanie
Meyer, Stephanie Stryder won't surrender her mind to the alien soul called
Wanderer. Overwhelmed by Melanie's memories of fellow
Pages: 619 resistor Jared, Wanderer yields to her body's longing and sets
off into the desert to find him. Likely the first love triangle
FIC MEY involving just two bodies.
Hero Thom, the teenage son of a fallen superhero who seems to be
linked to his mother's disappearance, joins the League and
Moore, Perry finds himself dealing with confusing sexual feelings for the hero
Uberman while learning to use his powers and moving toward
Pages: 428 the truth about his mother's disappearance.
FIC MOO
1984 Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George
Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world
Orwell, George and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance
of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life – the ubiquity
Pages: 268 of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to
construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for
FIC ORW students since it was published. It ranks among the most
terrifying novels ever written.
Virals Tory is the science-obsessed niece of a famous forensic
anthropologist, Temperance Brennan, living on a remote island
Reichs, Kathy off the coast of South Carolina. An old military ID tag leads Tory
and her best friends, Ben, Hi, and Shelton – all self proclaimed
Pages: 454 “sci-philes” – to an illegal research lab, where they are exposed
to a mutant strain of canine parvovirus. When the teens begin
FIC REI experiencing preternatural physical changes, their search for
answers brings them in contact with cold-blooded killers.
Across the Amy, having been cryogenically frozen and placed onboard a
Universe spaceship which was supposed to land on a distant planet
three hundred years in the future, is unplugged fifty years too
Revis, Beth early and finds herself stuck inside an enclosed world ruled by a
tyrannical leader and his rebellious teenage heir and confused
Pages: 398 about who to trust and why someone is trying to kill her.
FIC REV

35. The Forest of Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks
Hands and Teeth knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her
walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the
Ryan, Carrie unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once
dead.
Pages: 310
FIC RYA
Impossible On the night of her prom, Lucy, 17, is raped by her date and
becomes pregnant. She decides to keep the child, and she is
Werlin, Nancy supported by her foster parents and Zach, her childhood friend.
The teen discovers the curse on the women in her family when
Pages: she reads her birth mother's diary. Lucy is destined for
madness at 18 unless she can perform the three impossible
FIC WER tasks described in the song and break the curse of the Elfin
Knight.
A Certain Slant of Helen, who has been dead for 130 years, describes what it's
Light like to live as Light, clinging to a human host, then reentering
an empty human body and becoming physically and
Whitcomb, Laura emotionally attuned to the world. Helen is startled when she
realizes that a student in her host's English class can see her.
Pages: 282 James, too, is Light, but he has taken over the body of Billy,
who almost overdosed on drugs.
FIC WHI
Elsewhere Although Liz is maturing, coping with disappointments, and
controlling her anger, she is getting younger. Having been killed
Zevin, Gabrielle by a hit and run driver, she now lives in Elsewhere with the
grandmother who died before she was born. After death, the
Pages: 275 residents get younger until they become babies and are reborn
onto Earth again.
FIC ZEV
Before I Wake Covering up her own murder was one thing, but faking life is
much harder than Kaylee Cavanaugh expected. After weeks,
Vincent, Rachel she’s back in school, fighting to stay visible to the human
Pages: 346 world, struggling to fit in with her friends and boyfriend. But to
earn her keep in the human world, Kaylee must reclaim stolen
FIC VIN souls, and when her first assignment brings her face-to-face
with an old foe, she knows the game has changed.

36. 2312
The year is 2312, and scientific and technological advances allows
Robinson, Kim for people to live on the planet, Mercury. Swan Er Hong is a
designer and creator of worlds, but after some events, she may be
Pages: 561 forced to destroy them.
FIC ROB

37. Series
Women of the Elena Michaels seems like the typically strong and sexy modern
Otherworld Series woman, She lives with her architect boyfriend, writes for a
popular newspaper, and works out at the gym. She's also a
Armstrong, Kelley werewolf.
1 – Bitten
Pages: 464 2 – Stolen
FIC ARM 3 – Dime Store Magic
4 – Industrial Magic
5 – Haunted
6 – Broken
7 – No Humans Involved
Beautiful Dark On the night of Skye's seventeenth birthday, she meets two
Series enigmatic strangers whose sudden appearance sends her life
into a tailspin. Complete opposites, Asher is dark and wild,
Davies, Jocelyn while Devin is fair and aloof. Skye has no idea what they want
or why they seem to follow her every move—only that their
Pages: 405 presence coincides with a flurry of strange events. Soon she
begins to doubt not just the identity of the two boys, but also
FIC DAV the truth about her own past.
1 – A Beautiful Dark
Wereling Series Fourteen-year-old Trey Laporte is not a kid anymore. Not after
the day he wakes up in agony—retina-splitting, vomit-inducing
Feasey, Steve agony. His clothes are torn. His room is trashed.
Enter Lucien Charron, the mysterious, long-lost “uncle” with
Pages: 336 freakish fire-flecked eyes and skin that blisters in the sun.
Suddenly, Trey finds himself living in a luxury penthouse at the
FIC WER heart of a strange and sinister empire built on the powers of
the Netherworld—vampires, demons, sorcerers, and djinn.
1 – Wereling
2 – Dark Moon
3 – Blood Wolf
Mickey Bolitar Mickey Bolitar's year can't get much worse. After witnessing his
Series father's death and sending his mom to rehab, he's forced to live
with his estranged uncle Myron and switch high schools.
Coben, Harlan Fortunately, he's met a great girl, Ashley, and it seems like
things might finally be improving. But then Ashley vanishes.
Pages: 304 Mickey follows Ashley's trail into a seedy underworld that
reveals that Ashley isn't who she claimed to be. And neither
FIC COB was Mickey's father.
1 – Shelter
2 – Seconds Away