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New Books!

338.7 C

Coll, Steve. Private empire : ExxonMobil and American power. New York : Penguin Press, 2012.
In this book the author goes deep inside ExxonMobil Corp, the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States. He investigates the notoriously secretive ExxonMobil Corporation, revealing the true extent of its power. ExxonMobil’s annual revenues are larger than the economic activity in the great majority of countries, equivalent to the GDP of Norway. In many of the countries where it conducts business, ExxonMobil’s sway over politics and security is greater than that of the United States embassy. In Washington, ExxonMobil spends more money lobbying Congress and the White House than any other corporation. Yet despite its outsized influence, it is a black box.

782.42 D

Dylan, Bob, 1941-. Lyrics, 1962-2001. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2004.

782.421 S

Simon, Paul, 1941-. Lyrics 1964-2008. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, [c2008].

811.54 B

Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000. The essential Gwendolyn Brooks. [New York] : Library of America, c2005.

811.54 P

Piercy, Marge. The hunger moon : new and selected poems, 1980-2010. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

811.54 R

Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012. An atlas of the difficult world : poems, 1988-1991. New York : W.W. Norton, c1991.

811.6 C

Conrad, C. A. The book of Frank. 1st Wave Books ed. Seattle : Wave Books ;, 2010.

821 W

Walter, George. The Penguin book of First World War poetry. New York, NY : Penguin Books, 2006.

823.010 K

The Penguin book of First World War stories. London ; : Penguin Books, 2007.

92 Bradbury

Weller, Sam, 1967-. The Bradbury chronicles : the life of Ray Bradbury. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2005.

92 Brooks

Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000. Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2003.

92 Brooks

Kent, George E., 1920-1982. A life of Gwendolyn Brooks. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c1990.
A biography of the life and art of poet Gwendolyn Brooks, including discussion of the development of African American consciousness and culture from the 1930s to the late 1970s.

92 Doyle

Dirda, Michael. On Conan Doyle, or, The whole art of storytelling. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012.

92 Doyle

Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930. Arthur Conan Doyle : a life in letters. New York : Penguin Press, 2007.

92 Doyle

Lycett, Andrew. The man who created Sherlock Holmes : the life and times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 1st Free Press trade pbk. ed. New York : Free Press, 2008.

92 Dylan

Shelton, Robert, 1926-1995. No direction home : the life and music of Bob Dylan. Rev. and updated ed. Milwaukee, WI : Backbeat Books, 2011.

92 Faust

Max Brand, western giant : the life and times of Frederick Schiller Faust. Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c1985.

92 Irving

Irving, John, 1942-. The imaginary girlfriend : a memoir. 1st American ed. New York : Ballantine, 2002.

92 Lee

Shields, Charles J., 1951-. Mockingbird : a portrait of Harper Lee. 1st Owl books ed. New York : Henry Holt, 2007.
To Kill a Mockingbird, the twentieth century’s most widely read American novel, still sells a million copies yearly. Yet despite the book’s perennial popularity, its creator remains a somewhat mysterious figure. Journalist Shields brings to life the warmhearted, high-spirited, and occasionally hardheaded woman who gave us two of American literature’s most unforgettable characters—Atticus Finch and his daughter, Scout—and who contributed to the success of her lifelong friend Truman Capote’s masterpiece, In Cold Blood. At the center of the book is Lee’s struggle to create her famous novel. But her life contains many other highlights: her girlhood as a tomboy in overalls in tiny Monroeville, Alabama; the murder trial that made her father’s reputation and inspired her great work; her journey to Kansas as Capote’s ally and research assistant on the story of the Clutter murders; the surrogate family she found in New York City.—From publisher description.

92 Owen

Hibberd, Dominic. Wilfred Owen : a new biography. 1st American ed. Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2003.
When Wilfred Owen died in 1918 at the age of twenty-five, only five of his poems had been published, yet he was to become one of the most popular poets of the twentieth century. He is now Britain’s national poet of the Great War, and his work speaks to many young people more powerfully than any other poetry. Dominic Hibberd’s new biography, based on more than thirty years of wide-ranging research, brings new information and reinterpretation to virtually every phase of Owen’s life—carefully guarded by family and friends after his death. Mr. Hibberd sheds fresh light on Owen’s family background, education, and struggles with religion. That he was gay is fully discussed for the first time. His army training and experiences on the Western Front in World War I are described in vivid detail, using original documents from military archives. Throughout the story the poet steadily develops, from his early devotion to Wordsworth and the Romantics in 1910-1911, through his discovery of the French Decadents in 1914-1915 and his friendship with Siegfried Sassoon in 1917, to the final, superb achievement of his mature 1918 poems. The Great War’s greatest poet emerges as a complex, fascinating, and often endearing character, with a strong sense of humor and an intense delight in life.

92 Simon

Eliot, Marc. Paul Simon : a life. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2010.

F Bie

Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?. The devil’s dictionary, tales, & memoirs. New York, N.Y. : Library of America :, c2011.

F Col

Collins, Suzanne. Catching fire. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2009.
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.

F Col

Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2008.
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.

F Col

Collins, Suzanne. Mockingjay. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2010.
Katniss Everdeen, having survived the Hunger Games twice, learns she and her family and friends are in danger because the Capitol holds her responsible for the unrest and races against time to protect those she cares about and the people of District 12.

F Irv

Irving, John, 1942-. The cider house rules : a novel. New York : Modern Library, 1999.

New Books!

200.973 H

Holmes, David L. The faiths of the founding fathers. Oxford, NY : Oxford University Press, c2006.

232.9 J

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. The Jefferson Bible : the life and morals of Jesus of Nazareth, extracted textually from the Gospels in Greek, Latin, French & English. 

248.246 C

Cruz, Nicky. Run baby run. Gainesville, Fla. : Bridge-Logos, [2001], c1968.

Mr. Berry’s favorite book when he was in high school.

277.307 K

Kidd, Thomas S. God of liberty : a religious history of the American Revolution. New York : Basic Books, c2010.
An exploration of religious aspects of the American Revolution that discusses how individuals with diverse religions and philosophies were able to come together to fight British tyranny.

305.401 B

Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986. The second sex. 1st American ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
An unabridged version of Beauvoir’s feminist exploration of the psychological, sexual and social roles of women and their historical and contemporary situation in Western culture at the middle of the twentieth century.

305.42 H

Hooks, Bell. Feminism is for everybody : passionate politics. Cambridge, MA : South End Press, c2000.

305.896 C

Cleaver, Eldridge. Eldridge Cleaver : Soul On Ice. New York, NY : Delta, ̧1992.
The now clasic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience. (Mr. Ellington’s favorite book in high school!)

331.88 C

Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993. An organizer’s tale : speeches. New York : Penguin Group, 2008.

340 M

Marshall, John, 1755-1835. John Marshall : writings. New York : Library of America, c2010.

342.73 B

The Debate on the Constitution : Federalist and Antifederalist speeches, articles, and letters during the struggle over ratification. New York : Library of America

342.73 W

The essential Federalist and anti-Federalist papers. Indianapolis : Hackett Pub. Co., c2003.

428.407 M

McEwan, Elaine K., 1941-. 40 ways to support struggling readers in content classrooms, grades 6-12. [Reston, Va.] : National Association of Secondary School Principals ;, c2007.
Offers forty research-based strategies to help struggling readers in the sixth through twelfth-grade classroom.

576.8 A

Asher, Robert J. Evolution and belief : confessions of a religious paleontologist. Cambridge, UK ; : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Does the ongoing debate between some evolutionists and evangelicals show that the two sides are irreconcilable? As a paleontologist and a religious believer, Robert Asher constantly confronts the perceived conflict between his occupation and his faith. In the course of his scientific work, he has found that no other theory comes close to Darwin’s as an explanation for our world’s incredible biodiversity. Recounting discoveries in molecular biology, paleontology and development, Asher reveals the remarkable evidence in favor of Darwinian evolution. In outlining the scope of Darwin’s idea, Asher shows how evolution describes the cause of biodiversity, rather than the agency behind it. He draws a line between superstition and religion, recognizing that atheism is not the inevitable conclusion of evolutionary theory. By liberating evolution from its misappropriated religious implications, Asher promotes a balanced awareness that contributes to our understanding of biology and Earth history”— Provided by publisher.

599.938 W

Wilson, Edward O. The social conquest of earth. 1st ed. New York : Liveright Pub. Corp., c2012.
From the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson’s legendary career.

780.1 M

Meyer, Leonard B. Emotion and meaning in music. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1961.

787.871 K

Kolb, Tom. Music theory. Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard, 2005.
The fretboard — Theory basics — Scales and key signatures — Intervals — Triads — Harmonizing the major scale — Chord construction — Harmonizing the minor scale — Determining key centers — Blues harmony and pentatonic scales — Modes and modal harmony — Other scales and modes; chord/scale relationships; arpeggios — Chord substitution and reharmonization.

808.042 L

Lee, Martin. 40 elaboration activities that take writing from bland to brilliant! : grades 5-8. New York : Scholastic, c2007.
“Help students improve their writing with: precise nouns, active adjectives, vivid verbs, supporting details, figurative language, varied sentences and much more!”—Cover.

821.8 R

Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894. Goblin market. Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2010.

821.912 E

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. The waste land : authoritative text, contexts, criticism. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton, c2001.

910.09 H

Heyerdahl, Thor. Kon-Tiki: across the Pacific by raft. New York : Pocket/Washington Square, c1950, 1984. (Mr. Obradovic’s favorite book in high school!)

973.440 A

Adams, John, 1735-1826. The Adams-Jefferson letters : the complete correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams.

973.460 J

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. “Ye will say I am no Christian” : the Thomas Jefferson/John Adams correspondence on religion, morals, and values. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2006.

973.911 R

Roosevelt, Theodore. Theodore Roosevelt : Letters and speeches. United States : Library of America, c2004.
Collects 367 letters written between 1881 and 1919 in a volume that features his correspondences with such individuals as Rudyard Kipling, Upton Sinclair, and FDR and the texts of four key speeches including “The Strenuous Life” of 1899, “The Big Stick” of 1901, “The Man in the Arena” and “The New Nationalism” of 1910.

973.913 W

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924. Woodrow Wilson : the essential political writings. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2005.

92 Adams

Stoll, Ira, 1972-. Samuel Adams : a life. 1st Free Press hardcover ed. New York : Free Press, 2008.
With eloquence equal to Jefferson and Tom Paine, Adams helped ignite the flame of liberty and made sure it glowed even during the Revolution’s darkest hours. He was, as Jefferson later observed, “truly the man of the Revolution.” Adams played a pivotal role not fully appreciated until now in the events leading up to the confrontation with the British. Believing that God willed a free American nation, he was among the first to call for independence. He saw the opportunity to stir things up after the Boston Massacre and helped plan and instigate the Boston Tea Party. A fiery newspaper editor, he railed ceaselessly against “taxation without representation” and argued the urgency of revolution. When the top British general in America offered a general amnesty in 1775 to all who would lay down their arms, he excepted only John Hancock and Samuel Adams: these two were destined for the gallows.

92 Chavez

Levy, Jacques E. Cesar Chavez : autobiography of La Causa. 1st University of Minnesota Press ed. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

92 Henry

Kidd, Thomas S. Patrick Henry : first among patriots. New York : Basic Books, c2011.

92 Jay

Stahr, Walter. John Jay : founding father. New York : Hambledon & Continuum, 2006.

92 Paul

Walton, Mary, 1941-. A woman’s crusade : Alice Paul and the battle for the ballot. 1st ed. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

92 Wells

Giddings, Paula. Ida : a sword among lions : Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching. 1st ed. New York : Amistad, c2008.

DVD Jan

Jane Eyre. BBC Video, 1983.

DVD Mal

Malcolm X. Widescreen format. Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 1993.
Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman, Jr. The life of Malcolm X, who through his religious conversion to Islam, found the strength to rise up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader.

DVD Por

The portrait of a lady. New York : Polygram Video, 1996.

DVD Ten

The tenant of Wildfell Hall. [England] : BBC Video ;, [2008].
Tara Fitzgerald, Rupert Graves, Toby Stephens. When the beautiful widow Helen Graham moves into the derelict Wildfell Hall with her son, she arouses great curiosity from the local villagers. Gilbert Markham is a handsome young farmer who finds himself drawn to the enigmatic Helen and encourages her to open up to him. But even the sympathetic Markham is unprepared for the secrets Helen will ultimately reveal, secrets which the repressed Victorian society would rather bury forever.

DVD Wut

Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights. BBC Video, 1967.

F Dan

Danforth, Emily M. The miseducation of Cameron Post. 1st ed. New York : Balzer + Bray, c2012.
In the early 1990s, when gay teenager Cameron Post rebels against her conservative Montana ranch town and her family decides she needs to change her ways, she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center.

F Eva

Evanovich, Janet. Hard eight. St. Martin’s paperbacks ed. New York : St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2003, c2002.
When Stephanie Plum is hired to find a missing child, she begins to wonder if she is working on the right side of the law when events turn suspicious.

F Eva

Evanovich, Janet. High five. New York : St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2000, c1999.

F Eva

Evanovich, Janet. Hot six. St. Martin’s Paperbacks ed. New York : St. Martin’s Paperbacks, [2001], c2000.
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum tries to get her mentor Carlos off the hook when he becomes a murder suspect.

F Eva

Evanovich, Janet. Seven up. New York : St.Martins Paperbacks, 2002.

F Eva

Evanovich, Janet. Ten big ones (paperback). New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2004.
Bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum is the only witness to a robbery by the notorious Red Devil’s gang and hides out in fellow bounty hunter Ranger’s apartment to escape the gang and other seedy characters while the police try to nab the culprits.

F Eva

Evanovich, Janet. To the nines. St. Martin’s Paperbacks ed. New York, NY : St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2004, c2003.

F Lor

Lorde, Audre. Zami, a new spelling of my name. Trumansburg, N.Y. : Crossing Press, c1982.

F Moo

Moore, Christopher, 1957-. Sacré bleu : a comedy d’art. New York : William Morrow, c2012.
Baker-turned-painter Lucien Lessard and bon vivant Henri Toulouse-Lautrec vow to discover the truth behind the untimely death of their friend Vincent van Gogh, which leads them on a surreal odyssey and brothel-crawl deep into the art world of late-nineteenth-century Paris.

Newest books!

153.12 W

Winter, Alison, 1965-. Memory : fragments of a modern history. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2012.
Hugo Munsterberg and the psychology of witness memory — The making of truth serum — Memories of war — Wilder Penfield and the recording of personal experience — The three lives of Bridey Murphy — Securing memory in the Cold War — Flashbulb memories — The law of memory — Frederic Bartlett and the social psychology of remembering — Making false memory — Reliving and revising memory.

153.35 L

Lehrer, Jonah. Imagine : how creativity works. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
Alone : Bob Dylan’s brain — Alpha waves (condition blue) — The unconcealing — The letting go — The outsider ; Together : The power of Q — Urban friction — The Shakespeare paradox. “New York Times”-bestselling author Lehrer (“How We Decide”) introduces readers to musicians, graphic artists, poets, and bartenders to show how they can use science to be more imaginative and make their cities, their companies, and their culture more creative.

154.2 K

Kandel, Eric R. The age of insight : the quest to understand the unconscious in art, mind, and brain : from Vienna 1900 to the present. 1st ed. New York, NY : Random House, 2011.
A brilliant book by a Nobel Prize winner, “The Age of Insight” takes readers to Vienna in 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind—our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions—and how mind and brain relate to art.

225 L

The Jewish annotated New Testament : New Revised Standard Version Bible translation. Oxford ; : Oxford University Press, c2011.

371.425 Y

Yates, Julia. FASHION CAREERS GUIDEBOOK. Barron’s Educational Series, 2011.

615 M

Mitchell, Deborah R. The women’s pill book : your complete guide to prescription and over-the-counter medications. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, c2012.

630.917 H

Hanson, David, 1978-. Breaking through concrete : building an urban farm revival. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.

630.973 C

Cottrell, Annette, 1967-. The urban farm handbook : city-slicker resources for growing, raising, sourcing, trading, and preparing what you eat. Seattle, Wash. : Skipstone, 2011.
It all begins with grain — The chicken and the egg — Dairy dilemma — Growing your own — It’s all in the dirt — Going to the source — Seeding your garden — Growing strategies to maximize your space — Garden pests and beneficial insects — Eating seasonally — Winter gardening : it starts in summer! — Preserving the harvest — Building food community — Going whole hog — Raising small animals for meat — Beverages and syrups — Soaps and other sundries.

811.6 S

Scroggins, Mark. Red arcadia : Poems. Bristol, UK : Shearsman Books, 2012.

974 W

Weidensaul, Scott. The first frontier : the forgotten history of struggle, savagery, and endurance in early America. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
“Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier{8212}the boundary between complex Native cultures and the first colonizing Europeans. Here is the older, wilder, darker history of a time when the land between the Atlantic and the Appalachians was contested ground{8212}when radically different societies adopted and adapted the ways of the other, while struggling for control of what all considered to be their land. The First Frontier traces two and a half centuries of history through poignant, mostly unheralded personal stories{8212}like that of a Harvard-educated Indian caught up in seventeenth-century civil warfare, a mixed-blood interpreter trying to straddle his white and Native heritage, and a Puritan woman wielding a scalping knife whose bloody deeds still resonate uneasily today. It is the first book in years to paint a sweeping picture of the Eastern frontier, combining vivid storytelling with the latest research to bring to life modern America{8217}s tumultuous, uncertain beginnings.”—Publisher description.

DVD Won

National Geographic. Wonders of the Universe : as seen on National Geographic Channel. Universal City, CA : National Geographic Channel, 2010.

F Bra

Bradbury, Ray, 1920-. Bradbury stories : 100 of his most celebrated tales. New York : William Morrow, 2003.

F Cli

Cline, Ernest. Ready player one. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c2011.
“An exuberantly realized, exciting, and sweet-natured cyber-quest. Cline’s imaginative and rollicking coming-of-age geek saga has a smash-hit vibe.”—Booklist, starred review. “Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future—the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his grim, poverty-stricken real life. Along with millions of other world-wide citizens, Wade dreams of finding three keys left behind by James Halliday, the now-deceased creator of OASIS and the richest man to have ever lived. The keys are rumored to be hidden inside OASIS, and whoever finds them will inherit Halliday’s fortune. But Halliday has not made it easy. And there are real dangers in this virtual world. Stuffed to the gills with action, puzzles, nerdy romance, and 80s nostalgia, this high energy cyber-quest will make geeks everywhere feel like they were separated at birth from author Ernest Cline.”—Chris Schluep, Amazon Best Book of the Month.

F Der

Dermont, Amber. The starboard sea. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2012.

Jason Prosper grew up in the elite world of Manhattan penthouses, Maine summer estates, old-boy prep schools, and exclusive sailing clubs. A smart, athletic teenager, Jason maintains a healthy, humorous disdain for the trappings of affluence, preferring to spend afternoons sailing with Cal, his best friend and boarding-school roommate. When Cal commits suicide during their junior year at Kensington Prep, Jason is devastated by the loss and transfers to Bellingham Academy. There, he meets Aidan, a fellow student with her own troubled past. They embark on a tender, awkward, deeply emotional relationship.

When a major hurricane hits the New England coast, the destruction it causes brings with it another upheaval in Jason’s life, forcing him to make sense of a terrible secret that has been buried by the boys he considers his friends.

Set against the backdrop of the 1987 stock market collapse, The Starboard Sea is an examination of the abuses of class privilege, the mutability of sexual desire, the thrill and risk of competitive sailing, and the adult cost of teenage recklessness. 

F Har

Harkness, Deborah E., 1965-. A discovery of witches. New York : Viking, 2011.
Witch and Yale historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont. The orphaned daughter of two powerful witches, Bishop prefers intellect, but relies on magic when her discovery of a palimpsest documenting the origin of supernatural species releases an assortment of undead who threaten, stalk, and harass her.

F Jha

Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-. A lovesong for India. Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint :, c2012.
In this expansive story collection, acclaimed writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala expresses her lifelong meditation on East and West. Set in India, England, and New York City, “A Lovesong for India” reveals what unites us across oceans, cultures, and lifetimes.

F McK

McKenzie, Catherine. Spin. 1st U.S. ed. New York, NY : William Morrow, c2012.
When Kate Sandford lands an interview at her favorite music magazine, it’s the chance of a lifetime. So Kate goes out to celebrate—and shows up still drunk to the interview the next morning. It’s no surprise that she doesn’t get the job, but her performance has convinced the editors that she’d be perfect for an undercover assignment for their gossip rag. All Kate has to do is follow “It Girl” Amber Sheppard into rehab. If she can get the inside scoop—and complete the thirty-day program—they’ll reconsider her for the position at The Line. Kate takes the assignment, but when real friendships start to develop, she has to decide if what she has to gain is worth the price she’ll have to pay.

F Pow

Powers, Tim, 1952-. Hide me among the graves : a novel. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2012.

London, winter of 1862, Adelaide McKee, a former prostitute, arrives on the doorstep of veterinarian John Crawford, a man she met once seven years earlier. Their brief meeting produced a child who, until now, had been presumed dead. McKee has learned that the girl lives—but that her life and soul are in mortal peril from a vampiric ghost. But this is no ordinary spirit; the bloodthirsty wraith is none other than John Polidori, the onetime physician to the mad, bad, and dangerous Romantic poet Lord Byron. Both McKee and Crawford have mysterious histories with creatures like Polidori, and their child is a prize the malevolent spirit covets dearly.

Polidori is also the late uncle and supernatural muse to the poet Christina Rossetti and her brother, the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. When she was just fourteen years old, Christina unwittingly brought Polidori’s curse upon her family. But the curse bestowed unexpected blessings as well, inspiring Christina’s poetry and Gabriel’s paintings. But when Polidori resurrects Dante’s dead wife—turning her into a horrifying vampire—and threatens other family members, Christina and Dante agree that they must destroy their monstrous uncle and break the spell, even if it means the end of their creative powers.

Determined to save their daughter, McKee and Crawford join forces with the Rossettis, and soon these wildly mismatched allies are plunged into a supernatural London underworld whose existence goes beyond their wildest imaginings. Ultimately, each of these disparate individuals—the sensitive poet, the tortured painter, the straitlaced animal doctor, the reformed prostitute, and even their Artful Dodger— like young daughter—must choose between the banality and constraints of human life and the unholy immortality that Polidori offers.

F Sto

Stone, Michel, 1969-. The iguana tree : a novel. Spartanburg, SC : Hub City Press, c2012.

Set amid the perils of illegal border crossings, The Iguana Tree is the suspenseful saga of Lilia and Hector, who separately make their way from Mexico into the United States, seeking work in the Carolinas and a home for their infant daughter.

F War

Ward, Katie. Girl reading : a novel. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, 2012, c2011.

Seven portraits. Seven artists. Seven girls and women reading.

A young orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena. An artist’s servant girl in seventeenth-century Amsterdam snatches a moment away from her work to lose herself in tales of knights and battles. An eighteenth century female painter completes a portrait of a deceased poetess for her lover. A Victorian medium poses with a book in one of the first photographic studios. A girl suffering her first heartbreak witnesses intellectual and sexual awakening during the Great War. A young woman reading in a bar catches the eye of a young man who takes her picture. And in the not-so-distant future a woman navigates the rapidly developing cyber-reality that has radically altered the way people experience art and the way they live.

Each chapter of Katie Ward’s kaleidoscopic novel takes us into a perfectly imagined tale of how each portrait came to be, and as the connections accumulate, the narrative leads us into the present and beyond

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So go make your first loan entirely for free, and then head over to the community section of the site, search for the nerdfighters team, and join us! (You’ll find the tumblr link in team comments.)

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Sorted by Call Number / Author030.285 D

Dalby, Andrew, 1947-. The world and Wikipedia : how we are editing reality. Somerset : Siduri, 2009.
Wikipedia is currently the eighth most visited site on the web. It will soon be the reference source that most of use. This book examines what our dependence on one online encyclopedia means both now and in the future.

179.309 M

Martin, Glen. Game changer : Animal rights and the fate of Africa’s wildlife. Los Angeles, CA : Univerity of California Press, 2012.

306.708 C

Corinna, Heather. S.E.X. : the all-you-need-to-know progressive sexuality guide to get you through high school and college. New York : Marlowe, c2007.
Who’s this book for, anyway? : a foreword for parents, teachers, mentors, and other young adult allies — I pledge allegiance… to myself and the united state of my sexuality : an introduction for readers — Your body : an owner’s manual — The problem with perfect : body image (or, why appearance isn’t all it appears) — All by myself : solo sex, arousal, orgasm, and fantasy — Mulitple choice : gender, orientation, and sexual identity — On board the relationship — To be, or not to be… sexually active — Popular mechanics : the ins and outs of partnered sex — Safe and sound : safer sex for your body, heart, and mind — Hidden wounds : preventing, identifying, and healing from abuse and rape — To be or not to be… pregnant : contraception — Oh, baby! Conception, pregnancy, and pregnancy options — How to change the world (without even getting out of bed) — Appendix A: Common sexually transmitted infections : STIs from A to Z.

306.708 P

Pogány, Susan Browning, 1947-. Sex smart : 501 reasons to hold off on sex. Minneapolis : Fairview Press, c1998.
Provides straightforward answers to questions teens have about sex, relationships, dating, pregnancy, and sexually transmitted diseases.

306.76 B

Belge, Kathy. Queer : the ultimate LGBT guide for teens. San Francisco, CA : Zest Books, 2011.
The “Q” word: am I queer? — Embracing your queerness: coming out — Navigating your queer sphere: finding your people — Rising above: how to overcome queerphobia — Making your move: queer dating — Getting together: queer relationships — The big “S”: queer sex — Conclusion. A guide that helps LGBT teens come out to friends and family, navigate their new LGBT social life, figure out if a crush is also queer, and rise up against bigotry and homophobia.

306.76 H

Huegel, Kelly, 1974-. GLBTQ : the survival guide for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning teens. Rev. & updated 2nd ed. Minneapolis : Free Spirit Pub., c2011.
Offers gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender teens, as well as those questioning their sexuality, information and practical advice to help them deal with the issues they may face with their families, at school, and within contemporary society.

320.092 J

Judt, Tony. Thinking the twentieth century. New York : Penguin Press, 2012.
The name remains: Jewish questioner — London and language: English writer — Familial socialism: political Marxist — King’s and kibbutzim: Cambridge Zionist — Paris, California: French intellectual — Generation of understanding: East European liberal — Unities and fragments: European historian — Age of responsibility: American moralist — The banality of good: social democrat. Thinking the Twentieth Century maps the issues and concerns of a turbulent age onto a life of intellectual conflict and engagement. Tony Judt presents the triumphs and the failures of prominent intellectuals, adeptly explaining both their ideas and the risks of their political commitments.—[book jacket].

363.700 S

Stager, Curt. Deep future : the next 100,000 years of life on Earth. 1st ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2011.
Stopping the ice — Beyond global warming — The last great thaw — Life in a super-greenhouse — Future fossils — Oceans of acid — The rising tide — An ice-free Arctic — The greening of Greenland — What about the tropics? — Bringing it home. A paleoclimatologist makes predictions about how environmental choices in the twenty-first century will affect life on the planet throughout the distant future, drawing on geological history to argue that global cooling poses a more significant threat.

398 T

A treasury of Irish folklore. Bonanza Books, 1967.
1967. 620p.

618 W

Williams-Wheeler, Dorrie. The unplanned pregnancy book for teens and college students. Virginia Beach, VA : Sparkledoll Productions, c2004.

618.2 M

Murkoff, Heidi Eisenberg. What to expect when you’re expecting. 4th ed. New York : Workman Pub., 2008.

649.10 L

Lindsay, Jeanne Warren. Teen dads : rights, responsibilities and joys. California : Morning Glory Press, 1993.
A guide for teenage fathers who want to develop their parenting skills, with an emphasis on dealing with children from birth to the age of three.

649.122 L

Lindsay, Jeanne Warren. Your baby’s first year : a guide for teenage parents. Rev. ed. Buena Park, Calif. : Morning Glory Press, c1998.

741.5 Y

Youme. Pitch black : don’t be skerd. 1st ed. El Paso, TX : Cinco Puntos Press, c2008.

792.028 B

Benedetti, Robert L. The actor in you : sixteen simple steps to understanding the art of acting. 5th ed. Boston : Allyn & Bacon, c2012.

811.6 C

Choffel, Julie. The Hello delay. New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2012.

811.6 C

Copeland, Brooklyn. Siphon, harbor. Bristol, UK : Shearsman Books, 2012.

811.6 R

Ray, Douglas. He will laugh. Maple Shade, NJ : Lethe Press, 2012.

822.33 C

Callaghan, Dympna. Shakespeare without women : representing gender and race on the Renaissance stage. London ; : Routledge & K. Paul, 2000.

822.33 L

The Woman’s part : feminist criticism of Shakespeare. Illini Books ed. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1983, c1980.

DVD Chi

Children of paradise. Criterion Collection, c1945, 2002.
Jean-Louis Barrault ; Arletty ; Pierre Brasseur ; Marcel Herrand. Set in the theater district of early 19th-century Paris, Children of paradise re-creates a glittering world of backstage life. Garance, an elusive courtesan, is loved by four men — a talented mime, an ambitious actor, a nihilistic villain, and a snobbish.

DVD Gra

Grave of the fireflies. Sentai Filmworks, 2012.

DVD Lol

Lolita. Widescreen. [Marina Del Rey, Calif.] : Lions Gate Home Entertainment, c2003.
Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella, Dominique Swain. A middle-aged man marries an oppressive widow in order to be near and carry on an affair with her nymphet daughter.

DVD Mas

Master Harold— and the boys. [United States] : Image Entertainment, [2011].
Freddie Highmore, Ving Rhames. Athol Fugard’s searing coming of age masterpiece set in apartheid era South Africa. On a rainy afternoon in his mother’s tea house, lonely 17 year-old Hally and Sam and Willie, two middle-aged black servants, share idyllic memories of their lifelong friendship. But when Hally learns that his invalid alcoholic father is coming home from the hospital, he unleashes his resentment and rage on Sam and Willie with devastating consequences.

DVD My

My so-called life. Los Angeles, CA : Shout! Factory ;, [2007].
Disc 1: Pilot — Dancing in the dark — Guns and gossip. Disc 2: Father figures — The zit — The substitute — Why Jordan can’t read. Disc 3: Strangers in the house — Halloween — Other people’s mothers — Life of Brian. Disc 4: Self-esteem — Pressure — On the wagon — So-called angels. Disc 5: Resolutions — Betrayal — Weekend — In dreams begin responsibilities. Disc 6: Bonus disc. Bess Armstrong, Wilson Cruz, Claire Danes, Devon Gummersall, Tom Irwin, A.J. Langer, Jared Leto, Devon Odessa, Lisa Wilhoit. Angela Chase is a teenage girl who struggles with the problems of growing up, high school, and family life.

DVD O

Nelson, Tim Blake. “O. Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, 2011.

DVD Sla

Slavery by another name. [United States] : PBS Home Video, 2012.
Challenges one of America’s most cherished assumptions, the belief that slavery in the U.S. ended with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, by telling the harrowing story of how, in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force.

F Oli

Oliver, Lauren, 1982-. Pandemonium. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2012.
After falling in love, Lena and Alex flee their oppressive society where love is outlawed and everyone must receive “the cure”—an operation that makes them immune to the delirium of love—but Lena alone manages to find her way to a community of resistance fighters, and although she is bereft without the boy she loves, her struggles seem to be leading her toward a new love.

New Books (Including books for Mr. Ray’s class)

155.232 C

Cain, Susan. Quiet : the power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking. 1st ed. New York : Crown, c2012.
The north and south of temperament — The extrovert ideal. The rise of the “mighty likeable fellow” : how extroversion became the cultural ideal ; The myth of charismatic leadership : the culture of personality, a hundred years later ; When collaboration kills creativity : the rise of the new Groupthink and the power of working alone — Your biology, your self? Is temperament destiny? : nature, nurture, and the Orchid Hypothesis ; Beyond temperament : the role of free will (and the secret of public speaking for introverts) ; “Franklin was a politician, but Eleanor spoke out of conscience” : why cool is overrated ; Why did Wall Street cash and Warren Buffett prosper? : how introverts and extroverts think (and process dopamine) differently — Do all cultures have an extrovert ideal? Soft power : Asian-Americans and the extrovert ideal — How to love, how to work. When should you act more extroverted than you really are? ; The communication gap : how to talk to members of the opposite type ; On cobblers and generals : how to cultivate quiet kids in a world that can’t hear them — Wonderland — A note on the words Introvert and Extrovert. Demonstrates how introverted people are misunderstood and undervalued in modern culture, charting the rise of extrovert ideology while sharing anecdotal examples of how to use introvert talents to adapt to various situations.

Mendelson, Sara Heller, 1947-. Women in early modern England, 1550-1720. Oxford ; : Clarendon Press, 1998.

Sheff, Nic. Tweak : (growing up on methamphetamines). 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2007.
The author details his immersion in a world of hardcore drugs, revealing the mental and physical depths of addiction, and the violent relapse one summer in California that forever changed his life, leading him down the road to recovery.

Lane, Nick. Life ascending : the ten great inventions of evolution. 1st American ed. New York : Norton, 2009.

Kuhn, Cynthia. Buzzed : the straight facts about the most used and abused drugs from alcohol to ecstasy. 3rd ed. New York : W. W. Norton, c2008.
Provides a presentation of the scientific facts about commonly abused drugs, including alcohol, caffeine, entactogens, hallucinogens, inhalants, marijuana, nicotine, sedatives, steroids, and stimulants; and includes discussion of their effects on the brain and body.

Gahlinger, Paul. Illegal drugs : a complete guide to their history, chemistry, use, and abuse. Revised. New York : Plume, 2004.
A list plus study of the use and abuse of various illegal drugs.

Silverberg, Larry, 1959-. The Sanford Meisner approach : an actors workbook. 1st ed. Lyme, NH : Smith and Kraus, 1994.

Carey-Webb, Allen, 1957-. Literature and lives : a response-based, cultural studies approach to teaching English. Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English, c2001.

Hall, Kim F., 1961-. Things of darkness : economies of race and gender in early modern England. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995.

Bell, Ilona. Elizabethan women and the poetry of courtship. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Shakespeare and race. New York : Cambridge University Press, c2000.
Surveying ‘race’ in Shakespeare / Margo Hendricks — A portrait of a Moor / Bernard Harris — Elizabethans and foreigners / G.K. Hunter — ‘Spanish’ Othello: the making of Shakespeare’s Moor / Barbara Everett — Shakespeare and the living dramatist / Wole Soyinka — Shakespeare in the trenches / Balz Engler — Bowdler and Britannia: Shakespeare and the national libido / Michael Dobson — ‘Shakespur and the Jewbill’ / James Shapiro — Wilhelm S and Shylock / Laurence Lerner — Cruelty, King Lear and the South African Land Act 1913 / Martin Orkin — Caliban and Ariel write back / Jonathan Bate — Casting Black actors: beyond Othellophilia / Celia R. Daileader — ‘Delicious traffick’: racial and religious difference on early modern stages / Ania Loomba.

A feminist companion to Shakespeare. Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2000.
The ladies Shakespeare / Juliet Fleming — Margaret Cavendish, Shakespeare critic / Katherine M. Romack — Misogyny is everywhere / Phyllis Rackin — Feminist editing and the body of the text / Laurie E. Maguire — Made to write ‘whore’ upon?”: male and female use of the word “whore” in Shakespeare’s canon / Kay Stanton — “A word, sweet Lucrece”: confession, feminism, and the rape of Lucrece / Margo Hendricks — Gender, class and the ideology of Comic form: Much ado about nothing and Twelfth Night / Mihoko Suzuki — Gendered “gifts” in Shakespeare’s Belmont: the economies of exchange in early modern England / Jyotsna G. Singh — The great Indian vanishing trick: colonialism, property, and the family in A midsummer night’s dream / Ania Loomba — Black ram, white ewe: Shakespeare, race and women / Joyce Green MacDonald — Sycorax in Algiers: cultural politics and gynecology in early modern England / Rachana Sachdev — Black and white, and dread all over: the Shakespeare theater’s “photonegative” Othello and the body of Desdemona / Denise Albanese — Women and boys playing Shakespeare / Juliet Dusinberre — Mutant scenes and “minor” conflicts in Richard II / Molly Smith — Lovesickness, gender, and subjectivity: Twelfth Night and As you like it / Carol Thomas Neely — … in the lesbian void: woman-woman eroticism in Shakespeare’s plays / Theodora A. Jankowski — Duncan’s corpse / Susan Zimmerman — Others and lovers in The merchant of Venice / M. Lindsay Kaplan — Between idolatry and astrology: modes of temporal repetition in Romeo and Juliet / Philippa Berry.

Dusinberre, Juliet. Shakespeare and the nature of women. 3rd ed. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Garber, Marjorie B. Shakespeare after all. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c2004.
Presents a comprehensive analysis of all thirty-eight of William Shakespeare’s plays and discusses language, theme, plot, and character as well as Shakespeare’s development as a writer of verse and prose.

Race in William Shakespeare’s Othello. Farmington Hills, MI : Greenhaven Press/Gale, Cengage Learning, c2012.
Background on William Shakespeare — Othello and race — Contemporary perspectives on race.

Loomba, Ania. Shakespeare, race, and colonialism. Oxford ; : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Rackin, Phyllis. Shakespeare and women. Oxford [England] ; : Oxford University Press, 2005.
A usable history —The place(s) of women in Shakespeare’s world: historical fact and feminist interpretation — Our canon, ourselves — Boys will be girls — The lady’s reeking breath — Shakespeare’s timeless women.

Shapiro, James S., 1955-. Shakespeare and the Jews. New York : Columbia University Press, c1996.

Gowing, Laura. Domestic dangers : women, words, and sex in early modern London. Paperback ed. Oxford, England : Clarendon Press, 1998, c1996.

Barrie, Jeff. Kilowatt ours : A plan to re-energize America. Kilowatt Ours, 2008.

Secrets of the mind. [Boston] : WGBH Boston Video, [2007].
V.S. Ramachandran. Follows neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran as he investigates four mysterious psychological cases involving blindness and sight, phantom limbs and pain, and delusional thinking, and delivers his astounding conclusions.

Handler, Daniel. Why we broke up. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2011.
Sixteen-year-old Min Green writes a letter to Ed Slaterton in which she breaks up with him, documenting their relationship and how items in the accompanying box, from bottle caps to a cookbook, foretell the end.

Marcus, Ben, 1967-. The flame alphabet. New York : Alfred a Knopf, Inc., 2012.
Marcus creates a chilling world where the speech of children is killing their parents. After being forced to leave their daughter Esther to fend for herself, Sam and Claire end up at a government lab intent on creating non-lethal speech. But when Sam discovers the truth about what’s going on there, he realizes reuniting with his daughter is the only way to keep his sanity.

Pearl, Matthew. The technologists : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2012.
The first graduating class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is thrown into turmoil by bizarre phenomena that cause instruments to inexplicably spin out of control, challenging enterprising students to protect lives while combating Harvard rivals.

Whaley, John Corey. Where things come back : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2011.
Seventeen-year-old Cullen’s summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin’s death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother’s sudden disappearance.