MT. EVERETT LIBRARY NEW BOOKS & VIDEOS 2004/2005

820.9 CRU
Cruttenden, Aidan. The Victorians : English literature in its
historical, cultural, and social contexts. New York : Facts
on File, c2003. Provides historical, cultural, and social
contexts for the study of English literature, looking at the
literary genres and highlighting key writers and works from
the Victorian era, and includes a time line, glossaries, and
resources for further study.

820.9 KING
King, Neil. The Romantics : English literature in its
historical, cultural, and social contexts. New York : Facts
on File, c2003. Provides historical, cultural, and social
contexts for the study of English literature, looking at the
literary genres and highlighting key writers and works from
the Romantic period, and includes a time line, glossaries,
and resources for further study.

820.9 LEE
Lee-Browne, Patrick. The Modernist period, 1900-1945 : English
literature in its historical, cultural, and social contexts.
New York : Facts on File, c2003. Provides historical,
cultural, and social contexts for the study of English
literature, looking at the literary genres and highlighting
key writers and works from the Modernist period 1900 to
1945, and includes a time line, glossaries, and resources
for further study.

820.9 LEE
Lee-Browne, Patrick. The Renaissance : English literature in its
historical, cultural, and social contexts. New York : Facts
on File, c2003. Provides historical, cultural, and social
contexts for the study of English literature, looking at the
literary genres and highlighting key writers and works from
the Renaissance, and includes a time line, glossaries, and
resources for further study.

820.9 MER
Merz, Caroline. Post-war literature : 1945 to the present :
English literature in its historical, cultural, and social
contexts. New York : Facts on File, c2003. Provides
historical, cultural, and social contexts for the study of
English literature, looking at the literary genres and
highlighting key writers and works from the post-World War
II era, and includes a time line, glossaries, and resources
for further study.

 

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900s:

909 COR
Corzine, Phyllis, 1943-. The Islamic Empire. Detroit : Lucent
Books : Thomson/Gale, c2005. An Empire that changed the
world -- The birth of Islam -- Building the Empire --
Governing an Empire : Umar and the Umayyad Dynasty -- The
Abbasid caliphate -- The golden age of Islam -- Intellectual
and artistic achievements of the golden age. Chronicles the
history of the Islamic empire, describing the beginning of
Islam, the Umayyad dynasty, the artistic and intellectual
achievements of the empire's golden age, and other related
topics, and includes an annotated further reading list.

920 UNF
Unforgettable women of the century. New York : People Weekly
Books, c1998. Biographies of twentieth-century women
celebrities from around the world famous in politics, art,
and entertainment.

921 ANDERSON
Freedman, Russell. The voice that challenged a nation : Marian
Anderson and the struggle for equal rights. New York :
Clarion Books, c2004. Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939 --
Twenty-five cents a song -- A voice in a thousand -- Marian
fever -- Banned by the DAR -- Singing to the nation --
Breaking barriers -- "What I had was singing.". Tells the
life story of singer Marian Anderson, describing her famous
1939 Lincoln Memorial performance and explaining how she
helped end segregation in the American arts after being
refused the right to perform at Washington's Constitution
Hall because of the color of her skin.

921 CAESAR, J.
Crompton, Samuel Willard. Julius Caesar. Philadelphia : Chelsea
House, c2003. A biography of the Roman general and
statesman whose military leadership helped make Rome the
center of a vast empire.

921 CHILD
Kenschaft, Lori J. Lydia Maria Child : the quest for racial
justice. Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University
Press, c2002. A biography of the popular writer who, in the
mid-nineteenth century, gave up her successful literary
career to fight for the abolition of slavery, women's
rights, and the fair treatment of Native Americans.

921 CONROY
Conroy, Pat. My losing season. Bantam trade pbk. ed. New York
: Bantam Books, 2003, c2002. The author reflects on his
days at a South Carolina military college. He recalls his
love of basketball and its value to him as a means of
self-expression, and shares experiences that shed new light
on his novel "The Great Santini.".

921 DIX
Muckenhoupt, Margaret. Dorothea Dix : advocate for mental health
care. New York : Oxford University Press, c2003.
Chronicles the life of Dorothea Dix, focusing on her efforts
to improve health and psychological care for people with
mental illnesses.

921 JEFFERSON
Bernstein, Richard B., 1956-. Thomas Jefferson : the revolution
of ideas. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
c2004. Discusses the private life and public career of the
third president of the United States and author of the
Declaration of Independence.

921 WARHOL
Greenberg, Jan, 1942-. Andy Warhol : prince of pop. New York :
Delacorte Press, c2004. Chronicles the life of pop artist
Andy Warhol, describing his childhood in Pittsburgh, the
development of the Factory, and his rise to fame.

921 WOODHULL
Brody, Miriam, 1940-. Victoria Woodhull : free spirit for
women's rights. Oxford [UK] ; New York : Oxford University
Press, c2003. Tells the life story of nineteenth- and
early-twentieth-century feminist and spiritualist Victoria
Woodhull, describing her historic firsts in the arenas of
finance and politics and the scandal involving minister
Henry Ward Beecher that cost her most of her supporters.

921 X, MALCOLM
X, Malcolm, 1925-1965. The autobiography of Malcolm X. 1st
Ballantine Books trade ed. New York : Ballantine Books,
1992, c1965. Malcolm X, the Black Muslim leader, firebrand,
and anti-integrationist, tells his life story to veteran
writer and journalist Alex Haley.

937 MEL
Mellor, Ronald. The ancient Roman world. Oxford [U.K.] ; New
York : Oxford University Press, c2004. Introduces the
history, culture, and people of ancient Rome and examines
its many contributions to the development of Western
society.

938 ROB
Roberts, Jennifer Tolbert, 1947-. The ancient Greek world.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2004.
Introduces the history, culture, and people of ancient
Greece and examines its many contributions to the
development of Western society.

940.1 DEAN
Dean, Ruth, 1947-. Women of the Middle Ages. San Diego :
Detroit : Lucent Books ; Thomson/Gale, c2003. Provides
information about the lives and activities of medieval
women, discussing their contributions to society as
housekeepers, farmers, business owners, professionals,
estate administrators, artists, and church workers.

940.54 DUR
Durrett, Deanne, 1940-. Unsung heroes of World War II : the
story of the Navajo code talkers. New York, NY : Facts on
File, c1998. Describes the role of a select group of Navajo
Marines who developed a code based on their own native
language that provided a means for secure communications
among American forces in the Pacific during World War II.

942.05 ELI
Elizabethan England : primary sources. San Diego : Detroit, MI :
Lucent Books ; Thomson/Gale, c2003. Primary and secondary
source accounts provide readers with a historical
perspective and comprehensive picture of the cultural,
political, and social events that characterize Elizabethan
England.

951 LIV
Living in imperial China. San Diego : Detroit : Greenhaven Press
; Thomson/Gale, c2004. Contains primary and secondary
documents that provide information about the culture of
imperial China, covering families and domestic life,
religions and rituals, work, and the arts and entertainment.

951.05 SCH
Schoppa, R. Keith, 1943-. Twentieth century China : a history in
documents. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
c2004. An old world dies; a new one is born -- The slide
into chaos -- Forming a new culture: the May Fourth movement
-- Which way do we go?: revolution in the 1920s -- The
Nanjing decade -- Communist resurgence -- China at war: the
fight against Japan -- Civil war -- The Mao years -- The
cult of Mao Zedong -- "To get rich is glorious": the reforms
of Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin -- Political
authoritarianism -- China and the world at the turn of the
century. Presents a collection of documents that chart the
history of change and revolution in China over the course of
the twentieth century, including official reports,
eyewitness accounts, cartoons, poetry, songs, articles, and
advertisements, and features commentary and photographs.

R 951.904
Encyclopedia of the Korean War : a political, social, and
military history. New York : Checkmark Books, c2002.
Contains over six hundred alphabetically arranged entries
that provide information about various aspects of the Korean
War, and includes twenty maps, a time line of Korean
history, a glossary, and an extensive index.

951.904 TWO
The two Koreas. New York : H.W. Wilson, c2004.

951.904 USC
Uschan, Michael V., 1948-. Weapons of war : Korean War. San
Diego : Detroit : Lucent Books ; Thomson/Gale, c2003. An
unexpected war -- UN naval power dominates -- The Korean War
: combat at close quarters -- Tanks, artillery and other
infantry support weapons -- Aerial warfare in the Korean War
-- The age of jet fighter warfare begins -- Psychological
warfare : words as weapons -- The weapon the United States
dared not use. Primary and secondary source accounts help
describe the weaponry used by both sides in the Korean War.

952.025 HUF
Huffman, James L., 1941-. Modern Japan : a history in documents.
Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2004.
Presents a collection of black-and-white photographs,
memoirs, school textbooks, diaries, and eye-witness accounts
of the history of Japan from the first western visitors in
1542 through the twentieth century.

956.7044 CAR
Carlisle, Rodney P. Persian Gulf War. New York : Facts On File,
c2003. Examines several aspects of the origins, fighting,
and aftermath of the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

956.7044 SPE
Speakman, Jay, 1953-. Weapons of war. San Diego : Lucent Books,
c2001. Describes the weapons used in the Persian Gulf war
including aircraft and ground weapons, and discusses weapons
support, training, information, and the influence of sea
power on Desert Storm.

958 RISE
The rise and fall of the Taliban. Detroit : Greenhaven Press :
Thomson/Gale, c2005. Presents thirteen essays on the
history of the Taliban, how it gained strength in the Muslim
world, the suffering of women under Taliban rule, and the
United States attack on the Taliban in Afghanistan.

959.704 WAR
Warren, Andrea. Escape from Saigon : how a Vietnam War orphan
became an American boy. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus
and Giroux, 2004. Chronicles the experiences of an orphaned
Amerasian boy from his birth and early childhood in Saigon
through his departure from Vietnam in the 1975 Operation
Babylift and his subsequent life as the adopted son of an
American family in Ohio.

960 AFRICA
Africa. Detroit : Greenhaven Press : Thomson/Gale, c2005.
Contains twenty-seven essays in which the authors debate
issues related to Africa, including the problems faced in
the country, the spread of AIDS, the preservation of wild
lands, and relief policies and initiatives.

967 RWA
The Rwanda genocide. San Diego : Detroit : Greenhaven Press ;
Thomson/Gale, c2004. Presents twelve essays that argue
opposing points on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, covering its
causes, the world's reaction, and the country's rebuilding,
and includes an introductory overview, a chronology, and a
further reading list.

967.73 GEL
Gelletly, LeeAnne. Somalia. Philadelphia : Mason Crest
Publishers, c2004. Discusses the geography, history,
economy, government, religion, people, foreign relations,
and major cities of Somalia.

970.004 NAT
Native universe : voices of Indian America. Washington, D.C. :
National Geographic, c2004. Presents a collection of
full-color and black and white illustrated photographs
depicting the art and cultures of native peoples of the
Western Hemisphere from ancient times to the twenty-first
century and examines their heritage and the impact they had
upon the growth and development of the nation.

972.87 DUT
DuTemple, Lesley A. The Panama Canal. Minneapolis, MN : Lerner
Publications, c2003. A history of the building of the
Panama Canal, with emphasis on the difficulties of digging a
canal where some engineers said it could not be done.

973.0496 DU BOIS
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. The
souls of Black folk. New York : Penguin Books, 1996. A
collection of essays, first published in 1903, in which the
author examines the role, influence, and perceptions of
African-American men and women in turn-of-the-century
society.

973.3 NAR
Nardo, Don, 1947-. Weapons of war : the American Revolution.
San Diego : Detroit : Lucent Books ; Thomson/Gale, c2003.
Describes the weapons of the American Revolution, covering
muskets, bayonets, artillery, and naval warfare, as well as
battle tactics and military intelligence, and includes an
annotated further-reading list.

973.46 COR
Corrick, James A. The Louisiana Purchase. San Diego : Lucent,
c2001. Examines the Louisiana Purchase, discussing the
negotiation of the treaty with France, the formation of
Louisiana, taking possession of the land, and the
exploration, growth, and settlement of the territory.

973.7 CIVIL
The Civil War. San Diego, CA : Detroit : Greenhaven Press ;
Thomson/Gale, c2004. Presents nineteen significant speeches
related to the Civil War and its aftermath, including
addresses by politicians and abolitionists. Also includes an
introduction, chronology, further reading list, and
biographies.

973.7 LAL
Lalicki, Tom. Grierson's raid : a daring cavalry strike through
the heart of the Confederacy. 1st ed. New York : Farrar
Straus Giroux, 2004. Describes Colonel Benjamin H.
Grierson's sixteen-day raid through central Mississippi in
the spring of 1863, which distracted Confederate attention
while Union troops moved on Vicksburg.

973.7 LIE
Lieurance, Suzanne. Weapons and strategies of the Civil War.
Berkeley Heights, NJ : MyReportLinks.com Books, c2004. The
war begins -- A short history of American weapons -- The
North's plan to win the war -- The South's plan to win the
war -- Outcome and aftermath of the war. Describes weapons
used by Union and Confederate troops on land and sea during
the Civil War, as well as some of the strategies employed by
their leaders. Includes Internet links to Web sites related
to the Civil War.

973.7 STE
Stewart, Gail, 1949-. Weapons of war : the Civil War. San
Diego, CA : Lucent Books, c2000. Discusses the weapons used
in the Civil War, technological innovations that were made,
and the problems and increased casualties that resulted.

973.92 MCC
The McCarthy hearings. San Diego : Detroit : Greenhaven Press ;
Thomson/Gale, c2003. Contains eleven essays in which the
authors present varying viewpoints on the methods used by
Senator Joseph McCarthy in his efforts to expose communists
in U.S. government, and offer their assessments of McCarthy
and McCarthyism.

974.4 ARO
Aronson, Marc. John Winthrop, Oliver Cromwell, and the Land of
Promise. New York : Clarion Books, c2004. Looks at how the
lives of John Winthrop, governor of Massachusetts, and
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Puritan Commonwealth
in England, were intertwined at a time of conflict between
church and state and between Native and European Americans.

974.4 BAR
Barter, James, 1946-. Colonial Boston. San Diego : Detroit :
Lucent Books ; Thomson/Gale, c2004. Freedom's birthplace --
A city on a hill: a brief history of Boston -- Arrival,
weather and location -- First day: getting around, where to
stay, what to eat -- Four historic landmarks -- Three casual
walks -- Shopping -- Entertainment -- Day trips outside of
Boston. A visitor's guide to the weather, historic sights,
food, shopping, and overnight accommodations of Colonial
Boston.

R 974.41 DREW
Drew, Bernard A. If they close the door on you, go in the window
: origins of the African American community in Sheffield,
Great Barrington & Stockbridge. Great Barrington, MA: Attic
Revival Press, 2004. Archival research and anecdotal
newspaer articles are used to provide an in-depth history of
the African American community that emerged over two and a
half centuries in Southern Berkshire County.

 
 

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FICTION:

ALLENDE
Allende, Isabel. City of the beasts. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New
York : HarperTrophy, 2004, c2002. When fifteen-year-old
Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother
on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he
experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he
tries to avert disaster for the Indians.

ANDERSON, M.
Anderson, M. T. The Game of Sunken Places. 1st ed. New York :
Scholastic, 2004. When two boys stay with an eccentric
relative at his mansion in rural Vermont, they discover an
old-fashioned board game that draws them into a mysterious
adventure.

ATWATER-RHODES
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. Midnight predator. New York : Dell
Laurel-Leaf, [2003], c2002. Vampire hunter Turquoise Draka
goes undercover as a human slave in order to enter the
fabled vampire realm of Midnight and assassinate Jeshikah,
one of the cruelest vampires in history, but her guise
brings up old memories of her past enslavement and she finds
herself comforted by her benign master Jaguar.

BODETT
Bodett, Tom. Norman Tuttle on the Last Frontier : a novel in
stories. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2004. Episodes in the
life of Alaskan teenager, Norman Tuttle, as he grows from
ages thirteen to fifteen, falls in love for the first time,
and deepens his relationship with his father.

BORLAND
Borland, Hal, 1900-1978. When the legends die. 1st Laurel-Leaf
ed. New York : Dell Laurel-Leaf, 2001, c1963. An orphaned
Ute Indian boy wins stardom on the rodeo circuit but,
disillusioned by his success, returns to the ways of his
ancestors.

BRENNAN
Brennan, Herbie. Faerie wars. New York : [S.l.] : Bloomsbury ;
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2004,
c2003. Troubled by family problems, Henry finds his life
taking a whole new dimension when he and his friend, old Mr.
Fogarty, become involved with Prince Pyrgus Malvae who has
been sent from the faerie world in order to escape the
treacherous Faeries of the Night.

BROOKS, K.
Brooks, Kevin. Lucas. New York : Push/Scholastic, [2004],
c2003. On an isolated English island, fifteen-year-old
Caitlin McCann makes the painful journey from adolescence to
adulthood through her experiences with a mysterious boy,
whose presence has an unsettling effect on the island's
inhabitants.

BROOKS, M.
Brooks, Martha, 1944-. True confessions of a heartless girl.
1st HarperTempest ed. New York : HarperTempest, 2004. A
confused seventeen-year-old girl, a single mother and her
young son, two elderly women, and a sad and lonely man, with
their own individual tragedies to bear, come together in a
small Manitoba town and find a way to a better future.

BROOKS, T.
Brooks, Terry. Antrax. 1st mass market ed. New York : Del Rey,
2002, c2001. In the wake of an attack on their airship, the
Druid Walker Boh and his crew are hunted by an ancient, evil
force that hungers for magic, and Walker's young protégé Bek
Rowe attempts to reunite with his sister, Walker's enemy,
the Ilse Witch.

BROOKS, T.
Brooks, Terry. Morgawr. 1st domestic mass market ed. New York
: Del Rey, 2003, c2002. The crew of the magnificent airship
"Jerle Shannara," on a quest to win control of an ancient
magic, must first defeat the forces of Morgawr, master of
the Ilse Witch and devourer of souls.

BROWN, D.
Brown, Dan, 1964-. Deception point. New York : Pocket Books,
c2001. White House intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton is
thrust into a life-or-death situation when she travels to
the Arctic to investigate the discovery of a rare meteorite
that might prove the existence of extraterrestrial life, and
finds instead evidence of scientific trickery.

CABOT
Cabot, Meg. The boy next door. 1st ed. New York : Avon Trade,
c2002. Gossip columnist Melissa Fuller, having found her
elderly neighbor in a coma after suffering an attack,
contacts the woman's nephew Max, who despite a reputation as
a womanizer turns out to be kind, funny, and very lovable,
but the growing bond between the two young people is broken
when Melissa discovers he is not who he claims to be.

CABOT
Cabot, Meg. Princess in love. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York :
HarperTrophy, 2002. In a series of humorous diary entries,
a New York City ninth grader agonizes over her love life,
final exams, and future role as the princess of Genovia.

CATHER
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. My Ántonia. New York : Pocket Books,
1918, c2004. A successful lawyer remembers his boyhood in
Nebraska and his friendship with an immigrant Bohemian girl.

CLANCY
Clancy, Tom, 1947-. Red rabbit. Berkley mass-market ed. New
York : Berkley Books, 2003, c2002. Jack Ryan, having jumped
at the offer to join the CIA as a freelance analyst in the
early 1980s, quickly finds himself in over his head when he
uncovers a KGB plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II.

COELHO
Coelho, Paulo. The alchemist. [San Francisco] :
HarperSanFrancisco, [1998], c1993. Santiago, an Andalusian
shepherd boy, sets out from his home in Spain to the
Egyptian desert in search of buried treasure, but through
his encounters with a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself a
king, and an Alchemist, he learns the value of the treasures
found within himself.

CRICHTON
Crichton, Michael, 1942-. Prey. New York : Avon, [2003], c2002.
A cloud of nanoparticles programmed as a predator and
capable of self-reproduction escapes from a Nevada
laboratory and makes the human population its target.

CURTIS
Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bucking the Sarge. New York : Wendy
Lamb Books, c2004. Deeply involved in his cold and
manipulative mother's shady business dealings in Flint,
Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor
while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men, all the
while dreaming of going to college and becoming a
philosopher.

DAHL, R.
Dahl, Roald. Skin and other stories. New York : Puffin, 2002,
c2000. Skin -- Lamb to the slaughter -- The sound machine
-- An African story -- Galloping Foxley -- The wish -- The
surgeon -- Dip in the pool -- The champion of the world --
Beware of the dog -- My lady love, my dove. Introduces
teenagers to the adult short stories of Roald Dahl.

DANTE
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. The inferno. New York : Signet
Classic, [2001]. A verse translation of Renaissance poet
Dante Alighieri's story of a man making his way through the
torment of Hell in search of Paradise.

DANTE
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. The divine comedy. New York, :
Vintage Books, c1959.

DAVIS, A.
Davis, Amanda, 1971-. Wonder when you'll miss me : a novel. 1st
Perennial ed. New York : Perennial, 2004, c2003.
Sixteen-year-old Faith Duckle embarks on a journey of
discovery when she runs off with the circus after attacking
one of the boys who raped her the year before.

DRAPER
Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills). The battle of Jericho. 1st
ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2005, c2003. A high school
junior and his cousin suffer the ramifications of joining
what seems to be a "reputable" school club.

DREISER
Dreiser, Theodore. An American tragedy. New York : Signet
Classic, [2000], c1953. The corruption of a young man
becomes a portrait of the society that shaped his ambitions
and destroyed him.

DUNKLE
Dunkle, Clare B. Close kin. 1st ed. New York : Holt, 2004.
After the mostly human Emily rejects the elvish Seylin's
marriage proposal, both undertake separate quests to learn
about their true natures and discover a royal elf and
orphaned goblin to bring to the goblin kingdom.

ELLIS
Ellis, Deborah, 1960-. Parvana's journey. Toronto, Ont. ;
Berkeley, CA : Berkeley, CA : Douglas & McIntyre ;
Distributed in the USA by Publishers Group West, c2002.
With Kabul in ruins from the Taliban's control, Parvana
dresses as a boy and sets out to leave Afghanistan in search
of her family.

FARMER
Farmer, Nancy, 1941-. The Sea of Trolls. 1st ed. New York :
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2004. After Jack becomes
apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy
are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of
King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading
Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the
trolls.

FERRIS
Ferris, Jean. Once upon a Marigold. 1st Harcourt pbk. ed.
Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, 2004, c2002. A young man with a
mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves
the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has
loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her
father.

FFORDE
Fforde, Jasper. The Eyre affair : a novel. New York : Penguin
Books, 2003, c2001. Thursday Next, a Special Operative in
literary detection in a time-altered Great Britain in which
messing with the classics is a punishable offense, sets out
to apprehend a criminal who is murdering characters from
works of literature and has chosen Jane Eyre as his next
victim.

FFORDE
Fforde, Jasper. Thursday Next in Lost in a good book : a novel.
New York : Penguin Books, 2004, c2002. Thursday Next, a
Special Operative in literary detection in a time-altered
Great Britain in which messing with the classics is a
punishable offense, sets out to find out who drowned her
husband of a month thirty-eight years ago while interacting
with classic literature.

FISHER
Fisher, Catherine, 1957-. The oracle betrayed. 1st American ed.
New York : Greenwillow, 2004. After she is chosen to be
"Bearer-of-the-god," Mirany questions the established order
and sets out, along with a musician and a scribe, to find
the legitimate heir of the religious leader known as the
Archon.

FRANK
Frank, E. R. Friction : a novel. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York
: Simon Pulse, 2004, c2003. Alex, suffering a bit of a
crush on her eighth-grade teacher Simon, becomes confused
about what is true when a new girl at Forest Alternative
claims Simon has been molesting her and Alex.

GAINES
Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-. The autobiography of Miss Jane
Pittman. Bantam ed. New York : Bantam, 1972, c1971. A
110-year-old African-American woman reminisces about her
life, which has stretched from the days of slavery to the
black militancy and civil rights movements of the 1960s.

GILES
Giles, Gail. Dead girls don't write letters. 1st Simon Pulse
ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2004, c2003. Fourteen-year-old
Sunny is stunned when a total stranger shows up at her house
posing as her older sister Jazz, who supposedly died in a
fire months earlier.

GRISHAM
Grisham, John. The summons. Dell domestic mass market ed. New
York : Bantam Dell, 2003, c2002. Law professor Ray Atlee
and his troublesome younger brother Forrest are called home
to Clanton, Mississippi by their dying father, Judge Atlee,
but when the judge dies before the meeting can take place,
Ray is left to untangle an old family secret.

HADDON
Haddon, Mark. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
1st Vintage Contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage
Contemporaries, 2004, c2003. Despite his overwhelming fear
of interacting with people, Christopher, a
mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy,
decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and
uncovers secret information about his mother.

HALVORSON
Halvorson, Marilyn. Bull rider. Victoria, BC ; Custer, WA :
Orca Book Publishers, 2003. Sixteen-year-old Layne faces a
dangerous challenge when he defies his mother and enters
himself in a bull riding contest--the same rodeo event in
which his father was killed.

HAUTMAN
Hautman, Pete, 1952-. Sweet-blood. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New
York : Simon Pulse, 2004, c2003. After a lifetime of being
a model student, sixteen-year-old Lucy Szabo is suddenly in
trouble at school, at home, with the so-called vampires she
has met online and in person, and most of all with her
uncontrolled diabetes.

HEARN
Hearn, Lian. Across the nightingale floor. 1st Riverhead trade
pbk. ed. New York : Riverhead Books, 2003, c2002. The
first in a proposed trilogy set in ancient Japan, telling
the story of Takeo, a sixteen-year-old saved from a massacre
by the mysterious Lord Otori, who struggles to reconcile his
dual nature--the one given him by the Hidden, the pacifist
people among whom he was born and raised, and the one
inherited from his father, a celebrated assassin.

HOFFMAN
Hoffman, Alice. Indigo. New York : Scholastic Signature,
[2003], c2002. When her mother dies, Martha is so unhappy
living in the dried-up town of Oak Grove, that she convinces
two unusual brothers who long to return to the ocean to run
away with her.

HOROWITZ
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-. Point blank : an Alex Rider adventure.
New York : Speak, 2004, c2001. Fourteen-year-old Alex
continues his work as a spy for the British MI6,
investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French
Alps.

HOROWITZ
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-. Skeleton Key : an Alex Rider
adventure. New York : Speak, 2004, c2002. Reluctant
teenage-spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the
Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese
gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his
Russian host, General Sarov.

HOSSEINI
Hosseini, Khaled. The kite runner. 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
New York : Riverhead Books, 2004, c2003. Amir, haunted by
his betrayal of Hassan, the son of his father's servant and
a childhood friend, returns to Kabul as an adult after he
learns Hassan has been killed, in an attempt to redeem
himself by rescuing Hassan's son from a life of slavery to a
Taliban official.

IHIMAERA
Ihimaera, Witi Tame, 1944-. The whale rider. 1st U.S. ed., 1st
Harvest ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, 2003. As her beloved
grandfather, chief of the Maori tribe of Whangara, New
Zealand, struggles to lead in difficult times and to find a
male successor, young Kahu is developing a mysterious
relationship with whales, particularly the ancient bull
whale whose legendary rider was their ancestor.

JOHNSON, A.
Johnson, Angela, 1961-. The first part last. 1st ed. New York
: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2003. Bobby's
carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a
father and must care for his adored baby daughter.

JONES, D.W.
Jones, Diana Wynne. Howl's moving castle. 1st Harper Trophy ed.
New York : HarperTrophy, 2001, c1986. Eldest of three
sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune,
Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice
until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds
herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl.

JUBY
Juby, Susan, 1969-. Alice, I think. 1st pbk. ed. New York :
HarperTempest, 2004, c2003. Fifteen-year-old Alice keeps a
diary as she struggles to cope with the embarrassments and
trials of family, dating, school, work, small town life, and
a serious case of "outcastitis.".

KANTOR
Kantor, Melissa. Confessions of a not it girl. 1st ed. New
York : Hyperion, c2004. High schooler Jan Miller, hoping
for a senior year romance, just cannot seem to do anything
right, especially when compared to her best friend Rebecca
who has just been named a New York "It Girl," but things
start looking up when an old crush moves back to town.

KIDD
Kidd, Sue Monk. The secret life of bees. New York : Penguin
Books, 2003, c2002. Fourteen-year-old Lily and her
companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared
from Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee
their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police
officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina
at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and
August.

KOJA
Koja, Kathe. Buddha boy. New York : Speak, 2004, c2003. Justin
spends time with Jinsen, the unusual and artistic new
student whom the school bullies torment and call Buddha Boy,
and ends up making choices that impact Jinsen, himself, and
the entire school.

KONIGSBURG
Konigsburg, E. L. The outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place. 1st ed.
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2004. Upon
leaving an oppressive summer camp, twelve-year-old Margaret
Rose Kane spearheads a campaign to preserve three unique
towers her grand uncles have been building in their back
yard for over forty years.

KOONTZ
Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-. The door to December. Rev.
ed. New York, N.Y. : New American Library, 2002, c1994.

KORMAN, G.
Korman, Gordon. Son of the mob : Hollywood hustle. 1st ed. New
York : Hyperion, c2004. Eighteen-year-old Vince Luca, son
of mob boss Anthony Luca, goes away to college in southern
California hoping to escape his past, but soon his brother
and a series of "uncles" appear at his dorm, and before long
he is caught up in criminal activity once again.

LASKY
Lasky, Kathryn. Blood secret. 1st ed. New York :
HarperCollins, c2004. Fourteen-year-old Jerry Luna, mute
since her mother's disappearance, is sent to her great-great
aunt Constanza's house, where she discovers a trunk that
draws her into the world of her ancestors during the Spanish
Inquisition.

LAWRENCE
Lawrence, Iain, 1955-. B for Buster. New York : Delacorte,
c2004. In the spring of 1943, sixteen-year-old Kak,
desperate to escape his abusive parents, lies about his age
to enlist in the Canadian Air Force and soon finds himself
based in England as part of a crew flying bombing raids over
Germany.

LEVITHAN
Levithan, David. Boy meets boy. 1st ed. New York : Knopf :
Distributed by Random House, c2003. Paul's simple
high-school life is confused by his desire for another boy
who seems unattainable, until Paul's friends help him find
the courage to pursue him.

LOWRY
Lowry, Lois. Gathering blue. Houghton Mifflin Co., c2000. Lame
and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her
squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice,
where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the
bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.

LOWRY
Lowry, Lois. Messenger. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004. In
this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and
"Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian
community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing
power that he cannot explain or understand.

MARTIN
Martin, Ann M., 1955-. A corner of the universe. 1st ed. New
York : Scholastic Press, 2002. The summer that Hattie turns
twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and
becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that
comes to Hattie's small town.

MCCAFFREY
McCaffrey, Anne. The skies of Pern. 1st mass market ed. New
York : Ballantine Books, 2002, c2001. The dragons and their
riders are called upon once again when Pern, trying to
adjust to technological advances as well as the final
Threadfall, is beset by new danger.

MCDANIEL
McDaniel, Lurlene. A rose for Melinda. New York : Bantam, 2002.
Jesse, shocked to learn that his long-time friend Melinda
has leukemia at such as young age, hopes for her recovery.

MCDANIEL
McDaniel, Lurlene. Telling Christina goodbye. New York :
Bantam, 2002. Christina's friends and loved ones must learn
to cope when she is killed and two other high school seniors
are injured in a car accident.

MCWILLIAMS
McWilliams, Kelly. Doormat : a novel. New York : Delacorte
Press, c2004. Fourteen-year-old Jaime has always been a
doormat, but her diary reveals how getting the lead in a
school play, finding her first boyfriend, discovering her
dream, and helping her best friend cope with being pregnant
transform her life.

MEYER
Meyer, Carolyn, 1935-. Patience, Princess Catherine. 1st ed.
Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2004. In 1501 fifteen-year-old
Catharine of Aragon arrives in England to marry Arthur, the
eldest son of King Henry VII, but soon finds her
expectations of a happy settled life radically changed when
Arthur unexpectedly dies and her future becomes the subject
of a bitter dispute between the kingdoms of England and
Spain.

MYERS
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. Shooter. 1st ed. New York :
HarperTempest, c2004. Written in the form of interviews,
reports, and journal entries, the story of three troubled
teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting.

MYERS
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. Handbook for boys : a novel. 1st
Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 2003, c2002.
Sixteen-year-old Jimmy, on probation for assault, talks
about life with three old men in a Harlem barbershop and
hears about the tools he can use to get what he wants.

NEWBERRY
Newbery, Linda. Sisterland. 1st American ed. Oxford ; New York
: David Fickling Books, [2004], c2003. When Hilly's
grandmother becomes ill with Alzheimer's disease, her family
is turned upside down by revelations from her life during
World War II.

PAOLINI
Paolini, Christopher. Eragon. New York : Alfred A. Knopf :
Distributed by Random House, 2003. In Alagaësia, a
fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds
a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate
tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons,
elves, and monsters.

PAULSEN
Paulsen, Gary. Brian's hunt. New York : Wendy Lamb Books, 2004.
Two years after having survived a plane crash into the
Canadian wilderness, a sixteen-year-old returns to the wild
to befriend a wounded dog and hunt a rogue bear.

PAULSEN
Paulsen, Gary. The car. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books
for Young Readers, c1994. A teenager left on his own
travels west in a kit car he built himself, and along the
way picks up two Vietnam veterans, who take him on an
eye-opening journey.

PECK, R.
Peck, Richard, 1934-. The river between us. New York : Dial
Books, c2003. During the early days of the Civil War, the
Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have
fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.

PECK, R.N.
Peck, Robert Newton. Horse thief : a novel. 1st Harper Trophy
ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 2003, c2002. In 1938, with
the help of a lady doctor and an aging, card-cheating,
dice-rolling horse thief, a seventeen-year-old orphan steals
thirteen horses from Chickalookee, Florida's doomed rodeo,
and finds a family in the process.

PRICE, S.
Price, Susan. A Sterkarm kiss. 1st American ed. New York :
Eos, 2004, c2003. The Time Tube has opened again between
the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries, and a wedding is
arranged between the Sterkarms and the Grannams, catching
Andrea up in the disastrous consequences.

QUALEY
Qualey, Marsha. Too big a storm. New York : Dial Books, c2004.
When serious worrier Brady Callahan meets vivacious Sally
Cooper, daughter of a wealthy Minnesota family, they develop
a close friendship that helps them both grow and survive
during the turbulent Vietnam War era.

REEVE
Reeve, Philip. Mortal engines : a novel. 1st American ed. New
York : EOS, 2003, c2001. Tom, a third class apprentice in a
distant future in which technology has been lost and tiered
cities move about the Earth on caterpillar tracks, often
absorbing smaller locales, has many dangerous adventures
after being pushed off London by Thaddeus Valentine, a
historian who is trying to resurrect an ancient atomic
weapon.

ROSOFF
Rosoff, Meg. How I live now. New York : Wendy Lamb Books,
c2004. To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York
City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with
her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but
soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while
devastating the land.

SC GOT
Gothic! : ten original dark tales. 1st ed. Cambridge, MA :
Candlewick Press, 2004. Lungewater / Joan Aiken -- Morgan
Roehmar's boys / Vivian Vande Velde -- Watch and wake / M.T.
Anderson -- Forbidden brides of the faceless slaves in the
nameless house of the night of dread desire / Neil Gaiman --
The dead and the moonstruck / Caitlin R. Kiernan -- Have no
fear, Crumpot is here! / Barry Yourgrau -- Stone tower /
Janni Lee Simner -- The prank / Gregory Maguire -- Writing
on the wall / Celia Rees -- Endings / Garth Nix. Presents
ten original stories of vampires, ghosts, witches, and
sorcerers, including selections from Joan Aiken, Neil
Gaiman, Gregory Maguire, and others.

SC OPEN
Open your eyes : extraordinary experiences in faraway places.
New York : Viking, c2003. Introduction / by Jill Davis --
Empress / by Lois Lowry -- Simunye / by Piper Dellums --
Little American mom, big French suitcase / by Susie
Morgenstern -- Join the Army and see the world / by Harry
Mazer -- An innocent abroad-- fragments from the summer of
1953 / by Katherine Paterson -- Looking for America / by
Elizabeth Partridge -- A brief guide to the ghosts of Great
Britain / by M.T. Anderson -- Ahoy, down there! / by Graham
Salisbury -- MK / by Jean Fritz -- The girl who had no story
and had to steal one / by Kathleen Krull & Jacqueline
Brewer. Presents memoirs and stories in which well-known
authors such as Lois Lowry, Suzie Morgenstern, Harry Mazer,
and others write about travel experiences that changed their
lives.

SECRET
The secret of the unicorn queen. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine
Books, 2004, c1988. Swept away! / Josepha Sherman -- Sun
blind / Gwen Hansen. Modern day teen Sheila McCarthy
becomes caught up in a fantastical adventure when she falls
through a portal to other worlds created by her eccentric
friend, and finds herself part of a band of warrior women
riding unicorns into battle against evil.

SEDGWICK, M.
Sedgwick, Marcus. The Dark Horse. New York : Wendy Lamb Books,
c2003. Having risen to power as chief of his people, the
Storn, sixteen-year-old Sigurd leads them as they try to
resist the bloodthirsty invaders known as the Dark Horse and
makes a shocking discovery about his foster sister Mouse.

SHINN
Shinn, Sharon. The Safe-Keeper's secret. New York : Viking,
2004. Fiona is Safe-Keeper in the small village of
Tambleham, where neighbors and strangers alike come one by
one, in secret, to tell her things they dare not share with
anyone else.

SHUSTERMAN
Shusterman, Neal. The dark side of nowhere. 1st Starscape ed.
New York : Starscape, 2002, c1997. Fourteen-year-old Jason
faces an identity crisis after discovering that he is the
son of aliens who stayed on earth following a botched
invasion mission.

SPINELLI
Spinelli, Jerry. Milkweed : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Knopf
: Distributed by Random House, c2003. A street child, known
to himself only as Stopthief, finds community when he is
taken in by a band of orphans in Warsaw ghetto which helps
him weather the horrors of the Nazi regime.

STEINBECK
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. East of Eden. New York : Penguin,
1992. The saga of three generations of the Trask and
Hamilton families in the early 1900s in Northern California.

TRUEMAN
Trueman, Terry. Inside out. 1st pbk. ed. New York :
HarperTempest, 2003. A sixteen-year-old with schizophrenia
is caught up in the events surrounding an attempted robbery
by two other teens who eventually hold him hostage.

URIS
Uris, Leon, 1924-. Trinity. New York : Bantam Books, 1977. A
novel depicting Ireland's struggle for independence and the
violence caused by the divisions between the impoverished
Catholic peasantry and the wealthy Protestant aristocracy.

VANDE VELDE
Vande Velde, Vivian. Now you see it-- 1st ed. Orlando, Fla. :
Harcourt, c2005. With Wendy's new glasses, she begins to
see cheerful corpses, old crones disguised as teeny-boppers,
and portals to another world--a place where everyone knows
of the glasses' powers and will do anything they can to get
them.

VERNON
Vernon, John, 1943-. The last canyon. Boston : Houghton
Mifflin, 2001. Chronicles the experiences a one-armed Civil
War hero had while traveling down the Green River in Wyoming
Territory in 1869.

WESTERFIELD
Westerfeld, Scott. So yesterday : a novel. New York :
Razorbill, c2004. Hunter Braque, a New York City teenager
who is paid by corporations to spot what is "cool," combines
his analytical skills with girlfriend Jen's creative talents
to find a missing person and thwart a conspiracy directed at
the heart of consumer culture.

WITTLINGER
Wittlinger, Ellen. Heart on my sleeve. 1st ed. New York :
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2004. From the
end of high school to the beginning of college, Chloe and
Julian deal with major changes in their families and
friendships and explore their feelings for each other
through emails, letters, and a visit.

WREDE
Wrede, Patricia C., 1953-. Magician's ward. 1st Starscape ed.
New York : Starscape, 2002, c1997. Kim, a street waif
adopted by magician Mairelon and promised an education in
magic and the proper deportment of ladies in Regency
England, has struggled to master both skills, but when
Mairelon is targeted by a magical attack, she discovers she
has learned much more than she realized.

YOLEN
Yolen, Jane. Sword of the rightful king : a novel of King
Arthur. 1st Magic Carpet Books ed. Orlando, Fla. : Magic
Carpet Books/Harcourt, 2004, c2003. Merlinnus the magician
devises a way for King Arthur to prove himself the rightful
king of England--pulling a sword from a stone--but trouble
arises when someone else removes the sword first.

 

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AUDIO CASSETTES:

AC 822.3 SHA
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Macbeth. Franklin, TN: NAXOS
Audiobooks, c1998. Stephen Dillane (Macbeth), Fiona Shaw
(Lady Macbeth), Denys Hawthorne (Duncan), Adam Kotz
(Banquo). Macbeth's ambition unleashes a cycle of violence.
Prompted by the supernatural prophecy of three witches,
Macbeth kills King Duncan and assumes his throne. Macbeth
plunges further into murder and moral decay to keep the
crown on his head. While his wife crumbles away in guilt and
madness, Macbeth fights to prevent the rest of the prophecy
from coming true.
 
 

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VIDEOS:
 

  VC 796.522
Everest : the death zone. Boston, MA: WGBH Boston Video, c1998.
Narrated by Jodie Foster. Follows a team of climbers
ascending Mount Everest and examines the effects of
mountaineering upon the human body. Note: "This program
contains language some may consider objectionable. Viewer
Discretion is advised." (60 min.).

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