Tuesday, November 6, 2012

A STORM OF SWORDS: BOOK THREE OF A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE

By: Martin, George

The third volume in George R. R. Martin's magnificent cycle of novels. The series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy offering magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure. TitlePeek
SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD

By: Card, Orson Scott

Ender Wiggin has an opportunity to atone for his earlier failures through a second alien race discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. TitlePeek
SHE'S GOT THE BEAT

By: Krulik, Nancy E.

Miranda moves to Austin, Texas, after graduating from high school and learns to play to the drums so she can join a band in this hip, college town. TitlePeek
SHAW UNCUT: MY STORY

By: O'Neal, Shaquille

A biography of NBA basketball player Shaquille O'Neal, discussing his childhood, his basketball career, and life since his retirement. TitlePeek
THE SERPENT'S SHADOW

By: Riordan, Rick

When Apophis, the chaos snake, threatens to plunge the world into eternal darkness, siblings Carter and Sade Kane plan to use an ancient spell to destroy the snake, but first must rely on the murderous ghost of a powerful magician. TitlePeek
THE SELECTION

By: Cass, Kiera

Sixteen-year-old America Singer is living in the caste-divided nation of Illea, which formed after the war that destroyed the United States. America is chosen to compete in the Selection--a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Illea's prince--but all she really wants is a chance for a future with her secret love, Aspen, who is a caste below her. TitlePeek
THE SECRET LIFE OF A TEENAGE SIREN

By: Toliver, Wendy

On her sixteenth birthday, Roxy is transformed from a nerdy band geek into a beautiful Siren, able to attract any boy she wants, as long as she never reveals her powers and never falls in love, but when she begins dating Zach, she wonders if her powers are worth it if she can never feel true love. TitlePeek
SEARCH FOR SAFETY

By: Langan, John

Ben McKee desperately tries to find a way to get himself and his mother out of an abusive situation after his mom marries Larry Taylor. TitlePeek
SCARY BEAUTIFUL

By: Burnham, Niki

Chloe's serious relationship ends when her boyfriend moves across the country. Now that beautiful Chloe is unattached, she finds everyone in her junior high school class treats her differently. TitlePeek
THE RISE OF NINE

By: Lore, Pittacus

John--aka Number Four--continues his quest to find the rest of the Lorien Nine before the Mogadorians can, and, with time running out, Number Six goes off alone while John teams up with Number Nine. TitlePeek
RIPPED AT THE SEAMS

By: Krulik, Nancy E.

Eighteen-year-old Sami Granger moves to New York from Elk Lake, Minnesota, with dreams of becoming a fashion designer, but when her first job ends in disaster she is forced to accept employment at a naughty lingerie store where she learns to redirect her talent, life, and love. TitlePeek
REQUIEM

By: Itani, Frances

Chronicles the lives, loves, and secrets of one Japanese-Canadian family after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. TitlePeek
REDWING

By: Bennett, Holly

Rowan, alone and grief-stricken after his entire family is killed by the plague, barely makes a living by playing music on his button box, until he forms an uneasy alliance with Samik, a violin player who claims to have the Sight and sees Rowan's dead sister. TitlePeek
PROM CRASHERS

By: Downing, Erin

Emily, frantic when she loses the number of a cute guy who just might have been the one to fill the vacant post of senior-year boyfriend, enlists her friends in a plan to crash local proms in hopes of finding him. TitlePeek
PAIN & WASTINGS

By: Mac, Carrie

Fifteen-year-old Ethan faces the truth about his mother's murder. TitlePeek
NO WAY OUT

By: Kern, Peggy

Afraid of being taken from his grandmother and placed in a foster home, Harold Davis, a Bluford High freshman, begins to work for the neighborhood drug dealer, Londell James, but Harold's choice leads him to world more dangerous than he could have imagined. TitlePeek
NO PROBLEM

By: Gaetz, Dayle

Curt, a teen blessed with friends, a summer job, and a promising future in baseball, puts everything at risk when he begins experimenting with drugs. TitlePeek
NO EASY DAY: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A NAVY SEAL

By: Owen, Mark

A memoir of a former member of Navy SEAL Team 6 about his career in the military, including his firsthand account of the successful mission to kill Osama bin Laden. TitlePeek
MONOCEROS: A NOVEL

By: Mayr, Suzette

After a seventeen-year-old is bullied and hangs himself, his suicide affects his family, friends, and casual acquaintances from his school. TitlePeek
MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR THE PECULIAR CHILDREN




 
By: Riggs, Ransom

Sixteen-year-old Jacob, having traveled to a remote island after a family tragedy, discovers an abandoned orphanage, and, after some investigating, he learns the children who lived there may have been dangerous and quarantined and may also still be alive. TitlePeek
MIDDLE ROW

By: Olsen, Sylvia

Raedawn and Vince fight against ignorance and hate in their small town as they search for a missing friend who is in more trouble than they thought possible. TitlePeek
MELTDOWN: THE NUCLEAR DISASTER IN JAPAN AND OUR ENERGY FUTURE

By: Bortz, Alfred B.

Describes the events before and after the 2001 nuclear disaster in Kukushima-ken, Japan, and describes other nuclear reactor successes and failures. TitlePeek
MASKED

By: McClintock, Norah

Rosie, having walked in on an armed robbery on Halloween at her father's convenience store, recognizes a boy from school and wonders why he is there and who the criminal is. TitlePeek
THE MARK OF ATHENA

By: Riordan, Rick

The Greek and Roman demigods will have to cooperate in order to defeat the giants released by the Earth Mother, Gaea. Then they will have to sail together to the ancient land--Greece itself--to find the Doors of Death. TitlePeek

THE LOST HERO

By: Riordan, Rick

Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself. TitlePeek
LOCKDOWN

By: Tullson, Diane

Adam races to help a friend when a shooter opens fire at the school, but despite his efforts, his life is forever changed. TitlePeek
THE LIZARD CAGE

By: Connelly, Karen

Dissident singer/songwriter Teza, in the seventh of a twenty-year jail sentence for his participation in protests against the government of Burma, forms a forbidden friendship with Little Brother, a twelve-year-old orphan who has grown up inside the prison walls, and plots to help the boy escape to a monastery school. TitlePeek
LEARNING TO FLY

By: Yee, Paul

Jason, a recent immigrant from China, has trouble fitting in and learns that he must fight to belong. TitlePeek
KNIFEPOINT

By: Van Tel, Alex

Jill's summer job, guiding tourists on mountain trail rides, turns out to be troublesome and potentially life threatening when she takes a man into the mountains only to find out that he is a dangerous killer. TitlePeek
IN THE WOODS

By: Stevenson, Robin

When Cameron discovers a baby abandoned in the woods, he tries to discover whether his sister is the mother. TitlePeek
IN THE STARS

By: Deutsch, Stacia

Astrology-minded Cherise insists that all signs indicate her best friend Sylvie is about to find love, but when her relationship with a new guy at school does not work out, Sylvie finds comfort in an unexpected place. TitlePeek
IMPACT

By: Dekker, James C.

The death of Jordan's brother two years earlier in what appeared to be a random act, has lasting effects on the entire family, especially Jordan who knows more than he is saying about the murder. TitlePeek
I AM A SEAL TEAM SIX WARRIOR: MEMOIRS OF AN AMERICAN SOLDIER

By: Wasin, Howard

Howard Wasdin reflects on his life and military career, discussing his difficult childhood, training, goal to become a member of Navy SEAL Team Six, experiences during the Battle of Mogadishu, and more. TitlePeek
HOW TO DEAL

By: Dessen, Sarah

Presents two novels: "Someone Like You," in which Halley, a high school junior, struggles with the death of her best friend's boyfriend, her best friend's newly discovered pregnancy, her first relationship, and problems with her mother; and "That Summer," in which fifteen-year-old Haven learns about love and illusions during the summer of her father's and sister's weddings. TitlePeek
THE HOUSE OF DJINN

By: Staples, Suzanne Fisher

An unexpected death brings Shabanu's daughter, Mumtaz, and nephew, Jameel, both aged fifteen, to the forefront of an attempt to modernize Pakistan, but the teens must both sacrifice their own dreams if they are to meet family and tribal expectations. TitlePeek
HOOPS

By: Myers, Walter Dean

A teenage basketball player from Harlem is befriended by a former professional player who, after being forced to quit because of a point shaving scandal, hopes to prevent other young athletes from repeating his mistake. TitlePeek
HIT SQUAD

By: Heneghan, James

Students in an upscale high school decide to take on the bullies and take back their school, with decidedly mixed consequences. TitlePeek
HISTORY FOR THE IB DIPLOMA: PEACEMAKING, PEACEKEEPING

By: Nick Fellows

HANNAH'S TOUCH

By: Langston, Laura

Sixteen-year-old Hannah has an outer body experience when a bee sting nearly kills her, but before she regains consciousness, Hannah encounters her long dead boyfriend, Logan, and gains the power to heal. TitlePeek
HANG DOWN YOUR HEAD: A RANDY CRAIG MYSTERY




 
By: MacDonald, Janice

Randy Craig has a talent for finding trouble, no matter how good she tries to be. Maybe she shouldn't date a cop. Maybe she should have turned down the job at the Foldways Collections library-a dream jo that became a nightmare when a rich benefactor's belligerent heir turned up dead. Randy tried to be good-honest!-but now she's a prime suspect with a notive and no alibi. TitlePeek
A GOOD MAN

By: Vanderhaeghe, Guy

In the late ninetheenth-century Wesley Case sets out to explore the borderlands between Canada and the United States to escape a secret in his past in hopes of buying a ranch in Montana. TitlePeek
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ: A LIFE

By: Martin, Gerald

A biography of Colombian journalist and writer Gabriel García Márquez, covering his upbringing, work as a foreign correspondent, success in the genre of magical realism, and various political, personal, and artistic facets of his life. TitlePeek
FIRST TIME

By: Tilly, Meg

Haley, feeling alienated from her best friend since she started dating a guy several years older than her, has difficulty when her mother's boyfriend starts making advances toward her and she feels she cannot discuss it with anyone. TitlePeek
FIELD GUIDE TO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

By: Anderson, Sarah (Sarah Denny)

Charts, graphs, political cartoons, and text describe how the global flow of goods, services, money, and people affects communities, workers, the poor, and the environment. TitlePeek
FATEFUL

By: Gray, Claudia

When seventeen-year-old Tess Davies, a ladies' maid, meets handsome Alec Marlow aboard the RMS "Titanic," she quickly becomes entangled in the dark secrets of his past, but her growing love puts her in mortal peril even before fate steps in. TitlePeek

EONA: THE LAST DRAGONEYE

By: Goodman, Alison

Eona, the first female Dragoneye in hundreds of years, joins fellow rebels Ryko and Lady Dela on a quest to find the black follio and help the young Pearl Emperor win back his throne from the evil Lord Sethon. TitlePeek
EON: DRAGONEYE REBORN

By: Goodman, Alison

Sixteen-year-old eon hopes to become an apprentice to one of the twelve energy dragons of good fortune and learn to be its main interpreter, but to do so will require much, including keeping secret that she is a girl. TitlePeek
ELECTRIC CARS

By: MacKay, Jenny

Traces the evolution of the electric car, featuring photographs, illustrations, timelines, sidebars, and fact boxes. TitlePeek
EARTH: THE OPERATOR'S MANUAL

By: Alley, Richard B.

Presents a scientific view at how carbon dioxide affects climate change, explaining how a buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is contributing to global warming, and discussing various energy innovation methods and techniques that can be used to improve and safeguard the future of the planet. TitlePeek
DRESSMAKING

By: Smith, Allison

A step-by-step guide for sewing clothing, showing how to make each garment and customize old favorites, and includes a guide to more than thirty fabrics, classic patterns to copy or download for skirts, dresses, tops, pants, and jackets in sizes 2-20, and techniques, tools and equipment. Titlepeek