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Tags: nov 2011

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  Stephanie Plum by the Numbers: Book 18

  Explosive Eighteen

  by Janet Evanovich

  Before Stephanie can even step foot off Flight 127 Hawaii to Newark, she’s knee deep in trouble. Her dream vacation turned into a nightmare, and she’s flying back to New Jersey solo. Worse still, her seatmate never returned to the plane after the L.A. layover. Now he’s dead, in a garbage can, waiting for curbside pickup. His killer could be anyone. And a ragtag collection of thugs and psychos, not to mention the... (more)
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  You Don't Even Know Me: Stories and Poems About Boys

  by Sharon Flake

  I sit in your class I play by the rules I’m young I’m fly I’m black. So of course I think I'm cool . . . In 9 stories and 15 poems, Sharon G. Flake provides insight into the minds of a diverse group adolescent African American males. There's Tow-Kaye, getting married at age 16 to love of his life, who's pregnant.  He knows it's the right thing to do, but he's scared to death. James writes in his diary... (more)
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  Happyface

  by Stephen Emond

  Just put on a happy face! Enter Happyface's journal and get a peek into the life of a shy, artistic boy who decides to reinvent himself as a happy-go-lucky guy after he moves to a new town. See the world through his hilariously self-deprecating eyes as he learns to shed his comic-book-loving, computer-game playing ways. Join him as he makes new friends, tries to hide from his past, and ultimately learns to face... (more)
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  How to Write a Sentence

  by Stanley Eugene Fish

  “Coming up with all-or-nothing arguments is simply what Fish does; and, in a sense, one of his most important contributions to the study of literature is that temperament…Whether people like Fish or not, though, they tend to find him fascinating.” (The New Yorker ) “Language lovers will flock to this homage to great writing.” (Booklist ) “Like a long periodic sentence, this book rumbles along, gathers steam,... (more)
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  Girl in Translation

  by Jean Kwok

  Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, this is an inspiring debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures.When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her... (more)
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  Witch and Wizard: Book 2

  The Gift

  by James Patterson

  IN A WORLD WHERE FREEDOM HAS DISAPPEARED...WHERE MUSIC, READING, AND CREATIVITY ARE FORBIDDEN...WHERE EVEN CHILDREN ARE IMPRISONED BY THE GOVERNMENT...THERE IS ONLY ONE HOPE LEFT.Whit and Wisty Allgood have the Gift, and they must use it to defeat the all-powerful ruler of the New Order. He craves the ability to control the world on the most profound level imaginable and will stop at... (more)
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  Lost to Time

  Unforgettable Stories That History Forgot

  by Martin W. Sandler

  Stories that history forgot…but readers will remember “The only thing new in the world,” said Harry S. Truman, “is the history you don't know.” In this fresh and fascinating collection of historical vignettes, Martin W. Sandler (author of Resolute and Atlantic Ocean ) restores to memory important events, people, and developments that have been lost to time.  Though barely known today, these are major... (more)
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  Wolf

  The Lives of Jack London

  by James L. Haley

  Jack London was born a working-class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his youth he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast—by turns playing the role of hobo, sailor, prospector, and oyster pirate. He spent his brief life rapidly accumulating the experiences that would inform his acclaimed, best-selling books: The Call of the Wild , White Fang , and The Sea Wolf . London was plagued... (more)
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  Please Ignore Vera Dietz

  by A. S. King

  Vera’s spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she’s kept a lot of his secrets. Even after he betrayed her. Even after he ruined everything.   So when Charlie dies in dark circumstances, Vera knows a lot more than anyone—the kids at school, his family, even the police. But will she emerge to clear his name? Does she even want to?   Edgy and gripping, Please... (more)
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  My Spiritual Journey

  by Tenzin Gyatso (Dalai Lama XIV), Sofia Stril-Rever

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  Hero

  by Mike Lupica

  Fourteen-year-old Zach Harriman can feel the changes. The sharpening of his senses. The incredible strength. The speed, as though he can text message himself across miles. The confidence and the strange need to patrol Central Park at night. His dad had been a hero, a savior to America and a confidante of the president. Then he died, and the changes began in Zach. What Zach never knew was that his father was no... (more)
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  Swim The Fly

  Beat the Band

  by Don Calame

  Get ready for riffs on hot girls, health class, and social hell! The outrageously funny boys from Swim the Fly return to rock their sophomore year. In this hilarious sequel to Swim the Fly, told from Coop’s point of.,view, it’s the beginning of the school year, and the tenth-grade health class must work in pairs on semester-long projects. Matt and Sean get partnered up (the jerks), but Coop is matched with... (more)
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  Matched Trilogy: Book 1

  Matched

  by Ally Condie

  In the Society, Officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die. Cassia has always trusted their choices. It’s barely any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one . . . until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now... (more)
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  The Monstrumologist: Book 2

  The Curse of the Wendigo

  by Richard Yancey

  While attempting to disprove that Homo vampiris, the vampire, could exist, Dr. Warthrop is asked by his former fiance - to rescue her husband from the Wendigo, a creature that starves even as it gorges itself on human flesh, which has snatched him in the Canadian wilderness. Although Warthrop also considers the Wendigo to be fictitious, he relents and rescues her husband from death and starvation, and then sees... (more)
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  Serpent World: Book 1

  Pathfinder

  by Orson Scott Card

  From the internationally bestselling author who brought us Ender’s Game , a brand-new series that instantly draws readers into the world of Rigg, a teenager who possesses a secret talent that allows him to see the paths of people’s pasts. Rigg’s only confidant is his father, whose sudden death leaves Rigg completely alone, aside from a sister he’s never met. But a chance encounter with Umbo, another teen with a... (more)
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  Iron Fey Novellas: Book 1

  Winter's Passage

  by Julie Kagawa

  A novella in the Iron Fey series. It takes place between THE IRON KING and THE IRON DAUGHTER and follows Meghan and Ash on their perilous journey deep into the heart of Winter.
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  The Queen of Last Hopes

  The Story of Margaret of Anjou

  by Susan Higginbotham

  It would be called the Wars of the Roses, but it all began with one woman's fury... Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England, cannot give up on her husband-even when he goes insane. And as mother to the House of Lancaster's last hope, she cannot give up on her son-even when all England turns against him. This gripping tale of a queen is at its heart a tender tale of love: passionate, for her husband, and motherly,... (more)
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  Into the Storm: Violent Tornadoes, Killer Hurricanes, and Death-defying Adventures in Extreme Weather

  by Reed Timmer, Andrew Tilin

  Reed Timmer, a star of the Discovery Channel's Storm Chasers, takes listeners inside the terrifying and awe-inspiring world of big weather.
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  Blur

  How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload

  by Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel

  Amid the hand-wringing over the death of "true journalism" in the Internet Age—the din of bloggers, the echo chamber of Twitter, the predominance of Wikipedia—veteran journalists and media critics Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel have written a pragmatic, serious-minded guide to navigating the twenty-first century media terrain. Yes, old authorities are being dismantled, new ones created, and the very nature of... (more)
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  The Handy Physics Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series)

  by Paul W. Zitzewitz PhD

  Eschewing the usual mathematical explanations for physics phenomena, this approachable reference explains complicated scientific concepts in plain English that everyone can understand. Completely updated to tackle the big issues such as gravity, magnetism, sound, and what really happens in the Large Hadron Collider, this engaging look at physics also spells out why cats always land on their feet, why people appear... (more)