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NOW AVAILABLE IN THE LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER legacy while making clear that much of what is known NEW about her comes from the Romans, who considered BIOGRAP her a villian. HIES: 92 CLE

Benjamin Franklin: Genghis Khan Scientist, Inventor, Lange, Brenda Printer, and Statesman Profiles the life of the Marcovitz, Hal Mongolian leader known for This biography describes his ruthless conquering of one of America's leading other lands. figures during the 92 GEN American Revolution, discussing his many roles and influences throughout history. 92 FRA

Civil War Doctor: Desiderius Erasmus The Story of Mary Crompton, Samuel Willard Edwards Walker Chronicles the life of the Joinson, Carla Dutch thinker and writer, Profiles the woman who who became a trusted earned a medical degree confidant of popes and and volunteered her kings, and whose work services during the Civil raised many of the issues War, earning her a Medal that precipitated the of Honor and helping her Protestant Reformation. crusade for women's 92 ERA rights. 92 WAL Hillary Clinton Levy, Dena B. Cleopatra: Ruler of Egypt A successful lawyer, child Sapet, Kerrily welfare advocate, health This biography of the care activist, and the first legendary Cleopatra First Lady elected to the provides a balanced U.S. Senate, Hillary account of her life and Rodham Clinton has become one of the most iconic Barack Obama examines women in America today. the growing economic 92 CLI insecurity of American families, the racial and Maya Angelou: A Glorious religious tensions, and the Celebration transitional threats - from Gillespie, Marcia terrorism to pandemic - Part tribute, part that gather beyond our scrapbook, it captures her shores. at home, at work, and in 92 OBA the public eye. Readers who have come to know and The Great Adventure: love Angelou will be Theodore Roosevelt and surprised and delighted by the Rise of Modern this personal, illustrated America portrait. Marrin, Albert 92 ANG Theodore Roosevelt is one of America's liveliest and most influential figures. Fascinating details and an intimate, fast-paced narrative explore the heroic life and complex world of an American icon. 92 ROO

Helen Keller: Her Life in Pictures NEW Sullivan, George The fascinating life of one BIOGRAP of the most popular HIES: historical figures is told through images. The Pope Benedict XVI images trace Keller's life Mills, Cliff from birth, to childhood Joseph Ratzinger became with Annie Sullivan in the Pope Benedict XVI on April cottage, to college, and on 19, 2005, replacing the late to her many years as a John Paul II, one of the dedicated social activist most popular pontiffs of and spokesperson. recent times. Now, 92 KEL following 2,000-year-old church traditions, Benedict XVI leads some one billion followers worldwide. 92 BEN

Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope President Obama: Obama, Barack The Path to the White was a teen, his first break House in the music business, and On November 4, 2008 his rise to fame. voters went to the polls 92 PRE and elected, America's 44th President, a man who just four years ago was unknown to most of his countrymen. This is the story of Barack Obama's inspiring and incredible journey from his modest boyhood in Hawaii to his election night celebration in Chicago after defeating John McCain in one of the NEW BOOKS: most closely watched political races in history. Biosphere: 92 OBA Ecosystems and Biodiversity Loss The Wall: Desonie, Dana Growing up Behind the As a result of human Iron Curtain activities, species Sis, Peter extinctions are occurring Through annotated at a rate 10 to 100 times illustrations, journals, faster than in recent maps, and dreamscapes, history. This eye-opening Peter Sis shows what life new book discusses how was like for a child who ecosystems must be set loved to draw, proudly wore aside, habitats restored, the red scarf of a Young and global warming Pioneer, stood guard at the thwarted. giant statue of Stalin, and 333.95 DES believed whatever he was told to believe. But Daily Life in Immigrant adolescence brought America, questions. Cracks began to 1820-1870 appear in the Iron Curtain, Bergquist, James M. and news from the West This study makes use of slowly filtered into the prior research on country. immigration in the U.S. in 92 SIS the early to mid 1800s, but it is not intended to be Elvis Presley: Up Close simply a detailed historical Hampton, Wilborn chronology. The America A biography of Elvis of that era was constantly Presley, discussing his changing and often boyhood in Tupelo, consumed with internal Mississippi, his family's conflict. move to Memphis when he 305.9 BER 509 HAK

Eyewitness Mesopotamia Hungry Planet: What the Steele, Philip World Eats Be an eyewitness to the Menzel, Peter land between the rivers, A photographic collection from the first Sumerian exploring what the world city to the mighty eats featuring portraits of Babylonian empires. thirty families from Discover the world's first twenty-four countries known system of writing. surrounded by a week's See incredible works of worth of food. Mesopotamian art. 641.3 MEN 935 STE Interracial Relationships Food Safety The idea of modern society Sherrow, Victoria as a melting pot is taking Government agencies such on new meaning as more as the FDA and private and more people form scientific groups put forth relationships across different information traditional racial about food safety. What boundaries. are consumers to do? This 306.7089 INT book examines the many factors that influence this Rosie and Mrs. America: timely debate, such as Perceptions scientific research, of Women in the 1930s politics, and economics, and 1940s giving equal weight to each Gourley, Catherine argument. The Great Depression 363.19 SHE challenged women in their homes as Mrs. America had to learn how to make do with less. And as men left for battle fronts, World War II propelled women to take their place in Einstein Adds a New factories, becoming Rosie Dimension: the Riveter. The Story of Science 305.4097 GOU Hakim, Joy A critical study of the contributions of Albert Einstein explores the evolution of science in the twentieth century, telling the story of the people and ideas, who dramatically changed our view of both the universe and ourselves. Just Who Will You Be? NEW BOOKS: Shriver, Maria Inspired by a speech she gave, Maria Shriver's Stress 101: An Overview message is that what you for Teens do in your life isn't what Hyde, Margaret O. matters, it's who you are. Stress 101 provides the It's an important lesson overview you need to that will appeal to anyone understand stress, what it of any age looking for a life does to your body, how to of meaning. manage it, and how it 170 SHR affects your life. 616.9 HYD

The Art of Drawing Dragons, Mythological Beasts, and Fantasy Creatures Dobrzycki, Michael The Ultimate Teen Book Easy-to-follow instructions Guide for drawing a variety of Whether you're searching creatures. The ever- for a book to change your increasing popularity of life or just a light read for mythological and fantasy the beach, The Ultimate creatures create high Teen Book Guide is the demand for instruction perfect place to start. The books on drawing these book includes fantastic beasts. recommendations from 743 DOB teen reviewers and your favorite authors with over E.E. Cummings: A Poet's 700 books total. Life 028.1 ULT Reef, Catherine Even before his Superbugs Strike Back: groundbreaking style When Antibiotics Fail helped change the Goldsmith, Connie landscape of American The emergence of poetry, E. E. Cummings was "superbugs" (antibiotic- going against the grain. resistant bacteria) and the Defying the traditionalists threat they pose to public of the early 20th century, health are examined. The Cummings lived a life book describes the devoted to the shifting characteristics of archetypes of art and bacteria, the human literature, and wrote some immune system's response of the most celebrated to infection, the discovery poetry of the modern era. and development of 811 REE penicillin, how antibiotics work, etc. 615 GOL secret about her existence. Voices of Protest: F PEA Documents of Courage and Dissent Chandra's Wars The documents are diverse Stratton, Allan and include essays, news Chandra Kabelo, a teenaged articles, sermons, poems, African girl, must save her songs, speeches, letters, younger siblings after they photographs, and are kidnapped and forced advertisements that are to serve as child soldiers in examples of protest. The General Mandiki's rebel book is organized around army. seven major themes: civil F STR rights, national self- determination, economic A Curse Dark as Gold justice, environmental Bunce, Elizabeth C. conservation, religious Seventeen-year-old freedom, peace and war, Charlotte struggles to keep and international political the family's wool mill freedoms. running in the face of an 322.4 VOI overwhelming mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene, she must decide if his help is worth the price. F BUN

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks NEW FICTION: Lockhart, E. Sophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew The Adoration of Jenna Livingston, but when he Fox refuses to talk about the Pearson, Mary all-male secret society In the not-too-distant that he and his friends future, when belong to, Frankie biotechnological advances infiltrates the society in have made synthetic bodies order to enliven their and brains possible but mediocre pranks. illegal, a seventeen-year- F LOC old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling Pena, Matt de la Sixteen-year-old Danny searches for his identity amidst the confusion of being half-Mexican and Shift half-white while spending a Bradbury, Jennifer summer with his cousin and When best friends Chris new friends on the baseball and Win go on a cross fields of San Diego country bicycle trek the County, California. summer after graduating F PEN and only one returns, the FBI wants to know what happened. F BRA

Waiting for Normal Connor, Leslie Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York. F CON

Mexican Whiteboy NEW FICTION - DONATED BY EVERARD DAY: Harry Dresden is getting Storm Front: Book #1 more than he bargained for Butcher, Jim - a duel with the Red Court In this first book of the of Vampires' champion, offbeat Dresden Files, who must kill Harry to end readers are introduced to the war between vampires Harry Dresden, a wizard and wizards. with a consulting practice F BUT in modern day Chicago. F BUT

Fool Moon: Book #2 Butcher, Jim Blood Rites: Book #6 Could a werewolf be loose Butcher, Jim in Chicago? Common sense Harry Dresden takes on a says no. The grisly case as a favor to Thomas - evidence says yes. So does a vampire of dubious Harry Dresden, and with integrity - only to become his weird connections, he the prime suspect in a should know. series of ghastly murders. F BUT F BUT

Grave Peril: Book #3 Dead Beat: Book #7 Butcher, Jim Butcher, Jim All over Chicago ghosts are Paranormal investigations causing trouble. These are Harry Dresden's ghosts are tormented, business, and Chicago is his violent, and deadly. beat as he tries to bring Someone or something is law and order to a world of purposely stirring them up wizards and monsters. to wreak havoc - but why? F BUT F BUT Proven Guilty: Book #8 Summer Knight: Book #4 Butcher, Jim Butcher, Jim The White Council of Just when it seems things Wizards has drafted Harry can't get any worse for Dresden as a warden and Harry, in saunters the assigned him to look into Winter Queen of Faerie. rumors of black magic in She has an offer Harry Chicago. can't refuse to clear the F BUT Winter Queen's name. F BUT White Night: Book #9 Butcher, Jim Death Masks: Book #5 Harry Dresden is Butcher, Jim investigating a series of deaths in Chicago. Shockingly, all the evidence points to Harry's half- brother, Thomas, as the murderer. F BUT

Small Favor: Book #10 Butcher, Jim An old bargain has placed Harry in debt to the monarch of the Winter Court. She's calling in a small favor he can't refuse - one that will strain his skills and loyalties to their very limits. F BUT

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