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Arapahoe High School Library New Books 12/14/15

Biography/Memoir

Elena Vanishing by Elena Dunkle BIO DUNKLE Documents the author's teenage struggles with anorexia, sharing her and her mother's perspectives regarding a five-year period marked by anxiety and self-destructive efforts to manage the disorder, offering an intimate look at a deadly disease. **Available in print and ebook formats.

List of Things That Didn't Kill Me by Jason Schmidt BIO SCHMIDT In an honest memoir, Jason Kovacs tells the story of growing up with an abusive father, who contracted HIV and ultimately died of AIDS when Jason was a teenager.

Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude by Howard Axelrod BIO AXELROD In the mid-1990s, Axelrod was a junior at Harvard when he suffered a mishap during a basketball pickup game and lost the sight in one of his eyes. That event broke his life in two—before and after. This elegant, questioning memoir details that moment and events prior to it, but mostly it achingly depicts Axelrod’s two years living alone in a ramshackle cabin in the Vermont woods. **Available in print and ebook formats.

Social Studies

Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates 305.8 COA In this brief book, which takes the form of a letter to the author’s teenage son, Coates comes to grips with what it means to be black in America today. **Available in print and ebook formats.

Beyond Magenta by Susan Kuklin 306.768 KUK Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable skills to represent them thoughtfully and respectfully before, during, and after their personal acknowledgment of gender preference. Portraits, family photographs, and candid images grace the pages, augmenting the emotional and physical journey each youth has taken. Each honest discussion and disclosure, whether joyful or heartbreaking, is completely different from the other because of family dynamics, living situations, gender, and the transition these teens make in recognition of their true selves. **Available in print and ebook formats.

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Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every Day by Todd Henry 650.1 HEN Offers a three-part process for seizing the day, avoiding stagnation, and doing well at work without procrastinating by discovering what is a good motivator and learning how to harness innate curiosity, humility, and brilliance.

Professional

Advisory Guide: Designing and Implementing Effective Advisory Programs in Secondary Schools by Rachel Poliner and Carol Lieber PROF 371.4 POL School leaders agree that advisory is a core structure for personalizing schooling for adolescents. The challenge is crafting the best program for your students and faculty. The Advisory Guide helps secondary educators design and implement an advisory program tailored to their school s needs and goals. Requested by Karl Fisch as an addition to the library’s collection.

Group Theory in the Bedroom, and Other Mathematical Diversions by Brian Hayes PROF 500 HAY “Group Theory in the Bedroom and Other Mathematical Diversions is a marvelous collection of thought-provoking essays that both inform and entertain. You'll be amazed by the things you'll discover in these stories.” ―Ron Graham, professor of mathematics, computer science and engineering, University of California, San Diego, former chief scientist of AT&T, and past president of the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America. Requested by Karl Fisch as an addition to the library’s collection.

Kinesthetic Classroom: Teaching and Learning Through Movement by Traci Lengel, and Mike Kuczala PROF 372.868 LEN A physical education teacher and an educational consultant show K-12 teachers how to incorporate simple movement activities into classroom lessons and how to use short activity breaks to keep students focused. Writing in plain language, they review research supporting the use of movement in the classroom, and provide a six-step framework that allows teachers to introduce movement into the classroom at their own pace. Requested by Karl Fisch as an addition to the library’s collection.

Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers by John Maccormick PROF 006.3 MAC These revolutionary algorithms have changed our world: this book unlocks their secrets, and lays bare the incredible ideas that our computers use every day. Requested by Karl Fisch as an addition to the library’s collection.

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Anna Akhmatova: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) by Anna Akhmatova 891.7 AKH A definitive body of work by one of the great Russian poets of the twentieth century includes poetry from all of her major collections, including "Requiem," a memorial to the victims of Stalin's terror, as well as twenty poems that have been newly translated for this collection. A request as an addition to the library’s collection by Steve Miles.

Poems from the Rio Grande by Rudolfo Anaya 811.54 ANA This is his first book of poetry for adults, collected over the course of his illustrious career. Writing in English, Spanish, and Spanglish, Anaya uses a variety of traditional forms to explore diverse subject matter, from his experiences in small-town New Mexico to the influence of Walt Whitman and the legacy of Billy the Kid.

Russian Poets (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) edited by Peter Washington 891.7 RUS This volume gathers together some of the best-loved, and most powerful and immediate poems from the greatest Russian poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Here is the work of Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Alexander Blok, Andrei Bely, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ivan Bunin, Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Boris Pasternak, and Joseph Brodsky, among many others.

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General Fiction

Conviction by Kelly Gilbert FIC GILBERT An aspiring baseball pitcher confronts an impossible choice and a test of his faith when he is offered the chance to play against a relative of a police officer his father is accused of killing. **Available in print and ebook formats.

Cut Both Ways by Carrie Mesrobian FIC MESROBIAN Navigating dysfunctional family dynamics involving his father's drinking and his mother's cluelessness, Will struggles alone with his conflicting feelings for his best friend Angus and his girlfriend. **Available in print and ebook formats.

Fans of the Impossible Life by Kate Scelsa FIC SCELSA At Saint Francis Prep school in Mountain View, New Jersey, Mira, Jeremy, and Sebby come together as they struggle with romance, bullying, foster home and family problems, and mental health issues. **Available in print and ebook formats.

Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun Hutchinson FIC HUTCHINSON Convinced he should have died in the accident that killed his parents and sister, sixteen-year-old Drew lives in a hospital, hiding from employees and his past, until Rusty, a patient brought into the hospital with severe burns inflicted by hateful classmates for being gay, helps Drew turn his life around.

I Crawl Through It by A. S. King FIC KING Four teens shattered by high pressure, loss, grief, and trauma cope by lying, dissociating, and imagining themselves far away before finding the courage to confront their problems head-on. **Available in print and ebook formats.

Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig FIC DOIG In the summer of 1951, 11-year-old Donal Cameron’s grandmother develops “female trouble” and must submit to an operation. Donal is dispatched by Greyhound (the “dog bus”) to Wisconsin, where he is to live with his Aunt Kate until his grandmother recovers. Packing his treasured “memory book,” in which he asks any and all to inscribe a few meaningful words (fellow bus rider Jack Kerouac is one of the signatories), Donal makes the lengthy trek only to discover that Aunt Kate is a tyrant who soon tires of the boy and sends him packing back to Montana. This time, though, Donal has a companion, Kate’s browbeaten, glass-eyed, sort-of husband, Herman the German. Published posthumously.

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Porcupine of Truth by Bill Konigsberg FIC KONIGSBERG Seventeen-year-old Carson Speier is bored of Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years– but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who has run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their lives.

Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli FIC ALBERTALLI When an email falls into the wrong hands, sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly gay Simon is blackmailed into playing wingman for a classmate or risk having his sexual identity revealed and the privacy of the boy he's been emailing compromised. **Available in print and ebook formats.

Skyscraping by Cordelia Jensen FIC JENSEN After discovering that her father is gay, Mira's illusions about her family are shattered, causing her to distance herself from her friends and forcing her to endure greater challenges when she learns that her father is also HIV- positive.

Stand Off by Andrew Smith FIC SMITH Now a senior at Pine Mountain Academy, fifteen-year-old Ryan Dean West becomes captain of the rugby team, shares his dormitory room with a twelve-year-old prodigy, Sam Abernathy, and through the course of the year learns to appreciate things he has tried to resist, including change. Sequel to Winger.

You and Me and Him by Kris Dinnison FIC DINNISON Maggie Bowers thinks she knows what to expect her junior year of high school, but when she and her out-of- the-closet best friend Nash have feelings for the same boy she wonders if winning someone's heart means losing her soul mate. **Available in print and ebook formats.

Wonder by R. J. Palacio FIC PALACIO Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student. **Available in print and ebook formats.

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Science Fiction/

About a Girl by Sarah Mccarry FIC MCCARRY Eighteen-year-old genius Tally makes a discovery that upends her fiercely ordered world and compels her to search for the mother who abandoned her as a baby, finding instead an enigmatic and beautiful girl who will unlock the door to her future. Book 3 of the Metamorphoses trilogy.

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell FIC ROWELL Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen.That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a and a complete git, but he's probably right. Half the time, Simon can't even make his work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a -eating running around, wearing Simon's face. Baz would be having a field day with all this, if he were here– it's their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simon's infuriating nemesis didn't even bother to show up.

Catalyst by S. J. Kincaid FIC KINCAID The conclusion to the series finds Tom's efforts to resume training at the Pentagonal Spire challenged by baffling new military restrictions from controllers who reveal alignments with ruthless corporate sponsors. Book 3 of the Insignia series. **Available in print and ebook formats.

City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare FIC CLARE Darkness has descended on the Shadowhunter world. Chaos and destruction overwhelm the Nephilim as Clary, Jace, Simon, and their friends band together to fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary's own brother. Nothing in this world can defeat Sebastian – but if they journey to the realm of , they just might have a chance... Book 6 of the Mortal Instruments series.

Darkfall by Janice Hardy FIC HARDY With the rebellion in full swing, fifteen year-old Nya's loyalties are put to the ultimate test, and she is forced to choose between leading an army against the Duke or abandoning her people to save her sister. Book 3 of the Healing Wars series. **Available in print and ebook formats.

Endlessly by Kiersten White FIC WHITE Sixteen-year-old Evie is forced to face the truth about her supernatural past when a deadly faerie battle threatens the future of the entire paranormal world. Book 3 of the Paranormalcy series. **Available in print and ebook formats.

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Eternally Yours by Cate Tiernan FIC TIERNAN The conclusion to the series finds Nastasya Crowe employing her own brand of turbo-charged magick to fight back against dark immortals and end a centuries-old feud that forces her to confront her own feelings of love. Book 3 of the Eternally Yours trilogy.

Fairest: Levana's Story by Marissa Meyer FIC MEYER A story bridging the events between Cress and Winter traces the early years of "glamour" ruler Queen Levana, who endures war, deceit and challenges in love before crossing paths with Cinder, Scarlet and Cress.

Fate of Ten by Pittacus Lore FIC LORE The penultimate installment in the series finds the Garde struggling to understand and execute the Loric Elders plan to save the world from genocidal alien forces. Book 6 of the Lorien Legacies series. **Available in print and ebook formats.

First Twenty by Jennifer Lavoie FIC LAVOIE When Peyton takes Nixie, a girl with the ability to dowse for water in a world where safe water is hard to come by, she is forced to decide between the girl or the lives of those she is responsible for.

Flame by Amy Ryan FIC RYAN Waverly, Kieran, and Seth are trapped with their enemies on board the New Horizon, where Kieran doubts the intentions of a power-seeking Anne Mather, and Waverly clashes with Kieran over her cooperation with a mysterious elderly man. Book 3 of the Sky Chasers series.

Genius Wars by Catherine Jinks FIC JINKS Fifteen-year-old genius Cadel Piggot Greenaus sets aside his new, crime-free life when his best friend Sonja is attacked, and he crosses oceans and continents trying to track down his nemesis Prosper English, breaking whatever rules he must. Book 3 of the Genius series. **Available in print and ebook formats.

Iron Warrior by Julia Kagawa FIC KAGAWA When Keirran, Ethan's nephew, leads the Forgotten Queen's uprising against the Iron Queen, Ethan and Kenzie must search for answers and halt this revolt before the fey and human worlds are forever changed. Book 3 of Iron Fey: Call of the Forgotten series.

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Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz FIC SCHMATZ All great heroes begin with mythical origins. Fifteen-year-old Kavali is no exception. When she was a baby, she was abandoned on a sidewalk, swaddled in a T-shirt with a lizard printed on the front. Since then, she has questioned her true identity. Is she a boy or a girl? A lizard or a human? This work is set in the not-too-distant future, in which the government closely monitors gender, occupation, and emotion. When Kavali is thrown into CropCamp, a camp where teenagers learn how to grow organic crops as initiation into adulthood, she begins to question whether she should forfeit her individuality to become a cooperative part of society. **Available in print and ebook formats.

Magician's Land by Lev Grossman FIC GROSSMAN Visiting his magical college after being cast out of the secret land of Fillory, Quentin Coldwater, accompanied by brilliant undergraduate Plum, encounters desperate practitioners of before discovering a sorcery masterwork that could dissolve the boundaries between Fillory and Earth. Book 3 of the series.

Murdstone Trilogy by Mal Peet FIC PEET Philip Murdstone's books are not selling, so his agent convinces him to write a blockbuster, but Philip is totally unsuited to the task, until he meets a dwarfish stranger and makes a Faustian bargain. **Available in print and ebook formats.

Necklace of Water by Cate Tiernan FIC TIERNAN With the Balefire resurfacing to replicate the original rite, twins Clio and Thais are fearful about what is to come when their longtime enemy makes his presence known again and their strong bond is threatened when they discover that they are both in love with the same person. Book 4 of the Balefire series. **Available in print and ebook formats.

Pandemonium by Warren Fahy FIC FAHY A sequel to Fragment finds biologists Nell and Geoffrey Binswanger lured by a ruthless Russian tycoon to an underground metropolis, where they are confronted by a vicious menagerie of new and biological horrors that are rising from their isolated subterranean world to consume and take over the planet. Book 2 of the Nell and Geoffrey Binswanger series.

Queen of Shadows by Sarah Maas FIC MAAS Returning to the empire to exact revenge and confront her past, Celaya Swarthier executes a systematic plan to rescue her loved ones and defeat a brutal pretender to the throne. Book 4 of the Throne of Glass series.

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Rose Society by Marie Lu FIC LU Known and feared as the so-called "White Wolf" as a result of the vengeful persona she adopts in the aftermath of cruel betrayals by both family and friends, Adelina flees with her sister to build an army of fellow Young Elites in an effort to strike down the white-cloaked Inquisition Axis soldiers who nearly killed her. Book 2 of the Young Elites series.

Ruins by Dan Wells FIC WELLS The conclusion to the series finds Kira, Samm and Marcus struggling to prevent an apocalyptic war between humans and Partials, an effort that is complicated by Dr. Morgan's deadly . Book 3 of the Partials series. **Available in print and ebook formats.

Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow FIC BOW The teenage princess of a future-world Canadian superpower, where royal children are held hostage to keep their countries from waging war, falls in love with an American prince who rebels against the brutal rules governing their existences.

Shades of Earth by Beth Revis FIC REVIS The conclusion to the trilogy finds Amy hoping to reach her long-sought new home on Centauri-Earth, while she and Elder confront unexpected dangers that threaten their colony and challenge their views on what it means to be human. Book 3 of the Across the Universe series.

Shine by Jeri Smith-Ready FIC SMITH-READY The conclusion to the Shade trilogy finds Aura struggling to uncover the truth about her past after the tragic death of her boyfriend, Logan, and divulging her paranormal abilities to Zachary, her Scottish research partner, who is subsequently threatened by a government agency that wants to exploit Aura's powers. Book 3 of the Shade trilogy.

Sinner by Maggie Stiefvater FIC STIEFVATER Reveals disgraced former star Cole's identity as a wolf shapeshifter while tracing his return to the side of the one woman who knows his secret. Book 4 of the Wolves of Mercy Falls series.

Snakeroot by Andrea Cremer FIC CREMER Bosque Mar haunts Adne and Logan's dreams, trying to turn Adne to the dark side as he attempts to escape the Nether, where Calla, Shay and the other Guardians trapped him in the final battle of the War of All Against All. Book 4 of the Nightshade series.

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Twisted by Gena Showalter FIC SHOWALTER Targeted for transformation by his vampire princess girlfriend, Aden Stone realizes that a dark force is growing within him and receives warnings from the three souls that greater dangers lie ahead, prompting him to assume leadership over the against the schemes of formidable rivals. Book 3 of the Intertwined series.

Unmade by Sarah Brennan FIC BRENNAN Kami Glass and friends battle sorcerers in order to save the sleepy town of Sorry-in-the-Vale while Kami struggles with her own emotions, caught between Ash, the boy who loves her, and Jared, the boy she loves. Book 3 of the Lynburn Legacy trilogy.

Willful Machines by Tim Floreen FIC FLOREEN In a near-future America, a sentient computer program named Charlotte has turned terrorist, but Lee Fisher, the closeted son of an ultraconservative President, is more concerned with keeping his Secret Service detail from finding out about his developing romance with Nico, the new guy at school, but when the spider-like robots that roam the school halls begin acting even stranger than usual, Lee realizes he is Charlotte's next target.

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