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. Page 1 of 10 Arapahoe High School Library New Books 12/14/15 Social Studies continued… 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. Page 2 of 10 Arapahoe High School Library New Books 12/14/15 Poetry 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. Page 3 of 10 Arapahoe High School Library New Books 12/14/15 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. Page 4 of 10 Arapahoe High School Library New Books 12/14/15 General Fiction continued… 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.