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Jamesville-DeWitt High School Summer Reading Suggestions – Students Entering 11th & 12th Grades Biographies & Memoirs The Liars’ Club by Mary Karr Nicholas & Alexandra by Robert K. Massie When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis Nonfiction Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt 1776 by David McCullough Evolve Your Brain: The science of Changing Your Mind by Joe Dispenza Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life's Ordeals by Thomas Moore Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss Fiction Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Eventide by Cindy McCormick Martinusen Safran Foer Plainsong by Kent Haruf The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Mystik Lake by Martha Brooks Atonement by Ian McEwan Einstein’s Dream by Alan Lightman Peace Like a River by Leif Enger Messenger of Truth by Janet Winspeare A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving Some Danger Involved by Well Thomas The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane Sophie’s Choice by William Styron A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane T is for Trespass by Sue Grafton Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehane Plum Lucky by Janet Evonovich Daddy’s Little Girl by Mary Higgins Clark The Alienist by Caleb Carr The Apprentice Lover by Jay Parini 1 Jamesville-DeWitt High School Summer Reading Suggestions – Students Entering 11th & 12th Grades A Passage to India by E.M. Forster Great Expectations by Charles Dickens All the Kings’ Men by Robert Penn Warren A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway What Girls Learn by Karin Cook Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Poetry Electric Light by Seamus Heaney The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath A Book of Lumininous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry with introduction by Czeslaw Milosz How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry by Edward Hirsch Graphic Novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Suggested Authors: • Michael Crichton • Kurt Vonnegut • Tim O’Brien • Toni Morrison • Margaret Atwood • Dennis Lehane • Robin Cook 2.

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King County Library System Director’S Report April 2013
King County Library System Director’s Report April 2013 GOVERNMENT RELATIONS As the process continues, progress is being made on the Renton Library project. KCLS held a public meeting on March 26 to present the design for the new library over the Cedar River. Even though some of the 150 attendees objected to breakout stations, staff gathered good input from those who participated as well as from the audience comment period at the end of the meeting. Miller-Hull architects identified some of the main concerns raised by the public and addressed them in a follow-up presentation to the Renton City Council on April 15. Council members responded well to the design changes and the City has indicated it will consider increasing the budget to build a larger library that is closer to the size of the existing building. It is anticipated that the City Council will make a decision on the schematic design and project budget at its meeting on Monday, April 29. At the April 15 Renton City Council meeting, KCLS requested that if the City considers increasing the budget for the downtown library that it not be increased at the expense of the Renton Highlands Library. Council members agreed and asked staff to bring back plans for increasing the budget without impinging on the Highlands project. The City of Renton and its housing developer have made enough progress on the project that library design and planning is finally able to move forward. KCLS is scheduled to present schematic design and budget estimates to the Renton City Council on May 14.
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A DRINK BEFORE THE WAR FREE DOWNLOAD Dennis Lehane | 336 pages | 01 Sep 2006 | Transworld Publishers Ltd | 9780553818222 | English | London, United Kingdom A DRINK BEFORE THE WAR Hey there, cellphone-free era. Nov 01, Will Byrnes rated it really liked it Shelves: lehanemystery-and-spy-fictionfiction. He is also smart enough to write a novel of just the right length. Content warning for predatory violence on minors, sexual crimes, gore, profanity, racial slurs, etc. For more of my reviews, please visit Yes, okay, I'm a sick little weirdo -get over it! Book 3, "Sacred" is 5-stars. Add a review Your Rating: Your Comment:. Dennis Lehane born Aug 4th, is an American author. Nothing stellar, but he got the job done. New York Times. Relationships from hell. In a strange way it was so refreshing. You know what? I know this. Books by Dennis Lehane. Jenna looked at me and shook her head. We do not guarantee that these techniques will work for you. While Lehane manages to give the warring gang leaders and even the politicians some humanity, the car chases and shootouts were nothing I hadn't seen before and the action sequences didn't excite me. As for the writingwhat can I say except that it was addictive? I love the witty banter between the detectives and their growing relationship. After reading "Shutter Island", which I liked, with reservations that have grown in hindsightand having seen the film "Mystic River", which I also liked, I decided to hunt down some of Dennis Lehane's other novels.
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