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Summer Reading Program 2010 Western Reserve Academy Summer Reading 2010

Most members of the Reserve community find pleasure in reading. For those of us tied to the academic calendar, summers and holidays give us what we need most – time. With that in mind, we offer students this list of recommended books for summer reading.

This list is intended for student LEISURE reading. We hope the variety peaks student interest and provides the opportunity to expand horizons, satisfy curiosity and/or offer an enjoyable escape. Titles include: classics to recently published titles, relatively easy to challenging reading levels and a variety of genres covering diverse subjects. Also included is a list of recommended websites to locate further suggestions for award-winning books and titles of interest.

This list is updated annually by members of the John D. Ong library staff. Titles are recommended by members of the WRA community or by respected review sources, including the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association. A few titles have frank passages that mirror some aspects of life explicitly. Therefore, we urge parents to explore the titles your teenagers choose and discuss the book as well as the choice with them.

All the books on this list should be available in libraries and/or book- stores. Check the Ong Library home page for summer hours; students are welcome.

Enjoy your summer and your free time, and try to spend some of it read- ing! Your feedback about any title on this list is welcome – and we also welcome your recommendations for titles to add in the future.

The John D. Ong Library Staff

PLEASE NOTE: This list should not be confused with the English Western Reserve Academy adheres to a longstanding policy of admitting students of any race, color, creed, religion, national and ethnic origin subject to all the rights, privileges, programs and activi- Department’s Required Reading summer program. Please go to ties generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the Summer Reading and click on Required Reading for that information. basis of race, color, creed, religion, national or ethnic origin, or disability in the administration of its educational policies, scholarship and loan program or other school-administered programs. Table of Contents Summer Reading for Ninth/Tenth Graders

Fiction: Summer Reading for Ninth/Tenth Graders...... 1 Abhorsen Trilogy (The): Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen (Garth Nix, 1996- Fiction ...... 1 2003) This popular fantasy series focuses on good and evil, war and peace, and Non-fiction...... 9 the value of friendship and continues to be a fan favorite. Biographies/Memoirs ...... 17 Summer Reading for Eleventh/Twelfth Graders ...... 19 Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (The) (Sherman Alexie, 2007) Arnold Spirit and his best friend, Rowdy, lament and laugh about life on the Fiction ...... 19 Spokane Indian Reservation. When Arnold decides to attend a rich white school, he Non-fiction...... 26 soon finds himself scorned in his old community and an oddity in his new school. Biographies/Memoirs ...... 34 Graphic Novels/Collections ...... 36 Afghan (The) (Frederick Forsyth, 2006) When British and American intelli- Collections: Short Stories and Essays and more ...... 37 gence discover an al-Qaeda operation in the works, they enlist undercover imposter Colonel Mike Martin to pass himself off as Taliban commander Izmat Something for Everyone: Informational Titles for Teenagers ...... 40 Khan. But nothing prepares Martin for the dark and shifting world into which he Poetry, Anyone?...... 41 is about to enter—or the terrible things he will find there.* Looking for a Good Book? Some Websites to Help You ...... 43 Title Index ...... 45 Agincourt (Bernard Cornwell, 2009) One of the most dramatic victories in British history, the battle of Agincourt—immortalized by Shakespeare in Henry Author Index...... 51 V—pitted undermanned and overwhelmed English forces against a French army determined to keep their crown out of Henry’s hands. Here Bernard Cornwell resurrects the legend of the battle and the “band of brothers” who fought it on October 25, 1415.*

Animal Farm (George Orwell, 1946) This remarkable allegory of a downtrod- den society of overworked, mistreated animals, and their quest to create a para- dise of progress, justice, and equality is one of the most scathing satires ever pub- lished. As we witness the rise and bloody fall of the revolutionary animals, we begin to recognize the seeds of totalitarianism in the most idealistic organization; and in our most charismatic leaders, the souls of our cruelest oppressors.*

Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing (The), Traitor to the Nation, v.2: The Kingdom on the Waves (M. T. Anderson, 2008) In Volume II of his unparalleled masterwork, M. T. Anderson recounts Octavian’s experiences as the Revolutionary War explodes around him, thrusting him into intense battles and tantalizing him with elusive visions of liberty. Ultimately, this astonishing narrative escalates to a startling, deeply satisfying climax, while reexamining our national origins in a sin- gularly provocative light.* The story begins in The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, v.1: The Pox Party (2006).

1 Bread Givers (Anzia Yezierska, 1925, 3rd edition 2003) This masterwork of Chains (Laurie Halse Anderson, 2008) As the Revolutionary War begins, thir- American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of teen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon Manhattan and tells the story of Sara Smolinsky, the youngest daughter of an the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become Orthodox rabbi, who rebels against her father’s rigid conception of Jewish wom- the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no anhood.* sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel.*

Breathless (Jessisa Warman, 2009) When Katie Kitrell is shipped off to board- Conspirata: A Novel of Ancient Rome (Robert Harris, 2009) On the eve of ing school by her distant father and overbearing mother, it doesn’t take her long Marcus Cicero’s inauguration as consul of Rome, the grisly death of a boy sends to become part of the It Crowd. But what her new friends, roommate, and ripples of fear through a city already wracked by civil unrest, crime, and debauch- boyfriend don’t know is that Katie is swimming away from her past, and from her ery of every kind. For Cicero, the ill forebodings of this hideous murder only schizophrenic older brother, Will, who won’t let her go.* increase his frustrations and the dangers he already faces as Rome’s leader: elect- ed by the people but despised by the heads of the two rival camps, the patricians Bride’s Farewell (The) (Meg Rosoff, 2009) A young woman in 1850s rural and populists.* Follow-up to Imperium (2006). England runs away from home on horseback the day she’s to marry her childhood sweetheart. But as she rides farther away from home, Pell’s feelings for her par- Daniel Half Human: And the Good Nazi (David Chotjewitz, 2004) Until the ents, her siblings, and her fiancé surprise her with their strength and alter the spring of 1933, he’s enjoyed a comfortable German boyhood with his well-to-do course of her travels. And her journey leads her to find love where she least family, in school, at soccer…. Then, a thunderclap: Daniel learns to his horror expects it.* that his mother is Jewish, that he is therefore half-Jewish and, in Aryan eyes, half- human.* Brisingr (Christopher Paolini, 2008) Following the colossal battle against the Empire’s warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have Daniel X: Watch the Skies (James Patterson and Ned Ruse, 2009) All’s quiet in narrowly escaped with their lives. Still there is more at hand for the Rider and his the small town of Holliswood. Yet not all is perfect…. Residing in this sleepy dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able town is a villain with more ambition than the world can withstand. Twisted to keep.* The third book in the Inheritance Cycle, following Eragon (2003) and beyond reason, he is dead set on throwing Holliswood into chaos and document- Eldest (2005). ing the destruction of every person in it, including Daniel X.*

Call of the Wild (Jack London, 1903) This gripping story follows the adventures Dead and the Gone (The) (Susan Beth Pfeffer, 2008) Pfeffer’s Life as We Knew of the loyal dog Buck, who is stolen from his comfortable family home and It enthralled and devastated readers with its brutal but hopeful look at an apoca- forced into the harsh life of an Alaskan sled dog. Passed from master to master, lyptic event—an asteroid hitting the moon, setting off a tailspin of horrific cli- Buck embarks on an extraordinary journey that ends with his becoming the leg- mate changes. Now this harrowing companion novel examines the same events endary leader of a wolf pack.* as they unfold in New York City, revealed through the eyes of seventeen-year-old Puerto Rican Alex Morales.* Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins, 2009) Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark (The Detective/Crime Mystery Writers: Try any book by the following mystery Hunger Games – 2008). But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and writers: Donna Andrews (featuring Artificial Intelligence Personality Turing their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won Hopper as an amateur sleuth); Nancy Atherton (featuring amateur sleuth Lori for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors Shepard with help from her ghostly Aunt Dimity); Stephanie Barron (featuring of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the 19th century author Jane Austen as an amateur sleuth) C. J. Box (featuring faces of that rebellion. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.* Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett); Diane Mott Davidson (featuring Goldy Bear, a caterer with a nose for trouble; delicious recipes are also part of the read- ing bargain); Laurie R. King (featuring Mary Russell, former protégé to

2 3 Sherlock Holmes); Edward Marston (look for the Domesday series set in Frankenstein (Mary Shelley, 1818) Despite being trivialized by cartoons, medieval England featuring commissioner Ralph Delchard); Alexander McCall spoofs, and toys, this powerful story is a portrayal of the pride of a scientist and Smith (featuring Mma Precious Ramotswe, owner of Botswana’s #1 Ladies the consequences of his abuse of power. Detective Agency); Elizabeth Peters (featuring Edwardian Egyptologist Amanda Peabody); Ellis Peters (mysteries of the medieval monk, Brother Genghis: Bones of the Hills (Conn Iggulden, 2009) Genghis Khan continues his Cadfael); or Les Roberts (featuring Cleveland private detective Milan Jacovich). conquest of Asia in the third installment of Iggulden’s stirring epic (following Genghis: Lords of the Bow, 2008, and Genghis: Birth of an Empire, 2007).* Dog On It (Spencer Quinn, 2009) Meet Chet, the wise and lovable canine nar- rator of Dog on It, who works alongside Bernie, a down-on-his-luck private Going Bovine (Libba Bray, 2009) All 16-year-old Cameron wants is to get investigator. In this, their first adventure, Chet and Bernie investigate the disap- through high school—and life in general—with a minimum of effort…. But that’s pearance of Madison, a teenage girl who may or may not have been kidnapped, before he’s given some bad news: he’s sick and he’s going to die…. Hope arrives but who has definitely gotten mixed up with some very unsavory characters.* in the winged form of Dulcie, a loopy punk angel/possible hallucination with a bad sugar habit.* Evermore (Alyson Noel, 2009) Since a horrible accident claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras, hear people’s thoughts, and know a Good Thief (The) (Hannah Tinti, 2008) Twelve year-old Ren is missing his left person’s life story by touch. Going out of her way to shield herself from human hand. How it was lost is a mystery that Ren has been trying to solve for his entire contact to suppress her abilities has branded her as a freak at her new high life, as well as who his parents are, and why he was abandoned as an infant at school—but everything changes when she meets Damen Auguste…and he Saint Anthony’s Orphanage for boys… But then a young man named Benjamin belongs to an enchanted new world where no one ever dies.* Nab appears, claiming to be Ren’s long-lost brother… But is Benjamin really who he says he is?* Fire (Kristin Cashore, 2009) It is not a peaceful time in the Dells. In King City, the young King Nash is clinging to the throne, while rebel lords in the north and Grendel (John Gardner, 1971) When Grendel is drawn up from the caves under south build armies to unseat him. War is coming. And the mountains and forest the mere where he lives with his bloated, inarticulate hag of a mother into the are filled with spies and thieves. This is where Fire lives, a girl whose beauty is fresh night air, it is to lay waste Hrothgar’s meadhall and heap destruction on the impossibly irresistible and who can control the minds of everyone around her.* humans he finds there.* This is Gardner’s classic interpretation of the Old Companion to Graceling (2008). English epic Beowulf from the monster’s point of view.

Fold (The) (An Na, 2008) Joyce never used to care that much about how she Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift, 1726) This classic novel, which satirizes looked…Then her rich, plastic-surgery-addict aunt offers Joyce a gift to “fix” a part human moral and foibles, recounts the voyages of Lemuel Gulliver as he visits of herself she’d never realized needed fixing—her eyes. Joyce has heard of the fold four remote countries. surgery—a common procedure meant to make Asian women’s eyes seem “prettier” and more “American”—but she’s not sure she wants to go through with it.* Help (The) (Katherine Stockett, 2009) Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step…to start a movement of their own [that] forever changes a town, Fortunes of Indigo Skye (The) (Deb Caletti, 2008) Eighteen-year-old Indigo and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another.* Skye feels like she has it all—a waitress job she loves, an adorable refrigerator- delivery-guy boyfriend, and a home life that’s slightly crazed but rich in love. Kim (Rudyard Kipling, 1901) Kimball O’Hara grows up an orphan in the walled Until a mysterious man at the restaurant leaves her a 2.5 million-dollar tip, and city of Lahore, India. Deeply devoted to an old Tibetan lama but involved in a her life as she knew it is transformed.* secret mission for the British, Kim struggles to weave the strands of his life into a single pattern. Charged with action and suspense, yet profoundly spiritual, Kim vividly expresses the sounds and smells, colors and characters, opulence and squalor of complex, contradictory India under British rule.*

4 5 Little Brother (Cory Doctorow, 2008) Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seven- teen-years-old, but he figures he already knows how the system works—and how to work the system. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they’re mercilessly interrogated for days.*

Madapple (Christina Meldrum, 2008) Aslaug is an unusual young woman. Her mother has brought her up in near isolation, teaching her about plants and nature and language—but not about life. Especially not how she came to have her own life, and who her father might be. When Aslaug’s mother dies unexpectedly, everything changes.*

Man in the Iron Mask (The) (Alexandre Dumas, 1850) In the Musketeers’ final adventure, D’Artagnan remains in the service of the corrupt King Louis XIV after the Three Musketeers have retired and gone their separate ways. Meanwhile, a mysterious prisoner in an iron mask wastes away deep inside the Bastille.*

Nation (Terry Pratchett, 2008) The sea has taken everything. Mau is the only one left after a giant wave sweeps his island village away. But when much is taken, something is returned, and somewhere in the jungle Daphne—a girl from the other side of the globe—is the sole survivor of a ship destroyed by the same wave.*

Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck, 1937) The tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him.*

Over and Under (Todd Tucker, 2008) In the summer of 1979, Andy and Tom are two fourteen-year-old boys—best friends, expert cave explorers, and crack shots DID YOU KNOW? with their Springfield M-6 Scout rifles. In rural southern Indiana they are bliss- fully unaware of the local labor strife surrounding the Borden Casket Company… The Ong Library But in the building summer heat, violence quickly erupts—including an explo- collection includes sion, a murder, and the escape of two fugitives—and the young boys can no longer ignore that the world around them has forever changed.* 45,000 book volumes, nine Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe, 1719) During an adventurous voyage, a seven- newspapers, 110 teenth century Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for periodicals and nearly thirty years on a deserted island. more than 3,000 Sharp Teeth (Toby Barlow, 2008) An ancient race of lycanthropes has survived videos and to the present day, and its numbers are growing. Bent on dominance, rival fac- music CDs.

6 tions are initiating the down-and-out of L.A. into their ranks. Caught in the mid- one of passionate love, jealousy, and tragedy set against the daily fear and casu- dle are Anthony, a kindhearted, lovesick dogcatcher, and the object of his affec- al horror of the Second World War — and unraveling it is about to transform tion: a female werewolf who has abandoned her pack.* Tamar’s life forever.*

Small Steps (Louis Sachar, 2008) Two years after being released from Camp Ten Cents a Dance (Christine Fletcher, 2008) With her mother ill, it’s up to fif- Green Lake, Armpit is home in Austin, Texas, trying to turn his life around. But teen-year-old Ruby Jacinski to support her family. But in the 1940s, the only it’s hard when you have a record and everyone expects the worst from you. The opportunities open to a Polish-American girl from Chicago’s poor Yards is a job only person who believe in Armpit is Ginny, his ten-year-old disabled neighbor. in one of the meat packing plants. Through a chance meeting with a local tough, Together, they are learning to take small steps.* This is the sequel to Sachar’s Ruby lands a job as a taxi dancer and soon becomes an expert in the art of “fish- award-winning book Holes (1998). ing”: working her patrons for meals, cash, clothes, even jewelry…*

Sometimes We’re Always Real Same-Same (Mattox Roesch, 2009) Cesar leaves Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story (Leonie Swann, 2009) A witty philo- his gangbanging life behind in Los Angeles to help his mother reconnect with her sophical murder mystery with a charming twist: the crack detectives are sheep estranged family in rural Alaska, where she hopes they both can get a fresh start.* determined to discover who killed their beloved shepherd.*

Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert Heinlein, 1961) Valentine Michael Smith is Total Oblivion, More or Less (Alan Deniro, 2009) What’s a girl to do when her born during the first manned space flight to Mars, is the lone survivor of that world is invaded by warriors from the ancient world? That’s the problem faced flight and is raised by Martians. This is the classic tale of his visit to Earth. by sixteen-year-old Macy, who sees her quiet, normal life in suburban Minnesota turned upside down when things that should never be possible begin to transform Strangers in the Land of Egypt (Stephen March, 2009) Jesse Terrill has reason the landscape all around her. The cable stops working, the phone lines die–and to be angry. His mother has abandoned him, his brother was murdered by a ter- then the horsemen come to town. It’s not the same America that she last went to rorist, and his father is in the state mental hospital —a victim of a mugger’s sleep in.* assault. Arrested for vandalizing a synagogue, Jesse is sentenced to do commu- nity service for a holocaust survivor, Mendel Ebban.* Under the Dome (Stephen King, 2009) On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (The) (Alan Bradley, 2009) It is the summer the rest of the world by an invisible force field…. No one can fathom what this of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an barrier is, where it came from, and when — or if — it will go away.* aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplica- ble events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned White Darkness (The): (Geraldine McCaughrean, 2007) Sym is not your aver- to its beak. Then, hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and age teenage girl. She is obsessed with the Antarctic and the brave, romantic fig- watches him as he takes his dying breath.* ure of Captain Oates from Scott’s doomed expedition to the South Pole… But Sym’s uncle Victor is even more obsessed—and when he takes her on a dream Tale of Two Cities (A) (Charles Dickens, 1859) With dramatic eloquence, this trip into the bleak Antarctic wilderness, it turns into a nightmarish struggle for story of the French Revolution brings to life a time of terror and treason, and a survival that will challenge everything she knows and loves.* starving people rising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent regime.* Non-fiction:

Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal (Mal Peet, 2007) When All Creatures Great and Small (James Herriot, 1972) For decades, Herriot her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded roamed the remote, beautiful Yorkshire Dales, treating every patient that came his messages. Out of the past emerges a man involved in the terrifying world of way from smallest to largest, and observing animals and humans alike with his resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland half a century before. His story is keen, loving eye.*

8 9 Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream (Tanya Lee Stone, 2009) Best Intentions: The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry (Robert Sam What does it take to be an astronaut? Excellence at flying, courage, intelligence, Anson, 1987) An exploration of how Edmund Perry, a 17-year-old black honors resistance to stress, top physical shape—any checklist would include these. But student from Harlem, was killed soon after graduation by a young white plain when America created NASA in 1958, there was another unspoken rule: you had clothes policeman in an alleged mugging attempt.* to be a man. Here is the tale of thirteen women who proved that they were not only as tough as the toughest man but also brave enough to challenge the gov- Best Trivia Book of Presidents (The)!!! (Jane Flinn, 2008) For a fascinating and ernment.* fun look at trivia about the U.S. Presidents, check out this book of little-known information. American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China (Matthew Polly, 2007) Growing up as the Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (The): Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope little guy always picked on, Matthew Polly had constantly dreamed of going to (William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer, 2009) William Kamkwamba was born in the Shaolin Temple in China to become the strongest kung fu fighter in the world. Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also Deciding he can’t wait any longer, he drops out of Princeton to follow his dream. a land withered by drought and hunger, and a place where hope and opportunity were hard to find. But William had read about windmills in a book called Using Animal Dialogues (The): Uncommon Encounters in the Wild (Craig Childs, Energy, and he dreamed of building one that would bring electricity and water to 2007) The Animal Dialogues tells of Craig Childs’ own chilling experiences his village and change his life and the lives of those around him.* among the grizzlies of the Arctic, sharks off the coast of British Columbia and in the turquoise waters of Central America, jaguars in the bush of northern Mexico, Deep (The): The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss (Claire Nouvian, 2007) mountain lions, elk, Bighorn Sheep, and others. More than chilling, however, Spectacular photographs and insightful essays about many of the little known these stories are lyrical, enchanting, and reach beyond what one commonly creatures are a treat for anyone interested in the mysterious depths of the ocean. assumes an “animal story” is or should be…* Devil’s Teeth (The): A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America’s Annotated Mona Lisa (The): A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Great White Sharks (Susan Casey, 2006) Susan Casey was in her living room Post-Modern (Carol Strickland, 2007) This book offers an illustrated tutorial of when she first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon Islands, their dark fins prehistoric to post-modern art from cave paintings to video art installations to swirling around a small motorboat in a documentary. In a matter of months, [she] digital and Internet media.* was being hoisted out of the early-winter swells on a crane, up a cliff face to the barren surface of Southeast Farallon Island-dubbed by sailors in the 1850s the Babylon’s Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo (Lawrence “devil’s teeth.”* Anthony and Graham Spence, 2007) When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing: the fate of the Baghdad Zoo, Fantasy Freaks & Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role caught in the crossfire at the heart of the city... Babylon’s Ark chronicles Players, Online Gamers, and other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms (Ethan Anthony’s hair-raising efforts to save a pride of Saddam’s lions, close a Gilsford, 2009) What could one man find if he embarked on a journey through deplorable black-market zoo, run ostriches through shoot-to-kill checkpoints, and fantasy world after fantasy world?* rescue the dictator’s personal herd of thoroughbred Arabian horses.* Farm Sanctuary : Changing Hearts and Minds about Animals and Food (Gene Ball is Round (The): A Global History of Soccer (David Goldblatt, 2008) Baur, 2008) In Farm Sanctuary, Baur provides a thought-provoking investigation Everything you ever wanted to know about the world’s most popular sport… of the ethical questions involved in the production of beef, poultry, pork, milk, and eggs—and what each of us can do to stop the mistreatment of farm animals and promote compassion… You will certainly never think of a hamburger or chicken breast the same way after reading this book.*

10 11 Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs: Soft Tissues and Hard Science (Phillip Manning, How Everything Works: Making Physics Out of the Ordinary (Louis A. 2008) Drawing on new breakthroughs and cutting edge techniques to scan and Bloomfield, 2006) Examine the physics behind everyday objects in our lives. analyze this rare and remarkable discovery, Dr. Manning takes us on a thrilling, globe-spanning tour of dinosaur mummy finds—from the first such excavation in Hunt for Justice (A): The True Story of a Woman Undercover Wildlife Agent 1908 to a baby dinosaur unearthed in 1980, from a dino with a heart in South (Lucinda Delaney Schroeder, 2006) For thirty years, Lucinda Delaney Schroeder Dakota to titanosaur embryos in Argentina.* held an unusual government position: she was one of the handful of women spe- cial agents with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In August 1992, she accept- Grayson (Lynne Cox, 2006) This captivating bestseller tells the true story of a ed an assignment that forever changed—and endangered—her life. She posed as miraculous encounter between a teenaged girl and a baby whale off the coast of a big-game hunter in Alaska in order to infiltrate an international ring of poach- California.* ers out to kill the biggest and best of that state’s wildlife.*

Great Escape (The) (Paul Brickhill, 1950) They were American and British air Jumbo: This Being the True Story of the Greatest Elephant in the World (Paul force officers in a German prison camp. With only their bare hands and the crud- Chambers, 2008) Jumbo was a superstar of the Victorian era. From an eyewitness est of homemade tools, they sank shafts, forged passports, faked weapons, and account of Jumbo’s capture in Africa after ivory hunters had killed his parents, to tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes. They developed a fantastic secu- his early years at the Paris zoo where he was mistreated and regarded as a disap- rity system to protect themselves from German surveillance. It was a split-second pointing runt, to his stunning growth spurt in London where he became the largest operation as delicate and as deadly as a time bomb. It demanded the concentrat- elephant in captivity, to the “Jumbo craze” that swept across Britain and the ed devotion and vigilance of more than six hundred men—every one of them, United States, Paul Chambers utilizes new archival material in fully telling every minute, every hour, every day and night for more than a year.* Jumbo’s story for the first time.*

Hidden Evidence: Forty True Crimes and How Forensic Science Helped Solve Last Breath: Cautionary Tales from the Limits of Human Endurance (Peter Them (David Owen, 2000) These are the true crime shockers that have grabbed Stark, 2001) Sudden, extreme deaths have always fascinated us—and now more headlines and aroused public passions. David Owen explains the scientific pro- than ever as athletes and travelers rise to the challenges of high-risk sports and cedures that helped crack every one of these cases—from the gathering of elusive journeys on the edge. In this spellbinding book, veteran travel and outdoor sports physical clues to the examination of weapons and bodies, to the use of sophisti- writer Peter Stark reenacts the dramas of what happens inside our bodies, our cated scientific analysis.* minds, and our souls when we push ourselves to the absolute limits of human endurance.* Hidden Secrets: The Complete History of Espionage and the Technology Used to Support It (David Owen, 2002) Spying and spy technology has evolved from Last Lecture (The) (Randy Pausch, 2008) A lot of professors give talks titled sending signals through handkerchiefs and cracking the code of the Enigma “The Last Lecture…” When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at machine to current intelligence techniques that rely on satellite imagery and mon- Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn’t have to imagine it itoring of cell phone and internet communications. With case studies and hun- as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer… In this dreds of photographs, Hidden Secrets is an intriguing look at all these surveil- book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that lance techniques, spy technology and the spies themselves.* made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form.*

Hot Zone (The): A Terrifying True Story (Richard Preston, 1999) A highly Lizard King (The): The True Crimes and Passions of the World’s Greatest infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in Reptile Smugglers (Bryan Christy, 2008) When Bryan Christy began to investi- the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its gate the world of reptile smuggling, he had no idea what he would be in for. In victims are dead. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising the course of his research, he was bitten between the eyes by a blood python, account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their “crashes” into the chased by a mother alligator, and sprayed by a bird-eating tarantula. But perhaps human race.* more dangerous was coming face to face with Michael J. Van Nostrand, owner of

12 13 Strictly Reptiles, a thriving family business in Hollywood, Florida.* State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America (Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey [eds.], 2008) At turns poignant and funny, and always insightful…50 writers tell Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer (James L. Swanson, 2006) us something lasting and revealing about each state through personal memory or The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American histo- contemporary reporting that captures the essential qualities that make each state ry — the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. From April 14 to April 26, its own.* 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry and detectives on a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Mary Roach, 2003) In this fasci- the forests of Virginia, while the nation, still reeling from the just-ended Civil nating, ennobling account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the War, watched in horror and sadness. centuries—from the anatomy labs and human-sourced pharmacies of medieval and nineteenth-century Europe to a human decay research facility in Tennessee, One Kingdom: Our Lives with Animals (Deborah Noyes, 2006) Here Deborah to a plastic surgery practice lab, to a Scandinavian funeral directors’ conference Noyes embarks on a quest for understanding—struggling with science and love— on human composting.* attempting to distance, but also bring closer, the “other” kingdom. What results is a visionary meditation on how myth, history, and culture have influenced our Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time: My Life Doing Dumb Stuff with view of animals and shaped our lives with them.* Animals (Richard Conniff, 2009) Field journalist Richard Conniff examines the lives of two-, four-, six-, and eight-legged creatures from around the globe, providing Out of Orbit: The Incredible True Story of Three Astronauts Who Were adventure-packed accounts of his many ill advised forays into the animal kingdom.* Hundreds of Miles Above Earth When They Lost Their Ride Home (Chris Jones, 2008) On February 1, 2003, the nation was stunned to watch the shuttle Ten-Cent Plague (The): The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed Columbia disintegrate into a blue-green sky. Despite the numerous new reports America (David Hajdu, 2008) The story of the rise and fall of those comic books surrounding the tragedy, the public remained largely unaware that three men, has never been fully told—until The Ten-Cent Plague. David Hajdu’s remarkable U.S. astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox, and Russian flight engineer new book vividly opens up the lost world of comic books, its creativity, irrever- Nikolai Budarin, remained orbiting Earth. With the launch program suspended ence, and suspicion of authority.* indefinitely, these astronauts, who were already near the end of a fourteen-week mission, had suddenly lost their ride home.* There is No Me Without You: One Woman’s Odyssey to Rescue Africa’s Children (Melissa Fay Greene, 2006) Melissa Fay Greene puts a human face on Short History of Nearly Everything (A) (Bill Bryson, 2003) Bill Bryson appren- the African AIDS crisis with this powerful story of one woman working to save ticed himself to a host of the world’s most profound scientific minds, living and her country’s children. After losing her husband and daughter, Haregewoin dead. His challenge is to take subjects like geology, chemisty, paleontology, Teferra, an Ethiopian woman of modest means, opened her home to some of the astronomy, and particle physics and see if there isn’t some way to render them thousands of children in Addis Ababa who have been left as orphans.* comprehensible to people, like himself, made bored (or scared) stiff of science by school.* Thing about Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead (The) (David Shields, 2008) Mesmerized—at times unnerved—by his ninety-seven-year-old father’s nearly Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (The) (Anne Fadiman, 1997) When superhuman vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an investigation of three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in the human physical condition. The result is this exhilarating book: both a personal Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she meditation on mortality and an exploration of flesh-and-blood existence from crib nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover… Parents and doctors both to oblivion—an exploration that paradoxically prompts a renewed and profound wanted the best for Lia, but their ideas about the causes of her illness and its treat- appreciation of life.* ment could hardly have been more different…*

14 15 Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates (David Cordingly, 1996) For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England’s National Maritime Museum has combed original docu- ments and records to produce a most authoritative and definitive account of pira- cy’s “Golden Age.” As he explodes many accepted myths (i.e. “walking the plank” is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex and often bloodier.*

Voyage Long and Strange (A): Rediscovering the New World (Tony Horwitz, 2008) On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he’s mislaid more than a century of American history, from Columbus’s sail in 1492 to Jamestown’s founding in 16-oh-something. Did nothing happen in between? Determined to find out, he embarks on a journey of rediscovery, following in the footsteps of the many Europeans who preceded the Pilgrims to America.*

Worst Hard Time (The): The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Timothy Egan, 2005) The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since…. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones.*

Biographies/Memoirs:

Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America (Linda Furiya, 2006) While growing up in Versailles, an Indiana farm commu- nity, Linda Furiya tried to balance the outside world of Midwestern America with the Japanese traditions of her home life. As the only Asian family in a tiny town- DID YOU KNOW? ship, Furiya’s life revolved around Japanese food and the extraordinary lengths her parents went to in order to gather the ingredients needed to prepare it.* The Ong Library features a computer Charles and Emma: The Darwin’s Leap of Faith (Deborah Heiligman, 2009) Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, his revolutionary tract on evo- laboratory, a lution and the fundamental ideas involved, in 1859. Nearly 150 years later, the library instruction theory of evolution continues to create tension between the scientific and reli- room, study rooms, gious communities. This same debate raged within Darwin himself, and played reading areas, and an important part in his marriage….* the WRA Archives Donbas: A True Story of an Escape Across Russia (Jacques Sandulescu, 1968) Collection. A boy becomes a man of truly heroic dimensions in this stark story of escape across Russia in the dead of winter.*

16 17 Fight to Survive (The): A Young Girl, Diabetes, and the Discovery of Insulin believes, surely spared the then sixteen year-old African American from prison (Caroline Cox, 2009) In 1919, when 11-year-old Elizabeth Evan Hughes was and/or an early death. It transformed him in other ways, too.* first diagnosed with what we now know is Type 1 or juvenile diabetes, the med- ical community considered it a death sentence. In The Fight to Survive, Caroline Summer Reading for Eleventh/Twelfth Graders Cox weaves the heart-wrenching story of Hughes’ role in a medical discovery that stopped the disease in its tracks—only weeks before her imminent death.* Fiction:

First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood (Thrity All Souls (Christine Schutt, 2008) In 1997, at the distinguished Siddons School Umrigar, 2008) This is the powerful and poignant memoir of bestselling author on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the school year opens with distressing news: Thrity Umrigar, tracing the arc of her Bombay childhood and adolescence from her Astra Dell is suffering from a rare disease.* earliest memories to her eventual departure for the United States at age twenty-one.* American Tragedy (An) (Theodore Dreiser, 1925) In Clyde Griffiths, the impov- Hiding Place (The) (Corrie Ten Boom, 1971) Corrie Ten Boom was a woman erished, restless offspring of a family of street preachers, Dreiser created an admired the world over for her courage, her forgiveness, and her memorable unforgettable portrait of a man whose circumstances and dreams of self-better- faith. In World War II, she and her family risked their lives to help Jews escape ment conspire to pull him toward an act of unforgivable violence.* the Nazis, and their reward was a trip to Hitler’s concentration camps. But she survived and was released—as a result of a clerical error—and now shares the Angelmonster (Veronica Bennett, 2006) A novel based on the scandalous life of story of how faith triumphs over evil.* Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.

Long Way Gone (A): Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Ishmael Beah, 2007) Beah, Art of Racing in the Rain (The) (Garth Stein, 2008) Enzo knows he is different now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gen- by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming tle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts.* race car driver. Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing, isn’t simply about going fast.* Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women (Harriet Reisen, 2009) A fresh, modern take on this remarkable and prolific writer, who secretly Beatrice and Virgil (Yann Martel, 2010) When Henry receives a letter from an authored pulp fiction, harbored radical abolitionist views, and completed heroic elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further service as a Civil War nurse, Louisa May Alcott is in the end also the story of how into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly the all-time beloved American classic Little Women came to be.* involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey—named Beatrice and Virgil—and the epic journey they undertake together.* Story of My Life (The): An Afghan Girl on the other Side of the Sky (Farah Ahmedi, 2005) Farah Ahmedi is born into the world just as the war between the Breath, Eyes, Memory (Edwidge Danticat, 1994) At the age of twelve, Sophie mujahedeen and the Soviets reaches its peak in Afghanistan… When Farah steps Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to on a land mine on her way to school, her world becomes much smaller than the be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that dreams and hopes in her heart. She begins to learn—slowly—that ordinary peo- no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when ple, often strangers, have immense power to save lives and restore hope.* she returns to Haiti—to the women who first reared her.*

Wheelchair Warrior: Gangs, Disability, and Basketball (Melvin Juette and Ronald Burning Land (Bernard Cornwell, 2010) Continuing the rousing Saxon J. Berger, 2008) Melvin Juette has said that becoming paralyzed in a gang-related Chronicles, Uhtred, the Saxon-born, Danish-bred hero of The Last Kingdom shooting was “both the worst and best thing that happened” to him. The incident, he (2004), The Pale Horseman (2005), The Lords of the North (2006), and Sword

18 19 Song (2008), faces the savage Viking warlord, Harald Bloodhair. Finding Nouf (Zoë Ferraris, 2008) Zoë Ferraris’s electrifying debut of taut psy- chological suspense offers an unprecedented window into Saudi Arabia and the Canticle for Leibowitz (A) (Walter M. Miller, Jr., 1961) In a nightmarish ruined lives of men and women there. When sixteen-year-old Nouf goes missing, along world slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infant redis- with a truck and her favorite camel, her prominent family calls on Nayir al-Sharqi, coveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the a desert guide, to lead a search party. Ten days later, just as Nayir is about to give study and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac up in frustration, her body is discovered by anonymous desert travelers.* Leibowitz.* First Shot (Walter Sorrells, 2007) Two years ago, David Crandall’s mother was Defector (The) (Daniel Silva, 2009) Six months after the dramatic conclusion of murdered—and with little evidence, no witnesses, and no motive, the crime was Moscow Rules, Gabriel has returned to the tan hills of Umbria to resume his hon- left unsolved. Now a high school senior, David is unable to shake the sense that eymoon with his new wife, Chiara, and restore a seventeenth-century altarpiece for someone knows more than they’re letting on.* the Vatican. But his idyllic world is once again thrown into turmoil with shocking news from London. The defector and former Russian intelligence officer Grigori Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes, 1966) A mentally challenged man receives Bulganov, who saved Gabriel’s life in Moscow, has vanished without a trace.* an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache.*

Detective/Crime Mystery Writers: Try any book by the following mystery Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell, 1936) The classic love story of writers: Nevada Barr (featuring National Park Ranger Amanda Pigeon; novels Southern belle Scarlett O’Hara and Yankee profiteer Rhett Butler set against the are set in various U.S. National Parks); Lindsey Davis (featuring “informer” Civil War and told from the Southern point of view. Marcus Didius Falco in ancient Rome); Janet Evanovich (featuring bail bondswoman Stephanie Plum in an outrageously funny series set in the “Burg” in Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Neil New Jersey); Dick Francis (featuring a variety of sleuths and locations); Sue Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 2007) The world will end on Saturday. Next Grafton (featuring female sleuth Kinsey Millhone); Charlaine Harris (featuring Saturday. Just before dinner, according to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of a variety of sleuths and locations, including the Southern Vampire Mystery Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world’s only completely accurate book of prophecies series); Lisa Lutz (featuring P.I. Izzy Spellman who works in her family’s detec- written in 1655. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing and everything tive agency in this humorous series): Henning Mankell (featuring Swedish appears to be going according to Divine Plan.* police detective Kurt Wallender in detailed police procedurals); Robert B. Parker (featuring hard-boiled Boston detective Spenser); Will Thomas (featur- Grapes of Wrath (The) (John Steinbeck, 1939) This novel focuses on the Joad ing “enquiry agent” Cyrus Barker and his young assistant Thomas Llewelyn in family who migrate from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California during the Great Victorian England) or Steve Womack (WRA alumnus whose novels feature Depression. Nashville reporter turned private investigator, Harry James Denton). Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Club (The) (Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1605, 1615) Widely regarded as Barrows, 2008) January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name.* Spain.* Heretic’s Daughter (The) (Kathleen Kent, 2008) Martha Carrier was one of the Everything Matters (Ron Currie, 2009) In infancy, Junior Thibodeaux is encod- first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. ed with a prophesy: a comet will obliterate life on Earth in thirty-six years. Alone Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the in this knowledge, he comes of age in rural Maine grappling with the question: small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and Does anything I do matter?* daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials

20 21 and the superstitious tyranny that led to the torture and imprisonment of more Lady MacBeth (Susan Fraser King, 2008) Lady Gruadh, called Rue, is the last than 200 people accused of witchcraft.* female descendent of Scotland’s most royal line. Married to a powerful northern lord, she is widowed while still carrying his child and forced to marry her hus- History of Love (The) (Nicole Krauss, 2006) Leo Gursky is just about surviving, band’s murderer: a rising war-lord named Macbeth… Among the powerful war- tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. lords and their steel-games, only Macbeth can unite Scotland—and his wife’s But life wasn’t always like this: sixty years ago, in the Polish village where he royal blood is the key to his ultimate success.* was born, Leo fell in love and wrote a book. And though Leo doesn’t know it, that book survived, inspiring fabulous circumstances, even love.* Local News (The) (Miriam Gershow, 2009) When fifteen-year-old Lydia Pasternak’s popular older brother Danny disappears late one summer night, she Hush, Hush (Becca Fitzpatrick, 2009) For Nora Grey, romance was not part of the unwillingly becomes a celebrity in her community and an afterthought to her plan. She’s never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter bereaved parents. In Danny’s absence, Lydia blossoms from a bookish outcast to how much her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her. Not until Patch came along.* the center of attention, all while grappling with her grudging grief for a brother she never particularly liked.* If I Stay (Gayle Forman, 2009) In the blink of an eye everything changes. Seventeen year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall what Lost Books of the Odyssey (The) (Zachary Mason, 2009) [Mason’s novel] happened afterwards, watching her own damaged body being taken from the reimagines Homer’s classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey wreck. Little by little she struggles to put together the pieces--to figure out what home after the fall of Troy.* she has lost, what she has left, and the very difficult choice she must make.* Lovely Bones (The) (Alice Sebold, 2002) The story of Susie Salmon, who is Indignation (Philip Roth, 2008) Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, young man faces life’s unimagined chances and terrifying consequences.* even as she is watching life on earth continue without her — her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks, her grief- Into the Beautiful North (Luis Alberto Urrea, 2009) Nineteen-year-old Nayeli stricken family unraveling.* works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US to find work. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn’t the Magicians (The) (Len Grossman, 2009) Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but mis- only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village— erable. A senior in high school, he’s still secretly preoccupied with a series of fan- they’ve all gone north. While watching The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides to tasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. Imagine his sur- go north herself and recruit seven men—her own “Siete Magníficos”—to repop- prise when he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclu- ulate her hometown and protect it from the bandidos who plan on taking it over.* sive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rig- orous education in the craft of modern sorcery.* Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison, 1952) The experiences of a young black man who is expelled from a Southern college and ventures to New York City. My Abandonment (Peter Rock, 2009) A thirteen-year-old girl and her father live in Forest Park, an enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon. They inhabit an Ironweed (William Kennedy, 1983) Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize winner tells the elaborate cave shelter, wash in a nearby creek, store perishables at the water’s story of Francis Phelan, an vagrant who wanders the streets of Albany, New York, edge, use a makeshift septic system, tend a garden, [and] even keep a library of during the Great Depression. sorts…. But one small mistake allows a backcountry jogger to discover them, which derails their entire existence, ultimately provoking a deeper flight.* Jasmine (Bharati Mukherjee, 1989) When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at sev- enteen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village My Antonia (Willa Cather, 1918) The moving portrait of an orphan boy and where she was born. But the force of Jasmine’s desires propels her explosively immigrant girl who find hardship—and love—on the American prairie.* into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world.*

22 23 Night Birds (The) (Thomas Maltman, 2007) The intertwining story of three gen- erations of German immigrants to the Midwest…is seen through the eyes of young Asa Senger, named for an uncle killed by an Indian friend.*

Nine Coaches Waiting (Mary Stewart, 1959) A governess in a French château encounters an apparent plot against her young charge’s life in this unforgettably haunting and beautifully written suspense novel. When lovely Linda Martin first arrives at Château Valmy as an English governess to the nine-year-old Count Philippe de Valmy, the opulence and history surrounding her seems like a won- drous, ecstatic dream. But a palpable terror is crouching in the shadows.*

Nineteen Minutes (Jodi Picoult, 2007) Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens—until the day its complacency is shattered by an act of violence.*

On the Road (Jack Kerouac, 1957) Based on Kerouac’s cross country road travels with friend Neal Cassady, this novel celebrated the Beat generation and changed American culture forever.

People of the Book (The) (Geraldine Brooks, 2008) In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conser- vation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war.*

Petropolis (Anya Ulinich, 2007) Anya Ulinich delivers a funny and unforgettable story of a Russian mail-order bride trying to find her place in America.*

Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett, 1996) A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England….*

Red Tent (Anita Diamant, 1997) Biblical history is told from the woman’s point of view in this sweeping novel. Jacob’s daughter, Dinah, narrates the emotional- ly charged stories that are exchanged between the women in her father’s house- hold.

Story of Edgar Sawtelle (The) (David Wroblewski, 2008) Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin…. But with the unexpected return of Claude, Edgar’s paternal uncle, turmoil consumes the Sawtelles’ once peaceful home.*

24 25 Things They Carried (The) (Tim O’Brien, 1990) Neither a novel nor a short C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of story collection, it is an arc of fictional episodes, taking place in the childhoods Columbus in 1492.* of its characters, in the jungles of Vietnam and back home in America two decades later. American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic (Joseph J. Ellis, 2007) Ellis casts an incisive eye on the gradual pace of the Thousand Splendid Suns (A) (Khaled Hosseini, 2007) Propelled by the same American Revolution and the contributions of such luminaries as Washington, storytelling instinct that made The Kite Runner (2003) a beloved classic, A Jefferson, and Madison, and brilliantly analyzes the failures of the founders to Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of adequately solve the problems of slavery and the treatment of Native Afghan history and a deeply moving account of family and friendship.* Americans.*

Three Girls and Their Brother (Theresa Rebeck, 2008) They may be the grand- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Barbara Kingsolver, 2007) daughters of a famous literary critic, but what really starts it all is Daria, Polly, Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural and Amelia Heller’s stunning red hair. Out of the blue one day, The New Yorker life—vowing that, for one year, they’d only buy food raised in their own neigh- calls and says that they want to feature the girls in a glamorous spread shot by a borhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part jour- world-famous photographer, and before long these three beautiful nobodies from nalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that Brooklyn have been proclaimed the new “It” girls.* will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.*

Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray, 1846-47) This classic novel Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World (originally published in serial form) is a moral criticism of 19th century English Has Never Seen (Christopher McDougall, 2009) Full of incredible characters, manners, featuring the unprincipled Becky Sharp. amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspi- ration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why Whistling in the Dark (Lesley Kagen, 2007) Sally O’Malley made a promise to does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find her daddy before he died. She swore she’d look after her sister, Troo. Keep her a tribe of the world’s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the safe. But like her Granny always said—actions speak louder than words. Now, process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.* during the summer of 1959, the girls’ mother is hospitalized, their stepfather has abandoned them for a six pack, and their big sister, Nell, is too busy making out Canon (The): A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science (Natalie with her boyfriend to notice that Sally and Troo are on the loose. And so is a mur- Angier, 2007) In this exuberant book…Natalie Angier distills the scientific derer….* canon to the absolute essentials, delivering an entertaining and inspiring one-stop science education.* World According to Garp (The) (John Irving, 1978) This classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life and times of T. S. Garp, novelist and bastard Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (Tony son of Jenny Fields—a feminist leader ahead of her time.* Horwitz, 1997) Written with Horwitz’s signature blend of humor, history, and hard-nosed journalism, Confederates in the Attic brings alive old battlefields and .. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte, 1847) Heathcliff and Cathy believe they’re new ones—‘classrooms, courts, country bars’—where the past and the present destined to love each other forever, but when cruelty and snobbery separate them, collide, often in explosive ways. Poignant and picaresque, haunting and hilarious, their untamed emotions literally consume them.* it speaks to anyone who has ever felt drawn to the mythic South and to the dark romance of the Civil War.* Non-fiction: Elements (The): A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus (Charles C. Mann, (Theodore Gray, 2009) The elements are what we, and everything around us, are 2006) In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles made of. But how many elements has anyone actually seen in pure, uncombined

26 27 form? Based on five years of research and photography, the pictures in this book In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (Michael Pollan, 2008) Affirming make up the most complete, and visually arresting, representation available to the the joy of eating, Pollan suggests that if we would pay more for better, well- naked eye of every atom in the universe.* grown food, but buy less of it, we’ll benefit ourselves, our communities, and the environment at large. Taking a clear-eyed look at what science does and does not Factory Girls: From Village to City in Changing China (Leslie T. Chang, 2008) know about the links between diet and health, he proposes a new way to think A book of global significance that provides new insight into China, Factory Girls about the question of what to eat that is informed by ecology and tradition rather demonstrates how the mass movement from rural villages to cities is remaking than by the prevailing nutrient-by-nutrient approach.* individual lives and transforming Chinese society, much as immigration to America’s shores remade our own country a century ago.* Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression (David Wallis, [ed.], 2007) With censored cartoons, many unpublished, by the likes of Garry Genomics Age (The): How DNA Technology is Transforming the Way We Live Trudeau, Doug Marlette, Paul Conrad, Mike Luckovich, Matt Davies, and Ted and Who We Are (Gina Smith, 2004) In the history of mankind, few scientific Rall (all Pulitzer Prize winners or finalists), as well as unearthed editorial illus- phenomena have so profoundly changed the human experience as will the revo- trations by Norman Rockwell, Edward Sorel, Anita Kunz, Marshall Arisman, and lution in the use of DNA technology. Entertaining, informative, and written in Steve Brodner, you will find yourself surprised and often shocked by the images plain English, The Genomics Age explores how recent leaps in the understanding themselves—and outraged by the fact that a fearful editor kept you from seeing of DNA offer astounding scientific promises — and pose complex ethical issues.* them.*

Good Soldiers (The) (David Finkel, 2009) It was the last-chance moment of the Lost City of Z (The): A Tale of Death and Deadly Obsession in the Amazon war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for (David Grann, 2009) In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ven- Iraq. He called it the surge. What was the true story of the surge? And was it real- tured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never ly a success? Those are the questions [Finkel] grapples with in his remarkable returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party report from the front lines.* and the place he called “The Lost City of Z.” In this masterpiece of narrative non- fiction, journalist David Grann interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett’s Great Adventure (The): Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern America quest for “Z” and his own journey into the deadly jungle, as he unravels the great- (Albert Marrin, 2007) Theodore Roosevelt is one of America’s liveliest and most est exploration mystery of the twentieth century.* influential figures. He was a scholar, cowboy, war hero, explorer, and a brilliant politician. As president, Roosevelt’s far-reaching policies abroad and at home for- Nation of Secrets: The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life ever changed both our nation’s place in the world and the life of every modern (Ted Gup, 2007) Award winning journalist [and WRA alumnus] Ted Gup expos- American. Fascinating details and an intimate, fast-paced narrative explore the es how and why our most important institutions increasingly keep secrets from heroic life and complex world of an American icon.* the very people they are supposed to serve.*

High Crime: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed (Michael Kodas, 2008) In On Wings of Eagles (Ken Follett, 1983) The Eagles, a team of volunteers from 2004, journalist Michael Kodas joined local mountain climbers from home on an the executive ranks of a US corporation, hand-picked and trained by a retired expedition to Mount Everest. He anticipated an exhilarating and arduous adven- Green Beret officer, are sent to penetrate a heavily-guarded prison fortress in Iran ture among a group of like-minded idealists that he could report to his readers to free the Americans imprisoned there, against terrible odds of success and sur- back in Connecticut. But on the Himalayan mountain, he discovered thieves, vival.* prostitutes, con men, and blackmailers. There were people who would do any- thing for a quick buck, or a guarantee of reaching the top. And some of them were Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell, 2008) Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellec- on his own team.* tual journey through the world of “outliers”—the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achiev- ers different?

28 29 Panama Fever: The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Achievements of All She’s Got Next: A Story of Getting In, Staying Open, and Taking a Shot Time—The Building of the Panama Canal (Matthew Parker, 2008) A thrilling (Melissa King, 2009) When Melissa King, a transplanted southerner in search of tale of exploration, conquest, money, politics, and medicine…Panama Fever is an connection, finds herself on the lean, mean streets of Chicago, she turns to her epic historical adventure that shows how a small but fiercely contested strip of childhood passion for basketball.* land in a largely unknown Central American nation suddenly made the world a smaller place and launched the era of American global dominance.* Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue and Impossible Choices (Mosab Hassan Yousef and Ron Brackin, 2010) Since he Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (Mark was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly ter- Harris, 2008) In the mid-1960s, westerns, war movies, and blockbuster musicals rorist group Hamas. The oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding mem- like Mary Poppins swept the box office. The Hollywood studio system was aston- ber of Hamas and its most popular leader, young Mosab assisted his father for ishingly lucrative for the few who dominated the business. That is, until the tastes years in his political activities while being groomed to assume his legacy, poli- of American moviegoers radically— and unexpectedly—changed.* tics, status . . . and power. But everything changed when Mosab turned away from terror and violence….* Pluto Files (The): The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet (Neil deGrasse Tyson, 2009) Pluto is entrenched in our cultural and emotional view of Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Mary Roach, 2006) What happens when the cosmos, and Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Rose Center, is on a quest we die? Does the light just go out and that’s that—the million-year nap? Or will to discover why. He stood at the heart of the controversy over Pluto’s demotion, some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What and, consequently, plutophiles have freely shared their opinions with him, includ- will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top? In an attempt to find out, ing endless hate mail from third-graders.* Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die. Inhabitants (Robert Sullivan, 2004) Rats live in the world precisely where humans do; they survive on the effluvia of human society; they eat our garbage. Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its While dispensing gruesomely fascinating rat facts and strangely entertaining rat- Aftermath (Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman, 2009) For the first four stories…it turns out Sullivan gets to know not just the beast but its friends and months of 1942, American, Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought America’s first foes: the exterminators, the sanitation workers, the agitators and activists who major land battle of World War II: the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of have played their part in the centuries-old war between human city dweller and Bataan. It ended with the single largest defeat in American military history. This wild city rat.* was only the beginning. Until the Japanese surrendered in August 1945, the pris- oners of war suffered forty-one months of unparalleled cruelty and savagery.* Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West (Benazir Bhutto, 2008) The first woman to run an Islamic country, Bhutto returned to her native Pakistan in Terrible Glory (A): Custer and the Little Bighorn—The Last Great Battle of 2007 as a champion of moderation and progress and was assassinated. In this the American West (James Donovan, 2008) A Terrible Glory is the first book to book, she analyzes the history between the Middle East and the West and puts relate the entire story of this endlessly fascinating battle, and the first to call upon forth her agenda of tolerance that calls for an end to Islamic radicalism. all the significant research and findings of the past twenty-five years—which have changed significantly how this controversial event is perceived.* Remembering the Boys: A Collection of Letters, A Gathering of Memories (Lynna Piekutowski [ed.], 2000) A poignant, touching collection of letters Thirty Years War (The) (C.V. Wedgwood, 1938) Detailing the war between between alumni of the Western Reserve Academy serving in WWII and its Catholics and Protestants and the Bourbons and Hapsburgs, this is considered the headmaster, Joel Hayden. These letters reveal the loneliness, boredom, hardships authoritative source by the expert on 17th century European history. and dangers of military life on the frontlines and the active war effort of those left behind at the Academy. A wonderful look at a special time in WRA history.

30 31 Unlikely Disciple (The): A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University (Kevin Rose, 2009) Kevin Roose wasn’t used to rules like these. As a sophomore at Brown University, he spent his days drinking fair-trade coffee, singing in an a cappella group, and fitting right in with Brown’s free-spirited, ultra-liberal stu- dent body. But when Roose leaves his Ivy League confines to spend a semester at Liberty University, a conservative Baptist school in Lynchburg, Virginia, obe- dience is no longer optional.*

Why Marines Fight (James Brady, 2007) Ex-jarhead Brady establishes beyond doubt that the U.S. Marines can find and bring out the warrior in any man who has it in him, resulting in life-long bonds among Marines.

Wild Trees (The): A Story of Passion and Daring (Richard Preston, 2007) Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained—the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Preston’s account of this amazing world, by turns terrifying, moving, and fascinating, is an adventure story told in novelistic detail by a master of non-fiction narrative.*

Winning the Peace: The Marshall Plan and America’s Coming of Age as a Superpower (Nicolaus Mills, 2008) WRA alum Mills provides a detailed look at the Marshall Plan, the plan that rebuilt Europe after World War II, and how its implementation is a useful model for repairing the ills of today’s third world countries.

Wolf in the Parlor (The): The Eternal Connection between Humans and Dogs (Jon Franklin, 2009) Of all the things hidden in plain sight, dogs are one of the most enigmatic. They are everywhere but how much do we really know about DID YOU KNOW? where they came from and what the implications are of their place in our world? Jon Franklin set out to find out and ended up spending a decade studying the ori- The Ong Library gins and significance of the dog and its peculiar attachment to humans.* offers over 30 Women of Courage: Intimate Stories from Afghanistan (Katherine Kiviat and online databases Scott Heidler, 2007) Women of Courage shares an intimate look at the inspiring including TERC for women who are forging a new future in Afghanistan and playing a crucial role in SAT and AP the changing landscape of this turbulent nation. First-hand stories and experi- information and ences are shared in conversations with a wide array of women…* practice tests. World Without Us (The) (Alan Weisman, 2007) If human beings disappeared instantaneously from the Earth, what would happen? In his revelatory, bestselling account, Alan Weisman draws on every field of science to present an environ-

32 33 mental assessment like no other, the most affecting portrait yet of humankind’s John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth (Elizabeth Partridge, 2005) Award-win- place on this planet.* ning biographer Elizabeth Partridge dives into Lennon’s life from the night he was born in 1940 during a World War II air raid on Liverpool, deftly taking us Year of Living Biblically (The): One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible through his turbulent childhood and his rebellious rock’n’roll teens to his cele- as Literally as Possible (A.J. Jacobs, 2007) Raised in a secular family but brated life writing, recording, and performing music with the Beatles. She sheds increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs light on the years after the Beatles, with Yoko Ono, as he struggled to make sense decides to dive in headfirst and attempt to obey the Bible as literally as possible of his own artistic life….* for one full year. The resulting spiritual journey is at once funny and profound, reverent and irreverent, personal and universal and will make you see history’s Kids are All Right (The): A Memoir (Diana Welch, Liz Welch, Amanda Welch, most influential book with new eyes.* and Dan Welch, 2009) Well, 1983 certainly wasn’t boring for the Welch family. Somehow, between their handsome father’s mysterious death, their glamorous Zeitoun (Dave Eggers, 2009) When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, soap-opera-star mother’s cancer diagnosis, and a phalanx of lawyers intent on Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, chose to bankruptcy proceedings, the four Welch siblings managed to handle each new stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the days heartbreaking…. All that changed with the death of their mother.* after the storm, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation (Cokie Roberts, 2008) abruptly disappeared.* In a much-needed addition to the shelves of Founding Father literature, Roberts sheds new light on the generation of heroines, reformers, and visionaries who Zookeeper’s Wife (The): A War Story (Diane Ackerman, 2007) The dramatic helped shape our nation, giving these ladies of liberty the recognition they so story of Antonina Zabinski and her husband, Jan, director of the Warsaw Zoo and greatly deserve.* a member of the Polish resistance, and how they saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during the Nazi occupation. Also a detailed look at the war’s impact on Poe: A Life Cut Short (Peter Ackroyd, 2008) Peter Ackroyd explores Poe’s lit- Warsaw. erary accomplishments and legacy against the background of his erratic, dramat- ic, and sometimes sordid life… Ackroyd’s thoughtful, perceptive examinations of Biographies/Memoirs: some of Poe’s most famous works shed new light on these classics and on the troubled and brilliant genius who created them.* Child of the Jungle: The True Story of a Girl Caught Between Two Worlds (Sabine Kuegler, 2007) The child of German linguists and missionaries, Shakespeare: Illustrated and Updated Edition (Bill Bryson, 2009) In this elegant, [Kuegler] spent her youth living among the Fayu tribe in the most remote jungles updated, illustrated edition, the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths sur- of West Papua, Indonesia. It wasn’t until the age of 17 when her world was rounding the life of one of the world’s greatest poets are evoked through a series of upended that Sabine experienced true fear for the first time. She was sent off to a full-color paintings, drawings, portraits, documents and photographs.* boarding school in Switzerland and forced to confront the culture clash of mod- ern Western society—giving her plenty of reason to be afraid. This is her remark- Soloist (The): A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive able true story.* Power of Music (Steve Lopez, 2008) This is the true story of journalist Steve Lopez’s discovery of Nathaniel Ayers, a former classical bass student at Julliard, Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets (Sudhir playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles’ Skid Row. Deeply Venkatesh, 2008) Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how affected by the beauty of Ayers’s music, Lopez took it upon himself to change the Sudhir Venkatesh gained entrance into the lives of a group of drug-dealers and prodigy’s life—only to find that their relationship has had a profound change on went on to witness—and participate in—events that have rarely been described his own life.* in print.*

34 35 Tattoo Machine: Tall Tales, True Stories, and My Life in Ink (Jeff Johnson, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Marjane Satrapi, 2003) In powerful 2009) Discussing everything from his days as an apprentice to some of the great- black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran est inkers in the trade to the incredibly vivid nightly spectacular over which he from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the presides, Jeff Johnson has written a sometimes riotous, sometimes harrowing, triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq.* and always riveting memoir about what it means to be on the front lines of a glob- Her story continues in Persepolis: The Story of a Return. al art revolution.* Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (Guy Delisle, 2007) Famously referred Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman (Jon Krakauer, 2009) Like to as an ‘Axis-of-Evil’ country, North Korea remains one of the most secretive the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat and mysterious nations in the world today. When the fortress-like country recent- Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast. In May 2002, Tillman ly opened the door a crack to foreign investment, cartoonist Guy Delisle found walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States himself in its capital Pyongyang…. His astute and wry musings on life in the aus- Army.* tere and grim regime form the basis of this remarkable graphic novel.*

Graphic Novels/Collections Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation (Ray Bradbury and Tim Hamilton, 2009) In 1953, Ray Bradbury envisioned one of the world’s Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume (Jeff Smith, 2004) Three most unforgettable dystopian futures, and in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, the modern cartoon cousins get lost in a pre-technological valley, spending a year artist Tim Hamilton translates this frightening modern masterpiece into a gor- there making new friends and out-running dangerous enemies. geously imagined graphic novel.*

I Kill Giants (Joe Kelly and J.M. Ken Nimura, 2009) Barbara Thorson, a girl bat- Stitches: A Memoir (David Small, 2009) One day David Small awoke from a tling monsters both real and imagined, kicks butt, takes names, and faces her supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a greatest fear in this bittersweet, coming-of-age story…* virtual mute. A vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot, the fourteen-year-old boy had not been told that he had cancer and Maus: A Survivor’s Tale (Art Spiegelman, 1996) By addressing the horror of the was expected to die. In Stitches, Small…re-creates this terrifying event in a life Holocaust through cartoons, the author captures the everyday reality of fear and story that might have been imagined by Kafka. is able to explore the guilt, relief and extraordinary sensation of survival - and how the children of survivors are in their own way affected by the trials of their Swallow Me Whole (Nate Powell, 2010) As the story unfolds, two step-siblings parents. The story continues in Maus II. hold together amidst schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, family break- down, animal telepathy, misguided love, and the tiniest hope that everything will Models, Inc. (Paul Tobin and Vincenc Villagrassa, 2010) Fashion Week is always someday make sense.* a hectic time for models, and this year is no exception. But when a brilliant young set designer is found murdered with three bullet holes in his back…the models are Collections: Short Stories, Essays and more… forced to play detective in order to save one of their own!* Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories (Steven Millhauser, 2008) Thirteen dark- Nevermore: A Graphic Adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Stories (Edgar ly comic stories, Dangerous Laughter is a mesmerizing journey that stretches the Allan Poe, 1809-1849; Metro Media adaptation, 2008) This haunting graphic boundaries of the ordinary world.* anthology features the most famous stories of terror and suspense by Edgar Allan Poe, adapted by nine teams of celebrated writers and illustrators. Each story is Face Relations: 11 Stories about Seeing Beyond Color (Marilyn Singer, 2004) translated in a different visual style, but they all succeed in capturing Poe’s Face Relations offers eleven original works…that explore the possibilities of macabre blend of doomed romanticism, gothic melodrama, and ghoulish destiny.* embracing diversity in a world still rife with bigotry and racism.*

36 37 Firebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction (Sharyn November [ed.], 2009) First Firebirds. Then Firebirds Rising. Now there is Firebirds Soaring, the third anthology of original stories by some of today’s finest writers of fantasy and science fiction.

How they Met, and Other Stories (David Leviathan, 2008) What is love? With this original story collection David Levithan proves that love is a many splen- dored thing, a varied, complicated, addictive, wonderful thing.*

In the Shadow of the Master: Classic Tales by Edgar Allan Poe and Essays by Jeffrey Deaver… (Michael Connelly [ed.], 2008) Few have crafted stories as haunting as those by Edgar Allan Poe. Collected here to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Poe’s birth are sixteen of his best tales accompanied by twenty essays from beloved authors…on how Poe has changed their life and work.*

Owning It: Stories about Teens with Disabilities (Don Gallo [ed.], 2008) Whether their disabilities are physical or psychological, the subjects of these powerful short stories meet every day with wit, intelligence, and courage.*

Rotten English: A Literary Anthology (Dohra Ahmad [ed.], 2007) Rotten English spans the globe to offer an overview of the best non-standard English writing of the past two centuries, with a focus on the most recent decades.*

Such a Pretty Face: Short Stories about Beauty (Ann Angel [ed.], 2007) A stellar line-up of young adult writers examines our relationship with beauty in stories that haunt, amuse, stir, and fascinate.*

Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (Kevin Wilson, 2009) Southern gothic at its best, laced with humor and pathos, these wonderfully inventive stories explore the relationship between loss and death and the many ways we try to cope with both.*

When Man is the Prey: True Stories of Animals Attacking Humans (Michael Tougias [ed.], 2007) Since we humans have evolved into the dominant species on this planet, we sometimes fail to recognize—and respect—the ever-present threat posed by the animals we love or fear, hunt or fight to protect... The stories in When Man is the Prey offer a fascinating, frightening, and enlightening look at the natural world and its many creatures.*

38 39 Something for Everyone: Informational Titles for Teenagers Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way to Be Smart (Ian Ayres, 2008) Today more than ever, number crunching affects your life in Big Necessity (The): The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It ways you might not even imagine. Intuition and experience are no longer enough Matters (Rose George, 2008) Produced behind closed doors, disposed of dis- to make the grade. In order to succeed—even survive—in our data-based world, creetly, and hidden by euphemism, bodily waste is something common to all and you need to become statistically literate.* as natural as breathing, yet we prefer not to talk about it. But we should… For it’s not only in developing countries that human waste is a major public health Taste of Sweet (The): Our Complicated Love Affair with Our Favorite Treats threat: population growth is taxing even the most advanced sewage systems, and (Joanne Chen, 2008) The taste of sweet has long been at the center of both con- the disease spread by waste kills more people worldwide every year than any troversy and celebration… In The Taste of Sweet, unabashed dessert lover Joanne other single cause of death.* Chen takes us on an unexpected adventure into the nature of a taste you thought you knew and reveals a world you never imagined.* Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges (Loren Pope, 2006) Pope looks at schools that rival Ivy League Teen Manners: From Malls to Meals to Messaging and Beyond (Cindy Post universities in offering a first-class education and creating superior graduates. Senning, 2007) Let’s face it, how we behave is a choice, and as you move into adult life, the choices get more complicated. Teen Manners: From Malls to Meals “Cool Stuff” They Should Teach in School: Cruise into the Real World with to Messaging and Beyond is a useful guide that answers questions that come up Styyyle (Kent D. Healy, 2004) There are certain fundamentals necessary to win in real life from the most trusted name in etiquette: Emily Post.* the game of life but they are not being taught in school. This book has given thousands of readers the practical life-skills necessary to thrive in the real Your America: Democracy’s Local Heroes (John Siceloff and Jason Maloney, world.* 2008) Approaching the topic of civic activism on both a national and local level, Your America reveals essential lessons from twelve stories of ordinary citizens Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Peter Menzel, 2005) The age-old prac- accomplishing extraordinary changes in their communities.* tice of sitting down to a family meal is undergoing unprecedented change as ris- ing world affluence and trade, along with the spread of global food conglomer- Poetry, Anyone? ates, transform eating habits worldwide. Featuring photo-essays on international street food, meat markets, fast food, and cookery, this captivating chronicle Ballistics: Poems (Billy Collins, 2008) Now, in this stunning new collection, offers a riveting look at what the world really eats.* Collins touches on a greater array of subjects–love, death, solitude, youth, and aging–delving deeper than ever before.* Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science—From the Babylonians to the Maya (Dick Teresi, 2003) Boldly challenging conventional Crush: Love Poems (Kwame Alexander, 2007) Crush is a poetry memoir of wisdom, acclaimed science writer and Omni magazine cofounder Dick Teresi love, for people young and cool, and older folks too, who want to remember and traces the origins of contemporary science back to their ancient roots in an eye- rejoice. From friendship to flirting, from the first date to the break-up, this col- opening account and landmark work.* lection of passion poems intertwines snapshots of innocent young adult angst with a fiery language that defines the first love which none of us ever outgrows.* Middle of Everywhere (The): Helping Refugees Enter the American Community (Mary Pipher, 2003) In cities all over the country, refugees arrive Good Poems (Garrison Keillor [ed.], 2003) Good Poems includes verse about daily. Lost Boys from Sudan, survivors from Kosovo, families fleeing lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendance. It features the Afghanistan and Vietnam: they come with nothing but the desire to experience work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert the American dream.* Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds. It’s a book of poems for anybody who loves poetry whether they know it or not.*

40 41 Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets (Brett Fletcher Looking for A Good Book? Some Websites to Help You Lauer [ed.], 2004) A fresh and much-needed collection of love poems written by 100 outstanding American poets born after 1960.* Below are some websites that offer recommended books in a number of cate- gories. While by no means all-inclusive, we hope to give you some useful sug- Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, gestions of where to start looking… Asia, and Beyond (Tina Chang [ed.], 2008) Language for a New Century cele- brates the artistic and cultural forces flourishing today in the East, bringing AllReaders.com together an unprecedented selection of works by South Asian, East Asian, (http://allreaders.com) Look for books by plot, theme, character or setting. Middle Eastern, and Central Asian poets as well as poets living in the Diaspora.* Book reviews are also available.

Neck of the World (F. Daniel Rzicznek, 2007) Winner of the Swenson Poetry American Library Association (ALA) - Young Adult Library Services Award, this is the latest collection of poems by the award winning poet. Association (YALSA) (http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/yalsa.htm) A division of the American Library Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems from WritersCorp (WritersCorp, 2003) Paint Association (ALA), YALSA offers a selection of booklists for people of all Me Like I Am is a collection of poems by teens who have taken part in writing ages. From the menu on the left side of the page, simply click on Booklists & programs run by a national nonprofit organization called WritersCorps. To read Book Awards for links to several excellent lists for teenagers including Best the words of these young people is to hear the diverse voices of teenagers every- Books for Young Adults and Outstanding Books for the College Bound. where.* Bookwire: Book Awards Poems from Homeroom: A Writer’s Place to Start (Kathi Applet, 2002) In addi- (http://www.bookwire.com) This website offers links to a wide variety of book tion to offering a variety of poems about individual longing, Applet offers stu- awards by genre. Bestsellers, new releases and links to book reviews are also dents a guide for writing poetry for beginning poets. included.

Poets of World War II (American Poets Project, 2003) Acclaimed poet and Edgar Awards World War II veteran Harvey Shapiro’s pathbreaking gathering of work by more (http://www.mysterywriters.org) Click on Awards & Programs to find the annu- than sixty poets of the war years includes Randall Jarrell, Anthony Hecht, George al Edgar Allan Poe Awards given by the Mystery Writers of America for writ- Oppen, Richard Eberhart, William Bronk, and Woody Guthrie.* ing achievement in the mystery field.

Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United Horror Writers Association States (Lori Carlson [ed.], 2005) The poets collected here illuminate the diffi- (http://www.horror.org) Click on Bram Stoker Awards to locate those titles hon- culty of straddling cultures, languages, and identities. They celebrate food, fam- ored by the Horror Writers Association for achievement in horror writing. ily, love, and triumph. In English, Spanish, and poetic jumbles of both, they tell us who they are, where they are, and what their hopes are for the future.* Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize (http://www.kiriyamaprize.org) Under Winners & Finalists, look for the annual *These annotations have been reproduced from the product descriptions on awards given to “books that will contribute to greater understanding among Amazon.com. This listing is for educational purposes only. peoples and nations of the Pacific Rim.”

National Book Awards (http://www.nationalbook.org/index.html) Click on Award/Winners and Finalists to find the awards presented by the National Book Foundation for literary achievement in four categories: fiction, non-fiction, poetry & young people’s literature.

42 43 National Book Critics Circle: Awards Title Index (http://www.bookcritics.org/?go=awards) Prestigious awards given for the 1491: New Revelations of the Ball is Round (The): A Global year’s best books in six categories: fiction, general nonfiction, criticism, poetry, Americas before Columbus, 26 History of Soccer, 10 biography and autobiography. Abhorsen Trilogy,1 Ballistics: Poems, 41 Abhorsen,1 Beatrice and Virgil, 19 Overbooked: A Resource for Readers Absolutely True Diary of a Bento Box in the Heartland: My (http://www.overbooked.org/) Specializes in providing timely information Part-Time Indian (The), 1 Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread about fiction (all genres) and readable nonfiction. This website is a nonprofit Afghan (The), 1 America, 17 volunteer project undertaken by librarian Ann Chambers Theis. Agincourt, 1 Best Intentions: The Education and All Creatures Great and Small, 9 Killing of Edmund Perry, 11 Pulitzer Prizes All Souls, 19 Best Trivia Book of Presidents (http://www.pulitzer.org) Select any year to view the annual awards for distin- Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who (The)!!!, 11 guished writing by The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. Dared to Dream, 10 Big Necessity (The): The American Creation: Triumphs and Unmentionable World of Human Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Inc. Tragedies at the Founding of the Waste and Why It Matters, 40 (http://www.sfwa.org) Click on Nebula Awards for the Nebula Awards for Republic, 27 Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic excellence in science fiction and fantasy writing. American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, in One Volume, 36 Buddhist Monks, and the Legend Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Websites for Book Lovers of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the Superathletes, and the Greatest (http://www.webrary.org/rs/rslinks.html) An annotated directory of online New China, 10 Race the World Has Never bestseller lists, booklists, book awards sites, book discussion resources, genre American Tragedy (An), 19 Seen, 27 fiction sites, online literary magazines and more. Includes links to other Angelmonster, 19 Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (The): libraries’ reader’s advisory pages. From the Morton Grove (Ill.) Public Animal Dialogues (The): Creating Currents of Electricity Library’s Webrary. Uncommon Encounters in the and Hope, 11 Wild, 10 Bread Givers, 2 Western Writers of America Animal Farm, 1 Breath, Eyes, Memory, 19 (http://www.westernwriters.org) Click on Awards to access titles that have Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year Breathless, 2 received the Spur Awards for distinguished writing about the American West of Food Life, 27 Bride’s Farewell (The), 2 established by the Western Writers of America. Annotated Mona Lisa (The): A Brisingr, 2 Crash Course in Art History from Burning Land, 19 Prehistoric to Post-Modern, 10 Call of the Wild, 2 Art of Racing in the Rain (The), 19 Canon (The): A Whirligig Tour of Astonishing Life of Octavian the Beautiful Basics of Nothing (The): Traitor to the Science, 27 Nation, v.2: The Kingdom on the Canticle for Leibowitz (A), 20 Waves, 1 Catching Fire, 2 Babylon’s Ark: The Incredible Chains, 3 Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Charles and Emma: The Darwin’s Zoo, 10 Leap of Faith, 17

44 45 Child of the Jungle: The True Story Fantasy Freaks & Gaming Geeks: Grayson, 12 Indignation, 22 of a Girl Caught Between Two An Epic Quest for Reality Among Great Adventure (The): Theodore Into the Beautiful North, 22 Worlds, 34 Role Players, Online Gamers, and Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern Invisible Man, 22 Colleges That Change Lives: 40 other Dwellers of Imaginary America, 28 Ironweed, 22 Schools That Will Change the Realms, 11 Great Escape (The), 12 Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems Way You Think about Colleges, 40 Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts Grendel, 5 by Younger American Poets, 42 Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches and Minds about Animals and Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Jasmine, 22 from the Unfinished Civil War, 27 Food, 11 Club (The), 21 John Lennon: All I Want is the Conspirata: A Novel of Ancient Fight to Survive (The): A Young Gulliver’s Travels, 5 Truth, 35 Rome, 3 Girl, Diabetes, and the Discovery Help (The), 5 Jumbo: This Being the True Story of “Cool Stuff” They Should Teach in of Insulin, 18 Heretic’s Daughter (The), 21 the Greatest Elephant in the School: Cruise into the Real Finding Nouf, 21 Hidden Evidence: Forty True World, 13 World with Styyyle…, 40 Fire, 4 Crimes and How Forensic Kids are All Right (The): A Crush: Love Poems, 41 Firebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Science Helped Solve Them, 12 Memoir, 35 Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Original Speculative Fiction, 39 Hidden Secrets: The Complete Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the Stories, 37 First Darling of the Morning: History of Espionage and the War on Free Expression, 29 Daniel Half Human: And the Good Selected Memories of an Indian Technology Used to Support It, 12 Kim, 5 Nazi, 3 Childhood, 18 Hiding Place (The), 18 Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Daniel X: Watch the Skies, 3 First Shot, 21 High Crime: The Fate of Everest in Shaped Our Nation, 35 Dead and the Gone (The), 3 Flowers for Algernon, 21 an Age of Greed, 28 Lady MacBeth, 23 Deep (The): The Extraordinary Fold (The), 4 History of Love (The), 22 Language for a New Century: Creatures of the Abyss, 11 Fortunes of Indigo Skye (The), 4 Hot Zone (The): A Terrifying True Contemporary Poetry from the Defector (The), 20 Frankenstein, 5 Story, 12 Middle East, Asia, and Beyond, 42 Devil’s Teeth (The): A True Story of Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue How Everything Works: Making Last Breath: Cautionary Tales from Obsession and Survival Among Sociologist Takes to the Streets, 34 Physics Out of the Ordinary, 13 the Limits of Human America’s Great White Sharks, 11 Genghis: Bones of the Hills, 5 How They Met, and Other Endurance, 13 Dog On It, 4 Genomics Age (The): How DNA Stories, 39 Last Lecture (The), 13 Don Quixote, 20 Technology is Transforming the Hungry Planet: What the World Lirael, 1 Donbas: A True Story of an Escape Way We Live and Who We Are, 28 Eats, 39 Little Brother, 6 Across Russia, 17 Going Bovine, 5 Hunt for Justice (The): The True Lizard King (The): The True Crimes Elements (The): A Visual Gone with the Wind, 21 Story of a Woman Undercover and Passions of the World’s Exploration of Every Known Good Omens: The Nice and Wildlife Agent, 13 Greatest Reptile Smugglers, 13 Atom in the Universe, 27 Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Hush, Hush, 22 Local News (The), 23 Evermore, 4 Nutter, Witch, 21 I Kill Giants, 36 Long Way Gone (A): Memoirs of a Everything Matters, 20 Good Poems, 41 If I Stay, 22 Boy Soldier, 18 Face Relations: 11 Stories about Good Soldiers (The), 28 In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Lost Books of the Odyssey (The), 23 Seeing Beyond Color, 37 Good Thief (The), 5 Manifesto, 29 Lost City of Z (The): A Tale of Death Factory Girls: From Village to City Grapes of Wrath (The), 21 In the Shadow of the Master: and Deadly Obsession in the in Changing China, 28 Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs: Soft Classic Tales by Edgar Allan Poe Amazon, 29 Tissues and Hard Science, 12 and Essays by Jeffrey Deaver…, 39

46 47 Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots Owning It: Stories about Teens Shakespeare: Illustrated and Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding of Modern Science—From the with Disabilities, 39 Updated Edition, 35 Time: My Life Doing Dumb Stuff Babylonians to the Maya, 40 Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems, 42 Sharp Teeth, 6 with Animals, 15 Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Panama Fever: The Epic Story of She’s Got Next: A Story of Getting Tale of Two Cities (A), 8 Behind Little Women, 18 One of the Greatest Achievements In, Staying Open, and Taking a Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Lovely Bones (The), 23 of All Time—The Building of the Shot, 31 Passion, and Betrayal, 8 Madapple, 6 Panama Canal, 30 Short History of Nearly Everything Taste of Sweet (The): Our Magicians (The), 23 People of the Book (The), 24 (A), 14 Complicated Love Affair with Man in the Iron Mask (The), 6 Persepolis: The Story of a Small Steps, 8 Our Favorite Treats, 41 Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Childhood, 37 Soloist (The): A Lost Dream, an Tattoo Machine: Tall Tales, True Lincoln’s Killer, 14 Petropolis, 24 Unlikely Friendship, and the Stories, and My Life in Ink, 36 Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, 36 Pictures at a Revolution: Five Redemptive Power of Music, 36 Tears in the Darkness: The Story of Middle of Everywhere (The): Movies and the Birth of the New Sometimes We’re Always Real the Bataan Death March and Its Helping Refugees Enter the Hollywood, 30 Same-Same, 8 Aftermath, 31 American Community, 40 Pillars of the Earth, 24 Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account Teen Manners: From Malls to Models, Inc., 36 Pluto Files (The): The Rise and Fall of Terror, Betrayal, Political Meals to Messaging and My Abandonment, 23 of America’s Favorite Planet, 30 Intrigue and Impossible Beyond, 41 My Antonia, 23 Poe: A Life Cut Short, 35 Choices, 31 Ten Cents a Dance, 9 Nation, 6 Poems from Homeroom: A Writer’s Spirit Catches You and You Fall Ten-Cent Plague (The): The Great Nation of Secrets: The Threat to Place to Start, 42 Down (The), 14 Comic-Book Scare and How It Democracy and the American Poets of World War II, 42 Spook: Science Tackles the Changed America, 15 Way of Life, 29 Pyongyang: A Journey in North Afterlife, 31 Terrible Glory (A): Custer and the Neck of the World, 42 Korea, 37 State by State: A Panoramic Portrait Little Bighorn—The Last Great Nevermore: A Graphic Adaptation of Rats: Observations on the History of America, 15 Battle of the American West, 31 Edgar Allan Poe’s Short and Habitat of the City’s Most Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human There is No Me Without You: One Stories, 36 Unwanted Inhabitants, 30 Cadavers, 15 Woman’s Odyssey to Rescue Night Birds (The), 24 Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451: The Stitches: A Memoir, 37 Africa’s Children, 15 Nine Coaches Waiting, 24 Authorized Adaptation, 37 Story of Edgar Sawtelle (The), 24 Thing about Life Is That One Day Nineteen Minutes, 24 Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy Story of My Life (The): An Afghan You’ll Be Dead (The), 15 Of Mice and Men, 6 and the West, 30 Girl on the Other Side of the Things They Carried (The), 26 On the Road, 24 Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Sky, 18 Thirty Years War (The), 31 On Wings of Eagles, 29 Being Young and Latino in the Stranger in a Strange Land, 8 Thousand Splendid Suns (A), 26 One Kingdom: Our Lives with United States, 42 Strangers in the Land of Egypt, 8 Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Animals, 14 Red Tent, 24 Such a Pretty Face: Short Stories Story, 9 Out of Orbit: The Incredible True Remembering the Boys: A Collection about Beauty, 39 Three Girls and Their Brother, 26 Story of Three Astronauts Who of Letters, A Gathering of Super Crunchers: Why Thinking- Total Oblivion, More or Less, 9 Were Hundreds of Miles Above Memories, 30 By-Numbers is the New Way to Be Tunneling to the Center of the Earth When They Lost Their Robinson Crusoe, 6 Smart, 41 Earth, 39 Ride Home, 14 Rotten English: A Literary Swallow Me Whole, 37 Under the Black Flag: The Outliers, 29 Anthology, 39 Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie Romance and the Reality of Life Over and Under, 6 Sabriel, 1 (The), 8 among the Pirates, 17

48 49 Under the Dome, 9 Author Index Unlikely Disciple (The): A Sinner’s Ackerman, Diane, 34 Bryson, Bill, 14, 35 Eggers, Dave, 34 Semester at America’s Holiest Ackroyd, Peter, 35 Caletti, Deb, 4 Ellis, Joseph J., 27 University, 33 Ahmad, Dohra, 39 Carlson, Lori, 42 Ellison, Ralph, 22 Vanity Fair, 26 Ahmedi, Farah, 18 Casey, Susan, 11 Evanovich, Janet, 20 Voyage Long and Strange (A): Alexander, Kwame, 41 Cashore, Kristin, 4 Fadiman, Anne, 14 Rediscovering the New World, 17 Alexie, Sherman, 1 Cather, Willa, 23 Ferraris, Zoë, 21 Wheelchair Warrior: Gangs, American Poets Project, Cervantes Saavedra, Finkel, David, 28 Disability, and Basketball, 18 42 Miguel de, 20 Fitzpatrick, Becca, 22 When Man is the Prey: True Stories Anderson, Laurie Halse, Chambers, Paul, 13 Fletcher, Christine, 9 of Animals Attacking Humans, 39 3 Chang, Leslie T., 28 Flinn, Jane, 11 Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey Anderson, M. T., 1 Chang, Tina, 42 Follett, Ken, 24, 29 of Pat Tillman, 36 Andrews, Donna, 3 Chen, Joanne, 41 Forman, Gayle, 22 Whistling in the Dark, 26 Angel, Anne, 39 Childs, Craig, 10 Forsyth, Frederick, 1 White Darkness (The), 9 Angier, Natalie, 27 Chotjewitz, David, 3 Francis, Dick, 20 Why Marines Fight, 33 Anson, Robert Sam, 11 Christy, Brian, 13 Franklin, Jon 33 Wild Trees (The): A Story of Passion Anthony, Lawrence, 10 Collins, Billy, 41 Furiya, Linda, 17 and Daring, 33 Applet, Kathi, 42 Collins, Suzanne, 2 Gallo, Donald, 39 Winning the Peace: The Marshall Atherton, Nancy, 3 Connelly, Michael, 39 Gaiman, Neil, 21 Plan and America’s Coming of Ayres, Ian, 41 Conniff, Richard, 15 Gardner, John, 5 Age as a Superpower, 33 Barlow, Toby, 6 Cordingly, David, 17 George, Rose, 40 Wolf in the Parlor (The): The Barr, Nevada, 20 Cornwell, Bernard, 1, Gershow, Miriam, 23 Eternal Connection between Barron, Stephanie, 3 19 Gilsford, Ethan, 11 Humans and Dogs, 33 Barrows, Annie, 21 Cox, Caroline, 18 Gladwell, Malcolm, 29 Women of Courage: Intimate Stories Baur, Gene, 11 Cox, Lynne, 12 Goldblatt, David, 10 from Afghanistan, 33 Beah, Ishmael, 18 Currie, Ron, 20 Grafton, Sue, 20 World According to Garp (The), 26 Bennett, Veronica, 19 Danticat, Edwidge, 19 Grann, David, 29 World Without Us (The), 33 Berger, Ronald J., 18 Davidson, Diane Mott, Gray, Theodore, 27 Worst Hard Time (The): The Untold Bhutto, Benazir, 30 3 Greene, Melissa Fay, 15 Story of Those Who Survived the Bloomfield, Louis A., Davis, Lindsey, 20 Grossman, Len, 23 Great American Dust Bowl, 17 13 Defoe, Daniel, 6 Gup, Ted, 29 Wuthering Heights, 26 Box, C. J., 3 Deniro, Alan, 9 Hajdu, David, 15 Year of Living Biblically (The): One Brackin, Ron, 31 Delisle, Guy, 37 Hamilton, Tim, 37 Man’s Humble Quest to Follow Bradbury, Ray, 37 Diamant, Anita, 24 Harris, Charlaine, 20 the Bible as Literally as Bradley, Alan, 8 Dickens, Charles, 8 Harris, Mark, 30 Possible, 34 Brady, James, 33 Doctorow, Cory, 6 Harris, Robert, 3 Your America: Democracy’s Local Bray, Libba, 5 Donovan, James, 31 Healy, Kent D., 40 Heroes, 41 Brickhill, Paul, 12 Dreiser, Theodore, 19 Heidler, Scott, 33 Zeitoun, 34 Brontë, Emily, 26 Dumas, Alexandre, 6 Heiligman, Deborah, 17 Zookeeper’s Wife (The): A War Brooks, Geraldine, 24 Egan, Timothy, 17 Heinlein, Robert, 8 Story, 34

50 51 Herriot, James, 9 Marrin, Albert, 28 Peters, Ellis, 4 Smith, Jeff, 36 Wilson, Kevin, 39 Horwitz, Tony, 17, 27 Marston, Edward, 4 Pfeffer, Susan Beth, 3 Sorrells, Walter, 21 Womack, Steve, 20 Hosseini, Khaled, 26 Martel, Yann, 19 Picoult, Jodi, 24 Spence, Graham, 10 WritersCorp, 42 Iggulden, Conn, 5 Mason, Zachary, 23 Piekutowski, Lynna, 30 Spiegelman, Art, 36 Wroblewski, David, 24 Irving, John, 26 McCall Smith, Pipher, Mary, 40 Stark, Peter, 13 Yezierska, Anzia, 2 Jacobs, A. J., 34 Alexander, 4 Poe, Edgar Allan, 36 Stein, Garth, 19 Yousef, Mosab Hassan, Johnson, Jeff, 36 McCaughrean, Pollan, Michael, 29 Steinbeck, John, 6, 21 31 Jones, Chris, 14 Geraldine, 9 Polly, Matthew, 10 Stewart, Mary, 24 Juette, Melvin, 18 McDougall, Pope, Loren, 40 Stockett, Katherine, 5 Kagen, Lesley, 26 Christopher, 27 Powell, Nate, 37 Stone, Tanya Lee, 10 Kamkwamba, William, Mealer, Bryan, 11 Pratchett, Terry, 6, 21 Strickland, Carol, 10 11 Meldrum, Christina, 6 Preston, Richard, 12, 33 Sullivan, Robert, 30 Keillor, Garrison, 41 Menzel, Peter, 40 Quinn, Spencer, 4 Swann, Leonie, 9 Kelly, Joe, 36 Metro Media, 36 Rebeck, Theresa, 26 Swanson, James L., 14 Kennedy, William, 22 Miller, Jr., Walter M., Reisen, Harriet, 18 Swift, Jonathan, 5 Kent, Kathleen, 21 20 Roach, Mary, 15, 31 Ten Boom, Corrie, 18 Kerouac, Jack, 24 Millhauser, Steven, 37 Roberts, Cokie, 35 Teresi, Dick, 40 Keyes, Daniel, 21 Mills, Nicolaus, 33 Roberts, Les, 4 Thackeray, William King, Laurie R., 3 Mitchell, Margaret, 21 Rock, Peter, 23 Makepeace, 26 King, Melissa, 31 Mukherjee, Bharati, 22 Roesch, Mattox, 8 Thomas, Will, 20 King, Susan Fraser, 23 Na, An, 4 Rose, Kevin, 33 Tinti, Hannah, 5 King, Steven, 9 Nimura, J. M. Ken, 36 Rosoff, Meg, 2 Tobin, Paul, 36 Kingsolver, Barbara, 27 Nix, Garth, 1 Roth, Philip, 22 Tougias, Michael, 39 Kipling, Rudyard, 5 Noel, Alyson, 4 Ruse, Ned, 3 Tucker, Todd, 6 Kiviat, Katherine, 33 Norman, Elizabeth M., Rzicznek, F. Daniel, 42 Tyson, Neil deGrasse, Kodas, Michael, 28 31 Sachar, Louis, 8 30 Krakauer, Jon, 36 Norman, Michael, 31 Sandulescu, Jacques, 17 Ulinich, Anya, 24 Krauss, Nicole, 22 Nouvian, Claire, 11 Satrapi, Marjane, 37 Umrigar, Thrity, 18 Kuegler, Sabine, 34 November, Sharyn, 39 Schroeder, Lucinda Urrea, Luis Alberto, 22 Lauer, Brett Fletcher, Noyes, Deborah, 14 Delaney, 13 Venkatesh, Sudhir, 34 42 O’Brien, Tim, 26 Schutt, Christine, 19 Villagrassa, Vincenc, 36 Leviathan, David, 39 Orwell, George, 1 Sebold, Alice, 23 Wallis, David, 29 London, Jack, 2 Owen, David, 12 Senning, Cindy Post, 41 Warman, Jessica, 2 Lopez, Steve, 35 Paolini, Christopher, 2 Shaffer, Mary Ann, 21 Wedgwood, C. V., 31 Lutz, Lisa, 20 Parker, Matthew, 30 Shelley, Mary, 5 Weiland, Matt, 15 Maloney, Jason, 41 Parker, Robert B., 20 Shields, David, 15 Weisman, Alan, 33 Maltman, Thomas, 24 Partridge, Elizabeth, 35 Siceloff, John, 41 Welch, Amanda, 35 Mankell, Henning, 20 Patterson, James, 3 Silva, Daniel, 20 Welch, Dan, 35 Mann, Charles C., 26 Pausch, Randy, 13 Singer, Marilyn, 37 Welch, Diana, 35 Manning, Phillip, 12 Peet, Mal, 8 Small, David, 37 Welch, Liz, 35 March, Stephen, 8 Peters, Elizabeth, 4 Smith, Gina, 28 Wilsey, Sean, 15

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