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(Titles are shelved alphabetically by the author’s last name in the YA section unless otherwise indicated.)

Ahern, Cecelia. P.S. I Love You. (Adult Fiction Ahern) "The List" started as a joke between high school sweethearts Holly and Gerry. If anything were to happen to Gerry, he'd leave Holly a list of things she must do in order to make it through the day. When the unimaginable happens, Holly finds that Gerry took “The List” very seriously.

Anderson, Laurie Halse. Speak. (Young Adult Fiction Anderson) A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.

Asimov, Isaac. I, Robot. (Adult Fiction Asimov) Republished to coincide with the movie adaptation's release, a collection of tales chronicles the near-future development of the robot and features models that have the ability to read minds, experience human emotions, and take over the world.

Babbit, Natalie. Tuck Everlasting. (Juvenile Fiction Babbit) The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.

Blakley-Cartwright,Sarah. Red Riding Hood. (Young Adult Fiction Blakley-Cartwright) The body of a young girl is discovered in a field of wheat. Her flesh mutilated by telltale claw marks. The Wolf has broken the peace. When Valerie learns that her sister has been killed by the legendary creature, she finds herself at the center of a dark mystery, one that has plagued her village for generations Could her secret love Peter be behind the attacks on her town? Is it her betrothed, Henry? Or someone even closer to her? As the men in the village hunt for the beast, Valerie turns to her grandmother for help. She gives Valerie a handmade red riding cloak, and guides her through the web of lies and deception that has held her town together for so long. Will Valerie discover the werewolf's identity before the town is ripped apart?

Boyne, John. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. (Young Adult Fiction Boyne) Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.

Brashares, Ann. Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. (Young Adult Fiction Brashares) Carmen decides to discard an old pair of jeans, but Tibby, Lena, and Bridget think they are great and decide that whoever the pants fit best will get them. When the jeans fit everyone perfectly, a sisterhood and a memorable summer begin.

Cabot, Meg. The Princess Diaries. (Young Adult Fiction Cabot) Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.

Carroll, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland. (Young Adult and Adult Fiction Carroll) A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.

Cohn, Rachel. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. (Young Adult Cohn) High school student Nick O'Leary, member of a rock band, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes in order to avoid his ex-sweetheart.

Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. (Young Adult Collins) In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.

Connoly, Michael. The Lincoln Lawyer. (Adult Fiction Connelly) Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn't recognize innocence if it stood in front of him. Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense pro who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, to defend clients at the bottom of the legal food chain. When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested for brutally beating a woman, Haller has his first high-paying client in years. He's sure it will be a slam dunk in the courtroom, but then an investigator is murdered for getting too close to the truth and Haller quickly discovers that his search for innocence has taken him face to face with a kind of evil as pure as a flame.

Cunningham, Michael. The Hours. (Adult Fiction Cunningham) In a novel of love, family inheritance, and desperation, the author offers a fictional account of Virginia Woolf's last days and her friendship with a poet living in his mother's shadow.

Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. (Juvenile Fiction Dahl) Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.

DiCamillo, Kate. Because of Winn-Dixie. (Juvenile Fiction DiCamillo) Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.

Flinn, Alex. Beastly. (Young Adult Fiction Flinn) A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.

Foer, Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. (Adult Fiction Foer) Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center attacks, searches the five boroughs of New York City for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind

Freedom Writers. The Freedom Writers diary: how a teacher and 150 teens used writing to change themselves and the world around them. (YA Nonfiction 305.235 F875g) As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher, Erin Gruwell confronted a room of “unteachable, at-risk” students. Using Holocaust era diaries, Gruwell and her students are able to work through the violence, homelessness, racism, illness, and abuse that surround them. They learn to draw strength from the past, recording their thoughts and feelings in diaries and dubbing themselves the “Freedom Writers” in homage to the civil rights activists “The Freedom Riders.”

Funke, Cornelia. Inkheart. (YA and Juvenile Fiction Funke) Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.

Gaiman, Neil. Coraline. (YA and Juvenile Fiction Gaiman) Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.

Gilbert, Elizabeth. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia. (Adult Nonfiction 910.4 G373e) At the age of thirty-one, Gilbert moved with her husband to the suburbs of New York and began trying to get pregnant, only to realize that she wanted neither a child nor a husband. Three years later, after a protracted divorce, she embarked on a yearlong trip of recovery, with three main stops: Rome, for pleasure (mostly gustatory, with a special emphasis on gelato); an ashram outside of Mumbai, for spiritual searching; and Bali, for "balancing."

Goldman, William. The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure: the “Good Parts” Version Abridged. (Adult Fiction Goldman) Return to a time when men were men and swamps were fire swamps, full of quicksand and rodents of unusual size. Lagoons were inhabited by shrieking eels, and the most beautiful woman in the world was named--Buttercup? Well, it's a bent fairy tale, complete with all the fencing, fighting, chases, escapes and silly accents you'd expect.

Gregory, Phillipa. The Other Boleyn Girl. (Adult Fiction Gregory) The daughters of a ruthlessly ambitious family, Mary and Anne Boleyn are sent to the court of Henry VIII to attract the attention of the king, who first takes Mary as his mistress, in which role she bears him an illegitimate son, and then Anne as his wife.

Gruen, Sara. Water for Elephants. (Adult Fiction Gruen) When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there that he meets Marlena, the beautiful young star of the equestrian act, who is married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. He also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a way to reach her

Hamilton, Bethany. Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family and Fighting to Get Back on the Board. (Young Adult Audiobooks 797.32 H180s) Bethany Hamilton, a teenage surfer lost her arm in a shark attack off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii. Not even the loss of her arm keeps her from returning to surfing, the sport she loves.

Harris, Joanne. Chocolat. (Adult Fiction Harris) When the beautiful and mysterious Vianne moves to Lansquenet and opens a chocolate shop across from the church, the inhabitants of the tiny village find themselves torn between the solemn law of religion and the joyful rewards of Vianne's confections.

Hiaasen, Carl. Hoot. (Juvenile Fiction Hiaasen) Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.

Hillenbrand, Laura. Seabiscuit: an American Legend. (Adult Non-Fiction 798.4 H557s) The author retraces the journey of Seabiscuit, a horse with crooked legs and a pathetic tail that made racing history in 1938, thanks to the efforts of a trainer, owner, and jockey who transformed a bottom-level racehorse into a legend.

Hornby, Nick. About a Boy. (Adult Fiction Hornby) Will trades his lack of enthusiasm toward children for a date with a truly beautiful woman and single mother in a comic, incisive novel about modern romance.

Horowitz, Anthony. Stormbreaker. (Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker)(Young Adult Fiction Horowitz) After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.

Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner. (Adult Fiction Hosseini) Despite their class differences, Amir, the son of a wealthy businessman, and Hassan, his devoted sidekick and the son of Amir's household servant, play together, cause mischief together, and compete in the annual kite-fighting tournament -- Amir flying the kite, and Hassan running down the kites they fell. But one day, Amir betrays Hassan, and his betrayal grows increasingly devastating as their tale continues. Amir will spend much of his life coming to terms with his initial and subsequent acts of cowardice, and finally seek to make reparations.

Ihimaera, Wite Tame. Whale Rider. (Juvenile Fiction Ihimaera) As her beloved grandfather, chief of the Maori tribe of Whangara, New Zealand, struggles to lead in difficult times and to find a male successor, young Kahu is developing a mysterious relationship with whales, particularly the ancient bull whale whose legendary rider was their ancestor.

Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go. (Adult Fiction Ishiguro) As a child, Kathy--now thirty-one years old--lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, the friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood--and about the purpose of their lives now.

Kaysen, Susanna. Girl, Interrupted. (YA Nonfiction 616.89 K184g) The author offers a compelling memoir of her two years as a teenager in a psychiatric hospital, sharing vivid portraits of her fellow patients, their keepers, and her experiences during treatment.

Keneally, Thomas. Schindler’s List. (Adult Fiction Keneally). This nonfiction novel recreates the remarkable activities and courage of Oskar Schindler, a Catholic German industrialist who from the Nazi death Camps gambled everything to save as many Jews as possible.

Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. (Adult Fiction Kerouac) Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty undertake a cross-country American adventure of self-discovery.

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. (Adult Fiction Kesey). A lavish fortieth anniversary edition of this American classic story of Randle Patrick McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity and is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse.

King, Stephen. The Green Mile. (Adult Fiction King) Tells the story of John Coffey, a death row inmate who exhibits supernatural powers that make the guards and prisoners around him reexamine their lives.

Larsson, Stieg. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. (Adult Fiction Larsson) Forty years ago Harriet Vanger, a wealthy young Swedish woman, disappeared. Her uncle,Henrik has long suspected she was murdered. He hires crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance. Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old, pierced, tattooed genius hacker, possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age--and a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness--assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, an astonishing corruption at the highest echelon of Swedish industrialism--and a surprising connection between themselves.

Lasky, Kathryn. The Capture. (Legend of the Guardians: the Owls of Ga'Hoole) (Juvenile Fiction Lasky) Soren the barn owl is sent to an orphanage, but an evil lurks there which threatens the forest of Tyto.

Lehane, Dennis. Gone, Baby, Gone. (Adult Fiction Lehane) Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find four-year-old Amanda McCready, abducted from her bed on a warm, summer night. They meet her stoned-out, strangely apathetic mother, her loving aunt and uncle, the mother's dangerous, drug-addled friends, and two cops who've found so many abused or dead children they may be too far over the edge to come back.

Levine, Gail Carson. Ella Enchanted. (Juvenile Fiction Levine Fantasy) In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.

Lewis, C.S. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. (Juvenile Fiction Lewis) Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist its ruler, the golden lion Aslan, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.

Lore, Pittacus. I am Number Four. (Young Adult Fiction Lore) In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.

Ludlum, Robert. The Bourne Legacy. (Adult Fiction Ludlum) Jason Bourne, now a professor at Georgetown University, feels life is finally his own-until he becomes the target of an assassin.

Matheson, Richard. I Am Legend. (Adult Fiction Matheson) Robert Neville is the last human survivor in what is left of New York City. A pandemic has left only 1% of the population alive and most of those who survived are no longer human. The infected, now lurking in the shadows, watch Neville's every move. Perhaps mankind's last, best hope, Neville is driven by the only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood.

McEwan, Ian. Atonement. (Adult Fiction McEwan) On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the garden fountain of their country house. Also watching is their housekeeper's son, Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Cecilia, has recently graduated from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not dared to approach, and Briony will have committed a dreadful crime.

Meyer, Stephanie. Twilight. (Young Adult Meyer) When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

Morpurgo, Michael. War Horse. (Juvenile Fiction Murpurgo) Joey the horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War I, and his reunion with his beloved master.

Nicholls, David. One Day. (Adult Fiction Nicholls) Over twenty years, snapshots of an unlikely relationship are revealed on the same day--July 15th--of each year. Dex Mayhew and Em Morley face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself.

O’Malley, Bryan Lee. Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life. (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World) (Young Adult Nonfiction 741.5971 Om13s) Scott Pilgrim is twenty-three years old, unemployed, playing in a rock band, and dating a cute high school girl. Everything's going smoothly for this Toronto slacker until a rollerblading delivery girl named Ramona Flowers starts cruising through his dreams and sailing by him at parties. But the path to Ms. Flowers isn't covered in rose petals. Ramona's seven evil ex-boyfriends stand in the way between Scott and true happiness. Can Scott beat the bad guys and get the girl without turning his precious little life upside-down?

Paolini, Christopher. Eragon. (YA Fiction Paolini) In Alagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.

Parini, Jay. The Last Station: a Novel of Tolstoy’s Last Year. (Adult Fiction Parini) During his last year, Tolstoy's battles with his wife continue as does his own dilemma over his privilege versus his professed virtues of chastity and poverty.

Portis, Charles. True Grit. (Adult Fiction Portis) Mattie Ross is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory.

Riordan, Rick. The Lightning Thief. (Young Adult Fiction Riordan) Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.

Rose, Tom. Big Miracle. (Adult Audio 599.522 R720b) On October 7, 1988, an Inuit hunter found three California Gray Whales imprisoned in the Arctic ice. In the past, as was nature's way, trapped whales always died. Not this time. Rose compellingly describes how oil company executives, Greenpeace activists, Eskimos, businessmen, and military officers heroically worked together to save the whales.

Sachar, Louis. Holes. (Juvenile and Young Adult Fiction Sachar) As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

Selznick, Brian. The Invention of Hugo Cabret. (Juvenile Fiction Selznick) When Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.

Snicket, Lemony. The Bad Beginning. (Juvenile Fiction Snicket) After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.

Sparks, Nicholas. The Last Song. (Adult Fiction Sparks) Seventeen, angry, and alienated from her estranged father, Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life gets turned inside out when her mother forces her to spend the summer with him in the small Georgia beach town where he lives. Here, Ronnie finds salvation, friendship, second chances, and first love.

Stockett, Kathryn. The Help. (Adult Fiction Stockett) In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. But with the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women--two of them African American maids, one a young white socialite--start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.

Tolkien, J.R.R. Lord of the Rings Trilogy. (EC and Young Adult Fiction Tolkien) Follows the quest of hobbit Frodo Baggins and a company of elves, dwarves, and wizards seeking to fight off the dark warlord Saur on, who is intent on finding the Ring of Power that Frodo possesses.

Vizzini, Ned. It’s Kind of a Funny Story. (Young Adult Fiction Vizzini) A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital.

Wallace, Daniel. Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions. (Adult Fiction Wallace) William, facing his father's imminent death, is desperate to discover who the man really was. As his elusive father's life is re-created in a series of legends and myths inspired by the few known facts, he begins to understand the man's great feats and failings, and finds a way to say goodbye.

Weisberger, Lauren. The Devil Wears Prada. (Adult Fiction Weisberger) Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job a million girls would die for. But Miranda is the Boss from Hell and Andrea is sorely tested day and night by Miranda's demands. As things escalate from the merely unacceptable to the downright outrageous, however, Andrea begins to realize that the job a million girls would die for may just kill her. And even if she survives, she has to decide whether or not it's worth the price of her soul.

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