Author: Sebag Montefiore, Simon, 1965- author.
Published: 2014
Call Number: F SEBAGMON
Format: Books
Summary: "The engrossing, heartbreaking new novel about two forbidden and deadly love affairs set in the corridors of Moscow's most elite school in 1945 by the brilliant and bestselling historian Simon Sebag Montefiore."--
Author: Gabaldon, Diana, author.
Published: 2014 2001
Call Number: F GABALDON
Format: Books
Summary: The Fiery Cross is the fifth book in a series written by Diana Gabaldon about Claire Fraser, who can travel through time by touching stones (think Stonehenge). The first time she time traveled, it was an accident. She traveled two-hundred years backward to the 1740s and met the love of her life, Jamie Frasier, a Scottish highlander. Their love story has developed through out each of the books as Gabaldon details the historical setting that surrounds them. In The Fiery Cross, the year is 1771 and the unrest and dissatisfaction of the colonists in the New World are humming.
Author: Smith, Lee, 1944- author.
Published: 2011 1988
Call Number: F SMITH
Format: Books
Summary: Ivy Rowe never strays far from her Virginia mountains, but through the years, the letters she writes take her on a journey of passion and wonder. Ivy Rowe, Virginia mountain girl, then wife, mother, and finally "Mawmaw," never strays far from her home--but the letters she writes take her across the country and over the ocean. Writing "to hold onto what's passing," she tells stories that are rich with the life of Appalachia in words that are colloquial, often misspelled, but always beautiful. From childhood, when teachers encouraged her gift for language, to her rebellious teenage years when she swore against motherhood--only to then become a mother--and on through life, Ivy writes with insight, honesty, and a passion for living that is sure to be infectious.
Author: DeLillo, Don, author.
Published: 2009 1985
Call Number: F DELILLO
Format: Books
Summary: Winner of the National Book Award, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney; his fourth wife, Babette; and four ultramodern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event", a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys - radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings - pulsing with life yet suggesting something ominous.
Author: Clare, Cassandra, author.
Published: 2007
Call Number: Y CLARE
Format: Books
Summary: Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.
Author: Hirsch, E. D., Jr. (Eric Donald), 1928- editor.
Published: 2005
Call Number: 372.242 WHAT
Format: Books
Summary: A resource book that presents the knowledge that should be learned in the fifth grade as identified by the Core Knowledge Foundation, and includes math, language arts, science, history, geography, art, and technology.
Author: Franzen, Jonathan.
Published: 2001
Call Number: F FRANZEN
Format: Books
Author: Butler, Octavia E., author.
Published: 2000 1989
Call Number: F BUTLER
Format: Books
Summary: All of humanity must share the world with uncanny, unimaginable alien creatures after war destroys Earth, in an omnibus edition containing three class science fiction novels--Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago. The acclaimed trilogy that comprises Lilith's Brood is multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winner Octavia E. Butler at her best. Presented for the first time in one volume, with an introduction by Joan Slonczewski, Ph. D., Lilith's Brood is a profoundly evocative, sensual--and disturbing--epic of human transformation. Lilith Lyapo is in the Andes, mourning the death of her family, when war destroys Earth. Centuries later, she is resurrected, by miraculously powerful unearthly beings, the Oankali. Driven by an irresistible need to heal others, the Oankali are rescuing our dying planet by merging genetically with mankind. But Lilith and all humanity must now share the world with uncanny, unimaginably alien creatures: Their own children. This is their story.
Author: Krakauer, Jon author. Rackliff, Randy, illustrator.
Published: 1999 1997
Call Number: GV199.44.E85 K72 1997
Format: Books
Summary: "Reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion, Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996. He hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus jetliner), twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly to the top, unaware that the sky had begun to roil with clouds..." "This is the terrifying story of what really happened that fateful day at the top of the world, during what would be the deadliest season in the history of Everest. In this harrowing yet breathtaking narrative, Krakauer takes the reader along with his ill-fated expedition, step by precarious step, from Katmandu to the mountain's pinnacle where, plagued by a combination of hubris, greed, poor judgment, and plain bad luck, they would fall prey to the mountain's unpredictable fury."--BOOK JACKET.
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