Author: Cline, Ernest.
Published: 2011
Call Number: F CLINE
Format: Books
Summary: "An exuberantly realized, exciting, and sweet-natured cyber-quest. Cline's imaginative and rollicking coming-of-age geek saga has a smash-hit vibe."--Booklist, starred review "Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his grim, poverty-stricken real life. Along with millions of other world-wide citizens, Wade dreams of finding three keys left behind by James Halliday, the now-deceased creator of OASIS and the richest man to have ever lived. The keys are rumored to be hidden inside OASIS, and whoever finds them will inherit Halliday's fortune. But Halliday has not made it easy. And there are real dangers in this virtual world. Stuffed to the gills with action, puzzles, nerdy romance, and 80s nostalgia, this high energy cyber-quest will make geeks everywhere feel like they were separated at birth from author Ernest Cline."--Chris Schluep, Amazon Best Book of the Month
Author: Coyle, Cleo, author.
Published: 2008
Call Number: PB COYLE
Format: Books
Summary: When her daughter, Joy, interning at one of New York's hottest French restaurants, is accused of murdering the competition, coffeehouse owner Claire Cosi must prove Joy's innocence, which lands her in hot water.
Author: Morrison, Terri. Conaway, Wayne A.
Published: 2006
Call Number: 395.5
Format: Books
Author: Spiegel, Fred, 1932- McLoughlin-O'Donnell, Maryann.
Published: 2004
Call Number: 940.5318
Format: Books
Author: Vizzini, Ned, 1981-2013, author.
Published: 2000
Call Number: Y B VIZZINI
Format: Books
Summary: A collection of essays written by the author from age fifteen to seventeen in which he shares impressions of school, sports, cool people, boring people, friends, family, money, music, and obsessions.
Author: Riggs, Thomas, 1963- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Published: 1997
Call Number: 709.2396
Format: Books
Author: Lynch, Donald, 1957- Marschall, Ken.
Published: 1992
Call Number: 910.9163 LYNCH
Format: Books
Author: McPherson, James M., author. Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
Published: 1988
Call Number: 973.73 MCPHERSON
Format: Manuscript
Summary: Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, this fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War: the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. It then moves into a chronicle of the war itself, the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities. Particularly notable are new views on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory. The book's title refers to the sentiments that informed both the Northern and Southern views of the conflict: the South seceded in the name of that freedom of self-determination and self-government for which their fathers had fought in 1776, while the North stood fast in defense of the Union founded by those fathers as the bulwark of American liberty. Eventually, the North had to grapple with the underlying cause of the war, slavery, and adopt a policy of emancipation as a second war aim. This "new birth of freedom," as Lincoln called it, constitutes the proudest legacy of America's bloodiest conflict. This volume makes sense of that vast and confusing "second American Revolution" we call the Civil War, a war that transformed a nation and expanded our heritage of liberty.
Author: Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970, author.
Published: 1945
Call Number: 109
Format: Books
Summary: This book offers the remarkable opportunity to examine the great traditions that have shaped western civilization from the point of view of one of the greatest of modern philosophers.
Author: Clark, Mary Higgins
Call Number: PB CLARK
Format: Books
Author: Morgan, Sarah
Call Number: PB MORGAN
Format: Books
Author: Moffett, Julie
Call Number: PB MOFFETT
Format: Books
Author: Weitzenhof, Arnold
Call Number: B WEIT
Format: Books
Author: Robinson, Peter
Call Number: F ROBINSON
Format: Books
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A new anthology invites Palestinian writers to imagine their homeland in 2048 — 100 years after the creation of Israel. The stories are inventive, dextrous, painful, and even sometimes playful.
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