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toc =Fiction=

Jack Burns, a loner at odds with modern civilization, becomes a wanted man after breaking one too many of society's rules.
 * Abbey, Edward, 1927-. __The brave cowboy : an old tale in a new time.__ New York : Avon Books, [1992], c1956.**

A bitter eighty-three-year-old war veteran who believes his life is meaningless dies while trying to save a little girl's life and finds himself in heaven, where five people from his past--some loved ones, some strangers--explain what his years on Earth really meant, and whether or not he succeeded in saving the child.
 * Albom, Mitch, 1958-. __The five people you meet in heaven.__ 1st pbk. ed. New York : Hyperion, c2003.**

Sixteen-year-old Maggie Alexander, whose younger brother died mysteriously a year ago, carries a secret that colors her relationships with her friends and others including the Knight gang and her ex-friend, Lauren Carver.
 * Anfousse, Ginette, 1944-. __A terrible secret.__ Toronto : James Lorimer & Co. ;, 2000**.

High school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing seven cassette tapes recorded by his crush, Hannah Baker, who committed suicide, and spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
 * Asher, Jay. __Thirteen reasons why : a novel.__ New York : Razorbill, c2007**.

Susan, an overweight tenth grader, develops a better sense of herself through participation in a special after-school counseling class with other troubled students, and the friendship of a sensitive gay classmate.
 * Atkins, Catherine. __Alt ed.__ New York : Speak, 2004, c2003.**

Arty, an abnormally short fourteen-year-old boy, enlists the help of a group of students, known at school as the "pathetic losers," to take revenge against his abusive, tall fraternal twin brother.
 * Auseon, Andrew. __Funny little monkey.__ 1st ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2005**.

A brother and sister must deal with terrible consequences when their love for each other stretches past acceptable boundaries.
 * Block, Francesca Lia. __Wasteland.__ 1st pbk. ed. New York : Joanna Cotler Books, 2004, c2003.**

A sheltered fifteen-year-old girl named Mary Fred Anderson is removed from her home in a fundamentalist sect and placed in foster care in a Washington, D.C. suburb, where a violent act upon her new family has an indelible impact on her, making her reexamine her long-held beliefs.
 * Bardi, Abby. __The Book of Fred.__ New York : Washington Square Press, [2002], c2001**.

Private Hugh McNeal relates his experiences accompanying Captains Lewis and Clark on their 1804-1806 expedition in search of a northwest passage to the Pacific Ocean.
 * Bohner, Charles H. __Bold journey : west with Lewis and Clark : a novel.__ Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1985.**

Mena, ostracized at church, home, and school for writing a letter of apology to a gay teen who was harassed into trying to kill himself by her fundamentalist friends, struggles to find her way when new friends and school experiences force her to think about what she really believes.
 * Brande, Robin. __Evolution, me & other freaks of nature.__ 1st ed. New York : Knopf, c2007.**

Fifteen-year-old Moo Nelson, shy, overweight, and bullied by his classmates, finds his life spinning out of control after he witnesses a car chase and a fight that results in a murder.
 * Brooks, Kevin. __Kissing the rain.__ 1st American ed. New York : Push/Scholastic, c2004.**

After Odella's mother leaves her, her sisters, and their father in Manitoba and moves to Iceland with another man, she then dies there, and the family finally learns some of the many secrets that have haunted them for two generations.
 * Brooks, Martha, 1944-. __Mistik Lake.__ 1st American ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.**

High school football player Ray Linden, on course to earn a college scholarship, puts his future in peril when he learns his small coal-mining town is in danger from a toxic threat.
 * Brouwer, Sigmund, 1959-. __Cobra strike.__ Victoria, BC ; : Orca Book Publishers, 2007.**

As the only remaining member of the Volson clan, fifteen-year-old Sigurd takes a sword forged from a knife given to his father by the god Odin and embarks on a mission to reunite his country.
 * Burgess, Melvin. __Bloodsong.__ 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2007, c2005.**

In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her people the dragon's claw she was born with that reflects only one of her mother's dark secrets.
 * Carey, Janet Lee. __Dragon's keep.__ 1st ed. Orlando : Harcourt, c2007.**

Seventeen-year-old Alice, released from prison with a new identity after serving six years for murdering a child, tries to keep her anonymity from the British tabloids, while haunted by memories of her past trauma.
 * Cassidy, Anne, 1952-. __Looking for JJ.__ 1st U.S. ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, 2007, c2004.**

Katy, a quiet French Canadian teenager, reluctantly leaves Montréal to spend time with her estranged father, an aging Los Angeles punk rock legend.
 * Castellucci, Cecil, 1969-. __Beige.__ 1st ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2007**.

Alternates between two stories--contemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation.
 * Chambers, Aidan. __Postcards from no man's land.__ New York : Speak, 2004.**

As her irritating family prepares to celebrate her grandfather's eightieth birthday, sixteen-year-old Lily yearns for just one whole perfect day together.
 * Clarke, Judith, 1943-. __One whole and perfect day.__ 1st U.S. ed. Asheville, N.C. : Front Street, 2007, c2006.**

A one-time tag artist, Nick tries to come to terms with the death of a friend, to protect the brother of his would-be girlfriend, to escape the violence of wealthy New York City prep-school hoods, and to figure out who he really is.
 * Coburn, Jake. __Prep.__ New York : Speak, 2005, c2003**.

Follows the lives of three high school juniors--Taylor, Maya, and Harry--as they apply to a number of colleges and cope with the pressures of their teachers and parents, and an admissions advisor, Olivia, who struggles to sift through applications after her university was accidentally placed on a list of the top fifty schools in the country.
 * Coll, Susan. __Acceptance.__ 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007**.

Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.
 * Compestine, Ying Chang. __Revolution is not a dinner party : a novel.__ 1st ed. New York : Holt, 2007.**

A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.
 * Cormier, Robert. __The chocolate war.__ New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, [1986], c1974.**

Chronicles the story of four people who are still wrestling with sorrow fifteen years after a school shooting incident occurred in their sleepy suburban town.
 * Coupland, Douglas. __Hey Nostradamus! : a novel.__ 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury ;, 2003.**

An autobiographical novel of the experiences of Hannah Crafts, an African-American slave from the mid-nineteenth century; the book is believed to be the first novel ever written by an African-American woman.
 * Crafts, Hannah. __The bondwoman's narrative.__ Trade ed. New York : Warner Books, c2003, c2002**.

Still troubled by his older brother's violent suicide, eighteen-year-old Dillon becomes deeply involved in the terrible secret of his friend Jennifer, who feels she can tell no one what her stepfather is doing to her.
 * Crutcher, Chris. __Chinese handcuffs.__ 1st Harper Tempest ed. New York : HarperTempest, 2004, c1989.**

Fourteen-year-old Kenny Roy Willson fantasizes about escape from his hometown of Comfort, Texas, following his alcoholic father's release from prison.
 * Dean, Carolee. __Comfort.__ Boston, Mass. : Graphia, 2002.**

After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
 * Dessen, Sarah. __Dreamland.__ New York : Speak, 2004, c2000.**

Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of self.
 * Dessen, Sarah. __Keeping the moon.__ New York : Speak, 2004, c1999.**

When star athlete Josh Daniels moves in across the street, Ryan Ward doesn't realize how much his life will change during his senior year at Seattle's Crown Hill High.
 * Deuker, Carl. __Painting the black.__ New York : Avon, [1999], c1997.**

Overweight and nerdy Oscar lives with his Dominican American mother and sister in New Jersey and dreams of becoming a renowned author and finding true love, but unfortunately, a family curse stands in the way of his wishes.
 * Díaz, Junot, 1968-. __The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao.__ New York : Riverhead Books, 2007.**

A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies.
 * Downham, Jenny. __Before I die.__ 1st American ed. Oxford ; : David Fickling Books, c2007**.

Denis Cooverman, captain of the debate team, stumbles into the most eventful night of his high school career when he decides to make his graduation speech a confession of love for Beth Cooper, head cheerleader.
 * Doyle, Larry. __I love you, Beth Cooper.__ New York : Ecco, c2007**.

Recovering from the recent suicide of her ex-boyfriend, senior class president Keisha Montgomery finds herself attracted to a dangerous, older man.
 * Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills). __Darkness before dawn.__ 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2002, c2001.**

Tom Gray, a Mohawk Indian and star soccer player, moves to a new high school and refuses to play for the Warriors with their insulting mascot.
 * Esckilsen, Erik E. __Offsides : a novel.__ Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004**.

Three generations of a Greek American family find themselves plagued by a mutant gene which causes bizarre side effects in the family's teenage girls.
 * Eugenides, Jeffrey. __Middlesex.__ New York : Picador, c2002.**

In an attempt to please her boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Dallas goes along with a plan to rob a convenience store, and when her father refuses the judge's offer to let her come home on probation, she is sentenced to six months in the Girls' Rehabilitation Center.
 * Ferris, Jean, 1939-. __Bad.__ Aerial ed. [New York] : Aerial Fiction/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2001, c1998.**


 * Fitch, Janet, 1955-. __White oleander : a novel.__ 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c1999.**

Daisy Fay is not afraid to speak what is on her mind, and the townspeople in the Gulf Coast's Shell Beach don't always appreciate her meddling in their business.
 * Flagg, Fannie. __Daisy Fay and the miracle man.__ Warner Books ed. New York : Warner Books, 1992.**

Evelyn Couch hears 80 year old Ninny Threadgoode's life story which centers on a cafe in the railroad town of Whistle Stop, Ala., and on Idgie and Ruth, the two women who own the cafe.
 * Flagg, Fannie. __Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.__ 1st McGraw-Hill paperback ed. New York : McGraw-Hill, 1988**.

Frank Bascombe, having lost his career and his family, is selling real estate in Haddam, New Jersey, and is settling for a life of mere existence until the events of one Fourth of July weekend shock him into real contact with life.
 * Ford, Richard, 1944-. __Independence day.__ 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1996.**

Sixteen-year-old D'Arcy, always on the lookout for drama, finds herself in over her head when she attempts to help her classmate Zania whose mother is being held hostage by a drug-dealing boyfriend.
 * Forsyth, Christine. __Adrenaline high.__ Toronto, Ont. : James Lorimer & Co. ;, 2003.**

"Master Harold," or Hally, learns that his alcoholic father is to be released from the hospital and struggles with his emotions during a confrontation with the two black men who help in the family's restaurant in 1950s South Africa.
 * Fugard, Athol. __"Master Harold"-- and the boys.__ New York : Penguin, 1984, c1982.**

Iggy Corso, who lives in city public housing, is caught physically and spiritually between good and bad when he is kicked out of high school, goes searching for his missing mother, and causes his friend to get involved with the same dangerous drug dealer who deals to his parents.
 * Going, K. L. (Kelly L.). __Saint Iggy.__ 1st ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2006.**

Iris Greenfeder feels a major part of her life is unfinished, so she writes a fairy tale about her mother, and in the process discovers a non-threatening way to deal with her mother's death years earlier.
 * Goodman, Carol. __The seduction of water.__ 1st trade pbk. ed. New York : Ballantine, 2004, c2003.**

After losing an important game for his team, NFL backup quarterback Rick Dockery is fired, but his agent finds him an opportunity to play for the Panthers of Parma, and even though he has never been to Europe, he moves to Italy hoping for a second chance.
 * Grisham, John. __Playing for pizza.__ 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2007.**

Kristina Georgia Snow's life is turned upside-down, when she visits her absentee father, gets turned on to the drug "crank", becomes addicted, and is led down a desperate path that threatens her mind, soul, and her life.
 * Hopkins, Ellen. __Crank.__ 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2004.**

A novel set against the three decades of Afghanistan's history shaped by Soviet occupation, civil war, and the Taliban, which tells the stories of two women, Mariam and Laila, who grow close despite their nineteen-year age difference and initial rivalry as they suffer at the hand of a common enemy: their abusive husband.
 * Hosseini, Khaled. __A thousand splendid suns.__ New York : Riverhead Books, 2007**.

A fallen angel, tired of being unappreciated while doing his pointless, demeaning job, leaves Hell, enters the body of a seventeen-year-old boy, and tries to experience the full range of human feelings before being caught and punished, while the boy's family and friends puzzle over his changed behavior.
 * Jenkins, A. M. (Amanda McRaney). __Repossessed.__ 1st ed. New York : HarperTeen, c2007.**

After spending months as a fire lookout on a remote mountain, Jack Duluoz returns to his life in San Francisco and discovers how his isolation has affected his life.
 * Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. __Desolation angels.__ 1st Riverhead ed. New York : Riverhead Books, 1995.**

An autobiographical work of fiction in which Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac discusses how he overcame his alcohol addiction.
 * Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. __Big Sur.__ New York : Penguin Books, 1992.**

A** sudden, dangerous storm descends on the small town of Bridgton, Maine, bringing a mist that hides gruesome creatures that bring death and destruction to the town's residents.
 * King, Stephen, 1947-. __The mist.__ New York : Signet, [2007], c1980.

Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend Phineas were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school. Their friendship is marred by Finny's crippling fall, an event for which Gene is responsible and one that eventually leads to tragedy.
 * Knowles, John, 1926-2001. __A separate peace.__ 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed. New York : Scribner, 2003, c1959.**

In a world where select people can enter "The Place" and find dreams of every kind to share with others for a fee, a fifteen-year-old girl is training to be a dreamhunter when her father disappears, leaving her to carry on his mysterious mission.
 * Knox, Elizabeth. __Dreamhunter.__ 1st American ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.**

While investigating the government's involvement in the disappearance of her father, Tziga Hame, and the decline of the art of projecting dreams, dreamhunter Laura learns more about "The Place.".
 * Knox, Elizabeth. __Dreamquake.__ 1st American ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.**

Three troubled high school seniors, who plan to run away together from Illinois to California after graduation, try to figure out who they are who they want to be.
 * Koertge, Ronald. __Boy girl boy.__ 1st ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt Inc., c2005.**

Sixteen-year-old Ted, orphaned when his parents are killed in a car crash, identifies more with animals than people--especially strays whose situation Ted equates with his own, but as he starts to settle in to his new foster home and school, he forms bonds with his two foster brothers and gradually comes back in touch with the human race.
 * Koertge, Ronald. __Strays.__ 1st ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2007.**

No one is surprised when Amy Redwing brings a rescued female golden retriever into her home, however, her joy is overshadowed by a series of mysterious incidents and the feeling that she is being watched.
 * Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-. __The darkest evening of the year.__ New York : Bantam Books, 2007.**

Martin Luna's entire life changes as he tries to deal with the shooting death of his little brother and those who will stop at nothing to ensure his silence.
 * Langan, Paul. __The fallen.__ West Berlin, N.J. : Townsend Press, c2007.**

Teenager Darcy Wills must deal with painful secrets from her past in order to save her family and her friendships.
 * Langan, Paul. __Shattered.__ West Berlin, N.J. : Townsend Press, c2007.**

Presents two novels written by Harlem Renaissance author Nella Larsen in which she documents the realities of life in Harlem during the 1920s.
 * Larsen, Nella. __Quicksand ; and, Passing.__ New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1986.**

Spending their summer at Wildewood Academy, an elite boarding school for the performing arts, tests the bond between teens Sadye and her best friend Demi.
 * Lockhart, E. __Dramarama.__ 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2007.**

Three amiable, video game-playing slackers, Brian, Brad, and Matt, are thrust into a grand adventure when they decide to take action to keep Amber, a new girl who has caught Matt's eye, from getting involved with bully football jock Richard. Presented in graphic novel form.
 * Loux, Matthew. __Sidescrollers.__ 1st ed. Portland, OR : Oni Press, 2006**.

A fifteen-year-old "geek" who keeps a list of the high school jocks and others who torment him, and pours his energy into creating a great graphic novel, encounters Kyra, Goth Girl, who helps change his outlook on almost everything, including himself.
 * Lyga, Barry. __The astonishing adventures of Fanboy & Goth Girl.__ Boston, Mass. : Graphia, c2007.**

When overweight thirteen-year-old Elvin Bishop is sent to camp at St. Paul's Seminary Retreat Center, he and his two best friends are forced to try out various sports in order to find out where they belong.
 * Lynch, Chris. __Slot machine.__ 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 1996, c1995.**

Sixteen-year-old Robert Lomos, living with his grandmother in San Antonio since his father abandoned the family and his mother suffered a breakdown and moved with his little brother to California, struggles to earn the money to follow her and put his family back together.
 * Martínez, Manuel Luis. __Drift.__ 1st ed. New York : Picador, 2003.**

Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.
 * McCaughrean, Geraldine. __The white darkness : a novel.__ 1st U.S. ed. New York : HarperTempest, 2007, c2005.**

While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.
 * McCormick, Patricia, 1956-. __Cut.__ 1st ed. Asheville, N.C. : Front Street, 2000.**

Frank Russell, known as Shanks, wishes he could have gone with his father and brother to fight for Mississippi and the Confederacy, but his experiences with the war and his changing relationship with the family slave, Buck, change his thinking.
 * McMullan, Margaret. __How I found the Strong.__ Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004**.

Emily must decide what to do when she is stalked by a boy named Michael.
 * McPhee, Peter, 1957-. __Every move.__ Toronto : J. Lorimer ;, 2004.**

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.
 * Meyer, Stephenie, 1973-. __Twilight.__ 1st pbk. ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2006, c2005.**

Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob and her relationship with Edward, both vampires, but when Seattle is ravaged by a mysterious string of killings, the three of them need to decide whether their personal lives are more important than the well-being of an entire city.
 * Meyer, Stephenie, 1973-. __Eclipse.__ 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2007.**

Continues the story of the human Bella and the vampire Edward whose love is threatened by their difference, a werewolf named Jacob, and other outside influences.
 * Meyer, Stephenie, 1973-. __Breaking dawn.__ 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2008.**

The fashion show, grand opening, and bar-b-que memorial service -- What would Jesus do? -- Mama --The life you need to have -- Burn -- Some men are just funny that way --Jump at the sun -- Law and order -- The man thing -- Society for the preservation of sorry-butt negroes --Madonna -- The real deal -- Marisol and Skeeter -- Poets and plumbers -- Combat zone. Fifteen interrelated stories explore different aspects of love, including a dying father's determination to help start a family business--a beauty salon--and the relationship of two teens who plan to remain celibate until they marry.
 * Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. __What they found : love on 145th street.__ 1st ed. New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2007.**

A teenager from Harlem struggles to save his girlfriend from herself when she develops a drug problem while he is away at a Connecticut prep school.
 * Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. __The beast.__ New York : Scholastic, [2005], c2003**.

After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun--until a tragedy occurs.
 * Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. __Scorpions.__ 1st HarperTrophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 1990, c1988.**

Robin Perry, from Harlem, is sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Civilian Affairs Battalion, and his time there profoundly changes him.
 * Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. __Sunrise over Fallujah.__ 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2008.**

Janie was four years old when she nearly drowned due to her mother's neglect. Through an unhappy foster home experience, and years of feeling that she is unwanted, she keeps alive her dream of someday being a famous singer.
 * Nolan, Han. __Born blue.__ 1st Harcourt pbk. ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, 2003, c2001.**

After his release from the army at age twenty-two, Hazel Motes of Eastrod, Tennessee, moves to a Southern city where he falls under the spell of Asa Hawks, a blind street preacher who is led around by his daughter, Sabbath Lily.
 * O'Connor, Flannery. __Wise blood.__ Pbk. ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, c1949.**

Relying on his horse as his protector, fourteen-year-old Robey Childs travels out into the battlefields of the Civil War on a mission to find his father and is forever changed by the destruction he sees.
 * Olmstead, Robert. __Coal black horse.__ Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007.**

When Welcome, a fifteen-year-old girl living in a small town in North Carolina during the 1950s, finds out that she is pregnant, she faces some important decisions.
 * Oughton, Jerrie. __Perfect family.__ Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.**

To escape a miserable existence taking care of her alcoholic mother, seventeen-year-old Zoe rents a room from an eccentric woman, but her earnings as a waitress after school are minimal and she must go to extremes to cover expenses.
 * Pearson, Mary (Mary E.). __A room on Lorelei Street.__ 1st ed. New York : H. Holt, 2005.**

In England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and the climactic events that forever cast a shadow on his life and that of his family.
 * Peet, Mal. __Tamar.__ 1st U.S. ed. Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2007.**

June Nealon's life is shattered when Shay Bourne murders her husband and daughter, but when her eleven-year-old daughter, Claire, needs a heart transplant, Bourne decides that his only chance at redemption is to give Claire his heart after he is put to death, leaving June to decide if she wants to let the man who destroyed her life save her daughter's.
 * Picoult, Jodi, 1966-. __Change of heart : a novel.__ 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, 2008.**

Assistant district attorney Nina Frost has always prided herself on the fact that she protects the city's children from abuse and crime, but when her own son is sexually abused, she finds herself overcome with rage and sets out to find his attacker and exact justice for her son.
 * Picoult, Jodi, 1966-. __Perfect match.__ New York : Washington Square Press, [2003], c2002**.

Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to fit in with the popular crowd on Hackett Island, and her mother's alcoholism until the enigmatic Lani Garver helps her get control of her life at the risk of his own.
 * Plum-Ucci, Carol, 1957-. __What happened to Lani Garver.__ 1st Harcourt pbk. ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, 2004, c2002.**

Todd enters the high-stakes world of gambling in the hopes of winning enough cash to impress Claire, but he soon finds himself in over his head.
 * Polak, Monique. __All in.__ Toronto : J. Lorimer ;, c2006.**

Four siblings struggle to maintain a seminormal home life when their single mother's alcoholism becomes debilitating.
 * Quarles, Heather. __A door near here.__ New York : Dell, c1998.**


 * Rose, Joanna. __Little Miss Strange : a novel.__ 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed. New York : Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1998.**

Sixteen-year-old forensic scientist Luke Harding, and his robot assistant Malc, rush to learn the identity of a serial killer whose victims all share the name Emily Wonder.
 * Rose, Malcolm. __Roll call.__ Boston : Kingfisher, 2005.**

After eleven years of living in solitude in the mountains, author Nathan Zuckerman returns to New York City, where he meets a married woman who reminds him of his sexual desires; gets reacquainted with his first muse, a lovely woman who now suffers from a horrible illness; and deals with an overzealous biographer.
 * Roth, Philip. __Exit ghost.__ Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.**

In 1960s Britain, a young boarding school student breaks rules to maintain a friendship with a reclusive teen who lives in a hut by the sea, and after his friend falls ill, learns a dark secret that changes both of their lives.
 * Rosoff, Meg. __What I was.__ 1st American ed. New York : Viking, 2008, c2007**.

On a December day in 1969 twins Rahel and Estha, born to a wealthy family living in the province of Kerala, India, find their lives changed after the death of their English cousin who was visiting for the holidays.
 * Roy, Arundhati. __The god of small things.__ 1st HarperPerennial ed. New York : HarperPerennial, 1998**.

Two stories containing episodes from the life of the Glass family, with Seymour Glass, the oldest child, as the central character.
 * Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-. __Raise high the roof beam, carpenters ; and, Seymour, an introduction.__ 1st Back Bay pbk. ed. Boston : Back Bay Books, 2001, 1955.**

When Roylin Bailey falls in love with a new girl in his history class, he finds that his life starts to fall apart.
 * Schraff, Anne E. __Secrets in the shadows.__ New York : Scholastic, [2007], c2002.**

Darcey Willis does not know where to turn for help when a series of frightening incidents culminate with the disappearance of her sister Jamee.
 * Schraff, Anne E. __Lost and found.__ New York : Scholastic, [2007], c2002.**

Three teens embark upon a cross-country journey in order to escape from a society that salvages body parts from children ages thirteen to eighteen.
 * Shusterman, Neal. __Unwind.__ 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2007.**

Fifty-year-old artist's model Helen Knightly, worn down by years of dealing with her depressed and needy mother, gives in to the temptation to smother the now old and senile Clair and spends the next twenty-four hours feeling both liberated by what she has done, and tormented by her memories of the past and expectations for the future.
 * Sebold, Alice. __The almost moon : a novel.__ 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2007.**

Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon, the victim of a sexual assault and murder, looks on from the afterlife as her family deals with their grief, and waits for her killer to be brought to some type of justice.
 * Sebold, Alice. __The lovely bones.__ 1st Little, Brown and Co. mass market ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2006, c2002.**

The story of three African-American girls from Charleston, South Carolina who go out into the world in their various directions without losing their sense of family.
 * Shange, Ntozake. __Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo : a novel.__ 1st Picador USA ed. New York : Picador USA, 1996**.

Thirteen-year-old Louise uncovers secrets about her family and her neighborhood during the violent protests over school desegregation in 1960 New Orleans.
 * Sharenow, Rob. __My mother the cheerleader : a novel.__ 1st ed. New York : Laura Geringer Books, c2007**.

After being assigned to perform community service at a nursing home, sixteen-year-old Alex befriends a cantankerous old man who has some lessons to impart about jazz guitar playing, love, and forgiveness.
 * Sonnenblick, Jordan. __Notes from the midnight driver.__ New York : Scholastic, [2007], c2006.**

After Midnight's father's empire is attacked, he is sent with his mother to live in the United States, but on the streets of Brooklyn, Midnight remains true to his beliefs while attempting to reclaim his former wealth and protect his family, while attracting the lustful attention of a number of women.
 * Souljah, Sister. __Midnight : a gangster love story.__ 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, 2008.**
 * Sedaris, David. __Me talk pretty one day.__ Boston : Back Bay Books, c2001.**

In the dangerous dark of winter in an Eastern European village during the early seventeenth century, Peter learns from a gypsy girl that the Shadow Queen is behind the recent murders and reanimations, and his father's secret past may hold the key to stopping her.
 * Sedgwick, Marcus. __My swordhand is singing.__ 1st American ed. New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2006**.

Having faced teasing that turned into a brutal attack, Christianity expressed as persecution, and the loss of his only real friend when he could no longer keep his crush under wraps, seventeen-year-old Billy Bloom, a drag queen, decides the only way to become fabulous again is to run for Homecoming Queen at his elite, private school near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
 * St. James, James. __Freak show.__ 1st ed. New York : Dutton Children's Books, c2007**.

The airmail bowling ball -- The department of reality -- The man who forgot how to fly -- Famous rainbows -- People who don't know the answers -- Sample rains -- Organized marriage -- I should never tell you anything -- The flooded sewing box -- Recovering from the hearts-of-palm flu.
 * Tyler, Anne. __Saint maybe.__ 1st Ballantine Books trade ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 1996, c1991.**


 * Tyler, Anne. __The accidental tourist.__ New York : Berkley Pub., 1986**.

Barnaby Gaitlin, a thirty-year-old who was frequently in trouble as a youth, has been working steadily for eleven years for Rent-a-Back, Inc., but it seems as though his family, his ex-wife, and even the woman who seems to be interested in him, just cannot get over his past reputation.
 * T****yler, Anne. __A patchwork planet.__ 1st trade ed. New York : Knopf, 1998.**

Gossip Girl shares the scoop on the renewed friendship between Blair and Serena, two seventeen-year-olds who attend an exclusive private school in Manhattan, and follow the two and their friends as they party through the holiday break.
 * Von Ziegesar, Cecily. __All I want is everything : a Gossip Girl novel.__ 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, c2003.**

Gossip Girl and her friends turn in their college applications and get ready to party away the dreary month of February in New York City.
 * Von Ziegesar, Cecily. __Because I'm worth it : a Gossip Girl novel.__ 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, c2003**.

Nate struggles to choose between Blair and Serena after learning that Serena is in love with him, and Dan wonders if he is really gay, confused by his lingering feelings for Vanessa.
 * Von Ziegesar, Cecily. __Don't you forget about me : a Gossip Girl novel.__ 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2007.**

Describes a future America in which computers solve all your problems, machines give you everything you need, and you are taken care of from cradle to grave by an industrial society.
 * Vonnegut, Kurt. __Player piano.__ New York, N.Y. : Delta Trade Paperbacks, [1999], c1952.**

Eighteen-year-old Michael Kerrigan, writer of obituaries for the Scranton Observer and captain of the track team, is ready for the most important season of his life--until the police find four joints in his school locker, and he is faced with a choice that could change everything.
 * Wallace, Rich. __One good punch.__ 1st ed. New York : A. Knopf, c2007.**

Jeremiah Reskin has big plans for tenth grade, and when he meets a group of semibohemian outcasts, he feels he has finally found a place where he belongs, and where he can start to enjoy life.
 * Weisberg, Joseph. __10th grade : a novel.__ Random House trade pbk. ed. New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003, c2002.**

Haunted by flashbacks, fifteen-year-old Meredith learns that three years in prison has not changed the abusive father who molested her.
 * Wiess, Laura, 1960-. __Such a pretty girl.__ MTV Books/Pocket Books trade pbk. ed. New York : Pocket Books/MTV Books, 2007.**

Ree Dolly, a sixteen-year-old living in poverty in the Ozarks, sets out alone to find her father after he puts the family home up for bond on drug charges and disappears with the court date swiftly approaching.
 * Woodrell, Daniel. __Winter's bone : a novel.__ 1st Back Bay pbk. ed. New York : Back Bay Books, 2007, c2006.**

During the summer after her sophomore year, Deanna Lambert tries to come to terms with the reputation with which she was slapped in the eighth grade when she was caught by her father in the backseat of a car with a high school senior, and struggles with her still-strained relationship with her father and her changing feelings for her best friend, Jason.
 * Zarr, Sara. __Story of a girl : a novel.__ 1st pbk. ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2008, c2007.**

=Short Stories=

Presents a collection of five short stories about class, gender, freedom, and violence; along with the play "Coronado," adapted to stage in 2005 from the story "Until Gwen.".
 * Lehane, Dennis. __Coronado : stories.__ 1st ed. New York : Morrow, c2006.**

Fléchette follies -- Find and replace -- Duchais -- Tending something -- Apology for a journey not taken -- Mostre -- The garden game -- The rabbit hole as likely explanation -- Just going out -- That last odd day in L.A. Contains one novella and nine short stories in which the author writes of adult children who are struggling to sort out their own lives while dealing with their aging parents.
 * Beattie, Ann. __Follies : new stories.__ New York : Scribner, c2005.**

Baby Jane -- Monkey's paternoster -- A good heart -- Winkie -- A feather in the breast of God -- Hero Vale -- Under hell, over heaven -- Mouse maker -- Forever upward -- Daughter of the clay. A collection of ten short stories about the supernatural and interpersonal relationships written by Australian author Margo Lanagan.
 * Lanagan, Margo, 1960-. __Red spikes.__ 1st American ed. New York : Knopf, c2007.**

The wrong grave / Kelly Link -- The house and the locket / Chris Wooding -- Kissing dead boys / Annette Curtis Klause -- The heart of another / Marcus Sedgwick -- The necromancers / Herbie Brennan -- No visible power / Deborah Noyes -- Bad things / Libba Bray -- The gray boy's work / M.T. Anderson -- The poison eaters / Holly Black -- Honey in the wound / Nancy Etchemendy. Contains ten original stories of the supernatural, featuring selections by Holly Black, Libba Bray, Herbie Brennan, Deborah Noyes, Marcus Sedgwick, and others.
 * __The restless dead : ten original stories of the supernatural.__ 1st ed. Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2007.**

=Graphic Novels=

The once idyllic town of Elk's Ridge, West Virginia, born as a peaceful haven for Vietnam veterans, explodes into tragedy when a series of deadly events threaten the town's future after a tragic accident.
 * Fialkov, J.H. (Joshua Hale). __Elk's run.__ 1st ed. New York : Villard Books, c2007**.

A graphic novel account of the Victorian crime saga involving the Benders, an odd family that arrived in Kansas in the early 1870s and set up a combination dwelling, grocery store, and inn from which wealthy travelers vanished at an alarming rate.
 * Geary, Rick. __The saga of the Bloody Benders : the infamous homicidal family of Labette County, Kansas.__ New York : NBM/ComicsLit, c2007**.

Collects no. 1-6 of the comic "Blue Beetle" in which the Blue Beetle scarab is found by Texas teenager Jaime Reyes, who receives superhero powers from it.
 * Giffen, Keith. __Blue Beetle : shellshocked.__ New York : DC Comics, c2006.**

A graphic novel in which three young drifters are caught up in a nameless war in a Balkan country.
 * Gipi, 1963-. __Notes for a war story.__ 1st American ed. New York : First Second, 2007.**

Kasumi and her twin sister, Shizuku, are infected by a virus that turns them to stone; but Kasumi, who was cryogenically frozen, wakes up to find herself in an unfamiliar world, and resolves to unlock the mysteries of the disease and the fate of her sister.
 * Iwahara, Yuji. __King of thorn.__ Hamburg [Germany] ; : Tokyopop, c2007.**

Three years after the war between the Empire and the Republic of Frost ended, the Empire has been nearly destroyed by starvation, disease, and bandits, and the Imperial Army State Section III is called in to stop the destruction.
 * Iwanaga, Ryotaro. __Pumpkin Scissors : Imperial Army State Section III.__ New York : Del Rey/Ballantine, c2007**.

A group of Tokyo teens try to understand why thousands of people around the world have committed suicide.
 * Kawashima, Tadashi. __Alive.__ New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, c2007.**

On his way north to find his kidnapped friend, Taisuke comes upon a hostage situation at a truck stop surrounded by a psychic barrier and can only free the captives if he kills the boy controlling them.
 * Kawashima, Tadashi. __Alive : the final evolution.__ New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, c2007.**

Taisuke and Yuta's search for their kidnapped friends is threatened when they are ambushed by Morio and Taisuke must use his developing powers to escape.
 * Kawashima, Tadashi. __Alive : the final evolution.__ New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, c2008.**

While Inspector Katsumata journeys to Hakkaido, Taisuke and Yuta meet two superpowered beings, but they are not sure if they are enemies or friends.
 * Kawashima, Tadashi. __Alive : the final evolution.__ New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, c2008.**

While Taisuke is busy trying to free the girl being held hostage by Okada, Megumi finds herself trapped and unable to escape from Yuichi, Taisuke's friend who works with Katsumata.
 * Kawashima, Tadashi. __Alive : the final evolution.__ New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, c2008.**

While Taisuke and his friends are being followed by two reporters who are convinced that Taisuke is responsible for the murder of three police officers, they are also pursued by a poisonous preacher who has the power to petrify his victims.
 * Kawashima, Tadashi. __Alive : the final evolution.__ New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, c2008.**

Shortly after his arrival on Deloca to study on the School Train, Reiichi Sakakusa's life is derailed by a rebellious girl named Arena, who is on the run from an agent who has been sent to find her.
 * Kurata, Hideyuki. __Train + train.__ [Agoura Hills, CA] : Go! Comi, c2007.**

An avalanche traps the students of the Special Train atop a snowy mountain and they must find a way to work together in order to save the mountain people and themselves.
 * Kurata, Hideyuki. __Train + train.__ [Agoura Hills, CA] : Go! Comi, c2007**.

Arena wakes from the bombing unharmed and begins searching for Reiichi, who has been taken hostage by a terrorist group, while Principal Michelle struggles to stand firm against the group's demands, even if it means Reiichi must endure painful torture.
 * Kurata, Hideyuki. __Train + train.__ [Agoura Hills, CA] : Go! Comi, c2007.**

Arena, determined to face off against her mentor, finds herself running from deadly agents and her fellow students when her grandfather puts a bounty on her head.
 * Kurata, Hideyuki. __Train + train.__ [Agoura Hills, Calif.] : Go! Comi, c2008.**

Reiichi and Arena are forced to work together aboard the Special Train, until they arrive at the city of Sasuta Shima, where they face a seedy casino owner who has placed a bet on their lives.
 * Kurata, Hideyuki. __Train + train.__ [Agoura Hills, CA] : Go! Comi, c2007.**

An illustrated continuation of the story of Mat, a Malaysian teenager who moves from his small village to attend boarding school in the nearby city of Ipoh, where he is introduced to modern music, busy streets, first love, and a growing passion for art.
 * Lat. __Town boy.__ 1st American ed. New York : First Second, 2007.**

Batman finds himself teamed up with his old adversary Catwoman against his former ally Superman and Poison Ivy. Includes "The Legend of the Batman: Who he is and how he came to be." Includes artwork on CD-ROM.
 * Loeb, Jeph. __Batman. : hush.__ New York : DC Comics, c2003.**

Mashiro Ichijo, stuck in an after school class that has thrown him into a nightmarish dream world where all the students' darkest secrets are exposed, finds himself caught in a battle of affections between Kureha and Sou.
 * Mizushiro, Setona, 1971-. __After school nightmare.__ [Agoura Hills, CA] : Go! Comi, c2007.**

Mashiro's obsession with learning the identities of the other students in the dream class leads him to strike a deal with a fellow classmate, but the deal soon threatens his relationship with Kureha.
 * Mizushiro, Setona, 1971-. __After school nightmare.__ [Agoura Hills, CA] : Go! Comi, c2007.**

Mashiro puts his relationship with Kureha at risk when he deals with a classmate in an attempt to learn more about the people in his dream class.
 * Mizushiro, Setona, 1971-. __After school nightmare.__ [Agoura Hills, Calif.] : Go! Comi, c2007.**

Mashiro will do just about anything to win Kureha; however, their relationship becomes jeopardized when his true identity is revealed.
 * Mizushiro, Setona, 1971-. __After school nightmare.__ [Agoura Hills, CA] : Go! Comi, c2007.**

Mashiro, a high school student whose body is half-male and half-female, has decided to use dream class to become entirely male, but he becomes confused when a new student forces him to face issues he would rather not confront, and the situation is further complicated by Sou's intrusion.
 * Mizushiro, Setona, 1971-. __After school nightmare.__ [Agoura Hills, CA] : Go! Comi, c2007.**

Mashiro, a high school student whose body is half male and half female, has given up going to the class that was supposed to help him find his true self, and goes looking for answers in an unlikely place.
 * Mizushiro, Setona, 1971-. __After school nightmare.__ [Agoura Hills, Calif.] : Go! Comi, c2008.**

After a startling confession, Mashiro gives Sou a chance despite Sou's recent relationship with Ai, and when Kureha comes back from vacation, her appearance in the dream world reveals a new change.
 * Mizushiro, Setona, 1971-. __After school nightmare.__ [Agoura Hills, Calif.] : Go! Comi, c2008.**

A collection of short graphic stories featuring Superman, his friends, and his arch-enemy, Lex Luthor.
 * Morrison, Grant. __All-star Superman.__ New York : DC Comics, c2007.**

Shizuka, an introverted girl with a mysterious medical condition that turns her translucent and even invisible, is finally able to go on her first date with Mamoru, and their date takes them on an unexpected adventure.
 * Okamoto, Kazuhiro, 1971-. __Translucent.__ 1st ed. Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Manga, 2007**.

Shizuka Shiroyama, a shy eighth grader struggling with Translucent Syndrome, a condition that often makes her turn semi-transparent or invisible, finds new hope and strength in the unconditional love she receives from Mamoru Tadami, a hyperactive classmate.
 * Okamoto, Kazuhiro, 1971-. __Translucent.__ 1st ed. Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Manga, 2007**.

A young high school girl, Chae-Kyung, is forced into a marriage to an evil prince in a Korea still ruled by monarchs.
 * Park, SoHee, 1978-. __Goong.__ Soeul : ICE Kunion, c2006.**

Seventeen short comics stories by such writer-artists as Lauren Weinstein, Dash Shaw, and Robyn Chapman explore the middle school experience.
 * __Stuck in the middle : seventeen comics from an unpleasant age.__ New York : Viking, 2007**.

In the future, a new social order limits reproduction to the progeny of a universal computer, leading to the creation of the Mu, an exiled race of mutants with extrasensory powers who intervene on the planet Ataraxia to help Jomy Marcus Shin after he fails his maturity check in the hopes that Jomy, who has the Mu's powers, can lead them back to their home planet of Terra.
 * Takemiya, Keiko, 1950-. __To Terra.__ New York : Vertical, c2007.**

After leading the Mu race into hiding, Jomy Marcus Shin struggles to find a way to bring the alien race back to their home planet Terra.
 * Takemiya, Keiko, 1950-. __To Terra.__ New York : Vertical, c2007.**

Jomy Marcus Shin, Tony, and eight other naturally- conceived Mu lead the final offensive against the humans and, despite a series of victories, face a challenge in the figure of Terran defense force leader Keith Anyan.
 * Takemiya, Keiko, 1950-. __To Terra.__ New York : Vertical, c2007.**

Teen neighbors Yoshimori Sumimura and Yokine Yukimura, both schooled in the art of kekkaishi, or demon-fighting, develop feelings for each other while spending time together battling evil, but their relationship is threatened by the ancient rivalry between their families.
 * Tanabe, Yellow. __Kekkaishi.__ Action ed. San Francisco, CA : VIZ, c2005.**

Yoshimori continues to catch ayakashi while dealing with feelings of alienation caused by the arrival of his brother.
 * Tanabe, Yellow. __Kekkaishi.__ Action ed. San Francisco, CA : Viz Media, c2006.**

Mushi have been around since the beginning of time, making trouble for humans and wreaking havoc in the world, and Ginko has taken it upon himself to help those plagued by mushi, even if it means risking his own life.
 * Urushibara, Yuki, 1974-. __Mu shi shi.__ New York : Del Rey/Ballantine, c2007**.

Ginko sets out to find a fellow mushishi on a mushi-infested mountain, and puts his own life in jeopardy.
 * Urushibara, Yuki, 1974-. __Mu shi shi.__ New York : Del Rey/Ballantine, c2007**.

=Non-Fiction=

General

 * __Wellesley High School Yearbook 2008.__**

__**The Oxford encyclopedia of food and drink in America.**__ **Oxford [U.K.] ; : Oxford University Press, 2004.**__T__ Presents hundreds of alphabetized articles on inventions, social movements, and events that have shaped food and drink preparation, consumption, and attitudes in America. This volume covers A-J.

Presents hundreds of alphabetized articles on inventions, social movements, and events that have shaped food and drink preparation, consumption, and attitudes in America. This volume covers K-Z.
 * __The Oxford encyclopedia of food and drink in America.__ Oxford [U.K.] ; : Oxford University Press, 2004.**

Presents library planners with more than 1,500 checklist questions regarding architecture, interior organization, ADA guidelines, shelving, security, and other considerations to help avoid expensive mistakes, and includes information on such related topics as "green" design and alternatives to new construction.
 * __Checklist of library building design considerations.__ 4th ed. Chicago : American Library Association, 2001.**

Bill Alexander recounts the challenges he faced while trying to cultivate his own vegetable garden and offers a cost-benefit analysis of his efforts, determining that it cost him $64 to grow each of his beloved tomatoes.
 * Alexander, William, 1953-. __The $64 tomato.__ Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006.**

Beer and wine : some social commentary -- A brief history of wine -- A brief history of beer -- How wine is made -- How beer is made -- The quality of wine -- The quality of beer -- Types of wine -- Types of beer -- The healthfulness of wine and beer -- Conclusions about beer and wine and the future. A comparison of beer and wine that discusses their histories, markets, quality attributes, nutritive properties, and other related topics.
 * Bamforth, Charles W., 1952-. __Grape vs. grain : a historical, technological, and social comparison of wine and beer.__ Cambridge [England] ; : Cambridge University Press, 2008.**

A comprehensive, A to Z encyclopedia that addresses such topics as food companies, brands, health, science and technology, culture, and the environment.
 * __The business of food : encyclopedia of the food and drink industries.__ Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2007.**

Dog expert Cesar Millan reveals what dogs need to live happy and fulfilled lives and offers pet owners practical suggestions to help them care for their pets without overwhelming them and causing behavior problems.
 * Millan, Cesar. __Cesar's way : the natural, everyday guide to understanding and correcting common dog problems.__ 1st ed. New York : Harmony Books, c2006.**

A collection of black-and-white cartoons about the library.
 * McCullar, Scott. __Dewey Decimal System defeats Truman! : library cartoons.__ Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1998.**

An illustrated collection of historical records that provides information on the practice and tradition of tattooing and tattoo designs and techniques around the world, from ancient times through the twentieth century.
 * Gilbert, Steve. __Tattoo history : a source book : an anthology of historical records of tattooing throughout the world.__ New York : Juno Books, c2000**.

Science and Technology
Provides descriptions of three hundred of the most interesting celestial objects in the galaxy, each with facts and figures on mass, magnitude, density, and other features, related objects and phenomena, and a color photograph.
 * Wilkins, Jamie. __300 astronomical objects : a visual reference to the universe.__ Buffalo, N.Y. : Firefly Books, 2006.**

A textbook covering the evolutionary and functional morphology of vertebrate animals that uses charts, illustrations, and detailed text to help students better understand the material.
 * Hildebrand, Milton, 1918-. __Analysis of vertebrate structure.__ 5th ed. New York : Wiley, c2001**.

Illustrations, photographs, and text provide an in-depth introduction to the human central nervous system and its functions.
 * Woolsey, Thomas A. __The brain atlas : a visual guide to the human central nervous system.__ 2nd ed. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, c2003.**

Contains entries that provide a variety of information about the chemical elements, arranged alphabetically from Actinium to Francium; and includes three tables of contents, sidebars, a timeline, illustrations, a periodic table, and other reference materials.
 * Newton, David E. __Chemical elements. : from carbon to krypton.__ Detroit : UXL, c1999.**

Contains entries that provide a variety of information about the chemical elements, arranged alphabetically from Gadolinium to Oxygen; and includes three tables of contents, sidebars, a timeline, illustrations, and other reference materials.
 * Newton, David E. __Chemical elements. : from carbon to krypton.__ Detroit : UXL, c1999.**

Contains entries that provide a variety of information about the chemical elements, arranged alphabetically from Palladium to Zirconium; features an additional essay that discusses the transfermium elements; and includes sidebars, a timeline, illustrations, a period table, and other reference materials.
 * Newton, David E. __Chemical elements. : from carbon to krypton.__ Detroit : UXL, c1999.**

What is energy? -- Kinetic energy of a skater: 5,000 joules -- Potential energy of Liberty's torch : 3.4 million joules -- Heat power of the sun in 1 m2 : 1,500 watts -- Electrical energy of an AA battery : 8 watt-hours -- Chemical energy of 1 kilogram of sugar : 17 million joules -- Relativistic energy of 1 kilogram of helium fusion : 270 trillion joules -- Household energy use : 43 kilowatt-hours -- Conclusion. Color photographs and illustrations explore the many forms of energy including kinetic, potential, electrical, chemical, thermal, and nuclear.
 * Foland, Andrew Dean. __Energy.__ New York : Chelsea House, c2007.**

Microbiology : what, why and how? -- Biochemical principles -- Cell structure and organisation -- Microbial nutrition and cultivation -- Microbial growth -- Microbial metabolism -- Procaryote diversity -- The fungi -- The protista -- Viruses -- Microbial genetics -- Microorganisms in genetic engineering -- The control of microorganisms -- Antimicrobial agents -- Microbial associations -- Microorganisms in the environment -- Industrial and food microbiology. Presents a comprehensive text that introduces the basic principles of microbiology including genetic engineering, microorganisms in the environment, and more; and contains self-test questions.
 * Hogg, Stuart (Stuart I.). __Essential microbiology.__ West Sussex, England ; : Wiley, c2005.**

Describes numerous aspects of weather, including the atmosphere, weather systems, winds, clouds, precipitation, extreme weather such as blizzards, tornadoes, and hurricanes, weather lore, meteorology, global climate, and climate change, and contains hundreds of color photos and diagrams.
 * Buckley, Bruce. __Weather : a visual Guide.__ Buffalo, N.Y. : Firefly Books, 2004.**

Collects particular letters to and from Charles Darwin, including correspondence by critics who sought to destroy his ideas as well as from people who admired his work, ranging from 1860, which is directly after he published "On the Origin of Species," to 1870.
 * Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. __Evolution : selected letters of Charles Darwin, 1860-1870.__ Cambridge [England] ; : Cambridge University Press, 2008.**

Provides a color-illustrated overview of volcanoes, including volcanic eruptions, structures, monitoring, magma, and volcanologists, and profiles one hundred volcanoes around the world, describing their history, activity, access, and principal attractions.
 * __Volcanoes.__ Toronto, Ont. ; : Firefly Books, 2003.**

An examination of the deep-sea that provides over two hundred, full-color photographs; describes the biology of marine wildlife; explores different habitats; and discusses exploration.
 * __The deep.__ Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.**

Inner space -- The rise of the atom -- Organizing atoms -- The periodic table of the elements -- Chemical bonds -- Radioactivity -- Nuclear energy -- Elementary particle physics. Describes the relationships or laws within the science of matter and energy; and contains real-life examples that provides insight into the principles that govern the earth.
 * Larson, Daniel. __The nature of matter.__ New York : Chelsea House, c2007**.

Examines the climate conditions, weather, dunes, soils, and landscape histories of deserts, and provides descriptions of deserts in Africa and Europe, and Middle East,Asia, the Americas, and Australia. Includes photographs, maps, and charts.
 * Stoppato, Marco. __Deserts.__ Toronto, Ont. : Firefly Books, Ltd. ;, 2003, c2002.**

Collects letters written by Charles Darwin from childhood through the time "On the Origin of Species" was finally published, and details his accounts of time spent in school, traveling on the "Beagle," and facing the first opinions after the release of his theory on natural selection.
 * Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. __Origins : selected letters of Charles Darwin 1822-1859.__ Anniversary ed., Rev ed. Cambridge, UK ; : Cambridge University Press, 2008.**

Presents a comprehensive illustrated natural history guide to the plants and animals that inhabit Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island, and Long Island.
 * Sterling, Dorothy, 1913-. __The outer lands : a natural history guide to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island, and Long Island.__ Rev. ed. New York : Norton, c1978.**

Tells the dramatic story of U.S. Army scientists and soldiers who worked to stop the outbreak of a deadly and extremely contagious virus in 1989.
 * Preston, Richard, 1954-. __The hot zone.__ 1st Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 1995**.

A comprehensive guide to rocks, minerals, fossils, and gems that provides information on each type's origins, qualities, and uses.
 * Bonewitz, Ra. __Rock and gem.__ London ; : DK, c2008**.

The author presents an introduction to the science of networks, a field developed in an attempt to understand the "connected age," discussing his role in the development of the new science, and speculating about the promising applications of the simple network models.
 * Watts, Duncan J., 1971-. __Six degrees : the science of a connected age.__ New York : Norton, 2004, c2003.**

Profiles every family of birds, covering their unique features, distribution, diet, social behavior, and breeding biology, and providing approximately one thousand color photos and illustrations.
 * __Firefly encyclopedia of birds.__ Toronto : Firefly Books ;, 2003.**

Describes the science of forces and motion, discussing equations related to motion; providing diagrams; and covering speed, acceleration, vectors, Newton's first law, air pressure, and other topics.
 * Bug, Amy. __Forces and motion.__ New York : Chelsea House, c2008.**

Presents an overview of the developments in commercial aviation through the end of the twentieth century, chronicling the evolution from fragile biplanes to huge jumbo jets.
 * Dick, Ron, 1931-. __Wings of change.__ Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press ;, c2005.**

A comprehensive overview of pandemics and their influence on global health that examines major types of infectious agents and modes of transmission, worldwide pandemics and attempts to control them, recent outbreaks and methods of fighting them, and other related topics.
 * Youngerman, Barry. __Pandemics and global health.__ New York : Facts On File, c2008**.

Discusses the production, transmittal, and perception of music, covering the origins of musical sound, types of propagation, the role of frequency and pitch, superposition of vibrations and waves, instruments, the human voice, sound reproduction, electronics, and more.
 * Rigden, John S. __Physics and the sound of music.__ 2nd ed. New York : Wiley, c1985.**

Presents the fundamental tools of contemporary physics, providing information on mathematical formulas, tables of data, symbols, units, nomenclature, and fundamental constants.
 * Cohen, E. Richard, 1922-. __The physics quick reference guide.__ Woodbury, N.Y. : American Institute of Physics, c1996**.

The universe (and welcome to it!) -- The mathematics of motion -- Newton, Kepler, and gravity -- Observing the night sky -- Relativity and black holes -- The large-scale structure of the universe. Introduces students to the planets, stars, and galaxies, answering basic questions about the universe.
 * Ritter, Gordon. __Planets, stars, and galaxies.__ New York : Chelsea House, c2008.**

More than four hundred high-quality color photographs provide a comprehensive atlas of common microorganisms and their appearance after stains and tests.
 * Alexander, Steve K. __Microbiology : a photographic atlas for the laboratory.__ San Francisco : Benjamin Cummings, c2001.**

Introduction to physical geology -- Overview of planet earth -- Plate tectonics -- Rocks -- Freshwater -- Historical geology -- Glaciers -- Wind -- The shoreline -- Humans -- Glossary. Describes some of the forces that shape the physical geography of the Earth, including glaciers, wind, water, and others, and discusses the theory of plate tectonics, the rock cycle, and the origin and history of the planet.
 * Thompson, David M. (David Mattoon), 1977-. __Processes that shape the earth.__ New York : Chelsea House, c2007.**

History
Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. But it is the American commander-in-chief who stands foremost -- Washington, who had never before led an army in battle.
 * McCullough, David G. __1776.__ New York : Simon & Schuster, c2005**.

Contains over three hundred entries that provide information on various aspects of U.S. military history from the colonial wars to the events of September 11, 2001, covering key individuals, technological developments, weapons systems, and the causes,courses, and effects of wars, arranged alphabetically from A to F.
 * __Encyclopedia of American military history.__ New York : Facts On File, c2003.**

Contains over three hundred entries that provide information on various aspects of U.S. military history from the colonial wars to the events of September 11, 2001, covering key individuals, technological developments, weapons systems, and the causes, courses, and effects of wars, arranged alphabetically from G to O.
 * __Encyclopedia of American military history.__ New York : Facts On File, c2003.**

Contains over three hundred entries that provide information on various aspects of U.S. military history from the colonial wars to the events of September 11, 2001, covering key individuals, technological developments, weapons systems, and the causes, courses, and effects of wars, arranged alphabetically from P to Z, with a glossary, selected bibliography, and index.
 * __Encyclopedia of American military history.__ New York : Facts On File, c2003.**

Traces the history and evolution of working in the United States from colonial times to the early twenty-first century, and includes chronologies, eyewitness testimonies, photographs and illustrations, maps, brief biographies of notable people, and excerpts from primary source documents.
 * Reef, Catherine. __Working in America.__ New York : Facts On File, c2007**.

Chronicles the events of an April 2004 surprise attack on American troops in Sadr City, Iraq; and provides personal accounts of soldiers in battle and their families and friends waiting for news at home.
 * Raddatz, Martha. __The long road home : a story of war and family.__ New York : Putnams, c2007.**

Presents a comprehensive collection of lesser-known writings of founding father Benjamin Franklin including journal entries and letters that express his personal views, habits, discoveries, and political thoughts.
 * Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790. __Not your usual founding father : selected readings from Benjamin Franklin.__ New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2006.**

While I was sleeping -- The ten forces that flattened the world -- The triple convergence -- The great sorting out -- America and free trade -- The untouchables -- The right stuff -- The quiet crisis -- This is not a test -- The Virgin of Guadalupe -- How companies cope -- Globalization of the local -- If it's not happening it's because you're not doing it -- What happens when we all have dog's hearing? -- The unflat world -- The Dell theory of conflict prevention -- 11/9 versus 9/11. Contains an overview of the global political and economic change since the turn of the twenty-first century, discussing the rapid developments in technologies that has allowed India and China to become part of a growing supply chain of manufacturing impacting global markets.
 * Friedman, Thomas L. __The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century.__ 1st further updated and expanded hardcover ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.**

Presents a photographic history of aviation, focusing on the role of aircraft and aviators in World War II, in Europe and the Middle East, and in the Pacific, China, Burma, and India.
 * Dick, Ron, 1931-. __World War II.__ Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press ;, 2004.**

Collections of portraits of people past and present who have shaped the course of history or changed the world; includes discussion of Louis Agassiz, Charles and Anne Lindbergh, Frederic Remington, Antoine de Saint-Exupèry, and others.
 * McCullough, David G. __Brave companions : portraits in history.__ 1st Touchstone ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1992.**

Presents the narratives of two slaves, Wallace Turnage and John Washington, who escaped to freedom during the chaos of the Civil War.
 * Blight, David W. __A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation.__ 1st ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2007.**

Life, death, and terror in the slave trade -- The evolution of the slave ship -- African paths to the middle passage -- Olaudah Equiano: astonishment and terror -- James Field Stanfi Eld and the floating dungeon -- John Newton and the peaceful kingdom -- The captain's own hell -- The sailor's vast machine -- From captives to shipmates -- The long voyage of the slave ship brookes -- Epilogue: endless passage -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. Presents a comprehensive history of the African slave trade and of the suffering and tragedy of millions of Africans who were kidnapped and brought aboard slave ships to be sold in the Americas.
 * Rediker, Marcus Buford. __The slave ship : a human history.__ New York : Viking, c2007.**

The West Coast of Africa : 1441-1866 -- The Middle Passage : 1500-1866 -- Americans in the slave trade : 1526-1865 -- Slave life : 1619-1865 -- Slave work : 1619-1865 -- Runaways : 1619-1865 -- Canada, other refuges, and the colonization/emigration movement : 1501-1877 -- Rebels : 1526-1865 -- Indians as slaves, as friends and enemies of Black slaves, and as slaveholders : 1529-1877 -- The argument over slavery : 1637-1877 -- Black soldiers in America's wars : 1635-1877 -- The end of slavery : 1861-1877 -- Reconstruction : 1865-1877 -- Appendix A : documents -- Appendix B : biographies of major personalities -- Appendix C : maps -- Appendix D : graphs and tables. Traces the history and evolution of slavery in the United States from colonial times to the early twenty-first century, and includes chronologies, eyewitness testimonies, photographs and illustrations, maps, brief biographies of notable people, and excerpts from primary source documents.
 * Schneider, Dorothy. __Slavery in America.__ Rev. ed. New York : Facts On File, c2007.**

Presents over six hundred crossed-referenced entries that describe Native American wars and battles, treaties, tribes, weaponry, and key events and figures and includes seventy-eight black-and-white photographs and illustrations, thirty-six maps, and chronology.
 * __Encyclopedia of Native American wars and warfare.__ New York : Checkmark, c2005.**

Presents information on approximately four hundred living and extinct Native American tribes, grouped by linguistic family, covering kinships, locations, populations, and cultural characteristics, and includes maps and over three hundred color and archival photos.
 * Johnson, Michael, 1937 Apr. 22-. __Encyclopedia of native tribes of North America.__ Buffalo, N.Y. : Firefly Books, 2007.**

Presents a comprehensive analysis of over five hundred years of North American immigration and includes over three hundred A to Z entries on events, themes, people, places, and the various laws related to immigration.
 * Powell, John, 1954-. __Encyclopedia of North American immigration.__ New York : Facts On File, c2005.**

Chronicles developments in military, adventure, and entertainment aviation between the World Wars.
 * Dick, Ron, 1931-. __The golden age.__ Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press ;, c2004.**


 * McCullough, David G. __The Great Bridge.__ New York, : Simon and Schuster, [1972].**

Contains over 300 illustrations and essays describing the reign of Hatshepsut, the queen who became pharaoh, Eyptian life during the eighteenth dynasty, the relationship between Hatshepsut and Thutmose III during their joint reign, and efforts to destroy her image after her death.
 * __Hatshepsut, from queen to Pharaoh.__ New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ;, c2005.**

Draws from letters, diaries, historical records, and interviews with survivors to provide an account of the 1889 flood that killed over two thousand people in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
 * McCullough, David G. __The Johnstown flood.__ 2nd Touchstone ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1987, c1968.**

Discusses the treatment of American POWs in Japanese prison camps during WW II, suggesting why the Japanese now refuse to admit to the atrocities.
 * Daws, Gavan. __Prisoners of the Japanese : POWs of World War II in the Pacific.__ 1st Quill ed. New York : Quill, c1994.**

Humanities
Offers teenagers advice on how to deal with the issues they face and grow up to become competent, successful adults.
 * Friel, John C., 1947-. __The 7 best things (smart) teens do.__ Deerfield Beach, Fla. : Health Communications, c2000.**

Describes how behaviorism accounts for such ideas about behavior as purpose and intention, meaning, perceiving, thinking, knowing, causes and reasons, knowing and personalities, managing oneself, etc.
 * Skinner, B. F. (Burrhus Frederic), 1904-. __About behaviorism.__ New York : Vintage Books, 1976, c1974.**


 * Kozol, Jonathan. __Amazing grace : : : the lives of children and the conscience of a nation /.__ 1st HarperPerennial ed. New York : : HarperPerennial, 1996.**

Profiles approximately 120 iconic American people, places, and things, such as Madonna, Ray Charles, Mount Rushmore, and the Ford Mustang, in alphabetical order, and provides a guide to related entries.
 * __American icons : an encyclopedia of the people, places, and things that have shaped our culture.__ Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2006.**

Profiles approximately forty iconic American people, places, and things in alphabetical order, from the Alamo to the Grateful Dead, and provides a guide to related entries.
 * __American icons. : an encyclopedia of the people, places, and things that have shaped our culture.__ Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2006.**

Profiles approximately forty iconic American people, places, and things in alphabetical order, from the guardian angel to Elvis Presley, and provides a guide to related entries.
 * __American icons. : an encyclopedia of the people, places, and things that have shaped our culture.__ Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2006**.

Contains over five hundred alphabetized entries on issues, events, and individuals related to concerns and roles of women in American politics, and includes tables, twenty-one speeches and primary documents from the women's rights movement, and a bibliography.
 * __Encyclopedia of women and American politics.__ New York : Facts On File, c2008.**

Draws on a wide range of fields, including science, medicine, and psychology to explore the link between dreams and basic human emotions and culture, with a detailed description of the dreaming process and its impact on the human brain.
 * McNamara, Patrick, 1956-. __An evolutionary psychology of sleep and dreams.__ Westport, CT : Praeger, 2004.**

Examines the increasingly obese status of America, discussing the roles of economics, culture, politics, and class in the problem and describing its adverse health effects, including childhood diabetes.
 * Critser, Greg. __Fat land : how Americans became the fattest people in the world.__ Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2003.**

Matthew Polly recounts the experiences he had during the two years he spent living and studying in China, performing with the Shaolin monks, who taught Matthew important lessons about life and his place in the universe.
 * Polly, Matthew. __American Shaolin : flying kicks, Buddhist monks, and the legend of iron crotch : an odyssey in the new China.__ New York : Gotham Books, [2008], c2007.**

Discusses the interaction between post-conciliar Roman Catholicism and Asante religion of Ghana and the aspects of self-definition and cultural renewal implicit in both, exploring Asante cultural history and the mutual shaping between the two worldviews, and covers religious vocabulary, spirituality, theology, and more.
 * Obeng, J. Pashington. __Asante Catholicism : religious and cultural reproduction among the Akan of Ghana.__ Leiden ; : E.J. Brill, 1996**.

Examines the work of individuals who have had a major impact on the study and practice of psychology from a scientific perspective, discussing the factors that lead to highly successful careers in the field.
 * Simonton, Dean Keith. __Great psychologists and their times : scientific insights into psychology's history.__ Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2002.**

Psychopathology of everyday life -- The interpretation of dreams -- Three contributions to the theory of sex -- Wit and its relations to the unconscious -- Totem and taboo -- The history of the psychoanalytic movement. Includes six complete texts from Freud's works providing an examination into his psychoanalytical theories.
 * Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. __The basic writings of Sigmund Freud.__ Modern Library ed. New York : Modern Library, 1995.**

Traces the history and evolution of poverty in the United States from colonial times to the early twenty-first century, and includes chronologies, eyewitness testimony, photographs and illustrations, maps, brief biographies of notable people, and excerpts from primary source documents.
 * Reef, Catherine. __Poverty in America.__ New York : Facts on File, c2007.**

Presents a psychology text, providing information in fifty-five modules that cover the history and science of psychology, neuroscience and behavior, learning, memory, personality, disorders, therapy, and other related topics, and includes illustrations, review summaries, and self-test questions and answers.
 * Myers, David G. __Psychology.__ 7th ed. in modules. New York : Worth Publishers, c2004**.

A short introduction to psychology, explaining what it is and how it should be studied, and discussing perception, learning and memory, thinking, reasoning and communicating, motivation and emotion, individual differences, and other related topics.
 * Butler, Gillian. __Psychology : a very short introduction.__ Oxford ; : Oxford University Press, 2000, 1998.**

Introduction : Little Africa -- Jail : Southern detention to global liberation -- Friends like these : race and neoconservatism -- After civil rights : the rise of Black public intellectuals -- Have mask, will travel : centrists from the Ivy League -- A capital fellow from Hoover : Shelby Steele -- Reflections of a first amendment trickster : Stephen Carter -- Man without connection : John McWhorter -- American myth : illusions of liberty and justice for all -- Prison : colored bodies, private profit -- Conclusion : What then must we do?. Discusses the author's theory that some African-American intellectuals have "turned their backs" on racial activism in the United States, and examines his childhood home in Louisville, Kentucky, as well as classic sites from literature and history, and also analyzes African-American academics.
 * Baker, Houston A. __Betrayal : how Black intellectuals have abandoned the ideals of the civil rights era.__ New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.**


 * Nĥát Hạnh, Thích. __Calming the fearful mind : a Zen response to terrorism.__ Berkeley, CA : Parallax Press, c2005.**

Discusses a number of mental health disorders in teens including bipolar disorder, self-mutilation, suicide, and clinical depression; and offers advice on identifying problems and dealing with them effectively.
 * Scowen, Kate. __My kind of sad : what it's like to be young and depressed.__ Toronto ; : Annick Press ;, c2006**.

Welcome to the hothouse -- Rocking the cradle of class -- Parenting to perfection -- We're all Jewish mothers now -- Cheating childhood -- Meet mom and dad, the new hall monitors -- From scrutiny to fragility -- Crisis on the campus -- Arrested development -- Born to be stressed -- Whose shark tank is it, anyway? -- Class dismissed -- "We didn't get here by rocking the boat" -- What parents can do for their kids. Argues that the over-involvement of parents in the lives of their children is resulting in a generation of wimps, looking at how parents in affluent nations around the world have become so intent on smoothing the paths of their kids that they are depriving young people of the opportunity to learn and develop coping strategies and delaying their entry into adulthood.
 * Marano, Hara Estroff. __A nation of wimps : the high cost of invasive parenting.__ 1st ed. New York : Broadway Books, c2008**.

Discusses how much influence a person's "emotional intelligence" has on their ability to succeed in their personal life and their career.
 * Goleman, Daniel. __Emotional intelligence.__ Bantam 10th anniversary hardcover ed. New York : Bantam Books, 2006, c1994.**

Presents an encyclopedia on the history of American business that contains entries from A to M on major industry leaders, events, and institutions including John Jacob Aster, Ford Motor Company, and the Industrial Revolution.
 * Geisst, Charles R. __Encyclopedia of American business history.__ New York : Facts On File, c2006.**

Presents an encyclopedia on the history of American business containing entries from N to Z on major industry leaders, events, and institutions including the National Bank Act, railroads, stock market, and Cornelius Vanderbilt; as well as selected primary documents.
 * Geisst, Charles R. __Encyclopedia of American business history.__ New York : Facts On File, c2006.**

Contains articles that provide information on educational topics from a wide variety of subject areas, including biographies of notable educators; arranged alphabetically from Aaron v. McKinley to Eye-voice span.
 * Unger, Harlow G., 1931-. __Encyclopedia of American education.__ 3rd ed. New York : Facts On File, c2007.**

Contains articles that provide information on educational topics from a wide variety of subject areas, including biographies of notable educators; arranged alphabetically from Factory education to Puritanism.
 * Unger, Harlow G., 1931-. __Encyclopedia of American education.__ 3rd ed. New York : Facts On File, c2007.**

Contains articles that provide information on educational topics from a wide variety of subject areas, including biographies of notable educators; arranged alphabetically from Quarter to Zorach v. Clauson, with a bibliography, references, chronology, and index.
 * Unger, Harlow G., 1931-. __Encyclopedia of American education.__ 3rd ed. New York : Facts On File, c2007**.

A reissue of the 1950 text in which psychologist Erik Erikson analyses the relationship between childhood training and cultural accomplishment.
 * Erikson, Erik H. (Erik Homburger), 1902-. __Childhood and society.__ New York : W. W. Norton, 1993.**

Traces the history of television broadcasting in the United States from its prehistory--before 1947--through the twenty-first century, and details the innovations, programs,and advancements from the network, Cable, and digital eras of telelvision history.
 * Edgerton, Gary R. (Gary Richard), 1952-. __The Columbia history of American television.__ New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.**

Provides accounts of eighteen crimes and trials that achieved celebrity status, beginning with the Black Sox scandal of 1919 and continuing through the Attica prison riots of 1971, each with photographs, sidebars, and references; and includes an introductory essay that examines the social and historical contexts in which the cases occurred.
 * __Crimes and trials of the century.__ Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2007.**

Provides accounts of seventeen crimes and trials that achieved celebrity status, beginning with the stand-off between American Indian Movement activists and the FBI at Pine Ridge Reservation in 1971 and continuing through the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal of 2004, each with photographs, sidebars, and references; and includes an introductory essay that examines the social and historical contexts in which the cases occurred.
 * __Crimes and trials of the century.__ Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2007.**

The author reports on the results of her Pluralism Project, a study in which she enlisted students to investigate the diversity of religion in their own hometowns, and discusses what the changes in America's religious landscape mean, and the challenges of creating a cohesive society out of the diversity.
 * Eck, Diana L. __A new religious America : how a "Christian country" has now become the world's most religiously diverse nation.__ 1st HarperCollins pbk. ed. [San Francisco, Calif.] : HarperSanFrancisco, 2002, c2001.**

Presents Burrhus Frederic Skinner's views on the natural science of human behavior and discusses how his behavioristic views on human activity have influenced other scientists in their studies.
 * Skinner, B. F. (Burrhus Frederic), 1904-. __Science and human behavior.__ 1st Free Press paperback ed. New York : Free Press, 1965**.

Presents an analysis of the history, identities, and struggle of diasporic Africans of Karnataka, South India, and discusses African Indian religious practices and beliefs and the forms of social and political power they use to engage multi-religious and complex social systems.
 * Obeng, J. Pashington. __Shaping membership, defining nation : the cultural politics of African Indians in South Asia.__ Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2007**.

Over eighty alphabetically arranged entries provide information about gangs in the United States, discussing gang theory, practices, types, and expansion.
 * __Encyclopedia of gangs.__ Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2008.**

A brief biography on the life and works of Sigmund Freud that offers both a critical and sympathetic look into his practice and theories.
 * Kramer, Peter D. __Freud : inventor of the modern mind.__ 1st ed. New York : Atlas Books :, c2006**.

Traces the history and evolution of religion in the United States from colonial times to the early twenty-first century, and includes chronologies, eyewitness testimonies, photographs and illustrations, maps, brief biographies of notable people, and excerpts from primary source documents.
 * Hall, Timothy L., 1955-. __Religion in America.__ New York : Facts on File, c2007.**

Discusses the nature of sleep and dreams, the causes of and treatments for sleep disorders, and the possible meaning of common dreams.
 * McPhee, Andrew T. __Sleep and dreams.__ New York : F. Watts, c2001.**

Greg Mortenson recounts the experiences he had while trying to help impoverished villages in Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya build schools for their children.
 * Mortenson, Greg. __Three cups of tea : one man's mission to promote peace--one school at a time.__ New York : Penguin Books, 2007, c2006.**

Comprehensive picture of the fight for gay rights, from its origins in Germany in the 1890s to its development as a worldwide phenomenon.
 * Adam, Barry D. __The rise of a gay and lesbian movement.__ Rev. ed. New York : Twayne Publishers, c1995.**


 * Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. __The Freud/Jung letters; : the correspondence between Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung. Edited by William McGuire.__ [Princeton, N.J.] : Princeton University Press, [1974].**

An examination of gay and lesbian life in the United States since the colonial period that discusses the Kinsey study, the McCarthy witch hunts of the 1950s, the Beat generation, gay marriage, and other related topics.
 * Alsenas, Linas. __Gay America : struggle for equality.__ New York : Amulet Books, 2008**.

A collection of essays in which the author examines issues relating to the concept of the adolescent identity crisis.
 * Erikson, Erik H. (Erik Homburger), 1902-. __Identity : youth and crisis.__ New York : W.W. Norton, [1994]**.

Illustrations, photographs, and text help chronicle the history and development of American psychology; includes descriptions of informal documents, historic laboratory equipment, older tests, and early films.
 * Popplestone, John A. __An illustrated history of American psychology.__ 2nd ed. Akron, OH : University of Akron Press, 1999**.

Colonists and immigrants: 1607-1700 -- The colonies expand: 1701-1775 -- The American revolution and after: 1776-1813 -- Beginnings of mass immigration: 1814-1860 -- The Civil War and after: 1861-1880 -- The "new immigration":1881-1918 -- The "immigrant problem" and the federal government: 1890-1921 -- The door closes: 1922-1945 -- Some windows open: 1946-1954 -- After Ellis Island: 1955-1999 -- Immigration in the new century: 2000 and beyond. Traces the history and evolution of immigration in the United States from colonial times to the early twenty-first century, and includes chronologies, eyewitness testimonies, photographs and illustrations, maps, brief biographies of notable people, and excerpts from primary source documents.
 * Wepman, Dennis. __Immigration.__ New York : Facts On File, c2008.**

Presents early-twentieth-century psychologist Alfred Adler's system, Individual Psychology, which covers such topics as personality theory and its development, masculine protest, social interest, the onset of neurosis, and early recollections and dreams.
 * Adler, Alfred, 1870-1937. __The individual psychology of Alfred Adler : a systematic presentation in selections from his writings.__ 1st HarperTorchbook ed. New York : HarperPerennial, 1964, c1956.**

Presents an overview of the history of psychological ideas, including information on the essence of human nature in the context of philosophy, science, religion, art, literature, and politics, and tracing its development from antiquity through modern times.
 * Robinson, Daniel N., 1937-. __An intellectual history of psychology.__ 3rd ed. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c1995**.

Discusses the method of dream interpretation, the dream as wish fulfillment, distortion in dreams, sources of dreams, dream-work, and the psychology of the dream processes.
 * Freud, Sigmund. __The interpretation of dreams.__ Modern Library ed. New York : Modern Library, 1994**.

Presents the author's first-hand account of his recovery from drug and alcohol addiction, beginning with his enrollment in a Minnesota rehabilitation center after a two-week blackout and ending with his rejection of all Twelve Step programs.
 * Frey, James, 1969-. __A million little pieces.__ 1st Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 2004, c2003.**

Frugal frugal frugal -- Time, energy, and money -- You aren't what you drive -- Economic outpatient care -- Affirmative action, family style -- Find your niche -- Jobs : millionaires versus heirs. Through interviews, surveys, and data compilation this book discusses how many people accumulate and retain their wealth without others realizing it.
 * Stanley, Thomas J. __The millionaire next door : the surprising secrets of America's wealthy.__ New York : Pocket Books by arrangement with Longstreet Press, [1998], c1996.**

Reveals how personal mindsets affect and control every aspect of one's life and offers advice on how to promote success and personal fulfillment.
 * Dweck, Carol S., 1946-. __Mindset : the new psychology of success.__ 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2006.**

Literature
A collection of poems by Raymond Carver that are chronologically-arranged in order of publication.
 * Carver, Raymond. __All of us : the collected poems.__ 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 2000, c1996.**

N**abokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. __The annotated Lolita.__ Rev. and updated [ed.], 1st Vintage Books ed. New York : Vintage Books, c1991.** Presents Vladimir Nabokov's novel about a thirty-seven-year-old literary scholar who becomes obsessed with a twelve-year-old girl; and provides explanatory notes and an extensive introduction.

A collection of poems by Natasha Trethewey which were inspired by the early 1900's photographs of E.J. Bellocq which profile prostitutes in the red-light district of New Orleans.
 * Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966-. __Bellocq's Ophelia : poems.__ Saint Paul, MN : Graywolf Press, c2002.**

Presents the texts of 134 hymns written by Thomas Troeger, and includes related poems and prayers, and notes on meter, Scriptural references, and occasion.
 * Troeger, Thomas H., 1945-. __Borrowed light : hymn texts, prayers and poems.__ New York : Oxford University Press, 1994**.

Contains critical essays that examine various aspects of the life and works of American author Don Delillo, discussing his aesthetic and cultural influences, his early fiction and major novels, and themes and issues in his writing.
 * __The Cambridge companion to Don DeLillo.__ Cambridge ; : Cambridge University Press, 2008.**

__**T****he Cambridge companion to Henry James.**__ **Cambridge [United Kingdom] ; : Cambridge University Press, 1998.**

An exploration for students new to nineteenth-century American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, which presents historical and cultural context for his work and discusses several of his short stories and novels, as well as his critics.
 * Person, Leland S. __The Cambridge introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne.__ Cambridge, UK ; : Cambridge University Press, 2007.**

An exploration for students new to nineteenth-century American author Herman Melville, which presents historical and cultural context for his work and discusses several of his writings, including his classic novel "Moby-Dick," other novels and short stories, and private letters, as well as his reception.
 * Hayes, Kevin J. __The Cambridge introduction to Herman Melville.__ Cambridge, UK ; : Cambridge University Press, 2007.**

A collection of critical essays that examines the works of W.E.B. Du Bois and the broader cultural contexts that influenced his writing.
 * __The Cambridge companion to W.E.B. Du Bois.__ Cambridge ; : Cambridge University Press, 2008.**

A comprehensive overview of the Harlem Renaissance that discusses the concept of the New Negro, the foundation and international context of the movement, major authors and texts, and the post-Renaissance.
 * __The Cambridge companion to the Harlem Renaissance.__ Cambridge, UK ; : Cambridge University Press, 2007.**

Presents an examination of the slave narrative in historical context through fourteen scholarly essays that discuss transnational abolitionism, the literary traditions of both Anglo-Americans and African-Americans, and the politics of knowledge, and contains a chronology and guide for further reading.
 * __The Cambridge companion to the African American slave narrative.__ Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.**

Presents an introduction to the works of writer Philip Roth through eleven scholarly essays that discuss Roth's engagement with topics such as ethnic identity, postmodernism, sexuality, Israel, and the Holocaust, with a chronology and guide for further reading.
 * __The Cambridge companion to Philip Roth.__ Cambridge, UK ; : Cambridge University Press, 2007.**

__**T****he Cambridge companion to Margaret Atwood.**__ **Cambridge, UK ; : Cambridge University Press, 2006**. Margaret Atwood in her Canadian context / David Staines -- Biography/autobiography / Lorraine York -- Power politics : power and identity / Pilar Somacarrera -- Margaret Atwood's female bodies / Madeleine Davies -- Margaret Atwood and environmentalism / Shannon Hengen -- Margaret Atwood and history / Coomi S. Vevaina -- Home and nation in Margaret Atwood's later fiction / Eleanora Rao -- Margaret Atwood's humor / Marta Dvorak -- Margaret Atwood's poetry and poetics / Branko Gorjup -- Margaret Atwood's short stories and shorter fictions / Reingard M. Nischik -- Margaret Atwood's dystopian visions : The handmaid's tale and Oryx and Crake / Coral Ann Howells -- Blindness and survival in Margaret Atwood's major novels / Sharon R. Wilson. An introduction to the works of Margaret Atwood that present essays from twelve leading critics offering a comprehensive overview of Atwood's novels, short stories, poetry, and essays.

New developments in the post-Jungian field / Andrew Samuels -- Jung's ideas and their context -- The historical context of analytical psychology / Claire Douglas -- Freud, Jung, and psychoanalysis / Douglas A. Davis -- The creative psyche : Jung's major contributions / Sherry Salman -- Psychic imaging : a bridge between subject and object / PaulKugler -- Analytical psychology in practice -- The classicalJungian school / David L. Hart -- The archetypal school / Michael Vannoy Adams -- The developmental school / Hester McFarland Solomon -- Transference and countertransference / Christopher Perry -- Me and my anima : through the dark glass of the Jungian/Freudian interface / Elio Frattaroli -- The case of Joan : classical, archetypal, and developmental approaches -- A classical approach / John Beebe -- An archetypal approach / Deldon Anne McNeely -- A developmental approach / Rosemary Gordon -- Analytical psychology in society -- Jung and Buddhism : refining the dialogue / Polly Young-Eisendrath -- A Jungian analysis of Homer's Odysseus / Joseph Russo -- Literary criticism and analytical psychology / Terence Dawson -- Jung and politics / Lawrence R. Alschuler -- Jung and religion : the opposing self / Ann Belford Ulanov. Provides a critical examination of the thoughts and achievements of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, including essays on his ideas and their context as well as analytical psychology in practice.
 * __The Cambridge companion to Jung.__ 2nd ed. Cambridge ; : Cambridge University Press, 2008.**

Contains the complete text to Don DeLillo's novel "White Noise" along with extensive critical and contextual material.
 * DeLillo, Don. __White noise : text and criticism.__ New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1998.**

Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Mamet adapts Chekov's 1904 play, which is traditionally viewed as an analogy of a dying Russia, into a series of scenes about frustrated sexuality.
 * Mamet, David. __The cherry orchard.__ 1st Evergreen ed. New York : Grove Press, 1987.**

A collection of essays which examine "The Bondwoman's Narrative", discussing what it revealed about slavery in the United States, who the author was, how her writing was influenced by theological, legal, and cultural contexts of antebellum American life, and other related topics.
 * __In search of Hannah Crafts : critical essays on The bondwoman's narrative.__ New York : BasicCivitas Books, c2004.**

Explores how playwrights Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, and Ntozake Shange addresses the issues related to the African-American experience in the United States.
 * Effiong, Philip U. __In search of a model for African-American drama : a study of selected plays by Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, and Ntozake Shange.__** Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2000.

A collection of over three hundred poems by twentieth-century African-American poet Audre Lorde, featuring works from nine volumes published between 1968 and 1993.
 * Lorde, Audre. __The collected poems of Audre Lorde.__ 1st ed. New York : Norton, c1997.**

Volume thirteen in the collected works of Harlem Renaissance author Langston Hughes, featuring the complete text of his autobiography "The Big Sea," which covers his life through 1931.
 * Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. __The collected works of Langston Hughes.__ Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2002.**

A collection of sixty-six poems, selected by the author for young readers, including lyrical poems, songs, and blues, many exploring the black experience.
 * Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. __The dream keeper and other poems : including seven additional poems.__ 75th anniversary ed. New York : Knopf, 1994.**

Presents the correspondence and telephone calls between Tupac Shakur, a rapper who was shot and died in September, 1996, and Angela Ardis, a woman who wrote to him on a dare, while he was incarcerated in Rikers Island and Dannemora State Prison in New York.
 * Ardis, Angela. __Inside a thug's heart : with original poems and letters by Tupac Shakur.__ New York : Kensington Pub. Corp., c2004.**

A collection of nearly forty poems that explores the struggles and joys of poor African-American boys in Gary, Indiana, reflecting the difficult circumstances they face.
 * Crisler, Curtis L. __Tough boy sonatas.__ 1st ed. Honesdale, Pa. : Wordsong, c2007.**

A collection of poems that pays tribute to the history of the American South and to the Native Guard, one of the first African-American regiments in service during the Civil War.
 * Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966-. __Native guard.__ Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006**.

A collection of thirty literary essays written between 1975 and 2003, featuring selections by Sherman Alexie, Joan Didion, John McPhee, Susan Sontag, and many others.
 * __The next American essay.__ Saint Paul, MN : Graywolf Press, c2003**.

Presents hundreds of stories, novels, poems, memoirs, and other writings by important authors throughout American history.
 * __The Norton anthology of American literature.__ Shorter 7th ed. New York : W.W. Norton, c2008**.

A collection of poems written by rap artist and actor Tupac Shakur at the age of nineteen.
 * Shakur, Tupac, 1971-1996. __The rose that grew from concrete.__ New York : Pocket Books/MTV Books, c1999.**

Presents a selection of love poems by thirteenth-century Sufi mystic and poet Jalaluddin Rumi.
 * Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273. __Rumi : the book of love : poems of ecstasy and longing.__ 1st ed. [San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, c2003**.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that explore the meaning of nearly 14,000 words found in the plays and poems of William Shakespeare, each with at least one illustrative quotation. Includes cross-references and other resources.
 * Crystal, David, 1941-. __Think on my words : exploring Shakespeare's language.__ Cambridge, UK ; : Cambridge University Press, 2008**.

Presents two plays by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, including "The Spanish Prisoner," a thriller about a research-and-development worker who is tricked out of his own discovery; and "The Winslow Boy," the story of a thirteen-year-old boy accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order.
 * Mamet, David. __The Spanish prisoner ; : and, The Winslow boy : two screenplays.__ 1st ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1999, c1998.**

Biography
Profiles the life and achievements of Barack Obama, discussing his childhood, family, education, influences, work with public housing in Chicago, visit to Kenya, marriage, and political career.
 * Sapet, Kerrily, 1972-. __Political profiles : Barack Obama.__ 1st ed. Greensboro, N.C. : Morgan Reynolds Pub., c2008.**

Profiles the life and career of pioneer aviator, Amelia Earhart, and chronicles her childhood and early interest in flying, achievements and awards, and her final flight around the world that ended in her mysterious disappearance.
 * Van Pelt, Lori, 1961-. __Amelia Earhart : the sky's no limit.__ 1st trade pbk. ed. New York : Forge, 2006, c2005.**

Darrin Bastfield describes what it was like growing up with rapper Tupac Shakur, explaining why the rapper was often misunderstood and profiling his visionary efforts to unite the African-American community.
 * Bastfield, Darrin Keith. __Back in the day : my life and times with Tupac Shakur.__ 1st Da Capo Press ed. Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2003, c2002.**

Highest honor -- Arizona to California -- Sal si puedes, migrants -- An activist's beginnings -- The black eagle takes flight -- The first strike -- Viva la causa -- Army of growers -- Fast -- A stronger forest. A brief biography of activist and founder of the United Farmer Workers, Cesar Chavez, that chronicles his childhood, military service, and efforts to help poor farm workers in their fight for civil rights.
 * Young, Jeff C., 1948-. __Cesar Chavez.__ 1st ed. Greensboro, N.C. : Morgan Reynolds Pub., c2007**.

Examines the life of rap musician Tupac Shakur, explores the reasons why his music and message continue to grow five years after his death, and includes interviews with people who knew and/or admired the rapper, including his mother, Quincy Jones, Jada Pinkett Smith, and others.
 * Dyson, Michael Eric. __Holler if you hear me : searching for Tupac Shakur.__ 2006 ed. New York : Basic Civitas Books, [2006], c2001**.

A biography of rapper and actor Tupac Shakur, discussing his early years of poverty, his legal problems, the violence that became a way of life, and his legacy.
 * Sandy, Candace. __How long will they mourn me? : the life and legacy of Tupac Shakur : an unauthorized biography.__ One World mass market ed. New York : One World, 2006.**

Yankee apprentice -- Whig politico -- Tribune of the people -- Freedom fighter -- Trans-atlantic Republican -- American republican -- Anti-slavery man -- Warrior -- Unionist -- Liberal Republican -- Conclusion : freedom's champion. Chronicles the life of Horace Greeley, discussing his childhood, love of learning, years as a printer in New York City, presidential campaign against General Ulysses S. Grant, and other related topics.
 * Williams, Robert Chadwell, 1938-. __Horace Greeley : champion of American freedom.__ New York : New York University Press, c2006**.

Presents the stories of tennis players Alice Marble and Althea Gibson, telling how Marble rose from a poor background to storm the tennis world with her powerful attacking style, and discussing how Gibson smashed the color barrier to become the first African-American to compete at the U.S. Nationals and Wimbleton.
 * Davidson, Sue, 1925-. __Changing the game : the stories of tennis champions Alice Marble and Althea Gibson.__ Seattle, Wash. : Seal Press, c1997.**

Homer Hickam chronicles the events that took place during his senior year in his hometown of Coalwood, West Virginia.
 * Hickam, Homer H., 1943-. __The Coalwood way.__ New York : Delacorte Press, 2000.**

Presents a memoir of the author's time with the 100th Batallion, a National Guard unit made up of Japanese Americans from Hawaii, detailing the hardships they endured in battle and the author's work as a chaplain before returning to life as a pastor in Pennsylvania.
 * Yost, Israel A. S., 1916-2000. __Combat chaplain : the personal story of the World War II chaplain of the Japanese American 100th Battalion.__ Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2006.**

A psychobiography of Martin Luther that explain how insights on human development and identity crisis can be applied to his life.
 * Erikson, Erik H. (Erik Homburger), 1902-. __Young man Luther : a study in psychoanalysis and history.__ New York : Norton, 1993.**

A series of poems that provide a chronological portrait of the life of Sylvia Plath, told in the voices of family members, friends, associates, and others who knew her.
 * Hemphill, Stephanie. __Your own, Sylvia : a verse portrait of Sylvia Plath.__ 1st ed. New York : Knopf, c2007.**

Chronicles the life of the world renowned magician, acrobat, and vaudeville performer Long Tack Sam. Presented in graphic novel format with photographs.
 * Fleming, Ann Marie. __The magical life of Long Tack Sam.__ 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed. New York : Riverhead Books, 2007.**

Presents a brief biography of Malcolm X in graphic novel format that describes his life from his early experiences with racism through his political and religious conversions. ||
 * || **Helfer, Andrew. __Malcolm X : a graphic biography.__ 1st ed. New York : Hill and Wang, 2006.**

Memoir of the author's life growing up as an overachiever in an underpriviledged family, chronicling the blessed relationship she forged with her mother after her father deserted the family.
 * Chambers, Veronica. __Mama's girl.__ 1st Riverhead trade paperback ed. New York : Riverhead Books, 1997.**

Biography of the abolitionist, writer and feminist who wrote about the injustices she saw perpetrated against African Americans in her time.
 * Boyd, Melba Joyce. __Discarded legacy : politics and poetics in the life of Frances E.W. Harper, 1825-1911.__ Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c1994**.

Presents a collection of chronologically arranged entries of America's first ladies, from Martha Washington, to Laura Bush, and includes brief biographical information, as well as explaining their roles and responsibilities in the White House.
 * Schneider, Dorothy. __First ladies : a biographical dictionary.__ 2nd ed. New York : Facts On File, c2005.**

A biography of American statesman Patrick Henry, discussing his early life in colonial Virginia and the events that fueled his patriotic spirit, and examining aspects of his character and legacy.
 * Vaughan, David J., 1955-. __Give me liberty : the uncompromising statesmanship of Patrick Henry.__ Nashville, Tenn. : Cumberland House Pub., c1997.**

Presents a comprehensive history of abolitionist John Brown describing his life-long campaign against the institution of slavery in the mid-1800s and shows how his terrorist activities became the catalyst that led to the Civil War.
 * Reynolds, David S., 1948-. __John Brown, abolitionist : the man who killed slavery, sparked the Civil War, and seeded civil rights.__ 1st ed. New York : Knopf :, 2005.**


 * Partridge, Elizabeth. __John Lennon : all I want is the truth : a biography.__ New York, NY : Viking, 2005.**

Biography of Admiral John Paul Jones concentrating on his naval career.
 * Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976. __John Paul Jones : a sailor's biography.__ Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, [1999].**

Presents the life of rapper and actor Tupac Shakur through photographs, tributes, and interviews.
 * __Tupac Amaru Shakur, 1971-1996.__ 1st paperback ed. New York : Three Rivers Press, 1998**.

Chronicles the life of Warren G. Harding, discussing his early years as a newspaper editor and publisher, his accomplishments as a senator, his fiscal and foreign policies and his popularity as president, the scandals that plagued his term, and other related topics.
 * Dean, John W. (John Wesley), 1938-. __Warren G. Harding.__ 1st ed. New York : Times Books, 2004.**

Memoirs of the author's childhood and youth in Puerto Rico and New York City.
 * S****antiago, Esmeralda. __When I was Puerto Rican.__ 1st Da Capo Press pbk. ed. Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2006, 1993.**

Jenni Schaefer discussing how she overcame her eating disorder by viewing it as a relationship, not a condition, and offers others struggling with eating disorders advice and strategies to help them overcome their disorders.
 * Schaefer, Jenni. __Life without Ed : how one woman declared independence from her eating disorder and how you can too.__ New York : McGraw-Hill, c2004.**

Volume one of a three volume set with alphabetically arranged entries profiling women of Latin American birth or heritage who havemade important contributions to the economic, political, andcultural development of the United States.
 * __Latinas in the United States. : a historical encyclopedia.__ Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.**

Volume two of a three volume set with alphabetically arranged entries profiling women of Latin American birth or heritage who have made important contributions to the economic, political, and cultural development of the United States.
 * __Latinas in the United States. : a historical encyclopedia.__ Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.**

Volume three of a three volume set with alphabetically arranged entries profiling women of Latin American birth or heritage who have made important contributions to the economic, political, and cultural development of the United States.
 * __Latinas in the United States. : a historical encyclopedia.__ Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.**

Sketches of the author's early life in Paris in the twenties provide nostalgic reminiscences of his first marriage and the discipline of developing his own literary craft.
 * Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. __A moveable feast.__ New York, : Scribner, [1964]**.

A biography of Tupac Shakur, discussing the personal, political, sociological, and musical forces that brought the rap singer his fame, and his death.
 * White, Armond. __Rebel for the hell of it : the life of Tupac Shakur.__ New York : Thunder's Mouth Press ;, [2002], c1997.**

Examines the life and career of American statesman Patrick Henry, discussing his role in the Revolutionary War and his contributions to the formation of a democratic government.
 * Mayer, Henry, 1941-. __A son of thunder : Patrick Henry and the American Republic.__ Grove Press ed. New York : Grove Press : ;, [2001]**.

Art & Music
Chronicles American musical theatre show by show and season by season from 1735 to 1999-2000, describing individual productions and trends in the genre. Also includes song, show, and person indexes.
 * Bordman, Gerald Martin. __American musical theatre : a chronicle.__ 3rd ed. Oxford ; : Oxford University Press, 2001**.

An illustrated guide to the construction of Western scripts, including their history and techniques.
 * Harris, David. __The art of calligraphy.__ 1st American ed. London ; New York : DK, 1995**.

Chronicles the history of African-American theater, discussing slavery, minstrelsy, the Harlem Renaissance, educational theater, connections to the Caribbean, the Great Depression, integration, and other related topics.
 * Hill, Errol. __A history of African American theatre.__ Cambridge ; : Cambridge University Press, 2003.**

Contains over one thousand quotes by musicians from throughout history, including critics, disc jockeys, and others associated with the music industry; grouped by topic in thirty chapters.
 * __The quotable musician : from Bach to Tupac.__ New York : Allworth Press, c2003.**

Presents a practical guide to drawing and provides step-by-step instructions on still life, animals, human anatomy, and architecture.
 * Simblet, Sarah. __Sketch book for the artist.__ 1st American ed. London ; : DK Pub., 2005.**

Sports
Chronicles basketball's more than a century of history, presenting dramatic photos and exploring important teams and players.
 * __The basketball book.__ New York : Sports Illustrated Books, [2007].**

A comprehensive resource that covers all aspects of fast-pitch softball, providing information on the game's history, explanations of the rules, helpful drills to refine technique, and more than 140 diagrams and photographs demonstrating positions, skills, and strategies.
 * Gola, Mark. __Winning softball for girls.__ New York : Facts on File, c2002.**

An illustrated guide to golf that provides tours of courses around the world, profiles of prestigious championships, descriptions of developments in equipment, statistics and facts, and advice on improving one's game.
 * __The golf book : the players, the gear, the strokes, the courses, the championships.__ 1st American ed. London ; : DK, 2008.**

History -- Mental preparation -- Warm-up exercises -- Equipment -- Common injuries and treatment -- Careers in lacrosse. Presents volume twelve in a seventeen-volume series on how to prevent, diagnose, and treat sports injuries and focuses specifically on the game of Lacrosse with additionalinformation on its history and possible career opportunities.
 * McCoy, Lisa. __Lacrosse.__ Broomall, PA : Mason Crest Publishers, c2004.**

Explains the basic rules and techniques of women's fast-pitch softball.
 * Monteleone, John J. __The Louisville Slugger complete book of women's fast-pitch softball.__ New York : H. Holt, c1999.**