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=New Books Spring 2008=

General Interest
Presents a real-time journey through two-and-a-half hours of talk and news programming, taken from actual shows that were broadcast in syndication, on local television stations, and on major networks.
 * Kerbel, Matthew Robert, 1958-. If it bleeds, it leads : an anatomy of television news. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2000**.

Into the madhouse with girl stunt reporters -- The African American newswoman as national icon -- The original sob sisters : writers on trial -- A reporter-heroine's evolution -- From news to novels -- Epilogue : girl reporters on film. Explores the role newspaperwomen played in American literary culture at the turn of the twentieth century, chronicling the experiences of American women writers as they worked in male-dominated newsrooms across the country.
 * Lutes, Jean Marie, 1967-. Front page girls : women journalists in American culture and fiction, 1880-1930. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.**

Presents a reissue of the 1963 text which sparked the feminist movement through its analysis of the changing role and status of women, and includes an introduction by author Anna Quindlen in which she discusses the influence of the book on her personal history and society as a whole.
 * Friedan, Betty. The feminine mystique. New York : Norton, 2001, c1963.**

Legendary basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar traces his childhood in Harlem, his professional career, and the influence of the Harlem Renaissance on his life and the African-American culture.
 * Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, 1947-. On the shoulders of giants : my journey through the Harlem Renaissance. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2007.**

Follows the 1988 season of the Permian Panthers, a high school football team in Odessa, Texas, exploring the lives of the players and the impact of the championship team on the small town.
 * Bissinger, H. G. Friday night lights : a town, a team, and a dream. Da Capo Press movie tie-in ed., 10th anniversary ed. Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2004.**

Presents stories of inspiration, humor, and wisdom that relates to African Americans and includes selections by and about such prominent people as Maya Angelou, Yolanda King, Nelson Mandela, Sojourner Truth, and Malcolm X.
 * Chicken soup for the African American soul : celebrating and sharing our culture one story at a time. Deerfield Beach, FL : Health Communications, c2004.**

Sports
Explores the obstacles African-American tennis players have faced, the role the traditionally white sport has played in the African-American community, the politics of tennis, and the challenges today's players face.
 * Djata, Sundiata A. Blacks at the net. : black achievement in the history of tennis. 1st ed. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2006.**

Ranks the top one thousand players from the history of baseball, with statistics, records, and brief biographical profiles for each player.
 * Gentile, Derek. Baseball's best 1,000 : rankings of the skills, the achievements and performance of the greatest players of all time. New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers :, c2004.**

Introduction -- The immortals -- The personalities -- The managers -- The greatest moments -- The greatest world series -- The greatest teams -- The ballparks. Presents a fully-illustrated photographic history of the great players, games, teams, managers, and parks in the game of baseball including Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, the New York Giants, and more.
 * Robinson, Ray, 1920 Dec. 4-. Greats of the game : the players, games, teams, and managers that made baseball history. New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2005.**

A photographic exploration of baseball and the Latin American world, describing the experiences of young men from Argentina, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and throughout the Caribbean who come to the U.S. with dreams of scoring major league careers, looking at the fate of those who do not succeed, and profiling players who have won a big or small measure of fame.
 * Wendel, Tim. Far from home : Latino baseball players in America. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2008.**

Atlases
Contains political and physical maps.
 * Atlas of world geography. 2006 edition. [Skokie, IL] : Rand McNally Company, 2006.**

Presents a comprehensive world atlas featuring two hundred eighty pages of political and topographical maps, coverage of world cities and metropolitan areas, maps of the moon, definitions of over one thousand geographical terms, and an index of more than one hundred ten thousand cities and towns, and much more.
 * Atlas of the world. Deluxe ed. New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.**

Presents color maps of regions around the world along with descriptions of their lands, agriculture and industries, climates, and environmental issues, and includes more than forty ready-to-print maps on CD-ROM.
 * Wilkinson, Philip, 1955-. The Kingfisher student atlas. Boston : Kingfisher, 2003.**

Contains over one hundred forty thousand place names on over seventy-two physical, political, thematic, and city maps along with online addresses, features satellite imagery and details of world landmarks, and provides summaries on world economy and terrorism.
 * National Geographic Society (U.S.). National Geographic Atlas of the world. 8th ed. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, c2005.**

Contains a collection of full-color world maps, including an introduction to world geography which looks at topics such as climate, population, and global conflict.
 * National Geographic Society (U.S.). National Geographic collegiate atlas of the world. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, c2006.**

Presents information about how maps are made and used, and features over thirty geographical maps of countries in North and South America, Australasia and Oceania, Asia, Europe, Africa, the Arctic, and Antarctica, as well as a gazetteer of states, a list of world records, and a link to related Web sites
 * Turnbull, Stephanie. The Usborne Internet-linked essential atlas of the world. London : Usborne ;, 2004.**

History
Presents hundreds of articles on Native American cultures, including individual entries on tribes, covering the history of the first inhabitants of Canada, the U.S., and Mesoamerica, as well as contemporary issues that affect them. This volume covers A-Hay.
 * American Indians. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c1995.**

A reference guide to the history and culture of the varied Native American tribes of the Northeast that includes profiles of the major tribes, a chronology of important events in Native American history, and an annotated list of tribes, museums, and sites.
 * Bragdon, Kathleen Joan. The Columbia guide to American Indians of the Northeast. New York : Columbia University Press, c2001.**

A collection of writings from members of the Black Panther Party.
 * The Black Panthers speak. 2nd Da Capo Press ed. New York : Da Capo Press, 2002, c1970.**

Tells the stories of some of the African-American women who played major roles in the Civil Rights Movement, as founders, lawyers, leaders, and behind-the-scenes workers.
 * Allen, Zita. Black women leaders of the civil rights movement. New York : Franklin Watts, c1996.**

Chronicles Lois Jenson's experiences working for Eveleth Mines in northern Minnesota and the grueling court case against her employer that lasted ten years and changed the public's understanding of sexual harassment.
 * Bingham, Clara. Class action : the landmark case that changed sexual harassment law. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor, 2003.**

Chronicles the events surrounding the trial of eight men accussed of leading the antiwar protests at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago and discusses why the case became one of the most highly publicized trials of the era.
 * Tucker, John C., 1934-. Trial and error : the education of a courtroom lawyer. 1st Carroll & Graf ed. New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003.**

Examines how Indian sovereignty has affected the way in which the rights of native peoples have been addressed by the legal systems in the United States; and covers such issues as tribal jurisdiction over non-Indians living on reservations, tribal natural resources and environmental policy, and regulation and gambling.
 * Duthu, N. Bruce. American Indians and the law. New York : Viking, 2008.**

Presents a comprehensive examination of landmark trials and Supreme Court arguments involving the First Amendment including the Pentagon Papers, the Brooklyn Museum case, and entertainer Wayne Newton's libel case against NBC.
 * Abrams, Floyd. Speaking freely : trials of the First Amendment. New York : Penguin Books, 2006.**


 * Kluger, Richard. Simple justice : the history of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's struggle for equality. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York : Vintage Books :, 2004.**

Both sides of the Supreme Court case over student drug testing are presented, as well as information on how students can conduct their own mock judicial proceeding.
 * Kowalski, Kathiann M., 1955-. The Earls case and the student drug testing debate : debating Supreme Court decisions. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c2006.**

Examines the 1973 Supreme Court case in which Alan Bakke charged the University of California with discrimination after he was turned down by the university's medical school, which practiced affirmative action; discusses related court cases and laws; and includes a moot court exercise.
 * McPherson, Stephanie Sammartino. The Bakke case and the affirmative action debate : debating Supreme Court decisions. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c2005.**

Chronicles the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education and examines questions regarding the case's influence on civil rights and desegregation in the years since it was fought.
 * Patterson, James T. Brown v. Board of Education : a civil rights milestone and its troubled legacy. Oxford ; : Oxford University Press, 2002.**

The author presents a detailed description of the 2005 intelligent design trial in Dover, Pennsylvania, between Tammy Kitzmiller and other parents and the Dover Area School District over the teaching of intelligent design along with evolution in the public schools.
 * Chapman, Matthew, 1950-. 40 days and 40 nights : Darwin, intelligent design, God, Oxycontin, and other oddities on trial in Pennsylvania. 1st ed. New York : Collins, c2007.**

Chronicles the trial in 1925 of Dr. Ossian Sweet, his wife, and other African-Americans for the murder of Leon Breiner, a former coal miner who lived near Sweet's home.
 * Boyle, Kevin, 1960-. Arc of justice : a saga of race, civil rights, and murder in the Jazz Age. 1st Owl Books ed. New York : Holt, 2005.**

Discusses the shooting death of Guinea immigrant Amadou Diallo by four police officers in 1999 who claim they thought Diallo was reaching for a gun,describes the resulting investigation and trial of the officers, and considers the racial issues raised by the tragedy.
 * Fireside, Bryna J. The trial of the police officers in the shooting death of Amadou Diallo : a headline court case. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c2004.**

Examines the 1925 trial of John Scopes who was charged with violating a law against teaching evolution in public schools in Tennessee, introduces some of the people involved in the sensational case, and discusses the lasting legacy of the guilty verdict.
 * Johnson, Anne. The Scopes "Monkey Trial" Detroit, MI : Omnigraphics, c2007.**

Examines the Supreme Court case involving Ernesto Miranda and the State of Arizona in 1966 that led to the "Miranda" warnings and the rights of accused persons according to the Fifth Amendment.
 * Kelly-Gangi, Carol. Miranda v. Arizona and the rights of the accused : debating Supreme Court decisions. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c2006.**

Account of Clarence Earl Gideon who in 1962 was tried in Supreme Court without a lawyer because he could not afford one and how his case has changed the law of the United States.
 * Lewis, Anthony, 1927-. Gideon's trumpet. Vintage Books ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1989, c1964.**

Examines the Buffalo Creek disaster of February 1972 which unleashed one hundred thirty million gallons of water and coal waste into the Buffalo Creek Valley killing one hundred twenty-five people and leaving thousands homeless and the lawsuit against the coal company by the four thousand survivors.
 * Stern, Gerald M., 1937-. The Buffalo Creek disaster : how the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought suit against the coal company--and won. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1977, c1976.**

Presents a comprehensive study of the controversial murder trial involving baseball player Ron Williamson.
 * Grisham, John. The innocent man : murder and injustice in a small town. New York : Doubleday, c2006.**

Chronicles one year in a courtroom in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country, recounting the stories of the lawyers, judges, and criminals who passed through the courtroom.
 * Bogira, Steve. Courtroom 302 : a year in felony court. 1st ed. New York : Knopf :, 2005.**

Draws on interviews, private papers, and articles to chronicle the twenty-five years Sandra Day O'Connor spent serving on the Supreme Court, discussing how she became one of the most influential judges in the court's history and her impact on the American judicial and legal system.
 * Biskupic, Joan. Sandra Day O'Connor : how the first woman on the Supreme Court became its most influential justice. 1st ed. New York : ECCO, c2005.**


 * Woodward, Bob. The brethren : inside the Supreme Court. 1st Simon & Schuster pbk. ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2005, c1979.

Maltese, John Anthony. The selling of Supreme Court nominees. John Hopkins paperbacks ed. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Gore, Albert, 1948-. An inconvenient truth : the crisis of global warming. Rev. ed. New York : Viking :, 2007.** An adaptation of the book in which former Vice President Al Gore examines the climate crisis that is threatening the future of the planet, describes what the world's governments are doing to correct the problem, and explains why the problem should be taken more seriously. Includes photographs, maps, and graphs.

Provides an account of a rape victim's struggle to find justice after a detective coerced her to retract her statement about the incident and she was charged with falsely reporting a crime.
 * Lueders, Bill. Cry rape : the true story of one woman's harrowing quest for justice. Madison, Wis. : Terrace Books, c2006.**

An investigation of the Duke Lacrosse rape case in which three players were wrongly accused of raping an African-American woman, discussing the personal, legal, academic, political, and media aspects of the case and including interviews with the defendants.
 * Taylor, Stuart, 1948-. Until proven innocent : political correctness and the shameful injustices of the Duke lacrosse rape case. New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, c2007.**


 * Hardesty, Von, 1939-. Black wings : courageous stories of African Americans in aviation and space history. 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, c2007.**

A study of the Arabs, tracing their role in human history from pre-Islamic times through the twentieth century, discussing their identity, achievements, and relations with the non-Arab world.
 * Lewis, Bernard. The Arabs in history. 6th ed. Oxford, UK ; : Oxford University Press, 2002, c1993.**

The author draws upon original sources to explore the travels and adventures of Marco Polo, and examines the controversies that surround his legendary journeys to the Far East.
 * Bergreen, Laurence. Marco Polo : from Venice to Xanadu. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2007.**

Describes the daily lives of Native American cultures before the arrival of Europeans, drawing from material remains and explorers' accounts, and discusses the work of scholars to piece this information together.
 * Lassieur, Allison. Before the storm : American Indians before the Europeans. New York : Facts On File, c1998.**

Examines the history, art, and culture of Puerto Rican Americans and describes the contribution they have made to American society and culture.
 * Stafford, Jim, 1963-. Puerto Ricans' history and promise : Americans who cannot vote. Philadelphia : Mason Crest Publishers, c2006.**

An anthology of autobiographical writings that combine to present a history of the African-American experience, arranged chronologically by date of author's birth, from 1710 to 1963.
 * Autobiography of a people : three centuries of African American history told by those who lived it. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 2001, c2000.**

Senator Barak Obama addresses twenty-first century politics in the United States, commenting on economic insecurities of citizens, race, religion, terrorism, threat of a pandemic, and other related issues.
 * Obama, Barack. The audacity of hope : thoughts on reclaiming the American dream. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c2006.**

Presents subject reviews, tips and strategies for each of the exam's question types, a list of over five hundred terms and concepts, and over two hundred practice questions with explained answers, including two full-length practice tests.
 * Meltzer, Tom. Cracking the AP U.S. history. 2006-2007 ed. New York : Random House, c2006.**


 * Gitlin, Todd. The sixties : years of hope, days of rage. Bantam, 1987.**

Presents an overview of the history and culture of the Native American peoples of the American Southeast; features an alphabetical listing of notable people, places, treaties, policies, and legislative acts that have affected their lives; provides a chronology of major events in the history of Native peoples; and includes a selection of reference aids.
 * Perdue, Theda, 1949-. The Columbia guide to American Indians of the Southeast. New York : Columbia University Press, c2001.**

Biography
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about women artists, covering a period that ranges from the medieval age through the mid-twentieth century, each including a brief biography, a list of exhibitions, a bibliography, and a signed critical essay; and includes twenty survey articles on related topics.
 * Dictionary of women artists. London ; : Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.**

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about women artists, covering a period that ranges from the medieval age through the mid-twentieth century, each including a brief biography, a list of exhibitions, a bibliography, and a signed critical essay.
 * Dictionary of women artists. London ; : Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.**

Alphabetically arranged entries profile more than 150 male and female scientists from the eighteenth century to the present who have made significant contributions to a particular scientific discipline.
 * Gates, Alexander E., 1957-. A to Z of earth scientists. New York : Facts on File, c2003.**

Alphabetically arranged entries profile the careers of more than seven hundred African American men and women who devoted their lives to entertainment from 1816 to 1960.
 * Peterson, Bernard L. Profiles of African American stage performers and theatre people, 1816-1960. Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2001.**

Profiles 195 women throughout history to have achieved prominence and success in the fields of math and science including eighteenth-century Italian mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi, African-American physicist Shirley Ann Jackson, and British zoologist Valerie Jane Goodall.
 * Yount, Lisa. A to Z of women in science and math. Rev. ed. New York : Facts On File, c2008.**

Examines the lives, contributions, and accomplishments of American first ladies from Martha Washington to Laura Bush, and discusses specific ways in which they influenced history.
 * American first ladies. 2nd ed. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2006.**

Provides profiles of first ladies from 1789 to 1961 and the events they confronted in American history.
 * Anthony, Carl Sferrazza. First ladies : the saga of the presidents' wives and their power, 1789-1961. 1st Quill ed. New York : Quill/William Morrow, c1990.**

Profiles the achievements of fourteen outstanding Hispanic Americans in different areas of society, with photographs from professional and personal collection.
 * Morey, Janet. Famous Hispanic Americans. New York : Cobblehill Books/Dutton, c1996.**

Presents the biographies of Pocahontas and chiefs, Powhatan and Opechancanough examining their encounters with English settlers, the marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe, warfare, and eventual loss of native sovereignty.
 * Rountree, Helen C., 1944-. Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough : three Indian lives changed by Jamestown. 1st pbk. ed. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2006, c2005.**

A memoir in which the author describes her childhood as a Palestinian refugee, discussing her family's experiences during and after the Six-Day War, and the freedom she felt at learning to read and write
 * Barakat, Ibtisam. Tasting the sky : a Palestinian childhood. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.**

Author's account of his three seasons as a park ranger in Southeastern Utah.
 * Abbey, Edward, 1927-. Desert solitaire : a season in the wilderness. 1st Touchstone ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1990.**

A collection of over twenty essays by twentieth-century American author and environmentalist Edward Abbey, grouped in the categories of politics, travel, books and art, and nature love.
 * Abbey, Edward, 1927-. One life at a time, please. New York : Holt, c1988.**

Chronicles the life of the second president, John Adams, describing the many conflicts--including international exploits--he faced during his long political career and exploring the love story that was his marriage to Abigail and the complexity of his friendship with Thomas Jefferson.
 * McCullough, David G. John Adams. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2001.**

Black Elk, a Sioux holy man, imparts his own life story and the story of the Oglala Sioux during the tragic decades of the Custer battle, the ghost dance, and the Wounded Knee massacre, and relates many aspects of Native American spirituality.
 * Black Elk, 1863-1950. Black Elk speaks : being the story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux. Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, [1988].**

An autobiography of Claude Brown, describing his life and that of other African Americans in New York City's Harlem area.
 * Brown, Claude, 1937-. Manchild in the promised land. 1st Touchstone ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1999, c1993.**

The memoirs of Jill Conway and her journey into adulthood from a 30,000 acre sheep ranch in Coorain, Australia, to America where she became the first woman president of Smith College.
 * Conway, Jill K., 1934-. The road from Coorain. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf :, 1989.**

Contains a brief biography of Nicolaus Copernicus, the doctor, lawyer, and church official who developed the theory that the planets revolved around the sun, and includes information on his early life, and the events that lead to his discovery.
 * Gingerich, Owen. Nicolaus Copernicus : making the Earth a planet. New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.**

Chronicles the life and career of Charles Darwin, describing his childhood in early-nineteenth-century England, his beginnings in science, his voyage of discovery on the "Beagle," the publication of "On the Origin of Species," and his relationships with his wife and children.
 * King, David C. Charles Darwin. 1st American ed. London ; : DK, 2007.**

Presents the private and public face of Michael Dukakis.
 * Kenney, Charles. Dukakis : an American odyssey. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1988.**

Profiles the life and career of climate scientist Inez Fung, and chronicles her childhood in Hong Kong, education and study in America, and her work on weather patterns.
 * Skelton, Renee. Forecast earth : the story of climate scientist Inez Fung. New York : Franklin Watts, c2005.**

Presents a biography of sixteenth-century astronomer Galileo Galilei, discussing his early life, his work at the University of Padua, his inventions, and his development of his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun--a notion that led to his being convicted of heresy.
 * Doak, Robin S. (Robin Santos), 1963-. Galileo : astronomer and physicist. Minneapolis : Compass Point, c2005.**

Chris Gardner shares the story of his life, focusing on the time he spent as a homeless single father, trying to care for his young son while at the same time building a career as a stockbroker, and discusses some of the many people who helped him on the road to his enormous success.
 * Gardner, Chris (Chris P.). The pursuit of happyness. 1st Amistad pbk. ed. New York : Amistad, 2006.**


 * Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924. Seventy years of life and labor : an autobiography. Ithaca, NY : ILR Press, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, c1984.

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Wait till next year : a memoir. New York : Simon & Schuster, c199**7. The author explores her childhood in Rockville Centre, Long Island and how baseball, especially the New York Dodgers, was important in her relationships with family, friends, and neighbors.

Presents a biography of Billie Holiday, tracing the life of the famous jazz singer, from her youth in Philadelphia and Harlem to her death at the age of forty-four from complications that were the result of her heavy use of drugs and alcohol.
 * Greene, Meg. Billie Holiday : a biography. Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2007.**

Presents a biography of twentieth-century British astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle, discussing his work on the evolution of stars, the origin of the chemical elements, the nature of gravitational forces, and the origin of life on Earth, and looking at some of the discoveries made by scientists trying to discredit Hoyle's theories.
 * Mitton, Simon, 1946-. Conflict in the cosmos : Fred Hoyle's life in science. Washington, DC : Joseph Henry Press, c2005.**

A biography of Ivan IV, the Terrible, the first Russian ruler to use the title Czar and who ranks as an outstanding ruler though he committed great cruelties.
 * Butson, Thomas G. Ivan the Terrible. New York : Chelsea House, c1987.**

A biography of the founder of the Mongol Dynasty in China.
 * Dramer, Kim. Kublai Khan. New York : Chelsea House, c1990.**

Chronicles the life of John Marshall, focusing on the years he served as the fourth chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, from 1801 to 1835.
 * Newmyer, R. Kent. John Marshall and the heroic age of the Supreme Court. Baton Rouge [La.] : Louisiana State University Press, c2001.**

Chronicles the life and death of Chino Mendes, a world leader in the fight to protect the Amazon rain forest from profiteers, who was murdered three days before Christmas in 1988.
 * Revkin, Andrew. The burning season : the murder of Chico Mendes and the fight for the Amazon rain forest. Washington, D.C. : Island Press/Shearwater Books, [2004].**


 * Obama, Barack. Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance. Revised ed. New York : Three Rivers Press, c2004. Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995.**

Ann Patchett describes her friendship with Lucy Grealy, author of "Autobiography of a Face," and their commitment to each other for twenty years, from graduate school in Iowa to literary fame in New York City.
 * Patchett, Ann. Truth & beauty : a friendship. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2004.**

Traces the first twenty-four years of Elvis' life, including his childhood and the beginning of his recording career, exploring his musical influences and his relationships with family, girlfriends, mentors, band members, professional associates, and friends.
 * Guralnick, Peter. Last train to Memphis : the rise of Elvis Presley. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, and Company, c1994.**

Profiles the life and career of legendary prize fighter, Sugar Ray Robinson that chronicles his childhood and athletic success.
 * Shropshire, Kenneth L. Being Sugar Ray : the life of Sugar Ray Robinson, America's greatest boxer and first celebrity athlete. New York : BasicCivitas, c2007.**

Chronicles the life of Mother Teresa, discussing her childhood in Albania, her schooling in the Catholic system, her efforts to help the world's poor, her ideologies, methods of care, and financing, and other related topics.
 * Greene, Meg. Mother Teresa : a biography. Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2004.**

A biography of the African-American businesswoman whose invention of facial creams and other cosmetics led to great financial success and who, throughout her life, devoted herself to many social and political causes.
 * Bundles, A'Lelia Perry. Madam C.J. Walker. New York : Chelsea House Publishers, c1991.**

Humanities
San Francisco blues -- Richmond Hill blues -- Bowery blues -- Macdougal Street blues -- Desolation blues -- Orizaba 210 blues -- Orlanda blues -- Cerrada Medellin blues. Eight extended poems by the Beat Generation writer, who likened the form of the works to that of a jazz blues chorus, determined by time and non-stop ad-libbing.
 * Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. Book of blues. New York : Penguin, 1995.**

The names of the flowers, 1850-1851 -- The Ten Years War, 1868-1878 -- The Little War, 1878-1880 -- The War of Independence, 1895-1898 -- The surrender tree, 1898-1899.
 * Engle, Margarita. The surrender tree. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2008.**

Comedy about small-time real estate salesmen trying to earn a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers.
 * Mamet, David. Glengarry Glen Ross : a play. 1st Evergreen ed. New York : Grove Press, 1984.**

Presents works by twentieth-century American writer Raymond Carver including five stories discovered after his death, an unfinished novel, his first published story, and all of his nonfiction, including essays, introductions, and book reviews.
 * Carver, Raymond. Call if you need me : the uncollected fiction and other prose. 1st ed. New York : Vintage Books, 2001.**


 * Duvall, John N. (John Noel), 1956-. Don DeLillo's Underworld : a reader's guide. New York : Continuum, 2002.

Cowart, David, 1947-. Don DeLillo : the physics of language. Rev. ed. Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2003.

DeLillo, Don. Conversations with Don DeLillo. Jackson : University of Mississippi, c2005.**

Presents critical excerpts on five works by American writer Don DeLillo, covering various aspects of the novels, and also provides plot summaries, a DeLillo biography, primary and secondary bibliographies, and an index of themes and ideas.
 * Don DeLillo. Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c2003.**


 * Introducing Don DeLillo. Durham : Duke University Press, c1991.

Orr, Leonard, 1953-. Don Delillo's White noise : a reader's guide. New York : Continuum, 2003.

Michel, DeLauné. The safety of secrets. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins Avon A, 2008.**

A collection of twenty speeches that represents the struggle for freedom and civil rights by influential figures in African-American history and culture including Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Barack Obama.
 * Great speeches by African Americans : Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, Jr., and others. Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, c2006.**


 * Faris, Wendy B. Carlos Fuentes. New York : F. Ungar Pub. Co., c1983.**

Presents fourteen critical essays on the writings of twentieth-century Czechoslovakian author Milan Kundera, and includes a chronology of his life, a bibliography, and an introduction by Harold Bloom.
 * Milan Kundera. Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c2003.**

Science
Contains over one thousand color illustrations, charts, graphs, and maps, with supporting text, that provide a visual guide to environmental science, covering topics in the categories of the people factor, food and water, land degradation, land and sea pollution, air pollution, nature under threat, and environmental disasters.
 * Environment : an illustrated guide to science. New York : Chelsea House, c2006.**

Contains over one thousand color diagrams on space and astronomy topics within such themes as the universe, the solar system, and crewed and uncrewed exploration, providing informative captions.
 * Space and astronomy : an illustrated guide to science. New York : Chelsea House, c2006.**

Contains over one thousand color diagrams on physics topics within such themes as energy, forces, waves, and electricity, providing informative captions.
 * Physics : an illustrated guide to science. New York : Chelsea House, c2006.**

Contains over six hundred alphabetically arranged entries that describe pure physics, applied physics, astrophysics, biophysics, chemical physics, geophysics, and medical physics, and general concepts,laws, principles, theories, experiments, and observations, and includes eleven essays and two hundred illustrations, photographs, and charts.
 * Rosen, Joe, 1937-. Encyclopedia of physics. New York : Facts On File, c2004.**

Contains entries that provide in formation about significant people, terms, and topics in the field of physics; arranged alphabetically from A-to-L.
 * World of physics. (2 Volumes) Detriot : Gale, c2001.**

Contains articles that provide information on the history, laws, theories, processes, applications, and subdisciplines of chemistry, arranged alphabetically from A to C, and includes photographs and illustrations, cross-references, sidebars, and definitions of terms and concepts.
 * Chemistry. : foundations and applications. (4 volumes) New York : Macmillan Reference USA ;, c2004.**

Contains over one thousand color illustrations, charts, graphs, and maps, with supporting text, that provide a visual guide to chemistry, covering topics in the categories of atomic structure, elements and compounds, radioactivity, chemistry of carbon, changes in matter, patterns in metals and nonmetals, and chemical reactions.
 * Chemistry : an illustrated guide to science. New York : Chelsea House, c2006.**

Contains over one thousand color illustrations, charts, graphs, and maps, with supporting text, that provide a visual guide to Earth science, covering topics in the categories of history, rocks, air and oceans, erosion and weathering, and comparisons.
 * Earth science : an illustrated guide to science. New York : Chelsea House, c2006.**

Contains over one thousand color diagrams, maps, and other illustrations on marine science topics, covering such themes as geography, geology, chemistry, biology, and exploration and providing informative captions.
 * Marine science : an illustrated guide to science. New York : Chelsea House, c2006.**

Contains over one thousand color illustrations, charts, graphs, and maps, with supporting text, that provide a visual guide to the science of weather and climate, covering topics in the categories of the atmospheric engine, components of weather, weather systems, weather extremes, meteorology, climate and seasons, world climate data, U.S. climate data, and human impact on climate.
 * Weather and climate : an illustrated guide to science. New York : Chelsea House, c2006.**

Contains over one thousand color illustrations, charts, graphs, and maps, with supporting text, that provide a visual guide to biology, covering topics in the categories of unity, continuity, diversity, maintenance, human biology, and ecology.
 * Biology : an illustrated guide to science. New York : Chelsea House, c2006.**

Presents a comprehensive reference for high school and college biology students and includes over eight hundred cross-referenced entries and illustrated photographs and charts on topics such as cloning, gene therapy, vaccines, chromosomes, blood identification, and the history of cytogenetics.
 * Rittner, Don. Encyclopedia of biology. New York : Facts On File, Inc., c2004.**

Contains over two hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on topics related to evolution, and includes five essays that explore ethical issues related to evolutionary science, biographies of modern revolutionary scientists, illustrations, and a summary of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species."
 * Rice, Stanley A., 1957-. Encyclopedia of evolution. New York : Facts On File, c2007.**

More than 750 alphabetically arranged entries provide information on microorganisms and diseases.
 * Sankaran, Neeraja. Microbes and people : an A-Z of microorganisms in our lives. Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 2000.**

Contains articles that provide information about energy and related problems, covering various disciplines, with bibliographies, diagrams, maps, and photographs. Arranged alphabetically from acid rain through electric vehicles.
 * Macmillan encyclopedia of energy. (3 Volumes) New York : Macmillan Reference USA, c2001.**

Explores how women have struggled for equality in the scientific field, profiling women who have succeeded despite enormous obstacles in mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, and other science-related fields.
 * Fara, Patricia. Scientists anonymous : great stories of women in science. [Cambridge] : Wizard Books, 2005.**

Examines the complex issues surrounding current energy sources and alternative energy options focusing on fossil fuels, bioenergy and geothermal energies.
 * Alternative energy. (3 Volumes) Detroit : U·X·L :, c2006.**

Discusses alternative energy sources for homeowners, including wind generators, solar panels, wood, hydrogen fuel cells, geothermal heat pumps, and others, covering their costs and how long it takes to recoup one's investment with each.
 * Woodside, Christine, 1946-. The homeowner's guide to energy independence : alternative power sources for the average American. Guilford, CT : Lyons Press, c2006.**

Discusses why there is a disproportionate lack of women in most scientific and engineering disciplines, especially in the upper reaches of the professions.
 * Etzkowitz, Henry, 1940-. Athena unbound : the advancement of women in science and technology. Cambridge, UK ; : Cambridge University Press, 2000.**

Contains forty-four book excerpts, essays, speeches, and articles written by Stephen Jay Gould in which he comments on his life, the theories of various scientists, evolution, sociobiology, racism, religion, and more.
 * Gould, Stephen Jay. The richness of life : the essential Stephen Jay Gould. 1st American ed. New York : W. W. Norton & Co., 2007.**

Contains a collection of articles that discuss trends in the study of changes within physical systems, energy conservation and momentum, covering interstellar travel, subatomic levels, planets, moons, asteroids, as well as black holes and nuetron stars.
 * Changes within physical systems and/or conservation of energy and momentum : an anthology of current thought. 1st ed. New York : Rosen Pub. Group, 2006.**

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.**

A guide to understanding physics, reviewing such physical phenomena as energy, sound, electricity, light, and color, and includes a self-test at the end of each chapter.
 * Kuhn, Karl F. Basic physics. 2nd ed. New York : J. Wiley, c1996.**

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.**

A guide to learning physics that includes information on taking tests, understanding the concepts, solving mechanics, electricity, magnetism, thermodynamics, and optics problems, and other related topics.
 * Oman, Daniel M. Physics for the utterly confused. New York : McGraw-Hill, c1999.**

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.**

A comprehensive textbook that provides an overview of the key concepts of chemistry, including information on matter, measurements, gases, covalent bonding, liquids, solids, solutions, reactions, ions, and other related topics; includes CD-ROMs with tutorials and exercises.
 * Masterton, William L., 1927-. Chemistry : principles and reactions : a core text. 5th ed. Australia ; : Thomson :, c2004.**

Presents three hundred before-and-after photos of places throughout the world, taken between five and one hundred years apart, exploring environmental change, industrialization, urbanization, natural disasters, war, and travel and tourism.
 * Pearce, Fred. Earth then and now : amazing images of our changing world. Buffalo, N.Y. : Firefly Books (U.S.), c2007.**

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.**

Provides information about ten unusual rivers found in different parts of the world, including the Nile, the Yangtze, the Ob', and the Congo River; discussing their formation, structure, history, composition, and more. Includes photographs, illustrations, a glossary, resources, and an index.
 * Burnham, Laurie. Rivers. New York : Chelsea House, c2007.**

Examines key issues and debates about climate change, using maps to examine the signs of climate change, and discussing the causes of climate change, the threat it poses to the environment and human health, and the political debate over the topic.
 * Dow, Kirstin, 1963-. The atlas of climate change : mapping the world's greatest challenge. Rev. and updated [ed.]. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.**

Tells the story of scientist Paul Hoffman's attempts to prove his theory that the Earth experienced a climatic catastrophe 700 million years ago that left the planet completely frozen over, an event that triggered the Cambrian Explosion in complex life forms.
 * Walker, Gabrielle. Snowball Earth : the story of the great global catastrophe that spawned life as we know it. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Three Rivers, c2003.**

Contains photographs and descriptions of over six hundred specimens of minerals, rocks, and fossils, and features an introductory overview for each category.
 * Bishop, A. C. (Arthur Clive). Guide to minerals, rocks & fossils. 2nd ed., 1st Firefly Books Ltd. ed. Buffalo, N.Y. : Firefly Books, 2005.**

Presents an illustrated overview of rocks and fossils, including information on how rocks, minerals, and fossils provide clues to the earth's past, tracing earth's prehistory, and describes the internal workings of the planet.
 * Coenraads, Robert R. Rocks & fossils : a visual guide. Buffalo, NY : Firefly Books, 2005.**

Identifies 474 common fossils found in North America.
 * Thompson, Ida. The Audubon Society field guide to North American fossils. New York : Knopf :, [1982].**

Examines the biology of selfishness and altruism in light of Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
 * Dawkins, Richard, 1941-. The selfish gene. 30th anniversary ed. Oxford ; : Oxford University Press, 2006.**

Draws from research in paleontology, molecular biology, and earth system science to examine life in the Precambrian era, and presents a theory for the sudden development of complex life-forms.
 * Knoll, Andrew H. Life on a young planet : the first three billion years of evolution on earth. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2005], c2003.**

A study of the theory of evolution, examining evolutionary genetics, considering the relationship that links population genetics and molecular evolution, discussing adaptation and natural selection, exploring topics related to evolution and diversity of life, and investigating the fossil record.
 * Ridley, Mark. Evolution. 3rd ed. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.**

Uses a question-and-answer approach to explaining and understanding Darwin's abstract theories of evolution and natural selection.
 * Ridley, Mark. How to read Darwin. 1st American ed. New York : Norton, 2006, c2005.**

Examines current scientific knowledge about climate change and global warming, explores what it means for the future, describes public- and private-sector responses, and evaluates various measures for halting its progression.
 * Climate change : what it means for us, our children, and our grandchildren. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.**

A collection of Stephen Gould's essays on a wide variety of scientific topics. These essays are based on articles written for Natural history magazine between 1974 and 2001.
 * Gould, Stephen Jay. I have landed : the end of a beginning in natural history. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Three Rivers Press, c2003.**

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.**

An introduction to microbiology that uses an easy-to-follow format to explain the field's basic principles, theories, and concepts.
 * Kratz, Rene. Microbiology the easy way. Hauppauge, N.Y. : Barron's, c2005.**

Examines the history and future of the Y chromosome and maintains that because it is unable to exchange genetic material or repair itself, the day will come when it will cease to exist.
 * Sykes, Bryan. Adam's curse : a future without men. 1st American ed. New York : Norton & Co., 2004, c2003.**

Professor Bryan Sykes gives a firsthand account of his research into a gene which passes undiluted from generation to generation through the maternal line.
 * Sykes, Bryan. The seven daughters of Eve. New York : W. W. Norton, 2002, c2001.**

Health and Fitness
Presents balanced opposing points of view on five key topics of the complex and sensitive issue of the AIDS disease.
 * AIDS. Detroit, MI : Greenhaven Press :, c2006.**

Thirteen articles present opposing viewpoints on sexually transmitted diseases, discussing moral issues, public health, HIV infections among African-American women, methamphetamine use as a cause of HIV, condoms, the United States' plan to fight AIDS in Africa, AIDS education, abstinence-only education, and the HPV vaccine.
 * Sexually transmitted diseases. Detroit : Greenhaven Press :, c2007.**

Twenty-five articles present opposing viewpoints on various aspects of such issues as the extent of sexually transmitted diseases, governmental education of youth on STDs, reducing the spread of STDs, and how to address the global AIDS crisis.
 * Sexually transmitted diseases. Detroit : Greenhaven Press :, c2006.**

Explains the symptoms of sexually transmitted diseases, and contains information on prevention and treatment along with personal narratives.
 * Silverstein, Alvin. The STDs update. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c2006.**

An overview of the AIDS epidemic that describes its history, how it is spread and prevented, its extent in specific world regions, advocacy and debates, and the impact of education, and includes a glossary and lists of further reading and related organizations.
 * Houle, Michelle M. AIDS in the 21st century : what you should know. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow, c2003.**

Art and Music
Traces the history of African-American women artists from slavery to the present, analyzing stereotypes of African-American women in Western art and culture and profiling one hundred key works that challenge those stereotypes.
 * Farrington, Lisa E. Creating their own image : the history of African-American women artists. Oxford ; : Oxford University Press, 2005.**

A photographic catalog of the more than 750 Native North American artifacts in the New York State Historical Association's Thaw Collection, including color plates of 260 objects and black-and-white photos of the rest, and also providing text introductions on each of the culture areas and regions covered.
 * Art of the North American Indians : the Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, NY : Fenimore Art Museum ;, 2000.**

Examines race relations in American in relation to music since the nineteenth century, and describes how the influence of rock and roll, rhythm and blues, jazz, soul, country, and hip-hop has broken down racial barriers.
 * Phinney, Kevin. Souled American : how black music transformed white culture. New York : Billboard Books, 2005.**

Traces the history of African-American music from bebop to hip-hop, discussing how the African-American experience has often been chronicled through various forms of music.
 * Ramsey, Guthrie P. Race music : Black cultures from bebop to hip-hop. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press ;, c2003.**

A hundred years, and more, of innovation and emotion -- The roots of Black music -- Early ragtime, blues, and jazz -- From swing to bebop -- R&B and rock and roll -- That sweet soul music -- Dancing the seventies away -- The beats go on. Profiles a hundred years of African-American music that describes the origins of the spirituals, ragtime, gospel, and swing; and describes its influence on later music genres.
 * Woog, Adam, 1953-. From ragtime to hip-hop : a century of Black American music. Detroit : Lucent Books :, c2007.**

Beyonce Knowles, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams, the three women who make up the music group "Destiny's Child," discuss their lives, providing information about their childhoods, and the challenges they have faced on their rise to the top of the recording business.
 * Beyoncé. Soul survivors : The official autobiography of Destiny's Child. 1st ed. New York : Regan Books, c2002.**


 * Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-. Blues legacies and Black feminism : Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1999, c1998.** Analyzes the performances, words, and lives of African-American blues artists Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, and attempts to explore the feminist implications of their recorded music. Includes original transcriptions of the lyrics of all available recordings by Rainey and Smith.


 * Perone, James E. The sound of Stevie Wonder : his words and music. Westport, CT : Praeger, 2006.**

Video/DVD
Host, Al Gore. A passionate and inspiring look at former Vice President Al Gore's campaign to expose the myths and misconceptions of global warming, and to create public awareness on the subject.
 * An inconvenient truth : a global warning. Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Pictures, 2006.**

Fiction
A forest ranger begins a love affair with a young woman, but when he is unable to commit to her, he risks losing her forever.
 * Abbey, Edward, 1927-. Black sun : a novel. Boulder, Colo. : Johnson Books, [2003], c1981.**

After America's technological infrastructure collapses, the wild West is reborn, with settlers creating a new pastoral economy and armed urban bands threatening to replace it with their own power structure.
 * Abbey, Edward, 1927-. Good news. New York : Plume, [1991], c1980.**

Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
 * Anderson, M. T. The astonishing life of Octavian Nothing, traitor to the nation. 1st ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, c2006.**

The experiences of Wade Whitehouse, a part-time policeman, are related by his brother, who tells of Wade's investigation of a hunting death that could be a murder, his custody suit against his former wife, and his discovery of a real estate scam that costs him his job.
 * Banks, Russell, 1940-. Affliction. New York : HarperCollins, 1990.**

Explores a small community's response to the loss of fourteen children in a school bus accident.
 * Banks, Russell, 1940-. The sweet hereafter : a novel. 1st HarperPerennial ed. New York, NY : HarperPerennial, 1992.**

Charles's paranoid, depressed mother is taken to the hospital, leaving Charles to deal with her alcoholic husband, his deadbeat best friend, a married girlfriend, and a sister who would rather be anywhere but with him.
 * Beattie, Ann. Chilly scenes of winter. 1st Vintage contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 1991.**

Photographer Jody, poised on the edge of fame, tries to focus on her career while dealing with her young son Will, her lover, her ex-husband, and an eccentric and perverted gallery owner.
 * Beattie, Ann. Picturing Will. 1st Vintage contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1991.**

In 1943, nine-year-old Andy Catlett makes his first trip alone by bus to his grandparents' house in Port William, Kentucky, for Christmas.
 * Berry, Wendell, 1934-. Andy Catlett : early travels : a novel. Emeryville, CA : Shoemaker & Hoard ;, c2006.**

Mat Feltner, a farmer in Port William, Kentucky, patiently awaits the return of his son, listed as missing in action, in the final months of World War II.
 * Berry, Wendell, 1934-. A place on earth. Revision, 1st Counterpoint pbk. ed. Washington, D.C. : Counterpoint, 2001, c1983.**

At fault -- Bayou folk -- A night [in] Acadie -- The awakening -- Uncollected stories. Contains all of the fiction writings of nineteenth-century American author Kate Chopin.
 * Chopin, Kate, 1851-1904. Complete novels and stories. New York : Library of America :, c2002.**

Two young men who have been friends since they were teenagers find a solidity and solidarity together in New York and embark on a project of creating a new kind of family.
 * Cunningham, Michael, 1952-. A home at the end of the world. New York : Picador, [1998], c1990.**

Two women with very different lives are joined together at a party for an ailing poet, and together they realize that even though their lives are different, they are tied together by a common bond.
 * Cunningham, Michael, 1952-. The hours. New York : Picador USA/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [2002], c1998.**

New York City serves as the setting for a three-part novel featuring a recurring trio of characters, struggling with issues of love and loss, fear, violence, and poetry during the Industrial Revolution, the early twenty-first century, and 150 years into the future.
 * Cunningham, Michael, 1952-. Specimen days. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.**

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.**

Billionaire Carter Thompson creates a Category 7 hurricane to hit the eastern seaboard and wreak havoc on the world, and it is up to Kate Sherman, a former member of Carter's team, to stop the storm before it is too late.
 * Evans, Bill. Category 7. 1st ed. New York : Forge, 2007.**

Young Greenwich Village pastry chef Greenie Duquette's strained marriage to a depressed psychiatrist is pushed to the breaking point when the governor of New Mexico offers her a job at his restaurant across the country and she accepts, taking her four-year-old son with her.
 * Glass, Julia, 1956-. The whole world over. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, 2006.**

Billionaire Carl Trudeau, upset over a shocking verdict against his chemical company by a Mississippi jury and convinced that the Supreme Court will not be friendly to his appeal, decides to take the less expensive route of purchasing a seat on the Court by recruiting, financing, manipulating, marketing, and molding an unsuspecting young candidate.
 * Grisham, John. The appeal. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2008.**

Newlywed Bonnie Lamb has lost her husband in the midst of the rubble left by a hurricane in southern Florida and must deal with some very strange characters in her attempt to find him.
 * Hiaasen, Carl. Stormy weather. Warner Books ed. New York : Warner Books, [2003], c1995.**


 * Kazantzakis, Nikos. Zorba the Greek. New York, : Simon, 1953,c1952.**

A story of adolescent love in a small New England town.
 * Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. Maggie Cassidy. New York : Penguin Books, 1993.**

Tomas, a hopeless philanderer and successful surgeon, flees Prague when the Russians invade in 1968 and heads for Switzerland where he must provide for himself and his lover by working as a window washer. Lehane, Dennis. Mystic river. New York : William Morrow, 2001.
 * Kundera, Milan. The unbearable lightness of being. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, 2004, c1984.**

San Diego defense attorney Paul Madriani takes on a daunting case when he agrees to defend a highly decorated soldier who has been charged with the murder of a software tycoon who specialized in catering to the military, and his task is made more difficult by his client's unwillingness to talk, and the discovery that the victim was involved in a controversial government contract to combat terrorism.
 * Martini, Steve, 1946-. Double tap. New York : Putnam's, c2005.**

Imaginative thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis, misinterpreting a scene between her older sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner, the housekeeper's son, later accuses Robbie of a crime she has no proof he committed and spends years trying to atone for her actions.
 * McEwan, Ian. Atonement : a novel. 1st ed. in the United States of America. New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2002], c2001.**

A novel about the impact of railroads on American ranchers and the methods farmers took to strike back, based on a violent dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880.
 * Norris, Frank, 1870-1902. The octopus : a story of California. Dover ed. Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2003, c2001.**

Frankie relates the events of the year leading up to her mother's mysterious disappearance and her own struggle to discover and accept the truth about her parents' relationship.
 * Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-. Freaky green eyes. 1st pbk. ed. New York : HarperTempest, 2005, c2003.**

A group of international guests, taken hostage by terrorists while attending a birthday party at the home of the vice president of a small South American country, form bonds with their captors and enter into an almost idyllic lifestyle, united by the music of Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano.
 * Patchett, Ann. Bel canto : a novel. 1st Harper Perennial ed. New York : Harper Perennial, 2005, c2001.**

Bernard Doyle, former Boston Mayor and father of two adopted sons, has done his best to keep his sons interested in politics; however, one snowy evening an accident triggers into motion a series of events that will change their lives forever.
 * Patchett, Ann. Run. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2007.**

Twenty-five-year-old Will Barrett, an aimless young man who has brought his Southern heritage with him to New York, is searching Central Park for a peregrine falcon one day when he spots a beautiful woman and begins a quest to make her part of his life.
 * Percy, Walker, 1916-. The last gentleman. 1st Picador USA pbk. ed. New York : Picador USA, 1999, c1966.**

Binx Bolling is a moviegoer who lives for the bright, fleeting moments of celluloid fantasy he experiences at the movies. But real life butts in and soon he is more involved than he would like to be with a beauty who is drifting toward disaster.
 * Percy, Walker, 1916-. The moviegoer. 1st Vintage International ed. New York : Vintage, 1998.**

Will Barrett, a North Carolina widower so depressed he has decided he no longer wants to live, awakens to the joy of life once again when he meets Allison, a mental hospital escapee who is living alone in a greenhouse.
 * Percy, Walker, 1916-. The second coming. 1st Picador USA pbk. ed. New York : Picador USA/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999, c1980.**

Six teens face a bioterrorist attack on American soil as four succumb to a mysterious infectious disease affecting their small New Jersey neighborhood and two others, both brilliant computer hackers, assist the United States Intelligence Coalition in tracking the perpetrators.
 * Plum-Ucci, Carol, 1957-. Streams of Babel. 1st ed. Orlando : Harcourt, 2008.**

A fictionalized account of the life of Spanish astronomer Lorenzo de Tena, describing how the astronomer's happy childhood was shattered after the death of his mother, leading Lorenzo to search for solace in the stars.
 * Poniatowska, Elena. The skin of the sky. 1st American ed. New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2004.**

After the Semptember 11 terrorist attacks destroy his New York loft, Mabry Kincaid returns to his home in North Carolina to visit his aged father and tries to repair their damaged relationship with the help of his father's nurse and her grown son.
 * Price, Reynolds, 1933-. The good priest's son. New York : Scribner, c2005.**

Fifty-seven-year-old Kate Vaiden reassesses her life and her motivations while preparing to contact the son she deserted forty years earlier.
 * Price, Reynolds, 1933-. Kate Vaiden. 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed. New York : Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1998.**

A fictional account of different immigrant families in America who all have owned a single handmade accordian. Follows their quests for a fulfilled life in America from Iowa to Texas and from Maine to Louisiana.
 * Proulx, Annie. Accordion crimes. 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed. New York, NY : Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1997, c1996.**

The careers and personal lives of a group of young attorneys hang in the balance as they begin work at Morgan Siler, one of Washington D.C.'s most powerful law firms, and become embroiled in two important cases, defending a Texas oil firm against a class action suit brought after an explosion killed dozens of workers, and a pro bono death penalty case in Virginia.
 * Roosevelt, Kermit, 1971-. In the shadow of the law. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.**

An adolescent boy, knowing he is about to be dropped by his school, spends three days and nights in New York City.
 * Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-. The catcher in the rye. [1st ed.]. Boston : Little Brown, c1951.**

Tibaldo Bondi, son of the assistant to the famous Bolognese physician Turisanus, is supposed to celebrate his 12th birthday in 1582. But that year the pope decides to reform the calendar which will include dropping ten days from October, including the 10th, which is Tibaldo's birthday.
 * Shimony, Abner. Tibaldo and the hole in the calendar. New York, NY, USA : Copernicus, c1998.**

Having managed to live through World War II, Jewish refugee Herman Broder takes up residence in New York where he goes about his business with an impending sense of doom due to the fact that he is juggling three wives.
 * Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991. Enemies, a love story. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1972.**

A chance encounter between two families--the Donaldsons, and the Iranian-born Yasdans--at the Baltimore airport prompts an examination about what it means to be an American.
 * Tyler, Anne. Digging to America : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.**

When two gargantuan, human-made monsters clash over the future of the human race and the planet, fourteen-year-old Anna Mallahide has a hard time convincing her classmate, Chris Pitman, that he must play any role in the outcome of their epic battle.
 * Enthoven, Sam. Tim, defender of the Earth! New York : Razorbill, 2008.**

In the wake of her cousin's suicide, overweight and introverted seventeen-year-old Miles experiences significant changes in her relationships with her mother and father, her best friend Jamal and his family, and her cousin's father, while gaining insights about herself, both positive and negative.
 * Cohn, Rachel. You know where to find me. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2008.**

Naive Indiana transplant Corliss Meyers moves in with her uncle and gets a job as an intern working on a new Hollywood television show, while an anonymous insider is blogging about the scandalous activities swirling around the set.
 * Cooke, Jordan. Pilot episode. 1st ed. New York : Grosset & Dunlap, 2008.**

Fourteen-year-old Dutch Peyton learns about growing up as her family struggles with a crippling drought and a painful past.
 * Hall, Barbara, 1960-. Dixie storms. 1st Harcourt pbk. ed. Orlando : Harcourt, 2006, c1990.**

In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
 * Hesse, Karen. Out of the dust. New York : Scholastic, [1999], c1997.**

Determined to find his father who has been lost in a storm, a young boy and his Eskimo friend brave wind storms, starvation, wild animals, and wild men during their search in the Canadian Arctic.
 * Houston, James A., 1921-. Frozen fire. 2nd Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 1992, c1977.**

Ever since she was eight years old, high school student Janie Hannagan has been uncontrollably drawn into other people's dreams, but it is not until she befriends an elderly nursing home patient and becomes involved with an enigmatic fellow-student that she discovers her true power.
 * McMann, Lisa. Wake. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2008.**


 * Meyer, Deon. Devil's peak : a novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2008.**

When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.
 * Meyer, Stephenie, 1973-. New moon. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2006.**

Identical twins Meredith and Mallory Brynn have always shared one another's thoughts, even as they dream, but their connection diminishes as they approach their thirteenth birthday, and one begins to see the future, the other the past, leading them to discover that a high school student they know is doing horrible things that place the twins, and others, in grave danger.
 * Mitchard, Jacquelyn. The midnight twins. New York : Razorbill, 2008.**

Short Stories
Why don't you dance -- Viewfinder -- Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit -- Gazebo -- I could see the smallest things -- Sacks -- The bath -- Tell the women we're going -- After the denim -- So much water so close to home -- The third thing that killed my father off -- A serious talk -- The calm -- Popular mechanics -- Everything stuck to him -- What we talk about when we talk about love -- One more thing. Presents seventeen short stories by twentieth-century American author Raymond Carver.
 * Carver, Raymond. What we talk about when we talk about love : stories. Vintage Books ed. New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 1989.**

Contains thirty-seven short fiction stories by contemporary American author Raymond Carver, drawn from throughout his career.
 * Carver, Raymond. Where I'm calling from : new and selected stories. 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 1989.**

A collection of sixty-one of Cheever's short stories, including four that have never been published in book form.
 * Cheever, John. The stories of John Cheever. 1st Vintage International ed. New York : Vintage International, 2000.**

Presents two short story collections by nineteenth-century American author Kate Chopin, including "Bayou Folk," and "A Night in Acadie," both telling of the lives of people in New Orleans and rural Louisiana.
 * Chopin, Kate, 1851-1904. Bayou folk ; : and, A night in Acadie. New York : Penguin Books, 1999.**

The intruder -- A love song -- Falling in love -- Blessings -- Sunday morning -- All the time in the world -- Woman on a plane -- The colonel's wife -- The lover -- The last moon -- The timing of sin -- At night -- Out of the snow -- Dancing after hours. Collection of fourteen short stories which explore the mysteries of everyday life by an award winning contemporary American author.
 * Dubus, Andre, 1936-. Dancing after hours : stories. 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 1997, 1996.**

A collection of twenty-three short stories by the contemporary American author Dubus.
 * Dubus, Andre, 1936-. Selected stories. 2nd Vintage Contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1996, c1989.**

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe; Wunderkind; The Jockey; Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland; The Sojourner; A Domestic Dilemma; A Tree-A Rock-A Cloud.
 * McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967. The ballad of the sad café and other stories. Bantam ed. New York : Bantam Books, 1971.**

Presents a collection of short stories that chart the fictional communities collective loss of memory where weather, landscape, radio waves, and electricity play important roles as characters.
 * Monson, Ander, 1975-. Other electricities : stories. 1st ed. Louisville, KY : Sarabande, c2005.**

On the antler -- Stone city -- Bedrock -- A run of bad luck -- Heart songs -- The unclouded day -- In the pit -- The wer-trout -- Electric arrows -- A country killing -- Negatives. Contains over ten short fiction stories by Pulitzer Prize winning author Annie Proulx.
 * Proulx, Annie. Heart songs and other stories. New York : Scribner Paperback Fiction, c1995.**

A perfect day for Bananafish -- Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut -- Just before the war with the Eskimos -- The laughing man -- Down at the dinghy -- For Esme, with love and squalor -- Pretty mouth and green my eyes -- De Daumier-Smith's blue period -- Teddy. This collection of stories deals mainly with sensitive and troubled adolescents and children.
 * Salinger, J.D. (Jerome David), 1919-. Nine stories. Boston : Little Brown, c1953.**

Collection of forty-seven stories selected by the Nobel Prize winning author from among the writings he authored from 1957-1981.
 * Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991. The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer. New York : Noonday Press, c1996.**