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Call No. |
Title |
Author |
Summary |
| F ADA |
Restaurant at the end of the universe |
Adams, Douglas |
In this science fiction spoof, a sequel to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Universe, Arthur Dent and his friends encounter new adventure and danger
in their space travels. |
| F ALM |
Fire-eaters |
Almond, David |
In 1962 England, despite observing his father's illness and the
suffering of the fire-eating Mr. McNulty, as well as enduring abuse at
school and the stress of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bobby Burns and his
family and friends still find reasons to rejoice in their lives and to
have hope (Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award) |
F ALV
|
Before we were free |
Alvarez, Julia |
In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita
learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end
the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
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| F ARO |
Kelp |
Aronson, Linda |
A 14 year old girl yearns to become a business tycoon but her problem is
that she lives on a remote island. A coming of age comedy. |
| F AUS |
Mansfield Park |
Austen, Jane |
A young, impoverished woman arrives at her uncle's country estate, and
is snubbed by everyone except her cousin Edmund, whom she soon grows to
love.
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F AUS
|
Auggie Wren's Christmas story |
Paul Auster |
Presents a Christmas story about a young shoplifter, a lonely blind
woman, and a Christmas dinner.
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| F AVI |
Crispin : the cross of lead |
Avi |
Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in
fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a
larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret. Newbery Medal,
2003. ALA Notables, 2003. A Sakura Medal Finalist 2006 |
| F BAC |
Illusions |
Bach, Richard |
A Midwest barnstormer/writer befriends a Fellow Flyer, an unusual sort
of man who turns out to be a messiah, or, rather, a master of illusions.
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| F BAL |
Chasing Vermeer |
Balliett, Blue |
When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a
precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder
combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
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| F BAN |
Sea |
Banville, John |
Irishman Max Morden, grieving the death of his wife, Anna, returns to
the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child, and
finds himself engulfed in thoughts and memories of a momentous summer
spent with the vacationing Grace family, his life with Anna, and his
relationship with his grown daughter. Winner of the Man Booker Prize. |
| F BRA |
Sisterhood of the travelling pants |
Brashares, Ann |
During their first summer apart, four teenage girls, best friends since
earliest childhood, stay in touch through a shared pair of secondhand
jeans that magically adapts to each of their figures and affects their
attitudes to their different summer experiences. |
| F BRO |
Deception point |
Brown, Dan |
White House intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton is thrust into a
life-or-death situation when she travels to the Arctic to investigate
the discovery of a rare meteorite that might prove the existence of
extraterrestrial life, and finds instead evidence of scientific
trickery.
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| F BRO |
Fatal terrain |
Brown, Dale |
As the People's Republic of China prepares to immobilize the United
States and seize control of its neighboring countries, American warfare
expert Patrick McLanahan and aerospace engineer Jon Masters convert a
series of retired B-52 Air Force bombers into a fleet of nuclear
airships for battle. |
| F BRO |
Unsung hero |
Brockmann, Susanne |
A soldier on medical leave returns to his hometown to renew his
relationship with his girlfriend. More waits there for him back home
after he discovers what should be a long dead terrorist who is plotting
something again and a father and uncle who try to hid a long kept
secret.
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| F CAL |
Rule of four |
Caldwell, Ian & Thomason, Dustin |
Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris are determined to unlock the centuries old
mystery behind an ancient Renaissance text before their graduation from
Princeton, but just as they are about to discover its secrets, the
campus is rocked with a series of suspicious deaths. |
| F CAR |
Shadow of the giant |
Card, Orson Scott |
Bean, the embattled right-hand man of Ender Wiggin, must move to another
planet to raise a family with his wife, Petra, because enemies lay in
wait everywhere on Earth. |
| F CHR |
Half brother. |
Christensen, Lars Saabye. |
Barnum Nilson draws upon the stories of his Norwegian family in his work
as a screenwriter, focusing on his relationship with his half-brother
Fred, the angry result of their mother's rape on VE Day in 1945, who is
slowly disappearing from their lives. Notable Books for Adults 2005
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| F CHR |
Three act tragedy : a Hercule Poirot novel |
Christie, Agatha |
Also published as: "Murder in three acts." When two people are murdered
at different dinner parties with the same guest list, Hercule Poirot
decides to have a dinner party of his own.
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| F CLA |
Sum of all fears |
Clancy, Tom |
One terrible act plunges the world into an instant nuclear crisis, and
with the American president accused of incompetence, Jack Ryan calls on
FBI head Dan Murray to help him avert disaster. |
| F CLA |
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: a novel |
Clarke, Susanna |
Magician, Mr. Norrel of Hurtfew Abbey, uses his powers against Napoleon
and the French in 1806 and is soon challenged by Jonathan Strange, a
novice magician, who becomes obsessed with the Raven King, the
twelfth-century founder of English magic and bizarre forms of magic.
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| F COL |
Artemis Fowl : the opal deception (Book 4) |
Colfer, Eoin |
After his last run-in with the fairies, Artemis Fowl's mind was wiped of
memories of the world belowground and any goodness grudgingly learned is
now gone with the young genius reverting to his criminal lifestyle. A
Sakura Medal Finalist 2006
|
F COO
|
Greenwitch |
Cooper, Susan |
Jane's invitation to witness the making of the Greenwitch begins a
series of sinister events in which she and her two brothers help the Old
Ones recover the grail stolen by the Dark.
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| F COR |
Trace |
Cornwell, Patricia |
Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to Richmond, Virginia from freelancing in
South Florida at the request of the recently appointed Chief Medical
Examiner to solve the murder of a 14-year-old girl, but she finds that
nothing is as she left it. Her former lab is being demolished; the
chief isn't really the one who requested her; her former assistant
chief has had personal problems that he refuses to reveal; and a
glamorous FBI agent meddles with the case. |
| F CRI |
State of fear |
Michael Crichton |
In Paris, a graduate student in a secret laboratory reveals a powerful
new technology to a beautiful and mysterious woman. A few hours later,
the student is drugged and dumped in a river. Radical environmental
terrorists are launching a fanatical campaign--and the very future of
the world they seek to protect may be at stake. Only MIT scientist and
federal agent John Kenner can stop the deadly plot before the terrifying
consequences are realized- |
| F DAL |
Dairy of Mattie Spenser |
Dallas, Sandra |
Contains the fictional diary of twenty-two-year-old Mattie McCauley, in
which she tells about the unexpected proposal she received from Luke
Spenser, the best catch in her nineteenth-century Iowa town, and
discusses the hardships and heartbreaks of their life together on the
Colorado frontier.
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| F DEA |
Twelfth card (a Lincoln Rhyme novel) |
Deaver, Jeffery |
Quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs find themselves on
a cat-and-mouse chase through the streets of uptown Manhattan as they
try to outguess a cunning serial killer. |
F DEB
|
Birds without wings. |
De Bernières, Louis. |
A small coastal town in South West Anatolia at the end of the Ottoman
Empire is torn apart by the ravages of war, forcing friends, families,
and lovers to choose sides and risk their lives.
|
| F DUN |
Close kin |
Dunkle, Clare B. |
After the mostly human Emily rejects the elvish Seylin's marriage
proposal, both undertake separate quests to learn about their true
natures and discover a royal elf and orphaned goblin to bring to the
goblin kingdom.
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| F DUN |
Hollow kingdom. |
Dunkle, Clare B. |
In nineteenth-century England, a powerful sorcerer and King of the
Goblins chooses Kate, the elder of two orphan girls recently arrived at
their ancestral home, Hallow Hill, to be his bride and queen. ALA Best
Books for Young Adults 2005.
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| F DUN |
In the coils of the snake |
Dunkle, Clare B. |
After learning that the new goblin king, her promised groom, plans to
marry an elf instead, the human Miranda Flees the Goblin Kingdom and is
rescued from despair by a mysterious elf lord.
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| F EDD |
Guardians of the West |
Eddings, David |
Eleven years after being crowned King of Riva, Garion again finds
himself a pawn caught between two ancient prophecies with the fate of
the world resting upon him |
| F ELI |
Daniel Deronda |
Eliot, George |
Daniel, the adopted son of an English aristocrat, meets Mordecai, an
ailing Jewish philosopher and his sister, Mirah, and begins to discover
the secrets behind his own parentage.
|
F ELI
|
Middlemarch |
Eliot, George |
A portrait of 19th century English provincial life focusing on Dorothea
Brooks and her two marriages, Dr. Lydgate, and the Vincy family.
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| F ENZ |
Number devil : a mathematical adventure |
Enzensberger, Hans Magnus |
Annoyed with his math teacher who assigns word problems and won't let
him use a calculator, twelve-year-old Robert finds help from the number
devil in his dreams. |
| F EVA |
Smoke jumper |
Evans, Nicholas |
Julia BishopFaces a wrenching dilemma when sheFinds herself in love with
two men, bestFriends Ed Tully and ConnorFord, and the three of them
areForced to live with the consequences when she chooses to marry Ed
after he is injured trying to save her life.
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| F FAR |
Sea of trolls |
Farmer, Nancy |
After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister
Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King
Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a
vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls. ALA Best Books for Young
Adults 2005.
(Horn Book Fanfare List ) A Sakura Medal Finalist 2006 |
F FIE
|
Bridget Jone's diary |
Fielding, Helen |
Bridget Jones starts a diary on New Year's Day and throughout the year,
she keeps track of how well she is succeeding in her quest to become a
better person.
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| F FOL |
Whiteout |
Follett, Ken |
As a Christmas Eve blizzard blows through Scotland, several people from
a medical research firm converge on a remote family house, where they
learn that a canister containing a deadly virus has disappeared from the
lab, and that someone among them will risk anything to keep the crime a
secret. |
F FRA
|
Break In |
Francis, Dick |
Champion steeplechase jockey, Kit Fielding, discovers that blood ties
can mean trouble when he goes to the defense of his twin sister whose
husband's career as a race horse trainer is threatened by a spiteful
newspaper campaign.
|
| F FUN |
Dragon rider |
Cornelia Funke |
After learning that humans are headed toward his hidden home, Firedrake,
a silver dragon, is joined by a brownie and an orphan boy in a quest to
find the legendary valley known as the Rim of Heaven, encountering
friendly and unfriendly creatures along the way, and struggling to evade
the relentless pursuit of an old enemy. A Sakura Medal Finalist 2006 |
| F FUN |
Inkheart |
Funke, Cornelia |
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can
"read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn,
freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to force Mo to
release an immortal monster from the story.A Sakura Medal Finalist 2006 |
| F FUS |
Tending to Grace |
Fusco, Kimberly Newton. |
When Cornelia's mother runs off with a boyfriend, leaving her with an
eccentric aunt, Cornelia must finally confront the truth about herself
and her mother. |
F GAV
|
Blood stone |
Gavin, Jamila |
In the early seventeenth century, young Venetian Filippo Veroneo travels
from Venice to Afghanistan to rescue his imprisoned father, Geronimo,
and stops in India to raise the ransom by selling his father's beautiful
diamond to the ruler Shah Jehan, who later uses the stone as the model
for the Taj Mahal. A Sakura Medal Finalist 2006
|
| F GLA |
Three Junes |
Glass, Julia |
Fenno, living a solitary life in the West Village, faces challenges of
love when a worldly neighbor presents him with an extraordinary gift and
a photographer makes him an unwitting subject.
|
| F GOO |
Chainfire |
Goodkind, Terry |
Presents the ninth book in the Sword of Truth series in which Richard,
gravely injured in battle, awakens from a spell cast by the sorceress
Nicci to save his life, only to discover his wife, Kahlan, is missing,
and he is the only one who seems to recall she ever existed.
|
| F GOO |
Debt of bones |
Goodkind, Terry |
A young peasant woman struggles to win the aid of the most important man
alive in the hopes he can prevent a catastrophic war.
|
| F GOO |
Soul of the fire |
Goodkind, Terry |
When last we saw our heroes--Richard Cypher (Lord Rahl) and Kahlan
Amnell--they each had made enormous sacrifices to save one anotherFrom
certain doom. To save her beloved, Khalan, Mother Confessor of the
Midlands, had spoken the three chimes, summoning these chaotic
beingsFrom the world beyond and unwittingly releasing incredibly
destructive power. Now the chimes are stealing souls, and
malevolentForces are reshaping the world itself. To save everythingFrom
almost certain doom, Richard, Kahlan, and the wizard Zedd must hunt the
elusive chimes and reharness them before it's too late.
|
| F GOO |
Temple of the winds |
Goodkind, Terry |
A fantasy novel featuring wizard Richard Cypher and his betrothed
companion, Kahlan Amnell, as they battle an evil emperor who is using
magic to spread a plague. But must they, as they are told, really
renounce their love to win the fight?. |
| F GRA |
R is for Ricochet |
Grafton, Sue |
Nord Lafferty hires Kinsey Millhone to watch his daughter,
thirty-two-year old Reba, who has just gotten out of jail, and make sure
that she stays away from drinking, drugs, and gambling, but Reba is soon
re-united with the ex-boss who got her into jail, land developer Alan
Beckwith. |
| F GRE |
Queen's fool : a novel |
Gregory, Philippa |
Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, finds herself caught in
the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half sister, Elizabeth, after her
ability to foresee the future leads her to work for the Queen as a spy. |
| F GRE |
All summer long |
Greene, Bob |
Old buddies Ben, Ronnie, and Michael set out on a summer cross-country
road trip after their twenty-fifth high school reunion.
|
| F GRI |
Runaway jury |
Grisham, John |
The jury in a Mississippi tobacco trial appears to be manipulated and
controlled.
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| F GRO |
Codex |
Grossman, Lev |
Edward Wozny's curiosity turns to mystery and obsession when he realizes
that a medieval codex may be hidden among a personal library of rare
books and enlists the help of Margaret Napier, a medieval scholar, to
help him discover the strange history that lies within its pages. |
| F HAD |
Amongst the imposters |
Haddix, Margaret Peterson |
In a future where the law limits a family to only two children,
third-born Luke has been in hiding for the entire twelve years of his
life, until he enters boarding school under an assumed name and is
forced to face his fears.
|
| F HAD |
Escape from memory |
Haddix, Margaret Peterson |
Allowing herself to be hynotized,Fifteen-year-old Kira reveals memories
of another time and place that may eventually cost her and her mother
their lives.
|
F HAD
|
Takeoffs and landings |
Haddix, Margaret Peterson |
An overweight, timid fifteen-year-old boy and his popular
fourteen-year-old sister begin to overcome their guilt over their
father's death and reconnect with each other and their
emotionally-distant mother when they accompany her on a two-week
speaking tour.
|
| F HAL |
Donorboy. |
Halpin, Brendan. |
Rosalind, a fourteen-year-old orphan, becomes the ward of her biological
father after the tragic death of her gay mother, and struggles with the
adjustment of getting to know a father she never knew. ALA Best Books
for Young Adults 2005.
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| F HAL |
Goose girl |
Hale, Shannon |
On her way to marry a prince she's never met, Princess Anidori is
betrayed by her guards and her lady-in-waiting and must become a goose
girl to survive until she can reveal her true identity and reclaim the
crown that is rightfully hers. A Sakura Medal Finalist 2006 |
| F HAM |
Burnt offerings |
Hamilton, Laurel |
As Anita Blake's ties to the werewolves gets deeper the new powers that
are emerging from her as a result of her bonds with them and Jean-Claude
prove to be the savior of them all when they go up against the vampire
council.
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| F HEN |
Olive's ocean |
Henkes, Kevin |
On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean,
twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on
her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy,
and on her plans to be a writer. Newbery honor book, 2004.A Sakura Medal
Finalist 2006
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| F HIA |
Hoot |
Hiaasen, Carl |
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in
another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed
construction site. A Sakura Medal Finalist 2006 |
| F HOB |
Assassin's apprentice |
Hobb, Robin |
A bastard prince relegated to cleaning stables is chosen by a king to
become an assassin. The novel follows the training and missions of this
man who has inherited magical skills, among them mind-control and the
ability to communicate with animals.
|
| F HOF |
Here on earth |
Alice Hoffman |
March Murray returns to her New England hometown with her teenage
daughter, supposedly to attend the funeral of her old housekeeper, but
in the back of her mind March knows she is headed for a reunion with
Hollis, the boy she has loved since childhood.
|
| F HOR |
Eagle strike: an Alex Rider adventure |
Horowitz, Anthony. |
After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South
of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star
and philanthropist Damian Cray whose new video game venture hides
sinister motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles, and the
international drug trade. ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2005. |
| F HOS |
Kite runner |
Hosseini, Khaled |
Amir, haunted by his betrayal of Hassan, the son of his father's servant
and a childhood friend, returns to Kabul as an adult after he learns
Hassan has been killed, in an attempt to redeem himself by rescuing
Hassan's son from a life of slavery to a Taliban official.
|
| F IRV |
Widow for one year |
Irving, John |
Chronicles the life of a complex, abrasive woman born in the shadow of
her siblings' deaths and her parents' adultery, who only finds love
after motherhood and widowhood.
|
F ISH
|
Never let me go |
Ishiguro, Kazuo |
Thirty-one-year-old Kathy, along with old friends from Hailsham, a
private school in England, are forced to face the truth about their
childhood when they all come together again.
|
| F JAC |
Redwall |
Jacques, Brian |
When the peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the
arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a
young mouse, determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the
Warrior which, he is convinced, will help Redwall's inhabitants destroy
the enemy.
|
F JAC
|
Lord Brocktree |
Jacques, Brian |
The mountain of Salamandastron needs the help of Brocktree the Badger
Lord when evil comes in the form of the Blue Hordes of Ungatt Trunn, the
Earth Shaker.
|
F JAC
|
Mossflower |
Jacques, Brian |
Prequel to Redwall.
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| F JOC |
Mable Riley: a reliable record of humdrum, peril, and romance. |
Jocelyn, Marthe. |
In 1901, fourteen-year-old Mable Riley dreams of being a writer and
having adventures while stuck in Perth County, Ontario, assisting her
sister in teaching school and secretly becoming friends with a neighbor
who holds scandalous opinions on women's rights.
|
| F JOH |
Bird. |
Johnson, Angela. |
Devastated by the loss of a second father, thirteen-year-old Bird
follows her stepfather from Cleveland to Alabama in hopes of convincing
him to come home, and along the way helps two boys cope with their
difficulties. ALA Best BooksFor Young Adults 2005. |
| F JOH |
Fast and brutal wing. |
Johnson, Kathleen Jeffrie. |
A series of journal entries, emails, stories, and newspaper articles
reveals the strange events that led to the disappearance of a reclusive
author on Halloween night and the involvement of a teenager and his
friends--a brother and sister some say can transform into animals and
back again. ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2005.
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| F JON |
Known world |
Jones, Edward |
Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a
fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor--William Robbins,
perhaps the most powerful white man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester
County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own
plantation as well as his own slaves. When he dies his widow Caldonia
succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart. Winner of
the Pulitzer Prize
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| F JOR |
Knife of dreams (The wheel of time, Book 11) |
Jordan, Robert |
As the Seanchan Empire continues its bloody campaign to reclaim
ancestral lands, Rand attempts a risky truce with the invaders, with
unforeseen consequences. |
| F KAD |
Kira-Kira (Newbery Medal Book) |
Kadohata, Cynthia |
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters
growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and
the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill. A Sakura Medal
Finalist 2006 |
| F KHA |
Swallows of Kabul. |
Khadra, Yasmina. |
Two couples living in Kabul under the rule of the Taliban find their
lives destroyed by the tyrannical government. |
| F KIN |
Wizard and glass (The dark tower, Book 4) |
King, Stephen |
Roland, the last gunslinger, and his band of followers escape one world
only to slip into the next where Roland reflects upon past adventures
and about his one true love. |
| F KOE |
Margaux with an X. |
Koertge, Ronald.
|
Margaux, known as a "tough chick" at her Los Angeles high school, makes
a connection with Danny, who, like her, struggles with the emotional
impact of family violence and abuse.
|
| F KON |
Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place. |
Konigsburg, E.L. |
Upon leaving an oppressive summer camp, twelve-year-old Margaret Rose
Kane spearheads a campaign to preserve three unique towers her
great-uncles have been building in their backyard for more than forty
years.
|
F KON
|
Silent to the bone |
Konigsburg, E.L. |
When thirteen-year-old Branwell is wrongly accused of gravely injuring
his baby half-sister, he loses his power of speech. Only his friend
Connor is able to reach him and uncover the truth about what really
happened. |
| F KOS |
Historian |
Kostova, Elizabeth |
A young woman discovers an ancient book and a cache of old letters in
her father's library, and thus begins her adventurous quest for the
truth about Vlad the Impaler, a search that will span continents and
generations, and a confrontation with the darkest powers of evil. |
| F LAI |
Little piece of ground |
Laird, Elizabeth |
A novel that brings close to home the suffering and fear of the
oppressed people in Ramallah, Palestine. |
| F LAW |
B for Buster |
Lawrence, Iain. |
In the spring of 1943, sixteen-year-old Kak, desperate to escape his
abusive parents, lies about his age to enlist in the Canadian Air Force
and soon finds himself based in England as part of a crew flying bombing
raids over Germany.
|
| F LAW |
Crack in the line |
Lawrence, Michael. |
Sixteen-year-old Alaric discovers how to travel to an alternate reality,
where his mother is alive and his place in theFamily is held by a girl
named Naia.
|
| F LEA |
Heck, superhero. |
Leavitt, Martine. |
Abandoned by his mentally ill mother, thirteen-year-old Heck tries to
survive on his own as his mind bounces between the superhero character
he imagines himself to be and the harsh reality of his life. ALA Best
Books for Young Adults 2005.
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| F LEB |
Hollow needle |
Leblanc, Maurice |
Lupin is off to a life of crime again, but he may lose it all either to
love or, unbelievably, a high school student who is about to steal his
treasures. I. Title. |
F LEB
|
Arsene Lupin vs. Herlock Sholmes |
Leblanc, Maurice |
Lupin, master thief, must outsmart the greatest detective in the world,
Herlock Sholmes.
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| F LEV |
Realm of possibility |
Levithan, David. |
A variety of students at the same high school describe their ideas,
experiences and relationships in a series of interconnected free verse
stories. |
| F LOW |
Giver |
Lowry, Lois (ASIJ Author) |
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes
the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and
discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives |
| F LOW |
Messenger |
Lowry, Lois |
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering
Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty,
conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
By ASIJ author Lois Lowry. A Sakura Medal Finalist 2006 |
| F MAC |
Rivers of Zadaa (Pendragon) |
MacHale, D.J. and Lee, Victor |
Taking advantage of a severe drought and the long-standing distrust
between two tribes, the demonic Saint Dane attempts to take over Loor's
home planet of Zadaa, opposed once again by the teenaged Pendragon and
other Travelers. |
| F MAG |
Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West : a novel |
Maguire, Gregory |
A fable for adults on the subject of destiny and free will by a writer
of children's books. It tells the story of Elphaba before she became the
Wicked Witch of the West in the land of Oz. The novel traces her career
as nun, nurse, pro-democracy activist and animal rights defender. |
| F MAR |
Feast for crows (A song of ice and fire, Book 4) |
Martin, George R. R. |
In the fourth book of the series the evil king is dead and the war among
the kings is dying out. It seems to good to be true and it is as the
lower levels of humanity gather forces and make unholy alliances to
challenge Cersei the new regent of the realm.
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| F MAR |
Life of Pi |
Martel, Yann |
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship in the Pacific, one solitary
lifeboat remains, carrying a hyena, a zebra, a female orangutan, a
Bengal tiger, and a 16-year-old Indian boy names Pi. His story is a
dazzling work of imagination that will delight and astound listerners in
equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will as
one character puts it, make you believe in God. |
| F MAR |
Saving Francesca. |
Marchetta, Melina. |
Sixteen-year-old Francesca could use her outspoken mother's help with
the problems of being one of a handful of girls at a parochial school
that has just turned co-ed, but her mother has suddenly become severely
depressed.ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2005 Bccb Blue Ribbon Fiction
Books.
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| F MAT |
Autumn bridge |
Matsuoka, Takashi.
|
In 1311, a beautiful woman awaits her fate in the tower of Cloud of
Sparrows Castle where she is imprisoned, and begins writing the secret
history of the Okumichi clan and the gift of prophecy they share.
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| F MAU |
Mrs. Craddock |
Maugham, Somerset |
A story of a financially well-off young woman who marries a man of
lesser means. |
| F MCC |
Finer points of sausage dogs |
McCall Smith, Alexader |
Professor Von Igelfeld is chased by widows aboard a Mediterranean cruise
ship who want to marry him; and, mistaken for a veterinarian, he begins
practicing the science without a license and performs a problematic
operation on a friend's dachshund. |
| F MCC |
No. 1 ladies' detective agency (Today Show Book Club #8) |
McCall-Smith, Alexander |
Precious Ramotswe decides to go against tradition and open a private
detective agency in contemporary Botswana, and soon has more business
than she could have hoped for, including a disturbing case involving a
missing child. |
F MCC
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At the villa of reduced circumstances |
McCall Smith, Alexander
|
Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance
Philology, engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he feels
is due, gets a boost when he returns from sabbatical to find his
masterwork has been checked out of the Institute's library.
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| F MCE |
Saturday |
McEwan, Ian |
Henry Perowne, a London neurosurgeon, goes through his normal Saturday
activities, including a weekly squash game, but his unease grows as he
makes his way through the throngs of anti-war protesters clogging
London's streets, until a minor car accident with the petulant Baxter
begins a series of events that erupts into violence. |
| F MCK |
Alphabet of thorn
|
McKillip, Patricia |
Fairytale of wonder and magic where an orphan girl is haunted by thorns,
a reluctant queen rules between sea and sky and epics never end.
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| F MCK |
Od magic
|
McKillip, Patricia |
Brenden Vetch's gift for connecting with the agricultural world helps
him land a job as the gardener for the wizard Od at her school in the
city of Kelior, where Od uncovers Brenden's true powers and helps him
save the school from evil rulers. |
| F MCK |
Sunshine. |
McKinley, Robin. |
They took her clothes and sneakers. They dressed her in a long red gown.
And they shackled her to the wall of an abandoned mansion-within easy
reach of a figure in the moonlight. She knows she is a vampire. ALA Best
Books for Young Adults 2005.
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| F MCL |
Nanny diaries |
McLaughlin, Emma |
In order to pay her way through NYU, Nanny takes a job caring for the
only son of a wealthy family, where she soon realizes her real job
responsibility is making sure the Park Avenue wife who doesn't work,
cook, clean, or raise her own child has a smooth day. |
| F MCR |
See how they run |
McRobbie, David |
Emma Cassidy and her family are placed under the witness protection
scheme after her father unwittingly gains knowledge of the finances and
affairs of a drug lord. When the threat escalates, they escape to
seemingly safe sunny Australia, but the worst may be to come.
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| F MEY |
Work of wolves. |
Meyers, Kent. |
Carson Fielding, a loner known for his horse-training skills reluctantly
agrees to work for Magnus Yarborough, a greedy landowner who suspects
Carson of having an affair with his wife and plots to take revenge on
the young man. ALA Best Adult Books for Young People 2005 - Alex Awards
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F MIL
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IDA B. A novel |
Karen E. Quinones miller |
The residents of a Harlem high-rise ban together against scam artists,
drug dealers, a mysterious murder, and the city that wants to tear down
their building.
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F MIT
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Cloud atlas |
Mitchell, David. |
A collection of disparate charactersFrom different countries and
centuries find their stories linked through a bizarre series of events.
|
| F MON |
Anne of Green Gables |
Montgomery, L.M. |
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a
lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm
and proceeds to make an indelible impression on every one around her.
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| F MOR |
Private Peaceful |
Morpurgo, Michael |
When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army,
Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years
old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love,
Molly, and himself. Awards: ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2005.
Booklist Editor's Choice. Books for Youth. A Sakura Medal Finalist 2006 |
| F NAB |
Lolita |
Nabokov, Vladimir |
A novel that studies the moral disintegration of a man whose obsessive
desire to possess his step-daughter destroys the lives of those around
him.
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| F NAI |
Web of lies |
Naidoo, Beverley |
Close to receiving a decision on whether they will be granted political
asylum in England a sister learns that her brother is lost to a gang and
may become the reason they do not get asylum. A Sakura Medal Finalist
2006 |
F NAP
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Bound. |
Napoli, Donna Jo. |
In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old
stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her
stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone
might marry well.
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F NAY
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Walker's crossing |
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds |
While living on hisFamily's ranch in Wyoming where he hopes some day to
be a cowboy, RyanFaces conflicts with his older brother who becomes
involved in a militia movement.
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| F NEL |
Rock star, superstar. |
Nelson, Blake. |
When Pete, a talented bass player, moves from playing in the high school
jazz band to playing in a popular rock group, he finds the experience
exhilarating even as his new fame jeopardizes his relationship with
girlfriend Margaret.ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2005.
|
F NIE
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Popular music from Vittula : a novela |
Niemi, Mikael. |
The town of Pajala, Sweden, isForever changed when a Beatles albumFalls
into the hands of one of the younger residents. |
| F NIX |
Mister Monday - Keys to the Kingdom, Book 1: |
Nix, Garth |
Arthur Penhaligon is supposed to die at a young age, but is saved by a
key that is shaped like the minute hand of a clock. The key causes
bizarre creatures to come from another realm, bringing with them a
plague. A man named Mister Monday will stop at nothing to get the key
back. Arthur goes to a mysterious house that only he can see, so that he
can learn the truth about himself and the key. A Sakura Medal Finalist
2006 |
| F NOL |
Logan's run |
Nolan, William |
Logan, In the futuristic city of Sanctuary, is almost 21 years old. Upon
turning 21 one he must surrender his life or....run for his life. |
| F OBR |
H.M.S. Surprise |
O'Brian, Patrick |
Captain Jack Aubrey, patrolling the waters surrounding India and the
Orient, stands to become very wealthy if he canFind Napoleon's ships and
plunder the gold they are carrying.
|
F OPP
|
Airborn. |
Oppel, Kenneth. |
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young
girl travelling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence
of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above
the Earth's surface.
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| F PAO |
Eldest |
Paolini, Christopher |
After successfully evading an Urgals ambush, Eragon is adopted into the
Ingeitum clan and sent toFinish his training so he canFurther help the
Varden in their struggle against the Empire.
|
| F PAR |
When my name was Keoko |
Park, Linda Sue |
With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the
increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War
II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely.A Sakura Medal
Finalist 2006 |
| F PAT |
East |
Pattou, Edith |
A young woman journeys to a distant castle on the back of a great white
bear who is the victim of a cruel enchantment. A Sakura Medal Finalist
2006 |
| F PAT |
Taft |
Patchett, Ann |
John Nickel, an African-American musician and manager of a Memphis blues
bar, finds nothing but trouble when he befriends Carl and Fay Taft, a
young white brother and sister who are looking for work. |
| F PIC |
My sister’s keeper. |
Picoult, Jodi. |
Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone
marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of
leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of
her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate.
|
| F PRE |
Brimstone |
Preston, Douglas |
FBI Special Agent Pendergast, searchingFor the human villain behind the
death of infamous art critic Jeremy Grove,Found murdered in a crime that
appears to have supernatural origins,Follows the trailFrom New York to
the Italian countryside where he learns a shocking secret.
.
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| F PRO |
Brokeback Mountain |
Proulx, Annie |
An unexpected relationship begins between two ranch hands on summer that
threatens everything they know. |
| F PUL |
Amber spyglass |
Pullman, Philip |
Lyra and Will find themselves at the center of a battle between the
forces of the Authority and those gathered by Lyra's father, Lord
Asriel.
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| F PUL |
Golden compass (His dark materials, Book 1) |
Pullman, Philip |
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best
friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of
gruesome experiments in the Far North. |
| F RAS |
One foot in Eden |
Rash, Ron |
The town bully has been killed, but their is no body and no witnesses.
The sheriff of this small Appalacian town is at a loss.
|
| F REE |
Mortal engines (The Hungry City Chronicles) |
Reeve, Philip |
In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns,
a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most
admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by one
girl and the memory of another. Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Award.
Whitbread Children's book award shortlist. A Sakura Medal Finalist 2006
|
| F REE |
Predator's gold (The Hungry City Chronicles) |
Reeve, Philip |
In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns,
Tom and Hester hope that the ice city of Anchorage will reach the
rumored haven of the Dead Continent--America--before the savage Hunstmen
of Arkangel find them. |
| F RIC |
Servant of the bones |
Rice, Anne |
Azriel, Servant of the Bones, tells the story of how he was transformed
from a young Jewish scholar in ancient Babylon into a spirit that is
neither demon nor angel, but subservient to whoever possesses his mortal
remains. His saga climaxes in present-day New York when, for the first
time ever, he appears without being summoned and witnesses the murder of
a girl who knows what he is. |
F RIC
|
Blood canticle |
Rice, Anne |
Lestat, in the midst of a transformation that has him struggling with
his vampirism and longing for goodness and purity, agrees to help his
beloved Rowan Mayfair, who is being driven to the brink of madness by
old secrets.
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| F RIT |
Boy who saved baseball |
Ritter, John H. |
The fate of a small California town rests on the outcome of one baseball
game, and Tom Gallagher hopes to lead his team to victory with the
secrets of the now disgraced player, Dante Del Gato.
|
| F ROB |
Shantaram : a novel |
Roberts, Gregory David |
Presents a novel based upon the life of the author about Lin, an escaped
convict who disappears into the dark side of Bombay's streets and enters
into a life of murder and betrayal, prison and torture, and war. |
| F ROB |
True and outstanding adventures of the Hunt sisters |
Robinson, Elisabeth |
Unemployed actress Olivia Hunt leaves Hollywood to return home at the
request of her younger sister, Madeleine, and finds herself struggling
to help her sister, keep her parents under control, and reconnect with
an old boyfriend. |
| F ROS |
How I live now |
Rosoff, Meg. |
To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City,
fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and
cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips
apart the family while devastating the land. |
| F ROW |
Harry Potter and the half blood prince |
Rowling, J. K. |
In Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and
Wizardry, Lord Voldemort becomes ever more powerful with his followers
increasing day by day in this continuing battle between good and evil.
Harry searches for the full and complex story of the boy who became Lord
Voldemort, and thereby finds what may be his only vulnerability.
|
| F RUS |
Shalimar the clown : a novel |
Rushdie, Salman |
When Maximilian Ophulus is murdered by his Kashmiri Muslim driver, a
mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the clown, authorities
uncover a dangerous link between the murderer and the victim's
daughter. |
| F RUS |
Shame : a novel |
Rushdie, Salman |
A novel that skirts the edge of being a political fantasy with the drama
centering around two families. One is a warrior family and the other
that of a playboy bad boy. |
| F SAE |
Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood. |
Saenz, Benjamin Alire. |
As a Chicano boy living in the unglamorous town of Hollywood, New
Mexico, and a member of the graduating class of 1969, Sammy Santos faces
the challenges of "gringo" racism, unpopular dress codes, the Vietnam
War, barrio violence, and poverty. ALA Best BooksFor Young Adults 2005,
Bccb Blue RibbonFiction Books Awards.
|
| F SAW |
Hominids |
Robert Sawyer |
During a quantum-computing experiment, Ponter Buddit, a Neanderthal
physicist, accidently transports himself to an alternate universe where
an alien species is the dominant intelligence of the world.
|
| F SEB |
Lovely bones |
Sebold, Alice |
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.
|
| F SHA |
Cirque du freak: a living nightmare |
Shan, Darren |
Two boys who are best friends visit an illegal freak show, where an
encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make
life-changing choices.
|
| F SHE |
Crossover |
Shepherd, Joel |
The League's GIs are purpose built soldiers, androids - Sandy is a
special, experimental model. She has a personality and an ability to
learn. But Sandy is captured by the Federation who want to use her for
research.
|
| F SNI |
Grim grotto (A series of unfortunate events, Book 11) |
Snicket, Lemony |
Still pursued by the evil Count Olaf, the Baudelaire orphans attempt to
reach a very important VFD meeting, but first they must travel in a
rattletrap submarine to the Gorgonian Grotto, a dangerous underwater
cave, in search of the sugar bowl. A Sakura Medal Finalist 2006 |
| F SPA |
Walk to remember |
Sparks, Nicholas |
A romance featuring a troublesome teenager in South Carolina who is
changed for the better by the love of a girl. She is the angelic
daughter of a local minister and the boy joins her in doing good deeds.
But she has a secret which will break his heart. |
| F SPI |
Milkweed |
Jerry Spinelli |
A street child, known to himself only as Stopthief, finds community when
he is taken in by a band of orphans in Warsaw ghetto which helps him
weather the horrors of the Nazi regime. A Sakura Medal Finalist 2006 |
| F STE |
Beyond the deepwoods |
Stewart, Paul |
Thirteen-year-old Twig, having always looked and felt different from his
woodtroll family, learns that he is adopted and travels out of his
Deepwoods home to find the place where he belongs.
|
| F STR |
The amulet of Samarkand |
Stroud, Jonathan |
Nathaniel, a young magician's apprentice, becomes caught in a web of
magical espionage, murder, and rebellion, after he summons the djinni
Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the
powerful magician Simon Loveland. A Sakura Medal Finalist 2006
|
| F TIN |
Far traveler |
Tingle, Rebecca |
After the death of her mother, Aethelflaed of Mercia, seventeen-year-old
Aelfwyn flees imprisonment by her uncle King Edward and, in the guise of
a youthful bard, plays her part in the resolution of the tangled
political enmities of tenth century Britain.
|
F TOL
|
The hobbit, or, there and back again |
Tolkien J.R.R. |
Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in
his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him
to take part in an adventureFrom which he may never return.
|
F TOO
|
Confederacy of dunces |
Toole, John Kennedy |
Pulitzer Prize winning farce, set in New Orleans, telling about Ignatius
J. Reilly and his various attempts at employment and one-man wars.
|
| F WEN |
Setting fires |
Wenner, Kate |
Are the recent fires the embers of hatred toward Jews? Annie Waldmas
seeks this answer while she cares for her dying father who also has
buried secrets and shame.
|
F WHI
|
Blue fingers : a ninja's tale |
Whitesel, Cheryl Aylward |
Having failed apprenticeship as a dye maker, Koji is captured and forced
to train as a ninja, where he remains disloyal until he discovers
samurai have burned his former village. A Sakura Medal Finalist 2006
|
| F WIL |
Dragon keeper |
Wilkinson, Carole |
An orphan slave girl becomes a Dragon Keeper when she heroically comes
to the aid of an aging dragon and both go on a dangerous journey across
China to protect a mysterious stone vital to the dragon's legacy. A
Sakura Medal Finalist 2006 |
| F WIL |
Every time a rainbow dies |
Williams-Garcia, Rita |
After seeing a girl raped and becoming obsessed with her,
sixteen-year-old Thulani finds motivation to move beyond his interest in
his birds and his grief over his mother's death. |
| F WOL |
I am Charlotte Simmons |
Wolfe, Tom |
As Charlotte encounters the paragons of Dupont University's privileged
elite, she is seduced by the heady glamour of acceptance, betraying her
values and upbringing before she grasps the power of being different and
the exotic allure of her innocence. |
| F WOL |
Old school |
Wolff, Tobias. |
Determined to fit in at his New England prep school, the narrator has
learned to mimic the bearing and manners of his adoptive tribe while
concealing as much as possible about himself. His final year, however,
unravels everything he's achieved, and steers his destiny in directions
no one could have predicted. Pen/Faulkner Award finalist, "Notable Books
for Adults 2005". |
F WOO
|
Haunting of Alaizabel Cray. |
Wooding , Chris . |
As Thaniel, a wych-hunter, and Cathaline, his friend and mentor, try to
rid the alleys of London's Old Quarter of the terrible creatures that
infest them, their lives become entwined with that of a woman who may be
either mad or possessed.
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