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The city of falling angels
By Berendt, John, 1939-
John Berendt shares what he learned about the city of Venice
and its people in the months following the fire that destroyed the city's
historic Fenice Opera House.
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Cracking cases : the science of solving crimes
By Lee, Henry C.
Forensic expert Dr. Henry C. Lee recounts the investigation process of
five murder cases, discussing how the cases were affected by various factors,
including police incompetence, lack of evidence, and misconduct by
investigating officers.
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Crank
By Hopkins, Ellen.
Kristina Georgia Snow's life is turned upside-down, when she visits her
absentee father, gets turned on to the drug "crank", becomes addicted, and is
lead down a desperate path that threatens her mind, soul, and her life.
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Darkest hour
By Cabot, Meg.
Sixteen-year-old Susannah Simon is a mediator, one who communicates with
the dead, and she tries to solve the murder of Jesse, a nineteenth-century
ghost she is in love with.
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Death note. Vol. 3,Hard run
By Ohba, Tsugumi.
Light, under extreme surveillance by authorities after he finds the
Death Note, dropped by a rogue death god, and begins using the notebook to
kill off criminals, is distracted from his mission by a family emergency, but
it soon becomes obvious that someone is carrying on without him.
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Edgar Allan Poe
By Frisch, Aaron, 1975-
Examines the life of American author Edgar Allan Poe, and discusses how
the tragedies of his life were reflected in his work. Includes poems and story
excerpts, as well as illustrations.
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The end of Mr. Y
By Thomas, Scarlett.
Ariel Manto discovers a rare copy of a cursed book in a used bookstore
and, despite the fact that anyone who has ever read it has died, begins to
read it, which causes her to fall into a trance and step into an alternate
dimension where she must fight for her life.
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Finding Noel
By Evans, Richard Paul.
In the midst of dealing with the death of his mother, a recent breakup
with his girlfriend, and depression, Mark Smart meets Macy Wood, who was
raised by foster parents, and together they search for the woman's lost
sister, Noel, and subsequently overcome their personal issues.
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For one more day
By Albom, Mitch, 1958-
After years of drinking, being rejected by his wife and daughter, and a
suicide attempt, ex-baseball star Charley Benetto returns to his childhood
home where he encounters the ghost of his mother, who tells him family secrets
and guides him in making his life better.
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Forensics : solving the crime
By Yeatts, Tabatha.
Features profiles of eight scientists who made significant contributions
to the field of forensics in the areas of toxicology, fingerprinting, firearm
examination, forensic anthropology, DNA fingerprinting, the Photo-FIT system
of identification, and document authentication.
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Good girls
By Ruby, Laura.
Audrey, a sixteen-year-old high school senior, is humiliated when a
compromising photograph of her is sent around her school, but she discovers a
toughness within her that she never knew she had.
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Reference
The Complete Garden Flower Book
From Suffrage to the Senate: america's Political Women(2 volumes)
An African Biological Dictionary
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Hamlet's dresser : a memoir
By Smith, Bob, 1941-
Bob Smith recounts how his life has been shaped by the poetry and prose
of William Shakespeare, discussing how he found comfort in Shakespeare's plays
when he was a child and how he turned his love of Shakespeare's writing into a
lifelong career.
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Haunted : a tale of the mediator
By Cabot, Meg.
Sixteen-year-old Susannah Simon is a mediator, one who communicates with
the dead, and she also happens to be in love with Jesse, a nineteenth-century
ghost.
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I am the messenger
By Zusak, Markus.
After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy
begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people
need help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness.
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An inconvenient truth : the planetary emergency of global warming and what
we can do about it
By Gore, Albert, 1948-
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.
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Jurassic Park
By Crichton, Michael, 1942-
An account of the attempt, through a hair-raising twenty-four hours on a
remote jungle island, to avert a global emergency--a crisis triggered by
today's rush to commercialize genetic engineering.
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The kite runner
By 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.
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The lay of the land
By Ford, Richard, 1944-
Frank Bascombe's career in real estate is thriving and his life finally
seems to be on the right track, but when he is faced with marital and medical
crises, he must find a new way to navigate the challenges of life without
endangering everything he has worked for.
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The lightning keeper : a novel
By Lawrence, Starling.
Arriving in New York in
1914, inventor Toma Pekocevic designs a powerful water turbine that leads to a
career within General Electric and a love affair with Harriet Bigelow, the
daughter of a New England
dynasty that has fallen on hard times.
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Megan Meade's guide to the McGowan boys : a novel
By Brian, Kate, 1974
While her military parents are stationed in South Korea, high school
junior Megan learns a great deal about boys and herself when moves to
Massachusetts to live with family friends who have seven sons.
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The memory keeper's daughter
By Edwards, Kim, 1958-
Dr. David Henry, forced to deliver his own twins during a snowstorm in
1964 with only a nurse to help him, makes a decision that has far-reaching
effects on his life, and the lives of his wife and son, when his infant
daughter is born with Down Syndrome, and in a vain attempt to protect his
wife, he orders the nurse to take the baby to an institution.
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Mind race : a firsthand account of one teenager's experience with bipolar
disorder
By Jamieson, Patrick E., 1973-
Patrick Jamieson chronicles his battles with bipolar disorder as a teen,
and offers other teens suffering from the disorder practical advice on how
they can cope with the emotional and physical challenges they face.
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My name is Red
By Pamuk, Orhan, 1952-
Several voices narrate this stylistic murder mystery and love story in
which a sixteenth-century sultan in Istanbul orders a noted artist, Enishte
Effendi, to create a book illustrated in the Western style, which is
considered blasphemous in the Islamic world--a dangerous assignment that
results in the mysterious death of one of Enishte's chosen gilders.
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New moon
By Meyer, Stephenie, 1973-
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.
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Ninth key
By Cabot, Meg.
Sixteen-year-old Suze is pleased to have a date with a popular boy but
her ability to converse with ghosts is causing her problems.
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The O'Reilly factor for kids : a survival guide for America's
families
By O'Reilly, Bill.
Television personality Bill O'Reilly shares stories of some of the
mistakes he made growing up, and offers advice to young people on how to live
an ethical life, discussing bullies, cheaters, sex, drugs, smoking, money,
friends, and other topics.
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Once upon a fairy tale : four favorite stories
Individual characters share their points of view on four familiar
fairy tales, providing a new way of looking at each. The accompanying CD
consists of celebrities such as Robin Williams and Callista Flockart reading
the stories.
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Ordinary heroes
By Turow, Scott.
Retired newspaperman Stewart Dubinsky discovers a packet of his father's
World War II letters and papers that reveal a secret life his family never
knew of, including an fiancee and an involvement with a former war spy.
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The pact : a love story
By Picoult, Jodi, 1966-
The Hartes and the Golds, long-time neighbors and friends, are not
surprised when their children Chris and Emily fall in love, but the bond
between the families is placed under an enormous strain when Emily is killed,
leaving behind the question of whether her death was a suicide, or murder.
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Perfect match
By Picoult, Jodi, 1966-
Assistant district attorney Nina Frost has always prided herself on the
fact that she protects the city's children from abuse and crime, but when her
own son is sexually abused, she finds herself overcome with rage and sets out
to find his attacker and exact justice for her son.
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Polio : an American story
By Oshinsky, David M., 1944-
Presents a comprehensive survey of the polio epidemic of the 1950s and
the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines, and describes the devastating
results of the disease, methods of treatment, fund-raising efforts, and more.
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Rasputin's daughter
By Alexander, Robert, 1952-
Maria, the young, spirited daughter of Rasputin, spends her father's
final days trying to unlock the mystery of her father's involvement in the
disappearance of the Russian Royal Family.
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Reunion
By Cabot, Meg.
Susannah Simon is a teenager with the ability to interact with ghosts
but she'd rather just concentrate on graduating high school until the ghosts
of four teenagers killed in a suspicious car accident try to take vengeance on
her friend Michael.
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Rise and shine : a novel
By Quindlen, Anna.
Meghan Fitzmaurice, host of a top-rated morning television show, finds
her perfect life threatened when she makes an on-air comment that has a
devastating impact on Meghan, her husband, and Bridget, Meghan's social worker
sister.
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The road
By McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-
Traces the journey of a father and his son as they walk alone after a
great fire has consumed the nation and left everything in ashes.
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Shadowland
By Cabot, Meg.
Sixteen-year-old Susannah Simon, a liaison between the living and the
dead, hopes to be able to live as a normal teenager after moving from New York
to California with her mom and new stepfather, but on the first day of school
she encounters the very hostile ghost of a girl who committed suicide over
winter break and is out for revenge against her former boyfriend.
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Shooter
By Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-
Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, the
story of three troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting.
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So lyrical
By Cook, Trish, 1965-
Trace's teenaged life becomes even more challenging when she must
balance her friendships, school work, and a-typical family life with her quest
to find her birth father.
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Specials
By Westerfeld, Scott. Dewey: -Fic-
Tally has been turned into a Special and is offered a chance to stamp
out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently.
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Twilight
By Cabot, Meg. -
Sixteen-year-old Carmel,
California teenager
Suze Simon is a typical high school student except for the fact that she is a
"shifter" who can mediate between the living and the dead, and she is in love
with a ghost from the nineteenth century.
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U2 by U2
The members of the rock band U2 chronicle the group's history,
describing the band's beginnings in high school, their rise to fame, the
making of their albums, aspects of their personal lives, and other topics.
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Utopia
By More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535.
Presents Thomas More's vision of Utopia, an island supporting a
perfectly organized and happy people.
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Vanishing act : a prequel novel
By Gerace, Sean.
Sydney
goes undercover as an assistant to a world-famous illusionist in order to
investigate a string of art thefts.
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The world almanac and book of facts, 2007
Presents thousands of facts, stories, and statistics about a variety of
subjects such as economy, business, energy, health, entertainment, science and
technology, history and elections, U.S. cities and states, world nations, and
sports, and includes a review of the top ten news stories and other highlights
of 2006.
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