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Building Wings: How I Made It Through School
by Don Johnston Jerry StemachThe author felt like other students were flying high above him, while he was on the ground by himself, during school. Finally he built his own wings and started flying on his own.
Calm, Cool & Adjusted (Spa Girls Series #3)
by Kristin BillerbeckA plastic surgeon, a condemned house, and a wedding date from the dark side. It's enough to send a girl and her gal pals running for the spa! Christian chick-lit.
Day Watch (Book 2 of The Night Watch series)
by Sergei Lukyanenko Andrew BromfieldIn the first of three stories in this book, a beautiful young witch from the Dark Ones falls in love with a handsome young Light One, and the balance is threatened. The repercussions expand through destiny and through the ongoing struggle between Light and Dark.
Drita, My Homegirl
by Jenny LombardA poignant story about the difficulties of leaving everything behind and the friendships that help you get through it. Fleeing war-torn Kosovo, ten-year-old Drita and her family move to America with the dream of living a typical American life. But with this hope comes the struggle to adapt and fit in. How can Drita find her place at school and in her new neighborhood when she doesn''t speak any English? Meanwhile, Maxie and her group of fourth-grade friends are popular in their class, and make an effort to ignore Drita. So when their teacher puts Maxie and Drita together for a class project, things get off to a rocky start. But sometimes, when you least expect it, friendship can bloom and overcome even a vast cultural divide.
Empire
by Orson Scott CardA chilling look at a near-future scenario of a new American Civil War, pitting the red states against the blue.
Endgame
by Nancy GardenA new town, a new school, a new start. That's what fourteen-year-old Gray Wilton believes as he chants, "It's gonna be better, gonna be better here." But it doesn't take long for Gray to realize that nothing's going to change--there are bullies in every school, and he's always their punching bag. Their brutal words, physical abuse, and emotional torture escalate until Gray feels trapped in a world where he has no control, no support systems, and no way out--until the day he enters the halls of Greenford High School with his father's semiautomatic in hand. Award-winning novelist Nancy Garden, author of the groundbreaking novel Annie on My Mind, once again goes out on a limb, this time to show readers the cruelty of bullying and the devastating effects it can have.
Face Down Beside St. Anne's Well (Lady Appleton Mystery #9)
by Kathy Lynn EmersonAre the nude spies lolling in the ancient Roman communal baths of Elizabethan England plotting the return of Mary Queen of Scots? She is said to be clamoring to return to these healing waters. Once again Susanna, Lady Appleton, encounters murder and treason, and only she can unravel the crimes in the intriguing year of 1575. Rosamund, Susanna's twelve-year-old foster daughter, is certain her French tutor has been murdered. Rosamund and her friends are quite modern: they cut school, rebel against authority, and giggle over secrets. But can teenage mischief be construed as spying and treason? These are most significant matters to the Elizabethans, as the wrong religion, the wrong marriage, the wrong friends...may all be seditious.
Glass House
by William E. ThompsonAs the author's mother lay dying, she told of another world she would visit, a sanctuary where she lived in a huge glass house on an expansive horse ranch.
Graven Images
by Paul FleischmanPaul Fleischman spins three engrossing stories about the unexpected ways an artist's creations reveal truths - tales whose intriguing plots and many moods will entertain readers and inspire future writers.<P><P> Can wood, copper, or marble communicate? They can if they are the graven images in Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman's trio of eerie, beguiling short stories. If you whisper a secret into a wooden statue's ear, will anyone find out? Can a wobbly weathervane bearing the image of Saint Crispin, the patron saint of shoemakers, steer a love-struck apprentice toward the girl of his dreams? And if a ghost hires a sculptor to carve a likeness of him holding a drink to a baby's lips, what ghastly crime might lie behind his request?<P> Newbery Medal Honor book
Hardboiled Cthulhu: Two-Fisted Tales of Tentacled Terror
by James AmbuehlHard hitting, hard edged, hardboiled stories that take Lovecraftian Mythos to places where only the toughest P.I.s, gangsters and creatures dwell. Venture into the urban sprawl and the dark places. Here the big sleep ends and the nightmares begin! Welcome to the world of Hardboiled Cthulhu!
Have Your Cake and Kill Him Too (A Blackbird Sisters Mystery, #5)
by Nancy MartinNora, Libby and Emma Blackbird help a friend who's accused of murdering the tycoon owner of a tacky sports bar, and also deal with their own life crises.
Hidden
by Victoria LustbaderThe battlefield traumas of the Great War cement an improbable friendship between Jed Gates, scion of the wealthy Gates family, and David Warshinsky, first-generation American from New York's poverty-ridden lower East Side. David sacrifices his family and his Jewish heritage to his untamable ambition. Jed sacrifices his private desires to assume the burdens of familial expectations. Davids sister Sarah suffers the torments of a tenement sweatshop, while Jed's sister Lucy becomes a nurse in Margaret Sanger's revolutionary birth control clinic. Both find love in unexpected places. David's mother Anna loses her struggle to preserve her shattered family. And wealth cannot protect Jed's aunt Zoe from the violent abuses of her alcoholic husband, or his artist father Philip from the pain of his wife's rejection. A novel that is both panoramic and intimate, Hidden teems with complex characters readers will embrace. Concealing their passions and innermost thoughts even from those they love most dearly, the Warshinskys and Gateses love, lust, seize power, and strive during a decade of turmoil at home and abroad. Hidden is the powerful debut of a talented new writer.
I Hate Ann Coulter
by UnanimousBy examining her life and writings, chronicling her black Tuesday (6/6/06) Today show appearance, and reading her interviews and comments, we hope to do our part in putting her out of our lives.
In Control: No More Snapping at Your Family, Sulking at Work, Steaming in the Grocery Line, Seething in Meetings, Stuffing Your Frustration
by Redford Williams Virginia WilliamsClinically proven to reduce anger and stress, this book's easy-to-follow program will enable you to handle anything that today's dangerously out-of-control world throws at you.
Infinite Jest
by David Foster WallaceSet in an addict's halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring one of the most endearing screwed-up families in contemporary fiction, this novel explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to dominate our lives, about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people, and about what the pleasures we choose say who we are.
Inventing America: A History of the United States, Volume 1 (2nd Edition)
by Pauline Maier Merritt Roe Smith Alexander Keyssar Daniel J. KevlesA textbook that includes study plans, outline quizzes, research projects and progress reports
Inventor McGregor
by Kathleen T. PelleyHector McGregor, inventor of unusual items, leaves his home workshop to work in a lab, but finds no inspiration there.
Jazz Piano Masterclass with Mark Levine: The Drop 2 Book
by Mark LevineThis book covers both the basic version of the jazz technique called drop 2 and the more advanced version.
Just Rewards (The Emma Harte Saga #6)
by Barbara Taylor Bradford6th and final book in the Emma Harte series
Juvenile Justice: An Introduction (5th Edition)
by John T. Whitehead Steven P. LabThe definition and history of delinquency; biological, psychological and sociological explanations; gang delinquency; drugs and delinquency; the juvenile court process; due process and juveniles; institutional and residential interventions; juvenile probation and community corrections; restorative justice; the victimization of juveniles; and future directions of juvenile justice.
Killer Instinct
by Joseph FinderJason Steadman is a 30-year-old sales exec, witty and well-liked, but to his wife's chagrin, he lacks the killer instinct. That changes however when he hires a former Special Forces officer just back from Iraq. Good things start to happen to Jason, and bad things to his rivals...
Latino Boom: An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature
by John S. Christie Jose B. GonzalezLatino Boom: An anthology of U.S. Latino literature combines an engaging and diverse selection of Latino/a authors with tools for students to read, think, and write critically about these works. The first anthology of Latino literature to offer teachers and students a wide array of scholarly and pedagogical resources for class discussion and analysis, this thematically organized collection of fiction, poetry, drama, and essay presents a rich spectrum of literary styles. Providing complete works of Latino/a literature vs excerpts written originally in English, the anthology juxtaposes well-known writers with emerging voices from diverse Latino communities, inviting students to examine Latino literature through a variety of lenses.
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepeneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
by John E. WoodsA trip to Nepal convinced Wood to divert the energy he was devoting to Microsoft into a cause that needed addressing - educating all children
Love at First Bite
by Sherrilyn Kenyon L. A. Banks Susan Squires Ronda ThompsonPrimal kisses. Erotic secrets. Eternal passion.
Millions of Women Are Waiting to Meet You: A Story of Life, Love and Internet Dating
by Sean ThomasSean Thomas was single, 37 and a bit desperate to meet the woman of his dreams when his magazine editor asked him to try Internet dating for a year. This is his painfully funny story of what happened next.