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A journalist recounts the efforts of a small group of librarians and archivists in Mali to rescue thousands of rare…
manuscripts before they fell into the hands of the jihadists attacking the city of Timbuktu. Some strong language. 2016
Collection of twenty-seven previously published essays, articles, poetry, and excerpts of longer works, judged as the best nonrequired reading from…
2014 by a committee of high school students, with Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson, author of Fortune Smiles (DB 82453), providing guidance. 2015
Essayist and novelist looks at the last days of six important thinkers and artists: Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike,…
Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak, and James Salter. Through interviews and their own writings, Roiphe examines how they felt about death. Some strong language. 2016
Before A, there was Alison DiLaurentis, who rules the clique made up of Hanna, Emily, Aria, and Spencer. Alison is…
hiding a dark secret, which of course is deadly. Prequel to Pretty Little Liars (DBC00557). Strong language and some violence. For senior high and older readers. 2013
A sportswriter profiles the Earnhardt family, famous in the sport of NASCAR. While much of the book focuses on Dale…
Earnhardt Sr., who died in a crash at the 2001 Daytona 500, it also covers his son, known as Junior. Includes detailed accounts of race events. Some strong language. 2016
Four women share a loft in New York's Hell's Kitchen: shoe designer Claire, writer Abby, medical student Sasha, and Morgan,…
who works on Wall Street. They each struggle with career, family, and love, while supporting each other through ups and downs. Some strong language. 2016
First three novels, written between 1998 and 2000, featuring Carole Ann Gibson, who traded criminal law for investigating. Includes One…
Must Wait, Where to Choose, and The Step Between, in which the richest man in Washington, D. C., hires Carole to find his daughter. Some violence and some strong language. 2000
Collection of recipes and techniques for baking by one of the judges of PBS's The Great British Baking Show. Recipes…
are categorized into breakfast goods; cakes, cupcakes, and pastries; cookies, bars, and brownies; pies, tarts, and cobblers; British favorites; and special-occasion desserts. 2015
After the events in Shadow Play (DB 83415), forensic sculptor Eve Duncan knows she must flee the country to keep…
young Cara safe. Eve's daughter Jane has them come to a remote part of Scotland where she's hunting for a treasure. But their pursuers aren't far behind. Strong language, some violence, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2016
In 1870s Nevada, Rhine Fontaine has been passing as a white man while trying to help the African American community.…
He rescues Eddy Carmichael after she is robbed on her way to California. Rhine falls for the African American beauty, but a relationship between them seems impossible. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2016
1970s. Eleven-year-old Zomorod, originally from Iran, tries to make her life over and create a Brady Bunch persona when she…
moves to Newport Beach, California, during the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis. For grades 5-8. 2016
Determined to prove her conspiracy theorist father's beliefs about lost Cold War technology, Gillian, her skeptical brother Eric, and their…
friends journey to the ruins of a vast doomsday bunker, where they are confronted by dangerous adversaries. For grades 4-7. 2015
The fluffy, fearless chicken-squad siblings, Dirt, Sugar, Poppy, and Sweetie, are determined to find out who the new addition is,…
hiding in a box in their yard. Equipped with the latest surveillance gear, the chicks venture into the wild to get answers. For grades 2-4. 2016
Forty-three-year-old actress and her coauthor examine the current science on aging in women. Topics examined include how the body changes…
through time, menopause, cellular aging, building stronger bodies and brains, and the biological impact of genes, choices, and attitudes. Bestseller. 2016
Ever since Jack McClure saved the life of the president's daughter, he's discovered a whole new breed of enemy. They…
strike quickly and silently and leave no trace, manipulating foreign affairs from the shadows. And now he has become their number-one target. 2012
Kept as slave labor on a chocolate plantation in the Ivory Coast, Amadou and his younger brother, Seydou, had given…
up hope, when a young girl arrives at the camp and rekindles the urge to escape. Violence and some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2016
When eleven-year-old Genie and his older brother, Ernie, spend part of their summer vacation in the Virginia countryside with their…
grandparents, he learns a secret about his grandfather and what it means to be brave. For grades 5-8. 2016
Collection of sixty-nine poems, stories, essays, and memoirs originally published by small presses. Contains pieces by Zadie Smith, Anthony Doerr,…
Joyce Carol Oates, and James Hannaham. Includes an introduction from the series editor reflecting on forty years of publication. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2016
Shironne Anjir is blind, but has psychic abilities that she uses to work as an investigator with the army. She…
finds herself telepathically linked with Mikael, a royal guard who has been dreaming the deaths of others. Together they will hunt a killer. Some violence and some strong language. 2016
After a fire in a high-rise housing project results in fatalities--a politician, a child, and two human-trafficking victims--London detective Maeve…
Kerrigan's assignment is to determine if someone had been deliberately targeted. Meanwhile, criminal Chris Swain continues to stalk Maeve. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2016