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Author of The Untethered Soul (DB 75469) chronicles his search for enlightenment. From his years' living alone in the woods…
to founding a billion-dollar company, his philosophy has been to simply let life unfold and live in the moment. 2015
The coauthor of The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (DB 39153) outlines the tenets of classical…
libertarian philosophy from his perspective. He discusses the benefits of limiting central government and protecting the rights of individuals. 1997
The author recounts growing up in segregated southern Kentucky in the 1960s after her father purchases a funeral home. From…
the second floor of the building, where the family lives, she observes the many deaths and funerals as well as the people of the town. Some strong language. 2015
Journalist profiles Greg Mahle, who has dedicated his life to rescuing dogs and finding them forever homes. With a network…
of volunteers, Mahle organizes Rescue Road Trips to the South, transporting strays and dogs due to be euthanized to adopters in the North. 2015
Misunderstood by his noisy family, twelve-year-old Peter, an introvert, finds the strength to be himself after he discovers a special…
valley. There, he meets Annie, a girl dying from cancer, who knows and accepts him from the start. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 2014
A drama critic and executive in a group that owns five Broadway theatres looks at the construction of a successful…
musical. Using classic examples such as Gypsy, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, and South Pacific, he explores their structure, from overture to finale. 2016
With the Blood Wars looming, Ari and Sebastian, from The Wicked Within (DB 82571), work to keep Athena's child, Archer,…
safe for as long as they can--but things never go according to plan. Some violence and some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2015
Kelsey, the best reader in her third-grade class, hopes to lead her class to victory in the all-school reading contest.…
A few reluctant readers pose a challenge, but Kelsey has a plan. For grades 3-6. 2013
A description of the rise of conditions leading to terrorist group ISIS's explosive success, including the Iraqi and Syrian civil…
wars. Additionally, the author examines the principles of the group, also known as the Islamic State, which combine religious fanaticism and military prowess. Some violence. 2015
Account of three women sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp while pregnant. Rachel, Priska, and Anka all conceal their condition.…
They are worked and starved nearly to death, living in daily fear of their pregnancies being detected. Then, they are sent to the Mauthausen camp, a hellish seventeen-day train journey away. Violence. 2015
Born on the day the last "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip was published, seventeen-year-old Calvin, a schizophrenic, sees and has…
conversations with the tiger, Hobbes, and believes their worlds are fated to be intertwined. For senior high and older readers. 2015
A novel of linked stories about an African American family in Jim Crow-era America and their encounters with the occult.…
In the title story, Atticus Turner is lured to New England to find his father, only to discover a bizarre cult wants to sacrifice him. Some violence and some strong language. 2016
Recounts the period of Roman history that began after Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River in 49 B. C., plunging…
Rome into civil war. This period included figures such as Cicero, Spartacus, Virgil, and Augustus. Holland describes the twilight of the republic, and its violent transformation into an empire. 2003
More mysterious goings-on, written in 2015 and 2016, for English ghost Aunt Dimity and villager Lori Shepherd to solve. Includes…
Aunt Dimity and the Summer King and Aunt Dimity and the Buried Treasure, in which the villagers' introduction to metal detecting by new neighbors leads to the discovery of something priceless. 2016
Millie lost both her legs (and her career) when she jumped off the roof of her film school. Now she…
is recruited by a group called the Arcadia Project, who watch over the border between Hollywood and the world of the magical fey. Strong language and some violence. 2016
Jeffrey Lockhart travels to a cryogenic facility in remote central Asia at the request of his billionaire father, Ross. Ross…
has invested heavily in the organization, called Convergence, and wants Jeffrey to be there on site when his dying stepmother is frozen. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2016
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