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India. Twelve-year-old Akash runs away from his village to New Delhi, where he hopes his gift for numbers will help…
him receive a better education. He relies on Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge, to guide him as he struggles to survive on the streets. For grades 4-7. 2010
Searching for answers about her birth mother, Jane Aaron goes to Cedar Springs, Texas, where she's hired by widower Asher…
Price to be his children's nanny. When she and Asher develop a relationship, Jane worries that his late wife's secrets will tear them apart. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2010
Fictional account of Pearl Buck (1892-1973), author of The Good Earth (DB 37294). Young Willow Yee befriends Pearl, a missionary's…
daughter, in remote China. Willow's love and jealousy grow as Willow later suffers during the Mao revolution but remains loyal to her foreign friend, now a Nobel laureate. 2010
Author of Ship of Ghosts (DB 63121) chronicles the seven sea battles to secure the South Pacific island of Guadalcanal…
that began in August 1942. Official documents and day-by-day accounts drawn from survivors portray an underfunded campaign, nascent use of radar, tremendous losses, and a determined Japanese opponent. 2011
Lighthorse policeman Bass Pattee chases down the thieves who stole an ancient deerskin robe and two grand from the Cherokee…
treasury. Having no legal authority off tribal lands makes Bass's task difficult--his quarry's additional crimes of violence, rape, and murder further complicate things. Some violence and some strong language. 1973
Eona, from Eon (DB 68595) and now the Mirror Dragoneye, has another secret--she cannot control her power. But she must…
still find a way to save Kygo, the rightful emperor, after High Lord Sethon dethrones him. Some violence and some descriptions of sex. For junior and senior high readers. 2011
Edinburgh, Scotland. Philosopher Isabel Dalhousie is asked to investigate the candidates for headmaster of a boys school after an anonymous…
letter claims one of them has a skeleton in his closet. Meanwhile Isabel suspects that her boyfriend Jamie is having an affair with a fellow musician. 2010
Federal agents offer Cassel Sharpe, from White Cat (DB 72072), protection and employment if he agrees to be their informant…
against the mobsters his family works for. But the mob also wants to recruit Cassel, and he struggles with divided loyalties. Some violence. For senior high and older readers. 2011
High school valedictorian Julia's plans for a summer internship at the D.A.'s office change after her older sister Sophie reveals…
a family secret. Julia visits Sophie in Vermont to learn the truth. Some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2010
Portrays three major figures of Renaissance Italy and explains the lasting influence of their interaction during a 1502 journey recorded…
by Machiavelli and da Vinci. Discusses the precariousness of life in that era of intrigue, fragile alliances, and religious politics. 2009
CNN national security analyst, author of The Osama bin Laden I Know (DB 65312), examines actions and strategies--some successful, some…
not--of the United States and bin Laden's al-Qaeda during the so-called "war on terror" that began after the 9/11 attacks. 2011
Champion wrestler Jericho continues his autobiography begun in A Lion's Tale (DB 73213). Jericho recounts joining Vince McMahon's World Wrestling…
Entertainment in 1999 and feuding with fellow athletes. Discusses his family life, his heavy-metal band, and the death of Chris Benoit. Strong language. 2011
Discusses human flight before the invention of the airplane. Recounts the balloon-based travels of daring men and women from 1783…
to the early 1900s, including two children who went up by accident. Describes the dangers posed by high winds, lightning, lack of oxygen, and extreme cold. For grades 4-7. 2010
J.J. Tully spent seven years as a rescue dog before retiring to the country. One day he is lured into…
a trap by a mutt named Vince, who wears a cone around his head and has kidnapped two of the chicken Millicent's babies. Short chapter book. For grades 2-4. 2011
Joss O'Malley is fighting to keep her family's mapmaking company viable with assistance from her lover, businessman Rogan Reynolds, when…
she meets time traveler Hugh Hawksmoor. Hugh needs her help to avenge the brother killed by an O'Malley three centuries ago. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2010
Fourteen short stories set in Blackwell, Massachusetts, are linked in part by a garden that grows only red flowers and…
plants. In "Owl and Mouse" lonely Emily falls in love with an adventurous blind man. Some violence and some strong language. 2011
Cultural history of women in American law enforcement focuses on events that helped or hindered their progress toward equality. Uses…
archival documents and interviews to illuminate the expansion of women's roles from the 1840s, when matrons guarded prisoners, to the twenty-first century. Highlights incidents of workplace discrimination. Some violence. 2010
Noir stories from twenty-one writers, including Sara Paretsky, Marcus Sakey, and Barbara D'Amato. In Stuart Kaminsky's "Blue Note," gambler Pitch…
Noles must win at a poker game or his blues-singer mother will lose a finger to a loan shark. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. 2007
Despite having four wives and twenty-eight children, overwhelmed construction company owner Golden Richards is lonely. He finds solace from an…
unexpected source--the Guatemalan wife of his latest client. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2010
Twelve short stories about the harsher aspects of human experience. In the title piece Will, a teenage boy, elopes with…
his pregnant girlfriend, Olivia, and moves into an apartment near a psychiatric hospital. Will becomes successful and blissfully happy with Olivia--unless that's merely a dream. Some strong language. 2010