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Ten short stories about family tensions in France in the World War II era by the author of Suite Française…
(DB 62505). In the title piece, household members make separate Sunday afternoon plans, revealing their inner turmoil and fraying ties to one another. Translated from French. 1942
Nevada. When nineteen-year-old marine and bull-riding champion Ben O'Mara returns from Iraq partially paralyzed from a brain injury, his fourteen-year-old…
skateboarder brother Cam takes on a fifteen-thousand-dollar bull-riding challenge to convince Ben that anything is possible. For grades 5-8. 2009
A factory worker looking for a way out of Ceausescu's Romania is repeatedly summoned for questioning for sewing marriage proposals…
into garments bound for Italy. En route to an interrogation, she recalls the horrors of her life. Winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. Some strong language. 1997
Discusses the wolves of Canada's Pacific Coast, who are smaller than their inland cousins and can swim and catch salmon.…
Explains their social behavior, seasonal habits, and coexistence with First Nations people. Companion to The Salmon Bears (DB 71788). For grades 4-7. 2010
Discusses three pivotal aviation events that occurred in 1910: the failed attempt to cross the Atlantic in the dirigible America;…
the International Balloon Cup Race in St. Louis, Missouri; and New York's international aircraft contest above Belmont Park racetrack. Includes noted aviators' accounts and examines public perception of aeronautics. 2009
Blogger of the site www.ThePioneerWoman.com and author of The Pioneer Woman Cooks (DB 72395) describes meeting her husband. Relates returning…
home to Oklahoma after college in Los Angeles and encountering the down-to-earth cattle rancher, whom she calls the Marlboro Man, and falling in love. 2011
While in Paris, Ethan Gage, a thirty-three-year-old American frontiersman, wins a curiously engraved gold medallion in a card game and…
soon after is framed for murder. Gage escapes to Egypt with Napoleon Bonaparte's expedition. He encounters mysteries, battles, and treachery; finds love; and solves the mystery of the amulet. 2007
New Orleans, 1836. After mourners discover a white corpse in a coffin that should contain a freed black man, Benjamin…
January investigates on a friend's behalf. He uncovers family secrets while trying to save the accused killer, an English aristocrat, from the gallows. Some violence and some strong language. 2010
German pastor and theologian's correspondence with his family and close friend (the book's editor Eberhard Bethge) during his incarceration by…
the Nazis from 1943 until his execution in 1945. Letters cover both personal and religious subjects revealing how closely Bonhoeffer's beliefs were interwoven into his life. Translated from German. 1971
Canadian digital-marketing expert offers advice for integrating social media and personal branding into a new business model with the potential…
of reaching a larger consumer base. Offers examples of people who used Facebook, blogs, smartphones, and netbooks to successfully expand their businesses. 2009
Eleven tales of ordinary people with lives of estrangements, temptations, and mysteries. In "The Harp Department in Love" the older,…
professor husband of a musically talented, much-younger wife--jealous of her flirtations--moves out, leading them to new realizations about their marriage. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2010
Neuroscientist and the author of The End of Faith (DB 62053) posits that science can help answer questions of morality.…
Suggests that the right human values are those that promote well-being. Discusses moral truth, good and evil, religion, and the future of happiness. 2010
When the Great Depression hits Cairo, Illinois, Oscar Ogilvie Jr. and his father lose their home. Mr. Ogilvie heads for…
California, leaving Oscar with dour Aunt Carmen. Oscar befriends a mysterious drifter and witnesses an amazing bank robbery that catapults him into a time-traveling train trip. For grades 5-8. 2010
Israel, 2004. In Bethlehem, Hayaat and her West Bank family live under curfews and travel restrictions. Hayaat's beloved grandmother, Sitti…
Zeynab, believes that touching the soil from her ancestral home in Jerusalem will save her life. Hayaat becomes determined--despite grave dangers--to bring her grandmother that soil. For grades 5-8. 2008
Journalist Hallie James learns the mother she thought had died thirty years ago was, until recently, alive--and a famous photographer.…
Hallie travels to remote Grand Manitou Island on the Great Lakes to seek the truth but instead encounters hostile locals and ancestral ghosts in her childhood home. 2010
After Lightborn Floria White Hand, a trusted guard, is accused of killing Prince Isidore, she flees and finds tenuous asylum…
with the Darkborn. Prince Fejelis, Isidore's successor, continues to investigate his father's murder, while Telmaine and the Darkborn court face their own dangers. Sequel to Darkborn (DB 69987). 2010
Analyzes The Diary of a Young Girl (DB 57022) as a literary work, a Holocaust narrative, and a cultural artifact.…
Examines the evidence that Anne rewrote her memoir to increase its appeal. Discusses the published book's use in classroom instruction and its adaptation for stage and film. 2009
Chef-turned-professional-eater describes changes in the world of celebrity cooks since he penned Kitchen Confidential (DB 50845). Bourdain explores the modern…
gastronomical revolution in nineteen essays on subjects including Top Chef winners and losers, the great American hamburger, and fellow critics. Strong language. Bestseller. 2010
India, 1822. Emily Ensworth, the niece of the governor of Bombay, and her party are attacked by Black Cobra cultists.…
After escaping, Emily sails home to England with Major Gareth Hamilton. The two fall in love as they struggle to elude their pursuers. Explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2010
Baltimore director of cult films Pink Flamingos and Hairspray pens essays about the people he admires, including singers Johnny Mathis…
and Little Richard, writer Tennessee Williams, former Charles Manson groupie Leslie Van Houten, gay pornographers, and bar owners. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2010