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Christian author warns against allowing emotions to rule your life. Uses scripture, psychological research, and her own experiences to explain…
ways to control your sentiments. Discusses common feelings, personality types, and the mind-body connection. Bestseller. 2011
Author who analyzed the 2008 credit crisis in The Big Short (DB 71207) traveled to Germany, Ireland, Iceland, and Greece…
to see firsthand the causes and effects of worldwide financial turmoil. Concludes with a warning about ballooning municipal debt in the United States--especially California. Strong language. Bestseller. 2011
Twenty-nine stories selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines. Includes Patrick Hruby on the creation of John Madden's video game, S.L.…
Price's piece on a Mohawk lacrosse-stick maker, and Jason Fagone's report on former NFL star Marvin Harrison's alleged links to a shooting in Harrison's North Philadelphia neighborhood. Strong language. 2011
Annual anthology of stories, essays, and poems published by small presses. In "We Don't Deserve This" married, globe-trotting physicians Jake…
and Sarah, who haven't seen their kids in years, discover that the two young teens are child pornographers. Strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sex. 2011
Twenty warrior-themed short stories that span many genres, including westerns, mysteries, historical fiction, and science fiction. Includes works by authors…
Robin Hobb, Tad Williams, Diana Gabaldon, Naomi Novik, James Rollins, David Weber, David Morrell, and others. Descriptions of sex, some strong language, and some violence. 2010
Oscar Finley and Wally Figg run an ambulance-chasing law practice out of a Chicago bungalow. Just as Wally finds a…
potentially lucrative drug case, new associate David Zinc, a Harvard Law grad who has burned out at a major firm, joins Finley and Figg. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2011
Allen, who cofounded Microsoft in 1975, traces the early years of the computer company and his relationship with his business…
partner and high school friend Bill Gates. Discusses his career blunders, ownership of the Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers, recovery from Hodgkin's lymphoma, and philanthropic pursuits. 2011
Author of Genius (DB 36181) and Chaos (RC 27005) chronicles the history of humanity's efforts to store, access, and communicate…
information--from Paleolithic cave paintings to early-twenty-first-century search engines. Discusses prominent inventors Charles Babbage, Ada Byron, Samuel Morse, Alan Turing, and Claude Shannon. 2011
Faith Harrington returns home to Serendipity, New York, after her father is jailed for running a Ponzi scheme and her…
husband divorces her. Former bad boy Ethan Barron hires Faith to redecorate his new home--Faith's childhood manse. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2011
Biography of Sioux Indian chief Sitting Bull (1831-1890), who witnessed the settling of the West by white pioneers who displaced…
his people. Highlights Sitting Bull's 1876 victory over General George Custer's cavalry at the Little Big Horn. For grades 6-9. 2010
Seattle investigator J.P. Beaumont and his wife Mel Soames are summoned to Olympia for a hush-hush case: The governor has…
discovered her husband's grandson has a snuff video of a teenage girl on his phone. 2011
Uses extracts from diaries and memoirs to describe Terezín, Czechoslovakia, in 1941-1945, when the Nazis turned the small town into…
a transit camp for imprisoning Jewish people before sending them to the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Relates the prisoners' feelings and their observations about camp events. For grades 5-8. 2011
Describes a future trip that a child might take to Mars: taking a space elevator to a space station, traveling…
in a rocket, wearing a space suit, and learning about the scientific search for Martian life. Discusses the Mars environment and a habitat created for humans. For grades 2-4. 2009
Eighteen months after their parents mysteriously disappeared, eleven-year-old Sabrina Grimm and her younger sister Daphne are sent to live with…
their grandmother, who was previously thought to be dead. Granny Relda reveals the girls' relation to the Brothers Grimm and their responsibilities as fairy-tale detectives. For grades 3-6. 2007
Former investigative journalist discusses numerous case studies of missing persons and some of the errors committed by the police in…
the initial searches and investigations. Explains the importance of DNA, forensic tools, and dental records in identifying or finding lost individuals. Includes families' personal--and emotional--experiences. Some violence. 2011
After his former friend and fellow explorer John Speke shoots himself, Richard Francis Burton accepts a job from the prime…
minister. Assisted by poet Algernon Swinburne, Burton investigates a violent apparition that could be the mythical Spring Heeled Jack. Some violence and some strong language. Philip K. Dick Award. 2010
When his parents die on their way to Oregon in 1844, thirteen-year-old John Sager, former troublemaker, becomes responsible for his…
younger brothers and sisters. John leads his siblings westward, facing danger from the wilderness trail and unfriendly Indians. For grades 5-8. 1926
London, 1815. Just before her debut season, Agnes Wilkins attends a mummy-unwrapping party at Lord Showalter's estate. When she impulsively…
pockets an ancient trinket, it entangles her in an Egyptian mystery, a Napoleonic spy mission, a forbidden romance, and more. For senior high and older readers. 2011
Eighteen short stories featuring Joan and Richard Maple, from their 1956 marriage and early life together in "Snowing in Greenwich…
Village" through their divorce and ultimate reunion in "Grandparenting." Some strong language. 2009