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1944. Orphaned fifteen-year-old Noah Garrett joins Uncle James, his only living relative, in Camp Hale, Colorado. Though raised as a…
pacifist, Noah enlists in the military and trains with other winter-warfare soldiers called Phantoms. But when Noah deploys to Italy, his peace-loving beliefs are tested. For grades 6-9. 2011
Twins Kyle and Judy are dubious when they learn that Garret, a strange classmate who claims to be a vampire,…
will be living with them for a month. But they soon begin to compete for his affection. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2011
Eighteen-year-old Robert looks after his slightly odd seventeen-year-old brother Xan and helps his mother with the bills. When Xan displays…
extremist behavior after falling in with a radical group, Robert worries what Xan is capable of. Some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2011
Origin and evolution of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York, founded in 1937. Discusses the midshipmen's…
education and training, including a year at sea, and licensing by the U.S. Coast Guard to operate merchant vessels. Also describes officers' experiences. 2008
Boston lawyer Brady Coyne visits veterinarian Ken Nichols, a former neighbor who is in town for a convention. The next…
day Nichols is found dead, and his ex-wife Sharon becomes a murder suspect. Coyne's investigation leads him to drug dealers and Nichols's dysfunctional family. Some strong language. 2010
Orphan Mags has a few close friends but can't relate to most of the other trainees in the Collegium. After…
assassins are uncovered and one of them recognizes Mags, his fellow students become suspicious--making it urgent for Mags to discover who his parents were. 2010
Biography of American artist Chuck Close (born 1940), famous for his larger-than-life photo-imitative portraits. Close discusses his learning disabilities, his…
marriage to his former student Leslie Rose, the bohemian 1960s New York, the challenges of balancing career and family, his paralysis at age forty-eight, and his return to painting. 2010
Commentary from post-9/11 veterans collected from the Library of Congress Veterans History Project and supplemented by author interviews. Covers reasons…
for enlisting; dealing with combat, local populations, and contractors; and living with post-traumatic stress disorder and brain injury. Strong language and some violence. 2010
Three romances featuring people who knit. In "The Twenty-first Wish" ten-year-old Ellen hopes her adopted mother will marry her birth…
father. In "Coming Unraveled" Robyn goes home to help her grandmother run a knitting store. In "Return to Summer Island" Caro meets a marine who is redeploying to Afghanistan. 2011
After many years apart, thirteen-year-old Andi is delighted when her sixteen-year-old brother Bernardo arrives from the Philippines to join the…
family in London. Andi learns that eight-foot-tall Bernardo is plagued by a condition called Gigantism--and by secrets that he believes caused his growth. For grades 6-9. 2010
Reporter draws on primary sources, including memoirs, to describe the U.S. and Israeli Jewish communities' Cold War-era campaign to win…
emigration rights for the Soviet Union's second-class Jewish citizens. Discusses the establishment of an American lobby, prominent "refuseniks," and the 1974 Jackson-Vanik Amendment. 2010
Matt Pin was nine when he was airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975 and adopted by an American couple. Two…
years later Matt is still haunted by a terrible secret from his war-torn past, one that his new parents and Vietnam veterans help him confront. For grades 5-8. 2009
Author, who in 2008 joined his father's Tampa Bay-area company that specializes in cleaning up foreclosed houses for resale, explores…
the history of Florida's land booms and busts. Discusses predatory mortgage originators and confused and misled buyers. 2010
Scotland, 1765. Helen Fitzwilliam, mistress of the duke of Lister, flees with their two illegitimate children to the castle of…
Sir Alistair Munroe. Helen is determined to be housekeeper for Alistair, who was horribly disfigured in the French and Indian War and wallows in self-pity. Explicit descriptions of sex. 2009
Author of Constantine's Sword (DB 51712) and Practicing Catholic (DB 69393) traces the history of Jerusalem and explores its role…
as a locus for religious violence among the three Abrahamic religions--Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. 2011
Cairo, Egypt; 1910s. Captain Owen, head of the secret police, investigates when a body is found on the new railway…
line near the Tree of the Virgin. While trying to determine the murderer's motive, which may be political, Owen becomes entangled in an ownership dispute over the sacred tree. 1996
The Forkrul Assail seeks to annihilate humanity. Meanwhile, a mass of refugees stands on the First Shore of the realm…
of Kurald Galain and three Elder Gods work to free a powerful dragon. Sequel to Dust of Dreams (DB 70858). Violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2011
At California's Pacific Mercy Hospital, fire captain Scott McKenna meets ER nurse Erin Quinn. After a series of traumatic events…
including a hazardous material spill, Scott and Erin fall in love and renew their faith in God. 2010
Seventh-grader Marley Sandelski is a huge Star Trek fan, belongs to the AV Club, and loves to run. Yet he…
feels invisible, except when he's being beaten up by bullies. Unexpected events and a taste of popularity give Marley insight into his classmates and himself. For grades 5-8.
Shen Tai, in an act of filial piety, buries thousands of soldiers' bones at a battlefield where his late father…
fought. Princess Cheng-Wan presents Tai with two hundred fifty magnificent horses to express her admiration. But her generosity puts Tai in peril. 2010