Adventure
808.84 GUE
Guevara; Ernesto Che 1995:
The Motor Cycle Diaries : A Journey
Around
These are the diaries written by Che Guevara during his riotous motorcycle
odyssey around
917.9804 KRA
Krakauer; Jon
Into The Wild
Tells the story of Chris McCandless, a twenty-four-year-old who walked into
the Alaskan wilderness on an idealistic journey and was found dead of
starvation four months later. Attempts to discover what led the young man to
that point.
956.04 FRI
Friedman; Thomas L.
From
Examines Israeli-Palestinian relations, the PLO, Israeli politics, Lebanese
factions, news reporting from the
980.03 GUE
Guevara, Ernesto 1928-1967
Back on the road: A journey to
Ernesto "Che" Guevara ; translated from the Spanish by Patrick
Camiller ; with an introduction by Richard Gott ; and a foreword by Alberto
Granado.
Science
Fiction/Humor
Adams,
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Seconds before Earth is demolished to make room for a galactic freeway, an
earthman is saved by his friend. Together they journey through the galaxy.
FIC BLA
Black, Holly
Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood,
discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special
destiny.
FIC FUN
Funke; Cornelia 2003
Inkheart: Dare To Read It Aloud
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can
"read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named
Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to
force Mo to release an immortal monster from the story.
YA FIC MAR
Martin, George R.R.
A Clash Of Kings: Book Two of A song of Ice and Fire
Two young men fight each other to gain control of a land that isn't
rightfully theirs and there is only one woman who can stop them, but first
she must find a way back into the country that exiled her years before.
Martin George R.R.
A Storm Of Swords
The brutal struggle between the five contenders for the Iron Throne is
nearing is climax when the Seven Kingdoms is invaded by a supernatural army
of the living dead.
YA FIC MAR
Martin George R.R.
A Game of Thrones
Lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, and all the forces of good and
evil prepare for trouble in the land of Winterfell where summers can last
for decades and winters a lifetime.
Contemporary
YA FIC CUN
Cunningham, Michael, 1952
The Hours
Two women with very different lives are joined together at a party for an
ailing poet, and together they realize that even though their lives are
different, they are tied together by a common bond.
YA FIC FRA
Franzen, Jonathon
The Corrections
In this satirical look at the American family, a Midwestern mother named
YA FIC MOR
Morrison; Toni
Love: A Novel
The late Bill Cosey, one-time owner of the Cosey Hotel and Resort, a hot
spot for vacationing African-Americans, is kept alive through the memories
of the women he loved and who were loved by him.
YA FIC RUB
Rubio, Gwyn Hyman
Icy
Icy Sparks has spent most of her life being ridiculed because she suffers
from Tourette Syndrome, but as she grows older, she teaches the people in
her town how to accept people for who they are, not what they appear to be.
YA FIC KID
Kidd, Sue Monk
The Secret Life of Bees
Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American
woman who has cared from Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier,
flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and
find a safe haven in
813.54 LAH
Lahiri; Jhumpa:
The Namesake
A young man born of Indian parents in
YA FIC BRO
Brown, Dan
The Da Vinci Code
Investigating the murder of a Louvre curator, Harvard symbologist Robert
Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu find clues painted into a Da
Vinci work, inadvertently uncovering a plot involving the Holy Grail and the
secret society known as the Priory of Sion.
YA FIC KIN
Kingsolver, Barbara
The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel
Nathan Price and his family move to the
YA FIC LAM
Lamb, Wally
She’s Come Undone
A series of tragedies, including the death of her baby brother, her parent's
divorce, her mother's nervous breakdown, and her own rape at the age of
thirteen, leaves Dolores Price wounded both mentally and physically, but she
miraculously finds the strength to give herself one more chance at life and
love.
YA FIC BAN
Bank, Melissa
The Girls’ Guide To Hunting and Fishing
Single woman Jane Rosenal takes to the self-help shelves in search of
information on how to find and manage a love relationship, but discovers,
after a few mishaps, that she must make her own rules.
YA FIC HAR
Plainsong
High school teacher Tom Guthrie, abandoned by his wife and left to raise his
two young sons alone, becomes involved in the lives of a pregnant, homeless
teenager and two crusty, bachelor farmers.
Contemporary/Mystery
YA FIC COR
Cormier, Robert
I am the Cheese
A young boy desperately tries to unlock his past yet knows he must hide
those memories if he is to remain alive.
YA FIC SHR
Shreve, Anita
The Weight of Water
Story of a photographer investigating a murder scene in
YA FIC SEB
Sebold, Alice
The Lovely Bones
Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon, the victim of a sexual assault and murder,
looks on from the after life as her family deals with their grief, and waits
for her killer to be brought to some type of justice.
YA FIC PIC
Picoult, Jodi 1966
Jack St. Bride arrives in the quiet town of Salem Falls, determined to
rebuild his life and leave behind the accusations which ruined his
reputation as a teacher, but just as his life is getting back on the right
track, his past catches up with him.
YA FIC COB
Coben, Harlan, 1962
Tell No One : A Novel
Eight years after the disappearance of his wife--presumed dead--Dr. David
Beck receives an E-mail message containing hints that
Historical Fiction
YA FIC HAR
Harris, Robert 1957
Fatherland
YA FIC WYN
Wynd, Oswald 1913
The Ginger Tree
Mary MacKenzie travels from
YA FIC STE
Steinbeck, John 1902-1968
East of
Presents a centennial edition of the 1952 novel in which Cal and Aron, twin
brothers in early twentieth-century
YA FIC CHE
Chevalier, Tracey
Girl With A
Imagines the young woman in Johannes Vermeer's mysterious painting "The
Girl With a Pearl Earring" as a sixteen-year-old Dutch girl named Griet
who sparks the interest of the artist when she becomes a maid in his
turbulent household.
Historical Fiction/Mystery
YA FIC ATW
Atwood; Margaret Eleanor 1939
Alias Grace
Fact-based story of Grace Marks, a sixteen-year-old girl who received a life
sentence in 1843 for allegedly taking part in the murder of her employer and
his lover, but whose case continued to stir debate throughout her prison
stay, resulting in her release in 1872.
Mystery
YA FIC CAR
Carr, Caleb 1955
The Alienist
In
Humor
YA FIC VON
Vonnegut, Kurt
Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday!
Dwayne Hoover, a successful automobile dealer, suddenly decides that he is a
machine and begins to act accordingly.