2014 Summer Reading Booklet

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Western Reserve Academy

Summer Reading Program 2014

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Western Reserve Academy adheres to a longstanding policy of admitting students of any race, color, creed, religion, national and ethnic origin subject to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national or ethnic origin, or disability in the administration of its educational policies, scholarship and loan program or other school-administered programs.

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Western Reserve Academy Summer Reading 2014 Most members of the WRA community find pleasure in reading. For those of us tied to the academic calendar, summers and holidays give us what we need most – time. With that in mind, we offer students this list of recommended books for summer reading.

This list is intended for student LEISURE reading. We hope the variety piques student interest and provides the opportunity to expand horizons, satisfy curiosity and/or offer an enjoyable escape. Titles include: classics to recently published titles, relatively easy to challenging reading levels, and a variety of genres covering diverse subjects. Also included is a list of recommended websites to locate further suggestions for award-winning books and titles of interest.

This list is updated annually by members of the John D. Ong Library staff.

Titles are recommended by members of the WRA community or by respected review sources, including the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association. A few titles have frank passages that mirror some aspects of life explicitly.

Therefore, we urge parents to explore the titles your teenagers choose and discuss the book as well as the choice with them.

All the books on this list should be available in libraries and/or in bookstores. The Ong Library staff will also arrange for a special summer checkout for anyone interested. Just ask at the library’s front desk.

Enjoy your summer and your free time, and try to spend some of it reading! Your feedback about any title on this list is welcome – and we also welcome your recommendations for titles to add in the future.

The John D. Ong Library Staff

PLEASE NOTE: This list should not be confused with the English Department’s Required Reading summer program. Please go to Summer Reading and click on Required Reading for that information.

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Table of Contents

Summer Reading for Ninth/Tenth Graders......................................................1 Fiction .............................................................................................................1 Non-fiction ......................................................................................................8 Biographies/Memoirs ..................................................................................15 Summer Reading for Eleventh/Twelfth Graders ...........................................16 Fiction ...........................................................................................................16 Non-fiction ....................................................................................................23 Biographies/Memoirs ..................................................................................31 Graphic Novels/Collections ..............................................................................32 Collections: Short Stories, Essays and more...................................................33 Something for Everyone: Informational Titles for Teenagers ......................34 Poetry, Anyone? .................................................................................................35 Looking for a Good Book? Some Websites to Help You ...............................36 Title Index ..........................................................................................................38 Author Index......................................................................................................43

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Summer Reading for Ninth/Tenth Graders Fiction: 5th Wave (The) (Rick Yancey, 2013) After the 1st wave, only darkness remains.

After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive.

After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and, on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them.* Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain, 1884) The story of a teenaged misfit who finds himself floating on a raft down the Mississippi River with an escaping slave, Jim. In the course of their perilous journey, Huck and Jim meet adventure, danger, and a cast of characters who are sometimes menacing and often hilarious.* Age of Miracles (The) (Karen Thompson Walker, 2012) On an ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia awakens to discover that something has happened to the rotation of the earth. The days and nights are growing longer and longer; gravity is affected; the birds, the tides, human behavior, and cosmic rhythms are thrown into disarray.* All Our Pretty Songs (Sarah McCarry, 2013) In the lush and magical Pacific Northwest live two best friends who grew up like sisters: charismatic, mercurial, and beautiful Aurora, and the devoted, watchful narrator. Each of them is incomplete without the other. But their unbreakable bond is challenged when a mysterious and gifted musician named Jack comes between them.* First installment in a planned trilogy.

Allegiant (Veronica Roth, 2013) What if your whole world was a lie? What if a single revelation—like a single choice—changed everything? What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected? The explosive conclusion to [the] Divergent trilogy reveals the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers in Divergent (2011) and Insurgent (2012).* As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth (Lynne Rae Perkins, 2010) The train was moving. Ry could hardly tell at first, but now he knew. It was gaining speed, and he wasn’t fast enough to catch it. He had only gotten off for a minute, just to make a phone call—and now it was gone. He was in the middle of nowhere, alone.*

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Between the Lines (Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer, 2012) Delilah is a bit of a loner who prefers spending her time in the school library with her head in a book—one book in particular. Between the Lines may be a fairy tale, but it feels real. Prince Oliver is brave, adventurous, and loving… And then one day Oliver actually speaks to her. Turns out, Oliver is more than a one-dimensional storybook prince….* Cannery Row (John Steinbeck, 1945) Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society.* Code Name Verity (Elizabeth Wein, 2012) Oct. 11th, 1943—A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it’s barely begun.* Coldest Girl in Coldtown (The) (Holly Black 2013) Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown’s gates, you can never leave.* Conqueror: A Novel of Kublai Khan (Conn Iggulden, 2011) With the death of Genghis Khan, Iggulden continues the Khan family story in this historical novel.

The preceding books in this series include Genghis: Birth of an Empire (2007), Genghis: Lords of the Bow (2008), Genghis: Bones of the Hills (2009), and Khan: Empire of Silver (2010).

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Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (The) (Mark Haddon, 2004) Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow. This improbable story of Christopher’s quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years.* Dark Triumph (Robin LaFevers, 2013) Sybella’s duty as Death’s assassin in 15th-century France forces her return home to the personal hell that she had finally escaped.* Second book in the His Fair Assassin trilogy.

Detective/Crime/Mystery Writers: Try any book by the following mystery writers: Donna Andrews (featuring blacksmith Meg Langslow in a humorous series); Nancy Atherton (featuring amateur sleuth Lori Shepard with help from her ghostly Aunt Dimity); Stephanie Barron (featuring 19th century author Jane Austen as an amateur sleuth); Heather Blake (featuring “Wishcrafter” –a witch who can grant wishes – Darcy Merriweather) C. J. Box (featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett); Joanna Fluke (featuring bakery owner and amateur sleuth Hannah Swensen); Kathryn Miller Haines (set during World War II, featuring actress and amateur sleuth Rosie Winter) Laurie R. King (featuring Mary Russell, former protégé to Sherlock Holmes); Edward Marston (look for the Domesday series set in medieval England featuring commissioner Ralph Delchard); Alexander McCall Smith (featuring Mma Precious Ramotswe, owner of Botswana’s #1 Ladies Detective Agency); Elizabeth Peters (featuring Edwardian Egyptologist Amanda Peabody); Ellis Peters (mysteries of the medieval monk, Brother Cadfael); Spencer Quinn (featuring down-on-his- luck private investigator Bernie and his faithful canine companion—and series narrator, Chet); Kathy Reichs (Virals series featuring teen sleuth Tory Brennan) or Les Roberts (featuring Cleveland private detective Milan Jacovich); Clea Simon (featuring Boston journalist Theda Krakow and her feline friend, Musetta).

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886) Idealistic young scientist Henry Jekyll struggles to unlock the secrets of the soul. Testing chemicals in his lab, he drinks a mixture he hopes will isolate—and eliminate—human evil.

Instead it unleashes the dark forces within him, transforming him into the hideous and murderous Mr. Hyde.* Drowned Cities (The) (Paolo Bacigalupi, 2012) In a dark future America where violence, terror, and grief touch everyone, young refugees Mahlia and Mouse have managed to leave behind the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities by escap3

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ing into the jungle outskirts. But when they discover a wounded half-man – a bioengineered war beast named Tool – who is being hunted by a vengeful band of soldiers, their fragile existence quickly collapses.* Edge of Dark Water (Joe R. Lansdale, 2012) May Lynn was once a pretty girl who dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star. Now she’s dead, her body dredged up from the Sabine River. Sue Ellen, May Lynn’s strong-willed teenage friend, sets out to dig up May Lynn’s body, burn it to ash, and take those ashes to Hollywood to spread around. If May Lynn can’t become a star, then at least her ashes will end up in the land of her dreams.* Eleanor & Park (Rainbow Rowell, 2013) Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits—smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.* Every Day (David Levithan, 2012) A love story about A, a teen who wakes up every morning in a different body, living a different life.* Fault in Our Stars (The) (John Green, 2012) Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.* Final Four (The) (Paul Volponi, 2012) Four players with one thing in common: the will to win. March Madness is in full swing, and there are only four teams left in the NCAA basketball championship… and it’s there that the fates of Malcolm, Roko, Crispin, and M.J. intertwine.* Heart is a Lonely Hunter (The) (Carson McCullers, 1940) At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various types of misfits in a Georgia mill town during the 1930s. Each one yearns for escape from small town life. When Singer’s mute companion goes insane, Singer moves into the Kelly house, where Mick Kelly…finds solace in her music.* HHhH (Lauren Binet, 2012) The most dangerous man in Hitler’s cabinet, Reinhard Heydrich was known as the “Butcher of Prague.” He was feared by all and loathed by most. With his cold Aryan features and implacable cruelty, Heydrich seemed indestructible—until two men, a Slovak and a Czech recruited by the British secret service, killed him in broad daylight on a bustling street in Prague, and thus changed the course of History.* 4

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Hollow City (Ransom Riggs, 2013) This second novel begins in 1940, immediately after the first book [Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children] ended. Having escaped Miss Peregrine’s island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world.* Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Jamie Ford, 2009) Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II.* Impossible Knife of Memory (The) (Laurie Halse Anderson, 2013) For the past five years, Hayley Kincaid and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq. Now they are back in the town where he grew up so Hayley can attend school. Perhaps, for the first time, Hayley can have a normal life.* Land of Laughs (The) (Jonathan Carroll, 1980) For schoolteacher Thomas Abbey there was no writer to equal Marshall France, a legendary author of children’s books who hid himself away in the small town of Galen and died of a heart attack at the age of forty-four. Tom and his girlfriend Saxony, wanting to write France’s biography, arrive in Galen.... Before long, they realize that this idyllic little town and its inhabitants - both human and animal - are not quite what they see.*

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Light: A Gone Novel (Michael Grant, 2013) It’s been one year since all the adults disappeared. Gone. Despite the hunger and the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive.* Sixth and final title in the series featuring: Gone (2008), Hunger (2009), Lies (2010), Plague (2011), and Fear (2012).

Never Fall Down (Patricia McCormick, 2012) When soldiers arrive at his hometown in Cambodia, Arn is just a kid, dancing to rock ‘n’ roll, hustling for spare change, and selling ice cream with his brother. But after the soldiers march the entire population into the countryside, his life is changed forever. Arn is separated from his family and assigned to a labor camp.* Panic (Lauren Oliver, 2014) Panic began as so many things do in Carp, a deadend town of twelve thousand people in the middle of nowhere: because it was summer, and there was nothing else to do.* Raven Boys (The) (Maggie Stiefvater, 2013) Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue never sees them – until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks to her.* Reached (Ally Condie, 2012) The emotionally gripping conclusion to the international–bestselling Matched trilogy returns Cassia, Ky, and Xander to the Society to save the one thing they have been denied for so long, the power to choose.* Look for the first two books in the series as well: Matched (2010) and Crossed (2011).

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Ready Player One (Ernest Cline, 2011) It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world.* Ruins (Orson Scott Card, 2012) When Rigg and his friends crossed the Wall between the only world they knew and a world they could not imagine, he hoped he was leading them to safety. But the dangers in this new wallfold are more difficult to see.* Second installation in the Pathfinder series (Pathfinder, 2010).

Septembers of Shiraz (The) (Dalia Sofe, 2007) In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by his disappearance, his family must reconcile a new world of cruelty and chaos with the collapse of everything they have known.* Seraphina (Rachel Hartman, 2012) Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides.* Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight (The) (Jennifer E. Smith, 2012) Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan’s life. Having missed her flight, she’s stuck at JFK airport and late to her father’s second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon-to-be stepmother Hadley’s never even met. Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport’s cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he’s British, and he’s sitting in her row.* Texas Gothic (Rosemary Clement-Moore, 2011) Amy Goodnight’s family is far from normal. She comes from a line of witches, but tries her best to stay far outside the family business. Her summer gig: ranch-sitting for her aunt with her wacky but beautiful sister. Only the Goodnight Ranch is even less normal than it normally is. Bodies are being discovered, a ghost is on the prowl, and everywhere she turns, the hot neighbor cowboy is in her face.* Thirteen Reasons Why (Jay Asher, 2007) Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker – his classmate and crush – who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah’s voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them.* 7

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Three Musketeers (The) (Alexandre Dumas, 1844) Action, intrigue, and romance abound in this swashbuckling epic, which traces a country lad’s path to the French court of the early 1600s and the glorious fraternity of the king’s men, the Musketeers.* Where’d You Go, Bernadette? (Maria Semple, 2012) Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she’s a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she’s a disgrace; to design mavens, she’s a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears.* Non-fiction: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (Sherry Turkle, 2013) Consider Facebook—it’s human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness. Sometimes it delivers, but much of our modern life leaves us less connected with people and more connected to simulations of them.* Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Aron Ralston, 2005) Hiking into the remote Utah canyon lands, Aron Ralston felt perfectly at home in the beauty of the natural world. Then, at 2:41 P.M., eight miles from his truck, in a deep and narrow slot canyon, an eight-hundred-pound boulder tumbled loose, pinning Aron’s right hand and wrist against the canyon wall.* Big Necessity (The): The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters (Rose George, 2008) An utterly original exploration of the world of human waste that will surprise, outrage—and entertain.* Big Thirst (The): The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water (Charles Fishman, 2011) Water is the most vital substance in our lives but also more amazing and mysterious than we appreciate. As Charles Fishman brings vibrantly to life in this surprising and mind-changing narrative, water runs our world in a host of awe-inspiring ways, yet we take it completely for granted. But the era of easy water is over.* Biopunk: Solving Biotech’s Biggest Problems in Kitchens and Garages (Marcus Wohlsen, 2011) Marcus Wohlsen chronicles a growing community of DIY scientists working outside the walls of corporations and universities who are committed to democratizing DNA the way the Internet did information.*

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Black Count (The): Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Tom Reiss, 2012) Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo – a stunning feat of historical sleuthing that brings to life the forgotten hero who inspired such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.

Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon (Steve Sheinkin, 2012) This is the story of the plotting, the risk-taking, the deceit, and genius that created the world’s most formidable weapon. This is the story of the atomic bomb.* Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine and the Lawless Years of Prohibition (Karen Blumenthal, 2011) Filled with period art and photographs, anecdotes, and portraits of unique characters from the era, this fascinating book looks at the rise and fall of the disastrous social experiment known as Prohibition.* Boys in the Boat (The): Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Daniel James Brown, 2013) The story of the University of Washington’s 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans.

Continent for the Taking (A): The Tragedy and Hope of Africa ( Howard W. French, 2004) Blending eyewitness reportage with rich historical insight, French searches deeply into the causes of today’s events, illuminating the debilitating legacy of colonization and the abiding hypocrisy and inhumanity of both Western and African political leaders.*

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Dear Zari: The Secret Lives of the Women of Afghanistan (Zarghuna Kargar, 2012) Moving, enlightening, and heartbreaking, Dear Zari gives voice to the secret lives of Afghan women.* Eating Animals (Jonathan Safran Foer, 2009) Traveling to the darkest corners of our dining habits, Foer raises the unspoken question behind every fish we eat, every chicken we fry, and every burger we grill.* Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Blaine Harden, 2012) Blaine Harden tells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk and through the lens of Shin’s life unlocks the secrets of the world’s most repressive totalitarian state.* Forbidden Creatures: Inside the World of Animal Smuggling and Exotic Pets (Peter Laufer, 2010) Laufer exposes the network of hunters, traders, breeders, and customers who constitute this nefarious business—which, estimated at $10 to $20 billion annually, competes with illegal drug and weapons trafficking in the money it earns criminals.* Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II (Mitchell Zuckoff, 2013) On November 5, 1942, a US cargo plane slammed into the Greenland Ice Cap. Four days later, the B-17 assigned to the search-and-rescue mission became lost in a blinding storm and also crashed.

Miraculously, all nine men on board survived, and the US military launched a daring rescue operation. But after picking up one man, the Grumman Duck amphibious plane flew into a severe storm and vanished.*

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George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution (Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger, 2013) When General George Washington beat a hasty retreat from New York City in August 1776, many thought the American Revolution might soon be over. Instead, Washington rallied—thanks in large part to a little-known, top-secret group called the Culper Spy Ring.* Ghost with Trembling Wings (The): Science, Wishful Thinking and the Search for Lost Species (Scott Weidensaul, 2002) Weidensaul pursues stories of loss and recovery, of endurance against the odds, and of surprising resurrections.* Gods Like Us: On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame (Ty Burr, 2012) Why do we obsess over the individuals we come to call stars? How has both the image of stardom and our stars’ images changed over the past hundred years? What does celebrity mean if people can now become famous simply for being famous? With brilliant insight and entertaining examples, Burr reveals the blessings and the curses of celebrity for the star and the stargazer alike.* History of the World in 100 Objects (A) (Neil MacGregor, 2011) The history of humanity is a history of invention and innovation, as we have continually created new items to use, to admire, or to leave our mark on the world. In this original and thought-provoking book, Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, has selected one hundred man-made artifacts, each of which gives us an intimate glimpse of an unexpected turning point in human civilization.* How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming (Mike Brown, 2010) The solar system most of us grew up with included nine planets, with Mercury closest to the sun and Pluto at the outer edge. Then, in 2005, astronomer Mike Brown made the discovery of a lifetime: a tenth planet, Eris, slightly bigger than Pluto. But instead of its resulting in one more planet being added to our solar system, Brown’s find [sic] ignited a firestorm of controversy that riled the usually sedate world of astronomy and launched him into the public eye.* How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous (Georgia Bragg and Kevin O’Malley, 2011) Over the course of history men and women have lived and died. In fact, getting sick and dying can be a big, ugly mess – especially before the modern medical care that we all enjoy today. How They Croaked relays all the gory details of how nineteen world figures gave up the ghost.* Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard, 2011) A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.* 11

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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Joshua Foer, 2011) Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer’s yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top “mental athletes.” He draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalist’s trade to transform our understanding of human memory.* New Kids (The): Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens (Brooke Hauser, 2011) Some walked across deserts and mountains to get here. Others flew in on planes. One arrived after escaping in a suitcase. And some won’t say how they got here. These are “the new kids”: new to America and all the routines and rituals of an American high school, from lonely first days to prom.* Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Barbara Demick, 2009) Demick follows the lives of six North Korean citizens over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the rise to power of his son Kim Jong-il, and a devastating famine that killed one-fifth of the population.* One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season (Chris Ballard, 2012) In 1971, a small-town high school baseball team from rural Illinois playing with hand-me-down uniforms and peace signs on their hats defied convention and the odds. Led by an English teacher with no coaching experience, the Macon Ironmen emerged from a field of 370 teams to become the smallest school in Illinois history to make the state final, a distinction that still stands.* Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Mary Roach, 2010) As Mary Roach discovers, it’s possible to preview space without ever leaving Earth. From the space shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASA’s new space capsule (cadaver filling in for astronaut), Roach takes us on a surreally entertaining trip into the science of life in space and space on Earth.* Pests: A Guide to the World’s Most Maligned, Yet Misunderstood Creatures (Ross Piper, 2011) An overview of the animals that have the greatest impact on our lives, from the creatures that eat our crops through the ones that invade our homes and those that transmit diseases.* Photojojo!: Insanely Great Photo Projects and DIY Ideas (Amit Gupta and Kelly Jensen, 2009) A photo, an idea, and simple crafting skills are all you need to transform your pictures into useful, fun, giftable art.*

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Planet of Viruses (A) (Carl Zimmer, 2011) This fascinating book explores the hidden world of viruses – a world that we all inhabit.* Plastic: A Toxic Love Story (Susan Freinkel, 2011) Plastic built the modern world. Where would we be without bike helmets, baggies, toothbrushes, and pacemakers? But a century into our love affair with plastic, we’re starting to realize it’s not such a healthy relationship.* Soldier Dogs: The Untold Story of America’s Canine Heroes (Maria Goodavage, 2012) Goodavage … tells heartwarming stories of modern soldier dogs and the amazing bonds that develop between them and their handlers.

Beyond tales of training, operations, retirement, and adoption into the families of fallen soldiers, Goodavage talks to leading dog-cognition experts about why dogs like nothing more than to be on a mission with a handler they trust….* Spark of Life (The): Electricity in the Human Body (Frances Ashcroft, 2012) A lively exploration of the surprising role that electricity plays in our bodies.* Sports and their Fans: The History, Economics and Culture of the Relationship between Spectator and Sport (Kevin G. Quinn, 2009) Though Americans spend more than $25 billion on sports and sporting events, this book argues that the influence of sports on our lives is even more profound than this huge figure would seem to suggest.* Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System (Raj Patel, 2008) How can starving people also be obese? Why does everything have soy in it? How do petrochemicals and biofuels control the price of food? It’s a perverse 13

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fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before (800 million) while there are also more people overweight (1 billion). To find out how we got to this point and what we can do about it, Raj Patel launched a comprehensive investigation into the global food network.* Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science (Marc Aronson and Maria Budhos, 2010) When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives.* Super Species: The Creatures That Will Dominate the Planet (Garry Hamilton, 2010) Super species are the phenomenally successful invasive life-forms that are dominating ecosystems. These animals, plants and microbes have spread far from their native habitats, most often as a result of human activities. Author Garry Hamilton profiles the 20 super species that are having the greatest impact in our world today.* Thrice Told Tales: Three Mice Full of Writing Advice (Catherine Lewis, 2013) Three Blind Mice. Three Blind Mice. See how they run? No. See how they can make all sorts of useful literary elements colorful and easy to understand!* Women from the Ankle Down: The Story of Shoes and How They Define Us (Rachelle Bergstein, 2012) What is it about a pair of shoes that so enchants women of all ages, demographics, political affiliations, and style tribes? Part social history, part fashion record, part pop-culture celebration, Women from the Ankle Down seeks to answer that question as it unfolds the story of shoes in the twentieth century.*

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World’s Creepiest Places (The) (Bob Curran and Ian Daniels, 2011) There are some places in the world where humans quite simply should not go. Not just haunted places, but sites where ancient forces still hold sway. We can recognize such locations by the responses they evoke within us – that feeling we call “the creeps.” But just where are these places, and why do they terrify us?* Biographies/Memoirs: Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust (Doreen Rappaport, 2012) Through twenty-one meticulously researched accounts—some chronicled in book form for the first time—Doreen Rappaport illuminates the defiance of tens of thousands of Jews across eleven Nazi-occupied countries during World War II.* I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Malala Yousafzai, 2013) When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.* Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story (Daphne Sheldrick, 2012) Daphne Sheldrick, whose family arrived in Africa from Scotland in the 1820s, is the first person ever to have successfully hand-reared newborn elephants. Her deep empathy and understanding, her years of observing Kenya’s rich variety of wildlife, and her pioneering work in perfecting the right husbandry and milk formula have saved countless elephants, rhinos, and other baby animals from certain death.* Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different (Karen Blumenthal, 2012) From the start, his path was never predictable. Steve Jobs was given up for adoption at birth, dropped out of college after one semester, and at the age of twenty, created Apple in his parents’ garage with his friend Steve Wozniack.* Warrior’s Heart (The): Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage (Eric Greitens, 2012) Readers will share in Eric’s evolution from average kid to globetraveling humanitarian to warrior, training and serving with the most elite military outfit in the world: the Navy SEALs.*

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Summer Reading for Eleventh/Twelfth Graders Fiction: 2312 (Kim Stanley Robinson, 2012) The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity’s only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future.* And the Mountains Echoed (Khaled Hosseini, 2013) In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at the times that matter most.* Annihilation: A Novel (Jeff VanderMeer, 2014) Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another; the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer. This is the twelfth expedition.* First book in the Southern Reach Trilogy.

Book of Jonas (The) (Stephen Dau, 2012) Jonas is fifteen when his family is killed during an errant U.S. military operation in an unnamed Muslim country.

With the help of an international relief organization, he is sent to America, where he struggles to assimilate-foster family, school, a first love. Eventually, he tells a court-mandated counselor and therapist about a U.S. soldier, Christopher Henderson, responsible for saving his life on the tragic night in question.* Canada (Richard Ford, 2013) His parents’ arrest and imprisonment mean a threatening and uncertain future for Dell and his twin sister, Berner. Willful and burning with resentment, Berner flees their home in Montana, abandoning her brother and her life. But Dell is not completely alone. A family friend intervenes, spiriting him across the Canadian border, in hopes of delivering him to a better life. (Book back cover) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866) Much more than just a tale of homicide, Crime and Punishment is a stunning philosophical novel about the 16

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nature of guilt and redemption. An impoverished ex-student, Raskolnikov, kills an old pawnbroker and her sister. But money alone is not his motive—and eventually Raskolnikov is compelled to face the forces both inside and out that have led him to murder.* Death of Bees (The) (Lisa O’Donnell, 2013) Two young sisters attempt to hold the world at bay after the mysterious death of their parents.* Detective/Crime/Mystery Writers: Try any book by the following mystery writers: Nevada Barr (featuring National Park Ranger Amanda Pigeon; novels are set in various U.S. National Parks); Grace Carroll (featuring fashionista Rita Jewel in the Accessories Mystery series); Agatha Christie (featuring detective Hercule Poirot); Lindsey Davis (featuring “informer” Marcus Didius Falco in ancient Rome); Janet Evanovich (featuring bail bondswoman Stephanie Plum in an outrageously funny series set in the “Burg” in New Jersey); Dick Francis (featuring a variety of sleuths and locations); Sue Grafton (featuring female sleuth Kinsey Millhone); Charlaine Harris (featuring a variety of sleuths and locations, including the Southern Vampire Mystery series); P.D. James (featuring Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh); Lisa Lutz (featuring P.I. Izzy Spellman who works in her family’s detective agency in this humorous series): Henning Mankell (featuring Swedish police detective Kurt Wallender in detailed police procedurals); Robert B. Parker (featuring hard-boiled Boston detective Spenser); Thomas Perry (featuring Native American Jane Whitefield, a guide who helps people disappear); Will Thomas (featuring “enquiry agent” Cyrus Barker and his young assistant Thomas Llewelyn in Victorian England).

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Diviners (The) (Libba Bray, 2012) Evie O’Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City…. When a rash of occult-based murders comes to light, Evie and her uncle are right in the thick of the investigation. And through it all, Evie has a secret: a mysterious power that could help catch the killer – if he doesn’t catch her first.* Dreams of Gods & Monsters (Laini Taylor, 2012) When a brutal angel army trespasses into the human world, Karou and Akiva must ally their enemy armies against the threat – and against larger dangers that loom on the horizon.* Final book in the Smoke and Bone trilogy following Daughter of Smoke & Bone (2011) and Days of Blood & Starlight (2012).

Elegance of the Hedgehog (The) (Muriel Barbery, 2008) Renee is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. Over the years she has maintained her carefully constructed persona as someone reliable but totally uncultivated, in keeping, she feels, with society’s expectations of what a concierge should be. But beneath this facade lies the real Renee….* Fallen Angel (The) (Daniel Silva, 2012) After narrowly surviving his last operation, Gabriel Allon, the wayward son of Israeli intelligence, has taken refuge behind the walls of the Vatican, where he is restoring one of Caravaggio’s greatest masterpieces. But early one morning he is summoned to St. Peter’s Basilica

by Monsignor Luigi Donati, the all-powerful private secretary to His Holiness Pope Paul VII. The body of a beautiful woman lies beneath Michelangelo’s magnificent dome.* If you love spy thrillers, check out this series.

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Fangirl (Rainbow Rowell, 2013) Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life – and she’s really good at it. Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can’t let go.* Flight Behavior (Barbara Kingsolver, 2012) Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at seventeen. Now, after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing farm, she has settled for permanent disappointment but seeks momentary escape through an obsessive flirtation with a younger man.* Gods of Heavenly Punishment (The) (Jennifer Cody Epstein, 2013) Fifteenyear-old Yoshi Kobayashi, child of Japan’s New Empire, daughter of an ardent expansionist and a mother with a haunting past, is on her way home on a March night when American bombers shower her city with napalm—an attack that leaves one hundred thousand dead within hours and half the city in ashen ruins.* Kingdom of Strangers (A) (Zoë Ferraris, 2012) A secret grave is unearthed in the desert revealing the bodies of 19 women and the shocking truth that a serial killer has been operating undetected in Jeddah for more than a decade.* Land More Kind Than Home (A) (Wiley Cash, 2012) One Sunday, nine-yearold Jess Hall watches in horror as his autistic brother is smothered during a healing service in the mountains of North Carolina. The unimaginable violence that follows must be untangled by a local sheriff with his own tragic past.* Lexicon (Max Barry, 2013) At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren’t taught history, geography, or mathematics— they are taught to persuade. Students learn to use language to manipulate minds, wielding words as weapons.* Lives of Tao (The) (Wesley Chu, 2013) When out-of-shape IT technician Roen woke up and started hearing voices in his head, he naturally assumed he was losing it. He wasn’t. He now has a passenger in his brain.* Midwife’s Tale (The): A Mystery (Sam Thomas, 2012) It is 1644, and Parliament’s armies have risen against the King and laid siege to the city of York.

Even as the city suffers at the rebels’ hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson becomes embroiled in a different sort of rebellion. One of Bridget’s friends, Esther Cooper, has been convicted of murdering her husband and sentenced to be burnt alive.

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Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore (Robin Sloan, 2012) The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone— and serendipity, sheer curiosity, and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey has landed him a new gig working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. But after just a few days on the job, Clay begins to realize that this store is even more curious than the name suggests.* Native Son (Richard Wright, 1940) Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic.* Ocean at the End of the Lane (The): A Novel (Neil Gaiman, 2013) This bewitching and harrowing tale of mystery and survival, and memory and magic, makes the impossible all too real.* One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1962) This book is considered one of the most significant works ever to emerge from Soviet Russia. Illuminating a dark chapter in Russian history, it is at once a graphic picture of work camp life and a moving tribute to man’s will to prevail over relentless dehumanization.* Out of The Easy (Ruta Sepetys, 2013) Josie is caught between the dream of an elite college and a clandestine underworld. New Orleans lures her in her quest for truth, dangling temptation at every turn, and escalating to the ultimate test.* People of Forever are not Afraid (The) (Shani Boianjiu, 2012) Yael, Avishag, and Lea grow up together in a tiny, dusty Israeli village, attending a high school made up of caravan classrooms, passing notes to each other to alleviate the universal boredom of teenage life.* Pure (Julia Baggott, 2012) Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before…. And now, at an age when everyone is required to turn themselves over to the militia to either be trained as a soldier or, if they are too damaged and weak, to be used as live targets, Pressia can no longer pretend to be small. Pressia is on the run.* First book in The Pure Trilogy.

Reconstructing Amelia: A Novel (Kimberly McCreight, 2013) Kate’s in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughter’s exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

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she arrives at the school and finds it surrounded by police officers, fire trucks, and an ambulance. By then it’s already too late for Amelia. And for Kate.* Requiem (Lauren Oliver, 2013) Now an active member of the resistance, Lena has transformed. The nascent rebellion that was underway in Pandemonium has ignited into an all-out revolution in Requiem, and Lena is at the center of the fight.* Final book in the Delirium trilogy series.

Rose under Fire (Elizabeth Wein, 2013) While flying an Allied fighter plane from Paris to England, American ATA pilot and amateur poet, Rose Justice, is captured by the Nazis and sent to Ravensbruck, the notorious women’s concentration camp. Trapped in horrific circumstances, Rose finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery and friendship of her fellow prisoners. But will that be enough to endure the fate that’s in store for her?* Round House (The) (Louise Erdrich, 2012) One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe.* Rules of Civility (The): A Novel (Amor Towles, 2011) On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society.*

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Salvage the Bones (Jesmyn Ward, 2011) A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch’s father is growing concerned…. As the twelve days that make up the novel’s framework yield to their dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family – motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce – pulls itself up to face another day.* Sandcastle Girls (The) (Chris Bohjalian, 2012) Laura has never really given her Armenian heritage much thought. But when an old friend calls, claiming to have seen a newspaper photo of Laura’s grandmother promoting an exhibit at a Boston museum, Laura embarks on a journey back through her family’s history that reveals love, loss – and a wrenching secret that has been buried for generations.* Snow Child (The) (Eowyn Ivey, 2012) Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart – he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season’s first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone – but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.* Song of Achilles (The): A Novel (Madeline Miller, 2012) A tale of gods, kings, immortal fame, and the human heart, The Song of Achilles is a dazzling literary feat that brilliantly reimagines Homer’s enduring masterwork, The Iliad.* Tell the Wolves I’m Home (Carol Rifka Brunt, 2012) 1987. There’s only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus, and that’s her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss….But Finn’s death brings a surprise

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acquaintance into June’s life—someone who will help her to heal, and to question what she thinks she knows about Finn, her family, and even her own heart.* Tragedy Paper (The) (Elizabeth LaBan, 2013) It follows the story of Tim Macbeth, a seventeen-year-old albino and a recent transfer to the prestigious Irving School, where the motto is “Enter here to be and find a friend.” A friend is the last thing Tim expects or wants—he just hopes to get through his senior year unnoticed.* Universe Versus Alex Woods (The) (Gavin Extence, 2013) A rare meteorite struck Alex Woods when he was ten years old, leaving scars and marking him for an extraordinary future.* Wingshooters (Nina Revoyr, 2011) Michelle LeBeau, the child of a white American father and a Japanese mother, lives with her grandparents in Deerhorn, Wisconsin – a small town that had been entirely white before her arrival. Rejected and bullied, Michelle spends her time reading, avoiding fights, and roaming the countryside with her dog Brett. She idolizes her grandfather, Charlie LeBeau, an expert hunter and former minor league baseball player who is one of the town’s most respected men. Charlie strongly disapproves of his son’s marriage to Michelle’s mother but dotes on his only grandchild.* Winter of Our Discontent (The) (John Steinbeck, 1962) Ethan Allen Hawley … works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With the decline in their status, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards.* Non-fiction: American History Revised: 200 Startling Facts That Never Made It into the Textbooks (Seymour Morris, Jr., 2010) This spirited reexamination of American history delves into our past to expose hundreds of startling facts that never made it into the textbooks, and highlights how little-known people and events played surprisingly influential roles in the great American story.* American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It) (Jonathan Bloom, 2010) The topic couldn’t be timelier: As more people are going hungry while simultaneously more people are morbidly obese, American Wasteland sheds light on the history, culture, and mindset of waste while exploring the parallel eco-friendly and sustainable-food 23

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movements. As the era of unprecedented prosperity comes to an end, it’s time to reexamine our culture of excess.* At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Bill Bryson, 2010) With his signature wit, charm, and seemingly limitless knowledge, Bill Bryson takes us on a room-by-room tour through his own house, using each room as a jumping off point into the vast history of the domestic artifacts we take for granted.* Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks (Ben Goldacre, 2008) Ben Goldacre has made a point of exposing quack doctors and nutritionists, bogus credentialing programs, and biased scientific studies…. But he’s not here just to tell you what’s wrong. Goldacre is here to teach you how to evaluate placebo effects, double-blind studies, and sample sizes, so that you can recognize bad science when you see it. You’re about to feel a whole lot better.* Becoming Odyssa: Adventures on the Appalachian Trail (Jennifer Pharr Davis, 2011) After graduating from college, Jennifer isn’t sure what she wants to do with her life. She is drawn to the Appalachian Trail, a 2175-mile footpath that stretches from Georgia to Maine. Though her friends and family think she’s crazy, she sets out alone to hike the trail, hoping it will give her time to think about what she wants to do next.* Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Katherine Boo, 2012) A bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport.* Big Screen (The): The Story of the Movies (David Thomson, 2012) The Big Screen tells the enthralling story of the movies: their rise and spread, their remarkable influence over us, and the technology that made the screen—smaller now, but ever more ubiquitous—as important as the images it carries.* Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein – Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe (Mario Livio, 2013) Five scientists expanded our knowledge of life on earth, the evolution of the earth itself, and the evolution of the universe, despite and because of their errors. As Mario Livio luminously explains, the scientific process advances through error. Mistakes are essential to progress.*

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Chance to Win (A): Boyhood, Baseball, and the Struggle for Redemption in the Inner City (Jonathan Schuppe, 2013) When Rodney Mason, an ex-con drug dealer from Newark’s rough South Ward, was shot and paralyzed, he vowed to turn his life around.* Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox, and the Creation of a Myth (Katherine Frank, 2012) It is the biography of a book and its hero: the story of Defoe, the man who wrote Robinson Crusoe, and of Robert Knox, the man who was Crusoe.* David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Malcolm Gladwell, 2013) In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks.* Disappearing Spoon (The): And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Sean Kean, 2010) The Periodic Table is one of man’s crowning scientific achievements. But it’s also a treasure trove of stories of passion, adventure, betrayal, and obsession.* Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies (Ben McIntyre, 2012) On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. D-Day was a stunning military accomplishment, but it was also a masterpiece of trickery.*

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Eating Aliens: One Man’s Adventures Hunting Invasive Animal Species (Jack Landers, 2012) North America is under attack by a wide range of invasive animals. Black spiny-tailed iguanas in Florida, Asian carp in Missouri and Virginia, nutria in Louisiana, European green crabs in Connecticut, and other alien species throughout the United States are devouring our native plants and animals, pushing many to the brink of extinction. Jackson Landers has a unique solution to the problem: Eat them!* Economics Book (The): Big Ideas Simply Explained (DK Publishing, 2012) Easy-to-follow graphics, succinct quotations, and thoroughly accessible text throw light on the applications of economics, making them relatable through everyday examples and concerns.* Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent (Matthew Cart, 2012) Fortress Europe tells the story of how the world’s most affluent region—and history’s greatest experiment with globalization—has become an immigration war zone, where tens of thousands have died in a human rights crisis that has gone largely unnoticed by the U.S. media.* Fraternity (Diane Brady, 2012) On April 4, 1968, the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., shocked the nation. Later that month, the Reverend John Brooks, a professor of theology at the College of the Holy Cross who shared Dr. King’s dream of an integrated society, drove up and down the East Coast searching for African American high school students to recruit to the school, young men he felt had the potential to succeed if given an opportunity.*

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Gaddafi’s Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya (Annick Cojean, 2013) Soraya was just fifteen, a schoolgirl in the coastal town of Sirte, when she was given the honor of presenting a bouquet of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi, “the Guide,” on a visit he was making to her school the following week. This one meeting—a presentation of flowers, a pat on the head from Gaddafi—changed Soraya’s life forever.* Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Mary Roach, 2013) Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn’t the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach bursts? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis? In Gulp we meet scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks of—or has the courage to ask.* Higher Call (A): An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the WarTorn Skies of World War II (Adam Makos and Larry Alexander, 2012) Four days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a 21-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their first mission. Suddenly, a sleek, dark shape pulled up on the bomber’s tail—a German Messerschmitt fighter. Worse, the German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber in the squeeze of a trigger. What happened next would defy imagination and later be called the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II.* Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot (Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard, 2012) [O’Reilly] recounts in gripping detail the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy – and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.* League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth (Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru, 2013) Comprehensively, and for the first time, award-winning ESPN investigative reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru tell the story of a public health crisis that emerged from the playing fields of our 21st century pastime.* Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 (Marcus Luttrell, 2013) On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a 27

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small but heavily armed force. Less than twenty-four hours later, only one of those Navy SEALs remained alive.* Lost Art of Dress (The): The Women Who Once Made America Stylish (Linda Przybyszewski, 2014) As a glance down any street in America quickly reveals, American women have forgotten how to dress. We chase fads, choose inappropriate materials and unattractive cuts, and waste energy tottering in heels when we could be moving gracefully. Quite simply, we lack the fashion know-how we need to dress professionally and flatteringly. As historian and expert dressmaker Linda Przybyszewski reveals in The Lost Art of Dress, it wasn’t always like this.* Men We Reaped: A Memoir (Jesmyn Ward, 2013) In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life—to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why?* Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service (Michael BarZohar and Nissim Mishal, 2012) The Mossad is widely recognized today as the best intelligence service in the world. It is also the most enigmatic, shrouded in secrecy. Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service unveils the defining and most dangerous operations that have shaped Israel and the world at large from the agency’s more than sixty-year history.* No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden (Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer, 2012) For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments.* Prince (The) (Niccolò Machiavelli, 1532) In this classic guide to acquiring and maintaining political power, Machiavelli used a rational approach to advise prospective rulers, developing logical arguments and alternatives for a number of potential problems, among them governing hereditary monarchies, dealing with colonies and the treatment of conquered peoples.* Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus (Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy, 2012) In this fascinating exploration, journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy chart four thousand years in the history, science, and cultural mythology of rabies.*

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Radiation: What It Is, What You Need to Know (Robert Peter Gale, 2013) The universe was born in a nuclear explosion. We live on a radioactive planet.

Without radiation there would be not life. And yet radiation remains deeply misunderstood and often mistakenly feared. Now Dr. Robert Peter Gale—one of the world’s leading experts on the subject—and Eric Lax set the record straight about subjects like uranium, plutonium, iodine-131, X-Rays, CT scans, and the radiation of food, while lucidly debunking myths about radioactivity.* Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout (Lauren Redniss, 2011) In 1891, 24-year-old Marie Sklodowska moved from Warsaw to Paris, where she found work in the laboratory of Pierre Curie, a scientist engaged in research on heat and magnetism. They fell in love.* Smartest Kids in the World (The): And How They Got That Way (Amanda Ripley, 2013) What is it like to be a child in the world’s new education superpowers? In a global quest to find answers for our own children, author and Time magazine journalist Amanda Ripley follows three Americans embedded in these countries for one year.* Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (David Quemmen, 2012) The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse…. In Spillover Quammen takes the reader along on this astonishing quest to learn how, where from, and why these diseases emerge, and he asks the terrifying question: What might the next big one be?* Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Austin Kleon, 2012) Steal Like an Artist is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illustrations, exercises, and examples will put readers directly in touch with their artistic side.* 29

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Super Freakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance (Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubne, 2009) Super Freakonomics challenges the way we think all over again, exploring the hidden side of everything ….* Follow-up to the popular Freakonomics (2005).

This is How: Proven to Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More, for Young and Old Alike (Augusten Burroughs, 2012) If you’re fat and fail every diet, if you’re thin but can’t get thin enough, if you lose your job, if your child dies, if you are diagnosed with cancer, if you always end up with exactly the wrong kind of person, if you always end up alone, if you can’t get over the past, if your parents are insane and ruining your life, if you really and truly wish you were dead, if you feel like it’s your destiny to be a star, if you believe life has a grudge against you… If you have ever wondered, How am I supposed to survive this? This is How.* Undead (The): Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating-Heart Cadavers —How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death (Dick Teresi, 2012) What is death, and how do people in the medical profession determine it?

In this fascinating examination of the increasingly blurred line between life and death, consciousness and unconsciousness, science journalist Dick Teresi introduces us to the coma specialists, organ transplant surgeons, ICU doctors, and many others who are faced with this issue daily.*

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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History (Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, 2007) Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History celebrates a renaissance in history inspired by amateurs, activists, and professional historians. It is a tribute to history and to those who make it.* What Einstein Told his Cook (Robert Wolke, 2008) Why is red meat red? How do they decaffeinate coffee? Do you wish you understood the science of food but don’t want to plow through dry, technical books?… Robert L. Wolke provides reliable and witty explanations for your most burning food questions, while debunking misconceptions and helping you interpret confusing advertising and labeling. * World Until Yesterday (The): What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

(Jared Diamond, 2012) Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence.* Look also for Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel (1999) and Collapse (2005).

Biographies/Memoirs: Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day (Steven Talty, 2012) Agent Garbo tells the astonishing story of a self-made secret agent who matched wits with the best minds of the Third Reich—and won. Juan Pujol was a nobody, a Barcelona poultry farmer determined to oppose the Nazis. Using only his gift for daring falsehoods, Pujol became Germany’s most valued agent— or double agent: it took four tries before the British believed he was really on the Allies’ side.* Beethoven: The Man Revealed (John Suchet, 2013) Suchet illuminates the composer’s difficult childhood, his struggle to maintain friendships and romances, his ungovernable temper, his obsessive efforts to control his nephew’s life, and the excruciating decline of his hearing.* Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind (Loung Ung, 2005) After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the “lucky child,” the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother to America while her one surviving sister and two brothers remained behind.* The sequel to her memoir, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers.

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My Beloved World (Sonia Sotomayor, 2013) The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor…recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself.* Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Cheryl Strayed, 2012) A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.*

Graphic Novels Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Graphic Adaptation (Seymour Chwast, 2010) In [Chwast’s] version of “Dante’s Divine Comedy,” Dante and his guide Virgil don fedoras and wander through noirish realms of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in this classic satire of human foibles.* Graphic Canon (The): Volumes 1 & 2 (Russ Kick, [ed.], 2012) These volumes offer some of the world’s greatest literature in graphic novel form. Volume 1: From the epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous liaisons and Volume 2: From “Kubla Khan” to the Brontë sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Kite Runner Graphic Novel (The): (Khaled Hosseini, 2011) Through Khaled Hosseini’s brilliant writing, a previously unknown part of the world was brought to vivid life for readers. Now, in this beautifully illustrated graphic novel adaptation, Hosseini brings his compelling story to a new generation of readers.* Philosophy: A Discovery in Comics (Margreet de Heer, 2012) A perfect introduction to exploring philosophical concepts, this humorous yet substantive graphic account strips the subject of unnecessary complexity.* Relish: My Life in the Kitchen (Lucy Knisley, 2013) In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned about food, cooking, and life.*

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Collections: Short Stories, Essays and more…

Curiosities (The): A Collection of Stories (Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, and Brenna Yovanoff, 2012) A collection of 30 fantasy short stories by three gifted writers who also include their critiques and responses of each other’s writings.

A writing workshop for all!

Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version (Philip Pullman, 2012) Now Philip Pullman, one of the most accomplished authors of our time, makes us fall in love all over again with the immortal tales of the Brothers Grimm.* In the Shadow of Greatness: Voices of Leadership, Sacrifice, and Service from America’s Longest War (U.S. Naval Academy Class of 2002, Joshua Welle [ed.], 2012) These midshipmen were soon to graduate from the Naval Academy into a nation at war, the first officers to do so since Vietnam. The men and women of the Class of 2002 lost their youth to a decade of deployments and their innocence on battlefields in distant places. Each story provides a glimpse into the lives of modern day Navy or Marine Corps officers who were faced with unique challenges and sacrifices.* Editor Joshua Welle is an alumnus of WRA, Class of 1998.

Spooky Campfire Tales: Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Supernatural Lore (S. E. Schlosser, 2007) Unfold a camp chair, huddle close to the fire, and get ready for thirty creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences from times past.*

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Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism (Karima Bennoune, 2013) Karima Bennoune draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews to illuminate the inspiring stories of those who represent one of the best hopes for ending fundamentalist oppression worldwide.*

Something for Everyone: Informational Titles for Teenagers Because I Said So!: The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids (Ken Jennings, 2012) Jennings separates myth from fact to debunk a wide variety of parental edicts: no swimming after meals, sit up straight, don’t talk to strangers, and so on.* Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age (William Powers, 2010) Using his own life as laboratory and object lesson, Powers demonstrates why this is the moment to revisit our relationship to screens and mobile technologies, and how profound the rewards of doing so can be.* I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy (Lori Andrews, 2012) Social networks, the defining cultural movement of our time, offer many freedoms. But as we work and shop and date over the Web, we are opening ourselves up to intrusive privacy violations by employers, the police, and aggressive data collection companies that sell our information to any and all takers. Through groundbreaking research, Andrews reveals how routinely colleges reject applicants due to personal information searches, robbers use vacation postings to target homes for break-ins, and lawyers scour our social media for information to use against us in court.*

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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking (Susan Cain, 2012) In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so.* Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy (Emily Bazelon, 2014) In Sticks and Stones, Bazelon brings readers on a deeply researched, clear-eyed journey into the ever-shifting landscape of teenage meanness and its sometimes devastating consequences.*

Poetry, Anyone?

Best of Ogden Nash (The) (Linell Nash Smith, 2007) The poems display the talent of the man whose verse entranced America from the time of the Great Depression until his death in 1971.* Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (The) (Ilya Kaminsky and Susan Harris [eds.], 2010) Here, alongside renowned masters, are internationally celebrated poets who have rarely, if ever, been translated into English.* Good Poems for Hard Times (Garrison Keillor [ed.] 2006) In Good Poems for Hard Times, Keillor has pondered over the archives of his beloved Writer’s Almanac radio show to select a batch of consoling, rousing, and truthful poems guaranteed to raise flagging spirits or to inspire those in need of a dose of wisdom or honesty.* Also look for Keillor’s Good Poems.

New Young American Poets (The) (Kevin Prufer [ed.], 2000) Demonstrating the range and vitality of the new generation of American writers, The New Young American Poets features the work of forty poets born since 1960.* Prufer is an alumnus of WRA, Class of 1988.

Teen Angst: A Celebration of Really Bad Poetry (Sarah Bynoe [ed.], 2005) All of the poets featured in this collection are now adults, living happy, angst-free lives. However, for this special book, they are willing to reveal excerpts from their old tattered notebooks or leather bound journals. Along with the poems, each poet has included a short introduction, giving background information for each work.* *These annotations have been reproduced from the product descriptions on Amazon.com. This listing is for educational purposes only.

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Looking for a Good Book? Some Web Sites to Help You… Below are some web sites that offer recommended books in a number of categories. While by no means all-inclusive, we hope to give you some useful suggestions of where to start looking…

AllReaders.com (http://allreaders.com) Look for books by plot, theme, character or setting. Book reviews are also available.

Bookwire: Book Awards (http://www.bookwire.com/) This web site offers links to a wide variety of book by genre. Bestsellers, new releases, and links to book reviews are also included Edgar Awards (http://www.mysterywriters.org) Click on “TheEdgars.com” to find the nominees and winners of the annual Edgar Allan Poe Awards given by the Mystery Writers of America for writing achievement in the mystery field. Previous winners can be found by clicking on the “Search the Edgars Database” link.

Harvey Awards (http://harveyawards.org) Click on “Awards” to find the current nominees and winners of the annual Harvey Awards that recognize outstanding work in comics and sequential art.

The Harvey Awards are the only industry award both nominated and selected by the full body of comic book professionals. Past award winners can be found by clicking on “Previous Awards & Nominees.”

Horror Writers Association (http://www.horror.org) Click on “The Bram Stoker Awards” to locate those titles honored by the Horror Writers Association for achievement in horror writing.

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Hugo Awards (http://www.thehugoawards.org) Fan-voted awards for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy. Check out the home page for the current winners for this award. Click on “History/Hugo Award History” for past winners.

National Book Awards (http://www.nationalbook.org/index.html) Click on “Awards/Winners and Finalists” to find the winners of the annual awards presented by the National Book Foundation for literary achievement in four categories: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young people’s literature.

National Book Critics Circle: Awards (http://bookcritics.org/awards) Prestigious awards given for the year’s best books in six categories: fiction, general nonfiction, criticism, poetry, biography and autobiography.

Pulitzer Prizes (http://www.pulitzer.org) Select any year to view the annual awards for distinguished writing by The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.

Western Writers of America (http://www.westernwriters.org) Click on “Spur Awards” to access titles that have received the Spur Awards for distinguished writing about the American West established by the Western Writers of America.

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Title Index 2312, 16 5th Wave (The), 1 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1 Age of Miracles (The), 1 Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day, 31 All Our Pretty Songs, 1 Allegiant, 1 Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, 8 American History Revised: 200 Startling Facts That Never Made It into the Textbooks, 23 American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It), 23 And the Mountains Echoed, 16 Annihilation: A Novel, 16 As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth, 1 At Home: A Short History of Private Life, 24 Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks, 24 Because I Said So!: The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids , 34 Becoming Odyssa: Adventures on the Appalachian Trail, 24 Beethoven: The Man Revealed, 31 Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, 24

Best of Ogden Nash (The), 35 Between a Rock and a Hard Place, 8 Between the Lines, 2 Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust, 15 Big Necessity (The): The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters, 8 Big Screen (The): The Story of the Movies, 24 Big Thirst (The): The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water, 8 Biopunk: Solving Biotech’s Biggest Problems in Kitchens and Garages, 8 Black Count (The): Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, 9 Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon, 9 Book of Jonas (The), 16 Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine and the Lawless Years of Prohibition, 9 Boys in the Boat (The): Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, 9 Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein—Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe, 24 Canada, 16 Cannery Row, 2

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Eating Animals, 10 Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (The), 35 Economics Book (The): Big Ideas Simply Explained, 26 Edge of Dark Water, 4 Eleanor & Park, 4 Elegance of the Hedgehog (The), 18 Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West, 10 Every Day, 4 Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version, 33 Fallen Angel (The), 18 Fangirl, 19 Fault in Our Stars (The), 4 Final Four (The), 4 Flight Behavior, 19 Forbidden Creatures: Inside the World of Animal Smuggling and Exotic Pets, 10 Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent, 26 Fraternity, 26 Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II, 10 Gaddafi’s Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya, 27 George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution, 11 Ghost with Trembling Wings (The): Science, Wishful Thinking and the Search for Lost Species, 11

Chance to Win (A): Boyhood, Baseball, and the Struggle for Redemption in the Inner City, 25 Code Name Verity, 2 Coldest Girl in Coldtown (The), 2 Conqueror: A Novel of Kublai Khan, 2 Continent for the Taking (A): The Tragedy and Hope of Africa, 9 Crime and Punishment, 16 Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox, and the Creation of a Myth, 25 Curiosities (The): A Collection of Stories, 33 Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (The), 3 Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Graphic Adaptation, 32 Dark Triumph, 3 David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, 25 Dear Zari: The Secret Lives of the Women of Afghanistan, 10 Death of Bees (The), 17 Disappearing Spoon (The): And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements, 25 Diviners (The), 18 Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies, 25 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 3 Dreams of Gods & Monsters, 18 Drowned Cities (The), 3 Eating Aliens: One Man’s Adventures Hunting Invasive Animal Species, 26

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Gods Like Us: On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame, 11 Gods of Heavenly Punishment (The), 19 Good Poems for Hard Times, 35 Graphic Canon (The): Volumes 1 & 2, 32 Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, 27 Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age, 34 Heart is a Lonely Hunter (The), 4 HHhH, 4 Higher Call (A): An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II, 27 History of the World in 100 Objects (A), 11 Hollow City, 5 Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, 5 How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming, 11 How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous, 11 I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, 15 I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy, 34 Impossible Knife of Memory (The), 5 In the Shadow of Greatness: Voices of Leadership, Sacrifice, and Service from America’s Longest War, 33 Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot, 27

Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever, 11 Kingdom of Strangers (A), 19 Kite Runner Graphic Novel (The), 32 Land More Kind than Home (A), 19 Land of Laughs (The), 5 League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth, 27 Lexicon, 19 Light: A Gone Novel, 6 Lives of Tao (The), 19 Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10, 27 Lost Art of Dress (The): The Women Who Once Made America Stylish, 28 Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story, 15 Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind, 31 Men We Reaped: A Memoir, 28 Midwife’s Tale (The): A Mystery, 19 Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, 12 Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service, 28 Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, 20 My Beloved World, 32 Native Son, 20 Never Fall Down, 6

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New Kids (The): Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens, 12 New Young American Poets (The), 35 No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden, 28 Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, 12 Ocean at the End of the Lane (The): A Novel, 20 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 20 One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season, 12 Out of The Easy, 20 Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, 12 Panic, 6 People of Forever are not Afraid (The), 20 Pests: A Guide to the World’s Most Maligned, Yet Misunderstood Creatures, 12 Philosophy: A Discovery in Comics, 32 Photojojo!: Insanely Great Photo Projects and DIY Ideas, 12 Planet of Viruses (A), 13 Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, 13 Prince (The), 28 Pure, 20 Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, 35 Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus, 28

Radiation: What It Is, What You Need to Know, 29 Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout, 29 Raven Boys (The), 6 Reached, 6 Ready Player One, 7 Reconstructing Amelia: A Novel, 20 Relish: My Life in the Kitchen, 32 Requiem, 21 Rose under Fire, 21 Round House (The), 21 Ruins, 7 Rules of Civility (The): A Novel, 21 Salvage the Bones, 22 Sandcastle Girls (The), 22 Septembers of Shiraz (The), 7 Seraphina, 7 Smartest Kids in the World (The): And How They Got That Way, 29 Snow Child (The), 22 Soldier Dogs: The Untold Story of America’s Canine Heroes, 13 Song of Achilles (The): A Novel, 22 Spark of Life (The): Electricity in the Human Body, 13 Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, 29 Spooky Campfire Tales: Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Supernatural Lore, 33 Sports and their Fans: The History, Economics and Culture of the Relationship between Spectator and Sport, 13 Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight (The), 7 Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being, 29

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Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different, 15 Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy, 35 Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, 13 Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science, 14 Super Freakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance, 30 Super Species: The Creatures That Will Dominate the Planet, 14 Teen Angst: A Celebration of Really Bad Poetry, 35 Tell the Wolves I’m Home, 22 Texas Gothic, 7 Thirteen Reasons Why, 7 This is How: Proven to Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More, for Young and Old Alike, 30 Three Musketeers (The), 8 Thrice Told Tales: Three Mice Full of Writing Advice, 14 Tragedy Paper (The), 23 Undead (The): Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating-Heart Cadavers—How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death, 30

Universe Versus Alex Woods (The), 23 Warrior’s Heart (The): Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage, 15 Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History, 31 What Einstein Told his Cook, 31 Where’d You Go, Bernadette?, 8 Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, 32 Wingshooters, 23 Winter of Our Discontent (The), 23 Women from the Ankle Down: The Story of Shoes and How They Define Us, 14 World Until Yesterday (The): What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies, 31 World’s Creepiest Places (The), 15 Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism, 34

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Author Index Alexander, Larry, 27 Anderson, Laurie Halse, 5 Andrews, Donna, 3 Andrews, Lori, 34 Aronson, Marc, 14 Ashcroft, Frances, 13 Asher, Jay, 7 Atherton, Nancy, 3 Bacigalupi, Paolo, 3 Baggott, Julia, 20 Ballard, Chris, 12 Barbery, Muriel, 18 Barr, Nevada, 17 Barron, Stephanie, 3 Barry, Max, 19 Bar-Zohar, Michael, 28 Bazelon, Emily, 35 Bennoune, Karima, 34 Bergstein, Rachelle, 14 Binet, Lauren, 4 Black, Holly, 2 Blake, Heather, 3 Bloom, Jonathan, 23 Blumenthal, Karen, 9, 15 Bohjalian, Chris, 22 Boianjiu, Shani, 20 Boo, Katherine, 24 Box, C. J., 3 Brady, Diane, 26 Bragg, Georgia, 11 Bray, Libba, 18 Brown, Daniel James, 9 Brown, Mike, 11 Brunt, Carol Rifka, 22 Bryson, Bill, 24

Budhos, Maria, 14 Burr, Ty, 11 Burroughs, Augusten, 30 Bynoe, Sarah, 35 Cain, Susan, 35 Card, Orson Scott, 7 Carroll, Grace, 17 Carroll, Jonathan, 5 Cart, Matthew, 26 Cash, Wiley, 19 Christie, Agatha, 17 Chu, Wesley, 19 Chwast, Seymour, 32 Clement-Moore, Rosemary, 7 Cline, Ernest, 7 Cojean, Annick, 27 Condie, Ally, 6 Curran, Bob, 15 Daniels, Ian, 15 Dau, Stephen, 16 Davis, Jennifer Pharr, 24 Davis, Lindsey, 17 Demick, Barbara, 12 Diamond, Jared, 31 DK Publishing, 26 Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 16 Dubne, Stephen J., 30 Dugard, Martin, 11, 27 Dumas, Alexandre, 8 Epstein, Jennifer Cody, 19 Erdrich, Louise, 21 Evanovich, Janet, 17 Extence, Gavin, 23 43

Fainaru-Wada, Mark, 27 Fairaru, Steve, 27 Ferraris, ZoĂŤ, 19 Fishman, Charles, 8 Fluke, Joanna, 3 Foer, Jonathan Safran, 10 Foer, Joshua, 12 Ford, Jamie, 5 Ford, Richard, 16 Francis, Dick, 17 Frank, Katherine, 25 Freinkel, Susan, 13 French, Howard W., 9 Gaiman, Neil, 20 Gale, Robert Peter, 29 George, Rose, 8 Gladwell, Malcolm, 25 Goldacre, Ben, 24 Goodavage, Maria, 13 Grafton, Sue, 17 Grant, Michael, 6 Gratton, Tessa, 33 Green, John, 4 Greitens, Eric, 15 Gupta, Amit, 12 Haddon, Mark, 3 Haines, Kathryn Miller, 3 Hamilton, Garry, 14 Harden, Blaine, 10 Harris, Charlaine, 17 Harris, Susan, 35 Hartman, Rachel, 7 Hauser, Brook, 12 Heer, Margareet de, 32

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Hosseini, Khaled, 16, 32 Iggulden, Conn, 2 Ivey, Eowyn, 22 James, P. D., 17 Jennings, Ken, 34 Jensen, Kelly, 12 Kaminsky, Ilya, 35 Kargar, Zarghuna, 10 Kean, Sean, 25 Keillor, Garrison, 35 Kick, Russ, 32 Kilmeade, Brian, 11 King, Laurie R., 3 Kingsolver, Barbara, 19 Kleon, Austin, 29 Knisley, Lucy, 32 LaBan, Elizabeth, 23 LaFevers, Robin, 3 Landers, Jack, 26 Lansdale, Joe R., 4 Laufer, Peter, 10 Leer, Samantha van, 2 Levithan, David, 4 Levitt, Steven D., 30 Lewis, Catherine, 14 Livio, Mario, 24 Luttrell, Marcus, 27 Lutz, Lisa, 17 MacGregor, Neil, 11 Machiavelli, Niccolo, 28 Makos, Adam, 27 Mankell, Henning, 17 Marston, Edward, 3 Maurer, Kevin, 28 McCall Smith, Alexander, 3

McCarry, Sarah, 1 McCormick, Patricia, 6 McCreight, Kimberly, 20 McCullers, Carson, 4 McIntyre, Ben, 25 Miller, Madeline, 22 Mishal, Nissim, 28 Morris, Jr., Seymour, 23 Murphy, Monica, 28 O’Donnell, Lisa, 17 O’Malley, Kevin, 11 O’Reilly, Bill, 11, 27 Oliver, Lauren, 6, 21 Owen, Mark, 28 Parker, Robert B., 17 Patel, Raj, 13 Perkins, Lynne Rae, 1 Perry, Thomas, 17 Peters, Elizabeth, 3 Peters, Ellis, 3 Picoult, Jodi, 2 Piper, Ross, 12 Powers, William, 34 Prufer, Kevin, 35 Przybyszewski, Linda, 28 Pullman, Philip, 33 Quemmen, David, 29 Quinn, Kevin G., 13 Quinn, Spencer, 3 Ralston, Aron, 8 Rappaport, Doreen, 15 Redniss, Lauren, 29 Reichs, Kathy, 3 Reiss, Tom, 9 Revoyr, Nina, 23 44

Riggs, Ransom, 5 Ripley, Amanda, 29 Roach, Mary, 12, 27 Roberts, Les, 3 Robinson, Kim Stanley, 16 Roth, Veronica, 1 Rowell, Rainbow, 4, 19 Schlosser, S. E., 33 Schuppe, Jonathan, 25 Semple, Maria, 8 Sepetys, Ruta, 20 Sheinkin, Steve, 9 Sheldrick, Daphne, 15 Silva, Daniel, 18 Simon, Clea, 3 Sloan, Robin, 20 Smith, Jennifer E., 7 Smith, Linell Nash, 35 Sofe, Dalia, 7 Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 20 Sotomayor, Sonia, 32 Steinbeck, John, 2, 23 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 3 Stiefvater, Maggie, 6, 33 Strayed, Cheryl, 32 Suchet, John, 31 Talty, Steven, 31 Taylor, Laini, 18 Teresi, Dick, 30 Thomas, Sam, 19 Thomas, Will, 17 Thomson, David, 24 Towles, Amor, 21 Turkle, Sherry, 8

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Twain, Mark, 1 U.S. Naval Class of 2002, 33 Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, 31 Ung, Loung, 31 VanderMeer, Jeff, 16 Volponi, Paul, 4 Walker, Karen Thompson, 1 Ward, Jesmyn, 22, 28 Wasik, Bill, 28 Weidensaul, Scott, 11 Wein, Elizabeth, 2, 21 Welle, Joshua, 33 Wohlsen, Marcus, 8 Wolke, Robert, 31 Wright, Richard, 20 Yaeger, Don 11 Yancey, Rick, 1 Yousafzai, Malala, 15 Yovanoff, Brenna, 33 Zimmer, Carl, 13 Zuckoff, Mitchell, 10

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