EHS Library Wish List

EHS Library Wish List 2010

TITLE	AUTHOR	DESCRIPTION

Adrift: seventy-six days lost at sea	Callahan, Steven	Steven Callahan tells the story of his experiences after
		his sloop capsizes in the Atlantic Ocean and he was
		to survive in an inflatable raft for 76 days.

After the first death	Cormier, Robert	The hijacking of a bus of children by terrorists is
		described from the perspectives of a hostage, a
		terrorist, an Army general involved in the rescue
		operation, and the general's son who has been chosen
		as the go-between.

Alive	Read, Piers Paul	Discusses the ordeal of the survivors of an airplane
		crash in 1972 in the Andes wilderness.

American gods: a novel	Gaiman, Neil	Shadow sets out on a journey across America fighting
		old myths and the gods of modern technology and
		material obsession when he takes employment with a
		man named Wednesday--otherwise known as the god
		Odin--after his release from prison and his wife's
		sudden death.

Anansi boys	Gaiman, Neil	Charlie Nancy was leading a comfortable life until his
		father died and discovered that dear old dad was a
		human form of Anansi, the African trickster god, and
		that he had a brother, Spider, who inherited some of
		his father's godlike abilities.

The battle for Skandia	Flanagan, John	After escaping slavery, Evanlyn is taken captive by a
		Temujai warrior, leaving Will to use his Ranger training
		to find her, despite being outnumbered by an enemy
		scouting party and the entire Temujai army.

Bec	Shan, Darren	The demonic Fomorii ravages the land, forcing Bec and
		her warrior companions to leave the devastated area to
		search for the secrets of Bec's past.

Blood beast	Shan, Darren	Grubbs Grady has defeated demons and managed to
		move on with his life, but strange symptoms during the
		full moon show him his dark days are not over--and he
		may not be able to fight his werewolf genes.

Blue noon	Westerfeld, Scott	The Midnighters are baffled when the blue time suddenly
		occurs in the middle of the day. They soon discover that
		the walls between the secret hour and real time are
		crumbling, and, unless they can stop it, the dark
		creatures will have a chance to feed after centuries of
		waiting.

Bound feet & Western dress	Chang, Pang-Mei Natasha	Tells the story of the author's great-aunt Chang Yu-i, a
		woman who challenged Chinese tradition by refusing to
		have her feet bound, marrying and divorcing preeminent
		poet Hsu Chih-mo, and running the Shanghai Women's
		Savings Bank during the 1930s.




TITLE	AUTHOR	DESCRIPTION

Breakfast of Champions, or,	Vonnegut, Kurt	Dwayne Hoover, a successful automobile dealer in Midland
Goodbye blue Monday!		City, suddenly decides that he is a machine and begins to
		act accordingly. Science fiction writer Kilgore Trout is on
		his way to the Midland City Festival of the Arts. When
		they meet, the result is catastrophe.

The burning bridge	Flanagan, John	Will and his friend Horace are chosen by the Rangers to do
		battle with the evil warlord Morgarath; but Morgarath and
		his legions make it over the once impassible eastern
		mountains with plans to ambush the king's army.

Carpe jugulum: a Discworld novel	Pratchett, Terry	King Verence unwittingly invites trouble when he opens the
		doors of the castle to Unberwald's undead, the Magyrs, to
		celebrate the birth of his daughter.

Cat's cradle	Vonnegut, Kurt	In the year 2000, a young man discovers ice-nine, which
		can set off a chain reaction more deadly than a nuclear
		bomb, and a new prophet whose teachings sweep the
		world.

Catch-22: a novel	Heller, Joseph	Presents a classic edition of the 1961 satire of military
		bureaucracy, focusing on the story of John Yossarian, a
		bombadier in World War II who is trying to avoid getting
		killed while at the same time dealing with a colonel who
		keeps upping the number of missions he must fly.

The center cannot hold: my journey	Saks, Elyn R.	A memoir of paranoid schizophrenia by an accomplished
through madness		professor recounts her first symptoms at the age of eight,
		her efforts to hide the severity of her condition, and the
		obstacles she has to overcome in the course of her
		treatment and marriage.

Children of the mind	Card, Orson Scott	Ender Wiggin's adopted world of Lusitania, with its three
		sentinent species and his oldest friend Jane, a computer
		intelligence, are threatened by a fleet of ships sent by the
		Starways Congress, but with the help of two new beings
		created by Ender's mind, the planet may still be saved.

Chinese Cinderella: the true story	Mah, Adeline Yen	The author tells the story of her painful childhood in China
of an unwanted daughter		where she lived until the age of fourteen with her father,
		stepmother, and siblings, all of whom considered her bad
		luck because her mother died shortly after giving birth
		to her.

Clay	Almond, David	The developing relationship between teenager Davie and a
		mysterious new boy in town morphs into something darker
		and more sinister when Davie learns firsthand of the boy's
		supernatural powers.

A clockwork orange	Burgess, Anthony	In the Slav-oriented state of the future, the Lower Orders
		are in ascendence and happy hooligans roam the London
		streets, bashing senior citizens in the eyes with bicycle
		chains.



TITLE	AUTHOR	DESCRIPTION

Coraline	Gaiman, Neil	Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a
		mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet distubingly
		different from her own, where she must challenge a
		gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and
		the souls of three others.

The cure	Anand, Geeta	How a father raised $100 million--and bucked the medical
		establishment--in a quest to save his children.

Dark angel	Klass, David	New Jersey teen Jeff Hasting's happy, ordinary life is
		turned upside down when Troy, the brother no one talks
		about, is released on a technicality from the prison where
		he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life for premed-
		itated murder.

Dark calling	Shan, Darren	The Disciples are being controlled by dark forces and only
		Kernel Fleck can save them.

Death's Shadow	Shan, Darren	As Bec's relationship with Dervish improves, werewolves
		and demons attack and she sends Shark and Meera
		through a window to another universe to seek Beranabus,
		and soon all must face an even greater force of evil, the
		Shadow.

Demon apocalypse	Shan, Darren	Grubbs Grady tries to resist his werewolf urges and evade
		the eight-armed grasp of the demonic Lord Loss.

Demon thief	Shan, Darren	With the opening of a window into a demon world, a boy
		discovers his powers as a Disciple and his mission to hunt
		the viciously powerful Demonata to the death.

The devil's highway: a true story	Urrea, Luis Alberto	Chronicles the true story of 26 men who attempted to
		cross the Mexican border into the southern Arizona
		desert know as the Devil's Highway, describing how the
		men struggled to survive the desert's harsh conditions and
		why only 12 survived the journey.

Earth abides	Stewart, George Rippey	When a deadly virus wipes out most of human civilization,
		intellectual loner Isherwood Williams and a handful of
		survivors struggle to create a community in a world no
		longer dominated by human life.

Ender's game	Card, Orson Scott	Young Ender Wiggin may prove to be the military genius
		Earth needs to fight a desperate battle against a deadly
		alien race that will determine the future of the human race.

Ender's shadow	Card, Orson Scott	Bean must overcome his past and prove to the recruiters at
		the Battle School that he can help save the planet from an
		alien invasion.

Extremely loud & incredibly close	Foer, Jonathan Safran	Follows 9 year old Oskar Schell as he encounters a
		number of interesting characters in his search for
		information about his father who died in the World Trade
		Tower and tries to find the lock that fits the mysterious key
		his father had.

TITLE	AUTHOR	DESCRIPTION

Falling leaves: the true story of an	Mah, Adeline Yen	Autobiography of physician and writer Adeline Yen Mah,
unwanted Chinese daughter		discussing her emotionally abusive childhood, experiences
		of isolation and lonliness, success as a student, and
		triumphant struggle to achieve freedom and a new life.

Farnham's freehold	Heinlein, Robert A.	A nuclear blast sends Hugh Farnham and his family flying
		two thousand years into the future where humans are
		forced into slavery as punishment for having nearly
		destroyed the world.

Feet of clay: a novel by Discworld	Pratchett, Terry	As autumn comes to Ankh-Morpok, Commander Sir
		Samuel Vimes and the City Watch have to track down a
		murderer who can't be seen.

First meetings in Ender's universe	Card, Orson Scott	Contains four novellas that explore the origins and destiny
		of genetically engineered Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, a young
		man who may be the military genius Earth needs in its war
		against an alien enemy.

Football champ	Green, Tim	Twelve-year-old Troy's uncanny gift for predicting football
		plays proves a powerful secret weapon for the Atlanta
		Falcons, but a seedy reporter with a vendetta suspects
		something is going on and sets out to shred the reputat-
		ions of Troy and star linebacker Seth Halloway.

Football genius	Green, Tim	Troy, a sixth-grader with an unusual gift for predicting
		football plays before they occur, attempts to use his ability
		to help his favorite team, the Atlanta Falcons, but he must
		first prove himself to the coach and the players.

Forgotten fire	Bagdasarian, Adam	The story of how Vahan Kenderian survived the Turkish
		massacre of the Armenians in 1915.

Frannie in pieces	Ephren, Delia	When 15 year old Frannie's father dies, only a mysterious
		jigsaw puzzle that he leaves behind can help her come to
		terms with his death.

Friday	Heinlein, Robert	A beautiful interplanetary agent, a glorious product of
		genetic engineering, operates from and over a near-future
		Earth.

Ghosty men: the strange but true	Lidz, Franz	Tells the story of Homer and Langley Collyer, two brothers
story of the Collyer brothers, New		from a good family who lived in a Harlem mansion from
York's greatest hoarders: an urban		1909 until 1947 when Homer's dead body was removed
historical		from the house which had become a fortress of junk--over
		one hundred tons of newspapers, pianos, bicycles,
		canoes, and other discards collected over their lifetimes.

The girl with the mermaid hair	Ephron, Delia	Sukie Jamieson is obsessed with her own beauty and
		perfection, until her mother gives her an exquisite full-
		length mirror that has been passed down through their
		family and shows both outer beauty and the ugliness
		within.



TITLE	AUTHOR	DESCRIPTION

The Gold Coast	Robinson, Kim Stanley	Jim McPherson, the affluent son of a defense contractor
		in twenty-first century California, joins a band of under-
		ground revolutionaries in an attempt to change his life.

Good omens: the nice and accurate
prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch	Gaiman, Neil	When Agnes Nutter predicts that the end of the world is
		days away, the demon Crowley and his angel friend,
		Aziraphale, team up to save humankind.

The graveyard book	Gaiman, Neil	The orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is taken in by the
		inhabitants of a graveyard as a child of eighteen months
		and raised lovingly and carefully to the age of eighteen
		years by the community of ghosts and otherwordly
		creatures.

The grizzly maze: Timothy	Jans, Nick	Recounts Timothy Treadwell's efforts to protect grizzly
Treadwell's fatal obsession with		bears and disprove the perception that they are
Alaskan bears		dangerously aggressive, and chronicles his last expedition
		into the Alaskan wilderness, when Treadwell was mauled
		to death by a bear.

A hat full of sky	Pratchett, Terry	Tiffany Aching, a young witch-in-training, learns about
		magic and responsibility as she battles a disembodied
		monster with the assistance of the 6 inch high Wee Free
		Men and Mistress Weatherwax, the greatest witch in the
		world.

Have space suit--will travel	Heinlein, Robert A.	A high school senior wins a space suit in a soap jingle
		contest, takes a last walk wearing "Oscar" before cashing
		him in for college tuition, and suddenly finds himself on a
		space odyssey.

Heartfire	Card, Orson Scott	Alvin has had a vision of building a Crystal City in which
		peace and freedom reign, but his wife Peggy has had a
		vision of death and destruction, so now they must decide
		which vision they should believe in.

Heaven Eyes	Almond, David	Having escaped from their ophanage on a raft, Erin,
		January, and Mouse float down into another world of
		abandoned warehouses and factories, meeting a strange
		old man and an even stranger girl with webbed fingers and
		little memory of her past.

Hole in my life	Gantos, Jack	The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a
		drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison,
		and eventually got out and went to college, all the while
		hoping to become a writer.

The house of mirth	Wharton, Edith	Lily Bart's quest for a husband among the noveau riche of
		New York high society leads to shame and misery when
		she is accused of being the mistress of a wealthy married
		man.




TITLE	AUTHOR	DESCRIPTION

I can't keep my own secrets: six-	Smith, Larry and	A collection of brief memoirs in which teens, both famous
word memoirs by teens famous and	Fershleiser, Rachel	and ordinary, reveal their deepest secrets, fears, and
obscure		dreams.

The icebound land	Flanagan, John	Chasing the Skandian slave-traders who kidnapped Will
		and Evanlyn, Ranger Halt and warrior student Horace find
		themselves in the frozen northern islands, where they
		battle a ruthless blackclad knight as they attempt to
		rescue their friends.

Interesting times: a novel of	Pratchett, Terry	Rincewind the Wizzard sic is forced to volunteer as a
Discworld		"Great Wizard" for the endangered Empire of Hong, Sung,
		Fang, Tang, and McSweeney. He and his unusual friends,
		are given a mission where they must either defend or
		destroy the forbidden city of Hunghung. Unfortunately the
		instructions are not very clear.

Interworld	Gaiman, Neil	At nearly fifteen years of age, Joey Harker learns that he is
		a Walker, able to travel between dimensions, and soon
		joins a team of different versions of himself, each from
		another dimension, to fight the evil forces striving to
		conquer all the worlds.

Into the wild	Krakauer, Jon	Tells the story of Chris McCandless, a 24 year old who
		walked into the Alaskan wilderness on an idealistic journey
		and was found dead of starvation nearly four months later.

Into thin air: a personal account of	Krakauer, Jon	The author relates his experience of climbing Mount
the Mount Everest disaster		Everest during its deadliest season and examines what it
		is about the mountain that makes people willingly subject
		themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense.

Jude	Morgenroth, Kate	Still reeling from his drug-dealing father's murder, moving in
		with the wealthy mother he never knew, and transferring to
		a private school, 15 year old Jude is tricked into pleading
		guilty to a crime he did not commit.

Kafka on the shore	Murakami, Haruki	Fifteen-year-old Kafka Tamura runs away from home to
		escape his father and find his long-lost sister and mother,
		drifting toward the parallel odyssey of an elderly Tokyo
		man named Nakata.

Kit's wilderness	Almond, David	Thirteen-year-old Kit goes to live with his grandfather in the
		decaying coal mining town of Stoneygate, England, and
		finds both the old man and the town haunted by ghosts of
		the past.

The last song	Sparks, Nicholas	Seventeen-year-old Ronnie Miller is resentful when her
		mother insists she and her 10 year old brother spend the
		summer with their estranged father in North Carolina, and
		while things get off to a rocky start, Ronnie eventually
		makes friends and begins to better understand her dad
		and why he wanted her to visit.



TITLE	AUTHOR	DESCRIPTION

Leviathan	Westerfeld, Scott	In an alternate 1914 Europe, 15 year old Austrian Prince
		Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempt-
		ing to take over the globe using mechanical machinery,
		forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a
		boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly
		genetically-engineered beasts.

Look me in the eye: my life with	Robison, John	John Robison recounts his struggles to fit In and commun-
Asperger's		icate with others as he grew up, describing why he had so
		many problems relating to others and why he often turned
		to machines for comfort, rather than people, and explains
		how his life was changed when he was diagnosed with
		Asperger's syndrome at age forty.

Looking for Alaska	Green, John	Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Prepar-
		atory School in Alabama includes good friends and great
		pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about
		life and death after a fatal car crash.

Lord Loss	Shan, Darren	Presumably the only witness to the horrific and bloody
		murder of his entire family, a teenage boy must outwit not
		only the mental health professionals determined to cure his
		delusion, but also the demonic forces only he can see.

The lucky one	Sparks, Nicholas	When U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a half-buried
		photograph of a smiling young woman in the desert in Iraq,
		he carries it with him and soon discovers that it brings him
		luck in games and during combat; after returning to Color-
		ado, his obsession with the picture leads him in a fateful
		search for what may be the love of his life.

Magic street	Card, Orson Scott	When Mack Street discovers an entryway into another
		world, he discovers his own magical powers and realizes
		his actions have a strange impact on the real world.

Maximum Ride: The final warning	Patterson, James	While on a mission to Antartica to save the world from
		global warming, 14 year old Maximum Ride and the other
		members of the Flock--a band of genetically modfied
		children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-
		Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest
		bidder.

Max	Patterson, James	Fourteen-year-old Max, leader of a flock of genetically
		engineered part-human/part-bird hybrids, must volunteer,
		along with the 5 youngest members of the group, to join
		the Navy in learning why fish are dying off the coast of
		Hawaii, in order to be able to rescue her mother who has
		been kidnapped by a criminal mastermind.

Memoirs of a geisha: a novel	Golden, Arthur	Nitta Sayuri, a young Japanese woman who was taken
		from her home at the age of nine and sold into slavery as a
		geisha, discovers a rare opportunity for freedom when the
		outbreak of World War II forces an end to the only life she
		has ever known.


TITLE	AUTHOR	DESCRIPTION

Men at arms: a novel of Discworld	Pratchett, Terry	Young dwarf Corporal Carrot and Edward, the 37th Lord
		d'Eath, a new graduate of the School for Assassins, find
		themselves in the midst of a raucous adventure in Ankh-
		Morpork, the greatest city in Discworld.

Mind's eye	Fleischman, Paul	A novel in play form in which 16 year old Courtney,
		paralyzed in an accident, learns about the power of the
		mind from an elderly blind woman who takes Courtney on
		an imaginary journey to Italy using a 1910 guidebook.

Carpe corpus	Caine, Rachel	Claire Danvers and her friends decide to take a stand
		against Bishop, the evil vampire who has disturbed the
		peace in Morganville, Texas, aware that even if they are
		victorious the local vampires may not be willing to give up
		the power they enjoy under Bishop's rule.

The dead girls' dance	Caine, Rachel	College student Claire Danvers is just learning how to stay
		safe in Morganville, a town ruled by vampires, when her
		boyfriend Shane's vampire hunting father arrives and
		disrupts the fragile peace.

Fade out	Caine, Rachel	Free of the evil vampire Bishop, the human population of
		Morganville begins to feel less frightened, until on of Eve's
		friends from the local theater company goes missing after
		starting work on a short documentary, and Eve supsects
		the worst.

Feast of fools	Caine, Rachel	The college town of Morganville is filled with vampires and
		humans who have learned to live in relative peace, but
		when old-school vampire Mr. Bishop arrives, his desire to
		dominate threatens the town's peace, and it is up to
		student Claire Danvers to stop his evil plan before he can
		trap the humans of Morganville and feast on their flesh.

Glass houses	Caine, Rachel	College student Claire Danvers begins having trouble with
		the popular girls in the dorms and decides to rent a room
		in an old house off campus, where her roommates are
		stranger than she is but willing to protect her from the
		undead that runs the town.

Lord of misrule	Caine, Rachel	When Bishop, a master vampire, arrives in Morganville, a
		college town where vampires and humans coexist in
		reasonably bloodless harmony, he threatens the peace by
		bringing evil forces to life, and while other threats mount,
		student Claire Danvers and her friends prepare to do battle
		with the supernatural.

Midnight alley	Caine, Rachel	Claire Danvers has finally accepted the fact that her college
		town is populated by vampires and has pledged herself to
		Amelie, the most powerful vampire in town, but even
		Amelie's protection might not be enough when Claire
		becomes the target of an ancient bloodsucker.




TITLE	AUTHOR	DESCRIPTION

Nation	Pratchett, Terry	A tsunami destroys everything leaving Mau, an island boy,
		Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, and a small group of
		refugees responsible for rebuilding their village and their
		lives.

Neverwhere: a novel	Gaiman, Neil	Richard Mayhew, a young businessman living in London,
		helps an injured girl and finds his life changed when he
		leaves reality and enters the city's underground world of
		sewers and abandoned subway stations--a world in which
		the girl he helped is someone of power and nobility.

Night watch: a novel of Discworld	Pratchett, Terry	Duke-detective Sam Vimes is accidentally transported 30
		years back in time, where, finding his old mentor dead, he
		is forced to train his younger self to be a policeman; and
		where he tries to prevent a bloody revolt in order to save the
		lives of his friends.

The notebook	Sparks, Nicholas	Noah Calhoun, recently returned from World War II in 1946,
		buys an old plantation home in rural North Carolina, where
		he contents himself with memories of his first love, a girl he
		met 14 years earlier, but then she unexpectedly arrives at
		his door.

One flew over the cuckoo's nest	Kesey, Ken	The struggle for power between a head nurse and a male
		patient in a mental instution leads to a climax of hate,
		violence, and death.

Pacific edge	Robinson, Kim Stanley	The final installment in a trilogy of novels which provide
		possible scenarios for the future of the world, following the
		struggles of young builder Kevin Claiborne as he tries to
		keep his greed and exploitation from destroying the eco-
		logical utopia of El Modena, California, in 2065.

Peeps: a novel	Westerfeld, Scott	Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes
		vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has
		unknowingly infected.

Perfect chemistry	Elkeles, Simone	When wealthy, seemingly perfect Brittany and Alex
		Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town,
		develop a relationship after Alex discovers that Brittany is
		not exactly who she seems to be, they must face the
		disapproval of their schoolmates--and others.

The Picture of Dorian Gray	Wilde, Oscar	After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's
		portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change
		and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's
		picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to
		appear fresh and innocent.

Prentice Alvin	Card, Orson Scott	Alvin Smith arrives at Hatrack River to take up his
		apprenticeship to become a blacksmith with the works of
		the Unmaker close at hand.




TITLE	AUTHOR	DESCRIPTION

The Ranger's apprentice collection	Flanagan, John	Contains 3 novels from John Flanagan's fantasy fiction
		series that features "The Ruins of Gorlan", "The Burning
		Bridge", and "The Icebound Land", that follows 15 year old
		Will on his adventures with Rangers, and defending the
		kingdom of Araluen.

Red planet	Heinlein, Robert A.	A young colonist on Mars befriends a strange round
		creature called Willis who gets him into trouble when he
		goes away to school, but whose presence and friendship
		finally enable the colonials to negotiate a treaty with the
		Martians.

The road to Wellville	Boyle, T. Coraghessan	In Battle Creek, Michigan in 1907 people come in search
		the magic pill to prolong life or the profit from manufacturing
		it. They find Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his dietary
		wisdom.

The Rolling Stones	Heinlein, Robert A.	When the Stone twins made up their minds to leave lunar
		city in a seconhand spaceship, they hadn't planned on
		having their whole family accompany them. But the Stones
		were not your ordinary lunar family--no way!--and their
		voyage through the solar system sure proved it.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are	Stoppard, Tom	Presents the play of Hamlet as seen through the eyes of
dead		Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

The ruins of Gorlan	Flanagan, John	When 15 year old Will is rejected by battleschool, he
		Ranger Halt, and winds up protecting the kingdom from
		danger.

Saving the world and other extreme	Patterson, James	The time has come for Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman,
sports		and Angel to face their ultimate enemy and, despite many
		obstacles, try to save the world from a sinister plan to
		re-engineer a select population into a scientifically
		superior master race.

The secret hour	Westerfeld, Scott	Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, 15 year old Jessica
		Day learns that she is one of a group of people who have
		special abilities that help them fight ancient creatures
		living in an hour hidden at midnight; creatures that seem
		determined to destroy Jess.

Seventh son	Card, Orson Scott	Alvin, the seventh son of a seventh son, is born with a
		destiny to become something great, perhaps even a Maker.

Shadow of the giant	Card, Orson Scott	Bean, the embattled right-hand man of Ender Wiggin, must
		move to another planet to raise a family with his wife,
		Petra, because enemies lay in wait everywhere on Earth.

Shadow of the Hegemon	Card, Orson Scott	A sequel to "Ender's Shadow", in which the child-warriors,
		heroes of the Formic War, have returned to their families
		on Earth only to become the pawns of nations who want
		to use them as weapons in their quest for sovereignity.



TITLE	AUTHOR	DESCRIPTION

Shadow puppets	Card, Orson Scott	Peter Wiggin, leader of the worldwide government in the
		aftermath of the victory over the alien Formics, makes a
		tactical error when he arranges for the rescue of his
		archenemy Achilles who is being held by the Chinese,
		only to learn Achilles is insane and determined to kill
		Bean, the genetic anomaly who served as second-in-
		command during the conflict.

Skellig	Almond, David	Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of
		moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the
		garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something
		like a bird and something like an angel.

Slaughterhouse-five; or, The	Vonnegut, Kurt	An anti-war science fiction novel about World War II
children's crusade: a duty-dance		experiences and journeys through time of a soldier called
with death		Billy Pilgrim.

Slawter	Shan, Darren	While on a horror movie set with his Uncle Dervish, Grubbs
		Grady realizes that his battle with the evil demon master
		Lord Loss may be about to resume.

Snow crash	Stephenson, Neal	Hiro Protagonist, a pizza delivery man in future America,
		lives an alternate life as a warrior prince in the Metaverse
		where he embarks on a search-and-destroy mission for
		the virtual-reality villian who is trying to bring about
		infocalypse.

Speaker for the dead	Card, Orson Scott	Ender Wiggin has an opportunity to atone for his earlier
		failures through a second alien race discovered by
		Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania.

Starship troopers	Heinlein, Robert A.	Follows an army recruit of the future through the toughest
		boot camp in the universe--and into battle with the Terran
		Mobile Infantry against mankind's most alarming enemy.

Stranger in a strange land	Heinlein, Robert A.	After his arrival on Earth from his home on Mars,
		Valentine Michael Smith becomes the founder and pastor
		of a new religious sect.

There's a god on the mic: the true	Kool Moe Dee	The author profiles fifty of the greatest rap musicians
50 greatest MCs		including classics like Kurtis Blow and Grandmaster Caz
		to later artists such as Jay Z and Snoop Dogg.

Thirst No. 2: Phantom, Evil Thirst,	Pike, Christopher	Collects 3 novels that depict the adventures of Alisa Perne,
Creatures of Forever		and follows as she regains her humanity after spending
		five thousand years as a vampire, but as she adjusts to her
		new life and attempts to start anew, Alisa begins to wonder
		if she is destined to repeat her past mistakes.

Time enough for love: the lives of	Heinlein, Robert A.	Lazarus Long travels through a series of times and worlds,
Lazarus Long		refusing to stop living and eventually becoming his own
		anncestor, in this novel about the philosophy of love.




TITLE	AUTHOR	DESCRIPTION

Touching darkness	Westerfeld, Scott	Jessica Day, and her 4 friends, the "midnighters", are the
		only ones in Bixby, Oklahoma that know the world freezes
		at midnight, and as they battle evil creatures living in the
		hour hidden they learn about Bixby's shadowy past and
		uncover a deadly conspiracy that reaches beyond the
		secret hour.

Touching the void	Simpson, Joe	Joe Simpson shares the story of his miraculous survival
		after he was injured while climbing in the Andes in 1985
		and left for dead by his partner.

The vampire diaries: Volumes 1 and	Smith, L.J.	Contains volumes one and two of the "Vampire Diaries" in
2, The Awakening, The Struggle		which 2 vampire brothers, Damon and Stefan, find their
		bond torn apart by the woman they both love and the
		tragedies of their past.

A walk to remember	Sparks, Nicholas	When a twist of fate makes Jamie Sullivan his date at the
		homecoming dance, Landon Carter never dreamed they
		would fall in love, but as he comes to realize his true
		feelings for Jamie, he learns of a terrible secret that will
		take his love away from him forever.

A war of gifts: an Ender story	Card, Orson Scott	During his first year at the Battle School--where it is
		against the rules to celebrate religious holidays--Ender
		decides to give one of his classmates a holiday gift, and
		starts a fight between students.

The wedding	Sparks, Nicholas	Wilson Lewis, forced to admit that the romance has gone
		out of his marriage after 30 years, and realizing his
		responsibility for that loss, embarks on a mission to make
		his wife fall in love with him all over again.

The Wee Free Men	Pratchett, Terry	Tiffany, a young witch-to-be in the land of Discworld, teams
		up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue
		toughs, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister
		invasion from Fairyland.

Welsome to the monkey house: a	Vonnegut, Kurt	A collection of 25 short works by the American author
collection of short works		written between 1950 and 1968 and originally printed in a
		wide range of publications including "The Atlantic Monthly",
		"Esquire", and "Ladies' Home Journal".

Wild Shore	Robinson, Kim Stanley	Portrays a California struggling to civilization after having
		been crippled, along with the rest of America, by a nuclear
		war.

The wind-up bird chronicle	Murakami, Haruki	Translation of a Japanese novel which tells the story of
		Toru Okada, a gentle young man who is thrown into a
		totally unfamiliar world of mystery and mysticism when his
		wife, Kumiko, disappears.






TITLE	AUTHOR	DESCRIPTION

Wintersmith	Pratchett, Terry	Witch-in-training Tiffany Aching accidentally interrupts the
		Dance of the Seasons and awakens the interest of the
		elemental spirit of Winter, forcing her to turn to the 6 inch
		high, sword-wielding, sheep-stealing Wee Free Men to
		put the seasons aright.

The wish list	Colfer, Eoin	Orphan Meg Finn's soul becomes the object of a battle
		between the demonics and the divine after she is killed in
		an accidental explosion while attempting to rob an elderly
		man and arrives in the afterlife to find the tally on her good
		and evil deeds is even.

The wit & wisdom of Discworld	Pratchett, Terry	A compendum of musings, commentary, and observations
		gleaned from the pages of Terry Pratchett's series of
		stories set in Discworld, a flat planey, devoid of technology,
		populated by largely inept magical creatures.

Wolf Island	Shan, Darren	Grubbs Grady leads his team in pursuit of the Lambs,
		demonics sheep that may have information about the
		Shadow's army, and battle other demonic beings along the
		way.

Xenocide	Card, Orson Scott	The Starways Congress decides that the deadly virus on
		Lusitania must be wiped out and sends a fleet to destroy
		it. After the fleet disappears, Gloriously Bright is selected
		to solve the mystery.

You don't know me: a novel	Klass, David	Fourteen-year-old John creates alternative realities in his
		mind as he tries to deal with his mother's abusive boyfriend,
		his crush on a beautiful, but shallow classmate and other
		problems at school.