Thursday, March 3, 2011

Non-Fiction:
Badass: a relentless onslaught of the toughest warlords, vikings, samurai, pirates, gunfighters, and military commanders to ever live by Ben Thompson
Fort Mose: and the story of the man who built the first free black settlement in Colonial America by Glennette Tilley Turner
Unspeakable Crime: the Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank by Elaine Marie Alphin -- did Leo Frank murder pencil factory worker Mary Phagan, or was he convicted due to prejudice and community anger?

Fiction:
Zora and Me by Victoria Bond -- Presents a fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood with her best friend, Carrie, in Eatonville, Florida, as they learn about life, death, and the differences between truth, lies, and pretending.
Trapped by Michael Northrop -- Seven high school students are stranded at their New England high school during a week-long blizzard that shuts down the power and heat, freezes the pipes, and leaves them wondering if they will survive.
Kick by Walter Dean Myers -- Told in their separate voices, thirteen-year-old soccer star Kevin and police sergeant Brown, who knew his father, try to keep Kevin out of juvenile hall after he is arrested on very serious charges.
Dark Divine by Bree Despain -- Grace Divine, almost seventeen, learns a dark secret when her childhood friend -- practically a brother -- returns, upsetting her pastor-father and the rest of her family, around the time strange things are happening in and near their small Minnesota town.
Lost Saint by Bree Despain -- When Grace Divine receives a frightening phone call from her brother Jude, whom she then cannot find, she knows she must turn to her supernatural powers, even though it threatens her relationship with her boyfriend Daniel.
Slice of Cherry by Dia Reeves -- Portero, Texas, teens Kit and Fancy Cordelle share their infamous father's fascination with killing, and despite their tendency to shun others, they bring two boys with similar tendencies to a world of endless possibilities they have discovered behind a mysterious door.
Indigo King by James A. Owen -- When, in 1931, there is a breach between this world and the Archipelago of Dreams, John and Jack, two of the Caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica, must race through history using a time travel device left by Jules Verne, and discover the identity of the Cartographer.
Search for the Red Dragon by James A. Owen -- Nine years after they came together to defeat the Winter King, John, Jack, and Charles return to the Archipelago of Dreams and face a new challenge involving the Lost Boys and giants.
Here There Be Dragons by James A. Owen -- Three young men are entrusted with the Imaginarium Geographica, an atlas of fantastical places to which they travel in hopes of defeating the Winter King whose bid for power is related to the First World War raging in the Real World.
Cyborg: a Clone Codes Novel by Pat McKissack -- Seventeen-year-old Houston, a cyborg since the age of seven, and a fugitive living on the Moon, joins with other cyborgs all over the world in non-violent protest marches to challenge the Cyborg Act 2130 and hopefully secure increased civil liberties.

GN:
Tron. Betrayal by Jai Nitz --
Kevin Flynn wants to create a perfect world inside the computer, but his real-life duties to Encom and to his son Sam require him to be absent for long periods of time. He creates the program CLU to run things in his absence. But eventually, CLU begins to feel abandoned by his maker and decides to take a more aggressive role in building the perfection he believes his creator wants. An original graphic novel prequel to the film Tron : Legacy.

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