Looking for a Good Book?

This Thanksgiving take a little time to unwind with a good book. The Edith Hamilton Library has lots of new titles.   Stop by and check one out before taking off today!

Fiction

SC My YA My True Love Gave to Me : Twelve Holiday Stories.  If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you're going to fall in love with My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories by twelve bestselling young adult writers (Holly Black, Ally Carter, Matt de La Peña, Gayle Forman, Jenny Han, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Myra McEntire, Rainbow Rowell, Stephanie Perkins, Laini Tayler and Kiersten White), edited by the international bestselling Stephanie Perkins.  Whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah, Winter Solstice or Kwanzaa, there's something here for everyone.  So curl up by the fireplace and get cozy.  You have twelve reasons this season to stay indoors and fall in love. (from the cover)

Ch FIC Dai Dai, Sijie. Ba er zha ke yu xiao cai feng. Traditional Chinese Edition (Not in English). 

FIC Ford Ford, Richard, 1944-. Let Me be Frank With You. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Frank Bascombe travels to the site of his former home on the shore, visits his ex-wife, who is 
suffering with Parkinson's, and meets a dying former friend. Ford reinvents Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives, Bascombe attempts to reconcile, 
interpret and console a world undone by calamity. It is a moving and wondrous and extremely funny odyssey through the America people live in at this moment.

FIC Gibson Gibson, William, 1948-. The Peripheral. Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC's elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night Burton has to go out, but there's a job he's supposed to do-a job Flynne didn't know he had.What she sees, though, isn't what Burton told her to expect. It might be a game, but it might also be murder.

FIC Mod Modiano, Patrick, 1945-. Suspended Sentences : three novellas. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015.

FIC Robi Robinson, Marilynne. Lila.Abandoning her homeless existence to become a minister's wife, Lila reflects on her hardscrabble life on the run with a canny young drifter and her efforts to reconcile her painful past with her husband's gentle Christian worldview.

FIC Ryan YA Ryan, Carrie. The Forest of Hands and Teeth. York : Delacorte Press, c2009. Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the Unconsecrated, aggressive 

FIC Ryan YA Ryan, Carrie. The Dark and Hollow Places. 1st Ember ed. New York : 

FIC Ryan YA Ryan, Carrie. The Dead-Tossed Waves.  New York : flesh-eating people who were once dead. Ember, 2012, c2011. Alone and listening to the moaning of the Dark City dying around her, Annah wants to find her way back home, to her sister and family and their village in the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Ember, 2011, c2010. Gabry lives a quiet life in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, hemmed in by the dead who hunger for the living, but her mother Mary's secrets, a cult of religious zealots who worship the dead, and a stranger from the forest who seems to know Gabry threaten to destroy her world.

FIC Sch YA Schrefer, Eliot, 1978-. Threatened. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2014. Luc is an orphan, living in debt slavery in Gabon, until he meets a Professor who claims to be studying chimpanzees, and they head off into the jungle--but when the Professor disappears, Luc has to fend for himself and join forces with the chimps to save their forest.

FIC Sti YA Stiefvater, Maggie, 1981- . Blue Lily, Lily Blue. Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs. The trick with found things though, is how easily they can be lost.

FIC Toi Tóibín, Colm, 1955-. Nora Webster : a Novel. "Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be drawn back into it.

Non-fiction

128 W Wilson, Edward O. The Meaning of Human Existence. 1st ed. New York : Liveright Pub. Corp., a Division of W.W. Norton & Co., [2014]. 

299.5 M Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968. The way of Chuang Tzu. Rev.  New York : New Directions Books, 2010. 

303.45 P Peikoff, Leonard. The DIM Hypothesis : Why the Lights of the West are going out. New York : New American Library, c2012. 

306.76 A c.2 Andrews, Arin. Some Assembly Required : The Not-So-Secret Life of a transgender Teen. "Seventeen-year-old Arin Andrews shares all the hilarious, painful, and poignant details of  undergoing gender reassignment as a high school student in this winning teen memoir"--. 

370.112 L Leitch, Thomas M. Wikipedia U : knowledge, authority, and education in the digital age. 

384.38 D Dwyer, Jim, 1957-. More Awesome Than Money : Four Boys and Their Heroic Quest to Save Your Privacy from Facebook.

620.001 G Goldberg, David E. Whole New Engineer : the Coming Revolution in Engineering Education. [S.l.] : Threejoy Associates, 2014. 

808 P Pinker, Steven, 1954- author. The Sense of Style : the Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st century.

811.6 McL McLane, Maureen N., author. This Blue. First edition. guide to writing in the 21st century..

DVDs

DVD 305.896  The Two Nations of Black America. [Alexandria, Va.] : Distributed by PBS


DVD 320.473  The Three Branches of Government : How they Function. Las Vegas, NV :

DVD 342.73  American Government. Classroom ed.  Cerebellum Worldwide Media, 2011.Narrator, Alex Davis. Take a close look at the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the United States government and how they function and work together. Corp., [2004], c2001.

DVD 428.5 E English Grammar. Classroom ed. [Falls Church, Va.] : Cerebellum Standard Deviants. The Standard Deviants look at sentence.

DVD 791.43  Beasts of the Southern Wild. Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox fragments, Home Entertainment, c2012.

DVD 791.43  Freedom Writers. Widescreen. Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, [2007].

DVD 791.45 Mid The Middle. Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Entertainment :, [2010].

DVD 791.45 Mod Modern Family. Widescreen. Beverly Hills, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2010.

 Author Christina Baker Kline visits Bryn Mawr. 

Christina Baker Kline with Mr. Waters, Sophie, and Sophia

On October 22nd author Christina Baker Kline visited Bryn Mawr. Ms. Kline is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel, Orphan Train. She first met with Mr. Waters' Creative Writing class where she discussed the writing process and took questions from the students. Sophie and Sophia then escorted her back to the library where they had a great informal chat and private book signing.   Both girls are big fans of Ms. Kline. 

Ms. Kline then delivered  a fascinating  assembly on the history of Orphan Trains in America. She shared that her husband's grandfather was a "train rider", and that it was while researching his family that she became interested in this unique event in American history.

Why come to the Library?

Summer Reading

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Student Summer Reading Convocation last week.  We have 12 great books from which to choose. Here is the list of Student Nominated Summer books.  Choose one. Remember to complete your Required Summer Reading  too!

Evidence of Things Unseen, by Marianne Wiggins

This poetic novel describes America at the brink of the Atomic Age. In the years between the two world wars, the future held more promise than peril, but there was evidence of things unseen that would transfigure our unquestioned trust in a safe future. Alice S., who nominated this book,  said  "You should read this book if you like historical fiction or  love stories. The language is the most beautiful I have ever read".

(appropriate for rising 11th and 12th Graders)

In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

"In the Time of the Butterflies is a powerful novel that tells the story of four sisters from the Mirabel family. This story is set during Rafael Trujillo’s dictatorship in the Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1961. One of the sisters decides to join the revolution against the dictator, and in doing so, endangers the lives of all four. They are forced to change their ways of life under his oppressive power and the result is a fantastic tale of life and death and the human experience. One of my favorite things about this novel is the vibrant culture and the way Julie Alvarez is able to successfully convey the unique voice and personality of all four sisters." (review by Alex)

Paper Towns, by John Green (Young Adult)

"Quentin Jacobsen is senior who lives in a small town in Miami. He has spent a lifetime falling in love with the girl next door, Margo Roth Spiegelman. So when an opportunity  to help her arises, he immediately accepts. After an adventurous night out spent getting revenge and trespassing, Quentin arrives at school to discover that Margo, has disappeared. However  Quentin soon realizes that there are clues that she left him, to help discover where she is."(review by Peyton)

Warning:This book contains some bad language and sexual references.  

Emma, by Jane Austen

"Matchmaking, while extremely fun, is a dangerous business. Emma is Jane Austen’s novel about a girl who considers herself to be a magnificent matchmaker when in reality, she is anything but. Emma is an independent, clever, high society young woman who does not require a man at her side. However, although not interested in finding herself love, she is very interested in finding other people their love interests.  This charmingly comical novel about love, friendship, and the bridge that connects the two is most definitely a worthwhile and extremely rewarding read." (review by Kimaya)

Orphan Train, by Christina Baker Kline (Ms. Kline will visit Bryn Mawr next October.)

"Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of  the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates were  determined by pure luck. The children in this story were entrusted to families , in many cases, to help with household chores or cheap labor.   Not only does it entail a beautiful story of two women in their battle for identity, but it can teach the reader about her own identity." (review by Allie)

Every Day, by David Levithan (Young Adult)

For the past 16 years, without warning of any kind, the narrator known only as A wakes up in a different life every single day. The new identity is always A's age, or close to it, but that's mostly where the similarity ends. A can be a boy or a girl, gay or straight, funny or downright cruel. A never gets attached to a family, to a school, or a group of friends--until  Rhiannon.  (nominated by Celia)

The Long Walk, by Richard Bachman (Stephen King)

The Long Walk, a Stephen King novel, is a book about a future dystopian society.  Every year on May 1st, a competition called the Long Walkstarts is held.  During this contest, one hundred teenage boys, picked at random from a large pool of applicants, walk as far as possible without stopping.  They must maintain a 4-mile-per-hour pace and are warned if unable to meet this requirement.  After four warnings, the person is “ticketed.”  The last person standing wins the “Prize,” awarded by “the Major” who is the leading figure of the country.  This action packed novel filled with friendship, survival, and suspense will leave the reader questioning the ending.  I chose this book because I found Ray, the protagonist, to be  an interesting character who’s questions and thoughts made me think and explore topics I had never thought of, and  morals I have never  questioned.  This book brings alive each character and makes them unforgetable. (review by Charlotte)

Warning: This book is scary, and contains profanity and some violence. Please check with a parent or guardian before reading!

Daughter of Smoke and Bone,by Laini Taylor (Young Adult). “Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love.  It did not end well.” That’s the first line of Laini Taylor’sDaughter of Smoke and Bone.  It’s a good line—a catchy line—but it’s also a misleading line.  It makes everything sound so simple: angels and devils, fairytales and tragic romance.  To be fair, Daughter of Smoke and Bone technically does have all those things, but there’s so much more at its heart.  A blue-haired girl named Karou who collects teeth to string into wishes.  Dusty shops and goulash soup and a dancing girl dressed as a marionette.  Prague, a city that serves not as a backdrop, but as a character all its own.  And a rip in the sky behind which lies a distinctly unearthly universe. Daughter of Smoke and Bone has some of the most fascinating and creative fantasy world-building I’ve seen in a long time.  It’s witty and vibrant and beautifully written.”  (review by Emily)

On the Road, by Jack Kerouac

"When my father handed me a copy of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road for my 15th birthday, I didn’t know what was given to me. I had never heard of Kerouac in my life, let alone the Beat Generation. There are many people, simpletons in my mind, who see Kerouac and his beats as nothing more than a crew of degenerates who engaged in every known vice under the sun. I would like to banish this stigma once and for all, as Kerouac’s work stretches farther than the stereotype people have put him in. On the Road is a novel of the individual, as well as a novel of America. On the Road is a novel of the individual, as well as a novel of America. It uses the landscape of the country to express all  that is inherent in the human condition." (review by Maddie)

Warning: This classic contains references to drugs, alcohol, and sex. Common Sense Media rates it as appropriate for 16 yrs. and older.

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.” In Flowers for Algernon, Charlie Gordan is offered the opportunity of a lifetime. He is given the chance to receive a surgery in order to reverse his mental disability. The surgery comes with great risks, as he would be the very first human to even attempt such a thing. The surgery has only worked one time on a mouse named Algernon, who Charlie creates a close relationship with.  As Charlie’s intelligence grows he must try to develop his emotional age as well. Charlie sees the world through a fresh pair of eyes and his take on his surroundings is refreshing. "Flowers for Algernon gives a fresh take on the world and on the relationships that we have with people. It is a heart-wrenching novel and truly moved me when I read it. I highly recommend this book. " (review by Isabelle)

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

"Traditional texts glory in our nation's conquest of the virgin frontier. But how did the American Indians of the Old West feel about the coming of the white man? What did Chief Joseph, Red Cloud, Geronimo and Sitting Bull have to say about it?  This book, written by a librarian, uses beautiful photographs and contemporary, original sources to document the actual words of American Indians who were coping with the loss of their lands.  Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee will change forever your perception of how the west was really won." (review by Sophie, read by Rachel)

In the Heart of the Sea:The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, by Nathaniel Philbrick

The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, disease, and ultimately turning to drastic measures in the fight for survival. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known documents-including a long-lost account written by the ship's cabin boy-and penetrating details about whaling and the Nantucket community to reveal the chilling events surrounding this epic maritime disaster. (nominated by Mr. Brown)

Spring Break is almost here! Don't get caught without a great book.

It is hard to believe that Spring Break begins in just a few days! Whether you are travelling, or spending the break at home, be sure to take some time to relax with a great book. Here are some suggestions from the Edith Hamilton Library collection. Stop by before you take off for break.  Come today for the best selection.

Nonfiction
004.16 M	Moving data : the iphone and the future of media. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012.
155.24 G	Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-. David and Goliath : underdogs, misfits, and the art of battling giants. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., [2013].
155.5 D	Siegel, Daniel J., 1957-. Brainstorm : the power and purpose of the teenage brain. New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA), [2013]. Discusses a number of ways that the teenage brain processes information.
158.1 B	Beilock, Sian. Choke. Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2011. It happens to all of us. You’ve prepared for days, weeks, even years for the big day when you will finally show your stuff—in academics, in your career, in sports—but when the big moment arrives, nothing seems to work. You hit the wrong note, drop the ball, get stumped by a simple question. In other words, you choke. It’s not fun to think about, but now there’s good news: This doesn’t have to happen.
398.8 P	Peirce, Maggi Kerr, 1931-. A Belfast girl : a 1960s American folk music legend weaves stories of a girlhood on "the singing streets" of Ireland, marriage in Scotland, and arrival in America. Marion, Mich. : Parkhurst Brothers Inc Pu, 2013.
500 L c.2	Livio, Mario, 1945-. Brilliant blunders : from Darwin to Einstein--colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
921 Grande	Grande Reyna. The distance between us : a memoir. 1st Washington Square Press trade pbk. ed. New York : Washington Square Press, 2013, c2012. The story of a childhood spent torn between two parents and two countries. As her parents cross the Mexican border in pursuit of the American dream, Reyna and her siblings are left behind with their grandmother. Her mother returns to bring Reyna and her siblings to America and a new life in a new country. (This year’s One Maryland, One Book selection)
921 Yousafzai	Yousafzai, Malala, 1997-. I am Malala : the story of the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2013. Malala Yousafzai's describes her fight for education for girls under Taliban rule, the support she received from her parents to pursue an education, and how the Taliban retaliated against her by trying to kill her.
940.5317 B	Blossoms in the desert. San Francisco, CA : Topaz High School Class of 1945, c2003. This book contains a section written by Mary Murakami, who spoke at Upper School Convocation about her life in a  Japanese “relocation center” during WWII.
940.54 S MS	Stone, Tanya Lee, author. Courage has no color : the true story of the Triple Nickles : America's first Black paratroopers. 1st edition.
974.7 S	Stanton, Brandon. Humans of New York. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2013. Collects four hundred of photographer Brandon Stanton's portraits of people in New York City.
	Fiction
FIC All	Allende, Isabel. Ripper : a novel. First edition. "A fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial killer in San Francisco through Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world"--.
FIC And	Anderson, M. T. Feed. 1st ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2002. In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
FIC And	Anderson, Laurie Halse. The impossible knife of memory. "Hayley Kincaid and her father move back to their hometown to try a 'normal' life, but the horrors he saw in the war threaten to destroy their lives"--.
FIC Atw	Atwood, Margaret, 1939-. Bodily harm. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 1998, c1981.
FIC Das MS	Dashner, James, 1972- author. The eye of minds. First Edition. "Michael is a skilled internet gamer in a world of advanced technology. When a cyber-terrorist begins to threaten players, Michael is called upon to seek him and his secrets out"--.
FIC Greer	Greer, Andrew Sean. The impossible lives of Greta Wells. 1st ed. New York, NY : Ecco, [2013]. In 1958, after the death of her twin brother and the breakup with her longtime lover, Greta Wells begins a radical treatment for her suffocating depression, and during her treatment she finds herself living alternate past lives.
FIC Hardy	Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Lexington, KY : Distributed by Amazon Books, 2012. Tess, an impoverished woman whose past relations and miscarriage cause her to be rejected by her husband on their wedding night. Touching upon the themes of class, religion, gender, and sexuality, the novel was highly controversial for its time and is held in high esteem by literary scholars to this day."--Publisher description.
FIC Hel	Helget, Nicole Lea, 1976-. Stillwater. "Clement and Angel are fraternal twins separated at birth; they grow up in the same small, frontier logging town of Stillwater, Minnesota. Clement was left at the orphanage; Angel was adopted by the town's richest couple, but is marked and threatened by her mother's mental illness. They rarely meet, but Clement knows if he is truly in need, Angel will come to save him.
FIC Kli	Kline, Christina Baker, 1964-. Orphan train : a novel. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2013. "Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to 'aging out' out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse.... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds of other children whose destinies would be determined by luck and chance.  (Author, Christina Baker Kline, will visit the Bryn Mawr Upper School next year)
FIC Lee	Lee, Chang-rae. On such a full sea. New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014. On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity, culture, work, and love, and lifts them to a new plane. Stepping from the realistic and historical territories of his previous work, Lee brings us into a world created from scratch. Against a vividly imagined future America, Lee tells a stunning, surprising, and riveting story that will change the way readers think about the world they live in.
FIC McB	McBride, James, 1957-. The good lord bird : a novel. New York : Riverhead Books, 2013. Henry Shackleford, a slave boy from the Kansas Territory, is caught up in John Brown's crusade for freedom of slaves and when he escapes from his master's home, he must disguise himself as a girl in order to stay safe and is nicknamed Onion by John.
FIC McCann	McCann, Colum, 1965-. TransAtlantic : a novel. First Edition. A tale spanning 150 years and two continents reimagines the peace efforts of democracy champion Frederick Douglass, Senator George Mitchell and World War I airmen John Alcock and Teddy Brown through the experiences of four generations of women from a matriarchal clan. Newfoundland, 1919. Two aviators, Jack Alcock and Arthur Brown, set course for Ireland as they attempt the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, placing their trust in a modified bomber to heal the wounds of the Great War. Dublin, 1845 and '46. On an international lecture tour in support of his subversive autobiography, Frederick Douglass finds the Irish people sympathetic to the abolitionist cause, despite the fact that, as famine ravages the countryside, the poor suffer from hardships that are astonishing even to an American slave. New York, 1998. Leaving behind a young wife and newborn child, Senator George Mitchell departs for Belfast, where it has fallen to him, the son of an Irish-American father and a Lebanese mother, to shepherd Northern Ireland's notoriously bitter and volatile peace talks to an uncertain conclusion Young Adult Fiction
FIC Mur YA	Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. Dairy queen. Boston : Graphia, [2007], c2006.
FIC Mur YA	Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. The off season. Boston : Graphia, 2008, c2007. High school junior D.J. staggers under the weight of caring for her badly injured brother, her responsibilities on the dairy farm, a changing relationship with her friend Brian, and her own athletic aspirations.
FIC Oli YA	Oliver, Lauren, 1982-. Before I fall. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2010. After she dies in a car crash, teenaged Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself.
FIC Oli YA	Oliver, Lauren, 1982-. Delirium. Special ed. New York : Harper, c2011. Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, she falls in love.
FIC Oli YA	Oliver, Lauren, 1982-. Requiem. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2013. "While Lena navigates the increasingly dangerous Wilds, her best friend, Hana, lives a safe, loveless life in Portland."--.
FIC Rig YA	Riggs, Ransom. Hollow City : the second novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children. Philadelphia : Quirk Books, [2014]. Jacob Portman and his newfound friends travel to war-torn 1940 London where they use their unusual talents to find a cure for Miss Peregrine, the beloved headmistress of their orphanage who has been trapped in the body of a bird.
FIC Row YA	Rowell, Rainbow. Fangirl. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2013. Feeling cast off when her twin sister outgrows their shared love for a favorite celebrity, Cath, a dedicated fan-fiction writer, struggles to survive on her own in her first year of college while avoiding a surly roommate, bonding with a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words, and worrying about her fragile father.
FIC Sae YA	Sáenz, Benjamin Alire. Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, c2012. Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
FIC Wei YA	Wein, Elizabeth. Code name Verity. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Hyperion, c2012. In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
FIC Wil YA	Wilson, G. Willow, 1982-. Alif the unseen. 1st ed. New York : Grove Press, 2012. In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker shields his clients, dissidents, outlaws, Islamists, and other watched groups, from surveillance and tries to stay out of trouble. He goes by Alif, the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, and a convenient handle to hide behind. The aristocratic woman Alif loves has jilted him for a prince chosen by her parents, and his computer has just been breached by the State's electronic security force, putting his clients and his own neck on the line.
FIC Lev MS	Levithan, David. Every day. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.

New DVDs

DVD 791.43 G	Glengarry Glen Ross. 10 year anniversary special ed., widescreen and full screen versions. Santa Monica, CA : Lionsgate, c2009.
DVD.rack 791.43 D	Dallas buyers club.
DVDrack 791.43 B	Blue Jasmine.
DVDrack 791.43 B	Lee Daniels' the butler.
DVDrack 791.43 C	Captain Phillips. [DVD].
DVDrack 791.43 M	Marley & me. Widescreen ed. Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2009].

New on the Nooks- We have a great selection of books on our Nooks.  Here are the most recent titles. (reviews are from Amazon.com)

Adichie, Chimananda Ngozi, Americahnah

To the women in the hair-braiding salon, Ifemelu seems to have everything a Nigerian immigrant in America could desire, but the culture shock, hardships, and racism she’s endured have left her feeling like she has “cement in her soul.” Smart, irreverent, and outspoken, she reluctantly left Nigeria on a college scholarship. Her aunty Uju, the pampered mistress of a general in Lagos, is now struggling on her own in the U.S., trying to secure her medical license. Ifemelu’s discouraging job search brings on desperation and depression until a babysitting gig leads to a cashmere-and-champagne romance with a wealthy white man. Astonished at the labyrinthine racial strictures she’s confronted with, Ifemelu, defining herself as a “Non-American Black,” launches an audacious, provocative, and instantly popular blog in which she explores what she calls Racial Disorder Syndrome. Meanwhile, her abandoned true love, Obinze, is suffering his own cold miseries as an unwanted African in London. --Donna Seaman

Oliver, Lauren, Panic (YA)

Panic began as so many things do in Carp, a dead-end town of twelve thousand people in the middle of nowhere: because it was summer, and there was nothing else to do. Heather never thought she would compete in Panic, a legendary game played by graduating seniors, where the stakes are high and the payoff is even higher. She'd never thought of herself as fearless, the kind of person who would fight to stand out. But when she finds something, and someone, to fight for, she will discover that she is braver than she ever thought.

Nunn, Kern, Chance

Eldon Chance is a neuropsychiatrist in crisis. Though he’s developed a successful career “listening to the woes of others,” he’s rarely attuned to his own. Turns out, he’s got plenty. At the start of this smart, twisty, and addictive book, Dr. Chance’s life--“the life he’d so carefully arranged for himself”--is falling apart. --Neal Thompson

Lippman, Laura, After I’m Gone

In present-day Baltimore, as retired cop Sandy Sanchez reviews a cold case involving the murder of Julie Saxony—Felix's woman on the side—he notices there are discrepancies from every angle, from every testimony, and he can't help but grow intrigued by the seductive, unsolved story of Felix Brewer, his family, and how it could all be connected to a dead Julie Saxony. The novel slips in and out of each eventful decade, from the fateful Valentine's Day of 1959 when Felix and young, fresh-faced Bambi first met, to Felix's unannounced departure and the aftermath thereof, and finally, to Sandy's determined investigation. 

Kline, Christina Baker, Orphan Train

"Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to 'aging out' out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse.... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds of other children whose destinies would be determined by luck and chance.  (Author, Christina Baker Kline, will visit the Bryn Mawr Upper School next year)

Kidd, Sue Monk, The Invention of Wings

Inspired by the true story of early-nineteenth-century abolitionist and suffragist Sarah Grimké, Kidd paints a moving portrait of two women inextricably linked by the horrors of slavery.

Lore, Pittacus I am Number Four

John Smith has just arrived in Paradise, Ohio, just another stop in a string of small towns where the 15-year-old has been hiding out from the Mogadorians. Those terrifying aliens are hellbent on destroying him and the other nine Loric children who have sought refuge on Earth. The Mogadorians are picking off the surviving kids in numerical order. The first three are dead and John's number is up. Will his Legacies, his defining super powers, develop in time for him to fight against the enemy? --Lauren Nemroff

Check out http://www.buzzfeed.com/ariannarebolini/books-to-read-based-on-your-childhood-favorites and http://www.teenreads.com/teenreadscom-ultimate-reading-list for more suggestions.

Nominations for Summer Reading are Now Open.

Have you read something fabulous lately? 

Something you’d like to share with your friends, classmates, and teachers in the Upper School?

Nominate it for summer reading!

 Nominated books should:

• be appropriate for incoming 9th through 12th graders. 
• be well-written.
• have the possibility to spark discussion.
• stimulate personal reflection and be intellectually engaging.
• be a book that you love and want to share with others in the Bryn Mawr Community.

Submit your nomination with a brief “pitch” stating why your book should be selected for summer reading to Mrs. Rickert-Wilbur by Monday, April 14^th.

Introducing lib-box!

Check out 2 DVDs for one week for $0.

At the  Edith Hamilton Library.