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
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004.16 M
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Moving data : the iphone and the future of media. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012.
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155.24 G
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Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-. David and Goliath : underdogs,
misfits, and the art of battling giants. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown
and Co., [2013].
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155.5 D
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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
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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.
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398.8 P
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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.
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500 L c.2
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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.
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921 Grande
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 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
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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
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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
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Stone, Tanya Lee, author. Courage has no color : the true
story of the Triple Nickles : America's first Black paratroopers. 1st
edition.
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974.7 S
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 Collects four hundred of photographer Brandon Stanton's portraits of people in New York City. |
Fiction
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FIC All
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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
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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
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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
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Atwood, Margaret, 1939-. Bodily harm. 1st Anchor Books
ed. New York : Anchor Books, 1998, c1981.
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FIC Das MS
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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
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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
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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
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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
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 "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
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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
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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
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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
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FIC Mur YA
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Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. Dairy queen. Boston :
Graphia, [2007], c2006.
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FIC Mur YA
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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 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
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Glengarry Glen Ross. 10 year anniversary special ed., widescreen and full screen
versions. Santa Monica, CA : Lionsgate, c2009.
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DVD.rack 791.43 D
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Dallas buyers club.
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DVDrack 791.43 B
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Blue Jasmine.
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DVDrack 791.43 B
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Lee Daniels' the butler.
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DVDrack 791.43 C
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Captain Phillips. [DVD].
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DVDrack 791.43 M
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Marley & me. Widescreen ed. Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home
Entertainment, [2009].
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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)
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.
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.
