A Storm of Swords
A Feast For Crows
A Dance With Dragons
Parrots Over Puerto Rico
School Library Journal ★ 10/01/2013 Gr 3–6—Before humans arrived on the island, parrots numbered in the hundred of thousands. By 1967, only 24 birds remained. Since then, scientists in the Puerto Rican Parrot Recovery Program (PRPRP) have established aviaries to raise the birds in captivity and release them in the wild. Using a vertical page […]
The Dolphins of Shark Bay
School Library Journal ★ 11/01/2013 Gr 5–9—Turner's newest offering tops even her stellar The Frog Scientist (2009) and Project Seahorse (2010, both Houghton Mifflin) as she delineates and explains the research being conducted on a unique clan of dolphins at Shark Bay, Australia. The lucid text reveals the complexities of this cetacean society, first as […]
Jedi Academy
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Little City Thrift Store.
Radiance of Tomorrow
The New York Times Book Review – Sara Corbett Radiance of Tomorrow is…a rare look at the phenomena of homecoming and reclamation, written with the moral urgency of a parable and the searing precision of a firsthand account…Beah's voice is more expansive and lyrical here than in his memoir [A Long Way Gone]…there is an […]
Hollow City : the Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children
Added to the library in memory of Mike Trudell by Christine Trudell. From the Publisher: “…fans will be thrilled to know that the sequel to Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is as hauntingly sinister is the first and is unequivocally worth the wait. It’s a rare sequel that improves on the series’ beginning… A […]
The Blood Promise
"The Hugo Marston series now belongs on every espionage fan’s watch list." —Booklist
The Way of All Fish
Publishers Weekly ★ 11/18/2013 This addictive, whimsical follow-up to 2003’s Foul Matter from MWA Grand Master Grimes dives into the cesspool that is the New York publishing world. L. Bass Hess, a despicable literary agent, likes to sue his former clients, claiming, after they fire him, that they owed him a commission. Some authors have […]