Middlemarch
Evil Star
Kathleen Karr – Children's Literature: British writer Anthony Horowitz is currently riding high between his "Alex Rider" adventure series and book one of "The Gatekeepers." Book two of the fantasy series should keep him on that best-selling plateau. Fourteen-year-old reluctant superhero Matt Freeman has not been adjusting well to his new life in York with […]
Nightrise
VOYA: The third book in Horowitz's Gatekeepers series focuses on another member of the Five Gatekeepers whose job is to protect the world from the Old Ones. Jamie Tyler and his brother Scott are orphans who have always been able to read minds. Now fourteen, they are working for their latest foster parents by doing […]
An Unfinished Life : John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
The Buffalo Are Back
Booklist: Succinctly and gracefully written…Illustrated with beautiful landscape paintings and striking close-ups of people and animals
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand : a Novel
The Washington Post – Ron Charles: This thoroughly charming novel wraps Old World sensibility around a story of multicultural conflict involving two widowed people who assume they're done with love. The result is a smart romantic comedy about decency and good manners in a world threatened by men's hair gel, herbal tea and latent racism?If […]
Dancing to Freedom : the True Story of Mao's Last Dancer
School Library Journal Gr 3-5- A poignant memoir of a boy caught in the difficulties of life in Maoist China, this is the author's own story of how he was given a chance to break the bonds of his bleak life and become an international star. First told for adults in the bestseller Mao's Last […]
Outcast
Children's Literature: Jaypaw, the young medicine cat apprentice of the ThunderClan, has heard a mysterious prophecy: "There will be three, kin of your kin, who will hold the power of the stars in their paws." Is it possible this refers to Jaypaw and his two siblings, Hollypaw and Lionpaw? When two cats from the Tribe […]
Last Kiss
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Penny Weymouth. Publishers Weekly: Rice makes a solid return visit to the Hubbard's Point, Conn., setting of Beach Girls(2004). As the book opens, a year soaked in Wild Turkey has passed since singer/songwriter Sheridan Rosslare lost her son, Charlie, in a random New York mugging. While Sheridan drowns […]
Born to Be Giants : How Baby Dinosaurs Grew to Rule the World
School Library Journal: Gr 4?6?Using current data (some ideas derived from contemporary critters), Judge presents an interesting and attractive introduction to the world of dinosaur young. Her readable text touches on eight Cretaceous dinosaurs, from smallish Psittacosaurus to gigantic Argentinosaurus, describing fossil finds of eggs and embryos, nesting colonies, and possible/probable parenting scenarios. The full-color […]