Adult Fiction
News of the World by Paulette Jiles.
It is 1870 and
Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live
readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower
who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys
his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold
piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years
earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna's parents and sister; sparing
the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the
U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home
she knows. Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and
unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. Johanna has
forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws
away her shoes, and refuses to act "civilized." Yet as the miles
pass, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other, forging a
bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land.
Arriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. The captain
must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember--strangers
who regard her as an unwanted burden. A respectable man, Captain Kidd is faced
with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become--in the eyes of
the law--a kidnapper himself.
Briarhill to Brooklyn by Jack Bodkin.
For three years a
mysterious potato blight devastated Ireland's cla-cháns, townlands, and cities.
Nearly a million died.
Was it the prospect of
starvation, the snows of Black '47, or the fear of typhus that made the Bodkins
leave? Or was it the dream of America's freedom and opportunity that drove the
family from Galway onto an Irish coffin ship known as Cushlamachree? Their
destination was Brooklyn. An unimaginable hurdle confronted the seven young
Bodkin siblings, only days after docking in New York. Would the
"fever" get them, too? But they managed to survive into adulthood as
they were led by their two oldest brothers-Dominic and Martin. Dominic, a
fledgling surgeon on the Alabama battlefields of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely,
spends thirty-five years delivering and caring for thousands of Brooklyn
babies. Martin, a Civil War veteran, and later an ironmonger with his own shop,
ultimately is the progenitor of a large family of New York Bodkins.
Dark Vector by Graham Brown.
"A freighter carrying
top-secret computers of unparalleled capability disappears in the Western
Pacific. While searching for a lost treasure that once belonged to the famous
Chinese pirate queen, Ching Shih, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are redirected to
look for the missing vessel. Discovering that the sinking of the ship is just
part of an intricate web of deception, they find themselves in the middle of a
cyber-war between rival groups of hackers, both of whom want to control the
flow of data around the world. With no allies except a group of pirates who
operate under their own crude laws, Kurt and Joe must rescue a colleague held
hostage--while keeping the computers out of Russian or Chinese hands and the
world's digital information safe from the hackers"-- Provided by publisher.
Adult Non-Fiction
Team America by Robert L. O’Connell.
An acclaimed military
historian presents this powerful history of four military leaders--Douglas
MacArthur, George Patton, George Marshall and Dwight "Ike"
Eisenhower--who exhibited unparalleled military leadership that led the U.S.
victoriously through two World Wars.
Elvis ’68 Comeback by Steve Binder.
Take a tour behind the
scenes at the NBC television special that relaunched Elvis Presley's career as
a stage musician. Author Steve Binder--who directed the TV special--provides
exclusive content that gives fans even more insight into the performance that
many see as a high point in the King of Rock's reign of American
music. Elvis '68 Comeback includes full-color photographs and
detailed commentary on the show's development and production.
Easy/Juvenile/Young Adult/Graphic Novel
Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert.
YA
On the way home from a
party, seventeen-year-old Ivy and her soon-to-be ex nearly run over a nude
young woman standing in the middle of a tree-lined road. It's only the first in
a string of increasingly eerie events and offerings: a dead rabbit in the
driveway, a bizarre concoction buried by her mother in the backyard, a box of
childhood keepsakes hidden in her parents' closet safe. Most unsettling of all,
corroded recollections of Ivy and her enigmatic mother's past resurface, with
the help of the boy next door. What if there's more to Ivy's mother than meets
the eye? And what if the supernatural forces she messed with during her own teen
years have come back to haunt them both? Ivy must grapple with these questions
and more if she's going to escape the darkness closing in.
A Secret Princess by Margaret Stohl & Melissa de la Cruz. YA
Best friends Mary Lennox,
Sara Crewe, and Cedric Erroll are best friends. And thank goodness, since their
boarding school is basically insufferable. When one of the friends suffers a
personal tragedy, a plan-and a secret-change everything for the trio . . . for
good.
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