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January 2008
ADULT FICTION:
World Without End by Ken Follett
The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss
Shadow Music: a novel by Julie Garwood
Confessor by Terry Goodkind
Shooters by W. E. B. Griffin
Hand of Evil: a novel of suspense by J. A. Jance
Rhett Butler’s People by Donald McCaig
Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough
Sandhill County Lines: Stories by Clay Reynolds
Dark of the Moon by John Sandford
ADULT POETRY:
Time and Materials: Poems, 1997-2005 by Robert Hass
ADULT NONFICTION:
House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a family divided by war by Stephen Berry
Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me by Pattie Boyd with Penny Junor
Age of Turbulence: adventures in a new world by Alan Greenspan
Hubble: the mirror on the universe by Robin Kerrod and Carole Stott
Von Braun: dreamer of space, engineer of war by Michael J. Neufield
The Billionaire Who Wasn’t: how Chuck Feeney secretly made and gave away a fortune by Conor O’Clery
Force of Nature: the frontier genius of Ernest Rutherford by Richard Reeves
Life Decoded: my genome, my life by J. Craig Venter
Indian Summer: the secret history of the end of an empire by Alex von Tunzlemann
Legacy of Ashes: the history of the CIA by Tim Weiner
TEEN BOOKS:
Forever in Blue: the fourth summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
Sold by Patricia McCormick
BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS AGES 5 – 8
The Daring Book for Girls by Andrea J. Buchanan, Miriam Peskowitz (YNF 646.7)
Land of the Silver Apples by Nancy Farmer
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Emmy and the incredible shrinking rat by Lynne Jonell
At Gleason’s Gym by Ted Lewin (YNF 796.83)
BOOKS FOR YOUTH AGES 5 – 8:
Marvelous Mattie: how Margaret E. Knight became an inventor by Emily Arnold McCully (JB KNI)
Magician in the trunk by Candice Ransom
Make your mark, Franklin Roosevelt by Judith St. George (JB ROO)
PICTURE BOOKS FOR AGES 2 – 5:
The Friendly Four by Eloise Greenfield
Daddy Hugs 1-2-3 by Karen Katz
Aggie and Ben: three stories by Lori Ries
***La Fiesta recently gave the UPPL a generous grant to purchase new copies of both the Caldecott Medal Winners and the Texas 2x2 Reading List books. Thank you La Fiesta!***
December 2007
ADULT FICTION:
Away: a novel by Amy Bloom
Protect and Defend: a novel by Vince Flynn
Third Degree by Greg Iles
The Long Walk Home: a novel by Will North
Run by Ann Patchett
ADULT NONFICTION:
Einstein: his life and universe by Walter Isaacson (B EIN)
American Creation: triumphs and tragedies at the founding of the republic by Joseph J. Ellis (973.3)
Man in the white sharkskin suit: my family’s exodus from Old Cairo to the New World by Lucette Lagnado (B MAT)
At the center of the storm: my years at the CIA by William Tenet with Bill Harlow (327.127)
The Nine: inside the secret world of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin (347.732)
TEEN BOOKS:
Bouncing back: dealing with the stuff life throws at you by Jami Biles Jones (TEEN 155.24)
The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg (Graphic Novel 741.597)
Memoirs of a teenage amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin
BOOKS FOR YOUTH AGES 8 AND UP:
Darkwing by Kenneth Oppel
On the wings of heroes by Richard Peck
Terrier by Tamora Pierce
The Wall: growing up behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis (YNF 943.704)
Someone named Eva by Joan M. Wolf
BOOKS FOR YOUTH AGES 8 AND UP:
Dragons don’t throw snowballs by Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones
Case of the Groaning Ghost by James Preller
Secret in the Tower by Candice Ransom
PICTURE BOOKS FOR AGES 2 – 5:
On Meadowview Street by Henry Cole
Santa Claus: the world’s number one toy expert by Marla Frazee
Library Mouse by Daniel Kirk
Three French Hens: a holiday tale by Margie Palatini
Company’s Going by Arthur Yorinks
November 2007
ADULT FICTION:
A Spot of Bother: a novel by Mark Haddon
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Secret of Lost Things: a novel by Sheridan Hay
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
ADULT NONFICTION:
Circling my Mother by Mary Gordon (B GOR)
Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam (951.904)
Faith Club: a Muslim, Christian, Jew - - three women search for understanding by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner (201.5)
Ike: an American Hero by Michael Korda (B EIS)
Born on a Blue Day: inside the extraordinary mind of an autistic savant: a memoir by Daniel Tammet (B TAM)
TEEN BOOKS:
Bloodsong by Melvin Burgess
Someday this pain will be useful to you by Peter Cameron
The Off Season by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
BOOKS FOR YOUTH AGES 8 AND UP:
Letters from the Corrugated Castle: a novel of gold rush California, 1850 - 1852 by Joan W. Blos
Framed by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Escape! : The Story of the Great Houdini by Sid Fleischman (YB HOU)
Lawn Boy by Pat Paulsen
The House Where Nobody Lived by Brad Strickland
BIOGRAPHIES FOR KINDERGARTNERS – THIRD GRADERS:
Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr by Nicholas Debon (JB CYR)
Mack Made Movies by Don Brown (JB SEN)
Sequoyah: the Cherokee man who gave his people writing by James Rumford (JB SEQ)
Titian by Mike Venezia (JB TIT)
George Washington by Cheryl Harness (JB WAS)
FICTION BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS AGES 5 - 7:
Pish and Posh Wish for Fairy Wings by Barbara Bottner and Gerald Kruglik
Buster Changes his Luck by Mark Tolon Brown
Minnie and Moo, wanted dead or alive by Denys Cazet
Cork and Fuzz by Dori Chaconas
Mr. Putter & Tabby Write the Book by Cynthia Rylant
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