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ADV

Adventure / Survival

HIS

History

SF

Science Fiction

ANI

Animals / Pets

HOR

Horror

SOC

Social Issue

BIO

Biography

HUM

Humor

SPO

Sports

FAM

Family

MYS

Mystery / Suspense

SUP

Supernatural

FAN

Fantasy

MYTH

Myth / Fable / Tale

TEEN

Teen Fiction

FRI

Friendship

ROM

Romance

WAR

War / Peace

H/F

Historical Fiction

S/M

Science / Medicine

 

 

FANTASY

 

 

TITLE

AUTHOR

DRP

Airborn

Oppel, Kenneth

51

Amulet of Samarkand , The

Stroud, Jonathan

55

Artemis Fowl : the opal deception

Colfer, Eoin

54

Beauty

Butcher, Nancy

53

Book of Mordred,The

Vande Velde, Vivian

54

Child of the dark prophecy

Barron, T.A.

53

Daughter of the forest

Marillier, Juliet

53

East

Pattou, Edith

53

Eldest

Paolini, Christopher

54

Eragon

Paolini, Christopher

55

Fall of a kingdom

Bell , Hilari

54

Fellowship of the Ring

Tolkien, J. R. R.

54

Gifts

Le Gruin, Ursula K.

51

Golem's eye (publication date 2/28/06 )

Stroud, Jonathan

55

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Rowling, J.K.

56

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Rowling, J.K.

56

Hobbit, or, There and back again, The

Tolkien, J.R.R.

57

Hunter's moon, the

Melling, O. R.

54

Inkheart

Funke, Cornelia Caroline

53

Inkspell

Funke, Cornelia Caroline

53

Lady knight

Pierce, Tamora

52

Lion, the witch and the wardrobe, The

Lewis, C.S.

54

Magic or madness

Larbalestier, Justine

48

Mistress of dragons

Weis, Margaret

55

Mr. Was

Hautman, Pete

51

Neverwhere

Gaiman, Neil

52

Night watch: a novel of Discworld

Pratchett, Terry

48

Now you see it --

Vande Velde, Vivian

51

Once and future king, The

White, T.H.

57

Poison

Wooding, Chris

56

Ptolemy's gate

Stroud, Jonathan

55

Rise of a hero

Bell , Hilari

55

Samir and Yonatan

Carmi, Daniella

49

Shade's children

Nix, Garth

57

Shadow on the stars (Publication date 10/28/05 )

Barron, T.A.

54

Spirits in the wires

De Lint, Charles

52

Squire

Pierce, Tamora

53

Stardust

Gaiman, Neil

55

Starfall : Phaeton and the chariot of the sun

Cadnum, Michael

59

Tithe : a modern faerie tale

Black, Holly

54

Trickster's choice

Pierce, Tamora

54

Truth-Teller's tale, the

Shinn, Sharon

53

White Midnight

Calhoun, Dia

49

Wizard of Earthsea, A

Le Guin, Ursula K.

60

Wizard test, The

Bell , Hilari

53


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FRIENDSHIP

 

 

TITLE

AUTHOR

DRP

Bean trees, The : a novel

Kingsolver, Barbara

53

Catapult : Harry and I build a siege weapon

Paul, Jim

52

Fat kid rules the world

Going, Kelly

50

Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café

Flagg, Fannie

51

Gathering of old men, A

Gaines, Ernest

47

Girls in pants : the third summer of the sisterhood

Brashares, Ann

51

Godless (publication date 11/28/05 )

Hautman, Pete

48

Heart is a lonely hunter, The

McCullers, Carson

52

Heavy metal and you

Krovatin, Christopher

52

Invisible

Hautman, Pete

47

Jinx

Wild, Margaret

49

Kira-Kira

Kadohata, Cynthia

48

Kite Runner, The

Hosseini, Khaled

51

Monsoon summer

Perkins, Mitali

53

Oddballs: stories

Sleator, William

58

Pigman, The

Zindel, Paul

52

Plainsong

Haruf , Kent

49

Red kayak

Cummings, Priscilla

50

Second summer of the sisterhood

Brashares, Ann

50

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Brashares, Ann

52

Snow in August

Hamill, Pete

51

Teammates, The

Halberstam, David

60

Tenth justice

Meltzer, Brad

63

That was then, this is now

Hinton, S.E.

49

True confessions of a heartless girl

Brooks , Martha

51

Two souls indivisible: the friendship that saved two POWs in Vietnam

Hirsch, James S.

66


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HISTORICAL FICTION

 

 

TITLE

AUTHOR

DRP

After the war

Matas, Carol

47

Before we were free

Alvarez, Julie

53

Breath

Napoli , Donna Jo

48

Canterbury papers, The

Healey, Judith Koll

58

Children's blizzard, The

Laskin, David

58

Cold Mountain

Frazier, Charles

57

Color of fire, The : a novel

Rinaldi, Ann

44

Convicts, The

Lawrence, Iain

49

Death and the arrow

Priestley, Chris

52

Divine wind

Disher, Garry

53

Edge on the sword, The

Tingle, Rebecca

57

Far traveler

Tingle, Rebecca

57

Fever, 1793

Anderson, Laurie H.

50

Fire-eaters

Almond, David

45

Forbidden forest : the story of Little John and Robin Hood

Cadnum, Michael

58

Garden of beasts: a novel of Berlin 1936

Deaver, Jeffrey

59

Gilbert & Sullivan set me free

Karr, Kathleen

52

Girl With a pearl earring

Chevalier, Tracy

50

Great and terrible beauty, A

Bray, Libba

51

In the time of the butterflies

Alvarez, Julie

53

Killer angels : a novel of the civil war

Shaara, Michael

52

Kitchen boy, The

Alexander, Robert

55

Land, the

Taylor, Mildred D.

48

Life, liberty and the pursuit of murder : a Revolutionary War mystery

Swee, Karen

59

Mable Riley : a reliable record of humdrum, peril, and romance

Jocelyn, Marthe

54

Minister's daughter, The

Hern, Julie

57

New found land : a novel

Wolf, Allan

52

Northern Light

Donnelly, Jennifer

50

Paradise : Based on a True Story of Survival

Goodman, Joan E.

51

Pirates! : the true and remarkable adventures of Minera sharpe and Nancy Kington, female pirates

Rees, Celia

53

Plot against America , The

Roth, Philip

61

Pushing the bear : a novel of the Trail of Tears

Glancy, Diane

61

Red sky at morning

Bradford, Richard

52

River between us

Peck, Richard

51

Sand-reckoner, The

Bradshaw, Gillian

56

Shackleton's stowaway

McKernan , Victoria

51

Smiler's bones

Lerangis, Peter

50

Song for Eloise

Sauerwein, Leigh

54

Stones in water

Napoli , Donna Jo

48

Summer of my German soldier

Greene, Bette

54

Suspense and sensibility, or, First impressions, revisited : a Mr. & Mrs. Darcy mystery

Bebris, Carrie

63

To spoil the sun

Rockwood, Joyce

55

When my name was Keoko

Park, Linda Sue

51

When the elephants dance : a novel

Holthe, Tess Uriza

67

Year of wonders : a novel of the plague

Brooks , Geraldine

55

Zorro: a novel

Allende, Isabel

67


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HISTORY

 

 

TITLE

AUTHOR

DRP

1776

McCullough, David

63

Against death and time : one fatal season in racing's glory years

Yates, Brock

54

Almost History : 'Close calls, plan B's and twists of fate in American history

Bruns, Roger

53

Apollo 13

Lovell, Jim

64

Black potatoes : the story of the great Irish famine, 1845-1850

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

61

Children of the great depression (Publication date 10/26/05 )

Freedman, Russell

60

Coal : a human history

Freese, Barbara

60

Cruelest miles, the: the heroic story of dogs and men in a race against an epidemic

Salisbury, Gay

61

D-Day : the greatest invasion, a people's history

Van der Vat, Dan

67

First they killed my father : a daughter of Cambodia remembers

Ung, Loung

52

Flags of our fathers

Bradley, James

60

Getting away with murder: the true story of the Emmett Till case

Crowe, Chris

65

Give me liberty! : the story of the Declaration of Independence

Freedman, Russell

60

Good brother, bad brother: the story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth

Giblin, James

60

Henry and Clara

Mallon, Thomas

65

Hiroshima

Hersey, John

64

Hitler Youth: growing up in Hitler's shadow

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

59

Issac's Storm

Larson, Erik

61

Kids at work : Lewis Hine and the crusade against child labor

Freedman, Russell

65

Krakatoa : the day the world exploded, August 27, 1883

Winchester, Simon

65

Left for dead : a young man's search for justice for the USS Indianapolis

Nelson, Peter

63

Lost Moon

Lovell, Jim

64

Love and hate in Jamestown : John Smith, Pocahontas, and the heart of a new nation

Price, David

67

Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly : the remarkable story of the friendship between a first lady and a former slave

Fleischner, Jennifer

67

Professor and the madman, The : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary

Winchester, Simon

67

Secrets of a Civil War submarine: solving the mysteries of the H.L Hunley

Walker, Sally M.

53

Six days in October : the stock market crash of 1929

Blumenthal, Karen

61

Time to die, A : the untold story of the Kursk tragedy

Moore, Robert

65

Triangle : the fire that changed America

Van Drehle, Dave

67

Wildest ride, The: a history of NASCAR (or, how a bunch of good ol'' boys built a billion-dollar industry out of wrecking cars"

Menzer, Joe

60

Wright brothers : how they invented the airplane, The

Freedman, Russell

63

Young men & fire

Maclean, Norman

56


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HORROR

 

 

TITLE

AUTHOR

DRP

Being dead

Vande Velde, Vivian

51

Bloodstream

Gerritsen, Tess

53

Devil in the white city, the: murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America

Larson, Erik

61

Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales

Noyes, Deborah

54

Haunting of Alaizabel Cray

Wooding, Chris

 

Haunting of Hill House

Jackson, Shirley

54

Odd Thomas

Koontz, Dean

59

Poison

Wooding, Chris

56

Sunshine

McKinley, Robin

53

Sweetblood

Hautman, Pete

48

Thirsty

Anderson, M.T.

48


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HUMOR

 

 

TITLE

AUTHOR

DRP

Al Capone does my shirts

Choldenko, Gennifer

44

Alice , I think

Juby, Susan

57

Angus, thongs and full -frontal snogging : confessions of Georgia Nicolson

Rennison, Louise

49

Away laughing on a fast camel : even more confessions of Georgia Nicolson

Rennison, Louise

49

Bean trees, The : a novel

Kingsolver, Barbara

53

Bucking the Sarge

Curtis, Christopher

51

Burger Wuss

Anderson, M.T.

43

Flush

Hiaasen, Carl

57

Girl, 15, charming but insane

Limb, Sue

51

Girls in pants : the third summer of the sisterhood

Brashares, Ann

51

Holes

Sachar, Louis

49

Hoot

Hiaasen, Carl

57

Man who ate the 747, The

Sherwood, Ben

54

Son of the Mob

Korman, Gordon

50

Son of the Mob: Hollywood Hustle

Korman, Gordon

50

Teacher's funeral : a comedy in three parts

Peck, Richard

51

Three clams and an oyster

Powell, Randy

49


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MYSTERY / SUSPENSE

 

 

TITLE

AUTHOR

DRP

December 6

Smith, Martin Cruz

58

Acceleration

McNamee, Graham

50

Angels & Demons

Brown, Dan

54

Atonement : a novel

McEwan, Ian

58

Avenger

Forsyth, Frederick

58

Birds of a feather : a novel

Winspear, Jacqueline

56

Black ice

Dickinson, Matt

61

Boy in the burning house, The

Wynne-Jones, Tim

51

Canterbury papers, The

Healey, Judith Koll

58

Curious incident of the dog in the night-time

Haddon, Mark

51

Death and the arrow

Priestley, Chris

52

Death in Vienna , A

Silva, Daniel

60

Down the rabbit hole

Abrahams, Peter

48

Earth colors

Andrews, Sarah

58

Enigma : a novel

Harris, Robert

58

Excavation

Rollins, James

57

Fatal

Palmer, Michael

54

Finding Lubchenko

Simmons, Michael

49

Finding the forger: a Bianca Balducci mystery

Sternberg, Libby

50

First horseman

Case, John

53

Full tilt : a novel

Shusterman, Neal

51

Garden of beasts: a novel of Berlin 1936

Deaver, Jeffrey

59

Ghost ship: the mysterious true story of the Mary Celeste and her missing crew

Hicks, Brian

56

Hoot

Hiaasen, Carl

57

Hush little baby

Cooney, Caroline B.

51

In the middle of the night

Cormier, Robert

51

Jude

Morgenroth, Kate

52

Letter from home

Hart, Carolyn G.

58

Life, liberty and the pursuit of murder : a Revolutionary War mystery

Swee, Karen

59

Live bait

Tracy , P.J.

47

Lost light

Connelly, Michael

50

Midwives

Bohjalian, Christopher A.

60

Offer of proof

Heilbrun, Robert

61

Point blank

Horowitz, Anthony

51

Probable future, The

Hoffman, Alice

60

Rag and bone shop, The: a novel

Cormier, Robert

54

Rule of four, The

Caldwell, Ian

65

Sandstorm

Rollins, James

55

Scorpia

Horowitz, Anthony

51

Second time around, the

Clark, Mary Higgins

55

Skeleton man

Hillerman, Tony

53

Small boat of great sorrows, the: a novel

Fesperman, Dan

66

Snow falling on ceders

Guterson, David

61

Sterling inheritance

Siverling, Michael

60

Suspense and sensibility, or, First impressions, revisited : a Mr. & Mrs. Darcy mystery

Bebris, Carrie

63

Thief of time, A

Hillerman, Tony

53

Tightrope

Cross, Gillian

47

Trail of blood: a father, a son and a tell-tale crime scene investigation

Evans, Wanda Webb

67

Uncovering Sadie's secrets

Sternberg, Libby

50

Veteran: five heart-stopping stories

Forsyth, Frederick

55

Warlord's son, The

Fesperman, Dan

66


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MYTH / FABLE / FAIRY TALE

 

 

TITLE

AUTHOR

DRP

Alchemist, The

Coelho, Paulo

53

Bound

Napoli , Donna Jo

48

Breath

Napoli , Donna Jo

48

Green Angel

Hoffman, Alice

50

Once upon a summer day

McKiernan, Dennis L.

60

Two old women : an Alaska legend of betrayal, courage and survival

Wallis, Velma

60


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