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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

 

 

ROMANCE

 

 

TITLE

AUTHOR

DRP

24 girls in 7 days

Bradley, Alex

48

Afterlife, The

Soto, Gary

52

All's fair in love, war, and high school

Rallison, Janette

49

Boy proof

Castellucci, Cecil

46

Burning city

Dorfman, Ariel

57

Christy

Marshall, Catherine

55

Cold Mountain

Frazier, Charles

57

Divine wind

Disher, Garry

53

Finding Grace

Brugman, Alyssa

50

Gentlehands

Kerr , M.E.

51

Getting the girl

Zusak, Markus

48

Girl, 15, charming but insane

Limb, Sue

51

Heart is a lonely hunter, The

McCullers, Carson

52

Home of the braves

Klass, David

52

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

Caletti, Deb

52

How I fell in love & learned to shoot free throws

Ripslinger, Tom

47

Jane Eyre

Bronte, Charlotte

61

Jenna Starborn

Shinn, Sharon

50

Like water for chocolate : a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies

Esquivel, Laura

58

Monsoon summer

Perkins, Mitali

53

Once upon a summer day

McKiernan, Dennis L.

60

Out of order

Jenkins, A.M.

48

Scribbler of dreams

Pearson, Mary

50

Song for Eloise

Sauerwein, Leigh

54

Stardust

Gaiman, Neil

55

Sunshine

McKinley, Robin

53

Twilight - a novel

Meyer, Stephanie

56

Unlikely romance of Kate Bjorkman

Plummer, Louise

52

What my mother doesn't know

Sones, Sonya

53

Write Stuff

Malcolm, Jahnna

49


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SCIENCE / MEDICINE

 

 

TITLE

AUTHOR

DRP

Apollo 13

Lovell, Jim

64

Are we alone?: scientists search for life in space

Skurzynski, Gloria

53

California blue

Klass, David

51

Case of the monkeys that fell from the trees: and other mysteries

Quinlan, Susan E

64

Demon in the freezer, the: a true story

Preston, Richard

58

Geeks : how two lost boys rode the Internet out of Idaho

Katz, Jon

61

Guinea pig scientists : Bold self-experimenters in science

Dendy, Leslie

53

Hopes of snakes, The : and other tales from the urban lancscape

Couturier, Lisa

55

In code : a mathematical journey

Flannery, Sarah

54

Inventing modern America : from the microwave to the mouse

Brown, David

58

Invisible allies: microbes that shape our lives

Farrell, Jeanette

66

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

Winchester, Simon

65

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

Winchester, Simon

65

Longitude prize

Dash, Joan

65

Lost Moon

Lovell, Jim

64

Mercury 13, The : the true story of thirteen women and the dream of space flight

Ackmann, Martha

60

Miraculous fever tree, The: malaria and the quest for a cure that changed the world

Rocco, Fiammetta

63

Moon by whale light : and other adventures among bats, penguins, crocodilians, and whales

Ackerman, Diane

66

Natural history of the senses A

Ackmann, Diane

66

Oak : the frame of civilization

Logan, William Bryant

60

Obsessive genius : the inner world of Marie Curie

Goldsmith, Barbara

60

Orangutans: wizards of the rain forest

Russon, Anne E.

66

Phineas Gage: a gruesome but true story about brain science

Fleischman, John

58

Race to Save the Lord God Bird, The

Hoose, Phillip M

64

Rats: Observations on the history and habitat of the City's most unwanted inhabitants

Sullivan, Robert

61

Rocket Boys: A Memoir

Hickham, Homer

52

Small steps : the year I got polio

Kehret, Peg

50

Stargazing year, the: a backyard astronomer's journey through the seasons of the night sky

Calia, Charles Laird

62

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Roach, Mary

65

Stormchasers: the hurricane hunters and their fateful flight

Toomey, David

54

Wright brothers : how they invented the airplane, The

Freedman, Russell

63


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SCIENCE FICTION

 

 

TITLE

AUTHOR

DRP

Blind Lake

Wilson, Robert Charles

61

Contact

Sagan, Carl

63

Double Helix

Werlin, Nancy

51

Dune

Herbert, Frank

58

Dust

Slade, Arthur G.

51

Ender's Shadow

Card, Orson Scott

53

Feed

Anderson, M.T.

50

Gathering blue

Lowry, Lois

53

Giver, The

Lowry, Lois

56

Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, The

Adams, Douglas

59

Hole in the sky

Hautman, Pete

53

House of the scorpion

Farmer, Nancy

52

Illustrated man, The

Bradbury, Ray

48

Invisible man, The

Wells, H. G.

57

Jenna Starborn

Shinn, Sharon

50

Journey to the centre of the Earth, A

Verne, Jules

61

Life, the universe, and everything

Adams, Douglas

59

Matter of profit

Bell , Hilari

53

Messenger

Lowry, Lois

48

Mortal engines : a novel

Reeve, Philip

56

Predator's gold : a novel

Reeve, Philip

56

Remnant population

Moon, Elizabeth

65

Restaurant at the end of the universe, The

Adams, Douglas

58

Salmon of doubt, The: hitchhiking the galaxy one last time

Adams, Douglas

63

Secret under my skin

McNaughton, Janet Elizabeth

53

Singing the Dogstar blues

Goodman, Alison

50

Sparrow, The

Russell, Mary Doria

67

Speed of dark, the

Moon, Elizabeth

62

Supernaturalist

Colfer, Eoin

54

Truesight

Stahler, David

54

War of the worlds, The

Wells, H. G.

63

Wildside

Gould, Steven

50


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SOCIAL ISSUE

 

 

TITLE

AUTHOR

DRP

Breathing underwater

Flinn, Alex

47

Burn Journals, The

Runyon, Brent

53

Chanda's secrets

Stratton, Allan

45

Crackback

Coy, John

49

Curious incident of the dog in the night-time

Haddon, Mark

51

Fat kid rules the world

Going, Kelly

50

First Part Last

Johnson, Angela

49

Fresh girl

Placide, Jaira

46

Gathering of old men, A

Gaines, Ernest

47

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

Crowe, Chris

65

Hanging on to Max

Bechard, Margaret

45

Hope in the unseen : an American odyssey from the inner city to the Ivy League

Suskind, Ron

59

Inventing Elliot

Gardner, Graham

53

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

Freedman, Russell

65

Land, the

Taylor, Mildred D.

48

Margaux with an X

Koertge, Ronald

42

Mountains beyond mountains

Kidder, Tracy

62

Natural history of the senses A

Ackmann, Diane

66

Riding the bus with my sister : a true life journey

Simon, Rachel

55

Samir and Yonatan

Carmi, Daniella

49

Shooting monarchs

Halliday, John

54

Speak

Anderson, Laurie H.

50

Stoner & Spaz

Koertge, Ronald

42

Tending to Grace

Fusco, Kimberly

48

Triangle : the fire that changed America

Van Drehle, Dave

67

Wave, The

Strasser, Todd

53


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SPORTS

 

 

TITLE

AUTHOR

DRP

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

Yates, Brock

54

Away Games : The life and times of a Latin baseball player

Breton, Marcos

51

Boys of winter, The: the untold story of a coach, a dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team

Coffey, Wayne

58

Cinderella man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the greatest upset in boxing history

Schaap, Jeremy

61

Counting coup : a true story of basketball and honor on the Little Big Horn

Colton, Larry

57

Crackback

Coy, John

49

Every second counts

Armstrong, Lance

59

Flight of passage

Buck, Rinker

57

Friday Night Lights

Bissinger, H.G.

60

Greatest game ever played, the: Harry Vardon, Francis Ouimet, and the birth of modern golf

Frost, Mark

64

High Heat

Deuker, Carl

49

Home of the braves

Klass, David

52

Hoop dreams: a true story of hardship and triumph

Joravsky, Ben

54

Last coach, The : A life of Paul "Bear" Bryant

Barra, Allen

57

Losing is not an option

Wallace, Rich

50

More than a game

Jackson, Phil

63

Perfect mile, The: three athletes, one goal, and less than four minutes to achieve it

Bascomb, Neal

61

Pinned

Martino, Alfred

51

Season of Life: A Football Star, a Boy, a Journey to Manhood

Marx, Jeffrey

59

Shoeless Joe

Kinsella, W.P.

57

Slam!

Myers, Walter Dean

48

Teammates, The

Halberstam, David

60

Three Nights in August

Bissinger, H.G.

64

Whale talk

Crutcher, Chris

52

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

Wink: the incredible life and epic journey of Jimmy Winkfield

Hotaling, Edward

65


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SUPERNATURAL

 

 

TITLE

AUTHOR

DRP

Afterlife, The

Soto, Gary

52

Before wings : a novel

Goobie, Beth

50

Blue girl

De Lint, Charles

51

Cobwebs

Young, Karen Romano

58

Ghost writer

Harwood, John

58

Great and terrible beauty, A

Bray, Libba

51

Haunting of Alaizabel Cray

Wooding, Chris

 

Haunting of Hill House

Jackson, Shirley

54

Land of echoes: a Cree Black novel

Hecht, Daniel

57

Probable future, The

Hoffman, Alice

60

Raven's gate

Horowitz, Anthony

51

Restless: a ghost's story

Wallace, Rich

50

Stir of bones, A

Hoffman, Nina Kiriki

47

Storm catchers

Bowler, Tim

50

Twilight

Cabot, Meg

54

Twilight - a novel

Meyer, Stephanie

56

Vampire High

Rees, Douglas

48

Wish list

Colfer, Eoin

54


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TEEN FICTION

 

 

TITLE

AUTHOR

DRP

10 things to do before I die

Ehrenhaft, David

51

24 girls in 7 days

Bradley, Alex

48

All's fair in love, war, and high school

Rallison, Janette

49

Amandine

Griffin, Adele

50

Beast, The

Myers, Walter Dean

48

Beet Fields, The : Memories of a Sixteenth Summer

Paulsen, Gary

53

Best foot forward

Bauer, Joan

50

Body of Christopher Creed

Plum-Ucci, Carol

51

Boy proof

Castellucci, Cecil

46

Boyfriend List, The (15 guys, 11 shrink appointments, 4 ceramic frogs, and me, Ruby Oliver)

Lockhart, E.

48

Breathing underwater

Flinn, Alex

47

Buddha boy

Koja, Kathe

55

Burger Wuss

Anderson, M.T.

45

Catalyst

Anderson, Laurie H.

47

Earth, my butt, and other big round things

Mackler, Carolyn

52

Emako Blue

Woods, Brenda

52

Extreme Elvin

Lynch, Chris

49

Finding Grace

Brugman, Alyssa

50

First Part Last

Johnson, Angela

49

Getting the girl

Zusak, Markus

48

Girl, 15, charming but insane

Limb, Sue

51

Girls in pants : the third summer of the sisterhood

Brashares, Ann

51

Gospel according to Larry, the

Tashjian, Janet

54

Hanging on to Max

Bechard, Margaret

45

Heavy metal and you

Krovatin, Christopher

52

High Heat

Deuker, Carl

49

Home of the braves

Klass, David

52

How far would you have gotten if I hadn't called you back?

Hobbs, Valerie

51

How I fell in love & learned to shoot free throws

Ripslinger, Tom

47

Inventing Elliot

Gardner, Graham

53

Invisible

Hautman, Pete

47

Jinx

Wild, Margaret

49

Leap Day: A Novel

Mass, Wendy

50

Margaux with an X

Koertge, Ronald

42

Monster

Myers, Walter Dean

48

Offsides: a novel

Esckilsen, Erik E.

52

Out of nowhere: a novel

Sebestyen, Ouida

48

Out of order

Jenkins, A.M.

48

Outsiders

Hinton, S.E.

51

Peaches: a novel

Anderson, Jodi Lynn

54

Perfect distance, The - a novel

Whitney, Kim Ablon

55

Prom

Anderson, Laurie H.

48

Queen of everything

Caletti, Deb

52

Rats saw God

Thomas, Rob

54

Red sky at morning

Bradford, Richard

52

Rumble fish

Hinton, S.E.

46

Sang Spell

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

50

Saving Francesca

Marchetta, Melina

49

Scribbler of dreams

Pearson, Mary

50

Shadow of a doubt

Rottman, S.L.

46

Shooting monarchs

Halliday, John

54

Slam!

Myers, Walter Dean

48

Sleeping freshman never lie

Lubar, David

47

Speak

Anderson, Laurie H.

50

Stargirl

Spinelli, Jerry

49

Sticks and stones

Goobie, Beth

44

Stoner & Spaz

Koertge, Ronald

42

Sweetblood

Hautman, Pete

48

Taming the star runner

Hinton, S.E.

52

That was then, this is now

Hinton, S.E.

49

Thirsty

Anderson, M.T.

48

Truth about forever

Dessen, Sarah

54

Twilight

Cabot, Meg

54

Upstream

Lion, Melissa

53

Vampire High

Rees, Douglas

48

Whale talk

Crutcher, Chris

52

What my mother doesn't know

Sones, Sonya

53

Where I want to be

Griffin, Adele

51

Write Stuff

Malcolm, Jahnna

49

Year of secret assignments, The

Moriaty, Jaclyn

52


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WAR / PEACE

 

 

TITLE

AUTHOR

DRP

December 6

Smith, Martin Cruz

58

All quiet on the western front

Remarque, Erickh Maria

52

All the way to Berlin : a paratrooper at war in Europe

Megellas, James

56

Always faithful: a memoir of the Marine dogs of WWII

Putney, William W.

53

B for Buster

Lawrence, Iain

50

Bridge to far, A

Ryan, Cornelius

60

Catch-22

Heller, Joseph

60

Code Talker: a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two

Bruchac, Joseph

50

Enigma : a novel

Harris, Robert

58

Eyes of the emperor

Salisbury, Graham

46

Fallen Angels

Myers, Walter Dean

47

Flags of our fathers

Bradley, James

60

For whom the bell tolls

Hemingway, Ernest

53

Gentlehands

Kerr , M.E.

51

Ghost soldiers: the forgotten epic story of World War II's most dramatic mission

Sides, Hampton

60

Great escape, The : The full dramatic story with contributions from survivors and their families

Gill, Anton

64

Heroes don't run

Mazer, Harry

45

Hiroshima

Hersey, John

64

Hitler Youth: growing up in Hitler's shadow

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

59

Killer angels : a novel of the civil war

Shaara, Michael

52

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

Nelson, Peter

63

Longest day, June 6, 1944 , The

Ryan, Cornelius

60

Marines of autumn, The : a novel of the Korean War

Brady, James

64

Motorcycle ride on the Sea of Tranquility

Santana, Patricia

55

Navajo code talkers

Aaseng, Nathan

65

Postcards From No Man's Land

Chambers, Aidan

53

Private Peaceful

Morpurgo, Michael

50

Red badge of courage, The

Crane, Stephan

60

Room in the heart

Levitin, Sonia

51

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

Walker, Sally M.

63

Silent night : the story of the World War I Christmas truce

Weintraub, Stanley

61

Soldier boys

Hughes, Dean

50

Soldier X

Wulffson, Don L.

54

Soldier's heart : being the story of the enlistment and due service of the boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota volunteers: a novel of the Civil War

Paulsen, Gary

54

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

Hirsch, James S.

66

Under the blood-red sun

Salisbury, Graham

46

When the elephants dance : a novel

Holthe, Tess Uriza

67


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