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Anderson, Laurie Halse. The impossible knife of memory. New York, NY: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.
"Hayley Kincaid and her father move back to their hometown to try a 'normal' life, but the horrors he saw in the war threaten to destroy their lives”.
F Had
Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Full ride. 1st ed. New York: Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2013].
After her father is convicted of embezzlement, Becca Jones, fourteen, and her mother flee Georgia for small-town Ohio but three years later she learns that his misdeeds may have jeopardized not just her future but also her life.
In 1848 Willow, a fifteen-year-old educated slave girl girl faces an inconceivable choice--between bondage and and freedom, family and love--as free born, seventeen-year-old Cato, a black man, takes it upon himself to sneak as many fugitive slaves to freedom as he can on the Mason-Dixon Line.
F Joh
Johnston, E. K. The story of Owen: dragon slayer of Trondheim. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Lab, [2014].
In an alternate world where industrialization has caused many species of carbon-eating dragons to thrive, Owen, a slayer being trained by his famous father and aunt, and Siobahn, his bard, face a dragon infestation near their small town in Canada.
F Keh
Kehoe, Stasia Ward. The sound of letting go. New York, NY: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.
At seventeen, Daisy feels imprisoned by her brother Steven's autism and its effects, and her only escape is through her trumpet into the world of jazz, but when her parents decide to send Steven to an institution she is not ready to let him go.
F Sch
Schwab, Victoria. The Unbound. 1st ed. New York: Hyperion, [2014].
Starting her junior year at Hyde School, Mackenzie Bishop, a Keeper tasked with stopping violent Histories from escaping the Archive, becomes the prime suspect when several people vanish without a trace.
GN 741.597 Nov
Novgorodoff, Danica. The Undertaking of Lily Chen. 1st ed. New York: First Second, 2014.
"Fictional graphic novel telling a magical realist story set in the world of the black market for deceased brides in China"--.
GN 791.597 Tam
Tamaki, Mariko. This one summer. 1st ed. New York: First Second, 2014.
Every summer, Rose goes with her mom and dad to a lake house in Awago Beach. It's their getaway, their refuge. Rosie's friend Windy is always there, too, like the little sister she never had. But this summer is different. Rose's mom and dad won't stop fighting, and when Rose and Windy seek a distraction from the drama, they find themselves with a whole new set of problems. One of the local teens--just a couple of years older than Rose and Windy--is caught up in something bad... Something life threatening. It's a summer of secrets, and sorrow, and growing up, and it's a good thing Rose and Windy have each other.
Sc Moc
Moccasin thunder: American Indian stories for today. 1st ed. New York: HarperCollins, c2005.
How to get to the planet Venus / Joy Harjo -- Because my father always said he was the only Indian who saw Jimi Hendrix play "The Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock / Sherman Alexie -- A real life blond Cherokee and his equally annoyed soul mate / Cynthia Leitich Smith -- The last snow of the Virgin Mary / Richard Van Camp -- Crow / Linda Hogan -- Ice / Joseph Bruchac -- Wild Geese (1934) / Louise Erdrich -- The magic pony / Greg Sarris -- Summer wind / Lee Francis -- Drum Kiss / Susan Power. Presents ten short stories about contemporary Native American teens by members of tribes of the United States and Canada, including Louise Erdrich and Joseph Bruchac.
299 Eas Eastman, Charles Alexander, 1858-1939. The soul of the Indian: an interpretation. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, [1980], c1911.
Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Sioux Indian Charles A. Eastman--Ohiyesa--presents the religious life of "the typical American Indian" before the arrival of the whites, including the Great Mystery, the family altar, ceremonial and symbolic worship, barbarism and the moral code, the unwritten scriptures, and spirits.
305.897 Bub Bubar, Roe. Social life and issues. Philadelphia, PA: Chelsea House, c2006.
Presents a comprehensive study of the health and social issues affecting Native Americans including the increased cases of HIV-AIDS, violence against women and children, and preserving indigenous religious rights and cultural resources.
305.897 Lyo Lyons, Scott Richard. X-marks: native signatures of assent. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2010.
Explores the complexity of contemporary Native American identity and the debates among Native Americans about traditionalism, nationalism, and tribalism.
306.44 Rey Reyhner, Jon Allan. Education and language restoration. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, c2006.
Presents a comprehensive history of the U.S. government's Indian education policy and issues that have affected Native Americans including assimilation and loss of native culture and tradition, language study and teaching, multicultural and bilingual education, and more.
323.1197 Wel Welch, Deborah, 1952-. Political issues. Philadelphia, PA: Chelsea House, c2006.
Early political development -- Domestic dependent nations -- Pan-Indianism -- Tribal membership and governance -- Tribal factionalism -- Federal trustee status -- Sovereignty v. the States -- Sovereignty and self-determination. Examines how Native Americans reclaimed political power, created economic opportunities for their people, and promoted repatriation and protection of their sacred land and rites.
330.9 Wek Welch, Deborah, 1952-. Economic issues and development. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, c2006.
Historical developments among Native Americans -- Self-determination -- Tourism -- Energy development -- Business development -- Gaming -- Sovereignty versus the state -- Owenvsv. Examines issues related to Native American attempts to achieve economic self-sufficiency, providing historical background and discussing tourism, energy development, business development, and gaming.
398.2 Pey Peyton, John L., 1907-2001. The stone canoe and other stories. Blacksburg, VA: The McDonald & Woodward Pub. Co., 1989.
John L. Peyton retells stories he heard among the Ojibwa Indians as a young man in the early twentieth century.
510 Ste
Stewart, Ian, 1945- author. Visions of infinity: the great mathematical problems. New York: Basic Books, 2013.
Great problems -- Prime territory : Goldbach conjecture -- The puzzle of pi : squaring the circle -- Mapmaking mysteries : four colour theorem -- Sphereful symmetry : Kepler conjecture -- New solutions for old : Mordell conjecture -- Inadequate margins : Fermat's last theorem -- Orbital chaos : three-body problem -- Patterns in primes : Riemann hypothesis -- What shape is a sphere? : Poincaré conjecture -- They can't all be easy : P/NP problem -- Fluid thinking : Navier-Stokes equation -- Quantum conundrum : mass gap hypothesis -- Diophantine dreams : Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture -- Complex cycles : Hodge conjecture -- Where next? -- Twelve for the future. Examines the history of fourteen difficult mathematical theorems and problems that have been solved in modern mathematics, and how in the solving more and greater problems have been uncovered--such as the Reimann hypothesis, or the P/NP problem in math and computers.
539.721 Car Carroll, Sean M., 1966- author. The particle at the end of the universe: how the hunt for the Higgs Boson leads us to the edge of a new world. New York, New York: Plume, 2013.
Examines the history of the search for the Higgs Boson, the particle studied and now found by quantum physicists--using the CERN installation in Switzerland and its Large Hadron Collider--which tells scientists why mass exists.
551.415 Str
Streever, Bill, author. Heat: adventures in the world's fiery places. New York: Back Bay Books, 2013
Examines how heat has shaped human history by visiting the hottest places on Earth and in time. Discusses Death Valley, the invention of matches, the chemistry of cooking, and the use of coal among other topics.
551.462 Hoh
Hohn, Donovan. Moby-duck: the true story of 28,800 bath toys lost at sea and of the beachcombers, oceanographers, environmentalists, and fools, including the author, who went in search of them. New York: Penguin Books, 2012.
Chronicles the author's efforts to track the location of 28,000 duck-shaped bath toys that were lost at sea. The author discusses how his and others' efforts pulled them into the world of shipping conglomerates, oceanography, and even the global economy and details the discoveries he made along the way.
551.5 Log
Logan, William Bryant, author. Air: the restless shaper of the world. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.
Darwin's dust -- The spore sucker -- Where fungi are -- Splash, fire, blow, fling -- The ergot of the rye -- Lifted, lofted, and living -- The pollen rain -- Invisible cities -- Is the furniture poison? -- The air after 9/11 -- Weaving -- Vortices -- Ground Truth -- El Greco's clouds -- The big mistake -- The forecasters -- The weather on D-Day -- Forcing -- The winds -- Firestorm -- Dragged aloft -- Saab in flight -- The common crane -- Stall practice -- The Bat, the bee, the bar-headed goose -- The lee wave -- The wind riders -- What now? -- The wilderness of pheromones -- Mother and child communion -- Allure -- The atmosphere of the beloved -- Zooming in -- Aphids in the invisible world -- The bolas spider -- What is sound? -- Parrot duets -- The answered question -- Nothing in it but what goes through it -- Enchanted -- Sonata form and chaos -- The Aeolian Harp -- The tarpon's breath -- Fenchel's dance -- The quantity of breath -- Fogging the mirror -- Shall these bones live? -- Why the daytime sky is light -- There is only one sun -- The sap rising -- The air is a slow cold flame. Explores the importance of air to life on Earth and examines how various species have taken advantage of the air to survive and thrive. Also reveals the impact of air on human society and culture and how we have learned to understand and take advantage of it.
576.8 Coe
Coen, Enrico, author. Cells to civilizations: principles of change that shape life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, [2012]
Investigates the links between the process of biological evolution and the development of human civilization, arguing that the two are not separate events.
578.62 Sim
Simberloff, Daniel, author. Invasive species: what everyone needs to know. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2013. Examines the both harmful and beneficial effects that invasive, non-native species of both plants and animals can have on environments as well as national economies.
791.43 Kin King, C. Richard, 1968-. Media images and representations. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, c2006.
Examines the ways in which Native Americans have been portrayed in the media and stereotyped in films and in television, and describes efforts on behalf of the Native American community to accurately reflect their history and heritage.
810.8 Pur
Nothing but the truth: an anthology of Native American literature. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, c2001.
813 Gla Glancy, Diane. The man who heard the land. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, c2001.
While driving down a lonely Minnesota highway, a man hears the voice of the land and embarks on an arduous journey of self-discovery.
813 Nat
Native storiers: five selections. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c2009.
An anthology of stories by five contemporary Native American authors, exploring themes such as victimhood, historical absence, cultural tragedy, and separation.
813 Rec
Reckonings: contemporary short fiction by Native American women. Oxford [England]: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Contains two to three stories by each of fifteen contemporary Native American women writers, including Paula Gunn Allen, Anita Endrezze, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, and others.
813 Wag Wagamese, Richard. One Native life. Toronto, Ontario: Groundwood Books, 2009, c2008.
Writer Richard Wagamese, an Ojibway from the Wabassemoong First Nation in Ontario, recounts experiences from throughout his life.
897 Sum
Summer in the spring: Anishinaabe lyric poems and stories. New ed. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, c1993.
Presents annotated retellings of a selection of Chippewa poems and tales, illustrated with tribal pictomyths, and including a glossary of Anishinaabe words.
921 Har Harjo, Joy. Crazy brave: a memoir. 1st ed. New York: W. W. Norton, c2012.
American poet Joy Harjo's memoir detailing her journey to becoming a poet, covering her childhood with an abusive stepfather, the Indian arts boarding school she attended, and being a single teenage mother.
921 Lit Anderson, Gary Clayton, 1948-. Little Crow, spokesman for the Sioux. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1986.
Biography of Dakota Indian leader Little Crow, who became a tribal spokesman, politician, and war leader.
973 Eas Eastman, Charles Alexander, 1858-1939. Indian boyhood. Bison Book ed. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, c1991.
A reprint of the 1902 autobiography of Native American Charles Eastman in which he discusses his youth in a Sioux encampment in Minnesota, explains how he was able to obtain a professional education, and shares his experiences working to bridge the gap between white and Indian cultures.
973.1 Wat Watkins, Joe, 1951-. Sacred sites and repatriation. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, c2006.
Presents a comprehensive study of sacred Native American sites and efforts on behalf of Indian tribes and nations to preserve ancient and traditional sites and have human remains and cultural objects currently retained by museums returned.
973.7 Der Derounian-Stodola, Kathryn Zabelle, 1949-. The war in words: reading the Dakota conflict through the captivity literature. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c2009.
Martha Riggs Morris & Sarah Wakefield : captivity & protest -- Harriet Bishop McConkey & Isaac Heard : captivity & early Dakota war histories -- Edward S. Ellis : captivity & the dime novel tradition --& Jacob Nix : captivity & German Americans -- Jannette DeCamp Sweet, Helen Carrothers Tarble, Lillian Everett Keeney, & Urania White : captivity & the antiquarian impulse -- Benedict Juni : captivity & the boy's adventure story -- Samuel J. Brown & Joseph Godfrey : captivity & credit -- Paul Mazakutemani : captivity & spiritual autobiography -- Cecelia Campbell Stay & Nancy McClure Faribault Huggan : captivity & bicultural women's identity -- Big Eagle, Lorenzo Lawrence, & Maggie Brass : captivity & cultural stereotypes -- Good Star Woman : captivity & ethnography -- Esther Wakeman & Joseph Coursolle : captivity & oral history -- Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve : captivity & counter captivity.
977 Liv
Living our language: Ojibwe tales & oral histories. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, c2001.
977.004 War Warren, William W. (William Whipple), 1825-1853. History of the Ojibway people. 2nd ed. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009.
Describes the history and culture of the Ojibwa, Native Americans who made their homes around Lake Superior and westward, focusing on the mid-nineteenth century, and covering tribal organization, warfare, and political leaders.
R 363.8 Foo vol.1
Food and famine in the 21st century. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, c2012.
V. 1. Topics and issues -- v. 2. Classic famines. Presents a comprehensive study of food and famine, providing an analysis of hunger and famine causes, as well as a detailed examination of the consequences of cultural and natural hazards upon famine.
R 910 Han
Hanks, Reuel R. Encyclopedia of geography terms, themes, and concepts. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, c2011.
Contains over one hundred and fifty alphabetically arranged entries that provide information related to geographical terms and concepts, and includes informational sidebars.
R 973 Our
United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Our documents: 100 milestone documents from the National Archives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, c2003.
A collection of one hundred documents that were important in the development of the United States from its founding to 1965, including the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and lesser-known writings.
R 973 Rub Rubel, David. Scholastic encyclopedia of the presidents and their times. New York: Scholastic, c2013.
Provides a year-by-year account of the tenure of each U.S. president from the inauguration of George Washington to the events of the 2012 election season, providing information about the key issues, headlines, notable people, and fads for every year served, and includes a table of election results for all presidential elections, and a history of the White House.
PR 371.58 Gil Gilmore, Barry. Plagiarism: why it happens, how to prevent it. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, c2008.
Presents a guide to helping students understand the scope and consequences of plagiarism and reveals the major factors that lead students to commit plagiarism. Discusses how to develop a preventative approach to this issue in order to prevent it from happening and offers tips and advice on helping students find their voices and write things in their own words.
DVD 791.43 Old
Older than America. New York, NY: IFC Films, 2010.
Adam Beach, Tantoo Cardinal, Bradley Cooper, Georgina Lightning, Wes Studi. An Indian woman's visions and a geologist's investigation of an earthquake come together to reveal secrets about the atrocities that took place at a Native American boarding school.
DVD 796.082 Wom
Women and sports. Silver Spring, MD: Discovery Education, [2002].
Host, Aimee Mullins. Video recording exploring the history of women's rights movements and how the 1970s and Title IX gained women more rights in women's sports. Discusses hormonal differences between men and women and what they mean for sports skills.
DVD 956.704 Ira
Iraq for sale: the war profiteers. Culver City, CA: Brave New Films, 2006.
Discusses the monetary cost of war and describes the misuse of funds that were intended for Iraq's reconstruction.
