Author: Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014, author.
Published: 2013
Call Number: FIC MYE
Format: Books
Summary: "Two best friends, a writer and a runner, deal with bullies, family issues, social pressures, and their quest for success coming out of Harlem"--
Author: Jackson, Mitchell S.
Published: 2013
Call Number: F JACKSON
Format: Books
Summary: Mitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighborhood in America's whitest city, Portland, Oregon. In the '90s, those streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. In his commanding autobiographical novel, Mitchell writes what it was to come of age in that time and place, with a break-out voice that's nothing less than extraordinary."The Residue Years" switches between the perspectives of a young man, Champ, and his mother, Grace. Grace is just out of a drug treatment program, trying to stay clean and get her kids back. Champ is trying to do right by his mom and younger brothers, and dreams of reclaiming the only home he and his family have ever shared. But selling crack is the only sure way he knows to achieve his dream. In this world of few options and little opportunity, where love is your strength and your weakness, this family fights for family and against what tears one apart.
Author: Richards, Emilie, 1948-
Published: 2012
Call Number: PB RICHARDS
Format: Books
Summary: "With nothing but brains, ambition and sheer nerve, Charlotte Hale built a career as a tough, do-anything-to-succeed real-estate developer. She's at the top of that mountain...but her life is empty. Her friends are as grasping and insincere as she has become. Far worse, she's alienated her family so completely that she's totally lost touch with her only daughter. One terrifying day, facing her own mortality, she realizes that her ambition has almost destroyed her chance at happiness. So Charlotte vows to make amends, not simply with her considerable wealth, but by offering a hand instead of a handout. Putting in hours and energy instead of putting in an appearance. Opening her home and heart instead of her wallet. With each wrenching, exhilarating decision, Charlotte finds that climbing a new mountain-one built on friendship, love and forgiveness-will teach her what it truly means to build a legacy."--P. [4] of cover.
Author: McCall, Guadalupe Garcia.
Published: 2012
Call Number: Y MCCALL
Format: Books
Summary: In an adventure reminiscent of Homer's Odyssey, fifteen-year-old Odilia and her four younger sisters embark on a journey to return a dead man to his family in Mexico, aided by La Llorona, but impeded by a witch, a warlock, chupacabras, and more.
Author: Martin, Kat.
Published: 2011
Call Number: PB MARTIN
Format: Books
Summary: Redheads like Maggie O'Connell are nothing but trouble. But Trace Rawlins, a former army ranger turned private investigator, takes the case anyway. After all, he knows a thing or two about women.
Author: Taboo, 1975- author. Dennis, Steve, author.
Published: 2011
Call Number: B TABOO
Format: Books
Summary: Taboo, Grammy Award-winning founding member of the Black Eyed Peas, shares the inspiring story of his rise from the mean streets of East L.A. to the heights of international fame.--From publisher description.
Author: Murphy, Joseph, 1898-1981.
Published: 2010 1963
Call Number: 154.2
Format: Books
Author: Vonnegut, Kurt author.
Published: 2009 1969
Call Number: CL VONNEGUT
Format: Books
Summary: Billy Pilgrim returns home from the Second World War only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal present.
Author: Angelou, Maya.
Published: 2009 1969
Call Number: B ANGELOU
Format: Books
Author: Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Published: 2009
Call Number: CL STEINBEC
Format: Books
Summary: Two laborers work from ranch to ranch in the Salinas Valley of the 1930s, frustrated in their hope of having a place of their own.
Author: Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Simmons, Allan, 1955- Stape, J. H. (John Henry)
Published: 2007
Call Number: CL CONRAD
Format: Books
Summary: The story of a young, idealistic Englishman--'as unflinching as a hero in a book'--who's disgraced by an act of cowardice while serving as an officer on the Patna, a merchant-ship sailing from 'an Eastern port' with a party of Muslim pilgrims.
Author: Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Published: 2006
Call Number: CL STEINBEC
Format: Books
Summary: Depicts the hardships and suffering endured by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression.
Author: Frady, Marshall, author.
Published: 2006
Call Number: B JACKSON
Format: Books
Summary: From Library Journal: Journalist Frady's biography of Civil Rights leader and former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson makes extensive use of numerous interviews and conversations that the author had with Jackson, his family, and many of his associates. The book offers valuable insights into Jackson's difficult childhood and its effect on his personality; his relationship with Martin Luther King; and his two presidential campaigns. Frady also accompanied Jackson on a trip to Iraq in 1990 and provides an excellent account of how Jackson persuaded Iraq's leader, Saddam Hussein, to release hostages taken during the early days of the Persian Gulf crisis. Unfortunately, Frady has a tendency to be repetitious, and his writing style may sometimes hinder the general reader's understanding rather than facilitate it. Nonetheless, this is the most comprehensive biography available of a very important American political figure.
Author: Strasser, Todd.
Published: 2004
Call Number: Y STRASSER
Format: Books
Summary: Tired of being hungry, cold, and dirty from living on the streets of New York City with a tribe of other homeless teenagers who are dying, one by one, a girl named Maybe ponders her future and longs for someone to care about her.
Author: Frey, James, 1969-
Published: 2004 2003
Call Number: B FREY
Format: Books
Author: Silva, Daniel, 1960-
Published: 2004 1998
Call Number: PB SILVA
Format: Books
Summary: Ari Shamron, the head of Israeli intelligence, calls on former intelligence operative Gabriel Allon to thwart a Palestinian plot to destroy the Middle East peace negotiations, a conspiracy linked to a Palestinian zealot with ties to Gabriel's past.
Author: McKnight, Reginald, 1956- author.
Published: 2002 2001
Call Number: F MCKNIGHT
Format: Books
Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Page, Norman.
Published: 2000
Call Number: CL DICKENS
Format: Books
Summary: The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth. The sorrows of Nell and her grandfather are offset by Dickens's creation of a dazzling contemporary world inhabited by some of his most brilliantly drawn characters-the eloquent ne'er-do-well Dick Swiveller; the hungry maid known as the "Marchioness"; the mannish lawyer Sally Brass; Quilp's brow-beaten mother-in-law; and Quilp himself, the lustful, vengeful dwarf, whose demonic energy makes a vivid counterpoint to Nell's purity.
Author: Martin, George R. R.
Published: 1999
Call Number: F MARTIN
Format: Books
Summary: A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leaders -- Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon -- who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six noble families struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war.
Author: Cooper, J. California, author.
Published: 1986
Call Number: F COOPER
Format: Books
Summary: Offers a collection of stories full of wonder at the mystery of life, the hardness of fate, and the whimsical humor the Lord indulges in.
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