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The Geography of Bliss |
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Eric Weiner |
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Draws on the author's experiences as a foreign correspondent to evaluate more than three dozen countries for their happiness potential, in a survey that includes profiles of such locales as the American shores, glacial Iceland, and the Bhutan jungles. |
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Non-Fiction |
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Janet Gibbons, Circulation Assistant from Atascocita |
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close |
Author: |
Jonathan Safron Foer |
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Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, and pacifist. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. |
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Fiction |
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Misty Lopez, Circ Assistant from Tomball |
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A Brief History of Secret Societies |
Author: |
David V. Barrett |
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Throughout history there have been societies of closed membership and covert purpose. From the Knights Templars to the freemasons, an intimate look at the inner workings of secret societies. |
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Non-Fiction |
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Edmundo H. Anguiano, Circulation Assistant from Baldwin Boettcher |
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The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic |
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Gay Salisbury |
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In 1925, a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through icebound Nome, Alaska. The life-saving serum was a thousand miles away, and a blizzard was brewing. Airplanes could not fly in such conditions: only the dogs could do it. Racing against death, twenty dog teams relayed the serum across the Alaskan wilderness as newspapers nationwide headlined the drama, enthralling an entire generation. The heroic dash to Nome inspired the annual Iditarod Dog Sled Race in Alaska and immortalized Balto, the lead dog whose arrival in Nome over a snow-blown trail was an American legend in the making. His bronze statue still stands in New York City's Central Park, in dedication to the ''Endurance, Fidelity and Intelligence'' of the dogs that saved Nome. This is their story, the greatest dog story never fully told, until now. |
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Non-Fiction |
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Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita |
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The Art of Finding Nemo |
Author: |
Mark Cotta Vaz |
Description: |
Explores the artwork of the animated movie Finding Nemo |
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Non-Fiction |
Submitted by: |
Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita |
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PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives |
Author: |
Frank Warren |
Description: |
For the Postsecret project, which was started in October 2004, Warren asked people to write a secret they had never told anyone on a handmade postcard and mail it to him. This compilation is astonishing in its honesty and creativity. |
Genre: |
Non-Fiction |
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David Foster, Circulation Assistant from Fairbanks |
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Title: |
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid |
Author: |
Bill Bryson |
Description: |
Using a superhero fantasy persona, that he created as a child, as a springboard, Bill Bryson re-creates the life of his family and his native city in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality - at once completely familiar to us all and as far away and unreachable as another galaxy. He brings us into the life of his loving but eccentric family. |
Genre: |
Biography |
Submitted by: |
Janet Gibbons, Circulation Assistant from Atascocita |
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Against the Odds: Women Pioneers in the First Hundred Years of Photography |
Author: |
Martin W. Sandler |
Description: |
The history of photography, and women's role within that history, remains incomplete-despite the fact that the medium was invented more than 150 years ago. Pulitzer Prize nominee Martin Sandler's Against the Odds: Women Pioneers in the First Hundred Years of Photography, with its carefully balanced commentary on women who have been lost to the historical record as well as those who have received their due, makes a vital contribution to the literature on women photographers. |
Genre: |
Non-Fiction |
Submitted by: |
Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita |
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The Bob Dylan Scrapbook : 1956-1966 |
Author: |
Robert Santelli |
Description: |
The Bob Dylan Scrapbook : 1956-1966 is an essential addition to every music fan's collection - an illustrated, interactive biography that gives rare insight into one of the most eventful and formative decades in Bob Dylan's storied career. Featuring interviews, archival photographs, reproductions of handwritten song lyrics, plus other rare materials drawn from collectors around the world, this is a piece of rock and roll history. |
Genre: |
Biography |
Submitted by: |
Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita |
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