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Title: |
The Art of Racing in the Rain |
Author: |
Garth Stein |
Description: |
Nearing the end of his life, Enzo, a dog with a philosopher's soul, tries to bring together the family, pulled apart by a three year custody battle between daughter Zoe's maternal grandparents and her father Denny, a race car driver. |
Genre: |
Fiction |
Submitted by: |
Janet Gibbons, Circulation Assistant from Atascocita |
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Title: |
The Android's Dream |
Author: |
John Scalzi |
Description: |
To avoid war, Earth's government must find a type of sheep used in an alien race's coronation ceremony. To find the sheep, the government turns to Harry Creek, ex-cop, war hero, and hacker extraordinaire, who scours the Earth looking for the rare creature. They find it, in the unknowing form of Robin Baker, pet store owner, whose genes contain traces of the sheep DNA. |
Genre: |
Science Fiction |
Submitted by: |
Kimberly Clutter, Young Adult Librarian from Tomball |
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Title: |
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet |
Author: |
Neil deGrasse Tyson |
Description: |
An exploration of the controversy surrounding Pluto and its planet status from a renowned astrophysicist at the heart of the controversy. |
Genre: |
Non-Fiction |
Submitted by: |
Kimberly Clutter, Young Adult Librarian from Tomball |
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Title: |
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present |
Author: |
Michael Oren |
Description: |
Beset by privateers and bereft of protection by the British navy, the newly founded USA had a pressing interest in diplomacy with Algeria and other havens for pirates. Slightly later the new nation, its self-confidence greatly grown, provided a steady stream of Orientalists and missionaries seeking documents, relics, and souls to save. Oren points out that American involvement in the Middle East started at the moment there was an America. |
Genre: |
Non-Fiction |
Submitted by: |
Elise Sheppard, Teen Librarian from Cy-Fair |
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Title: |
The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life |
Author: |
Ellie Krieger |
Description: |
Do you think that healthy food couldn't possibly taste good? Does the idea of "eating healthy" conjure up images of roughage and steamed vegetables? Author Ellie Krieger, host of Food Network's Healthy Appetite, will change all that. |
Genre: |
Non-Fiction |
Submitted by: |
Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita |
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Title: |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
Author: |
Mary Ann Shaffer |
Description: |
As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey--a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island. |
Genre: |
Fiction |
Submitted by: |
Janet Gibbons , Circulation Assistant from Atascocita |
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Title: |
A Lesson Before Dying |
Author: |
Earnest J. Gaines |
Description: |
Set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, "A Lesson Before Dying" is an "enormously moving" ("Los Angeles Times") novel of one man condemned to die for a crime he did not commit and a young man who visits him in his cell. In the end, the two men forge a bond as they both come to understand the simple heroism of resisting--and defying--the expected. |
Genre: |
Fiction |
Submitted by: |
Clara McSpadden, Circulation Assistant from Maud Marks |
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Title: |
Lush Life |
Author: |
Richard Price |
Description: |
In this first-rate police procedural, Eric Cash, the 34-year-old bartender at Café Berkmann and a would-be screenwriter, ends up in jail as a murder suspect and it's up to two New York City police detectives to find out the truth. |
Genre: |
Mystery |
Submitted by: |
Bruce Farrar, Manager of Branch Services from Administrative Offices |
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Title: |
The Fiction Class |
Author: |
Susan Breen |
Description: |
On paper, Arabella Hicks is more than qualified to teach a weekly fiction class on New York's Upper West Side: She's an author herself; she's passionate about books; she's even named after the heroine in a Georgette Heyer novel. So why do her students seem so difficult? And why can't she find an ending to the novel she has been working on for seven years? Arabella's beginning to suspect that it's because her mother, Vera Hicks, is driving her insane. |
Genre: |
Fiction |
Submitted by: |
Janet Gibbons, Circulation Assistant from Atascocita |
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Title: |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
Author: |
Betty Smith |
Description: |
The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg has enchanted and inspired millions of readers for more than sixty years. |
Genre: |
Fiction |
Submitted by: |
Jorie Nissen, Reference Librarian from Freeman |
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