New Secondary Library Titles

February 23rd -27th, 2015

Picoult, Jodi, 1966- author. Between the lines : a novel. First Simon Pulse/Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books paperback edition.

Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.

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Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. As crônicas de Nárnia : volume único.


Esta edição apresenta todas as sete crônicas integralmente, um único volume magnífico. "As Crônicas de Nárnia" continuam cativando os leitores com aventuras, personagens e fatos que falam a pessoas de todas as idades, mesmo 50 anos após terem sido publicadas pela primeira vez.

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Colbert, Don. The seven pillars of health. 1st ed.

Details a fifty-day plan based on the basics of good health, and explains how improving dietary and lifestyle choices can result in increased energy and well-being, less stress, and more.

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Hurston, Zora Neale. Their eyes were watching God. 1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed., 75th anniversary ed. New York : HarperPerennial, 2006, c1937.

An African-American woman searches for a fulfilling relationship through two loveless marriages and finally finds it in the person of Tea Cake, an itinerant laborer and gambler.

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Lukacs, John, 1924-. The duel : 10 May-31 July 1940 : the eighty-day struggle between Churchill and Hitler.

A day-by-day reconstruction of the eighty days from May 10 to July 31 in 1940 between Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill.

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Seierstad, Åsne, 1970-. The bookseller of Kabul. 1st U.S. ed. Boston : Little, Brown, c2003.

Asne Seierstand recounts the experiences she had while staying with a bookseller named Sultan Khan and his family in Afghanistan just after the fall of the Taliban, describing what it was like for families in Afghanistan to adjust to a new way of life and a new government.

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Albom, Mitch, 1958-. Tuesdays with Morrie : an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson. 1st Anchor Books ed.

The author, an alumnus of Brandeis University, tells of his meetings with a former professor suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease and of the lessons he learned about life and death from his college mentor.

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Shaffer, Mary Ann. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. 2009 Dial Press Trade pbk. ed. New York : Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, 2009, c2008.

Juliet Ashton, a thirty-year-old author, writes to her publisher expressing her desire to stop covering the aftermath of WWII, but Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams invites neighbors to write to Juliet with their stories, which puts her off at first but eventually helps her find inspiration for her next book, and her life.

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