Hornby, Nick - How To Be Good
Katie Carr is certainly trying to be good.
That's why she became a GP. That's why she
cares about Third World debt and
homelessness, and struggles to raise her
children with a conscience. It's also why she
puts up with her husband David, the selfstyled Angriest Man in Holloway. But one
fateful day, she finds herself in a Leeds
parking lot, having just slept with another
man. What Katie doesn't yet realize is that
her fall from grace is just the first step on a spiritual journey more
torturous than the interstate at rush hour. Because, prompted by his
wife's actions, David is about to stop being angry.
Grogan, John - Marley & Me
The heartwarming and unforgettable story
of a family in the making and the wondrously
neurotic dog who taught them what really
matters in life. John and Jenny were just
beginning their life together. They were
young and in love, with a perfect little house
and not a care in the world. Then they
brought home Marley, a wiggly yellow furball
of a puppy. Life would never be the same!
Smith, Betty - A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
This American classic is about a young girl's
coming-of-age at the turn of the century,
It is a poignant and moving tale filled with
compassion and cruelty, laughter and
heartache, crowded with life and people and
incident. 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.
Summers, Courtney - What Goes Around
In Cracked Up To Be, Perfect Parker Fadley
isn’t so perfect anymore. She’s quit the
cheerleading squad, she’s dumped her
perfect boyfriend, and she’s failing school.
Her parents are on a constant suicide
watch and her counsellors think she’s
playing games…but what they don’t know,
the real reason for this whole mess, is that
a horrible thing has happened and it just
might be her fault. In Some Girls Are,
climbing to the top of the social ladder is
hard--falling from it is even harder. Regina Afton used to be a member of
the Fearsome Fivesome. And just like the other members of this all girl
clique, she was both feared and revered by the students of Hallowell
High... that is until vicious rumours about her and her best friend's
boyfriend start going around.
Morgenstern, Erin - Night Circus
The circus arrives without warning. No
announcements precede it. It is simply
there, when yesterday it was not. Within
the black-and-white striped canvas tents
is an utterly unique experience full of
breathtaking amazements. It is called Le
Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at
night. But behind the scenes, a fierce
competition is underway—a duel between
two young magicians, Celia and Marco,
who have been trained since childhood
expressly for this purpose by their
mercurial instructors.
Golden, Author - Memoirs Of A Geisha
Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a
geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village
in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old girl
with unusual blue-grey eyes, she is taken
from her home and sold into slavery to a
renowned geisha house. We enter a world
where appearances are paramount;
where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the
highest bidder; where women are trained
to beguile the most powerful men; and
where love is scorned as illusion.
Kesey, Ken - One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward
in an Oregon State mental hospital with
a strict and unbending routine,
unopposed by her patients, who remain
cowed by mind-numbing medication and
the threat of electric shock therapy. But
her regime is disrupted by the arrival of
McMurphy – the swaggering, fun-loving
trickster with a devilish grin who
resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of
his fellow inmates.
Haddon, Mark - Curious Incident Of A Dog In The Night
The detective, and narrator, is
Christopher Boone. He is fifteen and
has Asperger's Syndrome. He knows a
great deal about maths and very little
about human beings. He loves lists,
patterns and the truth. He hates being
touched. He has never gone further
than the end of the road on his own,
but when he finds a neighbour's dog
murdered he sets out on a terrifying
journey which will turn his whole world
upside down
Hinton, S.E - Outsiders
A soc (short for "social") has money, can
get away with just about anything, and
has an attitude longer than a limousine. A
greaser, on the other hand, always lives
on the outside and needs to watch his
back. Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's
always been proud of it, even willing to
rumble against a gang of socs for the
sake of his fellow greasers--until one
terrible night when his friend Johnny kills
a soc.
Grant, Michael - Gone
In the blink of an eye, everyone
disappears. Gone. Except for the young.
There are teens, but not one single adult.
Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no
internet, no television. No way to get
help. And no way to figure out what's
happened .Hunger threatens. Bullies rule.
A sinister creature lurks. Animals are
mutating. And the teens themselves are
changing, developing new talents—
unimaginable, dangerous, deadly
powers—that grow stronger by the day.
Dowswell, Paul - Survival
From sinking submarines and
blazing airstrips to shark attacks
and exploding spacecraft, the
people in these real stories
hovered on the brink of death, yet
survived to tell what happened!
Ten exciting tales include both the
details of the disasters and the
amazing circumstances that
allowed life to triumph over death!
Shusterman, Neal - Unwind
The Second Civil War was fought over
reproductive rights. The chilling
resolution: Life is inviolable from the
moment of conception until age thirteen.
Between the ages of thirteen and
eighteen, however, parents can have
their child "unwound," whereby all of the
child's organs are transplanted into
different donors, so life doesn't
technically end. Connor is too difficult for
his parents to control. Risa, a ward of the state is not enough to be kept
alive. And Lev is a tithe, a child conceived and raised to be unwound.
Together, they may have a chance to escape and to survive.
Artman, Rachel - Seraphina
In a world where dragons and humans
coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons
can assume human form, Seraphina,
whose mother died giving birth to her,
grapples with her own identity amid
magical secrets and royal scandals, while
she struggles to accept and develop her
extraordinary musical talents.
Horowitz, Anthony - Oblivion
Having escaped from Hong Kong, the
five gatekeepers - Matt, Pedro, Scott,
Jamie and Scarlett - are scattered in a
hostile and dangerous world. As they
struggle to re-group and plan their next
move, the malevolent King of the Old
Ones gathers his forces in Oblivion: a
desolate landscape where the last
survivors of humanity must fight the
ultimate battle.
Stiefvater, Maggie - Shiver
Grace has spent years watching the
wolves in the woods behind her house.
One yellow-eyed wolf -- her wolf -watches back. He feels deeply familiar
to her, but she doesn't know why. Sam
has lived two lives. As a wolf, he keeps
the silent company of the girl he loves.
And then, for a short time each year, he
is human, never daring to talk to
Grace...until now.
Hurston, zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
At the age of 16, Janie is caught
kissing the shiftless Johnny Taylor, so
her grandmother quickly marries her
off to an old man with 60 acres.
Refusing to compromise in spite of
society's expectations, Janie endures
two stifling marriages before meeting
the man of her dreams.
Simon, Rachel - The Story Of Beautiful Girl
It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white
woman with a developmental
disability, and Homan, an African
American deaf man, are locked away
in an institution, the School for the
Incurable and Feebleminded, and
have been left to languish, forgotten.
Deeply in love, they escape, and find
refuge in the farmhouse of Martha, a
retired schoolteacher and widow. But
the couple is not alone.
Sparks, Nicholas - A Walk To Remember
Every April, when the wind blows
from the sea and mingles with the
scent of lilacs, Landon Carter
remembers his last year at Beaufort
High. It was 1958, and Landon had
already dated a girl or two. He even
swore that he had once been in
love. Certainly the last person in
town he thought he'd fall for was
Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the
town's Baptist minister.
Shearer, Alex - Tins
Fergal is a self-confessed nerd with
an eccentric hobby: tin collecting.
He likes the lucky dip aspect of
buying tins that have their labels
missing - after all, you never know
what might be inside. It's Fergal's
idea of living dangerously. That is,
until the day he innocently opens up
a tin to find...a bloodied human
finger.
Sparks, Nicholas - Message In A Bottle
Theresa Osborne is still grieving the
sudden end of her eight year
marriage when she finds a bottle on
the beach that contains one of the
most touching love letters she has
ever read. When Theresa publishes
this letter and discovers others, she
decides to meet the romantic
author. Soon Theresa and Garrett
Blake find themselves wrapped in a
passionate affair that is marred only
by distance and Garrett's continued
devotion to his deceased wife.
Van Draanen, Wendelin - The Running Dream
Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses
a leg in a car accident. She's not comforted
by the news that she'll be able to walk with
the help of a prosthetic leg. Who cares about
walking when you live to run? As she
struggles to cope with crutches and a first
cyborg-like prosthetic, Jessica feels oddly
both in the spotlight and invisible.
Swindells, Robert - Timesnatch
Once a creature is extinct, it's gone for
ever, isn't it? Not any more - as a butterfly
from the past proves. The physicist mother
of Kizzy and Fraser Rye has invented an
amazing time machine that can travel back
into the past, snatch a plant or animal now
extinct and bring it back into the present.
It's a wonderful achievement, a real
scientific breakthrough. But the machine 'Rye's Apparatus' - has a horrifying
potential.
Tartt, Donna - The Secret History
Under the influence of their charismatic
classics professor, a group of clever,
eccentric misfits at an elite New England
college discover a way of thinking and
living that is a world away from the
humdrum existence of their
contemporaries. But when they go beyond
the boundaries of normal morality their
lives are changed profoundly and forever,
and they discover how hard it can be to
truly live and how easy it is to kill.
Grant, Rob and Naylor, Doug - Red Dwarf
Awakening from a drunken spree in a
London pub to find himself on one of
Saturn's moons, Lister joins the Space
Corps and boards the Red Dwarf,
determined to return to Earth.
Crutcher, Chris - Ironman
Bo has been at war with his father for as
long as he can remember. The rage he
feels gives him the energy as a
triathlete to press his body to the limit,
but it also translates into angry
outbursts toward his teachers .Now
dangerously close to expulsion from
school, Bo has been assigned to Anger
Management sessions with the school
"truants." With an eclectic mix of hardedged students, Bo may finally have to deal with his long-brewing hatred
for his father -- before it eats away at him completely
Beckett, Chris - Dark Eden
On the alien, sunless planet they call
Eden, the 532 members of the Family
shelter beneath the light and warmth
of the Forest’s lantern trees. Beyond
the Forest lie the mountains of the
Snowy Dark and a cold so bitter and a
night so profound that no man has
ever crossed it. The Oldest among the
Family recount legends of a world
where light came from the sky, where
men and women made boats that
could cross the stars.
Charbonneau, Joelle - The Testing
Keep your friends close and your
enemies closer. Isn’t that what they
say? But how close is too close when
they may be one in the same? The
Seven Stages War left much of the
planet a charred wasteland. The future
belongs to the next generation’s
chosen few who must rebuild it. But to
enter this elite group, candidates must
first pass The Testing—their one
chance at a college education and a
rewarding career.
Dallas, Sandra - Tallgrass
During World War II, a family finds
life turned upside down when the
government opens a Japanese
internment camp in their small
Colorado town. After a young girl is
murdered, all eyes turn to the
newcomers. This is Tallgrass as
Rennie Stroud has never seen it
before. She has just turned thirteen
and, until this time, life has pretty
much been what her father told her it
should be: predictable and fair. But
now the winds of change are coming
and, with them, a shift in her perspective. And Rennie will discover
secrets that can destroy even the most sacred things.
Byars, Betsy - The Midnight Fox
Tom is so excited by seeing the black
fox that he goes out every day hoping
to see her again. And when she and her
cub are in danger from his uncle's gun,
Tom is sure he is the only person who
can save them.
Delillo, Don - Underworld
Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each
other once, intimately, and they meet
again in the American desert. He is
trying to outdistance the crucial events
of his early life; she is an artist who
has made a blood struggle for
independence."Underworld" is a story
of men and women together and
apart, seen in deep, clear detail and in
stadium-sized panoramas, shadowed
throughout by the overarching conflict
of the Cold War.