Academy of Notre Dame de Namur Library
New Titles Added September and October 2012
226.1
Synopsis of the four Gospels : completely revised on the basis of the Greek text of the Nestle-Aland
26th edition and Greek New Testament 3rd edition : the text is the second edition of the Revised
Standard Version. English ed., 1st ed. New York : American Bible Society, [1985], c1982.
Offers a detailed synopsis of the Four Gospels, with listings of semantic parallels, references to
previous and later citations, and cross references of quotations, allusions, and topical
correspondence.
629.13
Fleming, Candace. Amelia lost : the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart. 1st ed. New York :
Schwartz & Wade Books, c2011.
Traces the life of female aviator Amelia Earhart from her childhood to her final flight, discusses
the extensive search for her and her missing plane, and includes photographs, maps, handwritten
notes by Amelia, and sidebars.
822.3 S
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Julius Caesar. New York : Bantam, 1988.
Contains an introduction to the play, the text of the play, and notes.
822.33
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. A midsummer night's dream. Dover ed. New York : Dover
Publications, 1992.
Presents the text of Shakespeare's comedy in which two sets of lovers get lost in the woods and
become caught up in a dispute between the fairy king and queen, along with a group of local
artisans preparing a play for Duke Theseus' wedding.
822.33 S
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. The taming of the shrew. Dover thrift ed., Dover ed. Mineola, N.Y. :
Dover Publications, 1997.
A play about the tempestuous courtship between Katharina and Petruchio, who sets out to calm
Katharina's temper and gain her dowry.
823.912
Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Dubliners. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin, 1993.
882.01
Sophocles. Oedipus the King. New York : Pocket Books, [1994].
Sophocles' play of a king prophesied to kill his father and marry his mother is here presented in a
translation designed to be used on stage.
940.4
Murphy, Jim, 1947-. Truce : the day the soldiers stopped fighting. New York : Scholastic Press, c2009.
Tells the story of the December 25, 1914 truce between German and British soldiers as they laid
down their weapons and met in No Man's Land to celebrate Christmas.
974.4 A
Aretha, David. Political profiles : Mitt Romney. Greensboro, N.C. : Morgan Reynolds Pub., c2013.
Young Mitt -- The Governor's Son -- A Head for Business -- Olympic-Sized Ambitions -Governor of Massachusetts -- A Run for the White House -- Take Two : A Second Bid for
President -- Timeline -- Web sites.
F AUS
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Persuasion. Dover ed. Mineola, N.Y. : Dover, 1997.
Anne Elliot, persuaded by family and friends that the charming and handsome Frederick
Wentworth is not worthy of her regard, questions her decision to send him away until he returns
seven years later, his circumstances much improved.
F BEL
Bell, Hilari. Shield of stars. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2008, c2007.
When the Justice he works for is condemned for treason, fourteen-year-old and semi-reformed
pickpocket Weasel sets out to find a notorious bandit who may be able to help save his master's
life.
F BOO
Booraem, Ellen. Small persons with wings. New York : Puffin Books, 2012, c2011.
Mellie Turpin learns her family's legacy when her grandfather wills her his run-down inn and bar
and embarks on a magical quest when fairies demand that Mellie finds and returns a magical ring
that is missing.
F BRA
Bray, Libba. Beauty queens. New York : Scholastic, [2012], c2011.
When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle
to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to
learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.
F BRA
Bray, Libba. The diviners. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2012.
Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York
City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The
Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.
F BUN
Bunting, Eve, 1928-. The pirate captain's daughter. Ann Arbor, Mich. : Sleeping Bear Press, c2011.
Upon her mother's death, fifteen-year-old Catherine puts her courage and strength to the test by
disguising herself as a boy to join her father, a pirate captain, on a ship whose crew includes men
who are trying to steal a treasure from him.
FC
Cashore, Kristin. Bitterblue. New York : Dial Books, c2012.
Eighteen-year-old Bitterblue, queen of Monsea, realizes her heavy responsibility and the futility
of relying on advisors who surround her with lies as she tries to help her people to heal from the
thirty-five-year spell cast by her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities.
F CAL
Calonita, Jen. Belles. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2012.
Fifteen-year-old Isabelle loves her impoverished North Carolina beach community, but when her
grandmother must enter a nursing home, Izzie is placed with distant relatives she never knew--a
state senator and his preppy wife and children.
F CAL
Calonita, Jen. Winter white. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2012.
The daughters of a North Carolina senator, Isabelle and Mirabelle, who are still reeling from the
knowledge that they are not cousins, but actually sisters, barely have time to process the news
with cotillion season right around the corner.
F CAR
Carbone, Elisa Lynn. Blood on the river : James Town 1607. New York : Puffin Books, 2007, c2006.
Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page to Captain John Smith, twelve-year-old orphan
Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of James Town, where he must quickly learn to
distinguish between friend and foe.
F CAR
Card, Orson Scott. Seventh son. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1987.
F CHB
Chbosky, Stephen. The perks of being a wallflower. MTV Books/Gallery Books trade pbk. ed. New
York : MTV Books/Gallery Books, 2012, c1999.
Charlie, a freshman in high school, explores the dilemmas of growing up through a collection of
letters he sends to an unknown receiver.
F CLA
Clare, Cassandra. City of fallen angels. 1st ed. New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, c2011.
As mysterious murders threaten the new peace between Shadowhunters and Downworlders, only
Simon, the Daylighter vampire, can help bring both groups together.
F CLA
Clare, Cassandra. Clockwork angel. 1st Margaret K. McElderry Books pbk. ed. New York : Margaret
K. McElderry Books, 2011, c2010.
Sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray travels to England in search of her brother only to be abducted by the
Dark Sisters, residents of London's Downworld, home to the city's supernatural folk, and she
becomes the object of much attention--both good and bad--when it is discovered she has the
power to transform at will into another person.
F CLA
Clare, Cassandra. Clockwork prince. 1st ed., Collector's 1st ed. New York : Margaret K. McElderry
Books, c2011.
As the Council attempts to strip Charlotte of her power, sixteen-year-old orphaned shapechanger
Tessa Gray works with the London Shadowhunters to find the Magister and destroy his
clockwork army, learning the secret of her own identity while investigating his past.
F COD
Cody, Matthew. Powerless. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, c2009.
Soon after moving to Noble's Green, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Daniel learns that his new
friends have super powers that they will lose when they turn thirteen, unless he can use his brain
power to protect them.
F CON
Cooney, Caroline B. Three black swans. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2010.
When sixteen-year-old Missy Vianello decides to try to convince her classmates that her cousin
Claire is really her long-lost identical twin, she has no idea that the results of her prank will be so
life-changing.
F COO
Cooney, Caroline B. The lost songs. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2011.
In small-town Carolina, sixteen-year-old Lutie Painter treasures the "Laundry List" of songs
written by her ancestor and does not want to share them, but ultimately they help her learn more
about her absent mother and connect with fellow students Kelvin, Doria, and especially Train, a
former friend.
F DEM
Demas, Corinne. Everything I was. Minneapolis, MN : Carolrhoda Lab, c2011.
Thirteen-year-old Irene helps in her grandfather's plant nursery, makes new friends, and begins to
learn what she really wants and needs after her father, having lost his job as an investment banker,
moves her and her mother to his father's farmhouse upstate.
F DES
Dessen, Sarah. Just listen : a novel. New York : Speak, 2008, c2006.
Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteenyear-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her
to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life.
F DOS
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The brothers Karamazov. New York : Modern Library, (1933).
Concerned with the three sons of an old drunkard: Ivan, the materialist, Alyosha, the lovable
young mystic, and Mitya, tried and falsely convicted for murdering his father.
F DOW
Dowell, Frances O'Roark. Ten miles past normal. 1st Atheneum Books for Young Readers pbk. ed.
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2012, c2011.
Because living with "modern-hippy" parents on a goat farm means fourteen-year-old Janie
Gorman cannot have a normal high school life, she tries joining Jam Band, making friends with
Monster, and spending time with elderly former civil rights workers.
F DUM
Du Maurier, Daphne, Dame, 1907-. The glass-blowers. [1st ed.]. Garden City, N.Y., : Doubleday, 1963.
F DUM
Du Maurier, Daphne, Dame, 1907-. The house on the strand. [1st ed. in the U.S.A.]. Garden City, N.Y.,
: Doubleday, 1969.
F DUN
Duncan, Lois, 1934-. Daughters of Eve. New York : Dell Laurel Leaf, [1990], c1979.
A high school teacher uses the guise of feminist philosophy to manipulate the lives of a group of
girls, with chilling results.
F DUP
DuPrau, Jeanne. The people of Sparks. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Random House, 2005, c2004.
Lina and Doon are thrilled to see their people join them above ground in the vibrant village of
Sparks, but suspicion and prejudice soon turn the villagers and newcomers against each other.
F FIT
Fitzpatrick, Huntley. My life next door. New York : Dial Books, c2012.
When Samantha, the seventeen-year-old daugher of a wealthy, perfectionistic, Republican state
senator, falls in love with the boy next door, whose family is large, boisterous, and just making
ends meet, she discovers a different way to live, but when her mother is involved in a hit-and-run
accident Sam must make some difficult choices.
F FUN
Funke, Cornelia Caroline. The Thief Lord. New York : Scholastic, [2010], c2001.
Orphaned brothers Prosper and Bo, having run away from their cruel aunt and uncle, decide to
hide out in Venice where they fall in with the Thief Lord, a thirteen-year-old boy who leads a
crime ring of street children.
F GAI
Gaiman, Neil. The graveyard book. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Harper, 2010, c2008.
The orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is taken in by the inhabitants of a graveyard as a child of
eighteen months and raised lovingly and carefully to the age of eighteen years by the community
of ghosts and otherworldly creatures.
F GAN
Gantos, Jack. Dead end in Norvelt. 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2011.
In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of
1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most
unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies,
underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.
F GRE
Green, John. Looking for Alaska. New York : Speak, 2007, c2005.
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good
friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal
car crash.
F GRE
Green, John, 1977-. An abundance of Katherines. New York : Speak, 2008, c2006.
Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high
school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to
find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his
relationships.
F GRE
Green, John, 1977-. Paper towns. New York : Speak, 2009, c2008.
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks
in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman,
Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
F GRE
Green, John, 1977-. Will Grayson, Will Grayson. New York : Speak, 2011, c2010.
When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the
same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who
produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.
F GRI
Grimes, Nikki. Planet Middle School. New York : Bloomsbury, 2011.
A series of poems describes all the baffling changes at home and at school in twelve-year-old
Joylin's transition from tomboy basketball player to not-quite-girly girl.
F JOH
Johnson, Angela, 1961-. A certain October. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books For Young
Readers, c2012.
After a terrible accident, Scotty feels responsible for the death of someone she hardly knew and
struggles with her own reality while her friends and family deal with their own troubles, but the
prospect of a boy and a dance add positive possibility back into Scotty's life.
F JOH
Johnson, Maureen, 1973-. The last little blue envelope. 1st pbk. ed. New York : HarperTeen, 2012,
c2011.
Seventeen-year-old Ginny Blackstone precipitously travels from her home in New Jersey to
London when she receives a message from an unknown man telling her he has the letters that
were stolen just before she completed a series of mysterious tasks assigned by her now dead aunt,
an artist.
F KAT
Katcher, Brian. Playing with matches. 1st Laurel-Leaf ed. New York : Laurel-Leaf Books, c2008.
Desperate to improve his standing with the girls at Zummer High, Leon Sanders--a junior--seems
to be making headway with his long-time crush Amy Green, but when he starts to get to know a
social pariah named Melody Sanders, Leon begins to see beyond Melody's disfigurement.
F KEP
Kephart, Beth. Small damages. New York : Philomel Books, c2012.
Eighteen-year-old Kenzie of Philadelphia, pregnant by Yale-bound Kevin, is bitter when her
mother sends her to Spain to deliver and give her baby away, but discovers a makeshift family
with the rancher who takes her in, his cook, and the young man they have raised together.
F KON
Konigsburg, E. L. Silent to the bone. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks,
2002, c2000.
When he is wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby half-sister, thirteen-year-old Branwell
loses his power of speech and only his friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover the truth
about what really happened.
F LEV
Levithan, David. Every day. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2012.
Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the
years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with
Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.
F LOR
Lore, Pittacus. The rise of nine. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2012.
John--aka Number Four--continues his quest to find the rest of the Lorien Nine before the
Mogadorians can, and, with time running out, Number Six goes off alone while John teams up
with Number Nine.
F LOW
Lowry, Lois. Gathering blue. New York : Dell Laurel-Leaf, [2002], c2000.
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the
palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of
the all-powerful Guardians.
F LOW
Lowry, Lois. Messenger. New York : Laurel-Leaf, [2006], c2004.
Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging
healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
F LOW
Lowry, Lois. Son. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2012.
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to
her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family
unit.
F MAR
Marsh, Katherine. Jepp, who defied the stars. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, 2012.
"Jepp, a teenage dwarf living in 16th century Europe, leaves home to seek his destiny"--.
F MCK
McKinley, Robin. The hero and the crown. 2nd Ace trade pbk. ed. New York : Ace Books, 2007,
c1984.
Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the Blue Sword, wins the birthright
due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demonhaunted North.
F MIL
Milford, Kate. The Boneshaker. Boston : Sandpiper, 2010.
When Jake Limberleg brings his traveling medicine show to a small Missouri town in 1913,
thirteen-year-old Natalie senses that something is wrong and, after investigating, learns that her
love of automata and other machines make her the only one who can set things right.
F NEL
Nelson, Blake, 1960-. Rock star, superstar. New York : Speak, 2005, c2004.
When Pete, a talented bass player, moves from playing in the high school jazz band to playing in
a popular rock group, he finds the experience exhilarating even as his new fame jeopardizes his
relationship with girlfriend Margaret.
F NIX
Nix, Garth. Mister Monday. New York : Scholastic, c2003.
Arthur Penhaligon is supposed to die at a young age, but is saved by a key that is shaped like the
minute hand of a clock. The key causes bizarre creatures to come from another realm, bringing
with them a plague. A man named Mister Monday will stop at nothing to get the key back. Arthur
goes to a mysterious house that only he can see, so that he can learn the truth about himself and
the key.
F OKO
Okorafor-Mbachu, Nnedi. The shadow speaker. 1st ed. New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion, c2007.
Fourteen-year-old "shadow speaker" Ejii sets off across the Sahara in 2070 in search of her
father's killer, and discovers a greater purpose to her life and to the mystical powers she
possesses.
FP
Patneaude, David. Someone was watching. Morton Grove, Ill. : A. Whitman, 1993.
When his baby sister disappears from the river near their summer home, eighth grader Chris fights
the assumption that she has drowned and uncovers evidence that something entirely different has
happened to her.
F PAR
Park, Linda Sue. A long walk to water : a novel : based on a true story. Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt, c2010.
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes
separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern
Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after
emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
F PAU
Paulsen, Gary. Guts : the true stories behind Hatchet and the Brian books. New York : Dell Laurel-Leaf,
[2002], c2001.
The author relates incidents in his life and how they inspired parts of his books about the
character, Brian Robeson.
F RHO
Rhodes, Jewell Parker. Ninth Ward. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2012, c2010.
In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted
grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down
upon them.
F RIO
Riordan, Rick. The mark of Athena. 1st ed. New York : Disney/Hyperion Books., c2012.
"The Greek and Roman demigods will have to cooperate in order to defeat the giants released by
the Earth Mother, Gaea. Then they will have to sail together to the ancient land--Greece itself--to
find the Doors of Death"--Provided by publisher.
F RIO
Riordan, Rick. The serpent's shadow. 1st ed. New York : Disney/Hyperion Books, c2012.
F SHA
Shaffer, Mary Ann. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. New York : Dial Press, 2008.
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.
F SHA
Shahan, Sherry. Death mountain. 1st trade pbk. ed. Atlanta, Ga. : Peachtree, 2007, c2005.
While traveling to visit the mother she has not heard from in almost a year, Erin and another
teenage girl become lost in the rugged Sierra Nevada mountains and must struggle for six days to
survive.
F SON
Sonnenblick, Jordan. Drums, girls, & dangerous pie. New York : Scholastic, [2006], c2004.
When his younger brother is diagnosed with leukemia, thirteen-year-old Steven tries to deal with
his complicated emotions, his school life, and his desire to support his family.
F WAS
Wasserman, Robin. The book of blood and shadow. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, c2012.
While working on a project translating letters from sixteenth-century Prague, high school senior
Nora Kane discovers her best friend murdered with her boyfriend the apparent killer and is caught
up in a dangerous web of secret societies and shadowy conspirators, all searching for a mysterious
ancient device purported to allow direct communication with God.
F WAS
Wasserman, Robin. Hacking Harvard : a novel. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2007.
Four pranksters decide they are going to use their intelligence to get an unqualified student into
Harvard University.
F WAS
Wasserman, Robin. Shattered. Simon Pulse pbk. ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2011, c2009.
Living with other "mechs" since her wealthy parents transplanted her brain into a mechanical
body to prevent her from dying in a horrible accident, Lia becomes a pawn in a religious leader's
movement to outlaw "mech" technology and eradicate machines such as herself.
F WAS
Wasserman, Robin. Torn. 1st Simon Pulse pbk. ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2011, c2010.
Lia is back at home, pretending to be the perfect daughter, but she has become the public face of
the mechs, devoting her life to convincing the world that she and others like her deserve to exist,
until shocking truths are revealed, forcing her to make a life-changing decision.