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Billy BathgateE. L. Doctorow.
Description: In 1930's New York, Billy Bathgate, a fifteen-year-old high-school dropout, has captured the attention of infamous gangster Dutch Schultz, who lures the boy into his world of racketeering. The product of an East Bronx upbringing by his half-crazy Irish Catholic mother, after his Jewish father left them long ago, Billy is captivated by the world of money, sex, and high society the charismatic Schultz has to offer. But it is also a world of extortion, brutality, and murder, where Billy finds himself involved in a dangerous affair with Schultz's girlfriend. Relive this story through the title character's driving narrative, a child's thoughts and feelings filtered through the sensibilities of an adult, and the result is E.L. Doctorow's most convincing and appealing portrayal of a young boy's life. |
Book Thief, TheMarkus Zusak
General Notes: This title is appropriate for grades 8-12. Description: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors. |
Boy in the Striped Pajamas, TheJohn Boyne
General Notes: This title is appropriate for grades 8-12. Description: Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence. |
Change of HeartJodi Picoult
Description: A spellbinding tale of a mother's tragic loss and one man's last chance at gaining salvation. |
Choice, TheNicholas Sparks
Description: Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life-- boating, swimming, and regular barbecues with his good-natured buddies--he holds the vague conviction that a serious relationship with a woman would only cramp his style. That is, until Gabby Holland moves in next door. Despite his attempts to be neighborly, the appealing redhead seems to have a chip on her shoulder about him . . . and the presence of her longtime boyfriend doesn't help. Despite himself, Travis can't stop trying to ingratiate himself with his new neighbor, and his persistent efforts lead them both to the doorstep of a journey that neither could have foreseen. Spanning the eventful years of young love, marriage and family, The Choice ultimately confronts us with the most heart wrenching question of all: how far would you go to keep the hope of love alive? |
Cold MountainCharles Frazier
Description: Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. |
Company of Women, TheMary Gordon
Description: Raised by five intensely religious women and a charismatic, controversial priest, sheltered from the secular world, Felicitas Maria Taylor is intelligent, charming, and desperate for a taste of ordinary happiness. More freedom than she has ever imagined awaits her at Columbia University in the 1960s. There, Felicitas falls in love with the worst man for her -- with shattering results. |
CosmicFrank Cottrell Boyce
Description: 12-year old Liam looks like he's thirty. Sometimes it's not bad; for example on the first day of school the principal mistakes Liam for a teacher or when he convinces a car dealer to let him test drive a Porsche. So feeling like he's stuck between two worlds, Liam cons his way into being the adult chaperone on the first space ship to take civilians into space. But when the ship is stuck 230,000 miles from home, being mistaken for an adult is not good.
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Covenant, TheNaomi Ragen
Description: Living in Jerusalem, Elise Margulies fears for the lives of her husband and daughter every day. Over five terror and hope-filled days during which ordinary people join the front lines against terrorism, the ties that bind two generations form a powerful alliance against contemporary evil. |
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-timeMark Haddon
General Notes: This title is appropriate for grades 8-12. Description: Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years. |
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Contents: 
Contents: 11 paperback books -- Clip board.
Contents: 
Contents: 
Contents: 14 paperback books -- 1 DVD -- Clip board.
Contents: 10 paperback books -- Facilitator's loan sheet -- Book synopsis -- Discussion questions -- "How to facilitate a book discussion group" -- Title list -- Clip board.
Contents: 
Contents: 10 Paperback books -- Facilitator's loan sheet -- Book synopsis -- Discussion questions -- "How to facilitate a book discussion group" -- Title list -- Clip board.
Contents: 12 paperback books, 1 hardcover book --Clip board.