Week of August 24, 2009
FIC GOL
The Diamond of Drury Lane Julia Golding
Orphan Catherine "Cate" Royal, living at the Drury Lane Theater in 1790's London, tries to find the "diamond" supposedly hidden in the theater, which unmasks a treasonous political cartoonist, and involves her in the street gangs of Covent Garden and the world of nobility. 424 pages
FIC PEC
Sprout, or, My Salad Days, when I was Green in Judgement Dale Peck
Moving from Long Island to Kansas after his mother dies, a teenaged boy nicknamed Sprout is surprised to find new friends, a fascinating landscape, and romantic love. 277 pages
FIC MAL
The Resistance Gemma Malley
In the future England where young people, or "Surpluses," are heavily regulated and everyone takes a drug called Longevity, a member of the Underground infiltrates the Pincent Pharma manufacturing plant and uncovers horrific acts being committed in an attempt to create eternal youth. 323 pages
FIC HOO
Newes from the Dead Mary Hooper
In 1650, while Robert, a young medical student, steels himself to assist with her dissection, twenty-two-year-old housemaid Anne Green recalls her life as she lies in her coffin, presumed dead after bing hanged for murdering her child that was, in fact, stillborn. 263 pages
FIC WAT
Kiss of Life Daniel Waters
The undead population of Oakville band together in a group called the Sons of Remero, hoping to defy segregation, and when Phoebe Kendall, who is alive, realizes she has feeling for a zombie, her friend Adam is murdered and returns from the grave, leading to a bizarre love triangle. 410 pages
FIC MCC
House and Home Kathleen McCleary
Ellen Flannagan, unable to deal with her charming husband's financial irresponsibility, decides to separate from him and put the beloved family home up for sale in order to salvage her own business, a coffee shop/antique store in Portland, Oregon, but she regrets her decision immediately after the sales papers are signed, and comes to the rash conclusion that if she cannot live in the house, no one else will either. 259 pages
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Week of August 17, 2009
930 SEV
The Seventy Great Inventions of the Ancient World
Tells the stories of seventy of the greatest inventions of the ancient world, from the Stone Age to the medieval era, including fire, pottery, textiles and weaving, furniture, irrigation, sailing vessels, board games, writing, and jewelry, and including photographs and illustrations. 304 pages
940.1 NEW
Daily Live in the Middle Ages Paul B. Newman
Describes everyday aspects of the Middle Ages, including eating, cooking, building, housing, clothing, dressing, cleaning, relaxing, playing, fighting, and healing; also includes an annotated list of medieval artifacts in North America, and a bibliography. 291 pages
940.1 MID
The Middle Ages
An introduction to the Middle Ages, featuring twenty-seven entries that contain eyewitness accounts of significant people and events of the age, covering barbarians, saints and sinners, emperors and kings, crusaders, and aspects of life. 222 pages
940.53 HIL
The Holocaust Jeff Hill
Contains one hundred primary source documents that provide insights into the major aspects of the Holocaust, covering such issues as the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, Kristallnacht, the "Final Solution," resistance movements, and others; a glossary, and a chronology. 387 pages
940.53 ACK
The Zookeeper's Wife Diane Ackerman
Relates the story of Jan and Antonina Zabinski, Christian zookeepers at the Warsaw Zoo, who helped save the lives of approximately three hundred Polish Jews during World War II by housing and feeding them on zool grounds and teaching them how to "pass" as Aryan. 368 pages
940.53 HOL
The Holocaust
Covers the historical background and causes of the Holocaust, its legacy, and the possibility that the Allies could have done more to minimize it. 272 pages