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Love and Hate in Jamestown
Written by David A. Price
Vintage | Trade Paperback | January 2005
$16.95/18.95(Canada) | 978-1-4000-3172-6 (1-4000-3172-9)
AWARD: School Library Journal Adult Books for Young Adults
A New York Times Notable Book and aSan Jose Mercury News Top 20 Nonfiction Book of 2003In 1606, approximately 105 British colonists sailed to America, seeking gold and a trade route to the Pacific. Instead, they found disease, hunger, and hostile natives. Ill prepared for such hardship, the men responded with... > Read more
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Fifty Degrees Below
Written by Kim Stanley Robinson
Spectra | Paperback | January 2007
$7.99/10.99(Canada) | 978-0-553-58581-0 (0-553-58581-9)
AWARD: School Library Journal Best Adult Books for High School Students
Bestselling, award-winning, author Kim Stanley Robinson continues his groundbreaking trilogy of eco-thrillers–and propels us deeper into the awesome whirlwind of climatic change. Set in our nation’s capital, here is a chillingly realistic tale of people caught in the collision of science, technology, and the consequences of global warming–which could trigger another... > Read more
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Swamplandia!
Written by Karen Russell
Vintage | Trade Paperback | July 2011
$15.95/20.95(Canada) | 978-0-307-27668-1 (0-307-27668-6)
AWARD: Pulitzer Prize AWARD: School Library Journal Adult Books for Young Adults AWARD: New York Public Library's Young Lion Fiction Award AWARD: Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction AWARD: The Orion Book Award
Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family’s island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness fells Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, the family is plunged into chaos; her father withdraws, her sister falls in love with a spooky character known... > Read more
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Persepolis
Written by Marjane Satrapi
Pantheon | Trade Paperback | June 2004
$14.95/19.50(Canada) | 978-0-375-71457-3 (0-375-71457-X)
AWARD: ALA Alex Award AWARD: YALSA Best Books for Young Adults AWARD: Booklist Editor's Choice for Young Adults AWARD: New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age AWARD: School Library Journal Adult Books for Young Adults
A New York Times Notable Book A Time Magazine “Best Comix of the Year” A San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times Best-seller
Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.
In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells... > Read more
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Hip Hoptionary TM
Written by Alonzo Westbrook
Three Rivers Press | Trade Paperback | October 2002
$14.00/17.00(Canada) | 978-0-7679-0924-2 (0-7679-0924-0)
AWARD: School Library Journal Adult Books for Young Adults
The bumpin’ book for hip-hop disciples (a.k.a. fiends), songwriters, all other writers, pop culture fans, linguists, and parents who are just trying to figure out what their kids are saying.
The inventive sounds of hip-hop (which became America’s number two music genre in 2001, outselling country) have echoed far from their Bronx... > Read more
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Passage
Written by Connie Willis
Bantam | Paperback | January 2002
$7.99/10.99(Canada) | 978-0-553-58051-8 (0-553-58051-5)
AWARD: The Hugo Award AWARD: School Library Journal Adult Books for Young Adults
A tunnel, a light, a door. And beyond it ... the unimaginable.
Dr. Joanna Lander is a psychologist specializing in near-death experiences. She is about to get help from a new doctor with the power to give her the chance to get as close to death as anyone can.
A brilliant young neurologist... > Read more
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Robopocalypse
Written by Daniel H. Wilson
Vintage | Trade Paperback | April 2012
$16.95/22.95(Canada) | 978-0-307-74080-9 (0-307-74080-3)
AWARD: ALA Alex Award AWARD: School Library Journal Adult Books for Young Adults
In this terrifying tale of humanity’s desperate stand against a robot uprising, Daniel H. Wilson has written the most entertaining sci-fi thriller in years. Not far into our future, the dazzling technology that runs our world turns against us. Controlled by a childlike—yet massively powerful—artificial intelligence known as Archos, the global network... > Read more
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