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Description: On the night of her 11th birthday, Martine's life changes -- her parents are killed in...


2008-04-22

 


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Description: Alternating texts -- one autobiographical, one fictional but related -- from Michael Morpurgo,...


2008-04-22

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Description: William and Daniel Seward's parents disappear one day -- and eventually the boys learn...


2008-04-22


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Description: A rather dark fantasy of an old-fashioned conservative religious dystopia underground which...


2008-04-22

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Description: A librarian from NYC decides to go to Kenya to help run a camel bookmobile. Told from various...


2007-12-27

 


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Description: The story of how the book Great Expectations finds new life in the imaginations of school children...


2007-12-27


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Description: First-person narrative by an inmate in a mental institution -- telling of how he went hiking...


2007-12-27

 


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Description: Felix is 13, but looks younger as he has a heart condition -- and he's in Costa Rica because...


2007-12-27

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Description: A mysterious newspaper ads is looking for gifted children and four (all without parents for...


2007-12-27


 


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Description: James Watson's autobiography... re the politics of academia as much as the story of his...


2007-12-27

 


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Description: A short book that discusses the need to be the best in the million micro-niche markets that...


2007-12-27

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Description: Following on from Gladwell's The Tipping Point, this book teaches and summaries (complete...


2007-12-27


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Description: Gardner defines the five cognitive attributes necessary for the future -- the disciplinary...


2007-12-27

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Description: One of those terribly complicated sci-fi books, set in a future with life across galaxies,...


2007-12-27

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Description: The early sixties... the suburbs... and how a couple dreams of escaping them, e.g., to Europe....


2007-12-27


 


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Description: A teenage boy goes to spend a summer with his paternal grandmother and girl cousins -- whom...


2007-12-27

 


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Description: First-person narrative by Catherine Royal -- or Cat as she is called by everyone at the Theatre...


2007-12-27

 


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Description: Tale told in a variety of communiques -- interviews, e-mails, letters, reports, etc. about...


2007-11-16


 


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Description: Short and very funny account of what might happen if the Queen of England started reading literature....


2007-11-16

 


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Description: How a 17-year-old boy in London ends up getting to know a dead woman (via finding her ashes...


2007-11-07

 


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Description: A 1970 book, hailed as a classic -- starting in the Last Whole Earth Catalog. "The practice...


2007-08-03


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Description: Re the history of the ordering of information (including Dewey, etc.) to the internet -- first...


2007-08-03

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Description: Some of it is beyond me, of course, but a great exercise in thinking about thinking -- especially...


2007-08-03

 


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Description: A book to skim -- which I did more with an eye to discussions with students in the library...


2007-08-03


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Description: Another thought-provoking and enjoyable read from de Botton. Not as good as his book on travel...


2007-08-03

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Description: Interesting exploration by an economist of the different meanings of cultural diversity --...


2007-08-02

 


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Description: Winner of the Batchelder award for translation (and the Prix Sorcieres in France), this unusual...


2007-08-02


 


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Description: The story of the Iran hostage crisis.... Very interesting....


2007-07-30

 


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Description: An account of someone working (undercover) to, in effect, sabotage the economies of other countries,...


2007-07-30

 


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Description: Essays in a genre that is equal measures of both brain and heart... designed for Curious People...


2007-07-29


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Description: A clear and rational look at webpage design and usability testing-- and how to approach the...


2007-07-20

 


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Description: Fascinating account of Iraq under Paul Bremer after the war in Iraq was "won" --...


2007-07-20

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Description: A book that's making a million (glad I only borrowed the copy I read) -- and one that advises...


2007-07-20


 


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Description: Subtitled, Reflections from the Boomer Generation. Davidson is struggling with life after...


2007-07-20

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Description: 16? 17? year old Bella Swan moves to rural Washington state to live with her father, but she's...


2007-05-13

 


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Description: In the year 2505 the twins Connor and Grace, recently orphaned by the death of their father...


2007-05-13


 


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Description: Sequel to Chasing Vermeer, featuring the same student sleuths and similar reality hooks: this...


2007-05-13

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Description: Clever mystery for upper primary students, with plenty of hooks into reality -- Charles Fort...


2007-05-12

 


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Description: Based loosely on the Soviet Union and the gulags -- a most unusual subject for a children's...


2007-05-12


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Description: Theoretically non-fiction, but written so much like fiction that it actually detracts from...


2007-03-18

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Description: Fascinating exploration into the latest thinking from a variety of fields about the history...


2007-01-29

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Description: Fascinating story of a poor black kid who happens to fit the profile of a football team position...


2007-01-29


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Description: Winner of numerous awards in Australia. In ancient China a slave girl named Ping saves the...


2007-01-29

 


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Description: 2001. Analysis of educational systems as not preparing children for the future -- which requires...


2007-01-29

 


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Description: Copyright 1979, new afterword written in 1991. The diary/notes of the wife of Francis Ford...


2007-01-29


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Description: An Indian village in the foothills of the Himalayas is the backdrop of a political, underclass...


2007-01-29

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Description: A mind-expanding collection of tips and tricks of things to learn and, most importantly, how...


2007-01-13

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Description: Extension of New Yorker articles -- and are thus designed to be easy for the layman to read...


2007-01-13


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Description: A character I had vaguely heard about (not having lived in the US for 20 years) until I saw...


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Description: An inspiring account of how John Wood came to leave Microsoft to devote his life to founding...


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Description: Two people from highly dysfunctional families end up in a small village in Devon -- and end...


2006-12-18


 


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Description: A bizarre little book about obsessive mother love coursing (cursing) through a family. The...


2006-12-18

 


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Description: 2001. Love in modern-day Singapore where Yin Ling, a beautiful talented poet, engaged to one...


2006-10-22

 


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Description: 1996. A book meant for young readers. Simplistic memoir of a teenage Dutch girl who volunteers...


2006-09-23


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Description: A book that could be compared with Maus, but is a far less powerful story -- in both pictures...


2006-09-23

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Description: A third-person narrative about Bruno, a very naive 9-year-old German boy during WWII, whose...


2006-09-23

 


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Description: Another funny first-person narrative about extreme naivete in a deadly serious situation from...


2006-09-23


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Description: A journalistic exploration of the different kinds of sex for sale in Singapore and how the...


2006-06-18

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Description: Another fascinating book by Michael Pollan (see also The Botany of Desire) about food and the...


2006-06-18

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Description: 2005. First of a planned trilogy. First-person narrative by Sapphy (Sapphire) who is perhaps...


2006-06-07


 


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Description: 2005. 16-year-old Joe Beck tells the story of how he chanced to meet Candy near King's...


2006-06-07

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Description: Liz is 14 and has just died -- though she doesn't realize it for some time as she thinks...


2006-05-31

 


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Description: 2005. A story that flips between Holland during WWII and the present day where a girl named...


2006-05-28


 


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Description: 2005. First-person narrative by Dylan, a 10? 12? year old boy whose family runs the Snowdonia...


2006-05-27

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Description: 2005. First-person narrative by Symone, who is 14 and in love with Titus or, rather, Captain...


2006-05-27

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Description: Terribly clever -- well constructed -- the unraveling of a mystery by a 12-year-old (?) girl...


2006-05-27


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Description: First-person narrative by Clare -- also known as Clay -- a Year 6 girl (so 12?) who tells the...


2006-05-27

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Description: Makes you wonder why people bother writing such novels. One of those "stranger appears...


2006-05-27

 


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Description: A would-be artist spends a summer as a handyman and ends up fixing the lives of the people...


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Description: The story of a group of Japanese women, all night shift workers at a boxed lunch factory. ...


2006-05-27

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Description: A china rabbit toy named Edward is loved, is lost, found and loved by others, and finally learns...


2006-05-25

 


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Description: Spalding Gray's autobiographical monologue on being in "The Killing Fields" and...


2006-05-25


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Description: Technically for young adults, but easily enjoyed by any adult. Fascinating look at the parallel...


2006-02-17



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Description: Printz award winner (2005)


2006-02-12

 


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Description: Interesting format and occasionally interesting content, but overall much too long and rambling...


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Description: Useful information about the genre of powerpoint presentations and how to structure them most...


2006-02-12

 


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Description: Long, but hilarious, dead-pan, first-person account of the life of a middle-aged married British...


2006-01-20


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2006-01-10

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Description: An exploration of how intertwined Pamuk's life is with Istanbul -- as well as a beautiful...


2006-01-08

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Description: An academic version of Steven Johnson's argument (Everything Bad is Good for You) re how...


2006-01-04




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