Off the Shelf--West Media Center
Issue #2
ROAD TRIP READS
Are you planning a fun Labor Day weekend? Please consider stopping by the WEST MEDIA CENTER to pick up a good read! We have loads of great ebooks, audiobooks and print books for your weekend away.
Another day by David Levithan
"Rhiannon is disappointed that her neglectful boyfriend Justin doesn't remember the one perfect day they shared, until a stranger tells her that the Justin she spent that day with, the one who made her feel like a real person... wasn't Justin at all"--Provided by publisher.
A court of thorns and roses /bk.1 by Sarah J. Maas
"Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from stories, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin, a High Lord of the faeries. As her feelings toward him transform from hostility to a firey passion, the threats against the faerie lands grow. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose Tamlin forever"--Provided by publisher.
The Dorito effect : the surprising new truth about food and flavor by Mark Schatzker
Looks at how scientists have changed the flavor of food and discusses how there has been interference with the highly sophisticated chemical language that has evolved to guide human nutrition.
Half Bad/bk.1[sound recording] by Sally Green
Read by Carl Prekopp. In modern-day England, witches live alongside humans: White witches, who are good; Black witches, who are evil; and sixteen-year-old Nathan, who is both. Nathan's father is the world's most powerful and cruel Black witch, and his mother is dead. He is hunted from all sides. Trapped in a cage, beaten and handcuffed, Nathan must escape before his seventeenth birthday, at which point he will receive three gifts from his father and come into his own as a witchôr else he will die. But how can Nathan find his father when his every action is tracked, when there is no one safe to trust̂not even family, not even the girl he loves? In the tradition of Patrick Ness and Markus Zusak, Half Bad is a gripping tale of alienation and the indomitable will to survive, a story that will grab hold of you and not let go until the very last page.
If I ever get out of here a novel with paintings [sound recording] by Eric Gansworth.
Seventh-grader Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and Whites--and Lewis is not sure that he can rely on friendship.
The Port Chicago 50 [sound recording] : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights by Steve Sheinkin
Describes the fifty black sailors who refused to work in unsafe and unfair conditions after an explosion in Port Chicago killed 320 servicemen, and how the incident influenced civil rights.
Cruel beauty [sound recording] by Rosamund Hodge
Betrothed to the demon who rules her country and trained all her life to kill him, seventeen-year-old Nyx Triskelion must now fulfill her destiny and move to the castle to be his wife.
Revolution [sound recording] by Deborah Wiles
"It's 1964 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and Sunny's town is being invaded by people from up north who are coming to help people register to vote. Her personal life isn't much better, as a new stepmother, brother, and sister are crowding into her life, giving her little room to breathe."--From publisher's description.
Skink [sound recording] : no surrender by Carl Hiaasen
With the help of an eccentric ex-governor, a teenaged boy searches for his missing cousin in the Florida wilds.
Molina : the story of the father who raised an unlikely baseball dynasty by Bengie Molina with Joan Ryan
"The inspiring true story of the poor Puerto Rican factory worker, Benjamin Molina Santana, who against all odds raised the greatest baseball dynasty of all time: Molina's three sons--Bengie, Jose, and Yadier--have each earned two World Series rings, which is unprecedented in the sport, and his story is told by one of them, Bengie."--Provided by publisher.
Jonas Salk : a life by Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs
"The first full biography of Jonas Salk offers a complete picture of the enigmatic figure, from his early years working on an influenza vaccine--for which he never fully got credit--to his seminal creation of the Polio vaccine, up through his later work to find a cure for AIDS"--Provided by publisher.
The tenderness of thieves by Donna Freitas
After witnessing a robbery which ended with the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Jane Calvetti falls in love with town bad boy Handel Davies.