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Brave new world

Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963.


A satirical novel about the utopia of the future, a world in which babies are decanted from bottles and the great Ford is worshipped.
Date Published:2013

The Roach King of Raleigh

Stocker, Shannon,


Junior Library Guild. After his parents' separate due to his father's drinking, sophomore Quill begins secretly breeding cockroaches for the local pet shop in order to raise money for a new house for his mom.
Date Published:2026

Behind Five Willows

Hur, June,


Junior Library Guild. "Set in eighteenth-century Korea, two teens secretly waging a war against government book banning find themselves irresistibly drawn together"-- Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2026

The Beckett effect

Jones, Nashae,


Junior Library Guild. "Teenage filmmaker Wren pledges revenge on her school's playboy, Beckett Lane-only to fall for him in the process"-- Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2026

Brave new world

Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963,


Senior High School Library Catalog (Wilson). Junior High School Library Catalog (Wilson). Fiction Catalog (Wilson). A satirical novel about the utopia of the future, when babies are decanted from bottles and the great Ford is worshipped.
Date Published:1969

American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI /

Dawson, Kate Winkler.


Library Journal, December 2019. Pub Weekly, December 2019. Kirkus Starred, November 2019. Booklist, December 2019. Library Journal. Pub Weekly. Kirkus Starred. Discusses the birth of criminal investigation in the twentieth century, including the life of America's first forensic scientist, Edward Oscar Heinrich.
Date Published:2020

Daughters unto devils

Lukavics, Amy,


School Library Journal, October 2015. Booklist, September 2015. Kirkus Review, July 2015. "When sixteen-year-old Amanda Verner's family decides to move from their small mountain cabin to the vast prairie, she hopes it is her chance for a fresh start. She can leave behind the memory of the past winter; of her sickly ma giving birth to a baby sister who cries endlessly; of the terrifying visions she saw as her sanity began to slip, the victim of cabin fever; and most of all, the memories of the boy she has been secretly meeting with as a distraction from her pain. The boy whose baby she now carries. When the Verners arrive at their new home, a large cabin abandoned by its previous owners, they discover the inside covered in blood. And as the days pass, it is obvious to Amanda that something isn't right on the prairie. She's heard stories of lands being tainted by evil, of men losing their minds and killing their families, and there is something strange about the doctor and his son who live in the woods on the edge of the prairie"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2015

School Library Journal, October 2015. Booklist, September 2015. Kirkus Review, July 2015. "When sixteen-year-old Amanda Verner's family decides to move from their small mountain cabin to the vast prairie, she hopes it is her chance for a fresh start. She can leave behind the memory of the past winter; of her sickly ma giving birth to a baby sister who cries endlessly; of the terrifying visions she saw as her sanity began to slip, the victim of cabin fever; and most of all, the memories of the boy she has been secretly meeting with as a distraction from her pain. The boy whose baby she now carries. When the Verners arrive at their new home, a large cabin abandoned by its previous owners, they discover the inside covered in blood. And as the days pass, it is obvious to Amanda that something isn't right on the prairie. She's heard stories of lands being tainted by evil, of men losing their minds and killing their families, and there is something strange about the doctor and his son who live in the woods on the edge of the prairie"--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2015

The Bay of Pigs : the leaders' story of Brigade 2506 /

Johnson, Haynes Bonner, 1931-,



Date Published:1964

Misery

King, Stephen, 1947-,


Wilson's Fiction. Library Journal. New York Times. A bestselling author is held captive in a wheelchair, made drug-dependent, and locked in his room by an angry nurse who demands he bring her favorite character back to life.
Date Published:1988

The girl who loved Tom Gordon

King, Stephen, 1947-


Wilson's Senior High School. Wilson's Fiction. School Library Journal. Nine-year-old Trisha McFarland, lost in the woods after she wanders off to escape the bickering between her mom and her brother, boosts her courage by imagining that her hero, Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Tom Gordon, is with her, helping her survive an unknown enemy.
Date Published:1999

Fahrenheit 451

Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012.


"Fahrenheit 451-- the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns ..." Wilson's Senior High School, November 1997. Booklist, August 1997. Wilson's Senior High School. Booklist. A book burning official in a future fascist state finds out that books are a vital part of a culture he never knew, and he decides to pursue reading, until he is betrayed.
Date Published:1951

Where the crawdads sing

Owens, Delia.


Publishers Weekly, June 2018. Booklist, July 2018. New York Times, August 2018. Kirkus Review, June 2018. Publishers Weekly. Booklist. New York Times. "Kya Clark is the 'Marsh Girl' of Barkley Cove on the North Carolina coast. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist, she took life lessons from the land, learning from the false signals of fireflies the real way of this world. Drawn to two young men from town who were intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opened herself to a new and startling world--until the unthinkable happens. When Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya"--OCLC.
Date Published:2018

Publishers Weekly, June 2018. Booklist, July 2018. New York Times, August 2018. Kirkus Review, June 2018. Publishers Weekly. Booklist. New York Times. "Kya Clark is the 'Marsh Girl' of Barkley Cove on the North Carolina coast. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist, she took life lessons from the land, learning from the false signals of fireflies the real way of this world. Drawn to two young men from town who were intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opened herself to a new and startling world--until the unthinkable happens. When Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya"--OCLC.

Date Published:2018

The secret astronomers a novel in notes /

Walker, Jessica, (Illustrator),


Junior Library Guild. In Green Bank, West Virginia, two teensgrieving, artistic Copernicus and Kepler, a small-town overachieverbecome secret pen pals through a forgotten astronomy textbook and join forces to unravel a decades-old mystery tied to Copernicus's late mother.
Date Published:2025

Cursed ever after

Naranjo, Andy C.,


Junior Library Guild. Born on a Bad Day and cursed with Bad Luck, Risa Porto finally gets her wish to leave her village on her seventeenth birthday, but soon finds herself roped into accompanying an annoying prince to his wedding as she grapples with her curse, myriad dangers, and the feelings she begins to develop for the prince.
Date Published:2026

The maze runner

Dashner, James, 1972-


School Library Journal, October 2009. Publisher's Weekly, September 2009. Horn Book, April 2010. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), November 2009. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2009. Kirkus Review, September 2009. School Library Journal. Publisher's Weekly. Horn Book. Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
Date Published:2009

School Library Journal, October 2009. Publisher's Weekly, September 2009. Horn Book, April 2010. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), November 2009. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2009. Kirkus Review, September 2009. School Library Journal. Publisher's Weekly. Horn Book. Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.

Date Published:2009

A beautiful and terrible murder

Andrews, Claire M.,


At Oxford's All Souls College, Irene Adler, disguised as student Isaac Holland, navigates a cutthroat competition and a series of gruesome murders while working with Sherlock Holmes to uncover the killer.
Date Published:2025

When it's your turn for midnight

Musariri, Blessing, 1973-,


Junior Library Guild. When fifteen-year-old Chianti learns that her Baba is not her biological father, she goes to stay with her maternal grandmother where she discovers a new definition of family.
Date Published:2026

Twentieth-century teen culture by the decades : a reference guide /

Rollin, Lucy,


Wilson's Senior High School. School Library Journal. Library Journal. Provides a decade-by-decade overview of all aspects of American teenagers' lives from 1900 to 1999, describing their home, work, and school lives, dating patterns, alcohol and drug use, tastes in books, music, and movies, and other related topics.
Date Published:1999

Milestone documents in world history : exploring the primary sources that shaped the world /


Includes index. v. 1. 2350 BCE-943 CE -- v. 2. 1019-1821 -- v. 3. 1833-1939 -- v. 4. 1930-2023. This edition covers iconic primary source documents from ancient times to the present and from virtually every geographical region, deepening the original edition's coverage of major themes in world history with dozens of new entries. Each entry offers the full text of the document in question as well as an in-depth, analytical essay that places the document in its historical context.
Date Published:2024

Includes index. v. 1. 2350 BCE-943 CE -- v. 2. 1019-1821 -- v. 3. 1833-1939 -- v. 4. 1930-2023. This edition covers iconic primary source documents from ancient times to the present and from virtually every geographical region, deepening the original edition's coverage of major themes in world history with dozens of new entries. Each entry offers the full text of the document in question as well as an in-depth, analytical essay that places the document in its historical context.

Date Published:2024

The schlager manual of primary sources : an illustrated guide for students, researchers, and educators /


Includes index. I. An overview of historical sources -- II. Understanding and interpreting primary sources -- III. Finding primary sources -- IV. Citing primary sources. From laws and decrees to oral transcriptions, treaties, letters, speeches, historical newspapers and beyond, historians use primary sources to understand and explain the past. This book covers how to distinguish primary sources from other kinds of historical evidence, identify different categories of sources, and learn how primary sources can be used in historical research and writing. It offers educators a useful framework to discuss key historical research methods.
Date Published:2023

Includes index. I. An overview of historical sources -- II. Understanding and interpreting primary sources -- III. Finding primary sources -- IV. Citing primary sources. From laws and decrees to oral transcriptions, treaties, letters, speeches, historical newspapers and beyond, historians use primary sources to understand and explain the past. This book covers how to distinguish primary sources from other kinds of historical evidence, identify different categories of sources, and learn how primary sources can be used in historical research and writing. It offers educators a useful framework to discuss key historical research methods.

Date Published:2023