2006-2007 Book Purchases

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• The Alibi Man By: Tami Hoag

 

• Dear John By: Nicholas Sparks

   

• The Children of Hurin By: J.R.R. Tolkien

• The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring By: Richard Preston

• Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of Traveling Pants) by Ann Brashares

• Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense By: N.T. Wright

• Deep Storm: A Novel By: Lincoln Child

• John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy By: Evan Thomas

• And the Bride Wore White: Seven Secrets to Sexual Purity By: Dannah Gresh

• Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West By: Hampton Sides

• Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945 By: Evan Thomas

• The Poems of Dylan Thomas, New Revised Edition By: Dylan Thomas (Narrator), Daniel Jones (Editor)

• Thunderstruck By: Erik Larson

• The Other Side of the Bridge By: Mary Lawson

• Next By: Michael Crichton

• So B. It By: Sarah Weeks

• Honor Lost - Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan by Norma Khouri by Norma Khouri

• Cracking the ACT with Sample Tests on CD-ROM, 2006 Edition By: Princeton Review

• The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 2007 By: World Almanac Books

• Kaplan ACT 2006 with CD-ROM By: Kaplan

• Joshua's Bible By: Shelly Leanne

• You: On A Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management By: Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz

• Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? By: Philip Yancey

• Flannery O'Connor : Collected Works : Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essay 
  By: Flannery O'Connor

• America: The Last Best Hope (Volume I): From the Age of Discovery to a World at War By: William J. Bennett

• Beethoven Collection: Symphonies Nos. 1-9, Complete Recording (Box Set) [Audio CD] by: Sandor Solyom-Nagy.

• The Things They Carried By: Tim O'Brien

• Aaron Copland: The Essence of America [Audio CD] By: Aaron Copland 

•  The Book Thief By: Markus Zusak

•  Frankenstein By: Mary Shelley

• The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town By: John Grisham 

  
  Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog

• Diva By: Alex Flinn 

• Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War By: Nathaniel Philbrick 

• L.A. Requiem (Elvis Cole Novels By: Robert Crais

• Without Warning By: Ward Tanneberg

• Vanished: A Novel By: Ward Tanneberg

• The Last Detective By: Robert Crais

• Atonement Child By: Francine Rivers

• Robinson Crusoe By: Daniel Defoe

• Breathing Underwater By: Alex Flinn 

• Two Little Girls in Blue: A Novel By: Mary Higgins Clark 

• Nothing to Lose By: Alex Flinn  

 

 

September 5, 2006 

 

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Vintage)
  By: Erik Larson, Erik Larson

 

• The Tin Drum By: Gunter Grass

 

• Promise Me (Myron Bolitar Mysteries) By: Harlan Coben

• Candide (Modern Library) By: Voltaire, Rockwell Kent 

•  The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt By: Albert Camus

• I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away By: Bill Bryson

 

•  The Trial By: Franz Kafka

• F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: A Literary Reference By: Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (Editor)

 

• A Passage to India By: E.M. Forster

 

• All Quiet on the Western Front By: Erich Marie Remarque

 

• Night By: Elie Wiesel

 

 

• 2007 Title Fund Book Purchases listed below:

The 2007 what color is your parachute? : a practical manual for job-hunters and career-changers by Bolles, Richard Nelson.

The art of war by Sun-tzu, 6th cent. B.C.

Arthur Miller and The Crucible 

Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress by Dai, Sijie,

Beautiful lies : a novel by Unger, Lisa, 

The blind side : evolution of a game by Lewis, Michael

The body hunters : testing new drugs on the world's poorest patients 

Caesar : life of a colossus by Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith

Calvinism in the Las Vegas Airport : making connections in today's world by Mouw, Richard J.

Cite right : a quick guide to citation styles--MLA, APA, Chicago, the sciences, professions, and more by Lipson, Charles.

Dead man walking : an eyewitness account of the death penalty in the United States by Prejean, Helen.

The death of innocents : an eyewitness account of wrongful executions by Prejean, Helen.

Elie Wiesel : surviving the Holocaust, speaking out against genocide by Moore, Lisa, 

The fat-free truth : 239 real answers to the fitness and weight-loss questions you wonder about most by Neporent, Liz.

Fiasco : the American military adventure in Iraq by Ricks, Thomas E.

Field notes from a catastrophe : man, nature, and climate change by Kolbert, Elizabeth. 

Flags of our fathers : heroes of Iwo Jima by Bradley, James

Guiding students from cheating and plagiarism to honesty and integrity : strategies for change by Lathrop, Ann.

In the wake of terror : medicine and morality in a time of crisis

An inconvenient truth : the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it by Gore, Albert 

Isaac's storm : a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history by Larson, Erik.

Launch your career in college : strategies for students, educators, and parents by Scheele, Adele M.

The looming tower : Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11 by Wright, Lawrence, 

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