Arapahoe High School Library New Books General New Fiction

							          Arapahoe High School Library – New Books
General New Fiction
              Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime by Jasper Fforde
              Fic Forde

              Unconvinced that a former convict and millionaire philanthropist has been
              murdered by his suicide-victim ex-wife, detective inspector Jack Spratt and
              his assistant, Mary Mary, battle internal politics while uncovering a plot
              involving money laundering, bullion smuggling, and asylum-seeking titans.
              *This is actually written for an adult audience.

              Company by Max Barry
              Fic Barry

              On his first day of training, Stephen Jones, a young recruit, reports to the
              Zephyr Holding Building, where he finds a company defined by its lack of
              clarity, a building numbered in reverse, an invisible CEO, and a crisis over
              the theft of a donut, in a zany satire of corporate life.

              Cures for Heartbreak by M. E. and Margo Rabb
              Fic Rabb

              Knowing that her mother has cancer, fifteen-year-old Mia finds it nearly
              impossible to contemplate a life without her in it, but when her mother dies,
              Mia is comforted by her remaining family and begins to learn that life must
              go on despite the great loss they have all experienced.

              Dating Hamlet: Ophelia’s Story by Lisa Fiedler
              Fic Fiedler

              In a story based on the Shakespeare play, Ophelia describes her relationship
              with Hamlet, learns the truth about her own father, and recounts the
              complicated events following the murder of Hamlet's father.

              Geronimo by Joseph Bruchac
              Fic Bruchac

              While imprisoned in an Oklahoma jail, the Native American hero, Geronimo,
              meets a young Apache man who tells him of his own struggles for freedom,
              in a touching tale about Geronimo's incredible life and his last memorable
              days on Earth.




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              Golden: A Retelling of “Rapunzel” by Cameron Dokey
              Fic Dokey

              Born bald and raised by an adoptive mother, Rapunzel is finally told the truth
              about Rue, another daughter trapped in a tower due to a witch's curse, and so
              she heads off to help the imprisoned girl but becomes jealous of Rue's
              beautiful hair.

               Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
               Fic Rowling

              Burdened with the dark, dangerous, and seemingly impossible task of
              locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes, Harry, feeling
              alone and uncertain about his future, struggles to find the inner strength he
              needs to follow the path set out before him. At a time when the forces of evil
              seem to be gaining the upper hand, Harry comes of age in the wizarding
              world, and must take on and defeat Voldemort--or be killed himself.

              Hell Phone by William Sleator
              Fic Sleator

              Seventeen-year-old Nick buys a used cell phone only to call his girlfriend, but
              strange and desperate people keep calling--one of them a denizen of Hell--
              begging for or demanding his help.

               Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
               Fic Spinelli

               Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo,
               fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's
               longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.

              Relics by Mary Anna Evans
              Fic Evans

              Delighted to take part in a legitimate archaeological dig, Faye Longchamp, an
              expert in blackmarket artifacts, and her Cherokee assistant, Joe, hope to
              uncover the mystery of the Sujosa, an ethnic group of mysterious origins that
              possesses remarkable healing powers, but she soon finds herself in a much
              more dangerous investigation.




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              Sleeping Doll by Jeffery Deaver
              Fic Deaver

              California Bureau of Investigation interrogator and body language expert
              Kathryn Dance works to recapture a dangerous escaped killer with the help
              of three victims from his former cult and the lone survivor from a family he
              slaughtered.

              Starfall Phaeton and the Chariot of the Sun by Michael Cadnum
              Fic Cadnum

              Expands on the myth of Phaeton, a young man who undertakes a long and
              dangerous journey to the gates of dawn to confront the mighty god of the
              sun, Apollo, and is granted one wish--to drive the chariot of the sun for a day.

              Tyrannosaur Canyon by Douglas Preston
              Fic Preston

              A long-missing moon rock, a killing in a New Mexico canyon, and a
              murderously ambitious scientist contribute to the world's greatest scientific
              discovery and a mystery involving Earth's near-destruction by a galactic fire
              bolt.

              Verga’s Blessing: Blending Dreams and Blood by Jonathan Pearce
              Fic Pearce

              When Verga Bless shows up in Balona, CA, she draws the attention of bats,
              mice, and the town's truly unusual inhabitants. Pearce, author of five other
              offbeat novels set in Balona, has written a vampire story that plays out like a
              Far Side cartoon.

              Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
              Fic Chabon

              An alternate historical work based on a premise that Alaska became the
              Jewish homeland after World War II finds detective Meyer Landsman
              investigating a heroin-addicted chess prodigy's murder, a case with ties to an
              extremist Orthodox sect.




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Fiction with an African/African American connection
              26a by Diana Evans
              Fic Evans

              Sharing childhood dreams and their struggles for survival from the attic
              bedroom of their traumatized parents' home, identical twins Georgia and
              Bessi Hunter and their two sisters endeavor to forge identities in spite of the
              realities of impending adulthood.

              Finn by Jon Clinch
              Fic Clinch

              Inspired by Mark Twain's classic tales, a debut novel explores the mysterious
              life and strange death of Huckleberry Finn's infamous father, describing
              Finn's fearsome father, the Judge; his brother, the sickly, sycophantic Will;
              Bliss, a reclusive, blind moonshiner; his mistress Mary, a former slave; and
              young Huck.

              Syringa Tree by Pamela Glen
              Fic Glen

              Based on an award-winning play by the same name, an evocative novel set in
              apartheid South Africa chronicles the abiding relationship that exists between
              two families--one black and one white--and two children born into the same
              household, in a saga that spans four generations and different African
              cultures.

Fiction with an Asian connection
              Dream of the Red Chamber by Hsueh-ch`in Ts`ao
              Fic Tsao

              Presents the classic eighteenth-century Chinese novel about family
              relationships within a large household in Peking.


Poetry
              Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry
              811.54 Win

              A collection of poems by 25 Latino and Latina writers that can be read as an
              allusion to change and to the fact that poetry is a force, like wind, that knows
              no borders.



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Nonfiction
              Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
              304.2 Dia

              A study of the downfall of some of history's greatest civilizations, written by
              the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, includes
              coverage of such cultures as the Anasazi, the Maya, and the Viking colony
              on Greenland, tracing patterns of environmental damage, climate change,
              poor political choices, and other factors that were pivotal to their demise.

              Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties by Robert Stone
              921 Stone

              A memoir of America's most turbulent, whimsical decade. From the New
              York City of Kline and De Kooning to the jazz era of New Orleans's French
              Quarter to Ken Kesey's psychedelic California, Prime Green explores the
              1960s in all its weird, innocent, fascinating glory.

              Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-Li Jiang
              951.05 Jia

              A child's-eye view of the fear, hardship, and persecution of the Chinese
              Cultural Revolution recalls the political reign of terror that led to the
              persecution of the author's family, her father's arrest, and her own struggle to
              choose between family loyalty and her future.

              Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
              958.1 Sei

              Capturing the harsh realities of life in modern-day Afghanistan and plight of
              Afghan women, the Norwegian journalist provides a portrait of a committed
              Muslim man, a bookseller, and his family living in post-Taliban Kabul,
              Afghanistan.

              Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
              966.404 Bea

              In a heart-wrenching, candid autobiography, a human rights activist offers a
              firsthand account of war from the perspective of a former child soldier,
              detailing the violent civil war that wracked his native Sierra Leone and the
              government forces that transformed a gentle young boy into a killer as a
              member of the army.




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Professional
              You Don’t Need a Title to be a Leader: How Anyone, Anywhere, Can
              Make a Positive Difference by Mark Sanborn
              Professional 158.4 San

              Studies the art of leadership, profiling a number of individuals who
              demonstrate leadership in their lives regardless of their place in an official
              hierarchy, and demonstrating the key qualities of becoming a successful
              leader.




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