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Computer science, awards, library science, journalism, museums

Computer Science
Virtual reality : a door to cyberspace by Ann E. Weiss

Library Science
Down Cut Shin Creek: the Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky by Kathi Appelt & Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer

Paranormal phenomena, psychology, philosophy, ethics

Bioethics and high-tech medicine by Victoria Sherrow.
The Greenhaven encyclopedia of witchcraft by Patricia D. Netzley

Religion

Celebrating Ramadan by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith
Forgotten truth by Huston Smith
Ideals and Realities of Islam by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Islam by Philip Wilkinson
Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
The Sufi path of love : the spiritual teachings of Rumi translated by William C. Chittick

Economics, jobs, government, law, education, social issues, finance, communications

Dateline: Troy by Paul Fleischman
Neale S. Godfrey's Ultimate Kids' Money Book by Neale S. Godfrey
The Media: The Impact on Our Lives by Julian Petley
Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering by Lisa Yount
Child Abuse J. Bryan Grapes, ed,
The College Application Essay by Sarah Myers McGinty
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutririon and Health by Marion Nestle
How Democratic is the American Constitution? by Robert A. Dahl
Indian School: Teaching the White Man's Way Micheal L. Cooper
Living When a Young Friend Commits Suicide: Or Even Starts Talking about It Earl A. Grollman and Max Malikow
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care by Nina Bernstein
The Passionate Learner by Robert L. Fried
Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941 - 1973 by Clayborne Carson, David J. Garrow, Bill Kovach, Carol Polsgrove
The Transcontinental Railroad in American History by Conrad R. Stein
Why Terrorism Works by Alan Dershowitz

Sciences, mathematics, weather, animals

Bridges: From My Side to Yours by Jan Adkins
Digging for Bird-Dinosaurs: An Expedition to Madagascar by Nic Bishop
Dinosaur Worlds: New Dinosaurs, New Discoveries by Don Lessem
Floods , Droughts, and Climate Change by Michael Collier and Robert H. Webb
The Founding Fish by John McPhee
Genetics: Unlocking the Secrets of Life by Nathan Aaseng
The Life of Mammals by David Attenborough
Life on earth : the story of evolution by Steve Jenkins
A Look At Minerals: From Galena to Gold by Jo S. Kittinger
Martian Fossils on Earth? The Story of Meteorite ALH 8400 by Fred Bortz
Meteorites: A Journey through Space and Time by Alex Bevan and John de Leater
National Geographic Dinosaurs by Paul Barrett
Our Galaxy and the Universe by Ken and Suzanne Maly
Planet Hunters: The Search for Other Worlds by Dennis Brindell Fradin
The snake almanac : a fully illustrated natural history of snakes worldwide by Edward R. Ricciuti

Medicine, technology, gardening, pets, family living, cooking, careers

The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston
Of Spirits and Madness by Paul R. Linde
My garden (book) by Jamaica Kincaid
Restaurant confidential : the shocking truth about what you're really eating when you're eating out by Michael F. Jacobson

Art, architecture, drawing, music, movies, television, and sports

Art
Art Attack: A Short Cultural History of the Avant-Garde by Aronson, Marc
Calligraphy and Illumination: A History and Practical Guide by Patricia Lovett

Architecture
There Goes the Neighborhood: Ten Buildings People Love to Hate by Susan Goldman Rubin
Mosque by David Macaulay
The World Trade Center by Bill Harris

Drawing and decorative arts

Music
According to the Rolling Stones
American Roots Music Robert Santelli
The Beatles: A Private View by Robert Freeman
Between Midnight and Daty: The Last Unpublished Blues Archive by Dick Waterman
The Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip
One nation under a groove : rap music and its roots by James Haskins
Rap Music by Jennifer Keeley

Movies

Television

Sports, Games, and Entertainment
Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia by Paul Kaplan & Morey Berger
Gladiator by Richard Watkins
The Great Serum Race: Blazing the Iditarod Trail by Debbie S. Miller
The Head Game: Baseball Seen From the Pitcher's Mound by Roger Kahn
Heartbreakers: Baseball Most Agonizing Defeats by John Kuenster
Jackie's Nine: Jackie Robinson's Values to Live By by Sharon Robinson
Palindromania! by Jon Agee
Roller coasters : a thrill-seekers guide to the ultimate scream machines by Robert Coker
Triumph and tragedy in Mudville : a lifelong passion for baseball by Stephen Jay Gould
Who Is Baseball's Greatest Hitter by Jeff Kisseloff
The World Series: An Illustrated History of the Fall Classic by Josh Leventhal

Literature

The Gita Govinda by Jayadeva, translated by Sir Edwin Arnold
Hoops by Robert Burleigh
Hunting for Hope by Scott Russell Sanders
The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon by Lana A. Whited
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Mermaid's Purse by Ted Hughes
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Illustrated by Christopher Bing
My Life in Dog Years by Gary Paulsen
Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry by Alan Dugan
The Poems of Marianne Moore edited by Grace Schulman
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda edited by Ilan Stavans
Robert Lowell, Collected Poems edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter
Saving Lives: Poems by Albert Goldbarth
The Space between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East Ed. by Naomi Shihab Nye
Stand Up Poetry: an Expanded Anthology by Charles Harper Webb, ed

Geography, travel, genealogy, history

Geography and Travel
Red Dust by Ma Jian

Geneology

History
All the Shah's Men by Stephen Kinzer
Ancient Greece and Rome: An Encyclopedia for Students by Carroll Moulton
Ancient Rome by Andrew Solway
Bosnia by Eric Black
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter
The Children of Topaz : the story of a Japanese-American internment camp by Michael O. Tunnell and George W. Chilcoat
Crisis in Rwanda by Russell Freedman
The Declaration of Independence: The Words that Made America by Sam Fink
The Eye Witness History Series
Fields of Fury: The American Civil War by James M. McPherson
The Good Fight: How World War II Was Won by Stephen E. Ambrose
The Great Depression by Jacqueline Farrell
History of World War I 3 vols. ISBN 0-7614-7231-2
In Light of India by Octavio Paz
Japanes-American Internment in American History by David K. Fremon
The Lewis and Clark Expedition by Eleanor J. Hall
Neither wolf nor dog : on forgotten roads with an Indian elder by Kent Nerburn
The Oregon Trail in American History by Rebecca Stefoff
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang
Reporting Civil Rights by The Library of America
The Signers: The 56 Stores behind the Declaration of Independence by Dennis Brindell
Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow by Leon F. Litwack
What's the Deal? Jefferson, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase by Rhoda Blumberg

Biography

A is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women by Lynne Cheney
An American Hero: The True Story of Charles A. Lindbergh by Barry Denenberg
Bad Boy by Walter Dean Myers
Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson
Benjamin Frankilin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life by Candace Fleming
Desert Flower by Waris Darie
Eric Moon: The Life and Library Times by Kenneth F. Kister
Grant Hill by Ken Rappoport
Harriet Tubman : Moses of the Underground Railroad by Anne Schraff
Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War by T. J. Stiles
John Steinbeck by Catherine Reef
Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer by Robert Byrd
Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam by Jim Haskins
The Map that Changed the World by Simon Winchester
Margaret Bourke-White: Her Pictures Were Her Life by Susan Goldman Rubin
Muhammad: His life Based on the Earliest Sources by Martin Lings
The Oldest Rookie: Big-League Dreams from a Small Town Guy by Jim Morries and Joel Engel
Peaceful Protest: The Life of Nelson Mandela by Yona Zeldis McDonough, Malcah Zeldis (Illustrator)
A Pitcher's Story: Innings with David Cone by Roger Angell
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
The Revolutionary John Adams by Cheryl Harness
A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell by Donald Worster
Samuel Adams: The Father of American Independence by Dennis Brindell Fradin
Sitting Bull and His World by Albert Marrin
Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Nikkie Grimes
Ten Kings: And the Worlds They Ruled by Milton Meltzer Illus. by Bethanne Andersen
Ten Queens: Portraits of Women of Power by Milton Meltzer, Illus. by Bethanne Andersen
The Tree of Life: A Book Depicting the Life of Charles Darwin, Naturalist, Geologist & Thinker by Peter Sis
Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam by Diane Stanley
When Marion Sang by Pam Munoz Ryan
Winston Churchill: Soldier, Statesman, Artist by John B. Severance

Fiction

The Alchemist by Paolo Coehlo
All Over Creation by Ruch Ozeki
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegnar
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley
Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
Dating Hamlet: Ophelia's Story by Lisa Fiedler
Douglass' Women by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Easter Island by Jennifer Vanderbes
Good Faith by Jane Smiley
Hotel of the Saints by Ursula Hegi
In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquival
Lost Nation by Jeffery Lent
Night Talk by Elizabeth Cox
Orchard by Larry Watson
My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
River Teeth : stories and writings by David James Duncan
Roxanna Slade by Reynolds Price
Saul and Patsy by Charles Baxter
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris


Junior Fiction

26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola
Aquamarine by Alice Hoffman
Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer
Caleb's Story by Patricia MacLachlan
Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
City of Beasts by Isabel Allende
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Eragon: Inheritance: Book One by Christopher Paolini
Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
Fair Weather by Richard Peck
Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis
Grasslands by Debra Seely
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
Horse Thief by Robert Newton Peck
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
The Land by Mildren D.Taylor
Life in the Fat Lane by Cherie Bennett
Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
My Life with the Wave by Catherine Cowan, Octavio Paz, Mark Buehner (Illustrator)
My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
Pool Boy by Michael Simmons
Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers
The River Between Us by Richard Peck
Roberto : the insect architect by Nina Laden
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Sister Spider Knows All by Adrian Fogelin Slap Your Sides by M. E. Kerr
"Slowly, Slowly, Slowly," said the Sloth by Eric Carle
The Songs of the Kings by Barry Unsworth
A Stone in My Hand by Cathryn Clinton
Summerland by Michael Chabon
The Same Stuff as Stars by Katherine Paterson
Stand Tall by Joan Bauer
The Theif Lord by Cornelia Funke
Through the Lock by Carl Otis Hurst
Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo
Togo by Robert J. Blake
Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce
True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff
When My Name Was Keoke by Linda Sue Park
Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshoper? by Tonie Morrison
Who's Got Game? The Lion or the Mouse? by Toni Morrison
The Winter People by Joseph Bruchac
The Wreckers by Iain Lawrence
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

 

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