FICTION

Ashfall • Mullin, Mike. Tanglewood, 2011.
Many visitors to Yellowstone National Park don't realize that the boiling hot springs and spraying geysers are caused by an underlying supervolcano. It has erupted three times in the last 2.1 million years, and it will erupt again, changing the Earth forever. Fans of post-apocalyptic thrillers like "The Hunger Games" will love Ashfall.

Big girl small • DeWoskin, Rachel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Judy Lohden is your above-average sixteen-year-old—sarcastic and vulnerable, talented and uncertain, full of big dreams for a big future. With a singing voice that can shake an auditorium, she should be the star of Darcy Academy, the local performing arts high school. So why is a girl this promising hiding out in a seedy motel room on the edge of town?


The boy who couldn't sleep and never had to • Pierson, D. C. Vintage Books, 2010.
A wildly original and hilarious debut novel about the typical high school experience: the homework, the awkwardness, and the mutant creatures from another galaxy.



Five flavors of Dumb • John, Antony. Dial Books, 2010.
Piper is a seventeen-year-old high school senior, and she's just been challenged to get her school's super-popular rock band, Dumb, a paying gig. The catch? Piper is deaf. Can she manage a band with five wildly different musicians, nurture a budding romance, and discover her own inner rock star, though she can't hear Dumb's music?

Is everyone hanging out without me? (and other concerns) • Mindy Kaling. Crown Archetype, 2011.
Kaling shares her observations, fears, and opinions about a wide-ranging list of the topics she thinks about the most. From her favorite types of guys to life in the "The Office" writers' room, her book is full of personal stories and laugh-out-loud philosophies.



The little bride • Solomon, Anna. Riverhead Books, 2011.
Debut novel exploring the little-known history of Jewish immigrants who settled on the Great Plains - the story of a young Russian mail-order bride stranded on the South Dakota prairie, married to a man twice her and increasingly in love with her nineteen-year-old stepson.

Marcelo in the real world • Stork, Francisco X. Arthur A. Levine Books, 2009.
Marcelo Sandoval is a high-functioning, extremely self-aware teenager with Asperger's syndrome. However, the dilemmas that Marcelo faces are told in a compelling fashion, which helps to keep readers engaged.




Ship breaker • Bacigalupi, Paolo. Little, Brown, 2010.
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.

Sisterhood everlasting: a novel • Ann Brashares. Random House, 2011
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Brashares comes the welcome return of the characters whose friendship became a touchstone for a generation .




Stolen • Christopher, Lucy. Chicken House, 2010.
Sixteen-year-old British teenager, Gemma is kidnapped from the Bangkok airport and taken by a ruggedly handsome captor, Ty, into the Australian outback. Lucy Christopher tackles the difficult topic of Stockholm syndrome, including psychological isolation, and manipulation, and weaves them together into a unique, engrossing drama that quickly becomes so much more then just a typical story of a kidnapped girl.

JUDAISM and RABBINICS

Biblical seductions: six stories retold based on Talmud and Midrash • Rapoport, Sandra E. Ktav Pub. House, 2011. [BS1199.S45 .R37 2011]

Deuteronomy and the hermeneutics of legal innovation • Levinson, Bernard M. Oxford University Press, 1997. [BS1275.2 .L48 1997]

A feminist companion to Exodus to Deuteronomy • Sheffield Academic Press, 1994. [BS1225.2 .F45 2001]

The Koren siddur • Koren, 2009. [BM674.243 .S242 2009]

Lamentations: a commentary • Berlin, Adele. Westminster John Knox Press, 2004. [BS1535.53 .B47 2002]

Reading the women of the Bible • Frymer-Kensky, Tikva. Schocken Books, 2004. [BS575 .F8 2004]

The Sabbath World: glimpses of a different order of time • Judith Shulevitz. Random House, 2010. .[BM685.5478 2010]

Sacred trash: the lost and found world of the Cairo Geniza • Hoffman, Adina. Schocken, 2011.[ [BM180.H64 2010]

Samuel and the Deuteronomist: A Literary Study of the Deuteronomic History Part Two: 1 Samuel • Polzin, Robert. Indiana University Press, 1993. [BS1325.2 .P65 1993]

Samuel and Kings: a feminist companion to the Bible • Sheffield Academic Press, 2000. [BS1325.2 .F451 2000]

Yearnings: embracing the sacred messiness of life • Kula, Irwin. Hyperion, 2006. [BM723.K83 2006]

HISTORY

The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict • Jonathan Schneer. Random House, 2010. [DS125.5.S366 2010]




The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide • Daniel Blatman. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. [D804.7.D43B528 2011]

Empire of the summer moon: Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history • Gwynne, S. C. Scribner, 2010. [E99.C85 P3835 2010]

Killing Lincoln: the shocking assassination that changed America • Bill O'Reilly. Henry Holt, 2011. [E457.5.074 2011]

Unbroken: a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption • Laura Hillenbrand. Random House, 2010. [D805.J3Z64 2010]




Walking Israel: a personal search for the soul of a nation • Martin Fletcher. St. Martin's Press, 2010. [DS107.5.F54 2010]

SOCIAL and POLICTAL SCIENCES

Kings and carpenters: One Hundred Bible Land Jobs You Might Have Praised or Panned • Coulter, Laurie. Annick Press, 2010. [HD8660 .C69 2010]

The poisoner's handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York • Blum, Deborah. Penguin Press, 2010. [HV6555.U52N373 2010]

Student's guide to elections • CQ Press, 2008. [Ref JK1965 .S78 2008]

MEDICINE, SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY

The disappearing spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements • Kean, Sam.
Little, Brown, 2010. [QD466.K37 2010]

Steve Jobs • Isaacson, Walter. Simon & Schuster, 2011. [QA76.2.J63 I722 2011]

The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks • Skloot. Rebecca.Crown Publishers, 2010. [RC265.6.L24S55 2009]