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Academy of Notre Dame New Titles Added (28)

March 2011

364.6 P Prejean, Helen. Dead man walking : an eyewitness account of the death penalty in the United States. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1994. Sister Helen Prejean's story of her encounter with the death penalty in America.

822 W Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest. New York, N.Y. : Hearst Corporation, c1965.

973.917 R Rowley, Hazel. Franklin and Eleanor : an extraordinary marriage. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. Cousins in love, 1902-1905 -- A Victorian marriage, March 1905-March 1913 -- Somewhat at sea, March 1913-February 1920-- Tragedy at Campobello, June 1920-March 1922 -- The wilderness years, March 1922-November 1928 -- In the governor's mansion, November 1928-March 1933 -- Grand hotel, March 1933-November 1936 -- Embattled, November 1936November 1940 -- "I am a bit exhausted," December 1940-March 1945 -- The Rose Garden, March 1945-November 1962. Describes the marriage of Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt, discussing the challenges and controversies the couple endured, and examining the claim that their union was maintained for political purposes.

973.932 I Ifill, Gwen. The breakthrough : politics and race in the age of Obama. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 2009. A veteran journalist surveys the American political landscape and illuminates the evolution of the African-American politician-and the future of American democracy.

DVD 10 Committee for Citizen Awareness 2011. We the People... : The U.S. Constitution and You.

F B Bacigalupi, Paolo. Ship breaker. 1st ed. New York : 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.

F C Calonita, Jen. Secrets of my Hollywood life : a novel. 1st ed.

New York : Little, Brown, 2006. Longing to experience the life of a "normal" teenager, sixteen-year-old actress Kaitlin Burke assumes a false identity to attend a local high school. F C Calonita, Jen. Sleepaway girls. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2009. When the exceptionally people-pleasing Sam spends a summer as a counselor-in-training, she learns how to say no, to stand up for herself, and what it feels like to have a crush on a great guy. F C Calonita, Jen. Reality check : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2010. When a television executive signs Long Island sixteen-year-old Charlie and her three best friends to be the stars of a new reality television show, their lives are suddenly not the same. F C Caletti, Deb. Wild roses. Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2008, c2005. Seventeen-year-old Cassie, trying to deal with life in the household of her eccentric, paranoid stepfather, Dino, a genius composer and violin player, makes matters even worse when she begins dating Dino's student, a violin prodigy who does not need anything to distract him from practicing for an important audition. F C Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl : the opal deception. 1st American ed. New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2005. Artemis Fowl, having reverted to his criminal lifestyle following his last run-in with the fairies, travels to Berlin intending to steal a famous painting from a German bank, not realizing his old rival, Opal Koboi, has been just waiting for a chance to destroy him. F C Christopher, Lucy. Stolen. 1st American ed. New York : Chicken House, 2010. Sixteen-year-old Gemma, a British city-dweller, is abducted while on vacation with her parents and taken to the Australian outback, where she soon realizes that escape attempts are futile, and in time she learns that her captor is not as despicable as she first believed. F C Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl : the Arctic incident. 1st American ed. New York : Miramax Books/Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, c2002. Thirteen-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl must join forces with his nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police, in order to save his father--one of the few people in the world Artemis

loves--who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya. F C

Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl. 1st American pbk. ed. New York : Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, 2002, c2001. When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.

F C Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl : the eternity code. 1st mass-market pbk. ed. New York : Miramax Books/Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, 2005, c2003. Artemis Fowl creates an extraordinarily powerful computer with stolen fairy technology, but his business deal hopes go sour when a Chicago businessman steals his invention and mortally wounds Artemis's loyal bodyguard.

F E Eulberg, Elizabeth. The Lonely Hearts Club. 1st ed. New York : Point, 2010. Fed up with boys and the way they have treated her and her friends, high school junior Penny Lane--named after the Beatles song--forms a club whose members vow to stop dating, but the repercussions are surprising.

F E Eulberg, Elizabeth. Prom & prejudice. 1st ed. New York : Point, 2011. For Lizzie Bennett, a music scholarship student at Connecticut's exclusive, girls-only Longbourn Academy, the furor over prom is senseless, but even more puzzling is her attraction to the pompous Will Darcy, best friend of her roommate's boyfriend.

F K King, A. S. (Amy Sarig), 1970-. Please ignore Vera Dietz. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2010. When her best friend, whom she secretly loves, betrays her and then dies under mysterious circumstances, high school senior Vera Dietz struggles with secrets that could help clear his name.

F S Sachar, Louis. Holes. New York, N.Y. : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1998.

F S Shan, Darren. Cirque du freak : the vampire's assistant. 1st U.S. pbk. ed. Boston : Little, Brown, c2001. After traveling with Mr. Crepsley, the vampire who made him into a half-vampire, Darren returns to the freak show known as the Cirque du Freak and continues to fight his need to drink human blood.

F S Shan, Darren. Cirque du freak : a living nightmare. 1st U.S. pbk. ed. Boston : Little, Brown, 2002, c2000. Two boys who are best friends visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices.

F S Shan, Darren. Cirque du freak : tunnels of blood. 1st U.S. pbk. ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2002, c2000. Darren, Evra, and Mr. Crepsley leave the Cirque Du Freak and get a taste of the city, but when corpses drained of blood are discovered, Darren and Evra must confront a dangerous creature of the night.

F S Schreiber, Ellen. Kissing coffins. 1st ed. New York : Katherine Tegen, 2005. Sixteen-year-old Raven, a vampire-obsessed goth girl, searches for her true love, Alexander, who she has learned is a real vampire.

F S Schreiber, Ellen. Dance with a vampire. 1st ed. New York : HarperTeen : Katherine Tegen Books, c2007. When a preteen vampire appears in Dullsville, Goth girl Raven must protect her younger brother and her own relationship with her vampire boyfriend, Alexander.

F S Sedgwick, Marcus. Revolver. 1st American ed. New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2010, c2009. Fourteen-year-old Sig is stranded at a remote cabin in the Arctic wilderness with his father, who died just hours earlier after falling through the ice, when a terrifying man arrives, claiming Sig's father owes him a share of a horde of stolen gold and that he will kill Sig if he does not get his money.

F S Sage, Angie. Magyk. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York : Katherine Tegen Books, 2006, c2005. Ten-year-olds Septimus Heap, the seventh son of the seventh son, and Jenna, the little girl Septimus's father found abandoned in the snow the night Septimus was born and taken away, are threatened by the evil wizard DomDaniel, who intends to finish off the entire royal line.

F T Teller, Janne, 1964-. Nothing. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2010. When thirteen-year-old Pierre Anthon leaves school to sit in a plum tree and train for becoming part of nothing, his seventh grade classmates set out on a desperate quest for

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Vanderpool, Clare. Moon over Manifest. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2010. Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.

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