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Talking with God: Divine Conversations that Transform Daily Life
By Robert L Millet
248.32 MIL 2010
Even when we believe in the value of prayer, many of us do not make it a priority or long for a more meaningful prayer life. In this book, Millet explores the dimensions of prayer in an engaging, personal way. Topics covered include: preparation for prayer, fasting and prayer, prayers of gratitude, receiving help from the other side, and what to do when no clear answer comes.

Stories from the Life of Porter Rockwell
By John W. Rockwell
ROCKWELL 2010
A collection of accounts about Porter Rockwell that provide insight into his character, his incredible physical stamina and skill, and his devotion to the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.

The Remarkable Soul of a Woman
By Dieter F. Uchtdorf
248.843 UCH 2010
Adaptation of an address delivered at the general Relief Society meeting of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on September 27, 2008.

The Eternal Christ
By Truman G. Madsen
(DVD) 232.901 TRU
Walk the paths Jesus walked in the Holy Land with master teacher and scholar, Truman G. Madsen. Beautiful film footage transports you from Bethlehem to Nazareth to the Garden Tomb. Dr. Madsen's penetrating insights and witness illuminate the life of Christ in a unique and personal way. (4 DVD set)

4 Things That Will Wreck Your Life and 4 Truths That Will Save It
By Sheri L. Dew
(Book on CD) 248.4893 DEW
In the last days, Satan is doing everything he can to disrupt our lives and derail our happiness. Sheri Dew talks about the traps the adversary uses and offers four empowering truths that will help you to avoid confusion and recognize principles that your spirit has long understood.

Weird YA

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Boneshaker
By Cherie Priest
SCIFI Priest
Inventor Leviticus Blue creates a machine that accidentally decimates Seattle's banking district and uncovers a vein of Blight Gas that turns everyone who breathes it into the living dead. Sixteen years later Briar, Blue's teenage son Ezekiel impetuously decides that he must reclaim his father's name from the clutches of history.

Incarceron
By Catherine Fisher
YA F Fisher
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.

Unwind
By Neal Shusterman
YA F Shusterm
In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives.

Leviathan
By Scott Westerfeld
YA F Westerfe
In an alternate 1914, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.

Numbers
By Rachel Ward
YA F Ward
Fifteen-year-old Jem knows when she looks at someone the exact date they will die, so she avoids relationships and tries to keep out of the way, but when she meets a boy named Spider and they plan a day out together, they become more involved than either of them had planned.

Epitaph Road
By David Patneaude
YA F Patneaud
In 2097, men are a small and controlled minority in a utopian world ruled by women, and fourteen-year-old Kellen must fight to save his father from an outbreak of the virus that killed ninety-seven percent of the male population thirty years earlier.

2010 Teen Titles

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The Prince of Mist
By Carlos Ruiz Zafón
YA F ZAFON
In 1943, in a seaside town where their family has gone to be safe from war, thirteen-year-old Max Carver and sister, fifteen-year-old Alicia, with new friend Roland, face off against an evil magician who is striving to complete a bargain made before he died.

White Cat
By Holly Black
YA F BLACK
When Cassel Sharpe discovers that his older brothers have used him to carry out their criminal schemes and then stolen his memories, he figures out a way to turn their evil machinations against them.

Mistwood
By Leah Cypress
YA F CYPRESS
Brought back from the Mistwood to protect the royal family, a girl who has no memory of being a shape-shifter encounters political and magical intrigue as she struggles with her growing feelings for the prince.

Stolen
By Lucy Christopher
YA F CHRISTOP
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.

Ship Breaker
By Paolo Bacigalupi
YA F BACIGALU
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.

Thrillers

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Devil’s Corner
By Lisa Scottoline
F SCOTTOLI
Vicki Allegreti, an Assistant US Attorney pushes the limits investigating the murder of her partner, resulting in her suspension. Allegreti is young and petite, yet tough and determined, pursuing her quarry even after her suspension. This story involving drug-trafficking, murder, and conspiracy in Philadelphia, has good pacing, a few twists, a little humor, and some genuine warmth make this a particularly good read.

Spade & Archer
By Joe Gores
MYSTERY GORES
This is Joe Gores’ very admirable prequel to Hammett's classic The Maltese Falcon. He has nailed the characterization of private eye Sam Spade, the setting (San Francisco), the period (1920s), and the hard-boiled detective genre. First-rate.

Sayonaraville
By Curt Colbert
MYSTERY COLBERT
In this short, fast-reading story set in post-WWII Seattle involves the murder of an insurance salesman (decapitated by a Samurai sword). Jake Rossiter, private-eye (and his secretary, Miss Jenkins) are on the case.

Humorous Teen Books for Guys

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Son of the Mob
By Gordon Korman
YA F KORMAN
Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent.

Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
By David Lubar
YA F LUBAR
While navigating his first year of high school and awaiting the birth of his new baby brother, Scott loses old friends and gains some unlikely new ones as he hones his skills as a writer.

The Amulet of Samarkand
By Jonathan Stroud
YA F STROUD
Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace.

The Wednesday Wars
By Gary D. Schmidt
YA F SCHMIDT
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.

Love, Football, and Other Contact Sports
By Alden R. Carter
YA F CARTER
A collection of stories about high school students from one end of the social spectrum to the other.

Books to Discuss

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The Killer Angels
By Michael Shaara
F SHAARA
Robert E. Lee and James Longstreet tell the Southern view, while Colonel Joshua Chamberlain and General John Buford present the Northern view in this novelization of the Battle of Gettysburg.

The History of Love
By Nicole Krauss
F KRAUSS
Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl named for one of the book's characters seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.

I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
By Nujood Ali
BIO ALI 2010
The true story of Yemen's heroic first child bride to win a divorce describes her forced marriage to an abusive husband three times her age, her daring pursuit of the marriage's dissolution and the cultural factors that place girls at risk in Yemeni society.

The Forgotten Garden
By Kate Morton
F MORTON
Abandoned on a 1913 voyage to Australia, Nell is raised by a dock master and his wife who do not tell her until she is an adult that she is not their child, leading Nell to return to England and eventually hand down her quest for answers to her granddaughter.

The Help
By Kathryn Stockett
F STOCKETT
Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project.

The Time Traveler’s Wife
By Audrey Niffenegger
F NIFFENEG
Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.

An Eclectic Collection of Great Reads

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• Variety of genres

Peace Like a River
By Leif Enger
F ENGER
The quiet 1960s midwestern life of the Land family--father Jeremiah, and children, Reuben, Davy and Swede--is upended when Davy kills two teenage boys. Davy escapes from his cell and the Lands set out in search of him. Their search is at once a heroic quest, a tragedy, a love story, and a haunting meditation on the possibility of magic in the everyday world.

The Forgotten Garden
By Kate Morton
F MORTON
Abandoned on a 1913 voyage to Australia, Nell is raised by a dock master and his wife who do not tell her until she is an adult that she is not their child, leading Nell to return to England and eventually hand down her quest for answers to her granddaughter.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
By Mary Ann Shaffer
F SHAFFER
In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey, who tells her about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during German occupation.

Elantris
By Brandon Sanderson
SCIFI SANDERSON
Arriving in the kingdom of Arelon to enter a marriage of state, princess Sarene discovers that her intended has died and that she is considered his widow, leaving her a lone force against the imperial ambitions of a religious fanatic. But all is not as it seems.

The Wednesday Wars
By Gary Schmidt
YA F SCHMIDT
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker’s classroom where they read the plays of Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.

Squeaky Clean Mysteries

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Bellfield Hall, or The Observations of Miss Dido Kent
By Anna Dean
MYSTERY Dean
Visiting Bellfield Hall to comfort her niece, who has been seemingly abandoned by her wealthy fiancé, Miss Dido Kent investigates the possibly related death of a young woman, a situation that is complicated by surprising secrets. It’s an English country house murder set in the 19th century with a decidedly Austen-esque atmosphere.

Bedlam
By Laura Joh Rowland
MYSTERY Rowland
After the death of her siblings, Charlotte has few people she can trust, and feels more alone than ever. While visiting London, Charlotte goes on a tour of Bedlam, where she is sure she recognizes a struggling Mr. Slade, her long-missing ex-lover, strapped to one of the stretchers. Of course, she starts digging, and soon finds herself trying to reveal a secret that high-powered men would, and do, kill to protect.

The Mapping of Love and Death
By Jacqueline Winspear
MYSTERY Winspear
In this 7th book in the series, Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her t o a doomed affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse.

A River in the Sky
By Elizabeth Peters
MYSTERY Peters
In the 19th installment, Amelia and Emerson follow an expedition searching for the vanished treasures of the Temple in Jerusalem. Besides suspecting the leader of the expedition of inept excavation practices, they believe him to be secretly working for German intelligence.

The Double Comfort Safari Club
By Alexander Mcall Smith
MYSTERY McCall-Smith
Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi travel to the north of Botswana, to the stunning Okavango Delta, to visit a safari lodge where there have been several unexplained and troubling events--including the demise of one of the guests. This is the11th book in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series.

Teen Titles for Boys

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White Cat
By Holly Black
YA F BLACK
When Cassel Sharpe discovers that his older brothers have used him to carry out their criminal schemes and then stolen his memories, he figures out a way to turn their evil machinations against them.

Leviathan
By Scott Westerfeld
YA F WESTERFE
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.

Ship Breaker
By Paolo Bacigalupi
YA F BACIGALU
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.

The Monstrumologist
By Richard Yancey
YA F YANCEY
In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.

Fiction for Literature Lovers

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Peace Like a River
By Leif Enger
F Enger
The quiet 1960s midwestern life of the Land family--father Jeremiah, and children, Reuben, Davy and Swede--is upended when Davy kills two teenage boys who have come to harm the family. On the morning of his sentencing, Davy escapes from his cell and the Lands set out in search of him. Their search is at once a heroic quest, a tragedy, a love story, and a haunting meditation on the possibility of magic in the everyday world.

Elegance of the Hedgehog
By Muriel Barbery
F Barbery
The lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve-year-old Paloma Josse are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu. He is the one person who seems to understand both of them and by bringing them together, he creates a beautiful friendship between all three.

The History of Love
By Nicole Krauss
F Krauss
Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl named for one of the book's characters seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.

Bel Canto
By Ann Patchett
F Patchett
When terrorists seize hostages at an embassy party, an unlikely assortment of people is thrown together, including American opera star Roxanne Coss, and Mr. Hosokawa, a Japanese CEO and her biggest fan.

Slumdog Millionaire
By Vikas Swarup
F Swarup
Arrested for unbelievably answering all twelve questions on the Indian game show, "Who Will Win a Billion?" semi-literate waiter Ram Mohammad Thomas explains to his lawyer how he knew the answers due to events in his personal life.

Teen Fantasy Audiobooks

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Sebastain Drake: Prince of Fools
By Philip Caveney
Books on CD-YA Caveney
Accompanied by his sardonic buffalope Max, seventeen-year-old Sebastian Darke meets a spoiled princess and a diminutive soldier who aid in his quest to become court jester to the evil King Septimus.

Foundling
By D. M. Cornish
Books on CD-YA Cornish
Having grown up in a home for foundlings and possessing a girl's name, Rossamund sets out to report to his new job as a lamplighter and has several adventures along the way as he meets people and monsters.

Revenge of the Witch
By Joseph Delaney
Books on CD-YA Delaney
Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties.

Incarceron
By Catherine Fisher
Books on CD-YA Fisher
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.

The Graveyard Book
By Neil Gaiman
Books on CD-YA Gaiman
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.

Skulduggery Pleasant
By Derek Landy
Books on CD-YA Landy
When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world from the Faceless Ones.

Princess Ben
By Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Books on CD-YA Murdock
Princess Benevolence, with a little help of her new found magic, protects her kindgom of Montagne as it faces war with their neighboring enemy Drachensbett.

The Hunchback Assignments
By Arthur G. Slade
Books on CD-YA Slade
In Victorian London, fourteen-year-old Modo, a shape-changing hunchback, becomes a secret agent for the Permanent Association, which strives to protect the world from the evil machinations of the Clockwork Guild.