The Man Booker Prize aims to promote the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year originally written in English and published in the UK. The books longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize are:
The The Man Booker Prize aims to promote the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year originally written in English and published in the UK. The books longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize are:
On May 1, 2014, the Mystery Writers of America announced the winners of the 2014 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction and nonfiction published in 2013.
On May 1, 2014, the Mystery Writers of America announced the winners of the 2014 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best works in mystery fiction and nonfiction which were published in 2013.
YALSA officially announced the 2014 Teens’ Top Ten Nominees on April 17, Celebrate Teen Literature Day. This year’s list of nominees features 25 titles that were published between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2013.
All teens are encouraged to read the 25 nominees before the national Teens’ Top Ten vote, which will take place August 15 through Teen Read Week at www.ala.org/yalsa/reads4teens If you’re a teen, you can vote!
Arnett, Mindee. The Nightmare Affair.
Being the only Nightmare at Arkwell Academy, a boarding school for “magickind,” sixteen-year-old Destiny Everhart feeds on the dreams of others, working with a handsome human student to find a killer.
Banks, Anna. Of Triton.
When her mother’s reappearance in the Syrena world turns the two kingdoms – Poseidon and Triton – against one another, Emma must risk everything she loves and reveal herself – and her Gift – to save a people she’s never known.
Bardugo, Leigh. Seige and Storm.
Sequel to Shadow and Bone. Hunted across the True Sea and haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land, all while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret.
Block, Francesca Lia. Love in the Time of Global Warming.
After a devastating earthquake destroys the West Coast, causing seventeen year old Penelope to lose her home, her parents, and her ten year old brother, she navigates a dark world, holding hope and love in her hands and refusing to be destroyed.
Charbonneau, Joelle. The Testing.
Sixteen year old Cia Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the university; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.
Dashner, James. The Eye of Minds.
Michael is a skilled internet gamer in a world of advanced technology. When a cyber-terrorist begins to threaten players, Michael is called upon to seek him and his secrets out.
Edwards, Janet. Earth Girl.
Abandoned on Earth because of her inability to survive on other planets, Jarra crafts a fake background for herself to join a class of norms who are excavating the dangerous ruins of old cities.
Gleason, Colleen. The Clockwork Scarab.
In 1899 London young women are turning up dead, and Evaline Stoker, relative of Bram, and Mina Holmes, niece of Sherlock, are summoned to investigate the clue of the not-so-ancient Egyptian scarabs – but where does a time traveler fit in?
Gray, Laurie. Maybe I Will.
A novel presenting the realities of sexual assault without revealing the gender of the victim.
Henry, April. The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die.
She doesn’t know who she is. She doesn’t know where she is, or why. All she knows when she comes to in a ransacked cabin is that there are two men arguing over whether or not to kill her.
Howard, A.G. Splintered. A descendant of Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 16-year-old Alyssa Gardner fears she is mentally ill like her mother and predecessors until she discovers that Wonderland is real and, if she passes a series of tests to fix Alice’s mistakes, she may be able to save her family from their age-old curse.
Kate, Lauren. Teardrop.
Since Eureka’s mother drowned, she wishes she were dead too, but after discovering that an ancient book is more than a story Eureka begins to believe that Ander is right about her being involved in strange things–and in grave danger.
Konigsberg, Bill. Openly Straight.
Tired of being known as “the gay kid”, Rafe Goldberg decides to assume a new persona when he comes east and enters an elite Massachusetts prep school–but trying to deny his identity has both complications and unexpected consequences.
Laybourne, Emmy. Monument 14:Sky on Fire.
Six high school kids, two eighth-graders, and six little kids trapped together in a chain superstore build a refuge for themselves inside. Outside, a series of escalating disasters, beginning with a montster hailstorm and ending with a chemcial weapons spil, seem to be tearing the world — as they know it — apart.
Richards, Natalie D. Six Months Later.
Waking up six months after dozing off in study hall to discover that she is on track to become the school valedictorian, a super jock is her boyfriend and her former best friend is not speaking to her, Chloe struggles to remember what happened and how the baffling changes occurred.
Rowell, Rainbow. Eleanor & Park.
Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits–smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.
Sales, Leila. This Song Will Save Your Life.
Nearly a year after a failed suicide attempt, sixteen-year-old Elise discovers that she has the passion, and the talent, to be a disc jockey.
Sanderson, Brandon. Steelheart.
At age eight, David watched as his father was killed by an Epic, a human with superhuman powers, and now, ten years later, he joins the Reckoners–the only people who are trying to kill the Epics and end their tyranny.
Sanderson, Brandon. The Rithmatist.
As Wild Chalklings threaten the American Isles and Rithmatists are humanity’s only defense, Joel can only watch as Rithmatist students learn the magical art that he would do anything to practice.
Smith, Jennifer E. This Is What Happy Looks Like.
After Graham Larkin accidentally sends Ellie O’Neill an email about his pet pig, the two begin a relationship from opposite sides of the country, but their relationship is complicated by the secrets they keep when they meet in-person.
Smith, Andrew. Winger.
Two years younger than his classmates at a prestigious boarding school, fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West grapples with living in the dorm for troublemakers, falling for his female best friend who thinks of him as just a kid, and playing wing on the Varsity rugby team with some of his frightening new dorm-mates.
Stine, R. L. A Midsummer Night’s Scream.
Decades after the filming of a horror movie is halted in the wake of three actor deaths and rumors about a haunted set, Claire, the daughter of a failing studio head, helps with a production on the same site and pursues a relationship with her crush before a series of accidents threaten their ambitions.
Tucholke, April. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.
Violet is in love with River, a mysterious seventeen-year-old stranger renting the guest house behind the rotting seaside mansion where Violet lives, but when eerie, grim events begin to happen, Violet recalls her grandmother’s frequent warnings about the devil and wonders if River is evil.
Winters, Cat. In the Shadow of Blackbirds.
In San Diego in 1918, as deadly influenza and World War I take their toll, sixteen-year-old Mary Shelley Black watches desperate mourners flock to séances and spirit photographers for comfort and, despite her scientific leanings, must consider if ghosts are real when her first love, killed in battle, returns.
Yancey, Rick. The 5th Wave.
After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, just one rule applies: trust no one. Now it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth’s last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan may be Cassie’s only hope for rescuing her brother — or even saving herself.
To celebrate this year’s Earth Day – an annual event supporting environmental awareness and protection – on April 22, why not stop by library and borrow a book from our Environmental Center collection?
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To celebrate this year’s Earth Day – an annual event supporting environmental awareness and protection – on April 22, why not stop by the library and borrow a book from our Environmental Center collection?
Everyone loves to see a great story modified for and celebrated on the silver screen. In a recent article, Publishers Weekly listed some of the most anticipated book-to-movie adaptations of 2014.
Everyone loves to see a great story modified for and celebrated on the silver screen. In a recent article, Publishers Weekly listed some of the most anticipated book-to-movie adaptations of 2014.
Anderson, Laurie Halse. The impossible knife of memory. 2014.
Enduring a transient existence before starting school in her Iraq War veteran father’s hometown, a troubled Hayley Kincaid longs for a normal life and pursues a relationship with a secretive boy before her father’s PTSD leads to a disturbing drug problem.
Anonymous. Go Ask Alice. 1971.
Based on the dairy of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her daily struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
Anonymous. Lucy in the sky. 2012.
A diary by an unnamed drug addict from an upper middle-class neighborhood in Santa Monica documents the ruination of her life after experimenting with drugs and alcohol at a party, after which she rejects everything she once cared about.
Barnes, John. Tales of the Madman Underground: (an historical romance 1973). 2009.
In September 1973, as the school year begins in his depressed Ohio town, high-school senior Kurt Shoemaker determines to be “normal,” despite his chaotic home life with his volatile, alcoholic mother and the deep loyalty and affection he has for his friends in the therapy group dubbed the Madman Underground.
Bloor, Edward. A Plague Year. 2011.
When a crystal meth epidemic tears through his Pennsylvania coal-mining town in 2001, Tom, a supermarket employee who dreams of escaping to college, finds inspiration in the heroism of the passengers of United Flight 93.
Burgess, Melvin. The Hit. 2014.
There is a new drug on the mean streets of Manchester which promises the most intense week of your life, and then you are dead – and after he watches a pop star die on stage, Adam thinks that his own life is so miserable that he might just as well try it.
Hinton, S.E. That was then, this is now. 1998, 1971.
Sixteen-year-old Mark and Bryon have been like brothers since childhood, but now, as their involvement with girls, gangs, and drugs increases, their relationship seems to gradually disintegrate.
Hopkins, Ellen. Crank. 2004.
Kristina Snow is the perfect daughter, but she meets a boy who introduces her to drugs and she becomes a very different person, struggling to control her life and her mind. The other two books in the trilogy are Glass and Fallout.
Lipsyte, Robert. Raiders Night. 2006.
Matt Rydeck, co-captain of his high school football team, endures a traumatic season as he witnesses a vicious assault of a rookie player by teammates and grapples with his own use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Maia, Love. DJ Rising. 2012.
Sixteen-year-old Marley Diego-Dylan’s career as “DJ Ice” is skyrocketing, but his mom’s heroin addiction keeps dragging him back to earth.
Marchetta, Melina. Jellicoe Road. 2008, 2006.
Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.
Martinez, Jessica. Virtuosity. 2011.
Just before the most important violin competition of her career, seventeen-year-old prodigy Carmen faces critical decisions about her anti-anxiety drug addiction, her controlling mother, and potential romance with her most talented rival.
McCormick, Patricia. My brother’s keeper. 2005.
Thirteen-year-old Toby, a prematurely gray-haired Pittsburgh Pirates fan and baseball card collector, tries to cope with his brother’s drug use, his father’s absence, and his mother dating Stanley the Food King.
Myers, Walter Dean. The Beast. 2003.
A visit to his Harlem neighborhood and the discovery that the girl he loves is using drugs give sixteen-year-old Anthony Witherspoon a new perspective both on his home and on his life at a Connecticut prep school.
Myers, Walter Dean. Dope Sick. 1999.
Seeing no way out of his difficult life in Harlem, seventeen-year-old Jeremy “Lil J” Dance flees into a house after a drug deal goes awry and meets a weird man who shows different turning points in Lil J’s life when he could have made better choices.
Nelson, Blake. Recovery Road. 2011.
While she is in a rehabilitation facility for drug and alcohol abuse, seventeen-year-old Maddie meets Stewart, who is also in treatment, and they begin a relationship, which they try to maintain after they both get out.
Rapp, Adam. Punkzilla. 2009.
A runaway boy nicknamed Punkzilla who sustains himself on the streets of Portland through petty crimes decides to try to kick his meth habit, turn his life around, and go on a journey to Tennessee to visit his dying older brother.
Reed, Amy. Clean. 2011.
A group of teens in a Seattle-area rehabilitation center form an unlikely friendship as they begin to focus less on their own problems by reaching out to help a new member, who seems to have even deeper issues to resolve.
Whaley, John Corey. Where Things Come Back. 2011.
Seventeen-year-old Cullen’s summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin’s death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother’s sudden disappearance.
Woodson, Jacqueline. Beneath a meth moon: an elegy. 2012.
After losing her mother and grandmother to Hurricane Katrina, Laurel Daneau begins a new life in a new town, but when her boyfriend T-Boom introduces her to meth, her future begins to look as bleak as her past.
Angel, Ann. Janis Joplin: rise up singing. 2010.
A young fan’s introduction to the life and career of the iconic music performer commemorates the fortieth anniversary of her death and draws on anecdotes from friends and band mates.
Brown, Cupcake. A Piece of Cake: a memoir. 2006.
An inspirational, frequently disturbing memoir of a troubled youth describes how the author fell victim to the ills of the child welfare system, detailing her experiences with sexual abuse, neglect, drug and alcohol addiction, prostitution, and gang banging, as well as her long and difficult struggle to rebuild her life.
Conyers, Beverly. Everything changes: help for families of newly recovering addicts. 2009. Everything Changes is a guide to help families navigate the first year of recovery. It explores the addicted individual’s many challenges, examines ways that families can be supportive without sacrificing their own peace of mind, and suggests ways to build a new, more rewarding relationship with their recovering loved one.
Gantos, Jack. Hole in my life. 2002.
The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.
Itzkoff, Dave. Cocaine’s son: a memoir. 2011.
Growing up, David understand his father to be a trusted ally and confidant – a man who always had some hard-won wisdom to share. But he was also a junkie. As David grew older, he fell into the same trap, until he and his father hit the road in search of their ‘morning after.’
Lyon, Joshua. Pill head: the secret life of a painkiller addict. 2009.
A social analysis of the increase in painkiller abuse in the United States is told through a prism of the author’s own struggles, describing how he became addicted to Vicodin while performing research on the high number of people who illegally obtain and use prescription drugs for non-medical reasons.
Moyers, William Cope. Broken: my story of addiction and redemption. 2006.
The son of broadcaster Bill Moyers shares his harrowing personal battle with alcoholism and drug addiction, describing his privileged childhood, multiple relapses, and rise to a key player at the Hazelden Foundation, through which he conducts motivational intervention programs.
Ruta, Domenica. With or without you: a memoir. 2013.
A wryly comic, deeply emotional memoir of the author’s relationship with her flamboyant drug dealer mother describes her misfit youth and eventual escape into writing before succumbing to addiction and resolving to leave her past life in order to survive.
Shantz-Hilkes, Chloe, ed. Hooked: when addiction hits home. 2013.
A collection of eight profiles based on interviews with people who, as children or teens, lived with a family member with an addiction. These short, true stories touch on depression, social stigma, and the health problems caused by addiction and stress.
Sheff, Nic. Tweak: (growing up on methamphetamines). 2009, 2008.
The author details his immersion in a world of hardcore drugs, revealing the mental and physical depths of addiction, and the violent relapse one summer in California that forever changed his life, leading him down the road to recovery.
Sheff, Nic. We all fall down: living with addiction. 2011.
In this powerful follow-up about his continued efforts to stay clean, Nic writes candidly about eye-opening stays at rehab centers, devastating relapses, and hard-won realizations about what it means to be a young person living with addiction.
Sizemore, Tom. By some miracle I made it out of there: a memoir. 2013.
An account of the acclaimed actor’s Hollywood career and struggles with methamphetamine addiction covers his Detroit background, his relationships with various co-stars, and his experiences as a father of twin boys.
Sonnenberg, Susanna. Her last death: a memoir. 2008.
The daughter of a narcissistic and addictive mother shares the story of her life as it was influenced by her glamorous and charismatic mother’s ill-fated teen elopement, compulsive lies, and dependence on cocaine, narcotics, and sex.
Stein, Michael. The addict: one patient, one doctor, one year. 2008.
Describes the medical and psychological treatment of Lucy, a recovering addict, by her doctor, including her psychological problems connected to the addiction and the doctor’s thoughts on how addiction is treated by the medical system.
