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Ship Breaker
by Paolo Bacigalupi
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.
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The Way, Way Back
When an awkward fourteen-year-old boy goes on a summer vacation with his mother and her boyfriend, he befriends the owner of a water park and begins to find his own identity.
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Hero of the Empire: the Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill
by Candice Millard
The best-selling author of Destiny of the Republic presents a narrative account of Churchill's lesser-known heroics during the Boer War, describing his daring escape from rebel captors, trek through hundreds of miles with virtually no supplies and eventual return to South Africa to liberate the soldiers captured with him.
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Inspector Lewis
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway investigate crime and murder in Oxford.
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The Hittite
by Ben Bova
Lukka, a Hittite soldier bent on revenge, travels across ancient Greece, proves himself as a warrior in the Battle of Troy, builds the Trojan Horse, topples the walls of Jericho for the Israelites, and casts his eye on the beautiful Helen.
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The Tale of the Firebird
by Gennady Spirin
When the Tsar's son plans an amazing quest to find the incredible bird, the Firebird, he sets out on a flying wolf that takes him to fantastical places far from home where he meets and rescues an enchanted princess held captive by the evil Baba Yaga.
Lana adds, "This is a beautiful folk tale from Russia with magical illustrations by Gennady Spirin. A wonderful read for children and adults alike."
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The Idiot
Upon Prince Myshkin's return to St. Petersburg from an asylum in Switzerland, he becomes beguiled by the lovely young Aglaya, daughter of a wealthy father. But his deepest emotion is for the wanton, Nastassya. The choices all are forced to make lead to great tragedy. Based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Lana adds, "This is a Russian production of Dostoyevsky’s classic. Most true to the original."
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The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
Set in Moscow of the 1920's, this satirical novel recounts the dealings a writer and his mistress have with Satan.
Lana adds that "this is probably the number one “cult classic” of Russian literature. One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness of chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margairta, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth."
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500 Nations
Presents a history of Native American peoples of North America, their leaders, customs, political systems, and lifestyles using accounts of events and dramatization.
Lana adds, "500 Nations is an eight-part documentary that looks back at life in North America before the arrival of the Europeans, then follows the epic struggles of Indian Nations as the continent is reshaped by contact."
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Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
by Svetlana Aleksievich
Looks at the Soviet Union's role in the Afghanistan War and discusses its similarities to America's Vietnam War.
Lana adds, "this was part of my youth: young men that we knew growing up “coming home” from the Afghanistan War in sealed zinc coffins. Svetlana Alexievich presents testimony of ordinary people who describe the war and its lasting effects, the devastation of war on a personal level, the shattered lives of those who died and those who came back alive. In 2015 Svetlana Alexievich received the Nobel Prize in Literature for this and several other works. This was the first time that the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded for nonfiction."
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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
by David Sedaris
The author of Holidays on Ice provides an original collection of outrageously funny fables featuring animals with unmistakably human failings, including a kitty cat that struggles to sit through his prison-mandated AA meetings, squirrel and chipmunk lovers separated by prejudiced family members and much more.
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Mad Men
Follows the lives of the workers at a 1960s New York advertising agency. The show was highly acclaimed, winning sixteen Emmy awards and five Golden Globes.
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Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The author presents a history of racial discrimination in the United States and a narrative of his own personal experiences of contemporary race relations, offering possible resolutions for the future.
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Parks and Recreation
Follows a bumbling but earnest city employee as she attempts to rise through a small-town parks department.
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Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty
by Diane Keaton
The film star describes the ups and downs of living in a beauty-obsessed world, recounting stories about a makeup artist's embarrassing advice, her trip to Victoria's Secret with her teenage daughter, and the personal style choices she has made.
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Eleanor & Park
by Rainbow Rowell
A first young adult novel by the author of Attachments follows the year-long, star-crossed romance between two 1980s high school misfits whose intelligence tells them that first loves almost never last but whose feelings prevent them from remaining as practical.
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Earthflight
David Tennant narrates this showcase of bird's-eye views of flights of various birds across six continents. With the help of camera-carrying birds, drones, paragliders, and microflight planes, this exhilarating adventure was filmed over four years and in forty countries.
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Stand By Me
Four boys set out on a two day summer journey in search of a missing teenager and find themselves along the way.
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The Night Gardener
by Jonathan Auxier
Irish orphans Molly, 14, and Kip, 10, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and the secrets of the cursed house. By the author of Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Yolo County Library 226 Buckeye St. Woodland, California 95695 530-666-8005
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