NEW BOOKS

Be the first to check out one of the books recently added to the collection at LHHS.  Some, but not all, are on display on the New Book rack and all general collection books are available for check-out.  

Consult the OPAC to see if the title you've selected is still on the shelf.  If not, ask to have it put on reserve and we will send a notice to your second period teacher letting you know when it has been returned to the library.  

And be sure to let us know how you enjoyed the book when you return it!

• New Fiction
• New Poetry
• New Books on Arts & Literature
• New Books on Science & Math
• New Books on Careers & Marketing
• New Biographies
• New Books on History& Social Issues

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  New Fiction

  	Where I'm bound by Allen B. Ballard Joe Duckett, having escaped slavery to join the Union Army, becomes a hero in his regiment; but his most dangerous task is still before him when he makes plans to return to the plantation from which he fled to claim his wife and daughter.   Available @ your library
  	I Do by Elizabeth Chandler Jane serves as maid of honor at her cousin's wedding and, at first, she does not want to walk down the aisle with Adam, the best man.   Available @ your library
  	The Playmaker by J. B. Cheaney While working as an apprentice in a London Theater company in 1597, fourteen-year-old Richard uncovers a mystery involving the disappearance of his father and a traitorous plot to overthrow Queen Elizabeth.   Available @ your library
  	Authorized Personnel Only by Barbara D'Amato Chicago cop Suze Figueroa spends her workday tracking down an elusive serial killer, not realizing she is harboring a dangerous intruder in her own home. Available @ your library
  	Turnabout by Margaret Peterson Melly and Anny Beth agree to participate in Project Turnabout, a scientific experiment in which they are given a shot that will make them grow younger, until they receive a second injection that will stop the aging process, but when other participants die after receiving the second shot, Melly and Anny Beth refuse to have the shot and set out to find someone to care for them when they are too young to do it themselves.   Available @ your library
  	"Hello," I lied by M. E. Kerr Summering in the Hamptons on the estate of a famous rock star, seventeen-year-old Lang tries to decide how to tell his longtime friends that he is gay while struggling with an unexpected infatuation with a girl from France.   Available @ your library
  	The Bobbin Girl by Emily Arnold McCully   A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--whether or not she will participate in the first workers' strike in Lowell.   Available @ your library
  	Angels In The Dust by Margot Raven   Great-grandma Annie reminisces about life on her family's Oklahoma farm during the terrible drought of the 1930s when the region was known as the "Dust Bowl."   Available @ your library
  	The Stinky Cheese Man And Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka   Madcap revisions of familiar fairy tales. Available @ your library
  	The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan San Francisco ghostwriter Ruth Young finally begins to understand her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother LuLing's preoccupation with ghosts and curses when she reads LuLing's writings of her dark backwoods childhood in 1920s China--where LuLing's mute, disfigured nursemaid committed suicide, and a nearby cave held what may have been the bones of the lost ancient huminid Peking Man.   Available @ your library
  	Striking Out by Will Weaver   Since the death of his older brother, thirteen-year-old Billy Baggs has had a distant relationship with his father, but life on their farm in Northern Minnesota begins to change when he starts to play baseball.   Available @ your library

   

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  New Poetry

  	Book Of Blues by Jack Kerouac   Eight extended poems by the Beat Generation writer, who likened the form of the works to that of a jazz blues chorus, determined by time and non-stop ad-libbing. Available @your library
  	Love Poems By Women An anthology of poetry from the world and through the ages.   Available @your library
  	Jump Ball by Mel Glenn `Tells the story of a high school basketball team's season through a series of poems reflecting the feelings of students, their families, teachers, and coaches. Available @your library
  	Sweet Nothings Mirrors the varied music that rock and roll has evolved into during its four decade existence.  Its poems are rock and roll lyrics, but works of literary merit in which one genre or another of rock and roll plays a part, whether overtly or subtly. Available @your library
  	Stopping For Death A collection of poems about death, loss, and mourning written by poets from all over the world including Janet Frame, Alice Walker, and Seamus Heaney.   Available @your library
  	Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni A collection of love poems by African-American poet Nikki Giovanni,  including over twenty new works, and expressing some unexpected notions of love.   Available @your library

   

   

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  New Books On Science & Math

  	A Universal History Of Numbers by Georges Ifrah Chronicles the history of counting and calculating from the time of the cave dwellers to the late twentieth century, examining how different cultures used numbers to solve basic problems related to their everyday needs. Available @your library
  	The Bigger Bang by James E. Lidsey Examines some of the ideas scientists are developing to explain what happened in the first instant of the universe's existence. Available @your library
  	E=mc2 by David Bodanis Chronicles the "life" of Einstein's theory of relativity, discussing the scientific knowledge that led to it and describing its influence on the world, including the scientific discoveries it made possible. Available @your library
  	Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer Studies the evolution, characteristics, and dangers of parasites and explains how parasites have triggered the development of sex, shape ecosystems and affected world history. Available @your library
  	The Math Gene by Keith Devlin Attempts to determine whether or not humans are endowed with a number instinct, offering a new theory of language development that describes how mathematical thought evolved in two stages and how its main purpose was not education. Available @your library
  	Asteroids by Curtis Peebles Explains how asteroids have been discovered and studied throughout history.   Available @your library

   

  
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  New Books On Careers & Marketing

   

  	Power Plays: Shakespeare's Lessons in Leadership and Management by John O. Whitney     Available @your library
  	The Americano Dream:  How Latinos Can Achieve Success in Business and in Life by Lionel Sosa Available @your library
  	Web Rules:  How the Internet is Changing the Way Consumers Make Choices by Tom Murphy Available @your library
  	Just Because I'm Latin Doesn't Mean I Mambo:  A Success Guide for Hispanic Americans by Juan Job Available @your library
  	The Good News About Careers:  How You'll Be Working in the Next Decade by Barbara Moses Available @your library
  	Your Guide to Profit & Success on the Net by Bruce Judson Available @your library
  	Best Careers for Bilingual Latinos:  Market Your Fluency in Spanish to Get Ahead on the Job by Graciela Kenig Available @your library

   

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  New Books On Art & Literature

  	Brush Up Your Shakespeare by Michael Macrone   Presents several hundred of the most famous lines and newly minted words from Shakespeare including background notes, explanations, and more.   Available @your library
  	State Of the Arts by Barbara Isenberg   Various artists from California reflect on how the state encourages creative freedom unlike any other place in America.   Available @your library
  	Early Medieval Architecture by R. F. Stalley   A thematically organized, illustrated exploration of early medieval architecture in Europe, discussing symbolism, patronage, engineering, secular architecture, monasticism, the Romanesque era, and other related topics.   Available @your library
  	The Magic Of M. C. Escher by M. C. Escher   Presents a selection of drawings and prints by twentieth-century Dutch artist M. C. Escher, each accompanied by comments and explanations by the artist.   Available @your library
  	Special Effects by Richard Rickett A history of film special effects that presents step-by-step explanations, more than sixty original illustrations, and hundreds of rare production photographs; covers models, animation, matte painting, make-up, physical and sound effects, and other related topics.   Available @your library

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  New Biographies

  	Solving Crimes by Ron Fridell   Presents profiles of six individuals whose work shaped the field of forensic science, including Alphonse Betrillon, Edward Henry, Karl Landsteiner, Edmond Locard, Clyde Snow, and Alec Jeffreys. Available @your library
  	Who's Who In Shakespeare's England by Alan Warwick   New material added since the 1981 ed.  Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical information about more than seven hundred men and women who were influential in the arts, politics, the Church, the Court, the secret service, and the theatre during Shakespeare's time, covering a period that ranges from 1588 to 1623. Available @your library
  	From A World Apart by Francine Christophe   The author presents an account of her experiences as a child in Nazi-occupied France and later in the Bergen-Belsen death camp.   Available @your library
  	Jessie De La Cruz by Gary Soto   A biography of the United Farm Workers of America's first female organizer, Jessie De La Cruz, a Mexican American who began working in the California fields at the age of five, joined the UFW in 1966, and helped relieve the plight of field workers throughout the late twentieth century.   Available @your library
  	Tis by Frank McCourt   Frank McCourt, author of the childhood memoir "Angela's Ashes," shares the story of his life as an American immigrant, discussing his experiences from the age of nineteen when he landed in New York, to his eventual success as a teacher and writer. Available @your library
  	Teen Angst?  Naaah-- by Ned Vizzini   A collection of essays written by the author from age fifteen to seventeen in which he shares impressions of school, sports, cool people, boring people, friends, family, money, music, and obsessions. Available @your library

   

   

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  New Books on History & Social Issues

   

  	Dust Bowl migrants in the American imagination by Charles J. Shindo   Examines the images of the Dust Bowl migrants, during the 1930's, in photography, fiction, film, and song.   Available @your library
  	Chaucer's England by Diana Childress   Presents an overview of life in fourteenth-century England as historical context for Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," covering the social hierarchy and social mobility, views of the Church, warfare and rebellion, the Black Death, the Earth-centered universe and science, medicine, food, work, clothing, courtship, family, schooling, and recreation.   Available @your library
  	The Rescue Season by Bob Drury   Describes the lifesaving efforts of the U.S. Air Force 210th Pararescue Squadron in the wake of a terrible storm over Alaska's Denali and Thunder Mountain in May 1999.   Available @your library
  	Hidden evidence by David Owen   Profiles forty true crime cases and explains how their investigations were aided by the use of forensic science.   Available @your library
  	Winning the War Against Youth Gangs by Valerie Wiener   Describes many basic issues and needs common to all children; addresses how and why certain children enter gang alliances; discusses how several key components of a child's life and community can work together to resolve gang involvement; and analyzes the critical influence of families as children approach important life choices.   Available @your library

   

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  "Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled."
  Barbara Tuchman