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Into Thin Air_ A Personal Accou - Jon Krakauer
Amazon.com ReviewA bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "su... -
Inside Scientology - Janet Reitman
Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best Books of the Month, July 2011: Whatever your opinion of Scientology, the truth is more extreme. Inside Scientology is journalist Jane... -
How to Ditch Your Fairy - Justine Larbalestier
From School Library JournalGrade 6–10—In New Avalon, most everyone has a personal fairy. Charlie, 14, has a parking fairy; if she is in a car, a perfect parking spot is found on th... -
How Few Remain - Harry Turtledove
From Library JournalIn 1862, the Confederacy won the War of the Rebellion (not by interference of time travelers, as in Turtledove's Guns of the South, LJ 9/1/92, but by their own ... -
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer - Lish McBride
From School Library JournalGrade 8 Up—This sometimes goofy, sometimes gory debut novel introduces Sam, a fast-food employee in Seattle who has grown up unaware of his ability to ra... -
His way_ the unauthorized biogr - Kitty Kelley
From Library JournalThis is the expose that Sinatra went to court to prevent. It's all herethe tumultuous marriages, the countless affairs, the Mafia ties, the arrogance, the drunk... -
Guys Read_ Funny Business - Jon Scieszka; Mac Barnett; Adam
From School Library JournalGr 5-8–Building on the success of Guys Write for Guys Read (Viking, 2005), Scieszka continues his mission to take the “reluctant” out of readers with thi... -
God Is Not Great_ How Religion - Christopher Hitchens
SUMMARY: Christopher Hitchens, described in theLondon Observeras "one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time" takes on his biggest subject yetthe incre... -
Fury - G. M. Ford
SUMMARY: Frank Corso is a pariah -- a journalist once vilified for making up "facts" on a major crime story. Yet slow, sheltered Leanne Samples trusts no one but Corso to tell the ... -
Fun Inc_ - Tom Chatfield
"An ambitious overview of the videogaming industry, from its beginning to today's immersive online games." —Wall Street Journal