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Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Nineteen Minutes

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Click the icon on the bottom right inside the video box to go to Full Screen mode Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult These are the words that seventeen-year-old Peter Houghton says when he is found after a school shooting spree huddling with a gun in his hand by Detective Patrick Ducharme. An outcast who had [...]

Heading Home

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Click the icon on the bottom right inside the video box to go to Full Screen mode Heading Home by Renee Riva Heading Home is book three in the ‘Saving Sailor trilogy.’ When A.J. returns home to Indian Island, her dog Sailor, and childhood friend Danny, she surprises everyone with her plans . . . [...]

Priceless-A Novel on the Edge of the World

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Click the icon on the bottom right inside the video box to go to Full Screen mode Priceless-A Novel on the Edge of the World by Tom Davis Photojournalist Stuart Daniels has found purpose in life. After suffering the fallout of a tragic assignment, Daniels rediscovered his faith while helping a young African orphan. Now [...]

Billionaires Curse, The

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Click the icon on the bottom right inside the video box to go to Full Screen mode Billionaire’s Curse, The by Richard Newsome Gerald Wilkins is an Australian youth who’s the recent heir to a fortune bequeathed to him by an English aunt he barely knew. While Gerald’s giddy, irresponsible parents use his good fortune [...]

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Click the icon on the bottom right inside the video box to go to Full Screen mode Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The story begins in fictional St. Petersburg, Missouri, on the shores of the Mississippi River, sometime between 1835 (when the first steamboat sailed down the Mississippi and 1845. Two young boys, [...]

Handmaidens Tale

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

Click the icon on the bottom right inside the video box to go to Full Screen mode Handmaiden’s Tale by Margeret Atwood This is a fable of the near future. In the Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, far-right ideals have been carried to extremes in a mono-theocratic government. The resulting society is a [...]

Feed

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

Click the icon on the bottom right inside the video box to go to Full Screen mode Feed by M. T. Anderson In this chilling novel, Anderson (Burger Wuss; Thirsty) imagines a society dominated by the feed a next-generation Internet/television hybrid that is directly hardwired into the brain. Teen narrator Titus never questions his world, [...]

A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

Click the icon on the bottom right inside the video box to go to Full Screen mode A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler This book is a collection of 17 anthologies, all written in the first person that blend Vietnamese folklore, the terrible, lingering memories of war, American pop culture [...]

Catcher in the Rye, The

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

Click the icon on the bottom right inside the video box to go to Full Screen mode Catcher in the Rye, The by J. D. Salinger Holden Caulfield, a seventeen year old prep school adolescent relates his lonely, life-changing twenty-four hour stay in New York City as he experiences the phoniness of the adult world [...]