TRACY
MEMORIAL LIBRARY304 MAIN STREET
NEW LONDON, NH 03257
603.526.4656
MCM@TRACYLIBRARY.ORG
TRACY
MEMORIAL LIBRARY
304
MAIN
STREET
NEW LONDON, NH 03257
603.526.4656
MCM@TRACYLIBRARY.ORG
Second
Annual Teen Summer Reading
Set
during World War II in Germany, this groundbreaking novel is the story
of
Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel
scratches out a
meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something
she
can’t resist—books.
First
hailed as a hero for his dramatic water rescue of a little boy,
thirteen-year-old Brady Parks soon makes a discovery that puts him at
the heart
of an enormous tragedy. Alone with his dark secret, Brady is ultimately
forced
to choose between loyalty to his lifelong friends and doing what he
knows in
his heart is right.
A
coming-of-age tale for young adults set in the trenches of the Vietnam
War in
the late 1960s, this is the story of Perry, a Harlem teenager who
volunteers
for the service when his dream of attending college falls through. Sent
to the
front lines, Perry and his platoon come face-to-face with the Vietcong
and the
real horror of warfare.
Dave
Pelzer shares his unforgettable story of the many abuses he suffered at
the
hands of his alcoholic mother and the averted eyes of his neglectful
father.
Someone with no one to turn to, his dreams barely kept him alive.
A
moving and profound contemporary fable, The Five People You Meet in
Heaven is
an important reminder of the interconnectedness of us all.
His
DNA came from El Patrón, lord of a country called Opium — a strip of
poppy
fields lying between the United States and what was once called Mexico.
Matt's
first cell split and divided inside a petri dish. Then he was placed in
the
womb of a cow, where he continued the miraculous journey from embryo to
fetus
to baby. He is a boy now, but most consider him a monster — except for
El
Patrón. El Patrón loves Matt as he loves himself, because Matt is
himself.
Thrown from
the wreckage of his '74 Camaro, Paul Sheldon, author of a bestselling
series of
historical romances, wakes up one day in a secluded Colorado farmhouse
owned by
Annie Wilkes, a psychotic ex-nurse who claims she is his number one
fan.
Immobilized from the pain of two shattered legs and a crushed knee,
Sheldon is
at Annie's mercy.
Don't
leave Earth without this hilarious international bestseller about the
end of
the world and the happy-go-lucky days that follow...about the worst
Thursday
that ever happened and why the Universe is a lot safer if you bring a
towel.
Sterling is a
small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens -- until
the day
its complacency is shattered by a shocking act of violence. In the
aftermath,
the town's residents must not only seek justice in order to begin
healing but
also come to terms with the role they played in the tragedy.
A
laugh-out-loud account of an outrageously rugged hike—by the beloved
comic
author of Lost Continent and Notes from a
Small Island. Published on
the 75th anniversary year of the Appalachian Trail.
A
father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in
the
ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack
stones,
and when the snow falls it is gray. They have nothing; just a pistol to
defend
themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes
they are
wearing, a cart of scavenged food-—and each other.
Set
in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of
Lily
Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the
afternoon
her mother was killed.
Thomas
Friedman’s examination of the influences shaping business and
competition in a
technology-fueled global environment is a call to action for
governments,
businesses and individuals who must stay ahead of these trends in order
to
remain competitive.
Unstuck
in time, Billy Pilgrim, Vonnegut's shattered survivor of the Dresden
bombing,
relives his life over and over again under the gaze of aliens; he comes
at last
to some understanding of the human comedy.
A breathtaking story set against the
volatile events of Afghanistan's last
thirty years -- from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to
post-Taliban rebuilding -- that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith
of this
country in intimate, human terms.
Summer,
1954.U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels s come to Shutter Island, home of
Ashecliffe
Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule,
he sets
out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a
hurricane bears down upon them.
The story of Clare, a beautiful art
student, and Henry, an adventuresome
librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was
thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry
thirty-one.
Impossible but true, because Henry finds himself periodically displaced
in
time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and
future.
His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable,
alternately
harrowing and amusing.
See's
engrossing novel set in remote 19th-century China details the deeply
affecting
story of lifelong, intimate friends (laotong,
or "old sames") Lily and Snow Flower, their imprisonment by rigid
codes of conduct for women and their betrayal by pride and love.
