August 2, 2016 | agudenburr
Children's Books
Winner of the 1979 National Book Award for Children's Literature and many other distinguished awards, this 1979 Newbery Honor Book is filled with love and compassion as it tells the story of an 11-year-old girl who yearns for a real family.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander is an A to Z listing of all beings magical (and required reading for all first-year Hogwarts students). Includes a foreword by esteemed Hogwarts headmaster Dumbledore.
Presents the adventures of Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves and other animals of the Indian jungle.
Teen Books
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.
As a player in NERVE, an anonymous game of dares broadcast live online, high-schooler Vee is unhappy to be watched constantly but finds it exhilarating to be paired with handsome Ian taking even riskier dares--until the stakes become too high.
Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.
Sixteen-year-old Jacob, having traveled to a remote island after a family tragedy, discovers an abandoned orphanage, and, after some investigating, he learns the children who lived there may have been dangerous and quarantined and may also still be alive.
Adult Books
Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home. Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them.
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great.
Another Dave Eggers book that has been made into a movie. The Circle starts with Mae Holland who is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful Internet company. She feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime! What begins as the captivating story of one woman's ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.
They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose. Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident. Will has always lived a huge life--big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel--and now he's pretty sure he cannot live the way he is. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living. A heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?
On the night of February 18, 1952, during one of the worst winter storms that New England has ever seen, two oil tankers just off the shore of Cape Cod were torn in half by the force of the storm. The Finest Hours tells the story of a harrowing Coast Guard rescue when four men in a tiny lifeboat who overcame insurmountable odds and saved more than 30 stranded sailors. It's a gripping story of heroism and survival with the same intensity as the bestselling book and movie The Perfect Storm.
13 HOURS presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya. A team of six American security operators fought to repel the attackers and protect the Americans stationed there. This is their personal account, never before told, of what happened during the thirteen hours of that now-infamous attack.
After Missy is abducted during a vacation and evidence of her murder shows up at a shack in the forests of Oregon. Mackenzie Philips, her father, receives a strange note inviting him to return to the scene of the tragedy where he wrestles with nightmarish religious questions.
A gripping memoir and medical suspense story about a young New York Post reporter's struggle with a rare and terrifying disease. This story openens a new window into the fascinating world of brain science.
The zombie version of Pride and Prejudice! A mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton-- and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy
After the horror of World War I, Tom Sherbourne welcomes his new job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, an isolated island with no residents aside from him and his wife Isabel. But times on the island are tough for Isabel as she suffers multiple miscarriages and a stillbirth in just four years time. When a boat with a dead man and a young baby washes ashore, Isabel convinces Tom to let her keep the baby as their own, but the consequences to her actions may be dire.
The last book in the series, Inferno, takes place in the heart of Italy. Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces-- Dante's "Inferno"-- as he battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle.
Order of the series: Angels & Demons, The DaVinci Code, The Lost Symbol, and finally Inferno.
A debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives. Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. The train stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple eating breakfast on their deck and their life-as she sees it-is perfect. When sees something shocking she is unable to keep it to herself. Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good? Compulsively readable, The Girl on the Train is an emotionally immersive, Hitchcockian thriller and an electrifying debut.
Comic Book Characters
If you want more Deadpool try Daniel Way's hilarious, action-packed run! When the Merc with a Mouth is hired to take out Wolverine, sparks will fly! But when both men can regenerate any wound in minutes, how can either one expect to finish off his foe? Next: The Skrulls have infiltrated Earth, but nobody warned them about Deadpool! Finally: when Norman Osborn double-crosses Deadpool, the maniacal merc unleashes a full-on assault against Avengers Tower!
If you want more Batman vs. Superman action try "Injustice: Gods Among Us." From the makers of Mortal Kombat comes the critically acclaimed prequel comic to the smash-hit fighting game, Injustice: Gods Among Us! Things in the DC Universe have changed after Superman is tricked into destroying the one thing he loves the most. Now unwilling to let crime go unpunished, the heroes of our world must choose if they are with Superman or against him! But not every country will submit to his new world order and neither will Superman's greatest threat - Batman!
Read the comic that inspired the Captain America: Civil War movie. The world's superheroes find themselves divided when the government proposes the Super Hero Registration Act, which requires all costumed heroes to reveal their true identities to the government. This forces each superhero to make a decision that will forever alter their lives.
A must read before watching the Suicide Squad movie! The story begins with the Suicide Squad defeated, imprisoned, and being interrogated about their newest mission. Harley Quinn, King Shark, Deadshot and company must make it out alive without revealing who's pulling the strings behind their illegal operations. Who will be the first to crack under the pressure? More importantly will they make it all out alive?
Want to read about Doctor Strange before the movie? This is the perfect comic for you! Who do you call when things are coming out of your dreams and trying to kill you? Or when your daughter is cursing in Latin and walking like a spider? Doctor Strange, of course. He's the only person standing between us and the forces of darkness, but has he been paying his tab? Every act of magic has a cost and writer Jason Aaron with artist Chris Bachalo are going to put Stephen Strange through hell to even the scales.