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The Jean K. Keelan Memorial Collection, 2014The books on this list are dedicated to the memory of Jean Keelan.

Mrs. Keelan was a teacher at Homewood-Flossmoor High School from

1969 to 1990. She first taught Business, then went on to become one of

the Library Media Specialists. After her death, Jeans family created afund in her name to provide quality books for the school library. Thanks

to this generous donation, the library is able to purchase fiction and non-

fiction titles of literary merit. Each book is plated in her name as a way

to honor her memory, her love of libraries, and her dedication to the

Homewood-Flossmoor High School community.

FIC ALB Albom, Mitch, The Time Keeper

Given one last chance at redemption, Father Time, the inventor of the world's

first clock, must teach two earthly people the true meaning of time--a journeythat leads him to a teenage girl who is about to give up on life and a wealthy

businessman who wants to live forever.

FIC ALB Albom, Mitch, The First Phone Call from Heaven

Takes readers on a journey both of individual healing and society's response to

the question of life after life, follows a single father just released from prisonas he sets out to prove that the mysterious calls from beyond to the residents of

Coldwater, Michigan are nothing but a hoax.

232.9 ASL Aslan, Reza. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of NazarethPresents a meticulously researched biography of Jesus that draws on biblical

and historical sources to place his achievements and influence against theturbulent backdrop of his time.

FIC BAK Baker, Jo. Longbourn

A reimagining of Jane Austen'sPride and Prejudicefrom the perspectives of

its below-stairs servants captures the drama of the Bennet household from thesideline viewpoint of Sarah, an orphaned housemaid.

576.8 BIL Billings, Lee. Five Billion Years of SolitudeAn intimate history of Earth andthe quest for life beyond the solar system traces the discoveries of thousandsof "exoplanets" throughout the past two years, including some with Earth-like

characteristics that could possibly support life.

FIC COE Coetzee, J. M. The Childhood of JesusDavid and Simn arrive in a strange land without knowledge of the language

or customs to search for David's mother.

FIC DAN Danticat, Edwidge. Claire of the Sea Light When a vibrant seven-year-olddisappears from her Haitian community at the same time her father

agonizingly decides to give her up so that she can have a better life, an ensuing

search reveals the stories of neighbors whose lives the child touched.


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242.2 DUB DuBois, Joshua. The President's Devotional : The Daily Readings that

Inspired President Obama An inspirational collection of morning

devotionals, which weave together scripture, song, prayer, and reflections,

help readers start each day with the words that have inspired President Obama

during his time in office.

641.59 ERD Erdrich, Heid E. Original Local : Indigenous Foods, Stories and Recipes

from the Upper Midwest Local foods have garnered much attention inrecent years, but the concept is hardly new: indigenous peoples have always

made the most of nature's gifts. Their menus were truly the "original local,"

celebrated here in sixty home-tested recipes paired with profiles of tribalactivists, food researchers, families, and chefs.

FIC ERD Erdrich, Louise. The Round House

When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North

Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked,fourteen-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person

that destroyed his family.

921 FRA Freedman, Russell. Becoming Ben Franklin : How a Candle-makers Son

Helped Light the Flame of Liberty Introduces the life of Benjamin Franklin,

detailing how he left home at age seventeen to go to Philadelphia and went onto become an American icon and distinguished statesman, inventor, and

scientist.

FIC GIL Gilbert, Elizabeth. The Signature of All ThingsTraces the multi-generational saga of the Whittaker family, whose progenitor

makes a fortune in the quinine trade before his daughter, a gifted botanist,

researches the mysteries of evolution while falling in love with an artist.

FIC GRI Grisham, John. Sycamore RowWhen wealthy Seth Hubbard hangs himself from a sycamore tree and leaves

his fortune to his black maid, Jake Brigance once again finds himself

embroiled in a controversial trial that will expose old racial tensions and forceFord County to confront its tortured history.

613.2 GRO Grotto, David W. 101 Foods that Could Save Your Life! Presents over onehundred foods, herbs, and spices to promote good health, and offers

therapeutic benefits, preparation instructions, and a recipe for each item.

613 GRO Grotto, David W. 101 Optimal Life FoodsIdentifies foods that may have apotential to promote overall wellness and the improvement of various health

conditions, from annoyances like cold feet and bad breath to more serious

conditions from depression to chronic joint pain.

324.973 HAL Halperin, Mark. Double Down: Game Change 2012An account of the 2012

presidential election draws on insider interviews to illuminate what the

election meant to both parties, covering the dramatic Republican nominationfight, the rise and fall of Mitt Romney, and Barack Obama's Election Day

triumph.


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940.3 HAS Hastings, Max. Catastrophe 1914 : Europe Goes to WarA history of theearly phase of World War I traces the breakdown of diplomatic measures and

the dramatic battles that occurred throughout the first year.

921 HAW Hawking, Stephen. My Brief HistoryThe famous physicist details the events of his life and career, including

attending Oxford and Cambridge, his ALS diagnosis, his study of black holes,

and his penning of the bestselling A Brief History of Time.

FIC HEM Hemphill, Stephanie. Hideous love : The Story of the Girl who WroteFrankenstein A free-verse novel about the Gothic novelist Mary Shelley, a

teenager whose love story led her to write the literary masterpiece,Frankenstein.

921 PRY Henry, David. Furious Cool : Richard Pryor and the World that Made

Him Provides a rare glimpse into the life of the outspoken comedic geniuswhose humble beginnings as the child of a prostitute helped shaped him into

one of the most influential and outstanding performers of all time.

784.54 HIL Hilburn, Robert. Johnny Cash : The Life.A noted music critic who knew him tells the unvarnished truth about Cash,

whose personal life was far more troubled and his artistry much more

profound than even his most devoted fans have realized.

883 HOM Homer. The OdysseyA new translation of Homer's epic adventure endeavors

to instill the poetic nature of its original language while retaining accuracy,readability, and character vibrancy.

FIC HOR Horan, Nancy. Under the Wide and Starry Sky

Imagines the unconventional love affair of Scottish literary giant Robert Louis

Stevenson and American divorcee Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, who aftermeeting in rural France take refuge from their unhappy lives and embark on

two shared decades of international turbulence.

FIC KAD Kadohata, Cynthia. The Thing About Luck Just when twelve-year-old

Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an

emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her littlebrother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest

workers.

704 KAP Kaplan, Carla. Miss Anne in Harlem : The White Women of the Black

Renaissance

Examines the independent-minded and spirited white women of the blackHarlem Renaissance during the 1920s, collectively referred to as Miss Anne,

exploring their motivations and often misunderstood choices.

394.1 KAW Kawash, Samira. Candy: A Century of Panic and Pleasure. A cultural

history exploring candy in America shares its nutritional risks while revealingthe historical influences that have inaccurately rendered candy a guilty

pleasure associated with a wide range of health problems.


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FIC KID Kidd, Sue Monk. The Invention of WingsTraces more than three decades in the lives of a wealthy Charleston debutante

who longs to break free from the strictures of her household and pursue a

meaningful life; and the urban slave, Handful, who is placed in her charge as a

child before finding courage and a sense of self.

921 FRA Lepore, Jill. Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane FranklinA

portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister, Jane, reveals how she was, likeher brother, a passionate reader, gifted writer, and shrewd political

commentator who made insightful observations about early America.

FIC McBRIDE McBride, James. The Good Lord BirdFleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at the height

of the slavery debate in mid-nineteenth-century Kansas Territory, Henry

pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the raid on Harpers Ferry

in 1859.

153.9 MCM McMahon, Darrin M. Divine Fury: A History of Genius

An intellectual historian describes the history of the concept of genius fromthe beginning of time through modern times.

FIC McNEAL McNeal, Tom. Far, Far Away

When Jeremy Johnson Johnson's strange ability to speak to the ghost of JacobGrimm draws the interest of his classmate, Ginger Boltinghouse, the two find

themselves at the center of a series of disappearances in their hometown.

001.9 MEL Meltzer, Brad. History Decoded: The Ten Greatest Conspiracies of All

TimeA book inspired by the History Network show explores unexplained

mysteries, including what the government is hiding in Area 51, and what

happened to the Confederacy's nineteen million dollars in gold and silver atthe end of the Civil War.

FIC MEY Meyer, Carolyn. Beautys Daughter: The Story of Hermione and Helen of

Troy When renowned beauty Helen runs off to Troy with Prince Paris, herenraged husband, King Menelaus, starts the Trojan War, leaving their plain

daughter, Hermione, alone to witness the deaths of heroes on both sides and

longing to find her own love and place in the world.

299 NAP Napoli, Donna Jo. Treasury of Egyptian Mythology : Classic Stories of

Gods, Goddesses, Monsters & Mortals

An illustrated tableau of Egyptian myths, combines narrative accounts of thestories of the Sun God Ra, the Sphinx, and numerous pharaohs and queens

along with historical, cultural, and geographic facts.

FIC OTS Otsuka, Julie. The Buddha in the Attic Presents the stories of six Japanesemail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco

are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who

reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.


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973.924 PAC Packer, George. The Unwinding : An Inner History of the New AmericaPaints a picture of the last thirty years of life in America by following several

citizens, including the son of tobacco farmers in the rural south, a Washington

insider who denies his idealism for riches, and a Silicon Valley billionaire.

FIC PIT Pittman, Allison. All for a Story : A Novel

Max inherits his uncle's Washington, D.C. tabloid and meets Monica, a staff

writer who is unsure if Max's ideas for the paper will work out, a situationwhich, in addition to his unflinching faith, threatens their burgeoning

relationship.

FIC PYN Pynchon, Thomas. Bleeding EdgeAn average mother of two working in investigation fraud gets drawn into a

shady and eccentric underworld after looking into the finances of a billionaire

computer geek.

792.094 ROB Robson, David. Shakespeare's Globe Theater

Traces the origin and history of the Globe Theater, describing London's pre-

Globe theater scene, Shakespeare's affiliation with the theater, the fire thatdestroyed it in 1613, and its modern resurgence in popularity.

FIC ROS Rosoff, Meg. Picture Me Gone

Twelve-year-old Mila travels with her father to upstate New York to visitfriends and family, who may lead them to clues to the whereabouts of her

father's best friend, who has gone missing.

921 SMA Smart, Elizabeth. My Story The daughter of a close-knit Mormon family,

who was abducted, held captive, and repeatedly raped, recounts the constant

fear she endured, her determination to maintain hope, her escape, and her

transformation from victim to advocate.

792 SOK Sokolove, Michael Y. Drama High : The Incredible True Story of aBrilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town, and the Magic of Theater Describes

the astounding success of the theater program at Harry S Truman High Schoolin Levittown, Pennsylvania, under the direction of gifted teacher Lou Volpe.

FIC TAN Tan, Amy. The Valley of AmazementViolet Minturn, a half-Chinese/half-American courtesan who deals in

seduction and illusion in Shanghai, struggles to find her place in the world,

while her mother, Lucia, tries to make sense of the choices she has made and

the men who have shaped her.

975.5 TAY Taylor, Alan. The Internal Enemy : Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832Recreates the events that inspired hundreds of slaves to pressure Britishadmirals into becoming liberators by using their intimate knowledge of the

countryside to transform the war.

641.5 WAR Warren, Rachel Meltzer. The Smart Girl's Guide to Going Vegetarian :

How to Look Great, Feel Fabulous, and Be a Better You


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Presents information on vegetarianism and veganism, including how toeliminate meat and animal products from one's diet, find healthy vegetarian

alternatives, and eating vegetarian away from home.

770.92 WAT Watson, Roger. Capturing the Light : The Birth of Photography, a True

Story of Genius and RivalryRelates the quest of two very different geniuses

in the 1830s, totally ignorant of each other's work, to solve the ancient puzzle

of capturing the world around them, describing how they invented twodramatically different photographic processes.

500 WIL Wilson, Edward O. Letters to a Young ScientistWeaves together more than

twenty letters that illuminate the author's career and his motivations forbecoming a biologist, explaining how success in the sciences depends on a

passion for finding a problem and solving it.

FIC WIL Wilson, Valerie Plame. Blowback : A Vanessa Pierson NovelNarrowly escaping a sniper attack that leaves a key informant dead, covert

CIA ops officer Vanessa Pierson resolves to capture the nuclear arms dealer

behind the killing and defies orders by involving a fellow officer with whomshe is romantically linked.

741.5 YAN Yang, Gene Luen. BoxersIn 1898 China, Little Bao has had enough of

foreign missionaries and soldiers robbing peasants, and he recruits an army ofBoxers to fight to free China from its oppressors.

741.5 YAN Yang, Gene Luen. SaintsVibiana, an unwanted fourth child, finds her name and identity in Christianity,

but with the Boxer Rebellion in full swing and Chinese Christians facing

death, she must decide whether her loyalties lie with her religion or her

country.

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