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  • Adult Books for High School Students
    Chaired by Francisca Goldsmith, Halifax Public Libraries, Nova Scotia - 02/01/2010
    Fiction BENJAMIN, Melanie . Alice I Have Been: A Novel . 368p. Delacorte . 2010. Tr $25. ISBN 978-0-385-34413-5 . LC 2009035353. Adult/High School—In this novel, Benjamin examines the life of Alice Liddell Hargreaves, the inspiration for Lewis Carroll's Alice. As she explains, Alice and her sisters are the "princesses" of Oxford and are expected to act in a manner befitting nobility. More
  • Adult Books for High School Students
    Chaired by Francisca Goldsmith, Halifax Public Libraries, Nova Scotia - 12/01/2009
    Fiction ACKROYD, Peter . The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein . 368p. Doubleday/Nan A. Talese . 2009. Tr $26.95. ISBN 978-0-385-53084-2 . LC 2008055196. Adult/High School—Ackroyd merges historical fiction with literary license to create an alternative reality in which Victor Frankenstein is one of Percy Shelley's schoolmates and close friends. More
  • Adult Books for High School Students
    Chaired by Francisca Goldsmith, Halifax Public Libraries, Nova Scotia - 11/01/2009
    Fiction ADAMS, John Joseph , ed. The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes . 350p. Night Shade . 2009. pap. $15.95. ISBN 978-1-59780-160-7 . LC number unavailable. Adult/High School—These 28 short stories are impressive in their variety and quality, as well as in the inclusion of authors with established young adult appeal such as Stephen King, Tanith Lee, and Neil Gaiman. More
  • Adult Books for High School Students
    Chaired by Francisca Goldsmith, Halifax Public Libraries, Nova Scotia - 09/01/2009
    Fiction FUERST, James W. Huge: A Novel 320p. Crown 2009. pap. $14. ISBN 978-0-307-45249-8 . LC 2008051190. Adult/High School–Eugene “Huge” Smalls is a short, smart, blond going-on-13 outcast with anger-management issues, a stuffed-frog alter ego, a homemade tricked-out ride called the Cruiser, and a Philip Marlowe attitude. More
  • Adult Books for High School Students
    Chaired by Francisca Goldsmith, Halifax Public Libraries, Nova Scotia - 08/01/2009
    Fiction BANDELE, Biyi . The King's Rifle . 224p. HarperCollins/Amistad . 2009. pap. $13.99. ISBN 978-0-06-158266-0 . LC number unavailable. Adult/High School—For advanced teen readers with an appreciation of history, The King's Rifle pulls back the curtain on a theater of World War II long neglected by historians and writers alike, Burma (now called Myanmar). More
  • Adult Books for High School Students
    Chaired by Francisca Goldsmith, Halifax Public Libraries, Nova Scotia - 07/01/2009
    Fiction BAKKER, Gerbrand . The Twin . tr. from Dutch by David Colmer. 250p. Archipelago . 2009. Tr $25. ISBN 978-0-9800330-2-1 . LC 2008045725. Adult/High School—Henk was more popular and athletic than Helmer, his identical twin, while growing up on a small rural Netherlands farm. Henk was their father's favorite son. More
  • Adult Books for High School Students
    Chaired by Francisca Goldsmith, Halifax Public Libraries, Nova Scotia - 06/01/2009
    Fiction APPANAH, Nathacha . Blue Bay Palace . tr. from French by Alexandra Stanton. 164p. Aflame , dist. by IPG. June 2009. pap. $15.95. ISBN 978-1-906300-07-4 . LC 2004392784. Adult/High School—Maya lives in a rough-and-tumble neighborhood of Blue Bay on the shores of Mauritius. It is populated by a blend of traditional Indians who follow the caste system, Caucasian tourists, and wealth... More
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