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Pizza and Books: Teen Book Club November 2018 Pizza and Books is a club where teens talk about the books they are reading now, have recently read, or old-time favorites. The next meeting is Monday, December 10 at 6pm at the Nichols Library in the Community Room. Here's what we talked about this month!
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Darkside
by Tom Becker
After finding a tin can without a label on it, curious twelve-year-old Fergal Bamfield opens it to discover a desperate message for help that inspires Fergal and his friend, Charlotte, to venture out on a strange adventure that ends up being zanier than either could have ever imagined.
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The Martian chronicles
by Ray Bradbury
Interconnected, chronological stories of Earth's settlement of Mars include tales of human interaction with one another and with the Martians, interplanetary interracial strife, self-doubt, and the metamorphosis of humanity. Reissue.
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The Atlantropa Articles
by Joseph Pisenti
What If World War II Never Happened… The Nazis never invaded their neighbors. Instead, they made a promise to unite the nations through the construction of dams that would drain the Mediterranean Sea. A promise of new land, endless resources, and world peace. It was to be called Atlantropa. By offering endless energy through hydroelectricity and employing millions to build the dams, fascism cements itself as a mainstream ideology. Hitler is never seen as a genocidal killer. Instead, he goes down in history as a revolutionary leader like Lincoln, Caesar, and Queen Victoria. But the plan fails. Centuries into this new future, the world is dying. Those hopes of a fertile, lush land were never realized. Instead, the sea left behind a salty, barren world. This is where Captain Ansel’s story begins. A story of discovery, lies, and false prophets. The Atlantropa Articles is an astounding science fiction, alternate-history tale that will thrill and transport readers into a dystopian future with its detailed world and startling intimacy.
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Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
The executive director of a social advocacy group that has helped relieve condemned prisoners explains why justice and mercy must go hand-in-hand through the story of Walter McMillian, a man condemned to death row for a murder he didn't commit.
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1984 : a novel
by George Orwell
Portrays a terrifying vision of life in the future when a totalitarian government, considered a "Negative Utopia," watches over all citizens and directs all activities, becoming more powerful as time goes by.
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This mortal coil
by Emily Suvada
In a world where people are implanted with technology to recode their DNA, gene-hacking genius Cat must decrypt her late father's message concealing a vaccine that he created before he died for the purpose of stopping the spread of a horrifying plague.
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Fire & flood
by Victoria Scott
Relocating with her family to the middle of nowhere to alleviate the symptoms of her brother's baffling, life-threatening illness, Tella receives a mysterious invitation to compete in a brutal survivalist competition for the cure to her brother's disease. By the author of the Dante Walker series.
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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with discussion questions, role-playing scenarios, and other study activities
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The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals
by Michael Pollan
An ecological and anthropological study of eating offers insight into food consumption in the twenty-first century, explaining how an abundance of unlimited food varieties reveals the responsibilities of everyday consumers to protect their health and the environment. By the author of The Botany of Desire.
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The Faithful Spy : Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler
by John Hendrix
Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party is gaining strength and becoming more menacing every day. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor upset by the complacency of the German church toward the suffering around it, forms a breakaway church to speak out against the established political and religious authorities. When the Nazis outlaw the church, he escapes as a fugitive. Struggling to reconcile his faith and the teachings of the Bible with the Nazi Party’s evil agenda, Bonhoeffer decides that Hitler must be stopped by any means possible! In his signature style of interwoven handwritten text and art, John Hendrix tells the true story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor who makes the ultimate sacrifice in order to free the German people from oppression during World War II. | |
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Eragon
by Christopher Paolini
When fifteen-year-old Eragon comes to learn that he is a gifted Dragon Rider, he realizes that his destiny is to fight the evil powers that will bring complete destruction to the Empire and so leaves his quiet life as a farm boy to succeed in his one true mission in life, in a deluxe edition which includes a foldout map, an expanded pronunciation guide, and an excerpt from the next book in the trilogy.
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Wintergirls
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Eighteen-year-old Lia feels she is being haunted by Cassie's restless spirit when her best friend dies from anorexia--the same disorder Lia has been struggling with.
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One hundred years of solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
The evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town is mirrored in the family history of the Buendias.
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The edge of falling
by Rebecca Serle
Becoming famous after saving a girl on the brink of suicide, Caggie, who is grieving the death of a sister and a failed relationship, longs to be left alone before unexpectedly falling for the mysterious Astor, who harbors his own dark secrets. By the author of When You Were Mine.
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All fall down
by Ally Carter
After being hospitalized for insisting that her mother was murdered, not killed in an accidental fire, Grace goes to live with her grandfather for a fresh start, but when she sees her mothers murderer again, her past comes back to haunt her.
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