New Books in the Library

The Bluestem High School Librarian announces new texts available for check out.  Enjoy!

362.29 Hat - The night olympic team - fighting to keep drugs out of the games.

364.152 SIN - Unholy messenger -  life and crimes of the BTK serial killer
Provides an account of the life and crimes of BTK serial killer Dennis Rader, who terrorized the city of Wichita for more than thirty years, analyzing the psychology and religious beliefs of the murderer.

569.986 LaP - Neandertals - a prehistoric puzzle
Examines recent discoveries and DNA technology used in reevaluating archaeological evidence about Neandertals.

791.4372 EHR - The horse whisperer - an illustrated companion to the major motion picture
An illustrated companion to the movie "The Horse Whisperer," with information about the dramatic landscape that inspired it, a photographic history of the American West, the challenges of training the film's horses, plus personal insight from the film's stars, costume information, production design and more than 100 photographs.

796.72 Bla - The Great Race - the amazing round-the-world auto race of 1908
In February of 1908, six cars from four countries gathered in Times Square for the pistol shot that began the first around-the-world automobile race.

811.54 NYE - Honeybee - poems & short prose
Eighty two poems, many dealing with issues in today's society.

921 JAC - Robert H. Jackson - New Deal lawyer, Supreme Court Justice, Nuremberg prosecutorStory of Robert H. Jackson, a lawyer and judge, who became the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trail, yet he never attended college or earned a law degree.

921 LEE - I am Scout - the biography of Harper Lee
Tells the story of how Harper Lee struggled to become an author and created one of the most popular novels of the twentieth century

921 MAR - Thurgood Marshall - a twentieth-century life
Thurgood Marshall became the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but it's his life leading up to that point--from school troublemaker to passionate lawyer--that makes him both accessibly real and a role model to Americans of every color.

F Alt - Meg - a novel of deep terror            Meg, bk#1
Terror surfaces from the deep after ocean explorers run afoul of a male and female Carcharodon megalodon--a gigantic ancestor of the great white shark long believed to be extinct--alive and well off the coast of Japan.
Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 1997.

F An - The fold
Korean American high school student Joyce Kim feels like a nonentity compared to her beautiful older sister, and when her aunt offers to pay for plastic surgery on her eyes, she jumps at the chance, thinking it will change her life for the better.

F Bel - Forbidden city - a novel
Alex is eager to go on assignment with his father to China in the summer of 1989, but as the Tiananmen Square movement turns violent they must decide how to get the story out to the world without putting themselves in jeopardy.

F BUN - A curse dark as gold
Upon the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of an overwhelming mortgage, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the price.

F CAS - Chosen:  House of Night #3

F CAS - Marked:  House of Night #1
After being accepted as a fledgling vampire at the House of Night prep school and receiving special powers by a goddess, sixteen-year-old Zoey Montgomery discovers one of her peers is misusing her powers and must decide what the right thing to do is.

F CAS - Betrayed:  House of Night  #2

F Cla - City of bones Mortal Instruments #1
Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.

F Del - Night of the soul stealer The Last Apprentice #3
Tom is dismayed when his master the Spook decrees that they will be spending the winter on gloomy and forbidding Anglezarke Moor but soon discovers the reason for his master's decision, as they tangle with two dangerous witches and struggle to keep a dark mage from resurrecting an ancient evil.

F Edd - Polgara the sorceress Belgariad # 7
Polgara, the sorceress daughter of Belgarath and Poledra, looks back over her three thousand years of working magic, detailing her various roles as protector, adversary, ruler, and guardian.

F Edd - The Rivan codex   Belgariad # 8           

F Edd - Treasured One.  Dreamers #2

F FLA - The battle for Skandia Ranger's Apprentice #4
After escaping slavery, Evanlyn is taken captive by a Temujai warrior, leaving Will to use his Ranger training to find her, despite being outnumbered by an enemy scouting party and the entire Temujai army.

F FLI - Beastly
A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.

F Gre - Football hero
When twelve-year-old Ty's brother Thane is recruited out of college to play for the New York Jets, their Uncle Gus uses Ty to get insider information for his gambling ring, landing Ty and Thane in trouble with the Mafia.

F Gut - Jim & me - a baseball card adventure
Joe and his longtime enemy, Bobby Fuller, use a vintage baseball card to travel in time, hoping to stop Jim Thorpe from participating in the 1912 Olympics and losing his medals, but instead they watch Thorpe struggle during his first season with the New York Giants.

F HAR - Gabriel's journey
Thirteen-year-old Gabriel, a former slave, leaves behind his life as a professional jockey and joins his father in the Fifth U.S. Colored Cavalry at Camp Nelson, Kentucky.

F Hau - Doppelganger  Bloodwater Mysteries #3
High school newspaper reporter Roni finds an age-progressed photograph on a missing children's website of a boy that looks just like her sidekick Brian, throwing the pair into an investigation of Brian's past and family heritage.

F Heu - The book of Jude
In 1989, when fifteen-year-old Jude's mother wins a Fulbright fellowship to study art in Czechoslovakia, the family postpones a planned move to Utah to join her, but the political situation and the move itself are too much for Jude, who is overwhelmed by a previously undiagnosed psychological disorder.

F HOP - Crank
Kristina Georgia Snow's life is turned upside-down after she becomes addicted to drugs, leading her down a desperate path that threatens her mind, soul, and life.

F HOP - Glass
Kristina is determined to defeat her addiction to crack in order to keep her newborn child, but when she is unable to manage her use of the drug and the pull becomes too strong, her greatest fears are quickly realized.

F HOR - Slam
At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically.

F HUN - Dark river  Warriors Power of Three #2
As Hollypaw, Lionpaw and Jaypaw, grandchildren of the legendary Firestar, continue their training to be warrior cats, each is haunted by a different internal struggle that could lead to trouble for all Clans.

F JIN - Evil genius  Evil genius #1
Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.

F Jin - Genius squad  Evil genius #2
After the Axis Institute is blown up, fifteen-year-old Cadell Piggot is unhappily stuck in foster care with constant police surveillance to protect him from the evil Prosper English, until he gets an offer to join a mysterious group called Genius Squad.

F LOC - The disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks
Sophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all-male secret society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks.

F Lup - The big field
When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too.

F MAR - Wicked lovely
Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.

F MEA - Frostbite  Vampire Academy #2
While on a school skiing trip, guardian-in-training Rose faces everything from misunderstandings between friends to fights among factions of Moroi as reports of horrific Strigoi attacks raise tensions, ultimately leading Rose and some of those closest to her into a battle that teaches her much about life, death, and love.

F MEA - Vampire Academy  Vampire Academy #1
Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots.

F Mye - Sunrise over Fallujah
Robin Perry, from Harlem, is sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Civilian Affairs Battalion, and his time there profoundly changes him.

F Noe - Saving Zoè
A year after her older sister Zoe's murder, fifteen-year-old Echo is still struggling to put her life back together, but when Zoe's boyfriend gives Echo Zoe's diary, Echo finds a connection with her sister and learns some surprising secrets Zoe was keeping.

F Par - The boxer and the spy
Fifteen-year-old Terry, an aspiring boxer, uncovers the mystery behind the unexpected death of a classmate.

F PEE - Tamar - a novel of espionage, passion, and betrayal.

F PLU - Streams of Babel
Six teens face a bioterrorist attack on American soil as four are infected with a mysterious disease affecting their small New Jersey neighborhood and two others, both brilliant computer hackers, assist the United States Intelligence Coalition in tracking the perpetrators.

F Rio - The battle of the Labyrinth  Olympians #4
When demonic cheerleaders invade his high school, Percy Jackson hurries to Camp Half Blood, from whence he and his demigod friends set out on a quest through the Labyrinth, while the war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near.

F Sch - Trouble
Fourteen-year-old Henry, wishing to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog. But fate adds another companion--the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring Franklin--and reveals troubles that predate the accident.

F SEN - The humming of numbers
Aiden, a novice about to take monastic vows in tenth century Ireland, meets Lana, a girl who understands his ability to hear the sounds of numbers humming from all living things, and just as he is beginning to question his religious calling, the two of them are thrown together in a mission to save their village from invading Vikings.

F Sin - Sword play  Seer #4
As if being forced to return home and worrying about her grandmother's illness were not enough to deal with, a visit from Kip's ghost has Sabine checking into the circumstances of his death and discovering some facts that her former friends want very much to keep secret.

F Sin - Witch ball Seer #3
While being stalked by a mysterious Witch Ball, Sabine must also contend with her growing attraction to the young handyman Dominic, her grandmother's increasing forgetfulness, and mysterious predictions that seem to come true.

F Sot - Taking sides
Fourteen-year-old Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with his divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white suburban neighborhood.

F VOL -  Rucker Park setup
While playing in a crucial basketball game on the very court where his best friend was murdered, Mackey tries to come to terms with his own part in that murder and decide whether to maintain his silence or tell J.R.'s father and the police what really happened.

F Von - Tempted - an It Girl novel
Beginning with Waverly Academy's annual Halloween ball, Jenny, who is still seeking her mysterious benefactor, watches her own popularity soar as Tinsley's plummets, while Callie finds herself at a Maine "health spa."

F WAT - Generation dead
When dead teenagers who have come back to life start showing up at her high school, goth girl Phoebe becomes interested in the phenomenon. When she starts dating a "living impaired" boy, they encounter prejudice, fear, and hatred.

F WES - Extras  Uglies #4
Fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse, an Extra, just wants to lay low, so when she discovers the secret lives of the Sly Girls, she wants to report their story, but she knows that would propel her into a celebrity status she's not prepared for.

F WES - The last days  Peeps #2
As an ancient evil stirs beneath the streets of New York City, infecting rats and people like a plague, five quirky teens come together to form a "New Sound" band whose music seems to have paranormal power.

F WHE - The disappeared
Silvia tries to save her brother, Eduardo, after he is captured by the military government in 1970s Argentina.

F Zus - The book thief
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

SC Sta - The starry rift - tales of new tomorrows : an original science fiction anthology
Truly successful science fiction does two things: it gives credible glimpses into the future while entertaining the reader. With this in mind, anthologist Jonathan Strahan asked sixteen of today's most inventive, compelling writers to look past the horizon of the present day and to the future of science fiction.