“The truth that we were about to learn was that, in fact, we weren’t tough kids at ll. We never dreamed of the kind of brutality we were about to encounter, the kind of tragedy that would destroy our lives in a single night. Our lives in the city had not prepared us for...
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A Rip In Heaven
Columbine
Columbine, by Dave Cullen, is a factual story about the events that lead up to and took place at the Columbine shootings. In this story, Cullen tells us about the killers’ motives and earlier life before the killing. Both Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were bright young men with promising futures. Looking into the...
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The Illustrated Brief History of Time, Updated and Expanded Edition
Stephen Hawking is an established scientific genius, but this book establishes him as a brilliant writer. While men of ancient times could easily understand the latest scientific ideas, people today are lost. Enter A Brief History of Time. This book helps fill in that gap between an average person’s understanding and the highly specialized...
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U-Boats Offshore When Hitler Struck America
World War II, the greatest war the world has ever seen. What comes to mind on this subject? The beaches of Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge, Pearl Harbor. These are all true, but there is one front that very few people know about: the East Coast of America. That’s right; the United States...
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Gertruda’s Oath
“Now it’s my turn to watch over you,” young Michael Stolowitzky, aged beyond his years, vows to his adoptive mother, Gertruda Bablinska, the only family he has left. It is a time of desolation, desperation, and death in Europe, 1939. It is the beginning of World War II; it is the time of the...
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The Day the Voices Stopped
In The Day the Voices Stopped, by Ken Steele and Claire Berman, Ken, a 14-year-old boy living in Connecticut, starts having hallucinations and is diagnosed with schizophrenia. He starts hearing voices that taunt him to kill himself. They tell him, “Hang yourself.” Throughout the whole book voices are swarming his mind and making him...
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Uncensored
In this book the author, Jeanne Mayo, gives advice to teenage boys and girls. She answers all the questions that you may be afraid to ask and lets you know all the important things about growing up. Jeanne is a retired youth pastor who understands the way teens think and act. She gives a...
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The Faith Club
“A Muslim, a Christian, and a Jew — Three women search for understanding.” September 11, 2001 affected America in more ways than one. One of the millions pressure by this tragic event was Ranya Idilby, an American Muslim of Palestinian descent. After what is now only described as “nine-eleven,” she faced constant questions from...
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Chosen by a Horse
Things don’t always go as we plan. Sometimes we assume that we will only gain one thing from a person or object, but we end up gaining something totally different. This was the case for Susan Richards, a lonely divorced pessimistic woman, in the autobiography, Chosen by a Horse. Susan lives by a strict...
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The Lost Boy
Coming out of a life of violence and mistreatment, David, a young, sweet boy, looks for love as he tries to forget his rough past. In the previous book, A Child Called “It,” Dave explained his life threatening childhood, with events that are completely heart shattering. Now in The Lost Boy, his life has...
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