Week of January 10, 2011

Restoring Harmony
Joelle Anthony

Ten years after the Great Collapse of 2031, sixteen-year-old Molly McClure, with only her fiddle for company, leaves the safety of her family's island home to travel through a dangerous and desolate wasteland on her way to Oregon to find her grandparents and persuade them to return with her to Canada. (Novelist)

Bloody Times: the Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Manhunt for Jefferson Davis
James L. Swanson

Discusses how Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America, was blamed for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and describes how the hunt for Davis continued even after Lincoln's body was put in its final resting place. (TitleWave)

Time Riders
Alex Scarrow
FIC SCA in the MSL
Rescued from imminent death, teens Maddy, Liam, and Sal join forces in 2001 Manhattan to correct changes in history made by other time travelers, using a "time bubble" surrounding the attack on the Twin Towers to hide their journeys. (NoveList)

Virals
Kathy Reichs
FIC REI in the MSL

Tory Brennan is the leader of a band of teenage 'sci-philes' who live on an island off the coast of South Carolina and when the group rescues a dog caged for medical testing, they are exposed to an experimental strain of canine parvovirus that changes their lives forever. (NoveList)

True Grit by Charles Portis
FIC POR in the MSL

"Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's foremost comic writers. True Grit is his most famous novel--first published in 1968, and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory.

True Grit is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching, like Mattie herself. From a writer of true cult status, this is an American classic through and through. This new edition, with a smart new package and an afterword by acclaimed author Donna Tartt, will bring this masterpiece to an even broader audience." (Powell's)