Cherokee Media Centers
Title: American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Author: Jon Meacham
Call Number: 921 JACKSON NORTH
SUMMARY: Details the life of the seventh President of the United States, Andrew Jackson, and focuses on his political actions and choices that shaped the White House and inspired the later presidents--including Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and others.
Title: American Sublime: Poems
Author: Elizabeth Alexander
Call Number: 811.54 ALEXANDER SOUTH
SUMMARY: Presents a collection of poems by Elizabeth Alexander based on African-American history and traditions.
Series Title: Baseball Superstars
Call Number: 921 (Last name of subject) SOUTH
Books in Series: Ichiro Suzuki, Ted Williams, Rickey Henderson, Curt Schilling, Hank Aaron, Johnny Damon.
Title: Bill Gates – Computer Mongul & Philanthropist
Author: Michael Schuman
Call Number: 921 GATES SOUTH
SUMMARY: Profiles the life and achievements of Bill Gates; discussing his childhood, family, education, work with computers, creation of Microsoft, philanthropy, and more. Includes chronology, suggestions for further reading, and Internet resources.
Title: Colin Powell – Having a Vision. Be Demanding
Author: Sandra H. Shichtman
Call Number: 921 POWELL SOUTH
SUMMARY: Presents a profile of Colin Powell, the first African-American to be named chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the first African-American Secretary of State, discussing his childhood and education, his military and political careers, and aspects of his personal life.
Title: Come on People: on the Path from Victims to Victors
Author: Bill Cosby & Alvin F. Poussaint
Call Number: 155.89 COSBY SOUTH
SUMMARY: Presents an inspiring story about people fighting hardships and succeeding, about overcoming poverty and mistreatment.
Title: Conserving the Environment
Editor: Douglas Dupler
Call Number: 333.72 CONSERVI NORTH
SUMMARY: Contains twenty-five articles that provide varying perspectives on topics related to the environment, debating the extent of environmental problems, which energy sources conserve the environment, how natural resources can be conserved, and what institutions and individuals can do to conserve.
Title: Dark Dreams: the Story of Stephen King
Author: Nancy Whitelaw
Call Number: 921 KING NORTH/SOUTH
SUMMARY: This book describes the life and achievements of Stephen King, who has over 300 million copies of his novels, stories, and nonfiction in print in dozens of countries and languages.
Title: Escape: the Story of the Great Houdini
Author: Sid Fleischman
Call Number: 921 HOUDINI NORTH/SOUTH
SUMMARY: A biography of the magician, ghost chaser, aviator, and king of escape artists whose amazing feats are remembered long after his death in 1926.
Title: Essentials of Philosophy: the Basic Concepts of the World’s Greatest Thinkers
Author: James Mannion
Call Number: 100 MANNION NORTH
SUMMARY: This source provides simple and clear explanations for all major philosophical ideas and concepts.
Title: Ferguson Career Coach: Managing Your Career in the Art Industry
Author: Shelly Field
Call Number: CC 702.3 FIELD SOUTH
SUMMARY: Provides advice on obtaining and succeeding in a career in the art industry, and discusses career goals, job searching, networking, self-promotion, interviewing, resumes, and other related topics; and includes self-assessment worksheets and resources.
Title: Gang Leader for a Day: a Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
Author: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Call Number: 364.1 VENKATESH NORTH
SUMMARY: Sudhir Venkatesh recounts how he managed to work his way into one of Chicago's must brutal crack-dealing gangs and describes the horrific events he witnessed, and sometimes participated in.
Series Title: The Great Hispanic Heritage
Call Number: 921 (Last name of subject) SOUTH
Books in Series: Tito Puente, Francisco Goya, Roberto Clemente, Oscar De La Hoya
Title: Great Ideas in Psychology: a Cultural and Historical Introduction.
Author: Fathali M. Moghaddam
Call Number: 150 MOGHADDAM NORTH
SUMMARY: This source presents a critical introduction to some of the greatest ideas of the greatest psychologists, including Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and B. F. Skinner.
Title: Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How it Can Renew
America
Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Call Number: 320.5 FRIEDMAN SOUTH
SUMMARY: Argues that the United States needs to adopt an environmentally friendly national strategy to be healthier, wealthier, and more secure, innovative, and productive.
Title: Joshua & Isadora: a True Tale of Loss and Love in the Holocaust
Author: Michael Benanav
Call Number: 920 SZERENY NORTH
SUMMARY: The author describes the history of his grandparents, Isadora Rosen and Joshua Szereny, two Holocaust survivors who met on a boat bound for Palestine, and despite not having a common language between them, were married three days later.
Series Title: Leaders of the American Revolution
Call Number: 921 (Last name of subject) SOUTH
Books in Series: George Washington, Thomas Paine, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Revere, John Paul Jones, Alexander Hamilton, Nathan Hale, Molly Pitcher, Betsy Ross.
Title: Learning and memory
Author: Andy Hudmon
Call Number: 153.1 HUDMAN NORTH/SOUTH
SUMMARY: Examines the brain's role in memory and learning, including forms of learning, memory systems and stages, and behavioral components.
Title: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Author: Ishmael Beah
Call Number: 921 BEAH NORTH
SUMMARY: Ishmael Beah describes his experiences after he was driven from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the government army at the age of thirteen, serving as a soldier for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF and eventually moving to the United States
Title: Maya Angelou - A Glorious Celebration
Author: Marcia Ann Gillespie, et. al.
Call Number: 921 ANGELOU NORTH/SOUTH
SUMMARY: An illustrated biography, complete with family photographs and letters, of poet, playwright, and humanitarian Maya Angelou, displaying her life and work as an author, actress, director, and civil-rights activist.
Title: Michele: A Biography
Author: Liza Mundy
Call Number: 921 OBAMA SOUTH
SUMMARY: Details the life of Michelle Obama, a Harvard Law School graduate and wife to President Barack Obama, and describes her marriage to Barack, her career achievements, her role as a mother, and other related topics.
Title: Modern Mathematics: 1800 to 1900 / 1900 – 1950 / 1950 to Present (3 volumes)
Author: Michael J. Bradley
Call Number: 510.92 BRADLEY SOUTH
SUMMARY: Chronicles developments in mathematics between 1800 to the present through profiles of major figures including David Hilbert, Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan, John von Neumann, Alan Turing, and numerous others, describing their lives and discoveries.
Title: No Choirboy: Murder Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row
Author: Susan Kuklin
Call Number: 364.55 KUKLIN NORTH
SUMMARY: Presents a collection of essays about inmates at American prisons who were sentenced to death while still in their teens. They share their thoughts and feelings about how they ended up in prison and how they feel about capital punishment.
Title: 100 Fastest-Growing Careers
Author: Michael Farr
Call Number: CC 331.7 FARR SOUTH
SUMMARY: This source presents descriptions of one hundred jobs that promise great opportunity through 2014, each with information on salaries, education and training requirements, and other topics, and includes job search advice, sample resumes, and articles on labor market trends.
Series Title: Overcoming Adversity
Call Number: 921 (Last name of subject) SOUTH
Books in Series: Johnny Depp, Modern American Indian Leaders, Russell Simmons, Samuel L. Jackson
Title: The Sage Dictionary of Sociology
Author: Steve Bruce
Call Number: 301.03 BRUCE NORTH
SUMMARY: Provides full coverage of the field of sociology in an A-Z format, explaining fundamental concepts, introducing new and familiar terms, and presenting key theorists.
Title: Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium
Author: Carla Killough McClafferty
Call Number: 921 CURIE NORTH
SUMMARY: Chronicles the life of Marie Curie, discussing her childhood in Poland, schooling in France, discovery of the element radium, efforts to create mobile X-ray units during World War I, and eventual death from radium poisoning.
Title: Xtreme Athletics: Danica Patrick
Author: Bonnie Hinman
Call Number: 921 PATRICK SOUTH
SUMMARY: Offers a brief overview of the life and career of Indy Car racer Danica Patrick, one of the most successful, and popular, female drivers in Indy history.
Title: Women of Courage: Intimate Stories from Afghanistan
Author: Katherine Kiviat
Call Number: 305.48 KIVIAT NORTH/SOUTH
SUMMARY: Presents photographs and interviews from a number of women in Afghanistan whose lives have been altered since the fall of the Taliban.
Title: Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet
Author: Joanne Prouix
Call Number: FIC PROUIX NORTH
SUMMARY: Luke, a seventeen-year-old from a small Michigan town, embarks on a personal struggle with spirituality, love, and responsibility after foretelling a friend's death.
Title: Are You Alone on Purpose?
Author: Nancy Werlin
Call Number: FIC WERLIN NORTH
SUMMARY: When two lonely teenagers, one the son of a widower rabbi and the other the sister of an autistic twin, are drawn together by a tragic accident, they discover they have more in common than they guessed.
Title: Atlas Shrugged
Author: Ayn Rand
Call Number: FIC RAND NORTH
SUMMARY: A mystery story, not about the murder of a man's body, but about the murder -- and rebirth -- of man's spirit.
Title: Blinded
Author: Stephen White
Call Number: FIC WHITE SOUTH
SUMMARY: Psychologist Alan Gregory is plunged into a nightmare by a shocking confession that forces him to make a desperate choice between saving himself or saving the lives of those who have been targeted by a vicious serial killer.
Title: A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
Author: Valerie Zenatti
Call Number: FIC ZENATTI NORTH
SUMMARY: Seventeen-year-old Tal Levine of Jerusalem, despondent over the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict, puts her hopes for peace in a bottle and asks her brother, a military nurse in the Gaza Strip, to toss it into the sea, leading ultimately to friendship and understanding between her and an "enemy."
Title: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: A Fable
Author: John Boyne
Call Number: FIC BOYNE NORTH/SOUTH
SUMMARY: Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
Title: Dark Sons
Author: Nikki Grimes
Call Number: FIC GRIMES SOUTH
SUMMARY: Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as they try to come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers.
Title: Dead Connection
Author: Charlie Price
Call Number: FIC PRICE NORTH/SOUTH
SUMMARY: A loner who communes with the dead in the town cemetery hears the voice of a murdered cheerleader and tries to convince the adults that he knows what happened to her.
Title: The Devil’s Breath
Author: David Gilman
Call Number: FIC GILMAN NORTH
SUMMARY: After fifteen-year-old Max Gordon's environmentalist father goes missing while working in Namibia, Max finds he has become the target of a would-be assassin at his school in England, and decides he must find his father in Africa before they both are killed.
Title: Extreme Measures: A Thriller
Author: Vince Flynn
Call Number: FIC FLYNN SOUTH
SUMMARY: Having led a prestigious military and intelligence career, Mike Nash, a protege of counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp, struggles with the ethics and challenges of his job when the government inexplicably turns against him.
Title: Floating: a Novel
Author: Nicole Bailey-Williams
Call Number: FIC BAILEY SOUTH
SUMMARY: Philadelphia college student Shanna Washington, daughter of an African-American alcoholic and a white socialite, searches for something to heal her emotional wounds from childhood and enters into a damaging relationship with an ambitious track star of mixed race.
Title: How I Changed My Life
Author: Todd Strasser
Call Number: FIC STRASSER SOUTH
SUMMARY: Overweight high school senior Bo decides to change her image while working on the school play with a former star football player who is also struggling to find a new identity for himself.
Title: Incantation
Author: Alice Hoffman
Call Number: FIC HOFFMAN NORTH
SUMMARY: During the Spanish Inquisition, sixteen-year-old Estrella, brought up a Catholic, discovers her family's true Jewish identity, and when their secret is betrayed by Estrella's best friend, the consequences are tragic.
Title: Mayday: a Novel
Author: Nelson DeMille
Call Number: FIC DEMILLE NORTH
SUMMARY: John Berry, Sharon Crandall, and young Linda Farley find themselves in the struggle of their lives when the plane on which they are traveling is hit by a wayward missile, killing or injuring everyone else on board, and their troubles intensify when they realize the military would much rather there be no survivors to tell the story.
Title: One September Morning
Author: Rosalind Noonan
Call Number: FIC NOONAN SOUTH
SUMMARY: Abby Stanton, the widow of a former NFL player who went to Iraq to serve the country, tries to cope with her own grief and that of his family members while trying to uncover the facts surrounding her husband's death.
Title: Over a Thousand Hills I Walk With You
Author: Hanna Jansen
Call Number: FIC JANSEN NORTH
SUMMARY: Jeanne, the only member of her family not murdered in the Rwandan genocide, struggles to start a new life without her family while coping with the violent memories that haunt her.
Title: Prodigal Summer
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Call Number: FIC KINGSOLV SOUTH
SUMMARY: The coming of summer to Appalachia's Zebulon Mountain brings a blossoming in nature as well as in the lives of reclusive wildlife biologist Deanna Wolfe, young hunter Eddie Bondo, transplanted city-girl Lusa Landowski, and a pair of elderly, feuding neighbors.
Title: Run
Author: Ann Patchett
Call Number: FIC PATCHETT NORTH
SUMMARY: Bernard Doyle, former Boston Mayor and father of two adopted sons, has done his best to keep his sons interested in politics; however, one snowy evening an accident triggers into motion a series of events that will change their lives forever.
Title: Sold
Author: Patricia McCormick
Call Number: FIC MCCORMICK NORTH
SUMMARY: When she is tricked by her stepfather and sold into prostitution, thirteen-year-old Lakshmi becomes submerged in a nightmare where her only comfort is the friendship she forms with the other girls, which helps her survive and eventually escape. This is a novel in vignettes.
Title: Sunrise Over Fallujah
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Call Number: FIC MYERS SOUTH
SUMMARY: 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.
Title: Trading Dreams at Midnight: a Novel
Author: Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Call Number: FIC MCKINNEY SOUTH
SUMMARY: Sisters Neena and Tish form an unbreakable bond after their mother disappears, leaving the girls to be raised by their strict grandmother, Nan. Years later, when Tish is hospitalized, Neena is forced to confront her grandmother and accept their horrible memories of the past. The setting is Philadelphia.
Title: What I Saw and How I Lied
Author: Judy Blundell
Call Number: FIC BLUNDELL NORTH/SOUTH
SUMMARY: In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever.
Title: Working Days: Short Stories About Teenagers at Work
Author: Anne Mazer
Call Number: SC WORKING SOUTH
SUMMARY: Fifteen stories relate the experiences of teenagers working for many different reasons in a variety of jobs.
Title: Zapped : a Regan Reilly Mystery
Author: Carol Higgins Clark
Call Number: FIC CLARK SOUTH
SUMMARY: Private investigator Regan Reilly and her husband Jack investigate the theft of a glass sculpture from the Soho art gallery, the whereabouts of a psychotic woman, and a break-in in their Manhattan loft.
Title: The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story
Author: Diane Ackerman
Call Number: FIC ACKERMAN NORTH/SOUTH
SUMMARY: Relates the story of Jan and Antonina Zabinski, Christian zookeepers at the Warsaw Zoo, who helped save the lives of approximately three hundred Polish Jews during World War II by housing and feeding them on zoo grounds and teaching them how to "pass" as Aryan.
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