Outstanding Books for the College Bound and Lifelong Learners
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About the Outstanding Books for the College Bound and Lifelong Learners To provide reading recommendations to students of all ages who plan to continue their education beyond high school.
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Arts and Humanities
2009 Selection(s)
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American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New
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The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern
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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
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Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design
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Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska
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Frida: Viva la Vida! Long Live Life!
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Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, carly Simon - And the Journey of a Generation
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Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art
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John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth
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Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America
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Our Movie Heritage
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Photography: An Illustrated History
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Pillars of the Earth
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The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Fancisco Manzano
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The Power of Myth
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The Red Tent: A Novel
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
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She's Got Next: A Story of Getting In, Staying Open, and Taking a Shot
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Shooting Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer
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This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie
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The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
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Water for Elephants: A Novel
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World Religions: The Great Faiths Explored and Explained
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The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
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Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
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History and Culture
2009 Selection(s)
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
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History and Cultures
2009 Selection(s)
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
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The Complete Persepolis
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Daniel Half-Human: And the Good Nazi
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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Forgotten Fire: A Novel
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
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The Known World
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
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The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam
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New Found Land: Lewis and Clark's Voyage of Discovery
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The Night Birds: A Novel
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Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
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The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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Rotten English: A Literary Anthology
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Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of
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What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: A Novel
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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Literature and Language Arts
2009 Selection(s)
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. I: The Pox Party
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. II: The Kingdom on the Waves
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Bastard Out of Carolina
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Blankets
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The Book Thief
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Caramelo
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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The God of Animals
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Good Poems
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Kafka on the Shore
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The Kite Runner
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A Lesson Before Dying
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Looking for Alaska
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Lucky: A Memoir
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Mister Pip
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Never Let Me Go
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The Plot Against America
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The Road
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
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The Secret Life of Bees
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Someday This Pain Will be Useful to You
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Sunrise Over Fallujah
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Who the Hell is Pansy O'Hara?: The Fascinating Stories Behind of the World's Best-Loved Books
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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Science and Technology
2009 Selection(s)
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American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
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Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brian Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
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The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World
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Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
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The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
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Feed
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The Genomics Age: How DNA Technology is Transforming the Way We Live and Who We Are
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God's Debris: a Thought Experiment
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Greasy Rider: Two Dudes, One Fry-Oil-Powered Car, and a Cross-Country Search for a Greener Future
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Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth
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Little Brother
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Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science--From the Babylonians to the Maya
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Mosque
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Out of Orbit: The Incredible True Story of Three Astronauts Who Were Hundreds of Miles Above Earth W
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The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
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The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor
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A Sand County Almanac
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way to Be Smart
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The Taste of Sweet: Our Comlicated Love Affair With Our Favorite Treats
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The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body
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The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
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Social Sciences
2009 Selection(s)
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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey through His Son's Addiction
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Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges
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The Devil's Highway: A True Story
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The Elements of Library Research: What Every Student Needs to Know
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From Clueless to Class Act: Manners for the Modern Man
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
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The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time
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Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
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Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community
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My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey through Silicon Valley
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Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
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Nineteen Minutes
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Out Law: What LGBT Youth Should Know Abouth Their Legal Rights
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A Rare Breed of Love: The True Story of Baby and the Mission She Inspired to Help Dogs Everywhere
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Sold
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Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace Once School at a Time
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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Tuesdays with Morrie: an Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
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Wheelchair Warrior: Gangs, Disability, and Basketball
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