F BLA

Blake, Ashley Herring. Suffer Love. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2016.

Hadley St. Clair and Sam Bennett are teenagers caught up in the grip of their mutual attraction--but adultery, family secrets, and betrayal threaten to drive them apart.

F BUS

Busby, Cylin. The Stranger Game. 1st ed. New York, N.Y.: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, c2016.

Nico Morris' sister Sarah is found after being missing for four years and suffers from retrograde amnesia.

F DAW

Dawe, Ted. Into the River. Hoboken, N.J.: Polis Books, 2016, c2012.

Set in New Zealand, it tells the story of Maori youth Te Arepa Santos as he moves from the East Coast to Auckland to boarding school, where he has encounters with intimacy, drugs, racism and death.

F ELL

Elliott, David, 1947-. Bull. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2017.

A modern twist on the Theseus and Minotaur myth, told in verse.

F PAT (sf)

Patterson, James, 1947-. Fang: a Maximum Ride Novel. New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown, 2011, c2010.

When Max and the Flock discover an unscrupulous scientist who is experimenting on humans in an effort to "improve" the human race, they decide that they must try to stop him, in spite of Angel's prediction about Fang dying.

F PAT (sf)

Patterson, James, 1947-. Max. New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown, 2009.

Fourteen-year-old Max, leader of a flock of genetically engineered part-human/part-bird hybrids, must volunteer, along with the five youngest members of the group, to join the Navy in learning why fish are dying off the coast of Hawaii, in order to be able to rescue her mother who has been kidnapped by a criminal mastermind.

F TSI

Shriver, Lionel. The Female of the Species. New York, N.Y. : Harper Perennial, 2009, c1987.

Middle-aged anthropologist, Gray Kaiser, heads to Kenya to make a documentary along with her assistant, Errol McEchern, who has loved Gray for years; however, when Gray falls in love with a young graduate assistant, Errol must sit back and watch as Raphael makes her more and more dependent on him.

F THO

Thomas, Angie. The Hate U Give. New York, N.Y.: Balzer + Bray, c2017.

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now what Starr says could destroy her community. It could also get her killed.

128.2 MON

Montero, Barbara, 1962-. Thought in Action: Expertise and the Conscious Mind. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, c2016.

It is widely held that thinking about what you are doing, as you are doing it, hinders performance. But is this true? Barbara Gail Montero explores real-life examples and draws on psychology, neuroscience, and literature to develop a theory of expertise that emphasises the role of the conscious mind in expert action.

324.973 CLINTON/H

What Happened. New York, N.Y: Simon & Schuster, c2017.

2016 Presidential hopeful and former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals for the first time in a series of essays the challenges of being a strong woman in the political eye, and the sexism and double standards she faced as she ran against Donald Trump.

616 MUK

Mukherjee, Siddhartha. The Gene: An Intimate History. New York, N.Y.: Scribner, c2016.

Discusses the history of the study of genetics.

770.92 RONIS DEN (Fr)

Denoyelle, Françoise. Le siècle de Willy Ronis. Paris, France : Editions Terre Bleue, c2012.

A richly illustrated work that traces the career of one of France's most remarkable photographers who was also one of the major figures in 20th century photography.

796.323 SUMMITT

Summitt, Pat Head. Sum It Up. 1st ed. New York, N.Y.: Crown Archetype, c2013.

Autobiography of Pat Summitt, covering her childhood in Tennessee, building and coaching the Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball team, and health struggles, especially early onset Alzheimer's disease.

DVD F BAC

Back to the Future. French ed. Paris, France: Universal Pictures Video, 2015, c1985. Directed by Robert Zemeckis.

Marty McFly, a teenager of the 1980s, is transported back in time to the 1950s where he must make sure that his parents-to-be meet and fall in love so that he can get back to the future.

DVD F BAC

Back to the Future, Part II. French ed. Paris, France: Universal Pictures Video, 2015, c1989. Directed by Robert Zemeckis.

Doc and Marty travel to 2015 in order to stop Marty's kids from getting in trouble. When they return to 1985, their world has changed for the worse, and the two must travel back to 1955 to set things back in order so that they can go back to the future.

DVD F BAC

Back to the Future, Part III. French ed. Paris, France: Universal Pictures Video, 2015, c1990. Directed by Robert Zemeckis.

Marty McFly is trapped in 1955 after a freak burst of lightning. He has to go back to the Wild West of 1885 to rescue Doc from an early death so they both can return to the future.

DVD F LAR

L'arnacoeur. Paris, France: Universal Pictures Video, c2010. Directed by Pascal Chaumeil.

A romantic comedy set in Monte Carlo in which a playboy who makes his living breaking up couples meets his match: a rich heiress.

DVD F PRE

Prêt à tout. French ed. Issy-les-Moulineaux, France: StudioCanal, 2014, c2013. Directed by Nicolas Cuche.

A young Internet millionaire pretends to be a factory worker so he can ingratiate himself with the object of his affection.

PARENTS-FACULTY-STAFF BOOK CLUB 
(The Adult Book Club!)

For our last meeting on May 22, the group will be discussing Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng.

We will reconvene next Fall and hope you'll be able to join us. 

The Book Club is open to parents from all 3 Divisions.

Photo credit: Janet Rubinstein, ASP Communications Manager