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Lower School Discover Library Catalog

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Middle School/Upper School Discover Library Catalog

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Why should I read this summer?

Top 10 Reasons to Read for the Fun of It

10. Books don’t get caught in braces.

9. Unlike gym, you don’t have to shower afterwards.

8. Reading won’t cause pimples.

7. Magazines don’t crash.

6. Graphic novels look good with whatever you’re wearing.

5. It’s cheaper than a new video game and there is no subscription fee.

4. You can drown out your parent’s cheesy music listening to an audio book.

3. You’ll learn words even your teachers don’t know.

2. It’ll confuse your parents.

1. It’ll make you a more interesting person— introducing you to new people, places and ideas!

e-Books for YOUR personal device

  Right to your personal device, NOW! To access our eBook collection, first download the OVERDRIVE Console app to your phone, e-reader, tablet etc. You will be asked to register with adobe. Once you have completed your registration you will be able to search, choose and checkout one of our many new eBooks. ENJOY!

See what we have available by ckicking HERE!

ASM Staff Favorites

Hudson Blair-Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, The Redwall Series - by Brian Jacques (Favorite when I was in middle school)
Heather Onderick -Nine Perfect Strangers by Liana Moriarty
Meredith Bosco-On Earth We are Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Susi Francey-The Bee Keeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri 
Hunter McCallister-Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto, Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin,  The Code Breaker by Walter Issacson
Ronan Dempsey-Once Upon a Country by Sari Nusseibeh
Ben Overstreet-The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh
Cam Ducharme-Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon, Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen, The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
Cheryl Harbora-On Earth We are Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Mario Crespo-Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Julian Armijo Alba-You Are Worth It by Kyle Carpenter
Sarah Overstreet- Dune by Frank Herbert, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
Brian White-The Broken Earth series (Jemesin), Diaries of Adam and Eve (Twain), The Dresden Files (Butcher), Kingkiller Chronicles (Rothfuss)
Fernando Liroz-Jorge Luis Borges: El aleph, Ficciones. Arthur C. Clarke: Tales from the White Hart. Stanisław Lem: Solaris
Liz Keating-The Jane Austin Project by Kathleen Flynn
Jeff Frantz-Apeirogon by Colum McCann
Karen Campbell-The Weight of the Sky by Caroline Schley
Nick Furman-The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin   
Mike Sissons-The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
Kimberly Cobos-The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, The Shadow of the Windby, The Angel's Game, The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Delfina Ferrer-Man’s search of Meaning by Viktor FranklJackie Brick Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, The Mists of Avalon by Marian Zimmer Bradley
Gaelle Delaunay-A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Trudy Rutherford-Pilars of the Earth by Ken Follet, River God by Wilbur Smith
Luna Cano-The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
Tessa Guerra-ANY title of N.K. Jemisin
Sheri Sairafian-The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
Todd Hainline-Me Talk Pretty Someday by David Sedaris
Joy Edenfield-TheElegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Ronny Perez-The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
Eva Fernandez-Blindness by José Saramago
Blandine Dailloux-All the novels by Dona Leon starring Brunetti, Fear of Flying by Erika Young, La Trilogía del Baztán by Dolores Redondo, The Attack by Yasmina Khadra
Andy George-Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Melanie Doty-Little Women By Louisa M Alcott
Caroline Schley-The Monkeywrench Gang, Desert Solitaire, A Fool’s Progress, all by Edward Abbey, Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover, Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Meghan Perks-The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Belen Garcia-ANY TITLE by Julia Navarro
Andy George-The Weight of the Sky by Caroline Schley
Blandine Dailloux- Spanish: Como fuego en el hielo  Luz Gabás,  French: Désolée, je suis attendue Agnès Martin-Lugand, English: The Fountains of silence Ruta Sepetys
Diana Cisneros-The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Emily Murphy-A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin (short stories), A Journey with Two Maps : Becoming a Woman Poet by Eavan Bolan (essays), Girl Woman Other by Bernardine Evaristo (novel), Madwoman: The "Loca mujeres" Poems of Gabriela Mistral (a bilingual edition)

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