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Eragon by Christopher Paolini ( Recording )
4 editions published between 2006 and 2009 in English and Spanish and held by 379 libraries worldwide
In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins ( Recording )
4 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and held by 346 libraries worldwide
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.

The maze of bones by Rick Riordan ( Recording )
2 editions published between 2008 and 2009 in English and held by 338 libraries worldwide
Rick Riordan's newest mystery centers around the Cahills - the most powerful family the world has ever known. The source of its power is a mystery that can only be unraveled by assembling 39 clues that have been hidden around the world throughout history. Follow the Cahills as they find the 39 clues, and play the game online at http://www.the39clues.com.

Three cups of tea by Greg Mortenson ( Recording )
2 editions published between 2006 and 2008 in English and held by 337 libraries worldwide
One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, he promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time--Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban. In a region where Americans are often feared and hated, he has survived kidnapping, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, death threats, and wrenching separations from his wife and children. But his success speaks for itself--at last count, his Central Asia Institute had built fifty-five schools.

The shack by William P Young ( Recording )
4 editions published between 2008 and 2010 in English and French and held by 316 libraries worldwide
A father, having received an invitation apparently from God, goes to spend a weekend at the abandoned shack where his daughter may have been brutally murdered after being kidnapped.

The lightning thief by Rick Riordan ( Recording )
2 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 292 libraries worldwide
After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.

The sword thief by Peter Lerangis ( Recording )
1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 280 libraries worldwide
Amy and Dan Cahill have been located once again, this time in the company of the notoriously unreliable Alistair Oh. Could they have been foolish enough to make an alliance? Spies report that Amy and Dan seem to be tracking the life of one of the most powerful fighters the world has ever known. If this fearsome warrior was a Cahill, his secrets are sure to be well-guarded, and the price to uncover them just might be lethal.

The red pyramid by Rick Riordan ( Recording )
1 edition published in 2010 in English and held by 278 libraries worldwide
After their father's "research experiment" at the British Museum unleashes the Egyptian god Set, Carter and Sadie Kane embark on a dangerous journey across the globe--a quest which brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.

The girl with the dragon tattoo by Stieg Larsson ( Recording )
2 editions published in 2010 in French and English and held by 264 libraries worldwide
The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger. He is determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. He hires crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recently at the wrong end of a libel case, to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance. Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old, pierced, tattooed genius hacker, possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age--and a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness--assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, an astonishing corruption at the highest echelon of Swedish industrialism--and a surprising connection between themselves.--From publisher description.

Catching fire by Suzanne Collins ( Recording )
1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 264 libraries worldwide
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.