Orem Library

During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.

A fictionalized account of the investigation and theories surrounding the crash of TWA Flight 800 over Long Island in 1996.

After a class trip to a floating zoo where animals are mistreated and Savannah's missing pet monkey is found in a cage, Long Island sixth-grader Griffin Bing and his band of misfits plan a rescue.

Returning to his childhood home after his elderly father nearly kills himself, FBI consultant Jake Cole is pulled into a hauntingly familiar double homicide investigation that echoes his mother's murder three decade earlier.

Told in several voices, a group of Long Island high school seniors conspire to protect eighteen-year-old Jimmy after he brutally assaults two Salvadoran immigrants, until they begin to see the moral implications of Jimmy's actions and the consequences of being loyal to a violent bully.

To Carley Wells, words are the enemy when her insane English teacher reports to her parents that she has answered "What is your favourite book?" with "Never met one I liked". They resolve to fix a book to be written for Carley that she'll have to love - one that will impress her teacher and the whole town with their family's devotion to the arts. They will be patrons - the Medici's of Long Island. They will buy their daughter a Love of Reading.

Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers; however the first edition contained...