July 2012

Booklists · London Summer Olympics

The 2012 Summer Olympics in London open on July 27th! Go for the gold with these recent additions to our Library collection!

Books for Kids: Easy Books

Babar's Celesteville Games

Laurent de Brunhoff

Dream Big: Michael Jordan and the Pursuit of Olympic Gold

Deloris Jordan

Books for Kids: Juvenile Fiction

Gold Medal Summer

Donna Freitas

Gold Medal Murder

Carolyn Keene

After All, You're Called Callie Boone

Winnie Mack

Winning the Team

Dominique Moceanu

Books for Kids: Juvenile Nonfiction

G is for Gold Medal: An Olympic Alphabet

Brad Herzog

The 2012 London Olympics

Nick Hunter

Great Olympic Moments

Michael Hurley

The World's Greatest Olympians

Michael Hurley

Touch the Sky: Alice Coachman, Olympic High Jumper

Ann Malaspina

Olympics

Richard Platt

The Olympics in Adult Fiction

Gold

Chris Cleave

Flight from Berlin

David John

The Games

Ted Kosmatka

Adult Fiction Set in Britain

Started Early, Took My Dog

Kate Atkinson

Dead Scared

S.J. Bolton

The Chemistry of Tears

Peter Carey

The Red House

Mark Haddon

The Stranger's Child

Alan Hollinghurst

Capital

John Lanchester

How It All Began

Penelope Lively

Bring Up the Bodies

Hilary Mantel

Abdication

Juliet Nicolson

Bleed for Me

Michael Robotham

Adult Nonfiction: Summer Olympic Athletes

In the Water They Can't See You Cry: A Memoir

Amanda Beard

Redemption: A Rebellious Spirit, A Praying Mother, and the Unlikely Path to Olympic Gold

Bryan Clay

Winning Balance: What I've Learned So Far About Love, Faith, and Living Your Dreams

Shawn Johnson

Off Balance

Dominique Moceanu

Adult Nonfiction: Summer Olympic History

The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World

John Carlos

Showdown at Shepherd's Bush: The 1908 Olympic Marathon and the Three Runners Who Launched a Sporting Craze

David Davis

Munich 1972: Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games

David Clay Large

Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World

David Maraniss

Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever

Jack McCallum

Adult Nonfiction: Olympic Rules, Statistics, and Trivia

How to Watch the Olympics: The Essential Guide to the Rules, Statistics, Heroes, and Zeroes of Every Sport

David Goldblatt

The Book of Olympic Lists: A Treasure-Trove of 116 Years of Olympic Trivia

David Wallechinsky and Jaime Loucky

Adult Nonfiction: London History

London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets

Peter Ackroyd

Johnson's Life of London: The People Who Made the City That Made the World

Boris Johnson

City of Ravens: The Extraordinary History of London, the Tower and Its Famous Ravens

Boria Sax

Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now -- As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It

Craig Taylor

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