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Top 15 Los Gatos Library Items

These are the most popular titles during the past month.

Thanks for Los Gatos librarian Henry Bankhead for compiling this list for us.

1. The Year of Fog, Michelle Richmond

Photographer Abby Mason's life is changed forever by the disappearance of the young girl with whom she had been walking on a cold and foggy beach, and her desperate search for the truth behind the child's vanishing.

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2. People Weekly

Celebrity news and fashion magazine.

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3. Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto

In the village of Konohagakure, school is literally a battlefield where classmates are ninjas in training competing to become the greatest ninja in the land.

4. One piece, Eiichiro Oda

Comic book, comic strips from Japan translated into English.

5. House Beautiful 

Architecture, domestic magazine dealing with interior decoration.

6. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Stieg Larsson

While recovering in the hospital, Lisbeth Salander enlists the aid of journalist Mikael Blomkvist to prove her innocent of three murders and identify the corrupt politicians who have allowed her to suffer.

7. Architectural Digest

International magazine of design.

8. Shaman King, Hiroyuki Takei

To most people, ghosts are the stuff of horror stories and nightmares. But to Yoh Asakura, a transfer student at Shinra Private Junior High, they're his friends! Yoh Asakura is a shaman—one of the gifted few who can speak to spirits."

9. The Help, Kathryn Stockett

 In Jackson, MS, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women—black and white, mothers and daughters—view one another.

10. The Prince of Tennis, Takeshi Konomi and Gerard Jones

Facing extreme challenges from the world's best players in a variety of matches, young Ryoma Echizen aims to become the best tennis player in the world and battles to win tennis championships for the Seishun Academy.

11. Scooby-Doo!

Comic book, comic strip that is part of a series.

12. Avatar, James Cameron

When his twin brother dies in an accident, paraplegic ex-Marine Jake Sully takes his place on a mission to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis. Sully works with a group of scientists cloning near-duplicates of the planet's inhabitants, the Na'vi, whom specially trained scientists can control mentally to foster peace between the corporation and the natives. But when Sully finds himself lost on Pandora and trapped in a Na'vi clone body, a beautiful Na'vi woman saves his life, and Sully discovers the corporation's plan to mine the mineral--at any cost.

13. The Lost Hero, Rick Riordan

Jason, Piper and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.

14. Knight and Day, James Mangold

An ordinary woman meets a spy on the run from his employers and becomes connected to him through a global cat-and-mouse chase.

15. Freedom, Jonathan Franzen

The idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbors, green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry, and go-getter Patty becomes increasingly unstable and enraged.

The descriptions for these items came from the Los Gatos Library database.


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