[bksvol-discuss] New Books (68) for 07-17
- From: John Immarino <johni2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:53:26 -0700
=====FICTION, 15
BROTHERS NO MORE, BY WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY
Brothers No More is the sweeping story of the lives and times of two men
- one searching to redeem his courage and resolve, the other undone by
his own ambition and greed, both spellbound by the devout and beautiful
Caroline.
Excellent Quality, 296 Pages
Military, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99488/
DEMOCRACY, BY JOAN DIDION
Inez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is
memory. But the people around Inez have made careers out of losing
track. Her senator husband wants to forget the failure of his last bid
for the presidency.
Excellent Quality, 225 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99668/
DIAMOND DUST, BY ANITA DESAI
"Diamond Dust" travels from India to the American Northeast, deftly
exploring the tensions between social obligation and personal
independence, between old traditions and new.
Excellent Quality, 207 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99475/
ENTRIES, BY WENDELL BERRY
In this gathering of work from the past fifteen years, Wendell Berry
offers poems of remembrance and regeneration, celebrating life's
complexities from the domestic to the eternal.
Excellent Quality, 81 Pages
Poetry
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99715/
FLIGHT TO ARRAS, BY TRANSLATOR LEWIS GALANTIèRE AND ANTOINE DE
SAINT-EXUPéRY
A memoir by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Written in 1942,
Flight to Arras recounts the author's role in the French Air Force as a
pilot during the Battle of France in 1940.
Excellent Quality, 157 Pages
Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99685/
THE GIFT, BY MICHAEL SCAMMELL AND VLADIMIR NABOKOV
The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native Russian
and is the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career.
Excellent Quality, 366 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99461/
THE BERKLEY SHOWCASE: NEW WRITINGS IN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY, VOL.
1, BY JOHN SILBERSACK AND VICTORIA SCHOCHET
Anthology of original science fiction stories selected by the editors of
the Berkley Books science fiction line with stories by Howard Waldrop,
Elizabeth Lynn, Karl Hansen, Orson Scott Card, Janet Morris, John
Kessel, Ronald Anthony Cross, and David Andriessen.
Excellent Quality, 280 Pages
Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/96836/
THE BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING 2008, BY JUDY BLUME AND DAVE EGGERS
This brilliant collection highlights a bold mix of fiction, nonfiction,
screenplays, television writing, and more alternative comics than ever.
Excellent Quality, 345 Pages
Poetry, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99670/
THE ENCHANTER, BY DMITRI NABOKOV AND VLADIMIR NABOKOV
This tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal
obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose coltish grace and
subconscious coquetry reveal, to his mind, a special bud on the verge of
bloom.
Excellent Quality, 135 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99469/
THE MAN WHO COULD FLY AND OTHER STORIES, BY RUDOLFO A. ANAYA
Representing thirty years of Anaya's writing, have been collected into a
single volume. They constitute the best and most essential collection of
Anaya's short story work.
Excellent Quality, 198 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99471/
THE NEW LIFE, BY ORHAN PAMUK AND GUNELI GUN
Through the single act of reading a book, a young student is uprooted
from his old life and identity. Within days he has fallen in love with
the luminous and elusive Japan.
Excellent Quality, 297 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99472/
THE ZIGZAG WAY, BY ANITA DESAI
In this seductive landscape, a young American stumbles upon an unlikely
path to self-discovery. Eric is a newly minted historian just out of
graduate school, unsure of his past choices and future options.
Excellent Quality, 160 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99480/
TOUCH OF FIRE, BY MARIA ZANNINI
Leda, a fire Elemental, has been charged with finding a dangerous
alchemist's bible. The trail is cold and her only lead is a plainfolk
savage who hates all magical beings. Greyhawke Tams would sooner stay in
jail than help a fire mage. But when he discovers the thief who stole
the grimoire might also control his future, he joins Leda in a prickly
alliance that leads them to the truth about the Earth that was, and a
thousand year old secret on how the Elemental mages were born.
Excellent Quality, 260 Pages
Romance, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/98788/
TWILIGHT SLEEP, BY EDITH WHARTON
Sex, drugs, work, money, infatuation with the occult and spiritual
healing -- these are the remarkably modern themes that animate Twilight
Sleep.
Excellent Quality, 318 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99483/
UNPUNISHED, BY CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN
Gilman's first and only detective novel recounts the murder of a
pernicious attorney who has been shot, stabbed, bludgeoned, strangled
and poisoned.
Excellent Quality, 244 Pages
Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99490/
=====NONFICTION, 21
AFTERIMAGES, BY ARLENE CROCE
Dancing leaves nothing else behind--no record, no text--and so the
afterimage becomes the subject of dance criticism. A dance critic tries
to train the memory as well as the organs of sense; he tries to make the
afterimage that appears in his writing match the performance.
Excellent Quality, 466 Pages
Entertainment, Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99717/
ALL THE STRANGE HOURS, BY LOREN C. EISELEY
Eiseley focuses not on the facts and linear details of his life but on
how his ideas were formed and developed on class, identity, human
tendencies, and relationships between humans and animals.
Excellent Quality, 272 Pages
Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99479/
AZTLáN: ESSAYS ON THE CHICANO HOMELAND, BY FRANCISCO A. LOMELí AND
RUDOLFO A. ANAYA
'Aztlán: Essays on the Chicano Homeland' gathers articles published over
a period of twenty years, offering in one volume the divergent
ideological interpretations engendered within Chicano studies in
relation to the legendary origin of the Aztecs...
Excellent Quality, 248 Pages
History, Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99489/
CRAZY FOR THE STORM: A MEMOIR OF SURVIVAL, BY NORMAN OLLESTAD
A heart-stopping adventure that ends in tragedy and in triumphs, ["Crazy
for the Storm" is] a love story that fearlessly explores the bond
between a father and son and what it means to lead a life without
limits.--Susan Cheever.
Excellent Quality, 273 Pages
Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99718/
GOOD THINGS ABOUT THE U.S. TODAY, BY JOSEPH NEWMAN
Published in the early 70s, this study by U.S. News and World Report
finds that even though strife of the 60s was still plaguing the social
fabric of America, prospects for the future seemed bright.
Excellent Quality, 252 Pages
Textbooks and Educational Materials, Nonfiction, Professional and
Technical
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99655/
HITLER'S SUPPRESSED AND STILL-SECRET WEAPONS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, BY
HENRY STEVENS
Nazi technology extended far further than has generally been
acknowledged, in fact to almost unfathomable levels!
Excellent Quality, 330 Pages
History, Military, Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99661/
HOPES AND IMPEDIMENTS: SELECTED ESSAYS, BY CHINUA ACHEBE
Chinua Achebe reveals the impediments that still stand in the way of
open, equal dialogue between Africans and Europeans, between blacks and
whites, but also instills us with hope that they will soon be overcome.
Excellent Quality, 188 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99473/
HOW TO GROW BULBS, BY SUNSET PUBLISHING STAFF
Learn how to grow bulbs!
Excellent Quality, 80 Pages
Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99698/
MEMOIRS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER, BY JAMES KIRKUP AND SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Simone de Beauvoir, Parisian pioneer in existentialist philosophy, tells
all in the first of a four-part autobiography, "Memoirs of a Dutiful
Daughter".
Excellent Quality, 365 Pages
History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99589/
SENSORY SENSITIVE CHILD, BY KAREN GOUZE AND KAREN SMITH
In the tradition of the classic "The Out-of-Sync Child," two
psychologists and mothers elucidate a problem that may affect as many as
10 to 20 percent of American children.
Excellent Quality, 285 Pages
Textbooks and Educational Materials, Nonfiction, Parenting and Family
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99676/
SOUTHERN LIVING GARDEN GUIDE ANNUALS, BY OXMOOR HOUSE STAFF
The experts at Southern Living magazine share their more than 30 years
of horticultural experiences in this new title which focuses on annuals.
Excellent Quality, 128 Pages
Self-Help, Art and Architecture, Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99695/
STAINING AND VARNISHING, BY RANDOM HOUSE VALUE PUBLISHING STAFF AND
OUTLET BOOK COMPANY STAFF
David Holloway takes you through all the steps needed to stain and
varnish wood.
Excellent Quality, 47 Pages
Self-Help, Art and Architecture
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99693/
THE AZTECS: GODS AND FATE IN ANCIENT MEXICO, BY WERNER FORMAN AND
COTTIE BURLAND
Nothing in the long history of exploration, discovery and exploitation
is comparable to the events leading to the destruction of ancient
Mexican society in 1519. This was a head-on collision of two entirely
separate worlds, both with equally long records of spectacular
achievements, and yet both totally unaware of each other's existence.
Excellent Quality, 128 Pages
History, Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99321/
THE BRAIN FOOD PLAN, BY CARINA NORRIS AND ROBIN PAUC
Robin Pauc argues that children diagnosed with "learning disorders" are
in reality suffering from vitamin and nutrient deficiencies.
Excellent Quality, 234 Pages
Nonfiction, Parenting and Family
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99673/
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE NATIONAL PARK LODGES, BY KAY WOELFEL SCOTT
AND DAVID L. SCOTT
From Alaska's Denali National Park Hotel to the lodges of Yellowstone
National Park in Wyoming, this guide to US National Park lodges by a
peripatetic Georgia accounting professor-school principal couple
provides lodge descriptions, contact
Excellent Quality, 264 Pages
Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99664/
THE DARWIN AWARDS II, BY WENDY NORTHCUTT
Welcome to the next evolution in humor.
Excellent Quality, 241 Pages
Entertainment
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99689/
THE DARWIN AWARDS III, BY WENDY NORTHCUTT
The humour evolution takes another giant step One of the human race's
most popular humour series returns with a brand-new collection of
hilariously macabre mishaps and misadventures, honouring those who
improve our gene pool by inadvertently
Excellent Quality, 262 Pages
Entertainment
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99682/
THE MOTHER LODE, BY JUDY VAN WINGERDEN AND JOHN AUSTERMAN
The Automobile Club of Southern California has created a guide to
traveling in one the most interesting historical areas of California -
the stretch of mining towns known as the Mother Lode.
Excellent Quality, 85 Pages
Nonfiction, Travel, Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99674/
THE UGLY LAWS: DISABILITY IN PUBLIC, BY SUSAN SCHWEIK
In 1881, the Chicago City Code read, "Any person who is diseased,
maimed, mutilated, or in any way deformed... shall not... expose himself
to public view." These "ugly laws" began in San Francisco in 1867, then
spread through the U.S. and abroad; many in the U.S. weren't repealed
until the 1970s.
Excellent Quality, 410 Pages
History, Nonfiction, Disability-Related
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/95827/
THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO SURVIVAL HANDBOOK, BY BRENDA BROWN ILLUSTRATOR
AND JOSHUA PIVEN AND DAVID BORGENICHT AND SARAH JORDAN
Wedding dress torn? Ring lost? Cake collapsed? Groom gone missing?
Despite all the planning, the happy couple might not actually be
prepared for The Big Day and all that can go awry.
Excellent Quality, 172 Pages
Nonfiction, Self-Help
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99690/
THIS COLD HEAVEN: SEVEN SEASONS IN GREENLAND, BY GRETEL EHRLICH
Gretel Ehrlich has been obsessed by an island, a terrain, a culture, and
the men and women who long for and love the complex frailties and
treacherous beauty of a world defined by ice.
Excellent Quality, 390 Pages
History, Nonfiction, Travel
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99484/
=====TEENS & CHILDREN, 32
AFTER THE MOMENT, BY GARRET FREYMANN-WEYR
When seventeen-year-old Leigh changes high schools his senior year to
help his stepsister, he finds himself falling in love with her
emotionally disturbed friend, although he is still attached to a girl
back home.
Excellent Quality, 329 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99485/
ALONG FOR THE RIDE, BY SARAH DESSEN
It's been so long since Auden slept at night. Ever since her parents'
divorce--or since the fighting started. Now she has the chance to spend
a carefree summer with her dad.
Excellent Quality, 383 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99474/
CATHERINE'S REMEMBRANCE (THE LATTER-DAY DAUGHTERS) , BY CAROL LYNCH WILLIAMS
In 1846, when religious persecution forces her family to leave Illinois
and flee west to find a new home, Catherine finds herself questioning
her parents' Mormon faith, until she discovers a bundle of old letters
written by her mother years earlier.
Excellent Quality, 94 Pages
History, Teens, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99487/
CHIPPER, BY JAMES LINCOLN COLLIER
Orphaned and homeless, twelve-year-old Chipper Carey is a street-wise
gang member in 1890s New York City, until a con man introduces him to a
wealthy woman who is seeking her long-lost nephew and Chipper must
decide where his loyalties lie.
Excellent Quality, 208 Pages
History, Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99553/
CITY OF BONES (THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS #1), BY CASSANDRA CLARE
Suddenly able to see demons and the Shadow hunters who are dedicated to
returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is
drawn into this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary
herself is almost killed by a monster.
Excellent Quality, 499 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99476/
DESTROY ALL CARS, BY BLAKE NELSON
Through assignments for English class, seventeen-year-old James Hoff
rants against consumerism and his classmates' apathy, puzzles over his
feelings for his ex-girlfriend, and expresses disdain for his
emotionally distant parents.
Excellent Quality, 218 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99481/
PROM NIGHTS FROM HELL, BY MEG CABO AND LAUREN MYRACLE AND STEPHENIE
MEYER AND MICHELE JAFFE AND KIM HARRISON
Wardrobe malfunctions and two left feet don't hold a candle to
discovering your date is the Grim Reaper--and he isn't here to tell you
how hot you look. From angels fighting demons to a creepy take on
getting what you wish for.
Excellent Quality, 304 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99714/
SHUG, BY JENNY HAN
A twelve-year-old girl learns about friendship, first loves, and
self-worth in a small town in the South.
Excellent Quality, 250 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99464/
SOMETHING, MAYBE, BY ELIZABETH SCOTT
I wonder what it would be like to do high school things. To go out on
the weekends. To kiss a guy. To have a normal life. A real one.
Excellent Quality, 218 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99459/
STRANGE ANGELS, BY LILI ST. CROW
Sixteen-year-old Dru's psychic abilities helped her father battle
zombies and other creatures of the Real World, but now she must rely on
herself, a "werwulf" -bitten friend, and a half-human vampire hunter to
learn who murdered her parents, and why.
Excellent Quality, 293 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99467/
TAKE ME THERE, BY SUSANE COLASANTI
Three New York high school students try to sort out their emotions as
they deal with relationships, crushes, their families, and planning for
the future.
Excellent Quality, 305 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99458/
THEY CAME FROM BELOW, BY BLAKE NELSON
While vacationing on Cape Cod, best friends Emily, age sixteen, and
Reese, seventeen, meet Steve and Dave, who seem too good to be true, and
whose presence turns out to be related to a dire threat of global pollution.
Excellent Quality, 300 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99482/
THE BOY FROM THE UFO RETURNS, BY MARGARET G. CLARK
Originally titled 'Barney in Space', Margeret Clark unleashes yet
another fascinating, page-turning episode. Although several of his
friends try to prevent it, Barney is transported to the moon where
Rokell, a dangerous Gark from the planet Ornam, awaits him.
Excellent Quality, 156 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99614/
THE IMPOSSIBLE BIRD, BY PATRICK O'LEARY
There is a place--a world--where famine and poverty do not exist. Nor
sickness nor misery nor unhappiness of any kind. Is it Heaven? As two
brothers are about to discover, it's more like Hell.
Excellent Quality, 323 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/94550/
THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY, BY JENNY HAN
Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every
other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.
Excellent Quality, 277 Pages
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99462/
VICTORIA'S COURAGE (THE LATTER-DAY DAUGHTERS), BY CAROL LYNCH WILLIAMS
In 1906 Victoria, an eleven-year-old Mormon girl, prays to Heavenly
Father when the terrible earthquake destroys her San Francisco home and
separates her from her family.
Excellent Quality, 94 Pages
History, Teens, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99463/
BEAST FEAST, BY DOUGLAS FLORIAN
In this hilarious collection of twenty-one original animal poems and
paintings, the animals are out in all their finned, furry, and feathered
glory.
Excellent Quality, 48 Pages
Children's Books, Poetry
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99677/
BEHIND THE MOUNTAINS, BY EDWIDGE DANTICAT
It is election time in Haiti, and bombs are going off in the capital
city of Port-au-Prince. During a visit from her home in rural Haiti,
Celiane and her mother are nearly killed.
Excellent Quality, 184 Pages
Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99660/
BLACK-EYED SUSAN, BY JENNIFER ARMSTRONG
A lyrical novel about a day in the life of a young pioneer girl growing
up on the Dakota prairie is now available in a Knopf Paperback edition.
Excellent Quality, 121 Pages
Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99662/
BONE WARS, BY BRETT DAVIS
Montana, 1876. Othniel Charles Marsh, one of the two top paleontologists
in the world, in the state's Judith River fossil beds, doing what he
does best: digging up the bones of dinosaurs. Montana is a big state,
but Marsh can't rest easy.
Excellent Quality, 314 Pages
Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99665/
DUNC AND THE GREASED STICKS OF DOOM, BY GARY PAULSEN
Five ... four ... three ... two ... Olympic superstar Francesco Bartoli
is about to hurl himself down the face of a mountain in another attempt
to clinch the world slalom speed record. Cheering fans and snapping
cameras are everywhere.
Excellent Quality, 94 Pages
Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99616/
GRANDPA'S TEETH, BY ROD CLEMENT
Grandpa's expensive false teeth have been stolen! Grandpa suspects
everyone. Where could his teeth have gone?
Excellent Quality, 32 Pages
Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99678/
INSECTLOPEDIA, BY DOUGLAS FLORIAN
From swooping butterflies and twirling beetles to marching army ants
and feasting mosquitoes, here is one fest infestation you'll welcome
into your home.
Excellent Quality, 48 Pages
Children's Books, Animals, Poetry, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99686/
LONE WOLF, BY KRISTINE L. FRANKLIN
Living up in the north woods, Perry Dubois and his dad don't see other
people much. Perry's dad likes it that way, and Perry is getting used to
it, too.
Excellent Quality, 220 Pages
Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99669/
MONEY HUNGRY, BY SHARON G. FLAKE
Thirteen-year-old Raspberry Hill is always scheming about ways to make
money. She's starved for the green stuff, and will do just about
anything legal to get it-wash cars, sell rotten candy, skip lunch, and
clean houses.
Excellent Quality, 188 Pages
Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99671/
MY OWN TWO FEET: A MEMOIR, BY BEVERLY CLEARY
The New Yorker called Beverly Cleary's first volume of memoirs, A Girl
From Yamhill , a warm, honest book, as interesting as any novel. Now
the creator of the classic children's stories millions grew up with
continues her own fascinating story.
Excellent Quality, 346 Pages
Children's Books, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99672/
ONCE UPON A MARIGOLD, BY JEAN FERRIS
Who knew love could be so amazing--and stupefying? Not Christian. He was
clueless when he started spying on the royal family through his
telescope. He lives in a cave with a troll for a dad, after all.
Excellent Quality, 278 Pages
Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99675/
OUT OF DARKNESS: THE STORY OF LOUIS BRAILLE, BY RUSSELL FREEDMAN
"An extremely well-written and informative book that tells about
Braille's life and the development of his alphabet system for the blind.
Freedman's gift for making his subjects both accessible and intriguing
comes through wonderfully in this book.
Excellent Quality, 93 Pages
Children's Books, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99684/
THE DAY DREAMER, BY IAN MCEWAN
On the outside, Peter looks like a quiet boy, but inside, he's having
many adventures -- exchanging bodies with his cat, battling dolls who
have come to life, and using invisibility cream. For grades 4-6.
Excellent Quality, 149 Pages
Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99460/
THE GADGET WAR, BY BETSY DUFFEY
MEET THE GADGET WHIZ.--Kelly Sparks has forty-three inventions to her
credit -- and she's only in third grade! Just name a problem, and in no
time Kelly will come up with a gadget to solve it.
Excellent Quality, 76 Pages
Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99396/
THE PILEATED WOODPECKER, BY SELIESA PEMBLETON
Introduces the appearance, habitat, and behavior of the pileated
woodpecker, discusses the impact humans have had on the bird and its
habitat, and describes a year in the life of the woodpecker.
Excellent Quality, 60 Pages
Children's Books, Nonfiction, Animals
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/98559/
YO, JO!, BY RACHEL ISADORA
While Jomar and his brother, Franklin, are on their stoop waiting for
Grandpa, friends and neighbors come by--whizzing on skates, showing off
their new treads, or bouncing a ball. Whether it's Whassup? or Yo!, Jo's
got a greeting for everyone--until Grandpa arrives and only classic
words will do: I love you.
Excellent Quality, 32 Pages
Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/99654/
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