[bksvol-discuss] New Books (68) for 08-01

  • From: John Immarino <johni2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:16:53 -0700

It seems that the glitch in Bookshare website has been fixed and the books list is back to normal.


=====FICTION, 17


AGAINST THE EMPIRE (STAR WARS: THE LAST OF THE JEDI, #8), BY JUDE WATSON
Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine, and Ferus Olin make up a dangerous triangle of deception, power, and revenge. Can the former Jedi apprentice survive the entanglement?
Excellent Quality, 146 Pages
Literature and Fiction,  Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103441/

A TANGLED WEB (STAR WARS: THE LAST OF THE JEDI, #5), BY JUDE WATSON
Emperor Palpatine wants to incorporate Ferus Olin within his circle of power.
Excellent Quality, 138 Pages
Literature and Fiction,  Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103439/

DAILY SEX, BY JANE SEDDON
Readers can banish boredom from the bedroom all year with this day-by-day guide to the most erotic foreplay and exciting sex imaginable!
Publisher Quality
Romance,  Self-Help
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/89442/

FIREFLY: THE OFFICIAL COMPANION, VOLUME ONE, BY ABBIE BERNSTEIN AND JOSS WHEDON Before the smash hit movie Serenity came Firefly, the cult TV series which started it all and became a DVD phenomenon, selling almost half a million copies. Set 500 years in the future, Firefly centers around Mal Reynolds, captain of the ship-for-hire Serenity and its eclectic crew of galactic misfits.
Excellent Quality, 176 Pages
Entertainment,  Nonfiction,  Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103374/

LEOTA'S GARDEN, BY FRANCINE RIVERS
Francine Rivers opens a world full of vibrant characters with a powerful story of hope.
Excellent Quality, 423 Pages
Literature and Fiction,  Religion and Spirituality
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/100388/

MARY: A NOVEL, BY MICHAEL GLENNY AND  VLADIMIR NABOKOV
"Mary" is a gripping tale of youth, first love, and nostalgia -- Nabokov's first novel. In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of serio-comic Russian émigrés, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair.
Excellent Quality, 118 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103572/

THE KINGS ARE ALREADY HERE, BY GARRET FREYMANN-WEYR
Phebe Knight is training to become a ballerina. At fifteen, she has never once questioned that this is the life she wants. But now, one year away from joining the Company, her mind begins to wander. "The Kings Are Already Here" explores the limits of what one is willing to pay for perfection and beauty.
Excellent Quality, 152 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103577/

THE DESPERATE MISSION (STAR WARS: THE LAST OF THE JEDI, #1), BY JUDE WATSON
Adrift in the galaxy, Obi-Wan Kenobi must contemplate the magnitude of the events that just occurred in 'Episode III'. But Obi-Wan is not alone. Darth Vader is now on his trail.
Excellent Quality, 168 Pages
Literature and Fiction,  Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103461/

THAT DISTANT LAND: THE COLLECTED STORIES, BY WENDELL BERRY
Drawn from three collections of stories and including new work, "That Distant Land" chronicles nearly a century of the Port William community.
Excellent Quality, 442 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103384/

THE RIVALS, BY JOAN JOHNSTON
New York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston brings to life an unforgettable love story between two strong-willed people from different worlds ...
Excellent Quality, 404 Pages
Romance,  Westerns,  Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102672/

THE DEVIL'S PUNCHBOWL, BY GREG ILES
From New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles comes his most electrifying thriller yet. The Devil's Punchbowl reveals a world of depravity, sex, violence, and the corruption of a Southern town.
Excellent Quality, 580 Pages
Literature and Fiction,  Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103693/

THE EYE, BY DMITRI NABOKOV AND  VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Nabokov's fourth novel, "The Eye" is as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refractive tale about the vicissitudes of identities and appearances.
Excellent Quality, 106 Pages
Literature and Fiction,  Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103532/

THE CONFEDERATION HANDBOOK: THE ESSENTIAL COMPANION GUIDE TO THE NIGHT'S DAWN TRILOGY: THE REALITY DYSFUNCTION, THE NEUTRONIUM ALCHEMIST, AND THE NAKED GOD, BY PETER F. HAMILTON This companion book starts with the concepts and complexities of the Night's Dawn series and explores the 600-year history of more than 21,000 inhabited worlds, asteroids, and bitek habitats.
Publisher Quality
Literature and Fiction,  Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/91195/

THE WHITE CASTLE: A NOVEL, BY VICTORIA HOLBROOK AND  ORHAN PAMUK
From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Borges, Nabokov, and DeLillo comes a dazzling novel that is at once a captivating work of historical fiction and a sinuous treatise on the enigma of identity and the relations between East and West.
Excellent Quality, 163 Pages
History,  Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103595/

TRANSPARENT THINGS, BY VLADIMIR NABOKOV
"Transparent Things" revolves around the four visits of the hero -- sullen, gawky Hugh Person -- to Switzerland.... As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride....
Excellent Quality, 104 Pages
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103539/

TREMOR, BY CRAIG DIRGO
Over a hundred years ago, Nikola Tesla created a device for transferring electricity without wires. It was supposed to be his greatest triumph. Instead, his invention spawned a nightmare so terrifying that it was hidden from the world...until now.
Excellent Quality, 314 Pages
Military,  Literature and Fiction,  Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103592/

UNDERWORLD (STAR WARS: THE LAST OF THE JEDI, #3), BY JUDE WATSON
The Empire has taken over the galaxy. Anakin Skywalker is now Darth Vader. Most of the Jedi are gone... but a few remain. And it is up to former Jedi apprentice Ferus Olin and his street-smart sidekick Trever to find them.
Excellent Quality, 137 Pages
Literature and Fiction,  Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103437/



=====NONFICTION, 27


2009 BASEBALL RULES BOOK, BY B. ELLIOT HOPKINS
The 2009 Official NFHS Baseball rule book
Excellent Quality, 100 Pages
Nonfiction,  Sports
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103370/

ATLANTIC HIGH: A CELEBRATION, BY WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY
William F. Buckley Jr.'s account of his voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in the sailboat Sealestial, Atlantic High is a work that everywhere evidences Buckley's love for sailing and good companionship. Infused with his inimitable wit and supported by a rich fund of anecdotes and observations, Atlantic High is truly a one-of-a-kind work.
Excellent Quality, 280 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103388/

BUCKLEY: THE RIGHT WORD, BY SAMUEL S. VAUGHAN AND  WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY
"Buckley: The Right Word" is the book his readers have asked for -- on the uses and abuses of language, vocabulary, diction and dictionaries, journals and journalists, style, eloquence, interviews and reviews --
Excellent Quality, 526 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103390/

BUSH'S FRINGE GOVERNMENT, BY GARRY WILLS
One of America's foremost historians looks at the state of American democracy and the influence of the Catholic Church. How is it possible for minorities to rule majorities?
Excellent Quality, 69 Pages
History,  Nonfiction,  Religion and Spirituality
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103504/

CHILDHOOD IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURES, BY MARGARET MEAD AND  MARTHA WOLFENSTEIN
Studies of today's children by the famous anthropologist.
Excellent Quality, 481 Pages
Textbooks and Educational Materials,  Nonfiction,  Parenting and Family
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103389/

COLUMBUS AND BEYOND: VIEWS FROM NATIVE AMERICANS, BY RANDOLPH JORGEN
A collection of essays by Native American writers: Linda Hogan, Paula Gunn Allen, Simon Ortiz, Carter Revard, Lee Francis, and Ray A. Young Bear, who discuss their perspectives on the European conquest of the Americas.
Excellent Quality, 62 Pages
History,  Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103540/

CRIME BEAT, BY MICHAEL CONNELLY
'Death is my beat.' Those words, spoken by the narrator and hero of THE POET, Jack McEvoy, could also apply to Michael Connelly.
Publisher Quality
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/87412/

DAVE BARRY TALKS BACK, BY DAVE BARRY
"Want to impress your friends? Tell them you read the latest work by the 1988 Pulitzer Prize-winner for commentary. Just don't tell them it's full of booger jokes".--Orange County Register.
Excellent Quality, 290 Pages
Entertainment,  Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103391/

ENGLISH SPRINGER SPANIEL (KENNEL CLUB BOOK), BY ANNE HUTCHINSON
Features this athletic breed's background and popularity.
Excellent Quality, 96 Pages
Nonfiction,  Animals
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103383/

FART PROUDLY: WRITINGS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN YOU NEVER READ IN SCHOOL, BY CARL JAPIKSE AND BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A mention of flatulence might conjure up images of bratty high school boys or lowbrow comics. But one of the most eloquent--and least expected--commentators on the subject is Benjamin Franklin.
Excellent Quality, 124 Pages
History,  Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103463/

HAPPY DAYS WERE HERE AGAIN: REFLECTIONS OF A LIBERTARIAN JOURNALIST, BY WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY In Happy Days Were Here Again, William F. Buckley Jr. offers a collection of his finest essays from the latter part of his long career.
Excellent Quality, 486 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103379/

HEAD AND HEART: AMERICAN CHRISTIANITIES, BY GARRY WILLS
An examination of Christianity's place in American life across the broad sweep of this country's history, from the Puritans to the presidential administration of George W. Bush.
Excellent Quality, 626 Pages
History,  Nonfiction,  Religion and Spirituality
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103375/

INSIDER'S GUIDE TO GREATER CHARLESTON, S.C., BY J. MICHAEL MCLAUGHLIN AND ANNE J. RHETT
Travel guide to lovely Charleston, South Carolina.
Excellent Quality, 444 Pages
Nonfiction,  Travel
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103381/

LOST WOODS (THE DISCOVERED WRITING OF RACHEL CARSON), BY RACHEL CARSON
Provides a sense of "Silent Spring" (1962) author Rachel Carson's evolution as a writer and thinker through a presentation of some of her less-known writings including field notebook entries, letters, magazine articles, and a television script.
Excellent Quality, 267 Pages
Nonfiction,  Science,  Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103402/

MAKING SENSE OF LIFE: EXPLAINING BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT WITH MODELS, METAPHORS, AND MACHINES, BY EVELYN FOX KELLER A history of the diverse and changing nature of biological explanation in a particularly charged field, "Making Sense of Life" draws readers attention to the temporal, disciplinary, and cultural components of what biologists mean, and what they understand, when they propose to explain life. Illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Excellent Quality, 390 Pages
History,  Nonfiction,  Science
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103393/

MALCOLM X ON AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY, BY BETTY SHABAZZ AND ALEX HALEY AND MALCOM X Through this book, Malcolm X explains clearly how knowing the truth about your history is necessary for building a movement to tear down racism and build a better society. The point is that Black people have to become aware of their true accomplishments in the past in order to change the world in the present and future.
Excellent Quality, 102 Pages
History,  Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103582/

MAYO CLINIC GUIDE TO A HEALTHY PREGNANCY, BY ROGER W. HARMS AND ROBERT V. JOHNSON AND MARY M. MURRY This new Mayo Clinic book on pregnancy provides you with practical information and reassurance on pregnancy and childbirth.
Excellent Quality, 624 Pages
Nonfiction,  Health, Mind and Body,  Parenting and Family
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103378/

POOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK, BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Benjamin Franklin's classic book is full of timeless, thought-provoking insights that are as valuable today as they were over two centuries ago.
Excellent Quality, 140 Pages
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103561/

SAINT AUGUSTINE'S SIN, BY GARRY WILLS
According to Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills, most readers of Augustine interpret his meditation on sin in the "Confessiones" as an indication of his obsession with sex.
Excellent Quality, 108 Pages
Nonfiction,  Biographies and Memoirs,  Religion and Spirituality
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103460/

THE WRITING LIFE, BY ANNIE DILLARD
With color, irony and sensitivity, Pulitzer prize-winner Annie Dillard illuminates the dedication, absurdity, and daring that is the writer's life.
Excellent Quality, 122 Pages
Nonfiction,  Biographies and Memoirs
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103535/

THE DIABETIC GOURMET COOKBOOK: MORE THAN 200 HEALTHY RECIPES FROM HOMESTYLE FAVORITES TO RESTAURANT CLASSICS, BY DIABETIC GOURMET MAGAZINE Scrumptious, healthy, crowd-pleasing recipes for people with diabetes and their loved ones. The editors of Diabetic Gourmet Magazine understand that although people with diabetes must carefully monitor their eating habits, they still crave their favorite sweets and savory dishes.
Excellent Quality, 234 Pages
Nonfiction,  Cooking, Food and Wine,  Health, Mind and Body
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103414/

THE NEXT ONE HUNDRED YEARS: SHAPING THE FATE OF OUR LIVING EARTH, BY JONATHAN WEINER A detailed but non-technical analysis of the state of the planet today and during the next century by the author of Planet Earth.
Excellent Quality, 312 Pages
Nonfiction,  Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103401/

THE SONG OF THE DODO: ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY IN AN AGE OF EXTINCTIONS, BY DAVID QUAMMEN A captivating work of scientific journalism which explains the worldwide ecosystem decay which is at the root of countless species' extinction and which will continue to wipe out species as human activity carves the wilderness into ever-increasing island-like fragments.
Excellent Quality, 692 Pages
History,  Nonfiction,  Science
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103372/

THE WILSON PLOT, BY DAVID LEIGH
Leigh traces the spycatchers' ... that Labour P.M Wilson was a Soviet spy - and how he tried to overthrow the government. Leigh uncovers the true motives ... playing on anti-communist hysteria, the CIA and MI5 set out to defame those who interfered with the intelligence agenda. Plots succeeded in Australia, and perhaps in Germany.
Excellent Quality, 270 Pages
History,  Military,  Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/78789/

WINNING SCHOLARSHIPS FOR COLLEGE: AN INSIDER'S GUIDE (3RD EDITION), BY MARIANNE RAGINS In this thoroughly revised third edition of Winning Scholarships for College, Marianne Ragins proves that it's not always the students with the best grades or the highest SAT scores who win scholarships.
Excellent Quality, 390 Pages
Textbooks and Educational Materials,  Nonfiction,  Business and Finance
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103376/

WONDERFUL LIFE: THE BURGESS SHALE AND THE NATURE OF HISTORY, BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD "Luminous. . .Filled with profound and upsetting ideas like the Burgess Shale itself and just as solid. It is surely one of nature's best stories, told with a light touch by a master of the field".--Lewis Thomas, M.D.
Excellent Quality, 340 Pages
History,  Nonfiction,  Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103405/

YOUR RIGHTS IN THE WORKPLACE (8TH EDITION), BY BARBARA KATE REPA
Attorney and legal journalist Repa uses plain language to present practical information on the legal rights of employees in the U.S. Coverage includes both federal and state regulations.
Excellent Quality, 532 Pages
Nonfiction,  Professional and Technical,  Business and Finance
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103380/



=====TEENS & CHILDREN, 24


A KISS BETWEEN FRIENDS (LOVE STORIES #22), BY ERIN HAFT
Samantha Scott can tell her best friend Miles Wilson anything... except that she's falling in love with him. Samantha knows that Miles would never think of her as girlfriend material. So she keeps her love for him a secret.
Excellent Quality, 186 Pages
Romance,  Teens,  Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103601/

A TASTE OF SMOKE, BY MARION DANE BAUER
Thirteen-year-old Caitlin goes camping with her older sister in the woods of northern Minnesota, but she doesn't count on the intrusion of her sister's boyfriend or the ghost of a boy who died in the fire that destroyed the forest a century before.
Excellent Quality, 106 Pages
Teens,  Literature and Fiction,  Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103426/

BURGER WUSS, BY M. T. ANDERSON
Hoping to lose his loser image, Anthony plans revenge on a bully which results in a war between two competing fast-food restaurants, Burger Queen and O'Dermott's.
Excellent Quality, 190 Pages
Teens,  Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103465/

LOVE YOU HATE YOU MISS YOU, BY ELIZABETH SCOTT
With sarcastic humor, cutting insight, and beautiful prose, Scott delivers a searing story of a teenage girl who thinks she may have killed her best friend, and her struggle to put the pieces of her life back together.
Excellent Quality, 278 Pages
Teens,  Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103618/

PORTRAIT OF IVAN, BY PAULA FOX
The compelling story of an unusual relationship between a sensitive young boy and an artist whose appearance in his life proves to be transformative.
Excellent Quality, 128 Pages
Teens,  Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103520/

THE HIDDEN JEWEL: AMY CARMICHAEL (TRAILBLAZER BOOKS #4), BY NETA JACKSON AND DAVE JACKSON While traveling in the south of India, fourteen-year-old John and his mother encounter the Irish missionary Amy Carmichael and find themselves drawn into helping the work of the Dohnavur Fellowship.
Excellent Quality, 136 Pages
History,  Teens,  Literature and Fiction,  Religion and Spirituality
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/96943/

THE HUNGER GAMES, BY SUZANNE COLLINS
The acclaimed author of the "New York Times"-bestselling Underland Chronicles series delivers equal parts suspense and philosophy, adventure and romance, in a stunning novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to the present.
Excellent Quality, 374 Pages
Teens,  Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103468/

THE HOTLINE EMERGENCY (THE FABULOUS FIVE #16), BY BETSY HAYNES
What will Christie do when a caller to the homework hotline begins confessing to acts of vandalism?
Excellent Quality, 122 Pages
Teens,  Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103626/

WHEN I WAS OLDER, BY GARRET FREYMANN-WEYR
A new friendship with a boy who is both attractive and intelligent helps fifteen-year-old Sophie sort out her feelings about her younger brother Erhard, who died three years earlier, her self-centered older sister, and her distant father.
Excellent Quality, 167 Pages
Teens,  Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103569/

CHERRY AMES, ARMY NURSE (BOOK 3), BY HELEN WELLS
It is War time and Cherry and her friends want to do their part to help the Allied forces win the good fight. Cherry isn't too sure about army life though. Will she be able to make it as a Army nurse?
Excellent Quality, 214 Pages
Children's Books,  Teens,  Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/101443/

DOG HEROES: SAVING LIVES AND PROTECTING AMERICA, BY JENNI BIDNER
Aptly named "man's best friend," dogs often perform extremely heroic and dangerous roles in their jobs. Dog Heroes is the first book to celebrate these brave dogs and their handlers. In addition to high-profile "disaster dogs," the U.S. has a wealth of search dogs performing numerous critical jobs, including seeking out bombs, drugs, land mines, criminals, and abducted children.
Excellent Quality, 140 Pages
Children's Books,  Nonfiction,  Animals
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103382/

FIGHT FOR LIFE (VET VOLUNTEERS #1), BY LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON
Maggie's grandmother runs an animal clinic, Dr. Mac's place, so Maggie knows her way around animals who are in danger.
Excellent Quality, 142 Pages
Children's Books,  Animals,  Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103424/

HOW MANY MILES TO BABYLON?, BY PAULA FOX
Ten-year-old James skips school to go to his secret place, a deserted house, where he is found by three teenage boys who force him to join their dognapping ring.
Excellent Quality, 104 Pages
Children's Books,  Teens,  Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103517/

MANATEE BLUES (VET VOLUNTEERS #4), BY LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON
Dr. Mac has brought Brenna, Maggie, and Zoe to Florida to visit her friend Gretchen, a marine biologist who runs a manatee rescue center that's in desperate need of money.
Excellent Quality, 126 Pages
Children's Books,  Animals,  Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103422/

ONE TRUE FRIEND, BY JOYCE HANSEN
Fourteen-year-old orphan Amir, living in Syracuse, exchanges letters with his friend Doris, still living in their old Bronx neighborhood, in which they share their lives and give each other advice on friendship, family, foster care, and making decisions.
Excellent Quality, 158 Pages
Children's Books,  Teens,  Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103558/

RUNT, BY MARION DANE BAUER
Deep In The Minnesota forest, where only the strong survive, four regular-sized pups -- Leader, Sniffer, Runner, and Thinker -- are pushed into the world. Then one last, very small pup is born into the wolf pack. He is called "Runt".
Excellent Quality, 138 Pages
Children's Books,  Animals,  Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103438/

STORM RESCUE (VET VOLUNTEERS #6), BY LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON
Sunita Patel is book-smart and good with cats. When a hurricane approaches, Sunita realizes that Lucy, a diabetic cat with a broken leg, is in danger, along with her owner, Mrs. Clark. When the vets are called out on emergency, the evacuation starts.
Excellent Quality, 123 Pages
Children's Books,  Animals,  Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103415/

STANDING OUT (SWEET VALLEY TWINS #25), BY JAMIE SUZANNE AND  FRANCINE PASCAL
Lots of things are changing for tomboy Billie Layton. But with the help of Jessica and Elizabeth, Billie adjusts to every single change happily.
Excellent Quality, 101 Pages
Children's Books,  Teens,  Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103678/

THE CHIMNEY SWEEP'S RANSOM: JOHN WESLEY (TRAILBLAZER BOOKS #6), BY NETA JACKSON AND DAVE JACKSON While searching for his younger brother who has been "sold" to be trained as a chimney sweep in eighteenth-century London, thirteen-year-old Ned meets the itinerant preacher John Wesley whose message changes the lives of his entire family.
Excellent Quality, 142 Pages
Children's Books,  Literature and Fiction,  Religion and Spirituality
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102674/

THE CRY OF THE CROW, BY JEAN CRAIGHEAD GEORGE
While caring for a baby crow, Mandy begins to look at her family and herself in a different light.
Excellent Quality, 149 Pages
Children's Books,  Animals,  Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103442/

THE VILLAGE BY THE SEA, BY PAULA FOX
When Emma's father goes to the hospital for surgery, she is sent to stay with Aunt Bea the "terror" and kindly Uncle Crispin. Emma wonders how she will survive two weeks with the always hostile Aunt Bea.
Excellent Quality, 150 Pages
Children's Books,  Teens,  Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103571/

THE DRAGONSLAYERS, BY BRUCE COVILLE
Coville offers a traditional fairy tale filled with very non-traditional characters. It's a funny, heartwarming adventure that will appeal to boys and girls alike.
Excellent Quality, 124 Pages
Children's Books,  Literature and Fiction,  Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103536/

TRAPPED (VET VOLUNTEERS #8), BY LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON
Someone's been setting animal traps in the nature preserve behind Brenna's house. She and her older brother, Sage, are furious not only is that illegal, it's hurting and killing defenseless animals where they should be safe.
Excellent Quality, 124 Pages
Children's Books,  Animals,  Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103421/

YELLOW BIRD AND ME, BY JOYCE HANSEN
Doris becomes friends with Yellow Bird as she helps him with his studies and his part in the school play and discovers that he has a problem known as dyslexia. Sequel to The gift-giver.
Excellent Quality, 156 Pages
Children's Books,  Disability-Related,  Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103570/

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