Joyce Carol Oates

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

This new collection, includes three full-length plays: Bad Girls, Black Water, The Passion of Henry David Thoreau, and eight shorter pieces. Bad Girls is the story of three teenage sisters who ruin the life of the man who comes between them and their single mother; Black Water a dramatization of Oates's widely acclaimed novel of that title; and The Passion of Henry David Thoreau a portrayal of the passionate life and premature death of one of our great nineteenth-century writers. The subjects of the shorter pieces vary considerably, from a serial murder to a nightmarish visit to an adoption agency.

New Plays

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Diane Hoh

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Diane Hoh's scary suspense in a bold new package Jess is eager to start school . . . until she learns a girl killed herself in Jess's room. And she's not entirely gone . . .

The Silent Scream

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Eva Ibbotson

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

On a mysterious island somewhere in the Atlantic, three eccentric aunts kidnap some children to help them care for an assortment of astonishing creatures, not only those of the sea, but also mermaids, a couple of ghosts, and a talking worm.

Island of the Aunts

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Shiloh

The Cheerrleader

A. Bates

Someone is playing a series of deadly pranks on Kelly and doesn't want her to graduate. Now it is final exam time and she is scared to death.

Final Exam

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Lowry Lois

Number the Stars

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Krakatoa

Christopher Pike

Tom was not like a normal teenager. First off, he looked weird. He was too tall, too thin, and his hair was practically white. Also, he had incredible eyes. Some thought he was from outer space. Almost everyone believed he was a nice guy. But was Tom really nice? Was he even human? Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The Visitor

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Mermaids on the Golf Course

Teddy Jo and the Stolen Ring

Juliet E. McKenna

Little Little Brown Co.

The Secrets of the Shadow-Men

Magic? It's for the rich, the powerful...the Archmage and his elite wizards and cloud-masters.

Livak is not among them. She haunts the back taverns of the realm, careful to appear neither rich nor poor, neither tall nor short . . . neither man nor woman. Obscurity is her protection, thievery her livelihood, and gambling her weakness.

Alas, some bets are hard to resist. Particularly when they offer a chance to board a ship for Hadrumal, the fabled city of the Archmage. So Livak follows a minor wizard, Shiv, in an attempt to turn a rune or two, never dreaming that the stolen tankard she wants to sell contains the secrets of an ancient magic far more powerful, and infinitely darker, than any mortal mage's spells.

The Thief's Gamble

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Holly Black

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Modern Faerie Tale

When seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system.
But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. Impulsive Lolli talks of monsters in the subway tunnels they call home and shoots up a shimmery amber-colored powder that makes the shadows around her dance. Severe Luis claims he can make deals with creatures that no one else can see. And then there's Luis's brother, timid and sensitive Dave, who makes the mistake of letting Val tag along as he makes a delivery to a woman who turns out to have goat hooves instead of feet.
When a bewildered Val allows Lolli to talk her into tracking down the hidden lair of the creature for whom Luis and Dave have been dealing, Val finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus. He is as hideous as he is honorable. And as Val grows to know him, she finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming.
Bestselling author Holly Black follows her breakout debut, Tithe, with a rich, harrowing, and compulsively readable parable of betrayal, abuse, friendship, and love.

Valiant

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Doug Hughes

THE STORY: Less than forty-eight hours after returning from a luxurious honeymoon, the former Hedda Gabler, now Hedda Tesman, lies dead in the parlor of her new home, the victim of a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. Ibsen's terse masterpiece unf

Hedda Gabler

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Neil Simon

Arty’s lines are highlighted. Some directional notes in the margins

A coming of age tale that focuses on brothers Arty and Jay, left in the care of their Grandma Kurnitz and Aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York. Their desperate father, Eddie, works as a traveling salesman to pay off debts incurred following the death of his wife. Grandma is a severe, frightfully intimidating immigrant who terrified her children as they were growing up, damaging each of them to varying degrees. Bella is a sweet but mentally slow and highly excitable woman who longs to marry an usher at the local movie house so she can escape the oppressive household and create a life and family of her own. Her brother Louie is a small-time, tough-talking hoodlum who is on the run, while her sister Gert suffers from a breathing problem with causes more psychological than physical problems. Missing much of the sentimentality of the plays comprising Simon's earlier Eugene trilogy, Lost in Yonkers climaxes with a dramatic confrontation between embittered mother and lonely daughter that creates a permanent fissure in this highly dysfunctional family.

Lost in Yonkers

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Carl Hiassen

The only trace of the first victim was his Shriner's fez washed up on the Miami beach. The second victim, the head of the city's chamber of commerce, was found dead with a toy rubber alligator lodged in his throat. And that was just the beginning... Now Brian Keyes, reporter turned private eye, must move from muckraking to rooting out murder, in a caper that will mix football players, politicians, and police with a group of fanatics and a very hungry crocodile.

Tourist Season

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Mitch Albom

A specially produced paperback edition -- with flaps -- of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, that has sold more than six million copies in hardcover Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret. Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever. One by one, Eddie's five people illuminate the unseen connections of his earthly life. As the story builds to its stunning conclusion, Eddie desperately seeks redemption in the still-unknown last act of his life: Was it a heroic success or a devastating failure The answer, which comes from the most unlikely of sources, is as inspirational as a glimpse of heaven itself. In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom gives us an astoundingly original story that will change everything you've ever thought about the afterlife -- and the meaning of our lives here on earth. With a timeless tale, appealing to all, this is a book that readers of fine fiction, and those who loved Tuesdays with Morrie, will treasure.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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A. Bates, the author of bestselling Point Thrillers Final Exam, Party Line, and Mother's Helper, offers a chilling tale for readers ages 12 and up. When senior year pranks end in death, the Dead Game isn't just a game anymore.

Dead Game

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Grant Achatz

Nick Kokonas

A Chef's Story of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat

"One of America's great chefs" (Vogue), Grant Achatz, shares how his drive to cook immaculate food fueled his miraculous triumph over tongue cancer.

By 2007 chef Grant Achatz had been named one of the best new chefs in America by Food & Wine, he had received the James Beard Foundation Rising Star Chef of the Year Award, and he and Nick Kokonas had opened the conceptually radical restaurant Alinea, which was named Best Restaurant in America by Gourmet magazine. Then, positioned firmly in the world's culinary spotlight, Achatz was diagnosed with stage IV squamous cell carcinoma-tongue cancer.

The prognosis grim, Grant undertook an alternative treatment of aggressive chemotherapy and radiation that ravaged his body and left him without a sense of taste. Tapping into his profound discipline and passion, he trained his chefs to mimic his palate and learned how to cook with his other senses. As Kokonas was able to attest, the food was never better. Five months later, Grant was declared cancer-free and went on to achieve some of the highest honors in the culinary world. Life, on the Line is not only a chef's memoir, it is also a book about survival, about nurturing creativity, and about profound friendship.

Life, on the Line

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Iris Johansen

When Sophie Dunston, a sleep therapist who specializes in night terrors, and her ten-year-old son are threatened by a shadowy figure, mother and son are pitted against a killer who's the stuff of nightmares. 350,000 first printing.

Killer Dreams

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R. L. Stine

A terrifying tour through a medieval castle, a close-up look at ferocious dinosaurs, and a shivery vision of the future are just three of the twenty adventures readers can experience.

Tick Tock, You're Dead!

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Visiting the fairgrounds site where an annual carnival is being set up, the reader and some friends are invited into a creepy main tent by the mysterious carnival manager, Big Al, and challenged to test out some of the bizarre rides.

Escape from the Carnival of Horrors

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Kim Hooper

Cherry Blossoms

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Maureen C. Wartski

Former library book. Yellowing of the pages

When Harris Mizuno, a Japanese-American teenager, is shot dead by an elderly white man who mistakes him for an intruder it's up to fifteen-year-old Terry Mizuno to take charge chen her family falls apart in grief and anger over the murder of her brother.

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Joyce Carol Oates

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Diane Hoh

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Eva Ibbotson

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The Cheerrleader

A. Bates

Final Exam

Lowry Lois

Number the Stars

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Christopher Pike

The Visitor

Patricia Highsmith

Mermaids on the Golf Course

Hilda Stahl

Teddy Jo and the Stolen Ring

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The Thief's Gamble

Holly Black

Valiant

Doug Hughes

Hedda Gabler

Neil Simon

Lost in Yonkers

Carl Hiassen

Tourist Season

Mitch Albom

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

A. Bates

Dead Game

Grant Achatz; Nick Kokonas

Life, on the Line

Iris Johansen

Killer Dreams

R. L. Stine

Tick Tock, You're Dead!

R. L. Stine

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