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Dar and the Spear Thrower
by Marjorie CowleyA young boy living 15,000 years ago in southeastern France is initiated into manhood by his clan and sets off on a journey to trade his valuable fire rocks for an ivory spear thrower.
Cat TV (Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Salem's Tails # #1)
by Mark DubowskiSalem can't stand that awful Tobias the Tabby, and his commercials for Pretty Kitty Cat Food. He could do a better job of acting, for cat's sake! And now Salem has his chance! The Pretty Kitty Company needs a spokes-cat for its new food. Fame and fortune will finally be his!
By Lizzie
by Mary Eccles Mark Elliot<P>How does a smart, spunky kid deal with the trials and tribulations of being a middle child? She writes about it--that's how! <P>When nine-year-old Lizzie finds her mom's old typewriter in a closet, she decides to try her hand at storytelling: For a full year, she'll type out the tales of her life. That is, if she can find time between being pestered by her baby sister and teased by her older brother. <P>The middle-child life isn't easy, but if anybody can make it sound like fun, Lizzie can. Her stories of swimming lessons, a yard sale, secret codes, copy cats, and puppy dogs are packed with charm and humor. Even Lizzie's brother is finally forced to agree.
Four Days to Glory: Wrestling with the Soul of the American Heartland
by Mark KreidlerSomewhere beyond the circle of money, glitz, drugs, and controversy that characterizes professional sports in America, remnants of an ideal exist. In Iowa, that ideal survives in the form of high school wrestling. Each a three-time state champion, Jay Borschel and Dan LeClere have a chance in their senior year to join the sport's most elite group: the "four-timers," wrestlers who win four consecutive state titles. For Jay, a ferocious competitor who feeds off criticism and doubt, a victory would mean vindication over the great mass of skeptics waiting for him to fail. For Dan, who carries on his back the burdens of his tiny farming community, the dreams of his hard-driving coach and father, and his own personal demons, another title is the only acceptable outcome. Four Days to Glory is the story of America as told through its small towns and their connection to sport the way it was once routinely perceived: as a means of mattering to the folks next door.
Killer Commute (Charlie Greene Mystery #6)
by Marlys MillhiserRECOVERING FROM: The year's Las Vegas trip-from-hell, Long Beach literary agent Charlie Greene is looking forward to spending this year's vacation at home. No manuscript reading, no needy clients, no killer commute for a whole week-just some good, old-fashioned rest and relaxation. But before Charlie's peaceful vacation even starts, her daughter's rambunctious cat, Tuxedo, causes her to stumble across the body of neighbor Jeremy Fielder, murdered in the front seat of his truck. And investigating officers are quick to remind Charlie that this isn't her first dead body. Now their quiet Southern California suburban community is becoming more hectic than rush hour on an L.A. freeway as Charlie and her zany neighbors face off against nosy police officers, insatiable reporters, and a killer determined to drive them away.
The Soap Opera Slaughters (Hilary Quayle Mystery #5)
by Marvin Kaye[From the front flap:] "The plot of the popular daytime soap opera "Riverday" was melodramatic to be sure, but, as detective Hilary Quayle and her sometime lover Gene discover, it's not nearly as tangled-or as deadly-as the drama its stars were acting out in real life. First, the unclad body of the show's head writer is found on the street in front of the television studio. Then the director yells "Action!"-and the leading villainess is poisoned, appropriately enough, in the middle of a deathbed scene. And when the show's producer is discovered lying in a pool of blood with his head bashed in, the cast and crew are suddenly fearing for something besides the show's ratings. Namely their own lives. Before the cameras can roll again, Hilary and Gene must separate fact from fiction-and egos from alter egos -to learn who on "Riverday" is hiding behind a mask of tragedy... and murder." The author puts his highly developed vocabulary to good use in this who-done-it whose outcome is hard to predict.
The Word Eater
by Mary AmatoLife is miserable for sixth grader Lerner Chanse at her new school, where the MPOOE (Most Powerful Ones on Earth) Club ruthlessly rules over the SLUGs (Sorry Losers Under Ground). It looks like Lerner is destined to be a SLUG, until she finds a magical worm that eats printed words instead of dirt. If Fip eats a word, that item simply disappears from the world-forever. Now that Lerner knows about Fip's magic, she has some big decisions to make. Should she eliminate crime? Or simply wipe her school off the face of the earth? Or will destroying anything cause effects that she can't imagine or predict? Lerner discovers that extraordinary power brings extraordinary responsibility...but will she learn her lesson too late? This is a story about making friends, being grounded, feeling left out, being ganged up on and blamed unfairly, getting sent to the principal's office, scoring a candy bonanza, making friends, and learning small things we do can have big consequences. Find the huge difference it can make to change just one letter in a word. Imagine what you would do with a worm who made the things for the words it ate, disappear.
The Alpine Christmas (Emma Lord Series #3)
by Mary DaheimChristmas in the town of Alpine means fresh snow, carolers, even a sleigh. But then the discovery of a woman's leg in the lake, along with that of another young woman's nude, half-frozen body, deflates everyone's high spirits. But as Emma Lord, editor and publisher of The Alpine Advocate, follows up on the story, the bits and pieces of the young women who keep turning up start adding up to a murder scheme so sinister it may well land Emma on her own obituary page ...
Dancing In the Dark
by Mary Jane ClarkNow that she was deprived of sight, her other senses were intensified. She stood in the darkness, seeing nothing but hearing the persistent roar of the Atlantic Ocean in the distance and the soft flapping of wings right above her. Her nostrils flared at the smell of must and decay. The ground was damp and cold beneath her bare feet, her toes curling in the wet, sandy dirt. She felt something brush against her ankle and prayed it was only a mouse and not a rat. Three days in this dank chamber were enough. If she had to stay any longer, she would surely lose her mind. Still, when they found her, as she fantasized they would, the police would want to know everything. To survive this, she'd have to be able to recount every detail of what had happened. She would tell the police how he'd leave her alone for what seemed like hours at a time. She would tell them how he'd gagged her when he left so nobody would hear her screams and...
Summer Rental
by Mary Kay AndrewsSometimes, when you need a change in your life, the tide just happens to pull you in the right direction. Ellis, Julia, and Dorie. Best friends since Catholic grade school, they now find themselves, in their mid-thirties, at the crossroads of life and love. Ellis, recently fired from a job she gave everything to, is rudderless and now beginning to question the choices she's made over the past decade of her life. Julia--whose caustic wit covers up her wounds--has a man who loves her and is offering her the world, but she can't hide from how deeply insecure she feels about her looks, her brains, her life. And Dorie has just been shockingly betrayed by the man she loved and trusted the most in the world though this is just the tip of the iceberg of her problems and secrets. A month in North Carolina's Outer Banks is just what they each of them needs. Ty Bazemore is their landlord, though he's hanging on to the rambling old beach house by a thin thread. After an inauspicious first meeting with Ellis, the two find themselves disturbingly attracted to one another, even as Ty is about to lose everything he's ever cared about. Maryn Shackleford is a stranger, and a woman on the run. Maryn needs just a few things in life: no questions, a good hiding place, and a new identity. Ellis, Julia, and Dorie can provide what Maryn wants; can they also provide what she needs? Five people questioning everything they ever thought they knew about life. Five people on a journey that will uncover their secrets and point them on the path to forgiveness. Five people who each need a sea change, and one month in a summer rental that might just give it to them.
A Ballad of the Civil War
by Mary StolzTom and Jack are twins. They have been raised with an older slave boy to take care of them. On their ninth birthday, Aaron, their slave friend and babysitter is removed from their company and told not to have anything to do with them again. Tom is devastated by the loss of his friend. Jack seems completely unaffected. Tom thinks of the slaves as people. Jack thinks of them as property. When they become adults they fight on opposite sides in the civil war.
Brian-Foot-in-the-Mouth
by Mary W. SullivanAfter Brian's mother dies, it seems there's nobody he can confide in or who can give him guidance . His blabbering mouth gets him in trouble time after time. He gets fired from his job at the gas station, he irritates his father, he nearly loses his job teaching guitar and he thinks he has upset the girl he cares for and the new boss who actually thinks Brian is a good worker. The only place he thinks he belongs is with his guitar. His father and three older brothers are absorbed in athletics. They aren't impressed with Brian's musical talent or sympathetic to his problems. To his surprise, Brian finds he has some things in common with his brother Greg who gives him good advice and helps him see that everyone has worries, disappointments and flaws. Brian begins to realize he isn't doomed to fail because of his big mouth, and that he can get along with people as well as with his guitar.
Harnessing Peacocks
by Mary WesleyFrom the book jacket: Lovely, myopic, nineteen-year-old Hebe overhears a family conference. Her grandfather has convinced her three horsey sisters and their successful husbands that Hebe's unexpected pregnancy must be terminated. Hebe, dissenting, flees into the night. Twelve summers later she is living happily alone in a seaside town in Cornwall, supporting her son at an expensive boarding school by her two chief talents- cooking and making love. These she exercises-with dignity, in privacy, and for profit-except when her son is around. Hebe manages her lovers-the Syndicate-with endearing charm until the unexpected happens and the separate strands of her life become entrancingly entangled.
Planning the Impossible
by Mavis JukesUgh! Mrs. Furley wanted the Human Interaction Class to discuss a boy's changes? Twelve-year-old River was having a hard enough time just figuring out how to humanly interact with the real people in her life. Like, she was happy that D. B. was her sort-of boyfriend, but now Kirstin was always flirting with him! And River was happy her friend Margaret had found a boyfriend, but then Noah passed River a note asking her to phone him at home. What was that about? Sure River wanted to keep Kirstin from D. B. and Margaret with Noah, but did it all have to be so confusing? Notes passed from girls to boys and boys to girls and girls to girls, dating and mating, flirting and posing--River could never have guessed that talking to a boy would be so difficult.
The Practically Popular Crowd: Wanting More
by Meg F. SchneiderMichelle could not take her eyes off Michael. He was the answer. She was sure of it. With him she could feel special. Beautiful. Interesting. If only her friends could understand. Trust her. Know she hadn't intended to steal him from anyone. Especially not them. Her crowd. Michelle could feel the ache begin to build. And if only her father understood how lonely his new family made her feel .... Yes, she loved them all. But it wasn't enough to stop her. Alexa stood to the side, watching them. Those eighth-grade girls. Those Practically Popular People, or whatever they called themselves. Not one of them was as gorgeous as she. Not one as spectacular. Michelle included. Alexa smiled. Did they really think she'd let Michael go? Read all four of THE PRACTICALLY POPULAR CROWD books: Wanting More Pretty Enough (coming in October 1992) Keeping Secrets (coming in January 1993) Getting Smart (coming in Summer 1993)
The Little Cow and the Turtle
by Meindert DejongThe Little Cow finds chewing cud and lying around in the pasture dull. So, she searches out adventure. She meets hobos, carries bicycles for children wandering in the woods, and saves a turtle from an oncoming train.
Harvest Moon (Sabrina the Teenage Witch #15)
by Mel OdomSabrina would just love to zap Libby Chessler clear to the next galaxy... but then, what else is new? After all the work Sabrina has put into planning the Harvest Moon dance, Libby is trying to step in and take over. So what if a hip TV station is doing a news feature starring Libby? And so what if she's gotten the station to donate funds for the dance? Does that give her the right to run the whole show? Just about everyone seems to thinks so. Even Harvey is bewitched by Libby, the TV star! But Sabrina isn't giving up yet. After all, she's got Magic on her side. What could possibly go wrong?
I'll Zap Manhattan (Sabrina the Teenage Witch #18)
by Mel OdomSo Circe is a couple thousand years old and used to hang out with the Greek gods. Does that give her the right to spoil everyone's fun at a Witches' Council dance? Sabrina doesn't think so. So she ruins the night instead. No big deal, right? Wrong. Circe is peeved! And she knows just how to get back at Sabrina: kidnap Harvey. Before long he's trapped in Circe's pocket world--a twisted version of Manhattan--wearing a toga and feeding Circe grapes. Even worse, Circe can't resist turning men into swine, and Harvey could be next... This is no future for the guy Sabrina loves! But how can her puny magic beat one of the most powerful sorceresses of all time?
Sabrina Goes To Rome (Super Special)
by Mel Odom(Back Cover) If Sabrina Spellman can't open a mysterious antique gold locket and release the power trapped within, a family secret will be lost forever. "The secret to the locket lies in Rome.' says her father. So, with stowaway Salem in her backpack, Sabrina heads for Italy and the Eternal City of Rome. Once there, she meets Paul, the gorgeous American photographer who grabs her before she falls into the famous Trevi fountain. And in her charming pensione, Sabrina finds an unexpected roommate: Gwen, a British witch with a talking hamster named Stonehenge. Together, Sabrina and Gwen set out to solve the mystery of the locket-a story of love and betrayal that began centuries ago....
Sunrunner's Fire (Dragon Prince, #3)
by Melanie RawnIt began with the discovery of The Star Scroll--the last repository of forgotten spells of sorcery. Now, as Andry, the new Sunrunner Lord of Goddess Keep, begins to master this potentially deadly knowledge and Pol, son of High Prince Rohan, seeks to touch the minds of dragons, their enemy mobilizes to strike with forbidden lore and treachery.
Prairie Tale: A Memoir
by Melissa GilbertA fascinating, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting tale of self-discovery from the beloved actress who earned a permanent place in the hearts of millions when she was just a child. To fans of the hugely successful television series Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert grew up in a fantasy world with a larger-than-life father, friends and family she could count on, and plenty of animals to play with. Children across the country dreamed of the Ingalls' idyllic life--and so did Melissa. She was a natural on camera, but behind the scenes, life was more complicated. Adopted as a baby into a legendary show business family, Melissa wrestled with questions about her identity and struggled to maintain an image of perfection her mother created and enforced. Only after years of substance abuse, dysfunctional relationships, and made-for-television movies did she begin to figure out who she really was. With candor and humor, the cherished actress traces her complicated journey from buck-toothed Laura "Half-pint" Ingalls to Hollywood starlet, wife, and mother. She partied with the Brat Pack, dated heartthrobs like Rob Lowe and bad boys like Billy Idol, and began a self-destructive pattern of addiction and co-dependence. Left in debt after her first marriage, and struggling to create some sense of stability, she eventually realized that her career on television had earned her popularity, admiration, and love from everyone but herself. Through hard work, tenacity, sobriety, and the blessings of a solid marriage, Melissa has accepted her many different identities and learned to laugh, cry, and forgive in new ways. Women everywhere may have idolized her charming life on Little House on the Prairie, but Melissa's own unexpectedly honest, imperfect, and down-to-earth story is an inspiration.
The Au Pairs (The Au Pairs #1)
by Melissa de la CruzThree girls with three agendas Intimate destination Summer in the city? Way overrated. Everybody who's anybody in New York City summers in the Hamptons. Mara, Eliza, and Jacqui all want a piece of the action, all for different reasons. So the girls answer a classified ad to become au pairs. How bad can it be, watching a couple of kids on the beach all day? They've got the swank address, the sweet ride, and an all-access pass to the hottest social scene on the East Coast. It's shaping up to be the summer of their lives.
Smack
by Melvin BurgessWhen fourteen-year-old Tar runs away from home, he thinks he's found the perfect life. He's got his girlfriend, Gemma, a place in an abandoned building to live, and new people to meet. And when Gemma and her friends invite him to take his first hit of smack, he thinks things will only get better. Smack slowly changes everything, but not for the better. Tar begins to steal, Gemma grows more and more distant, and no one seems to know how to find anything but the next hit. It all starts to fall apart. Winner of the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Prize for fiction, Smack is a timely and penetrating novel about the ecstasies and horrors of heroin use.
The Partridge Family (The Partridge Family #1)
by Michael AvalloneCan America's top rock group prevail against the evil machinations of a fat but deadly enemy agent- without blowing their cool? If any group can do it, the Partridge family can! They're a high-voltage six-pack of talent and energy--five groovy kids plus one beautiful, mini-skirted Mom--and they've settled down in the Top Ten for., a long, long stay. Even the coolest clan in rock gets put up-tight when a sinister spymaster hunts them down. He's after an international secret they don't even know they're carrying, and he'll stop at nothing. But little does he know what lies ahead when he tangles with that all-American super-singing weapon, THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY
Magic and Other Misdemeanors (The Sisters Grimm Book #5)
by Michael BuckleyDaphne, Sabrina, and Puck's most magic-filled mystery The latest addition to the New York Times bestselling series, which Kirkus Reviews calls "memorable and madcap" In book five of the series, Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are ready to tackle their own case: Who is stealing the magical possessions of the most powerful Everafters in town? With Granny distracted by Mayor Heart's campaign against human residents, the girl detectives are on their own. Puss in Boots (now an exterminator), Cinderella (a radio relationship counselor), Sleeping Beauty (owner of a coffee shop), and their old enemy, Prince Charming, are among the many suspects, and one thing is for certain: The villain's plans mean a grim future for the Grimms--truly!