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The Mermaid's Mirror - L. K. Madigan
From School Library JournalGr 9 Up–Lena has always been drawn to the sea and has spent her life on the Northern California coast watching her friends surf. As her 16th birthday app... -
The Gift - Danielle Steel
From Publishers WeeklySet in the 1950s, Steel's account of a family coming to terms with a child's death spent 12 weeks on PW's bestseller list. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Inform... -
The Broker - John Grisham
SUMMARY: In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent ... -
Split Second - Alex Kava
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **They dubbed him the Collector -- so named for his ritual of collecting victims before disposing of them in the most heinous ways possible. FBI Special Agent Mag... -
South of Superior - Ellen Airgood
Review"South of Superior is a story about home, what people are willing to fight for, the weight of friendships and continued ambition. . . . Ellen Airgood, who has spent the last.... -
Sky of Stone - Homer Hickam
From Publishers WeeklyRetired NASA engineer Hickam became a minor mass market celebrity in 1994 after a last-minute 2,000-word filler for Air & Space magazine (he spent three hours... -
One Summer in Santa Fe - Molly Evans
SUMMARY: People say that Dr. Taylor Jenkins is the best there is. Devoted to his patients, he has given his life to the hospital. But any free time he has is spent searching out hi... -
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
SUMMARY: Nine-year-old Oliver has spent his life in a workhouse orphanage, where he becomes notorious for daring to ask for more food. Frustrated and hungry, he runs away to London... -
Nine Parts of Desire_ The Hidde - Geraldine Brooks
With a New Afterword As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for "The Wall Street Journal," Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East throughwars, insurrections, an... -
My Horizontal Life_ A Collectio - Chelsea Handler
**In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and of...