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Leaping Beauty - Gregory Maguire; Chris L. Demar
From School Library JournalGrade 3-6–Eight well-known fairy tales are recast, with the aid of animal characters and outrageous puns (with some tongue-in-cheek witticisms thrown in)... -
Last Argument of Kings - Joe Abercrombie
SUMMARY:The end is coming. Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him but its going to be a big one. Battle rages across the Nor... -
Kraken - China Mieville
SUMMARY: With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this—or any other—year. The London tha... -
Keeping the Feast - Paula Butturini
EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** A story of food and love, injury and healing, *Keeping the Feast* is the triumphant memoir of one couple's nourishment and restoration in Italy after a period ... -
Kaleidoscope - Danielle Steel
Amazon.com ReviewThe World War II love affair between lovely Frenchwoman Solange Bertrand and American GI-turned-actor Sam Walker burned too brightly and ended in tragedy, leaving ... -
Kafka Was the Rage_ A Greenwich - Anatole Broyard
From Kirkus ReviewsBrilliant, funny, penetrating observations on life and culture in N.Y.C. after WW II from critic Broyard, who died of cancer in 1990 (Intoxicated by My Illness, ... -
K2_ Life and Death on the World - Ed Viesturs; David Roberts
A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of No Shortcuts to the TopAt 2... -
Junie B. Jones and the mushy gu - Barbara Park; Denise Brunkus
Review"She's funny, she's outrageous, she's bigger than life. I'm in love with Jun... -
Infernal_ A Repairman Jack Nove - F. Paul Wilson
SUMMARY: The ninth Repairman Jack novel begins with a tragedy that throws Jack together with his brother Tom, a judge from Philadelphia. They've never been close and Jack, the care... -
I know why the caged bird sings - Maya Angelou
Amazon.com ReviewIn this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independe...