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|  | The Leaf Men & the Brave Good Bugs by William Joyce
When the old woman who tends to a garden falls ill, it is up to the doodle bugs, brave good bugs indeed, to summon the mythical Leaf Men to come and save the flowers. However, the evil Spider Queen is out to stop them. Will the mysterious long-lost toy be able to help the doodle bugs complete their journey and help the old woman recover as well? Color illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: William Joyce
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Kissing in Manhattan
In New York City, an odd assortment of characters--accountant, heiress, actor, priest--live in a strange apartment building with an even stranger doorman, and their lives intertwine in magical ways. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
CATEGORY: General
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 | Who's a Clever Girl? by Andre Amstutz, Rose Impey
Description not available.Jake Juggins and his pirate band decide they need a girl on board ship to do the chores while they are busy having daring adventures, but the girl they choose has other ideas. AUTHOR: Andre Amstutz, Rose Impey
PUBLISHER: Crabtree Publishing Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Murder Can Wreck a Reunion by Selma Eichler
Description not available.Private investigator Desiree Shapiro receives a frantic call from her niece, who is suspected of murdering a former sorority sister at a reunion, drawing Shapiro into her fourth treacherous--and hilarious--mystery. Original. AUTHOR: Selma Eichler
PUBLISHER: N A L
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Experiment by K. A. Applegate
The Yeerks are ready to control humans where it counts--in their D.N.A. They're working on a drug that saps humans of their free will. But the Animorphs show them that human free will runs deeper than any drug can reach. AUTHOR: K. A. Applegate
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Ian C. Ross, Joan New, Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New
L---d! said my mother, what is all this story about?----A COCK and a BULL, said Yorick----And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard. It is appropriate that the last line of Laurence Sterne's digressive, irreverent narrative should serve as the best introduction to the book. A classic of English literature, Tristram Shandy was published in nine volumes between 1759 and 1767, at a time when the English novel was just beginning to acquire its distinguishing features thanks to Sterne's contemporaries, Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson. Sterne borrowed some of his techniques from Rabelais, and some of his ideas from Robert Burton and John Locke. The bulk of this novel, however, attests to a rare creative faculty capable of parodying much of what would become the novelistic conventions of the 18th and 19th centuries, while at the same time broadening and exploring territory that has been rediscovered only in the 20th-century. Tristram Shandy ( shandy meaning crack-brained, half-crazy ) narrates his own genesis and development, beginning with the moment of his conception--although his digressions prevent him from taking his evolution much beyond the age of two. Through his eyes we meet his father, Walter, who is eloquent, animated, and equally fond of discursive ventures into philosophy, history, medicine, and science, all at a breakneck pace; his uncle Toby, whose main distractions are his own accounts of military strategies which he acts out with his servant Corporal Trim; the confused Mrs. Shandy; the polemical and hasty parson, Yorick; the ignorant physician, Dr. Slop; and the intractable household servant, Obadiah. Stern's abiding loyalty to the associative nature of ideas, to immediacy, has been singled out by critics as an early form of the stream-of-consciousness technique. The countless examples of Stern's stylistic innovations--approximating the human mind's tendency to disorder and reassemble reality, avoiding any consistent plot or conclusion, es AUTHOR: Ian C. Ross, Joan New, Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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