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|  | The Last Dragon by Chris Soentpiet, Chris K. Soentpiet, Susan M. Nunes
Ten-year-old Peter Chang is spending the summer with his great-aunt in Chinatown. The vacation seems dull until he discovers her old 10-man dragon which he is given permission to restore. The local tailor agrees to sew up the holes in the dragon in exchange for errands; the kitemaker fixes the tail; and the great-aunt's mahjongg friends gild the horns of the dragon. Peter's summer ends with a banquet that honors the restoration of the dragon and with Peter fully appreciating the culture of Chinatown. AUTHOR: Chris Soentpiet, Chris K. Soentpiet, Susan M. Nunes
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company Trade & Reference Division
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | A Kiss of Shadows by Laurell K. Hamilton
Merry Gentry, a.k.a. Meredith NicEssus, a f?rie princess of the Unseelie Court, where politics is a blood sport. Merry, who's part sidhe (elvish), part brownie, and part human, never really fit in. She's short, not skilled in offensive magic, and mortal because of her human blood. These are real liabilities AUTHOR: Laurell K. Hamilton
PUBLISHER: Brilliance Audio
FORMAT: Audio
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 | Of Human Bondage by Benjamin DeMott, Flo Gibson, W. Somerset Maugham
Philip Carey is an orphan, reared by his aunt and uncle, handicapped by his club foot. When he reaches the age of eighteen, he sets out in the world--first to study at Heidelberg, then to try an accounting job, then trying to launch an artistic career. Finally he returns to London to train as a doctor, and meets Mildred, a young woman with whom he becomes obsessed. He finally gets his M.D. degree and considers traveling the world as a ship's doctor, but falls in love with Sally Athelney and settles down happily to practice medicine in a small fishing village. Maugham said of this highly autobiographical novel, Turning my wishes into fiction, I drew a picture of the marriage I should like to make. Of Human Bondage is considered his masterpiece. AUTHOR: Benjamin DeMott, Flo Gibson, W. Somerset Maugham
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Gentle Passages by Robin Jones Gunn
Description not available.An inspiring, uplifting gift book filled with true stories, tender poems, and biblical themes of purity and faith will equip mothers and other mentors of adolescent girls to gently shepherd them from girlhood to womanhood. AUTHOR: Robin Jones Gunn
PUBLISHER: Multnomah Publishers, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
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 | A World Full of Monsters by John Troy McQueen, Marc Brown
This illustrated fable explains the mysterious sounds that many children hear as they attempt to drift off to sleep. Color illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: John Troy McQueen, Marc Brown
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Notes from Underground by Donald Fanger, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, George Guidall, Jessie Coulson, Larissa Volokhonsky
I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man, the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has become one of the greatest antiheroes in all literature. Notes From Underground, published in 1864, marks a tuming point in Dostoevsky's writing: it announces the moral political, and social ideas he will treat on a monumental scale in Crime And Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov AUTHOR: Donald Fanger, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, George Guidall, Jessie Coulson, Larissa Volokhonsky
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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