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|  | Black Money by Ross Macdonald
Description not available.Hired to investigate a suspicious French aristocrat who has run off with his client's girlfriend, private detective Lew Archer discovers a fortune in gambling debts and a seven-year-old suicide with lethal implications for the present. Reprint. 12,500 first printing. AUTHOR: Ross Macdonald
PUBLISHER: Random House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Island of the Blue Dolphins by Christina Moore, Scott O'Dell, Tantoo Cardinal, Ted Lewin
When the young Indian girl Karana's tribe leaves their island because of marauding Russian fishermen, Karana insists on staying. Left to fend for herself and to do men's work that she had never done before, Karana spends 18 years on the island with only a dog as company. Based on a true story. Winner of the 1961 Newbery Medal. AUTHOR: Christina Moore, Scott O'Dell, Tantoo Cardinal, Ted Lewin
PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Horton Hears a Who by Dustin Hoffman, Dr. Seuss
Horton the good-hearted elephant strives to save a world of very tiny creatures who live on a speck of dust. His friends think he's crazy to imagine that living creatures could be that small, but the Whos manage to prove their existence--just in the nick of time. AUTHOR: Dustin Hoffman, Dr. Seuss
PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Yoko by Rosemary Wells
It all starts at lunch time at school: Timothy unwraps his peanut butter and honey sandwich, Hazel shows off her egg salad on pumpernickel, and Yoko starts to nibble at her selection--sushi. Yoko's classmates think her lunch is so weird that they tease her and she loses her appetite. Will Yoko ever be able to enjoy her favorite lunch again? Watercolor and pen-and-ink illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: Rosemary Wells
PUBLISHER: Hyperion Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Partnership by Barry Unsworth
Barry Unsworth's first novel was published in 1966. It tells the story of two reclusive bachelors, Foley and Moss, who make a living producing figures of pixies to sell to tourists in an English town. Moss is in love with Foley, but Foley falls for Gwendoline--and their long partnership is threatened. AUTHOR: Barry Unsworth
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Bartered Bride
After building a fortune amid the splendor and dangers of the China seas. American adventurer and merchant prince Gavin Elliott is sailing for London, where he intends to establish himself in the society that forced his family to leave in disgrace when Gavin was only a child. But fate intervenes on an infamous island in the East Indies when he tries to save a European woman being sold at a slave auction. By the sultan's decree, the woman can only be feed if Gavin wins her by enduring an ancient tribal challenge that may cost him his life. Yet Gavin cannot refuse to help a woman who touches his heart and soul with her indomitable courage
CATEGORY: General
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