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A solitary horseman comes to town, and the results include gunfights, a brawl in the local bar, the love of a good woman (the schoolmarm) and the temptations of the flesh (the loose-living singer at the saloon). Coover's postmodern spoof of western cliches was a New York Times Notable Book for 1998. AUTHOR: Robert Coover
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Agatha Raisin & the Terrible Tourist by Marion Chesney
While on vacation in Cyprus and pursuing her ex-fiance, James, Agatha Raisin makes the acquaintance of a pair of tourist couples--aristocratic Olivia and George Debenham and lower-caste Rose and Trevor Wilcox. Then Rose turns up dead. Unable to resist the opportunity to investigate, Agatha soon ends up in hot water herself. AUTHOR: Marion Chesney
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Anne Sexton by Diane W. Middlebrook
Nominated for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, controversial for its revelations of infidelity and incest and for its use of tapes released by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's psychiatrist, this bestselling biography is a brilliant and compassionate portrait of a woman who thrived on making shock waves--in her work and in her life. 43 photographs. AUTHOR: Diane W. Middlebrook
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Goodbye, Amanda the Good by Susan Shreve
She dyes her hair purple, wears black clothing, and calls herself Cheetah. Can this really be the girl known to her family as Amanda the Good? Not anymore! Sometime between sixth grade and junior high, Amanda Bates woke up and discovered she?d become an entirely different person. Her old clothes felt wrong, her old friends felt wrong, and her family definitely felt wrong. When Amanda attracts the attention of a ninth-grade boy with a criminal record, a whole new group of troublemaking friends seems to follow. But is the new Amanda bad enough to make it in the girls? Club? Or will her old self win out? From the author of the Joshua T. Bates books, here?s the sensitive, funny story of Joshua?s older sister, Amanda-a good girl gone bad. AUTHOR: Susan Shreve
PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Miss Nelson Is Missing! by Harry Allard, James Marshall
The rowdy kids in Room 207 have a good time taking advantage of their teacher's good nature. But one day she disappears and a substitute is in her place: Miss Viola Swamp. She is as mean as the old teacher was permissive--and things change rapidly in the class. But who really is Miss Viola Swamp? AUTHOR: Harry Allard, James Marshall
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Death on a Vinyard Beach by Phillip R. Craig
The sixth book in the popular series set on Martha's Vineyard, starring ex-cop J.W. Jackson. Alterations in the bank accounts of two young women have led to their deaths, so when an extra $100,000 shows up in his lady love's bankbook, J.W. has cause for alarm. AUTHOR: Phillip R. Craig
PUBLISHER: Morrow/Avon
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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