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|  | Counting by Chuck Murphy
Description not available.Pull-out pictures reveal one or more objects including the numbers 1,2,3, two puppets, three teddy bears, and so on up to ten blocks. AUTHOR: Chuck Murphy
PUBLISHER: Little Simon
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Shadows on the Hudson by Isaac Bashevis Singer, John Rubinstein, Joseph Sherman, Julie Harris, Theodore Bikel
A translation from the Yiddish of one of Singer`s early novels, first published serially in the late 1950s. It portrays a small circle of prosperous Jewish refugees living in postwar New York. Boris Makaver, the central figure in this group, is a devout and well-to-do businessman who worries over his daughter Anna`s disastrous marriages and hopelessly tangled family life. The action ranges from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to the resorts of Florida and, like most of Singer`s work, manages to re-create a largely vanished society of Jewish immigrants and expatriates. AUTHOR: Isaac Bashevis Singer, John Rubinstein, Joseph Sherman, Julie Harris, Theodore Bikel
PUBLISHER: NewStar Media, Incorporated
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: General
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 | Shakespeare's Christmas by Charlaine Harris
What makes Charlaine Harris's novels stand out among traditional cozy mysteries is the decided noirish spin she puts on the seemingly typical southern town of Shakespeare, Arkansas, and her heroine. Lily Bard, a karate devotee by choice and a cleaning woman by trade, is a woman with a dark past; she's fiercely protective of her independence and reserved about herself. In short, Lily makes a refreshing, compelling amateur sleuth. In Shakespeare's Christmas, Lily's third appearance, she heads home to Bartley, Arkansas -- always an uncomfortable scenario for the introverted Lily -- for her sister Varena's Christmas wedding. But Lily's got more to worry about than being a bridesmaid for a sister to whom she's no longer close. Soon after she arrives in Bartley, Lily's private detective boyfriend shows up too, and not just for moral support: he's investigating a four year old unsolved kidnapping. Try as she might, Lily can't help but get involved when she discovers that the case hits dangerously close to home -- for Varena's new husband is the widowed father of a girl bearing a remarkable resemblance to the vanished child. AUTHOR: Charlaine Harris
PUBLISHER: Dell Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Artic Blast
Description not available.While on the hunt for Soviet extremists in the harsh frozen land of Antarctica, Mack Bolan, along with a gorgeous Russian scientist, must race against time to stop the enemy and find a doomsday weapon that is positioned to annihilate America. Original.
PUBLISHER: Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Happy Island by Dawn Powell, Tim Page
In This Acidic, Provocative, and -- for its time -- daring novel, Dawn Powell set out to write the story of the bachelors of New York in the Satyricon style . The time is the late 1930s, and the young taciturn playwright, Jefferson Abbott, arrives in New York by bus from Silver City, Ohio and looks up his childhood sweetheart, Prudence Bly, who has since become a celebrated nightclub singer. When his play flops, the upright and uptight Abbott is undaunted, eventually returning to Ohio and persuading Prudence to join him there to take up a life of drudgery as mate to this always self-serious artist. Prudence, needless to say, finally escapes back to the city and her circle of friends, the disparate characters who give the book its true texture and, wrote one reviewer at the time, are involved in such a series of promiscuities, adulteries, double-crossings, neo-perversions and Krafft-Ebbing exercises as would make the towns of Sodom and Gomorrah seem like mere suburbs of li'l old New York . The Happy Island has had its admirers over the years (Gore Vidal called this one of his favorite Powell novels), and to be found here are surely some of Powell's most biting one-liners. But the book may not be for every taste, and the succinct notice that appeared in The New Yorker upon first publication might stand as a warning to some readers: Night-club life of New York. Plenty of heavy drinking, perfumed love affairs, and in general the doings of a pretty worthless and ornery lot of people. Miss Powell serves it up with a dash of wit and for good measure throws in a couple of boys named Bert and Willy, who nearly steal the show from the main characters . AUTHOR: Dawn Powell, Tim Page
PUBLISHER: Steerforth Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | How to Fight a Girl by Ernie Sprance, Thomas Rockwell
Description not available.Joe and Alan's plan to get revenge on Billy backfires when their secret weapon, the prettiest girl in their fifth grade class, becomes Billy's friend instead. AUTHOR: Ernie Sprance, Thomas Rockwell
PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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