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|  | The Cost of Doing Business by John S. Tarlton
The oil company Diane Morris works for wants to drill in the vicinity of Mud Lake, and it`s Diane`s job to get the local landowners to agree. Three of them prove obstinate--all for very different reasons--and when the sheriff is called in, life gets complicated when Diane falls for him just as her creep of an ex-husband appears on the scene. AUTHOR: John S. Tarlton
PUBLISHER: Bridge Works Publishing Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Dragons & Unicorns by Karin Johnsgard, Paul Johnsgard
Is it generally safe to walk by dragon weyrs on sunny days? Do dragons really lay golden eggs? Do dragon teeth have any medicinal value? And what about unicorns: Do some rare ones have two horns, and when aren't unicorns white? What is a unicorn 'sneeze call, ' and what exactly is the best way to capture a unicorn, anyway?Find the answers to these and other questions in this charming and carefully researched book that presents the first scientific look at two of the earth's most mysterious and elusive creatures. From the evolution and anatomy of dragons and unicorns to their own special skills. This unique book of whimsical zoology, complete with drawings, will delight and enchant any modern reader. AUTHOR: Karin Johnsgard, Paul Johnsgard
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Deadlock by Donada Peters, Sara Paretsky
V.I. Warshawski searches for the man who killed her cousin, Boom Boom. AUTHOR: Donada Peters, Sara Paretsky
PUBLISHER: Dell Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Princess & Curdie by George MacDonald, Helen Stratton, Jim Killavey
Description not available.Curdie, the miner's son, meets Princess Irene's magical great-great-grandmother, who tells him that Irene and her father face grave danger in Gwyntystorm AUTHOR: George MacDonald, Helen Stratton, Jim Killavey
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | How Angel Peterson Got His Name by Gary Paulsen
Description not available.An amusing story tells of the adventures of the author and his friends who attempted extreme sporting before it was extreme sporting, such as jumping three barrels on a bicycle and hang gliding from an Army surplus target kite. AUTHOR: Gary Paulsen
PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall
In a brilliant rejoinder and an inspired act of literary invention, Alice Randall supplies the story that has been missing from the work that more than any other has defined our image of the antebellum South, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind. Imagine, simply, that the black characters in Mitchell's tale were other than one-dimensional stereotypes. Then imagine, quite plausibly, that Scarlett O?Hara had an illegitimate mulatto sister, and that this sister, Cynara, Cinnamon, or Cindy--beautiful and brown--gets to tell her story. Cindy is born into a world in which she is unacknowledged by her plantation-owning father and passed over by her mother in favor of her white charges. Sold off like so much used furniture, she eventually makes her way back to Atlanta to take up with a prominent white businessman, only to leave him for an aspiring politician of her own color. Moving from the Deep South to the exhilarating freedom of Reconstruction Washington, with its thriving black citizenry of statesmen, professionals, and strivers of every persuasion, Cindy experiences firsthand the promise of the new era at its dizzying peak, just before it begins to slip away. Alluding to events in Gone With the Wind but ingeniously and ironically transforming them, The Wind Done Gone is an exquisitely written, emotionally complex story of a strong, resourceful black woman breaking away from the damaging world of the Old South to emerge into her own, a person capable not only of receiving but giving love, as daughter, lover, and mother. A passionate love story, a wrenching portrait of a tangled mother-daughter relationship, and a book that gives a voice to those history has silenced, The Wind Done Gone is a elegant literary achievement of significant political force and a novel whose time has finally come. AUTHOR: Alice Randall
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company Trade & Reference Division
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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