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Kitchen Gardens by Carole Turner
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden produces authoritative, illustrated books that help readers in all parts of North America create gardens that are both beautiful and ecologically sensible. Generously illustrated with full-color photographs, Kitchen Gardens divides eighteen essays by well-known horticulturists into four categories: Kitchen Garden Designs; Kitchen Garden Basics; Essential Plants for the Kitchen Garden; and Regional Kitchen Gardens. Specific ideas for tailoring a kitchen garden to the Northeast, Southeast, North and Midwest, Southwest, and Pacific Northwest regions are also included.

AUTHOR: Carole Turner
PUBLISHER: Brooklyn Botanic Garden
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Gardening

The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
For 20 years Sabine was the assistant of the magician, Parsifal. Deeply in love with him despite his homosexuality, she had to settle for his friendship. After his death, Sabine learns that Parsifal has surviving relatives in Nebraska, so she decides to visit them in an attempt to learn more about his past. In the place where her beloved came of age, she slowly pieces together the mystery of the magician's life, and finds herself drawn into the tangled webs of affection and tragedy that drove Parsifal to reinvent himself in the first place.

AUTHOR: Ann Patchett
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Trade Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

UFO Enigma by Laurance S. Rockefeller, Peter A. Sturrock
Reports of strange objects in the sky have frightened, puzzled, and tantalized the public for hundreds of years. Most so-called UFO sightings have been debunked as hoaxes. But a troubling percentage of occurrences defy every attempt to dismiss them. The UFO Enigma examines numerous such cases. -- Paris, 1994: A commercial aircraft reports a gigantic disk over 3,000 feet in diameter that is tracked on military radar for 50 seconds as it slows from 110 knots to zero, then vanishes. -- Haines City, Florida, 1992: A police patrol car is pursued by a flying object shining a probing light into the vehicle; when backup arrives, the officer is discovered crying and unable to talk. -- Mansfield, Ohio, 1973: Witnesses on the ground and in an Army Reserve helicopter see strange lights and a cigar-shaped, gray metallic object in the sky. And these are just three of the cases examined in this book.

AUTHOR: Laurance S. Rockefeller, Peter A. Sturrock
PUBLISHER: Mysterious Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction

Short Story by Gloria Naylor
Description not available.A powerful collection of the finest contemporary short fiction by African-American writers, including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Jamaica Kincaid, Alice Walker, Ralph Ellison, and others, brilliantly captures the varied facets of the black experience in America. Reprint. AB.

AUTHOR: Gloria Naylor
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown & Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

Far From the Madding Crowd by Jill Masters, Linda M. Shires, Michael Slater, Robert C. Schweik, Suzanne B. Falck-Yi
Hardy's first major novel tells the story of the shepherd Gabriel Oak and his long, patient devotion to Bathsheba Everdene. Bathsheba's faithless husband is murdered by a neighboring farmer, William Bellwood, who also loves her. At the end of a traumatic series of events, Bathsheba turns to Gabriel at last, valuing his honesty and integrity. Like Hardy's later novels, this one is characterized by coincidence, melodrama, and a degree of improbability. It also emphasizes the role of natural forces--the earth and the rhythms of rural life--all of which are personified in Gabriel Oak. The novel is less bleak and unforgiving than the later works, and is remarkable for its insight into the complexities of character, particularly that of the many-faceted Bathsheba.

AUTHOR: Jill Masters, Linda M. Shires, Michael Slater, Robert C. Schweik, Suzanne B. Falck-Yi
PUBLISHER: Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

Leslie by Omar Tyree
Description not available.Idolized by her family and admired by her peers and teachers at Dillard University, New Orleans native Leslie Beaudet becomes the center of a disturbing murder mystery that reveals her misunderstood personal struggles and craving for power. 100,000 first printing.

AUTHOR: Omar Tyree
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction