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Canyon Country Wildflowers by Damian Fagan, Canyonlands Natural History Association Staff
A comprehensive field guide to the unique and diverse flora of the canyonlands region of the southwestern U.S. Four-corners area. Color photographs and easy-to-understand descriptions help to identify 190 of the most commonly found wildflowers, shrubs, and trees in this frequently visited area. The author also addresses relationships between plants and environmental factors to give readers a broader understanding of this special terrain.

AUTHOR: Damian Fagan, Canyonlands Natural History Association Staff
PUBLISHER: Globe Pequot Press, The
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Gardening

Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine: Stories
The author of two critically acclaimed story collections, including the National Book Award finalist The Pugilist at Rest, Jones returns with 12 tales featuring his best themes: Vietnam, boxing, and minds off kilter.
In his third short-story collection (after THE PUGILIST AT REST and COLD SNAP), Thom Jones continues his project of bringing the brutality of war and the boxing ring--and the hallucinatory confusion of disordered minds--to the page, as he does here in one story about young lovers who stop taking the medication for their psychological problems and in another about a boxer who prefers the beatings he takes in the ring to the life he'd have to lead if he quit fighting. A New York Times Notable Book in 1999.

CATEGORY: Fiction

James Baldwin by Ted Gottfried
People whose power, influence, or perseverance have changed the world are the subjects of these candid biographies, which stress the impact of these individuals on the course of 20th-century events. Each book includes a bibliography and an index. Details the fascinating, sometimes troubled, and ultimately uplifting story of James Baldwin, who devoted his life to writing and speaking out about race relations in America. This compelling narrative traces Baldwin's childhood in Harlem in the 1920s to his sojourns in Paris and his return to the United States to chronicle and participate in the Civil Rights Movement.

AUTHOR: Ted Gottfried
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction

Reinventing the Enemy's Lang by Gloria Bird, Joy Harjo
This collection of writings by 87 Native American women writers from some 50 tribal nations includes prayers, testimonials, personal narratives, essays, poetry and fiction. Well-known writers such as Louis Erdrich, Linda Hogan and Leslie Marmon Silko have pieces in the collection, as do many other less well-known and first time writers.

AUTHOR: Gloria Bird, Joy Harjo
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

1984 by Daniel G. Siegel, Erich Fromm, George Orwell, Julian Symons, Peter Davison
In his celebrated 1948 vision of a world subsumed in tyranny and war, Orwell describes the process of events by which Winston Smith, a London clerk at the Ministry of Truth, comes to understand the true nature and aims of the government he works for, and portrays his doomed attempt to create a private life for himself and his lover Julia. One of the bleakest political novels ever written, 1984 illustrates Orwell's despair that democracy could ever summon the strength to overcome Communism in his lifetime.

AUTHOR: Daniel G. Siegel, Erich Fromm, George Orwell, Julian Symons, Peter Davison
PUBLISHER: Buccaneer Books, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction

Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy`s fifth volume is divided into three sections--poetic fables about the woes of women, a story in verse about a girls` school, and a series of melancholy lyric poems.

AUTHOR: Carol Ann Duffy
PUBLISHER: Faber & Faber, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction