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|  | Hardboiled Mystery Writers by Matthew J. Bruccoli, Richard Layman
Description not available.An illustrated guide to the mystery genre's hardest hitting writers focuses on the three men who created a uniquely American brand of detective fiction--Raymond Chandler, Dashiell HAmmett, and Ross Macdonald, the creators of such famed fictional private detectives as PHilip Marlowe, Sam Spade, and Lew Archer. Original. AUTHOR: Matthew J. Bruccoli, Richard Layman
PUBLISHER: Avalon Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | The First Four Books of Poems by W. S. Merwin
This volume contains Merwin's work from 1952, when he won the Yale Younger Poets Award for A MASK FOR JANUS, up to 1960, when THE DRUNK IN THE FURNACE was published. AUTHOR: W. S. Merwin
PUBLISHER: Copper Canyon Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | War & the Pity of War by Michael McCurdy, Neil Philip
Description not available.An anthology of more than seventy poems inspired by the horror and heroism of war includes prose from the eleventh century B.C. to the present day and provides translations from Chinese, Latin, Greek, French, Russian, and Japanese. AUTHOR: Michael McCurdy, Neil Philip
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Out of the Wilderness by Deb Vanasse
Life in the wilds of Alaska is hard for fifteen-year-old Josh, and a budding friendship with a visitor from the city, fourteen-year-old Shannon, makes him long for civilization more than ever. Josh feels trapped in the cabin he shares with his father and his half-brother, Nathan. It is Nathan whose reverence for nature has exposed the family to the dangers of life in the woods, but Nathan is the least willing to make the tough choices necessary for survival. Josh fears that Nathan's blind ideals will place them all in grave danger. And, as long as their father refuses to leave, Josh worries that he may never be able to come out of the wilderness. Josh must learn to understand his brother and stand up for himself in this compelling family drama set against a stunning Alaskan backdrop. AUTHOR: Deb Vanasse
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company Trade & Reference Division
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques, Ian Schoenherr
Pure of heart and spirt, a boy named Ben and his dog Ned are the only survivors of the curse that destroyed the crew of the legendary Flying Dutchman. Granted immortality, the boy and the dog are instructed to travel the world to spread peace and joy. Two centuries later in 1896, Ben and Ned help save the village of Chapelvale from greedy developers and a gang of juvenile delinquents. AUTHOR: Brian Jacques, Ian Schoenherr
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Learning to Swim by Ann Warren Turner
This memoir by the poet and author recounts painful childhood memories of the summer she was sexually molested by a neighbor. The story is told in a series of interconnected poems. AUTHOR: Ann Warren Turner
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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