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Ashes to Ashes by Melissa Leo, Tami Hoag
Returning home to a quiet desk job, former FBI agent Kate Conlan never anticipated having to track down one of the most disturbed criminals her town had ever seen. Nicknamed the Cremator by newspapers, this ruthless serial killer set his victims' corpses ablaze after strangling and deforming their bodies. Under pressure to find the killer by any means possible, Conlan focuses on the sole witness, a homeless woman who knows more than she is telling.

AUTHOR: Melissa Leo, Tami Hoag
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

Dubliners by A. Walton Litz, Andrew Goodwyn, Bernard MCGinley, James Joyce, Jim Killavey
Joyce's celebrated short-story sequence provides a vivid and disturbing picture of early 20th-century Dublin and its inhabitants, whom Joyce saw as trapped in a repressed and stultifying environment. The stories are divided into five types: childhood, adolescence, marriage, maturity, and various aspects of public life, including politics. They embody Joyce's belief in the value of what he called epiphanies--insights into life that can be compared to the religious concept of the Epiphany, and that Joyce believed art can provide via the transformation of mundane events. The last story, The Dead --the brilliant and moving dissection of a failed marriage--actually takes place on the Feast of the Epiphany.

AUTHOR: A. Walton Litz, Andrew Goodwyn, Bernard MCGinley, James Joyce, Jim Killavey
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

I'll See You in My Dreams by Mavis Jukes, Stacey Schuett
Her pilot uncle dying, a young girl imagines flying a skywriting plane, tracing out a final message to him. With full-color illustrations.

AUTHOR: Mavis Jukes, Stacey Schuett
PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction

Pylon by Noel Polk, William Faulkner
PYLON, one of Faulkner's minor novels, is set in New Orleans during Mardi Gras, and centers on a group of airmen who are in town for the festivities. It was published in 1935.

AUTHOR: Noel Polk, William Faulkner
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

Ant Plays Bear by Betsy C. Byars, Bonnie Kelly-Young, Marc Simont
A second in a series of beginning reader books about two brothers. In one vignette, the younger brother, known as Ant (short for Anthony) asks his older brother to find out what is making a mysterious tapping sound on their bedroom window. In another, Ant reveals what he wants to be when he grows up. Color illustrations accompany the text.

AUTHOR: Betsy C. Byars, Bonnie Kelly-Young, Marc Simont
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

Rising Voices by Beverly R. Singer
Description not available.A collection of poems and essays by young contemporary native American writers reflect their community's feelings of alienation, pain, joy, and celebration. Reprint. K. PW.

AUTHOR: Beverly R. Singer
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction