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|  | Spooky Riddles by Marc Brown
Witches, skeletons, ghosts, vampires, mummies, and the like are featured in this collection of riddles. AUTHOR: Marc Brown
PUBLISHER: Beginner Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Seduced by a Scouncrel by Barbara Dawson Smith
Description not available.When her brother gambles away what little family money their father had failed to squander, Lady Alicia Pemberton agrees upon a marriage of convenience with her brother's main creditor to clear the debt, but gambling club owner Drake Wilder has other plans for his new wife AUTHOR: Barbara Dawson Smith
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Pears on a Willow Tree by Leslie Pietrzyk
Description not available.Five generations of Marchewka women, members of a proud Polish-American family, struggle to cope with the hardships of emigration and assimilation in twentieth-century America as they battle to preserve family traditions and deal with the realities of modern life. Reprint. NYT. AB. AUTHOR: Leslie Pietrzyk
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Who Do You Love?
Description not available.A must-have guide to matters of the heart offers preteen girls a whopping collection of quizzes, horoscopes, trivia, and tips about dating, romance, and true love. Original.
PUBLISHER: Aladdin Paperbacks
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | When the Phone Rings, My Bed Shakes by Philip Zazove
At the age of four, Philip Zazove was speaking to his father, who turned away to replace some books on a shelf. Daddy , Philip cried, look at me when I talk! His father replied, and Philip said, What did you say, Daddy? His father turned around and repeated what he'd just said, Philip, I don't have to look at you to hear you . Yes, you do. How else could you hear me? The question led to extensive tests that confirmed that, except for minimal hearing in the lowest range, Zazove was essentially deaf. Yet, he went on to lead a very active childhood, excelling in academics and athletics, even though he had to overcome barriers and wage battles every step of the way. In a time when interpreters and notetakers were nonexistent, Zazove compiled an exemplary record in high school and at Northwestern University in preparation of achieving his lifelong dream. Having decided to follow in his parents' footsteps, both of whom were physicians, he intended to become a doctor himself. Despite his achievements in college, Zazove discovered that medical schools were not ready to welcome him with open arms. After enduring one rejection after another based upon his deafness and living with the frustration of seeing classmates with poorer records accepted at the same schools, he finally won entrance to Rutgers University Medical School. Again, he became one of the leaders in his class, making up for not hearing most of what was said in rounds with furious study, observation, and extra hard work. When the Phone Rings, My Bed Shakes in its very title hints at the kind of challenges that such ordinary things as hearing an alarm clock can present to a deaf person. On his way to becoming a respectedfamily practitioner (more new ground broken against the advice of his faculty), Zazove developed keen sensitivity to how his patients felt about their illnesses. Throughout his book, he relates anecdotes about his patients that evoke the full range of emotions related to life and death mat AUTHOR: Philip Zazove
PUBLISHER: Gallaudet University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Sound of the Mountain by Edward G. Seidensticker, Yasunari Kawabata
By day Ogata Shingo is troubled by small failures of memory. At night he hears a distant rumble from the nearby mountain, a sound he associates with death. In between are the relationships that were once the foundation of Shingo's life: with his disappointing wife, his philandering son, and his daughter-in-law Kikuko, who instills in him both pity and uneasy stirrings of sexual desire. Out of this translucent web of attachments - and the tiny shifts of loyalty and affection that threaten to sever it irreparably - Kawabata creates a novel that is at once serenely observed and enormously affecting. AUTHOR: Edward G. Seidensticker, Yasunari Kawabata
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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