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|  | Little Women & Good Wives by Ann Thwaite, Louisa May Alcott
Little Women, the story of the four March sisters--Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy--is based on the author's own childhood. The novel is divided into two parts. Book One focuses on the sisters' struggles with poverty while growing up in New England during the Civil War. As their father, a minister, serves in the war, the girls are raised by their loving and wise mother, Marmee. Book Two takes place after the war has ended and the father has returned to the family. The sisters deal with love, marriage, an unexpected tragedy, and Jo's determination to become a professional writer. Good Wives is the sequel. AUTHOR: Ann Thwaite, Louisa May Alcott
PUBLISHER: Tuttle Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Trouble at Timpetill by Deborah Nourse Lattimore, Henry Winterfeld, Kyrill Schabert, William M. Hutchinson
Description not available.When the Pirates, a gang of young boys in the small town of Timpetill, become too rowdy, the adults decide to discipline them by leaving the town in the middle of the night. Simultaneous. AUTHOR: Deborah Nourse Lattimore, Henry Winterfeld, Kyrill Schabert, William M. Hutchinson
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Children's Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Great Deliverance by Donada Peters, Elizabeth George
Description not available.The quiet and peaceful world of the Yorkshire countryside is shattered by a brutal murder and the shocking revelations unearthed by Scotland Yard investigators Barbara Havers and Thomas Lynsley. Reissue. (A BBC production for PBS television, airing Summer 2002) (Mystery) AUTHOR: Donada Peters, Elizabeth George
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Hunchback of Notre Dame by Graham Robb, Malvina G. Vogel, Marc A. Cerasini, R. R. Canon, Robin Moore
Victor Hugo's romance is set in the middle ages, largely in the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, where Quasimodo is the hunchbacked bellringer. Quasimodo silently loves a gypsy dancer named Esmeralda. She is accused of witchcraft and seeks refuge in the cathedral, where Quasimodo cares for her. But when she is executed in spite of his efforts, he throws her persecutor, the evil archdeacon Frollo, from the top of the cathedral. AUTHOR: Graham Robb, Malvina G. Vogel, Marc A. Cerasini, R. R. Canon, Robin Moore
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | A Regular Guy by Mona Simpson
Mona Simpson`s third novel repeats some of her perennial themes: a troubled family, a mentally unstable mother, a neglected daughter, an absent father, and a journey. In this case, it is Jane, age 10, who goes off in search of her father, and tries both to accept him with all his flaws, and to win his affection. AUTHOR: Mona Simpson
PUBLISHER: McKay, David Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Ten Kings by Bethanne Andersen, Milton Meltzer
Description not available.A biography of the ten most powerful kings in history shows how political leaders use and abuse power; shows how one person can alter the course of history; and includes studies of Hammurabi, Alexander the Great, Charlemagne, Peter the Great, Mansa Musa, and Louis XIV. AUTHOR: Bethanne Andersen, Milton Meltzer
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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