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|  | Lestrade & the Kiss of Horus by M. J. Trow
Description not available.Chief Superintendent Lestrade flies to Egypt to solve a series of murders and quickly finds himself enmeshed in the intrigue of this ancient country. AUTHOR: M. J. Trow
PUBLISHER: Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General 
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 | The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor -- William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County.
Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor -- William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation -- as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow, Caldonia, succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart at their plantation: slaves take to escaping under the cover of night, and families who had once found love beneath the weight of slavery begin to betray one another. Beyond the Townsend estate, the known world also unravels: low-paid white patrollers stand watch as slave speculators sell free black people into slavery, and rumors of slave rebellions set white families against slaves who have served them for years.
AUTHOR: Edward P. Jones
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Southern Belle by Mary C. Sinclair, Peggy Whitman Prenshaw, Upton Sinclair
This is a new edition of the autobiography of Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair (1883-1961). She started life innocently and happily on her father's Mississippi Delta plantation but went on to know deprivation and danger when she married Upton Sinclair, the crusading social activist. As she joined him in his struggles to rescue the disinherited of the earth, collaborating with him in writing a shelf of books, she gave up the moonlight and magnolias but not her grace. After her death, Sinclair recalled her as the loveliest woman I have ever known. She moved North with him and began an exhilarating new life. He was a Socialist and the celebrated muckraker whose novel The Jungle (1906) was an expose of the meat-packing industry. Later, in 1943, he would win the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Dragon's Teeth. Through him she became involved in social causes and came to know many of America's intellectuals including such eminent figures in the literary and political worlds as Walter Lippman, Sinclair Lewis, Max Eastman, Floyd Dell, and Art Young. With her husband she traveled throughout the United States and Europe. Her story is filled with many great names -- including Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, George Bernard Shaw, Theodore Dreiser, H. L. Mencken, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks -- whom she and Sinclair counted among their friends. As a child she once sat on Jefferson Davis's knee. In her girlhood she was instructed in the southern graces. Later she would be immersed in the world of demonstrations, distress, and political pamphleteering for the liberal causes she and her husband espoused. Their marriage of forty-eight years was extraordinary and happy. Sinclair recalledher as the helpmeet of a man who set out to help in the ending of poverty and war in the world.... It required many crusades in which he bankrupted himself and her as well. It required a year-long entanglement in a bitter political campaign (for the California governorship). She helped him AUTHOR: Mary C. Sinclair, Peggy Whitman Prenshaw, Upton Sinclair
PUBLISHER: University Press of Mississippi
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Runaway Jury by Frank Muller, John Grisham
When a plaintiff sues a tobacco company for damages caused by smoking, the trial turns into a showdown between the tobacco industries and the largest personal injury firms in the country. Billions of dollars are at stake and each side is spending millions to insure victory. But even the most experienced trial watchers are confused when the jury begins behaving oddly and a mysterious woman named Marlee is the only person able to predict their behavior in advance. Who is controlling the jury, and what is their motive? Marlee is the only one with any answers, and she's not talking. AUTHOR: Frank Muller, John Grisham
PUBLISHER: Random House Audio Publishing Group
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal by Lilian Jackson Braun, Theodore Bikel
Description not available.When the director of the Pickax Theatre Club's Shakespeare production is found dead in Qwilleran's apple orchard, Qwilleran and his Siamese sleuths must discover which player staged the murder. Read by Theodore Bikel. AUTHOR: Lilian Jackson Braun, Theodore Bikel
PUBLISHER: New Millennium Entertainment
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: General
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 | Lili on Stage by Rachel Isadora
A young ballerina prepares to take the stage in a performance of The Nutcracker by stretching, applying make-up, and putting on her costume. Ballet lovers will be interested in the backstage instructions given to the dancer such as no talking on stage, don't scratch your nose, and the audience sees everything. Gentle watercolor illustrations show the dancers at work. AUTHOR: Rachel Isadora
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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