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|  | Big Cherry Holler by Adriana Trigiani
Ave Maria McChesney, with her small daughter, leaves her husband Jack for the summer, to travel to Italy to visit her father. Both Ave Maria in Italy and Jack back in Virginia find themselves the target of seducers. Will either succumb? Or both? And what will be the consequences when their lives return to normal, back in Big Stone Gap, Virginia? AUTHOR: Adriana Trigiani
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Bugs
Description not available.Text and photographs introduce the world of insects, and discuss habitats, movement, housing, reproduction, senses, defenses, food, and related topics.
PUBLISHER: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Romeo & Juliet by Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, William Shakespeare
Set during five of the most intensely dramatic days ever portrayed, ROMEO AND JULIET was probably written in 1594 or 1595, and first published in a 1597 edition, as transcribed by actors who had performed it. Other editions appeared later, but even the more authoritative versions, such as that of 1599--probably drawn from Shakespeare's own manuscript copies--lack the detailed stage directions present in the actors' transcription; thus, modern editions incorporate several sources. ROMEO AND JULIET is among the most oft performed of Shakespeare's works, and it has been among the most beloved since its earliest days on the stage. Though the title page of the 1597 edition declares that ROMEO AND JULIET had been performed and enjoyed many times prior to its publication, the first extant direct record of the events of a production refer to a 1662 staging, in which the play was probably adapted or altered--adaption was particularly popular in the 17th century. One London stage ran different conclusions on alternative nights; audiences who went home glum on Friday could be uplifted by the play's ending if they returned on Saturday night. The story of ROMEO AND JULIET was derived by Shakespeare from many sources. The version most contemporary to his own was the 1562 poem The Tragicall History of Romeus and Iuliet by Arthur Brooke, which itself was an adaptation of a French piece by Pierre Boaistuau, which Boaistuau had adapted from the Italian. Indeed, aspects of the tragic story have recurred throughout Western literature since at least the third century. Shakespeare greatly intensified the pace by compressing a piece which had unfolded over the course of several months into the space of five days--a period in which much transpires at daybreak, including the famous balcony scene where Romeo declares, But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?/It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Romeo is forced to approach Juliet in secret because of the impassioned rivalry be AUTHOR: Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, William Shakespeare
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Rob Lowe, Robert Kennedy, Robert Parker, Stephen King, Stephen Jay Gould
This collection features 20 short stories and a few assorted other goodies by King, all written or published between 1986 and 1993. It includes a World Fantasy Award nominee, The End of the Whole Mess, along with numerous other award nominees like It Grows on You, The Ten O'clock People, and The Night Flier. AUTHOR: Rob Lowe, Robert Kennedy, Robert Parker, Stephen King, Stephen Jay Gould
PUBLISHER: Penguin/HighBridge
FORMAT: Audio & Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Crafts for Thanksgiving by Kathy Ross, Sharon Lane Holm
Twenty simple Thanksgiving and autumn crafts with step-by-step illustrations. AUTHOR: Kathy Ross, Sharon Lane Holm
PUBLISHER: Millbrook Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Ed Color del Verano by Reinaldo Arenas
This satirical novel is the fourth in Arenas's Pentagonia quintet, his secret history of Cuba. It was his last book before his death from AIDS in 1990. AUTHOR: Reinaldo Arenas
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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