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Description not available.Four dramatic tales feature people whose lives are on the brink of irrevocable change and follow their coming to terms with unanticipated events, including the title story about a dedicated classic professor at an elite prep school, whose life is forever changed by an encounter with a student. (A Universal Pictures film, directed by Michael Hoffman, releasing Fall 2002, starring Kevin Kline) (Story Collections) AUTHOR: Ethan Canin
PUBLISHER: Picador
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House
Description not available.In 1917, a Cherokee woman who leaves her community to marry a white man finds herself isolated and discriminated against as she tries to settle in to her new life. By the author of Clay's Quilt. AUTHOR: Silas House
PUBLISHER: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Hit on the House by Jon A. Jackson
Detective Fang Mulheisen is not doing a very good job of solving the latest slew of mob slayings: the street outside the mobster's Detroit home is littered with broken bodies, shell casings, and blood. He knows a hit man from Iowa and a former school mate that became a centerfold have something to do with the killings, but in this mad jazz fusion of sex, lies, memories, and violence, Mulheisen can't quite pick up the melody--he hears only the rhythm of the guns. AUTHOR: Jon A. Jackson
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Field Guide to Beetles of North America by R. E. White
Description not available.Supplies practical tips on collecting beetles and discusses the habits and identifying characteristics of the different types of beetles AUTHOR: R. E. White
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Exposed by K. A. Applegate
To rescue their android friends, the Chee, the Animorphs must use a giant squid morph to get to the Chee ship deep in a trench beneath the ocean. And they must reach the ship before Visser Three does. AUTHOR: K. A. Applegate
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Good Negress by A. J. Verdelle
It is 1963, and young Denise Palms, reared in rural Virginia by her grandmother, has just rejoined her mother, new stepfather, and two older brothers in Detroit. Denise is an ordinary, intelligent negro girl in a not unusual negro family, which means that she is expected to cook and clean house, go to school, and take care of her mother`s baby when it comes. In this groundbreaking debut, A. J. Verdelle tells the story of Denise`s family - a story filtered through the perspective of Denise`s vibrant, maturing intelligence. Studies with an uncompromising new teacher, Miss Gloria Pearson, have encouraged Denise to reach beyond her station , and Denise begins to dread the arrival of her mother`s baby, knowing that her new responsibilities at home will mean the end of her after-school lessons in diction and grammar. Miss Pearson insists that she must educate herself - that she must learn to speak the King`s English - if she ever wants to be heard. If her mother succeeds in keeping her homebound, Miss Pearson warns, Denise will remain the good little negress the world wants her to be. AUTHOR: A. J. Verdelle
PUBLISHER: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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