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Gypo Nolan informs on a comrade in this powerful novel set just after the Irish Civil War. AUTHOR: Liam O'Flaherty
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Trade Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Communion Blood by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
The 13th volume in the Saint-Germain series finds the Count in Rome in 1689 and in the middle of a land deed dispute. AUTHOR: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
PUBLISHER: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Sparks Fly Upward by Carol Matas
It is 1910, and twelve-year-old Rebecca Bernstein and her extended family live in rural Canada as part of a community of Jewish immigrants who have fled religious persecution in Russia. All is well until the family?s house burns down and they must relocate to the bustling city of Winnipeg, starting over once again. Rebecca is scared, but content as long as she is with her family. But then a devastating blow comes when Rebecca learns that-because her father cannot find work-she must be sent away to a foster home. Even worse, she will be living with the Ukrainian Kostaniuk family, non-Jews with customs not at all like her own. Rebecca is terrified. She eventually finds a true friend in their daughter, Sophie, but feels unwanted by others in the Kostaniuk family. Mr. Kostaniuk seems to hate Rebecca simply for being Jewish. Sophie?s older brother calls Rebecca?s uncles (who are about the same age as Rebecca) ?filthy Jews? and fights with them daily at school, an ongoing battle that eventually involves a dangerous knife fight. All Rebecca wants is to have a real home-and a real friend-but neither seems within her grasp as her father struggles to support the family and community prejudice clouds her very important friendship with Sophie. An affecting work of historical fiction that explores important dilemmas of family and faith. AUTHOR: Carol Matas
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company Trade & Reference Division
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Making the Run by Heather Henson
All her life Lulu McClellan has heard the names. Growing up in a small Kentucky town, Lu has forever felt like she's on the outside looking in. Maybe that's why she takes pictures-to make sense of what she sees and feels but doesn't always understand. Now that graduation is almost here, Lu and her friend Ginny are moving in a quick blur of drugs and drink. Lu thinks she's just marking time, waiting for the moment when life will begin for real. But the road is full of unmarked twists and turns. Without warning, Lu free-falls into first love, white Ginny begins a deadly spiral into oblivion. AUTHOR: Heather Henson
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Panther Mystery by Gertrude C. Warner
No one has heard from Andrew Beldon, a ranger in Everglades National Park, for more than two weeks. When the Alden children go to Andrew's apartment, they find books and posters that reveal Andrew's interest in the Florida panther. Could the endangered panther hold the key to Andrew's whereabouts? AUTHOR: Gertrude C. Warner
PUBLISHER: Whitman, Albert & Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Last Dragon by Chris Soentpiet, Chris K. Soentpiet, Susan M. Nunes
Ten-year-old Peter Chang is spending the summer with his great-aunt in Chinatown. The vacation seems dull until he discovers her old 10-man dragon which he is given permission to restore. The local tailor agrees to sew up the holes in the dragon in exchange for errands; the kitemaker fixes the tail; and the great-aunt's mahjongg friends gild the horns of the dragon. Peter's summer ends with a banquet that honors the restoration of the dragon and with Peter fully appreciating the culture of Chinatown. AUTHOR: Chris Soentpiet, Chris K. Soentpiet, Susan M. Nunes
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company Trade & Reference Division
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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