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This book, with black-and-white sketches, tells the story of a 9-year-old boy who tries to come to terms with his father's struggle with cancer. AUTHOR: Carol Carrick, Paddy Bouma
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company Trade & Reference Division
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Magical Girl Pretty Sammy by Hitoshi Okuda
Tenchi, Ryoko, and friends are at it again. In this clever send-up, Sasami, little sister of Princess Ayeka, stars as a transforming schoolgirl superheroine, Magical Girl Pretty Sammy. Here is the Tenchi cast in all new roles. Tenchi's childhood girlfriend also shows up to put her new rivals through their paces, and the team comes to the aid of a savage wolf. AUTHOR: Hitoshi Okuda
PUBLISHER: Viz Communications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Seduction by Nicole Jordan
Lord Damien Sinclair, called Lord Sin by the ton, is known for his wicked ways with women, his talent at the poker table, and his skill with a pistol. As a founding member of the Hellfire Club, a group of the most handsome and debauched rakehells in London, he seeks only after his own pleasure... That is until his beloved younger sister Olivia is injured and her reputation mined during an illicit tryst. Damien is determined to avenge his sister, and sets about to destroy Lord Aubrey Rutherford, the cause of Olivia's injury and heartbreak. Vanessa Wyndham knows she is her brother Aubrey's only hope, once he loses her family's entire meager fortune to the wicked and dangerously handsome Lord Sinclair in a poker game. In an effort to appease the man, and make amends for the damage Aubrey has caused, Vanessa offers to act as a companion to Lord Sin's invalid sister. But Damien is intrigued by the beautiful and proud widow and offers her a most scandalous bargain -- hell forgive her brother's debt if under the guise of attending his sister, she agrees to be his mistress for the summer. So the seduction begins, but who is seducing whom? Damien becomes enchanted by Vanessa's intelligence and wit, as well as her kindness with his sister. And Vanessa is unable to resist Lord Sin's charms. But once the charade and the seduction is over, will either of them escape with their hearts intact? AUTHOR: Nicole Jordan
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Marven of the Great North Woods by Kathryn Lasky, Kevin Hawkes
It's 1918 and 10-year-old Marven has been sent by his parents from his home in Duluth to a logging camp in Minnesota's Great North Woods in order to protect him from a dangerous flu epidemic. At the logging camp, Marven takes on two jobs--serving as the camp's bookkeeper, and the more difficult task of waking the logger's for work. It is through this second responsibility that Marven forms a special friendship with one of the loggers, a particularly heavy sleeper named Jean Louis. Illustrated with color paintings. AUTHOR: Kathryn Lasky, Kevin Hawkes
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Children's Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Invisible Life by E. Lynn Harris, Michael Boatman
This debut by a young, gay, black author is a coming-of-age novel about bisexuality and AIDS. AUTHOR: E. Lynn Harris, Michael Boatman
PUBLISHER: Random House Audio Publishing Group
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: General
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 | Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday by Johnny Heller, Judith Viorst, Ray Cruz
When Alexander's grandparents come to visit, they give him and his two brothers a dollar each. Alexander thinks about saving the money for some walkie-talkies, but he is soon down at the corner store spending some of his dollar on bubble gum. As the day progresses, Alexander spends more and more money until all he has left is what he started the day with...some bus tokens. Illustrated with b&w drawings. AUTHOR: Johnny Heller, Judith Viorst, Ray Cruz
PUBLISHER: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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