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|  | The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve, Mary Peiffer
Kathryn Lyons learns that her husband's plane has exploded off the coast of Ireland. As she traces the details of his life leading up to the crash, Kathryn discovers that her husband had a secret life. A variation on Antoine Saint-Exupery's NIGHT FLIGHT. AUTHOR: Anita Shreve, Mary Peiffer
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown & Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie's famous spinster sleuth, Miss Jane Marple, tackles the case of the mysterious death of a guest at the usually quiet Bertram's Hotel. AUTHOR: Agatha Christie
PUBLISHER: N A L
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Egg-Drop Blues by Jacqueline T. Banks
If Judge wins the local egg-drop contest--in which contestants drop eggs from the top of a building in contraptions designed to prevent the eggs from breaking--he will be able to bring up his science grade, thus proving to his mother that he doesn`t need to go to a private school because of his dyslexia. Judge has entered the contest with his twin brother Jury, but Jury seems more interested in football than science. Will Judge be able to win the egg-drop? AUTHOR: Jacqueline T. Banks
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall
In an inspired act of literary invention, Alice Randall explodes the world created in Margaret Mitchell's famous 1936 novel, the work that more than any other has defined our image of the antebellum South. Imagine simply that the black characters peopling that world were completely different, not egregious, one-dimensional stereotypes but fully alive, complex human beings. And then imagine, quite plausibly, that at the center of this world moves an illegitimate mulatto woman, and that this woman, Cynara, Cinnamon, or Cindy -- beautiful and brown -- gets to tell her story. Cindy is born into a world in which she is unacknowledged by her plantation-owning father and passed over by her mother in favor of her white charges. Sold off like so much used furniture, she eventually makes her way back to Atlanta to take up with a prominent white businessman, only to leave him for an aspiring politician of her own color. Moving from the Deep South to the exhilarating freedom of Reconstruction Washington, with its thriving black citizenry, Cindy experiences firsthand the promise of the new era at its dizzying peak, just before it begins to slip away. Alluding to events in Mitchell's novel but ingeniously and ironically transforming them, THE WIND DONE GONE is an exquisitely written, emotionally complex story of a strong, resourceful black woman breaking away from the damaging world of the Old South to emerge into her own, a person capable of not only receiving but giving love, as daughter, lover, and mother. A book that gives voice to those history has silenced, THE WIND DONE GONE is an elegant literary achievement of significant political force and a novel whose time has finally come. AUTHOR: Alice Randall
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: General
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 | Clockwork or All Wound Up by Leonid Gore, Philip Pullman
Long ago in Germany, a storyteller spins a spine-tingling tale to cheer up Karl, the apprentice clock maker. But rather than helping matters, the story begins to come true. AUTHOR: Leonid Gore, Philip Pullman
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Pirate Round by James L. Nelson
Description not available.Seeking to tap into the wealth promised by a trade agreement with the Mogul of India, privateer Thomas Marlowe sets out in his ship, the Elizabeth Galley, with a crop of tobacco and finds himself facing two bitter enemies from his past. AUTHOR: James L. Nelson
PUBLISHER: Morrow/Avon
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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