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|  | The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Marlowe is hired to search for Roger Wade, a novelist who has disappeared on a drinking binge. Wade's wife, Eileen, hopes that Marlowe will become Wade's bodyguard. Marlowe also encounters Terry Lennox, husband of a nymphomaniac heiress who is ultimately murdered, and Marlowe must help Terry, now a suspect, escape to Mexico. In this novel, Marlowe's disillusionment with the human character is far more bitter than in previous books. But Marlowe does, finally, allow himself to fall in love--with Linda Loring, Terry Lennox's sister-in-law. This novel won Chandler an Edgar award. AUTHOR: Raymond Chandler
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Wet Magic by Edith Nesbit, Flo Gibson, H. R. Millar, Peter Glassman
Description not available.On a holiday at the seashore, Bernard, Mavis, Kathleen, and Francis save a mermaid from captivity and, after an incredible magic-filled journey beneath the waves, they must race against time to avert a war and save their underwater friends. Simultaneous. AUTHOR: Edith Nesbit, Flo Gibson, H. R. Millar, Peter Glassman
PUBLISHER: SeaStar Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson
Thirteen-year-old Melanin Sun has always had a close relationship with his mother, a single parent. He is surprised when she tells him that she has fallen in love with a white woman. Worried that this relationship means that she doesn't love him, an African-American male, Melanin shuts his mother out of his life. After a confrontation, he agrees to spend the day with his mother and her partner, Kristen. It is through meeting Kristen that Melanin learns how important family is, and rejoices in the fact that his mother will always have a place for him in her life. AUTHOR: Jacqueline Woodson
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Legend of the Piasa Bird by J. R. Roberts
Description not available.In Easterly, Indiana, Clint Adams, the Gunsmith, takes on a bloodthirsty posse calling themselves The Doomsday Riders, a gang responsible for the destruction of at least a dozen small towns. Original. AUTHOR: J. R. Roberts
PUBLISHER: Berkley Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, Magda Bogin
Isabel Allende's compelling magical-realist saga about the Trueba family in Chile is a political and social history of the country, as well as a powerful novel of family relationships. The novel revolves around the lives of the larger-than-life patriarch Esteban, his elusive wife Clara, their rebellious daughter Blanca, and Blanca's out-of-wedlock child Alba, who leads the family into the future. AUTHOR: Isabel Allende, Magda Bogin
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Drummer Boy of Vicksburg by G. Clifton Wisler
A fictional story about the Civil War based on the life of Orin Howe, a 14-year-old boy from Illinois who fought for the Union Army. Howe earned the Medal of Honor for bravery during a battle in Vicksburg, Mississippi when he risked his life to reach General Sherman to tell him that the regiment needed more ammunition. AUTHOR: G. Clifton Wisler
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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