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Secret Room by Uri Shulevitz
While traveling through the desert, a king and his counselors meet an old man who has grey hair but a black beard. When the king asks the man why this is so, the man's answer so impresses the king that he hires him as an advisor. This twist of fate so angers one of the king's other advisors that he sets out to outwit the man. Illustrated with colorful tempera paintings.

AUTHOR: Uri Shulevitz
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General

Grandpa's Soup by Eiko Kadono, Satomi Ichikawa
After the death of his wife, an old man gradually realizes that making the soup she used to cook and sharing it with friends eases his loneliness. A warm story about loss and friendship. Color illustrations throughout.

AUTHOR: Eiko Kadono, Satomi Ichikawa
PUBLISHER: Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General

Halloween Countdown by Charlotte Huck, Jos. A. Smith, Joseph A. Smith
Description not available.An imaginative number book by the author of Princess Furball counts ten scary Halloween things, such as hooting owls, yowling cats, furry bats, and skinny witches, from one to ten and then back down again.

AUTHOR: Charlotte Huck, Jos. A. Smith, Joseph A. Smith
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General

More Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin, Barbara Rosenblat
The sixth novel in Maupin's TALES OF THE CITY series, which was first published as a daily newspaper serial in 1976. The publication of this novel coincides with a 1998 television series.

AUTHOR: Armistead Maupin, Barbara Rosenblat
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General

Flesh of the God by Lauren Hanley
Description not available.Exiled to Buhen, a fortified city in a desolate region of the Nile valley, for exposing the misdeeds of high-ranking Egyptian aristocrats, Lieutenant Bak, an officer in the service of Queen Hatshepsut, finds himself investigating the brutal killing of Buhen's commandant, a crime in which the victim's beautiful young widow is the chief suspect. Original.

AUTHOR: Lauren Hanley
PUBLISHER: Morrow/Avon
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General

A Light on the Veranda by Ciji Ware
Somewhere between OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS and WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? lies A LIGHT ON THE VERANDA. Harpist Daphne Duvallon moves into her decrepit ancestral home, an antebellum mansion in Natchez, Mississippi currently inhabited by her doddering cousin Maddy. There, Daphne begins to have strange, enlightening visions of her female ancestors, who were harpists, too. Eventually, she starts a romance with an environmental crusader-cum-photographer and a new career as a jazz harpist, while also striving to repair relations with her dysfunctional family.

AUTHOR: Ciji Ware
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General