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Norway. Corporate headhunter Roger Brown excels in his field, loves his beautiful wife, and steals paintings. Roger's life turns upside…
down when he meets Clas Greve, a job candidate who has discovered a lost Rubens. Originally published in Norwegian in 2008. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. 2011
Miss Kanagawa, one of fifty-eight dolls sent by Japanese school children to serve as ambassadors to America from the 1920s…
through the 1940s, travels the country learning to love while changing the lives of girls who need her. For grades 4-7. Newbery Honor Book. 2011
The Hollows, New York. Small-town police detective Jones Cooper investigates the disappearance of his son Rick's girlfriend, which is eerily…
similar to a missing-person case from Jones's teen years. His wife Maggie is troubled that Jones seems to suspect Rick. Some violence and some strong language. 2010
The summer before Raine O'Rourke starts seventh grade, her mother takes a job as a cook at an artists' colony…
on a country estate. At first Raine resents leaving her grandfather in Milwaukee, but then she discovers a secret about her past. For grades 5-8. 2011
In this sequel to The Broken Kingdoms (DB 72762) godling Sieh befriends twins Shahar and Dekarta, the newest generation of…
Arameri. Sieh is made mortal and faces death. Meanwhile, Shahar must choose between loyalty and love. Some violence and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2011
NYPD detective Nikki Heat learns she aced the lieutenant's exam. But her investigation into a priest's bondage-club death soon leads…
to Heat's suspension after she is blamed for a media leak. She turns to journalist Rook for help. Strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sex. 2011
Irish Cuban Grace O'Bryan and her girlfriends have dated every bachelor in their hometown of Daytona Beach. When the women…
decide to turn their book club into a boyfriend club that rates each guy according to a literary character, membership skyrockets. Strong language. 2010
Third-grader Clementine's science-project rat has escaped from his cage at school. Meanwhile, during a family meeting at home Clementine learns…
that her perfect family of four will become five when a new baby arrives. Sequel to Clementine, Friend of the Week (DB 71844). For grades 2-4. 2011
Cemetery restorer Amelia Gray sees ghosts, but ignores them. When detective John Devlin, who is haunted by his wife's and…
daughter's apparitions, asks Amelia to investigate a murder, Amelia discovers she must walk the fine line between the living and the dead. Violence and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2011
Sin's world turns upside down when she has to ally with the Ryves brothers to save her beloved goblin market…
from evil magicians. Sequel to The Demon's Covenant (DB 72094). Some violence and some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2011
When a radical group takes the U.S. president hostage at the White House, British twins Rich and Jade find themselves…
in danger. The siblings help their spy father, John Chance, save the president and protect the nation's nuclear launch codes. Sequel to Sharp Shot (DB 73339). For grades 6-9. 2009
At Sister Joan's request, FBI agent Emma Sharpe inspects a painting at the convent in Maine where Emma was once…
a novice. When Sister Joan is murdered, undercover agent Colin Donovan arrives to assist Emma and falls in love. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2011
Explores the last twenty-seven years of the life of writer Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) and describes the solace that he found…
aboard his fishing boat Pilar, which he obtained in 1934. Discusses both Hemingway's literary career and his family, including his cross-dressing youngest son Gregory. Some strong language. 2011
Actor, born James Scott Bumgarner in 1928 into a hardscrabble Oklahoma life, recounts his reluctant route to stardom. Discusses his…
television shows, including Maverick and The Rockford Files, and movies such as The Great Escape, Support Your Local Sheriff, and The Notebook. Some strong language. 2011
Seventeen-year-old Cullen Witter believes he knows everything about his dreary town of Lily, Arkansas. Then his cousin dies from an…
overdose, his brother Gabriel goes missing, and an extinct woodpecker reemerges. Strong language. For senior high and older readers. Printz and Morris Awards. 2011
Southern Ohio and West Virginia, 1945-1960s. Arvin Russell is a good young man despite enduring a grim and sorrowful childhood.…
But when life continues to place evil people in his path, Arvin takes the law into his own hands. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2011
The four Alden children--Benny, Violet, Jessie, and Henry--volunteer at the new recycling center in town, which encourages people to take…
home and reuse items. But when someone breaks in at night and makes a mess, the Boxcar Children have a mystery to solve. For grades 2-4. 2011
Cheese-loving alley cat Skilley and a community of mice form an unlikely alliance at London's Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, an…
inn where Charles Dickens finds inspiration and Queen Victoria makes an unexpected appearance. For grades 4-7. 2011
Tough trucks work all day long puffing smoke, lifting big metal beams, and moving dirt at a construction site, until…
they get tuckered out and go to sleep for the night. For preschool-grade 2. 2011
Time-travel technician Charles Yu saves people from themselves while he searches for his father, who invented time travel before vanishing,…
and visits his mother, who is stuck in a time loop. 2010