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Arena: Will Test Her Courage And Change Her Life Forever
Par Karen Hancock. 2002
Allegorical Christian tale in which artist Callie Hayes is surreptitiously transported to an alien world. Armed with only a guidebook,…
she must trust the enigmatic Pierce, who helps her find a path through the treacherous Arena, her only hope of escape. Violence and some descriptions of sex. 2002Jack in the pulpit (Martha's Vineyard Mystery Ser. #4)
Par Cynthia Riggs. 2004
Ninety-two-year-old Victoria Trumbull is well prepared to be the deputy police chief: she knows everyone in town and their ancestry.…
When four local residents die in one month, Turnbull investigates, uncovering the secrets of missing corpses and gravestones in the process. Some strong language. 2004Nightfall: and other stories
Par Isaac Asimov. 1969
Twenty science fiction stories written between 1941 and 1967. The title piece, considered a classic of the genre and later…
expanded into a novel, depicts civilization on the planet Lagash, where night falls once in two thousand years. Asimov's comments and notes precede each story. 1969Flip
Par David Lubar. 2003
Eighth-grader Taylor and her twin brother, Ryan, are complete opposites. So when trouble-making Ryan discovers mysterious alien disks that enable…
him to become legends from the past--Babe Ruth, Albert Einstein, and others--Taylor tries to keep him out of trouble. For grades 5-8. 2003Strangers
Par Gardner R Dozois. 1978
On the planet Weinunnach, graphic artist Joseph Farber lives uneasily in a colony of Earthmen among the native Cian. One…
night he ventures from the enclave and meets Liraun, a humanoid Cian, and falls in love. Fundamental differences between their alien cultures complicate their blossoming romance. Descriptions of sex and strong language. 1978Dying in the dark: a Tamara Hayle mystery
Par Valerie Wilson Wesley. 2004
Newark, New Jersey. PI Tamara Hayle is haunted by the spirit of her murdered high school best friend, Celia Jones.…
After Celia's son Cecil asks Tamara to solve the mystery of his mother's death, Tamara explores the secrets of Celia's troubled life. Then Cecil is brutally killed. Strong language. 2004A Sterkarm kiss (Sequel to The Sterkarm Handshake)
Par Susan Price. 2004
Andrea Mitchell from The Sterkarm Handshake (DB 51934) returns to sixteenth-century Great Britain in the Time Tube. Her lover Per…
marries into a rival clan, rekindling a civil war. Some violence and some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2003Fall guy: a Rachel Alexander mystery
Par Carol Lea Benjamin. 2004
Private investigator/dog trainer Rachel Alexander is appointed executor of the estate of detective Timothy O'Fallon, whom she'd met only once…
during a post-terrorism pet-therapy session. As she settles his affairs, she soon begins to wonder about O'Fallon's supposedly accidental death. Strong language. 2004Alien in a bottle
Par Kathy Mackel. 2004
Eighth-grader Sean Winger feels destined to be a glassblower but his parents strongly disapprove. His stargazer classmate Olivia Ricci assists…
him. So does an odd assortment of extraterrestrials Sean came to know after discovering two of them in a glass bottle in the ocean. For grades 5-8. 2004The master quilter: an Elm Creek Quilts novel (Elm Creek Quilts Ser. #No. 6)
Par Jennifer Chiaverini. 2004
The Elm Creek Quilters were quite surprised when master quilter Sylvia married Andrew Cooper on Christmas Eve. Now they are…
secretly conspiring to create a bridal quilt. But the project hits a snag when the local stitchers are confronted with their own personal problems. 2004The book of three (Prydain Chronicles)
Par Lloyd Alexander. 1964
Brainboy and the Deathmaster
Par Tor Seidler. 2003
Twelve-year-old video game whiz Darryl Kirby feels guilty that he's the only family member to survive a fire. Adopted from…
an orphanage by computer software guru Keith Masterly, Darryl finds himself a captive in Masterly's secret laboratory with other child geniuses working on a compound to stop aging. For grades 5-8. 2003For the love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries Ser.)
Par Rhys Bowen. 2003
New York, 1901. In this sequel to Death of Riley (BR 14657), Molly Murphy inherits her boss's detective business. Two…
cases, one to uncover industrial espionage and the other to locate a runaway, intertwine. Molly tries to ease the plight of an immigrant family and finds a new love. 2003Survivor's quest (Star Wars)
Par Timothy Zahn. 2004
Luke Skywalker and his wife, Mara, lead a diplomatic mission to inspect wreckage of the Jedi expedition destroyed fifty years…
ago by enemies. The mission, escorted by alien hosts and a mysterious New Republic impersonator, arrives at the remains and finds survivors. Follows the Corellian Trilogy (DB 41492, DB 42545, DB 42546). 2004Birds of a feather: a novel (Maisie Dobbs Mystery Ser. #Bk. 2)
Par Jacqueline Winspear. 2005
London, 1930s. Wealthy Joseph Waite hires private investigator Maisie Dobbs, a former battlefield nurse, to locate his missing thirty-two-year-old daughter,…
Charlotte. Maisie finds chilling links to Scotland Yard inspector Stratton's latest murder case and the Great War's terrible legacy. 2004The people of Sparks: The Second Book of Ember (Books of Ember #Bk. 2)
Par Jeanne DuPrau. 2004
Lina and Doon from The City of Ember (DB 59907) help relocate fellow underground Ember inhabitants to the surface town…
of Sparks. At first residents of Sparks and Ember share food and shelter. But when resources become scarce, the two groups begin to fight. For grades 5-8. 2004Murder in Montparnasse: a Phryne Fisher mystery (Phryne Fisher Mysteries Ser. #12)
Par Kerry Greenwood. 2004
Australia, 1928. Bert and Cec, soldiers who unknowingly witnessed a murder in post-WWI Paris, appeal to Phryne Fisher to investigate…
the suspicious deaths of two comrades. Phryne confronts her own repressed memories as she proceeds with this assignment. Some explicit descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2002Gateway: a novel
Par Frederik Pohl. 2004
Wealthy prospector Robinette Broadhead wins a one-way trip to Gateway, an abandoned interstellar depot of the vanished Heechee race. Unsettled…
by the experience and with the help of his computerized psychoanalyst, Broadhead begins a personal journey that could lead to his destruction. Strong language. 1976Last lullaby: an Eve Diamond novel
Par Denise Hamilton. 2004
L.A. reporter Eve Diamond accompanies a U.S. Customs supervisor meeting a plane from China. Shots ring out leaving three people…
dead and a two-year-old toddler missing. Eve and a score of unsavory characters search for the child amongst the immigrant population. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2004Murder off mike: A Talk Radio Mystery (Talk Radio Mysteries Ser.)
Par Joyce Krieg. 2003
Outrageous Sacramento radio talk show host Shauna J. Bogart is devastated by the death of a colleague. The police rule…
it a suicide, but Shauna believes otherwise and launches her own on-air investigation--one that could lead to a gubernatorial candidate and the station's demise. 2003