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  Nightmares and Dreamscapes

  by Stephen King

  A large collection of King's short stories, including the internationally-beloved "Home Delivery" which was also collected in Skipp and Spector's BOOK OF THE DEAD.
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  Guess How Much I Love You

  by Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram

  How much can you love someone? Little Nutbrown Hare wants to show Big Nutbrown Hare how very much he loves him - but love as big as his is very hard to measure! This tender picture book has become a modern classic for millions of children and their families at bedtimes and it was shortlisted for the prestigious Kurt Maschler Award. With its warm and simple narrative on the depth of the love between a mother hare... (more)
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  Glory Field

  by Walter Dean Myers

  Follows five generations of an African-American family, from the capture and enslavement of the first ancestor, through the Civil War and the end of segregation, to a troubled cousin's reunion with his family. Reprint. AB. K. PW. SLJ.
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  Insomnia

  by Stephen King

  Ralph Roberts hasn't been sleeping well lately. Every morning he wakes just a little bit earlier until pretty soon, he isn't sleeping at all. It wouldn't be so bad if not for the strange hallucinations--and the nightmares that keep coming to life.
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  Disclosure

  by Michael Crichton

  "Expertly crafted, ingenious and absorbing." The Philadelphia Inquirer. The #1 Bestseller by the author of "Jurassic Park." As he did in "Rising Sun," Crichton focuses on a topic as close as today's newspaper headlines: sexual harassment. Tom Sanders is an up-and-coming executive at the computer firm DigiCom. When his new boss turns out to be a woman who is both his former lover and a business rival, Sanders... (more)
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  Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

  by John Berendt

  Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town. A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie. And a redneck gigolo whose conquests... (more)
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  Born In Trilogy: Book 1

  Born in Fire

  by Nora Roberts

  The New York Times bestselling trilogy of three modern sisters bound by the timeless beauty of Ireland begins. Artist Maggie Concannon creates beautiful glass images through a blowpipe and with a fiery furnace, much as she herself was born and survived her mother's angry frustrations and resentment. Then Maggie falls in love with Rogan, her new agent, who brings her passion, fame, and riches.
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  Owl in Love

  by Patrice Kindl

  Like her ancestors, Owl Tycho is a shape-shifter - an apparently normal fourteen-year-old girl who can change into an owl at will. Unfortunately for Owl, Mr. Lindstorm is twenty-six years her senior, married, and living in a split-level in the suburbs. Still, Owl keeps watch nightly over Mr. Lindstorm - and as she does, she notices a strange owl and a wild, vicious boy lurking in the woods outside his home. Does... (more)
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  Chester Cricket: Book 2

  Tucker's Countryside

  by George Selden

  Harry Cat and Tucker Mouse set off for the Old Meadow where Chester Cricket lives to save it from destruction by bulldozers. Accustomed to the city, they have a hard time finding places to stay and good things to eat; still they try to find a special plan to save the meadow.
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  Punished by Rewards: The Trouble With Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, As, Praise, and Other Bribes

  by Alfie Kohn

  The basic strategy we use for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summarized in six words: Do this and you'll get that. We dangle goodies (from candy bars to sales commissions) in front of people in much the same way we train the family pet. Drawing on a wealth of psychological research, Alfie Kohn points the way to a more successful strategy based on working with people instead of... (more)
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  DAW Books: Book 968

  The Year's Best Horror Stories XXII

  by Karl Edward Wagner

  Return, if you dare, to the dark realms of terror with intrepid guide Karl Edward Wagner as he once again seeks out the most fear-inspiring tales of the year. Cower in horror as Jack the Ripper reaches out from the grave to take bloody vengeance on a rock band ... even as a "retired" serial killer experiences the perfect end to a perfect life ... while an injured woman receives a blood transfusion only to find she... (more)
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  I Never Saw Another Butterfly (One Act)

  by Celeste Rita Raspanti

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  Star Wars Jedi Academy: Book 2

  Dark Apprentice

  by Kevin J. Anderson

  Luke Skywalker finds his academy threatened by untold dangers when his most talented and rebellious student, Kyp Durron, delves dangerously into the Dark Side of the Force, aided by an evil and deadly enemy.
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  Brain Sex

  The Real Difference Between Men and Women

  by Ph. D. Moir, Anne, Anne Moir, David Jessel

  Why can't a woman be more like a man? What is this thing called "feminine intuition"? Why are men better at reading maps, and women at other people's characters? The answers lie in the basic biological differences between the male and female brain, which, say the authors, make it impossible for the sexes to share equal emotional or intellectual qualities.
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  Catherine, Called Birdy

  by Karen Cushman

  "Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life." Catherine feels trapped. Her father is determined to marry her off to a rich man--any rich man, no matter how awful. But by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several would-be husbands packing. Then a shaggy-bearded suitor from the north comes to call--by far the oldest, ugliest, most revolting suitor of them all. Unfortunately, he is also the richest. ... (more)
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  Swamp Angel

  by Anne Isaacs, Paul O. Zelinsky

  Swamp Angel, a prodigious heroine who can disarm taunting men and marauding bear alike, is the original creation of a talented new writer whose tall-tale text unfolds in a crackling combination of irony, exaggeration, and sheer good humor. Caldecott Medallist Paul O. Zelinsky, working in an American primitive style on cherry and maple veneers, brings his matchless wit and whimsy to these characters of... (more)
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  Magic Tree House: Book 4

  Pirates Past Noon

  by Mary Pope Osborne

  Illus. in black-and-white. Jack and Annie are in deep trouble when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the days of desert islands, secret maps, hidden gold--and ruthless pirates! Will Jack and Annie discover a buried treasure? Will they find out the identity of the mysterious M? Or will they walk the plank?
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  One True Thing

  A Novel

  by Anna Quindlen

  One True Thing (94422) 7Cassettes/9.75 hours. Copyright 1994 By Anna Quindlen. P 1995 By Recorded Books, Inc. Unabridged. Narrated by Christina Moore. ISBN 0-7887-0198-3. (from cassettes and case)
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  Children of the River

  by Linda Crew

  Grades 7 and up Sundara fled Cambodia with her aunt's family to escape the Khmer Rouge army when she was thirteen, leaving behind her parents, her brother and sister, and the boy she had loved since she was a child. Now, four years later, she struggles to fit in at her Oregon high school and to be "a good Cambodian girl" at home. A good Cambodian girl never dates; she waits for her family to arrange her marriage... (more)
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  Nightmares

  Poems to Trouble Your Sleep

  by Jack Prelutsky

  Spooky pen-and-ink drawings highlight poems about the scariest creatures of the night, including witches, werewolves, ghouls, ogres, and bogeymen. Reprint. K.