Thin Skin

Author	Jane Goldman
ISBN	0671787209

When it comes to crime in Dreamworld, the sprawling Florida vacation resort might as well be never-never land. That's because the bad things that happen there never reach the press. As an ambitious rookie cop on the community's security force, twenty-five-year-old Sylvia Avery toes the company line,...

Author	June Alexander
ISBN	1742570798

The younger of two daughters, June Alexander grew up with a seemingly idyllic childhood on a dairy farm in south-east Australia. She is her dad's shadow, helping him on the farm and exploring the outdoors. Eleven is a memorable age for June, it is the year she developed an obsession with food and her weight....

Author	James Herriot
ISBN	0312110677

Smudge is an adorable black-and-white lamb, who lives in Farmer Cobb's farmyard with his mother and many other animals. One fine spring day, though, Smudge decides to see the world outside Farmer Cobb's fence, and finds himself on a glorious adventure-until he discovers that he can't get back in .

Smudge,...

Author	Jen Sincero
ISBN	0743453913

At twenty-eight, Jenny Troanni has decided to become the rock goddess she was always meant to be. Items on her new to-do list include:
1) Quit going-somewhere copywriting job and get going-to-band-practice job.
2) Break up with Hootie and the Blowfish-lovin' boyfriend.
3) Hang out in...

Author	Marele Day
ISBN	1573227226

Carla, Margarita, and Iphigenia are three nuns living in a crumbling monastery on a remote island, forgotten by time, the world, and the church. Their liturgical calendar is governed by the changing of the seasons, and by the rising and setting of the sun. Their days are spent performing a ritual of prayer...

Author	Robin Troy
ISBN	0671024493

Winner of the MTV Fiction Contest
Marking the debut of a vibrant new voice in American fiction, Floating is a poignant and sharply original novel about the fragile boundaries between desire, love, and betrayal. For most people, Whitticker, Arizona, population 641, is just a rest stop on a highway...

Author	Tod Goldberg
ISBN	0743400569

Lonnie Milton has all of life's essential accessory pieces: a 401(K) plan, a nice TV, a coffee table from Pottery Barn. The only thing missing is an actual life. Trapped in a dead-end job, Lonnie meets Claire, the perfect deliverance from his safe, boring, and even worse, ordinary life. Sucked into the...

Author	Keith Lowe
ISBN	0743423526

Andy's obsession with the London Underground is interfering with his life. On the eve of his wedding, he makes a drunken bet that challenges him to travel through every single Tube station in just one day. Only by completing the entire map will Andy retrieve the Eurostar tickets he needs to get to his wedding...

Author	Arthur Nersesian
ISBN	0671775421

mary bellanova came home to her east village apartment, cooked dinner, and fought with her boyfriend, primo. but soon mary realized that primo's silence in front of the tv set was more than just one of his bad moods: primo was actually dead.
other guys had abandoned mary before,but primo's exit was...

Author	Darcey Steinke
ISBN	0802136648

Vanity Fair called this intensely erotic story of a young woman's sexual and psychological odyssey "a provocative tour through the dark side." Jesse, a beautiful twenty-nine-year-old, is adrift in San Francisco's demimonde of sexually ambiguous, bourbon-drinking, drug-taking outsiders. While...

Author	Constance C. Greene
ISBN	0140368507

Beautiful story. But quite upsetting.

Realistic YA Fiction.

Also a movie.

The plot concerns a family, with two sisters, Cate and Joss. They are more then sisters but also best friends.

One day, Joss, the younger sister is killed in a tragic accident., shattering...

Author	Alex McAulay
ISBN	1416525734

From the author of Bad Girls comes another dramatic novel of survival and suspense. It's Laguna Beach meets Cape Fear when a rich girl from California confronts murder and isolation on North Carolina's stormy Outer Banks.

When Caitlin Ross's mother takes her and her brother to an island in...

Author	Maeve Brennan
ISBN	1582431191

Reading Maeve Brennan is like watching a master jeweler construct a ticking watch from an array of tiny, inanimate parts. -Linda Barrett Osborne, New York Times Book ReviewSo good that I kept putting the book down to savor a description or perfect phrase, to hug myself with malicious joy, and to put off...

Author	Jo Kingsley
ISBN	0749926376

I'm probably more obsessed with ED books than is healthy, but it's so reassuring to read other people's experiences that are similar to my own. This book was absolutely fantastic - not only did it help me see that I'm not alone or abnormal, but I was also able to read a mother's point of view on the experience....

Author	Jonathan Rosen
ISBN	0312424361

Ruth Simon is beautiful, smart, talented, and always hungry. As a teenager, she starved herself almost to death, and though outwardly healed, inwardly she remains dangerously obsessed with food. For Joseph Zimmerman, Ruth's tormented relationship with eating is a source of deep distress and erotic...

Author	Louisa Luna
ISBN	0743439953

Melody is just out of prison. Faced with the absence of her brother, who's serving life in San Quentin, and hardened by her own experiences in lock-up, Mel sturggles to adjust to the harsh realities of life on the outside. She quickly discovers that freeedom is relative...she has no money, no prospects,...

Author	Marc A. Zimmer
ISBN	1439257027

Before she turned twenty, Jessica Gordon was raped by the woman entrusted to protect her and nearly killed by her brother, but those events paled in comparison to the life-and-death struggles she faced for the next twenty-five years. In Dr. Marc A. Zimmer and N.R. Mitgang's powerful biography, "The...

Author	Lilly Lindner
ISBN	3733500938

DAS ERSTE JUGENDBUCH VON BESTSELLERAUTORIN LILLY LINDNER

Lilly Lindner ist ein Phänomen. Sie ist ein außergewöhnliches Schreibtalent.
Nun hat sie ihr erstes Jugendbuch geschrieben und trifft mit ihrer glasklaren und poetischen Sprache jeden Leser direkt ins Herz.

April...

Author	Catherine Palmer
ISBN	0842354220

This novel explores the adult feelings & experiences of a set of siblings who grew up in a missionary family in Africa. Of course I can identify with some of what they go through (fortunately not the boarding school part of it!), & I'm glad I read the book--in one long sitting last night.

I...

Author	John Harvey
ISBN	0805054952

Another fine effort by John Harvey, and of course, now I'm so invested in the life of Charlie Resnick and his fellow cops that I spend part of my time worrying over all their futures. At least in Charlie's case, he finally has a girlfriend, a teacher who was dealing with one of the criminals who populate this...

Author

Julianna Baggott

Pixie Kitchy was once Miss New Jersey. Now she's married to a dentist, an ex-quarterback in turtled golf pants. Her ten-year-old daughter, Mitzie, wears Bo-peep pincurls and twirls baton. Her sixteen-year-old son, Ezra, the person who knows her best, is caught up in his fling with the podiatrist's...