November 1996

General Non-Fiction The Antislavery Movement. James T. Rogers. At the Dawn of Tyranny: The Origins of Individualism, Political Oppression, and the State. Eli Sagan. Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets. Hugh Maclean. Brecht: The Dramatist. Ronald D. Gray. The Civil Rights Movement. Charles Patterson. The Civil Rights Movements: An Eyewitness History. Sanford Wexler. The Civil War and Reconstruction: An Eyewitness History. Joe Kirchberger. Companion to the French Revolution. John Paxton. The Definitive Guide to Unidentified Flying Objects and Related Phenomena. David Ritchie. Diabetes. Liz Ferber. Dickens from Pickwick to Dombey. Steven Marcus. Dickens's England. Tony Lynch. The Disappearance of God: A Divine Mystery. Richard Elliot Friedman. Disturbing the Universe. Freeman Dyson, Jr. The Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Modern Agriculture. Craig Canine. Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Comprehensive Reference to the International Power Struggle that Dominated World Politics for Almost 50 Years. Thomas S. Arms. Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. Matthew Bunson. Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles. Martin Gardner. Every Picture Tells a Story: Images of Victorian Life. John Hadfield. Film: An International History of the Medium. Robert Sklar. Five Equations that Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics. Michael Guillen, Ph.D. The German Army 1933-1945: Its Political and Military Failure. Matthew Cooper.

Grammar Works! 15 Reproducible Skills Lessons that Teach Essential Grammar Rules. Jim Halverson. The Great War in Africa (1914-1918). Byron Farwell. Hidden in the Blood: A Personal Investigation of AIDS in the Yucatan. Carter Wilson. Historical Sites in Israel. Moshe Pearlman and Yaacov Yannai. The History of Science in the Eighteenth Century. Ray Spangenburg and Diane K. Moser.On the Shoulders of Giants Series. The History of Science in the Nineteenth Century. Ray Spangenburg.On the Shoulders of Giants Series. The Japanese Today: Change and Continuity. Edwin O. Reischauer. Jewels and Ashes. Arnold Zable. Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truths: Autobiography and the Making of the African-American Intellectual Tradition. V.P. Franklin. The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History. Howard Bloom. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Freedom Movement. Lillie Patterson. Mathemagic. Raymond Blum. The Neanderthal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Modern Human Origins. James Shreeve. The Once and Future Goddess: A Symbol for Our Time. Elinor Gadon. Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going. Marvin Harris. The Reign of Henry VIII: Personalities and Politics. David Starkey. The Pacific War Atlas 1941-1945. David Smurthwaite. Revolutionary America 1763-1800. Thomas L. Purvis. Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas. Richard C. Trexler. Straight Talk About Prejudice. Rachel Kranz. Triumph and Terror: The French Revolution. Steven Otfinoski.

Biography, Memoir, Humor Angela's Ashes. Frank McCourt. Coltrane: A Biography. C.O. Simkins. Coyote V. Acme. Ian Frazier. The Emperor's Last Island: A Journey to St. Helena. Julia Blackburn. God: A Biography. Jack Miles. Great Plains. Ian Frazier. Half a Life. Jill Ciment. Steven Spielberg. Liz Ferber.

Fiction and Poetry Indian Killer. Sherman Alexie. Katerina. Aharon Appelfeld. Lost Illusions. Honore de Balzac. All Souls' Rising. Madison Smartt Bell. The Complete Poems. Elizabeth Bishop. The Winds of Darkover and the Planet Savers. Marion Zimmer Bradley. Lewis Percy. Anita Brookner. Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories. Italo Calvino. Tam Lin. Pamela Dean. Into the Green. Charles De Lint. The Horse Whisperer. Nicholas Evans. September September. Shelby Foote. Close Quarters. Larry Heinemann. The Sixteen Pleasures. Robert Hellenga. The Bone Forest. Robert Holdstock. At Home in Mitford. Jan Karon. Sacred Ground. Mercedes Lackey. China Boy. Gus Lee. Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish. Morgan Llewelyn. Spring Moon. Bette Bao Lord. The Art Lover. Carole Maso. I Was Amelia Earhart. Jane Mendelsohn. Falling Up: Poems and Drawings by Shel Silverstein. Murder is Murder is Murder (A Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Mystery). Samuel Steward. On the Golden Porch. Tatyana Tolstaya. Raise the Red Lantern. Tong Su. Rice. Tong Su. The Sweet-Shop Owner. Graham Swift. Seven Japanese Tales. Junichiro Tanizaki. This Earth of Mankind. Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Stickman: Poems, Lyrics, Talks, a Conversation.John Trudell. Back in the World. Tobias Wolff.

Junior Non-Fiction The Picture History of Great Inventors. Gillian Clements. Junior Fiction and Poetry The Foundling, and Other Tales of Prydain. Lloyd Alexander. Catherine Called Birdy. Karen Cushman. A Bone from the Dry Sea. Peter Dickinson. Vulpes the Red Fox. Jean Craighead George. The Lives of Christopher Chant. Diana Wynne Jones. Wild Robert. Diana Wynne Jones. The Case of the Safecracker's Secret. Carolyn Keene. The Ghost of Craven Cove. Carolyn Keene. The Secret of Shady Glen. Carolyn Keene. The Dragon in the Ghetto Caper. E.L. Konigsburg. The Ghost of Thomas Kempe. Penelope Lively. Doctor Doolittle: A Treasury. Hugh Lofting. The Daydreamer. Ian McEwan. A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories. Robin McKinley. Where the Broken Heart Still Beats: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker. Carolyn Meyer. The House on Hackman's Hill. Joan Lowery Nixon. A Key to the Treasure. Peggy Parish. Falling Up: Poems and Drawings by Shel Silverstein. Dinotopia. Hatchling. Midori Snyder. Tristan and Iseult. Rosemary Sutcliff. Dinotopia. Sabertooth Mountain. John Vornholt. This month we received several fresh-looking paperback editions of classic works from Puffin Classics. Some of these have been abridged slightly to appeal to younger readers. They include (abridged titles are starred): Anne of Green Gables, The Count of Monte Cristo*, Great Expectations*, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, King Solomon's Mines, Pride and Prejudice*, The Railway Children, The Tale of Troy, A Tale of Two Cities*, Tales from Shakespeare, Tales of Mystery and Terror, The Three Musketeers*, The Water Babies*, and Wuthering Heights.

Videos Ethical Choices: Dealing with Diversity. Channel 13/ WNET. Memory of the Camps. PBS. The Shadow of Hate. Teaching Tolerance. The West, Parts 1-8. Ken Burns (PBS). On three tapes.