Terror/SCI-FI

Carrie by Steven King
Unaware that she possesses a terrifying power, Carrie White creates much destruction in a small, quiet New England town.
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Sphere by Michael Crichton
In the middle of the South Pacific, 1,000 feet below the surface, a huge spaceship is discovered resting on the ocean floor. Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at a logical explanation
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Complete Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice
Set includes: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, and The Tale of the Body Thief. First up: Interview with the Vampire, in which fanged Lestat makes a fellow vampire of Louis, a despairing 18th-century Louisiana aristocrat. Chronicle No. 2, The Vampire Lestat, Lestat becomes a 1980s rock star and explores his vampire past in a book with an exuberant tone. Book No. 3, The Queen of the Damned, involving a scheme, by the ancient Egyptian Akasha--the momma of all vampires--to kill most men and create a feminist paradise ruled by herself. In the fourth chronicle, The Tale of the Body Thief, Lestat trades his immortal body to a con man named Raglan James, who offers him two days of strictly mortal bliss.
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The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying exsitence.
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MISC.

Sphere by Michael Crichton


Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welsh's controversial first novel, set on the heroin-addicted fringe of working-class youth in Edinburgh, is yet another exploration of the dark side of Scottishness. The main character, Mark Renton, is at the center of a clique of nihilistic slacker junkies with no hopes and no possibilities, and only "mind-numbing and spirit-crushing" alternatives in the straight world they despise. This particular slice of humanity has nothing left but the blackest of humor and a sharpness of wit. American readers can use the glossary in the back to translate the slang and dialect--essential, since the dialogue makes the book.
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The World According to Garp by John Irving
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields--a feminist leader ahead of her times. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes--even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with "lunacy and sorrow"; yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust.
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Follow My Leader by James B. Garfield
After Jimmy is blinded in an accident with a firecracker, he has to relearn all the things he used to know. With the help of a determined therapist, he learns to read Braille and to use a cane. Then he's given the chance to have a guide dog. Learning to work with Leader is not easy, but Jimmy tries harder than he ever has before.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.
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The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path. In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered. And a mother's quest begins -- to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain. It is an odyssey that will bring her to...The Horse Whisperer. He is the stuff of legend. His voice can calm wild horses and his touch heal broken spirits. For secrets uttered softly into pricked and troubled ears, such men were once called Whisperers. Now Tom Booker, the inheritor of this ancient gift, is to meet his greatest challenge.
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Girl Stories and Contempory Fiction

The Diary of a Young Girl : The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank, Otto H. Frank (Editor), Mirjam Pressler (Editor), s Massotty, Miriam Pressler (Editor)
Anne Frank's extraordinary diary, written in the Amsterdam attic where she and her family hid from the Nazis for two years, has become a world classic and a timeless testament to the human spirit. Now, in a new edition enriched by many passages originally withheld by her father, readers meet an Anne more real, more human, and more vital than ever. A new translation of Anne Frank's diary includes entries that were originally omitted by her father--approximately one-third of the diary--and provides insight into Anne's budding sexuality and her stormy relationship with her mother.
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Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
A powerful and moving novel that deftly blends the legend of Sleeping Beauty with the historical tragedy of the Holocaust. After her grandmother's death, a young American woman struggles to uncover the truth behind the old woman's past. The trail eventually leads to Europe and the darkest days of WWII.
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Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books by Francesca Lia Block
Available for the first time in a single volume, Francesca Lia Block's five post-modern fairy tales chronicle the thin line between fear and desire, pain and pleasure, cutting loose and holding on in a world where everyone is vulnerable to the most excruciatingly beautiful and dangerous angel of all--love.
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I Was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block
Unique language and characters turn a problem novel into romantic comedy in this tale of a molested Valley teenager and her sharp-tongued, pinky-sized companion. Groomed relentlessly for the role of beauty pageant queen, meek Barbie Marks makes a fierce wish, and meets a fairy named Mab; despite the gossamer wings and a ``glimmersome twinkle,'' Mab could eat Tinkerbelle for lunch. An irascible, challenging confidante, she is still around five years later when Barbie, a successful fashion model, meets Todd Range, a real ``biscuit'' in Mab's approving estimation, made even more appealing by his meltingly vulnerable roommate Griffin Tyler. Time-honored complications ensue, but Barbie's ultimate realization that Todd is The One gives her the courage to confront her domineering mother with the fact of her molestation by a photographer years before. Cut to Barbie (now Selena Moon, a new name to go with her newly independent spirit) and Todd in a cozy love nest, with Mab, having found a biscuit for Griffin, and even one for herself, bidding fond adieu. Block (Girl Goddess #9, 1996, etc.) conjures up some sympathy for Barbie's mother, and even for the photographer, but lines between heroes and villains are deliberately drawn, and the book, with its live-wire sprite, is as bright and focused as anything she has written. (Fiction. 13-15) -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
Our Weetzie Bat Review
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Girl Goddess #9 by Francesca Lia Block
Movie stars, rock stars, pond nymphs, intergalactic superheroes . . . who are the real goddesses in Francesca Lia Block's world? Real young women--the kind who ache, bleed, dance, and talk to blue ghosts in closets. Famous for her lyric Weetzie Bat books, Block blossoms in this collection of short stories about love: straight, gay, familial, and otherworldly. Very few young adult authors talk as frankly as Block about sex and some of the other yearnings we feel in this world, yet she guides her readers toward the self-respect and courage necessary to make smart choices about those yearnings.
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Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Niece of the assassinated Chilean president Salvador Allende, Isabel Allende has written a luminous literary novel that traces the life of an orphan from her impoverished beginnings to her rise to fame and fortune.
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Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
When reality got "too dense" for 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen, she was hospitalized. It was 1967, and reality was too dense for many people. But few who are labeled mad and locked up for refusing to stick to an agreed-upon reality possess Kaysen's lucidity in sorting out a maelstrom of contrary perceptions. Her observations about hospital life are deftly rendered; often darkly funny. Her clarity about the complex province of brain and mind, of neuro-chemical activity and something more, make this book of brief essays an exquisite challenge to conventional thinking about what is normal and what is deviant.
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Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur S. Golden
Experience the entire life of a geisha, from her origins as an orphaned fishing-village girl in 1929 to her triumphant auction of her mizuage (virginity) for a record price as a teenager to her reminiscent old age as the distinguished mistress of the powerful patron of her dreams. Discover that a geisha is more analogous to a Western "trophy wife" than to a prostitute--and, as in Austen, flat-out prostitution and early death is a woman's alternative to the repressive, arcane system of courtship. In simple, elegant prose, Golden puts us right in the tearoom with the geisha; we are there as she gracefully fights for her life in a social situation where careers are made or destroyed by a witticism, a too-revealing (or not revealing enough) glimpse of flesh under the kimono, or a vicious rumor spread by a rival "as cruel as a spider."
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Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates
Foxfire chronicles the life of five unforgettably real teenage girls in upstate New York in the 1950s who form a blood sisterhood to protect one another against the world and its oppressors, until their leader's disastrous act of revenge puts all their lives in turmoil. This controversial, topical tale captures the exhilaration of conspiracy, the blaze of youth, and the inevitable end of violence. Oates's most powerful work yet.
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Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffrey
Pursuing her dream to be a Harper of Pern, Menolly studies under the Masterharper learning that more is required than a facility with music and a clever way with words. Sequel to Dragonsong
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Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
For more than two hundred years, the Owens women had been blamed for everything that went wrong in their Massachusetts town. And Gillian and Sally endured that fate as well: As children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. One would do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they shared, even into adulthood, brought them back--almost as if by magic...
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The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden is a very real book. Mary Lennox is an orphan girl with a bad temper. She is forced to live in the home of a rich uncle, a man who has no time at all for her. She wishes for a quiet place to go and do things by herself. She finds the secret Garden, and that wish comes true.But when she meets her uncle's mysterious son, her cousin, the fun starts to unravel. She makes friends him and Dickon, Martha's brother. This happy ending book is filled with excitment and never ending fun.
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The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh
The interesting adventure of a young girl exploring writing and immigrating are terrific. The Silver Pencil has it's own unique flavor; strange at first, but then wonderful as you get into it!!!!
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Self-Help and How-to

Zine Scene: The Do It Yourself Guide to Zines by Francesca Lia Block and Hillary Carlip
For amateurs and the accomplished, even devout aficionados, "Zine Scene" offers an insider's account of the blood, sweat, and determination it takes to envision, create, and maintain a do-it-yourself publication.
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Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul by Jack Canfield
This Chicken Soup volume consists of stories every teen can relate to and learn from--without feeling criticized or judged. Featuring contributions from Montel Williams, Jennie Garth, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and A.J. Langer, this edition also contains lessons on the nature of friendship and love and the value of self-respect.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield
Two of America's best-loved inspirational speakers team up to share recipes for spiritual healing--stories that represent the prime ingredients of what is possible, that warm the heart,delight the spirit, and confirm our right to be more fully human.
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Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul by Jack Canfield
Featuring contributions by such authors as Robert Fulghum, Kathy Lee Gifford, and Ann Landers, an addition to the Chicken Soup for the Soul series offers women inspiration on such subjects as love, motherhood, and aging. Simultaneous. 500,000 first printing.
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Chicken Soup for the Mothers's Soul by Jack Canfield
We can all remember a time when we were young and under the weather, and Mom soothed and nurtured us back to health with her magical chicken soup elixir. Now we can revisit those cherished moments with a delightful batch of stories for and about mothers.
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Solo : Women Singer-Songwriters in Their Own Words by Marc Woodworth
This first-of-its-kind collection vibrates with the high-voltage energy of today's most exciting female singer-songwriters as they speak out, look inside, and reveal their lives. Jonatha Brooke * Kate Campbell * Mary-Chapin Carpenter * Rosanne Cash * Shawn Colvin * Sheryl Crow * Catie Curtis * Ani DiFranco * Dionne Farris * Jewel * Lucy Kaplansky * Mary Lou Lord * Sarah McLachlan * Joan Osborne * Holly Palmer * Rosanne Raneri * Suzanne Vega * Lucinda Williams * Cassandra Wilson
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Reviving Ophelia by Mary Bray Pipher
At adolescence, says Mary Pipher, "girls become 'female impersonators' who fit their whole selves into small, crowded spaces." Many lose spark, interest, and even IQ points as a "girl-poisoning" society forces a choice between being shunned for staying true to oneself and struggling to stay within a narrow definition of female. Pipher's alarming tales of a generation swamped by pain may be partly informed by her role as a therapist who sees troubled children and teens, but her sketch of a tougher, more menacing world for girls often hits the mark. She offers some prescriptions for changing society and helping girls resist.
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School Classics That Are Actually Cool

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
I am so glad that this year I was introduced to such a wonderful novel; A Tale of Two Cities is the kind of novel that touches and excities the reader from start to finish. Each character represents a part of ourselves and Charles Dickens did a great job in bring the troubles and joys of one people to all people no matter what century they may live in. Characters such as Sydney Carton and Lucie Manette are the ideals and idols that hundreds of people have looked to and will look to for moral gudiance throughout time. A classic for all and one that will live on in the halls of great literature.
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Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, The Count of Monet Cristo recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantes, a dashing young sailor falsely accused of treason. The story of his long imprisonment, dramatic escape, and carefully wrought revenge offers up a vision of France that has become immortal.
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Clan of the Cave Bear (the complete works) by Jane Auel
Jean Auel's epic works, The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, and The Mammoth Hunters, are now available in a rich, brown bonded leather edition with an embossed matching leather slipcase.

Clan of the Cave Bear by Jane Auel
Through Jean Auel's magnificent storytelling, we are taken back to the dawn of mankind and swept up in the wonderful world of a very special heroine, Ayla. Her enthralling story is one we all can share. A natural disaster has left young Ayla alone, wandering, fending for herself in an unfamiliar land. One day, she is discovered by the Clan of the Cave bear, men and women far different from her own people. Tall, blond, blue-eyed Ayla is a mysterious stranger to the Clan and at first they mistrust her and cast her out. But as she grows to know them and to learn the ways of the Clan, she is welcomed. And as she leads them in their struggle for survival, the Clan come to worship Ayla. For in her blood flows the future of humanity.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The American classic about a young girl's coming of age at the turn of the century.
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Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Although there have been many illustrated editions of Alice, rarely has one been done in Lewis Carroll's own visual medium of photography. Abelardo Morell, quickly gaining recognition as one of the major American photographers of our time, is the ideal artist to take on this challenge. His early photographs of illustrated books are striking images of worlds within worlds that in their alterations of an illustration's space and shape have the distinct flavor and mystery of Wonderland. So too do his oversize camera obscura images--magical, cityscape projections that have received national attention--mirror Carroll's own passion for upside-down and multiple worlds. For Alice, Morell goes further, photo-graphing the Tenniel characters and then staging them in evocative three-dimensional settings. In his fascinating introduction, historian and critic Leonard S. Marcus offers a glimpse into the intriguing connection between Lewis Carroll's pioneering efforts as a photographer and his timeless contributions to the world of nonsense. Marcus shows in what ways Lewis Carroll and Abelardo Morell are kindred spirits in the fierce delight they take in the crazy patchwork quality of life and in their shared belief that nonsense makes the best sense of all.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
"My greatest thought in living is Heathcliff. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be... Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure... but as my own being." Wuthering Heights is the only novel of Emily Bronte, who died a year after its publication, at the age of thirty. A brooding Yorkshire tale of a love that is stronger than death, it is also a fierce vision of metaphysical passion, in which heaven and hell, nature and society, are powerfully juxtaposed. Unique, mystical, with a timeless appeal, it has become a classic of English literature.
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Poetry

A Night Without Armor by Jewel Kilcher
In A Night Without Armor, her first collection of poetry, Jewel explores the fire of first love, the fading of passion, the giving of trust, the lessons of betrayal, and the healing of intimacy. She delves into matters of the home, the comfort of family, the beauty of Alaska, and the dislocation of divorce. And then there are the images of the road, the people, the bars, the planes, places exotic and mundane, loneliness and friendship. Frank and honest, serious and suddenly playful, A Night Without Armor is a talented artist's intimate portrait of what makes us uniquely human.
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Theology

Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations. . . . It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which Robbins spins this alarmingly provocative book. In his audacious style, the bestselling author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues deals with the most sensitive issues of the day.
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The Screwtape Letters by C.S.Lewis
A masterpiece of satire, this classic has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles, seen from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below".

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