Young
Adult/Contemporary/Coming of Age
Letters to Julia
Barbara Ware Holmes
HarperCollins 0060273410
A teen writer enters into a relationship with an edtor who is reading her chapters.
Young Adult/Science
Fiction/Alien Beings
Home
Kimberly Fuller
Tor 0312861524
A young woman finds an alien in a space capsule on the shore and learns that the residents of her planet had stolen it from its inhabitants.
The book was brought to the attention of the publisher through the "Make a Wish Foundation," its young author an organ transplant recipient.
Young Adult/Fantasy/Heroic
Crown Duel
Sherwood Smith
Harcourt Brace 0152016082
A brother and sister risk all to save the people from a tyrant.
Young
Adult/Contemporary/Coming of Age
Chasing Redbird
Sharon Creech
HarperCollins 0060269871
Zinny Taylor clears a historic trail in the summer following her beloved Aunt Jessie's death.
Young
Adult/Contemporary/Multi-cultural/Coming of Age
Jubilee Journey
Carolyn Meyer
Harcourt Brace 0152013776
In this stunning sequel to White Lilacs Rose's bi-racial great granddaughter returns to Texas to find her identity as the 75th anniversary of the demise of Freedomtown is commemorated with a Juneteenth celebration.
Young Adult/Mystery
The Case of the Goblin Pearls
Laurence Yep
HarperCollins 0060244445
Twelve year old Lily embarks on an adventure when her Great-aunt the famous actress Tiger Lil comes to Chinatown to promote Lion Salve in the New Year's parade and she witnesses the theft of the famous Goblin Pearls.
Young Adult/Science
Fiction/Hard Science
The Billion Dollar Boy
Charles Sheffield
Tor 0312862040
The spoiled and petulant scion of one of Earth's wealthiest families goes on a drunken spree that lands him in the middle of a space mining operation.
Young
Adult/Fantasy:Magic:Short Stories
Curses, Inc. and Other Stories
Vivian Vande Velde
Harcourt Brace 0152014527
From sad to hilarious this collection of stories of witches and a few ghosts features spells, hexes, jinxes, and more.
Young
Adult/Historical/Native Americans
The Last Rainmaker
Sherry Garland
Harcourt Brace 0152006494
When her beloved grandmother dies and she is betrayed by her father and her cousin, motherless Caroline runs away joining a Wild West show where she learns of her heritage.
Contemporary/Womanly
Patty Jane's House of Curl
Lorna Landvick
Fawcett 0449911004
A humorously touching tale of four women of three generations bound together by love and loss.
Young
Adult/Contemporary/Sexual Identity
"Hello," I Lied
M.E. Kerr
HarperCollins 0060275294
Spending the summer in the Hamptons where his mom is working for retired rock star Ben Nevada, 17 year old gay Lang Penner finds himself attracted to a girl.
Romance/Contemporary
The Mother of His Son
Janis Reams Hudson
Silhouette 0373240953
Sixteen years ago Bethany Martin and her mother disappeared from Rangely without a trace. Now with Beth's father on his deathbed, a father she had been told wanted nothing to do with her, she is summoned back to the town where she had grown up. When she and her son go to the hospital she sees the man who has never been out of her thoughts and dreams, the boy she first fell in love with in first grade and the father of her fifteen year-old son, Dr. Luke Ryan. Luke had never gotten over Beth or her abrupt abandonment all those years ago. He was shocked to find out that he had a son he had never known. Can they rebuild a life together that was destroyed by vindictive lies?
Crime/Women
Detectives/Amateur Detectives/
The Murder Lover
Ellen Rawlings
Fawcett 0449149889
Writer Rachel Crowne is plunged into the investigation of a series of murders when the granddaughter of a friend is murdered. She is fascinated that the other victims are approximately her age, are Jewish, and engaged to be married. Is the perp the handsome evangelist preaching love, the hate mongering newcomer to the community, the fiancŽ or the ex-husband of the first murdered woman or someone else all together?
The Murder Lover is a fast paced puzzle with a likable and believable sleuth who will hopefully be turning up in future adventures.
Romance/Science Fiction
Keeper of the Rings
Nancy Cane
Love Spell 050552077X
At the ceremony inducting Leena into an important religious order in the theocracy of her word it is discovered that the sacred horn that is blown to reset the seasons has disappeared. Because of her knowledge of archeology, Leena is sent on a quest to locate the horn before climatic disaster strikes the world.
The story is in the tradition of the films Raiders of the Lost Ark, Romancing the Stone, and Goonies.