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The third in the Now Read This series, Pearl & Cords's guide briefly describes and organizes approximately 500 of the most popular and current contemporary, mainstream fiction titles according to their primary appeal features-character, setting, language, and story. It also notes award-winning titles and those appropriate for book clubs; and it offers users suggestions for related reads. Focus is on titles published since 2000, and all annotations are new to this volume. This is "the" standard readers' advisory guide to mainstream fiction, and an essential tool for readers' advisors.

Navigate the fascinating world of mainstream fiction With emphasis on award-winning fiction, this companion guide to "Now Read This: A Guide to Mainstream Fiction, 1978-1998, " features more than 500 novels published between 1990 and 2001. Using the same easy-access organization that made the original so popular, this book includes more than 400 new entries and several features that enable you to discover new reads and read-alikes based on an appeal-characteristics approach to the literature. Never again shy of an answer to Can you recommend a good book? you will find this to be an...

For eighteen-year-old Shannon Lightley, life s been an endless parade across Europe, following either her actress mother or her renowned journalist father. Paris, Milan, London Shannon has been everywhere, but somewhere along the way, she realizes she s really nowhere.

Having graduated from high school and about to board yet another flight for yet another destination, Shannon is offered an alternative: stay in Portland, Oregon, with her parents close friend and help his law firm investigate a group of strangers living near the local university. A will with a substantial inheritance...

From Caldecott-winning illustrator David Small and bestselling author Bonny Becker, an unforgettable Christmas story that will leave the whole family giggling.

When Alice Jayne finds a crocodile under the tree on Christmas Eve, her family goes into an uproar The Christmas Crocodile doesn't mean to be bad, not really, but soon he is eating up Christmas--from the dinner roast to the left stove-top burner...even the Christmas tree Everyone has an opinion about what to do with him. Uncle Theodore suggests they send him to Africa, Father recommends the zoo, and Aunt Figgy...

Fifteen Montana cowboys and five hundred longhorns are embarking on a one of a kind Wild West adventure: a cattle drive across a thousand miles of Siberia. The clash of cultures between East and West, American six shooter and Russian saber, begins immediately when a band of Cossacks arrives to escort them to their destination. Cowboys and Cossacks must work together or they ll never survive the journey, which includes a meeting with the warrior, Genghis Kharlagawl, and his army of bloodthirsty Tartars. The code of the cowboy and the credo of the Cossack offer different measures of manhood...

This first picture book in nationally renowned librarian Nancy Pearl's new Book Crush Rediscoveries series for children and young adults is now available for a new generation of readers. Herman has made plans to visit his aunt Gert, so he sets out in his fur coat for her house. But on his way, a passing bear mistakes Herman for the Bear family's cousin Julius. The bear invites Herman home for a visit, and all the bears think Herman is Cousin Julius Can Herman convince the Bear family that he is definitely not their cousin and most definitely not a bear? Bernice Myers's classic picture...