Friday, November 19, 2010

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag: 
A Flavia de Luce Mystery
Alan Bradley
Fiction B728w
Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, finds herself untangling two deaths--separated by time but linked by the unlikeliest of threads. (From book jacket)

Fables: Storybook Love


    







Fables: Storybook Love
Willingham, Bill
GN W678fs 
Follows the adventures of storybook and nursery rhyme characters who live side-by-side with humans.

Mars


   







Mars, vol. 1
Soryo, Fuyumi
GN So7141m:E 
When popular Rei saves shy Kira from the harassing hands of her sleazy art teacher, Kira finds herself drawn to Rei and summons up the courage to let him into her world.

Truer Than True Romance


  





Truer Than True Romance: Classic Love Comics Retold 
Martinet, Jeanne
GN M385t
Parodies the romance comics of the 1940s to the 1970s and offers irreverent dating attitudes and romantic advice, updating ten DC Comics romance stories with new word balloons and captions to accompany the original artwork.

Anna Karenina


  






Anna Karenina
Tolstoy, Leo
Fiction t58Oa:E1980
A beautiful, passionate Russian woman escapes the restrictions and boredom of her marriage through a love affair with a charming soldier.

Summers at Castle Auburn


  






Summers at Castle Auburn
Shinn, Sharon
Fiction Sh631su2002
Coriel Halsing has spent many summers with her half-sister at Castle Auburn chasing and falling in love with a handsome prince who can never be hers, but now that she is grown she begins to understand the dark side of the magical palace.

Archangel


  






Archangel
Shinn, Sharon
Fiction Sh631an1996
In order to maintain peace on the Utopian planet of Samaria, the archangel Gabriel plans to marry a mortal woman, Rachel. She, however, has other ideas.

You & You & You









You & You & You
Nilsson, Per
Fiction N599d:E
Young Anon, who marches to the beat of a different drummer in galoshes to protect himself from radiation, touches the lives of all around him, resulting in disillusionment, loss, love, and more than a few surprises.

Twilight

  







Twilight
Meyer, Stephenie
Fiction M575t2006 
When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

Series:
New Moon Fiction M5758n
Eclipse Fiction M5758e
Breaking Dawn Fiction M5758b

Beauty


  






Beauty
McKinley, Robin
Fiction M2152be
Kind Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay and through her love releases him from the spell which had turned him from a handsome prince into an ugly beast.

Winter Rose


  






Winter Rose
McKillip, Patricia
Fiction M2122wi1997
Two sisters, one delicate and sensible, one rough-hewn and sensual, fall in love with an aristocrat who returns to claim his family's abandoned estate, only to fall victim to the curse of his legendary grandfather.