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Looking for a good book? The Cuyamaca Library ESL Collection is a fine collection of classic and contemporary fiction.
This ESL Library collection was project is funded by the Basic Skills Initiative to help Cuyamaca students enjoy the art of reading. 

   

ESL 98 novels  To find the book and it's call number go to Library Catalog and type in "ESL 98" or "ESL 102" or "ESL 105"

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain).
  a boy and a runaway slave have some close calls with villains and the mighty Mississippi River
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman
  Rudi Matt’s father dies attempting to climb the Citadel but bravely faces the mountain’s challenge himself in honor of his father’s courage and determination.
The Call of the Wild by Jack London  
Stolen from his family, a dog named Buck must quickly learn the harsh law of survival amongst the men and dogs of the Canadian wilderness. 
• Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
  Set in Medieval England, a young lady bravely challenges her father and resists an arranged marriage.
• Children of the Dust Bowl by Jerry Stanley   
  The California Dust Bowl days of the 1930s and the formidable hardships residents of Weedpatch Camp, one of several farm-labor camps they faced.
• Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
  Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and falls under the protection a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
• Days of the Blizzard  by Marietta Moskin 
• DeathWatch by Robb White
  Needing money for school, a college boy accepts a job as guide on a desert hunting trip and nearly loses his life as he becomes the hunted.
• Devils Storybook by Natalie Babbit
  Ten comic stories about the Devil's plans to increase the population of his realm...The stories are delightful in their narrative. 
• Florence Nightingale by Sandra Woodcock (biography)
• Ghosts of El Grullo by Patricia Santana 
  In her sequel to the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize-winning Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility(listed below), novelist Santana follows Yolanda Sahagún, now a young woman struggling to find an identity of her own within her Mexican-American community while uncovering the secrets left behind by her oddly secretive, recently deceased mother.
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen  
  When the pilot of a small two-passenger plane has a heart attack and dies, Brian (the passenger) has to crash land in the forest of a Canadian wilderness.
• The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford      
  Separated  from their owners, a young Labrador retriever, a bull terrier, and a brave Siamese cat set out through the Canadian wilderness  and make their way home to the family they love.
• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper   
  Classic tale of Hawkeye-Natty Bumppo-the frontier scout who turned his back on "civilization," and his friendship with a Mohican warrior as they escort two sisters through the dangerous wilderness of Indian country in frontier America.           
• The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter  
  True Son, the kidnapped child of a pioneer family, is raised by Cuyloga and his Lenni Lenape tribe of Indians. Richter places True Son in a difficult situation when he is returned to his white family as part of a peace treaty.
• Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility by Particia Santana  
  Yolanda Sahagún, is 14 years old girl growing up in the 1960's and struggling to find an identity of her own in her Mexican family.
The sequel is Ghosts of El Gruillo (listed above)
• Old Yeller by Red Gipson        
  This heart-warming book is about Old Yeller, (Which mean 'Yellow' in those days) a stray golden-brown dog which Travis' little brother (Little Arliss) finds and is determined to keep.
• Point Blank by Anthony Horowitz
  Powerful, privileged and screwed up, 16 boys in a boarding school suddenly turn into model students. It's up to Alex Rider to find out why and to face the maniacal man who has engineered it all in a bid to take over the world in Point Blank.
• The Red Badge of Courage  by Stephen Crane     
  The story of young Henry Flemming, who joins the Union army during the Civil War, despite the wishes of his mother to the contrary.
• Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz
  British secret agent Alex Rider, last heard from in Point Blank (2002), is back in another adventure. This time he's on an island near Cuba where he's up against a retired Russian general who plans to set off a nuclear device
• Stonewords-A Ghost Story by Pam Conrad   
  Zoe tells her story, beginning when she is five and comes to live with her devoted, nurturing grandparents. She immediately discovers that their 19th-century house is haunted by Zoe Louise, a beautiful child dressed in old-fashioned clothes, eagerly anticipating her eleventh birthday party.   
• The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare  
  13-year-old Matt is left alone to guard his family's newly built homestead. One day, Matt is brutally stung when he robs a bee tree for honey. He returns to consciousness to discover that his many stings have been treated by an old Native American and his grandson.    
• The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima   
  The hero, Shinji, a poor young fisherman of noble character, falls in love with Hatsue, beautiful and good daughter of the wealthy merchant marine Terukichi.
• Ultimate Gift by Jim Stovall
  What would you do to inherit a billion dollars? Would you be willing to change your life?
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
  In 1687, 16-year-old Katherine Tyler, (known throughout the story as Kit) leaves her home in Barbados after her grandfather's death and goes to New England to live with her aunt and uncle in Wethersfield, a small Puritan community in Connecticut Colony.

 

English as a Second Language 102 To find the book and it's call number go to Library Catalog and type in "ESL 98" or "ESL 102" or "ESL 105"

• Anahita’s Woven Riddle  by Meghan Nuttall Sayers
   In Iran, more than 100 years ago, a young woman with three suitors gets permission from her father and a holy man to weave into her wedding rug a riddle to be solved by her future husband, which will ensure that he has wit to match hers.
• Anne of Avonlea by Lisa Montgomery  
  Anne, a sixteen year-old school teacher in the small town of Avonlea, learns the complications of adult life when she takes charge of two young orphans and experiences new feelings between herself and a childhood friend.
• Anne of the Island by Lisa Montgomery 
  Anne is excited as she begins college but sad about leaving her home town. And although still very close to a childhood friend, she finds she’s not yet ready for marriage.
• Breaking Through by Francisco Jiménez 
  At the age of 14, Francisco and his family are caught by la migra (immigration officers) and forced to leave their California home, but soon find their way back.
• Broken Promise Land by Marcia Muller
  Someone is bent on getting revenge on Ricky Savage, Sharon McCone's brother-in-law and a two-time Grammy Award-winning country singer. The danger escalates as Sharon realizes that more than one person has been playing underhanded games--and that the music industry is truly a broken promise land.
• Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah 
  Adeline Yen Mah's compelling autobiography in which, like the fairy-tale maiden, her childhood was ruled by a cruel stepmother. 
• Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper
  Set in 1738, a young African woman’s peaceful life in a beautiful African village turns to a nightmare when she is kidnapped away from her tribe and taken to South Carolina to be sold as a slave.
• Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
  Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and falls under the protection a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
• Desert Mountain Sea  by Sue Leather  
  Three different women, but all of them determined to go - and to come back alive! Robyn Davidson walked nearly 3,000 kilometers across the Australian desert - with a dog and four camels. Arlene Blum led a team of ten women to the top of Annapurna - one of the highest mountains in the world. Only eight came down again. Naomi James sailed around the world alone, on a journey lasting more than 250 days. Three real adventures - three really adventurous women   
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde  by Robert Louis Stevenson    
  The classic story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tells of a respectable citizen Dr Jekyll who transforms into a madman by night that trolls the streets of Edinburgh in the 1800s.
• The Devil’s Arithmetic  by Jane Yolen  
  When 12-year-old Hannah is transported back to a 1940's Polish village, she experiences the very horrors that had embarrassed and annoyed her when her elders related their Holocaust experiences.  
• Flush by Hiaasen, Carl.
  With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.
• Funny in Farsi by  Firoozeh Dumas 
  lighthearted memoir chronicles the author's move from Iran to America in 1971 at age seven, the antics of her extended family and her eventual marriage to a Frenchman.    
• The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield 
  Fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera 
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  Nobody Owens is perfectly normal, except that he has been raised by ghosts, and lives in a graveyard. Now that he’s older, he’d like to leave.  But if he steps outside the graveyard gates, he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed his family.
• Girl of Kosovo by Alice Mead      
  In the late 1990s, Zana's rural village is targeted when the Serbian ruling class steps up its efforts to completely wipe out ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.>
• The Glass Harmonica  by Louise Marley
  Eilish Eam is an orphan and street musician, living in 1761, London. She survives on pennies and applause, and nothing more. Until the night Benjamin Franklin stops to listen, awe-struck by her gift-and with plans for her future... Erin Rushton is a classical musician living in 2018, Seattle. She stands in the orchestra, consumed by the music-and haunted by visions of a young girl from a different time, who needs her help...
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling   
  After 11 years of disregard and neglect at the hands of his aunt, uncle and their swinish son Dudley, Harry suddenly receives a visit from a giant named Hagrid, who informs Harry that his mother and father were a witch and a wizard, and that he is to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry himself.
• Holes by Lois Sachar
  Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where the warden makes the boys spend all day, every day, digging holes. It doesn’t take Stanley long to realize the warden is looking for something, and to start trying to dig up the truth.
• Hoops by Walter Dean Myers
• Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
  Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontё 
  Mystery romance novel about a young woman, named Jane Eyre growing up in 19th century times.
• Jaws by Peter Benchley 
  It is a well written horror story about a shark attack.
• King Solomon’s Mines by Sir H. Rider Haggard     
  Hunter Allan Quatermain and three Englishmen search for a lost explorer in Africa  
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell  
  This is the story of Karana, the Indian girl who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Year after year, she watched one season pass into another and waited for a ship to take her away.In Nueva York  by Nichlasa Mahr  ;
• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes 
   Johnny Tremain, is an apprentice silversmith who lives in Boston during the American Revolution 
• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper    
  Classic tale of Hawkeye-Natty Bumppo-the frontier scout who turned his back on "civilization," and his friendship with a Mohican warrior as they escort two sisters through the dangerous wilderness of Indian country in frontier America.
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit by Nahoko Uehashi
  The wandering warrior Balsa is hired to protect Prince Chagum from both a mysterious monster, and the Prince’s father, the Mikado.
• Mystic and Rider by Sharon Shinn
  Gillengaria abounds in magic, yet its mystics, the carriers of magic, aren't well regarded. Tolerated in the North by royal order, in the South they're feared, even hated. Lately it appears that organized riders are attacking and murdering mystics. To verify and assess the situation, King Baryn dispatches fire mystic Senneth to the South.
• Other Bells for Us to Ring by Robert Cormier  
• The Peace Corps Experience by Caroll Bellamy
• The Pearl  by John Steinbeck     
  A young couple content with the humble living find their happiness shattered when their baby boy is stung by a scorpion. When they cannot afford to pay a doctor. Then comes the miracle. Kino find a great pearl. The future looks bright again.

• Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Series) by Rick Riordan
  The gods of Olympus—and their half-human offspring—are still alive and well in the 21st Century.  This fast-paced series follows the adventures of Percy Jackson and his modern demigod friends as they fight mythological monsters and the forces of the titan lord Kronos.

  Titles: The Lightning Thief (Book One)
              The Sea of Monsters (Book Two)
              The Titan’s Curse (Book Three)
              The Battle of the Labyrinth (Book Four)
              The Last Olympian (Book Five)
• Pride and Prejudice  by Jane Austen
  Mr. and Mrs. Bennet -- a country squire of no great means and his scatterbrained wife -- must marry off their five vivacious daughters. At the heart of this all-consuming enterprise are the headstrong second daughter Elizabeth and her aristocratic suitor Fitzwilliam Darcy, two lovers in whom pride and prejudice must be overcome before love can bring the novel to its magnificent conclusion.
• The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope   
  The story is of a British nobleman who decides to visit the country of Ruritania during the coronation of the king. He is aware that he is distantly related and is vaguely aware that he resembles the king. He arrives in the kingdom shortly before the coronation and becomes involved in an impersonation of the king when there is a kidnappping.
• The Raft  by Robert Trumbull     
  The Raft is a soldier's straightforward report of his thirty-four-day ordeal adrift in a tiny raft in the Pacific with two other men and almost no equipment or supplies during WWII  
• Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne  
  Can Phileas Fogg travel round the world in eighty days? He bets all his money that he can, but he doesn't know that someone wants to stop him. Will he make it back to London in time?     
• The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf by Gerald Morris
  Lynet, a feisty young woman, journeys to King Arthur’s Camelot in order to find a champion to rescue her beautiful older sister, and is joined on the quest by a clever dwarf and a bold kitchen boy, neither of whom is what he seems.
• Singer in the Snow by Louise Marley
  In a land where the sun shines only once every five years, two gifted young Singers are sent to a remote outpost where they struggle to refine their abilities to create heat and light using their psi energy.
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 
  Historical fiction during the French Revolution with added romance and war.
• Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe 
  The eerie stories of Edgar Allan Poe remain amongst the most influential works of American fiction. The celebrated tales found in this collection include two of the finest detective stories - "Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter" - and others that will make your hair stand on end.
• A Walk Through the Fire by Marcia Mueller.
  Accidents are plaguing a documentary film crew on breathtakingly beautiful Kauai. Can San Francisco P.I. Sharon McCone ferret out possible sabotage behind the scenes?
• The War of the Worlds by H G Wells           
  Martians land on Earth just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land.
• Whisper to the Blood: A Kate Shugak Novel by Dana Stabenow
  A Canadian mining company has discovered a rich mineral deposit in Alaska’s enormous Iqaluk Wildlife Refuge. Politicians see dollar signs for the state, but Ninilta residents, who live near the proposed site, are split: Will outsiders take the jobs? Will the wildlife be harmed by pollution? Will roads disintegrate . . . tourists invade? Then two individuals associated with the company turn up dead, and Kate is drawn into the investigation.
• Who Moved my Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, M. D.    
  This is a brief tale of two mice and two humans who live in a maze and one day are faced with change: someone moves their cheese. Reactions vary from quick adjustment to waiting for the situation to change by itself to suit their needs. This story is about adjusting attitudes toward change in life, especially at work.
• A Wild and Lonely Place by Marcia Muller
  A series of bombings at embassies, consulates and U.N. delegation offices in the U.S. over the last five years is the work of someone the feds and the San Francisco police call the Diplo-bomber. A $1-million reward has been offered, and Sharon signs on with the slick security office of RKI to investigate.
• Winter Room by Gary Paulson           

English as a Second Language 105 To find the book and it's call number go to Library Catalog and type in "ESL 98" or "ESL 102" or "ESL 105"

• Anahita’s Woven Riddle by Meghan Nuttall Sayers
  In Iran, more than 100 years ago, a young woman with three suitors gets permission from her father and a holy man to weave into her wedding rug a riddle to be solved by her future husband, which will ensure that he has wit to match hers.
• Anne of Avonlea by Lisa Montgomery 
  Anne, a sixteen year-old school teacher in the small town of Avonlea, learns the complications of adult life when she takes charge of two young orphans and experiences new feelings between herself and a childhood friend.
• Anne of the Island by Lisa Montgomery
  Anne is excited as she begins college but sad about leaving her home town. And although still very close to a childhood friend, she finds she’s not yet ready for marriage.
• The Arabian Nights Tales From A Thousand and one Nights by Sir Richard F. Burton               
• And Then There were None by Agatha Christie 
  Story of 10 strangers, each lured to Indian Island by a mysterious host. Once his guests have arrived, the host accuses each person of murder. Unable to leave the island, the guests begin to share their darkest secrets--until they begin to die.   
• A Child Called It    by Dave Pelzer  
• Copper Sun/ Sharon M. Draper- Set in 1738, a young African woman’s peaceful life in a beautiful African village turns to a nightmare when she is kidnapped away from her tribe and taken to South Carolina to be sold as a slave.    
• A Room With a View  by E. M. Forster  
  Love story of a young woman stuck in this repressive English culture who is transformed by romantic Italy and awakened to love when she meets the true love of her life there without even knowing it... but will she realize this before it's too late? This is a classic to come to again and again. A must-have for all true romantics. 
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath  
  An autobiographical novel of a young woman's struggle with a nervous breakdown.    
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller   
  Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive. Anti-war theme.
• Coyote Waits by Tony Hillerman
  Navajo tribal policemen unravel the mystery of the murder of another tribal policeman with an old shaman as the prime suspect         
• The Diary of Young Girl  by Anne Frank 
  Dutch Jewish teenager Anne Frank's keeps a diary describing the two years she hid from the Nazis with her family and friends.
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Alboum   (non-fiction)     
  83-year-old Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement Park,does not suspect he is only minutes away from death as he goes about his typical business at the park .
• Fletch by Gregory McDonald
• Flush by Carl Hiaasen
  With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.    Echoes by Maeve Binchy 
  Romantic melodrama, set in an Irish seaside town in the Fifties and early Sixties. The youngest daughter of a shopkeeper whose meager living depends on summer trade, Clare O'Brien is determined to move beyond her present circumstances. Hard work and the guidance of an irreverent, caring schoolteacher bring the resolute scholar to a college in Dublin. Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier<>
   A novel that revolves around the famous Vermeer painting where the author imagines the subject of the painting to be a maid in the artist’s home.
• The Glass Harmonica by Lousie Marley
  Eilish Eam is an orphan and street musician, living in 1761, London. She survives on pennies and applause, and nothing more. Until the night Benjamin Franklin stops to listen, awe-struck by her gift-and with plans for her future... Erin Rushton is a classical musician living in 2018, Seattle. She stands in the orchestra, consumed by the music-and haunted by visions of a young girl from a different time, who needs her help...
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  Nobody Owens is perfectly normal, except that he has been raised by ghosts, and lives in a graveyard. Now that he’s older, he’d like to leave.  But if he steps outside the graveyard gates, he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed his family
• First Part Last by Angela Johnson
  A young man must accept the responsibilities of single-fatherhood.
• Flush by Carl Hiaasen
  With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.
• The Hobbit  by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Holes by Lois Sachar
  Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where the warden makes the boys spend all day, every day, digging holes. It doesn’t take Stanley long to realize the warden is looking for something, and to start trying to dig up the truth.
• Hoot by Carl Hiaasen 
  Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
• Into thin Air by Jon Krakauer  (biography)
  Journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down. He was wrong. The author recounts his experiences on last years ill-fated, deadly climb.
• Journey To the Center of the Earth  by Jules Verne       
  A classic of nineteenth-century French literature, this science fiction tale delves into the depths of the Earth, and by so doing, reveals the staggeringly long history of our planet.
• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
  Bioengineers clone 15 species of dinosaurs and establish an island preserve where tourists can view the large reptiles; chaos ensues when a rival genetics firm attempts to steal frozen dinosaur embryos, and it's up to two kids, a safari guide and a paleontologist to set things right.
• Kidnapped by  Robert Louis Stevenson   
  David Balfour sets out to meet his uncle and claim his inheritance. This adventure takes him through the highlands of Scotland where he embarks upon a long journey back from treachery and deceit . 
• Men are From Mars, Women Are From Venus by John Gray (non-fiction)
  Relationship counselor John Gray focuses on the differences between men and women--men are from Mars, and women are from Venus, after all--and offers a simple solution.
• Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit by Nahoko Uehashi
  The wandering warrior Balsa is hired to protect Prince Agum from both a mysterious monster, and the Prince’s father, the Mikado.
• The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
  The story of Robin, Maid Marion, and the men of Sherwood Forest.
• Mystic and Rider by Sharon Shinn
  Gillengaria abounds in magic, yet its mystics, the carriers of magic, aren't well regarded. Tolerated in the North by royal order, in the South they're feared, even hated. Lately it appears that orgaire mystic Senneth to the South.
• One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey   
  Story of a mental ward in which the despotic Nurse Ratchet reigns over the doctor and all the inhabitants. Nurse's unchallenged tyranny begins to whittle as McMurphy, a 35-year-old Korean veteran who has history of insubordination and street brawls, resolves to oppose her every step of the way and raises the racket in her ward    
• The Perfect Storm  by Sebastian Junger 
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Series) by Rick Riordan
  The gods of Olympus—and their half-human offspring—are still alive and well in the 21st Century.  This fast-paced series follows the adventures of Percy Jackson and his modern demigod friends as they fight mythological monsters and the forces of the titan lord Kronos.

Titles: The Lightning Thief (Book One)
            The Sea of Monsters (Book Two)
            The Titan’s Curse (Book Three)
            The Battle of the Labyrinth (Book Four)
            The Last Olympian (Book Five)

• The Roots of the Blues  by Samuel Charters (non-fiction)
  How the blues music was handed down from African slaves to musicians of today via the slave ships.
• The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf by Gerald Morris
  Lynet, a feisty young woman, journeys to King Arthur’s Camelot in order to find a champion to rescue her beautiful older sister, and is joined on the quest by a clever dwarf and a bold kitchen boy, neither of whom is what he seems.                     
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne     
  A tale of love, crime, and revenge set in colonial New England. It revolves around a single, forbidden act of passion that forever alters the lives of three members of a small Puritan community.
• Singer in the Snow by Louise Marley
  In a land where the sun shines only once every five years, two gifted young Singers are sent to a remote outpost where they struggle to refine their abilities to create heat and light using their psi energy.
• The Sleeping Prophet  by Edgar Cayce (non-fiction)
  This fascinating biography, written by on the country's foremost authorities on metaphysics.
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne  
  Science fiction fantasy carries its hero—Professor Aronnax of the Museum of Paris—on a thrilling and dangerous journey far below the waves to see what creatures live in the ocean’s depths.
• A Walk Through the Fire by Marcia Muller
  Accidents are plaguing a documentary film crew on breathtakingly beautiful Kauai. Can San Francisco P.I. Sharon McCone ferret out possible sabotage behind the scenes?
• Tarzan  of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burrough’s      
  John Clayton, born in the western coastal African jungle is found as an infant by the she-ape Kala after his parents died (his father is killed by the savage king ape Kerchak, Clayton is named "Tarzan" and raised in ignorance of his human heritage .
• To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee           
• Whisper to the Blood: A Kate Shugak Novel  by Dana Stabenow
  A Canadian mining company has discovered a rich mineral deposit in Alaska’s enormous Iqaluk Wildlife Refuge. Politicians see dollar signs for the state, but Ninilta residents, who live near the proposed site, are split: Will outsiders take the jobs? Will the wildlife be harmed by pollution? Will roads disintegrate . . . tourists invade? Then two individuals associated with the company turn up dead, and Kate is drawn into the investigation.
• White Fang  by  Jack London  
  A wolf-dog who endures great cruelty before he comes to know human kindness.
• A Wild and Lonely Place by Marcia Muller
  A series of bombings at embassies, consulates and U.N. delegation offices in the U.S. over the last five years is the work of someone the feds and the San Francisco police call the Diplo-bomber. A $1-million reward has been offered, and Sharon signs on with the slick security office of RKI to investigate.
• The Woman in White  by Wilkie Collins  
  Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue
   

 

 

 

 

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