A Hat Full of Sky
by Terry Pratchett
Hardcover: May 2004
Paperback: Jun 2005
Tiffany Aching, a young witch-in-training, learns about magic and responsibility as she battles a disembodied monster with the assistance of the six-inch-high Wee Free Men and Mistress Weatherwax, the greatest witch in the world. Ages 12+.
A genre-bending debut with a fiercely political heart, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens explores the weight of the devil's bargain, following the lengths one man will go to for the promise of freedom.
A Heart of Stone
by Renate Dorrestein
Hardcover: Jan 2001
Paperback: Jan 2002
Seamlessly alternating the past and present, taut with Hitchcockian tension and warmed by a redemptive love story, A Heart of Stone tells a darkly humorous, yet ultimately compassionate tale.
Throughout human history. certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. Six of them have had a surprisingly pervasive influence on the course of history, becoming the defining drink during a pivotal historical period from the Stone Age...
A House Called Awful End
: Eddie Dickens Trilogy, #1
by Philip Ardagh
Hardcover: Sep 2002
Paperback: Sep 2003
This hilarious historical spoof, the first in the Eddie Dickens trilogy, has been called "a scrumptious cross between Dickens and Monty Python. Ages 9+.
An Hour Before Daylight
: Memories of A Rural Boyhood
by Jimmy Carter
Hardcover: Dec 2000
Paperback: Oct 2001
Carter's clean and eloquent prose evokes a time when the cycles of life were predictable and simple and the rules were heartbreaking and complex - Carter creates a sensitive portrait of an era that shaped the nation.
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