Week for Feb. 8, 2010

FIC     THO
    Creature of the Night     Kate Thompson
                    Bobby recklessly smokes, drinks, and steals cars in Dublin, and when his mother relocates the family to a small cottage in the countryside, Bobby believes a certain spookiness lurks in the corners of the new home. 250 pages

FIC      DRA
    Fire from the Rock      Sharon M. Draper
                      Sylvia Patterson's life suddenly changes with the integration of Little Rock's Central High in 1957 when she is selected to be one of the first black students to attend the previously all white school.  231 pages

FIC      NOE    
  Evermore          Alyson Noel
                      Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras and hear people's thoughts, and  she goes out of her way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries. 306 pages

FIC     STR    
  Olive Kitteridge     Elizabeth Strout
                      A collection of thirteen linked short stories recounting the experiences of Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher who witnesses the changes in her town and the world at large. 286 pages

FIC     REB    
Three girls and Their Brother: A Novel   Theresa Rebeck
                    Three young women find themselves easy prey for the sharks of show business when they are offered modeling careers; however, an incident with a famous movie star causes them to reevaluate their lives and relationships with one another. 341 pages

FIC     AND  
    Peaches: a novel:       Jodi Lynn Anderson
       Love and Peaches: a novel
               The Secrets of Peaches: a novel
                      Three very different friends, Murphy, Leeda, and Birdie, struggle to cope with the joys and sorrows of love, family, and destiny as their friendship is tested beyond its limits.  311 pages