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The following books can be found in the Fiction collection, shelved by the first three letters of the author's last name, e.g., F BAR.

Acito, Marc. How I paid for college: a novel of sex, theft, friendship & musical theater.
Seventeen-year-old Edward Zanni teams up with his misfit friends to help him steal tuition money from his father when he refuses to fund Edward's acting studies at Juilliard.

Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.
Earth is destroyed to allow the building of a hyperspatial express route.

___________. So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Further adventures of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, and the all new voidoid gang upon returning to Earth after eight years of crazed wanderings around the galaxy in this science fiction spoof which continues "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe".

_______. Mostly harmless.
Arthur Dent is forced to leave his idyllic life and travel on the back of a mysterious Perfectly Normal Beast to save the Earth and others.

_______. The Restaurant at the end of the universe.
Arthur Dent takes a zany journey to the low-rent neighborhood of the cosmos.

_______. Life, the universe, and everything.
The comic conclusion to the Hitchhiker's trilogy.

________. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency.
In search for a missing cat, detective Dirk Gently uncovers a ghost, a time-traveler, and the devastating secret of humankind.

________. Long dark tea-time of the soul.
When a passenger check-in desk at London's Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the explosion is deemed an act of God. But which god, wonders holistic detective Dirk Gently? What god would be hanging around Heathrow trying to catch the 3:37 to Oslo?

Anderson, M.T. Burger Wuss.
Hoping to lose his loser image, Anthony plans revenge on a bully, which results in a war between two competing fast food restaurants, Burger Queen and O'Dermott's.

Anthony, Piers. Swell foop.
Cynthia Centaur journeys to the Good Magician Humfrey to ask him a personal question, but in return for the answer, she must protect the future of Xanth from a distant peril.

Bardi, Abby. The Book of Fred.
A sheltered fifteen-year-old girl named Mary Fred Anderson is removed from her home in a fundamentalist sect and placed in foster care in a Washington, D.C. suburb, where a violent act upon her new family has an indelible impact on her, making her reexamine her long-held beliefs.

Bauer, Jaon. Squashed.
16 year old Ellie's life would be almost perfect if she could just get her potentially prize-winning pumpkin, Max, to put on about 200 more pounds, and if she could lose 20 herself.

______. Backwater.
While compiling a genealogy of her family of successful attorneys, sixteen-year-old history buff Ivy Breedlove treks into the mountain wilderness to interview a reclusive aunt with whom she identifies and who in turn helps her to truly know herself and her family.

______. Best foot forward
Between school and Al-Anon meetings, Jenna helps Mrs. Gladstone cope with escalating problems that result from the merger of Gladstone Shoes with Shoe Warehouse Corporation, while managing a new employee with a shoplifting record.

______. Rules of the road
Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father.

______. Hope was here.
When sixteen year old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.

Berlinski, Claire. Loose lips: a roman à Claire.
Selena Keller answers a recruitment ad from the CIA and embarks on an eighteen-month training program to become an intelligence operative, falling in love with a fellow classmate along the way.

Black, Jonah. Faster, faster, faster.
The continuing adventures of Jonah, a Florida high school student looking for the love of his life.

______. Run, Jonah, run.
Jonah Black, an eleventh-grader with a suspended license, schemes to find a way to meet Sophie, his dream girl, at Disney World.

______. Stop, don't stop
Jonah Black struggles with his feelings for two girls, Posie and Sophie.

______. Girls, girls, girls.
Jonah Black, whose thoughts are filled with fantasies about a Pennsylvania girl named Sophie, chronicles in his journal his first six weeks back in Florida after being expelled from a Pennsylvania prep school, during which time he is forced to watch his old friend and new crush, Posie, get friendly with a womanizer.

Block, Francesca Lia. WEETZIE BAT.
Lanky lizards! Follow punk teens Weetzie and Dirk as they search for love in a modern fairy tale that is funny, moving, and unlike any book you've read before!

Bradley, Alex. 24 girls in 7 days.
Unlucky in love, teenager Jack Grammar connot get a date for the prom until his friends play a practical joke and place a personal ad in the school online newspaper on his behalf. Now Jack has twenty-four dates and just seven days until the prom to figure out what to do.

Burnham, Niki. Scary beautiful.
Chloe's serious relationship ends when her boyfriend moves across the country. Now that beautiful Chloe is unattached, she finds everyone in her junior high school class treats her differently.

Cabot, Meg. Princess in love. (Princess Diaries series)
In a series of humorous diary entries, a New York City ninth grader agonizes over her love life, final exams, and future role as the princess of Genovia.

________. All-American girl.
Sophomore Samantha Madison stops a presidential assassination attempt, is appointed teen ambassador to the United Nations, and catches the eye of the very cute First Son.

Chabon, Michael. The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay.
Joe Kavalier has managed to escape from Nazi-occupied Prague, and now he must use his cunning wits to help rescue his family from Hitler's evil plans.

Danziger, Paula. There's a bat in bunk five.
On her own for the first time, fourteen-year-old Marcy tries to cope with the new people and situations she encounters while working as a counselor at an arts camp.

Ehrenhaft, Daniel. Tell it to Naomi
In a harebrained scheme concocted by his neurotic older sister to forge a romantic relationship with the girl of his dreams, fifteen-year-old Dave Rosen pretends to be a female advice columnist for his school newspaper.

Fforde, Jasper. The Eyre affair.
Follows Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection, as she searches for the character of Jane Eyre who has been kidnapped from the pages of Bronte's novel.

_______. Lost in a good book.
Follows Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection, as she searches for the people responsible for holding her beloved captive.

_______. The well of lost plots.
Exhausted by her stint as Miss Havisham's apprentice at Jurisfiction, Thursday Next is delighted by a respite in the Character Exchange Program in the Well of Lost Plots, a place filled with linguistic chaos, lousy books, and a murderer.

_______. Thursday Next in Something rotten
Thursday Next, an English detective who mingles--literally--in the world of fiction, seeks to have her husband resurrected when her hands become full with her toddler son and her new companion, Prince Hamlet, and finds herself juggling Shakespeare clones and trying to save the world through a high-stakes croquet tournament.

_______. Thursday Next in first among sequels
Fourteen years have passed since we last dropped in on Thursday, and not much has changed--except her son Friday has grown into a teenage pill. Now the Goliath Corporation is up to their old mischief, and only Thursday can stop their latest diabolical scheme.

_______. The big over easy: a nursery crime.
Detective inspector Jack Spratt and his partner, sergeant Mary Mary, are called on to solve the nursery crime of Humpty Dumpty's murder. As they search through Humpty's sordid past, they uncover a plot that involves money laundering, bullion smuggling, beanstalk problems, asylum-seeking Titans, and international chiropody.

_______. The fourth bear.
Jack Spratt and Mary Mary return in their second Nursery Crime adventure.

Friedman, Kinky. Meanwhile, back at the ranch
Kinky attempts to find a young, autistic New York boy and a three-legged Texas cat named Lucky.

Gaiman, Neil. Anansi boys.
Charles Fat Charlie Nancy leads a normal, boring existence in London. However, when he calls the U.S. to invite his estranged father to his wedding, he learns that the man just died. After jetting off to Florida for the funeral, Charlie not only discovers a brother he didn't know he had, but also learns that his father was the West African trickster god, Anansi. Charlie's brother, who possesses his own magical powers, later visits him at home and spins Charlie's life out of control, getting him fired, sleeping with his fiancée, and even getting him arrested for a white collar crime.

Gaiman, Neil and Pratchett, Terry. Good omens: the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch.
This zany tale of the bungling of Armageddon features an angel, a demon, an 11-year-old Antichrist and a doom-saying witch.

Garcia, Eric. Anonymous Rex: a detective story.
Los Angeles private investigator Vincent Rubio, one of many dinosaurs who still roam the earth disguised in latex costumes that allow them to blend into human society, jeopardizes his life and the secret of his fellow dinosaurs when he is lured to New York City--the scene of his partner's death.

Geayle, Mike. My legendary girlfriend.
English teacher Will Kelly, still hurting three years after being dumped by his girlfriend Agnes, and depressed over his job, his apartment, and his impending twenty-sixth birthday, sees light at the end of the tunnel when he meets Kate, the previous renter of his awful flat.

Green, John. An abundance of Katherines.
Colin Singleton is a washed-up prodigy on a road trip in search of true love. He dates only girls named Katherine and has been dumped by nineteen of them. Now he attempts to prove the Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability.

_______. Looking for Alaska.
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

Halpin, Brendan. Donorboy
Rosalind, a fourteen-year-old orphan, becomes the ward of her biological father after the tragic death of her gay mother, and struggles with the adjustment of getting to know a father she never knew.

Hansen, Ron. Isn't it romantic?: an entertainment.
Natalie and her playboy fiancé Pierre, a French couple touring America by bus, find a whole different way of life, and perhaps love, when they become stranded in the very small town of Seldom, Nebraska.

Hardman, Ric Lynden. Sunshine rider: the first vegetarian western.
In the late 1800s while on a cattle drive which takes him north from Texas, seventeen-year-old Wylie learns that it is no longer necessary to run from the father he never knew.

Hornby, Nick. A long way down.
A former talk-show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother, each intending to commit suicide, find themselves together on the roof of a London building and begin to contemplate their individual choices and circumstances.

Kingsolver, Barbara. The bean trees
Taylor, a poor Kentuckian, makes her way west with an abandoned baby girl and stops in Tucson. There she finds friends and discovers resources in apparently empty places.

Kizer, Amber. Gert Garibaldi's rants and raves: one butt cheek at a time.
An intelligent, but insecure high school sophomore shares her private thoughts about sexy boys, her aged parents, annoying teachers, and growing up.

Korman, Gordon. Son of the Mob.
When teenage Vince Luca--whose family connections make dating difficult--finally finds a girl worth pursuing, her father turns out to be the FBI agent whose life's goal is to take out Vince's mob boss dad.

______. Son of the mob: Hollywood hustle.
Eighteen-year-old Vince Luca, son of mob boss Anthony Luca, goes away to college in southern California hoping to escape his past, but soon his brother and a series of "uncles" appear at his dorm, and before long he is caught up in criminal activity once again.

______. No more dead dogs.
Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.

______. Born to rock.
High school senior Leo Caraway, a conservative Republican, learns that his biological father is a punk rock legend.

LaRochelle, David. Absolutely, positively not.
Chronicles a teenage boy's humorous attempts to fit in at his Minnesota high school by becoming a macho, girl-loving, "Playboy" pinup-displaying heterosexual.

Limb, Sue. Girl, 15, charming but insane.
Fifteen-year-old Jess, living with her mum, separated from her father in Cornwall, and with a best friend who seems to do everything perfectly, finds her own assets through humor.

______. Girl, nearly 16, absolute torture.
Jess knows her summer plans are ruined but little could she imagine the huge surprise that awaits her when she visits her dad's home for the first time in years.

______. Girl, going on 17, pants on fire.
Jess’ seventeenth year is a tumultuous one, due to a series of lies and unfortunate circumstances, including her break-up with Fred, her school detention, and her mother’s new romance.

Lubar, David. Sleeping freshmen never lie.
While navigating his first year of high school and awaiting the birth of his new baby brother, Scott loses old friends and gains some unlikely new ones as he hones his skills as a writer.

______. Hidden talents.
When thirteen-year-old Martin arrives at an alternative school for misfits and problem students, he falls in with a group of boys with psychic powers and discovers something surprising about himself.

________. Dunk.
While hoping to work as the clown in an amusement park dunk tank on the New Jersey shore the summer before his junior year in high school,

Chad

faces his best friend's serious illness, hassles with police, and the girl that got away.

Lynch, Chris. Extreme Elvin.
As he enters high school, fourteen-year-old Elvin continues to deal with his weight problem as he tries to find his place among his peers.

_______. Me, dead Dad & Alcatraz.
With the arrival of his Uncle Alex, who his mother always said was dead, fourteen-year-old Elvin learns some important truths about his family and himself.

Madison, Bennett. Lulu Dark and the summer of the Fox: a mystery.
When a mysterious person called the Fox begins to threaten young starlets, Lulu Dark investigates, even though she suspects that her own mother--an aging actress--might be behind it all.

Martinez, A. Lee. Gil's All Fright Diner.
Werewolf Duke and vampire Earl stop at a diner while traveling and are asked to help the owner, Loretta, get rid of her zombie problem. Duke and Earl discover that the zombies are only part of the problem because someone is trying to drive Loretta out of business. They encounter undead cattle, an amorous ghost, a jailbait sorceress, pig Latin, and possibly the end of the world.

McCafferty, Megan. Sloppy firsts: a novel.
When her best friend Hope moves out of town, sixteen-year-old Jessica Darling is convinced that nothing good will happen again until she meets Marcus Flutie and she wonders about her feelings for him too.

______. Second helpings
Jessica Darling is up in arms again in this much-anticipated, hilarious sequel to "Sloppy First." This time, the hyperobservant, angst-ridden teenager is going through the social and emotional ordeal of her senior year at Pineville High. Not only does the mysterious and oh-so-compelling Marcus Flutie continue to distract Jessica, but her best friend, Hope, still lives in anther state, and she can't seem to escape the clutches of the Clueless Crew, her annoying so-called friends. To top it off, Jessica's parents won't get off her butt about choosing a college, and her sister Bethany's pregnancy is causing a big stir in the Darling household.

_______. Charmed thirds
Jessica Darling continues to grow, groove, lust, and hook up as she studies and romps through three years at New York's Columbia University. When not soaking up Ivy League ambience, this exuberant undergraduate is busy salvaging her long-distance relationship with her high school boyfriend Marcus Flutie, now a candidate for nirvana at an unaccredited Buddhist college in California.

________. Fourth comings.
Twenty-something Jessica Darling lives a semi-charmed life in New York with a magazine job that doesn't pay her nearly enough, a tiny shared basement apartment, a recent marriage proposal from her ex-Buddhist, ex-drug-addict boyfriend who's now attending Princeton, and a night life that--for all it's intensity and excitement, doesn't quite satisfy.

Moore, Christopher. Lamb: the gospel according to Biff, Christ's childhood pal.
Levi bar Alphaeus, nicknamed Biff, is resurrected by an angel at the bidding of Jesus who wants Biff, the childhood friend of the Messiah, to finally write his account of Jesus's life.

________. Fluke, or, I know why the winged whale sings.
Marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn has spent his entire career trying to decipher the songs of the humpback whales, and one day Nate and his team are shocked by a message they see on a whale's tail and wonder if they have finally unlocked the secret of the whales' language.

<>O'Connell, Tyne. Pulling princes.
Calypso Kelly, a California teenager attending an upscale boarding school in England, sets out to become popular by claiming that her mother's gay assistant is her boyfriend and finds herself in a royal mess when she gets a chance at a real relationship with a prince.

________. Stealing princes.
Back at her elegant English boarding school for another term, Californian Calypso Kelly continues her pursuit of Prince Freddy with style.

________. Dueling princes.
While competing in the British fencing trials and dating a real-life prince, fifteen-year-old Calypso tries to contend with her mother who has recently arrived from California after leaving her husband.

Peck, Richard. The teacher's funeral: a comedy in three parts.
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."

Powell, Randy. Three clams and an oyster.
During their humorous search to find a fourth player for their flag football team, three high school juniors are forced to examine their long friendship, their individual flaws, and their inability to try new experiences.

________. Tribute to another dead rock star.
For a tribute to his mother, a dead rock star, fifteen-year-old Grady returns to Seattle, where he faces his mixed feelings for his retarded younger half-brother Louie while pondering his own future.

Pratchett, Terry. The amazing Maurice and his educated rodents.
A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king.

__________. Thud! (Discworld)
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch must put a stop to the civil unrest that threatens Discworld on the anniversary of one of its most infamous, and bloody, historical events.

__________. Going Postal. (Discworld)
Moist von Lipwig, alias Alfred Spangler, is given a choice of either reviving the Ankh-Morpork Post Office or death, but getting the system up and running again proves to be a near-impossible task.

Pratchett, Terry. Sourcery (Discworld)
Inept wizard Rincewind returns from his fall off the edge of the world just in time to take on an evil double wizard who is the eighth son of an eighth son.

________. Jingo (Discworld)
Discworld's ancient rival cities Ankh-Morpork and Al-Khali go to war over an island that rises out of the sea and is claimed by both cities.

Rennison, Louise. Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging: confessions of Georgia Nicolson.
Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.

_______. Knocked out by my nunga-nungas: further, further confessions of Georgia Nicolson.
The saga of fourteen-year-old Georgia Nicolson continues as she travels to

Scotland

on a nightmarish family vacation, confesses her anxiety over being the girlfriend of a sex god, and tests the limits of true friendship.

_______. Away laughing on a fast camel: even more confessions of Georgia Nicolson.
The saga of teenager Georgia Nicolson continues in diary entries about her life after her boyfriend goes off to Kiwi-agogoland, leaving her to make do without him.

_______. Then he ate my boy entrancers: confessions of Georgia Nicolson.
Ater trying to take Hamburger-a-gogo land, also known as the United States, by storm when her family vacations in Memphis, Tennessee, a British teen returns home to deal with the attentions of too many boys, weird parents, and mad cats.

Rivers, Karen. The cure for crushes (and other deadly plagues)
Sixteen-year-old Haley Andromeda Harmony resumes her laptop diary in January of "the greatest year of my life," still reeling from having a boyfriend and discovering that her mother is a nun.

Soto, Gary. Crazy weekend.
When Hector's mother suggests that he and his amigo, Mando, get out of East LA for the weekend and see some of the world, he's thinking Paris. So he's a little disappointed when they end up in Fresno, sleeping on a lumpy couch in his Uncle Julio's messy apartment.

Stephenson, Neal. Snow crash.
Hiro Protagonist, a pizza delivery man in future America, lives an alternate life as a warrior prince in the Metaverse where he embarks on a search-and-destroy mission for the virtual-reality villain who is trying to bring about infocalypse.

Thomas, Rob. Rats saw God.
Local bands, a dadaistic society, and first love and betrayal all appear in the increasingly personal - and funny - pages 18 year old Steve York produces to make up the credit for an English class.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Breakfast of champions, or, Goodbye blue Monday!

America

, circa 1973. Follow auto-dealing, solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles, we see the effects his dementia has on the web of characters surrounding him.

_______. Cat's cradle.
One of Vonnegut's most entertaining novels, Cat’s Cradle filled with scientists and G-men and even ordinary folks caught up in the game. These assorted characters chase each other around in search of the world's most important and dangerous substance, a new form of ice that freezes at room temperature.

Walsh, Marissa. A field guide to high school.
Andie and her best friend Bess read through a manual Andie's Yale-bound sister wrote for her, which is filled with tips and tricks for excelling at Plumstead Country Day high school where Andie is about to be a freshman.

Watts, Julia. Finding H.F.
Heavenly Faith Simms feels she is being suffocated by her loving but extremely religious grandmother, so she hits the road with her best friend Bo in the hopes of finding the mother she has never met.

Weinstock, Nicholas. As long as she needs me.
Oscar Campbell, the able personal assistant to the legendary Dawn, of the New York publishing house Dawn Books, is thrown for a loop when he is charged with planning Dawn's secret wedding, but with the help of wedding columnist Lauren LaRose, he gets the job done and stirs up a little romance of his own.

Whytock, Cherry. My cup runneth over: the life of Angelica Cookson Potts
Believing she is too big, fourteen-year-old Angel tries dieting and kick-boxing to lose weight, but thanks to her friends and the school fashion show, she discovers that her size is just right. Includes recipes.

____________. My scrumptious Scottish dumplings: the life of Angelica Cookson Potts.
The further adventures of fourteen-year-old Angel Cookson Potts, food-loving cooking enthusiast and worried weight watcher, as she enlists her friends to help her Scottish father prove that London's famous department store, Harrods, is unknowingly selling inferior haggis. Includes recipes.

Wilson, Jacqueline. Girls in love.
Ellie is starting ninth grade and she's dead set on finding herself a boyfriend. Her two best friends seem to have all the luck in the love department, but our heroine will stop at nothing to join the ranks.

NONFICTION

394.2 MOR
More, J. The anti-Valentine's day handbook.

Helps those who find Valentine's day one of the most brutal days of the year. Learn which movies are best for a night alone, identify signs that a date isn't going well and discover why having a date can be worse than not.

814 BLA
Black, Baxter. Horseshoes, cowsocks, & duckfeet : more commentary by NPR's cowboy poet & former large animal veterinarian.

A collection of irreverent essays and commentary on a wide variety of topics by radio personality and former large animal veterinarian Baxter Black.

818 BLA
Black, Baxter. Cactus tracks & cowboy philosophy.

Collection of over one hundred commentaries and poems from Baxter Black an irregular commentator on National Public Radio, syndicated columnist, best -selling cowboy poet, and former large animal veterinarian.

813 LEE
Leeuwen, Jean, editor. Time of growing.

Eighteen stories. . . funny, sad, and bittersweet . . . about girls on the threshold of womanhood.

813 LUB
Lubar, David. The curse of the campfire weenies, and other warped and creepy tales.

Thirty-five creepy stories about pigeons, ancient predators, Girl Scouts, and other terrifying things. Includes author’s notes on how he got his ideas for these stories.

813 WYN
Wynn-Jones, Tim. Lord of the Fries (and other stories)

Fast food for the imagination - stories that invite you to see the world in a new way.

813 YOU
Yourgrau, Barry. Nastybook.

Forty-three stories feature such characters as guardian angels who run away from their charges, witches who use the Internet to stalk their victims, and pandas who work as assassins.

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