Books published by publisher Harcourt Brace c1984, 1987

Left homeless by the war that reduced Terra to a radioactive cinder, Hosteen Storm €“ Navaho commando and master of beasts €“ is drawn to the planet Arzor, to kill a man he has never met. On that dangerous frontier world, aliens and human colonists share the land in an uneasy truce. But something is upsetting the balance, and Storm is caught in the middle. He had thought the war was over €“ but was it? €œMiss Norton endows this story of a homeless, revenge-driven man with her own inimitable touch. The result is a compelling and compassionate tale.€ €“ The New York Times Book Review

Stephen Meader's stirring new novel for young people is a remarkable recreation of a period and, in particular, of life at sea during the Revolutionary War. It is also the story of a boy whose imagination was fired by the newly created American Navy and who eventually became a part of it. There was plenty of work in the early days of the war for all hands at the Batsto ironworks on the Mullica River in South Jersey. Cannon and shot were being made for Washington's Continental Army, and young Gideon Jones, whose father was the ironmaster, did his share. Privateers were built and outfitted along the Mullica also-small craft to harry the coastwise shipping that carried supplies to the British in New York-and when Gid had the chance, he shipped on one of them for several voyages. Then came a big order at the ironworks for nine-pounders for the Navy's new sloop-of-war, the Saratoga. When they were ready, Gid went to Philadelphia to help deliver them and decided to sign on as a midshipman. From then on, almost to the Saratoga's dramatic end, Gid's life was given over to the struggling young Navy. Out of Mr. Meader's friendship with William Bell Clark, an outstanding authority on the early American Navy, grew his idea to write this book, which is authentic down to the last detail. Even the names of the Saratoga's crew are real, for Mr. Meader used her actual muster rolls.

It's summer in the city, and a rascally squirrel is up to all sorts of tricks. But when he sneaks inside an apartment window, he'll need one nutty solution to get back out! Labels identify plants, birds, and insects on each page, and a glossary at the back of the book offers factual details about squirrels. One of her youngest and most popular titles, Nuts to You! is Lois Ehlert at her high-spirited, breathtaking best.

The proposition of this stunning sequel to the celebrated "Roosevelt" The Lion and the Fox", James MacGregor burns notes in the Preface, is that Franklin D. Roosevelt "as war leader was a deeply divided man-divided between the man of principle, of ideals, of faith...and...the man of Realpolitik, of prudence, of narrow, manageable, short-run goals, intent always on protecting his power and authority in a world of shifting moods and capricious fortune. This dualism cleft not only Roosevelt, but also his advisers...And it divided the American people themselves, who were vacillating between the evangelical moods of idealism, sentimentalism, and utopianism of one era and older traditions of national self-regard, protectiveness, and prudence of another." Mr. Burns has worked on an enormous canvas. The great world at war is passed in review, but the focus is always on Roosevelt-his brilliant war leadership, the great vision he pursued, the fatal ambivalence that lay at the heart of his strategy for freedom. The narrative moves from the dark days of 1940 and the fight over aid to embattled Britain to the day in April 1945 when the President quietly slipped away. This is a triumphant biography, and its concluding volume is written with the grace and power that characterizes Mr. Burns' work. -description found on the front, inside flap of the dust jacket