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A Paper Son. By Jason Buchholz. Jan. 2016. 304p. Tyrus, $24.99 (9781440591617); paper, $16.99 (9781440591624); e-book (9781440591631). The rain will not stop falling on San Francisco. But as the city [...]

Girls of Paper and Fire. By Natasha Ngan. Oct. 2018. 336p. Little, Brown/JIMMY Patterson, $18.99 (9780316561365); e-book, $12.99 (9780316561389). Gr. 10-12. In Ikhara, there are three castes: the chimera-like, demonic [...]

Scrap Paper Art. By Susie Brooks. 2018.32p. illus. Rosen/PowerKids, lib. ed., $27.50 19781538322253); e-book, $27.50 (9781538322260). 745.54. Gr. 2-5. This entry in the Lets Make Art series presents 12 craft [...]

Paper Ghosts. By Julia Heaberlin. Apr. 2018. 368p. Ballantine, $26 (9780804178020); e-book (9780804178037). Heaberlin's mysterious protagonist--her real name is only revealed at the book's end--believes that Carl Feldman, an elderly [...]

Paper: Paging through History. By Mark Kurlansky. Read by Andrew Garman. 2016.14hr. Recorded Books, CD, $123.75 (9781501921971). Kurlansky's latest commodity microhistory journeys through the development of the written word, papermaking [...]

A History of the Paper Pattern Industry: The Home Dressmaking Fashion Revolution. By Joy Spanabel Emery. 2014. 272p. illus. Bloomsbury, paper, $34.95 (9780857858313); e-book (9781472577467). 646.4. Students of fashion and [...]

Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990. 2017. Gale [galexom/c/makmg-of-modern-law-amencancivil-Nberties-union-papers-1912-1990]. American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990 is a critically important module in Gale's Making of Modern Law [...]

* The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors. By Drew Daywalt. Illus. by Adam Rex. Apr. 2017. 48p. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (9780062438898). PreS-Gr. 1. It's a game played on playgrounds [...]

Paper Girls, v.2. By Brian K. Vaughan. Illus. by Cliff Chiang. 2016.128p. Image Comics, paper, $12.99 (9781632158956). 741.5. Gr. 10-12. Three young teens--Erin, Mac, and Tiffany--find themselves hurtling through time [...]

Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan. By Ruth Gilligan. Jan. 2017.352p. Tin House, paper, $15.95 (9781941040492). Persecuted and barred from advancement in their Russian hometown, a Jewish girl and her [...]

The Perfection of the Paper Clip: Curious Tales of Invention, Accidental Genius, and Stationery Obsession. By James Ward. Apr. 2015. 304p. illus. Touchstone, $24 (9781476799865); e-book (9781476799889). 651. If Bill [...]

Paper Butterflies. By Lisa Heathfield. Oct. 2017. 272p. Carolrhoda/Lab, $18.99 (9781512482416). Gr. 9-12. June narrates her story from the ages of 10 to 24, detailing the brutal physical and psychological [...]

The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South. By John T. Edge. May 2017. 384p. illus. Penguin, $28 (9781594206559). 641.5975. Edge, director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, compellingly [...]

* Making Marbled Paper: Paint Techniques & Patterns for Classic & Modern Marbleizing on Paper & Silk. By Heather RJ Fletcher. Oct. 2019.160p. illus. Fox Chapel, paper, $19.99 (9781497100435); e-book [...]

Standish, David. The Art of Money: The History and Design of Paper Currency from around the World. 2000. 132p illus. index. Chronicle, paper, $1995 (0-8118-2805-0). 769.5. Most folks don't pay [...]

Biddle, Steve and Biddle, Megumi. Handmade Flowers from Paper and Fabric. 2000. 160p. illus. index. David & Charles; dist. by Sterling, paper, $19.95 (0-7153-0985-4). 745.5943. Nine years after this book's [...]

Chin, Tung Pok and Chin, Winifred. Paper Son: One Man's Story. Oct. 2000.208p. illus. Temple, $59.95 (1-56639-800-2); paper, $19.95 (1-56639-801-0). 973.04. Paper Son gives us a rare, first-hand account of [...]

Badalucco, Laura. Kirigami: The Art of 3-Dimensional Paper Cutting. July 2000.160p. index, illus. Sterling, $24.95 (0-8069-4490-0). DDC: 736. Once used to make votive offerings to the gods, Japanese paper folding [...]

Stuckey-French, Elizabeth. The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa. June 2000. 240p. Doubleday, $22 (0-385-49893-4). In the title story, Cherry goes on a road trip with her two children [...]

LaFosse, Michael G. Origamido: Masterworks of Paper Folding. 2000. 144p. index. illus. Rockport/Quarry, $35 (1-56496-639-9). DDC: 736. Don't dismiss the Japanese art of paper folding as a 'kids only' craft. [...]

Paper John. Live Oak Media. 1998. 10min. $37.95 (pp). (0-87499-449-7). DDC: 791.45. Ages 4-8. A fablelike story of a kindly man who saves his town from the devil, Paper John [...]

Look What You Can Make with Paper Bags. Ed. by Judy Burke. 1999.48p. illus. Boyds Mills, paper, $5.95 (1-56397-717-6). DDC: 745.54. Gr. 3-5, younger with adult help. Creative kids will [...]

Did You Ever Wonder? Paper. Oakleaf. 1998. 25min. $59.95. 676 Paper industry Gr. 3-5. These video field trips take children from a school library to a Belize cocoa plantation and [...]

Garza, Carmen Lomas. Making Magic Windows: Creating Papel Picado/Cut-Paper Art. 1999. 61 p. Children's Book Press, paper, $9.95 (0-89239-159-6). DDC: 745.54. Gr. 3 and up. Working in the Mexican folk [...]

Wells, Rosemary. Yoko's Paper Cranes. Sept. 2001. 32p. illus. Hyperion, $15.99 (0-7868-0737-7); lib. ed., $16.49 (0-7868-2602-9). Ages 3-7. In the latest gentle book about the Japanese kitten Yoko, Wells shows [...]

A Conspiracy of Paper. By David Liss. Read by Michael Cumpsty. Random House. 5hr. 3 cassettes, $25 (0-375-41011-2). 800-733-3000. Benjamin Weaver, a professional eighteenth-century thief pursuer in London, is estranged [...]

Frayn, Michael and Burke, David. The Copenhagen Papers: An Intrigue. May 2001. 144p. illus. Holt/Metropolitan, $20 (0-8050-6752-3). 822. Englishman Frayn is best known in the U.S. for his wild comedy [...]

* Chandler, Raymond. The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959. Ed. by Tom Hiney and Frank MacShane. Apr. 2001. 288p. index. Atlantic Monthly; dist. by Publishers Group West, [...]

Baker, Nicholson. Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. Apr. 2001. 288p. illus. index. Random, $23.95 (0-375-50444-3). 025.2. Is it the librarian's job to preserve books as intrinsically valuable [...]

A Very Merry Paper Christmas: 25 Creative Ornaments & Decorations. Sept. 2016.144p. illus. Lark, paper, $17.95 (9781454708803). 745.594. These 25 cards, decorations, and ornaments are intended to evoke a nostalgic, [...]

An English Paper-Pieced Sampler. By Darlene Beltman and Teresa Justice. 2016. 96p. illus. American Quilter's Society, paper, $24.95 (9781604603972): e-book (9781604603378). 746.46. In this excellent volume, authors Beltman and Justice [...]

* Paper: Paging through History. By Mark Kurlansky. May 2016. 416p. illus. Norton, $27.95 (9780393239614). 676.09. Curious, vital, prolific, and witty, Kurlansky first made his mark with best-selling, material-oriented nonfiction [...]

* Choy, Wayson. Paper Shadows: A Memoir of a Past Lost and Found. Oct. 2000. 352p. illus. Picador USA, $24 (0-312-26218-3). 813. In 1995 acclaimed Canadian novelist Choy received a [...]

Aciman, Andre. False Papers. Aug. 2000. 288p. Farrar, $25 (0-374-29978-1). DDC: 916.2. Aciman, author of Out of Egypt (1995), ponders the nature of memory in a series of linked essays [...]

Gilbert, Barbara Snow. Paper Trail. 2000. 168p. Front Street, $16.95 (1-886910-11-1). Gr. 7-10. Hidden inside a log, 15-year-old Walker alternates between consciousness and unconsciousness as members of the Soldiers of [...]

Samuel, Steve. Rock, Paper, Scissors. Aug. 2000. 320p. Simon & Schuster, $25 (0-684-82343-8). Corporate attorney Samuel debuts as a novelist with this taut tale of lowlifes in high places. His [...]

* A Conspiracy of Paper, by David Liss. 2000. Random, $25 (0-375-50292-0). Benjamin Weaver, a Jewish detective and former prizefighter in eighteenth-century London, doesn't want to investigate his estranged father's [...]

Ackroyd, Peter. The Plato Papers: A Prophecy. Jan. 2000. 160p. Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, $19.95 (0-385-49768-7). Novel has become a cover-all term. These two philosophical works, ultimately about freedom, are fictional, [...]

* Liss, David. A Conspiracy of Paper. Feb. 2000. 435p. Random, $25 (0-375-50292-0). Set in a vividly realized eighteenth-century London, detective Benjamin Weaver, a Jew, former prizefighter, and a bit [...]

Carter, David A. and Diaz, James. The Elements of Pop-Up: A Pop-Up Book for Aspiring Paper Engineers. 1999 illus. Simon & Schuster, $35 (0-688-82224-3). Gr. 5 and up. This one's [...]

Term Paper Resource Guide to Twentieth-Century United States History. By Robert Muccigrosso and others. 1999. 310p. Greenwood, $49.95 (0-313-30096-8). DDC: 016.9739. The purpose of this book is to assist high-school [...]

Swick, Marly. Paper Wings. 1996. HarperCollins, $21 (0-06-017328-9). Suzanne, a patient and generous child, keeps a vigilant eye on her beautiful and troubled mother, Helen. As Helen suffers from migraines [...]

Irving, Washington. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Found among the Papers of the Late Diedrich Knickerbocker. 1999.64p. illus. Ideals/Candy Cane, $16.95 (0-8249-4160-8). Gr. 4-6, younger for reading aloud. It's been [...]

Canemaker, John. Paper Dreams: The Art & Artists of Disney Storyboards. Oct. 1999. 288p. index. illus. Hyperion; dist. by Little, Brown, $60 (0-7868-6307-2). DDC: 741.5. Two out of three new [...]

Paper John. Live Oak Media. 1998. 11 min. cassette, paperback, $15.95 (0-87499-450-0). K-gr. 3 This trio of titles offers high-quality read-along fare for various tastes and age levels. In all, [...]

Mar, M. Elaine. Paper Daughter. Aug. 1999. 292p. HarperCollins, $23 (0-06-018293-8). DDC: 973. Mar grew up in two different worlds--that of her strict Chinese parents and the unfamiliar and strange [...]

Hubbell, Patricia. Illus. by Plecas, Jennifer. Wrapping Paper Romp. 1998. 14p. HarperFestival, $5.95 (0-06-01098-7). Ages 1-2. Told in rhyme, this cheerful story celebrates the joy a toddler takes in unwrapping [...]