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Pretty Paper: A Christmas Tale. By Willie Nelson and David Ritz. Oct. 2016.304p. Penguin/Blue Rider, $21 (9780735211544). This charming--but, alas, fictional--memoir takes us back to the early years of famed [...]

Good on Paper. By Rachel Cantor. Jan. 2016.320p. Melville, $25.95 (9781612194707); e-book (9781612194714). A rising star in academia, Shira Greene was on her way to a PhD with a dissertation [...]

Oeste, Bob. The Last Pumpkin Paper. 1996. Random, $22 (0-679-44837-3). Like Ellroy (above), Oeste reimagines history: the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers confrontation that established Richard Nixon as a national political figure. [...]

* Dobson, Joanne. The Northbury Papers. Oct. 1998. 288p. Doubleday, $21.95 (0-385-48693-6). In this third installment in the series, Karen Pelletier, English professor and reluctant sleuth at the lovely New [...]

Giving Up the Ghost: A Story about Friendship, 80s Rock, a Lost Scrap of Paper, and What It Means to Be Haunted. By Eric Nuzum. Aug. 2012. 302p. Dial, paper, [...]

Paper Crafts for Mardi Gras. By Randel McGee. 2011. 48p. illus. Enslow, lib. ed., $23.93 (9780766037243). 745.594. Gr. 2-4. There seems to be no holiday that the Paper Craft Fun [...]

Paper Valentine. By Brenna Yovanoff. Jan. 2013.320p. Penguin/Razorbill, $17.99 (9781595145994). Gr. 9-12. Yovanoff (The Replacement, 2010, and The Space Between, 2011) returns with another tale barbed around the edges by [...]

The Blue Touch Paper. By David Hare. Oct. 2015. 320p. illus. Norton, $27.95 (9780393249187). 822. British playwright Hare (Slag, Knuckle, etc.) here holds forth on his youth, years at Cambridge, [...]

Paper Hearts. By Courtney Walsh. Feb. 2015. 416p. Tyndale, paper, $14.99 (9781414398693). Loves Park, Colorado, is home to dreamers, romantics, and Abigail Pressman, who feels like the last single woman [...]

Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation.By Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. Hebrard.Feb. 2012. 288p. Harvard, $35 (9780674047747). 305.896.The family that would later be known as [...]

White Papers.By Martha Collins.Feb. 2012. 80p. Univ. of Pittsburgh, paper, $15.95 (9780822961840). 811.Collins continues the inquiry into race that shaped Blue Front (2006), here, in this startling and provocative collection, [...]

That Crumpled Paper Was Due last Week: Helping Disorganized and Distracted Boys Succeed in School and Life. By Ana Homayoun. Jan. 2010. 304p. Perigee, paper, $15.95 (9780399535598). 649. Homayoun, an [...]

The Paper Moon. By Andrea Camilleri. Mar. 2008. 257p. Penguin, paper, $13 (9780143113003). Salvo Montalbano, the beleaguered police inspector in the Sicilian community of Vigata, suffers from a kind of [...]

Paper Wishes. By Lois Sepahban. Jan. 2016.192p. Farrar/Margaret Ferguson, $16.99 (9780374302160). Gr. 4-6. Along with many other Japanese Americans on the West Coast in 1942, Manami, her parents, and her [...]

Vaughan, Brian K. and others. Paper Dolls: Y; The Last Man 7. 2006. 144p. illus. DC Comics/Vertigo, paper, $14.99 (1-40121009-0). 741.5. Last man alive Yorick Brown's kidnapped monkey Ampersand, who [...]

* The Paper Cowboy. By Kristin Levine. Nov. 2014. 352p. Putnam, $16.99 (9780399163289). Gr. 5-8. In 1950s Downers Grove, Illinois, where tensions over communism run high in the wake of [...]

The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks. By Robin Romm. Jan. 2009. 244p. Scribner, $24.99 (9781416567882). 362.19. Romm presents a wrenching chronicle of the three weeks before her mother's [...]

Schroeder, Peter W. and Schroeder-Hildebrand, Dagmar. Six Million Paper Clips: The Making of a Children's Holocaust Memorial. 2004. 64p. illus. index. Kar-Ben, $17.95 (1-58013-169-7); paper, $7.95 (1-58013-176-X). 940.53. Gr. 5-8. [...]

Lily and the Paper Man. By Rebecca Upjohn. Illus. by Renne Benoit. 2007. 24p. Second Story, $14.95 (1-897187-19-X). PreS-Gr. 2. Though happy and secure in her warm family apartment, Lily [...]

Leigh, Tera. Faux Mosaics: Make 20 Paper Projects in Three Simple Steps. Aug. 2004. 80p. illus. North Light, paper, $16.99 (1-58180-565-9). 736.38. 'A little piece of paper ... sparked a [...]

By Kristin Levine. Read by Lincoln Hoppe. 2014. 9.5hr. Listening Library, CD, $55 (9780553396614). Gr. 5-8. This character-cum-case study gets off to a fast start with a horrific accident and [...]

Mauner, Claudia and Smalley, Elisa. Zoe Sophia in New York: The Mystery of the Pink Phoenix Papers. 2006. 32p. illus. Chronicle, $14.95 (0-8118-4877-9). Gr. 1-3. In Zoe Sophia's Scrapbook (2003), [...]

Papers in the Wind. By Eduardo Sacheri. Tr. by Mara Faye Lethem. May 2014. 496p. Other, paper, $17.95 (9781590516423). When Alejandro Raguzzi (nicknamed "Mono") dies of cancer, his brother, Fernando, […]

Paper Artist: Creations Kids Can Fold, Tear, Wear, or Share. By Gail D. Green and others. 2013. 112p. illus. Capstone, paper, $12.95 (9781623700041). 736.98. Gr. 4-8. With more than 50 [...]

2003 128p. illus. index. Watson-Guptill, paper, $1995 (0-8230-3892-0). 745.54. 'Tis the season to fashion cards, garlands, and other decorative home accessories as gifts from the heart, Yet, says designer Foose, [...]

Oct. 2003. 32p, illus. Dutton, $15.99 (0-525-46911-7). K-Gr. 2. The paper princess, with her leaf-print dress, starry socks, and watermelon shoes, returns for her second far-flung adventure. When the girl [...]

2003. 128p. illus. index. Sterling/Chapelle, $27.95 (0-8069-9187-9). 745.592. Idaho author (Decorating with Paint and Paper, 1998; Papermahing for the First Time, 2002, etc.) and former art educator Rainey goes far [...]

Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind. By Sarah Wildman. Oct. 2014.400p. Riverhead, $27.95 (9781594631559). 940.53. Wildman takes an unexpected journey through her family's past to piece […]

The Divorce Papers. By Susan Rieger. Mar. 2014. 496p. Crown, $25 (9780804137447). Sophie Diehl is a young law associate working for a well-established New England firm. She specializes in criminal […]

Chessman, Harriet Scott. Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper. Nov. 2001. 164p. illus. Seven Stories/Permanent Press, $24 (1-58322-272-3). Chessman's second novel is a fictitious but plausible account of the relationship [...]

Aimone, Katherine Duncan. Stamping with Style: Sensational Ways to Decorate Paper, Fabric, Polymer Clay & More. Nov. 2001. 128p. illus. index. Sterling/Lark, $24.95 (1-57990-133-6). 761. Ah, the difference a professional [...]

Oct. 2002. 480p. index. Viking, $29.95 (0-670-03030-9). 959.704. Call it 'the Gary Cooper factor': pop culture (and pop history) demands a certain modesty (like that of Cooper's 'aw shucks' film [...]

May 2002. 224p. Lyons, $24.95 (1-58574-540-5). 635. Devotees of Horticulture magazine will recognize many of Elliott's essays from his column, 'The Transplanted Gardener,' an often-irreverent look at the idiosyncratic differences [...]

Origami XOXO: Paper Folding for Special Secrets. By Nick Robinson and Susan Behar. 2012.48p. illus. Capstone, paper, $12.95 (9781429698528). 736. Gr. 2-4. The thing about origami books is that the [...]

Rock, Paper, Scissorlegz! By Scott Nickel. Illus. by C. S. Jennings. 2012. 128p. Capstone, paper, $8.95 (9781434245960). 741.5. Gr. 3-5. Chip Stone is just like any other kid attempting to [...]