Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. A fascinating, well-researched glimpse into the attitudes toward and beliefs about death in that era and how the war changed them ... and how they changed war.
Kathryn Kenny, Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Vanishing Victim. In this case, Trixie actually stumbles on a mystery, as opposed to thrusting herself into it, as she often does. This is #33, and I think the series goes to #39, although the highest numbers are the hardest to find.
Elmer Kelton, The Time It Never Rained. A gripping story about a small Texas town in the middle of an extended drought, and about the difficulty of sticking to your principles and making it on your own. Emotional and thought-provoking and well worth reading.
Merrilee Steiner, Pirate Moon (Swept Away #7). This is the only book in this series - about an '80s teen who discovers a way to travel back in time, and the adventures she and her friends share - that I'd never read before, and I admit, it wasn't quite as good as many of the others. The girl's problems were fairly minor, weren't really resolved by her time travel, and she didn't form anywhere near the ties with the people of the past that the other girls in the series have done. Still, it was an entertaining read, and it's good to have the whole set at last (20-something years later!).
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