"The final volume in what is certain to become a classic trilogy, "Saving Shiloh" completes the story of Marty Preston; his beagle, Shiloh; and his neighbor, Judd Travers, begun in (Newbery Medal-winning) "Shiloh" and continued in "Shiloh Season". Marty and his family try to help Judd change his mean ways, treating him with respect and trusting him, even while rumors persist in the community that he has murdered a man. . . .

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth (14th) Annual Collection [1996]CONTENTSTitle PageCopyright NoticeDedicationAcknowledgmentsSummation: 1996IMMERSION Gregory BenfordTHE DEAD Michael SwanwickTHE FLOWERS OF AULIT PRISON Nancy KressA DRY, QUIET WAR Tony DanielTHIRTEEN PHANTASMS James P. BlaylockPRIMROSE AND THORN Bud SparhawkTHE MIRACLE OF IVAR AVENUE John KesselTHE LAST HOMOSEXUAL Paul ParkRECORDING ANGEL Ian McDonaldDEATH DO US PART Robert SilverbergTHE SPADE OF REASON Jim CowanTHE COST TO BE WISE Maureen F. McHughBICYCLE REPAIRMAN Bruce SterlingTHE WEIGHING OF AYRE Gregory FeeleyTHE LONGER VOYAGE Michael CassuttTHE LAND OF NOD Mike ResnickRED SONJA AND LESSINGHAM IN DREAMLAND Gwyneth JonesTHE LADY VANISHES Charles SheffieldCHRYSALIS Robert ReedTHE WIND OVER THE WORLD Steven UtleyCHANGES William BartonCOUNTING CATS IN ZANZIBAR Gene WolfeHOW WE GOT IN TOWN AND OUT AGAIN Jonathan LethemDR. TILMANN’S CONSULTANT: A SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE Cherry WilderSCHRÖDINGER’S DOG Damien BroderickFOREIGN DEVILS Walter Jon WilliamsIN THE MSOB Stephen BaxterTHE ROBOT’S TWILIGHT COMPANION Tony DanielHONORABLE MENTIONS: 1996

In this cozy mystery, Yolanda Carter is told of her grandmother's best friend's unsolved murder. Mildred Overmeyer was an outstanding home baker who was stabbed to death while baking a cherry pie. The story of the 1960s crime touches Yolanda, along with her new friend, Detective Churchill. Her budding sleuthing skills lead her to search for the killer. In between investigating and baking batches of pies in time for her latest product launch, Yolanda discovers more about the sweetness of love. And who is heating up the kitchen with Yolanda? Includes the recipe for Yolanda's Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies!

Claudia loves seventh grade now. She has great new friends, solid grades, and even a steady boyfriend, Mark. Suddenly, she's offered the chance to return to the eighth grade. It's an easy choice, right? Her friends in the BSC think so. But her seventh grade friends don't. Claudia's worried about handling the work, too. And what about Mark? This is turning out to be one of the hardest decisions Claudia has ever made.

The aliens aren't coming. They're here. We've captured some of them. Are they our saviors, or are they out to destroy us? We've seen no spaceships, received no ultimatums--but the aliens may have a more insidious plot.... Government agent Dan Dannerman and astronomer Patrice Adcock were kidnapped by the aliens and have been returned in altered states, cloned and implanted with strange devices. To what end? Before the reasons behind their abduction can be made clear, a wave of extremist threats and terrorist attacks sweeps the globe. Are the attacks a reaction to the aliens' arrival--or a part of their plan? A race around the earth and into space begins, as humankind desperately tries to prevent the aliens from establishing a beachhead no Earth. The siege has begun.

From Library JournalA singer/music instructor becomes a sorceress in this first in a new series.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. From BooklistModesitt takes leave from Recluce, the scene of his successful series of fantasies, in a new take on the classic situation of someone from our world being tossed into a fantasy realm. In this case, the one tossed is singer and music teacher Anna, who is recovering from the death of her eldest daughter. She finds herself in a world in which songs are spells, music is the source of power, and she herself is a potent sorceress. That status promptly makes her the target of at least three villains who, for grittily realistic and unpleasantly plausible reasons, seek to exploit or destroy her. In fact, a tone of gritty realism pervades the whole book, as Modesitt develops his variation on a venerable plot with his usual intelligence, so that more than just his staunch fans will be busily turning pages. Moreover, few will be unmoved when Anna routs a hostile army with her (literally) spellbinding rendering of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Roland Green

When Abby comes home from school one day and finds a baby on her front porch, she's completely mystified. Where did he come from? And why was he left on the Stevenson's porch?

Eighteen-year-old Eric has just been released from juvenile detention for murdering his mother and stepfather. Now he's looking for some tenderness--tenderness he finds in caressing and killing beautiful girls. Fifteen-year-old Lori has run away from home again. Emotionally naive but sexually precocious, she is also looking for tenderness--tenderness she finds in Eric. Will Lori and Eric be each other's salvation or destruction? Told from their alternating points of view, this harrowing thriller speeds to its fateful conclusion with an irresistible force, and a final twist that will not be easily forgotten.

A newspaperman investigates a war correspondent's hotel room murder As snow falls on Manhattan, three old colleagues warm themselves in the wood-paneled confines of the Midtown Press Club. Two are editors at highbrow New York publications; the other is Timothy Colt, a daring war correspondent whose face is not famous but whose byline is known the world over. New York Star crime reporter John Wells listens as they rehash old times, then follows Colt back to his room to drink some more. He wakes hung over, just in time to see Colt murdered. After a struggle with Wells draws the attention of hotel security, the assassin flings himself out the window. To unmask Colt's killer, Wells will have to reach deep into his fellow reporter's past—for the root of this murder lies in a long-forgotten love, and an atrocious war too terrible to be remembered.

RAWHIDE…J. D. Cawthon was a rugged Texas cowboy…he spent his solitary life riding the fence lines and birthing cattle. He knew he could handle anything the wild West threw at him. Until he spent one night of passion with Joanie Summers and found his world invaded by…RUGRATS!Two feisty five-year-olds, hell-bent on turning his quiet little ranch into Custer's last stand. But even more frightening than the adorable duo was the one on the way! Joanie was having J.D.'s baby! And somehow the five of them had to make a family!