Dancing with an Alien

BRANKO:
I am here. On this very green Earth. The sun shines for fourteen hours and thirty-three minutes today. The sky is blue like they said it would be. I am here on a mission. I have only a short time to do what I was sent here to do. I am here to find a female.
TONIA:
I went down to the beach today. There was one boy I'd never seen before. Quite tall. Gold complexion. Foreign-looking. He watched me swim. He was with an older man. I think it was the one whose daughter disappeared a few years ago.
They would give the world for love.
Branko is here on Earth for only a short time. He has come on a grave mission: He must find a female. He must bring her home. What will happen to her on his planet isn't quite clear. What is clear is that without her, the planet could die.
Tonia loves summer. But something is different about thsi summer. Her best friend is changing. Her family is fighting. And then she meets someone unlike anyone she's ever met before. This summer could change everything.
When their worlds collide, it's like nothing Branko or Tonia could ever have imagined.
Mary Logue spins a chilling tale of deeply felt passion that takes root in the shadow of a desperate mission. The result is a love story unlike any other. Books for the Teen Age 2001 (NYPL), 2001 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers (ALA), and 2001 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA)

Teen & Young Adult

Logue, Mary

Literature & Fiction

HarperTeen

Branko has come to Earth on a grave mission: He must find a female and bring her home. What will happen to her on his planet isn't quite clear. But without her, his planet could die.
Tonia has always loved summer, but this one is different. Her best friend is changing and her family seems to be falling apart. Then she meets someone unlike anyone she's ever met before, and she knows that this summer, everything will change.
When their worlds collide, it's like nothing Branko and Tonia could have ever imagined.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Then the quiet was broken. The baby reached up a hand and jerked at the tablecloth. A spoon hit her on the head, and she started to cry. Bertha Schuler stuck her head out the door and called that dinner was ready. The clock in the hallway struck the half hour. And the first shot was fired. The unsolved murders at a remote Wisconsin farmhouse half a century ago have receded into time. But one deranged man will do anything to make sure that all of Pepin County remembers that bloody day. The world was out of balance. It had been so for nearly fifty years. Only he could see it. Only he could change it. When a quantity of dangerous pesticides is stolen from the local co-op, Deputy Sheriff Claire Watkins is called in to investigate. The thief has left one bizarre clue: the finger bone of a child long dead. The pesticides soon reappear with devastating effect—in flowerbeds, in animal feed, and in a fatal concoction at a Fourth of July picnic. Each time, a tiny human bone is left at the scene. With the help of Harold Peabody, the quirky, aging editor of the Durand Daily, Claire unravels the secrets of the past, leading her to a pair of young lovers, a man enraged over his mother’s death, an obsessive recluse, and the deputy who first discovered the corpses of the Schuler family Claire desperately races against time to find the madman before he uses the lethal pesticide again. But he won’t be stopped. Not until he gets what he wants. The truth must be told. Or more will die. The flowers and the birds were only the beginning. . . . Written with Mary Logue’s trademark power and compassion, Bone Harvest is a bold, brilliant thriller that carries the reader deep into the heart of the Wisconsin bluffs country, into the hearts of its people—and to a startling conclusion.

Bone Harvest

United States

Ballantine Books

Bone Harvest: A Claire Watkins Mystery

Genre Fiction

Fawcett

Fall comes to Pepin County with a vengeance as Deputy Sheriff Claire Watkins confronts a new evil festering beneath the placid surface of the Wisconsin farm community. A refugee from the Twin Cities, Claire has slowly adapted to small-town life–especially now that she loves and lives with Rich Haggard. But in this rural area, other folks are dangerously restless. One is Daniel Reiner, a wealthy part-time resident who’s been buying up too much land–at least as far as the locals are concerned. Another is gambling addict and aging gold digger Patty Jo Tilde, who recently married a widower twenty years her senior. Patty is itching to inherit her husband’s property, sell it to Reiner, and leave the countryside behind. The only stumbling block–her husband must die. Add to the mix a suspicious goat-herding daughter-in-law and a wounded elk, and things quickly reach a boiling point. As Claire Watkins delves deeper into the mystery, she believes she’s uncovered a deadly history of lies, deceit, arson, and poison. Her problem is to prove it–and then she learns what happened to Patty Jo’s last husband. . . . Evoking the strong community values and the natural beauty of the Mississippi River Valley, this new Claire Watkins novel is Logue’s most exciting yet. Poison Heart is a riveting tale of those who live off the land–and those who end up six feet under it.

Poison Heart: A Novel of Suspense (Claire Watkins Mysteries)

Poison Heart: A Novel of Suspense (Claire Watkins)

After the death of her husband in a hit-and-run accident, police officer Claire Watkins and her daughter Meg move to the small, quiet town of Fort St. Antoine, Wisconsin, but Claire's quiet life is shattered when she discovers her neighbor has been murdered. Reprint.

Blood Country (Wwl Mystery)

Contemporary

Worldwide Library

Moving to Fort St. Antoine, Wisconsin, from the Twin Cities following the death of her husband, Claire Watkins is delighted to have exchanged the problems of being a big-city cop for life as a member of a small-town police force, until the town is shaken by the brutal murder of Jed Spitzler, a man with no apparent enemies, and Claire must put her urban sleuthing skills to work to solve the case. Reprint.

Dark Coulee

Startled to discover that Buck's seemingly accidental death was actually murder, Claire Watkins suspects that Buck's lover, Stephanie Klaus, might be responsible until she finds Stephanie brutally beaten and wandering down the highway. Reprint.

Glare Ice

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Dancing with an Alien

Dancing with an Alien

Dancing with an Alien

Bone Harvest

Bone Harvest: A Claire Watkins Mystery

Poison Heart: A Novel of Suspense (Claire Watkins Mysteries)

Poison Heart: A Novel of Suspense (Claire Watkins)

Blood Country (Wwl Mystery)

Dark Coulee

Glare Ice