New Releases by William KOTZWINKLE

A quick-witted insect sleuth, patterned after Sherlock Holmes, displays his brilliant powers of deduction in solving five mysteries.

Charles Pickett, a young member of an anthropological expedition to Africa, fears that the group''s leader has been turned into a leopard by a local witch doctor.

A boy discovers an extraterrestrial botanist in his mother''s vegetable patch, and helps him return to his planet, 3 million light years away.

A boy discovers an extraterrestrial botanist in his mother''s vegetable patch, and helps him return to his planet, 3 million light years away.

A mysterious presence transforms the lives of a tyrannical chief executive officer, a nice young woman, a Santa Claus with an unsavory past, an earnest young man, and a spaced-out window decorator on Christmas Eve in Fontaine''s department store.

A farm boy who sets out to see the world battles a storm at the edge of the sea and encounters a crew of ghosts rising from the water.

Herman refuses to take a nap until the Nap Master takes him to the Land of Dreams.

A haunting and memorable modern mythical journey with an outrageous eroticism that has you baffled and entertained simultaneously. William Kotzwinkles classic ''grown up picture book'' ''Herr Nightingale And The Satin Woman'' combines an eerily beautiful love story against the backdrop of Germany, France, Egypt and China, as it follows a detective through Europe & beyond, in the aftermath of World War I, as he pursues a German officer and his companion; as the book progresses, the cast increasingly enters a surreal world; a haunting and memorable modern mythical journey with an outrageous eroticism that has the reader baffled and entertained simultaneously; this book tells just as much via Servello''s black and white noir-inspired illustrations as it does through the text itself.

The story of a couple''s struggle to come to terms with the death of their newborn child.

An easy-reading story that describes a Saturday spent by two young boys in a small American town.