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I put 4us in my top five young adult books of all lime.' leressa Corson, Stroudwater Books, Dover, NH 1. 1 o' Express, San Rafael, CA 13. IN THE FORESTS Of THE NIGHT by Amelia Atwater Rhodes (laurel leaf, $4 99 paper, 0440228166). A vampire novel, with some reoly original ideas in H What reoSy blows me away was that the author was only Burteen years old when she wrote Keley, Avalon Books, Brenham, TX See also 21. Histor, by Jose Saramogo (Harvest, $14 paper, 0156007754. 'Nobel Prizewinner Saramogo a society gone mod, as 'blindness' spreods Jeor, betrayal ond guilt.' Maureen Bookshop, Colorado Springs, CO Weingartner, McKtozey-Whit-e BUNDNE SS, here depicts THE CORNER WHERE YOU ARE, by Fred Chappell (St. Martins, $10 95 paper, 031 2050577). 'Set in (he hills of Western North Carolina in 946, (his good hearted and humorous novel is o joy to reod. 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