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001.94 KOR
Korff, Kal K. The Roswell UFO crash : what they don't want you to
know. New York : Dell, c2000.
The author offers his theory about what really happened in
Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947, based upon his examination of
military records, formerly classified projects, correspondence, and
testimony of eyewitnesses to the alleged alien spaceship crash.
155.9 BRA
Brafman, Ori. Sway : the irresistible pull of irrational behavior. 1st ed.
New York : Doubleday, c2008.
Discusses hidden psychological influences on people's decisionmaking process about things such as relationships, advice, and
money, drawing from fields such as social psychology and
organizational behavior, revealing that loss aversion, diagnosis
bias, and the "chameleon effect" can lead to irrational behaviors.
158.1 LAR
LaRoche, Loretta, 1939-. Life is short - wear your party pants : ten
simple truths that lead to an amazing life. Carlsbad, CA : Hay
House, c2003.
Contains ten truths that lead to a happier, less stressful life
including living for the moment, being an optimist, regaining
humor and creativity, and understanding moderation and
responsibility.
294.3 BST
Bstan-dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-. The art of happiness : a
handbook for living. New York : Riverhead Books, 1998.
Through conversations, stories, and meditations, the Dalai Lama of
Tibet discusses how people can become happier and explains the
methods he used to rid his life of anxiety, insecurity, anger, and
discouragement.
305.23 PIP
Pipher, Mary Bray. Reviving Ophelia : saving the selves of adolescent
girls. New York : Putnam, c1994.
Looks at the problems and pressures facing adolescent girls, and
suggests how to help them develop into self-assured young adults.
306.874 MEA
Mead-Ferro, Muffy. Confessions of a slacker mom. San Francisco :
Pince-Nez Books, c2004.
A guide for parents that boasts an "alternative" approach to raising
children, and discusses time- and money-saving tips, hands-off
parenting styles, and strategies to enable children to learn to think
for themselves.
356.16 CLA
Clancy, Tom, 1947-. Shadow warriors : inside the Special Forces. New
York : Putnam's, c2002.
Tom Clancy teams with Lieutenant General Bill Yarborough to
recount the experiences of the men and women who serve in the
United States Special Forces units.
362.2 DOR
Dorris, Michael. The broken cord. 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row,
c1989.
The story of a family confronted with a problem with no known
solution, describing the tragedy and lifelong blight of fetal alcohol
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362.29 FRE
Frey, James, 1969-. A million little pieces. 1st ed. New York : Nan A.
Talese/Doubleday, c2003.
The author tells the true (?) story of his recovery from drug and
alcohol addiction, beginning with his enrollment in a Minnesota
rehabilitation center after a two-week blackout and ending with his
rejection of all Twelve Step programs.
362.73 OCO
O'Connor, Stephen. Orphan trains : the story of Charles Loring Brace
and the children he saved and failed. Boston, Mass. : Houghton
Mifflin, 2001.
Tells the story of the orphan trains that were operated by the
Children's Aid Society between 1854 and 1929, taking abandoned
children from New York to homes in the Midwest and West; and
discusses the life and motivations of young minister Charles Loring
Brace, founder of the society.
364.1 SCR
A scream in the dark and other true crime stories. New York : Barnes
and Noble, Inc, 2007.
A collection of actual crimes presented by 21 renowned writers of
mystery and detective fiction.
364.1 SIP
Sipchen, Bob. Baby insane and the buddha. 1st ed. New York :
Doubleday, 1993.
Account of how Detective Patrick Flannigan Birse and Crip street
gang member Kevin Glass joined forces against violent crime and
drugs in San Diego.
364.15 RES
Resnick, Faye D. Nicole Brown Simpson : the private diary of a life
interrupted. Beverly Hills, CA : Dove Books, c1994.
The D.A. -- Rage -- The funeral -- First meeting -- Faye's childhood
-- The lovers -- Kato -- Reconciliation -- A better-model O.J. -- The
manipulator -- Harley Davidson Cafe -- Unhappy holidays -Beverly Hills breasts -- The frogman cometh -- Thumb rings -Terror -- The bush syndrome -- The bond -- The final days -- The
last phone call -- Exodus. Faye D. Resnick tells the story of her
friendship with Nicole Brown Simpson and Nicole's troubled
marriage to O.J. Simpson.
364.152 LAR
Larson, Erik. The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness
at the fair that changed America. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York :
Vintage Books, 2004, c2003.
Evils imminent -- Prologue, aboard the Olympic -- Frozen music -An awful fight -- In the white city -- Cruelty revealed -- Epilogue,
the last crossing. Tells the parallel stories of Daniel Burnham, the
main architect of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and serial killer
Henry H. Holmes, discussing the challenges Burnham faced in
creating the hugely successful White City, and looking at how
Holmes used the opportunities afforded by the fair to lure victims
to their deaths.
364.3 HUM
Humes, Edward. No matter how loud I shout : a year in the life of
Juvenile Court. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1996.
Presents a year of observation and participation in the juvenile
justice system in Los Angeles, following the stories of a handful of
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youths facing a variety of charges and awaiting decisions that will
affect the rest of their lives.
364.66 PRE
Prejean, Helen. Dead man walking : an eyewitness account of the death
penalty in the United States. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York :
Vintage Books, 1994.
Sister Helen Prejean's story of her encounter with the death
penalty in America.
365.45 OUF
Oufkir, Malika, 1953-. Stolen lives : twenty years in a desert jail. 1st
ed. New York : Talk Miramax Books/Hyperion, c1999.
Malika Oufkir chronicles the experiences she and her family had
while they were imprisoned in a penal colony in Morocco.
371.82 MOR
Mortenson, Greg. Three cups of tea : one man's mission to promote
peace -- one school at a time. New York : Penguin Books, 2007.
One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous,
remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg
Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering
emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was
taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani
village, he promised to return one day and build them a school.
From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible
humanitarian campaigns of our time--Mortenson's one-man
mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for
girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban. In a region
where Americans are often feared and hated, he has survived
kidnapping, death threats, and wrenching separations from his wife
and children. But his success speaks for itself--at last count, his
Central Asia Institute had built fifty-five schools.--From publisher
description.
371.912 COH
Cohen, Leah Hager. Train go sorry : inside a deaf world. 1st Vintage
Books ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1995.
Chronicle of the culture and students of New York's Lexington
School for the Deaf, providing an intimate portrait of the world and
culture of the deaf.
398.25 KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. Night shift. New York : Doubleday, c1978.
Jerusalem's Lot -- Graveyard Shift -- I Am the Doorway -- The
Mangler -- The Boogeyman -- Gray Matter -- Battleground -Trucks -- Sometimes They Come Back -- Strawberry Spring -- The
Ledge -- The Lawnmower Man -- Qyitters, Inc. -- I Know What You
Need -- Children of the Corn -- The Last Rung on the Ladder -- The
Man Who Loved Flowers -- One for the Road -- The Woman in the
Room. A collection of nineteen horror stories, including "Night
Surf," "Sometimes They Come Back," "The Lawnmower Man," and
"Children of the Corn.".
398.25 KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. Nightmares & dreamscapes. New York : Viking,
1993.
Dolan's cadillac -- The end of the whole mess -- Suffer the little
children -- The night flier -- Popsy -- It grows on you -- Chattery
teeth -- Dedication -- The moving finger -- Sneakers -- You know
they got a hell of a band -- Home delivery -- Rainy season -- My
Pretty pony -- Sorry, right number -- The ten o'clock people. A
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collection of short stories including classic tales of the macabre and
the monstrous, cutting-edge explorations of the borderlands
between good and evil, brilliant pastiches of Chandler and Conan
Doyle and much more.
523.1 HAW
Hawking, S. W. (Stephen W.). A brief history of time. Updated and
expanded tenth anniversary ed. New York : Bantam Books, 1998.
Provides an introduction to today's scientific ideas about the
cosmos and reviews past theories. Also covers black holes, quarks,
antimatter, and other mysteries of physics.
591.51 MAS
Masson, J. Moussaieff (Jeffrey Moussaieff), 1941-. When elephants
weep : the emotional lives of animals. New York : Dell Pub., 1996,
c1995.
A study of the complex emotional lives of animals provides insights
into and anecdotes about the existence of animal emotions and
offers an analysis of the ways humans treat animals.
614.57 PRE
Preston, Richard, 1954-. The hot zone. 1st ed. New York : Random
House, c1994.
Tells the dramatic story of U.S. Army scientists and soldiers who
worked to stop the outbreak of a deadly and extremely contagious
virus in 1989.
759.13 CRI
Crichton, Michael, 1942-. Jasper Johns. A rev. and expanded ed. New
York : H.N. Abrams, in association with the Whitney Museum of
American Art, 1994.
A study of American artist Jasper Johns, narrated by novelist
Michael Crichton; featuring interviews with the artist, his dealers,
and critics; and including photographs, as well as a display of 231
paintings, prints, sculptures, and drawings by Johns.
798.4 HIL
Hillenbrand, Laura. Seabiscuit : an American legend. 1st ed. New York :
Random House, c2001.
Describes how three men worked together to turn a rough-hewn,
undersized horse into one of the fastest horses in racing history.
812 MIL
Miller, Arthur, 1915-. After the fall : a play in two acts. New York :
Penguin Books, c1980.
Contains the text of the play in its revised final stage version.
812 MIL
Miller, Arthur, 1915-. Death of a salesman : certain private
conversations in two acts and a requiem. New York, : Viking Press,
1949.
The prize-winning play concerned with the despair of a 63-year-old
traveling salesman when he is forced to face the reality he has
evaded all his life.
812 Mil
Miller, Arthur, 1915-. Salesman in Beijing. New York : Viking Press,
1984.
Describes Miller's experiences in China during the rehearsal and
production of his play "Death of a Salesman," in China in 1983.
812 ONE
O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953. The Emperor Jones. : Anna Christie. The
hairy ape. New York, : Vintage Books, [1972].
Spine title: Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones, The hairy ape.
Contains three plays by Eugene O'Neill: The Emperor Jones--Anna
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812 ONE
O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953. The iceman cometh, : a play. New York, :
Random House, [1957, c1946].
The thoughts and actions of a group of derelicts, habitues of a
cheap New York saloon in 1912.
812 ONE
O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953. Long day's journey into night. 1st ed. New
Haven : Yale University Press, c1955.
Depicts the struggles of the Tyrone family as they face drug
addiction, alcohol abuse, tuberculusis, and lost dreams in this
semi-autobiographical play.
812 Wil
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975. Our town, a play in three acts. 1st
Perennial library ed. New York : Harper & Row, 1985, c1957.
A play in three acts portraying life in Grover's Corner, New
Hampshire, in the early 1900's through the routine daily events
and the major moments in the lives of George Gibbs, Emily Webb,
and their families; and how their lives, although mundane, are
touched by the universal forces of love, despair, apathy, nature,
and death.
812 Wil
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975. Three plays: Our town, The skin of our
teeth, The matchmaker. New York, : Harper, [1957].
812.52 MIL
Miller, Arthur, 1915-. Broken glass : a play. New York : Penguin Books,
1994.
Phillip Gellburg, the only Jew at a Wall Street bank, finds his wife
obsessed with news from Nazi Germany. After her legs become
mysteriously paralyzed, only Dr. Hyman understands her fears.
812.52 ONE
O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953. Four plays. New York, N.Y. : Signet Classic,
[1998].
Beyond the horizon -- The Emperor Jones --Anna Christie -- The
hairy ape. Contains four of O'Neill's early works, two long plays and
two short plays, dealing with themes of domestic life and the power
of fate, and employing images of the sea.
812.52 ONE
O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953. Three plays : Desire under the elms ;
Strange interlude ; Mourning becomes Electra. 1st Vintage
International ed. New York : Vintage International/Vintage Books,
1995.
Desire under the elms -- Strange interlude -- Mourning becomes
Electra. A collection of three plays by Eugene O'Neill.
812.54 VAL
Valdez, Luis. Zoot suit and other plays. Houston, TX : Arte Publico
Press, 1992.
Zoot suit -- Bandido! -- I don't have to show you no stinking
badges!.
812.54 WIL
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. Sweet bird of youth. New York : New
Directions, c1972.
Gigolo Chance Wayne returns to his hometown in the company of
an aging princess to try and recapture his lost love, but he meets
only with violence and a sad recognition of what his life has
become.
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Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. Green hills of Africa. 1st Scribner
classics ed. New York : Scribner, 1998.
In the winter of 1933, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Pauline set
out on a two-month safari in the big-game country of East Africa,
camping out on the great Serengeti Plain at the foot of magnificent
Mount Kilimanjaro. Green Hills of Africa is Hemingway's account of
that expedition, of what it taught him about Africa and himself.
813 MIL
Miller, Arthur, 1915-. All my sons : drama in three acts. New York :
Dramatists Play Service, c1974.
A three-act play that tells the story of Joe Keller and Herbert
Deever, who make parts for wartime airplanes. When the parts are
found defective, Herbert goes to jail while Joe goes free with the
money, and their families fight with each other.
813 NOR
Norris, Frank, 1870-1902. Novels and essays. New York : Literary
Classics of the United States :, c1986.
Vandover and the brute -- McTeague -- The octopus -- Essays.
814.54 KIN
Kingsolver, Barbara. High tide in Tucson : essays from now or never.
1st ed. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1995.
A collection of essays that focus on family, community, the natural
world, and travel.
814.54 KIN
Kingsolver, Barbara. Small wonder. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins
Publishers, c2002.
A collection of essays in which the author searches for hope in
nature and family in a world scarred by poverty and violence.
818.54 MAI
Mailer, Norman. The armies of the night : history as a novel, the novel
as history. New York : Plume, [1994], c1968.
The author reports on his participation in a Vietnam War protest
that took place in Washington D.C. on October 21, 1967, where he
was part of a crowd estimated at anywhere from 20,000 to
200,000 made up of people from all walks of life and hovered over
by helicopters and armed soldiers.
822 WIL
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. The importance of being Earnest. Great Neck,
N.Y. : Barron's Educational Series, [1959].
Nineteenth-century comedy of mixed identity about a man who, as
a child was absentmindedly placed in a handbag and left at the
railroad station.
822.915 BEC
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-. Endgame : a play in one act ; followed by, Act
without words : a mime for one player. 1st Evergreen ed. New York
: Grove Press, 1958.
Endgame. Contains the text to two of Nobel Prize-winning author
Samuel Beckett's greatest works, a single-act play and a singleperson mime sketch.
823.915 BEC
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-. Mercier and Camier. New York : Grove Press :
distributed by Random House, [1975] c1974.
828 Woo
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. A room of one's own. 1st ed. New York :
Harcourt Brace, [1991].
Explores the reasons why women do not have the same influence,
power, and wealth as men do. Meditates on the writer-
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temperament and explores the need for a woman to have a room
of her own and five hundred pounds a year being symbols of the
power to think for oneself and contemplate.
851.1 DAN
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. The divine comedy : selected cantos = La
divina commedia : canti scelti. Dover ed. Mineola, N.Y. : Dover
Publications, 2000.
Presents the English and Italian translations of Dante's "The Divine
Comedy", with the complete text of thirty-three of the original one
hundred cantos and summaries of each omitted canto.
863 FUE
Fuentes, Carlos. The crystal frontier : a novel in nine stories. 1st Farrar,
Straus, and Giroux ed. New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,
1997.
Explores relations between Mexico and the United States through a
collection of nine loosely related fiction stories about people who
are in some way connected to Leonardo Barroso, a powerful
Mexican oligarch whose villa sits near the border of the two
countries.
863 FUE
Fuentes, Carlos. The death of Artemio Cruz. 1st ed. New York : Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, 1991.
Translation of: La muerte de Artemio Cruz. A powerful Mexican
newspaper owner recalls episodes of his earlier life as he lies
confined to his bed, gravely ill.
914.04 MAY
Mayes, Frances. Under the Tuscan sun : at home in Italy. San Francisco
: Chronicle Books, c1996.
A chronicle of the author's first four years in Italy, describing her
purchase and restoration of an abandoned villa in the Tuscan
countryside, her transformation of the overgrown gardens, and her
discovery of the many links between the food and culture of the
region.
915.9 LAN
Landon, Margaret, 1903-. Anna and the King of Siam. 1st
HarperPerennial ed. New York : HarperPerennial, 2000, c1944.
Recounts the experiences of the English governess, Anna
Leonowens, at the Siamese court in the 1860s.
917.404 BRY
Bryson, Bill. A walk in the woods : rediscovering America on the
Appalachian Trail. 1st trade pbk. ed. New York : Broadway Books,
1999, c1998.
Author Bill Bryson provides an account of his experiences hiking
the Appalachian Trail with a childhood friend, telling of how they
survived a blizzard, got lost, and had encounters with eccentric
characters, and rude yuppies along the way.
921 ALLEN
Burns, George, 1896-. Gracie : a love story. New York : Putnam's,
c1988.
The story of Gracie Allen, the woman who made America laugh for
forty years, by her husband, George Burns.
921 BURGESS
Burgess, Anthony, 1917-. Little Wilson and big God. New York :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, c1986.
A portrait of the author's first forty years, from his childhood in
Manchester to the moment when he began writing seriously after
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being told he was dying of a brain tumor.
921 CONWAY
Conway, Jill K., 1934-. The road from Coorain. 1st Vintage Books ed.
New York : Vintage Books, 1990.
The memoirs of Jill Conway and her journey into adulthood from a
30,000 acre sheep ranch in Coorain, Australia, to America where
she became the first woman president of Smith College.
921 CONWAY
Conway, Jill K., 1934-. True north : a memoir. New York : Alfred A.
Knopf :, c1994.
Author's memoir of her days as a Harvard graduate student, her
marriage to historian John Conway, her road to self discovery, and
decision to become president of Smith College.
921 CRICHTON
Crichton, Michael, 1942-. Travels. New York : Knopf :, 1996, c1988.
An autbiography in which novelist and physician Michael Crichton
explains how his disillusionment with the medical field led him to
embark on an exploration of some of the most dangerous and
remote places in the world, while also doing some inner searching
through channeling, exorcism, and other paranormal means.
921 GERONIMO
Geronimo, 1829-1909. Geronimo : his own story. Newly rev. and
edited, with an introduction and notes /. New York : Meridian,
1996.
Presents the testament of legendary Apache warrior Geronimo as
dictated to native interpreter S. M. Barrett in 1905 and 1906; and
includes Barrett's original commentary, and a historical
introduction by Frederick Turner.
921 HEMINGWAY
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. The dangerous summr. New York :
Scribner, 1986, c1985.
921 HEMINGWAY
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. A moveable feast. New York, :
Scribner, [1964].
Sketches of the author's early life in Paris in the twenties provide
nostalgic reminiscences of his first marriage and the discipline of
developing his own literary craft.
921 LYNCH
Bragg, Rick. I am a soldier, too : the Jessica Lynch story. 1st ed. New
York : Alfred. A. Knopf :, 2003.
Private First Class Jessica Lynch chronicles the events surrounding
her capture by Iraqi soldiers in March, 2003, and her rescue by
American troops.
921 MARKHAM
Markham, Beryl. West with the night. San Francisco : North Point,
1983.
Memoirs of Beryl Markham, who grew up in East Africa, became a
bush pilot in Africa, and in 1936 made the first solo flight east to
west across the Atlantic.
921 YAO
Chin, Oliver Clyde, 1969-. The Tao of Yao : insights from basketball's
brightest big man. Berkeley, Calif. : Frog :, c2004.
The wonder of Yao -- The meaning of the Tao -- The wisdom of Lao
-- The cultural ambassador -- The rookie -- The art of traveling -The aim of athletics -- Sports are war -- Being in the center -Lighting the way. Chronicles the life and career of basketball player
Yao Ming, using quotes from Yao on a variety of subjects to
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illustrate key points in his life and his beliefs and values.
921 YING
Hong, Ying, 1962-. Daughter of the river. 1st American ed. New York :
Grove Press, c1998.
Hong Ying chronicles her life in China and discusses how she
survived the Great Famine of the early 1960s, how she struggled to
uncover the secrets her family kept hidden from her, how she
fought against the Chinese government, and other related topics.
932.01 PAT
Patterson, James, 1947-. The murder of King Tut : the plot to kill the
child king : a nonfiction thriller. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown,
2009.
The authors relate their findings from investigating the death of
King Tut, and contend that the boy king was murdered and did not,
as many believe, die of disease.
940.54 BRO
Brokaw, Tom. The greatest generation. 1st ed. New York : Random
House, c1998.
Pays tribute to the generation of Americans who fought in World
War II, telling the stories of individual men and women who, united
by common purpose and values, served their country overseas and
returned to create modern America.
940.54 SID
Sides, Hampton. Ghost soldiers : the forgotten epic story of World War
II's most dramatic mission. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2001.
Provides an account of the World War II mission undertaken by
121 select troops from the U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion in
January 1945 to rescue 513 American and British prisoners,
including survivors of the Bataan Death March, being held in a
camp in the Philippines.
942.06 DEF
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. A journal of the plague year. New York :
New American Library, c1960.
A fictionalized account of the plague which occurred in London in
the year 1665.
944.23 COR
Corbin, Alain. The life of an unknown : the rediscovered world of a clog
maker in nineteenth-century France. New York : Columbia
University Press, c2001.
951.04 CHA
Chang, Iris. The rape of Nanking : the forgotten holocaust of World War
II. New York : Penguin Books, 1998, c1997.
Details the massacre that took place in December 1937 when the
Japanese army overthrew the ancient city of Nanking, China, and
raped, tortured, and murdered over 300,000 civilians; examining
the atrocity from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers, the
Chinese civilians, and the Europeans and Americans who created a
safety zone for survivors.
951.05 WON
Wong, Jan. Red China blues : my long march from Mao to now. 1st
Doubleday/Anchor Books ed. Toronto ; : Doubleday/Anchor Books,
1996.
Memoirs of a Canadian journalist who spent time in China during
the Maoist regime and was transformed from a devout communist
into a supporter of the dissident protests of the 1990s.
970.5 Bro
Brown, Dee Alexander. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee; : an Indian
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history of the American West,. [1st ed.]. New York, : Holt, Rinehart
& Winston, [1971, c1970].
Traces the white man's conquest of the Indians of the American
West, emphasizing major Indian Wars.
FIC ABB
Abbey, Edward, 1927-. The monkey wrench gang. 1st Perennial Classics
ed. New York : Perennial Classics, 2000, c1975.
A burnt-out veteran, a mad doctor, a sexy revolutionary, and a
polygamist outdoorsman team up in a concerted effort to halt what
they see as a big government/big business conspiracy to destroy
the environment of the American West.
FIC ABU
Abu-Jaber, Diana. Origin : a novel. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton,
c2007.
Mentally fragile Lena Dawson, a fingerprint expert at a Syracuse
crime lab, is forced to face the truth about her own past when she
begins investigating a rash of crib deaths in the community.
FIC AID
Aidinoff, Elsie V. The garden. 1st pbk. ed. New York : HarperTempest,
2005, c2004.
Retells the tale of the Garden of Eden from Eve's point of view, as
Serpent teaches her everything from her own name to why she
should eat the forbidden fruit, and then leaves her with Adam and
the knowledge that her choice has made mankind free.
FIC AID
Aidoo, Ama Ata, 1942-. Changes : a love story. New York : Feminist
Press at the City University of New York, 1993, c1991.
Esi, having chosen divorce and work over traditional marriage,
faces a new set of problems when she falls in love with an
attractive married man who offers to arrange a polygamous
marriage.
FIC ALB
Albom, Mitch, 1958-. The five people you meet in heaven. 1st ed. New
York : Hyperion, c2003.
A bitter eighty-three-year-old war veteran who believes his life is
meaningless dies while trying to save a little girl's life and finds
himself in heaven, where five people from his past--some loved
ones, some strangers--explain what his years on Earth really
meant, and whether or not he succeeded in saving the child.
FIC ALB
Albom, Mitch, 1958-. For one more day. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion,
c2006.
After years of drinking, being rejected by his wife and daughter,
and a suicide attempt, ex-baseball star Charley Benetto returns to
his childhood home where he encounters the ghost of his mother,
who tells him family secrets and guides him in making his life
better.
FIC ALE
Alexie, Sherman, 1966-. Reservation blues. Warner Books ed. New York
: Warner Books, [1996], c1995.
Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in 1931, and was
murdered seven years later. He reappears in 1992 on the Spokane
Indian Reservation and meets Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who starts
Coyote Springs, an all-Indian Catholic rock-and-roll band.
FIC ALL
Allende, Isabel. Daughter of fortune : a novel. New York, NY :
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HarperCollins, c1999.
Eliza Sommers, left alone and pregnant in Chile when her lover
Joaquin runs off to California during the Gold Rush, decides to
follow him only to become entranced with her new life of freedom
and independence.
FIC ALL
Allende, Isabel. The infinite plan : a novel. 1st ed. New York, N.Y. :
HarperCollins Publishers, c1993.
Story of Gregory Reeves's search for love and his struggle to come
to terms with childhood poverty and neglect.
FIC ALL
Allende, Isabel. Of love and shadows. 1st American ed. New York :
Knopf :, 1996.
A woman reporter in a Latin American country and a photographer
are sent on a routine assignment. The two uncover a hideous
crime, the revelation of which could challenge the terrorism of the
military regime.
FIC ALL
Allende, Isabel. Portrait in sepia : a novel. 1st ed. New York :
HarperCollins, c2001.
Aurora del Valle, raised in the privileged class of Chile by her
grandmother, is tormented by nightmares and half-memories of
events set in San Francisco's Chinatown. Disillusioned in her
marriage, Aurora sets out to rediscover the missing years of her
early childhood.
FIC ALV
Alvarez, Julia. Before we were free. 1st Laurel-Leaf ed. New York : Dell
Laurel-Leaf, 2004, c2002.
Anita, a typically self-absorbed twelve-year-old living in the
Dominican Republic in the early 1960s, is surprised to discover her
family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody
rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
FIC ALV
Alvarez, Julia. In the name of Salomé : a novel. New York : Plume
Book, [2001], c2000.
A novel based on the life of Profesora Camila Henríquez-Ureña, a
teacher whose mother was Salomé Ureña, famous nineteenthcentury political poet from the Dominican Republic.
FIC ALV
Alvarez, Julia. Saving the world : a novel. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, NC :
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006.
Latina novelist Alma Huebner begs off joining her husband on a
humanitarian mission to the Dominican Republic to work on her
next book, and finds herself becoming obsessed with the life of her
subject--a woman who hand-picked a group of orphan boys to
serve as live carriers of the small pox virus in order to provide
Spaniard Francisco Xavier Balmis a ready supply of vaccine with
which to inoculate the populations of Spain's American colonies in
1803.
FIC ALV
Alvarez, Julia. Yo! New York : Plume, c1997.
Yolanda Garcia finds success with her first novel in which she made
characters out of her family members and friends, but her
"fictionally victimized" relatives exact revenge by telling all they
know about the author, Yo.
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Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939-. Cat's eye. 1st Anchor Books ed. New
York : Anchor Books, 1998, c1988.
A feminist painter returns to Toronto for a retrospective of her
work and confronts her memories, family, and friends.
FIC AUE
Auel, Jean M. The clan of the cave bear : a novel. New York : Crown,
c1980.
Ayla, clearly a member of the Others, is raised by the Clan of the
Cave Bear, a rival race of humanoid creatures living in prehistoric
Europe.
FIC AUS
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Persuasion. New York : Harcourt, Brace &
World, Inc., c1962.
Anne Elliot sent Frederick Wentworth away seven years ago when
she was an unhappy girl beset by troubles. Now she regrets it.
When he returns, it takes a fortuitous series of accidents before the
knots can be untied.
FIC BAL
Baldacci, David. Absolute power. New York : Warner Books, c1996.
Burglar Luther Whitney is forced to run for his life after he sees
Secret Service agents shoot and kill a wealthy, young socialite
whose affair with the President of the United States had gotten out
of control.
FIC BAL
Baldacci, David. The camel club. New York : Warner Books, c2005.
After witnessing a murder with ties to a prestigious businessman's
club, Harry Stone steals a crucial piece of evidence from the crime
scene and is pursued by a dangerous member of the club.
FIC BAL
Baldacci, David. The collectors. 1st ed. New York : Warner Books, 2006.
The Camel Club, a quartet of eccentrics dedicated to finding out
what's really going on in America's government, becomes
embroiled in an intriguing and dangerous mystery when the
assassination of the U.S. Speaker of the House is linked to the
death of the director of the Library of Congress's rare books room.
FIC BAL
Baldacci, David. Hour game : a novel. New York : Warner Books, c2004.
Private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are hired to
prove a man's innocence in a burglary and become embroiled in a
frantic search for a serial killer.
FIC BAL
Baldacci, David. Last man standing. New York : Warner Books, c2001.
When the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team is attacked, agent Web
London is the sole survivor. Living with questions and guilt, he sets
out to discover what really happened that night, as forces from all
sides try to stop him.
FIC BAL
Baldacci, David. Split second. New York : Warner Books, c2003.
Michelle Maxwell and Sean King, two former Secret Service agents
whose careers were destroyed when presidential candidates under
their protection were harmed, discover together that their cases,
eight years apart, are connected, and that danger remains.
FIC BAL
Baldacci, David. Wish you well. New York : Warner Books, c2000.
The lives of twelve-year-old Lou and her younger brother, Oz,
change forever in 1940 when an accident involving their parents
results in their being uprooted from their New York City home and
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moved to live with their great-grandmother in the mountains of
Virginia.
FIC BED
Bedford, K. A. Hydrogen steel. 1st ed. Calgary, Alta. : Edge Science
Fiction and Fantasy, c2006.
Homicide inspector Zette McGee is called out of retirement to help
Kell Fallow, a former android accused of killing his wife and children
who also knows a dark secret from Zette's past.
FIC Ber
Berg, Elizabeth. Open house : a novel. New York : Random House,
c2000.
Ginny Young embarks on a journey home to see the mother she
has not spoken to in thirty-five years and to discover the truth
about events from the past that determined the course of her life.
FIC BER
Berg, Elizabeth. Range of motion. 1st ed. New York : Random House,
c1995.
Lainey must draw on a number of sources to keep her faith strong
when her husband, Jay, is injured in an accident and lingers in a
coma.
FIC BLA
Blackman, Malorie. Knife edge. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Simon &
Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007.
Persephone Hadley, six-months pregnant with a mixed-race baby,
risks her own life to save the brother of the man she loves, who
was hanged for terrorism months earlier.
FIC BLU
Blume, Judy. Summer sisters. New York, N.Y : Dell Publishing, 1999,
c1998.
Vix Leonard's life changed forever when she was introduced to the
glittering, privileged world of her new friend Caitlin. Now, years
later, the magic of their early relationship has faded, but Caitlin is
getting married and she wants Vix to be her maid of honor. Vix
knows that she will go for Caitlin, whose betrayals she remembers
all too well, because Vix wants to understand what happened
during that last shattering summer.
FIC BOH
Bohjalian, Christopher A. Midwives. 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.
New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 1998.
Cut off from the hospital and rescue squad by an ice storm,
midwife Sibyl Danforth makes the decision to perform a cesarean
section on a patient she believes has died of a stroke during labor,
but when her assistant tells police the mother was alive during the
surgery, Sibyl and the entire community are drawn into a gripping
trial.
FIC BRA
Bradley, Marion Zimmer. Priestess of Avalon. 1st American ed. New
York : Viking, 2001.
Eilan, a British princess known to the Romans as Helena, banished
from Avalon for indulging in a forbidden love, grows to be a wise
woman who finds herself in the unique position, as mother of the
Emperor Constantine, of having to find a way to bridge the gap
between the pagan world of the Goddess and the new Christian
empire her son created.
FIC BRA
Bradley, Marion Zimmer. Red sun of Darkover. New York : DAW Books,
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c1987.
Fifteen short stories in which a Jesuit priest travels to Darkover to
investigate the life of a would-be saint in Patricia Anne Buard's
"Devil's Advocate," while another investigation of a poltergeist in
Arilinn Tower unmasks a restless young ghost in Elisabeth Waters's
"Playfellow.".
FIC BRO
Brown, Dan, 1964-. The lost symbol : a novel. 1st ed. New York :
Doubleday, c2009.
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, at the U.S. Capitol Building
to deliver a lecture, is drawn into a desperate search through the
hidden tunnels and temples of Washington, D.C., when his mentor
Peter Solomon, a prominent Mason and philanthropist, is
kidnapped and the only clue to Solomon's whereabouts lies in an
ancient invitation to a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom.
FIC BUC
Buck, Pearl S (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. Dragon seed. New York
: The John Day company, [c1942].
The story of Ling Tan and his family and their struggles during the
time of war in China.
FIC BUC
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. East wind, west wind.
Wakefield, R.I. : Moyer Bell ;, [1993], c1930.
A traditional Chinese woman is slowly introduced to the ways of the
West after she marries the man to whom she has been betrothed
since her before her birth, but who has been living and studying
abroad.
FIC BUR
Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993. A clockwork orange. New York : W.W.
Norton, c1986.
In the Slav-oriented state of the future, the Lower Orders are in
ascendence and happy hooligans roam the London streets, bashing
senior citizens in the eyes with bicycle chains.
FIC BUR
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924. Little Lord Fauntleroy. New
York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, 1994.
An American boy goes to live with his grandfather in England
where he becomes heir to a title and a fortune.
FIC BUR
Burns, Olive Ann. Cold Sassy tree. New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1984.
Grandpa Blakeslee marries a young milliner just three weeks after
Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward. Young Will is boggled by
this act but becomes the newlyweds' conspirator and confidant;
meanwhile he does some growing up on his own.
FIC BUT
Butler, Robert Olen. A good scent from a strange mountain : stories.
1st ed. New York : H. Holt, 1992.
Open arms -- Mr. Green -- The trip back -- Fairy tale -- Crickets -Letters from my father -- Love -- Mid-Autumn -- In the clearing -A ghost story -- Snow -- Relic -- Preparation -- The American
couple -- A good scent from a strange mountain. Fifteen short
stories blending Vietnamese folklore with American realities as
Vietnamese refugees try to balance their traditions with American
popular culture.
FIC CAL
Caldwell, Taylor, 1900-1985. Captains and the kings. [1st ed.]. Garden
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City, N.Y : Doubleday, 1972.
Joseph Armagh believes that his son will be the first Catholic
President of the United States and he is sure that the
determination that helped turn him from a poor, Irish immigrant
into a multimillionaire will help his son live out his greatest
expectations.
FIC CAM
Campbell, Bebe Moore, 1950-. Brothers and sisters. Berkeley ed. New
York : Berkeley, 1995.
An African-American woman is forced to choose between
commitment to a white friend and loyalty to a person of her own
race.
FIC CAM
Campbell, Bebe Moore, 1950-. Your blues ain't like mine. New York :
G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1992.
A Chicago born young black man pays the ultimate price for
speaking a few words in French to a white women while visiting
relatives in Mississippi in the 1950s.
FIC CAM
Camus, Albert, 1913-1960. The first man. New York : A.A. Knopf, 1995.
The final book by Camus, covering the years of his fatherless
childhood in Algeria, taken from his incomplete, handwritten
manuscript.
FIC CAP
Capote, Truman, 1924-. Breakfast at Tiffany's : a short novel and three
stories. 1994 Modern Library ed. New York : Modern Library, 1994.
Breakfast at Tiffany's -- House of flowers -- A diamond guitar -- A
Christmas memory. Contains the title work about Holly Golightly, a
Manhattan playgirl whose antics mask a pain-filled past; and
includes three additional stories, "House of Flowers," "A Diamond
Guitar," and "A Christmas Memory.".
FIC Cap
Capote, Truman, 1924-. Other voices, other rooms. New York : Random
House, [1955, c1948].
Thirteen-year-old Joel Knox is sent to live with his father in rural
Alabama after the death of his mother, but instead is met by a
sullen stepmother, eccentric cousin, and defiant girl named Idabel
who offers Joel the love and approval he never received from his
parents.
FIC CAS
Cashore, Kristin. Graceling. 1st ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2008.
In a world where some people are born with extreme and oftenfeared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her
own horrifying Grace of killing and teams up with another young
fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
FIC CAS
Cassidy, Anne, 1952-. Looking for JJ. 1st U.S. ed. Orlando, Fla. :
Harcourt, 2007.
Seventeen-year-old Alice, released from prison with a new identity
after serving six years for murdering a child, tries to keep her
anonymity from the British tabloids, while haunted by memories of
her past trauma.
FIC CER
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote. New York :
Signet Classic, [2001], c1957.
The epic tale of an eccentric country gentleman and his companion
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who set out as a knight and squire of old to right wrongs and
punish evil in sixteenth-century Spain.
FIC CHA
Chambers, Aidan. Postcards from no man's land. New York : Speak,
2004.
Alternates between two stories--contemporarily, seventeen-yearold Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English
grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates
her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate Holland
from its German occupation.
FIC CHA
Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959. The big sleep. 1st Vintage crime/Black
Lizard ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1992, c1966.
Philip Marlowe, a private detective in Los Angeles in the 1930s,
takes a case involving a paralyzed California millionaire, two
psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder.
FIC CHA
Chávez, Denise. Face of an angel. Warner Books ed. New York : Warner
Books, [1995].
The story of Soveida Dosamantes, a waitress who has worked for
thirty years in a Mexican restaurant in the rural Southwest.
FIC CHE
Chevalier, Tracy. Falling angels. New York : Dutton, c2001.
The changing social climate in England, spurred by the death of
Queen Victoria in 1901, is reflected in the lives of Maude Coleman
and Lavinia Waterhouse, two young girls of different classes who
meet and become fast friends while their families are visiting
adjoining funeral plots.
FIC CHE
Chevalier, Tracy. The lady and the unicorn. New York : Dutton, c2004.
A historical novel that imagines the lives and intrigues of the men
and women involved in the creation of the fifteenth-century "Lady
and the Unicorn" tapestries.
FIC CHE
Chevalier, Tracy. The virgin blue. New York : Plume, [2003], c1997.
Ella Turner moves to France with her husband expecting a quiet
life, begins researching her family's French ancestry, and discovers
unsettling parallels between herself and a woman who lived four
centuries earlier.
FIC CHR
Christie, Agatha. Appointment with death. New York : Berkley, 1984,
c1965.
Many people had a motive for killing Mrs. Boynton, but Hercule
Poirot has to find out who did it.
FIC CHR
Christie, Agatha. Mrs. McGinty's dead. New York : Pocket, 1953, c1952.
Hercule Poirot must find a murderer who is trying to kill him.
FIC CHR
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. Cat among the pigeons. Winterbrook ed.,
1st ed. New York : Dodd, Mead, [1986], c1959.
Hercule Poirot investigates when an unsuspecting student becomes
the target of a killer who is terrorizing a famous school for girls.
FIC CHR
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. The mirror crack'd from side to side. The
Greenway ed. New York : Dodd, Mead, 1981, c1962.
Miss Jane Marple investigates the poisoning death of a fan of
Marina Gregg, the film star who recently took up residence in St.
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Mary Mead and may have been the killer's intended target.
FIC CHR
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. Murder in Mesopotamia. New York :
Berkley, 1984, c1964.
Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot is called upon to solve an
archaeologist's wife's murder while she was on a dig in Iraq.
FIC CHR
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. The murder of Roger Ackroyd. Berkley ed.
New York : Berkley Books, [2000], c1926.
Inspector Hercule Poirot, having retired to the small English village
of King's Abbot, is drawn into the investigation of the murders of
the widow Mrs. Ferrars and her suitor, local squire Roger Ackroyd.
FIC CHR
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. The regatta mystery and other stories.
Berkley ed. New York : Berkley Books, 1984, c1939.
The regatta mystery -- The mystery of the Bagdad chest -- How
does your garden grow? -- Problem at Pollensa Bay -- Yellow Iris -Miss Marple tells a story -- The dream -- In a glass darkly -Problem at sea. A collection of nine mystery stories by English
author Agatha Christie.
FIC CLA
Clancy, Tom. Patriot games. New York : Berkley, 1992.
Jack Ryan, historian, ex-Marine, and CIA analyst, summons all his
skills and knowledge to battle against international terrorism.
FIC CLA
Clancy, Tom. Tom Clancy's Op-Center. Berkley ed. New York : Berkley
Books, c1995.
The Op-Center's crack team of crisis management operatives
uncovers a harrowing power play that threatens American defense
and intelligence.
FIC CLA
Clancy, Tom, 1947-. The bear and the dragon. New York : G.P. Putnam,
c2000.
Newly elected President Jack Ryan is disturbed by the attempted
assassination of Russia's intelligence agency chairman, and as
antiterrorism specialist John Clark and others go to Moscow to
investigate, danger to the entire world takes shape in China.
FIC CLA
Clancy, Tom, 1947-. Clear and present danger. New York : Putnam,
c1989.
Armed men prepare to take the fight to the enemy after three
American officials are killed by Colombian drug lords to make their
message clear: Leave us alone.
FIC CLA
Clancy, Tom, 1947-. The hunt for Red October. Berkley ed. New York :
Berkley Books, 1985, c1984.
A dangerous race is on when the crew of the Soviet Union's new
ballistic-missile submarine "Red October" attempts to defect to the
United States, while being pursued by the Soviet Atlantic fleet
which has been ordered to find and destroy the submarine at all
costs.
FIC CLA
Clancy, Tom, 1947-. Rainbow Six. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons,
c1998.
Ex-Navy SEAL John Clark, newly appointed head of an international
anti-terrorism task force, begins to see a pattern in a rash of
seemingly separate episodes that leads to the discovery of a group
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of terrorists whose cunning and skill threatens to alter the entire
fabric of life on Earth.
FIC CLA
Clancy, Tom, 1947-. Red rabbit. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2002.
Jack Ryan, having jumped at the offer to join the CIA as a
freelance analyst in the early 1980s, quickly finds himself in over
his head when he uncovers a KGB plot to assassinate Pope John
Paul II.
FIC CLA
Clancy, Tom, 1947-. Red storm rising. New York : Putnam, c1986.
After Moslem fundamentalists blow up a key Soviet oil complex,
the Soviets seize the oil in the Persian Gulf. To keep NATO from
retaliating, they develop a master plan: Red Storm.
FIC CLA
Clancy, Tom, 1947-. The sum of all fears. New York : Putnam, c1991.
With the world poised on the brink of nuclear war, Ryan and his FBI
counterpart, Dan Murray, seek a solution before the chiefs of state
lose control of themselves and the world.
FIC CLA
Clancy, Tom, 1947-. Tom Clancy's op-center : games of state. Berkley
ed. New York : Berkley Books, 1996.
Paul Hood and his team become involved in a crisis that threatens
the stability of Europe and the United States when they travel to
Germany to buy technology for the new Regional Op-Center just in
time for the neo-Nazi Chaos Days.
FIC CLA
Rovin, Jeff. Tom Clancy's op-center. Berkley ed. New York : Berkley
Books, 2001.
Striker, a team of cover operations specialists, get caught in an
eruption of violence when they try to capture an Islamic cleric who
is stirring up a rebellion against the Indian government.
FIC COE
Coelho, Paulo. The alchemist. [San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco,
[1998], c1993.
Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy, sets out from his home in
Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of buried treasure, but
through his encounters with a Gypsy woman, a man who calls
himself a king, and an Alchemist, he learns the value of the
treasures found within himself.
FIC COE
Coelho, Paulo. The Devil and Miss Prym : a novel of temptation. 1st
U.S. ed. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2006, c2001.
A stranger arrives in the remote village of Viscos carrying a
notebook and eleven gold bars and searching for answers to his
past and upsetting the village's peaceful existence.
FIC CON
Connelly, Michael, 1956-. The Lincoln lawyer : a novel. 1st ed. New
York : Little, Brown, 2005.
Criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller has spent his career
protecting the city's low lifes, but when a Beverly Hills playboy
hires Mickey to defend him in an assault trial, Mickey believes it will
be the easiest and most lucrative case of his career, until the case
takes a dangerous turn that threatens everything Mickey loves.
FIC CON
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Lord Jim. Large print ed. Waterville, ME :
G.K. Hall, [2001].
Jim, branded a coward after jumping clear of the sinking ship on
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which he was first mate, travels to the exotic region of Patusan
where he becomes a trading post agent and earns the respect of
the island people.
FIC COO
Cook, Robin, 1940-. Acceptable risk. New York : G.P. Putnam's, c1994.
A neuroscientist designs a new type of mind altering drug and
begins experimenting on people with surprising results.
FIC COO
Cook, Robin, 1940-. Blindsight. New York : Putnam, c1992.
Manhattan city forensic pathologist Laurie Montgomery battles to
foil a plot of unimaginable evil in a distinguished New York hospital.
FIC COO
Cook, Robin, 1940-. Chromosome 6. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons,
c1997.
Forensic pathologist Dr. Jack Stapleton and his colleague Dr. Laurie
Montgomery discover a mysterious cult involved in high-tech
experimental medical procedures when they set out to discover the
truth about what happened to Carlo Franconi, a mobster who body
was stolen from the morgue and later turned up mutilated and
minus its liver.
FIC COO
Cook, Robin, 1940-. Contagion. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1995.
Dr. John Stapleton, embittered by the deaths of his wife and
daughters in a plane crash and the loss of his ophthalmology
practice to AmeriCare, retrains for a career in forensic pathology
where he uncovers a plot by the health care giant to kill off its
more costly subscribers.
FIC COO
Cook, Robin, 1940-. Harmful intent. New York : Putnam, c1990.
A subtle clue puts a physician turned fugitive and Nurse Kelly on
the trail of a crazed killer, responsible for drugtampering deaths.
FIC COO
Cook, Robin, 1940-. Terminal. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1993.
Third year medical student Sean Murphy goes to a renowned
cancer treatment center and discovers the horror of their
remarkable cures.
FIC COO
Cook, Robin, 1940-. Vital signs. New York : Putnam, c1991.
A successful doctor with a fairy tale marriage has everything but
the child she wants. Obsessed with becoming pregnant, she travels
to Hong Kong to explore reproductive technologies and finds she is
in incredible danger.
FIC COO
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Deerslayer. 1979 edition. New
York : Dodd, 1979.
Relates the adventures of woodsman Natty Bumppo in upper New
York State at the time of the Iroquois wars.
FIC COO
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. The leatherstocking tales. New
York, N.Y. : Literary Classics of the U.S. :, c1985.
v. 1. The pioneers, or The sources of the Susquehanna. The last of
the Mohicans. The prairie -- v. 2. The pathfinder, or The inland sea.
The deerslayer, or The first war-path.
FIC COO
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Prairie. With illustrations of the
author and his environment and reproductions of drawings for early
editions of the book together with an introduction and descriptive
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captions by B. Davenport. New York : Dodd, Mead and Co., 1954.
Last Leather Stocking tale. Hawkeye as a trapper on the Upper
Missouri River. For other editions, see Author Catalog.
FIC COO
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. The spy : a tale of the neutral
ground. Laurel, N.Y. : Lightyear Press, c1976.
Reprint of an 1821 novel that tells the story of a man who risked
his life in service to America during the Revolutionary War.
FIC COR
Cornwell, Patricia Daniels. The front. New York : Putnams, c2008.
Massachusetts state investigator Win Garano is dispatched to
Watertown by District Attorney Monique Lamont to look into a cold
case that just may be the Boston Strangler's first victim, but he
runs up against opposition from the Front, an unofficial coalition of
police departments who are suspicious of Lamont, her minions, and
her motivations.
FIC COR
Cornwell, Patricia Daniels. Southern cross. New York : G.P. Putnam's
Sons, c1998.
Judy Hammer, sent to Richmond, Virginia to help clean up their
police force, becomes involved, along with her deputy chief, in the
most challenging case of her career.
FIC COR
Cornwell, Patricia Daniels. Trace. New York : Putnams, c2004.
Forensic investigator Dr. Kay Scarpetta is called back to Richmond,
Virginia, five years after being fired, to help the new Chief Medical
Examiner figure out what killed a fourteen-year-old girl who seems
to have no cause of death, while Scarpetta's niece, holding down
the office in Florida, tries to deal with a stalker.
FIC COU
Courtenay, Bryce, 1933-. The power of one. 1st Ballantine Books trade
ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 1996, c1989.
Story of Peekay, an English boy, living in South Africa during World
War II whose dream is to become a winner.
FIC CRI
Crichton, Michael, 1942-. Airframe. 1st Trade ed. New York : Alfred
Knopf, 1996.
Following a series of plane crashes and passenger deaths a
frenzied high pressure investigation is ordered with some surprising
results.
FIC CRI
Crichton, Michael, 1942-. The lost world : a novel. 1st trade ed. New
York : Knopf :, 1995.
Jurassic Park, the primordial zoo has been closed and the dinosaurs
it once housed have been destroyed. Now, six years later, there
are rumors that some of them may have survived.
FIC CRI
Crichton, Michael, 1942-. Prey. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins
Publishers, c2002.
A cloud of nanoparticles programmed as a predator and capable of
self-reproduction escapes from a Nevada laboratory and makes the
human population its target.
FIC CRI
Crichton, Michael, 1942-. Sphere : a novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York :
Ballantine Books, 1988.
A group of American scientists descend to the ocean floor to
investigate a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently
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undamaged by its fall, and three hundred years old.
FIC CRI
Crichton, Michael, 1942-. The terminal man. 1st Ballantine Books ed.
New York : Ballantine Books, 1988.
Harry Benson, a man who suffers from violent seizures, is
implanted with electrodes that are designed to send soothing
pulses to the pleasure centers of his brain, but something goes
wrong with the operation and Benson sets out to get revenge on
the doctors he believes are trying to turn him into a machine.
FIC CRI
Crichton, Michael, 1942-. Timeline. 1st Ballantine Books domestic ed.
New York : Ballantine, 2000, c1999.
A group of scientists, having learned how to travel through time,
enter life in fourteenth-century feudal France and threaten the
history of the world.
FIC Cus
Cussler, Clive. Atlantis found. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1999.
Dirk Pitt races to save the future of the world when he is assigned
by the U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency to find the link
between the 1858 discovery of an aged wreck full of crates of
antiquities, and two modern-day incidents that claimed the lives of
a team of anthropologists and almost sank a NUMA vessel.
FIC CUS
Cussler, Clive. Cyclops. New York : Pocket Books, c1986.
Dirk Pitt searches for a financial publisher and adventurer who
vanishes while searching for the Cyclops, a sunken U.S. Navy
collier containing treasure. Dirk discovers a secret base on the
moon, a Soviet plot, and the treasure.
FIC CUS
Cussler, Clive. Dragon. New York : Pocket Books, [1991], c1990.
In 1993, a Japanese auto carrier is destroyed by a nuclear
explosion from an old American nuclear bomb.
FIC CUS
Cussler, Clive. Night probe! Bantam pbk. ed. New York : Bantam Books,
1982, c1981.
Dirk Pitt must descend to the bottom of the Hudson River to
recover a copy of the secret North American Treaty signed in 1914,
but Great Britain is racing to find and destroy the same document.
FIC CUS
Cussler, Clive. Pacific vortex! New York : Bantam Books, 1994.
Dirk Pitt, the Special Projects Director of the National Underwater
and Marine Agency, becomes involved in a perilous mission when
he is sent to find and salvage a deep-diving nuclear submarine that
has inexplicably disappeared in the Pacific Ocean.
FIC CUS
Cussler, Clive. Sahara : a novel. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1992.
Dr. Rojas and Dirk Pitt are in Africa investigating different things,
but are thrown together to save the world from environmental
catastrophe.
FIC CUS
Cussler, Clive. Shock wave : a novel. New York : Simon & Schuster,
c1996.
A deadly plague is killing dolphins and seals in the Weddell Sea and
has now extended its reach to claim the lives of humans. Dirk Pitt,
researcher with the National Underwater and Marine Agency must
find the source of the plague and head off a disaster that will claim
the lives of millions of people and animals.
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FIC CUS
Cussler, Clive. Treasure : a novel. New York : Simon and Schuster,
c1988.
Dirk Pitt, a capable adventurer, seeks the ancient lost library of
Alexandria. A race to recover its precious recorded knowledge of
gold and mineral deposits involves deadly plots, terrorism, and
intrigue.
FIC CUS
Cussler, Clive. Vixen 03. New York : Viking Press, 1978.
An African terrorist group acquires two canisters containing a
virulent organism and threatens to attack Washington, D.C.
FIC DAG
D'Aguiar, Fred, 1960-. Dear future. 1st American ed. New York :
Pantheon Books, c1996.
Tells the story of a Caribbean family living in Guyana, focusing on
the youngest son, Red Head, who sees the world from a visionary,
twisted perspective after being accidently hit in the head with an
axe.
FIC DEA
Dean, Zoey. Hollywood is like high school with money. 1st ed. New York
: Grand Central Pub., 2009.
Ohio native Taylor Henning works as an assistant to a Hollywood
studio executive while trying to find her own success, and she tries
to stay in touch with her true self while learning how to navigate a
social scene full of treachery and deceit.
FIC DEL
Delinsky, Barbara. While my sister sleeps. 1st ed. New York :
Doubleday, c2009.
Molly, a world-class runner, is shocked to learn that her twin sister
Robin, a horticulturist, has had a heart attack and may never
regain consciousness, and while the rest of her family seems to be
crumbling, Molly is left to make the big decisions.
FIC DEM
DeMille, Nelson. The general's daughter. New York : Warner Books,
c1992.
Army undercover agent Paul Brenner investigates the murder and
rape of Captain Ann Campbell, a general's daughter.
FIC DEM
DeMille, Nelson. The lion's game : a novel. New York : Warner Books,
c2000.
John Corey fears his allotment of good luck may have run out when
he signs on as a contract agent with the federal government's AntiTerroist Task Force and is assigned to apprehend an alleged Libyan
terrorist known as "The Lion.".
FIC DEM
DeMille, Nelson. Plum Island. Warner Books ed. New York : Warner
Books, [1998], c1997.
NYPD detective John Corey, convalescing from multiple gunshot
wounds in the Long Island township of Southold, gets more than
he bargained for when he agrees to consult with local police on the
murder of two biologists who worked at Plum Island, an off-shore
animal disease research site.
FIC DEM
DeMille, Nelson. Up country : a novel. New York : Warner Books, c2002.
Paul Brenner, forced to retire from the Army's Criminal
Investigation Division, embarks upon a path of lies, secrets, and
betrayals when he is called back into service to uncover the truth
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about a thirty-year-old murder case that occurred during the
Vietnam War.
FIC DER
Dershowitz, Alan M. Just revenge. New York, NY : Warner Books,
c1999.
When Max Menuchen learns that the Nazi officer who murdered his
family is still alive, he finds himself obsessed with the idea of
revenge, and his obsession leads to a tragic event.
FIC DIA
Diamant, Anita. The red tent. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press,
1997.
The story of Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, is told from her point of
view, beginning with the story of her mothers, Leah, Rachel,
Zilpah, and Bilhah. These wives of Jacob give her the fits that are
to sustain her through a damaged youth, a calling to midwifery,
and a new home in a foreign land.
FIC DIC
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Oliver Twist. Bantam Classic ed. New
York : Bantam Books, 1981.
In nineteenth-century England, a young orphan boy lives in the
squalid surroundings of a workhouse until he becomes involved
with a gang of thieves.
FIC DIC
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. The Pickwick papers. Bantam Classic ed.
New York : Bantam Skylark, 1983.
Relates the various activities and adventures of the members of
the Pickwick Club.
FIC DID
Didion, Joan. The last thing he wanted. 1st Vintage International ed.
New York : Vintage International, 1997, c1996.
In 1984, newspaper journalist Elena McMahon leaves her coverage
of the presidential campaign to do her father a favor, finding
herself on an island off of Costa Rica in the midst of her father's
arms deals for the U.S. government.
FIC DIV
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee, 1956-. Sister of my heart. 1st ed. New
York : Doubleday, c1999.
Anju and Sudha, cousins in an upper-caste Calcutta family, grow
up together, bonded by fate and heart, but their lives take opposite
turns when they are urged into arranged marriages, until tragedy
brings them back together again.
FIC DOC
Doctorow, E. L., 1931-. Ragtime. 1st ed. New York : Random House,
c1975.
Three remarkable families lives' become entwined with Henry Ford,
Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan, Theodore Dreiser, Sigmund Freud, and
Emiliano Zapata at the turn of the century.
FIC DOW
Dowd, Siobhan. Bog child. 1st American ed. New York : David Fickling
Books, 2008.
In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old
Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his
imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for
Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he
discovered in a bog.
FIC DOW
Dowd, Siobhan. A swift pure cry. 1st American ed. Oxford ; : David
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Fickling Books, [2007], c2006.
Coolbar, Ireland, is a village of secrets and Shell, caretaker to her
younger brother and sister after the death of their mother and with
the absence of their father, is not about to reveal hers until
suspicion falls on the wrong person.
FIC DUM
Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870. The man in the iron mask. Oxford ;
New York : Oxford Univ. Press, 1991.
Presents the adventures of d'Artagnan, who battles political
intrigues in the service of King Louis XIV in seventeenth-century
France.
FIC DUN
Dunant, Sarah. Birth marks : a Hannah Wolfe crime novel. 1st Scribner
trade pbk. ed. New York : Scribner, 2005.
When a missing ballet dancer is fished out of the Thames with
stones in her pockets and a fetus in her belly, the police think it's a
no-brainer. But as P.I. Hannah Wolfe's investigation evolves, the
case grows more treacherous, fueling her own ambivalent feelings
about relationships and motherhood.
FIC DUN
Dunant, Sarah. In the company of the courtesan : a novel. 1st ed. New
York : Random House, c2006.
Famed courtesan Fiammetta Bianchini and her dwarf companion,
Bucino Teodoldi, escape to the wealthy and powerful city of Venice
in order to rebuild their business.
FIC DUN
Dunne, Dominick. An inconvenient woman. 1st ed. New York : Crown
Publishers, c1990.
Jules Mendelson and his wealthy wife lead the kind of high-society
life for which each has been carefully groomed. Until Jules falls in
love with Flo March, a beautiful actress/waitress. What Flo
discovers about the superrich is not a pretty sight. And in the end,
she wants no more than what she was promised.
FIC EDW
Edwards, Kim, 1958-. The memory keeper's daughter. New York :
Penguin, 2006, c2005.
Dr. David Henry, forced to deliver his own twins during a
snowstorm in 1964 with only a nurse to help him, makes a decision
that has far-reaching effects on his life, and the lives of his wife
and son, when his infant daughter is born with Down Syndrome,
and in a vain attempt to protect his wife, he orders the nurse to
take the baby to an institution.
FIC ESQ
Esquivel, Laura, 1950-. The law of love. 1st American ed. New York :
Crown Publishers, c1996.
In the 23rd century, astroanalyst Azucena is separated from her
twin soul Rodrigo after only one meeting. She sets out on a
journey through past lives to find Rodrigo, and to restore the Law
of Love. Accompanying compact disc integrates music into the
story of her search.
FIC ESQ
Esquivel, Laura, 1950-. Swift as desire : a novel. 1st ed. New York :
Crown Publishers, c2001.
Jubilo, estranged from his wife and dying from Parkinson's disease,
recalls his life as a telegraph operator who used his gift for hearing
what is in people's hearts to help others, and finally reveals the sad
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secret of why he is unable to communicate with his beloved
spouse.
FIC EUG
Eugenides, Jeffrey. Middlesex. New York : Picador, c2002.
Three generations of a Greek American family find themselves
plagued by a mutant gene which causes bizarre side effects in the
family's teenage girls.
FIC EVA
Evanovich, Janet. Back to the bedroom. New York : HarperTorch,
c2005.
When freewheeling cartoonist David Dodd and straitlaced musician
Kate Finn get together, will they make beautiful music--or a total
wreck of things?.
FIC EVA
Evanovich, Janet. Foul play. New York : Harper, c2008.
Amy Klasse is replaced in her television job by a dancing chicken
and accepts the offer to become the receptionist for handsome
Jake Elliot at his veterinarian clinic, but when the dancing chicken
suddenly disappears, Amy is blamed, and she and Jake search for
clues to prove her innocence.
FIC EVA
Evanovich, Janet. Full bloom. St. Martin's Paperbacks ed. New York : St.
Martin's Paperbacks, 2005.
Annie Fortenberry, trying to put the finishing touches on the
upcoming secret celebrity wedding she is hosting at her bed and
breakfast in Beaumont, South Carolina, must also contend with the
chaotic arrival of sexy photographer Wes Bridges, a bevy of
eccentric boarders, the ghost of a prostitute from the inn's days as
a bordello, and the murder of her ex-husband.
FIC EVA
Evanovich, Janet. Full speed. St. Martin's Paperbacks ed. New York : St.
Martin's Paperbacks, 2003.
Posing as husband and wife, Jamie Swift, owner of a South
Carolina newspaper, and playboy Max Holt, get caught up in a
romantic adventure as they become involved with a corrupt
minister, gangsters, and a dog named Fleas.
FIC EVA
Evanovich, Janet. High five. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum gets a bad feeling about Uncle
Fred's disappearance when her aunt finds a set of pictures in his
desk that show what looks a lot like a dead body stuffed in a
garbage bag, and her problems are complicated by the attentions
of two nearly irresistible men.
FIC EVA
Evanovich, Janet. Hot six. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and her sometimes lover, Trenton
vice cop Joe Morelli, team up to find the killer of the youngest son
of international black-market arms dealer Alexander Ramos, but
Stephanie has mixed feelings about her search when she learns
that Ranger, her fellow bounty hunter and mentor, is the main
suspect.
FIC EVA
Evanovich, Janet. Love overboard. New York : HarperTorch, 2005.
Stephanie Lowe decides Maine schooner captain and pirate
descendent Ivan Rasmussen deserves to be called Ivan the
Terrible. The house she just bought from him is falling apart and
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possibly haunted. He complains about her fish-eye stew and burnt
chocolate chip cookies. He makes fun of her hair after she's had to
comb it while using a toaster as a mirror. And on top of all that, he
has the nerve to be charming, handsome and overboard in love
with her. This is one pirate captain who is determined to acquire
the treasure of a lifetime.
FIC EVA
Evanovich, Janet. Plum lovin'. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press,
2007.
New Jersey bond enforcement agent Stephanie Plum runs into
blond heartthrob Diesel again while hunting for relationship expert
Annie Hart, who is wanted for robbery and assault--but Diesel will
only hand Annie over if Stephanie will do some matchmaking in her
stead.
FIC EVA
Evanovich, Janet. The rocky road to romance. New York : HarperTorch,
1991, 2004.
When the delightful, daffy Dog Lady of station WZZZ takes on the
job of traffic reporter, Steve Crow tried to think of reasons to turn
her down. Perhaps he knew that sharing the close quarters of a car
with her for hours would give the handsome program director no
room to resist her quirky charms.
FIC EVA
Evanovich, Janet. Seven-up. New York : St. Martin's Press, c2001.
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's seemingly simple new assignment
to bring in a senior citizen charged with smuggling cigarettes is
complicated by a murder and two proposals.
FIC EVA
Evanovich, Janet. Smitten. 1st HarperTorch ed. New York :
HarperTorch, c1990, 2006.
"Smitten" is the story of a single mom with a fixer-upper house
and a desperate need to find a job. Desperate times call for
desperate measures so she talks a local carpenter into giving her a
job on his construction crew. It's a pity position and she knows zip
about construction, but it's a start. The fact that the boss is
gorgeous and single doesn't hurt either. How these two unlikely
workmates find a way to build something together makes for an
entertaining...and hilarious...romance.
FIC EVA
Evanovich, Janet. Ten big ones. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press,
2004.
Bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum is the only witness to a robbery by
the notorious Red Devil's gang and hides out in fellow bounty
hunter Ranger's apartment to escape the gang and other seedy
characters while the police try to nab the culprits.
FIC EVA
Evanovich, Janet. Three to get deadly. New York : Scribner, c1997.
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is saddled with the unpopular task
of tracking down beloved candy store owner Uncle Mo after he
skips bond on a minor charge, and to make matters worse, she has
acquired an unwanted sidekick in former hooker Lula and is once
again enchanted by undercover cop and sometimes boyfriend Joe
Morelli.
FIC EVA
Evanovich, Janet. To the nines. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press,
2003.
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New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum becomes the next target
of a crazed killer while trying to locate Samuel Singh, an illegal
immigrant who has skipped out on a visa bond guaranteed by
Plum's boss and cousin Vinnie.
FIC EVA
Evanovich, Janet. Twelve sharp. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press,
2006.
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum discovers she is being stalked by a
crazed woman and sets out to find the mysterious woman and
uncover her connection to a dangerous murderer.
FIC EVA
Evanovich, Janet. Visions of sugar plums. 1st ed. New York : St.
Martin's Press, 2002.
Stephanie Plum, a New Jersey fugitive apprehension agent, is met
with a plethora of challenges, family-related and otherwise, as
Christmas approaches--not the least of which is the appearance of
a strange, sexy man in her kitchen.
FIC FAU
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. As I lay dying : the corrected text.
Modern Library ed. New York : Modern Library, 2000.
Describes a family's struggle to get their mother properly buried,
while they encounter catastrophes of flood and fire, as well as the
chaos of their own feelings.
FIC FAU
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Intruder in the dust. 1st Vintage
international ed. New York : Random House, 1991, c1948.
Charles, a sixteen-year-old white boy, repays a debt he owes to an
elderly black man, Lucas. After Lucas is accused of murdering a
white man, Charles proves his innocence and saves him from a
lynching in a southern town.
FIC FIT
Fitch, Janet, 1955-. White oleander : a novel. 1st ed. Boston : Little,
Brown, c1999.
Astrid, the only child of a single mother, struggles to find a place
for herself in a world full of foster homes and impossible
circumstances, after her mother is jailed for murder.
FIC FOL
Follett, Ken. Pillars of the earth. 1st ed. New York : Morrow, c1989.
The construction of a cathedral involves a story of betrayal,
revenge and love in 12th century England.
FIC FOS
Foster, Sharon Ewell. Ain't no river. Sisters, Or. : Multnomah Publishers,
c2001.
Bright, young Washington D.C. lawyer Garwin Daniels, placed on
administrative leave by her racist boss, returns home to Jack's
Creek, North Carolina where she attempts to save her
grandmother, Meemaw, from the attentions of a much younger
man, and find her way back to the right path in life.
FIC FRA
Francis, Dick. Second wind. New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1999.
BBC meteorologist Perry Stuart finds his life in danger after the
plane he is riding in on an adventure into the eye of a Class V
hurricane is destroyed, stranding him on Trox Island where he
discovers a notebook that contains very sensitive information.
FIC FRA
Francis, Dick. Shattered. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2000.
Glassblower Gerard Logan is faced with a threat to his business, his
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courage, and his life when he comes to the attention of a gang of
thugs who are searching for an incriminating videotape entrusted
to Logan by his friend, jockey Martin Stukely, who was
unexpectedly killed in a riding accident.
FIC FRA
Franzen, Jonathan. The corrections. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus
and Giroux, 2001.
After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is
ready to have some fun, but the members of her dysfunctional
family make it difficult.
FIC FRA
Frazier, Charles, 1950-. Cold mountain. 1st ed. New York : Atlantic
Monthly Press, c1997.
Inman, a wounded Confederate soldier, leaves the hospital where
he is being treated and determines to walk home to his sweetheart
Ada, only to find the land and the girl he remembers as changed by
the war as he.
FIC FUE
Fuentes, Carlos. Christopher unborn. 1st American ed. New York :
Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989.
In the near future, an ecological calamity takes place in Mexico
City, gangs rampage through its streets, and the ruling party is
corrupt.
FIC GAI
Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-. The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.
Bantam ed. New York : Bantam, 1972, c1971.
A 110-year-old African-American woman reminisces about her life,
which has stretched from the days of slavery to the black militancy
and civil rights movements of the 1960s.
FIC GAI
Gaines, Ernest J, 1933-. Bloodline. New York : Norton, 1976, c1968.
A long day in November -- The sky is gray -- Three men -Bloodline -- Just like a tree.
FIC GAI
Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-. Catherine Carmier : a novel. 1st Vintage
contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1993.
After living in San Francisco for ten years, Jackson returns home to
Louisiana where African-Americans, Cajuns, and whites coexist
uneasily. Within this environment he falls in love with Catherine
Carmier.
FIC GAI
Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-. In my father's house. 1st ed. New York :
Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1978.
A minister and civil rights leader in a small, rural community is
suddenly confronted with events from his past that threaten to
destroy the life he has built.
FIC GAI
Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-. A lesson before dying. 1st Vintage
contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1994, c1993.
Tells the story of a young African-American man sentenced to
death for a murder he did not commit, and a teacher who tries to
impart to him his learning and pride before the execution.
FIC GAR
García Márquez, Gabriel, 1928-. The general in his labyrinth. 1st
American ed. New York : A.A. Knopf :, 1990.
Recounts the turbulent life of the great Simon Bolivar.
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FIC GAR
García Márquez, Gabriel, 1928-. Innocent Eréndira, and other stories.
1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1978.
The incredible and sad tale of innocent Eréndira and her heartless
grandmother.--The sea of lost time.--Death constant beyond love.-The third resignation.--The other side of death.--Eva is inside her
cat.--Dialogue with the mirror.--Bitterness for three sleepwalkers.-Eyes of a blue dog.--The woman who came at six o'clock.-Someone has been disarranging these roses.--The night of the
curlews.
FIC GAR
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel, 1928-. Love in the time of cholera. New York,
: Penguin Books, 1989, c1988.
A love story that ranges from the late nineteenth century to the
early decades of the twentieth, tracing the lives of three people
and their entwined fates.
FIC GAR
García Márquez, Gabriel, 1928-. No one writes to the colonel, and other
stories. 1st Harper Colophon ed. New York : Perennial Library,
1979, c1968.
Collection of short stories by the award-winning author, translated
from Spanish, including the title work and "Big Mama's Funeral," a
series of related tales.
FIC GIB
Gibbons, Kaye, 1960-. Ellen Foster. 1st Vintage contemporaries ed. New
York : Vintage Books, 1988, c1987.
Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young
child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home
of a loving woman with several foster children.
FIC GIB
Gibbons, Kaye, 1960-. A virtuous woman : a novel. 1st Vintage
Contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1990, c1989.
A tale of a woman who shocks her well-to-do family by running off
with a migrant worker who abuses her.
FIC GIB
Gibson, William, 1948-. Neuromancer. Ace ed. New York : Ace Books,
1984.
Case, a nerve-damaged data thief, is recruited by a new employer
for a last-chance run against a powerful artificial intelligence.
FIC GOL
Golden, Arthur. Memoirs of a geisha : a novel. New York : Knopf, 1997.
Nitta Sayuri, a young Japanese woman who was taken from her
home at the age of nine and sold into slavery as a geisha,
discovers a rare opportunity for freedom when the outbreak of
World War II forces an end to the only life she has ever known.
FIC GOL
Golding, William, 1911-. Close quarters. New York : Farrar, Straus,
Giroux, 1987.
Sequel to: Rites of passage. Recounts the further adventures of the
eighteenth-century fighting ship, converted at the close of the
Napoleonic War to carry passengers and cargo from England to
Australia.
FIC GOL
Golding, William, 1911-. Darkness visible. 1st American ed. New York :
Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979.
A young boy, scarred and orphaned in the London blitz, stands
apart from others not only because of his disfigurement but as a
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result of unique visions he sees and voices he hears.
FIC GOL
Golding, William, 1911-. Fire down below. New York : Farrar, Straus,
Giroux, 1989.
Just as the beleaguered ship can serve as a microcosm of English
society, so the voyage functions as an allegory of a more primal
passage, as young Edmund Talbot progresses from "the objectivity
of ignorance" to "the subjectivity of knowledge.".
FIC GRA
Grafton, Sue. Q is for quarry. New York : Putnam's, c2002.
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone finds herself on the trail of a
killer when she is hired by two ill and aging cops to help them solve
the mystery of an eighteen=year-old murder in which the victim
was never identified.
FIC GRA
Grafton, Sue. R is for ricochet. Berkley mass market ed. New York :
Berkley Books, c2004.
FIC GRA
Grafton, Sue. S is for silence. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2005.
A woman seeks an explanation for her mother's mysterious
disappearance 34 years earlier.
FIC GRA
Gratz, Alan, 1972-. Something wicked. New York, NY : Dial Books,
c2008.
In a contemporary story based on Shakespeare's play, Macbeth,
Horatio Wilkes seeks to solve the murder of Duncan MacKae at the
Scottish Highland Games in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
FIC GRE
Gregory, Philippa. The other Boleyn girl : a novel. 1st Scribner
Paperback Fiction ed. New York : Scribner Paperback Fiction, 2002,
c2001.
Mary Boleyn comes to the court of King Henry VIII, where she falls
for the dashing king, and begins to enjoy her growing role as
unofficial queen, however, she soon realizes she is merely a pawn
in her family's ambitious plots as the king's interest begins to turn
towards her best friend and rival, her sister, Anne.
FIC GRI
Grisham, John. Bleachers. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2003.
When his old coach dies, high school football star Neely Crenshaw
returns to his hometown after fifteen years, reunites with his
former teammates, and struggles to resolve his mixed feelings
about the man.
FIC GRI
Grisham, John. The brethren. New York : Doubleday, c2000.
A group of former judges who are serving time at a minimum
security prison put together a mail scam that is earning them a
large amount of money, but when they attempt to scam a powerful
political official, they find their operation, and their lives, in danger.
FIC GRI
Grisham, John. The broker. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2005.
One-time Washington power broker Joel Backman who may have
acquired secrets to a sophisticated satellite surveillance system is
pardoned by the outgoing President under orders from the CIA and
is given a new identity in Italy; however, the CIA then reveals his
whereabouts to the Israelis, Russians, Chinese, and the Saudis in
hopes that someone will assassinate him.
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Grisham, John. The chamber. New York : Doubleday, 1994.
In Mississippi in 1967 Klan member, Sam Cayhall is accused of
bombing Marvin Kramer's law offices killing his two sons. In 1990
just weeks before his execution, a young lawyer asks to work on
his case.
FIC GRI
Grisham, John. The client. New York : Doubleday, 1993.
Eleven-year-old Mark Sway witnesses the bizarre suicide of a New
Orleans attorney and is left with a deadly secret concerning a
recent murder of a Louisiana Senator.
FIC GRI
Grisham, John. The king of torts. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2003.
Clay Carter, a young Washington, D.C., public defender wishing for
a better career, is seduced by the lure of big money--and thrown
into the midst of a dangerous conspiracy--when he is offered a
position negotiating settlements for powerful drug companies.
FIC GRI
Grisham, John. A painted house : a novel. 1st ed. New York :
Doubleday, 2001.
Seven-year-old Arkansas farm boy Luke Chandler loses his
innocence over the course of a contentious and strenuous cotton
harvest in 1952, during which time Luke's family hires several
Mexicans and an Ozark family and Luke begins keeping dangerous
secrets.
FIC GRI
Grisham, John. The partner. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c1997.
Patrick Lanigan, a young law partner who faked his death and fled
the country with millions of dollars stolen from his law firm, is
found in Brazil after a four-year chase, but investigators are about
to learn that the hunt is really just beginning.
FIC GRI
Grisham, John. The pelican brief. Dell reissue ed. New York : Bantam
Dell, 2003, c1992.
A bright young law student and an investigative reporter go
underground while trying to expose a cover-up about the killings of
two Supreme Court Justices.
FIC GRI
Grisham, John. The rainmaker. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, 1995.
For a class assignment, law student Rudy Baylor is required to
provide free legal advice to a group of senior citizens. He stumbles
onto one of the largest cases of insurance fraud ever seen.
FIC GRI
Grisham, John. The summons. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2002.
Law professor Ray Atlee and his troublesome younger brother
Forrest are called home to Clanton, Mississippi by their dying
father, Judge Atlee, but when the judge dies before the meeting
can take place, Ray is left to untangle an old family secret.
FIC GRI
Grisham, John. The testament. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c1999.
When Rachel Lane learns that she has inherited eleven billion
dollars from her biological father, she wants nothing to do with the
money, or her father's other children who insist that they be given
the money they feel they deserve, even though the will states they
are to get nothing.
FIC GRO
Grodstein, Lauren. A friend of the family : a novel. 1st ed. Chapel Hill,
N.C : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2009.
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After his best friend's daughter, Laura, sets her sights on his son,
Alec, Pete Dizinoff sees his plans for a perfect son not just
unraveling but being destroyed completely and sets out to derail
the romance.
FIC GRO
Groom, Winston, 1944-. Gump & Co. New York : Pocket Books, c1995.
FIC HAL
Hale, Shannon. Austenland : a novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York :
Bloomsbury :, 2007.
Thirty-something New Yorker, Jane Hayes, who is obsessed with
Mr. Darcy from Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice," is gifted
a vacation to an estate where fans are transported back in time
and actors pretend to be characters from Austen novels; and things
get confusing when she blurs the line between fiction and reality by
becoming attracted to two of the actors.
FIC HAL
Haley, Alex. Mama Flora's family : a novel. New York : Scribner, c1998.
African-American sharecropper Mama Flora, widowed when her
husband is murdered by white landowners, has great ambitions for
her children, but her dreams do not always come to pass, and with
the arrival of the 1960s, she too becomes caught up in the
changing world.
FIC HAM
Hamill, Pete, 1935-. Snow in August. Warner Books ed. New York :
Warner Vision Books, [1998], c1997.
Eleven-year-old Irish Catholic Michael Devlin and Rabbi Judah
Hirsch form a wonderful, if unlikely, friendship in Brooklyn in 1947,
but the actions of a group of anti-Semitic thugs soon have them
trapped in a spiral of hate and hoping for a miracle.
FIC HAM
Hamilton, Jane, 1957-. The book of Ruth. New York : Ticknor & Fields,
1988.
Ruth, a farm girl from Honey Creek, Illinois, reviews the events of
her life in an effort to make sense of the violence and tragedy that
plagued her and her family from the time she was a child.
FIC HAM
Hamilton, Jane, 1957 July 13-. A map of the world. 1st Anchor Books
ed. New York : Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1995.
When a neighbor's daughter drowns while under Alice Goodwin's
care, a seemingly trivial incident from Alice's past resurfaces and
takes on gigantic proportions.
FIC HAR
Harding, Georgina, 1955-. The solitude of Thomas Cave. 1st U.S. ed.
New York : Bloomsbury ;, 2007.
Thomas Cave makes a wager with the crew of a North Atlantic
whaling ship that he can survive the harsh winter alone on an
Arctic island in 1616.
FIC HAR
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. The return of the native. Austin : Holt,
Rinehart and Winston, [2000?].
The Return of the Native / Thomas Hardy -- Maud Martha and New
York / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The Fore That Through the Green Fuse
Drives the Flower / Dylan Thomas -- Native on TV / John Leonard
and Ron Miller -- Mystery Bones in Barrow / James Dyer -- Heiress
and Architect / Thomas Hardy -- A White Heron / Sarah Orne
Jewett. Clym Yeobright, tired of Paris city life, returns to Egdon
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Heath to open a school. There he marries a pleasure-loving girl and
tragedy follows.
FIC HAR
Harris, Robert, 1957-. Pompeii : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Random
House, c2003.
Young engineer Marcus Attilius Primus, placed in charge of the
Agua Augusta, sets out for Pompeii in an effort to fix the problems
that have been plaguing the enormous aqueduct, but he soon
learns there are natural and manmade forces working against him.
FIC HAR
Hart, Carolyn G. April fool dead : a death on demand mystery. 1st ed.
New York : Morrow, c2002.
Bookstore owner Annie Darling and her husband Max work
together to find a killer after a promotional scheme for the store
turns sour and accusations of murder surround the couple.
FIC HAR
Hart, Carolyn G. Dead man's island. New York : Bantam Books, c1994.
Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins receives a call for help from her long-ago
lover, finding herself on an island with a dead man and ten possible
murderers.
FIC HAR
Hart, Carolyn G. Resort to murder : a Henrie O mystery. 1st ed. New
York : William Morrow, c2001.
Retired Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Henrietta Collins decides to
investigate when it appears her loved ones are being threatened by
a killer who is stalking the wedding festivities of her former son-inlaw and his beautiful widow fiancee.
FIC HEM
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. The old man and the sea. 1st Scribner
classic/Collier ed. New York : Collier Books, 1987.
An old fisherman battles the sea and sharks to bring home the
giant marlin he caught.
FIC HEM
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. The sun also rises. New York :
Scribner, 1956 [c1954].
A group of American and British expatriates living in Paris go on an
excursion to Pamplona, Spain.
FIC HES
Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962. Demian : the story of Emil Sinclair's
youth. 1st Perennial Classics ed. New York : Perennial Classics,
1999, c1925.
Young, docile Emil Sinclair heads down the road to destruction
when he rebels against convention, gets involved in the world of
petty crime, and discovers his new powers for good and evil.
FIC HES
Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962. Steppenwolf. New York, : Modern Library,
[1963].
In postwar Germany, a fifty-year-old man regards himself as a dual
personality, half man and half wolf.
FIC HIL
Hill, Joe. Heart-shaped box. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2007.
Aging rocker Judas Coyne, a collector of the macabre, pays a
thousand dollars for a suit said to be inhabited by the owner's
ghost, and learns only after the angry spirit arrives that he has
been set up by the family of his last young lover who committed
suicide upon her return home.
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FIC HIL
Hillerman, Tony. The blessing way. New York, N.Y. : HarperPaperbacks,
[1990].
Lt. Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police and anthropologist
Bergen McKee follow the horrifying trail of murder left by the WolfWitch.
FIC HIL
Hillerman, Tony. Finding moon. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins
Publishers, c1995.
Moon Mathias embarks on a journey of personal discovery when he
goes to the Republic of Vietnam during the last days of the war, to
find a niece whose existence he has just discovered.
FIC HIL
Hillerman, Tony. The sinister pig. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins,
c2003.
The investigations of Navajo Tribal Police sergeant Jim Chee and
his love interest border patrol officer Bernadette Manuelito
converge when the murder of an ex-CIA agent on reservation
property turns out to be tied to an exotic game ranch near the
Mexican border, and the embezzlement of tribal funds.
FIC HIL
Hillerman, Tony. The wailing wind. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins,
c2002.
Sergeant Jim Chee lures retired Lt. Joe Leaphorn out of retirement
when Officer Bernadette Manuelito discovers the corpse of a white
man who apparently had ties to the old Golden Calf Mine homicide-a case with loose ends that has been troubling Leaphorn for years.
FIC HIL
Hilton, James, 1900-1954. Good-bye, Mr. Chips. New York : Bantam
Books, [1986].
A retired teacher reminisces about his years at Brookfield School,
the thousands of boys he had known, and his happy marriage.
FIC HIL
Hilton, James, 1900-1954. Lost horizon : a novel. 1st Perennial ed. New
York : Perennial, 2004, c1933.
On the northwestern frontier of India, Conway was a passenger on
a plane taken over by a native pilot and never heard of again.
What Conway found in Shangri-La makes the story.
FIC HOS
Hosseini, Khaled. The kite runner. 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed. New
York : Riverhead Books, 2004, c2003.
Amir, haunted by his betrayal of Hassan, the son of his father's
servant and a childhood friend, returns to Kabul as an adult after
he learns Hassan has been killed, in an attempt to redeem himself
by rescuing Hassan's son from a life of slavery to a Taliban official.
FIC HOS
Hosseini, Khaled. A thousand splendid suns. New York : Riverhead
Books, 2007.
A novel set against the three decades of Afghanistan's history
shaped by Soviet occupation, civil war, and the Taliban, which tells
the stories of two women, Mariam and Laila, who grow close
despite their nineteen-year age difference and initial rivalry as they
suffer at the hand of a common enemy: their abusive husband.
FIC IID
Iida, Deborah, 1956-. Middle son. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin
Books of Chapel Hill, c1996.
Spencer, a grown man struggling with the impending death of his
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mother, tries to make peace with the memory of the childhood
accident that claimed his older brother's life, and the knowledge
that his cousin William is really his younger brother, given to his
childless aunt and uncle as a newborn.
FIC INC
Inclan, Jessica Barksdale. Her daughter's eyes. New York : NAL Accent,
2001.
Seventeen-year-old Kate, feeling alone in the wake of her mother's
death and her father's preoccupation with his new girlfriend,
prepares, with the help of her younger sister, to give birth to her
baby in secret.
FIC IRV
Irving, John, 1942-. The cider house rules : a novel. 1st trade ed. New
York : Morrow, c1985.
Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story
of Dr. Wilbur Larch--obstetrician and director of the orphanage in
the town of St. Clouds. It is also the story of his favorite orphan,
Homer, who is never adopted.
FIC ISH
Ishizaki, Hiroshi, 1958-. Chain mail : addicted to you. [Los Angeles,
Calif.] : Tokyopop, c2007.
The boundaries between reality and fantasy become blurred when
four disillusioned Tokyo teenagers, who have never met,
collaborate to write an online fictional story--a psychological thriller
told from four points of view.
FIC JAB
Jablonski, Carla. Silent echoes. New York : Razorbill, c2007.
Two teenaged Manhattan girls a century apart--one who hears a
"spirit" speaking to her at a séance, and another diagnosed with
schizophrenia--learn that they are hearing each other's voices
through time.
FIC JAC
Jackson, Joshilyn. Gods in Alabama. New York : Warner Books, c2005.
Arlene Fleet, having made promises to God in exchange for
allowing her to get away with the murder of her school's abusive
high school quarterback, realizes all bets are off when the arrival of
an old classmate on her Chicago doorstep ten years later draws her
back to Possett, Alabama, to face her past, and to introduce her
bigoted family to her African-American boyfriend.
FIC JAM
James, Henry, 1843-1916. The ambassadors. New York : Harper,
[c1930].
Middle-aged American Lambert Strether, sent to Paris by his patron
Mrs. Newsome to find her son Chad and bring him home, finds
Chad transformed by the influence of a remarkable woman, and
soon follows suit, letting himself be swept away by the charms of
the city and the mysterious Madame de Vionnet.
FIC JOR
Jordan, Robert, 1948-. New spring : the novel. 1st ed. New York : Tor,
2004.
Moirain Damodred and Lan Mandragoran must find an infant that is
prophesied to change the fate of the world before the forces of the
Shadow have an opportunity to kill him.
FIC KAR
Karon, Jan, 1937-. At home in Mitford. New York : Penguin Books,
1996, c1994.
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Father Tim, a bachelor rector in the small hill town of Mitford,
North Carolina, gets more than he bargained for when he yearns
for more excitement in his life and suddenly finds himself dealing
with a large dog, a very attractive new neighbor, a jewel thief, and
an unloved boy.
FIC KAR
Karon, Jan, 1937-. A light in the window. New York : Penguin Books,
1996, c1995.
Father Tim, Mitford's most eligible bachelor, finds himself in need
of divine intervention when his attention becomes focused on his
attractive neighbor, while at the same time he is being pursued by
a wealthy widow, and his cousin Meg moves into the rectory.
FIC KAR
Karon, Jan, 1937-. These high, green hills. New York : Viking, 1996.
Father Timothy Kavanagh, married for the first time at the age of
sixtysomething, struggles to deal with the upheaval and delight of
having a wife, while also presiding over the triumphs and troubles
of the people of the small town of Mitford, North Carolina.
FIC KAY
Kaye, M. M. (Mary Margaret), 1908-2004. Death in Kenya. 1st St.
Martin's Minotaur ed. New York : St. Martin's Minotaur, 1999,
c1983.
Victoria Caryll moves to Kenya's Rift Valley to work on her aunt's
estate with the ulterior motive of being reunited with her former
fiancé, but when she arrives she is met with the aftermath of the
Mau Mau revolt as well as a murder.
FIC KAY
Kaye, M. M. (Mary Margaret), 1908-2004. Death in the Andamans. New
York : St. Martin's Minotaur, c1985.
Copper Randal visits school friend Valerie, the daughter of the
commissioner of the Andaman Islands, where a small, eccentric,
British community experiences a storm and a series of murders; as
chaos ensues, a number of people, including Valerie's fiancé Nick,
are considered as suspects.
FIC KAY
Kaye, M. M. (Mary Margaret), 1911-. Death in Berlin. New York : St.
Martin's Press, c1983.
Rev. ed. of: Death walked in Berlin. 1955. A month's holiday in the
war-scarred Bealm of the early 1950's quickly turns sinister when
murder strikes on the night train to Berlin.
FIC KAY
Kaye, M. M. (Mary Margaret), 1911-. Death in Kashmir : a mystery. 1st
St. Martin's Minotaur ed. New York : St. Martin's Minotaur, 2000,
c1984.
In 1947 Kashmir, a young British woman named Sarah Parrish
searches for the killer of two people in her skiing party, learning
frightfully that her search has put her own life in jeopardy.
FIC KAY
Kaye, M. M. (Mary Margaret), 1911-. Death in Zanzibar. 1st U.S. ed.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1983.
Young Dany Ashton vacations at her stepfather's Zanzibar house,
and faces a stolen passport, a midnight intruder, and--murder.
FIC KES
Kesey, Ken. One flew over the cuckoo's nest, : a novel. New York, :
Viking Press, [1962].
The struggle for power between a head nurse and a male patient in
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a mental institution leads to a climax of hate, violence and death.
FIC KID
Kidd, Sue Monk. The mermaid chair. New York : Viking, 2005.
Forty-two-year-old Jessie is summoned home to Egret Island off
the coast of South Carolina after her obsessively devout mother
inexplicably cuts off her own finger, and finds herself oddly
exhilarated to be free of her husband, and wildly attracted to
Brother Thomas, a monk who has yet to take his final vows.
FIC KID
Kidd, Sue Monk. The secret life of bees. New York : Viking, 2002.
Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an AfricanAmerican woman who has cared from Lily since her mother's death
ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by
racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South
Carolina, at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and
August.
FIC KIN
Bachman, Richard. The long walk. New York : Signet, [1999], c1996.
Maine native Ray Garraty is one of one hundred teenage boys
selected to compete in an annual national challenge of endurance
for which the winner is the only survivor--a walk accompanied by
soldiers who shoot to kill any participant who stops for any reason.
FIC KIN
King, Laurie R. A letter of Mary : a Mary Russell novel. 1st ed. New York
: St. Martin's Press, 1997.
Mary Russell, wife of Sherlock Holmes, investigates the murder of
their archeologist friend, Dorothy Ruskin, who had given them an
inlaid box with a tattered roll of papyrus inside, supposedly written
by Mary Magdalene.
FIC KIN
King, Lily. The English teacher : a novel. New York : Atlantic Monthly
Press, c2005.
Single mother Vida Avery, having earned a reputation as a strict,
but brilliant English teacher at the private Maine academy where
she has lived and worked for fifteen years, inexplicably agrees to
marry a local widower with three children, and while her son Peter
relishes the idea of a real home and family, Vida, never a fan of the
real world, begins to self-destruct.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. Bag of bones. New York : Pocket Books, [1999],
c1998.
Novelist Mike Noonan, still grieving the death of his wife after four
years, retreats to Sara Laughs, his isolated summer home, but the
peace he is seeking slips even further from his grasp when he finds
the community in the grip of a powerful millionaire, and his
hideaway becomes the site of ghostly visitations.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. Black house : a novel. 1st trade ed. New York :
Random House, c2001.
Retired homicide detective Jack Sawyer is pulled into the past by a
series of mysterious killings near his western Wisconsin home--a
past that Jack does not remember, during which, as a boy, he
traveled to a parallel universe to protect his mother and save
another world from destruction.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. Carrie. [1st ed.]. New York : Doubleday, c1974.
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Presents the unnerving story of a terribly ostracized young girl with
supernatural powers of telekinesis.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. Cell. New York : Pocket Star Books, 2006.
It may seem odd, but it's true--something as simple as one phone
call can change the world forever. And that's exactly what
happenes on October 1, when a single pulse is simultaneously
transmitted through every cell phone on the planet. After the
Pulse, an unspeakable transformation occurs. People everywhere
begin devolving into inhuman killing machines--and civilization as
we know it grinds to a halt in a terrifying riot of violence.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. The dark half. New York : Viking, 1989.
With a bit of guilt, Thad retires George Stark, his pseudonym, only
to have him appear as a killing machine that destroys everyone on
the path that leads to the man who created him.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. Dolores Claiborne. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :
Viking, 1993.
Dolores Claiborne finally tells the police why she murdered her
husband Joe and her longtime employer Vera Donovan.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. The drawing of the three. New York : New
American Library, 1989.
As Roland, the last gunslinger, pursues his quest for The Dark
Tower, he is mysteriously drawn through a door that brings him
into 1980s America.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. Dreamcatcher : a novel. New York : Scribner,
c2001.
Four friends' association with a mentally handicapped boy with
supernatural abilities leaves them with special gifts that come in
handy when they unite as adults for an annual hunting trip in
Maine and find themselves in the middle of an alien invasion.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. Duma Key : a novel. Pocket Books pbk. ed. New
York : Pocket Books, 2008.
Self-made millionaire Edgar Freemantle's wife walks out on him
after a construction accident leaves him disfigured, so he heads for
Florida's Duma Key and starts to paint; however, his work appears
to take on a life of its own.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. Everything's eventual : 14 dark tales. New York :
Scribner, c2002.
Autopsy room four -- The man in the black suit -- All that you love
will be carried away -- The death of Jack Hamilton -- In the
deathroom -- The little sisters of Eluria -- Everything's eventual -L.T.'s theory of pets -- The road virus heads north -- Lunch at the
Gotham Café -- That feeling, you can only say what it is in French - 1408 -- Riding the bullet -- Lucky quarter. A collection of fourteen
short horror stories by Stephen King, including several prize
winning selections, as well as "Riding the Bullet," which was
originally published online.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. Four past midnight. New York : Viking, c1990.
The Langoliers -- Secret window, secret garden -- The library
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policeman -- The sun dog. Collection a four novellas.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. Gerald's game. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking,
1992.
Jessie and Gerald Burlingame play a game in the bedroom,
something goes wrong and Jessie is left alone in the house.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. The girl who loved Tom Gordon. New York :
Scribner, c1999.
Nine-year-old Trisha McFarland, lost in the woods after she
wanders off to escape the bickering between her mom and her
brother, boosts her courage by imagining that her hero, Boston
Red Sox relief pitcher Tom Gordon, is with her, helping her survive
an unknown enemy.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. The green mile : a novel in six parts. New York,
N.Y., U.S.A. : Plume, [1997].
Contains all six installments of the serialized horror novel about
death row prisoner John Coffey and his fellow inmates and guards
in the Green Mile wing of Cold Mountain Penitentiary.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. Just after sunset : stories. 1st Scribner hardcover
ed. New York : Scribner, 2008.
Willa -- The gingerbread girl -- Harvey's dream -- Rest stop -Stationary bike -- The things they left behind -- Graduation
afternoon -- N -- The cat from hell -- The New York Times at
special bargain rates -- Mute -- Ayana -- A very tight place.
Collects twelve short stories by Stephen King on the theme of
relationships, including new stories and previously released
material such as "The Gingerbread Girl," "The Things They Left
Behind," and "The Cat from Hell.".
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. Lisey's story : a novel. New York : Scribner,
c2006.
Two years after the death of her husband Scott, celebrated author
Lisey Debusher Landon sets out to sort through his papers and
finds herself drawn into the nightmare world where Scott got his
inspiration--Boo'ya Moon.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. Misery. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1987.
A bestselling author is held captive in a wheelchair, made drugdependent, and locked in his room by an angry nurse who
demands he bring her favorite character back to life.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. Needful things. New York : Viking, 1991.
Leland Gaunt opens a shop called Needful Things where there is
something for everyone, but of course there is always a very high
price to pay.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. Rose Madder. New York : Viking, 1995.
Rosie, tired of being abused, leaves her husband to start a new life,
but he savagely pursues her and continues to terrorize her.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. Salem's Lot. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y. :
Doubleday, 1975.
A stranger with an evil secret harms the lives of many inhabitants
of a small New England town.
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FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. The shining. New York : Pocket Books, [2001],
c1977.
For the Torrance family, the Overlook Hotel is a place where
horrors come to life and where those who have the shining battle
evil.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. Skeleton crew. New York : New American
Library, c1985.
The mist -- Here there be Tygers -- The monkey -- Cain rose up -Mrs. Todd's shortcut -- The jaunt. A collection of horror stories
from Stephen King.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. Song of Susannah. 1st trade ed. Hampton Falls,
NH : Donald M. Grant Publisher ;, c2004.
The sixth in Stephen King's Dark Tower series reveals the
motivations of demon-mother Mia, whose determination to give
birth to whatever entity she is carrying has led her to New York
City in 1999, while Eddie and Roland, continuing the quest for the
Dark Tower, tumble into Maine in 1977.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. The stand. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y. :
Doubleday, 1978.
Randy Flagg is on his way: a drifter with a hundred different
names; the magic man, the living image of Satan; his hour has
come again.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. Storm of the century. New York : Pocket Books,
c1999.
The residents of Little Tall Island, braced for a Maine Northeastern
packing hurricane-force winds and up to five feet of snow, discover
to their horror that the storm has blown in an unspeakable evil.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. The talisman. New York : Viking, 1984.
Jack Sawyer, a twelve-year-old boy, begins a terrifying quest for
the Talisman-for only the Talisman can save his dying mother and
defeat their enemy.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. The tommyknockers. New York : Putnam, c1987.
While looking for firewood in the forest that stretches behind her
backyard, Bobbi finds part of an ancient spaceship still humming
with some sort of life.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. The waste lands. New York : Plume, 1992.
Roland, the Last Gunslinger, moves closer to The Dark Tower of his
dreams and nightmares through a world of the fiendish foes.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. Wizard and glass. New York, N.Y. : Plume,
c1997.
Roland, the last gunslinger, and his band of followers escape one
world only to slip into the next where Roland reflects upon past
adventures and about his one true love.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. Wolves of the Calla. 1st trade ed. Hampton Falls,
NH : Donald M. Grant Publisher ;, c2003.
Roland and his ka-tet aid a quiet ranching community bracing itself
for an attack by the Wolves of Thunderclap, who, every twenty-odd
years, abduct one of each of their twin chidren and return them
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physically and mentally disabled; meanwhile, a single red rose of
great portent is threatened in a vacant lot in Manhattan.
FIC KIN
Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal dreams : a novel. 1st ed. New York, NY :
HarperCollins, c1990.
Codi returns to her hometown to confront her past and face her
ailing father. What she finds is a town threatened by an
environmental catastrophe and a man who could change her life.
FIC KIN
Kingsolver, Barbara. The bean trees : a novel. 1st ed. New York :
Harper & Row, c1988.
Taylor, a poor Kentuckian, makes her way west with an abandoned
baby girl and stops in Tucson. There she finds friends and discovers
resources in apparently empty places.
FIC KIN
Kingsolver, Barbara. Homeland and other stories. 1st ed. New York :
Harper & Row, c1989.
Homeland -- Blueprints -- Covered Bridges -- Quality Time -- Stone
Dreams -- Survival Zones -- Islands on the Moon -- Bereaved
Apartments -- Extinctions -- Jump-up Day -- Rose-Johnny -- Why I
am a Danger to the Public.
FIC KIN
Kingsolver, Barbara. Pigs in heaven : a novel. 1st ed. New York :
HarperCollins, c1993.
Six-year-old Turtle Green witnesses a freak accident drawing her
and her mother into a conflict of historic proportions.
FIC KIN
Kingsolver, Barbara. Prodigal summer : [a novel]. 1st ed. New York :
HarperCollins, c2000.
The coming of summer to Appalachia's Zebulon Mountain brings a
blossoming in nature as well as in the lives of reclusive wildlife
biologist Deanna Wolfe, young hunter Eddie Bondo, transplanted
city-girl Lusa Landowski, and a pair of elderly, feuding neighbors.
FIC KIN
Kinsella, Sophie. Can you keep a secret? Dial Press trade pbk. ed. New
York : Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2005, c2004.
Emma Corrigan must discover whether she has set herself on the
road to ruin or romance when she arrives at work to find the
handsome stranger she has confessed all her secrets to during a
dangerously turbulent flight is the elusive CEO of Panther Cola, her
place of employment.
FIC KIN
Kinsella, Sophie. Remember me? Dial Press trade pbk. ed. New York :
Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, 2008.
Lexi Smart wakes up after a car accident with no memory of the
past three years, unaware of how she managed to land a gorgeous
husband, the perfect job, and a fabulous house, and as she
struggles to adjust to her unfamiliar life, she begins to wonder if
she was ever really happy.
FIC KIN
Kinsella, W. P. Shoeless Joe. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1982.
Winner of a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship award. An Iowa
insurance agent turned farmer builds a baseball stadium in his
cornfield hoping his hero, Shoeless Joe will play in it.
FIC KOO
Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-. The bad place. 1st American ed.
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1990.
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Detectives Bobby and Julie agree to watch over Frank after he
wakes up in a motel to find his hands covered with blood and
strange objects in his pockets. Frank knows he's not a killer.
FIC KOO
Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-. Dark rivers of the heart : a novel.
1st ed. New York : Knopf :, 1994.
A man and woman find themselves fleeing the long arm of a
clandestine and increasingly powerful renegade government
agency.
FIC KOO
Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-. Darkfall. Berkley ed. New York :
Berkley, 1984.
Four corpses are found in four days, each more hideously
disfigured than the last. Then the nightmare in all its mottled, slimy
horror appears, coming from every direction.
FIC KOO
Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-. From the corner of his eye. New
York : Bantam Books, 2000.
The fate of Bartholomew Lampion, a gifted California child who
loses his eyes to cancer at age three and miraculously regains his
sight at thirteen, is entwined with the lives of a San Francisco girl
born of rape and a man a thousand miles away who learns he has
a mortal enemy named Bartholomew.
FIC KOO
Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-. The house of thunder. Berkley ed.
New York : Berkley Books, 1992, c1982.
A thirty-two-year-old woman wakes in a strange room after being
in a coma for 22 days. Things seem very strange and she cannot
remember very much about herself. She knows little of the
conspiracy that put her there, but she will find out.
FIC KOO
Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-. Life expectancy. New York :
Bantam Books, 2004.
Before he died, Josef Tock spoke an unusual and frightening
prophecy that his grandson Jimmy, who was born the same night,
would have to endure five dark days in his life beginning in his
twentieth year and ending in his thirtieth.
FIC KOO
Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-. Lightning. New York : Putnam,
c1988.
Terrifying troubles plague Laura's life though she prevails--often
with the help of a stranger. On her thirtieth birthday, she learns
the identity of this stranger.
FIC KOO
Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-. Night chills. Berkley ed. New York :
Berkley, 1983, c1976.
A doomsday drug that unlocks the control of the human mind is
being used in Black River. Fevers of night chills strike at random,
driving its victims to acts of rape, murder, and mutilation.
FIC KOO
Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-. One door away from heaven. New
York : Bantam Books, 2001.
Micky is searching for meaning in her life, and when she meets
Leilani, a child with physical disabilities, Micky finds it. Leilani's
stepfather believes aliens will heal the girl or take her away with
them, so when the family disappears, Micky sets off to find them.
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FIC KOO
Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-. The servants of twilight. Berkley
ed. New York : Berkley, 1990, c1984.
Single mother Christine Scavello turns to private detective Charlie
Harrison for help when her young son Joey becomes the target of a
fanatical religious group that believes the child to be the Antichrist.
FIC KOO
Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-. Shattered. New York : Berkley
Books, 1985, c1973.
As Alex and Colin travel across the country they are followed by
someone who knows their route and destination and wants them
dead.
FIC KOO
Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-. Strangers. New York : Berkley
Books, [2002], c1986.
A diverse and unrelated group of individuals share the horror of a
deadly secret.
FIC KOO
Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-. Ticktock. 1st Ballantine Books
domestic ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 1997.
Tommy Phan, a thirty-year-old Vietnamese-American detective
novelist, is forced to run for his life when the odd rag doll he found
lying on his doorstep turns into an indestructible reptilian creature
with evil intent.
FIC KOO
Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-. Watchers. New York : Putnam,
c1987.
Relates the adventures of two creatures which have escaped from
a secret, sinister government laboratory where experiments in
genetic engineering are conducted.
FIC LAR
Larsson, Stieg, 1954-2004. The girl with the dragon tattoo. 1st Vintage
Crime/Black Lizard ed. New York : Vintage Books, 2009, c2008.
Hacker Lisbeth Salander assists Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading
journalist, with the investigation of Harriet Vanger's disappearance
decades earlier, and the two uncover a dark world of secrets about
a wealthy Swedish family as well as a surprising connection
between themselves.
FIC LER
Leroux, Gaston, 1868-1927. The phantom of the Opera. Parsippany, NJ
: Unicorn Pub. House, c1988.
A viscount seeks to unravel the mystery of the Paris Opera House
and rescue the woman he loves from the threat of the phantom of
the opera.
FIC LET
Letts, Billie. Where the heart is : a novel. New York : Warner Books,
c1995.
Novalee Nation, seventeen, pregnant, and living in a Wal-Mart
store discovers friendship, encouragement, direction and love with
a group of caring people in Sequoyah, Oklahoma.
FIC MAG
Maguire, Gregory. Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the
West : a novel. New York : ReganBooks, 2000, c1995.
Elphaba, born with emerald green skin, comes of age in the land of
Oz, rooming with debutante Glinda at the university, and following
a path in life that earns her the label of Wicked.
FIC MAN
Mannix, Daniel P. The way of the gladiator. New York, N.Y.: ibooks,
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With the Empire in decline, death and torture became the only
entertainment that satisfied the Romans' longing for spectacle. This
is the true story of the Roman Games and the gladiators who
fought and died in the cruelest, costliest spectacles of all time.
FIC MAR
Margolin, Phillip. After dark. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, 1995.
Lawyer Tracy Cavanaugh is investigating two murder cases when
she stumbles across information that uncovers a bizarre plot, and
she no longer knows who she can trust.
FIC MAR
Maron, Margaret. High country fall. New York : Mysterious Press, c2004.
Judge Deborah Knott, having doubts about her impending
marriage, decides to get some breathing room by agreeing to fill in
for a vacationing judge in Cedar Gap, a community about five
hours from her home, but she arrives just in time to preside over a
murder case, and soon her theories about the killing put her own
life in danger.
FIC MAR
Maron, Margaret. Last lessons of summer. New York : Mysterious Press,
c2003.
Amy Steadman, heir to a merchandising and publishing empire,
uncovers some shocking family secrets while cleaning out her
murdered grandmother's home.
FIC MAR
Maron, Margaret. Slow dollar. New York : Mysterious Press, c2002.
North Carolina judge Deborah Knott stumbles upon old family
secrets when the carnival and murder come to Colleton County.
FIC MAR
Maron, Margaret. Uncommon clay. New York : Warner Books, c2001.
Judge Deborah Knott is forced to investigate the origins of a deadly
family feud when a bitter divorce between North Carolina potters
James Nordan and Sandra Hitchcock erupts into murder.
FIC Mar
Marshall, Catherine Wood, 1914-. Christy. McGraw, 1967.
Time, place and concerns of an Appalachian community in
Tennessee are recreated in the experiences of a dedicated young
teacher, in 1912.
FIC MAS
Mason, Daniel (Daniel Philippe). A far country. 1st ed. New York :
Knopf, 2007.
Fourteen-year-old Isabel leaves her small rural town to join her
brother in the city; but when she gets there and discovers Isaias is
missing, she sets out on a quest to find him.
FIC Mau
Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965. Of human
bondage. New York : Penguin Books, 1992.
Philip Carey, a handicapped orphan, is brought up by a selfindulgent Victorian clergyman. Shedding his religious faith as a
young man, he begins to study art in Paris, but finally returns to
London to qualify as a doctor.
FIC MCB
McBain, Ed, 1926-. Fiddlers : a novel of the 87th Precinct. 1st ed.
Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2005.
Detective Steve Carella and his colleagues in the 87th Precinct rush
to find a common link between the multiple victims of a gunwielding killer who is acting outside the profile of a serial murderer.
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FIC MCC
McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.
1st Anchor Books mass market ed. New York : Anchor Books,
2005, c1998.
The cunning and engaging Precious Ramotswe sets up shop in a
small storefront in Gaborone, hoping to become a private
detective, and she soon has more business than she expected,
including a disturbing case involving a missing child.
FIC MCC
McCracken, Elizabeth. The giant's house : a romance. New York, N.Y. :
Dial Press, c1996.
Story of a lonely librarian who develops a warm and trusting
relationship with a young boy who also feels like a misfit and looks
at how their feelings develop and strengthen over time.
FIC MCC
McCrumb, Sharyn, 1948-. The hangman's beautiful daughter. New York
: Scribner ;, c1992.
Laura Bruce, wife of a minister in Appalachia, experiences dangers
after she is asked by the sheriff to help tend the survivors from a
scene of carnage at a farm.
FIC MCC
McCullough, Colleen, 1937-. Caesar : let the dice fly. 1st ed. New York :
W. Morrow, c1997.
Gaius Julius Caesar, betrayed by the Republic he has fought so
valiantly to advance, turns his genius against Rome, but first must
face his ally-turned-enemy Pompey.
FIC McC
McCullough, Colleen, 1937-. The thorn birds. New York : Harper & Row,
c1977.
The saga of the Cleary family, beginning on an Australian sheep
station in the early twentieth century and ending fifty years later.
FIC MCC
McMurtry, Larry. Lonesome dove. New York : Pocket Books, [1986],
c1985.
Two former Texas Rangers, Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call,
leave their Texas ranch to lead a cattle drive to Montana,
encountering outlaws, Native Americans, and ex-loves along the
way.
FIC MCD
McDermott, Alice. Charming Billy. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 1998.
A young woman, cousin to the late Billy Lynch who has just died of
alcoholism, traces the story of his lost love, discovering her own
father's role in trying to keep Billy from being hurt by the truth
about Eva, and contemplating the effect her father's lie had on the
rest of the family.
FIC MCD
McDermott, Alice. Child of my heart. 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus
Giroux, 2002.
Theresa recalls her fifteenth summer as the most sought-after
babysitter in Long Island, and the challenges of caring for her
fragile younger cousin while crossing over into the world of
adulthood.
FIC MCM
McMahon, Jennifer. Promise not to tell : a novel. 1st ed. New York :
Harper, c2007.
Soon after returning to her childhood home in Vermont to care for
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her mother who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, Kate Cypher
learns about a recent murder that is similar to one thirty-one years
earlier in which her friend Del was the victim, and as she
investigates, surprising details about the community begin to
unfold.
FIC MCM
McMurtry, Larry. Anything for Billy. New York : Pocket, [1989].
A novel of the life and times of Billy the Kid, a legendary outlaw
and gunman, and of the people drawn into his brief struggle to
make a name for himself as a desperado.
FIC MCM
McMurtry, Larry. Dead man's walk : a novel. 1st Scribner Paperback
Fiction ed. New York : Scribner Paperback Fiction, 2000, c1995.
Follows the adventures of Texas Rangers Gus and Call as they join
an expedition to seize the Mexican territory of Santa Fe and
journey home across the Jornada Del Muerto.
FIC MCM
McMurtry, Larry. Streets of Laredo : a novel. 1st Scribner Paperback
Fiction ed. New York : Scribner Paperback Fiction, 2000, c1993.
Captain Call is hired to track down and kill the young Mexican
bandit Joey Garza.
FIC MEL
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Pierre, or, The ambiguities ; Israel Potter
: his fifty years of exile ; The piazza tales ; The confidence-man :
his masquerade ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Budd, sailor : (an inside
narrative). New York : Literary Classics of the United States :,
c1984.
Pierre or, The Ambiquities --Israel Potter, his fifty years of exile-The Piazza tales--The confidence-man, his masquerade-Uncollected prose--Billy Budd, sailor (an inside narrative). Presents
a selection of later work by Herman Melville, including novels, short
stories, and uncollected prose such as reviews, magazine articles,
and comic sketches.
FIC MEL
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Typee : a peep at Polynesian life ; Omoo
: a narrative of adventures in the South Seas ; Mardi, and a
voyage thither. New York : Literary Classics, c1982.
Unabridged editions of three South Seas romances. Typee : a peep
at Polynesian life--Omoo : a narrative of adventures in the South
Seas--Mardi : and a voyage thither.
FIC MEY
Meyer, Stephenie, 1973-. The host : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little,
Brown, 2008.
Melanie, whose mind has been almost completely taken over by an
alien named Wanderer, convinces the alien to search for her lost
lover, who fled the extraterrestrial invasion, and tries to find a way
in which she and Wanderer can coexist.
FIC MIC
Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907-. The bridges at Toko-ri. New
York : Fawcett Crest, 1973, c1953.
Story of the men of a naval task force operating in the icy waters
off the Korean shore with a vital mission to perform--to destroy
with jet bombers the heavily guarded bridge at Toko-ri and thus to
stop essential supplies from moving to the Communist front lines.
FIC MIC
Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907-. Mexico. 1st ed. New York :
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Norman Claysan, an American, arrives in Mexico to report on two
matadors and to learn more about his family's past.
FIC MIC
Michener, James A (James Albert), 1907-. Tales of the South Pacific.
Ballantine ed. New York : Fawcett Crest, 1984.
The South Pacific -- Coral Sea -- Mutiny -- An Officer and a
Gentleman -- The Cave -- The Milk Run -- Alligator -- Our Herione - Dry Rot -- Fo' Dolla' -- Passion -- A Boar's Tooth -- Wine for the
Mess at Segi -- The Airstrip at Konora -- Those Who Fraternize -The Strike -- Frisco -- The Landing on Kuralei -- A Cemetery at
Hoga Point. Tales of love and war, set in the islands of the South
Pacific during World War II.
FIC MIL
Miller, Linda Lael. Pirates. New York : Pocket Books, c1995.
When new divorcee Phoebe Turlow treats herself to a Caribbean
getaway, she has no idea that she will be stepping into the world of
a sexy new man..... who has been dead for two centuries.
FIC MIS
Mistry, Rohinton, 1952-. A fine balance : a novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York
: Knopf :, 1996.
The government of India in 1975 has just declared a State of
Emergency, which, coupled with a housing shortage, compels four
people to share an apartment. Their common need leads them to
forge a lasting friendship that sees them through the bad times.
FIC MOR
Moran, Thomas. The man in the box. New York : Riverhead Books,
1997.
Niki Lukasser, saved as an infant by Jewish doctor Robert Weiss,
has the opportunity to repay the favor when he assumes the care
of the physician who has returned to the Lukasser home in Austria
in 1943, seeking refuge from the marauding Nazis.
FIC MOR
Morgan, Robert, 1944-. Gap Creek : a novel. Chapel Hill, N.C. :
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1999.
Julie Harmon, having taken over the work of a man after her father
gets ill and dies, imagines that marriage will be different, but she
and her young husband Hank discover their life together is also full
of struggles.
FIC MOR
Morris, Mary McGarry. Songs in ordinary time. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :
Viking, c1995.
Tells the story of Marie Fermoyle, a lonely divorcee, who in the
summer of 1960 falls prey to a dangerous con man while struggling
to keep her family together against a variety of obstacles.
FIC MOR
Morrison, Toni. Love. 1st ed. New York : Knopf :, 2003.
The late Bill Cosey, one-time owner of the Cosey Hotel and Resort,
a hot spot for vacationing African-Americans, is kept alive through
the memories of the women he loved and who were loved by him.
FIC MOR
Morrison, Toni. Sula. New York, N.Y. : Plume, [1987], c1973.
Traces the lives of two African-American women who grew up
together in a small Ohio town and chose different lifestyles as
adults.
FIC MOR
Morrison, Toni. Tar baby. New York, N.Y. : Plume, [1982], c1981.
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A beautiful African-American woman of privilege finds herself
attracted to the kind of man she has dreaded since childhood:
uneducated, violent, and contemptuous of her.
FIC MUL
Muller, Marcia. Cape Perdido. New York : Mysterious Press, c2005.
When an out-of-state corporation wants to pump the Perdido River
dry and float the water to southern California's cities, four
individuals team up to stop them and save the river and the wildlife
and towns that live along its banks.
FIC NIC
Nichols, Linda, 1954-. Not a sparrow falls. Minneapolis : Bethany House,
c2002.
Bridie Washburn, a young woman who traded her Christian
upbringing for drug dealing after her siblings were put in foster
care, turns in her partners in crime and sets up house in a small
Virginia town, where she becomes a nanny and falls in love with
her charges' father, a widowed pastor whose wife committed
suicide.
FIC OAT
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-. Foxfire : confessions of a girl gang. New
York : Plume, [1994].
During the 1950s, five high school girls in upstate New York form a
gang called Foxfire.
FIC OAT
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-. We were the Mulvaneys. New York : Plume,
[1997], c1996.
Tells of a seemingly ordinary, successful family who is nearly torn
apart when tragedy strikes but finds a way to remain happy and
loyal despite rumors, secrets and strife.
FIC OBI
O'Brien, Tim, 1946-. In the Lake of the Woods. Boston : Houghton
Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1994.
After John and Kathy realize that their marriage has been built on
deception, Kathy mysteriously disappears in the Minnesota north
woods.
FIC OBR
O'Brien, Tim, 1946-. Going after Cacciato. 1st Broadway Books trade
pbk. ed. New York : Broadway Books, 1999, c1978.
An American soldier in Vietnam decides to leave the war and
simply walks out of the jungle, with the intent of going to Paris.
FIC ODE
O'Dell, Tawni. Coal Run : a novel. New York : Viking, 2004.
Ivan Zoschenko, a high school football hero, returns to Coal Run
years after a mining explosion that killed his father and devastated
the community, intent on a showdown with former teammate
Reese Raynor who is slated for release from prison where he spent
fifteen years for beating his wife into a coma.
FIC OND
Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-. In the skin of a lion : a novel. 1st Vintage
International ed. New York : Vintage International, 1997.
A man tells the story of his boyhood in the Canadian backwoods, of
his arrival in the bustling Toronto of the 1920s, and of the fabulous
adventures he underwent there.
FIC OTT
Otto, Whitney. How to make an American quilt. 1st ed. New York :
Villard Books, 1991.
Seven sets of quilting instructions tie together the stories of a
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weekly quilting circle in a California town.
FIC PAC
Packer, Ann, 1959-. The dive from Clausen's pier. 1st ed. New York :
Knopf :, 2002.
Twenty-three-year-old Carrie Bell, engaged to her high school
sweetheart, is ready to make a break from a life that has become
suffocating in its sameness, but her decision is complicated when
her fiancee is paralyzed in a diving accident and everyone expects
her to stay and care for him.
FIC PAL
Palahniuk, Chuck. Fight Club : a novel. New York : W.W. Norton, 2005,
c1996.
An insomniac, unhappy with his life, befriends a soap salesman
who starts clubs designed to help its members relieve frustration
by beating each other up; and, as the clubs begin springing up
around the nation, the salesman's appetite for violence increases.
FIC PAL
Palahniuk, Chuck. Survivor : a novel. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York :
Anchor Books, 2000, c1999.
Just before committing suicide, Tender Branson dictates his life
story and reveals what life was like as a member of the Creedish
Death Cult.
FIC PAR
Paretsky, Sara. Fire sale. New York : Putnam's, c2005.
V.I. Warshawski agrees to take over the coaching duties of the
girls' basketball team at her former high school, and through one
of her players, V.I. is drawn into a mystery surrounding the towns
flag-manufacturing plant.
FIC PAR
Paretsky, Sara. Hard time : a V.I. Warshawski novel. New York :
Delacorte Press, c1999.
Chicago private investigator V. I. Warshawski plunges into the
darkest and most emotionally shattering case of her career when
she tries to unravel the mystery of a battered and discarded
woman she finds lying in the street.
FIC PAR
Parker, Robert B., 1932-. Bad business. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons,
c2004.
When Spenser is hired by Marlene Cowley to see if her husband is
cheating on her, Spenser encounters more than he bargained for,
including a two-timing husband, a second investigator hired by the
husband, corporate corruption, and a murder.
FIC PAR
Parker, Robert B., 1932-. Double deuce. New York : G.P. Putnam's
Sons, c1992.
Spencer and his cohort Hawk investigate a murder in the housing
projects of Boston and are drawn into a world of violence and hate.
FIC PAR
Parker, Robert B., 1932-. Family honor. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons,
1999.
Boston private investigator Sunny Randall finds herself in the
middle of a shooting war with the mob when she is hired by a
wealthy family to locate their runaway daughter Millicent, and must
call upon her underworld contacts to rescue the teen who has
turned to prostitution.
FIC PAR
Parker, Robert B., 1932-. High profile. New York : Putnam's, c2007.
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Jesse Stone, a police chief in Paradise, Massachusetts, must fend
off pressure from the governor, the state police, and the national
media when right-wing radio commentator Walton Weeks is found
murdered right outside of town, and the body of Walton's young,
pregnant lover is discovered in a dumpster days later; while closer
to home, Stone must call upon his sometimes lover Sunny Randall
to keep an eye on his ex-wife who claims she was raped.
FIC PAR
Parker, Robert B., 1932-. Hundred-dollar baby. New York : Putnams,
c2006.
Spenser, a Boston private eye, agrees to help a former client, a
young prostitute who is now a well-established madam, discover
who is trying to blackmail her and uncovers connections with local
kingpin Tony Marcus.
FIC PAR
Parker, Robert B., 1932-. Perish twice. Berkley ed. New York : Berkley
Books, 2001, c2000.
Boston private investigator Sunny Randall is forced onto dangerous
ground, both physically and emotionally, when she is hired to
protect a prominent feminist whose life is being threatened, while
her older sister and her best friend both demand her help with their
rocky marriages.
FIC PAR
Parker, Robert B., 1932-. Thin air. Berkley ed. New York : Berkley
Books, 1996, c1995.
Spenser agrees to help his friend find his missing wife, but as he
digs deeper into the couple's past, he learns the missing woman is
hiding some deadly secrets.
FIC PAT
Patterson, James, 1947-. 2nd chance : a novel. 1st ed. Boston [Mass.] :
Little, Brown, c2002.
Detective Lindsay Boxer calls upon her friends in the Women's
Murder Club for help when a series of seemingly unrelated killings
jolt the San Francisco area, but the women soon find they are in
over their heads, and even worse, have made themselves targets
of the murderer.
FIC PAT
Patterson, James, 1947-. London bridges : a novel. 1st ed. New York :
Little, Brown and Co., c2004.
A huge bomb goes off a few hundred feet over Sunrise Valley,
Nevada and world leaders have just four days to prevent the total
destruction of major cities of the world prompting Alex Cross to
join forces with Scotland Yard and Interpol to hunt down his two
deadliest nemesis: the Wolf and the Weasel.
FIC PAT
Patterson, James, 1947-. Mary, Mary : a novel. 1st ed. New York :
Little, Brown, 2005.
FBI agent Alex Cross is assigned to investigate a string of murders
where the victims are Hollywood stars.
FIC PEE
Peet, Mal. Tamar. 1st U.S. ed. Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press,
2007.
In England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the
puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to
uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the
last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and the
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climactic events that forever cast a shadow on his life and that of
his family.
FIC PER
Perrin, Kayla. We'll never tell. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Griffin,
2007.
Phoebe Matthews, a member of the Alpha Sigma Pi sorority, enlists
friends Miranda and Camille in a plot to humiliate pledge Shandra
James who has set her sights on Phoebe's fiance, but when
Shandra's body turns up days later, the Alpha sisters--and the
police--begin to wonder if Phoebe went too far.
FIC PER
Perry, Anne. Bedford Square. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books,
1999.
When a dead body is found on General Brandon Balantyne's front
steps, the General denies all knowledge of it, but Detective Thomas
Pitt believes that the General knows more than he will admit.
FIC PER
Perry, Anne. Resurrection Row. 1st Ballantine Books ed. New York :
Fawcett Books, 1982, c1981.
When the unearthed corpse of a peer of the realm is found sitting
in a hansom cab, Inspector Pitt and Charlotte go to work to solve
the mystery.
FIC PIC
Picoult, Jodi, 1966-. Change of heart : a novel. 1st Atria Books
hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, 2008.
June Nealon's life is shattered when Shay Bourne murders her
husband and daughter, but when her eleven-year-old daughter,
Claire, needs a heart transplant, Bourne decides that his only
chance at redemption is to give Claire his heart after he is put to
death, leaving June to decide if she wants to let the man who
destroyed her life save her daughter's.
FIC PIC
Picoult, Jodi, 1966-. My sister's keeper : a novel. 1st Washington
Square Press trade pbk. ed. New York : Washington Square Press,
2005.
Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and
bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare
form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for
control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney
to Kate.
FIC PIC
Picoult, Jodi, 1966-. Nineteen minutes : a novel. 1st Atria Books
hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, 2007.
The people of Sterling, New Hampshire, are forever changed after
a shooting at the high school leaves ten people dead, and the
judge presiding over the trial tries to remain unbiased, even
though her daughter witnessed the events and was friends with the
assailant.
FIC PIC
Picoult, Jodi, 1966-. The pact : a love story. New York : Avon Books,
2006, c1998.
The Hartes and the Golds, long-time neighbors and friends, are not
surprised when their children Chris and Emily fall in love, but the
bond between the families is placed under an enormous strain
when Emily is killed, leaving behind the question of whether her
death was a suicide, or murder.
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FIC PIC
Picoult, Jodi, 1966-. Salem Falls. New York : Washington Square Press,
[2002], c2001.
Jack St. Bride arrives in the quiet town of Salem Falls, determined
to rebuild his life and leave behind the accusations which ruined his
reputation as a teacher, but just as his life is getting back on the
right track, his past catches up with him.
FIC PIC
Picoult, Jodi, 1966-. The tenth circle. Atria Books hardcover ed. New
York : Atria Books, 2006.
Comic book artist Daniel Stone, a stay-at-home dad with a
fourteen-year-old daughter Trixie, and an unfaithful wife, turns a
blind eye to Trixie's first broken heart and wife Laura's affair, but
the feelings of rage he has buried for years come to the surface
when Trixie is raped at a party and accuses her former boyfriend.
FIC PLA
Plain, Belva. Promises. New York, N.Y. : Delacorte, 1996.
Margaret Crane's life falls apart when she learns that Adam, her
husband of almost twenty years, is having an extra-marital affair,
and her misery is compounded by the rift that occurs between her
and Nina, an orphaned cousin raised by the Cranes, over Nina's
relationship with a married man.
FIC PLA
Plain, Belva. The sight of the stars. paperback. New York : Random
House, 2004.
Adam Arnring, the son of an Irish immigrant mother and a Jewish
peddler father, leaves home in 1907 at the age of nineteen and
travels to the American West where he is determined to shape his
own destiny--creating what is to become one of the country's great
retail companies.
FIC PRE
Preston, Richard, 1954-. The cobra event : a novel. 1st ed. New York :
Random House, c1997.
Dr. Alice Austen, an officer with the Epidemic Intelligence Service
branch of the Centers for Disease Control, goes to New York to
investigate the hideous and mysterious death of a seventeen-yearold girl, and uncovers a terrorist plot involving the use of biological
weapons.
FIC PUZ
Puzo, Mario, 1920-. The family : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Regan
Books, c2001.
A fictionalized account of Pope Alexander VI's close relationship
with his family that explores how those relationships influenced his
role in the Church.
FIC PUZ
Puzo, Mario, 1920-. Omerta. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2000.
Don Raymonde Aprile, retired after a long career of organized
crime, is assassinated by a pair of hit men who believe there is no
one left to seek revenge, but they did not count on the Don's
adopted "nephew" from Sicily, a child raised unlike Aprile's own
three children to take over the crime family.
FIC RAN
Rand, Ayn. Atlas shrugged. 35th anniversary ed. New York : Dutton,
[1992], c1957.
In a technological civilization, people remain insecure and look to
the government for protection, sacrificing their creativity and
independence in exchange. A copper tycoon and an inventor reject
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this philosophy and fight for the individualist.
FIC RAN
Rand, Ayn. The fountainhead. 50th anniversary ed. New York : Signet,
[1993].
The story of a gifted young architect, his violent battle against
conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a
beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him.
FIC REE
Rees, Celia. Sovay. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury, 2008.
An historical novel set in 1794 England, about a wealthy girl who
disguises herself as a highwayman, acquires papers that could lead
to her father's arrest, and must hide both her and her father's
identity during the political unrest of the French Revolution.
FIC RIC
Rice, Anne, 1941-. Angel time : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A.
Knopf, 2009.
A seraph offers contract killer Toby O'Dare a chance to save rather
than destroy lives. Carried back through the ages to thirteenthcentury England, to dark realms where accusations of ritual murder
have been made against Jews, where children suddenly die or
disappear, O'Dare begins his perilous quest for salvation.
FIC RIC
Rice, Anne, 1941-. Interview with the vampire. 1st Ballantine Books ed.
New York : Ballantine, 1977, c1976.
Presents the confessions of Louis, a vampire, and tells of his
relationship with the vampire Lestat.
FIC RIC
Rice, Anne, 1941-. Merrick : a novel. 1st Ballantine Books mass market
ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2001, c2000.
Almost immortal vampire David Talbot, having gone to Merrick to
plead with her to raise the ghost of the dead vampire child Claudia
thus easing the guilt of his friend and fellow vampire Louis, instead
finds himself in the grip of an obsession with the powerful witch.
FIC RIC
Rice, Anne, 1941-. The queen of the damned. 1st mass market ed. New
York : Ballantine, 1989, c1988.
Akasha, mother of all vampires, has been awakened from her
6,000 year sleep and elevates herself and her chosen son/lover to
the level of gods.
FIC RIC
Rice, Anne, 1941-. The vampire Lestat. 1st Ballantine Books ed. New
York : Ballantine, 1986.
The story of the vampire Lestat through the ages as he searches
for the origin and meaning of his own dark immortality.
FIC RIC
Rice, Anne, 1941-. Vittorio, the vampire : new tales of the vampires.
1st Ballantine Books domestic ed. New York : Ballantine Books,
2001, c1999.
Vittorio, a five-hundred-year-old vampire, tells the story of how he
was seduced at the age of sixteen by Ursula, the most beautiful of
his supernatural enemies, after she saved him from being killed by
her fellow vampires during a slaughter in which his entire family
was wiped out.
FIC ROB
Roberts, Nora. Dance of the gods. New York : Jove, 2006.
In the second volume in Roberts' paranormal Circle Trilogy, the
Circle of Six prepare to battle for their lives--and their hearts--
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against the one vampire determined to rule the earth.
FIC ROB
Roberts, Nora. Gabriel's angel. New York : Silhouette Books, c1989.
Gabriel Bradley, mourning the death of his brother, rescues
pregnant and desperate Laura Malone after she becomes stranded
on a lonely Colorado road. He takes her into his home where they
wait out a snowstorm, sharing their deepest secrets and finding
hope for the future in each other's arms.
FIC ROB
Roberts, Nora. Homeport. New York : G.P. Putnam, c1998.
Art expert Dr. Miranda Jones, summoned to Italy to evaluate a
Renaissance bronze found in an old villa, finds herself in league
with art thief Ryan Boldari when the statue, which appears to be
the work of Michelangelo, is stolen.
FIC ROB
Roberts, Nora. Montana sky. Jove ed. New York : Jove, 1997, c1996.
Willa, Tess, and Lilly Mercy find that their father's will requires the
three of them to live together on his Montana ranch for one year
before any of them can inherit anything.
FIC ROB
Roberts, Nora. Morrigan's cross. Jove mass market ed. New York : Jove
Books, 2006.
In the twelfth century, the goddess Morrigan asks Hoyt Mac
Cionaoith to travel in time and join forces with a witch, a shape
shifter, a scholar, and a warrior in order to save the future from a
vampire queen bent on destruction.
FIC ROB
Roberts, Nora. The reef. Jove ed. New York : Jove Books, 1999, c1998.
Amateur treasure hunters Tate Beaumont and her father Raymond
team up with professional deep-sea divers Matthew Lassiter and
his Uncle Buck in an attempt to find the legendary jeweled amulet
known as Angelique's Curse which lies somewhere on the bottom
of the Caribbean.
FIC ROB
Roberts, Nora. Reunion. New York : Silhouette Books, c2004.
Once more with feeling -- Treasures lost, treasures found. In "Once
More With Feeling", singer-composer Raven Williams agrees to
work with Brandon Carstairs on a project, despite the fact he broke
her heart five years ago. "Treasures Lost, Treasures Found" finds
Kate Hardesty diving for treasure with the man she now regrets
leaving behind.
FIC ROB
Roberts, Nora. River's end. Jove ed. New York : Jove Books, 2000,
c1999.
Traumatized by the events surrounding the breakup of her parent's
marriage years ago, a young woman seeks to confront her past
and know the truth about the infamous night in her life that has
become a part of Hollywood history.
FIC ROB
Roberts, Nora. Time and again. New York : Silhouette, c2001.
Time was -- Times change. Presents two novels, "Time Was" in
which Caleb Hornblower travels from the twenty-third century into
the past where he falls in love with the beguiling Liberty Stone, and
"Times Change," in which Jacob, Caleb's cynical brother, arrives to
bring Caleb back to the future but becomes captivated by Liberty's
sister, Sunny.
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FIC ROB
Roberts, Nora. Untamed. New York : Silhouette Books, [2003], c1983.
For lion tamer Jovilette Wilder, the new owner of the circus was an
arrogant outsider that threatened everything she loved about her
life. Her instant attraction to him just made him more of a
problem.
FIC ROB
Roberts, Nora. Valley of silence. Jove mass-market ed. New York : Jove
Books, 2006.
Irish sorcerer Hoyt, his vampire twin brother Cian, the witch
Glenna, the warrior Blair, the shape-shifter Larkin, and Larkin's
cousin, the scholar Moira who has traveled through time to claim
her rightful place as queen of the ancient kingdom Geall, band
together to fight the evil queen Lilith and her vampire army, and as
the six battle for the sake of humankind and the fate of the world,
Cian and Moira fall into a passionate, impossible affair.
FIC RUB
Rubio, Gwyn Hyman. Icy Sparks. New York : Viking, 1998.
Icy Sparks has spent most of her life being ridiculed because she
suffers from Tourette Syndrome, but as she grows older, she
teaches the people in her town how to accept people for who they
are, not what they appear to be.
FIC SAU
Saul, John. The right hand of evil. 1st mass market ed. New York :
Ballantine Books, 2000, c1999.
When Janet and Ted Conway inherit an old family mansion, Janet
believes it is a chance for her family to start over, but the moment
they step into the house, strange things begin happening and Janet
realizes that a deadly evil resides in the house, threatening to
destroy her and her family.
FIC SAU
Saul, John. Second child. New York : Bantam, 1991, c1990.
Melissa, a shy, troubled thirteen-year -old comes to know the
blood-drenched secret that waits behind a locked attic door.
FIC SCH
Schwarz, Christina. Drowning Ruth. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday,
c2000.
Unable to deal with her problems, Amanda Starkey flees to her
sister's farm, but when she her sister drowns in a mysterious
accident, Amanda is forced to take charge of her young niece, and
she soon realizes that she has not left her problems behind, she
has merely brought them with her.
FIC SCO
Scottoline, Lisa. Lady killer. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2008.
Philadelphia attorney Mary DiNunzio is surprised when her high
school rival Trish Gambone shows up in her office looking for help
getting out of an abusive relationship with the possibly Mobconnected Bobby Mancuso, and she is forced to investigate on her
own when Trish and Bobby disappear, and the FBI cuts her out of
the loop for failing to tell what she knows about Bobby--a former
crush.
FIC SEB
Sebold, Alice. The lovely bones : a novel. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown,
c2002.
Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon, the victim of a sexual assault and
murder, looks on from the afterlife as her family deals with their
grief, and waits for her killer to be brought to some type of justice.
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FIC SHA
Shaara, Jeff, 1952-. Gods and generals. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine
Books, 1996.
Civil War novel traces the lives, passions, and careers of military
leaders Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock,
Joshua Chamberlain, and Robert E. Lee, who all meet on the same
battlefield for the first time at Fredericksburg, where they
experience the battle from four very different points of view.
FIC SHA
Shaara, Jeff, 1952-. The last full measure. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine
Books, 1998.
A dramatization of the confrontations between Robert E. Lee,
Lawrence Chamberlain, and Ulysses S. Grant during the last two
years of the Civil War.
FIC SHA
Shaara, Jeff, 1952-. Rise to rebellion. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine
Books, 2001.
A historical novel that chronicles the story of the American
Revolution and the men and women who forged the nation,
covering events from the Boston Massacre to the signing of the
Declaration of Independence.
FIC SHA
Shaffer, Mary Ann. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
New York : Dial Press, 2008.
Juliet Ashton, a thirty-year-old author, writes to her publisher
expressing her desire to stop covering the aftermath of WWII, but
Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams invites neighbors to write to Juliet
with their stories, which puts her off at first but eventually helps
her find inspiration for her next book, and her life.
FIC SHE
Shea, Suzanne Strempek. Hoopi, shoopi Donna. New York : Pocket
Books, c1996.
Donna Milewski, an only child, is living a perfectly happy life with
her grandmother, mother, and dad, who she charms with her
accordian playing, until her parents adopt a precious, pitiful little
girl from Poland who causes a rift between Donna and her father
that takes many years to heal.
FIC SHR
Shreve, Anita. The last time they met : a novel. 1st ed. Boston : Little,
Brown, c2001.
Linda Fallon travels to a literary festival to give a reading from her
latest work, but while she is there she encounters her former lover,
Thomas James, and together, the couple share memories of their
past affair.
FIC SHR
Shreve, Anita. Light on snow : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown,
c2004.
Twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon, still dealing with the loss of her
mother and baby sister two years earlier, and her grieving father's
sudden decision to move to an isolated New England farmhouse,
takes further steps into the adult world when she and her dad find
an abandoned newborn clinging to life in the woods near their
home, and later come to know the young mother and learn her
story.
FIC SHR
Shreve, Anita. The pilot's wife : a novel. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown,
c1998.
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Kathryn Lyon's life was peacefully routine, she had a good job and
a happy marriage, so when she received the news that her pilot
husband has died in a crash, her world was drastically changed.
Even before his body is recovered the media discovers that her
husband had a secret life, and Kathryn sets out to learn who her
husband really was.
FIC SHU
Shute, Nevil. On the beach. New York : Ballantine, 1974.
A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an
inevitable end as radiation poisoning moves toward Australia from
the north.
FIC SIE
Siegel, Sheldon (Sheldon M.). Incriminating evidence. New York :
Bantam Books, c2001.
When the rich and ambitious Prentice Marshall "Skipper" Gates III,
San Francisco's district attorney, is found in a hotel room with a
dead male prostitute handcuffed to the bed, it looks like an openand-shut murder case. Gates claims he fell asleep in front of the
television and woke to find the body.
FIC SIE
Sierra, Javier, 1971-. The secret supper. 1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
New York : Atria Books, 2006.
Father Agostino Leyre is dispatched to Milan in the fifteenth
century to discover the identity of the mysterious "Soothsayer"
who is sending cryptic messages to the Church, and to learn
whether there is any truth to the Soothsayer's claims that
Leonardo da Vinci has painted heretical messages into his
masterpiece, The Last Supper.
FIC SIN
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968. The jungle. New York : Barnes & Noble,
1995.
Describes the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the
eyes of a young immigrant struggling in America.
FIC SKI
Skinner, B. F. (Burrhus Frederic), 1904-. Walden Two. Eaglewood Cliffs,
N.J. : Prentice-Hall, c1976.
Presents Skinner's 1948 novel in which he imagines how the
inhabitants of a modern utopian community might have solved the
problems of their daily lives with the help of behavioral
engineering. Includes the 1976 introduction by the author.
FIC SPA
Spark, Muriel. The prime of Miss Jean Brodie. 1st Perennial Classics ed.
New York : Perennial Classics, 1999.
A teacher at a girls' school in Edinburgh, Scotland, Miss Jean Brodie
was a woman of ideas, wit, and charm who had a lover. The
students she chose as her special friends were called the "Brodie
set." One of them would betray her.
FIC SPA
Sparks, Nicholas. At first sight. 1st trade ed. New York : Warner, 2006,
c2005.
A mysterious e-mail sets off a chain of events that threatens
Jeremy Marsh's upcoming marriage.
FIC SPA
Sparks, Nicholas. A bend in the road. Warner Books ed. New York :
Warner Books, [2002], c2001.
North Carolina deputy sheriff Miles Ryan, heartbroken over his
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wife's death in a hit-and-run accident two years earlier, considers
love again when he meets his son's second-grade schoolteacher,
Sarah--but he soon finds that his wife's death was anything but an
accident and danger is not far away.
FIC SPA
Sparks, Nicholas. The choice. 1st ed. New York : Grand Central, 2007.
Veterinarian Travis Parker is very content with his good job, loyal
friends, and waterfront home in North Carolina, so he is not looking
for love, especially not with his testy new neighbor Gabby Holland,
but he cannot seem to keep from trying to ingratiate himself with
her, even though he knows she has a longtime boyfriend, and it is
not long before they find themselves facing an important choice.
FIC SPA
Sparks, Nicholas. The guardian. New York : Warner Books, [2004],
c2003.
Four years after her dying husband gave her one last gift, a Great
Dane puppy, and promised to always keep her safe, twenty-nineyear-old Julie Barenson is finally ready to love again, but danger
lurks as she tries to decide which of two men will make her happy.
FIC SPA
Sparks, Nicholas. The lucky one. 1st ed. New York : Grand Central Pub,
2008.
During his third tour of duty in Iraq, Marine Logan Thibault finds a
photograph of a woman buried in the sand. Soon after finding the
photograph, he experiences an amazing run of luck--from wins at
poker to surviving an ambush. Upon his return home, he sets out
to find the woman in the picture, whom he believes holds the key
to his destiny.
FIC SPA
Sparks, Nicholas. Message in a bottle. New York, NY : Warner Books,
c1998.
Divorcée Theresa Osborne, on a vacation at the seaside, finds a
love message in a bottle and becomes obsessed with learning the
story behind the note.
FIC SPA
Sparks, Nicholas. Nights in Rodanthe. New York : Warner Books, c2002.
Two people on the mend from broken marriages go to Rodanthe,
North Carolina to figure out a way to start over again. When a
storm starts moving in, they turn to each for safety and comfort
and find feelings strong enough to last a lifetime.
FIC SPA
Sparks, Nicholas. The notebook. New York : Warner Books, 1996.
Noah Calhoun, recently returned from World War II in 1946, buys
an old plantation home in rural North Carolina, where he contents
himself with memories of his first love, a girl he met fourteen years
earlier, but then she unexpectedly arrives at his door.
FIC SPA
Sparks, Nicholas. The rescue. Warner Books ed. New York : Warner
Books, [2001], c2000.
Taylor McAden's devotion to his work as a volunteer fireman has
left no room in his life for love, but when he becomes involved in
the search for four-year-old Kyle who has disappeared following an
automobile accident in which his mom, Denise, was injured, Taylor
develops feelings for Denise that he cannot deny.
FIC SPA
Sparks, Nicholas. True believer. 1st trade ed. New York : Warner Books,
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Successful Manhattan science journalist Jeremy Marsh is invited to
the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, to investigate a
sighting of strange lights in a local cemetery and meets librarian
Lexie Darnell, who causes the smitten Jeremy to make some
difficult choices about his life.
FIC SPA
Sparks, Nicholas. A walk to remember. New York : Warner Books,
c1999.
When a twist of fate makes Jamie Sullivan his date at the
homecoming dance, Landon Carter never dreamed they would fall
in love, but as he comes to realize his true feelings for Jamie, he
learns of a terrible secret that will take his love away from him
forever.
FIC SPA
Sparks, Nicholas. The wedding. New York : Warner Books, c2003.
Wilson Lewis, forced to admit that the romance has gone out of his
marriage after thirty years, and realizing his responsibility for that
loss, embarks on a mission to make his wife fall in love with him all
over again.
FIC STA
Stabenow, Dana. Blindfold game. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's
Minotaur, 2006.
CIA analyst Hugh Ricon pieces together rumors that lead him to
the conclusion that a terrorist attack on Alaska is imminent, but
when he cannot get his superiors to believe him, he takes matters
into his own hands and devises a plan to save his native state, as
well as his estranged wife who is stationed aboard a Coast Guard
cutter sitting directly in the line of fire.
FIC STA
Stabenow, Dana. Blood will tell. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1996.
Kate Shugak, wanting only to be left alone on her Alaskan
homestead, is drawn reluctantly into an investigation of the death
of Sarah Kompkoff, a cousin of Kate's and a member of the Niniltna
Native Association which is on the verge of taking a critical vote on
the future use of an old growth forest.
FIC STA
Stabenow, Dana. A cold day for murder. Berkley Prime Crime ed. New
York : Berkley Prime Crime, 1993.
Kate Shugak, a former detective with the Anchorage District
Attorney's office, is called out of her self-imposed isolation when
she is recruited to find out what happened to a young national park
ranger who disappeared during the Alaskan winter along with an
investigator sent in to check on him.
FIC STA
Stabenow, Dana. A grave denied. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's
Minotaur, c2003.
Aleut sleuth Kate Shugak puts herself and her teenage charge
Johnny Morgan--the son of her dead lover--in danger after her
investigation of the murder of a local handyman turns up details of
a secret life the killer does not want revealed.
FIC STA
Stabenow, Dana. A taint in the blood. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's
Minotaur, 2004.
Kate Shugak agrees to help a young woman clear her mother's
name, and sets out to prove that Victoria Pilz Bannister Muravieff
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did not kill her seventeen-year-old son more than thirty years ago,
but her investigation is complicated by Victoria's refusal to help
Kate uncover the truth.
FIC STE
Stein, Garth. The art of racing in the rain : a novel. New York : Harper,
2009, c2008.
Enzo, the dog of professional race car driver Denny Swift, recalls
the memories of his life and shares his insight into the human
condition that he learned from observing his owner.
FIC STO
Stockett, Kathryn. The help. New York : Amy Einhorn Books/G.P.
Putnam's Sons, c2009.
Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and
begins to write stories about the African-American women that are
found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who
grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth
white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a
secretive woman who is new to town.
FIC STO
Stoker, Dacre. Dracula : the un-dead. New York : Dutton, c2009.
A sequel to Bram Stoker's "Dracula," set twenty-five years after
the vampire was destroyed, in which Quincey, the son of Jonathan
and Mina Harker, having left law school to pursue an acting career,
learns the secrets of his parents' past through a production of the
play "Dracula," directed by Bram Stoker, and stumbles upon a plot
to kill all the people involved in Count Dracula's demise.
FIC STO
Stolarz, Laurie Faria, 1972-. Blue is for nightmares. 1st ed. St. Paul, MN
: Llewellyn, c2003.
Sixteen-year-old hereditary witch Stacey Brown has nightmares of
her roommate being murdered and hopes that her magic will be
enough to protect Drea--unlike the last person whose death Stacey
dreamed.
FIC STO
Stolarz, Laurie Faria, 1972-. Deadly little secret : a touch novel. 1st ed.
New York : Hyperion, c2008.
When someone starts stalking high school junior Camelia, everyone
at school assumes that it is Ben, who is new at school and rumored
to have killed his previous girlfriend, but Camelia is nevertheless
inexplicably drawn to him.
FIC STO
Stolarz, Laurie Faria, 1972-. Red is for remembrance. 1st ed.
Woodbury, MN : Llewellyn Publications, c2005.
Stacey wants nothing more than to have a normal life as she heads
off to college, hoping to forget the tragic accident that killed her
boyfriend, but when she begins having disturbing dreams, she
realizes she cannot put the past behind and turns to the folk magic
her grandmother taught her to learn the truth about her dreams.
FIC STO
Stolarz, Laurie Faria, 1972-. Silver is for secrets. 1st ed. St. Paul, MN :
Llewellyn, c2005.
During a summer vacation at the beach with friends, eighteenyear-old hereditary witch Stacey has more nightmares which
involve Clara, a new girl with a talent for causing trouble.
FIC STO
Stolarz, Laurie Faria, 1972-. White is for magic. 1st ed. Woodbury, MN :
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Seventeen-year-old Stacey Brown's nightmares are haunted by the
ghosts of people who have been brutally murdered, and when she
begins receiving letters that seem to be linked to her dreams, she
joins forces with a transfer student who claims to know when and
how Stacey will die, hoping to find the killer before Stacey becomes
the next victim.
FIC STO
Stone, Robert. Dog soldiers : a novel. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co.,
c1997.
Small-time journalist John Converse thinks to cash in on the last
days of the Vietnam War by becoming involved in a major drug
deal, but things go very wrong when he gets back to the U.S. and
finds himself hunted by a corrupt government agent.
FIC STO
Stork, Francisco X. Marcelo in the real world. 1st ed. New York : Arthur
A. Levine Books, 2009.
Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the highfunctioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges,
including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his
father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.
FIC STR
Strout, Elizabeth. Olive Kitteridge. 1st Random House Trade Paperback
ed. New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, c2008.
A collection of thirteen linked short stories recounting the
experiences of Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who
witnesses the changes in her town and the world at large.
FIC TAN
Tan, Amy. The hundred secret senses. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons,
c1995.
Kwan moves from China to live with her family in San Francisco
and develops a relationship with her half sister Olivia. She confides
in Olivia about the ghosts she hears telling her about love. Years
later Kwan and her ghosts advise Olivia about her marriage.
FIC TAN
Tan, Amy. Saving fish from drowning. New York : Putnam, c2005.
When Bibi Chen, the leader of a group of twelve American tourists,
mysteriously dies while on an art expedition in the Himalayan
foothills of China, the remainder of the group discover that the
Burma Road is filled with danger and uncertainty.
FIC TEP
Tepper, Sheri S. Beauty : a novel. New York : Bantam, 1992.
Beauty is put under a curse that enables her to travel to the future
and time to both imaginary and real worlds.
FIC TOL
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. The death of Ivan Ilyich. Bantam classic
ed. New York : Bantam, 1981.
The story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never
given the inevitability of his dying so much as a passing thought.
FIC TYA
Tyau, Kathleen. A little too much is enough. 1st ed. New York : Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, 1995.
Portrays the struggles of a young girl discovering herself amid a
large and complicated family, set in and around Honolulu.
FIC TYL
Tyler, Anne. The accidental tourist. 1st ed. New York : Knopf :, 1985.
An author of guidebooks for travelling businessmen goes through
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life "accidently". It is an accident tinged with purpose when he gets
involved with the astonishing Muriel and her talent for finding
adventure.
FIC TYL
Tyler, Anne. Ladder of years. 1st Ballantine Books ed. New York :
Fawcett Columbine, 1996, c1995.
Delia Grinstead, a 40-year-old wife and mother, walks away from
her family one day and begins a completely new life.
FIC TYL
Tyler, Anne. A patchwork planet. 1st Fawcett ed. New York : Fawcett,
1999, c1998.
Barnaby Gaitlin, a thirty-year-old who was frequently in trouble as
a youth, has been working steadily for eleven years for Rent-aBack, Inc., but it seems as though his family, his ex-wife, and even
the woman who seems to be interested in him, just cannot get
over his past.
FIC Uri
Uris, Leon, 1924-. Armageddon. New York : Dell, 1983, c1964.
Sean O'Sullivan, an American captain responsible for the military
government of the city of Rombaden, nurses a fierce hatred of the
Germans and is faced with a dilemma when he falls in love with a
German girl.
FIC WAL
Walker, Alice, 1944-. Now is the time to open your heart : a novel. 1st
ed. New York : Random House, c2004.
Successful author Kate Nelson, unhappy with her life, sets off at
the age of fifty-seven on two river voyages in search of spiritual
enlightenment, while her lover, Yolo, trying to deal with Kate's
decision to embrace celibacy, embarks on a parallel journey.
FIC WAL
Walker, Alice, 1944-. Possessing the secret of joy. 1st ed. New York :
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1992.
Story of Tashi, a tribal African woman who lives much of her adult
life in North America struggling to recognize her own reality.
FIC WAL
Walls, Jeannette. Half broke horses : a true-life novel. 1st Scribner
hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, 2009.
Lily Casey Smith grows up breaking horses with her father and
leaves home at fifteen to ride five hundred miles in order to teach
in a frontier town before encountering various difficulties, marrying
a rancher, and speaking out against prejudice in various parts of
the U.S.
FIC WHA
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Ethan Frome. 1st Scribner Paperback
Fiction ed. New York : Scribner Paperpack Fiction, 1997, c1911.
Contains the story of Ethan Frome, a New England farmer who is
married to a hypochondriac, but in love with his wife's lively cousin,
Mattie.
FIC WHA
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Ethan Frome ; : & Summer. Modern Library
pbk. ed. New York : Modern Library, 2001.
Presents two New England novels by Edith Wharton, including
"Ethan Frome," the story of a young farmer who falls in love with
the vivacious cousin of his hypochondriac wife, and "Summer," in
which a young woman of humble origins defies society by engaging
in a torrid love affair with a man far above her station.
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FIC WHA
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. The house of mirth. New York : Signet
Classic, [1980].
Lily Bart, an orphaned child of a New York merchant, calmly
prepares a campaign to marry for the power and luxury that
money brings.
FIC WIL
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. The picture of Dorian Gray. 1992 Modern
Library ed. New York : Modern Library, 1992.
A remarkably handsome youth, Dorian Gray, meets Lord Henry
Wotton and is corrupted into a life of terrible evil.
FIC WIL
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. The picture of Dorian Gray and other writings.
New York : Bantam Books, 1982.
The picture of Dorian Gray -- Lady Windermere's fan -- Salome -An ideal husband -- The importance of being earnest -- The Ballad
of Reading gaol. A collection of writings by Wilde including the
story of a youth of exceptional beauty gets his wish to remain
untouched by the passage of time when it is arranged that his
portrait will age in his place.
FIC WOO
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Jacob's room. San Diego : Harcourt,
[1978], c1922.
Jacob Flanders, a sensitive young man raised in Edwardian
England, discovers as an adult that his life is lacking, but his search
for fulfillment is sidetracked by the outbreak of World War I.
FIC WU
Wu, Ch'eng-en, ca. 1500-ca. 1582. Monkey: folk novel of China. New
York : Grove Press, [1984], c1943.
Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this
is the story of the roguish Monkey and his encounters with major
and minor spirits, gods, demigods, demons, ogres, monsters, and
fairies.
FIC WYN
Wynd, Oswald, 1913-. The ginger tree. 1st HarperPerennial ed. New
York : HarperPerennial, 1991.
Mary MacKenzie travels from Britain to China so that she can marry
the man she is betrothed to, but when she arrives, she falls in love
with a young Japanese nobleman, and she must choose between
her love and her country.
FIC YOU
Young, William P. The shack : a novel. Los Angeles, CA : Windblown
Media, c2007.
After Missy is abducted during a vacation and evidence of her
murder shows up at a shack in the forests of Oregon, Mackenzie
Philips, her father, receives a strange note inviting him to return to
the scene of the tragedy where he wrestles with nightmarish
religious questions.
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