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FIC ABB
Abbey, Edward. The Monkey Wrench Gang.
A burnt-out veteran, a mad doctor, a sexy revolutionary,
and a polygamist outdoorsman team up to halt what they
see as big government/big business conspiracy to destroy
the environment of the American West.
FIC ABU
Abu-Jaber, Diana. Origin: a novel.
Mentally fragile Lena Dawson, a fingerprint expert at a
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.
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. Changes: a love story.
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. The Five People You Meet in Heaven.
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 explain what his years on Earth really meant.
FIC ALB
Albom, Mitch. For One More Day.
After years of drinking, being rejected by family, and a
suicide attempt 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. Reservation Blues.
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-theFire, who starts Coyote Springs, an all-Indian Catholic
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rock-and-roll band.
FIC ALL
Allende, Isabel. Daughter of Fortune: a novel.
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.
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.
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.
Aurora del Valle, raised in the privileged class of Chile, is
tormented by nightmares and half-memories of events set
in San Francisco's Chinatown. Disillusioned in her
marriage, she sets out to rediscover the missing years of her
early childhood.
FIC ALV
Alvarez, Julia. Before We Were Free.
Anita, a 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.
A novel based on the life of Profesora Camila HenríquezUreña, a teacher whose mother was Salomé Ureña, famous
nineteenth-century political poet from the Dominican
Republic.
FIC ALV
Alvarez, Julia. Saving the World: a novel.
Latina novelist Alma Huebner finds herself becoming
obsessed with the life of her subject--a woman who handpicked 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.
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Alvarez, Julia. Something to Declare.
A collection of two dozen essays written by bestselling
author Julia Alvarez that discusses the major issues she has
had to face in her life.
FIC ALV
Alvarez, Julia. Yo!
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.
FIC ATW
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor. Cat's Eye.
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.
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. Persuasion.
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 KIN
Bachman, Richard. The Long Walk.
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 BAL
Baldacci, David. Absolute Power.
A burglar 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.
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.
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Baldacci, David. The Collectors.
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.
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.
When his FBI's team is attacked, an agent 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.
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.
The lives of a twelve-year-old and her younger brother,
change forever in 1940 when an accident results in their
being uprooted from their New York City home and
moved to live with their great-grandmother in the
mountains of Virginia.
FIC BAR
Barker, Pat. The Eye in the Door.
Paranoia threatens to destroy the fabric of British society as
the public seeks scapegoats in the spring of 1918.
FIC BAR
Barker, Pat. The Ghost Road.
Fictionalized account of Dr. William Rivers who pioneered
treatment of shell-shocked soldiers during World War I,
who tries to reconcile his work with the knowledge that the
men he treats will be returning to battle.
FIC BAR
Barker, Pat. Regeneration.
In 1917, a combat officer and poet writes a letter publicly
disavowing the war. He is found to be "mentally unsound"
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and is sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital, where there is a
psychiatrist renowned for curing such cases.
FIC BAR
Barnes, Linda. Cold Case.
A Boston private detective finds herself involved in an
unusual case when a new manuscript turns up, which may
possibly be written by an author believed to be dead for the
past twenty-four-years.
842.91 BEC
Beckett, Samuel. Endgame: a play in one act; followed by, Act
without words: a mime for one player.
Contains the text to two of Nobel Prize-winning author
Samuel Beckett's greatest works, a single-act play and a
single-person mime sketch.
FIC BED
Bedford, K. A. Hydrogen Steel.
A homicide inspector is called out of retirement to help a
former android accused of killing his wife and children
who also knows a dark secret from the past.
FIC Ber
Berg, Elizabeth. Open House: a novel.
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.
Lainey must draw on a number of sources to keep her faith
strong when her husband is injured in an accident and
lingers in a coma.
796.332 BIS
Bissinger, H. G. Friday Night Lights: a town, a team, and a
dream.
Follows the 1988 season of the high school football team in
Odessa, Texas, exploring the lives of the players and the
impact of the championship team on the small town.
FIC BLA
Blackman, Malorie. Knife Edge.
Persephone Hadley, six-months pregnant with a mixedrace baby, risks her own life to save the brother of the man
she loves, which was hanged for terrorism months earlier.
364.1 BLA
Blatchford, Chris. The Black Hand: the bloody rise and
redemption of "Boxer" Enriquez, a Mexican mob killer.
Details the life of Rene "Boxer" Enriquez, who after being
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sent to prison at the age of nineteen joined La Eme--the
Mexican mafia--and through his willingness to kill
Enriquez rose from a mob enforcer to the upper echelons.
FIC BLU
Blume, Judy. Summer Sisters.
Vix Leonard's life changed forever when she was
introduced to the privileged world of her new friend. Years
later, the magic of their early relationship faded, Caitlin is
getting married and she wants Vix to be her maid of honor.
Vix knows that she will go because she wants to
understand what happened during that last shattering
summer.
FIC BOH
Bohjalian, Christopher A. Midwives.
A midwife makes the decision to perform a cesarean
section on a patient she believes has died 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 BOU
Boulle, Pierre. Planet of the Apes: a novel.
Explorers in space find a planet that is identical to Earth,
with the exception that on the planet Betelgeuse the roles of
ape and human are reversed.
155.9 BRA
Brafman, Ori. Sway: the irresistible pull of irrational behavior.
Discusses hidden psychological influences on people's
decision-making process about things such as
relationships, advice, and money, drawing from fields such
as social psychology and organizational behavior.
921 LYNCH
Bragg, Rick. I Am a Soldier, Too: the Jessica Lynch story.
Private First Class Jessica Lynch chronicles the events
surrounding her capture by Iraqi soldiers in March, 2003,
and her rescue by American troops.
940.54 BRO
Brokaw, Tom. The Greatest Generation.
Pays tribute to the generation of Americans who fought in
World War II, telling the stories of individual men and
women who served their country overseas and returned to
create modern America.
921 BRO
Brown, Cupcake. A Piece of Cake: a memoir.
Cupcake Brown shares the story of her life, beginning with
her mother's death when she was just eleven, how she
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ended up in foster care, her introduction to drugs, alcohol
and sex as a runaway, her gang affiliation, and how she
eventually turned her life around to become an attorney
and motivational speaker.
FIC BRO
Brown, Dan. The Lost Symbol: a novel.
A Harvard is drawn into a desperate search through the
hidden tunnels and temples of Washington, D.C., when his
mentor is kidnapped and the only clue lies in an ancient
invitation to a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom.
970.5 Bro
Brown, Dee Alexander. Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee: an
Indian history of the American West.
Traces the white man's conquest of the Indians of the
American West, emphasizing major Indian Wars.
917.404 BRY
Bryson, Bill. A Walk in the Woods: rediscovering America on
the Appalachian Trail.
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.
294.3 BST
Bstan-dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV. The Art of Happiness:
a handbook for living.
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.
FIC BUC
Buck, Pearl S. Dragon Seed.
The story of Ling Tan and his family and their struggles
during the time of war in China.
FIC BUC
Buck, Pearl S. East Wind, West Wind.
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. Clockwork orange.
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.
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Burnett, Frances Hodgson. Little Lord Fauntleroy.
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.
Grandpa Blakeslee remarries just three weeks after Granny
has gone to her reward. Young Will is boggled by this act
but becomes the newlyweds' conspirator and confidant and
does some growing up on his own.
FIC BUT
Butler, Robert Olen. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain:
stories.
Fifteen short stories blending Vietnamese folklore with
American realities as Vietnamese refugees try to balance
their traditions with American popular culture.
921 GAC
Cahill, Tim. Buried Dreams : inside the mind of a serial killer.
Disturbing story of John Wayne Gacy, the suburban
Chicago businessman sentenced to death in 1980 for the
murders of 33 young boys, most of whose bodies were
buried in the crawlspace under his home.
FIC CAL
Caldwell, Taylor. Captains and the Kings.
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. Your Blues ain't like Mine.
A Chicago born young black man pays the ultimate price
for speaking a few words in French to a white woman
while visiting relatives in Mississippi in the 1950s.
FIC CAP
Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s: a short novel and three
stories.
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. Other Voices, Other Rooms.
A thirteen-year-old 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
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who offer Joel the love and approval he never received
from his parents.
FIC CAS
Cashore, Kristin. Graceling.
In a world where some people are born with extreme and
often-feared skills, Katsa struggles for redemption from her
own horrifying Grace and teams up with another young
fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
FIC CAS
Cassidy, Anne. Looking for JJ.
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. Don Quixote.
The epic tale of an eccentric country gentleman and his
companion 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.
Alternates between two stories--contemporarily, seventeenyear-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request
of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteenyear-old Gertrud relates her experience of British soldier’s
attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation.
FIC CHA
Chandler, Raymond. The Big Sleep.
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.
951.04 CHA
Chang, Iris. The Rape of Nanking: the forgotten holocaust of
World War II.
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 from the perspective of Japanese soldiers,
Chinese civilians, and the Europeans and Americans who
created a safety zone for survivors.
FIC CHA
Chávez, Denise. Face of an Angel.
The story of a waitress who has worked for thirty years in a
Mexican restaurant in the rural Southwest.
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FIC CHE
Chevalier, Tracy. Falling Angels.
The changing social climate in England, spurred by the
death of Queen Victoria in 1901, is reflected in the lives of,
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.
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.
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.
921 YAO
Chin, Oliver Clyde. The Tao of Yao: insights from basketball's
brightest big man.
Chronicles the life and career of basketball player Yao
Ming, using quotes from Yao on a variety of subjects to
illustrate key points in his life and his beliefs and values.
FIC CHR
Christie, Agatha. Appointment with Death.
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.
Hercule Poirot must find a murderer who is trying to kill
him.
FIC CHR
Christie, Agatha. And then there were none.
Ten strangers--each with a sordid past--are summoned by
an absent millionaire to a private island off the coast of
Devon and begin to die one by one upon arrival.
FIC CHR
Christie, Agatha. Cat Among the Pigeons.
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. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side.
Miss Jane Marple investigates the poisoning death of a fan
of Marina Gregg, the film star who recently took up
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residence in St. Mary Mead and may have been the killer's
intended target.
FIC CHR
Christie, Agatha. Murder in Mesopotamia.
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. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
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. The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories.
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.
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.
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. The Bear and the Dragon.
The newly elected president is disturbed by the attempted
assassination of Russia's intelligence agency chairman, and
as others go to Moscow to investigate, danger to the entire
world takes shape in China.
FIC CLA
Clancy, Tom. Clear and Present Danger.
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. The Hunt for Red October.
A dangerous race is on when the crew of the Soviet Union's
new ballistic-missile submarine "Red October" attempts to
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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. Rainbow Six.
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 of terrorists whose cunning and
skill threatens to alter the entire fabric of life on Earth.
FIC CLA
Clancy, Tom. Red Rabbit.
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. Red Storm Rising.
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.
356.16 CLA
Clancy, Tom. Shadow Warriors: inside the Special Forces.
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.
FIC CLA
Clancy, Tom. The Sum of all Fears.
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. Tom Clancy's Op-Center: games of state.
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
Clay, Daniel. Broken: a novel.
Normalcy on Drummond Square disappears after Skunk
Cunnigham, a young girl, witnesses her neighbor, Bob
Oswald, beat teenager Rick Buckley while Ricky was
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washing his car in his family's driveway.
FIC COE
Coelho, Paulo. The Alchemist.
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.
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.
371.91 COH
Cohen, Leah Hager. Train Go Sorry: inside a deaf world.
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.
364.1 SCR
A Scream in the Dark and Other True Crime Stories.
A collection of actual crimes presented by 21 renowned
writers of mystery and detective fiction.
FIC CON
Connelly, Michael. The Lincoln Lawyer: a novel.
Criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller has spent his
career protecting the city's low lifes, but when a playboy
hires him to defend him in an assault trial, the case takes a
dangerous turn that threatens everything Mickey loves.
FIC CON
Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim.
Jim, branded a coward after jumping clear of the sinking
ship on 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.
921 CONWAY
Conway, Jill K. The road from Coorain.
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.
FIC COO
Cook, Robin. Acceptable Risk.
A neuroscientist designs a new type of mind altering drug
and begins experimenting on people with surprising
results.
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Cook, Robin. Blindsight.
Manhattan city forensic pathologist Laurie Montgomery
battles to foil a plot of unimaginable evil in a distinguished
New York hospital.
FIC COO
Cook, Robin. Chromosome 6.
A forensic pathologist and his colleague discover a
mysterious cult involved in high-tech experimental medical
procedures when they set out to discover the truth about
what happened to a mobster who body was stolen from the
morgue and later turned up mutilated.
FIC COO
Cook, Robin. Contagion.
Dr. John Stapleton, embittered by the deaths of his wife
and daughters and the loss of his ophthalmology practice,
retrains for a career in forensic pathology uncovering a plot
by the health care giant to kill off its more costly
subscribers.
FIC COO
Cook, Robin. Harmful intent.
A subtle clue puts a physician turned fugitive and Nurse
Kelly on the trail of a crazed killer, responsible for drug
tampering deaths.
FIC COO
Cook, Robin. Terminal.
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. Vital Signs.
A successful doctor with a fairy tale marriage has
everything but the child she wants. When traveling to
Hong Kong to explore reproductive technologies, she finds
she is in incredible danger.
FIC COO
Cooper, James Fenimore. Deerslayer.
Relates the adventures of woodsman Natty Bumppo in
upper New York State at the time of the Iroquois wars.
FIC COO
Cooper, James Fenimore. The Leatherstocking Tales.
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.
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FIC COO
Cooper, James Fenimore. Prairie.
With illustrations of the author and his environment and
reproductions of drawings for early editions of the book
Last Leather Stocking tale. Hawkeye as a trapper on the
Upper Missouri River.
FIC COO
Cooper, James Fenimore. The Spy: a tale of the neutral ground.
Reprint of an 1821 novel that tells the story of a man who
risked his life in service to America during the
Revolutionary War.
944.23 COR
Corbin, Alain. The Life of an Unknown: the rediscovered world
of a clog maker in nineteenth-century France.
Traces the difficult daily existence of the oft-impoverished
Pinagot, his family and his milieu showing how the clog
maker likely experienced the major political events of his
time, including the restoration of the monarchy and the
two invasions by Prussia.
FIC COR
Cornwell, Patricia Daniels. The Front.
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.
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.
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. The Power of One.
Story of Peekay, an English boy, living in South Africa
during World War II whose dream is to become a winner.
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Crichton, Michael. Airframe.
Following a series of plane crashes and passenger deaths a
frenzied high pressure investigation is ordered with some
surprising results.
759.13 CRI
Crichton, Michael. Jasper Johns.
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.
FIC CRI
Crichton, Michael. The Lost World: a novel.
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. Prey.
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.
PB FIC CRI
Crichton, Michael. Sphere: a novel.
A group of American scientists descend to the ocean floor
to investigate a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions,
apparently undamaged by its fall, and three hundred years
old.
FIC CRI
Crichton, Michael. The Terminal Man.
Harry Benson 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. Timeline.
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.
Dirk Pitt races to save the future of the world when he is
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assigned to find the link between the 1858 discovery of an
aged wreck full of crates of antiquities, and two modernday incidents that claimed the lives of a team of
anthropologists and almost sank a NUMA vessel.
FIC CUS
Cussler, Clive. Cyclops.
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. Night Probe!
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!
A 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.
FIC CUS
Cussler, Clive. Sahara: a novel.
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.
A deadly plague is killing dolphins and seals and has now
extended its reach to claim humans. A researcher must find
the source of the plague and head off a disaster that will
claim the lives of millions of people and animals.
FIC CUS
Cussler, Clive. Treasure: a novel.
Dirk Pitt 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.
An African terrorist group acquires two canisters
containing a virulent organism and threatens to attack
Washington, D.C.
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D'Aguiar, Fred. Dear Future.
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
accidentally hit in the head with an axe.
851.1 DAN
Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy: selected cantos = La
divina commedia: canti scelti.
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.
FIC DEA
Dean, Zoë. Hollywood is Like High School with Money.
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.
A world-class runner is shocked to learn that her twin
sister 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.
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.
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 Anti-Terrorist Task Force and is assigned to
apprehend an alleged Libyan terrorist known as "The
Lion.".
FIC DEM
DeMille, Nelson. Plum Island.
NYPD detective John Corey 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.
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DeMille, Nelson. Up Country: a novel.
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 about a thirty-year-old murder case that
occurred during the Vietnam War.
962.4 DEN
Deng, Benson. They Poured Fire on us from the Sky: the true
story of three lost boys from Sudan.
Presents the stories of three young men who as children in
the late 1980s were forced from their homes by war in the
Sudan and traveled, along with thousands of other boys,
nearly one thousand miles in search of refuge, surviving
hunger, illness, and human and animal predators.
FIC DER
Dershowitz, Alan M. Just Revenge.
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.
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 and give her the gifts that
are to sustain her through her life.
FIC DIC
Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist.
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. The Pickwick Papers.
Relates the various activities and adventures of the
members of the Pickwick Club.
FIC DID
Didion, Joan. The Last Thing he Wanted.
In 1984, a newspaper journalist 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.
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Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. Sister of my Heart.
Anju and Sudha, cousins in an upper-caste Calcutta family
grow up together, 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. Ragtime.
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.
362.2 DOR
Dorris, Michael. The Broken Cord.
The story of a family confronted with a problem with no
known solution, describing the tragedy and lifelong blight
of fetal alcohol syndrome.
FIC DOW
Dowd, Siobhan. Bog Child.
In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-yearold 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.
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. The Man in the Iron Mask.
Presents the adventures of d'Artagnan, which 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.
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.
Famed courtesan Fiammetta Bianchini and her dwarf
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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.
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 a beautiful
actress/waitress. What Flo discovers about the superrich is
not a pretty sight.
FIC EBE
Ebershoff, David. The 19th Wife: a novel.
Follows the parallel stories of Ann Eliza Young, the
estranged wife of Mormon leader Brigham Young, and her
campaign to end polygamy in the United States, and
Jordan Scott, the son of a polygamist family in twenty-firstcentury Utah, who returns after years away from the
fundamentalist sect to learn the truth about his father's
death.
FIC EDW
Edwards, Kim. The Memory Keeper's Daughter.
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 ENG
Enger, Leif. Peace Like a River.
In the 1960s, a spiritual man named Jeremiah Land sets out
from his Minnesota home with his young son and daughter
to find his elder son, Davy, after he escapes jail on the
morning of his sentencing for murder.
FIC ESQ
Esquivel, Laura. The Law of Love.
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. Swift as Desire: a novel.
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,
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and finally reveals the sad secret of why he is unable to
communicate with his beloved spouse.
FIC EUG
Eugenides, Jeffrey. Middlesex.
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.
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.
Amy is replaced in her television job by a dancing chicken
and accepts the offer to become the receptionist for
handsome Jake, but when the dancing chicken suddenly
disappears, she is blamed, and she and Jake search for
clues to prove her innocence.
FIC EVA
Evanovich, Janet. Full Bloom.
Annie, a bed and breakfast owner, must 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.
Posing as husband and wife, Jamie Swift, 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.
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.
FIC EVA
Evanovich, Janet. Hot Six.
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum Trenton vice cop Joe
Morelli, team up to find the killer of the youngest son of
international black-market arms dealer Alexander Ramos.
FIC EVA
Evanovich, Janet. Love Overboard.
Stephanie Lowe decides schooner captain Ivan Rasmussen
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deserves to be called Ivan the Terrible. But despite that, he
has the nerve to be charming, handsome and in love with
her.
FIC EVA
Evanovich, Janet. Plum Lovin'.
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.
FIC EVA
Evanovich, Janet. The Rocky Road to Romance.
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 would give the him no
room to resist her quirky charms.
FIC EVA
Evanovich, Janet. Seven-Up.
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.
"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. These two
unlikely workmates must find a way to build something.
FIC EVA
Evanovich, Janet. Ten Big Ones.
Bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum is the only witness to a
robbery 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.
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is saddled with the tracking
down beloved candy store owner Uncle Mo after he skips
bond on a minor charge, and acquires an unwanted
sidekick in a former hooker.
FIC EVA
Evanovich, Janet. To the Nines.
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum becomes the
next target of a crazed killer while trying to locate an illegal
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immigrant who has skipped out on a visa bond guaranteed
by Plum's boss.
FIC EVA
Evanovich, Janet. Twelve Sharp.
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
murderer.
FIC EVA
Evans, Richard Paul. The sunflower.
After her fiance unexpectedly calls off their wedding,
Christine finds herself on a mission at an orphanage in
Peru, where she will eventually recover her faith and
find love.
FIC FAU
Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying: the corrected text.
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. Intruder in the Dust.
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 FEE
Feehan, Christine. Dark Symphony.
The Carpathian Byron, a vampire hunter, finds his life mate
in the blinded, scarred composer Antonietta Scarletti,
whose life and wealth are being taken, slowly but surely,
by someone close to her family.
FIC FIS
Fisher, Carrie. The Best Awful: a novel.
Suzanne's battle with bipolar illness is complicated after
losing her child's father to another man, and after a
complete psychotic break, Suzanne is admitted to a mental
hospital, where she vows to get her illnesses under control
for her daughter's sake.
FIC FIS
Fisher, Catherine. Incarceron.
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage,
Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a
futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a
young prisoner escape.
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FIC FIT
Fitch, Janet. White Oleander: a novel.
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.
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.
A bright, young lawyer is placed on administrative leave
by her racist boss, and returns home to find her way back
to the right path in life.
FIC FRA
Francis, Dick. Second Wind
A meteorologist finds his life in danger after the plane he is
riding in is destroyed in a hurricane, stranding him on Trox
Island where he discovers a notebook that contains very
sensitive information.
FIC FRA
Francis, Dick. Shattered.
Glassblower Gerard Logan is faced with a threat to his
business, his 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
who was unexpectedly killed in a riding accident.
FIC FRA
Franzen, Jonathan. The Corrections.
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. Cold Mountain.
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 FRE
Freedman, Benedict. Mrs. Mike: the story of Katherine Mary
Flannigan.
A young woman who had been raised in Boston marries a
member of the Northwest Mounted Police and goes with
him to live in the Canadian wilderness.
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Frey, James. A Million Little Pieces.
The story of recovery from drug and alcohol addiction,
beginning with enrollment in a Minnesota rehabilitation
center after a two-week blackout and ending with rejection
of all Twelve Step programs.
364.1 FRI
Friel, Frank. Breaking the Mob.
The true story of a police lieutenant who solved a series of
mob murders and helped put a Mafia family out of
business.
863 FUE
Fuentes, Carlos. The Crystal Frontier: a novel in nine stories.
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.
FIC GAI
Gaines, Ernest J. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.
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. Bloodline.
A long day in November -- The sky is gray -- Three men -Bloodline -- Just like a tree.
FIC GAI
Gaines, Ernest J. Catherine Carmier: a novel.
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. A Lesson Before Dying.
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. The General in his Labyrinth.
Recounts the turbulent life of the great Simon Bolivar.
FIC GAR
García Márquez, Gabriel. Innocent Eréndira and other Stories.
The incredible and sad tale of innocent Eréndira and her
heartless grandmother.--The sea of lost time.--Death
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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. Love in the Time of Cholera.
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. No One Writes to the Colonel, and
other Stories.
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. Ellen Foster.
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. A Virtuous Woman: a novel.
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. Neuromancer.
Case, a nerve-damaged data thief, is recruited by a new
employer for a last-chance run against a powerful artificial
intelligence.
921 GIL
Gilbert, Elizabeth. Eat, Pray, Love: one woman's search for
everything across Italy, India, and Indonesia.
Elizabeth Gilbert had it all but feels consumed by panic
and confusion. Against a backdrop of three different
cultures, she sets out to find something else to put in their
place.
FIC GOL
Golden, Arthur. Memoirs of a Geisha: a novel.
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.
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FIC GOL
Golding, William. Close Quarters.
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. Darkness Visible.
A young boy, scarred and orphaned in the London blitz,
stands apart from others not only because of his
disfigurement but as a result of unique visions he sees and
voices he hears.
FIC GOL
Golding, William. Fire Down Below.
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.
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.
When wealthy octogenarian Nord Lafferty hires Kinsey
Millhone to help his newly paroled daughter find her way
back to the straight and narrow after doing time for
embezzlement, the P.I. has no idea what she's getting into.
FIC GRA
Grafton, Sue. S is for Silence.
A woman seeks an explanation for her mother's mysterious
disappearance 34 years earlier.
FIC GRA
Gratz, Alan. Something Wicked.
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.
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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
FIC GRI
Grisham, John. The Chamber.
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.
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 Firm.
Harvard law graduate finds that the tax firm he's employed
by is not what it seems when the FBI approaches him to
become an informant.
345.76 GRI
Grisham, John. The Innocent Man : murder and injustice in a
small town.
Presents a comprehensive study of the controversial
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murder trial involving baseball player Ron Williamson.
FIC GRI
Grisham, John. The King of Torts.
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.
A seven-year-old Arkansas farm boy loses his innocence
over the course of a contentious and strenuous cotton
harvest in 1952.
FIC GRI
Grisham, John. The Partner.
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.
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.
For a class assignment, a law student 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.
Law professor Ray Atlee and his troublesome younger
brother Forrest are called home to Mississippi by their
dying father, 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.
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.
FIC GRO
Grodstein, Lauren. A Friend of the Family: a novel.
After his best friend's daughter sets her sights on his son,
Pete Dizinoff sees his plans for a perfect son not just
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unraveling but being destroyed completely and sets out to
derail the romance.
FIC GRO
Groom, Winston. Gump & Co.
In this sequel, Groom gives us the last decade of Gump's
life, including the 1995 Academy Awards ceremony with
the movie sweeping the Oscars and Gump getting a special
award as "The Most Lovable Certified Idiot in America."
Along the way he becomes involved in Iran-Contra, insider
trading, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the fall of the Berlin
Wall, and Desert Storm.
940.54 HAC
Hachiya, Michihiko. Hiroshima Diary: the journal of a Japanese
physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 ; fifty years later.
Journal excerpts chronicle the experiences Dr. Michihiko
Hachiya, director of the Hiroshima Communications
Hospital, had in the days following the atomic bomb
explosion in Hiroshima.
FIC HAD
Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime.
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people,
Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-yearold boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's
dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
FIC HAL
Hale, Shannon. Austenland: a novel.
Jane Hayes is obsessed with Mr. Darcy from Jane Austen's
novel "Pride and Prejudice," and is gifted a vacation to an
estate where fans are transported back in time and actors
pretend to be characters from Austen novels.
FIC HAL
Haley, Alex. Mama Flora's Family: a novel.
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. Snow in August.
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
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hoping for a miracle.
FIC HAM
Hamilton, Jane. The Book of Ruth.
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. A Map of the World.
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. The Solitude of Thomas Cave.
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. The Return of the Native.
Clym Yeobright, tired of Paris city life, returns to Egdon
Heath to open a school. There he marries a pleasure-loving
girl and tragedy follows.
FIC HAR
Harris, Robert. Pompeii: a novel.
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.
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.
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.
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
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festivities of her former son-in-law and his beautiful widow
fiancée.
523.1 HAW
Hawking, S. W. A Brief History of Time.
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.
921 HEM
Hemingway, Ernest. The Dangerous Summer.
Chronicles a series of bullfights and a developing rivalry
between two Spanish bullfighters, Antonio Ordonez and
his brother-in-law, Luis Miguel Dominguin in 1959.
FIC HEM
Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea.
An old fisherman battles the sea and sharks to bring home
the giant marlin he caught.
FIC HEM
Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises.
A group of American and British expatriates living in Paris
go on an excursion to Pamplona, Spain.
FIC HES
Hesse, Hermann. Demian: the story of Emil Sinclair's youth.
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. Steppenwolf.
In postwar Germany, a fifty-year-old man regards himself
as a dual personality, half man and half wolf.
921 HIC
Hickam, Homer H. October Sky.
The introspective son of a mine superintendent and a
mother determined to get him out of West Virginia forever,
nurtures a dream to send rockets into outer space--an
ambition that changes his life and the lives of everyone
living in Coalwood in 1957.
FIC HIJ
Hijuelos, Oscar. Dark Dude.
In the 1960s, a pale-skinned Cuban American teenager,
abandons drug-infested New York City for the picket fence
and apple pie world of Wisconsin, only to discover that he
still feels like an outsider and that violent and judgmental
people can be found even in the wholesome Midwest.
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FIC HIL
Hill, Joe. Heart-Shaped Box.
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.
798.4 HIL
Hillenbrand, Laura. Seabiscuit: an American legend.
Describes how three men worked together to turn a roughhewn, undersized horse into one of the fastest horses in
racing history.
FIC HIL
Hillerman, Tony. The Blessing Way.
Lt. Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police and
anthropologist Bergen McKee follow the horrifying trail of
murder left by the Wolf-Witch.
FIC HIL
Hillerman, Tony. Finding Moon.
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.
The investigations of a Navajo Tribal Police sergeant and
his love interest border patrol officer 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.
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
Hillmer, Timothy. Ravenhill.
The Ravenhill community is suddenly shaken after an act
of violence at the high school leaves five people dead; and
now the citizens must come together to answer how and
why it happened.
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FIC HIL
Hilton, James. Good-bye, Mr. Chips.
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. Lost Horizon : a novel.
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.
616.85 HOR
Hornbacher, Marya. Wasted: a memoir of anorexia and bulimia.
The author reflects on her fourteen-year battle with bulimia
and anorexia, discussing how the eating disorders have
affected her life from childhood through the present day.
FIC HOS
Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner.
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.
A novel set against three decades of Afghanistan's history
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.
364.3 HUM
Humes, Edward. No Matter How Loud I Shout: a year in the
life of Juvenile Court.
Presents a year of observation and participation in the
juvenile justice system in Los Angeles, following the stories
of a handful of youths facing a variety of charges and
awaiting decisions that will affect the rest of their lives.
FIC IID
Iida, Deborah. Middle Son.
Spencer, a grown man struggling with the impending
death of his 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.
FIC INC
Inclan, Jessica Barksdale. Her Daughter's Eyes.
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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. The Cider House Rules: a novel.
Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, the story
of Dr. Wilbur Larch--obstetrician and director of the
orphanage in the town of St. Clouds and the story of his
favorite orphan who is never adopted.
FIC ISH
Ishizaki, Hiroshi. Chain Mail: addicted to you.
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.
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.
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 face her past.
FIC JAC
Jackson, Shirley. The Haunting of Hill House.
Four visitors to Hill House are unaware that the old evil
mansion will soon choose one of them to make its own.
FIC JAM
James, Henry. The Ambassadors.
Lambert Strether, sent to Paris by his patron to find her son
Chad and bring him home, finds Chad transformed by the
influence of a remarkable woman, and soon follows suit,
letting him be swept away by the charms of the city and the
mysterious Madame de Vionnet.
FIC KAL
Kalian, Cady. A Few Good Murders.
A struggling screenwriter finds herself under investigation
when an actress she was having "creative differences" with
is found murdered, and when Maggie learns the main
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deputy on the case is her boyfriend's former lover, Maggie
wonders if she will even have a chance to prove her
innocence.
FIC KAR
Karon, Jan. At Home in Mitford.
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. A Light in the Window.
Father Tim 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. These High, Green Hills.
Father Timothy Kavanagh, married for the first time at the
age of sixty something, 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.
921 KAR
Karr, Mary. The Liar's Club: a memoir.
An account of the author's childhood in a Texas oil town
and of her family's struggles with cancer, madness, and
alcoholism.
FIC KAY
Kaye, M. M. Death in Kenya.
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. Death in the Andamans.
Copper Randal visits a school friend on the Andaman
Islands, where a small, eccentric, British community
experiences a storm and a series of murders; as chaos
ensues, a number of people are considered as suspects.
FIC KAY
Kaye, M. M. Death in Berlin.
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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. Death in Kashmir: a mystery.
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. Death in Zanzibar.
Young Dany Ashton vacations at her stepfather's Zanzibar
house, and faces a stolen passport, a midnight intruder,
and--murder.
921 WIN
Kelley, Kitty. Oprah: a biography.
A biography of American author, producer, and television
celebrity Oprah Winfrey, examining her upbringing,
education, philanthropic work, and rise to fame as an icon
of American culture.
FIC Kes
Kesey, Ken. One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.
The struggle for power between a head nurse and a male
patient in a mental institution leads to a climax of hate,
violence, and death.
FIC KID
Kidd, Sue Monk. The Mermaid Chair.
Jessie is summoned home 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 a monk who has yet to take his final
vows.
FIC KID
Kidd, Sue Monk. The Secret Life of Bees.
A fourteen-year-old and her companion, Rosaleen, an
African-American 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 South Carolina at the home of three
beekeeping sisters.
FIC KIN
King, Laurie R. A Letter of Mary: a Mary Russell novel.
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
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papyrus inside, supposedly written by Mary Magdalene.
FIC KIN
King, Lily. The English Teacher: a novel.
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. Bag of Bones.
Novelist Mike Noonan, still grieving the death of his wife
after four years, retreats to his isolated summer home, but
the peace he is seeking slips even further 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. Black House : a novel.
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. Carrie.
Presents the unnerving story of a terribly ostracized young
girl with supernatural powers of telekinesis.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen. Cell.
When a single pulse is simultaneously transmitted through
every cell phone on the planet, an unspeakable
transformation occurs. People begin devolving into
inhuman killing machines--and civilization grinds to a halt
in a terrifying riot of violence.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen. The Dark Half.
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. Dolores Claiborne.
Dolores Claiborne finally tells the police why she murdered
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her husband Joe and her longtime employer Vera
Donovan.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen. The Drawing of the Three.
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. Dream Catcher: a novel.
Four friends' association with a mentally handicapped boy
with supernatural abilities leaves them with special gifts
that come in handy when they unite for an annual hunting
trip in Maine and find themselves in the middle of an alien
invasion.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen. Duma Key: a novel.
Self-made millionaire Edgar Fremantle’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. Everything's Eventual: 14 dark tales..
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. Four Past Midnight.
Collection Of four novellas: The Langoliers -- Secret
window, secret garden -- The library policeman -- The sun
dog.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen. Gerald's Game.
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. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.
Nine-year-old Trisha McFarland, lost in the woods after
she wanders off, 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. The Green Mile: a novel in six parts.
Contains all six installments of the serialized horror novel
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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. Just after Sunset: stories.
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. Lisey's Story: a novel.
Two years after the death of her husband, Lisey Debusher
Landon sets out to sort through his papers and finds
herself drawn into the nightmare world where he got his
inspiration--Boo'ya Moon.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen. Misery.
A bestselling author is held captive in a wheelchair, made
drug-dependent, and locked in his room by an angry nurse
who demands he bring her favorite character back to life.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen. Needful Things.
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.
398.25 KIN
King, Stephen. Night Shift.
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. Nightmares & Dreamscapes.
A collection of short stories including classic tales of the
macabre and the monstrous, cutting-edge explorations of
the borderlands between good and evil.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen. Rose Madder.
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. Salem's Lot.
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. The Shining.
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. Skeleton Crew.
The mist -- Here there be Tigers -- The monkey -- Cain rose
up -- Mrs. Todd's shortcut -- The jaunt. A collection of
horror stories from Stephen King.
FIC KIN
King, Stephen. Song of Susannah.
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. The Stand.
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. Storm of the Century.
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. The Talisman.
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. The Tommyknockers.
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. The Waste Lands.
Roland, the Last Gunslinger, moves closer to The Dark
Tower of his dreams and nightmares through a world of
the fiendish foes.
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FIC KIN
King, Stephen. Wizard and Glass.
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. Wolves of the Calla.
Roland aidS 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 children
and return them physically and mentally disabled.
FIC KIN
Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal Dreams: a novel.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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secrets to during a dangerously turbulent flight is the
elusive CEO of Panther Cola, her place of employment.
FIC KIN
Kinsella, Sophie. Remember Me?
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, Sophie. Shopaholic Ties the Knot.
Personal shopper Becky Bloomwood's life reaches the peak
of perfection when her entrepreneurial boyfriend Luke
proposes, but the couple sees trouble looming on the
horizon when both their mothers try to seize control of the
wedding plans.
FIC KIN
Kinsella, W. P. Shoeless Joe.
An Iowa insurance agent turned farmer builds a baseball
stadium in his cornfield hoping his hero, Shoeless Joe will
play in it.
FIC KLU
Kluger, Steve. My Most Excellent Year: a novel of love, Mary
Poppins, & Fenway Park.
Three Boston teens, about to become seniors, learn
important lessons about friendship, love, family, and
themselves as they work to complete an English
assignment on their "most excellent year.".
FIC KOO
Koontz, Dean R. The Bad Place.
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. Dark Rivers of the Heart: a novel.
A man and woman find themselves fleeing the long arm of
a clandestine and increasingly powerful renegade
government agency.
FIC KOO
Koontz, Dean R. Darkfall.
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.
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Koontz, Dean R. From the Corner of his Eye.
The fate of 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. The House of Thunder.
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. She knows little of
the conspiracy that put her there, but she will find out.
FIC KOO
Koontz, Dean R. Life Expectancy.
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. Lightning.
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. Night Chills.
A doomsday drug that unlocks the control of the human
mind is being used in Black River. Fevers and night chills
strike at random, driving its victims to acts of rape, murder,
and mutilation.
FIC KOO
Koontz, Dean R. One Door Away from Heaven.
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.
FIC KOO
Koontz, Dean R. The Servants of Twilight.
A single mother turns to a private detective for help when
her young son becomes the target of a fanatical religious
group that believes the child to be the Antichrist.
FIC KOO
Koontz, Dean R. Shattered.
As Alex and Colin travel across the country they are
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followed by someone who knows their route and
destination and wants them dead.
FIC KOO
Koontz, Dean R. Strangers.
A diverse and unrelated group of individuals share the
horror of a deadly secret.
FIC KOO
Koontz, Dean R. Ticktock.
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. Watchers.
Relates the adventures of two creatures which have
escaped from a secret, sinister government laboratory
where experiments in genetic engineering are conducted.
001.94 KOR
Korff, Kal K. The Roswell UFO Crash : what they don't want
you to know.
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.
959.3 LAN
Landon, Margaret. Anna and the King of Siam.
Recounts the experiences of the English governess, Anna
Leonowens, at the Siamese court in the 1860s.
158.1 LAR
LaRoche, Loretta. Life is Short - Wear Your Party Pants : ten
simple truths that lead to an amazing life.
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.
364.152 LAR
Larson, Erik. The Devil in the White City: murder, magic, and
madness at the fair that changed America.
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.
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Larson, Erik. Lethal Passage : the story of a gun.
Traces the history of the Cobray M-11/9 semiautomatic
pistol used by sixteen-year-old Nicholas Elliot in his 1988
assault on teachers and students at his Virginia school,
questions the political and economic forces that allowed the
gun to be marketed, and charges that society and culture
promote guns and violence as an answer to problems.
FIC LAR
Larsson, Stieg. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
Hacker Lisbeth Salander assists a crusading journalist, with
the investigation of a disappearance decades earlier, and
the two uncover a dark world of secrets.
FIC LEC
Lecesne, James. Absolute Brightness.
In the beach town of Neptune, New Jersey, Phoebe's life is
changed irrevocably when her gay cousin moves into her
house and soon goes missing.
FIC LER
Leroux, Gaston. The Phantom of the Opera.
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.
921 LES
Lessing, Doris May. African Laughter : four visits to Zimbabwe.
The author recounts her four visits to Zimbabwe after
being exiled for twenty-five years for her opposition to
white minority government.
FIC LET
Letts, Billie. Where the Heart Is : a novel.
Novalee Nation, seventeen, pregnant, and living in a WalMart 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.
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.
818.54 MAI
Mailer, Norman. The Armies of the Night : history as a novel,
the novel as history.
The author reports on his participation in a Vietnam War
protest that took place in Washington D.C. on October 21,
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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.
FIC MAN
Mannix, Daniel P. The Way of the Gladiator.
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.
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
Marks, John. The Wall.
A thriller with half a dozen major characters, and the heady
mixture of hope and fear surrounding the collapse of the
East German government in 1989.
FIC MAR
Maron, Margaret. High Country Fall.
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 a community about five
hours from her home, but 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.
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.
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.
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.
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Marshall, Catherine. Christy.
In 1912, nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston leaves her
comfortable home to teach in a one-room schoolhouse in an
isolated area of the Great Smokies.
FIC MAS
Mason, Daniel. A Far Country.
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.
591.51 MAS
Masson, J. Moussaieff. When Elephants Weep : the emotional
lives of animals.
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.
FIC Mau
Maugham, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage.
Philip Carey, a handicapped orphan, is brought up by a
self-indulgent 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.
914.04 MAY
Mayes, Frances. Under the Tuscan Sun : at home in Italy.
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 region’s food and culture.
FIC MCB
McBain, Ed. Fiddlers : a novel of the 87th Precinct.
Detective Steve Carella and his colleagues in the 87th
Precinct rush to find a common link between the multiple
victims of a gun-wielding killer who is acting outside the
profile of a serial murderer.
FIC MCC
McCall Smith, Alexander. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.
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.
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McCracken, Elizabeth. The Giant's House : a romance.
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. The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter.
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. Caesar : let the dice fly.
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. The Thorn Birds.
The saga of the Cleary family, beginning on an Australian
sheep station in the early twentieth century and ending
fifty years later.
FIC MCD
McDermott, Alice. Charming Billy.
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.
Theresa recalls her fifteenth summer as the most soughtafter 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.
After returning to her childhood home in Vermont to care
for her mother, 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.
A novel of the life and times of Billy the Kid, a legendary
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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.
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 MCC
McMurtry, Larry. Lonesome Dove.
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 MCM
McMurtry, Larry. Streets of Laredo : a novel.
Captain Call is hired to track down and kill the young
Mexican bandit Joey Garza.
306.874 MEA
Mead-Ferro, Muffy. Confessions of a Slacker Mom.
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.
FIC MEL
Melville, Herman. 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). 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. Typee : a peep at Polynesian life ; Omoo : a
narrative of adventures in the South Seas ; Mardi, and a
voyage thither.
Unabridged editions of three of Melville’s South Seas
romances.
FIC MEY
Meyer, Stephenie. The Host : a novel.
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.
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Michaelis, Antonia. Tiger Moon.
Sold to be the eighth wife of a rich and cruel merchant,
Safia, tries to escape her fate by telling stories of Farhad the
thief, his companion Nitish the white tiger, and their
travels across India to retrieve a famous jewel that will save
a kidnapped princess from becoming the bride of a demon
king.
FIC MIC
Michener, James A.. The Bridges at Toko-ri.
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. Mexico.
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. Tales of the South Pacific.
Tales of love and war, set in the islands of the South Pacific
during World War II.
812 MIL
Miller, Arthur. After the Fall : a play in two acts.
Contains the text of the play in its revised final stage
version.
812.52 MIL
Miller, Arthur Broken Glass : a play.
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 MIL
Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman : certain private
conversations in two acts and a requiem.
The prize-winning play concerned with the despair of a 63year-old traveling salesman when he is forced to face the
reality he has evaded all his life.
FIC MIL
Miller, Linda Lael. Pirates.
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.
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Mills, Kyle. The Llords of Corruption.
Josh Hagarty takes a job managing the activities of an
obscure charity in a war-torn region of Africa only to learn
the organization has misrepresented itself and that he has
unwittingly become a player in a dangerous global
conspiracy.
FIC MIS
Mistry, Rohinton. A Fine Balance : a novel.
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.
918.04 MOO
Moore, Robin. The Treasure Hunter.
Follow the exploits of a real-life Indiana Jones as he
searches for secret Inca gold. Hear about rivers of emeralds
in snake-infested jungles, and desert gun duels fought in
the shadow of Inca pyramids. Full of treasure-hunting lore,
it includes the locations of several still undiscovered
treasure hoards.
FIC MOR
Moran, Thomas. The Man in the Box.
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, Richard K. Altered Carbon.
In the twenty-fifth century, a person's consciousness can be
stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and
downloaded into a new body, allowing envoy Takeshi
Kovacs to be able to find the men who killed him and seek
revenge.
FIC MOR
Morgan, Robert. Gap Creek : a novel.
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.
Tells the story of Marie Fermoyle, a lonely divorcee, who in
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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.
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.
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.
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.
371.82 MOR
Mortenson, Greg. Three Cups of Tea : one man's mission to
promote peace -- one school at a time.
One man's campaign to build schools to counteract
extremism in the most dangerous, remote, and antiAmerican reaches of Asia.
FIC MUL
Muller, Marcia. Cape Perdido.
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.
940.54 MUR
Murphy, Audie. To Hell and Back.
Classic World War II memoir in which Audie Murphy
recounts his experiences fighting with the infantry in
Europe, emerging as America's most decorated soldier.
FIC MUR
Murray, Yxta Maya. Locas.
Lucia and Cecilia are struggling to find their place in the
world, one turning to gangs, and the other turning to
motherhood and meaningless love.
FIC NIC
Nichols, Linda. Not a Sparrow Falls.
Bridie Washburn, a young woman who traded her
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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.
919.68 NZE
Nzenza-Shand, Sekai. Songs to an African Sunset: a
Zimbabwean story.
Returning to her family's village, Sekai Nzenza-Shand
discovers a world where ancestor worship, polygamy and
witchcraft still govern the rhythms of daily life--and where
drought, deforestation and AIDS have wrought
devastasting changes.
FIC OAT
Oates, Joyce Carol. Foxfire : confessions of a girl gang.
During the 1950s, five high school girls in upstate New
York form a gang called Foxfire.
FIC OAT
Oates, Joyce Carol. We Were the Mulvaneys.
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.
921 OBA
Obama, Barack. Dreams From my Father : a story of race and
inheritance.
Barack Obama tells the story of his life as the son of a black
African father and a white American mother, searching for
a workable meaning to his life as an African American.
FIC OBR
O'Brien, Tim. Going After Cacciato.
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 OBI
O'Brien, Tim. In the Lake of the Woods.
After John and Kathy realize that their marriage has been
built on deception, Kathy mysteriously disappears in the
Minnesota north woods.
362.73 OCO
O'Connor, Stephen. Orphan Trains : the story of Charles Loring
Brace and the children he saved and failed.
The story of the orphan trains that were operated 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.
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FIC ODE
O'Dell, Tawni. Coal Run : a novel.
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. In the Skin of a Lion : a novel.
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.
Seven sets of quilting instructions tie together the stories of
a weekly quilting circle in a California town.
365.45 OUF
Oufkir, Malika. Stolen Lives : twenty years in a desert jail.
Malika Oufkir chronicles the experiences she and her
family had while they were imprisoned in a penal colony
in Morocco.
FIC PAC
Packer, Ann. The Dive from Clausen's pier.
A twenty-three-year-olD 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.
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.
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.
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
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surrounding the towns flag-manufacturing plant.
FIC PAR
Paretsky, Sara. Hard Time : a V.I. Warshawski novel.
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. Bad Business.
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. Family Honor.
Boston private investigator Sunny Randall finds herself in
the middle of a shooting war with the mob when she is
hired to locate a runaway daughter, and must call upon her
underworld contacts to rescue the teen who has turned to
prostitution.
FIC PAR
Parker, Robert B. High Profile.
Jesse Stone, a police chief in Paradise, Massachusetts, must
fend off pressure from the governor, the state police, and
the national media when a right-wing radio commentator
is found murdered right outside of town, and the body of
Walton's young, pregnant lover is discovered in a
dumpster days later.
FIC PAR
Parker, Robert B. Hundred-dollar Baby.
Spenser, a 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 a local kingpin.
FIC PAR
Parker, Robert B. Perish Twice.
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. Thin Air.
Spenser agrees to help his friend find his missing wife, but
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as he digs deeper into the couple's past, he learns the
missing woman is hiding some deadly secrets.
FIC PAT
Patterson, James. 2nd Chance : a novel.
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.
FIC PAT
Patterson, James. Alex Cross's Trial.
Detective Alex Cross recounts the story of his great-uncle
Abraham, who, with the help of his beautiful daughter,
introduces attorney Ben Corbett to the dark side of their
small Southern town in the early 1900s, where Ben has been
sent to investigate a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan.
FIC PAT
Patterson, James. London Bridges : a novel.
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.
FIC PAT
Patterson, James. Mary, Mary : a novel.
FBI agent Alex Cross is assigned to investigate a string of
murders where the victims are Hollywood stars.
932.01 PAT
Patterson, James. The Murder of King Tut : the plot to kill the
child king : a nonfiction thriller.
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.
FIC PEE
Peet, Mal. Exposure.
Paul Faustino, South America's best soccer journalist,
reports on the series of events that hurl Otello from the
heights of being a beloved and successful soccer star,
happily married to the pop singer Desdemona, into a
downward spiral, in this novel loosely based on
Shakespeare's play, Othello.
FIC PEE
Peet, Mal. Tamar.
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
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occupation of the Netherlands, and the climactic events
that forever cast a shadow on his life and that of his family.
FIC PER
Perrin, Kayla. We'll Never Tell.
Phoebe Matthews 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 police begin to wonder if Phoebe went
too far.
FIC PER
Perry, Anne. Bedford Square.
When a dead body is found on his front steps, the General
Brandon Balantyne 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.
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. Change of Heart : a novel.
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. My Sister's Keeper : a novel.
Thirteen-year-old Anna decides to sue her parents for
control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a
kidney to her sister Kate.
FIC PIC
Picoult, Jodi. Nineteen Minutes : a novel.
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. The Pact : a love story.
The Hartes and the Golds, long-time neighbors and friends,
are not surprised when their children Chris and Emily fall
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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.
FIC PIC
Picoult, Jodi. Salem Falls.
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. The Tenth Circle.
Daniel Stone, a stay-at-home dad with a fourteen-year-old
daughter, and an unfaithful wife, turns a blind eye to their
indescretions, 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.
305.23 PIP
Pipher, Mary Bray. Reviving Ophelia : saving the selves of
adolescent girls.
Looks at the problems and pressures facing adolescent
girls, and suggests how to help them develop into selfassured young adults.
FIC PLA
Plain, Belva. Promises.
Margaret Crane's life falls apart when she learns that 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 an orphaned cousin raised by the Cranes.
FIC PLA
Plain, Belva. The Sight of the Stars.
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.
364.66 PRE
Prejean, Helen. Dead Man Walking : an eyewitness account of
the death penalty in the United States.
Sister Helen Prejean's story of her encounter with the death
penalty in America.
FIC PRE
Preston, Richard. The Cobra Event : a novel.
Dr. Alice Austen, an officer with the Epidemic Intelligence
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Service branch of the Centers for Disease Control, goes to
New York to investigate the hideous and mysterious death
of a seventeen-year-old girl, and uncovers a terrorist plot
involving the use of biological weapons.
614.57 PRE
Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone.
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.
FIC PUZ
Puzo, Mario. The Family : a novel.
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. Omerta.
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 QUI
Quinn, Spencer. Dog On It : a Chet and Bernie mystery.
Chet, the canine companion to Bernie, a down-on-his-luck
private investigator, plays a key role in helping his owner
track down a missing high school girl whose disappearance
was initially written off as a typical case of a runaway teen.
FIC RAN
Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged.
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 this philosophy and fight for the
individualist.
FIC RAN
Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead.
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.
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
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both her and her father's identity during the political unrest
of the French Revolution.
364.15 RES
Resnick, Faye D. Nicole Brown Simpson : the private diary of a
life interrupted.
Faye D. Resnick tells the story of her friendship with Nicole
Brown Simpson and Nicole's troubled marriage to O.J.
Simpson.
FIC RIC
Rice, Anne. Angel Time : a novel.
A seraph offers contract killer Toby O'Dare a chance to
save rather than destroy lives. Carried back through the
ages to thirteenth-century England, to dark realms where
accusations of ritual murder have been made against Jews,
O’Dare begins his perilous quest for salvation.
FIC RIC
Rice, Anne. Interview With the Vampire.
Presents the confessions of Louis, a vampire, and tells of
his relationship with the vampire Lestat.
FIC RIC
Rice, Anne. Merrick : a novel.
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. The Queen of the Damned.
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. The Vampire Lestat.
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. Vittorio, the vampire : new tales of the vampires.
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.
FIC ROB
Roberts, Nora. Bed of Roses.
Emma Grant's love of romance has helped her turn the
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wedding planning company she started with her three best
friends into a success, but that same romantic streak may
ruin her one chance at true love when her feelings for Jack,
a longtime friend of all four girls, turn towards more than
friendship.
FIC ROB
Roberts, Nora. Savor the Moment.
Laurel McBane, who works with her best friends at a
wedding planning company, harbors a crush on a
successful lawyer who she is convinced is out of her league,
but when the two share a passionate kiss, she wonders if it
could lead to something more.
FIC ROB
Roberts, Nora. First Iimpressions.
Story of a woman who reaches out a helping hand, only to
have her kindness thrown back in her face by the rudest
man she's ever met. Also a story about a man determined
to retreat from the world, only to have his best intentions
turned upside down by the most caring woman he's ever
met..
FIC ROB
Roberts, Nora. Gabriel's Aangel.
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.
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.
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.
In the twelfth century, the goddess Morrigan asks Hoyt
Mac Cionaoith to travel in time and join forces with a
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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.
Amateur treasure hunters team up with professional deepsea divers 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.
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.
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.
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.
FIC ROB
Roberts, Nora. Untamed.
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.
An Irish sorcerer, his vampire twin brother, a witch, a
warrior, a shape-shifter, and his cousin, band together to
fight the evil queen Lilith and her vampire army.
FIC ROB
Roberts, Nora. Vision in White.
Mackensie "Mac" Elliot has been happy to capture other
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people's happy memories as a wedding photographer for
the company she founded with her three childhood friends,
but a chance encounter forces her to recognize the
emotional damage caused by her dysfunctional parents.
FIC ROL
Rollins, James. The Judas Strain : a Sigma force novel.
From the depths of the ocean, a plague has arisen to
devastate humankind. Aboard a cruise liner transformed
into a makeshift hospital, operatives of SIGMA Force
search for answers to the bizarre affliction. But terrorists
hijack the vessel, turning a mercy ship into a floating bioweapons lab.
FIC CLA
Rovin, Jeff. Tom Clancy's Op-center.
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 RUB
Rubio, Gwyn Hyman. Icy Sparks.
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 SAN
Santana, Patricia. Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility.
Yolanda Sahagun can hardly wait for her brother, Chuy, to
return from Vietnam, but as soon as he arrives, the entire
family realizes how much the war has changed him, and
they must all readjust to his new attitude.
FIC SAU
Saul, John. The Right Hand of evil.
When Janet and Ted Conway inherit an old family
mansion, they believes it is a chance to start over, but the
moment they step into the house, strange things begin.
FIC SAU
Saul, John. Second Child.
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.
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
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her young niece, and she soon realizes that she has not left
her problems behind.
FIC SCO
Scottoline, Lisa. Lady Killer.
Philadelphia attorney Mary DiNunzio is surprised when
her high school rival shows up looking for help getting out
of an abusive relationship with the possibly Mob-connected
Bobby Mancuso.
FIC SEB
Sebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones : a novel.
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.
940.54 SEL
Sellier, Claus. Walking Away From the Third Reich : a teenager
in Hitler's army.
The author reveals his personal experiences as a soldier
with Germany's 79th Mountain Artillery Regiment and the
realities of Hitler's war that eventually led him and his
friend to walk away from it in the final months of the war.
FIC SHA
Shaara, Jeff. Gods and Generals.
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. The Last Full Measure.
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. Rise to Rebellion.
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.
A thirty-year-old author writes to her publisher expressing
her desire to stop covering the aftermath of WWII, but
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Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams invites neighbors to write
to Juliet with their stories.
940.54 SHA
Shapiro, Milton J. Behind Enemy Lines : American spies and
saboteurs in World War II.
Discusses the American spies and saboteurs from the Office
of Strategic Services during World War II, and their
espionage missions in North Africa, Europe, and the Far
East.
FIC SHE
Shea, Suzanne Strempek. Hoopi, Shoopi Donna.
Donna Milewski is living a perfectly happy life with her
grandmother, mother, and dad, until her parents adopt a
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.
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 and together they couple share memories
of their past affair.
FIC SHR
Shreve, Anita. Light on Snow : a novel.
Her grieving father's sudden decision to move to an
isolated New England farmhouse, takes a twelve-year-old
further into the adult world when she and her dad find an
abandoned newborn, and come to know the young mother
and her story.
FIC SHR
Shreve, Anita. The Pilot's Wife : a novel.
When an airline pilot’s wife received the news that her
pilot husband has died in a crash the media discovers that
her husband had a secret life, and she sets out to learn who
her husband really was.
FIC SHU
Shute, Nevil. On the Beach.
A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an
inevitable end as radiation poisoning moves toward
Australia from the north.
940.54 SID
Sides, Hampton. Ghost Soldiers : the forgotten epic story of
World War II's most dramatic mission.
Provides an account of the World War II mission
undertaken by 121 select troops from the U.S. Army
Battalion in 1945 to rescue 513 American and British.
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FIC SIE
Siegel, Sheldon. Incriminating Evidence.
When a rich and ambitious district attorney is found in a
hotel room with a dead male prostitute handcuffed to the
bed, it looks like an open-and-shut murder case. But he
claims he fell asleep in front of the television and woke to
find the body.
FIC SIE
Sierra, Javier. The Secret Supper.
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 claims
that da Vinci has painted heretical messages into his
masterpiece, The Last Supper.
FIC SIN
Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle.
Describes the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through
the eyes of a young immigrant struggling in America.
364.1 SIP
Sipchen, Bob. Baby Insane and the Buddha.
Account of how Detective Patrick Flannigan Birse and Crip
street gang member Kevin Glass joined forces against
violent crime and drugs in San Diego.
FIC SKI
Skinner, B. F. Walden Two.
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.
FIC SPA
Spark, Muriel. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
A teacher at a girls' school in Scotland, 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.
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.
Deputy sheriff Miles Ryan, heartbroken over his wife's
death two years ago, considers love again when he meets
Sarah--but he soon finds that his wife's death was anything
but an accident and danger is not far away.
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Sparks, Nicholas. The Choice.
Veterinarian Travis Parker is very content with his life, so
he is not looking for love, but he cannot seem to keep from
trying to ingratiate himself with his testy new neighbor,
and it is not long before they find themselves facing an
important choice.
FIC SPA
Sparks, Nicholas. The Guardian.
Four years after her dying husband gave her one last gift,
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.
During his third tour of duty in Iraq, a marine finds a
photograph of a woman buried in the sand. Soon after
finding the photograph, he experiences an amazing run of
luck. 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.
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.
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.
Noah Calhoun 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.
Taylor McAden's devotion to his work has left no room in
his life for love, but when he becomes involved in the
search for a missing four-year-old who has disappeared, he
develops feelings that he cannot deny.
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Sparks, Nicholas. True Believer.
A successful science journalist invited to a tiny town to
investigate a sighting of strange lights in a local cemetery
falls in love and must make some difficult choices about his
life.
FIC SPA
Sparks, Nicholas. A Walk to Remember.
When a twist of fate makes Jamie Sullivan fall in love, he
learns of a terrible secret that will take his love away from
him forever.
FIC SPA
Sparks, Nicholas. The Wedding.
Wilson Lewis embarks on a mission to make his wife fall in
love with him all over again after thirty years.
FIC STA
Stabenow, Dana. Blindfold Game.
CIA analyst Hugh Ricon pieces together rumors that lead
him to the conclusion that a terrorist attack is imminent,
but when he cannot get his superiors to believe him, he
takes matters into his own hands.
FIC STA
Stabenow, Dana. Blood will tell.
Kate Shugak, wanting only to be left alone on her Alaskan
homestead, is drawn reluctantly into an investigation of the
death of a cousin who is a member of group on the verge of
taking a critical vote on the future use of an old forest.
FIC STA
Stabenow, Dana. A Cold Day for Murder.
A former detective is called out of her self-imposed
isolation when she is recruited to find out what happened
to a 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.
Aleut sleuth Kate Shugak puts herself and her teenage
charge in danger after her investigation into a turns up
details of a secret life the killer does not want revealed.
FIC STA
Stabenow, Dana. A Taint in the Blood.
Kate Shugak agrees to help a young woman clear her
mother's name, but her investigation is complicated by the
daughter’s refusal to help Kate uncover the truth.
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FIC STE
Stein, Garth. The Art of Racing in the Rain : a novel.
Enzo, the dog of professional race car driver, 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.
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.
FIC STO
Stoker, Dacre. Dracula : the un-dead.
A sequel to Bram Stoker's "Dracula," set twenty-five years
after the vampire was destroyed, in which Quincey learns
the secrets of his parents' past and stumbles upon a plot to
kill all the people involved in Count Dracula's demise.
FIC STO
Stolarz, Laurie Faria. Blue is for Nightmares.
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. Deadly Little Lies : a touch novel.
Camelia, who shares the power of psychometry, finds
herself in a tortured love triangle when a figure from the
past arrives.
FIC STO
Stolarz, Laurie Faria. Deadly Little Secret : a touch novel.
When someone starts stalking high school junior Camelia,
everyone assumes that it is Ben, who is new at school and
rumored to have killed his previous girlfriend, but she is
nevertheless drawn to him.
FIC STO
Stolarz, Laurie Faria. Red is for Remembrance.
Stacey wants nothing more than a normal life as she heads
off to college, hoping to forget the tragic accident that
killed her boyfriend, but when she begins having dreams,
she realizes she cannot put the past behind and turns to the
folk magic her grandmother taught her.
FIC STO
Stolarz, Laurie Faria. Silver is for Secrets.
During a summer vacation at the beach with friends,
eighteen-year-old hereditary witch Stacey has more
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nightmares which involve Clara, a new girl with a talent
for causing trouble.
FIC STO
Stolarz, Laurie Faria. White is for Magic.
A girl’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.
FIC STO
Stone, Robert. Dog Soldiers : a novel.
A small-time journalist 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. The Last Summer of the Death Warriors.
A seventeen-year-old is bent on avenging the senseless
death of his sister, but after he meets D.Q, who is dying of
cancer, and Marisol, one of D.Q.'s caregivers, both boys
find their lives changed by their interactions.
FIC STO
Stork, Francisco X. Marcelo in the Real World.
Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old high-functioning
autistic, 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.
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.
Kwan moves from China to live with her family in San
Francisco and develops a relationship with her half sister
Olivia.
FIC TAN
Tan, Amy. Saving Fish from Drowning.
When the leader of a group of twelve American tourists
mysteriously dies while on an art expedition, the
remainder of the group discover that the Burma Road is
filled with danger and uncertainty.
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Tepper, Sheri S. Beauty : a novel.
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. The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
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 TRU
Truman, Margaret. Murder in Havana.
A former CIA agent agrees to fly medical supplies to
Havana as a favor to an old friend, but his simple mission
takes a deadly turn when his Havana contact is found
dead.
FIC TUC
Tucker, Todd. Over and Under.
The bond of friendship is tested when the fathers of two
twelve-year-old boys become enemies during a labor strike
and the boysshare one last life-changing summer.
FIC TYA
Tyau, Kathleen. A Little Too Much is Enough.
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.
An author of guidebooks for traveling businessmen goes
through 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.
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 Ppatchwork Planet.
A thirty-year-old who was frequently in trouble as a youth,
has been working steadily years, but it seems his family,
his ex-wife, and even the woman who is interested in him,
just cannot get over his past.
FIC Uri
Uris, Leon. Armageddon.
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
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when he falls in love with a German girl.
812.54 VAL
Valdez, Luis. Zoot Suit and Other Plays.
Zoot suit -- Bandido! -- I don't have to show you no
stinking badges!
921 VIL
Villaseñor, Victor. Burro Genius : a memoir.
Victor Villaseñor recounts his angry adolescence,
describing the humiliation, misunderstanding, and abuse
he faced at home and at school, and discussing how those
events shaped his adult life.
FIC VIL
Villaseñor, Victor. Macho!
Chronicles the story of a young man's illegal entry into the
United States from the state of Michoacan, Mexico and his
life working in the vegetable fields of California.
920 VIL
Villaseñor, Victor. Rain of Gold.
Weaves the parallel stories of two Mexican-American
families and two countries describing the volatile
bootlegger who would become the author's father and the
beautiful Lupe, his mother.
920 VIL
Villaseñor, Victor. Thirteen Ssenses : a memoir.
A memoir of the author's parents that begins with the 50th
wedding anniversary. After the shock of the rejection of the
word "obey" in the ceremony, the family examines the love
shared by Lupe and Salvador.
920 VIL
Villaseñor, Victor. Wild Steps of Heaven.
Presents the story of the author's father's family, telling of
the dynasty created by Don Juan and Doña Villaseñor
during the tumultuous era of the Mexican Revolution.
FIC WAL
Walker, Alice. Now is the Time to Open Your Heart : a novel.
A successful authorsets off at the age of fifty-seven on two
river voyages in search of spiritual enlightenment, while
her lover, trying to deal with her decision to embrace
celibacy, embarks on a parallel journey.
FIC WAL
Walker, Alice. Possessing the Secret ofJoy.
Story of Tashi, a tribal African woman who lives much of
her adult life in North America struggling to recognize her
own reality.
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921 WAL
Walls, Jeannette. The Glass Castle : a memoir.
The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional
family with an alcohol father and distant mother and
describes how she and her siblings had to fend for
themselves until they found the resources and will to leave
home.
FIC WAL
Walls, Jeannette. Half Broke Horses : a true-life novel.
Lily Casey Smith grows up breaking horses and leaves
home at fifteen 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. Ethan Frome.
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. Summer.
A young woman of humble origins defies society by
engaging in a torrid love affair with a man far above her
station.
FIC WHA
Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth.
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. The Picture of Dorian Gray.
A remarkably handsome youth, Dorian Gray, meets Lord
Henry Wotton and is corrupted into a life of terrible evil.
FIC WIL
Wilde, Oscar. The picture of Dorian Gray and other writings.
A collection of writings by Wilde: The Picture of Dorian
Gray -- Lady Windermere's fan -- Salome -- An Ideal
Husband -- The Importance of Being Earnest -- The Ballad
of Reading Gaol.
812.52 WIL
Wilder, Thornton. Our Town, a play in three acts.
A 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.
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FIC WIT
Witmer, Karyn. A Simple Gift.
Avery Montgomery's life changed forever in the
checkoutline at Food-4-Less when she discovers her longlost daughter, Fiona, working at the next register.
951.05 WON
Wong, Jan. Red China Blues : my long march from Mao to now.
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.
FIC WOO
Woolf, Virginia. Jacob's Room.
A sensitive young man raised in Edwardian England
discovers 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. Monkey: folk novel of China.
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. The Ginger Tree.
Mary MacKenzie travels from Britain to China so that she
can marry the man she is betrothed to, but upon arrival,
falls in love with a Japanese nobleman, and she must
choose between her love and her country.
FIC YOU
Young, William P. The Shack : a novel.
After Missy is abducted and evidence of her murder shows
up at a shack in the forests of Oregon, her father, receives a
strange note inviting him to return to the scene of the
tragedy where he wrestles with nightmarish questions.
FIC ZUS
Zusak, Markus. I Am the Messenger.
After capturing a bank robber, a nineteen-year-old begins
receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses
where people need help, and he begins getting over his
lifelong feeling of worthlessness.
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