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	Alburquerque Anaya, Rudolfo A. PS3551.N27 A79 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Abran Gonzalez is a homeboy from the barrio, a young boxer whose world is shattered the night he is summoned to the deathbed of his biological mother, a woman he has never known. He learns he is the son of a wealthy Anglo woman and an unknown Mexican man--a father whose identity Abran feels compelled to uncover.
	Alice Adams Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946. PS2972 .A42 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability This is the story of a middle-class family living in the industrialized "midland country" at the turn of the 20th century. It is against this dingy backdrop that Alice Adams seeks to distinguish herself. She goes to a dance in a used dress, which her mother attempts to renew by changing the lining and adding some lace. She adorns herself not with orchids sent by the florist but with a bouquet of violets she has picked herself. Because her family cannot afford to equip her with the social props or "background" so needed to shine in society. Alice is forced to make do. Ultimately, her ambitions for making a successful marriage must be tempered by the realities of her situation. Alice Adams's resiliency of spirit makes her one of Tarkington's most compelling female characters. A Pulitzer Prize--winning novel that depicts the ambitions and delusions of a middle-class Midwestern family.
	Allegra Maud Goldman Konecky, Edith. PS3561.O457 A79 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Anabasis : a journey to the interior : a novel Gilchrist, Ellen, 1935- PS3557.I34258 A78 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In 5th Century BC Greece, a slave girl is apprenticed to a healer who has taught her to read and write. When the healer dies the girl, Auria, flees to the mountains where she meets up with other runaway slaves who are plotting rebellion. One of them is Meion whom she marries. By the author of Starcarbon.
	Anita and me Syal, Meera. PR9499.3.S975 A65 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A Punjabi girl describes life in an English coal town in the 1970s. The mines have closed, the men are laid off and it is the women who boss, they still having jobs in the ball bearings factory. As for the narrator, Meena Kumar, 9, she runs with a gang, lying, stealing, and has a crush on a skinhead.
	Annie John Kincaid, Jamaica. PR9275.A583 K5634 1986 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Episodes from the young life of Annie John, aged 10 to 17, as she grows up on the Caribbean island of Antigua. This is a magical coming-of-age tale, ripe with the special ambience of its tropical setting and sustained by Annie's far from naive awareness of the world around her. Death, illness, and poverty intrude on the narrator's perceptive sensilibity from time to time, but even these experiences instruct her and expand her understanding of life and its shifting reality. Although Annie leaves Antigua at the end of the novel for a new role as a student in England, the hollowness she feels at her departure is balanced by the new self that awaits her as she begins the search for her own identity. A poetic and intensely moving work from the author of At the Bottom of the River. (Reviewed April 1, 1985)"--Booklist Review.
	Art fair Lipsky, David, 1965- PS3562.I627 A89 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A son-and-mother relationship in the art world. Richard Freeley leaves his divorced father and new wife in California to move in with his mother, a struggling painter in New York, to become her manager and escort. When forced to choose between a rich pretty girl and the mother, he chooses the mother. By the author of Late Bloomers.
	Asphodel H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961. PS3507.O726 A93 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Autobiography of a family photo : a novel Woodson, Jacqueline. PS3573.O64524 A94 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A black girl's difficult growing up in New York. The family comprises an alcoholic father, a promiscuous mother, a brother who is a homosexual, a second brother who abuses women and a third who is illegitimate and has blue eyes. The saving grace is an idealistic sister. By the author of I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This.
	Bad vibes Fuguet, Alberto. PQ8098.16.U48 M313 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Translation of Mala onda (see HLAS 54:4049), Fuguet's first, controversial novel that follows 10 days in the life of an upper-class Chilean teenager at the time of the 1980 referendum on Pinochet's power. Excellent translation captures a youth culture of privilege, drugs, sex, and angst caught in the midst of brutal political forces. No locating materials in volume, although book jacket relates narrative to Chilean politics and history"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
	Bean trees : a novel Kingsolver, Barbara. PS3561.I496 B44 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability From the Publisher: Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child, a three-year-old American Indian girl named Turtle, and must somehow come to terms with both motherhood and the necessity for putting down roots. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in apparently empty places.
	Before women had wings Fowler, Connie May. PS3556.O8265 B44 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A nine-year-old girl's harrowing account of abuse at the hands of her parents. Her name is Avocet Jackson, but her mother called her Bird, naming both her children after birds, "her logic being that if we were named for something with wings then maybe we'd be able to fly above the shit in our lives."
	Ben, in the world : the sequel to The fifth child Lessing, Doris May, 1919- PR6023.E833 B4 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Ben, now grown and in the care of good-hearted prostitute Rita and her boyfriend, unknowingly helps them transport drugs to Paris.
	Black girl in Paris : a novel Youngblood, Shay. PS3575.O8685 B58 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Eden, a young African American woman, has come to Paris to write and takes a number of jobs to make ends meet.
	Black swan green : a novel Mitchell, David (David Stephen) PR6063.I785 B58 2006 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A meditative novel of a young boy on the cusp of adulthood follows a single year in the life of thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor as he grows up in what is for him the sleepiest village in Worcestershire, England, in 1982.
	Bless me, Ultima Anaya, Rudolfo A. PS3551.N27 B58 1972 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Ultima is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic, and she joins Antonio Marez's family when he is six years old, teaching him the magical secrets of the pagan past.
	Blood of my blood Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 1896-1953. PS3535.A845 B48 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Pulitzer-Prize winner Marjorie Kinnan Rawling's "lost" autobiographical first novel is a portrait of an emerging young artist nearly ruined both by egotism and being alternately pushed and spoiled by her mother.
	Bluestown Becker, Geoffrey, 1959- PS3552.E2553 B58 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel on a father-and-son relationship in the world of rock and roll, narrated by the son. They were supposed to do things together, instead the father, a guitarist, abandoned him, though he did leave some money. Seven years later he shows up to do things again. The son is willing, but will it be any better? By the author of Dangerous Men.
	Bodega dreams Quiñonez, Ernesto. PS3567.U3618 L3 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The word is out in Spanish Harlem: Willy Bodega is king. Need college tuition for your daughter? Start-up funds for your fruit stand? Bodega can help. He gives everyone a leg up, in exchange only for loyalty--and a steady income from the drugs he pushes. Bodega turns to Chino, a smart, promising young man, for a favor. Chino is drawn to Bodega's street-smart idealism, but soon finds himself over his head, navigating an underworld of switchblade tempers, turncoat morality, and murder.--From publisher description.
	Body & soul Conroy, Frank, 1936-2005. PS3553.O5196 B63 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability As A Boy, Claude Rawlings looks up through the grated window of his basement apartment to watch the world go by. Poor, lonely, supported by a taxi-driver mother whose eccentricities spin more and more out of control, he faces the terrible task of growing up on the margins of life, destined to be a spectator of that great world always hurrying out of reach. But there is an out-of-tune piano in the small apartment, and in unlocking the secrets of its keys, as if by magic, Claude discovers himself. He is a musical prodigy. Body & Soul is the story of a young man whose life is transformed by a gift. The gift is not without price - the work is relentless, the teachers exacting - but the reward is a journey that takes him to the drawing rooms of the rich and powerful, private schools, a gilt-edged marriage, and Carnegie Hall. Claude moves through this life as if he were playing a difficult composition, swept up in its drama and tension, surprised by its grace notes. Music, here, becomes a character in its own right, equaled in strength only by the music of Frank Conroy's own unmistakable and true voice. Bristling with character and invention, Body & Soul is Dickensian in its range and richness. This is a novel with all the emotional appeal and moral gravity of a classic bildungsroman, but with a tone as contemporary as a jazz riff - an unforgettable achievement by one of the great writers of our time.
	Boy who went away Gottlieb, Eli, 1956- PS3557.O8313 B68 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In 1960s New Jersey, a family battles to prevent the state from taking away their retarded son. The story is told through the eyes of Denny, the retarded boy's brother. He describes how the father retreats into alcoholism and the mother into an affair.
	Boys on the rock Fox, John, 1952- PS3556.O934 B6 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Boy's own story White, Edmund, 1940- PS3573.H463 B6 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Buddha of suburbia Kureishi, Hanif. PR6061.U68 B8 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	By sorrow's river : a novel McMurtry, Larry. PS3563.A319 B9 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Raising her young son, Monty, Tasmin Berrybender hopes to turn him into an English gentleman despite his life on the trail toward Santa Fe, an endeavor that is compromised by painful occurrences in the lives of Tasmin's husband and father.
	Casa en Mango Street Cisneros, Sandra. PS3553.I78 H618 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Frustrated by a life in the slums of Chicago, Esperanza tries to escape her neighborhood and invent her own future.
	Child of my heart McDermott, Alice. PS3563.C355 C49 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A teenage girl, raised on the east end of Long Island among the country estates of the rich, reflects on her understanding of human nature during a seemingly idyllic summer spent with her eight-year-old cousin Daisy.
	City below Carroll, James, 1943- PS3553.A764 C58 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of two Irish brothers in Boston, chronicling their separate paths as they grow older. Terry Doyle is drawn to the glow of Kennedy's Camelot, Nick to organized crime. Each struggles to bend the city to his will and break free of family ties. Told against a background of ethnic and racial violence. A sequel to Mortal Friends.
	City boy : the adventures of Herbie Bookbinder : a novel Wouk, Herman, 1915- PS3545.O98 C5 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of a modern-day mutiny aboard a U.S. naval vessel.
	Coin locker babies Murakami, Ryū, 1952- PL856.U696 K613 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of two babies abandoned in a locker at a railroad station. They grow up to represent the darker side of Japanese youth, lacking tradition and religion. One brother becomes a male prostitute, then a rock star, the other goes to jail and becomes involved in a plot to poison Tokyo. By the author of 69.
	Cold Sassy tree Burns, Olive Ann. PS3552.U73248 C6 2007 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Olive Ann Burns's enormously popular bestseller has warmed the hearts of readers since its original publication by Houghton Mifflin in 1984. Now Houghton celebrates its return to our house with a gorgeous new paperback edition. Set in the fictional town of Cold Sassy, Georgia, at the beginning of the twentieth century, Burns's novel centers on the charming fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy. When Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee decides to marry the young Miss Love Simpson a mere three weeks after his wife -- Will's grandmother -- has died, he inspires a whirlwind of local gossip. Young Will suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a family scandal, which he gracefully humors and endures; meanwhile, he has his own growing to do and mischief to find" --Publisher description.
	Comforters Spark, Muriel. PR6037.P29 C6 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Coming of the night : a novel Rechy, John. PS3568.E28 C66 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel on the golden age of homosexuality, after it became an accepted state and before aids put a dampener. The action follows for one day a variety of gays in 1981 Los Angeles, including an old man envious of the freedom enjoyed by the younger generation. By the author of City of Night.
	Coming to birth Macgoye, Marjorie Oludhe. PR9381.9.M19 C6 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Macgoye interweaves the story of one young woman's tumultuous coming of age with the history of a nation emerging from colonialism." "At the age of sixteen, Paulina leaves her small, traditional Luo village in western Kenya to join her new husband, Martin Were, in the bustling, multitribal city of Nairobi. It is 1956, and Kenya is in the final days of the Emergency as the British seek to suppress violent anti-colonial revolts." "Paulina knows little about politics and even less about city life. On her second day in Nairobi, she is naive enough to think she can easily find her way home across the vast city, as she always could in her village. Her traumatic journey, which in fact takes two days and two nights, earns her a beating from Martin. Marriage, too, is new to Paulina, and while she is anxious to learn the ways of a proper wife, Martin's clumsy attempts to control her soon lead to a relationship filled with silences, misunderstandings, and unfulfilled expectations." "Soon Paulina's inability to bear a child effectively banishes her from the confines of a traditional woman's life. As her country at last moves toward independence, Paulina manages to achieve a kind of independence as well. She accepts a job, teaching women at a community center, which will require her to live separately from her husband, and she has an affair that leads to the birth of her first child. But Paulina's hard-won contentment shatters when Kenya's turbulent history intrudes once again into her private life, bringing with it tragedy - and a new test of her quiet courage and determination." "Taking in real events and historical figures as well as the inner journey of one remarkable woman, this vision extends to embrace the whole of a nation and a people likewise struggling to find their way." "For course use in: African literature, family studies, postcolonial literature, women's literature, women's studies, world literature."--BOOK JACKET.
	Commissariat of enlightenment Kalfus, Ken. PS3561.A416524 C66 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Joining the media circus that attends the deathbed of Tolstoy in 1910, ambitious cinematographer Nikolai Gribshin hopes to capture Tolstoy's death on film and encounters the scientist Vorobev and revolutionist Joseph Stalin.
	Compass error : a novel Bedford, Sybille, 1911-2006. PR6052.E3112 C66 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Confessions of a mask / by Yukio Mishima ; translated by Meredith Weatherb Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970. PL833.I7 K313 1958 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Crossing McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- PS3563.C337 C7 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In the 1930s, two teenage brothers whose ranch in New Mexico was raided by bandits, cross into Mexico to search for stolen horses. The novel follows them through the revolution-torn countryside, meeting soldiers, peasants, priests and thieves, all proffering advice. By the author of All the pretty horses.
	Crossing Martínez, Manuel Luis. PS3563.A73339 C76 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A young man's harrowing journey from Mexico to the United States. He is tricked by a smuggler and faces death with others in a locked boxcar. The story is based on real events.
	David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. PR4558 .A1 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Charles Dickens's classic story of orphan David Copperfield growing up in nineteenth-century England.
	Dear future D'Aguiar, Fred, 1960- PR9320.9.D34 D43 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A family's life in a socialist republic in the Caribbean. The father absconds, the mother and three children emigrate to England, two sons stay behind. One of the latter is hit on the head and becomes a visionary, and might win the draughts championship. The story is told against the background of national elections, rigged by the republic's dictator.
	Dearly beloved Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 1906-2001. BD435 .L52 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Death in the family Agee, James, 1909-1955. PS3501.G35 D43 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The tragedy of Jay Follet's sudden death destroys his family's secure and loving world.
	Dragon can't dance : a novel Lovelace, Earl, 1935- PR9272.9.L6 D72 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In Trinidad the martial arts dancer, Aldrick Prospect, fights the commercialization of the Mardi Gras carnival. Sick to see the country's traditions destroyed-- warrior contests have been replaced by games for tourists-- he joins a coup d'etat, serves a stint in jail and never dances again.
	Dreams of my Russian summers Makine, Andreï, 1957- PQ2673.A38416 T4713 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A Frenchwoman's account of Russia before and after the 1917 revolution. She is Charlotte who came as a nurse in World War I and married a Russian lawyer. The story is told by her grandson who listened to her tales, fascinated by her power of observation.
	Educating Waverley Kalpakian, Laura. PS3561.A4168 E38 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A young woman arrives at the Temple School on Isadora Island to begin classes in 1939, and with Europe on the brink of war, she struggles to survive in a new environment while the whole world seems to be slipping into insanity.
	Eldorado in East Harlem Rodriguez, Victor, 1944- PS3568.O34885 E34 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Rene, all of seventeen and street-wise, is about to give up on the American Dream. Petty crimes, running drugs and ghetto adventures bring him and his gang closer to an illusory Eldorado. But soon, his daydreams of limousines, fine clothes and finer women turn into a living nightmare that threatens to end his life and the lives of those he loves. Eldorado in East Harlem is a page-turner of a novel, full of intrigue, surprise turns of plot and memorable characters. Victor. Rodriguez has captured the essence of barrio life during the early 1960's. His evocation of youthful ambition and disillusionment, along with the music and historical events that helped shape the times, provides rich texture to this tale of restless coming of age.
	Election : a novel Perrotta, Tom, 1961- PS3566.E6948 E43 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A high-school presidential election, contested by a hunky football hero and a sex bomb. The novel describes the intrigues of the students and the teachers on behalf of the candidates. By the author of The Wishbones.
	Evelina, or, The history of a young lady's entrance into the world Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840. PR3316.A4 E8 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Everything is illuminated : a novel Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977- PS3606.O38 E84 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Follows a young writer as he travels to Eastern Europe on a quest to find Augustine, the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis, and discovers an unexpected past that will resonate far into the future.
	Fanny : being the true history of the adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones : a novel Jong, Erica. PS3560.O56 F3 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Left as an infant on the doorstep of a grand English estate, Fanny is raised to young womanhood by Lord and Lady Bellars. A beautiful woman with a taste for literature, Fanny is ambitious to become the epic poet of her age - but her plans are dashed after she is ravished by her libertine adoptive father. Fleeing to London, Fanny meets up with idealistic witches and a band of highwaymen who teach her of worlds she never knew existed. She embarks on a series of adventures that take her from a London brothel that caters to the literati, to a pirate ship on the high seas and beyond, teaching her what she must know to live and prosper as a woman."--BOOK JACKET.
	Flight of the maidens Gardam, Jane. PR6057.A623 F57 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "The Flight of the Maidens" is an award-winning novelist's captivating look at postwar England and a summer that changes the lives of three schoolgirls on the brink of womanhood and a new world. An award-winning novelist's captivating look at postwar England & a summer that changes the lives of three schoolgirls on the brink of womanhood & a new world.
	Flutie : a novel Glancy, Diane. PS3557.L294 F58 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An Indian girl overcomes poverty and despair to make something of herself. Suffering from a speech impediment, lacking parental guidance, Flutie nevertheless makes it to college, and hope. By the author of The West Pole.
	Funny boy : a novel Selvadurai, Shyam, 1965- PR9440.9.S42 F86 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The comic tale of growing up gay in Sri Lanka. The protagonist is Arjie, a member of a wealthy family who is considered funny because he likes to wear saris, play with girls, and hates sports. A look at homosexuality in the Orient and life in an extended family. The author is a Sri Lankan from Toronto.
	Great expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. PR4560 .A1 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Great Expectations" is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of moral values. Here, some of Dickens's most memorable characters come to play their part in a story whose title itself reflects the deep irony that shaped Dickens's searching reappraisal of the Victorian middle class.
	Green Sherwood, Frances, 1940- PS3569.H454 G74 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A girl's unsuccessful attempt to be different. She is Zoe who shuns the morality of her Mormon religion to have an affair with a married man, after which she becomes a beatnik. She meets an Indian and marries him, but life close to nature is not what she expected and she returns to her mother.
	Happy days, Uncle Sergio García Ramis, Magali, 1946- PQ7440.G28 F4513 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The effect on a Puerto Rican family, which is without a man in the house, of a visit by an uncle from New York. For the first time the conversation rises above the mundane. The novel is narrated by a girl who describes the joy of having her horizons widened.
	Heart is a lonely hunter McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967. PS3525.A1772 H4 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She was very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition. This novel is the work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers's enduring masterpiece. The heroine is the strange young girl, Mick Kelly. The setting is a small Southern town, the cosmos universal and eternal. The characters are the damned, the voiceless, the rejected. Some fight their loneliness with violence and depravity, Some with sex or drink, and some -- like Mick -- with a quiet, intensely personal search for beauty.
	Heart of Hyacinth Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954. PR9199.3.W3689 H42 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Hey, Joe : a novel Neihart, Ben, 1965- PS3564.E296 H49 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In New Orleans, a night on the town for Joe, 16, for whom making out has always gone pretty easily. "It was something he loved to do. Girls or boys, just lie down and kiss." On this night matters go beyond kissing and Joe becomes a full-fledged homosexual.
	Hide Unsworth, Barry, 1930- PR6071.N8 H53 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel of intrigue in an English country estate. The protagonist is Simon who lives there with his sister and whose pastime is spying on a woman neighbor as she is undressing. Simon's problems begin with the arrival of a new gardener who also has a penchant for spying. By the author of Morality Play.
	History of Pendennis : his fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863. PR5616.A2 S87 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Holy book of the beard Brenna, Duff. PS3552.R377 H65 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of a young rebel. He is Jasper John, 23, of Colorado who gives up college to go to California on his motorcycle. In San Diego, he becomes involved with a group of literary eccentrics who hang out in a diner, which leads to a writing career of sorts.
	Holy spirit of my uncle's cojones : a novel Villatoro, Marcos McPeek. PS3572.I386 H65 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability When Tony of Appalachia attempts suicide, rather than hire an expensive psychiatrist, his mother sends him to San Francisco to stay with his macho, drug-dealing Uncle Jack. Many adventures and a woman later, Tony gains a zest for living.
	Hope Mills : a novel Pierce, Constance. PS3566.I3817 H67 1997x Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability For Tollie Ramsey of Hope Mills, a stifling mill town in 1950s North Carolina, life is coming apart. Her mother is contemplating suicide, her stepfather is drinking, and Tollie, 15, has just learned she is pregnant by a soldier. How Tollie gets out of her predicament is the subject of the novel. By the author of When Things Get Back to Normal.
	Horseman, pass by McMurtry, Larry. PS3563.A319 H6 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Lonnie grows up caught in the middle of his beloved grandfather Homer Bannon, an old-time cattleman dedicated to the values of honesty and decency, and Hud, Homer's unscrupulous stepson.
	House on Alexandrine Dobyns, Stephen, 1941- PS3554.O2 H68 1990 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Hummingbird's daughter : a novel Urrea, Luis Alberto. PS3571.R74 H86 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability This historical novel is based on Urrea's real great-aunt Teresita, who had healing powers and was acclaimed as a saint. Urrea has researched historical accounts and family records for years to get an accurate story.
	I am Charlotte Simmons Wolfe, Tom. PS3573.O526 I13 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability At Dupont University, an innocent college freshman named Charlotte Simmons learns that her intellect alone will not help her survive.
	I'll take you there : a novel Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- PS3565.A8 I17 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "In those days in the early Sixties we were not women yet but girls. This was, without irony, perceived as our advantage." So begins I'll Take You There, an astonishingly intimate and unsparing self-portrait of a nameless young student who, though, gifted with a penetrating intelligence, is drastically inclined to obsession. Funny, mordant, and compulsive, "Anellia" (as she sometimes calls herself) falls passionately in love with a brilliant yet elusive black philosophy student. But she is tested most severely by a figure out of her past she'd long believed dead. Pitiless in exposing the follies of the time (the bizarre "sisterhood" of sororities, the self-lacerating extremes of the intellectual life), I'll Take You There is a dramatic revelation of the risks -- and curious rewards -- of the obsessive personality as well as a testament to the stubborn strength of a certain type of contemporary female intellectual.
	Into the great wide open Canty, Kevin. PS3553.A56 I58 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Two teens from the opposite side of the tracks fall in love. She is June, wealthy, with permissive parents. He is Kenny, socially inferior and his father beats him. They attend the same school and he is proud he saved her from a lesbian relationship. Unfortunately, he gets her pregnant. A first novel.
	Jane Eyre Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855. PR4167 .J3 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.
	Jasmine nights Somtow, S. P. PS3569.U23 J37 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The setting is Thailand and the protagonists are two boys, one Thai, the other African-American. The novel traces their relationship, which is a meeting of East and West. By a Thai-born writer, author of Vampire Junction.
	Keeper of sheep Carpenter, William. PS3553.A7622 K44 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A 20-year-old college girl stands up to a Cape Cod community to prevent the expulsion of an aids patient she is looking after. A debut in prose fiction for a poet, author of The Hours of Morning.
	Larry's party Shields, Carol. PR9199.3.S514 L37 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A comedy on the rise of a nobody. It happens to Larry Weller, a Winnipeg floral designer who goes for his honeymoon to England. The couple visit Hampton Court with its shrubs and Weller discovers his vocation, becoming a famous maize builder.
	Last comes the egg : a novel Duffy, Bruce. PS3554.U31917 L37 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A 1960s road trip across the South in a stolen car by three teenage boys, two whites and one black. The hero is Frank Dougherty, derailed by the death of his mother and a father who takes up with another woman. A coming-of-age tale.
	Last samurai Dewitt, Helen, 1957- PS3554.E92945 S48 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Sibylla and her prodigy son Ludo love Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, and this film prompts Ludo to try to find his father.
	Life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. PR4563.A2 I54 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Life without water : a novel Peacock, Nancy. PS3566.E153 L54 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Life among the hippies in the 1960, narrated by the daughter of one of them. Cedar was four when her mother left her father. They moved into a commune, the mother got pregnant, then her boyfriend took up with another woman and got her pregnant. She left him, he asked to be taken back by mother, but the house burned down. An affectionate portrayal.
	Lightning song Nordan, Lewis. PS3564.O55 L54 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel on an oddball Southern family living on a llama farm. The hero is Leroy Dearman, 12, whose life changes with the arrival of an uncle, a city slicker who reads porno magazines and seduces Leroy's mother. That gives Leroy ideas regarding a comely majorette. By the author of Sharpshooter Blues.
	Little friend Tartt, Donna. PS3570.A657 L58 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Growing up in a small Mississippi town in a family haunted by the murder of her brother, Robin, Harriet Cleve Dusfresnes lives in a world of her imagination, until, at the age of twelve, she decides to find Robin's murderer and exact her revenge.
	Lives of girls and women Munro, Alice. PR9199.3.M8 L58 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A portrayal of a young girl's youth in a Canadian town and her awakening to womanhood in the 1940s follows Del Jordan as she explores the dark and bright sides of womanhood and records the frustrations, joys, triumphs, and trials of small-town life.
	Locas Murray, Yxta Maya. PS3563.U832 L63 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The divergent paths of two girls in the Chicano gang world of Los Angeles. Cecilia is the sister of a gang leader and Lucia is his girlfriend. The girlfriend uses the connection to form a gang of her own, while the sister decides she has not the stomach for robbing old women, and gives up crime to become a cleaning woman. A first novel.
	Lord of the flies : a novel Golding, William, 1911- PR6013.O35 L6 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The classic study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island.
	Luna's California poppies Villanueva, Alma, 1944- PS3572.I354 L86 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "In Luna's California Poppies a young girl tries to come to terms with an unstable family situation and a harsh environment. Taking the form of a diary, the novel is exceptional in the way it vividly captures a street-wise twelve-year-old's voice. Luna is angry, despairing, joyful, aggressive, and admirable. Deserted by her mother, she is taken into the home of a kind stranger who not only takes care of her physical needs for food, shelter, and security but also encourages her to read, write, and study. In this new environment, Luna records her struggles and triumphs as she becomes a young woman. In the second part of the book, an adult Luna takes up the diary when she and her family move to the country and face a new set of challenges. A mother now, Luna muses on her past while she and her children confront an unexpected obstacle in their new home - bigotry."--BOOK JACKET.
	M.C. Higgins, the great Hamilton, Virginia. PZ7.H1828 Mac 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.
	Madeleine is sleeping Bynum, Sarah Shun-lien. PS3602.Y58 M33 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability When a girl falls into a deep sleep, the borders of her real life in a French village and a mysterious fantasy world disappear.
	Magic mountain Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. PT2625.A44 Z32 1992b Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Mansfield Park Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. PR4034 .M3 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Mansfield Park is a study of three families-the Bertrams, the Crawfords, and the Prices-with the isolated figure of the heroine, Fanny Price, at its center. Fanny's quiet passivity, her steadfast loyalty and love for the son of the family who regard her as the poor relation, and who have taken her under their roof, are not appreciated until they are tried against the brilliant and witty Mary and Henry Crawford, the unfortunate consequences of whose influence are felt by everyone.
	Martin Eden London, Jack, 1876-1916. PS3523.O46 M3 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Meaning of consuelo Ortiz Cofer, Judith, 1952- PS3565.R7737 M43 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "A Puerto Rican girl coming of age in the 1950s struggles to negotiate her own terms of survival within the confines of her culture."
	Metroland Barnes, Julian. PR6052.A6657 M47 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Growing up in the sixties, Chris and Toni, face the sexual longings of adolescence, find adulthood in Paris, and return home to join adult society.
	Microserfs Coupland, Douglas. PS3553.O855 M53 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Young people working for Microsoft decide to make a bid for freedom by founding their own software company. The novel--narrated as an online journal by danielu@microsoft.com--describes the ups and downs of raising money for a new business. By the author of Generation X.
	Middlemarch Eliot, George, 1819-1880. PR4662 .A1 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A portrait of 19th century English provincial life focusing on Dorothea Brooks and her two marriages, Dr. Lydgate, and the Vincy family.
	Miguel Street Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932- PR9272.9.N32 M5 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Bogart the bigamist, B. Wordsworth the poet, and Morgan the pyrotechnist are among the poor inhabitants of Miguel Street seen through the eyes of a fatherless boy growing up in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
	Mona in the promised land Jen, Gish. PS3560.E474 M66 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Unhappy with her own ethnic group, Mona Chang, a Chinese-American, decides to become a Jew. After all, if one has to live as a minority, choose the best. A witty look at ethnicity, multiculturalism and the melting pot. By the author of Typical American.
	Monkey secret Glancy, Diane. PS3557.L294 M66 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Moviegoer Percy, Walker, 1916- PS3566.E6912 M68 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Kate's desperate struggle to maintain her sanity forces her cousin Binx to relinquish his dreamworld.
	My name is Asher Lev Potok, Chaim. PS3566.O69 M9 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The novelist records the anguish and triumphs of a young painter as he emerges into the great world of art and rejects all else.
	Namako : sea cucumber : a novel Watanabe McFerrin, Linda, 1953- PS3573.A7987 N3 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An American couple move to Japan, ostensibly to be near the wife's mother, in fact to save their marriage after his infidelity. He is Scottish, she is half-Japanese and they have four children. The story is narrated by the eldest, Ellen, 10.
	Namesake Lahiri, Jhumpa. PS3562.A316 N36 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability When his Indian immigrant parents give him an odd name, a boy must struggle towards manhood suffering the burdens of this name as well as the conflicting loyalties of his heritage.
	Native son Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. PS3545.R815 N25 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what it means to be black in America.
	Nicholas Nickleby Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. PR4565 .A1 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability When his father suddenly dies, Nicholas Nickleby is sent by his uncle to Dotheboys Hall to work as a teacher, but when Nicholas discovers that the headmaster, Wackford Squeers, maliciously bullies the students, he must decide whether to stay, or leave and allow his uncle to cut off support for his family.
	No laughter here Williams-Garcia, Rita. PZ7.W6713 No 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In Queens, New York, ten-year-old Akilah is determined to find out why her closest friend, Victoria, is silent and withdrawn after returning from a trip to her homeland, Nigeria.
	Not without laughter Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. PS3515.U274 N6 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Depicts a Black family's attempts to deal with life in a small Kansas town.
	NW Smith, Zadie. PR6069.M59 N84 2012 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	O lost : a story of the buried life Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938. PS3545.O337 O18 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "The editing of Thomas Wolfe's first novel, originally titled "O Lost," has been the subject of literary argument since its 1929 publication in abridged form as Look Homeward, Angel. This powerful coming-of-age novel tells the rich story of Eugene Gant, a young North Carolina man who longs to escape the confines of his small-town life and his tumultuous family. At the insistence of Maxwell Perkins, the legendary editor at Charles Scribner's Sons, Wolfe cut the typescript by 22 percent. Sixty-six thousand words were omitted for reasons of propriety and publishing economics, as well as to remove material deemed expendable by Perkins. Published for the first time on October 3, 2000 - the centenary of Wolfe's birth - O Lost presents the complete text of the novel's manuscript." "For seventy years Wolfe scholars have speculated about the merits of the unpublished complete work and about the editorial process - particularly the reputed collaboration of Perkins and Wolfe. In order to present this classic novel in its original form as Wolfe wrote it, Arlyn and Matthew J. Bruccoli have established the text from the carbon copy of the typescript and from Wolfe's pencil manuscript. In addition to restoring passages omitted from Look Homeward, Angel, the editors have corrected errors introduced by the typist and other mistakes in the original text and have explicated problematic readings. An introduction and appendices - including textual, bibliographical, and explanatory notes - reconstruct Wolfe's process of creation and place it in the context of the publishing process."--BOOK JACKET.
	October suite : a novel Clair, Maxine, 1939- PS3553.L2225 O29 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability After October Brown has given birth to the child conceived with a married lover who deserted her, she gives the baby away to her older sister and only later, back in Kansas City, realizes what she has done.
	Of human bondage Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965. PR6025.O86 O4 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A young man struggling for self-realization, Philip Carey becomes caught in a destructive love affair with a waitress, in a novel about sexual obsession, self-discovery, and the complexities of human relationships.
	Old Goriot Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850. PQ2168 .A31 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of a father blindly devoted to an undeserving daughter.
	Paper wings Swick, Marly A., 1949- PS3569.W467 P36 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Suzanne, 12, tells the story of her moody mother--alternating between vivacity and depression--and describes the effect this has on the family and the neighbors. Depressed by President Kennedy's assassination, the mother takes Suzanne on a car trip, a journey that draws them together.
	Part of the furniture Wesley, Mary. PR6073.E753 P37 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability After seeing two childhood friends off to war--having slept with both the night before--Juno Marlowe, 17, is caught by an air raid. The setting is London during World War II. While taking refuge in an air raid shelter Juno meets a man who gives her a letter for his father and soon after he dies. The father, a widower who lives in the country, offers Juno a job on his farm and love blooms despite Juno's pregnancy from the night of goodbyes. By the author of An Imaginative Experience.
	Path to the nest of spiders Calvino, Italo. PQ4809.A45 S413 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Penrod and Sam Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946. PS2972 .P424 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Originally published in 1916. Twelve-year-old Penrod Schofield and his friend Sam get into a mountain of mischief in pre-World War I America, including adventures involving an abandoned horse, a rough initiation into a club, a snake made of socks, and two neighbor African-American boys.
	Peppered moth Drabble, Margaret, 1939- PR6054.R25 P4 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability When Faro Gaulden visits Breaseborough, a mining town in South Yorkshire, she wonders what her life would have been like had her grandmother not left there as a young girl. As she soon learns, the past has a way of reasserting itself, not unlike the peppered moth that was once thought to be near extinction but is now enjoying a sudden unexplained resurgence.
	Pocho Villarreal, José Antonio. PS3572.I37 P6 1989 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "During the Depression-era in California, Richard, a young Mexican American, experiences a conflict between loyalty to the traditions of his family's past and attraction to new ideas."
	Polite society Sumner, Melanie. PS3569.U46 P6 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The follies of a Peace Corps woman in Africa. She is Louise Daren Parkman, an unemployed lady from Tennessee who gets herself a job teaching English in Senegal, knowing little of either. A tragicomic tale of incompetence, cultural conflicts and interracial romancing.
	Portnoy's complaint Roth, Philip. PS3568.O855 P67 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Philip Roth's bestselling novel, which takes the form of a monologue featuring the confession of a comic character who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet at the same time held back by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood.
	Portrait of the artist as a young man Joyce, James, 1882-1941. PR6019.O9 P63 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce published in book form in 1916, depicting the early years in the life of Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce.
	Postcards from no man's land Chambers, Aidan. PZ7.C3557 Po 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Alternates between two stories--contemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation.
	Process : a novel Boyle, Kay, 1902- PS3503.O9357 P75 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Purple hibiscus : a novel Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977- PR9387.9.A34354 P87 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Growing up in a wealthy Nigerian home under the domain of a harsh, demanding, and tyrannical father, Kambili and her brother, Jaja, find new happiness during a visit to their Aunty Ifeoma outside the city, but as Kambili enjoys her newfound freedom and falls in love for the first time, the country begins to fall apart under a military coup.
	Quicksand Larsen, Nella. PS3523.A7225 Q55 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Born to an indifferent white mother and an absent black father, and scorned for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even here she feels different. Moving to Harlem and eventually to Denmark, she attempts to carve out a comfortable life and place for herself, but ends up back where she started, choosing emotional freedom that quickly translates into a narrow existence."--BOOK JACKET.
	Reading in the dark Deane, Seamus, 1940- PR6054.E22 R43 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A boy's coming of age in 1950s Northern Ireland amid the fear of the present and the ghosts of the past. It turns out his paternal uncle did not just die, but was executed as an informer. Not only that, the man who ordered the execution was his maternal grandfather. There's more, the uncle was actually innocent, set up by another member of the family. A first novel.
	Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923. PS3302 .R5 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Rebel powers Bausch, Richard, 1945- PS3552.A846 R43 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Sarah leaves her family to search for her biological mother, only to have her kidnap "her" grandchild.
	Reivers, a reminiscenc Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. PS3511.A86 R38 1962 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Requiem for Harlem Roth, Henry. PS3535.O787 M47 1994 vol. 4 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A young intellectual stoops to being a kept man in his effort to climb from the slums. Ira Stigman, 21, a college student leaves his family home in 1920s Harlem to move in with Edith Welles, a literature professor. In return, he cares for her when she has an abortion from another affair.
	Rule of the bone : a novel Banks, Russell, 1940- PS3552.A49 R85 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The education of Chappie Dorset, 14, thrown out of the house by his mother for stealing from her to buy pot. He drifts from gang to gang and ends up in Jamaica where he meets his drug-dealing father. A voyage of discovery at the end of which he decides to "get my shit together for the future."
	Saskiad Hall, Brian, 1959- PS3558.A363 S27 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of a girl with a highly developed sense of fantasy. She is Saskia, 12, who lives on a farm in New York State. She has built around her a world in which such historic figures as Odysseus and Marco Polo actually exist. Yet she is still capable of performing the day-to-day chores on the farm.
	Saving Grace Smith, Lee, 1944- PS3569.M5376 S28 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The confession of a preacher's daughter. Turned off religion early in life, Florida Grace Shepherd marries at the first opportunity, only to "backslide" into adultery. By the time she is 33, she feels an old bag. But one day Grace discovers she has her father's gift for giving meaning to people's lives and she returns to religion, picking up where her father left off. By the author of The Devil's Dream.
	Scarlet and black Stendhal, 1783-1842. PQ2435.R7 E5 1991b Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Secrets Farah, Nuruddin, 1945- PR9396.9.F3 S4 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability On her return to Somalia from America, Sholoongo informs her childhood friend, Kalaman, she wants a child by him. As he considers her proposal, Kalaman receives chilling news, Sholoongo was in America to perfect her skills as a witch.
	Seven league boots : a novel Murray, Albert. PS3563.U764 S48 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A black musician's portrait of 1920s America. He is Schoolboy, a bass player so named because he has a college degree, and as he plucks and bows his way across the country with a famous jazz band, he gives the reader a picture of an era. Subsequently he goes to Europe, the experience providing him with new perspective. By the author of Train Whistle Guitar.
	Shadow catcher Szczypiorski, Andrzej. PG7178.Z3 Z3813 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A boy's coming of age in Poland on the eve of World War II. He is Krzys, the son of a wealthy family and as he vacations in a country manor of friends he attempts a romance with their niece. An atmosphere of doom hangs over the place, the war about to destroy the class to which the protagonists belong. By the author of A Mass for Arras.
	Shelter Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952- PS3566.H479 S48 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability While camping in the Appalachians in West Virginia, four girl guides meet a group of hillbillies and what follows is a tale heavy with sex and menace, ending in violent drama. On the surface, a confrontation between evil and innocence, except that as the story progresses the girls turn out to be not so innocent. By the author of Machine Dreams.
	Sin killer : a novel McMurtry, Larry. PS3563.A319 S56 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "It is 1830, and the Berrybender family, rich, aristocratic, English, and fiercely out of place, is on its way up the Missouri River to see the American West as it begins to open up." "Accompanied by a large and varied collection of retainers, Lord and Lady Berrybender have abandoned their palatial home in England to explore the frontier and to broaden the horizons of their children, who include Tasmin, a budding young woman of grit, beauty, and determination, her vivacious and difficult sister, and her brother."--BOOK JACKET.
	Sky so close Khuḍayrī, Batūl. PJ7842 .H68513 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Evocative and exquisite, A Sky So Close was first published to controversy in the Middle East. Now in English, it has received wide acclaim as a haunting coming-of-age tale that plunges into the heart of the cultural clash between East and West. It is a story narrated by an unnamed girl born of an Iraqi father and an English mother. Raised in the very traditional Iraqi countryside, she is compelled to attend a Western school for music and ballet -- and she aches for a sense of belonging. Her struggles and isolation only increase when her family moves first to Baghdad and then, at the outbreak of war, to England, where her most arduous personal trials await. In crystalline, poetic prose, Betool Khedairi presents a daringly fresh look into the soul of a woman formed by two worlds, yet fully accepted by neither.
	Sleeping beauties Moore, Susanna. PS3563.O667 S57 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability When Clio, a thirteen-year-old runaway shows up at her aunt Emma's house in Honolulu, her aunt helps her to understand the secrets and entanglements of island life and of her family.
	So big Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968. PS3511.E46 S6 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Soldier of the great war Helprin, Mark. PS3558.E4775 S65 1990 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A Roman student is torn from his carefree life when World War I breaks out, and fifty years later, recounts the triumphs and tragedies of his existence to an illiterate factory worker.
	Sons and lovers Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930. PR6023.A93 S6 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Sons and Lovers is one of the landmark novels of the twentieth century. It was immediately recognized as the first great modern restatement of the oedipal drama when it appeared in 1913 and is widely considered the major work of D.H. Lawrence's early period. This intensely autobiographical novel recounts the story of Paul Morel, a young artist growing to manhood in a British working-class family rife with conflict. The author's vivid evocation of life in a Nottingham mining village in the years before the First World War and his depiction of the all-consuming nature of possessive love and sexual attraction make this one of his most powerful novels.
	Sophie's choice Styron, William, 1925- PS3569.T9 S67 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Three friends, Stingo, a twenty-two-year-old writer; Sophie, a survivor of the Nazi camps; and Nathan, her mercurial lover, share magical, heart-warming times until doom overtakes them as Sophie's and Nathan's darkest secrets are revealed.
	Spies : a novel Frayn, Michael. PR6056.R3 S65 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability When a long-forgotten scent forces Stephen Wheatley to confront his past, he starts to remember a troubling childhood summer in wartime London where an imaginative child's game of playing spies wreaked havoc upon innocent lives.
	Student of weather Hay, Elizabeth, 1951- PR9199.3.H3676 S78 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Maurice Dove is a visitor to the Saskatchewan farm of widower Ernest Hardy. The relationship he forms with Hardy's daughters gives rise to an act of betrayal that throws into relief the deep-rooted enmity between them. Norma Joyce's life, from the time she is eight, is fuelled by her obsessive and unrequited love for Maurice Dove." -- Jacket.
	Summer crossing : a novel Capote, Truman, 1924- PS3505.A59 S86 2006 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Seventeen-year-old Manhattan socialite Grady McNeil is free to pursue her illicit romance with Clyde Manzer, a parking lot attendant from Brooklyn, when her parents decide to leave her alone for the summer.
	Swann's way Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922. PQ2631.R63 D83 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The narrator interrupts reminiscences about his childhood spent in the late-nineteenth-century France to recall the affair which a friend of the family carries on with young Odette de Crecy.
	Taps : a novel Morris, Willie. PS3563.O8745 T36 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Sixteen-year-old Swayze Barksdale comes of age in the southern town of Fisk's Landing in the summer of 1951, his life defined by the Korean War raging overseas, and his job of playing "Taps" at the funerals of the town's fallen soldiers.
	Tent of orange mist : a novel West, Paul, 1930- PS3573.E8247 T46 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In Nanking, after its capture by the Japanese, a scholar's villa is turned into a brothel and his daughter forced into prostitution. The novel follows her relationship with the local commander whose ambition, until he is killed by her father, is to turn her into a perfect Japanese geisha. The girl survives the occupation and at war's end sues the Japanese government.
	Them Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- PS3565.A8 T48 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Chronicles the lives of the Wendalls, a family on the steep edge of poverty in the windy, riotous Detroit slums.
	Theophilus North Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975. PS3545.I345 T5 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "The last of Wilder's works published during his lifetime, this novel is part autobiographical and part the imagined adventure of his twin brother who died at birth. Setting out to see the world in the summer of 1926, Theophilus North gets as far as Newport, Rhode Island, before his car breaks down. To support himself, Theophilus takes jobs in the elegant mansions along Ocean Drive, just as Wilder himself did in the same decade. Soon the young man finds himself playing the roles of tutor, spy, confidant, lover, friend, and enemy as he becomes entangled in the intrigues of both upstairs and downstairs in a glittering society dominated by leisure."--BOOK JACKET.
	Thing around your neck Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977- PR9387.9.A34354 T55 2009 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A collection of twelve stories includes the tale of a medical student in hiding with a poor Muslim woman, and a woman who discovers a devastating secret about her brother's death.
	Toby's lie : a novel Vilmure, Daniel. PS3572.I39 T63 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The protagonist is Toby Sligh, a senior at a Jesuit high school in Tampa who wants only to dance with his boyfriend at the prom. He is sidetracked by having to look after a priest dying from aids. By the author of Life in the Land of the Living.
	Tortuga : a novel Anaya, Rudolfo A. PS3551.N27 T6 1988 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Tortuga : a novel Anaya, Rudolfo A. PS3551.N27 T67 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A sixteen-year-old boy, nicknamed after the mountain Tortuga because he is encased in a full-body cast, embarks on a journey of spiritual and physical recovery in a hospital for crippled children after being paralyzed in a swimming accident.
	Turmoil Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946. PS2972 .T75 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "A novel in the tradition of those of Sherwood Anderson and Sinclair Lewis, The Turmoil is set in what was once a small, quiet city - never named but closely resembling the author's hometown of Indianapolis - that has been rapidly transformed into a bustling, money-making nest of competitors overrun by "the worshippers of Bigness."" "The Turmoil tells the intertwined stories of the Sheridans, whose integrity wanes as their wealth increases, and the Vertrees, who remain noble but impoverished. Linked by a romance between a Sheridan son and a Vertrees daughter, the story of the two families provides a dramatic view of what America was like on the verge of industrialization."--BOOK JACKET.
	Villages Updike, John. PS3571.P4 V55 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "John Updike's twenty-first novel, a bildungsroman, follows its hero, Owen Mackenzie, from his birth in the semi-rural Pennsylvania town of Willow to his retirement in the rather geriatric community of Hasskells Crossing, Massachusetts. In between these two settlements comes Middle Falls, Connecticut, where Owen, an early computer programmer, founds with a partner, Ed Mervine, the successful firm of E-O Data, which is housed in an old gun factory on the Chunkaunkabaug River. Owen's education (Bildung) is not merely technical but liberal, as the humanity of his three villages, especially that of their female citizens, works to disengage him from his youthful innocence. As a child he early felt an abyss of calamity beneath the sunny surface quotidian, yet also had a dreamlike sense of leading a charmed existence. The women of his life, including his wives, Phyllis and Julia, shed what light they can."--BOOK JACKET.
	Visitation of spirits : a novel Kenan, Randall. PS3561.E4228 V5 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Voyage out Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. PR6045.O72 V68 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Published in 1915, The Voyage Out, Woolf's first novel, clearly lays bare the poetic style that is the signature of her later fiction. Here she tells the story of Rachel Vinrace, a motherless young woman who embarks on a sea voyage to South America and falls in love with an aspiring writer. Theirs is a tale of doomed love, set against a chorus of other voices and other stories, as the narrative's focus shifts among its central and peripheral characters."--BOOK JACKET.
	Walk two moons Creech, Sharon. PZ7.C8615 Wal 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
	Wandering hill : a novel McMurtry, Larry. PS3563.A319 W36 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Continuing up the Missouri River with her wealthy English clan, Tasmin Berrybender, on the verge of motherhood and living with elusive Native American Jim Snow, witnesses her father's deterioration in the wake of her family's rise in power.
	War trail north Conley, Robert J. PS3553.O494 W28 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	What girls learn : a novel Cook, Karin, 1969- PS3553.O55385 W48 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability What Girls Learn takes readers on an intimate and haunting journey into the landscape of girlhood and the complex terrain of the family. Wise, bittersweet, and above all intensely human, this astonishingly powerful novel enchants readers with its humor and insight even as it breaks their hearts. In this emotional novel, Tilden, an adolescent girl, & her slightly younger sister move with their mother to suburban Long Island, where Tilden has social problems & her mother discovers she is dying of cancer. The narrator is 12-year-old Tilden of Atlanta, one of two daughters of a single mother. The story begins on a happy note as the mother finds a man and the trio move north to Long Island. Tragedy strikes when the mother is diagnosed with breast cancer. A first novel.
	What Maisie knew James, Henry, 1843-1916. PS2116 .W4 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Who will run the frog hospital? : a novel Moore, Lorrie. PS3563.O6225 W58 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Berie Carr, an American woman visiting Paris with her husband, summons up for us a summer in 1972 when she was fifteen, living in upstate New York and working as a ticket taker at Storyland, an amusement park where her beautiful best friend, Sils, was Cinderella in a papier-mache pumpkin coach." "We see these two girls together - Berie and Sils - intense, brash, set apart by adolescence and an appetite for danger. Driven by their own provincial restlessness and making their own (loose) rules, they embark on a summer that both shatters and intensifies the bond between them."--BOOK JACKET.
	Wild ginger Min, Anchee, 1957- PS3563.I4614 W35 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The beautiful, iron-willed Wild Ginger is only in elementary school when we first meet her, but already she has been singled out by the Red Guards for her "foreign-colored eyes." Her classmate Maple is also a target of persecution. It is through the quieter, more skeptical Maple, a less than ardent Maoist whose father is languishing in prison for a minor crime, that we see this story to its tragic end. The Red Guards have branded Wild Ginger's deceased father a traitor and eventually drive her mother to a gruesome suicide, but she fervently embraces Maoism to save her spirit. She rises quickly through the ranks and is held up as a national model for Maoism. Wild Ginger now has everything, even a young man who vies for her heart. But Mao's prohibition on romantic love places her in an untenable position. Into this sexually charged situation steps Maple, creating an uneasy triangle that Min has portrayed with keen psychological insight and her characteristic gift for lyrical eroticism. In Anchee Min's previous three books she returned again and again to the devastating experience of the Cultural Revolution, which defined her youth. Here, in this slim but powerful novel, she gives us a moving story that goes closer to the core of that experience than anything she has written before, and brilliantly delineates the psychological and sexual perversion of those times. Ultimately, WILD GINGER has the clean lines of a parable, the poignancy of a coming-of-age novel, the sexiness of a French blue movie, and the sadness of a truly tragic love story.
	Windy McPherson's son Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941. PS3501.N4 W49 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Winging it : a tale of turning thirty Tippens, Elizabeth. PS3570.I59 W56 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Nine stories on the amorous adventures of Faith, a New York woman in her twenties as she goes through her men, starting or ending romances.
	Within a budding grove Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922. PQ2631.R63 A97313 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability First published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann's Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann's daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new object of attention--Albertine, "a girl with brilliant, laughing eyes and plump, matt cheeks."
	Witness Saer, Juan José, 1937- PQ7797.S22435 E5813 1990 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability