Genre: Fiction about Real People
130 titles found
 | Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970.PR6011.O58 L6 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Rickie Elliott's inability to recognize reality leads him to inevitable tragedy. |
 | Duras, Marguerite.PQ2607.U8245 A62713 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Hailed in France as "an incomparable pleasure", Marguerite Duras's newest novel is a fascinating retelling of the dramatic experiences of her adolescence that have shaped her work. Far more daring and truthful than any book she has written before, it emphasizes the tough realities of her ... |
 | Zola, Émile, 1840-1902.PQ2511.O4 E5 2006 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
This is the most autobiographical of the 20 novels in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. It provides an insight into his friendship with Cezanne and presents an account of the turbulent Bohemian world in |
 | Brown, Lloyd L. (Lloyd Louis), 1913-PS3552.R6935 I76 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Smith, Stevie, 1902-1971.PR6037.M43 N64 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Pompey Casmilus works as a secretary and records her thoughts about love and marriage, death, sex, art, Greek tragedy, friendship, her aunt, Nazism, gossip, the suburbs, and more love and marriage. |
 | Jiménez, Francisco, 1943-PS3560.I55 R43 2008 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Leaving his home in a migrant community, Francisco sets off for college, carrying memories of years of poverty and prejudice. |
 | Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797.PR5841.W8 M37 1975 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Gombrowicz, Witold.PG7158.G669 T713 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Coetzee, J. M., 1940-PR9369.3.C58 S86 2009 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In this autobiographical novel, a young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his thirties, at a time when he was living in a rundown cottage in the Cape Town suburbs with his widowed father--a time, the biographe... |
 | Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938.PS3545.O337 L7 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Told from four perspectives, each articulating the sentiments of a different family member, the story captures the experiences of growing up in a mountain town of North Carolina at the turn of the century. |
 | Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.PR5616.A2 S87 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | 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. |
 | Lamming, George, 1927-PR9230.9.L25 I5 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Furst, Peter, 1910-PS3556.U765 D6 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A Jew tries to find a country that will take him. He is Peter, a journalist in 1930s Germany who flees the Nazis. It is a long, hard and often sad road, but fortunately Peter has a sense of humor. |
 | Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-PJ5129.S49 C47 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability It's 1922 and David Bendiger, an aspiring eighteen-and-a-half-year-old writer, arrives in Warsaw, penniless and homeless. His only contacts are Sonya, a young woman with whom he has had amorous dealings in the village they have left, and a Zionist functionary who informs him he has qualif... |
 | Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938.PS3545.O337 Y6 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Novelist George Webber is driven from his hometown when his successful autobiographical novel infuriates the family and friends he has depicted in it. |
 | Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.PQ2631.R63 T413 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The narrator returns to Paris after World War I, and reflects on his past life as the raw material for literature. |
 | Himes, Chester B., 1909-PS3515.I713 E53 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A once-acclaimed black novelist, now on the downward path, meets a white divorcee with a taste for black men. The result is sex, violence and death. The novel is the latest in Norton's Old School Books series, which are reprints of pulp fiction by black authors. |
 | Smedley, Agnes, 1892-1950.PS3537.M16 D3 1987 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A precious, priceless book-from the foreword by Alice Walker "An entire society is limned in the pages of this book.... The power of "Daughter of Earth" lies in the erotic heat which informs every page of the book, erotic in the original Greek sense of life force."-Vivian Gornick, "The Vi... |
 | Burroughs, William S., 1914-PS3552.U75 M9 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A collection of unusual dreams. In one, a cockroach gets stuck in the narrator's ear, in another he watches a man eat his spilled brains. An occasion for the writer to expound his philosophy on life. By the author of The Cat Inside. |
 | Bell, Thomas, 1903-1961.PS3503.E4388 O9 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Nádas, Péter, 1942-PH3291.N297 E413 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel exploring human relations. Its hero is a Hungarian writer who lives through the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and has a homosexual affair with a German poet in East Berlin. |
 | Himes, Chester B., 1909-PS3515.I713 Y47 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Prison life in the 1930s featuring a white man incarcerated for robbery. The novel is based on the experience of its black author and deals with violence and male love. This edition is the unpublished original, a sanitized version having been published in 1953 under the title, Cast the Fi... |
 | Bridal, Tessa, 1947-PS3552.R4542 T7 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The political awakening of young Magda, a member of Uruguay's golden youth. Set in the 1960s, the novel chronicles her evolution from a privileged girl concerned with boys, parties and having a good time, to a member of the Tupamaros, the country's main revolutionary movement, a transform... |
 | Ryskamp, John.PS3568.Y65 N38 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | 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 autobiographica... |
 | Mulligan, John, 1950-PS3563.U3976 S56 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.PQ2631.R63 C7413 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons. ... |
 | Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.PQ2631.R63 S6313 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.PQ2631.R63 P713 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The narrator recounts his complicated relationship with Albertine, the events that lead to their separation, and his retreat to Venice. |
 | 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. |
 | Serros, Michele M.PS3569.E733 H69 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability She's recited poetry by the outhouses at Lollapalooza...cleaned up after the Flygirls on the set of In Living Color...seduced a love-struck fan with a plagiarized poem...studied Spanish with a clique of catty coeds in Mexico...traveled to inner-city schools to introduce reluctant readers ... |
 | Plath, Sylvia.PS3566.L27 B4 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful -- but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia Plath takes us with Esther through a painful month in New York as a contest-winning junior editor on a mag... |
 | 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 long... |
 | Dworkin, Andrea.PS3554.W85 M4 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Šimečka, Martin M., 1957-PG5439.29.I37 Z313 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Set in Czechoslovakia in the early 1980s, during the waning years of Communist rule, Martin M. Simecka's startlingly original first novel, The Year of the Frog, shows a young man struggling to understand the circumstances of his life. Simecka, born in Bratislava in 1957, is the son of a p... |
 | Balch, Jack S., 1909-1980.PS3503.A5514 L36 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.PR4167 .V5 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Boyle, Kay, 1902-PS3503.O9357 P75 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Marías, Javier.PQ6663.A7218 N4413 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Javier Marias begins Dark Back of Time with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Marias swears to be fiction, but which its "characters" - the real-life professors and bookshop owners who have "recognized themselves" - fiercely m... |
 | Alexie, Sherman, 1966-PS3551.L35774 L66 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In his darkly comic short story collection, the author brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. |
 | Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888.PS1017 .L5 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England. |
 | Crafts, Hannah.PS1449.C673 B66 2002b Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability When her master is betrothed to a woman who conceals a tragic secret, Hannah Crafts, a young slave on a wealthy North Carolina plantation, runs away in a bid for her freedom up North. Pursued by slave hunters, imprisoned by a mysterious and cruel captor, held by sympathetic strangers, and... |
 | Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.PS3521.E735 O76 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | 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. |
 | Gao, Xingjian.PL2869.O128 Y49413 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A fictionalized account of the author's life under Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution describes how the political climate of Beijing rendered his home one of perpetual fear for its citizens. |
 | Eliade, Mircea, 1907-PC839.E38 M313 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A semi-autobiographical romance between a French engineer and the daughter of a Hindu family with which he stayed in India. A case of East meets West with all the joys and woes that such encounters bring. For her version of the story see her novel, It Does Not Die. |
 | Maitraye Devi, 1914-PK1718.M24244 A26 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An Indian writer gives her version of the romance which Mircea Eliade, the Romanian writer, described in his novel, Bengal Nights. "Why did you not tell the truth, Mircea?" she asks, not at all pleased that he portrayed her as an Oriental vamp. |
 | London, Jack, 1876-1916.PS3523.O46 M3 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Richter, Conrad, 1890-1968.PS3535.I429 W3 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849.PR4162 .A54 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Anne Bronte's 'Agnes Grey' tells the story of a young woman forced by circumstances to take on the role of governess in an aristocratic Victorian household, and how this stressful and at times humiliating role shapes her youthful character. The book is seen by many as a barely-disguised c... |
 | Burroughs, William S., 1914-PS3552.U75 J86 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junk, his first novel. It is a candid eye-witness account of times and places that are now long gone, an unvarnished field report from the American post-war underground." "Unafraid to portray himself in 1953... |
 | Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938.PS3545.O337 Y6 1940 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Barth, John.PS3552.A75 O53 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An fantasy-filled sailing trip through Chesapeake Bay, in the course of which a writer recounts his life. The novel is written in the form of an opera whose arias serve as vehicles for digressions which would otherwise have slowed down the narrative. By the author of The Last Voyage of So... |
 | Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.PS3515.E37 U53 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability This is the last of Hemingway's manuscripts to be published in its entirety. Editors Lewis and Fleming have taken great pains to publish as complete and faithful a publication as possible without editorial distortion. Hemingway called this title his "African Book." It is a thoughtful, adv... |
 | Andersch, Alfred, 1914-PT2601.N353 V3813 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The rise of the Nazis through the eyes of a schoolboy, whose headmaster is the father of Nazi chief Heinrich Himmler. The author, a well-known anti-Nazi who spent time in a concentration camp, portrays old man Himmler as disapproving of his son. |
 | Jacobs, Bárbara, 1947-PQ7298.2.A33 H613 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.PS3537.T323 N68 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability This is the first paperback edition of one of Stein's most revealing novels. Written in 1925-26 (but not published until 1958), it is Stein's midcareer assessment of herself, her writing, and her relationships, composed in the unique style for which she is celebrated. In place of a tradit... |
 | Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.PS3521.E735 V36 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Vanity of Duluoz is a key volume in Jack Kerouac's lifework, the series of autobiographical novels he referred to as The Legend of Duluoz. With the same tender humor and intoxicating wordplay he brought to his masterpieces On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Kerouac takes his alter ego from ... |
 | According to QueeneyBeryl Bainbridge.PR6052.A3195 A64 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Samuel Johnson, the literary giant of mid-eighteenth century London, becomes part of the chaotic household of wealthy brewer Henry Thrale. |
 | Alias GraceMargaret Atwood.PR9199.3.A8 A79 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A fictionalized account of Grace Marks, a maid who murdered her employer and his mistress in Canada in 1843. A stablehand who was her accomplice and who claimed she put him up to it was hung for the crime, while she ended up in a lunatic asylum. The novel analyzes the question: was she ac... |
 | Allende : a novelFernando Alegría ; translated by Frank Janney.PQ8097.A734 A7813 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Anything for BillyLarry McMurtry.PS3563.A319 A84 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Becoming Madame MaoAnchee Min.PS3563.I4614 B43 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A biographical novel about the powerful wife of Mao Zedong. |
 | Benjamin's crossing : a novelJay Parini.PS3566.A65 B46 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A fictionalized biography of Walter Benjamin, a 1930s Jewish German philosopher. The novel describes his theories on literature and mass culture, and his hard life in France, where he fled when the Nazis came to power. He had to flee again when the Germans invaded France, finishing his da... |
 | Black thunderby Arna Bontemps ; with a new introduction by Arnold Rampersad.PS3503.O474 B5 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability When a fellow slave is murdered, Gabriel Prosser decides to lead a revolt against the slaveowners of Richmond. |
 | Blue flowerPenelope Fitzgerald.PR6056.I86 B58 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A fictionalized biography of the 18th Century German poet, Friedrich Leopold von Hardenberg, who wrote under the nom de plume, Novalis. The novel centers on his philosophy ("My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.") and on his romance with Sophie von Kuh... |
 | BrontëGlyn Hughes.PR6058.U35 B76 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A fictionalized account of the Bronte family, whose gift for imagination led to such classics as Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" and Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre." The novel also looks at why Branwell, only boy and the hope of the family, died a failure. |
 | Brother Jacob : a novelby Henrik Stangerup ; translated from the Danish by Anne Born.PT8176.29.T3 B7613 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Bucking the tiger : a novelby Bruce Olds.PS3565.L336 B84 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of "Doc" Holliday, frontier dentist, gambler and gunfighter. |
 | Buffalo girlsLarry McMurtry.PS3563.A319 B84 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | City of discontentMark Harris ; foreword by Laurence Goldstein.PS3515.A757 C5 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Claudius the god and his wife Messalinaby Robert Graves.PR6013.R35 C6 1989 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Depicts the turbulent life of a Roman emperor, reconstructing the decadence of the Roman world. |
 | Coming through slaughterMichael Ondaatje.PR9199.3.O5 C65 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Buddy Bolden, a New Orleans barber, cornet player, and full-time editor of a gossip sheet, disappears for two years, and when he returns, he goes berserk and spends his final years in the East Louisiana state hospital. |
 | Confessions of Nat TurnerWilliam Styron.PS3569.T9 C6 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Tells, in his own words, of a black man who awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. His name is Nat Turner and he is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of that "peculiar institution." -- Jacket. |
 | Cup of gold : a life of Sir Henry Morgan, buccaneer, with occasional reference to historyJohn Steinbeck ; introduction by Susan F. Beegel.PS3537.T3234 C8 2008 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Dancing in the darkCaryl Phillips.PR9275.S263 P47285 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A fictional re-creation of the life and times of Bert Williams, the first black entertainer in the United States to achieve success, a man who dons blackface to become a headliner in the Ziegfeld Follies. |
 | Dead man in DeptfordAnthony Burgess.PR6052.U638 D42 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novelization of the life of the 16th Century playwright, Christopher Marlowe, portraying him as a spy for Elizabeth I's government in its war with Catholics. Lots of color on Elizabethan London, the court, the intrigues, the theater, the slums. The author's last book before his death, i... |
 | Death and life of Miguel de Cervantes : a novelby Stephen Marlowe.PS3563.A674 D43 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A fictionalized biography of Spain's famous writer, the author of Don Quixote. The son of an impoverished noble, he becomes a soldier, is wounded in the Battle of Lepanto, later is captured by pirates and held for ransom. While in jail in Algiers he is inspired to become a writer. By the ... |
 | Death of Che Guevara : a novelby Jay Cantor.PS3553.A5475 D4 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In this extraordinary first novel--large, powerful, many-faceted--Jay Cantor bring us into the life, the death, the world of Che Guevera. |
 | Executioner's songNorman Mailer.PS3525.A4152 E89 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Farewell symphony : a novelEdmund White.PS3573.H463 F37 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A writer looks back on a decade of homosexual affairs on both sides of the Atlantic. In the process he describes the gay man's dilemma, on the one hand he wants the right to be different, on the other he wants to be accepted as normal. |
 | Fifth of NovemberPaul West.PS3573.E8247 F54 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A story of the English Gunpowder Plot (1605) and of the noblewoman Anne Vaux, a Catholic sympathic to the plotters' cause, and of Father Henry Garnet "from when he first hears of the plot ... to his pilgrimage to Wales, his escape to Hindlip over the English plains, and ultimately his imp... |
 | Film explainerGert Hofmann ; translated from the German by Michael Hofmann.PT2668.O376 K5513 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The arrival of talking films puts an end to the career of Karl Hofmann, a film explainer, the man who played the piano and interpreted silent films for the audience. The novel follows Hofmann as he places his services at the disposal of the emerging Nazi party. |
 | Fire from heavenMary Renault.PR6035.E55 F57 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability During his first twenty years of life, Alexander the Great is torn between admiration, hatred, and love for his father, asserts his independence from his mother's jealous love, is tutored by Aristotle, and becomes king of Macedon. |
 | FreedomWilliam Safire.PS3569.A283 F7 1987 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability On cover: A novel of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. A historical novel exploring the first two years of the Civil War. |
 | Funeral gamesMary Renault.PR6035.E55 F8 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability After Alexander's death in 323 B.C., his only direct heirs were two unborn sons and a simpleton half-brother. Every long-simmering faction exploded into the vacuum of power. Wives, distant relatives, and generals all vied for the loyalty of the increasingly undisciplined Macedonian army. ... |
 | George Washington, frontiersmanZane Grey ; edited, with an introduction by Carlton Jackson.PS3513.R6545 G46 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of George Washington from birth to early surveying trips, to his role in General Braddock's disastrous campaign, to taking command of the Continental army in 1775. |
 | Girl with a pearl earringTracy Chevalier.PS3553.H4367 G57 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is the story of 16-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius,... |
 | Gospel of CoraxPaul Park.PS3566.A6745 G67 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Jesus Christ flees to Tibet and his contact with the sages of eastern religions changes his life. The story is told by his companion on the journey, Corax, a slave who gained his freedom by betraying rebels, for which Christ is falsely blamed. |
 | Gould's book of fish : a novel in twelve fishby Richard Flanagan.PR9619.3.F525 G68 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The most remarkable novel yet from the internationally acclaimed author of Death of a River Guide and The Sound of One Hand Clapping, this is a marvelous historical epic of 19th century Australia, a world of convicts and colonists, thieves and catamites, whose bloody history is recorded i... |
 | Hallucinating FoucaultPatricia Duncker.PR6054.U477 H35 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An English student is so impressed by a book of philosophy that he travels to France to meet its author, now in an insane asylum. In describing the relationship which grows up between the two men, the novel looks at the bonds that are created between reader and writer, even though they ne... |
 | Historical romances : The prince and the pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court, Personal recollections of Joan of ArcMark Twain ; [notes by Susan K. Harris].PS1302 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Homer & Langley : a novelE.L. Doctorow.PS3554.O3 H66 2009 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A free imaginative rendering of the lives of New York's fabled Collyer brothers depicts Homer and Langley as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, facing odyssean perils as they struggle to survive the wars, political movements, and technological advances of the last century. |
 | Hottentot Venus : a novelBarbara Chase-Riboud.PS3553.H336 H68 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Born in the colony of Good Hope, South Africa, in 1789, Sarah Baartman was taken to London at the age of twenty by an English surgeon, who promised her fame and fortune. Dubbed the ₃Hottentot Venus,₄ she was paraded naked in Piccadilly in a freak-show exhibition and subjected to the ... |
 | I never came to you in white : a novelJudith Farr.PS3556.A733 I2 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The unhappy boarding-school life of the 19th Century poet, Emily Dickinson. She is a rebellious student who rejects blind obedience to God, refuses to have her letters censored and is caught having intimate relations with another girl student. |
 | I was Amelia Earhart : a novelJane Mendelsohn.PS3563.E482 I2 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A memoir by Amelia Earhart, the aviatrix, describing her life and her romance with Fred Noonan, the navigator, after they disappeared on their round-the-world flight in 1937. On the subject of her life she writes, "Noonan once said any fool could have seen I was risking my life without li... |
 | I, Claudius : from the autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, born 10 B.C., murdered and deified A.D. 54by Robert Graves.PR6013.R35 I2 1989 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The emperor Claudius tells of his life during the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, and Caligula and the events that led to his rise to power in a classic novel reconstructing ancient Rome. |
 | In the name of Salomé : a novelJulia Alvarez.PS3551.L845 I45 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Camila, whose mother, Salome, inspired a Dominican revolution with her poetry, spends most of her life trying to please her father and her brothers, all prominent men, before seeking a place for herself in the days following the Cuban revolution. |
 | Inner circleT. Coraghessan Boyle.PS3552.O932 I56 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A virginal man with a beautiful wife accepts a job as an assistant to Dr. Alfred Kinsey, a charming professor whose life's calling is sex. |
 | Lacuna : a novelBarbara Kingsolver.PS3561.I496 L33 2009 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "The story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds -- Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s -- and whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of the twentieth century's most tumultuous events"--Provided by publisher. |
 | LadiesDoris Grumbach.PS3557.R83 L3 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Life and opinions of Maf the dog, and of his friend Marilyn MonroeAndrew O'Hagan.PR6065.H18 L54 2010 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability [This story] is about Marilyn Monroe- voiced by her dog, Mafia Honey, or "Maf," for short. Maf is, naturally, versed in the classics, and as he and his owner spend time with such notables as Natalie Wood, Frank Sinatra, and JFK, he offers erudite commentary, sometimes in dialogue with oth... |
 | Lotte in Weimar : the beloved returnsThomas Mann ; translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter ; introduction by Hayden White.PT2625.A44 L62 1990 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Man who died : a storyby David Herbert Lawrence ; with a suite of woodcuts by Leonard Baskin ; and a commentary by John Fowles.PR6023.A93 M27 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In his last novel, published less than a year before his death, D. H. Lawrence takes up the theme of Christ's resurrection and his final days on earth. Lawrence recounts Christ's agonizing journey from death back to life with alarming realism: his initial painful awakening, the utter disi... |
 | Mason & DixonThomas Pynchon.PS3566.Y55 M37 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The lives of two 18th century British astronomers who surveyed the boundary which settled a dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania, and was later extended to become the boundary between free and slave states, the Mason-Dixon line. The novel describes their work in Africa and America, a... |
 | Master of Monterey : a novelby Lawrence Coates.PS3553.O153 M37 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Moon under her feetClysta Kinstler.PS3561.I584 M66 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | News from Paraguay : a novelLily Tuck.PS3570.U236 N49 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Pursued by the future dictator of Paraguay, Irish courtesan Ella Lynch struggles with isolation in spite of her power as his mistress, and witnesses the nation's victimization due to her lover's arrogant ambitions. |
 | Nosferatu : a novelJim Shepard.PS3569.H39384 N67 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A fictionalized biography of F.W. Murnau, a pioneering German filmmaker who was among the first to use a moving camera in order to obtain different angles. The novel covers his adventures in World War I as a fighter pilot, his homosexuality and the making of his famous vampire film, Nosfe... |
 | Old gringoby Carlos Fuentes ; translated by Margaret Sayers Peden and the author.PQ7297.F793 G713 1986 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability This is a fictional account of the fate of Pancho Villa's troops. |
 | One and only IvanKatherine Applegate ; illustrations by Patricia Castelao.PZ7.A6483 On 2012 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Pandaemonium : a novelLeslie Epstein.PS3555.P655 P36 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A film shoot by a world-famous director ends in disaster. It is a movie of Sophocles' Antigone and it is being shot in Pandaemonium, a town in Nevada, by Rudolf von Beckmann, a tyrant. The actor who narrates describes what happens when a director has too much power. By the author of Pinto... |
 | Persian boyMary Renault.PR6035.E55 P4 1988 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A slave-boy in the household of Alexander the Great tells about the adventures of the Macedonian king during the last seven years of his life. |
 | Pretty Boy Floyd : a novelLarry McMurtry and Diana Ossana.PS3563.A319 P74 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The life of Charles Floyd, an Oklahoma farm boy turned bandit in the 1920s. The newspapers dubbed him pretty boy because for a bank robber he was unusually kind. He became a folk hero and the FBI's public enemy No. 1. McMurtry is author of Lonesome Dove. |
 | Queen Margot, or, Marguerite de Valoisby Alexandre Dumas.PQ2227.R3 E55 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability La Reine Margot (1845) is a novel of suspense and drama which recreates the violent world of intrigue, murder and duplicity of the French Renaissance. |
 | Real life of Alejandro MaytaMario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Alfred Mac Adam.PQ8498.32.A65 H513 1986 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Rob RoySir Walter Scott ; introduction by Georg Lukács ; illustrations by Lockhart Bogle ; notes by Sir Walter Scott.PR5322 .R6 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Santa EvitaTomás Eloy Martínez ; translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane.PQ7798.23.A692 S3513 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A macabre comedy on Eva Peron's corpse--hidden, hijacked, replicated, smuggled abroad, buried, resurrected and repatriated. The protagonists include a military intelligence officer trying to identify the genuine article from the many copies in order to dispose of it. That way the Peronist... |
 | Sappho's leap : a novelby Erica Jong.PS3560.O56 S27 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel of ancient Greece tells the story of the epic poet's journeys, loves, and losses. |
 | Second crucifixion of Nat Turneredited with a new introduction by John Henrik Clarke.PS3569.T9 C633 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Secret dreamsKeith Korman.PS3561.O66 S43 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In Vienna, the famous psychiatrist, Carl Jung, is called to cure a mad woman. It is a difficult case, the woman having fantasies of rape and seduction. Eventually Jung finds a cure by making love to her--and the woman becomes a psychiatrist in her own right. By the author of Archangel. |
 | Sor Juana's second dream : a novelby Alicia Gaspar de Alba.PS3557.A8449 S67 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A fictionalized portrait of Juana Inés de la Cruz, the 17th century lesbian nun who became Mexico's first feminist poet. It traces her life from her illegitimate birth to trial by the Inquisition. |
 | Testament of MaryColm Tóibín.PR6070.O455 T47 2012 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Thousand pieces of gold : a biographical novelby Ruthanne Lum McCunn.PS3563.C353 T5 1988 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Chronicles the life of Lalu Nathoy, a young Chinese girl--sold as a slave and brought to America--where, later, as Polly Bemis she struggles and survives as a pioneer in the West. |
 | TinisimaElena Poniatowska ; translated by Katherine Silver.PQ7297.P63 T5613 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Long though it is, this English version of Tinísima, Poniatowska's novel based closely on the life of Italian photographer Tina Modotti (1896-1942), represents a considerable abridgment of the original. Implicitly, however, the textual recreation is the work of Poniatowska herself, who... |
 | True history of the Kelly gangPeter Carey.PR9619.3.C36 T7 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The legend of Ned Kelly, notorious outlaw and bank robber, as written in his own words for an infant daughter he's never seen. |
 | Underground manMick Jackson.PR6060.A245 U53 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The diary of a 19th century English eccentric. John Bentick-Scott was a duke, best known for the underground tunnels under his estate, big enough to accommodate his carriage so he could come and go in secret. The novel portrays him as being unusually curious about life, both its spiritual... |
 | VindicationFrances Sherwood.PS3569.H454 V54 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Mary, a gifted, restless young woman, leaves her troubled and uncomprehending family and journeys first to London and then to Paris during the French Revolution. |
 | Volcano lover : a romanceSusan Sontag.PS3569.O6547 V6 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A love story set in Naples in 1772 and based on the romantic entanglements of Lord and Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson. |