Recreational Reading

Genre: Novels of Home & Family

400 titles found

	72 hour hold : a novel Campbell, Bebe Moore, 1950- PS3553.A4395 A613 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Fed up with the mental health community and desperate to save her daughter, who is suffering from bipolar disorder, Keri enlists the assistance of the Program, an illegal group of radicals who have rejected the established psychiatric system.
	About Schmidt Begley, Louis. PS3552.E373 A64 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An aristocratic Wasp, a widower who is one of New York's last white-shoe lawyers, seeks solace in the arms of a Puerto Rican waitress after his only daughter inflicts on him the ultimate indignity. She is marrying an ambitious drone, immune to the refining pleasures of culture and--perhap...
	After the war : a novel Adams, Alice, 1926- PS3551.D324 A67 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Transplanted Northerners Cynthia and Harry Baird face the changes brought by World War II and the growing anti-Semitism and racism in their adopted home of Pinehill, North Carolina.
	After this McDermott, Alice. PS3563.C355 A68 2006 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A portrait of an American family during the middle decades of the twentieth century evokes the social, spiritual, and political turmoil of the era as seen through the experiences of a middle-class couple and their children.
	Aguero sisters García, Cristina, 1958- PS3557.A66 A73 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of two Cuban sisters, one living in Cuba, the other in the United States. The novel is at once the tale of a family and of a country, the sisters representing the lot of Cubans who left and those who stayed. Eventually the sisters are re-united on U.S. soil. By the author of Dre...
	Ain't no river Foster, Sharon Ewell. PS3556.O7724 A75 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Garvin Daniels is a sassy, bright, self-absorbed D.C. lawyer with her eyes on a partnership. There's just one problem--Meemaw, her seventy-something grandmother! ... When Garvin discovers her grandmother's radical emancipation--and the man who's leading the charge--she hits the road for ...
	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 t...
	Allegra Maud Goldman Konecky, Edith. PS3561.O457 A79 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	And never said a word Böll, Heinrich, 1917- PT2603.O394 U513 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Angel angel Stevens, April, 1963- PS3569.T4397 A83 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A family drama that begins when a husband leaves his wife for another woman. She retreats to bed with a nervous breakdown and refuses to see her son, Henry. The son phones his brother, Matthew, in Boston who hurries home, but fails to console her. Relief comes when Henry's girlfriend, Bet...
	Animal dreams : a novel Kingsolver, Barbara. PS3561.I496 A86 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Hallie Nodine fights for justice in Nicaragua while her sister, Codi, returns to Arizona to confront her dying father, as myths, dreams, and flashbacks blend to examine life's commitments.
	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, il...
	Antiquary Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832. PR5317.A68 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Appointment in Samarra O'Hara, John, 1905-1970. PS3529.H29 A8 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Ironic tragedy of a man who cannot avoid his fate.
	Archivist : a novel Cooley, Martha. PS3553.O5646 A87 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An aging librarian's memories are stirred by a young woman. The woman is researching her Jewishness after learning that her parents converted to Christianity. The librarian's wife, too, was a Jewess and she committed suicide, despairing of the Holocaust.
	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...
	As I lay dying : the corrected text Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. PS3511.A86 A85 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The members of a Southern family contribute their individual tribulations to this encompassing impression of rural poverty.
	Assommoir Zola, Émile, 1840-1902. PQ2496 .M38 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Atonement : a novel McEwan, Ian. PR6063.C4 A88 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister, Cecilia, strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from C...
	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...
	Awkward age James, Henry, 1843-1916. PS2116 .A8 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability London society takes its toll on a young girl unprepared for the corruptions of the "coming out" season.
	Babel Tower Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936- PR6052.Y2 B33 1996b Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In England, a woman marries into the landed gentry, only to find the life stifling. When she tries to renew with her old milieu, her husband objects. Drama follows drama, ending in a custody battle for their only child. A look at British society.
	Back when we were grownups : a novel Tyler, Anne. PS3570.Y45 B33 2001b Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Beck Davitch looks back on her thirty-year marriage to Joe and her role as a mother and manager of the Open Arms, wondering if she is living the life she was meant to live and reconsidering her dedication to the family business.
	Beaming Sonny home Pelletier, Cathie. PS3566.E42 B43 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A tragicomedy on a lovesick man who kidnaps two women to get his ex-wife's attention. Sonny, 36, holds them in a trailer while giving interviews to CNN, the event having become something of a media circus. The novel looks at the impact on a town and on the kidnaper's family, glued to the ...
	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...
	Behind the scenes at the museum : a novel Atkinson, Kate. PR6051.T56 B44 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability From the moment Ruby Lennox announces her own conception with the shout, "I exist!"--An event she attributes to the five pints of bitter her father drank--it is clear she won't leave anything out of the account of her Yorkshire family. She describes her great-grandmother's affair with a F...
	Belle du Seigneur Cohen, Albert, 1895- PQ2605.O24 B413 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In 1930s Geneva, an official who rose high in the League of Nations by concealing his Jewish roots sets out to seduce a colleague's wife who represents his ideal of absolute love. A look at the mores and manners of the day.
	Between sisters : a novel Vida, Nina. PS3572.I29 B48 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A two-generation tale of child abuse featuring Lela, kidnaped and raped by her father, who also rapes her sister, Jolene, and kills their mother. Separated by adoption, the sisters' paths cross many years later when Lela helps a father kidnap his daughter because the mother--who is Jolene...
	Birthday Sillitoe, Alan. PR6037.I55 B57 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Arthur and Brian Seaton, on their way to the 70th birthday party for Brian's former lover, reflect on their lives.
	Bitter Lake : a novel Harleman, Ann, 1945- PS3558.A624246 B58 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A man who likes his freedom disappears for the umpteenth time from his home in a steel-mill town in Pennsylvania. The novel describes the effect on his wife and two daughters. Recriminations fly, jobs have to be found and the daughters leave home. What will reunite the family will be the ...
	Blacker than a thousand midnights Straight, Susan. PS3569.T6795 B57 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The life of a "straight and narrow" black man, a topic rarely treated in contemporary fiction. The protagonist is Darnell Tucker, a firefighter, and the setting is a racially mixed community in a volatile quarter of Los Angeles. By the author of I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out A...
	Bless me, Ultima Anaya, Rudolfo A. PS3551.N27 B58 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Ultima, a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic, comes to Antonio Marez's New Mexico family when he is six years old, and she helps him discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past.
	Bless me, Ultima Anaya, Rudolfo A. PS3551.N27 B58 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Six-year-old Antonio embarks upon a spiritual journey under the watchful guidance of Ultima, a healing woman, that leads him to question his faith and beliefs in family, religion, and other aspects of his Chicano culture.
	Blind assassin Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939- PR9199.3.A8 B55 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in a dingy backstreet room. Set in a multi-layered story of the death of a woman's sister and husband in the 1940's, with a novel-within-a novel as a background.
	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.
	Blue shoe Lamott, Anne. PS3562.A4645 B57 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability When she stumbles upon a small blue shoe and other small items left behind in her deceased father's car, Mattie Ryder, a divorced mother of two, and her brother struggle to uncover the truth about their dysfunctional upbringing.
	Boat people : a novel Gardner, Mary. PS3557.A7142 B63 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability America as seen through the eyes of Vietnamese immigrants. The setting is Galveston, Texas, and in one incident a Vietnamese doctor is stopped by a policeman who throws his car keys under the car to force him to crawl. Subsequently the doctor is comforted by a white nurse "in that awful A...
	Bodies and souls : a novel Rechy, John. PS3568.E28 B6 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Book of Daniel : a novel Doctorow, E. L., 1931- PS3554.O3 B6 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Book of Hrabal Esterházy, Péter, 1950- PH3241.E85 H713 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In Hungary, God sends two angels disguised as secret policemen to prevent a woman from having an abortion. She is Anna, mother of three, depressed by her marriage and the state of Hungary, ills she chronicles in imaginary letters. By the author of Helping Verbs of the Heart.
	Boone's Lick : a novel McMurtry, Larry. PS3563.A319 B6 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "The novel follows the Cecil family's arduous journey by riverboat and wagon from Boone's Lick, Missouri, to Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming. Fifteen-year-old Shay narrates, describing the journey that begins when his Ma, Mary Margaret, decides to hunt down her elusive husband, Dick, to tell ...
	Bread givers : a novel : a struggle between a father of the Old World and a daughter of the New Yezierska, Anzia, 1880?-1970. PS3547.E95 B7 1975 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The life story of Anzia Yezierska and her struggle as a Jewish immigrant woman.
	Breath, eyes, memory Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- PS3554.A5815 B74 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The culture shock of Sophie Coco, a 12-year-old Haitian girl from the provinces, summoned to New York by her mother whom she hardly knows and who is toiling in a nursing home to provide for the family back home.
	Breathing lessons Tyler, Anne. PS3570.Y45 B74 1988 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability While driving to the funeral of a friend, a couple married twenty-eight years examine the expectations and disappointments of their marriage.
	Bridge between us Shigekuni, Julie. PS3569.H4865 B75 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The lives of four generations of Japanese-American women, of whom only the youngest has been to Japan. They are great-grandmother Reiko, the daughter of a Japanese princess; grandmother Rio, who once tried to commit suicide; mother Tomoe, a travel agent; and daughter Nomi. All four were b...
	Bright angel time McPhee, Martha. PS3563.C3888 B75 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Life with a newly liberated mother, narrated by Kate, 8, one of three children leading a normal life until father takes off with another woman. At that, mother adopts a freewheeling lifestyle, finds a hippie boyfriend with kids and a camper and--to Kate's disapproval--the extended family ...
	Brontë Hughes, Glyn, 1935- 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.
	Bruna and her sisters in the sleeping city Yánez Cossío, Alicia, 1929- PQ8220.35.A5 B713 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A magic-realism novel set in Ecuador which traces an eccentric family's history from the Conquest to modern times. One woman paints her face white for a portrait to hide her Indian origin, another weaves a carpet intended to stretch to Rome so as to encourage the Pope to visit.
	Buddenbrooks : the decline of a family Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. PT2625.A44 B82 1994a Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany captures the triumphs and tragedies, successes and failures, relationships, loves, and ordinary events of everyday middle-class life.
	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.
	By the light of my father's smile : a novel Walker, Alice, 1944- PS3573.A425 B9 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel on two black sisters whose father forbids teen sex and when one engages in it gives her a hiding. The novel explores "the ways in which a woman's denied sexuality leads to the loss of the much-prized and necessary original self." By the author of The Color Purple.
	Cakes and ale Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965. PR6025.A86 C346 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability For Alroy Kear the task is sample: write the authorized biography of the eminently respectable Victorian novelist Edward Driffield and make it a bestseller. What he doesn't reckon on is the truth.
	Canícula : snapshots of a girlhood en la frontera Cantú, Norma Elia, 1947- PS3553.A555 C36 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In this fictionalized memoir of Laredo, Texas, canícula represents a time between childhood and a yet unknown adulthood.
	Cantora : a novel López-Medina, Sylvia, 1942- PS3562.O675 C3 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability This memorable first novel is the story of four generations of Mexican - then Mexican American women - who defy and preserve the traditions of their often oppressive cultures. Set in Mexico and Southern California, the story of the Perez women is pieced together by the U.S.-born daughter ...
	Caramelo, or, Puro cuento : a novel Cisneros, Sandra. PS3553.I78 C37 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability During her family's annual car trip from Chicago to Mexico City, Lala Reyes listens to stories about her family, including her grandmother, the descendant of famous shawl makers, one of which has come into Lala's possession.
	Cattle killing Wideman, John Edgar. PS3573.I26 C38 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A surrealistic novel on the black experience. The action is in the form of vignettes and ranges from cattle killing by the Xhosa in Africa, believing this will drive the whites away, to a black bishop in Philadelphia taking his flock out of the white man's church.
	Caucasia Senna, Danzy. PS3569.E618 C3 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel on children of mixed marriages. The protagonists are two sisters in Boston, daughters of a black professor and a white woman. One daughter passes for black and attends black school while her sister passes for white and attends white school. But the classmates know and when it come...
	Cave Saramago, José. PQ9281.A66 C3813 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Informed that his clay pots and jugs are no longer needed, elderly potter Cipriano applies his craft to the making of ceramic dolls, but his family's subsequent successes are compromised by a terrible discovery.
	Cavedweller Allison, Dorothy. PS3551.L453 C3 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A Georgia woman who abandoned her family to become a singer in California, returns 10 years later. It happens after Delia Byrd's new man dies in an accident, leaving her with a child. The novel describes the family's adjustment, including that of her teen daughters. By the author of Basta...
	Change of climate Mantel, Hilary, 1952- PR6063.A438 C44 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The drama of an English missionary couple. Posted to South Africa they become anti-apartheid activists and are jailed. Released, they move to Botswana where she gives birth to twins, but a black servant abducts them and only one boy is recovered. Although they have more children, the inci...
	Charming Billy McDermott, Alice. PS3563.C355 C48 1998x Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A young woman, cousin to the late Billy Lynch who has just died of alcoholism, traces the story of his lost love, discovering her own father's role in trying to keep Billy from being hurt by the truth about Eva, and contemplating the effect her father's lie had on the rest of the family.
	Child of the Holy Ghost Laxalt, Robert, 1923- PS3562.A9525 C48 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "You're our mother and this is your country," I shouted at her, anything to stop her pain. "We don't care about that Middle Ages nonsense over there." But "over there" in his mother's natal Basque village, Pete finds himself stepping back into a medieval morality, into the rigid and unrel...
	China boy : a novel Lee, Gus. PS3562.E3524 C47 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Kai Ting grows up in a Mandarin family that fled to San Francisco, isolated from American culture until a stepmother tries to erase every vestige of China from the household.
	China Court : the hours of a country house Godden, Rumer, 1907- PR6013.O2 C48 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	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 an...
	Clabbered dirt, sweet grass Paulsen, Gary. PS3566.A834 C53 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Story of the relationship between the farmer and his animals in a vanishing way of life.
	Clear light of day Desai, Anita, 1937- PR9499.3.D465 C56 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "The novel begins with the triennial visit of the younger sister Tara and her diplomat husband to the old family home, a decaying suburban mansion on the banks of the Jumma outside Old Delhi. Here Bim the older sister, lives with the youngest brother, Baba. Baba is autistic, a childlike, ...
	Cloud chamber : a novel Dorris, Michael. PS3554.O695 C56 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An Irish immigrant family's saga which begins in 19th Century Ireland and ends in present-day Montana. The novel follows the family's fortunes through famine, wars and in love. By the author of A Yellow Raft in Blue.
	Cold Comfort Farm Gibbons, Stella, 1902-1989. PR6013.I24 C6 2006 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed
	Coldwater McConnochie, Mardi, 1971- PR9619.4.M38 C65 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Wolf live on Coldwater, a penal colony off the coast of Australia, where their father, Captain Wolf, rules the household with the same unyielding sterness he imposes on the inmates. The young women rarely venture beyond their corner of the island and meet no on...
	Color purple Walker, Alice, 1944- PS3573.A425 C6 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The lives of two sisters--Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a southern woman married to a man she hates--are revealed in a series of letters exchanged over thirty years.
	Comfort woman Keller, Nora Okja. PS3561.E38574 C66 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A Korean woman's life as a sex slave for the Japanese during World War II. The novel is narrated in part by the mother, in part by her American daughter who is a newspaper reporter in Hawaii. Not until her mother's death did the daughter learn what terrible experiences lay behind the scre...
	Confidence of the heart Schweidel, David. PS3569.C56815 C66 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A man who considers himself a free spirit and sneers at yuppies goes to Guatemala to marry a rich girl. As she prepares for the wedding, he organizes a democratic election on her father's plantation, bringing trouble on the workers. He marries and returns to the U.S. to become just anothe...
	Corrections Franzen, Jonathan. PS3556.R352 C67 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a onc...
	Country of marriage Giardina, Anthony. PS3557.I135 I5 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Stories dealing with marriage in our society, when expectations of eternal love are high, infidelity frequent and the classic roles of men and women reversed. Typical of the latter is Days with Cecilia, in which the husband takes care of the children while his wife works and has an affair...
	Cousin Henry Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882. PR5684 .C65 1987 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Crazy hunter Boyle, Kay, 1902- PS3503.O9357 C73 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability This stunning short novel portrays a family--an almost grown young woman, her mother, and her drunkard father--and a magnificent blind gelding. Powerful and businesslike, the mother is determined to put him down; the daughter is determined to save him.
	Crime in the neighborhood : a novel Berne, Suzanne. PS3552.E73114 C75 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A girl annoyed by a neighbor flirting with her mother accuses him of sexual abuse and murder. She is Martha, 10, and in the summer of 1972 the suburb of Spring Hill in Washington is more than ready to believe her, a child having been raped and murdered. The novel examines what can happen ...
	Crossing to safety Stegner, Wallace Earle, 1909- PS3537.T316 C76 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Called a "magnificently crafted story...brimming with wisdom" by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing th...
	Crossing vines : a novel González, Rigoberto. PS3557.O4695 C7 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "In the grim reality of Southern California's grape fields, even the sun is a dark spot. For the migrant grape pickers in Crossing Vines, Rigoberto Gonzalez's novel that spans a single workday, the sun is a constant, malevolent force. The characters endure back-breaking, monotonous work a...
	Custom of the country Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. PS3545.H16 C8 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Undine Spragg, selfish and spoiled, determines to gain admittance into turn-of-the-century New York society.
	Dalva Harrison, Jim, 1937- PS3558.A67 D35 1989 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The saga of a pioneer family is chronicled by Dalva, a woman searching for the lost son she had by Duane, a half-Sioux, and whose Indian heritage becomes an important part of Dalva's narrative.
	Dance dance dance : a novel Murakami, Haruki, 1949- PL856.U673 D3613 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability He burst upon the international scene with the wildly acclaimed A Wild Sheep Chase. He quickly came to represent the quirky voice of a new generation of Japanese writers. Now Haruki Murakami gives us his wittiest, boldest, most daring work to date. Dance dance dance continues the extraord...
	Dance real slow : a novel Jaffe, Michael Grant. PS3560.A3134 D36 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A woman abandons a marriage, leaving Gordon Nash to bring up their four-year-old son on his own. He obtains a divorce, moves to a small town and proceeds to cope as a single father. Everything goes well--he has found a girlfriend--when the ex-wife shows up wanting to resume the marriage.
	Dancing on glass Chehak, Susan Taylor. PS3553.H34875 D34 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Bader Von Vechten's marriage to Katherine Craig healed the wounds between Cedar Hill, Iowa's leading families, only to be ripped apart by Bader's affair.
	Days of awe Obejas, Achy, 1956- PS3565.B34 D39 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Dean's December Bellow, Saul. PS3503.E4488 D4 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	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 back...
	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.
	Death of a river guide Flanagan, Richard, 1961- PR9619.3.F525 D43 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Aljaz Cosini, river guide, is leading a group of tourists on a raft down Tasmania's wild Franklin River when his greatest fear is realized, a tourist falls into the river and may drown. An ordinary man with many regrets, Aljaz rises to an uncharacteristic heroism and offers his own life ...
	Delta wedding Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001. PS3545.E6 D4 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A vivid and charming portrait of a large southern family, the Fairchilds, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. The story, set in 1923, is exquisitely woven from the ordinary events of family life, centered around the visit of a young relative, Laura McRaven, and the family's...
	Desert rose : a novel McMurtry, Larry. PS3563.A319 D4 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Harmony is a Las Vegas showgirl. at night she's a lead dancer in a gambling casino; during the day she raises peacocks. She's one of a dying breed of dancers, faced with fewer and fewer jobs and an even bleaker future. Yet she maintains a calm cheerfulness in that arid neon landscape of s...
	Desirable daughters : a novel Mukherjee, Bharati. PR9499.3.M77 D47 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Chronicles the journeys of three Brahmin women as they follow divergent paths from their home in Calcutta and a rigid Indian society to seek new lives for themselves on two separate continents.
	Diary of a lost boy : a novel Kondoleon, Harry. PS3561.O456 D5 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Part screwball comedy, part (screwball) tragedy - a brilliantly original novel about love and marriage, gay and straight, in the age of AIDS. At the center, Hector Diaz - seen everywhere around New York, glamorous, in the know, streetwise. He is also HIV-positive and in clinical trials. H...
	Disgrace Coetzee, J. M., 1940- PR9369.3.C58 D5 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A white woman is gang-raped by blacks in this novel on post-apartheid South Africa. But she understands such settling of scores is inevitable, given what whites did to blacks, and she keeps the baby. By the author of Waiting for the Barbarians.
	Distance from the heart of things Warlick, Ashley. PS3573.A7617 D57 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In South Carolina, a woman returns home from college with a bookkeeping degree to help her grandfather run his vineyards. The novel describes her life amid a gallery of characters, from an uncle her age whom she loves, to a friend who boasts she never wears underwear. A first novel.
	Distinguished guest Miller, Sue, 1943- PS3563.I421444 D57 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An old woman debilitated by illness moves in with her son. She is a writer who made a name for herself with feminists for getting rid of her husband, but her children have always condemned her for it. The novel looks at the way the son's resentment affects his own wife and children.
	Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood : a novel Wells, Rebecca. PS3573.E4937 D58 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A scrapbook of her mother's girlhood momentos entitled "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" helps Siddalee Walker sort through her conflicting emotions about her mother.
	Dolly Brookner, Anita. PR6052.R5816 D65 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Anita Brookner has been called "one of the finest novelists of her generation" by The New York Times and "a latter-day Jane Austen" by Publishers Weekly. Now, in Dolly, Brookner continues to explore in her masterful way the changing truths of identity and relationships in the lives of wom...
	Dombey and Son Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. PR4559 .A1 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett Annotation. Dickens set this tale of a selfish, hard-hearted man, the son he favored, and the daughter he slighted, in an England almost prostrate before the storms of change we now call the Industrial Revolution. This is a superb example of Dicken's ab...
	Down by the river O'Brien, Edna. PR6065.B7 D69 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In Ireland a girl is raped by her father, but is prevented from having an abortion until a court decides if she can, by which time it is likely to be too late. Mary McNamara, 14, becomes a virtual prisoner and a political football for factions of every kind. Based on real events by the au...
	Dreaming in Cuban : a novel García, Cristina, 1958- PS3557.A66 D74 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A vivid and funny first novel about three generations of a Cuban family divided by conflicting loyalties over the Cuban revolution, set in the world of Havana in the 1970s and '80s and in an emigre neighborhood of Brooklyn. It is a story of immense charm about women and politics, women an...
	East of Eden Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. PS3537.T3234 E3 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks' and the Hamilton's--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The...
	Eccentric neighborhoods Ferré, Rosario. PS3556.E7256 E27 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The saga of two families in Puerto Rico early this century, one old money, the other new money. One lives off the land, the other is in industry, and their story is told by a woman born of a union of the two. A tale of love and family politics.
	Emperor of Ocean Park Carter, Stephen L., 1954- PS3603.A78 E4 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The complex story of family with links to crime. The novel is set amongst the African American society of the eastern seaboard and the inner circle of an Ivy League law school.
	Empire of women Shepard, Karen. PS3569.H39388 E47 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "The story captures the reunion of Celine Arneaux, a famous French-Chinese photographer, with her Asian-American daughter and granddaughters. The setting is a family cabin in Virginia, where Celine once photographed her granddaughter, Cameron, for a scandalous series of child portraits."-...
	Enduring love : a novel McEwan, Ian. PR6063.C4 E53 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A homosexual attempts to lure a man away from his woman. It happens in England after the two men meet in a balloon accident. When the straight man declines the advances, the homosexual begins stalking him, contemplating ways to get rid of the woman. By the author of The Innocent.
	Erasure : a novel Everett, Percival L. PS3555.V34 E73 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Novelist, college profesor, woodworker, and fly fisherman, Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But he is offended and angered by the success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, the exploitive debut novel of a young, middle-class black woman who once visited "...
	Ethan Frome : authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. PS3545.H16 E7 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Textual notes and critical essays accompany the tale of a New England farmer who must choose between his duty to care for his invalid wife and his love for her cousin.
	Evening class Binchy, Maeve. PR6052.I7728 E94 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In Dublin, an evening class of Italian language and culture changes the lives of its students. A girl finds love, a boy abandons crime, a man regains a reason for living. It is the work of the teacher, an Irish woman who followed a married man to Italy and returned to Ireland on his death...
	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.
	Explanation for chaos Schumacher, Julie, 1958- PS3569.C5548 E97 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A collection of stories on growing up. The story, The Private Life of Robert Schumann, is on the reaction of a group of girls to advances from their music teacher, while Dummies is on living as a child with an eccentric woman while your mother is in hospital.
	Eye for an eye Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882. PR5684 .E9 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Face of an angel Chávez, Denise. PS3553.H346 F34 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A waitress writes a handbook on waiting at tables. It is called The Book of Service and is based on her 30-year career in a Mexican restaurant in the southwest of the country. In it she meditates on the meaning of service--at work as well as in her own life--and on the role of women in a ...
	Falling angels Chevalier, Tracy. PS3553.H4367 F35 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Set in early 20th century London, Chevalier follows two girl as the changes in the century emerge.
	Falling boy : a novel Long, David, 1948- PS3562.O4924 F34 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A domestic triangle in a small town in 1950s Montana. As a youth, Mark Singer spends his free time in the Vagabond Cafe, eyeing the four daughters of the Greek owner. He marries one and afterwards has an affair with another. A first novel.
	Falling in place Beattie, Ann. PS3552.E177 F35 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of John Knapp, who loves Nina but is married to Louise; and Nina, an expensively educated salesgirl who loves John but spends too much time with her old boyfriend, Spangle.
	Family matters Mistry, Rohinton, 1952- PR9199.3.M494 F36 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Set in Bombay in the mid-1990s, Family Matters tells a story of familial love and obligation, of personal and political corruption, of the demands of tradition and the possibilities for compassion. Nariman Vakeel, the patriarch of a small discordant family, is beset by Parkinson's and hau...
	Farewell, I'm bound to leave you Chappell, Fred, 1936- PS3553.H298 F37 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel on the backwoods women of Appalachia, illustrating their self-reliance and passion. The characters range from a woman who gets her man by impressing on him her skill with a gun, to one who goes mad after a failed love affair. By the author of More Shapes Than One.
	Fathers and sons Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883. PG3420.O8 E5 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Set against the serene backdrop of the Russian countryside, Fathers and Sons is the story of Arcady Kirsanov, a young man who returns from college to his father's country manor with his radical friend Bazarov in tow. Behind Bazarov's chilling intellect hides a heart of compassion and kind...
	Faults : a novel Peña, Terri de la, 1947- PS3566.E448 F3 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Fine balance : a novel Mistry, Rohinton, 1952- PR9199.3.M494 F56 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A portrait of India featuring four characters. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by an Indian from Toronto, author of Such a Long Jou...
	First man Camus, Albert, 1913-1960. PQ2605.A3734 P7413 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A fictionalized autobiography, covering his youth in Algeria. It is filled with details of the white working class to which he belonged and there is the undercurrent of a boy's search for a father figure, his own killed in World War I. He describes the intervention of a school teacher who...
	Flower in the skull Alcalá, Kathleen, 1954- PS3551.L287 F56 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A family saga on several generations of Indian women, beginning with a 19th century refugee from Mexico who finds work as a maid in Arizona. It ends in the present with Shelly, a publisher's assistant researching her family roots. By the author of Spirits of the Ordinary.
	Footprints Hearon, Shelby, 1931- PS3558.E256 F6 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A marriage begins crumbling when a couple meet a Southern preacher whose life has been saved by their daughter's heart. While the husband is overwhelmed by the thought that part of his daughter still lives, his wife is detached. The discovery of such different sensibilities after 25 years...
	Fountain overflows West, Rebecca, Dame, 1892- PR6045.E8 F68 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	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...
	Gangster of love Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata, 1949- PS3558.A3228 G36 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A Filipino woman's rise to prominence as a rock-and-roll artist. She is Rocky, who migrates to the U.S. as a teen and falls in love with a musician. She turns to writing music, the two form a band and sell a record. Despite professional success, assimilation for an Asian is difficult.
	Garden of earthly delights Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- PS3565.A8 G3 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "In her second novel, Joyce Carol Oates created one of her most memorable heroines, Clara, the beautiful daughter of migrant farmworkers. Intent upon rising above her haphazard life of violence and poverty, Clara struggles for independence while relying on four men to fashion her destiny:...
	Gesture life Lee, Chang-rae. PS3562.E3347 G4 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The secret life of a Japanese-American pharmacist in a small town in New York. On the surface a model of propriety and serenity, he is torn by memories of his service in the Japanese army in World War II and the comfort woman he loved and could not save. By the author of Native Speaker.
	Get a life Gordimer, Nadine. PR9369.3.G6 G48 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Paul Bannerman, an ecologist living in South Africa, begins to re-examine his life after he is diagnosed with thyroid cancer and begins radiation treatments--an isolating experience that forces him to confront his relationships with family and friends.
	Geyser life : a novel Hardy, Edward, 1957- PS3558.A62373 G48 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A brother and sister drive west from Boston in search of their father. The search is prompted by the death of a second brother who looked after them when the father abandoned the family. They find their father working in Yellowstone National Park. A reconciliation or further estrangement?...
	Gilead Robinson, Marilynne. PS3568.O3125 G55 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.
	Girls : a novel Lansens, Lori. PR9199.4.L36 G57 2006 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Meet Rose and Ruby: sisters, best friends, confidantes, and conjoined twins. Since their birth, Rose and Ruby Darlen have been known simply as "the girls." They make friends, fall in love, have jobs, love their parents, and follow their dreams. But the Darlens are special. Now nearing the...
	Glass Palace : a novel Ghosh, Amitav, 1956- PR9499.3.G536 G58 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Tells of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who creates an empire in the Burmese teak forest. During the British invasion of 1885, when soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, the woman whose l...
	God of small things Roy, Arundhati. PR9499.3.R59 G63 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of an Indian family during the 1969 Communist disturbances in Kerala province. It is told through the eyes of a boy and his sister who are the children of a rich rubber planter. Politics, family drama, illicit love. A debut in fiction.
	Good soldier Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939. PR6011.O53 G5 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "This is the saddest story," the narrator notes of his friend Edward Ashburham's life. A superb soldier and the perfect English gentleman, the Ashburham has one fatal flaw with regard to affairs of love. Ford weaves a brilliant tale-long recognized as one of the masterpieces of twentieth ...
	Goodbye, Saigon : a novel Vida, Nina. PS3572.I29 G6 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The adventures of Truong Anh, a Vietnamese woman who operates a fake law firm in Los Angeles. A fast-talking type, she supports a large family and has a Vietnam War vet for a boyfriend. The novel describes life in LA's Little Saigon, and her escapades are interspersed with flashbacks to V...
	Goodnight, Nebraska : a novel McNeal, Tom. PS3563.C38844 G66 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A youth's inability to control his temper ruins his life. After shooting a man for sleeping with his mother, Randall Hunsacker leaves Utah for a small town in Nebraska. Things start looking up when he becomes a football hero and marries a local belle, but his temper gets the better of him...
	Gunga Din highway : a novel Chin, Frank, 1940- PS3553.H4897 G86 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A Chinese-American family saga featuring the Kwans of Los Angeles. The protagonists are movie actor Longman Kwan, "The Chinaman Who Dies" in countless Hollywood epics, and his son, Ulysses, who despises his father's dream of one day playing Charlie Chan. The novel features an assortment o...
	Half-life of happiness Casey, John, 1939- PS3553.A79334 H35 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A marriage disintegrates when the wife falls in love with a lesbian. The couple are Mike and Joss Reardon of Charlottesville, Virginia, he a lawyer running for Congress, she a filmmaker. Observing events are two daughters with acerbic tongues, Edith and Nora. By the author of Spartina.
	Hazeley family Johnson, A. E. (Amelia E.), b. 1859. PS2134.J515 H39 1988 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Heart of Aztlan : a novel Anaya, Rudolfo A. PS3551.N27 H43 1988 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Chronicles the lives of a Mexican American family in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
	Heat wave : a novel Lively, Penelope, 1933- PR6062.I89 H43 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An editor of romance novels goes to a cottage for the summer, taking her daughter and son-in-law. As she pencils scenes of romantic bliss she realizes the son-in-law is cheating on his wife, just as her ex-husband cheated on her. A story with a violent end.
	High latitudes : a romance Buchan, James. PR6052.U215 H5 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The plight of Jane Haddon. The managing director of a textile conglomerate in Britain, she is a beautiful divorcee. She could have any man she wants, yet she resigns herself to personal and professional loneliness. Why? The novel explains.
	Home Robinson, Marilynne. PS3568.O3125 H58 2008 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack--the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years--comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain.
	Hope : a tragedy : a novel Auslander, Shalom. PS3601.U85 H67 2012 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Relocating his family to an unremarkable rural town in New York in the hopes of starting over, Solomon Kugel must cope with his depressive mother, a local arsonist, and the discovery of a believed-dead historical specimen hiding in his attic.
	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.
	Hour I first believed : a novel Lamb, Wally. PS3562.A433 H68 2008 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Relocating to a family farm in Connecticut after surviving the Columbine school shootings, Caelum and Maureen discover a cache of family memorabilia dating back five generations, which reveals to Caelum unexpected truths about painful past events.
	Hours Cunningham, Michael, 1952- PS3553.U484 H68 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A trio of stories around the writer, Virginia Woolf. In the first, set in 1923, Woolf is writing her novel, Mrs. Dalloway. The second story is on a woman reading the novel in 1949 Los Angeles, while the third is on a woman in present-day New York who has been nicknamed Mrs. Dalloway by he...
	House for Mr. Biswas Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932- PR9272.9.N32 H6 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Owning a small portion of the Trinidad earth and a respectable house of his own is the dream that sustains Mohun Biswas through a life of frustration and despair after he marries into the domineering Tulsi family.
	House for Mr. Biswas Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932- PR9272.9.N32 H6 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Owning a small portion of the Trinidad earth and a respectable house of his own is the dream that sustains Mohun Biswas through a life of frustration and despair after he marries into the domineering Tulsi family.
	House on the lagoon Ferré, Rosario. PS3556.E7256 H68 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Isabel Monfort, a fledgling novelist, begins a work intended to chronicle the multigenerational history of her family and that of her husband, Quintin Mendizabal; but when Quintin finds the manuscript, he becomes enraged at his wife's version of events, and believes she has set out delibe...
	Human croquet Atkinson, Kate. PR6051.T56 H86 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The narrator, Isobel, 16, is a time traveller, while her brother is afraid of abduction by aliens. They are abandoned by their parents, then seven years later the father returns with a new wife. Where is mother? The grandmother who looks after them won't answer. An English tragicomedy by ...
	Hundred secret senses Tan, Amy. PS3570.A48 H86 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Chinese-American Olivia Laguni's life is changed by her nemesis and half-sister , Kwan Li, whose haunting predictions and implementation of the secret senses link their family's struggles to the challenges of their ancestors.
	Idea of home White, Curtis, 1951- PS3573.H4575 I3 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Imaginings of sand Brink, André Philippus, 1935- PR9369.3.B7 I48 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of several generations of brave Afrikaner frontier women. It is in the form of reminiscences by a dying woman to her granddaughter, who is returning to South Africa from exile in England. The visit coincides with the end of Afrikaner rule.
	Imani all mine Porter, Connie Rose, 1959- PS3566.O6424 I63 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Tasha, a fifteen-year-old mother, is proud of her baby girl and is determined to be a good parent to her child, but she must draw upon her newfound faith to go on when tragedy strikes.
	Immortals Chaudhuri, Amit, 1962- PR9499.3.C4678 I66 2009 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "The award-winning author of A New World now gives us an incantatory novel - at once plaintive and comic - about the powerful undercurrent of cultural and familial tradition in a society enthralled with the future." "Bombay in the 1980s: Shyam Lal is a highly regarded voice teacher, train...
	In search of satisfaction Cooper, J. California. PS3553.O5874 I5 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability On an estate outside New York City, Josephus Josephus, a black worker, is forced to make love to his white mistress, Victoria Krupt. The result is a daughter, Yingyang. To assure Yingyang's future, Josephus steals the Krupts' money while poisoning them. By the author of Family.
	In the Lake of the Woods O'Brien, Tim, 1946- PS3565.B75 I5 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability John Wade, a senatorial candidate, is accused of participating in a massacre during the Vietnam War. Hounded by the press, he flees with his wife to a cottage and his wife disappears. Did she desert him, or did he kill her? By the author of Going After Cacciato.
	Independence day Ford, Richard, 1944- PS3556.O713 I53 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Like most people Frank Bascombe of New Jersey, a divorced realtor, has plans for the Fourth of July weekend: find a new home for a client, see his semi-girlfriend and take his son to a sports hall of fame. Instead, one disappointment follows another, but he takes them in his stride--philo...
	Inheritance of loss Desai, Kiran, 1971- PS3554.E82 I54 2006b Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace lives in a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas , when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge's cook watches over Sai distractedly, for his thoughts are often on his ...
	Innocence of the Devil Saʻdāwī, Nawāl. PJ7862.A3 J3613 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel on the plight of Moslem women by one of Egypt's foremost feminist writers. The setting is a mental hospital and the protagonists are a woman patient and the head nurse, both victims of a harsh male-dominated society. By the author of The Fall of the Imam.
	Interruption of everything McMillan, Terry. PS3563.C3868 I58 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The perfect wife and mother of three grown children, Marilyn Grimes copes with the problems of midlife as she struggles to recall some of her own postponed dreams and reinvent her marriage, friendships, family, and herself.
	Inventing memory : a novel of mothers and daughters Jong, Erica. PS3560.O56 I58 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A saga of four gifted and sexy Jewish women. It begins with a Russian immigrant in 1910 and ends in the year 2000 with the great granddaughter who is a historian. The women participate in the main Jewish issues of the century, among them Jewish emigration and the Holocaust.
	Iphigenia : the diary of a young lady who wrote because she was bored Parra, Teresa de la, 1895-1936. PQ8549.P35 I413 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of Maria Eugenia Alonso, a girlbrought up in France and forced to return to Venezuelawhen her father dies. Having had her inheritance stolenby an uncle, the family puts her up for marriage. Writtenin 1924.
	Is he Popenjoy? Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882. PR5684 .I8 1986 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Jade peony : a novel Choy, Wayson, 1939- PR9199.3.C4967 J33 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The Chinese immigrant experience, featuring a girl and her two brothers. The girl is a budding tap dancer, one brother is a weakling, the other a boxer who joins the U.S. Marines. The novel is set in Vancouver, British Columbia, in the years leading to World War II. The anti-Japanese hyst...
	Jasmine Mukherjee, Bharati. PR9499.3.M77 J3 1989 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world. In just a few years...
	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.
	John's wife : a novel Coover, Robert. PS3553.O633 J6 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A small town in the Midwest is enthralled by its first lady. She is the wife of a wealthy builder and everyone has an opinion on her, though few have actually met her. A look at fame and fortune in a small pond by the author of Pinocchio in Venice.
	Joy Luck Club Tan, Amy. PS3570.A48 J6 1989 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades. A celebrated nov...
	Joys of motherhood : a novel Emecheta, Buchi. PR9387.9 .E36 1979 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Keepsake Gunn, Kirsty. PS3557.U4864 K44 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A girl raised on her mother's stories of a father she never knew begins reliving her mother's cycle of pain, abandonment and desire. A portrait of a daughter whose life is threatening to collapse under the weight of her mother's past.
	Kingfishers catch fire Godden, Rumer, 1907- PR6013.O2 K56 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Kiss of the wolf Shepard, Jim. PS3569.H39384 K57 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Joanie Mucherino, whose husband suddenly abandoned her and her eleven-year-old son, Todd, is trying to cope while dealing with her comically tactless and intrusive Italian family. To complicate matters, Joanie is now "available" in the eyes of Bruno Minea, a family friend whose twenty-yea...
	Kitchen god's wife Tan, Amy. PS3570.A48 K58 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Winnie Louie, an aging Chinese woman convinced that she will die soon, decides to unburden herself by divulging the secrets of those closest to her and to her suspicious, Americanized daughter.
	Lady Anna Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882. PR5684 .L3 1990 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Langrishe, go down Higgins, Aidan, 1927- PR6058.I34 L36 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Langrishe, Go Down traces the fall of the Langrishes - a once wealthy, highly respected Irish family - through the lives of their four daughters, especially the youngest, Imogen, whose love affair with a self-centered German scholar resonates throughout the book. Their relationship, told...
	Last chronicle of Barset Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882. PR5684 .L45 1989 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Last hotel for women : a novel Covington, Vicki. PS3553.O883 L37 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel of the civil rights movement through the eyes of a white family. The setting is 1961 Birmingham, Alabama, where the Fraley family owns a hotel which used to be a brothel, run by Fraley's deceased mother. The family's liberal leanings come into conflict with their mother's old love...
	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.
	Late child : a novel McMurtry, Larry. PS3563.A319 L38 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A roller coaster trip across the U.S. by three women, a boy and a dog. One of the women has lost a daughter and to help her overcome her grief the other two, who are her sisters, are taking her home to their farm in Oklahoma. But when they get there she decides home is really back in Las ...
	Legend of Olivia Cosmos Montevideo : a novel Warloe, Constance. PS3573.A7618 L4 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The inadequacy of Roberta Marson's home life escalates rapidly when her son is killed in Vietnam. Unable to communicate with her husband, she leaves him and heads aimlessly west. In Santa Fe, New Mexico, a mileage sign--Olivia 5, Cosmos 9, Montevideo 15--gives her the idea for a new name....
	Leopard in the sun : a novel Restrepo, Laura. PQ8180.28.E7255 L4613 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel on a bloody feud between two drug families in Colombia. They are the Monsalves and the Barragans and they engage in an unrelenting cycle of sexual rivalry and pay-back killings. A South American Godfather.
	Life stone of singing bird Stevenson, Melody. PS3569.T45644 L54 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The boundaries between love and hate, loyalty and betrayal, and cooperation and competition among Native Americans and white settlers are explored in this stunning novel, set against the unforgiving wilderness of frontier Kansas in the mid-nineteenth century. Iris, India, and Singing Bi...
	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 Sharpsho...
	Lily White Isaacs, Susan, 1943- PS3559.S15 L55 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Part mystery, part family story of Jews trying to integrate into Wasp society on Long Island. The heroine is Lily, a Jewish lawyer defending a con man accused of murder. The man specialized in seducing women for their money and one was killed. Lily suspects the real killer was the con man...
	Line of the sun : a novel Ortiz Cofer, Judith, 1952- PS3565.R7737 L56 1989 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Listening now Appachana, Anjana. PS3551.P54 L57 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In India, a mother intercepts letters from her son's fiancee and he marries another. The abandoned woman gives birth to his child, is thrown out of her house and begins a difficult life. A decade later the man discovers the truth and the couple meet, but the old spark is gone. A first nov...
	Lithium for Medea : a novel Braverman, Kate. PS3552.R3555 L58 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Little women 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.
	Longest memory : a novel D'Aguiar, Fred, 1960- PR9320.9.D34 L66 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In Virginia, a slave is taught to read by his master's daughter and falls in love with her. He runs away, but his father reveals his whereabouts, the man is captured and whipped to death. The novel looks at slavery from two viewpoints: that of rebels and that of survivalists.
	Losing Absalom : a novel Pate, Alexs D., 1950- PS3566.A777 L67 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability As Absalom Goodman, an African-American, lies dying in a Philadelphia hospital surrounded by his wife and two grown children, he retraces his life. A study of parenthood, the inner city and the American way.
	Losing battles Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001. PS3545.E6 L57x 1990 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Three generations of Granny Vaughn's decendants gather at her Mississippi home to celebrate her ninetieth birthday. Many members of the family begin telling stories of the past."
	Louisa Zelitch, Simone. PS3576.E445 L68 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Nora Gertz, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor, and her daughter-in-law Louisa emigrate to Palestine in 1949.
	Love wife Jen, Gish. PS3560.E474 L685 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The arrival of a "cousin" from mainland China, arranged by Mama Wong to serve as a nanny, throws the household of Carnegie Wong, a second-generation Chinese American, his WASP wife Blondie, and their three children into turmoil.
	Lovely bones : a novel Sebold, Alice. PS3619.E26 L68 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability This is the tale of family, memory, love, and living told by 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who is already in heaven. Through the voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death and builds out of her family's grief a hopeful and joyful story.
	Madam Fate Douglas, Marcia, 1961- PS3554.O8274 M3 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel whose protagonists are a group of Jamaican women. One is a shapeshifter, another a cleaner in New York, a third is in a lunatic asylum and a fourth is waiting to die. A first novel.
	Madame Bovary Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880. PQ2246.M2 E5 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Madame Bovary is the story of a beautiful young woman who marries a luckless and loutish country doctor. She attempts to escape the narrow confines of her life through a series of passionate affairs, hoping to find in other men the romantic ideal she has always dreamed about. Her reckless...
	Madonna of Excelsior Mda, Zakes. PR9369.3.M4 M33 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel takes readers deep into the heart of apartheid in the early 1970s, focusing on a mixed race family that is trying to survive on the closely regulated line between black and white.
	Main Street & Babbitt Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951. PS3523.E94 M2 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In Main Street and Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis drew on his boyhood memories of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, to reveal as no writer had done before the complacency and conformity of middle-class life in America. These remarkable novels combine brilliant satire with a lingering affection for the men...
	Mama Flora's family : a novel Haley, Alex. PS3558.A3575 M35 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A family saga centered on an African-American matriarch whose husband was shot for stealing. It follows her descendants as they fight World War II, march for civil rights, join the Black Panthers and help develop Africa.
	Mambo hips and make believe : a novel Coleman, Wanda. PS3553.O47447 M36 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The lot of a woman whose malformed sexual organs preclude intercourse. She suffers from loneliness and contemplates suicide, her sole consolation the friendship of another woman.
	Mambo kings play songs of love Hijuelos, Oscar. PS3558.I376 M36 1989 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Cesar and Nestor Castillo move to New York from Cuba in 1949 to form a mambo band, and eventually play on I Love Lucy.
	Man in the gray flannel suit Wilson, Sloan, 1920- PS3573.I475 M3 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Tom Rath doesn't want anything extraordinary out of life: just a decent home, enough money to support his family, and a career that won't crush his spirit. After returning from World War II, he takes a PR job at a television network. It is inane, dehumanizing work. But when a series of p...
	Mao game : a novel Miller, Joshua (Joshua Israel) PS3563.I41325 M3 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A bickering woman and her son are reunited by the grandmother. The grandson is Jordan Highland, a teenage Hollywood actor who dislikes his mother, a divorced, self-centered actress. Highland moves in with his grandmother who has cancer, but still works as a photographer. Before dying, the...
	Map of love Soueif, Ahdaf. PR6069.O78 M37 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Isabel Parkman, an American journalist, discovers that her romance with an Egyptian-American conductor is paralleled by her great-grandparents' romance.
	Margins Peña, Terri de la, 1947- PS3566.E448 M3 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Mary Barton Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865. PR4710 .M3 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Mason's retreat Tilghman, Christopher. PS3570.I348 M37 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability After many years in England an impoverished, upper-class American family return to an inherited estate on Chesapeake Bay. The novel describes their reaction to the new surroundings--country living versus city living, America versus Europe--and the resulting conflicts. The father returns t...
	Master Butchers Singing Club Erdrich, Louise. PS3555.R42 M37 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Returning to his quiet German village home after World War I, trained killer Fidelis Waldvogel, accompanied by his wife, leaves to start a new life in America and finds his life irrevocably changed by a new relationship.
	Matter of time Deshpande, Shashi. PR9499.3.D474 M38 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel about a wife in India who is abandoned by her husband, a professor. With her three daughters she is forced to move into her parents' house, where she reconnects with an estranged sister.
	Matters of chance : a novel Haien, Jeannette. PS3558.A3255 M37 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of the Shurtliffs of Ohio, an upper-crust family which practices noblesse oblige, including setting an example. He is a lawyer who does his duty in World War II in the navy, she is a faithful wife, they have two adopted daughters who are well brought up and there are no scandals...
	Mavis Marshall, Brenda K. PS3563.A7195 M38 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In North Dakota, a woman is killed in a car accident and her five sisters blame her husband who was drunk. When the man is murdered, sister Mavis Holmstead, 60, announces she did it and calls a family reunion to explain. The others know she is covering for one of them, but who and why? A ...
	Maybe in Missoula Volk, Toni, 1944- PS3572.O3943 M38 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A woman decides to give up sex, dumps her unimaginative husband and hits the road, her 12-year-old son in tow. It is not long, however, before she has found another man, the husband's brother, her first love. A study in shifting relationships over time. By the author of Montana Women.
	Memoir from Antproof Case : a novel Helprin, Mark. PS3558.E4775 M46 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The bittersweet memoir of an aging man-of-the-world. In a tone tinged with humor and regret he describes his many lives, from banker to fighter pilot, to inmate of a mental asylum, commenting on every subject under the sun, including his visceral hate of coffee.
	Memory keeper's daughter Edwards, Kim, 1958- PS3555.D942 M46 2005b Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Award-winning writer Kim Edwards's The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a brilliantly crafted family drama that explores every mother's silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliv...
	Memory mambo : a novel Obejas, Achy, 1956- PS3565.B34 M4 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A Cuban-American's quest to learn the truth about her family. Are the stories of their achievement in pre-revolutionary Cuba true, or are they exaggerations or, worse, inventions? A look at a problem frequently faced by children of immigrants.
	Memory of elephants Desai, Boman. PR9499.3.D466 M46 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Mercy seat : a novel Askew, Rilla. PS3551.S545 M47 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A girl's account of the violent life on the frontier. Mattie is 11 when her family moves from Kentucky to 1880s Oklahoma. After her mother dies, an uncle tries to get her father to abandon his honest job of shoeing horses for a life of crime, dealing in guns. By the author of Strange Busi...
	Merry men Chute, Carolyn. PS3553.H87 M47 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In 1985 The Beans of Egypt, Maine came into this world, the unique creation of Carolyn Chute. A microcosm, Egypt instantly became part of America's fictional landscape. Three years later Ms. Chute gave us, in Letourneau's Used Auto Parts, a further - and broader - take on a world in minia...
	Middle son : a novel Iida, Deborah, 1956- PS3559.I33 M53 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A Japanese-American defies his parents and marries a white woman in this tale of how one family's labor was all the heavier for self-imposed cultural rules. The setting is a workers' camp on a sugar cane plantation in Hawaii. A first novel. The death of an older brother haunts Spencer in ...
	Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffrey. PS3555.U4 M53 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparent's desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
	Midnight at the Dragon Café Bates, Judy Fong, 1949- PR9199.3.B375724 M53 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Su-Jen Chou, a Chinese immigrant growing up in 1950s Ontario, finds herself shouldering the weight of her mother's hopes and dreams as her isolated family attempts to forge a life for themselves in a small town.
	Mill on the Floss Eliot, George, 1819-1880. PR4664 .A1 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Evokes nineteenth-century rural England through the story of Maggie Tulliver, who attempts to adapt to her life until her brother forbids her to see the one person who understands her after she is found in a compromising situation.
	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 king Chao, Patricia, 1955- PS3553.H2765 M66 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A young Chinese-American woman is driven into a mental asylum by her family's reaction to rape by her father. They know he did it repeatedly, but they refuse to acknowledge it, saying she is inventing. A clash of cultures, in this case Oriental family solidarity versus Western individual ...
	Moonlight on the avenue of faith Nahai, Gina Barkhordar. PS3552.A6713 M66 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An abandoned girl's story, set against the background of revolution in Iran. The girl's mother flees her home when her extra-marital affair is discovered, while the daughter is sent to a boarding school in California. It will be 13 years before they are reunited.
	Moor's last sigh Rushdie, Salman. PR6068.U757 M66 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Moraes Zogoiby offers a revealing account of his family, their evolving fortunes, and the lost world of possibilities in twentieth-century India, recounting a universe of family rifts, greed, dark passion, secrecy, power, and the mysteries of art.
	Mr. Potter Kincaid, Jamaica. PR9275.A583 K56383 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Jamaica Kincaid's first obsession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffeur who makes his living along the wide, open roads that pass the only towns he has ever seen and the graveyard where he will be buried. The sun shines ...
	Mr. Scarborough's family Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882. PR5684 .M7 1989 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Mrs. Dalloway Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. PR6045.O72 M7 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A poignant portrayal of the thoughts and events that comprise one day in a woman's life.
	My Ántonia Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. PS3505.A87 M8 1994c Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	My father's war : a novel Dis, Adriaan van. PT5881.14.I8 I513 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A bleak novel on the Eurasian community in Holland. The protagonist--who is half-Dutch and, half-Indonesian--recounts the drama of his family, from life in the Dutch East Indies before World War II, through the Japanese occupation, to their second-class citizen status in Holland.
	My son's story Gordimer, Nadine. PR9369.3.G6 M9 1990 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A schoolboy playing truant bumps into his revered father coming out of a cinema with a woman.
	Naked ladies Villanueva, Alma, 1944- PS3572.I354 N35 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	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.
	Names of the dead O'Nan, Stewart, 1961- PS3565.N316 N36 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A family drama on a Vietnam War veteran who cannot forget the war. Larry Markham was a corpsman and is still haunted by the memory of men dying in his arms. His obsession creates strains in his marriage and his wife leaves him, taking their son with her.
	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.
	Necessary madness Crowell, Jenn, 1978- PS3553.R5928 N43 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A widow's coming to terms with her grief. She is Gloria, an American teacher in England whose husband died of leukemia and left her with a small son. Helping overcome the woman's sorrow is an acquaintance of her husband, a widower who in addition to losing his wife, lost his child. A firs...
	Needle's eye Drabble, Margaret, 1939- PR6054.R25 N44 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Simon Camish, an embittered, diffident lawyer in a loveless marriage, would not have particularly noticed Rose Vassiliou had he not been asked to drive her home one night after a dinner party. Yet at one time she had been notorious-her name constantly in the news. Now, separated from her ...
	Newcomes : memoirs of a most respectable family Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863. PR5614 .A1 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Night listener : a novel Maupin, Armistead. PS3563.A878 N5 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A radio personality and a sick boy who has been abused by his parents form a complicated relationship. Troubling questions arise from this situation and the ordered life of the radio personality spins out of control.
	None to accompany me Gordimer, Nadine. PR9369.3.G6 N6 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The novel is set in South Africa during the last days of the white regime. The heroine is Vera Stark, a white lawyer who works to restore land taken from blacks by the government. Her political work is played out against a background of family problems, among them an overbearing husband, ...
	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.
	Nowle's passing : a novel Forbes, Edith, 1954- PS3556.O662 N69 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In Vermont, a farmer commits suicide after locking himself in the kitchen with his beloved dogs. But his daughter, Vinci, does not think it was suicide. Her father cared too much for his dogs to imprison them like that, she says. When it transpires that he intended to donate his land to a...
	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 long...
	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.
	Old maid : the fifties Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. PS3545.H16 O43 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Originally serialized in The Red Book Magazine in 1922, The Old Maid is an examination of class and society as only Edith Wharton could undertake. The story follows the life of Tina, a young woman caught between the mother who adopted her - the beautiful, upstanding Delia - and her true ...
	Old wives' tale Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931. PR6003.E6 O4 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The Old Wives' Tale (1908) celebrates the romance of even the most ordinary lives in the course of tracing the passage of time over three generations. It tells the story of the two Baines sisters, placid stay-at-home Constance and rebellious Sophia, from their girlhood to their last days....
	One true thing Quindlen, Anna. PS3567.U336 O28 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A New York psychiatrist recounts her mother's death for which she was arrested. At the time, Dr. Ellen Gulden was accused of killing her mother with an overdose of morphine, a charge in part based on a high school essay in which she advocated euthanasia. By the author of Object Lessons.
	Only sons González, Genaro, 1949- PS3557.O474 O5 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Orchard on fire : a novel Mackay, Shena. PR6063.A2425 O73 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The friendship of two abused village girls in England. One is April, whose parents run a tea room, the other is Ruby, daughter of publicans. Ruby is abused by her father, April by a friend of her parents who chide her for avoiding him.
	Orchid house Allfrey, P. Shand (Phyllis Shand) PR9250.9.A44 O74 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Ordinary heroes Turow, Scott. PS3570.U754 O73 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Stewart Dubinsky plunges into the mystery of his family's secret history when he discovers his deceased father's wartime letters to his former fiancée, revealing his court-martial and imprisonment during World World II.
	Painted drum Erdrich, Louise. PS3555.R42 P35 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Discovering a cache of valuable Native American artifacts while appraising an estate in New Hampshire, Faye Travers investigates the history of a ceremonial drum, which possesses spiritual powers and changes the lives of people who encounter it.
	Palm latitudes Braverman, Kate. PS3552.R3555 P35 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	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.
	Passover Mamet, David. PS3563.A4345 P37 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability As a grandmother and her granddaughter prepare food for Passover, the most joyous of Jewish holidays, the woman reflects on her past which included a pogrom. In the process the girl's perception of life is altered. By the author of Glengarry Glen Ross. With woodcut illustrations.
	Patchwork planet Tyler, Anne. PS3570.Y45 P38 1998b Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A lovable loser tries to get his life in order. He is Barnaby Gaitlin, 30, the black sheep of a rich Baltimore family, ex-juvenile delinquent who specialized in housebreaking for kicks. He works for Rent-a-Back, moving furniture for old people, and dreams of having a future.
	Pedro Páram Rulfo, Juan. PQ7297.R89 P4 1971 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Pedro Páramo Rulfo, Juan. PQ7292.R89 P413 1969 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Pedro Páramo Rulfo, Juan. PQ7297.R89 R413 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Pedro Páramo y El llano en llamas Rulfo, Juan. PQ7297.R89 P4 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	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 ...
	Perfidia : a novel Rossner, Judith. PS3568.O848 P4 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In New Mexico, a daughter kills her abusive mother in self-defense during a quarrel. It is the climax to a childhood of violence and neglect, in the course of which the mother often left the girl alone at night, or made love in her presence.
	Pickup Gordimer, Nadine. PR9369.3.G6 P53 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A relationship forms between an Arab mechanic desperate to avoid deportation and a rich young woman desperate to escape her family's control.
	Picturing the wreck Shapiro, Dani. PS3569.H3387 P48 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In New York, a writer is kidnaped by blacks during a race riot. On being rescued by police Paul, who is white, is acclaimed a hero by lawyers, book publishers and TV producers. Wait, there is competition. Victor, one of the black kidnapers, is also being acclaimed a hero by another lot of...
	Pity is not enough Herbst, Josephine, 1892-1969. PS3515.E596 P58 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Poisonwood Bible : a novel Kingsolver, Barbara. PS3561.I496 P65 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The drama of a U.S. missionary family in Africa during a war of decolonization. At its center is Nathan Price, a self-righteous Baptist minister who establishes a mission in a village in 1959 Belgian Congo. The resulting clash of cultures is seen through the eyes of his wife and his four ...
	Ponder heart Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001. PS3545.E6 P7 1985 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Edna Earle Ponder, who runs a hotel in a small Mississippi town, tells the story of her beloved, softhearted, but trying Uncle Daniel.
	Portrait of a lady James, Henry, 1843-1916. PS2116 .P6 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A romantic New England girl inherits an English fortune and marries an American living in Italy. Her subsequent disillusionment is described through her tragic marriage.
	Power Hogan, Linda. PS3558.O34726 P6 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In Florida, an Indian girl is torn between loyalty to her Westernized mother, advising her to reject the ways of her tribe, and an aunt who supports tradition. The conflict is played out in the course of a hunt for a tiger.
	Preston Falls : a novel Gates, David, 1947- PS3557.A87 P7 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A New York yuppie takes time off work, ostensibly to repair his country house, but in fact to get away from his family. A guitar player, he befriends members of a band whose leader enrolls him as a drug courier and eventually his marriage goes bust. The tale of one man's midlife crisis.
	Pride and prejudice : an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. PR4034 .P7 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "A perennial favorite in the Norton Critical Editions series, Pride and Prejudice is based on the 1813 first edition text, which has been thoroughly annotated for undergraduate readers." ""Backgrounds and Sources" includes biographical portraits of Austen by members of her family and by b...
	Pride and prejudice Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. PR4034 .P7 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman, as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.
	Prodigal summer : a novel Kingsolver, Barbara. PS3561.I496 P76 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Wildlife biologist Deanna is caught off guard by an intrusive young hunter, while bookish city wife Lusa finds herself facing a difficult identity choice, and elderly neighbors find attraction at the height of a long-standing feud.
	Promise of rest Price, Reynolds, 1933- PS3566.R54 P76 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A Southern family's drama as a father witnesses the slow death from aids of his son. He hasn't seen him for years, the son having been forced by his black lover to choose between lover and family. As the parents are estranged the father tries to keep the mother away, wanting the son all t...
	Promised lands : a novel Rogers, Jane, 1952- PR6068.O346 P76 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In 1778, Royal Navy Lieutenant William Dawes sails to Australia with dreams of establishing a utopian society where the convict settlers on his ship and the Aborigines will learn from each other and live in harmony. Alas, it does not work. The story is recounted two centuries later by a h...
	Puente = The bridge Romo, Ito, 1961- PS3568.O56546 B75 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Thirteen women, all ages and backgrounds, react in unexpected, humorous, and mysterious ways when one day the river suddenly turns a crimson red. The bridge, which the women cross and re-cross in the course of this cycle of stories, becomes a site where the women acquire knowledge about ...
	Purple America : a novel Moody, Rick. PS3563.O5537 P87 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A son returns home to look after his mother, abandoned by his stepfather. The novel follows him as he handles the chores, gets drunk and has a romance on the side. The mother, in a wheel chair and incontinent, extracts a promise that he will kill her if she gets worse. In the background h...
	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, th...
	Rainbow Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930. PR6023.A93 R3 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of three generations of a Nottingham family whose love affairs move backward and forward across the years.
	Reality and dreams Spark, Muriel. PR6037.P29 R43 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A British film director falls off a crane during the shooting of a film and while he is in hospital, others muscle in on his work and on his girlfriends. With the help of his understanding wife, who also has her lovers, he recovers and regains control of the film.
	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.
	Recessional Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907- PS3525.I19 R38 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A young doctor in an old people's center rescues a woman from a car accident in which she loses a leg. He takes her to hospital and disappears for fear of another malpractice suit, but she tracks him down, though not to sue him. Lots of detail on geriatrics.
	Reflections in a golden eye McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967. PS3525.A1772 R4 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Retrato en sepia : novela Allende, Isabel. PQ8098.1.L54 R48 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Narrada en la voz de una joven mujer, e;sta es una magni;fica novela histórica situada a finales del siglo XIX en Chile, y una portentosa saga familiar en la que reencontramos algunos personajes de Hija de la fortuna y de La casa de los espiritus, novelas cumbres en la obra de Isabel Al...
	Rhode Island blues Weldon, Fay. PR6073.E374 R47 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Film editor Sophia Moore travels to Rhode Island to settle her grandmother into a retirement home and begins to unravel mysteries about her family's past.
	Roadwalkers Grau, Shirley Ann. PS3557.R283 R63 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In the 1930s, a tale of black children made homeless roadwalkers after being abandoned by their poor parents. Part I follows the fate of a girl who is captured and sent to an orphanage, Part II is about her daughter. By the author of The Keepers of the House.
	Ruin Creek Payne, David (William David) PS3566.A9366 R8 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of a young couple who fell in love, she to escape her parents and he to stop the rumors about him in town. After marriage, they discover that more is needed to keep their lives together than love. It also requires a little luck, skill, and a lot of hard work.
	Sabias mujeres de La Habana Bernardo, José Raúl. PS3552.E7275 S23 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Safe conduct Benedict, Elizabeth. PS3552.E5396 S24 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Salt eaters Bambara, Toni Cade. PS3552.A473 S2 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Set in Claybourne, a town somewhere in the South, The Salt Eaters is the story of a community of black people who are searching for the healing properties of salt, and who witness an event that will change their lives forever. "A book full of marvels".--The New Yorker.
	Samsons : two novels in the Rosales saga José, F. Sionil (Francisco Sionil), 1924- PR9550.9.J67 P7 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Sanctuary Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. PS3545.H16 S26 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	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 ...
	School for the blind McFarland, Dennis. PS3563.C3629 S35 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of old people adjusting to age. Retiring news photographer Francis Brimm, 78, settles in Pines, Florida, a few houses from his sister, Muriel. They don't have much in common--he is a cynic and non-believer, she a religious provincial--but one thing they do share, the fear of app...
	Sea of trees Murphy, Yannick. PS3563.U7635 S43 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A Eurasian girl's coming of age during a war. She is Tian, half-French, half-Chinese, whose early teens are spent with her family in a World War II Japanese internment camp where she serves as a translator. Later in Saigon, during Indochina War I, she interprets for the French army while ...
	Secret father Carroll, James, 1943- PS3553.A764 S43 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, three teenagers in West Germany head for Berlin to join a May Day rally on the Communist side of the divided city, only to find themselves arrested by the East German secret police.
	Secret of the bulls : a novel Bernardo, José Raúl. PS3552.E7275 S43 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Maximiliano and Delores marry and manage to raise a family, despite parental disapproval, natural disasters, financial hardships, and the "machismo" traditions of Cuban society in the early twentieth century.
	See now then Kincaid, Jamaica. PR9275.A583 K56384 2013 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In this novel, a marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies. A mother, a father, and their two children, living in a small village in New England move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future, constrained by the world, the characters despairing in their dom...
	Sense and sensibility Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. PR4034 .S4 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Jane Austen's first published novel, sparkling with wit and artistry, captures the inequities of birth, class, and marriage faced by the sisters Dashwood. Published in 1811, Sense and Sensibility has delighted generations of readers with its masterfully crafted portrait of two sisters, El...
	Serpent's gift Lee, Helen Elaine. PS3562.E3535 S47 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The lives of two African-American families who unite after a breadwinner dies. A son becomes a writer of folk stories and oral history, and it is he who provides the novel with its social and historical content.
	Shadow of Ashland Green, Terence M. PR9199.3.G7574 S53 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability On receiving a letter from a missing uncle, mailed 50 years earlier in Ashland, Kentucky, Leo Nolan of Toronto decides to check out the town. He meets the uncle and is transported back 50 years to help him rob a bank. By the author of Barking Dogs.
	Shadow tag Erdrich, Louise. PS3555.R42 S53 2010 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel that explores the complex nature of love, the fluid boundaries of identity, and one family's struggle for survival and redemption.
	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 thei...
	Slander = Calomnies Lê, Linda. PQ2672.E1113 C3513 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A Vietnamese woman in France discovers she is the product of an extra-marital affair by her mother. The novel describes her mixed-up attempt to come to terms with this.
	Smithereens Chehak, Susan Taylor. PS3553.H34875 S65 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The effect of bad company on children. For years Mary's mother sent money through a foster child program to an orphaned girl called Frankie. So when Frankie turns up at the door, the mother welcomes her with open arms, which is how Mary learns to steal, take drugs and sleep around.
	Snopes Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. PS3511.A86 S58 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability These three full-length novels compose the Snopes trilogy. In "The Hamlet," the cunning Flem Snopes is introduced with other members of his conniving family. Flem's dream is to marry Eula Varner and remake the small world of Frenchman's Bend as his own personal kingdom. In "The Town," Fle...
	So big Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968. PS3511.E46 S6 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	So far from God : a novel Castillo, Ana. PS3553.A8135 S65 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Tome is a small, outwardly sleepy hamlet in central New Mexico. In Ana Castillo's hands, though, it stands wondrously revealed as a place of marvels, teeming with life and with all manner of collisions: the past with the present, the real with the supernatural, the comic with the horrific...
	So far from God : a novel Castillo, Ana. PS3553.A8135 S65 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability From the American Book Award-winning author of The Mixquiahuala Letters comes the story of a remarkable woman and her four daughters living in New Mexico, a novel shaped by influences as diverse as Mexican mythology, Catholicism, and today's headlines. Tome is a small, outwardly sleepy ha...
	Solar storms : a novel Hogan, Linda. PS3558.O34726 S58 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An Indian girl returns home to find her identity. She is Angela Jensen, 17, whose stay in an Indian village in northern Minnesota turns into a depressing lesson in the lot of her people, but also brings self-discovery and love. By the author of Mean Spirit.
	Somebody else's mama Haynes, David, 1955- PS3558.A8488 S65 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An African-American family of four, whose grandmother lives alone in another town, decide to have her move in with them. The novel describes the skirmishing--rebellious grandma wants to go back--before everyone adjusts to the situation and begins to benefit.
	Songs in ordinary time Morris, Mary McGarry. PS3563.O874454 S66 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A boy sees a man commit a murder, then later that day the murderer calls on his mother with flowers. So begins the tense tale of a con man exploiting a love-starved woman, with an alcoholic husband and three children, and a boy who keeps a murder secret to avoid ruining his mother's happi...
	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 autobiographica...
	Sound and the fury Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. PS3511.A86 S7 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason. From the Trade Paperback edition. T...
	Source of light Price, Reynolds, 1933- PS3566.R54 S6 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Spanish lover Trollope, Joanna. PR6070.R57 S7 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability For years Lizzie has given her twin sister Frances an inferiority complex. Both are English career women, but Lizzie is married with four children. One day Frances falls in love with a Spaniard. He refuses to leave his wife, but Frances decides to have a baby anyway, moving to Spain to be...
	Spell of winter Dunmore, Helen, 1952- PR6054.U528 S64 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Catherine and her brother, Rob, do not know why they have been abandoned by their parents. In the house of their grandfather, 'the man from nowhere,' they forge a passionate refuge for themselves against the terror of family secrets, and while the world outside moves to the brink of war,...
	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.
	Squatter and the don Ruiz de Burton, María Amparo, 1832-1895. PS2736.R53 S658 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Starlite Drive-in : a novel Reynolds, Marjorie, 1944- PS3568.E8954 S73 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A handsome drifter arrives in a drive-in theater in 1950s Indiana and the owner, an abusive father and husband, gives him a job. Both the owner's wife and his 13-year-old daughter fall in love with him. Told by the daughter, now 49, after a body is found on the grounds of what had been th...
	Stone virgins Vera, Yvonne. PR9390.9.V47 S76 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "In 1980, after decades of guerrilla warfare against colonial rule, Rhodesia earned its hard-won independence from Britain. Less than two years later, Robert Mugabe's rise to power in the new Zimbabwe brought an explosion of violence across the land that reverberates to this day." "In The...
	Street Petry, Ann Lane, 1911- PS3531.E933 S75 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Reprint of a 1946 novel, based upon the true story of Lutie Johnson, a young African-American woman who struggled to live and raise her son in the midst of the poverty and violence of Harlem in the late 1940s.
	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 obs...
	Summer blue : a novel Skloot, Floyd. PS3569.K577 S86 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability As Jill Packard, 14, is not interested in her education, her widowed father offers a carrot, pass your exams and we will spend the summer travelling. The novel follows them on the trip which turns out to be far more educational than what Jill gets in school. By the author of Pilgrim's Har...
	Sunday's children : a novel Bergman, Ingmar, 1918- PT9875.B533 S6613 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The Swedish film director, who has turned towriting novels, probes the life of his parents in a sequelto Best Intentions. This book, too, is populated by a castof complex characters: a tyrannical father, a beautifulwife contemplating separation, children, aunts anddomestics.
	Sweetest dream Lessing, Doris May, 1919- PR6023.E833 S94 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of an extended family that spans the 20th century but has its fulcrum in the 60s.
	Swift as desire : a novel Esquivel, Laura, 1950- PQ7298.15.S638 T361 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In a loving tribute to her father, who worked his own lifelong magic as a telegraph operator, the bestselling author of "Like Water for Chocolate" pens an enchanting, bittersweet story touched with graphic earthiness and wit. It is the tale of Jublio, who has a gift for hearing what is in...
	Taft Patchett, Ann. PS3566.A7756 T3 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of Fay Taft, a your white waitress, narrated by the black bar manager who gave her a job. The manager's feelings for her are paternal, but hers for him are sexual. What's more she has a brother who is a drug dealer and brings sleazy friends into the bar. By the author of The Pat...
	Tales of burning love Erdrich, Louise. PS3555.R42 T3 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Four women share their secrets after the funeral of their ex-husband. It happens when they decide to ride back together and the car becomes stuck in a snow storm. They all agree he was a good-for-nothing, so why did they marry him? The setting is North Dakota.
	Tan veloz como el deseo Esquivel, Laura, 1950- PQ7298.15.S638 T3613 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel based on the life of the author's father follows the fortunes of Don Jubilo, a telegraph operator, as his life parallels the birth, rise, and eventual fall of the telegraph.
	Ten thousand saints Henderson, Eleanor. PS3608.E5259 T46 2011 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability When his best friend Teddy dies of an overdose on the last day of 1987, Jude Keffy-Horn finds his relationship with drugs and his parents devolving into the extreme when he gets caught up in an underground youth culture known as straight edge.
	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.
	These same long bones Parker, Gwendolyn M. PS3566.A6786 T48 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A domestic tragedy about an African-American banker who loses his daughter in an accident. Set in Durham, North Carolina, the story is told against a background of white-black tensions on the eve of desegregation.
	Third and Indiana : a novel Lopez, Steve. PS3569.O673 T48 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Someone is painting bodies on Philadelphia's Broad Streetone more boldly drawn chalk outline every time another life is lost to the violence of the drug wars. A sixteen-year-old dealer; a priest; a nine-year-old girl. The images pile through the summer and fall, moving closer each day to ...
	Third life of Grange Copeland Walker, Alice, 1944- PS3573.A425 T54 1988 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	This child's gonna live Wright, Sarah E. PS3573.R54 T47 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Set in a fishing village on Maryland's Eastern Shore in the early 1930s, This Child's Gonna Live tells the story of Mariah Upshur, the wife of a poor oysterman, and her struggles to keep her land and family together amidst the harsh realities of rural African American life. Described by ...
	This time last year Hobbie, Douglas. PS3558.O3364 P57 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A middle-aged man attempts to find himself. He is professor Henry Ash who secludes himself in a country house and proceeds to write a book. But writing doesn't lead to revelation, so he turns to something more practical, building a garden wall.
	Three Junes Glass, Julia, 1956- PS3607.L37 T48 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In June of 1989 Paul McLeod, a newspaper publisher and recent widower, travels to Greece, where he falls for a young American artist and reflects on the complicated truth about his marriage. Six years later, again in June, Paul's death draws his three grown sons and their families back to...
	Through the ivory gate : a novel Dove, Rita. PS3554.O884 T48 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In 1987 Rita Dove became one of the youngest writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry - and only the second African-American to do so. Now in her radiant first novel, Dove combines her remarkable storytelling ability with what critic Arnold Rampersad has praised in her poetry as an "a...
	Time traveler's wife Niffenegger, Audrey. PS3564.I362 T56 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affai...
	To my ex-husband Dundon, Susan. PS3554.U4657 T6 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A memoir of Emily Moore's failed marriage and her subsequent relationships. One is with a childhood sweetheart which leads to an abortion, another with a dentist with two children. The memoir is written in the form of notes to her husband over a period of five years.
	To the lighthouse Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. PR6045.O72 T6 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Observed across the years at their vacation house facing the gales of the North Atlantic, Mrs. Ramsay and her family seek to recapture meaning from the flux of things and the passage of time.
	Track of real desires : a novel Lowry, Beverly. PS3562.O92 T73 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Leland Standard left Eunola, Mississippi, as soon as she could, pursuing dreams of dancing, cities, a wider world. Now, thirty-five years later, she's coming home - bringing with her a son, Toby, who's older now than she was when she left, as well as an ailment that might change her life ...
	Tristan and the Hispanics Yglesias, Jose. PS3575.G5 T75 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Yale Freshman Tristan Granados is sent by his bourgeois Boston family to Tampa, Florida, to resolve his grandfather's estate as quickly as possible. Like his grandfather before him, Tristan's plans are undermined at every turn by the bevy of Latino cousins who try to impress him even as ...
	Turkish delights : a novel Slavitt, David R., 1935- PS3569.L3 T8 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	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 competit...
	Typical American Jen, Gish. PS3560.E474 T9 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Yefing Chang becomes Ralph Chang in America and begins a hard struggle to achieve the American dream-- a career, a family and a home of his own. In poverty, he succeeds finally to win a doctoral degree, a college position, a happy marriage to Helen, two delightful daughter, and a close r...
	Ugly ways : a novel Ansa, Tina McElroy. PS3551.N64 U36 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Three sexy, screwed-up Southern sisters come home to Mulberry to put their totally self-centered mother, Mudear, in her grave. We meet the Lovejoy women as they gather in their mother's house to lay her and the demons she has dumped on them to rest. Mudear Lovejoy was the kind of mother w...
	Ulysses Joyce, James, 1882-1941. PR6019.O9 U4 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Serialized first in the Little Review in 1918 and published first in Paris in 1922, although its censorship for obscenity in America and England were not lifted until the mid-1930sIn terms of its story it defies abridgement or explanation except that it all takes place on one day, 16 June...
	Under the feet of Jesus Viramontes, Helena María, 1954- PS3572.I63 U53 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The life of Mexican fruit pickers in California. The protagonists are a youth who is sprayed with pesticide by a plane and the girl who saves him. The novel describes the harsh conditions under which migrant workers live, the heat, the cramped quarters, the hand-to-mouth existence.
	Unless Shields, Carol. PR9199.3.S514 U55 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Reta Winters life as an author, mother and wife starts to crumble when her eldest daughter takes to sitting silently on a street corner wearing a sign that says "Goodness".
	Unnamed Ferris, Joshua. PS3606.E774 U56 2010 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Tim Farnsworth is a handsome, healthy man, aging with the grace of a matinee idol. His wife Jane still loves him, and for all its quiet trials, their marriage is still stronger than most. Then one day he stands up and walks out. And keeps walking.
	Unravelling Graver, Elizabeth, 1964- PS3557.R2864 H86 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Against her parents' wishes, Aimee Slater, a headstrong 15-year-old farm girl in 19th century New England, abandons plans to become a teacher for the glamor of work in a textile mill in town. A look at mill life and the fate of a woman, pregnant out of wedlock. By the author of Have You S...
	Until I find you : a novel Irving, John, 1942- PS3559.R8 U58 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of the actor Jack Burns. His mother, Alice, is a Toronto tattoo artist. When Jack is four, he travels with Alice to several North Sea ports; they are trying to find Jack's missing father, William, a church organist who is addicted to being tattooed. But Alice is a mystery, and W...
	Valley of the moon London, Jack, 1876-1916. PS3523.O46 V3 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "A road novel fifty years before Kerouac, The Valley of the Moon traces the odyssey of Billy and Saxon Roberts from the labor strife in Oakland at the turn of the century through central and northern California in search of beautiful land they can farm independently - a journey that echoe...
	View from here Jackson, Brian Keith. PS3560.A2117 V54 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability On hearing that his wife is pregnant with their sixth child, a father in a black rural family in Mississippi announces he will give the child to his sister as he cannot feed more mouths. This is bad news for the mother because the sister is an abusive and dishonest woman. It is also bad n...
	Villa incognito Robbins, Tom. PS3568.O233 V55 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability American MIAs choose to remain missing after the end of the Vietnam War, while four generations of women share a unique link to a mysterious figure from Japanese folklore.
	Vine of desire : a novel Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee, 1956- PS3554.I86 V56 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Continues the story of Anju and Sudha, the two young women at the center of Divakaruni's bestselling novel Sister of My Heart. Far from Calcutta, the city of their childhood, and after years of living separate lives, Anju and Sudha rekindle their friendship in America." -- Jacket.
	Visitation of spirits : a novel Kenan, Randall. PS3561.E4228 V5 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Visitors : a novel Brookner, Anita. PR6052.R5816 V57 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An old woman's solitary existence is broken when she is asked by her family to lodge a young hippie in her London flat for a week. The way this very proper lady in her seventies interacts with her visitor, a homosexual, is the subject of the novel.
	Voices from the river Pimentel, Ricardo. PS3566.I5145 V65 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Wabash : a novel Butler, Robert Olen. PS3552.U8278 W3 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Walking fire : a novel Miner, Valerie. PS3563.I4647 W35 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Cora Casey, a Vietnam War protester who left the country, returns home 20 years later. While her brothers fought the war, Cora burned a building and fled to Canada, wanted for arson, an act for which she was disowned by her father. Now he is dying from cancer. By the author of All Good Wo...
	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.
	Wapshot scandal Cheever, John. PS3505.H6428 W32 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In this simultaneously hilarious and poignant companion volume to The Wapshot Chronicle, the members of the Wapshot family of St. Botolphs drift far from their New England village into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS, and the humiliating abyss of adulterous ...
	Washington Square James, Henry, 1843-1916. PS2116 .W3 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In the Washington Square area of New York City in the late nineteenth century, devastating betrayals by both her father and her lover leave shy and fragile Catherine Sloper permanently scarred.
	Waters of Kronos Richter, Conrad, 1890-1968. PS3535.I429 W3 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Wedding West, Dorothy, 1909- PS3545.E82794 W44 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In the 1950s, a girl from the black bourgeoisie in Martha's Vineyard announces her engagement to a white musician. The novel follows the impact this has on her family and the community around them. By the author of The Living Is Easy.
	Weight of water Shreve, Anita. PS3569.H7385 W43 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A tale of marital intrigue. The protagonist is a woman photographer sent to investigate an old murder on an island. She takes along her husband, the husband's brother and the brother's girlfriend. Problems arise when the husband develops an interest in the other woman. By the author of Re...
	What do you do all day? Scheibe, Amy. PS3619.C346 W47 2006 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Feeling frazzled in her life as a Manhattan stay-at-home mom with two preschool age children, Jennifer Bradley considers returning to work while tackling challenges at the playground, in play groups, and at birthday parties.
	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 ...
	What Maisie knew James, Henry, 1843-1916. PS2116 .W4 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	When the emperor was divine : a novel Otsuka, Julie, 1962- PS3615.T88 W48 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any previously written--a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and an unmistakably resonant lesson for our times.
	White rabbit Phillips, Kate. PS3566.H4798 W48 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A day in the life of an old woman. She is Ruth Caster Hubble, a cantankerous 88, who lives in a condo in Laguna Beach, California. For company she has her second husband, Henry, king of the boobs as she calls him. The novel describes her daily routine, handling her aches and pains, worryi...
	White teeth : a novel Smith, Zadie. PR6069.M59 W47 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Wide blue yonder : a novel Thompson, Jean, 1950- PS3570.H625 W5 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability During the summer of 1999, Springfield, Illinois, becomes the center of a climatic, emotional, and metaphysical storm for four people--Uncle Harvey, his troubled niece Josie, Josie's desperate mother Elaine, and Rolando, a loner fueled by rage.
	Wild meat and the bully burgers Yamanaka, Lois-Ann, 1961- PS3575.A434 W55 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Lovely Nariyoshi, a young girl growing up in Hilo, Hawaii, faces a world that is divided between East and West.
	Wild steps of heaven Villaseñor, Victor. PS3572.I384 W54 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Wise women of Havana Bernardo, José Raúl. PS3552.E7275 W5 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Wobegon boy Keillor, Garrison. PS3561.E3755 W6 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A comedy on John Tollefson, a 40-something bachelor from Minnesota working in a college in New York State as manager of its radio station. The college caters to academically challenged children of financially gifted parents. A spoof on academia.
	Woman who walked into doors Doyle, Roddy, 1958- PR6054.O95 W66 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An Irish woman's account of marriage to a drinker and a sadist. The novel follows Paula Spencer, housewife and mother, as she struggles to reclaim her dignity. By the author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
	World below : a novel Miller, Sue, 1943- PS3563.I421444 W67 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of two women -- a country doctor's wife with a haunting past living in Maine at the turn of the century and her granddaughter, a twice-divorced San Francisco school-teacher living in the present. Linked by bitter disappointments, compromise, and powerful grace, the two lives see...
	World to win Conroy, Jack, 1899- PS3505.O53 W67 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Write letter to Billy : a novel Olson, Toby. PS3565.L84 W75 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "A retired Navy underwater repair specialist investigates a mysterious list his father had written just before his death. Some of the items are crossed off, but one of the unfinished tasks haunts him: "Write letter to Billy." What had his father planned to tell him? What he learns changes...
	Wuthering Heights Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848. PR4172 .W7 2000b Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Classic novel of consuming passions, played out against the lonely moors of northern England, recounts the turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff. A masterpiece of imaginative fiction, the story remains as poignant and compelling today as it was when first published ...
	Yo! Alvarez, Julia. PS3551.L845 Y6 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The American odyssey of Yo, a Dominican woman writer whose family arrived in the U.S. as refugees from a dictatorship. The novel follows her youth, with its energy and optimism, and the setbacks as she grows older, including two divorces.
	Zenzele : a letter for my daughter Maraire, J. Nozipo. PR9390.9.M29 Z46 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A collection of letters from an African mother to her daughter in America, urging her to remember her roots. The mother, who is from Zimbabwe, describes the country's customs, her generation's struggle for independence, their hopes and disappointments, and the current clash between propon...