Recreational Reading

Genre: Psychological Novels

275 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.
	Absolution : a novel Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson. PT7511.O439 F9613 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The guilt pangs of an aging New York businessman as he looks back on a life of dishonest dealings, cruelty to his family and betrayal of a friend in wartime. A study of the way conscience can catch up in one's old age by a popular Icelandic author who writes in English.
	Acts of revision Bedford, Martyn. PR6052.E31112 A28 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability As he goes through his dead mother's papers Englishman Gregory Lynn, 35, discovers his unflattering school reports, which revive memories of humiliation at the hands of teachers. One called him a donkey, another said he had a girl's name. Lynn decides to even the score with cold-blooded a...
	Against the day : [a novel] Pynchon, Thomas. PS3566.Y55 A73 2006 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A tale spanning the years between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the end of World War I features characters who are caught up in such events as the labor troubles of Colorado, the Mexican revolution, and the heyday of silent-movie Hollywood.
	All my friends are going to be strangers McMurtry, Larry. PS3563.A319 A79 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Almost moon : a novel Sebold, Alice. PS3619.E26 A79 2007 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Having set aside her own life in her support of her parents, husband, and children, Helen Knightly confronts the realities of the choices that were imposed upon her during a harrowing twenty-four-hour period of death and revelation.
	Alphabet man Grossman, Richard, 1943- PS3557.R673 A47 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Altered states Brookner, Anita. PR6052.R5816 A77 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An English lawyer's obsession with Sarah, a beautiful cousin. Unable to have her, he marries another, then when Sarah gives him the signal rushes to her side, only to be disappointed. He returns to his wife, but once again the cousin beckons.
	Always outnumbered, always outgunned Mosley, Walter. PS3563.O88456 A49 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A black murderer in Los Angeles tries to adjust to normal life after 27 years in jail. Socrates Fortlow struggles with his conscience, tries to make amends and grades himself at the end of the day. But he realizes he is a loser--once a convict, always a convict.
	American James, Henry, 1843-1916. PS2116 .A6 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Henry James brilliantly combines comedy, tragedy, romance, and melodrama in this tale of a wealthy American businessman in Paris. Determined to marry a beautiful aristocrat, he must overcome the machinations of her impoverished but proud family. A co-production with the BBC, starring Dian...
	American rust Meyer, Philipp, 1974- PS3613.E976 A84 2010 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, a lush landscape as deceptively promising as the edifices of the abandoned steel mills, "American Rust" is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation that arises in its absence. Left alone to care for his ...
	American studies Merlis, Mark. PS3563.E7422 A47 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An intellectual hospitalized after a beating by a man he picked up in a bar, reflects--with a critical eye--on his homosexuality while fighting off desire for the straight man in the next bed. Quentin Crisp, the author, has written that the novel "describes exactly the cold hostility in w...
	American woman : a novel Choi, Susan, 1969- PS3553.H584 A64 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability On the lam for an act of violence against the American government, twenty-five-year-old Jenny Shimada agrees to care for three younger fugitives whom a shadowy figure from her former radical life has spirited out of California. One of them, the kidnapped granddaughter of a wealthy newspap...
	Amnesia in a Republican county : a novel Soto, Gary. PS3569.O72 A83 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Among the dead Tolkin, Michael. PS3570.O4278 A48 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Frank Gale is sick of cheating on his wife, Anna, and he wants to tell her the truth, but in the right way. Everything looks better when he decides to take her and their daughter on a sudden trip to Mexico, where he can give Anna the carefully crafted letter that details the nature of his...
	Anil's ghost Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- PR9199.3.O5 A84 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Anna Édes Kosztolányi, Dezső, 1885-1936. PH3281.K85 E3413 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	As we are now : a novel Sarton, May, 1912- PS3537.A832 A83 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Assistant Malamud, Bernard. PS3563.A4 A8 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Asylum McGrath, Patrick, 1950- PS3563.C3663 A89 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A woman whose husband is a doctor working in an asylum has an affair with a patient, a sculptor who killed his wife from jealousy. When he escapes she follows him, but his jealous fits send her back to her husband. The sculptor is caught, the doctor changes jobs, but that is not the end o...
	At fault Chopin, Kate, 1851-1904. PS1294.C63 A63 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In rural Louisiana after Reconstruction, Therese Lafirme, a thirty-year-old widow, falls in love with David Hosmer, but rejects his marriage proposal because of her religious opposition to divorce.
	Atomic romance : a novel Mason, Bobbie Ann. PS3563.A7877 A88 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Reed Futrell spends his time working in the town's uranium plant and chasing his girlfriend, a biologist named Julia, until rumors of plutonium contamination at the plant and Reed's refusal to see the danger threaten their relationship.
	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...
	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 ...
	Beauty of men : a novel Holleran, Andrew. PS3558.O3496 B63 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The loneliness of an aging homosexual. All his friends have died of aids and at his age one does not make new friends easily. He feels out of the picture, especially as he is of the old school--discreet. Not even his mother knows he is gay.
	Bel canto : a novel Patchett, Ann. PS3566.A7756 B4 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect e...
	Bell Murdoch, Iris. PR6063.U7 B45 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of a lay community of mixed-up people encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns, including Dora Greenfield, an erring wife who returns to her husband, and Michael Meade, who is confronted by his homosexual former lover.
	Bell jar Plath, Sylvia. PS3566.L27 B4 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful -- but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia Plath takes us with Esther through a painful month in New York as a contest-winning junior editor on a mag...
	Binding vine Deshpande, Shashi. PR9499.3.D474 B56 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	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.
	Black swan Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. PT2625.A44 B5313 1990 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Blackwater Ekman, Kerstin, 1933- PT9876.15.K55 H3613 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A woman and her six-year-old daughter discover a double homicide in a camping ground. The mother sees a boy running away, but he is not found and the crime is never solved. Eighteen years later the mother recognizes the boy as the man dating her daughter. By a Swedish writer, author of 17...
	Blake's therapy : a novel Dorfman, Ariel. PR9309.9.D67 B5818 2001b Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability --can't sleep. Faced with difficult choices, Blake turns to bizarre therapy to restore his "clean conscience".
	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.
	Blinding light Theroux, Paul. PS3570.H4 B55 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Explores creative genius and fame through the life of a writer whose search for a muse has led him into dangerous and destructive places.
	Blindness Saramago, José. PQ9281.A66 E6813 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An epidemic of blindness strikes a city and the result is chaos, the government issuing shoot-to-kill orders. Much of the action is seen through the eyes of a woman who claims to be blind so she won't be separated from her husband. A look at how people behave under stress. By the author o...
	Blue mother Kihlman, Christer, 1930- PT9876.21.I46 B5413 1990 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Book of disquietude : by Bernardo Soares, assistant bookkeeper in the city of Lisbon Pessoa, Fernando, 1888-1935. PQ9261.P417 L5813 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Book of memories : a novel Nádas, Péter, 1942- PH3291.N297 E413 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel exploring human relations. Its hero is a Hungarian writer who lives through the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and has a homosexual affair with a German poet in East Berlin.
	Book of mercy Cambor, Kathleen. PS3553.A4277 B66 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A mentally ill man is treated by his psychiatrist daughter. In the process emerges the story of the Mueller family of Pittsburgh, a fireman who marries a flamboyant dancer. The wife abandons the family, the son becomes a priest, the daughter a doctor, while the father loses himself in alc...
	Border crossing Barker, Pat. PR6052.A6488 B6 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "At first, as Tom and Lauren Seymour walk along the deserted Newcastle waterfront on a cold, gray September afternoon, they are too busy arguing, too absorbed in the breakup of their marriage, to notice the sole other human being at the river's edge - a young man who steps out onto one of...
	Borderliners Høeg, Peter, 1957- PT8176.18.O335 M3713 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel of psychological suspense on three children, misfits in a boarding school which uses them as guinea pigs for a secret experiment by the Danish government. They turn the tables by conducting an experiment of their own. By the author of Smilla's Sense of Snow.
	Bostonians James, Henry, 1843-1916. PS2116 .B6 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A failure when it first appeared in 1885, The Bostonians is one of James's most widely read novel today. Filled with cool irony and brilliant satire from its opening scene to its famous last sentence.
	Brain fever Sayers, Valerie. PS3569.A94 B73 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A man suffering frequent nervous breakdowns decides to spare his nearest and dearest the experience. He is Tim Rooney of South Carolina, who on the eve of his wedding recognizes the oncoming symptoms. So he cashes his savings and hits the road. The novel describes his blackouts, the vario...
	Brave new world : and, Brave new world revisited Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963. PR6015.U9 B65 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Contains the text of Huxley's prophetic work and includes his discussion about social problems and the human condition since its publication.
	Bride of Lammermoor Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832. PR5317 .B7 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The plans of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood to regain his ancient family estate from the corrupt Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland are frustrated by the complexities of the legal and political situations following the 1707 Act of Union, and by his passion for his enemy's beautiful da...
	Brighton rock Greene, Graham, 1904- PR6013.R44 B7 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Set in Brighton among the criminal rabble, the story depicts the tragic career of a 17 year-old boy named Pinkie whose primary ambition is to lead a gang to rival that of the wealthy and established Calleoni.
	Brothers and sisters Campbell, Bebe Moore, 1950- PS3553.A4395 B76 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A black woman banker is torn between her ambition to succeed professionally and her loyalty to other blacks. The protagonist is Esther Jackson, operations manager for a downtown Los Angeles bank. The events take place in the aftermath of the Rodney King riots. By the author of Your Blues ...
	Changeling Ōe, Kenzaburō, 1935- PL858.E14 C4813 2010 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Late in his life, writer Kogito Choko reconnects with his estranged friend, the filmmaker Goro Hanawa. Goro's subsequent suicide causes Kogito to examine and reexamine Goro's life for clues that will lead him to understand his friend's path.
	Coffin tree Law-Yone, Wendy. PS3562.A862 C6 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Coming of the night : a novel Rechy, John. PS3568.E28 C66 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel on the golden age of homosexuality, after it became an accepted state and before aids put a dampener. The action follows for one day a variety of gays in 1981 Los Angeles, including an old man envious of the freedom enjoyed by the younger generation. By the author of City of Night...
	Crazed Jin, Ha, 1956- PS3560.I6 C73 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Assigned to care for his fiancee's father, Professor Yang, after he suffers a stroke, Jian Wan is disturbed when the professor begins to rave against his family and colleagues, and takes great risks to uncover the truth.
	Criminals : a novel Livesey, Margot. PR6062.I893 C75 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In London, a man picks up an abandoned baby in a bus station and gives it to his childless sister. It's illegal, but she decides to keep it. What they don't realize is that the baby is bait in a scheme to extort money. By the author of Homework.
	Crossing Martínez, Manuel Luis. PS3563.A73339 C76 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A young man's harrowing journey from Mexico to the United States. He is tricked by a smuggler and faces death with others in a locked boxcar. The story is based on real events.
	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...
	Daisy Miller James, Henry, 1843-1916. PS2116 .D3 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Daisy Miller, a naive young American woman traveling in Europe with her family, finds it difficult to understand European society.
	Dancer with bruised knees McFall, Lynne, 1948- PS3563.C3627 D36 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A woman sings her blues in this tale of ill luck. Sarah Blight has lost an eye in a bar brawl, she is without a man--having lost her lover as well--and she still pines for her husband, even though he has remarried.
	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.
	Darling Banks, Russell, 1940- PS3552.A49 D37 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Having fled to West Africa in the late 1970s for her work as a political radical, Hannah Musgrave befriends notorious former Liberian president Charles Taylor, who years later leads a rebellion that threatens Hannah's family.
	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 ...
	Delirium : a novel Cooper, Douglas, 1960- PR9199.3.C6435 D45 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability On learning a professor is writing a book critical of his work, a famous architect decides to kill him. The architect is Ariel Price who believes he beautified Toronto, while the critic thinks he ruined it. The novel explores the role of architecture and urban planning in our times. By th...
	Destiny and desire : a novel Fuentes, Carlos. PQ7297.F793 V6413 2011 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The severed head of Josuãe Nadal, floating in the Pacific Ocean off the shore of Mexico, remembers his life, friends, enemies, and lovers, and his involvement in the drug trade and the corruption frequently encountered in his country.
	Dirt music : a novel Winton, Tim. PR9619.3.W585 D57 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Despite her marriage to Jim Buckridge, Georgie Jutland has never really become a part of his inbred fishing community, and her tentative link to conventional life is further jeopardized when she begins a love affair with Luther Fox, the local poacher andoutcast.
	Discovery of heaven : a novel Mulisch, Harry, 1927- PT5860.M85 O5713 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Annoyed by man's behavior, God decides to take back the Ten Commandments. He orders the angels to find someone intelligent enough to recognize the original tablets. The angels bring together man and woman, a son is born and he begins his training in skills needed to carry out his mission....
	Double double Yglesias, Jose. PS3575.G5 D68 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Driver's seat Spark, Muriel. PR6037.P29 D7 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Dues : a novel of war and after Cooper, Michael H., 1951- PS3553.O615 D8 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel of the Vietnam War. The protagonist is David Thorne, a homeless vet in Los Angeles who lives by wine, dope and French bread. The novel chronicles how he got there, starting with his dropping out of college and getting a job in a factory. Full of sardonic humor.
	Dying animal Roth, Philip. PS3568.O855 D95 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder." "S...
	East of the mountains Guterson, David. PS3557.U846 E22 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In Washington State, a widowed doctor suffering from cancer takes a hunting trip, the real purpose of which is to commit suicide, which he will masquerade as an accident. But Dr. Ben Givens' resolve is tested by several events which reaffirm the joy of living--he cheats death by fighting ...
	Echo maker Powers, Richard, 1957- PS3566.O92 E27 2006 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability On a winter night, Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But, when he
	Emerald germs of Ireland McCabe, Pat, 1955- PR6063.C32 E46 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Pat McNab reflects on why he killed his mother and who he should kill next.
	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.
	Equation for evil : a novel Caputo, Philip. PS3553.A625 E68 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability After a busload of Asian children is massacred and the killer commits suicide, two California investigators are assigned to perform a psychological autopsy. They are Dr. Leander Heartwood, a white forensic psychiatrist, and Gabriel Chin, an Asian agent of the state's justice department. T...
	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 "...
	Esperanza's box of saints Escandón, María Amparo. PS3555.S264 E85 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A Mexican village woman has a vision that her 12-year-old daughter did not die, as a hospital claims, but was sold into prostitution by a doctor. The search for the girl takes her to Los Angeles. A first novel.
	Exiles in America Bram, Christopher. PS3552.R2817 E95 2006 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Zack Knowles and Daniel Wexler have been together for twenty-one years. Zack is a psychiatrist, Daniel an art teacher at a college in Virginia. In the fall of 2002, a few months before the Iraq War, a new artist in residence, Abbas Rohani, arrives with his Russian wife, Elena, and their t...
	Exit ghost Roth, Philip. PS3568.O855 E95 2007 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability After eleven years of solitude working on his New England mountain as a writer, Nathan Zuckerman returns to New York to confront a turbulent city in the wake of September 11, as well as the aging Amy Bellette, one-time muse to his first literary hero, E.I. Lonoff.
	Fairly honourable defeat Murdoch, Iris. PR6063.U7 F3 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A ten guinea wager between a woman and her former lover threatens to disrupt the lives of all those close to them.
	Falling man : a novel DeLillo, Don. PS3554.E4425 F36 2007 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Escaping from the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks, Keith Neudecker makes his way to the uptown apartment where his ex-wife and young son are living and considers how the day's events have irrevocably changed his perception of the world.
	Father and son : a novel Brown, Larry, 1951- PS3552.R6927 F38 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Two men square off in a Mississippi town over a woman. One is the sheriff who loves her, the other a returned convict who is father of her child, but refuses to acknowledge paternity. A five-day drama by the author of Dirty Work.
	Father's law Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. PS3545.R815 F38 2008 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel left unfinished by Richard Wright at the time of his death in 1960, telling the story of Ruddy Turner, an African-American police chief in a Chicago suburb, who struggles to know what to do when he begins to suspect his college-age son Tommy is a murderer.
	Felicia's journey Trevor, William, 1928- PR6070.R4 F45 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A psychological horror story in which a man helps women in distress, only to murder them. The story is told through the eyes of an Irish girl who escapes the fate that befell the others. The setting is Britain. By the author of Two Lives.
	Fisher king : a novel Powell, Anthony, 1905- PR6031.O74 F57 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Flowers for Algernon Keyes, Daniel. PS3561.E769 F56 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability When brain surgery makes a mouse into a genius, dull-witted Charlie Gordon wonders if it might also work for him. With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that o...
	Fluke, or, I know why the winged whale sings Moore, Christopher, 1957- PS3563.O594 F58 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Just why do humpback whales sing? That's the question that has marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail into the air to display a cryptic m...
	For Rouenna Nunez, Sigrid. PS3564.U475 F6 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability After the death of Rouenna, a childhood friend, a novelist writes a book about Rouenna's experiences as a combat nurse in Vietnam.
	Foundation Asimov, Isaac, 1920- PS3551.S5 F59 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building. The story of our future begins with the history of Foundation and its greatest psychohistorian: Hari...
	Fountainhead Rand, Ayn. PS3535.A547 F6 1986 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of a gifted young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him.
	Four souls : [a novel] Erdrich, Louise. PS3555.R42 F68 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Journeying to Minneapolis, where she plans to avenge the loss of her family's land to a deceptive, wealthy white man, a young Native American woman finds herself entangled within a complex relationship.
	Fourth hand : a novel Irving, John, 1942- PS3559.R8 F68 2001b Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. A well-known Boston hand surgeon wants to perform the first hand transplant on the reporter, but the problem is there is no hand available. ...
	Fugitive pieces Michaels, Anne, 1958- PR9199.3.M453 F84 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A tale of Holocaust survival whose protagonist is Jakob Beer, a Jewish boy in Poland. He is saved from death by a Greek scientist who takes him home to his island, where Beer develops an interest in archeology. He describes the way the Nazis manipulated archeology to prove the superiority...
	Fury : a novel Rushdie, Salman. PR6068.U757 F87 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Malik Solanka, a middle-aged ex-philosophy professor and millionaire creator of a hugely popular doll, seeks refuge from his unwanted fame and disintegrating marriage in New York City.
	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:...
	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.
	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...
	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.
	God sends Sunday : a novel Bontemps, Arna Wendell, 1902-1973. PS3503.O474 G63 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability God Sends Sunday was inspired by Arna Bontemps's great-uncle Buddy, whose down-home folk spirit animates this racy story of Little Augie, an irrepressible black jockey of the romantic 1890s. As a frail, undersized youngster, Little Augie leaves his grown sister's home and with luck and ch...
	Going to the sun : a novel McManus, James. PS3563.C386 G65 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of Penny Culligan, a 29-year-old diabetic from Chicago who used her insulin to kill a boyfriend after he was mauled by a bear and begged to be put out his misery. As she cycles to Alaska several years later to revisit the scene, the novel describes the way Penny is coping with t...
	Good faith Smiley, Jane. PS3569.M39 G66 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Emerging from an ugly divorce in the early 1980s, real estate salesman Joe Stratford is reluctant to join his friend Marcus in a get-rich-quick scheme and wonders about the advances of a free-spirited married woman.
	Gould : a novel in two novels Dixon, Stephen, 1936- PS3554.I92 G68 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A man gets women pregnant--single or married--so he can have a hold over them. He is a self-absorbed writer who attracts women by his sexual prowess, described in detail. By the author of Frog.
	Great house Krauss, Nicole. PS3611.R38 G74 2010 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Connected solely by a desk of enormous dimension and many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or give it away, three people--a lonely American novelist clinging to the memory of a poet who has mysteriously vanished in Chile, an old man in Israel facing the imminent death...
	Great Jones Street DeLillo, Don. PS3554.E4425 G7 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Grimus : a novel Rushdie, Salman. PR6068.U757 G7 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability After drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next seven hundred years sailing the seas with the blessing, and ultimately the burden, of living forever. Eventually, he grows weary of the sameness of life and journeys to the moun...
	Half a life Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932- PR9272.9.N32 H55 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Willie Chandran flees the heritage of his mixed class birth in India for the bohemian life of a writer in 1950s London. He falls in love with a woman and returns with her to Africa, living through the last days of colonialism.
	Heart is a lonely hunter McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967. PS3525.A1772 H4 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She was very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isol...
	Heart of the matter Greene, Graham, 1904-1991. PR6013.R44 H4 1999b Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An assistant police commissioner in a West African coastal town lets passion overrule his honor.
	Hero of our time Lermontov, Mikhail I︠U︡rʹevich, 1814-1841. PG3337.L4 G4133 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Proud, wilful and charismatic, Pechorin is Byronic in his wasted gifts and bored by his stifling world. With a predatory energy for any activity that will relieve his ennui, he embarks on a series of exciting adventures, involving smugglers, brigands, soldiers, rivals and lovers, and leav...
	Hologram for the king : a novel Eggers, Dave, PS3605.G48 H65 2012 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	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.
	House of splendid isolation O'Brien, Edna. PR6065.B7 H55 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An IRA terrorist, McGreevy, invades Josie's remote old house outside an Irish village, and their coexistence begins as a hostile standoff and evolves into something far more ambiguous.
	How like a god Clough, B. W. PS3553.L628 H68 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A computer programmer discovers he has the power to impose his will on people, a power transmitted to him via computers. When he realizes that he in turn is transmitting the power to his children, he takes fright at the chaos this could create. To stop the process he abandons his family a...
	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 ...
	Human stain Roth, Philip. PS3568.O855 H8 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begi...
	Humbling Roth, Philip. PS3568.O855 H85 2009 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability What happens when all the ways that we convince ourselves of our solidity, all our life's performances--talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation--are stripped off? Simon Axler, one of the leading American stage actors of his generation, is about to find out. Now in his sixties, he has...
	Hungry tide Ghosh, Amitav, 1956- PR9499.3.G536 H86 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Off the easternmost coast of India lies the immense archipelago of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans. Life here is precarious, ruled by the unforgiving tides and the constant threat of attacks by Bengal tigers. Into this place of vengeful beauty come two seekers from different worlds, ...
	In the forest O'Brien, Edna. PR6065.B7 I5 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Michen O'Kane, who was born with a killer instinct, unleashes his murderous rage along the countryside of western Ireland, drawing innocent victims into the forest of his twisted fantasies.
	Information Amis, Martin. PR6051.M5 I5 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A spoof on the world of bestsellerdom. The protagonists are a successful novelist and an unsuccessful one. The latter decides to destroy the former with dirty tricks, only to see them backfire. By the author of Time's Arrow.
	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.
	Intimates Sassone, Ralph. PS3619.A813 I67 2011 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Spanning years and continents, beginnings and endings, this is a novel about two gifted and striving people who discover themselves in the reflection they see in each other, and how their affinity anchors them at critical points in their lives.
	Invisible man : a grotesque romance Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946. PR5774 .I5 2002b Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A young scientist's adventures with refractions of light bring terror to the residents of Burdock.
	Ivory tower James, Henry, 1843-1916. PS2116 .I9 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "In 1914, Henry James began work on a major novel about the immense new fortunes of America's Gilded Age. After an absence of more than twenty years, James had returned for a visit to his native country; what he found there filled him with profound dismay. In The Ivory Tower, his last boo...
	Jack Maggs Carey, Peter. PR9619.3.C36 J33 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel on hypnosis set in 19th century London. The protagonist is Jack Maggs, an English convict who returns from Australia. He suffers from painful spasms, attributed to his criminal nature, and an attempt is made to cure him, using the new science of mesmerism.
	Jacob's room : authoritative text, Virginia Woolf and the novel, criticism Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. PR6045.O72 J3 2007 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Jacob Flanders, a sensitive young man raised in Edwardian England, discovers as an adult that his life is lacking, but his search for fulfillment is sidetracked by the outbreak of World War I. Includes extracts from Woolf's diaries and letters, comments on the novel, a selection of short ...
	Jayber Crow : a novel Berry, Wendell, 1934- PS3552.E75 J39 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Jayber Crow, born in Goforth, Kentucky, orphaned at age ten, began his search as a "pre-ministerial student" at Pigeonville College." "Eventually, after the flood of 1937, Jayber becomes the barber of the small community of Port William, Kentucky. From behind that barber chair he lives o...
	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.
	July, July O'Brien, Tim, 1946- PS3565.B75 J85 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Old friends share memories of the past, current regrets, and future plans as they gather on a July weekend for the thirtieth reunion of Darton Hall College's class of 1969.
	Junky Burroughs, William S., 1914- PS3552.U75 J86 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junk, his first novel. It is a candid eye-witness account of times and places that are now long gone, an unvarnished field report from the American post-war underground." "Unafraid to portray himself in 1953...
	Knight has died : a novel Nooteboom, Cees, 1933- PT5881.24.O55 R513 1990 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Ladder of years Tyler, Anne. PS3570.Y45 L33 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A runaway wife leaves one domestic situation, only to fall into another. She is Delia Grinstead, 40, of Baltimore, the wife of a physician and mother of three. One day she decides she's had enough of being invisible, moves to another town and gets herself a job--caring for a boy whose mot...
	Last report on the miracles at Little No Horse Erdrich, Louise. PS3555.R42 L37 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability From the bestselling author of "Tracks" comes a dramatic sequel--a story of suspect miracles, tests of faith, and the corrosive and redemptive power of secrecy. Over the years, Father Damian has seen the reservation through its most severe crises, yet he is more than a heroic priest. He h...
	Last time I saw mother Chai, Arlene J. PR9619.3.C417 L37 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A family drama in the Philippines in which a woman secretly adopts the daughter of her sister. It is played out during a turbulent period of the country's history--the Japanese invasion in World War II, war of independence against the U.S. and the People's Revolution. A first novel.
	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 ...
	Left-handed dreams Duranti, Francesca, 1935- PQ4864.U68 S6413 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Naturalezza" is an Italian word that means "'a way of being, of feeling without always being aware of one's being,'" and as Martina Satriano learns that she may have been born left-handed and that she has many choices in life, including the appearance of her first love and of "all the lu...
	Lenin's brain Spengler, Tilman. PT2681.P46 L4613 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Dr. Oskar Vogt, a Prussian hypnotist and neurologist, will stop at little in his pursuit of worldly success, and in his quest for the biological secret of genius. He is fortunate to be able to cultivate the patronage of the hugely wealthy Krupp family, including Friedrich Alfred Krupp, di...
	Life and death of Harriett Frean Sinclair, May. PR6037.I73 L5 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Light in August : the corrected text Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. PS3511.A86 L5 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Several stories are woven together to show man's inner alienation from the society about him.
	Light of evening O'Brien, Edna. PR6065.B7 L54 2006 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability From her Dublin hospital bed, an ailing elderly woman recalls the important events and people of her life, from her emigration to America in the 1920s, to her Irish marriage, to motherhood, as she awaits a visit from her estranged daughter, Eleanora.
	Liliane : resurrection of the daughter Shange, Ntozake. PS3569.H3324 L55 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The ambitions, loves and complexes of a rich black girl. On a psychiatrist's couch she realizes her mother did not die, but left her family for a white man and rather than acknowledge the fact, the father pronounced her dead. By the author of Betsey Brown.
	Live girls Nugent, Beth. PS3564.U347 L58 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The life of a girl who drops out of a religious school to work in a porn movie house. She lives in a hotel for transients and her only friend is a drag queen. By the author of City of Boys.
	Losing it Cumyn, Alan, 1960- PR9199.3.C775 L67 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Sometimes those who have the most seem bent on throwing it away. Meet Bob Sterling, a comfortable middle-aged professor, a specialist in the life of Edgar Allan Poe, married to a former student with whom he has a young son. In the space of a week, his family, marriage, home, career, sani...
	Lotte Perkins Gilman's "The yellow wall-paper" and the history of its publication and reception : a critical edition and documentary casebook Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935. PS1744.G57 Y45 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Since its publication in 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper" has always been recognized as a powerful statement about the victimization of a woman whose neurasthenic condition is completely misdiagnosed, mistreated, and misunderstood, leaving her to face insanity alon...
	Love, again : a novel Lessing, Doris May, 1919- PR6023.E833 L47 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An old woman falls in love with a man who could be her grandson. She is Sarah Durham, 65, a widow working in the theater in England and she develops a passion for a young actor. A look at love in the golden age by the author of The Golden Notebook.
	Love Morrison, Toni. PS3563.O8749 L68 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The epitome of a group of women's ideals about love, fatherhood, and friendship, wealthy hotel owner Bill Cosey finds his life compromised by his troubled past and his feelings about a spellbinding woman named Celestial.
	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.
	Loving Che Menéndez, Ana, 1970- PS3563.E514 L68 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An elderly woman looks back on the world of revolutionary Cuba as she recalls her secret affair with revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, in the story of a young Cuban woman who searches for details about her birth mother.
	Mad desire to dance : a novel Wiesel, Elie, 1928- PQ2683.I32 D4713 2009 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Sixty year-old Doriel Waldman, a Polish Jew born in 1936, is on the verge of insanity until Dr. Thérèse Goldschmidt draws him out with his story of surviving the Holocaust in hiding with his father while his mother made a reputation for herself in the Polish resistance--only to die in...
	Madeleine is sleeping Bynum, Sarah Shun-lien. PS3602.Y58 M33 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability When a girl falls into a deep sleep, the borders of her real life in a French village and a mysterious fantasy world disappear.
	Magdalena the sinner : a novel Faschinger, Lilian, 1950- PT2666.A76 M3413 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A woman in Austria abducts a priest at gunpoint to confess her sins. With the exception of one murder, they are mostly sexual and it becomes clear she is playing to arouse him.
	Magic seeds Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932- PR9272.9.N32 M49 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Willie Chandran feels as though the life he lives is not his own. But his listlessness washes away in a flood of encouragement from his radically political sister. Inspired, he joins an underground liberation movement in India. But after years of revolution and incarceration, he grows dis...
	Magnificent spinster : a novel Sarton, May, 1912- PS3537.A832 M3 1985 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story becomes a complex "double fiction" through which we experience both Cam's struggles and triumphs and the dominant story of Jane Reid. Jane was born a Boston Brahmin, granddaughter of a legendary man of letters. Tall, beautiful, wealthy, she was pursued by men but was the intimat...
	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...
	Man in my basement : a novel Mosley, Walter. PS3563.O88456 M36 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability To save the home that has belonged to his family for generations, Charles Blakey, a young black man whose life is slowly crumbling around him, agress to rent out his basement for the summer to a mysterious stranger.
	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...
	Martha Quest Lessing, Doris May, 1919- PR6023.E833 M38 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Intelligent, sensitive, and fiercely passionate, Martha Quest is a young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood.
	Marvelous adventures of Pierre Baptiste : father and mother, first and last : [a novel] Eakins, Patricia. PS3555.A424 M37 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A magic-realism novel on an 18th century slave in the Caribbean who becomes a philosopher, writing an encyclopedia on his race. After escaping by sea he lands on an island, is made pregnant by a mermaid and gives birth through his mouth to a quartet of philosofish.
	Meaning of consuelo Ortiz Cofer, Judith, 1952- PS3565.R7737 M43 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "A Puerto Rican girl coming of age in the 1950s struggles to negotiate her own terms of survival within the confines of her culture."
	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...
	Mirror : a novel Freed, Lynn. PR9369.3.F68 M57 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The diary of an Englishwoman who emigrates to 1920s South Africa and uses her power over men to achieve financial success. Agnes La Grange begins with an affair while a maid, the man of the house buying her a hotel. He is the first of her many investors.
	Miss Giardino Bryant, Dorothy, 1930- PS3552.R878 M5 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Moon and sixpence Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965. PR6025.A86 M6 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Moviegoer Percy, Walker, 1916- PS3566.E6912 M68 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Kate's desperate struggle to maintain her sanity forces her cousin Binx to relinquish his dreamworld.
	Mr. Sammler's plane Bellow, Saul. PS3503.E4488 M4 1970 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Sammler, a New Yorker in his seventies, a refugee from Nazism, a thinker of complex thoughts, a touchstone around whom a heterogeneous group revolves, is not simply the protagonist but the prime mover of a many-sided novel held together by the centripetal force of his presence. The count...
	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.
	Mrs. Stevens hears the mermaids singing : a novel Sarton, May, 1912- PS3537.A832 M5 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	My drowning Grimsley, Jim, 1955- PS3557.R4949 M97 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An old woman's reminiscences of a childhood spent in the tobacco and cotton fields of rural North Carolina. The father was illiterate, the mother drunk and life was lived in constant squalor.
	Nervous conditions : a novel Dangarembga, Tsitsi. PR9390.9.D36 N47 1989 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The patriarchal society of modern Africa is unhappy with two daring women who are determined to be free Africans and free women.
	Never let me go Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954- PR6059.S5 N48 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, ...
	Night : a novel Karasu, Bilge. PL248.K33 G4313 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Both a political novel of deep sophistication and a dazzling meditation on the craft and meaning of fiction, Night explores the redemptive powers of the imagination as it shows us the mind of a world-class novelist at work. Night begins as a writer's notebook. It appears the narrative o...
	Night train : a novel Amis, Martin. PR6051.M5 N5 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An investigation into the suicide of Jennifer Rockwell, a woman with everything going for her--health, looks, man--plus a job as an astrophysicist. Question is, can a person shoot herself in the head three times? As she investigates the victim's background, policewoman Mike Hoolihan think...
	Ninety-two in the shade McGuane, Thomas. PS3563.A3114 N56 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	No country for old men McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- PS3563.C337 N6 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Llewelyn Moss is hunting antelope near the Texas/Mexico border when he stumbles upon several dead men, a big stash of heroin, and more than two million dollars in cash. He takes off with the money--and the hunter becomes the hunted. A drug cartel hires a former Special Forces agent to tra...
	Now is the time to open your heart : a novel Walker, Alice, 1944- PS3573.A425 N69 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A well-published, numerous-times-divorced woman leaves her lover to embark on a personal journey that begins on the Colorado River and traverses through her past and into her future, while her lover begins his own parallel voyage. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple.
	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 school : a novel Wolff, Tobias, 1945- PS3573.O558 O43 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Determined to fit in at his New England prep school, the narrator has learned to mimic the bearing and manners of his adoptive tribe while concealing as much as possible about himself. His final year, however, unravels everything he's achieved, and steers his destiny in directions no one ...
	Open heart Yehoshua, Abraham B. PJ5054.Y42 S55 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An Israeli surgeon is asked by his director to treat his daughter and in the process falls in love with the director's wife. After a one-night stand she dismisses him, but he can't forget her, so when he has to perform heart surgery on the director he wonders, save him or not save him?
	Operation wandering soul : a novel Powers, Richard, 1957- PS3566.O92 O64 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A group of sick children in a hospital in Los Angeles and the people who work to keep them alive, to combine fact and fantasy, revealing to adults the forgotten place they came from and preparing the children for the hidden destination they are off to.
	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.
	Orderly life Yglesias, Jose. PS3575.G5 O73 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	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
	Passing Larsen, Nella. PS3523.A7225 P37 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "The beautiful, elegant, and ambitious Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. A light-skinned African American married to a white man unaware of her racial heritage, Clare has severed all ties to her past to become part of white, middle-class society. Clare's childhood friend, Irene Redfiel...
	Perfect agreement Downing, Michael. PS3554.O9346 P47 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of the Shakers, a religious sect in New England whose members believed in Christ's second coming. It is presented in the form of stories which a father tells his son, the father having spent years photographing the surviving members.
	Petrolio Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 1922-1975. PQ4835.A48 P5813 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An unfinished novel which draws parallels between political and sexual power. The hero is Carlo, an oil company executive by day and a sexual pervert at night. Told against the background of political turmoil in Italy in the 1960s. The late author was a filmmaker.
	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...
	Plague Camus, Albert, 1913-1960. PQ2605.A3734 P413 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Chaos prevails when the bubonic plague strikes the Algerian coastal city of Oran. A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.
	Plain seeing : a novel Scofield, Sandra Jean, 1943- PS3569.C584 P58 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In New Mexico, a woman's obsession with her mother ruins her life. The mother was an actress who died early and the grandmother refused to discuss her. One day, the husband has enough and walks out, taking their daughter.
	Playing with light : a novel Rivera, Beatriz, 1957- PS3568.I8287 P58 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A group of Cuban American women are sucked into the historical novel of nineteenth-century Havana that their reading group has chosen.
	Poetry lover Soto, Gary. PS3569.O72 P64 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Twenty years ago, when Silver Mendez was the youthful author of two published books of poetry, he bragged that he was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences. His career has been going steadily downhill ever since. But a letter from Spain may change his luck. Silver is invited t...
	Prisoners : a novel Karlin, Wayne. PS3561.A625 P75 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A Vietnamese girl runs away from a halfway house in Maryland to search for the black father she never knew. The novel traces the impact on the town, many of whose inhabitants fought in the Vietnam War.
	Private view Brookner, Anita. PR6052.R5816 P73 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An elderly man who has led a boring life meets a woman half his age and discovers real living. The novel chronicles the brief fling before his life returns to normal.
	Pursuit of a woman on the hinge of history : a novel Koning, Hans. PS3561.O46 P87 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A man searches two continents for a beautiful woman he caught a glimpse of in Spain. As Lucas, a New York journalist pursues the object of his obsession, he runs into one misadventure after another, all the way to Death Row. A black comedy.
	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.
	Rearview mirror Feldman, Ellen, 1941- PS3572.I38 R4 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In New York, a reporter pays the price of becoming too involved in her subject. She is Hallie Fields whose interview with a rich man sparks an unfortunate affair and whose reportage on a woman writer involves her in a domestic drama. By the author of Looking for Love.
	Recovery Berryman, John, 1914-1972. PS3503.E744 R4 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Rector of Justin Auchincloss, Louis. PS3501.U25 R44 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	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
	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.
	Riders in the chariot White, Patrick, 1912- PR9619.3.W5 R533 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Ripley under ground Highsmith, Patricia, 1921- PS3558.I366 R56 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Riven rock Boyle, T. Coraghessan. PS3552.O932 R58 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A love story early this century on a young millionaire who has gone mad and his loyal wife. For twenty years, suffragette Katherine McCormick awaits a cure while doctors treat Stanley in his palatial mansion in California. They won't allow her visits because he cannot look at a woman with...
	River king Hoffman, Alice. PS3558.O3447 R58 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability From the master storyteller, a suspenseful, lyrical account of one man's search for the truth behind an inexplicable death. For more than a century, the small town of Haddan, Massachusetts, has been divided, as if by a line drawn down the center of Main Street, separating those born and b...
	Sabbath's theater Roth, Philip. PS3568.O855 S23 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The life of an old man who lives for sex. He is Morris Sabbath, 64, a New York puppeteer who made his name with lewd performances. Feeling death approaching, he relives his many amorous adventures in graphic detail. By the author of Portnoy's Complaint.
	Sanctuary Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. PS3545.H16 S26 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Santitos Escandón, María Amparo. PS3555.S264 E8518 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Por mandato de san Judas Tadeo, una joven viuda, Esperanza Díaz, viaja en busca de su hija desaparecida desde un pueblito tropical en México hasta los centros de sexo de Estados Unidos, pasando por los prostíbulos de Tijuana.
	Saturday : [a novel] McEwan, Ian. PR6063.C4 S27 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability From the pen of a master-the #1 bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Atonement-comes an astonishing novel that captures the fine balance of happiness and the unforeseen threats that can destroy it. A brilliant, thrilling page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seats...
	Savage holiday : a novel Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. PS3545.R815 S28 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Erskine Fowler, an insurance executive forced by corporate intrigue into the long holiday of retirement, becomes enmeshed in a weekend of bizarre and bloody circumstances that reveal his troubled psyche and desperation. Naked and accidentally locked out of his apartment, he inadvertently ...
	Sea Banville, John. PR6052.A57 S43 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Following the death of his wife, Max Morden retreats to the seaside town of his childhood summers, where his own life becomes inextricably entwined with the members of the vacationing Grace family.
	Sea, the sea Murdoch, Iris. PR6063.U7 S25 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor both professionally and personally, and to amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress...
	Seaward : a novel Leithauser, Brad. PS3562.E4623 S44 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A Washington lawyer struggles to find a balance after he sees the ghost of his dead wife.
	Second foundation Asimov, Isaac, 1920- PS3551.S5 S37 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first. The Mule has yet to find it, but he was getting closer all the time. The men of the Foundation sought it, too, to escape from Mule's mind control. Only Arkady, a 14 year-old girl seemed to have ...
	Seek my face Updike, John. PS3571.P4 S38 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability During an interview with a New York writer, seventy-nine-year-old artist Hope Chafetz describes her eventful life and her integral place in the saga of postwar American art.
	Sense of an ending Barnes, Julian. PR6052.A6657 S46 2011 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Follows a middle-aged man as he reflects on a past he thought was behind him, until he is presented with a legacy that forces him to reconsider different decisions, and to revise his place in the world.
	Seven moves Anshaw, Carol. PS3551.N7147 S4 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A lesbian therapist in Chicago whose live-in lover disappears tracks her down in Morocco, only to find a different woman, a shock that puts her power of perception in question. If she could misread a lover for so long--a therapist's worst fear--perhaps she hardly knows her own mind.
	Seven sisters Drabble, Margaret, 1939- PR6054.R25 S48 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Divorced and estranged from her grown daughters, Candida Wilton moves to a rundown flat well below her means and finds exhilaration in her self-imposed poverty, during which she confides her thoughts to a computer and makes friends with new peers.
	Shadow Paredes, Américo, 1915-1999. PS3531.A525 S54 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A Latin American revolutionary, famous in war, struggles to adapt to peace. The hero made his name destroying the old, but does he have what it takes to build the new? By a Mexican writer, author of Between Two Worlds.
	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.
	Shine on, bright & dangerous object Colwin, Laurie. PS3553.O4783 S55 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Simple plan : a novel Smith, Scott, 1965- PS3569.M5379759 S57 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "A Simple Plan marks the astonishing debut of a natural born storyteller. It is a novel about a young man, unaware of his own moral fragility, who finds an immense cache of money - and makes a seemingly plausible decision that sets his hitherto "ordinary and ordered" life on the road to c...
	Skin deep Wagman, Diana. PS3573.A359 S58 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A doctor places an advertisement for a woman to talk with, and a topless dancer answers it. They proceed to meet regularly in a hotel, she covered head to toe at his request so her looks will not influence their conversations. The topic: beauty.
	Slammer Greer, Ben. PS3557.R399 S57 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Snake tree Timm, Uwe, 1940- PT2682.I39 S3513 1989 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Snakebite sonnet Phillips, Max. PS3566.H487 S63 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The romance of Nicholas, 10, who falls in love with Julia, 19. As Julia already has a boyfriend, he has to wait until he goes to college, where she will be a graduate student. What follows is a tempestuous on-and-off affair, narrated by self-deprecating Nicholas, a victim of Julia's fickl...
	Soldier Binstock, R. C. PS3552.I57 S65 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A writer's solitary existence is brightened by the arrival of a pretty cousin, 20 years younger. She is Jennie who comes to Phillip's cabin in the woods of New Hampshire to learn to write. Sparks fly, but both have baggage, she a jealous ex, he a former girlfriend, and that complicates th...
	Solstice Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- PS3565.A8 S64 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The friendship between Monica Jensen, a recently divorced schoolteacher, and Sheila Trask, a charismatic artist, intensifies into a turbulent, reckless relationship as Monica loses sight of her conventional values.
	Sputnik sweetheart : a novel Murakami, Haruki, 1949- PL856.U673 S8713 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A male college student falls in love with a woman who, over the years, guides him in her travels, and then disappears without trace. Assisting in the search, he goes home to Japan, where he finally achieves a true understanding of his beloved.
	Starting out in the evening : a novel Morton, Brian, 1955- PS3563.O88186 S73 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A failed old writer is visited by a pretty young student who wants to make him the subject of her thesis. The woman's adulation--she tells him his books changed her life--goes to the writer's head and he falls in love. Observing this with a jaundiced eye is his daughter, herself a struggl...
	State of emergency Salas, Floyd, 1931- PS3569.A459 S73 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Radical professor Roger and his former student Penny escape to Europe and northern Africa when Roger is pursued by government agents who want to stop his writings exposing plans by the military to annihilate dissidents.
	Strength of the sun : a novel Chidgey, Catherine, 1970- PR9639.3.C535 G65 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability As Colette receives mysterious letters about an unconscious man in an English hospital, Ruth and Malcolm, whose young son is Colette's charge, try to overcome the disappearance of their daughter, while medievalist Patrick Mercer tries to reconstruct his life after a car crash.
	Submission : [a novel] Waldman, Amy, 1969- PS3623.A35675 S83 2011 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "When a Muslim architect wins a blind contest to design a Ground Zero Memorial, a city of eleven million people takes notice. Waldman, a former bureau chief for the New York Times, explores a diversity of viewpoints around this fictional event, bringing in politicians, businessmen, journa...
	Suspicion McCrum, Robert. PR6063.A1658 S87 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A tale of adultery and murder in England. It begins when a man who defected to East Germany in his youth returns to England with his German wife and moves in with his brother. The brother falls for the wife and an affair gets underway. Trouble begins when an East German arrives, the man t...
	Swan boats at four : a novel Higgins, George V., 1939- PS3558.I356 S93 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A drawing room comedy which takes place on board a luxury liner. The protagonists are David Carroll, a Boston banker; Frances, his wife; Melissa Murray, Carroll's ex-mistress who works for the liner; and Burton Rutledge a charming con man with a mission. By the author of Bomber's Law.
	Tale for the time being Ozeki, Ruth L. PS3565.Z45 T35 2013 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Talented Mr. Ripley Highsmith, Patricia, 1921- PS3558.I366 T33 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In a chilling literary hall of mirrors, Patricia Highsmith introduces Tom Ripley. Like a hero in a latter-day Henry James novel, Ripley is sent to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal young American back to his wealthy father. But Ripley finds himself very fond of Dickie Greenleaf. ...
	Talking in bed Nelson, Antonya. PS3564.E428 N45 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Two men meet in hospital where their fathers have died, one is a manual worker, the other a psychologist. The psychologist invites the other home, they have dinner with their wives and adultery follows. A study in characters, class and domestic crisis.
	Talking to the dead : a novel Dunmore, Helen, 1952- PR6054.U528 T35 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Two women attempt to remember whether as little girls they killed their baby brother. The unspoken question hangs over Nina and Isabel as one woman helps the other with a birth. By a British writer.
	Tattooed soldier Tobar, Héctor, 1963- PS3570.O22 T38 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A Guatemalan refugee whose family was killed by a death squad spots one of the killers playing chess in a park in Los Angeles and plots revenge. The denouement comes during one of the city's riots.
	Temple of the golden pavillion Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970. PL818.I7 K513 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Tender is the night Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. PS3511.I9 T4 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A story of Americans on the French Riviera in the 1930s is a portrait of psychological disintegration as a wealthy couple supports friends and hangers-on financially and emotionally at the cost of their own stability.
	Tender is the night : the broken universe Stern, Milton R. PS3511.I9 T478 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night may or may not be the great American novel, but it is the great novel about American History. It is also a novel about Fitzgerald's life history. In the making for nearly 10 years and the subject of 18 revisions - the last undertaken after the boo...
	Their eyes were watching God Hurston, Zora Neale. PS3515.U789 T5 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An African-American woman searches for a fulfilling relationship through two loveless marriages and finally finds it in the person of Tea Cake, an itinerant laborer and gambler.
	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...
	Tinkers Harding, Paul, 1967- PS3608.A72535 T56 2009 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An astonishing first novel of memory, consciousness, and man's place in the natural world.		Try to remember : a novel Kotker, Zane. PS3561.O845 T79 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A woman's accusation of sexual abuse by her father tears a family apart. It happens when a New York filmmaker leaves an abusive boyfriend and sees an ambitious psychiatrist. The parents are thunderstruck.
	Tunnel Gass, William H., 1924- PS3557.A845 T86 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability After completing the manuscript of a book entitled The Guilt and Innocence of Hitler's Germany, a famous historian who teaches at a university sits down to write the introduction. But instead he finds himself writing on the guilt and innocence of his own life. A look at the craft of resur...
	Ultimate intimacy Klíma, Ivan. PG5039.21.L5 P6413 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability As they engage in an adulterous affair in the Czech capital, Prague, a married Protestant minister finds himself losing his faith, while by contrast his atheistic mistress discovers God. By the author of Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light.
	Under the volcano Lowry, Malcolm, 1909-1957. PR6023.O96 U5 2007 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Set in Mexico on the eve of WWII, the story tells of a man in extremis, an alcoholic consul bursting with regret, longing, resentment and remorse, whose climactic moment rapidly approaches..."---Editorial review from www.amazon.com
	Understand this Tervalon, Jervey. PS3570.E76 U5 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Unfortunate woman : a journey Brautigan, Richard. PS3503.R2736 U54 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Assumes the form of a traveler's journal, chronicling the protagonists's journey and his oblique ruminations on the suicide of one woman and the death from cancer of another, close friend." -- Jacket.
	Universal donor Nova, Craig. PS3564.O86 U55 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A few days before his wedding Rick, a doctor, introduces his fiancee, Virginia, to Terry, another doctor, and it's love at first sight. Virginia decides to wed Rick, anyway, but a snake bite for which she requires treatment throws her in Terry's arms. By the author of The Book of Dreams.
	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.
	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...
	Villages Updike, John. PS3571.P4 V55 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "John Updike's twenty-first novel, a bildungsroman, follows its hero, Owen Mackenzie, from his birth in the semi-rural Pennsylvania town of Willow to his retirement in the rather geriatric community of Hasskells Crossing, Massachusetts. In between these two settlements comes Middle Falls,...
	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.
	Visit from the Goon Squad Egan, Jennifer. PS3555.G292 V57 2010 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs confront their pasts in this powerful story about how rebellion ages, influence corrupts, habits turn to addictions, lifelong friendships fluctuate and turn, and ho...
	Voyage to Arcturus Lindsay, David, 1876-1945. PR6023.I58115 V68 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Waiting Jin, Ha, 1956- PS3560.I6 W34 1999 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In Waiting, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author Ha Jin draws on his intimate knowledge of contemporary China to create a novel of unexpected richness and feeling. This is the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different wome...
	We have always lived in the castle Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965. PS3519.A392 W4 2006 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.
	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 I lived for Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- PS3565.A8 W42 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A Philistine discovers a social conscience. He is Jerome Corcoran, a real estate millionaire and city councilman who lives for money, food and sex. On his way to work he comes across a suicide, a black woman who was a critic of city hall. Corcoran smells foul play and for once decides to ...
	Willy Slater's lane : a novel Wieland, Mitch, 1961- PS3573.I345 W54 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The story of two recluse brothers in Ohio. When the father died, Harlan, the elder, sold off the land, sharing the proceeds with Erban, and Erban's wife. The house is about to collapse, but they don't know that yet. They read, analyze life and watch the hard-working Amish pass by.
	Wind-up bird chronicle Murakami, Haruki, 1949- PL856.U673 N4513 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Having quit his job, Toru Okada is enjoying a pleasant stint as a "house husband", listening to music and arranging the dry cleaning and doing the cooking - until his cat goes missing, his wife becomes distant and begins acting strangely, and he starts meeting enigmatic people with fantas...
	Woman in the dunes Abe, Kōbō, 1924- PL845.B4 S813 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In this famous postwar Japanese novel, the first of Abe's to be translated into English, Niki Jumpei, an amateur entomologist in pursuit of a rare specimen of beetle, wanders into a strange seaside village, whose residents all live in sandpits. He is taken prisoner, and, along with a wido...
	Women in love Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930. PR6023.A93 W63 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability
	Woodlanders Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. PR4750 .W7 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Giles Winterbowne suffers with the many tribulations of his selfless love for a woman above his station in this classic tale of the West country.
	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...
	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 ...
	Zigzag way Desai, Anita, 1937- PR9499.3.D465 Z644 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A young historian traveling to Mexico for the first time, Eric becomes involved in a curious quest to uncover the mysteries of his own family in an old mining town, where he becomes involved with the lives of characters past and present.