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Title |
Author |
Summary |
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F ALI |
Brick lane |
Monica, Ali |
Nazneen is the good girl following her parents' wishes always and being so becomes an older man's wife in an arranged marriage. Her husband takes her to the Bangladeshi community in London where she gradually comes to realize life beyond Bangladesh can be wonderous for a woman. |
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F ANS |
Vinegar Hill |
Ansay, A. Manette |
Ellen Grier and her family move in with her in-laws to help take care of them, and she begins to feel like she is losing her identity. |
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F ANS |
Vinegar Hill |
Ansay, A. Manette |
Ellen Grier and her family move in with her in-laws to help take care of them, and she begins to feel like she is losing her identity. |
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F ANT |
Isle of woman |
Anthony, Piers |
Blaze and Ember are born at the dawn of human history, separated by fate, yet united by their love for each other. |
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F BAC |
American Fuji |
Backer, Sara |
Gaby Stanton, fired from her job as a university professor in provincial Shizuoka, has a gig selling fantasy funerals to wealthy Japanese. Her job puts her in the path of Alexander Thorn, a middle-aged American who has just arrived in Japan determined to decipher the mystery surrounding the death of his son, an exchange student. (Amazon) |
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F BAL |
Saving faith |
Baldacci, David |
Cold-war CIA super-patriot Robert Thornhill wants to reclaim the glory days of the Central Intelligence Agency--when money flowed like the Mississippi during a flood, and the FBI watched helplessly from the sidelines. Working from his secret underground bunker, he blackmails Danny Buchanan, one of the great Washington lobbyists, to front an enormous bribery scheme that will force Congress to bend to the CIA's whims. (Amazon) |
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F BAT |
Special |
Bathhurst, Bella |
A group of schoolgirls sets off with two teachers on a field trip to the English countryside, where they all find themselves facing new challenges and dangerous situations. |
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F BEL |
Ravelstein |
Bellow, Saul |
Abe Ravelstein, a brilliant professor who has lived far beyond his means, becomes a millionaire after he acts upon the suggestion of his close friend Chick that he write a book about the ideas that sustain, or kill, humankind. But the two men face tragedy after they return home from a celebratory trip to Paris. |
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F BLO |
Hit man |
Block, Lawrence |
Keller, a professional assassin, struggles to deal with the normal problems of loneliness, job dissatisfaction, and self-doubt associated with a midlife crisis. |
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F BLO |
Long line of dead men (A) |
Block, Lawrence |
Members of an exclusive male club are being killed off one by one. Matt Scudder must unmask the killer before another murder occurs. |
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F BOY |
The great pint-pulling olympiad: a mostly Irish farce |
Boylan, Roger |
When Mick finds himself in a bind after a car accident under less than socially acceptable circumstances, he enlists the aid of a lawyer whose interests lie more in selling missiles to the IRA that in defense lawyering. |
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F COR |
Hornest's nest |
Cornwell, Patricia |
Three individuals--forty-two-year-old Deputy Chief Virginia West, Police Chief Judy Hammer, and twenty-two-year-old journalist Andy Brazil--search for a serial killer, exploring the seedy underbelly of Charlotte, North Carolina, while trudging through their own personal struggles, from unhappy marriages to obsessions with their jobs. |
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F COR |
Southern cross |
Cornwell, Patricia |
Judy Hammer, sent to Richmond, Virginia to help clean up their police force, becomes involved, along with her deputy chief, in the most challenging case of her career. |
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F COR |
Unnatural exposure |
Cornwell, Patricia |
Dr. Kay Scarpetta becomes both investigator and victim when she is contacted over the Internet by a murderer who is threatening to loose a deadly virus on the world. |
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F DEA |
Stone monkey (The) |
Deaver, jeffrey |
Paralyzed criminologist Lincoln Rhyme and his beautiful protegee and lover Amelia Sachs are recruited by the FBI to help locate "the Ghost," a professional human smuggler and killer who is combing New York for two Chinese families who escaped into the city after he blew up the boat on which they were traveling. |
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F DEV |
Duchess (The) |
Deveraux, Jude |
Claire will inherit millions if she marries well so she pursues Harry, a duke from Scotland who wants that money. He takes her to his family estate to woo her and there she meets Frank, her long time hero. |
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F EAR |
Jim, the boy |
Early, Tony |
Jim, living with his mother and three uncles in the small hamlet of Aliceville, North Carolina, comes of age in the Depression years and begins to realize the largeness of the world outside his happy home. |
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F EDD |
Redemption of Althalus |
Eddings, David |
As humanity struggles against the forces of an ancient god determined to return the universe to nothingness, Althalus teams up with a cat with the powers of a goddess to stop the end of the world. |
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F FIE |
Bridget Jones' diary |
Fielding, Helen |
In her mid-thirties, still single and still being set up with dates by her mother, Bridget decides she needs to make a change in her life. She falls for her boss who uses her and then dumps her. In the meantime, Bridget keeps running into the divorced man with whom her mother tried to set her up. She uses her diary as a confessional and she begins to wonder if she will ever find true love. Based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. |
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F FIE |
Bridget Jones: the edge of reason |
Fielding, Helen |
Bridget Jones, having decided to give Mark Darcy a chance, finds herself wrestling with the realities of sharing bed and board with a man. Things become complicated even further with the arrival of the beautiful, man-hunting Rebecca. |
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F FOL |
Jackdaws |
Follett, Ken |
A plan to destroy the French
telephone network that connects France to Germany fails and another
plan takes its place. This plan puts female spies in the chateau
where the exchange is housed as telephone operators and cleaners,
enabling the Allies to destroy the ability of the Exchange to warn
Germany in advance of the landing on the beaches of Normandy. |
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F FRE |
True meaning of cleavage |
Fredericks, Mariah |
When Jess and Sari, best friends since seventh grade, begin their freshman year of high school and Sari becomes obsessed with a senior boy, Jess wonders if their friendship will survive. |
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F GAI |
A lesson before dying |
Gaines, Ernest J. |
Tells the story of a young African-American man sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit, and a teacher who tries to impart to him his learning and pride before the execution. |
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F GEA |
People of the masks |
Gear, k. and A. Gear |
A seer of great power is born into the Turtle People where he is feared not just by them but other clans. To get great power and then to destroy it, Jumping Badger pursues the boy whose hope lies in a new friend he has made. |
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F GRI |
Skipping Christmas |
Grisham, John |
Luther and Nora Krank decide to opt out of Christmas, choosing instead to set sail on a Caribbean cruise on December 25, but they learn there are consequences to pay for trying to ignore the holiday frenzy. |
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F GRI |
Summons (The) |
Grisham, John |
Law professor Ray Atlee and his troublesome younger brother Forrest are called home to Clanton, Mississippi by their dying father, Judge Atlee. When the judge dies before the meeting can take place, Ray is left to untangle an old family secret. |
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F GUT |
Country ahead of us, the country behind |
Guterson, David |
Acclaimed author of Snow Falling On Cedars gives us a collection of short stories mostly taking place in the Pacific Northwest. |
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F HAD |
Curious incident of the dog in the night-time |
Haddon, Mark |
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother. |
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F HAM |
Hunger |
Hamsun, Knut |
Winner of the Nobel Prize in
Literature |
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F HAR |
Founding |
Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia |
In a quest for power Morland is the consumate politician. To achieve his ends he arranges a marriage of his ward to a simple sheep farmer. Although seemingly incompatible they grow to love each other and survive strife together. |
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F HAR |
Gone tomorrow |
Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia |
Detective Inspector Bill Slider, investigating the murder of a man found stabbed to death in a London playground, comes to suspect that the killing, as well as others that have followed in its wake, are the work of a crime lord who will stop at nothing to keep his identity secret. |
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F HAY |
Mother of pearl |
Haynes, Melinda |
Even Grade, a twenty-eight-year-old African-American man who grew up an orphan, and Valuable Korner, the teenage daughter of a promiscuous woman and an unknown father, meet through Even's lover Joody Two Sun, and embark on a quest for family, love, and commitment that takes them to places they never imagined they would go. |
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F HEM |
Garden of Eden (The) |
Hemingway, Ernest |
A young American writer and his wife on an extended honeymoon in Mediterranean France and Spain become attracted to the same young woman. |
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F HIA |
Double whammy |
Hiaasen, Carl |
Private detective R. J. Decker has to prove that TV host Dickie Lockhart cheats to win fortunes in Florida bass-fishing tournaments. Decker soon finds himself in danger of being killed like the other detectives before him. |
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F HIA |
Tourist season |
Hiaasen, Carl |
Private detective Brian Keyes becomes mixed up in a morass of football players, politicians, police, fanatics, and one hungry crocodile, when he sets out to discover who killed loyal Shriner Theodore Bellamy and Sparky Harper, president of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce. |
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F HIG |
Day of reckoning |
Higgins, Jack |
After the murder of his wife, former FBI agent Blake Johnson decides to take the law into his own hands. In fact, as part of the secret White House department known as The Basement, Blake actually has the president's permission to take out [millionaire socialite and mob boss ] Fox in the best way he sees fit. As Blake begins his Fox hunt, Day of Reckoning evolves into an international duel between the masterminds of justice and criminality. Blake struggles to exact his revenge by slowly undermining his opponents' businesses. And Fox matches him at every turn. (Amazon) |
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F HOF |
Local girls |
Hoffman, Alice |
Charts the progress of a Long Island girl as she navigates through loyalty and loss with the help of three women. |
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F HOR |
About a boy |
Hornby, Nick |
A happy bachelor meets a beautiful blonde with a child, and begins to reassess his attitude about children. |
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F HUT |
Land girls |
Huth, Angela |
During World War II, young English women left the cozy world of traditional female jobs for exhausting agricultural labor so that male farm workers could take up arms. Agatha, Stella, and Prue are from distinctly different backgrounds and social classes, but genuine patriotism for their country binds them together. Pushed beyond their imagined limits, they all achieve what their culture has denied them as women: adventure, physical challenge, and personal growth. As ordinary citizens fighting for their country the best way they can, they transform themselves into women of honor, courage, and stature, proving themselves more noble than the highest generals. (Amazon) |
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F IRV |
Fourth hand |
Irving, John |
While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion and finds his life forever changed when he becomes the first person to receive a hand transplant. |
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F JAP |
Very long engagenent (A) |
Japrisot, Sebastien |
Mathilde Donnay, unable to walk since childhood, comes to a new understanding of the contradictions of war when she is informed that her fiance, whom she believed had been killed in action in 1917, may still be alive. |
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F JOH |
Loner (The) |
Johnson, Joan |
Two feuding families try to prevent the blossoming romance between their two children. |
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F KAY |
Death in the Andamans |
Kay, M.M. |
When murder takes place on a few tiny islands in the Indian Ocean and all communications are cut off, the residents live in terror knowing there are any number of people who could have committed this murder and might do it again. |
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F LE |
Tailor of Panama (The) |
Le Carre, John |
A novel set in Panama where a plot is in place to make void the Panama Treaty, which would return control of the Panama Canal to the Panamanians. At the center of events is Harry Pendel, the tailor of the title. Coerced into working for British Intelligence, he concocts out of whole cloth a left-wing movement with the goal of luring the American military to do the dirty work--invade Panama à la 1989 and nullify the treaty. (Amazon) |
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F LES |
Winterkill |
Lesley, Craig |
Native American Danny Kachiah, a rodeo rider, claims his son after the death of his ex-wife, and father and son slowly get to know each other. |
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F LET |
Where the heart is |
Letts, Billy |
Novalee Nation, seventeen, pregnant, and living in a Wal-Mart store, discovers friendship, encouragement, direction and love with a group of caring people in Sequoyah, Oklahoma. |
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F LIM |
Bit of earth (A) |
Lim, Suchen C. |
A novel of 19th century Malaya in which the destinies of three families, one of Chinese descent, one Malay, and one that follows the English way, become intertwined with tragic results. The author is the winner of the First Singapore Literature Prize. |
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F LOD |
Therapy |
Lodge, David |
The story of a successful sitcom writer who just wants peace of mind. |
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F LOT |
Jewel |
Lott, Bret |
In the backwoods of Mississippi, a mother's fifth child becomes both her burden and God's way of smiling on her. |
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F MAS |
Samurai's daughter |
Massey, Sujata |
Antiques dealer Rei Shimura uncovers some startling and dangerous truths when her research into the history of Japanese decorative arts converges with her boyfriend's class action suit on behalf of people forced into slave labor for Japanese companies during World War II. |
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F MAX |
They came like swallows |
Maxwell, William |
The younger son, an eight-year-old, passes his days deciphering adults' inaccessible discussions. .....Bunny's older brother would rather escape to the outside world, and their father finds declaiming the day's headlines--World War I's end and the onslaught of Spanish Influenza--far preferable to engagement. Only Elizabeth, their mother, is capable of holding the family together. (Amazon) |
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F MCL |
Nanny diaries (the) |
McLaughin, E. and N. Kraus |
In order to pay her way through NYU, Nanny takes a job caring for the only son of a wealthy family, where she soon realizes her real job responsibility is making sure the Park Avenue wife who doesn't work, cook, clean, or raise her own child has a smooth day. |
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F MCM |
Dead man's walk |
McMurthy, Larry |
Prequel to Lonesome Dove. Introduces Gus and Call when they were young Texas Rangers first experiencing the wild frontier. |
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F MIT |
Ghostwritten |
Mitchell, David |
A book about the postmodern world in which urban sprawl literally covers the planet and creates in turn a culture to deal with it. |
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F OAT |
Freaky green eyes |
Oates, Joyce Carol |
Fifteen-year-old Frankie relates the events of the year leading up to her mother's mysterious disappearance and her own struggle to discover and accept the truth about her parents' relationship. |
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F OBR |
Hard life (The) |
O'Brien, Flann |
A story set in Dublin, a cauldron of vice and hardship and a showcase for the social strategies people use. |
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F OBR |
Poor mouth (The): a bad story of the hard life |
O'Brien, Flann |
A satire that brought the wrath of the Irish when first published in Gaelic about the abject poverty and circumstances of the Irish people in a fictitious village. |
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F OUS |
God's bits of wood |
Ousmane, Sembene |
A fictionalized account of the workers' strike against the Dakar-Niger railway in West Africa in 1947-48. |
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F PAO |
Eragon |
Paolini, Christopher |
In Alagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters. |
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F PAR |
Man and boy |
Parsons, Tony |
Just turned thirty, a happily married but restless man makes the mistake of his life and now must cope with raising his four-year-old son alone. |
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F PAT |
2nd chance |
Patterson, James |
The murders of two African Americans, a little girl and an old woman, bear all the signs of a serial killer for Lindsay Boxer, newly promoted to lieutenant of San Francisco's homicide squad. But there's an odd detail she finds even more disturbing: both victims were related to city cops. (Amazon) |
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F PAT |
Beach house (The) |
Patterson, James |
Law student Jack Mullen puts his own life and those of his friends on the line when he enlists their help in going up against the local East Hamptom authorities, as well as some of the wealthiest people in the country, in an effort to prove that his younger brother Peter, found dead at the Beach House of ultra-rich Barry Neubauer, was murdered. |
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F PRO |
Accordion crimes |
Proulx, E. Anne |
A fictional account of different immigrant families in America who all have owned a single handmade accordian. Follows their quests for a fulfilled life in America from Iowa to Texas and from Maine to Louisiana. |
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F RIC |
Vittorio, the vampire |
Rice, Anne |
Vittorio, a five-hundred-year-old vampire, tells the story of how he was seduced at the age of sixteen by Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies, after she saved him from being killed by her fellow vampires during a slaughter in which his entire family was wiped out. |
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F ROB |
Stone war (The) |
Robins, Madeleine |
When John is in Massachusetts, garbled broadcasts and swarming refugees reveal that disaster has struck New York. Fire, flood, earthquake, explosions-- the reports are contradictory, but all dreadful. John returns to New York despite the dangers to find his family, to preserve what he can, and to find himself confronting the force behind the nightmarish destruction. (Amazon) |
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F ROT |
Human stain (The) |
Roth, Philip |
Coleman Silk, a New England professor forced into retirement on false charges of racism, has a fifty-year-old secret that Philip Roth attempts to decipher in this 1990s novel set against the backdrop of Presidential impeachment and professional witchhunts. |
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F RUS |
Empire falls |
Russo, Richard |
Miles' role as Mr. Nice Guy thrusts him into all sorts of clashes with his not-so-nice contemporaries, even as the reader patiently waits for him to blow his top. .....[the author] touches on love and marriage, lust and loss and small-town economics, with more than a soupçon of class resentment stirred into the broth. (Amazon) |
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F SEE |
Dragon bones |
See, Lisa |
When the body of an American archaeologist is found in the Yangzi River, Ministry of Public Security agent Liu Hulan and her husband are sent to investigate, and they soon begin to suspect the death was not accidental. |
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F SHR |
Eden Close |
Shreve, Anita |
Twenty years ago a violent act shattered Eden Close's world. Now a former neighbor, Andrew, returns for his mother's funeral and to find out what really happened to Eden. |
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F SHR |
Strange fits of passion |
Shreve, Anita |
While in prison, a former journalist tells the story of her past to an investigative reporter. |
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F SHR |
Where or when |
Shreve, Anita |
After a separation of decades two married people meet again and start a forbidden love affair. |
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F SHR |
Pilot's wife |
Shreve, Anita |
Kathryn Lyon's life was peacefully routine, she had a good job and a happy marriage, so when she received the news that her pilot husband has died in a crash, her world was drastically changed. Even before his body is recovered the media discovers that her husband had a secret life, and Kathryn sets out to learn who her husband really was. |
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F SMI |
Moo |
Smiley, Jane |
At Moo U., a midwestern university in severe financial trouble, the faculty are at work on their own secret projects to get the university more money. |
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F STA |
Shiva's fire |
Fisher-Staples, Susan |
In India, a talented dancer sacrifices friends and family for her art. |
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F URI |
Exodus |
Uris, Leon |
An epic story of the birth of the nation of Israel, and the struggle of the first Jews who fought to create a homeland in the desert. |
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F WAL |
Daughter's keeper |
Waldman, Ayelet |
When Olivia makes a terrible mistake, she is forced to turn to the mother who has never come through for Olivia before, but without her mother's help, Olivia's future hangs in the balance. |
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F WAL |
Slow waltz in cedar bend |
Waller, Robert |
Fantasy and intrigue blend here in the titilating lives of some middle aged lovers in Cedar Bend. |
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SC Story Collection |
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SC CAR |
First meetings in the Enderverse |
Card, Orson Scott |
Several SF short stories by well-known author, Scott Card. |
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SC MOO |
Ring of brightest angels around heaven |
Moody, Rick |
From the concentric rings of strangers passing on a New York City street to the rings of madness in a vainglorious college student's mind, Rick Moody opens up to us a world of frustration, yearning, lies, and neglect whose frontline soldiers are the young. (Publisher's Annotation) |
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SC SAU |
Civil war land in bad decline |
Saunders, George |
The short stories of a man whose writings have been thought to achieve the same level of greatness as those of Kurt Vonnegut and Nathaniel West. |
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SC TOL |
Lays of Beleriand (The) |
Tolkien, R.R. |
Another volume of the history of Middle Earth. |
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ST Star Trek Books |
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ST E |
Expanse (The) Enterprise |
Dillard, J.M. |
Earth is attacked by an energy weapon that kills millions including Lt. Reed's sister. The villain, Silik from the Temporal Cold War, is their only clue as to why this is happening. To save the Earth Captain Archer must trust him and put him and his crew in peril as they enter the area known as The Expanse in search of the perpetrators. |
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ST TLE |
Lost era: serpents among the ruins (The) Star Trek |
George, David R. III |
Captain Harriman of the "U.S.S.
Enterprise" is called upon to defuse a dangerous situation when an
accident brings the Romulans and the Federation to the brink of war. |
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ST TNG |
Captain's peril - Star Trek |
Shatner, W. |
The Dominion War is over. The Federation is at peace. What better time for two legendary starship captains to set aside the demands of duty and simply take some well-deserved time off?" But when James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard arrive on Bajor to dive among the ruins of an ancient sunken city, conditions are far from what they had planned. (Publisher's annotation) |
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ST TNG |
Do comets dream? Star Trek |
Somtov, S.P. |
Every five thousand years a whole civilization is destoyed as part of this civilizations prophecies. Only a few survive to rebuild their society. Death is brought by the Death-Bringer. Captain Picard and his crew in determining the truth about the Death-Bringer threaten to bring down an entire civilization |
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ST V BRA |
Brave and the bold (The) - Star Trek |
Decandido, K. |
Finally the last two artifacts that in times long past created this galaxy's strongest dictator have been found. Each of four was crafted to give its holder one distinct power. Good never comes from them and should these artifacts ever be join again the original dictator will emerge again and be unstoppable. |
