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March 2004
Fiction, Story Collection, Star
Trek Books
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Fiction |
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Call No. |
Title |
Author |
Summary |
| F BRO |
The Da Vinci code : a novel |
Brown, Dan |
Investigating the murder of a Louvre curator, Harvard symbologist Robert
Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu find clues painted into a
Da Vinci work, inadvertently uncovering a plot involving the Holy Grail
and the secret society known as the Priory of Sion. |
| F CHA |
Postcards from no man's land |
Chambers, aidan |
Alternates between a contemporary story about 17-year-old Jacob who
visits Amsterdam at the request of his grandmother, and a historic tale
about 19-year-old Geertrui who relates her experience of the British
attempts to liberate Holland from German occupation. |
| F CLA |
River, cross my heart |
Clarke, Breena |
This "novel takes place in Georgetown in 1925, where a large and
close-knit African American community took shape beneath the shadow of
segregation. At the center of the story is baby Clara, who is swallowed
by the Potomac as her sister, Johnnie Mae, cools off in the brackish
water. It's the only place the girls can find relief--they're banned
from the new, clean swimming pool the white kids use. |
| F COE |
The master of Petersburg |
Coetzee, J.M. |
After Clara drowns, the river is never the same, and Johnnie Mae hovers
on the edge of womanhood wondering if she'll be able to get past her
guilt and emptiness." (Amazon) |
| F COE |
Boyhood : scenes from provincial life |
Coetzee, Michael |
The author creates a character for us who has "halting struggle toward
maturity of a sensitive, bookish boy contemptuous of his weak father who
yearns--and fears--to loosen a powerful attachment to his mother. He
evokes the narrowness and cruelty of South African society in the years
following World War II.." (Amazon) |
| F COR |
Black notice |
Cornwell, Patricia |
When a dead body is found in the cargo hold of a ship arriving from
Belgium, Dr. Kay Scarpetta is called in to investigate and she soon
finds herself trying to outwit a brutal killer who calls himself The
Werewolf. |
| F DIC |
Blade runner (do androids dream of electric sheep) |
Dick, Philip K. |
Book Description: It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license
to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several
rogue androids. Deckard's assignmet--find them and then..."retire" them.
Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they
didn't want to be found! |
| F EUG |
Middlesex |
Eugenides, Jeffrey |
Three generations of a Greek American family find themselves plagued by
a mutant gene which causes bizarre side effects in the family's teenage
girls. |
| F EUG |
The virgin suicides |
Eugenides, Jeffrey |
The narrator and his friends try to piece together facts and gossip
about a tragic suicide that happened twenty years earlier. |
| F GLE |
Who killed Mr. Chippendale? : a mystery in poems |
Glenn, Mel. |
A murder mystery told in free verse poems, describing the reactions of
students, colleagues, and others when high school teacher Mr.
Chippendale, loved by some, hated by others, is shot as the school day
begins. |
| F HAM |
Going to bend : a novel |
Hammond, Diane |
Petie Coolbaugh and Rose Bundy, best friends since childhood, struggle
to come to terms with their age and station in life, and to overcome the
secrets from the past that threaten the future of their families. |
| F IGG |
Emperor : the death of kings |
Iggulden, Conn |
Part II: Julius Caesar distinguishes himself in combat and will surely
return to Rome to reap the benefits, but before he can, he and his
soldiers are captured by pirates and will be sold as slaves, ruining his
rise to power. However, he escapes and returns to find Rome riddled
with corruption that will devastate the land and his family. |
| F IGG |
Emperor : the gates of Rome |
Iggulden, Conn |
Part I: Two boys grow into manhood as a new empire takes shape around
the city of Rome, and as the pair are trained in the art of combat, they
find themselves caught between two rival generals who are driving the
empire to the brink of civil war. |
| F IHIMAE RA |
Whale rider |
Ihimaera, Witi |
As her beloved grandfather, chief of the Maori tribe of Whangara, New
Zealand, struggles to lead in difficult times and find a male successor,
young Kahu is developing a mysterious relationship with whales,
particularly the ancient bull whale whose legendary rider was their
ancestor. |
| F JOH |
First part last (The) |
Johnson, Angela |
Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father
and must care for his adored baby daughter. |
| F JON |
Rope eater : a novel |
Jones, Ben |
Bredan Kane defects from the Union army after he realizes he cannot
handle the horrors of the Civil War and drifts north, where he joins a
crew of the Pequod on an expedition to the heart of the Arctic. |
| F LEB |
Song of names : a novel |
Lebrecht, Norman |
Two men who were children during WW II are reunited after 20 years of
uncertainty caused by the disappearance of one of them on the eve of his
musical debut. |
| F LOV |
Floating book (the) |
Lovric, Michelle |
A book that brings out the beauty of 15th century Venice even as in
spins tales of a sensual nature. |
| F MAC |
Way the crow flies (The) |
MacDonald, Ann-Marie |
Jack McCarthy, an officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, and his young
daughter Madeleine become caught in separate moral dilemmas when Jack is
assigned to watch over a defector from Soviet Russia who has come to
work on the U.S. space program, and who Jack soon realizes is a former
Nazi, while Madeleine, one of a group of girls being molested by their
teacher, keeps her secrets when a classmate is raped and murdered. |
| F MOO |
Ice storm |
Moody, Rick |
Two affluent families gradually face decline in their rich lives as one
loses its money and both families fall prey to the vices of alcohol,
sex, drugs and infidelity. |
| F ROB |
Playing with fire |
Robinson, Peter |
Arson in Yorkshire brings in the skills of detectives Alan Banks and
Annie Cabbot to discover the reason for two fires that left two
seemingly unrelated people dead. |
| F STE |
Winter queen |
Stevenson, Jane |
In seventeenth-century Holland, Elizabeth of Bohemia and her clandestine
lover, an African prince, find themselves involved in a love affair that
threatens to ruin both their lives and their countries. |
| F STR |
Amy and Isabelle |
Strout, Elizabeth |
Isabelle Goodrow, horrified and enraged when she discovers her teenage
daughter Amy is involved with a math teacher at the high school, comes
to realize that her outrage is mostly the result of the secret she has
been keeping for most of Amy's life. |
| F VIE |
Endurance : a Stardoc novel |
Viehl, S.L. |
The Jorenians are willing to let themselves be destroyed rather than
give up their clan sister, Cherijo. Yet Cherijo flees to prevent their
destruction. Little does she know that her enslavement to the Hsktskt
slave traders has already been guaranteed by someone she loves. |
| F VIE |
Shockball : a StarDoc novel |
Viehl, S.L. |
Cherijo and her husband Reever find themselves hiding out on Earth from
her maker, Dr. Grey Veil. Sheilding them from the world in underground
caves is a tribe of Native American, seemingly led by a madman. |
| F VIE |
Beyond Varallan :a StarDoc novel |
Viehl, S.L. |
Cherijo has lost her husband and finds herself homeless in a universe
hostile to her artificial origins. Her husband's clan offers her a
position as the chief healer's assistant on board their ship and all is
going well until a series of terrible accidents starts to take place. |
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Story Collection |
| SC COE |
Dusklands |
Coetzee, Michael |
Book Description
A specialist in pyschological warefare is driven to breakdown and
madness by the stresses of a project of macabre ingenuity to win the war
in Vietnam. A meglomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengence on a
Hottentot tribe for undermining the 'natural' order of his universe with
their anarchic rival order,mocking him and subjecting him to the
humiliations of his own all too palpable flesh. |
| SC CRA |
Maggie and other stories |
Crane, Stephen |
Features the tale of a pretty young girl driven to brutal excesses by
poverty and loneliness, and includes fifteen additional short stories by
Crane. |
| SC IRVING |
Trying to save Piggy Sneed |
Irving, John |
A book to satisfy everyone on the life and works of author John Irving.
This book contains a collection of short stories and some essays. |
| SC LES |
The grandmothers : four short novels |
Lessing, Doris |
Presents four short novels by award-winning author Doris Lessing,
featuring the title work about two women who fall in love with each
other's teenage sons, and including "Victoria and the Staveneys," "The
Reason for It," and "A Love Child." |
| SC MAN |
Stories |
Mansfield, Katherine |
A collection of over twenty-five short fiction stories by early
twentieth-century author Katherine Mansfield, set in New Zealand, the
country of her birth, and in England, Germany, and France, where she
lived and traveled until her death in 1923. |
| SC MAU |
Best short stories of Guy de Maupassant |
Maupassant, Guy |
Contains nineteen short fiction stories by nineteenth-century French
author Guy de Maupassant, including: Ball-of-fat -- The diamond necklace
-- A piece of string -- The story of a farm-girl -- Mme. Tellier's
excursion -- Mademoiselle Fifi -- Useless beauty -- That pig of a Morin
-- The signal -- The devil -- The mad woman -- Love's awakening -- One
phase of love -- The will -- A mesalliance -- The farmer's wife -- My
Uncle Sosthenes -- The Englishman -- A lucky burglar.. |
| SC MCC |
Collected stories : including The member of the wedding and The ballad
of the sad café |
McCullers, Carson |
Presents a collection of twenty-one short fiction stories and novellas
by American author Carson McCullers, including: "The Member of the
Wedding," and "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe," two of her most critically
acclaimed works. |
| SC PUR |
Christmas angels |
Purl, Mara |
A collection of short stories that take place in the ficticious town of
Milford-Haven on the sea coast. Written by Mara Purl of the ASIJ class
of 1968 |
| SC PUS |
Alexander Pushkin: complete prose fiction |
Pushkin |
Presents an English translation of the complete prose fiction of
nineteenth-century Russian author Alexander Pushkin. Includes notes on
the texts as well as an essay on the development of Pushkin's narrative
style. |
| SC SAL |
Nine stories |
Salinger,J.D. |
Formatted contents: A perfect day for bananafish -- Uncle Wiggily in
Connecticut -- Just before the war with the Eskimos -- The laughing man
-- Down at the dinghy -- For Esme--with love and squalor -- Pretty mouth
and green my eyes -- De Daumier-Smith's blue period -- Teddy. |
| SC TOL |
Collected shorter fiction |
Tolstoy, Leo |
Presents more than thirty short stories by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy
spanning the latter part of his career, 1885-1906, as well as two early
stories: "A History of Yesterday" and "A Christmas Night." |
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Star Trek Books |
| ST DSN SC PRO PHECY |
Prophecy and change |
Palmieri, Marco (ed.) |
Notes : Based upon Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek:
Deep Space Nine, created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller. |
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