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The best American short stories, 1995
By Katrina Kenison, Jane Smiley. 1995
In selecting the twenty stories in this collection, Smiley indicates the order of the stories is artful -- like a…
Chinese meal -- so that the flavours enhance each other as the feast progresses. These "strange, exotic, rich, and charming" stories include selections by Gish Jen, Ellen Gilchrist, Stephen Dobyns, Kate Braverman, and Jamaica Kincaid. c1995.The Old Contemptibles
By Martha Grimes. 1990
Superintendent Richard Jury, in love with Jane Holdsworth, becomes the main suspect when she is murdered. He sends his friend,…
Melrose Plant, to the Lake District to investigate because there have been several suspicious deaths in Jane's family. Includes strong language. 1990.Raylan
By Elmore Leonard. 2012
Someone removes a small-time Kentucky pot dealer’s kidneys, then offers to sell them back. U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens’s investigations into…
this and connected crimes uncover a transplant nurse gone bad, a coldhearted mine-company lawyer, and a poker-playing college girl. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2012.Ragtime
By E. L Doctorow. 1975
Portrait of a spy (Gabriel Allon)
By Daniel Silva. 2011
In London, retired Israeli agent Gabriel Allon spots a Muslim suicide bomber, but police prevent Gabriel from stopping the attack.…
Then Gabriel is summoned to Washington to help the CIA find an American-born cleric in Yemen who is plotting mass carnage. Some violence and some strong language. Bestseller. 2011. (Gabriel Allon)Out of Oz: the final volume in the Wicked years (Wicked years ; #4)
By Gregory Maguire. 2011
Months after the events in “A Lion among Men”, Dorothy returns to Oz. Meanwhile, Rain still struggles to learn about…
her family - and her destiny. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2011"N" is for noose (Kinsey Millhone mysteries. #14.)
By Sue Grafton. 1998
Kinsey Millhone is hired by a detective's widow to investigate the last few weeks of her husband's life in tiny…
Nota Lake. Millhone discovers uncooperative neighbors and a connection to an old murder case in her own hometown of Santa Teresa. Some violence and some strong language. Bestseller. Sequel to "M is for malice", followed by "O is for outlaw". 1998.Au lac des bois
By Tim O'Brien. 1996
Après son échec cuisant lors d'une primaire à une élection sénatoriale, John Wade part en vacances dans le nord sauvage…
du Minnesota avec sa femme Kathy, où il compte panser ses blessures. Au tout début de leur séjour, Kathy disparaît sans laisser d'explications. Peu à peu, on apprend que la défait électorale de John est due à des révélations publiées par la presse sir sa conduite au Viêt-Nam. La disparition de Kate a-t-elle un rapport avec ces faits ? Pour découvrir la vérité, il faudra enquêter sur le passé de Wade, érigé sur une forteresse d'illusions et de secrets dont il s'est fait lui-même le prisonnier. Beaucoup de langage grossier. 1996. Titre uniforme: In the Lake of the Woods.Machine without horses: a novel
By Helen Humphreys. 2018
A writer stumbles across an obituary and imagination is sparked. The brief words of memoriam describe a woman who was…
both extraordinary--eccentric, revered in her field, a renowned expert--but also utterly ordinary. How does a writer, intrigued by all that isn't said, create a story? Capture an unknowable woman and all the secret passions, choices and compromises that make up a life? Humphreys explores the real life and the imagined internal life of the famous and famously private salmon-fly dresser, Megan Boyd, a craftswoman who worked for sixty years out of a bare-bones cottage in a small village in the north of Scotland. Humphreys, both present in the story and its architect, reveals with her inimitable style the complicated emotional landscape that can exist under even the most constant surface. Bestseller. 2018.Dear Evelyn
By Kathy Page. 2018
Follows a seventy-year-long wartime marriage between two seemingly incompatible partners in sometimes tender, sometimes excruciating detail. Studded with allusions to…
poems and novels, it is set in locations that include London during the 1920s and 1940s, Tunisia during World War Two, the Cotswolds, a new post-war suburb, and a Mediterranean cruise ship. The protagonist, Harry Miles, is born on a working-class London street, wins a scholarship, and grows into a sensitive man torn between a love of poetry and a more prosaic ability to understand what is required of him and to do it. Evelyn, the magnetic and demanding woman whom he marries as WW2 breaks out, increasingly tests Harry's capacity to love, and, on the cusp of death, abandons him. This is a love story, albeit an unconventional one. Winner of the 2018 Roger’s Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Bestseller. 2018.Moon of the crusted snow: a novel
By Waubgeshig Rice. 2018
With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as…
the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. The community leadership loses its grip on power as the visitors manipulate the tired and hungry to take control of the reserve. Tensions rise and, as the months pass, so does the death toll due to sickness and despair. Frustrated by the building chaos, a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again. Guided through the chaos by an unlikely leader named Evan Whitesky, they endeavor to restore order while grappling with a grave decision. Bestseller. 2018.Heartbreaker: a novel
By Claudia Dey. 2018
Why can't a woman be more than one person in a lifetime? It's been months since Billie Jean Fontaine left…
her bedroom, trapped alone by grief. But one night, out of the blue, she emerges and announces that she's going into town--but she never returns. In their remote northern town, which has been cut off from the world for decades, her husband and daughter undertake a frantic search for the beloved and beautiful Billie Jean. She is the only outsider ever to arrive in this strange town, sixteen years earlier. And now the residents wonder: has Billie Jean become the first person to leave, too? Told from three unforgettable perspectives--her daughter, her dog, and her mysterious friend. Bestseller. 2018.Run away / (N Ser.)
By Harlan Coben. 2019
Paige is addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she's made it clear that she doesn't want to…
be found. Then, by chance, Simon sees her playing guitar in Central Park. But she's not the girl he remembers; she is living on the edge, frightened, and clearly in trouble. Simon approaches her, beg her to come home. She runs. And Simon follows her into a dark and dangerous world he never knew existed. Now his family and his life are on the line. And in order to protect Paige from the evils of that world, Simon must face them head on. Bestseller. 2019.Until forever
By Johanna Lindsey. 1995
History professor Roseleen White is trying to get her exam papers graded before she leaves for a long weekend trip,…
but the package sitting beside her desk is tempting her to open it. Inside is the sword known as Blooddrinker's Curse, which she has gone to great lengths to obtain. Quite a surprise awaits Roseleen when she does open the box. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. BestsellerThe green mile: a novel in six parts
By Stephen King. 1997
Death-row supervisor Paul Edgecombe thinks back to 1932 when John Coffey is brought to the penitentiary and placed on the…
"Green Mile." Coffey is accused of the rape and murder of twin nine-year-old girls. But Coffey seems to be an unusual kind of human being. Strong language and violence. BestsellerShield of lies (Star Wars: The Black Fleet Crisis Trilogy - Legends #2)
By Michael P Kube-McDowell, Michael P. Kube-Mcdowell. 1996
In this sequel to Before the Storm (DB 44589), Lando is abducted aboard an unidentified spacecraft, while Leia contends with…
a threat to the stability of the New Republic. Han departs on a deep-space voyage, where he engages a fleet of warships in a battle that could doom civilization. BestsellerThe god of small things
By Arundhati Roy. 1997
A story of class struggle, family crisis, and coming of age in Kerala, India. Born to prosperity, twins Estha and…
Rahel are isolated from the squalor and political unrest around them. The events of a single day in 1969 alter their lives and relationships forever. Descriptions of sex. BestsellerAshworth Hall (Thomas Pitt Ser.)
By Anne Perry. 1997
In the autumn of 1890, the country home of Charlotte Pitt's sister is the setting for a meeting between Protestants…
and Catholics to discuss the Irish question. But the negotiations founder when a Protestant is found in bed with the wife of a Catholic, and then the chairman is murdered. Superintendent Thomas Pitt, with his wife's assistance, once again solves the crime. Bestseller. 1997.The actual (Penguin Great Books Of The 20th Century Ser.)
By Saul Bellow. 1997
Semiretired Harry Trellman, a man alienated from life and love, is abruptly hired to join the "brain trust" of a…
billionaire. There Harry reencounters the flame of his youth, who is now divorced and widowed. In a testimonial of hope, Harry seeks to reclaim his lost love. Strong language and descriptions of sex. BestsellerDeep waters
By Jayne Ann Krentz. 1996
Charity Truitt, twenty-nine, walks out on her engagement party and escapes to Whispering Waters Cove, Washington. Although their marriage meant…
a merger between two large Seattle firms, her fiance was just too big a man for Charity. In her new life, Charity meets Elias Winters, a man who seems to be just the right size. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller