Books Recommended by Staff and Patrons Kellogg-Hubbard Library January 2008 028.9 N Nelson, Sara, 1956-. So many books, so little time : a year of passionate reading. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2003. Sara Nelson chronicles a year's worth of reading, exploring how the world of books and words impacted every aspect of her life, career, and family. 155.2 R Rufus, Anneli S. Party of one : the loners' manifesto. New York : Marlowe & Co., c2003. Argues for the acceptance of loners in a social world that values group mentality and shared experience by providing evidence that aloneness is not to be equated with loneliness. 158.1 B Beck, Martha Nibley, 1962-. Finding your own North Star : claiming the life you were meant to live. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c2001. Presents a program with which people can identify their deepest desires and fight through the unconscious beliefs and unhealed emotional wounds that hinder their progress toward happy, fulfilled lives. 200.973 H Hahn, Kristin. In search of grace : a religious outsider's journey across America's landscape of faith. New York : W. Morrow, 2002. 222 F Feiler, Bruce S. Abraham : a journey to the heart of three faiths. 1st ed. New York : W. Morrow, c2002. A study of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, the common ancestor of Christians, Jews, and Muslims, looking at how he is viewed in each of the faith traditions, and discussing his significance to contemporary political and religious conflicts. 289.9 C Covington, Dennis. Salvation on Sand Mountain : snake handling and redemption in southern Appalachia. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1995. 302 G Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-. The tipping point : how little things can make a big difference. Boston : Little, Brown, 2000. 304.28 D Diamond, Jared M. Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed. New York : Viking, 2005. 305.23 K Kozol, Jonathan. Ordinary resurrections : children in the years of hope. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c2000. 305.26 K Kidder, Tracy. Old friends. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1993. 305.42 B Benard, Cheryl, 1953-. Veiled courage : inside the Afghan women's resistance. 1st ed. New York : Broadway Books, Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ c2002. Explains how the members of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan denied the forces of the Taliban and helped Afghanistan women escape the terror of the Taliban's rule. 305.5 E Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America. 1st Owl Books ed. New York : Metropolitan/Owl Book, 2002, c2001. Author Barbara Ehrenreich relates her experiences from 1998 to 2000, during which time joined the ranks of the working poor as a waitress, hotel housekeeper, cleaning woman, nursing home aide, and Wal-Mart clerk to see for herself how America's "unskilled" workers are able to survive on only $6 or $7 an hour. 305.9 P Pipher, Mary Bray. The middle of everywhere : the world's refugees come to our town. 1st ed. New York : Harcourt, 2002. Cultural collisions on the Great Plains -- The beautiful laughing sisters-an arrival story -- Into the heart of the heartland -- All that glitters... -- Children of hope, children of tears -- Adolescents-Mohammed meets Madonna -- Young adults--"Who arranges marriages for us in Nebraska?" -- Family-a bundle of sticks cannot be broken -- African stories -- Healing in all times and places -- Home-a global positioning system for identity -- Building a village of kindness. 306.45 P Pollan, Michael. The botany of desire : a plant's eye view of the world. 1st ed. New York : Random House, 2001. 306.7 C Chupack, Cindy. The between boyfriends book : a collection of cautiously hopeful essays. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2003. 306.874 L Levine, Judith, 1952-. Do you remember me? : a father, a daughter, and a search for self. New York : Free Press, c2004. 323.44 I Into the buzzsaw : leading journalists expose the myth of a free press. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2002. A collection of essays in which almost two dozen award-winning print and television journalists examine the dangerous state of journalism in the United States at the dawn of the twenty-first century. 326.8 H Hochschild, Adam. Bury the chains : prophets and rebels in the fight to free an empire's slaves. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005. Chronicles the first grassroots human rights campaign, discussing how, in the late eighteenth century, twelve men banded together to try and stop slavery in the sugar industry, and as a result freed hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world. 330 L Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Levitt, Steven D. Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2005. The authors focus on the economics of real-world issues that most people view as insignificant such as how much did the Roe v. Wade decision impact violent crime, and examines hidden incentives behind all sorts of human behavior. 330.12 G Greider, William. The soul of capitalism : opening paths to a moral economy. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2003. Examines how the greatest wealth-creation engine in the history of the world is failing most people, why it must be changed, and how people are beginning to transform it. 337 F Friedman, Thomas L. The Lexus and the olive tree. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1999. 338.2 M Margonelli, Lisa. Oil on the brain : adventures from the pump to the pipeline. New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, c2007. Explores the petroleum industry, describing the people and policies that bring oil to the United States, and discussing distribution, drilling, the NYMEX oil market, and other related issues. 347.7303 H Harr, Jonathan. A civil action. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c1995. Follows a lawsuit brought against W.R. Grace & Co. for contaminating the drinking water in Woburn, Massachusetts that took nine years to settle. 362.73 T Tucker, Neely. Love in the driest season : a family memoir. New York : Crown Publishers, 2005, c2004. Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker chronicles the experiences he and his wife had while volunteering at an orphanage in Zimbabwe, and describes the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially the children. 364.15 L Larson, Erik. The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c2003. Evils imminent -- Prologue, aboard the Olympic -- Frozen music -- An awful fight -- In the white city -- Cruelty revealed -- Epilogue, the last crossing. Tells the parallel stories of Daniel Burnham, the main architect of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and serial killer Henry H. Holmes, discussing the challenges Burnham faced in creating the hugely successful White City, and looking at how Holmes used the opportunities afforded by the fair to lure victims to their deaths. 364.152 B Blumenfeld, Laura. Revenge : a story of hope. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2002. 364.16 W Walker, Kent, 1962-. Son of a grifter : the twisted tale of Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sante and Kenny Kimes, the most notorious con artists in America : a memoir by the other son. 1st ed. New York : Morrow, 2001. 371.8 M Mortenson, Greg. Three cups of tea : one man's mission to fight terrorism and build nations--one school at a time. New York : Viking, 2006. Greg Mortenson recounts the experiences he had while trying to help impoverished villages in Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya build schools for their children. 371.967 K Kozol, Jonathan. Savage inequalities : children in America's schools. 1st ed. New York : Crown Pub., 1991. 372.11 K Kidder, Tracy. Among schoolchildren. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1989. 373.11 E Edmundson, Mark, 1952-. Teacher : the one who made the difference. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2002. Mark Edmundson chronicles the dramatic transformation his life underwent after one of his high-school teachers managed to get under his skin and inspire him to learn and love. 398.208 W Wallis, Velma. Two old women : an Alaska legend of betrayal, courage, and survival. Fairbanks : Epicenter Press, c1993. 423 W Winchester, Simon. The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1998. Explains how the "Oxford English Dictionary" was created and discusses the relationship between the editor and one of his most influential contributors, a psychotic murderer in one of England's cruelest asylums. 500 B Bryson, Bill, 1951-. A short history of nearly everything. 1st ed. New York : Broadway Books, 2003. Nature and science writer Bill Bryson examines some of mysteries of science, and attempts to understand not only what scientists know, but how they know it. Covers the creation of the universe, the size of the Earth, the origins of life, and other topics. 508.711 S Stanwell-Fletcher, Theodora C. (Theodora Cope), 1906-. Driftwood Valley : a woman naturalist in the northern wilderness. 1st ed. Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 1999. A nature diary based on the experiences and observations of naturalist Theodora Stanwell-Fletcher while living with her husband John, a trapper and explorer, in the remote Driftwood River country in the wilds of northern British Columbia from 1937 to 1941. 508.73 L Leopold, Aldo, 1886-1948. A Sand County almanac, and sketches Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ here and there. New York : Oxford University Press, 1987, c1949. Nature writings of Aldo Leopold, one of the foremost conservationist of our century. 551.21 W Winchester, Simon. Krakatoa : the day the world exploded, August 27, 1883. 1st U.S. ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2003. In August 1883, a catastrophic volcanic eruption off the coast of Java was followed by a tsunami that killed nearly 40,000 people. The author brings new perspective to this iconic event, showing how it marked a change in East-West relations. 581.61 D Davis, Wade. One river : explorations and discoveries in the Amazon rain forest. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1996. 581.634 P Plotkin, Mark J. Tales of a shaman's apprentice : an ethnobotanist searches for new medicines in the Amazon rain forest. New York : Viking, 1993. 598.864 H Heinrich, Bernd, 1940-. Ravens in winter. New York : Summit Books : [Distributed by Simon & Schuster], c1989. 599.75 B Baron, David, 1964-. The beast in the garden : a modern parable of man and nature. 1st ed. New York : Norton, 2003. 599.773 A Askins, Renée. Shadow Mountain : a woman's memoir and meditation on wolves and wildness. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, 2002. 599.78 K Kilham, Benjamin. Among the bears : raising orphan cubs in the wild. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt, 2002. Naturalist Ben Kilham shares the experiences he had while raising a pair of orphaned wild black bears in the woodlands of New Hampshire. 599.785 S Schooler, Lynn. The blue bear : a true story of friendship, tragedy, and survival in the Alaskan wilderness. New York : Ecco, 2002. 612.8 A Ackerman, Diane. A natural history of the senses. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c1990. 614.5 S Salisbury, Gay. The cruelest miles : the heroic story of dogs and men in a race against an epidemic. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton, c2003. Tells the story of the Serum Run, a relay of dog sleds and drivers that was organized to traverse nearly seven hundred miles in temperatures far below zero in a desperate quest to acquire serum to treat a deadly outbreak of diphtheria in Nome, Alaska in 1925. 616.042 W Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Weiner, Jonathan. His brother's keeper : a story from the edge of medicine. New York : HarperCollins, c2004. 631.4 L Logan, William Bryant. Dirt : the ecstatic skin of the earth. New York : Riverhead Books, c1995. 636.694 N Nixon, Rob, 1954-. Dreambirds : the natural history of a fantasy. New York : Picador USA, 2000. 641.5 H Hesser, Amanda. Cooking for Mr. Latte : a food lover's courtship, with recipes. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton, c2003. 720.47 K Kunstler, James Howard. The geography of nowhere : the rise and decline of America's man-made landscape. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1993. Traces America's evolution from a nation of coherent communities to a land where everyplace is like noplace in particular. 741.5 B Bechdel, Alison, 1960-. Fun home : a family tragicomic. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2006. 759.13 D Davis, Deborah, 1952-. Strapless : John Singer Sargent and the fall of Madame X. New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin Group, c2003. 786.2 C Carhart, Thaddeus. The piano shop on the Left Bank : discovering a forgotten passion in a Paris atelier. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2001. Thad Carhart enters the small piano shop in his village to find that it is more than an ordinary shop, instead, it is a place when locals can come together to learn about life, love, and music. 796.52 F Firstbrook, P. L. Lost on Everest : the search for Mallory & Irvine. Lincolnwood, Ill. : Contemporary Books, c1999. 796.52 M Macfarlane, Robert, 1976-. Mountains of the mind. 1st American ed. New York : Pantheon, c2003. Explores how early geologists helped transform people's perceptions of mountains from desolate, forbidding places, to beautiful landscapes that should be explored whenever possible. 796.52 R Rébuffat, Gaston. Starlight and storm. Modern Library pbk. ed. New York : Modern Library, 1999. A republication of the 1954 text in which French mountaineer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker Gaston Rébuffat describes his experiences climbing the great north faces of the Alps, and explains his philosophy of climbing as an act of harmonious communion with the mountain. Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 796.52 T Todhunter, Andrew. Fall of the Phantom Lord : climbing and the face of fear. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 1998. 796.522 B Boukreev, Anatoli. The climb : tragic ambitions on Everest. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997. 796.522 H Howe, Nicholas S. Not without peril : one hundred and fifty years of misadventure on the Presidential Range of New Hampshire. Boston : Old Saybrook, CT : Appalachian Mountain Club ; Distributed by the Globe Pequot Press, c2000. 796.522 K Krakauer, Jon. Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster. 1st ed. New York : Villard, c1997. 797.14 N Nichols, Peter, 1950-. A voyage for madmen. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, 2001. 798.4 H Hillenbrand, Laura. Seabiscuit : an American legend. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2001. Describes how three men worked together to turn a rough-hewn, undersized horse into one of the fastest horses in racing history. 798.809 P Paulsen, Gary. Winterdance : the fine madness of running the Iditarod. 1st ed. New York : Harcourt Brace, c1994. 799.2 C Corbett, Jim, 1875-1955. The temple tiger, and more man-eaters of Kumaon. New York, : Oxford University Press, c1954. 799.2 C Corbett, Jim, 1875-1955. Man-eaters of Kumaon. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1988, c1944. The author describes his experiences killing man-eating tigers of the Indian Himalayas in the 1920s and 1930s, explaining why some tigers become man-eaters and including details on the local flora, fauna, and village life. 808.042 S Salzman, Mark. True notebooks. 1st ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2003. Mark Salzman chronicles his first years teaching at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles's most violent teenage offenders, discussing what his students taught him about life. 810.8 L Couldn't keep it to myself : testimonies from our imprisoned sisters. 1st ed. New York : ReganBooks, c2003. 818.5409 H Hanff, Helene. 84, Charing Cross Road. New York : Grossman Publishers, 1970. Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 820.9 N Nafisi, Azar. Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2003. The author presents a memoir of her life in post-revolutionary Iran, focusing on her organization of a group of young women in 1997 who met secretly once a week to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. 822.33 W Williams, Robin, 1953-. Sweet swan of Avon : did a woman write Shakespeare? Berkeley, CA : Wilton Circle Press, c2006. 863 A Alvarez, Julia. Yo! New York : Libro Plume, c1999. Yolanda Garcia finds success with her first novel in which she made characters out of her family members and friends, but her "fictionally victimized" relatives exact revenge by telling all they know about the author, Yo. 910 K Kinder, Gary. Ship of gold in the deep blue sea. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1999, c1998. Chronicles the final voyage of the SS Central America, as it sank off the Carolina coast in 1857, and explains the recent technology used to recover the ship and the twenty-one tons of gold that sank with it. 910.4 G Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969-. Eat, pray, love : one woman's search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia. New York : Viking, 2006. Elizabeth Gilbert recounts the experiences she had on her year-long journey around the world, and shares how her trip helped her deal with her divorce and the depression that threatened to end her career and her happiness. 910.916 M Maas, Peter, 1929-. The terrible hours : the man behind the greatest submarine rescue in history. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 1999. 910.9164 P Philbrick, Nat. In the heart of the sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex. New York : Viking, 2000. 910.92 M Maurice, Edward Beauclerk. The last gentleman adventurer : coming of age in the Arctic. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2005. A memoir of Edward Beauclerk Maurice, who at sixteen, journeyed to an isolated trading post in the Canadian Arctic to record the culture of the Inuit people. 915.8104 S Stewart, Rory. The places in between. 1st U.S. ed. Orlando : Harcourt, Inc., c2006. 915.954 H Hansen, Eric. Stranger in the forest : on foot across Borneo. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1988. Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 916.724 O O'Hanlon, Redmond, 1947-. No mercy : a journey to the heart of the Congo. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. 917.1904 P Poncins, Gontran de, 1900-. Kabloona. Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, [1996], c1972. 917.404 B Bryson, Bill, 1951-. A walk in the woods : rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. 1st ed. New York : Broadway Books, 1998. 919.404 C Chatwin, Bruce, 1940-1989. The songlines. 1st American ed. New York : Viking, 1987. 919.804 B Bickel, Lennard. Shackleton's forgotten men : the untold tragedy of the endurance epic. 1st ed. New York : Thunder's Mouth Press : Balliett & Fitzgerald, 2000. 919.804 S Simon, Alvah. North to the night : a year in the Arctic ice. Camden, ME : McGraw-Hill Companies/International Marine, c1999. The author tells the story of his journey to the land above the Arctic Circle where he hoped to spend a winter with the Inuit, but instead found himself alone on his boat, trapped in the ice one hundred miles from the nearest settlement, and beset by blizzards and polar bears. 919.9 L Lansing, Alfred. Endurance : Shackleton's incredible voyage. New York : Caroll & Graf, c1959, 2002. 939.49 C Clapp, Nicholas. The road to Ubar : finding the Atlantis of the sands. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998. 940.53 A A woman in Berlin : eight weeks in the conquered city : a diary. 1st American ed. New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, c2005. Journal entries chronicle the experiences a young woman had while living in Berlin during the Russian conquest in 1945. 940.53 G Greene, Bob. Once upon a town : the miracle of the North Platte Canteen. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2002. Syndicated columnist Bob Greene chronicles the history of North Platte, Nebraska, a small town which transformed its railroad depot into a canteen where the soldiers who passed through during World War II could enjoy coffee, food, magazines, and a family-like atmosphere. 940.53 S Szpilman, Wladyslaw. The pianist : the extraordinary true story of one man's survival in Warsaw, 1939-45. New York, N.Y. : Picador USA : [distributed by St. Martin's Press], 1999. Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman provides an account of his experiences trying to survive in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, and shares excerpts from the diary of a German officer who saved his life. 940.54 H Hornfischer, James D. The last stand of the tin can sailors : the extraordinary World War II story of the U.S. Navy's finest hour. New York : Bantam Books, 2004. 940.54 H Handy, Ned. The flame keepers : the true story of an American soldier's survival inside Stalig 17. New York : Hyperion, c2004. 940.54 K Kurson, Robert. Shadow divers : the true adventure of two Americans who discovered Hitler's lost sub. 1st ed. New York : Random House, 2004. 940.54 R Rawicz, Slavomir. The long walk. New York, NY : Lyons Press, c1997. The author describes his escape with a small group of fellow prisoners from a Soviet labor camp in 1941 and their subsequent trek out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, and Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India. 940.54 S Stanton, Doug. In harm's way : the sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the extraordinary story of its survivors. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt, 2001. Tells the story of the "USS Indianapolis," a battle cruiser torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945, shortly after delivering parts of the atom bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima; and discusses the heroic struggles of sailors who survived the blast to stay alive in the sea for nearly five days before help arrived. 940.54 T Taylor, Fred. Dresden, Tuesday, February 13, 1945. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, 2004. 945.5 D Doran, Phil. The reluctant Tuscan. Gotham Books, c2005. 947.52 B Baiev, Khassan. The oath : a surgeon under fire. New York : Walker & Co., 2003. Dr. Khassan Baiev describes his experiences after leaving a promising surgical career in Moscow in 1994 to provide medical services to the people of Chechnya which was under attack by Russian troops, discussing how he managed with poor facilities and few supplies, as well as the constant threat of execution by the Russians. 951.05 C Chang, Jung, 1952-. Wild swans : three daughters of China. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1991. Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 959.604 U Ung, Loung. First they killed my father : a daughter of Cambodia remembers. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2000. 959.704 E Ellsberg, Daniel. Secrets : a memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. New York : Viking, 2002. Former Pentagon official Daniel Ellsberg provides an account of how and why he smuggled the Pentagon Papers, a seven-thousand page, top-secret study of U.S. decision making in Vietnam, out of his office in 1969 and leaked the report to the New York Times. 974.45 J Junger, Sebastian. The perfect storm. New York : Norton, 1997. 976.413 L Larson, Erik. Isaac's storm : a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c1999. 979.301 S849 Stewart, George Rippey, 1895-. Ordeal by hunger : the story of the Donner Party. New ed.,. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1960. Bio. ALINE Aline, Countess of Romanones, 1923-. The spy wore red : my adventures as an undercover agent in World War II. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c1987. Bio. BAUBY Bauby, Jean-Dominique, 1952-. The diving bell and the butterfly. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1997. Bio. BECK Beck, Martha Nibley, 1962-. Expecting Adam : a true story of birth, rebirth, and everyday magic. 1st ed. New York : Times Books, c1999. The author describes the sometimes incredible details of her second pregnancy, telling how she and her husband, both driven Harvard academics, came to the decision to have their son after the fetus was diagnosed with Down syndrome, and sharing the extraordinary events that helped them know they had made the right decision. Bio. BRIGGS Briggs, Raymond. Ethel & Ernest. 1st ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1999. The author presents a loving, cartoon biography of his parents Ethel and Ernest, from their first meeting in the 1920s when she was a maid and he a milkman, through their deaths in the 1970s; showing how they dealt with the events of their changing world. Bio. BROWN Brown, Cupcake. A piece of cake : a memoir. 1st ed. New York : Crown, c2005. Bio. BRYSON Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bryson, Bill. The life and times of the thunderbolt kid : a memoir. New York : Broadway Books, c2006. Bio. BURROUGHS Burroughs, Augusten. Dry. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2003. When he was 13, Augusten Burroughs' mother gave him away to her lunatic psychiatrist, who adopted him. Now he has established a life for himself as a high-paid advertising hotshot in Manhattan where he hides from his haunting past in a martini glass. Bio. BURROUGHS Burroughs, Augusten. Possible side effects. New York : St. Martin's Press, c2006. A collection of amusing essays in which the author shares incidents from his childhood and sometimes complicated life as an adult. Bio. COLT Colt, George Howe. The big house : a century in the life of an American summer home. New York : Scribner, c2003. George Howe Colt recounts the experiences he had while staying at his family's summer home in Cape Cod and profiles the people who lived there over the course of five generations. Bio. CONWAY Conway, Jill K., 1934-. The road from Coorain. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1989. Bio. CONWAY Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969-. The last American man. New York : Viking, 2002. A case study of modern-day Appalachian mountain-man Eustace Conway, who has tried to convince others to reject contemporary American lifestyles and return to the wilderness; both an adventure story and an examination of what it really means to be a man. Bio. CORNARO PISCOPIA Guernsey, Jane Howard, 1927-. The lady Cornaro : pride and prodigy of Venice. 1st ed. Clinton Corners, N.Y. : College Avenue Press, c1999. Bio. DELANY Delany, Sarah Louise, 1889-. Having our say : the Delany sisters' first 100 years. New York : Kodansha International, 1993. Bio. DUNN Dunn, Samantha. Not by accident : reconstructing a careless life. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2002. Bio. EGGERS Eggers, Dave. A heartbreaking work of staggering genius. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2000. Bio. FREY Frey, James, 1969-. My friend Leonard. New York : Riverhead Books, c2005. Bio. FULLER Fuller, Alexandra, 1969-. Don't let's go to the dogs tonight : Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ an African childhood. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2001. Alexandra Fuller chronicles the experiences she has while growing up on several farms in southern and central Africa from 1972 to 1990. Bio. GOODWIN Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Wait till next year : a memoir. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, c1997. Bio. HOLMAN Holman, Virginia. Rescuing Patty Hearst : memories from a decade gone mad. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2003. The author recalls her experiences growing up with a schizophrenic mother in the 1970s, discussing the nearly four years she and her sister spent in a cottage with their mother who believed she had been ordered to outfit the house as a field hospital in a secret war, and sharing her experiences as an adult trying to reconstruct the course of her mother's illness. Bio. HOUSDEN Housden, Maria. Hannah's gift : lessons from a life fully lived. New York : Bantam Books, 2002. The author shares the very personal story of the last year of her three-year-old daughter Hannah's life, discussing the lessons she learned about faith, love, joy, and courage from Hannah, who died of cancer, and telling of her struggles to live again after the child's death. Bio. KARR Karr, Mary. The liar's club : a memoir. New York : Viking, 1995. Bio. KIMMEL Kimmel, Haven, 1965-. A girl named Zippy : growing up small in Mooreland, Indiana. New York : Random House, c2001. The author describes her small-town childhood in Indiana, remembering her eventful 1960s and '70s family life with fondness. Bio. KIMMEL Kimmel, Haven, 1965-. She got up off the couch : and other heroic acts from Mooreland, Indiana. New York : Free Press, c2006. Bio. LAMOTT Lamott, Anne. Operating instructions : a journal of my son's first year. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, 1993. Bio. LAMOTT Lamott, Anne. Plan B : further thoughts on faith. New York: Riverhead Books, 2005. Contains twenty-four essays in which the author, a fifty-year-old, left-wing, Presbyterian, single mother of a teenage son, reflects on her life, faith, and anxiety about the state of the world. Bio. LARDNER Lardner, Ring, 1915-. I'd hate myself in the morning : a memoir. New York : [Emeryville, Calif.] : Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ c2000. Bio. LEAKEY Morell, Virginia. Ancestral passions : the Leakey family and the quest for humankind's beginnings. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1995. Bio. MATERSON Materson, Ray, 1954-. Sins and needles : a story of spiritual mending. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, c2002. Bio. MCBRIDE-JORDAN McBride, James, 1957-. The color of water : a Black man's tribute to his white mother. New York : Riverhead Books, 1996. Bio. MCCOURT McCourt, Frank. Angela's ashes : a memoir. New York : Scribner, c1996. Bio. MCCOURT McCourt, Frank. Teacher man : a memoir. New York : Scribner, c2005. Celebrated American author Frank McCourt recounts his thirty-year teaching career, and describes some of his unconventional teaching methods that have left an impact of his students. Bio. MILLAY Milford, Nancy. Savage beauty : a biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay. 1st ed. New York : Random House, 2001. Bio. MIN Min, Anchee, 1957-. Red azalea. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, 1994. Bio. MORRIS Morris, Willie. My dog Skip. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c1995. Bio. NOOR Noor, Queen, consort of Hussein, King of Jordan, 1951-. Leap of faith : memoirs of an unexpected life. 1st ed. New York : Miramax Books, c2003. Queen Noor, born into an Arab-American family, shares the story of her relationship with her husband King Hussein of Jordan, telling of their first meeting, the time they spent together before their marriage, and her life and work as queen, and discussing Hussein's legacy to his family and country. Bio. PELZER Pelzer, David J. A child called "it" : an abused child's journey from victim to victor. Deerfield Beach, Fla. : Health Communications, 1995. Bio. PERKINS Perkins, John, 1945-. Confessions of an economic hit man. 1st ed. San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2004. Bio. REICHL Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reichl, Ruth. Tender at the bone. 1st ed. New York : Random House, 1998. Bio. ROOSEVELT Millard, Candice. The River of Doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2005. Recounts Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 expedition to the Amazon, where he became the first person to descend the unmapped tributary of the Amazon. Bio. SACKS Sacks, Oliver W. Uncle Tungsten : memories of a chemical boyhood. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2001. Neurologist and storyteller Oliver Sacks recalls his childhood fascination for numbers, metals, and natural patterns, and tells how he was encouraged by his Uncle Dave, a lightbulb manufacturer known as "Uncle Tungsten," to investigate the mysteries of chemistry. Bio. SAINT-EXUPERY Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944. Wind, sand, and stars. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1967. The author recounts his experiences as a mail pilot in the late 20s and early 30s in South America and Africa. Bio. SIMON Simon, Scott. Home and away : memoir of a fan. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2000. Bio. SNYDER Snyder, Don J. The cliff walk : a memoir of a lost job and a life found. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c1997. Bio. SPARKS Sparks, Nicholas. Three weeks with my brother. New York : Warner Books, c2004. Novelist Nicholas Sparks provides an account of his adventures traveling around the world with his brother Micah on the trip of a lifetime, and shares the personal story of their childhood and the family tragedies they have endured, and how those experiences have made them closer. Bio. STEINBACH Steinbach, Alice. Educating Alice : adventures of a curious woman. New York : Random House, c2004. Bio. STERBA Sterba, Jim, 1943-. Frankie's place : a love story. New York : Grove Press, c2003. Jim Sterba accepts an invitation from author Frances FitzGerald to visit her at a secluded retreat on the Maine coast, where the two writers find common ground despite their drastically different backgrounds. Bio. STERN Stern, Jane. Ambulance girl : how I saved myself by becoming an EMT. 1st ed. New York : Crown Pub., c2003. Jane Stern discusses how becoming an emergency medical technician helped her overcome fear, depression, and hypochondria. Bio. SULLIVAN Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sullivan, James, 1965-. Over the moat : love among the ruins of imperial Vietnam. 1st ed. New York : Picador, 2004. In the fall of 1992, James Sullivan travels to Vietnam to bicycle from Saigon to Hanoi. He has just finished graduate school and has an assignment to write a magazine story about a country that is still subject to a U.S. trade embargo. But in Hue, the old imperial capital of Vietnam, the planned three-month bike trip takes a detour. Here, in a city spliced by the famed Perfume River and filled with French baroque villas, he finds himself bicycling over a moat to visit a beautiful shop girl who lives amid the ruins of the last imperial dynasty of Vietnam. Bio. SUMMER Summer, Lauralee, 1976-. Learning joy from dogs without collars : a memoir. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2003. Lauralee Summer tells the story of her life growing up as the child of a single, often homeless mother, and discusses how circumstances conspired to gain her entrance to Harvard where she majored in children's studies, finally came to know her father, and figured out her place in the world. Bio. WARRILOW Hendra, Tony. Father Joe : the man who saved my soul. New York : Random House, 2004. Bio. WILSON Cheever, Susan. My name is Bill : Bill Wilson : his life and the creation of Alcoholics Anonymous. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2004. Chronicles the life of Bill Wilson, cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous, discussing his childhood in Vermont, his deep-seated insecurity, his battle with alcoholism, his efforts to stop drinking, and the events that lead him to start AA. F Lightman, Alan P., 1948-. Einstein's dreams. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c1993. F Proulx, Annie. Accordion crimes. New York : Scribner, c1996. F ADAM Adam, Christina. Any small thing can save you : a bestiary. New York : Penguin Putnam, c2001. F ALI Ali, Monica, 1967-. Brick lane. 1st Scribner ed. New York : Scribner, c2003. F ALLIOTT Alliott, Catherine. A married man. 1st American ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2003. F ALVAREZ Alvarez, Julia. Yo! 1st ed. Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1997. F ARCHER Archer, Jeffrey, 1940-. A twist in the tale. New York : Simon Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 17 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ and Schuster, c1988. The perfect murder -- Clean sweep Ignatius -- A la carte -- Not the real thing -- Just good friends -- The steal -- Colonel Bullfrog -- Checkmate --Honor among thieves -- A chapter of accidents -- The loophole -- Christina Rosenthal. F BAHR Bahr, Howard, 1946-. The black flower : a novel of the Civil War. 1st Owl Books ed. New York : Henry Holt, 1998. F BAKER Baker, Kevin, 1958-. Paradise Alley : a novel. New York : HarperCollins, 2002. F BAKER Baker, Nicholson. A box of matches. New York : Random House, c2003. F BALDACCI Baldacci, David. Wish you well. New York : Warner Books, c2000. F BANTOCK Bantock, Nick. Griffin & Sabine : an extraordinary correspondence. San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c1991. Includes four folded letters. Griffin, an artist, receives letters from a woman he never met named Sabine. F BARICCO Baricco, Alessandro, 1958-. Ocean sea. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 1999. F BARKER Barker, Pat. Regeneration. 1st American ed. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Dutton, 1992. F BARKER Barker, Raffaella, 1964-. Hens dancing. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Random House, [2001]. Venetia Summers finds herself struggling to deal with the everyday struggles of life after her husband leaves her and their three children for his masseuse. F BARNES Barnes, Julian. Love, etc. 1st American ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. F BARTOLOMEO Bartolomeo, Christina. Cupid and Diana. New York : Scribner, c1998. F BAXTER Baxter, Charles, 1947-. The feast of love. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c2000. F BEHRENS Behrens, Peter, 1954-. The law of dreams. 1st ed. Hanover, N.H. : Steerforth Press, c2006. F BELFER Belfer, Lauren. City of light. New York : Dial Press, c1999. Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 18 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ F BERG Berg, Elizabeth. Joy school. New York : Random House, 1997. F BERRY Berry, Wendell, 1934-. Hannah Coulter : a novel. Washington, D.C. : Shoemaker & Hoard, c2004. F BINCHY Binchy, Maeve. Evening class. New York : Delacorte Press, 1997. F BIRD Bird, Sarah. The Yokota Officers Club : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2001. Air Force brat Bernadette "Bernie" Root embarks on a tour of Japanese military bases in 1968 in search of answers about the source of the problems that are tearing her parents' marriage apart and destroying the rest of her family. F BOHJALIAN Bohjalian, Christopher A. Water witches. Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, c1994. F BOHJALIAN Bohjalian, Christopher A. Midwives : a novel. New York : Harmony Books, 1997. F BOHJALIAN Bohjalian, Christopher A. The double bind. 1st ed. New York : Shaye Areheart Books, c2007. After surviving an attack while biking, Vermont college student Laurel Estabrook decides to volunteer at a homeless shelter where she meets Bobbie Cocker, a mentally ill man who claims to have been an established photographer and whose life she becomes infatuated with. F BOYD Boyd, William, 1952-. Brazzaville Beach : a novel. 1st ed. New York : W. Morrow, 1990. A young woman flees England for Brazzaville in Africa to examine the circumstances of her marriage and her career. F BRIDAL Bridal, Tessa, 1947-. The tree of red stars. 1st ed. Minneapolis, MN. : [S.l.] : Milkweed Editions ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, c1997. Magda, a young woman of privilege, is drawn into unexpected danger when she joins the underground struggle against the government of Uruguay. F BROOKS Brooks, Geraldine. Year of wonders : a novel of the plague. New York : Viking, 2001. The story of a small mountain village in England and housemaid Anna Frith as they try to survive the terrible plague year of 1666. F BROOKS Brooks, Geraldine. March. New York : Viking, c2005. Follows the experiences of Mr. March, the father in Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women," as he witnesses the cruelty and racism of both Northern and Southern soldiers and the harsh Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 19 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ realities of Civil War. F BROWN Brown, Carrie, 1959-. Lamb in love : a novel. New York : Bantam Books, c1999. Vida and Norris have known each other all their lives, but they never realized they were in love until the young mentally-handicapped boy Vida cares for shows them both the truth. F BROWN Brown, Carrie, 1959-. Rose's garden : a novel. New York : Bantam Books, c1998. Seventy-five-year-old Conrad, left alone and grieving after the death of his wife, Rose, learns the precious lesson of reaching out to others, after he spreads the news that he has seen an angel in his overgrown garden. F BROWN Brown, Carrie, 1959-. Confinement. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004. F BROWN Brown, Carrie, 1959-. The rope walk. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c2007. Alice MacCauley's eleventh summer is shaped by new friendship, the twinges of first love, and adult lessons about life and death when she and Theo, a New York City boy of mixed race visiting his white New England grandparents, become the companions of Kenneth, an artist dying of and losing his eyesight to AIDS, reading him the journals of Lewis and Clark and building him a secret "rope walk" through the woods. F BROWNSTEIN Brownstein, Gabriel. The man from beyond. 1st ed. New York : Norton, c2005. 1920's tabloid journalist Molly Goodman witnesses murder and magic as she tries to determine if ghosts really do exist, and if they can communicate with the loved ones they left behind. F BUCKLEY Buckley, Christopher, 1952-. Thank you for smoking. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c1994. F BUECHNER Buechner, Frederick, 1926-. Godric. 1st HarperCollins pbk. ed. [San Francisco, Calif.] : HarperSanFrancisco, 1983, c1980. A fictionalized account of Saint Godric, a twelfth-century holy man who was born in Norfolk, was a wanderer and peddler, and became a hermit later in life in northern England. F BURNS Burns, Olive Ann. Cold Sassy tree. New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1984. F BYATT Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-. Possession : a romance. 1st American ed. New York : Random House, c1990. F BYATT Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-. Possession : a romance. 1st Vintage International ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1991. F CALVINO Calvino, Italo. If on a winter's night a traveler. 1st ed. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1981. F CANON Cañón, James. Tales from the town of widows & chronicles from the land of men. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2007. Rosalba viuda de Patino, wife of the former police sergeant of the small Colombian village of Mariquita, brings together all the widows of the town and promises to restore law and order after a band of guerrillas forcibly take away all the town's men. F CAPELLA Capella, Anthony. The food of love. New York : Viking, 2004. F CARTER Carter, Forrest. The education of Little Tree. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1986, c1979. F CHABON Chabon, Michael. The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2000. F CHESSMAN Chessman, Harriet Scott. Lydia Cassatt reading the morning paper : a novel. A Permanent Press/Seven Stories Press 1st ed. New York : Permanent Press and Seven Stories Press, c2001. A novel about American Impressionist artist Mary Cassatt told from the point of view of her older sister and model, Lydia, based on five of Mary's paintings. F CHEVALIER Chevalier, Tracy. Girl with a pearl earring. New York : Dutton, 2000. F CHIAVERINI Chiaverini, Jennifer. The quilter's apprentice : a novel. New York : Plume, 2000. F CIMENT Ciment, Jill, 1953-. The tattoo artist. New York : Pantheon Books, c2005. F CLAIR Clair, Maxine, 1939-. October suite. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2001. October Brown's life is torn apart when she becomes pregnant and the man she loves deserts her, forcing her to raise her child alone and try to protect him from the emotional harm she grew up with. F CLARK Clark, Joan, 1934-. Latitudes of melt : a novel. New York : Soho Press, 2002. F CLARK Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 21 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Clark, Nancy, 1952-. The Hills at home. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c2003. F CLARKE Clarke, Susanna. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2004. F CLINCH Clinch, Jon. Finn. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2007. Relates the story of the life of Huckleberry Finn's father, detailing his relationships with his dad, brother, and son; affair with an African-American woman; problems with money and drinking; and death. F COE Coe, Jonathan. The Rotters' Club. 1st American ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c2002. F COKAL Cokal, Susann. Mirabilis. New York : BlueHen Books, 2001. F COMBS Combs, Harry. Brules. New York : Delacorte Press, c1994. F COOKSON Cookson, Catherine. The silent lady : a novel. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2001. Lawyer Alexander Armstrong is stunned when Irene Baindor arrives at his law firm in disheveled clothes more than twenty-six years after she disappeared, leaving Alexander with a mystery that has baffled him for most of his career. F CRONIN Cronin, Justin. The summer guest. New York : Dial Press, c2004. F DAI Dai, Sijie, 1954-. Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress. 1st American ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2001. Two boys, moved to the country for "re-education" as part of Mao's Cultural Revolution, find little to amuse them, but things change when they discover a stash of Western classics in Chinese translation and use the stories of Balzac to capture the attention of the beautiful daughter of the local tailor. F DALLAS Dallas, Sandra. The Persian Pickle Club. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1995. F DALLAS Dallas, Sandra. Alice's tulips. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000. Young newlywed Alice Bullock, left on an Iowa farm with only her mother-in-law for company after her husband joins the Union Army, discovers her own hidden strengths and finds unlikely sources of support after she is accused of murder. F DALLAS Dallas, Sandra. Tallgrass. New York : St. Martin's Press, Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 22 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ c2007. F DALTON Dalton, John, 1963-. Heaven Lake. New York : Scribner, c2004. F DAVENPORT Davenport, Kiana. House of many gods : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2006. F DE BERNIERES De Bernières, Louis. Corelli's mandolin. 1st American ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c1994. F DE BERNIERES De Bernières, Louis. Birds without wings. 1st American ed. New York : Knopf, 2004. F DEPREE DePree, Traci. A can of peas. 1st ed. Colorado Springs, Colo. : WaterBrook Press, 2002. F DIAMANT Diamant, Anita. The red tent. 1st Picador USA pbk. ed. New York : Picador USA, 1998. F DIVAKARUNI Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee, 1956-. Sister of my heart. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c1999. F DOCTOROW Doctorow, E. L., 1931-. The march. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2005. Presents an historical novel that centers around William Tecumseh Sherman's march through Georgia and the Carolinas and those he encounters along the way which include a freed slave girl named Pearl; a Union regimental surgeon, Colonel Sartorius; Emily Thompson, the daughter of a Southern judge; and two misfit soldiers. F DOIG Doig, Ivan. English Creek. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1985, c1984. The portrait of a time and a place--Montana in the 1930s--is depicted through the McCaskill family's personal struggles. F DONATI Donati, Sara, 1956-. Into the wilderness. New York : Bantam Books, 1998. F DORRIS Dorris, Michael. A yellow raft in blue water. 1st ed. New York : H. Holt, c1987. F DUFRESNE Dufresne, John. Love warps the mind a little. New York : Norton, 1997. F DUNANT Dunant, Sarah. The birth of Venus : a novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Random House, c2003. Alessandra Cecchi becomes enchanted with a young painter her father has brought back Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 23 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ from nortern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family's Florentine palazzo, but their relationship is interrupted when Alessandra's parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy older man. F DUNCAN Duncan, David James. The brothers K. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c1992. F DUNCAN Duncan, David James. The river why. Bantam Windstone ed. New York : Bantam Books, 1984. Describes the adventures of Gus Orivston, flyfishing genius, as he pursues his true love--fishing--in a secluded cabin on a remote riverbank. F DUNN Dunn, Katherine. Geek love. New York, NY : Warner Books, 1990, c1989. F EARLY Earley, Tony, 1961-. Jim the boy : a novel. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 2000. F EDWARDS Edwards, Kim, 1958-. The memory keeper's daughter. New York : Viking, c2005. Dr. David Henry, forced to deliver his own twins during a snowstorm in 1964 with only a nurse to help him, makes a decision that has far-reaching effects on his life, and the lives of his wife and son, when his infant daughter is born with Down Syndrome, and in a vain attempt to protect his wife, he orders the nurse to take the baby to an institution. F ELLROY Ellroy, James, 1948-. The cold six thousand : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2001. F EPPES Eppes, Cindy. South of reason. New York : Washington Square Press, c2002. In the summer of 1967, thirteen-year-old Kayla Sanders becomes fast friends with her new neighbor, Lou Jean Perry, a woman with whom Kayla's mother stands in stark contrast--but she eventually finds that the lives of both families are controlled by secrets from the past. F EUGENIDES Eugenides, Jeffrey. Middlesex. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002. 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 FABER Faber, Michel. The crimson petal and the white. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Harcourt, 2002. F FARRINGTON Farrington, Tim. The monk downstairs. 1st ed. San Francisco : HarperSanFrancisco, c2002. Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 24 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ F FAULKS Faulks, Sebastian. Birdsong. 1st ed. New York : Random House, [1996], c1993. F FFORDE Fforde, Katie. Wild designs. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997. F FINNEY Finney, Jack. Time and again. New York : Simon and Schuster, [1970]. F FITCH Fitch, Janet, 1955-. White oleander : a novel. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, c1999. F FITZGERALD Fitzgerald, Penelope. The blue flower. 1st U.S. ed. Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, [1997], c1995. F FOER Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977-. Extremely loud & incredibly close. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005. Follows nine-year-old Oskar Schell as he encounters a number of interesting characters in his search for information about his father who died in the World Trade Tower and tries to find the lock that fits the mysterious key his father had. F FOLLETT Follett, Ken. The pillars of the earth. New York : New American Library, c1989. The construction of a cathedral involves a story of betrayal, revenge and love in 12th century England. F FRANK Frank, Dorothea Benton. Sullivan's Island : a Lowcountry tale. Berkley trade pbk. ed. New York : Berkley Books, 2004. c1999. Susan Hayes retreats to her childhood home on Sullivan Island to begin the slow process of healing after a failed marriage, rebellious teenage daughter, and a mediocre job. F FRANZEN Franzen, Jonathan. The corrections. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun, but the members of her dysfunctional family make it difficult. F FRAZIER Frazier, Charles, 1950-. Cold mountain. 1st ed. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. F FREEDMAN Freedman, J. F. Against the wind. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1991. F GAFFNEY Gaffney, Patricia. The saving graces : a novel. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1999. Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 25 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ F GALANT Galant, Debra. Rattled. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, c2006. Housewife Heather Peters is thrilled when she moves with her husband and son to an upscale neighborhood, but her idea of household bliss is soon shattered when she clashes with an animal rights group, a dishonest real estate mogul, and an endangered rattlesnake. F GARLOCK Garlock, Dorothy. The edge of town. New York : Warner Books, 2001. F GERTLER Gertler, Stephanie. Drifting. New York : Dutton, c2003. F GHOSH Ghosh, Amitav. The glass palace. New York : Random House, c2002. A family saga set against the backdrop of Burma, India, and Malaya's nineteenth- and twentieth-century history, beginning when the British invasion of 1885 separates a poor boy named Rajkumar from his love, Dolly, a handmaiden for the royal family, which the invasion forces into exile. F GIBBONS Gibbons, Kaye, 1960-. Ellen Foster : a novel. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Dallas, Tex. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill ; Taylor Pub. Co., 1987. Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children. F GLASS Glass, Julia, 1956-. Three Junes. New York : Pantheon Books, 2002. F GLASS Glass, Julia, 1956-. The whole world over. New York : Pantheon Books, c2006. F GOLD Gold, Glen David, 1964-. Carter beats the Devil : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, 2001. F GOLDING Golding, Michael. Simple prayers. New York : Warner Books, c1994. When a corpse with black welts washes up on an Italian island, the villagers of Riva di Pignoli find their lives greatly changing. F GOLDMARK Goldmark, Kathi Kamen. And my shoes keep walking back to you : a novel. San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c2002. Sarah Jean Pixlie finds herself catapulted from a struggling back-up singer to a blazing star on the country music scene, but she can't seem to leave her bad habits and poor judgement behind her. F GOLDSTEIN Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 26 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Goldstein, Yael. Overture. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2007. F GOODMAN Goodman, Allegra. Kaaterskill falls : a novel. New York : Dial Press, 1998. F GORDON Gordon, Mary, 1949-. Spending : a utopian divertimento. New York : Scribner, c1998. F GRAVER Graver, Elizabeth, 1964-. Unravelling. 1st Harvest ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1999. F GRENVILLE Grenville, Kate, 1950-. The idea of perfection. 1st American ed. New York : Viking, 2002, c1999. Harley Savage, a part-time museum curator and quilting expert with three failed marriages under her belt, falls in love with a gawky engineer when the two arrive in the eccentric country town of Karakarook at the same time. F GRISHAM Grisham, John. A painted house. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2001. Seven-year-old Arkansas farm boy Luke Chandler loses his innocence over the course of a contentious and strenuous cotton harvest in 1952, during which time Luke's family hires several Mexicans and an Ozark family and Luke begins keeping dangerous secrets. F GRUEN Gruen, Sara. Water for elephants. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books, c2006. F GUTCHEON Gutcheon, Beth Richardson. Domestic pleasures : a novel. New York : Perennial, 2001. F GUTERSON Guterson, David. Snow falling on cedars. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1994. F HADDON Haddon, Mark. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, [2003], c2002. 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. F HAIG Haig, Brian. The president's assassin. New York : Warner Books, c2005. F HAIGH Haigh, Jennifer, 1968-. Mrs. Kimble. 1st ed. New York : W. Morrow, c2003. A portrait of a charming, opportunistic preacher turned real estate agent, presented through chronicles of his three marriages and glimpses into the life Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 27 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ of his abandoned son, Charlie. F HALEY Haley, Susan Charlotte, 1949-. Getting married in Buffalo Jump. 1st ed. New York : E.P. Dutton, c1987. F HAMILL Hamill, Pete, 1935-. Forever. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., c2003. Cormac O'Connor, an Irishman who has come to New York in 1740 to avenge the deaths of his parents, is given the gift of immortality after helping an African shaman, on the condition that he never leave the island of Manhattan, and goes on to become involved in many of the historical events of the city, while pursing a blood enemy throughout the ages. F HANNAH Hannah, Kristin. On mystic lake. 1st ed. New York : Crown, c1999. F HARRIS Harris, Joanne, 1964-. Chocolat. New York : Viking, c1999. Beautiful, mysterious Vianne Rocher and her young daughter arrive in Lansquenet-sous-Tannes at the start of the Lenten season where she proceeds to set up a chocolate shop, much to the chagrin of the local priest. F HARRIS Harris, Joanne, 1964-. Holy fools. 1st ed. New York : Morrow, c2004. Juliette, a gypsy acrobat in seventeenth-century France, changes her identity and takes refuge at the small Abbey of Sainte Marie-de-la-mer after she is left pregnant and alone by her lover, Guy LeMerle, but her sanctuary becomes a place of danger when LeMerle arrives on the scene in the guise of spiritual guide to the new, very young, abbess. F HARUF Haruf, Kent. Plainsong. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1999. F HAYS Hays, Mary. Learning to drive. 1st ed. New York : Shaye Areheart Books, c2003. F HEARN Hearn, Lian. Across the nightingale floor. New York : Riverhead Books, 2002. The first in a proposed trilogy set in ancient Japan, telling the story of Takeo, a sixteen-year-old saved from a massacre by the mysterious Lord Otori, who struggles to reconcile his dual nature--the one given him by the Hidden, the pacifist people among whom he was born and raised, and the one inherited from his father, a celebrated assassin. F HECHT Hecht, Daniel. City of masks : a Cree Black thriller. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2003. Seattle parapsychologist Cree Black travels to New Orleans's Garden District to help a Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 28 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ woman cope with hauntings reminiscent of her childhood fears. F HEGI Hegi, Ursula. Stones from the river. New York : Poseidon Press, c1994. F HELLENGA Hellenga, Robert, 1941-. The fall of a sparrow : a novel. New York : Scribner, 1998. F HOFFMAN Hoffman, Alice. Seventh heaven. New York : G.P. Putnam's, c1990. F HOFFMAN Hoffman, Alice. Practical magic. New York : Putnam, c1995. F HOFFMAN Hoffman, Alice. Blackbird House. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2004. F HOFFMAN Hoffman, Alice. The ice queen. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., c2005. F HORNBY Hornby, Nick. How to be good. New York : Penguin Putnam, c2001. F HORNBY Hornby, Nick. About a boy. New York : Riverhead Books, 1998. Will, a thirty-six-year-old London bachelor, undergoes a change in his outlook about marriage and children when he lies to join a single parents group in order to meet women, and becomes friends with a needy twelve-year-old named Marcus. F HORSLEY Horsley, Kate, 1952-. Confessions of a pagan nun : a novel. Boston : Shambhala, c2002. A sixth-century Irish nun secretly records the memories of her Pagan youth while cloistered in a stone cell at the monastery of Saint Brigit. F HOSSEINI Hosseini, Khaled. The kite runner. New York : Riverhead Books, 2003. F HOUSE House, Silas, 1971-. Clay's quilt : a novel. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2001. Clay Sizemore loves his hometown of Free Creek, but has always longed for a family, so he leaves Free Creek in search of his true identity and the loving home he has never had. F HOUSE House, Silas, 1971-. A parchment of leaves : a novel. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2002. In the early twentieth century, Vine, a young Cherokee woman, leaves her world for that of Saul Sullivan, the white man she loves, and is met with scorn by the townspeople and Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 29 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ her new mother-in-law--and a disturbing fascination on the part of her new brother-in-law. F HOUSTON Houston, Pam. Waltzing the cat. New York : Washington Square Press, [1999], c1998. The best girlfriend you never had -- Cataract -- Waltzing the cat -- Three lessons in Amazonian biology -- The moon is a woman's first husband -- Moving from one body of water to another -- Like goodness under your feet -- Then you get up and have breakfast -- The kind of people you trust with your life -- The whole weight of me -- Epilogue. Presents eleven linked fictions that follow the struggles of photographer Lucy O'Rourke to find balance in a life that seems to be prone to disaster. F HUDDLE Huddle, David, 1942-. La Tour dreams of the wolf girl. Boston [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin, 2002. Art history professor Suzanne Nelson retreats into her research as a way to escape her failing marriage, but she soon finds her obsession with a mysterious painter overtaking her life. F HULME Hulme, Keri. The bone people : a novel. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1986, c1983. F HUMPHREYS Humphreys, Helen, 1961-. The lost garden. 1st American ed. New York : Norton, 2002. F HURSTON Hurston, Zora Neale. Their eyes were watching God. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1991. F HYDE Hyde, Catherine Ryan. Pay it forward. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2000. F HYDE Hyde, Catherine Ryan. Love in the present tense. New York : Doubleday/Flying Dolphin Press, c2006. Pearl, only thirteen when she gives birth to her son, Leonard, and on the run for accidently killing his father, begins leaving the child with her neighbor Mitch while she is at work, and Mitch and Leonard are left to figure out how to approach the future when Pearl fails to return home from work one day. F INNESS-BROWN Inness-Brown, Elizabeth, 1954-. Burning Marguerite. 1st ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2002. F IRVING Irving, John, 1942-. A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel. 2002 Modern Library ed. New York : Modern Library, 2002. F ISAACS Isaacs, Susan, 1943-. Compromising positions. New York : Times Books, c1978. F ISHIGURO Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 30 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-. The remains of the day. 1st American ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1989. F ISHIGURO Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-. Never let me go. 1st American ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2005. Thirty-one-year-old Kathy, along with old friends from Hailsham, a private school in England, are forced to face the truth about their childhood when they all come together again. F JACKSON Jackson, Joshilyn. Gods in Alabama. New York : Warner Books, c2005. Arlene Fleet, having made promises to God in exchange for allowing her to get away with the murder of her school's abusive high school quarterback, realizes all bets are off when the arrival of an old classmate on her Chicago doorstep ten years later draws her back to Possett, Alabama, to face her past, and to introduce her bigoted family to her African-American boyfriend. F JACKSON Jackson, Joshilyn. Between, Georgia. 1st ed. New York : Warner Books, c2006. Nonny Frett is caught in the middle of a decades-old family feud between her biological family and her adopted one. F JIN Jin, Ha, 1956-. Waiting. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c1999. F JOHNSON Johnson, Charles Richard, 1948-. Middle passage. New York : Atheneum, 1990. F JONES Jones, Edward P. The known world. 1st ed. New York : Amistad, c2003. Henry Townsend, a African farmer and former slave, is befriended by the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County and becomes proprietor of his own plantation, as well as of his own slaves. F KALLOS Kallos, Stephanie. Broken for you. 1st ed. New York : Grove Press, c2004. F KAY Kay, Terry. Shadow song. New York : Pocket Books, c1994. F KAY Kay, Terry. The valley of light : a novel. 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, 2003. In 1948, a war veteran trying to escape his memories of the liberation of Dachau moves to a small North Carolina town, where his relationship with a young war widow, his chance meeting with a mysterious old man, and his quest to catch a legendary fish change his life and those of his new neighbors. F KESEY Kesey, Ken. Sometimes a great notion : a novel. New York : Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 31 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Penguin Books, 1977, c1964. F KESSLER Kessler, Brad. Birds in fall : a novel. New York : Scribner, c2006. When a plane crashes off the coast of a remote island in Nova Scotia, a diverse group of characters are thrown together as mourning family members gather at an inn near the crash site awaiting news of their loved ones. F KHADRA Khadra, Yasmina. The swallows of Kabul. 1st ed. in the U.S.A. New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, c2004. Two couples living in Kabul under the rule of the Taliban find their lives destroyed by the tyrannical government. F KIDD Kidd, Sue Monk. The secret life of bees. New York : Viking, 2002. Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared from Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August. F KINGSOLVER Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal dreams. 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperCollins, c1990. F KINGSOLVER Kingsolver, Barbara. Prodigal summer : a novel. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2000. F KINSELLA Kinsella, Sophie. Confessions of a shopaholic. New York, N.Y. : Dell Publishing, 2001. Young Rebecca Bloomwood, a financial magazine writer whose perpetual shopping has dug her into a huge debt hole, tries to turn her life around when she meets the desirable Luke Brandon. F KINSELLA Kinsella, Sophie. The undomestic goddess. New York : Dial Press, 2005. Ambitious young lawyer Samantha Sweeting stumbles into an entirely new way of life when a costly error at work has her fleeing to the countryside where she is mistakenly hired as a housekeepr--despite a complete lack of domestic skills--and finds love with the handsome gardener. F KLEIER Kleier, Glenn. The last day. New York : Warner Books, 1997. F KNEALE Kneale, Matthew, 1960-. English passengers. New York : Random House, c2000. Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley, forced to put his ship up for charter after having his contraband confiscated, takes on two eccentric passengers who want to travel to Tasmania to test their theories about the Garden of Eden and the races of man; while on Tasmania, the aboriginal Peevay presents the facts about British invaders. Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 32 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ F KOTZWINKLE Kotzwinkle, William. The bear went over the mountain : a novel. New York : Doubleday, 1996. F KRAUSS Krauss, Nicole. The history of love. 1st ed. New York : Norton, c2005. Presents a narrative about an aged author who flees Nazi-occupied Poland leaving his unpublished manuscript behind and a teenage girl in New York who was named after the heroine in Leo's book which was published under a different man's name. F KURZWEIL Kurzweil, Allen. A case of curiosities. 1st ed. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1992. F L'HEUREUX L'Heureux, John. The miracle : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2002. F LAHIRI Lahiri, Jhumpa. Interpreter of maladies : stories. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999. F LAMB Lamb, Wally. She's come undone : a novel. New York : Pocket Books, c1992. F LAMB Lamb, Wally. I know this much is true. 1st ed. New York, NY : Regan Books, c1998. F LAMOTT Lamott, Anne. All new people : a novel. Counterpoint pbk. ed. Washington D.C. : Counterpoint, 2000, c1989. Depicts a young girl's passage out of childhood in the face of divorce, drugs, personal insecurity, and new economic realities. F LANDVIK Landvik, Lorna, 1954-. Angry housewives eating bon bons. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2003. Five women, each with her own story to tell, form a book club they call Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons that becomes the lifeline that sustains them through four decades of joy and sorrow. F LARSEN Larsen, Deborah. The white : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2002. In 1758, at the age of sixteen, Mary Jemison is taken by a Shawnee raiding party and gradually becomes integrated into her new family and culture. F LAWSON Lawson, Mary, 1946-. Crow Lake. New York : Dial Press, 2002. F LENT Lent, Jeffrey. In the fall. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999. Kellogg Hubbard Library Bibliography Report 1/24/2008 @ 10:20am Page 33 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ F LENT Lent, Jeffrey. Lost nation. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002. F LESCROART Lescroart, John T. The 13th juror : a novel. New York : D.I. Fine, 1994. F LESTER Lester, Julius. The autobiography of God : a novel. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2004. F LETTS Letts, Billie. Where the heart is : a novel. New York : Warner Books, c1995. F LEWIS Lewis, John Hamilton. Basha : a novel. 1st ed. Dallas, Tex. : Durban House, c2001. Ben Weizman has always believed his blood parents were killed by Palestinian terrorists, but just as Ben is setting out on the most exciting time of his life, his adopted father reveals a secret that will change everything. F LIPMAN Lipman, Elinor. The Inn at Lake Devine. 1st ed. New York : Random House, 1998. F LIVESEY Livesey, Margot. Eva moves the furniture. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2001. Eva McEwen has been haunted by two ghostly visitors since she was a child, and as she grows into a young woman her two companions meddle in her personal and professional life. F LODGE Lodge, David, 1935-. Paradise news : a novel. 1st American ed. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1992. F LYNCH Lynch, Jim, 1961-. The highest tide. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury USA : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, c2005. F MACDONALD MacDonald, Ann-Marie, 1958-. The way the crow flies. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2003. 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 MACLEOD MacLeod, Alistair. No great mischief. 1st American ed. New York : W.W. Norton, 2000. F MAGUIRE Maguire, Gregory. Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West. 1st HarperPerennial ed. New York : ReganBooks, 1996. Elphaba, born with emerald green skin, comes of age in the land of Oz, rooming with debutante Glinda at the university, and following a path in life that earns her the label of Wicked. F MAHFOUZ Mahfouz, Naguib, 1912-. Palace walk. New York : Doubleday, 1990, c1989. F MAPSON Mapson, Jo-Ann. Hank & Chloe. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1993. F MARAI Márai, Sándor, 1900-. Embers. 1st American ed. New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2001. An old aristocrat greets a friend he has not seen for forty-one years, and over the course of the night, the two men fight a battle of words and accusations about the events of a long-ago night. F MARTEL Martel, Yann. Life of Pi : a novel. lst ed. New York : Harcourt, 2002. F MARTIN Martin, Steve, 1945-. The pleasure of my company : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2003. A thirty-three-year-old man with obsessive-compulsive disorder who rarely leaves his Santa Monica apartment is drawn further and further into the real world and real relationships when his only regular visitor, a student social worker, moves into his home with her infant son to escape her abusive husband. F MASON Mason, Daniel Philippe. The piano tuner. 1st ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2002. An unassuming London piano tuner enters a dangerous, exotic world when he is sent by the British War Office to the Burmese jungle to repair a peace-keeping army surgeon-major's grand piano. F MAURENSIG Maurensig, Paolo, 1943-. Canone inverso : a novel. 1st American ed. New York : H. Holt, 1998. F MCCAMMON McCammon, Robert R. Boy's life. New York : Pocket Books, c1991. F MCCANN McCann, Colum, 1965-. Dancer : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Metropolitan Books, 2003. Fictionalizes the life of legendary ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, from his childhood in World War II Russia to his wild days in 1980s New York, dramatizing his early poverty, his sexuality, his fame, and his perfectionism. F MCCANN McCann, Colum, 1965-. Zoli : a novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Random House, c2006. Zoli Novotna, a young woman from a traveling Gypsy family, flees 1930s Czechoslovakia to join a clan of fellow Romani harpists, where Zoli becomes the symbol of a supposedly brave new world of tolerance in the Soviet Union and finds her gift of poetry embraced by the Gypsy people and a young English expatriate. F MCCARTHY McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-. All the pretty horses. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, c1992. John Grady Cole is too young to be given charge of the family ranch and is cut off from the only life he has ever imagined wanting. F MCCAULEY McCauley, Stephen. The object of my affection : a novel. New York : Simon and Schuster, c1987. F MCCULLERS McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967. The heart is a lonely hunter. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1940, 1967 printing. F MCDERMOTT McDermott, Alice. After this. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2006. F MCEWAN McEwan, Ian. Atonement. 1st ed. in the USA. New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2002. F MCEWAN McEwan, Ian. Saturday. 1st ed. New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, c2005. F MCLARTY McLarty, Ron. The memory of running. New York : Viking, 2004. After his parents are killed in an auto accident and he also learns of his sister's death in Los Angeles, Smithy Ide, overweight and friendless, embarks upon a transcontinental bicycle ride to claim his sister's body and rediscovers what it means to live. F MCLARTY McLarty, Ron. Traveler. New York : Viking, c2007. F MCLAUGHLIN McLaughlin, Emma. The nanny diaries : a novel. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2002. 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. F MCMILLAN McMillan, Terry. A day late and a dollar short. New York : Viking, 2001. F MELTZER Meltzer, Brad. The tenth justice. 1st ed. New York : Rob Weisbach Books, c1997. F MICHAELS Michaels, Anne, 1958-. Fugitive pieces. 1st Vintage International ed. New York : Vintage International, 1998, c1996. Jakob Beer, a Polish war orphan who is rescued and raised by a Greek scholar, becomes the central link in three generations of men whose lives are altered by the events and effects of the Second World War. F MIN Min, Anchee, 1957-. Wild Ginger. Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 2002. Wild Ginger, subjected to the abuse of her classmates because of her half-French heritage, becomes a national hero of the Cultural Revolution when an act of bravery brings her to the attention of Chairman Mao, but her rise in the Party is threatened when she falls in love with Evergreen, a handsome local boy who is head of the Red Guards. F MINOT Minot, Susan. Folly. Boston : Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1992. F MITCHELL Mitchell, David (David Stephen). Cloud atlas : a novel. 1st trade pbk. ed. New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004. F MITCHELL Mitchell, Irene Musillo. Anna Marilena's four sorrows. Bloomington, IN : Author House, c2004. F MONES Mones, Nicole. A cup of light. New York : Delacorte Press, c2002. Porcelain appraiser Lia Frank is sent to Beijing to authenticate a collection of rare pieces, and as she spends more time in the beautiful city, she finds herself growing and changing in surprising ways. F MOORE Moore, Lorrie. Birds of America. 1st ed. New York : A. Knopf, 1998. F MOORE Moore, Christopher, 1957-. Lamb : the gospel according to Biff, Christ's childhood pal. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2002. Levi bar Alphaeus, nicknamed Biff, is resurrected by an angel at the bidding of Jesus who wants Biff, the childhood friend of the Messiah, to finally write his account of Jesus's life. F MORGAN Morgan, Robert, 1944-. The truest pleasure. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books, 1995. F MORLEY Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957. Parnassus on wheels;. Philadelphia, : Lippincott, [1955]. F MORRIS Morris, Willie. Taps : a novel. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2001. Sixteen-year-old Swayze Barksdale comes of age in the southern town of Fisk's Landing in the summer of 1951, his life defined by the Korean War raging overseas, and his job of playing "Taps" at the funerals of the town's fallen soldiers. F MORRIS Morris, Michael, 1966-. A place called Wiregrass. Tulsa, Okla. : RiverOak Pub., c2002. F MORRISON Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. New York : New American Library, 1977. F MORTIMER Mortimer, John Clifford, 1923-. Titmuss regained. 1st American ed. New York, N.Y., USA : Viking, 1990. F MOSHER Mosher, Howard Frank. Disappearances. New York : Viking Press, 1977. F MOYNAHAN Moynahan, Molly. Stone garden. 1st ed. New York : Morrow, c2003. Alice McGuire's secure and privileged world is torn apart after her best friend and soul mate vanishes on a trip to Mexico and she sets out to find answers. F MUNRO Munro, Alice. Lives of girls and women. 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 2001, c1971. The story of Del Jordan grappling with life's problems as she moves from the carelessness of childhood through adolescence in search of love and sexual experience. F MURKOFF Murkoff, Bruce, 1953-. Waterborne : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c2004. F NASLUND Naslund, Sena Jeter. Ahab's wife, or, The star-gazer : a novel. 1st ed. New York : William Morrow and Co., c1999. F NAYLOR Naylor, Gloria. Mama Day. . New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1988. F NEMIROVSKY Némirovsky, Irène, 1903-1942. Suite française. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2006. F NIFFENEGGER Niffenegger, Audrey. The time traveler's wife : a novel. San Francisco, CA : MacAdam/Cage Pub., c2003. Clare and Henry, deeply in love, try desperately to maintain normal lives even though he has been diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition in which his genetic clock periodically resets, pulling him through time to the past or future. F NORMAN Norman, Howard A. The northern lights : a novel. New York : Summit Books, c1987. F O'BRIAN O'Brian, Patrick, 1914-. Master and commander. New York : W.W. Norton, 1990, c1970. F O'BRIEN O'Brien, Tim, 1946-. The things they carried. 1st ed. Franklin Center, Pa. : Franklin Library, 1990. F O'CONNOR O'Connor, Joseph, 1963-. Star of the Sea. 1st U.S. ed. Orlando : Harcourt, c2002. F OATES Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-. The gravedigger's daughter. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2007. After being attacked by a man who believed she was someone else and assaulted by her husband, Rebecca Schwartz reflects on her life of violence--her father killed her mother and himself and her brothers were also violent men--and decides to take her nine-year-old son and create a new life. F OTSUKA Otsuka, Julie, 1962-. When the emperor was divine : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2002. A novel in which the members of a Japanese American family present their unique perspectives on the experience of being forced into an internment camp during World War II. F OZEKI Ozeki, Ruth L. My year of meats. New York : Viking, 1998. F PACKER Packer, Ann, 1959-. The dive from Clausen's pier : a novel. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. F PALLISER Palliser, Charles. The Quincunx. 1st American ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 1990, c1989. F PARKHURST Parkhurst, Carolyn, 1971-. The dogs of Babel. Boston : Little, Brown, 2003. F PATCHETT Patchett, Ann. Bel canto : a novel. New York : HarperCollins, c2001. A group of international guests, taken hostage by terrorists while attending a birthday party at the home of the vice president of a small South American country, form bonds with their captors and enter into an almost idyllic lifestyle, united by the music of Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano. F PECK Peck, Richard, 1934-. London holiday. New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1998. F PELECANOS Pelecanos, George P. Shame the devil : a novel. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 2000. F PERROTTA Perrotta, Tom, 1961-. The wishbones. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1997. F PICOULT Picoult, Jodi, 1966-. The pact : a love story. 1st ed. New York : W. Morrow & Co., c1998. F PICOULT Picoult, Jodi, 1966-. Plain truth. New York : Pocket Books, c2000. Philadelphia defense attorney Ellie Hathaway, unsatisfied with the course of her career and personal life, leaves her job for an open-ended stay at her great-aunt's home in Paradise, Pennsylvania, arriving just in time to become embroiled in the case of a young, unmarried Amish woman accused of killing her newborn baby. F PICOULT Picoult, Jodi, 1966-. My sister's keeper. New York : Atria Books, c2004. Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate. F PIERRE Pierre, D B C. Vernon God Little : a 21st century comedy in the presence of death. New York : Canongate Books, c2003. F PILCHER Pilcher, Rosamunde. Winter solstice. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000. F POWER Power, Susan, 1961-. The grass dancer. New York : Putnam's, c1994. Spirits of the 1860s, Ghost Horse and Red Dress, seek to be reunited through an Indian couple of the 1980s. F PRIOR Prior, Lily, 1966-. Ardor. 1st ed. New York : Ecco, c2004. F PROULX Proulx, Annie. The shipping news. New York : Toronto : New York : Scribner ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, c1993. F QUERRY Querry, Ronald B. (Ronald Burns), 1943-. The death of Bernadette Lefthand : a novel. New York : Bantam Books, 1995. F QUINDLEN Quindlen, Anna. Object lessons. Thorndike, Me. : Thorndike Press, c1991. F QUINN Quinn, Daniel. Ishmael : a novel. New York : Bantam/Turner Book, 1992. F RAY Ray, Jeanne. Julie and Romeo. 1st ed. New York : Harmony Books, c2000. F RAY Ray, Jeanne. Step-ball-change : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Shaye Areheart Books, c2002. Caroline has a fantastic job as the owner of a dance studio, a great marriage with four successful grown children, and the innate ability to tie up the loose ends in all her loved ones' lives. F REID Reid, Van. Cordelia Underwood, or, The marvelous beginnings of the Moosepath League. New York : Viking, 1998. F REID Reid, Van. Peter Loon : a novel. New York : Viking, 2002. In the post-Revolution District of Maine, a young man named Peter Loon finds himself and a newfound friend--a nomadic parson--in the midst of a violent rebellion. F RILEY Riley, Judith Merkle. A vision of light. New York, N.Y. : Delacorte Press, c1989. In 1355, Margaret of Ashbury has clerics refuse to help her write a book. Starvation persuades Brother Gregory to take on the task and we discover a very resourceful woman. F ROBBINS Robbins, Tom. Even cowgirls get the blues. Bantam trade ed. New York : Bantam Books, 1990. Sissy Handshaw, a small town girl with big-time dreams and a quirk to match, hitchhiking her way around the country. F ROBINSON Robinson, Elisabeth, 1965-. The true and outstanding adventures of the Hunt sisters : a novel. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, c2004. Presents a collection of fictional letters in which struggling film producer Olivia Hunt chronicles a year in her life, traveling back and forth from Ohio, where her sister is battling leukemia, to Hollywood where she is trying to put together a big-budget production of her dream film, "Don Quixote.". F ROBINSON Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2004. F ROSENFELT Rosenfelt, David. Open and shut. New York : Mysterious Press, c2002. F ROSS Ross, Sinclair. As for me and my house. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1978. F ROSS Ross, Ann B. Miss Julia speaks her mind : a novel. New York : HarperCollins, c1999. After her husband's death, Miss Julia Springer finds herself caring for his bastard son, a nine-year-old with a keen ability to find trouble no matter where he is. F RUMSEY Rumsey, Timothy. Pictures from a trip : a novel. 1st ed. New York : W. Morrow, c1985. F RUSSO Russo, Richard, 1949-. Nobody's fool. New York : Random House, c1993. F RUSSO Russo, Richard, 1949-. The straight man : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Random House, 1997. F RUSSO Russo, Richard, 1949-. The whore's child and other stories. 1st ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2002. The whore's child -- Monhegan light -- The farther you go -- Joy ride -- Buoyancy -- Poison -- The mysteries of Linwood Hart. A collection of seven short stories by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo. F SALZMAN Salzman, Mark. The soloist. 1st ed. New York : Random House, 1994. F SALZMAN Salzman, Mark. Lying awake. New York : Knopf, 2000. F SCHICKLER Schickler, David. Kissing in Manhattan. New York : Dial Press, c2001. F SCHINE Schine, Cathleen. Rameau's niece. New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1993. F SCHINE Schine, Cathleen. The love letter. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1995. F SCHULMAN Schulman, Audrey, 1963-. The cage. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994. Beryl, a nature photographer, joins an expedition to photograph polar bears in Manitoba; when things go disastrously wrong, she and three others must make their way past starving bears and cross frozen tundra and treacherous ice floes to reach the safety of the town of Churchill. F SENSTAD Senstad, Susan Schwartz. Music for the third ear : a novel. 1st Picador USA ed. New York : Picador USA, 2001, c2000. 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