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Fiction | Graphic Novels | Poetry & Short Stories

 

 

Fiction

 

In the Time of the Butterflies.

Alvarez, Julia.

Fiction Al86in1995

Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republica in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands.

 

 

Shirley.

Bronte, Charlotte.

Fiction B78s1998

When Shirley Keeldar, an heiress, marries a tutor whose brother owns a mill introducing labor-saving devices, she helps the brother's campaign (Novelist).

 

 

Jack Maggs

Carey, Peter

Fiction C1892j

After a young thief makes friends in a wealthy London household in the mid-19th century, he meets an author interested in the criminal mind (Novelist).

 

 

Girl With a Pearl Earring.

Chevalier, Tracy

Fiction C4271g2000

A poor seventeenth-century servant girl knows her place in the household of the painter Johannes Vermeer, but when he begins to paint her, nasty whispers and rumors circulate throughout the town (Novelist).

 

 

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Clarke, Susan

Fiction C556j

All is going well for rich, reclusive Mr Norell, who has regained some of the power of England's magicians from the past, until a rival magician, Jonathan Strange, appears and becomes Mr Norrell's pupil, in a witty fantasy set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century England (Novelist).

 

 

Gai-Jin: A Novel of Japan

Clavell, James

Fiction C573g1994

In 1860, Gai-Jin, foreigners, have arrived to do business with the Japanese. The mighty Struan shipping empire, Noble House, has built a base in Yokohama and the new Tai-Pan stands ready to take over. He finds he must fight Japanese and foreigners, to keep and build his family's fortune (Novelist).

 

My Brother Sam is Dead

Collier, James Lincoln

Fiction C691M

Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.

 

 

 

 

The Last of the Mohicans

Cooper, James Fenimore

Fiction C78L1980

The classic tale of a disillusioned man who exiles himself from a society whose values he abhors. Despite this exile, he agrees to take two sisters through hostile Indian country with the help of a Mohican scout (Novelist).

 

 

 

 

 

The Pathfinder: or, The Inland Sea

Cooper, James Fenimore

Fiction C78p1980

In the sequel to The Last of the Mohicans, Natty Bumppo tries to help a small outpost on Lake Ontario (Novelist).

 

 

 

 

The Red Badge of Courage and Four Stories

Crane, Stephen

Fiction C848r1997

Henry Fleming, a young Union soldier, struggles with his conflicting emotions about violence, death, and the nature of bravery in this ironic, skeptical account of the Civil War (Novelist).

 

 

 

Pope Joan: A Novel

Cross, Donna Woolfolk

Fiction C8847p1997

Berated for being intelligent and scholarly, Joan dons her dead brother's clothes, assumes a man's identity, and gains respect and authority as well as the title of pope (Novelist).

 

 

 

The Idiot

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Fiction D74oi:c1980

Prince Myshkin suffers from epilepsy but maintains a keen insight about humanity (Novelist).

 

 

 

 

The Three Musketeers

Dumas, Alexandre

Fiction D890t:E 1991

A young Gascon nobleman, d’Artagnan, sets off for Paris in hopes of joining the Musketeers. He proves himself fighting with them and earns a place in their ranks. With d’Artagnan the three preserve the honor of the king and thwart the schemes of Cardinal Richelieu.

 

 

 

The Man in the Iron Mask

Dumas, Alexandre

Fiction D890ma:E 1992

The last segment of The Three Musketeers involves the unsolved identity of the man in the iron mask, Raoul de Bragelonne.

 

 

 

 

The Birth of Venus

Dunant, Sarah

Fiction D9122b2003

Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities.

 

 

Love Medicine

Erdrich, Louise

Fiction Er29L1998

The members of the Chippewa Kaspaw and Lamartine families describe their simple existence as they both deny and discover their native heritages (Novelist).

 

 

 

A Dangerous Fortune

Follett, Ken

Fiction F721d1994

In 1866, after a young student drowns at Wakefield School, several boys who seem to have been involved in the incident continue their duplicity as adults (Novelist).

 

 

 

People of the Owl: A Novel of Prehistoric North America

Gear, Kathleen O'Neal

Fiction G261pe2004

Recounts the story of the trading empire of Poverty Port, Louisiana, of 3500 years ago, during which warrior and shaman Salamander experiences a vision that shapes the destiny of his people (Novelist).

 

 

The Scarlet Letter: A Romance

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Fiction H31s1986a

In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman endures the consequences of her sin of adultery and spends the rest of her life in atonement (Novelist).

 

 

 

 

The House of Seven Gables

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Fiction H31h2001

This is a classic tale of a house cursed through the centuries by a man hung for witchcraft, and haunted by the ghosts of its sinful dead.

 

 

 

 

 

Death on the Mississippi: A Mark Twain Mystery

Heck, Peter J.

Fiction H448d1995

Writer Mark Twain turns sleuth to solve the murder of a riverboat gambler who was his friend. Lots of riverboat lore. A first novel.

 

 

 

 

Stones from the River

Hegi, Ursula

Fiction H362s1995

Trudi, a dwarf librarian, tells about the lives of people in the small German town of Burgdorf from World War I and into the 1950s (Novelist).

 

 

 

Over a Thousand Hills I Walk With You

Jansen, Hanna

Fiction J266u:E

The only survivor of her family’s massacre, Jeanne witnessed unspeakable acts. But through courage, wits, and sheer force of will, she survived. Based on a true story, this haunting novel by Jeanne’s adoptive mother makes unforgettably real the events of the 1994 Rwandan genocide as one family experienced it.

 

 

The First Man in Rome

McCullough, Colleen

Fiction M1393fi1991

A story tracing the creation of Republican Rome presents those who founded an empire, including Marius and Sulla, each determined to become the First Man of Rome.

 

 

 

 

The Moon and The Sun

McIntyre, Vonda N.

Fiction M1896mo1998

While King Louis XIV of France believes that the sea monster he has obtained holds the key to immortality, Marie Josephe de la Croix finds herself challenging her most fundamental loyalties, in a story of alternate history (Novelist).

 

 

 

Gwyneth and the Thief

Moore, Margaret

Fiction M78512gw2002

Fifteen-year-old, Gwyneth, the Lady of Haverleigh, enlists the aid of a wounded bandit in warding off the advances of a local baron who has designs on both her hand-in-marriage and her family's estate (Novelist).

 

 

 

Paradise

Morrison, Toni

Fiction M8345p

Tells the story of Ruby, Oklahoma, an all Black town settled by a dozen families in the 1890s when they were turned away from other communities. But now it's the 1970s and the men of the town blame the women and the women's shelter for the change in their community's character (Novelist).

 

 

Beloved

Morrison, Toni

Fiction M8345be2004

After the Civil War ends, Sethe longingly recalls the two-year-old daughter whom she killed when threatened with recapture after escaping from slavery 18 years before.

 

 

Post Captain

O'Brian, Patrick

Fiction Ob6po1990

Captain Jack Aubrey escapes from debtors' prison in France, in the sequel to Master and Commander, and afterward, he and Stephen Maturin, a surgeon and a spy, avoid a mutiny as they pursue their enemies into a French harbor (Novelist).

 

 

 

H.M.S. Surprise

O'Brian, Patrick

Fiction Ob69hm1991

Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin save themselves from a local pirate in the Indian Ocean during the days of Lord Nelson, in the sequel to Post Captain (Novelist).

 

 

 

Rob Roy

Scott, Walter, Sir.

Fiction Sco8ro1995

After a young Englishman becomes involved in Jacobite affairs, he escapes into Scotland with Rob Roy (Novelist).

 

 

 

 

 

Rose

Smith, Martin Cruz

Fiction Sm627ro1997

In 1872, Jonathan Blair wants only to return to Africa, but his employer demands that he go to Lancashire to find out about a missing minister, which leads to information on a recent mining disaster (Novelist).

 

 

 

The Grapes ofWrath

Steinbeck, John

Fiction St346g1992

The Joad family, Okie farmers forced from their dustbowl home during the Depression, try to find work as migrant fruitpickers in California (Novelist).

 

 

 

The Ramsay Scallop

Temple, Frances

Fiction T247ra1995

At the turn of the fourteenth century in England, fourteen-year-old Elenor finds her betrothal to an ambitious lord’s son launching her on a memorable pilgrimage to far-off Spain.

 

 

 

War and Peace

Tolstoy, Leo

Fiction T58ovo:Ee1978

People from diverse social strata respond to Napoleon's invasion of Russia (Novelist).

 

 

 

 

 

The Passion of Artemesia

Vreeland, Susan

Fiction V957p

From extraordinary highs--the creation of outstandingly original paintings, patronage by

the Medici, Galileo's friendship--to rape, torture by the Inquisition, struggles for professional

acceptance, and betrayal by the men she loved, Artemisia was a bold and brilliant woman who

lived as she wanted, and paid a high price.

 

 

The House of Mirth

Wharton, Edith

Fiction W55h1964

A young woman struggles to maintain her integrity in a society based on greed and vulgarity (Novelist).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Graphic Novels

 

Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie

Gaiman, Neil

GN G127st1998

In the quiet English hamlet of Wall, Tristran Thorn embarks on a remarkable journey through the world of Faerie to recover a fallen star for his lover, the hauntingly beautiful Victoria Forester (Novelist).

 

 

 

 

Fallout: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and the Political Science of the Atomic Bomb.

Ottaviani, Jim

GN Ot82f

A story of the Manhattan Project and the price J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and we all paid for the atomic bomb.

 

 

 

 

 

Poetry & Short Stories

 

 

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