Academic Year 2008-2009
Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry by ISBN: 9780374175306Publication Date: 2009Discussion Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009.
The story of a romantic relationship is told in the form of a catalog from the auction of objects previously owned by the fictional couple.
Nightwood by Call Number: PS3503.A614 N5 1937ISBN: 9780571322862Publication Date: 1937Discussion Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009.
Stories of the love-lives of a group of Americans and Europeans in Paris in the 1920s - an exotic, night-time underworld, eccentric, seedy and beautiful.
Loitering with Intent by Call Number: PR6037.P29 L6 1981ISBN: 9780698110472Publication Date: 1981Discussion Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009.
Happily loitering about London, circa 1949, with intent to gather material for her writing, Fleur Talbot finds a job "on the grubby edge of the literary world," as secretary to the peculiar Autobiographical Association. Mad egomaniacs, hilariously writing their memoirs in advance -- or poor fools ensnared by a blackmailer? Rich material, in any case. But when its pompous director, Sir Quentin Oliver, steals the manuscript of Fleur's new novel, fiction begins to appropriate life. Listed in Fiction Core Collection.
Run: A Novel by Call Number: PS3566.A7756 R86 2007ISBN: 9780061431548Publication Date: 2007Discussion Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2008.
Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving possessive and ambitions father. As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see is sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and her child, all Bernard Doyle cares about is his ability to keep his children--all his children--safe. Listed in Fiction Core Collection.
Blindness by Call Number: PQ9281.A66 E6813 1998ISBN: 0151002517Publication Date: 1998Discussion Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008.
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. Booklist Editors' Choice, 1998; Guardian Newspaper Top 100 Books of all Time.
The Brothers Karamazov by Call Number: onlineISBN: 1566195683Publication Date: 1879Discussion Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2008.
"In the middle of the nineteenth century in Skotoprigonyevski, a town in the Russian provinces, Fyodor Karamazov fathers three sons, the eldest, Dmitri, by his first wife, and the other two, Ivan and Alexey, by his second. Fyodor, a good businessman but a scoundrel by nature, abandons the children after their mothers die. A family servant, Grigory, sees that they are placed in the care of relatives." -Joanne G. Kashdan, Salem Press Encyclopedia of Literature. Listed in Fiction Core Collection (H.W. Wilson); Guardian Newspaper Top 100 Books of all Time.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Call Number: PS3554.I259 B75 2007 and onlineISBN: 9781594489587Publication Date: 2007Discussion Date: Thursday, August 14, 2008.
Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukú--the curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still waiting for his first kiss, is just its most recent victim. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2008; National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, 2007; Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Call Number: HV6533 .K3 C3 1994ISBN: 0679745580Publication Date: 1965Discussion Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008.
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. Guardian's 100 Greatest Non-Fiction Books; Library of Congress list of 88 Books That Shaped America; Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books.
The Book Thief by Call Number: PR6126.Z87 B66 2006ISBN: 0375831002Publication Date: 2006Discussion Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008.
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors. Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books of the Year, 2006; Michael L. Printz Honor Book; Margaret A. Edwards Award.
Drift: A Novel by Call Number: PS3563.A73339 D7 2003ISBN: 0312309953Publication Date: 2003Discussion Date: Thursday, June 5, 2008.
At sixteen, Robert Lomos has lost his family. His father, a Latin jazz musician, has left San Antonio for life on the road as a cool-hand playboy. His mother, shattered by a complete emotional and psychological breakdown, has moved to Los Angeles and taken Robert's little brother with her. Only his iron-willed grandmother, worn down by years of hard work, is left. But Robert's got a plan: Duck trouble, save his money, and head to California to put the family back together. Trouble is, no one believes a delinquent Mexican American kid has a chance--least of all, Robert himself.
