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The sound and the fury
Author(s):
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962
Gardner, Grover.
Description:
First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason.
Format:
Audiobook
Call Number:
FIC Fau
Earthly powers
Author(s):
Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993
Description:
At its center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power—Kenneth Toomey, eminent novelist, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into honored, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety; and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood.
Through the lives of these two modern men Burgess explores the very essence of power. As each pursues his career—one to sainthood, one to wealthy exile—their relationship becomes the heart of a narrative that incorporates almost everyone of fame and distinction in the social, literary, and political life of America and Europe. This astonishing company is joined together by the art of a great novelist into an explosive and entertaining tour de force that will captivate fans of sweeping historic fiction.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
FIC Bur
The Cruel Prince
Author(s):
Description:
Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
YA FIC Bla
The Age Of Light : A Novel
Author(s):
Description:
The story of Vogue model turned renowned photographer Lee Miller, and her search to forge a new identity as an artist after a life spent as a muse. "I'd rather take a photograph than be one," she declares after she arrives in Paris in 1929, where she soon catches the eye of the famous Surrealist Man Ray. Though he wants to use her only as a model, Lee convinces him to take her on as his assistant and teach her everything he knows. But Man Ray turns out to be an egotistical, charismatic force, and as they work together in the darkroom, their personal and professional lives become intimately entwined, changing the course of Lee's life forever. Lee's journey takes us from the cabarets of bohemian Paris to the battlefields of war-torn Europe during WWII, from discovering radical new photography techniques to documenting the liberation of the concentration camps as one of the first female war correspondents. Through it all, Lee must grapple with the question of whether it's possible to reconcile romantic desire with artistic ambition-and what she will have to sacrifice to do so.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
FIC Sch
These witches don't burn
Author(s):
Description:
When evidence of dark magic begins to appear all over Salem, Massachusetts, Elemental Witch Hannah and her ex-girlfriend Veronica are forced to team up to stop the deadly attacks.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
YA FIC Ste
Lost Roses
Author(s):
Description:
"It is 1914 and the world has been on the brink of war so many times, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanovs. The two met years ago one summer in Paris and became close confidantes. Now Eliza embarks on the trip of a lifetime, home with Sofya to see the splendors of Russia. But when Austria declares war on Serbia and Russia's Imperial dynasty begins to fall, Eliza escapes back to America, while Sofya and her family flee to their country estate. In need of domestic help, they hire the local fortuneteller's daughter, Varinka, unknowingly bringing intense danger into their household. On the other side of the Atlantic, Eliza is doing her part to help the White Russian families find safety as they escape the revolution. But when Sofya's letters suddenly stop coming she fears the worst for her best friend. From the turbulent streets of St. Petersburg to the avenues of Paris and the society of fallen Russian émigrés who live there, the lives of Eliza, Sofya, and Varinka will intersect in profound ways, taking readers on a breathtaking ride through a momentous time in history"-- Provided by publisher.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
FIC Kel
Scaredy Squirrel In A Nutshell
Author(s):
Description:
Scaredy has spent his life defending his tree from UFOs, lumberjacks, mammoths, and more, so when (possibly poison) Ivy the rabbit sends a note he must calculate the risks of friendship.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC Wat
The lost books of the Odyssey
Author(s):
Description:
A reimagining of Homer's classic story about the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
FIC Mas
Enlightenment now : the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress
Author(s):
Description:
Steven Pinker presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. Far from being a na?ive hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature--tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking--which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
303.44 Pin
Brandon Sanderson's Dark one. 01
Author(s):
Lanzing, Jackson
Russell, Kurt Michael,
Description:
" Paul Tanasin is a young man haunted by visions of a dark and fantastic world--visions he initially believes are hallucinations. But when he discovers they are prophecies from Mirandus, a world in which he's destined to become a fearsome destroyer, he'll have to embrace the fear, rise up as the Dark One, and shatter everything. DARK ONE examines the dual roles we often take on in life-the ability to be a savior as well as a destroyer."--Amazon.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
FIC Lan
The eye of minds
Author(s):
Description:
Michael is a skilled internet gamer in a world of advanced technology. When a cyber-terrorist begins to threaten players, Michael is called upon to seek him and his secrets out.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
YA FIC Das
Force Of Nature
Author(s):
Description:
When five colleagues are forced to go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness, they reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking down the muddy path. But one of the women doesn't come out of the woods. And each of her companions tells a slightly different story about what happened. Federal Police Agent Aaron Falk has a keen interest in the whereabouts of the missing hiker. In an investigation that takes him deep into isolated forest, Falk discovers secrets lurking in the mountains, and a tangled web of personal and professional friendship, suspicion, and betrayal among the hikers. But did that lead to murder?
Format:
Book
Call Number:
FIC Har
Book Lovers
Author(s):
Description:
Format:
Book
Call Number:
Tricky twenty-two
Author(s):
Description:
"Something big is brewing in Trenton, N.J., and it could blow at any minute. Stephanie Plum might not be the world's greatest bounty hunter, but she knows when she's being played. Ken Globovic (aka Gobbles), hailed as the Supreme Exalted Zookeeper of the animal house known as Zeta fraternity, has been arrested for beating up the dean of students at Kiltman College. Gobbles has missed his court date and gone into hiding. People have seen him on campus, but no one will talk. Things just aren't adding up, and Stephanie can't shake the feeling that something funny is going on at the college--and it's not just Zeta fraternity pranks. As much as people love Gobbles, they hate Doug Linken. When Linken is gunned down in his backyard it's good riddance, and the list of possible murder suspects is long. The only people who care about finding Linken's killer are Trenton cop Joe Morelli, who has been assigned the case, security expert Ranger, who was hired to protect Linken, and Stephanie, who has her eye on a cash prize and hopefully has some tricks up her sleeve"--
Format:
Book
Call Number:
FIC Eva
My heart and other black holes
Author(s):
Description:
"Sixteen-year-old Aysel's hobby--planning her own death--takes a new path when she meets a boy who has similar plan of his own"--Provided by publisher.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
YA FIC War
Kane & Abel
Author(s):
Description:
William Lowell Kane, the son of a Boston millionaire, and Abel Rosnovski, a penniless Polish immigrant, were born on the same day on the opposite sides of the world. The paths of the two men were destined to cross in their ruthless struggle to build a fortune.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
FIC Arc
Wonder Woman : Warbringer
Author(s):
Description:
"Diana, Princess of the Amazons, journeys to the World of Man in this coming-of-age young adult story"--
Format:
Book
Call Number:
YA FIC Bar
