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Aloft

By Chang-rae Lee

A visit from his daughter and her fiancé from Oregon prompts Jerry Battle to reassess his life, his family relationships, his professional success, and his disengagement from those around him, as he reflects on his professional success and his love of flying solo, in a novel set in an upper-middle-class suburban Long Island community.

Being Elizabeth

By Barbara Taylor Bradford
Series House of Deravenel

Elizabeth Deravenel rises to become the most powerful managing director in the history of the Deravenel business empire, only to find herself surrounded by corporate intrigue, takeover threats, betrayal, and scandal as she must make a choice between love and duty.

Cairo Modern

By Naguib Mahfouz
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

“The novelist's camera pans from the dome of King Fuad University to students streaming out of the campus, focusing on four students in their twenties, each representing a different trend in Egypt in the 1930s (From the Publisher).”

Deliverance

By James Dickey
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

“A novel that will curl your toes... Dickey's canoe rides to the limits of dramatic tension (New York Times Book Review).”

East of Eden

By John Steinbeck

he Trasks and the Hamiltons live and work together in Salinas during the early 20th century.

Eclipse

By Richard North Patterson

The spellbinding story of an American lawyer who takes on a nearly impossible case--the defense of an African freedom fighter against his corrupt government's charge of murdering three PetroGlobal workers.

Given Day

By Dennis Lehane
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

“Lehane's first historical novel is a clear winner, displaying all the virtues the author has shown in his exceptional series of crime novels: narrative verve, sensitivity to setting, the interweaving of complicated story lines, an apt and emotionally satisfying denouement-and, above all, the author's abiding love for his characters and the human condition (Library Journal).”

Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America

By Thomas L. Friedman

“Spanning the globe, he (Friedman) presents case study after case study that shows that Green-oriented practices and technologies are the key to revitalizing our country and stabilizing an increasingly energy-starved world (Barnes and Noble Reviews).”

Little Bee

By Chris Cleave

A confrontation between a sixteen-year-old Nigerian orphan, called Little Bee, and a wealthy British couple on vacation, has life-changing consequences for everyone involved.

Me of Little Faith

By Lewis Black

A biting assessment of modern religion by the "Daily Show" comic describes his haphazard Hebrew school education, witness to the link between faith and drugs throughout his 1960s college days, and perspective on the hypocrisy of faith-toting politicians.

Netherland

By Joseph O'Neill

Abandoned amid the offbeat inhabitants of the Chelsea Hotel when his English wife and son return to London following September 11th, Hans, a banker originally from the Netherlands, struggles to find himself in his adopted country.

Painted Veil

By W. Somerset Maugham

Kitty Fane's affair with Assistant Colonial Secretary Townsend, a married man, is interrupted when she is taken from Hong Kong by her vengeful bacteriologist husband to accompany him to his new post amid a raging cholera epidemic.

Remains of the Day

By Kazuo Ishiguro

Stevens, an elderly butler, hopes to rise to the top of his profession, and he remains stoic and unemotional at his father's death and neglects the opportunity to pursue a relationship with a former housekeeper.

Revolutionary Road

By Richard Yates
Recommended By Kelly Ramos, Children's Librarian

“It’s hard to think that there’s too much wrong with April and Frank Wheeler over and above what has been tagged the disenchantment syndrome of the average young married couple in the suburbs… For April’s discontent is a real emotional destitution, and this, to Yates’ great credit, is only imperceptibly apparent (Kirkus Reviews).”

 

Became the movie: Revolutionary Road.

Richest Season

By Maryann McFadden
Recommended By Susan L., Library Page

"The Richest Season is a stunning debut about three very different people, each changing their lives when such transformations are usually long over. It will resonate with any woman who's ever fantasized about leaving home to find herself (From the Publisher)."

Shadow of the Wind

By Carlos Ruiz Zafón

An uncannily absorbing historical mystery, a heart–piercing romance, and a moving homage to the mystical power fo books, The Shadow of the Wind is a triumph of the storyteller’s art.

Small Island

By Andrea Levy

At the end of World War II the Joseph family arrives in London from Jamaica and Queenie, their white landlady, befriends them, until her racist husband, Bernard, arrives home from the front.

Space Between Us

By Thrity Umrigar

Set in modern-day India, it is the story of Sera Dubash, an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife and Bhima, who has worked in the Dubash household for more than twenty years.

Sun Also Rises

By Ernest Hemingway

The story of a group of Americans and English on a sojourn from Paris to Paloma, evokes in poignant detail, life among the expatriates on Paris's Left Bank, during the 1920s and conveys in brutally realistic descriptions the power and danger of bullfighting in Spain.

Tender Bar

By J.R. Moehringer

In a memoir of growing up with a single mother, the author describes how he received valuable life lessons and friendship from an assortment of characters at the neighborhood bar, who provided him with a kind of fatherhood by committee.

True Story of Hansel and Gretel

By Louise Murphy
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Monday, July 23, 2012.  7 PM.

A retelling of the classic fairy tale, set in Nazi-occupied Poland, follows two Jewish children, left by their father and stepmother to seek refuge in a dense forest, as they wander the woods until being taken in by Magda, an eccentric old woman called a witch by local villagers, who is determined to save them despite the arrival of a German officer.

Weight of Water

By Anita Shreve

A photographer who has come to a small island off the coast of New Hampshire to shoot a photo-essay about a double murder that took place there over a century ago, notices parallels between her own life and the lives of the murder victims.

Woman of Independent Means

By Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

A novel written in letters from Bess Steer Garner spanning from the beginning of the 20th century to the 1940’s.

 

Became the TV mini-series: A Woman of Independent Means.

Women

By T.C. Boyle

A story of women who invest everything, at great risk, in that mysterious "bank of feeling" named Frank Lloyd Wright.