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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Sarah Delany, A. Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth
Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, Oct. 1, 1993)Two sisters recall their lives together, discussing their success as African-American professional women during the Harlem golden age
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Temple of My Familiar
Alice Walker
Paperback (Thorndike Pr, Sept. 1, 1990)In a story spanning 500,000 years and moving through America, England, and Africa, men, women, and animals share a spiritual world and learn the intricacies of their connecting lives
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This Present Darkness
Frank E. Peretti
Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, May 1, 1993)Peretti, Frank E.
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The Way to Dusty Death
Alistair MacLean
Hardcover (Chivers, Aug. 1, 1991)Too many things have been going wrong in too many Formula One races. Johnny Harlow, world champion driver and apparent cause of the latest accident, decides the time has come to sort things out. And what he finds has nothing to do with cars.
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The Twelve
Justin Cronin
Hardcover (Wheeler Publishing, Nov. 1, 2012)A follow-up to the best-selling The Passage continues the efforts of survivors of a government-induced apocalypse to endure their violent and disease-stricken world while protecting their loved ones; while a century into the future, members of a transformed society determinedly search for the original 12 virals. (suspense). Simultaneous.
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A Dog's Purpose
W. Bruce Cameron
Hardcover (Wheeler Publishing, Dec. 1, 2010)Searching for his purpose over the course of multiple canine lives, Bailey is reborn as a golden-haired puppy after a tragic death as a stray and shares a loving bond with young Ethan before he again dies and starts over. (general fiction). By the author of the best-selling 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter.
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Simon Winchester
Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, April 1, 1999)The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions. But hidden within the rituals of its creation is a fascinating and mysterious story - a story of two remarkable men whose strange twenty-year relationship lies at the core of this historic undertaking.
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The Bourne Supremacy
Robert Ludlum
Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, Feb. 1, 1987)A Taiwanese conspiracy to draw mainland China and the West into a conflict brings a high-level State Department call for super-agent Jason Bourne, who, having retired, is drawn back into service by a brutal ploy--the kidnapping of his wife
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Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo A. Anaya
Paperback (Wheeler Pub Inc, Oct. 17, 2008)A bildungsroman about a young Mexican-American boy, Antonio, in a New Mexican village during the 1940s. He faces a choice that will determine the course of his entire life: to follow his father's family's nomadic lifestyle, or to settle down to agriculture as his mother's family has done.
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Sophie's Choice
William Styron
Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, April 1, 1993)As the fierce lovemaking and fights of Nathan, a paranoiac Jewish intellectual, and Sophie, a Polish-Catholic concentration-camp survivor, intensify, Stingo, a writer who lives below them in a cheap rooming house, becomes more and more involved in their lives
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James Herriot's Dog Stories
James Herriot
Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, June 1, 1987)Tells the story of fifty dogs and their unique relationships with their owners
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The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal
Lilian Jackson Braun
Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, April 1, 1992)Qwilleran's prospects for quiet on his return to Pickax are thwarted by a noisy bird, his girl's wandering attention, and the murder accusation leveled against his friend