Author: Whitehead, Colson, 1969- author.
Published: 2016
Call Number: PS3573.H4768 U53 2016
Format: Books
Summary: A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels.
Author: Patterson, James, 1947-, author.
Published: 2012
Call Number: F PATTERSO
Format: Books
Summary: It's Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross is called away from his family to resolve a horrific hostage situation that is spiraling out of control. It's a snowy Christmas Eve, and Detective Alex Cross is at home celebrating with his family. Then he is called to a nearby home, where a a father is threatening to murder his own children and his ex-wife. Then just as the insanity peaks, a second horrific situation explodes -- one that no one could have foreseen and that puts millions of people at risk. This is a red alert of the darkest kind, and Alex is forced to make a decision that could end as many lives as it saves -- including his own.
Author: Iweala, Uzodinma.
Published: 2005
Call Number: F IWEALA
Format: Books
Summary: In this stunning debut novel, Agu, a young boy in an unnamed West African nation, is recruited into a unit of guerrilla fighters as civil war engulfs his country. Haunted by his father's own death at the hands of militants, which he fled just before witnessing, Agu is vulnerable to the dangerous yet paternal nature of his new commander. While the war rages on, Agu becomes increasingly divorced from the life he had known before the conflict started -- a life of school friends, church services, and time with his family still intact. As he vividly recalls these sunnier times, his daily reality spins further downward into inexplicable brutality, primal fear, and loss of selfhood. His relationship with his commander deepens even as it darkens, and his camaraderie with a fellow soldier lends a deceptive sense of normalcy to his experience. In a powerful, strikingly original voice that vividly captures Agu's youth and confusion, Uzodinma Iweala has produced a harrowing, deeply affecting novel. Both a searing take on coming-of-age and a vivid document of the dark face of war, Beasts of No Nation announces the arrival of an extraordinary new writer.
Author: Greenlaw, Linda, 1960-
Published: 2002
Call Number: B GREENLAW
Format: Books
Summary: The author details her return to Isle au Haut, a tiny Maine island with a population of seventy year-round residents, many of whom are her relatives, to describe small-town life in a lobster-fishing village.
Author: Simmons, Dan, 1948-
Published: 1998 1985
Call Number: F SIMMONS
Format: Books
Summary: Robert Luczak, sent to Calcutta to interview the mysterious poet, M. Das, who has been missing for ten years, discovers that the missing man is mixed up in the death-worshiping cult of Kali.
Author: Yolen, Jane author.
Published: 1990
Call Number: Y YOLEN
Format: Books
Summary: Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland.
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