[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann reserve now! In 1925, renowned British explorer Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett embarked on a much publicized search to find the city of Z, site of an ancient Amazonian civilization that may or may [...]
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[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] The Pope's Assassin by Luis M. Rocha reserve now! Not as obscure as a Dan Brown conspiracy, Luis Rocha's The Pope's Assassin deals with a conspiracy, which if it were true, would have more far reaching consequences than anything Dan Brown could dream of. Part spy / action adventure [...]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] House Rules by Jodi Picoult reserve now! HOUSE RULES is about Jacob Hunt, a teenage boy with Asperger’s Syndrome. He’s hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, and like many kids with AS, Jacob has a special focus on one subject – in his case, [...]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates reserve now! From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil's Ghost comes a remarkable, intimate novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and [...]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] The Professor by Charlotte Bronte reserve now! The Professor was the first novel that Charlotte Brontë completed. Rejected by the publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846--Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights--it remained unpublished until 1857, two years after Charlotte Brontë's death. Like Villette [...]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] The Lord of the Rings (series) by J.R.R. Tolkien reserve now! Hobbits and wizards and Sauron--oh, my! Mild-mannered Oxford scholar John Ronald Reuel Tolkien had little inkling when he published The Hobbit; Or, There and Back Again in 1937 that, once hobbits were unleashed upon the world, there would [...]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks reserve now! From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil's Ghost comes a remarkable, intimate novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, [...]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] Left Neglected by Lisa Genova reserve now! In neuroscientist Genova's second novel (after Still Alice), a car crash gives a successful younger woman an obscure neurological syndrome called Left Neglect. Upwardly mobile Sarah and Bob Nickerson live in suburban Massachusetts with their three small children. Both work 60-hour weeks, [...]
