A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Stories Robert Olen Butler Grove Press (2001) Summary: Robert Olen Butler's lyrical and poignant collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its impact on the Vietnamese was acclaimed by critics across the nation and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Now Grove Press is proud to reissue this contemporary classic by one of America's most important living writers, in a new edition of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain that includes two subsequently published stories -- "Salem" and "Missing" -- that brilliantly complete the collection's narrative journey, returning to the jungles of Vietnam. Genre: Fiction Number of Pages: 269 Language: English ISBN: 9780802137982 Reading Status: Unread Date Added: June 11, 2021 Tags: English Adults Notes: Box 45 A Widow for One Year A Novel John Irving Random House (1998) Summary: See the difference, read #1 bestselling author John Irving in Large Print* About Large PrintAll Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typefaceRuth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman. By no means is she conventionally "nice, " but she will never be forgotten.Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life. When we first meet her--on Long Island, in the summer of 1958--Ruth is only four.The second window into Ruth's life opens in the fall of 1990, when Ruth is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career. She distrusts her judgment in men, for good reason.A Widow for One Year closes in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother. She's about to fall in love for the first time.Richly comic, as well as deeply disturbing A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force. Both ribald and erotic, it is also a brilliant novel about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief. Genre: Fiction Number of Pages: 537 Language: English ISBN: 9780375501371 Reading Status: Unread Date Added: March 4, 2021 Tags: English Adults Notes: Books Adults English Box 17 A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle Dell Publishing Company (1973) Summary: This special edition of A Wrinkle in Time includes a new essay that explores the science behind the fantasy.Rediscover one of the most beloved children's books of all time: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle:Meg Murray, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their mother are having a midnight snack on a dark and stormy night when an unearthly stranger appears at their door. He claims to have been blown off course, and goes on to tell them that there is such a thing as a "tesseract," which, if you didn't know, is a wrinkle in time. Meg's father had been experimenting with time-travel when he suddenly disappeared. Will Meg, Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin outwit the forces of evil as they search through space for their father? Genre: Juvenile Fiction Number of Pages: 211 Language: English ISBN: 9780440498056 Reading Status: Unread Date Added: March 4, 2021 Tags: English Adults Notes: Books Adults English Box 14 After Auschwitz A Story of Heartbreak and Survival by the Stepsister of Anne Frank Eva Schloss Hodder & Stoughton (2014) Number of Pages: 352 Language: English ISBN: 9781444760712 Reading Status: Unread Date Added: March 4, 2021 Tags: English Adults Notes: Books Adults English Box 14 Alex Rider Eagle strike, the graphic novel Anthony Horowitz Walker (2012) Summary: What goes up must come down, and when we last saw Alex Rider, he was as up as can be—in outer space. When he crash lands off the coast of Australia, the Australian Secret Service recruits him to infiltrate one of the ruthless gangs operating across South East Asia. Known as snakeheads, the gangs smuggle drugs, weapons, and worst of all, people. Alex accepts the assignment, in part for the chance to work with his godfather and learn more about his parents. What he uncovers, however, is a secret that will make this his darkest and most dangerous mission yet . and that his old nemesis, Scorpia, is anything but out of his life. From the slums of Bangkok to the Australian Outback to the middle of the Timor Sea, Snakehead is Alex Rider’s most action-packed adventure yet.Watch a QuickTime trailer for this book. Genre: Young Adult Fiction Number of Pages: 388 Language: English ISBN: 9780142412121 Reading Status: Unread Date Added: June 11, 2021 Tags: English Adults Notes: Box 46 Angela's Ashes A Memoir Frank McCourt Simon & Schuster (November 30, 1999) Genre: Irish Americans Number of Pages: 368 ISBN: 9780684872179 Reading Status: Unread Date Added: March 4, 2021 Tags: English Adults Notes: Books Adults English Box 17 As a Lady Would Say Responses to Life's Important (and Sometimes Awkward) Situations Sheryl Shade Thomas Nelson Incorporated (2004) Summary: Have you ever been in a situation in which you were caught off guard, left speechless, or, worse yet, put your foot in your mouth?This easily accessible book focuses on those moments when knowing exactly what to say is both a challenge and important. From the light-hearted "how to react when your boyfriend gives you a blender as a gift" or "what to say when you run into another lady at a party wearing exactly the same dress" to the more serious "what to say to a friend who has had a miscarriage or to a friend who has suffered the sudden death of a parent." As A Lady Would Say differs from other etiquette books. It not only offers suggestions for the correct thing to say in more than 100 social situations, but it gives humorous examples of the wrong thing to say as well. Saying the right thing requires a little logic, a bit of forethought, and a great deal of consideration for others. With the advice provided in this book, a lady will never need to stumble or stutter again. Genre: Reference Number of Pages: 182 Language: English ISBN: 9781401601508 Reading Status: Unread Date Added: March 4, 2021 Tags: English Adults Notes: Books Adults English Box 17 Bech : A Book John Updike Reading Status: Unread Date Added: March 4, 2021 Tags: English Adults Notes: Books Adults English Box 17 Blood Will Tell April Henry Scholastic (2016) Summary: "Teen Portland Search and Rescue team member Nick Walker becomes a prime suspect in a murder"-- Number of Pages: 258 Language: English ISBN: 9781338041729 Reading Status: Unread Date Added: June 11, 2021 Tags: English Adults Notes: Box 45 Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited Aldous Huxley Harper Collins (July 5, 2005) Summary: The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Huxley's most enduring masterpiece. Following Brave New World is the nonfiction work Brave New World Revisited, first published in 1958. It is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with the prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion. Genre: Fiction Number of Pages: 384 Language: English ISBN: 9780060776091 Reading Status: Unread Date Added: June 11, 2021 Tags: English Adults Notes: Box 45 Camino Island John Grisham Random House Publishing Group (March 6, 2018) Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "A delightfully lighthearted caper . [a] fast-moving, entertaining tale."--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a vault deep below Princeton University's Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, impossible to resist. Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in unsavory ventures. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious woman working for an even more mysterious company. A generous monetary offer convinces Mercer to go undercover and infiltrate Cable's circle of literary friends, to get close to the ringleader, to discover his secrets. But soon Mercer learns far too much, and there's trouble in paradise--as only John Grisham can deliver it. Praise for Camino Island "A happy lark [that] provides the pleasure of a leisurely jaunt periodically jolted into high gear, just for the fun and speed of it."--The New York Times Book Review "Sheer catnip . [Grisham] reveals an amiable, sardonic edge here that makes Camino Island a most agreeable summer destination."--USA Today "Fans will thrill with the classic chase and satisfying ending; and book lovers will wallow in ecstasy."--The Florida Times-Union Genre: Fiction Number of Pages: 368 Language: English ISBN: 9781524797157 Reading Status: Unread Date Added: March 4, 2021 Tags: English Adults Notes: Books Adults English Box 14 Cinder Book One of the Lunar Chronicles Marissa Meyer Macmillan (January 8, 2013) Summary: The first book in the #1 New York Times- and USA Today-Bestselling Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer! See where the futuristic YA fairytale saga all began, with the tale of a teenage cyborg who must fight for Earth's survival against villains from outer space.