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Doctor Olaf van Schuler's brain Doctor Olaf van Schuler's brain Kirsten Menger-Anderson Plagued by madness and guided by an intense desire to cure human affliction, each generation of the unusual van Schuler family is driven by the science of its day. As they make their way in the world… OL11977464W
The Help The Help Kathryn Stockett Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi… OL11999891W
Tinkers Tinkers Paul Harding An old man lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished New England youth. At once… OL13609372W
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet David Mitchell The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the “high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island” that is the Japanese Empire’s single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the W… OL15233654W
The illumination The illumination Kevin Brockmeier "What if our pain was the most beautiful thing about us? At 8:17 on a Friday night, the Illumination begins. Every wound begins to shine, every bruise to glow and shimmer. And in the aftermath of a f… OL15662887W
Next to normal Next to normal Tom Kitt "A contemporary musical that explores how one suburban household copes with crisis. With provocative lyrics and an electrifying score of more than thirty original songs, Next to normal shows how far … OL16113251W
Hope to Die Hope to Die James Patterson Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross's family -- his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious c… OL17079191W
The lacuna The lacuna Barbara Kingsolver "The story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds -- Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s -- and whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of th… OL18545102W
What I Loved What I Loved Siri Hustvedt "What I Loved begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work and tracks down the artist, Bil… OL2698554W
The Children's Book The Children's Book A. S. Byatt Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeA spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize--winning author of Possession, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I year… OL447886W
Rabbit is rich Rabbit is rich John Updike It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's OK, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. It's all in pl… OL463820W
The wide, wide world The wide, wide world Susan Warner Ellen has difficulty believing that God will take care of her when her dying mother leaves her with the unloving Mrs. Dunscombe. OL4874217W
Wit Wit Margaret Edson This play is about a professor who finds out she has stage four ovarian cancer. She realizes through her ordeal that she has no friends to fall back on, no family to support her. Over time she befrie… OL51524W
The march The march E. L. Doctorow In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confede… OL55232W
Män som hatar kvinnor Män som hatar kvinnor Stieg Larsson Mikael Blomkvist, ekonomireporter, döms till fängelse för förtal av finansmannen Wennerström, och beslutar sig för att ta time out från sitt jobb på tidskriften Millennium. I samma veva får han ett … OL5784622W
Little Bee Little Bee Chris Cleave A haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London. OL5845214W
Men and Cartoons Men and Cartoons Jonathan Lethem Jonathan Lethem's new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect introduction for new readers--nine fantastic, amusing, poignant tales written in a dizzying variety of styles, as L… OL74407W
The Da Vinci Code The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It is Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon: the first was his 2000 novel Angels & Demons. The Da Vinci Code fo… OL76837W
Snow Falling on Cedars Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson On San Piedro, an island of rugged, spectacular beauty in Puget Sound, home to salmon fishermen and strawberry farmers, a Japanese-American fisherman stands trial, charged with murder. The year is 19… OL8036957W
The The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society The The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Annie Barrows,Mary Ann Shaffer "I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers." January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of t… OL9334371W
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