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The Da Vinci Code Written by Dan Brown While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. Solving the enigmatic riddle, Langdon... Read More Daisy Bates in the Desert Written by Julia Blackburn For twenty-five years Julia Blackburn was fascinated by the haunting figure of Daisy Bates, an Englishwoman who emigrated to Australia in the early part of the century, was briefly married to the famous Breaker Morant, and returned to England to marry... Read More Dancing After Hours Written by Andre Dubus In illuminating issues of love and loss, desire and fear, many of these stories focus upon women characters: Catherine, who discovers her husband is having an affair; Rusty, who is dealing with the aftermath of a horrific shark attack during a... Read More Daniel Isn't Talking Written by Marti Leimbach A Note from the Author Daniel Isn’t Talking is a novel about a woman who discovers her young son is autistic. It is taken in part from my own life as I went through a similar experience five years ago, when my... Read More The Dark Room Written by Rachel Seiffert The Darwin Conspiracy Written by John Darnton Charles Darwin cracked the world open with an idea so powerful that our society is still fighting over it. But why did he wait twenty-two years between the time he first conceived of the theory of evolution and actually published it?... Read More Dead Man Walking Written by Helen Prejean One day in 1982 the Prison Coalition of Louisiana asked Sister Helen Prejean, a Catholic nun who lived and worked among the poor of New Orleans, to correspond with a death-row inmate-- a convicted killer of two teenagers. As she got... Read More Dear Exile Written by Hilary Liftin and Kate Montgomery Newly married and full of a desire to make the world a better place, Kate Montgomery and her husband, Dave, travel to Kenya where, after three months of language training and cultural studies, they move to various villages to teach high school. Their temporary... Read More The Dearly Departed Written by Elinor Lipman With her latest work, Elinor Lipman expertly serves up her usual delicious dish of entertainment. When the story opens, the not-so-sunny Sunny Batten has just received news that causes her to be even more morose than usual: her mother, Margaret Batten... Read More Delirium Written by Laura Restrepo Aguilar, a literature professor reduced to selling dog food after losing his job at the university, returns from a short trip to find his wife, Agustina, transformed into “someone terrified and terrifying, a being I barely recognized” [p. 1]. The daughter... Read More Descartes' Bones Written by Russell Shorto Sixteen years after René Descartes' death in Stockholm in 1650, a pious French ambassador exhumed the remains of the controversial philosopher to transport them back to Paris. Thus began a 350-year saga that saw Descartes' bones traverse a continent, passing between... Read More The Desert Fathers Written by Helen Waddell Preface by Basil Pennington By the end of the fifth century, a pattern had emerged among early Christian communities in Egypt and the Middle East of men and women leaving their cities, towns, and villages to seek God through radical self-abnegation and solitude. These men... Read More Desire of the Everlasting Hills Written by Thomas Cahill "A stunning success." —The New York Times Book Review The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading and discussion of Thomas Cahill's Desire of the Everlasting Hills. Jewish or Christian, believer or atheist, most... Read More The Devil in the White City Written by Erik Larson In The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson takes readers into a richly complex moment in American history, a moment that would draw together the best and worst of the Gilded Age, the grandeur and triumph of the human imagination... Read More The Dew Breaker Written by Edwidge Danticat A book that asks hard questions about truth, deception, responsibility, and redemption, The Dew Breaker is a powerful exploration of the way history, both personal and political, affects those who are swept up in its sometimes violent path. As the book... Read More The Diagnosis Written by Alan Lightman Alan Lightman, author of the widely acclaimed Einstein's Dreams, portrays a man caught in the grip of a mysterious affliction that affects his ability to function and undermines his most basic assumptions about the world. Bill Chalmers, a junior executive at... Read More Diary Written by Chuck Palahniuk Diary is the eerie tale told by Misty Marie Wilmot, a waitress in a hotel, as her husband lies in a coma after a suicide attempt. Once she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom, but she hasn’t painted... Read More The Diary of a Young Girl Written by Anne Frank Edited by Otto M. Frank and Mirjam Pressler Translated by Susan Massotty Anne Frank's story succeeds because it is a personal story that enables individuals to understand one of the watershed events of our time, and because it communicates what can happen when hate and intolerance prevail. The essence of Anne Frank's message... Read More The Diary of an American Au Pair Written by Marjorie Leet Ford After losing her advertising job in San Francisco and canceling her wedding (though not her engagement) to an overprotective artist, Melissa heads off to a new job as au pair to the family of a member of Parliament. She harbors grand... Read More Disobedience Written by Jane Hamilton When seventeen-year-old Henry Shaw inadvertently logs onto his mother's e-mail account, he discovers a secret that turns his previously stable sense of his family--and of himself--inside out. Mrs. Shaw is having an affair with Richard Polloco, a Ukrainian violin maker whose... Read More The Disorderly Knights Written by Dorothy Dunnett Through machinations in England and abroad, Lymond is dispatched to Malta to assist the Knights Hospitallers in the island's defense against Turkish corsairs. But he shortly discovers that the greatest threat to the knights lies within their own ranks. One of... Read More The Dive From Clausen's Pier Written by Ann Packer Carrie Bell and Mike Mayer have been a couple forever; dating at fourteen and engaged after graduating from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, they have settled into a comfortable relationship. However, Carrie is beginning to struggle with feelings of doubt about... Read More Divisadero Written by Michael Ondaatje Anna, Claire, and Coop grow up together on a ranch near Petaluma, California, at a time when people still hunt for gold residue in nearby rivers. Anna is her father's natural child; Claire is her adopted sister, whose mother, like Anna's... Read More The Double Bind Written by Chris Bohjalian When Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont's back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography, spending all her free time at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man... Read More The Dying Animal (Movie Tie-In Edition) Written by Philip Roth “A man,” says David Kepesh, “wouldn’t have two-thirds of the problems he has if he didn’t venture off to get fucked. It’s sex that disorders our normally ordered lives” [p. 33]. And no life was more ordered than Kepesh’s. Unmarried, unobligated... Read More The Dying Animal Written by Philip Roth “A man,” says David Kepesh, “wouldn’t have two-thirds of the problems he has if he didn’t venture off to get fucked. It’s sex that disorders our normally ordered lives” [p. 33]. And no life was more ordered than Kepesh’s. Unmarried, unobligated... Read More [ Back to top ] |
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Wildly suspenseful...an intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller."
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