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The Hakawati Written by Rabih Alameddine In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. The city is a shell of the Beirut Osama remembers, but he and his friends and family take solace in the things... Read More Half a Life Written by V.S. Naipaul Half a Life is the story of Willie Chandran, whose father, heeding the call of Mahatma Gandhi, turned his back on his Brahmin heritage and married a woman of low caste–a disastrous union he would live to regret, as he would... Read More Half of a Yellow Sun Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun returns to a critical moment in the modern history of Nigeria, a time shortly after gaining their independence from Britain when, following a massacre of their people, the Igbo tribes of the southeast seceded and established... Read More The Hand I Fan With Written by Tina Mcelroy Ansa A Handbook to Luck Written by Cristina Garcia In the late 1960s, Enrique Florit is a dutiful boy living in Southern California with his father, a flamboyant magician who, when he isn't chasing down a career break or a pair of shapely legs, is pining for their native Cuba... Read More The Handmaid's Tale Written by Margaret Atwood Of The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood's dystopian, futuristic novel, New York Times editor Christopher Lehmann-Haupt warns, "It's a bleak world . . . how bleak and even terrifying we will not fully realize until the story's final pages." Set in Cambridge, Massachusetts... Read More The Harafish Written by Naguib Mahfouz Harbor Written by Lorraine Adams The story centers on Algerian stowaway Aziz Arkoun, from his near-death arrival in frigid Boston harbor to his acclimation to life first in gritty East Boston and then in Brooklyn. Throughout the chronicle of Aziz’s confused and lonely years in America... Read More A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Written by Dave Eggers Dave Eggers was only twenty-one when his parents died of cancer within weeks of each other. In the aftermath of their deaths, Eggers became the acting parent of his eight-year-old brother, Toph. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the story... Read More The Heartsong of Charging Elk Written by James Welch As a young boy in South Dakota, Charging Elk watches his people, the Oglala Sioux, defeat Custer at Little Big Horn. When the Sioux are defeated and forced onto reservations, Charging Elk elects to live in the Stronghold, a campsite in... Read More Heat Written by Bill Buford Heat started out as an article Buford wrote for The New Yorker food issue in 2002 about working in the kitchen of Mario Batali’s three-star restaurant, Babbo. The impetus for the article—Buford’s desire to learn how professional chefs are different than... Read More The Hidden Writer Written by Alexandra Johnson "Whom do I tell when I tell a blank page?" Virginia Woolf's question is one that generations of readers and writers searching to map a creative life have asked of their own diaries. No other document quite compares with the intimacies... Read More Highwire Moon Written by Susan Straight Serafina Mendez, a Mexican Indian, is fifteen when she sneaks across the border into California looking for work. Only days after she gets a job at Angeles Linen, immigration officials sweep through the laundry in search of illegal workers. Larry Foley... Read More The Hills at Home Written by Nancy Clark Aging matron Lily Hill lives unobtrusively and comfortably alone in her large, old, and quintessentially New England Federalist-style house on the edge of town. But in the summer of 1989, a sudden and strange thing happens: various family members come for... Read More His Illegal Self Written by Peter Carey Set in 1972, His Illegal Self tells the story of an unusual family, split apart by the radical culture of the 1960s. Seven-year-old Che has been raised by his maternal grandmother in the comforts of her quiet lake house and her... Read More Hitler's Willing Executioners Written by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen "Against much of the literature on the Holocaust, my book shifts the focus of the investigation of the Holocaust from where it has been--namely, on abstract structures like the S.S., the Nazi Party, and the terror apparatus--to the human beings who... Read More Homecoming Written by Bernhard Schlink Homecoming, Bernhard Schlink's first novel since his international bestseller The Reader, is the story of one man's odyssey and another man's pursuit. A child of World War II, Peter Debauer grew up in Germany without a father. As an adult, Peter... Read More Honky Written by Dalton Conley In America, being white usually means being a member of the majority. But for Dalton Conley, son of artistic but impoverished "middle-class" parents, the situation is reversed: he is virtually the only white kid in the housing complex in which he... Read More Hotel Du Lac Written by Anita Brookner Edith Hope is an astute, watchful Englishwoman approaching middle age, a writer of romance novels who secretly believes in the happy endings they offer. After Edith embarrasses her London friends by transgressing their strict but unwritten sexual and emotional codes, they... Read More Hottentot Venus Written by Barbara Chase-Riboud Barbara Chase-Riboud’s previous historical novels won her critical praise and established her as a writer who daringly transforms the hidden truths of the past into compelling fiction. In Hottentot Venus, Chase-Riboud recounts the tragic life of Sarah Baartman, re-creating in vivid... Read More A House for Mr. Biswas Written by V.S. Naipaul A House for Mr. Biswas follows the life of Mr. Mohun Biswas, a protagonist inspired by Naipaul's father, as he struggles to find his freedom and a house of his own. The son of a poor laborer in Trinidad, Mr. Biswas... Read More House of Sand and Fog Written by Andre Dubus III "Elegant and powerful...an unusual and volatile...literary thriller." --Washington Post Book World In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in Iran, is now... Read More The House on Mango Street Written by Sandra Cisneros Growing up in the Latino section of Chicago, Esperanza is ashamed of the rickety house on Mango Street where her family lives, she is ashamed of her name (it is too Mexican), and she is ashamed of her poverty. As Esperanza... Read More How the Irish Saved Civilization Written by Thomas Cahill "Charming and poetic . . . an entirely engaging, delectable voyage into the distant past." —The New York Times The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading of the first book in Thomas Cahill's... Read More How to Breathe Underwater Written by Julie Orringer In “Pilgrims,” two children of a terminally ill mother travel on Thanksgiving with their parents to an eerie home where other suffering families gather for dinner. In “When She Is Old and I Am Famous,” an aspiring artist spends a pivotal... Read More The Human Stain Written by Philip Roth Set in the summer of 1998, with Bill Clinton's impeachment hovering in the background, The Human Stain chronicles the disgrace and downfall of Coleman Silk, an eminent classics professor at New England's small Athena College. When Silk asks about two absent... Read More Human Traces Written by Sebastian Faulks Human Traces is the engrossing tale of two men and their quest to discover what it means to be human. Set during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Faulks's novel brilliantly captures the drama behind the intellectual and social controversies... Read More Hurry Down Sunshine Written by Michael Greenberg Hurry Down Sunshine is an extraordinary family story and a memoir of exceptional power. In it, Michael Greenberg recounts in vivid detail the remarkable summer when, at the age of fifteen, his daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally's sudden... 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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