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1984
by George Orwell ; with an afterword by Erich Fromm.
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328 p. ; 19 cm.
Celebrate the 60th anniversary of Orwells masterpiece 1984 Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwells chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwells narrative is timelier than ever. 1984presents a startling and haunting vision of the world, so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the power of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of multiple generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitionsa legacy that seems only to grow with the passage of time.
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Alexandria : a Marcus Didius Falco novel
Lindsey Davis.
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338 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
In A.D. 77, Marcus Didius Falco, agent to the Emperor Vespasian, investigates the mysterious death of the head librarian of the world-famous library of Alexandria, bringing him into immediate conflict with the darker side of academic life.
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All the pretty dead girls
John Manning.
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503 p. ; 18 cm.
"Two decades ago, at a private women's college in upstate New York, a student was brutally attacked in her dorm room. Her assailant was never found. Sue Barlow arrives at Wilbourne College twenty years later. When a classmate disappears, Sue thinks it's an isolated incident; but then two other girls vanish. As fear grows on campus, Sue begins to sense she's being watched. As the body count rises, she soon realizes that a twisted psycopath is summoning her to play a wicked game--a game that only will end when she dies."--p. [4] of cover.
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Appassionata
Eva Hoffman.
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265 p. ; 23 cm.
The award-winning Hoffman, former senior editor at the New York Times and the author of several highly regarded works of nonfiction (e.g., Exit into History), has now written a compelling novel that charts the inner life of her heroine, Isabel Merton. Isabel is an accomplished pianist, and on one of her many tours abroad, she encounters the mysterious Chechen rebel Anzor. At first, she is drawn to him and feels sympathy for his cause, and soon enough she enters into an affair with him. They meet clandestinely in various European cities, but as she comes to learn more about his mysterious undertakings and witnesses at close range the havoc they can create, she comes to question her own values and her fragmented, unsettled way of life. Interspersed throughout the narrative are flashbacks to Isabel's earlier life, which appear in a journal she is reading, kept by her former music teacher in Berlin. Hoffman reveals here an impressive command both of classical music and of world affairs. Literate readers with a taste for the international will especially enjoy this highly intelligent work.Edward Cone, New York Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Assegai
Wilbur Smith.
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471 p. : col. map ; 25 cm.
Wilbur Smith has won acclaim worldwide as the master of the historical novel. Now, inAssegaihe takes readers on an unforgettable African adventure set against the gathering clouds of war. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; It is 1913 and Leon Courtney, an ex-soldier turned professional hunter in British East Africa, guides the rich and powerful from America and Europe on big-game safaris. Leon had never sought fame, but an expedition alongside U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has made him one of the most sought-after hunters on the continent. Soon, he finds that with celebrity comes not just wealth—but also danger.nbsp; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Leon is recruited by his uncle Penrod Ballantyne, commander of the British forces in East Africa, to gather information on one of his clients: Count Otto von Meerbach, a German industrialist whose company builds aircraft and vehicles for the Kaiser’s burgeoning army. While spying, Leon falls desperately in love with von Meerbach’s beautiful and enigmatic mistress, Eva von Wellberg.nbsp; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; On the eve of the World War, Leon stumbles on a plot by Count von Meerbach that could wipe out the British forces in Africa. He finds himself left alone to frustrate von Meerbach’s plan, and in grave peril as he learns more about the enigmatic Eva. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Set amidst the tensions that will spark a war across continents,Assegaidelivers the fast-paced action and vivid history that has made Wilbur Smith an internationally bestselling author.
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B is for beer
Tom Robbins.
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125 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Bestselling author Robbins' first fiction in five years explores various aspects of suds culture--ancient, modern, sophomoric, and divine--and dramatizes the surprising things that happen when the life of a spunky kindergartner intersects with each.
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Bath tangle
Georgette Heyer ; with a foreword by Candace Camp.
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319 p. ; 21 cm.
Many suitors have vied for the hand of the enchantingly lovely Serena Carlow - but none so unconventional as the dangerously attractive Marquis of Rotherham, a man Serena once jilted and never expects to see again. But now her father's sudden death has left her Rotherham's ward, and she cannot collect her rightful inheritance until she weds . . . with his consent and approval! But the fiery-hearted Lady Serena is not so easily controlled. PAvailable only in Romance 8 12.
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Behold, here's poison
Georgette Heyer.
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329 p. ; 18 cm.
When Gregory Matthews, patriarch of the Poplars is found dead one morning, imperious Aunt Harriet blames it on the roast duck he ate for supper. But a post-mortem determines the cause of death as murder by poison. It falls to Superintendent Hannasyde to sift through all the secrets and lies among the bitter, quarrelsome family.
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Best intentions : a novel
by Emily Listfield.
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338 p. ; 24 cm.
From the acclaimed author of "Waiting to Surface" comes the story of four college friends whose reunion reawakens old desires and grudges--with fatal results.
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Between the acts
Virginia Woolf ; annotated and with an introduction by Melba Cuddy-Keane ; Mark Hussey, general editor.
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lxvi, 220 p. ; 21 cm.
In Woolf's final novel, villagers present their annual pageant, made up of scenes from the history of England, at a house in the heart of the country as personal dramas simmer and World War II looms.Annotated and with an introduction by Melba Cuddy-Keane
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The branch and the scaffold : a novel of Judge Parker
Loren D. Estleman.
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268 p. ; 22 cm.
When Judge Isaac Parker first arrived in Fort Smith, Arkansas, the town had thirty saloons and one bank. Inheriting a corrupt court and a lawless territory roughly the size of Great Britain, he immediately put the residents on notice by publicly hanging six convicted felons at one time. For the next two decades, his stern and implacable justice brought law and order to the West . . . and made him plenty of enemies. As the sole law on the untamed frontier, Parker tried civil and criminal cases throughout the Western District of Arkansas and the Indian Nations. Only God and the president had the power to challenge Parker. His severe judgments scandalized Washington and the Eastern press, and took an onerous toll on his private life, but the "Hanging Judge of the Border" never flinched from his duty. Over the years, he and his marshals, dubbed "Parker's Men," ran up against some of the most colorful and dangerous outlaws the West had to offer, including the notorious Dalton Gang; Belle Star, the Bandit Queen; the murderous Cherokee Bill; and Ned Christie, a vengeful Indian who carried on a private war against the U.S. government for seven years. The Branch and the Scaffold is a fascinating depiction of Judge Parker's life and times, as told by a five-time winner of the Spur Award.
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Brimstone
Robert B. Parker.
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293 p. ; 24 cm.
Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole track down Virgil's sweetheart Allie and the three head north to start over in the town of Brimstone. Given their reputations as guns for hire, Everett and Virgil are able to secure positions as the town's deputies. But a sanctimonious leader of a local church stirs up trouble at the local saloons, and as the violence escalates into murder, the two struggle to keep the peace.
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