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For over 50 years, the magazine has been the place where the world's leading authors, scientists, educators, artists, and political…
leaders turn when they wish to engage in a spirited debate on literature, politics, art, and ideas with a small but influential audience that welcomes the challenge. Each issue addresses some of the most passionate political and cultural controversies of the day, and reviews the most engrossing new books and the ideas that illuminate them.
San Francisco homicide detective David Cruz is caught between two warring factions from El Salvador, when the body of Gloria…
Soto is found shot, execution style. Investigating Gloria's family, friends, and enemies, Cruz soon realizes that the illegal refugees have brought their hatreds and feuds with them. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex
An ambitious real-estate tycoon wants to build three 150-story buildings in Manhattan. As he pursues his goal he becomes embroiled…
in complicated business and personal matters. He marries for convenience to pay off a secret debt of honor, and he learns that his new mistress is the step-granddaughter of a woman from his own past. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex
A dozen detective stories featuring the dour manner and remarkable crime-solving abilities of Czechoslovakian police lieutenant Boruvka. He shows his…
formidable deductive powers by brilliantly solving bizarre murders motivated by jealousy, unrequited love, marital hatred, and an acute housing crisis
Novel based on facts tells what it was like to be in the hell that was Chernobyl. It takes the…
reader into the lives and homes of the people who were there. One sees the reality of the disaster, the heroic efforts of the rescue workers, the desperate struggles of the aftermath, and the human stories of how it happened and why
When a black man kills and shoots a Cajun farmer in rural Louisiana, a young white woman rallies the other…
black men in the area to his defense. The "gathering of old men" face the local sheriff--each with an identical shotgun, each claiming to be guilty. Meanwhile, across town the youngest brother of the murdered man argues with his father against organizing a lynch mob to take revenge against the old men. Some strong language. For junior and senior high and older readers
A surrealistic novel that considers the themes of the healing power of art, the concept of time, and the difficulties…
of intimacy. Set in an imagined Utah, a strange magical terrain where David, at an emotional crossroad of his life, and the novel's other characters come together at an artist's colony and realize the possibilities that have eluded them in the past. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex
Four men -- an emperor's son condemned to die because he lacks magical powers, a reclusive scholar who studies forbidden…
knowledge, an evil bishop, and a turncoat warlock -- move through this fantasy. Some descriptions of violence. Followed by "Doom of the darksword." 1988.
In this fast-paced comic thriller, two clever and highly immoral government agents on a cocaine trail maneuver in and out…
of impossible situations as they attempt to outsmart a Las Vegas Mafia boss, a villainous one-eyed South American dictator, and the dictator's beautiful, razor-wielding wife. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex
A novel of gypsy life and culture set in England after World War II. An English family adopts a gypsy…
boy and transforms him into Michael, the son they lost during the war. Michael grows up to become an enormously wealthy captain of industry, but his gypsy past returns to haunt him. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language
The title story and most of the other stories feature two Amsterdam policemen and their sometimes macabre adventures. Some of…
the stories reflect the author's interest in Zen and ecology: a seeker, disappointed in an Indian ashram, finds enlightenment from a Buddhist guru and serenity in the spin of his yo-yo; Master Tofu, a Japanese potter, dispenses wisdom and justice to a series of thieves. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex
Rachel's beloved grandmother has terminal cancer. Rachel is happy that she will be cared for at home, but it is…
hard for Rachel to believe that grandmother is truly dying, especially since her parents refuse to discuss it. For grades 5-8
In a voice that echoes with pain, Ray Furlow, a top executive with a computer firm, recounts his harrowing experience…
on a two-week wilderness trek through the Montana mountains with a small group of men and women including his boss and two co-workers. No sooner does the journey begin than human nature and Mother Nature rebel, causing hostilities and rivalries, and finally, suffering and death. Some strong language
Gritty satire of the absurd by the Spanish novelist offers a skewed tour of the tough, new Paris street life…
around the Sentier metro. In these vignettes, the hero, as "monster" in trench coat and felt hat, sets out from his studio to indulge in his "maniacal, obsessive, nosing about." Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex
A deceptively simple and ironic tale of the Weiss family, who emigrate from Europe to Jewish Palestine before World War…
I. Although they take up residence in a rural settlement and buy orange groves, the family's life is far from pastoral: murder, rape, insanity, sensuality, and somnambulism abound
Vengeance for his father's murder is complicated by John's love for Lorna Doone, whose kind heart is at odds with…
her evil family. Set in 17th century Britain. First published in 1869. 1976.
While on sabbatical in a small village in southern France, medievalist professor John McTell discovers the local legend of an…
evil Knight Templar burned at the stake for witchcraft in 1307. McTell soon links a series of unexplained deaths to the Knight's spirit, kept alive through spells recorded in a conjurer's book and now in search of a body. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex
For "sleeping" KGB agent, Nicholas Foley, the staid academic life of his cover disappears when he learns the secret to…
controlling minds. When the CIA discovers his identity, both the Soviet and American governments are on his trail. 1987.