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The great divide
Par T. Davis Bunn. 2000
Attorney Marcus Glenwood retreats to North Carolina following a devastating tragedy. He agrees to prosecute New Horizons, a local multinational…
conglomerate. Gloria Hall has disappeared while investigating the company's Factory 101 in China. Glenwood uncovers an international web of deceit that circles back to North Carolina. Christy Award. 2000Murder is no mitzvah: Short Mysteries About Jewish Occasions
Par Abigail Browning. 2004
Short mysteries set against a background of Jewish culture and tradition and published between 1967 and 2000. Includes Doug Allyn's…
"The Christmas Mitzvah," Max Allan Collins's "Kaddish for the Kid," and Michael Kahn's "Bread of Affliction," in which a lawyer struggles to keep a Holocaust survivor's fortune from neo-Nazis. 2004Health care meltdown: confronting the myths and fixing our failing system
Par Robert H LeBow. 2004
Quadriplegic physician criticizes U.S. health care system flaws that leave millions uninsured or underinsured. Using case studies, LeBow identifies misconceptions…
preventing change and proposes a solution to provide "affordable, comprehensive health care" for every American. Discusses co-pays, deductibles, and Medicare. Update of 2002 edition, published posthumously. 2003The warlord's son
Par Dan Fesperman. 2004
A burned-out war correspondent named Skelly, seeking the scoop of a lifetime meets up with an exiled warlord's quixotic expedition…
to Afghanistan. Guiding Skelly's way is Najeeb, a tribal Pakistani with his own objectives. UnratedAward-winning teacher anecdotally recounts the triumphs and mistakes of his nineteen-year career in an inner city Los Angeles elementary school.…
While sharing educational insights that have landed his students in Ivy League schools, Esquith rails against the "conspiracy of mediocrity," which he says taints public education. 2003Nightfall: and other stories
Par Isaac Asimov. 1969
Twenty science fiction stories written between 1941 and 1967. The title piece, considered a classic of the genre and later…
expanded into a novel, depicts civilization on the planet Lagash, where night falls once in two thousand years. Asimov's comments and notes precede each story. 1969The Havana room
Par Colin Harrison. 2004
With career and marriage over, lawyer Bill Wyeth frequents a Manhattan steak house, where he agrees to help intriguing manager…
Allison Sparks's friend finalize a deal in the restaurant's private bar. His new client's dangerous obsessions soon ensnare him. Strong language, some explicit descriptions of sex, and some violence. 2004The great betrayal: fraud in science
Par Horace Freeland Judson. 2004
Examines past cases of scientific fraud as a means of mounting a vigorous critique of contemporary research methods. Discusses intellectual…
property rights, plagiarism, and problems with peer review. Expresses hope that changes in American law and advances in electronic publishing will bolster scientists' honesty and integrity. 2004Mortgages 101: quick answers to over 250 critical questions about your home loan
Par David Reed. 2004
Loan officer describes how to negotiate the "mortgage maze" and obtain the best financing to purchase a home. Discusses finance…
fundamentals, credit scores, insurance, refinancing, and loans as well as interest rates, closing costs, and finding the right lender. Includes a chapter on use of the Internet. 2004Washington's general: Nathanael Greene and the triumph of the American Revolution
Par Terry Golway. 2005
Biography of American Revolutionary War commander Nathanael Greene (1742-1786), who was born a Rhode Island Quaker but chose to fight…
for independence. Details his career as George Washington's quartermaster general and his appointment as leader of the southern theater. Outlines how Greene forced the British to concede at Yorktown. 2005Her name was Lola: a novel
Par Russell Hoban. 2003
Thirty-nine-year-old Max Lesser, struggling novelist and children's book author, meets his "destiny woman," beautiful, leggy Lola Bessington. Soon after, flirtatious…
Lula Mae Flowers distracts Max's attention, and in the ensuing drama he loses both women. Five years later a strange course of events again twists Max's fate. Some strong language. 2003Lyrics, 1962-2001: 1962-2001
Par Bob Dylan. 2004
Compilation of song lyrics from twenty-eight albums by the influential and sometimes cryptic singer-songwriter. Ranges from his first album, Bob…
Dylan (1962), through 2001's Love and Theft, with some additional material. 2004Rock star superstar
Par Blake Nelson. 2004
Pete, a talented bass player and the son of musicians, leaves the high school jazz band to join a popular…
rock group. He finds the experience exhilarating even as his new fame jeopardizes his relationships. For senior high readers. 2004More damned lies and statistics: how numbers confuse public issues
Par Joel Best. 2004
Sociologist advocates skepticism toward quantitative information used by journalists and politicians, among others, to influence public opinion. In this sequel…
to Damned Lies and Statistics (BR 13790), Best explores common problems in numerical thinking: omission of data, confusion about categories, and unquestioned authority. Offers suggestions for teaching statistical literacy. 2004The outside world
Par Tova Mirvis. 2004
Two dissimilar Orthodox Jewish families are brought together by their children's marriage. Twenty-two-year-old "spinster" Tzippy Goldman and Bryan Miller, who…
wants to go by his Hebrew name, Baruch, fall in love in Jerusalem. As the couple builds a future together their relatives struggle to reconcile traditional and modern values. 2004A place called Wiregrass: a novel
Par Michael Morris. 2002
Alabama. Erma Lee Jacobs flees her abusive husband, uncaring mother, and dead-end factory job and makes a fresh start in…
Wiregrass with granddaughter Cher. Friendship with elderly socialite Miss Claudia and the arrival of Cher's father force all three women to confront buried secrets. 2002Gift from the sea
Par Anne Morrow Lindbergh. 1955
Reflections on possessions, love and marriage, and solitude and contentment written by Anne Morrow Lindbergh when she was a young…
mother on a quiet vacation by the sea. Fiftieth anniversary edition with a 2005 introduction by Anne's daughter Reeve Lindbergh. 1955Sacred time: A Novel
Par Ursula Hegi. 2003
Bronx, 1953. Calamity strikes Anthony's Italian Catholic family when Uncle Malcolm goes to jail for theft and his wife and…
twin daughters move into Anthony's house. An unthinkable event and reverberations of guilt reshape the family for generations. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2003Sun after dark: flights into the foreign
Par Pico Iyer. 2004
Travel writer describes arduous trips to exotic and desperate places--Bolivia, Haiti, Tibet, Cambodia--as well as literary voyages through the writings…
of W.G. Sebald and Kazuo Ishiguro and spiritual journeys through people he meets, including the Dalai Lama and Leonard Cohen. 2004I know who holds tomorrow: A Novel (A family Affair Ser. #1)
Par Francis Ray. 2002
Madison and Wes Reed, both popular TV personalities, seem like a perfect couple, but actually they have become estranged since…
the loss of their child. When Wes is critically injured in an accident, Madison discovers that he has a mistress and baby daughter. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2002