Adult Books of Fiction

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - From the Booker Prize-winning author of "The Remains of the Day" and "When We Were Orphans" comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human

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Cracking the Da Vinci Code: The Unauthorized Guide to the Facts Behind Dan Brown's Bestselling Novel by Simon Cox - Dan Brown's best-selling novel, The Da Vinci Code, has become a global phenomenon, and introduced millions of readers to a mysterious world where Leonardo Da Vinci encoded hidden meanings into his paintings; strange symbols are engraved in a remote British chapel; and the Catholic church and an ancient secret society are locked into a centuries-old battle to gain control of the ultimate prize; the Holy Grail.

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Groucho: A Life in Review Hardcover Book - As the son of a celebrated comedian, Arthur Marx had an insider's view of the 20th-century landscape of American entertainment. His 204-page, hardbound ARTHUR MARX'S GROUCHO: A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY shows new images of his family and Hollywood. Intimate, poignant, and hilarious images of Groucho accompany film icons Marilyn Monroe, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Jayne Mansfield, Frank Sinatra, Audrey Hepburn, Danny Kaye, Cary Grant, and more

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1812 by David Nevin - The War of 1812 would either make America a global power sweeping all the way to the Pacific--or break it into small pieces bound to England. It was a second revolution of sorts to prove to the British that America had to be taken seriously. The principal actors in this drama were James and Dolley Madison, and Andrew and Rachel Jackson. Their courage and determination would shape America's destiny

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Literary Trauma: Sadism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in American Women's Fiction by Deborah M. Horvitz - This work explores how trauma is portrayed in the works of seven female writers, including Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Dorothy Allison, and Margret Atwood. Horvitz's study is particularly concerned with political and psychological trauma caused by rape, domestic abuse, slavery, and imprisonment.

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Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - This epic novel is set in Afghanistan, beginning in the days of the monarchy and reaching to the early 21st century. Amir is the son of a wealthy man; his best friend is Hassan, the son of his father's servant. Growing up in Kabul, the two share an idyllic childhood until a traumatic event--and Amir's act of cowardly betrayal--changes the nature of their friendship. Amir, who ends up in America, is tortured by his betrayal of Hassan, and he finds himself compelled to return, years later, to a Taliban-dominated Afghanistan to make amends. THE KITE RUNNER, written by an Afghani--now a physician--whose family found asylum in the U.S. in 1980--personalizes the conflicts in Afghanistan and the US involvement there. A debut novel, it was hailed by critics for its poetic prose and vivid characters.

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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences by Truman Capote - The detached yet penetrating account of the savage and senseless murder of a family. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. Five years, four months and twenty-nine days later, on April 14, 1965, Richard Eugene Hickock, aged thirty-three, and Perry Edward Smith, aged thirty-six, were hanged from the crime on a gallows in a warehouse in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansa. In Cold Blood is the story of the lives and deaths of these six people. It has already been hailed as a masterpiece.

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Art:21 Art in the Twenty-First Century: Season I Hardcover Book - This richly illustrated series companion book introduces America's most interesting artists. Four sections-Identity, Place, Consumption, and Spirituality-explore such provocative issues as how artists address sexual or racial identity, and how creativity is affected by changing notions of place in the era of trans-nationalism and cyberspace. Artists represented include Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Maya Lin, Matthew Barney, and Barbara Kruger.

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1984 by George Orwell - The year 1984 has come and gone, yet George Orwell's prophetic nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "Negative Utopia"-a startlingly original and powerful novel that creates an imaginary world. Orwell depicts a gray world dominated by Big Brother and his vast network of agents suffocating freedom in a totalitarian world in which news is manufactured according to the will of the authorities and in which tepid people live tepid lives by rote. Dissidents are tracked down and subjected to such discipline as turns them into willing tools of their masters.

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The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy by Garyn G. Roberts

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