 | Title: ATLAS SHRUGGED Author: Ayn Rand Summary: The astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the worldand did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is unlike any other book you have ever read. |
 | Title: THE FOUNTAINHEAD Author: Ayn Rand Summary: The story of an intransigent young architect, Howard Roark, of his violent battle against a mindless status quo, and of his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who worships him yet struggles to defeat him. In order to build his kind of buildings according to his own standards, Roark must fight against every variant of human corruption. |
 | Title: BATTLEFIELD EARTH Author: L. Ron Hubbard Summary: Science fiction film set in the year 3000 when a race of Psychlos have conquered the Earth. |
 | Title: THE LORD OF THE RINGS Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Summary: The End of the Third Age is comprised of the first section of the hardcover volume published as Sauron Defeated, the ninth volume of The History of Middle-earth. It completes Christopher Tolkien's account of the creation of The Lord of the Rings begun in the earlier volumes, The Return of the Shadow, The Treason of Isengard, and The War of the Ring. |
 | Title: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Author: Harper Lee Summary: Lawyer Atticus Finch defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic, Puliter Prize-winning novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white woman. Through the eyes of Atticus's children, Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unanswering honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930's. |
 | Title: 1984 Author: George Orwell Summary: In Winston Smith's desperate struggle to free himself from an all-encompassing, malevolent state, Orwell zeroed in on tendencies apparent in every modern society, and made vivid the universal predicament of the individual. |
 | Title: ANTHEM Author: Ayn Rand Summary: Ayn Rand's classic tale of a future dark age of the greatWe??a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values?anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. |
 | Title: WE THE LIVING Author: Ayn Rand Summary: Portraying the impact of the Russian Revolutionon three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives, |
 | Title: MISSION EARTH Author: L. Ron Hubbard Summary: |
 | Title: FEAR Author: L. Ron Hubbard Summary: Professor James Lowry didn't believe in spirits, or witches, or demons. Not until one gentle spring evening when his hat disappeared along with four hours of his life. Now, the quiet university town of Atworthy is changing -- just slightly at first, then faster and more horribly each time he tries to remember. Lowry is pursued by a dark, secret evil whose whispered challenge is driving toward a nerve shattering, exciting climax. If you find your hat you'll find your four hours. If you find your four hours then you will die... |
 | Title: ULYSSES Author: James Joyce Summary: Considered the greatest 20th century novel written in English, in this edition Walter Gabler uncovers previously unseen text. It is a disillusioned study of estrangement, paralysis and the disintegration of society.From the Trade Paperback edition. |
 | Title: CATCH-22 Author: Joseph Heller Summary: Catch-22 is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. National ads/media. |
 | Title: THE GREAT GATSBY Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Summary: Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. |
 | Title: DUNE Author: Frank Herbert Summary: Paul Atreides moves with his family to the planet Dune and is forced into exile when his father's government is overthrown. The first book in the series. |
 | Title: THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS Author: Robert Heinlein Summary: It is the tale of the disparate people--a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an elderly academic--who become the rebel movement's leaders. And it is the story of Mike, the supercomputer whose sentience is known only to this inner circle, and who for reasons of his own is committed to the revolution's ultimate success. |
 | Title: STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND Author: Robert Heinlein Summary: This is the epic saga of an earthling, Valentine Michael Smith, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with psi powers--telepathy, clairvoyance, telekinesis, and the ability to take control of the minds of others--and yet with complete innocence regarding the mores of man. |
 | Title: A TOWN LIKE ALICE Author: Nevil Shute Summary: A harrowing, exciting, and in the end very satisfying war romance."HARPER'SA TOWN LIKE ALICE tells of a young woman who miraculously survived a Japanese "death march" in World War II, and of an Australian soldier, also a prisoner of war, who offered to help her--even at the cost of his life |
 | Title: BRAVE NEW WORLD Author: Aldous Huxley Summary: Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. |
 | Title: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE Author: J.D. Salinger Summary: The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. |
 | Title: ANIMAL FARM Author: George Orwell Summary: Animal Farm is the most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories. Its account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, can fairly be said to have become a universal drama. |
 | Title: GRAVITY'S RAINBOW Author: Thomas Pynchon Summary: In the mid-1960s, the publication of Pynchon's V and The Crying of Lot 49 introduced a brilliant new voice to American literature. Gravity's Rainbow, his convoluted, allusive novel about a metaphysical quest, published in 1973, further confirmed Pynchon's reputation as one of the greatest writers of the century. |
 | Title: THE GRAPES OF WRATH Author: John Steinbeck Summary: This Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm homestead by the land companies and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. |
 | Title: SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE Author: Kurt Vonnegut Summary: Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know. |
 | Title: GONE WITH THE WIND Author: Margaret Mitchell Summary: A monumental classic considered by many to be not only the greatest love story ever written, but also the greatest Civil War saga. |
 | Title: LORD OF THE FLIES Author: William Golding Summary: Golding's aim to trace the defect of society back to the defect of human nature is elegantly pursued in this gripping adventure tale about a group of British schoolboys marooned on a tropical island. Alone in a world of uncharted possibilities, devoid of adult supervision or rules, the boys attempt to forge their own society, failing, however, in the face of terror, sin, and evil. |
 | Title: SHANE Author: Jack Schaefer Summary: Shane, a stranger the Starretts take into their home in Wyoming in 1889, becomes involved in a feud between the cattle ranger and the local homesteaders. |
| Title: TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM Author: Nevil Shute Summary: Not currenlty available at Naperville Public Library. Ask at any reference desk for assistance with this title. |
 | Title: A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY Author: John Irving Summary: Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument. He is. This is John Irving's most comic novel; yet Owen Meany is Mr. Irving's most heartbreaking character. |
 | Title: THE STAND Author: Stephen King Summary: When The Stand was first published in 1978, 150,000 words were cut from the manuscript. With this new edition, those words are restored, providing new characters, a greater depth of characterization, and a new, expanded ending. |
 | Title: THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN Author: John Fowles Summary: Perhaps the most beloved of Fowles's internationally bestselling works, The French Lieutenant's Woman is a feat of seductive storytelling that effectively invents anew the Victorian novel. Filled with enchanting mysteries and magically erotic possibilities (New York Times), the novel inspired the hugely successful 1981 film starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons and is today universally regarded as a modern classic. |
 | Title: BELOVED Author: Toni Morrison Summary: Proud and beautiful, Sethe escaped from slavery but is haunted by its heritage--from the fires of the flesh to the heartbreaking challenges to the spirit. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest work. |
| Title: THE WORM OUROBOROS Author: E.R. Eddison Summary: Not currenlty available at Naperville Public Library. Ask at any reference desk for assistance with this title. |
 | Title: THE SOUND AND THE FURY Author: William Faulkner Summary: First published in 1929, Faulkner created his heart's darling, the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason. |
 | Title: LOLITA Author: Vladimir Nabokov Summary: Summary in the catalog is in German |
 | Title: MOONHEART Author: Charles de Lint Summary: Sweeping from ancient Wales to the streets of Ottawa today, Moonheart entrances the reader with the tale of two young women who are drawn into an enchanted land after discovering artifacts. |
 | Title: ABSALOM, ABSALOM! Author: William Faulkner Summary: The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him. |
 | Title: OF HUMAN BONDAGE Author: W. Somerset Maugham Summary: Philip Carey, a handicapped orphan, is brought up by a clergyman, but Philip sheds his religious faith and begins to study art in Paris. |
 | Title: WISE BLOOD Author: Flannery O' Connor Summary: is the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate faith. |
 | Title: UNDER THE VOLCANO Author: Malcolm Lowry Summary: Under the Volcano remains one of literature's most powerful and lyrical statements on the human condition, and a brilliant portrayal of one man's constant struggle against the elemental forces that threaten to destroy him. |
| Title: FIFTH BUSINESS Author: Robertson Davies Summary: Not currenlty available at Naperville Public Library. Ask at any reference desk for assistance with this title. |
 | Title: SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING Author: Charles de Lint Summary: Lily is a photojournalist, stealing away from the music scene she usually covers to pursue bizarre rumors of animal people living in the ruins of the Tombs - the city's darkest slums. Hank, on the other hand, knows the crumbling Tombs all too well. |
 | Title: ON THE ROAD Author: Jack Kerouac Summary: On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, a sideburned hero of the snowy West. |
 | Title: HEART OF DARKNESS Author: Joseph Conrad Summary: Apparently a sailor's yarn, it is in fact a grim parody of the adventure story, in which the narrator, Marlow, travels deep into the heart of the Congo where he encounters the crazed idealist Kurtz and discovers that the relative values of the civilized and the primitive are not what they seem. |
| Title: YARROW Author: Charles de Lint Summary: Not currenlty available at Naperville Public Library. Ask at any reference desk for assistance with this title. |
 | Title: AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS Author: H.P. Lovecraft Summary: The Barren, windswept interior of the Antarctic plateau was lifeless--or so the expedition from Miskatonic University thought. Then they found the strange fossils of unheard-of creatures...and the carved stones tens of millions of years old...and, finally, the mind-blasting terror of the City of the Old Ones. |
| Title: ONE LONELY NIGHT Author: Mickey Spillane Summary: |
 | Title: MEMORY AND DREAM Author: Charles de Lint Summary: The story of a Isabelle Copley who paints creatures which not only look as though they could step from the canvas into life, but actually do. And once they do they have a will of their own. |
 | Title: TO THE LIGHTHOUSE Author: Virginia Woolf Summary: To the Lighthouse features the serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests who are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Virginia Woolf constructs a moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflicts within a marriage.-- |
 | Title: THE MOVIEGOER Author: Walker Percy Summary: The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world withthe detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he yearns for a spiritual redemption hecannot bring himself to believe in. But one fateful Mardi Gras, Binx embarkson a hare-brained quest that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin Kate, andsends him reeling through the chaos of New Orleans' French Quarter. |
 | Title: TRADER Author: Charles de Lint Summary: This is a novel of identity, an adult coming-of-age story in which a man discovers his own hidden strengths with the aid of a strange and wonderful community of unexpected friends...and of a beautiful musician who is willing to follow him beyond the boundaries of the world. |
 | Title: THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY Author: Douglas Adams Summary: Just before the Earth is demolished, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect. |
 | Title: THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER Author: Carson McCullers Summary: The heroine is the strange young girl, Mick Kelly. The setting is a small Southern town, the cosmos universal and eternal. The characters are the damned, the voiceless, the rejected. Some fight their loneliness with violence and depravity, Some with sex or drink, and some -- like Mick -- with a quiet, intensely personal search for beauty. |
 | Title: THE HANDMAID'S TALE Author: Margaret Atwood Summary: First published in 1985, this is a novel of such power that the reader is unable to forget its images and its forecast. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. A novel that brilliantly illuminates some of the darker interconnections between politics and sex.--The Washington Post Book World. |
 | Title: BLOOD MERIDIAN Author: Cormac McCarthy Summary: An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the wild west. |
 | Title: A CLOCKWORK ORANGE Author: Anthony Burgess Summary: Anthony Burgess's modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption, reissued to include the controversial last chapter not previously published in this country, with a new introduction by the author. |
 | Title: ON THE BEACH Author: Nevil Shute Summary: A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an inevitable end as radiation poisoning moves toward Australia from the North. |
 | Title: A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN Author: James Joyce Summary: The chronicle of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and young offers an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce. Exuberantly inventive, this coming-of-age story is a tour de force of style and technique. |
 | Title: GREENMANTLE Author: Charles de Lint Summary: A classic urban fantasy--back in print. Not far from the city lies an ancient wood, forgotten by the rest of the world, where mystery walks in the shape of a horned man wearing a cloak of leaves. And, when this man touches your dreams, your life will never be the same again. |
 | Title: ENDER'S GAME Author: Orson Scott Card Summary: A completely revised edition of Card's award-winning novel with an introduction by the author. Ender's Game is the story of Ender Wiggin, a boy genetically engineered to be a superior military mind, and bred to win Earth's long war with an alien insectoid race by completely destroying their homeworld. |
| Title: THE LITTLE COUNTRY Author: Charles de Lint Summary: Not currenlty available at Naperville Public Library. Ask at any reference desk for assistance with this title. |
 | Title: THE RECOGNITIONS Author: William Gaddis Summary: |
 | Title: STARSHIP TROOPERS Author: Robert Heinlein Summary: In one of Robert A. Heinlein's most controversial bestsellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the universe--and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind's most frightening enemy. |
 | Title: THE SUN ALSO RISES Author: Ernest Hemingway Summary: A roman à clef about a group of American and English expatriates on an excursion from Paris's Left Bank to Pamplona for the July fiesta and its climactic bull fight, a journey from the center of a civilization spiritually bankrupted by the First World War to a vital, God-haunted world in which faith and honor have yet to lose their currency, |
 | Title: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP Author: John Irving Summary: This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields--a feminist leader ahead of her times. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes--even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with lunacy and sorrow; yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. |
 | Title: SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES Author: Ray Bradbury Summary: Three hours after midnight, one week before Halloween, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show rolls into Green Town, Illinois. A carnival like no other, it feeds on the dreams and weaknesses of those drawn to its eerie attractions, destroying every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. Two boys--best friends Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade--are about to learn the secret of its smoke, mazes and mirrors as they confront a nightmarish evil that will change their lives forever. |
 | Title: THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE Author: Shirley Jackson Summary: The four visitors at Hill House-- some there for knowledge, others for adventure-- are unaware that the old mansion will soon choose one of them to make its own. |
 | Title: AS I LAY DYING Author: William Faulkner Summary: The story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage, as Addie Bundren's family sets out to fulfill her last wish: to be buried in her native Jefferson, Mississippi, far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married life. |
| Title: TROPIC OF CANCER Author: Henry Miller Summary: Only a historic court ruling that changed American cesorship standards permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller's famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s. |
 | Title: INVISIBLE MAN Author: Ralph Ellison Summary: An African-American man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility. |
| Title: THE WOOD WIFE Author: Terry Windling Summary: Not currenlty available at Naperville Public Library. Ask at any reference desk for assistance with this title. |
 | Title: THE MAGUS Author: John Fowles Summary: A man trapped in a millionare's deadly game of political and sexual betrayal. Filled with shocks and chilling surprises, The Magus is a masterwork of contemporary literature. |
 | Title: THE DOOR INTO SUMMER Author: Robert Heinlein Summary: Del Rey is reissuing the author's classic works back into the forefront, beginning with The Door into Summer, the story of a modern-day--and future-time--Rip Van Winkle. |
 | Title: ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE Author: Robert Pirsig Summary: This lyrical, evocative, thought-provoking journal of a man' s quest for truth— and for himself— was an instant classic, now available unabridged on CD |
 | Title: I, CLAUDIUS Author: Robert Graves Summary: Considered an idiot because of his physical infirmities, Claudius survived the intrigues and poisonings of the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, and the Mad Caligula to become emperor in 41 A.D. A masterpiece. |
 | Title: THE CALL OF THE WILD Author: Jack London Summary: The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack. |
| Title: AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS Author: Flann O'Brien Summary: |
 | Title: FARENHEIT 451 Author: Ray Bradbury Summary: Summary in the catalog is in German |
 | Title: ARROWSMITH Author: Sinclair Lewis Summary: The Pulitzer Prize winning Arrowsmith (an award Lewis refused to accept) recounts the story of a doctor who is forced to give up his trade for reasons ranging from public ignorance to the publicity-mindedness of a great foundation, and becomes an isolated seeker of scientific truth. Introduction by E.L. Doctorow. |
 | Title: WATERSHIP DOWN Author: Richard Adams Summary: Here again are Fiver, Bigwig, Hazel, Dandelion--all the victorious heroes of the apocalyptic battle against the evil General Woundwort--as well as a host of endearing new characters and the great champion of rabbit myth, El-ahrairah, in a wonderful collection of new adventures that will delight the millions of Watership Down fans, and create many more. |
 | Title: NAKED LUNCH Author: William S. Burroughs Summary: An unnerving tale of a narcotics addict unmoored in New York, Tangiers, and ultimately a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone, its formal innovation, formerly taboo subject matter, and tour de force execution have exerted their influence on the work of authors like Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, and William Gibson; on the relationship of art and obscenity; and on the shape of music, film, and media generally. |
 | Title: THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER Author: Tom Clancy Summary: Gripping military thriller about the chase after a top-secret Russian missile submarine. |
 | Title: GUILTY PLEASURES Author: Laurell K. Hamilton Summary: Anita Blake started raising the dead-and killing the undead. And how she met Jean Claude, the master vampire destined to become not only her biggest nemesis, but her greatest lover. |
| Title: THE PUPPET MASTERS Author: Robert Heinlein Summary: Not currenlty available at Naperville Public Library. Ask at any reference desk for assistance with this title. |
| Title: IT Author: Stephen King Summary: Not currenlty available at Naperville Public Library. Ask at any reference desk for assistance with this title. |
 | Title: V. Author: Thomas Pynchon Summary: The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men -- one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose -- and V., the unknown woman of the title. |
 | Title: DOUBLE STAR Author: Robert Heinlein Summary: One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars. Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. |
 | Title: CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY Author: Robert Heinlein Summary: A youth who has known only the primitive life of a galaxy slave is purchased by a beggar who turns out to be a man with many extracurricular activities. |
 | Title: BRIDESHEAD REVISITED Author: Evelyn Waugh Summary: Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous plea-sures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh. |
 | Title: LIGHT IN AUGUST Author: William Faulkner Summary: Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man. |
 | Title: ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST Author: Ken Kesey Summary: Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, this is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the awesome power of the Combine. |
 | Title: A FAREWELL TO ARMS Author: Ernest Hemingway Summary: By turns romantic and harshly realistic, Hemingway's story of a tragic romance set against the brutality and confusion of World War I cemented his fame as a stylist and as a writer of extraordinary literary power. A volunteer ambulance driver and a beautiful English nurse fall in love when he is wounded on the Italian front. |
 | Title: THE SHELTERING SKY Author: Paul Bowles Summary: Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture - and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. The story of three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II, The Sheltering Sky is at once merciless and heartbreaking in its compassion. not available |
 | Title: MY ANTONIA Author: Willa Cather Summary: My Antonia (1918) depicts the pioneering period of European settlement on the tall-grass prairie of the American midwest, with its beautiful yet terrifying landscape, rich ethnic mix of immigrants and native-born Americans, and communities who share life's joys and sorrows. |
 | Title: MULENGRO Author: Charles de Lint Summary: The increasingly bizarre murders have baffled the police -- but each death is somehow connected with the city's elusive Gypsy community. The police are searching for a human killer, but the Romany know better. They know the name of the darkness that hunts them down, one by one: Mulengro. Book jacket. |
 | Title: SUTTREE Author: Cormac McCarthy Summary: Arguably the masterpiece of a novelist as highly praised and scarcely read as any living writer, the Vintage Contemporaries reprint of Suttree should help to bring McCarthy the readers to match his many awards and voluminous reviews. |
| Title: MYTHAGO WOOD Author: Robert Holdstock Summary: Not currenlty available at Naperville Public Library. Ask at any reference desk for assistance with this title. |
 | Title: ILLUSIONS Author: Richard Bach Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull comes a light-hearted, inspirational account of an encounter with a modern-day messiah. In Illusions, Bach takes to the air to discover the ageless truths that make our souls fly, showing that people don't need airplanes to soar, and that messiahs can be found everywhere. |
 | Title: THE CUNNING MAN Author: Robertson Davies Summary: In searching for the answers to a priest's death, Dr. Jonathan Hullah looks back over his own long life--including portraits of the dazzling intellectual highjinks and compassionate philosophies of himself and his circle. |
 | Title: THE SATANIC VERSES Author: Salman Rushdie Summary: Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years, plummet from the sky, washing up on the snow-covered sands of an English beach, and proceed through a series of metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations. |