Titles
823.914
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3001:
The Final Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke.
Ballantine Books, c1997.
It began four million years ago with a gleaming black monolith--now,
Arthur Clarke leaps one thousand years into the future to reveal a truth
we can only now comprehend.
813.54
M584a
Acts of Love Judith Michaels.
Crown
Publishers, c1997.
Luke, a theatre director, discovers letters written to his grandmother by
a young actress. He re-reads the letters of this passionate young woman
and realizes that he is falling in love with her. An odyssey of the
heart begins as he tracks down the elusive Jessica.
813.54
Q4a
Quick, Amanda. Affair Bantam Books, c1997.
Mystery, murder,
suspense, and most of all romance abound in this regency novel.
813.54
C862ai
Airframe. Michael Crichton. Alfred A. Knopf, c1996.
his
latest release by
best selling author Michael Crichton explores one of the most recently
talked about issues of the day: airline disasters.
A mid-air disaster claims the lives of three people
and injures fifty-six others. The investigation
that follows is a tangled web of mystery and when
news gets out the media rushes to destroy the credibility of the
aircraft and the company that produces it while ignoring the
facts in the case.
813.54
At96al
Alias Grace:
A
Novel. Atwood, Margaret. Doubleday, c1997.
We never do solve
the enigma posed by
the
eponymous Grace in Atwood's fascinating fictional portrait of the woman
accused of a sensational murder in 1843 Canada. Grace's years in prison
and in an insane asylum provide fertile territory for
Atwood's witty, incisive examination of the social fabric, particularly
the position of women in the Canadian provinces.
813.54
C233an
The Angel of
Darkness by Caleb Carr. Random House. c1997.
A story of modern evil in old New York.
813.54
C176a
Apaches by Lorenzo Carcaterra. Ballantine Books, c1997.
Apaches is the story of an extraordinary band of cops. Some might call
them criminals. Some might call them heroes.
813.54
Sh43be
Sheldon, Sidney. The Best Laid Plans Morrow, 1997.
The story of
the beautiful Leslie Stewart, who learns that for some men power is the
greatest aphrodisiac, and of Oliver Russell, the handsome governor of a
small southern state, who finds out why hell hath no fury like a woman
scorned.
813.54
K382b
The Big Picture by Douglas
Kennedy. Hyperion, c1997.
The story of Ben Bradford--"A quarter of an
hour ago, I was a model American: an industrious, economically
productive, child-rearing, mortgage-paying, two car-owning actively
consuming, Gold card-carrying resident of the top-income echelon. And
now.... And it didn't even take fifteen minutes."
813.54
G874bl
Blood
and Honor W. E. B. Griffin. Putnam,
c1997.
It is April 1943, and Marine aviator Cletus Frade, Army
demolition's wizard Anthony Pelosi,
and communications expert David Ettinger are thrust again into
the lethal nest of intrigue that
is wartime Buenos Aires.
813.54
M336b
The Burning Man. Phillip Margolin. Doubleday,
c1996.
Peter Hale is a young attorney struggling to make his own mark
in his father's venerable law firm
when he is presented with the opportunity of a lifetime.
813.54
B917ca
Burke, James Lee.
The Cadillac Jukebox. Hyperion, c1996.
Nearly 30 years
after the shooting death of a prominent black civil rights leader,
Louisiana redneck Aaron Crown,
age 68, is convicted of the crime. Crown, insisting he didn't do it, asks
Robicheaux, sheriff's deputy
of New Iberia, La., who once found his runaway daughter, to investigate.
813.54
B7375t
The Cat Who Tailed a Thief.
Lillian J.
Braun.
Putnam, c1997.
More Moose County adventures of KoKo, the siamese cat,
and his owner, millionaire and newspaper columnist, Jim Qwilleran.
813.54
C816c
Cause of Death. Patricia Cornwell. Putnam, c1996.
299.93
R24c
The Celestine Prophecy. James Redfield. Warner, c1994.
813.914
M45c
Mayle, Peter.
Chasing Cezanne Alfred A. Knopf, c1997.
Part travelog and part art mystery caper, this new tale from Mayle, the
author who put Provence on one map, is a thoroughly enjoyable romp
through the international art world.(LJ review)
813.54
C77ch
Cook, Robin. Chromosome 6. Putnam's
Sons, c1997.
Forensic pathologist Jack Stapleton and his colleague, Laurie Montgomery
identify a corpse as the missing Carlo Franconi, a a notorious underworld
figure. But the reasons for his murder and his mutilated body remain a
mystery. Jack and
Laurie travel to the jungles of Africa to search for the truth, where they
discover a sinister cabal.
813.54
K286c
Kellerman, Jonathan. The
Clinic. Bantam Books, c1997.
For three months the police
have found no clues to the murder of Hope Devane, psychology professor
and controversial author of a pop-psych
bestseller, an angry indictment of men. Now Detective Milo Sturgis,
newly assigned to the case, turns to his psychologist
friend, Dr. Alex Delaware, looking for insights into Devane's life.
813.54
F867c
Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain. Atlantic Monthly Press, c1997.
Based on local history and family stories, Cold Mountain is the
story of a wounded Civil War soldier, who walks away from the ravages of
war and back home to his beloved.
813.54
W86de
Woods, Stuart. Dead in the
Water Harper Collins, c1997.
Stuart
Woods has created no better known or
loved character than the ex-cop, Manhattan
attorney, and investigator, Stone Barrington,
whose work treads the thin line between the
respectable practice of law and the dark side of
humanity.
In Dead in the Water, Stone has barely arrived in St.
Marks, a lovely Caribbean island nation, on a sailing
vacation when something very strange happens.
813.54
G29d
Deception on his Mind by Elizabeth George. Bantam,
c1997.
Publishers Weekly, June 2, 1997, p. 56:
"...this rich, engrossing novel portrays a contemporary England that's
culturally complex and
simmering with tension. ... This is an unusually elaborate and
intricate mystery, but George keeps
an unrelenting grip on her readers as the police constantly shift their
focus among a dozen well-
drawn suspects."
813.54
M691d
Mitchard, Jacquelyn. The Deep
End of the
Ocean Viking Penguin. c1996.
While checking into a hotel for her
high school reunion, Beth asks her seven-year-old son,
Vincent, to keep an eye on three-year-old Ben. When she returns, Ben
is gone. No amount of searching, by the police
or her former classmates, can find him.
813.54
R272d
Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs Scribner. c1997.
A American forensic pathologist, living in Montreal, assists the police in
finding a serial killer.
813.54
K587de
King, Stephen. Desperation Viking Penguin,
c1996.
813.54 M124d
Dragonseye.
Anne McCaffrey. Ballantine Books,
c1997.
Thread: deadly silver strands that fall from the sky like
rain,
devouring every organic thing in their path, animals, plants,
and people alike. Who could believe that such horrible things
could exist? After all, it's been two-hundred years since
Thread supposedly fell on Pern.
813.54
G131d
Garbaldon, Diana. Drums of Autumn Delacorte Press, c1997.
From the bestselling author of Outlander, Dragonfly in
Amber, and Voyager comes the exquisite fourth novel in
the romantic, time-travel saga of Jamie Fraser and Claire
Randall. 1767: On the even of the American Revolution, Jamie and Claire
land on the shores of Charleston to begin a new life. Jamie, determined
to stay away from the rumblings of a war that is not his own, soon
realizes that war spares no one--and that love is worth fighting for.
Read
excerpts from this book.
813.54
L194e
L'Amour, Louis. End of the Drive. Bantam, c1997.
813.54
B511ev
Evening Class. Binchy,
Maeve. Delacorte Press,
c1997.
Aidan Dunne might have given up entirely if it hadn't been for
the evening class, Introduction to Italian. A class where people from
every walk of life come together. A class where long-buried hopes come
alive again.
813.54
B8153e
Exclusive.
Sandra Brown. Warner, c1996.
Exclusive is the story of Barrie
Travis, a broadcast journalist who is working for a second rate
television station in Washington, D.C. When the President's newborn baby
dies suddenly, Sudden
Infant Death Syndrome is suspected. However Travis senses a story.
813.54
C52e
Clancy, Tom. Executive
Orders. Putnam, c1996.
At 896 pages, half a million words and nearly four pounds, Clancy's
new novel is a bruiser. It packs
a whale of a wallop too, starting with a knock-down premise set up in
Debt of Honor, which ended
with a jetliner crashing into the Capitol, taking out the president,
congress, the cabinet and the
Supreme Court justices. As the new novel opens, longtime Clancy hero Jack
Ryan, named minutes
before the crash to the post of V.P., has just been sworn in as chief of
state.
813.54
H557fa
The
Fallen Man. Tony Hillerman. HarperCollins, c1996.
Tony
Hillerman writes about
the southwest with a beautiful reverence that makes his ethnic detective
stories come alive for
readers throughout the country. The Hillerman trademark of an interesting,
twist-turning who-done-it serves as a brilliant
backdrop to Native American culture struggling to survive in the modern
world.
813.54
B8153f
Sandra Brown. Fat Tuesday Warner Books, c1997.
For cop
turned outlaw, and for a beautiful woman held captive in a loveless
marriage, the Mardi Gras will offer them their last chance for
freedom--and each other.
813.54
B8125f
Fatal Terrain by Dale Brown. Putnam, c1997.
What will it take
for the U.S. Air Force to enter the twenty-first century? It's about to
find out--but at a deadly price.
823.914
Ar2fo
The Fourth Estate. Jeffrey Archer. HarperCollins, c1996.
Jeffrey Archer creates two extraordinary protagonists whose life stories
could have been taken from today's headlines, and pits them
against each other as each
strives to be the first to create a global media empire and
become the most powerful man on earth.
813.54
C267g
The Genesis Code by John Case. Fawcett Columbine, c1997.
813.54
Sh11g
Gods and Generals. Jeff Shaara. Ballantine, c1996.
Now, in
Gods and
Generals, Jeff Shaara carries on his father's vision in an epic story
that traces
the lives, passions, and careers of these great military leaders from
the first rumors of war to the eve of Gettysburg.
813.54
G321h
Harvest Tess Gerritsen. Pocket Books, c1996
813.54
M2281h
How
Stella Got Her Groove Back. Terry McMillan. Viking,
c1996.
Ultimately, How Stella Got Her Groove Back is the stuff of
romance (a slight departure from the
best-selling Waiting to Exhale). It is about a woman coming of age in
middle age and growing
through love. The pop/disco group Dee-Lite may have summed it up best
when they sang, "The
groove is in the heart."
813.54
C816h
Cornwell, Patricia.
Hornet's Nest Putnam, c1997.
A police procedural novel,
with Charlotte, North Carolina as the setting. Walk the beat of the inner
city with
police chief, Judy Hammer, deputy chief, Virginia West and reporter
Andy Brazil.
823.914
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Icon. Frederick Forsyth. Bantam, c1996.
813.54
H24415if
If This World Were Mine by E. Lynn Harris. Doubleday, c1997
813.54
P279j
Jack & Jill: A Novel James Patterson.
Little, Brown & Company, c1996.
Two simultaneous investigations bear
down on Cross: the first concerns the killings perpetrated by a duo known
as "Jack and
Jill," who are murdering famous people (beginning with a U.S. senator) in
Washington, taunting the police and "practicing for
the big one"; the second involves the brutal slayings of young black
children in Cross's own Southeast D.C. neighborhood.
813.54
T861
Turow, Scott. The
Laws of our Fathers. Farrar Straus,
c1996.
Turow's book, titled "The Law of our Fathers," like
"Presumed Innocent," centers around a murder trial.
The plot draws together a group of people
who knew each other 20 years earlier on a university
campus which, Turow hinted, was
modeled after Stanford.
813.54
D491
Deveraux, Jude. Legend Pocket Books, c1996.
813.54
Is1l
Lily White.
Susan Issacs. HarperCollins, c1996.
813.54
M3691
The List. Steve Martini. G.P. Putnam, c1997.
A bold and successful scheme to outwit the biggest players in
publishing and film animates
this novel by the bestselling author of The Judge--a suspenseful
thriller in which the price of
fame becomes terror.
813.54
M8531
A Little Yellow Dog. Walter
Mosley. Norton, c1996.
Easy wants back into his careful little
life, but that door is closed. A murderer is
running loose somewhere. And a little yellow dog plots revenge.
823.914
R931
Rutherford, Edward. London Crown Publishers, c1997.
The saga of the city of London from its first days through 2,000 years
of history as seen by the eyes of generations of the same six families.
813.54
K1331
Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon. Broadway Books, c1997.
Spring, 1945. As work on the first atomic bomb nears completion in New
Mexico, Karl Bruner, a Manhattan Project security officer, is found
murdered in nearby Sante Fe.
813.54
G75m
M
is for Malice. Sue Grafton. Henry Holt &
Company, c1996.
Kinsey--her latest adventure: to find the missing
sibling of the Malek
family. Dad died and four sons stand to inherit big bucks, except that
one of the sons, a true troublemaker, went
missing almost twenty years ago. Now the other brothers are legally
bound to find him, but they're not too excited
about it. Kinsey has to sort through Maleks, Money, Missing people, and
Memories... and what she ends up with
(you'll never guess) is Murder.
813.54
P995m
Pychnon, Thomas. Mason &
Dixon Henry Holt, c1997.
Story of Charles Mason and Jeremiah
Dixon, British surveyors, as reimagined by Thomas Pynchon, in an updated
18th century novel featuring Native Americans, frontier folk, ripped
bodices, naval warfare, and conspiracies.
813.54
C833m
Coulter, Catherine. The Maze. Putnam, c1997.
Obsessed by her sister's death at the hands of an apparent serial killer,
a brilliant young pianist dedicates her life to tracking down the
murderer, only to become a target herself.
813.54
Sa56mg
McNally's
Gamble. Lawrence Sanders. Putnam's Sons, c1997.
When a
well-to-do widow is
urged to buy a Faberge egg, her adult offspring violently oppose the
investment and enlist the aid of Archy McNally to put the kibosh on the
deal. As he investigates, Archy is thrust into a whirling vortex of
greed, passion, and murder that even he must fight to rise above.
813.54
C549mo
Clark, Mary Higgins. Moonlight Becomes You.
Simon and Schuster, c1996.
813.54
C549my
Clark, Mary Higgins. My Gal Sunday. Simon and Schuster,
c1996.
813.54
C549p
Clark, Mary Higgins. Pretend you Don't See Her. Simon and
Schuster, c1997
813.54
Sp26n
The Notebook. Nicholas Sparks. Warner Books, c1996.
813.54
P98o
Putney, Mary Jo. One Perfect Rose Fawcett, c1997.
813.54
L55o
Out of
Sight. Elmore Leonard. Delacorte Press, c1996.
An unlikely
romance between a
lissome law enforcer and a fugitive bank-robber gives a poignant,
screwball twist to Leonard's gritty, nostalgic 33rd novel.
813.54
K147o
Out to Canaan by Jan Karon. Viking, c1997.
Visit the town of Mitford, whose eccentric yet endearing citizens have
become like family members to many readers.
813.54
G889pa
Grisham, John.
The Partner Doubleday, c1997.
They found Danilo Silva in Brazil. But Danilo had a past with many
chapters. Four years earlier he had
been Patrick Lanigan, a young partner in a prominent
Biloxi law firm. He had a pretty wife, a new daughter, and a bright
future. Then one cold winter night Patrick was trapped in a
burning car and died a horrible death. When he was buried his casket
held nothing more than his ashes.
From a short distance away, Patrick watched his own burial. Then he
fled. Six weeks later, a fortune was stolen from his
ex-law firm's offshore account. And Patrick fled some more.
But they found him.
813.54
H17p
Planet of Twilight by Barbara
Hambly. Bantam. c1997.
It all begins on a barren backwater world called Renat Chorios.
Princess Leia is lured there by the evil Draconis; Luke comes to search
for his lost love; the planet begins to reveal ints unspeakable secret.
A long dormant life-form kept in check for centuries isnow threatening
to gain dominance over the New Republic, the Empire and the entire
galaxy.
813.54
B725p
Bradford, Barbara. Power of a Woman Harper Collins, c1997.
813.54
D395p
Plum
Island by Nelson Demille. Warner Books, c1997.
823.914
P277p
Higgins, Jack. The President's Daughter. Putnam, c1997.
813.54
P935
Primary Colors. Anonymous. Random House, c1995.
This
"marvelously down-and-dirty chronicle" traces the long run to the
presidency that begins (and ends
for some) with the primaries. The key players are an enigmatic pack,
some with more to hide than others. . .
813.54
F328r
Rage of a Demon King by Raymond E. Feist. Avon Books,
c1997.
The third volume in the Serpentwar Saga.
813.54
St325ra
The Ranch. Steel, Danielle. Delacorte Press, c1997.
In her thirty-ninth bestselling novel, Danielle Steel brings to life
the story of three women, old roommates from college, who come together
after twenty years, one summer at the Ranch.
813.54
B124r
Bachman, Richard.
The Regulators. NAL/Dutton, c1996.
It's a summer afternoon in Wentworth, Ohio, and on Poplar Street,
everything's normal. The paperboy is making his rounds;
frisbees are flying; barbecues are being contemplated. The only thing
that doesn't quite fit the picutre is the red van idling just
up the hill. Soon it will begin to roll, and the killing will begin. And
by the time night falls on Poplar Street, the surviving
residents will find themselves in another world, one where anything, no
matter how terrible, is possible...and where the
regulators are on their way.
813.54
M234r
McNaught, Judith. Remember When. Pocket Books,
c1996
Marcinko, Richard and John Weisman.
Rogue Warrior:
Designation Gold. Simon and Schuster, c1997.
The Rogue Warrior
has come to Moscow with murder and mayhem on his mind. The reason: His
friend has been assassinated.
813.54
G889ru
Grisham,
John. Runaway Jury. Doubleday, c1996.
In Biloxi,
Mississippi, a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of
dollars at stake begins
routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving
strangely, and at least one juror
is convinced he's being watched.
813.54
R543s
Sanctuary
Nora Roberts. Putnam's Sons, c1997.
Photographer, Jo Ellen Hathaway
must learn the
truth about who is stalking her--and about the tragic past that
torments her estranged family. But the menance that drove Jo back to
Sanctuary, and island inn, has followed her there. Those on the island
may realize that Sanctuary may be the most dangerous place of all...
813.54
Say You Love Me. Johanna Lindsey. William
L646s
Morrow, c1996.
813.54
P693s
Secrecy by Belva Plain. Delacorte Press.
c1997.
813.54
B725s
Bradford, Barbara Taylor. A Secret Affair. Harper
Collins, c1996.
813.54
R36s
Servant of the
Bones. Anne Rice. Knopf, c1996.
Anne Rice carries us now into
new realms of the occult, the mystical, and the magical,
and into the presence--now and through the centuries--of a dark and
luminous new hero: the
powerful, witty, smiling Azriel, Servant of the Bones.
813.54
St325s
Silent Honor. Danielle Steel. Delacorte
Press. c1996.
In her
38th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel creates a powerful, moving
portrayal of families
divided, lives shattered and a nation torn apart by prejudice
during a shameful episode in recent
American history. Read Chapter
one of Silent Honor
813.5
P278s
Patterson, Richard North. Silent Witness.
Random House. c1997.
Tony Lord, suspected of murder in his youth, becomes a San Francisco
lawyer--a relentless advocate dedicated to the defense of his clients.
In defense of a client, he returns home to confront concealed passions and
buried truths in the past and present.
813.54
Sp335s
Small Town Girl. LaVyrle Spencer. Putnam,
c1997.
Eighteen years ago, young Tess McPhail left tiny Wintergreen, Missouri,
for Nashville and never looked back. Now one of country music's brightest
lights, her career is her life. She has no time for marriage, children,
or kinfolk--until her sisters insist she come home to help care for their
widowed mother.
813.54
P22sm
Small Vices Robert B.
Parker. Putnam's Sons, c1997.
Ellis Alves is a bad kid from the 'hood with a long, long record, but
did he really murder Melissa Henderson, a white coed from ritzy
Pemberton College? It's up to Spenser and Hawk to uncover the truth.
813.54
H183s
Snow in August by Pete Hamill. Little Brown, c1997.
Snow in August is a tale of friendship, loyalty, Brooklyn, and the
remarkable power of words.
813.54
K83so
Sole
Survivor by Dean Koontz. Knopf, c1997.
Joe Carpenter, reporter for the Los Angeles Post loses his wife and two
daughters in a plane crash. A year later, a mysterious woman appears,
claiming to have survived the crash. Her disappearence leads Joe on a
desperate chase after the truth which will force him to redefine
everything he thought he knew about life and death.
813.54 St325sp
Special Delivery by Danielle Steel. Delacorte Press, c1997.
823.914
C814ta
The
Tailor
of Panama. John Le Carre. Alfred A. Knopf, c1996.
Le Carre
himself acknowledges the debt to Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana as
the inspiration for this tale of a man
who is taken far more seriously as a spy by those around him than he
takes himself-and who makes things up as necessary.
813.54
M49t
Meltzer, Brad. The Tenth Justice. William Morrow, c1997.
Legal thriller about a law clerk for a justice of the Supreme Court.
813.54
R247t
Redfield, James. The Tenth Insight. Warner,
c1996.
813.54
H652t
Hoag, Tami. A Thin Dark Line. Bantam Books,
c1997.
In a small town in Louisiana, Deputy Annie Broussard can't walk away
from a homicide. But to pursue the investigation will mean an uneasy
alliance with Fourcade, who is suspected of planting evidence. Annie
finds herself at the center of treachery and deceit as she continues
the deadly chase for justice.
823.914
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The
Third Twin. Ken Follett. Crown
Publishers, c1996.
Follett returns to the threshold of the 21st
century with
a provocative, well-paced and sensational biotech-thriller about the
genetic manipulation of human embryos. Striving to prove
that offspring genetically predisposed toward aggression can learn to
sublimate their combative nature through childhood
conditioning by socially responsible parents, a feisty and brilliant
young university researcher, Jeannie Ferrami, develops
software to identify identical twins who have been reared apart.
813.54
B511t
This Year It
Will Be Different. Maeve Binchy. Doubleday, c1996.
Here she
presents 15 short stories that take
place during the holiday season; all display her deft rendering of family
relationships and the stresses of contemporary life.
823.914
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Francis, Dick. To the
Hilt. Putnam, c1996.
The "hilt" of Fr ancis's delightful 35th
thriller refers to the jewel-encrusted, solid gold handle of the
ceremonial sword of
Scotland's would-be king, Bonnie Prince Charlie.
813.54
B191t
Total Control. David Baldacci. Warner
Books,
c1997.
Sidney Archer has the world. A husband she loves. A job at
which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane
plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly
there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust.
823.914
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The Unlikely Spy. Daniel Silva. Random House,
c1997.
Catherine Blake is the model war widow. Ever since she lost
her RAF pilot husband in the Battle of Britain, this beautiful artistocrat
has kept a stiff upper lip while caring for victims of the blitz in
London's hospitals. The problem is that Catherine is also a deep-cover
Nazi spy.
813.54
C816u
Unnatural
Exposure by Patricia Cornwell. Putnam,
c1997.
Virginia's chief medical examiner, Kay Scarpetta, is trapped
in a
nightmare of unsolved murders and a pernicious virus in this
breathless
thriller, where clues are elusive and the killer's threats are
hurled through
cyberspace.
813.54
Sil3u
Up Island by Anne Rivers Siddons. Harper Collins, c1997.
823.914
C694v
Vendetta Jackie Collins. Harper Collins,
c1997.
Price, Eugenia.
The Waiting Time Doubleday, c1997.
A love story set in
a rice plantation in coastal Georgia on the eve of the Civil War.
813.54
G199w
Garwood, Julie. The Wedding Pocket,
c1996.
823.914
Ob62y
O'Brien, Patrick. Yellow
Admiral. W.W. Norton & Company, c1996.
Life ashore may once
again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey in Patrick O'Brian's long-awaited
sequel to his bestseller The
Commodore.
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