American Literature (Fall 2020)

Bibliography

Sorted by Call Number / Author.

F ACE

Acevedo, Elizabeth, author. The poet X. First edition.

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.

F ADI

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977- author. Americanah : a novel. First edition.

"A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected"--Provided by publisher.

F ALC

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. Little women. New York : Gramercy books, 2002.

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in mid-nineteenth-century New England.

F ALE

Alexander, Kwame, author. The crossover.

Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.

F ALE

Alexander, Kwame, author. Solo.

Seventeen-year-old Blade, who endeavors to resolve painful issues from his past to navigate the challenges of his former rockstar father's addictions, scathing tabloid rumors, and a protected secret that threatens his own identity.

F BAL

Baldwin, James, 1924-. If Beale Street could talk. New York : Dial Press, 1974.

F BLU

Blume, Judy. Summer sisters : a novel. New York : Dell, 1999.

Victoria Leonard and Caitlin Somers, two girls from very different backgrounds, form a friendship that blooms over the summers spent in Caitlin's privileged world, until heartbreak and betrayal tear them apart.

F CAP

Capote, Truman, 1924-1984. Breakfast at Tiffany's and three stories. 1st Vintage International ed. New York : Vintage International, 1993.

Breakfast at Tiffany's -- House of flowers -- A diamond guitar -- A Christmas memory. Contains the title work about Holly Golightly, a Manhattan playgirl whose antics mask a pain-filled past; and includes three additional stories, "House of Flowers," "A Diamond Guitar," and "A Christmas Memory.".

F CHB

Chbosky, Stephen. The perks of being a wallflower. New York : MTV Books/Pocket Books, [1999].

Charlie, a freshman in high school, explores the dilemmas of growing up through a collection of letters he sends to an unknown receiver.

F DIF

Diffenbaugh, Vanessa. The language of flowers : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2011.

Eighteen-year-old Victoria Jones, having been emancipated from the foster care system and planted a flower garden in the park in which she slept, is hired to work for a local florist, and, after meeting a mysterious vendor at the flower market, she is forced to confront her past and decide what she wants for her future.

F FOE

Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977-. Extremely loud & incredibly close. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

Follows nine-year-old Oskar Schell as he encounters a number of interesting characters in his search for information about his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and tries to find the lock that fits the mysterious key he left behind.

F GO

Go ask Alice. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [1971].

Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.

F HEI

Heinz, W. C. (Wilfred Charles), 1915-. The professional. 1st Da Capo Press ed. Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2001.

Boxer Eddie Brown's quest to win the middleweight championship of the world soon overshadows every aspect of his life, until his friendship with his manager reminds him of the things that are most important.

F LAH

Lahiri, Jhumpa, author. The lowland : a novel. First Vintage Contemporaries edition.

Subhash, having left his family in Calcutta to pursue a career in science in the United States, returns home to look into what happened to his brother, Udayan, who had joined the Naxalite Movement, to try to rebuild his shattered family, and to help his brother's wife.

F LER

Lerner, Ben, 1979- author. The Topeka school. First edition.

"Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at getting 'lost boys' to open up. They both work at a psychiatric clinic that has attracted staff and patients from around the world. Adam is a renowned debater, expected to win a national championship before he heads to college. When a group of seniors bring loner Darren Eberheart into the social scene, Adam is unaware that Darren is one of his father's patients. When a disastrous event occurs, Adam feels partly responsible"--Provided by publisher.

F LEW

Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951. It can't happen here.

A New England newspaper editor fights to destroy the fascist dictatorship established by President Berzelius Windrip in this classic work by the author of Babbit, Arrowsmith, and Main Street that prophesizes the coming of totalitarianism in the United States.

F MCC

McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-. All the pretty horses. 1st Vintage International ed. New York : Vintage International, 1993.

The story of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers, who, along with two companions, sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.

F OBR

O'Brien, Tim, 1946-. In the Lake of the Woods. Boston : Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1994.

After John and Kathy realize that their marriage has been built on deception, Kathy mysteriously disappears in the Minnesota north woods.

F OWE

Owens, Delia, author. Where the crawdads sing.

"Kya Clark is the 'Marsh Girl' of Barkley Cove on the North Carolina coast. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist, she took life lessons from the land, learning from the false signals of fireflies the real way of this world. Drawn to two young men from town who were intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opened herself to a new and startling world--until the unthinkable happens. When Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya"--OCLC.

F PEN

de la Peña, Matt, author. The living. First edition.

After an earthquake destroys California and a tsunami wrecks the luxury cruise ship where he is a summer employee, high schooler Shy confronts another deadly surprise.

F PEN

Pena, Matt de la. We were here. New York, : Delcorte Press, 2009.

Haunted by the event that sentences him to time in a group home, Miguel breaks out with two unlikely companions and together they begin their journey down the California coast hoping to get to Mexico and a new life.

F PRO

Proulx, Annie. The shipping news. 1st Touchstone ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1994.

Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters return to the family ancestral home in Newfoundland to start new lives.

F REY

Reynolds, Jason, author. All American boys. First edition.

"When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend"--OCLC.

F ROT

Roth, Philip. American pastoral. 1st Vintage International ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1998.

Seymour "Swede" Levov, a hard working man who came of age in triumphant postwar America, must give up his dreams of a peaceful life when his daughter grows up to be a 1960s revolutionary terrorist.

F RUS

Russo, Richard, 1949-. Empire falls. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.

F SEB

Sebold, Alice. The lovely bones : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, [2002].

Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon, the victim of a sexual assault and murder, looks on from the afterlife as her family deals with their grief, and waits for her killer to be brought to some type of justice.

F STE

Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. East of Eden. John Steinbeck centennial ed. (1902-2002). New York : Viking, 2003.

The story of Cal and Aron, twin brothers in early twentieth-century California, who act out a modern-day version of the biblical story of Cain and Abel.

F STO

Stone, Nic, author. Jackpot. First edition.

"When Rico sells a jackpot-winning lotto ticket, she thinks maybe her luck will finally change, but only if she and her popular and wildly rich classmate, Zan can find the ticket holder who hasn't claimed the prize"--Provided by publisher.

F THO

Thomas, Angie. On the come up. 1st ed.

"Sixteen-year-old Bri hopes to become a great rapper, and after her first song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, must decide whether to sell out or face eviction with her widowed mother"--Provided by publisher.

F VON

Vonnegut, Kurt. Cat's cradle. New York : Dell Pub, [1998].

In the year 2000, a young man discovers ice-nine, which can set off a chain reaction more deadly than a nuclear bomb, and a new prophet whose teachings sweep the world.

F WOO

Woodson, Jacqueline. Red at the bone. New York : Riverhead Books, 2019.

"An unexpected teenage pregnancy pulls together two families from different social classes, and exposes the private hopes, disappointments, and longings that can bind or divide us from each other . . . As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier, that very dress was measured and sewn for a different wearer: Melody's mother, for her own ceremony-- a celebration that ultimately never took place"--Provided by publisher.

FANTASY ADE

Adeyemi, Tomi, author. Children of blood and bone. First edition 2018.

Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.

FANTASY BAR

Bardugo, Leigh, author. Six of crows. First edition.

"Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction--if they don't kill each other first"--Provided by publisher.

GRAPH F YAN

Yang, Gene Luen. American born Chinese. 1st ed. New York : First Second, 2006.

Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format.

GRAPHIC B SPI

Spiegelman, Art. Maus : a survivor's tale. New York : Pantheon Books, [1986].

A memoir about Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and with history itself. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice and Nazis as cats.

GRAPHIC B SPI

Spiegelman, Art. Maus : and here my troubles began. New York : Pantheon Books, 1991.

HISTORICAL BER

Berry, Julie, 1974- author. Lovely war.

"In the perilous days of World Wars I and II, the gods hold the fates -- and the hearts -- of four mortals in their hands. They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, and Colette. A classical pianist from London, a British would-be architect-turned-soldier, a Harlem-born ragtime genius in the U.S. Army, and a Belgian orphan with a gorgeous voice and a devastating past. Their story, as told by goddess Aphrodite to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, is filled with hope and heartbreak, prejudice and passion, and reveals that, though War is a formidable force, it's no match for the transcendent power of Love"--Adapted from jacket.

HISTORICAL BRO

Brooks, Geraldine. March : a novel. New York : Penguin Books, 2006.

Follows the experiences of Mr. March, the father in Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women," as he witnesses the cruelty and racism of both Northern and Southern soldiers and the harsh realities of Civil War.

HISTORICAL CAT

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. Death comes for the archbishop. Vintage Classics ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1990.

The literal and spiritual journey of two French priests who come to the American Southwest as missionaries in the mid-1800s.

HISTORICAL CHA

Chabon, Michael. The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Random House, [2000].

Joe Kavalier has managed to escape from Nazi-occupied Prague, and now he must use his cunning wits to help rescue his family from Hitler's evil plans.

HISTORICAL COA

Coates, Ta-Nehisi. The water dancer : a novel. 1st ed. New York : One World, [2019].

"Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation family, Thena, his chosen mother, a woman of few words and many secrets, and Sophia, a young woman fighting her own war even as she and Hiram fall in love, he becomes determined to escape the only home he's ever known. So begins an unexpected journey into the covert war on slavery that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia's proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the deep South to dangerously utopic movements in the North. Even as he's enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, all Hiram wants is to return to the Walker Plantation to free the family he left behind--but to do so, he must first master his magical gift and reconstruct the story of his greatest loss"--Provided by publisher.

HISTORICAL CRA

Crane, Stephen. The Red badge of courage. Pleasantville, NY, : The Reader's Digest Association Inc, 1982.

HISTORICAL DOC

Doctorow, E. L., 1931-. Ragtime. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c1975.

Three remarkable families lives' become entwined with Henry Ford, Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan, Theodore Dreiser, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata at the turn of the century.

HISTORICAL FIT

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. This side of paradise. 1st Scribner classic/Collier ed. New York : Collier Books, 1986.

The coming of age story of a young college man in his twenties including his years in prep school and his times at Princeton.

HISTORICAL GAB

Gabaldon, Diana. Outlander. New York : Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2001.

HISTORICAL GIL

Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969-. City of girls. New York : Riverhead Books, 2019.

"In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing show girls to a sexy male actor, a grand-dame actress, a lady-killer writer, and no-nonsense stage manager. But when Vivian makes a personal mistake that results in professional scandal, it turns her new world upside down in ways that it will take her years to fully understand"--Provided by.

HISTORICAL HEM

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. For whom the bell tolls. New York : Scribner Classics, [1996].

The story of an American, Robert Jordan, who fought during the Civil War in Spain with the anti-fascist guerrillas in the mountains of Spain.

HISTORICAL HUR

Hurston, Zora Neale. Their eyes were watching God. 1st Perennial Classics ed. New York : Perennial, 1998, c1937.

An African-American woman searches for a fulfilling relationship through two loveless marriages and finally finds it in the person of Tea Cake, an itinerant laborer and gambler.

HISTORICAL HUR

Hurston, Zora Neale. Their eyes were watching God : a novel. 1st Perennial Library ed. New York : Perennial Library, 1990.

Married to a man she did not love, Janie was not yet forty when Joe died. Then she found true happiness.

HISTORICAL LEE

Lee, Harper, author. Go set a watchman. First edition.

In the mid-1950s, twenty-six-year-old Jean Louis Finch, "Scout," returns to Maycomb, Alabama, to visit her father, Atticus, but her homecoming turns bittersweet and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt as she uncovers truths about her family, friends, and town which are exposed by civil rights tensions and political turmoil.

HISTORICAL OBR

O'Brien, Tim, 1946-. The things they carried : a work of fiction. 1st Broadway Books trade pbk. ed. New York : Broadway Books, 1998, c1990.

Related stories, linked by recurring characters and an interwoven plot, recreate an American foot soldier's experience in the Vietnam War.

HISTORICAL SHA

Shaffer, Mary Ann. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. New York : Dial Press, 2008.

Juliet Ashton, a thirty-year-old author, writes to her publisher expressing her desire to stop covering the aftermath of WWII, but Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams invites neighbors to write to Juliet with their stories, which puts her off at first but eventually helps her find inspiration for her next book, and her life.

HISTORICAL TAN

Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club. New York : Putnam's, [1989].

The personal, often painful, histories of four Chinese American women who began meeting in San Francisco in 1949 to play mah jong are revealed as the daughter of one who has died searches for her sisters in China to tell them about the mother they never knew.

HISTORICAL VON

Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death. 25th anniversary ed. New York, N.Y. : Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, [1994].

A fourth-generation German-American is tortured by his memories of the firebombing of Dresden in 1944 which he witnessed while a prisoner or war.

HISTORICAL WHA

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Ethan Frome and other stories. Philadelphia : Courage Books, c1996.

Ethan Frome -- The other two -- The dilettante -- Xingu -- From the introduction to Modern critical views--Edith Wharton / by Harold Bloom.m.

HORROR KIN

King, Stephen, 1947-. Pet sematary : a novel. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, 2018.

When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic rural town of Ludlow, Maine, this new beginning seems too good to be true. Yet despite Ludlow's tranquility, an undercurrent of danger exists here. Those trucks on the road outside the Creeds' beautiful old home travel by just a little too quickly, for one thing ... as is evidenced by the makeshift pet cemetary in the nearby woods. Then there are the warnings to Louis, both real and from the depths of his nightmares that he should not venture beyond the borders of this little graveyard. A blood-chilling truth is hidden there - one more terrifying than death itself, and hideously more powerful. An ominous fate befalls anyone who dares to tamper with this forbidden place, as Louis is about to discover himself. As the story unfolds, so does a nightmare of the supernatural, one so relentless you might not want to continue reading but will be unable to stop.

SCIFI AND

Anderson, M. T. Feed. 1st ed. Cambridge, MA : Candlewick, 2002.

In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.

SCIFI BRO

Brown, Pierce, 1988-. Red rising. 1st ed. New York : Del Rey, 2014.

Darrow, a Red, which is the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future, joins a revolutionary cell and attempts to infiltrate an elite military academy after witnessing the execution of his wife.

SCIFI CAR

Card, Orson Scott. Ender's game. New York, N.Y. : T. Doherty Associates, c1985.

Ender, who is the result of genetic experimentation, may be the military genius Earth needs in its war against an alien enemy.

SCIFI CLI

Cline, Ernest. Ready player one. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Broadway Paperbacks, c2011.

SCIFI ERD

Erdrich, Louise, author. Future home of the living god : a novel. First edition.

The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Twenty-six-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted, open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant. Though she wants to tell the adoptive parents who raised her from infancy, Cedar first feels compelled to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe living on the reservation, to understand both her and her baby's origins. As Cedar goes back to her own biological beginnings, society around her begins to disintegrate, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity. There are rumors of martial law, of Congress confining pregnant women. Of a registry, and rewards for those who turn these wanted women in. Flickering through the chaos are signs of increasing repression: a shaken Cedar witnesses a family wrenched apart when police violently drag a mother from her husband and child in a parking lot. The streets of her neighborhood have been renamed with Bible verses. A stranger answers the phone when she calls her adoptive parents, who have vanished without a trace. It will take all Cedar has to avoid the prying eyes of potential informants and keep her baby safe.

SCIFI LE

Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-. The dispossessed : a novel. 1st Perennial Classics ed. New York : Perennial Classics, 2003.

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, attempts to reunite two planets cut off from each other by centuries of distrust.

SCIFI NES

Ness, Patrick, 1971-. The knife of never letting go. 1st U.S. ed. Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2008.

Todd, one month away from an important birthday, learns all the tough lessons of adulthood when he is forced to flee after discovering a secret near the town where he lives.

SCIFI VAN

VanderMeer, Jeff, author. Annihilation. First edition, 2014.

"Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition, consisting of four women, hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself."--Provided by OCLC.

SCIFI WEI

Weir, Andy, author. The Martian : a novel. First edition.

Astronaut Mark Watney, having been stranded on Mars during a dust storm, relies on his ingenuity and engineering skills to stay alive and try to contact NASA.

SCIFI WES

Westerfeld, Scott. Uglies. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2005.

Tally is faced with a difficult choice when her new friend Shay decides to risk life on the outside rather than submit to the forced operation that turns sixteen year old girls into gorgeous beauties, and realizes that there is a whole new side to the pretty world that she doesn't like.

SCIFI WIL

Wilson, Daniel H. (Daniel Howard), 1978-. Robopocalypse : a novel. 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Books, 2012.

Two decades into the future humans are battling for their very survival when a powerful AI computer goes rogue, and all the machines on earth rebel against their human controllers.

SPEC AUDIO F HUR

Hurston, Zora Neale. Their eyes were watching God. New York, : HarperCollins Publishers, 2000.

Their eyes were watching God 7 hrs/4 cassetts\;Mules and men 3 hrs/2 cassetts.

SUPERNATURAL BER

Berry, Bertice. The haunting of hip hop : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2001.

New York hip hop producer Harry "Freedom" Hudson is strangely drawn to an abandoned Harlem house and finds it is haunted by spirits who say the magic of the old African drum--which is not just an instrument but a conveyor of wisdom--is being used by rap music to send the wrong message.

SUPERNATURAL MIL

Miller, Madeline, author. Circe : a novel. First edition: April 2018.

"Follows Circe, the banished witch daughter of Helios, as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals"--Provided by publisher.

SUPERNATURAL POR

Porter, Sarah, 1969- author. Vassa in the night. First edition.

In the enchanted kingdom of Brooklyn, Vassa uses a magical gift from her dead mother to take on Babs Yaga, the witch who owns the local convenience store. Inspired by the Russian folktale Vassilissa the Beautiful.

SUPERNATURAL RIG

Riggs, Ransom. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. 1st pbk. ed. Philadelphia : Quirk Books, 2013.

Sixteen-year-old Jacob, having traveled to a remote island after a family tragedy, discovers an abandoned orphanage, and, after some investigating, he learns the children who lived there may have been dangerous and quarantined and may also still be alive.

SUPERNATURAL SHE

Shepherd, Megan. The madman's daughter. 1st ed. New York : Balzer + Bray, c2013.

Dr. Moreau's daughter, Juliet, travels to her estranged father's island, only to encounter murder, medical horrors, and a love triangle.

SUSPENSE ABB

Abbott, Megan E., 1971- author. The fever : a novel. First edition.

"The panic unleashed by a mysterious contagion threatens the bonds of family and community in a seemingly idyllic suburban community. The Nash family is close-knit. Tom is a popular teacher, father of two teens: Eli, a hocky star and girl magnet, and his sister Deenie, a diligent student. Their seeming stability, however, is thrown into chaos when Deenie's best friend is struck by a terrifying, unexplained seizure in class. Rumors of a hazardous outbreak spread through the family, school and community. As hysteria and contagion swell, a series of tightly held secrets emerges, threatening to unravel friendships, families and the town's fragile idea of security"--From publisher's web site.

SUSPENSE DOI

Doiron, Paul. Trespasser. 1st ed. New York : Minotaur Books, 2011.

Maine game warden Mike Dowditch responds to a call for help from a woman who has struck a deer only to find blood on the road and the deer and woman missing, and when he discovers similarities between another case from seven years ago, Mike fears lobsterman Erland Jefferts was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of a wealthy college student, but his investigation opens old wounds and angers locals who believe justice was served.

SUSPENSE HAM

Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961. The Maltese falcon. Vintage Books ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1989, c1930.

In San Francisco in 1928, Sam Spade searches for a priceless statuette. He finds himself torn between loyalty to his murdered partner and an opportunity for personal gain.

SUSPENSE HIA

Hiaasen, Carl, author. Bad monkey : a novel. First edition.

In Florida, Andrew Yancy must negotiate unpredictable events and characters on why a human arm is in his freezer.

SUSPENSE MOS

Mosley, Walter. Fortunate son. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2006.

The lives of two stepbrothers, one from a life of privilege and the other in a life of hardship, explore the true meaning of fortune when they are reunited after years being apart.