Books available to Swap

Tomorrow's America is a cold and ravaged place, a nation devastated by despair and enduring winter. In a small New England city, senior government official Dr. Judith Carriol finds the man she has been seeking--a deliverer of hope in a hopeless time who can revive the dreams of a shattered people, a magnetic, compassionate idealist whom Judith can mold, manipulate and carry to undreamed -of heights, a healer who must ultimately face damnation through the destructive power of love.

Brimming with heart-pounding suspense and legal intrigue, the novel that placed John Grisham on the literary map forever changed the way the public looks at the law. In "The Firm", a young attorney is drawn to a successful law firm in Memphis where the perks are good--but the secrets are deadly.

Elegant Kate, walking a tightrope over an abyss of lies...sensitive, sensible, self-contained Cecie...Ginger, the heiress, sexy, vibrant, richer than sin...and poor, hopeless, brilliant Fig-they came together as sorority sisters on a Southern campus in the '60s. Four young women bound by rare, blinding, early friendship- they spend two idyllic spring breaks at Nag's Head, North Carolinas, the isolated strip of barrier islands where grand old weatherbeaten houses perch defiantly on the edge of a storm-tossed sea. Now thirty years later, they are coming back. They are coming back to recapture the exquisite magic of those early years...to experience again the love, the enthusiasm, the passion, pain, and cruel-betrayal that shaped the four young girls into women and set them all adrift on the ....Outer Banks.

The acclaimed author of Servant of the Bones makes real for us the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brought them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera houses of Europe, men who lived as idols, concealing their pain as they were adored as angels, yet shunned as half men.

When published in 1890, Oscar Wilde's version of the Faust myth, wherein a fashionable young man sells his soul for eternal youth while his portrait grows old, was attacked for its "mawkish and nauseous" tone. However, the novel has fascinated readers for over a century.

(paperback)Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Novel by Ayn Rand, published in 1957. The book's female protagonist, Dagny Taggart, struggles to manage a transcontinental railroad amid the pressures and restrictions of massive bureaucracy. Her antagonistic reaction to a libertarian group seeking an end to government regulation is later echoed and modified in her encounter with a utopian community, Galt's Gulch, whose members regard self-determination rather than collective responsibility as the highest ideal. The novel contains the most complete presentation of Rand's personal philosophy, known as objectivism, in fictional form.

An exploration of the eternal struggle of the individual versus the state, the novel offers the first statement of Rand's philosophy of Objectivism. With the continued interest of her enormous following around the world, this special anniversary edition is sure to be in great demand.

Like The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three is a brilliant work of dark fantasy, inspired by Browning's romantic poem, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came." The Man in Black is dead, and Roland is about to be hurled into 20th-century America, occupying the mind of a man running cocaine on the New York/Bermuda shuttle.

In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant."

Satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh, published in 1934. The novel, which is often considered Waugh's best, examines the themes of contemporary amorality and the death of spiritual values. Precipitated by the failure of Waugh's marriage and by his conversion to Roman Catholicism, the novel points up the similarities between the savagery of so-called civilized London society and the barbarity encountered by the hero in the South American jungle. The novel's protagonist, Tony Last, is bewildered and devastated when, out of boredom, his beloved wife Brenda has an affair and sues Tony for divorce. Tony flees to South America, where he is captured by a demented, illiterate English squatter who keeps Tony a prisoner, forcing him to read aloud continuously from the works of Charles Dickens.

(softcover)The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing

Meet Macon Leary--a travel writer who hates both travel and strangeness. Grounded by loneliness, comfort, and a somewhat odd domestic life, Macon is about to embark on a surprising new adventure, arriving in the form of a fuzzy-haired dog obedience trainer who promises to turn his life around.

After an old gypsy woman is killed by his car, lawyer Billy Halleck is stricken with a flesh-wasting malady and must undertake a nightmarish journey to confront the forces of death.

(paperback)The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid

Kincaid's new and long-awaited novel is a powerful and unforgettable story of loss, longing, loving, and survival that resonants with the proud insurgence of the human will. The story of Xuela, whose mother dies at the moment she is born, presents "an indeliable portrait of an angry woman"

(paperback)The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades. A celebrated novel in the tradition of Alice Adams and Margaret Atwood from the bestselling author of The Kitchen God's Wife.

>

(hardcover)Spencerville by Nelson Demille

From the bestselling author of The General's Daughter comes a gripping, poignant story of lost love, betrayal and revenge. Keith Landry, an ex-intelligence operative, is finally going home after 25 years of working in the shadowy world of Cold War espionage. But in his hometown of Spencerville, he finds his old sweetheart married to a man more dangerous than any of Landry's Cold War enemies

(paperback)Message from Nam by Danielle Steele

For seven years Paxton Andrews wrote an acclaimed newspaper column from the front lines of the Vietnam War. For Paxton and the soldiers she knew, the war was like a nightmare from which they could not rouse themselves. In thi s monumental work about America's most tragic hour, Danielle Steel creates a powerful portrait of those who were changed forever by the Vietnam War

(paperback)A Time to Kill by John Grisham

A white criminal lawyer in a small southern town is appointed to a case that has gained national attention--defending an Afro-American father who was forced to take the law into his own hands after his ten-year-old daughter's brutal murder. (paperback)In Pursuit of Hygiene by Helen Razer

Nothing is sacred in this brilliantly ballistic offering from Triple J star Helen Razer, co-author of the bestselling Three Beers and a Chinese Meal

(paperback)Girls Night Out by Kathy Lette

(Hardcover)Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

In his 15th novel, Wallace Stegner tells a story of richness and beauty, centering on the lifelong friendship between two couples. He explores the alchemy of their friendship and turns what could have been a story of broken dreams and shattered lives into one of acceptance and affirmation.

Harlequin Mills and Boon Novels

Marriage Shy by Karen Van Der Zee
Wicked Caprice by Anne Mather
One-Man Woman by Carole Mortimer
A Husbands Revenge by Lee Wilkinson

Readers Digest Condensed Books

Mackinnon's Machine by S.K. Wolf

Circle of Pearls by Rosalind Laker

Blaze by Robert Somerlott

Crackdown by Bernard Cornwell

Free to Trade by Michael Ridpath

The Tigers Child by Torey Haydon

Wall of Brass by Robert Daley

Salem Street by Anna Jacobs

Home

Email

Books

Wish List