What to read while waiting for...

The Buried Giant By Ishiguro, Kazuo 2015-03 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307271037 Check Our Catalog From the author of "Never Let Me Go "and the Booker Prize-winning "The Remains of the Day" " " The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But, at least, the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. Axl and Beatrice, a couple of elderly Britons, decide that now is the time, finally, for them to set off across this troubled land of mist and rain to …More

Are you patiently (or not so patiently) waiting for that best seller?  Here are some suggestions!

Hild By Griffith, Nicola 2014-10 - Picador USA 9781250056092 Check Our Catalog A brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: Hild …More

The Unconsoled By Ishiguro, Kazuo 1996-10 - Vintage Books 9780679735878 Check Our Catalog The Unconsoled is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control. The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and …More

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation By Heaney, Seamus 2001-02 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393320978 Check Our Catalog Composed toward the end of the first millennium, "Beowulf" is the classic Northern epic of a hero's triumphs as a young warrior and his fated death as a defender of his people. In his new translation--a national bestseller that is the winner of the Whitbread Award--Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney has produced a work that is both true, line by line, to the original poem and a fundamental expression of …More