What to read while waiting for...

The Great Alone By Hannah, Kristin 2018-02 - St. Martin's Press 9780312577230 Check Our Catalog "A TOUR DE FORCE." --Kirkus (starred review) Alaska, 1974. Unpredictable. Unforgiving. Untamed. For a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival. Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive …More

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

The Things They Carried By O'Brien, Tim 1998-01 - Broadway Books 9780767902892 Check Our Catalog One of the first questions people ask about The Things They Carried is this: Is it a novel, or a collection of short stories? The title page refers to the book simply as "a work of fiction," defying the conscientious reader's need to categorize this masterpiece. It is both: a collection of interrelated short pieces which ultimately reads with the dramatic force and tension of a novel. Yet each one …More

The Reason You're Alive By Quick, Matthew 2017-07 - Harper 9780062424303 Check Our Catalog The New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook offers a timely novel featuring his most fascinating character yet, a Vietnam vet embarking on a quixotic crusade to track down his nemesis from the war. After sixty-eight-year-old David Granger crashes his BMW, medical tests reveal a brain tumor that he readily attributes to his wartime Agent Orange …More

The Life We Bury By Eskens, Allen 2014-10 - Seventh Street Books 9780872721043 Check Our Catalog College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. …More