Middletown Thrall Library Invites You to Hop... BEYOND THE BESTSELLERS: Your Personal Guide to Interesting Books Not Necessarily Found on Bestseller Lists: Fall 2007 Edition

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GENERAL FICTION

  • Red Rover - Deirdre McNamer - Brothers Aidan and Neil Tierney enlist to serve in World War II. One becomes a pilot, and the other monitors Nazis in Argentina. Upon returning to the states, Aidan is found dead. It takes decades to find out why.
  • Hartsburg, USA - David Mizner - Written around a school board election, this novel reflects the country's culture wars. A born-again Christian is running against a failed screenwriter. They both bring past baggage to the campaign making this a fun and thought-provoking read.
  • Consumption - Kevin Patterson - A must read star reviewed first novel in which traditional Inuit life collides with twentieth century American culture.
  • The End of the Alphabet - C.S. Richardson - Ambrose Zephyr, who has been given one month to live, spends his last weeks traveling on a worldwide whirlwind tour of places A to Z with his wife Zappora Ashkenazi preparing for the inevitable.


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HISTORICAL FICTION

  • Tipperary - Frank Delaney - Itinerant healer Charles O'Brien assists a young Englishwomen to claim Castle Tipperary. Spanning the years from 1860 to 1922, the story is entwined with the history of Ireland itself.
  • The Whale Road - Robert Low - A band of Viking marauders takes to the sea to find the legendary lost treasure of Attila the Hun. The first of an epic adventure trilogy set in the tenth century.


MYSTERIES

  • Shadows and Lies - Marjorie Eccles - Amnesiac Hannah Smith believes the woman found murdered on the estate of Sir Henry Chetwynd holds a key to her lost memory. This Edwardian mystery is rich in historical detail and suspense.
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SCIENCE FICTION

  • Halting State- Charles Stross - In 2018, Seargeant Sue Smith of Edinburgh is assigned to the investigation of a bank robbery. But this is not your father's bank robbery. The bank is located in the virtual world of Avalon Four, and the suspects are orcs protected by a dragon!


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