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2) Terrorist
Author
Language
English
Description
Ahmad, 18, was born to an Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father, and is devoted to Allah and the sacred words of the Qu'ran, as revealed to him by the local imam. With his father long since disappeared, Ahmad craves spiritual nurture and views the self-indulgent society around him in New Jersey with contempt. Neither the well-intentioned Jewish guidance counselor at the high school, nor a seductive classmate is able to succeed in deflecting...
3) S
Author
Language
English
Description
New Englander Sarah Worth goes west to join a Hindu commune in Arizona. There she mingles with the other sannyasins (pilgrims) in the difficult attempt to subdue ego and achieve salvation and release from illusion.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Edition
1st trade ed.
Physical Desc
512 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ex-basketball player Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo and a second grandchild. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically and his wife, Janice, decides in mid-life to become a working girl. As, through the winter, spring and summer of 1989, Reagan's debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that of George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age, looking for reasons to live."
6) The centaur
Author
Language
English
Description
Retells the myth of Chiron, wisest of the centaurs who gives up immortality for Prometheus, in a modern setting where Chiron is a high-school science teacher, George Caldwell, and Prometheus is his fifteen-year-old son, Peter.
12) Seek my face
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Seek My Face draws on the story of Lee Miller and Jackson Pollock, the model for Hope's first husband. These are the best parts of a slow, sumptuous, and intricately detailed novel that lacks any significant action except in retrospect. Hope's second husband is depicted as an amalgam of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, and Wayne Thiebaud--a useful survey of the period, but not compelling characterization.
13) Brazil
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st Trade ed.
Physical Desc
260 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Classic love story of Tristao Raposo and Isabel Leme set in Brazil spanning twenty-two years from the mid-Sixties to the mid-Eighties.
16) Roger's version
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1986
Edition
1st trade ed.
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Roger Lambert, a divinity school professor, is visited by a young computer hacker who believes that scientific evidence of God's existence is irresistibly accumulating.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
334 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fictional journal that traces the life of Ben Turnbull, a sixty-six-year-old retired investment counselor living north of Boston in 2020 in the aftermath of a war between the United States and China which has resulted in social chaos, but left him and his family relatively comfortable.
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