Reading for fun at STL
Did you know the college library doesn't just have academic tomes but also books you might want to read for pleasure and relaxation?
We’ve got bestselling fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and short stories. In addition, we’ve got a large collection of classics in literature and history. So if you have a little down time over the weekend or during semester breaks, please explore these pages or come browse the stacks.
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New Fiction at STL
Call Number: Stacks PN6727.G466 C35 2013
ISBN: 0547615590
Publication Date: 2013-01-22
"When Nicole Georges was two years old, her family told her that her father was dead. When she was twenty-three, a psychic told her he was alive. Her sister, saddled with guilt, admits that the psychic is right and that the whole family has conspired to keep him a secret. Sent into a tailspin about her identity, Nicole turns to radio talk-show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger for advice-- Calling Dr. Laura tells the story of what happens to you when you are raised in a family of secrets, and what happens to your brain (and heart) when you learn the truth from an unlikely source" -- from publisher’s web site.
Call Number: Stacks PS3553.H15 T45 2012
ISBN: 0061493341
Publication Date: 2012-09-11
In this novel the author takes us to Telegraph Avenue. It is a story that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California, families, one black and one white. Here he creates a world grounded in pop culture: Kung Fu, 1970s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music, and an epic of friendship, race, and secret histories. Longtime band mates Archy and Nat preside over Brokeland Records, a used-record emporium. All is well until a former NFL quarterback, one of the country’s richest African Americans, decides to build his latest Dogpile megastore on nearby Telegraph Avenue. Not only could this spell doom for the little shop and its cross-race, cross-class dream, but it opens up past history regarding Archy’s untethered dad and a Black Panther-era crime.
Call Number: Stacks PS3623.A36 A73 2012
ISBN: 0812992970
Publication Date: 2012-06-26
“On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her family awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow. The days and nights grow longer and longer, gravity is affected, the environment is thrown into disarray. Yet as she struggles to navigate an ever-shifting landscape, Julia is also coping with the normal disasters of everyday life—the fissures in her parents’ marriage, the loss of old friends, the hopeful anguish of first love, the bizarre behavior of her grandfather who, convinced of a government conspiracy, spends his days obsessively cataloging his possessions. As Julia adjusts to the new normal, the slowing inexorably continues.” – Publisher’s description.
Call Number: PS3569.A7897 T46 2013
ISBN: 0812993802
In this fourth short story work, by an author described by at least one reviewer as an acquired taste, Saunders' newest collection is "filled with economic struggles and class envy, with war and its effects, with drugs that serve as a substitute for deeper emotions (like love) and perhaps a cure (at least temporary) for what one of the stories calls a sort of vast existential nausea.” --Kirkus Reviews
Call Number: PS3570.Y45 B44 2012
ISBN: 0307957276
Publication Date: 2012
". . .Pulitzer Prize winner Tyler brilliantly explores a stunning range of human emotion, poignantly considering the challenges of death while creating lovable characters whose foibles capture our hearts. Essential reading.” —Library Journal
Call Number: PS3555.R42 R68 2012
ISBN: 0062065246
Publication Date: 2012
Set on an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota in 1988, Erdrich’s 14th novel focuses on 13-year-old Joseph. After his mother is brutally raped yet refuses to speak about the experience, Joe must not only cope with her slow physical and mental recovery but also confront his own feelings of anger and helplessness.—LJ, August 2012
Call Number: Stacks PR6063.A438 B75 2012
ISBN: 0805090037
Publication Date: 2012
The sequel to Hilary Mantel’s 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn
Call Number: Stacks PS3563.O8749 H66 2012
ISBN: 0307594165
Publication Date: 2012
Frank is an angry, broken veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. He is shocked out of his apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from and that he's hated all his life.
Call Number: PR9499.4.R693 A85 2011
ISBN: 1451608624
Anuradha Roy’s American debut chronicles multiple generations of an Indian family from the turn of the 20th century to India’s partition. Reviewers have praised the book for its lyrical style, larger than life characters, and intricately woven tapestry of modern love and life.
Call Number: PS3615.T88 B83 2011
ISBN: 0307700003
This story of a group of ‘picture brides’ brought over from Japan to San Francisco nearly a century ago has been praised for its spare, poetic prose. In tracing the lives of these 6 young brides, the author has “captured the experiences of thousands of women.”
Call Number: PR9619.3.B7153 C36 2011
ISBN: 0670021040
In 1665, a young man from Martha’s Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. Note to lovers of historical fiction--also read Brook's earlier works: Year of Wonders, March, and People of the Book.
Call Number: PR6063.C326 F67 2011
ISBN: 1408703408
This latest edition to McCall Smith's Sunday Philosophy Club series features Edinburgh's top amateur sleuth, ethics editor Isabel Dalhousie. Although lesser known than the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, Dalhousie's meditations on music, men, and death can be quite addictive.
Call Number: PS3555.U4 M37 2011
ISBN: 0374203059
One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2011 and a New York Times Notable Book of 2011, Eugenides third novel charts a year in the lives of three college seniors at Brown in the early 80s. Reviewers have praised Eugenides for his skill at “channeling teenage angst,” and his “his send-ups of the pretensions of chic undergraduate subcultures.”
Call Number: PR6052.A6657 S46 2011
ISBN: 0307957128
In his fourteenth book, the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize, Barnes follows a middle-aged man as he contends with his past and revises his estimation of his own place in the world, when memories and old acquaintances return with a vengeance.
New Audio Books at STL
Click HERE for a list of audio books at STL or try some of these newest additions to our collection:
Call Number: Media/Audio Computer Disk PT9876.22.A6933 L8413 2010c
ISBN: 0307879305
Publication Date: 2011
Call Number: Media/Audio Computer Disk: E909 .K36 2012c / Audio
ISBN: 1611139732
Publication Date: 2012
Call Number: Media/Audio Computer Disk PS3569.E314 B3 2011c
ISBN: 1609417666
Publication Date: 2011
Call Number: Media/Audio Computer Disk BF698.35.I59 C35 2012c
ISBN: 1415959129
Publication Date: 2011
Other places for good books...
If our library does not have what you're looking for you might be able to find it in one of our regional public libraries systems. Here are links to a few local libraries:
The Elting Memorial Library: Located right in the center of town, the Elting is a member of the Mid-Hudson Library System.
The Gardiner Library: Located about 7 miles away in the Hamlet of Gardiner, this library is a member of the Ramapo Catskill Library System.
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