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Books You Can Borrow

Below is a list of the books available for loan for your book discussion.  In parentheses you will find the total number of copies available for that title. Please e-mail Nancy Conner to order books or inquire about the service.

Click here for a list that is arranged alphabetically by title.

• Adams, Henry, DEMOCRACY: AN AMERICAN NOVEL (21)
• Aitmatov, Chingiz, DAY LASTS MORE THAN A HUNDRED YEARS, THE (8)
• Akbar, Said Hyer, COME BACK TO AFGHANISTAN (25)
• Alcott, Louisa May, LITTLE WOMEN (45)
• Allende, Isabel, HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS, THE (7)
• Anaya, Rudolfo A., BLESS ME ULTIMA (19)
• Anderson, Sherwood, WINESBURG, OHIO (17)
• Angelou, Maya, HEART OF A WOMAN, THE (15)
• Ansay, A. Manette, BLUE WATER (12)
• Arnow, Harriet Simpson, DOLLMAKER, THE (18)
• Atwood, Margaret, HANDMAID'S TALE, THE (28)
• Auster, Paul, NEW YORK TRILOGY, THE (6)
• Avi, NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH (21)
• Azuela, Mariano, UNDERDOGS, THE (51)
• Babbitt, Natalie, TUCK EVERLASTING (20)
• Bainton, Roland, HERE I STAND: A LIFE OF MARTIN LUTHER (20)
• Baker, Russell, GROWING UP (17)
• Baldwin, James, GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN (24)
• Banks, Russell, SWEET HEREAFTER, THE (35)
• Baum, L. Frank, WIZARD OF OZ, THE (11)
• Bell, Christine, PEREZ FAMILY, THE (21)
• Bellamy, Edward, LOOKING BACKWARD (26)
• Bernstein, Carl, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (18)
• Blair, Walter, HALF HORSE HALF ALLIGATOR: MIKE FINK LEGEND (24)
• Bohjalian, Chris, MIDWIVES: A NOVEL (9)
• Brecht, Bertold, LIFE OF GALILEO (22)
• Brickhill, Paul, GREAT ESCAPE, THE (26)
• Brink, Andre, DRY WHITE SEASON, A (7)
• Brinkley, Alan, VOICES OF PROTEST (20)
• Brooks, Paul, HOUSE OF LIFE, THE: RACHEL CARSON AT WORK (20)
• Brown Wesley & Amy Ling (eds.), VISIONS OF AMERICA (48)
• Burnett, Frances Hodgson, SECRET GARDEN, THE (29)
• Burns, Olive Ann, COLD SASSY TREE (16)
• Burroughs, Edgar Rice, TARZAN - THE CLASSICS (19)
• Butler, Octavia, KINDRED (8)
• Campbell, Joseph, MYTHS TO LIVE BY (26)
• Carver, Ann, BAMBOO SHOOTS AFTER THE RAIN (8)
• Castellanos, Rosario, ANOTHER WAY TO BE: ROSARIO CASTELLANOS (36)
• Cather, Willa, O PIONEERS (20)
• Cather, Willa, PROFESSOR'S HOUSE, THE (24)
• Catton, William & Bruce, TWO ROADS TO SUMTER (11)
• Chandler, Raymond, LONG GOODBYE, THE (10)
• Chase, Joan, DURING THE REIGN OF THE QUEEN OF PERSIA (54)
• Chevalier, Tracy, GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING (22)
• Clancy, Tom, SUM OF ALL FEARS, THE (16)
• Cleage, Pearl, WHAT LOOKS LIKE CRAZY ON AN ORDINARY DAY (10)
• Coerr, Eleanor, SADAKO AND THE THOUSAND PAPER CRANES (22)
• Connelly, Michael, POET, THE (23)
• Cooper, James Fenimore, LAST OF THE MOHICANS, THE (25)
• Cormier, Robert, I AM THE CHEESE (51)
• Coughlin, William J., SHADOW OF A DOUBT (34)
• Cowan, Paul, ORPHAN IN HISTORY, AN (20)
• Crew, Linda, CHILDREN OF THE RIVER (20)
• Crichton, Michael, AIRFRAME (15)
• Cunliffe, Marcus, GEORGE WASHINGTON: MAN AND MONUMENT (26)
• Current, Richard N., LINCOLN NOBODY KNOWS, THE (22)
• Cushman, Karen, MIDWIFE'S APPRENTICE, THE (24)
• Dams, Jeane M., BODY IN THE TRANSEPT, THE (33)
• Dandicat, Edwidge, BREATH, EYES, MEMORY (13)
• Davidson, Diane Mott, DYING FOR CHOCOLATE (33)
• Davidson, Mary Janice, UNDEAD AND UNWED (9)
• Delinsky, Barbara, FAMILY TREE (11)
• Deveraux, Jude, AWAKENING (7)
• DeVoto (ed.), Bernard, JOURNALS OF LEWIS AND CLARK, THE (17)
• Dick, Philip K., BLADE RUNNER (DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?) (9)
• Dillard, Annie, PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK (19)
• Doig, Ivan, THIS HOUSE OF SKY (42)
• Dreiser, Theodore, FINANCIER, THE (22)
• Dreiser, Theodore, AMERICAN TRAGEDY, AN (7)
• Duncan, Isadora, MY LIFE (6)
• Edmonds, Walter D., DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK (7)
• Edwards, Kim, MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER (11)
• Eggleston, Edward, HOOSIER SCHOOLMASTER, THE (18)
• Eggleston, Edward, HOOSIER SCHOOL BOY, THE (34)
• Ehrenreich, Barbara, NICKEL AND DIMED (19)
• Ellison, Ralph, INVISIBLE MAN (12)
• Enchi, Fumiko, WAITING YEARS, THE (9)
• Ephron, Delia, BIG CITY EYES (8)
• Esquivel, Laura, LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE (24)
• Esquivel, Laura, COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE (10)
• Eugenides, Jeffrey, MIDDLESEX (5)
• Evans, Nicholas, HORSE WHISPERER, THE (4)
• Faulkner, William, UNVANQUISHED, THE (25)
• Flagg, Fannie, FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE STOP CAFÉ (32)
• Flaubert, Gustave, MADAME BOVARY (22)
• Fluke, Joanne, CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE MURDER (10)
• Fowles, John, FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN, THE (24)
• Francis, Dick, FLYING FINISH (11)
• Franklin, John Hope, RECONSTRUCTION AFTER THE CIVIL WAR (15)
• Freeman, Russell, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT: A LIFE OF DISCOVERY (23)
• Fuentes, Carlos, DEATH OF ARTEMIO CRUZ, THE (32)
• Gaines, Ernest J., LESSON BEFORE DYING, A (49)
• Galbraith, John, GREAT CRASH 1929, THE (28)
• Gibbons, Kaye, VIRTUOUS WOMAN, A (27)
• Gibbons, Kaye, ELLEN FOSTER (14)
• Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, HERLAND: A LOST FEMINIST UTOPIAN NOVEL (27)
• Gilman, Dorothy, AMAZING MRS. POLLIFAX, THE (8)
• Godwin, Gail, MOTHER AND TWO DAUGHTERS, A (16)
• Goodwin, Doris Kearns, WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR (15)
• Grace, Patricia, POTIKI (8)
• Grafton, Sue, C IS FOR CORPSE (13)
• Grafton, Sue, I IS FOR INNOCENT (18)
• Grahame, Kenneth, WIND IN THE WILLOWS, THE (32)
• Greene, Bette, SUMMER OF MY GERMAN SOLDIER (28)
• Greene, Bob, ONCE UPON A TOWN: THE MIRACLE OF THE NORTH PLATTE CANTEEN (12)
• Greene, Graham, END OF THE AFFAIR, THE (8)
• Grey, Zane, RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE (16)
• Grisham, John, INNOCENT MAN, THE (5)
• Grisham, John, FIRM, THE (10)
• Grisham, John, SUMMONS, THE (11)
• Guest, Judith, ORDINARY PEOPLE (53)
• Gulley, Philip, HOME TO HARMONY (19)
• Guterson, David, SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS (20)
• Guthrie, Jr., A.B., BIG SKY, THE (16)
• Hamilton, Jane, BOOK OF RUTH, THE (13)
• Hammett, Dashiell, RED HARVEST (23)
• Hansberry, Lorraine, RAISIN IN THE SUN, A (64)
• Harris, Joanne, CHOCOLAT (12)
• Haruf, Kent, EVENTIDE (9)
• Haruf, Kent, PLAINSONG (26)
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, SCARLET LETTER, THE (46)
• Hegi, Ursula, STONES FROM THE RIVER (15)
• Hemingway, Ernest, SUN ALSO RISES, THE (22)
• Hersey, John, HIROSHIMA (23)
• Hillenbrand, Laura, SEABISCUIT (22)
• Hilton, James, LOST HORIZON (17)
• Hilton, James, GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS (13)
• Hoffman, Alice, HERE ON EARTH (26)
• Hoffman, Eva, LOST IN TRANSLATION (8)
• Hoppe (ed.), David, WHERE WE LIVE: ESSAYS ABOUT INDIANA (11)
• Hosseini, Khaled, KITE RUNNER, THE (7)
• Howard, Linda, SHADES OF TWILIGHT (7)
• Hubbard, Harlan, SHANTYBOAT: A RIVER WAY OF LIFE (30)
• Hyde, Catherine Ryan, PAY IT FORWARD (13)
• Ibsen, Henrik, FOUR MAJOR PLAYS: VOL. 1 (23)
• Ivins, Molly, MOLLY IVINS CAN'T SAY THAT, CAN SHE? (21)
• James, P.D., TASTE FOR DEATH, A (7)
• Jones, James, FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (25)
• Kaminsky, Stuart M., COLD RED SUNRISE, A (14)
• Karon, Jan, AT HOME IN MITFORD (13)
• Katz, Jon, DOGS OF BEDLAM FARM, THE (12)
• Keyes, Daniel, FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON (6)
• Kidd, Sue Monk, SECRET LIFE OF BEES, THE (6)
• Kim, CLAY WALLS (7)
• Kimmel, Haven, GIRL NAMED ZIPPY, A (20)
• Kincaid, Jamaica, LUCY (8)
• King, Stephen, STAND, THE (6)
• Kingsolver, Barbara, HIGH TIDE IN TUCSON (29)
• Kingsolver, Barbara, POISONWOOD BIBLE, THE (8)
• Kingston, Maxine Hong, WOMAN WARRIOR (20)
• Kirkpatrick, Jane, A NAME OF HER OWN (9)
• Krakauer, Jon, INTO THIN AIR (15)
• Kriebel, Robert, MIDAS OF THE WABASH, THE (11)
• Lamb, Wally, SHE'S COME UNDONE (18)
• Lamb, Wally, I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE (7)
• Lawsonj, Mary, CROW LAKE (15)
• Lee, Harper, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (25)
• Leffers, Laura Lynn, DANCE ON THE WATER (25)
• Letts, Billie, WHERE THE HEART IS (5)
• L'Engle, Madeline, WRINKLE IN TIME, A (19)
• Leopold, Aldo, SAND COUNTY ALMANAC, A (18)
• Logan, Onnie Lee, MOTHERWIT (21)
• Lundin, Stephen C., FISH! A REMARKABLE WAY TO BOOST MORALE AND IMPROVE RESULTS (14)
• MacDonald, John D., TAN AND SANDY SILENCE, A (34)
• Magorian, Michelle, GOOD NIGHT, MR. TOM (26)
• Maguire, Gregory, CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER (6)
• Mailer, Norman, NAKED AND THE DEAD, THE (26)
• Mallory, Thomas, KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS (18)
• Martin, John Barlow, INDIANA: AN INTERPRETATION (12)
• Martone, Michael, BLUE GUIDE TO INDIANA, THE (15)
• Massie, Robert K., NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA (18)
• McInerny, Ralph, HEIRS AND PARENTS (9)
• McInerny, Ralph, BODY AND SOIL (9)
• McMurtry, Larry, LONESOME DOVE (26)
• Miller, Arthur, DEATH OF A SALESMAN (22)
• Miller, Sue, WORLD BELOW, THE (7)
• Miller, Sue, WHILE I WAS GONE (5)
• Mirvis, Tova, LADIES AUXILIARY, THE (14)
• Mitchell, Margaret, GONE WITH THE WIND (23)
• Modjeska, Drusilla, ORCHARD, THE (8)
• Moffet, James & Kenneth R. McElheny, POINTS OF VIEW: ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES (84)
• Momaday, N. Scott, WAY TO RAINY MOUNTAIN, THE (16)
• Momaday, N. Scott, HOUSE MADE OF DAWN (24)
• Morgan, Robert, GAP CREEK (16)
• Morris, Mary McGarry, SONGS IN ORDINARY TIME (15)
• Morrison, Toni, BELOVED (23)
• Morrison, Toni, PARADISE (36)
• Morrison, Toni, BLUEST EYE, THE (9)
• Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, Greg, THREE CUPS OF TEA (11)
• Mowatt, Farley, NEVER CRY WOLF (8)
• Mujica, Barbara, FRIDA: A NOVEL (21)
• Myers, Tamar, NO USE DYING OVER SPILLED MILK (27)
• Neihardt, John G., BLACK ELK SPEAKS (21)
• Niffenegger, Audrey, TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, THE (8)
• O'Brien, Tim, IN THE LAKE OF THE WOODS (10)
• O'Connor, Edwin, LAST HURRAH, THE (21)
• O'Dell, Scott, BLACK STAR, BRIGHT DAWN (20)
• Ogilvy, David, CONFESSIONS OF AN ADVERTISING MAN (18)
• Opie, Iona and Peter, CLASSIC FAIRY TALES, THE (32)
• Orwell, George, 1984 (6)
• Otto, Whitney, HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT (28)
• Parks (w/Jim Haskins), Rosa, ROSA PARKS: MY STORY (21)
• Peterson, Katherine, BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA (17)
• Phelps, Ethel Johnston, TATTERHOOD AND OTHER TALES (24)
• Pickard, Nancy, 27 INGREDIENT CHILI CON CARNE MURDERS, THE (28)
• Plato, , REPUBLIC, THE (23)
• Proulx, Annie, SHIPPING NEWS, THE (15)
• Quindlen, Anna, BLACK AND BLUE (26)
• Reid (ed.), Robert, ALWAYS A RIVER: OHIO RIVER & THE AM. EXPERIENCE (10)
• Reynolds, Sheri, RAPTURE OF CANAAN, THE (12)
• Richter, Conrad, LIGHT IN THE FOREST, THE (20)
• Ross, Ann B., MISS JULIA SPEAKS HER MIND (9)
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, SOCIAL CONTRACT, THE (28)
• Rowling, J.K., HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE (14)
• Rulfo, Juan, PEDRO PARAMO (35)
• Russell, Mary Doria, SPARROW, THE (22)
• Sachar, Louis, HOLES (10)
• Salinger, J.D., CATCHER IN THE RYE (16)
• Sanders, Scott Russell, STAYING PUT (19)
• Sare, Susan, STILL MISSING: AMELIA EARHART (22)
• Schaefer, Jack, SHANE (12)
• Schlissel, Lillian, WOMEN'S DIARIES OF THE WESTWARD JOURNEY (17)
• Sewell, Anna, BLACK BEAUTY (20)
• Shaara, Michael, KILLER ANGELS, THE (14)
• Shakespeare, William, SHAKESPEARE: FOUR GREAT TRAGEDIES (24)
• Shakespeare, William, CORIOLANUS (28)
• Shelley, Mary, FRANKENSTEIN (24)
• Shepherd, Jean, IN GOD WE TRUST, ALL OTHERS PAY CASH (50)
• Sidhwa, Bapsi, CRACKING INDIA (10)
• Smith, Zadie, WHITE TEETH (14)
• Smith, Robert J. & Ella Lury Wiswell, WOMEN OF SUYE MURA, THE (26)
• Steinbeck, John, OF MICE AND MEN (27)
• Steinbeck, John, GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (24)
• Stewart, Mary, CRYSTAL CAVE, THE (21)
• Stone, Irving, DEAR THEO (23)
• Stone, Irving, PRESIDENT'S LADY, THE (18)
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN (18)
• Stratton-Porter, Gene, FRECKLES (8)
• Stuart, Jesse, THREAD THAT RUNS SO TRUE, THE (17)
• Susann, Jacqueline, VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (11)
• Tan, Amy, JOY LUCK CLUB, THE (27)
• Tarkington, Booth, MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, THE (11)
• Tarkington, Booth, PENROD (9)
• Taylor, A.J.P., WAR LORDS, THE (25)
• Taylor, Mildred, ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY (45)
• Ten Boom, Corrie, HIDING PLACE, THE (25)
• Terkel, Studs, GOOD WAR, THE (25)
• Terkel, Studs, WORKING (28)
• Terkel, Studs, HARD TIMES (21)
• Thom, James Alexander, FOLLOW THE RIVER (23)
• Thoreau, Henry David, WALDEN AND OTHER WRITINGS (19)
• Thoreau, Henry David, WALDEN AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE (17)
• Trollope, Frances, DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS (33)
• Truman, Margaret, FIRST LADIES: AN INTIMATE GROUP PORTRAIT (17)
• Twain, Mark, CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT, A (19)
• Tyler, Anne, MORGAN'S PASSING (9)
• Tyler, Anne, BACK WHEN WE WERE GROWNUPS (10)
• Uchida, Yoshiko, JOURNEY HOME (27)
• Underhill, Lois Beachy, WOMAN WHO RAN FOR PRESIDENT, THE (16)
• Vidal, Gore, 1876 (24)
• Voight, Cynthia, IZZY WILLY NILLY (20)
• Vonnegut, Kurt, GOD BLESS YOU, MR. ROSEWATER (26)
• Vonnegut, Kurt, SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE (23)
• Vreeland, Susan, PASSION OF ARTEMISIA, THE (23)
• Wells, H.G., TIME MACHINE, THE (21)
• Wells, Rebecca, DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD (13)
• Welty, Eudora, PONDER HEART, THE (24)
• West, Jessamyn, MASSACRE AT FALL CREEK (14)
• West, Jessamyn, FRIENDLY PERSUASION, THE (48)
• West, Nathanel, MISS LONELY HEARTS & THE DAY OF THE LOCUST (22)
• Wharton, Edith, AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE (17)
• White, E.B., CHARLOTTE'S WEB (56)
• White, T.H., SWORD IN THE STONE, THE (10)
• Whitman, Walt, LEAVES OF GRASS (17)
• Wiesel, Elie, NIGHT (26)
• Williams, Mardo, MAUDE (1893-1993): SHE GREW UP WITH THE COUNTRY (19)
• Williams, Tennessee, GLASS MENAGERIE, THE (70)
• Willis, Connie, DOOMSDAY BOOK (9)
• Wood, Jane, GRACE (8)
• Woodward, C. Vann, PRIVATE MARY CHESTNUT, THE (14)
• Woolley, Persia, CHILD OF THE NORTHERN SPRING (18)
• Yang, Belle, BABA (9)
• Young, Desmond, ROMMEL, THE DESERT FOX (28)
• Zar, Rose, IN THE MOUTH OF THE WOLF (23)
• Zusak, Markus, BOOK THIEF, THE (32)