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Books You Can Borrow

Below is an alphabetical 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. New titles are listed in red. Please email Nancy Conner to order books or inquire about the service.

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• 1876 by Gore Vidal (24)
• 1984 by George Orwell (6)
• 27 INGREDIENT CHILI CON CARNE MURDERS, THE by Nancy Pickard (28)
• AIRFRAME by Michael Crichton (15)
• ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN by Carl Bernstein (18)
• ALWAYS A RIVER: OHIO RIVER & THE AM. EXPERIENCE by Robert Reid (ed.) (10)
• AMAZING MRS. POLLIFAX, THE by Dorothy Gilman (8)
• AMERICAN TRAGEDY, AN by Theodore Dreiser (7)
• ANOTHER WAY TO BE: ROSARIO CASTELLANOS by Rosario Castellanos (36)
• AT HOME IN MITFORD by Jan Karon  (12) - Reading Group Guide
• AWAKENING by Jude Deveraux (6)
• BABA by Belle Yang (9)
• BACK WHEN WE WERE GROWNUPS by Anne Tyler (10)- Reading Group Guide
• BAMBOO SHOOTS AFTER THE RAIN by Ann Carver (8)
• BELOVED by Toni Morrison (24)
• BIG CITY EYES by Delia Ephron (8)
• BIG SKY, THE by A.B. Guthrie, Jr. (16)
• BLACK AND BLUE by Anna Quindlen (26)
• BLACK BEAUTY by Anna Sewell (20)
• BLACK ELK SPEAKS by John G. Neihardt (24)
• BLACK STAR, BRIGHT DAWN by Scott O'Dell (20)
• BLADE RUNNER (DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?) by Philip K. Dick (9)
• BLESS ME ULTIMA by Rudolfo A. Anaya (19)
• BLUE GUIDE TO INDIANA, THE by Michael Martone (15)
• BLUE WATER by A. Manette Ansay (12)
• BLUEST EYE, THE by Toni Morrison (9) - Reading Group Guide
• BODY AND SOIL by Ralph McInerny (9)
• BODY IN THE TRANSEPT, THE by Jeane M. Dams (33)
• BOOK OF RUTH, THE by Jane Hamilton  (13) - Reading Group Guide
• BREATH, EYES, MEMORY by Edwidge Dandicat  (13) - Reading Group Guide
• BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA by Katherine Peterson (52)
• C IS FOR CORPSE by Sue Grafton (13)
• CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger (20)
• CHARLOTTE'S WEB by E.B. White (60)
• CHILD OF THE NORTHERN SPRING by Persia Woolley (18)
• CHILDREN OF THE RIVER by Linda Crew (20)
• CHOCOLAT by Joanne Harris (12)
• CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE MURDER by Joanne Fluke (10)
• CLASSIC FAIRY TALES, THE by Iona and Peter Opie (32)
• CLAY WALLS by Kim (7)
• COLD RED SUNRISE, A by Stuart M. Kaminsky (16)
• COLD SASSY TREE by Olive Ann Burns (17)
• COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE by Laura Esquivel (10)
• CONFESSIONS OF AN ADVERTISING MAN by David Ogilvy (18)
• CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER by Gregory Maguire (6) - Reading Group Guide
• CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT, A by Mark Twain (19)
• CORIOLANUS by William Shakespeare (28)
• CRACKING INDIA by Bapsi Sidhwa (10)
• CROW LAKE by Mary Lawson (15) - Reading Group Guide
• CRYSTAL CAVE, THE by Mary Stewart (21)
• DANCE ON THE WATER by Laura Lynn Leffers (25)
• DAY LASTS MORE THAN A HUNDRED YEARS, THE by Chingiz Aitmatov (8)
• DEAR THEO by Irving Stone (23)
• DEATH OF A SALESMAN by Arthur Miller (22)
• DEATH OF ARTEMIO CRUZ, THE by Carlos Fuentes (32)
• DEMOCRACY: AN AMERICAN NOVEL by Henry Adams (21)
• DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD by Rebecca Wells  (13) - Reading Group Guide
• DOGS OF BEDLAM FARM, THE by Jon Katz (12)
• DOLLMAKER, THE by Harriet Simpson Arnow (18)
• DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS by Frances Trollope (33)
• DOOMSDAY BOOK by Connie Willis (9)
• DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK by Walter D. Edmonds (7)
• DRY WHITE SEASON, A by Andre Brink (7)
• DURING THE REIGN OF THE QUEEN OF PERSIA by Joan Chase (54)
• DYING FOR CHOCOLATE by Diane Mott Davidson (33)
• ELEANOR ROOSEVELT: A LIFE OF DISCOVERY by Russell Freeman (23)
• ELLEN FOSTER by Kaye Gibbons  (14) - Reading Group Guide
• END OF THE AFFAIR, THE by Graham Greene (8)
• FINANCIER, THE by Theodore Dreiser (22)
• FIRM, THE by John Grisham (10)
• FIRST LADIES: AN INTIMATE GROUP PORTRAIT by Margaret Truman (18)
• FISH! A REMARKABLE WAY TO BOOST MORALE AND IMPROVE RESULTS by Stephen C. Lundin (14)
• FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON by Daniel Keyes (6)
• FLYING FINISH by Dick Francis (11)
• FOLLOW THE RIVER by James Alexander Thom (23)
• FOUR MAJOR PLAYS: VOL. 1 by Henrik Ibsen (23)
• FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley (23)
• FRECKLES by Gene Stratton-Porter (8)
• FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN, THE by John Fowles (24)
• FRIDA: A NOVEL by Barbara Mujica (21)
• FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE STOP CAFÉ by Fannie Flagg  (34) - Reading Group Guide
• FRIENDLY PERSUASION, THE by Jessamyn West (48)
• FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones (25)
• FROM MEMORY TO HISTORY by (15)
• GAP CREEK by Robert Morgan (18) - Reading Group Guide
• GEORGE WASHINGTON: MAN AND MONUMENT by Marcus Cunliffe (26)
• GIRL NAMED ZIPPY, A: GROWING UP SMALL IN MOORELAND INDIANA by Haven Kimmel (20) - Reading Group Guide
• GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING by Tracy Chevalier  (22) - Reading Group Guide
• GLASS MENAGERIE, THE by Tennessee Williams (70)
• GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin (24)
• GOD BLESS YOU, MR. ROSEWATER by Kurt Vonnegut (26)
• GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell (23)
• GOOD NIGHT, MR. TOM by Michelle Magorian (26)
• GOOD WAR, THE by Studs Terkel (25)
• GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS by James Hilton (13)
• GRACE by Jane Roberts Wood (8) - Reading Group Guide
• GRAPES OF WRATH, THE by John Steinbeck (24)
• GREAT CRASH 1929, THE by John Galbraith (28)
• GREAT ESCAPE, THE by Paul Brickhill (26)
• GROWING UP by Russell Baker (17)
• HALF HORSE HALF ALLIGATOR: MIKE FINK LEGEND by Walter Blair (24)
• HANDMAID'S TALE, THE by Margaret Atwood  (28) - Reading Group Guide
• HARD TIMES by Studs Terkel (21)
• HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE by J.K. Rowling (14)
• HEART OF A WOMAN, THE by Maya Angelou  (15) - Reading Group Guide
• HEIRS AND PARENTS by Ralph McInerny (9)
• HERE I STAND: A LIFE OF MARTIN LUTHER by Roland Bainton (20)
• HERE ON EARTH by Alice Hoffman (28)
• HERLAND: A LOST FEMINIST UTOPIAN NOVEL by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (27)
• HIDING PLACE, THE by Corrie Ten Boom (24)
• HIGH TIDE IN TUCSON by Barbara Kingsolver  (24) - Reading Group Guide
• HIROSHIMA by John Hersey (23)
• HOLES by Louis Sachar (10)
• HOME TO HARMONY by Philip Gulley (19)
• HOOSIER SCHOOL BOY, THE by Edward Eggleston (34)
• HOOSIER SCHOOLMASTER, THE by Edward Eggleston (18)
• HORSE WHISPERER, THE by Nicholas Evans (4)
• HOUSE MADE OF DAWN by N. Scott Momaday  (24) - Reading Group Guide
• HOUSE OF LIFE, THE: RACHEL CARSON AT WORK by Paul Brooks (20)
• HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS, THE by Isabel Allende (7)
• HOUSES AND HOMES, EXPLORING THEIR HISTORY by (13)
• HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT by Whitney Otto (28)
• I AM THE CHEESE by Robert Cormier (51)
• I IS FOR INNOCENT by Sue Grafton (18)
• I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE by Wally Lamb  (7) - Reading Group Guide
• IN GOD WE TRUST, ALL OTHERS PAY CASH by Jean Shepherd  (50)
• IN THE LAKE OF THE WOODS by Tim O'Brien  (12) - Reading Group Guide
• IN THE MOUTH OF THE WOLF by Rose Zar  (23)
• INDIANA: AN INTERPRETATION by John Barlow Martin  (12)
• INTO THIN AIR by Jon Krakauer  (15)
• INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison  (12) - Reading Group Guide
• IZZY WILLY NILLY by Cynthia Voight (20)
• JOURNALS OF LEWIS AND CLARK, THE by Bernard DeVoto (ed.) (17)
• JOURNEY HOME by Yoshiko Uchida (27)
• JOY LUCK CLUB, THE by Amy Tan (18)
• KILLER ANGELS, THE by Michael Shaara (14)
• KINDRED by Octavia Butler (8)
• KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS by Thomas Mallory (18)
• KITE RUNNER, THE by Khaled Hosseini (7)
• LADIES AUXILIARY, THE by Tova Mirvis  (14) - Reading Group Guide
• LAST HURRAH, THE by Edwin O'Connor  (21)
• LAST OF THE MOHICANS, THE by James Fenimore Cooper  (25)
• LEAVES OF GRASS by Walt Whitman  (17)
• LESSON BEFORE DYING, A by Ernest J. Gaines  (49) - Reading Group Guide
• LIFE OF GALILEO by Bertold Brecht (22)
• LIGHT IN THE FOREST, THE by Conrad Richter (20)
• LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE by Laura Esquivel (24)
• LINCOLN NOBODY KNOWS, THE by Richard N. Current (22)
• LITTLE WOMEN by Louisa May Alcott (45)
• LONESOME DOVE by Larry McMurtry (26)
• LONG GOODBYE, THE by Raymond Chandler  (10) - Reading Group Guide
• LOOKING BACKWARD by Edward Bellamy (26)
• LOST HORIZON by James Hilton (19)
• LOST IN TRANSLATION by Eva Hoffman (8)
• LUCY by Jamaica Kincaid (8)
• MADAME BOVARY by Gustave Flaubert (22)
• MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, THE by Booth Tarkington (11)
• MASSACRE AT FALL CREEK by Jessamyn West (14)
• MAUDE (1893-1993): SHE GREW UP WITH THE COUNTRY by Mardo Williams (19)
• MIDAS OF THE WABASH, THE by Robert Kriebel (11)
• MIDDLESEX by Jeffrey Eugenides (5) - Reading Group Guide
• MIDWIFE'S APPRENTICE, THE by Karen Cushman (24)
• MIDWIVES: A NOVEL by Chris Bohjalian  (9) - Reading Group Guide
• MISS JULIA SPEAKS HER MIND by Ann B. Ross (9)
• MISS LONELY HEARTS & THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanel West (22)
• MOLLY IVINS CAN'T SAY THAT, CAN SHE? by Molly Ivins (21)
• MORGAN'S PASSING by Anne Tyler (9)
• MOTHER AND TWO DAUGHTERS, A by Gail Godwin (16)
• MOTHERWIT by Onnie Lee Logan (21)
• MY LIFE by Isadora Duncan (6)
• MYTHS TO LIVE BY by Joseph Campbell (26)
• NAKED AND THE DEAD, THE by Norman Mailer (26)
• NAME OF HER OWN, A by Jane Kirkpatrick (9)
• NEARBY HISTORY by (13)
• NEVER CRY WOLF by Farley Mowatt (8)
• NEW YORK TRILOGY, THE by Paul Auster (6)
• NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA by Robert K. Massie (19)
• NICKEL AND DIMED by Barbara Ehrenreich (19)
• NIGHT by Elie Wiesel (26)
• NO USE DYING OVER SPILLED MILK by Tamar Myers (27)
• NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH by Avi (22)
• O PIONEERS O PIONEERS by Willa Cather (20)
• OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck (28)
• ONCE UPON A TOWN: THE MIRACLE OF THE NORTH PLATTE CANTEEN by Bob Greene (12)
• ORCHARD, THE by Drusilla Modjeska (8)
• ORDINARY PEOPLE by Judith Guest (53)
• ORPHAN IN HISTORY, AN by Paul Cowan (20)
• PARADISE by Toni Morrison (36)
• PASSION OF ARTEMISIA, THE by Susan Vreeland (23)
• PAY IT FORWARD by Catherine Ryan Hyde (13)
• PEDRO PARAMO by Juan Rulfo (35)
• PENROD by Booth Tarkington (9)
• PEREZ FAMILY, THE by Christine Bell (21)
• PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK by Annie Dillard (19)
• PLAINSONG by Kent Haruf  (26) - Reading Group Guide
• POET, THE by Michael Connelly  (23)
• POINTS OF VIEW: ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES by James Moffet & Kenneth R. McElheny  (84)
• POISONWOOD BIBLE, THE by Barbara Kingsolver  (8) - Reading Group Guide
• PONDER HEART, THE by Eudora Welty (24)
• POTIKI by Patricia Grace (8)
• PRESIDENT'S LADY, THE by Irving Stone (18)
• PRIVATE MARY CHESTNUT, THE by C. Vann Woodward (14)
• PROFESSOR'S HOUSE, THE by Willa Cather  (24) - Reading Group Guide
• RAISIN IN THE SUN, A by Lorraine Hansberry (64)
• RAPTURE OF CANAAN, THE by Sheri Reynolds (12)
• RECONSTRUCTION AFTER THE CIVIL WAR by John Hope Franklin (15)
• RED HARVEST by Dashiell Hammett (24)
• REPUBLIC, THE by Plato (23)
• RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE by Zane Grey (17)
• ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY by Mildred Taylor (45)
• ROMMEL, THE DESERT FOX by Desmond Young (28)
• ROSA PARKS: MY STORY by Rosa Parks (w/Jim Haskins) (21)
• SADAKO AND THE THOUSAND PAPER CRANES (book) by Eleanor Coerr (22)
• SAND COUNTY ALMANAC, A by Aldo Leopold (18)
• SCARLET LETTER, THE by Nathaniel Hawthorne (49)
• SEABISCUIT by Laura Hillenbrand  (18) - Reading Group Guide
• SECRET GARDEN, THE by Frances Hodgson Burnett (29)
• SHADES OF TWILIGHT by Linda Howard (7)
• SHADOW OF A DOUBT by William J. Coughlin (36)
• SHAKESPEARE: FOUR GREAT TRAGEDIES by William Shakespeare (24)
• SHANE by Jack Schaefer (12)
• SHANTYBOAT: A RIVER WAY OF LIFE by Harlan Hubbard (30)
• SHE'S COME UNDONE by Wally Lamb  (18) - Reading Group Guide
• SHIPPING NEWS, THE by Annie Proulx  (15) - Reading Group Guide
• SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut  (23)
• SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS by David Guterson  (20) - Reading Group Guide
• SOCIAL CONTRACT, THE by Jean-Jacques Rousseau  (28)
• SONGS IN ORDINARY TIME by Mary McGarry Morris  (15)
• SPARROW, THE by Mary Doria Russell  (22) - Reading Group Guide
• STAND, THE by Stephen King (6)
• STAYING PUT by Scott Russell Sanders (21)
• STILL MISSING: AMELIA EARHART by Susan Sare (22)
• STONES FROM THE RIVER by Ursula Hegi (15)
• SUM OF ALL FEARS, THE by Tom Clancy (16)
• SUMMER OF MY GERMAN SOLDIER by Bette Greene (28)
• SUMMONS, THE by John Grisham (11)
• SUN ALSO RISES, THE by Ernest Hemingway (22)
• SWEET HEREAFTER, THE by Russell Banks (35)
• SWORD IN THE STONE, THE by T.H. White (10)
• TAN AND SANDY SILENCE, A by John D. MacDonald (34)
• TARZAN - THE CLASSICS by Edgar Rice Burroughs (19)
• TASTE FOR DEATH, A by P.D. James (7)
• TATTERHOOD AND OTHER TALES by Ethel Johnston Phelps (24)
• THIS HOUSE OF SKY by Ivan Doig (42)
• THREAD THAT RUNS SO TRUE, THE by Jesse Stuart (17)
• THREE CUPS OF TEA by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (11)
• TIME MACHINE, THE by H.G. Wells (21)
• TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, THE by Audrey Niffenegger (8) - Reading Group Guide
• TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee (24) - Reading Group Guide
• TUCK EVERLASTING by Natalie Babbitt (20)
• TWO ROADS TO SUMTER by William & Bruce Catton (11)
• UNCLE TOM'S CABIN by Harriet Beecher Stowe  (18) - Reading Group Guide
• UNDEAD AND UNWED by Mary Janice Davidson (9)
• UNDERDOGS, THE by Mariano Azuela (51)
• UNVANQUISHED, THE by William Faulkner (25)
• VALLEY OF THE DOLLS by Jacqueline Susann (11)
• VIRTUOUS WOMAN, A by Kaye Gibbons (29)
• VISIONS OF AMERICA by Wesley Brown & Amy Ling (eds.) (48)
• VOICES OF PROTEST by Alan Brinkley (20)
• WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR by Doris Kearns Goodwin (15)
• WAITING YEARS, THE by Fumiko Enchi (9)
• WALDEN AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE by Henry David Thoreau (17)
• WALDEN AND OTHER WRITINGS by Henry David Thoreau (19)
• WAR LORDS, THE by A.J.P. Taylor (25)
• WAY TO RAINY MOUNTAIN, THE by N. Scott Momaday  (16)
• WHAT LOOKS LIKE CRAZY ON AN ORDINARY DAY by Pearl Cleage  (10) - Reading Group Guide
• WHERE WE LIVE: ESSAYS ABOUT INDIANA by David Hoppe (ed.)  (11)
• WHILE I WAS GONE by Sue Miller  (5)
• WHITE TEETH by Zadie Smith  (14) - Reading Group Guide
• WIND IN THE WILLOWS, THE by Kenneth Grahame (32)
• WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson (16)
• WIZARD OF OZ, THE by L. Frank Baum (11)
• WOMAN WARRIOR by Maxine Hong Kingston (20)
• WOMAN WHO RAN FOR PRESIDENT, THE by Lois Beachy Underhill (16)
• WOMEN OF SUYE MURA, THE by Robert J. Smith & (26)
• WOMEN'S DIARIES OF THE WESTWARD JOURNEY by Lillian Schlissel (17)
• WORKING by Studs Terkel (28)
• WORLD BELOW, THE by Sue Miller (7)
• WRINKLE IN TIME, A by Madeline L'Engle (19)