Reader's Shelf from Library Journal

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Novel Locked Rooms:  Literary Keys to Life's Questions

There But for the By Smith, Ali 2012-07 - Anchor Books 9780307275240 Check Our Catalog …More

The New York Trilogy: City of Glass/Ghosts/The Locked Room By Auster, Paul 1990-03 - Penguin Books 9780140131550 Check Our Catalog Comnbining dark humor, Hitchcock-like suspense, and film-noir prose, these three unique novels--united--form a powerful and thought-provoking puzzle. …More

The Man in My Basement By Mosley, Walter 2005-02 - Back Bay Books 9780316159319 Check Our Catalog A BookPage Notable Title Mosley departs from his Easy Rawlins mysteries for this thought-provoking novel. Charles Blakey is a young black man whose life is slowly crumbling. When a mysterious white man offers to rent Charles's basement for the summer, Charles embarks on a journey into inconceivable worlds of power and manipulation, and unimagined realms of humanity. …More

Man in the Holocene By Frisch, Max Translator Skelton, Geoffrey 2007-08 - Dalkey Archive Press 9781564784667 Check Our Catalog "A luminous parable . . . A masterpiece." The New York Times …More

Room By Donoghue, Emma 2011-05 - Back Bay Books 9780316098328 Check Our Catalog Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, "Room" is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another. …More

The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories By Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Editor Shulman, Robert 2009-06 - Oxford University Press, USA 9780199538843 Check Our Catalog Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection ever printed of her short fiction, featuring the pioneering feminist masterpiece of the title, her stories contemporary with The Yellow Wallpaper, the fiction from her neglected California period (1890-95), and her later explorations of "the woman of fifty." Together, these impressive works throw new light on Gilman as a writer of fiction. …More