Summer Reading-Week 6 Wednesday

Dragonfish By Tran, Vu 2015-08 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393077803 Check Our Catalog Robert, an Oakland cop, still can't let go of Suzy, the enigmatic Vietnamese wife who left him two years ago. Now she's disappeared from her new husband, Sonny, a violent Vietnamese smuggler and gambler who's blackmailing Robert into finding her for him. As he pursues her through the sleek and seamy gambling dens of Las Vegas, shadowed by Sonny's sadistic son, "Junior," and assisted by …More

Blood Kiss By Ward, J. R. 2015-12 - Signet Book 9780451475329 Check Our Catalog The legacy of the Black Dagger Brotherhoodcontinues in a spin-off series from the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Paradise, blooded daughter of the king's First Advisor, is ready to break free from the restrictive life of an aristocratic female. Her strategy? Join the Black Dagger Brotherhood's training center program and learn to fight for herself, think for herself...be …More

Night By Wiesel, Elie Translator Wiesel, Marion Preface by Wiesel, Elie 2006-01 - Hill & Wang 9780374399979 Check Our Catalog An Oprah's Book Club selection Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the …More

Mislaid By Zink, Nell 2015-05 - Ecco Press 9780062364777 Check Our Catalog Awards: National Book Awards (2015) In 1960s Virginia, college freshman and ingenue Peggy falls for professor and poet Lee, and what begins as an ill-advised affair results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. Mismatched from the start she's a lesbian; he's gay Peggy eventually finds herself in crisis and runs away with their daughter, leaving their son behind. Estranged from the rest of the family, Peggy and her daughter …More