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TOPIC /THEME |
TITLE (with reviews) |
AUTHOR |
CALL # |
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Oppression of Women |
Romance Reader |
Abraham, Pearl |
F ABR |
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Myth / Modern Life - Hasidic tales |
Seventh Beggar |
Abraham, Pearl |
F ABR |
|
Science Fiction - Comedy |
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
Adams, Douglas |
F ADA |
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Nigeria / Civil War |
Half of a Yellow Sun |
Adichie, Chimamanda |
F ADI |
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Harsh Landscapes of Existence / Rags to Riches |
White Tiger, The |
Adiga, Aravind |
F ADI |
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Death |
Death in the family |
Agee, James |
F AGE |
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Death / Afterlife |
Five people you meet in heaven |
Albom, Mitch |
F ALB |
|
Women / immigrants |
Brick lane |
Ali, Monica |
F ALI |
|
Mystery & Horror |
House Of Spirits |
Allende, Isabel |
F ALL |
|
Possible Disasters as the Result of Money |
Money : a Suicide Note |
Amis, Martin |
F AMI |
|
Family |
Cure For Death By Lightning |
Anderson-Dargatz,
Gail
 |
F AND |
|
Sentient Artificial Intelligence |
You've got murder |
Andrews, Donna |
F AND |
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Racism - South Africa |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
Angelou, Maya |
F ANG |
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Family |
Vinegar Hill |
Ansay, A. Manette |
F ANS |
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Future Societies & Women |
Handmaid's Tale |
Atwood,
Margaret
|
F ATW |
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Loss / moral wasteland |
Oryx and Crake |
Atwood,
Margaret
|
F ATW |
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Homelessness / Mental Illness / Self-reclamation |
Remember Me |
Azzopardi, Trezza |
F AZZ |
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Family / Prejudice |
Hero's Walk |
Badami,
Anita R
|
F BAD |
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India Canada Cultural Issues |
Tamarind Mem |
Badami,
Anita R
|
F BAD |
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Marriage - Emotional Dependency |
According to Queeney |
Bainbridge, Beryl |
F BAI |
|
Afro Americans |
Go Tell It On The Mountain |
Baldwin, James |
F BAL |
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India Canada Cultural Issues |
English Lessons And Other Stories |
Baldwin,
Shauna S
|
F BAL |
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Family / War |
Tiger Claw |
Baldwin,
Shauna S
|
F BAL |
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Mystery / Detective |
In The Heat Of The Night |
Ball, John D |
F BAL |
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Boys' Coming of Age |
Rule Of The Bone |
Banks, Russell |
F BAN |
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Strange Pen-Pals |
Griffin & Sabine |
Bantock, Nick |
F BAN |
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Widowers |
Sea, The |
Banville, John |
F BAN |
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Unexpected Death / Absurdity of Life |
Luck |
Barfoot,
Joan
|
F BAR |
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World War l |
Ghost Road |
Barker, Pat |
F BAR |
|
Haunting Energy of History, Human Psychology and
Language |
Darkmans |
Barker, Nicola |
F BAR |
|
Detective/ Mystery -- Late-Victorian British
Life: Spirituality / Innocence / Identity / Passion |
Arthur & George |
Barnes, Julian |
F BAR |
|
Bible Stories - Satire/Retelling |
History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters |
Barnes, Julian |
F BAR |
|
World War I - Ireland |
Long Long Way |
Barry, Sebastian |
F BAR |
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Ambition & Isolation |
Ship Fever |
Barrett, Andrea |
F BAR |
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Legends |
Chimera |
Barth, John |
F BAR |
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Historical Fiction |
Ship Fever |
Barrett, Andrea |
F BAR SS |
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Homelessness |
Stained Glass |
Bedard,
Michael
|
F BED |
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Friendship |
Humboldt's Gift |
Bellow, Saul |
F BEL |
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Stress of Society / Web of Humanity |
Island Walkers |
Bemrose,
John
|
F BEM |
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Adventure - Sharks |
Jaws |
Benchley, Peter |
F BEN |
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Divorced Women |
Open House |
Berg, Elizabeth |
F BER |
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Father Daughter Relationship |
Time In Between |
Bergen,
David
|
F BER |
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Mystery -Trials |
Naked Justice |
Bernhardt, William |
F BER |
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Mystery |
Primary Justice |
Bernhardt, William |
F BER |
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Romance / World War ll |
Captain Corelli's Mandolin |
Bernieres, Louis |
F BER |
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Manners and Customs |
Women in their beds |
Berriault, Gina |
F BER |
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Death |
Souls raised from the dead |
Betts, Doris |
F BET |
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Friendship |
Tara Road |
Binchy, Maeve |
F BIN |
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Family Relationships |
Chrome Suite |
Birdsell,
Sandra
|
F BIR |
|
Family Relationships |
Russlander |
Birdsell,
Sandra
|
F BIR |
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Human relations / human condition |
Doing the heart good |
Bissoondath,
Neil
|
F BIS |
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Social Ethics / West Indies |
Casual Brutality |
Bissoondath,
Neil
|
F BIS |
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Romance - Historical |
Lorna Doone |
Blackmore, Richard D |
F BLA |
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Insanity |
Mad Shadows |
Blais,
Marie-Claire
|
F BLA |
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War |
Ash garden |
Bock, Dennis |
F BOC |
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Trial - Murder |
Midwives |
Bohjalian, Chris |
F BOH |
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Romance / World War ll |
Heat Of The Day |
Bowens, Elizabeth |
F BOW |
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Sea Voyages / Exploration |
Burning Water |
Bowering,
George
|
F BOW |
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First Nations Peoples / Identity |
Through Black Spruce |
Boyden, Joseph
|
F BOY |
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American dream |
Tortilla Curtain |
Boyle, T. Coraghessan |
F BOY |
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Inventors |
Road To Wellville |
Boyle, T. Coraghessan |
F BOY |
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Family - South Africa |
Imaginings Of Sand |
Brink, Andre |
F BRI |
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Inner beauty / Gothic romance |
Jane Eyre |
Bronte, Charlotte |
F BRO |
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Women's Lives in Letters |
History Of Emily Montague |
Brooke, Frances |
F BRO |
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Self-discovery |
Hotel du Lac |
Brookner, Anita |
F BRO |
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Death / Dreams |
Bone Dance |
Brooks,
Martha
|
F BRO |
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U.S. Civil War |
March |
Brooks, Geraldine |
F BRO |
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Plague |
Year of Wonders |
Brooks, Geraldine |
F BRO |
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Adventure / Air Pilots |
Warrior Class |
Dale Brown |
F BRO |
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Peasant Life / Self-worth |
Good Earth |
Buck, Pearl S. |
F BUC |
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Gangs / Violence |
Clockwork Orange |
Burgess, Anthony |
F BUR |
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War veterans |
Good House |
Burnard, Bonnie |
F BUR |
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Immigration - Asian Experience |
Good Scent From a Strange Mountain |
Butler, Robert Olen |
F BUT |
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Mystery & Horror |
Possession |
Byatt, Antonia S |
F BYA |
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Canada - 1930s Depression |
Such Is My Beloved |
Callaghan,
Morley
|
F CAL |
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Canada - 1930s Depression |
They Shall Inherit The Earth |
Callaghan,
Morley
|
F CAL |
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Girls’ Coming of Age |
Sweet Summer |
Campbell, Bebe Moore |
F CAM |
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Existentialism - Social expectations |
The Outsider |
Camus, Albert |
F CAM |
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War / Vietnam & its Aftermath |
DelCorso's Gallery |
Caputo, Philip |
F CAP |
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Gangs / Revenge |
Sleepers |
Carcaterra, Lorenzo |
F CAR |
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Murder / Adventure |
True History of the Kelly Gang |
Carey, Peter |
F CAR |
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Obsession / Psycho |
Man In The Closet |
Carrier, Roch
|
F CAR |
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Murder Mystery |
Looking for JJ |
Cassidy,
Anne
|
F CAS |
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Suicide / Grief |
After |
Chalifour,
Francis
|
F CHA |
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Heroes / Comic Books |
Amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay |
Chabon, Michael |
F CHA |
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Mothers & Daughters |
Last Time I Saw Mother |
Chai, Arlene J. |
F CHA |
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Pain and Sweetness of Life |
The Stories of John Cheever |
Cheever, John |
F CHE SS |
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Women - Travel |
Crazy In Alabama |
Childress, Mark |
F CHI |
|
Women terrorists - based on the Patty Hearst kidnapping
story |
American Woman |
Choi, Susan |
F CHO |
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Chinese Experience in N.A. |
Jade Peony |
Choy,
Wayson
|
F CHO |
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Chinese Canadians |
All that Matters |
Choy,
Wayson
|
F CHO |
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Multi-generational Mexican-American family life |
Caramelo |
Cisneros, Sandra |
F CIS |
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Indians of North America |
Dream Carvers |
Clark,
Joan
|
F CLA |
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Earth Conquered by Aliens |
Childhood's End |
Clarke, Arthur C. |
F CLA |
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Slavery |
Polished Hoe |
Clarke,
Austin
|
F CLA |
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Human Relationships |
Question |
Clarke,
Austin
|
F CLA |
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Afro-American Women |
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day |
Cleage, Pearl |
F CLE |
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Self - Discovery |
Alchemist |
Coehlo, Paulo |
F COE |
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Death - Cancer |
Age of Iron |
Coetzee, J.M. |
F COE |
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Multiculturalism / Violence |
Disgrace |
Coetzee, J.M. |
F COE |
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Death and Dying |
Last Seen |
Cohen,
Matt |
F COH |
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Flying Machines |
Airman |
Colfer, Eoin |
F COL |
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Murder Mystery |
Secret Life of E. Robert Pendleton |
Collins, Michael |
F COL |
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Crimes Most Heinous |
Every Dead Thing |
Connolly, John |
F CON |
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Mothers & Daughters |
What Girls Learn |
Cook, Karin |
F COO |
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Sci-Fi / Ethics |
Coma |
Cook, Robin |
F COO |
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Haunted by the Past |
Chatham School Affair |
Cook, Thomas H. |
F COO |
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American Dream / Illegal Aliens |
Tortilla Curtain |
Coraghessan Boyle, T. |
F COR |
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Family - Dysfunctional |
Losing Eddie |
Corey, Deborah |
F COR |
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Mystery - Psychopath |
Potter's Field |
Cornwell, Patricia |
F COR |
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Pop Culture |
Generation X |
Coupland,
Douglas
|
F COU |
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Pop Culture |
Shampoo Planet |
Coupland,
Douglas
|
F COU |
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Multiculturalism / Violence |
Sunday at the Pool in Kigali |
Courtemanche,
Gil
|
F COU |
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Apartheid - South Africa |
Power Of One |
Courtenay, Bryce |
F COU |
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World War II / Racial Prejudice |
Guard of Honor |
Cozzens, James Gould |
F COZ |
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Immigration / Culture Clash |
Children Of The River |
Crew, Linda |
F CRE |
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Superstition & Myth |
Galore |
Crummey, Michael
|
F CRU |
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Beothuk Indians |
River Thieves |
Crummey,
Michael
|
F CRU |
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Fathers & Sons |
Ironman |
Crutcher, Chris |
F CRU |
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Chaos - Fragility of Life |
Burridge Unbound |
Cumyn, Alan
|
F CUM |
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Relationships |
Hours |
Cunningham, Michael |
F CUN |
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Effect of Racism on Self-image |
Bitter Fruit |
Dangor, Achmat |
F DAN |
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Genocide |
Farming of Bones |
Danticat, Edwidge |
F DAN |
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Davies' Deptford Trilogy |
Fifth Business |
Davies,
Robertson
|
F DAV |
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Relationships |
Lyre of Orpheus |
Davies,
Robertson
|
F DAV |
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Immigrant Experience / Short Stories |
Barnacle Love |
De Sa, Anthony
|
F DES |
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Political Violence |
Mao ll |
Delillo, Don |
F DEL |
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American Culture |
Underworld |
Delillo, Don |
F DEL |
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Nationalism / Migration / Sense of Belonging |
Inheritance of Loss |
Desai, Kiran |
F DES |
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Social Conflict in the deep South |
Paris Trout |
Dexter, Pete |
F DEX |
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Relationships |
Dale Loves Sophie to Death |
Dew, Rob Forman |
F DEW |
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Perseverence / Dominican-American experience |
Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The |
Diaz, Junot |
F DIA |
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Cults |
Dark Specter |
Dibdin, Michael |
F DIB |
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Fantasy |
Ropemaker |
Dickinson, Peter |
F DIC |
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Grandfathers |
Shadow Of A Hero |
Dickinson, Peter |
F DIC |
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Kaladescopic allegory of forward movement -- be
it of war / history / change / time |
The March |
Doctorow, E.L. |
F DOC |
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Boys' Coming of Age |
World's Fair |
Doctorow, E.L. |
F DOC |
|
Americans in Rural Mexico |
Stones for Ibarra |
Doerr, Harriet |
F DOE |
|
Pioneer life - Women |
Into The Wilderness |
Donati, Sara |
F DON |
|
Russia - Poverty & hopelessness |
Crime and Punishment |
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor |
F DOS |
|
Nomination of a former Communist Party member to be U.S. Secretary
of State |
Advise and Consent |
Drury, Allen |
F DRU |
|
Immigrants |
House of Sand and Fog |
Dubus lll, Andre |
F DUB |
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Circus Performers |
Geek Love |
Dunn, Katherine |
F DUN |
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Family Secrets / Abandoned Children |
Memory Keeper's Daughter |
Edwards, Kim |
F EDW |
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Afro-Americans - Prejudices |
Invisible Man |
Ellison, Ralph |
F ELL |
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Women Caregivers / Cancer |
Good to a Fault |
Endicott, Marina |
F END |
|
Family Secrets |
Gathering, The |
Enright, Anne |
F ENR |
|
North American Indians |
Plague of Doves |
Erdrich, Louise |
F ERD |
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Mothers & Daughters |
Like Water For Chocolate |
Esquivel, Laura |
F ESQ |
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Sexuality / Complexity in occupying the Middle Ground |
Middlesex |
Eugenides, Jeffrey |
F EUG |
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Coming of Age |
Virgin Suicides |
Eugenides, Jeffrey |
F EUG |
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Identical Twins |
26a |
Evans, Diana |
F EVA |
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Relationships - Self Discovery |
Horse Whisperer |
Evans, Nicholas |
F EVA |
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Wolves |
Loop |
Evans, Nicholas |
F EVA |
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Dysfunctional Family Life |
Sound and the Fury |
Faulkner, William |
F FAU |
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Portrait of heroism |
Fatal Englishman |
Faulks, Sebastian |
F FAU |
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Magic |
Magician |
Feist, Raymond |
F FEI |
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Humour |
Happiness |
Ferguson, Will |
F FER |
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Bible Stories / Satire / Retelling |
Not Wanted On The Voyage |
Findley, Timothy
|
F FIN |
|
World War l |
Wars |
Findley, Timothy
|
F FIN |
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Time Travel |
Time And Again |
Finney, Jack |
F FIN |
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Fears / personal struggles |
Song beneath the ice |
Fiorito,
Joe
|
F FIO |
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Basketball |
Under the frog |
Fischer, Tibor |
F FIS |
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Mothers and daughters |
White Oleander |
Fitch, Janet |
F FIT |
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Friendship & Community |
Offshore |
Fitzgerald, Penelope |
F FIT |
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Women - Survival |
Fried Green Tomatoes |
Flagg, Fannie |
F FLA |
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Hope & Human Frailty |
Pillars of the Earth |
Follett, Ken |
F FOL |
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Fathers and Sons |
Independence Day |
Ford, Richard |
F FOR |
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Marriage |
Dale Loves Sophie to Death |
Forman Dew, Robb |
F FOR |
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Abuse - Dysfunctional Family |
Before Women Had Wings |
Fowler, Connie |
F FOW |
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Philosophy |
Magus |
Fowles, John |
F FOW |
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Family Drama |
Corrections |
Franzen, Jonathan |
F FRA |
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Time Travel |
Ancestral Suitcase |
Fraser, Sylvia |
F FRA |
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Satirical Farce -- Human Folly |
Headlong |
Frayn, Michael |
F FRA |
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U.S. - Civil War |
Cold Mountain |
Frazier, Charles |
F FRA |
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Addiction |
Million Little Pieces (originally published as biography but later
proven to be fictional) |
Frey, James |
362.29092 FRE |
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Stuttering / Emotional Problems |
Tending to Grace |
Fusco, Kimberly |
F FUS |
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Philosophy |
Sophie's World |
Gaarder, Jostein |
F GAA |
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Lawsuits - society's litigious ways |
A Frolic of His Own |
Gaddis, William |
F GAD |
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Afro-Americans |
Lesson before Dying |
Gaines, Ernest J |
F GAI |
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Human Frailty - Post-apartheid South Africa |
Good Doctor |
Galgut, Damon |
F GAL |
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Canadian Short Stories |
Home Truths |
Gallant, Mavis
|
F GAL |
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Fairy Tales (retold) |
Truly Grim Tales |
Galloway, Priscilla
|
F GAL |
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Myth of Love |
Love in the Time of Cholera |
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel |
F GAR |
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Travel - Suspense |
Dominion of Wyley McFadden |
Gardiner, Scott
|
F GAR |
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Canada - 1930s Depression |
Cabbagetown |
Garner, Hugh
|
F GAR |
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Ancient Egypt (historical) |
House Of Dreams |
Gedge, Pauline |
F GED |
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Pain and Loneliness of Exile |
Sweetness in the Belly |
Gibb, Camilla
|
F GIB |
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Women - Self-reliance |
Virtuous Woman |
Gibbons, Kaye |
F GIB |
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Inventors |
Perpetual Motion |
Gibson, Graeme |
F GIB |
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Prejudice |
Swiss Sonata |
Graham, Gwethalyn
|
F GRA |
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Alzheimer's Disease |
Opium Dreams |
Gibson, Margaret
|
F GIB |
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Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk |
Mona Lisa Overdrive |
Gibson, William |
F GIB |
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Women - Southern US |
Victory over Japan : a Book of Stories |
Gilchrist, Ellen |
F GIL |
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Insanity |
Yellow Wallpaper |
Gilman, Charlotte P |
F GIL |
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Parent / Child Bond - Missing Child |
A Perfect Night to Go to China |
Gilmour, David
|
F GIL |
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Family Drama |
Three Junes |
Glass, Julia |
F GLA |
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Historical Fiction |
Elle |
Glover, Douglas
|
F GLO |
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Japan - Women |
Memoirs of a Geisha |
Golden, Arthur |
F GOL |
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Angels and Demons |
