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the fledgling Navajo Cultural Center.
But to Durango Yazzie, the Center's
intensely driven director, her arrival is
unexpected and intrusive.
FIC Afterburn
Harrison, Colin
LP-2593
Charlie Ravitch is an international
corporate tycoon, a former Vietnam
POW and husband and father on the
hard side of 50 who's on a quest for
immortality, and for a woman who can
make every dream come true.
Christina Welles is a prison parolee,
cunning and well-schooled in the art of
manipulation. In a moment of chance,
two lives are about to intersect, and
two obsessions are about to be
indulged.
FIC The Reconstructionist
Hart, Josephine
LP-2336
Jack is a psychiatrist, dedicated to
others, to the examination of other
people's pasts and the reconstruction of
their lives. He has so absorbed himself
in the problems of other people that he
has not quite come to grips with his
own, to the detriment of his marriage
and his own unexamined past. When
he and his sister Kate are summoned to
Ireland for the sale of the family home,
the burden's of the family's heritage
return in full force as terrible truths
emerge.
FIC House of the Seven Gables
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
LP-2020
This 1851 classic novel, centering on
an ancient New England mansion and
its inhabitants, concerns the expiation
of the sins of the fathers through the
love and goodwill of succeeding
generations. The evil takes root when
greedy, piratical colonel Pyncheon
obtains the property for the House of
the Seven Gable by accusing Matthew
Maule of witchcraft. Years later, a
visiting country causing and an
enigmatic young boarder reverse the
tide of misfortunes surrounding the
house.
FIC Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne , athaniel
LP-2050
In the puritan atmosphere of colonial
New England, Hester Prynne is forced
to wear a scarlet A (for adultery) for
giving birth to an illegitimate daughter.
The child's father, the minister Arthur
Dimmesdale, knows peace only after
he has been shamed into confessing.
Hester, however, acknowledging no
sin, cannot find such peace. Here is a
masterful account of religious and
sexual oppression, hypocrisy, and
intrigue by one of the giants of
American fiction.
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