Alexandra's Staff Picks

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1. The quiet American

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Author:
Greene, Graham, 1904-1991
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Fiction has 2
GREENE
North Regional - Adult Fiction
GREENE
Northeast Regional - Adult Fiction
GREENE
Description:
This novel is a study of New World hope and innocence set in an Old World of violence. The scene is Saigon in the violent years when the French were desperately trying to hold their footing in the Far East. The principal characters are a skeptical British journalist, his attractive Vietnamese mistress, and an eager young American sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission.

2. The wind-up bird chronicle

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Author:
Murakami, Haruki, 1949-
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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9 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Southeast Regional - Adult Fiction
MURAKAMI
Description:
Having quit his job, Toru Okada is enjoying a pleasant stint as a "house husband", listening to music and arranging the dry cleaning and doing the cooking - until his cat goes missing, his wife becomes distant and begins acting strangely, and he starts meeting enigmatic people with fantastic life stories. They involve him in a world of psychics, shared dreams, out-of-body experiences, and shaman-like powers, and tell him stories from Japan's war in...