Best of
Contemporary

1984

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest


Peter Fish - 1984
    Includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.

Finger Prints


Barbara Delinsky - 1984
    But that courage nearly cost Robyn her life. Under the protection of the Witness Relocation program, she now has a new identity -- Carly -- and a new job. But the terror of the past still lingers, and Carly lives in fear that her enemies will find her.Though she tries to wall herself off from the world, onedetermined man breaks through her defenses -- successful young attorney Ryan Cornell. And though she yearns to give him her heart, Carly doesn’t know if she can. While loving him offers a happiness she thought she'd forever lost, trusting him could cost her everything.

The President's Daughter


Ellen Emerson White - 1984
    She likes living in Massachusetts. She likes her school. And she has plenty of friends. But all that is about to change. Because Meg's mother, one of the most prestigious senators in the country, is running for President. And she's going to win.

Bloody Jack


Dennis Cooley - 1984
    Travel with Jack and his beloved Penny, experience both writing and being written, reading and being read. You begin to remember what you have not yet known and did not yet realize you were missing." Dennis Cooley has added more than a dozen new poems to this revised edition, extending his playful relationship with the already elusive text. Poet and scholar Douglas Barbour's contextual introduction helps the reader understand both the original volume and the wonder of its new existence.

Spies


Richard Ben Sapir - 1984
    Unrecovered detritus from the last German U-boat sunk off the coast of Rhode Island, it contains secret codes suggesting that a Nazi spy ring operated in the United States during the darkest days of World War II. If confirmed, it could prove a major embarrassment to the FBI—whose late director, J. Edgar Hoover, once assured the government there were no spies in the country—so the Bureau sends one of its best, Unit Chief Todd Oliver, to Newport to investigate.   A war that ended four decades earlier is not yet over for some in this New England naval town, as Oliver’s mission threatens to destroy the lives and relationships of the guilty and the innocent alike. Suddenly, dark, lingering shadows are everywhere, enveloping respected pillars of the community, the wealthy and powerful in their mansions on “the Avenue,” and respectable, law-abiding citizens who merely wish to forget. Even Oliver himself is not safe, as the agent’s inquiries into secret wartime espionage begin unraveling strong, sacred bonds of love, friendship, and family, tempting the dedicated operative to compromise everything he stands for in the face of a shocking murder that rocks Newport society to its core.

The Invention Of Kindness


Lee Upton - 1984
    

Summer Sunrise


Lee Damon - 1984
    To Tally, he was just a pain. Though he was sophisticated, charming and witty, he was definitely not her type.But call it Fate, Chance or Kismet, before the summer was out, the two fell insatiably in love. And then the real fireworks began....

Mouroir


Breyten Breytenbach - 1984
    Mouroir (mourir: to die + miroir: mirror) is a ship of thought moving with its own hallucinatory logic through a sea of mythic images, protean characters and what the author describes as “landscapes and spaces beyond death, spaces that have always existed and will always exist.” An Orphic voyage into memory and mirage, through passages between death and life, darkness and light, oppression and flight, sense and the sensed. Mouroir.An outspoken human rights activist, Breyten Breytenbach is a poet, novelist, memoirist, essayist, and visual artist. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited around the world. Born in South Africa, he immigrated to Paris in the late ’60s and became deeply involved in the anti-Apartheid movement. Breytenbach is the author of All One Horse, A Season in Paradise, The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist, Dog Heart, and The Memory of Birds in Times of Revolution, among many others. He received the Alan Paton Award for Return to Paradise in 1994 and the prestigious Hertzog Prize for Poetry for Papierblom in 1999 and for Die Windvanger (Windcatcher) in 2008.

Renewing the Mind: The Arena for Success


Casey Treat - 1984
    Most people need and want real change in their lives but feel it is impossible to attain. They've tried various quick fixes and religious formulas, which brought no lasting change. What they need is the renewing of their minds.

Dare The Devil


Elaine Raco Chase - 1984
    . . love "as you like it" from G.K. Hall. Romance readers will enjoy many titles by current top-selling authors.From the moment he spied the tawny, near-naked beauty poised on the jagged cliffs, Thor Devlin was stunned. Long the master of his ranch near Glacier National Park, he yearned to make this primal fantasy come true on his own. But Cam Stirling was a movie stunt double who no man could tame -- until Thor claimed her with a look. Although their passion was electric, Cam knew she couldn't dare this devil without having to pay.