Best of
Contemporary

1988

Dead Poets Society


N.H. Kleinbaum - 1988
    As Keating turns the boys on to the great words of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, they discover not only the beauty of language, but the importance of making each moment count. But the Dead Poets pledges soon realize that their newfound freedom can have tragic consequences. Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams?

Slow Heat in Heaven


Sandra Brown - 1988
    Now a crisis has brought her home to a family in conflict, a logging empire on the brink of disaster, and seething secrets that make Heaven hotter than hell. Everyone in Heaven has a secret: Schyler's beautiful younger sister, Tricia, with her cruel lies; Ken, Tricia's handsome husband, who married the wrong sister; Jigger, the pimp and ruffian with plans of his own; and Cash, a proud, mysterious, and complex bad boy with a wild reputation. It is dangerous for Schyler to even be near him, yet she must dare to confront the past -- if there is to be any peace in Heaven.

The Course of True Love


Betty Neels - 1988
    Marc was the most annoying and exasperating man she had ever met! But, as the engagement was only pretence and she did owe Marc a favor, Claribel agreed. She soon discovered that make believe can come true, even if you don't want it to! Before she knew it, Claribel found herself head over heels in love...and the course of true love never did run smooth.

River's Bend


JoAnn Ross - 1988
    With her storybook marriage shattered, Rachel vows to never, ever, risk her heart again.No stranger to personal tragedy, Sheriff Cooper Murphy knows about starting over. When Rachel arrives in River's Bend to begin a new life with her young son, he realizes that the love-shy single mother is just the woman he's been waiting for. Although he wants to throw her over his shoulder and carry her off into the western sunset, Cooper knows that he'll have to be patient, move slow, if he wants to convince Rachel to believe in their own Happily Ever After.

The Four Elements


Roz Chast - 1988
    1988. 8.00 x 7.90 x 0.50.FUNNY Cartoons by Roz Chast

Mother, Please Don't Die


Lurlene McDaniel - 1988
    Her older sister, Audrey, is driving her crazy with constant talk about her upcoming wedding. When a popular girl at school takes an interest in Megan's best friend, John-Paul, Megan is surprised at her own jealousy. Was she losing her tomboy edge? But when her mother's mysterious headaches turn out to be a brain tumor, Megan's world is truly turned upside-down.

The Bean Trees


Barbara Kingsolver - 1988
    But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child, a three-year-old American Indian girl named Turtle, and must somehow come to terms with both motherhood and the necessity for putting down roots. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in apparently empty places.

Cafe Nevo


Barbara Rogan - 1988
    It is presided over by Emmanuel Sternholz, the proprietor-waiter whose unblinking gaze takes in the tangled web of destinies and desires spun out around him. In this comic, tragic, and compelling mosaic of intertwined lives, Barbara Rogan has created a dazzling work of fiction - and a marvelously illuminating mirror of Israel today. "An inspired, passionate work of fiction." (Kirkus Reviews) "A special book...one you'll remember and want to pass on to a friend." (Erie Times News)

Zone Journals


Charles Wright - 1988
    But despite the air of immediacy and informality, they are artfully composed, informed as always by Wright's profound sense of subliminal order.

Summer Visitors


Susan Sallis - 1988
    It was there she and her mother went to recover from a heartrending family tragedy - there she was forced reluctantly into marriage - there she fell into a wild and passionate wartime love. And it was there she saw her children grow and love and cope with the secret legacies the years had left them, until finally they became more than just summer visitors.

But That Was Yesterday


Kathleen Eagle - 1988
    Now he was living day to day, rebuilding his ranch and teaching his people that life on the reservation had a value all its own...Then into his life walked Megan McBride, with her smile and her love and her absolute perfection. She was everything a woman should be — and everything a man like the former Sage couldn't have.But this was a new Sage, one who drew in the strength of the tribal ways, yet had learned how to deal with the white man's world. All he needed to make his life complete was Megan by his side...

You Shall Not Be Called Jacob Anymore: An Autobiography of a Child of the Holocaust


Jacob Bresler - 1988
    But this was not his destiny. This resilient, emotive eleven-year-old boy grew up far too quickly as the Nazis marched through Poland on their mission to exploit and exterminate the Jewish people. His entire world was literally destroyed, piece-by-piece. Evicted from his home and separated from his family, he was forced to live in ghettos and concentration camps for more than five years. He witnessed the atrocities and failures that shattered nations and devastated generations. Jacob struggled, adapted and learned to survive while facing horrifying circumstances, losing everything except his own humanity. Written decades after his liberation and immigration to a new world, this harrowing, breathtaking, insightful and emotional story follows a young man's journey through innocence, desperation, regret and hope.

A Practical Approach to Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint


Robert Gauldin - 1988
    The orientation is strongly stylistic, dealing mainly with the polyphony of the late Baroque period. Three aspects are stressed throughout: practical work in writing counterpoint, utilizing various textures, devices, and genre of the period; historical background, to establish the origins of different forms and justify the pedagogical method employed here; analysis of selections from music literature, often in voice-leading reductions. After an opening chapter that reviews some general features of the late Baroque period, there is a brief survey of melodic characteristics, and a study of procedures associated with two, three, and four voices.