Las Animas - Bent County Library District

The struggle of the Irish people for independence is one of the compelling historical dramas of the twentieth century. Morgan Llywelyn has chosen it as the subject of her major work, a meticulously researched, multinovel chronicle that began with 1916, continued in 1921, and that she now brings up to the midcentury in 1949. Her new novel book tells the story of Ursula Halloran, a fiercely independent young woman who comes of age in the 1920s. She...

The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. Here is the perfect joining of subject and writer: Johnson, the man of awesome complexity, energy, ambition, and power -- obsessed with secrecy, obscuring (often "rewriting") the facts of his personal and political life; Caro, his biographer, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his life of Robert Moses, The Power Broker -- and everywhere acclaimed for the brilliance, tenacity, and integrity...

A cantankerous taxi dispatcher and his varied collection of strange drivers form a special bond among themselves as they work for a New York City taxi company.

Tony Soprano is a middle-aged, Italian-American businessman in New Jersey with a wife, a daughter, a son, and an elderly mother. He's got a psychiatrist to tell all his secrets to, except the one she already knows. He's also a mob boss facing several crises. Rival boss Johnny Sack is in prison and the always tense relations between the New Jersey and New York families are strained through the unpredictable behavior of Sack's surrogates.

Benjamin Braddock has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion and barely contained angst when he becomes sexually involved with the middle-aged mother of the young woman he's dating.

"A haunting and heartstopping novel about a suburban mother of two who is faced with an unthinkable choice: betray her husband and children, the brother who helped raise her, or her country"-- "In the vein of Defending Jacob or We Need to Talk About Kevin, a compelling literary drama about finding evil close to home and how far a woman will go to protect her family. All her life, Natalie Askedahl has been the good girl, an obedient team player. Growing...

This revolution: A photojournalist is caught between success and ethics, and a political radical's allegiance to her cause is tested when chaos turns to violence during the Republican National Convention in NYC. The swap: Small-time hood Vito is released from jail after serving a twelve-year sentence. His only desire is to find the killer of his younger brother Sammy, a film editor murdered ten years earlier. His search leads him to the people Sammy...