Ruby Sisson Library

A novel on an expatriate's solitude. He is a Colombian homosexual who moves first to Spain, then to the U.S. All the while he pines for his homeland, having forgotten the bad things that made him leave. A return visit reminds him and he is cured of his melancholy

Winter Intersession is in full swing, and campus is buzzing over the concert celebrating the bell tower's reopening. The building has been shuttered for twenty-five years, and Sophie is shocked to learn why. A student leapt from it to her death. But she's even more troubled by the secrecy surrounding the case. After Sophie performs some quick calculations, she's left with a nagging question: Was it really suicide? When one of Sophie's favorite students,...

Lisa, a troubled young woman with a past, finds a beautiful room to rent in a house in North London. After moving in, she finds a suicide note hidden in her room. Her landlords insist the note's author doesn't exist, and that Lisa is their first tenant. Lisa begins to doubt herself. Compelled to uncover the secrets of the man who lived in the room before her, Lisa grows alarmed by increasingly disturbing incidents. As she claws her way towards the...

From repeat New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore comes a love story, the portrait of a young artist, the portrait of the young artist's girlfriend, a mystery, a thriller, and a comedy-all about the color blue. .

Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, "Another country" is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. In a small set of friends, Baldwin imbues the best and worst intentions of liberal America in...