Book Curious ®

Susan Power       Pages: 300        Published: 1994

The book: The year is 1864, in the Sioux tribal lands of North Dakota. Ghost Horse, a handsome young heyo’ka, (sacred clown), falls in love with Red Dress. But Red Dress has been given a mission by the tribal spirits and must leave. What is it that Red Dress must do? Will she and Ghost Horse ever be together? This is their story and the story of how their lives rippled down through time and impacted generations of their families. Read more

Anita Brookner          Pages: 184             Published: 1984

The book: Edith Hope lives in London and writes romance novels under the pen name Vanessa Wilde. After she has an “unfortunate lapse,” her friends send her off to the Hotel Du Lac in Switzerland to give her time to consider her behavior and see the error of her ways. But will she? Read more

Walter Mosley         Pages: 223            Published: 1990

The book: The story begins in Los Angeles in 1948. Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has been laid off from his job due to a disagreement with his boss. He’s having a drink in a bar when he’s introduced by the bar owner to a large white man, dressed in a white linen suit, DeWitt Albright. He offers to pay Rawlins to find a blonde woman who likes to hang out in black jazz clubs. Rawlins feels something’s not quite right and does not trust Albright, but he has a mortgage to pay and no paycheck. Will he take the job? Is Albright to be trusted? Read more

Mary Paulson-Ellis       Pages: 435             Published: 2016

The book: It’s 2011 and Margaret Penny, a middle-aged woman, returns penniless to Edinburgh. She’s been away more than ten years. With no money and little welcome from her aging and combative mother, Margaret must find some sort of employment.  She gets a job working for the Office of Lost People. Margaret’s first task: confirm the identity and find the family of an old woman who died in her apartment a few days before Margaret arrived in Edinburgh. Will Margaret be able to work out the identity of the unknown woman and find her family? Will her relationship with her mother improve? Read more

Ken Kesey        Pages:    325       Published: 1962

The book: Randle Patrick McMurphy manages to get himself admitted to a mental hospital to serve out the last few months of his prison term, thinking the hospital will be a better option. Nurse Ratched runs the ward he is in like a dictatorship, where there are severe penalties for failure to follow her rules. McMurphy challenges Nurse Ratched, flouting her rules and leading many of the other patients astray. What started as a game turns into a deadly battle of wills. The story is narrated by a Native American, Chief Bromden, who has been a patient in the hospital for years.
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