Russell Banks
1) Affliction
Author
Language
English
Description
Wade Whitehouse, part-time policeman, investigates a hunting death that could be a murder, brings a custody suit against his former wife, and discovers a real estate scam that costs him his job on his journey to set things right once and for all.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Robert Dubois, an oil burner repairman from New Hampshire, goes to Florida to start a new life and becomes involved in smuggling illegal aliens. Vanise Dorsinville flees Haiti to join an uncle in Florida. Their fates become intertwined in a shattering climax.
4) The darling
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Description
Set in Liberia and the United States from 1975 through 1991, The Darling is the story of Hannah Musgrave, a political radical and member of the Weather Underground. Hannah flees America for West Africa, where she and her Liberian husband become friends of the notorious warlord and ex-president, Charles Taylor. Hannah's encounter with Taylor ultimately triggers a series of events whose momentum catches Hannah's family in its grip and forces her to...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When we first meet him, Chappie is a punked-out teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in an upstate New York trailer park. During this time, he slips into drugs and petty crime. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he claims for himself a new identity as a permanent outsider; he gets a crossed-bones tattoo on his arm, and takes the name "Bone." He finds dangerous refuge with a group of biker-thieves,...