The following books can be found alphabetically by the author's last name in the Adult Fiction area. If you need assistance please ask at the desk.

Location Codes:
MN - Main Library
DR - Dobson Ranch Branch
RM - Red Mountain Branch (East Mesa)

Barker, Pat. Another World. 1999. 277 p.
In a novel of memory and loss, Nick tries to keep the peace in his disintegrating family while comforting his grandfather, a proud, intelligent man who lies dying on the other side of town. (MN, RM)

Bonner, Cindy. Right From Wrong. 1999. 329 p.
Raised as siblings, Sunny DeLony and her cousin Gil are separated when their families notice the attraction between them, Gil enlisting to fight in World War I, and Sunny marrying a local man, but nothing can make them forget their feelings. (MN, RM)

Cavanaugh, Jack. The Allies. 1997. 461 p.
Belgium lies in ruins. France is about to fall. England is ablaze from nightly bombings. Can America's late entry into the Great War make a difference? Can the world truly be made safe for democracy? (MN only)

Drummond, Emma. Act of Valour. 1998. 457 p.
In 1914, as the Ashleigh family of Knightshill gathers together at the mansion to welcome home the black sheep of their family, World War I breaks out and, one by one, the members of the proud clan become embroiled in the conflict. (MN, RM)

Dugain, Marc. The Officers' Ward. 2001 135 p.
After being horribly disfigured during the war and sent to a hospital on the outskirts of Paris, Officer Adrien F. forms a special bond with the other soldiers dealing with pain and reconstructive surgery, and when a gorgeous woman joins their group, he learns that hope, humor, and humanity can exist in even the darkest of hours. (MN, RM)

Erdrich, Louise. The Master Butchers Singing Club. 2003. 389 p.
Returning to his quiet German village home after World War I, trained killer Fidelis Waldvogel, accompanied by his wife, leaves to start a new life in America and finds his life irrevocably changed by a new relationship. (MN, RM)

Faulks, Sebastian. Birdsong. 1996. 402 p.
In 1910, Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, journeys to France, becomes embroiled in a series of traumatic events, including a clandestine love affair, and is later trapped amid the horrors of the First World War. (MN, DR, RM)

Fleming, Thomas J. Over There. 1992. 608 p.
As the First World War plays out in Europe, Polly Warden, a feminist and former pacifist, acts both as a nurse in a frontline French hospital and an ambulance driver on the British and American fronts, while friends and former lovers fight. (MN, RM)

Follett, Ken. The Man from St. Petersburg. 1982. 305 p.
Just before World War I, two men--one, a noble Russian emissary, the other, a denizen of Europe's underground--set in motion a concatenation of world-shaking, ultimately fatal events. (MN, DR, RM)

Fullerton, Alexander. The Blooding of the Guns. 2001. 286 p.
In the first volume of the Everard Naval series, in late May 1916, young Nicholas Everard and his compatriots take part in the epic battle of Jutland against the German High Sea Fleet in the icy North Sea. (MN, DR, RM)

Hull, Jonathan. Losing Julia. 2000. 258 p.
From the French battlefields of World War I to a present-day nursing home in California, Patrick Delaney describes his long-time love for Julia, the wife of his best friend, Daniel, as he meets her as a young widow at a memorial service at Verdun, France, through their brief time together, to their ultimate separation. (MN, RM, DR)

Johnson, Guy. Standing at the Scratch Line. 1998. 548 p.
Forced to leave his Louisiana home after killing two white deputies during a raid on a rival's smuggling operation, Le Roi Boudreaux Tremain joins the army, where he becomes King Tremain, an angel of vengeance who kills based on his own code of honor, love, and loyalty. (MN, RM)

McCutchan, Philip. The New Lieutenant. 1997. 181 p.
The third in a series of novels about the life and times of Tom Chatto follows Chatto as he leaves the merchant marines to begin a life in the Royal Navy Reserve, where he finds himself commanding a ship that leads German U-boats to their demise. (MN, RM)

Phillips, Michael. Wayward Winds. 1999. 426 p.
Estranged from her family, twenty-year-old Amanda Rutherford leaves Heathersleigh Hall for London, amid the dangers and excitement of the suffragette movement and an impending world war. (MN, DR, RM)

Saunders, Kate. Night Shall Overtake Us. 1994. 501 p.
Four women take a pledge of eternal friendship shortly before World War I as the world they have known descends into chaos and their different destinies, which include obsession, murder, and insanity, begin to be played out. (MN, RM)

Skinner, Richard. The Red Dancer : The Life and Times of Mata Hari. 2002. 263 p.
Combining fiction with official documents, a revealing portrait of Mata Hari recreates fin-de-siecle Europe as the mysterious double agent weaves a tangled web of betrayal, sex, and espionage. (MN, DR, RM)

Thoene, Bodie. In My Father's House. 1992. 430 p.
In the Trenches of France, They Had Fought the War to End All Wars. But the Real Battle Had Just Begun. From every conceivable culture, men joined together in foxholes to fight World War I the Great War that would bring the world together in peace, for all time. (MN, DR, RM)

Updated 6/05, KG; Holdings checked 7/06 KRL