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|  | About Schmidt by George Guidall, Louis Begley
The protagonist of this novel of self-deception and loneliness is Albert Schmidt, a widowed, retired lawyer in his 60s, who has shown neither affection nor tolerance to his daughter, Charlotte. Now, she is married to a Jewish lawyer whose warm family provides her with what she has never had. Meanwhile, Schmidt's life is invaded by the young Puerto Rican waitress with whom he is infatuated. This novel was nominated for the 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. AUTHOR: George Guidall, Louis Begley
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | The Story of Abdulhassan by Daniel Horch
Description not available.Entreated to help the young prince of Persia elope with the Sultan's mistress, alchemist Ibn Thaher works to assist the lovers despite the threat of death if they are caught and is challenged to overcome court factions that would use the impending scandal for their own ends. A first novel. 10,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Daniel Horch
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Snake Pit by Mary Jane Warde
Description not available.Following a mental collapse, a woman is placed in a mental institution by her husband where her depression is treated by electric shock, hydrotherapy, drugs, and psychoanalysis AUTHOR: Mary Jane Warde
PUBLISHER: Buccaneer Books, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | A History of Music in Western Civilization
Includes Medieval music, Renaissance, Baroque Period, Classical, Romantic, Modern, Contemporary, Popular
PUBLISHER: HighBridge Company
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: General
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 | Murder in Georgetown by E. C. Kelly, Margaret Truman
The oil of inside knowledge lubricates the asembled whole into a smooth-running, fast-moving narrative. CHICAGO SUN-TIMESBeautiful twenty-year old Valerie Frolich, a Senator's daughter, is killed at a posh Georgetown party. And when Joe Potamos, of the Washington Post's police beat, is assigned to report the murder, he finds out a number of things about Valerie which lead him to a number of startling questions about Georgetown's most powerful men and women--questions whose answers have the power of life or death.... AUTHOR: E. C. Kelly, Margaret Truman
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Candide by Andre Maurois, David Wootton, J. H. Brumfitt, John Butt, Lowell Blair
Candide, the quintessential innocent, has been taught by his tutor, Pangloss, that all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds. Gradually, Candide and his beloved, Cunegonde, learn--as they travel through a world peopled with evil characters and various cruelties--the limits of Pangloss's philosophy. Voltaire's great comic masterpiece is a satire of the doctrine of optimism, which Voltaire sees as a blind acceptance of human misery. AUTHOR: Andre Maurois, David Wootton, J. H. Brumfitt, John Butt, Lowell Blair
PUBLISHER: Bantam Dell Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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