Let’s go back in time and party like it’s almost 1999! We’re putting the pedal to the metal and traveling to 1998 – a year dominated by Titanic and Monica Lewinsky. Still, you might also remember the year for:
- The Winter Olympics, held in Nagano, Japan (February)
- Google, Inc. being founded (September)
- Frank Sinatra dying (May)
And, if you did any reading at the tail of the year, you might have picked up one of the New York Times Best Sellers from the week of December 27, 1998. Happy New (old) Year!
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FICTION
- Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
2. Bag of Bones by Stephen King
3. The Simple Truth by David Baldacci
4. Mirror Image by Danielle Steel
5. Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy
6. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
7. When the Wind Blows by James Patterson
8. All Through the Night by Mary Higgins Clark
9. The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice
10. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
11. The Locket by Richard Paul Evans
12. Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
13. Today I Feel Silly & Other Moods That Make My Day by Jamie Lee Curtis, illustrated By Laura Cornell
14. A Night Without Armor by Jewel Kilcher
15. The Night Before Christmas by Clement Moore, illustrated by Jan Brett
16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
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NONFICTION
1. The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
2. The Century by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster
3. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
4. Blind Man’s Bluff by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew with Annette Lawrence Drew
5. The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
6. The American Century by Harold Evans with Gail Buckland and Kevin Baker
7. The Endurance by Caroline Alexander
8. For the Love of the Game by Michael Jordan, edited By Mark Vancil
9. Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
10. The Ten Commandments by Laura Schlessinger and Stewart Vogel
11. Best Friends by Sharon J. Wohlmuth and Carol Saline
12. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
13. Conversations with God: Book 3 by Neale Donald Walsch
14. A Pirate Looks at Fifty by Jimmy Buffett
15. The Victors by Stephen E. Ambrose
16. We Interrupt This Broadcast by Joe Garner
Our Spanish collection is growing! We have over 300 titles right now – in both fiction and nonfiction. There are perennial favorites like Stephen King and Danielle Steel, but we also have a few popular Spanish-language authors such as Gabriel Garcia-Marquez and Roberto Bolaño.
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