Frank Carlson Library

One of the most acclaimed fiction debuts of 2000, national best-seller House of Leaves influenced, and was influenced by, the music of POE, Mark Z. Danielewski's sister. Her highly anticipated new album, Haunted, which includes many songs inspired by House of Leaves, will be released in September 2000 by Atlantic Records.

Four strangers meet in The Realm, a virtual world populated with violence, ogres, and mythical creatures, and fight one another for ultimate power in the virtual realm, but when one of their lives is struck by tragedy, the group uses their online network to offer support.

Fifteen-year-old Macy, officially labeled "disturbed" by her school, records her impressions of her rough neighborhood and home life as she tries to rescue her brother from Child Protective Services, win back her overachieving best friend after a fight, and figure out whether to tell her incarcerated father about her mother's cheating.

"A new ice age has driven mankind to settlements at the equator. In Clemency--a metropolis sheltered inside a transparent dome surrounded by glaciers--planning luminary Dorner hears female voices in his sleep. As the voices become more insistent, he seeks help from neuroscientist Rin, who runs tests to identify the location and import of this interior woman, who calls herself 'Tongue.' Rin's increasingly invasive experiments help Dorner to visualize...