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FROM: <[removed]@infoave.net>
REC'D: 12/10/99, 1:19 PM

If anyone can help me with this one, there is a true literary intuitive
out there somewhere. Our patron wants to finish a book he inadvertently
left in Illinois last week (little did he know that IL is the mecca of RA;
he could have asked there before he left) which was a fairly recent (no
date idea) paperback -- thriller/mystery/adventure -- with the word
"orchard" in the title.

I have checked Novelist (CD version), Worldcat (9911 hits. ugh), amazon,
and our own keyword. I found Cormac McCarthy (wrong) and a few things
from the early 1900s (also wrong) as well as two books by women (ix-nay).

Can anyone help?

Debbie Spear
Greenville (SC) County Library

FROM: <[removed]@ocln.org>
REC'D: 12/10/99, 2:01 PM

Could possibly be Orchid beach by Stuart Woods.

FROM: "Wendy Friedman" <[removed]@ci.sat.tx.us>
REC'D: 12/10/99, 2:15 PM

FROM: "Nancy A. Weitendorf, PSL-A/PRG" <[removed]@ESCHER.dnet.cuyahoga.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 12/10/99, 2:29 PM

Could this be The Marble Orchard by Basil Copper? Just a guess,
but it's a recent (1998) title, and it's a mystery set in Los
Angeles, if I remember correctly. I didn't know it was available
in paperback, though, so I could be wrong...

Nancy Weitendorf
Cuyahoga County Public Library
Parma Ridge Branch
Parma OH

FROM: "Lynn Silence" <[removed]@imail.slcl.lib.mo.us>
REC'D: 12/10/99, 2:35 PM

I found THE MARBLE ORCHARD by William F. Nolan and THE BONE ORCHARD by
Joseph Trigoboff.

Good luck!

lks


At 02:23 PM 12/10/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>If anyone can help me with this one, there is a true literary intuitive
>out there somewhere. Our patron wants to finish a book he inadvertently
>left in Illinois last week (little did he know that IL is the mecca of RA;
>he could have asked there before he left) which was a fairly recent (no
>date idea) paperback -- thriller/mystery/adventure -- with the word
>"orchard" in the title.
>
>I have checked Novelist (CD version), Worldcat (9911 hits. ugh), amazon,
>and our own keyword. I found Cormac McCarthy (wrong) and a few things
>from the early 1900s (also wrong) as well as two books by women (ix-nay).
>
>Can anyone help?
>
>Debbie Spear
>Greenville (SC) County Library
>
>
>
Lynn K. Silence
Manager, Collection Development
St. Louis County Library
300 Clarkson Road, Ellisville, Missouri 63011
Voice: 636-227-1138, Fax: 636-227-9632
"The three most important documents a free society gives
are a birth certificate, a passport and a library card." E.L. Doctorow

FROM: "Susan LaBelle" <[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 12/10/99, 3:03 PM

This is a long shot...but...could it be Orchid Beach by Stuart Woods?

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Susan LaBelle Voice 248.647.1700
Librarian Fax 248.647.6393
Adult Reading
Baldwin Public Library
300 W. Merrill
Birmingham, Michigan 48009

FROM: "Nancy A. Weitendorf, PSL-A/PRG" <[removed]@ESCHER.dnet.cuyahoga.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 12/10/99, 4:05 PM

Whoops! I made a mistake on my author. The Marble Orchard was
written by Nolan Williams, not Basil Copper. I had Mr. Copper's
latest book (Whispers in the Night) on my desk when I was typing
this and must have gotten my wires crossed. Sorry. It's been one
of those weeks!

Nancy Weitendorf, Adult Services Librarian
Cuyahoga County Public Library
Parma Ridge Branch
Parma OH

FROM: "Barry Trott" <[removed]@mail.wrl.org>
REC'D: 12/11/99, 8:31 AM

Could this be "The Orchard Keeper" by Cormac McCarthy? It was his first
novel.

Barry

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Barry Trott 7770 Croaker Rd.
Readers' Advisory Librarian Williamsburg VA 23188
Williamsburg Regional Library Phone: 757-259-4050 or
[removed]@mail.wrl.org 757-259-7720
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On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 [removed]@infoave.net wrote:

> If anyone can help me with this one, there is a true literary intuitive
> out there somewhere. Our patron wants to finish a book he inadvertently
> left in Illinois last week (little did he know that IL is the mecca of RA;
> he could have asked there before he left) which was a fairly recent (no
> date idea) paperback -- thriller/mystery/adventure -- with the word
> "orchard" in the title.
>
> I have checked Novelist (CD version), Worldcat (9911 hits. ugh), amazon,
> and our own keyword. I found Cormac McCarthy (wrong) and a few things
> from the early 1900s (also wrong) as well as two books by women (ix-nay).
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Debbie Spear
> Greenville (SC) County Library
>

FROM: <[removed]@infoave.net>
REC'D: 12/13/99, 10:52 AM

Thanks to everyone who suggested orchard books, and especially to those
who, undaunted by what the patron actually said, suggested Orchid Beach.
That was it!

Debbie Spear
Greenville (SC) County Library

FROM: "Fran Garn" <[removed]@scls.lib.wi.us>
REC'D: 12/13/99, 11:36 AM

I read a book a few years back that I think was a bit of a
mystery/psychological novel--The orchard on fire by Shena Mackay (1996).
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Fran Garn, Assistant Director
Rosemary Garfoot Public Library
2107 Julius Street Cross Plains, WI 53528
PHONE: (608)798-3881 FAX: (608)798-0196
EMAIL: [removed]@scls.lib.wi.us

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