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Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Based on the National Magazine Award-winning story, a novel about love and death follows a family of three as they discover a beautiful terrace hidden in their closet that sets off a seismic chain of events, forever changing the shape of their tiny home—and the shape of the world.
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"Summering with a fellow schoolboy on a great English estate, Leo, the hero of L.P. Hartley's finest novel, encounters a world of unimagined luxury. But when his friend's beautiful older sister enlists him as the unwitting messenger in her illicit love affair, the aftershocks will be felt for years. The inspiration for the brilliant Joseph Losey/Harold Pinter film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates, The Go-Between is a masterpiece - a richly layered,...
5) Ward D
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital's inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out. And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls. When patients and...
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
An exquisitely crafted ensemble piece about marriage, identity, and desire set on the island of Martha's Vineyard In Chilmark, a grandmother imagines she can fly. A reclusive giant feels an immediate kinship with a boy who cannot grow. A wife who never used to worry is overwhelmed by debilitating fears. And a husband who prefers to be alone is drawn to a reckless teenage girl with the power to ruin his life. Over the course of one fateful year,...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison’s writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been 'critically acclaimed.' He seethes on the sidelines of the literary establishment as he watches the meteoric success of We’s Lives in Da Ghetto, a first novel by a woman who once visited 'some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days.' Meanwhile, Monk struggles...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Professor Godfrey St. Peter is a man in his fifties who has devoted his life to his work, his wife, his garden and his daughters, and achieved success with all of them. But when St. Peter is called on to move to a new, more comortable house, something in him rebels. And although at first theat rebellion consists of nothing more than mild resistance to his family's wishes, it imperceptibly comes to encompass the entire order of his life.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
A series of tragedies, including the death of her baby brother, her parent's divorce, her mother's nervous breakdown, and her own rape at the age of thirteen, leaves Dolores Price wounded both mentally and physically, but she miraculously finds the strength to give herself one more chance at life and love.
11) Perfect reader
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a New England college town returns to confront her father's legacy and the secrets he left behind.
Author
Series
Will Trent volume 1
Language
English
Description
Troubled by a rocky marriage and the recent loss of his partner, Atlanta detective Michael Ormewood launches an investigation into the savage murder of a local woman, and ex-con John Shelley may be the key to solving the case.
15) A small affair
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2022.
Language
English
Description
Days after Vera meets a wealthy older man on a dating app, the man and his wife are found dead, and Vera is branded a murderer. Seeking redemption, Vera suspects there was more to the story than an affair gone wrong.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Abandoning her life of popularity and high achievement to follow a magnetic stranger, a teenage girl embarks on an initially intoxicating journey of enlightenment that illuminates the cult-like qualities of suburbia.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Sunny Cooper has been running since she was eighteen-from the New Mexican commune where she grew up . . . and from the haunting memory of the freak accident that took the life of her younger sister. Now, at thirty-two, Sunny voices radio spots in Albuquerque while struggling to hold on to a floundering relationship. But when a second tragic accident-and the devastating truths that come to light in its aftermath-turns her world upside down, Sunny runs...
19) Beaches
Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The incredibly popular New York Times bestseller-a compelling story of the friendship of two unique women-is back!
The story opens in 1951 as two young girls meet on the beach of Atlantic City. Cee Cee Bloom is performing in a kiddie show and Bertie White who has grown up in a conservative family is drawn to the glitter of Cee Cee's world. They become pen pals and keep in touch as they grow ito adulthood. Cee Cee soars to stardom in Hollywood and...