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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under--but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife Imelda is selling off her jewelry on eBay, while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way through her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to...
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English
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"Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a "girlfriend") tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son. These...
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English
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"Based on [the author]s own experiences as a young man, the books two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly-fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in [the author]s own words, 'a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by.'y--...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died.
One afternoon, a mother opens her front door to find the length of her son's body stretched out on the veranda, swaddled in akwete material, his head on her welcome mat. The Death of Vivek Oji transports us to the day of Vivek's birth, the day his grandmother Ahunna died. It is the story of an over protective mother and a distant father, and the heart-wrenching tale of one family's struggle to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival is a classic Athabascan Indian tale of survival, filled with suspense and wisdom as told by Velma Wallis, an outstanding Native American writer. Her style is a refreshing blend of contemporary and traditional, and her choice of subject matter challenges the taboos of her past. Yet her themes are modern -- empowerment of women, the aging of America, and a growing interest in Native American...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2008].
Language
English
Description
"This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia's grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland." -- Publisher's description
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Series
The Abigail Phelps volume Bk. 1
Publisher
Bethany Turner
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
Abigail Phelps has written her memoirs, but the world has never heard of her. So why should anyone care? Perhaps no one would, if the letter in which Abigail reflects on changing times and lost opportunities weren't addressed to Jacqueline Onassis, and the man who would never be the same weren't John F. Kennedy Jr.Put aside all you think you know and jump into the greatest love story the world has never known.THE ABIGAIL PHELPS SERIES
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English
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Lucas Goodgame lives in Majestic, Pennsylvania, a quaint suburb that has been torn apart by a recent tragedy. Everyone in Majestic sees Lucas as a hero--everyone, that is, except Lucas himself. Insisting that his deceased wife, Darcy, visits him every night in the form of an angel, Lucas spends his time writing letters to his former Jungian analyst, Karl. It is only when Eli, an eighteen-year-old young man whom the community has ostracized, begins...
10) Random
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Two weeks before his twenty-first birthday, Las Vegas native Bobby Ingersoll finds out he’s inherited a crushing gambling debt from his scumbag father. The debt is owed to an even scummier bag named Fraser Ruphart who oversees his bottom-rung criminal empire from the classy-adjacent Trump International Hotel. Bobby’s prospects of paying off the note, which comes due the day he turns twenty-one, are about as dim as the sign on the tower’s façade....
Author
Publisher
Border Horse Publications
Pub. Date
January 13th 2019
Language
English
Description
In rural Southern Colorado the Army is attempting a land grab via Eminent Domain. Johnny Kimberly is the scion of a dying culture and dying landscape. He is faced with a stark choice: Fight a losing battle with his pride intact or sell out and leave. Allied with him is an ad hoc coalition of ranchers, farmers, ecologists and artists, but with the Army having the deepest pockets and the patience of Job, the coalition is the underdog. Kimberly is in...
12) Bed: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
Description
A darkly funny and surprisingly tender debut novel about two brothers, one ofwhom refuses to leave his bed on his 25th birthday. Annotation: A darkly funny and surprisingly tender debut novel about two brothers, one ofwhom refuses to leave his bed on his 25th birthday.
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Language
English
Description
THE PRICE OF SALT is the famous lesbian love story by Patricia Highsmith, written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. The author became notorious due to the story's latent lesbian content and happy ending, the latter having been unprecedented in homosexual fiction. Highsmith recalled that the novel was inspired by a mysterious woman she happened across in a shop and briefly stalked. Because of the happy ending (or at least an ending with the possibility...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"These Ghosts are Family centers on Abel and Vera Paisley are a working-class Jamaican couple, striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her children, Irene and Vincent....
15) Reservoir tapes
Author
Series
Reservoir novels volume 2
Publisher
CATAPULT
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The Reservoir Tapes take us deep into the heart of an English village that is trying to come to terms with what has happened on its watch.A teenage girl has gone missing. The whole community has been called upon to join the search. And now an interviewer arrives, intent on capturing the community's unstable stories about life in the weeks and months before Becky Shaw vanished.Each villager has a memory to share or a secret to conceal, a connection...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A gorgeous new centennial edition of Ernest Hemingway's landmark short story of a veteran's solo fishing trip in Michigan's rugged Upper Peninsula, illustrated with specially commissioned artwork by master engraver Chris Wormell and featuring a revelatory foreword by John N. Maclean.
17) Mortal weather
Author
Publisher
Top Reads Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After enduring the loss of his wife and surviving a near fatal accident at work, Stanhope Ellis decides he' s ready for a change of scenery. Unfortunately, the people he meets in his new locale are dropping like flies, and he might be the reason. As he struggles with whether he' s Death Man or a cosmic witness, he meets a wise nurse, Gayathri Das, who helps him navigate the emotional minefield. But will she die, like the others? Fondness for each...
18) False Dawn City
Author
Publisher
John Weyrr
Pub. Date
(January 22, 2019)
Language
English
Description
Raymond Chance expatriates himself to Mexico after his marriage fails, he does eighteen months for Assault and Battery, and he's run over by a car in a Safeway parking lot. Ten years later he returns at the news of his ex-wife's death, hoping to rekindle something of a relationship with his one and only child, daughter Jen, now grown and living in Eugene, Oregon. But Jen, poisoned with hatred by her mother, she blows him off in no uncertain terms....
19) Eartheater
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Eartheater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth--a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death. Disturbed by what she witnesses, the woman keeps her visions to herself. But when Eartheater begins an unlikely relationship with a withdrawn police officer, word of her...