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3621) Sweetwater: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
"Isabel Green's marriage to Paul Simmons, after the death of her first husband, marks her reconnection to life - a venture she's determined will succeed. But this proves to be harder than she'd anticipated, and the challenges of starting afresh seem more complicated in adulthood. Staying at the Simmons lodge for their annual summer visit, Isabel finds herself entering into a set of familial complexities. She struggles to understand her new husband,...
3622) Nightime is my time
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
Jean Sheridan, a college dean and prominent historian, sets out to her hometown to attend the twenty-year reunion of Stonecroft Academy alumni, where she is to be honored along with six other members of her class. There is something uneasy in the air: one woman in the group about to be feted, Alison Kendall, a beautiful, high-powered Hollywood agent, drowned in her pool during an early-morning swim. Alison is the fifth woman in the class whose life...
3623) Gretchen: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2019].
Description
"The new tenants have a terrible secret. So do the landlord and his daughter … Ever since Lucy was two, she's been on the run alongside her mother. She's never understood the reason for a lifetime of paranoia, aliases, and lies. All she understands are the rules: never lock eyes with strangers, never let down your guard, and always be ready to move on. Finally, after thirteen years and eleven states, their next hideaway seems perfect. An isolated,...
3624) House broken
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"A woman skilled at caring for animals must learn to mend the broken relationships in her family"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Lakshmi, called Lucky, is an unemployed millennial programmer. She likes to dance, to have a drink or two, and she makes art on commission. Fifty bucks gets you high-resolution digital images of anything you want (orcs, mermaids, cos-playing couples in sexy boudoir scenes) and a nice frameable print. Lucky's husband, Krishna, is an editor for a greeting card company. Both are secretly gay. They present their conservative Sri Lankan-American families...
3626) S
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
"The chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they don't understand."--Back of container.Contents of inserted items: 2 sheets of "Konfidentiell" letter dated August 17, 1928 ( between pages vi, vii) -- Note on Pollard State University stationary starting "VMS ACCUSED OF" (between pages 10, 11) -- Copy of page from Toronto Review for History and Humanities (between...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking novel, in a lushly illustrated hardcover edition with illuminating commentary from a brilliant young Oxford scholar and critic. "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." So begins Virginia Woolf's much-beloved fourth novel. First published in 1925, Mrs. Dalloway has long been considered Woolf's masterpiece. A pivotal work of literary modernism, its simple plot-centered on an upper-class Londoner preparing...
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
Libertad González, puesta en prisión por un crimen que no revelará, inaugura el club de lectura semanal de la biblioteca, leyendo a sus compañeras de prisión de cualquier libro a su alcance. La historia que surge no tiene nada que ver con las palabras impresas en esas páginas. En su lugar, ella relata la historia de Joaquín González, ex profesor de literatura, prófugo del gobierno mexicano, que se reinventa como troquero de larga distancia...
3631) Hollow man
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Dominic is a prosecutor, a musician, and an Englishman living in Texas. He's also a psychopath. His main goal is to hide his condition and lead a seemingly normal life in hopes to pay off his debts and become a full-time musician in Austin's club scene. But on one lousy day his carefully controlled world starts to shatter: he's demoted at work and accused of stealing a fellow musician's song"--Page 4 of cover.
3632) Quiet teacher
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
"Torn by memories of a warrior life in ancient China, by voices in his head that he's not sure are real and by unresolved urges, celebrated neurosurgeon Xenon Pearl struggles with a serial killer in some of South Florida's grittiest cityscapes"--P. [4] of cover.
3633) Hello goodbye
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
A family travels to a New Hampshire resort to allow their dying mother a week to say goodbye to friends, as their daughter, who doesn't know that her mother's condition is terminal, explores her feelings about love and family.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Description
There are two kinds of people in the world. The ones who look first, and the ones who leap. I've always been more of a looker. Cautious. A planner. That changed after I met Drew Evans. He was so persistent. So sure of himself - and of me. But not all love stories end happily ever after. Did you think Drew and I were going to ride off into the sunset? Join the club. Now I have to make a choice; the most important of my life. Drew already made his -in...
3639) Hallucinating Foucault
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
An English student is so impressed by a book of philosophy that he travels to France to meet its author, now in an insane asylum. In describing the relationship which grows up between the two men, the novel looks at the bonds that are created between reader and writer, even though they never meet. A first novel.
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