Beardslee, Lois.
Summary: The Women's Warrior Society is a remarkable gathering of characters and voices used to expose truths about Native American life. In tightly woven prose, Lois Beardslee tells stories about people from all over North America and from either side of the line between abused and abuser. Both individual and archetypal, Native and non-Native, male and female, her characters take up arms against widely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arizona Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEAFosse, Jon
Summary: "What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an aging painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbor, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Transit Books 2022
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC FOSHan, Kang
Summary: A lyrical exploration of personal grief, conveyed through the prism of the color white, finds a nameless writer grappling with a haunting family tragedy involving the infancy death of her older sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2019
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Summary: "As his country is torn apart by social and political anarchy, A Void's protagonist, Anton Vowl, a chronic insomniac, is unaccountably found missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any indication, for any faint hint, as to his location. All that it brings to light, though, is Vowl's liking (uncannily similar to his author's) for parody,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvill 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERAustin, Blair
Summary: "In a city far in the future, retired lecturer Wiggins moves from window to window in a museum, intricately describing each scene. Whales gliding above a shipwreck and a lost cup and saucer. An animatronic forest twenty stories tall. A line of mosquitos in uniforms and reglia, honored as heroes of the last great war. Bit by bit, Wiggins unspools the secrets of his world - the conflict that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dzanc Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSPynchon, Thomas.
Summary: After World War I, some of the people lived greedily, not knowing that disaster was heading their way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PYNNabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
Summary: Nabokov's parody, half poem and half commentary on the poem, deals with the escapades of the deposed king of Zemala in a New England college town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NABBarthelme, Donald
Summary: "This comprehensive gathering highlights Barthelme's unique approach to fiction: his upside-down worlds that are nonetheless grounded in fundamental human truths; his scrambled visions of history that yield unexpected insights; and his genius for dialogue, parody, and collage, "the central principle of all art in the twentieth century"..."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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Summary: A Irish college student avoids studying by writing a novel in which the central character, a writer named Dermot Trellis, is attacked by his own characters--figures, including the Pooka and Finn MacCool, whom he has borrowed from Irish myth and legend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dalkey Archive Press 1998
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Summary: The career of a model ends when she is disfigured in an accident. Suspecting the accident was the work of her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend, she takes revenge by slipping him a drug to grow breasts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALPynchon, Thomas.
Summary: Reluctantly investigating a kidnapping threat against his ex-girlfriend's billionaire beau, Doc Sportello tackles a bizarre tangle of nefarious characters before stumbling on a mysterious entity that may actually be a tax shelter for a dental group.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PYNDanielewski, Mark Z.
Summary: Moving back and forth in American history, a kaleidoscopic novel follows Hailey and Sam, two wayward teenagers, as they crash New Orleans parties, barrel up the Mississippi, head through the Badlands, and take on other adventures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DANStridsberg, Sara
Summary: "In April 1988, Valerie Solanas--the writer, radical feminist, author of the SCUM Manifesto and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol--was discovered dead at fifty-two in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco, alone, penniless, and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings. In Valerie, a nameless narrator revisits the room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRDanielewski, Mark Z.
Summary: A boy who loves flying kites begins to fear flying them after his favorite kite is lost and broken. Only time and courage can help him decide whether to fly again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DANEllmann, Lucy
Summary: "Peeling apples for tartes tatin, an Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbors, all of them oblivious to what Dupont has dumped into the rivers and what's happening at the factory farm down the interstate--not to mention what was done to the land's first inhabitants. A torrent of consciousness,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Biblioasis 2019
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Summary: "Kate Schatz's Rid of Me is at once a wholly original work of fiction and an innovative meditation on one writer's relationship to an album. The album in question is PJ Harvey's 1993 recording Rid of Me, a release noted again and again for its raw sound, dark lyrics, and unabashed presentation of female sexuality, desire, and rage. In her prologue, Schatz states that the book is "not about Rid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.33 SCHAcker, Kathy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACKCoover, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOPalahniuk, Chuck.
Summary: "Palahniuk's fashion-model protagonist has it all, boyfriend, career, loyal best friend-- until an accident destroys her face, her ability to speak, and her self-esteem. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a bona-fide woman. Laced in are new chapters of memoir and further scenes with the book 's characters."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALPeace, David
Summary: Haunting and evocative, brutal and surreal, these twelve connected tales evoke the life of the Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927), whose short story "In the Grove" served as an inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's famous film Rashōmon, and whose narrative use of multiple perspectives and different versions of a single event influenced generations of storytellers. Writing out of his own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEARyman, Geoff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RYMUnamuno, Miguel de
Summary: The novel’s central character, Augusto, is a pampered, aimless young man who falls in love with Eugenia, a woman he randomly spots on the street. Augusto’s absurd infatuation offers an irresistible target for the philosophical ruminations of Unamuno’s characters, including Eugenia’s guardian-aunt and “theoretical anarchist” uncle, Augusto’s comical servants, and his best friend, Victor, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 2017