Chabon, Michael
Summary: "With this brilliant novel, the bestselling author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys gives us an exhilarating triumph of language and invention, a stunning novel in which the tragicomic adventures of a couple of boy geniuses reveal much about what happened to America in the middle of the twentieth century. Like Phillip Roth's American Pastoral or Don DeLillo's Underworld, Michael...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAMcQuiston, Casey
Summary: "Theo and Kit have been a lot of things: childhood best friends, crushes, in love, and now estranged exes. After a brutal breakup on the transatlantic flight to their dream European food and wine tour, they exited each other's lives once and for all. Time apart has done them good. Theo has found confidence as a hustling bartender by night and aspiring sommelier by day, with a long roster of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group 2024
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Summary: "When 79-year-old Arthur Edwards gathers his family together to share some important news, no one is prepared for the bombshell he drops: he's gay, and after a lifetime in the closet, he's finally ready to come out. Arthur's 21-year-old grandson, Teddy, has a secret of his own: he's also gay, and developing serious feelings for his colleague Ben. But Teddy doesn't feel ready to come out yet -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQ, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVJung, Mike
Summary: Best friends Matt and Eric are hatching a plan for one big final adventure together before Eric moves away: during the marching band competition at a Giant Amusement Park, they will sneak away to a nearby comics convention and meet their idol--a famous comic creator. Without cell phones. Or transportation. Or permission. Of course, their final adventure together is more than just that--really,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Book Club Kit, Call number: YOUTH BOOK CLUB KIT FIC JUNGroen, Hendrik
Summary: "Nine years before the events of the #1 international bestseller The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old, Hendrik and his best friend Evert embark on a madcap adventure -- with an unexpected guest. Hendrik Groen and Evert Duiker, faithful friends in good and bad times, are well over seventy and their lives have quieted down. They see each other once a week to play chess, have a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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Summary: Best friends Matt and Eric are hatching a plan for one big final adventure together before Eric moves away: during the marching band competition at a Giant Amusement Park, they will sneak away to a nearby comics convention and meet their idol--a famous comic creator. Without cell phones. Or transportation. Or permission. Of course, their final adventure together is more than just that--really,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC JUNToole, John Kennedy
Summary: When Marie decides to leave Bruce, she delivers herself of a torrent of ferocious humor and foul-mouthed vituperation concerning him and their marriage, not to mention love, hate, caring, commitment, and all the other current clich©♭ s about relationships. As he follows Marie and Bruce through breakfast, a friend' s party, and dinner, Wallace Shawn brilliantly orchestrates her savage attacks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1987
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Summary: Cliff, a sixty-something man, divorced and robbed of his farm by a late-blooming real estate shark of an ex-wife, takes a road trip across America, armed with a childhood puzzle of the United States and a mission to rename all the states and state birds to overcome the banal names men have given them. Cliff's adventures take him through a whirlwind affair with a former student from his high...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION HarrisonFerguson, Lana
Summary: "A hockey player and a baker shoot their shot in this steamy new romantic comedy by Lana Ferguson, USA Today bestselling author of The Nanny. When a very public breakup becomes a PR nightmare for Ian Chase's team, he hopes to focus on his game, but that suddenly seem less likely than a hat trick. With his career and the team's image in jeopardy, Ian is surprised to find a solution through none...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2024
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Summary: "At seventeen, Ezra Green doesn't have a lot going for him: he's shorter than average, snaggle-toothed, internet-addicted, and halfway to being legally blind. He's also on his way to Last Chance Camp, the final stop before juvie. But Ezra's summer at Last Chance turns life-changing when he meets Orson, brilliant and Adonis-like with a mind for hustling. Together, the two embark upon what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRUWodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Summary: With help from Jeeves, his gentleman's gentleman, Bertie Wooster contrives to help a friend escape from a designing woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2012
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Summary: Bertie Wooster (a young man about town) and his butler Jeeves (the very model of the modern manservant)--return in their first new novel in nearly forty years: Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks. P.G. Wodehouse documented the lives of the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster for nearly sixty years, from their first appearance in 1915 ("Extricating Young Gussie") to the his final...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Faulks 2013Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WODWodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Summary: Jeeves helps extricate Bertie Wooster from the many undignified sitations he finds himself in.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2000
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Summary: Jeeves belongs to a club for butlers, and one of the rules is that every member must contribute to the club book everything about the fellow he's working for. Jeeves is so taken with his employer, Bertie Wooster, that he writes eighteen pages about him--and Bertie, quite naturally, is perturbed. Suppose the book falls into the wrong hands ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1971
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WODWodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Summary: "While staying with his Aunt Dahlia to help out in the election at Market Snodsbury, Bertie Wooster comes up against the familiar horrors of Florence Craye, his former fiancée, and Roderick Spode, head of the Black Shorts, in a plot tangle from which, as usual, only the ingenuity of Jeeves can save him"--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WODWodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Summary: When Bertie Wooster visits his Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley Court, he becomes entangled with several mysteries involving a doctor, a novelist, and his former headmaster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WODWodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Summary: My Man Jeeves, first published in 1919, introduced the world to affable, indolent Bertie Wooster and his precise, capable valet, Jeeves. Some of the finest examples of humorous writing found in English literature are woven around the relationship between these two men of very different classes and temperaments. Where Bertie is impetuous and feeble, Jeeves is coolheaded and poised. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2013
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Pooley, Clare
Summary: "When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards. The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby, a Banksy-style...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books / Viking 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEHedges, Peter.
Summary: Gilbert Grape, a resident of provincial Endora, Iowa, endures the eccentricities of his family and neighbors--including his mother, who is eating herself to death; his Elvis-fanatic sister; his retarded brother; and his married lover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poseidon Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEDWodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Summary: "Bertie is in a genuine fix. Not only does Jeeves disapprove most strongly of Bertie's new mustache, but also, and more disturbingly, "Stilton" Cheesewright is in a jealous rage and threatens to tear him limb from limb." -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Paperback Fiction 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WODWodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Summary: Bertie Wooster, trapped in the English countryside with his ex-fiancee Florence Craye, her father, brother, and new fiancé Stilton Cheesewright, is facing the double threats of the return of Florence's affections and the ire of Stilton, when Jeeves arrives to save the day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WODDíaz, Junot
Summary: Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuké--the curse that has haunted the Oscar's family for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DIASampson, Freya
Summary: "When Libby Nicholls arrives in London, brokenhearted and with her life in tatters, the first person she meets on the bus is elderly Frank. He tells her about the time in 1962 that he met a girl on the number 88 bus with beautiful red hair just like hers. They made plans for a date at the National Gallery art museum, but Frank lost the bus ticket with her number on it. For the past sixty years,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022