Petterson, Per
Summary: Two men meet by accident on a bridge early one morning. Once they were best friends but Tommy and Jim haven't seen each other for 35 years. Back then, Tommy and his sister were abandoned by their mother and later by their abusive father, and Jim, who lived alone with his religious mother, went to high school and became a socialist. Then one winter, Jim started to doubt whether he was deserving...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PETRand, Ayn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Caxton Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RANO'Brien, Tim
Summary: At the age of forty-nine, William Cowling decides to dig a gigantic hole in his backyard in order to protect himself and his family from "the very real threat of nuclear annihilation that everyone evades and denies."--Cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRBanville, John.
Summary: Irishman Max Morden, grieving the death of his wife Anna, returns to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child, and finds himself engulfed in thoughts and memories of a momentous summer spent with the vacationing Grace family, his life with Anna, and his relationship with his grown daughter.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BANCanter, Jonathan D.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANTropper, Jonathan.
Summary: As his wedding day approaches, Zachary King begins to wonder if his entire life might be a big mistake, doubts that are only enhanced by the arrival of Norm, Zack's freewheeling, overbearing father, after a twenty-year absence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TROBanville, John.
Summary: Max Morden visits the seaside town where he spent his summers as a child after the death of his wife. There he remembers the Graces, the family that introduced him to a world of feeling he'd never experienced before. Interwoven with this story are Morden's memories of his wife, Anna--of their life together, of her death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: A comedy on a man's belated mid-life crisis at the age of 62. It strikes Texas oil tycoon Duane Moore and not even his wife of 40 years can figure out what caused it. That task is left to a pretty psychiatrist. By the author of The Last Picture Show.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMMcMurtry, Larry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1999
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCMDel Vecchio, John M.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DELPercy, Walker
Summary: Kate's desperate struggle to maintain her sanity forces her cousin Binx to relinquish his dreamworld.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEROates, Joyce Carol
Summary: A Philistine discovers a social conscience. He is Jerome Corcoran, a real estate millionaire and city councilman who lives for money, food and sex. On his way to work he comes across a suicide, a black woman who was a critic of city hall. Corcoran smells foul play and for once decides to do something about it. By the author of Foxfire.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OATCameron, Sharon
Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021