Bertino, Marie-Helene
Summary: "A tender, deeply wise novel of a young woman who doesn't feel at home on this earth, by the author of Parakeet"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERBertino, Marie-Helene
Summary: "The week of her wedding, the bride is visited by a bird she recognizes as her dead grandmother because of the cornflower blue line beneath her eyes, her dubious expression, and the way she asks: What is the Internet? Her grandmother is a parakeet. She says not to get married. She says: Go and find your brother. In the days that follow, the bride's march to the altar becomes a wild and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERBertino, Marie-Helene.
Summary: "Madeleine Altimari is a smart-mouthed, rebellious nine-year-old who also happens to be an aspiring jazz singer. Still mourning the recent death of her mother, and caring for her grief-stricken father, she doesn't realize that on the eve of Christmas Eve she is about to have the most extraordinary day--and night--of her life. After bravely facing down mean-spirited classmates and rejection at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERBertino, Marie-Helene.
Summary: "As three lost souls search for love, music and hope on the snow-covered streets of Philadelphia, together they will discover life's endless possibilities over the course of one magical night"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BERSummary: "This abundance led to a volume of robust stories with the nerve to push against narrative expectations. The Best American Short Stories 2024 boasts a collection of twenty stories that "buzz with their own strange logic." A man becomes a tourist in his own hometown. An unemployed jeweler sails in an antique slave ship. A therapist decides to call an ex-patient years after their last session"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024