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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PETMankell, Henning
Summary: In 1914 Lars Tobiasson-Svartman is covertly measuring the depths of Swedish coastal wasters. On one of his missions, Lars discovers a feral but beautiful woman living alone on a remote island. Passion, suspicion, and violence are awakened in him and soon he is living a double life-lying to his wife and his superiors and submerging himself in a pool of deception that has shocking consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANRand, Ayn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Caxton Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RANMoody, Rick
Summary: "Reginald Edward Morse is one of the top reviewers on RateYourLodging.com, where his many posts do more than just evaluate hotels around the globe--they tell his life story ... The puzzle of Reginald's life comes together through writings that comment upon his motivational-speaking career, the dissolution of his marriage, the separation from his daughter, his struggles with alcohol, and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOO'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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRFreeman, Becca
Summary: "From bookfluencer and host of the Bad on paper podcast, a riotous holiday rom-com about four friends in NYC who hold onto their unconventional Christmas tradition even when their paths diverge--but the changes they fear might be exactly what they need... Hannah and Finn have spent every Christmas together since college. Neither has anywhere else to go--Hannah's parents died, and Finn's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREHesketh, Peggy.
Summary: A third-generation beekeeper who relates better to the constant companions in his hives than most people must come to terms with the loss of his long-time friend, Claire, who was killed during a burglary gone awry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HESKantner, Seth
Summary: A white boy transplanted from Chicago to the Arctic tundra of Alaska finds himself struggling to adapt to his new home, where he must learn to hunt, fish, and live off the land, separated from the constant call of consumer culture. In the tradition of Jack London, Seth Kantner presents an Alaska far removed from majestic clichs of exotic travelogues and picture postcards. Kantner's vivid and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2005
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Summary: During the pandemic, an aging screenwriter is holed up in a coastal South Carolina town with his beloved second wife, Peaches. He's been binge-eating for a year and developed a notable rapport with the local fast-food chain Hippo King. He struggles to work on a ludicrous screenplay about a Nazi attempt to kidnap FDR and, naturally, an article for Etymology Today on English words of Carthaginian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BUCRodriques, Elias
Summary: "Having forged a new identity as a gay man in New York, Daniel Henriquez returns to the floodlands where he went to high school, to mourn Aubrey, the self-identified "redneck" girl he loved back then. His track team buddies-Twig, a long-distance runner; Desmond, a sprinter; Des's girlfriend, Egypt; and Jess, Aubrey's best friend-help him reckon with who they are to him, and he to them....
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RODBanville, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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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.
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANCanter, Jonathan D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANTheroux, Paul
Summary: "At age nineteen, young Eton graduate Eric Blair set sail for India, dreading the assignment ahead. Along with several other young conscripts, he would be trained for three years as a servant of the British Empire, overseeing the local policemen in Burma. Navigating the social, racial, and class politics of his fellow British at the same time as he learned the local languages and struggled to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC THETartt, Donna.
Summary: "The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction TarTartt, Donna.
Summary: "The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TARHarrison, Jim
Summary: John Lundgren, a.k.a. Warlock, is an unemployed foundation executive whose life is about to become unhinged. After surviving a midlife crisis, Warlock finally decides to get a job. He soon discovers, however, that his new boss, Dr. Rabun, is no less evil than Professor Moriarty. Hired to troubleshoot for the doctor, Warlock himself battling poachers in the haunted wilderness of northern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta/S. Lawrence 1989
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL FIC HARMcMurtry, 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.
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DELSanchez, Santiago Jose
Summary: In America, his mother works as a waitress when she was once a doctor. The boy embraces his queer identity as wholeheartedly as he embraces his new home, but not without a sense of loss. As he grows, his relationship with his mother becomes fraught, tangled, a love so intense that it borders on vivid pain but is also the axis around which his every decision revolves. She may have once forgotten...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SANPercy, Walker
Summary: Kate's desperate struggle to maintain her sanity forces her cousin Binx to relinquish his dreamworld.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERO'Neill, Joseph
Summary: Leaving New York in the wake of a breakup to take a job in a futuristic Dubai at the height of its metropolitan self-invention, a young man struggles with growing feelings of being trapped while navigating the eccentricities of his wealthy employers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2014