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1) A single man
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2001. | First University of Minnesota Press edition. | University of Minnesota Press | 186 pages ; 21 cm | English |
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2009 | OverDrive | Unabridged | HighBridge | English | Checked Out
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After the sudden death of his longtime lover, George must adjust to life on his own as a professor in Southern California in the early 1960s. During the course of an ordinary day, George is haunted by memories as he seeks connections with the world around him. -- Publisher's description.
When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is...
2) After dark
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2008. | Alfred A. Knopf | 191 pages ; 24 cm | English |
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[2007] | Random House Audio | 5 audio discs (6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
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2007 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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[2007] | Thorndike Press | 259 pages (large print) ; 23 | English | Available
Columbia Pike - Adult Large Type 1 available LT F MURAK |
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A short novel that centers on two sisters--Eri, a fashion model slumbering her way into oblivion, and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Denny's toward people whose lives are radically alien to her own, three "night people". They are haunted by secrets and needs that draw them together more powerfully than the differing circumstances that might keep them apart, and soon it becomes clear that Eri's slumber--mysteriously...
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2005. | Ballantine books trade paperback edition. | Ballantine Books | 339 pages ; 21 cm | English |
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2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Recorded Books, Inc | English | Checked Out
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2011 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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When a short road trip turns into a crazy adventure, Ira and Maggie Moran have a chance to review their lives, renew their love, and reaffirm a marriage that has room enough for realists and dreamers.
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©2014. | First edition. | Crown Publishers | 385 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F PAVON |
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2014 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Available Online
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2014 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Feverishly paging through a disturbing anonymous manuscript that she believes has world-changing potential, New York literary agent Isabel Reed catches the attention of Copenhagen veteran station chief Hayden Gray, who resolves to keep the book's secrets from being exposed.
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F ATTEN
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2019. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 299 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
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2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | HarperAudio | English | Available Online
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2019 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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"From New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a sharp, funny, and emotionally powerful novel about a family reuniting at the deathbed of its patriarch. In reckoning with his secret past, can they rebuild and begin anew?"--
"If I know why they are the way they are, then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am," says Alex Tuchman of her parents. Now that her father is on his deathbed, Alex--a strong-headed lawyer, devoted mother, and...
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F MARKL
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F MARKL
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2018. | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. | Simon & Schuster | 484 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available
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On one fateful summer night in 2013, four former classmates converge on the rust belt town where they grew up, each of them with a mission, all of them haunted by regrets, secrets, lost loves. There's Bill Ashcraft, an alcoholic, drug-abusing activist, whose fruitless ambitions have taken him from Cambodia to Zuccotti Park to New Orleans, and now back to "The Cane" with a mysterious package strapped to the underside of his truck; Stacey Moore, a doctoral...
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F GROSS
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2017. | Alfred A. Knopf | 193 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
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"A stand-up comedian recalls some of his darkest moments and traumatic memories from childhood on stage in front of a live audience"--
8) Conclave
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F HARRI
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F HARRI
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2016. | First United States edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | [v], 285 pages : map ; 25 cm | English | Available
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2016. | Unabridged. | Random House Audio | 7 audio discs (8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
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2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2016 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"The Pope is dead. Behind locked doors of the Sistine chapel, 118 cardinals from around the world will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. They are holy men, but they are men of the world, and they have rivals. And over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth."--Dust jacket.
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F DELIL
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F DELIL
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2004. | First Scribner trade paperback edition. | Scribner | 209 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
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"Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. On this day he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town." "His journey to the barbershop is a contemporary odyssey, funny and fast-moving. Stalled in traffic by a presidential motorcade, a music idol's funeral and a violent...
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[2017] | Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC | 275 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available F PHILL |
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[2017] | Unabridged. | Books on Tape | 7 audio discs (8 hr.) : CD ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
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2017 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2017 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"An electrifying novel about the primal and unyielding bond between a mother and her son, and the lengths she'll go to protect him. The zoo is nearly empty as Joan and her four-year-old son soak up the last few moments of playtime. They are happy, and the day has been close to perfect. But what Joan sees as she hustles her son toward the exit gate minutes before closing time sends her sprinting back into the zoo, her child in her arms. And for the...
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[2008] | Persephone | xii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm | English | Available
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Miss Pettigrew, a governess looking for work, is sent by mistake to the home of Delysia LaFosse, a glamorous nightclub singer involved with three different men and is invited to stay after offering Miss LaFosse common sense advice about her love life.
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[2018] | Random House | 216 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available
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The Cohens are wildly impractical intellectuals--academics, activists, and artists. The Barlows are Wall Street Journal -reading lawyers steeped in trusts and copyrights, golf and tennis. The two families are reserved with and wary of each other, but tonight, the evening before the wedding that is supposed to unite them in marriage, they will attempt to set aside their differences over dinner in the garden. As Celia Cohen, the eminent literary critic,...
13) Best day ever
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2017. | Graydon House | 342 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
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"Paul Strom has the perfect life: a glittering career as an advertising executive, a beautiful wife, two healthy boys, and a big house in a wealthy suburb. And he's the perfect husband: breadwinner, protector, provider. That's why he's planned a romantic weekend for his wife, Mia, at their lake house, just the two of them. It will be the best day ever. But as Paul and Mia drive out of the city and into the countryside, a spike of tension begins to...
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©2015. | First edition. | Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | x, 308 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
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[2015] | First HarperLuxe edition. | HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers | x, 442 pages (large print) ; 23 | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult Large Type 1 available LT F PARRY |
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"New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself, Sylvan rescues the child, determined to find where she belongs. Odile Church and her beautiful sister, Belle, were raised amid the applause and magical pageantry of The Church of Marvels, their mother's spectacular Coney Island sideshow. But the Church has burnt to the ground, their...
15) Among the lost
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[2018] | Scribe Publications | 345 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available F MONGE |
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In the desolate wastelands between the sierra and the jungle, under an all-seeing, unforgiving sun, a single day unfolds as relentlessly as those that have gone before. People are trafficked and brutalised, illegal migrants are cheated of their money, their dreams, their very names, even as countless others scrabble to cross the border, trying to reach a land they call El Paraíso. In this grim inferno, a fierce love has blossomed - one that was born...
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2011 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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A single day in Paris changes the lives of three Americans as they each set off to explore the city with a French tutor, learning about language, love, and loss as their lives intersect in surprising ways.
Josie, Riley, and Jeremy have come to the City of Light for different reasons: Josie, a young high school teacher, arrives in hopes of healing a broken heart. Riley, a spirited but lonely expat housewife, struggles to feel connected to her...
Josie, Riley, and Jeremy have come to the City of Light for different reasons: Josie, a young high school teacher, arrives in hopes of healing a broken heart. Riley, a spirited but lonely expat housewife, struggles to feel connected to her...
17) The evening road
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©2017. | First edition. | Little, Brown and Company | 278 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
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"Meet Ottie Lee Henshaw, a startling, challenging beauty in small-town Indiana. Quick of mind, she navigates a stifling marriage, a lecherous boss, and on one day in the summer of 1930 an odyssey across the countryside to witness a dark and fearful celebration. Meet Calla Destry, a determined young woman desperate to escape the violence of her town and to find the lover who has promised her a new life. On this day, the countryside of Jim Crow-era...
18) Tomorrow
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2007. | Alfred A. Knopf | pages | English |
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2006 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | English | Available Online
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2008 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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On a midsummer's night Paula Hook lies awake; Mike, her husband of twenty-five years, asleep beside her; her teenage twins, Nick and Kate, sleeping in nearby rooms. The next day, she knows, will redefine all of their lives.
Recalling the years before and after her children were born, Paula begins a story that is both a glowing celebration of love possessed and a moving acknowledgment of the secrets on which our very identities rest. Brilliantly...
Recalling the years before and after her children were born, Paula begins a story that is both a glowing celebration of love possessed and a moving acknowledgment of the secrets on which our very identities rest. Brilliantly...
19) Half Past Dawn
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[2002] | Houghton Mifflin Company | 275 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F MCGRE |
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The author invites you into the private lives of the residents of a quiet urban street in England over the course of a single day. You witness the hopes, fears, and unspoken despairs of a diverse community. The tranquility of the street is shattered at day's end when a terrible accident occurs. This tragedy and a surprising twist provide the momentum for the book, but it is the author's rendering of the ordinary, the everyday, that gives this novel...