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Central - Adult Fiction
F DIAZ
3 available
F DIAZ
3 available
Central - Recently Returned
F DIAZ
1 available
F DIAZ
1 available
Courthouse - Recently Returned
F DIAZ
1 available
F DIAZ
1 available
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14 copies, 25 people are on the wait list.
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19 copies, 44 people are on the wait list.
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19 copies, 44 people are on the wait list.
Description
"An award-winning writer of absorbing, sophisticated fiction delivers a stylish and propulsive novel rooted in early 20th century New York, about wealth and talent, trust and intimacy, truth and perception. In glamorous 1920s New York City, two characters of sophisticated taste come together. One is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; the other, the brilliant daughter of penniless aristocrats. Steeped in affluence and grandeur, their marriage excites...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F MISHR
1 available
F MISHR
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F MISHR
1 available
F MISHR
1 available
Description
"Run and Hide is Pankaj Mishra's intimate story of achieving material progress at great moral and emotional cost. It is also the story of a changing country and global order, and the inequities of class and gender that map onto our most intimate relationships."--
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7 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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"Set in New York City in 1938, Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year-old named Katey Kontent. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit, and her own brand of cool nerve, Katey embarks on a journey from a Wall Street secretarial pool through the upper echelons of New York society in search of a brighter future."--
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Central - Adult Fiction
F RUSHD
1 available
F RUSHD
1 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F RUSHD
1 available
F RUSHD
1 available
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Aurora Hills - Adult Audiobooks
CD F RUSHD
1 available
CD F RUSHD
1 available
Description
"A modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture--a hurtling, page-turning mystery that is equal parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities On the day of Barack Obama's inauguration, an enigmatic billionaire from foreign shores takes up residence in the architectural jewel of "the Gardens," a cloistered community in New York's Greenwich Village. The neighborhood is a bubble within a bubble, and the...
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"Milo Andret, the genius who solved the Malosz Conjecture and won the Fields Medal for mathematics, had an unusual, even eerie mind from birth, but not until he moves to Berkeley in the 1970s to pursue a Ph.D. does he realize the extent of his singular talents. From the drug-soaked enclaves of beatnik California to the verdant lawns of Princeton University, from turbo-charged Wall Street to the quiet woods of Michigan, his reputation as one of the...
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F DIAZ
1 available
F DIAZ
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F DIAZ
1 available
F DIAZ
1 available
Description
"A young Swedish boy finds himself in penniless and alone in California. He travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great push to the West. Driven back over and over again on his journey through vast expanses, Håkan meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. Diaz defies the conventions of historical fiction and genre (travel narratives, the bildungsroman,...