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1) Absolution
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Central - Adult Fiction
F MCDER
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F MCDER
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F MCDER
1 available
F MCDER
1 available
Description
American women - American wives - have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era's mandate to be "helpmeets" to their ambitious husbands...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F SHAMS
1 available
F SHAMS
1 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F SHAMS
1 available
F SHAMS
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F SHAMS
1 available
F SHAMS
1 available
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"Zahra and Maryam have been best friends since childhood in Karachi, even though--or maybe because--they are unlike in nearly every way. Yet they never speak of the differences in their backgrounds or their values, not even after the fateful night when a moment of adolescent impulse upends their plans for the future. Three decades later, Zahra and Maryam have grown into powerful women who have each cut a distinctive path through London. But when two...
3) Embassy wife
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Central - Adult Fiction
F CROUC
3 available
F CROUC
3 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F CROUC
1 available
F CROUC
1 available
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
Meet Persephone Wilder, a displaced genius posing as the wife of an American diplomat in Namibia. Persephone takes her job as a representative of her country seriously, coming up with an intricate set of rules to survive the problems she encounters: how to dress in hundred-degree weather without showing too much skin, how not to look drunk at embassy functions, and how to eat roasted oryx with grace. She also suspects her husband is not actually the...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F NESBI
1 available
F NESBI
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F NESBI
1 available
F NESBI
1 available
Description
"Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London, Chicago--and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship as they were forced to adapt to a rugged military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They lived in barely finished houses with P.O. box addresses in a town wreathed with barbed wire, all for...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F GREEN
1 available
F GREEN
1 available
Central - Recently Returned
F GREEN
1 available
F GREEN
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F GREEN
1 available
F GREEN
1 available
Description
"I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused," Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous "Quiet American" of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career. Pyle is the brash young idealist sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission to Saigon, where the French Army struggles against the Vietminh guerrillas. As young Pyle's well-intentioned policies blunder into bloodshed, Fowler,...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F MCDER
7 available
F MCDER
7 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F MCDER
1 available
F MCDER
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F MCDER
2 available
F MCDER
2 available
Description
On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove--to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife--"that the hours of his life belong to himself alone." In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun, a Little Sister of the Sick Poor, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child....