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1) The unnamed
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The Unnamed is a dazzling novel about a marriage, family, and the unseen forces of nature and desire that seem to threaten them both.
He was going to lose the house and everything in it.
The rare pleasure of a bath, the copper pots hanging above the kitchen island, his family-again he would lose his family. He stood inside the house and took stock. Everything in it had been taken for granted. How had that happened again? He...
He was going to lose the house and everything in it.
The rare pleasure of a bath, the copper pots hanging above the kitchen island, his family-again he would lose his family. He stood inside the house and took stock. Everything in it had been taken for granted. How had that happened again? He...
2) The soulmate
Author
Language
English
Description
"There's a cottage on a cliff. Gabe and Pippa's dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their perfect house hides something sinister. The tall cliffs have become a popular spot for people to end their lives. Night after night Gabe comes to their rescue, literally talking them off the ledge. Until he doesn't. When Pippa discovers Gabe knew the victim, the questions spiral...Did the victim jump? Was she pushed? And would Gabe, the love of Pippa's life,...
Author
Language
English
Description
A 20th century classic, "Appointment in Samarra" is the masterpiece by the writer Fran Leibowitz called "the real F. Scott Fitzgerald." With trademark verisimilitude, O'Hara captures the personal politics and easy bitterness of small-town life in this first and most widely read of his books.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Charlie is a freshman. And while's he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. He's a wallflower--shy and introspective, and intelligent beyond his years, if not very savvy in the social arts. We learn about Charlie through the letters he writes to someone of undisclosed name, age, and gender, a stylistic technique that adds to the heart-wrenching earnestness saturating this teen's story. Charlie encounters the same struggles...
6) Mariana
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After inheriting her sixteenth-century childhood home, Julia Beckett is astonished when she is transported back in time and into the body of Mariana, a woman who is struggling against treachery for her love of Richard de Mornay.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In her portrait of Myra and in her excquisitely nuanced depiction of her marriage, Cather shows the evolution of a human spirit as it comes to bridle against the constraints of ordinary happiness and seek an otherworldly fulfillment. 'My Mortal Enemy' is a work whose drama and intensely moral imagination make it unforgettable.
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
"Soy el cordero que le saca lo cerdo al buen pastor, pero también lo buen pastor al cerdo. ¿No te parece lógico que a mi Diablo Guardián le digan Pig? Huyó de casa: pasó a llamarse Violetta, se puso a hablar inglés, dejó de ser rubia, renegó de la insaciable clase media, aprendió a desnudarse por dinero, robó cien mil dólares a sus padres y aterrizó en Nueva York para vivir el sueño mal habido. Nada mal para una dulce quinceañera. Pero...
12) Crazy love you
Author
Series
Hollows novels (Lisa Unger) volume 4
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
13) The enchanter
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
The Enchanter is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov's classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose coltish grace and subconscious coquetry reveal, to his mind, a special bud on the verge of bloom. -- from Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When the precious little egg they found in the woods hatches, four animal friends--Bear, Hare, Turtle and Mouse--take turns caring for the newborn chick, in this heartwarming celebration of friendship, resourcefulness, trust and the power of community.
15) Adèle
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adèle appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beautiful apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But underneath the surface, she is bored--and consumed by an insatiable need for sex. Driven less by pleasure than compulsion, Adèle organizes her day around her extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's been, until she becomes ensnared in a trap...
16) The lost girls
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her family's vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. Her disappearance destroys the family--her father commits suicide, and her mother and two older sisters spend the rest of their lives at the lake house, keeping a decades-long vigil for the lost child. Sixty years later, Lucy, the quiet and watchful middle sister, lives in the lake house alone. Before her death, she writes the story of that devastating...
Author
Series
On the seventh day trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Veronika seems to have it all--youth, beauty, a good job, and loving family. But one morning she wakes up and tries to kill herself. The attempt fails, but leaves her damaged with only a few days to live. In her final days she embarks on a transforming self-discovery.
19) Animal husbandry
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A comedy on a jilted woman whose misfortune leads to a new career. Jane Goodall of New York turns to studying animal-mating habits for an explanation of why her man left her. She evolves a theory applicable to humans, gets a job as a columnist and proceeds to offer advice. The public laps it up and Jane is famous.
20) Ant story
Author
Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Meet Rubi, a tiny ant with a big personality and an even bigger love for stories. Who knew the small world of her colony could be full of unexpected friendships, epic adventures, and death-defying escapes?
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