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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Millie wants to graduate, get a job and buy a house. She's slowly saving up from her job on campus, but when a visiting professor offers her an unusual opportunity to make some extra money, she jumps at the chance. Agatha is a writer, recovering from a break-up while researching attitudes towards weddings and money for her new book. She strikes gold when interviewing the girls in Millie's dorm, but her plans take a turn when she realises that the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The novel "follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortune. They harbor the vague suspicion that their counterparts in Prague have it better, but still they hope to find adventure, inspiration, a gold rush, or history in the making."--Publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Harpercollins
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Having created a refuge in a rambling house for five misfits, failed poet Toby Dobbs finds the financial strain beyond his means and turns for advice to neighbor Leah Pilgrim, who helps him devise a plan to render his roommates independent.
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Language
English
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Carter University: "The Harvard of the South." Annie Stoddard was the smartest girl in her small public high school in Georgia, but now that she's at Carter, it feels like she's got "Scholarship Student" written on her forehead. Bea Powers put aside misgivings about attending college in the South as a biracial student to take part in Carter's Justice Scholars program. But even within that rarefied circle of people trying to change the world, it...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the beautiful, barren landscape of the Far North, under the ever-present midnight sun, Frances and Yasha are surprised to find refuge in each other. Their lives have been upended--Frances has fled heartbreak and claustrophobic Manhattan for an isolated artist colony; Yasha arrives from Brooklyn to fulfill his beloved father's last wish: to be buried "at the top of the world." They have come to learn how to be alone. But in Lofoten, an archipelago...
Author
Series
Seasonaires volume 1
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
"An idyllic Nantucket summer begins like a dream for scrappy Mia from South Boston; Presley, a gorgeous Southern beauty queen; Cole, a handsome introvert; Jade, the sultry daughter of a model and music mogul; J.P., an energetic young designer; and Grant, a playful party-boy. These six are working as seasonaires-influential brand ambassadors-for the clothing line Lyndon Wyld. But like all things that look too good to be true, the darkness lurking underneath...
11) Cartoon clouds
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Fresh out of art school, Seth Fallon and his three close friends face the anxiety-ridden limbo of post-grad life in the 'real world.' Some of them gain career momentum and meet with early success, while others struggle through dead-end jobs and creative stagnation. Surrounded by fashion-conscious art snobs, talentless social media gurus, and drug-addled, trust fund hipsters, Seth tries to hold on to the people he cares about and stay true to his...
Author
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Full of warmth, terror, and underhanded humor, If I Were the Ocean, I'd Carry You Home, Pete Hsu's debut story collection, captures the essence of surviving in a life set adrift. Children and young people navigate a world where the presence of violence and death rear themselves in everyday places: Vegas casinos, birthday parties, church services, and sunny days at the beach. Each story is a meditation on living in a world not made for us-the pervasive...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books/DelRey
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In a post-human future, one city, guarded by reality generators and surrounded by the terrible maelstrom of Chaos, is the sole bastion of order. In our time, three young people--Ginny, Jack, and Daniel--who can alter the course of fate, a murky past, and the dreams of a decaying city at the end of time are brought together by a newspaper ad and into the hands of collectors of their kind. Back in the future, the strange characters include keepers and...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Andy, Claire, and Dag, each in their twenties, have quit pointless jobs in their respective hometowns to find better meaning in life. Adrift in the California desert, the trio develops an ascetic regime of story-telling, boozing, and working McJobs-"low-pay, low-prestige, low-benefit, no-future jobs in the service industry." They create their own modern fables of love and death among the cosmetic surgery parlors and cocktail bars of Palm Springs as...
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