Irving, John
Summary: Growing up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past, Adam goes to Aspen, where he was conceived, to learn the truth about his mother, a former slalom skier and ski instructor, and meets some ghosts, which are not the first or the last ones he sees.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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Summary: In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County-to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto-pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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Summary: In 1954 New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old accidentally insults the local constable's girlfriend. Consequently, the boy and his father are forced to flee and essentially become fugitives from the law. Forced to hide throughout the northeastern United States before finally escaping to Toronto, the outcasts befriend a fiercely protective logger who shelters them from their pursuers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: E. P. Dutton 1978
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Summary: I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany. In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys—best friends—are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins US 2012
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Irving, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000
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Summary: Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--obstetrician and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Clouds. It is also the story of his favorite orphan, Homer, who is never adopted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1997
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Summary: The author presents a firsthand account of his involvement--or lack thereof--in the creation of the film versions of his novels, detailing his years of writing and rewriting his screenplay for "The Cider House Rules."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999
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Summary: In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother. Owen Meany believes he didn't hit the ball by accident. He believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after 1953 is extraordinary and terrifying. He is Irving's most heartbreaking hero.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1989
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Summary: The story of the actor Jack Burns. His mother, Alice, is a Toronto tattoo artist. When Jack is four, he travels with Alice to several North Sea ports; they are trying to find Jack's missing father, William, a church organist who is addicted to being tattooed. But Alice is a mystery, and William can't be found. Even Jack's memories are subject to doubt. Jack Burns goes to schools in Canada and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballentine Books 1990
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Summary: As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but what travels with him are his dreams and memories. He is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. What happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the past in Mexico, collides with his future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Irving, John
Summary: When a New York journalist suffers a horrible accident--his left hand eaten by a lion while reporting on a story from India--witnessed by millions on television, viewers rally to help him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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Summary: The author's most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, this novel is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself "worthwhile."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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Summary: In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: An Indian-Canadian doctor returns to Bombay to seek a cure for a disease which afflicts circus dwarfs and is caught up in a serial killing of prostitutes. The action is interspersed with commentary on the lot of social misfits: prostitutes, dwarfs, himself--the doctor regarding himself a foreigner in both India and Canada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1994
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Summary: In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County–to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto–pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2009
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Irving, John
Summary: In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego--a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico--has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what's coming--specifically, her own future and her brother's. Lupe is a mind reader; she doesn't know what everyone is thinking, but she knows what most people are thinking. Regarding what has happened, as opposed to what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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Summary: The Hotel New Hampshire follows the Berry family across two continents and through three hotels. Family members attract friends who substitute lust, violence, laughter and tears for the standard bourgeois components.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1981
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Publisher / Publication Date: Congdon & Lattès 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5412 IRVSummary: Homer has lived nearly his entire life within the walls of an Orphanage in rural Maine and has been groomed by its proprietor to be his successor. But Homer falls in love and strikes out on his own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Cider 2000Summary: Takes place during one pivotal summer in the lives of famous children's book author Ted Cole and his beautiful wife, Marion. It is a provacative story about one couple's emotional journey into a world of daring sensuality and stunning honesty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Films 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bibo, Bloedon & Lang Music Publishers 1926