Mandino, Og
Summary: "Tras sufrir la irreparable p rdida de su esposa e hijo en un accidente automovilístico, John Harding, un hombre que se consideraba exitoso hasta ese momento, cae en una profunda depresión. Gracias a un amigo comenzará a dirigir un equipo de beisbol infantil y conocerá a Timothy Noble, un niño de once años, poseedor de una voluntad inquebrantable a pesar de su falta de habilidad. A través de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diana 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 MANMillet, Lydia
Summary: Lydia Millet’s chilling new novel is the first-person account of a young mother, Anna, escaping her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who’s just launched his first campaign for political office. When Ned chases Anna and their six-year-old daughter from Alaska to Maine, the two go into hiding in a run-down motel on the coast. But the longer they stay, the less the guests in the dingy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILMillet, Lydia
Summary: "[This novel] follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend the days and nights in drunken stupor. This tension heightens when a great storm arrives and throws the house and its residents into chaos. Named for a picture Bible given to Eve's little brother Jack,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILO'Callaghan, Billy
Summary: "Radiant with beauty, longing, and desire, and deeply touching, this literary novel, reminiscent of the works of William Trevor and Colm Tóibín, evokes the long love affair between a man and a woman, each married to another, who meet every month in a decaying hotel in Coney Island, Brooklyn. These beautiful, carefully-rationed days have long sustained Michael and Caitlin's love, and have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2019