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Atwood, Margaret Drabble, Margaret Hawkins, Margaret Leroy, Margaret. Marias, JavierAtwood, Margaret
Summary: Joan Foster is the bored wife of a myopic ban-the-bomber. She takes off overnight as Canada's new superpoet, pens lurid gothics on the sly, attracts a blackmailing reporter, skids cheerfully in and out of menacing plots, hair-raising traps, and passionate trysts, and lands dead and well in Terremoto, Italy. In this remarkable, poetic, and magical novel, Margaret Atwood proves yet again why...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1998
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATWDrabble, Margaret
Summary: "A magnificently mordant reckoning with mortality by the great British novelist Francesca Stubbs has a very full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives restlessly round England, which is 'her last love'. She wants to 'see it all before she dies'. Amid the professional conferences she attends, she fits in visits to old friends,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DRADrabble, Margaret
Summary: Divorced and estranged from her grown daughters, Candida Wilton moves to a rundown flat well below her means and finds exhilaration in her self-imposed poverty, during which she confides her thoughts to a computer and makes friends with new peers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRADrabble, Margaret
Summary: Receiving the two-hundred-year-old memoir of a Korean crown princess from an anonymous sender, Oxford student Barbara Halliwell reads about the princess's life and finds profound changes occurring within her present-day London home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRAAtwood, Margaret
Summary: Iris describes the 1945 death of her sister, who drives her car off a bridge, followed, two years later, by the death of her husband, in a story that features a novel-within-a-novel about two unnamed lovers who meet in a dark backstreet room.
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Publisher / Publication Date: N.A. Talese 2000
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATWDrabble, Margaret
Summary: Her promising career in 1960s London interrupted by an affair with a married professor that renders her a single mother, Jessica Speight faces wrenching questions about responsibility, potential, and compassion when her sunny child reveals unique needs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Drabble 2013Hawkins, Margaret
Summary: "Lydia is having a party, one she hosts every year for a group of six women friends who look forward to the annual midwinter bash that has become a cherished ritual in their lives. Over a table laden with dishes, Lydia prepares to make a shattering announcement. When Lydia's announcement shocks them all they rediscover the enduring bonds of friendship and find their lives changing yet again in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWLeroy, Margaret.
Summary: When disturbing postcards begin to arrive in the mail, Catriona Lydgate finds her happy family life succumbing to her secret past, a situation that is complicated when she is accused of deliberately trying to make her daughter ill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LERAtwood, Margaret
Summary: A humorous, ironic, disturbing, and parabolic novel features a woman who, after her engagement to be wed, first loses her appetite and then becomes obsessed with the idea that she herself is being eaten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATWSummary: Four suspense novels of the 1940s. These four stories examine isolated crimes within society that not only breed murder but destructive suspicions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOMMarias, Javier
Summary: "Berta Isla thought she knew what to expect from life. When she was a young girl she decided she had found her match in Tom©Łs Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages--so she was even able to endure their time apart while Tom©Łs studied at Oxford. But after his graduation, he returns to Madrid a changed man. Distracted, sullen,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019