Irving, John
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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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC IRVIrving, John
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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IRVIrving, 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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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC IRVIrving, John
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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC IRVKuhlman, Evan.
Summary: In the wake of his father's sudden death, twelve-year-old Finn feels he is becoming invisible as his hair and skin become whiter by the day, and so he writes and illustrates a book to try to understand what is happening and to hold on to himself and his father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2008
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC KUHKochai, Jamil Jan
Summary: "A luminous meditation on sons and fathers, ghosts of war, and living history that moves between modern-day Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora. In playing "Metal Gear Solid V," a young man's video game experience turns into a surreal exploration on his own father's memories of war and occupation. A college student in "Hungry Ricky Daddy" starves himself in protest of Israeli violence against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOCGeorge, Jean Craighead
Summary: Despite the dangers of a thunderstorm, Axel and his father make a difficult climb to rescue Axel's stranded dog.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fic Pic GeorgeKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: With his bestselling blend of nail-biting intensity, daring artistry, and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz returns with an emotional roller coaster of a tale filled with enough twists, turns, shocks, and surprises for ten ordinary novels. Here is the story of five days in the life of an ordinary man born to an extraordinary legacy--a story that will challenge the way you look at good and evil,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KOOKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. When Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks for the first and last time since his stroke, he says that there will be five dark days in the life of his grandson-each occurring at different...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2004
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Summary: A dying man's clairvoyant prophesies about his grandson, Jimmy Tock, reveal five terrifying and horrific events, occuring on five different days at different periods in his life, that will turn the young man's world upside down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KOOHart, John
Summary: Adam Chase has a violent streak, and not without reason. As a boy in Rowan County, he saw things that no child should see, suffered wounds that cut to the core and scarred him. The trauma left him passionate and misunderstood--a fighter. After being narrowly acquitted of a murder charge, Adam is hounded out of the only home he's ever known, exiled for a sin he did not commit. He disappeared...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARSmolens, John.
Summary: Samuel Xavier Adams is stunned to learn that his long-absent father, a shadowy employee of the U.S. government, had been seen coming out of his mother's hospital room shortly before she died, and embarks on a quest to uncover his father's secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMOGrisham, John.
Summary: In this novel, the careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. The baseball is thrilling, but it is what happens off the field that makes this story a classic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Columbine 1963
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Summary: "Henry Fielder, solitary and unmoored in his thirties, runs into an old lover and finds himself ready to tell the story he has harbored for two decades. He is fifteen, in rural western Oregon, enduring a year of sorrows. His mother has died, his father is physically abusive, and his extraordinary spiritual affinity for the wild lives of his native country seems to desert him. An older couple,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2017
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Summary: The careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIBanville, John.
Summary: While old Adam Godley, a mathematical genius, lies on his deathbed, his family gathers in anticipation of his passing. His son, young Adam, is distracted by his faltering marriage to a prominent movie actress while his daughter is distraught by voices in her head. All the while, the Greek patriarchal god Zeus hovers over the family with his eyes on young Adam's wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Summary: A year after his mother's death and his father's mysterious disappearance, attorney Jackson Workman Pickens finds himself a suspect when his father is discovered murdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HARSteinbeck, John
Summary: This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2002