Conroy, Pat.
Summary: Jack McCall, a writer who moved to Rome to flee his family, returns to South Carolina where his mother is dying and makes peace with them, including Jewish in-laws he couldn't stand and who blamed him for his wife's suicide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Old New York Book Shop Press 1989
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Summary: Spanning 40 years, it is the story of Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the extraordinary family in which they were born.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1986
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Summary: Leopold Bloom King, the narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo's older brother commits suicide at the age of thirteen, the family struggles with the shattering effects of his death. Eventually he becomes part of a tightly knit group of high...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2009
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Summary: Jack McCall seeks a place of reflection with his daughter in Rome after the suicide of his wife. But his quiet life is shattered by the appearance of old friends and enemies who need his help.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books Evergreen 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1980
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1986
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Summary: Leopold Bloom King, our narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo's older brother commits suicide at the age of thirteen, the family struggles with the shattering effects of his death. Eventually he becomes part of a tightly knit group of high...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009
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Summary: BONUS: This edition contains a South of Broad discussion guide. Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered--and shadowed--by tragedy. Lonely and adrift, he searches for something to sustain him and finds it among a tightly knit group of high school outsiders. Surviving marriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes and devastating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2009
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Summary: A young, idealistic, white teacher, confronts all the prejudices of the Deep South when he teaches African Americans at Yamacraw School on an island off the coast of South Carolina.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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Summary: Set against the sweeping panoply of Napoleons invasion of Russia, "War and Peace" is often considered the greatest novel ever written. This complete and unabridged edition features a new Introduction by Pat Conroy. Revised reissue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Signet Classic 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TOLSummary: A disillusioned Southern coach reveals his tortured childhood in order to help his troubled, suicidal sister, and discovers the healing powers of love and forgiveness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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Summary: After the Civil War sweeps away the genteel life to which she has been accustomed, Scarlett O'Hara sets about to salvage her plantation home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 2011