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Best American series. Spoken wordJansma, Kristopher.
Summary: "An inventive and witty debut about a young man's quest to become a writer and the misadventures in life and love that take him around the globe From as early as he can remember, the hopelessly unreliable--yet hopelessly earnest--narrator of this ambitious debut novel has wanted to become a writer. From the jazz clubs of Manhattan to the villages of Sri Lanka, Kristopher Jansma's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANJansma, Kristopher.
Summary: From as early as he can remember, the hopelessly unreliable, yet hopelessly earnest, narrator of this ambitious debut novel has wanted to become a writer. From the jazz clubs of Manhattan to the villages of Sri Lanka, Kristopher Jansma's irresistible narrator will be inspired and haunted by the success of his greatest friend and rival in writing, the eccentric and brilliantly talented Julian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC JANMiéville, China.
Summary: "After his mother goes missing, a boy is left alone in a remote house on a hilltop with his increasingly deranged father. When an odd man knocks on his door, the boy senses that his days of isolation are over. But will this stranger at last trigger the doom the boy has feared or will he somehow save the boy from the worst?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIESummary: This collection features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: MP3CD FIC LEEHebert, Christopher
Summary: "Once an example of American industrial might, Detroit has gone bankrupt, its streets dark, its storefronts vacant. Miles of city blocks lie empty, saplings growing through the cracked foundations of abandoned buildings. In razor-sharp, beguiling prose, Angels of Detroit draws us into the lives of multiple characters struggling to define their futures in this desolate landscape: a scrappy group...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEBCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hebert 2016Hanks, Tom
Summary: Part One of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for twenty-three years. Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing underground comic books in Oakland, California, reconnects with his uncle and, remembering the comic book he saw when he was five, draws a new version with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HANHanks, Tom
Summary: A collection of 17 short stores by two-time Oscar winning actor Tom Hanks. A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game-- and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HANHearth, Amy Hill
Summary: "In this sequel to Hearth's debut novel, MISS DREAMSVILLE AND THE COLLIER COUNTY WOMEN'S LITERARY SOCIETY, the characters reunite one year later (late summer 1964) to fight a large development along the tidal river where book club member Robbie-Lee grew up and where his mother, Dolores Simpson, a former stripper turned alligator hunter, still lives in a fishing shack. The developer is Darryl...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2015