Search
Type
Format
Sort
Location
Audience

Manyika, Sarah Ladipo

Summary: Morayo Da Silva, a cosmopolitan Nigerian woman, lives in hip San Francisco. On the cusp of seventy-five, she is in good health and makes the most of it, enjoying road trips in her vintage Porsche, chatting to strangers, and recollecting characters from her favourite novels. Then she has a fall and her independence crumbles. Without the support of family, she relies on friends and chance...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cassava Republic Press 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAN

Cagno, Felipe

Summary: It's been seventy years already since most of the water on the planet was simply gone overnight in a mysterious apocalyptic event. Mankind has long adapted to survive this harsh environment but water has become so scarce that it is now the currency of the world. And in this new alternate Old West reality either the meek find an edge or they perish, it's as simple as that. It's no wonder that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clover Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CAG

Jones, Sadie.

Summary: It's 1957 and Lewis Aldridge is traveling back to his home in the South of England. He is straight out of jail and nineteen years old. His return will trigger the implosion not just of his family, but of a whole community. A decade earlier, his father's homecoming casts a different shape. The war is over and Gilbert reverts easily to suburban life--cocktails at six-thirty, church on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JON

Smith, Zadie.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archie-working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt-is calling it quits, the deciding factor being the flip of a 20-pence coin. When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop (annoyed that Archie's car is blocking his delivery...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 2001

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Henderson, Jason

Summary: Dana, a young woman who used to help the police find dead bodies, is driven off a jogging path by a vision of a demonic scarecrow and caught in raging floodwaters. Lightning rips a tree out of a pond and tears a hole in the earth, and Dana is swept down into a massive cavern. When the firefighters pull her out, she tells them astounding news. There’s a house down there. A big one: the House of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Storm King Productions 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 HEN

chat loading...
Back to Top