Capote, Truman

Summary: "In a small Southern town, a teenage girl anxiously waits for her date to arrive. A little boy meets his dream dog in Central Park. A woman fights to save the life of a child who has her lover's eyes. Best friends discuss the theoretical murder of husbands. In these never-before-published stories, written by Truman Capote when he was in his teens and twenties, Capote-the-Writer is already...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAP

Winton, Tim.

Summary: "An exhilarating new book from Australia's most acclaimed writer Tim Winton is Australia's most decorated and beloved literary novelist. Short-listed twice for the Booker Prize and the winner of a record four Miles Franklin Awards for Best Australian Novel, he has a gift for language virtually unrivaled among English-language novelists. His work is both tough and tender, primordial and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIN

Smith, Ali

Summary: "The brilliant Booker-nominated novel from one of our finest authors: How to Be Both is a daring, inventive tale that intertwines the stories of a defiant Renaissance painter and a modern teenage girl. How can one be both--near and far, past and present, male and female? In Ali Smith's new novel, two extraordinary characters inhabit the spaces between categories. In one half of the book, we...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMI

Wilson, Rohan.

Summary: "1829, Tasmania. John Batman, ruthless, single-minded; four convicts, the youngest still only a stripling; Gould, a downtrodden farmhand; two free black trackers; and powerful, educated Black Bill, brought up from childhood as a white man. This is the roving party and their purpose is massacre. With promises of freedom, land grants and money, each is willing to risk his life for the prize....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

Giffin, Emily

Summary: "In the new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of First Comes Love and Something Borrowed, a woman is forced to choose between her family and her most deeply held values. Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying into Nashville's elite. Her husband's tech business is booming, and her adored son, Finch, is bound for Princeton. Tom Volpe is a single dad working...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018

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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GIF

Burke, James Lee

Summary: These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival, and revenge. A boy and his father watch a German submarine sink an oil tanker as evil forces in the disguise of federal agents try to ruin their family. A girl is beaten up outside a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC BUR

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BUR