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Authors Fiction Barbados FICTION / Contemporary Women FICTION / Historical / Civil War Era FICTION / Historical / Colonial America & Revolution FICTION / Historical / General FICTION / Literary FICTION / Romance / Historical / Ancient World FICTION / Thrillers Murder Investigation FictionBegley, Louis.
Summary: "Master stylist Begley continues the story of Jack Dana, the former Marine Corps officer turned novelist whose quest to avenge his murdered uncle takes a new, more dangerous turn. The man who brutally murdered Uncle Harry is dead. In an effort to recoverfrom the confrontation and collect himself, Jack takes refuge on Torcello, a small island in the Venetian lagoon, to return to his writing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEGBegley, Louis.
Summary: "Jack Dana is a star history student at Yale with a bright career in academia ahead of him. But after 9/11 he feels it is his duty to change course. As a Marine infantry officer he is deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Severely wounded in combat, he begins writing a novel about his wartime experiences while surgeons at the Walter Reed Hospital patch up his pelvis. Jack then moves to Manhattan to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEGLerner, Ben.
Summary: "A beautiful and utterly original novel about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire Ben Lerner's first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, was hailed as "one of the truest (and funniest) novels. of his generation" (Lorin Stein, The New York Review of Books), "a work so luminously original in style and form as to seem like a premonition, a comet from the future" (Geoff...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LERErdrich, Louise
Summary: The Roy and Shawano families have been inextricably intertwined for generations and, unbeknownst to them, the mysterious Antelope Woman is a part of their fierce and haunting history. This novel illuminates how that history affects the contemporary descendants of these families who are the products of two cultures, Ojibwe and white, which sit in uneasy relationship to one another.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ERDBarnes, Julian
Summary: "A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich--Julian Barnes's first novel since his best-selling, Booker Prize-winning The Sense of an Ending. 1936: Shostakovich, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin,hitherto a distant figure, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his latest opera. Now, certain he will be exiled to Siberia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarnes, Kim.
Summary: "A young woman from the American South finds herself in the strange world of the Middle East after she marries an oil driller"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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Summary: "Comic, wistfully nostalgic stories about English village life, from the author of Corelli's Mandolin"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEBLansens, Lori
Summary: "A ... survival story about four strangers who spend five days lost in the mountain wilderness above Palm Springs. Four go up the mountain, but only three will come down"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LANGregory, Philippa
Summary: It is 1685, England is on the brink of a renewed civil war against the Stuart kings and many families are bitterly divided. Ned Ferryman cannot persuade his sister, Alinor, that he is right to return from America with his Pokanoket servant, Rowan, to join the rebel army. Instead, Alinor has been coaxed by the manipulative Livia to save the queen from the coming siege. The rewards are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022