Ernaux, Annie
Summary: "In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ERNAUX ERNFlagg, Fannie
Summary: Lordor Nordstrom created, in his wisdom, not only a lively town and a prosperous legacy for himself but also a beautiful final resting place for his family, friends, and neighbors yet to come. "Resting place" turns out to be a bit of a misnomer, however. Odd things begin to happen, and it starts the whole town talking. With her wild imagination, great storytelling, and deep understanding of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FLAFlagg, Fannie.
Summary: "Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion is a fun-loving mystery about an Alabama woman today, and five women who in 1943 worked in a Phillips 66 gas station, during the WWII years. Like Fannie Flagg's classic Fried Green Tomatoes, this is a riveting, fun story of two families, set in present day America and during World War...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Flagg 2013Tyler, Anne
Summary: When Willa Drake gets a call telling her that her son's ex-girlfriend has been shot, she drops everything to look after this woman. But the impulsive decision will lead Willa into uncharted territory.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TYLTyler, Anne.
Summary: "From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Tyler 2015Todd, Anna
Summary: Recounts Hardin's first encounters with Tessa and their ensuing love affair that became a vortex pulling in everyone around them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2015