Lamb, Wally.
Summary: Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his subdued life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMNapolitano, Ann
Summary: William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him, so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college, it's as if the world has lit up around him. With Julia comes her family, as she and her three sisters are inseparable: Sylvie, the family's dreamer, is happiest with her nose in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NAPDubus, Andre
Summary: Kathy, a recovering alcoholic, separated from her husband, fails to open a series of letters from the tax office. The State seizes her house and it is sold to Behrani, a former Iranian Air Force officer. For him, the house comes to represent a passport to the American dream, but not for Kathy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUBMorrison, Toni.
Summary: Macon Dead, Jr., known as Milkman, grows up in "his father's money-haunted, death-haunted house with his silent sisters and strangely passive mother" and with his friend Guitar who is connected to the secret avengers called the Seven Days, falls in love with his cousin Hagar, learns from bootlegging Aunt Pilate, and then heads south, lured by the promise of buried gold and the mysteries of his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORDickens, Charles
Summary: Two of Dicken's novels are republished. The first follows a group from the tranquil roads of London to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror. The second follows the life of the orphaned Pip from the wild Kent marshes through a series of events as he abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICMiller, Sue
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House AudioBooks 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MilleClarke, Breena.
Summary: The impact of a child's drowning on a black family in 1925 Washington, especially on the 12-year-old sister who was baby-sitting the girl. Told against the background of the lot of blacks at the time.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAHaynes, Melinda.
Summary: In a small Mississippi town during the late 1950s, Even Grade, a twenty-eight-year-old black man who grew up as an orphan, and Valuable Korner, the teenage white daughter of the local prostitute, search for love, family, and commitment as their lives intersect.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1999