Shriver, Lionel
Summary: Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled on her lonesome. But now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with dread, her previously sedentary husband Remington, recently and ignominiously redundant, chooses this precise moment to discover exercise. Which should be good for his health,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRMailer, Norman.
Summary: No writer plunged more wholeheartedly into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, as he fearlessly revolutionized literary norms and genres to capture the political, social, and sexual explosions of an unsettled era. Here, for the first time in one volume, are his unforgettable books of the 1960s: two disruptive and visionary novels, and two radically innovative journalistic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAIHarrison, Kathryn.
Summary: A New York psychoanalyst in the midst of a midlife crisis, William Moreland comes face to face with a woman he had loved twenty-five years earlier during a college reunion, an encounter that leads to shocking revelations about their relationship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARNolan, Megan
Summary: The female narrator falls completely into the power of a male writer. When he suddenly rejects her, she resolves to hang on to him and his love at all costs...even if it destroys her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Summary: "Everyone remembers the one. No, not that one. The other one. The wrong one. The one you couldn't let go of. The one you'll never forget"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVPalahniuk, Chuck.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALCrowley, Aleister
Summary: "Written by Aleister Crowley after years of personal study and experimentation with drugs, The diary of a drug fiend tells the story of young Peter Pendragon and his lover Louise Laleham and their adventures traveling through Europe in a cocaine and heroin haze"--Cover p. [4].
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weiser books 2010
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Summary: "Alice Armitage is a police officer. Or she was. Or perhaps she just imagines she was. Whatever the truth is, following a debilitating bout of PTSD, self-medication with drink and drugs, and a psychotic breakdown, Alice is now a long-term patient in an acute psychiatric ward. Though convinced that she doesn't really belong there, she finds companionship with the other patients in the ward...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BILMann, J. Albert
Summary: In the aftermath of major surgery, sixteen-year-old Eve struggles with pain, grief, and guilt while becoming increasingly dependent on pain medication, revisiting memories of her best friend, and exploring a potential romance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MANHall, Leanne
Summary: When sixteen-year-old Yin Mitchell is abducted, the news reverberates through the whole Year Ten class at Balmoral Ladies College. As the hours tick by, the girls know the chance of Yin being found alive is becoming smaller and smaller. Everyone is affected by Yin's disappearance--even scholarship student Chloe, who usually stays out of Balmoral dramas, is drawn into the maelstrom. And when she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Text Publishing 2021