Sin, Kyŏng-suk.
Summary: While people vanish without a trace and others die senselessly, Jung Yoon matures into young adulthood as she loses her beloved mother, meets a once-in-a-lifetime mentor professor, forms and renews intimate friendships, and creates "forever" memories with her first love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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Summary: "Maggie, Lindsey, and Nina have been friends for most of their lives. The girls grew up together in a dead-end Florida town on the outskirts of Orlando, and the love and loyalty they have for one another have been their only constants. Now nineteen and restless, the girls spend empty summer days bouncing between unfulfilling jobs, the beach, and their favorite local bar, 'The Shamrock.' It's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZANFitzgerald, F. Scott
Summary: This classic novel, first published in 1920, tells the story of Amory Blaine's moral education and sexual awakening, brilliantly capturing the rhythms of postwar America and the spirit of a generation dedicated to the pursuit of excitement, sophistication, and success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collier Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITO'Dell, Tawni
Summary: A novel on a dysfunctional family in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town. The mother is in jail for killing the father and the four children are on their own. They are supported by the eldest, Harley Altmyer, 20, who is having an affair with the mother of a friend of his sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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Summary: A memoir of a Vietnamese refugee. The narrator, Mai Nguyen, was 13 when a helicopter lifted her from Saigon. Scenes of war written in lyrical Oriental style alternate with reflections on America, such as the obsession with winning and the usurping of parental authority by teachers. By the author of Everything You Need to Know about Asian Americans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAOHamilton, Jane
Summary: Henry Shaw, a high school senior from an average upper-middle-class Chicago family, discovers that his mother, a pianist, is having an affair when he accidentally reads her E-mail.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMMaclean, Norman
Summary: From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing", to the last, "I am haunted by waters", A River Runs Through It is an American classic. Based on Norman Maclean's childhood experiences, A River Runs Through It has established itself as one of the most moving stories of our time; it captivates readers with vivid descriptions of life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1989
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MACSchmais, Libby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1996
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1992
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1 available in Adult, Call number: WES McMurMeyers, Kent.
Summary: A truck loaded with cattle crashes into some shops and a bank in a Midwestern town, killing the farmer at the wheel and his wife who intended to leave him. An accident or suicide? Nine townspeople, from the local doctor to the local crazy, give their views.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hungry Mind Press 1998
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Publisher / Publication Date: David R. Godine 2001
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Summary: In this novel about a large Irish-Italian family in the late 1960s, young Maggie Scanlan begins to sense that, beneath the calm, everyday surface of her peaceful suburban life, everything is going mysteriously wrong especially during one summer that changes their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUIRawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1994
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RAWDoctorow, E. L.
Summary: Recalls a certain New York City boyhood in the 1930s, through the eyes of the child himself and then him as an adult trying to reconstruct the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOCFariña, Richard.
Summary: The surrealistic adventures of the young anti-hero reflect the author's irreverent view of life, using a 1950s college campus as a microcosm of the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1996
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Summary: Cut off from the life of ranching he has come to love by his grandfather's death, John Grady Cole flees to Mexico, where he and his two companions embark on a rugged and cruelly idyllic adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1993
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION McCarthyOates, Joyce Carol
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OATPercy, Walker
Summary: Kate's desperate struggle to maintain her sanity forces her cousin Binx to relinquish his dreamworld.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERTremain, Rose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TREBrown, Rita Mae.
Summary: The tale of two decades in Montgomery Alabama-- a world where all is not what it seems. Meet Hortensia Reedmuller Banastre, a beautiful woman entrenched on old money, white magnolia and a loveless marriage-- until she meets an utterly gorgeous young prizefighter. Amid such memorable characters as Banana Mae Parker and Blue Rhonda Latrec (two first-class whores) and Reverend Linton Ray (who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROJoyce, James
Summary: James Joyce's picture of an Irish boy growing up in Dublin in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991
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Summary: Ben, now grown and in the care of good-hearted prostitute Rita and her boyfriend, unknowingly helps them transport drugs to Paris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESO'Brien, Edna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1970