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Authorship Fiction FICTION / Contemporary Women FICTION / Family Life / General FICTION / Literary FICTION / Short Stories (single author) Héros Romans, nouvelles, etc Older women Fiction United States Social life and customs Fiction Violence Romans, nouvelles, etc États-Unis Mœurs et coutumes Romans, nouvelles, etcBurns, Catherine
Summary: "Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older brother John in a crumbling mansion on the edge of a northern seaside resort. A timid spinster in her fifties who still sleeps with teddy bears, Marion does her best to live by John's rules, even if it means turning a blind eye to the noises she hears coming from behind the cellar door ... and turning a blind eye to the women's laundry in the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BURBurns, Anna
Summary: In Northern Ireland during the Troubles of the 1970s, an unnamed narrator finds herself targeted by a high-ranking dissident known as Milkman.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2018
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BURBurke, James Lee
Summary: These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival, and revenge. A boy and his father watch a German submarine sink an oil tanker as evil forces in the disguise of federal agents try to ruin their family. A girl is beaten up outside a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BURMorton, Brian
Summary: "A wise and entertaining novel about a woman who has lived life on her own terms for seventy-five defiant and determined years, only to find herself suddenly thrust to the center of her family's various catastrophes Meet Florence Gordon: blunt, brilliant, cantankerous and passionate, feminist icon to young women, invisible and underappreciated by most everyone else. At seventy-five, Florence...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014