Boyle, T. Coraghessan
Summary: Set in contemporary Northern California, The Harder They Come explores the volatile connections between three damaged people -- an aging ex-Marine and Vietnam veteran, his psychologically unstable son, and the son's paranoid, much older lover -- as they careen towards an explosive confrontation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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Summary: The lives of three women on turn-of-the-twentieth-century San Miguel are shaped by ambition and circumstance, including the wife of a Civil War veteran who hopes to recover her health, her rebellious daughter, and a librarian who wonders if the island's peace will endure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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Summary: "From best-selling novelist T. C. Boyle, a satirical yet ultimately moving take on contemporary American life in the glare of climate change"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: The story of illegal aliens in California, told through the eyes of two very different couples, one well-off Anglos, the other illegal Mexicans living in a canyon. The novel chronicles their relationship against the background of growing hostility between immigrants and natives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1995
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Summary: Recounts the life of Frank Lloyd Wright as told through the experiences of the four women who loved him: the Montenegrin beauty Olgivanna Milanoff; the passionate Southern belle Maud Miriam Noel; the spirited Mamah Cheney, tragically killed; and his young first wife, Kitty Tobin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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Summary: Felix is a quitter, with a poor track record behind him. Until the day the opportunity presents itself to make half a million dollars tax-free - by nurturing 390 acres of cannabis in the lonely hills of northern California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1985
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Summary: Deaf Dana Halter is falsley arrested for assault with a deadly weapon, auto theft, and passing bad checks, while William Wilson has been living a blameless life of criminal excess at her expense. Dana and her boyfriend Bridger set out to track him down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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Summary: Traces an incrementally violent confrontation between a National Park Service biologist who would eradicate invasive wildlife on the Channel Islands and two locals who are fiercely opposed to the killing of any creatures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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Summary: In 1943, LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later, a coterie of grad students at Harvard are gradually drawn into the inner circle of renowned psychologist and psychedelic drug enthusiast Timothy Leary. Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology Ph.D. student and his wife, Joanie, become entranced by the drug's possibilities such that their "research" becomes less a matter of clinical trials and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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Summary: "From the title story, which features a so-called relive box that allows users to experience anew almost any moment from their past, to 'The Five-Pound Burrito,' the tale of a man aiming to build the biggest burrito in town, the twelve stories in this collection represent a whole new way of looking at the world"--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Summary: When animal behaviorist Guy Schermerhorn demonstrates on a TV game show that he has taught Sam, his juvenile chimp, to speak in sign language, Aimee Villard, an undergraduate at Guy's university, is so taken with the performance that she applies to become his assistant. A romantic and intellectual attachment soon morphs into an interspecies love triangle that pushes hard at the boundaries of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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Summary: The author's sixth collection of short stories displays his wide-ranging interests in everything from abortion doctors to air rage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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Summary: Set in 1970, Drop City, a California commune, decides to relocate to Alaska, where tensions rise between the commune and a group of homesteaders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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Summary: A collection of stories includes such diverse themes as a death-defying stunt man, a retired primatologist troubled by the "civilized" world, 1960s survivors "stuck" in that decade, and a freshly-marketed Ayatollah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1989
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Summary: The lives of three women on turn-of-the-20th-century San Miguel are shaped by ambition and circumstance, including the wife of a Civil War veteran who hopes to recover her health, her rebellious aspiring actress daughter and a librarian who wonders if the island's peace will endure in the face of looming war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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Summary: With trademark imagination, T.C. Boyle presents a collection of fourteen short stories. In the volume's title story, Victor, a feral boy in Napoleonic France, is captured and is introduced to civilization for the first time. However it is the child't captors that end up learning the most about humanity and civility.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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Summary: Sealed inside a glass enclosure designed as a prototype for a possible off-Earth colony, eight Terranauts in the 1990s Arizona desert test their skills in five biome environments that they must protect from skeptics who would sabotage the mission.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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Summary: "It is the year 2025, and Tyrone O'Shaughnessy Tierwater is eking out a bleak living in Southern California, managing a pop star's private menagerie of the species "only a mother could love" - scruffy hyenas, jackals, warthogs and three down-at-the-mouth lions. Global warming is a reality. The biosphere has collapsed in a grim but pointed way, and most of the major mammalian species - not to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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Summary: A love story early this century on a young millionaire who has gone mad and his loyal wife. For twenty years, suffragette Katherine McCormick awaits a cure while doctors treat Stanley in his palatial mansion in California. They won't allow her visits because he cannot look at a woman without attacking her, so the couple's only contact is by telephone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1998
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Summary: Laced with comic wit, this is a story of Dr. John Kellogg's infamous spa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1993
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Summary: The lives of three women on turn-of-the-twentieth-century San Miguel are shaped by ambition and circumstance, including the wife of a Civil War veteran who hopes to recover her health, her rebellious daughter, and a librarian who wonders if the island's peace will endure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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Summary: Using Frank Lloyd Wright as his muse, T.C. Boyle presents a novel based on the great American architect and the four distinct women that permeated his life, career, and heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2009
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Summary: Haunted by the burden of his family's traitorous past, woozy with pot, cheap wine and sex, and disturbed by a frighteningly real encounter with some family ghosts, Walter van Brunt is about to have a collision with history. It will lead Walter to search for his lost father. And it will send the story into the past of the Hudson River Valley, from the late 1960's back to the anticommunist riots...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYSummary: A collection of top-selected mystery writing from the past year is culled from a variety of respected sources and offers insight into evolving genre trends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018