Conroy, Pat
Summary: Chronicles the author's efforts to reconcile with his harsh fighter pilot father, who inspired "The Great Santini," recounting how at the end of his father's life, he defended the author from his critics while helping to heal family estrangements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2013
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Summary: Leopold Bloom King, the narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo's older brother commits suicide at the age of thirteen, the family struggles with the shattering effects of his death. Eventually he becomes part of a tightly knit group of high...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Old New York Book Shop Press 1990
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Summary: A powerful and intimate memoir by the beloved best-selling author of The Prince of Tides about his father, the inspiration for The Great Santini, and a re-affirmation that love can conquer even the meanest of men.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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Summary: Jack McCall seeks a place of reflection with his daughter in Rome after the suicide of his wife. But his quiet life is shattered by the appearance of old friends and enemies who need his help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books Evergreen 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1980
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1986
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Summary: Leopold Bloom King, our narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo's older brother commits suicide at the age of thirteen, the family struggles with the shattering effects of his death. Eventually he becomes part of a tightly knit group of high...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009
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Summary: Jack McCall, a writer who moved to Rome to flee his family, returns to South Carolina where his mother is dying and makes peace with them, including Jewish in-laws he couldn't stand and who blamed him for his wife's suicide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Old New York Book Shop Press 1989
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Summary: Spanning 40 years, it is the story of Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the extraordinary family in which they were born.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1986
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Summary: "A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life by Pat Conroy is a new nonfiction collection of letters, interviews, and magazine articles spanning Conroy's long literary career, supplemented by touching pieces from the beloved author's many friends. A Lowcountry Heart collects some of Conroy's most charming pieces of short nonfiction, many of them addressed directly to his readers with his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2016
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Summary: The author reflects on the place of sports in his life, describing his love of basketball, the role of the athlete for young men searching for their own identity, his education at the Citadel, and his journey to best-selling writer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2002
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Summary: Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profound effect reading has had on his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2010
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Summary: Provides a collection of culinary reminiscences from author Pat Conroy--about his travels and the fascinating people and great meals he encountered along the way--accompanied by a selection of one hundred favorite recipes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2004
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Summary: BONUS: This edition contains a South of Broad discussion guide. Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered--and shadowed--by tragedy. Lonely and adrift, he searches for something to sustain him and finds it among a tightly knit group of high school outsiders. Surviving marriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes and devastating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2009
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Summary: A young, idealistic, white teacher, confronts all the prejudices of the Deep South when he teaches African Americans at Yamacraw School on an island off the coast of South Carolina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Water 2006Summary: The story of an idealistic, innovative teacher on a remote South Carolina island. His unorthodox teaching methods bring him into conflict with the reactionary school superintendent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Conrack 1974Summary: Bill Meechum is one of nature's hard cases, an ace marine fighter pilot so adept at his lethal trade that they call him The Great Santini. But now it's peacetime, 1962. More at home playing 'top gun' in the cockpit than playing father in his own living room, he's become that most useless of all figures: a warrior without a war. Based on Pat Conroy's best-selling autobiographical novel,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Set against the sweeping panoply of Napoleons invasion of Russia, "War and Peace" is often considered the greatest novel ever written. This complete and unabridged edition features a new Introduction by Pat Conroy. Revised reissue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Signet Classic 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TOLSummary: A disillusioned Southern coach reveals his tortured childhood in order to help his troubled, suicidal sister, and discovers the healing powers of love and forgiveness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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Summary: After the Civil War sweeps away the genteel life to which she has been accustomed, Scarlett O'Hara sets about to salvage her plantation home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 2011