Gayle, Mike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000
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Summary: "Life is waiting to happen to Hubert Bird. But first he has to open his front door and let it in. In weekly phone calls to his daughter in Australia, widower Hubert Bird paints a picture of the perfect retirement, packed with fun, friendship, and fulfilment. But he's lying. The truth is day after day drags by without him seeing a single soul. Until he receives some good news - good news that in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAYMeloy, Maile.
Contents: Tome -- Four lean hounds, ca. 1976 -- Native sandstone -- Ranch girl -- Garrison junction -- Red -- Aqua boulevard -- The river -- Kite whistler aquamarine -- Last of the white slaves -- Thirteen & a half -- Paint -- The ice harvester -- A stakes horse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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Summary: "An octopus is taken from his undersea home to live in an aquarium, but he soon tires of captive life."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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Summary: Set in California, Liars and saints follows four generations of the Catholic Santerre family from World War II to the present, as they navigate a succession of life-altering events -- through the submerged emotion of the fifties, the recklessness and excess of the sixties and seventies, and the reckonings of the eighties and nineties. In a family driven by jealousy and propriety as much as by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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Contents: Travis, B. -- Red from green -- Lovely Rita -- Spy vs. spy -- Two-step -- The girlfriend -- Liliana -- Nine -- Agustn̕ -- The children -- O tannenbaum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2009
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Summary: Continuing the family saga of her first novel, "Liars and Saints," Meloy's second follows Abby Collins from the age of seven, when her feckless mother and sober father separate, to her success as a young novelist. The kernel of the story is a melodrama involving her uncle Jamie, who rescues her first from the boredom of her childhood illness and then, later, from grief after the sudden death of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006