Hornby, Nick
Summary: "Married for years, Tom and Louise thought they had a stable home life-- until a recent incident pushed them to the brink. Going to therapy seemed like the perfect solution. But over drinks before their appointment, they begin to wonder: what if you take your marriage apart to see what's in there, but then you're left with a million pieces? For ten weeks, meeting before their weekly therapy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORHornby, Nick.
Summary: Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HORHornby, Nick
Summary: Lucy married a man with whom she had everything in common but he made her miserable. When she meets Joseph, she would rather have a baby-sitter for her sons than a boyfriend, but she discovers that sometimes happiness comes from unexpected places.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction HornbyHornby, Nick.
Summary: Annie initiates an e-mail correspondence with Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylanish singer-songwriter, and a connection is forged between two lonely people who are looking for more out of what they have. What happens when a washed-up musician looks for another chance? And a childless woman looks for a change?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORHornby, Nick.
Contents: Song essays : Your love is the place where I come from / Teenage Fanclub -- Thunder road / Bruce Springsteen -- I'm like a bird / Nelly Furtado -- Heartbreaker / Led Zeppelin -- One man guy / Rufus Wainwright -- Samba pa ti / Santana -- Mama, you been on my mind / Rod Stewart -- Can you please crawl out your window / Bob Dylan -- Rain / The Beatles -- You had time / Ani DiFranco -- I've had it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.63 HORHornby, Nick.
Summary: An autobiographical memoir by a humorous British author and obsessed soccer fan captures the intensity of a sports fan who measures his life in seasons rather than years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HORNBY, NICK HORHornby, Nick.
Summary: Katie Carr, dutiful doctor and nurturing mother, is married to a man who makes a living being bitter and sarcastic in his syndicated column. When he suddenly becomes transformed into an insufferable do-gooder, he makes it difficult for her to live with him and with herself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HORHornby, Nick.
Summary: Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HORHornby, Nick.
Summary: Will, a thirty-six-year-old London bachelor, undergoes a change in his outlook about marriage and children when he lies to join a single parents group in order to meet women, and becomes friends with a needy twelve-year-old named Marcus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORHornby, Nick
Summary: "From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and entertaining book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and modern American rock star Prince. Every so often, a pairing comes along that seems completely unlikely-until it's not. Peanut butter and jelly, Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un, ducks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 HORHornby, Nick
Summary: Culling the best of his monthly column "Stuff I've Been Reading" in The Believer magazine, the bestselling author presents hilarious observations on a vast array of topics, and provides a wide-ranging reader list that serves as a reminder as to why we read.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028.9 HORHornby, Nick.
Summary: FROM THE PUBLISHER : High Fidelity is the story of Rob, a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend Laura has just left him for Ian from the flat upstairs. Rob is both miserable and relieved. After all, could he have spent his life with someone who has a bad record collection? This narrowly misses his list of all-time top five most memorable split-ups. Rob...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORHornby, Nick.
Summary: "Katie Carr, a conscientious and clear-thinking doctor, has enough on her hands trying to deal with her marital problems, and she never dreams that every aspect of her life will soon be turned upside down by husband David's sudden conversion from snide cynicism to pure altruism."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORHornby, Nick.
Summary: Ending her relationship with a man who turns out to be in love with a reclusive singer, Annie initiates an e-mail friendship with the musician that reveals their mutual loneliness, his concerns about his young son, and his plans to release an acoustic version of his most successful album.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HORSummary: In a re-telling of Cinderella, an independent young woman in the sixteenth century overcomes all odds to win the heart of the crown prince; Ben Wrightman's girlfriend Lindsey must compete with the Red Sox for his attention once baseball season starts; An ex-nerd reporter goes undercover as a high school student to learn about today's teens.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DRESummary: Four strangers happen to meet on a roof of a building with the intent of committing suicide. They decide to call off their plans for six weeks and form an unconventional, dysfunctional family and friendship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY LONSummary: An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRO RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Brooklyn 2016Summary: In the early 1960's, 16-year-old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in a London suburb. She is smart, pretty, and working toward her goal of being accepted into Oxford. Her life will take a big turn when she meets David, a man twice her age. Now she must decide if she will pursue an education at Oxford, or if she will choose to learn all that a charismatic, older man can teach her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EDUSummary: According to Red Sox super-fan Ben Wrightman, finding romance is about as likely as his beloved team winning the World Series. But when Ben scores a beautiful new girlfriend, suddenly anything is possible.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FEVCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FEVSummary: Rob Gordon's record store is semi-failing, and his long-time girlfriend has just walked out on him. In order to figure out where things went wrong, he examines his past relationships with other women.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HIGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HIGSummary: The story of Annie, the long-suffering girlfriend of Duncan, and her unlikely transatlantic romance with once revered, now faded, singer-songwriter, Tucker Crowe, who also happens to be the subject of Duncan's musical obsession.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JULCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JuSummary: After years of reckless behavior, a heroin addiction and the destruction of her marriage, Cheryl Strayed makes a rash decision. Haunted by memories of her mother Bobbi and with absolutely no experience, she sets out to hike more than a thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail all on her own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015