Dunne, John Gregory
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNDunne, John Gregory
Summary: When an unidentified murder victim found cut in two is nicknamed The Virgin Tramp, ambitious Monsignor Desmond Spellacy of the Los Angeles archdiocese and homicide detective Tom Spellacy are among those whose lives are affected.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNVande Zande, Jeff
Summary: Jeff Vande Zande's latest story collection travels down the shady lanes of the American neighborhood. From kids egging windows to lost joggers and insomniacs to basement prisoners and Orwellian gated communities, these stories grow ever more surreal, holding a darkened mirror up to that which we are-and may become.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Whistling shade press 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANVande Zande, Jeff
Summary: Rules of Order tells the story of Harvey Crowe, a community activist, who lives in what could be the last remaining high-rise building in a wrecked city. Cracks in the ground-floor apartments are appearing exponentially. The building's structural strength can't possibly hold the load it bears. Crowe works to inform tenants on the upper floors that the weight of their possessions could bring the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Montag Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANSummary: Rock star John Norman Howard has noticed that his career has begun to decline. Too many years of concerts, bad managers and life on the road have made him cynical. Then he meets the innocent, pure and very talented singer Esther Hoffman. John shows Esther the way to stardom while forsaking his own career. As they fall in love, her success only makes his decline even more apparent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STALunde, Maja
Summary: From the author of the number-one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating story of the power of nature and the human spirit that explores the threat of a devastating worldwide drought, witnessed through the lives of a father, a daughter, and a woman who will risk her life to save the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUNVande Zande, Jeff.
Summary: Detroit Muscle is a fearless examination of family and of loss, a picaresque novel about putting these shattered pieces of our lives together again - to examine them, to understand them, and to see how, if at all possible, we can move past them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Whistling shade Press 2016
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Summary: Betrayed by his art and disillusioned by his job as a professor, Ray Casper finds his long-time girlfriend has just left him. At the death of his estranged father, he links up with his out-of-work brother Sammy, and things really get complicated. Sammy moves in with Ray and needs a job; Ray needs inspiration to paint again, and both have to keep from killing each other. This novel unites...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bottom Dog Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANRunde, Katie
Summary: "One summer in Seaside, steps away from the bustling boardwalk, the Dunne family faces an unknowable future and copes with loss through hard work and dark humor, sisterhood and friendship, romance and escape. Brian and Margot Dunne live in Seaside year-round, with their daughters Liz and Evy. The Dunnes run a real estate company, quickly turning over rental houses to keep a roof over their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNGregorio, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREGregor, James
Summary: "Going Dutch is a hilarious and cutting portrait of modern relationships that finds a gay male graduate student falling for his brilliant female classmate. For fans of The Love affairs of Nathaniel P (with a queer twist)"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREGregorio, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRELunde, Maja
Summary: "In the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this dazzling and ambitious literary debut follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving a spellbinding story of their relationship to the bees--and to their children and one another--against the backdrop of an urgent, global crisis. England, 1852. William is a biologist and seed merchant, who sets out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUNLunde, Maja
Summary: "Mikhail lives in Russia in 1881. When a skeleton of a rare wild horse is brought to him, the zoologist plans an expedition to Mongolia to find the fabled Przewalski horse...In 1992, Karin, alongside her troubled son Mathias and several Przewalski horses, travels to Mongolia to re-introduce the magnificent horses to their native land...Europe's future is uncertain in 2064, but Eva is willing to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUNGregorio, Michael
Summary: Sebastiano Cangio loves his dream job as a ranger in the stunning Sybillines national park in mystical Umbria, until the discovery of a body that bears all the hallmarks of a Mafia killing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2015
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Summary: When a badly burned and mutilated body is discovered near Stansted airport, a single piece of evidence leads the police to Perugia, Italy. As he knows the region better than anyone, park ranger Sebastiano Cangio is assigned to assist British detective Desmond Harris in his efforts to uncover the dead man's identity, and to find out what he was doing in Perugia. Meanwhile, it would appear that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers, LTD 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREContents: Disc 1, Films 1-3. Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi (1962 ; 96 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kenji Misumi -- Zoku Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi continues (1962 ; 72 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kazuo Mori -- Shin Zatōichi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLINGregorio, Michael
Summary: When the headless body of his fellow park ranger is found amidst the wooded hills of the Sybilline Mountains National Park, Sebastiano Cangio is convinced that he himself was the intended target. But what was Marzio doing out there on his own at dead of night? Is there any truth behind the wild stories of elves and goblins being seen in the surrounding forest? Dismissive of the rumours of black...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers, LTD 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREBasu, Kunal
Summary: Traveling to Peking to search for a cure for his father's syphilis, surgeon Antonio Maria studies under a renowned doctor who refuses to share his knowledge, and falls in love with the doctor's assistant before the Boxer Rebellion forces them to considerfleeing from China.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BASKindl, Patrice.
Summary: Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl endures imprisonment, capture by several ogresses and other dangers before learning exactly who she is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC KINRadzinski, Kandy.
Summary: A collection of cats' rhyming letters to Santa, in which they request such favorite items as a dish of fish and some fleas for the neighbor's dog.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC RadziBasu, Kunal
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BASOsunde, Eloghosa
Summary: "In Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the poor, the queer, the drivers and dancers, the abused and displaced and vulnerable. Blending unvarnished realism with myth and fantasy, Vagabonds! traces characters for whom life itself is a form of resistance: a driver for a debauched politician; a fashion designer who gives birth to a grown daughter; a lesbian couple;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OSUDundy, Elaine.
Summary: The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the late 1950s. Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote about the American girl abroad, but it was Elaine Dundy's Sally Jay Gorce who told us what she was really thinking. Charming, sexy, and hilarious, The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status when it was first published and it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2007