Knopf, Chris.
Summary: Moving effortlessly across the social divide with wry pal Jackie Swaitkowski and rich guy Burton Lewis, the ex-boxer, ex-corporate infighter seems doomed to straddle the thin red line between envy and love, hate and forgiveness, goodness and greed ... and sometimes, life and death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Permanent Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KNOLamprell, Mark.
Summary: "Michaelo O'Dell is hit by a car, and when he doesn't die, he is surprised and pleased. But he can't seem to move, frozen in the crash position. He can't concentrate, or control his anger and grief, or work out what to do about much of anything. His professional life begins to crumble, and although his wife Wendy is heroically supportive, his teenage children only exacerbate his post-accident...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMHarrison, Jim
Summary: Cliff, a sixty-something man, divorced and robbed of his farm by a late-blooming real estate shark of an ex-wife, takes a road trip across America, armed with a childhood puzzle of the United States and a mission to rename all the states and state birds to overcome the banal names men have given them. Cliff's adventures take him through a whirlwind affair with a former student from his high...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION HarrisonMcEwan, Ian.
Summary: Saturday is a masterful novel set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man--a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and enjoying good relations with his children. Henry wakes to the comfort of his large home in central London on this, his day off. He is as at ease here as he is in the operating room. On this particular Saturday morning,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCEApelfeld, Aharon
Summary: "A Tel Aviv shopkeeper visits his parents' Polish birthplace in an attempt to come to terms with their complex legacy-and is completely unprepared for what he finds there. Yaakov Fine's practical wife and daughters are baffled by his decision to leave his flourishing dress shop for a ten-day trip to his family's ancestral village in Poland. Struggling to emerge from a midlife depression, Yaakov...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC APEModiano, Patrick
Summary: Modiano, winner of the Prix Goncourt, constructs "a haunting tale of quiet intensity" (Review of Contemporary Fiction). It parallels the story of Jean B., a filmmaker who abandons his wife and career to hole up in a Paris hotel, with that of Ingrid and Rigaud, a refugee couple he'd met twenty years before, and whose mystery continues to haunt him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvill 1992
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCLHannah, James
Summary: He has all kinds of everyday joy in his life - he's young, he's in love, he has friends who promise to stand by him if life ever goes wrong. Then one day, life does go wrong. He makes a mistake, and it's big and unforgiveable. Now time is running out, and his life is falling apart. But he's going to put it back together again. His own way. This is a story about how far love must stretch to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2016
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Bellow, Saul.
Summary: A suffering and persecuted intellectual, Moses E. Herzog passively accepts the disasters of his private and public affairs in an effort to survive modern civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELFord, Richard
Summary: In the fall of 2000, with the results of the presidential election still hanging in the balance, Frank Bascombe confronts the perils of Thanksgiving as he contends with health, marital, and family issues and works as a realtor at the Jersey shore.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006
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Summary: Ford reinvents Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives, Bascombe attempts to reconcile, interpret and console a world undone by calamity. It is a moving and wondrous and extremely funny odyssey through the America people live in at this moment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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Summary: Author Richard Ford illuminated the zeitgeist of an entire generation through the divinings and wit of his now-famous literary chronicler, Frank Bascombe. Here, in Let Me Be Frank With You, Ford returns with four deftly linked stories narrated by the iconic Bascombe. Now sixty-eight, and again ensconced in the well defended New Jersey suburb of Haddam, Bascombe has thrived -- seemingly if not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC FORDibdin, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIBBanville, John.
Summary: Irishman Max Morden, grieving the death of his wife Anna, returns to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child, and finds himself engulfed in thoughts and memories of a momentous summer spent with the vacationing Grace family, his life with Anna, and his relationship with his grown daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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Contents: Operation Shylock: a confession -- Sabbath's theater -- Chronology -- Note on the texts -- notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTOgawa, Yōko
Summary: In a crumbling seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother tends to the off-season customers. When one night they are forced to expel a middle-aged man and a prostitute from their room, Mari finds herself drawn to the man's voice, in what will become the first gesture of a single long seduction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2010
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Summary: Max Morden visits the seaside town where he spent his summers as a child after the death of his wife. There he remembers the Graces, the family that introduced him to a world of feeling he'd never experienced before. Interwoven with this story are Morden's memories of his wife, Anna--of their life together, of her death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANMcLarty, Ron.
Summary: Working as a quality control inspector at a toy factory in Rhode Island, friendless alcoholic Smithy Ide considers himself a loser until a tragic event prompts him to set off on an epic cross-country bicycle journey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Summary: From the pen of a master-the #1 bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Atonement-comes an astonishing novel that captures the fine balance of happiness and the unforeseen threats that can destroy it. A brilliant, thrilling page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Saturday is a masterful novel set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man-a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCENaipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad)
Summary: Owning a small portion of the Trinidad earth and a respectable house is the dream and the reality sustaining Mohun Biswas through a life of frustration and despair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAILarsen, Taylor
Summary: "Debut novel about a wealthy man who has reached a crossroads after a lifetime of repression and denial, sending him--and his family--into a slow spiral towards a total breakdown"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LARNabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
Summary: Humbert Humbert attempts to justify his love for and obsession with the barely adolescent Dolores Haze, known as Lolita. Humbert's cross-country flight with his adored nymphet ends with her betrayal of him with his rival, the evil Quilty, who pursues Lolita not out of love but out of lust and selfishness, and who functions as a kind of double for the more pure-hearted (if perverse) Humbert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC NABMann, Thomas
Summary: A story about a writer of world renown and his slow spiral to a degrading sensuality and eventual death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace] 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 FIC MANSparks, Nicholas
Summary: After thirty years, Wilson Lewis is forced to face a painful truth: the romance has gone out of his marriage. His wife, Jane, has fallen out of love with him, and it is entirely his fault. Despite the shining example of his in-laws, Noah and Allie Calhoun, and their fifty-year love affair, Wilson himself is a man unable to express his true feelings. He has spent too little time at home and too...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015