Hamill, Pete
Summary: Upon arriving from Ireland in 1741, Cormac O'Connor is given the gift of immortality, on the condition that he never leave the island of Manhattan. Cormac comes to know all the buried secrets of Manhattan as he watches while an untamed wilderness is shaped by greed, race, immigration, growth, and above all, by hope.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAMBeatty, Pete
Summary: "Big Son is a spirit of the times--the times being 1837. Behind his broad shoulders, shiny hair, and church-organ laugh, Big Son practically made Ohio City all by himself. The feats of this proto-superhero have earned him wonder and whiskey toasts but very little in the way of fortune. And without money, Big cannot become an honest husband to his beloved Cloe (who may or may not want to be his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEADexter, Pete
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXHamill, Pete
Summary: In Brooklyn in the late 1940s, adolescent Michael Devlin is a dutiful son to his widowed mother and a conscientious altar boy at the parish church. One day, he meets Rabbi Judah Hirsch, a chance encounter that inaugurates a friendship with vast consequences, good and bad, for both of them. Michael lost his father in the war, and the rabbi, a recent immigrant to this country, lost his wife. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMIrving, John
Summary: In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022