Kinney, Anne-Marie.
Summary: Radio Iris deals with watercooler culture in an artful and existential way, delivering an eerie allegory of our modern recession.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINGolding, William
Summary: Following a world war, a group of school boys survives a plane crash on a deserted island and creates a hellish environment leading to savagery and murder. Two leaders--one civilized, one depraved--epitomize the forces that war eternally in the human spirit.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2006
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GOLCohen, Joshua
Summary: "The enigmatic billionaire founder of Tetration, the world's most powerful tech company, hires a failed novelist, Josh Cohen, to ghostwrite his memoirs. The mogul, known as Principal, brings Josh behind the digital veil, tracing the rise of Tetration, which started in the earliest days of the Internet by revolutionizing the search engine before venturing into smartphones, computers, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COHAdams, Richard
Summary: Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1974
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ADAHawke, Ethan
Summary: "It is 1483, and Sir Thomas Lemuel Hawke, a Cornish knight, is about to ride into battle. On the eve of his departure, he composes a letter to his four young children, consisting of twenty virtues that provide instruction on how to live a noble life, and on all the lessons, large and small, that he might have imparted to them himself were he not expecting to die on the battlefield. "Why am I...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWHawke, Ethan
Summary: It is 1483, and Sir Thomas Lemuel Hawke, a Cornish knight, is about to ride into battle. On the eve of his departure, he composes a letter to his four young children, consisting of twenty virtues that provide instruction on how to live a noble life, and on all the lessons, large and small, that he might have imparted to them himself were he not expecting to die on the battlefield. "Why am I...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HAWCoetzee, J. M.
Summary: In Estrella, David has grown to be a tall ten-year-old who is a natural at soccer, and loves kicking a ball around with his friends. His father Simon and Bolivar the dog usually watch while his mother Ines now works in a fashion boutique. David still asks many questions, challenging his parents, and any authority figure in his life. In dancing class at the Academy of Music he dances as he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Coetzee 2020Faulkner, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1990
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION FaulknerJoyce, James
Summary: This account of several lower class citizens of Dublin describes their activities and tells what some of them were thinking one day in 1904.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1992
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Joyce 1992Mills, Magnus
Summary: The Great Field lies in the bend of a broad, meandering river. Bounded on three sides by water, on the fourth side it dwindles gradually into wilderness. A handful of tents are scattered far and wide across its immensity. Their flags flutter in the warm breeze, rich with the promise of halcyon days. But more and more people are setting up camp in the lush pastures, and with each new arrival,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILSayles, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAYHemingway, Ernest
Summary: The story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal, a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD SA HEMHesse, Hermann
Summary: A classic of modern literature, The Journey to the East is a profound rendering of the struggle between faith and despair. The hero, identified only as H.H., recounts a fantastic spiritual and geographic pilgrimage he took years ago with the League, a secret society whose members include the likes of Paul Klee, Mozart, and Baudelaire. Traversing both time and space, the pilgrims come across...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HESFisher, Suzanne Woods.
Summary: At Eagle Hill, an Amish bed and breakfast created in the converted basement of Rose Schrock's farmhouse, guests arrive with their worries and leave with their problems solved in surprising ways.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Fisher 2013Mann, Kyle
Summary: "Ryan Fleming is a young agnostic reeling from his brother's death. Though he is deeply angry with God, he makes good on a promise he made to his brother in the final moments of his life: to visit a church at least once. But shortly after his arrival, the slick megachurch's shoddily installed video projector falls on his head--sending Ryan through a wormhole into another world. After a narrow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salem Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANFisher, Suzanne Woods.
Summary: Twenty-year-old Bethany Schrock is restless. Her love life has derailed, her faith hangs by a thread, and she is spending the incredibly hot summer days wading through a lifetime's accumulation of junk at the home of five ancient Amish sisters. About the only thing that holds her interest is the spirited and dangerously handsome Jimmy Fisher--and he seems bent on irritating her to no end. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Fisher 2014Martel, Yann.
Summary: In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that--if he can find it--would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MARLondon, Jack
Summary: Humphrey becomes an unwilling sailor on a seal hunting expedition in this classic story of good against evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1988
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Summary: A nineteenth-century tale of life aboard a New England whaling ship whose captain is obsessed with the pursuit of a large white whale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MelCoelho, Paulo.
Summary: Aleph marks a return to the author's beginnings. In a frank and surprising personal story, one of the world's most beloved authors embarks on a remarkable and transformative journey of self discovery. Facing a grave crisis of faith, and seeking a path of spiritual renewal and growth, he decides to start over: to travel, to experiment, to reconnect with people and the world. On this journey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COECoetzee, J. M.
Summary: From the Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee, the haunting sequel to The Childhood of Jesus, continuing the journey of David, Simon, and Ines When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new life. That is how it is. There is no before. There is no history. The boat docks at the harbour and we climb down the gangplank and we are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Coetzee 2016Grodstein, Lauren.
Summary: An atheist widower begins to question his lack of faith after he falls in love with a passionate evangelist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub Co 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROCoetzee, J. M.
Summary: "A major new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting for the Barbarians, The Life & Times of Michael K and Disgrace Nobel laureate and two-time Booker Prize winner J. M. Coetzee returns with a haunting and surprising novel about childhood and destiny that is sure to rank with his classic novels. Separated from his mother as a passenger on a boat bound for a new land, David is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Coetzee 2013Melville, Herman
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.M. Dent 1993