Vonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: The author questions the condition of modern man in this novel depicting a science fiction writer's struggle to find peace and sanity in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VONMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: A rodeo cowboy turned antique dealer centers his vaguely gypsy life on his collector's classic Cadillac, which carries him to backroad flea markets, small-time collectors, Washington high life, and the two women he loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMGreer, Andrew Sean
Summary: Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself, and making connections with the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Lee Boudreaux Book, Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Greer 2017Mills, Magnus.
Summary: When sloth and alcohol lead to a horribly botched job, two fence builders named Tam and Richie flee their native Scotland to England, where all hell quickly breaks loose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILThackeray, William Makepeace
Summary: The story of the amoral beauty Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to climb the social ladder, and her sentimental companion Amelia, who falls for a caddish soldier, presents a panoramic satire of Regency society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC THAMills, Magnus.
Summary: "The whole concept is so simple yet so perfect; men drive to and from strategically placed warehouses in Univans, identical and very serviceable vehicles, transporting replacement parts for Univans."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILGladstone, Wayne
Summary: "Gladstone, the so-called 'Internet Messiah,' has not only failed to bring back the Web, but his search has landed him in a New York City psychiatric ward. The rest of the world isn't doing so well either, filled with disconnected Internet users still jonesing for a fix, and an increasingly draconian government, interrogating and detaining anyone deemed a 'person of interest' under the NET...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLAKlam, Matthew
Summary: "Two people, who are married to other people, meet at a conference for artists and writers in a charming seaside village much like Provincetown. Rich, a formerly sort-of-famous cartoonist, and Amy, a student of narrative painting, shared a moment of passion the summer before, and have returned to see what happens next. In the wicked events that follow, both of their lives completely unravel"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLAFitzhugh, Bill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITHeller, Zoe.
Summary: When her new friend and co-worker, Sheba Hart, begins a passionate affair with a male student, schoolteacher Barbara Covett decides to defend Sheba and unknowingly reveals secrets they both hide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2003
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Summary: "B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesman who sleeps in a sock drawer), stumbles upon a hitherto unseen film by an enigmatic outsider--a film he's convinced will change his career trajectory and rock the world of cinema to its core. His hands on what is possibly the greatest movie ever made, a three-month-long...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAULeary, Denis
Summary: Denis Leary refutes the current highly partisan Right Wing Nutjob versus Left Wing Snowflake approach to American politics—where you’re either one or the other, with no gray areas in between. Leading a new protest movement called Gray Lives Matter, he takes equal opportunity aim at the screaming heads we see arguing every night on CNN (the Clinton News Network) and Fox’s Fair and Balanced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817 LEANutting, Alissa
Summary: Moving to a senior citizen trailer park with her father, Hazel, the estranged wife of a corporate CEO who demanded she install a brain chip so that they could be constantly connected, tries to carve out a new life while her ex uses sophisticated technology to stalk her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NUTPratchett, Terry.
Summary: Sentenced to death for forgery and swindling, Meist Von Lipwig accepts a pardon in exchange for revamping an ancient post office, but his efforts are thwarted by murderous characters who want the post office shut down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRASmith, Haywood
Summary: Wanting to remarry when her health-care costs eat up all of her money, widow Cassie Jones enlists the grudging help of reclusive fellow patient Jack and devises a pragmatic but unconventional solution when dating proves unsuccessful.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Wanting to remarry when her health-care costs eat up all of her money, widow Cassie Jones enlists the grudging help of reclusive fellow patient Jack and devises a pragmatic but unconventional solution when dating proves unsuccessful.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMIStephens, Alice
Summary: "Lisa Pearl is an American teaching English in Japan and the situation there--thanks mostly to her spontaneous, hard-partying ways--has become problematic. Now she's in Seoul, South Korea, with her childhood best-friend Mindy. The young women share a special bond: they are both Korean-born adoptees into white American families. Mindy is in Seoul to track down her birth mom, and wants Lisa to do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Unnamed Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEVigorito, Tony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIGVonnegut, Kurt.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC VONWickham, Madeleine
Summary: Fleur Daxeny gatecrashes funerals in the hopes of picking up rich and vulnerable men, but when she becomes involved with Richard Favour, she discovers that she is in too deep, and that she wants more than his money.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WICAusten, Jane
Summary: In 19th century Bath, a girl bursting with freshness and a passion for macabre Gothic novels experiences intrigue, adventure, and romance, espeically when the romantic Henry Tilney invites her to his ancestral home.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1982
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AUSBurroughs, Augusten.
Summary: Max Andrews, Peggy Jean Smythe, and Leigh are all having relationship problems. Each one of them are connected by the television show Sellevision.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BURCheever, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Classics 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHECoe, Jonathan
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of The Rotters' Club and The Closed Circle comes the novel for our strange contemporary times. Beginning nine years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by chain retail, and London, where both frenzied riots and Olympic fever plague the streets, Middle England tracks a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019