McMurtry, 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 MCMVonnegut, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VONGreer, 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.
Format: text
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 2017Thackeray, 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 THAGladstone, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLAKaufman, Charlie
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 KAUNutting, 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 NUTVigorito, Tony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIGWickham, 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 WICGavin, William F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAVMacFarquhar, Neil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMcLaughlin, Emma.
Summary: A graduate from New York University takes a position caring for the only son of a weathly Manhattan family. She rapidly learns the work and time involved to ensure that the Park Avenue wife doesn't work, cook, clean or raise her own child. A satirical and comical look at the upper class of Manhattan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCLPalahniuk, Chuck
Summary: As the politicians bring the nation to the brink of war, a mysterious book appears offering directives and carrying wisdom to prepare people for Adjustment Day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALShafrir, Doree
Summary: "Mack McAllister has a $600 million dollar idea. His mindfulness app, TakeOff, is already the hottest thing in tech and he's about to launch a new and improved version that promises to bring investors running and may turn his brainchild into a $1 billion dollar business--in startup parlance, an elusive unicorn. Katya Pasternack is hungry for a scoop that will drive traffic. An ambitious young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHASykes, Plum.
Summary: A wealthy and spoiled young woman living in New York searches for the meaning of life while coping with her broken engagement and telephone calls from her mother in England pressuring her to marry the Earl next door.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Books/Hyperion 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SKYWaugh, Evelyn
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAUWickham, 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/St. Martins Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WicArmstrong, Jesse
Summary: A young man, Andrew, follows his romantic interest, a wealthy young socialite named Penny, across Bosnia in a van, performing an unfinished peace play that they hope will stop the bombings in Sarajevo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARMEggers, Dave.
Summary: "The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EGGFreiman, Lexi
Summary: "A wildly irreverent take on the coming-of-age story that turns a search for belonging into a riotous satire of identity politics. Starting at a prestigious private Australian girls' school, fifteen-year-old Ziggy Klein is confronted with an alienating social hierarchy that hurls her into the arms of her grade's most radical feminists. Tormented by a burgeoning collection of dark, sexual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREKennard, Luke
Summary: Do you or your partner spend more than you earn? Have your credit card debts evolved into collection letters? Has either of you received a court summons? Has either of you considered turning to a life of a crime? You are not alone. We know. We can help. Welcome to the Transition. While taking part in the Transition, you and your partner will spend six months living under the supervision of your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENPalahniuk, Chuck
Summary: The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire. People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They've been reading a mysterious blue-black book and memorizing its directives. They are ready for the reckoning. In this ingeniously comic work, the author's first novel in four years, Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PALAbramowitz, Andy
Summary: "Nick Hornby meets Almost Famous in this ... coming-of-middle-age debut novel about the lead singer of a one-hit wonder '90s band who tries for one more swing at the fences"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABRFfitch, Madeline
Summary: "This hilarious, truth-telling debut upends notions of family, protest, and Appalachia, and forces us to reimagine an America we think we know"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019