O'Nan, Stewart
Summary: When her husband goes to prison for his involvement in a string of burglaries and the death of a victim, his wife must raise their child in a community that is sometimes hostile to her, while struggling to maintain her dignity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC O'NADoerr, Anthony
Summary: Possessing an unsettling ability to predict random future events, Anchorage resident David Winkler foresees his infant daughter's drowning death and travels thousands of miles to Ohio and the Caribbean to prevent the tragedy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOEHardy, Thomas
Summary: In a drunken haze Michael Henchard sells his wife and child to a sailor for five guineas at the local fair. The next morning Henchard awakes, realizes the magnitude of what he has done, and swears he will not drink again. More than two decades later, Henchard has grown wealthy and is the Mayor of Casterbridge--but he can never escape the tragic repercussions of his past.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARWalker, Alice
Summary: A well-published, numerous-times-divorced woman leaves her lover to embark on a personal journey that begins on the Colorado River and traverses through her past and into her future, while her lover begins his own parallel voyage. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WalkerJensen, Nancy
Summary: Growing up in hardscrabble Kentucky in the 1920s, with their mother dead and their stepfather an ever-present threat, Bertie Fischer and her older sister Mabel have no one but each other--with perhaps a sweetheart for Bertie waiting in the wings. But on the day that Bertie receives her eighth-grade diploma, good intentions go terribly wrong. A choice made in desperate haste sets off a chain of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENEVans, Richard Paul
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVAEdwards, Kim
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDWThomson, Rupert.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THORadish, Kris.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RADDurham, David Anthony
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2002