Thompson, Jean.
Summary: From National Book Award–finalist Jean Thompson comes a mesmerizing, decades-spanning saga of one ordinary American family—proud, flawed, hopeful—whose story simultaneously captures the turbulent history of the country at large. In The Year We Left Home, Thompson brings together all of her talents to deliver the career-defining novel her admirers have been waiting for: a sweeping and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2011
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Thompson, Jean
Summary: "A contemporary story about the insular world of writers, centering on a notable female poet and the young woman to whom she reveals her long-guarded secret about a famous manuscript"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOThompson, Jean
Summary: Twelve short stories feature an array of female narrators who experience the transition from youthful innocence to experience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOThompson, Jean
Summary: Stories featuring unhappy protagonists, many of them lonely. In Heart of Gold, a lonely woman finds solace in the heroes of cowboy movies, while in The Widower, after selling a young couple his house, a lonely man tries to insert himself in their life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOThompson, Jean
Summary: Presents a collection of stories that put a modern twist on classic fairy tales, depicting characters ranging from lost children who try to find their way home to adults who confront their past misdeeds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOThompson, Jean
Summary: "Do Not Deny Me is a fictional primer of how Americans live day to day: Thompson's characters -- a middle manager in the midst of a midlife crisis, an urban single visiting her best friend turned suburban mother, a grieving woman looking for guidance -- are instantly recognizable in their predicaments, foibles, and sensibilities."--Cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOThompson, Jean
Summary: Across three generations, the women of the Wise family hunt for contentment amid chaos of their own making. Evelyn set aside her career to marry, and motherhood never became her. Her daughter Laura discovers her husband Gabe expects too much of everyone in his life, especially his musician son. Grace has moved out from Laura and Gabe's house, but can't seem to live up to her potential--...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOThompson, Jean
Summary: After surviving a shooting at her high school, Linnea is packed off to live with her estranged father, Art, who doesn't quite understand how he has suddenly become responsible for raising a sullen adolescent girl. Art's neighbor, Christie, is a nurse distracted by an eccentric patient, Mrs. Foster, who has given Christie the reins to her Humanity Project, a bizarre and well-endowed charity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOThompson, Jean
Summary: "Tracing the complicated friendship of two very different women who meet in college, She Poured Out Her Heart is a novel of remarkable psychological suspense, crafted by National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson. The night that Jane and Bonnie meet on a college campus sets them on paths forever entwined. Bonnie, the wild and experimental one, always up for anything, has spent the past two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOPennington, Jean A. Thompson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2005
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 613.28 PENPrice, Sammy.
Contents: I want a little girl (3:39) -- Paris blues (7:17) -- Up above my head (2:53) -- Minor blues (4:19) -- Sweet Georgia Brown (5:05) -- How long blues (4:21) -- Lucky T (4:46) -- Embassy boogie (3:13).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gitanes Jazz Productions 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ PRISummary: Set in 1830's France, the ambitious son of a carpenter challenges the rigid social order of the time when he becomes a private tutor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV REDSummary: This 6-part series will be shown on PBS in the Spring of 2006. Includes: Voyage To Kure (Parts I & II), The Gray Whale Obstacle Course, Sharks: At Risk, and America's Underwater Treasures (Parts I & II).
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JEASean Thompson's Weird Ears
Contents: New trailway boogie -- Saturday drive -- Before the flowers bloom -- Ain't learned a thing -- Cow song -- Instrumental health -- Curse the conscience -- Sad old singers -- Alley scrappers -- Put yer weird ears on -- Head to the smokies
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021