Tokarczuk, Olga
Summary: A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2018
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Summary: "After noticing that A.J. and his friends' geography knowledge could use some work, Mr. Cooper invites to class just the person to help. Globetrotter Mrs. Barr speaks seven languages and has visited nearly two hundred countries! But why does she carry a suitcase everywhere she goes? And why does she open a window whenever she walks into a room? Perhaps Mrs. Barr has something to hide"--Provided...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: The unusual voyages of Englishman Lemuel Gulliver carry him to such strange locales as Lilliput, where the inhabitants are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land of giants; an island of sorcerers; and a nation ruled by horses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2010
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Summary: Small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutchman, walking aimlessly in Oslo, covered in blood, is taken into custody but refuses to talk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012
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Summary: "In the spirit of The Bartender's Tale, a lively and poignant coming-of-age story about a boy and his great-uncle on a cross-country odyssey. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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Summary: One of the most acclaimed and revered writers of her generation returns with her most ambitious novel yet--an elegant, multi-layered work, rich in imagination and exquisitely told, that interweaves a quartet of journeys across continents and centuries. As emotionally resonant as Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss, as inspired as Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land, as inventive as Louisa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARMcMurtry, Larry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FICTION McMurtryMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: McMurtry with his miraculously sure touch at creating recognizable women characters, and his equally miraculous sharp eye for the absurdities of everyday life in the modern West, writes about two women, old friends, who set off on an adventure-with unpredictable and sometimes hilarious results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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Summary: Katherine Givens befriends the four other women who, through the unexpected circumstance of their recently deceased friend Annie Freeman's last will and testament, are about to share a life-affirming road trip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah Publishers 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Caroline Winters' family broke apart after the disappearance of her five-year old sister, but now, fifteen years later, she has seen someone who looks like her sister and she sets out on a journey to find her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MacAdam/Cage 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah Publishers 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2007
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Summary: Working as a quality control inspector at a toy factory in Rhode Island, friendless alcoholic Smithy Ide considers himself a loser until a tragic event prompts him to set off on an epic cross-country bicycle journey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Summary: When Annie Darling, the popular proprietess of the Death on Demand bookstore, throws a cruise-party with guests dressing up as their favorite fictional sleuths, it's a success until one of the revelers falls overboard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WalkerRoberts, Nora
Summary: Impulse: For once in her life, Rebecca Malone is following her heart. After quitting her job and selling all her belongings, she heads to Greece in search of adventure. So when a sexy local restaurant owner pursues her, she can't resist playing the role of sophisticated, well-traveled woman. But falling in love with Stephen Nickodemus was not part of the plan! Now she'll have to find a way to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silhouette Books, published by Silhouette Books 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2004
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Summary: Six intertwining stories told by travelers through time and different realms who are stranded at the World's End Inn by a reality storm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertigo/DC Comics 1994
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Summary: On a cross-country train trip to Boston, Judith McMonigle Flynn is disgusted by the antics of daredevil and fellow passenger Wee Willie Weevil, whose untimely death following the train's collision with a truck identifies the work of a murderer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010