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Summary: Set in Claybourne, a town somewhere in the South, The Salt Eaters is the story of a community of black people who are searching for the healing properties of salt, and who witness an event that will change their lives forever. "A book full of marvels".--The New Yorker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAMGibbons, Kaye
Summary: One of the most talked-about and endearing first novels in years bears the story of a female Huck Finn and her search for a true home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GIBCrumley, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRUFord, Richard
Summary: At the beginning of his career, a young man gives up his chance to become a successful novelist in order to work as a sportswriter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORGuterson, David.
Summary: Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUTMunro, Alice.
Summary: In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from exotic Australia. And Munro shows us how one woman's romantic tale of capture and escape in the high Balkans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUNRusso, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSCrumley, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRUFord, Richard
Summary: The pursuits of an ignorant Southerner and a law student, who meet en route to an Arkansas river island hideaway, begin to interweave, with explosive consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORMcInerney, Jay.
Summary: Written entirely in the second person, McInerney's first novel is a vivid account of cocaine addiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Contemporaries 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCIMillhauser, Steven.
Summary: Tells the story of Martin Dressler's rise from bellhop to builder of hotels and his plans to build the Grand Cosmo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILSummary: "Ben Marcus, one of the most innovative and vital writers of this generation, delivers a stellar anthology of the best short fiction being written today in America In New American Stories, Ben Marcus has collected a diverse, exciting, and wholly unique book of contemporary American fiction writers. Herein are the luminaries of the form like Deborah Eisenberg, George Saunders, and Denis Johnson,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Contemporaries 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWCarver, Raymond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARShepard, Jim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Contemporaries 2004