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12681) Changing the past
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
A publishing editor is given the chance to see what life might have been like had been a lascivious slumlord, an overworked comedian, a famous but miserable author, or a politician on the brink of disaster.
12682) The boyfriend from hell
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Veronica Delaney didn't intend to fall for another bad guy, especially not one who just might be evil incarnate... Veronica Delaney is a bright and beautiful, young New York journalist who has had hard luck romantically and professionally. Her latest boyfriend left her for fame (and another woman, of course), and her latest assignment has her covering a bizarre satanic cult. But while following the story, Veronica soon meets the charming, polite,...
12683) Five moral pieces
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In this prescient essay collection, the acclaimed author of Foucault's Pendulum examines the cultural trends and perils at the dawn of the 21st century. In the last decade of the 20th century, Umberto Eco saw an urgent need to embrace tolerance and multiculturalism in the face of our world's ever-increasing interconnectivity. At a talk delivered during the first Gulf War, he points out the absurdity of armed conflict in a globalized economy where...
12684) Goodness
Author
Publisher
Grove Weidenfeld
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
The prize-winning author of Europa and Tongue of Flame "explores the nature of goodness and moral faith in this poignant, witty, and disturbing novel" (Library Journal).
George Crawley knows a thing or two about being good. After watching his missionary father die in Africa and his selfless mother get taken advantage of back in England, he knows that being good is for chumps. Looking out for himself, George has established a great career and even...
Author
Series
Publisher
Quill Mark Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When college-bound Kathleen McPherson, in Minneapolis, pushes her family's traditional boundaries, she's horrified to discover a stalker intent on killing her. A classmate, whose romantic life seems to parallel Kathleen's, is stabbed to death near Kathleen's home. Gossip implies the murdered girl carried on with an older man. Kathleen and her best friend run away to Chicago to escape the knife-wielding stalker and to find happiness as flappers. Instead...
12686) Forensic songs
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In his second collection of short stories, Mike McCormack joins head and heart in a series of tales which weave a fluid vision of a world morphing between the real and the hyperreal. Amid much hollow laughter a prisoner is drawn from his cell in the middle of the night to play a video game; two rural guards ponder the security threat posed by the only man in Ireland not to have written his memoirs; a child tries to offset his destiny as a serial...
12687) Only the animals
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century, and connected to both famous and little-known writers in surprising ways, tell their astonishing stories of life and death"--
12688) Last last chance
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Last Last Chance, Fiona Maazel's first novel, is one of the most distinctive debuts of recent years: a rollicking comic tale about (in no particular order) plague, narcotics recovery, and reincarnation.
A lethal strain of virus vanishes from a lab in Washington, D.C., unleashing an epidemic-and the world thinks Lucy Clark's dead father is to blame. The plague may be the least of Lucy's problems. There's her mother, Isifrid, a peddler of high-end...
Author
Series
Norton library ; N615
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
In this influential book, the prototypical feminist writer of her day addressed a range of issues, from the Woman Question to prostitution and slavery, marriage and employment reform, and the European revolutionary movements of the 1840s. A thought-provoking challenge to contemporary assumptions of male privilege, it is a feminist literature classic.
12690) Voyager: travel writings
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The award-winning novelist takes us on some of his most memorable journeys in this revelatory collection of travel essays. Now in his mid-seventies, Russell Banks has indulged his wanderlust for more than half a century. In this compelling anthology, he writes that since childhood he has "longed for escape, for rejuvenation, for wealth untold, for erotic and narcotic and sybaritic fresh starts, for high romance, mystery and intrigue." The longing...
12691) Offerings: a novel
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing / Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"With the rapidly cascading Asian Financial Crisis threatening to go global and Korea in imminent meltdown, investment banker Dae Joon finds himself back in his native Seoul as part of an international team brought in to rescue the country from sovereign default. For Dae Joon - also known by his American name of Shane, after the cowboy movie his father so loved - the stakes are personal. Raised in the US and Harvard Business School-educated, Dae Joon...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Scott Fitzgerald, a romantic and tragic figure who embodied the decades between the two world wars, was a writer who took his material almost entirely from his life. Despite his early success with The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald battled against failure and disappointment.
This book, by the acclaimed biographer of Hemingway, is the first to analyze frankly the meaning as well as the events of Fitzgerald's life and to illuminate the recurrent patterns...
12693) Glorious frazzled beings
Author
Publisher
Astoria
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Home is where we love, suffer, and learn. Some homes we chose, others are inflicted upon us, and still others are bodies we are born into. In this astounding collection of stories, human and more-than-human worlds come together in places we call home. Four sisters and their mother explore their fears while teeny ghost people dress up in fragments of their children's clothes. A somewhat-ghost tends the family garden. Deep in the mountains, a shapeshifting...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Hadley Richardson and Ernest Hemingway were the golden couple of Paris in the twenties, the center of an expatriate community boasting the likes of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, and James and Nora Joyce. In this haunting account of the young Hemingways, Gioia Diliberto explores their passionate courtship, their family life in Paris with baby Bumby, and their thrilling, adventurous relationship--a literary love story...
12695) Arroyo: a novel
Author
Publisher
Rare Bird Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A lightly comedic, historical novel, Arroyo tells the parallel stories of a solar-dreaming young man and his semi-clairvoyant, impish mutt during two distinct epochs in Pasadena, California: 1913, as the landmark Colorado Street Bridge suffers a lethal collapse during construction but opens in the fanfare of the automobile age anyway; and 1993, as the refurbished bridge commemorates its 80th birthday in a marquee suburb-one that is perhaps not quite...
12696) Echo on the bay
Author
Publisher
Two Lines Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Tells the story of a small fishing village in Japan-with the untreated wounds of the town's history in the foreground."--
12697) The peppered moth
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1900s, Bessie Bawtry, a small child with big notions, lives in a South Yorkshire mining town in England. Precocious and refined in a land of little ambition and much mining grime, Bessie waits for the day she can escape the bleak, coarse existence her ancestors had seldom questioned. Nearly a century later Bessie's granddaughter, Faro Gaulden, is listening to a lecture on genetic inheritance. She has returned to the depressed little town...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In The Writer's Crusade, author Tom Roston examines the connection between Vonnegut's life and Slaughterhouse-Five. Did Vonnegut suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? Did Billy Pilgrim? Roston probes Vonnegut's work, his personal history, and discarded drafts of the novel, as well as original interviews with the writer's family, friends, scholars, psychologists, and other novelists including Karl Marlantes, Kevin Powers, and Tim O'Brien. The...
12700) Night Train to Marrakech
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In 1960s Marrakech, French student Vicky Baudin and her cousin, Bea, throw themselves into Morocco’s wild and glamorous party scene until a murder takes place and Bea goes missing, forcing Vicky to turn to her mysterious grandmother, who has dark secrets of her own, for help. --
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