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Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Doerr's short story concerns the building of China's Three Gorges Dam and the inhabitants of one of the villages to be flooded during its construction. As the village's last days fade from history, the seed keeper exhibits a reluctance to leave, even at her son's persistent goading.
4503) The displacements
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"An adrenaline-fueled story of lives upended and transformed by an unprecedented catastrophe. To all appearances, the Larsen-Hall family has everything: healthy children, a stable marriage, a lucrative career for Brantley, and the means for Daphne to pursue her art full-time. Their deluxe new Miami life has just clicked into place when Luna-the world's first category 6 hurricane-upends everything they have taken for granted. When the storm makes landfall,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can't move. She can't speak. She can't open her eyes. Though she can hear everyone around her, no one knows because she's in a coma. But she doesn't remember what happened. And she has a sneaking suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, the narratives build and collide for an...
4506) In one person
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Unabridged, [Recorded Books edition].
Language
English
Description
An elderly bisexual man looks back upon his life and romances, reflecting on his unfulfilled loves and broken dreams.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"Years after escaping her abusive childhood, Harper Mallen has only ever known sleepless nights--or terrifying nightmares. She's struggling to survive as an artist in a trendy Chicago neighborhood, getting by on freelance gigs, when she's suddenly confronted with the worst fears from her past. A young woman is killed outside Harper's apartment--a woman who chillingly resembles her. As Harper searches for information about the victim, she discovers...
4508) English
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Library edition
Language
English
Description
During the Cultural Revolution, a twelve-year-old Love Liu lives in the region of Xinjiang. Here conformity is valued above all else, and suspicion governs every exchange. Into this stifling atmosphere comes a tall, clean-shaven teacher from Shanghai with an English dictionary. Love Liu turns to the dictionary for answers to his most pressing questions about love and life, and a whole new world opens up for him giving him and his classmates hope....
4509) Moby Dick
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First English edition.
Language
English
Description
"A masterful adaptation of the timeless literary classic, faithfully and beautifully rendered by an award-winning artist. In striking black-and-white illustrations, Chaboute retells the story of the Great American Novel. Captain Ahab strikes out on a voyage, obsessively seeking revenge on the great white whale that took his leg. This hardcover edition collects both of the Vents d'Ouest volumes, printed in English for the first time"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same clothes year in, year out), means that Eleanor...
4512) Book Group Bag: Brooklyn
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Leaving her home in post-World War II Ireland to work as a bookkeeper in Brooklyn, Eilis Lacey discovers a new romance in America with a charming blond Italian man before devastating news threatens her happiness.
4514) Good girls
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Two sisters are at lifelong odds with each other, their mother, and themselves, and as every hour becomes more twisted than the last, they are all pushed to their breaking point.
4515) Shutter Island
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A U.S. Marshal and his partner come to Shutter Island's Ashcliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but instead, uncover true wickedness as Ashcliffe's mysterious patient treatments propel them to the brink of insanity.
4516) Alice Bliss
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When Alice Bliss learns that her father is being deployed to Iraq, she's heartbroken. Alice idolizes her father, loves working beside him in their garden, accompanying him on the occasional roofing job, playing baseball. When he ships out, Alice is faced with finding a way to fill the emptiness he has left behind. Matt will miss seeing his daughter blossom from a tomboy into a full-blown teenager. Alice will learn to drive, join the track team, go...
4518) Dexter
Author
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
It's an all-new Dexter adventure--his first time in comic book form--written by his creator, Jeff Lindsay! Dexter Morgan isn't just Miami's #1 forensic blood splatter expert. He's also a serial killer...who targets other serial killers! But now, the deeply damaged Dexter must face two of his worst nightmares: his high school reunion, and a former classmate with a secret that could destroy him! And as if that weren't enough, Dexter and his detective...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers; however the first edition contained...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A woman doctor is murdered in Los Angeles, her death predicted by the mumbling of a killer while in a drugged state. But the killer is locked in an asylum, he therefore must have an accomplice on the outside. Forensic psychologist Alex Delaware investigates.
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