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4) Shroud
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Series
Alexander Cleave trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
257 p. ; 25 cm.
Author
Series
Last picture show volume 5
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Returning home to recover from a near-fatal heart attack, Duane discovers that he has a new neighbor: the statuesque K. K. Slater, a quirky billionairess who's come to Thalia to open the Rhino Ranch, dedicated to the preservation of the endangered black rhinoceros. Despite their obvious differences, Duane can't help but find himself charmed by K.K.'s stubborn toughness and lively spirit, and the two embark on a flirtation that rapidly veers toward...
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Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn't bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything about the first night that he moved into his new, spare, and efficient condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. All he knows when he wakes up the next day in the hospital is that his head is sore and bandaged.
Author
Series
Alexander Cleave trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
287 p. ; 23 cm.
Author
Series
Five people you meet in Heaven volume 1
Description
Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him, as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers....
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
viii, 208 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Harry Lipkin, the world's oldest private investigator, takes on the case of Norma Weinberger, a wealthy woman whose belongings are being pilfered by one of her staff, people she employs, trusts, cares for, and treats like family.
Author
Series
Five people you meet in Heaven volume 2
Description
The accident that killed Eddie left an indelible mark on Annie. It took her left hand, which needed to be surgically reattached. Injured, scarred, and unable to remember why, Annie's life is forever changed by a guilt-ravaged mother who whisks her away from the world she knew. Bullied by her peers and haunted by something she cannot recall, Annie struggles to find acceptance as she grows. When, as a young woman, she reconnects with Paulo, her childhood...
Author
Series
Last picture show volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
193 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Widower Duane Moore returns to west Texas, where he finds the family oil business significantly altered by new personnel, evolving family dynamics, and his own perspective changes.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Julian Treslove, a radio producer, and Samuel Finkler, a Jewish philosopher, have been friends since childhood and, as they enter middle age, they reminisce over their struggles with self-identity, anti-Semitism, women, love, and the past.
17) Telling the bees
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Albert Honig's most constant companions have always been his bees. A never-married octogenarian, still residing in the house in which he was born, Albert makes a modest living as a beekeeper, just has his father and his father's father had done before him. Deeply acquainted with the ways and workings of the hives, he knows that bees dislike wool clothing and foul language; that the sweetest honey is made from the blooms of the eucalyptus; and that...
Author
Publisher
TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
As the elderly hero of Thomas Rayfiel?s daring new novel, In Pinelight, sits in a retirement home responding to the questions of an unseen interrogator, the fragments he supplies form the portrait of a man?s life in upstate New York. Losses, loves, destructive family relationships, sexual entanglements, and moments of mystical awareness filter through the seeming minutiae of small-town gossip to confront the reader with their cumulative power.
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Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
275 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
High-society journalist Gus Bailey is caught in the middle of two stressful situations. The first is an $11 million slander suit from a powerful congressman he accused of being involved in the mysterious disappearance of a young women. The second is the book on the suspicious death of a billionaire with too many unanswered questions that he's been contracted to write. He's afraid failure in either situation will mean the end of him.
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