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21) How it all began
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
229 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
The mugging of a retired schoolteacher on a London street has unexpected repercussions for her friends and neighbors when it inadvertently reveals an illicit love affair, leads to a business partnership, and helps an immigrant to reinvent his life.
23) Amazing grace
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In the wake of an earthquake that interrupts a celebrity-studded charity dinner dance at the Ritz Carlton in San Francisco, the lives of four strangers are transformed by the tragedy.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
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Where do you see yourself in five years? When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Cohan is asked this question at the most important interview of her career, she has a meticulously crafted answer at the ready. Later, after nailing her interview and accepting her boyfriend's marriage proposal, Dannie goes to sleep knowing she is right on track to achieve her five-year plan. But when she wakes up, she's suddenly in a different apartment, with a different...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Matthew Grzbc is a talented musician who plays the concert harp. He is a divorced dad who lives in Chicago, has a sexy girlfriend, and has a major, potentially life-changing audition with an orchestra on the horizon. At least that's how he appears on paper. But take a closer look and a very different man starts to emerge: an obsessive, self-sabotaging Midwesterner, fumbling through his relationship with his curiously neurotic six-year-old daughter...
27) The orange thief
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Living on the outskirts of society, an orange thief and some other country-wise ruffians steal fruit for sustenance and the sheer excitement of courting danger. After the thief ends up in jail, his life takes a turn when his bunkmate promises him a deal.
30) Boys on the side
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young HIV+ real estate agent begins a cross country trip with a black lesbian club singer and along the way they pick up a young pregnant woman who has just accidentally murdered her boyfriend.
31) Locke
Publisher
Lionsgate
Formats
Description
A feat of bold, dynamic storytelling from Oscar-nominated writer-director Steven Knight. A successful businessman receives a series of phone calls which sets into motion a chain of events that unravels his perfect life, all of which takes the course of one absolutely riveting and intense car ride.
"Tom Hardy is a blazing wonder. Hold you spellbound..."--Rolling Stone
"Grade A. A brilliant one-man show."--Entertainment Weekly
"5 Stars! Gripping."--The...
32) Everything after
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"Emily has come a long way since she lost her two passions fifteen years ago: music, and Rob. She's a psychologist at NYU who helps troubled college students like the one she once was. Together with her caring doctor husband, Ezra, she has a beautiful life. They're happy. They hope to start a family. But when a tragic event in Emily's present too closely echoes her past, and parts of her story that she'd hoped never to share come to light, her perfect...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Isabelle, on the run from her marriage, has a deadly collision with April, a woman of similar aims, on a foggy highway, but as Isabelle struggles to reassemble her own life, she becomes involved with April's husband and son, who want to determine where April was running to and why.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xi, 111 pages ; 19 cm
Description
"As energetic and relevant as ever, Nikki now offers us an intimate, affecting, and illuminating look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart. In A Good Cry, she takes us into her confidence, describing the joy and peril of aging and recalling the violence that permeated her parents? marriage and her early life. She pays homage to the people who have given her life meaning and joy: her grandparents, who took her in and saved her...
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Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
282 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
On the fifth of July, RL and June go down to the river with a bottle of Johnnie Walker Red to commemorate Taylor's fiftieth and last birthday. Taylor was RL's boyhood friend and June's husband, but after eleven years, June, a childless hospice worker, finally declares she's 'nobody's widow anymore.' Anxious for a new beginning, June considers selling her beloved house. RL, a divorced empty-nester, faces a major change, too, when he agrees to lodge...
37) Carry the one
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Description
When a car of inebriated guests from Carmen's wedding hits and kills a girl on a country road, Carmen and the people involved in the accident connect, disconnect, and reconnect throughout twenty-five subsequent years of marriage, parenthood, holidays, and tragedies.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Description
1969. Sixteen-year-old Lucy is about to run away with a much older man, to live off the grid in rural Pennsylvania. Her rash act will have vicious repercussions for both her and her older sister, Charlotte. Charlotte's youth has been marked by the burden of responsibility, but never more so than when Lucy's dream of a rural paradise turns into a nightmare.
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Series
Jackson Brodie mysteries volume 4
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Tracy Waterhouse, a retired police detective leading a quiet life, makes a snap decision to relieve habitual offender Kelly Cross of a young child he's been dragging around town. Tracy soon learns her parental inexperience is actually the least of her problems, as much larger ones loom for her and her young charge. Meanwhile, detective Jackson Brodie embarks on a different sort of rescue--that of an abused dog.
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