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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xvii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement. They were alternately known as "waste people," "offals," "rubbish," "lazy lubbers," and "crackers." By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called "clay eaters" and "sandhillers," known for prematurely-aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature...
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
183 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"In his brilliant new novel, Perumal Murugan paints a bucolic yet menacing portrait of the rural lives of India's farming community through the story of a helpless young animal lost in a world it naively misunderstands. A farmer in Tamil Nadu is watching the sun set over his village one evening when a mysterious stranger, a giant man, appears on the horizon. He offers the farmer a black goat kid who is the runt of the litter, surely too frail to survive....
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This novel tracks the process by which an ordinary young man is capable of committing a ruthless murder, and the further process by which social and political forces come into play after his arrest. In Clyde Griffiths, the impoverished, restless offspring of a family of street preachers, we see a portrait of a man whose circumstances and dreams of self-betterment conspire to pull him toward an act of unforgivable violence.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
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Description
"Raymond Chandler's incomparable private eye is back, pulled by a seductive young heiress into the most difficult and dangerous case of his career"It was one of those summer Tuesday afternoons when you begin to wonder if the earth has stopped revolving. The telephone on my desk had the look of something that knows it's being watched. Traffic trickled by in the street below, and there were a few pedestrians, too, men in hats going nowhere."So begins...
86) Caddyshack II
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The members of the Bushwood Country Club still insist that only a privileged few are permitted to walk miles in the sun while wearing silly pants and whacking a little ball from hole to hole. Blue-collar millionaire Jack Hartounian is concerned more with the way people treat each other than whether they use the right words in polite society or raise the proper finger to drink a glass of beer.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1178
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down.
Author
Publisher
Poppy/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Sparks fly when sixteen-year-old Lucy Patterson and seventeen-year-old Owen Buckley meet on an elevator rendered useless by a New York City blackout. Soon after, the two teenagers leave the city, but as they travel farther away from each other geographically, they stay connected emotionally, in this story set over the course of one year"--
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
433 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A spellbinding story about two girls whose friendship is so intense it not only threatens to destroy them, it changes the trajectory of history. Marie Antoine is the charismatic, spoiled daughter of a sugar baron. At 12 years old, with her blond curls and her unparalleled sense of whimsey, she's the leader of all the children in the Golden Mile, an affluent strip of 19th century Montreal. Until one day in 1873, when Sadie Arnett, dark-haired, sly,...
90) Titanic
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Formats
Description
The story of a passionate romance aboard the doomed ocean liner Titanic, framed by an account of a present-day salvager's efforts to investigate the ruins of the ship.
91) The hollow heart
Author
Series
Forgotten gods (Rutkoski) volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Queen Nirrim falls victim to a cruel queen's spell and, believing that her friends are enemies, seeks revenge against a world that has wronged her, while the person she loved most sets out to save her from herself.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Formats
Description
TMark and Karen Breakstone have constructed the idyllic life of wealth and status they always wanted, made complete by their beautiful and extraordinary daughter Heather. But they are still not quite at the top. When the new owners of the penthouse above them begin construction, an unstable stranger penetrates the security of their comfortable lives and threatens to destroy everything they've created.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A modern retelling of the Jane Austen classic follows the Dashwood sisters--Elinor, Marianne and Margaret--as they, after the death of their father, must come to terms with the cruelties of life without the status of their country house, the protection of the family name or the comfort of an inheritance.
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xv, 302 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
"In the vein of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Chris Hedges and American Book Award winning cartoonist Joe Sacco bring us a searing on-the-ground report on the crisis gripping underclass America and crime-ridden poverty enclaves--in prisons, urban slums, and rural communities--metastasizing around the nation"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Physical Desc
337 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
The best-selling author of The Thorn Birds presents a sequel to Pride and Prejudice that finds the willful third Bennet sister setting out in her late thirties in pursuit of adventure while her sisters worry about her at home.
Author
Series
Westcott novels volume 5
Description
"During a rare white Christmas at Brambledean Court, the widow Elizabeth, Lady Overfield, defies convention by falling in love with a younger man in the latest novel in the Westcott series. After her husband's passing, Elizabeth Overfield decides that shemust enter into another suitable marriage. That, however, is the last thing on her mind when she meets Colin Handrich, Lord Hodges, at the Westcott Christmas house party. She simply enjoys his company...
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 88 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Establishes a diverse and dynamic range of relationships among long-time girlfriends, their spouses, and the way in which money (or lack of it) affects them all. The have-not of the group is Olivia. She is a teacher-turned pot-smoking housecleaner in the upscale neighborhoods of West Los Angeles. She's drifting on a sea of uncertainty, while her friends Franny, Christine, and Jane cope with the relatively enviable problems of wealthy discontentment....
98) Frostfire
Author
Series
Kanin chronicles volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Tracker Bryn Aven's goal of becoming a member of the elite King's Guard is threatened when she is sent to stop Konstantin, a fallen hero who she once secretly loved, who appears to be kidnapping changelings.
99) Munmun
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Formats
Description
In a society where a person's size is directly proportional to his or her wealth, littlepoor Warner, thirteen, and Prayer, fifteen, struggle to improve their lot in a world built against them.
100) Love story
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young Ivy League couple cross social barriers to marry, then must cope with untimely illness and death.
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