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Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
255 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Description
Cliff, a sixty-something man, divorced and robbed of his farm by a late-blooming real estate shark of an ex-wife, takes a road trip across America, armed with a childhood puzzle of the United States and a mission to rename all the states and state birds to overcome the banal names men have given them. Cliff's adventures take him through a whirlwind affair with a former student from his high school-teacher days twenty-some years before, to a "snake...
2) Us: a novel
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
396 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"David Nicholls brings the wit and intelligence that graced his enormously popular New York Times bestseller, One Day, to a compellingly human, deftly funny new novel about what holds marriages and families together--and what happens, and what we learn about ourselves, when everything threatens to fall apart. Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that, against all odds, seduces beautiful Connie into a...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 59
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1992.
Physical Desc
898 p. ; 21 cm.
Author
Description
"Lucy Honeychurch, 'on tour' with her spinster cousin Charlotte, discovers more than frescoes and cathedrals in Florence. In their pesione they meet the Emersons, a father and son with decidedly 'free thinking' values that startle the other upper middle class lodgers. The Emersons fascinate Lucy, who realizes for the first time how claustrophobic her life has become. What begins as simply a desire for 'a room with a view,' ends with Lucy breaking...
Author
Description
Walking to the shops one day in London's Notting Hill, fifty-year-old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addiction, Wren hatches a plan to find the money's rightful owner. Instead of going to the police, or taking the cash for himself, he prints a notice and posts it around Portobello Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of events that links Wren to other Londoners--people afflicted...
6) Rabbit, run
Author
Series
Rabbit Angstrom novels volume 1
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Twenty-two-year-old Rabbit Angstrom is a salesman in a local department store, father of a preschool-age son, and husband to an alcoholic wife who was his second-best high school sweetheart. The squalor and tragedy of their lives reminds us that salvation is a personal undertaking.
7) Deerskin
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A recently divorced middle-aged man finds his life changing when he becomes obsessed with a deerskin jacket that seems to have strange powers.
9) The rewrite
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Screenwriter Keith Michaels was once on top of the world. Now he's divorced, broke, approaching fifty, and hasn't written a hit film in years. So when a university in the quiet town of Binghamton asks him to teach a course in screenwriting, Keith can't say no. His attitude slowly begins to change once he gets to know his students, including Holly, a single mom looking to start a new chapter in life.
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Formats
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"Winner of the prestigious Azori Prize for Fiction, the best-selling novel about love, sacrifice, and Picasso's mistress, Dora Maar. A writer resembling Zoé Valdés--a Cuban exile living in Paris with her husband and young daughter--is preparing a novel on the life of Dora Maar, one of the most promising artists in the Surrealist movement until she met Pablo Picasso. The middle-aged Picasso was already the god of the art world's avant-garde. Dora...
11) American beauty
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010, 1999
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (122 min.) : blu-ray, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When midlife crisis hits, Lester Burnham's fascination with a young girl spurs him to make some major changes in his life.
12) Heading south
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three middle-aged women, disillusioned and unsatisfied by the men at home converge at a Haitian resort to soak up the sun and sample the sexual talents of the natives.
13) Wilson
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A lonely, neurotic and hilariously honest middle-aged man reunites with his estranged wife and meets his teenage daughter for the first time.
14) The paper tigers
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
As teenagers, kung fu disciples Danny, Hing, and Jim were inseparable. Fast forward 25 years, and each has grown into a washed-up middle-aged man seemingly one kick away from pulling a hamstring, and not at all preoccupied with thoughts of martial arts or childhood best friends. But when their old master is murdered, the trio reunites, soon learning that avenging their sifu will require conquering old grudges if they are to honorably defend his legacy....
15) Doctor Sleep
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Formats
Description
Struggling with alcoholism, Dan Torrance remains traumatized by the sinister events that occurred at the Overlook Hotel when he was a child. His hope for a peaceful existence soon becomes shattered when he meets Abra, a teen who shares his extrasensory gift of the 'shine.' Together, they form an unlikely alliance to battle the True Knot, a cult whose members try to feed off the shine of innocents to become immortal.
Author
Series
Kindle County novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"In the bestselling tradition of Presumed Innocent, the 1987 debut novel that made him "one of the major writers in America" (NPR), comes what may be Scott Turow's best thriller yet... Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped to examine the disappearance of an entire Gypsy refugee camp--unsolved for ten years--he feels drawn to what will...
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