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Rutu ModanPublication Details
BookDrawn & Quarterly2007Availability
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Last Night In Twisted River : A Novel
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John IrvingPublication Details
Book1st edRandom House2009Description
In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River?John Irving?s twelfth novel?depicts the recent half-century in the United States as ?a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.? From the novel?s taut opening sentence??The young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too long??to its elegiac final chapter, Last Night in Twisted River is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) PS3559.R8 L37 2009 DUE 05-12-10
The Prince Of Fenway Park
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Julianna BaggottPublication Details
Book1st edHarperCollins2009Description
Someone deliberately jinxed the team, and the secret to breaking the Curse lies deep below Fenway Park, with Oscar’s dad and the Cursed Creatures, a group that has been doomed to live out their miserable lives below Fenway until the Curse is broken. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 B145p AVAILABLE
The Ingenious Edgar Jones
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Elizabeth GarnerPublication Details
Book1st U.S. edCrown Publishers2009Description
The skies of Oxford are aflame with meteors the night Edgar Jones comes into the world?clearly this porter?s son, born in a small cottage in 1847, is no ordinary boy. Set at the dramatic midpoint of the nineteenth century, in a world on the cusp of change, The Ingenious Edgar Jones is an unforgettable coming-of-age story about the complexities of family life and the journey of one young man as he finds his place in a rapidly shifting world. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) PR6107.A74 I64 2009 AVAILABLE
The Long Fall
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Walter MosleyPublication Details
BookRiverhead Books2009Links
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A brand-new mystery series from one of the country?s best-known, best-loved writers: a new character, a new city, a new era. New York City in the twenty-first century is a city full of secrets?and still a place that reacts when you know where to poke and which string to pull. And we learn that with this protagonist, this city, this time, Mosley has tapped a rich new vein that?s inspiring his best work since the classic Devil in a Blue Dress. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3563.O88456 L66 2009 AVAILABLE
Wonderful World : A Novel
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Javier Calvo ; translated by Mara Faye LethemPublication Details
Book1st edHarper2009Description
A bravura performance by a groundbreaking new writer?a novel set in contemporary Barcelona and made up of multiple storylines, including a fictional manuscript by Stephen King Wonderful World is the story of a son trying to make his father proud?by becoming an international criminal. This inheritance comes with a lot of unanswered questions and one archenemy: Lucas’s mother, Fanny, an ambitious and ruthless entrepreneur who believes Lucas is as useless as his father, Lorenzo, an enigmatic man whose recent death?under mysterious circumstances?delights her. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) PQ6703.A4 W66 2009 AVAILABLE
God Jr.
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Dennis CooperPublication Details
BookBlack Cat2005Description
Dennis Cooper’s sparely crafted novels have earned him an international reputation-even as his subject matter has made him a controversial figure. Now, disabled by the accident, yearning somehow to absolve his own guilt over the crash, Jim becomes obsessed with a mysterious building Tommy drew repetitively in a notebook before he died. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3553.O582 G63 2005 AVAILABLE
Old Man, Goodbye : A Farewell To The Old Man Of The Mountain
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by Louise Clements ; illustrated by Carol Leach. Also including The Great Stone Face / by Nathaniel HawthornePublication Details
BookPublishingWorks2003Description
The story of a nine-year-old boy in New York Ciety who plans a special trip to see the Old Man of the Mountain in New Hampshire, only to learn that the face has disappeared forever… (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 C6267o AVAILABLE
A Death In The Family : A Restoration Of The Author’s Text
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edited by Michael A. LofaroPublication Details
Book1st edUniversity of Tennessee Press2007Links
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LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3501.G35 D43 2007 AVAILABLE
The Whole Sky Full Of Stars
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René Saldaña, JrPublication Details
Book1st edWendy Lamb Books2007Links
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Barry can punch anyone hard enough to make them see a whole sky full of stars, though that’s not really his style. When Barry’s pop dies, times are tough and the only thing Barry has of value is his dad’s 1964 Ford Galaxie. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 Sa162w AVAILABLE
The Expeditions : A Novel
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Karl IagnemmaPublication Details
BookDial Press2008Description
Grief-stricken by the recent death of his wife —a death Elisha could not have known about—Reverend Stone is jolted into action: he must find his son. While Elisha’s journey draws him deeper into uncharted territory, Reverend Stone must navigate through a country in turmoil as he moves toward an inevitable reunion with a son who has become a stranger. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3609.A35 E96 2008 AVAILABLE
A Father’s Law
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Richard WrightPublication Details
Book1st edHarper Perennial2008Description
Never before published, the final work of one of America’s greatest writers A Father’s Law is the novel Richard Wright, acclaimed author of Black Boy and Native Son, never completed. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3545.R815 F38 2008 AVAILABLE
A Fraction Of The Whole
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Steve ToltzPublication Details
Book1st edSpiegel & Grau2008Description
Meet the Deans ?The fact is, the whole of Australia despises my father more than any other man, just as they adore my uncle more than any other man. As he recollects the events that led to his father?s demise, Jasper recounts a boyhood of outrageous schemes and shocking discoveries?about his infamous outlaw uncle Terry, his mysteriously absent European mother, and Martin?s constant losing battle to make a lasting mark on the world he so disdains. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR9619.4.T65 F73 2008 AVAILABLE
The House Of Widows : An Oral History
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Askold MelnyczukPublication Details
BookGraywolf Press2008Description
The three things that James kept are his father?s British military uniform, an oversize glass jar, and a letter written in a language he can?t read. They become the keys to unlocking the door on a past James never imagined while growing up amid the security of Boston?s north shore, and they send him on an odyssey across England, Austria, and Ukraine. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3563.E445 H68 2008 AVAILABLE
Kami And The Yaks
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by Andrea Stenn Stryer ; illustrated by Bert DodsonPublication Details
BookBay Otter Press2007Description
Young Kami, anxious to help his brother and father (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVER CHILD LIT (LOWER) Easy St928k DUE 01-16-10
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