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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counter-culture world. Isolated at home and an outlander at school, Linda is drawn to the enigmatic, attractive Lily and new history teacher Mr. Grierson. When Mr. Grierson is charged with possessing child pornography, the implications of his arrest deeply affect Linda as she...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
After losing his construction job and his home, 23-year-old single father Travis Brown, who will do anything for his daughter Bella, gets an offer to participate in a onetime criminal act that promises quick money and no repercussions, which forces him to make a difficult decision for his daughter's sake.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When a famous, reclusive painter asks them to sell a never-before-seen portrait, an art history professor and an eccentric young art authenticator find their task complicated when they attempt to locate the two women in the portrait, who seem to have disappeared.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Presents a collection of stories that explores the musings of a writer, a prisoner, a student, and others who consider how their lives might have unfolded differently had they made different choices" -- Publisher's description.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Summer has finally arrived on Ireland's west coast. On the Finfarran Peninsula, Hanna Casey is looking forward to alfresco lunches with friends and balmy evenings with her boyfriend, Brian, in their stunning new home in beautiful Hag's Glen. With a painful divorce behind her and family drama finally settled, Hanna begins to plan a romantic holiday getaway for the two of them. But life takes a turn when Brian's adult son suddenly moves in and Hanna...
Author
Publisher
Rising Action
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Maddie Butler has been haunted for fourteen years. After the suspicious death of a friend when she was twenty-two, Maddie tried to move on, convincing herself there was nothing she could have done. Now in an unfulfilling marriage, she realizes how much the guilt has led to an unhappy life. When she runs into her ex-boyfriend, the memories come flying back in full force. Burdened with regret and unhappiness, Maddie wonders how her life could have...
8) Glass chin
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Former boxing champ Bud "The Saint" Gordon has fallen from grace and is living in a rundown apartment. Down on his luck and desperate to turn his life around, he makes a deal with a corrupt businessman to work as an enforcer and collect on outstanding debts. After a job gone wrong, he is framed for murder and has to make a tough choice between friendship and integrity.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, this gift has enabled the family undertakers to flourish in their small Irish town. Yet she has always been uneasy about censoring some of the dead's last messages to the living. Unsure, too, about the choice she made when she left school seventeen years ago: to stay or leave for a new life in London with her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
355, 17 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
On the Finfarran Peninsula on Ireland's west coast, at the Lissbeg Library, a group of women gather together for the first book club of the summer where they'll all face difficult choices and hope to get the happy endings they all deserve.
11) After Francesco
Author
Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books, [an imprint of] Kensignton Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kevin Doyle, a gay man who lost his partner, Francesco, to AIDS in mid-1980s New York wallows in his loss and at a mind-numbing job before hitting rock bottom and realizing it is time to return home to Minnesota to start over"--