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3641) Loss Lake: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
281 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two months a widow, Mallory Dent has made the impulsive decision to pack up and move on. In remote McNamara, nestled in the northern mountains, she can escape her grief, guilt, and pain. But the day Mallory arrives, death follows her, lapping just outside her door. A woman's body is found floating in Loss Lake-- and it's not the first death on these shores. Locals talk about a monster in the depths with an almost disturbing reverence. Sergeant Joel...
3642) I am not alone
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Alberto is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, living in New York City, and is now suspected of a terrible crime; his friend Grace is a top student with every advantage, and she is determined to prove Alberto's innocence.
Alberto's life isn't easy: He's an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who lives with his sister's abusive boyfriendbut he'd always accepted his place in the world. Until he starts hearing the voice of a man called Captain America,...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 319
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
669 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Here are three indispensable works from the Pulitzer Prize-winning laureate of the American heartland, including the novels that inspired a classic film by Orson Welles and an Oscar-nominated performance by Katharine Hepburn. The Magnificent Ambersons depicts the fall from grace of George Minafer, scion of the once-unassailable Amberson family whose wealth and grandeur are in precipitous decline. Alice Adams, perhaps Booth Tarkington's greatest work,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"On a humid summer day in Alabama, a mayor's wife turns up brutally murdered under a railroad bridge. Standing next to her body is fourteen-year-old Mason Hill, the autistic son of former Miss USA Genevieve Hill. The locals are quick to level their verdict on young Mason: he did it. The town detective calls in local autism expert Casey Walker to consult on the case. At first, Casey tries to keep an open mind. But the more time she spends with Genevieve,...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 338
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xv, 774 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This first volume in the Library of America edition of Octavia E. Butler's collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. Its heroine, Dana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre-Civil War past, where she finds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to preserve her own. In Fledgling, an amnesiac discovers that...
3646) Cross
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 24 cm
Language
Español
Description
Years after his wife Maria is gunned down by an unknown shooter, a crime that has never been solved, psychologist Alex Cross is called in by his former partner, John Sampson, who wants his help on a case that reveals a connection to Maria's death.
3647) Where butterflies wander
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
389 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"After a tragic accident claims the life of one of her children, Marie Egide is desperate to carve out a fresh start for her family. With her husband and their three surviving children, Marie travels to New Hampshire, where she plans to sell a family estate and then, just maybe, they'll be able to heal from their grief. Marie's plans are thwarted when she realizes a war veteran known by locals as "the river witch" is living in a cabin on the property,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
200 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers; however the first edition contained...
3649) Novels, 1970-1982
Author
Series
Library of America volume 209
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1,064 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The third volume of the Library of America's edition of Saul Bellow's complete novels collects three essential works: Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970), Humboldt's Gift (1975) -- and The Dean's December (1982). In each, Bellow shows himself a master of biting social commentary and bold characterization--above all through a trio of unforgettable protagonists. These novels, written in the period of Bellow's greatest literary and popular acclaim--he was awarded...
Series
Library of America volume 268
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
767 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four suspense novels of the 1940s. These four stories explore the terrors of family life, personality disorders, and horrors of the mind.
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