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1) Toad
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sally Gunnar has withdrawn from the world. She spends her days alone at home, reading drugstore mysteries, polishing the doorknobs, waxing the floors. Her only companions are a vase of godfish, a garden toad, and the door-to-door salesman who sells her cleaning suplies once a month. She broods over her deepest regrets: her blighted romances with self-important men, her lifelong struggle to feel at home in her body, and her wayward early twenties,...
Author
Language
English
Description
On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, a young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless but secure marriage or to follow the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying. Decades earlier in 1919, Vivien Lowe, an obituary writer, is searching for her lover who disappeared in the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. By telling the stories of the dead, Vivien...
Author
Language
English
Description
Haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, involving a French artist and her baby, Nick Burns, with only months left to live, enlists Jenny, a college dropout, to help him unravel the mystery, forcing them both to reckon with regret, betrayal and the lives they've left behind.
Author
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanished from her family's vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. The loss devastated the family. Sixty-four years later, Emily's sister Lucy writes the story of that harrowing summer in a notebook that she bequeaths, along with the lake house and a hefty investment portfolio, to her grandniece, Justine. For Justine, the lake house offers a chance to give her own daughters a stable home she never...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
©2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In this smart, hilarious novel, a 29-year-old Manhattanite who's obsessed with her "number"--She's vowed not to have sex with more than 20 men--learns how many men it takes to find true love.
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
221 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The final novel from the author of the Marseilles trilogy.
Rico has been banished to society's margins; he has neither a roof over his head nor a steady income on which to depend. When a friend and fellow vagabond dies of exposure after a night spent in the Paris metro, Rico decides to flee the northern cold for his beloved south, for Marseilles and the warmth of the Mediterranean. Diverted and hindered along the way, he suffers the vagaries of human...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Returning home to recover from a near-fatal heart attack, Duane discovers that he has a new neighbor: the statuesque K. K. Slater, a quirky billionairess who's come to Thalia to open the Rhino Ranch, dedicated to the preservation of the endangered black rhinoceros. Despite their obvious differences, Duane can't help but find himself charmed by K.K.'s stubborn toughness and lively spirit, and the two embark on a flirtation that rapidly veers toward...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meg Finn is in trouble. She's dead, but not at peace--she's in limbo, her good deeds perfectly balanced against her bad deeds; Heaven or Hell wait, a tip of the scale away. So she's back on Earth trying to tip the scale to the good by helping her last victim, and her former "partner" is also back, trying to force her to tip the scale to the bad.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
©2014
Edition
First U.S edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Frank has been in a car accident. The doctor tells him he lost his spleen, but Frank believes he has lost more. He is missing memories - of those around him, of the history they share and of how he came to be in the crash. All he remembers is that he is a lawyer who specializes in fine print*. In the wake of the accident Frank begins to piece together his former life - and his former self. But the picture that emerges, of his marriage, his family...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the title story, "Funny Once," a couple held together by bad behavior fall into a lie with their more responsible friends. In "The Village," a woman visits her father at a nursing home, recalling his equanimity at her teenage misdeeds and gaining a new understanding of his own past indiscretions. In another, when a troubled girl in the neighborhood goes missing, a mother worries increasingly about her teenage son's relationship with a bad-news...
12) Via negativa
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A heartfelt, daring, and divinely hilarious debut novel about an old priest looking back on his life and grappling with his mistakes as he hits the highways of the American midwest with a pistol in his pocket and an injured coyote in his backseat. Father Dan is homeless. Dismissed by the church for eccentricity and insubordination, he's tried to transform his exile into a kind of pilgrimage, to make his Toyota Camry into a mobile monk's cell. But...
13) Fools
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This collection of interconnected stories begins with the anarchist daughter of missionaries in Manhattan who runs away to be an activist and ends with a wealthy young adulterer in Paris who is outsmarted by the object of his desire.
14) Mrs. Dalloway
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
""Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." It's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city. In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell- shock and on the brink of madness....
15) Twice lost
Author
Publisher
McNally Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First McNally Editions paperback.
Physical Desc
xiii, 257 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a rustic, idyllic English village, on a summer's day, in the midst of a carefree tennis party, a fragile, needy child, left too much on her own, vanishes from her family's front garden. Years pass and the mystery persists: an enduring torment for the teenage Christine Gray, the last person to see Vivian alive. Perhaps if she'd shown the girl a little kindness, and seen her safely home, Vivan might still be with them? Yet when someone claiming...
Author
Publisher
Bertrand Brasil
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Portuguese
Description
"Aos 35 anos, Nora Seed é uma mulher cheia de talentos e poucas conquistas. Arrependida das escolhas que fez no passado, ela vive se perguntando o que poderia ter acontecido caso tivesse vivido de maneira diferente. Após ser demitida e seu gato ser atropelado, Nora vê pouco sentido em sua existência e decide colocar um ponto final em tudo. Porém, quando se vê na Biblioteca da Meia-Noite, Nora ganha uma oportunidade única de viver todas as vidas...
Author
Publisher
AdN, Alianza de Novelas
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 24 cm
Language
Español
Description
"'Entre la vida y la muerte hay una biblioteca. Y los estantes de esa biblioteca son infinitos. Cada libro da la oportunidad de probar otra vida que podrías haber vivido y de comprobar cómo habrían cambiado las cosas si hubieras tomado otras decisiones... ¿Habrías hecho algo de manera diferente si hubieras tenido la oportunidad?' Nora Seed aparece, sin saber cómo, en la Biblioteca de la Medianoche, donde se le ofrece una nueva oportunidad para...
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