Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do ...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Powered by pitch-perfect dialogue, lovable characters, and surprising optimism, Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe? is a modern-day take on Graham Greene's classic Travels with My Aunt, a novel about grabbing life, and holding on--wherever it may take you.--
"An innocent abroad, all but kidnapped by an aunt he never knew he had, experiences his belated coming-of-age through a series of madcap European escapades. ... [Clarke] sustains a tightrope balance...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A bag of money drops out of the sky, literally, into the path of a cash-starved citizen named Graveyard. He carries it home to his wife, Ambience, and they embark on the adventure of their lives, finally able to have everything they've always thought they deserved: cars, guns, games, jewels, clothes - and of course sex, travel, and time with friends and family. There is no limit except their imagination and the hours in the day, and even those seem...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Quichotte, an aging traveling salesman obsessed with the 'unreal real' of TV, falls in impossible love with a queen of the screen. While obsessively writing her love letters, he wishes an imaginary son, Sancho, into existence. Together they set off across America in Quichotte's trusty Chevy Cruze to find her and convince her of his love. Meanwhile, Quichotte's tragicomic story is being told by the author who created him: Brother, a mediocre spy novelist...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
119 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An unnamed Sri Lankan inmate has barricaded himself inside a prison computer lab in Dutchess County, New York. A riot rages outside, incited by a poem published in The Holding Pen, the house literary journal. This, our narrator's final Editor's Letter, is his confession. An official accounting of events, as they happened. As he awaits imminent and violent interruption, he takes us on a roller-caster ride of plot and language, determined to share his...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rachel to the Rescue is a mischievous political satire, with a delightful cast of characters, from one of America's funniest novelists"--
Rachel Klein is sacked from her job at the White House after she sends an email criticizing Donald Trump. Escorted off the premises, she is hit by a speeding car driven by what the press discreetly calls "a personal friend of the President." Does that explain the flowers, the get-well wishes at a press briefing,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Atria paperback edition.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Brae Hill Valley is a struggling high school in one the biggest cities in Texas. English teacher Lena Wright, a spoken-word poet, can never seem to truly connect with her students. Hernan D. Hernandez is confident in front of his biology classes, but tongue-tied around the woman he most wants to impress. Down the hall, math teacher Maybelline Galang focuses on the numbers as she struggles to parent her daughter, while Coach Ray hustles his troubled...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
xviii, 336 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Father Urban is a man of the cloth who is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high tolerance for moral ambiguity, Urban enjoys a national reputation as a speaker on the religious circuit and has big plans for the future. But then the provincial head of his dowdy religious order banishes him to a retreat house in the Minnesota hinterlands."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Language
English
Description
A new teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war with deadly consequences in this provocative novel. "What do you love? What do you hate? What do you want?" It starts with this simple writing prompt from Alex Witt, Stonebridge Academy's new creative writing teacher. When the students' answers raise disturbing questions of their own, Ms. Witt knows there's more going on the school than the faculty wants to see. She soon learns about...
11) Bunny
Author
Language
English
Description
"Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort -- a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become one. But everything...
12) Middle England
Author
Series
Rotters' Club volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
429 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of The Rotters' Club and The Closed Circle comes the novel for our strange contemporary times. Beginning nine years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by chain retail, and London, where both frenzied riots and Olympic fever plague the streets, Middle England tracks a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through the transformation of their society. There are newlyweds Ian and Sophie,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
114 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the decorated Captain of a great ship descends the gangplank for the final time, a new leader, a man with a yellow feather in his hair, vows to step forward. Though he has no experience, no knowledge of nautical navigation or maritime law, and though he has often remarked he doesn't much like boats, he solemnly swears to shake things up. Together with his band of petty thieves and confidence men known as the Upskirt Boys, the Captain thrills...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
King of the Mississippi is an incisive, uproarious dissection of contemporary male vanity and delusion, centered around a "war" for dominance of a prestigious Houston consulting firm. On one side of the conflict is Brock Wharton, an old money ex-jock whose delight in telling clients to downsize is matched only by his firm conviction that people like himself deserve to run the world. On the other is Mike Fink, a newly hired wily former soldier trying...
15) Campusland
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Been to college lately? Here it is in all its glory, from the trigger warnings and the bias response teams, to the hookups and the hashtags, served with plenty of kombucha and seasonally correct vegan stew. Johnston's debut skewers life at Devon University in Havenport -- a body double for Yale -- from the buildings and clubs on campus to the white clam pizza in New Haven, including a nod to the 2015 Halloween-costume dust-up. Our hero is Ephraim...
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Like many Americans in the middle of the 21st century, aspiring actress Kira Clark is in debt. She financed her drama education with loans secured by a "lifetime services contract." If she defaults, her creditors will control every aspect of her life. Behind on her payments and facing foreclosure, Kira reluctantly accepts a large signing bonus to become a corporate gunfighter for TKC Insurance. After a year of training, she will take her place on...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Standing nearly five hundred stories tall, Los Verticalés once bustled with life and excitement. Now this marvel of modern architecture and nontraditional urban planning has collapsed into a pile of rubble known as the Heap. In exchange for digging gear, a rehabilitated bicycle, and a small living stipend, a vast community of Dig Hands removes debris, trash, and bodies from the building's mountainous remains, which span more than twenty acres of...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After four decades of what he believes to be a happy, healthy partnership, Hugo Gardner's world is overturned when he learns that his wife, Valerie, is not only requesting a divorce but has left him for a younger, more vital man. Hugo, an octogenarian political writer and retired journalist for Time, must rethink the way he's lived, and reassess how he'd like to spend his remaining years. Reconsidering past relationships in his mind, with years of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dundurn
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Retired from the murder-for-hire business after a stint in prison, Candace Starr refuses a job offer from a society maven who wants her daughter's boyfriend taken care of - only to have him turn up dead the very next day. Despite being a suspect in the case, the lead detective offers her a deal she can't refuse, and Candace finds herself signing on as an unofficial partner in the investigation.
Interlibrary loan through ILLiad
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Knox County Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your pickup location.
Suggest a purchase
If it is too new for interlibrary loan (6 months), you can place a suggestion with us. Suggest a Purchase