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English
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After a bad fall, Tom, in constant pain and addicted to painkillers at the cost of his relationships with his wife and son, realizes he can never work again and ends up in subsidized housing, where he hatches a scheme to commit convenience-check fraud with neighbors he considers lowlifes.
Author
Series
Tending roses volume 3
Language
English
Description
When a woman’s whole life falls apart, she finds refuge in the home she left behind in this touching novel in the Tending Roses series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours.
Karen Sommerfield has been hiding from the big questions of her life—the emotional distance in her marriage, her inability to have children, and her bout with cancer....
Karen Sommerfield has been hiding from the big questions of her life—the emotional distance in her marriage, her inability to have children, and her bout with cancer....
4) Chimpanzee
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A high level of unemployment has destroyed the economy, resulting in record student loan defaults. In this dystopian landscape, the government has developed a method of taking back the knowledge gained from the loans. As Ben's education is gradually repossessed, the "Chimpanzee" protest movement grows ever stronger -- can the two be connected?
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Welcome to Sandy Point, Oregon: a sleepy beach town that's home to a giant anchor statue, a sometimes-karaoke-bar, and Frosty's questionably legendary Sunday Sundae Surprise. A town Jo, Autumn, and Bianca thought they'd left far behind when they graduated high school, finally moving on to greener pastures than the midway point for tourists heading to the Goonies house. But life seldom goes according to plan"--
7) Three rooms
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Over the course of one year, a young woman she moves from a rented room at Oxford, where she is working as a research assistant; to a stranger's sofa, all she can afford as a copyediting temp at a society magazine; to her childhood home, where she has been forced to return, jobless, even a room of her own out of reach. As politics shift to nationalism, the streets fill with protesters, and news drip-feeds into her phone, she struggles to live a meaningful...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work. Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market for the first time in decades. Set up with a job counselor, Cara instead begins to narrate the story of her life. Over the course of twelve sessions, Cara recounts her tempestuous love affairs, her alternately...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Kit Noonan's life is stalled: unemployed, twins to support, a mortgage to pay--and a frustrated wife, who is certain that, more than anything else, Kit needs to solve the mystery of his father's identity. He begins with a visit to his former stepfather, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners Vermont outdoorsman. But it is another person who has kept the secret: Lucinda Burns, wife of a revered senior statesman and mother of Malachy (the journalist who died...
11) Up & out
Author
Publisher
Red Dress Ink
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
12) Mr. Phillips
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
13) Swimming in sky
Author
Publisher
Southern Methodist University Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
14) TV: a novel
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 289 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
16) The booster
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
19) The Havana room
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Ain't no river novels volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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