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Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A community is devastated when the bronze statue of local legend Mama Cuento is stolen on Valentine's Day. When Lexy Campbell arrives on the scene, a big bronze toe is found along with a ransom note--'Listen to our demands or you will never see her again. There are nine more where this came from.' Then, Lexy's ex-husband Bran turns up begging for help to find his wife, Brandee, who has disappeared. Lexy agrees to pitch in, but when she shows up at...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Magdalena Yoder is accused of murdering her ex-husband in this delightfully quirky cozy mystery set among Pennsylvania's Amish-Mennonite community. "You're going to be sorry, Aaron Paul Miller. Before I'm through with you, you're going to wish that you were dead." Shockwaves are running through the small town of Hernia with the news that an enormous, biblical-themed amusement park is to be built on its doorstep, destroying the community's peaceful...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
This novel revolves around Keith, born in England to West Indian parents and raised--for the most part--by his white stepmother. Unmoored by a failing marriage, a distant son, and estrangement from his own father, Keith faces daunting change and must accept unsettling truths about himself and those around him.
84) The odd couple
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Felix is fastidious to a fault. He proves that cleanliness is next to insanity. Matthau is Oscar, who wreaks havoc on a tidy room with the speed and thoroughness of a tornado. An enduring and endearing picture, with the intelligence one usually misses in comedies.
85) Mother!
Language
English
Formats
Description
A couple live happily together in a large house. When a series of strangers appear at their door seeking a place to stay, the man invites them in while the woman grows increasingly concerned.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The American debut of a highly acclaimed young Spanish writer: a darkly funny, acerbic novel about love -- and the end of love -- and how hard it can be to let go. There's a lot about Joan-Marc that his estranged second wife doesn't know -- but which he now sets out to tell her. He begins with the failure of his first marriage to an American woman named Helen, describing a vacation they took in a last-ditch attempt to salvage their once-passionate...
Author
Series
Internet apocalypse novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
250 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Gladstone, the so-called 'Internet Messiah, ' has not only failed to bring back the Web, but his search has landed him in a New York City psychiatric ward. The rest of the world isn't doing so well either, filled with disconnected Internet users still jonesing for a fix, and an increasingly draconian government, interrogating and detaining anyone deemed a 'person of interest' under the NET Recovery Act. For Gladstone, however, finding the Net is...
89) Sideways
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miles is a divorced man and a failed writer who teaches junior high English. He decides to take his best friend, somewhat famous actor Jack, on a weeklong drive through California's wine country. There they explore their failures and question their relationships.
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Neill's father committed suicide ten years ago, he left behind thousands of pages of secret journals, journals that are stunning in their detail, and, it must be said, their complete banality. But their spectacularly quotidian details, were exactly what artificial intelligence company Amiante Systems was looking for, and Neill was able to parlay them into a job, despite a useless degree in business marketing and absolutely no experience in computer...
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Washington Square Press trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
More than thirty-five years ago, Gordon Meyers had a low number in the draft pick so he packed his belongings and reluctantly left Glenna Rising, a med student without whom he could't imagine living. Now, decades later, Gordon is a former globe-trotting consultant with a grown son and an ex-wife an overwhelming desire to see Glenna again. Glenna is astonished when Gordon walks into her Manhattan office, but agrees to accompany him for a drink. Together...
93) Independence day
Author
Series
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
94) Jamesland
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
297, 14 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Severely wounded in the Iraq war, Leroy Kervin has lived in a group home for eight years. Frustrated by the simplest daily routines, he finds his existence has become unbearable. An act of desperation helps him disappear deep into his mind, into a world of romance and science fiction, danger and adventure where he is whole once again. Freddie McCall, the night man at Leroy's group home, works two jobs yet still can't make ends meet. He's lost his...
96) Europa
Author
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
271 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Clothing designer Jessica Cole has inherited her aunt and uncle's cattle farm. Perfect. She can sell the farm to finance her company's newest venture, a clothing line for children. Then she learns the condition of her inheritance--she must move to the small Texas town where she was raised and run the farm for six months. Since she knows nothing about managing a farm, she's forced to ask for help from the last man she ever expected to meet up with...
99) Never enough
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
2-movie collection.
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (266 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Firefox : The Russians have the ultimate warplane. It flies up to six times the speed of sound, can't be detected by radar, is designed to carry a nuclear arsenal and the Allies are going to steal it.
Heartbreak Ridge : A grizzled Marine Corps lifer, beginning his last tour of duty before mandatory retirement, leads his combat-ready platoon during the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada.
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