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4401) The ninth step
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Helen is a recovering alcoholic struggling through a twelve-step program. Now it's time to make amends for a crime she got away with-a hit and run accident that killed the wife of school teacher Edgar Woolrich. It's time to face the consequences. When she finally gathers the courage to meet him, the ninth step begins with a lie-the first of many as their relationship grows, and Helen knows it's far too late to reveal the truth to a man she's come...
4402) In the dark I see you
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When a young woman, Sarah Connelly, is found murdered in her home in New York's elite Sleepy Point suburb, it triggers questions about the neighbor who discovered the body, Audrey Hughes. This kind of attention is the last thing Audrey wants. Moving to Sleepy Point was supposed to provide her with a new, quiet start after a trauma left her with incurable blindness. But the other reason she settled next door to Sarah was to spy on her. Police scrutiny...
4403) The information
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
4404) The vegetarian: a novel
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
188 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Deciding to go vegetarian in the wake of violent thoughts, Yeong-hye, a woman from an Asian culture of strict societal mores, is denounced as a subversive as she spirals into extreme rebelliousness that causes her to splinter from her true nature and risk her life.
Author
Series
Eutopia novels (David Nickle) volume 1
Publisher
ChiZine Publications
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1911. In Cold Spring Harbour, New York, the newly formed Eugenics Records Office is sending its agents to catalogue the infirm, the insane, and the criminal - with an eye to a cull, for the betterment of all. Near Cracked Wheel, Montana, a terrible illness leaves Jason Thistledown an orphan, stranded in his dead mother's cabin until the spring thaw shows him the true meaning of devastation - and the barest thread of hope. At the edge...
4407) Dear Carolina
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
389 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Frances "Khaki" Mason has it all: a thriving interior design career, a loving husband and son, homes in North Carolina and Manhattan-- everything except the second child she has always wanted. Jodi, her husband's nineteen-year-old cousin, is fresh out of rehab, pregnant, and alone. As Jodi struggles to be the mother she knows her daughter deserves, she will ask Khaki the ultimate favor....
4408) Eclipse
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
4409) The fetishist: a novel
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xiii, 283 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Determined to get revenge on the man who seduced her mother then callously dropped her, leading to her death, Kyoko, a Japanese American punk-rock singer full of rage and grief, finds nothing going according to plan when she sets in motion a series of unexpected reckonings.
4411) Crash
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
First Picador USA edition.
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
4412) The folded earth
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Free Press trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
269 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a remote town in the Himalaya, Maya tries to put behind her a time of great sorrow. By day she teaches in a school and at night she types up drafts of a magnum opus by her landlord, a relic of princely India known to all as Diwan Sahib. Her bond with this eccentric, and her friendship with a peasant girl, Charu, give her the sense that she might be able to forge a new existence away from the devastation of her past. As Maya finds out, no place...
4413) Survivor: a novel
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As the last living member of the "Creedish Death Cult," Ted Branson finds himself in a difficult situation as his plane is about to crash, and he turns inward and reflects on the long and difficult life that brought him to where he is today.
4414) The hole
Author
Series
Publisher
New Directions Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
English edition.
Physical Desc
92 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Asa's husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family's home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot summer, the young married couple move in, and Asa does her best to quickly adjust to their new rural lives, to their remoteness, to the constant presence of her in-laws and the incessant buzz of cicadas. While her husband is consumed with his job, Asa is left to explore her surroundings on her own: she makes trips...
4415) Landslide
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A novel about a mother caring for her two sons while everything else--her marriage, the fishing industry her New England community relies on - threatens to crumble around her. After a fishing accident leaves her husband hospitalized across the border in Canada, Jill is left to look after "the wolves" - her two teenage boys - alone. Nothing comes easy in their remote corner of Maine: money is tight, her son Sam is getting into more trouble by the...
4416) Forever peace
Author
Series
Forever series (Joe W. Haldeman) volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
4417) The bridge
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/ Little, Brown and Company, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Michael Beaumont is head over heels with the woman of his dreams. But Alison is harboring a dangerous secret, one that threatens to break loose once Michael introduces her to his last remaining relative. Michael's grandmother Rose, who raised him from childhood, isn't quite the woman she used to be--her memory is failing her, and she's prone to fits of wild emotion. But something about Rose's outburst upon meeting Alison seems like more than just...
4418) A modern Mephistopheles
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
xx, 212 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
4419) Nine Island
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Autobiographical novel told by J, a woman who lives in a glass tower on one of Miami Beach's lush Venetian Islands. After decades of disaster with men, she is trying to decide whether to withdraw forever from romantic love. Having just returned to Miami from a monthlong reunion with an old flame, "Sir Gold, " and a visit to her fragile mother, J begins translating Ovid's magical stories.
4420) Hidden talents
Author
Publisher
Clipper Audio
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
14 CDs (approximately 16.25 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The members of Hidden Talents, a creative writing group, learn to open up to each other a little bit.
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