T. Coraghessan Boyle
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A virtuoso of the short form, T.C. Boyle returns with an inventive, uproarious, and masterfully told collection of short stories characterized by biting satire, resonant wit, and a boundless, irrepressible imagination"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1996, c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
The story of illegal aliens in California, told through the eyes of two very different couples, one well-off Anglos, the other illegal Mexicans living in a canyon. The novel chronicles their relationship against the background of growing hostility between immigrants and natives.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
1994. In the desert near Tillman, Arizona, forty miles from Tucson, a grand experiment involving the future of humanity is underway. As climate change threatens the earth, eight scientists, four men and four women dubbed the "Terranauts," have been selected to live under glass in E2, a prototype of a possible off-earth colony. Closely monitored by an all-seeing Mission Control, this New Eden is both an adventure in scientific discovery and a momentous...
12) San Miguel
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The lives of three women on turn-of-the-20th-century San Miguel Island are shaped by ambition and circumstance, including the wife of a Civil War veteran who hopes to recover her health, her rebellious aspiring actress daughter and a librarian who wonders if the island's peace will endure in the face of looming war.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Becoming the assistant to animal behaviorist Guy Schermerhorn and his juvenile chimp, Aimee Villard finds herself in an interspecies love triangle that pushes hard at the boundaries of consciousness and the question of what we know and how we know it.
18) Baseball!
Publisher
Symphony Space
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The perfect gift for baseball fans! Featuring rare reading and commentary by Roger Angell and the late great commissioner of baseball A. Bartlett Giamatti, Roger Angell and A. Bartlett Giamatti's Play By Play, John Updike's Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu, read by Jack Davidson, Ted Williams' miraculous Fenway farewell ...