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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The beloved author at her storytelling best: four wonderful novellas of Americans abroad and Europeans in America. In these absorbing and exquisitely made novellas of relationships at home and abroad, both historical and contemporary, we meet the ferocious Simone Weil during her final days as a transplant to New York City; a vulnerable American grad student who escapes to Italy after her first, compromising love affair; the charming Irish liar of...
Author
Series
Otto Ringling novels volume 3
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When a personal tragedy drives him to leave NYC and accept an invitation to an artists’ colony on a tropical island, a disillusioned young Jewish journalist-turned-advertising hack finds himself questioning his past, convictions and sanity when the colony’s mysterious patron turns into everything he despises.
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Meet Yinka: a 30-something, Oxford educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good friends, and a mother whose constant refrain is "Yinka, where is your huzband?" Yinka's Nigerian aunties frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, her girlfriends think she's too traditional (she's saving herself for marriage!), her sister thinks she needs to get over her ex already, and the men in her life...well, that's a whole other story. But...
Author
Series
Willow Cove novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"You know how the story's supposed to go...but love makes its own plans. STEP 1: Find yourself Leah Keegan is used to being alone, especially after taking care of her sick foster mother for the past year. But now there's nothing keeping her in the sweet town of Willow Cove. It's time to move on. Again. STEP 2: Win back the one who got away. Eli Masterson thought he and Victoria were meant to be together until she decided to jet off to Rome for a year....
11) Good luck
Author
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
c008
Language
English
Description
Overwhelmed when she wins the lottery on the same day that her career derails, she discovers that her boyfriend is cheating, and she ends up in the middle of a media circus, Lucy Parker seeks refuge at the home of an old college friend in Palm Beach, where she tries to build a new life for herself, until the past catches up once again.
12) Sea change
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Ro is stuck. She's just entered her thirties, she's estranged from her mother, and her boyfriend has just left her to join a mission to Mars. Her days are spent dragging herself to her menial job at a mall aquarium, and her nights are spent drinking sharktinis (mountain dew and copious amounts of gin, plus a hint of jalapeno). With her best friend pulling away to focus on her upcoming wedding, Ro's only companion is Dolores, a giant Pacific octopus...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1483, and Sir Thomas Lemuel Hawke, a Cornish knight, is about to ride into battle. On the eve of his departure, he composes a letter to his four young children, consisting of twenty virtues that provide instruction on how to live a noble life, and on all the lessons, large and small, that he might have imparted to them himself were he not expecting to die on the battlefield. "Why am I alive? Where was I before I was born? What will happen...
15) Senor Si
Author
Publisher
Cuento de Luz
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
Mister Yes doesn't know how to say "no," and always agrees to things without wanting to, but one day, everything changes.
16) Exit ghost
Author
Series
Zuckerman novels volume 9
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Author
Series
Cedar Key novels (Eva Marie Everson) volume 1
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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