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Tony Webster has always made the very reasonable assumption that he could trust his memories, but when he's forced to revisit his past, everything he believes about himself and his life is challenged. The fact is that Tony Webster, a middle-aged man, never gave much thought to his past at all until his closest childhood friends' return with a vengeance -- one of them from the grave and another maddeningly present. Tony thought he'd left all this uncertainly...
2) The sea
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An “extraordinary meditation on mortality, grief, death, childhood and memory" (USA Today) about a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside to grieve the loss of his wife.
In this luminous novel, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his...
In this luminous novel, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his...
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Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Ford reinvents Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives, Bascombe attempts to reconcile, interpret and console a world undone by calamity. It is a moving and wondrous and extremely funny odyssey through the America people live in at this moment.
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Language
English
Description
In this book the author give us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances, in their house, on the roadway, in the market. Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron has spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, a plain, outspoken, independent young woman, she is like a...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
A sequel to Catch-22, the 1961 humorous bestseller about a group of American airmen during World War II. The novel follows many of the same characters in their current escapades--mainly to do with selling defense equipment to the Pentagon. In addition, there are their views on the decline of America.
15) La Boda
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2004
Language
Español
Description
After more than twenty years of marriage, Wilson Lewis, son-in-law of Allie and Noah Calhoun is forced to admit that the romance has gone out of his marriage. Desperate to win back his wife Jane's heart, he must figure out how to make her fall in love with him again.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
The anti-hero of this novel, Johnny Panuzio, an Italian-American advertising executive from Connecticut, seeks refuge from today's problems by daydreaming of old-country values. When he finally decides to act by writing a series of articles on inequality for the local paper, his bravery costs him a demotion at work.
18) The ax
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A man who lost his job as manager of a paper mill resorts to murder to obtain work. He is Burke Devore of Connecticut and his plan is to kill a manager to create an opening and kill the likely applicants so as to leave him the only candidate. But the scheme does not work the way he intended.
19) Special delivery
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Second chance at love for Hollywood actress Amanda Kingston and haute couture merchant Jack Watson, both in their 50s. Amanda's daughter is married to Jack's son, but Amanda does not like Jack who is a womanizer. When Amanada's husband dies, however, she becomes lonely and a romance develops. By the author of Five Days in Paris.
20) Solar: a novel
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When Nobel prize-winning physicist Michael Beard's personal and professional lives begin to intersect in unexpected ways, an opportunity presents itself in the guise of an invitation to travel to New Mexico. Here is a chance for him to extricate himself from his marital problems, reinvigorate his career, and very possibly save the world from environmental disaster.
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