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Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
A novel on an oddball Southern family living on a llama farm. The hero is Leroy Dearman, 12, whose life changes with the arrival of an uncle, a city slicker who reads porno magazines and seduces Leroy's mother. That gives Leroy ideas regarding a comely majorette. By the author of Sharpshooter Blues.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
"Something Special, set in Iris Murdoch's native city of Dublin in the 1950s, tells the story of independent-minded Yvonne, nearly too old to be a bride, who continues to believe that there is more to life than marriage to Sam, the dutiful Jewish man who is courting her. Living at home with an overbearing mother whose fantasy world is rekindled by the visit of a Christmas card salesman, and a stern uncle who fears he will have to support her, Yvonne...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A historical novel on the stifling atmosphere of colonial Hong Kong, referred to by mainland Chinese as a cultural desert. The protagonists are two sisters from an upper-class Chinese family who are sent abroad to escape the Japanese occupation in World War II and who return with a new perspective on life. By the author of Women of the Silk.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
A boy's coming of age in 1950s Northern Ireland amid the fear of the present and the ghosts of the past. It turns out his paternal uncle did not just die, but was executed as an informer. Not only that, the man who ordered the execution was his maternal grandfather. There's more, the uncle was actually innocent, set up by another member of the family. A first novel.
Author
Language
English
Description
"One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured veteran returning from Afghanistan, a business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling husband. Halfway across the country, the plane crashes. Edward...
10) Jenna Starborn
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Jenna Starborn must leave the family that scorned her and find her own way in the universe.
11) Nora, Nora
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
When Peyton's older cousin Nora comes to the small town of Lytton, Georgia, things begin to change.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"At the age of thirty, Laura leaves her partner and Ibiza to move to New York. Her youth was marked by her relationship with her father, an intolerant man; her mother, who disappeared only to return five years later; and Pablo, her brother, who finds a way to fight his mental illness through painting. In New York, Laura begins to work in a publishing company and attends the classes that Gael, a mysterious acquaintance of her mother's, teaches at Columbia...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A Frenchwoman's account of Russia before and after the 1917 revolution. She is Charlotte who came as a nurse in World War I and married a Russian lawyer. The story is told by her grandson who listened to her tales, fascinated by her power of observation.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish that hasn't changed in a thousand years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds are lifting. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling in the unexpected sunshine when Christy makes his first entrance into Faha, bringing secrets...
15) Saint maybe
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Saint Maybe is the rich and absorbing story of a young man's guilt over his brother's death and his struggle to atone for the wrong he feels he has done. On a quiet street in Baltimore in 1965, seventeen-year-old Ian Bedloe lives with his family in an "ideal, apple-pie household," enjoying the comfort of family traditions and indulging in all the usual dreams of the future. Until one night, when Ian's stinging words to his brother bring tragedy --...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The fates of a cast of seemingly unconnected people converge during the celebration of an ancient holiday in a thought-provoking debut that brings to mind such novels as Station Eleven and The Age of Miracles. In Domenica Ruta's profoundly original debut novel, the end of the world comes every year. Or at least it's supposed to. On May 3, humanity comes together to anticipate the planet's demise--and to celebrate as if the day were truly their last....
18) The sopranos
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
The story of an outing in London by a group of rambunctious girls from a Catholic school who are taking part in a choir competition. Part tale of adolescent debauchery, part look at the working class, one girl so poor the family re-uses its bath water.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young, bright Taylor Greer leaves her poverty-stricken life in Kentucky and heads west, picking up an abandoned Native American baby girl whom she names Turtle and finds a new home in Tucson with Mattie, an old woman who takes in Central American refugees.
20) Wild ginger
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The beautiful, iron-willed Wild Ginger is only in elementary school when we first meet her, but already she has been singled out by the Red Guards for her "foreign-colored eyes." Her classmate Maple is also a target of persecution. It is through the quieter, more skeptical Maple, a less than ardent Maoist whose father is languishing in prison for a minor crime, that we see this story to its tragic end. The Red Guards have branded Wild Ginger's deceased...
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