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A painted house : a novel / by John Grisham by
Edition: 1st ed
Material type:  Text; Format:
large print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Random House Large Print, c2001
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (2)Call number: 813.54 G.J.P 2001, ...
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Before and after / Rosellen Brown. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, c1992
Dissertation note: In the hospital of her small New Hampshire town, pediatrician Carolyn Reiser views the viciously smashed skull of teenager Martha Taverner, who had been a classmate of her son Jacob. Carolyn and her sculptor husband Ben soon discover that Jacob--mysteriously missing--was the girl's lover and is the prime suspect in her murder. Brown captures the Reisers' shock and disorientation as they confront the unthinkable, and makes credible Ben's instant decision to destroy the incriminating evidence--a blood-covered jack that he finds in the trunk of Jacob's car. As the family disintegrates during the course of Jacob's arrest and trial, the moral conflict that develops between Carolyn and Ben, though an inevitable outcome of their personalities and principles, is played out in a way that strains credulity somewhat. Yet readers will remain immersed in Brown's gripping story, mesmerized by the questions she raises and by the brave, intelligent, compassionate manner in which she deals with which she grapples with them.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (2)Call number: 813.54 B.R.B 1992, ...
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Brideshead revisited / Evelyn Waugh ; with an introduction by Frank Kermode by Series: Everyman's library ; 172
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1993
Dissertation note: Evelyn Waugh’s most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 823.912 W.E.B 1993.
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Charming Billy / Alice McDermott. by
Material type: Text; Format:
print
regular print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Delta Trade Paperbacks, 1999, 1998
Dissertation note: Billy Lynch's family and friends have gathered to comfort his widow, and to pay their respects to one of the last great romantics. As they trade tales of his famous humor, immense charm, and consuming sorrow, a complex portrait emerges of an enigmatic man, a loyal friend, a beloved husband, an incurable alcoholic. Alice McDermott's striking novel, Charming Billy, is a study of the lies that bind and the weight of familial love, of the way good intentions can be as destructive as the truth they were meant to hide.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 M.A.C 1998.
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Occupation / John Toland. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Doubleday, 1987
Dissertation note: The lives and loves of two families, the American McGlynns and the Japanese Todas, are intertwined in this historical saga exploring the rebuilding of a nation destroyed by war
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 T.J.O 1987.
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Song of Solomon / Toni Morrison ; with an introduction by Reynolds Price. by Series: Everyman's library ; 216
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Knopf, 1995
Dissertation note: In this celebrated novel, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison created a new way of rendering the contradictory nuances of black life in America. Its earthy poetic language and striking use of folklore and myth established Morrison as a major voice in contemporary fiction.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 M.T.S 1995.
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The bonesetter's daughter / Amy Tan. by
Material type: Text; Format:
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : G.P. Putnam's , b2001
Dissertation note: In memories that rise like wisps of ghosts, LuLing Young searches for the name of her mother, the daughter of the Famous Bonesetter from the Mouth of the Mountain. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhile, her daughter Ruth, a ghostwriter for authors of self-help books, is losing the ability to speak up for herself in front of the man she lives with and his two teenage daughters. None of her professional sound bites and pat homilies works for her personal life; she knows only how to translate what others want to say.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 T.A.B 2001.
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The two Mrs. Grenvilles : a novel / by Dominick Dunne. by
Material type: Text; Format:
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Crown Publishers, c1985
Dissertation note: The Two Mrs. Grenvilles is a 1987 television miniseries based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Dominick Dunne and dramatizing the sensational Woodward murder case of 1955. Directed by John Erman, the miniseries stars Ann-Margret, Elizabeth Ashley, Claudette Colbert, and Stephen Collins.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (2)Call number: 813.54 D.D.T 1985, ...
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