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Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Andy Warner, a reanimated survivor of a car crash that killed his wife, pieces his life together from his parents' wine cellar while attending zombie support group meetings, and when he meets Rita, an undead girl who cut her own throat, he begins to find his place in society.
Author
Publisher
New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Housesitting at the ultra-modern apartment of a composer friend in a glum Eastern European city, a British copywriter accidentally spills wine on the apartment's priceless wooden floor and endures a psychologically disastrous week of perfectionist repair and maintenance.
3) Tom Jones
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fleur Daxeny, a beautiful, unscrupulous woman who makes her living crashing the funerals of wealthy women in order to take advantage of their newly vulnerable widowers, but her scheme falls apart when she lingers too long at the home of multimillionaire Richard Favour, and becomes entangled in the problems of his family.
5) Bump and run
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Jack Molloy finds himself adrift in a sea of adversity after he inherits half of the New York Hawks and gets a crash course in the workings of professional football.
6) Problems
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dark, raw, and very funny, [this book] introduces us to Maya, a young woman with a smart mouth, time to kill, and a heroin hobby that isn't much fun anymore. Maya's been able to get by in New York on her wits and a dead-end bookstore job for years, but when her husband leaves her and her favorite professor ends their affair, her barely-calibrated life descends into chaos, and she has to make some choices. Maya's struggle to be alone, to be a woman,...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A ridiculously funny novel about a devoted single dad who becomes an international hit man from the author of A Mother's Kisses. After losing his job as a poultry distributor, William Binny spends his mornings at the local diner polishing off a cheap breakfast and perusing the local paper. A widower with an 11-year-old daughter who could pass for 14, Binny has plenty of reasons to worry about the future. Salvation soon walks through the diner doors,...
8) Insane city
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Seth Weinstein, in Florida for his destination wedding to Tina, who he thinks is out of his league, spends the two days prior to the event getting involved with pirates, Russian gangsters, strippers, powerful businessmen, high-speed chases, gunfire, and more, and finds his life forever changed by the experiences.
12) Nobody's fool
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his slyly funny and moving new novel, the author of The Risk Pool follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat, upstate New York town--and in the lives of the unluckiest of its citizens. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Jessica Tandy. Author reading tour.From the Trade Paperback edition.
14) Find me: a novel
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"After two acclaimed story collections, Laura van den Berg brings us Find Me, her highly anticipated debut novel--a gripping, imaginative, darkly funny tale of a young woman struggling to find her place in the world. Joy has no one. She spends her days working the graveyard shift at a grocery store outside Boston and nursing an addiction to cough syrup, an attempt to suppress her troubled past. But when a sickness that begins with memory loss and...
17) Purity: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Description
Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother has always concealed her own real name, or how she can ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
One man wants to publish, so another must perish, in this darkly witty philosophical novel by a spectacularly gifted comic writer( Newsweek ). The Third Policeman follows a narrator who is obsessed with the work of a scientist and philosopher named de Selby (who believes that Earth is not round but sausage-shaped)-and has finally completed what he believes is the definitive text on the subject. But, broke and desperate for money to get his scholarly...
19) Loner
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
David Federman has never felt appreciated. One of the most painfully forgettable members of his New Jersey high school class--yet the only one accepted to Harvard--shy, witty David arrives in Cambridge fully expecting to embrace, and be welcomed by, a new tribe of like-minded peers. But at first, beyond the friendly advances of a plain-looking girl named Sara, his social status seems devastatingly unlikely to change. Then he meets Veronica Morgan...
20) Mother Land
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Jay, one of seven living children, contemplates his mother's influence on the family and his life, as he struggles with her disappointment in him and suspects she may have sabotaged a budding relationship
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