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721) Himself: a novel
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Having been abandoned on the steps of an orphanage as an infant, lovable car thief and Dublin charmer Mahony assumed all his life that his mother had simply given him up. But when he receives an anonymous note suggesting that foul play may have led to his mother's disappearance, he sees only one option: to return to the rural Irish village where he was born and find out what really happened twenty-six years ago. From the moment he sets foot in Mulderrig,...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd (est. 1761) to apply for a job. Allured by the smell of old books and the temptation of a management-approved afternoon nap, Darkshire was soon unteetering stacks of first editions and placating the store's resident ghost (the late Mr. Sotheran, hit by a tram). By turns unhinged and earnest, Once Upon a Tome is the colorful story of life in one of the world's oldest...
Author
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An American expatriate, poet, and gourmet living in France, Jeffrey Greene has scoured the fields, rivers, and beaches of Europe and his native New England in search of foods ranging from puffballs and periwinkles to stone pine nuts and gooseneck barnacles. For many, foraging is the latest trend in foodie culture, but for Greene this journey stretches back to his childhood, when his parents fled New York City to a shack-like house in rural Connecticut....
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Research medium Allison Dubois is a young wife and mother who uses her visions to help the Phoenix District Attorney's office. Other forces threaten her husband Joe and oldest daughters Ariel and Bridgette. She can not refuse to listen to the dead when they call out to her in her dreams.
728) Indian Horse
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Saul Indian Horse, an Ojibway boy, is torn from his family and committed to a residential school. At the school, Saul is denied the freedom to speak his language or embrace his heritage and is a witness to abuse by the people sworn to protect him. But Saul finds salvation in the unlikeliest of places, the rink. His incredible hockey talents lead him away from the school to bigger and better opportunities, but no matter how far Saul goes, the ghosts...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
Description
From suspected ghosts to the torrid world of Shakespearian escorts, not to mention the fiendish passions and bitter rivalries of ballroom dancing, it's business as usual for the debt-laden ex-policeman and his much more credible partner-in-crime. And the pair also have demons of their own to wrestle with - Lu joins a slimming club and clashes with her sister, while Frank finds himself on the wrong side of the law accused of murder.
730) Whiskers in the dark
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The discovery of a body in the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains dredges up mysteries that have lingered from Revolutionary Virginia through the Civil War and beyond, in a supernaturally thrilling new tale from Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown. A trial is underway in Albemarle County, where Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen and her trusty crew of two- and four-legged friends hope to catch a killer--who may not be the person accused...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A darkly funny, soul-rending novel of love in an epoch of collapse--one woman's furious revisiting of family, marriage, work, sex, and motherhood. Since my baby was born, I have been able to laugh and see the funny side of things. a) As much as I ever did. b) Not quite as much now. c) Not so much now. d) Not at all. Leaving behind her husband and their baby daughter, a writer gets on a flight for a speaking engagement in Reno, not carrying much besides...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet--and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. In lucid, elegant dispatches from the frontlines of contemporary natural disaster, she pens surging, indispensable essays for a wide public: prescient advisories and dire warnings of what future awaits us if we refuse to act, as well...
733) Blithe spirit
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Best selling crime novelist Charles suffers from terrible writer's block and is struggling to finish his first screenplay. His picture-perfect new wife Ruth is doing her best to keep him focused so they can fulfill her dream of leaving London for Hollywood. Charles' quest for inspiration leads him to invite the eccentric mystic Madame Acarti to perform a saeance in his home. He gets more than he bargained for when Madame Acarti inadvertently summons...
Publisher
Findaway World
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A trip to the moon: Huckle, Lowly, the three beggars, and Mr. Frumble are accidentally launched to the moon in Mr. Fixit's homemade rocket.
Pip Pip goes to London: Pip Pip goes to London hoping to work for the Queen.
Floating bananas: Strange floating bananas begin to appear in Busytown.
The best mistake ever: When Huckle goes off to do Mother Cat's shopping for the first time, he forgets the shopping list.
Sneef, the best detective in Europe:...
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