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Twenty stories from the New Yorker and other periodicals. In Alice Munro's "The View from Castle Rock" a Scottish family…
emigrates to Canada. Also includes Tobias Wolff's "Awaiting Orders" and selections by Donna Tartt, Mary Gaitskill, and others. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2006
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General fiction, Suspense and thrillers, Contemporary romance
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The private performance of lyric soprano Roxane Coss entices Japanese industrialist Katsumi Hosokawa to attend a party in his honor…
in South America. While the audience applauds, guerrillas occupy the mansion taking everyone hostage. As the outer world recedes, relationships between captors and captives come into play. Some strong language. PEN/Faulkner Award. 2001
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General fiction
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Pregnant, Rose Clinton leaves be- hind in California the short-lived marriage she had misinterpreted as a sign from God, and…
starts the long drive to Kentucky. She plans a temporary stay at Saint Eliza- beth's, a home for unwed mothers, but instead, her reluctance to give up her baby leads to an addi- tional marriage. The next fifteen years at Saint Elizabeth's are narrated first by Rose's newest husband and then by her daughter Cecilia. Strong language
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Family stories, General fiction, Serious and literary fiction
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In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of…
America's finest writers. "Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature." —The Guardian In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew. Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today
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Literature biography
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"A literary alchemist, Patchett plumbs the depths of her experiences to create gold: engaging and moving pieces that are both…
self-portrait and landscape, each vibrant with emotion and rich in insight. Turning her writer's eye on her own experiences, she transforms the private into the universal, providing listeners a way to look at their own worlds anew, and reminds how fleeting and enigmatic life can be." -- Provided by publisher
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Bestsellers (Fiction), Family stories, Contemporary romance, Serious and literary fiction, Historical fiction, General fictionFamily and relationships
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"In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they…
beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew." -- Provided by publisher
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Family stories, Romance
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"En la primavera de 2020, las tres hijas de Lara vuelven a la granja familiar, situada en el norte de…
Michigan. Mientras recogen cerezas, le piden a su madre que les cuente la historia de Peter Duke, un famoso actor con el que, años atrás, vivió una historia de amor y compartió escenario en una compañía de teatro llamada Tom Lake. Mientras Lara recuerda el pasado, sus hijas examinan su vida y la relación con su madre y se ven obligadas a reconsiderar el mundo y todo lo que creían conocer." -- Proporcionada por la editorial
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When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following…
them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine. Now fifty-three, Daphne hasn't seen Eddie for many years, not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives. Meeting again, time falls away; while their relationship was brief, it had a profound impact on them both, and now that they are reunited, they have no intention of ever being separated again. Whistler is a story about two adults looking back over the choices they made, and the choices that were made for them. It's a story about bravery, memory, the often small yet consequential moments that define our lives, and the endless stream of loss that in time comes for us all. Beautiful in its simplicity, it is ultimately about how love endures, and how the feeling of being known by one other person, even for a short period of time, can change everything
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Social issues, Music, Literature
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John Nickel is a black ex-jazz musician who only wants to be a good father. But when his son is…
taken away from him, he's left with nothing but the Memphis bar he manages. Then he hires Fay, a young white waitress, who has a volatile brother named Carl in tow. Nickel finds himself consumed with the idea of Taft -- Fay and Carl's dead father -- and begins to reconstruct the life of a man he never met. But his sympathies for these lost souls soon take him down a twisting path into the lives of strangers. Adult. Unrated