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21) Noir
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A mysterious young widow hires Philip M. Noir to find her husband's killer--if he was killed. She suddenly is killed and her body disappears. At once wry, absurd, and desolate--most people will think what's happening is pretty funny.
22) Raising the dad
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Navigating the challenges of a stale marriage, a hostile teen daughter, his brother's recent prison release, and his mother's progressive dementia, an overwhelmed family man stumbles on an incredible secret regarding his father's fate that changes his relationships in profound ways.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In December 1992, three groups of teenagers head to the theater to see the movie version of the famed Eons & Empires comic books. For Adam it's a last ditch effort to connect with something (actually, someone, the girl he's had a crush on for years) in his sleepy Florida town before he leaves for good. Passionate fan Sharon skips school in Cincinnati so she can fully appreciate the flick without interruption from her vapid almost-friends a seemingly...
24) Bump and run
Author
Series
Jack Molloy novels volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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25) Find me: a novel
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Appears on list
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...
Author
Series
Dexter books volume 7
Language
English
Description
Hollywood gets more than it bargained for when television's hottest star arrives at the Miami Police Department and develops an intense, professional interest in a camera-shy blood spatter analyst named Dexter Morgan.
Author
Series
Houston series volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Larry McMurtrys Terms of Endearment touched readers in a way no other story has in recent years. The earthy humor and the powerful emotional impact that set this novel apart rise to brilliant new heights with The Evening Star.McMurtry takes us deep into the heart of Texas, and deep into the heart of one of the most memorable characters of our time, Aurora Greenwayalong with her family, friends, and loversin a tale of affectionate wit, bittersweet...
31) Problems
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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
Series
Glorious heresies volume 1
Publisher
Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"One messy murder affects the lives of five misfits who exist on the fringes of Ireland's post-crash society. Biting, moving and darkly funny, The Glorious Heresies explores salvation, shame and the legacy of Ireland's twentieth-century attitudes to sex and family"--
34) Insane city
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Astonished by his imminent marriage to a woman he believed out of his league, Seth flies to their destination wedding in Florida only to be swept up in a maelstrom of violence involving rioters, Russian gangsters, angry strippers, and a desperate python.
37) Hit list
Author
Series
John Keller novels volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Feeling overshadowed by his more-successful younger brother, Harold is shocked by his brother's violent act that irrevocably changes their lives, placing Harold in the role of father figure to his brother's adolescent children and caregiver to his aging parents.
39) Himself: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
""A highly unusual tale set in a highly unusual Irish village full of dark secrets
"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...
40) Shtum: a novel
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After strategically faking a separation with his wife to influence a tribunals decision about the future of his severely autistic sons education, Ben Jewell moves in with his elderly and cantankerous father and learns harsh lessons about accountability.
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