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Albom, Mitch, 1958- The Five People You Meet in Heaven Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. As the park has changed over the years -- from the Loop-the-loop to the Pipeline plunge -- so, too, has Eddie changed, from optimistic youth to embittered old age. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret. Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. With his final breath, he feels two small hands in his -- and then nothing. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people who were in it. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever. One by one, Eddie's five people illuminate the unseen connections of his earthly life--Front flap. 2003 Adult Fiction Large Print ALBOM |
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Berg, Elizabeth The Year of Pleasures : a Novel Betta Nolan moves to a small town after the death of her husband to try to begin anew. Pursuing a dream of a different kind of life, she is determined to find pleasure in her simply daily routines. Among those who help her in both expected and unexpected ways are the ten-year-old boy next door, three wild women friends from her college days, a twenty-year-old who is struggling to find his place in the world, and a handsome man who is ready for love. 2005 Adult Fiction Large Print BERG |
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Edwards, Kim, 1958- The Memory Keeper's Daughter 2006 Adult Fiction Book EDWARDS |
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Garcia Marquez, Gabriel, 1928- One Hundred Years of Solitude 2004 Adult Fiction Large Print GARCIA MA |
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Gibbons, Kaye, 1960- The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster This sequel to Gibbon's beloved classic Ellen Foster stands on its own as an unforgettable portrait of a redoubtable adolescent making herself up out of whole cloth. Now fifteen, Ellen is settled into a permanent home with a new mother. Strengthened by adversity and blessed with enough intelligence to design a salvation for herself, she still feels ill at ease in the world. Her sole surviving ritual, a visit to the county fair, takes on totemic importance. While she holds fast to the shreds of her childhood,humoring her best friend, Stuart, who is determined to marry her; and protecting her old neighbor, slow-witted Starletta, she negotiates her way into a larger world by selling her poetry to pay her way to a camp for gifted students. With a singular mix of perspicacity, and compassion, Ellen draws us into her life and makes us fall in love with her all over again. 2006 Adult Fiction Large Print GIBBONS |
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Golden, Arthur, 1957- Memoirs of a Geisha 1998 Adult Fiction Large Print GOLDEN |
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Gruen, Sara Water for Elephants 2006 Adult Fiction Large Print GRUEN |
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Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption, and it is also about the power of fathers over sons-their love, their sacrifices, their lies. 2003 Adult Fiction Large Print HOSSEINI |
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Jones, Edward P. The Known World Henry Townsend, born a slave, is purchased and freed by his father, yet he remains attached to his former owner, even taking lessons in slave owning when he eventually buys his own slaves. Townsend is part of a small enclave of free blacks who own slaves, thus offering another angle on the complexities of slavery and social relations in a Virginia town just before the Civil War. 2003 Adult Fiction Book JONES |
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Kidd, Sue Monk The Secret Life of Bees 2002 Deposit Collection KIDD |
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Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice, in this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic that has been translated into more than 40 languages. 1999 Adult Fiction Large Print LEE |
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Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 1906-2001 Gift from the Sea 2005 Adult Nonfiction Large Print 128 L |
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Mayes, Frances A Year in the World : Journeys of a Passionate Traveler With her beloved Tuscany as a home base, Mayes travels to Spain, Portugal, France, the British Isles, and to the Mediterranean world of Turkey, Greece, the South of Italy, and North Africa. In Andalucia, she relishes the intersection of cultures. She cooks in Portugal, gathers ideas in the gardens of England and Scotland, takes a literary pilgrimage to Burgundy, discovers an ideal place to live in Mantova, and explores the essential Moroccan city of Fez. She rents houses among ordinary residents, shops at neighborhood markets, wanders the back streets, and everywhere contemplates the concept of home. While in Greece, she follows the classic Homeric voyage across the Aegean, lives in a bougainvillea-draped stone house in Crete, and then drives deep into the Mani. In Turkey with friends, she sails the ancient coast, hiking to archaeological sites and snorkeling over sunken Byzantine towns. Weaving together personal perceptions and informed commentary on art, architecture, history, landscape, and social and culinary traditions of each area, Mayes brings the immediacy of life in her temporary homes to the reader. An illuminating and passionate book that will be savored by all who loved Under the Tuscan Sun, A Year in the World is travel writing at its peak. 2006 Adult Nonfiction Large Print 914.0456 M |
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McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948- The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 2003 Adult Fiction Large Print |
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McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- The Road 2007 Adult Fiction Large Print MCCARTH |
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Minot, Eliza The Brambles This is the story of the Bramble family--Margaret, Max, and Edie--three adult siblings careening through wildly different byways of adult life. Margaret, mother of three, drowning in a sea of runny noses and lost mittens, is a nurturer with a sense of humor, a witty woman at wits' end, about to take her ailing father into the tumult and chaos of her already overcrowded home. Edie, her younger sister, is a barely recognizable version of Margaret's former self--young, single, clicking smartly down city streets in good shoes, but struggling mightily beyond her sister's vision to anchor her desultory, and intensely solitary, life. Max, newly married, newly a father, is buckling under the weight of new responsibilities. Over the course of one critical season, a long-hidden secret will be revealed, remaking each of them, and all they thought they knew about one another and about themselves.--From publisher description. 2006 Adult Fiction Book MINOT |
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Nemirovsky, Irene, 1903-1942 Suite Francaise 2006 Adult Fiction Large Print NEMIROV |
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O'Brien, Tim, 1946- In the Lake of the Woods 2007 Adult Fiction Large Print O'BRIEN |
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Picoult, Jodi, 1966- Keeping Faith : a Novel 2007 Adult Fiction Large Print PICOULT |
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Picoult, Jodi, 1966- The Pact : a Love Story A teenage suicide pact between a pregnant girl and her boyfriend, both children of wealthy New England families. He shoots her, but fails to shoot himself and is charged with murder. At the trial he explains what made them do it. 2007 Adult Fiction Large Print PICOULT |
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