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A Country Year: Living the Questions
Hubbell, Sue
When her thirty-year marriage broke up, Sue Hubbell found herself alone and broke on a small farm in the Ozarks. Keeping bees, she found solace in the natural world. She began to write, challenging herself to tell the absolute truth about her life and the things she cared for. An uplifting, marvelous book about a woman finding her way in middle age.
[Adult Nonfiction Book 508.7788 H]
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So Brave, Young, and Handsome
Enger, Leif
A cracking good adventure tale, full of winking outlaws and relentless villains. In 1915, an aging bank robber is trying to right his past by making amends to the woman he left behind forty years earlier, and a struggling novelist joins him in this quest.
[Adult Fiction Book ENGER]
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Testimony
Shreve, Anita
Three star basketball players and a freshman girl create a student sex scandal at a private Vermont academy. Told from the perspective of the students, the parents, the school administrator and bystanders, lives unravel as the story unfolds. There are no "bad guys" but many victims as lives veer in directions they were never meant to go.
[Adult Fiction Book SHREVE]
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Last Night at the Lobster
O'Nan, Stewart
Manny DeLeon manages a Connecticut Red Lobster restaurant on its last night before closing. Although they don't know it, his quirky staff is family to Manny. Knowing he can take only 5 employees with him to a nearby Olive Garden, and faced with a blizzard on that last night, Manny's is an eloquent story of an ordinary man. This author has been called "the bard of the working class."
[Adult Fiction Book O'NAN]
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The Historian
Kostova, Elizabeth
Did you think you weren't "into" vampire tales? This elegantly written first novel may change your mind. Did Bram Stoker base his Count Dracula on the historical figure Vlad the Impaler, the cruel 15th Century prince of Wallachia? A father and then his daughter search for clues across time and borders in dusty Ivy League libraries and ancient monasteries. What does that dark legend have to do with modern times, and does that evil still exist?
[Adult Fiction Book KOSTOVA]
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Saturday
McEwan, Ian
A stunning day in the life of a London neurosurgeon, but it is not about his medical practice. Henry Perowne has a leisurely day planned, ending with his family gathering around the dinner table for talk and reunion. But starting with his pre-dawn view of an airliner with wing aflame flying overhead and followed by a car accident leading to confrontation with the hoodlum driver, Henry's Saturday builds ominously to a compelling climax.
[Adult Fiction Book MCEWAN]
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Good Grief
Winston, Lolly
A young widow in her mid-thirties tries to start a new life after her husband dies. Oddly enough, this is not a sad novel, but a heart-warming one with some very funny moments. This story and its unusual characters hold the reader's interest from start to finish.
[Adult Fiction Book WINSTON]
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The Good Wife
O'Nan, Stewart
It's a cold winter night in upstate New York when a young mother-to-be climbs into bed to await her husband's return. Instead, she's awakened from sleep by a phone call that changes their lives. Her husband and his friend have "gotten into a little trouble." This is an engrossing story of a marriage and a family tested to the limits of endurance. I could not put it down.
[Adult Fiction Book O'NAN]
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Janet & Me: An Illustrated Story of Love and Loss
Mack, Stan
Can a story about an 18-year love affair ended by cancer be uplifting? The answer is yes. With words and personal drawings, not to mention candor and humor, Stan Mack shares the struggle of his beloved Janet, who faced her illness in the same way she lived her life, with guts and charm. This beautifully told love story is for anyone who is searching for emotional and practical guidance, and for everyone who appreciates a life lived to the fullest.
[Adult Nonfiction Book 362.19699 M]
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The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
Niven, Jennifer
The 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition was perhaps the worst-planned arctic exploration in history. The captain declared the ship unfit for the voyage upon seeing it, and the crew consisted of young sailors who had no arctic experience. Based on the diaries of those who were rescued and those who perished, this is the story of the Karluk's doomed 1913 exploration and her crew's heroic efforts to survive on the ice.
[Adult Nonfiction Book 910.46 N]
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