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Friday nights : a novel
Joanna Trollope.
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330 p. ; 25 cm.
"It's Eleanor who starts the Friday night get-togethers. From her window she sees two young women with small children, separate, struggling, and plainly lonely - and decides to ask them in." "Gradually a group of six different and disparate women forms. They range in age from Jules, who is twenty-two and wants to be a DJ, to Eleanor herself, who is a retired professional and walks with a cane. They include one wife, three mothers, three single women, and five working women. All of them, in their own way, need and value the tradition of Friday nights spent together with a bottle of wine and children often underfoot." "And then one of them meets a man - an enigmatic, significant man - and the dynamic changes. The bonds that have been so closely forged are tested - and some of them break."--BOOK JACKET.
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Monsieur Monde vanishes
Georges Simenon ; translated from the French by Jean Stewart ; introduction by Larry McMurtry.
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xi, 174 p. : 21 cm.
"Monsieur Monde is a successful middle-aged businessman in Paris. One morning he walks out on his life, leaving his wife asleep in bed, leaving everything. Not long after, he surfaces on the Riviera, keeping company with drunks, whores and pimps, with thieves and their marks. A whole new world, where he feels surprisingly at home - at least for a while." "Georges Simenon knew how obsession, buried for years, can come to life, and about the wreckage it leaves behind. He had a remarkable understanding of how bizarrely unaccountable people can be. And he had an almost uncanny ability to capture the look and feel of a given place and time. Monsieur Monde Vanishes is a subtle and profoundly disturbing triumph by the most popular of the twentieth century's great writers."--BOOK JACKET.
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The further adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe.
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221 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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The future of love : a novel
by Shirley Abbott.
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306 p. ; 23 cm.
"Love can be a happy affair or a source of impenetrable sadness. For eight New Yorkers, the love they find is never what they expect. Shirley Abbott brilliantly dissects those tangled relationships. And what a messy knot it is: Maggie loves her husband, Mark, but wishes he weren't unemployed. Mark has little to do these days but rendezvous with his lover, Sophie. That she happens to be his daughter's nursery school teacher is unfortunate. Maggie is also in the dark about her recently widowed mother's affair with Sam, a famous publisher. Sam's wife, Edith, is more concerned about derailing plans for her granddaughter's commitment ceremony. Edith doesn't believe in same-sex love; well, according to Sam, Edith doesn't believe in sex at all. Which may be why Sam in spending so much time at Antonia's Greenwich Village apartment." "As the ground under them is literally shaken in September of 2001, each member of this urban ensemble will have to rethink his or her complicated domestic arrangements - and begin to look at the future in new ways."--BOOK JACKET.
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The genius
Jesse Kellerman.
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374 p. ; 24 cm.
When a retired cop recognizes the faces of murdered children in an art gallery exhibit, he and his assistant DA daughter Susan begin a search to find the artist of the portraits--and possibly crack open a forty-year murder case.
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Der geschmack von apfelkernen : roman
Katharina Hagena.
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252 p. ; 22 cm.
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The ginseng hunter
Jeff Talarigo.
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177 p. : map ; 20 cm.
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The girl of his dreams : a Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery
Donna Leon.
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276 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
One cold and rainy morning, the body of a gypsy is found floating in a canal. Brunetti suspects she fell off a nearby roof while fleeing an apartment she had robbed--but something about the case continues to haunt him.
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The girl with no shadow : a novel
Joanne Harris.
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444 p. ; 24 cm.
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Girls in trucks
Katie Crouch.
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241 p. ; 22 cm.
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Goodbye, Ms. Chips
Dorothy Cannell.
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278 p. ; 22 cm.
Ellie Haskell returns to her old boarding school to solve a case of robbery--and finds herself tracking a murderer.
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Guilty
Karen Robards.
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408 p. ; 24 cm.
Kate White, single mother and assistant Philadelphia DA, must fight for her life and the life of her son as the terrible events of her past return with a vengeance and the only hope she seems to have lies with homicide detective Tom Braga--a man she has no reason to trust.
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