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81) Amnesia moon
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Description
In Jonathan Lethem's wryly funny novel, we meet a young man named Chaos, who's living in a movie theater in post-apocalyptic Wyoming, drinking alcohol, and eating food out of cans. It's an unusual and at times unbearable existence, but Chaos soon discovers that his post-nuclear reality may have no connection to the truth. So he takes to the road with a girl named Melinda in order to find answers. As the pair travels through the United States they...
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
p2005.
Language
English
Description
Heading west to join the search for the kidnapped son of a wealthy Mexican landowner, Ned Giles meets a troubled Apache girl, imprisoned in a Mexican jail, whose fate forces him to make a choice that will change his life.
When Ned Giles is orphaned as a teenager, he heads West by joining the 1932 Great Apache Expedition on their search for the kidnapped son of a wealthy Mexican landowner, but Ned's growing feelings for an Apache girl soon force him...
Author
Series
Last roundup volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Born at the beginning of the twentieth century, Henry Smart lives through the evolution of modern Ireland, and in this extraordinary novel he brilliantly tells his story. From his own birth and childhood on the streets of Dublin to his role as soldier (and lover) in the Irish Rebellion, Henry recounts his early years of reckless heroism and adventure. At once an epic, a love story, and a portrait of Irish history, A Star Called Henry is a grand picaresque...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Folks in the Texas panhandle do not like hog farms. But Bob Dollar is determined to see his new job as hog site scout for Global Pork Rind through to the end. However he is forced to face the idiosyncratic inhabitants of Woolybucket and to question his own notions of loyalty and home. A brilliant novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Proulx, author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain. That Old Ace in the Hole is a richly textured story of...
85) Fat city
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Stockton, California, is the setting: the Lido Gym, the Hotel Coma, Main Street lunchrooms and dingy bars, days like long twilights in houses obscured by untrimmed shrubs and black walnut trees. When two men meet in the ring the retired boxer Billy Tully and the newcomer Ernie Munger their brief bout sets into motion their hidden fates, initiating young Munger into the company of men and luring Tully back into training. In a dispassionate and composed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet Classic
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
David Copperfield suffers from his abusive stepfather and the betrayal of the scheming Uriah Heep, finds a new life with his formidable aunt, and falls in love with Dora, as he fights to escape his impoverished and unhappy childhood.
87) Company
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
p2006.
Language
English
Description
Stephen Jones is a shiny new hire at Zephyr Holdings. From the outside, Zephyr is just another bland corporate monolith, but behind its glass doors business is far from usual: the beautiful receptionist is paid twice as much as anybody else to do nothing, the sales reps use self help books as manuals, no one has seen the CEO, no one knows exactly what they are selling, and missing donuts are the cause of office intrigue. While Jones originally wanted...
88) Virtue
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A powerful novel of youth, aspiration, and moral conflict, as a young man is seduced by the mirage of glamour--at a terrible cost"--
Arriving in New York City for an internship at an elite but fading magazine, Luca feels invisible, uncertain how to navigate a new era of social change. Among his peers is Zara, a young Black woman whose sharp wit and frank views on injustice create tension in the office. Luca is equally drawn to a prominent artist...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 118
Language
English
Formats
Description
Written between 1873 and 1884 and published posthumously in 1903, The Way of All Flesh is regarded by some as the first twentieth-century novel. Samuel Butler's autobiographical account of a harsh upbringing and troubled adulthood shines an iconoclastic light on the hypocrisy of a Victorian clerical family's domestic life. It also foreshadows the crumbling of nineteenth-century bourgeois ideals in the aftermath of the First World War, as well as the...
90) 14
Author
Publisher
Permuted Press
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
There are some odd things about Nate's new apartment. Of course, he has other things on his mind. He hates his job. He has no money in the bank. No girlfriend. No plans for the future. So while his new home isn't perfect, it's livable. The rent is low, the property managers are friendly, and the odd little mysteries don't nag at him too much. At least, not until he meets Mandy, his neighbor across the hall, and notices something unusual about her...
91) Less than zero
Author
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age, in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money a place devoid of feeling or hope. Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives...
Author
Series
[Titus Bass series] volume 1
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Titus Bass feared one fate more than any other: never to experience the great wilderness or the wildness inside himself. So late on night he snatched a squirrel gun and a handful of biscuits, fled into the woods, and never looked back. From Louisville past the Chicasaw bluffs and the Natchez Trace all the way to New Orleans, he plunges into the rough-and-tumble life along the banks of the Mississippi: a volatile, violent country of...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
During the winter of 1825, Richard Hamilton--a timid Harvard philosophy student--arrives in St. Louis on business for his father. Robbed and beaten, desperate to save his life, he reluctantly joins the crew of the Maria, a fur trader's keelboat. Bound for the beautiful, wild, and dangerous Indian country of the Upper Yellowstone River, the native Bostonian begins the education and adventure of a lifetime. On a converging path is Packrat, a Pawnee...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The new novel from the award-winning author of The End of Vandalism is a wry and sophisticated heist drama. Set in the rugged region of the Midwest that gives the novel its title, The Driftless Area is the story of Pierre Hunter, a young bartender with unfailing optimism, a fondness for coin tricks, and an uncanny capacity for finding trouble. When he falls in love, with the mysterious and isolated Stella Rosmarin, Pierre becomes the central player...
Author
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"El protagonista de El juguete rabioso, una novela casi autobiogr̀fica que refleja el caos de comienzos del siglo XX en Buenos Aires, es Silvio Astier, un adolescente expulsado del colegio, que vive como una humillaci̤n su pobreza, e intenta vanamente escapar de ella a toda costa, sumǐndose cada vez m̀s en un oscuro pesimismo a medida que fracasa en sus intentos. En un ambiente saturado de personajes siniestros y ruines, as̕ como situaciones...
96) Loopy
Author
Publisher
T. Dunne
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The tiny village of Trabane is tucked far away in the west of Ireland. The local golf course was designed more by nature than by man. On links' like this, golf is much more than just a game to those that play it. It is a battlefield where scores are settled and every man and woman is equal. To young Larry Lynch, nicknamed Loopy, golf opens up new horizons and the chance of a better life. Having only recently picked up the sport, he finds he...
Author
Series
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Xie Lian has confirmed that the bewitching youth San Lang is actually Hua Cheng, one of the Four Calamities and a supreme ghost despised by all heavenly officials. Still, he has trouble matching the terror of his companion's reputation with the charming, clever, and protective young man he's come to know. When a distress signal leads Xie Lian into Ghost City, a bustling metropolis containing all the horrors and delights of the dead, he sees Hua...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
With "careful prose and a tone of humble striving" (New York Times Book Review), this revelatory first novel by a cloistered monk traces a young man's search for wisdom among the inhabitants of a Cistercian monastery. In 1973, Paul Seneschal, a shy nineteen-year-old from rural Manitoba, takes flight from the world behind the wrought iron gates of St. Norbert Abbey. Here forty monks grow their own food, wake at three in the morning to pray, and converse...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fielding's classic novel chronicles the adventures of Tom Jones, who was abandoned as an infant and grows into a lusty, imprudent young man. Promising to mend his ways, Tom competes with an abusive rival for the affections of a wealthy squire's daughter, and eventually learns the truth about his identity.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p1988.
Language
English
Description
Poe found the germ of the story he would develop into ARTHUR GORDON PYM in 1836 in a newspaper account of the shipwreck and subsequent rescue of the two men on board. Published in 1838, this rousing sea adventure follows New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain's son, Augustus. The two boys repeatedly find themselves on the brink of death or discovery and witness many terrifying events, including mutiny, cannibalism,...
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