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Author
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
The early death of a small town councilman reveals deep-rooted conflicts in the seemingly idyllic community of Pagford, which rapidly deteriorates in the face of cultural disputes, generation clashes, and a volatile election.
5) Cherry
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Jesus' Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin. Cleveland, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and ecstasy and fall hard and fast in love. But soon Emily has to move home to Elba, New York, and he flunks out of school and joins the army. Desperate to keep their relationship alive, they marry before he ships out to Iraq....
6) Bed: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows the experiences of a quiet, diligent younger brother whose eccentric and tyrannical older brother takes to his bed on his twenty-fifth birthday and resolves never to leave due to his disillusionment with the adult world.
Author
Publisher
Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
c2017
Edition
First U.S. Paperback Edition.
Physical Desc
408 p.
Language
English
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"--
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Trying to keep the death of their parents a secret, Marnie and her little sister Nelly are on their own until several residents in Glasgow's Hazelhurst housing estate suspect that something is not right.
Author
Series
Dexter Morgan volume 7
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 25 cm.
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
Dexter Morgan volume 5
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
350 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Serial killer Dexter Morgan reevaluates his life views upon the birth of his daughter and investigates the disappearance of a teenage girl who has been running with a group of goths rumored to be engaging in cannibalism.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
767 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author of New York Times Editor's Choice Tales of the New WorldIn prose that is darkly humorous and alive with detail, Valiant Gentlemen reimagines the lives and intimate friendships of humanitarian and Irish patriot Roger Casement; his closest friend, Herbert Ward; and Ward's extraordinary wife, Argentinian-American heiress Sarita Sanford, in a uniquely human account of some of the early 20th century's larger historical figures. "PEN/Faulkner...