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21) A fine dark line
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Stanley Mitchel Jr. spends most of his time helping his family run the town's drive-in movie theater, reading ten-cent comics, and playing with his dog Nub.
Life in East Texas circa 1958 is not very exciting until Stanley discovers a stash of old, crumbling love letters in a pile of burnt rubble behind the drive-in. As Stanley reads through the letters, he finds himself in the middle of a town mystery and discovering the secrets...
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Bacombe volume 4
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English
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Frank Bascombe travels to the site of his former home on the shore, visits his ex-wife, who is suffering with Parkinson's, and meets a dying former friend.
27) Saturday
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English
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New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan's novels have won such prestigious awards as the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his modern masterpiece, Atonement. Saturday further proves The New Republic's claim that McEwan is "one of the most gifted literary storytellers alive." Neurosurgeon Henry Perowne enjoys life immensely and considers himself fortunate to love the woman he's married to. But on this day, a chance encounter...
28) The wedding
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Wilson Lewis, forced to admit that the romance has gone out of his marriage after thirty years, and realizing his responsibility for that loss, embarks on a mission to make his wife fall in love with him all over again.
29) Losing Julia
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
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Patrick Delaney looks back from the perspective of old age and considers how things might have been if he and Julia, his one great love, had been able to share their lives.
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Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1982
Language
English
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The story of an old man's search for love is told through a constellation of events: the struggle to save a pond from pollution, the murder of a gallant scientist, and an exquisite but fleeting affair with the beautiful woman he sees in a bank line.
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Series
Everyman's library volume 213
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Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 33
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English
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English
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The story follows George Bowling, a 45-year-old husband, father, and insurance salesman, who foresees World War II and attempts to recapture idyllic childhood innocence and escape his dreary life by returning to Lower Binfield, his birthplace. The novel is comical and pessimistic, with its view that speculative builders, commercialism, and capitalism are killing the best of rural England and the existence of new, external threats. (from Wikipedia)
...33) About Schmidt
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English
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Sixty-year-old Albert Schmidt embarks on an adventure of self-discovery when, shortly after the death of his wife, his daughter announces her intention to marry a young Jewish lawyer, and he becomes involved in an affair with a much younger Puerto Rican waitress.
34) Babbitt
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English
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"Prosperous and socially prominent, George Babbitt appears to have everything a man could wish: good health, a fine family, and a profitable business in a booming Midwestern city. But the middle-aged real estate agent is shaken from his self-satisfaction by a growing restlessness with the limitations of his life. When a personal crisis forces a reexamination of his values, Babbitt mounts a rebellion against social expectations -- jeopardizing his...
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English
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A "sinister, edgy, delectably creepy" story of mistaken identity, murder, and madness from a #1 New York Times --bestselling author (San Francisco Chronicle). Tristram Heade is a reclusive, repressed Virginia bachelor and antiquarian book collector who has traveled to Philadelphia to keep an appointment with a fellow dealer. But when he arrives, his life takes an unexpected and dizzying turn. A train porter returns his lost wallet, but the identification...
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Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
Description
Lovesick Budge Moss, middle-aged author on the skids, sails his boat one way to Rock Hall on Chesapeake Bay, with only his cat for company--and then he sells the boat. His wife has left him, his home and possessions are gone, but he's determined to reestablish his bearings and write a thinly disguised tale about this lonely passage in his life.
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Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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First published in 1925, "The Professor's House" is the profound study of a middle-aged man's unhappiness by critically acclaimed American author Willa Cather. The novel tells the story of its central character, Professor Godfrey St. Peter, in three parts. In the first part, the Professor feels that he is losing control over his life and resists the direction it is taking. He is displeased with his family's move to a new house, with his daughters...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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"Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances--in their house, on the roadway, in the market. Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron has spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, a plain, outspoken, independent young woman, she is like a breath...
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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
He has all kinds of everyday joy in his life - he's young, he's in love, he has friends who promise to stand by him if life ever goes wrong. Then one day, life does go wrong. He makes a mistake, and it's big and unforgiveable. Now time is running out, and his life is falling apart. But he's going to put it back together again. His own way. This is a story about how far love must stretch to gather a life in pieces - and about how a strong friendship...
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Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The author of the Mongo Mysteries reveals the interior life of a troubled writer in this deeply personal autobiographical novel. At the age of fifty-eight, author Garth Fugue is adrift. For the last forty years he has poured his soul into twenty-three novels and countless short stories, all filled with murder and mayhem. By delving into the troubled minds of his characters, he has kept his own demons at bay. Now, Garth is at a crossroads. Despite...
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