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41) Shelby
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Shelby Lewis is a 20-year-old pre-med student at the University of British Columbia who drops out of school to "find himself," only to discover that the journey is as complex and incomprehensible in the '90s as it was in the '50s and '60s." - Publisher's Weekly.
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Suspended New York policewoman Ginny Lavoie returns to her small hometown in New England to help discover who murdered her childhood best friend's teenage son, and must deal not only with attempts on her life, but the past she tried so hard to leave behind.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Young Titus Bass abandons his home and the tempting neighbor girl Amy, to answer the call of the wilderness, traveling south from Kentucky to New Orleans, back up river to St. Louis, and into the unexplored Great Plains, encountering vixens and villains along the way.
44) The namesake
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A young man born of Indian parents in America struggles with issues of identity from his teens to his thirties.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This classic tragicomic tale from George Barr McCutcheon transforms everyone's favorite caviar-and-champagne dream into a soul-shaking test of mistrust and reckless spending Popular, good-looking, and enterprising, Montgomery Brewster is the toast of New York. While celebrating his twenty-fifth birthday among friends, Monty receives word that his grandfather has died. Before long, New York is abuzz with the news. When Monty inherits $1 million from...
47) The Black Arrow
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Black Arrow, first serialized in 1883, was eventually published as a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1888. Although it was initially written for children, and has since remained relatively undervalued by critics, The Black Arrow has garnered praise from such figures as John Galsworthy for its richly imagined setting and vibrant dialogue.
Set in fifteenth-century England during the infamous War of the Roses, The Black Arrow follows the young...
49) Harold and Maude
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Harold, a wealthy young man obsessed with death and funerals, becomes caught up in an improbable romance with Maude, an eccentric and independent seventy-nine-year-old woman.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chabon's sensational debut novel: the coming-of-age story of Art Bechstein, a recent graduate whose life is forever changed by one sultry summer Art Bechstein may be too young to know what he wants to do with his life, but he knows what he doesn't want: the life of his father, a man who laundered money for the mob. Bechstein spends the summer after his graduation from a Pittsburgh university searching for his future and finding his own sort of trouble...
Author
Series
Carson Springs novel volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the first book of Eileen Goudge's bestselling Carson Springs series, an unlikely wedding upends a tranquil California town It isn't easy to watch your daughter marry a man who's twice her age, but Samantha Kiley holds her tongue. Wes seems like a good man, and it doesn't hurt that he's also a billionaire. She has no idea that she will soon be caught up in a May–December affair of her own that will set tongues wagging in the idyllic small...
52) Hard City
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The searing novel of a brutal boyhood in 1940s Chicago -- and a young man walking the knife's edge between a life of crime and a brighter future. The son of a single mother addicted to heroin, Richie grows up in poverty and hardship. His adolescence is a constant battle between hope -- in the form of a kind boxing coach, a job in a bowling alley where he can sneak a nap, and a determination to track down his disreputable father -- and brutality. Desperately...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The wickedly satirical, mad, ferociously farcical [and] subversive angsty Brit of secret diary fame careens into his thirties (Daily Mail). I expect that by tomorrow I will have embellished the story and given myself a heroic status I do not deserve ... Right now the truth is harrowing enough for aging, impotent intellectual Adrian Mole: Hes soon to be divorced; he hasnt a clue what to do with his semi-stardom as a celebrity chef; his parents have...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Black Mike
Sam Cassidy comes home to find himself in a series of tense confrontations. His father expects Sam to work for him at the local bank, and Sheriff Ben Faraday, for whom Sam worked the previous summer as deputy, is suffering from a terminal disease and wants Sam to become a deputy again. "Black Mike" Nickels wants to expand his use of public land and bring in more sheep, backed by guns. The Cattlemen's Association has vowed to stop Black...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Life seems to have little to offer Devin Donahue at the age of 23. Graduation thrust him out of college against his will, and the love of his life just left him to marry his older brother. With a broken heart and no direction to speak of, Devin pounces on his first opportunity to skip town-an invitation to help run a summer theater in Colorado with his high-school sweetheart. Upon arrival, Devin is shoved into a torrential melodrama of barroom brawls,...
56) Stardust
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young Tristran Thorn, having lost his heart to the lovely but cold Victoria Forester, leaves the safe English town of Wall and sets out into a strange world on a quest to retrieve a fallen star he has promised to his beloved.
57) Go: A Novel
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The novel that introduced the world to the Beat Generation Published 5 years before On the Road, this candid and perceptive roman à clef chronicles the adventures of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Neal Cassady before they became literary icons. In dive bars and all-night diners, cabs racing across Manhattan and squalid apartments sticky with "tea" smoke, these would-be artists pursue the ecstatic experiences that shape their work and satisfy their...
58) Sophie's choice
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Styron's most impressive performance. . . . Belongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpieces." -Washington Post Book World Winner of the 1980 National Book Award, Sophie's Choice is William Styron's classic novel of love, survival, and regret, set in Brooklyn in the wake of the Second World War. The novel centers on three characters: Stingo, a sexually frustrated aspiring novelist; Nathan, his charismatic but violent Jewish neighbor;...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Herman Melville towers among American writers not only for his powerful novels, but also for the stirring novellas and short stories that flowed from his pen. Two of the most admired of these -- "Bartleby" and "Benito Cereno" -- first appeared as magazine pieces and were then published in 1856 as part of a collection of short stories entitled The Piazza Tales. "Bartleby" (also known as "Bartleby the Scrivener") is an intriguing moral allegory set...
Author
Publisher
RosettaBooks
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Adapted into the classic 1993 film starring Johnny Depp as Gilbert and Leonardo DiCaprio in his Academy Award-nominated role as Arnie, What's Eating Gilbert Grape is the touching and entertaining story of an unusual family that rises up to do the astonishing... Gilbert Grape is a 24-year-old grocery store clerk stuck in Endora, Iowa, where the population is 1,091 and shrinking. After the suicide of Gilbert's father, his family never recovered. Once...
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