Search Results: Returned 8 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 8
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c2008., Random House Call No: Fic Boc Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn't come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her son's room and tortures herself with memories. Equally distraught, the boy's father, Lincoln, finds himself wanting to comfort his wife even as he yearns for solace, a loving touch, any kind of intimacy. As the Ewings navigate the mystery of what's become of their son, the circumstances surrounding Newell's vanishing and other events on that same night reverberate through the lives of seemingly disconnected strangers: a comic book illustrator in town for a weekend of debauchery; a painfully shy and possibly disturbed young artist; a stripper who imagines moments from her life as if they were movie scenes; a bubbly teenage wiccan anarchist; a dangerous and scheming gutter punk; a band of misfit runaways.
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2008., Adult, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Darjeeling Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Having not spoken to each other in a year, three American brothers set off on a train voyage across India to re-forge their brotherly bonds.
![The Darjeeling Limited [DVD] (2007). Directed by Wes Anderson.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "The Darjeeling Limited [DVD] (2007). Directed by Wes Anderson.")
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2005, p2004., General, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Flight P Edition: Fullscreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A cargo plane on a routine flight suddenly hits a high-turbulence storm, forcing a crash landing hundreds of miles off course in the barren Gobi desert. Among the survivors, one eccentric passenger leads the crew to build a new plane - against all odds, against all hope, and sometimes - against each other.
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By Follett, Ken2021., Adult, Viking Call No: Fic Fol Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed." So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Ken Follett's nerve-racking drams of international tension. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war are a young woman intelligence officer; a spy working undercover with jihadists; a brilliant Chinese spymaster; and Pauline herself, beleaguered by a populist rival for the next presidential election. "Never" is an extraordinary novel, full of heroines and villains, false prophets and elite warriors, jaded politicians and opportunistic revolutionaries. It brims with cautionary wisdom for our times and delivers a visceral, heart-pounding read that transports readers to the brink of the unimaginable."--Book jacket.
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By Bozak, Nadiac2014., General, Anansi Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: "Inspired by J. M. Coetzee's "Disgrace", El Niño tracks the survival of one woman and a young, undocumented migrant as they journey through the no-man's-land of a remote southwestern desert. Honey hasn't seen her mother, Marianne, in more than two years. She drives deep into the once-prosperous border region of the Oro Desert for a surprise visit, only to discover that Marianne has vanished. Alone in an unforgiving environment populated with hostile locals, she meets Chávez, a young "coyote" or human trafficker, who convinces Honey he knows her mother's whereabouts and agrees to take her there - for a price. As they make their way through the Oro's brutal no-man's-land they are tracked by Ocho, a teenage bounty hunter determined to recruit Chávez. And then there is Baez, Marianne's wizened Shepherd-coyote mix, whose death and life intimately intersect with Honey and Chávez 's search for Marianne and who tells the story of the Oro Desert as it slowly comes apart. Told in three distinct voices, El Niño is an intricately constructed and starkly written novel from a bold and inventive new writer."--Publisher.
![El Niño [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT76612.JPG "El Niño [eBook]")
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2011, c2010., Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Joh Edition: Doubleday Canada ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Isabelle Treslove-Fawcett has always felt at odds with her family - free-spirited and wild at heart, she is the opposite of her serious and studious parents, and has spent most of her life trying to find a place where she belongs. When her estranged archeologist father suddenly dies, the last thing Issy expects to be left with is a cryptic note from him and a mysterious jeweled amulet. Determined to learn how it came into her father's possession, she journey's to the deserts of Morocco, where she is swept into a world steeped in history, tradition and love lost. With the help of a handsome antiques trader named Taib, Izzy soon unearths the amulet's extraordinary past among the Tuareg people, a past that involves the legendary Tin Hinan - She of Tents - who crossed the desert on foot, and her beautiful descendant Mariata. Spanning years and the hot, shifting sands of the Salt Road, the intertwined stories of Izzy and Mariata become entangled with that of the ancient amulet, taking readers on an unforgettable journey."--Inside front cover.
