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-- Hundred-year-old man who climbed out the window and disappeared2012., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Fic Jon Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's still in good health, and one day, he turns 100. A big celebration is in the works, but Allan really isn't interested (and he'd like a bit more control over his alcohol consumption). So he decides to escape. He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey. It would be the adventure of a lifetime for anyone else, but Allan has a larger-than-life backstory: Not only has he witnessed some of the most important events of the twentieth century, he has actually played a key role in them...."--Publisher.
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-- Forty-four Scotland Street.2005., Anchor Books Call No: SC Fic McC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2006., Random House Call No: Fic Sht Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryConnect to Contributor biographical information Connect to Publisher description
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2014., Large Print Treasury Call No: LP Fic Twa Edition: Large print edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A nineteenth-century boy, floating down the Mississippi on a raft with a runaway slave, becomes involved with a feuding family, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt, who mistakes him for Tom.
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c2011., Insomniac Press Call No: MYS Fic Bid Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Russell Quant Volume: 1Summary Note: A gay wedding gone bad. A missing groom. An unsullied reputation at risk. Enter Russell Quant, cute, gay and rookie private detective.
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By Gaiman, Neilc2005., William Morrow Call No: Fic Gai Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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-- Angel makerc2012., General, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Har Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Avoiding the lifestyle of his late gangster father by working as a clock repairman, Joe Spork fixes an unusual device that turns out to be a former secret agent's doomsday machine and incurs the wrath of the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator.
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c2013., Adult, Freehand Books Call No: Fic Nix Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Meet Roslyn, the plucky divorcée eager for new beginnings. Meet Duncan, the British conman with a penchant for collecting ex-wives. Meet Floyd, the lovable, foul-mouthed contractor who can fix anyone's house except his own. Each drags behind a mess of family and friends, each desperately trying to be lucky. Are You Ready to be Lucky? mixes humour and heartbreak as the unruly Roslyn, Duncan, and Floyd relentlessly pursue happiness, trying again and again to get it right. In stunningly beautiful and energetic prose, Rosemary Nixon contemplates the chaos and absurdity of friendship, marriage, divorce, and betrayaland the astonishing complexities of luck and of love."--Back cover.
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2004., Vintage Canada Call No: SC Fic McC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Portuguese irregular verbs series.
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2014., General, Virago Call No: Fic Thi Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The village of Worsted is staging Hippolytus under the aegis of the indefatigable Mrs. Palmer. Given this background, it seems inevitable that the most absurd romances should bloom, as indeed they do. Thirkell's novels provide a scrutiny of British manners in the most entertaining doses.
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c2013., General, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Hia Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Andrew Yancy, late of the Miami Police, soon-to-be-late of the Key West Police, has a human arm in his freezer. There is a logical explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, his commander might relieve him of Health Inspector duties, aka Roach Patrol. But first Yancy will negotiate an ever-surprising course of events, from the Keys to Miami to a Bahamian out island, with a crew of equally ever-surprising characters, including: the twitchy widow of the frozen arm; an avariciously idiotic real estate developer; a voodoo witch whose lovers are blinded-unto-death by her particularly peculiar charms; Yancy's new love, a kinky medical examiner; and the eponymous Bad Monkey.
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2014., Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Call No: Fic Moo Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A collection of eight short stories includes "Debarking," in which a recently divorced man struggles to hold himself together as the United States prepares to invade Iraq; and "Foes," in which a political argument at a Georgetown fundraiser goes awry.
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2023., Adult, Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Fic For Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Frank Bascombe book. Volume: 5Summary Note: The final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe. Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great American midway. Now in the twilight of life, a man who has occupied many colorful lives-- sportswriter, father, husband, ex-husband, friend, real estate agent-- Bascombe finds himself in the most sorrowing role of all: caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winter odyssey to Mount Rushmore, Frank, in typical Bascombe fashion, faces down the mortality that is assured each of us, and in doing so confronts what happiness might signify at the end of days.
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c2013., General, Acorn Press Call No: QWF Fic Ell Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Novel takes us back to the early 1970s on the North Shore of Prince Edward Island, where a hilarious and colourful cast of Lorne Elliott characters are engaged in uproarious political, financial, musical, amorous, and ecological shenanigans. Our young hero, Christian, is an eloquently wry and precocious university drop-out, who has never savoured the wonders of women or alcohol. A budding naturalist raised in central Canada, he arrives on PEI for a summer job in the newly-established Barrisway National Park, and sets up camp on the beach. There, he becomes enmeshed in the struggles of the boisterous MacAkrin siblings to remain in their park-enclosed home, rivalries and lustful longings at park headquarters, and the skullduggeries of an Island political campaign. Lorne Elliott gloriously conjures the mischief and zaniness, the lovable rascals and lamentable rogues, of Island life behind the tourist posters. He deftly evokes the kindness and camaraderie of Islanders, and the Island's high-spirited revelry. Beach Reading transforms the Land of Anne and Avonlea into the land of Wallace MacAkrin, the Barley Boys, and Barrisway. "Come play on our Island," as the tourist slogan says, and you'll be laughing with bittersweet delight for days.
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1992, c1988., General, HarperPerennial Call No: Fic Kin Availability:0 of 1 At Your LibraryPublisher description