Search Results: Returned 6 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 6
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1998., Warner Books Call No: BLK Fic Hop Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A fantasy novel of urban decay whose heroine turns to Afro-Caribbean magic to help a boyfriend escape gangs. The gangs are enforcing a contract to produce a human heart for transplant, even if the boyfriend has to kill for it. The setting is a futuristic Toronto.
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-- Maf the dog, and of his friend Marilyn Monroec2010., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: SC Fic Oha Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe transports us back to a moment when the worlds of politics, film, and art collided, and the decade that came to be known as "the Sixties" was born".
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2019., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Rus Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Quichotte, an aging travelling salesman obsessed with TV, is on a quest for love. Unfortunately, his daily diet of reality TV, sitcoms, films, soaps, comedies and dramas has distorted his ability to separate fantasy from reality. He wishes an imaginary son, Sancho, into existence, while obsessively writing love letters to a celebrity he knows only through his screen. Together the two innocents set off across America in Quichotte's trusty Chevy Cruze to find her and convince her of his love. Quichotte's story is told by Brother, a mediocre spy novelist in the midst of a midlife crisis, and as the stories of Brother and Quichotte intertwine, we are taken on a wild, picaresque journey through a familiar country on the edge of moral and spiritual collapse."--Publisher.
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By Aitken, Willc2000., Vintage Canada Call No: Fic Ait Edition: Vintage Canada edition, 2001. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Louise Painchaud, a lanky lusty Albertan is hired as an English language coach by the School of Heartful Purity in Japan, an institution dedicated to staging kitschy Western musicals with all-girl casts. This is the Japan of the eighties, flush with money, wild with possibility, and afflicted with a severe case of self-worship-expressed most vividly in the country's adoration of a slim golden pop star named Oro. The gaijin giantess ends up playing Eurydice to the tiny Oro's Orpheus in a love affair that scandalizes the nation. A sexy, funny, irreverent work of fiction, Realia, explores how pop culture becomes contemporary myth, and how ancient myth still feeds the heart of pop culture.
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2012., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Shi Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Winn Van Meter is heading for the wedding of his daughter on the New England island of Waskeke. The arrangements are sideswept by a storm of salacious misbehavior and intractable lust.
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2022., BenBella Books, Inc. Call No: NEW 813.54 E53u Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvented the young adult genre with a blistering portrayal of sex, psychosis, and teenage self-destruction. The supposed diary of a middle-class addict, Go Ask Alice terrified adults and cemented LSD's fearsome reputation, fueling support for the War on Drugs. Five million copies later, Go Ask Alice remains a divisive bestseller, outraging censors and earning new fans, all of them drawn by the book's mythic premise: A Real Diary, by Anonymous. But Alice was only the beginning. In 1979, another diary rattled the culture, setting the stage for a national meltdown. The posthumous memoir of an alleged teenage Satanist, Jay's Journal merged with a frightening new crisis—adolescent suicide—to create a literal witch hunt, shattering countless lives and poisoning whole communities. In reality, Go Ask Alice and Jay's Journal came from the same dark place: Beatrice Sparks, a serial con artist who betrayed a grieving family, stole a dead boy's memory, and lied her way to the National Book Awards. Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries is a true story of contagious deception. It stretches from Hollywood to Quantico, and passes through a tiny patch of Utah nicknamed "the fraud capital of America." It's the story of a doomed romance and a vengeful celebrity. Of a lazy press and a public mob. Of two suicidal teenagers, and their exploitation by a literary vampire.
