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2023. Click to access digital title. Summary Note: In 1760, astronomer Guillaume le Gentil sets out on a quest through the oceans of India to document the transit of Venus. The weather is turbulent, the seas are rough, but his determination will conquer all. In 2012, divorced estate agent Xavier Lemercier discovers Guillaume’s telescope in one of his properties. While looking out across the city, the telescope falls upon the window of an intriguing woman with what appears to be a zebra in her apartment. Then the woman walks through the doors of Xavier’s office a few days later, and his life changes for evermore . . . Part swashbuckling adventure on the high seas and part modern-day love story set in the heart of Paris, An Astronomer in Love is a time-travelling tale of adventure, destiny and the power of love.
![An astronomer in love [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT103261.JPG "An astronomer in love [eBook]")
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-- Glengarry GlenRoss2002., Lionsgate Call No: DVD Fic Glengarry Edition: 10 year anniversary special ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A powerful story of desperation and betrayal set in the world of real estate. Times are tough in a New York real-estate office; the salesmen (Shelley Levene, Ricky Roma, Dave Moss, and George Aaronow) are given a strong incentive by Blake to succeed in a sales contest. The prizes? First prize is a Cadillac Eldorado, second prize is a set of steak knives, third prize is the sack! There is no room for losers in this dramatically masculine world; only "closers" will get the good sales leads. There is a lot of pressure to succeed, so a robbery is committed which has unforeseen consequences for all the characters.
![Glengarry Glen Ross [DVD] (1992). Directed by James Foley.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Glengarry Glen Ross [DVD] (1992). Directed by James Foley.")
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2017., Adult, Arachnide Call No: Fic Bri Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Tessa is a real estate agent who adores her family, but she is deeply unhappy and questioning her choices. As the day of a long-awaited meeting with her ex-boyfriend draws closer Tessa has to decide if she is willing to disrupt her loving family life for an uncertain future."--From publisher.
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2014., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Fic For Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A quartet of masterful novellas that returns Richard Ford to the territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the life of Frank Bascombe, hero of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel INDEPENDENCE DAY. A moving, peerlessly funny odyssey through America and through the layered consciousness of one of its most compelling literary incarnations, the four stories bear Bascombe's unmistakable and now-famous imprint: a comic sensibility at odds with the minutiae of everyday human dismay and bewilderment.
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2019., WigglesWorth Press Call No: QWF MYS Fic Sri Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Unreal Estate Series Volume: 1Summary Note: Mandy-Lynn Snow is not your run-of-the-mill real estate agent. If you are trying to sell a property that is haunted, cursed, or a former insane asylum, Mandy-Lynn is the real estate agent for you. She will exorcise those 'hidden defects' faster than you can say, "Is that a really bad paint job? Or are the walls bleeding?" Unless things go horribly wrong, of course.
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-- Toronto series2012., ECW Press Series Title: Toronto seriesSummary Note: Includes the novels Dirty Sweet, Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, and Swap. Road rage or a premeditated killing? Dirty Sweet is a fast-paced crime story that follows each character to a surprising end. In Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, detective Gord Bergeron has problems. Maybe it's his new partner, Ojibwa native Detective Armstrong. Or maybe it's the missing ten-year-old girl, or the unidentified torso dumped in an alley behind a motel, or what looks like corruption deep within the police force. In Swap, Toronto's shadow city sprawls outwards, a grasping and vicious economy of drugs, guns, sex, and gold bullion. And that shadow city feels just like home for Get a Detroit boy, project-raised, ex-army, Iraq and Afghanistan, only signed up for the business opportunities, plenty of them over there. Now he's back, and he's been sent up here by his family to sell guns to Toronto's fast-rising biker gangs.
![Toronto series bundle [eBook] : includes the novels Dirty sweet, Everybody knows this is nowhere, and Swap](/Library/images/~imageCT76867.JPG "Toronto series bundle [eBook] : includes the novels Dirty sweet, Everybody knows this is nowhere, and Swap")