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-- Being Erica.2009., Adult, E1 Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Being E 1 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Being Erica Volume: 1Summary Note: "We all have regrets and we've all made mistakes. But what if you could go back in time and fix them? Erica Strange can - and desperately needs to. She's 32 years old and facing a premature mid-life crisis. With no boyfriend, no job, no prospects, her life is in shambles, and she often blames her past mistakes for her current predicament. Enter Dr. Tom. Part therapist, part mysterious rogue, he comes into Erica's life at a time when nothing seems to be going right for her and offers one simple proposition: whatever she is unhappy about, he can fix it. And with that they begin their extraordinary journey together, as he sends Erica back in time to excavate her past, to relive her regrets, and to make different choices this time around."--Container.
![Being Erica, season 1 [DVD]. Season one.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Being Erica, season 1 [DVD]. Season one.")
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c2015., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: Fic Hum Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Resigned to living out the Second World War in a German POW camp, James Hunter, an English officer, begins studying a pair of redstarts near the camp. His interest in the birds captures the attention of the Kommandant and gives James cause to fear for his life. Meanwhile, back in England, James's young wife, Rose, falls headlong into a passionate affair with another man. When James's sister, Enid, is bombed out of her London flat, she comes to stay with Rose, and the two women form a surprising friendship that alters the course of both of their lives.
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By Seguin, Marc2021., Exile Editions Call No: QWF Fic Ség Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This is a profound and moving novel that ponders family and home through the reflections of an intriguing protagonist whose very real troubles are offset by bright flashes of hope. Truth or fiction? In A Fine Line Marc Séguin offers the reader an irresistible torn-from-life story about friendship, art, sex, and love as he revisits the boy, the adolescent, and the young man he once was - all three tormented by incessant worry, they now haunt the renowned painter, film director, and author he has become. His striking reflections - shaped by deaths, confessions put to the test, a friendship destroyed, and memories of the beautiful Arielle - masterfully punctuate this story about a man who regrets not having loved enough... or perhaps having loved too late.
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-- 5 daysc2013., Adult, Hutchinson Call No: Fic Ken Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Becoming jaded by her hospital lab work and feeling estranged from her distant husband, Laura attends a conference in Boston and unexpectedly connects with a surprisingly complex man who is struggling to choose between his desires and obligations.
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c2012., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Fau Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes and pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket ground in Hampshire. Across the courtyard in a Victorian workhouse, a father is too ashamed to acknowledge his son. A skinny girl steps out of a Chevy with a guitar and sings four songs that send shivers through the skull. Through desperation and desire, soldiers and lovers, parents and children, scientists and musicians risk their bodies and hearts in search of a connection -- some key to understanding what makes us the people we become. Provocative and profound, Sebastian Faulks' dazzling novel journeys across continents and time to explore the chaos created by love, separation and missed opportunities.
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c2013., Adult, Little, Brown and company Call No: Fic Nad Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Almost overnight, Arthur Wise has become one of the wealthiest and most powerful attorneys in America. His first big purchase is a simple beach house in a place called Bluepoint, a town on the far edge of the flexed arm of Cape Cod. It's in Bluepoint, during the summer of 1952, that Arthur's teenage son, Hilly, makes friends with Lem Dawson, a black man whose job it is to take care of the house but whose responsibilities quickly grow. When Hilly finds himself falling for Lem's niece, Savannah, his affection for her collides with his father's dark secrets. The results shatter his family, and hers. Years later, haunted by his memories of that summer, Hilly sets out to find Savannah, in an attempt to right the wrongs he helped set in motion. But can his guilt, and his good intentions, overcome the forces of history, family, and identity? A beautifully told multigenerational story about love and regret.
