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-- Mad about the boyc2013., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Fie Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A new phase of Bridget's life set in contemporary London, including the challenges of maintaining sex appeal as the years roll by and the nightmare of drunken texting, the skinny jean, the disastrous e-mail cc, total lack of Twitter followers, and TVs that need 90 buttons and three remotes to simply turn on.
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2014., DC Books Call No: QWF Fic Rad Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Delia, an independent-minded Montreal woman of sixty and sexually experienced, leaves her married lover to go on a cruise along the Volga and enters into a forbidden but lustful and satisfying liaison with Kostya, a young member of the ship's crew. Kostya, looking out for the best opportunity to leave his country, is in it for more than erotic pleasures, something Delia understands and acts accordingly. Inappropriate dalliance, however, on board and ports of call in a Russia at war with Chechnya is not the sole narrative engine of this acutely written novel. Memory and identity, the inexorable passing of time, and the desire to be more in imagination than in actuality, are driving motivators in the lives of such characters as the brilliantly conceived, and possibly lunatic Frank, an elderly gentleman who believes himself to be the son of the murdered tsarevitch Alexis and has designs on Delia. Kostya's colourful mother and the mysterious, threatening man who seems to follow Delia also have their own plans. It's Not Over Till It's Over is a novel about choices, sex, living life on unfamiliar terrain, and the courage to act according to one's desires, the consequences be damned, although discretion is always advisable, if not always followed.
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2017., Adult, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: Fic Aci Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A passionate portrait of love's contradictory power, in five illuminating stories André Aciman, who has been called 'the most exciting new fiction writer of the twenty-first century' (New York magazine), has written a novel that chronicles the life of Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and covetous throughout his life as they were in adolescence. Whether in southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents' cabinetmaker; or on a snowbound campus in New England, where his enduring passion for a girl he'll meet again and again over the years is counterpointed by anonymous encounters with other men; or on a tennis court in Central Park; or on a sidewalk in early spring in New York, his attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire--not for just one person's body but, inevitably, for someone else's as well. In charting the most inscrutable corners of desire, Aciman proves to be an unsparing reader of the human psyche, soul, and libido, and a master stylist ofcontemporary literature. With language at once lyrical, bare-knuckled, and unabashedly candid in Enigma Variations, he casts a sensuous, shimmering light over each facet of desire to probe how we ache, want, and waver, and ultimately how we sometimes falter and let go of the very ones who may want only to offer what we crave from them. Behind every step the hero takes, his hopes, denials, fears, and regrets are ready to lay their traps. Yet the dream of love casts its luminous halo. We may not know whatwe want. We may remain enigmas to ourselves and others. But sooner or later we discover who we've always known we were."--From publisher.
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[2015]., Independent Film Call No: DVD Fic Falling Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Lydia and Abbie are best friends experiencing a sexual awakening at an English girls' school. Following a tragedy, a mysterious fainting epidemic threatens the stability of all involved.
![The falling [DVD] (2015). Directed by Carol Morley.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "The falling [DVD] (2015). Directed by Carol Morley.")