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      -- Hundred-year-old man who climbed out the window and disappeared
      By Jonasson, Jonas, 1961-
       2012., 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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      By Berthiaume, Marc A
       2022., First Choice Call No: QWF Fic Ber    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: After witnessing the death of a loved one, Caroline embarks on a road trip. She is spurred on by a familiar calling, a hope of cleansing her consciousness, of taking a spirit walk. With no true destination, Caroline drives around the United States in her Mercedes Benz. On her travels, she crosses paths with many different people, each with their own story to tell. However, unbeknownst to Caroline, when she leaves to continue her journey, their journey ends. In a chance encounter in New Mexico, she meets Elisa, a young girl working in a coffee shop. Against Caroline’s better instinct, Elisa joins her for the last leg of the journey, as Caroline heads back to her home in Maine. However, with Elisa along for the ride, things take a different turn. Caroline’s path, her spirit walk, will finally become clearer as she reaches the end of this, her Homeric voyage. This is not a ghost story, nor is it a horror story. For buried within is a story of love, of what we do for it and how far we would go for it.
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      By Saramago, José
       2010., Adult, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Fic Sar   Edition: 1st U.S. ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "In 1551, King Joô III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon. The elephant<U+2019>s journey from Lisbon to Vienna was witnessed and remarked upon by scholars, historians, and ordinary people. Out of this material, José Saramago has spun a novel already heralded as 'a triumph of language, imagination, and humor' (El País). Solomon and his keeper, Subhro, begin in dismal conditions, forgotten in a corner of the palace grounds. When it occurs to the king and queen that an elephant would be an appropriate wedding gift, everyone rushes to get them ready: Subhro is given two new suits of clothes and Solomon a long overdue scrub. Accompanied by the Archduke, his new wife, and the royal guard, our unlikely heroes traverse a continent riven by the Reformation and civil wars. They make their way through the storied cities of northern Italy: Genoa, Piacenza, Mantua, Verona, Venice, and Trento, where the Council of Trent is in session. They brave the Alps and the terrifying Isarco and Brenner Passes; they sail across the Mediterranean Sea and up the Inn River (elephants, it turns out, are natural sailors). At last they make their grand entry into the imperial city. The Elephant<U+2019>s Journey is a delightful, witty tale of friendship and adventure."--Publisher.
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      By Rioux, Hélène  Kaplansky, Jonathan
       2022., Guernica Editions Call No: QWF Fic Rio   Edition: 1st ed..    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Essential translations;   Volume: 56Summary Note: Autumnal equinox. The End of the World sails on the Aegean Sea. Aboard is Marjolaine, a cook who recently lost her job at a greasy spoon. She rubs shoulders with chess players, a bookseller, a retired professor, a romance novelist, a blue-haired singer ... Meanwhile, elsewhere on the planet, people play cards, while others celebrate, read, dream or cry, and still others die. All these lives intersect, meet up again, disappear, and above all tell us that there is not only one truth. In The End of the World is Elsewhere, volume four of her Fragments of the World tetralogy, Hélène Rioux creates an intricate and complex novel filled with topical issues and references to history and literature.
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      By Hooper, Emma
       c2015., General, Hamish Hamilton Call No: Fic Hoo    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: 82-year-old Etta has never seen the ocean. So early one morning she takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots, and begins walking the 3,232 kilometres from Saskatchewan to Halifax. Her husband Otto wakes to a note left on the kitchen table. I will try to remember to come back, Etta writes. Russell, raised as a brother to Otto, has loved Etta from afar for 60 years. He insists on finding Etta, wherever she's gone. Leaving his farm will be the first act of defiance in his whole life.