Search Results: Returned 11 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 11
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2017., Guernica Editions Call No: QWF Fic She Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Essential prose series Volume: 135.Summary Note: "The Alcoholic's Daughter, a story of a man's quandary living with a celebrated woman who in the privacy of their life manifests dozens of personality disorders brought on by growing up with a hard drinking, abusive father. The well known woman appears normal to everyone, except her husband who endures all manner of abuse and frustrations due to her plethora of hidden phobias and neuroses. It is a tale of an alcoholic's legacy but also what price someone is willing to pay for love and how he finds himself in jail once he decides to leave her."--
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c2014., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Haw Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A nail-biting, stealthy psychological thriller about human frailty and obsession. Rachel takes the same commuter train every day, rattling over the same junctions, flashing past the same townhouses. The train stops at the same signal every day, and she sees the same couple, breakfasting on their roof terrace. Jason and Jess, as she calls them, seem so happy. Then one day Rachel sees someone new in their garden. Soon after, Rachel sees the woman she calls Jess on the news. Jess has disappeared. Through the ensuing police investigation, Rachel is drawn deeper into the lives of the couple.
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[2017]., Adult, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Girl T Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Rachel is unemployed and devastated by a recent divorce. She fills her time with drinking, riding the commuter train, and fantasizing about a seemingly perfect couple the train passes by every day. Then one morning, Rachel sees something shocking that unravels her and entangles her in an unfolding mystery.
![The girl on the train [DVD] (2016). Directed by Tate Taylor](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "The girl on the train [DVD] (2016). Directed by Tate Taylor")
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2023., Adult, Kino Lorber Call No: NEW DVD Fic Juniper Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Ruth is a worldly former war correspondent now bored in retirement with a drinking problem and a newly fractured leg. Sam is her unruly grandson, recently kicked out of boarding school and grieving the death of his mother. When the two are brought together under the same roof, they form an unexpected bond.
![Juniper [DVD] (2023) Directed by Matthew J. Saville](/Library/images/~imageCT103320.JPG "Juniper [DVD] (2023) Directed by Matthew J. Saville")
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c2012., Adult, House of Anansi Call No: Fic Cro Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The stories told here are at once a cache, a repository, of a seven-year period in the author's life; and, too, a gymnasium, a place where she can flex her prodigious wit and her dazzling stash of literary tricks. Deft with matters both low- and highbrow (here are stories about 80s big-hair bands and the lasting, theological value of the Rocky series; here, too are stories contemplating critical theory and fine art), 'Life Is About Losing Everything' speaks with manic yet grave authority about risking and losing everything, and then sorting through the remains to discover what is beautiful, what is trash, and what, ultimately, belongs.
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-- Martyr! :By Akbar, Kaveh2024., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: NEW Fic Akb Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.
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-- Prime suspect.2010, p1991., Adult, Acorn Media Call No: DVD Fic PrimeS 1 Edition: Full screen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Prime suspect Volume: 1Summary Note: "Tennison seizes the opportunity to head a murder investigation--something she should have done long ago, had she not been passed over by her male superiors time and again. With a suspect already identified and her own team openly hostile, she uncovers errors and conflicting facts that point to a coverup within the force."--Container.
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-- Prime suspect.2010, p1996., Adult, Acorn Media Call No: DVD Fic PrimeS 5 Edition: Full screen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Prime suspect Volume: 5Summary Note: Tennison relocates to the Greater Manchester Police for a stint as a community relations officer at local schools. Later she is assigned the shooting case of a young drug dealer, and she pegs a corrupt local drug lord as the killer. Somehow he stays one step ahead of her investigation. Is he getting inside information?.
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By Mina, Denise2007., Back Bay Books Edition: eBook ed. Series Title: Garnethill trilogy.Summary Note: In the unforgettable conclusion to Denise Mina's Garnethill trilogy, Maureen O'Donnell, plagued by her past and struggling to quit drinking, must finally confront two more trying situations: her testimony against her boyfriend's murderer and the return of her abusive father. As the trial nears, Maureen finds herself in the most difficult--and dangerous--time of her life yet.
![Resolution [eBook] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT76478.JPG "Resolution [eBook] : a novel")
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2020., Grove Press Call No: SC Fic Stu Edition: First edition. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's war on heavy industry has put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for his artistic brother and practical sister. She dreams of a house with its own front door while she flicks through the pages of the Freemans catalogue, ordering a little happiness on credit, anything to brighten up her grey life. Married to a "whoremaster" of a husband, Agnes keeps her pride by looking good - her beehive, make-up, and pearly-white false teeth offer a glamourous image of a Glaswegian Elizabeth Taylor. But under the surface, Agnes finds increasing solace in drink, and she drains away the lion's share of each week's benefits - all the family has to live on - on cans of extra-strong lager hidden in handbags and poured into tea mugs. Agnes's older children find their own ways to get a safe distance from their mother, abandoning Shuggie to look after her as she swings between alcoholic binges and sobriety. He is meanwhile doing all he can to somehow become the normal boy he desperately longs to be, but everyone has realized that Shuggie is "no right," and now Agnes's addiction has the power to eclipse everyone close to her-even and especially her beloved Shuggie." --
