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-- Forty-four Scotland Street.2005., Anchor Books Call No: SC Fic McC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2014., General, Amy Einhorn Books, G. P. Putnams Sons Call No: Fic Mos Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Self-doubting Ruth is coddled by her immigrant mother, who uses food to soothe and control. Defiant Francesca believes her heavy frame shames her Park Avenue society mother and, to provoke her, consumes everything in sight. Lonely Opal longs to be included in her glamorous mother's dinner dates - until a disturbing encounter forever changes her desires. Finally, Setsu, a promising violinist, staves off conflict with her jealous brother by allowing him to take the choicest morsels from her plate - and from her future. College brings the four young women together as suitemates, where their stories and appetites collide. Here they make a pact to maintain their friendships into adulthood, but each must first find strength and her own way in the world.
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2006., Anchor Books Call No: SC Fic McC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Between glances in the mirror, vain Bruce contemplates a new career as a wine merchant. His troubled flatmate Pat finds herself looking for true love at a nudist picnic. Precocious Bertie, now six years old, prepares for kindergarten despite the horror of being forced to wear pink overalls. Meanwhile, his domineering mother Irene and his psychotherapist Dr. Fairbairn struggle with dark secrets as Bertie plots his rebellion against them.
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c2005., Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Local S Edition: Widescreen ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Pacino, an actor's vision.Summary Note: Graham is an East-End Englishman with a bitter obsession for Greyhound racing and celebrity. His roommate, Ray, although less passionate by nature, tries to help Graham win satisfaction as he pursues strangely deviant acts. When the pair meets a famous film actor, Graham tests Ray's loyalty by suggesting they attack the man.
![The local stigmatic [DVD] (1990). Directed by David Wheeler.](/Library/images/~imageCT72779.JPG "The local stigmatic [DVD] (1990). Directed by David Wheeler.")
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2021., Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic Call No: Fic Par Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover editition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Love in the Big City is an energetic, joyful, and moving novel that depicts both the glittering nighttime world of Seoul and the bleary-eyed morning-after. Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. He and Jaehee, his female best friend and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they push away their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and ice-cold Marlboro Reds that they keep in their freezer. Yet over time, even Jaehee leaves Young to settle down, leaving him alone to care for his ailing mother and to find companionship in his relationships with a series of men, including one whose handsomeness is matched by his coldness, and another who might end up being the great love of his life.
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2014, c2012., General, Vintage Canada Call No: SC Fic McC Edition: Vintage Canada ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: 44 Scotland Street series Volume: 8Summary Note: The 8th installment in the popular series, following BERTIE PLAYS THE BLUES. Scotland Street witnesses the wedding of the century of Angus Lordie to Domenica Macdonald, but as the newlyweds depart on their honeymoon, Edinburgh is in disarray. While recovering from the trauma of being best man, Matthew is taken up by a Dane called Bo. Cyril eludes his dog-sitter and embarks on an odyssey involving fox-holes and the official residence of a cardinal. Narcissist Bruce meets his match in the form of a sinister doppelganger. Bertie, set up by his mother for fresh embarrassment at school, yearns for freedom, and Big Lou goes viral.
