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9681) Book Group Bag: Brooklyn
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Leaving her home in post-World War II Ireland to work as a bookkeeper in Brooklyn, Eilis Lacey discovers a new romance in America with a charming blond Italian man before devastating news threatens her happiness.
9682) My brilliant friend
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"HBO's four-season TV adaptation of My Brilliant Friend has enjoyed success with critics and viewers in the U.S.; the novel has been adapted for the stage and radio plays. Here, for the first time, it is brought to vivid life as a graphic novel by one of Italy's most beloved illustrators. For Ferrante fans, for those new to Ferrante, for readers of graphic novels, Chiara Lagani's and Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend: the graphic novel is a thrilling...
9684) Good girls
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Two sisters are at lifelong odds with each other, their mother, and themselves, and as every hour becomes more twisted than the last, they are all pushed to their breaking point.
9685) Shutter Island
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A U.S. Marshal and his partner come to Shutter Island's Ashcliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but instead, uncover true wickedness as Ashcliffe's mysterious patient treatments propel them to the brink of insanity.
9686) No longer human
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"'Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.' Plagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm in arm with death. Osamu Dazai's immortal, and supposedly autobiographical work...
9687) Alice Bliss
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When Alice Bliss learns that her father is being deployed to Iraq, she's heartbroken. Alice idolizes her father, loves working beside him in their garden, accompanying him on the occasional roofing job, playing baseball. When he ships out, Alice is faced with finding a way to fill the emptiness he has left behind. Matt will miss seeing his daughter blossom from a tomboy into a full-blown teenager. Alice will learn to drive, join the track team, go...
9688) Holy Hannah
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"Hannah, a successful tech entrepreneur, decides to drop out of society and create a new social app, 'Know Me.' She's invited to test the app on a small religious community, the Church of Love and Devotion. The results go way beyond any intended consequences as lines separating the self, technology, and belief become blurred and lead to religious cult indoctrination. Loosely inspired by the life of the notorious Jim Jones and updated for the social...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Tuesday, September 11, 2001 started as just another beautiful day. At 8:47am, the city would be jolted into its worst nightmare as a chain of tragic events unfolded, changing the lives of New Yorkers and Americans forever. People from 115 different countries died at the World Trade Center. Film features still photographs and video from 118 individuals and 16 news agencies, much of it never-before seen, from in and around New York City. The attack...
9690) To your eternity: 14
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
English edition; Kodansha Comics edition.
Language
English
Description
In a new age, Fushi befriends a teenager named Yuki. In the comforting safety of Yuki's home, Fushi gathers his comrades one last time. As the days pass, Fushi also meets a descendent of Hayase named Mizuha. He laughs, feasts, and ponders what new emotions and encounters await. Before long, however, a troubling encounter sends ripples of doubt through his quiet life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Meet Violet -- a young witch whose parents were murdered by a necromancer when she was a child. Running from country to country, as well as from herself, Violet never gets a chance to fully process her traumatic experience. Then, at age 19, her life takes a dramatic turn. Violet begins training at the Underworld Intelligence Agency in hopes of becoming a Dark Agent -- someone tasked with keeping the balance between the world of the living and the...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Billie Scott is an artist. Her debut gallery exhibition opens in a few months. Within a fortnight she'll be completely blind. As Billie struggles to deal with her impending blindness, she sets off on a journey from Middlesbrough to London; into a world of post-austerity Britain and the problems facing those left behind."--
9695) Offshore lightning
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of manga short stories about aging and death. Anxiety and longing suffuse incisive portraits of post-war Japan."--
9696) Gatsby
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
An epic rager based on a timeless classic--welcome to the new Roaring '20s with GATSBY! When middle-class Singaporean student Lu Zhao spends a summer on Long Island with his rich cousin Tommy, his assimilation into the opulent American lifestyle straps him into a collision course fueled by designer drugs, sex, deceit, and murder. GATSBY reimagines F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel as an LGBTQ-tinged, multicultural thriller for the Internet age....
9697) Dexter
Author
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
It's an all-new Dexter adventure--his first time in comic book form--written by his creator, Jeff Lindsay! Dexter Morgan isn't just Miami's #1 forensic blood splatter expert. He's also a serial killer...who targets other serial killers! But now, the deeply damaged Dexter must face two of his worst nightmares: his high school reunion, and a former classmate with a secret that could destroy him! And as if that weren't enough, Dexter and his detective...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A woman doctor is murdered in Los Angeles, her death predicted by the mumbling of a killer while in a drugged state. But the killer is locked in an asylum, he therefore must have an accomplice on the outside. Forensic psychologist Alex Delaware investigates.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
[Abridged].
Language
English
Description
Beyond reach: When the charred body of a woman is found, and Detective Lena Adams is charged with homicide, Grant County's medical examiner/pediatrician Sara Linton joins forces with her husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, to uncover the truth about a case that is poisoning a small town with hatred.
Fractured: Detective Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation takes on the case of a girl who has been savagely murdered in one of Atlanta's...
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