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Marilynne Robinson
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2008 | 1st ed. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 325 p. ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Fiction Robinson, M |
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p2008 | Macmillan Audio | 10 sound discs (12.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English |
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2008 | Thorndike Press | 525 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Large Type Fiction Robinson, M |
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Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack--the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years--comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain.
2) Housekeeping
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3 copies, 7 people are on the wait list. Additional copies on order.
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[2004], ©1980 | [1st Picador ed.] | Picador | 219 pages ; 21 cm. | English |
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3 copies, 7 people are on the wait list. Additional copies on order.
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p2005 | Audio Renaissance | 5 sound discs (5.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English |
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Ruthie and her younger sister, Lucille, grow toward adulthood under the untraditional care of Sylvie, the transient sister of their dead mother, in Fingerbone, the small Far West town on the glacial lake where their grandfather died in a train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff.
3) Gilead
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2004 | 1st ed. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 247 p. ; 22 cm. | English |
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3 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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4) Lila
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4 copies. Additional copies on order.
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Fiction Robinson, M
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Fiction Robinson, M
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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2014. | First edition. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 261 pages ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
4 copies. Additional copies on order.
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Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church -- the only available shelter from the rain -- and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the days of suffering that preceded her newfound security. Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by Doll, a canny young drifter, and...
5) Jack
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6 copies, 15 people are on the wait list. Additional copies on order.
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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2020. | First edition. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 309 pages ; 21 cm. | English |
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Marilynne Robinson's mythical world of Gilead, Iowa -- the setting of her novels Gilead, Home, and Lila, and now Jack -- and its beloved characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world. Jack is Robinson's fourth novel in this now-classic series. In it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gilead's Presbyterian minister, and...
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3 copies. Additional copies on order.
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814.54 Rob
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814.54 Rob
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2015. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 292 pages ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
3 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge 814.54 Rob Main 814.54 Rob Southside 814.54 Rob |
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The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency. As a culture we have become less interested in the exploration of the glorious mind, and more interested in creating technologies for material well-being. But while cultural pessimism is always fashionable, there is still much to give us hope. In The Givenness of Things, Marilynne Robinson delivers an impassioned critique of our contemporary society while arguing that reverence must...
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2012 | 1st ed. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | xvi, 206 p. ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge 814.54 Rob Main 814.54 Rob |
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In this new collection of incisive essays, Robinson returns to the themes which have preoccupied her work: the role of faith in modern life, the inadequacy of fact, the contradictions inherent in human nature.
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2018. | First edition. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | xiv, 315 pages ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
1 copy. Additional copies on order.
La Farge 814.54 Rob |
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A new essay collection assesses today's political climate and the mysteries of faith, from the influence of intellectual minds on society's political consciousness to the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life.
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1998 | Houghton Mifflin | 254 p. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
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When I Was a Child: A "When I Was a Child I read Books" Essat by Marilynne RobinsonMarilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, not only as a major American novelist, but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In When I Was a Child I Read Books she returns to and expands upon the themes which have preoccupied her work with renewed vigor.
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La Farge AV
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2008 | National Endowment for the Arts | 1 sound disc (51 min., 58 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
La Farge AV CD spoken 813.54 ROBINSON Southside AV CD spoken 813.54 ROBINSON |
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