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vii, 363 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Tristram St. Lawrence has not been home for years--ever since he missed his mother's deathbed in favor of going on a bender, the thirteenth Earl of Howth is not welcome in the family castle. Now sober, he lives an itinerant life in self-imposed exile, and his main confidant is his sponsor, a mysterious businessman who Tristram knows only as M. Deauville. One day, when his plane is unexpectedly diverted to Dublin, Tristram ends up where he started,...
5) Fallen land
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406 pages ; 24 cm
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English
Description
"Poplar Farm has been in Louise's family for generations, inherited by her sharecropping forbearer from a white landowner after a lynching. Now the farm has been carved up, the trees torn down-- a mini-massacre replicating the history of many farms before it, and the destruction of lives and societies taking place all across America. Architect of this destruction is Paul Krovik, a property developer soon driven insane by the failure of his ambition....
6) The castle
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1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A middle-class family living in Melbourne, Australia fights against the local government when they are told to abandon their family home in order to allow a nearby airport to expand.
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331 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"In 1971, a property speculator named Harley Mann begins recording his life story onto a reel-to-reel machine. Reflecting on his childhood in the early 20th century, Harley recounts that after his father's sudden death, his family migrated down to Florida-mere miles away from what would become Disney World-to join a community of Shakers. Led by Elder John, a generous man with a mysterious past, the colony devoted itself to labor, faith, and charity,...
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399 pages ; 21 cm
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English
Description
Calling on his gift for revealing the unexpected dangers just below the surface of ordinary life, Charles Baxter focuses now on the Michigan town of Five Oaks and that precarious border where personal love and social responsibility intersect. At the center of Shadow Play is a Faustian contract made when Wyatt Palmer, the young assistant city manager of Five Oaks, meets up with a former classmate, Jerry Schwartzwalder, an ominous modern version of...
10) Bloody bones
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Language
English
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Anita must juggle two jobs raising an entire graveyard and finding out what happened to three teenagers.
12) Dead of winter
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Series
August Snow volume 3
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Authentico Foods Inc. has been a part of Detroit's Mexican town for over thirty years, grown from a home kitchen business to a city-block-long facility that supplies Mexican tortillas to restaurants throughout the Midwest. Detroit ex-cop and Mexican town native August Snow has been invited for a business meeting at Authentico Foods. Its owner, Ronaldo Ochoa, is dying, and is being blackmailed into selling the company to an anonymous entity. Worried...
13) Uptown
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viii, 331 pages ; 21 cm
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English
Description
Uptown dives into the high-rolling world of Manhattan real estate. When money, power, and respect are at stake, a Harlem family's bonds are strained to the breaking point.
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1 videodisc (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
When a Chicano handyman from the Milagro Valley decides to irrigate his small beanfield by " borrowing" some water from a large and potentially destructive development site, he sets off a chain reaction that erupts into a humorous culture clash.
18) The water room
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Series
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356 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Arthur Bryant and John May of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit investigate when an elderly woman is found dead inside her own home with her lungs filled with river water, and they encounter a killer with a unique motive for murder.
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Series
Serge Storms novel volume 25
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Serge A. Storms and his permanently baked sidekick, Coleman, have decided to pump the brakes and live on island time. After years of manic road tripping across their beloved Sunshine State, the irrepressible anti-heroes drop anchor in the Florida Keys. They settle down in Pelican Bay, a thriving condo complex with scenic views and friendly neighbors. But the community is at war with investors who are buying up units and leasing them to young vacationers...
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