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Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch -- obstetrician and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Clouds. It is also the story of his favorite orphan, Homer, who is never adopted.--
24) Fat city
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Fat City is a vivid novel of defiance and struggle, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. Stockton, California, is the novel's setting: the Lido Gym, the Hotel Coma, Main Street's lunchrooms and dark bars offer a temporary respite to the men and women whose backbreaking work in the fields barely allows them to make a living. When two men meet in the gym-the ex-boxer Billy Tully and...
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Now reissued, Michael Chabon's "New York Times" bestselling first novel is a funny, tender coming-of-age novel that introduces readers to Art Bechstein, a Holden Caulfield for the post-Boomer/pre-Gen X-er generation. Chabon's first novel was universally lauded as the arrival of a rare and remarkable new literary talent who has proved to be one of our most profound and original writers.
26) Angry boys
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3 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Chris Lilley amps up his acutely observed character-based comedy style and brings to life 6 new characters: identical twin brothers Daniel and Nathan Sims; former surfing World Champion Blake Oakfield; U.S. rapper S.mouse; Japanese mother and manager of skateboarding champion, Jen Okazaki; and Juvenile Justice Centre for boys Officer Ruth Sims, aka Gran.
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327 pages ; 25 cm
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"It is winter 1863, and Richard Shenstone, aged seventeen, has been sent down--'rusticated'--from Cambridge under a cloud of suspicion. Addicted to opium and tormented by sexual desire, he finds temporary refuge in a dilapidated old mansion on the southern English coast inhabited by his newly impoverished mother and his sister, Effie. Soon, graphic and threatening letters begin to circulate among his neighbors, and Richard finds himself the leading...
28) The Quincunx
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787 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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A young man searching for his origins is drawn from the Northern England countryside into the violent and corrupt London underworld of the late Regency.
29) Odysseus abroad
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"It is 1985. Twenty-two-year-old Ananda has been in London for two years, practicing at being a poet. He's homesick, thinks of himself as an inveterate outsider, and yet he can't help feeling that there's something romantic, even poetic, in his isolation. His uncle Radhesh, a magnificent failure who lives in genteel impoverishment and celibacy, has been in London for nearly three decades. [The novel] follows them on one of their weekly, familiar forays...
30) Lucky Per
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Everyman's library volume 390
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xli, 610 pages ; 22 cm.
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"A true neglected classic, this sweeping 1904 novel is a Modernist masterpiece and arguably "the great Danish novel"--But is only newly available in English. Lucky Per is a bildungsroman about the ambitious son of a clergyman who rejects his faith and flees his restricted life in the Danish countryside for the capital city. Per is a gifted young man who arrives in Copenhagen believing that "you had to hunt down luck as if it were a wild creature,...
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Law student Ben Joe Hawkes is a worrier. Raised by his mother, grandmother, and a flock of busy sisters, he's always felt the outsider. When he learns that one of his sisters has left her husband, he heads for home and back into the confusion of childhood memories and unforeseen love.
32) The mountain
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Since his mother's confinement to an institution, Andy has lived in the shadow of his stoic father. A family acquaintance, Dr. Wallace Fiennes, employs the introverted young man as a photographer to document an asylum tour advocating for his increasingly controversial lobotomy procedure. As the tour progresses and Andy witnesses the doctor's career and life unravel, he begins to identify with the institution's patients.
33) I vitelloni
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Criterion collection volume 246
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1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Italiano
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This film compassioniately details a year in the life of five young men lingering in post-adolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small town and struggling to find meaning in their lives.
35) James White
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1 videodisc (87 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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James White is a troubled twenty-something trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. He retreats further into a self-destructive, hedonistic lifestyle, but as his mother battles a serious illness James is forced to take control of his life. As the pressure on him mounts, James must find new reserves of strength or risk imploding completely.
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Alex Cross volume 32
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An airport killer targeting pilots expands his scope. Alex Cross Must Die. "Drop whatever you're doing, Detective Cross, and head to Reagan Airport," DC Metro Police dispatch says. "A jet just crashed and exploded on the runway. The chief and the FBI want you and John Sampson there pronto." Cross and Sampson race to the crash site. The plane didn't fail -- it was shot down by a stolen Vietnam War-era machine gun. The list of experts who can operate...
37) Chicago
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309 pages ; 22 cm
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"On the last day of summer, a young college grad moved to Chicago and rented a small apartment on the north side of the city, by the lake. This is the story of the five seasons he lived there, during which he meets gangsters, gamblers, policemen, a brave and garrulous bus driver, a cricket player, a librettist, his first girlfriend, a shy apartment manager, and many other riveting souls, not to mention a wise and personable dog of indeterminate breed....
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1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Korean
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Desperate to pay off mounting debts, a young man living in China agrees to carry out an assassination in South Korea. Soon the man finds himself at the center of a dangerous conspiracy as he begins to uncover a vicious trap of betrayal and lies.
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