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  • Walt
    Author:
    Wangersky, Russell
    Summary:

    From critically acclaimed author Russell Wangersky, comes a dark, psychological thriller about a man named Walt, a grocery store cleaner who collects the shopping lists people leave in the store and discard without thought. In his...
  • The Sirena quest
    Author:
    Kahn, Michael A.
    Summary:

    The New York Times Sunday Magazine piece famously opened: “She has pouting lips and high round breasts. Thousands of men have dreamt of her. Hundreds have chased after her. Two have died in pursuit. Her name is Sirena, she weighs 193...
  • The Sense of an Ending
    Author:
    Barnes, Julian
    Summary:

    Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less 6th form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than...
  • The sea
    Author:
    Banville, John
    Summary:

    When Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. Mr and Mrs Grace and their twin children Myles and Chloe appeared that long...
  • The lonely polygamist
    Author:
    Udall, Brady
    Summary:

    This novel tells of Golden Richards, a man who, despite having four wives and 28 children, hasn't quite found fulfillment in life. And even after he falls in love again and takes a mistress, life continues to fall short of expectations...
  • The girl before, the girl after
    Author:
    Hébert, Louis-Philippe
    Summary:

    The Girl Before, the Girl After is the story of a man who would rather remain anonymous. The boutique where used to work has been condemned, and so has the house where he rented a room, torn down to make way for a luxury hotel. His...
  • The full ridiculous
    Author:
    Lamprell, Mark
    Summary:

    A funny, compelling novel about love, family, and the precarious business of being a man. Michael O’Dell is hit by a car. When he doesn’t die, he is surprised and pleased. But he can’t seem to move from the crash position. In fact, the...
  • The franchise babe
    Author:
    Jenkins, Dan
    Summary:

    Fortysomething sportswriter Jack Brannon is bored to tears with the men's tour. So he decides to check out Ginger Clayton, the hot, new franchise babe on the ladies' links. Things get interesting in a hurry, as it becomes clear somebody...
  • Solar : a novel
    Author:
    McEwan, Ian.
    Summary:

    When Nobel prize-winning physicist Michael Beard's personal and professional lives begin to intersect in unexpected ways, an opportunity presents itself in the guise of an invitation to travel to New Mexico. Here is a chance for...
  • Seize the day
    Author:
    Bellow, Saul
    Summary:

    Tommy Wilhelm is separated from his family, at odds with his father, failed in his career, and in a financial mess. One climactic day, while he reviews his past mistakes, a mysterious con man grants him a moment of truth and...
  • Schmidt delivered
    Author:
    Begley, Louis
    Summary:

    Albert Schmidt, proud traditional gentleman and lawyer of the old school, was almost down for the count. His beloved wife was dead, he had stumbled into early retirement, and relations with his cherished and perfectly bred daughter...
  • My year of running dangerously
    Author:
    Foreman, Tom.
    Summary:

    As a journalist whose career spans three decades, CNN correspondent Tom Foreman has reported from the heart of war zones, riots, and natural disasters. He has interviewed serial killers and been in the line of fire. But the most...
  • Lunch at the Piccadilly
    Author:
    Edgerton, Clyde
    Summary:

    Lil Olive, the leader of a group of feisty elderly women, decides that she is restless at the Rosehaven nursing home. Lil and her friends need some excitement in their dull lives. So, the group of women steal a car and hit the road in...
  • Lolita
    Author:
    Nabokov, Vladimir
    Summary:

    When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause célèbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant...
  • Les glaces
    Author:
    Déraspe, Rébecca
    Summary:

    Quand Noémie apprend que son fils, son Théo, est accusé d'agression sexuelle, elle est aspirée par la vague et forcée de replonger dans ses traumas. Parce que si la tête peut faire croire à l'exil de la souffrance, le corps,...
  • La Rose morte
    Author:
    Rigelhof, Terry, Steenhout, Ivan
    Summary:

    Après des années passées à jouer de la basse dans un groupe rock et à côtoyer les motards criminels de La Rose morte, Hoffer s’est lancé dans la production de vidéoclips. Il a vendu aux Enfants du Soleil le terrain adjacent à ses...
  • Indian Summer
    Author:
    HOWELLS, William Dean
    Summary:

    In his novel Indian Summer, William Dean Howells presents a mellow but realistic story that has the complete feel of that delightful time of the year, although the plot actually spans several seasons. The Indian summer aspect applies to...
  • Herzog
    Author:
    Bellow, Saul
    Summary:

    This National Book Award winning novel traces five days in the life of a man whose wife has recently left him for his best friend. Through letter writing, Herzog movingly portrays both his own life and the complexity of modern life.
  • Fictional father
    Author:
    Ollmann, Joe
    Summary:

    Caleb is a middle-aged painter with a non-starter career. He also happens to be the only child of one of the world's most famous cartoonists, Jimmi Wyatt. Known for the internationally beloved father and son comic Sonny Side Up, Jimmi...
  • Dr Sad : a month and a day
    Author:
    Bateman, David
    Summary:

    Discover the difference between living a life and simply enduring on in this cross-campus, cross-country comedy of manners, queerness, poetry and HIV. Stephen is middle-aged. He's gay. He's content, except when he isn't. Stephen is a...

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