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1) Babbitt
Series
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
vi, 401 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
3) Everyman
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
182 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A successful commercial artist with three very different ex-wives, a daughter who adores him, and two sons who despise him, the protagonist finds his confidence, sense of independence, and well-being undermined by an attack of illness in middle age.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Universally acclaimed as one of the world's greatest novelists, Ian McEwan is a Booker Prize-winning, best-selling literary master. He displays a fresh facet of his considerable talent in Solar, a satirical novel rife with blistering humor. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Michael Beard is fast approaching 60, a mere shell of the academic titan he once was. While his fifth marriage falls apart, Michael suddenly finds himself with an unexpected opportunity...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Formats
Description
A House for Mr. Biswas, by Nobel and Booker-Prize winning author V.S. Naipaul, is a powerful novel about one man's struggle for identity and belonging. Born into poverty, then trapped in the shackles of charity and gratitude, Mr. Biswas longs for a house he can call his own. He loathes his wife and her wealthy family, upon whom he is dependent. Finding himself a mere accessory on their estate, his constant rebellion is motivated by the one thing that...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
275 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While considering whether or not to propose marriage to an old friend, to make a trip to Paris, to sell his home, and to start afresh, Herz also ponders what he is going to do with the remainder of his life to make it meaningful.
10) The sea
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
195 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Following the death of his wife, Max Morden retreats to the seaside town of his childhood summers, where his own life becomes inextricably entwined with the members of the vacationing Grace family.
11) The wedding
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After more than twenty years of marriage, Wilson Lewis, son-in-law of Allie and Noah Calhoun is forced to admit that the romance has gone out of his marriage. Desperate to win back his wife Jane's heart, he must figure out how to make her fall in love with him again.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
At a dinner party in the posh London suburb of Greenwich, Miles Garth suddenly leaves the table midway through the meal, locks himself in an upstairs room, and refuses to leave. An eclectic group of neighbors and friends slowly gathers around the house, and Miles' story is told from the points of view of four of them: Anna, a woman in her forties; Mark, a man in his sixties; May, a woman in her eighties; and a ten-year-old named Brooke. The thing...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Frank Bascombe travels to the site of his former home on the shore, visits his ex-wife, who is suffering with Parkinson's, and meets a dying former friend.
Ford reinvents Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives, Bascombe attempts to reconcile, interpret and console a world undone by calamity. It is a moving and wondrous and extremely funny odyssey through the America people...
14) Special delivery
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©1997
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Second chance at love for Hollywood actress Amanda Kingston and haute couture merchant Jack Watson, both in their 50s. Amanda's daughter is married to Jack's son, but Amanda does not like Jack who is a womanizer. When Amanada's husband dies, however, she becomes lonely and a romance develops. By the author of Five Days in Paris.
15) Lolita
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 133
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
xxxi, 335 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this novel the author explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances in their house, on the roadway, in the markets. Only Dorothy's unexpected appearances from the dead help him to live in the moment and to find some peace. Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron has spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, a plain, outspoken,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 382 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Florida, circa 1980. Reed Crowe, the eponymous Florida Man, is a middle-aged beach bum, beleaguered and disenfranchised, living on ill-gotten gains deep in the jungly heart of Florida. When sinkholes start opening on Emerald Island, not only are Reed Crowe's seedy businesses--a moribund motel and shabby amusement park--endangered but so are his secrets. Crowe, amateur spelunker, begins uncovering artifacts that change his understanding of the island's...
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Tel Aviv shopkeeper visits his parents' Polish birthplace in an attempt to come to terms with their complex legacy-and is completely unprepared for what he finds there. Yaakov Fine's practical wife and daughters are baffled by his decision to leave his flourishing dress shop for a ten-day trip to his family's ancestral village in Poland. Struggling to emerge from a midlife depression, Yaakov is drawn to Szydowce, intrigued by the stories he'd heard...
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