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Language
English
Description
When every person, all over the globe, receives a small wooden box bearing the same inscription and a single piece of string inside, the world is thrown into a collective frenzy, in this novel told through multiple perspectives that introduces an unforgettable cast of characters.
It seems like any other day: You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds...
2) Calypso
Author
Language
English
Description
Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 2
Language
English
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Description
L.A.P.D. detective Harry Bosch investigates the mysterious death of a narcotics officer who was reportedly selling a new drug called black ice.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 12 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
Old Hark is a creature of habit. He enjoys living in his weather-beaten house set down amidst the meadows. He has wood to chop, chores to do and time to reflect on a long life. His greatest joy is feeding the birds that have wintered over and have come to depend on him. One day, a black-robed spectre materializes out of the fields, brandishing the Book of Time. But it's too soon! An exchange follows that has the old man reach deep into his memory....
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Language
English
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Description
"Each year, approximately forty thousand Americans are killed by gunshot wounds, which is roughly equivalent to the annual rate of traffic deaths on American roads and highways. Of those forty thousand gun fatalities, more than half of them are suicides, which in turn account for half of all suicides per year. Add in the murders caused by guns, the accidental deaths caused by guns, the law enforcement killings caused by guns, and the average comes...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother's considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother's demise, followed by a cryptic...
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English
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Edwidge Danticat's The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have approached death in their own work. "Writing has been the primary way I have tried to make sense of my losses," Danticat notes in her introduction. "I have been writing about death for as long as I have been writing." The book moves outward from the shock...
8) Mortality
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 104 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers"--Provided by the publisher.
9) Be mine
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Series
Language
English
Description
"From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literature Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great American midway....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
207 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Blends criticism, anthropology, and biography to celebrate the power of literature, concluding that the fundamental truths found in literature render it an essential component of life.
12) Observer
Author
Publisher
The Story Plant
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Dr. Caroline Soames-Watkins's star has been on the rise. But when she accuses a superior of sexual misconduct, the Twitterstorm that follows upends her career. With few professional options and an impoverished sister with a disabled child to support, Caro is willing to consider a mysterious proposal from her great-uncle, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Samuel Watkins. Sam Watkins has invested untold sums of money to build a medical facility in the...
13) The oath
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 8
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Attorney Dismas Hardy makes a discovery which threatens his family and his long-standing friendship with homicide lieutenant Abe Glitsky while representing Dr. Eric Kensing, a man accused of murdering the head of San Francisco's largest HMO.
Author
Publisher
Boom! Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality. The avatar of Death is cast down to Earth to live a mortal life in Mumbai as twenty-something Laila Starr. Will Laila take her chance to stop mankind from permanently altering the cycle of life?
Publisher
NGT & F
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Hawaii, there is an ancient species fighting for its life. The monk seal is the oldest species of seal on the planet and now after millions of years, it may face extinction"--Container.
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Series
Language
English
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"Ten years in the making, comes a literary work Like no other, from the legendary author of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell. In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England's Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap housing projects. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district's narrative among its saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts a different kind of human time is happening, a soiled simultaneity...
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Series
Language
Español
Description
En este segundo volumen de las Crónicas vampíricas descubrimos la vida del enigmático Lestat de Lioncourt, a quien conocimos por primera vez en Entrevista con el vampiro. Inmortal y sediento de sangre humana, Lestat ansía descubrir el secreto de su inmortalidad. Eso le llevará a recorrer un variado espectro de lugares y entornos sociales que hace de la suya una apasionante biografía: desde el lascivo París del siglo XVIII donde vivió los primeros...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A fresh, fierce, and timely meditation on data, pain, time, and the limited capacity of literature to comprehend life and death in a sensate and vulnerable body." --
When Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer, the illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. Here she explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in...
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