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The cider house rules : a novel
John Irving
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1985; 560 p.; isbn:068803036X More Information |
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The Hotel New Hampshire
John Irving
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""The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.""So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange ...
1981; 401 p.; isbn:052512800X More Information |
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John Irving : three complete novels
Irving, John, 1942-
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1995; 718 p.; isbn:0517146541 More Information |
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A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel
John Irving.
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Owen Meany hits a foul ball while playing baseball in the summer of 1953 that kills his best friend's mother, an accident that Owen is sure is the result of divine intervention.
2002; 641 p.; isbn:0679642595 More Information |
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A son of the circus
John Irving
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1994; ; isbn:0679434968 More Information |
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A widow for one year : a novel
John Irving
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See the difference, read #1 bestselling author John Irving in Large Print * About Large Print All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typeface Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman. By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten. Ruth's story ...
1998; 537 p.; isbn:0375501371 More Information |
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The world according to Garp : a novel
by John Irving
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20th ANNIVERSARY EDITIONwith a new Afterword from the author The "New York Times" bestseller This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields--a feminist leader ahead of her times. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes--even of sexual assassinations. ...
1978; 437 p.; isbn:0525237704 More Information |
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Animal dreams : a novel
by Barbara Kingsolver
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Hallie Nodine fights for justice in Nicaragua while her sister, Codi, returns to Arizona to confront her dying father, as myths, dreams, and flashbacks blend to examine life's commitments.
1990; 288 p; isbn:006016350X More Information |
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The bean trees : a novel
by Barbara Kingsolver
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Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child, a three-year-old American Indian girl named Turtle, ...
1992; 232 p.; isbn:0060915544 More Information |
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Main Street & Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis
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In Main Street and Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis drew on his boyhood memories of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, to reveal as no writer had done before the complacency and conformity of middle-class life in America. These remarkable novels combine brilliant satire with a lingering affection for the men and women who, as Lewis wrote of Babbitt, want "to seize something ...
1992; 898 p.; isbn:0940450615 More Information |
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Main Street
Sinclair Lewis
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"This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves." So Sinclair Lewis--recipient of the Nobel Prize and rejecter of the Pulitzer--prefaces his novel "Main Street". Lewis is brutal in his depictions of the self-satisfied inhabitants of small-town America, a place which proves to be merely an assemblage ...
1948; 486 p.; isbn:0151555478 More Information |
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The Gemini contenders
Robert Ludlum
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Dead of night. Salonika, Greece, December 1939. A clandestine order of monks embarks on a desperate mission: to transport a mysterious vault to a hiding place high in the Italian Alps. Its sinister contents, concealed fro centuries, could rip apart the Christian world. Now, as the Nazi threat marches ...
1976; 411 p.; isbn:0440128595 More Information |
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