Bankers prowl Brooklyn bars on the eve of the stock market crash. A debate over Young Elvis versus Vegas Elvis turns existential. Detoxing junkies use a live lobster to spice up their love life. Students on summer break struggle to...
Nineteen eighties
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Author:Beattie, Ann.Summary:"He'd tell me anything, anything, as long as the information went unattributed, as long as no one knew he and I had even met." Such is the deal Jane, Harvard valedictorian fresh out of college, strikes with Neil, the...
- Author:Ackerman, SaraSummary:
An exciting page-turner about a fearless female aviator competing in a death-defying race across the Pacific. Brilliantly told... My favorite read this year!" - Andie Newton, USA TODAY bestselling author of A Child for the Reich....
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Author:Williams, GabrielleSummary:The Guy decides to have a house party while his parents are out of town. The Girl is adjusting to life in a new country. The Artist has discovered that forgery is a lucrative business. And his Ex, mother of his baby, is just trying to...
- Author:Sweany, BrianSummary:
Hank Fitzpatrick stumbles through and beyond adolescence in the late 1980s. Hypersexual, drunk, stoned, occasionally Catholic, accidentally well-intentioned--Hank doesn't know it yet, but his life is about to implode in spectacular...
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Author:Kijinski, PaulSummary:Roger Jakubiak isn't where he thought he would be at age 45: single, predictable and working as an eighth-grade social studies teacher in the same Cleveland area school district from which he graduated. Now a suspected brain aneurysm...
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Author:Emery, AnneSummary:“This winning mystery stands on its own” (Booklist) — Emery’s eighth novel now in trade paper
It’s 1989. The Troubles are raging in Ireland, bombs exploding in England. In this prequel to the Collins-...
- Author:Saso, EmilySummary:
A thrilling novel about two people stranded under mysterious circumstances in the South China Sea, battling the memories of the crimes that haunt them. A U.S. Navy intelligence officer, Jess is serving on an aircraft carrier (the first...
- Author:Funk, CarlaSummary:
Carla Funk is a teenager with her hands on the church piano keys and her feet edging toward the flames. Coming of age in a remote valley town-a place rich in Mennonites, loggers, and dutiful wives who submit to their husbands-she knows...
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Author:Brownlee, MaureenSummary:It is 1983. On the streets of Vancouver women's libbers are marching. In the forests of the northern interior a tapped out logging contractor is slowly going broke. Down the road, on a small stump ranch, Adare and Dave Wilkins face the...
- Author:Shields, CarolSummary:
Larry Weller, born in 1950, is an ordinary guy made extraordinary by his creator's perception, irony and tenderness. Carol Shields gives us, as it were, a CAT scan of his life, in episodes between 1977 and 1997 that flash back and...
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Author:Schultz, EmilySummary:Welcome to 1984 and the town of South Wakefield. Chris Lane is 14 and he's sure that he can see the future, or at least guess what's inside of Christie Brinkley's mind. But he can't foresee the closing of Joyland, the town's only video...
- Author:Anselmi, Andrew EustaceSummary:
Edward Bennett does not understand his Italian immigrant mother's overprotectiveness, and, while studying abroad, he vows to solve the puzzle by finding her native town in southern Italy that she has refused to revisit.
- Author:Nasrallah, DimitriSummary:
A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration. It’s 1986, and after four months of unemployment Muna Heddad is in a bind. She and her son have moved to Montreal from Beirut to escape...
- Author:Nasrallah, DimitriSummary:
Beyrouth, 1984. Muna embrasse Halim pour la dernière fois, avant qu'il ne s'évapore dans un brouillard de poussière soulevé par les combats de rue. Deux ans plus tard, elle et son fils Omar, âgé de huit ans, posent leurs valises...
- Author:McCarthy, AndrewSummary:
Filled with personal revelations of innocence lost to heady days in Hollywood with John Hughes and an iconic cast of characters, Andrew McCarthy shares an intimate story of an outsider caught up in a most unwitting success.
- Author:Steinmetz, AndrewSummary:
Teenage brothers Hombre and Transformer spend their days locked up in their suburban Montreal bedroom, writing songs and dreaming of stardom. Hombre, the younger one, is quiet, contemplative, and talented, a poet in the making. His...
