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"A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a "geographic cure," a new life distant from the Twin Cities and...
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"A book salesman with a grievance picks up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. An exercise routine on a stationary bicycle takes its rider on a captivating--and then terrifying--journey. A blind girl works a miracle with a kiss and the touch of her hand. A psychiatric patient's irrational thinking might create an apocalyptic threat in the Maine countryside...or keep the world from falling...
23) 5 stories
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"Little Red's Tango" incorporates a vampire story, miracle legends, a saint's legend, an epistle, beatitudes, and jazz minutiae within a contemporary faux-gospel."--Publisher website (September 2008)
"Lapland, or Film Noir" is a journey to place of the dark, paranoid crime movies made in Los Angeles between 1948 and 1956, which Straub calls "one of the most compelling periods in American film history"--Publisher website (September 2008)
"The Geezers"...
24) Lisey's story
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FIC King, Stephen
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FIC King, Stephen
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Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC King, Stephen
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FIC King, Stephen
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Two years after the death of enigmatic and celebrated author Scott Landon, his wife Lisey fields inquiries from academics and private collectors requesting his personal letters and unpublished works--if any exist. Then aother interested party makes contact by leaving a dead cat in her mailbox. And then the terrifying phone calls begin. Lisey's only escape comes in the strange fantasy world where her husband found his inspiration. Now she must struggle...
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A compilation of short fiction includes the tales of Imogene, the legendary ghost of the Rosebud theater, and Francis, an unhappy, hopeless human turned giant locust seeking revenge on his Nevada hometown.
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Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC Straub, Peter
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FIC Straub, Peter
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30) Blood kin
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Ceridwen Dovey's debut novel is a stunning literary achievement and an acute character study of three men held captive after a military coup. All linked closely with the deposed president, the portraitist longs for his pregnant wife, the chef takes solace in preparing meals for the new regime, and the barber lives with the knowledge that he'd often held a razor to the throat of the man responsible for his brother's death.
31) Soft apocalypse
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Follow the journey of a tribe of formerly middle-class Americans across the Southeast, as the competition for resources pulls the United States' previously stable society apart.
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Presents twenty-five contemporary short stories that probe the depths of human experience and relationships.
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"Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the magic day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, all he wanted was to be with Laura, the wife he deeply loved, and start a new life. But just days before his release, Laura and Shadow's best friend are [both] killed in an accident. With his life in pieces and nothing to keep him tethered, Shadow accepts a job...
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