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| The Romantic by William BoydStarring: Cashel Greville Ross, who is born in 1799 County Cork, Ireland, but leaves as a teen to travel the world and seek his fortune.
What happens: In this picaresque tale that covers decades, Ross sees history unfold (such as fighting at Waterloo), encounters a wide variety of people (including Lord Byron and the Shelleys in Italy) and becomes a soldier, brewer, explorer, writer, and father.
Reviewers say: "A smart, colorful entertainment" (Kirkus Reviews); "holds the reader spellbound" (Publishers Weekly). |
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Famous in a small town
by Viola Shipman
After her relationship goes down in flames on a playground, assistant elementary school teacher Becky decides to recover in Michigan and inadvertently enters and wins an annual cherry-pit-spitting contest, running afoul of a local woman and long-time title-holder.
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| Save What's Left by Elizabeth CastellanoThe beginning: When her husband, Tom, wants a break and sets out on a world cruise alone, middle-aged Kathleen Deane leaves Kansas for a New York coastal town and her own fresh start.
A new house: She arrives to find a massive modern monstrosity that breaks regulations being built next to the tiny cottage she's bought sight unseen. She teams up with a neighbor to fight town hall, and then Tom shows up in an Airstream that he parks in her driveway.
Read this next: Tara Conklin's Community Board, Amy Fusselman's The Means, or Beck Dorey-Stein's Rock the Boat. |
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The deluge
by Stephen Markley
In 2013 California, environmental scientist Tony Pietrus, after receiving a death threat, is linked to a colorful cast of characters, including a brazen young activist who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come.
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| Time's Mouth by Edan LepuckiUrsa possesses a very special gift. She can travel through memory and revisit her past. After she flees her hometown for the counterculture glory of 1950's California, the intoxicating potential of her unique ability eventually draws a group of women into her orbit and into a ramshackle Victorian mansion in the woods outside Santa Cruz. Yet Ursa's powers come with a cost. Soon this cultish community of sisterhood takes an ominous turn, prompting her son, Ray, and his pregnant girlfriend Cherry, to flee their home for Los Angeles and reinvent themselves far from Ursa's insidious influence. But escaping their past won't be so easy. |
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| The English Experience by Julie SchumacherThe setup: On short notice, professor Jason Fitger is voluntold to lead Payne University's "Experience: London" over winter break.
What happens: Beleaguered Jason navigates a foreign country and his own issues while keeping watch over 11 undergrads he doesn't know, including one who has never been away from her cat, another who is claustrophobic, one with a juvenile detention record, and an ex-couple.
Series alert: This is the delightful final entry in a smart, satirical trilogy that wryly depicts life in American academia. The first two books are Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement. |
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