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1) Nicotine
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Recent business school graduate Penny Baker has rebelled against her family her whole life -- by being the conventional one. Her mother, Amalia, was a member of an Amazonian tribe called the Kogi; her much older father, Norm, long ago attained cult-like deity status among a certain group of aging hippies while operating a 'healing center' in New Jersey. And she's never felt particularly close to her much-older half-brothers from Norm's previous marriage...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingénue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. The two are mismatched from the start — she’s a lesbian, he’s gay—but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off with their three-year-old daughter, leaving their nine-year-old...
4) Avalon
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A profound and singular story about a young woman searching for her place in the world, from one of America’s most original voices—the irresistible story of one teenager’s reckoning with society at large and her search for a personal utopia.
Bran’s Southern California upbringing is anything but traditional. After her mother joins a Buddhist colony, Bran is raised by her “common-law stepfather” on Bourdon Farms—a plant nursery that doubles...
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
168 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Novel follows a downwardly mobile secretary from Philadelphia who marries an ambitious soon-to-be-expat pharmaceutical researcher in hopes that she will never work again. They end up in Germany, where it turns out that her new husband is tougher, sneakier, more sincere, more contradictory, and smarter than she is; she'd naturally thought it was impossible. Life becomes complicated with affairs, birding, and eco-terrorism. Bad things happen, yet they...