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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and...
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Language
English
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""Move over, Ove (in Fredrik Backman's A Man Called Ove)--there's a new curmudgeon to love."--Booklist (starred review). "Eleanor Oliphant is a truly original literary creation: funny, touching, and unpredictable. Her journey out of dark shadows is absolutely gripping."--Jojo Moyes, #1New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You. "Deft, compassionate and deeply moving -- Honeyman's debut will have you rooting for Eleanor with every turning page."...
3) Shuggie Bain
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
430 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's war on heavy industry has put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for his artistic brother and practical sister. She dreams of...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Their environment is a hyper-masculine and sectarian one, for gangs of young men and the violence they might dole out dominate the Glaswegian estate where they live. And yet against all odds Mungo and James become best friends as they find a...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"William Watt is an ordinary businessman, a fool, a social climber. Peter Manuel is a famous liar, a rapist, a criminal. He claims he can get hold of the gun used to murder Watt's family. One night in 1957, Watt meets Manuel in a Glasgow bar to find out what he knows. Based on true events, The Long Drop is an extraordinarily unsettling, evocative and compelling novel from a writer at the height of her powers"-- Dust jacket.
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Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"Val McDermid introduces her newest series in 1979, a thriller that follows investigative journalist Allie Burns as she looks into the murder of a friend and fellow journalist during the upheaval of 1979."--
10) Girl in Pieces
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she's already lost more than most people do in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don't have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who has nothing left to give you.
Every new scar hardens Charlie's heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts enough to not care anymore, which is...
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Publisher
Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
387 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
For all of Emory's life she's been told who she is. In town she's the rich one--the great-great-granddaughter of the Mill's founder. At school, she's hot Maddie Ward's younger sister. And at home, she's the good one, her stoner older brother Joey's babysitter. Everything was turned on its head when she and Joey were in the car accident that killed Candy MontClaire. The car accident that revealed just how bad Joey's drug habit was.
Four months later,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged edition.
Physical Desc
416 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Two detectives hunt a killer amidst the lawless streets and high society of 1930's Glasgow in this "brilliant" (Times UK) mystery that "serves up a delicious slice of thirties gangster noir" (Adrian McKinty)-inspired by the true story of the Scottish Untouchables."A Glaswegian version of Peaky Blinders, with razor gangs brawling in the street and festering family secrets . . . a dark and powerful story."?Sunday TimesGlasgow, 1932. When the son-in-law...
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English
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Matelda, the Cabrelli family's matriarch, has always been brusque and opinionated. Now, as she faces the end of her life, she is determined to share a long-held secret with her family about her own mother's great love story: with her childhood friend, Silvio, and with dashing Scottish sea captain John Lawrie McVicars, the father Matelda never knew. . . .
In the halcyon past, Domenica Cabrelli thrives in the coastal town of Viareggio until her beloved...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Trying to keep the death of their parents a secret, Marnie and her little sister Nelly are on their own until several residents in Glasgow's Hazelhurst housing estate suspect that something is not right.
16) Scotland
Author
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
144 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Though it is a part of the United Kingdom, Scotland is home its own distinctive culture and history. Readers will get an up-close view of everything from the natural beauty of the Highlands to the city streets of Glasgow and Edinburgh. They will also explore Scotland's rich history, sample its cuisine, and discover the traditions its people have held for centuries.
Author
Series
School by the sea volume 2
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 267 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Maggie Adair's first year as a teacher at Downey House was a surprising success. After making the leap from an inner-city school in Glasgow, she's learned to appreciate the mellower pace of the girls' boarding school by the sea. Now engaged to her longtime boyfriend, sweet and steady Stan, Maggie's just got to stop thinking about David McDonald, her colleague at the boys' school down the road. Well, hasn't she? Can Maggie take a leaf out of the Well...
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Series
Publisher
Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Charles Todd, and Anne Perry, The Prime Minister's Secret Agent is a gripping new mystery featuring intrepid spy and code breaker Maggie Hope. And this time, the fallout of a deadly plot comes straight to her own front door. World War II rages on across Europe, but Maggie Hope has finally found a moment of rest on the pastoral coast of western Scotland. Home from an undercover mission in Berlin, she settles down...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 6 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, James Herriot ... follows his dream to become a vet in the magnificent Yorkshire Dales. He soon discovers that treating the animals is as much about treating their owners, and the Dales' farmers are a tough crowd to please. At Skeldale House James gets to know his newly formed dysfunctional family; his chaotic and erratic boss Siegfried Farnon ... his wayward brother Tristan ... and the shrewd housekeeper Mrs....
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 6 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A trip back home to Glasgow presents James with a dilemma that will mean choosing between the people he loves. As Helen and James navigate their feelings for one another, Siegfried, Tristan, and Mrs. Hall are also forced to consider their places in the world, while James must decide between supporting his family or following his heart."--