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Author
Publisher
HQ
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Maddy Wolfe's life has just capsized. After her twenty-year marriage suddenly implodes, she heads to Brighton to search for her estranged son, Jamie. But he's nowhere to be found and for the first time, she's totally alone. That is, until she meets the Salty Sea-Gals, a group of feisty sea-swimmers. Seventy-two-year old Helga is determined not to slow down, while thirty-something Tor is still figuring out who she is. Bereaved Dominica is trying to...
2) Erasure
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Thelonius "Monk" Ellison is an erudite, accomplished but seldom-read author who insists on writing obscure literary papers rather than the so-called "ghetto prose" that would make him a commercial success. He finally succumbs to temptation after seeing the Oberlin-educated author of We's Lives in da Ghetto during her appearance on a talk show, firing back with a parody called My Pafology, which he submits to his startled agent under the gangsta pseudonym...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When his mother dies of a heroin overdose, seventeen-year-old Joshua "J" Cody moves in with his estranged relatives in a Southern California beach town. Heading up their petty crime dynasty are J's manipulative grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody, whose iron-fisted, velvet-gloved tough love controls her four sons; adopted right-hand man "Baz"; intense, mentally disturbed Pope; tough, hyperactive Craig; and troubled "baby," Deran.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"1942: As the Vichy government hunts for Jews across France, Claudette Pelletier, a young and talented seamstress and lover of romance novels, falls in love with a Jewish man who seeks shelter at the château where she works. Their whirlwind and desperate romance before he must flee leaves her pregnant and terrified. When the Nazis invade the Free Zone shortly after the birth of her child, the disabled Claudette is forced to make a heartbreaking...
6) Reset
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"After Xia Tian discovers time travel, her years of work seem to have paid off, but everything unravels when her young son is kidnapped. She sends herself back in time, discovering multiple versions of her future self. Now, all of the Xia Tians must band together to save their son in this action-packed sci-fi thriller from producer Jackie Chan"--IMDb.com.