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Whereabouts / by Lahiri, Jhumpa,author,translator.; translation of:Lahiri, Jhumpa.Dove mi trovo.English.;
"A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade. Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home, an engaging backdrop to her days, acts as a confidant: the sidewalks around her house, parks, bridges, piazzas, streets, stores, coffee bars. We follow her to the pool she frequents and to the train station that sometimes leads her to her mother, mired in a desperate solitude after her father's untimely death. In addition to colleagues at work, where she never quite feels at ease, she has girl friends, guy friends, and "him," a shadow who both consoles and unsettles her. But in the arc of a year, as one season gives way to the next, transformation awaits. One day at the sea, both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun's vital heat, her perspective will change. This is Jhumpa Lahiri's first novel she wrote in Italian and translated into English. It brims with the impulse to cross barriers. By grafting herself onto a new literary language, Lahiri has pushed herself to a new level of artistic achievement"--
Subjects: Change; City and town life; Perspective; Women;
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Premeditated mortar / by Carlisle, Kate,1951-;
Shannon Hammer is about to embark on one of the biggest projects of her career. Her best friend Jane Hennessey has purchased one wing of the Gables, formerly the old state insane asylum, located on a bucolic hillside two miles northeast of Lighthouse Cove. Jane plans to turn her section into a small luxury hotel complete with twenty ocean-view rooms, a spa, and a restaurant. Shannon is raring to get started on the enormous project and is shocked when a group of unruly protesters shows up at the groundbreaking ceremony and wreaks havoc. She's even more freaked-out when someone pushes her into a pit of bricks in a closed-off room of the asylum. Despite her close call, Shannon wants nothing more than to get back to work until she finds a body not far from where she was pushed. Now Shannon is determined to get to the bottom of the goings-on at the Gables even if it kills her.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Contractors; City and town life; Murder;
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Rock the boat : a novel / by Dorey-Stein, Beck,author.;
"When Kate Campbell's life in Manhattan suddenly implodes, she is forced to return to Sea Point, the small town full of quirky locals, quaint bungalows, and beautiful beaches where she grew up. With every intention (and a three-point plan) of winning back what she's lost, Kate needs one summer at home to prove she's worthy of New York. Meanwhile, Miles Hoffman--aka "The Prince of Sea Point"--has also returned home to show his mother that he's capable of taking over the family business, and he's promised to help his childhood best friend, Ziggy Miller, with his own financial struggles at the same time. Kate, Miles, and Ziggy converge in Sea Point just as the town faces an identity crisis of its own when a developer tries to cash in on its potential. As the summer swells, white lies, and long-buried secrets prove as corrosive as the salt air, threatening to forever erode not only the bonds between the three friends but also the landscape of the beachside community they call home"--
Subjects: City and town life; Friendship; Homecoming;
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One smart skunk / by Ziefert, Harriet; Cohen, Santiago;
Rebecca the skunk lives under a suburban family's deck, eluding the traps set to ensnare her, but the smell of moth balls and the noise of rap music finally convince her that the suburbs are no place to raise her family.
Subjects: Skunks; Moving, Household; Suburban life; City and town life;
© 2004., Blue Apple Books :
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Life in a residential city / by Boudreau, Hélène.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 32), Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: City and town life; City and town life; Housing;
© c2010., Crabtree Pub.,
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The sisters from Hardscrabble Bay / by Jensen, Beverly,1953-2003.;
Subjects: City and town life; Sisters;
© c2010., Viking,
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One moon, two cats / by Godwin, Laura.; Tanaka, Yoko.;
Two cats, one in the city and one in the country, chase mice before going to sleep."Ages 2-6"--P. [2] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Cats; City and town life; Country life;
© c2011., Simon & Schuster Children's Pub. Division,
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Cats in the city / by Watson, Tom,1965-;
Stick Cat is going somewhere he's never been before -- his best friend Edith's apartment. It's got everything: donut crumbs in the sink, a fire escape, and a window with a great view of the big city. While admiring the view, Stick Cat sees trouble. Hazel, the bagel maker, is in serious danger in the building across the alley. Stick Cat will use his smarts -- and Edith's appetite -- to devise a rescue plan. But can Hazel hang on long enough for this dynamic duo to save her?
Subjects: Cats; Apartments; City and town life;
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Scarewaves / by Henderson, Trevor(Comics artist);
"The small town of Beacon Point has always been plagued by eerie local legends. It's a town where disappearances are common, strange creatures have been sighted with unnerving frequency, and a ghastly secret lurks in the woods. The adults in town are oblivious to these strange occurrences. Others prefer not to talk or even think about them. But over the course of several terrifying nights, a group of kids will come face-to-face with the horrors hiding within their sleepy town. Guided by the mysterious radio host Alan Graves, they must work together to follow the clues to a frightful secret--before it eats them alive"--
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Legends; Secrecy; City and town life;
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Say hello! / by Isadora, Rachel.;
A little girl greets people in her neighborhood in many different languages.
Subjects: City and town life; Language and languages; Neighborhoods; Salutations;
© c2010., G.P. Putnam's Sons,
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