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- The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf [electronic resource] : by Taylor, Timothy.aut; cloudLibrary;
“A sumptuously written story about culinary ambition, restaurant-world vice, and the frailties of the heart.” — KEVIN CHONG, author of The Double Life of Benson Yu Restaurateur Teo Wolf’s culinary fame is peaking just as a series of scandals and reckless decisions threaten to destroy everything. Teo’s life as a Paris brasserie apprentice is filled with challenges and triumphs, as well as all the regular abuses of slammed commercial kitchens. Still, he rises through the ranks, eventually returning to his hometown of Vancouver to open Rue Véron, a French restaurant that goes on to become a sensation. His second restaurant, Orinoco, is also successful. But on the cusp of opening his third, a news story breaks suggesting that his popular sous chef, Frankie, is a sexual predator. The media firestorm and subsequent public relations disaster threaten to destroy Teo’s empire, as well as his own personal life. And when the compounding consequences lead to unimaginable tragedy, Teo is left to question the impact of both individual action and people acting in great numbers. A RARE MACHINES BOOKGeneral adult.- Subjects: Electronic books.; Jewish; Literary;
- © 2024., Dundurn Press,
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- A Horse at the Window [electronic resource] : by Gordon, Spencer.aut; cloudLibrary;
A genre-bending collection of dramatic monologues shining a light on the anxious, self-directed gaze that defines contemporary consciousness. Borrowing stylistic elements from the prose poem, faux memoir, online diatribe, and philosophical investigation, the twenty-five dramatic monologues in Spencer Gordon’s genre-bending collection shine a light on the anxious, self-directed gaze that defines contemporary consciousness. CEOs lose their obscene wealth in lurid hellrealms; an aspiring writer reassembles a personal history out of fragments from the 2000s; police cadets receive a curious crash course in transduction and ethics; the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and Deepwater Horizon oil spill reveal the immanent sublime. Ranging from ironic and furious to pleading and melancholic, Gordon’s speakers exist in a world of social media think pieces, hot takes and take downs, fake news and distorted facts, steeped in pop culture and its discontents. They are real people, intimate as kin. But they’re also pseudonyms, ghosts, and playbacks, echoing from insubstantial handles drifting on the web. They lie and lurk and love online, channelling the morphemes of digital language and filtering the concerns of self, performance, digital identity, and complicity through the irreverence, non-rationality, and surprising beauty of Zen.General adult.- Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Absurdist;
- © 2024., House of Anansi Press Inc,
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- A Family Matter A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel [electronic resource] : by Lynch, Claire.aut; CloudLibrary;
A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • A Most Anticipated Book of 2025: USA TODAY, Goodreads, and Today.com A young wife following her heart. A husband with the law on his side. Their daughter, caught in the middle. Forty years later, a family secret changes everything in this “perfect” (Elin Hilderbrand) debut novel. 1982. Dawn is a young mother, still adjusting to life with her husband, when Hazel lights up her world like a torch in the dark. Theirs is the kind of connection that’s impossible to resist, and suddenly life is more complicated, and more joyful, than Dawn ever expected. But she has responsibilities and commitments. She has a daughter. 2022. Heron has just received news from his doctor that turns everything upside down. He’s an older man, stuck in the habits of a quiet existence. Telling Maggie, his only child—the person around whom his life has revolved—seems impossible. Heron can’t tell her about his diagnosis, just as he can’t reveal all the other secrets he’s been keeping from her for so many years. A Family Matter is a heartbreaking and hopeful exploration of love and loss, intimacy and injustice, custody and care, and whether it is possible to heal from the wounds of the past in the changed world of today.- Subjects: Electronic books.; Lesbian; Literary;
- © 2025., Scribner,
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- The professor / by Bronte, Charlotte,1816-1855;
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- Subjects: Classics; Literary;
- © 1994., Wordsworth,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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- Rebecca / by DuMaurier, Daphne,Dame,1907-1989;
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- Subjects: Classics; Literary;
- © c1939, 2003, Virago,
- Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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- War and peace / by Tolstoy, Leo,graf,1828-1910;
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- Subjects: Classics; Literary;
- © c2010., Oxford World's Classics,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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- The sacrifice / by Wiseman, Adele;
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- Subjects: Classics; Literary;
- © c1995, 1956., Stoddart,
- Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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- The adventures of Tom Sawyer and the adventures of Huckleberry Finn / by Twain, Mark,1835-1910;
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- Subjects: Classics; Literary;
- © 1991., Everyman's library,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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- Moby Dick, or, The whale / by Melville, Herman,1819-1891;
Includes bibliographical references: p. 619-630.- Subjects: Classics; Literary;
- © c1995., Könemann,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- A room with a view / by Forster, E. M.(Edward Morgan),1879-1970.;
LSC- Subjects: Classics; Literary;
- © 1989., Vintage Books,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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