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(0)Jennifer Egan
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Visit from the Goon Squad volume 2
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"The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own...
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Discussable Books (SCPL)
Historical Fiction
In Remembrance: Fiction Set in Times of War (SCPL)
OBD Beach Reads - Adult
Historical Fiction
In Remembrance: Fiction Set in Times of War (SCPL)
OBD Beach Reads - Adult
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Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the...
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Visit from the Goon Squad volume 1
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English
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Find Your Voice (SCPL)
Multiple Perspectives
OBD NY Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - ADULT
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Multiple Perspectives
OBD NY Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - ADULT
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Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. (Bestseller)
4) The keep
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"Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank whose devastating consequences changed both their lives, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe, a castle steeped in blood lore and family pride. Built over a secret system of caves and tunnels, the castle and its violent history invoke and subvert all the elements of a gothic past: twins, a pool, an old baroness, a fearsome tower. In an environment of extreme...
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Visit from the Goon Squad volume 1
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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” (The Chicago Tribune).
One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books...
One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books...
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A collection of masterful stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad: “Boldly modulated tales of displacement and blazing moments of truth.... Riveting, vaguely Hitchcockian.... Piercingly tender.... Outstanding" (The New York Times Book Review).
These elegant and poignant stories—Egan's first collection—deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan’s characters—models
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Jennifer Egan and best-selling Celeste Ng come together for a compelling discussion of their new novels, Manhattan Beach and Little Fires Everywhere, two stories of family secrets and the children who discover them. Performances by Cindy Cheung (Mistress America) and Susannah Rogers (The Diary of a Teenage Girl).
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These eleven masterful stories-the first collection from Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jennifer Egan-deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan's characters-models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls-are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora, as cosmopolitan as downtown Manhattan, or as familiar as suburban Illinois to seek their...
11) Manhattan Beach
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Deutsch
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New York in den 40er Jahren - von den schillernden Nachtclubs in Manhattan zu der dröhnenden Marinewerft in Brooklyn. Krieg liegt in der ölgetränkten, rauchigen Luft. Die Männer sind an der Front, nun stehen die Frauen in der Fabrik. Doch die junge Anna verfolgt beharrlich ihren Traum: Sie will Marinetaucherin werden. Mutig schwimmt sie gegen den Strom und taucht unter die gigantischen Kriegsschiffe an den Docks. Allein die Gedanken an ihren verschwundenen...
12) Black Box
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Deutsch
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In naher Zukunft, irgendwo am Mittelmeer. Eine namenlose Agentinin ist auf einen mutmaßlichen Staatsfeind angesetzt. Um an wichtige Informatioen zu kommen, muss sie gefa?hrlich nah an den brutalen und skrupellosen Mann heran.
In staccatohaftem Stil schildert die Pulitzer-Preistra?gerin Jennifer Egan eine atemberaubende Verfolgungsjagd. Der Agentinnenroman wurde zuerst in Form von Twitter-Meldungen vom US-Magazin "New Yorker" vero?ffentlicht.
Der...
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"The tragic fall of Lily Bart, a beautiful socialite who loses her footing in the savage social-climbing world of New York high society in the nineteenth century. Lily Bart has no fortune, but she possesses everything else she needs to make an excellent marriage: beauty, intelligence, a love of luxury and an elegant skill in negotiating the hidden traps and false friends of New York's high society. But time and again Lily cannot bring herself to make...
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"Kiedy w srodku dnia na chwile sie zatrzymasz, przestaniesz robic cokolwiek - czy slyszysz, jak plynie czas...? Oczywiscie, ze nie! Myslisz, ze warto byloby cos zmienic, ale nie masz czasu na male sprawy, a co dopiero na rewolucje w swoim zyciu. Dajesz sie okradac. Powoli. Ze wszystkiego. Z marzen, które snujesz coraz ciszej, po kryjomu. Bennie Salazar, podstarzaly punk i wlasciciel wytwórni plytowej, i jego asystentka Sasha - zadne z nich nie zna...
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Español
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Un retrato tragicómico y nostálgico de la industria musical estadounidense desde los años sesenta hasta hoy. Ganadora del Premio Pulitzer (2011) y elegida como uno de los mejores libros de la decada por la revista Time, esta novela está compuesta por trece historias interconectadas que giran alrededor de la vida de Bennie Salazar, antiguo rockero punk envejecido y ejecutivo discográfico, y Sasha, su apasionada y problemática asistente. Una historia...
17) Manhattan Beach
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"Jest rok 1943, dziewiętnastoletnia Anna Kerrigan nurkuje w okolicach Staten Island. Do tej pory, jako jedyna kobieta nurek, schodziła pod wodę, by naprawiać zniszczone statki, które walczyły na Pacyfiku. Teraz nurkuje w poszukiwaniu ciała swojego ojca. Kilka lat wcześniej Anna towarzyszyła ojcu podczas wizyty w posiadłości Dextera Stylesa, szemranego biznesmena, który dorobił się na czarnym rynku w czasach prohibicji. Spotkanie na Manhattan...
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La casa de caramelo, que culmina el ambicioso proyecto narrativo de Jennifer Egan iniciado con El tiempo es un canalla (Premio Pulitzer en 2011), cuenta la historia de Bix Bouton, un brillante empresario informático en horas bajas que acaba patentando una exitosa herramienta tecnológica que permite acceder a nuestros recuerdos y compartirlos, y que ha seducido a miles de personas. Con una asombrosa variedad de recursos narrativos, Egan pone el foco...
20) Manhattan Beach
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"Alejándose de la emblemática Nueva York de los rascacielos, la autora traslada el foco a la primigenia cuidad portuaria, la de los muelles del West Side y los astilleros de Brooklyn, un mundo saturado de salitre y yodo en el que pululan gentes de toda laya que viven del mar. Allí, en ese abigarrado universo de luchadores solitarios, se desarrollan las vidas de Eddie Kerrigan, un empresario del espectáculo castigado por la gran depresión; su...