John Wray
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"A story of young friendship, musical obsession, and a missing person, set in the metal scene of the late eighties and early nineties. Kip, Leslie, and Kira are outliers--even in the metal scene they love. In arch-conservative Gulf Coast Florida in the late 1980s, just listening to metal can get you arrested, but for the three of them the risk is well worth it, because metal is what leads them to one another. Different as they are, Kip, Leslie, and...
2) Lowboy
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
Early one morning in New York City, Will Heller, a sixteen-year-old paranoid schizophrenic, gets on an uptown B train alone. Like most people he knows, Will believes the world is being destroyed by climate change; unlike most people, he's convinced he can do something about it. Unknown to his doctors, unknown to the police-unknown even to Violet Heller, his devoted mother, Will alone holds the key to the planet's salvation. To cool down the world,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Exiled from time after a failed love affair, Waldemar "Waldy" Tolliver is forced to confront a difficult betrayal and his ancestral legacy against a backdrop of historical events in the first half of the twentieth century.
4) Godsend
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the story of John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban," Whiting Award winner John Wray explores the circumstances that could impel a young American to exchange identity, home, and to become an Islamist militant"--
Language
English
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Description
Presents a collection of short stories originally commissioned by "The New York Times Magazine" as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron."
9) Safe in hell
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
After killing an ex-boyfriend in New Orleans, a prostitute flees to a Caribbean island. There the vicious local police chief sets his sights on her, unaware that she is a fugitive.
11) The death kiss
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Bela Lugosi is a motion picture studio executive suspected of murder.