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81) Sal
Author
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Sal planned it for almost a year before they ran. She nicked an Ordnance Survey map from the school library. She bought a compass, a Bear Grylls knife, waterproofs, and a first aid kit from Amazon using credit cards she'd robbed. She read the 'SAS Survival Handbook' and watched loads of YouTube videos. And now Sal knows a lot of stuff. Like how to build a shelter and start a fire. How to estimate distances, snare rabbits, and shoot an airgun. And...
Author
Publisher
Kasva Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Benjamin Gold is damaged goods. After he cracked up in the war and was discharged into a psych ward, his rich wife dumped him. Right after that, the white-shoe law firm that never hired Jews dumped him too; without powerful in-laws, it didn't matter how many cases he won or how much he shortened his name. Unemployable as a lawyer, he wound up working as a private eye - and not exactly at the top of the profession. Drunk and anorectic, his only remaining...
83) C'est la vie
Author
Publisher
Gallic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Writer Jeff Colombier is not accustomed to success. Twice divorced with a grown-up son he barely sees, he drinks too much and his books don't sell. Then he wins a big literary prize and his life changes for ever. Overwhelmed by his newfound wealth and happiness, he feels the need to escape and recapture his lost youth, taking his son, Damien, with him. And if shady characters lead them down ever more dangerous paths-- well, c'est la vie"--Page 4...
86) Now and on earth
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"San Diego in the years before World War II. James Dillon is barely scraping by working a menial job in manufacturing, trying to raise a family and support his elderly mother and sister Frankie at the same time. He drinks too hard--just like his father and nearly everyone in his extended family. With so many people crammed into one home, sometimes there's so much fighting he can barely stand it. But if James can survive the chaos of everyday life...
87) Plot twist
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
To overcome her writer's block, romance author Sophie Lyon, who's never been in love, reunites with her exes to learn why, getting some social media assistance from her reclusive landlord, a former teen heartthrob, and as they grow closer, she suggests a friends-with-benefits arrangement-what could possibly go wrong?
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Seven hard-won months into her sobriety, sociology professor Maris Heilman has her first blackout. She chalks it up to exhaustion, though she fears that her husband and daughter will suspect she's drinking again. Whatever their cause, the glitches start becoming more frequent. Sometimes minutes, sometimes longer, but always leaving Maris with the same disorienting question: Where have I been? Then another blackout lands Maris in the ER, where she...
89) Double vision
Author
Publisher
Piper House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Former detective Michael Lunsmann is about to lose everything. Still in love with his ex-wife, estranged from his teenage son, and now fresh off the wagon once again, rock bottom has never felt closer. But things are about to get worse. Following another Father's Day disaster with his son, Lunsmann wakes from a drinking binge with a bullet in his arm and no earthly idea how it got there. The same night, four teens go missing and later are found dead,...
Author
Series
Albany cycle volume 3
Language
English
Description
This tale, set during the Depression, tells about Francis Phelan and other inhabitants of skid row in Albany, New York. Ironweed, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is the best-known of William Kennedy's three Albany-based novels. Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab during a trolley workers' strike; he ran away again after accidentally - and fatally...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Suspected of a murder she can't remember, a troubled woman takes an unusual approach to proving her innocence in this gripping thriller from the bestselling author of Little Voices. When Jules Worthington-Smith's wallet is found next to a dead man, she becomes the prime suspect in his murder. After struggling for years to build the perfect family and career, she's dangerously close to losing everything. Sure of her innocence, Jules is desperate to...
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
In California, Red Ray, a former lawyer whose alcoholism cost him job and wife finds his calling by turning his Victorian ruin of a house into a drunk farm. The novel describes his work and the gratitude of the men he cures, before a local beauty begins complicating his life again. A first novel.
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Matilda 'Effie' Heaton knows that life has been against her from the moment she was born. The fact that her initials spell out 'MEH' - the universal term for anything uninspired and unexceptional - just says it all. Effie has always felt like she's something of a misfit - that she's always been anything but normal. So with the world against her, and everyone around her seeming to have the dream job, the dream apartment, and the dream bloody fiance,...
96) Sunset
Author
Series
John Bekker novels volume 1
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
98) Pushkin Hills
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov has recently divorced his wife Tatyana, and he is running out of money. The prospect of a summer job as a tour guide at the Pushkin Hills Preserve offers him hope of regaining some balance in life as his wife makes plans to emigrate to the West with their daughter Masha, but during Alikhanov's stay in the rural estate of Mikhaylovskoye, his life continues to unravel"--
99) Addicted to you
Author
Series
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"She's addicted to sex. He's addicted to booze ... the only way out is rock bottom. No one would suspect shy Lily Calloway's biggest secret. While everyone is dancing at college bars, Lily stays in the bathroom. To get laid. Her compulsion leads her to one-night stands, steamy hookups, and events she shamefully regrets. The only person who knows her secret happens to have one of his own. Loren Hale's best friend is his bottle of bourbon. Lily comes...
100) Arctic Sun
Author
Series
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"He's built a quiet life for himself in Alaska. But it doesn't stand a chance against the unrelenting pull of a man who's everything he shouldn't want. Ex-military mountain man Griffin Barrett likes his solitude. It keeps him from falling back into old habits. Bad habits. He's fought too hard for his sobriety to lose control now. However, his gig as a wildlife guide presents a new kind of temptation in superhot supermodel River Vale. Nothing the Alaskan...
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