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  The Tortilla Curtain

  by T. Coraghessan Boyle

  When Delaney Mossbacher knocks down a Mexican pedestrian, he neither reports the accident nor takes his victim to hospital. Instead the man accepts $20 and limps back to poverty and his pregnant 17-year-old wife, leaving Delaney to return to his privileged life in California. But these two men are fated against each other, as Delaney attempts to clear the land of the illegal immigrants who he thinks are turning... (more)
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  Riven Rock

  by T. Coraghessan Boyle

  It is the dawn of the twentieth century when the beautiful, budding feminist Katherine Dexter falls in love with Stanley McCormick, son of a millionaire inventor. The two wed, but before the marriage is consummated, Stanley experiences a nervous breakdown and is diagnosed as a schizophrenic sex maniac. Locked up for the rest of his life at Riven Rock, the family's California mansion, Stanley is treated by a series... (more)
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  World's End

  by T. Coraghessan Boyle

  This multi-generational novel ranges over the history of the Hudson River Valley from the late seventeenth cenutry to the late 1960s with low humor, high seriousness, and magical, almost hallucinatory prose. It follows the interwoven destinies of families of Indians, lordy Dutch patrons, and yoemen.
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  The Inner Circle

  by T. Coraghessan Boyle

  A love story, The Inner Circle is narrated by John Milk, a virginal young man who in 1940 accepts a job as an assistant to Dr. Alfred Kinsey, an extraordinarily charming professor of zoology at Indiana University who has just discovered his life’s true calling: sex. As a member of Kinsey’s "inner circle" of researchers, Milk (and his beautiful new wife) is called on to participate in sexual... (more)
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  Water Music

  by T. Coraghessan Boyle

  Set in the late eighteenth century, Water Music follows the wild adventures of Ned Rise, thief and whoremaster, and Mungo Park, a Scottish explorer, through London’s seamy gutters and Scotland’s scenic highlands—to their grand meeting in the heart of darkest Africa. There they join forces and wend their hilarious way to the source of the Niger.
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  Drop City

  by T. Coraghessan Boyle

  It is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune devoted to peace, free love and the simple life has decided to relocate to the last frontier — the unforgiving landscape of interior Alaska — in the ultimate expression of going back to the land. Armed with the spirit of adventure and naïve optimism, the inhabitants of "Drop City" arrive in the wilderness of Alaska only to find their utopia already populated... (more)
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  Home Body (Jack McMorrow Mystery)

  by Gerry Boyle

  A runaway teen breaks into reporter Jack McMorrow's isolated cabin looking for safe haven, only to vanish when his parents come looking for him. His trail leads Jack straight into the heart of a world where truth is only a lie well told.
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  A sense of freedom

  by Jimmy Boyle

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  Pain of Confinement: Prison Diaries

  by Jimmy Boyle

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  The Women

  by T. Coraghessan Boyle

  Boyle’s account of Wright’s life, as told through the experiences of the four women who loved him, blazes with his trademark wit and invention. Wright’s life was one long howling struggle against the bonds of convention, whether aesthetic, social, moral, or romantic. He never did what was expected and despite the overblown scandals surrounding his amours and very public divorces and the financial disarray that... (more)
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  Gentlehands (Harper Keypoint Book) [Paperback]

  by M. E. Kerr