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2) Lilac Lane
Author
Series
Chesapeake Shores novels volume 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the heart of Lilac Lane is Keira Malone, who raised her three children alone after her first marriage broke apart, and who, after years of guarding her heart, finally finds love again. But that love is short-lived when her fiance suffers a fatal heart attack. Grieving and unsure of what's next, Keira agrees to move from Dublin to Chesapeake Shores, Maryland, to spend time with her daughter, Moira, and her new granddaughter, Kate, as well as to...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Hardcover
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 'Drinking with Men,' Schaap shares her unending quest for the perfect local haunt, which takes her from a dive outside Los Angeles to a Dublin pub full of poets, and from small-town New England taverns to a character-filled bar in Manhattan’s TriBeCa. Drinking alongside artists and expats, ironworkers and soccer fanatics, she finds these places offer a safe haven, a respite, and a place to feel most like herself.
"An honest, irreverent, chronological...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Peter Armstrong and Hank Colfax are best friends, but their lives couldn't be more different. Peter, the local pastor who is dedicated to his community, spending time visiting the flock, attending meetings, and, with the holiday season approaching, preparing for the Christmas service and live nativity. As a bartender, Hank serves a much different customer base at his family-owned tavern, including a handful of lonely regulars and the local biker...
Author
Series
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
387 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Running a venerable bar in 1960 Montana while raising his twelve-year-old son, single father Tom Harry finds his world upended by the arrival of a woman from his past and her beatnik daughter, who claims Tom as her father.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 239 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Considered the definitive film version of one of Eugene O'Neill's greatest plays, this simple tale of a birthday celebration at a saloon takes a devastating look at disillusionment and dashed hopes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
502 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On the backwater planet of Brynner, at Persephone Station, a community of android refugees, all female, are hiding since they were able to awaken their AI and escape servitude. But the Serrao-Orlov Corporation is nothing if not tenacious, especially about its proprietary AIs, and it wants their property back. However, Persephone is run by Rosie, and they are in charge of an organized group of beneficent criminals and assassins, along with a bunch...
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Richard Jury considers the authenticity of a fantastical tale, told by a stranger and fellow patron at the Old Wine Shades pub in London, about a string theory scientist's wife, son, and dog, who disappeared without a trace nine months earlier.
9) The lawman
Author
Series
Willow Creek volume 1
Publisher
Lily Graison,]
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
130 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the run from her ex-lover, jilted by a no-show husband and now mistaken for a whore in the Diamond Back saloon, Abigail Thornton doesn't think things can get any worse. That is until a single slap to a man's face starts a barroom brawl that lands her in the last place she expected to be. Town Marshal Morgan Avery wants nothing more than to wash away the trail-dust and sleep for a week, preferably with a soft, willing woman by his side. Instead,...
Author
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Opposites attract in this rivals-to-lovers romance from Lush Money author Angelina M. Lopez. Guapo pobrecito her grandmother calls him. The "poor handsome man." Professor Jeremiah Post, the poor handsome man, is in fact standing in the way of Alejandra "Alex" Torres turning Loretta's, her grandmother's bar, into a viable business. The hot brainiac who sleeps in one of the upstairs tenant rooms already has all of her Mexican American family's admiration;...
12) Downfall
Author
Series
Sam Capra novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
453 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
All ex-CIA agent Sam Capra wants is a quiet life in which to raise his infant son. One day, a beautiful woman walks into his bar and begs for his help. Sam is then propelled in a fight to save himself as the woman's enemies turn out to be a wealthy and powerful group that basically controls the world. They then turn their attentions to Sam as being the person who got in their way. Sam has no choice but to destroy the man at the pinnacle of this powerful...
13) Resolution
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When greedy mine owner Eamon O'Malley threatens the loose coalition of local ranchers and starts buying up Resolution's few businesses, Hitch and Cole find themselves in the middle of a makeshift war between O'Malley's men and the ranchers. In a place where law and order don't exist, Hitch and Cole must make their own, guided by their sense of duty, honor, and friendship.
14) What's so funny?
Author
Series
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hapless crook John Dortmunder cares nothing about righting ancient wrongs or for the game of chess. He is however, interested in finding a highly valuable, 700-pound chess set which was said to have been a planned gift for the last Russian czar. As he reunites his merry band of crooks, the treasure hunt is troubled from the beginning. There are few leads, so Dortmunder turns to ex-cop Johnny Eppick for help.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the heart of Greenwich Village, three women form an accidental sorority when a baby--belonging to exactly none of them--lands on their collective doorstep. Lauren and her family--lucky bastards--have been granted the use of a spectacular brownstone, teeming with history and dizzyingly unattractive '70s wallpaper. Adding to the home's bohemian, grungy splendor is the bar occupying the basement, a (mostly) beloved dive called The Sweet Spot. Within...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ralph is not like the other mice at the Mountain View Inn. He is always looking for adventure. So when a young guest named Keith arrives with a shiny miniature motorcycle, it's Ralph's lucky day. Right away, Ralph knows that the motorcycle is special--made to be ridden by an adventurous mouse. And once a mouse can ride a motorcycle...almost anything can happen!"--Page 4 of cover.
19) Wild Hogs
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four middle-aged men decide to take a motorcycle road trip from Cincinnati to the Pacific in order to get away from their lives which are leading them nowhere. These "Wild Hogs" tear up the road and eventually stop in New Mexico for a drink, not knowing that the bar belongs to the Del Fuegos, a mean biker gang. When the Del Fuegos steal a bike that belongs to the Wild Hogs, Woody, one the the Hogs decides to steal the bike back.
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Lisa is the last person some would expect to find in a highway-side 'sports bar with curves,' but as general manager at Double Whammies, she has come to love the place and its customers. An incurable den mother, she nurtures and protects her girls fiercely, but over the course of one trying day, her optimism is battered from every direction. Double Whammies sells a big, weird American fantasy, but what happens when reality pokes a bunch of holes in...
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