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Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend Phineas were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school. Their friendship is marred by Finny's crippling fall, an event for which Gene is responsible and one that eventually leads to tragedy.
2) Love
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English
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The late Bill Cosey, one-time owner of the Cosey Hotel and Resort, a hot spot for vacationing African-Americans, is kept alive through the memories of the women he loved and who were loved by him.
3) Bleachers
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English
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Presents a novel about high school football in a small Texas town, a place in which football has become a religion.
4) True grit
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English
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Pursuing a murderer who has escaped into Indian Territory, U.S. Marshal Rooster J. Cogburn teams up with a bounty-hunting Texas Ranger and Mattie Ross, a cantankerous young lady who is bent on revenge.
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"First drink. First prank. First friend. First love. Last words. Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words--and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rabelais called "The Great Perhaps." Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps." -- Back cover.
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Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[1971]
Edition
1st ed.
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25 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
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English
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Reprint: Originally published: New York : Macmillan, c1971.In an attempt to overcome his grief, a boy tries to think of the ten best things about his dead cat.
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Sin and Salvation volume 3
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Modern Library ed.
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vii, 261 p. ; 19 cm.
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English
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At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren family's bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member--including Addie--and others along the way tell their private responses to Addie's life.
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English
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NOW THE NETFLIX FILM BRAZEN, STARRING ALYSSA MILANO
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a novel that explores the dangerous side of desire, when a mystery writer in search of a little peace and quiet instead finds herself ensnared in the world of a real-life serial killer whose craving for murder stops at nothing . . . and no one.
After a demanding book tour, superstar mystery novelist...
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a novel that explores the dangerous side of desire, when a mystery writer in search of a little peace and quiet instead finds herself ensnared in the world of a real-life serial killer whose craving for murder stops at nothing . . . and no one.
After a demanding book tour, superstar mystery novelist...
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2011
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English
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After veterinarian Helena Colden dies of breast cancer, she is unable to move on and narrates the emotional deterioration and struggle of her attorney husband David as he becomes involved in a court case to save the life of a chimpanzee--Helena's last project--that may hold the key to the mystery of communication and consciousness.
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Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Large print ed.
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322 p. (large print) : ill. ; 20 cm.
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English
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"Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It s a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers....
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"On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They're going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they're both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There's an app for that. It's called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure--to live a lifetime in a single...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
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ix, 323 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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When Quinn's young son suddenly dies, he seeks forgiveness for his shortcomings by completing one of his son's Boy Scout badges, where he forges a friendship with Ona, a 104-year-old woman.
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English
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When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils, Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town's council...
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Penguin drop caps volume T
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English
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"In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan's debut novel--now widely regarded as a modern classic--examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between these four women and their American-born daughters."--Publisher's description....
15) Torch
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
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vii, 322 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Claire Woods has always admired her mother Teresa's determination, strength, and compassion, and is devastated by Teresa's sudden death, as is Claire's brother Joshua, and as the two struggle to deal with their own grief, they must find a way to keep their mother's memory alive.
16) Hero
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.
Author
Series
Rarities Unlimited volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
385 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an art buyer decides to put her grandfatherś impressionist works painted in the 20ś on sale, she discovers that the paintings are messages from murder victims and someone wants to keep the voices from being heard.
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager. Now, over twenty years later, her father has passed away and she's in New Bern, North Carolina cleaning out his house when she finds evidence to the contrary. Lisa is alive. Alive and living under a new identity. But why exactly was she on the run all those years ago, and what secrets are being kept now? As Riley works to uncover the truth,...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2001
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p. cm.
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English
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Everyone in King George, New Hampshire, loved Margaret Batten, part-time amateur actress, full-time wallflower, and single mother to a now-distant daughter, Sunny. The death of Margaret, side by side with her putative fiance, brings Sunny back to the scene of her unhappy adolescence. Unexpectedly, allies surface. Maybe, Sunny begins to think, she wasn't as beleaguered as she felt she was; maybe her mother's life was richer than anyone suspected; and...
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