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This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about until his oldest friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he'd left all of this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges...
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Sometimes in life, opposites are drawn to each other--somehow, each providing the other with something they don't have, but desperately need. National Book Award finalist Elizabeth McCracken pens this graceful, moving tale of an unlikely pairing of two men and their lifelong partnership in show business. Drawn to Vaudeville from a Jewish upbringing in a small town outside Des Moines, Mose Sharp meets Rocky Carter at a comedy club. Missing his usual...
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Julian Treslove and Sam Finkler are old school friends who, despite a prickly relationship, have never lost touch with each other, or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick. The three men spent a sweetly painful evening together reminiscing, until an unexpected violent attack brings everything they thought they knew into question.
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In Beyond the Shadows, Hatcher writes about the serious issue of alcoholism. After her husband dies, Deborah Haskin thinks she will never love again. But then Gideon Clermont enters her life. She does begin to love him very much, but how will she be able to come to terms with his addiction?
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IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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Two thirteen-year-old boys, Jim Nightshade and William Halloway, harrowing experience with a nightmarish traveling carnival. The carnival's leader, "Mr. Dark" bears a tattoo for each person lured by the offer to live out their secret fantasies. Mr. Dark's malevolent presence is countered by that of Will's father, Charles Halloway, who harbors his own secret desire to regain his youth.
7) Cry father
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"For Patterson Wells, disaster is the norm. Working alongside dangerous, desperate, itinerant men as a tree clearer in disaster zones, he's still dealing with the loss of his young son. Writing letters to the boy offers some solace. The bottle gives more. Upon a return trip to Colorado, Patterson stops to go fishing with an old acquaintance, only to find him in a meth-induced delirium and keeping a woman tied up in the bathtub. In the ensuing chain...
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IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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What if you went to a school where it was actually all right to be who you really are? That's the enchanting place David Levithan has created in his highly acclaimed first novel. But even if the gay kids and the straight kids all get along just fine, even if it's all right for the quarterback to be a cross dresser named Infinite Darlene and the cheerleaders to ride Harleys into the pep rally, the road to true love is still a strange and winding path-as...
11) Ulysses
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This account of several lower class citizens of Dublin describes their activities and tells what some of them were thinking one day in 1904.
13) Liberty kid
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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Liberty kid captures with compassion and street-smart humor the spirit and pain of America transformed by 9-11. Two young friends struggle to survive after losing their jobs at the Statue of Liberty tourist site due to 9/11. Director Ulya Chaiken "makes us feel for her characters" (NY Post), and evokes simple and memorable human truths about life on society's margins.
14) The other
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Alfred A. Knopf
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2008.
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IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 18
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When two boys--John William Barry and Neil Countryman-- meet in 1972 at age sixteen, they're brought together by what they have in common: a fierce intensity and a love of the outdoors that takes them, together and often, into Washington's remote backcountry, where they must rely on their wits--and each other--to survive. Soon after graduating from college, Neil sets out on a path that will lead him toward a life as a devoted schoolteacher and family...
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In this novel the author takes us to Telegraph Avenue. It is a story that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California families, one black and one white. Here he creates a world grounded in pop culture: Kung Fu, 1970s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music, and an epic of friendship, race, and secret histories.
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"Two young Italian boys from different backgrounds form an incredibly strong connection when Pietro's family is on vacation in the mountains of northeastern Italy where Bruno lives. Over the years, they come to find the true meaning of friendship and camaraderie, even as their divergent paths in life test the strength and meaning of their connection"--
17) Two in the wave
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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Directors Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut changed the face of cinema forever as members of the French New Wave. Two in the wave documents their intensely combative and creative relationship.
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After four years of chasing his stand-up comedy dream in Los Angeles, 34-year-old Scott Rollins (Ben Schwartz, Parks And Recreation) has crashed and burned. Left with little money and a fledging "career," Scott has no choice but to regroup, lick his wounds, and return to his parents' house in Long Island. While trying to figure out what to do next, he pines after his ex, Becky (Eloise Mumford), a successful photographer who has since married a former...
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