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Author
Series
Jayson Wolfe story volume 1
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
288 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Friendships and relationships formed and forged through the firey furnace of experience have left Jayson Wolfe wiser, sadder, and anxious to embrace new hopes and dreams. In the life he's constructing, his music is essential and failure is unimaginable. But does life ever go as planned?
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
24 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In high school, these men were in a band. One of them, Jimmy, left Oakpine for New York City after the tragic death of his brother. A successful novelist, he has returned thirty years later, in 1999 — because he is dying. With Carlson’s characteristic grace, we learn what has become of these friends and the different directions of their lives. Craig and Frank never left; Mason, a top lawyer in Denver, is back in town to fix up and sell his parents’...
24) The other
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Series
Jayson Wolfe story volume 2
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
vii, 294 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
After battling personal, professional, and financial setbacks, Jayson Wolfe has fame, fortune, and a great family at last. But when he reaches an irreversible crisis point in his life, God's arms reach out to protect Jayson from his own worst impulses and he learns that the road to healing can be arduous and elusive even with the love and support of his precious Elizabeth.
26) Five skies
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ron Carlson's first novel in thirty years is the tale of three men gathered high in the Rock Mountains for a construction project that is to last the summer. Having participated in a spectacular betrayal in Los Angeles, the giant, silent Arthur Key drifts into work as a carpenter in southern Idaho. Here he is hired, along with the shiftless and charming Ronnie Panelli, to build a stunt ramp beside a cavernous void. The two will be led by Darwin Gallegos,...
27) The pagan stone
Author
Series
Sign of seven trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Years ago, after their blood brother ritual, Gage, Fox, and Caleb each emerged from the woods with a piece of bloodstone. Now, it will become their weapon in the final fight against the demon they awakened. Winner take all... Shared nightmares, visions of blood and fire, and random violence begin to plague the longtime friends and the women bound to them by fate. None of them can ignore the fact that, this year, the demon has grown stronger--feeding...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Opening in the settlement of Long Grass, Texas — not quite in Kansas, and nearly New Mexico — we encounter the taciturn Wyatt, whiling away his time in between bottles, and the dentist-turned-gunslinger Doc, more adept at poker than extracting teeth. Now hailed as heroes for their days of subduing drunks in Abilene and Dodge — more often with a mean look than a pistol — Wyatt and Doc are living out the last days of a way of life that is passing...
29) James: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Description
"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
30) The big finish
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An unlikely friendship between a curmudgeonly old man and a desperate young woman delivers a funny and uplifting message about the power of human connection and how it's never too late to be the person you wanted to be. Eighty-eight-year-old Duffy Sinclair wants the last leg of his bachelor life to be strictly predictable, so Centennial Assisted Living is perfect: low-sodium meals, off-key sing-alongs, and the company of his best pal and roommate,...
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
438 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent in the world of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. But when his best and only friend, the kind but impulsive Jacob Hampton, is conscripted to...
Author
Series
MaddAddam trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2004, c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
376 p. : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Snowman may be the last man on earth, the only survivor of an unnamed apocalypse. Once he was Jimmy, a member of a scientific elite; now he lives in bitter isolation and loneliness, his only pleasure the watching of old films on DVD. His mind moves backwards and forwards through time, from an agonising trawl through memory to relive the events that led up to sudden catastrophe (most significantly the disappearance of his mother and the arrival of...
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
404 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Four in the morning, mid-December, and snow is smothering St Andrews. Student Alex Gilbey and his three best friends are staggering home from a party when they stumble upon the body of a young woman. Rosie Duff has been raped, stabbed and left for dead in the ancient Pictish cemetery. And the only suspects are the four young students stained with her blood. Twenty-five years later, Fife police mount a cold case review. Among the unsolved murders they're...
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Language
English
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Description
"Two lifelong friends, a bartender and a pastor, decide to trade places the week before Christmas and end up finding love along the way in this delightful novel from the queen of holiday stories, #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Peter Rhinehart and Hank Meyer are best friends, but their lives couldn't be more different. Peter is a local pastor who is dedicated to his community. He spends his time visiting the flock, attending...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there, longtime friends, band mates and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the sketchy yet freewheeling borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland, on the quintessential East Bay avenue that gives the book its title. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-legendary nurse midwives...
Author
Series
Bromance book club volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Braden Mack has read so many romance novels that he's confident he's an expert on romance and women. He is wrong. When Liv Papandreas landed a job working at the restaurant of celebrity chef Royce Preston one year ago, she knew she'd have to endure his infamous anger and abusive outbursts for the sake of her career. But when she overhears the man sexually harassing a young hostess at the restaurant, she confronts him and tells the young woman she'll...
Author
Series
Bromance book club volume 3
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Alexis Carlisle and her cat caf�e, ToeBeans, have shot to fame after she came forward as a victim of a celebrity chef's sexual harassment. When a new customer approaches to confide in her, the last thing Alexis expects is for the woman to claim they're sisters. Unsure what to do, Alexis turns to the only man she trusts-her best friend, Noah Logan. Computer genius Noah left his rebellious teenage hacker past behind to become a computer security...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realises that his new friend has a secret, or rather several secrets. Antonio's fascination with the life of ex-pilot Ricardo Laverde begins by casual acquaintance in a seedy Bogotá billiard hall and grows until the day Ricardo receives a cassette tape in an unmarked envelope. Asking Antonio to find him somewhere private to play it, they go to a...
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
416 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The protagonist of the novel, known only as The Kid, finds himself in a strange state of limbo after being released from prison where he was serving time for a liaison with an underaged girl. Now on probation and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of any place where children could gather, he joins a makeshift encampment made up mostly of other convicted sex offenders. Barely beyond childhood himself, the Kid, despite his crime, is in many ways an...
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