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Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
667 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel -- an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother's death in childbirth and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with...
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When his father falls ill, Andres, a professor of public health, returns to his suburban hometown to tend to his father's recovery. Reevaluating his rocky marriage in the wake of his husband's infidelity and with little else to do, he decides to attend his twenty-year high school reunion, where he runs into the long-lost characters of his youth. Jeremy, his first love, is now married with two children after having been incarcerated and recovering...
83) Vapor trails
Author
Series
Terran Scout Fleet volume 3
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Marine Lieutenant Jacob Brown was on borrowed time, and he knew it. He was a rogue element, disobeying orders and pursuing mission goals of his own. His Scout Team had been burned, disavowed by his chain of command and the owner of the stolen ship he was flying was after them to get it back. To make matters even more complicated, the man Jacob had stolen the ship from is an infamous outlaw and mercenary named Jason Burke... his father. Being hunted...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Pub./Gale
Pub. Date
2020, c2019.
Physical Desc
423 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Luke Jensen has seen some sorry looking bounties in his time, but this one takes the cake. A wanted poster is offering a reward of one dollar and forty-two cents--plus one busted harmonica--to capture Three-Fingered Jack McKinney. Turns out, McKinney's twelve-year-old son Aaron wants revenge on his daddy for abandoning him and his mom. The reward is all the money Aaron can scrape together. Luke can't say no to the poor boy, so he agrees to go after...
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Language
English
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"From the author of the PEN/Faulkner winning debut novel Preparation for the Next Life--a searing, tender, haunting story about fathers and sons, sons and mothers, and a young boy's struggle to become a man. Corey Goltz is fifteen years old when his mother, Gloria, is diagnosed with ALS. Estranged from his father, and increasingly responsible for meeting both his mother's needs and his own, Corey is determined to be the hero Gloria needs --at any...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
11 audio discs (810 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ethan Forsythe, an exceptionally talented boy obsessed with physics and astronomy, has been raised alone by his mother in Sydney, Australia. Claire, a former professional ballerina, has been a wonderful parent to Ethan, but he's becoming increasingly curious about his father's absence in his life. Claire is fiercely protective of her talented, vulnerable son, and of her own feelings. But when Ethan falls ill, tied to a tragic event...
87) Dead or alive
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Formats
Description
-- New York TimesIt is The Campus. Secretly created under the administration of President Jack Ryan, its sole purpose is to eliminate terrorists and those who protect them. Officially, it has no connection to the American government—a necessity in a time when those in power consider themselves above such arcane ideals as loyalty, justice, and right or wrong. Now covert intelligence expert Jack Ryan Jr. and his compatriots at The Campus—joined...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Maintaining tenuous contact only by means of coded messages and cryptic notes with her husband, Sherlock Holmes, and with Holmes' young granddaughter in her safekeeping, Russell will have to call on instincts she didn't know she had as the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice.
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Vader sought revenge against those who hid Luke from him for all these years, and in doing so nearly betrayed his master. It did not go unnoticed by Palpatine, and now it is time for Vader's next lesson. Left battered and broken by his punishment, the Dark Lord drags himself across the scorched surface of Mustafar with vengeance on his mind! But as Vader closes in on the key to Palpatine's greatest secret, the deadly assassin Ochi of Bestoon stands...
90) The whisper man
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Listeners looking for creepy will find it in full force in Alex North's dark thriller, narrated by British actor Christopher Eccleston." — AudioFile Magazine
"Reader Eccleston...adds flavor to the tale. He reads with a fervor that gives the story a strong sense of suspense." — Booklist
This program is read by acclaimed British actor Christopher Eccleston.
In this psychological thriller,
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hiding out in Switzerland to avoid criminal charges in America, Charlie and Drummond Clark experiment with treatments to retrieve Drummond's memory before confronting a formidable CIA case officer to save kidnapped NSA operative Alice Rutherford.
92) Pegasus: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Nicolas von Bingen and Alex von Hemmerle, titled members of the German aristocracy, have been best friends since childhood. Both widowers, they are raising their children--Nick's two lively boys and Alex's adored teenage daughter--in peace and luxury on the vast Bavarian estates that have belonged to their families for generations. While Nick indulges in more glamorous pursuits, Alex devotes himself to breeding the renowned white Lipizzaner horses...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
227 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A story inside a story inside a story. A man visits his aging father in a nursing home, where his father writes the novel he imagines his son would write. Or is it the novel that the son imagines his father would imagine, if he were to imagine the kind of novel the son would write? Let's simplify: a woman seeks an apprenticeship with a painter, claiming to be his long-lost daughter. A contractor-for-hire named Murphy can't distinguish between the...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
891 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
Growing up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past, Adam goes to Aspen, where he was conceived, to learn the truth about his mother, a former slalom skier and ski instructor, and meets some ghosts, which are not the first or the last ones he sees. One of the world's greatest authors returns with his first novel in seven years--a ghost story and a love story, spanning eight decades of sexual politics. John...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 34
Physical Desc
xii, 554 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County—to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto—pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story...
97) The sellout
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
Raised in the agrarian ghetto of Dickens--improbably smack in the middle of downtown L.A.--the narrator of The Sellout resigned himself to the fate of all other middle-class Californians: to die in the same bedroom you'd grown up in, looking up at the crack in the stucco ceiling that had been there since '68 quake. Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist at Riverside Community College, he spent his childhood as the subject in psychological...
98) Calico Joe
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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-- Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon!
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