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Furious gulf
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Gregory Benford |
From back cover Warner paperback February 2005:
Trying to escape the relentless mechs, the last humans from the planet Snowglade take their ancient starship on a dangerous course straight into the… |
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Born to rock
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Gordon Korman |
High school senior Leo Caraway, a conservative Republican, learns that his biological father is a punk rock legend. |
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Lord of the Nutcracker men
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Iain Lawrence |
Ten-year-old Johnny eagerly plays at war with the army of nutcracker soldiers his toymaker father whittles for him. He demolishes imaginary foes. But in 1914 Germany looms as the real enemy of Europe… |
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Out of reach
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V. M. Jones |
Pressured by his agressively competitive father to play soccer, teenaged Pip McLeod secretly pursues a sport that he truly enjoys--indoor rock climbing. |
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Nati due volte
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Giuseppe Pontiggia |
"The first major book by one of Italy's most distinguished novelists to appear in America - an award-winning fictional memoir of a man's transfiguring experiences raising a son whose disabilities wer… |
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King Blood
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Jim Thompson |
Blood’s thicker than water and that’s doubly true for the King family who has built its considerable fortune through decades of the most ruthless violence and bloodshed that Oklahoma has ever seen. I… |
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Tinkers
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Paul Harding |
An old man lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished New England youth. At once… |
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Beneath the Lion's Gaze
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Maaza Mengiste |
An epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in the wake of Ethiopia’s revolution.
This memorable, heartbreaking story opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, … |
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The Lord of Death
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Eliot Pattison |
Shan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national and a former Beijing investigator on parole from the Tibetan gulag to which he had been consigned as punishment. He is ferrying a corpse on muleback over th… |
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Over the Waters (Steeple Hill Women's Fiction #26)
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Deborah Raney |
"Dr. Botox" to the bored rich women of Chicago, plastic surgeon Max Jordan was shocked by his son Joshua's decision to focus his medical talent on Haitian orphans. Embittered by Joshua's sudden death… |
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The Way Home
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George P. Pelecanos |
Christopher Flynn is trying to get it right. After years of trouble and rebellion that enraged his father and nearly cost him his life, he has a steady job in his father's company, he's seriously dat… |
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A Forever Christmas
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Missy Tippens |
Sarah Radcliffe's quiet Christmas back in her hometown will be lost if she agrees to direct the church's Christmas pageant. But when she meets two little boys determined to gain their father's attent… |
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Daddy's little scout
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Janet Bingham |
Previously published: London : Scholastic Children's Books, 2008 under the title, A new home for Little Fox.
Little Fox and his father look at other woodland animals' homes, then make a new den for … |
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Joey Pigza loses control
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Jack Gantos |
When Joey Pigza meets his dad, Carter, for the first time in years, he meets a grownup version of his old hyperactive self -- the way he was before his stint in special ed, the way he was before he g… |
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Guardian of the dawn
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Richard Zimler |
In late-sixteenth-century Goa, young Tiago Zarco confronts the long reach of the Inquisition as he fights to save his family and preserve his relationship with the Hindu girl he loves. |
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A kingdom besieged
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Raymond E. Feist |
Book One of the Chaoswar Saga- the final trilogy of Feist's riftwar saga |
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Only Time Will Tell
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Jeffrey Archer |
"From the popular author of Kane and Abel and A Prisoner of Birth comes the story of one family across generations, across oceans, from heartbreak to triumph. The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life be… |
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The last notebook of Leonardo
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B. B. Wurge |
Ten-year-old Jeremy's father, a genius inventor, turns himself into a giant orangutan and takes his son on an epic journey to discover the secrets of Leonardo Da Vinci. |
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Mitchell's license
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Hallie Durand |
Mitchell never wants to go to bed until, at the age of three years, nine months, and five days he gets his license so that he can drive there--at least until he and the car have a disagreement about … |
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Bullfighting
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Roddy Doyle |
A collection of stories set in modern Ireland explores a theme of loss, from a man who remembers his early family life while taking daily prescribed walks to a father who considers the impact of his … |
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