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Rouse up o young men of the new age!
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"K is a famous writer living in Tokyo with his wife and three children, the oldest of whom was born with a brain anomaly that has left him mentally disabled. A highly cerebral man who often retreats … |
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The Edge of Winter
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Neve Halloran and her daughter have shared a fierce love for the austere beauty of Rhode Island's South County ever since Neve guided Mickey's first baby steps along the sandy shore. Now, with Micke… |
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Furious gulf
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Gregory Benford |
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Wild Boy (Rowan Hood #4)
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Nancy Springer |
Ever since the Sheriff of Nottingham killed his father, Rook has run wild in Sherwood Forest, dreaming of his day for vengeance. Finally, he has found his chance. Not with the sheriff himself, but wi… |
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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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Mr. Scarborough's Family
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Anthony Trollope |
It will be necessary, for the purpose of my story, that I shall go back more than once from the point at which it begins, so that I may explain with the least amount of awkwardness the things as they… |
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My life as a fifth-grade comedian
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Elizabeth Levy |
Although Bobby's father thinks that he might be expelled just like his older brother, with the encouragement of a new fifth-grade teacher, Bobby tries to channel his penchant for humor into a learnin… |
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The long fall
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Walter Mosley |
A brand-new mystery series from one of the country's best-known, best-loved writers: a new character, a new city, a new era. A new Walter Mosley.His name is etched on the door of his Manhattan office… |
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Lord of the Nutcracker men
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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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Daddy's home!
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Pictures and rhyming text depict a father coming home at the end of the day and unwinding from work in parallel with the bedtime rituals of his child. |
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Never Mind
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Edward St Aubyn |
Now a 5-Part Limited Event Series on Showtime, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner
Never Mind, the first installment in Edward St. Aubyn's wonderful, wry, and profound Patrick Melrose … |
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Once a spy
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Keith Thomson |
Drummond Clark was once a spy of legendary proportions. Now Alzheimer's disease has taken its toll and he's just a confused old man who's wandered away from home, waiting for his son to fetch him. … |
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Rancher's legacy
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Frederick Faust |
A young man out to avenge the death of his father is framed for murder by the very man he's been tracking. With a bounty on his head, who can he trust? And will justice ever be served? |
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This one's for you
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Zach Dillon |
After the death of his mother, Joey resents his father, who has made the difficult decision of having her life-support systems turned off and who has always been too busy to pay attention to him. |
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The God of the Hive
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In Laurie R. King's latest Mary Russell--Sherlock Holmes mystery, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author delivers a thriller of ingenious surprises and unrelenting suspense--as the famous hu… |
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Closing Time
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A deeply funny and affecting memoir about a great escape from a childhood of povertyJoe Queenans acerbic riffs on movies, sports, books, politics, and many of the least forgivable phenomena of pop cu… |
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Resan till världens ände
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In the late 1950s, fifteen-year-old Joel is anxious to leave his remote hometown in northern Sweden and sail to far-off places with his father, a former sailor, but the arrival of a letter giving new… |
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Son of Interflux
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Even though his father is Senior Executive Vice President of Interflux, Simon leads his high school classmates in thwarting the giant corporation's plan to build a new complex and take over some city… |
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Not My Boy!
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In Not My Boy!, Rodney Peete offers not only a heartrending, candid look inside his personal journey with his son's autism but a first-of-its-kind, inspirational road map that will help families faci… |
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