Lazarus, Adam
Summary: "The untold story of the unique fifty-year friendship between two American icons: John Glenn, the unassailable pioneer of space exploration and Ted Williams, indisputably the greatest hitter in baseball history. It was 1953, the Korean War in full throttle, when two men--already experts in their fields--crossed the fabled 38th Parallel into Communist airspace aboard matching Panther jets. John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor seemed destined to become inseparable. The boys, both children of college professors, grew up on the same street in intellectually vibrant homes shaped by ideas, liberal Jewish culture, the trauma of the Holocaust, and a shared love of basketball and standup comedy. But the two best friends were also keen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio LaudorGarfield, Robert
Summary: A noted psychotherapist examines the critical role same-sex friendships play in helping men navigate an increasingly demanding world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305 GARSummary: The complete third season of what the New York Post calls 'the best detective show to come along in decades'. Tony Shalhoub plays obsessive-compulsive detective Monk, who assists police in their most baffling cases.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Video 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MONSummary: Television's favorite defective detective returns to DVD to solve a new batch of baffling mysteries with his trademark wit, wisdom ... and hand wipes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MONSchwalbe, Will
Summary: "From the author of the best-selling and beloved The End of Your Life Book Club-a new book that tracks an improbable and life-changing college friendship over the course of forty years. Author Will Schwalbe describes his friendship with unlikely college-buddy Maxey through marriage, divorce, and career changes up until the present day, noting what makes their bond so special and enduring"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: Because of a hearing disability, Kohei is often misunderstood and has trouble integrating into life on campus, so he learns to keep his distance. That is until he meets the outspoken and cheerful Taichi. He tells Kohei that his hearing loss is not his fault. Taichi's words cut through Kohei's usual defense mechanisms and open his heart. More than friends, less than lovers, their relationship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Peace Books 2017
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Summary: "Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FOXStanton, Tom
Summary: The story of the decades-long relationship between two legends of American baseball--arch-rivals Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth--is set against the backdrop of a little-known series of 1941 charity golf matches, known as the Has-Beens Golf Championship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 STAWhitfield, Orlando
Summary: "Orlando Whitfield and Inigo Philbrick met in 2006 at London's Goldsmiths University where they became best friends. By 2007 they had started I & O Fine Art. Orlando would eventually set up his own gallery and watch as Inigo quickly immersed himself in a world of private jets and multimillion-dollar deals for major clients. Inigo seemed brilliant, but underneath the extravagant façade, his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 709.2 WHIWortham, Reavis Z.
Summary: "In a land with no law, there's only two things a man can count on -- a deadly sense of justice and an even deadlier ability to outdraw the most dangerous lead-spitting gunslingers. Texas cowboy Cap Whitlatch has never shied away from hard work. Whether driving cattle or busting broncos, he gets the job done right. When he hires on with a ranch, he earns his pay with blood and sweat, keeping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Gus and Joe eagerly anticipate another quiet, relaxing fishing trip. Only things don't go quite as they planned! Instead, they innocently create an unstoppable series of outrageous mishaps, destroying everything in their wake!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Pictures 2003
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Summary: Door een onverwachte erfenis wordt een middelbare man geconfronteerd met zijn niet altijd flatteuze verleden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anagrama 2012
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Summary: "In the year before Donald Trump was elected president, Jordan Blashek, a Republican Marine, and Chris Haugh, a Democrat and son of a single mother from Berkeley, CA, formed an unlikely friendship. Jordan was fresh off his service in the Marines and feeling a bit out of place at Yale Law School. Chris was yearning for a sense of mission after leaving Washington D.C. Over the months, Jordan and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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Summary: Two laborers work from ranch to ranch in the Salinas Valley of the 1930s, frustrated in their hope of having a place of their own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2009
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Summary: Tales of brave and selfless deeds used to be part of every boy's education. We grew up sharing stories with our fathers, uncles and grandfathers of how other men had lived their lives, met their challenges, reached their goals and faced their deaths. Becoming a man was about comradeship and standing by your friends whatever the circumstances. And it meant that sometimes it was more important to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170.81 OLISummary: The extraordinary debut from documentarian Bing Liu weaves a story of skateboarding, friendship, and fathers and sons into a coming-of-age journey of courageous vulnerability.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MINSummary: Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark met in the early '60s and remained close friends despite living very different lives. Shepard became a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and an Academy Award-nominated author while Dark was a homebody with a penchant for photography and letter writing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SHESummary: "After David Dunn emerges from a horrific train crash as the sole survivor-- and without a single scratch on him-- he meets a mysterious stranger who believes comic book heroes walk the earth. A haunting stranger whose obsession with David will change David's life forever."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2001
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Summary: An uproarious tale told in alternating voices follows the stories of a pet shop owner and a curmudgeon who find themselves on the run from police, terrorists, and a pizza chain mascot. One character, Philip Horkman is a happy man, the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop, and on Sundays a referee for kids' soccer. The other, Jeffrey Peckerman is the sole sane person in a world filled with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2012