Le Carre, John
Summary: Ted Mundy, former student radical and Cold War spy for the British, is living a quiet life as co-principal of an English-language school and tour guide in Germany when he is contacted by an old friend and colleague who tries to persuade Ted to accept a too-good-to-be-true offer from a mysterious philanthropist who is putting up $500,000 to turn the school into a vehicle for promoting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003
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Summary: Brit Teddy Mundy and German Sasha are unlikely friends who become double agents in the 1980's. By the time the Berlin Wall crumbles, they've been pensioned off and forgotten, but they reunite in 2003 to fight America's Operation Iraqi Freedom. But how far will their opponents go to justify their war on terrorism?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LECHall, James W. (James Wilson)
Summary: Thorn's probe of the brutal murder of eleven dolphins leads to an attack that leaves his legs paralyzed, but when he turns to his childhood friend Dr. Bean Wilson for help, he makes a horrifying and life-threatening discovery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1997
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Summary: "John, an impoverished Scottish minister, has accepted a job evicting the lone remaining occupant of an island north of Scotland--Ivar, who has been living alone for decades, with only the animals and the sea for company. Though his wife, Mary, has serious misgivings about the errand, he decides to go anyway, setting in motion a chain of events that neither he nor Mary could have predicted....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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Summary: "Botanist Alfred Homer, ever hopeful and constantly surprised, is invited on a road trip through Southwestern Ontario by his parents' friend, Professor Morgan Bruno, who wants company as he tries to unearth the story of the mysterious poet John Skennen. But this is no ordinary road trip. As Alfred and the Professor encounter towns with familiar names but where Black residents speak only in sign...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coach House Books 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003
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Summary: As his wedding day approaches, Zachary King begins to wonder if his entire life might be a big mistake, doubts that are only enhanced by the arrival of Norm, Zack's freewheeling, overbearing father, after a twenty-year absence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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Summary: Wounded years earlier in Vietnam, Howard Kapostash is unable to speak, read, or write, although his intelligence is normal. Now middle-aged, he lives a lonely existence, deliberately avoiding contact with others whenever possible. But then his former high school sweetheart entrusts her nine-year-old son to Howard when she enters drug rehab. Suddenly a father figure, Howard begins to open up,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINSpragg, Mark
Summary: Seeking to escape her brutal boyfriend and hoping to introduce her daughter, Griff, to the grandfather she has never met, widow Jean Gilkyson seeks refuge in her late husband's Wyoming hometown with her estranged father-in-law.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2004
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Summary: "[A] tale of two men whose accidental meeting one morning recalls their boyhood thirty-five years ago. Back then, Tommy was separated from his sisters after he stood up to their abusive father. Jim was by Tommy's side through it all. But one winter night, a chance event on a frozen lake forever changes the balance of their friendship. Now, Jim fishes alone on a bridge as Tommy drives by in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Petterson 2015Matheson, Richard
Summary: A camping trip in northern California exposes long-hidden rivalries and resentments between two old friends with tensions rising as they get farther from civilization, until the hostility erupts into a life or death struggle for survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2002
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Summary: As best friends Miles and Jack leave Los Angeles for Santa Ynez wine country in preparation for Jack's impending nuptials, they embark on a raucous, weeklong road trip that allows the two to contemplate their life choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall & Co. 1995
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Summary: Sharing a close bond in spite of very different backgrounds, Eric, a handsome white man of privilege, and Tommy, an impoverished black youth with poor health, are separated by tragedy and reunited by a common enemy years later.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2006
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Summary: 20-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens. An innocent in matters of politics and money, he becomes caught up in the Feddins' world: its grand parties, its surprising alliances, its parade of monsters both comic and menacing. In an era of endless possibility, he finds himself able to pursue his own private obssession with beauty--a prize as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2004
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Summary: Jean Gilkyson and her daughter Griff run to Wyoming to escape an abusive relationship and move in with Einar Gilkyson, the grandfather Griff never knew she had, but Einar still blames Jean for the accident that killed his son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World 2006
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Summary: In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother. Owen Meany believes he didn't hit the ball by accident. He believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after 1953 is extraordinary and terrifying. He is Irving's most heartbreaking hero.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1989
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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Summary: "From the author of the "lyrical and compelling" (USA Today) novel A Good American comes a powerful story of two friends and the unintended consequences of friendship, loss, and hope. For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day of eighth grade, he meets Nathan Tilly, who changes everything. Nathan is confident, fearless,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction George 2017Ocker, J. W.
Summary: "Felix Allsey is a travel writer with a keen eye for the paranormal, and he's carved out a unique, if only slightly lucrative, niche for himself in nonfiction; he writes travelogues of the country's most haunted places, after haunting them himself. When he convinces the owner of the infamous Rotterdam Mansion to let him stay on the premises for 13 nights, he believes he's finally found the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Publishing Company 2019