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62) The fifth child
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
A self-satisfied couple intent on raising a happy family is shocked by the birth of an abnormal and brutal fifth child.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dora Chase is an eighty-year-old widow whose family finds her frustratingly independent. Her son no longer trusts her judgment and constantly pressures her to sell her rural home and rundown farm to a huge computer firm. When a young stranger shows up, Dora is suspicious, but before long Armando Garcia wins her trust. And Armando supports Dora's independence, causing the conflict within her bickering family to escalate. Dora's son abhors Armando's...
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
"Princeton. Good Friday. 1999. On the eve of graduation, two students are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Famous for its hypnotic power over those who study it, the five-hundred-year-old Hypnerotomachia may finally reveal its secrets--to Tom Sullivan, whose father was obsessed with the book, and Paul Harris, whose future depends on it. As the deadline looms, research has stalled--until an ancient diary surfaces"--Container....
Author
Language
English
Description
"In love for the first time, a son's decisions about the future divides his family in this fearless and thought-provoking novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of the "heart-tugging and emotional" (Romantic Times Book Reviews) Baxter Family books. In the shadow of very great loss, the only way to live with passion is truly, madly, deeply. When eighteen-year-old Tommy Baxter declares to his family that he wants to be a police officer after...
Author
Series
Titus Bass novels volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Description
In the early 1800s, a Kentucky farm boy abandons the security of home, and his girlfriend, for a life of adventure. At 16, Titus Bass runs away to become a deckhand on a Mississippi flatboat, the first of many frontier escapades. But he tires of adventure and becomes a blacksmith.
68) Virtue
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A powerful novel of youth, aspiration, and moral conflict, as a young man is seduced by the mirage of glamour--at a terrible cost"--
Author
Publisher
Dawn Treader Press
Pub. Date
�2011
Language
English
Description
In a world where the Sojourners, a nearly extinct race with preternatural abilities, struggle to preserve their faith and heritage, destiny thrusts two youths from opposing nations into the heart of a centuries-old conflict. The first book in a saga of destiny and redemption, set in a world of dying hope.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Two drunks--Ty Bonte, a rancher's son, and Harney Rivers, the town's rich boy--beat two Indians, leaving them for dead, although the Indians don't die because Ty returns to save them. Twenty-two years later the families of the Indians demand justice. By the author of Strange Angels.
72) How to sell
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
Bobby Culver is sixteen when he drops out of school to follow his big brother, Jim, into the jewelry business. It follows the rise of the Culver brothers and tallies the cost of their success on everyone around them especially on the woman who becomes a lover to both men.
73) God's pocket
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jarbidge, Nevada, hosted the last big gold rush in the continental United States. Milo Goodman was there to witness it. He was seventeen at the time. Milo is of the impression that it should be easy to find the fabulously rich Lost Sheepherder's Mine. He isn't discouraged that he has never prospected for any kind of mineral and might not know what gold looks like if he does find it. The first person he meets in Jarbidge is Dave Bourne. Somehow Milo...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A hopeful novel of sacrifice, two lost souls, and enduring love ... It's 1965, and life has taken a turn for eighteen-year-old Anton Addison-Rice a year after his brother died in a tragic accident, Anton is still wounded--physically and emotionally. Alone for the holidays, he catches a glimpse of his neighbor Edith across the street one evening and realizes that she's in danger. Anton is determined to help Edith leave her abusive marriage. Frightened...
75) The voices
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
As a child, Billy Saint finds guidance from the landscape of the Australian bush that surrounds him, unaware that his ever-increasing involvement with the untamed land is drawing him into something terrifying and powerful beyond his control.
76) Kristoff & Sven
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Readers follow the ice harvester Kristoff and his reindeer Sven as they accompany Princess Anna of Arendelle to try to find Queen Elsa, Anna's sister, and bring her home.
Author
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Why did he have to turn twenty-four? Why do robots keep trying to kill him? Why is the band falling apart? Why is Ramona acting so weird? Why won't those brilliant and deadly Japanese twins leave him alone? See Scott Pilgrim learn the answers inside--or die trying!
78) Into oblivion
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Into Oblivion, the follow-up to the gritty prequel Reykjavik Nights, gives devoted fans another glimpse of Erlendur in his early days as a young, budding detective. A woman swims in a remote, milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water and as it clears, a body is revealed in the ghostly light. Miles away, a vast aircraft hangar rises behind the perimeter fence of the US military base. A sickening thud is heard as a man's body falls from a high...
Author
Publisher
Villard Books, a division of Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
"Pete Tyler is at a crossroads. Eight years ago he dropped out of a seminal Seattle grunge band to try his hand at a more grown-up calling. Now he's thirty-six, a deputy prosecutor, still hanging out at the same clubs he played ten years ago, and still dating the same kind of girls. Pete decides it's time to get married ... he just doesn't know to whom."--Jacket.
Author
Series
Heaven official's blessing novels volume 5
Publisher
Seven Seas
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Ghosts are converging on the cursed Mount Tonglu for a massive battle royale, the sole survivor of which may become a Ghost King, a being of unimaginable power. Xie Lian is sent to secretly infiltrate and try to prevent this--by destroying any ghosts strong enough to stand a chance. His heavenly powers are weakened near the cursed mountain, but he has one trump card on his side--Hua Cheng, who has survived Mount Tonglu before. As they struggle against...
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