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Pub. Date
2010
Description
The idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbors, green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry, and go-getter Patty becomes increasingly unstable and enraged.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
When Lincoln Loud's close friend Ronnie Anne and her brother Bobby Santiago moved away from Royal Oaks to the Big City, they had no idea that they were about to start an exciting new chapter in their lives, while living in an apartment above their abuelo's Mercado. Together with their mom, Maria, they are adapting from going to a family of three in Royal Oaks to living with their whole extended family, headed by the kids' abuelos, Hector and Rosa,...
1383) Evil Never Dies
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Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Private investigator Lizzy Gardner believed in law and order once. But after losing a loved one to a killer and watching too many vicious predators game the system and walk free, she's traded flawed justice for perfect vengeance. Together with her tough and trusted assistants, Lizzy is tracking down a list of Sacramento's worst offenders and dealing out the payback they deserve. But she may be lethally outmatched by a new criminal, a murderer the...
1384) Yotsuba & ! #4
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Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Yotsuba strives to master the game of rock-paper-scissors, becomes one with the water during a fishing weekend, and tries to get money from strangers to buy groceries.
Author
Series
Restart after volume 1
Pub. Date
2021
Description
The touching Boys' Love romance that inspired a live-action film! (Continued in the sequel book Restart After Growing Hungry.) Hotheaded Kozuka Mitsuomi left his home in the country for a sophisticated life in Tokyo. Unfortunately, at age 25, he's fired from his job and returns home in disgrace. As he tries to rediscover himself, he meets Kumai Yamato, a man about his age who was adopted into his community while Mitsuomi was away. The sweet and even-tempered...
1387) What the deaf man heard
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
When a supposed deaf-mute overhears a scheme that could hurt the people he loves, he enlists the help of an unlikely ally -- the local trash hauler.
1388) It's a wonderful life
Description
George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all and it's Christmas! As the angels discuss George, his life is shown in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence. Clarence then shows George what his town would have looked like if it hadn't been for all of his good deeds over the years. Will Clarence be able to convince George to return to his family and forget suicide?...
1389) Deck the halls
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Two neighbors in a small New England town go to war when one of them decides to decorate his house with so many Christmas lights that they are visible from space. The neighborhood is turned upside down as the families try to discover the true meaning of Christmas.
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Southern bastards volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The Craw County Running Rebs are gearing up for the most important, and bloody, game of the year, and everyone in town has a stake in it.
1392) Town boy
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Description
An illustrated continuation of the story of Mat, a Malaysian teenager who moves from his small village to attend boarding school in the nearby city of Ipoh, where he is introduced to modern music, busy streets, first love, and a growing passion for art.
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Series
Southern bastards volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Pull back the curtain on the dark and seedy history of Craw County and its most famous and feared resident, the high school football coach turned backwoods crime lord Euless Boss"--
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Pub. Date
2015.
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"Praised by Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people," Middlemarch offers remarkably modern psychological insights. George Eliot's splendidly plotted tale unfolds in an English town of the 1830s, where memorable residents include an idealistic young woman, an ambitious doctor, and a financier with a secret past"--
"Splendidly plotted tale, set in 1830s England, recounts incidents of love, death, betrayal, and redemption...
1398) The middle : Season 7
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The seventh season sees each member of the Heck family breaking out of their comfort zones. Oldest son Axl begins his junior year, and the business major starts thinking seriously about his future. Daughter Sue starts her first year of college at the same campus that Axl attends -- much to his disgust -- with a new haircut and an even more optimistic outlook. Quirky youngest son Brick begins his final year of middle school, and his equally quirky...
1399) Imperial bedrooms
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Clay, a successful screenwriter, has returned from New York to Los Angeles to help cast his new movie, and he's soon drifting through a long-familiar circle that will leave him no choice but to plumb the darkest recesses of his character and come to terms with his proclivity for betrayal.
1400) The middle : Season 8
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
The Heck kids continue to smash through their comfort zones and navigate new situations, which may or may not be comforting to parents Frankie and Mike. Axl may be living out of a Winnebago, but he has discovered the love of his life. Meanwhile, always-optimistic Sue has caught the acting bug in Dollywood and is changing her major to drama. Now in high school, Brick has made it his mission to fit in with his peers, and not be one of the weird kids....
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