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Last picture show volume 2
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English
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Sequel to: The Last Picture Show. Thalia, once a backwater Texas town, then a boom town, collapses with the oil prices. Then a former high school beauty returns from a career as a Hollywood star, and shakes the town to its roots.
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Plainsong volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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A novel of small-town life in the high plains region around Holt, Colorado, follows the challenges, emotional upheaval, tragedies, and intertwined destinies of the local inhabitants as they cope with the changes they encounter.
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Nobody's fool volume 1
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In 1750, without warning or apparent reason, the mineral springs of the colonial resort town of Bath, New York, ran dry. A little more than two hundred years later, after numerous warnings and for too many reasons, Sully, the unluckiest man in this unlucky town, isn't doing too hot either. He's broke, out of a job, and the owner of a dead pickup truck. The good news? Sully has the dumbest man in North Bath as his devoted friend, a long-suffering,...
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Max Rupert novels volume 5
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2018.
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English
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Cub reporter Joe Talbert, Jr. investigates the murder of a man with the same name as him in a small town in Minnesota and discovers the deceased was a loathsome lowlife who may be his father.
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October first, the air is still warm, but fall is rolling in. Thirteen-year-old Douglas Spaulding, his younger brother Tom, and their friends do their best to take advantage of these last warm days, tormenting the girls... and declaring war on the old men who run Green Town, IL. For the boys know that Mr. Quartermain and his cohorts want nothing more than to force them to grow up. If only, the boys believe, they could stop the clock atop the courthouse...
7) Snow
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As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything.
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On Bernadine Brown's fifty-second birthday she received an unexpected gift-she caught her husband, Leo, cheating with his secretary. She was hurt-angry, too-but she didn't cry woe is me. Nope, she hired herself a top-notch lawyer and ended up with a cool $275 million. Having been raised in the church, she knew that when much is given much is expected, so she asked God to send her a purpose. The purpose turned out to be a town: Henry Adams, Kansas,...
10) Blue Diary
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
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The courage to face the unthinkable is at the core of this magnificent new novel. How do we manage to confront the truths in our lives and find forgiveness in the most unforgiving of circumstances? How do we love truly and deeply in a world that is as brutal as it is beautiful? When Ethan Ford fails to show up for work on a brilliant summer morning, none of his neighbors would guess that for more than thirteen years, he has been running from his past....
11) Alphabet city
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English
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Photographs of objects in an urban setting present the letters of the alphabet.
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Mason novels volume 3
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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When a group of friends in Mason, Missouri, decide to start a monthly supper club, they get more than they bargained for. The plan for congenial evenings—talking, laughing, and sharing recipes, homemade food, and wine—abruptly changes course one night when one of the women reveals something startlingly intimate. The supper club then becomes Confession Club, and the women gather weekly to share not only dinners but embarrassing misdeeds, deep insecurities,...
13) Julie
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Set in the last part of the Great Depression, this is the story of Julia Wallace and her family. Their family newspaper, and a small town full of tensions, attempt to survive a catastrophic flood and immigrant labor problems among other things.
15) Goggles
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Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 5
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
Two boys must outsmart the neighborhood bullies before they can enjoy their new treasure, a pair of lensless motorcycle goggles.
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Back from a trip to Egypt, Duane Moore finds he cannot readjust to life in Thalia, his West Texas hometown. Duane cannot find any solace or familiarity and cannot even bring himself to revisit the house he shared with his late wife, Karla. He spends his days aimlessly riding his bicycle and living in his cabin outside town. The only consolation is meeting the young, attractive geologist, Annie Cameron. He's also in love with his psychiatrist, Honor...
18) The Beastly Arms
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Scholastic Press
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English
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Eleven-year-old Nickel, a boy with a great affinity for both animals and photography, moves into an apartment building run by the strange and mysterious Mr. Beastly and discovers a secret about the other tenants.
19) Somerset
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Follows the lives of two antebellum southerners, Silas Toliver and his best friend Jeremy Warwick, as they head into a new territory known as "Texas" in search of black gold.
20) Shoot the moon
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From the author of the bestselling "Where the Heart Is" comes an eagerly anticipated tale of a small Oklahoma town and the mystery that has haunted its residents for years.