Search Results: Returned 11 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 11
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c2001., Adult, Dutton Call No: FIC MAR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Billy Strobe is determined to become a lawyer so he can clear his late father's name, but his dream turns into a nightmare when a stock market scam goes bad and Billy winds up in a high-security prison serving three to five years.
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[2022]., Adults, Ballantine Books Call No: FIC MAC Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Two lifelong friends, a bartender and a pastor, decide to trade places the week before Christmas and end up finding love along the way in this delightful novel from the queen of holiday stories, #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Peter Armstrong and Hank Colfax are best friends, but their lives couldn't be more different. Peter is a local pastor who is dedicated to his community. He spends his time visiting the flock, attending meetings, and with the holiday season approaching, preparing for the Christmas service and live nativity. As a bartender, Hank serves a much different customer base at his family-owned tavern, including a handful of lonely regulars and the local biker gang. When Peter scoffs that Hank has it easy compared to him, the two decide to switch jobs until Christmas Eve. To their surprise, the responsibilities of both bartender and pastor are similar, but much more difficult than either of them expected. As Peter and Hank begin to see one another's lives in a new light, and each discovers a new love to cherish, their lives are forever changed. In The Christmas Spirit, Debbie Macomber celebrates the true meaning of the holidays and the inclusive community spirit that binds us all"--
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2011., Scholastic Call No: Y LYN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Vietnam Volume: bk. 1Summary Note: Four best friends serving in the Vietnam War make a pledge to one another that they will do all they can to return home safely together.
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2004, c2003., Adult, Riverhead Books Call No: FIC HOS Edition: 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Amir, haunted by his betrayal of Hassan, the son of his father's servant and a childhood friend, returns to Kabul as an adult after he learns Hassan has been killed, in an attempt to redeem himself by rescuing Hassan's son from a life of slavery to a Taliban official.
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[2015], Adults, Doubleday Call No: FIC YAN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition ... Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is [their center of gravity] Jude, ... by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he'll not only be unable to overcome--but that will define his life forever"--Amazon.com.
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1993., Adult, Penguin Books Call No: YA STE Availability:2 of 2 At Your Library Summary Note: Sustained by the hope of someday owning a farm of their own, two migrant laborers arrive to work on a ranch in central California.
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2009., Adult, Multnomah Books Call No: FIC LAC Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Return of the stranger Volume: bk. 1Summary Note: When Chief U.S. Marshall John Brockman befriends former outlaw Whip Langford and encourages him to turn his life over to Christ, Whip agrees to stop robbing banks and trains, but refuses to accept salvation, and when he gets into trouble for taking the law into his own hands, John tries to save his friend from certain death.
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By Wick, Loric2003., Adult, Harvest House Call No: FIC WIC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: English garden series Volume: bk. 4Summary Note: After his adventures in Africa, Edward Steele is determined to return to Collingbourne in time for Christmas but is delayed when a fast friend aboard ship grows ill and needs his help--a change in plans, disappointing at first, that leads him to meet a very intriguing young woman.
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By Iles, Gregc2005., Adult, Scribner Call No: FIC ILE Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Retired attorney Penn Cage, best friends with respected doctor Drew Elliott since their days at St. Stephen's Prep in Natchez, Mississippi, where they both now sit on the school board, learns more about human nature and modern youth than he ever wanted to know when he begins to investigate the murder of popular student Kate Townsend at the request of Drew, who has become a prime suspect after revealing he had been having an affair with the girl.
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By Riggs, Jack2003., Adult, Ballantine Books Call No: FIC RIG Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Raybert Williams, the son of a manic depressive mother and an alcoholic father, becomes best friends with Palmer Conroy, a boy with parent problems of his own, and together the two plot their escape to freedom in a 1965 Catalina.