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Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st Trumpeter ed.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
From a hill above town, the Mount Kildare Orphanage for Boys looks down on the small city of St. John's, Newfoundland. The year is 1960. The orphanage is always cold, there's never enough to eat, and the Catholic Brothers are harsh in their discipline. Here, a group of boys manage to look out for each other and live by their own set of rules. By day they are obedient students, but when the sun goes down, the Dare Klub rules the night: raiding the...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forging an intense friendship in their senior year at Harvard, Ed, a Jewish, girl-crazy scholarship student; and Hugh, a Boston Brahmin who dedicatedly pines for the one who got away; abruptly and mysteriously go their separate ways years later and pursue very different lives that are shaped by their past bond.
63) The shards
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret's obsession with Mallory is equaled only by his increasingly unsettling preoccupation with the Trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawing ever closer...
64) We'll fly away
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
"Best friends since childhood, Luke and Toby have dreamed of one thing: getting out of their dead-end town. Soon they finally will, riding the tails of Lukes wrestling scholarship, never looking back. If they dont drift apart first. If Tobys abusive dad, or Lukes unreliable mom, or anything else their complicated lives throw at them doesnt get in the way" --
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The Throwback Special is the story of twenty-two ordinary guys who gather each fall to reenact what ESPN has called the most shocking play in NFL history: the November 1985 play in which Joe Theismann of the Washington Redskins had his leg horribly broken by Lawrence Taylor of the New York Giants on Monday Night Football. (The play was known by the Redskins as the Throwback Special.) Over the course of a weekend we follow the men as they choose roles;...
67) Fortunate son
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite their differences, Eric and Tommy are as close as two humans can be. When tragedy rips their makeshift family apart, the lives of these boys split. In a powerful story of modern-day resilience and redemption, Tommy and Eric forge their separate ways in the world, each confronting his own challenges.
70) Return Ticket
Author
Series
Publisher
Fremantle Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
It's 1972. When hot-headed, impetuous Jack Muir gets off the ship in Durban, he fails to get back on. Instead, he sails into misadventure, fleeing the stifling town of Genoralup to try to lose himself in South Africa at the height of apartheid. But the past has a way of catching up with you, and soon Jack is running again, this time to a kibbutz in Israel. In the course of a lifetime, Jack will travel far, always caught between fleeing from and seeking...
71) Boy meets boy
Author
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
What if you went to a school where it was actually all right to be who you really are? That's the enchanting place David Levithan has created in his highly acclaimed first novel. But even if the gay kids and the straight kids all get along just fine, even if it's all right for the quarterback to be a cross dresser named Infinite Darlene and the cheerleaders to ride Harleys into the pep rally, the road to true love is still a strange and winding path-as...
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
183 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1963, Dwayne Hallston discovers James Brown and wants to perform just like him. Meanwhile, Dwayne's forbidden black friend Larry, aspiring to play piano like Thelonius Monk, apprentices to a jazz musician called the Bleeder. A mutual passion for music helps Dwayne and Larry as they try to achieve their dreams.--Source other than Library of Congress.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. But when his best and only friend, the kind but impulsive Jacob Hampton, is conscripted to...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (477 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sheldon is retrieved from his soul-searching cross-country train trip (older but no wiser) and that means the gang's all here to spread another year's cheer as TV's most attended laugh seminar. Enroll in this comic curriculum to explore Leonard's minor surgery becoming a major catastrophe from his roommate, Howard's obsession over his mom's relationship with retailer-turned-caretaker Stuart, and the peculiar results of Penny's technique as a pharmaceutical...
77) Breakaway
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Jason Marshall's younger sister passes away, he knows he can count on his three best friends and soccer teammates--Mario, Jordie, and Chick--to be there for him. With a grief-crippled mother and a father who's not in the picture, he needs them more than ever. But when Mario starts hanging out with a rough group of friends and Jordie finally lands the girl of his dreams, Jason is left to fend for himself while maintaining a strained relationship...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 172
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 315 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the difficult loves of insular Englishman Charles Ryder, and his peculiarly intense relationship with the wealthy but dysfunctional family that inhabited Brideshead. While at Oxford, Charles Ryder meets boyish, flamboyant Sebastian Flyte, who introduces Charles to a charmed and glamorous way of life that continues until Sebastian's health deteriorates.
79) Only ever yours
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Louise O'Neill's world of 'Only Ever Yours' women are no longer born naturally, girls (called 'eves') are raised in Schools and trained in the arts of pleasuring men until they come of age. Freida and Isabel are best friends. Now, aged sixteen and in their final year, they expect to be selected as companions -- wives to powerful men. All they have to do is ensure they stay in the top ten beautiful girls in their year. The alternatives -- life...
80) Full dark house
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Bantam mass market ed.
Physical Desc
465 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English