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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship. One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today--Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press...
3) The upside
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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When a recently paroled ex-convict is hired to care for a quadriplegic man, they become friends and give each other a new perspective on life.
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The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Parry is a homeless history professor who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights, and damsels in distress. Jack is New York's number one shock deejay, until the day his off-hand arrogance triggers a tragedy that ruins his career. Penniless and without prospects, Jack finds himself plucked from disaster by the most improbable of saviors, Parry.
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
While fourteen year old Duncan is being dragged on a family trip with his mom and her overbearing boyfriend, he finds a gregarious friend at a local water park. The two form a powerful bond as Duncan learns to swim through the challenges of life, love, family and friendship, resulting in a vacation he'll never forget.
9) Mystic river
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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"This New York Times bestseller from Dennis Lehane is a gripping, unnerving psychological thriller about the effects of a savage killing on three former friends in a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood. When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened-something that ended their friendship...
11) T2 trainspotting
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Sequel to Trainspotting, a story about a young heroin addict in Edinburgh who tries to kick the habit but his junkie friends don't make it easy for him. Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton returns to the only place he can ever call home. They are waiting for him: Spud, Sick Boy, and Begbie. Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear,...
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English
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In this novel the author takes us to Telegraph Avenue. It is a story that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California families, one black and one white. Here he creates a world grounded in pop culture: Kung Fu, 1970s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music, and an epic of friendship, race, and secret histories. Longtime band mates Archy and Nat preside over Brokeland Records, a used-record emporium. All is well...
13) Fortunate son
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Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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14) The pursuit
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Harvest House
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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Edward Steele has enjoyed a great adventure in Africa with his brother, Henry. But now Henry has returned to England. Edward is ready to follow. He cannot foresee, his life will be changed forever.
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
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"When J. the narrator, George, Harris and Montmorency the dog set off on their hilarious misadventures, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts, imaginary illnesses, butter pats and tins of pineapple chunks. Denounced as vulgar by the literary establishment, Three Men in a Boat nevertheless caught the spirit of the times. The expansion of education and the increase in office workers created...
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Vietnam volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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.
17) Without a paddle
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Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
After discovering a hidden treasure map that was left behind by a recently departed friend, three childhood buddies re-team to embark on a wild river trip to claim the loot with many hilarious detours along the way! Includes commentary, featurettes, additional scenes, and more.
Three childhood friends, after discovering a hidden treasure map that was left behind by a recently departed friend, go into the Oregon wilderness in search of lost treasure....
18) First cow
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Set in the 1820s Pacific Northwest, a cook and a Chinese immigrant come up with a scheme to strike it rich involving a wealthy businessman's prized dairy cow.
A loner and cook has traveled west and joined a group of fur trappers in Oregon Territory, though he only finds a connection with Chinese immigrants. The men collaborate on business, although its longevity is reliant upon the participation of a wealthy landowner's prized milking cow.
19) Being there
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Chance is a secluded gardener who has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of Eve and her husband Ben. Ben is an influential, but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, as well as an unlikely...
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 22
Language
English
Description
Stone Barrington, his former NYPD partner Dino Bachetti and CIA agent Holly Barker investigate a possible serial killer with ties to the White House.
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