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1) Young once
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New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Odile and Louis are leading a happy, bucolic life with their two children in the French countryside near the Swiss mountains. It is Odile's thirty-fifth birthday, and Louis's thirty-fifth birthday is a few weeks away. Then the story shifts back to their early years: Louis, just freed from his military service and at loose ends, taken up by a shady character who brings him to Paris to do some work for a friend who manages a garage; Odile, an aspiring...
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Once, When We Were Young is the stirring story of a young Texan and his two friends who get caught up in the pre-Civil War excitement. From the formation of local military units to the great battles that decided the outcome of the war, Will's story is told in first person narrative, combining a fascinating, well-researched sense of history with a real feel of Texas pride and honor. The three boys join the Texas State Militia in 1860, and at the time...
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The New York Times bestseller, hailed as a "powerful and epic story... the best account of infantry combat I have ever read, and the most significant book to come out of the Vietnam War" by Col. David Hackworth, author of the bestseller About Face. In November 1965, some 450 men of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Harold Moore, were dropped into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded...
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In November 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later, only two and a half miles away, a sister battalion was chopped to pieces. Together, these actions at the landing zones X-Ray and Albany constituted one of the most savage and significant...
10) Witch
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There is a witch living just across the creek at Apple Glen. All the newspapers want an interview, but she's a rather tricky proposition. Rosalinda is feeling the aches and pains of her advancing years though, so perhaps it is time to be young... once again!
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Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Bantam, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"London, 1969. With the Swinging Sixties under way, Detectives Arthur Bryant and John May find themselves caught in the middle of a good, old-fashioned manor house murder mystery. The critics are mad for Christopher Fowler, his irascible creations Bryant and May, and the Peculiar author's gift for writing classic mysteries with delightfully uncommon twists. Entertainment Weekly calls Fowler "deadpan, sly, and always unexpectedly inventive," while...
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In this entertaining collection of short stories author Scott Young demonstrates his characteristic wit and warmth as he presents amusing and heartfelt tales about Christmas. The diverse cast of characters in this collection includes everything from Christmas-devoted kids and good Samaritans to an Angel named Blobs to Santa Claus himself in stories that will warm your heart and make you smile. Home for Christmas features these twelve short stories...
13) 8 Days
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Sometimes it's unclear who deserves a favor...
Despite her life-changing injury, Dee Rommel is as determined and scrappy as ever. Still adjusting to her new life working for her godfather, private investigator Gordy Greer, Dee is ready to try out her hi-tech running blade, returning to the annual 10K competition. A mysterious car crashes and burns in the middle of Portland, Maine's Casco Bay Bridge. A young, once-sex-trafficked woman is killed...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The conventional wisdom that you should go to college immediately after high school is flawed. It is impossible to apply a universal life plan to the millions of unique American individuals, and college is just plain wrong and by default screws up the remaining advice.
#2 The truth is that most teenagers are not prepared to make major life decisions, such as...
15) Farewell summer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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In a summer that refuses to end, in the deceiving warmth of earliest October, civil war has come to Green Town, Illinois. It is the age-old conflict: the young against the elderly, for control of the clock that ticks their lives ever forward. The first cap-pistol shot heard 'round the town is dead accurate, felling an old man in his tracks, compelling town elder and school board despot Mr. Calvin C. Quartermain to marshal his graying forces and declare...
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What Happened to Him? is a coming-of-age tale that explores the confluence of journalism and politics through the eyes of a young man experiencing first love, losses and the struggles to find a path in life.
We were all young once-or are young now. We asked ourselves or are presently asking, "What should I become when I grow up?"
Sometimes, the answer to this question was prescribed by others, but it was challenged. And often, there was...
17) Sugar Daddy
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An age-gap M/M romance novella about believing in second chances.Paul Rosenberg never stayed up for New Year's Eve anymore, so it was the morning of January 1, 2000 when he sat down with a cup of coffee and told himself it was time to start living again. He'd lived in this house for three years now, in Los Angeles for just over seven. Taking his history of success in New York and turning it into even bigger success here. Coming home alone every night...
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Stolen Innocence is the gripping New York Times bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous former member of Utah's infamous FLDS polygamist sect whose powerful courtroom testimony helped convict controversial sect leader Warren Jeffs in September 2007. At once shocking, heartbreaking, and inspiring, Wall's story of subjugation and survival exposes the darkness at the root of this rebel offshoot of the Mormon faith.