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25) Bullfighting
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English
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Roddy Doyle has earned a devoted following for his wry wit, his uncanny ear, and his ability to fully capture the hearts of his characters. Bullfighting, his second collection of stories, offers thirteen bittersweet takes on men and middle-age, revealing a panorama of Ireland today. Moving from classrooms to local pubs to bullrings, these tales feature an array of men taking stock and reliving past glories, each concerned with loss in different ways-of...
27) Calico Joe
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198 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Follows the divergent paths of a rookie hitter for the Chicago Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher.
29) The king of lies
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English
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Jackson Workman Pickens-known to most as Work-mindlessly holds together his life: a failing law practice left to him when his father, Ezra, mysteriously disappeared, a distant wife, and a fragile sister, Jean, damaged by the shared past they've endured. And then Ezra's body is discovered. Set to inherit his father's fortune, Work becomes a prime suspect. But so does Jean. Fearing the worst, Work launches his own investigation, crossing paths with...
30) The good father
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307 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his 20-year old son.
33) Red leaves
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English
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In Red Leaves, Edgar Award-winning author Thomas H. Cook pens a compelling tale of suspicion and its corrosive effects on a family. When a little girl is missing on the morning after his teenaged son baby-sits for her, Eric Moore watches his world crumble as suspicion falls on his son. Although Eric hires a lawyer to prepare his son's defense, a haunting thought slithers into his mind. What if he has been nurturing a monstrous fiend?
35) The rule of four
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English
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Two Princeton University seniors are struggling to solve the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a cryptic text that has baffled scholars for 500 years. When a long-lost clue surfaces, they have a chance to decipher the final secret. But when a fellow scholar of the text is murdered for knowing too much, they realize that they know even more.
38) Free bird
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242 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"One man's cross-country pilgrimage from North Carolina to New Mexico ; from the depths of despair to a glimmer of hope gleaned from the last place he ever expected to find redemption"--Jacket.
39) Onion John
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248 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father.
40) Hike
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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English
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A father and child head out on a hike, keeping a cherished family tradition alive.
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