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2) Two roads
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It's 1932, and twelve-year-old Cal Black and his Pop have been riding the rails for years after losing their farm in the Great Depression. Cal likes being a "knight of the road" with Pop, even if they're broke. But then Pop has to go to Washington, DC -- some of his fellow veterans are marching for their government checks, and Pop wants to make sure he gets his due -- and Cal can't go with him. So Pop tells Cal something he never knew before: Pop...
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181 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"A couple, Bell and Sigh, move into a remote house in the Irish countryside with their dogs. Both solitary with misanthropic tendencies, they leave the conventional lives stretched out before them to build another ... They make a promise to climb the mountain, but -- over the course of the next seven years -- it remains unclimbed. We move through the seasons with Bell and Sigh as they come to understand more about the small world around them, and...
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Everyman's library volume no. 376
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xli, 730 pages : illustrations / ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Set in Depression Era Virginia, this is the story of orphaned Amelia and her struggle to keep her siblings together"--
With her mama recently dead and her pa sight unseen since birth, Amelia is suddenly in charge of her younger brother and sister -- and the family gas station. To keep a competitor at bay and keep her family out of foster care, Melia must come up with a father -- fast. When a hobo rolls out of a passing truck, Melia grabs opportunity...
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In the magical world of Lyra, a mysterious instrument gives a minstrel undreamed-of power. When Emereck and Flindaran leave a caravan in search of adventure, it isn't long before they stumble upon great danger. Emereck, a trained minstrel, and Flindaran, a nobleman masquerading as a tramp, have found a long-abandoned castle, and in it, one of Lyra's most sought-after treasures: the Harp of Imach Thyssel. Emereck recognizes the perfect white bow from...
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279 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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For a man who liked being called the American, Mark Twain spent a surprising amount of time outside the continental United States. Biographer Roy Morris, Jr., focuses on the dozen years Twain spent overseas and on the popular travel books The Innocents Abroad, A Tramp Abroad, and Following the Equator he wrote about his adventures. Unintimidated by Old World sophistication and unafraid to travel to less developed parts of the globe, Twain encouraged...
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278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Tracking an underground language from one family's obsession to the outcasts who spoke it in order to survive. Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in graffiti and spoken only by people who were "wiz" (in the know) -- vagrants and refugees, merchants and thieves. This hybrid language was rich in expressions for police, jail, or experiencing trouble, such as "being in a pickle." And beginning with Martin Luther, German...
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365 pages ; 22 cm
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"On a windy night in 1937, a seventeen-year-old German naval sub-cadet is wandering along the seawall when he stumbles upon a gang of ruffians beating up a tramp, whose life he saves. The man is none other than spymaster Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the Abwehr, German military intelligence. Canaris adopts the young man and dubs him 'Cesare' after the character in the silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari for his ability to break through any barrier...
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338 pages ; 22 cm
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Trouble rides tall: Gloria Hogarty, the little tramp the town of Pony Wells never wanted, was dead. But Marshal Bry Shafter was out to find her killer with or without the town's help. He had done what the town's bosses had begged him (and paid him $10,000 a year) to do; he had cleared the gunslingers and bad women off the streets. Now the bosses run their own houses of ill-fame and hired their own guns. Bry Shafter was no longer needed.
Cross the...
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vi, 330 pages : maps ; 22 cm
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In 1933, the eighteen-year-old Patrick Leigh Fermor set out in a pair of hobnailed boots to chance and charm his way across Europe, "like a tramp, a pilgrim, or a wandering scholar." The books he later wrote about this walk, A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water, and the posthumous The Broken Road are a half-remembered, half-reimagined journey through cultures now extinct, landscapes irrevocably altered by the traumas of the twentieth century....
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liv, 583 pages ; 20 cm
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"This collection of Twain's favorite and most memorable writings includes such selected tales and sketches as "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "How I Edited an Agricultural Journal Once," "Jim Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn," and "A True Story." It also features excerpts from his novels and travel books (Roughing It, The Innocents Abroad, and Life on the Mississippi, among others); autobiographical and polemical writings; as well as selected...
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6 videodiscs (980 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Cesar Millan has an uncanny ability to rehabilitate problem dogs of all shapes and sizes. Each episode documents the remarkable transformations that take place under his guidance. He helps dogs and their owners achieve a happier life together.
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