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42) The bear's song
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 35 cm.
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English
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Papa Bear wakes up to find his son missing, and his search leads him to an opera house and a command performance.
45) 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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English
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Set in contemporary Northern California, The Harder They Come explores the volatile connections between three damaged people -- an aging ex-Marine and Vietnam veteran, his psychologically unstable son, and the son's paranoid, much older lover -- as they careen towards an explosive confrontation.
47) Ridgerunner
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English
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"November 1917. William Moreland is in mid-flight. After nearly twenty years, the notorious thief, known as the Ridgerunner, has returned. Moving through the Rocky Mountains and across the border to Montana, the solitary drifter, impoverished in means and aged beyond his years, is also a widower and a father. And he is determined to steal enough money to secure his son's future. Twelve-year-old Jack Boulton, born in the woods to two outlaws, now finds...
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185 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"At once a coming-of-age tale and a baffling tragedy, this title follows a son's journey into middle age from boyhood in the aftermath of his father's mysterious disappearance. In spare but poignant prose, these nineteen stories capture the disappointment that follows on the false promises of childhood as the boy navigates painful family Sunday dinners and his first dance, an Ivy League education, dead-end jobs and self-sabotaged love affairs. He...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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English
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"Every night it's the same old thing, with dad refusing to go to bed. He wants to play, read stories, even sleep with me, and when he makes his pleading face, I always give in and read him another story. But that's it, since enough is enough. When it gets really tough, I tell myself "Have courage. We're almost there." A boy's playful account of trying to put his dad to sleep gives children a delightful heads-up on what a pain they can be at bedtime,...
51) At any price
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1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"In the competitive world of modern agriculture, ambitious Henry Whipple ... wants his rebellious son Dean ... to help expand his family's farming empire. However, Dean has his sights set on becoming a professional racecar driver. When a high-stakes investigation into their business is exposed, father and son are pushed into an unexpected crisis that threatens the family's entire livelihood"--Container.
54) The dark
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191 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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The Dark, widely acclaimed, yet infamously banned, is John McGahern's sensative, perceptive, and beautifully written portrayal of a young man's coming-of-age in rural Ireland. Imaginative and introverted, the boy is successful in school, but bitterly confused by the guilt-inducing questions he endures from the priests who should be his venerated guides. His relationship with his bullying, bigoted, widowed father is similarly conflicted--touched with...
56) The sellout
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288 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Raised in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens -- improbably smack in the middle of downtown L.A. -- the narrator of The Sellout resigned himself to the fate of all other middle-class Californians: "to die in the same bedroom you'd grown up in, looking up at the crack in the stucco ceiling that had been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist at Riverside Community College, he spent his childhood as the subject...
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270 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"A luminous meditation on sons and fathers, ghosts of war, and living history that moves between modern-day Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora. In playing "Metal Gear Solid V," a young man's video game experience turns into a surreal exploration on his own father's memories of war and occupation. A college student in "Hungry Ricky Daddy" starves himself in protest of Israeli violence against Palestine. Set in Kabul, "Return to Sender" follows a doctor...
59) Zero K: a novel
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The richest, wisest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don Delillo, one of the great American novelists of our time -- an ode to language, the heart of our humanity; a meditation on death and an embrace of life. Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a George Soros-like billionaire now in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a deeply remote and secret compound where death is controlled...
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