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Series
Fatherless volume 2
Publisher
FaithWords
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"The second installment in the ... new trilogy from Dr. James Dobson and Kurt Bruner transports readers to a not-too-distant future when the young and healthy strain under the burden of a rapidly aging population"--Dust jacket flap.
Everyone is nervous about how Judge Victor Santiago will rule. A common medical procedure has somehow created havoc across the legal and economic landscape. The president's popular Youth Initiative is losing momentum....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children--four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness--sneak out to hear their fortunes. Their prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas...
5) Everyman
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
Description
Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The best-selling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality.
The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into...
7) Typo & Skim
Author
Publisher
Val De Grâce Books
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Have you noticed how things get older? Of course you have - you can't fail to notice such things. What was shiny and new a while ago is now old or broken or useless. Who's to blame? Well, living somewhere in our midst are little creatures who make aging their business. Typo and Skim, we learn about this hidden guild of craftsmen who cause things to fall apart. The main characters, Typo and Skim, are best friends. Like your average schoolboy buddies,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
Description
"From legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel following a big-wave surfer as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember"--
Now in his sixties, big-wave surfer Joe Sharkey has passed his prime and is losing his 'stoke.' The younger surfers around the breaks on the north shore of Oahu still idolize the Shark, but his sponsors are looking elsewhere. Driving home from a bar after one too many, Joe...
10) The forever war
Author
Series
Forever volume 1
Publisher
EOS
Edition
First EOS trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
Private William Mandella is a hero in spite of himself -- a reluctant conscript drafted into an elite military unit, and propelled through space and time to fight in a distant thousand-year conflict. He never wanted to go to war, but the leaders on Earth have drawn a line in the interstellar sand -- despite the fact that their fierce alien enemy is unknowable, unconquerable, and very far away. So Mandella will perform his duties without rancor and...
11) Never grow up
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: What would happen if you never had to grow up? You never had to become a grown-up with all of the not-fun things that come with it. No vegetables, no jobs, and definitely no boredom. A largely unexplored format in the world of Dahl, this new picture book about staying young, adventurous, and curious is sure to enchant and engage fans of Roald Dahl, young and old.
12) Henry, himself
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Language
English
Description
Soldier, son, lover, husband, breadwinner, churchgoer, Henry Maxwell has spent his whole life trying to live with honor. A native Pittsburgher and engineer, he's always believed in logic, sacrifice, and hard work. Now, seventy-five and retired, he feels the world has passed him by. It's 1998, the American century is ending, and nothing is simple anymore. His children are distant, their unhappiness a mystery. Only his wife Emily and dog Rufus stand...
13) No crezcas nunca
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
Publisher Annotation: What would happen if you never had to grow up? You never had to become a grown-up with all of the not-fun things that come with it. No vegetables, no jobs, and definitely no boredom. A largely unexplored format in the world of Dahl, this new picture book about staying young, adventurous, and curious is sure to enchant and engage fans of Roald Dahl, young and old.
14) Younger
Author
Series
Younger volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Now a major TV show, starring Hilary Duff and produced by the creator of Sex and the City. This hilarious romantic comedy is all about second chances - after all, if you could live your twenties a second time, wouldn't you? Alice has always looked young for her age, even with her greying hair and her housewife style. But now that her husband's gone and her daughter is grown, Alice is in desperate need of a new life. So she lets her best friend Maggie...
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