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41) Census
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English
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Learning that he does not have long to live, a widower needs to figure out how to provide for his developmentally disabled adult son. Taking a job as a census taker, the two leave on a cross-country journey through towns named only by ascending letters of the alphabet. They meet the townspeople, some of whom welcome them into their homes, while others who bear the physical brand of past censuses on their ribs are wary of their presence. As they approach...
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"Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as "my grandfather." It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and marriage and desire, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury, and, above all, of the destructive impact--and the creative power--of keeping secrets and telling lies"--Dust jacket.
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Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Saphora packs her bags to escape the trappings of her picturesque-but-vacant life, but her departure is interrupted by her philandering husband's early arrival home. His words change her life forever: I'm dying. As she gropes for evidence of God's presence amid the turmoil, can she discover that th richest treasures come in surprising packages?
46) Nerve Damage
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English
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Renowned sculptor Roy Valois receives the worst news since learning of his adored wife Delia's death in South America fifteen years ago. His doctor tells him he's dying—and a morbid curiosity about how he'll be remembered inspires Roy, with the help of a local computer geek, to hack into a newspaper's system to read his prewritten obituary. But the death notice includes a small discrepancy about his late wife—and by calling the mistake
...48) Night swimming
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Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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English
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Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of thousands of draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies and dying of cancer in Montreal, Fife has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life. The interview is filmed by his acolyte and ex-star student, Malcolm MacLeod, in the presence of...
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Gideon Crew volume 5
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English
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Effective Engineering Solutions has been inexplicably shut down and the head of the company, Eli Glinn, has all but vanished. Fresh off a diagnosis that gives him only months to live, Gideon Crew is contacted by one of his coworkers at EES, Manuel Garza, who tells him the two have mere hours to collect their belongings before the office closes forever. After years of dedicated service and several high-risk missions, theirs seems like the most ignoble...
53) Beyond the night
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English
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Maddie teeters between life and death. Her husband Paul begs her to remember their love, regain consciousness, and come home. She recalls pushing Paul away--just before their love found voice and just as her blindness stole her hopes and dreams. And then she remembers Paul's unselfish, undying love.
54) Firefly Cove
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Series
Miramar Bay novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Since the age of seven, Lucius Quarterfield has known he is dying. But now, at twenty-eight, his time is finally running out. So he's returning to the one place he ever felt happy, near the only woman he ever truly wanted. He's going to make each moment count because he knows that everything is about to change ... he just can't know exactly how.--
55) Agape agape
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
113 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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