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1) Lean on Pete
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Left homeless by the death of his father, fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson sets off with a racehorse, Lean on Pete, on a perilous treck from Portland, Oregon to Wyoming to find a distant aunt, hoping to regain stability in his life.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Barely thirty, Lynette is exhausted. Saddled with bad credit and juggling multiple jobs, some illegally, she's been diligently working to buy the house she lives in with her mother and developmentally disabled brother Kenny. Portland's housing prices have nearly quadrupled in fifteen years, and the owner is giving them a good deal. Lynette knows it's their last best chance to own their own home - and obtain the security they've never had. While she...
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Determined to prove his worth, a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand who was abandoned by his parents leaves his aging guardians to become a champion boxer before matches organized in Mexico and Las Vegas lead to his realization that he cannot change his identity or outrun his destiny.
8) The free
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The lives of three characters--Leroy Kervin, a wounded Iraqi War veteran; Freddie McCall, a man trying to dig his way out of a financial crisis; and Pauline Hawkins, a nurse--intersect as they look for meaning in desperate times.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This joke book contains hundreds of funny kids' jokes with illustrations and cartoons. The illustrations provide a visual aid to children who may become quickly tired of simply reading line after line. Kids will be laughing and sharing silly jokes with everyone in no time. Great for early readers. Be warned, some of these jokes are really, really, really silly. So silly, in fact, it is hard not to laugh.
16) The deaf heart
Author
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Told through a series of quirky, irreverent short stories and letters home during the early 1980s, The Deaf Heart chronicles a year in the life of Dempsey "Max" McCall, a Deaf biomedical photography resident at a teaching hospital on the island of Galveston, Texas. Max strives to become certified as a Registered Biological Photographer while straddling the deaf and hearing worlds. He befriends Reynaldo, an impoverished Deaf Mexican, and they go on...
20) Grumbly bunnies
Author
Publisher
Whispering Coyote
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Three little bunnies have a busy day, from breakfast to school to time to sleep and dream.