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"In the spirit of The Bartender's Tale, a lively and poignant coming-of-age story about a boy and his great-uncle on a cross-country odyssey. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she...
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Guncle volume 1
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. He loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, When Maisie and Grant lose their mother and Patrick's brother has a health crisis of his own, Patrick finds himself suddenly taking on the role of primary guardian. Despite having a set of "Guncle Rules" Patrick has no idea what to expect. After years barely holding on after...
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Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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In the wake of WWII, a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local newspaper: a rallying cry for hope, purpose . . . and rocks. Its message? Send me a rock for the person you lost, and I will build something life-giving. When the poem spreads farther than he ever intended, Robert Bliss's humble words change the tide of a nation. Boxes of rocks inundate the tiny, coastal Maine town, and he sets his calloused hands to work. Decades later, Annie Sawyer...
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Bad Kitty (Chapter books) volume 4
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720L
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English
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Bad kitty is not pleased when a baby joins her family. Includes fun facts and tips for training a cat to perform tricks.
7) Found
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Mickey Bolitar novels volume 3
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English
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"Mickey Bolitar and his friends continue to investigate the Abeona Shelter, while Mickey searches for answers about his father's tragic death"-- Provided by publisher.
9) The pursuit
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Sherring Cross series volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey's wonderfully delightful sequel to Say You Love Me.
What was to be a grand adventure for Melissa MacGregor-an escape from the wilds of her Scottish home into the whirl of the London social scene-seems to pale before the promise in the passionate gaze of Lincoln Ross Burnett. Though they exchange but a few words before parting after a chance encounter on her grandfather's lands, Melissa instantly...
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Forgetters volume 2
Publisher
McSweeney's
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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In this long short story, or short novella, Dave Eggers gives us an unforgettable duo, Helen and Peter Mahoney, a homebody niece and her adventurous, almost-British uncle. Helen designs invitations to parties and galas to which she is not welcome, and is quite comfortable with that. One day, though, Peter wonders, "Why not print an extra invite and I'll be your plus one?" What starts out as an innocuous lark becomes much more--a very funny and lyrical...
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Bad Kitty (Chapter books) volume 3
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English
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Kitty's owners are taking a week off and leaving Kitty and Puppy at home with Uncle Murray. It isn't long before Uncle Murray is driven to near madness by shenanigans of epic proportions.
14) About uncle
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Two Lines Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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At a time when she'd rather be making her own way in the world, an unnamed young woman finds herself instead moving to a small town at the seaside to care for her uncle.
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Treasures of Surrey novels volume 3
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English
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When a stranger comes to Fellsworth School, everything begins to change . . . including the stranger. Annabelle Thorley has it all--beauty, wealth, and wit, but when her guardian brother loses their fortune, he insists that she marry his colleague to help restore his business--a colleague she knows is involved in illegal activities. She sees only one way out of the dangerous situation: she escapes from her home in London to the safety of her estranged...
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Browndeer Press
Pub. Date
c2000
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English
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Sam moves to Nevada with his uncle to run a café in the middle of nowhere, and although Uncle Clem insists that nothing ever happens there, his clientele consists of a number of strange characters, including Dorothy and Toto, Elvis, and Bigfoot.
17) Seconds away
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"When tragedy strikes close to home, Mickey Bolitar and his new friends find themselves at the center of a murder mystery"-- Provided by publisher.
19) Bad ground
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Seventeen-year-old Jeremy Prine's father was killed in a mining accident when Jeremy was only a child. now his mother has passed away, leaving him with an odd request. Jeremy is to find his father's brother Aiden, a hardrock miner, and stay with him, regardless of Aiden's wishes. So Jeremy joins the ranks, doing physical labor with rough, complex miners. He must trust in God to give him the courage to find the humanity behind these tough-as-steel...
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