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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Things They Carried tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Tim O'Brien's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This Summary of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien includes: Historical context, story-by-story summaries, character analysis, themes and symbols, important...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (967 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Dean Winchester lost his battle with power-mad angel scribe Metatron, only to be resurrected by the power of the first Blade and now transformed into a demon, cursed with the Mark of Cain. The road to recovering wayward, Dean takes brother Sam down sinister paths himself, with consequences that will shake the boys to their core.
3) Trail of the lost: the relentless search to bring home the missing hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
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Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 327 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From an award-winning former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure follows the author's quest to find missing hikers along the Pacific Crest Trail by pairing up with an eclectic group of unlikely allies"--
"As a park ranger with the National Park Service's law enforcement team, Andrea Lankford led search and rescue missions in some of the most beautiful (and dangerous) landscapes across America, from...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 478 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The moving story of a small group of veterans, scientists, and pacifists who forced the U.S. government to take responsibility for the horrors inflicted on the Vietnamese with unexploded munitions and the toxic defoliant Agent Orange"--
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English
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On a quest to settle a score with the man who destroyed his life, Boyd Halverson robs a bank and takes a hostage.
At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in northern California. "How much is on hand, would you say?" he asked the teller. "I'll want it all." "You're robbing me?" "Not you," Boyd replied, revealing a Temptation .38 Special. Angie Bing, the teller, scraped together $81,000. Boyd stuffed...
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English
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Have We Been Here Before? is a stirring collection of short stories, flash fiction, prose, and poetry that explore complex themes of loss, alienation, poverty, and more. From the despair of losing a beloved pet, to the chill of a cold winter's evening, to the turmoil of a battlefield, author Curt Lincoln invites readers to explore a wide range of emotions and experiences. Readers will find themselves captivated by the characters and the situations...
7) Surrender
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English
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In the tradition of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, Brian O'Hare's Surrender is a rich collection of coming-of-age stories, a journey into the heart of the American hero myth, from the Friday night football fields of Western Pennsylvania to a battalion of Marines in the Persian Gulf and beyond. But what happens when the crowds stop cheering and the welcome home parades are over? Guilt, fear, and brutality collide with love and acceptance as...
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English
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High Water Mark is an anthology of short fiction from some of the finest writers of Atlantic Canada over the last forty years. Included are writers from various communities throughout the region and stories that reflect a wide range of writing talent from older and younger writers.
Nineteen authors have contributed work to this long-awaited collection representative of the literature of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Among...
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English
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An inspiring speaker and artist asked 20,000 people around the world to share the regrets they wanted him to burn in a mock Viking ship.
This is the story of what he learned about letting go of the pain of the past and embracing the future with hope.
Turning 30, artist and speaker Kyle Scheele wanted to do something unusual to mark this milestone. Instead of a birthday bash, he decided to hold a funeral to memorialize the decade of his life that was...
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English
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Walter and Alice are expecting their first baby, but their timing is a bit off: Walter, once a successful loan officer, has been unexpectedly downsized. They've had to relocate to Florida so that they can live rent-free--in Alice's deceased aunt's condo. When Alice's brother-in-law Mid offers Walter a job, he literally can't refuse. But what he doesn't know--about the nature of the job, about the depth of Mid's shady dealings, about what he's really...
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English
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Finalist for the National Book Award, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in Iraq.
"The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss.
In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound together since basic training when Bartle makes a...
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English
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The Wild Cards universe has been thrilling readers for over 25 years. In Carrie Vaughn's "The Thing about Growing Up in Jokertown," a group of teenage jokers yearn to explore outside the confines of their strange little neighborhood and get a real taste of the Big Apple.
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English
Description
Growing up on the proverbial "wrong side of the tracks" gave me a long list of bullies and a short list of friends. I spent most of my childhood days thinking of creative ways to escape the dirty pit that was Palmer, Georgia, until a new kid showed up on the first day of fifth grade and gave me every reason to stay. But as my rotten luck would have it, he disappeared two years later without a word, leaving me with a million unanswered questions and...
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Publisher
Magination Press, an imprint of the American Psychological Association
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"After a fire destroys his home and neighborhood, a young boy must learn what it means to be resilient and to recover. "Let me tell you about that one day everything was there, and then there was nothing." This inspiring journal will help victims of a natural disaster as they follow a boy who is healing after a devastating fire in his neighborhood. A journal filled with drawings, news clippings, and coping strategies, this book is chock full of information...
15) Random in death
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English
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"In the new crime thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling J.D. Robb, a small and easily concealed weapon wreaks havoc, and the killer is just a face in the crowd. Jenna's parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club with her best friends, watching the legendary band Avenue A, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade. Then, from the stage, Jake catches her eye, and smiles. It's the best night...
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"At 49, Beatrice Billings is rudderless. Her marriage is stale, her relationship with her son Thomas is limited to text messages--hostile haikus that he sends from university--and she is the primary caregiver for her mother, who is in the early stages of dementia. She has a complicated relationship with her older sister Ariel, with whom she carries on ongoing arguments in her head. Bea laments the loss of momentum she remembers feeling in her thirties,...
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English
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"After years of drifting, fifty-year-old Pete Ryman has settled down with his potbellied pig, Pearl, in the small town of Sleeping Grass--a place he never expected to see again. It's not the life he dreamed of, but there aren't many prospects for a high school dropout like him. Elderly widow Wilma Jacobsen carries a burden of guilt over her part in events that led to Pete leaving Sleeping Grass decades ago. Now that he's back, she's been praying for...
18) Trapper Road
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Series
Stillhouse Lake volume 6
Publisher
Rachel Caine, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
409 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gwen Proctor has always been willing to do anything it takes to protect her kids. But there are some things even she can't protect them from. When a violent incident at Conor's school brings the press to Gwen's doorstep, she agrees to take a case out of town hoping to keep her family out of the crushing media spotlight. The case is that of a missing girl, last seen getting into a truck with a stranger before disappearing. Gwen has a reputation...
19) Manner of death
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English
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"After Dr. Jack Stapleton's near-death confrontation with a medical serial killer, his wife, NYC Chief Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery, is carrying the load both at home and at work. When Laurie insists Dr. Ryan Sullivan--an underperforming senior pathology resident who is spending his required month at the medical examiner's office but who truly detests doing forensic autopsies--assist her on a suicide autopsy in the hopes of stimulating his interest...
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